Hollywood Handbook - The Pro Version #273: OUR INTIMATE LIVE SHOW

Episode Date: April 13, 2023

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This is a HeadGum Podcast. episode description. And also, if you'd like to watch the video recording of this in-studio pro version, the YouTube link for that is also in the description. Thanks so much and enjoy the show. Hollywood Handbook. Here's a song playing. Playing the song now. Can you sing along to the song? Not sing, just talk along to the song, please. Tell me what part of the song we're at so that I know, just because I can't hear it. Leave that in. I heard it in the headphones

don't don't even think for a second that i don't know what something strange happened it wasn't our song right i know exactly what song it was i know exactly what song the fucking doughboys leave it in no they don't fuck around with like just playing the doughboys song yeah i don't just like we'd have to pay for that we got they don't have that yes what they will do like will they find like organic ways to promote high and mighty on another show oh yeah they mighty yeah i'm looking for the theme i can't can't really skip it skip it skip it it's the fucking pro version. Casey's so fucking high. Who fucking cares? It's going. We're going. Tell me where we're at.

Which part? I feel like you guys can hear because you heard the other thing. Okay. I like Casey a little more. And I'll say why I like Casey today. Okay. It's like I fully understand how he's playing to my consciousness. He's dressed like a Butabi brother.

And yes, that's going to work on me. He looks like the third Butabi brother, Casey Butabi. He got in the fucking lab after last episode. He said, it's not going to happen to me again. He researched me like Nardwar. And he's like, what's the exact thing I can do to just like win this thing? He crawled inside Hayes' brain. And he just like checked every door until he found one that was very loose.

The cabinet that had been used the most. Yes. Hinges sagging. And he said, aha, the Butabiabi brothers and he went ahead and he threw on the fucking gear i respect it too i'm not having that experience i don't have the same affection for this look you will have to keep trying with me all right noted you did so it was interesting little backbone i respect it in theory but basically we said tell us what's happening in the song you played someone else's song john gabriel's he needs more promotion fucking guy is on everything all the time

everything everywhere all at once the john gabriel story then i asked you to explain what was happening in the song when you were playing my song and you said i feel like you can hear it did i say i can't hear it you didn't say that you couldn't hear it no i didn't no yeah yes i could hear it and i wanted you to talk me through it i wanted you to talk me through it. I noticed this exact same thing. I wanted you to talk me through it. Which is not unreasonable. Whether or not he can hear it is not what's the question. The question is, can you hear him? Can you hear me?

Can you hear him? I hear you loud and clear now, that's for sure. Yeah. Look, there's a lot at stake for us right now. We've been doing these live shows. Do you know about these? I know about them, yeah. Have you been?

Do you know where they are? You got one coming up at Dynasty Typewriter. Then the last ones have also been at Dynasty Typewriter. So you didn't know where they were, but you know where the ones coming up is. This will be the third one. That distinguishes you from everyone else who went to the first two. A lot of people knew where the first ones were and then somehow can't find the latest one. They can't find it.

Have you been to one? I have not been. Do you want to go? I can't. There's a couple tickets still available. Kevin, how many tickets did we sell for the first one? 170. How many tickets did we sell for the first one 170 how many tickets did we sell for the second one 190 and it it's in six days how many have we sold for the third one 26 26 so that because i thought the first one that's just in person that's just in person tickets not

including streaming the first one which is also way lower than before, correct? Yes. So that's helpful. Streaming is also much worse. Yes. That doesn't include the streaming number, which is also terrible. So I thought the first one went well. And then when we sold more for the second one, I said, wow, I was right. It did go well. Then I thought the second one went well. I said, we're really building something here. We're doing these cool live shows and it's like a regular thing. And it's like maybe starting to get some buzz around town. And then I asked how many tickets we'd sold today. And the number was 26.

There are 200 seats. If there are only 26 people there when I get there i'm not doing the show it's fine for me it's fine for me everyone else is in big trouble yes if that happens i'm doing great for everyone else it's a big problem yeah i think of hangover yeah hangover one yes oh whoa where'd this come from wow actually fucking cracking me up nice little piece of business hangover two we're getting ready to see some improvement holy shit it's even better than we now it's an established brand yes we're blowing the doors off hangover three that'll be even bigger right heads heads roll well particularly that giraffe with the sunglasses heads rolled

after they went through that under that overpass or whatever that's vegas yeah no it's true it's true what happens there stays there one thing that stayed there was the giraffe's head. Was that one back to Vegas? Hangover 3 back to Vegas? I have no fucking idea. Because I, just like everyone else, saw one, maybe a little late, had been in the theater for a couple of weeks, saw two right away. Yes.

And for three, not unlike our upcoming live show, I took a pass. Maybe I'll watch it on video, I said. Except in this case, that wouldn't. Because then the streaming would be doing better. Yeah, then the streaming numbers would be good. Which they're not. And so, because we are assigning blame here. Everyone looks at Hangover 2 and is like, wow, everyone involved in Hangover 2 deserves credit for an amazingly successful project.

It's like, no, Hangover 2 is actually the problem. Hangover 2 is what killed Hangover 3. That was the issue, yeah. And so Hangover 1 is responsible for the success of Hangover 2. It's Tim Simons' fault. Well, Tim showed up. Nice enough guy. Sweet kid.

He did our second show. I think he might have a future. Casey, Tim was the guest. Cool. Tim from Veep. Yeah. If that even is still something that he did. I think his performance was so bad,

they may be currently editing him out of V. Because they can do that. Yeah. HBO Max is starting, instead of like entire show, like yes, they're not going to cut the entire show. They're replacing him with Christopher Plummer. Yeah, they will cut a bunch of characters and replace them with someone a little more established.

Yeah. And with a little more heat. They've got a lot of Plummer footage. So they're going to stitch that in. I don't know if all the jokes will play the same. Christopher Plummer saying, I've been eating so much pussy, I'm shitting clit, son. It just feels a little different coming from him.

In some ways, it's funnier. He's like a mentally delayed, flightless bird. When you say that to Christopher Blubber, I think people might be like, he doesn't really look like that. Yeah, some of the descriptions

of him physically are not going to match up, which was like a well that they went to quite often. But it's still, it will be better for them than having Tim remain in it, which, as we've seen, is poison.

Because, like, we have to now back up, Lisa Gilroy deserves a lot of credit. And here we are, not patting myself on the back too hard, but third show, Lisa was the guest. First show. She's on the Jury Duty show on Freebie now.

Crushing. Have you seen it? You watch that? I've seen the commercials. You've seen the commercials, yeah. Me too. Pretty funny. So that was the first guest.

We give her credit. We'll give ourselves some credit. We were pretty good in that one. And the second show show I think we also I remember us doing well then Tim came out Energy died nobody wants to buy a ticket but they don't see we've gone back to the Lisa formula

and again I don't want to sit here and like suck myself off about this three guests two of them are women guests think about that. Could have been anybody. But we've got Lily Sullivan locked and loaded.

Also like a comedy bang bang regular. Known for doing comedy shows. Yes. Which, by the way, Casey, that's what this is. If you want to start laughing sometimes. Fucking guy. And Scott isn't like, the net's not as wide as it used to be. Like, Scott, it used to be about, like, giving people a chance,

and now Scott's like, all right, I got to fucking, like, I got to actually put out a show. Let's play the hits. Yes. Is what the attitude is over there. And so it's. We're not premiering a lot of new. It's Lisa and Lily.

So the formula, if this plays out, like, I am just asking for people to buy a ticket to one more show, please. Try this one. Because we cannot keep doing these. If, like, if it's just, like, a few of of you i have to talk to every single one of you afterwards yeah i can't do that yeah it's really it's a long time that we will spend talking to everyone if everyone thinks like well i'll definitely wait around because they'll have

to talk to me we'll just end up doing that during the show well that'll be the show is just like we'll like be like taking pictures or whatever with people. And then we can all walk out together. Yeah. We can all walk over to the parking garage together. It's that kind of group. I'll order some sodas. I'll post some sodas to the venue, and I'll say,

let's all share a soda. We'll take a couple pictures, and then we'll walk out and we'll walk each other to our respective cars will you pull up the flagrant ones instagram please uh you didn't bring your phone with you to your seat I deleted instagram off my phone okay because there was too much DMing going on. So when people come for you, when the husbands come for you, you say, look at my phone. There isn't even Instagram on there. I wasn't there, officer.

How can I have been in her DMs? I don't even have Instagram app. Must be a different Kevin Bartel. Do they have it on your computer? Yeah, I've got i've got instagram you got it do you follow flagrant ones uh i do okay so all right this is great he's saying all the right things can you can you can you pull it up please mvp i've pulled it up don't it up don't give out the secret MVP yet we've got half the show left

you've already awarded the secret MVP this guy's gonna fucking coast for the rest of the episode you have it pulled out? you see the episode where Kevin's like Lily's doing the show it's not an episode right? sorry it's an episode of the feed

it's an episode of the Flager One's Instagram feed. It's one of the most recent episodes. And Kevin's like, Lily's doing this show. Do you see the post? Yeah, I mean, I'm looking at the grid. It's on the grid. It's actually something of a peaceful post, isn't it? Because there's no activity happening on it.

Well, let's look at it. It's on the grid. It's a picture of Lily Sullivan from Comedy Bang Bang. It's actually half. It's like the top half is her face and the bottom half is our logo. You found it? Yeah, I found it. How many likes are on it?

I don't know if I can see exactly the number of likes. Did you have to hide the number of likes? Well, if it's not your post, you can't exactly see how many likes there are. You should be able to. I don't think that's a true thing. I think this might be a case where Casey's not allowed to see likes. I don't know what the algorithm is responding to. It actually says at the top, only the Flavor ones can see the total number of likes on this post.

It says that at the top? It says that at the very top of the post. That's something Kevin toggled on. I don't believe I did. Okay, well, just tell us how many there are, Kevin. I think there's like 300. And then did you guys see for the one of just you guys, there's over 500?

The one of just us saying that the show is happening? Yeah. Okay. So this is my question for everyone who liked that post. What did you like about it? All it says is they're doing another show. I think they were liking it saying, oh good, I now have the power to disappoint the boys. They've walked into my trap.

There's so many people who responded to that approvingly in one way and just only that way. Yeah, there's not even a single comment on the post. I don't need comments.

What do I need to hear from Bev about it? Well, I'd like to hear comments. I need comments. What do I need to hear from Bev about it? Well, I'd like to hear. I don't need comments. I make comments. I wish there were. That's what the live show is. It's just.

It is funny comments. It's just us doing our funny comments. But I disagree. I think there should be, if there are 500 likes on the one with us, I think there should be 474 comments from people saying why they cannot attend. That's right. If you liked it... Casey's going to be out of town,

so that's comment one. There's still time to do this. And not attend includes why you can't just buy a ticket to the stream. I don't even care if you watch it. I will permit you to buy a ticket and not show up. Yes. Yep.

That's okay with me. Either. Yes. Either post why you can't attend or just like take it off the chain and like appoint a spokesperson to make a comment. Ticket makes a great belated Easter gift. You know, it just can be the perfect gift for your sweetie. You forgot to get her the chocolate treat, and you just say, like, oh, geez,

we've been walking around both all mad at each other. Yeah, you forgot to get something, and you just, like, get something online. Check your email. Yep. It's like, okay, you forgot. No, in fact, I just waited for the perfect moment to give you exactly what you need

just got to get the printer working you forgot an easter gift man up i'm staring at this little remote control do you see the little remote they put the they put the books out again i'm remembering the books i've been staring at that too there's a couple different remote yeah that one looks like I wonder what it's for, a special kind of light? Casey's not telling. Well, I don't know what remote control you're looking at.

Okay, I'll take a guess. It's right next to you. Wise guy. There's a damn remote control in the front of that little, you have a little sort of desk caddy. Under, it's under, don't touch that. No, one layer below um there's a shelf beneath the um surface that you touched sure uh i'm guessing your chair on that shelf there's a little caddy

what for what are those for mostly to get roll your wheels work this way but you roll that way yeah there's nothing over there you're rolling that way huh i can i can guess what remotes are down there are they like colorful buttons on it well that's what i'm seeing yeah there's sort of like a white background then there's like a black square in the center and then there are some colorful buttons yeah and i'm curious is this for a special kind of light or something uh yeah they control the colorful lights that are on the set yeah so can i have one kevin go get that for me yeah can i have one can i adjust the light there's two right just go under there's a long one okay give me this shit the uh the long one this is the kind of shit that would happen at the live show if you guys came kevin we need to

practice your exit again. Just go all the way. Rub the mic against my chest. No, don't touch the mic at all. Just go all the way under. See? Smooth. Yes, doggy.

Nothing's happening. Nothing's happening. Well, I haven't touched mine yet. You got to point. Hayes, the long one goes like behind the chairs there. And Sean, that small one, you got to point it directly at the light behind you. Right behind me? Yeah.

Blue. Oh, I made it green. Hey, anybody watching video, did you see that shit? I made it green as hell. And you can make it green as hell. And you can make it green as well by buying tickets to the show. Now,

watch this. I'm making it dim. Remind you anyone? Casey. Now I'm making it bright again. Remind you anyone? Me. Okay, purple. Mine stinks. Doggy, if you want to play with this one, dude,

it's this corner here, and I got to tell you, the thrill of my life. I just knew it was a remote for the lights. Oh, man. I wish the listeners could have remote for the lights. Oh, man. I wish the listeners could have seen within the frame the remote and how little information I had when I was able to deduce that. They'd be going, whoa, this guy's really bright, not like dim-ass Casey over there.

You said it was for a weird light too. And it was. Very weird. Look at it. Look at it, man. It's crazy stuff. No, it can do anything. Wow, this place kicks ass.

Yeah, I'm in hog heaven. Fucking head gum is right, man. I got something to chew on upstairs. This is making my brain work overtime. All this stimulation. The cactus. can you draft an email to jake and amir please yeah please write an email to jake and amir we don't have their email yet sure you guys got it wow so many different devices for different purposes yeah to look up

this guy's got two monitors in front of instagram feed the laptop is for the email to jake and amir the two other computers are for a purpose as yet undisclosed can i give my casey compliment of the day thanks for turning the clock on dog yes the clock looks great clock's on yeah problem uh all right i'm ready for this email okay hayes set it off king okay we go amir and jake ahoy okay ahoy fellows well met Ahoy. Okay. Ahoy, fellows. Well met. We are having big problems with our show. So no, cut ahoy.

Yeah, no ahoy for these two. Just say, just begin it. Look, we're having big problems right now. Look, we're having big problems right now. Nobody is coming to our live show on April 17th. And it's not our fault. Tell them that it's not our fault, Casey. It's not because of anything we did. Yeah.

We need, number one, we need each of you. It would be nice for you to support us. We need you to buy tickets. Should be at least two more tickets sold. Number two, is there a way? Don't say, is there a way? Just say, figure out a way to have

all of the credit card information that you have for your Patreon subscribers. Yeah, how about this? There's got to be a way to get all the credit card information you have for your Patreon subscribers. You find that or I'll

find you. Yes. And then once that information is secured... Put a picture of my hat on John Cena's body. Cena? John Cena's body. Yeah.

So they know, like, when I find you, it's not for a handshake. Yeah. It ain't for a cup of tea. Cena means dinner. That's what you'll be. You'll be on the menu. Oh, yeah. Once all the credit card information is secured,

print it out and mail it to the Dynasty Typewriter Theater. Mm-hmm. And they will know exactly what to do. Okay. Let me hear that back. Look, we're having big problems right now. Nobody is coming to our show April 17th. It's not our fault. What time is the show?

7.30. 7.30. April 17th, 7.30. And we forgot to say when it was until 25 minutes into the show. PM, PST the show's too late Kevin what time do you want to do it the problem is

should be at 4 it has to be at 4 I think we gotta do it at 4 I think our fans are too sleepy everyone has to go to sleep our fans are so sleepy man you look out in the audience and like half the time these people have a little sleeping cap and they've got a pillow with them

and they're rubbing both their eyes yeah yeah and just and you're and it makes it hard to do the show because the yawns are so loud and they're so sleepy. And you got to stop serving peppermint tea at the door. All that's going to do is encourage them to get even sleepier. I got to say, I'm concerned. We need this show to be at 4 or maybe 3.30. And I can make a coffee for each person doors at 3.30

and it's on Monday yeah who's Matt's not good for our fans whose big idea was that yeah a Monday show oh goody

prime time yeah everyone that's just what everyone wants weekend's over just had my first full day of work i'm dragging ass let me go to a late ass fucking monday night show if all my rowdy friends are home on monday night i mean that's really how it's starting to feel so now people can maybe people thought the experience was not intimate enough last time because so many people were buying tickets so now they're like oh if i get in i'll

be number 27 of the people there that's still a pretty intimate show oh god i could probably get some like very intense face time with the boys and then but everyone thinks that the whole idea is that everyone thinks that and like and then it's like the show's packed out yeah if you have no one 27 people who think they're number 27 second all of a sudden you sold 200 tickets. Yes. Green Zone starring Matt Damon. Am I right? Green Zone. Who does live shows?

Yeah. People do live shows here? Is there a live show here? You got a live show crew? It depends on what you mean. You mean like who runs productions for live shows? It can't just depend on what I mean. It just can't. It depends on what you mean you mean like who runs productions for live shows it can't just depend on what i mean it just can't it depends on what you know i don't accept that yeah no i was actually asking about who runs production we've given so much context casey the producer goes

like they probably think the production end is the most important. Well, we do like various. You fucking narcissist. You sick bitch. They probably want to know about my job. We do a few shows. No, man. People like me. Uh-huh. So if you're looking to do a show here.

Like a live show that people can go to? Yeah. Where do they go? Oh, we do a show like a live show that people can go to yeah where do they go sit oh we do it in the in the backyard it's like oh my goodness oh my god and the rat and in the amphitheater yeah how many seats goodness um if it's i think the last less than 26 we can't do it last show we have at least 26 fans 175 175 wow wow okay this may not solve the problem that i have but we're also currently talking to dynasty typewriter about doing a live show there so we're kind of waiting to see why it's like how it does it been easier for Sean to park last time. I'm just thinking about like, you have a show of 175 people. Yeah, but they don't all park here. I know, but some people must.

Actually, during the live shows, I think we put like Port-A-Johns out there. Can I say something? For people to park. I think Hayes Port-A-John's out there. Can I say something? I think Hayes has been the secret MVP of this episode. That's why I didn't want to give it out so early. I jumped the gun. I knew you had more in the tank. Yes, I had so many plans. He's a finisher. Yes.

We had to cut so much stuff. So the clock just hit 30 but we're not even close to 30 minutes. We have a lot of issues because... We had to cut so many of... This whole place is just filthy with secrets. Dark secrets. Yeah, so many skeletons in the damn closet.

I feel like I'm in a haunted house. I feel like I'm watching the Bones show or something. I mean, there's only skeletons in the closet. I feel like I'm watching Uncle Boney's Bones show they must have done that at least once where they're like well it's not like you don't have any

skeletons in your closet and David Boreanaz just like not even looking at what's in the closet just opens up a closet door yeah in fact I don't bones no no no bone says i don't have i don't have any skeletons in my closet and dave he like he doesn't look he just like swings the door open and just like gives bones a look like come on are you kidding me

bones you literally have a literal skeleton in your closet that's what he says bones i don't have any skeletons in my closet they're all in my drawer it sounds like a college humor sketch goodbye that was a hate gum podcast