The Kristian Harloff Show - Will Spider-Man No Way Home Cross 1 Billion at the Box Office?! | The Big Thing

Episode Date: December 15, 2021

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What's going on, everybody? Happy Wednesday. That's right, Wednesday. We're almost at Spider-Man. I mean, look, at this point, you've seen my review. What's crazy about it is at the time of this taping? I haven't seen the damn thing. So we're going to do box office predictions of what we think is going to happen. And I got Matt Nost on the show finally. We're going to talk about a bunch of shit, man. We'll talk about Spider-Man for sure. But Matt's got a great show that we're going to talk about as far as settle the score goes. I've been on it many times over. You guys should know about it. We're going to talk about that. He's going to tell me why I should be watching Succession, like everybody. else is so much and we're even getting to some comedy store talk because there's i don't even necessarily know if matt and i have gone over how we met each other and how we've kind of stayed in contact and it's just good to have them on the show so we'll be bullshit and we'll be doing all that it's the big thing and make sure everybody if you haven't done it already subscribe to the channel go ahead and do that hit subscribe hit the notification button that's really important and if you're not doing it already you should be subscribed to this podcast Apple podcast Spotify all of it you know the drill all right let's get into this thing ladies and gentlemen

And it is the big thing. Myself and Nost, here we go. What's going on, everybody? Once again, it is Wednesday. Christian Harlow off here. And look at this guy. I am joined by Matt Nellis. What up, brother.

How are you? Good to have here. It's an amazing production you have going here. Just isn't it great? It's like a one-man band. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. He's a fucking one-man band. I like that guy with the drum.

Yeah, you got the cymbals on the knees. You get the bass drum on your back, some sort of, you know, brass instruments. And honestly, though, what's funny is, as stressful as it seems like it might be, it's the most calm and refreshed I've ever been doing this in this space, like, ever. You think it's just because you don't have the cacophony of 17 individuals running around trying to help produce a show? You mean this is less stressful than dealing micromanage?

Not micromanage. That's a, you have to manage. You have to manage. You have to. There's no way something that large production just exists on its own with everybody going willy-nilly. Although there was confusion. It's spectacular because the, The way you relayed to me what you asked me to do, I was expecting to be front of stage.

I actually liked it better when you came out on stage. Okay. Because the person they direct me to, and it was like, I'm pretty sure inside of stage. And it's like, are you sure about that? You were supposed to be, it was supposed to be on the floor. Yeah. It actually played better when you came out because it allowed the audience to see you more, as opposed to if it would have been.

Oh, get down, tucked in. The audience at home would have seen it on camera. Yeah. But the audience there, I think it was more impactful. So at first, I was like, oh, where is? I thought you may be, they missed. the queue or you missed the cue and I was like I got shit I missed and then you walked out

I was like you know what and then you guys improv the top 10 boom boy it worked it worked really well I told John I guess it'll be on this week's top 10 what I wanted to do was so as I described to him you know the Ace Ventura 2 where he's comparing pain the ah I wanted to do that but John's I like

for Dan and just go back and forth hilarious but I was like that that makes it about me and I don't need to be out here for too much. This thing's already five hours long. It was, but I thought it was nice what you guys did. It was a nice reunion between the two, plus the fact that you and Dan, when you left, there was never any beef in the story between you guys,

so it didn't really make sense. It was the fact that you guys to and see you out there. It was a nice moment for sure. It was nice to be out there and hear everything, you know, John's been playing this thing since you guys came in in 2015. And the fact that he finally, because you said it to me when I told you, like, oh, it's actually really stepping down this time. Oh, I've already told him.

I was like, I don't believe you. you, but that's fine. Nobody does. He's Sugar Ray. Right. He's going to retire and then unretire and then retire. There's nothing wrong with that. There's nothing wrong with that.

You've been doing this for a long time. You need a break. I totally agree. He definitely does it. Plus the guy's got 87 shows on his network. He needs to, he needs to manage. Create some time. He does.

Somewhere in there. So yeah, man, let's get into, I want to talk about your show for a bit. But let's get into the Spider-Man thing because, like I said, up top with them, I'm going to see it. At the time of this tape and we're taping it on Monday. Yeah. I'm going to see it today at four. So it's, have you been going back to the theaters?

Tentatively, yes. Same of me. I've gone to like three or four. What did you see? I go after it's been out for a while. Yeah. Just to, yeah,

exactly. So there's nobody left in the theater. Like daytime show or something? No, usually like a week, a week full week late. Yeah. And then on Tuesday night.

Right. Not a weekend. It's just to get it to fuck out the way. 15 people in the theater. Spider-Man, I'm hoping to see Monday. this upcoming Monday night. You ain't going to be.

I know. It's going to be packed. I've been waiting. I haven't gone to a full theater. And I'm really hoping Monday's fine because otherwise we're like, why then I should have seen it on Thursday. If it's going to be this fucking packed. It's going to be packed regardless.

I think because this is the first, I think, big movie shit, man, since like end game. Like that this big, like that kind of massive. What do you see in the theater though? It doesn't have the same heat overall to me. No, not at all because I mean, that's a combination of what? 15 movies to the end of? I think it was 21 or 22. Something like that.

Something ridiculous. Something ridiculous. So leading up to that at that point, no, of course not. But I mean, but since we've been in this shit for two years that you finally get a movie that people are that excited. It's the first event movie for a while. Yeah. I mean, I'm going in with no expectations. I didn't like far from home.

Okay. So. It gets better for me when I see it. It's better for you? It gets better. Like when I first, when I first saw it, I thought it was, it was good. And then I don't know, because we just did a rewatch series on this channel. And for some reason, I, I just, I just, I just, I, I just, I,

enjoy it more. What did you like about it? Kind of cheesy? Well, it's one of the worst theater experiences I've had in a while. Why? Dude, so it's, we're at an hour 20, hour 30 into this movie. Yeah. And two people walk in and we're in the middle, like middle of a row in the middle of the theater. My wife and I, it's sold out. Okay. And they walk in and then they stand in front of my wife and they're like, you're in our seat. And we're like, it's 90 minutes into the movie. These are our seats. And they show my wife like, here, these are our seats. And she's like, what time? Or does that movie start? And they're like, oh, it's like an hour from now.

Like, yeah, you need to get the fuck out. And then the person next to me, there was a girl kept asking her boyfriend. I think it was this movie. I'm pretty sure it was. I had a string like seven straight movies where after bad and it's like, this fucking sucks. Yeah. And it was an arc like no less. But it was like, all right, so that's Spider-Man?

That's what I kept hearing next to me. Oh, so that's Peter Parker. It's like, are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? We were like 75 movies into Spider-Man at this point. Yes. be one thing if it's fucking Dr. Strange. Like, I get it.

I get it. You have no working knowledge. Eternal. Eternal. Right, right. Just throw a dart. It almost any other fucking superhero movie. Spider-Man, Batman, Superman. You fucking know it. You got bit by a spider. We figure it. Yeah. So or this one's somehow different. It's the same thing.

Right. But it's the same story. Does this one do it? Does he actually have the webs in his body? Oh, so he's a boy. Oh, my God. Is he in high school? Oh, Jesus Christ.

So, but what you, everything that you just said is the whole reason, I've been having this conversation with everyone on this show for the last like four or five months. This is why I love the day and day screening of HBO Max. I know that it is absolutely done a thing where it's, I get the argument for how it's hurt some business and we'll see what happens with Matrix when it comes out. We'll see. We'll see for sure. But, but like, Dune, I know Dune's supposed to be in theater experience, but I would rather watch Dune on that TV right there with a good sound. system than to hear someone walk in and go, here's my seats. Oh, is that a worm? It's like people.

It was the worst, but yeah, I think that's a much rarer occurrence, just given the number of movies I don't know, man. All the people, like, think about every experience that you, like, I get lucky enough that I go to these press screening, so people are somewhat, like, behaved. Yeah. I don't try to go to the, because people aren't behaved in theaters, especially with phones and putting their feet up. And, like, I hear Sebastian Manuscalco.

my head everywhere I go. It's like, what? Are you in your living room? This guy? You're wearing a fur coat in the middle of summer? In a movie? It's like, yeah, it's like that's what I'm, you, and you, and the guy's got his feet up. You're bringing an Italian dinner. Get a bag of popcorn.

Yeah, I wish he'd curse because you'd be you motherfucker right there. but he just doesn't. Right. Yeah. But at the same time, like I've seen several movies as of late. It was a perfectly good viewing experience. Now, it could be because the theaters were at like 20, 25, 30%. Like I said, I waited forever to see Bond.

I liked Bond. I thought it was good. Yeah, it was good. It's not great, but it's good. Yeah, I liked it. I think it's his third best. Agreed. For me, people go back and forth.

Did you like the first one the best? No, Skyfall's the best. That's what I, same page. Same page. I had Skyfall first, then the first one would have been. Yeah, Casino Royal. And then this one. Most people have Casino Royal.

Yeah. I'm with you, though. Skyfall to me is my favorite out of those. I think it's just, it's stunning. It's my favorite Bond movies, not just,

not just great. It's my favorite Bond movie. Yeah, it's really good. But yeah, I would put the number three and then probably Spector and then Quantum of Salas. Agreed.

Yeah, same ranking. Quantum Salas is just boring as shit. It's pretty bad. It's pretty bad. I don't know. Spector could have been something. It's none. They didn't know what to do with it.

They didn't know what to do it. Yeah, but then to throw away Blowfeld in this one, Romay Malik took them out pretty easy. These guys were supposed to be like a massive decades long criminal organization. I'm trying to show you how much more superior of a villain. But why is he superior? Like, I don't know.

You know, they don't really set it up well enough. And I think, but it was a good sendoff. I enjoyed watching it. Sure. But it was, it's fine. Now we need a new one. And whether or not they're going to do a new one in a while, I don't know. That movie still, what's crazy is I was telling everybody.

I had made a lot of, like 600 million. It did really well. Yeah, it's not bad. But it didn't. It had to, that movie. because of the amount of money that it costs. That's what's great. Because they've been sitting on it for so long?

Yeah, marketing, but how much it costs overall, from what I saw, it needed to make a billion dollars in order to make profit. There's no, that's the, stupidest thing. The chicanery that studios do were, I remember Michael J. Fox after like 20 years, like I still haven't made an extra penny on Back to the Future.

It's like, what? Because they, on the books, run it down as like the marketing and everything costs way more than it ever did. Well, whatever, but no, when this thing came out, I remember everyone saying how much, much it needed to make because of all the additional costs and all the different and maybe pushing it back marketing whatever it might have been and I said that can't be right and then looking at

some report that it was it's like but that's stupid it's like especially when that movie's coming out it's like who's going to go a billion dollars is not easy to do in general no it's like when fast and furious eight or seven did it you're like what the fuck that's setting it up to fail right that's all it's doing it's like you need to make a billion you're like how many movies have done that seven 10 there's something yeah it's it's a feat when it happens And setting it up to try to aim for it. Let's aim for $300 million. That's good.

That's excellent. Yes. You know one of the things that really, I mean, I think one of the positives as far as box office goes is everything that they've learned through the pandemic. Hopefully, smaller budgets now because people aren't going to see. Like, when you put a, like look at West Side Story, which was phenomenal. Oh, it's 100 mil though on a hundred million musical. That's tough.

It's tough. It's tough. There's no, and no big stars. Like, just Spielberg's name doesn't cut it anymore. And the movie made a hundred million. I mean, the movie costs $100 million to make like 10 opening weekend or even less. Yeah, I saw In The Heights did better.

Something like that. I loved West Side Story, the new one. I loved it. That's all I've heard, but I never see musicals. It's super rare. But that's my point. For 100 mil. Well, that's what you've been hearing it for years now,

but tons of different actors and directors, whatnot. Basically, it's, I can get a $50 million movie produced or I can get a $250 million movie produced. The adult drama that you have to make For 80 doesn't get made. No, unless you put it on streaming and you get a deal because that's where, that's where these things play now. So when Ridley Scott's going, oh, no one's seeing the last duel, no one's going to the theater to see last duel.

I saw it digital, phenomenal. Love it. I'm not going to see the movie in the theater, unless it's a screening. Why am I going to go for two and a half hours to see that movie? Because also you're looking at budget and is always inflation as the age-old conversations. What are you going to spend? If you're, you know, you have an event to go to, you're going to see Spider-Man. you have two movies you're going to spend $20 a ticket on or $15 a ticket on.

Spider-Man or Last Duel. What are you going to do? If you're an 18-year-old kid, 20-year-old kid, which is the majority of the audience, though, dude. Majority of the audience is young kids. First off, you know just as well as I do. They're not going to open Last Duel if they see Spider-Man has that weekend. No, I know. I know it's true, but I mean, but he's blaming it on Marvel movies.

Yeah, of course he is. Right, right. Just like every person that's been in the industry for 50 years is going, these fucking kids, bro. And it's understandable. You're an old person. Shit changes and you don't like it because you want cinema to be respected in a certain way. I get it. I totally get it.

Unfortunately, shit has changed. It's like Robert Altman when the movies is going to. It's fucking, what's it? There's a big dog now that's the number one movie with the space kid? It's the same thing. Can you imagine the private conversations about most directors switching to digital? Oh, shit. And you saw some of the verbal over in the public, but there I'm sure there was a whole community of like, look at these assholes.

Well, Scorsetti, the whole thing. I mean, Hugo was pretty much a big FU to digital. It was all about film and everything, you know, digital. film, you know, the preservation of it. I mean, that is his, that is his choice. That is his right. Yeah. And that's, but that's, but he's, Scraisez, he's a guy, though, that did the right thing.

And not the right thing, but did the, did the smart thing with Irishman, right? Because Irishman, like, you saw the, the one, was it, uh, silence? Is that the one with, uh, yeah, with Liam Neeson and, uh, Garfield? Adam Driver and Garfield. Beautiful movie, gorgeous movie. I actually saw that movie in the theater. There was two people there on opening night. Yeah.

Nobody wanted to see it. beautiful movie but after that movie I made nobody wanted to make Irishmen because nobody's seen Scorsese movies in the theater anymore right in the wave of like Netflix and everybody getting these movies Netflix he goes to makes his streaming movie it's nominated for Oscars it does this is what people

this is where remember people said you can't get movies made now you can't they're not going to watch in these smaller movies now there's a platform for people to see movies not just these little independent theaters and then it goes to VHS or some DVDs You can find it anywhere, but there's so much shit though to watch now. It's incredible.

Yeah, that's the other thing. There's just a ridiculous preponderance of content. Yep. To cut through the chatter and make yours a topic of conversation is really difficult to do. So the big spectacle films have a better chance of doing that because like, oh my God, did you see such and such, whether it was great or abysmal. It's going to get traction. If it's media like middle of the road, it'll still spark a little bit of attraction,

whereas something like Last Duel needs to be awesome. It needs to be so good. It needs to be in the, it's not even in the conversation right now with awards. I thought it was a great. It's a really good movie. But did you see it? I haven't seen it yet now.

That's on my list of, if we were in a pandemic, I would have saw an opening weekend. Right. I would have. What did you see that? Let me get, you saw Ghostbusters, right?

I did not. You didn't see Ghostbusters. I heard middling things. And I was like, I'll wait until it comes, it stays out for a little while. That's a streaming. I can wait for that on streaming.

I dug it because I think that it's definitely as being a dad, I think later on. I'm going to watch that. I want to watch it with my oldest. Okay. And it's already a fan of Ghostbusters? Not necessarily, but I think the premise is the, she has like books and stuff. She's never seen the original yet. So I'm going to show her the original before I show her this one.

But I think she's going to like this one more because this one's geared towards families and it's geared towards kids. Like I think that when the original came out in 84, it's still, even though there's like kind of families can watch it, it had that. Saturn Night, like when Saturday Live was good and had an edgy kind of feel to it. Okay. You know, like the Belushi era.

Sure, sure. I think that error is overrated, but go right ahead. Fair enough. But you can't, you can't, it still had that edge, though. It had an edge back then, then, then, do you like it now? Ghostbusters, yeah. No, no, no, Saturday Live. Saturday Live.

I don't watch it. Yeah, right. I see clips on Twitter and stuff every once again, but I don't watch it. Yeah, it hasn't been good in a long time. But that's something that's been said about. Saturday Night is dead. For years. been a headline since the late 80s.

True. Actually, probably early 80s when they changed the cast. True. Yeah, and then it came back, but it comes back in its waves. But Ghostbusters, I feel that you had that Bill Murray, the Harold Ramis era, that era of comedy was different than what this is. For sure. I'm sure. Yeah, yeah. Different disability, also different comedic minds working on it.

True. I'm trying to think what it was if I was going to guess what you saw. Hasoguchi? I have not. No, what did you say? Did you like Shang-chi? I thought it was okay. I thought it was good, not great.

I also saw it too late. Okay. I thought it was good. I saw it after it had been out for a little while. Yeah. Do you feel the same way? Just thought it was good, not great? I didn't like it at all.

I didn't hate it. Yeah. But fucking dragons. Oh, they took you out of it? That and then like the end of Wanda Vision, which is like, okay, I realize she's called Scarlet Witch, but we're going full Wiccan. Yeah, that was, I mean, that Scarlet Witch I liked.

Until the last, like, episode and a half. and the full reveal on Catherine Hahn, who I thought was amazing. Yeah. And I was really into the show. And then I was like, all right, so witches?

Really? Like real witches? Yeah. So does that mean, you know, okay? Took you out of it. I don't know.

I don't know why that fantasy is any different than any other fantasy. Something you get. Yeah. Or whatever. Something, you know. What about Loki? Loved it.

Yeah. To me, I like the parallel universe. Yeah. That to me fits right in with everything else with Marvel. Once you bring in the Dr. Strange multi-dimensional. Right.

Okay. I know where we're going. And just like, and we got witches and dragons. I mean, it really is at this point when the werewolves are coming. The werewolves and they are. Yes. And they are coming with blades. So it's like they got to do everything at this point because they've done so much.

But it actually goes back to the point of this. Did you see Eternals? No, I heard that was so boring. I loved Eternals. Oh, my God. You're the first person I've heard remotely say anything nice about it. And Roka hated it. But I know 50 people.

I loved it. That hated it. I loved it. I thought it was because of everything. you're just saying. Like, to me, I like the science fiction stuff. Sure. More than the fantasy.

I mean, I like fantasy, but I mean, I, I should say more, a lot of the Marvel stuff, which I still watch and enjoy, it,

it starts to feel a little more formulaic to me, right? Like, you know, of course it is. Shang Chi, as much as I thought it was a good movie, a lot of the familiar beats that we've seen a million times over.

Yeah. There was something about Eternals that just, it seemed, and I just, and then I saw Dune a little while later. It's definitely more deep. There's more to it. Like, as far as boring, I don't know.

I felt like there was a lot of depth to me for me. And the fact that they did that for $2.45, I could see you either really loving it or thinking it's the worst movie of all time. All I've heard is it is eternal. It is dull until the very end. And there's not enough action to wrap up the dullness leading up to. I didn't feel that way at all. I'm looking at the way.

Maybe not. I get sucked into movies like that. Like, I love Paul Thomas Anderson. He is one of my favorite directors. But at the same, the flip side of that, Terrence Malick, I don't understand. No, Terrence Malick, I can't. I can understand that what I'm looking at is beautiful, but I get... Exactly.

But I get bored. Yeah, it's like, okay. I wasn't bored like that with this movie. Okay. Yeah. I mean, I've heard that from so many different people. Yeah. No, I know.

I saw, I talked to a bunch of people that didn't like it. And the critic score wasn't that great. I was myself, Koi, and a few other people. But the audience, when I put the review out, I was expecting everyone to go, nah, this one sucks. The audience seemed to really, enjoy it. But the, it seemed a lot of the critics for some reason and other, it just didn't, just didn't land with them. Yeah, who knows? So Spider-Man, though, what do you think? So because of

pandemic and where we, where we are, this movie, does it crack a hundred million even? Opening weekend? Well, aren't they saying the pre-sales are right now or the best, I don't know that they're hype in it? Since, I think, Infinity, Infinity War. Okay. Which seems believable. Believable, yeah. Because I know quite a few people that this is their first. I'm not missing this opening weekend. I don't care. Yeah, I don't care. Where they've been with me by and large of like, I can wait.

Yeah. It's fine. Yeah. It's not the end of the world. Is that what its projection is right now is 100? I don't know. That's what I'm guessing. If I was to guess, I'm going to say this movie because big, what it used to be is

200 could be a massive weekend. Those days at least for now are gone. Yeah, currently. I'm going to say this movie, which is a big opening weekend number. I think it makes $117 million. for the opening weekend. Okay. Yeah.

Yeah, I don't know. I've been paying attention to those types of notes because they just haven't resonated for so long. Yeah. The numbers are always abysmal. They're all over the place. It could be, it could make 85. Tenet was the last one.

I'm like, I'm like, and then when that one flamed out, I'm like, okay. All right. Well, that's what it's going to be for a while.

That was stupid, that I put it out at the time. That was just ego driven. Totally ego driven. There's no reason to put that out at the time. Yeah, we both love Nolan. And you have an ego for a right. There's nothing in,

by far as I'm concerned. Yeah. It's like James Cameron. You've earned it. Has he though? Cameron hasn't earned it. Has he though? Dude.

Are you kidding me? For how well his movies do with the box office? I'm not talking. I'm talking about it. I'm talking about it. If you're running out, if you're a business and James Cameron tells you he wants to make a movie, his track record proves it. It's somehow that thing's going to turn out a billion.

Yeah. I agree with you. That's what I'm saying. I agree with you. I just do any of those films outside of his early work still resonate with you? Again, I understand every criticism with Avatar where you've seen it a million times over, whether it's Pocahontas or Fern Gulli.

It is. A lot of Dances with Wolves. A million to a hundred percent. For some reason, though, for that movie to me, especially I think it was the theater experience that really resonated with me when I saw it. Because I think the James Horner score is one of the best scores, like, ever. It's a great one of Horner's best underrated. And I do still think it plays.

I haven't watched in probably like five, five years. I haven't seen this in the theater. Since the theater. Did you hate it when you saw it in the theater? No, I thought it was mesmerizing. Okay, yeah. And I saw it in 3D and everybody said, you need to see it in 3D. And I'm glad I did.

It was good 3D. It was good 3D. Yeah. Because then I saw not too long after that, I think, was Tron. Oh, okay. Legacy. Yeah, legacy. And the 3D was jarring in a few scenes.

I could not make heads or tails of what the hell was going on. Yeah, there was that whole phase that the whole craze that everyone did with the just everything became. Just in, and guess what? 3D will eventually be back, but this time they're going to try and roll out 4D with the sense and smells. It's going to be this fucking shit. The virtual reality, it's how you're going to start to. Yeah, there could be VR.

Yeah. But I think that's a, I mean, even if that was ready to roll out right now because of the pandemic and whatnot, people, there's no way they're going to trust it. Not right now. People are going to trust to wear. Put it on somebody else. Did you clean it? Yeah.

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You should check it up. Let's talk about the show, dude. So settle the score. You've been doing it. Which, by the way, that was impressive. Which one? Just that, I don't know if that was a planned segue or an unintentional coincidence and you just went, you know, perfect.

I just set myself up and I even know it. 100%. Either way, it was once again, one-man band. Thank you. So I didn't see the harmonica. And then boom, you just popped down a harmonica from like a browser of a hat. I wasn't paying attention to it. That's the end of the show.

That's the end of the show. It's going to happen. This is really impressive. I appreciate it. Just flowing. The audience doesn't even realize it because that's how smooth and good you are. Just like, boom, this guy's got it. It's got moves.

That's the moves. So you've been doing the, you've been doing the show now. What about a little over a year? A little over a year. Well, yeah, a year in three months, I guess, some jazz like that. Yeah, so how did you decide, like, because the idea, the show is really fun. It's like, so if you guys don't know what the show is, it's called Settle the Score, Matt, and Andy. Andy Maryweather.

Andy Maryweather, who I like very much, very nice guy. The real talent on the show. He really is good, and he's such a nice kid. You can laugh at that. We both understand. He's the real talent. Without him, you're screwed. Yeah.

Yes. Very much. But he's a sweetheart of a kid. I really like him a lot. But the show. You have two people on, and Matt is hosting the show, and just give a little bit of a breakdown more so about what, you know, what the show is. I mean, basically, you've been on now.

Three or four times, yeah. They have four times, I think? Yeah. So, let's see, Ellis, Freddie. Ellis, Freddie, Derina. Riley. It was Riley. Yeah.

So there's your four. Right. And you can find all those on YouTube. Yeah. YouTube.com forward slash Matt Nost. There's my seamless segue. You see that? It's good.

Thank you. like that. So yeah, it's in essence, it's name that tune for movie music. Right. So we set it up and we kind of curate a list of 15 songs that I think that I'm the one that does the list. And I try and gear towards, all right, I know you like these types of movies. And then what I ideally want is the other person did you're playing that week.

You know them. Yeah. So it's more fun as a, it could get combative like I did with you and Riley and you and Freddie a little bit. Right. And it's more fun that way if they know each other. they're more apt to talk shit amongst themselves and get into the playfulness of it. And then, so we get the 15 songs.

We write out clues for all of them. And then there's three rounds. They all have slight variations of what they are. Yeah. But I give a clue and then Andy starts playing and you guess the movie that it's from. Yeah. Well, it was great though. So for those, if you haven't seen it, you want to go back and watch, the first time Christians on.

Yeah. You're not paying attention to any of the clues. And you got upset that one of the songs had been used in more than one movie. And it was the only one, I think that was recent one. Okay. And you were like, well, I don't pay attention to the clues. I'm like, the clue tells you what movie we're talking about in case you need to guys. I'm challenge.

I was challenging. Yeah, in essence, and be like, well, tough shit. This isn't your show. 100%. Yeah. So, but it's just like, the clues are there to help. I want you to get the answer right. I'm not trying to make it look at an asshole.

No, it does. You know what reminds me? I actually does remind me of like kind of the feel and tone of when like the Schmodeau started in like 2014, when we did it on Schmo's no. And it was just kind of, it was a bunch of friends just playing, playing trivia and having some fun. And you feel that vibe because like you said with Freddie was on. It was good to be on with Freddie because I, because Freddie was one of my favorite people.

Yeah, he's been one of my best friends for a long time. Yeah, because we came up together at the store. So yeah, reuniting. Had him. I had Rick on. Rick's the best. I know.

He's the funniest dude I know. He's the funniest dude I know. He's the funniest dude I know. He's like not even a question in my head. I've met a lot of funny people. He's the funniest person. He's the funniest. He's the funniest.

Yeah, I'm with you. And then after that I'd say maybe Diaz, just didn't shoot in the shit talking. Yeah. But Rick still. It's just something he's got. Yeah, like, I remember, let's talk about your show that first. I want to go back. We go to talk comedy.

Let's say we had those types of interviews. So we had comics on. We've had, you know, people like yourself that review films and whatnot. We've had actors on. We had voice actors. Like we had the voice of Crash Bandicoot versus Bumble Me Man. Oh, that's fun. They both do.

I know Bumble Me Man. He started out as a comic. You may have known, Eric Lopez. Yeah. Okay. So he's gone on now. He's been on everything. Okay.

Star Wars Spider-Man. He has a main voice on Young Justice. Ten other things. That's fun. Yeah, and then him and Scott White, he was in Mighty Ducks. Okay. That's a fun episode because they know each other,

and I know Eric, I've known Eric for years, and she's like, hey, to get, you know, have a little banter back and forth. Right. But yeah, so I give a clue, and then you're guessing the movie itself, and then we do,

first round is just like, we're going to play the song until you get it. Next round is we're cutting it down to five-second snippets, and they're recognizable. Yeah. So if you don't know it, then you should know it.

Right. I like the idea of two that there's parts, and I know you wouldn't get towards the end of it, it's more so of like how, and when Andy plays it, and you try to get it right away, and if you can't get it right away, you throw it over,

you can be a dick, and throw it over to someone else. You know, whoever you're playing against, so you can throw it over to them, and then it's just like, it's just fun. The show's just fun. Yeah.

Yeah. That's the whole point. I worked with Andy on, we did a jingle for a show that we did on top 10. Okay. And he had messaged, I met him in Chicago. Okay. And he came out to watch.

Yeah, our show and yours. Okay. He's a fan of yours and is an avid shmowdown watcher. Yeah. And so we worked together just on this jingle. We did a play on, thank you for being a friend. Okay. And it ended up, it was great.

Yeah. It was just fantastic. It just this working rapport back and forth where I sent him some lyrics and then he put it to music. And then we just did slight tweaks. And then he altered like one line that I think, saved the whole thing because I couldn't get this one stanza. Yeah, he just has that musical brain. Yeah, it was just like, what about this to smooth out this?

This wording? And I was like, perfect. And it was done. And it was like, that was a lot of fun. I like collaborating with people where it's a give and take. Yeah. Like he introduced me to a graphic designer that did the logo,

but send in suggestions, he comes back and then he has ideas of his own. It's really easy to work with. I'm happy to do it. Yeah. But happy to give somebody else the autonomy of, you know what you're doing. Yeah.

And, you know, we'll collaborate together and we'll make. something pretty fucking cool. Isn't that fun, though, when you have, because you know what your strengths are. You obviously know what his strengths are and be able to balance it out and make it. That's when the show,

the shows really work. Yeah, I think so. Yeah. If everybody understands, like, and I'm not going to tell you how to do that because I don't, you know better than I do. Right.

Is it tough, though? Because he's in the UK, right? Yeah, he's, just outside of London. Yeah, it's got to be tough for him. Because he's probably got to do shows like three in the morning sometimes. I mean, we don't schedule him that late,

but lately he'd prefer it to be later in the night because he's a night out. Okay. He hasn't seen him in six years because he's been up on your show. They see, they see what they're going to bit of each other. You know? I hear a lot of stories about to do over. She popped in. I don't know why she was awake at midnight.

She's like my wife. She goes to bed super early. But yeah, I mean, there are times where it's just like, hey, the window you're asking for. It's going to be, but Andy is more than happy to go, that's two in the morning. It's fine. Right. I'll drink some coffee. Like, you're an animal.

He does it. I mean, and it's really, he's super talented. It's the show. Once again, guys, I want to put the link in the description for you to check it out. but it's settled the score, which is a great name. Did you come up with the name for the show? No, that was Andy. Did he really?

Yep. Because you're really good with that type of stuff. So I would assume that was you. That's what, yeah, this is the first time ever, too. The mascot usually I have an idea. I'm really good with this and then visualizing something for it. Yeah, that's usually what your strength is. Yeah, it just did.

But on that one, I was like, I am literally, I sent him five ideas and it's like, I hate all five of these and these are the best of the 50 that I thought of. I was like, I am struggling on this one. About the name of the show? No, about the idea. of what we were going to use for a mascot for like a logo type of thing. The name, we were just rifling text back and forth. I think we had like five or six that we really liked, but I thought his pop the most.

And there have been other set of the scores podcast, too. There's a soccer one. There's a... Right, but this is different. It's settled the score. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, we're the only one remotely like this that I've ever found on YouTube play in any podcast form. Because settle the score for like soccer or whatever, it's like, what is that?

I mean, I guess, you know, the score between the game itself. Yeah, the two teams and the game, it works on a couple of words. the score itself for the, for the music alone. Even that's why that's what I first said, oh, good, there's all about scores. It's not all about scores. You got to be good as soundtracks too, which is, I get it. And that's, that's perfect. Yeah, you can't do.

You can't do the whole thing in the scores. Well, the problem is it will get too obscure too quickly. Yeah. And you got to have, that's, that's where I got tied up on the without list. And that's what the benefit of having those clues are. Oh, we're getting excuses a year later? No, no, no, no. I'm agreeing with you.

I'm agreeing with you. That's as far as the clues go, because in my head, when I hear, I know, I knows different songs from movies that have been in five different movies. But if you don't have those clues in them, then... Well, but also, too, I do my best, my very best to not choose a song. No matter how much it is associated with this one, if it has a rough association with anything else. Right.

Unless we're specifically going to get, like, point, a big fat arrow with the clue to that movie. Right. I steer clear, because it's just not fair. Right. And it just depends on how memorable it is. Like, if you're going to... Yeah.

Yeah, for sure. If it is iconically known for this one's, specifically. Yeah. I think you can't get away with it, but it gets difficult, man. We went 51 weeks without repeating a song.

Wow. I think we might have accidentally repeated one. Yeah. So searching those last like three months for more and more songs that you're going to know from a movie that I think you've seen. It took hours. There's a lot of pretty, yeah.

It's funny because you forget how much like prep in general goes into shows, but I can imagine how much prep goes into that show. After a while, like you get through a lot of the best, I mean, we have two Google, docs of just one is all pop songs from movies and one is all scores and on some level you think that they're getable but like the pop songs is 22 pages shit that's fucking crazy yeah and that's i still feel like we're missing i just added like four or five new songs for next week's show wow

um yeah so it's like you're still searching for yeah it's also tough because it's there's times where you you don't know your guess who you're going to have on and how well is this I remember you had Apollo 13 on there, which I, and I don't even think, and I listen to that score all the time. And I was so mad at myself that I missed it. But that's like, that's not a score that everybody can get. No, but it's a movie everybody's seen. So hopefully the clue points to enough of, of how you can get how you can get through. Yeah. If this score isn't maybe going to get you there all the way, then the clue should. That's the thing is I, I play, when I play on your show, I played to try to get it through my memory of how I remember. You're good at it. That's the, you know, was such a kick in the ass.

after you're like, I don't pay attention to the clues. It's like, you're already fucking good at the game, man. And you pay attention to the clues, you probably crush all the time. I'm not good at the clues. I'm never going to be good at the clue. I think that's where you're bogus. That's where you're just selling yourself short because you fucking forgot about it. The first time and a half you played.

And now you're like, well, that's my thing. That's my thing. Unconsciously, I don't want to get up. But now, but now what I've also having more fun with is playing the actual, the strategy of the game itself. Yeah, that's my other thing is I don't want to have like every week be the same people. But if they get the gist. of the game.

Yeah. Then there's some gamesmanship. Yeah. And you can see it as the wheels twist. We have a tweak on round one. So after you get the question right, then there's a bonus question, which I call the, you know, those questions, do you want to be a dick or not? Right.

Because you can cut the other person out, but if you get it wrong, you lose points. Lose points. But I like the end of it. Because I beat Ellis in the last one. Okay. And, and I did it because I knew, I knew this, we're getting more scores. That's not his strength. Okay.

And I knew that during, I'm like, I'm passing. I'm going to go. Yeah, make him settle the score in the last, yeah. The last round is the wagering round, which is that's where the real gamesmanship comes in. And you can't, the worst is when you see somebody figure out by question three, what they should have done in question one, the first time playing, no matter how much I try and explain beforehand. Hey, just think of it like this.

And then if your scores down by this, you want to try and do these types of things, like pay attention to you the other person. If they don't look like they know it and you think you might, start with a higher note because then they'll come in at like 25 and then you go down to one or zero. Yeah, that's like, I know it. That's ultimately what I did. And I think the way I was able to win that last one. But check out the show, guys.

It is set of the score. Do you guys do, is it podcast also? Yeah, it's all, yeah. Across any format, by and large. I think Twitch is the only thing we're not technically on. Right now. That'll change, I'm sure. If I could, does StreamLab go to Twitch?

Yeah. Okay, well, then guess what? We might be on Twitch in the very near future because that takes little, no effort to set up. No, it goes right to Twitch as well. So check that show out as Matt and Nost and Andy. and it's a really, really fun show. I enjoy doing it. You guys should check it out.

But before we move on over, because I want to talk to Matt about a lot of comedy store stuff and how we kind of met, and just, I don't know if he's been doing comedy lately. I want to find that also. But I do also want to talk to you guys, and I haven't talked to you guys about it today.

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She won't. Do you have bad chompers? Is that what it is? No, I don't. I'm good. But it's, you know, but I wish I had quip when I was a kid. Yeah. Well, that's one of the things you always hear from old people.

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I want to talk to you about comedy store stuff because we, I don't know if you ever talked about it on air. I don't think we have. I don't think so. Maybe. because you are i think there's only the second time i ever sat down with you on air like this yeah well where it's just the two of us never it's never happened that's well that's yeah because you've been on you're on schmows a bunch of times uh live the like showing up

yeah i did the schmows like three times okay yeah so we went on the i don't know it probably didn't really have a no no usually it was it's you and mark and then right depending on the situation like i did a new year's what or something no Oscars right right and that was like to hold that's yeah there's like to hold that's yeah there's like 20 people in the room. This first time I met Tom. Okay. Okay. So that must... That you always remember. The first thing you remember. Well, I remember because he had a little factoid about

Raiders, which I just read the week previous. And he said it. And everybody in the room was like, okay, Tom, because they just didn't trust his movie knowledge. And I looked at him, like, no, he's right. He's right. And he looked at me. He was like, fuck yeah. Thank you. There he is. At that time, I don't know how steeped he is in movies to this day. But at that time, he liked, I don't know. He liked what he liked, but he wasn't venturing out. We did a bit, we did a bit where he would come in and he would tell stories about facts on movies and he would give a bunch of bullshit, but there was a bunch of stuff in there. That was true. Okay. And that was probably one of them, whatever, whatever a little factoid was. What was the factoid?

Do you remember? It was the fact that in some of the, I guess they'd be hieroglyphics in Raiders. Yeah. You can see C3PO and R2D2. You can. Yeah, you can. Yeah. That's very true. So, yeah, so we never talked about. So the, I remember I'm pretty sure, because you, do you live in San Diego for a while in that area? Yeah, that's where I met you. That's definitely where I met you. I just didn't know if you were, I know that you were working there and you were, you were there all the time. I just wasn't sure if you were living there.

Oh, yeah. No, I lived in Pacific Beach, which is two miles, three miles south. So what took, because you went, so where did you, when did you first move out to California? I moved out in 2003 and then I started doing open mics there in 2005. So I did my first one, and I bombed so bad that I was like, you know what, I'm going to work on my stuff. Yeah. And I took months off before I went back. Before you went up.

Yeah. Why did you decide to go there and not, not L.A.? I don't know, because I visited San Diego and I was like, this place is amazing. It's really, it's funny. That's where I'm, when I went in New York, it was San Diego that made me want to come to California in general when I was in the seventh grade. Oh, really? Yeah. And I would say, it was like a different planet.

And I was like, this is. It is. It's great. But I knew I had to get here. So it's curious, because La Jolla was pretty, was really well known in the comedy circuit. So was that was that the place that you wanted to get in on? No, I had no. So aspiration to Duke, I just wanted to move to San Diego.

Oh, okay. And you just happen to fall into it. Well, I'd been there for six months or something and I hadn't really met any friends or anything. And like a lot of people, I had an inkling of, I'd like to try that. I think I might be okay at it. Right. And after like six months of just not me, I met a bunch of, I don't know, guys I just didn't enjoy hanging out with. And it got to the point of like, am I really so needing of company I want to hang out with these two assholes?

100% Yeah, I did that a couple of times and like, nah, I don't really like you guys. Right. They were fine, like type of thing, but I don't want to spend long term with you. And then went to the store and then, I don't know,

just found a collection of misfits. Eventually, you do the open mic for long enough and you do a friend a couple people. And then from there it kind of grows. So it was kind of to build friends and then started doing comedy. Yeah, because I remember because that's how, because Ellis, I think, introduced this obviously.

Well, I was working at, I was doing the club that, that weekend. Yeah, you came down to the club. Yeah, I worked at the store in La Jolla. Yeah. I was a door guy. I mean, I started, I worked there for free for months.

Is that legal? No. Not even remotely. Right. But it was the fast track if you want to get a job here. Totally. So I would show up to do shows and I'd help clean tables Friday's and Saturday nights. And you'd get up and they'd give you spots in order to do it.

No, they wouldn't even give you spots? No. I'd get an occasional like extra Wednesday spot or something. Right. Right. So nothing. But that was rare. It's like I'm getting one or two of those. month and I have to show up every weekend. And it's different in La Jolla, too, from the way that they run the shows as opposed to the Hollywood.

Yeah, now it's changed even more. But at least back in the day, once you got to a certain point, you'd have Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday. Right. And then if you worked at the club, you could also open a show on Friday or Saturday. Sometimes you could do all four. Well, how long were you in La Jolla? Because I mean, I met you. I can tell you the year was, it was 2007 is when I met you. Okay. I couldn't tell you the year, but I know we met in La Jolla. It was 2007 because I did, I would do that. I did La Jolla. a handful of times in like 2000, well, you know what? When did you start working there? I think I got a job in 2005. So maybe it was even before that because I,

I don't know because I did a show. I would never forget my favorite show that I ever did there was one, like, Skippy Simon, myself, and James Painter. I never saw that show. That's a weird fucking show. a weird fucking show. So is Skippy closing that show? No, Skippy was, I was, I was doing, I was doing, it wasn't, it was, it was, it was,

who was it? I was doing the, to the, the middle spot. Okay. And then, Skippy was doing the first. I can't remember who the headliner. Painter was, fuck, no, no, no. He came in and did, like, a guest set. They gave him, like, a, okay.

No, no. Still, that's a fucking weird show. Don came down one time in La Jolla didn't get it. They did not get James Painter and all, because not only did not get James Painter. Yeah. It wasn't the James Painter, like his normal set. He was doing it. You remember Blue,

right? Mm-hmm. So he did a bit called Blue Painter. Which is inside baseball. It's a joke inside of a joke inside of a joke. It crushed it at the store in Hollywood. Of course it did. Of course, but not in La Jolla.

So he goes, and so he dresses up in a dress and one of his jokes said, the other day I was having sex with my boyfriend. And he said, Blue, your pussy smells terrible. And I said, that's not my pussy. That's this dumpster we're fucking in. He said, but Blue, we're not fucking in a dumpster. Oh, yeah. Well, it's definitely my pussy then.

Like, and I, dude, that joke alone at the store. Of course. Like, it was packed in the OR. I never heard. I was sitting next to Steve Simone, Caparulo, a few. I never heard such loud laughter for so long. And then we could a La Jolla. And I remember driving in the car with those two.

And he's like, I'm doing blue pan. And I'm going, I don't know if it's going to play in La Jolla. Man. It bombed. Like Pearl Harbor. It was brutal. That is one thing. Brutal.

Like super blue. It was rare when comics would come down and you know that was their MO. Yeah. And then for them to succeed, which they could. Yeah. It's an easy room. So long as you're confident, it's a fun, it's one of the funest rooms you're going to play. Hands down.

Yeah, they just do they just do. They live in San Diego. Yeah. Everybody assumes they live in La Jolla. They don't. About 5% of. It's not this? No.

And it's not like we have 5,000 other things we could be doing right now. It is. It's the night out from them for probably like a month. It doesn't even matter. It doesn't matter what age range. You live in San Diego. You're pretty laid back. Pretty easy going by and large.

I loved doing that room. It was always fun. It was so spoiled. Not even funny. I knew it at the time because you'd go and do anywhere else and be like, this isn't like La Jolla. No. And that was that was the beauty of the OR is that the OR is like the stinky gym.

That if you went, like I'm doing the, I was doing the OR at like, one in the morning. Me too. And then, you know, so doing the O'R, like one in the morning and then driving out to La Jolla for a weekend.

it's like it was like going to. I either do first or second spot or I do the third from last, second from last, and Don always has the last. Those are the only spots that I ever get in the O.R. Which is fine.

I don't have credits. I don't have anything else to stack up next to. Totally get it. I like still like doing those spots. So because I would have. So when Tommy was there, I would do, I would do,

I would open. I would do the nine. Sure. And then I would have like, I had, like, there was a time, like, from a, during 2003, 2007, what he would always do to me, which I wasn't going to complain about, because it was right in the middle of the show. He was put me up, like, after Rogan, after Rogan to do like an hour, right? It's like, somebody's got to be the sacrificial land.

It's a fucking tough spot, but it was a good, but, but it's again, it's like, it's going, into the Matrix and learning how to fucking dodge, you know, and. Oh, yeah. No, the OR gives you that opportunity. I remember one time, so Ross showed up, Jeff Ross, and he was like, hey, can I go up? And Tommy's like, you can go up next? and I was supposed to go up next. I'm like, fair enough.

It's one of the times I also didn't have a spot, third from the end under Tommy's regime. I was, it's like six from the end. It was like, okay, there's actually a crowd here. Such a regime. It's so true. Yeah, full on. He made me hate comedy.

Wow. It's not just that. Not just that. You shouldn't hate it. You shouldn't love it. So Ross goes on and then he was like, you know what, I'm going to bring my friend John up here.

And the crowd doesn't know it, and they bring John Mayer on stage. And it was when John Mayer was doing comedy for like that six-month, eight-month period. You know, the thing is he knows the mathematics. Yeah. Bump, bum, bum, bum. So he can do, it's a serviceable job. For a guy that doesn't do comedies, it's like, you wrote some jokes, man.

I will give you that. But the crowd fucking loved it. And I had to follow that. I got a standing o'clock actually after that one. Oh, that's great. Because I just talked about for 15 minutes how depressing it must be for them to have gone from Jeff Ross and John Mayer to a dude that looks like their accountant. And then I just made some fun of myself for 15 minutes that I got off, people like, that was so amazing. That's fun.

The best part was I walk off Tommy was like, well, if you can do that, I should be. start giving you better spots. Yeah. And then he proceeded to put me on dead last for the next like three months. That's a nice guy. Yeah. I brought up Don for three months straight. And I was like,

oh, man, I fucking hate you. Yeah. I mean, well, I can't do better than that. It was my, that was the thing,

man, because I stopped, when I left, when I stopped going to the store, it was because I just had stopped doing comedy. He was still, he was still running the show. Of course.

I was, he gave, as horrible as all the people felt his regime was. He did give me a lot of spots. He did. Look, he passed me. Yeah.

Oh, he passed you. Yeah, it was begrudging. He did not want to do it, but it was kind of like, dude, you clearly know that I'm deserving of those spots. And it got to the point where... You said, let's do this fucking shit. He didn't like me because Ari and Rick and Tripoli and a couple other guys, unbeknownst to me, all individually went up to Tommy before I lived in Los Angeles. It was like, you need to see this guy. He's really funny.

Yeah. And which, to this day, I thank them because it's a nice vote of confidence early on. Right. Because a lot of guys come down in big league, you, and I get it. Sure. So he didn't get to anoint me in his eyes. So I was never his guy. He got that shit from fucking, him trying to be Mitz.

Yeah, exactly. Because I, because I, because that's, if Mitz, he didn't find, I mean, poor Steve Simone. Steve Simone's one of the funniest fucking guys out there. And, like, you know, he, he was driving her around and just so she wouldn't pass him. I was lucky enough that I got, I got passed by her, you know, because it makes a difference. Makes a difference. So for him, you know, she was like, I've told the story about getting past, you know, and being able, it was just a different time back then.

Like there was, I would go up on the way that they had it was, it was August was when I started showcasing there. I got passed in November, right? Oh, that's not bad. Well, I mean, at the time, I didn't know what it was. I remember going up because Brett Ernst had recommended me. Okay. And so I get up there on, because I don't know how they do it now, but it was, it was on Sunday,

Monday and Tuesday were the audition days, where the showcase days, right? So you start out with like, depending on the levels that you're at, you're three, seven, and ten were the minutes that you get, depending on the phases that you got to. And I was doing it, I was going,

and Mitzie saw me, she said, you know, come back, do the seven, it was great. So then I remember the story I tell, I can't remember this fucking guy's name and I just always use them as an example. She wasn't coming to the club for a little bit. Okay. But you still could go up.

in those three days. So I was going up at the store every Sunday. Why not? It's free stage time. 100%. Yeah. I remember this guy, he goes, ah,

I'm not going up tonight. A lot of us are just going to go, we're going to go. Great, go ahead. Yeah. And I'm like, what do you mean?

Yeah. Like, she's not going to be here for like, wow, we're going to come back when we know she's going to be here. I'm like, that's fucking stupid. Well, who knows if she's ever going to,

if she's not here now, the chances of her showing later, slim to know. That's, that's the main thing. Yeah. Then the other part of it is, like, you got a shot to perform at the comedy store three nights a fucking week when a lot of these regulars don't get to do that. No.

And then I remember like Ari Shafir, who came into me after, because I was out of that whole class of people. I think it was either myself and one other person or just me. I can't remember. And Ari's like, you know, one of the main reasons you got past because you were fucking hanging out all the time. Yeah. Makes a difference. It's massive because you learn, you learn the idea of the fucking club. Well, and the store is very like, who the fuck are you?

Right. And I love that about the story. It's like, I gotta fucking know you before I trust you. I remember that there was a, you know, there are cycles where you see the same patterns of individuals come through. Yeah. And there was the over-eager open-miker who's showing up one to be buddy-buddy buddy from day one.

Right. And he figured out the rules a little bit early on. So he started showing up like Monday nights, super late and parking in the lot. And there were so few cars in the lot that more than not, more often than not, the lot attendant was just another open micers as well, wouldn't stand up to him. Right. Just wouldn't say no.

And everybody, the rest of us that would give a shit, was just like, I don't, who gives you shit? Right. And one night his car got hit. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Uh-oh.

Just plowed into the side of it on accident. Yeah. Dude walking around with a fake earpiece and Gus on the head of security. Um, you got to know Don Barris. Look him up. So funny. And he came up to us and we were on the front patio and he's like,

dude, such and such just hit my car. Like, what are we going to do about it? And we all went, well, are you allowed to park in the lot? Because if not,

I don't think you have much of leg to stand on here. And he was like, ah, all right. He's just stormed off and went in the back and, like, bro, you're not one of us. No, there's rules. That club especially, there are fucking rules. And it's like that's, and that is the, that's also the, I mean, I went back, I don't know, it was like in July. It was there just to stop by. And I always instill today.

And I'm regular at the club. And I still, I don't just walk in there with my fucking chest puffed out of not being there forever. I walk up and I'm just like, introduce myself to the door guys. And they're always very respectful. Ellis is always, you know, it's Ellis. He's the nicest guy in the world. And he looks at him. He's like, he's regular here.

He's telling people. And then the second they know, they're like, oh, okay, it's like a badge of honor when you do it because it's like it's a. Well, that's what they're trying to do. We're often than not the guys that are working, although they have actual security now. Do they do they finally? Well, they sell out every show. Yeah, I know. It's a crush it now.

So they need real security as opposed to just paying comics to run the door, seat people, beer security. It was a college. Clean tables. Yeah. That's how it was. That's how I met in speaking of Rick Ingram. So Ingram and I, because I was one of the, I think to this day, maybe the only person ever to do this is most people would.

What, not steal when you work that booth? Maybe the second person. I did not steal when I was there. But because this is the reason why, I think one of the reasons why, was that most people, as you said, what they want to do is when you're working at the door, you want to become a regular. Yeah. I may have been the only person, maybe in the history, that became a regular and then started working there. Because... Well, not getting spots or...

Well, because I wanted to get extra spots. That was my idea. She would still give you... I got employee spots plus regular spots. Because the rule for the longest time was once I pass you, you can't work here anymore. But even that was like a gray area type of, if you needed a job still for a little while, that was fine. Yeah, no, not back then. Not bad.

She wasn't, yeah, she was on the tail end of her actually coming around. And she wasn't even really there. It was Dean that was doing it. Bro! Yeah, right. And because I was because of that, if you talked to Ingram about it, the worst comedy store employee of all time, because I didn't, because what... Yeah, what motivation do you have?

Except those spots. As long as they got the spots. And like, Ingram always tells the story. Well, you disappeared, weren't you? Wouldn't that your MO? Yeah, just gone for four hours. I've heard that from him before. He goes, he's like, I'll be there with Harloff and we'd smoke a ball in the back.

And then I go, oh there goes he's driving off the lot in the middle of it and I remember one time that awning with that lot with that ladder like how no one died going up that ladder and people are a lot of those stories a lot of those and then dean's like you got to change yawning tonight I got no I'm afraid of heights he goes get the fuck out of here I go I'm afraid of heights because are you really I'm like yeah yeah exactly and then he's like fine so harleff can't change it because he's afraid of heights that's like yeah right yeah who who gives a flight so there is no motivation when I moved here rent it's easy he was like you're

work here. And I'm like, dude, I'm done working for this place. Yeah. I'm good. I did it for four years. It was it. Yeah. I'm good. I moved here for a clean slate. Like I know all you guys, but I'm just done working at a club. I did it to hang out and I already had spots. Yeah. And by the time I moved here, I already knew everybody. Right. So it didn't really matter. I didn't know the young guys. Right, right. But that's fine. You'll get to know them in time. I still hung out. I was there. For the first few years I lived here. I was there five, six nights a week every, every week. Right. Yeah, me too for a while. I go do spots elsewhere and be like, right, well, I'm going to go hang out the store. Have you been going up a lot lately?

Spiratically. Spiratically. It's kind of like what I got back into it. Pandemic didn't help my inherent laziness as I get older. Yeah. And now that it's, I get, you know, that I've got my shots and all that I should be getting out more. But I, I haven't gotten, I haven't kicked myself in the ass enough. I did because I had been off. I got finally gotten that fucking, I don't know what it was. It took a long time, but the, the beast kind of woke up a little bit, you know, and it's like, and I finally, I got back on stage in New York and I've been doing like flappers for a bit. I haven't done the store yet.

God, I haven't done flabbers in so long. I had never done it before because it had been, it didn't exist when I was, when I was here. And then I was supposed to do a show, well, tonight when this comes out. But I just couldn't wind up doing it. But I've been trying to go up at least once a month right now. That's my goal. It's a start.

It's a start. And then when it starts to get, hopefully, we've been saying this for God knows how long when it gets a little better out there, I'm going to start going to the store at least try to go once a week. That's my deal. That's my goal. Yeah, I'm just, I don't know,

hesitant with the sanitation aspects of it or the cleanliness. Yeah. That's the only kills me because... I know. One thing the pandemic has stopped me is, I didn't realize I knew as many Wackadoo comics as I did. There's a lot.

And now, a lot of those people are still getting spots. Yeah. It's just a fucking world sucks. I already knew some of them. I know. I already knew. So then when this goes all south,

it's like, well, that's to be, what did you expect in this situation? It's the other. ones where I'm like, you were normal. But what happened? And yeah, now you have, just, I guess, too much time alone.

That's exactly what it is. It's like, what, what has been going on in here for its fucking two years? And it'll, it's either, yeah, it's a lot. Yeah. So, so if you will miss like, Mocha, okay. Yeah. I don't know about that, but. But yeah, it's, so going back, I'll be, I'll be going back for sure. It's to get back into it. But this is,

but your show, once again, so let people know, they can find it on, on YouTube. You find that on anywhere podcast. Apple, Spotify, everywhere. All that jazz. So what's the goal? Is this the one you're putting all the, are you guys still doing top 10? No, we're still doing top 10. But I figured this audience knows about top 10. Sure, sure. Been with it and whether or not they know about settle the score to come on. Still doing top 10. Okay, yeah. And if you want basketball, NBA action.

Yeah. I do that on Wednesday. Settle the score comes out on Thursday. But Wednesday, it's live. I'm going to talk NBA. Is it, were you able to get the dropping dime's name? Yeah, I just text Mark. Mark. It's like, you give a shit. And he's like, no. No. He was the same way. That's why I turned Jedi Council to Sith Council. Oh, okay. Yeah, same shit. Although he sold it, but when I left and he still owned it, I was like, do you care? He's like, no, not at all.

And then I asked him, you want to come on? He's like, dude, I've watched three games. Yeah. Yeah, plus he's just living on a boat right now. Yeah, you know, whatever. He's living his life. He's fucking good for him. I always like him.

I always like Mark. Mark was great to me. Mark still is. I still talk to him. He's doing great. All right, listen, this is Matt Nost. It was good to have you on me. We got to do it again.

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