The Nateland Podcast - 275: #275 Scary Movies, Wrestling & Happy Clowns ft. David Arquette

Episode Date: October 22, 2025

This week, the guys are joined by actor, wrestler, painter, and clown enthusiast David Arquette. Nate becomes a fanboy as David shares stories about Nate's favorite movie Scream plus David shares behind the scenes stories of his career as a pro wrestler, how he became a Bob Ross certified painting instructor and his love for Bozo The Clown. Bilt: joinbilt.com/nate Earn points on rent and around your neighborhood, wherever you call home, by going to joinbilt.com/nate. Hello Fresh: HelloFresh.com/nateland10fm The best way to cook just got better. Go to HelloFresh.com/nateland10fm now to get 10 Free Meals + a Free item for Life!              Vuori: Vuori.com/nate Vuori is an investment in your happiness. For our listeners, they are offering 20% off your FIRST purchase. Get yourself some of the most comfortable and versatile clothing on the planet at vuori.com/nate IQBAR: Text NATE to 64000 to get twenty percent off all IQBAR products, plus FREE shipping. Message and data rates may apply.

Hello, folks, and hey, Bear, welcome to the Nate Land podcast. I'm Nate. It's in here. Brian Bates. All right. Aaron Weber, back to the original. Dusty Sleys out. That's what I always wanted.

It used to be just us three. It used to be just us three. Isn't that crazy? Good old days. Yeah, those were the good old days. Doing driving movie theaters. It was five years ago right at this time. Oh, really?

October 2020. That's when he started it. That's when we hit a groove. I feel like I feel like we started in the summer. The ones I did were, yeah, in the fall. Don't you, you were there the whole time? He's talking about the, you're all talking about different things. Oh.

Yeah, I'm talking about the podcast. started in the summer. The drive-ins was that fall, though. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So now look at us back, winding it down. Bookend in this thing.

Bookend in this thing. Bookend in this thing. Is this episode 275? Yeah, it's up there. Crazy. Yeah. Yeah, that's. Seventy-75.

Yeah, two hours. It's 500 and 50 hours? Yeah, man. Is it? Yeah, probably on average. Yeah, that's a lot of talking. That's a lot. That's a lot of talking.

A lot of stuff. A lot of talking, a lot of stuff. A lot of content as the, that's what they want. You know, in general, nowadays. People want content. Yeah, that's all they want. That's it. Just throw it at the wall.

Yep. See what sticks. It's good times. So, yeah, I know I haven't been here for a minute, so it probably feels weird for everybody listening. No, it was a nice break. Yeah, I've heard everybody, I've heard the podcast. You know what? John Augustine told me the podcast has been great. He listens.

And, yeah, without me on it, so yeah. John August But he said y'all been doing great Oh, thanks Yeah, we're trying to hold it down

In a positive thing I'm happy that you're doing great without it And I know And I know a lot of people like when I'm not on it Wow

No, No, mainly just me Yeah I have a lot of burner accounts out there Yeah Here you go

Burner Bates Give Bates more time Do you have a burner account? No Do you? I would make I could see you you got a lot of stuff man you want to get out i would mess up and it would still be obviously me

i'm not even saying it's about nateland but i just think you i mean you got some problems with some people uh i used to i'm not that guy anymore yeah i'm not that guy but back in the day yeah i would i would i would pick some fights with people yeah yeah like what uh just twitter and stuff just about nonsense about not just yeah about nothing sports and sports yeah whatever else yeah but those days are are long gone man i've matured i matured now i fight with people with my actual yeah yeah now you stand behind it uh that's good thanks yeah we had a big weekend for vanderbilt i'll tell you that

is it the i mean it's the biggest weekend this is this is as good as it's the best team that we've ever had in your whole life maybe since 19 even in my life. Yes. In our whole life, by far the best team we've ever had. Because they look so good. It's like where, you know, you go back to like the game yesterday, the game Saturday with LSU. It was, you know, you had moments.

You're just nervous, but it was like the old, it just, we were the better team. And then even the Alabama loss was like, we had two turnovers in the red zone. It's just so we made some mistakes. It felt like it was reversed. Like, honestly, it felt like it was like how, like, we would have beat Alabama in the past. Like, they made mistakes, and then we were, you know, and we're getting better as a team. But they got us AP number 10. Top 10.

Top 10. Missouri next week. It's, yeah, it's something, dude. It is. And y'all won in. You didn't storm the field. Yeah, that says something. You were the favorite.

You were the favorite going into the game. The favorite. We did the right thing. We were the favorite. Imagine saying this even two years ago that you'd be top 10, you'd beat LSU, and not stormed the field because you were expected to win that game. Yeah. I think if we hadn't to beat Alabama last year, we may have stormed the field. Okay.

Yeah, yeah. Okay. That's fair. Because this would have been our biggest win. This would have been our biggest win ever. But being favored and stuff is still a little different. And, yeah, I mean, I think it's just a side. I mean, man, Diego Pavia has been great.

Clark Lee's great. The whole team, tight ends, defense, there's energy there. The stadium feels like it's our stadium. Even though there's a lot of, you know, there's always been a lot. It's hard when other teams come in. They buy these tickets because Nashville is such a great place that people want to come to. But, I mean, it still feels very much. It feels loud on Vandy's side when you're watching it on TV.

and it's yeah man it's been nothing but pure it's so exciting yeah what a heartbreaker it'll be when Clark Lee leaves for Penn State though no I feel good with Clark Lee went to Vandy yeah he's from here and he's building this into a program and Vanderbilt for whatever it is if you if they let him do what he's doing it's a school you want to be in because it's a school that you can go make, you could go make that Penn State money, and you got a job for life. Like, it's going to take 50 years before you get to that Penn State level where they're like, if you don't do good, immediately, you're fired.

So he's, you know. Yeah, you know, when James Franklin was here, we had a couple, I think, a nine win seasons. Yeah. But it still didn't feel like this. It felt like we got lucky. Tennessee was down at that time. we weren't playing Alabama and it still felt like

Yeah, you can win a game and it feel like a fluke a little bit and it hasn't felt like that for y'all No, it's felt like we're, you know, when they rank them I mean are we, you know, I guess we're what 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 in the SEC that's just howl, I mean the SEC is just so stacked like it's nuts. It is, I mean, every week.

What's the playoffs? 12 teams, top 12 teams, yeah. Every one of our teams, Notre Dame, Bandy, Alabama, even Georgia Tech, John Crist. Oh, yeah. 7-0. Imagine that. We have a big Nateland.

Uh, uh, O-wah. Yeah. I'm just kind of craziness. Well, I appreciate y'all. I mean, I almost enjoy Brian Kelly losing more than Notre Dame winning these days, so I appreciate that. How about us being ranked against above Notre Dame? Yeah.

Should be. Two losses. Should, absolutely should be. We'll see how the season shakes out. Yeah. Well, yeah, who do y'all play? This was each other for the rest of the year. Alcorn State.

Air Force, the Coast Guard, Navy. We still got to win the Commanders Cup. Yeah. But, no, we definitely, the hardest part of our schedule is over. So we just got to ride it out. Now, I saw AP put out a playoff projection, like if the season was over now. In Notre Dame, even though they're 12th, wasn't un there. I don't even know how the playoff thing works now.

Is Vandy in it? Yeah, Vandy, showed Vandy play in Georgia Tech. Oh, that would be fun. Can you imagine? That would be so much fun. Can you imagine? I don't even, it would be like, it's like the Pearl Harbor. Like, they couldn't even, they would have, they probably would have a record.

Because Georgia Tech is in the SEC. Yeah, I think a lot of time ago. And so they might be like, they used to teams played each other for many years. Well, you know, we played them last year in the bowl game. Yeah. Yeah. Georgia Tech's who holds the record for biggest, largest margin of victory over Cumberland. Over Cumberland.

What was it, 120 to nothing or something? 222 to nothing. 22. Yeah. But Georgia Tech, I'm sorry, John Chris. They haven't played anybody either. I played in London to start it off, right? Or Ireland.

Ireland, yeah. They played Notre Dame or they played someone. They beat Fort Estater. They did something. Yeah, they beat, like, I guess it was Florida State before. I think they're scoring just tons of points. I mean, it's like, what Vandy's been doing is like we're scoring like tons of points.

You know, it's been pretty dominant. How about Indiana? Like, I mean, Indiana is a problem. Yeah, you've got Missouri, Texas, Auburn, Kentucky, Tennessee left on the schedule. I mean, it's super possible y'all went out. And, I mean, it's going to be insane, dude. Yeah, yeah. I mean, very, it's honestly, it's very, very.

You know, like it's, we played 2.30, we play at, Missouri plays at home. At Texas is always still going to be tough. Aubrey and Kentucky, I mean, you never know, because the SEC is just so good. And then at Tennessee, and it just depends on Tennessee is, you know, we would need, you know, you need them to be kind of beat up and let down by then. But you got a, you got a, you got a fun schedule guy. I mean, the schedule is just so nuts. Yeah, it's, STC is just so...

Missouri, 6 and 1. Yeah. Yeah. It's crazy. But we don't have, yeah, Texas, at Texas. Man, imagine going in there. Boy! Time that game, that game's at 11 a.m.

I don't know. Where am we at in two weeks, Chase? I think you're off. Am I off? Oh, I think I have something. We can't say. Oh. I don't want to go to the game.

That's what you were getting out. Yeah, I got to see. I think I have something that I cannot say. But you will find out soon what it is going to be. Okay. Is it more important than going to Texas? Yeah, in the long, I mean, you know, in the long run, yes. It's something I'm very excited about that I think will be.

We're making something for people to watch. And, yeah, I don't know. I don't say it. It just matter. Whatever. I just said it. But, yeah, I got, yeah, I'm trying something. So, so we might be shooting at that day, right, agent, yeah.

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we sent you. I was home this weekend. I went to the Titans game yesterday. and... Are you going to stay with us? Yep. You said it in our... Mm-hmm. Yeah. Must be nice.

I haven't been to it yet. I've got a Nateland suite, and I'm glad everybody's enjoying it. I trashed that thing. It was wild. The baits cost. Me and Tristan trashed it. It was crazy. Throwing stuff out the window.

They come in. What's this 40 Dr. Pepper's? they had a dessert cart that would go around from sweet to sweet and i kind of pettled them for about four rooms down till they yeah finally got to mine do you sit in a chair at the door and wait until they get there i kept looking out the window i mean out the door yeah um knocked a couple kids down to get that front row seat in the suite oh yeah you know Derek you can tell he is a i sit with derrick your brother my brother Derek he's a school administrator and a teacher you can tell it

the way he handles kids. Yeah. Because he knows how to handle them and he'll get stern with them. Yeah. And they listen. That's a special skill. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, he's Derek. a great talk the other day. And he's just, he's... He's the best. You think you're going to want to talk to Nate. No, that's going to be a mistake. Nate's way down the list.

And then next would probably be that. No. If you're there for a long time, you better go to Derek or it's going to be chaos. Derek's the one that, you know, he's very wise. That depends on the person. But if they want to have fun, where are they going? Abigail. Abigail.

They want to get arrested, go with Abby. Yeah. Yeah. It depends on what you want to do. Yeah. Yeah. But all the Bargantzies, They're a while time.

I mean, they're... I would like to... It'd be nice if you say that we are very nice. That'd be great to hear that. Obviously a great family. Especially in the suite that you stayed in of my families yesterday. So we can do jokes, but it'd be wonderful if you maybe just throw out that we're a wonderful nice family that thinks about a lot of other people.

Welcome back. You are a wonderful, nice people. Other than that. We're back, boys. I thought that was a gift. Kevin. I'd be nice to hear it sometimes. I'll tell you that. It's a given, but you've got to give it every now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the real. You want to get in the comments?

Yeah. I can say real quick, Charles, out to everybody came out to see me in Charleston. You got a new club, The Wits End out there. Josh Bates is a comic. He said, it's just, it's like you can tell when a comic sets up a club. Like the green room was awesome and everything. It was just like, it was great. So thank you to everybody came out, see me and Charleston. Yeah, that's great. We, yeah, our show, unbelievable weekend, though, this weekend, I would say. Lincoln, Nebraska, cable guy came out, did a little surprise. I saw a picture him on stage. He did a set or did you just?

No, he just came out at the end. He just did a show there. And so I closed on a story mentioning him. And so, like, it was the first time. He knew he has been doing that, but he hasn't seen it. And so I told him, and I was like, well, just come out, like, afterwards. Okay. They went nuts.

It was wonderful. That's great. But, yeah, we had Tulsa, Lincoln, Oklahoma City, Unreal. Three shows in doubt. Dallas was insane. Yeah. 3 p.m. show, we had 17,000 people there. I think it's the biggest 3 p.m. show we've ever had.

But they were unreal and then ended it with Tulsa, who was great. And we look forward to this week, Chicago. United Center. Nighting the Center, Cincinnati. Yeah. So, all right, starting it off. This is somewhat pretty early, starting it off. Joel Thomas, I've been a huge fan since your first episode,

and we'll have to say, Aaron is the glue to this show. That's how far we've sunk. A lot's changed since you've been out. His wit, knowledge, ad reads, and his laugh is what keeps the show together. Can't wait to see you guys in Chicago on The Big Dumb Eyes. Tour in October.

All right. Who's going? Are you with you? No, I'm not on that one. Neither one of them are on it. You're not, are you on it? No. No.

I'll put a stop to that, Joel. Yep. I am done. You're done with me? I thought what you were implying. Oh. You put a stop to it. No, I was joking about Chicago.

Do you have more dates with me this year? No. Do you? No. All right. We have next year. I'll see you around. All right.

I don't never. know who's coming out. Connor van Steenberg just saw Nate at his third sold-out show in Dallas. How does Nate decide who opens for him at his different locations? Is it geographically based since Dustin is from Texas? That's funny that we're just talking about that. I kind of don't really, I have people helping me do it right now. I did it.

We've always thought of it. Abigail did it for a long time. Abigail was great. And I try to, if I know people have their family somewhere or their, you know, there's a reason if you'd be there, we do try to do that. Now we're trying to just, we can't get in the weeds of it too much. There's a lot of comics. I know you see me with them this week, you're going to say, but there's a lot of comics I have started with, and I've known for 20 years. We want it to be the best show.

So we just, it's a mix that we do and try to be. as fair as we can to everybody these shows are big that's the other thing there's the you know the arena shows it's it's hard for us to get

young comics we try but it's hard it's there's two they're so big yeah I really can't this is what's beautiful about stand up but it's just a different

it's such a different thing and you're in the round and there's just so many people right and uh but what's great is when we have have comics go up and they, you know, and they do good. And maybe they're playing a local club at the, if you ever go to a show going forward,

we show a video for about an hour and a half. It has, you can go click on who, it'll show you who's opening. You can scan it. You can follow them. You can do all that stuff. We really want you to go find the comics that we bring out and go see them on their own somewhere on the road. one particular one that happened that was insane was with Greg Warren

Greg Warren was on the show in Kansas Kansas City he was doing four shows at at the Kansas City Comedy Club four shows is what he did so he did his set destroyed just destroyed and then Julian would go up afterwards Julian host if you've been And Julian, by the way, get in there, get there on time. Julian's people, we get so many comments about Julian because they just love them. And Julian will talk to the crowd a little bit, and he's just your anchor kind of that night for this show. Yeah. And so we, but Greg, it goes so good, Julian goes up, reminds the crowd.

We remind if anybody's anywhere, we say, hey, don't forget this person will be in your town. You had it in Birmingham. Oh, yeah. Which was people came out. I just had it in Denver, not long. Go. Sold out a show in Denver. You've had it. Cleveland. I was in Cleveland a week later. Yes, that's right. So when you do that stuff, that is, that's the goal of all this, is we just want you to go see these guys, you know, expand stand-up comedy. It's outside of me when you go see them. But Greg was crazy. He had four shows, and they are now at 12 shows. I think they just added a 13. Did they?

I think so. Yeah. 13? I believe so. It's, it was so funny because the guy that runs the club, Greg said, called him after the first show and goes, Hey, what's going on? Where are you? And their website crashed because so many people bought tickets to a show that they've added 13, 13 shows, dude.

That's crazy. I mean, I don't think I've ever done 13 shows at a comedy club. Uh, it's, it's, it's, it's, you got to live there for a month. Yeah. It's, we're, so guys are coming back to the towns that you're going to come through, uh, you know, if you can do it, uh, we would love for you to do it. And that's, that's, and we, and we have a lot of comics and we essentially, it's trying to,

you know, spread it out. And, uh, yeah, I mean, that's, man, it's that, that, that stuff, if you, that that means the most to me if you can go and find those people that's the biggest thing you could give me is to go give other these other comics just listen to them and you know and yeah it's awesome all right uh jared surcy my dad and i saw saw Nate live in bolling green Kentucky in that set he talked about going to west Kentucky for a semester and then dropping out. How often do you add new jokes that are specific to the city or area you're in while still getting your new material together how you want it for this special? I don't add a lot of new

stuff from the city. I did it there because I went to Western. I don't really know. I don't think I had anything for Dallas. I have a hard time. You'll say one thing off the top. Yeah, I can say Dallas. I can maybe say come up something. I'm a type of comic. I want to get it. I want to get in my act. I know we're in the moment, but the best thing I can give you is the thing that I've prepared and worked the hardest on. So I just want to, it's a show. And so I look forward to get into it because then I know, then I'm in control and I know where all the laughs are and I know where I can take you on this ride. And that's the ultimate go. So I'm not always the best. I should be a little bit better. But Julian Huost always talks about, you know, kind of the town.

some of the other comics will. And if something happened, we can. But I'm not always the best at doing that. But, you know, if I go to Bullen Green, like even we got a show cut up in Nashville, it's like, I mean, I've talked about Nashville, but it's like you think that you can go up there and just talk about them forever,

and you're like, I don't know. I just, my mind doesn't, the way I write comedy is, it's much more prepared and it's not just like figuring it out. Mm-hmm. R. D. Stoller. I say e-sports is not even a real thing.

A sport implies that there's action and athleticism involved. Esports could literally be played by someone with movement only in their fingers. If this is true, any competition could be called a sport. My son argues that it takes great coordination and ability and is there for a sport. I just think it should be called competitive gaming and not e-sports. It's an insult to true sports. require physical talent. Yeah.

All right. If the word means that much to you, then you can call it whatever you want. I don't mind it called competitive gaming. I don't think that's a bad name. But you object to e-sports as a name? No, I don't. I mean, you're just a brand

and you're just trying to make people do stuff and whatever. But it's, I do, I understand the fact that it's encouraging, you know, it's the idea. Yeah, it's this idea. And I do think they're like the focus and the mentality that it takes and they're moving their thumbs and they're doing all this kind of stuff but you're like well would thumb wrestling be a sport that's a good question arm wrestling and all that's yeah arm wrestling they is but you watch arm wrestling arm wrestling is i mean it is full on real strength it's a full body

it yeah you have to work out uh but yeah with with this i could see it i i think it's one of those that you're like it's called esport because you're like what are we going to do you know it's just It's easier to do it, and I don't care, and no one cares. But I do agree with them. It's like, you know, competitive gaming would be the better name, but e-sports is going to sell more tickets. Yeah, exactly. Miles Jones.

I got the yips while pitching underhand and co-ed. All-aged church softball league game. It hit me in the worst possible moment. the final inning, which, of course, had no run limit. The other team ended up scoring like 20 runs. I was getting absolutely boat raced by a mix of little kids and youth pastors. It was like a badger. I mean, I love it.

Yeah, keep piping in these yip stories because they're my favorite. How do they not pull you after giving up 10 runs of the ninth? You know, because you're in a church thing and everybody's like, you know, he's got to get it. He's got to, you know, it's, it's, it's, yep, it's so amazing. I can have it chipping sometimes. It's like you just get stuck on one kind of thing. What I've learned how to get out of the yips is learn why you're yipping. So if you're doing it, you go, oh, it's because I release too early.

So then you, if you know why you're doing it, then you can tend to focus on the other thing. But I, but that being said, I've had them where, yeah, like in softball, I was throwing them over a fence. So, but I mean, yeah, just underhand, co-ed, just every, they score 20 runs. I don't know, yeah, how even softball, like, unless you're walking them. Yeah, he's just getting rocks. I don't know how that's that big a difference. What do you mean?

I just think underhand softball pitching, there's not that much skill to it. Yeah, but you get to, you just, it's, yips can be anything. they can you you just get it gets in your head and you're you got a mental ball i guess my question isn't is he walking them it sounds like they're just ripping him and no i would say he's probably walking them and then they're getting some hits i mean it's you know he's hidden on he's it means everything he's somebody's taking a hit by batter yeah yeah yeah uh viny Santa Serio Santa Cente

Santa Ciro I played through the minors in the Dodgers organization sounds that makes sense and we had a pitcher developed the Yipset coming back from an injury he was my catch partner

and I could expect a 95-mile fastball to be over my head or skipped in they finally fixed it by making him throw strictly blindfolded for about a week he is now in the big

leagues, but I'm sworn to secrecy. Wow. I think I know it is. Clayton Kirchall. Clayton Kirchall. Is that you're going to say? I've met Clayton Kirchel. Yeah. Yeah. He came to show in Vegas. We could ask him

when we get to the bottom of it. Yeah. All right. I'm going to ask somebody like Vinnie Santa Serio. Is that ring a bell? You're a play catch with Vinny? Yeah. I like that they blindfolded him. And it worked.

For a week, a week of pitching blindfolded. Yeah. Sometimes you got to do it. I think that would golf sometimes. I mean, you know, there's a way you can, too, with putting, if you do it, you just look at the hole when you put. You don't look at the ball. I don't look at the ball at all. You just look at the hole.

Wow. Mike Yoschimski played a Vanderbilt, played the Ken City Royals right now. Yeah. He's a hole looker at. He's unbelievable golf. But that's what he does. I'd have a lot of whiffs if I did that. Alex Reyes, I once struck out 10 kids in a row as a coach

because I had a tea time to get to and the game was taking too long. Straight heat down the pipe. Felt pretty good striking out those eight-year-olds, my son included. I like that. The coach is doing a full wind-up for these pitch. Yeah, I like it. I like it. He wants to get out of there.

And it's like, all right, I'm going to bring some heat and just... Just don't curve balls at the kids. Yeah, just going at them a little bit harder, you know. And the guy that had great command that day. Yeah, right out of the pipe. Out of the pike, just boom. Plown away. Ball is here.

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We're back. We've got a very special guess. I bet a guess that people would, you know, be surprised that we had. Yeah, for sure. But I'm very excited. He lives here. I know we have a lot of mutual people. And so it's, I've wanted to have you come on with, welcome David Arquette.

Thank you. Glad to be here. This is it, bud. This is it. I tell you what, this podcast goes out to nobody. So I hope you, you know, you can let it fly. Well, I just wanted to come on here. so now that I have, nice to see you guys.

Yeah, it's been real. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You just want to get a little, there is a lot of stuff that you want to go. I just want to feel all of it. Yeah. I ever did remember doing, there was this,

Byron Allen comedy. Do you know that? Byron, yeah. His whole thing is so funny. Yes, yes. He's got this, like, medium empire. Oh, yeah, he owns multiple companies.

He was a weather channel. Yeah. Weather Channel. Owns a bazillion. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. But, like, doing his show is one that you were like, you kind of were like, I just want to go on it because it could be kind of an awkward show. Yes.

Because he would just turn to you and just out, I mean, like out of nowhere and be like, David, you like sharks. And you're like, what? And then you've got to get into your shark material. I like getting eaten by them. Yeah. I have a funny Byron Allen story where I first tried stand-up. I had a CPR doll. And I came up like it was a dummy.

I was like, this is my friend Jimmy. And hey, Jimmy, you don't seem so good. What's going on, Jimmy? You know, don't laugh. It's not Jimmy. And then later on, I'd get a Coke and a pop rocks. And I said, you know, there's a story about a kid that ate pop rocks and drank a Coke and died. Yeah.

Yeah. And I'm going to do that for you right now, just because I'm, and I did the Bob Rocks, then I drink the Coke, and I was all. But then afterwards, Byron Allen was like, you should really go further with it. They really pass out. Yeah, it gave me some good, like, pointers. Can I have that? Yes, you can have it. I need a closer.

What we would need is for them the dog to get up and give you CPR. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a very funny, I love that. You go, like, you know what? I'm going to do that for you guys. I'm probably eating those things accidentally. Yes. Pop rocks and probably.

Probably. Yeah. If I was eating pop rocks, I probably had a Coke near my own. I don't think anybody ever died. That was always an urban legend, right? Yeah, that was an urban legend. Yeah. Yeah.

It does. It does. It does. It can. You got to think those are rooted in something. Like, I remember growing up, if you can't swallow gum because it'll take seven years to pass through your system, right? Or you can't swatter a watermelon seed.

because a watermelon will grow inside you. You remember hearing all that stuff. It's got to be rooted in something. Yeah, the watermelon thing, I think I kind of remember hearing. I don't remember it being as much. I mean. They had to police me a little more than a child. Yeah.

He could eat a whole watermelon box. So they had to go to Aaron quite a bit early. I won a watermelon eating competition once. It might have got started in your family. What have we all heard it? because of the Weber's got it, because they go, our boy is eating two-minute watermelons. And you can't really get mad because it's a watermelon.

Yeah, it's a fruit. It's a fruit, but they go, we think he's eating the seed and the skin. The rind. Are you supposed to eat the skin? Is that the rine? And that was the shell of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I wouldn't eat that.

Oh, you don't call it the skin of it? Okay. I tried to make watermelon pickles because we grew these. cucumbers i've a farm here and we grew these cucumbers but they came out around like little watermelons and i was like it would be interesting if you made them taste like watermelon pickles oh yeah yeah because i also made uh uh a Gatorade pickles oh man you can get the powder a Gatorade and you put them in a pickle jar and they become incredible electrolytes yeah yeah and they taste like good i wish dusty was here yeah throw pickle parties

Yeah. You're like the... Pickle party. You're like the opposite of the doodle people now. You're the pickle people. You're the doodle people of the pickles world where you go, we're just trying to get... We're trying everything. Yeah.

Yeah. I've drinking pickle juice for his hydration. Yes, exactly. It's a very good hydration. You won a watermel eating contest? Yeah, we did one. My baseball team did one after practice one day, and I won. Mm-hmm.

A whole, how big? Just go back and forth? Does that be sure? Like up and down? Like a typewriter? Yeah, yeah. You just got to go for it. Did you have hands or no hands?

Oh, you could use your hands. Yeah, yeah, you got it. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Use your whole body. Hands tied behind you.

That would change the game. Yeah. For sure. It's kind of up the stakes. It would be more embarrassing to win that way. Yeah. With no hands. You're like, this is how I do it anyway.

Yeah. Just no hands. Just get in there. Was anybody close? I don't remember. I just remember taking home the gold. Yeah. And I'm pretty proud of that.

And this was just practice. This was, it wasn't the championship game. No. It wasn't. This was just after practice. This is just a team building activity. Yeah. You know, building camaraderie.

Yeah. Would you ever do a hot dog eating contest? I've never done. I, man. It does them personally. it looks so bad every saturday they like just dip it in water and squeeze out the yeah i i enjoy a hot dog i want to enjoy it yeah you watch this hot dog eating competition they don't look like they're enjoying the taste of them you know i did a chick-fil-a chicken

biscuit eating competition in high school and uh didn't it was a fundraiser for something i don't remember. Let's bring in the champ. What even his school? Yeah, raising money. They brought him in across county. Raising money for gout. Yeah.

And then it's all going to Aaron's left foot. Well, this is the joke. Nate used to have a joke about, you know, the guys who win these eating competitions. They're not the guys who you think. No. It's usually not the biggest, fattest guy. Yeah, Joey Chestnut. Exactly.

Exactly. You actually have to be like a good shape to perform well. Yeah. That's a fun, it was a good joke. It was a joke was the idea that fat people are not even good at what they're good at. Because it would be a guy in shape. Like that's got to be so deflating because like some big 400-pound dude gets up there and is like, this is what I do. Yes.

And then a dude that's shredded. What's the other guy's name? Kobayashi was shredded. And I mean, he would just pound them. And you're like, I mean, that's not the opposite. Of what? You get up there and just enjoy it. I just savor it.

How many do? He did three, but boy, he had a fun. I put down, I put down three or four, but the kid that won ate like 12 or 13 and just scarfed them down. We did a Krispy Kreme donut challenge very early in this podcast. And we, so it was like, how many could you eat? Can I just ask you, who do you think won the competition of who could eat the most? donuts in one sitting between the three of us. Oh, you got a guilty look on your face, right?

No. No, it wasn't you? You looked like a sleeper. Yeah, he doesn't. You quietly outperformed the expectations. Yeah. It was like, it's like in the Dodgers where Otani hasn't been playing great, but then he just had three for three on home runs.

That's what you were like. Like, it was not playing too. Yeah. Yeah. You want it? We had a handicap. Remember, we set our goat, like, standards. He did, he outperformed.

Oh, okay. I did chocolate, which I learned was a mistake. Yeah, that chocolate adds up quick. Chocolate adds up quick. But I learned a lesson that day, too, which was to always under promise and over-deliver. Yeah. Not the old layer around. I came into it thinking I could eat 36 in 30 minutes, which is insane.

And so is deflating. Yeah. So I still ate the most, but I had over-promised more than anybody else. But that's a win for you. You know, I think you would have probably felt more shame if you pounded 36 of them. Had exceeded your goal? It's at least, you know, at least you left with a win that you're not as bad as you thought you are. You know what?

That's a good way looking at it. Yeah. I'll take it. So it's Halloween season You got the most stuff that we can talk about Which is very fun You're like the most interesting man in the world I don't know if they took But scream is my favorite movie

Oh yeah Not horror movie of any more favorite Good, thank you Yes I have a scream bowling ball Oh my gosh It was it came out It was 96, 97 something like that So I graduated high school

46. I graduated 97. So it came out. It was, you know, it was probably about the first. I was allowed to watch a lot of movies and this was the first one where it came out where I was old enough to go watch it and like, you know, I don't know if my parents knew or not, but I was, I was like past the point of where I had to tell. And so me and my buddy watched it. It is so crazy how much stuff I can do. I could, I could quote the whole movie. I could watch it and say every single line. Like, even if I had to do it right now, it would, I'm not going to get it all right because it's been so long,

but I could do, I could really nail a lot of it. I could probably nail a lot of it. I mean, just the word for word, the whole movie, I watched it so many times. I loved it. I want to meet, begin to meet you. You're my first that I've got to meet. Gosh, they're all so great.

You're going to love all these people. I'm very, very, Neff Campbell's. I was, you know, one time I did, I was at a, I did a corporate gig in Utah, and there was a, like, a horror convention. Yeah. And so I think you guys, rather, Paula Shore was there. Yeah, yeah. And so I talked to him, and he said, and screaming people were there, and Nev was there. And I mean, I hung around in the lobby longer.

You got a little, you got a little ghost face. I got a little, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was, it was, it was, it was so funny because I was really, I really was in that. This is, two months ago. Yeah. I mean, I had been four years ago, like three years ago, maybe. And so I was, yeah, and I remember just, I was, because all y'all were, there and I was like, man, if they's come down, y'all are my, you're my, you're, you're really

it as far as the movie left is to, if I can get to meet all of y'all. I love Matthew Lillard. He's incredible. And Skie O'Ridge. Jamie Kennedy. Jamie Kennedy. You met him. I've met Jamie Kennedy. Yes, I do. That's true. Jamie Kennedy is great. I think he's a comic, so I don't know if I counted in my head. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, Courtney Cox, Rose, like, yeah, Nev. Like, like, it's unbelievable. They're great. You're my star-struckness is from this movie. Thank you.

He's like a film critic when it comes to screen. Any other movie he's, you know, can have seen them all. But he'll tell you why it's great, the opening scene, and how it's different. This was so great because it was like, this is the way movies should be made, where it's, you know, people die, but it's not, it's not the most, the worst part was with the Drew Barrymore at the beginning. But the shock of that. Drew Barrymore is the most famous person on the planet.

And I mean, I'm sure people have all, I know they've all seen it. But it's like for her to die immediately is like, I'd always tell people, I'm like, you don't understand. Yeah. It was, was she in the advertisements too? She was. Yeah. So she was used to sell the movie.

It's, you know where they did it too? I felt like somewhere else. Wasn't Stephen Seagal in some movie and they killed him immediately? Or there was something. So you're saying there's almost the comfort watching her because you're like, well, she's not going to die right away. Right.

And then she dies and you're like, oh my gosh, nobody's safe. Yeah, I mean, not like saying it in any way, but at that moment, Drew Barrymore is probably the biggest star, right? At that, right at that time? So why would she be in the movie for a second? Yeah. And she's in the advertisement. It's not like where it comes out of nowhere and then they do it.

She's not a cameo. It looks like she's going to be in the movie. And then they just get it over with. The first scene is unreal. And so it was just me and my buddies. And it was just a movie that it just hit us. And I'm going to use you now to meet everybody. Yes, please.

I'm going just follow you around until where are you going? You're going to Matthew Lewis? Saturday, just every day I'm calling you. Yeah. We see them a lot. There's some funny things. I don't want to ruin the movie for you, though, because you have such a love for it. But, like, they were going to fire West Craven

after they saw dailies from the Drew Barrymore scene. Oh, really? Yeah. Why? He said, let me just cut it together and then make your decision. Then you cut it together, and they were like, oh, okay, go, you can do what you've got to do.

Yeah. Yeah. Now, wasn't she originally up for the main role? And then she decided, it put me in this role. I'm not sure if I didn't know that. I read that originally she was up for Sydney, for Sydney's role, and then something came along and she said, well, put me in the beginning. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. Oh, I love that story. Yeah. Yeah, that, that is so funny that they were going to do that. I mean, you see that where, yeah, they let him do what he need you do i i you know i we i like horror movies we we watch we watch a lot of we watch them a lot on the road like now and stuff and uh but scream i is my favorite it's

it's my it's my favorite movie it's the first time i watched it was with nate on his tour bus he's like we we got we found out i hadn't seen it and he's like we got to watch it have you have you ever heard the uh the commentary uh i don't know if it would have ruined it either but West Graven and Kevin Williamson do a commentary on the Scream thing. I might have done it a long time ago. I would go watch it. I would go watch that again. I mean,

I've watched every one of them now. I thought the second one was great, too, because it was like the stab. Like, it was just so, like, it was a movie and a movie. And, like, it was just, like, all this kind of crazy kind of world that it did. But, yeah, I mean, I'll be right back. And, I mean, it's the best, dude. like it's the best at what point do you know or do you ever know like it when you're filming something like this that it's going to be this culturally impactful or like this well loved by

people or does that come later well it felt really special the script felt really special and hollywood like you get these scripts that kind of get a buzz to them and that definitely had it and it was just a different take on it it was originally called scary movie and uh yeah so then they made the spoof up at that but um but yeah when we were were doing it, it felt really special. It was really amazing experience. It was the 90s. We're just having so much fun. Everyone hung out in my, oh, you know, this is a funny story, but Lynn McCree is the Marine Prescott, Sydney's mother. She does not like me. Apparently I was very like, I caused so much like trouble in the, in the hotel. The hotel staff hated me.

apparently she said this. But they did all hang out in my room, and I don't know if she had a room adjacent that we kept her up or something, but she was very upset at me. Well, that's got to be a while. You're all young. It's like you're, yeah, you know you're a part of something,

like you said, the whole town's talking about. No one can, everybody's waiting for this movie to come out. And it was just such a, I think it's set, you know, I mean, I'm not the biggest movie person that I know everything about movie. movies. But it's like, it just made it, it just set the tone that was like, well, if you want to be in horror movies, you got to be different now. Yeah, totally. It just, it almost flipped. And then it got into, because even the scary movies said, did y'all like that? Like, when they, when they

it was funny. I thought it was very funny. I thought those movies were great. And they did it in ways that it wasn't, you know, uh, yeah, like against any other. But it was just like, and I don't know, I think the respect people had for this movie, too. You were just like, the movies, this movie is the best. Like, it's just the best. I get called Doofy a lot. Yeah, yeah. I was like, I'm actually doing.

Yeah, yeah. I actually just took pictures with Dave Sheridan, the guy that plays Doofy. He's so funny. We take these pictures and he has the vacuum with him. He pulls his fans down. He's like, it's the funniest thing. I can't stop laughing at these pictures. Yeah, it's funny to even think that.

You go, you've got your, Courtney Cox is your loving. It's like, you know, it's, yeah, it's the best. We met on that. We then started dating. We have a 21-year-old daughter now, Coco. Yeah, so that was a real life-changing experience. West Craven was just such a cool person. He, like, surprised me on Scream 2 and cast my father.

and my father was on set like dad he's like in costume i'm like what are you doing yeah yeah and all he did all of these really cool things like in scream two i i speak with ghost face i have this scene where he calls me and i'm on the phone waiting before the scene and i can hear breathing and i say hello and he goes hello and i was like oh i said well wes he's on here he's like yeah he's actually here i was like wait wait wait wait wait is this it's a real person this he's like yeah It's a real person. I was like, where is he? He's like, well, he can see you.

I was like, wait, does he stay at the hotel with us? He's like, no, he's never stayed at the hotels with you. I'm like, Wes, this guy's been on all of these sets and we've never met him or seen him. Like, that was just, he was thinking on that level. I couldn't believe it. Oh, yeah. To make it scare here. Yeah.

Roger L. Jackson's his name. He's an amazing guy, really funny. That, yeah, that is funny. that like that is the stuff you hear about with directors where it's like something cool to do that you because you would think like yeah you could just meet them all whatever and it's just nice to not not meet them yeah totally it really did add to those like oh creepiness we did this the uh with because we'd tell the movies chase this is chase he's on the road of this he uh he comes out of me on the road so we were able to watch Blair Witch.

Oh, wow. And he has not seen Blair Witch. She has not anything. But we were able to watch Blair Witch, and we just told him what it was, what we thought it was when we did it, which is very fun. Because you get to almost read, it's been so long now that you get to go like, oh, because, you know, now everybody knows. When you told him it was real found footage?

Yeah. Yeah. That's actually how I saw that movie. Yeah. I got a videotape. And I got that same story. It was a videotape, and I put it in. It was before it was out in theaters.

Yeah. And I watched it that way. Oh, wow. Yeah, yeah, it was really interesting. Yeah, well, it was like, you know, you're going to miss out on a lot of that stuff, but it's fun to circle it back. We were, like, on the road in, like, Montana and just some crazy house, like, in the middle of nowhere, like an Airbnb that we just rented.

And so we just, like, we're like, yeah, yeah, this is, like, this old thing, like, you know. And there's so much weird YouTube stuff anyway, too, now, that, It's real and all this. So it's like it all kind of can make sense now. And so it was fun to watch Blair Witch again with someone that went through the way we went through it when it first came out. Yeah, yeah. He was like, wait, this is the real thing.

Yeah. Yeah. Now, was it the part of Dewey, wasn't it originally cast as a different type of person? Yeah, yeah. It was supposed to be like this big buff, like ex-football player and kind of meathead. Yeah. And I was like, Wes, when I went to meet him, I was being considered for one of the other roles. And I said, Wes, I really loved the role of Dewey.

And he was like, wow, that's really interesting. Let me think about that. I never even considered something like that. And thankfully, you know, I really wanted to kiss Courtney Cox. I thought, no, but I did think those scenes would be really. That worked that well. Yeah, yeah. I would like to have a kid.

I don't think you can say it. I'm happily remarried. I have an amazing wife, Christina, now. Yeah, I recently was at a convention, one of those conventions, and they were like, a spoiler alert in Screen 5, something happens to my character. And they were like, it shouldn't have been you, it should have been Gail. And I was like, well, I wanted to say that, but I can't say. that about my ex-wife. Well, don't kill me.

Kill my ex-wife. But before that happened, she said, but your wife wouldn't have like that. I was like, well, actually, I'm remarried. I'm sure my wife would have been fine with it. I read that Wes said his best decision was not killing you off in the first. Yeah, he was so sweet. Yeah, my character was supposed to die. And he's like, he calls me to set.

He's like, David, we're going to roll you out of this house here and a gurney and you're going to be dead. And I was like, oh, Wes, he said, well, but in the second take, we're going to roll you out and you're going to put your thumbs up. And we won't know. Maybe the audience will want you to live or maybe they'll want you to die. Thanks so much, Wes. And this other funny story that happened was so we did it. And I did the thumbs up and, you know, and then they do these screenings to see test screenings. Yeah. And I used to work at this newsstand in L.A. and was right on Melrose Boulevard.

I was working there because now I'm not doing a movie and I'm back at work. And I'm working at this newsstand. And they're selling a, I mean, one of the people comes around and says there's this free movie screening. And I was like, oh, what's the description? And they're like, small town killers. And I was like, I knew it was the movie I had just done. I was like, sure, I'll go. So I get it. And I go and I'm lined up in line at Paramount Studios. And they see me in line.

They're like, you can't watch this, David. Come here. And I was like, I'm here now. They're like, okay, you can watch it then. So they let me watch it in the back with Wes. So I got to watch Wes watch his movie with an audience like that for the first time. And he was just sitting there. And he'd like, I would watch him.

And he'd be, like, seeing him in the crowd laughs. And then they scream and then they laugh again. And it was just, he got such a kick out of it. It was like one of my favorite things ever to see Wes watch his own movie. So you went back to work. Like you had a date job. Yeah, well, yeah. I mean, it was my friend's newsstand.

We all worked there during high school. And it was just one of those things like, hey, we can't, you know, Rich can't make it to work. Can you come in? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? It's art. Yeah, New York had, there was a dog walking kind of aspect, too, that we had something like that where, like, all a lot of comics would, you could pop in and, like, go, make some money and stuff like that.

And then you would go do shows. And you're just kind of like, it's not like your have-a-day job, but you're, yeah, it's like a perfect situation, actually. Yeah. That place also was, like, a little hub where everybody hung out. It was like this fun little corner. Yeah. That's, yeah, to see, did you know at that time that you, that you. lived or did not live or did you see yourself?

I think I knew, I think I knew I lived. Or no, I mean, I think that would, if they said they hated my character, I probably would, got cut after that screening, you know, that's what that screening was, but you can tell they enjoyed the movie and love. We love him. Yeah. No, when you, when you die, they go, you just hear you go, no, that's our main guy. He was the best.

I it's interesting so I just I shot a movie and uh I know so I know they've seen it I have not seen yet oh wow I'm going to see it I think uh maybe in November that's awesome uh they do the screen but yeah it's it's uh how were you going to watch it you're going to watch it alone or you're going to watch it with with a test audience I mean David Arquez and Matthew Liller and Steve Oler and Mattie Orange Oh, man. I'll bring the whole group. Yes, we'll bring them all.

I would love it. We have to do it in Indianapolis at the horridan. No, I'm just kidding. I'll bring it out there. But it's, I've never to not know what this thing's going to be where you're going to sit there. And like, when I'm seeing it, I don't know how we have it set up. It might be me and just like not a lot of people. Yeah.

Just because we just want to make sure whatever it's fun. But then I think I will watch. it with some other people. But I know they have, but it's like an interesting. How many times did you see the movie before it's like the premiere? Do you only see it like that one time? That was one time, yeah. I typically wouldn't see it until the premiere, yeah. Really? I mean, sometimes if you have a relationship with the director or something with producers, or if you're involved in producing it, you can then see it earlier. Yeah. Yeah, I'm involved in producing. Yeah. Congratulations. That's did you enjoy the whole experience? Uh, yes. Oh, awesome. Yeah, it was fun. It was, it was, it was,

I was touring during, so we were very busy, but it was, yeah, it was an amazing experience. I've seen, because I've had to do some ADR, and I've seen, like, a little bit of it, and it seems, it looks like it's going to be, it's very fun, and everybody seems excited, and I'm excited to see the whole thing. You go, like, if you need, you can change storylines, which is what's crazy with ADR. So if they were a shot of you, the back of your head, and you could be like, I'm going to the store now. And it's like maybe that wasn't said before, but it helps it. Or if you've got to say a word more clear.

And, you know, so it's been a mix of that. But that's kind of fun because you're at least getting to see the movie a little bit. Yeah, exactly. And so you're, you know, you're getting to watch it. But it's also a lot of like, oh, ah. Yeah. It's like stuff that's real embarrassing. Yeah.

You feel miserable. Yeah, you have to abandon the embarrassment. Yeah, you really did. like that just to go for it and make it real. Yeah, just to go, go crazy. Yeah. I'm assuming a trailer would be coming out scene, right? Yeah, I don't know.

Yeah, I mean, I guess it's, yeah, it's getting close. Yeah. Did y'all know the Drew Barrymore part until, like... Yeah, we knew that part. I think they may have held some of the ending away from certain people. Yeah, so they kind of... It was different with each movie, like, I think, Scream 2 scriptly, so they had to make a bunch of changes and Scream 3, something happened in the world that

we had to throw the whole script out, or we, they had to spell the whole script up. How does something leak like that? Is it somebody accidentally, like, leaving it on a table at a coffee shop, or is it with malice? No, it's somebody inside who probably just wanted to feel special or something. It was the beginning of the Internet, you know what I mean? So it was, like, real, you know, Reddit kind of throwing it. out there. Sure. Yeah, you never know how that stuff does get out, but it's like, yeah, they want,

and I'm sure someone could even offer someone money. Absolutely. And it's, you know, I imagine that TMZ's that same world where it's like you get, yeah, you get a lot of people probably throw, go five granted someone for something. Yeah. And it's someone that's just starting. A PA or something. Yeah, they could never get back.

I mean, now you got your names on everything. Everything's watermarked, right? Everything's watermarked. Which I'm sure it was back then, too. I'm not sure. A little bit looser. I don't know if they had watermarks back then. It was pure trust back then.

Now they have it where, like, I think they've seen you something. They can track it. Oh, yeah. You've got the fear of everything in you that you're like, well, I can't. No one's going to see this. I shot a pilot, and I remember getting to watch it at home, and I didn't, and I don't have any of it. And it was like, because you're just like, if you're just so scared of it getting out. And now the pilot didn't go, and there's a little bit of me that I wish I just would have

recorded it on my iPhone, just so I could have it from my own. I recorded some parts, but like just, you know, just so you could be like, I just show my family and friends or whatever. I always thought it would be great to have a network that all the failed pilots are the one-season things and all these funny things from all the history and just be like weird shows and like all randomness. I think that would just be a funny channel.

I agree. Why would you not do that? You have all this stuff and you just put it out there and see what, you know, if a crowd's like, you almost like give the crowd the, you know, be like, all right, we're going to go through these seasons and you can be like, ooh, I like. Yeah, you'd probably see like, this one's actually being watched a lot because we made a mistake.

Let's bring it back. Let's bring it back. It's like a test audience. Test audience. You have George Clooney, like, all throughout his growing years. You know what I mean? You're not trying to bring. They're all trying to, like, do these things.

We're like, we want that one. You're like, well, Brad Pitt's not going to do it. Not anymore, yeah. Yeah, and so we're going to. That's probably going to go, well, if you can get him, it would be good. Aaron, let's be honest. Finally. Yeah, finally.

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I used to not want to do them and then I sort of said that. And then I've heard from fans and people like, we really want to meet you. We want you to come out. And then you go and you see it. And then it like totally. changes your mind i mean you meet these fans and you just uh some of them are like we we saw this on the first like you like you're saying like it really had an impact on yeah yes and you know we met

on our first date now this is our kid and they love the series it's like wow and like you meet some fans it's like i just wrote this book and he inspired me and you know and then you're like read their book i mean it just becomes real and like you also go around and i don't know it's just a really deep you start to get to know all the other kind of horror people and then you see like some of the old timers that are doing it and that's kind of all they do right now because they're that's what you know that's their business in a way that's their you know right how they it's a big thing to be able to go to that if you went to that you uh affected culture yes because you you can't just it's it's not everybody can just go to that

like it was like Polly Shore was at like said that time y'all were all there that one but you look at like Polly Shore Pauli Shore it'd be unbelievably affect the culture he was the biggest thing on the planet like when I was in high like all his stuff coming at you was like

it was you could tell young people you're like you don't even understand this guy was the biggest guy in the world and so if you can have that big effect it's like yeah people do want to see it I have it probably the most with scream if it's like it was I mean like yeah dude I was down like Polly was down there so I was talking to Polly but then they said all y'all are there and I mean I was like man if like they come down here like I and I really you know now you after you meet more and more people that you know it's like it's you want to meet people it's fun or whatever

but to have the impact would be to with you guys would just be pretty wild because I just I knew every word to the line. I've watched it the most. It's, you know, I'll watch it again. I'm sure you get that with your comedy too. Like people who are like, you know, it just saved me. It just brings me out of a dark place. Or if I'm going through something hard, I can watch a comedy.

It just lifts me up and makes me feel like. And that's sort of what we're doing all of this for. You know what I mean? We're here to entertain. We're here to do stuff that connects with people. And they don't always with every project. So when you have one, that really does, it feels special.

It feels, I don't, I'm grateful for, you know. Yeah, yeah, it's, I have it. Yeah, when you meet people and I meet them after a show and it's, you know, we get messages and where, you know, people have just been going through really hard times and all the stuff. And that stuff always means the world. And then they can, because they can rely on it. And that's the whole thing that I want to try to build is reliability.

You can trust it. I can rely on it. I'm going to be able to go to your thing. Watch your thing and like check out for a second because I need to reset and it's, you know, and you get to do that. And then with something that was just such a, you know, it came at the right age and it came at the right everything that it just is, you know, the best. I mean, Henry Winkler in this. No, amazing. Like, it's unreal.

That's the cool story with that too. I grew up right down the street from Paramount Studios. I'm now Rose in Gower, and I don't know what my parents were doing, but at like eight years old, I would walk down the street all alone, stand in line, and I'd go see Happy Days, Laverna and Shirley, Mork and Mindy. I'd just sit and wait, well, they'd let me in. It would happen, like, right before it got dark, by the time I left, it was dark, and I'd have to walk home. But I'd wait there, and I'd watch them, and I'd love watching the cameras and, like, behind the scenes and, you know, see these people that I love so. much on TV, like, do their shows. And I love the Fonz. And I waited after. And there were a few other people there. And he came around and he shook everyone who'd waited his hand. And I told

him that story. And he said, well, let me shake your hand again. Like, oh, you're the best. Henry Winkler is like one of the best in the business. Like, you're such a kind person. He's a great family, that kind of thing. How would that, I mean, to see Morck and Mindy, I've heard, or any i mean just those shows be those giant things and be able to go see that yeah it was cool my dad got to be on morcomendi yeah and my dad was an actor for 45 years and he was in like waiting for guffman he was the narrator

and really wonderful to see him sort of toward the end of his life get a uh improvisation recognition he did a lot of improv with like paul sills and all these people and um he did morca mending and stuff like that so they saw them like it was my dad's on there too you know while i was doing it was a pretty special moment yeah i mean i i've heard uh tom warner uh who found i think robin williams morcomendia and he ran like a bc for every own he owns the red sox now he's giant but it was just back in those days i think that they that's when when they

they would go to comedy clubs they would actually find they would really really be searching out talent. And that's what those shows were the biggest shows is you go find. There was a comic I knew. I know him. He's older. He was in that error. But he remembers the day that Robb Williams goes, hey, I'm doing that.

I just got a show. And I'm like playing like an alien. And like so he remembers. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. He remembers that day that everybody's like, oh, man, that's crazy. And they have known that'll never work. What a dumb show.

Yeah, yeah, whatever it is. It's like, it's such a cool kind of thing just to be in that, yeah, in that moment. It's unbelievable. Do you ever watch scenes from Scream your own movies and get scared? Oh, not so much. I mean, not so much because I don't know. I guess some of there are other scenes that I'm not in, you know, I could get caught up in it. I don't know for Scream, it's a little harder.

Some of the newer kind of horror films. I can get me like, you know, whatever. Are you a word a fan? Yeah, I like horror. I like horror. I'm not as much as when I was younger. Yeah. I directed a film called The Tripper.

Yeah. Yeah, that was a horror. And I do love horror, you know, but I just don't watch it on my own that much anymore. But my kids are starting to get into my 11-year-old. And so I've started to watch them more. I like sinners. It was incredible. There's been some great ones.

weapons was interesting i just saw weapons yeah yeah yeah i read about the tripper yeah said at a music festival right yeah it's about a hippie who's obsessed with i'm sorry it's about a killer who's obsessed with ronald regan who attacks hippies at an outdoor music festival so uh talk about something funny so we produced this on our own and and you know distributed it on our own it was a complete disaster. But when we did our test screening, we showed it to these people and we're looking at the 18 through 34 group and we're like, all right, what did you think of the killer? And they're like, who's Ronald Reagan?

I was like, no, I missed the whole boat. I completely did not know who he was. I was like he was the president. Whoops. Yeah, right. Yeah, that hurts. that's going to be tough can't fix that

$35,000 we made It's like the worst The most expensive college ever He's at the beginning of it And just set it up Ronald Reagan was a president I know

but that's probably what we should have ended up doing. There's a organization or something called the Science of Scare Project

and they come up with a formula to determine what's the scariest movie of all time.

And they have 250 people to participate and they monitor tripper. What? Can you believe

that? We made it. We finally made it. Some unknown named Ronald Reagan. They monitor

your heart rate. And they look at how it changes during the movie and anyway, they're going to whole... I'm just thinking about these people all attached up.

Just someone, the scariest might be the person in the room that's just level through the whole... Oh, absolutely. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right there is right there.

Okay, Sinister came out number one. Wow. Wow. Yeah. Really? I haven't seen Sinister. yet. So we

uh yeah it's crazy we just watch the conjuring we watched the conjuring on the road uh watched hereditary

on the road a couple of nights ago uh conjuring two's to up there uh yeah is scream on there uh no

that's good that you brought it up uh no scream they thought was a comedy yeah that's true yeah yeah

The only one they cared for was Scream Six. Oh, good. Is Blair? Thank you. Thank you for the other one I'm not in. Thank you. Scream six they love. That's the one that's up there,

Scream Six. Finally's unbelievable. I is, you know what's funny, Parenthoodomor activity? Blair Witch is not on there? No, I don't see that. It's not in the top 18.

Paranoa activity would be spout. The thing, it's the gore. I'm not a big gore fan. I'm not even. And I just think that's what made me like Scream so much was because it just didn't. Like you were, I mean, it's rated R,

and I'd imagine you couldn't be PG-3, but you're like, it's a movie that you could, like, you could put it on TV. You could swing a couple things and be like, it's not too bad. And it was like, and it was like, after Scream, it's like, I think, that's why I think screen was just so good. And then they went to, like, Saul.

And so then it was like, all right, well, now we just have to show the inside of a bone. Yeah, yeah, totally. And you're like, oh, my gosh, I don't want to see that. Yeah, yeah. And then it's, and it just got to that kind of point where Scream was just this perfect, like. They tried to give an NC17 rating, though, at the time. Yeah, he has to do all these cuts. Like, if you see in the zoom in on Drew Barrymore's body, there's like all these cuts along the way.

They had to actually do those cuts for. the MPA or whatever to get the rating that they got. They were just nitpicking them. And also the town that we were in in Santa Rosa, we shot a couple scenes there and then someone got a hold to some of the script and saw the scene with the kids by the water fountain and they shut the whole production down.

We had to move to a dirt following a city across the way. Wow. So when you're in the town, Are y'all on a studio set or you're actually... No, on the first one, we were on location in Santa Rosa, like, wine country up there. Oh, well, you're going to stay at that nice hotel? Yeah, the double tree in where they hated me apparently. Thanks to Maureen Brescott.

Yeah, the double tree is you're like, well, what are you? That's where the parties are hacking. Free cooking. They give you a free cookie. You go, what do you want us to do? Yeah. Well, I mean, I literally bought a go cart and I'd run, like, drive it down the hallways. Oh, you were a menace.

I was completely out of control. I get it. So we're coming around on Maureen. Yeah, she might have a point. We're on her side. It's when, like, as they made, when they made the second screams and third screams and is it, yeah, you get in that world where you got to. try to not let anybody know what's going on or what's going to happen. But is it, like, this is what I think in movies, where this is where it's with me,

where you're like, you just like it. So you're like, I don't, I, I'm just on board with the whole thing. I just want to be in that world again and just hang out with everybody. I think Final Destination is probably, which that gets pretty, like, insane. But that's a world that I think people just want to be in where you can go watch or you know what it's going to be. Totally. I think it happens with some Fast and the Furious. You get these groups that like these are their things. And they just love that whole world. And that's why it's cool when you're like me, people who are kind of all love the same kind of stuff. It happens with wrestling. Like I love wrestling. And I did a movie called Ready to Rumble. And when you go and you see wrestling, you know, you go to a wrestling, like where they film wrestling. You figure out that the camera. men and the people setting up the stage and the people put in the wardrobe. They all love wrestling.

That's all why they're all there doing this every week, the vendors that come around. So then you become part of this community where everybody loves kind of the same thing. They all talk about the same thing. They all have gripes about how it's going and how it's not going. But that is what's

cool about these little cultures that are all over the place. Yeah. And comedy, I'm sure, has a lot of that, right? Yeah, yeah. Absolutely. Do you have groups of like comedians, that kind of like, you know, I guess they all sort of are in the same kind of fan base of comedian.

You have that sort of other kind. Well, I mean, especially now you're having a lot of stand-comedy, which, you know, the idea of it kind of been around, but where it's at right now is a newish kind of thing. Yeah. And so it's the, it's getting into a phase where a lot of people that we have come to shows have never been to a stand-and-comedy show. They were maybe nervous to go to a comedy show because it was always. it's too dirty or it's too this or to that and that's what they knew so it's uh you definitely

get a new kind of world but then like you know i can talk about sam comedy the way you could talk about movies or wrestling where you're like yeah the average person would be like i'm bored with what you're saying and you're like i could keep going all right right right i love the whole aspect of it all and but when you have all of that come together on like for us even on the road we got a very good where everybody's in it that much it's like it's just going to make the best show you're just being the most serious about it you know uh also like comedy is also stand-ups kind of like i don't know if it's because it's streaming or whatever but it's now like more international it seems it feels like yes

like people are understanding the whole art form a little more and like i don't that's also happening with movies like you meet the fans and they're they're aware of like props and Like, you know, storylines and how something doesn't, you know, it's harder to fool them in a way. You can't, they're more. Well, with wrestling, when I was a kid, we really thought wrestling, it was real. It is real. Yeah. It is real.

It is. You know what I mean. The storylines. What are you mean? But now with the Internet, I mean, people know every back detail. It's hard to even surprise them when somebody walks out. Yeah, that's when. When you do, like, Presting's an incredible, like, sport.

And when you do connect with them and make it real and make it real for them, even though some people are suspending their disbelief, some people really do, you know, believe everything going on. Right. Sometimes there's real stuff going on. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah, there's all kinds of, like, layers to it.

Well, I imagine in fight. I mean, yeah, you had that with, uh, who thought there, Sean, thought they were going to win the belt. Sean Michaels. Oh, yeah. The Montreal. That was like a real thing. Didn't he think he was going to win it

and they didn't? And it was... Well, that, yeah. He did win. Oh, he did win. Brat Hart that thought it was going to win. Yes. Brett Hart, yeah. Didn't want to... Yeah. Yeah. But it's like you can have these aspects and then these dudes are, what they're doing with their body

is like, well, it's very much real. It's brutal, yeah. They're beat up. Were you a professional wrestler before the movie or after? No, so I did this movie Ready to Rumble and it was with a company called WCW which was a competitor at the time

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Is that Diamond Dallas page? Yeah. Oh, he's the best. And that's Eric Bischoff and, uh, oh, Jews, uh, Jeff jerk. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You have jerse from here. Yeah, he sure is. He's an amazing person, wonderful person, an incredible wrestler. You just won the title there. Yeah, by accident. I did. I went, no, this has to be a mistake. What do you guys? No, somebody, somebody stopped this. Yeah, so they made me, uh, I did this one show. It got a really big response. And they said to me, we'll make you the champion if you go on to the pay-per-view. And I said, well, that's a terrible idea. Yeah.

But I'll do it. And it was kind of a dream of mine as a kid to, like, have that moment right there. You know what I mean? And I was like, oh, they don't think it's the same thing. And they didn't. They were like, no, you're an actor. And this ruins everything. You didn't deserve it.

Was that the downside of the WCW? Yeah, this might have killed it. Yeah, is this what turned Hogan bad? Yeah, he goes. Absolutely, he came back and was bad after this. Yeah, he came. I got to travel with Hogan and got to travel with all the wrestlers. Because that's, Diamond Dallas Page said to me, like, listen, David, you don't have to do it.

But if you don't do it, this is it. This is it with Ready to Rumble. This is it with wrestling, you know, you've been a part of it or whatever. But if you do do it, then you're traveling with us. I was like, I get to travel with you guys. It's like, yeah, you're, like, we're all stay at the same hotels and on the same plane. Yeah, so I was like, sure, I'll do it. And, yeah, so I went out and I did that.

And then they hated me for 25 years. They'd spit on me. I'd like, I'd go to wrestling shows. They'd still be mad at me. People started trying to pick fights with me. Worst WCW. That's a worse decision than making David Arquette the champion. You know what I mean?

That was like forever. It still happens to this day. So then I got, I had two stents put in my heart. And then I was like, my wife, my wife was saying, all right, see you on the other side or whatever. Yeah. Bad choice of words. No. And then I was like, I went under.

And right before I went under, I was like. Well, I have a great family. I've lived an amazing life. You know, I mean, I have some regrets, but nothing much. And boom, I went on. I came to, and my wife was like, how did it go? Did you think about us? And it's like, I thought about wrestling.

I was like, what? And I was like, yeah, it was like one of the one things that was kind of unfinished. And she was like, oh, God. So then I independently wrestled for two years. And I went all over the country and wrestled. and sort of came up the ladder and did a movie called You Cannot Kill David Arquette about that journey to sort of realize why they're so mad at me and what wrestling's about. And I really got a better understanding of it.

And then you go, like, town to town and you do all the things in your body really hurts. You have surgeries and all the stuff that's involved with that. I mean, you're on the road. Yeah, like so are y'all in it? Would they be in an arena every night, or is it like Saturday night and then you're there all week? Yeah, no, it's a traveling circus. So we'd be in, you know, Syracuse, New York, and then, you know, travel down to, you know, that would be one night. And then you'd go.

And, you know, in the old days, you'd have these live shows that they wouldn't, we didn't do a bunch of live shows that they didn't film. So I think they had maybe two shows a week. Oh, yeah, because like... There was Thunder and Nitro. There was two shows. Coming up, when I... Yes, when I was younger, it's like, yeah, you would see they would have some live... That's when they would have a wrestler be a regular guy's name and like that kind of stuff.

Yeah, because then they would... When they'd come in town like on that Monday... That's what I have. That's my wrestling name. It's just regular guys name. I always wanted something better. Yeah. But what about Rob Boss?

Oh, Rob Boss, yeah. I once wrestled as Rob Boss, a painter who loved. Yeah, there was wrestling, pro wrestling, this amazing organization, like wrestling group. Yeah, so I painted a little happy trees, and then someone came out to fight me, and I was like, I don't fight it. I'm a painter. But I do have some angry trees that I don't fight. So a guy in a tree costume came out and wrestled for me. And then I slapped the guy with the brush.

And how many people were in the crowd? No, this one. It was like a, you know, Lions Club or like, you know, Glendale or something. Oh, that's a Lions didn't. Yeah, it's like 100 people maybe. Yeah, I've done those shows. I'd still do those shows. A lot of wrestlers like that when you do independent, you just go around.

you never know how the show's going to be. You have to perform for whoever shows up. And some of them, it's funny. You go to these different towns and they have like local wrestling legends that are there. Like they're really huge in this like in this promotion. So you go. But then you learn like there's also like grandmothers who have, you know, brought their kids and they were brought there by this.

So you see it's generational like this fan base. It's like a real tour. And then, and then, so, and, like, I read Stone Cold Steve Olson's book. Oh, man, what a guy. Yeah. He's amazing. And so, but it was like, he would essentially be on these circuits, right? And then they're just, if they get a big following and they get, like, big, it's like, then they just slowly move up into the world.

Yeah. Like, is Vince McMahon recruiting? Yeah. Like, so they got recruiters. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And it's like, in this market, like, if you're. going through all the time and then you like it's they say if you pop if you have the audience pops

and like they scream for you or they boo for you either one's good yeah you know as long as they're making a lot of noise and getting into it so if you get a great reaction they might make you the champion of that promotion yeah so then you have to defend the belt you know you have to sort of figure out with them to come back next time you start a storyline with another person then if you're a bad guy, they want their local hero to come win the belt. So you have to go back and then if you start winning a few belts, then you'll have a few belts and you'll go to all these different places. And those are typically the times when they start saying, oh, you should come try out for WWE or they offer you. Once you have enough experience, they trust you that you know

the business. Yeah. But it's cool. It's like. Is there any like, is Stone Cold one of like? He's the great one of the greatest. And yeah, I agree. That was my. I think he is the greatest. Yeah, that's my error. I mean, enough that you read his book. Yeah. I always joked that, like, it was his own book. I didn't have to read.

Stone Cold, Stone Cold's book was the only book where I was like, they're like, oh, they let him write this. Yeah. Because it was a very easy read for me that it was not a lot of big words, a lot of dead gummets. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it was like, oh, it was a guy.

He's got speaks to me. Yeah, you're like, I think he wrote it, and then they put the book out, and I'm not sure anybody else's read it. No. It was straight from his mouth. He's a great. Yeah, he came up in such a time that was just crazy. And he went to this hole, though.

Yeah. Like, yeah, they did it. Certain markets that they were really big in. Yeah. What about Andy Kaufman? Yeah. When he... I loved him.

That was sort of my inspiration also behind me coming back. Like, because I was an actor and it was like this funny kind of thing, which they didn't get at first. I hope they got it now. But yeah, so I love what Andy Kaufman did, but he loved wrestling. That's why he did it. Yeah. He was so funny.

And, you know, he also loved the uncomfortable, like, you know, that element of comedy. And, like, just people like, what is going on? Would you have ever seen him? Like, even when you were young, like... I'd never seen him. No. Yeah. When did he die?

like something like i didn't like when you went to those tv shows or 84 oh 84 okay uh yeah it was oh i may have seen him those tv shows yeah yeah uh but i probably believe he's got a great uh tom warner werner he's got a great story with him when he hired him for taxi oh wow uh he saw him at the comedy store and was like all right come this i mean this is what tv was doing so great tom warner was like running ABC and he would be the one going out looking which is something that that just doesn't always happen that much now where the you know it's the people going out looking or usually just way down the totem pole and whatever and it was like he was doing that and uh Andy Kaufman he goes yeah I'd love to have you come in and uh you know do for this part for taxi and so he goes

all right uh Andy's not going to come but his agent's going to come so this So they're out there, and he's Andy Kaufman. I think he was about a different name. He said, I'm Andy Kaufman's agent. But it is Andy Kaufman. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Tony. Tony Clifton, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And they had to, and Tom Warner had it. In the moment, like, you know, he's like, what are we doing here? And then it's like, oh, we're doing this. Yeah.

So he just did the. He just talked to us that we would love Andy to be a part of this and then he negotiated like just with Andy but it was like that that's what I do

is Tom is so brilliant to just to go like all right this is what it is the idea of like that's what you're buying of course I'm buying that you're crazy enough to do this

right so this is what I want to go do and him wrestling is the funniest we say it all the time where he's like I'm from you guys are from Memphis

Tennessee. I'm from Hollywood. Yeah, I did that too. I wrestled Jerry Lawler when I went around. Yeah, and I did the whole thing. Yeah. I'm going to sue you. Yeah, that's the best. It's the best. It was...

Although he nearly decapitated me. I took a pile driver from Jerry the King Lawler and hit nearly. What do you think, though, what are those guys getting paid on those small circuits? Oh, not a lot. Is it like $100 bucks a night or something if you're lucky? It's not like stand-up comedy. Well, the bigger names are people coming in. It's different.

It's just tickets. It's what you're selling ticket was. Yeah, but at that point, you're just trying to get some, you know, stage time. You know what I mean? You just really want to. It is stand-up comedy, dude. It actually is. It is really crazy because you're making no money and you just need to get on stage.

You're driving anywhere. You're driving anywhere. You can't be there for the money. I remember going to an event in somewhere, somewhere. maybe we were on the road. I don't know if I was, it was made the beginning when I started comedy years, years ago. And I remember going watching it and something. It was like pretty crowded and they're, and these dudes, I remember they fought and they would fight like in the, by the concession stand.

They would leave the ring and just be out in the middle. So I remember just being close and I mean, they're fighting. And I mean, you're just, they're all there. And these are guys you don't really know, like the people that do know them, know them. them in that but we're in it's the smallest of a smallest kind of thing you're like you could touch them yeah you're you know the guy walks by and you're like go go get you're just into it yeah and it was the coolest thing uh in the world yeah i was a big the rock and uh yeah and a big my favorite was ultimate warrior yeah that was at the beginning i love the ultimate warrior

did you ever meet him no i never met him he uh so he a big ultimate warrior fan and then Then when my big error was the Monday Night Raw, like when it was Stone Cold and the Rock. And like that whole, to me was like, I kind of, after that I kind of stopped. I think when it all kind of blended that WCW and WWE was blending a little bit. Yeah. And but it was like that was when the Rock and Stone Cold were going at it and at the peaks, it was, I've, I mean, and I'm just, you're just at that right age where you're just like, this is the best thing.

I never would have guessed he's from Indiana. Yeah, I would have guessed Dolsville, Indiana. Yeah, I would have guessed Dolsman Warrior was born in an egg. Like, he just doesn't feel like he would be from somewhere. Yeah. It's like how you feel like Madonna or Tom Cruise, where you're like, where she's from? You're like, it doesn't matter.

She's just Madonna. They're not from me. anywhere. They're just, they are that. Yeah, the ultimate warrior went to Indiana State University for a year. Wow. It's just weird to think about it. I wouldn't have still thought that. Yeah. Art history class. Yeah, art history class. Speaking of art, we talked about art last week in a podcast. Someone wrote in and said you are a Bob Ross painting instructor. Yeah, I'm a certified Bob Ross instructor. What does that mean? That's awesome. That means I went to New Smyrna Beach, Florida. It took a three-week course to be able to teach people.

to paint in the style of Bob Ross. Wow. Yeah, I love his art and his style and his energy. And the same thing, you know, a little community of people who also love his stuff. We're in a lot of communities. Yeah, that's what it's about. And, yeah, so I learned how to paint. And now he's mainly for charity, like tomorrow.

We're doing a big thing for, you know, preventing blood cancer, finding a cure for blood cancer. And so we'll do a bunch of shows for, I mean, teaching things, yeah, that they can put on the internet to raise money for this thing. But, yeah, so I use it for charity, it's fun. Yeah. Yeah. If you ever got into anything that everybody wants to watch.

I'm trying to piece together all these pieces and then like, oh, I like all those things too. You like all these things too. I mean, it's like, it's different groups, I mean, it's like, it's different groups. I like it, though. I like that you're into all this other stuff. Bozo the clown. Yes, I love clowns. I love Bozo.

I fell in love with Bozo when I lived in Evanston, Illinois as a kid. And, you know, do you want to bring back to happy clown? So we're on this sort of journey to do that. Yeah. My dad was a clown. I know. Yo, yo. That is so awesome.

It's, uh... Did you have a name when he was a clown? Yo-yo the clown. Yo-yo the clown? Yeah. Did he do yo-yo's? Yep. No, no.

I don't, I mean, he might have been it was. It wasn't a big jo-o? No, no, it wasn't heavy yo-yo stuff. No unicycle, yo-yo? That's a double-yo unicycle. Yeah, yeah. That's a good act. I think people got upset because they were the lack of yo-yo's.

And they go, but your name is yo-yo. I was a big, uh, bozo fan as well. Oh, cool. And, me too. And, me too. And, uh, I, I really remember where they threw the ball. The Grand Prize game.

Yeah. And so, yeah, a giant. It is crazy because I think that name, Bozo the Clown, is carried on even just today. And I would think most people don't know how they know it. Yeah. It's just an insult now. Yeah, yeah. Call somebody Bozo.

Yeah, yeah. When you say you want to bring back the happy clown, what do you mean by that? Just like, you know, everyone's scared of clowns now. So, just so it's not just that, you know what I mean? Clowns represent joy and having, like, clown's job really is to create happiness, make people laugh and uplift, yeah. What changed things do you think? It had a big thing to do with it.

It goes back. John Wayne Gacy, probably, too. John Wing-Gaysson. That didn't help. Yeah, that didn't help. They go, that was a tough one. That was. That pretty much inspired.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's hard to get, it's hard to turn it around. it's a big ship and David's got it he's worth staring it but he's got he's got his waters are rough it doesn't help

that a new it is coming out I mean these are all things that just I'm sure they're making a Casey movie that'll just yeah every time yeah we went to these clown conventions which is another

amazing community it is so amazing you like learned tricks from them. They're like teaching inside things. So this really works. Don't get the streamers that are like this. Get the streamers that'll just fall out of your hand. I like the thing. You have you have auditoriums in the weirdest towns that you probably can't walk in because there's just some convention. You're like the hotels you've been at, the conventions where you're like, it's going to be a problem if I go in there. And you're like,

what? It's a bozo the clown thing. You go, let me tell you. Because I'm in with these people. Be fun of two of your communities, they cross pass, Bozo and the wrestling community. You'd be surprised. Wrestling and horror crossover pretty much. Yeah, that's a close. That's his close.

That's a close connection there. But clowns, yeah, that's been harder to, you know. There was a few wrestling clowns. What about Circus Soleil? I mean, that's amazing. That's old Montreal sort of French-Canadian. circus but beautiful like their artistry is so

incredible yeah there's a guy named nunu who's part of our new clown group who was a I don't know if noon who's going to be Wikipedia I'm trying he's pretty new Aaron

but uh yeah there he is that how you spell it's Gabe Dell Jr but um new no no no no real real uh real new new real uh real new no no no real new bozo the clown oh yeah Gabe Dell is

as a clown, that's him down there. That's not our new, but that's him in a film that he did. Willard Scott was Bozo. Yeah, Willard Scott. He was Bozo. And then as Bozo, he did an event with McDonald's, and they sold a bunch of burgers.

And they got a really great response. And then Willard Scott started doing a clown for McDonald's. But the original, you look up the original, Ronald McDonald did not look like not that one oh look there the first one that's Willard Scott after the Bozo event

and that didn't work so well for them so then then they had one that looked a little more not like Bozo but similar if you're listening he's got like a McDonald's cup as his nose and I mean that's pretty much it

yeah yeah wait so it's pretty good it's got the tray on his head with the burgers on it wow was bozo before

it was before this yeah it was before ronal so and then he became ronald so there was a little controversy in the bozo community it's funny we went to this one clown convention and then we went to another clown convention

and we found out that those two clown conventions were kind of feuding with each other I was like, how can you guys be upset with each other? You're all clout. I'm not going to that convention. You want to go, guys, we need to get together. It's like WCW and WV.

Yeah, exactly. Competing. Yeah. Have you seen the Seinfeld where George Costanza talks about Bozo? Bozo, yeah, yeah. Bozo. That was amazing. Yeah.

Yeah. My dad goes to magic conventions. I know. Oh, I love that your dad's a magician now. You will be soon. I heard that, yeah, it pays more, apparently. You'll meet him there. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, a lot of clowns do magic, though. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Mm-hmm. That's funny. Yeah, he always, yeah, he did it. The story, my dad has a lisp, and he was able to hide behind the makeup with it. Oh, that's cool.

And then so it was, and then, and then, and then he did it for a while, Oh, then he started doing just magic. I mean, he comes on the road to me now. Oh, that's so cool. How was it to have a dad? Oh, how cool. That is amazing. MSG with his dad.

That's amazing. How was it having a – because my kids are like my dad and he's a clown. It's a God, I'm not sure all they were taking it. Yeah. Yeah. It's like one of those – I always say it's like you didn't know that it wasn't normal in a weird way because you just think i don't know i don't know what i thought my dad always was he was a clown and my dad always did magic and everybody kind of knew and then so you just

and it wasn't like he was doing it it wasn't he was always on it was like tv or it was like this kind of uh fame thing it wasn't david copperfield where he was like this kind of crazy thing my dad's i think as good as david he's very very good at it uh But so it was just like, yeah, it's just what he did. And my dad was a teacher through all this. And so everybody was impressed by it. But yeah, it took, I never, when I started comedy, you think my first joke would have been about this.

But it took me a few years before I even, like, put it together that you're like, yeah, yeah, that's not, yeah, yeah, it's kind of crazy. Oh, wow. You know. But then you, yeah, then you slowly get it. But we go, I mean, I remember seeing Circus de la with my dad. We'd go to stuff and, you know, just the appreciation he would have. I think that's why, even in my stand-up, I have such appreciation for an act.

So, like, over, you know, like, there's this crowd work and there's these improv is, like, good, but it's reliant. Like, the idea of an act, the idea that you are, someone has created a hour show for you. and the work that it's gone into it that's why I think that's why I love it so much because even when I go on stage we talked about it earlier in the podcast for you were here but someone asked about like

I don't always talk to the crowd or talk about the town I'm in or whatever because I kind of want to just get up there and do my thing because I've just worked on it and I know where all the laughs are going to be and I just want to take you along for the ride Right. And I think that's what I like, which is kind of an old school kind of weight with comedy and with clown, with everything, is just that.

Yeah. What do you go try to be Ronald McDonald's? He's back, which is exciting. Yeah. How do they think about Ronald McDonald in the clown community? Are they appreciative of what he did? I don't know. I think so. I mean, when Ronald McDonald was biggest, it was sort of when clowns were at their height.

You know what I mean? So I think it's happy. We want happy clowns. You're supposed to try to hide your teeth, though, a lot of the time. Oh, really? I mean, when you can. But he's showing his teeth there, especially now. Yeah.

But, yeah, I like Ronald McDonald. I always love Ronald McDonald. I always thought clowns, I went to, like, Ringling Brothers, and I thought it was all part of Bozo's world. And then when I first started a production company, I met with Larry Harmon, the guy who turned Bozo from a read-along record, a capital records, into Bozo, the world's most famous clown. And I met him, we had all these meetings, super long meetings, and just telling all these stories. So I was like, you really need to have your story written down, like, write a book. So I connected him with the writer, and he finally got his book written called The Man Behind the Nose, and then he passed away shortly after. So then I was talking to his wife, and then she passed away, and I finally made a deal with their daughter.

And it took me 15 years, so here we are. It's been a long thing. What you realize quickly is that so much goes into it. You do your own makeup, and you travel, and you carry your bags, and you carry your bags, you put these acts together and you, uh, you know, but it is really about creating a positive memory. Like somebody has like this great time and like you want the parents to have a great time because, you know, it's so hard right now. And if they could just call it like, you know, their kids are happy, they're happy. That's what it's all about. Yeah. Yeah. It is. I mean,

I would see that with my dad. Like I was saying with stand up is like I would just see how much he would have to take with him. Yeah. He has to do his own makeup. uh even when he gets into magic it's like he has to bring extra extra suitcases it's i mean it's just an entire uh process that you're trying to do where with stand up you can just go you could show up you can wake you up and you could go you got nothing nothing and you could just talk uh that's good so yeah it's a whole it's a it's a it's a whole thing yeah it there's is clown school at j j have you been to a clown school or I studied with the clown and sort of did clown school.

Yeah, Misha Usaf, who's an amazing clown. And, yeah, I studied with him. It was mainly online. I mean, I met him at a clown convention as well. But, yeah, they teach you a lot of really cool stuff, really amazing things about being in the moment. Yeah, is both, that would be a good thing to learn. Well, I think, but even for any kind of thing is being in the moment. that's uh yeah you try to i try to work that on on stage where it's you remind yourself like if i'm

telling a story i try to really be in the story that i'm telling even if i've told it a thousand times just get yourself in that story so the people there fill that uh is bo is it bozo is bozo the top like clowns right now puddles is really great clownvis is doing incredible work there's a lot of great clowns I mean there's a lot of incredible Russian clowns Slava is incredible the snow show

Yeah I went to the snow show Yeah Yeah snow show is incredible That's such a brilliant There's like beautiful clowns all around the world There's clowns that are level like Charlie Chaplin That just aren't known yet That's part of what I want to do

Like, you know, Bozo's favorite clowns You know what I mean And just have all these incredible acts and just, again, it's all about bringing the happy clown back and having fun with it and having people have a great time. That's really what it is. But is Bozo the kind of, you would think, the standard?

Standard top. Richard Pryor. If you talk to all the clowns, they're like, Bozo's really, you know, wasn't a clown. Like, that's what they typically say. He was just famous. Well, he was kind of a game show host in a way. And he was kind of more of.

especially like Bob Bell at the early WGN Bozo, it's more like a vaudeville show so they did like acts like skits and like you know these really quick bits which is also beautiful and I love that my family goes back to vaudeville

so I think this has something to do with why I'm doing it all. Yeah. Just to sort of connect with. Who's the one that is like the cookie? Cookie. Well there's Nunu but we also introduced

Jozo Bozo. Jozo Bozo is the world's first female bozo, the clown. Oh, wow. And she's sweet. Oh, no, that's a different Joso. She's down there with me at the... Oh, wait, where?

Oh, right here? Yeah. That's a guy somewhere else, but we didn't want to sue him. That's Joso Bozo. Yeah, Joe Bozo. Yeah, that's Jozo. She's wonderful. But I think what I'm asking is, like, in the clown world,

Yeah. The respected, is there a first, is there Charlie Chapman type, like, you know, where they, they look at like that as like. I might not pronounce his name, right, like Jerebelly, Gerebelly, that was like an old famous clown. But it goes back. It goes way back. I mean, there were clowns in, oh, wow, there's scary clowns come up. I know a lot of scary clown. That's what we're trying to fight against.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It happens all the time. Gerebelli, I'm not, I'm probably not saying it right. But he was kind of the first clown to bring like the sad clown. Clarabelle, that was a really famous clown. That was a Howdy Duties clown. And yeah, I mean, so there's Comedia del Arte, which is like all of these archetypes, you know, of like it was, I think it's Italian. And it's all the archetypes of these different kind of clowns.

and they put on these acts and they're like these running storylines that you can kind of piece them together sort of led to the modern day kind of vaudeville and all that kind of stuff. But they were like these archetypes where you have like the boss, the Capiton, who's like he's the boss but he knows nothing.

And he's like talking down to people and then he'll get his and then you know and there's like all these different characteristics like the greedy cloud. and all these, you know, there's one called Zani where the word Zaini comes from. Yeah, I think it's Z A-N-I is the way they spell it. Yeah.

That's Z-E-N-I. There's a Zadie cloud out there. That's a good name. But, yeah, Comedia del Arte is just an interesting thing. I don't really know too much about it. Is Chaplin considered it? anything in this? Yeah, Chaplin was definitely a clown.

Buster Keaton, all those original sort of silent film actors. A lot of clowning is silent. A lot of clowns are silent. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, to tell a story without words is pretty interesting. I was when we did this movie, I was, like, there's a stunt person, and so he's falling and all this. And I was like, I want to learn how to fall.

And I want to learn how to do this so, like, you can put it in movies. Absolutely. And do it. Start doing it on stage, too? I wouldn't do it on stage. But it's the, but to do it in movies. For the right bit, maybe. Yeah, you never know.

Something happens. It's a pop rocks. Yeah. Yeah. My buddy, Dustin Chafin, who's a comment, was with us. He fell going up the stairs this weekend. I mean, in front of 16, 17,000 people. He just missed his step and just fell right.

And you have to just, you have to, like, save it and be like, all right. Yeah. But I worked with The Clown to, on a movie called C-Spot Run. I worked with a clown named Lorenzo, whose family were part of the Pickle Circus. Pickle Family Circus. And, yeah, so we worked together and, you know, we work out all these bits and, like, you know, map it all out and how it's going to happen. It was fun to do that kind of stuff. Physical comedy is, like, one of my favorites.

Yeah, yeah. It's, I, yeah, I want to learn, you know, just to be in movies, just when you're just out of nowhere. Like, you know, it's like the Dick Van Dyke fall that where he was able to just go. And it's, it's, it's, it's, it's good. Fall is a good, good. It's always funny. Yeah. It's always funny. We need to get you to come out. We do Vegas some. Maybe you come out with my dad. You and him can, uh, y'all can go set up. He'll nerd out about this stuff. Yeah. Well, he loves to do a bit, so he loves that kind of thing. I love a bit. So it's like, yeah, yeah, like they, so if y'all went, you just have y'all come out and then I got to. Clown around? Yeah, the clown around, and I got to follow all this.

You got to go up after. It's just like, it's just stuff everywhere, chairs are knocked over, and then I got to go do stand-up. Oh, you know, my whole life's been like that. But it would be very fun to do it. And you have a movie coming out next month. Yeah, I sure do. The perfect gamble. It comes out in November.

All right. On the 17th or something. Yeah. Yeah. There it is. Gambling movie. Another little niche network of people. Do you gambles?

I'm a horrible gambler. I probably shouldn't say that. Words have meaning. But yeah, I enjoy gambling quite a bit. Yeah. But this looks super fun. Yeah, it's a fun movie, really. Yeah.

Where was this shot? This was shot in Georgia and Israel. The country of Georgia. Yeah. Yeah, the country of Georgia. We go to Georgia to open an illegal casino, essentially. And then the Russian mob there shows up and it's like, you can't do that. That's Daniela Picked Tarantino.

She's amazing in it. And Danny Abakasar is the director. and he's also the third actor in it. Where is it coming out on? In theaters or in... It'll come in theaters. Yeah, it's going to be at the Vista Theater. Okay, great.

Quentin Tarantino's Theater and... Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then, you know, if you see theaters throughout the country and then roll out a little more and then come online. All right. It's awesome. And Screen 7 comes out in February. Yeah, Screen 7.

It's exciting. That's in February. Yeah. I like that you can just come out in February. Like, Scream's just so big that they're like, yeah, we're doing Valentine's like. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

It doesn't matter. That's good. Awesome, man. It was, you're the best. Thank you. You're the best. You guys, I really appreciate it. We appreciate you.

And I, uh, I'm a giant fan. So, uh, yeah. I got, so I get to mark you off now. I'll let you know when I'm slowly as I head through my screen, yeah, my scream people. Yeah. Oh, I'll write them when they're coming through town. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, they ever want to come to show.

If you ever want to come to show, you're here now, but. Yeah, yeah. It's like, yeah. All right, yeah, we're getting together. We're going to hang out. All right. That's it for me. We're, I forget, I'm in Chicago this week.

I'm on the road. 2026, a ton of dates, all that stuff. I'm in Ontario, Canada, then Plano, Texas, Dallas, Texas, Tacoma, Washington, Portland. And Waco, Texas, Portland. The easier to fly tour. It's all around. Yeah, it is. That's what I do.

That's what I do. That's awesome. Aaron Weber here, this weekend, Buffalo. We've never done comedy in Buffalo before. I'm doing the Buffalo Helium on Thursday. And then Albany, New York on Friday, and then Syracuse, New York on Saturday, and Tampa next weekend.

So come out and see me. Awesome. All right. You got your movie. You don't have any appearances or... I don't know if I have any appearances. The movie. We did...

Go see the perfect gambler. Foso. We did some music, so we have an album. Oh, that's great. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I'm a clown. I don't know how to sell them. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Go to, you guys, is it just bozo the clown? Bozo.com. Bozo.com. Yeah, we don't even, we don't have it up there yet. That's probably part of the problem. That's how you want to advertise. Oh, I mean, bozo.com works, but we just don't have the record up there yet. All right.

Well, yeah, but it's nice to know that, I mean, look, a lot of people will be excited that you're, with the heart of you bringing bozo back it's not a bad thing most people would have got bozo and gone completely the different direction yeah no they've talked to me about doing scary stuff yeah no that's great that's great uh all right they forget we've uh nateland presents the showcase season three is coming to a close with our final set this friday kira selantovich sultonovic yeah she i think i hosted the show that she was on so

funny she killed it you're going to love her go check her set up that's this friday yeah yeah uh and who at brett upton's our special january 25th two shows at the den in chicago uh yeah and then all those stuff we have on our youtube channel all right we love you have a great week bye You know, I'm not going to be able to be.