Review Revue - Date Spots (w/ Jonah Feingold!)

Episode Date: September 28, 2021

This week on Review Revue; Geoff and Reilly are joined by special guest Jonah Feingold and read reviews on the hottest DATE SPOTS while investigating seismic activity and experiencing romance... without pressure. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.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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Starting point is 00:01:14 anyways please we'll just introduce you right off the top please welcome to the show Jonah Feingold SCA alum so very special place in my heart writer director Please welcome to the show, Jonah Feingold. SCA alum. So very special place in my heart. Writer, director, comedy participant media.
Starting point is 00:01:33 Sponsored by. Sponsored by. Thank you for having me. Excited to be your shout out SCA. Shout out comedy as a whole. Very excited. Shout out to comedy. Wouldn't be here without comedy
Starting point is 00:01:46 and for those of you like me who did not graduate from USC I just want to like to get everyone in the know out there that it's like we're okay it's like we didn't go to SCA it's a school cinematic arts for those of you who don't know so you went to Tisch yeah I did not go to Tisch because those are the two
Starting point is 00:02:02 schools if you didn't go to Tisch or SCA, what was her? What was your name again? No, yeah. And this has been the past three and a half years of my life. That's the whole thing. You don't have to know. She went to BU.
Starting point is 00:02:17 So it's like you actually don't need contractually. You don't need to know her name. A hundred percent. We are so excited to have you here. You just came out with um a little film not a little a feature film dating and new york and dude it is so fucking funny oh congratulations so like are you dating and in new york is it, you know, I mean, obviously that's the first question. That's a great question.
Starting point is 00:02:48 It is funny because I get tagged in all the Twitter shit where it's like dating in New York and like 25% of the time it's about our movie. The other 75, it's like literally people complaining about dating in New York city. And I'm like, fuck Google alerts. Like I really did something by naming this movie, like an actual thing that people struggle with and am I dating in New York?
Starting point is 00:03:08 I just started dating again because I was so consumed by this film for like two and a half years where romance was not even tried to be attempted because we would edit every night till fucking 1am and then I'd be like yeah do you want to go on a date at 1.30 in the morning
Starting point is 00:03:24 City that never sleeps that's that New York shit that's that New York shit Barstow and Clifton still 4 yeah that's a cool lifestyle though that's like a rock and roll lifestyle and I'm not like that sounded facetious and I'm being so genuine
Starting point is 00:03:40 of like in school you edit kind of till midnight and like you do 310 and that whole thing this is all insider inside baseball stuff but um i do kind of miss that like you know kind of killing yourself just to like make it past scene five i i i don't know i'm so like i didn't sleep well last night got it i'm I'm so, I feel step behind. I'm sorry. The, the, I do, the energy of like being in an edit room for a lot of time and it's dark and you leave the edit room and you go see human beings. It's a really fun feeling.
Starting point is 00:04:13 It like, it's nostalgic. I mean, it's the same feeling you can get in your fucking like bedroom office where you're like just on the grind in the laptop in premiere, premiere crashes, everything gets disappeared. Fuck that. You panic. But then auto save somehow works. Everything gets disappeared. Fuck that. You panic. But then autosave somehow works and you're seeing stuff.
Starting point is 00:04:28 And that's the rush. And that's why we keep coming back. And that's why we keep making movies. And that's so business. Finding the folder where the autosave went and choosing the one that Premiere wasn't even going to point you to. Yeah, which by the way isn't easy.
Starting point is 00:04:40 They don't make it easy to find the folder where it should be the easiest folder to find in the world. Yeah. And we should talk about your folder to find in the world. Yeah. And we should talk about your teeth. They are the whitest I've ever seen. They're whiter than your white shirt. Yes.
Starting point is 00:04:50 Yes, correct. Yeah, there they are. You have incredible teeth. You guys both have incredible teeth. I think it's just the light. I have a good sort of cloudy day light occurring here. I haven't been to the dentist. Actually, curious for you guys.
Starting point is 00:05:02 When's the last time you guys went to the dentist? I haven't done it since the pandemic started. Ooh, now we're really getting into it i went a couple months ago because i uh just for routine cleaning we all know it but i um a couple years ago chipped my front tooth so every now and again have to get that baby bonded rebonded um so i could feel the bonding was coming off and i said okay and spa let's get back to the office and um my dentist i've seen him i've been seeing him since i was a kid and he's very sweet i think he still thinks i'm eternally like 17 because every single time i visit he's like
Starting point is 00:05:41 you're going to boston you're going to school how is that and I'm like I have not lived there in over three years I am very much graduated and so every time I'm like but I'm like trying to be like nice I'm like yeah no uh I went there for college yeah and it was
Starting point is 00:05:59 wonderful and I loved it but I actually I live in Hollywood now and they're like whoa that's crazy and all the like the nurses do they're just like oh my god so then of course last time I went they're like East Coast girl East Coast girl what's going on they literally think
Starting point is 00:06:15 you're about to go to college they think you're like about to leave tomorrow and this is the last stop absolutely they're like you're getting all your checkups done before you ship out and I'm like afraid not incredible so Jonah on your website it says you love new york yeah what you uh what was it did you move to new york after right after school or like are you from new york like what's your connection to new york i'm just curious because i've kind of recently fallen in love with the city well love that and the city is um it's infectious like that i mean i am born and raised in manhattan
Starting point is 00:06:47 i went to school uh in california i lived in california for seven years after college i lived in i've done it all i've done brentwood i've done silver lake i've done weho i've done fucking los feliz and i really just because they told you as a director, as a writer, director, they say to you, you have to be in L.A. to do that. And I was in L.A. literally fucking any job I could get that would pay me money to direct someone. And I was doing sketches for YouTubers, you know, which was cool. I got to work with people like Jason Segel. But it was like a promo for Casper Lee, who's this random YouTuber thing. But by the way, I sat and I watched Forgetting Sarah Marshall with Jason Segel,
Starting point is 00:07:28 which was an insane moment of my life. That's insane. That's insane. His idea, by the way, to put the movie on. That's amazing. Then I interned for Hans Zimmer. I didn't get paid a dollar. I spent more on fucking gas than I got paid.
Starting point is 00:07:43 And I was an assistant. I was just sort of gigging and i was like okay things are happening but i want to be doing feature-length studio movies and to get there you need to do an indie and i pitched a lot everyone said fucking no to everything because that's our business and i was like that's why we keep coming back and that's why we love it that's why we love it and i i spent a lot of time in my car being like i miss new york city i miss trap i miss bacon egg and cheese and i moved back to new york in 2019 i said fuck it if i'm not gonna i should at least be happy where i'm living move back here and
Starting point is 00:08:17 magically we were able to also make the movie because we raised the money independently and went out and did the thing that's amazing that's's so cool. So did you write dating in New York while you were still living in LA? And then when you moved back, you made it or did you what was that timeline like? A little bit. I mean, we I wrote a script called What are we which was sort of the precursor screenplay to that movie where it was a romcom. And I wrote that in LA. And I was like, I'm gonna move to New York and make a feature in like 20 days. And I ended up making a short film and it was in black and white and it's, it's, it's okay. But that script was imperative because it was like, okay, as a script, there's a lot here that works. There's a lot that does not work. And when I moved back to New York in 2019, I moved back in about June
Starting point is 00:09:00 and June, July. And I was like, let me take all the things I've loved that I've put into scripts that will never get made and sort of put them into something that can be made. And yeah. So in the course of like a month or so I wrote dating in New York, but it all, it had already sort of been done. Um, like the groundwork had been done. And so I was in New York city and I was able to walk around, go to the locations I wanted to film at, start to scout, always be scouting. In New York, you're always sort of just like location scouting. And then while we were raising the money in casting, I was working on the script because you get someone like Jaboukie and you're like, okay, this, now I need to go rewrite every single line of dialogue.
Starting point is 00:09:36 Yeah, of course. Yeah. Holy shit. So it all happened sort of simultaneous. That's awesome. And I'd also just like, I mean, like I'm not a new yorker but like i just also love to say that even if you're not in the business if you're not in the industry like everyone who lives in new york like you are always location scouting if you're not in the film industry you're always location scouting like if you're a dog groomer
Starting point is 00:09:56 you're always location scouting and so it's like that's what i've always said and i feel like that remains true and that would just be finding places you like that's what everyone correct it's just yeah so i guess at the end of the day and that's what i'm saying it's like i've always said this it's like at the end of the day what are you saying aren't we all location scouts and that's what i know i saw yeah and i see you talk about that a lot you know a lot that is like so funny like you can't bottom lip tattoo yeah location scout um but yeah so uh just uh before we get into the the reviews of it all where can people catch dating in new york what's the best platform where do you get the most cash where
Starting point is 00:10:32 people rent or buy it you know i'm actually gonna find out today literally the call after this is my first box office phone call with our ifc which is exciting um that's amazing. I know our box office numbers. We did $15,000 in theaters, which to be clear for 30 theaters during the pandemic is like to scale. Like we made $500 million. Rentals and online take about a week or two to process, but I don't actually know what I will say is that whatever people feel comfortable with, I will say I that whatever people feel comfortable with,
Starting point is 00:11:05 I will say I saw it for the first time in theaters on Friday. Cause we edited during the pandemic and I got to tell everybody, I never expected this to be in theaters. The experience of seeing this film in a theater, I understand where Chris Nolan comes from now. It was the way we shot it. Like the DNA of the movie is supposed to be seen in a theater. The way that the angles of the camera, the, the, the V it like the dna of the movie is supposed to be seen in a theater the way that the angles of the camera the the the vfx the the score go see in a theater if you can you can go
Starting point is 00:11:30 to the ipic theater if you're in la look cinemas in la if you're in new york ifc center or ipic theater as well but we have 37 theaters across the country if you don't feel comfortable going to a theater i totally understand you can go on it iTunes and just rent it on iTunes or Amazon or Vudu, which is a thing. But yeah, so it's online and in theaters and I really encourage the theatrical experience if you feel comfortable, but no pressure. It's so funny, y'all. Also,
Starting point is 00:11:56 just like the cast is unbelievable. Jaboukie, Cat Cohen, Brian Moeller. Unbelievable. Like every single frame, every person who came in, I'm like, no fucking way. And then person who came in, I'm like, no fucking way. And then like to top it off, I'm like, no fucking way Alex Muffet's in this. Are you kidding me? It's so, it's so fantastic.
Starting point is 00:12:15 We just absolutely, it was, it was just such a romp. It was so fun. Thank you for watching. But now let's get like, we're actually not here for fun and games. We're here for some serious shit yeah um because today obviously we are talking about something that is not silly it's not fun it's not light-hearted we're talking about date spots spots it's like pretty serious fucking shit actually jeff and i really well it's supposed to be fun it's supposed to be
Starting point is 00:12:43 fun romantic you know you're with somebody you kind of care about and I mean it's like you could look at it that way or it's like it's you're playing battleship and it's like okay this is my move I'm picking a spot I've never been on a date right that's what i was worried about date spots how do y'all pick them oh i go to at this point in my life i've been to a lot of date spots and now i go to the places that i know won't have a weight have dope aesthetic vibes and lighting i call them cute little spots cls for short um sounds like a horrible degenerative disease. It does. Yeah, sorry, I've been diagnosed with CLS.
Starting point is 00:13:29 CLS. That's fucking funny. How long do you have? What? Oh, no. It goes well all night. Oh my god. They are dimly lit. They have like brick walls they have like smaller tables are too small yeah you know absolutely right scale um do you do you feel comfortable
Starting point is 00:13:55 outing some of your favorite new york date spots of course i yeah i my favorite one right now is a place called sauced in Williamsburg. Great name. I don't know why I'm laughing as I say this, but it's a new favorite spot. It's a funny name. Sauced, yeah. Sauced Williamsburg. It's really cool. It's a wine bar.
Starting point is 00:14:14 They got fucking great music. It's actually just a cool, the owners are there. They make you feel special. I really like a place called, I also like places that have tavern energy tavern like like like um gaston's tavern or like lord of the rings we're taking a quick break big tavern energy yeah bte i got that big tavern chronic headache how long have you had bte for well it's done from the cls that's so funny abbreviating shit oh sorry but um you know what place in la has it and you guys will remember the name of it i won't it's got it's two stories it's in silver like the top looks like you're like in red line tavern that's you that's exactly right yeah that place is
Starting point is 00:15:03 fucking dope i love that place. Yeah, that place has a great, like, the ground level, it's like all the floors are off center. Like, that's the energy. Like, literally, like, Aragon might be in there, but, like, as Ryder. Aragon. Can you please pitch an Aragon reboot? Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:15:22 That's your first studio. Yeah. Aragon. Fuck me. You guys not love tour fans? What's happening here? Aragon reboot. Oh my God. That's your first studio. Yeah. Aragon. Multi-million. Yeah. Fuck me. You guys not low tour fans? You got it? What's happening here?
Starting point is 00:15:29 Get Evanescence to do an original song for it again. Oh my God. I did not think I'd hear Aragon before noon. That's incredible. Jeff, date spots. What are some of your favorite L.A. date spots? I should have thought of this before the record, Jonah. Tilda is a very good wine bar that's kind of new. LA date spots. I should have thought of this before the record, Jonah. I,
Starting point is 00:15:46 a Tilda is a very good wine bar. That's kind of new. And when the next time you come out, well, you've probably already been out, but it's a great spot in Echo Park. And, uh,
Starting point is 00:15:54 Tilda, uh, Tilda, just Tilda, um, like Swinton. And it's a, it's a tiny wine spot and I walk past it all the time and it's always people on first dates.
Starting point is 00:16:03 And I'm like, this is a first date spot. I haven't been on a first date there but uh it's like it's like what you were saying is like the uh the the soft lighting of it all the uh the overhead not only like soft orange but also red string lights uh which I love and uh sushi I just I always end up dating pescatarians so we end up going for sushi. I love that. Riley? Yeah. Soft orange, but also red.
Starting point is 00:16:32 Soft orange and sophomore-ish lighting. I, listen, obviously some great bars, but I will say for a date spot, I love a park. I love like a little picnic moment. Um, because then it's like, I don't know. I just, I being able to walk around, uh,
Starting point is 00:16:54 being outside is nice. Also, I think first date spots, and this is, this is something that if, uh, Daniel could attest to, um,
Starting point is 00:17:04 is like having in mind a second location for a date spot if the date's going well like we so our first date so the review I brought is where we had our first date and it's for Melrose Umbrella Company in West Hollywood which and that's the same thing it's the same energy of like kind of tavern energy, kind of like brick walls, dim lighting, small tables, like the whole nine. It's absolutely the highest tavern. It's fantastic. Um, and the date was going well.
Starting point is 00:17:32 And so then of course, like, and this is, you know, I'm, I'm telling Daniel side of it, but he's like, okay, God, I think like, what's the second place we can go to? Because like, I don't want the night to end, but I'm not going to be like forward and be like, let's go back to your house. So where else could we go? And he's like, do you like, cause we've been talking about, this sounds so lame. We've been talking about Halo Top ice cream on our date. And so he's like, so where can you get Halo Top around here?
Starting point is 00:17:57 And I'm like, usually a CVS. I think he was imagining like a cute little ice cream shop we could go to after a drink. And catty corner to Melrose Umbrella is a CVS. So CVS was our second location on our first date. Wow. That's cute though. It was going to pick up ice cream at CVS at like 1130. But yeah, Melrose Umbrella just holds a special place in my heart because it takes off all the boxes of a good first date dimly lit bar.
Starting point is 00:18:32 Bonus points for it sort of smelling like Pirates of the Caribbean water as well. It sort of smells like splash down. Oh my god! It absolutely does! Am I wrong? If you know, you know. Absolutely! If you know, you know absolutely if you know you know
Starting point is 00:18:47 if you know the real ones know that those umbrellas smells like a dark ride at Disney
Starting point is 00:18:53 it's the proximity to the water at Disneyland my god it absolutely and it's like but what's crazy is that it
Starting point is 00:19:01 maintains that smell while being like open air in the front like somehow that smell is still open air in the front. For sure. Somehow that smell is still trapped in there, and it shouldn't be. Oh, it's so good. It doesn't make any sense.
Starting point is 00:19:12 So shall we get into it? Yeah. Do you want to start us off, Jonah? Did you bring a review, or do you want us to kind of handle it? Oh, see, I didn't know if it was a surprise. I can find it. Okay, perfect. I wasn't sure if I was supposed to bring a review. I can find out. No, this is perfect. I wasn't sure if I was supposed to bring a review.
Starting point is 00:19:27 That's my bad. No, that is so fine. Riley, do you want to start us off with your Melrose umbrella? Let's do it. Let me pull up that sweet, sweet little Melrose umbrella review. What's been fascinating in looking on Yelp, and I pulled a lot, but this one I think is my favorite, but what's been wild about looking at reviews for a bar, because you're seeing like the timeline of like, you know, pre-pandemic, beginning of pandemic, during pandemic now.
Starting point is 00:19:56 And going from like a bunch of people being like, they're really doing their best. Like, we're in a crazy time, you guys. And like, they're just trying to make it work to then like one stars a bunch of one stars are from being like I'm being discriminated against because I'm not vaccinated fuck this place yes you are and good of course
Starting point is 00:20:16 they're like I'm not coming back and they're probably like great so this is five stars from 2018 so a simpler time this is five stars from 2018. So a simpler time. This is from Juan F. So Jonah, can you give Juan F. a last name? Feingold, but he's my cousin.
Starting point is 00:20:34 That's yeah. Hell yeah. Beautiful. Oh my God. Can you believe Juan Feingold? Five stars from Juan Feingold. Stopped here for drinks with my wife after dinner in the area it's on melrose so parking situation isn't ideal but we were lucky to find a meter parking right next to
Starting point is 00:20:50 it and then all caps romance without pressure a romance as sweet as passion fruit gone as sour as grapefruit with a subtle twist of cucumber and the freedom to choose gin, vodka, rye, or pisco. My wife loved this drink. Really fruity. All caps. House Old Fashioned. House bourbon blend, sugar, Angostura bitter, and sour cherry bitters. This is one of the better Old Fashions I've ever had. Really smooth. This place is great for drinks, light bites, and people watching.
Starting point is 00:21:18 I like the decor and atmosphere. It's first come, first serve. Sorry. It's first come, first serve some snatch as seat if you see one. But what caught me about this, it took me like, I'm ashamed to say it took me like at least two and a half, three read-throughs
Starting point is 00:21:37 to understand that romance without pressure is the name of a drink. Oh my God. Oh, I thought, yeah, that romance is like, by the way, romance without pressure. That's a good vibe. the name of a drink. Oh my God. Oh, I thought, yeah, that romance is like, is like, by the way, romance without pressure. That's a good vibe.
Starting point is 00:21:49 Also, every bar is first come, first serve. What are you talking about? Just like, meeting through and like, him with his wife and immediately going to
Starting point is 00:21:59 romance without pressure. Really got me. Romance without pressure, yeah. Because I was thinking, I was actually, as you said that, I was like trying to visualize like, oh, I guess there is no pressure to be romantic
Starting point is 00:22:09 at the umbrella club. But you know what Juan said though that's actually so true? Because I used to go to dates to that spot as well. He is the parking situation there. Not that great. Not their fault. Not their fault. But like, it's like they used to host
Starting point is 00:22:28 blacklist writer events there i remember i've tried to go on dates there all the time and i was like all right i need to literally circle this like kind of hectic area of west hollywood yeah four times and park pretty much illegally yep yeah to do it yep i used to live within walking distance of melrose Umbrella. And so when I went on, when Daniel and I went on our first date there, I was able to walk and he drove because he was living pretty far away at the time. And, but he drove, he had to park far away enough that when like we finally texted, he's like, I'm here.
Starting point is 00:23:01 It's like, I could see him walking from like, and it was like, we hadn't met in person. And so it's like, I could see him walking from like far enough away where it's like, like, hi. And he was still walking. It's the most awkward. What do you do? Yeah, what do you do in that 30 feet?
Starting point is 00:23:20 This actually happened to me last night. And I was like, you know what? I'm going to look at my phone. So she'll just come up to me. Yep. Yeah. What do was like, you know what? I'm going to look at my phone. So she'll just come up to me. Yep. Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. What do you do with the 50 feet? It's not a video.
Starting point is 00:23:31 The shrug. I'm here. It's me. But absolutely, you go on the phone. I remember being like, oh, did I get a text? No text. I was probably just like rearranging things on my home screen. Just being like, oh, sorry. That email sorry this is crazy anyway hi hello you're walking down the sidewalk
Starting point is 00:23:52 and like hundreds of yards away you're on your phone hey patricia from the app Hi it's me I'm here I'm almost here Hi I do a little like a dance What are we doing We're here Jonah's standing next to Patricia Hey guys Yeah no I think you're sorry
Starting point is 00:24:18 Juan nice to meet you Yeah no this place there's no pressure What did he say there's no love. What did he say? There's no love pressure? Romance without pressure. Sorry. I'm almost there! I see you! Yes!
Starting point is 00:24:31 Sorry, Juan, this is my date. And, you know, I picked this place. I saw Yelp that there was, you know, as you said, romance without pressure. And so I really hope... Eh, he's still walking. Hi! I can't wait to get to you yes me too hi you guys no you guys you guys seem cute you guys have a good time there is no pressure
Starting point is 00:24:52 with the romance by the way so if you guys don't like each other you could be friends you could just come out of it you know totally i mean like i you know that's not really what i'm looking for so i hope i hope this place has the magic touch. I'm going in hot with the vibes. Oh, tell them the crosswalk's broken, actually. The crosswalk is not going to change. The light's been broken for like a day or so, so you can cross. Pointing the crosswalk, making like a big X. It's broken!
Starting point is 00:25:16 You have to go around! Around! Around! On six. I'll just wait for the white walking person. It's broken. It's not going to work. I got hit by a car like last month.
Starting point is 00:25:31 I just don't want to risk it. Okay. So Roman's, I mean, like, I, you know, he seems, I don't know. Sorry. I don't know why I'm opening up to you like this. You're just the maitre d', but you seem so approachable. You know, he seems really nice. You're just, it's because it's first come you're trying to get you're trying to get in the list aren't you what it's because it's first come first serve
Starting point is 00:25:51 what do you know I'm not one of those girls I can't it's if he looks and the second he gets over here sorry party hold on it's like I see a party is it the three of you guys you guys oh two of you guys you have that seat back seat back there? Do you guys want that romantic but non-pressure spot right there? Sounds perfect. I'm going to sit you guys. I'll be right back. Second, if you guys are across the street, I can sit you guys down,
Starting point is 00:26:15 but I'm going to take this party right here. I'm so sorry to interrupt. I'm so sorry to interrupt on this date right here. Is there a way that I could sit down at the table and then he could come meet me once he, and he's going the wrong way now, he could turn around. Sorry.
Starting point is 00:26:29 It hasn't changed. It hasn't changed. I'm not going to cry. I don't want to get a jaywalking ticket. Just by the way, tell him it doesn't, the light doesn't work. I've really tried.
Starting point is 00:26:38 I don't think he can see me. I, is there any way that I could sit down and just kind of put my coat on his other chair that's kind of like oh he's here but he's not here yet no you know it's unfortunately it's a bar it's first come first serve and you can see probably two years want to walk with me by the way this is the totally and just you know what we'll be right well i'll be right back with you and the smell your spawn is actually pirates in caribbean water we had former disney engineer imagineer had built this place oh my god i'll walk over here
Starting point is 00:27:06 cut to that meeting so the investors backed the bar they're fine with the name melrose umbrella company the one thing they demand and i really as your financial advisor guys i really think you should just go with this i know know it's weird. Sure. They want it to smell They want it to smell like the Pirates of the Caribbean ride from Disneyland. And that's their one thing. So there has to be a vat of that water. Okay, now what's the real thing, Mick? That's funny. By the way, I'm really excited that we're opening.
Starting point is 00:27:38 This is cool. I know, this is huge. No, it's amazing. Bars never open in Los Angeles. That's unbelievable. What was the thing? What was the thing? is it a decor thing I mean is it something with the drinks they want kind of a liquor license
Starting point is 00:27:48 liquor license oh my god what a pain in the ass weirdly we got that within a week and it usually takes months they need this it was not a joke
Starting point is 00:27:55 they need it to smell like an amusement park ride because they have like nostalgia for it the bar yes I can go back to them and say
Starting point is 00:28:05 maybe only some days of the week it smells like Pirates of the Caribbean water but they were pretty set on it and they did say that that's the only reason they invested the only reason they invested is because he's so I wish I was fucking with you he's got to be there's no way that the one stipulation is that
Starting point is 00:28:24 a bar has to smell like a ride. I've never heard of that before. Let me get the investor on the phone. I'll just get the investor on the phone. Yeah, Aiden? Yeah, I'm going to put you on speaker. Hey, guys. I'm so sorry to do this to you, but it really does have to smell like Pirates of the Caribbean.
Starting point is 00:28:43 Every day of the week? Or is there a way we could do a Monday, Wednesday, Friday? We're really excited to be opening by the way. We're so excited. We're so grateful. I love it. I love the idea for the bar. And look, I'm a generous guy. Very much so.
Starting point is 00:28:58 I'm very reasonable. But on this I will not budge. Every day. Can... Juan, can we sidebar so i'm so sorry can we just like take a second this is kind of as much time as you need okay okay okay let's just say that for example we do listen to him and we we make it smell like pirates of the caribbean the ride which by the way is a good it is i mean, it's not a bad smell, but it doesn't make sense for a bar. Does it make sense for like a kind of upscale chic bar on Melrose in West Hollywood, California?
Starting point is 00:29:31 Like, does that make sense for us? Financial advisor again, guys. Hey, guys. I think it just – I think it sets the tone. It's like romantic, but there's no pressure, you know? Like it's romantic and it's highbrow, but also, you know, you have the smell of dirty water. It's really highbrow, yeah. No, it's really highbrow. It's high it's highbrow but also you know you have the smell of really high water yeah it's romantic but no pressure i like that i like that so much
Starting point is 00:29:50 we should we should tell the mixologist to make a drink yeah yeah that's no that's something i mean listen that's something right yeah that's we could we could work with that for sure can i ask you just a logistical question let's say we agree to. Let's say that we make it smell like parts of the Caribbean water, specifically the area outside the Blue Bayou, wherein before you enter the ride. How do we do that? Scientists maintain that it's not possible to truly replicate that smell. I am an accountant. I cannot tell you. Well, you're tossing a lot of ideas our way.
Starting point is 00:30:22 So I'm just sort of trying to come to it. Well, Aiden, let me get him back on. Aiden, you're back on? Aiden, by the way, very excited. Are we in business? It's looking like it. We do have a big question, and Juan put it. Juan, why don't you tell
Starting point is 00:30:37 him, because you put it so perfectly of the exact smell we're trying to achieve. Totally. And by the way, we love this. This is so fun. We're so excited. Romance without pressure. That's what this is. Yeah, and we're trying to achieve totally and we by the way we we love this this is so fun we're so excited romance without pressure like that's what this is yeah and we're feeling very lucky and fortunate how artists open a bar look we want this to smell we hear you we want we can't we can't yeah we cannot stress that enough um by the way everyone's excited instagram loves it tiktok is here and tiktok is is here they're in the corner
Starting point is 00:31:06 but they're they're live streaming we agree we're down we want to make it smell like that area outside the blue bayou restaurant right before you enter the ride in between when you board the boat and enter through davy jones's hologram my kind of guy he gets it yeah and so this is simple logistical question quick question our. How do we do this? Did you have a specific idea? Right? I mean, that's what we discussed. Because I know that Disneyland,
Starting point is 00:31:32 like the theme park, not the bar that we have because they're not the same. I know that Disneyland, they kind of like pump smells into the air once you get on Main Street USA. You get the smell, like artificial vanilla. You get the smells of all these things.
Starting point is 00:31:45 Are you expecting us to pump smells in here? Is it kind of like a car, like a tree thing, kind of thing? We're hanging them around. Do you have anything that smells like that water? Like a candle? I mean, Hollywood's not that far from Anaheim. We just
Starting point is 00:32:01 cart the water. We cart the water from the ride? I'm giving you guys a lot of money. And I'm reasonable, but I get angry. Our accountant's on the line. I think he can attest. Do we think we have enough money to cart the water from our end?
Starting point is 00:32:17 Theme park water to our guards. I mean, Aiden, that will pose to be pretty expensive. Money is no object with me. That's the Aiden guarantee. Aiden, you know what? You have been working so intimately with us over the past couple of years trying to get
Starting point is 00:32:32 this thing off the ground. And, you know, I feel so rude. We've never kind of heard your story. Like, we've never really, you know so much about us and kind of like our passion for curating an experience and with food and drinks and atmosphere how did how did you come into all this money you're such a wonderful ideas guy i'd love to just hear a little bit more about how you made your fortune oh i come from one of the first families to move out west really gold yeah generational wealth and now this is what i do generational wealth stemming from to move out west. Really? For gold. Yeah. Oh my God. Generational wealth.
Starting point is 00:33:05 And now this is what I do. Generational wealth stemming from like covered wagons coming out. Wes. Yeah, my, half my family died of dysentery.
Starting point is 00:33:15 It was such a hard road for them. Got it. And now I invest in experiences like this. And I'm picking up on an accent. Is there some sort of
Starting point is 00:33:23 Brooklyn heritage or something or Long Island? No, I reinvented myself in middle school to kind of differentiate myself from other people. Let's get the water. We'll do the water thing. Like we said, we appreciate your support.
Starting point is 00:33:39 We're really excited. Get the fucking water. Get the water. Are you guys talking about me? No, no, no, no. Okay. We'll get the water. We'll get the water. I figured push out the fucking water. I'm going to go. Are you guys talking about me? No, no, no, no. Sorry. Have a great day. This is exactly why I changed my voice.
Starting point is 00:33:50 Blessings. No. Blessings. Aiden, blessings. We are so excited. All right, blessings. Thank you. We'll bring the water.
Starting point is 00:34:01 Oh, I spilled the water. You have it? I have some all the time. Just imagine if it's at a bar instead of my house. Okay, so I think I know what's going on. You need a way to get this water out of your house. And you don't know where to put a tank of fire and Caribbean water. 18 buckets in his home office.
Starting point is 00:34:22 What? No. Just take the million dollars. Alright, should we take a quick break and then come back with some more reviews about date spots? Blessings. And we're back. If you're just tuning in, we're here with Jonah Feingold.
Starting point is 00:34:50 We're not live. What's that? We're not live. Never have been. Really? Except for one show. I wish that we did a live portion of the show. Because, you know, it's always the thing of like Apple Beats 1 where it's like, oh, premiering, you know, Selena Gomez's new song with Zane Lowe.
Starting point is 00:35:04 And we don't have that clout. BBC Mix 1 here. Oh, that's good. Yeah, Jeff, we don't have the clout of Selena Gomez. I'm sorry to tell you. I meant of Zane Lowe, which I think is more telling. You guys have never done a live show before? We did one virtual live show.
Starting point is 00:35:17 Because we premiered this. Our show came out a month before the pandemic. And so it's been all during this. We've done one live show online. Congrats. I mean, your show is so popular. That's amazing. That's congrats.
Starting point is 00:35:31 That's like, I can't. And you launched during like one month. That's wild. We did seven episodes in person and then about 80 plus over Zoom. Yeah. Very silly. We just had our 100th episode.
Starting point is 00:35:45 This is actually 101. 101 Dalmatians. Dalmatians. Dalmatians. Oh, that's good. That's really good. Jeff? All right, this is a,
Starting point is 00:35:54 yeah, this is a two-star review. Okay. Oh, shit. In of the Seventh Array in a place very near and dear to my heart, Topanga Canyon. Have you been to In of the Seventh Array? What's that? Have you gone on a date there? Because the episode's about date spots. Have you been to Inn of the Seventh Ray? What's that?
Starting point is 00:36:05 Have you gone on a date there? Because the episode's about date spots. Have you been there on a date? I have, yeah. I have been. I've been on one date there. Inn of the Seventh Ray. No, but I've heard good things.
Starting point is 00:36:17 Yeah, this is like a magical little creek side. Shut the fuck up. Does it have Pirates of the Caribbean smells? It actually is Pirates of the Caribbean vibes. It looks like the Blue Bayou, I'm not going to lie, with the little fake fireflies. Oh, good shit. And it is literally right by a creek.
Starting point is 00:36:36 This place looks sick. And wouldn't you know, my review is for the Blue Bayou after this. Great date spot. So this is from Kelsey G. Riley, do you want to give him a last name? Kelsey Gam. Kelsey Gammer. Just Gam. Kelsey Gammer.
Starting point is 00:36:54 Kelsey Gammer. No, it's Kelsey Gammer now. Alright, this is a two-star review from about a month ago. I'd give the hostess a 10. She was very nice. I'd give the ambiance a 10. Very was very nice. I'd give the ambiance a 10, very romantic and pretty. I'd give the food a 10 as well.
Starting point is 00:37:09 My review is specifically for the customer service. I made reservations for me and my boyfriend's anniversary for Sunday, August 1st at 7.15 p.m. I wanted to take him somewhere really nice and I've heard great things about this place. Our server was horrible
Starting point is 00:37:23 and that's the reason for this review. Our server was Jordan and he took our order. Right? My boyfriend loves all of his drinks cold, so he asked for some ice, and Jordan said he'd bring it right out. We're both very understanding of it being busy, and sometimes the staff can be a bit slower because of that,
Starting point is 00:37:42 but we ran out of water, and Jordan didn't bring ice for an hour not only that but he didn't ask about refills or anything he kept actively checking in with every table around us and then would just look at us and skip us we had to ask him for the ice again and when we asked he responded with what's up instead of apologizing for checking in not in checking in with us at all when we asked for the ice he asked for another server to help us instead of helping us himself the server was rude didn't check in with us once to make sure everything was good and when we asked he had someone else help us instead that's it they already said all that but they repeated themselves but that's the end of the review two out of five you said or two out of ten two out of five my boyfriend likes all of his drinks cold
Starting point is 00:38:26 he likes his drinks cold who makes a reservation for 7 15 p.m yeah for an anniversary why 7 15 if you want to do it at 7 but you don't know what parking is gonna be like give yourself a little bit of a cushion you can do that no matter what the time is. Just leave earlier. No, it's not that easy. You guys are on your anniversary dinner? Yeah, no, we do all our drinks cold. Unless it's like a tea or coffee. You don't have to specify, but it'll be cold.
Starting point is 00:38:59 Yeah. Oh, I just really want to make sure because this is, you know, it's our third anniversary. Happy anniversary, sweetie. Congratulations. Happy anniversary. I love you so much. Absolutely, congratulations. Thank you so much, man. I just really want to make sure because this is you know it's our third anniversary happy anniversary sweetie congratulations happy anniversary I love you so much absolutely congratulations thank you so much man what's your name again
Starting point is 00:39:09 Jordan Jordan and thank you for being you know so accommodating I just want to make sure because you know Alex here
Starting point is 00:39:18 he and I hate to speak for you honey but it's like I just I feel like you know you are just always so soft spoken and I want to make sure you're standing up for yourself
Starting point is 00:39:24 he needs his drinks cold jordan he really needs it cold and he needs it please i'm just like sometimes restaurants just give you tap water and that's fine but i'm asking it with ice because and i hate to and alex i hate to put i hate to put you on the spot like this um to to quote our favorite big green guy you won't like him when he's angry you won't like alex when he doesn't have cold drinks um incredible hulk you're talking about the incredible hulk or you mean the big yeah it will be cold it's a marvel move it's a marvel move and i'm sorry and honey this is gonna be a lovely evening and i know it's nothing like a 716 sunset. I do need there to be ice.
Starting point is 00:40:07 Yeah. There will be ice, yes. Thank you so much. I'll be right back to take your guys' food order. I'll get those cold drinks, I promise, in just one second. You walk away. Excuse me, Alex, one second. I go up. I tap you on the shoulder.
Starting point is 00:40:19 Hey, Jordan, me again. Oh, my God. Hey, it's me again. It's Sam. Hey, yeah. I just, before the night gets away with us, I slip you a 20. You need to keep those cold drinks coming one after the other. You've got to just like send them out like nonstop.
Starting point is 00:40:35 Yeah. No, we do. Because I love it. That man back there is the love of my life. But he will tear the, hi, honey. There he is. He will tear this place to the fucking ground if he does not have cold drinks coming out. Like one, nonstop, nonstop.
Starting point is 00:40:49 So for everyone's emotional, physical safety, I'm going to need you to get those drinks out. Like stat. Okay. I thought you were joking because you mentioned the Incredible Hulk. It's like, oh, you wouldn't like him when he's angry, but you mean he might. I am. At any moment. At any moment.
Starting point is 00:41:02 At any moment. And you never know what's going to happen. He's kind of like a gremlin's going to happen he's kind of like a gremlin in that way it's kind of like that's why I said like post 715 because it's like
Starting point is 00:41:08 this is kind of the witching hour for him so I'm going to go sit back down well we're about to feed him after nightfall I guess it's midnight
Starting point is 00:41:14 isn't it I'll keep the ice water coming okay alright honey I'm back I just was checking in just making sure
Starting point is 00:41:21 everything's good to go did you have a chance to talk to him I was talking to good news news, by the way. Happy anniversary. Happy anniversary. Good news. I do want to say I'm getting a bit thirsty.
Starting point is 00:41:30 I was talking to Mr. Stark, and he said that the gamma radiation that was transferred to me during the Sokovia attack, well, apparently, and I was saving to tell you this during the anniversary, there is a chance that I won't turn into a monster anymore. What? I know. What? That's incredible. Just refilling your guys' ice cold waters. Don't mean to interrupt.
Starting point is 00:42:00 Monster anymore. Yeah. Yes. Thank you. Honey, would you mind just asking? Because I don't want to get it. I don't want my heart rate, would you mind just asking? Because I don't want to get, I don't want my heart rate. Of course. Just ask about the drinks.
Starting point is 00:42:10 Hi, Jordan. Megan! I know you're at our table, so it is me. Thank you for getting this one. I can't help but wonder where the second one is, because it's like we're just starting on this one, but I think I'd like to make myself incredibly clear. Once you've poured our first one, we're going to need the second one coming immediately
Starting point is 00:42:26 like once we've started sipping the first one. Like what else? What other things do you need? Because I'm just like, I want to make sure I get everything right. What other things do we need? What other things do we need? Sorry, that was a rude way of phrasing it. I'm sorry.
Starting point is 00:42:41 Why is he being so aggressive? Honey, why is he being so aggressive? It's okay. It's okay. It's okay. He just doesn't know. I'm sorry. Why is he being so aggressive? Honey, why is he being so aggressive? It's okay. It's okay. It's okay. He just doesn't know. I'm getting a little bit frustrated. Okay.
Starting point is 00:42:50 It's all right. It's all right. Take a sip. Take a sip of water. Take a sip of water. There he is. There he is. Finish is it?
Starting point is 00:42:57 Okay. And I will get you one very soon. Thank you. Food. Sorry. Food. Can I get you guys something started? Don't worry. Everything that's supposed to be hot will be hot. Everything that's supposed to be
Starting point is 00:43:08 cold will be cold. Is it scan code still? Let me see. My phone's loading. By the way, everything's been a 10 out of 10 so far. It's been great. I really want it to be because I don't want anything to, I look at you, go wrong. I don't think you want that either. Honey, what were you gonna Jordan what's good
Starting point is 00:43:32 Yeah Jordan what would you recommend What's good with me Cause everything's fine Everything's good with me You seem nervous I'm not I'm at ease I'm at ease
Starting point is 00:43:40 I love the shrimp cakes Obviously The beef short rib Is sort of our specialty I'm at ease. I love the shrimp cakes, obviously. The beef short rib is sort of our specialty. You can look us in the eyes. It's okay to smile. I can't help but notice that your sweat has melted all the ice in the ice cup that you just brought us. Yeah, I'll get another one fast. I just am starting to get... Sorry, I'm really afraid of confrontation. I came from a very volatile household.
Starting point is 00:44:08 Whoa, sorry, Jordan, Jordan, Jordan, Jordan, Jordan. I am so sorry for what you went through. I feel like we are not the people you should be talking to about this. No, and you're right. It's okay. I think maybe we let Jordan say his piece while he can. I just don't want him to upset you. I don't want him to get your heart rate up. Because if he's telling us about his fucking sob story,
Starting point is 00:44:30 about whatever trauma he had when he was a kid. And sorry, Jordan. No offense. Sorry, Jordan. No offense, Jordan. Had a temper. Jordan, be easy with that. Because when Alex...
Starting point is 00:44:39 Alex is an empath. And so when he feels things like 10 times that other people feel them. And that's also kind of like that and the cold drinks. Those are the two things that trigger what's about to happen right now. I didn't ever know what would set daddy off is all. Uncle wasn't much different either. Uncle?
Starting point is 00:44:56 So family gathering, what's that? Nothing. Sorry, we would have family gatherings and like every few times there would be a blow up. All the tables in the restaurant sometimes just start vibrating a little bit. Oh, shit. Alex starts shaking. And I just. So I just, when conflict might happen or not, I get really nervous.
Starting point is 00:45:20 Or not. Or not. When conflict doesn't happen. Seismologist cuts to, hey, chief, we're getting some sort of seismic work. It looks like being in the seventh ray in Topanga Canyon. I'm not tracking. Sorry, boss, what I've heard, it's a really chic, kind of cute little joint on the edge of a creek. Took the missus there a couple months ago.
Starting point is 00:45:46 So? Is it on the fault? What are you talking about? Magical fairytale vibes. Couples can exchange vows in front of what looks like a river creek. Seems so unrelated to what we do. You ever been to the Blue Bayou in Pirates? It's kind of like that, but in real life.
Starting point is 00:46:00 We have to not focus on this. This is crazy. We're seismologists. This is a restaurant you're talking about. Sir, you said to brain anything that seems suspicious to your attention. And it looks suspiciously affordable. I'm looking at the menu on Yelp right now. Now we're just talking about a restaurant.
Starting point is 00:46:20 What's suspicious? It's shaking, you said? We got a 7.1 no traction tectonic plate movements. That being said, there is a Yelp review that's a 2 out of 5. Let me find out why, because there's a lot of 10 out of 10. You're talking about a world-changing level
Starting point is 00:46:36 earthquake. Oh my god. Alright. My first day on the job. I'm just excited to be here. Sir, you are a legendary seismologist. You are a legend, sir. All right. I know.
Starting point is 00:46:48 I know. I've been around the block. That's so funny. We've got a 7.1. This was the big one, but it only affected the inn at the seventh ring. Alex got so mad he caused San Andreas Fault to
Starting point is 00:47:09 shift. This shook me all week long! Jonah, this is the segment of our show where you have the floor to talk about what's been shaking you all week long. So it could be a new obsession, a new hobby, something that happened to you. Anything that's been on your mind, the floor is yours. Holy shit. Okay.
Starting point is 00:47:37 How much time do you guys have? Yeah, 7.1 quake in the seventh race has been shaking me. I think what's been shaking me is two things. One is like I really enjoyed I got to see Waitress the Musical yesterday. Oh, fun. With Sarah. Broadway's back.
Starting point is 00:47:55 Broadway's back. I got to see D.R. Evan Hansen the movie the night before that. Amazing. And I'm like really in a positive way. I'm like it's so dope to just see art like being put out there and like consuming it as a consumer again in like different ways like going to a theater going to a show going just walking through the park and then also this weird thing that's a little more on like the personal but like the way that the society interprets art like you know i'm
Starting point is 00:48:23 now having gone through a film come out there's a i get i got email yesterday from someone in katar and i started crying on the street because of this email that this young teen sent me and it was this most beautiful letter about the movie she's about the movie we made and i was like oh my god like this is this is like it right but yeah there was like a 24 hour period of time where when our movie dropped i was like okay cool rotten tomatoes like like first of all we have a great audience score but like our critics score is like 45 and like that's like i think rom-coms like typically get graded like that but like i was like that at first you're like what the fuck critics like you know how fucking hard it is to roll a camera yeah and then And then I know that a movie like Dear Evan Hansen was getting smashed.
Starting point is 00:49:07 And like Katie Couric, who did the Q&A there, one of the first questions she asked was like, so you guys are getting bad reviews. What do you think? And I was like, who are we? Which is why I actually love the premise of this podcast, because you guys make fun of the reviews. Yeah. Who are we to be critics of really anything i guess it's freedom
Starting point is 00:49:26 of speech but like i'm just like if you're an artist don't put on the internet your negative thoughts on any other piece of art because you will be seen and like always just support each other like it's it doesn't fucking matter if you liked the musical or not i loved dear evan hansen and i actually did love the movie. But like you don't come out of there saying that's that was bad. You just don't. It's like I don't know if that's been like that's like a new hot take for me. There's nothing constructive about that.
Starting point is 00:49:55 It's like there's a difference between being like, oh, man, you know what? It's like like to offer something like that was awesome. If you would like maybe try this next time or like add this or this like in a supportive way like that was so great and then because you're learning and the next thing you do like you'll learn from that but it's like just being like that was bad like that doesn't help anybody that doesn't help a single person with anything it just sucks i also think that goes for like even beyond art like like something i think about like people i don't know like this is an example that comes to mind is like when you're driving up and down fairfax and you see these people in line for like these crazy hypebeast stores i'm like i used to like make
Starting point is 00:50:32 fun of them i'm like you're about to spend like 500 on a t-shirt but it's also like that brings them like joy so like yeah it's your joy do your thing like i'm not into it i'm not gonna be a part of it but like do your thing and it makes me happy that it makes you happy. You know, like, and that's just like, we got to have more empathy. I mean, we just got to have,
Starting point is 00:50:48 I think we do now. Cause we all like went through like a, like a Thanos snap type situation. Yeah. A lot of Marvel references today, but it's like, I, I agree with you.
Starting point is 00:50:56 It's like, cool. That brings you happiness. You do you. Nothing's personal. Exactly. Yeah. And we'd also don't all have to like the same stuff,
Starting point is 00:51:03 which is like beautiful. And like, yeah. Well, Jonah, plugs, anything last minute? I know you have to hop off in a couple minutes here. Well, I really want to say thank you to both you guys. This is easily the most fun I've had on a podcast ever. Love what you guys are
Starting point is 00:51:17 doing. You guys have amazing comedic talent and chemistry. And I hope everyone gives our movie a shot dating in New york on itunes in theaters if you can and uh thanks for having me on your podcast this is really fun thank you for coming on this was such a welcome back anytime yeah please and yeah best of luck with the rest of the of the press tour and uh the release and everything thanks i'm gonna force my family to watch this movie now please do um shout out SCA shout out
Starting point is 00:51:45 um Daniel Rashid fam um if you're listening love you bro and um let me know if you guys ever need anything from me I'm here to help however I can oh you're the best Jonah oh yeah thanks so much Jonah Riley what's been shaking you what's been shaking me what's been shaking me and that's an excellent question and I should have had time to think about it. But I was really interested in that discussion we were having. And so now it is on the brain. I have one if you want to. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I never need time.
Starting point is 00:52:11 I have it. But you should go. You always need time. We both always need time. I don't know why you're talking about it. I used to think about it throughout the week. And now it just feels like we record and then the week just goes by like that. And then we're recording again.
Starting point is 00:52:25 And like life is just faster now. Also we've been banking them a lot more. So it's like less time has been passing between. Yeah, we've done five episodes in two weeks, which usually we do one a week. But yeah, what's been shaking me is I'm doing stand up more. And it's a lot of fun. I know, I saw you did a show last night. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:52:44 And I like, it's like like not i'm not like crushing or anything but i'm not bombing either which is probably worse i'd rather bomb or crush but like it's still just for me what's fun about it is like getting back into the world and like the whole thing of like oh when the pandemic's over i like i want to do these things and like stand up was i'm near the top of that list and i've been doing it and like seeing what now that I've like I've done three shows now and I know what what works and what was a fluke if it worked or what didn't work and so like putting together just kind of your own comedic point of view is so interesting to me like I was talking to my friend last night about it who I went to the mic with um that like I started doing I started doing improv in 2015 and I was like, you know, did the UCB intensive things.
Starting point is 00:53:29 And I was like, this is so exciting to me. Like, I, like, I want to, I want to get so good at this. And I'm not saying that I'm like the best at improv, but it's been six years and now like I do it a lot. And like, you know, I, I'm, I'm kind of as good as what I wanted to be. And then with standup, it's a new thing. It's like, I'm back at UCB one-on-one and like, that's how I feel. I feel like a freshman in high school. Yeah. Cause I'm seeing all these people that have been doing it for years.
Starting point is 00:53:51 And like, you know that this person is really good at it. Cause they've been doing it for five years. And I know if I do this for five years, I'll at least get better. Yeah. And that's so exciting to me. And then also just like the camaraderie of it all.
Starting point is 00:54:02 Standup used to turn me off actually, because like, I always thought that standups were were very like self-centered. And I don't think this anymore, but I used to think that. And I was like, oh, like it's just the – it's just the – if the guy's Jordan, you know, that's his name. Oh, it's the Jordan show. That's why he doesn't do improv, you know. But it's like, no, you should do comedy in every way that you feel drawn to it.
Starting point is 00:54:22 And also it is a team thing. It's just that you're doing your thing and then the next person goes up, you support them. So that's a teamwork in a way that you feel drawn to it and also it is a team thing it's just that you're doing your thing and then the next person goes up you support them so that's a teamwork in a way that's community and it's about everybody coming together so like once i saw that and these mics happening where i was like um this is literally communities being fostered at these things i'm like i gotta be a part of this this is so much fun and uh you know there's just been a part of this. This is so much fun. And, uh, you know, there's just been a lot of new mics that have like popped up with, uh, since the pandemic, um, quieted, it's still happening, but, um, and, uh, it's just an exciting scene that's happening, I think. And I, I really like,
Starting point is 00:54:54 I want to get better at standup. I want to do it on a weekly basis and I want to like be a part of that scene. And it's just like, uh, it's really, it's really creatively and, um, uh, it's just like, it's really creatively and it's just creatively exciting and exciting in general. That's so awesome. That's so interesting that you say that because that's how I've kind of seen stand-up. Like that's why it scares, the idea of it scares me so much is that it feels like, and you're on your own, but like that it's such an individual thing. And that it's like everyone just wants to go.
Starting point is 00:55:27 It's like, well, I want to go there and I want to get the laughs. And then it's like and then you're kind of done. And it's like you went there for your own kind of like you doing it, which is fine. But that's so interesting. And I think that's why I've always been so drawn to improv is that it's like you cannot do it without other people. And that it's like I think but that's so interesting. It's like I think that that makes total sense what you're saying about stand-up and i just never saw it that way also because i've never done it um yeah well it's also the thing of like i just want to do live comedy yeah and even if there wasn't a pandemic it's really hard to get an improv an
Starting point is 00:55:58 indie improv team together on a weekly basis uh to do it because everybody then you're working with like four to eight schedules or whatever. Versus this, it's like, I didn't think I was going to go to the mic last night until 3 p.m. And then Danny Sellers invited me from HeadGum. I was like, oh, fine. Yeah, I'll go. I'll challenge.
Starting point is 00:56:13 And then it's like challenging yourself to do something that makes you uncomfortable is really exciting to me. Speaking of, really want to skydive soon if you want to do that with me. Absolutely not. You could not pay me to do that. I am deathly- It's safer than driving a car. I am afraid of heights no all right i am too but that's fair that is something like everyone's like before i die i'm like no i'm okay that is
Starting point is 00:56:34 an experience that is a life experience that i am so okay not having um but i will watch you do it. I will be on the ground when you come on down. Um, that is, yeah. Um, honestly, something very similar, um, in terms of what's shaking me. So Daniel and I, uh, and Elizabeth, she's, she's producing, um, we are filming a short film at the end. I don't know when this episode's coming out, but at the end of September, we're filming a short, um, that we wrote and I am very excited for many reasons, but like, I mean, you know, haven't, haven't filmed anything that I've written other than like such as separate, like a short, like since good morning. And it's like, because, you know, then the pandemic happened and then getting a crew together was like, you know, we, we almost shot something mid pandemic, but it's like that was pre vaccine. And then it was like coordinating like 16 people schedules to like quarantine. Like it was just tough. And so now we have like a crew of like nine people, three actors, including me and Daniel. And I'm it's a story that like I really love and very excited about. And it's, um, Daniel and I are going to co-direct it. And so I've,
Starting point is 00:57:46 I had experience. I've had a good experience like directing, uh, for kind of like theater or, or, or sketches and stuff like that, but never. Cause we kind of co-direct.
Starting point is 00:57:57 Yeah. We, we, we co-direct sketches, but never co-directing kind of like a longer form narrative thing. Yeah. Um, and especially directing for film.
Starting point is 00:58:04 And it's like kind of moving past the imposter syndrome of like, well, I didn't go to film school. I don't know. But no, I didn't, I didn't learn anything in film school that helped. That's not true,
Starting point is 00:58:15 but nothing because with directing only shit with technical. Right. But I mean, like, you know, just in the kind of like pre-production of it all, like not knowing as much, but having to work through that fear of like,
Starting point is 00:58:26 this is something that I feel like I want to learn more about and do. Yeah. But, and then it's like, okay, it's that, that catch 22 of like, well,
Starting point is 00:58:36 I'm never going to learn more about it or do it unless I just kind of throw myself in and do it. And I'm grateful that I'm co-directing with Daniel because I respect him so much as a director as like a filmmaker all around but like especially as a director too and so to get to learn from that and then also feel more confident of like at first because I was like oh I'll just I'll you direct and I'll you know I'll still produce and I wrote it and we're in it um yeah I co-wrote it and we're in it but like I feel like just giving myself like claiming that it's like okay i'm gonna do this with you already like puts me in position where i'm like and i'm and
Starting point is 00:59:10 we're just gonna do it and not kind of like half-assed and just kind of watch and learn it's the best way to do it it's like yeah just kind of throwing myself it because it's yeah it's like trying it's like trying to theoretically learn how to paint instead of just like paint just start painting you know um so that's really exciting yeah so i'm i'm really pumped i can't wait to see it um if you want to if you want to read it later you can we need to do one kind of fine we need to do one more writing pass but yeah i'm very excited um should we thank some podcasts we can yeah well first of all follow follow Riley on Instagram at Riley and Spa on Twitter at Riley Coyote and
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