The Kristian Harloff Show - The "Big Game" is Stupid, Celebrity Sightings and Al Madrigal told Kristian to Go Home | The Big Thing

Episode Date: July 12, 2021

The Super Bowl being called the Big Game is dumb, Mark Ellis and Kristian talk about why it is dumb. More Sopranos talk, celebrity sightings and comedian Al Madrigal told Kristian to go home, find out why and more on this episode of The Big Thing. Follow on Twitter Kristian Harloff https://bit.ly/31PePMD Mark Ellis https://bit.ly/2U1wKPa Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Happy Friday. To you. Oh, what is? Not Friday. Monday, right? What the hell is today? I think it's Monday. It's Monday, thank you. Happy Monday, everybody. Excited that you're all with us today on this day, and as you heard, K. Mulca is here.

Hi, Christian. How you doing, buddy? Oh, being a mom's great. Yeah. Oh, God, I can imagine you as a parent. That's my Kate impression. We love you, Kate. We absolutely love you.

Go back to Christian. full screen. I want him full screen the entire show. I'll just drop in. Wait, I just want you to talk, stream of consciousness. And when you say something inaccurate, like it's Friday and it's actually Monday, I'll just, then you'll correct, man. I'll just gently correct. I'll be your producer today. So I had, uh, over the weekend, I had some, uh, spaghetti and, uh, and meatballs. I just had meatballs. I just have meatballs. I want your cholesterol. That's right. Oh, I heard some great news for you. What? Don't take this to hard because you know how the science changes like every week. Cheese is good for you? Yeah. Is that true? It might be this month.

Oh. I haven't looked at men's health yet, but it's like every week. Every month men's health comes out and they're like, hey, this, eat almonds. Eat nothing but almonds. They're great for you. The next week it's like almonds cause cancer. And a rash. And so you can't really ever disseminate the science, but I was talking to, excuse me, I was talking to my trainer.

And he was telling me that there's a lot of science right now. Yes. It indicates that people who eat a lot of red meat actually lower their cholesterol. And he happens on a person. Beef House somewhere. He happens to own a slaughterhouse, so I don't want to put the cart in front of the proverbial dead cow. But I'm just saying, so you can take that into the house and see how that, see how that flies with that. We'll see.

Honey, we're doing sticks again tonight. Well, it certainly hasn't worked in the past. Well, I did cut out cheese and everything else, too, but I was, dude, I was at like 214 in my heaviest. And now I'm at this morning, it was 202. Okay. Kilograms? Sure. But I was, you know, and it's also the working out, though, is too, although the last couple

days have been it's been hard to do it because we're trying to do taping shows early in the morning. But either way, so much exciting stuff happening. And then you and I really haven't talked about this on together. But the Shmodeown spectacular. Yeah. Live downtown L.A. tickets on sale were sold out of Elite, sold out of December 4th. December 4th, downtown Los Angeles at the Globe Theater.

If you're able to be there, you should be there. But we're sold out of a lot of the main tickets, the VIP tickets. and then the Expo, remember that thing we did for two years ago? The Expo is so much fun. I just, I wish I could personally soak it up a little bit more. Yeah.

Every year, because we're also prepping to do what five or six matches. Yeah. And so there's only so much you can actually engage in the Expo. And I'll see everybody. We'll take pictures. I'll say hi to everybody. I'll chat everybody up.

But at some point, I have to go into my pre-show mode where I just, you've seen it, I just power down backstage. And I just literally, I'm like a dead robot. Well, That's the beauty of it.

A lot of times for those live events, it's always, the onus is always on you and I, we greet everybody and we're talking to everybody. Just put that on the other stiff in the Schmodeon. Let them entertain everybody for a minute. It's true, though. The spectacular, you can go there and you can see a lot of people. Even if you're not like a Schmodown fan,

you want it, but you've been watching a lot of network. You want to see a lot of the SEM people or Sith Council, IG people. Everybody's going to be there. So they're part of this expo, and you come there. But there's only, I think, like 70 tickets left for that. Yeah. No, no, no. We had 75 total. I think there's only 14 tickets left for that for the Expo. The Expo is going to be fun, too. And the Globe Theater is such a great space to accommodate all of these sort of things. And like my dream for the spectacular is, you know, I know you love to call it like WrestleMania sort of thing. I like to call it the Super Bowl. Don't say that. Don't say that. It's the big game. It's the big game. It's the big game. It's stupid.

Carolina's playing Denver in the big game. And it's like, I know what you're talking about. But can we talk about that real quick? We'll go back to our stuff in a second. But how does that make sense for marketing? Don't tell them what the name of our thing is. We're only us. We're the only ones that can say what the name of our thing is. Even if you talk about it, if you do a review on one of our things,

call it the big game. Why not call it the Super Bowl? What's the legal thing on that? If it was us, then you would say, yes, talk about the Schmodown and use the word Schmodon. Don't say the movie trivia show. But if you're the NFL and you know how popular you are, that everybody knows it's the Super Bowl already,

then you can take advantage of the fact that, hey, if Coke wants to make a promo and they want to say you can win tickets to the Super Bowl, then you're going to get more money juiced out of them. If they just say tickets to the big game, it's not. It is lame. And it's not like anybody in the NFL higher office is going to lose sleep or not be able to put their kids through college. If they say Super Bowl instead of big game. Yeah, but it's so stupid like where I said it gets the Super Bowl trivia and someone's like,

oh, be careful. It's like, what? And they weren't wrong for saying that. But like the NFL they saw it. Don't say the Super Bowl. It's the Super Bowl of. It's like, shut up. You know what you do, though?

You know what you do? You just change it to say that, oh, no, I said Super Bowl. It's a Super Bowl. It's like a big... Cinderella went to a ball and it was nice. This is a Super Bowl. Yeah, don't say that because then Bibiani, for one of his entrances will bounce out on a Super Bowl and say, like,

this is... Oh, that actually sounds like fun for us. It does not a lot of fun. You know, you know, that's how the Super Bowl got its name, right? Somebody jumping around on a big ball? It sort of. It was the... Do you know what the original name of the Super Bowl was?

No. When they played it, and it was the Packers beating the Chiefs, 35 to 10. It was the AFL NFL-N-FL World Championship game. Oh, my God. That's the title of it. Wow. That's long. And then it was that the second year, I think.

And then before the third or four, it might have been the fourth year, actually, that I think it was Lamar Hunt, the owner of the Chiefs, his daughter, or maybe his granddaughter at the time, was playing with this one of those, like, little bouncy rubber balls. He's like, what's that? And she said, it's a Super Bowl. Oh, and I'm looking close. And then. I clicked.

The light ball went off and the rest is history. So now it's super. Don't say. Who came up with that? When did they start doing that? Because that wasn't for like a couple years, right? They didn't know we used to do that. No, I mean, since I've noticed, like, since my marketing.

Between the last 10 years, right? Since I was in college, I noticed that some promos can call it Super Bowl if you're an official sponsor of the NFL. But if you're not an official sponsor. And again, this is the same league, Christian. And I love it to death, as you can tell. I love the NFL so much. This is the same league that does their military salute to service.

And they charge the military to be at the game. I think they stopped that a couple of years ago when it came out that they were actually squeezing pennies out of our armed forces to honor them. It just makes no sense to me in a marketing side of it. Yeah, you might be able to squeeze dollars out of people for that. But it's like you don't want people saying the name of your product calling the big game. Well, yeah, because everybody knows what it is. It's like, that's super, you can't put a super bowl.

Remember, people usually get scared. You can't put Super Bowl reaction in the title of YouTube. You got to put the big game. And the big game sounds so lame. Yeah, and nobody knows what you're talking about. If you talk about that Iron Man 3 trailer review that we did, when the Ravens were playing the 49ers, I think, and you and I had 35 extra minutes because the lights went out to drink Kores Light

and then do more reviews. So we put up Iron Man 3 big game review. People are like, was there a, it's like, no, the Super Bowl trailer that literally just there. That's what we're talking about. we just say the hell with it and go with it anyway? Yes. And that was probably fueled by some, you know, blood alcohol level at the time doing it. But it's also just like fired out.

And if we get caught, we get caught. Are they going to put us in jail for saying Super Bowl? No, it's not. Baby. The FBI can come in here anytime. It's legal stuff. But here's the thing about the Super Bowl proper. And this is one of the reasons why I would love to go to the big game.

Thank you. I've never had the privilege going to. I've been very close in the running to go to the big game before, but never actually when. And one of the cool things, especially the way they modernized it now, there's all these parties and stuff. It's like Comic-Con. It's like Comic-Con for sports. And they have press row, and then they have this radio row where, if you like, say it's in Miami,

and it's just on the boardwalk and all these celebrities and athletes just literally go from one station to the next. So they'll do Dan Patrick's show. They'll do Jim Rome show. They'll do Stephen A. Smith show. They'll do all of these things just back-to-back. And that's kind of what I look at the Expo as is where we have all these great reaction shows. And you can just station them.

Just one after the other, and just run everybody through press rub. Well, we're going to have a media room for those people. This is, see? Yep, we're going to have a media room. And I also want to make sure that people know what that means because I got a few people that are hitting me up going, well, does that mean, I don't know if they get tickets? No, the thing is we have a media room the same way, like when you would go out on the red carpet and talk to people, the media room would be set up. But we still, if you get a ticket, you got a press badge, it means you have access to that thing. Right, we still are, still would have to get access to our private court.

That's right, whether it's general admission or whatever. But I do want to go back. I know. And you did segue out of it beautifully to get back to the spectacular. It was wonderful. But I still want to stay with the big game stuff because I have a question. You just won't let it go. No, I won't because I have a question.

New York's not going to be in it. The New York football team, neither one of them. No. The Yankees have a better shot of winning the Super Bowl. Speaking of which. So let's say, because the NFL hasn't locked down the big game, they locked down the Super Bowl, right? So could we patent the big game? Not us, but what if what if the World Series decided to say,

We don't want anybody to say World Series. We want you to say the big game. Nobody would know what the hell anybody's talking about. That's funny. You know, if it's like, okay, and then, and then, you know, the, the Masters is now going to be called the big game. And everything is the big game. Nobody would know what the hell anyone's talking about.

It's like, we got the big game. Which one is that? It's the one with the golf ball. Can't say golf ball. It's one with the ball. Well, which one is it? It's the basketball. Can't say basketball.

It's the one with the ball. What the hell is it? We're just all walking around talking in code. In code. About these things that everybody knows. what you're referring to. It's just making more words, and it does seem redundant in this day and age

where we don't even use words when we text each other anymore. No. It's just a string of emojis. We're figuring out hieroglyphics now, and why can't we just say the words that we actually mean? But it's also interesting that Fox owns the World Series rights, too. And when you watch playoff baseball,

they still use the same jingle as for their football. It's, da-da-da-da-da-da-da. It's like, can't you guys? Come up with a new one. Where's David B? I was just to say, Oh, call David B.

I'll come up with him about like 25 minutes. I'll give you a really good one. I did that guy dirty, man. What happened? I did David B. Dirty last week. No,

not last week, but the first time I met him, and I, you know, when we take pictures, I always smile. You know, I was like,

eh, but just for whatever reason, I was trying to smile, but I just, it wasn't a good smile. Oh. And David B posted a picture. Oh, who your birthday.

Yeah. And I saw it, and I'm like, I'll really try to smile next time. That's usually what I do. Like I'm happy to do it. You usually mean mug people, but I'm like, I don't mean mug.

I just don't fake it. I have to fake it to compensate for the fact that you are making fans cry. It sounds like my wife. It's always my fault. No, you're just going back into the Justin Hamilton hug. The Justin Hamilton hug conversation. Remember, so he hosts the, let's get ready. I know.

Handbone and I go way back. At Atlanta, like he, you, you, you, you, sidestepped and you told him that I wanted to hug and I don't like to hug. Oh, that's hilarious. I'm so funny. And it's great. And apparently there's a picture where he's giving me this hug and I was just like, okay. I don't, it's, there's nothing against him.

It's like, you know. Well, in your defense, Hambone and I listen to a lot of people make love in bathrooms. So maybe not the guy you want to hug. And you guys do that, not even when you're hanging out. No, no, no. You meet up in random places. No, I'll call him. I'm like, dude, I'm at Arby's right now.

Listen to this. Sounds like a show. You know that new sound you looking for? Listen to this. Look out. Watch your eyes. Watch out. Oh, man.

You know, I got, I got, I know that you were doing this way before anybody. And to Mark's credit, I'm a pioneer. You are. Every episode seems to come back to this. But Mark started watching the Sopranos for work, like way before the, the, many scenes of network. Way after the show had come out. And I do remember that probably the last legs of me hosting movie talk, there might have been a story where they had greenlit the project.

That it was a prequel. I don't know if it didn't even be being confirmed that Gandal Feeney's kid was going to be in it. But that was really all that we knew, I think. There's so much talk about a soprano's movie for years. Right. And obviously when Gandalfini was still alive, there was talk of a movie. There was talk of this other stuff. There was lots of talk about it.

And then as we got closer and closer, this started happening. And this movie was supposed to come out in March of this year. But then because of the pandemic, they pushed it back. But I was so hyped by the, because I was like curious about it. But I've seen the trailer. I probably watched the trailer as much as I watched like the Star Wars trailer. Like I've been watched, I did I watch that trailer as many times. The sun is so good.

And not only because he has the genes, you know, but there's, it's even the way it's shot. There's a particular shot like, they're in like an ice cream. You know, they're beating the shit out of this guy. And the way that it is shot, they're shooting, like, from the bottom up. And Gandelfini's kid is on the side, and he's over, and it's kind of towering over him. And if you watch the pilot, it looks like the same shot when Gandalfini was over. And he's making the same face. And it's funny that I saw this interview.

And even though I didn't like the interview because the guy kind of bum rushed Gantlefini as he was, the kid, as he's walking through Manhattan. He's very sweet kid. Right, right. He was walking through. And it was like a paparazzi. Nazi guy. He just kept asking. He wasn't rude. He was just asking about the movie, but the kid was just walking. Yeah, right. He started with him like, hey, the trail looked great. And very kind of calm. Very similar to what his dad was. His dad was just very chill and just like, thank you, thank you very much. Thank you. And he starts, and he's just trying to walk. And the guy keeps asking about the movie. But he's such a sweet kid. He keeps answering and doing and saying how that he didn't give any spoilers or do anything. He was just talking to him. And it's, and but you see him very similar to Gandalfini. James Gandafini, very different in the speech patterns and everything from like Tony to James.

Oh, yeah. It's very different. It's very different. But, but authentic. Like, when you hear the, the Jersey accent, it's authentic. It sounds really, even, he was a much more of a gentle giant in real life. Right. Just even in his speech pattern and the way that he talked. Yeah. Because you notice that when you watch other Gandolphini movies. Yeah, but I had that channel thing. 10, 15 minutes of Get Shorty on the other night. Oh, okay.

It was just on HBO, and I like to put stuff on. for the dog so she can hear it and then I was in the shower and I get out and it's Get Shorties come on. I'm like, oh yeah, I remember this movie. And I forgot Gandalfini's in it. He's got that ponytail, but he's not talking like Tony Soprano. No. And this is before the Sopranos. Do you know what he was terrifying in was true romance? Yes. That's terrible. That's probably what got him Tony Soprano. Yeah. I mean, he played a mob-ish guy in Get Shorty, but he started getting those roles probably based off of true romance. That viciousness though that comes out of him. Yeah. What he's able to do?

Just that primal rage that he can just tap into. And you feel it's simmering. It's like you're looking at a pot on the stove with the top over it. And you wanted to, wait, it's like, look, hey, I don't have all day to cook this pasta. Let me get this stuff cooked. And so you turn up the heat a little bit more than you should. And you just, you see it bubbling. And you're like, oh, what's going to happen when I take the lid off?

But that's the beauty of that, dude. Did you see the movie? And did you see the movie that he did, the last movie he did with Julie Lee-Dreyfus? We saw it together. I figured that we did. Name the movie. And I don't remember that name. You don't remember either.

One more shot or it's like, it's something like that. I don't remember. It's like a rebound movie. I remember the movie well, but it's two words. But he, but that gentle soul, gentle bear thing is, you don't see any of the Tony Suprano

at all in that movie. No, no. He's just a sweet, in general. I've told you this before. I don't know if I've told it on the air if I did, I don't know which one of our Shmo's shows, but it was, I told you my favorite Gandel

Feeney story ever, right? Was it for Christmas with the Cranks? It was surviving Christmas, wasn't it? So I went, so our mutual friend Adam Winkleman had gotten us tickets to the premiere of that film. Yeah. That's the one of Vince Vaughn, right? Yeah, yes.

I think so. It's always four. What is Christmas with the Cranks? That's a, I think that might be Jamie Lee Curtis. Is that Tim Allen? Yeah. This is, no, this was James Galifini and, and, uh, oh, no, no, no, no, no, Ben Affleck. Ben Affleck, because Vince Vawn was in four Christmas.

Four Christmas. With Reese with this movie. This is surviving. A lot of bad Christmas movies. For every Scrooge, RIP Richard Donner. Both crappy movies. Yeah. Not Scrooge, the other.

No, right. The other ones. So this movie, the premiere, and I was excited to go because I thought the movie at the time, the trailer looked funny, but I was also massive James Gandalfini fan and looking to say, you know, like, okay, yeah, and it's fun to get.

This was early in your premiere-going career. I think I'd been the one premiere in my life at that point, right? Maybe. And this is way before anything that we'd ever done. I was, I was, what was it, 2002 or something along those lines? Did you still have your CPK employee number to clock? I had, I think, stopped working there at that point or close or just right. I got to find out what year.

Let's face it. You stopped working there three months before you actually stopped working there. A year before I stopped working there. Are you kidding me? It's a terrible employee at this. Surviving. While you look this up. Yes.

I met our mutual comedian friend. I just randomly saw him at the comedy store. Skippy Simon. Oh, I just talked about Skippy at length on the last episode with K. Mulligan. Did you really? Yeah. We were talking about Skippy.

What's he doing? Was he at the store? Yeah, He just popped by to hang out. But he told me, because I sent you the picture. I told him to take a picture pointing to your name. Oh,

and you sent me that? I sent you that. I sent you that. I sent you that and then I sent you the one of me at Holtsman. Yeah. And Skippy told me, he still has your name tag. from CPK.

I gave it to him. He still has it. That's great. So where is the, you sent me a picture of Skippy? Yeah. I didn't see that. Where is,

we'll find it. Last one I have is, doesn't make great radio. No, it, you didn't send it me, dude. Like,

I'm looking, last one I have is you with a picture of somebody with two ass cheeks next to him and then Holtzman. You never sent to me. I wonder who the two ass cheek person was. I wonder who you sent the picture of Sippy Simon to.

But, but what was that? October 22nd, In 2004 is when this movie came out. So I was still with my ex-girlfriend at this point. And I had probably, I was in this place where I was, I was doing nothing. Yeah. And it was right around the same time, I think, where I, and I saw the Klitschgo and Lennox-Lewis fight.

That might have been the year before. Either way. So we get to this, we get to the premiere and I'm the height of my Sopranos fandom. And I'm looking around and I look at Gandalfini and the movie's playing for a little bit. You know, I was not sitting too far away from him. Which is cool when you go to a premiere because sometimes you're just sitting like the stars are right there. Yeah. And I don't think Gandalfini had seen the movie because the movie is playing for the way.

And it's, I mean, it's terrible. Not good. It's a terrible movie. He gets up and he looks like he wants to leave. How far into the movie? Oh, man, I got. Doesn't feel like it was that long into it. I think it was like 30 minutes.

Okay. Maybe 20. I think. He took some shots. He took some jazz. I really don't remember. But what I do remember. remember is him getting up in his manager really like it I couldn't hear what they were saying but it was

if if I could write the scene and probably be like and I interviewed the manager he'd be like I don't know how you did it but you got us word for everything we said because it looked like he was like get me out of here this is embarrassing and the manager's like you do you cannot leave if you think this is going to look terrible you cannot leave I was doing this motion like you can't that is so great and then maybe he you know went to the bathroom ever he stayed But it, look, he wanted out of there. Right. He wanted out of there.

Yeah, I guess you can't leave. You can't leave because the, and, and maybe if you talk to him the manager now, the manager, like, nah, no, not. It's not what happened. I know body language. I know that dude wanted out of that movie. He wanted out. And telling Winkleman and talking to Winkleman and Gail Finney, well, I don't think he was at the after party.

I might be wrong. I don't remember seeing him there. But, like, he was, he was, dude, he would, he wanted out. Well, that's, I mean, if I had a big premiere movie, that or even a crappy movie that I knew it was bad. I would want to hang out and I would probably leave early just to sneak it just to get early into the after party. Right. Just to get away because you know the food that they have a drink and like the bar and stuff like that. Most star studded premiere that you can remember attending. Oh man. Where you where where there's famous people for

sure like on stage and stuff but where you're literally sitting among you're like that person that person. Hard not to say the the force awakens right because like everybody and their mother was there for that. Force Awakens, yeah. But it Force Awakens, we were, because you and I just kind of got lucky with the timing where we get out of the limo. The previous limo person was Harrison Ford. Right. The first person to get out of our limo was me.

Right. And so the fans were a little let down. But we're walking in. The conjure club guy. And so we're walking in and like John Williams is right there. Harrison Ford's right there. Steven Spielberg, Spike Lear right there. Bumping shoulders of George Lucas.

I mean, what was more starting? started than that. The seats that you and I I think sat next to each other. Maybe we'd at Avengers Endgame. At Avengers Endgame in the downtown Los Angeles great place. Was that outside? Was that outside?

It felt like it was outside because they had the air vents going. It was inside. Like the giant like convention hall. And it was like stadium seating, so it felt like you were outside. But literally Kevin Hart and Matt Damon were in the row in front. That's right. They were right. You point, we did sit next to each other

because you pointed that out. I said hi to cap. Yeah, right. Yeah. Well, for me, the other one that I think that, even though it wasn't as, it was the, the,

freaking Irishman, right? It wasn't that it was as star-studded as it, but it was, I still had a video somewhere. Scorsese was where you are. And it's like talking. And then he walked,

he was supposed to go that way, but he went up this way. And I took Dagnino with me. That'll, yep. And Dagnino looks over, and he's like, hey, Marty. He said to him

He said something to him In a Dagnino way And Scorsese laughed Like legit loud I had the whole thing on camera Somewhere I just got to find it And then they said

Mark you gotta go that way Because the whole cast and crew came out But then I saw Sebastian at the after party Oh yeah yeah And I was And I What was great was This was probably a year after I had interviewed

Leah Thompson And she was there And I started talking to her But I think Dagnino Had just had this whole story with Joe Pesci at the country club. Did you hear this thing? I remember the story.

What are he? It was the, I'm going to try to call him. It was the Super Bowl. Don't, the big game, dude. Oh, yes. But I can't remember what it was, but something happened and he talked about it. I want him to tell the story. Well, there was a bet at the golf club where they were all watching the sooner big game.

And Pesci was there, I think. But then he saw him, he talked about. I can't remember what he was talking about. Is something about this golf club? Was there something about the food? He was pissed up about the pasta? Yep. Yeah.

It's a fuck face. Hey, you're on. You're on the big thing at the moment where Ellis and I are talking, but we started talking about like the Irishman, the premiere. I'm on a show right now? You're on the show right now. Oh, okay. So I got two questions for you.

The first thing is, do you remember what you said to Scorsese when he came up to the aisle because he laughed? Oh, man, what did I say? That's okay. Don't worry about that. The other one was... I think I said like, hey, Papa, something like. Yeah, something like that.

But what did you say to Joe Pesci? The country club story first. The food. Yeah, it was about the food. And then you saw him again at the premiere and followed up with it. Oh, I was talking about Lakeside, and then I talked about how I was the guy who was smoking cigars inside the men's, like, locker room where it was off limits. And I thought I was the cool guy. And all the wise guys were looking at me.

And then my buddy who brought me there, tapped me on the shoulder, he goes, there's no smoking cigars in here. And I'm like, oh, damn, I just walked out and apologized. They said nothing to me at all. And then, I mean, that's a long time ago. What did I say to him at that? It was something about the pasta, because he was complaining about the pasta. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I go, what's the deal with the pasta?

He's like, I know, man. He's like, he's sitting here. I'm paying $250,000 a year to be in this country club, and then, you know, there's no pasta. He goes, what was happening here? I go, Joe, I'm right with you. Right with you. Even though it wasn't my story.

It was my buddy's story, but I made it my story, obviously. Sounds right. And I was telling Mark, we were talking to Leah Thompson by the pool. Oh, yeah. Oh, that was amazing, too. I was destroying her. Yeah. And what he means by.

Yeah, because she was great, though. Yeah, she was fantastic. Yes, and he was... The other one was, well, people's choice awards will always go down as the best one. I forgot about that one, too. It's not people's choice. It's a critic's choice. But anyway, all right, listen, I'll talk...

Critics are people, too. Critics are people, too. I'll talk to you soon. All right, thank you for the story. We'll talk to you soon. All right. All right. So, yeah, I forgot the critics' choice.

That was, I mean, that wasn't a premiere, but that was pretty... Julia Roberts tonight. Yeah, right. That was the only time, I think, that I, like, legit. it like now after being here for long enough you know it's like it's always cool when you see people like Harrison Ford and all that stuff too but when but for the Julia Roberts thing I lost my power of speech yeah that that night to me because I wasn't there with you but I felt like that was like your uh your Van Halen your your Lou Gehrig speech oh where it was also your swan song as far as

like I'm going to go to this event and I'm taking a picture with every famous person I see for that one where you that was like you wrote out you were like Elway literally retiring after winning the big game. And because you got so many great pictures. I think you got like Patrick Stewart and Julia Roberts was there. But the Julia Roberts is like, I can doff my cap. I feel like the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

I'm going to bed, good night. I never need to meet another famous person. Every one of my friends knew when I posted that picture. Yeah. That they're like, that's like you could die right now. She might have been your Mark Hamel for me. 100%. Like when she walked in to it, I was just,

I mean, she was sitting there right next to near me. And I'm like, when she walked in, I was like, holy. Perry Nemeroff took that picture, by the way. Okay. And because it was, you know me, normally be like, hey, you know, because at the Critic's Choice Awards, it's not like one of these things where you're like, because it's the fans. You're not known as a gawker.

You're not imposing on them because that's what people don't realize. It's not like one of these things where you're doing the, like, if you just see, and it's not that you're always imposing, but if you see someone like normally you're famous of anybody, like, hey, you mind if I get a picture. They're there because you're a critic that has voted on their stuff and they're there to, They are trained by their publicists. They're with you. Very nice to these people who you hate in real life.

Right. But for one night, you've got to be nice. It's literally like they give them a pill like in limitless. And they're like, hey, just for this one night. Be nice to these people. Just be cool to everybody. And I've never heard a bad word about any celebrity. Ever at the Critics Choice Awards.

It's true. And that, but that, like normally I'll be like, hey, you know, like Margot Robbie, by the way, very lovely woman. And I took a picture of her. And as stunning as she is, very easy for me to do. I legit lost the power of speech. She walks in like, blah, blah, blah, blah. You have 30 plus years of baggage with that woman.

Yeah, and Perry Nemeroff was like, you know, I'll take the picture for her. I was like, I was like, good because I don't even know if I could get the words out. Your hands are shaken. And I, like, when she was there, I was like, normally I'm, and when I'm stone, I'm not a good talker. I mean, that's, no, we have evidence of this.

That's very, that's another story I would definitely tell you about. But it wasn't stone. I was completely sober. Couldn't get the words out. And Perry, she's like, hey, you mind if I take a picture of you, my friend who was bad. Memoroff, rescued you again. Totally did. But speaking of that, so were you at Renazisi's birthday party when it was, I feel like you were,

but it was like a whole group of us for dinner and we were at, it was, it was, with the league folks. Yeah, but it was, it wasn't, yeah, it was Ari was there and Al Madrigal. Which was there. Yeah. Yeah, so it was. And it wasn't at the, it wasn't at the, it wasn't the big premiere thing. No, I know.

Yeah. It was like a small thing. Yeah, I was there because I got hammered at the comedy store later that night. Because this was right off of, it was right near La Siena and sunset. Something around the. Where we went. Yeah, I think it was actually that hotel because there's a, when you're driving down sunset, you can turn on La Sienega and then there's another road that you can take where everybody thinks,

oh, I'm going to turn down this road because I missed the turn to Los Siena. But it's just a cul-de-sac. It's a hotel right there. And I think it was that hotel where we had, where we had that nice little private dinner area. Yeah, but there was like a little area. there and I remember Ari was like hey do you guys want to want to smoke and you definitely weren't smoking at that point so I don't you didn't do that but it was it was me angel are a few other people and I think Steve was and then we were smoking and Al Matrigal was there and I've I've definitely

told this story I think I've told it recently but I to tell you um and I'm sitting here and you can picture Al at this and Al's telling me this like long story yeah right and I'm so stone I say I'm going to listen now I got to be honest I didn't hear anything that you just said And he goes, I think you should go home. That's what he said. And I said, you're right. And I told Sadie, I was like, we got to go. I go, I can't even function.

I don't know what Ari was smoking, but I was on another planet. That is so perfect. And she's just like, you are out to lunch, my wife. She's my girlfriend, I think at the time. But like, you are out to lunch. And Al was just like, I think you should go home. Al is, that is so typical great Al Madrigal. because every so often you need,

you need an adult to just, to just kind of give you a couple slaps around. Remember one night I was at the comedy store and I was probably dressed even more down than I was, than I am now. And I, but it was Saturday night and I had like, and it might even just have like a belly room spot or maybe I was in the open in the OR or something,

but it was a good spot. Yeah. Back crowd. And I go up and I have a good set. And Al's going up a couple of comics later and then we're hanging out talking afterwards. And he's like, you know, you know it's Saturday night, right? And I'm like, yeah, yeah.

And he's like, have you seen yourself in the mirror? It's like, you've got to be an adult now. You got to dress up like Saturday. And I remember thinking, maybe I should. Like, he had that power of it. Because he must have been so frustrated with me because he was like, we were having a. Yeah, right, right. To him, we were having like a real conversation.

And he's out there telling me all this stuff. And he's talking. And I just, I don't even try to pretend. I look at my goal, I didn't hear anything you said. And instead of saying, oh, don't worry about it. He was the best. I told, I probably told this story before, but I just, he had one of the greatest comedy sets I've ever seen in my entire life,

the night that Chappelle, who was doing some pop-in sets after he came back from South Africa. He was just like popping into clubs, but then he actually put his name on the marquee to do the main room one night at the comedy store. And tickets sold out in like, you know, a second. Right. And so Bruce Willis was there. DiCaprio was there. This was like a star-studded event.

Yeah. And obviously he was sold out. And I was working at the comedy store then. And he had a couple guys open for him. And they did okay. Like getting the crowd warmed up. You could tell the crowd is like, we're here to see Dave Chappelle.

And then Nick Cannon goes up. And Nick Cannon, who just kind of had that look in his eyes like when he got on stage, everybody's going to love the fact that I'm Nick Cannon. And within two minutes, it's like, they're not here to see you. And he realized it.

And it didn't go all that well. And then it's like, okay, now it has to be Chappelle. Right. Like this crowd is going to ride. if anybody other than Chappelle goes up. And they introduce Al Madrigal.

And he literally, like, part of the room is just like, as he's going to the stage. Like, he's getting heggled before he even goes up to the mic. And Al, killed. Turned that room around. Yeah. In not the quickest where he just had one line that just,

but he just methodically marched the ball down the field. And it took about two or three minutes. And the crowd was so on his side. Yeah. And he did about 10 or 12. After he says thank you good night, standing ovation. Good for him. It was unbelievable to watch.

Were you there the night that he got, and it was really funny, but he was pissed with the lady that was coughing? No. I can imagine the scenario. He's in the middle of the set, and he's doing a good set. And I think he was testing something. He was trying to work on some stuff. And so he's like,

and he's like, and he stops. he goes get some water he goes there's like a bar he's like he's like you can get up and they're like give her a break she's coughing he's like she keeps coughing and he just keeps going and the crowd like went from being like

oh he's picking on the slate of coffee to like no he's right yeah he's absolutely right like all of his points of the further it goes and he was so mad he's just he's just like you probably at that point you should be home like drinking NyQuil or whatever he said. He's like, he's like, you should be on medicine. You shouldn't be here.

And then I can't, it's the guy who's with said something. He shut them down. It was, it was masterful. He's so fun to watch work because he's a comedian scientist where he will, he wants to go up and he wants it to be the most controlled environment. So he can actually work on stuff. So he can tinker with just pieces with words. And in order to do that, you need a lively crowd, but not one that either has a distracting

laugh. Or a cough or something like that. Like I've heard the same kind of stories about Letterman back when he was working there. It's because one time Letterman got off stage, told me by Diane Nichols, Letterman gets off stage, murdered, literally murdered. And he was recording it because he was doing Johnny Carson like the next week or two weeks or something like that. And he was upset.

And she's like, why? What's right? You crush. And he's like, they were too hot. Yeah, I couldn't work on anything. They were too good. And it's like when you get to that level, when you're miserable, Because you're crushing too hard.

You're probably pretty funny. Yeah. And that was, did you finish watching the doc? No. Never finished watching? No. You just can't do it?

I can do it now. Yeah. But I just haven't gotten around to it. Because you were. I just had to turn that part of my brain off for a while. I get it. You should watch it, dude. It's really good.

Yeah. It's probably one of the main reasons that I'm, that I'm really want to go back and start doing more stuff too. Because it just, it just, I was like, it's, it's been like my own personal therapy. inside of it too. Like, I feel like, yeah. I mean,

I know that we did a lot with Shmose and, and the other stuff that we did, too, but I do feel like I wasted 12 years of my life. Like, not doing stand-up. Just building a family. Not including that.

I'm talking about, I'm talking about career-wise. You just look at your family. Do you think of all the jokes you could have written? Yeah, it's true. It's like, but no, in a,

in a warped way, yes, right? Yeah, because like, man, I mean, I love you all, but man, I could have been doing the chuckle bucket in Arkansas

this weekend. No, But I should have been writing jokes about them 10 years ago. I should have been writing jokes about them and doing stuff because, like, there was, there was so much, like, and that I was, had gone. Like, looking at, like, from this last year in October, when I started writing stuff again, which I hadn't done that process in so many years. And putting together those, I'm like, oh, wow, if I would actually done that in the last 12 years, I probably would have come up with a handful of shit that I'd be pretty proud of right now, but I haven't done it. Like, there's one thing that I wrote that I can't wait to try. Like there's other stuff that I know that it's going to be hit or miss.

And there's some stuff that I'll have to retool on stage and try to find this. This one I'm very confident in. And I want to try it. You know, and it's like, that's because I was walking on the street, like, with like, I was taking walks in the neighborhood, thinking about it. I was, you know, and. It's like when you used to walk Tazzie back in the day. That's what I used to write all the time when I walked Taz.

But here's the thing. Here's the misconception you have about this is that you did not miss 12 years of writing great stand-up goal. If you wanted to take the process of starting a family and document it in joke form, you could have done like an Amy or David Sedaris thing or a Carl Hyacin thing where you're actually just like writing a book about it. Because that is something you can sit down and now you wrote something funny and the job is finished. It is so frustrating. It's why I had to turn my brain off and not watching that stuff during the pandemic is because it is so frustrating to come up with something that you know is going to work on stage, that you cannot wait to bring to the people to a live audience and not have that opportunity. Well, yeah, I know.

It's like, you think of something, you're like, oh, this is going to kill. But that was a year. But that was only a year you had to deal with that, a year. It's a lot. It's a lot. That's only a year. I'm talking about the fact, like, right? And I had to turn it off.

So I'm saying the fact that you turned it off was just like human nature. That's like your survival instincts kicking it. It's true. But I also, but it's because my, I told myself that when you and I were doing the reviews and we went from like, you know, it was 5,000 views per review to then 100,000. I'm like, oh, we got 100,000 people watching. That's, that's the audience. and I didn't realize what I was really missing.

Yeah. And it's like when I started to craft these things and write against, I hadn't, during the time we were doing Shmose, I didn't write like that. And I wasn't thinking like that. We'd come up with quips and we would come up with things and we would do things. Right.

We would be on the Shmo's show, we would have moments and bits, but it's not the same. It's not the same as like having a premise and then going. And it's also, it's also staying sharp. You know, that's why you think you've been so sharp for the last,

for shit for the last 15 years. I can be sharper. But that's the beauty of, that's the beauty of what we do in general. Yeah, it's like you always want to get the, if you feel like I'm at the top of my game. Oh, you're going to get your ass kick right back to the bottom of the hill. Or you're going to stay, or you're going to be lazy and you're just going to do the same stuff and you're not going to write anything new. That's where I, that's where I've noticed a difference coming out of the pandemic for me is that I, I still, I have to put in more prep than I used to as of right now. That's partially because I want to work on a bunch of new stuff,

but it's also like if I go up there and I didn't really think about it, which is what I did last night, and I just didn't think about that much what I'm going to do. In prep. Yeah. I still know how to have a good set, but it's not satisfying to me. Right.

And maybe the audience enjoys it, but I still know that I could have, that they could have had a better time. Right. And so that's what eats at me. But isn't, but that's part of the class. You never really get over that.

No, but that's also part of the class. You've got to do that sometimes. You got to do that sometimes and go out of a prebuter. because it tells you when you go up exactly what you just said. Like, okay, it wasn't prepped. I need to prep now. And because of that class that you just took, you knew you needed to do that. Or you do that test that night and you go, okay, well, I'm, what I did last night

was I able to interact with the guy with the freaking Milwaukee shirt on. And inside of that, maybe I have something new because had I gone out prepped, I might not have had that conversation with that guy. So it's a catch-22 because there's things that you probably learned in that set that when you were up there, you're like, oh, but I said that to that guy. maybe I can turn that into something else, but it doesn't take away from the feeling of me not liking that feeling because that's not the prep feeling that I like.

Right. You never fully conquer it. You never master this thing. It's like golf. You never fully master it. Even when you think you do, you don't. Jack Nicholas, Tiger Woods never mastered golf ever. Right.

But they got really close to it. Right. And so with stand up, and particularly last night, it's like the thing that I still have to work on is, and when it's my name on the marquee, then I get into that competitive mark where it's like somebody's me for the very first time. I have to get, it's got to be great.

It's never that I don't try. There was an OR or main room? This was at a different club. Oh, it wasn't at the store. No. And so, and so you, you just forget sometimes you have to lock into each and every set like that, where it's that Michael Jordan thing where I'm never taking a night off.

Yeah. How long was it? Is that? I did like probably 20. Okay. So, where the hell do you do 20 minutes in LA? Um,

it's not the comedy store. It depends because you can do it. I've been doing the factory sometimes too. Okay. And that'll be 20. 20 minutes, depending on what night it is. But I did this place. It's called the Comedy Cottage, which is fun.

Okay. But it's at, it's out, it's an outdoor venue that is next to that Tom Bergen's. Oh, so you told me about that day. And it's great. I mean, you had 100 people there. Oh, wow. That were, that were a great audience. Is that just, is that just a,

people go up to that? My buddy, Maddie. Um, so it's, 20 minutes was like four comedians? No, there were like six. I did a little bit longer. Oh, you run the light. come back. I didn't run the light, but I just, I wanted to, you Eddie Griffin it? I wanted to, I definitely did not Eddie Griffin it because I'd still be there if I was Eddie Griffin in it.

But no, I jog, which you're not supposed to do, but I, I just, because I was bringing somebody else up. And I just wanted to make sure that they had a great, you know, yeah, entry point. Because when I was right at like 15, 16, I was like, I got one more in me that. Who was, who was the main, who was the last person? Margaret's showing up early. She's probably the biggest name on the show. But then there's just like a lot of like Steph Tollab is fantastic. We did a we taped a Comedy Central thing together a couple years ago. She's great.

So really good comics there. Like Eliza will pop in there every so often. Yeah. So I mean that's that that's also I know I know I don't know any like back in the day when I was going up a lot. I knew all the rooms. You knew all the place. All the people are booking outside of the store. You know the only club I never did in L.A. was the laugh factory.

It's the only one I never did. You never did it? No, isn't that crazy? Really? I've done the improv. thousands of times and then it's comedies for thousands of times. Wow. Thousands of them.

I think a lot of it was a stupid thing that I had when I was younger because like now, and I've told you this, I like Dan Cook. Like I had a chance to sit down with him and talk with him for a while. And my perception of him changed dramatically after sitting down with him dramatically. Because like he... Well, he might have changed dramatically too. That's why, and I picked up on that. I picked up on that when I spoke with him and he said as much inside of it that his

philosophy on life change from when he was blown up and he got humbled, like, down the line of of things that happened to him in his life and other things. And I respected that. I respect when somebody sits down and says, look, I was, I did things not right. It's, it's the people that, like, just don't learn from that stuff and it continued to go on. Then I would have been like, that guy's a douche. But I think because of that, at the time, it was like his home turf. And he never came to the comedy store. He was at that point. No. Not when I was there. I saw him at the store maybe three times in that period. And it was never, because, He wasn't passed by mid-sit.

Right, right. He wasn't a paid regular. So I never saw him there. And I was there from like 2002 until like 2008, right? Yeah. Never saw him there. Yeah. And so to me, it was like, okay, that's where that's where he lives.

And I had like this thing in my head, like it was him versus me where he, if he even knew who I was at the point. Some of that is built up from some of the stories that you would hear. 100% from the laugh factory. And knowing that it would be stolen jokes and things of that. Yeah. And it was just, for me, it was less about the stealing. jokes as far as what I hear because I never had a bad interaction with the guy. And the laugh factor was the first club to make me a paid regular. Like I got literally made a paid regular when I was supposed to be working at the comedy

store that night because I went down to go showcase. Then I got made a paid regular. Then I had to go back to work. And Dane was what it was more about was that like if he showed up, then you might get bumped. Right. As opposed to like he's not like some other comics you hear about where he's just like watching your set and lifting all your stuff.

Right. And I don't know that he ever stole. anything. But probably not. But there was that thing that went around. You heard the Louis C.K. thing. You heard a couple different things like that. So a lot of time, depending on who you hear from it, you believe it, right? And there's certain things. And that was when a lot of stuff was going on, especially, you know, when, and then, I think it was like 2007, was one that whole the Rogan and Carlos Monsia stuff.

I told you that I was there the night before Katie, like the night before. And, and like, and dude, that was so crazy because it was this, it was like the same. same, I saw everything with the night of what was going on, like they had all the video footage from the next night. Right. It could have been the night before. It was the same comics that were going. It was the same, it was the same crazy atmosphere.

Same one of that. I was supposed to have a set. Yeah. That night, too. And I gave it to someone else. And I don't know what happened. I just said, yeah, I told him, I said, take me off because I had something else I had to do that. You might have had a late night set.

And you might have told me. Maybe. To, to do that. Because I was there that night. I was literally there that night. When that was being filmed by Red. Red Band, like, right in, because when you walk in the front of the OR, Red Band was right there with a camera. Okay.

I'm standing five feet behind Red Band watching. I was there. I was supposed to be there the night. I was there the night before. And, um, but something we've never talked about. Uh-oh. And it just reminded me when you and I, you did, we, we went to the La Jolla Comedy Store together. It's like one of the first nights that we, like, really hung out for a weekend.

Yeah. You know, and we did the La Jolla Comedy Store. Ahmed Ahmed. and Seema Tosh. And Shama, right. So it was, I, I was first starting to get my spots at the, at La Hoya. It was the first weekend that I was getting like the, I was the first spot that Shama and then, and then you were hosting.

Yeah, yeah, I got to do like a glorified pop in. So I don't know, do you remember what happened one of these nights? Um, I remember us. So mad at you. So, so mad. What did I do? You didn't really necessarily do it on purpose. It wasn't a cock block. It wasn't a cock block.

And knowing you now, it was more of just like, oh, okay. And you and I were supposed to go there together because I was supposed to go, you were going to host, and then I went up right after you, right? You left without me. Oh, not from L.A. to San Diego. No. The condo. At the condo.

I do remember there was a miscommunication whose fault. I do not know who it was. And again, knowing you now, it was definitely, it wasn't, at the time, like, this guy just screw me over on purpose? Like real, real quick. And then it went away fast. I'm going to do his spot. To me, you don't know how it is with comedians.

No, you don't know this. So what happened was we, and so for people out there listening, you know, I was doing the weekend and I had just done the night before, I had a really great set. Mark was hosting. And then the next night, I go and I'm, and Mark goes. And he was supposed to go. I was supposed to go with him and he's gone. And I'm like, where the hell is Mark?

Like, oh, he left a while ago. I'm like, wait, what? And then I had to get there by myself. and I go, and I'm late for my set, like, real late. Mark has gone from doing like seven minutes to having to do like 20 because he's doing my time now. And like, they were like, they were cool about it, but they weren't happy. You still went up. I still went up.

Because here's what I told them. Yeah. Is I was like, look, I don't know where Christian is, but what I'm going to do, and I've still done this to this day is like, if I'm going up and the next person isn't there yet, I'm like, look, you can light me when you want me off stage. Don't let me when it's my time. Like me when the next comic is ready to go. And so if I was a stretch for five minutes, then that saves you a spot. So I'm kind of a hero. Ish.

I was, and I was late, but they were cool about it, but Tommy was like, Tommy gave me an earful when I got out of that. He's like, can't do that. Can't be ready for a spot.

Show up 15 minutes late. Mark was able to do the time. And I'm like, I'm like, dude, I didn't do it on purpose. And I'm like, are you, I was like,

I was stressing out hardcore. But we bonded so much that we did. We did. By the time Tommy gives you an earful, it's like, oh, I almost didn't mean it. Absolutely. There was a lot of, like, code words and things that were said that night. And, like, there was so much that went down. I just remember we had a good laugh.

And it was one of the seeds that probably planted in your brain about, about movies and stuff like that. It was Transformers. And we were both laughing. I was talking about how the ads, like, we're both super excited to see this movie. But it's like in one of the ads, I think it was, I can't remember who it was, but they're like talking shit. Yeah. To the machine.

It's like a human being like, yeah, bring it. Yeah. And I just remember thinking like, don't talk trash to the robots. Don't talk trash to the robots. Yeah, don't. No, and I think that we, yeah, because we definitely talked about the movies and stuff. Because I don't think at that point. We went to go see Transformers like the next week or two with a, it was a bunch of us.

Maybe so because that was 2007. Shmo's wasn't the thing yet. Shmoz wasn't the thing yet. I know, yeah, but grasping at straws was. Gassming and Strauss was currently going on. But the reason why I think that we even started that because our old friend, Martini Paratore, was the one who was working and said, hey, listen, we want to do some stuff where people are, it sounds so like everybody does this now, but nobody was doing this. We want to take these flip cams and have like just normal people reviewing stuff.

Nobody was doing that at the time. What the hell are you talking about? She's like, do you have any comedian friends? And because of the conversation that you and I were having everything, it's like, well, look, look, look at work. And it was like at the time pizza and beer Was some fun It was it It was pizza beer and we watched

And we were on camera together And we did everything that We did TV pilots We did TV pilots We did okay go back and forth Until neither one of us can name I know we did Bionic Woman Because

Okay I am going to take Chuck Gossip Girl Really Okay I think the show was Called

Devil or Lucifer. It was some guy in hell. It was like a dark comedy. Making it up. But the other, the Big Bang Theory. And Big Bang Theory, yeah.

So we watched a lot of those things. And then they liked us because they had so many people. They liked us and they wanted us to keep doing it. And then we did just that, that is literally how the pairing of Schmo's began. It's how I got here today. It is. That is how it all began because we were doing that for like a year.

And then eventually inside of that year, because we did our reviews separately. and then we started to do it. I remember the conversation you and I had in front of the CPK and Burbank about let's start doing it on camera together and you're like, ah, I'm good. I had to be one over.

Yeah, let's just keep it single because you're used to the stand-up comedy aspect of I'll tell my jokes, you tell your jokes. And it's like, yeah, but it might work better if we're actually able to play off each other. And then we started doing that and that's kind of how that started. And then this could be like full episodes

of the big thing, because the Alaska trip is a full episode. Oh, I was going to say, I mean, this was a great walk down memory lane for our retirement episode. And now Krusty the clown is saying, The time has come. It has been. I think we did hit the limit. Alaska would be a good.

Alaska would be a good, a slippery walk down memory lane. Remember when I ate it? You did. It was after the last show. And I think we went to like the reindeer races the next morning. And I just, I was lucky I landed on my ass. We almost got stabbed outside the clouds. You remember that?

Yeah. in like negative 7 degree. In Wasilla? Yeah. And we both had really good sets. And it was like a negative 7 degree. And the guy, this guy, like, and it wasn't like one of those things we were like, oh, that guy wants to rob you, but he wouldn't really hurt you.

Like, he didn't want to rob you. He just wanted to kill you. Yeah, yeah. He was. Some men just want to watch the world. Someone died that night. It just happened to not be us. Either way.

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