Hollywood Handbook - Whitney, Our Music Friends

Episode Date: November 22, 2022

The Boys talk to MAX KAKACEK and JULIEN EHRLICH from the band Whitney about their fan lounge experience.Watch the video recording of this episode at Patreon.com/TheFlagrantOnes.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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This fall, it's time to get busy richard scary's busy town the immersive experience only on binoculars rift and so you put on the goggles yeah you're inside busy town i was going so like the meta like the meta like server is like very expensive for like yeah i'm aware uh for like their metaverse and by the way it's it's yeah i've seen criticism about the price point of the meta uh server experience and i'm like if you want it to be cheaper it'll feel cheaper because my experience and guys we'll be with you in a minute my experience we have guests but we'll be with you in a minute if you could relax if you could just relax cool it um so my experience the immersive sort of, as you said, three-dimensional, four-quadrant, getting busy experience. Yeah.

Having, you know, biting into an apple, pulling up with lowly worm's hat in between my teeth and realizing that I had ingested part of his head executed the blood shooting out of yeah lowly worms neck area and the wet feeling across my chin from that there's no substitute for the thrill i just would not i would not want to cut corners in that area. Well, so we were unable to... So I think this ended up being for the best. We were like, what is Metaverse not bringing when we were first devising this? Number one, they don't have the IP, the Busytown IP. So you can't be the different... Yeah, I suppose it wasn't Loliworm.

It was Woliworm? Yeah. I can't remember what you guys called it. And they have, at least for a a while they were only doing tops no legs right so what do we have bottoms only yeah so in this metaverse all the characters are waist down only but such a but such a clever trick that so many of the experiences that you have when the character is revealed it is as if you have decapitated them exactly or somehow removed them at at the waist so it's a lot of like here try out your new saw and then as you're sawing through a tree when the tree falls down all of a

sudden it's like you know fucking mama pig or whatever exactly with just blood shooting from where her torso used to be exactly yeah so it's like it's story like it's canon it's all canon it's fine well it's not random no exactly but the just the issue we're running into in beta is that i think the this fall it's time to get busy thing, the way people are using the server is not really as it was intended. And so it's like it's all, you know, all these like detached bottoms just going around just like. Yes. And you've created, of course, an additional sort of moist. Yeah.

Hole. Anyway, we should talk to our guests i mean you guys might want to chime in on this as well i don't know exactly what your experience is or whatever meta whatever but we can talk about anything on this we can talk i mean that's what's so cool about our show yes um is that anywhere it goes like nothing's out of bounds, nothing's off limits. Like say your most fucked up controversial take, you know, come,

we like to say, Kevin will email people who say, come get canceled. And it's tongue in cheek, but honestly you could, we wouldn't give a fuck. Yeah. It's no,

yeah. It's no sweat for y'all, right? Doesn't matter for me. It's great for us. It's actually good for us. Yeah. Because we'll stitch in after the fact that we were going like, hey, stop saying this stuff. Yes.

But while you're doing it, we'll be kind of egging you on. Yeah. Solid journalistic integrity. Yeah, I got it. Yeah. It's Max, it's Julian. Yeah, it's the... Sorry, it's the guys. It's the guys.

We assume people know. It's the Whitney boys. It's the band Whitney. Mm-hmm. We gotta start... You know, like the band Perry? That works. Right? You all know the band Perry? No. No.

Oh, apparently it doesn't work for that what's up you're entering this space and you don't know we've been playing a lot of perry and perry yeah the only thing we know about perry is in video games we've been doing a lot of perry a perfect block well you've been and you know perry farrell yeah i I don't know. You're friends with Perry Farrell? He is. Oh, that's. You know. Oh, wait. Is that the Lollapalooza C3 guy?

Yeah, yeah. Never met him. It's him. Respect. Respect. Much respect to Perry Farrell. And you can feel the aggregators grabbing this. The only song I know is Been Caught Stealing, though.

You only know been caught stealing i feel how old are you 32 that's not old enough that's wrong not old enough it's it's the wrong answer friend yeah i just at the same time that it's not old enough it's also a little too old the band perry is a group of siblings who helpfully say what they are in their name and so their their name is the band perry like chance the rapper like chance the rapper exactly so i think it should be just put it first i think it should be the rapper chance the rapper chance i agree yes the movie 300 it should be with all movies it all bands all performers just say what you are why don't you the podcast podcast hollywood handbook kevin because we are hollywood handbook yeah okay okay I get that. Next question. Fucking guy got smoked.

I smoked myself. Thought he was coming with something I hadn't thought about already. It's a band. It's an album. New album. It's a sound. New sound.

Talk about the new album. The sound's changed a bit. Yeah. You disagree? That's a sound, new sound. Talk about the new album. The sound's changed a bit. Yeah. You disagree? That's a smart observation. It definitely sounds different. Yeah, no fun shit. Yeah.

Like new. A little updated, you know? Yeah, it's forward looking. But it sounds a little more classic. So it's updated. It's a new sound for you but it's sort of everything old is new again isn't it we're rediscovering some classic pop sounds on this i think am i detecting let him you think there's some what

no go ahead hey it's your it's your music you tell me i don't know you think there's some no you were gonna say you think there's some what i you know there's there's some some some some news some were you disagreeing with the sort of classic inspiration you know i think that that's i think it's all up to the the the sound is in the ear of the beholder. Oh, but... We can leave it there. But do you disagree with me? Because...

Look, I'll just tell you what I read. Please do. And he reads a lot. Yeah, how often do you read, actually? The Chicago-based... Is it a new book? Excuse me. He's been reading a lot.

I'm reading. The Chicago-based duo stri me. He's been reading a lot. I'm reading. The Chicago-based duo strived to recenter their sound on classic pop, and that's in quotes. Who are they quoting? Apparently, it's not you. Who said that? Who said that? If it's in quotes and one of you said it,

so which one? If it's in quotes, someone said it. It was probably Grayson, who did the bio said it. It was probably Grayson who did the bio. Honestly. I don't know. It depends on what's classic. Grayson? Yeah. Grayson Curran. Get in here!

I thought, let me take them at their word. They've re-centered their sound on classic pop. But what you're telling me is actually no, you didn't do that so let's set the record straight where'd you recenter your sound more like early 2000s pop classic pop just makes me think of like fleetwood mac which is two and there's two there's too much of them around i'll tell you they did drugs and so they can no longer be an inspiration honestly it's true i mean yeah that's true we gotta talk

about this well every single one of them every single one of them did drugs you like their music oh yeah they were on fucking drugs it depends i think that you know the way that it is rumored some of them ingested drugs is an inspiration to all to try said new way of using drugs. That was rumors and that's a secret thing that they called it rumors because of

the rumor that they were showing coke up their ass. Yeah. I think that's inspirational. Same. That's a cool rumor to spread about yourself whether you've done it or not so you don't think they're cool enough for that you think that they're kind of like this they decide to tell people that so that's not cool anymore let's not do it just eat it just eat the drugs just fucking don't you need to show off bread and eat it see yes i think i think i'm at a point in my life

where i just buy them and that's it yes you just buy them yeah just buy them and they say enough of this whole like taking the drug formative thing of like ingesting it oh i feel weird now yes hey man yeah i just you're all blurry or whatever like do we have to go through this pageantry just let's just put it in the pantry put them in a drawer you gotta spend your money on something it's an investment it's an investment financial instrument you know well it'll you know and and it'll come back around it'll be cool to do them again just like how classic pop has become cool again people will re-center their sound around doing drugs the tour

the tour dates what are we doing? December all of December the whole month of December don't say December December's crazy.

December's crazy. Y'all don't like it. It's so crazy. I have to deliver toys to all the children in the world. No. I'm messing around. He's kidding.

No, but it is actually a really bad month for me. It's busy. But you are a santa truther you're santa truther you believe he's yeah he's kidding because obviously that is fake like the entire idea is so whole construct like so stupid so so patronizing it's so phony and it's so uh condescending yes yeah holiday cheer in general kind of i find it quite infantilizing actually the suggestion that santa's delivering my gifts sorry i find that entire construct to be quite infantilizing. And today is the day that I put my foot down and say, Whitney the band.

The band Whitney. Enough already. Let's stop. The band Whitney. Excuse me. Are you named after Eli Whitney? I don't know who that is. Okay.

You know Perry Farrell or Eli Whitney. Perry Farrell popped up. We got to crack a book at some point. Who is Eli Whitney? Oh, wait, is that a... Who knows? Been caught stealing. Doesn't know, Jane says.

Doesn't know, Jane says. Never listen to Three Days. Wait, isn't... Pull it up, Kevin. We're going to listen to this entire seven and a half minute rock song and then we're gonna listen to the disco biscuits play it live that's gonna be 24 minutes and then maybe you'll have a little respect for what perry farrell was working with what perry farrell was working with the uh okay so december december it's not helpful for uh a fan i just gotta say they don't know where to go they know travel tickets become more expensive huh travel tickets are more expensive because you're paying christmas prices but i'm just

saying christmas event like to describe your tour your dates is just december yes they're probably going to show up in the wrong place well the cool thing the cool thing about the idea of a tour here is like we come to them so there's a travel expenses for the people coming to the shows you are coming to them and then we in december we show up to their town and that's really nice yeah it's it's it's this new idea that can't be profitable for you though because you're paying because now you're paying christmas prices for every single date it's like the freaking uber of tour yeah we're basically yeah that's a great way to put it what's the lounge what's the lounge situation fan lounge fan lounge experience you're talking about backstage or or the it should feel like four fans it should feel like backstage obviously we can't locate it backstage it is actually accessible oh to the casual fan

who pays 190 on top we haven't gotten to that point though but i've been in one of those before waiting to thank god you're actually or something when i was much younger i've i've been in like the waiting center in allstate arena i think you were there too jules where was when we saw guns and roses you're like 21 meet and greet the meet and greet yeah i would say that that does align with the holiday spirit but we're not talking about a meet and greet well yeah we're not talking about sit on your lap oh that's the holiday nature of it they sit on your lap and they take a picture with you on the bus comes up there could be a meet and greet component what was the lounge like at all state arena well i mean it was kind of it was one of the situations where we had a buddy who was

like the tour manager of the bassist or something he's like i'm gonna hook you up you're gonna meet like axel or some shit we're like let's go let's check this out and then we just end up in like the meet and greet section with like a bunch of like 50 other people didn't answer my question at all we peaced out yeah true so the so it was a 50 50 person capacity at least 52 i suppose um basement boardroom and if it was in allstate arena it was probably like it was probably lit like a target store and like kind of dirty but clean at the same time that's the opposite of the vibe that we're not doing that we're looking we're not doing that for you guys we need to step it up because we got to sell these vip passes we're gonna need to

pack the fan lounge and my feeling is for you to go with your sound which you've been unable to describe you only know it's not what I said it was you probably are gonna wanna pin down

some sort of aesthetic whether it's the inside of a submarine the outside of a submarine right it could it could be on top of an aircraft carrier you know what i mean yeah we could go like military with it coastal a military is interesting to me especially today yeah right with everything with all of this john's been reading a lot and so yeah it's kind of in the news as is something happening in your life that's causing you to do so much reading are you liking them are you okay spiral i learned how oh yeah as soon as i figured it out man addicted yeah i guess a little something happened yeah it just freaking clicked yeah i saw looking at these i saw it swirlies of these lines and these stripes. And I've been just right there for so long where I'm like,

this is trying to tell me something. And then I saw him looking at the page. Yes. And his eyes kind of narrow. He gives a little smile. He's like, bango. And then I was in it and I've been i got you immersed in i got in the world of words

it's been absolutely thrilling where did you start figured it out what was your foray oh yeah sure yeah but like a goosebumps kind of thing like a Goosebumps kind of thing. Grisham! It's all Grisham right now. You know? Red Wall? Best to ever do it. Red Wall. I don't know.

Okay, let's talk about Red Wall. I said nothing was off limits. You can do that in any book. Yeah. It's always free for me do that in any book. Yeah. It's always free for me to choose my own adventure. Yes. At the bottom of any page, I can go to page 64, or I can go to page 122,

or I can just do that at any moment. That's free to you. I think those Choose Your Own Adventure books are a rip-off. You wanted to talk about Redwall? Yeah, yeah. I'll talk about... I remember the one thing... Jacques Addiction.

That's what I call it. Really? Yeah. When did you read Redwall? I think I was like fifth grade, fourth grade, some shit like that. It's a young man. Yeah, and what hooked you? I don't want to be doxed. I don't want to dox shit like that it's a young man uh yeah and what i don't really want to be i don't want to dox myself like that i mean you can go out here and just like grow giving out you can promote personal information maybe that's good for like

building a fan base but i actually have a family we told you nothing was off limits so if you guys want to talk about red well what what you? Was it the sort of subtle racism that pervades the entire series? Certain types of animals are always evil always bad. Certain types are inherently good.

That's not how I was reading books when I was younger and now I feel i i don't know i i'm just asking you you've really got this new reading thing picked up man you've figured it out like wow he's advancing really god yeah as a new reader you're forming your opinions you really don't want to be a weasel or a stoat you know what i mean gotta help you if you're a ferret it's not it's never going to work out for you hollywood handbook this week on the patreon carl and asan discuss the grammy nominations the boys make a funky factable calendar on the pro version and the flagrant ones are mostly talking all things basketball check out all these shows

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It's a little... What's that? A little warm. A little warm. It's a bit played. What's the LA? What's the cool thing in LA right now? What's the gas bar?

Gold gas. Gold gas? Yeah. Ooh. Pure vaporous gold auger yes but um hmm for you i think it's do you consider your fan is it a two pipette fan base and so it's like one per nostril or is it split pipette you know what i mean are we doing y shape i think we're sharing shape or sharing that's what i'm sharing this is community gas yeah that was my answer then it's that was my answer each side and then you get down and you

guys kind of meet in the middle uh i love that i mean such a sense of community obviously you're gonna bonk head sometimes uh but that's also like part of the fun and yeah it helps you communicate i think it's fun people are like why aren't these longer why can't i just pull this up to my nose it's like no you gotta get down it's stuck it's welded to the table um i mean do you want to have a just sorry i know you guys are kind of obsessed with red wall you know uh kind of like public opinion be damned do you want to set up a feast that takes pages to describe gas yeah a gas feast where it's for the holidays too a gaseous turkey acorn pudding or whatever what was the thing they drank though they had that a specific drink that they all got drunk off of and i can't remember what it was hmm it wasn't mead there was something with currents

in it i remember it was yeah i i just remember being like, what the fuck are they drinking? You remember from like last week? They would get lit up. The fucking Redwall party, man. Yeah. Moss flower. I'm smoking that moss flower. The moss flower.

Take me to fucking Salamandistron. Right? You really remember this shit, dude. on bitch pretty easy come on man not super hard to vaporize a turkey it's just the dosage that we have to kind of think about we're like basically one serving of turkey gas is going to require an entire like that's a bird you know you just like pull up to the gas bar and take like a couple puffs getting like a couple puffs of of like extracting a couple puffs of like pure vapor is like that's a bird so we're gonna need like we're gonna essentially

need to like buy a farm or like reserve a farm's like entire seasonal product yeah it's gonna be it's gonna be a bear uh but i think you guys are worth it um what if i mean this is crazy, but what if the pipette looks like a sword and it's being held by a life-size Matameo or Martin the Warrior figurine? It's like he's killing you.

He's goring you. I feel like smacking some turkey vapor from a Mateu sword would cause some serious damage to my brain. I think it'd be a PTSD situation. I'd never come back from that.

Okay, I just want to clarify. You can create an experience that is permanently imprinted on your audience's life. This is not for you. Do you understand that this is like this is a job this is the job the fan lounge experience is not i'm happy to hear you're a fan of your own music but lounge experience this is the fan zone so it's like for them to go to while you are performing hey i'm a fan of my shit too you know i think it's

a funny podcast i listen to it sometimes but you know if we had a fan lounge where there was like a meet and greet like i wouldn't be i probably wouldn't be partaking of a lot of yeah the public use areas um to me that's a bad look what's the turkey gas like turkey gas does it just make you tired like the tryptophan the tryptophan yeah it's not bad to take a nap afterwards yeah when it's so concentrated it's kind of so afterwards is even like kind of a stretch it's like an instant nap situation and the nap it'll put you out it'll put you out also not really the right word not really

coma yeah it's a medically induced coma essentially what's the what's the non medically induced coma is what we are supposed to so right yes there's no medical professionals involved so what's the

what well my question is... How do you come back? Yeah. How do you come back? Cranberry sauce. Cranberry sauce. Infusion bag. So tart.

And where are you when you come back? I feel like that's the end of the Wimmy fan experience. Are you on the ground? Are you in the venue still? Or, you know... Well well let's talk about this there's been some insurance issues with the venues we've spoken with and so it does have to be located off premises uh you know not all of them will require transportation from the venue to the fan lounge but not none of them yeah we'll require it if if you take my meeting so it that is going to be something of a challenge how are you traveling to these bad birds you getting in a

transfer transportation i just want to talk about the transportation to the fan lounge. There are, if you can transport a very long conveyor belt from show to show, that can effectively be, the fan is just standing in one place. It can actually run from anywhere in the venue. A conveyor belt, a belt rolls up. You guys know this. You can roll that thing up. It's just one extra trailer. What we could do, we could have them

hoof the turkey gas, then they just kind of become comatose and we cart them off the next show. The turkey gas can't be located in the venue. So yes, if you want to have them park at the lounge, then the turkey gas then transport to the show. On a different conveyor belt to the next show.

To the next show. And then they wake up there and then you just repeat. And then it's sort of choose your own adventure. How long are we thinking between? Where do you want to go? Which city do you want to go to next? Right. That's good each turkey gas pipette is labeled with a city oh well this is even better we can centralize this where there's now just a single fan lounge and you kind of select which show you want to attend and we'll concentrate the turkey gas

in a volume that will take you out of commission until the date of the show which you've selected. So you might just be asleep in the fan lounge for two or three days depending on if you need to kill that time. At least, I'm assuming that there's gonna be it's more than a three-day tour like you may you may take a hit of turkey gas that puts you out for most of the month so you're missing the holidays with your family but you get to hear whitney play in ann arbor whatever the fuck you guys you'd have to just

sit around twiddling your thumbs all this time no because that's the thing it's the experience i just want to do and then you're just sorry out yeah yeah exactly i want to clarify that like you're you're like not conscious but you are like awake in there you're like locked in uh and yeah no you're a prisoner in your own body like the experience of the experience of time is way longer than when that what you experience well it's dream consciousness in a way i mean not as yeah you don't have as much um fluidity as you do in a dream or a dream you could really do anything you can only sort of hear and uh and see and experience what is happening in the room around you which will be a bunch of other people passed

out some of them being transported to conveyor belts um but the time feels as it does in a dream uh you ever hit the snooze button you have a dream that seems to take hours or even a full day you wake up and it's already been 10 minutes wait so is there well this is that feeling but you're you're just hearing and seeing uh other people hitting the turkey gas um probably some like roadies moving around. Some discussion of the set list maybe could be good for them to have going. Opening band. Sort of boomy opening band audio. Who's opening?

Who's opening? Yeah, who are we bringing in? Our friend Ella Squirrelflower is the project name. The band? The band Squirrelflower. Squirrelflower is the project name. The band? The band Squirrel Flower. Squirrel Flower. The band Squirrel Flower by Ella. Yeah.

It could be interesting to have, instead of a band opening for you, like a chef. It could be Ella. I don't care. I don't know this person. We're going to kind of get our fill of music, hopefully, with you guys. Only if it's that weird, creepy, what's his name? Liver King?

Where he only eats disgusting things on Instagram. You're thinking of Salt Bae? You're thinking of Salt Bae. That's an old reference. That's a little dated, man. That's like five years old. It's your reference, man. That's what you're thinking of. It's Salt Ba years old it's your reference man that's what you're thinking

it's not it's not Salt Bae it's not it's Chef Antonio LaFasso that's who it is, top chef all star and I want to say

season five not finalist but like final four something like that uh yeah chef antonio lafasso new american with the you know lots of like traditional uh like twists on traditional stuff um yeah that's his opening for you. Which is a pretty big get. I mean, the guy was on multiple seasons of Top Chef. Yeah. All over the web. Yeah. I feel like, you know, it's one of those things where we

the opener is a challenge for him to wake up one of the comatose fans with his cooking on stage. This is Antonia LaFasso. I don i don't like we could we could we could i guess call her a guy if i thought you were talking about antonio antonio is antonio the guy um what what did he talk about he has that one line that classic line no that's fabio fabio um he said is not top scallop yes that's right antonio chef is not top scallop that's fabio fabio um he said is not top scallop yes that's right antonio

described uh in um max sylvestri's legendary top chef recaps as antonio the spy um who seemed to have something going on he would would talk about, I think, his wife. But I didn't know his last name, and I was just assuming that you did. No, you know Antonia LaFasso. I know Antonia. She'd be amazing. Up in the valley?

Yeah. Yes. Is that hers? Yeah. She's incredible. No, she is so charming. I think that your audience is going to love the experience she could tell tom calicchio stories right there's probably some little filming mishaps and then um there's also just the opportunity to eat some delicious food and

maybe to learn some technique as well um and it might be that your audience is leaving with something other than nothing hearing you play some music that you don't really even know how to describe what the sound is or you're too shy or whatever so it's something they heard but they're not leaving like holding anything in their like in their hands. They can't eat the songs. You know what I mean? Unfortunately,

well, you guys probably know better than anyone. Someone's probably working on edible vinyl. You bring a nice lady friend home, listen to a record and then pull it off. Pull up the needle and start carving it into slices for her. Sign me up.

Sign me up. Let's go. Okay, we got the opener. We have the lounge. And so I guess it's just like the main, you know, the main. Yeah, what's the show going to be? I know you're not planning to just stand there and play your instruments, but tell me what is the idea of kind of like the interactive experience that fans will be

partaking in uh what are some of the trippy visuals that you have planned um what's it you know pretend i'm an audience member what's a foam smell like what's the phone gonna smell like what's the foam scent oh like the bubbles I guess it's kind of bubbles. Yeah, tomato bubbles. It's a much denser version of bubbles. Millions, maybe even billions of bubbles. Just kind of packed. Concentrated into foam.

Yeah. Yeah, which will serve as something of a lubricant as I go down the giant twisty slide. And that should like... Turkey. Like re reek of we can't do turkey again we don't have that we already have an entire farm the idea of stuffing it's stuffing these people are nauseous if they smell turkey again stuffing stuffing scented foam okay being piped out of a out of a giant fan in the ceiling that's like spinning and spraying it everywhere the whole floor is trampolines trapped bread big golden raisins celery all the shit that people love uh-huh stuffing all the stuff that we all eat it individually all the time but it's whoever just one special time to combine it to combine

yeah it's just the one the one day of the year when we raisins when we schlorp it all together schlorp it okay that should yeah well you got a note on schlorp it all together. Schlorp it. Okay. Yeah, well, you got to know it on schlorp it. Are you enjoying it or are you criticizing it? I can't fucking tell with you, Jules. I don't fucking know, dog. I think we're all enjoying it.

Dude, I think it's one of those things that we don't really understand schlorp because we don't read as much as you do. I know it's like a big literacy thing happening here. Schlorp is a high class word. The sexy lawyer schlorped his way into the prison cell to talk to his client. That's a Grisham sentence. Sean was able to change his business card after this past week this is really exciting from the part that said illiterate to now it says ill comma literate yeah oh i'm both right yeah you're yeah down down with the

sickness yep kevin hi Let's play one song. Yeah, let's play. I just want to play it, and you guys can kind of tell me what I'll be seeing. I'm, you know, smearing the foam away from my band-issued goggles, and I'm looking at the stage, and what are you doing while this is playing? Well, first of all,

your best friend has been missing for 15 minutes because they're at the fan lounge. So you're worried about them. Well, look, it's not going to be a perfect science. Obviously, some people will be transported to the incorrect show on the incorrect date I would encourage people to attend the lounge and the

concert as individuals I think if we have groups going who intend to like see the show together that's just legally it'll be very sticky it'll be the stuff of christian novels in terms of what we end up having to unpack later on because it's a class action nightmare um i i think we should say go alone and i believe that you have cultivated a fan base of loners. Right.

Does it not feel that way? I know we've gone out of our way to do it. What do they need with a bunch of friends? They got you guys. They've got the band Whitney. So you're not named after Eli Whitney, named after Whitney A. Brown? A. Whitney Brown?

A. Whitney Brown. Which guy was he? It's like... He uses the same convention as the band Perry. As the band. Yeah. He's A. Whitney Brown. That's a real one.

He was sort of the nebbish. He's in there mixing it up with Beth Littleford. Mm-hmm. So, what's the inspiration? Is it a chick you dig? forward. What's the inspiration? Is it a chick you dig? Y'all hung up on some chick named a band after simping?

Is this whole band a fucking simp project? It's just the fellas in here. It's just the fellas in here. Hey, it's just us fellas. It is just us fellas. What are we working with here? I'm a man. I've seen...

Come on, we're all a little curious. What's Whitney look like? You know what I mean? Is he not making this face like hard enough for you do it a little bit harder what are we what are we working with don't skip anything i have two questions downstairs i want the full blueprint. Two questions. What you sipping on?

You're both sipping. And who you sipping on? What you sipping on? Who you sipping on? I was, I think coffee is the day. It's coffee day. Coffee's the move. Coffee is the vibe, bro.

You guys are coffee? Coffee over tea? My brother in Christ. Coffee is the vibe, bro. You guys are coffee? Coffee over tea? My brother in Christ. Coffee is the truth. My brother in Christ. That's right. I simp for coffee. For real, for real. Coffee's bussin'.

I am a bean juice fiend. Gimme, gimme, gimme. What is that, though? No, what is coffee? How does it work? Are you asking us? Yeah, who's the... What's going on?

You brought it up. Yeah, you brought it up. We're finally getting to Florida. I really don't know how... I don't know how coffee works. I just's like the same thing with whatever i just bought it and put it in yeah yeah it does exactly and what's in the uh what's coming out of that that nozzle doggy jules doggy what are you nozzle on it's classic h2o you know doggy what are you nozzling on it's classic h2o you know that's what i'm saying hey wait wait since you since you're like a you're like a smart dude do you know what h2o means do you know h2o

means is that what's who what is wait who's a smarter dude you red wall nah come on um h2o Ew. Red Walnut. Nah. Come on. H2O? Yeah. It's like a serial number, effectively. Yeah. Yeah. It's like a barcode. How you know how much it costs? I mean, it's a capitalist society.

I'm the first to admit it's not a perfect system, but it's a damn good one. It's the best one we got. Yeah. Unless you got another idea. No, no, no. Yeah, it's actually the worst system. I'm all ears.

Except for all the others. Yeah. So, no, commerce drives so much of what we do. And if you're going to have a drink, coffee, water, you're going to have to have something in place where we can determine how to ring it up. So H2O is that one. How are we processing payments?

What's going on? You want to drop your Venmo here? Cash out? Oh, Venmo, yeah. We all got a Venmo h2o you drop your venmo to your fan and like if he wants to buy a ticket you just yeah drop the venmo just a personal venmo they could do it right now would it be easy if you want to drop it yeah you want to drop that on here you guys want to give your your venmo or your cash app and then uh and they can just hollywood handbook listeners can do like a um emoji or whatever of like an album or a ticket or just like to say like which the thing is that

they want to um what they want to buy the santa emoji preferably if if you want that if someone did that to me i would um incredibly infantilizing that would show me a lot about who test of your manhood yeah we're trying to test people's man i would have to respond i would be there'd be an emoji coming back their way and not one that they'd be very happy to see egg plant maybe kevin play the song again for a second egg plant i heard that jules i heard that jules i heard that who's singing who did that who's doing this that's you singing jules on the mic why don't you sound like that i've been talking to you

all fucking day is that pro Jules that's so much better Jules Jules this is not good this right now is not you're not feeling this my brother in Christ you have sounded like shit on the podcast

I want people to listen to your music the music sounds great it's beautiful i know i think i do think i gotta work on the podcast oh shit i'm sorry guys ah fuck it man it's for you you know i don't care i care about anything i shut this off i huff some turkey gas and i go to sleep until the next episode never gonna so i'm not i'm never experiencing this is gone as like as soon as the zoom window closes it's over and instantly done you never think about it again and then if he's singing max the fuck are you doing, dog?

I didn't hear you. I'm listening. I'm just chilling there. That's cool, man. I'm huffing turkey gas sitting in there. I'm always checked out. It's checked out the whole time. That's loyalty. Yeah.

That's cool. Where do you guys live? What street? I'm just chilling out. Yeah, what street are you on? What street? What street do you live on? What street are you on? What street? What street do you live on? Street are you on?

Starts with a D. D is this guy with the eggplant emoji. Between the eggplant emoji and starts with a D. We're done. We're done. That's enough. We don't need to get in here. Bye. Bye. Hollywood Hamburg.

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