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Podcast Notes: Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade - Episode 63: SUPERFLY #63 - Spoiler Alert!
Episode Overview In this episode, Dana Carvey and David Spade engage in a humorous and insightful conversation covering various topics including:
- White Lotus finale discussion
- NBA celebrations and David's new comedy special
- Personal anecdotes related to their careers and experiences in the entertainment industry
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Key Topics Discussed
- David's Comedy Special
- Title: Dandelion
- Explanation of the name related to a personal story about almost getting into a fight at McDonald's.
- David shares his process of preparing for the special and integrating new material into his routine.
- White Lotus Finale
- Discussion on the controversial elements of the show, including explicit content and character arcs.
- Dana humorously mentions an X-rated version of the show to exaggerate its themes.
- NBA Celebrations
- An analysis of player celebrations in the NBA, particularly one player’s controversial "gun" gesture.
- Amusing dialogue about the absurdity of sports celebrations and their implications.
- Pop Culture Commentary
- Brief observations on various current events, including Jack Black’s success in a recent film and SNL hosting.
- Mention of the popularity of older TV shows and movies, like Gunsmoke and The Go-Go's.
- Personal Anecdotes
- Dana and David share funny stories from their past experiences in show business, including the process of naming comedy specials.
- A humorous take on interactions with fans and the struggles of navigating fame.
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Key Takeaways
- Comedy Preparation: David reflects on the challenges of mixing old and new material while preparing for a special.
- Cultural Commentary: The humorous critique of societal norms and media representations, especially in popular shows like White Lotus, demonstrates their comedic lens.
- Entertainment Dynamics: Insights into the entertainment industry, including ticket sales and the economics behind performances, showcasing how artists navigate financial aspects.
- Lighthearted Banter: The episode is infused with playful banter between Dana and David, highlighting their long-standing friendship and rapport.
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Additional Notes
- The episode features various comedic impressions and riffing on current events, maintaining a light and comedic tone throughout.
- Dana expresses affection for his mother, indicating a personal side amidst the comedic discussions.
- Ends with a note on the upcoming festival season and the absurdities surrounding events like Fire Festival, reinforcing their humorous take on contemporary issues.
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Conclusion In summary, this episode of *Fly on the Wall* is a delightful mix of humor, insightful commentary, and personal stories, showcasing the comedic chemistry between Dana Carvey and David Spade. It explores not just their experiences in comedy but also broader cultural phenomena, making it an engaging listen for fans of stand-up and pop culture.
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Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:00It's called a rabbit hole, David. And we went down it. We went down it, but it did remind me of, I have not been to the Funny Bone in Yugoslavia, but I did do the Brea improv last week to get ready for the tour. David Spade.com. Yes. Yeah. So I do the tour. So I have to warm up. You've done this, Danny. You go to clubs. But you have to mix in some new stuff. So it's a little tricky. Especially when the special comes out. when the special comes out i have to integrate a mix for a while so what do you what's your how many how many minutes do you have right now that are not part of the special three four no i got like six six minutes so hard earned money get your david spade tickets well it's the special and then there will be some yeah of course i mean it would just always be evolving.
0:56I mean, when I started my last tour to do the special, it was just different by the end, you know, because I'm adding and subtracting. And so it's always in a flux of being mixed around. Sometimes I'll pull old bits from the first special or I'll do this and that, but Brea, here's my hot opener. You want to hear it? Okay. Brea is a 400 seat improv theater in the town of Brea. Brea, California. It's inland about an hour and a half. considered an improv as part of the improv ecosystem i think it was 600 cedar it's pretty big it's like 600 god cha-ching good one all right let me introduce you ladies and gentlemen from you know him from shoot just shoot me and uh rules of engagement please welcome dana spudley so spudley comes out you come out um and then i say oh my god it's great to be here and Brea, did you know what your city's motto is?
1:53No one knows. And I say, it's Brea, almost bread. Does that get us? Nothing. And then I go, you'll get the D when you get here. I go, how would city council think of that? So you're either on a roll or you've just dug a hole. They laugh anyway because they don't know. Even if they don't get it, they go, oh, Brea is spelled like almost bread. I got it. Well, you're like, you're famous, man. Hanging out with you is like hanging out with Mickey Mouse at Disney. I mean, I just fade into the background, which I do love. But yeah, you are famous. Riddle me this, like your special's coming out and the name of it is, which I love.
2:36I got a feel for this. Got a feel for this. That is so perfect for you. And of course you did that in the 50th and. Oh no, wait, wait, Dana. I just got a correction. The tour is I got a feel for this. The special is Dandelion. We just announced the special finally on Amazon. Now we can talk about it. Oh, okay. Got it. Can I hear the backstory of Dandelion just for a second? Yeah, I'm just, there's a bit in there where I talk about when I almost got in a fight at McDonald's. And I say I'm a bit of a Dandelion, but you wouldn't believe it from seeing how tough I am on TV and in the movies. Okay.
3:11Yeah. And so I go, I cannot. And because the guy I'm fighting has a cinder block. And I'm like, I cannot get hit by a cinder block. Not with these brittle bones, folks. It's just like I'm always getting pushed around and I'm such a fucking puss. You're like sort of, what are those things when you're a kid and you blow on them and they're willow, they kind of fly away? That's a dandelion. Oh, that is a dandelion. Yeah. That's why it's perfect, right? Okay, that is good. That's how fragile I am. I do like that. Now, I've had bad names. My first one, Critics' Choice, really worked. It was kind of pre-web.
3:45So my sister would call me and say, you got Critics' Choice again, every time it was on Comedy Central. I thought it was a new thing, perennial. So the second one I did a bit about what kind of religion would blow away a Scientologist. And it was this long, bizarre religion where Scientologists go, wow, that religion is crazy. And the end of the ceremony in the church of this religion, they would say, squatting monkeys tell no lies. So I remember calling our manager, Mark Irvin, and said, Yeah, what are you going to call it? What are you going to call it? Best day in the coffee? Get a funny title.
4:23Go ahead. Give it to me. I'm going to call it Squatting Monkeys Tell No Lies. Must have been a 10-second pause. Oh, at least. Okay. Are you joking, or is that the one you're going to go with? All right. That's the real one? Okay. That's the real one? That's it? Squatting Monkeys? And then people are going to think that's funny? They're like that?
4:46they never know because they handle so many comedians. They don't know when everyone's being serious or not. No, they don't know. They thought it was a fake funny title. It's a funny one. Good. Okay. It's good. I mean, an alt to that would be lighter than air. Mr. Little loafers, Mr. Brittle bones, Mr. Brittle bones. And you got a little top hat in the poster. Mr. well, the, the tagline when I just sent it out was, Hey, dandelion you don't want to blow this guy okay that's pretty funny all right i like a good i like a good pun you don't want to blow these bones yeah and then fucking amazon was like this yeah what do you want to say and i go it's funny they're a little more for we sell stereos over here we don't you know it's amazon it does everything so this is amazon prime whoo amazon i love amazon because their whole movie studio is just kind of a throwaway.
5:43If it makes a profit, fine. Same with Apple. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're selling transistor radios like a million a second. We focus on the doomsday prepper. Yeah, we got paper towels going out, five million a minute. So, you know. But Amazon's good because they have a built-in crowd of about a trillion. Just everyone's on Amazon. So it's great because they're like, while you're here, do you want to watch this goofballs special and i'm like all right no i think it's good i mean we love ted sarandos and yes of course it's just it's such a giant ecosystem and when you see an amazon stand-up special it pops a little bit because there's not like nine million of them if ted's listening right now i'd feel bad he's gonna have to pull over and just go no i have i have something to say i have something to say about ted and netflix and it's a good thing.
6:37Okay, go ahead. Because I've been trying to figure out this whole trade wars and tariffs. You know, tariffs, I, you know, what is it? What are we doing? You know, so I ran into a guy who's from Brooklyn, right? And he kind of says, you know, you got to understand, you know, first of all, you know, in China, they got like cheap labor, right? China, they got cheap labor. They pay people two cents a month to assemble iPhones, okay? Okay. Two cents a month. The boss gets a nickel a month. So out here we pay ourselves, you know, we pay our workers a living wage, you know, five, 10, 8 ,000 a month. So if we made the iPhones in America, if we assembled them here instead of China, we paid$67 ,000 for an iPhone six.
7:23Oh, is that what, is that the problem? Yeah. Well, the thing is, is we don't make a lot of stuff. So we import stuff, you know, this, so this guy talking to me, I go, yeah. I like it. I'm learning from this guy. I understand. By the way, Trump said they're terrific. He did? He really? The tariffs are terrific. That sounds like he might have said that. It's not. It's terrific. But this guy goes, you know, here's the thing. America, we don't got a lot of stuff. So we got to get from other countries. We get our bananas from South America. We got our avocados from Mexico. We get transistors. China makes us solar panels.
8:02What do we got? We got what they call services. So what we're going to do is give everybody in the world a free five-year subscription to Hulu. Hulu. That's what they're giving away. You give us our bananas. You give us our solar panels. We use Netflix in Europe, free subscriptions. And I'm calling out Ted Sarandos today via this guy I talked to the other day. Okay. Remember, free subscription. That's our big thing. Netflix and Hulu. This is what we make now. Yeah. We don't make tires. We don't make steel. It's true. But I, you know, I think Ted might help you out on that one. If this, if you could connect him with that guy.
8:45Yeah, I could connect with that guy. He just said at the end of the day, he goes, you make what you make. We, what will we, we make rubber chicken capiche. I like the end of the day. That's what Gervin says. Listen, the landscape has changed. At the end of the day. here's at the end of the day you know I think it's better to dance with the devil you know than try to go out and get a new devil yeah dance with the one who brung you there's no shortage of devils so if you're seeing one just cozy up to that devil you don't want to get a dandy yeah the devil you know is better than devil you don't know how about this one David Spade afraid to fight back yeah David Spade constantly angry Because his dad left him David Spade a hot oven David Spade road rage Extraordinaire Now I was going to ask you Dana If you saw the big finale of White Lotus This is a really hot topic Not anymore I did not see it But tell us about it Quickly I did see the porn version Of course it's already out I'll quite blow your load down my throat.
9:59But also this one is the. You can't get that X-rated, Ryan. That's like, that's two blowjob jokes. I know. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. This is the cleanest. That was a good one. That was a good one. You got a ha ha ha. It's got Patrick Schwarzenegger, who's a friend of the show. Let's get Patrick on this show. You know what I did? I talked to him last week because I was. I just text him. I just put filth in all caps because the show is like getting really dirty at the end. And he winds up, these are spoilers. So if you haven't seen, I don't know why you'd still be not watching yet, but he and his family are one of the like nine storylines.
10:44It's a little hard to follow if you're simpleton like me, but he is part of a family where he does drugs out there. There's these two pretty girls. One has buck teeth. And they all, he tries to do a threesome or foursome. But his brother is part of it. And it gets a little itchy because in the truth or dare, they make him kiss his brother. And it even gets a little more than that. But so that's pure filth. Yeah. I know you're like, bye, bye, bye. Why are they trying to, White Lotus is a big franchise. I mean, why are they intentionally trying to destroy White Lotus? Well, it's where do you go from there?
11:23So this one has a little incest. More out. So that's my theory, but it's still, it is a good show. You're right. I don't know if they need to go that. It's a great show. Everyone wants to push it. The girl we just mentioned, there's a cute girl, Amy Lou Wood. Yeah, everyone loves her. And she has what's known on the streets as buck teeth. But I think everyone thinks they're super cute. And even dentists have chimed in going, we should wrangle those in. But she refuses to do it because it works for her. So, well, you know, she has a cute kind of a cute bear or puppy dog face and sort of full cheeks and thick hair.
12:04So they don't beaver. They're not. If she lost a lot of weight, it'd be like, what are those teeth attached to a human? Most of her weight is in her teeth. They were hurt. Now the guy on the left needs to button one more button. Nope. He needs to button one more down. Wow. Really? You want to see a navel? No, that's, that's Walt, Walt Goggins, but he looks cool. He's older than her. What is she, Heather? How old do you think she is? 24, 25, something like that. Yeah. 30. He is supposed to be the older guy, right? that because Parker Posey, you know, Parker, she's like, popper. No. Right. She's 31.
12:52Okay. Parker Posey is great. She's in it. And of course we should, we should drag her on here just because I knew her in the old days. We did cone ads together. Meet, meet. And, uh, okay. We've got Patrick Schwarzenegger. We've got Parker Posey. we've got your new special called hot white hot dandelion yeah and we've got this girl who at the end leslie bibb is in it yeah that's i mean there's a ton of people in white lotus but uh this girl with that guy that guy has got an anger issue from growing up about his dad and in the finale turn your headphones down do you not know do you not know i can't even tell Heather?
13:38I haven't watched one episode, but now it's ruined for me. You're going to close your ears? Are you going to watch it? Yeah. Okay, I can't tell then. But I will say, oh, she unfortunately, someone shoots at him and Bucky bites a bullet. I'll just say that. Sadly, she gets a strike. No, you don't take out a cute young woman. I know. Everyone got mad. That didn't happen. Now tell us what really happened. Patrick Schwarzenegger has a crush on her in the show. And his brother, right? And he has a real thing for his brother. I can't keep track. Dude, I can't even tell you what happens. You're not ready.
14:23It's not that bad, but it's bad. You know what's huge right now globally? Gunsmoke. The Western Gunsmoke. No, is it? It's huge. Billions of minutes. I mean, I'm watching Westerns. I'm watching housing shows. I'm not watching this filth. This is pure trash. I don't like weight loonies. Hang on, Heather's yelling. What is it? No, they're really fucked up. But I will say, she's saying when the guy gave Patrick a handjob, his brother, he was on drugs. That didn't happen. It didn't? He said it did. The guy says, the girls tell him, why did they no but the girl said he did it and he goes no no no and then the guy said I just did it because I knew it makes you happy what Dana just turned off the podcast Dana no I'm just checking it out alright nope okay alright and then and then Emmylou Wood almost gave him a BJ because she thought it was a log of wood she wouldn't chew on it because she's a beaver.
15:39What? Because she's got her teeth. Listen, Dennis has said, she looks, everyone thinks she's hot so we can make fun of her. Most teeth, you know, Dana, are vertical like this. So hers are more horizontal, but she didn't fix them and everyone's saying good because finally one person looks like a real person you'd see at the mall because her teeth are like that, but everyone's still in love with her. Well, here's the thing. Let me break this down. Yeah, break it down for me. What's going on? It looks cute now. Later on, your jaw alignment, you're going to get TMJ and lots of pain in your neck. They're cute, but it's not the way it was meant to be.
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17:03With the new year upon us, there's no better time to take control of your financial life. And the Jill on Money podcast is here to help. It's your questions that make it possible for me to provide unconventional and I hope entertaining insights on your money, more importantly, on your life. Follow and listen to Jill on Money wherever you get your podcasts. Here's the deal. Here's the deal. We interviewed Jack Black this week after the big movie, Minecraft. So that'll be on Flying the Wall in a week or two. It'll be on in a little bit. Yeah. But it was - And he hosted SNL and he did a great job.
17:44We talked about that. We got to talk to our friend Jack at, you know, you don't know, show business is like the stock market right now. I mean, there's, you know, winter and summer. But anyway, he did an incredible job on SNL. It was like one of the best episodes in a long time. A lot of energy, a lot of fun. And he kicked it in every single sketch. And then his movie comes out to like$300 million globally. And then he comes on our podcast. So that's a fun one, talking to that guy. He's great. Well, he'll be on soon. Right now we have Felipe, I think. We had Andrew Schultz last week. We're just doing crossover for our sister show, Plugs, for Fly on the Wall.
18:25Right. We have, I still today run into people. What? We have two. They don't know. We have two podcasts, Fly on the Who, Super What. I mean, they don't, maybe it wasn't the best names we ever came up with. They're good. Why? Because they're too similar. It's supposed to be sort of. They're both at Fly. It was Super on the Wall, Fly on the Who, Dandelion Plus. Dandelion, Daffodil. What is that? By the way, it's not even on Amazon until May. I don't even know why I'm supposed to plug it yet, but I don't. And upcoming is Dan Soder, who is one of the most talented people we've had on the podcast, actually.
19:03He's another one bubbling under. Super funny and talented. And he's in that world, that world of Shane Gillis and just that ecosystem of comedians in their early 40s who are playing stadiums. He's playing theaters. Yeah. He's playing chess. You're playing checkers. Okay. What else happened to you, Dana, before we get to the stories? Because nothing happened to me. Nothing fun. Let's see. Last night, we were going to get, at Billiards, we were going to get sort of this lean chicken with rice and stuff, but it was closed. So we got small pizzas from this other restaurant. So pizza is kind of a treat for me.
19:45So I had margarita pizza. I didn't see that on the news. Okay. What do you want? I mean, I'm just, let me check the market. I won't tell you what I'm seeing right now, but just go by my face. Here's my neutral face. Okay, ready, go ahead. I've got this. Now look at the market. Ready?
20:09Is it? I don't want to talk too bad. Inside baseball for the market, but is it this way or is it that way? Well, you know, give it a minute. first it went then we're doing it we're taking a pause we're gonna take a pause for 90 days then it went up like the fastest it's ever gone up in like 40 years I've never seen it go that much up not since 1936 have we ever seen a surge so then this morning you're like looking at stuff hey we're rocking it I didn't panic and now it's going now this airs in two hours so maybe it'll go they call me Santa paws. It's not bad. I like that. I don't know what it means, but because he paused the Martin because he paused the Tara.
21:04He's Santa paws. They're terrific. I'm trying to help your Trump stuff. I know you got a lot of good ones today. I like, I like, I like a good pun. Yeah. Oh, it's great. Okay. And I have nothing great. I just, I'm going to go visit my mama soon and she had knee operations. So we got to get her on her feet. I got to get her up doing laps. I got to get her to the combine. Let's get her on the show. Oh, maybe she can do a live remote of how she's doing. Well, that would be kind of fun. It would be cute. She's very sweet. I know. As long as she has her lipstick. Get her, just, you're a nice son. I'm just going to say it.
21:41She loves Dana. My God. She does? Yeah. We took a photo for her magazine, Tempe magazine. When I was kind of newer on SNL and I got, I had to ask Dana, Heather. I know. Yeah. You were not David Spade yet. And this guy came up to me. I wasn't even sure who you were. But anyway, you said. You go, this intern asked me, can we get a picture? Literally asked him, go, can we get just a quick picture for the cover of my mom's magazine? And you're like, okay. And me, you, Farley, maybe? Oh, I got to get this picture. and Victoria Jackson. No, it was just us four, I think. Oh, four, okay. Whoever I could wrangle.
22:20And we took a picture and she put it on. We didn't have a ring light. We didn't have ring lights back then. And I'll try to get it so we can pop it up here for when it airs. I got a magazine cover this week and I was doing a gig up in - Oh, that's right. You did interviews too. Well, just you're at a meet and greet and someone came up and just said, she had a big camera. You're on the cover of Monterey Weekly. Oh, I get on. By the way, I did once in a while, your mom and I text, just don't be alarmed. We check in. How's Davey? How's my sweet Davey? Davey. When you're coming to visit her and she knows you're coming down the block, she says every time she puts on George Harrison's Here Comes the Sun and she sings along with it.
23:04Oh, that's nice. Here comes one of my sons. Here comes the sun. You know, it's funny. I am playing a celebrity theater in Arizona, where I'm from. I'm playing Tucson and Phoenix. I've never played Tucson. Don't play your hometown, fool. That's what I'm saying. Last time I went, the green room had more people than the audience. It was like my mom's going, I just have plus 300. Is that a problem? Oh, but Sheila wants to go. And it's this thing. My dad used to say this thing. Their relatives were coming over. Oh, the Holmans are coming over. This was when I'm in my 20s. And I'd say the Holmans. And he would say, oh, Jesus Christ, you know the Holmans.
23:46I know. This has happened throughout. So you'll be there. Your mom will be, these are the Persnickety's family. Who? You know them. You don't know the Persnickety's. Oh, don't be like this. Don't be ridiculous. This is Bill Wilson. Sorry, they're not insane. You took wood shop from him in fourth grade. He doesn't have a thumb. You remember. I do have a guy now, one of my buddies and Heather will laugh at this and he's going to hear this. He does the classic. Hey, how do I get tickets to Spades show? She goes, you mean online? He goes, yeah. I mean, I could go online and just buy them because I definitely I want to buy them.
24:24But can I give you my credit card and then you can buy them? I don't understand. Heather will press the buttons. So just it would be like, I think the answer is supposed to be, we'll just leave you two. But it's this whole rigmarole of like, okay, here's the three digit security code. But if this one doesn't work, call me and I've got an Amex. And then just go, let's go back and forth until we figure out. And I want them close. I want to sit close. Right. And I don't want to ask, but I've got 67 guests with me. Could we come backstage before the show just for like 20 minutes? And then 10 minutes after.
25:05And 10 minutes. Just to tell you it was funny. It's all right. God bless them all. No, it's fine. I give everyone tickets. I don't give a shit. Magnum tickets. Okay, let's get to the hot stories, Dana. We got some hot takes. Yeah. Let's see. What are our takes? I can't see. Oh, there it is. Okay. Oh, okay. This is more your world. This is basketball. Mm-hmm. Ja Morant, great basketball player. Brilliant basketball player. Has a habit when he does something good on the court, it was starting to make his fingers go like a gun. And he had been busted a couple times last year with possession of guns or taking pictures with guns.
25:48Like Snapchat with guns. Taking pictures. The NBA wants its image to be a certain way. So he got in trouble. He got suspended, I believe. And now he's back. He was doing this again. And I guess they said, okay, they don't want to do that. So I guess now he's pretending to throw a grenade. Well, I think what he did is he did the finger guns after he made something. And then I think, oh, here's one. Okay, let's see the grenade. See what it looks like. Oh, this is the grenade one. He takes it a step further. Three-pointer. Boom. And he throws it and then he does goggle eyes. That wasn't that bad.
26:24Throw the grenade and then goggle eyes. What's the goggle eyes? Do it. Goggle eyes is just supervision. Curry will do it sometimes. What does that mean? I have night vision? I got supervision. I'm 40 feet away. Oh, oh, oh, oh. God, they love themselves. Well, not goggle eyes. What is it? Covering his ears. Oh, I couldn't see. He was covering his ears. Oh, okay. Oh, for the boom. From behind, it looked like he was doing the goggle eyes. Oh, it could be the boom of the grenade blowing everyone up in the audience. Well, the problem is. Let me say that again. And I want to see if it's actually covering his ears.
26:58Well, it's microscopic. I don't believe it. Dog shit thing here. It's so tiny. He's a quarter inch high in this. Okay. Okay. You can't tell, but he is covering his ears. But it was. So for Heather and for everyone who doesn't know, caught with a gun on like a Snapchat, like a real gun. And then they go, hey, whoa, whoa, whoa. Not cool. You got a lot of fans look up to you. Does it again? In trouble, maybe 25 games. I don't know. Something pretty stiff, right? then this year makes a shot, guns everyone down or he does a rifle. And they're like, Hey, TNT, Remember we had this last year. I think they gave him one warning, right?
27:38A game or two later guns again. They go, yeah, we have to do something. Cause now we look stupid. It's not that bad, but listen, come on guys. So maybe they suspend him. Then he comes back and does a fucking, or they find him. Maybe like a grenade. So here's the question. Did the grenade get it? Do they want him to stop doing the grenade? Now we have a thing, the Yaha Moran celebration package. Guns, machine guns, rifles, knives. Depending on what he does. Yeah. If he gets a dunk, he does an AK-40s. Yeah. I mean, it's probably not a great idea. Did the grenade get him in trouble? That's my question.
28:17That is the question. And I'm sure there's an answer out there. Maybe not yet. but there now he just looks like he's shoving it in their face and so now adam silver has to go what do we do here what would you do dana um i think it's a little bit like it's it reminds me of elmer fudd or something or or the roadrunner cartoon you know i think it's a little more cartoony hey you know so this one is uh kind of more a little more assaulting no pun intended So I think the funny, maybe the grenade's okay. I know that our producer will - Well, they didn't say don't do a grenade. They didn't say don't do a grenade.
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28:56That's why it's funny. Because he's like, I'm thinking of new things to do that kill people. Well, here's, I don't know if I can do it. This would be me if I score a basket. Arrow. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because I've been watching Lord of the Rings again, because it's such a brilliant film. And that - Yeah, those are cool. Nothing cooler than that. They do it way faster than you can do it real life. There's no way. Even Hunger Games. I was like, no way, Jennifer Lawrence. Right. The arrows never run out. Yeah. Quill. That's Katy Perry's husband. I can't believe I don't remember his name. Orlando Bloom.
29:31Scorlando. Yeah. Scorlando Bloom, which was incredible. Good looking dude. Yeah. Good looking guy. What was he incredible in? Lord of the Rings. Yeah, he was. Yeah. Lord of the Rings. I think that's true. I was trying not to step on that. He's a good dude. dude. Okay. So that, that, that. Okay. And then the, uh, yeah, we'll go to the next one. I don't know what happened to, uh, we'll find out. Yeah. We'll get back to you. Okay. What's the human body. Oh, this is what's in a cup of coffee at. Okay. I don't know. Let's say your average coffee, iced coffee at a restaurant. Here we go. Oh, that's sugar.
30:10That's too much sugar. Sugar again. More sugar. Look at that sugar, dude. I haven't had that much sugar in my life. Caramel like you put in a hot fudge sundae. Look at Squirt. Sugar, caramel. Are they faking how much they're putting in there? That has so much sugar in it, too. Caramel, caramel. Yeah, no, that's massive. That was poison. Is this Dunkin' Donuts? You're joking. This would be the ordering? It's like eight ounces of sugar and caramel. Then ice. Five cubes of ice. Almond milk. Okay. A splash of almond milk. Uh-huh. where AMSR there's there's more ice and now more syrup on top that looks like chocolate a little bit of coffee I think that's is that coffee it's yeah it's 50 % sugar and caramel oh my god just go go to Dairy Queen and get a freaking milkshake I mean that's exactly and people think I just have my coffee yeah that has to be 40 grams of sugar in that thing right Right.
31:14That's the problem. You know, what happens is little, okay, wisdom or knowledge alert. When you wake up in the morning, your blood sugar is essentially flat because you haven't eaten anything for eight or nine hours. Now, if you light it up with one of those milkshake coffees, you're going to spike way up, then go way down. Then you're going to have to eat some more sugar. And that's how you're going to be on this roller coaster all day long. So do a tiny piece of sourdough toast with almond butter on it. Protein. Thank you. You've changed Andy Lyon. Heather, you might want to tilt this up. I'm going to go up.
31:54Spades going up on the knees. Here we go. Watch this. And then we'll do the next one. These golf shirts are always too long, but you know, we're not going to fix that. It's a problem that I have with shirts as well. They get a little too long and I don't know how long it's supposed to be past your ween. I don't know. No, there's a sweet spot where it's just long enough so it doesn't ride up. But it's not so long that you look like you're wearing your older brother's shirt. My wiener is my sweet spot. All right, here we go. This is what's going on. Let's let that snow for a little bit. What is the story?
32:24Exactly do those$70 go. Oh, the$70 for a ticket. Andrew McMahon agreed to share usually secret details for a show. Here's an example of a deal memo. His team just blacked out exactly which show it was. What do we have here? To start, the band set a ticket price of$56. There's a gross potential of a couple hundred thousand dollars being made. But out of that$200 ,000 in ticket sales, half is deducted for venue-related show costs. $37 ,000 in stagehands. Leaving the band with a$100 ,000 payday. But most of that goes to the band's own expenses. Commissions and fees and payroll. Their management takes a quarter.
33:06Travel and crew costs take another quarter. Meanwhile, that$56 ticket has had fees added, though artists don't get that money. So once you take away the venue's show costs and the band's touring expenses, something corporate's actual profit from that$70 ticket is about$10. And then we split that five ways. Yeah. McMahon isn't complaining. $2. That's still$7 ,000 each for a night's work. That's a lot. We love you, Los Angeles. Thank you for a beautiful day. What fan is this? But the point here is each dollar fans pay is fought over by artists, venues, ticket companies, and scalpers. And time and again, the industry's solution to these fights has been to just charge fans a bit more.
33:52Yeah, just keep jacking it up. What band is it? That's us. That's us on the road. That's everybody. That's the Rolling Stones. Well, it's a little different if you did the metrics and the one person who just needs a microphone and walks out. I mean, we don't really have like a wrecking crew, you know what I mean? Yeah. Roadies. Unless you get bigger. I think, you know, a lot of tour buses out there, comics are getting bigger. Sandler brought two semis. But, you know, if you've got a band and you want to put a stage up there. Totally different. You've got a band. It's a bigger show. Yeah. If you're Shane, you just need an old T-shirt.
34:27It's actually great. you know for guys we just get up there and set list water microphone with you maybe a guitar but you could do without it it's like that's barely anything and they usually have a guitar in the city yeah so someone just brings one and yeah do you do a sound check but i don't know if they're talking about taxes because those guys got their seven grand but then they got seven grand but then they get hit yeah at least 50 probably on that so they're 3 500 basically they just go to arby's afterwards and get a free meal. It's a push. They just played to 20 ,000 people. It's because California's raised their sales tax 925 to 975.
35:08And then in the outskirts to 11.25%. That's the sale. I mean, that's every day people getting ramrodded. Income tax at a certain point kicks into, I think, 14.4. I think it's one of the highest. Well, state. And then you got a sales tax. So California, they really have to get it together because it's just going to be too hard living. here forget about me i'm just like normal people that bust their ass every day it's like what do you it just does feel weird i remember i was doing a show years ago and i remember it was like a 300 seat theater and i found out everyone was paying a hundred dollars and i thought you know it's just and if you're a band and someone's paying six hundred dollars and they're not even in the front row yeah you better play your ass off you just play your fucking shit do the hits an ass i got a parking ticket 93 bucks just for parking it's so crazy i got a that was that ticket i ran red light what was that where i crashed all those people and drove away what was how much was it no i got i got i i did something wrong like ran red light and it was they go you can just pay the 650 right now i'm like 650 650 dollars yeah i said can you write on there in the in the memo of the check get do you ever let me just ask i don't even think the audience should hear this do you ever you know it's sort of a thing my friends used to like put me up front we're trying to get into a concert once i got on tv a little bit and they call put face ticket up front they call me face ticket face ticket up front and i wasn't ever that famous but one time i got pulled over for speeding or something and i was lucky the cop just came up looked at me and said get out of here because he recognized me oh i like yeah i know you and i go i was a danger to society you should give me a ticket and yeah they let you in right yeah i've tried that weasel i've tried the wheeze move where i when i was like going to cons it's more like 10 years ago i'd i think it was a cockiness something it was a drunkiness combined with what can i get away with and i go try to go backstage and I did it at heart and I did it at the pretenders and they take you all the guys like oh this guy's here they just don't even ask hey they just take you right in their dressing room they're like hello and I'm like oh so I think the Tommy boy t-shirt you used to wear it was very helpful and my benchwarmer's hat benchwarmer's hat Tommy and then an Adam Sandler tattoo on your shoulder my SNL shorts Adam on FaceTime in case it doesn't work yeah it sometimes backfires i wanted to see the gogos last i always saw the gogos i drove by the roxy on sunset and the gogos were there last night i should have gone gone you didn't go to the gogos i went with their whole name instructs you what to do no actually i went with theo to uh def lep we got a we got dialed in oh did you say hello to our friend no it was before that but i think i said i saw him there because we just my buddy said hey you want to go see def leppard uh my friend ross it's serious and he said they're at the roxy i'm like a mile from my house and just sit wherever you want yeah so he dialed me in and def leppard just came out blasted some hits there's probably what 200 people in there 300 and then uh go-go's i did the same thing with but i saw him last night on the marquee and i i'm not gonna go in there alone but i would try to I like the go-go sound, you know?
38:43I like it. There's something just sort of cool about that. Upbeat, nostalgic, fun. Belinda's, I had a correct question. Belinda is a great front woman. Yeah. Okay, next story. Here we go. Next story, let's go. Killing it. We're killing it. Today we really are amazing. Go ahead, read that. Loom, Loom, L-O-M, founder feels lost in life after selling his startup for$975 million. So after selling his company, the Loom founder... I'm rich and I have no idea what to do with my life. Life has been a haze this last year. After selling my company, I find myself totally unrelatable position of never having to work again.
39:25Everything feels like a side quest, but not in an inspiring way. I don't have the same base desires driving me to make money or gain status. I have infinite freedom, yet I don't know what to do with it. And honestly, I'm not the most optimistic about life. Wow. What a dumb dumb. Don't wish too hard for every, because it might come true. So he made the ultimate goal in life, which is to start a company and sell it. And after tax, he still has probably a half billion. Yeah. Put that in a 5 % account. So he's making like 20 million a year. Buy a couple of Fatburger franchises. I mean, it's funny because just out of habit, the guy's totally set, but he's probably going to go invest just for something to do.
40:10Well, but most people who are driven, it's not about the money they get. They just want. They like the game or being involved. What about if Warren Buffett had just made$500 million and just said, I'm going to quit. There's nothing I got to do anything. I've had it. I just go to Whataburger. And I'll tell you what, I should be taxed more. He always says that. I wish the government would tax me more. Well, you know you can voluntarily give money. Yeah, go ahead. Well, that doesn't sound like so much fun. Give it to me. I'll give it to him. That doesn't sound like so much fun. I'd rather be at gunpoint I'll pay tax and I'd like to have a gun Put in my head and I will pay tax This was a bad idea I had at Dairy Queen last night He always eats at like the simplest places Well he's got Coca-Cola, seasoned candies And Dairy Queen He's worth$100,$200 billion And he doesn't have diabetes The guy's a freak And he lives in like Omaha or something right?
41:02Yeah Maybe he'll come to my Omaha show I'll leave two at the door Here's what I got for the$900 975 million guy. Yeah. Go on only fans and make a lot of young women real happy. And within three to six weeks, you'll be broke and then you'll have problems and you'll be happy.
41:31Oh, this is so interesting. Now this, this one might be fake, but you've heard of these things that are very real. Heather, Have you heard of these? They're called a monolith, and they show up places. They just show up. Right, and that's kind of an homage to 2001 Space Odyssey, a monolith. Someone brings these overnight, and they don't know if it's spacecraft or if it's fake, but it seems very fake. But how big are these? Well, it looks like it's 20, 30 feet tall. The monolith in 2001, for the human being that doesn't know, is it just... they discovered on the moon and they don't know how it got there.
42:11And it's just this, it's clearly not made of moon material. Right. It's someone made it man-made or alien-made. So this looks alien-made. So once again, Dr. Stephen Greer, if we could just get him on. Oh yeah, we should have asked him about that. But I would love that it was aliens. Because they say there's these, I mean, it was a few years ago, but there's about five of those popped up and no one knew how they got there. Well, here's how we'll do an experiment. Because in those days, the chimpanzees would go up and touch it. And then the next day, they picked up a bone and knew it could beat the hell out of another chimp.
42:50So we take rednecks from rural Mississippi and put them next to that monolith and then come back and give them a calculus test. I don't know. Okay, that sounds like a good plan. I'm going to touch the monolith and then you give me that calculus test tomorrow. By the way, I wouldn't touch it because what if it was like radioactive or something? You never know with monoliths. I'd let Mikey try it. Hey, Mikey. Let Mikey touch the monolith. Okay, next one. Sure.
43:27You're out there Yellowstone. Hey, I'm Kevin Costner in Yellowstone. Cut Alright what do you think we should do next Are we rolling Listen listen I love that show It's so off of mail You want to make something of this I just love they're across the fence You want a piece of me right now You can have it And the other guy talks exactly the same Sure I'd like a piece of you But would you like a piece of me I would like a six piece meal of you Would you like a piece of me Well, I'm asking you at the same time Would you like a piece of me? Huh? Then they both pull out guns and everyone goes, hey, whoa, whoa, guys, guys Whoa, guys, guys, guys, guys, don't take it too far Guys, guys, guys, guys, guys, guys, guys Hey, this is our land, you can't put Bob wire up on our land Well, how about I wrap This bob wire around your fucking neck That gonna make you happy?
44:25You wanna take this to the parking lot of a Raiders game? Let's fight You wanna tailgate next Sunday with Raiders versus Chargers and wrap Bobwire around my ding-a-ling-a-wong-wong? Whoa. Well, I don't think so, Parker. And film it for White Lotus. I think you and I need to get more alpha in our lives. Yeah. We gotta just walk up to people with Ralph for dinner. Hey, what are you looking at? Huh? Well, I wasn't looking at anything. I beg to differ. You call me nothing? you call me a loser really you got that you call me a loser I got what are you looking at I go nothing you saying I'm nothing I'm like let's just beat me up like I'm not let's skip this part wait a minute I have to laugh that's so fucking funny are you saying I'm nothing yeah it's really a trap well there's nothing I've always told people there's nothing more dangerous on planet earth than an insecure man after midnight with alcohol in his belly.
45:29Hey, what are you looking at? Nothing. You saying I'm nothing? Yeah, I go. No, I'm saying you're something. You're saying I'm nothing, now I'm something? I'm like, No, I'm serious now. What were you looking at? You? Your wiener? Wait a second. Are you saying I'm a wiener? No. Yeah, you gotta get right back to him and scare him. What? What are you looking at? I was looking at the dessert menu you were just in the way what were you gonna order mud pie are you saying i'm a mud pie no no yeah that's what they say that's how that's how thin it is you think i'm a mud pie well no but if you just want to fight let's just say that you know i was gonna get lemon meringue pie but you were in the background you saying i'm lemon meringue what well yeah kind of but not the pie part.
46:24We have to save this energy for ads for an hour and a half after this. Well, I think it's funny. The other thing I go back to, that should be a t-shirt. What are you looking at? Nothing. Are you saying I'm nothing? It's such a good answer to start a fight. You're like, oh God, I really stepped in that one. I was on a beach once and I thought there was dudes over there. I thought one of someone I knew in high school and the guy did go, what are you looking at? and you said i thought i knew you no i was laying down on a towel and i looked at it what are you looking at and the guy was way bigger than me so then i just looked away and pretended sunscreen more i didn't want to get into an argument like you should don't say nothing because if i'd said you remind me of someone i knew in high school that might not have gone over just your curves yeah you take sunscreen in that situation you go the guy goes oh well i was i was walking down the street and i had uh the earplugs and i was listening to you know my iphone music and a guy stopped me and go what are you listening to and he said nothing he said are you saying i'm nothing well why doesn't it make sense you're not even in my ear it was actually saying what you're listening to is nothing No it was the Rolling Stones You're saying I'm like some kind of stone That rolls No it's a band A band From the 60s Then I said I know a guy Whose nickname is Dandelion I wouldn't mess with me Yeah don't mess with Dandelion at the McDonald's Dandelion will fuck you up Yeah Okay let's do one more One more I got punched in at that point You say nothing.
48:13I'll never get over it. I won't get over that much. What are we even watching? A rock and a cave. Oh, is it a bee? Wait, hang on. The bees sense fear. This is a guy bringing bees down. And because he's not afraid, they won't sting him out of a bee. Is that honey? Yeah, honey that's like as big as. Oh, my God. He's eating them? No. Well, don't do that to him. By the way, if they start singing you now, there's no going back. You might as well finish the bit. They're saying if you're not fearful, they won't sting you. And they can sense fear. I don't know if they like being bullied like this, though.
48:52Why are they going in his shirt? Down his shirt, he's eating them, he's bathing in them. Bees are like, we'll go along with this, but don't stuff us in your pockets. I'm just, is this real? well i don't think it's smart because when i get stung by a bee i usually don't know it i just see it lands i mean stings me and i have not even chance to be scared so right so that defeats the premise he's got a couple for the road with him those are big maybe he's built up to some kind of immunity that even they're stinging him like crazy but he just doesn't maybe they're filming jackass yeah i mean i i sometimes out in the garden here i'll just get turtles or or uh snails and i'll just kind of put them all over me in your pockets and they don't bite no you don't have to yawn on my story no i'm going are you saying my story's nothing yeah exactly about snails you're saying my turtle story's bullshit I'm saying your special is not called dandelion.
50:01I say that. That's a. That's not going to work. Dandelion. Yes. I love it.
50:11Oh, Coachella is this weekend and next weekend and fire fest. They're saying it might be another. Fire fest is actually coming out and that's the one that was completely made up and, and the guys doing all this. They're going to put it in Mexico, and then when people try to log on, or someone asked Mexico, and they're like, we know nothing about this. We have no permits. And everyone goes, hmm. And they've already paid. And they moved it again. And this guy in the news yesterday was trying to get tickets online, and he's like, one is a million-dollar ticket, and you get really everything, all the cheese sandwiches you want.
50:47And there's no lineup. You cannot do this twice. You cannot. The same guy's doing it? Same guy, and you can't fool me twice. Shame on me. Fool me twice and gun you down That's what it should be Yeah I just made a deal with Bernie Madoff Jr Yeah It's like This guy I hope it's real I'm not saying it's fake yet I'm just saying it's starting to have an aroma And he better fix it You can't say it's at like Punta Minta I just got an alert What's that guy's name? Billy Billy says It says, can you and David come down to Fyre Fest in Mexico? It's in a few weeks. I'd love to have you guys. You can be every act.
51:37Because we don't have any. I hear you play the guitar and David can dance. Would you mind also performing as a form of the Everly Brothers? And can you guys do eight and a half hours? I texted David's mom And she said I'll get the son In doo-doo
52:02I'm just getting punchy now We're getting punchy That's alright Stay tuned for ads Now We'll Okay we'll end up there We did a great job We'll see what happens We'll see what happens We'll give you more on that story Next week And remember Stay safe out there And try to ride the wave And make sure you have fun Every day something like that. Thanks for watching and we'll see you next time. See you next time, folks. This has been a presentation of Odyssey Superfly. It's executive produced by Dana Carvey and David Spade, Jenna Weiss-Berman of Odyssey, Heather Santoro, and Greg Holtzman. Hope you liked it.
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