Quick Question with Soren and Daniel - Dudez Date Night

Episode Date: August 21, 2022

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I've got a quick, quick question for you, alright? I wanna hear your thoughts, wanna know what's on your mind I've got a quick, quick question for you, alright? The answer's not important, I'm just glad that we could talk tonight So what's your favourite? Who did you get? What do I be? What's it up with? What do we talk about? I saw a movie, Daniel O'Brien When will I be remembered? Was it out there? Where did all that go? Did we not? Oh, forget it.

Saw a movie, Daniel O'Brien. Two best friends and comedy writers. If there's an answer, they're gonna find it. I think you'll have a great time here. I think you'll have a great time here. So hello again and welcome to another episode of Quick Question with Soren and Daniel, the podcast where two best friends and comedy writers ask each other questions and give each other answers. I am one half of that podcast, senior writer for last week tonight with John Oliver, author of How to Fight Presidents, and to be honest, senior writer with senioritis, Daniel O'Brien.

Joined as always by my co-host, Mr. Soren Bui. Soren, you figure out the rest. Hey, everybody. I'm Soren Bui. We're ready for the show American Dad that's on TBS. You might be familiar with it. Anytime you've walked into a hotel and you've turned on the television, yeah, that's my show.

That one right there. The one that you're just going to kind of have on in the background. And that's really my wheelhouse. kind of have on in the background and that's really my wheelhouse wow just on in the background you write impractical jokers that's nuts yeah you think i don't know i feel like tbs would be mad at some point with how much we make fun of impractical jokers in our show like it's it's klaus's favorite show on the planet. Oh, and Klaus blows. Yeah, Klaus is just the worst. They don't seem to mind, though.

And Impractical Jokers will outlive us. Impractical Jokers will outlive the sun. They will be here after the Earth has been pulled into the fiery abyss. Somehow that show will still be on. I have found myself enjoying it every once in a while i don't want to completely shit on it but i do feel like the first time i saw it was when i was visiting my parents it was just on and they loved it and we watched a few

episodes and i it felt like it might have been like three or four hours into a marathon where i was just like so is, so let me see. So is it ever not on? Is it, I don't, when did they do all this? When did they make all these episodes? And then in the commercials, they were like, if you like Impractical Jokers, come see them on tour. I'm like, okay.

How? No. Yeah. So I don't, I don't totally know, understand their schedule either because I don't understand how their seasons break down either because, yeah, the show, it never ends. Yeah. And if you've ever watched it, I would say it's actually a pretty good gym watch. Yes.

If they've got – well, given – they've got to have subtitles because some of it I'm very lost on, which is surprising that I would be so lost on some of these intricate flip pranks. on, which is surprising that I would be so lost on some of these intricate flip pranks. But generally a lot of what they're doing is visual gags. Like they're going into a work interview and they're riding in on like a moped or something like that into the office. And then, but most of it is just watching these guys try not to laugh and fuck it. That's infectious. It's goddamn infectious. Thanks to Truebill for supporting our podcast. From forgotten free trials to automatic renewals, when big companies keep charging you, Truebill is your secret weapon to save you money on subscriptions you don't need.

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where it's like, hey, you know, hidden camera shows, you know, like jackass, you know, prank shows. But picture that with like i don't know these four 40 year old jersey dads also they're they are not going to keep it a straight face so what do you think you you want to do it they blow pretty much every prank that they want to do is that is that up your alley what's your background uh? Uh, writing, comedy, acting. You stand up. No, none of it. We're just,

we're just some guys and we're here now. Give us a show. I can make a pretty good Sicilian pie. Is that sweet in the deal? Yeah. I don't know how the, how that shows. Uh,

but you know, it's part of my, it's part of the family. So I love it. Uh, speaking of family, I mentioned I had senior writers earlier and it's because, uh, as of this recording, I am two days away from basically a day and a half away from a two week hiatus, our big, big summer break that we always get around August, September. So I've got some nice time with family in North Carolina that I'm going to do. And then just some lounging here in,

uh, the beach where I live, do some fishing, do some nothing. And then, uh, after that vacation, I'm flying out two weekends in a row to Los Angeles for the Emmy awards. All of which is to say, I don't know how anyone is going to squeeze any work out of me the next 32 hours. I'm in so many other different, more fun places in my mind right now. Can I tell you, Dan? Yeah. Yesterday was our very last table read of the season. And I am officially on hiatus as well.

For how long? A very long time. Yeah, yeah. Mine are not two weeks. Mine are like a proper summer vacation from when you were in school. Yeah. That's excellent. Oh, I feel so good.

I just had my last real, well, that's not true. I mean, during that time, we also do have to do some work. We'll have to go in maybe like one day a week because we still have animatics and colors and stuff like that. And if for your particular episode, you're ushering that along as well. And so there's a lot of work to do with that. But in terms of like a every day going in, when I say going in, I mean like logging into Zoom.

But in terms of every day having to work, that's over. That's over for as far as I'm concerned, forever. It really makes me think back to high school and middle school and how, what did we end up doing with that time at the end of the year when the big tests were done? I definitely remember AP tests, AP classes, because that you're really working the entire year for this test. And once the test is done, nothing else matters. And I, my AP statistics class, we finished that test. And then I think had like, I don't know, three weeks, a month left of school. And the teacher

just put on family guy every day. It's just, you like fully embrace the madness that was like, no, it doesn't matter. Like, I don't like, I don't, I also can't wait for summer. I don't want to teach you right now. I'm trying to like, trying to think back on what it was like in those last few days. And it was, there was no work done. I can't imagine you, you do like your final tests. And then after that, it was like, you'd have like these athletic days out in the field um and then in college of course you'd finish you like you took exams at the very end of the year but then we found out after our freshman year we were like well when

do we have to be out of the dorms and they're like oh in another three weeks and we were like oh oh so so now i just live here okay yeah so i live here for three weeks. And we were like, oh. Oh, so now I just live here. Okay. Yeah, so I live here for three weeks. I live here until you make me leave. Yeah, that's because, I mean, where else am I going to go? Back home? I emotionally divested myself from that place months ago.

Back at Christmas. Everyone at home still calls me Soren. They don't know that I'm Scott now. They don't know that I'm English. Took me a long time to get this right. Yeah, I try to think back on in school. It really was just like coasting. Well, congratulations, Dan.

I didn't even realize you had a summer hiatus. I thought you just got your winter one. Yeah, we got just two weeks, just a solid two weeks in a row. And then a week where we are working, but we're not putting on a show. So just like some very stress-free weeks ahead of my future. And again, just a day and a half of finishing an episode of television about a very serious topic. Right. That's all.

That's it. And at this point, you must be like, when I say you're like a senior writer, but you got that title because you're a good writer. Are you like technically a senior writer? Are you now one of the oldest people there? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I am. You've been there the longest?

a senior writer are you now one of the oldest people there oh yeah yeah i am the longest uh one other co-worker has one other writer has been there longer than me by about a year and then two of us are tied for the second oldest uh and then two more are also very old and then a bunch of young writers old in terms like and it works both ways like old in in terms of how long we've been there. And I believe our oldest writer at 36 years old. Jeez. Yeah, it sucks shit. That's a surprise. I mean, most shows, even late night, it's not exclusively young people, right? Like they have some guys on staff generally.

They're like 40s and 50s. Like lifers, yeah. I think today we were talking about uh mcgruff the crime dog in slack and someone mentioned uh they were like today i learned that mcgruff had like a scrappy do he had scruff his his young buddy and i go yeah scruff mcgruff chicago illinois 60652 because that was like a jingle from a commercial that played constantly in my childhood. And like the reason I know a Chicago zip code today is because it was so everywhere. And I slacked that.

And then I wrote, if you know, you know, parenthetically, like thinking someone would recognize and give this an emoji of like, ah, yes, I also have that stuck in my head forever and just nobody there was I was met with a resounding we don't know so we don't know no one is as old as you have ever been yeah I it is startling every once in a while at my job where there are people who have been there a lot longer than me but I will find out just in passing that they're like four years younger than i am yeah i'm like well hey wait how did you get on this track so early yeah someone asked someone a few days ago was like what the fuck are devil sticks and i was like it's the thing we all had every one of us. You had them. I guarantee it. Yeah. Anyone who went to a state fair got hippie sticks.

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this fucking trip means something this is yeah so the show thankfully was nominated for an Emmy Award we got a number of awards for directing and

editing and production design as well. Overall show and outstanding writing, which is our fun category. And this is a conversation I've had to have a bunch of times with friends because it's not a thing that's super clear. So as quickly as possible, the way the Emmys work, the primetime Emmys, there are that ceremony of recognition for awards in this evening space is spread across a couple of different events within two weeks of each other every year. There's the primetime Emmys that you see on television and there's the creative arts Emmys that happens the weekend before that show. And the primetime

Emmys are the thing you know. You're always going to get best comedy, best drama, best actor, best actress, supporting, supporting, directing, all of the big hit things that I think it's not condescending to say a general television viewer would care about most. The Creative Arts Ceremony is more niche. There's a lot of technical awards that always live in the creative arts ceremony. And there are also a couple of categories that

bounce back and forth between creative arts and primetime every year. It's every other year. And it's like one of them happens to be the writing for late night variety category. So sometimes our category is in primetime. Sometimes it's creative arts. Uh, it's, it's the same reason that sometimes you'll, you'll see, um, somebody win best, uh, guest actor in a comedy and drama. You'll see that televised one year and not the next year. It's because that category like ours bounces back and forth. This happens to be a year where our categories in the the Creative Arts Ceremony, which is a very long-winded way of saying we get to go to the Emmys twice. We get to go as writers to the Creative Arts Ceremony and wear tuxedos and dresses and go to a fancy party where they hand out trophies, and you get to see other people in your field, and then we all fly home to

our homes, and then we fly back out again to celebrate with the show as staff for the primetime Emmys to see if the show wins in the larger category. And again, fancy party trophies, celebrities, hotels, et cetera. Are they held at the same place? Yes.

Okay. Are you, now, are you allowed to wear the same thing to both events? What do you think? I asked the gentleman in our Slack, what are we doing, guys? Are we wearing the same thing to both ceremonies?

Are we changing it up in any way? And I got no response. This is beginning to sound like I'm slacking into a void and none of my coworkers respond to anything I say. Are you just a conversation killer in there? Does generally the conversation just die as soon as you say anything? I think that's what I'm learning.

Oh my God. The super old guy who's always talking about cartoons no one remembers, wants to know what we're going to wear. Jesus. Don't ask the kids for fashion advice you idiot um i think so with a tuxedo yeah there's very little difference between tuxedos especially the type of tuxedos that someone like you would wear i mean yeah i think that there's white and black and those are kind of like the options so if you wore two tuxedos i'm not sure anyone would be able to tell the difference between them.

I wouldn't wear it. So here's the things that I'm throwing up in the air that my default can always be simple black tuxedo, black tie, white tuxedo shirt. That will always be in my pocket. The options that I have, I have a black tuxedo shirt. Oh. And I could tell you tuxedo shirt. Oh. And I could tell you how I got there. But I also have a black bow tie. So I do have the option if I like two shirts and two different ties,

I have the option to have two slightly different looks from one ceremony to the next. If I am bold enough to do that. I don't know if I am. Are we talking all black? Black on black. With a black tie? Yeah. Holy shit.

I know. You're like, you're going to be like the Lamborghini. Yeah. I was asking a coworker who's very fashionable what she thought about this. Because I was like, A, should I just not do it at all? Should I just do standard classic B if I do it? Um, does it make more sense to wear black on black for one ceremony over the other? Or is it just like dealer's choice, whatever I want. And again, really be honest with me.

Should I not wear black on black? And, and she was like, I was like, if you want to do that, if you want to, without making, it's not making a statement. If you just want to like, if you feel like it looks sharp, you can do it. And I think that's totally fine.

That's totally acceptable. And then she sent me a picture of Ryan Reynolds in a black on black tuxedo. And I'm like, well, what the fuck? Yeah, he looks great. You're right.

That's a great look for him uh i well she gave you an answer right and you're not exclusively shouting into the void no well well i asked her privately you're allowed to talk to the nerd privately you just can't do it you can't do it at the cafeteria all right i'm looking at some pictures of black on black it's it is exactly as i imagined it it's fucking fucking rules. This is a good look, Dan. It's awesome. I, this is not relatable content, but it's, it's the whole tuxedo saga dominated my last several days. And I'm going to do a thing that I hate doing, which is to shit on New Jersey, this place that I love.

which is to shit on New Jersey, this place that I love. But I went to two different tuxedo places in New Jersey, and I went in like... Like, I combed and styled my hair. Like, I'm doing everything that I'm going to be doing when I go to the Emmys, and I went there with confidence and walked in like, I would like to buy a tuxedo. And it feels silly to say, but the vibes were bad in both of these places. And the first place didn't have a lot of options.

And the second place, the guy was like, I'll see what we have. And he brought out two like basic kind of like nothing tuxedos. He wasn't asking me anything about what I wanted or what the tuxedos were for. He was just like, yeah, put this on. And I tried on two different tuxedos. He wasn't asking me anything about what I wanted or what the tuxedos were for. He was just, just like, yeah, put this on. And I, and I tried on two different tuxedos and I was like, can I see it with, with a, with a shirt to see like what the whole thing will look like? He's like, we don't do that here. Oh no, no, of course. Why would you? I should have brought my own home tuxedo shirt that we all have. And when I asked him his opinion from like one to the next, he was just like,

it's the materials different. The one is cheaper. One's more expensive. The cheaper one that does the job. And I, again, like hated this vibe, hated this whole atmosphere.

Didn't really love the tuxedo, but in talking to him about timing, he really made it seem like, first of all, they don't have a lot of tuxes there in talking to him about timing he really made it seem like first of all they don't have a lot of tuxes there second of all it's going to take a while to get alterations done and they'll have to put a rush on it to get it back to me in time for the ceremony so then i'm like fuck even if i i don't know i don't i don't have all the time in the world to shop so let me just say yes because what if this is a supply supply chain issue all over the place i would rather have a tuxedo that makes me unhappy than show up with no tuxedo at all uh but then i got

home from this kind of crummy experience and called a place in new york heard of it and uh i was like hey what's like what's the backlog of alterations there and and they're like if you need it overnight we'll get it to you overnight and i'm like fucking new york god damn it i i i hate that you're better than new jersey every once in a while and so then i went into the city uh for my second tuxedo fitting of the week like like some kind of maniac and this was uh all good vibes all around i can't stress enough the difference i walk into this place the same like styled hair and and confidence so i can feel good when i get dressed and i say i'm here to buy a tuxedo the guy says the stylist says what would you like a tuxedo for and i said the emmy awards

he gives me a fist pump and he goes, my man, we're going to make you look great. You're going to look so good. And these are the guys who gassed me up. They put me in this black on black. He picked the tie for me. And I told him in advance, I was like, I'm a pretty classic guy,

but I wanted to see if there's anything cool that I can do. Anything, any little bit of personality that I could put in there. So he gave me like a peak lapel, which is a little bit sharper and more interesting, and he gave me a cool tie that I'm very excited about. It's a bow tie and this black shirt. And as soon as he, as soon as the whole thing came together, the stylist and the tailor both stepped back and they were like, this, you don't need to see anything else. This is it. This is the look. You look great. This this is what you want and i was like i want i i i'm gonna get a white shirt too so i have options they're like yeah get the options but this is it

this is your emmy look and i'm like this there's there's no like not shitty way to say this this is how i i should be treated this This is correct. This is what I wanted. I wanted to feel good when I was doing this. Uh, and it, and it felt great. I did still, of course, get the backup white shirt in case I, I, uh, all the magic leaves my eyes when there aren't strangers telling me that it looks good, But this is how I might wind up being black on black, like Ryan Reynolds, my doppelganger. I sent you another picture. I emailed you another picture of somebody

who's a little bit more pedestrian wearing it. This is Chris Hemsworth. Somebody a little lower of a bar, much closer. The funny thing about this picture is that it doesn't he's not on a red carpet like his backdrop is not like one of those formal backdrops that you see it really looks like someone looked down from their balcony was like hey is that chris hemsworth in the garden and he looked up perfectly in a black on black tuxedo. It's like, yes, it is me. Take a picture.

No, this is just his evening wear. He's also flirting with with what a tuxedo is there because he's got on a long tie with it, which I didn't think was allowed. I thought that it can because I'm now collecting things that are said to me when I try on tuxedos to make me self-conscious. The first time I got a tuxedo for the Emmys in 2019. I remember. The guy said, I said, should I wear a bow tie? And he said, I wouldn't with your face shape.

Like, OK. Oh. So that's why I wore a long tie because of my face shape. But now my face shape has changed so I can wear a bow tie. So that was the first self-conscious thing. And this self-conscious thing this year when I was in the Jersey place and the tailor was adjusting the slacks, he said, you have a lot of thigh. I was like, what? I was like, no, it's just.

It goes on for miles. It's not a bad thing. You just have a lot of thigh. You'd be great in the end. In a plane crash, you're my first choice for a meal. If it's not a bad thing and it's not a thing I can do anything about. Don't fucking say that. You could just not tell me.

He was so arrested by it that it just came out of his mouth. Look, I'm a tailor. I've been doing this 60 years. I've seen everything. You have the most thigh there's ever been. It's so big, I can't even see the curvature of it. It just looks flat to me for miles. Well, Daniel, I remember that conversation that we had the first time you got your tuxedo and how excited I was for you. I assume you wore that one again because we thought a one off like, oh, great. You got a tuxedo. You go to the Emmys. You got your Emmy. Now die. Like that's the end of your life. But then you continue to win Emmys.

So did you continue to wear that that tuxedo? No, we got that tuxedo for the the 2019 emmys and then 2020 covid 2021 covid reduced audience so this is oh my this is your first time my second in-person emmys in my life the first since covid and your boss hasn't yet told you you're not allowed to go again yes yeah that's good and like he better not because i bought two tuxedos this week this is so exciting yeah i want to i want to be absolutely clear for my parents listening i got a refund on the first tuxedo it's not i'm not being a crazy person i think that's one of the other wonderful things about this jersey tuxedo place that i call them from the city as soon as i got the good tuxedo and i was like i'm so sorry to do this i know i already paid for it and you like marked we're going to make the alterations um i no longer need this

tuxedo and i would like a refund and the guy's like yeah sure you want to read you want to refund for the the cufflinks too like no all right we'll mail you a check i just couldn't care less that's great um now have you here's a here's a serious question. You don't have to answer if you don't want to. Okay. Your old tuxedo. Did you have you tried it on again recently? And does it even fit you anymore? I have not tried it on recently. It is stored at my in my brother's closet. And I do not imagine it would fit because I've, I've changed body shapes from 2019 to now. Yeah. I'm doing like some pretty interesting things with the amount of arms and my chest is upside down now.

And my, um, como se dice, uh, my buttocks switched. Okay. Left, left. It's good to rotate the cheeks every once in a while. And so you don't want to get too much tread on one side. Absolutely. Yeah. It's,

it's like every four months with your mattress, every 36 years with your butt cheeks, you swap them. Yeah. So the tux wouldn't, there's, there's no reason for that tux to fit. And,

and, uh, yeah. So even the last time that I saw you and no no this is the second the penultimate time that i saw you because the last time i saw you we didn't wear suits but the time before that we went to a wedding and i noticed then even that your suit was not fitting as well as it used to that you were swimming in it more than you had been previously. And at this point, your body has changed even more. I would be, I can't imagine any of your suits fit anymore.

No, I don't even remember the last time. I guess the last time I wore a suit was when I saw you wearing a suit. I guess I could try them on. I mean, I have no cause to wear suits anymore, but you wearing a suit. Yeah. I guess I could try them on. I mean, I have no cause to wear suits anymore, but you're probably right. They probably don't fit anymore. So I went in the other direction. I had been wearing for a very long time my wedding suit,

which I got married in 2012. And then it wasn't until maybe that wedding where I was like, maybe I'll wear a gray suit. And I put it on. I was like, I can't wear a gray suit. This just doesn't fit me anymore. And I just didn't fit in it. And then I had to buy a new suit, but I, I, I don't know, maybe I'm thinking. So can I say, can I say that I'm buying a tuxedo as well? Oh yeah.

What for? Oh, I'm going to the Emmys. Oh, tight. Yeah. I'm going to the Emmys. It's really great. It's exciting for me. Um, we should, we should sit together. Well, buddy invited me. So let me just check with him first. Yeah. Daniel has allowed me to be his date to the Emmys. He did it. He asked me in a way where he sent me a text and said, hey, I got a crazy idea for a podcast. And I was like, okay. And then he called me. And then on the phone he goes, hey, I'm coming out for the Emmys.

Do you want to go to the primetime Emmys? And I was like in my head thinking, man, I just don't know if that has legs for like a whole separate podcast. I was like, are you sure you want to, but, and also like, wouldn't you want to invite someone you want to be there? Like you should, you should invite somebody you want to go with. Yeah. Uh, I, I don't want to blow up your spot. It's, it's very funny to me that your, what you actually said was, are you sure you don't want to use this? Which is so funny that you're like, you're seeing it for me as an opportunity. There's like, no, no, no, no, no. This is like a, like,

this isn't a plus one for a wedding in my twenties. And it's not like a company Christmas party where I'm like really trying to impress a girl. It's like an Emmys that I want to share with someone close to me. Well, I'm, I'm deeply thankful that you invited me, Daniel. I'm very excited about it. And I started shopping for a tuxedo and very quickly had to Google on my phone. What's the difference between a suit and a tuxedo? Because I, it just wasn't, it wasn't registering for me. And they're like, you know, obviously that the, I, a tuxedo is like satin heavy.

Yeah. But I don't know that that's necessarily true anymore. It feels like there's like some Vera Wang ones and stuff that are like, nah, we don't do satin anymore. Yeah. So what I got was a, it's peach. When you say Vera Wang, sorry to interrupt. Peach. Sorry to interrupt with Vera Wang.

But it's tuxedo. I think most people who work in tuxedo shops should just by the very virtue of what they do, they should be aware that they have more knowledge about their thing than anyone else who's going to be buying one. By miles. Normal people, I know how it sounds after this story that I've told. Most people don't buy lots of tuxedos and I am one of those people. So when I'm trying on a tuxedo and I'm like, what's the difference with this one? And the guy goes, it's a Vera Wang. It's like, okay. It doesn't mean shit to me. It's a Vera Wang.

It's like, okay. It doesn't mean shit to me. Understand that a normal person doesn't buy a tuxedo a year. Right. Here's what would be helpful. You grade it based on prestige television. You tell me if this is like an Ozark tuxedo or if this is like another shirt. It's like if you're shopping for a coffin and like whatever makes you comfortable it's like no no this is the one i'm getting i'm only gonna get one i haven't

like tried out a bunch before this you are the expert and you need to be generous with your expertise yeah but anyway so you're tuxedo shopping i'm tuxedo shopping i went and looked at a few uh well i went looked at a few. Well, I went and looked at a couple different stores. I wouldn't say that I looked at a couple different tuxedos. A lot of them look the same. I am appalled at how little option there is for men. Now, I do have a quick question for you because it didn't occur to me before. Most tuxedos have a cummerbund. Are you wearing a cummerbund or can you just wear a vest and you're good uh i'm doing suspenders i'm not doing a cummerbund at all oh yeah oh yeah i feel like cummerbund feels really played out yeah that's old that's like from i remember the cummerbund in uh

peter pan dad's trying to go out to dinner that's right yeah i don't i don't want to be peter pan's dad i mean wendy's dad um so yeah and then you don't do a three-piece you don't wear a vest no i've thought about it but i i decided against it you you are right about how like few options there are to stand out unless you want to be like pretty ostentatious right like what when i start with like i want a simple black thing but i'm also like open to something a little bit wilder the options are like you go from from zero to 60 in a second it's like well you can wear a simple black one with this lapel or you can wear this like bright blue one with flames on the back no yeah. Yeah, the chasm is wide

between normal and a little flamboyant. Yeah, I guess if my options are Dodge Caravan or Truckasaurus, I'll take Dodge Caravan and maybe I'll just get like a cool hood ornament. Yeah, I'm thinking like the opportunities to demonstrate any aspect of yourself, to put a fingerprint on the tuxedo at all Yeah, there's real, I'm thinking like you, the option opportunities to demonstrate any aspect of yourself to put a fingerprint on the tuxedo at all is really the pocket square.

And even then, like, that's pretty bold. If you did like something other than just a white pocket square, you can do something with cufflinks. Yeah. So cufflinks and a tie and it was socks, I guess socks are really your other opportunity, but man. Oh, I had another question for you about tuxedo shopping, Daniel. Do you have to wear patent leather shoes or shiny black shoes with a tux?

It feels like I've never seen anything other than that. You don't have to in the sense that you don't have, you can do whatever you want i think uh like known sneakerhead josh gondelman has famously worn like converse not converse but like yeah um yeah like like sneakers just like his nicest weirdest sneakers the guy loves sneakers he spends a lot of money on them and has like a vast sneaker collection and wore them to the emmys i think if you're, if, as he has, committed your identity around it, you can pull it off. I don't,

I, if it answers your question, I am going to wear the standard whatever tuxedo shoes are expected of me to wear. I look at my comfortable shoes, the shoes that I know would make me happy, and I'm just like, I'm sorry, guys. I know. Not today. I'm choosing to be sad all night.

Yeah. Very happy to have you going there. So there's the two ceremonies. I've got my brother David going to the creative arts. We're both very excited about that. And then bringing you to the prime time. Very excited about that. It's going to be lots of fun. I did realize calling you is a very strange thing to do. For two people who spend hours talking to each other every single week or every other week, being on the phone together is very strange. Yeah. And like, as the phone was ringing i'm like i'm gonna give him

some good news today this is gonna be one of those good phone calls and then as soon as uh the information had been exchanged and it was clear that you understood what was going on i was like okay well all right man well you you sit with us now i gotta go i i you know yeah i so i've when i was tuxedo shopping i was very tempted to try to terrify you several different times like i wanted to be like i got one it's red uh but like it's barely not black it's like a it's very deep red so everything's good dan just found out that's actually a suit but it turns out that you just need to get a shiny lapel. I've got boxing tape. I'm going to be doing that. There are certainly a lot of ways to freak a person out about that.

Yeah. They're your guests. Absolutely. Yeah. But I'm very excited to be going. I can't fucking wait. I'm so pumped about it. And also, I know some of your coworkers. Oh, I know Sina. Yeah. And I'm excited to see them. Yeah. They're great folks.

You'll meet people I've talked about on this podcast before. And maybe you'll meet my boss. I don't actually know. I mean, he'll be there. He's got to be there. It's a work thing. Maybe you'll meet him. And otherwise don't actually know. I mean, he'll be there. He's got to be there. It's a work thing. Maybe you'll meet him. And otherwise, it's going to be fun.

I mean, it's... I don't want to get too sappy on this, but when trying to figure out who to bring to something like this, who's going to have fun and who's going to be fun? Who's going to alleviate my anxiety if that happens? And like generally, well, this won't be too sappy.

If I need to, who could I just leave somewhere? No, I wanted to be that. Who could I stick amongst my coworkers and not worry it's going to explode and I can just go off and do something? Yeah, somebody who is going to be fine. No, that kind of you thank you daniel yeah yeah you told me specifically on the call you said i quote uh i crunched the numbers i think i'd like to invite you and i realized after the call that i should have asked you well who's going to be there? Cause that would have been,

unfortunately it wasn't the moment. It was a real ambush. I wanted to ask you on the podcast, but the timing didn't work out. Yeah. Cause we like just found out that we could go to the primetime Emmys. And yeah, don't worry about that. And so like even weirder than calling you on the phone

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The real red flags that I'm like, this is no, this is one of the, this is one of the cheap ones. Yeah. This isn't the spot, but I don't ever know. I can't tell yet. Yeah. Don't, this isn't the spot, but I don't ever know. I can't tell you it. Um, have you thought about cufflinks situation?

Not really. No. Have you thought about, um, studs on the shirt? Yes. Not. Okay. What's your plan there? Well, I want to see how it looks because I have a feeling that those like shiny black buttons might be kind of cool. Yeah. But you never know. I mean, once you see it on yourself, you're playing there well i want to see how it looks because i have a feeling that those like shiny black buttons might be kind of cool yeah but you never know i mean once you see it on yourself

you're like yeah i don't personally like those and i didn't wear them i went with one of the shirts that is like it has buttons but a white flap that covers up the buttons so you don't have to see them and when i was shopping this time around at the junkie place in Jersey, uh, the guy like pulled out the one shirt he had that had the studs on it. And I was like, he was like, here you go. This is the shirt for you.

And I was like, Oh, um, I've actually, uh, I, I was wondering if you had any of those ones with the, the,

the white flag, like, nah, nobody does that. All right. I love this guy. What if this was my wedding, man? Or like Counterpoint, what if it was the Emmys?

No one wears, everyone wears tuxedos for special things. Yeah. I'm looking at the black snap button. It looks like a snap button, but it's like that black shirt thing. I think I kind of dig it. I think I want that. No, I haven't put any thought into any of that yet have you put any thought into uh your speech oh yeah of course i mean that's been written for ages i'm very excited oh man oh what a treat it would be to get up on that stage without you.

Just waving from the back. And Sarah was like, what the fuck? Because only the people who know us would ever notice. Everybody else would be like, yeah, that's the last week tonight crew. Yeah, that looks like him. Yeah, sure. I wonder, I hope our shared excitement about bringing, finally bringing Quick Question to the Emmys, after all this time, Quick Question going to the primetime Emmys, I hope that excitement overshadows perhaps our least accessible podcast,

exclusively about award ceremonies and tuxedo shopping about working out and tuxedos just I'm gonna go I'm gonna hit the improv tonight

and do some some relatable five minutes but you know how when you're tuxedo shopping and the guy's like you have so much thigh and the vibes are bad. So you go to the other tuxedo place where they say my man and give you a

fist bump. Has that ever happened to you guys? Well, to be fair, it's impossible to have lived experiences right now. They just don't exist right now. So it's fine. It's the same way.

I already knew like David Sedaris stuff when it comes out and i'm like oh okay his life is no longer fun to me yes absolutely it's no longer interesting and cool it's like i liked it when he was an elf and he was down and out but this is he's got trouble in like one of his living rooms and i'm like ah yeah i'm done with this right he can't decide do i want to spend the summer at my paris house or my Hamptons house? I was like, why don't you, why don't you do me a favor?

Why don't you go fuck yourself? Why don't you stay up your ass? But yeah, I'm, I'm so excited. I'm sorry that we're talking about this in the podcast right now, because it's completely unrelatable, but boy,

am I pumped to be be princess for a day. This serves as a fun preview because we'll also do a podcast after the Emmys. You bet your stupid ass is listeners. Strap in. Talk about all the famous people we see. Wow, I hugged Ellie Kemper

and I should not have hugged Ellie Kemper. All those things. My friends, separate friends have people we see how i hugged ellie kemper and i should not have hugged ellie kemper all those things my friends uh separate friends have uh asked me what are you gonna do because they know that the two of us are going and like what are you gonna say on the podcast if you overhear something juicy from a celebrity in the bathroom and the specificity that both different people were like so when you hear the celebrities in the bathroom what are you gonna do in the bathroom i was like i don't think you've been to a men's room before that doesn't really happen yeah no it's i'm not i really don't expect to be in the bathroom and just turn and someone be like,

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i forgive him oh and he'll be there oh that's so exciting of course he'll be there yeah man and our our friend carmen angelica from crack.com day is going to be there too because she has been i don't know if everybody knows this but she is a segment producer segment director for the daily show and they're also nominated so we're going to have a little mini cracked reunion but she's the enemy at this point right yeah yeah yeah okay just i want to know where i stand with her sure i. I'm on your team. Good. So I can't be, if I see her, I'm going to, I don't know, I'll poke her in the eye or something.

Jesus Christ. Oh, wait, she wears glasses. I'm going to think of something. Yeah. Something I can do to her. But yeah, Emmys, I'm very excited. I can't wait also for you to be in Los Angeles, too. I bet you're going to be jam-packed with stuff here but uh we should hang out yeah we should

not just at the emmys you mean just like hang out in real life around the emmys yeah when we're not wearing tuxedos yeah yeah yeah that's true we should do that we can get sloppy joes it just occurred to me too that we should wait what you can't you uh you can't eat sloppy joe and have a tuxedo you might spill it okay very good i'm thinking of like what are the things we won't be able to do when we're wearing tuxedos sloppy joe's swimming lift our arms more than 45 degrees that's right in the air uh yeah i it occurred to me that uh fuck oh i lost it can't remember what i was gonna say to you it seemed like it was gonna be a good one yeah it was gold it was pure gold it's gone now but yeah we'll hang out when you're here you could and you're coming with your brother first yes where is the ceremony ceremony the weekend before the primetime. Yeah. And are you staying at the same hotel too for both?

Different hotels. Interesting. Yeah. How close are you to Culver City? I don't know. Okay. How close is downtown to Culver City? Far.

I wouldn't start in Culver City if you're going to go downtown. Yeah. I never spend any time in downtown so now that we're there for uh the emmys it's it's it's very much not the los angeles that i spent 11 years in yeah uh it is interesting when you like lose touch with a city or like your finger comes off the pulse i have a friend lindy's, she, she wrote that book shrill and she's had a television show on Hulu. Yeah. Uh, she was in Aspen just briefly.

And like a mutual friend of ours was like, Oh, Lindy's in Aspen giving a speech right now. And I was like, Oh, cool. So I texted her. I was like, Lindy, you're my, my old stomping grounds. She was like, Oh, Hey, yeah, that's great. What should I do? And I was like, you know, I can't recommend a single restaurant.

Cause I have no idea what's there anymore. I can't even tell you like fun things to do there because everything I did, I was nine years old when I did it. I'm useless to you, but Hey, have fun. I did. I did stop there.

It's true that I stopped there very much. It was a haunt. I haunted stopped um but yeah i don't know you're all i could uh if you are going to be around and you're going to be in this area yeah there are culver city steps which are very fun to run oh that does sound fun i could also take you on my traditional run which is you know it's all mapped up so if you're like i'm like you want to do 2.2 you want to do 4.3 you want want to do a six mile run. Like I can, I can give you all of those. Oh, love to have run options. It's so strict here in Jersey. Everything's only exactly three miles long. It sucks.

What is your, what are you doing now? Like what, when you go on a run, what's a good run for you? I am doing, uh, at least a 5k every single day of the week and sometimes the most i'll get up to now is like six but i'm really i'm i'm hell bent on getting faster and faster on my 5ks okay is that 2.2 what is that uh 3.1 oh 3.1 yeah okay but like I'll do like 4 or 5 a couple of times a week

just because if I'm not feeling like it's gonna be a fast day then it's like alright well I'll get a couple more miles in

just to spend more time running on the boards but I'm so hyper focused on getting faster. I've got this, the 5K that I did last year

where I wanted to beat my PR, that's going to be coming up again in October. And I have a number in mind that I want to hit again and just see if that can be my annual, I'll do 10 races a year anyway, but that's going can be my annual, I'll do, you know, 10 races a year anyway, but like, that's going to be my annual benchmark of trying to, to beat myself on record every year. Yeah. What do you do when you run? I very specific. Cause I run to my gym. I don't just go on runs anymore. I run 2.2 miles in my gym workout work out, and then run 2.2 miles back.

Perfect. And that's it. It's awful. It's never something I enjoy. It's never something I like to go to. That 2.2 run back, man, that's the exact distance of my gym too. And I've done that run before.

And that sucks shit. The run back is... And also there's a sidecar donuts right at my gym so every day i see it and i'm like yeah what let me just see what they've got in there oh some sort of passion fruit option with a mascarpone cream i mean i don't even know what those things are that sounds incredible i would love to try that okay bye yeah it looks great but uh yeah 2.2 on the way back is is just brutal in the sun too in the summer it's rough but this is this is these are my options right now so i'm trying to get also trying to get really in shape for the emmys also directly following the emmys is a end of the year

trip for my office yeah and so i gotta i gotta make all them insanely jealous of my absolutely yeah it's a strange it's uh i'm glad none of my co-workers listen to this because it is a strange thing when i'm thinking about um going to the emmys i mean you're in a tux so like a lot of your work is done for you but when i'm not in theux, I'm at the hotel where all of my coworkers are also staying. And some of the coworkers I've never met before. And some of them I hardly ever see because we're all remote. And there's a pool at the hotel and I'm trying to get really into really good shape.

But like to string that out logically to its conclusion, it's like for my, for my coworkers, what am I doing? What's the, I want, inclusion it's like for my for my co-workers what am i doing what's that i want i want them the one time they see me a year for them to be like oh he's he's worked out since 2019 good for him the conversation should not go oh you look really good why because then you have to be like for you you understand it's for you

for this exact moment did you think i'd like this no i thought you would hate it that was the point i want you to hate it is that is that weird all right well i'm gonna get in shape yeah you got time i also scheduled a haircut specific for the like i did too because we talked about we talked about how bad i am at scheduling haircuts so like three weeks ago i was like my flight is september 1st so the day before that i'm i'm getting this in the fucking books now so i can get this haircut i'm trying to decide if i should wear a watch or not there's a lot going on in my brain where I'm like, this is I'm bell the ball for a whole night.

I'm Cinderella. What do I wear? So excited. Yeah. Okay. Well, thanks for this opportunity, Daniel.

Got it, man. I hope people, uh, like hearing about the Emmys. Cause this is all it's going to be. If you, and this is important.

If at, in your room, they give you one of those little chocolate, Hey, it's going to be. They want to, if you, and this is important. If at, in your room, they give you one of those little chocolate, Hey, it's the Emmys thing again, where it's like a gift basket and there's a bunch of weird fucking fondant with writing on it. I want to eat your fondant.

I want that fondant. Yeah, that's fine. Just, I'm calling it now. Yeah. The show is quick question, but you knew that already.

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