This Past Weekend with Theo Von - Gianni Paolo ｜ This Past Weekend #202

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00:02:23.980 Today's episode, you guys know him.

00:02:25.760 He does the booking here.

00:02:27.680 He is also a rising actor in the Hollywood scene.

00:02:34.740 He's got so much energy.

00:02:37.560 He's one of a kind.

00:02:39.400 We're so happy to have him here.

00:02:40.580 And how we met him is absolutely fascinating and came to be in his life.

00:02:47.080 I mean, it's just, it's, here he is, ladies and gentlemen.

00:02:51.160 From the new movie, Ma.

00:02:54.400 Which comes out tomorrow.

00:02:55.520 Which comes out tomorrow.

00:02:56.820 Thank you, Nick is in here.

00:02:58.300 Which comes out tomorrow.

00:02:59.920 Our friend, Mr. Gianni Paolo.

00:03:03.080 All right.

00:03:19.120 Here we go.

00:03:20.160 Sitting here with this guy, huh?

00:03:21.880 What's up?

00:03:22.340 Gianni.

00:03:23.380 What's up, man?

00:03:24.260 I'm chilling.

00:03:24.800 How are you?

00:03:25.400 I'm good.

00:03:25.920 I'm good, man.

00:03:26.440 How are you today?

00:03:27.180 I'm good.

00:03:27.500 It's kind of weird because we set everything up and we usually like get everything together

00:03:31.060 and then I just go sit over there and chill and it's weird being in the seat.

00:03:35.040 Yeah, man.

00:03:35.460 It's weird having you in the seat, man.

00:03:36.600 It's exciting.

00:03:37.140 I know you, so for some of our listeners that don't know, Gianni is an actor and Gianni just

00:03:45.920 hit up the podcast like maybe what, a year ago and just said, hey man, I like the podcast.

00:03:50.660 I'd love to help out.

00:03:51.860 I think through Burn.

00:03:52.800 Like Burn.

00:03:53.660 Oh, that's right.

00:03:54.280 So I filmed the movie in Mississippi kind of where Theo like grew up a little bit and

00:03:59.280 then I just remember talking because I always talk about comedy.

00:04:03.320 Like I love it.

00:04:04.060 I was listening to the podcast on set like a while before like I would go and film my

00:04:08.960 scenes.

00:04:09.300 I'd be listening to this past weekend and one of the PAs came up to me, my friend Jared

00:04:14.000 and he knocked on the door and he's like, are you listening to Theo?

00:04:16.160 And I was like, yeah, dude, like I love Theo.

00:04:17.980 And he's like, oh, like Burn, like the guys at Smoots down there, like they all know

00:04:22.140 Theo.

00:04:22.380 And I was like, really?

00:04:23.560 So we filmed the movie or whatever.

00:04:24.860 And then afterwards, like.

00:04:26.120 And no one knows who Burn is.

00:04:27.780 Yeah.

00:04:28.080 Burn is the drummer in Bishop Gunn, whose dad I used to work on his farm in the summertime

00:04:32.160 up in Mississippi.

00:04:33.340 So he was working as a PA or as a transport or something on the movie that you filmed.

00:04:39.960 Correct.

00:04:40.340 In Mississippi.

00:04:41.780 Yeah.

00:04:42.200 And then so you ran into one of his buddies and he's like, oh, Burn knows him.

00:04:46.020 Yeah.

00:04:46.300 And then that's how it all came to pass.

00:04:47.680 Yeah.

00:04:47.920 And then I was like, I'd love to help, you know, help the podcast.

00:04:50.320 I love it.

00:04:50.800 I listen to it, you know.

00:04:51.740 And, you know, I do social media stuff.

00:04:53.680 So that's kind of how we all linked up.

00:04:55.840 And then, yeah, the rest is history.

00:04:57.020 That's it.

00:04:57.460 We've been together for a year.

00:04:58.640 A year, dude.

00:05:00.100 And so first I want to talk about the movie.

00:05:01.800 So the movie is Octavia Spencer is the lead of the movie.

00:05:05.420 Yes.

00:05:05.720 Is that a safe term?

00:05:06.580 Yeah.

00:05:06.860 Yeah.

00:05:06.980 Okay.

00:05:07.160 She's like the main lead.

00:05:08.540 Okay.

00:05:08.940 And so the movie is called Ma and it comes out.

00:05:14.120 May 31st.

00:05:15.000 So this is going to air May 30th.

00:05:16.680 So tomorrow it comes out.

00:05:18.620 Okay.

00:05:19.060 Yeah.

00:05:19.260 Wow.

00:05:19.860 So the movie comes out tomorrow.

00:05:21.180 And you can see Gianni who does all of like, who does all of our book.

00:05:25.420 And here's a trailer, a little bit of it.

00:05:27.020 Can we watch this or listen to it or not?

00:05:28.480 Or we won't be able to.

00:05:29.280 He's going to, he's going to check with the publicist.

00:05:31.280 I think we're going to get whitelisted on it.

00:05:32.600 But yeah, if you want to watch a little bit of it.

00:05:33.960 Okay, cool.

00:05:34.820 So let's, let's take a peek at the trailer and we can, uh, no sex or booze.

00:05:42.200 Okay.

00:05:43.240 Woo.

00:05:44.920 Maggie came to party. 0.97

00:05:46.560 Let's get filthy. 0.98

00:05:48.680 There he was. 0.83

00:05:51.320 Excuse me.

00:05:52.220 Can you buy some booze for my friends and I?

00:05:54.700 Not interested.

00:05:55.880 Please. 0.97

00:05:58.360 Hell. 0.97

00:05:59.480 Woo.

00:06:00.160 There's my girl.

00:06:01.220 This never happened.

00:06:02.280 Okay.

00:06:02.520 Thanks again for doing this, ma'am.

00:06:04.400 You guys want to party like rock stars?

00:06:06.640 Follow me.

00:06:07.460 Let's get drunk! 0.52

00:06:11.080 The bar is open.

00:06:13.080 What do you think?

00:06:13.900 We don't know this chick. 1.00

00:06:16.100 It ain't much, but it's all you.

00:06:17.740 Cool basement.

00:06:18.700 You're free to do whatever you want down here, but nobody will upstairs.

00:06:21.780 Okay, so let's stop real quick. 0.99

00:06:22.680 So we got a bunch of white kids going to drink in a black woman's basement. 1.00

00:06:25.980 Correct. 1.00

00:06:26.200 Right?

00:06:26.660 Correct.

00:06:26.960 Basically.

00:06:27.580 Yeah.

00:06:28.040 Okay.

00:06:28.460 Yeah.

00:06:28.660 We have one, one, uh, there's another African-American with us.

00:06:31.220 Okay.

00:06:31.520 So, and is there any, like, is any of the movies that, like, uh, is there racial stuff in the

00:06:37.280 movie or not really?

00:06:38.380 Not so much.

00:06:39.260 Um, towards the end, there's like, uh, you will see it in the trailer.

00:06:43.080 Uh-huh.

00:06:43.220 It does, um, touch on it a little bit, but it's not, it really has nothing to do with,

00:06:48.240 like, the film in that sense. 0.97

00:06:49.860 Like, it's just more like, uh, yeah, like a black woman can be a serial killer too. 0.99

00:06:54.300 You know what I mean? 0.99

00:06:54.880 Oh, really?

00:06:55.780 Yeah.

00:06:55.960 Did you just give away the whole movie?

00:06:57.400 No, no. 0.97

00:06:57.880 I'm just saying, like, like, it's possible for a black woman to be like a villain. 1.00

00:07:01.560 You know what I mean? 0.96

00:07:01.980 I didn't mean she's a serial killer.

00:07:02.880 Oh, I see what you're saying.

00:07:03.840 Oh, yeah.

00:07:04.300 I guess that's true, huh?

00:07:05.100 They don't have like a lot.

00:07:06.000 Well, I guess even just growing up, they didn't have like a lot of black characters in, in a lot

00:07:09.600 of movies, I'm trying to think of, like, a black villain that they had.

00:07:13.980 Yeah.

00:07:14.840 Gray Skull.

00:07:15.500 Remember that guy from He-Man?

00:07:16.760 Well, see, what I find interesting is like, I like would look in the internet and people

00:07:20.100 like, um, would get upset that they'd be like, well, why is the African American the villain?

00:07:25.080 Yeah.

00:07:25.240 I'm like, no, that's like the total opposite of like what Octavia wants.

00:07:28.120 Like, she wants to be the villain. 0.72

00:07:29.580 Yeah.

00:07:29.680 Like, she wants to, everyone can play every role.

00:07:32.420 Like, there's not like a, she doesn't have to play a nurse or a maid in every movie.

00:07:36.640 Right, of course.

00:07:37.620 Yeah, and there's always black, like, there's this thing out there that's 1.00

00:07:39.580 just black anger.

00:07:40.540 Like, anytime a black person, like, open, like, breathes, somebody's like, oh, why do 1.00

00:07:44.100 they have to, you know?

00:07:45.200 Yeah. 0.87

00:07:45.540 Like, a black person, like, oh, they have to breathe in the same planet as white people, 1.00

00:07:49.380 you know? 0.98

00:07:51.080 So, sometimes you just get that black anger out there.

00:07:53.660 Was it intimidating?

00:07:54.780 Because this is your first, like, lead.

00:07:56.520 Yeah.

00:07:56.920 So, so you're one of the, what do you play in the film?

00:08:00.440 So, I play Chaz.

00:08:01.500 He is a, it's one of the teens where we party with Octavia.

00:08:05.900 And it's just like a high school kid.

00:08:07.620 There's five of us.

00:08:08.480 And, yeah, and we meet Octavia and she starts buying us booze and alcohol.

00:08:12.900 Is it real booze when you're on the movie?

00:08:14.720 No, it's just water.

00:08:15.800 Oh.

00:08:16.320 Yeah.

00:08:17.200 So, what do you have to pretend to be drunk?

00:08:18.860 Yeah.

00:08:19.320 You have to, like, you have to, like, also, there's also a scene, there's a clip of it

00:08:22.740 on the Instagram where I, like, drink the water and I go, ugh.

00:08:28.040 And I'm like, it's just literally water, but you have to, like, I guess, play it as if it

00:08:31.700 was.

00:08:32.120 Yeah. 0.99

00:08:32.280 But the worst part was the fucking joints, like, because I smoked the whole movie in 1.00

00:08:36.820 pretty much every scene. 1.00

00:08:37.760 Mm-hmm.

00:08:37.960 And I'm smoking the joints and it's, like, fake tobacco.

00:08:40.520 Oh.

00:08:40.880 So, you're, like, I'm waking up, my lungs are fried because I'm smoking it for, like,

00:08:45.280 four hours.

00:08:45.840 Right, you're still smoking.

00:08:46.740 Yeah.

00:08:47.200 But it's not even real tobacco.

00:08:48.340 Yeah.

00:08:48.480 Would you have rather have been just regular tobacco?

00:08:50.380 I would have rather it have been, like, maybe, like, like, like, vape juice or, like, something

00:08:55.980 like that.

00:08:56.540 Like, not because they would roll joints like that.

00:08:59.400 Like, I would rather have just vaped the whole movie instead of, like, just legit, like,

00:09:03.080 because you're still smoking, like, the spliffs.

00:09:05.080 Is that what they call them?

00:09:05.840 Like, the.

00:09:06.520 The horse legs, boy.

00:09:07.880 Yeah.

00:09:08.420 The big jaunts.

00:09:09.400 The big jaunts, boy.

00:09:10.480 And we walk in.

00:09:11.260 Yeah, dude.

00:09:12.360 Of course, Gianni's name is Chaz in the movie.

00:09:14.820 Yeah, that was the most twink name ever.

00:09:17.860 All my names have been Brayden and Power, Chaz, Brian, I forgot there was.

00:09:24.600 Brayden and Chaz.

00:09:25.560 Yeah.

00:09:25.820 Dude, those are such. 0.92

00:09:27.020 I feel like those are, like, white slave names, I feel like. 0.98

00:09:31.480 You're going to get me in trouble, dude. 0.96

00:09:33.100 No, I'm sorry.

00:09:33.980 Do you.

00:09:34.120 I'm just whipping Gianni.

00:09:35.260 My name is Gianni Paolo.

00:09:37.120 Sure it is.

00:09:37.860 You don't have an identity, boy.

00:09:39.880 Your name is Randall.

00:09:41.420 Yeah.

00:09:41.920 And you're rushing a fraternity.

00:09:44.760 So you get put into a lot of roles.

00:09:46.440 I know you've said this.

00:09:48.520 And so also, just to clarify, so also Gianni's done all the booking.

00:09:52.080 Gianni Kimmel has done all the booking for almost all the guests that we've had, really,

00:09:56.320 or reached out to him.

00:09:57.540 I've gotten a couple hitters, but yeah, for the most part.

00:09:59.740 For the most part, it's been Gianni.

00:10:00.520 Nick does help a lot.

00:10:01.980 We got a good thing going.

00:10:03.140 Yeah, no, you guys have been great, man.

00:10:04.580 And you guys put up with me a lot of times, which I know isn't easy, especially over text

00:10:07.640 message.

00:10:08.080 And name five guests that we've tried to get that we haven't gotten.

00:10:12.680 That people love, that they really want.

00:10:14.960 Danny McBride, who I've tried a lot.

00:10:18.240 Recently, Chris Pratt.

00:10:19.960 He's busy.

00:10:20.780 I'm just trying to think of the ones more recent.

00:10:24.020 Like Anna Faris.

00:10:25.180 People who also have podcasts.

00:10:26.460 Dax Shepard.

00:10:27.300 Right.

00:10:27.460 Like, those are the people who I have reached out to just because they're kind of in that

00:10:30.400 world and it's realistic.

00:10:31.680 Okay.

00:10:33.080 I'll add to Boosie, Lil Boosie. 1.00

00:10:34.860 Yeah, Lil Boosie. 1.00

00:10:35.800 Lil Boosie, we've tried him.

00:10:36.940 Yeah, we've tried him.

00:10:37.760 Praise God, brother.

00:10:38.180 Pretty much in the group, everyone who's been like, we really want him, I'm like, I tried

00:10:41.960 him three months ago.

00:10:42.720 I tried him last week.

00:10:43.540 Amanda Knox.

00:10:44.460 Amanda Knox.

00:10:45.160 We tried her a lot.

00:10:46.960 So yeah, we try.

00:10:48.220 Norm MacDonald. 1.00

00:10:49.140 We should kill her roommate. 1.00

00:10:50.320 That would get her in here. 1.00

00:10:52.720 Sorry, dude.

00:10:53.460 That's messed up.

00:10:54.220 And that's a joke if anybody's roommate's ever died.

00:10:56.620 Yeah.

00:10:58.160 So we found almost that not, like, are we strategic about it?

00:11:01.380 What's it like to reach out to somebody and, because you do that, you know, it's like,

00:11:05.560 what's that like?

00:11:06.940 I don't mind it just because it's publicists.

00:11:09.880 So it's like, they're people.

00:11:11.280 Like, I don't have Chris Pratt's email.

00:11:13.060 You know what I mean?

00:11:13.580 I would like to.

00:11:14.520 I bet it's Chris Pratt at Gmail.

00:11:16.680 Yeah.

00:11:17.100 So I just read that to publicists and I'm like, let's, well, see, I was talking to Nick

00:11:20.280 about this before you came in.

00:11:21.900 It kind of upsets me, the whole, like, what's going on now?

00:11:26.060 Because a lot of people to go and promote movies, they're going on Kimmel.

00:11:30.440 They're going on like weird cable, like cooking shows and to promote things the generic way

00:11:36.260 that it's always been done.

00:11:37.320 Right.

00:11:37.600 And that's not the way people are listening anymore.

00:11:40.520 Right.

00:11:40.720 They don't get the views anymore.

00:11:42.000 It's podcasts.

00:11:43.240 Right.

00:11:43.520 It's Joe Rogan.

00:11:44.600 It's you.

00:11:45.240 It's Tiger Belly.

00:11:45.880 Like, those are the ones that, that's what's getting the listens from the millennials.

00:11:49.780 And that's what this movie's about, which is why I've been going on podcasts to promote.

00:11:53.440 Yeah.

00:11:53.800 I mean, I wouldn't go on Kimmel anyways because I'm not big enough, but like, this is it.

00:11:57.580 This is like what the studios have to realize.

00:11:59.500 Like, this is where people are going to, you know, go to.

00:12:02.540 And it's a full length thing.

00:12:04.440 Yeah.

00:12:04.700 Like, if they're listening to a clip on Jimmy Kimmel and they're talking about Zac Efron, 0.99

00:12:08.700 you know, his dick came out in a movie scene or something like that. 0.98

00:12:11.960 Who was on a plane with me a week ago? 1.00

00:12:13.720 Was he?

00:12:14.320 He walked by three times, dude.

00:12:15.860 Dude, I love him.

00:12:16.900 I mean, like, in like a straight way.

00:12:18.600 He kept trying to pretend he was all tired when he was walking by every time.

00:12:21.560 Really?

00:12:22.060 Yeah.

00:12:22.260 Was he in first class with you?

00:12:23.200 I was like, you can't be that tired and walk up in the aisle three times, dude.

00:12:26.260 Just yawning and stretching.

00:12:27.160 Yeah.

00:12:27.660 Like, he did like seven fake yawns.

00:12:29.840 Like, he was almost a cheerleader by the end of it.

00:12:32.100 Wait, where was he coming from?

00:12:33.360 Like, where was this when you went to New York?

00:12:34.980 Was he going to New York?

00:12:35.500 Yeah.

00:12:35.800 Nice.

00:12:36.640 But, so was it, did you send yourself an email to get booked on here then?

00:12:40.180 Yeah, I did.

00:12:40.780 Did you?

00:12:40.940 I sent myself the confirmation.

00:12:42.320 Yeah.

00:12:42.440 That's good.

00:12:44.600 Weeks without a reply, too.

00:12:46.240 Yeah.

00:12:46.780 Yeah.

00:12:47.580 Yeah, weeks without a reply.

00:12:48.880 Who was the one that Gianni, we missed him because Gianni dropped the ball.

00:12:52.700 Who was it?

00:12:53.640 Callan.

00:12:54.840 Yeah.

00:12:55.220 But, but I didn't drop the ball.

00:12:56.680 It was Brian Callan.

00:12:57.800 Yeah.

00:12:58.220 Because.

00:12:58.940 He pretended he never had the ball.

00:13:00.520 He knew, Brian knew that he was coming on this past weekend, but it conflicted with

00:13:04.260 Rogan.

00:13:04.800 Yeah.

00:13:05.140 So, like, they're right across the wall, so I assume they're going to do their episode

00:13:08.500 and then just come, he's going to walk in here after, because I confirmed with him

00:13:11.920 like a week before this.

00:13:13.380 Yeah.

00:13:13.760 And then he went on Rogan, so he was like, oh, you forgot, forgot about Theo, but you went

00:13:18.060 on Rogan, okay.

00:13:18.920 Yeah, I think if you hear the word Rogan, you just forget about everything.

00:13:21.120 But I don't, I don't blame him.

00:13:22.200 It's like, I'm going to go to Rogan, I'm going to go to Denny's over here, where these 0.97

00:13:26.460 guys are fucking shoveling bootleg CBD oil out. 0.98

00:13:32.780 That's mint flavored. 1.00

00:13:35.520 Shout out Uncommon Apothecary.

00:13:36.780 Yeah, shout out Uncommon Apothecary.

00:13:39.340 Well, dude, first of all, I just want to say thanks so much, man.

00:13:41.720 And second of all, yeah, it's crazy.

00:13:42.960 It's almost like we backdoored ourselves into a guest with Gianni, you know?

00:13:48.160 So, we hope-

00:13:48.940 Yeah, I worked for 52 weeks just to get on this podcast for free with one MeUndies a month,

00:13:56.320 okay?

00:13:56.540 I got one pair they're supposed to send you one.

00:13:57.800 Which I'm wearing right now.

00:13:59.260 Are you really?

00:13:59.840 Mm-hmm.

00:14:00.180 Oh, wow.

00:14:00.760 Yeah, those are good ones.

00:14:01.580 Yeah.

00:14:02.020 I'm telling you, I've really adapted to these mediums.

00:14:04.260 He's not, they're not showing up for Gianni. 0.95

00:14:06.300 Yeah, dude, I didn't get my May fucking thing yet. 0.92

00:14:08.540 You ordered mediums? 0.98

00:14:09.420 Yeah, I ordered mediums.

00:14:09.900 Yeah, I don't know what happened, man.

00:14:10.960 We'll check some of these boxes.

00:14:13.380 But we definitely should get you some more pairs.

00:14:16.680 So, when you're shooting the film, like, how long does it take to shoot a movie?

00:14:21.580 Like, for somebody that doesn't know, like me.

00:14:23.360 This took about, I'd say, four weeks.

00:14:27.160 That's it?

00:14:27.880 Yeah, and then because it's a Blumhouse film, so they do, like, smaller budgets, you know,

00:14:32.520 not as, you know, big and crazy as, like, the action movies.

00:14:35.300 Those probably take, like, three, four months.

00:14:37.140 Right.

00:14:37.740 Yeah, this was about four weeks, but then we did go back and do reshoots because they

00:14:41.460 wanted to, you know, fix some stuff at the end.

00:14:43.880 Yeah.

00:14:44.020 So, total about five weeks, five and a half weeks.

00:14:45.800 And was that the most, the first time you'd ever spent really a lot of time in Mississippi?

00:14:49.240 Yeah, it was the first time I'd ever been to Mississippi, and I loved it.

00:14:52.020 Yeah?

00:14:52.240 Like, honestly, like, I would consider getting a house there because I loved it that much.

00:14:56.520 Wow.

00:14:56.880 Yeah.

00:14:57.440 And do you, so, now, when you're on these sets, they look like they had some ladies in 0.63

00:15:00.820 there in the film, too.

00:15:01.560 Are you guys, like, is there a lot of, like, chicanery going on behind the scenes?

00:15:05.260 Like, a lot of, like, you know, people, you know, meeting up at night?

00:15:09.260 Is it pretty low-key?

00:15:10.480 Well, we, since this was such a smaller budget, like, you're filming, like, for 13, 14 hours

00:15:15.520 a day.

00:15:15.920 Wow.

00:15:16.120 So, you, like, don't have time.

00:15:17.740 Like, that whole day is to film, and, like, you gotta be up in the morning and get going.

00:15:22.640 But I don't smoke or drink, as you know.

00:15:24.980 So, like, that's not my thing.

00:15:26.100 Like, people would go out to bars and stuff and party that night.

00:15:28.780 I'd go right to bed, make sure I was off book for the next day.

00:15:31.200 I'd wake up at 5 a.m.

00:15:32.280 I had a personal trainer because I had to get naked in the movie.

00:15:35.000 So, I had a personal trainer.

00:15:36.220 You had to or you just did in every scene?

00:15:38.020 That seems like something Gianni would do.

00:15:40.380 I was like, yeah, are you sure you don't want me to take your clothes?

00:15:42.300 I'd be like, dude, you're in math class, okay? 1.00

00:15:44.820 Keep your fucking clothes on. 1.00

00:15:46.100 Like, all these books are heavy. 1.00

00:15:51.060 Gianni sounds like a young Jocko Willink.

00:15:53.300 He's just getting up.

00:15:54.160 Everybody's going out to parties, waking up at 4.30, training.

00:15:57.380 I ran around Mississippi.

00:16:00.240 Like, I would run the hills of Mississippi.

00:16:02.460 There's a hill.

00:16:03.100 Do you know where the Magnolia Bluffs Casino is?

00:16:05.140 Yeah.

00:16:05.340 That big hill that goes up to where the hotel is?

00:16:08.240 I would run that every morning at, like, 4.35.

00:16:10.700 Jesus.

00:16:11.020 And then I would go to my personal trainer and lift.

00:16:13.920 God, man.

00:16:14.860 That's crazy.

00:16:16.360 And what would you do then? 0.85

00:16:17.380 Paint yourself green and just attack people?

00:16:20.060 It seems like you're a very incredible hawk-ish.

00:16:24.820 What did you think about Mississippi?

00:16:26.260 Like, what was some of your first thoughts whenever you were there?

00:16:28.720 So, day two.

00:16:30.640 So, we went to the hotel and we, like, kind of went around the town a little bit for the first, you know, couple days.

00:16:36.100 And this is in Natchez.

00:16:36.840 This is in Natchez, correct.

00:16:37.840 We stayed at the Magnolia Bluffs Hotel for a couple weeks.

00:16:40.660 So, we walked around there and I thought it was incredible.

00:16:43.440 Like, we went to this place called the Pink Pig, the barbecue place.

00:16:45.700 Oh, yeah.

00:16:46.000 I've been there.

00:16:46.480 So good.

00:16:47.640 I just, like, you know, Cotton Alley Cafe.

00:16:51.280 Like, a lot of the places were just.

00:16:52.680 Fat Mama's. 0.51

00:16:53.240 Did you go to that place?

00:16:53.620 Fat Mama's, the tamale place.

00:16:54.820 Yeah.

00:16:55.440 We went there.

00:16:56.360 And I, like, I literally loved it.

00:16:58.240 Like, I can't stress enough how much I love Mississippi.

00:17:00.740 But day two.

00:17:01.680 Yeah.

00:17:02.300 We're filming.

00:17:03.660 We go to set.

00:17:06.160 We're filming outside a liquor store.

00:17:07.800 And it's in a pretty seedy area.

00:17:09.420 Like, where the liquor store is.

00:17:11.020 And there is an urban gentleman, as you would say.

00:17:14.120 Oh, yeah.

00:17:14.520 He comes out of his house. 0.98

00:17:15.980 And he starts, like, like, he's probably fucked up on something. 0.99

00:17:19.420 And he's, like, yelling, like, you ain't filming no fucking movie in front of my house. 0.99

00:17:23.580 Like, getting, like, aggressive. 0.99

00:17:25.160 And then, like, a bunch of more.

00:17:26.540 Was it Cat Williams?

00:17:27.680 Yeah.

00:17:28.020 It was.

00:17:28.280 It was Cat Williams.

00:17:29.280 Yeah.

00:17:29.800 He wanted to be in the movie.

00:17:31.280 But he still had a role for him.

00:17:33.480 Really?

00:17:33.880 So someone was getting aggressive.

00:17:35.040 Yeah.

00:17:35.240 Someone did get aggressive.

00:17:36.220 But that was kind of the only, like, negative experience.

00:17:38.980 And it's not even that negative.

00:17:40.220 It was just some guy that was yelling at us. 0.99

00:17:41.640 That was probably fucked up. 0.99

00:17:42.740 Yeah. 0.99

00:17:42.980 But I truly did love it.

00:17:44.880 Like, the people there were so nice.

00:17:46.440 I specifically remember going to Mississippi.

00:17:49.120 And then I would, like, if we go to the markets on the weekends, I'd be leaving.

00:17:53.540 And I'd be, like, to the people with the carts full of stuff.

00:17:57.260 Like, thanks, everyone.

00:17:58.120 Have a good weekend.

00:17:58.780 And everyone would be, like, oh, thank you so much, man.

00:18:00.980 Yeah.

00:18:01.220 And then the next day, like, when I came back to L.A., I went to the Whole Foods.

00:18:04.680 And I went to Turner.

00:18:05.200 I was, like, have a good weekend, everyone.

00:18:06.300 And everyone was just, like, yeah.

00:18:08.020 Get out of here.

00:18:08.480 Yeah. 1.00

00:18:08.660 Who the fuck is this, idiot? 1.00

00:18:10.140 Yeah. 1.00

00:18:10.620 Get out of here.

00:18:11.580 Logan Paul was in here earlier. 1.00

00:18:12.980 Who the fuck are you? 1.00

00:18:13.980 You know what I mean? 1.00

00:18:14.560 Yeah.

00:18:15.360 Yeah.

00:18:15.540 There is something different.

00:18:16.480 It's just, like, there's more value on just, like, but do you think that that kind of stuff is real?

00:18:22.300 Sometimes I wonder if it's, like, genuine or if there's just that people, there's more time for people to spend with each other so they even enjoy the smaller things, like even waving goodbye to someone.

00:18:32.660 In Mississippi, you're saying?

00:18:33.840 Yeah.

00:18:34.040 Or just, like, in slower parts of the country.

00:18:36.660 Mississippi is probably, in some ways, from the places I've been, one of the, like, it gets really slow there.

00:18:43.360 You know?

00:18:43.720 Like, if you pick up a seashell off the ground, you can definitely hear slaves in the back and deep in it.

00:18:48.660 Like, it's old school.

00:18:49.640 You know what I'm saying?

00:18:50.120 Like, they still have, there's Civil War reenactments in the back of every, like, Chevron.

00:18:54.040 There's, like, you know what I'm saying?

00:18:55.380 It has, like... 0.99

00:18:55.880 Right behind a fucking Shoney's. 0.99

00:18:57.180 Oh, dude. 0.99

00:18:57.580 It's very...

00:18:58.040 Yeah, they got a Shoney's right there.

00:18:59.300 I went there on Thanksgiving, actually.

00:19:01.020 Really?

00:19:01.540 Yeah.

00:19:01.860 And some lady burned her hand in the cobbler, I remember, and they had to call the paramedics.

00:19:06.920 But, yeah, it has an old school vibe, doesn't it?

00:19:11.580 It does, 100%.

00:19:12.280 I think people are, like, brought up with those values in Mississippi.

00:19:16.840 Yeah. 0.96

00:19:17.380 And not so much L.A. because no one really gives a fuck about anyone else but themselves in L.A. 0.68

00:19:21.300 Yeah. 0.73

00:19:21.700 Like, in Mississippi, like, there's really, like, not much more to do.

00:19:24.940 Right, so values and stuff like that are important.

00:19:27.200 Yeah.

00:19:28.180 Oh, it's interesting, man.

00:19:29.220 Yeah, that's so crazy you got to be down there because, I mean, who else even gets to go there?

00:19:33.500 Nobody even ever even thinks to go to Natchez.

00:19:35.320 Because it used to be, like, a major stop on, like, for the gambling boats and all of that.

00:19:38.980 Yep.

00:19:39.100 You know?

00:19:39.940 It was incredible.

00:19:41.060 Like, I truly think that was, like, one of my best experiences of my life so far.

00:19:44.900 I loved it.

00:19:45.500 Now, the nights where you do get a little lonely out there, because I know if you're

00:19:48.740 working out hard in the morning, you're sweating all day, and you're, you know, I mean, you're

00:19:52.600 like a rock star.

00:19:53.300 You're shooting a movie in a small town, you know?

00:19:56.020 You have somebody with a walkie-talkie walking around with you.

00:19:59.000 You know, I know what it's like, you know, to at least have, you know, you get that, you

00:20:01.860 know, you get a little bit of pomp.

00:20:02.920 Right.

00:20:03.320 Yeah. 1.00

00:20:03.780 When you get on a tender in a place like Mississippi, you get on a bumble or a bumble fuck, is 1.00

00:20:08.620 it? 0.99

00:20:08.760 Because you're out in the rural sticks there at that point. 0.99

00:20:11.040 They should have bumble fuck for rural areas, shouldn't they? 0.99

00:20:14.380 Yes. 1.00

00:20:14.700 How is that not an app? 0.99

00:20:16.760 Bumble fuck? 1.00

00:20:17.800 Yeah, bumble fuck for anybody who's trying to get laid outside of the city limits. 1.00

00:20:21.940 I like that. 0.99

00:20:23.500 Did you say if you have, if you open those apps up, what's it like out there?

00:20:27.780 I didn't.

00:20:28.480 You didn't?

00:20:28.860 My Instagram was popping pretty, like, in, like, the requests.

00:20:32.120 But, like, I'm going to be, like, honest.

00:20:34.620 Like, this was, I think it was around the time where all the Me Too stuff happened.

00:20:38.380 Oh, yeah.

00:20:39.000 And it was, like, people were just getting in trouble, like, doing stuff on movie sets.

00:20:42.840 Like, and I was just like, listen, I'm not even going to put myself in that position.

00:20:45.960 Like, to even, like, be with a girl alone, like, who was an extra in the film or something

00:20:50.020 like that.

00:20:50.400 Like, this is, like, my chance.

00:20:52.100 Like, I'm not going to, like, worry about a girl.

00:20:54.540 Like, and I'm not going to get myself in trouble in any way.

00:20:56.760 Yeah.

00:20:56.920 So I stayed away from it.

00:20:57.820 That's awesome.

00:20:58.480 Yeah.

00:20:58.900 I was pretty, like, dedicated for these, like, four weeks.

00:21:01.060 Like, actually, you know what I did?

00:21:02.520 But, um, so I got a, uh, I got a Pornhub or a Brazzers account. 1.00

00:21:07.540 Wow.

00:21:08.020 Yeah.

00:21:08.480 Going high def.

00:21:10.140 Yep.

00:21:10.620 I got a Brazzers account for a month. 1.00

00:21:11.620 Dude, how did you, it's, I don't even think it's 4G in some of their LTE in some of those

00:21:15.120 areas over there.

00:21:15.840 I don't even know.

00:21:16.400 But it was so funny because I checked, um, on my account, like, three, on my credit card

00:21:21.120 saving, like, three months later.

00:21:22.380 And it billed me for, like, a year.

00:21:24.200 Of course.

00:21:24.580 Like, like, the month before.

00:21:26.480 So I called them and it didn't say Brazzers. 1.00

00:21:28.640 It said, like, CTE billing or something.

00:21:30.760 Yeah.

00:21:30.920 And I called and I was like, hey, guys, like, um, why, like, like, what, what is this

00:21:35.780 charge for?

00:21:36.280 I didn't do this.

00:21:36.560 And let's go to that call right now, actually.

00:21:38.080 I wish we had that call.

00:21:39.600 Guys just, uh, guys just discussing their Brazzers expenses. 1.00

00:21:44.440 But I had it on speakerphone and I was with one of my, like, buddies who's, like, not super

00:21:48.080 close, but, like, he's close.

00:21:49.660 And I had it on speaker in my living room.

00:21:52.060 Uh, and I was like, what, like, what's this charge?

00:21:53.920 Like, I didn't do this because I was just trying to figure out my finances.

00:21:56.460 And he's like, oh, did you sign up for a Brazzers in Natchez, Mississippi? 0.98

00:21:59.880 I was like, yeah, that was me.

00:22:03.320 Dude, it must have been pretty cool, though, like, being, so Octavia, obviously, an African-American

00:22:07.440 black woman, to be a lead on a movie in Mississippi, we're probably a hundred years earlier, you 1.00

00:22:12.600 know, like, people in those areas, like, especially, like, you know, people with her skin color were

00:22:16.780 probably having a much tougher, you know, a tougher time.

00:22:19.020 They still do in a lot, especially, like, in some rural parts of, uh, of that state, you

00:22:24.360 know?

00:22:24.460 In Louisiana as well.

00:22:25.080 Yeah, and Louisiana, yeah, it must have been pretty cool, kind of.

00:22:27.640 Yeah, it actually isn't, like, I did not think of that.

00:22:29.980 That's, it is pretty incredible.

00:22:31.440 Like, she's leading a studio film.

00:22:33.580 Yeah.

00:22:33.940 And it's her.

00:22:34.780 Yeah, that's awesome.

00:22:35.240 Did she comment on anything like that?

00:22:36.740 Like, not, like, in a, not in any sort of, you know, negative way, but did she, like,

00:22:41.140 I wonder if she even noticed that.

00:22:42.820 Yeah, not that I can remember.

00:22:44.500 Um, yeah, I don't know.

00:22:46.560 But, I mean, it's definitely, like, incredible.

00:22:48.340 Like, honestly, because on Power, like, the showrunner for me is a black woman, too.

00:22:53.140 Yeah.

00:22:53.520 So, like, that's a show that I'm on, like, for a long period of time.

00:22:57.740 And I'm doing this movie, and, like, the lead's a black woman, so it's kind of cool.

00:23:00.920 Like, everything that I'm doing are led by black women. 1.00

00:23:04.300 You know what I mean?

00:23:04.760 Which is, like, it's awesome.

00:23:06.140 It's a great time for that.

00:23:07.220 You know what I mean?

00:23:08.260 Yeah, it is definitely a time where it's, like, you gotta have more, like, yeah, especially

00:23:12.980 now, it's, like, America gets, like, more diverse than it was when we were kids, to have more

00:23:16.480 people, like, putting their influence on things, you know, so you can get different perspectives

00:23:21.000 and stuff.

00:23:22.760 So, if, what's another type of movie that I would see, and then I would be, like, oh,

00:23:26.320 then you'll like Ma.

00:23:28.400 It's, it's kind of similar, like, it's.

00:23:30.560 Is it, like, Halloween, kind of?

00:23:31.740 It's a little bit, like, it kind of has elements of that, but it's, I would say it's more psychological.

00:23:35.620 So, it's, like, I would say it's, like, Get Out and Screamish, like, American Pie combined.

00:23:41.920 Like, it's, like, I'm telling you, it's a lot of fun. 0.97

00:23:44.780 It's a really fucking fun movie. 0.65

00:23:46.300 Like, if you're in college or high school or, like, young like that, that audience, like, 0.99

00:23:50.700 they're gonna fucking love this because it's just, like, crazy. 0.79

00:23:53.280 It's, like, a party movie and then it turns, turns deadly. 0.99

00:23:55.940 It's wild, yeah.

00:23:56.800 Is there any breaks in it where you can make out with somebody or not?

00:23:59.040 Or is it pretty intense?

00:23:59.480 I do make out with someone in it.

00:24:00.760 Really?

00:24:01.080 No, I'm talking about if you're in the theater. 0.98

00:24:02.620 Um, yeah, I could see, like, a scene or two where you fucking, you know, you could just 0.99

00:24:07.740 kind of doze off a little bit. 0.96

00:24:09.060 Oh, I remember that, huh?

00:24:10.260 Yeah.

00:24:10.720 Trying to get that over the pants handjob, you know what I mean? 0.90

00:24:13.180 Oh, get all of it. 0.97

00:24:14.040 Nothing gets me going like Octavia Spencer stabbing someone.

00:24:17.520 Burning Gianni with an iron.

00:24:19.180 Yeah, dude, that is true, huh? 0.99

00:24:21.220 Nothing gets me how fired up like seeing a white freshman getting burned with an iron in Mississippi. 0.99

00:24:27.520 Oh, man, I mean, sit me in the erection section. 0.99

00:24:32.540 Fear is nature's most powerful aphrodisiac. 0.98

00:24:34.900 Oh, yeah.

00:24:35.380 You know what they say when a plane's going down?

00:24:37.060 90% of the men in there are erect.

00:24:38.980 Really?

00:24:39.860 That's crazy.

00:24:40.580 Oh, is that, like, uh, is that a real thing?

00:24:42.600 Yeah, it's a statistic.

00:24:43.720 And you already get airplane boners, so I can't even imagine.

00:24:46.760 You'd bust.

00:24:47.580 Dude, do you have one right now, bro?

00:24:49.100 No, I don't. 0.98

00:24:50.180 But so much so that I get them that people fucking complain about them. 0.99

00:24:52.840 That's how much I get them. 0.99

00:24:56.320 Dude, that's, well, that's so exciting.

00:24:57.860 So, so how do you start to, so you're going to be in a film.

00:25:00.740 Like, what do you, how do you try to, like, like, what are your expectations of, like, what your career is going to be like after this?

00:25:07.580 How do you manage those expectations?

00:25:10.600 Like, what do you start to think about?

00:25:11.900 Because this is like, I mean, well, people, you know, watch Power, you know, that's a popular show.

00:25:16.380 But this will be, you know, this is like a film.

00:25:19.020 So what is, like, your brain go there?

00:25:21.200 Like, does your brain have you, like, in, like, a hot tub in two weeks in Aspen?

00:25:24.980 Like, I'm just trying to think, because you have a young brain, you know?

00:25:27.660 Yeah.

00:25:27.880 I got an old brain that's like, oh, dude, you'll be definitely still working for us in a month.

00:25:31.540 Yeah, he's like, we're going to, I'm going to drop him like a bad hat.

00:25:34.180 Yeah.

00:25:35.100 I, actually, the total opposite.

00:25:36.720 Like, I hope this launches me into just something, like, that I can consistently work on a show for, like, four years.

00:25:42.760 But, like, I don't want to leave the podcast.

00:25:45.160 Like, if something were to, I'd have to, like, shoot away, like, I would still find a way to, like, remotely book guests and, like, work with you guys.

00:25:51.980 Because this is, like, the most fun part of, like, my job.

00:25:54.900 Like, the reason why I am an actor is because, like, I like to have fun.

00:25:58.560 Like, I like to show up on set.

00:25:59.840 I like to, like, joke around and, like, you know, it's fun.

00:26:03.000 You've been on sets.

00:26:03.780 Yeah, you're always in a good mood, man.

00:26:05.220 I wish I was in a good mood as much as you are.

00:26:08.140 Yeah.

00:26:08.160 Yeah, you're always in a good mood.

00:26:09.440 Dude, well, maybe one day we'll do a movie and you can lead it, you know?

00:26:12.340 I would love that.

00:26:13.040 I really would.

00:26:13.960 Like, and that's just something, like, that I like doing.

00:26:15.880 Like, this has been, like, incredible for me.

00:26:17.820 I've learned so much from you and Nick.

00:26:19.400 I know so much about the podcasting world and, like, other people.

00:26:22.040 Yeah.

00:26:22.260 So, like, honestly, like, after this movie comes out, I'm hoping that I get a TV series for a long period of time.

00:26:29.480 It films in L.A. and I have, you know, like, a couple hours a day free where I can podcast and come in and, like, do this.

00:26:37.820 Like, it'd be fucking awesome.

00:26:39.200 Nick, do you think once Johnny starts to pop off a little bit, you know, and he starts buying jewelry and stuff like that, dude,

00:26:45.720 and buying his brother, like, fancy necklaces and stuff, you think he'll still come in with us or no?

00:26:51.520 I got to believe the little guy.

00:26:54.280 Really?

00:26:54.640 Really?

00:26:55.120 Yeah.

00:26:55.660 I think he truly loves this.

00:26:57.480 Like you said, he loves comedy.

00:26:58.460 He was listening to it before he worked with us.

00:26:59.980 So, like, being around it.

00:27:01.780 I see him squealing his tires outside of the studio where we're trying to record, you know, a year from now. 1.00

00:27:08.480 Fuck you, Theo! 1.00

00:27:10.880 Yeah, no, and we're getting a new studio. 1.00

00:27:12.480 Like, I'm so excited about that.

00:27:13.620 That's true, man.

00:27:14.260 This is our last guest in the studio, so it's actually fitting since you've booked so many of them to come in and close it out.

00:27:20.140 Yeah, I think I started right when you guys moved in here.

00:27:23.020 Like, I think my first day, like, you had had one guest in here, and I think it was Jay Moore, and I wasn't there for that.

00:27:27.940 Yeah.

00:27:28.620 That's crazy.

00:27:29.220 Right around that time.

00:27:30.520 That's crazy, man.

00:27:31.520 I think of all the guests that have come through here, you know?

00:27:33.600 Yeah, that's like 120 episodes since he's been here.

00:27:37.820 That's crazy, man.

00:27:40.480 Yeah, I can't even fathom that.

00:27:42.660 It's been fun.

00:27:43.180 We should do, like, one of those graduation videos where it's like, dan, dan, dan, dan, dan, and it, like, cuts to all the guests.

00:27:48.800 Yanni gets older, but he never looks any older because he still looks 14.

00:27:53.200 What's the youngest you can go read for in a film, honestly, and legitimately play?

00:27:56.780 I read for 15, like, maybe three months ago.

00:28:00.660 Now, do you take supplements and stuff to keep your hormones down or keep your hormones at bay?

00:28:04.380 No, I do not.

00:28:05.320 Really?

00:28:05.660 Yeah.

00:28:05.960 Oh, wow.

00:28:06.480 Yeah.

00:28:07.200 I don't.

00:28:08.700 I guess I look, yeah, I look a little young.

00:28:11.400 No, I could see it as, like, Abe Lincoln's, like, young son who's, like, leaving the family to go play rugby, you know?

00:28:18.480 Dude. 1.00

00:28:19.540 You look like you sell snake oil on fucking Hollywood Boulevard, dude. 1.00

00:28:24.000 Oh, dude, I definitely look like a fucking, I look like somebody that gets shot in one of the, uh, oh, I look like somebody who's looking for something by a stream in Red Dead Redemption. 1.00

00:28:32.840 Yeah, you look like Paul Rubin and Rubin Stutter, like, come on, come on, dude. 0.99

00:28:37.880 Dude, I used to have this joke, it was Rubin Stuttered, no, he didn't.

00:28:42.860 You sold it on stage?

00:28:44.260 No, I never told it to anybody until right now.

00:28:46.860 Thank God, dude.

00:28:48.400 Look, dude, here's another 14-year-old boy, here's Justin Bieber's son.

00:28:51.920 That's my castmate, Corey Fogelmanis, on, um, on the movie.

00:28:55.820 Is it?

00:28:56.180 Yeah, he told me he sent in a video.

00:28:58.300 This kid's, like, a teen heartthrob, he's got, like, three million followers.

00:29:00.820 Is he really?

00:29:01.520 Corey Fogelmanis?

00:29:02.620 Yeah, he was, uh, so, you know Boy Meets World?

00:29:04.880 Yeah.

00:29:05.200 They did a reboot, and he was the lead of Girl Meets World.

00:29:08.360 Oh, wow.

00:29:08.940 Yeah, on Disney.

00:29:09.360 With Topanga Miller?

00:29:10.300 Correct.

00:29:10.760 Or Topanga Canyon, or what is her name?

00:29:13.040 Topanga...

00:29:14.240 Uh, Danielle Fischel is her real name.

00:29:15.900 She blocked me on, uh, Twitter.

00:29:18.120 Actually, the whole cast of Boy Meets World did, because I, I had this friend who would tweet

00:29:21.820 at them constantly, like, they were actually their characters, and, uh, I, I jumped in on it.

00:29:26.120 That's hilarious.

00:29:26.900 They blocked us all.

00:29:28.260 Danielle, when are you and Corey getting back in?

00:29:29.840 How am I not surprised Nick is blocked by a bunch of teens, dude?

00:29:33.020 Yeah, uh, first of all, good.

00:29:36.100 Okay?

00:29:36.860 Probably great to be blocked by teens, Nick.

00:29:39.120 And I can't remember the dad's name, but he, he blocked it, too.

00:29:41.920 I love when we're all in court a year from now for Nick.

00:29:44.000 They're gonna use this?

00:29:44.840 And they're just flashing through all the teens that have blocked him on Instagram.

00:29:49.120 Danielle Fischel is a full-grown adult now.

00:29:51.880 I wonder what she's like, though.

00:29:52.900 Is she cool or not, I wonder?

00:29:54.160 I met the guy, Corey.

00:29:55.360 I heard she was a little crazy. 0.99

00:29:56.480 I could see her being nuts, dude. 0.97

00:29:57.640 Yeah.

00:29:57.680 I met the guy, Corey, from the first season.

00:29:59.140 He was super cool.

00:30:00.100 Not Corey.

00:30:00.520 Who's his friend?

00:30:01.160 Ben Savage.

00:30:01.760 Ryder.

00:30:02.120 Ryder Strong.

00:30:03.000 Oh, yeah.

00:30:03.460 She played Sean?

00:30:04.160 From the original season.

00:30:04.720 You played Sean?

00:30:05.080 Yeah, he was a really, really cool guy.

00:30:06.980 Dude, Ben Savage is brother Fred Savage.

00:30:08.980 He's like a, he's like a director.

00:30:11.140 Like, he's killing it.

00:30:12.160 He's a workhorse.

00:30:12.960 He does commercials.

00:30:13.820 He does, he does full-length features.

00:30:15.400 He was on that, uh, that Netflix show, um, uh, what was the one with, um.

00:30:19.260 Wonder Years?

00:30:20.060 Uh, no, no, with Nat Faxon and, um, uh, Keegan-Michael Key.

00:30:23.760 Oh, yeah.

00:30:24.580 You know which one he was on that one?

00:30:25.700 Sounds bad.

00:30:26.060 Billy Eichner.

00:30:27.060 It was pretty good.

00:30:27.780 I'll look it up after this video.

00:30:29.440 Let's hear Mr. Faux.

00:30:30.340 Uh, let's see, what's the young man's name again?

00:30:32.160 Corey Fogelmanis.

00:30:32.960 Corey Fogelmanis.

00:30:34.100 Yeah.

00:30:34.360 That's his last name.

00:30:36.200 Hey, bro, bro.

00:30:37.240 Uh, Gianni.

00:30:38.720 Uh, it's Corey here.

00:30:40.080 I just first want to say I'm so excited for Mala.

00:30:44.000 Uh, I think it looks incredible and you look so great in it.

00:30:48.300 Um, but yeah, so my question for you is, uh.

00:30:51.980 Are we just buddies?

00:30:53.180 Yeah.

00:30:53.480 Who is your most famous friend?

00:31:01.380 That's gutless.

00:31:02.400 All right.

00:31:02.980 He wants me to say him.

00:31:04.360 Of course. 0.99

00:31:04.960 But you know who I'm going to say is 50 fucking cent. 0.99

00:31:07.540 That's who I'm going to say. 0.99

00:31:08.400 Really?

00:31:08.820 Yeah.

00:31:09.500 I wouldn't say he's my friend, but.

00:31:12.640 He backtracked off that stuff.

00:31:13.920 He can't.

00:31:14.580 Yeah.

00:31:15.160 If like, I always think about this.

00:31:17.220 Bro, that's most of the question, dude.

00:31:19.280 Otherwise, you're just saying, who's the most famous person you can think of right now?

00:31:23.680 Okay.

00:31:28.240 Corey Fogel Maness.

00:31:29.680 Dude, this guy really likes you, Gianni.

00:31:31.320 Yeah.

00:31:31.860 Well, we became good friends on the movie.

00:31:33.960 Like, he's an awesome kid.

00:31:35.340 When they were hanging out more around the movie to watch Gianni's Instagram stories and

00:31:39.240 Gianni's like, he just bothers Corey on his Instagram story.

00:31:43.700 It was pretty entertaining.

00:31:45.540 Because we go to like, like, it's pretty crazy.

00:31:47.820 Because you go to a Walmart in Mississippi and none of these people are expecting, you

00:31:52.820 know, like anyone to be there.

00:31:54.660 Right.

00:31:54.940 So like, Corey would walk in and like, a family would be crying.

00:31:58.860 He'd be like, we love you guys so much.

00:32:00.880 And like, I'm sitting there like recording it because I think it's awesome.

00:32:03.760 Like, and he's like, dude, stop it.

00:32:05.220 And he gets like, really like embarrassing.

00:32:06.940 Like, it's also funny.

00:32:07.920 Like, like you see like, like Octavia and like, like I stayed for Thanksgiving at Tate's

00:32:12.260 house.

00:32:12.440 So like Jessica Chastain was there and the director of the movie, Tate Taylor.

00:32:16.400 And so I stayed for Thanksgiving and they would go to Walmart, like all of them.

00:32:21.040 And it's like, you're all A-listers, like in a weird, like town in Mississippi, like

00:32:25.740 no one expects this.

00:32:27.080 You know what I mean?

00:32:27.660 So I always think that's like wild to me.

00:32:29.500 You know what I mean?

00:32:29.760 I've been in that Wally world over there.

00:32:31.560 The big one, the big Walmart.

00:32:32.680 Oh yeah.

00:32:33.120 Yes.

00:32:33.560 It's nice.

00:32:34.240 I mean, it's, it's good.

00:32:35.760 It's good.

00:32:36.180 They got a McDonald's in the back.

00:32:37.640 Yeah.

00:32:37.940 But the director, Tate, loves you.

00:32:40.700 Really?

00:32:41.000 And the producer, John.

00:32:42.200 Yeah.

00:32:42.820 He's like great director.

00:32:44.220 He directed The Help.

00:32:45.020 He directed Get On Up, the James Brown movie.

00:32:46.780 Now you're making me feel like I should have done that because I went and met that guy,

00:32:49.800 Lee Daniels recently.

00:32:51.560 Harvey Lee Oswald?

00:32:52.580 Yeah.

00:32:52.920 Lee Daniels.

00:32:53.620 Yeah.

00:32:53.900 Lee Daniels, Harvey Oswald.

00:32:55.540 Yeah.

00:32:55.660 The guy that did the movie The Butler and the guy that does that show Empire.

00:33:00.860 Right?

00:33:01.080 Oh, okay.

00:33:01.800 So.

00:33:02.160 A little Jussie Smollett.

00:33:03.120 Yeah.

00:33:03.440 Jussie Smollett country.

00:33:04.480 And he gave me a role in the room.

00:33:06.880 Really?

00:33:07.280 For which show?

00:33:08.020 And then I passed on.

00:33:08.560 It's some new pilot that Whitney's doing.

00:33:10.320 Mm-hmm.

00:33:12.440 Yeah.

00:33:12.920 He's like, he's like, who's that guy, like that comedian on your Instagram?

00:33:16.200 Like, he's hilarious.

00:33:17.260 We love him.

00:33:18.100 So it's like, they're.

00:33:18.820 And does he prefer men or women, this guy?

00:33:20.340 Well, he is married to the producer of the movie.

00:33:22.720 He's a man.

00:33:23.260 Who's a what? 0.79

00:33:23.880 He was a man.

00:33:24.640 Oh, okay.

00:33:24.940 But it's also, because I didn't. 0.98

00:33:26.780 Gay men in Mississippi are a different lot. 0.94

00:33:30.000 But it's, it's so weird because. 0.84

00:33:31.860 They're all, they're pretty much beautiful women. 1.00

00:33:33.640 Yeah.

00:33:33.880 They're like the mayor of, of like. 0.96

00:33:35.640 Oh, if you're a gay man in Mississippi, you're the mayor of wherever you are. 0.93

00:33:38.620 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 0.99

00:33:39.280 Exactly.

00:33:39.840 Yeah.

00:33:40.180 Like when we went on, for Thanksgiving, he like left in the car and he like, he went.

00:33:46.160 Mississippi has no rules.

00:33:47.180 He has like this white Cadillac with, with like.

00:33:50.340 No rules if you're white. 0.97

00:33:53.900 Yeah, dude.

00:33:55.600 He has like this Cadillac and it's like, he's got in a fedora and he's buying guns and shrimp

00:34:01.020 and alcohol and propane and he's just driving down the thing.

00:34:03.860 He's like this, this gay man with a fedora and a white Cadillac, no roof on it. 1.00

00:34:07.980 It's just like hilarious. 0.97

00:34:08.920 That sounds like a casserole he's making, dude. 1.00

00:34:11.040 You put a little propane and some shrimp in a bucket and fucking shoot it four times, 1.00

00:34:14.560 dude. 1.00

00:34:15.360 Voila, baby.

00:34:17.860 Voila.

00:34:18.220 That's some dynamite shrimp, you know?

00:34:19.800 Oh, dude.

00:34:20.580 Definitely.

00:34:21.800 That's awesome, man.

00:34:22.940 It's so cool you get to go there and just spend time, man.

00:34:24.840 It's such like a, it feels almost like when I go to Mississippi a lot of times, especially

00:34:29.000 in Natchez, that I'm traveling to the past.

00:34:31.040 Yeah.

00:34:32.160 I love it.

00:34:32.380 Like another time.

00:34:33.580 I would, I would love to go back.

00:34:34.720 That's why I thought you were going to go to that festival.

00:34:37.760 Oh, it's this weekend.

00:34:38.460 With Bishop Gunn, is it?

00:34:39.260 Well, it's two weekends ago.

00:34:40.600 Yeah, it's two weekends ago.

00:34:41.660 Yeah.

00:34:42.040 It was a great time.

00:34:42.900 But I would have went because I, yeah.

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00:37:48.200 And now back to the episode.

00:37:49.800 Nick, how's it been?

00:37:50.700 Because you work with Johnny sometimes because he's here,

00:37:52.680 he mills around, he loiters, I like to call it.

00:37:55.000 How's that been for you, I feel like?

00:37:57.000 It's dope, to be honest.

00:37:59.180 We rip on each other, but he's super fun to have around.

00:38:02.180 Like you said, he's always in a good mood.

00:38:03.700 I'm working here by myself a lot, so his energy, it's great.

00:38:07.660 Honestly, he's great to be around.

00:38:09.340 And I'm just super impressed by it because we haven't even said,

00:38:12.340 Gianni's 22, I think.

00:38:14.840 And I don't know, he's a workhorse,

00:38:16.300 and he's very strategic in what he's doing.

00:38:19.220 I don't know.

00:38:19.820 I see bright things for the kid.

00:38:21.380 Thank you, Nick.

00:38:22.220 Yeah, man, I feel you, dude.

00:38:23.420 Yeah, it is really exciting, bro.

00:38:25.560 You know, you can, yeah,

00:38:28.020 especially since you get to see what the podcast world is like

00:38:30.460 and then also see what the Hollywood world is like.

00:38:33.500 It's like, yeah, you'll be able to probably learn enough

00:38:36.360 to kind of hedge one against the other at certain points.

00:38:41.440 You know, to probably, if you wanted to produce your own thing

00:38:43.520 or make your own film that you wanted to star in,

00:38:45.780 it's like you know where you can find an audience for it

00:38:49.220 if it's something that's good.

00:38:50.140 Which I think a lot of it is going,

00:38:51.840 like it's going away from Hollywood

00:38:53.020 and it's going more towards like it's in your hands.

00:38:55.560 You know what I mean?

00:38:56.160 Because like I'm writing and trying to, you know,

00:38:59.560 develop my own show and, you know,

00:39:01.500 like that's the way it's going.

00:39:03.780 You know what I mean?

00:39:04.080 You don't need Hollywood as much as you used to.

00:39:06.100 Yeah.

00:39:07.020 Yeah, it's like you can really make your own Hollywood kind of.

00:39:09.300 Yeah.

00:39:10.020 You know?

00:39:10.440 I mean, you got to have, I just, I can't see how it's not going to go more that direction.

00:39:17.740 There's so many different outlets now.

00:39:20.280 Like these other streaming services are getting like more money behind them.

00:39:23.500 Like, I mean, this is sports obviously, but like that DAZN channel,

00:39:28.180 like it's the, it's now on par with the quality of content that like ESPN streaming service is putting out.

00:39:33.860 And it came out of nowhere.

00:39:35.220 What's it called?

00:39:36.100 DAZN.

00:39:36.580 It's spelled D-A-Z-N.

00:39:38.000 Honestly, that's their biggest problem is the branding.

00:39:39.900 But like they signed Canelo for like 300 million.

00:39:42.420 They got money behind them.

00:39:43.700 Right.

00:39:44.100 It's a whole strategy.

00:39:45.520 But these things are springing up all over.

00:39:47.020 So there's, if you put out good content,

00:39:48.780 you're going to find a place and someone who's going to give you money to produce it.

00:39:51.860 And it doesn't have to be through the traditional channels.

00:39:54.180 Because it's almost like, like MeUndies doesn't go to a store anymore.

00:39:58.540 They go directly to the people.

00:39:59.880 And that's what the content creators are doing.

00:40:02.080 Yeah.

00:40:02.200 Well, it's weird because it's also like the whole, like Louis C.K.

00:40:04.680 Like he just doesn't even need any networks.

00:40:07.080 He just has his own website and people go in and listen to his special.

00:40:11.580 You know what I mean?

00:40:11.960 So it's like he doesn't need Netflix to buy a special.

00:40:14.220 He can just put it out on his own.

00:40:15.560 Well, the first one he did.

00:40:16.760 But then after that, he went back to net.

00:40:18.220 He went back to.

00:40:19.220 I think he, did he sell it, sell the one that was already up on his thing back to them?

00:40:23.620 I'm not sure.

00:40:24.140 That's a good question.

00:40:24.800 Well, because then he made double the amount of money.

00:40:26.400 You know what I mean?

00:40:26.700 He sold it to everyone and then was like, okay, I made all my money.

00:40:29.420 No one's buying it anymore.

00:40:30.820 I'll sell it to Netflix.

00:40:31.900 People will still watch it.

00:40:32.780 It'll get exposure and I'll make money.

00:40:35.920 And if he would have, we might have said this on the podcast before, but if he would have

00:40:39.840 had like a podcast during the whole time, he could have even not went away and like still

00:40:44.440 had like this groundswell of people in his corner that like, I don't know, like, yeah,

00:40:50.480 he did something wrong, but we're not going to just drop him completely instead of going

00:40:53.800 dormant or whatever for the last year and a half.

00:40:55.580 Yeah.

00:40:56.640 Yeah.

00:40:56.960 It's kind of interesting to like, you know, it's kind of interesting and it's kind of

00:41:00.040 like scary to think about like, yeah, like what, you know, like what's going to be next,

00:41:08.160 how it's going to change, how are like the, you know, how are, cause so many people listen

00:41:13.700 and watch podcasts and go to more than cable now.

00:41:16.840 Yeah.

00:41:17.100 And go to see those entertainers, you know, and the, and that, those are the entertainers

00:41:20.640 that people go out to see, um, yeah, it's just kind of like, it kind of like, it doesn't

00:41:25.660 plague me sometimes, but it just has me thinking like, well, what are the possibilities of like

00:41:29.060 creating our own, you know, network, making stuff that we think is good.

00:41:32.920 Yeah.

00:41:33.540 And then just getting advertisers attached so that we don't have, you know, notes and

00:41:37.980 it can just be straight out of our own brains.

00:41:40.040 Exactly.

00:41:40.480 Well, I'm super excited about your special because I mean, I don't know if, I mean, most 0.98

00:41:44.260 of you guys have probably seen Theo on the road, but dude, your fucking hour is incredible. 0.94

00:41:49.620 It's like, it's like the best hour I think I have seen maybe ever. 0.97

00:41:53.960 Um, and you're no offense.

00:41:56.300 Like that was great, but like, this is a whole new level.

00:42:00.020 Like, so I, I, I agree.

00:42:01.920 Cause like, so incredible Ari Manis, he follows you on the road.

00:42:05.500 He opens for you.

00:42:06.300 He sends me the footage and sometimes there's whole shows on there and I'm trying to find

00:42:09.800 like interesting parts.

00:42:10.680 So like, I'm listening to it on like two times or three times speed, but like you listen

00:42:15.380 to it and it's like, it's like music.

00:42:18.200 Like you can just, all of a sudden there's laughter.

00:42:19.880 Theo says something, there's laughter and it's just this constant wave.

00:42:22.600 It's, it's, it's crazy.

00:42:23.900 Like how it's boom, boom, boom, boom.

00:42:26.080 Well, every time you like, cause I have your email on my computer because you know, we book

00:42:30.220 guests and every time like a, like a clip from like the ice house will come in, I'll be 0.97

00:42:35.300 like, Oh shit. 0.95

00:42:36.020 Like, I don't know if I can listen to this. 0.99

00:42:37.260 It's like, I just like, I think I truly, that's how I first like knew of you.

00:42:41.880 Cause I went to the comedy store one night to watch, um, Delia and Sebastian.

00:42:45.540 And I think you had a later spot cause at this time you like weren't as big as you were

00:42:49.740 then.

00:42:50.060 This is maybe two and a half years ago.

00:42:51.900 Yeah.

00:42:52.400 And you had like an 1130 spot and I was going to leave.

00:42:54.680 And then you came on and I was sat in the front row and, um, like everyone around me 0.99

00:42:59.700 had already gone and I was like, who the fuck is this guy? 0.95

00:43:03.500 Like, like this is the most unique, like interesting. 0.99

00:43:07.860 It was just so different to me and I was laughing my ass off and that's how I just knew of you.

00:43:13.200 And then I started, like, I went to a couple of your shows and I started listening to the

00:43:16.300 podcast and then, you know, it's crazy.

00:43:18.220 Here I am, you know?

00:43:19.480 Yeah, here we are.

00:43:20.340 I mean, I, well, thank you.

00:43:21.480 That's nice of you guys to say, man.

00:43:22.620 I know that I've been hard to deal with sometimes over this year, which has been tough, man.

00:43:26.420 For me, it's just been, you know, it's been fun to have a lot more work and stuff, but

00:43:29.760 it's been, it's been such like a level of like just stress, I think in fear, you know,

00:43:35.300 like working like so long in an industry and like, you know, not, you know, not really

00:43:41.420 getting much traction and then like, and then like, yeah, getting a lot of traction, but

00:43:45.820 also like it's your own traction kind of that, you know, that we've created here with

00:43:49.380 the podcast and, you know, not alone, but with, so it's just like kind of scary.

00:43:54.880 It's like, and then suddenly everybody wants to come and like get you to do stuff and you're

00:43:58.480 like, well, what do I do?

00:43:59.420 Am I making good choices?

00:44:00.460 Am I making bad choices?

00:44:01.920 Well, when I first started working here a year ago, you had, I think it was 68,000 followers

00:44:07.740 on Instagram.

00:44:08.480 You have 800,000 now.

00:44:10.120 Like that is incredible.

00:44:11.740 You know what I mean?

00:44:12.300 Like, and that's all through the podcast and comedy. 0.99

00:44:14.520 You haven't, it's not like you did a fucking studio movie. 0.98

00:44:17.160 You know what I mean? 0.98

00:44:17.500 It's not like you're on a TV show that is all through comedy and podcasts, which is what

00:44:21.220 people need to understand.

00:44:22.200 Like that it's the podcast world, which is like, and social media through Instagram, like

00:44:26.200 that's, what's blowing people up.

00:44:28.020 You know what I mean?

00:44:28.760 It's like you can, you did that without Hollywood.

00:44:31.320 Yeah.

00:44:31.640 Well, you can get your voice out there.

00:44:32.720 Well, I mean, I had a lot of help.

00:44:33.740 I mean, Nick's done a great job, you know?

00:44:35.540 I mean, Nick has done a great job.

00:44:37.400 And even like, you know, moments today, like this morning, you know, sometimes I'll wake up,

00:44:40.820 there's two ways I'll wake up a good way. 0.98

00:44:42.440 And then the other way, dude, I'll wake up and I'm a fucking lose. 0.97

00:44:45.400 And I can tell right when you text me which one it is. 0.96

00:44:47.860 It is so crazy how you can tell via a text.

00:44:50.900 Like I can feel the energy.

00:44:53.260 Well, because.

00:44:54.200 Oh, yeah.

00:44:54.480 Well, look, there's energy that goes into that screen.

00:44:57.220 So I'm glad some of it's coming out the other side, man.

00:44:59.780 When he wakes up, it's either like, hey, man, good morning, like ready to get today going,

00:45:03.200 like all this stuff.

00:45:03.880 Like, do we have everyone good? 0.97

00:45:05.060 And then it's also like, hey, man, what the fuck is going on? 0.98

00:45:07.840 Why the fuck is a studio not at 68 degrees? 0.99

00:45:13.720 Yeah, I broke the thermostat, whatever. 1.00

00:45:15.500 Yeah, dude, you think those fucking two plants can survive in there? 0.99

00:45:18.280 Quit thinking about yourself, Gianni. 0.99

00:45:19.520 Dude, the new studio, we got windows, dude. 0.99

00:45:21.340 We're going to have a fucking forest, dude. 0.99

00:45:23.680 Yeah, you guys don't even know. 0.99

00:45:24.800 We'll put some of the footage in.

00:45:26.700 We'll put some of the footage on to the Patreon.

00:45:29.200 Yeah.

00:45:29.580 Because Gianni just started helping out, like kind of get, trying to get to our Patreon

00:45:32.920 to like a better level where you guys can see some of the behind the scenes stuff that

00:45:35.860 we do better.

00:45:37.660 And we'll put like those videos of whenever we went over to the new studio and checked

00:45:41.060 it out.

00:45:42.720 Yeah, it's kind of crazy.

00:45:43.820 There's definitely more room.

00:45:45.940 There's going to be just a place where you can put stuff.

00:45:48.740 What are you looking forward to, Nick?

00:45:49.640 Because you're in the studio most of the time.

00:45:51.020 Yeah, I mean, if we, I think we could find talent and kind of, it's going to be hard to

00:45:57.520 get any show to the level of this because you're a unique, unique talent.

00:46:02.520 But I think we could find people who we think have potential that aren't seen and produce

00:46:07.680 their own pods and recreate kind of the formula we have, like the Clips channel and the Instagrams

00:46:13.020 that help blow them up. 0.55

00:46:14.240 And then with our connections, the other pod, get them put out.

00:46:17.120 And I think we could, we could have our own network.

00:46:19.120 I mean, your mom's house is doing it.

00:46:20.780 Yeah.

00:46:21.320 No reason we can't.

00:46:22.420 Yeah.

00:46:22.640 I want to do like our own.

00:46:24.460 Yeah, we should steal Dr. Drew from him.

00:46:25.840 Man, he's so good.

00:46:27.420 Our own potential, potential like production company, like Onward Productions. 0.99

00:46:31.320 And we just do our own shit in house. 0.97

00:46:33.680 You don't need to go to some sketchy thing. 0.99

00:46:35.460 We sell our own ads.

00:46:36.480 It's like, it's, it's all together.

00:46:38.000 And it's like a collaborative, creative experience. 0.99

00:46:39.800 You know, it's not like you have to deal with some guy in a fucking suit telling you 0.99

00:46:42.780 you're not funny enough. 0.99

00:46:43.520 You're like, well, what have you ever done?

00:46:44.760 You know what I mean?

00:46:45.300 Yeah.

00:46:46.420 Yeah.

00:46:46.780 No, look, man.

00:46:47.380 I mean, it would definitely be neat.

00:46:48.540 You know, I think my fears are just, you know, doing too much other stuff.

00:46:52.180 So I can't do standup that much or I don't do it.

00:46:55.080 But I do think it's like, use your umbrella though.

00:46:58.580 Like don't necessarily pile on you more stuff, but it's like, use your umbrella to put on

00:47:04.180 other stuff.

00:47:04.900 Like you start, you start growing, like you're just branches off and it doesn't always have

00:47:08.800 to be you.

00:47:09.440 You like, when we have someone with a show, you're their first guest and stuff, uh, kind

00:47:15.260 of help pop them off.

00:47:16.120 But then we go running with them.

00:47:17.680 Yeah.

00:47:18.020 It's like the same thing, like what Kevin Hart does.

00:47:20.160 I mean, he has heartbeat productions and he does so many different shows and like executive

00:47:24.720 produces them and like creatively, you know, helps them, but he has really not much to do

00:47:28.740 with it.

00:47:29.040 It's just kind of his name and his brand will help get it out there.

00:47:32.300 He has LOL network too, which like a lot, a lot of, it's, it's more urban skewed.

00:47:37.660 It's on Facebook a lot.

00:47:38.900 Yeah.

00:47:39.140 I, I, uh, actually interviewed them before I was at funny or die.

00:47:42.300 Um, and I almost had it, but I think I didn't know it was as urban as it was.

00:47:45.620 And I kept telling him like, they have all this just for laughs content.

00:47:48.140 They own a bunch of that.

00:47:49.040 And I was like, Oh, that's like where you want to go.

00:47:50.620 And that's like nerdy white comedy.

00:47:52.340 Yeah.

00:47:52.500 And, uh, so I think that's kind of where I, Jerry Seinfeld.

00:47:57.920 What's the big deal with watermelon?

00:48:00.260 Have you heard of this guy, Theo from Louisiana?

00:48:02.640 Although that's a bad example.

00:48:03.520 Cause you, you, you got that swag, but, uh, yeah.

00:48:06.380 Yeah, dude.

00:48:07.080 Black guys love you, man.

00:48:08.260 They do?

00:48:08.720 Yeah.

00:48:09.080 I wish someone would come to the shows.

00:48:11.040 Uh, there's been 11 that have come to the shows.

00:48:13.860 I think this past year.

00:48:15.060 Yeah.

00:48:15.680 And they're always like, Hey man, just want to let you know you have some black 1.00

00:48:18.820 support.

00:48:20.140 And one of them is my friend Stan that came to two shows for him. 0.94

00:48:24.280 He's like, I told all my friends about you and they beat the shit out of me. 0.67

00:48:27.860 Yeah.

00:48:28.560 But dude, you know what I was thinking?

00:48:29.640 There's not a lot of crossover.

00:48:31.560 In music, there's a lot of crossover, right?

00:48:34.380 As in crossover as in what?

00:48:35.440 Like, like if you look at black and white audiences that go to see entertainment, you know, a lot

00:48:41.080 of, there, there's still a lot of like, a lot of black audiences go to see black stuff.

00:48:45.080 A lot of white audiences go to see kind of white stuff.

00:48:47.000 I think, I mean, I think it bends in some places.

00:48:49.320 Music is definitely a place where it bends a lot.

00:48:51.560 Well, I think because I like Post Malone, I don't think a lot of black people go see 1.00

00:48:57.180 Post Malone, but like Drake, like, like black people go see Drake and like white people go 0.75

00:49:02.140 see Drake.

00:49:02.520 So I think it's more of the black artists that the white people love.

00:49:05.600 But I feel like sometimes when it's a white artist, like there's not support from maybe

00:49:10.820 the black community.

00:49:11.620 Cause like, Oh, he's like, he's like white, like trying to like take like what we created. 0.99

00:49:16.000 So I think like, that's kind of what Michael Rappaport.

00:49:18.640 Yeah.

00:49:19.140 Like you don't see like Gary Owen a little bit.

00:49:20.660 Yeah.

00:49:20.700 Gary Owen.

00:49:21.100 Yeah. 0.96

00:49:21.680 Actually, black people really puck with Gary Owen, but he married also a black woman.

00:49:25.060 I think you have to go that far really.

00:49:27.100 Like Neil Brennan, he, he married Dave Chappelle.

00:49:29.600 So he married himself a couple of times too.

00:49:34.080 I think it'd be good.

00:49:35.480 Bill Burr.

00:49:36.500 Bill Burr.

00:49:37.100 Yep.

00:49:37.640 But he's got his, his content is so white. 0.83

00:49:41.400 Like, it's like, remember I was drunk driving at the McDonald's. 0.73

00:49:44.040 It's like black people were like, no, we don't remember that.

00:49:46.400 You know what I mean?

00:49:46.900 Yeah.

00:49:47.340 He's just so frustrated with everything.

00:49:49.160 He's the best.

00:49:49.900 Yeah.

00:49:50.140 Have you seen those two black guys?

00:49:51.680 They have a YouTube channel and they'll watch like white comics stuff.

00:49:55.460 They've, they've done one on you and they just absolutely loved it.

00:49:58.000 And I've seen one on them do Burr.

00:49:59.780 I want to find their names cause.

00:50:01.420 Yeah.

00:50:01.820 Those guys are great.

00:50:02.840 Yeah.

00:50:02.980 It is interesting.

00:50:03.680 I wonder if there's like a, um, I think it would do thing.

00:50:07.580 I think it would, if there were more, and maybe this will just happen with time where

00:50:12.780 more black people support white things and not think that it's like they're, cause a 1.00

00:50:16.820 lot of white people aren't like support my stuff.

00:50:18.640 I'm like a, you know, like they don't have any, there's no ego, there's no racial ego

00:50:23.480 in it.

00:50:24.040 Yeah.

00:50:24.180 I think there's sometimes there's probably like, you know, when you've been like a community

00:50:28.580 that's been like historically kind of like held, held into such a place and not had

00:50:33.480 opportunity, then you probably think like, oh, yeah, this is our opportunity.

00:50:36.760 Like, why are you taking this from us?

00:50:39.020 Like we have this, you know what I mean?

00:50:40.380 Right.

00:50:40.720 Why are you taking that too?

00:50:41.600 I guess it may be what the feeling is.

00:50:43.060 But out here on the West coast, I see a lot more guys who were just like, it doesn't really

00:50:46.020 matter.

00:50:46.460 I think that is one thing you find more.

00:50:47.900 And even just as, as time goes on, I see a lot more people.

00:50:51.020 It doesn't really matter.

00:50:51.880 Kind of like.

00:50:52.400 That's where I see it going where it's like, like a lot of it now is that like, you want to give

00:50:56.920 diverse people jobs, like, which is great.

00:50:59.400 Like, I fully support that.

00:51:00.500 But it's like, like, I'm hoping in like the next like 30 years where it's just like, no 0.98

00:51:04.640 one gives a fuck. 0.97

00:51:05.220 It's equal. 0.99

00:51:05.820 The funniest person gets the job.

00:51:07.800 Yeah.

00:51:08.080 The best writer gets the writing job.

00:51:09.700 The best actor gets acting job.

00:51:11.020 Like, yeah, we want it to be diverse, but like, it should be like, that shouldn't matter. 0.97

00:51:14.380 You know what I mean?

00:51:14.720 It should just be who's the best.

00:51:16.420 Yeah.

00:51:17.500 Yeah.

00:51:17.820 It's been, as long as everybody has the opportunity.

00:51:19.580 Exactly.

00:51:20.020 The best, you know?

00:51:21.520 And also I think one thing is like, you know, a lot of like with struggle comes.

00:51:27.520 Without struggle, you don't get any, you know, you got to have some to get to have something,

00:51:32.860 I think.

00:51:33.280 Exactly.

00:51:33.820 You know, like you don't get a dime without some pressure.

00:51:36.040 Like, I think like you're going to see a lot more softer black athletes over time, you 1.00

00:51:40.480 know, as like, yeah, once like great, like once you realize what it's like to grow up in 0.91

00:51:46.100 an area where, you know, like you have sweaters all the time and shit like that, dude, you're 0.99

00:51:51.060 going to have good black guys that can't even dunk. 1.00

00:51:52.680 That's already. 0.99

00:51:53.300 Imagine that.

00:51:54.180 It's already kind of happening.

00:51:55.500 Jimmy Butler, when he was on the Wolves, like he hated his teammates because they're all

00:51:59.620 like younger millennials and they would play video games constantly. 0.99

00:52:02.960 Like they're always playing Fortnite and he fucking hated his teammates. 0.99

00:52:06.580 Right? 0.99

00:52:06.660 Yeah.

00:52:07.060 Like he's fitting in way better in Philadelphia.

00:52:09.460 He screamed at him one time at a practice and like it made a bunch of news. 0.99

00:52:13.500 He's like, you fucking need me. 0.98

00:52:15.160 And then he demanded a trade and he left because Jimmy Butler is old school. 0.99

00:52:19.760 Oh, he's old school.

00:52:20.700 Yeah.

00:52:20.940 It's definitely, yeah.

00:52:21.860 I mean, it's definitely like, yeah, it's going to be, I mean, I do look forward to a

00:52:26.060 day where maybe there'll be an opportunity for a white man to be able to start on a basketball

00:52:29.740 team, you know, just because, you know, like, because.

00:52:34.740 Larry Bird, dude.

00:52:36.360 But that was when.

00:52:36.960 There was that one guy.

00:52:37.300 We had to go to Poland to find the guy.

00:52:38.560 They said that they found him in an ice, in an iceberg, thawed out.

00:52:41.420 Who's that guy?

00:52:42.040 Diochik or something? 0.91

00:52:43.260 Uh.

00:52:44.200 For the Nuggets?

00:52:44.840 Oh, yeah.

00:52:45.440 The Joker, uh, Nikolo Djokic.

00:52:47.300 Yeah, that guy.

00:52:48.060 He's Arvidas Sabonis reincarnate.

00:52:49.860 I love Nikolo Djokic.

00:52:51.700 Yeah.

00:52:51.900 I can't even pronounce his name, bro. 1.00

00:52:54.100 That's how fucking European he is. 0.99

00:52:55.640 I call him the white guy in the NBA. 0.99

00:52:57.860 He was top five this year and he's a, he's a seven foot, like two huge thick center in

00:53:04.200 being the guy with the ball on pick and rolls.

00:53:06.420 Like they run him at point.

00:53:07.600 Wow.

00:53:08.000 He's a crazy good passer.

00:53:09.320 It's sweet.

00:53:10.540 Yeah.

00:53:10.740 You've had to really go deep into Europe, man.

00:53:13.000 Go deep into like those, you know, like the, just the crevasses of Europe, you know, to

00:53:20.140 really find like a white guy who can play basketball.

00:53:23.980 We got a white guy that wants to ask Gianni a question.

00:53:26.280 Oh, is this his dad?

00:53:28.760 This looks like his dad, bro.

00:53:30.500 Is this your father?

00:53:31.260 No.

00:53:31.840 Let's get this video.

00:53:32.640 That's my cousin.

00:53:36.180 Oh, how long were y'all there?

00:53:39.340 What's up, Gianni, you sexy little shortbread? 0.81

00:53:43.000 About time you found your way on the podcast, boy.

00:53:46.520 I want to know what it's like to be on power.

00:53:50.500 I also want to know what it's like to work with Theo.

00:53:53.800 I know that you must think that he's super funny, just like we all do.

00:53:58.660 And I want to know what that's like, man.

00:54:01.720 I know that y'all must have some good times and have a bunch of laughs.

00:54:04.760 So, uh, yeah.

00:54:07.720 And also, how do I get my chest bigger, bro?

00:54:11.100 I'm trying to get my chest bigger.

00:54:12.920 All right, gang, gang. 0.99

00:54:13.500 Nice nipples though for a young guy. 0.99

00:54:14.580 How old is that guy? 1.00

00:54:15.100 Gang, gang.

00:54:15.460 Probably 28.

00:54:16.360 Gang, gang, man.

00:54:18.060 Uh, we probably should do more activities as a group, you know.

00:54:20.660 Maybe we'll have more opportunity to do that in the new studio.

00:54:24.640 Because there'll be a little more room.

00:54:25.860 Yeah.

00:54:26.280 What's it like to be on power?

00:54:28.020 Um, it's incredible.

00:54:29.720 I think it's so much cooler being on a black show than a white show. 0.98

00:54:32.780 Because, like, you show up to a white show and everyone's just like, kind of like.

00:54:36.140 Like, when you get, like, the cast and crew of, like, a black show and they're laughing, 0.66

00:54:41.500 like, at what you're doing, it feels better almost.

00:54:43.680 Oh, yeah.

00:54:44.500 It's just like, like, it's the same thing.

00:54:46.220 It's like when you're wearing, like, an outfit and, like, a white guy comes up to you

00:54:48.940 and he's like, dope outfit. 0.99

00:54:50.600 And you're like, okay, dude, get the fuck away from me. 1.00

00:54:52.600 And then a black guy's like, sick outfit. 1.00

00:54:53.940 You're like, fuck yeah. 1.00

00:54:54.940 Fuck yeah, dude. 1.00

00:54:55.840 I could do anything now. 1.00

00:54:56.580 Maybe I could play pro ball.

00:54:57.920 Exactly.

00:54:58.440 Yeah.

00:54:58.740 Yeah, I'm going to go try out for the NFL.

00:55:00.300 Maybe the CFL.

00:55:01.560 Yeah, CFL.

00:55:02.420 We're going to go there. 0.98

00:55:02.820 If a black guy even pats you on the back or accidentally bumps in you in the elevator 0.95

00:55:05.980 and you feel like you could play ball.

00:55:06.820 Why is that?

00:55:06.860 Why is it so much cooler?

00:55:08.100 I think there's just like, because I think, you know, I think for me anyway, let me think

00:55:12.820 about that.

00:55:14.060 You know, I don't know.

00:55:15.880 Black guys just seem more confident and comfortable.

00:55:18.160 Agreed.

00:55:18.680 So, you feel like if, oh, you wish you had that.

00:55:23.220 Or for me, I wish I had that.

00:55:24.400 So, if they like, if they think I'm that way or something, then.

00:55:28.200 It's BD, dude.

00:55:29.280 Yeah. 0.99

00:55:29.460 When's the last time you seen like a black guy with like a disease? 1.00

00:55:32.280 You know what I mean? 0.96

00:55:32.840 It's just like, I never see. 1.00

00:55:35.200 It's just like, they're just like, fuck it. 1.00

00:55:36.580 We don't need, we don't got that. 1.00

00:55:37.680 And they don't talk about it. 0.98

00:55:38.660 You know, like, yeah, a cool black guy's not going to talk about his disease, dude.

00:55:41.980 He's just like, yeah, I got it. 0.90

00:55:43.040 Whatever.

00:55:43.500 Yeah.

00:55:43.820 It's cool.

00:55:44.380 We're ruining Gianni's career.

00:55:46.000 I know, right? 0.98

00:55:46.680 He's racist.

00:55:48.320 But no, look, I think there's always been something that, you know, like, or for me, 0.92

00:55:52.400 it was always something that you wanted to be accepted by the black community.

00:55:55.340 Also, making any other community laugh is also a fun thing.

00:55:59.060 The only community I had around growing up in my area was black and white.

00:56:01.860 So there wasn't any other options.

00:56:03.520 But yeah, if you're like, you know, you're in a group of Latinos, you make all those guys 1.00

00:56:08.580 laugh or something.

00:56:09.380 So much cooler.

00:56:09.980 Yeah. 1.00

00:56:10.300 It's like, oh, fuck, it's so much cooler. 1.00

00:56:12.560 They think I'm cool. 0.99

00:56:13.660 Well, I mean, working with 50 Cent is literally like a dream.

00:56:16.980 Like, if you told me when I was 10 years old, 12 years old, that you're going to be on

00:56:20.580 a show with 50 Cent, I would be like, you can kill me afterwards because I don't need 0.93

00:56:24.980 to live anymore. 0.79

00:56:25.920 And so is he a big guy?

00:56:28.220 What is he like?

00:56:28.760 He is, so the first time I ever met him, so I went, for season six, I went to go film

00:56:34.320 episode one, and we were doing the table read for episode two.

00:56:37.840 Yeah.

00:56:38.300 So I saw him come in, and he's way bigger than you think.

00:56:40.880 And the table read is when everybody gets together from the cast and reads.

00:56:43.440 The whole cast, correct.

00:56:43.960 To practice the script.

00:56:44.860 Yeah.

00:56:45.200 So we did that, and then I like saw him a little bit, but not much because he was directing

00:56:50.440 episode three.

00:56:51.760 So that's when he like kind of takes over.

00:56:53.520 Um, but, because he's, his character is dead, and he's now just an executive producer on

00:56:58.900 the show, so he didn't have to do much.

00:57:00.760 So, um, he didn't say much.

00:57:02.500 I didn't really meet him, and I left because I had a meeting right after in New York.

00:57:05.300 So then I went, um, the next day I had to film episode one, and I went in the gym upstairs

00:57:11.320 of the studio because we film at Steiner Studios in Brooklyn.

00:57:13.800 So there's a gym up there, and I'm lifting, and I'm listening to 50 Cent, no word of a

00:57:18.540 lie.

00:57:18.860 Get him up.

00:57:19.580 Yep. 0.98

00:57:20.180 It was, it was, um, uh, put his brains out. 1.00

00:57:24.140 Ah, fuck, what, heat. 1.00

00:57:25.120 I think it was called heat. 1.00

00:57:26.320 And he comes in.

00:57:27.380 That's with Al Pacino.

00:57:28.260 Yeah, that's with Al Pacino. 1.00

00:57:29.200 Idiot. 1.00

00:57:30.720 You should listen to a movie while you're in the gym. 1.00

00:57:32.460 Go on.

00:57:33.220 Yeah.

00:57:33.660 So he walks in, and he starts lifting next to me.

00:57:38.520 Is he strong?

00:57:39.200 He is.

00:57:40.060 His arms are bigger than my head, like no joke.

00:57:42.540 Wow.

00:57:42.920 They're massive.

00:57:43.880 And he's, like, in, like, jeans, like, just got off, like, set.

00:57:48.240 And, um, yeah. 0.99

00:57:49.760 Damn, bro. 1.00

00:57:50.840 He's ripped, dude. 1.00

00:57:52.100 He's ripped.

00:57:53.120 So, um. 1.00

00:57:53.800 Fuck. 1.00

00:57:54.700 So I'm lifting, and then. 1.00

00:57:55.640 His tits look like hammocks, bro, for muscle. 0.99

00:57:59.280 He's got to help out that guy that just asked the question. 1.00

00:58:01.660 Yeah.

00:58:02.300 If you want to know, yeah, go read that Men's Muscle Fitness episode with, uh, magazine with,

00:58:08.500 um.

00:58:08.520 Dude, he is cut.

00:58:09.560 50 Cent.

00:58:10.260 Curtis.

00:58:10.420 I mean, I don't think he looks like that now.

00:58:12.320 That was, like, maybe.

00:58:13.200 Yes, he does.

00:58:13.660 He's, like, 40-something now.

00:58:14.940 His arms are just big.

00:58:15.980 I think he's got a little, little stomach.

00:58:17.880 He's been relaxing. 1.00

00:58:18.660 He was eating fucking Twizzlers on set all day. 0.99

00:58:20.420 Oh, really? 1.00

00:58:20.780 Yeah.

00:58:21.200 Does he have any children or not?

00:58:22.880 Yeah, he has a son.

00:58:24.160 I think he has two sons.

00:58:25.080 It's one he hates and one that he, he likes.

00:58:27.440 That's young.

00:58:27.700 Oh, nice.

00:58:28.400 But, um. 0.99

00:58:29.100 It's very fucking Lannister of him. 0.92

00:58:31.000 So, so he came up to me, and he was just like, you film yet? 1.00

00:58:35.220 He, like, came up to me, and I was like, oh, shit. 0.95

00:58:37.300 And I was like, I was like, no, um, like, I'm going down after this. 0.95

00:58:40.420 Like, it's, I don't have a call time till three.

00:58:42.400 And I was like, are you starting your pre-production for directing?

00:58:44.900 And he's like, yeah, we started doing all that.

00:58:47.120 And then, I, so I filmed episode two, and I, uh, and I, I actually filmed two and three

00:58:52.380 back-to-back, so I stayed in New York for-

00:58:53.660 Did you spot him?

00:58:54.720 No, I didn't spot him.

00:58:55.280 Did you hold water in your mouth from when he was thirsty?

00:58:57.100 He did his own thing, dude.

00:58:58.320 He got benched by him.

00:58:59.400 Yeah, yeah.

00:59:00.640 But, so then, we came at, at breakfast, and we had already filmed one day, um, for episode

00:59:05.920 two, and then we had another day for episode three.

00:59:08.140 Okay.

00:59:08.500 So, he comes up to me at breakfast, it's like 6 a.m., because I went and lifted early, and he 0.99

00:59:12.520 comes up to me, and he's like, dude, like, your shit is, like, super funny. 0.99

00:59:15.220 Like, I watched this stuff from yesterday. 0.99

00:59:16.380 Like, you're hilarious.

00:59:17.240 Oh, that's cool. 1.00

00:59:18.020 And I was like, oh, shit. 0.99

00:59:18.480 And that was, like, kind of, like, maybe one of the coolest moments ever. 0.99

00:59:21.560 Like, 50 Cent tells you, like, that you're funny.

00:59:23.820 And, like, he, like, I'm at breakfast, I'm alone, and he could have easily just walked 0.99

00:59:27.200 in, got his shit, and, you know, went and did. 0.98

00:59:29.240 It kind of seems like he keeps coming over when you're by yourself, though. 1.00

00:59:32.040 Maybe.

00:59:32.740 No, but the craziest thing was-

00:59:34.880 This is how people get molested in Hollywood.

00:59:36.460 They don't know what's going on.

00:59:38.720 Maybe.

00:59:39.320 Maybe. 1.00

00:59:39.660 Yeah, they're just, all of a sudden, like, 50 Cent's, like, fucking you. 1.00

00:59:42.020 Does he have a lot of ladies around him, or not? 0.99

00:59:43.860 No, not when we were on set.

00:59:44.960 He's pretty professional.

00:59:45.620 We actually got an email that came out and be like, no one's allowed to come on set, 0.90

00:59:48.360 because this is when the whole 6ix9ine shit was happening with, like, he was getting shot 0.97

00:59:52.360 at and stuff like that, and 50 Cent's friends with him. 0.60

00:59:54.620 So they're like, no people allowed on set, like, that aren't approved. 0.98

00:59:58.780 But, you know, the craziest thing was, fuck, I forgot what I was saying. 1.00

01:00:03.020 Women? 1.00

01:00:04.020 No.

01:00:04.420 Oh, no.

01:00:04.840 So that morning, I missed Sebastian in here.

01:00:09.100 Like, I booked him, and then he came in, and I was filming Power.

01:00:12.640 So I was watching the live.

01:00:14.400 Okay.

01:00:15.200 Yeah, I was watching the live in my dressing room.

01:00:19.140 So 50 maps out the scene that we have, like, what the director does.

01:00:24.180 He'll tell you, like, you should walk here.

01:00:25.800 Like, does that feel comfortable for you when you say this?

01:00:27.800 And you kind of work with the director with that, you know, but as for the listeners.

01:00:30.480 And so we do that, and I go upstairs to go watch the live feed.

01:00:35.560 I had, like, 20 minutes to kill, and I had to change my outfit.

01:00:38.820 And all of a sudden, I look on Instagram, and he bought, like, the first two sections

01:00:44.940 of Ja Rule's show.

01:00:48.760 Oh, yeah.

01:00:49.680 And, like, bought those tickets so no one would be there, and then posted it on Instagram.

01:00:54.980 And, like, caused, like, a major issue, like, a major beef again.

01:00:58.880 He, like, rekindled the 20-year-old beef.

01:01:00.960 And he'd just been totally chill.

01:01:02.280 And he'd just been totally chill.

01:01:03.240 And then he puts his phone down, directs us, like, we do the scene.

01:01:09.480 We get off set maybe, like, an hour and a half later, and he's like, yeah, like, that

01:01:12.820 was fucking awesome, like, all this stuff. 0.98

01:01:14.020 And then he goes, oh, shit, I just fucking called out Ja Rule and forgot about it and, 0.99

01:01:18.400 like, went on his phone and was like, oh, shit, like, I totally forgot I did this. 0.99

01:01:22.840 50 Cent Bites, 200 tickets to the Ja Rule concert to keep seats empty and ongoing. 0.96

01:01:27.060 October 30th, because I was, um, I would film the episode on Halloween.

01:01:30.780 He just put more money in Ja Rule's pocket.

01:01:32.520 No one was showing up to that show.

01:01:33.880 It's that fire festival money. 1.00

01:01:35.960 But he is, he is a fucking entrepreneur. 1.00

01:01:38.460 Like, he is a true, that guy knows what the fuck is up. 1.00

01:01:42.100 Like, every time he has something he wants to promote, something goes in the news. 0.99

01:01:45.500 Like, he knows what he's doing.

01:01:46.840 It's all strategic. 1.00

01:01:47.720 He's a fucking genius. 1.00

01:01:49.240 Yeah. 0.99

01:01:49.600 So, when you're around him, it seems like, what does he seem like?

01:01:53.580 Does he seem like a tough guy?

01:01:55.320 Does he seem like a businessman?

01:01:56.860 Does he seem like-

01:01:57.260 He seems like a comedian.

01:01:58.540 Really?

01:01:58.920 Yeah.

01:01:59.360 He's, he's got, like, he's, he's very similar to, like, like, Shob and, like, that kind of

01:02:04.420 whole, like, like, that tough guy, like, comedy.

01:02:06.980 You know what I mean?

01:02:07.400 Right.

01:02:07.740 It's, he's, he's very similar to that.

01:02:09.140 I know I don't want to give Brendan that satisfaction that he's, like, 50 Cent, but-

01:02:12.520 Oh, Brendan probably definitely can hear this wherever he is, dude.

01:02:15.200 Brendan can always hear people talking about him, no matter how far away they are.

01:02:18.400 And the guy also asked what it's like with Theo, which I did want to comment on this,

01:02:22.480 working with you guys. 0.70

01:02:23.820 It is fucking hilarious, which is why my laugh ruins episodes. 0.94

01:02:28.160 You know what I mean? 0.94

01:02:29.100 It's like, and the Anthrax challenge, like, it's, you guys are laughing, like, imagine being 0.93

01:02:33.600 in the room with it, like, it's fucking hilarious. 0.77

01:02:35.600 Like, my laugh is annoying, I get it, but it's hard because it's funny, you know what I 0.95

01:02:39.440 mean?

01:02:39.760 Yeah.

01:02:40.580 Yeah, you definitely, your laugh was egregious in the beginning.

01:02:43.180 A lot of people complained.

01:02:43.760 Jimmy Tantrop, so that was the, that was the infamous one.

01:02:46.140 Well, that was the first time I got a mic.

01:02:47.880 And then Theo texted me that morning, like, hey man, got a lot of problems with the fans.

01:02:52.280 No more mic.

01:02:53.420 That was my first episode with a microphone.

01:02:56.740 And then.

01:02:57.220 I got no joke, 200 DMs. 0.95

01:02:59.340 Who's the clown in the back, huh? 1.00

01:03:01.920 Oh, fuck. 1.00

01:03:02.180 Did you specify it wasn't me? 1.00

01:03:03.660 That's, that's always what I'm worried about. 0.96

01:03:04.760 Who's the clown with the microphone? 0.97

01:03:06.980 Yeah. 0.94

01:03:07.460 Jesus, love the ep, but that guy in caps.

01:03:10.840 Yeah.

01:03:11.380 But I've gotten better.

01:03:12.140 A lot of people are like, okay, like, it's good.

01:03:14.240 Like, so I got my microphone back and no more laugh.

01:03:16.920 I cover my mouth.

01:03:17.640 Well, I think that's why this episode is good.

01:03:18.900 Because people can experience a little bit more of the joy.

01:03:21.060 Yeah.

01:03:21.380 We call them Joy-Annie.

01:03:22.660 Yeah.

01:03:23.160 You know?

01:03:23.740 And, and yeah, it's, yeah, man, it actually is really a blessing.

01:03:29.100 I'm glad that you and Nick have a good rapport, you know, even when I'm not around.

01:03:32.400 Because, yeah, I think if it were, yeah, I just, I know I couldn't keep, yeah, I don't

01:03:40.580 even know if we'd probably still be together if it wasn't for Gianni passing through with

01:03:43.300 the joy sometimes.

01:03:44.440 Because it's been a lot.

01:03:45.320 It's just been a lot of work.

01:03:46.180 It's been a lot of work for Nick.

01:03:47.280 It's been a lot of work of back and forth.

01:03:48.940 Agreed.

01:03:49.460 And so, yeah, man.

01:03:51.000 Well, that's originally why I wanted to start with you.

01:03:54.000 Like, I mean, I'm not going to say, I'm going to say, like, I saw, like, so much potential

01:03:58.400 because I, like, like, I think, I was like, this guy is going to be fucking huge.

01:04:01.400 Like, people just don't know about him yet.

01:04:02.720 And I'm like, I want to help in any way I can.

01:04:05.200 Because I assumed it's, like, pretty fucking stressful.

01:04:07.560 You're on the road. 0.97

01:04:08.120 Like, you're trying to sell tickets.

01:04:09.220 You're doing a podcast.

01:04:10.520 So that's when I originally came and was like, I want to help with social media stuff.

01:04:13.980 And, like, I mean, it worked.

01:04:15.140 Yeah, it's what you've done, man.

01:04:16.080 And look, you've done it to an end.

01:04:17.260 Yeah, you're right, man.

01:04:18.200 You said, I just want to help.

01:04:19.720 And, you know, that's a good going, Nick.

01:04:20.980 I was just going to say, booking is not easy.

01:04:23.940 It's the worst.

01:04:24.400 Like, there are companies that, like, people pay thousands of dollars to to, like, get guests for them and stuff.

01:04:29.680 Like, and especially if we're trying to hit a specific day, like, it's not easy.

01:04:33.420 And I'm super glad I don't have to do it, to be honest.

01:04:36.680 Yeah, that's true, man.

01:04:37.720 I don't even know if we could have had guests.

01:04:39.140 Like, I don't know.

01:04:40.640 I mean, I guess I don't know if I was planning on doing it.

01:04:42.660 I had no idea what the plan was.

01:04:44.380 Yeah, when I came in, we only had Jay Moore and a Greyhound bus driver.

01:04:47.820 Oh, and that homeless guy.

01:04:49.140 What about the homeless guy?

01:04:50.120 Oh, uneven Steve, dude.

01:04:52.120 And he must not be doing well.

01:04:53.320 I haven't gotten a text back with him.

01:04:54.820 In a while, in about eight months.

01:04:56.740 But then we also had some faults.

01:04:58.320 Like, if we can look back, like, the guy who had Tourette's, which we don't really know if he beats Tourette's.

01:05:03.880 And then we found out later that he was involved in a sex cult where they all got convicted.

01:05:08.200 Everybody got Tourette's, dude.

01:05:11.240 I didn't know it was an STD.

01:05:13.060 I think it's going around.

01:05:14.480 And the crazy part is, one day, these same people are going to be, probably, maybe sooner than later, are going to be emailing you back to book you.

01:05:21.760 They'll be like, yeah, we'd love to have that person on.

01:05:23.680 Can you come on our podcast?

01:05:25.160 Yeah, which is funny because now I do have a publicist because, you know, a couple months before the movie comes out, you want to, like, I go on podcasts because I want people to see the movie.

01:05:34.320 You know what I mean?

01:05:35.180 And she helps me with that.

01:05:37.120 And it's kind of interesting because, yeah, that is, like, I email other people, like, Bobby Lee.

01:05:42.020 I'm going on Tiger Belly.

01:05:43.300 Well, I would have already have been on.

01:05:45.620 But, yeah, like, before I'm emailing, like, hey, George, can we get Bobby on this past weekend?

01:05:49.780 And then it's kind of the opposite now.

01:05:50.940 Like, hey, do you want to come on, like, Tiger Belly?

01:05:52.700 That's cool, man.

01:05:53.740 And Gianni's getting cornered by the shows he goes on.

01:05:56.120 Why can't I go on Theo's show?

01:05:58.420 I have twice.

01:05:59.920 Twice.

01:06:02.120 Twice.

01:06:02.400 Twice.

01:06:03.820 They're asking you why aren't you on Theo's show?

01:06:05.600 No, no, no.

01:06:06.020 They're asking me why they aren't on Theo's show.

01:06:08.240 Oh, wow.

01:06:09.100 Yeah.

01:06:09.580 Well, look, talk to my booker.

01:06:12.500 That's the only thing I can say, man.

01:06:14.420 That's why I don't handle it, dude.

01:06:16.300 Well, the funny thing is now, like, even David Spade the other day, like, he's like, hey,

01:06:20.720 man, I think I need some help with this podcast thing.

01:06:23.880 And I'm like, that's just crazy that Dane Cook just texted, hey, man, I'd love to come back

01:06:27.480 on the podcast sometime.

01:06:28.400 Dude, we're going to have him go on to the studio.

01:06:29.500 Me and Dane have the same publicist.

01:06:31.120 Y'all do?

01:06:31.520 Yeah.

01:06:32.480 Yeah, we can have a studio one day.

01:06:34.140 You never know.

01:06:34.840 Yeah, it's like, and we can make good content and stuff that's more fair, I think, you know,

01:06:38.800 and people can own a part of what they do.

01:06:40.460 Yeah. 0.75

01:06:41.060 Because it's kind of bullshit that no one owns, like, the stuff, like, you're a showrunner 0.97

01:06:44.600 and you don't have any say in what happens to your show. 0.97

01:06:47.020 Yeah.

01:06:47.220 It's like, this is mine.

01:06:48.300 You know what I mean?

01:06:48.680 Like, this is my, people do 20 years of development to get stuff made.

01:06:52.920 And these personalities, like, when they go on networks, usually they get stifled and it

01:06:57.840 doesn't end up being them.

01:06:59.020 Like, David Spade could have an awesome podcast if he really, if he wanted to, he could be

01:07:03.200 so good.

01:07:04.100 I know.

01:07:04.680 Wait, is he looking to do one?

01:07:07.180 Yeah.

01:07:07.560 He's saying, like, who would be a good co-host for me to do one with, you know?

01:07:11.120 Us, dude.

01:07:11.740 Well, how are we going to do it, though?

01:07:14.120 We'll talk more about it off air.

01:07:16.000 But, like, yeah.

01:07:17.260 Him and Swartzen would be dope.

01:07:19.200 Dude, I, the other night, so, you know, obviously name dropping here, but I went and met up with

01:07:23.120 Spade to get some food, just to have dinner.

01:07:24.840 And I'm walking up to the restaurant to open the door and Swartzen comes running up behind

01:07:27.800 me to, like, scare me.

01:07:29.940 Scared the fuck out of me, dude.

01:07:31.900 Really? 0.99

01:07:32.340 Did he shit himself while he did it? 0.99

01:07:33.720 I think that was his move, yeah. 1.00

01:07:35.000 He's like, diarrhea. 0.99

01:07:36.080 He's like, dang, you were so scared, I just shit myself. 0.98

01:07:40.020 But then we stood around and talked for, like, two minutes, and it was literally one of the 0.98

01:07:43.420 funniest conversations that I'd ever been in.

01:07:44.740 Really?

01:07:45.160 See that? 0.99

01:07:45.620 See, well, that's the stuff that I fucking love. 0.96

01:07:48.020 Like, I, when I'm going on set with actors, like, it's not that I don't get along with 0.98

01:07:52.100 them, because I do.

01:07:52.780 Like, I met Corey.

01:07:54.320 But I feel, like, out of place, because they're, like, very, like, PC, and it's like, you have

01:08:00.220 to do this.

01:08:00.860 And I trained at Juilliard, and that's not the way I am.

01:08:03.420 Like, I fucking chill with you, and, like, you know, like, when I went to the comedy

01:08:06.560 store that night, Bobby Lee and Chris D'Elia and Sebastian are all standing around, like, 0.94

01:08:09.940 that's, like, I'm not saying, like, that's, like, who I think I am, but, like, that's,

01:08:13.440 like, the crew that I, like, feel, like, a part of.

01:08:15.960 Like, and then I go on set with other people who are, like, actors, and they're just, like,

01:08:21.120 they're kind of, like, off-putting, almost.

01:08:23.080 Yeah, you don't take it as seriously, you know what I mean?

01:08:24.740 Exactly.

01:08:24.940 You take it seriously in your work, but you don't take it as seriously in your ego, and that's

01:08:27.920 something Nick said earlier.

01:08:30.420 Actors are, like, empty vessels, almost. 0.94

01:08:32.320 Like, they're told, like, be here, say this, do this, and I feel like it bleeds into it.

01:08:36.720 Like, most of them, that's why you don't have, see actors on this show a lot.

01:08:39.360 I don't find them as interesting, generally.

01:08:41.340 Yeah.

01:08:41.580 They don't have a ton of life experience, like, stuff.

01:08:44.360 But Gianni was a hockey player.

01:08:45.840 That's true, dude.

01:08:46.640 Gianni was a hockey player. 0.99

01:08:48.060 I mean, look, Gianni could be the hottest twink in this fucking city. 0.98

01:08:51.520 You don't see a twink pound for pound as a, you know, and a twink is a sort of a lean. 0.99

01:08:58.260 What is a twink, Gianni?

01:08:59.220 Um, it's more like a young, hairless, um, kind of, like, a little, skinnier, uh, boyish 0.60

01:09:04.940 gay male. 0.90

01:09:06.040 Yeah. 0.95

01:09:06.420 Yeah.

01:09:06.740 That all the older gay men want. 0.99

01:09:08.480 Yeah. 0.95

01:09:08.740 Correct.

01:09:09.340 Yeah.

01:09:09.640 They hire them to, like, carry muffins around and, like, fold drapes and stuff.

01:09:13.120 My mom actually was like, why does, why is everyone commenting on your Instagram, um,

01:09:17.780 you know, get that hit a twink?

01:09:19.160 Like, she's like, why are people, why is everyone calling you a twink?

01:09:22.700 That's what I'm saying, boy. 0.99

01:09:23.720 And I'm like, why don't you fucking ask the dude with a mullet? 0.99

01:09:26.500 Okay. 0.99

01:09:27.280 Yeah.

01:09:27.800 Why don't you ask?

01:09:28.660 Why don't you just be grateful to be in Hollywood? 0.99

01:09:31.080 You freaking little hairless ingrate. 0.97

01:09:33.540 Uh, thank you very much, Nick, um, for putting up with everything and for getting us this 0.99

01:09:39.620 far.

01:09:40.080 Thank you, Gianni.

01:09:40.980 Thank you.

01:09:41.600 Yeah, man.

01:09:42.200 It's special to be a part of this.

01:09:43.320 Like, it really is.

01:09:43.880 Like, I love being here and we have a great time.

01:09:46.580 Yeah.

01:09:46.820 Well, I'm excited to see where your career goes, man.

01:09:48.720 And I'm like, I just hope that we don't lose our booker.

01:09:50.760 Yeah.

01:09:51.300 Uh.

01:09:51.880 But for real though, everyone, um, so the movie will be coming out tomorrow, um, when

01:09:56.120 this airs on Thursday, May 30th.

01:09:58.380 The movie comes out Friday, May 31st.

01:10:00.480 Please go see it.

01:10:01.380 You're going to love it. 0.97

01:10:02.220 It's fucking awesome. 0.95

01:10:03.080 And let me know what you think. 0.95

01:10:04.220 Yeah.

01:10:04.360 Let him know what you think.

01:10:05.340 Now there's a great opportunity for you to have, you know, to, to let Gianni know what

01:10:09.960 you think about that movie.

01:10:11.040 And it's called Ma, starring Octavia Spencer.

01:10:13.760 Uh, so talented.

01:10:15.200 She was in The Help, man.

01:10:16.180 And she's incredible.

01:10:17.420 So good.

01:10:17.840 And it's so weird because you go on set with an, like, she's a prime example of someone

01:10:21.380 that I did gel with because she's not a typical act, actress. 0.96

01:10:25.280 You know what I mean?

01:10:25.680 Like she is an Oscar winning actress and then you get on set and she's crazy and she's funny

01:10:30.740 and she's doing accents and she's like, like putting on wigs and stuff like that.

01:10:33.860 She's hilarious.

01:10:34.620 She's cool.

01:10:35.020 Yeah.

01:10:35.340 So that's what I was super nervous about going into. 1.00

01:10:37.800 I was like, oh fuck. 1.00

01:10:38.800 Like I have to do a scene with her where she fucking pulls a gun on me. 1.00

01:10:41.480 Like, are you shitting me? 1.00

01:10:42.740 Scary. 0.98

01:10:43.060 But then you go on set and she makes you feel comfortable and it's great.

01:10:46.820 There you go.

01:10:47.840 Go see Ma. 0.84

01:10:48.820 Gianni, thank you for being here and thank you for everything you do for this past weekend.

01:10:52.760 And, uh, and I'll talk to you guys soon.

01:10:54.460 Now, I'm just floating on the breeze and I feel I'm falling like these leaves.

01:11:00.760 I must be cornerstone.

01:11:05.840 Oh, but when I reach that ground, I'll share this peace of mind I found.

01:11:11.500 I can feel it in my bones.

01:11:14.880 But it's gonna take a little time For me to set that parking brake And let myself unwind

01:11:27.180 Shine that light on me I'll sit and tell you my stories

01:11:37.140 Shine on me And I will find a song

01:11:46.080 I will sing it just for you

01:11:49.720 And now I've been moving way too fast On a runaway train with a heavy load of power

01:12:00.180 Ladies and gentlemen, I'm Jonathan Kite And welcome to Kite Club

01:12:07.320 A podcast where I'll be sharing thoughts on things like current events

01:12:11.000 Stand-up stories And seven ways to pleasure your partner

01:12:14.540 The answer may shock you

01:12:16.440 Sometimes I'll interview my friends Sometimes I won't

01:12:19.780 And as always, I'll be joined by the voices in my head

01:12:23.260 You have three new voice messages

01:12:26.140 A lot of people are talking about Kite Club

01:12:29.160 I've been talking about Kite Club for so long

01:12:31.960 Longer than anybody else

01:12:33.580 So great

01:12:34.380 Aye, sweetheart

01:12:36.300 Here's a deal

01:12:37.400 Anyone who doesn't listen to Kite Club 1.00

01:12:39.880 Is a dodgy bloody wanker 1.00

01:12:41.920 Jermaine 1.00

01:12:42.620 Ho ho, I'll take a quarter pounder with cheese and a McFlurry

01:12:46.960 Sorry, sir, but our ice cream machine is broken

01:12:48.800 Ho ho ho, no 1.00

01:12:50.740 I think Tom Hanks just butt-dialed me

01:12:53.760 Anyway, first rule of Kite Club is

01:12:56.160 Tell everyone about Kite Club

01:12:57.880 Second rule of Kite Club is

01:12:59.800 Tell everyone about Kite Club

01:13:02.060 Third rule

01:13:02.840 Like and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts

01:13:05.460 Or watch us on YouTube, yeah?

01:13:08.080 And yes, don't worry

01:13:09.120 My Brad Pitt impression will get better

This Past Weekend with Theo Von - May 30, 2019

Gianni Paolo ｜ This Past Weekend #202

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