U Talkin’ U2 To Me? - U Talkin’ U2 To Me? - eXPERIENCE + iNNOCENCE Tour Pt. 1 with Andy Daly and Phoebe Robinson

Episode Date: July 18, 2018

Andy Daly (Review) and Phoebe Robinson (2 Dope Queens) are back to join Adam Scott Aukerman as they discuss U2’s eXPERIENCE + iNNOCENCE Tour. Andy talks about his U2 fan club debacle, what happened on that faithful May 16th night at The Forum in Inglewood, and the most suspenseful part of the night for Andy. Then, Phoebe talks about memorable moments from the 5 shows she saw, the return of MacPhisto, and receiving a hand written note from Bonobos. Plus, stay tuned for next week’s episode featuring interviews with U2!

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This is you talking you too to me, the comprehensive and encyclopedic compendium of all things you two. This is good rock and roll music. Welcome back. Oh man, it has been a minute. We don't want to say it. We don't want to say it. No, I didn't say it. We don't want to say it because that was our previous stained glass episode. But yeah, we're back. You talking U2 to me. We're taking a

little bit of a break from REM for a couple of weeks. Let me set the scene of what's going to happen. This is the first of a two-parter. This is the first

of two episodes detailing and discussing our experience and innocence of the U2 Experience and Innocence Tour. In this episode, coming up a little later, we're going to be talking to Andy Daly, Andy Daly of Review fame, as well as various other television shows and movies, including, I believe, a CarMax commercial where he has a ventriloquist dummy. Yes. He'll be up here talking to us a little bit later about our experience at the Los Angeles Forum.

One of the funniest guys around. If you haven't seen Review, you've got to check out Review, one of the best television shows of the last 150 years. Yeah, I would throw another two years on top of that 152 years um also a little later we will have one of the two dope queens herself phoebe robinson will be here to talk we'll talk yes dope queen phoebes will be here to talk about our experience going to the madison square garden in new york city stop on the. So that is coming up on this episode, and you will also not want to miss next week's episode where we actually talk to the band themselves.

That's right. We talk to Bonobos. This is a good time, by the way, to talk about the members of the band. Yeah, and if you don't mind their names their name yeah i would definitely i said one of them i believe in the last sentence bonobos bonobos of course yeah who does uh what's he doing the band he uh hold on one sec here all right give me just one sec yeah no problem we have all the time just gotta you starting a fire?

Yeah, and then I'm going to look up what Bonobos does. It's a little chilly here in the summertime. You would just bear with me. Boy,

come and get my hands next to that. Okay, the fire is started. Let me get going on Googling Bono. What is it?

It sounds familiar. What does he do in the band? That's what I'm looking up, if you give me a second. Okay. All right. He, he's, wait, no, that's a clothing company, I think. Oh, Bonobos, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, right. I actually got some, some some loungewear from them. It's great. Loungewear. Super comfy. They're not even sponsoring the show this week. I know, I know. It's just killing some time while I Google this.

Yeah, yeah. No, it's okay. We don't need to kill time. We can just be totally silent. You know what? I think I might Bing it. That's a good plan. Also, not a sponsor of the show.

Okay, Bonobos uh here we go he is uh the singer the singer is that right well let me double check here yeah go to a different website let me see because i went to a play the other day by the way i saw soft power here at the hominson and i got tickets from stubhub because it was sold out and it was like the last performance by the time I had heard about it. And said 8.30 start. I said, that's weird. At the Amundsen, 8.30? That doesn't sound right. I'm going to look it up elsewhere.

Looked it up on a different site. It said 8.30. Guess who gets to the show at 8.10 and finds out it already started and can't be seated until the next scene starts. Wow. And who has two thumbs? This guy. So wait, did it start at 7.30 or 8? 8.

Why would they say 8.30? It's so stupid. It's insane to me. You must have been pissed. I was sitting there stewing because of how expensive it was to get last minute tickets to the very last performance. I'm sitting there just like steamed. Yeah.

Steamed. Literally coming out of your eyeballs. You could have boiled a teabag above me. Wait. Was that right? Okay. Well, that's fine. Go with it.

That's fine. That's fine. Did we ever find – yeah, did you get a second – did you double check? Yeah. Let me – that's a clothing website. Oh, you're back at Bonobos? Yeah. Yeah.

Today, I got these. They're almost like sweatpants. Loungewear, you mean? Yeah. It's for just hanging out at home. Did it fit? They fit great. When you say that, what does that mean to you?

Let's just say they're big enough that I could stretch. Also use them to tent my house. Right. So they're super comfortable. So you're like the James Coco just stretching out the waistband? Precisely. That's an old reference that I don't think anyone gets. Including me.

James Coco is an actor who lost a lot of weight and was the first example that I remember seeing as a kid of someone stretching their their pants. He was always like a dad on sitcom. Yeah. To show like this is how much weight I lost. My pants used to go all the way out to here on my body. It was the first time I ever saw that. And yet no one seems to know what I'm talking about. He's dead. Correct. Oh, I hope so.

Losing all that weight did not save him in the end. Fucking slamming James Coco and his heirs if he hasn't. He's the singer. I've confirmed now. He's the singer. Bonobos is the singer of U2.

Sometimes guitar, I think. Really? Yeah. Weird. Here and there. Okay. Okay, so we will be talking to him in next week's episode. Great.

We will also be talking to, did you look up any of the other people in the band? Oh, no. Shit. Fire up the putes. Yeah. Stoke that fire. Sorry, I'm just taking care of, like, tending to the fire a little bit. Yep.

Are you cooking something over that? What is happening? Yeah, I'm making taking care of it, tending to the fire a little bit. Are you cooking something over that? What is happening? Yeah, I'm making some soup. Some soup? Why not just use the Earwolf stovetop over there? Nah, I like campfire. That's just an open fire. Yeah, I mean, that's a campfire in the middle of this room.

It's getting very... Well, I disabled all of the fire alarm. The smoke detectors? Smoke detectors. This is not good, man. We're in... This place is a tinderbox. Well, we are recording. We can't have the sprinklers going off.

Yeah, because that would ruin the equipment. I guess everything's okay. Yeah. Also, I have a little bit of a warrant situation, so I can't have the fire department coming here. I think we'll be okay. By that, I mean I have warrant CDs in my backpack,

and I would rather, and I know the fire department, they're big fans, try and take them. I think if there's just a, if suddenly we pass out from smoke inhalation, there's the rest of the, take a look at the running time of this episode. It's probably inordinately long. That may be because we passed out, and you'll just hear like an hour of silence.

Excuse me. This is terrible. We also talked to the other members of the band. Okay, I got them here. Who you got? It's hard to see in here. Sorry. Yeah.

Okay, well, let's just skip it. Anyway, next week we talk to the band. Great. That will be the second part of our two-parter. But coming up, we have Andy Daly and Phoebe Robinson. A lot of stuff happened. a lot of stuff happened um you're not going to want to miss either of these two episodes because uh some pretty crazy stuff happened to us um and we will be getting to all of that um but eventful let's say it was an eventful trip to New York. I mean, I would say it like

a lot of stuff happened. If you think you know stuff, you don't know stuff until you hear next week's episode. But we're going to be talking with Andy and Phoebe about our experiences

with them, but you're not going to want to miss either. Pulse-pounding episode. But before we do that, I got to introduce the guy to my immediate right. He is an actor of note who may go down with some sort of a legacy of a body of work that's semi-accomplished.

He was – he played – goddammit. Who was this guy that you played on Parks and Rec? Brian. Mike? Brian? Brian. Brian. Brian. Like what you do with a turkey on Thanksgiving?

Yes. Brian. Capital B-R-I-N-E. Capital E. Capital B-R-I-N-E. Capital E. Brian. Brian. capital E capital B R I N capital E capital E

Brine Brine Symes Brine Symes which is capital S capital Y M

capital S Brine Symes Brine Symes so you play Brine Symes Brine Symes it's so weird that they

they never said that during the show all that much. Look, when I'm watching a television show or a movie, I was just thinking about this the other day. Yeah. Because I was watching an old Doctor Who episode. And let's not get into a Doctor Who's on first situation here because I know your instincts.

And I just want to cut those off at the knees right now. I was watching a Doctor Who episode yesterday. I was like, that actor looks familiar. Yeah. But how am I supposed to ever find out where I know him from? Yeah, yeah. Because I can't just look up Doctor Who and Guy. Right.

It wasn't someone playing Doctor Who. And you can't go to IMDb because there's so many episodes. So many episodes that I'm like, well, I don't even know where to find this. Yeah. So I'm just sitting there waiting for someone to call him by his character's name. Yeah. At some point I'm like, and they're not calling him by his character's name. Normally, the first time you see a character, someone calls that character by their name.

Yeah. Meanwhile, you're not getting, you're not paying any attention to the intricate plot mechanism. I'm just waiting for someone to say like like, hey, Larry, or whatever, and then I can look up Doctor Who and Larry. Yeah. Finally, someone says, excuse me, Banes. So who was it? It was a dude from Game of Thrones.

He played What's-Her-Name's brother, who, you know, the dragon lady's brother. Oh, yeah. Yeah, from the first season or whatever. He's in that show Counterpart, the J.K. Simmons show. Oh, that's right. That's the other thing I know him from. Okay, that's more what I know him from.

You're welcome. He's great. But I'm just sitting there going, like, call him by his name. Now, when I see a movie like Call Me By Your Name, then all bets are off. And I'm just like, I don't know. Who's who? Who are all these people is what Scott says. I was like, one of these guys I think was one of the guys

from the social network maybe? One of the twins? I don't know. Who knows? But it's very interesting that no one ever called you that during Parks and Rec. Brian Symes. Brian Symes. The only time that ever happened was my first episode where I walked in

and I said, It's Brian Symes times. And then what happened next in the scene, as I recall, everyone stared. Nick and Amy were like, Oh, of course it is. And they reset all the clocks. And then we sat down. To Brian Symes time. Because that was a big part of Parks and Rec is the big wall of clocks where they had USA, you had Greenwich Mean Time, you had what the time was in Russia. And once I became a regular, they added Brian Symes times.

Which was approximately 23 minutes off. At all times. At all times, which afforded your character the latitude to come late all the time. Yes, I was always 23 minutes late. That's why I never appeared in an episode until the last 30 seconds. The last seven minutes, Adam would be, it's Brian Seinstein. And that's just

Parks and Rec's trivia. Of like, you will not see Adam in any episode before seven minutes till the end. You can just fast forward those DVRs to 23 minutes. There I am. Adam Scott is here.

Hello, Adam. Hey. And my name, by the way, I'm finally introducing both of us. My name's Scott Aukerman. How long have we been going? Probably a half an hour at this point. Who knows? So welcome to the show.

We're back, you two. It's been a while, but it's good to talk about the boys, isn't it? Ah, the lovable lads from Liverpool. The labs from, I believe they're- Why did that turn into a tongue twister all of a sudden? I think they all, yeah, three L words in a row? La, la, la. I didn't do my vocal exercises before.

Yeah, we should do them now then. Sure. Okay, here we go. Patient. Bowel syndrome. Boozy uncle. Irritable bowel syndrome. Bowel smells.

Toilet bowl. Fart That one Okay I think we're all warmed up Okay Try the lovable labs thing again See if you can do it The lovable labs

Oh Damn it We gotta go back Okay You first Butthole smell The Lovable Labs. Oh, damn it. We got to go back. Okay, you first. Butthole smell. Okay, I think I'm warmed up.

Okay, let me see. Party poop. Party poop. All right, that just killed it. That did it? I think so. Okay. Okay.

Try it again. The lovable lads from Liverpool. There we go, yes. The lovable lads. Oh, Scott, you got to go back. No, I'm just going to keep going. I'm going to plow through. But what if they were labs?

What if they were Labrador Retrievers? Oh, so cute. I think it would be so cool to see, like, you two, they can't tour every year because they want to take time off. I think it would be so cool to see, like, U2, they can't tour every year because they want to take time off. What if they had just four Labrador Retrievers come out instead of the band? And they didn't tell anyone that it wasn't like, U2 has dogs. Buy tickets. No, they were just like, this is U2. From now on.

And just we were like, okay, well, I didn't know that dogs could play instruments, but I'll go with it. I mean, I'm into it. It definitely would be a cuter show. Oh, it would be an adorable show. And they would sell so many tickets to dog ticket holders. Yeah, definitely. Like lots of dogs would come see the show. Lots of dogs.

And cats would probably stay away. They would protest. They would picket outside. But I can bet that they would sell out, if they told no one that it was going to be dogs, they would sell out every tour stop. Immediately. Much like a regular tour show. The question is, would they

sell out the next tour? Or would people be like, you know, I don't know if I'm going to buy you two tickets, because last time I went, they were all dogs. Dogs. What if they're like, okay guys, sorry about the dog thing. No dogs. We're going to tour again, but it's going to be us.

Humans only. No dogs. And so everyone's like, okay. All right. And they sell out. And then dogs come out again. Dogs come out and everyone's like, god damn. Fuck.

All right. Paid for parking. Got a babysitter. And what if they didn't play instruments too? They were just like doing dog things, like chasing balls. Yeah, they just like run around on stage. Oh, man. I would still enjoy it, just taking dumps everywhere.

And what would the songs be called? Like Where the Streets Have No Treats? Where the Treats Have No name would be better or the treats and it's all about how they don't they just want generic dog treats they don't want the specialty because like purina and stuff is all bullshit it's like we don't want to put money into those corporations yeah the generic's fine with us this is is a good idea. Or the treats have no need. You two, contact us. I know that we just talked to you

and we'll talk to you in the next episode. I wish we had this on the brain just like five days ago. Missed opportunities. Just a spoiler alert for the next episode.

We do not bring this up. Yeah. Ugh. We need to set up another interview. Like, stats. Stats. Guys, if you're listening, we need to get you in another room.

Let's talk. I know you're probably in Europe already, but we'll fly to you. Oh, yeah. We need to get over there. We should probably book tickets and go and just deal with- Not even- Yeah, not worry about that until later. Yeah, not even deal with contacting them or anything.

We'll just- Just like show up in Belgium. Hey, guys. We have something for you it's where the treats have no name we have an idea oh we're talking about you too yeah um and uh this is exciting because two different states, two different oceans. What we tried to do, in Los Angeles, we waved at the Pacific Ocean and we said, hello. Yeah. And then we got on a plane to see him in New York City and we went and we waved at the Atlantic Ocean. That was our first stop from the airport. I say that to the Atlantic Ocean.

Hey, guys, all the fish. Well, there are so many living things in the ocean. So many creatures. Have you thought about how many – I had a dream last night again about – I sometimes dream of a specific ocean where there are dangerous sharks and I'm swimming in it. And I'm making a circular lap. But have you ever thought about how many things are in the ocean? Man.

You know, you think about like fish, right? Yeah. I'm locked in. Literally dozens of different types of fish. Yeah. But then also you think about octopi. More than one of them. Otherwise we wouldn't have that name octopi.

It would just be octopus. Precisely. What was the name of that James Bond movie? I think it was Never Say Never Again. Yep. But then there's also crustaceans. Sure. Right?

You know, I forget who I was talking to, but we were talking about how the James Bond movie came out, and it was called Octopussy. Mm-hmm. And that happened. Like, they put out a movie that happened and it and people were like and i remember everyone was like well that's a little risque right but just something about it was like they still let it happen it was like the in and out urge stickers that we talked about in a previous thing people were just like well okay sure i mean

that was what america used to be itussy. People could just do what they wanted. Remember the nude bomb? That was another one. The Get Smart movie? That was called the nude bomb. And I remember that. My parents going like, weirdly, before the naked gun, the Get Smart movie was called the nude bomb. Isn't that weird?

Yeah. And I remember my parents just going like, no, you can't see that because it's the nude. Like someone's naked in it or something. But same thing with Octopussy. I couldn't see it because it was like all about pussy. I was like my son's age. I was like 10 or 11, and I went with my friends. You don't know what your son's age is?

Well, I'm pretty sure he's 11, but I'm just rounding up or down. Oh, off your age. Off my age. But went to see it with my friend. Went to go see Octopussy. Octopussy. Which was playing at the multiplex. I don't know that I've ever seen it.

Does it have anything to do with octopi? Or I know it has something to do with pussy. But is there a character named Octopussy or i know it has something to do with pussy but is there a character named octopussy or something yeah the the as far as i remember the maude adams character who i think is who plays her is like the main woman love interest slash villain to james bond that's a movie star name right there maude adams i think that's who it was her name in the movie is Octopussy. And does she have special qualities with her vagina? What is it? Does she have like eight holes?

Or like tentacles? Yeah. No, I don't think so. It's just a name. I think it's just a name. It's just her name. Like, hi, I'm Mrs. Octopussy. The poster had tentacles going around him, right?

I bet it did. But it was called Octopussy. Hi, I'm Adele Octopussy. How are you? It's so weird that things like that were allowed to happen back then. We should remake it. Literally, what would happen right now if you put out a movie called I Love Pussy?

Or what if you put out a movie called Octopussy? There's no way. there is no way ah boy i mean look at what they had to do with that movie blockers they had to like yeah you know cut out the the word uh i don't even like to say it cock say that again they had to cut that out of the title. Yeah. And they had to just put a picture of a

rooster there. And just put the word blockers. And I was like, rooster blockers. And then it just became blockers. But it still did well,

right? It's still a great film. It's in my top 10, but I mean, it's just blockers? Blockers. Blockers. But everyone kind of

got it, I think. Yeah, well, that's the same thing with Octopussy. We all knew they were trying to say, like, regular pussy. But I think we all got it. What's your

favorite James Bond film? I love that opening where you see him walking by. It's so cool. And then he turns and shoots. Wait, is this an episode of I Love James Bond Films?

I think it might be Hey everyone, welcome to I Love James Bond Films This is Scott And this is Scott And we're talking about James Bond films and how much we love them Oh my god, I love James Bond films and how much we love them. Oh my god. I love James Bond films. Who is your favorite Bond? Oh god, I knew you were gonna

shoot that. I have mine. Okay, go ahead. Give me time to think. Okay, mine is James Bond. So all of them, right? Yeah, I love James Bond the best out of all the Bonds. Fuck. Who's your favorite Bond? I think I would have to say... Wait wait I'm changing mine okay gold Bond

shit it makes my butthole less itchy alright jeez let me say I'm gonna go with you know what I really like Daniel Craig

Daniel Craig Craig Daniel? oh is that his name? I mean you just said two first names I really like Daniel Craig. Who? Daniel Craig. Craig Daniel? Oh, is that his name? Craig Daniel? I mean, you just said two first names. Oh. Daniel or Craig. Which one do you like?

I like Daniel. Yeah, he was great. But I love Craig. Daniel, my brother. That was great. Because that song was about him wanting Daniel Craig to be James Bond. Daniel and Craig, yeah. It's interesting because there's—

Which song is about him wanting Craig to be James Bond? Well, they're identical twins, and they both switch off scenes. That's right. Because Craig, he loves the ladies. Yeah. But Daniel is— He likes to beat people up. Yeah, so they switch off scenes, and they both get what they want.

You know, I really love – I think Sean Connery, of course, was the first James Bond. He might be my favorite, but I really do – there's something about each one that I really like, but I love those early James Bond films. How about you, Scott? I hate them. All right. We'll see you next time. Bye. Bye.

Scintillating. That was a great episode of a show I'm not familiar with. I don't know what they're talking about. Nope. I don't like what they're talking about. Don't care. I actively hate them. Yes. That was care. I actively hate them. Yes. That was a great app.

Terrific. B minus. All the way up there. Amazing. All right. We're going to have to take a break. We're talking about you two exclusively in this episode. And when we come back, we're going to have Andy Daly.

What a treat. Funniest guy around. Sort of a contrarian. Has a lot of, as you recall, Adam, hates the Joshua Tree record. And weird U2 fan who only likes them up to 1985. Sort of like me with R.E.M. before we started that other show we do. Sorry to take a couple of weeks off on rem but you're going to be fascinated with what we uncover with you too uh yeah i think it's worth it i think so all right we'll be back this is you talking you too to me we'll be right back Hey, Adam.

Sorry to bother you. Yeah. In theaters now. Are you looking for a new podcast that combines your passion of comedy and music? Yeah. Yes. Well, you're out of luck. Okay.

No, there's one that I want to tell you about. The Super Group just started last week, I think. Huh. Yeah, my good friend Tawny Newsome from Bajillion Dollar Properties. Great. Love it so far. She and Alex Kleiner, what they do is they invite a comedian and musician to write and record an original song with them over the course of a week. So you'll hear every step of the process from writing and then rewriting to recording and

mixing. Hear songs with Open Mike Eagle, Ted Leo, Paul F. Tompkins, Janet Varney, and more. It's funny, but the songs themselves are legit. Listen to the Supergroup only on Stitcher Premium. Take it away. Can I say one thing? Yeah, what do you want to say? It sounds like a lot of work.

Yeah. I hope they're getting well compensated for it. I'm sure they're not. If I have anything to say about it, they're not. It sounds like

a lot of exhausting work. Not to listen to, for them. For them. To listen to it, great. But I'm talking about them. You want to hear podcasts. Why would they do this?

When you hear podcasts, you want to hear ones that are torturous for the people involved to make, but are relatively easy for you to listen to. Oh, they go down real easy. I mean, I'd listen to this in a second, but I'm just saying. I don't know why they're doing it. I've got to call Tani and dissuade her from doing any more episodes of this.

Go to StitcherPremium.com slash Supergroup and use promo code REM for a free month of Stitcher Premium. Ping. Welcome back. You talking YouTube to me. Adam Scott is next to me. He's fiddling, fiddling around with the levels. What do you got there? Old fiddle knob Scott Scott, they used to call me back in my... Back in your junior high days.

Yeah, back in my junior high days. Always fiddling with his knobs. Fiddling with my knobs, because back then I had two or three knobs. Sure, yeah. You've cut off at least two of your knobs since then. I've got two knobs amputated. I'm working with one now. It was very strange.

It's fine. It's okay. It's not the sensory overlord. Overlord? Overlord. I meant overload. The sensory overlord. But that is also one of your nicknames from high school is sensory overlord. Sure is. I was in charge of all sensory activities.

You finally got that mic right up next to your mouth. I love that. I think that one was... And our next guest is also fiddling with some knobs. And turning mine way up. Which one is that? Oh, my God.

Why don't we, before we start, why don't we fix these things? There's mine. There's mine. This one must be yours. It seems like I am the only person to ever actually fix my levels before we start. Welcome back, and it is a wonderful privilege of mine to welcome our first guest. A little later, we'll have Phoebe Robinson talking about the Madison Square Garden show we went to. But before that, we have to get to our first guest.

He is, of course, we are required. Contractually. And just by politeness, we invited you here. What if we just never got to you it has happened it has happened on Comedy Bank do they ever do that

on talk shows anymore people remember Carso they bumped somebody yeah there was a gag remember when Letterman

bumped I think it was Norm Macdonald like five nights in a row as a joke yeah without telling Norm Macdonald

he would come out and wave with a frown on his face. Well, of course, there is the wonderful Jimmy Kimmel, Matt Damon. Yeah, every night

he signs off with apologies to Matt Damon. I believe that happens, yes. Yeah, but I feel like actual genuine bumping doesn't really happen anymore. No. Well, everything is so

planned out to the last second these days. And edited after the fact. Oh, my God. I think they do a lot more post-production on the podcast. Speaking of editing, I'm probably going to edit out everything we've been talking about for the last two minutes. Please welcome Andy Daly. Hello.

Ew. Hi, hi, hi. Holy shit. Speaking of Carson. Ew. Welcome, Andy. Hi. So the last time we spoke to you was our very last episode of you talking you two

to me yeah and we had a wonderful uh check-in with both you and phoebe who's coming up a little later regarding you two and about your experience with uh innocence and experience with their uh with their fan club oh yeah that's right just do a nutshell recap for us about your experience with trying to get

you two tickets for the last for the Songs of Innocence tour oh well those are two different topics did you want me to talk

about the fan club or the ticket or the tour at this point I don't care I get that you don't care I find the fan club debacle to be very amusing. Don't they tie into each other?

No, I don't. Oh, yeah, they do. They do. That's why I sort of was lumping them together. No, I was talking about the last time I saw you two at the Forum, I had shitty seats behind the stage, but that was before I joined the fan club. It might have been part of the reason that I joined the fan club.

Yes, you joined the fan club. It might have been part of the reason that I joined the fan club. Yes, you joined the fan club. You had terrible seats. Terrible to you, but to the normal asshole off the street, what a thrill to be seeing you two. But to a guy like Andy Daly, but for Andy it was, God, these seats are terrible. I think I need

to give these guys more of my money. It was that. I had such a miserable time tonight. Let me pay again the amount of these tickets. So you paid a good- I found myself just online, and I found myself at their website, and I found myself being asked for $85. And as I was punching my credit card into the credit card-

What are those numbers, by the way? Of the credit card? I have it here. I was like, I don't know why I'm doing this. What am I doing? What is happening right now? What am I giving this $85 for? For?

What is it for? You were sort of in a fugue state where you two took over your mental capacities. Yes, they did. Yeah. Yeah. And so anyway, that $85 got charged and there was no benefit to me except that I was going to have first dibs. First dibs. Yeah.

And exclusive merchandise that you also could buy. So it was like giving you- Is that what it is? You can buy things that other people can't buy? I think that's what you said last time. Yeah, you're able to buy tickets early, so you're able to give them more money earlier, which in a way,

like if you were to hold onto your money, you'd get the interest. But they also, they send you like a B-side CD or something, don't they? Well, so that did happen eventually. That happened after we recorded that last episode. Okay, so you got your B-side CD.

How do you like it? I don't know. No, I didn't get a B-side CD. I got a box of... What the fuck is happening? I don't know. You just said you did. I know I did. It was a box of vinyl 45s or something like that. Oh, that's fun. What were they? That's cool. It was like all the Joshua Tree 45s. Oh, yeah, Those are great.

Yeah. I bought those when they came out in the stores in 1987. Whoa. Yeah. So I have original copies of all those. Yeah. No, I must have bought some too, but I don't have them now. But anyway, so I got – and that was exciting, and I wondered if that was a result of having

complained on a podcast. I don't believe so. I think you just – They just sent that to me? I believe you would have gotten that in any case. I think you get something, because I remember when I joined years ago, I think it's elapsed by now,

I got the remixes and B-sides, some sort of CD. I think every year if you're in, they send you some sort of thing at a certain point in time. Okay. The other thing that has happened since I complained about joining the fan club is that I have tried logging in to U2.com and I can't.

And you're locked out. Well, they keep a close track of these kinds of things. Don't complain about the YouTube fan club. Bono himself. Yeah. So you – let me encapsulate this. You then – you got an early chance to buy tickets. Yes.

You bought the tickets and then found out that the ones that you bought were on your daughter's piano recital night? No. So many things are wrong. I did not buy the tickets. Incorrect, Scott. The opportunity to buy the tickets

was presented to me and I went and I saw that it was the date of my daughter's birthday. Okay, so you didn't end up... So the only incorrect thing was... No, it wasn't a piano recital and I didn't buy them.

Two incorrect things. Wait, what kind of recital was it? It was not a recital of any kind. It was a birthday. A birthday recital. So you were reciting the words to Happy Birthday in tune. She didn't, but she didn't sing. Anyway. How rude of her.

She just sat there and took it. She just sat there and... It was a candle-blowing recital. So you ended up not buying the... I did not buy the tickets. But then you didn't know that they added another night at the forum. So then quite a while later, I learned that they have added—the second night also got added. But by then, at that point, you hadn't bought the tickets because you hadn't been paying attention because you were so—

That's correct. Right. But what we promised to do— So then it sold out. Is that what happened? Well, it was like, yeah, yeah. It was sold out and the available tickets on StubHub and whatnot were expensive and shitty again. So what we promised to do then was we promised to go to the show on the night that you could go, on the 16th.

Yes, right. And it was going to be Adam, myself, yourself, Andy, and Phoebe. We were all going to do this at the same time. Yeah. Now, so we're all caught up. Let's talk about what happened since our last episode. So I kept texting you, remember, May 16, we're doing it. And you immediately would write back and say, I'm so excited.

Great, we're doing it. We reached out to our good friend Laura over there who works with U2 and she was very happy to set us all up with four tickets for May 16. Very exciting. And then Phoebe had

to drop out. We will talk about why she had to drop out in our next segment. I'd love to know. Well, you will know. You will know when you in our next segment. Oh, I'd love to know. Well, you will know. You will know when you hear our next segment back. Phoebe had to drop out, so then it became the three of us. And then our good friend Nick Kroll wrote to us and said,

hey, are you guys going to U2? Because I was offered a ticket through Red or One. And maybe I could sit with you guys. And so we said, yeah yeah we have the extra one over here we'll assign you to uh to our four tickets so so then it became the four of us nick kroll adam myself and you andy and then adam let's talk about what happened on that fateful night. Sure. May 16th, 2018. Do you remember it? The day of infamy. Wow. Yeah, I ended up not being able to go

because I was working in Malibu. So we were in touch all day because I was like- Very in touch. I'm pretty sure- Constant contact. Pretty sure I will be done in time to go. You said, what time do they start?

Because as long as I have a half hour, I think I can get there. Because I was in Malibu. I felt like if traffic was working with me, I could make it down to the forum. So we found out they were going to start around 8.30. So you said, oh, I'll definitely be done by 8. Sure. What kind of work day goes past that? Right.

In the entertainment industry. Hard to imagine. But as the hours ticked by, it was looking less and less like I was going to be able to make it. Because what was happening? You were, can you say what you were filming?

Big Little Lies. Big Little Lies. So you're what, too many lies were occurring in these scenes? Or were they just too big? That's right. As the lies get bigger,

the day starts shrinking and you realize you're not going to be able to go to a concert. Were you working with Streep at this point? Were you realize you're not going to be able to go to a concert. Were you working with Streep at this point? Were you like, Meryl, I have to go see you too? Well, what happened was the day just sort of started stretching on, and then they added something at the end of the day that I was going to be in.

Oh, and now usually as an actor, that's exciting, because it's like, ooh, I get more screen time. More work. You get paid by the scene, right? You get paid by the per minute on screen, as we all know. So then it was looking more and more like I couldn't make it, but I was still optimistic because we usually weren't going late. And then it just all kind of went to hell. But I will say that Catherine Newton, another actor in the show

and I both were planning on going and couldn't go because we were shooting. So as soon as they called cut for the last scene of the night, the director, Andrea Arnold, played Pride really loud.

Just as a, I'm sorry for keeping you so late. To give you the concert experience. Yes. And she felt badly too, not knowing that we had tickets to U2. Right. So it was all fine.

Whose fault was it? Yeah, was it this person's fault you were talking about, the director? Do you blame them? I think we can blame, let's see. I think we can blame either Reese? i think we can blame either reese uh one of the warner brothers okay jack all right jack warner i think that he's the one that can

take it um charlie chaplin i mean he started a studio united artists united artists right so i mean that he basically is a studio owner and a producer in general. The bearers of show business, I think, are to blame. The little tramp himself. Otherwise, I wouldn't be here trying to do this. What did you say? The little tramp himself. Yes, exactly. So that's Adams.

So then at a certain point at about 8.15, I get a text from you saying, there's no way I can make it. Okay, let me tell you what was going on with myself, and then we'll get to you, Andy. Oh, boy. Rashomon. The month of May was a very difficult one for me. I was sick most of the month. And this was, I would say, May 16th was probably one of my absolute lowest points.

Really? Yes. Sick-wise. Sick? Yes. I was. Sick wise. Sick wise. What was the nature of your illness? I had various things going on, but the one that was occurring on the 16th was I had gone to San Francisco a few weeks earlier to see Cool Ops film premiere, and it was colder than I had dressed for. And so I was in a warm theater and then we had to walk back to the hotel,

walked outside, it had become night and it was freezing cold. And so that going from hot to cold just gave me like essentially some sort of pneumonia. Wait, go back. You said you went in, saw the movie and when you came out, it had become night? Well, you know how movies take about two hours?

And so if it starts at six and goes to eight, the sun is out when you go into the theater. The sun is not out when you leave the theater. Wow. I'd never heard of that happening. You've never heard of the sun going down? That sounds disorienting. It really was. I have to say, I walked outside.

I was like, am I in an apocalyptic wasteland now? What is happening? Where did the sun go? Yeah, I never stay inside for more than like 15 minutes at a time. No. Just so that doesn't happen. Yeah, just got to check in with the sun. It's scary. Yeah, it's very scary. I was very scared. And I think that contributed to it. I would imagine. As well. So I believe that was two weeks before the concert and over the course of those two weeks I got worse and worse and worse and on this very day

I just was at the low point and I'm thinking to myself if all things were equal I would cancel this and leave it to Adam but now Adam seems like he's not going to go. I can't,

we have to record this show. We all promised we were going to go. Phoebe dropped out. Adam drops out. I can't drop out and just leave it to Andy. And so I, plus I have to hook you up with Laura and your seats and all that kind of stuff.

And so I just was like, resigned to, okay, I'm going to go. I am feeling horrible. I'm going to have a horrible time. Yeah. But I have to go. So I bucked it up. That's a great way to go to a concert.

I know. I bucked it up. I have to go. So we bucked it up. I decide to go. I stuff my jacket full of Kleenexes. And just my face is a faucet the entire time. And I'm just, snot and phlegm is coming out.

And then I get to the venue. And you're already there, Andy. Now tell us about your experience. Well, my mother-in-law was visiting. Oh, my goodness. Very dramatic. Three dramatic stories. No, I mean, the day before, we had a wonderful birthday party for my little girl,

and then my mother-in-law was in town. The only reason I mentioned my mother-in-law is that it's guilt-free to leave the house because there's another pair of hands. There's another adult there. Yeah, exactly. Now, your mother-in-law has two hands. Yeah, she's got the both. Great.

Still. Usually a mother-in-law loses one around age 55, 60, somewhere around there. Yeah, it's very unusual to meet somebody in their mid-70s who still has both their hands. It's kind of like a lizard's tail. Yeah, I mean, you'll get it back. It'll regenerate. I do have to say, it is interesting that modern medicine has progressed so much so that I would imagine back in early caveman times, no one would have both of their hands or both of their legs by the time they got pretty old. Like, it's crazy that we're – so many things can happen to people. It's crazy that almost everyone has two hands.

I apologize to our listeners who do not have two hands. Yeah. But you would think that 50% of the people you would look at just in the world, no matter what age, would be missing at least one hand. Or, yeah, or a foot or their back. But people are – They would just have their front. People would be missing their back. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Well, it used to be. You would just see someone approaching you. You would look missing their back. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, it used to be. You would just see someone approaching you. You would look behind them and go, your entire back is gone. Yeah, I mean, disturbing. You know, so I'm glad it's not happening. But what about their butt? Do you consider that part of the back? I've never heard of anybody losing their butt.

Their little butt? I've never heard of it. So you don't consider the butt to be part of the back? No, I absolutely do not. You think the back ends at the small of the back? Yes, of course. That is the end of the back. Those little dimples to be part of the back? No, I absolutely do not. You think the back ends at the small of the back? Yes, of course. That is the end of the back. Those little dimples in the small of the back, that's where the back's territory ends.

Exactly. That's, as Madonna said, the borderline between the back and the butt. But the dimples, isn't that, don't they call that the little butt smile? I believe they do. The little smile of the butt. Well, I always thought, I would hear that, I'd be confused, because I would think that the crack of the butt is the little butt smile. I believe it. The little smile of the butt. Well, I always thought, I would hear that, I'd be confused because I would think that the crack of the butt is the little butt smile. Oh, yeah, yeah. You know how it like sort of, the shape of the butt down where it curves, it kind of looks like a cat's snout?

Or if you're looking at the crack sideways, it could look like a closed mouth. That's true. Or an open mouth, depending on what's going on with your bowels. I don't know what you mean. Okay. So now your mother-in-law gives you free reign to go out to the forum. Yes. So, I mean, my only point is that I was in high spirits.

Sure. And I was delighted to get there early. I love getting places early. We were invited into the forum club early. Yes. But there was some confusion with the tickets. But anyway, that was fine because it just meant that I'm hanging out and I'm chatting for a while with

Laura. What was the confusion with the tickets? I think they were originally going to be in the tent, but then Laura said, oh, I'll meet you. And Andy got there earlier than me, so Andy went to the tent and instead Laura was waiting with the tickets for me and Andy. I ended up going

to three different places, being told to go to three different places to get the tickets. And in each place, I'm in line behind the sorts of people whose tickets are at a special place. So great people. Yeah, really delightful. Entitled.

Yeah, lots of entitlement. But I was told. A lot of that kind of stuff yeah and you were also doing the same thing but I was doing it very nicely because my mother-in-law was in town I'm in high spirits but

so I would hate to go to a concert with you when your mother-in-law is not in town it literally could not happen it wouldn't happen but yeah and I had a lovely chat with Laura and her boyfriend.

Her husband, actually. At that time, they were only a girlfriend and boyfriend. Maybe it was Laura's side piece. I guess. No, I was there. It was him. Maybe they got divorced. And then got remarried.

And then got remarried after. Okay. That might have been it. Probably. Yeah, and then you showed up, and then we went into a very crowded... Very crowded foreign club. Much more crowded than the last time we were there, Adam. Yeah, and so we looked around.

I was like, you know, they have free food and drinks and stuff. But we looked around and we're like... It was unpleasant to be in there. Just why? Because there's so many people. So crowded, yeah. Whatever there was for free was going to be so hard to get that I'd rather... I mean, we could have bellied up to the bar, but at that point, we were just happy to go get...

And you were miserable. And I was miserable, so I think I only had water in any case, right? I believe... Did you buy me a water? I believe you might. I bought you a goddamn cheeseburger, and you ate it. Oh, that's right, I did. Thanks for the cheeseburger, bro. What type of folk were these hanging out in the Forum Club? Your usual L.A. 50- to 60-year-old man with the 20-year-old woman.

There's a lot of that. Man with dyed hair and designer jeans kind of thing. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Exactly. I remember one extremely tall person that I did have the thought that if I knew anything about sports, I might recognize that guy. Okay. You know.

Sure. But. Why is that? Basketball? Probably, I might recognize that guy. Okay. You know? Sure. But – Why is that? Basketball? Probably, right? Looks like a sports figure. Looks like a sportsman. Right.

Yeah. Okay. A sportsman. Yeah. Like a hunter of some sort. This is clearly a sportsman. But I'll tell you the most suspenseful part of the night. Okay.

This was wild. Okay. We took our seats. Let's get very quiet. Okay. Yes. We took our seats. And we were both hungry, right?

We were both so hungry. I was starving, you guys. It was probably 8.15 or so get very quiet. Yes, we took our seats, and we were both hungry, right? We were both so hungry. I was starving, you guys. It was probably 8.15 or so at this point. Yes, yes, yes. You hadn't eaten dinner yet. No. So hungry. And we went up there, and I don't remember exactly why you went back to your seat,

and it fell upon me to get us both cheeseburgers, but it did. I don't remember. Why was I just leaving it to you? You were sick. I don't remember. Maybe because you were sick. I was sick. I don't know.

Or maybe you did the drinks, and I did the cheese. Why was I just leaving it to you? You were sick. I remember. Maybe because you were sick. I was sick. I don't know. Or maybe you did the drinks and I did the cheese. Something like that. Anyway, I get in line and I am told explicitly, no doubt about it, that I cannot get a cheeseburger because it is closing. Whoa. Why? They did some weird thing where they were like, the show's about to start. We are closing down food until after the show starts.

There's like some weird window. What? It was really strange. But I ignored it. That's right. You ignored it. And I stayed in line. And I was like, what's going to happen when I get up there?

Is the person who's taking my order going to tell me to go away? Oh, my God. But she did not. And I got two cheeseburgers. Were they good burgers? Yes. As a matter of fact, it was a good burger. Yeah, they were from the movie Good Burger.

Yeah. Kenan Thompson brought it to me. Yeah, he did. It was crazy. Kel was around. This is making me, because I'm a little hungry now. It's like almost lunchtime. A cheeseburger sounds great.

Sounds really good. Should we order out? Should we Postmates some burgers right now? From the forum, yes. Some Shake Shack from the forum? Yeah. Anyway, that to me was the craziest part of the night. That was so insane.

Let's get to the show. I mean, this is off to a banging start, guys. The show was a little anticlimactic after this moment of having been told I cannot get these cheeseburgers and just saying, fucking, I'm getting them and succeeding in that. And you got them. I did get them, and they were good. This is like an Ocean's 8 situation, too, where no drama happens and the plan goes just fine. Yeah.

I think this is maybe I love film, or I don't love film. I loved film. I loved film until I saw this film. Okay, so let's get to the show. Let's talk about it. By the way, Nick Kroll came in maybe three songs in and sat down next to us and left approximately ten songs before the end. Is that fair? Yeah.

He was not in any way that matters there. Right. Mentally, he was physically, though, for a bit. It was exciting when he arrived, though, because I got to see him come in. We saw him come in and then be told that his seat was way far away from us. We just watched him go a long way in the wrong direction. And we were like, Nick! Nick! So he couldn't sit with you guys? No, he did.

But he was told by an usher that his seats were behind the stage. It just took a very long time for him to get to us. That was enjoyable. That was enjoyable. Alright, let's talk about the show. Now, this is your first time seeing you two No, well, your first time seeing you two no well your first time since the innocence tour right and what not see that joshua tree tour did not see the joshua tree

tour uh seemed that's right because you were still a little miffed about the about the and you also don't like the joshua tree so you yes you took a pass on their biggest tour in in in most heralded tour in years yeah i had because i was so bummed out about those seats the last time I saw them. Right. And I'm still bummed out about the Time Magazine cover. Listen to the last episode. Yeah, from the Joshua Tree. Still mad about it.

Now, you told me, though, that you had spent the interim since our last episode brushing up on all of U2's records. That's exactly right. Yes, I did. Because the last time we spoke, I was like, I don't really know anything that's happened after all that you can't leave behind. And so I dug back in, and yeah, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb is a great album. That was one of your favorites.

It really is. That's one of my favorites. I gave it no... That's his number one. That's your number one. According to him, the last time we talked, things may have shifted since then. A little, but I love that record. It really is good, and I

paid it no mind when it came out. No Line on the Horizon, I could not enjoy. I was unable to enjoy that album. That's rough stuff. Yes. What do you think about Get on Your Boots? I hate it. Yeah. Yeah. That was the first single from that one. I remember that. Isn't that crazy?

Do you remember them performing that song at the Grammys? I do. And the whole audience is just kind of like, what? I mean, my problem with it is like, what about take off your boots? Like, you know, take off your boots. No, they're saying get them off. You know, relax, listen to a U2 record. They're saying like, come on, time to go to work.

Who wants to hear rock and roll about like hey it's time to go down to your dumb job at the construction site as it turns out no one what happened with that album

what happened it's just a very confused process also it was their first one in seven years or something and it was Lanwa Eno

it was huh there's stuff I do like about that me too but the middle is the first song I was kind of like, okay. I love that first song.

Yeah, it is good. No Line on the Horizon. I think both versions, it reminds me of the Unforgettable Fire period. I love Magnificent too. I like Magnificent. Sure. I mean, I got to be honest, it's a great album. So then you also listen to Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, correct?

Yes, and I really enjoyed Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, correct? Yes, and I really enjoyed Songs of Innocence. Yes, we talked about Innocence was your favorite of the two. Uh-huh, yes. A lot more of that sort of post-punk, Joy Division-y type sound, especially on like Raised by Wolves. Yeah, yeah. And just some good hooks. How about Songs of Innocence?

A lot like, speaking of Joy Division, some good hooks in that. Peter Hook. I'm now, I'm actually struggling now to remember. Don't flip me off, motherfucker. Songs of...

Because I've just, I know we listened to it early. We did the show about it where I said it was enormous and huge a thousand times. Yep. But since... Since then,

we've listened to it, and it holds up. Just in the past, like, five days, I've been listening to it more than I ever. Really? It's really great. Something about seeing the show, too, cements, I will say,

that's the great thing about going to see a band. People complain when they go to see a band on tour of like, oh, they played too much new stuff. But to me, it's really interesting to watch the new stuff because that's when a song sometimes gets really cemented in my head of like, oh, I get this song. Some of the songs that I was sort of iffy on from songs of experience, I now am a big fan after seeing the show twice.

Me too. Yeah, Red Flag Day is a great song. Red Flag Day is amazing. Blackout is a great song. Yeah. Blackout is an amazing star. Okay, so let's talk about the show twice. Me too. Yeah, Red Flag Day is a great song. Blackout is a great song. Blackout is an amazing star. Okay, so let's talk about the show. What's your experience with the show? What did you think? Okay, my headline is that

Extra! Extra! When they're at the circular stage, the show really took off, and that to me was absolutely my favorite part of the show. Gripping. Gripping, and partly he's playing McFisto sort of at that point. Spoiler alert, he looks into an iPad and a sort of Instagram filter comes up of McFisto.

Yeah, and I didn't need any of that. But in general there, in that round part of the stage, he is in that character for that whole part of the show. And I thought that actually helped. There was an attitude being played during that part of the show. A very rock and roll attitude. He comes out for that section with – and Adam, I was explaining to you, he came out, I think, on the night that we saw him with a lot of makeup. This is early on in the tour. And he comes out with a lot of

white face paint on. Now, when we saw the show at Madison Square Garden, he had toned it down considerably. All he had was some eyeliner on. Because I think there's a certain part where he looks back into that iPad and it's a mirror and he's wiping off the makeup that maybe took too long.

It did take. I agree. It took a long time to wipe off all of that. But also, if he has all that makeup on, then why look into the iPad and put the whole extra face on? Like, isn't it? So maybe. I thought it was. on, like, isn't it? Uh-huh.

So maybe, I thought it was, it was, I will say when we saw them in Madison Square Garden, the impact of, oh, he's coming out in character, he did not seem to be coming out in character. Not at all. No. No. So he did though when we saw him earlier in the tour. Yeah, and I thought it was helpful. Not that I'm a big McFisto fan, but I thought there was a little bit more of that kind of

Zoo TV, fly, you know. Let me ask you a question. If McFisto were to have a sketch show, would you be a cast member on it? I would definitely be a cast member on McFisto's sketch show. We have a firm commitment from Andy Daly right now.

We will be a cast member. We got Daly's. I would love it. I would love it. I mean, you know, I don't know if I'm going to commit to all episodes or how many seasons. Like a crawl show type sketch show.

Sorry, you kind of already did. All right, all right, I'm in. Like a Kroll show type, though, where he plays characters. Yeah. Oh, McFisto plays characters? Yeah. And they're all McFisto. I like that section of the show because they're, as a band,

all in the same place just playing kind of raw and playing like really fun, poppy songs right there. Yeah, what are the songs that they play? I know they play Elevation and Desire there. Vertigo. Yeah, do we have a set list? I do have a set list. I should be having this at my fingertips as well.

Was Until the End of the World there? No, I don't think so. But Elevation, Vertigo, Desire. I think the transition of Until the End of the World kind of is in there. And then they transition out of that with Acrobat, I believe. Right, yes. Acrobat, what did you think? Acrobat they had never played on

any tour before. I know. I know that some people were excited about it and I didn't need it. You don't like Acrobat? No. I don't know. So you're never a big fan of that song? Not a big fan of Acrobat. So yes, I saw that some people were like, holy shit! I kind of feel like if I want to go out for a night and see an acrobat, I'll just go to the circus.

Yes. I don't need to see you, too. I don't want to hear a song about an acrobat. I'd like to see an acrobat. That's what I'm thinking the whole time. Get some pink style Cirque du Soleil shit going on in there if you're going to be singing about it. I don't know. So everything before then, what do you think about it?

Well, hey, just one last thing to say about that in that section maybe it was after Elevation or after Vertigo or even after Desire Bono said that was fun

and I was like yes it was you're feeling it and I'm feeling it that something was different during this section of the show like you guys are just playing to each other

for each other and there's a different attitude and it happens to be three really fun songs. So everything before then, and it's sort of similar to the tour before, but I will say, Andy, you probably didn't have as good, well, I know you didn't have as good seats as you did in this time.

We had really good seats that were right there at the big, long video screen, eye level with that. You probably didn't get to see a lot of the technological stuff in the seats that you were in that's true so i did get to appreciate it and by the way there was one moment in the show it's whatever i forget the name of the song where he's got the red white blue bullhorn uh yeah well that's american soul okay yeah when he dropped the uh gigantic american flag drop down behind the stage that for me and my seats at the previous show would have completely,

it would have completely scared you. I have to say we went, because when we went to the, the Madison square garden show, we were walking around a lot cause we got to go, we had access to wherever we wanted to go. So I was thinking though, even worse would be at the opposite of where you were because you,

because you can't see any of the screen and everything is happening so far away. But that one part where they're in the best part of your experience would have been great. Because the last time I went to the show, as soon as I got to my seats, I was like, oh, shit. And then the whole show was like,

and then if at some point an actual curtain fell down between me and the stage. But it's such a big fuck you. It really is. It's see-through though. It's such a big fuck you. It really is. It's see-through, though. It's a see-through flash. Yeah, still. So you got to see the

technological part of the show. You got to see it way better. So the Cedarwood Road, all of the graphics and everything. You have to be impressed by all that. Yes, that's very impressive. And all the stuff inside the box of the stage is very impressive. But you preferred when they kind of broke out of it and became just a rock and roll band

playing simple rock and roll. Yeah, for sure I did. Yes. And was the set list exactly the same, would you say, or was it slightly different? I'm looking at it maybe you're the best thing about me. Did they play that acoustic? Yeah.

It looks to be pretty much exactly the same. There were a couple of songs. Now I'm forgetting what they were, but they dropped between the 15th and the 16th of May, I noticed. Oh, really? Damn. What was it? Maybe one was October? Or there was like – or Gloria.

Oh, no. They did play – they played Pride at Madison Square Garden, and they didn't. No, they did. They played Pride. Where is it? Oh, yeah, man. They definitely played. Oh, no. They did play – they played Pride at Madison Square Garden and they didn't – No, they did. They played Pride. Where is it? Oh, yeah, man. They definitely played Pride. Oh, there it is.

No, you're right. Yeah, it looks to be pretty much exactly the same set list, I think. They play a lot from the new record, which I really liked. I really liked the stuff from the new record. And without Joshua Tree songs, it really highlighted the new songs in a cool way. Oh, there were no Joshua Tree songs, huh? No Joshua Tree songs, which is... Yeah.

Fuck that whole album. So you... I don't remember this. You're the only Joshua Tree. He hates it. No, no, no. I hated that moment in their career when they suddenly blasted off

with this very American pandering house. Because you wanted no one to have heard of them and for them to be your private band. Yes, my private band. It's a really interesting show, I think, because bands do not do this. Bands typically come out, they play a bunch of songs, they figure out a set list basically like fast, fast, fast, fast, slow, fast, fast, slow, fast, fast. And you go out and you see a band and they're like, okay, here's all of our songs. Okay, now goodbye

and this was telling a story which is really interesting yes which I appreciate it but I did not quite follow what I was being told while they were playing the ocean they said I will follow

and you were like no not me that was great I enjoyed that I did not quite understand what I was being told during the ocean when Bono was explaining

I didn't the ocean oh they played the ocean they did play the ocean oh Bono was explaining I didn't. The ocean. Oh, they played the ocean. They did play the ocean. Oh, that's cool. Oh, that's really cool. That's awesome. They only played I Will Follow when we saw, as far as like super old songs. Yes, they played the ocean, which yes. But the ocean, they were just kind of playing

instrumentally in the background while Bono was kind of explaining the premise of the show. Oh, I see. Right, I see. Well, okay, so let me talk about what the narrative sort of is to me and see if you agree with it. So a lot of Songs of Innocence is about his particular experience growing up on Cedarwood Road and his bedroom. The light bulbs that were in the previous tour, if you recall,

like they came down at the beginning, the light bulb is a motif for that innocence and him being alone in his room, uh, with only that light bulb illuminating like him and all of his dreams and all of his like listening to the Ramones and rock and roll and all that. And at the very end of this show, the light bulb comes down from the ceiling and you see his tiny house in Cedarwood Road. You see a replica of it.

And absolutely everybody in that room is thinking he's going to climb into that. He's going to climb into it and shrink down. No, but the light bulb comes down. He seals it up into the house, almost putting an end to his innocence and saying, like, now I'm older. I'm experienced. And so I thought the two shows were an interesting bookend of that motif of the light bulb starting the previous tour and ending this tour.

What do you think? Good for you. I had no such thoughts at all. Well, I was just kind of like are they not gonna play gloria so you would prefer just to see a band just like getting up and jamming and just rocking out yeah i'd say okay yeah well i also think that we were we have the we have the choice you and i of uh sitting in the seats or being down on the floor on the risers and because of my condition i said seats and i feel like you would have had a a better experience being on those risers as well because there's a certain

energy to to that uh and because those risers are right by the stage that you really liked and there's just a certain energy being down there that can't be replicated when you're up in those seats next to a really sick guy who's just kind of like nodding off. But I will say it was not just you. There was something interesting. I noticed, I looked around at some point in the show and almost every other section was standing at some point and we weren't. Our whole section was not. And I believe it's because this was a free ticket place. I also set the trend of like, I was like, I'm not going to stand up and everyone looks to me in that situation. And if the tall guy isn't going to stand up.

My guess is that everybody in our section had kind of gotten their tickets free in some way. And it just changes the energy. It changes the energy. We would have had a better time down there. LA audiences are never the best, most enthusiastic audiences too, right? Because it's all a bunch of people who are in show business themselves kind of going like... What would I do?

Yeah, yeah. Why aren't I up there on that stage? This is too much like a Broadway show. But I mean, I very much enjoyed very many parts of the show. Yeah, yeah. And I loved, I think I loved all of the songs that they played.

But yeah, I did feel a little bit like... So you actually really like all the songs that they played. I think so, yeah. There wasn't one that you were like... No, there weren't songs that I was like, this is the point. Yeah, there was no Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses or... What was the other one I hate? That fucking, you know, still haven't found what I'm looking for.

That's what I'm looking for. The only ones that I don't really care for is Until the End of the World. Really? The stuff from Octoon Baby I don't I just am never into when I see them you're kind of done with it

you mean live you don't think they live work I maybe I just don't like that album all that much

or it's the songs are too familiar to me or something I think Until the End of the World is a real favorite of theirs because they pretty much play it every tour

that's what I was about to say like I get excited when they're playing it because I know how much they love it. Yeah, and the audience always gets the audience going. I will say after a big stretch of they played a bunch of stuff from the new records

and then a very stripped down version of Sunday Bloody Sunday where they're... I didn't care for that. Well, it's they're not playing it like a rock show. They're playing it as a, they're making a point and stuff is going on on the screens

about all the bombings that happened in Ireland. It's kind of trying to take that song back into, hey, everyone sings it as an anthem and no one even knows what it means anymore. This is, we're going to show you what this means now, which is just, you got Larry banging on the snare drum, and it's very stripped down. Meanwhile, on the screens, you see car explosions and stuff.

I thought it was a powerful moment in the show, but certainly not one where you're like, I love this song, and I'm having a great time listening to it. Yeah, it's very stripped down. I feel like they did a similarly stripped down version at the Joshua Tree tour. Am I right? They might have. They didn't like full band it out for that. I can't remember.

I like hearing that song fully played too. I love that song. Yeah. So it's sort of, to me, it's like, oh man, I wish I could hear that. I love that song so much. I wish I could hear them play it, but I get the impulse to tell a story with it. How about Desire? That was great.

Or Staring at the Sun. What about Staring at the Sun? Yes, I was excited to hear Staring at the Sun. I like that song a lot. I guess my reasonable point was about Until the End of the World was it's after a long stretch of songs that the audience is not familiar with, that the general concert-going public is not familiar with, or a stripped-down version of Bloody Sunday when

Until the End of the World comes out, everyone got on their feet and was like, yay! I will say though, I was surprised at how well the audience seemed to know the songs of experienced songs. I was hearing, singing along with Lights of Home. American Soul.

American Soul and You're the best thing about all those songs. Did you like the blackout, by the way, the opening of those shows? I did. It sounds great. That was great. By the way, to your point, in the last song they played, There is a Light, is that the one? There is a Light, yeah. I think it was Love is Bigger Than Anything in Its Way.

The audience was singing along in a way that took Bono by surprise. Clearly took Bono by surprise. Oh, that's great. And he kind of like – it seemed like he wanted to move on to the next song. And he found a way to do it by kind of starting a conversation with Edge to kind of shut the audience up very politely. But I think they fully did not expect the audience to be so confident. That's great. So the show ended with one which – by the way, I left before the encore.

I was like, I can't- Did you leave before? You didn't see any of those. I left right before the encore because I was like, I'm in misery. I know I'm going to go see another show with Adam. So I feel like I just couldn't imagine being trapped in parking. Getting out of the parking lot at the end of the show is part of the communal experience of going to the show. I know, but I just— Sometimes it was my favorite part, just the give and take, the communication between a couple of motorists.

The give and take, sure, the hey, I'm going to move up slightly. Meanwhile, I'm going to let you in. It was quite beautiful. I just couldn't envision myself in the state I was in doing that. So I did not get to see the end of the show that I'm talking about, the light bulb and all that kind of stuff. Oh, yeah. But they ended with one,

and love is bigger than anything in its way, and then 13, there is a light, which is, I also have to say, is a brave choice for ending a big rock show as well to end with two, first of all, two new songs, and our last song is going to be a slow, like the opening and the closing songs

are two slow songs. That's true. That no one knows, which is just. Love is bigger than anything in its way is emerging for me as like one of their great songs of the past like 20 years. Yeah, it's really good. That is a great song.

That is a great song. So since 1998? Yeah. Well, you know what? Can I add one more year onto that? Sure. 21 years. By the way, one thing I've heard about you two, I don't know if this is true, but at the

very end of the show, Bono left at the back of the audience, whatever. And then the lights are down for a little while as the audience is clamoring for perhaps more. And then... Clamoring for perhaps more. Doesn't end up that way, but that is what we're... No, the lights stayoring for perhaps more. And then clamoring for perhaps more doesn't end up that way. No, the lights stay down for a while. And then they come up and some house music plays.

And what I have heard is that that moment where we're all standing like, is there going to be more? Is a moment that all four band members are rushing like mad to four separate cars to get the fuck out of there. Yeah. I can only imagine because they don't want to be trapped in the... Yeah, but I think a lot of rock bands hang out at the venue and have a post-show party. Oh, can you imagine as many shows as they do?

Well, I remember as a teenager being at an REM show at the Shoreline Amphitheater and on our way out after the show, I asked one of the guards standing by the backstage entrance on the side of the stage, asking him, like, hey, are the guys still back there? How long do they hang out after the show? And he's like, man, they are down the street before the lights come on. They are gone. Right, right, right. I didn't know that. So let's get your verdict, Andy.

So let's get your verdict, Andy. Was the show worth, was getting free tickets to this show worth everything for you? All in all, are you happy with your U2 experience? I absolutely am. I had a very, yes, I had a wonderful time. I enjoyed it greatly and was very appreciative to be there. And your mother-in-law, everything went okay at home? Did she enjoy the U2 show? Yeah, she enjoyed having me out of the house.

She got to load the dishwasher her way. What is her way? In my opinion, she overcrowds it. And the dishes don't get as clean. Yeah, exactly. You know what? Because Cool Up does something

with the dishwasher her way which is that she leaves the silverware pointing up and so when I'm unloading it I sometimes will

stick my finger on a knife or something and I'm always like just put it down Scott that's the only way it gets clean you gotta put I'm on her side on this

except for very sharp very sharp knives will go face down everything else face up really I can't put the forks face down. Very sharp knives will go face down. Everything else, face up. Really? I can't put the forks in face down because then the tines go between the little holes in the basket. But I feel like you're going to get a stronger flow of water going up.

And the basket isn't like the barrier that water cannot penetrate. I don't want the tines of the forks going through the little holes in the basket. How severely do you guys rinse the plates and silverware before putting them in? I rinse them off thoroughly before I put them in, too. Yeah, me too, but it's more of just a, you know. My dishwasher manual specifically told me not to do that. Not to rinse stuff off? It's just like getting that cheeseburger.

Well, does your dishwasher have a garbage disposal in it that takes care of food? That I don't know. Mine got backed up in my old place to where, like, any time we would open the dishwasher, there would just be, like, mountains of food? That I don't know. Because mine got backed up in my old place to where like anytime we would open the dishwasher there would just be like mountains of food that was from the garbage disposal and yeah. Oh, so it just didn't work. It just, yeah. Do we have time for me to raise...

To what? To raise a fractious topic about this concert. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I don't know if you want to use this. I'm still stuck on the dishwasher stuff. I'm wondering if you ate that food, the pile of food. Oh, yeah, it was delicious. There is, okay, until the end of the world is when I most noticed it. Yeah.

There are drums being played by nobody on stage, but you hear them. Right. And there are other times when you hear keyboard parts that clearly nobody on stage is playing. That's pretty standard for concerts these days. It is. Now, a while ago, I saw Black Sabbath at the Hollywood Bowl. Yes. Now, didn't we talk about this?

Did we? Yes. Because I saw those tickets and I was like, oh, it's tempting. But when I saw either Ozzy or Black Sabbath on Kimmel I noticed how much of it was just pre-recorded tracks including his voice was mainly pre-recorded and he's just barely singing along going

no way that I was just like what's the point of going to see a record played yeah but I well I enjoyed that concert but I did notice outside of the lights there was a dude on the side of the stage with a keyboard and a guitar and a microphone. Right. And he's just supplementing what you're seeing being played on stage.

Right. And clearly that is happening at a U2 show. And my pitch, my radical pitch to them is to be just completely transparent about it. And just bring them out. If there's a dude under the stage, bring him out. I don't want to be looking totally transparent with it and just bring them out if there's a dude under the stage bring him out I don't want you

looking at some dude why not he's probably a fascinating person I like seeing a U2 show and seeing the four guys

I don't need a fifth guy me neither I think it would be REM used to do it just some asshole REM used to bring on a fifth dude

yeah but they had like Peter Hulsaple and Mike McCoy. And then on the Monster Tour they had two extra guys. They had Nathan December and Scott McCoy. I will say that

it's awesome because they're awesome. It's a different band. It's a different experience. But I like the simplicity of seeing those four guys. I like, when I buy a ticket

for a show, I want to see only the people on the show. So when I saw Brian Ferry, I was like, who the fuck is show I want to see only the people on the show so when I saw Brian Ferry I was like who the fuck is this behind all those people off this day I just want to see Brian Ferry he's singing acapella you thought he was like a one-man band yeah like like a Bert in Mary Poppins situation where he's just like yeah yeah yeah you know triggering the bass drum with his knees and shit well I'm I'm fascinated because I because at that Black Sabbath

concert I was like I want to know all about that guy. He's a multi-instrumentalist. He's probably the best musician on this stage, actually. So he was on the stage, but he was the lights were out. He was out of the lights. You would like the movie 40 Feet from Stardom, then. Oh, is that about the backup singers?

The backup singers, yeah. I did like that. Yeah. I don't agree, because if you're seeing U2, like who wants to see, you know, Joe? Yeah. I do. And then I want to know all about Joe. And if it's just a keyboard part.

You want to see his like bio up on the big screen? Yes. Like his IMDB page. You want a t-shirt, a Joe t-shirt? That's what I want. Why aren't they selling a t-shirt with the dude who's sitting under the stage looking at monitors? I don't know.

And what's fascinating about that guy is that he can't fuck up because if somebody on stage fucks up i saw it happen i know it happened right you know what i mean the guy who we're not supposed to know is there i don't know i would you prefer there not be a guy or you would prefer the guy being on stage by the way i don't know for sure whether like those tracks that we're not seeing being played the doctor could be a woman that's true but I don't know if those are just pre-recorded tracks or if there is a person playing actual instruments. Yeah, we don't know. Supplemental instrumentation. With Black Sabbath, it seems like they're all playing to pre-recorded tracks.

It's like playing to a click track. Right. I think with U2, it's like Wide Awake in America, the version of Bad on that, that kind of keyboard part that they just play, and then he plays guitar over it. I think it's someone maybe playing. I guess if it's just that, I don't need to see the guy on stage pressing buttons on a computer. But if it was just a dude with, like, one of those candy iMacs, and he's just, like, literally clicking on things.

But then again, I would like to see that. Turquoise iMac. I'd like to know more about that guy. I just, in general, like to see that. Turquoise iMac. Yeah. I'd like to know more about that guy. I want to see, I just in general want to see a more stripped down

kind of experience from you two on their next tour. I've seen them, I saw them play like a benefit thing where it was just them in a small room

without any, and they were just playing plugged in. And it was great. Have you seen them, like some of the videos of just Bonobos and Fedge playing just acoustically out there?

I'm sure. Yeah. I mean, it's great. I mean, you know what? I do have to say, I will have to say, and I do have to say that I think the best U2 tour that I ever saw was the Elevation Tour. And I bet they had people playing along with that. But it's a little more of the stripped down experience that yeah you you maybe want from a u2 i mean they tour maybe so seldom every three years now i mean

it's been a good stretch over the past few where they've been touring consistently but if they're only out here every four five years you want the u2 experience to be sort of like the joshua tree was was a lot like it uh-huh the Elevation Tour was just the best tour. Just like we're a rock and roll band and here's a bunch of stuff. But I love the narrative of this and found it to be really interesting. And the fact that they are innovating to an extent that no one else is doing is very interesting to me. And I totally hear you and somewhat agree that the thing you sacrifice in kind of presenting this huge show is a little spontaneity and rock and roll-ishness.

And there is a bit of a kind of predestined thing that's happening. They're not changing the set list on this tour all that much. Right, right, right. Maybe adding one song here and there or taking away one because they're trying to tell this story. But I think that what you get is an incredible show that you would get nowhere else, and they're really trying something big. I mean, when you think about the difference

between the Pop Mart tour where they have the biggest screen ever and this, the technological leap in the past 20 years, it's crazy what they're able to achieve now. And speaking of achieving things, we're going to have to achieve going to a break and saying goodbye to our good friend, Andy Daly. What an achievement. Andy, will you go again to U2?

I will absolutely go again to U2. Does your mother-in-law have to be in town? Do we have to coordinate their tour schedule with that? Yeah. Okay, we'll let him know. Let's set that up. Let's set that up. Andy, thanks so much for being there and here.

When we come back, we're going to have Phoebe Robinson and we're going to talk about Adam and I when we went to go see them at Madison Square Garden the other day. We're going to be right back with more You Talking U2 to Me after this. Bye. right back with more you talking you too to me after this shirts if you want service you gotta wear them yeah along with a pair of shoes yeah a pair of those uh Sometimes a sandal's okay, but... No shirts, no shoes, no dice.

Oh, no dice. Remember that? Yeah, I mean, that's what Nora Dunn wanted on her episode of SNL. That's true. Jesus Christ. Okay, there's shirts in the store of... Where do they get them? Podswag.com slash U2?

No, just Podswag.com? Podswag. Just Podswag get them? Podswag.com slash U2? No, just Podswag.com? Podswag. Just Podswag.com? Podswag. Slash REM. Slash REM. New REM shirts, right? What are they?

Oh, stained glass shirts. Go get stained glass shirts. Go get our other REM shirts. You can look like us. Bye. bye welcome back you talking youtube to me We're here. Adam Scott with me here. The man in the t-shirts himself. He looks at me like, what, I'm supposed to talk? You know what? This morning I was like, hmm, and I threw on a t-shirt. What am I, what in my closet? T-shirt.

T-shirt. A shirt in the shape of a t when you lay it out right it's funny because you think about where things come from yeah right you think about i often a beer adam i often think about i often crack open a beer and think about where do babies come from the butthole i always can come to the same answer the butthole the butthole of course yes if you can uh if you can learn what am I trying to say? I'm pouring a water while I'm talking. I'm finding it very hard. If you can learn-

Then do it. How to come up with a way to explain where babies come from. Look. Hats off to you. Have at it. Hats off and, you know, hospital gowns off. Shoes off to you. Shoes off.

We're here with our good friend. She was on our last episode of You Talking U2 to Me. That's right. And we made a vow to, oh, why don't we just introduce her and we'll talk about it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We don't talk about vows. Just to introduce the woman. We made vows.

During that last podcast. We all got married. We all got married and decided to go to U2 together. She is one of two dope queens. She is in the movie currently streaming and probably streaming in perpetuity on Netflix, Ibiza.

Yes. With Gillian Jacobs and, of course, Vanessa Bayer. I'm not sure why, of course. I think I said that because I was trying to remember who else is in it. Of course, because everyone knows who's in the movie. Yeah, everyone knows Vanessa's in it. I put in a little of course in there just to get my mind, my brain synapses firing. Phoebe Robinson is here. Hello.

Hey, Phoebe. How are you? Thank you for waking up early and doing here. Hello. Hey, Phoebe. How are you? Thank you for waking up early and doing this. You know, it's my pleasure. I would only do it for YouTube-related podcasts. Oh. Truly. At first, I thought you were saying you'd only do it for us, too.

No, no, no, no. And then I was like, is she talking about YouTube? That's exactly what I thought she was saying, actually. I'm sure you've woken up early for other people than us, too. And other bands maybe I don't know but

by the way can I just say yes Larry last night at the show looking rad with like dark hair

and glasses I know at the show it was like very like substitute teacher chic and I was into it totally

it was awesome yeah I was like yas yeah you like QY yeah of course

what I didn't know you knew that cool I was like, yes. Yeah. It was cool. You like QY. Yeah. Of course. What? I didn't know you knew that. Cool. I am very cool. We saw the show together last night along with your friend. Delina. Delina, yes. Who's also my makeup artist.

Yeah, she's great. Delina's so cool. Yeah, she's the best. Super fun. Yeah. So we all sat together. Okay, so let's talk about it. The last time we did this show together, we did it with one TV's Andy Daly, the four of us,

and we made a vow to go to see the Van Dutu on May 16th in Los Angeles. Hugh. Hugh. He's two. May 16th in Los Angeles. Hugh. Hugh. He's two.

In Los Angeles at a wonderful emporium named The Forum. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. The LA Forum. Uh-huh, the LA Forum. Now, we reached out to you, and when I say that, I emailed you, I guess. Yeah. And you were unable to come to May 16th at the Forum, and tell us exactly why. I was doing royal wedding coverage for Access Hollywood, which sounds way cooler than it was. It was fine.

I mean, how could it not be cool? Well, it's just like I don't think my essence works well with infotainment-y. Oh, right. Now, that is a portmanteau of information and entertainment. Yes. It's very high energy. Everything's exciting. I don't operate at that level at all.

Now, are the producers pushing you to soundbite everything, make everything sound exciting and amazing? The same way that I do with Adam. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, it's just more like I did a thing about, like, different British foods you could eat or, like, I would go and – What are we talking, bangers? Yeah, bangers and mash and, like – That's the famous one.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so I did a segment where I ate, like, a bunch of different, like, you know, British pub foods. Yeah. And then one where I had to, like – I went on the street and sort of asked people how they felt about Meghan and Harry being an interracial couple. So like it was fine, but it just, it's not what I should be doing. There's people far better suited for that stuff.

Well, I bet it was great. Yeah. But that's just kind of like how you feel on the inside. But I bet it's super fun to watch. Oh, thank you. I'm just going to make that call right now. I bet it wasn't fun to watch. Okay. You want to take that? So what kind of like how you feel on the inside. But I bet it's super fun to watch. Oh, thank you. I'm just going to make that call right now. I bet it wasn't fun to watch.

Okay. You want to take that? So what kind of odds are we laying down? I was being nice and knowing that Phoebe's a talented person. What are you going to give me, like 20 to 1 odds? No, let's not go into it. It's pain. It's not a nice thing to go into.

But did you, at what vantage point did you witness the wedding? Were you like right there? At what vantage point did you witness the wedding? Were you like right there? So the funny thing is I was flying back to New York as the wedding was happening. What? So I missed the wedding. I mean, Access Hollywood wasn't going to have access to that. They only have access to Hollywood.

It's not Access Royal Wedding. So it was just in and around the wedding and then you bailed. Yeah. So in the morning up, I came back here and I did a show, Wild Horses. I did the show at Vulture Fest. Oh, cool. So that was like super fun. Good friend Lauren Lapkus.

Yeah. It was the best. But really, it was a missed opportunity to go to that forum show with us. Yeah. But really, it was a missed opportunity to go to that forum show with us. Yeah, and I was bummed about it because I was prepared to fly out, to pay for a flight out just for that. And, well, I mean, would it have made you upset if you had paid for that flight to fly out and then Adam had bailed at the last second like you did? It probably would have made you upset, so I'm kind of glad that it didn't happen. I don't think she would have cared. I wouldn't have been, like, mad.

I would have been like, aw, but not like. Poor boo-boo. Yeah. Well, Scott sort of bailed because he went, but he was super sick, so I'm sure it was just not fun to be around him. No, it was terrible. I mean, we talked about it in the last segment, and I think I was hallucinating because I saw some 3D virtual reality creature coming out of the screen. At the beginning, yeah, it's so cool. You saw it too?

Yeah, because of the app. Oh, so you didn't have to have the flu to see that. I just saw it. I wasn't watching an app. Oh, wow. I'll have what he's having. What's your catchphrase again. I'll have what he's having. What's your catchphrase again? I'll have what he's having.

I forgot. Yeah. So the tour started at the end of April. No, May 3rd, Tulsa. May 3rd was, oh, okay. Or no, May 2nd, yeah. Yes, okay. One of those two days.

And I went to the opening night. was, oh, okay. Or no, May 2nd, yeah. Yes, okay. One of those two days, and I went to the opening night. We saw it, yes, we saw it last night. How many times have you been to the tour total? Last night was five. Wow. Show number five. And how was opening night? Were you about to ask how opening night was? That's what I want to know.

Sure. Come on, Scott. Are you guessing what questions? Just ask your own questions. What's the Carson psychic character? Karnak. That's what I'm doing. Karnak says the answers and then reads the questions. How was the first show?

Adam is putting his fingers to his temples like Karnak. Like him putting an envelope to his head. I'm using my fingers. So I took my boyfriend, and it's not easy to get to Tulsa. Yes. Just want to let you know that. Like no direct flights? No direct flights.

So he was flying from Portland, because he lived there at the time, and I was flying from New York. So nine-hour travel time to get there. Bummer. The show was good. It was definitely like you could feel them getting their footing with the whole, because it's the first time they're doing it in front of people, but it was really cool. It was interesting.

I don't want to spoil anything, but when they have the imagery of the Nazis up. Right. That's when you're walking in the door. You're greeted with Nazi imagery. Like, hey, just chanting at you as you take your seats. No, there's a certain – we can spoil it because it's – The tour is over in the States. The tour is over in the States.

Yeah, it is over. It's so sad it's over in the States. So we're going to break it down. But there's a certain, which song is it? Staring at the Sun. Staring at the Sun, yes. Going into pride, maybe, that goes one segway. Yes, and Bono has the character, which, yeah.

We can talk about that a little later. But why did you bring up the nazi imagery oh because just because it's pretty fucking cool no but when they're playing the footage during the song like that and you could tell it made everyone so uncomfortable which i knew it was going to because i'm like it's tulsa yeah but it was just very interesting to watch like like all the air get sucked out of the room, the audience being like, nah. Because not only is it in the middle of Oklahoma,

it's also the first night of the tour, so people don't know what this is yet. And so there's no context, really. I would think that a lot of people don't know what something is before they go to this show. How many people do you think actually like read a review of the tour before they actually go to it? Yeah, you're right. But I mean, Instagram, I had heard, I had seen bits and pieces

trying to avoid. Yeah, you're Adam Scott. No, but I'm trying to avoid hearing about the show, but I've seen stuff on social media. I at least knew somewhat what it was going to be. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you think that people were like, eh, in Tulsa, I'm not having it

because they might have those views? Certainly not. No, not in Tulsa. Right. They just weren't maybe ready for that? I don't think they were ready for it. I think it makes people uncomfortable because we don't want to really like...

Wait, is this an episode of Bro, I'm Uncumph? I think it is. Hey everyone, welcome to Bro, I'm Uncumph. This is Scott. And this is Scott. And we have a very special guest here, Phoebe Robinson. Hi. Welcome, Phoebe. Welcome.

And we're talking about... Thanks for doing the show. Yeah, thanks for doing the show. We haven't had you on the show yet. I'm so excited. It's so great to have you on Bro, I Know I'm Comf. Bro, I know I'm... Bro, I know I'm Comf.

We're talking about various people being uncomf. And we're talking about Tulsa, Oklahoma. And you thought they were un-cumph? Yeah, I thought there were a lot of uncomfortable white people out there. Or un-cumph. Sorry, I don't want to break the rules. What did you just say? I know.

That was controversial. Do you think there's a chance that there were two bros hanging together in the audience that night? And maybe one of them turned to the other and said, bro, I'm on gum. I think chances are 110%. Okay. Okay. Okay. All right.

This is a great episode, but we got to go. Bye. Bye. Good app. Yeah. It's great to have a guest. On that ep. So Tulsa, you leave the theater.

What are your impressions of the show in general? Because the show doesn't change too incredibly much from night to night. Right, which I was kind of um i was kind of shocked at first like there they maybe changed like one or two songs but it's been pretty much like pretty much the same like set list um but i really like the opening with the app if you download the youtube experience app you got to see like a 3d bottle come out at the screen while there was a tiny Bono singing. So basically what happens is if you open up this app and you point it at the large video screens that are in the center of the arena before the show, if you get there like I did for the show in L.A. and you point it there about a half hour early, the video screens

are like a big iceberg when you get there. And then they slowly melt into a waterfall that, and this is all virtual reality that you're pointing at the screen and watching it on your screen. And then it just kind of becomes. Yeah. Yeah. VR.

That's cool. VR. That's cool. And then it's, the waterfall drips, drips, drips down. And then when the show starts, The waterfall drips, drips, drips down, and then when the show starts, Bono is in the center of the arena singing Love Is All that we have left. Am I getting that right? Yeah.

He's inside the screen, right? Yeah, he's inside the screen. And the VR app says, okay, watch it throughout the first song and there's a a giant uh what how would you describe this uh creature it's a blue bono it's a it's a blano blano yeah kind of an ice yeah ice ice bono ice ice bono um so you really enjoy that. I thought that was so cool. I mean, I will say their productions are like, it's nuts. Like no one else is doing that.

No one is doing it. Maybe like Roger Waters also has like really. All right, Roger Waters is doing it, but no one else is doing it. Maybe Beyonce. All right, Beyonce does definitely. Okay, there are a few people doing it. Those are the top three. And then The Blackout.

Yeah. What a great opener. So good. So yeah, then it segues, the whole band comes out into the center of the screens and starts playing The Blackout, which to me, last night, that was like my favorite song of the show. It's so good. It's so good. I maybe slept on that song a little

bit when it first came it came out before the record yeah and i was like it's maybe not what i want from a u2 single but it sounds great it's so great live yeah i almost feel like that song putting it out so far ahead of the record kind of cheated the song because it's so hooky and great and they kind of just threw it out there a little adam you would say it sounds big huge huge huge the words yeah probably um i thought in general all the new songs were really the highlight of the show yeah i really i i thought it was i don't know they just really did a great job of like no matter where you were sitting i feel like at some point you really got a great moment with them,

which is like nice, you know? I tell you that when we were walking over, I don't want a spoiler alert, we were walking over to the risers by the smaller stage. Yeah. And I was looking at the dead-on view, just seeing the side of the video screens, and you can't really see the stage all the way at the other end.

I was like, can you imagine having to sit here for half the show and not being able to see anything but you get a great view of the second stage yeah you do yeah which yeah yeah because the first one the innocence tour i was in ga at the small stage general admission yeah Thanks. But they are far away where they're on the main stage, but it doesn't feel like they're that far away. Yeah. Yeah, it ends up being okay. Right. Yeah. So generally, what are more of your thoughts on the tour?

I will say the Boston show that I went to was like i thought the best one the crowd was like super amazing they were just like i think it was just really perfect synergy i guess where did you park your car when you were there no i took a lift i don't know how to drive oh okay there's this place harvard yard a lot of people park and it's like great uh so that was the best the set list was the same it was just the crowd was on fire and that sort of thing

not literally on fire yeah yeah yeah I think that was I think it was the exact same set list so one of the shows in New York they played Gloria

which I was very excited because I hadn't heard that live oh cool at what point did they play it early or it was early it was early

yeah yeah yeah and did they substitute a song point did they play it? Early? It was early. It was early. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And did they substitute a song? Like, did they I Will Follow or something like that? I think it was I Will Follow

and then Glorious. I don't think they did All Because of You or Thing. Yeah, they took that out. That's a good sub. Yeah. I liked All Because of You,

though. Yeah, me too. You sounded good. Yeah, it was so good. As my good friend Jared once said, that's a good sub. Boy, good friends?

I don't know. That's not someone you want to say. What's been going on? It's fine. We'll talk after. And so then there's the part where he is bringing back McFista. Yeah, let's talk about it. So, you know, great, but also hilarious.

Just because it's like, you know, he can't do like the full like face paint. But he comes out in face paint. It's like a little, and like the exaggerated eyebrows. I thought cool looking makeup. Yeah. It's not like a full McFisto face. Just cool looking makeup on. No, he just comes out in like almost pancake white in a way. It seemed a little more extreme, I have to say, in L.A. It seemed like maybe he started toning it down.

Last night he was like, nah, I'm going to do a little eyebrow and that's it. It seemed like just the eyes to me. It was just eyes last night. In L.A. it was full white. Oh, really? Yeah, no, I'm going to do a little eyebrow and that's it. It seemed like just the eyes to me. It was just eyes last night. In L.A. it was full white. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then he also did the thing on the screen? Yeah.

Oh. Yeah. And then it took forever for him to get it off. Yeah. Because what I wanted. It's a lot. Yeah. I wanted to ask, why do you think that part of the show is in there?

Him taking the makeup just taking makeup off for and he's talking during i mean it's interesting i think it is to buy time for adam and edge to get to their spots for pride there we go and he every night he's like makes a different speech while at the thing taking the makeup because i had to ask scott what's he doing like he's taking his makeup off i was like oh. Because I had to ask Scott, what's he doing? Like, he's taking his makeup off. I was like, oh. But he was talking about interesting stuff while he was doing it. Yeah, I don't remember what he was talking about.

But it was pretty cool. So, more thoughts. Oh, so, Mechfisto. It's the return of Mechfisto. Yes. You never got to see Mechfisto. No, I was too young. Right.

That sounds annoying. But I was truly. Mechfisto is definitely a 14 and over character. And so this was like my first time seeing it. I think it's cool. It is scary because with the filter that they chose. Basically what Bono is doing is he's performing into a monitor. It's an iPad. Yeah, It's an iPad.

Yeah, it's an iPad. Yeah. And then up on the big, large video screens, they are putting, using the face-replace kind of technology, they're putting McFisto's face on his actual face. Yes. Continue. And on one hand, I think it's really cool.

On the other hand, it feels very much like, all right, this is Bono having his Broadway moment. I'm going to go with it. But I will say, so when I was in New York, this is actually kind of funny. I was laughing. So at the end where he has to wipe his makeup off, he's staring into the mirror slash iPad, and the lock screen comes on. No. And he's just pretending like the lock screen isn't there.

Because I don't think he had the passcode to get back i was gonna say i thought maybe you saw what his past no no no the passcode was up because i don't think he knew what it was to get back into it and i was i was just thought that was really do you think it was just b-o-n-o or if it's just U2. Yeah. U269. Yeah. But I think it's cool. I think sometimes it's tough when you're just talking in an arena that size, but I think he does a good job of making you sort of stay in it. Yeah, for sure. And not be like, what is this guy doing?

Yeah. There were a lot of speeches during the show. The show's approximately two and a half hours long and I kind of view it like a Judd Apatow movie where it's like yeah it's long

but it's longer than a normal thing and it's just bonus content it's just like yeah you know he's like talks for a half hour but you're still getting

the two hour show that you normally would see yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

okay so favorite parts of all of the shows that you've seen? Oh. I think the opening, like, five or six songs. It's such a great way to kick off the show. Because it starts with three new songs. Yeah.

And they all sound great. Yeah, it's so great. So I think that's really memorable. I also like American Soul when they bring the flag up behind Bono. Just the way they do. I'm just impressed by the production of bringing that up. I just thought that was really cool. Even though the megaphone, it's a lot.

Yeah, what do you think of that bullhorn? It's fine i'm also like sometimes i'm like i can't really understand him all the way with the bullhorn or i'm like if you just said this into the microphone i would hear it better um but i i like that that's you know i felt like last night he used it less than he had on likeL. Yeah, on SNL it was too much. It was like, musical guest, you two and their bullhorn. He was using it as if no one had done it before on SNL. That's a point of contention for Adam because the first person to use it was our good old friend Michael Stipeand.

Yeah, and I think it's a cool thing to use. I really like that song. Yeah. And it kind of punctured the song a little bit for me to use it so much. But whatever. I feel the same way. So I really like that one. But last night, yeah, he barely used it.

Yeah. Yeah. And the song sounded awesome. It's such a great live song. Yeah. I wonder if they ever thought when they were growing up that someday we'll have a song that's the theme song to the final four oh yeah yeah for march madness they made so much money doing that really like every commercial it was their song yeah right on yeah during the song

i was actually like miming dribbling i was wondering what you were doing because i was just like man this makes me. He just kept going like that, which is a cool thing to do for an audio podcast. For a three. Other memorable Moes. Are those moments? Yeah. Moes, yeah.

La Fista was good. Oh, I love Sunday Bloody Sunday, like the stripped down version of it. I thought it was really cool. And then have the story on the screen afterwards of all the people who died. During Sunday Bloody Sunday, we got good old Larry Mullen, senior son, comes out. And he's just got the old snare around the shoulders. The old snare around the shoulders. And he's just doing the... And then everyone leaves, and on the screens above him,

you see just a tiny car. And he's just then pounding on it, going... While there's a montage of radio sounds and just, and then suddenly explosions. There's three explosions. And then it talks about all of the people who died in Ireland in the 70s

from the five car bombs that exploded. Very powerful Mo and a memorable Mo. Yeah, it was great. Yeah, so I love those. What about for you two? I didn't want to say it. You didn't want to say it, but we're all very tired. Everyone needs to know.

I really thought that for me, this is the second time I've seen this particular one. The new songs really were my favorites, strangely enough. The new songs really were my favorites, strangely enough. I was saying after the show that I would really like to see a show that did the two recent albums back to back. Maybe even not in the order, but just telling a story that didn't feel like they had to do the – and then maybe at the end go, Pride in the Name of Love. Yeah, yeah. But I just – the new songs sounded really vital to me for some reason. I don't know whether it was because I just listened to the album the day of the show to prep for it and was just really into the songs.

And by the way, how are you liking the new album? I love it. It's been seven months now. I still love it. I wish it would play Red Flag Day live. Me too, man. That was like the one song I wish I could have heard live. What's your experience been? You've seen five shows.

Have you interacted with any of the band members after the show? So I went to this charity thing last week for like Red One. It was like just like for people who like do stuff for it and also like the rich people who are donors and like keep it going. Do you do stuff with Red One? Yeah, I tried like promote them a bunch on social media. Like whenever I do tour stuff, I have like tie-in merch that where all the money goes to them. And so I'm trying to get more involved with them and do more stuff. I was going to

try and do a trip over to Africa this month, but because of work, I couldn't go. So we're trying to figure out for early next year. What would you do when you're there? Just chill. Yeah, just hang out at the hotel. Yeah, go to Safari. Just real chill. I'm not sure.

I think they just, like, wanted me to do, like, a bunch of stuff. Like, just, like, interact with, like, the locals. Like, go, like, some orphanages. And, like, just have, like, the whole experience and not have it just be, like, it's really sad. Because that's not what Africa is. But that's how it's presented a lot of times. So I'm going to do that next year. But, yeah, it was really nice to like

be in the room and like bono came and he like gave like a short like speech and then like the ceo of one gail she like gave a speech and then just like i like ended up hanging out with bonbon for that's what i call him um he is just he's cute like a little bonbon yeah i just want to pop him in my mouth you can say that i can't um i don't think i can either you just did yeah fuck um but he he was like so delightful we ended up like having like a couple of like tequila beverages and it was like so nice those it was those those like beer margarita bud light things? No, I wish. No, I usually get like tequila,

seltzer water, and a splash of lime juice. That's your drink. That's my go-to. Casamigos. Casamigos. Yeah, George Clooney's. Yeah. What do you think about putting a little coin into Clooney's purse every time you drink?

You know what? I was... They made some major ducats with that brand, if you know what I mean. Money. Talking money. Cash. Is this another episode of Talking About Money? I think it is. Hey, everyone.

Welcome to Talking About Money. This is Scott. And this is Scott. And we have... What's your new voice? This is my Talking About Money. This is Scott. And this is Scott. And we have, what's your new voice? This is my Talking About Money voice. I can't understand. Well, Adam, we have a great guest here, Phoebe Robinson.

Oh, we sure do. We're just talking about money on this app. Phoebe, thanks for coming. Thanks for being here. Thanks for having me. Yeah, just talking about money. Yeah, I'm flush with it right now. Yeah?

What's in your account? You know, millions. Damn. Yeah. Damn. Listen, we, right now. Yeah? What's in your account? You know, millions. Damn. Yeah. Damn. Listen, we... Damn, Daniel. Yeah.

We were just talking about the old Clunes and his... Yeah, oh, yeah, boy. His big old stuffed purse. Cash. Yeah, a little lettuce for his tomato. Yeah. And you got some Casamigos tequila. Yeah.

And that's like, you know, his brand. So put some money his way. Push a little coin over to Clooney. Yeah, just... He just wants to dip his beak. And that's like, you know, his brand. So put some, some money his way, pushing a little coin over to Clooney. He just wants to dip his beak. Yeah, why not? You know? All right.

Good app. Bye. Bye. I felt like that episode kind of petered out. And I think it may have been my fault. I don't think it ever petered in. Yeah. Yeah,

I guess you're right. But yeah, it was really nice. So that was like the, I haven't met anyone else in the band yet. But Bono and I keep running into each other. So it's nice. What's the first time you ran into him? Was it Bonnaroo? Bonnaroo.

And I saw him. And tell us about the Bonnaroo experience because did we talk about it? We talked about it. Yeah. I don't want to bore people again. And then Cleveland. And then when I went to the show in Boston, he wrote me a little letter.

Whoa. And had it given to me. That's so cool. That was cool. Like right before the concert. So I just like... Had it given to you? How's that?

Someone from his one. To where? Oh, to your seat? Like a telegram? Yeah, it was basically a telegram. It was just a nice little handwritten note. And I didn't know what it was. I was hanging out with a friend.

And then Abby from One came over. She's like, I have something for you. And I was like, what is this? Like another band I have to put on? And she's like, no, just open it. And I just see his handwriting. And I'm like, and it was a really nice message. And he drew something on the back. And then I just stuffed it.

Was it a penis? Like the thing he drew for us? No, it was not a penis. What if it was? That would have been so inappropriate. That's his, like, go-to thing now. He's just like, that worked when I drew it for these guys. And then I just stuffed it in my shirt and just wore it during the whole concert. Oh, my gosh.

That's awesome. Yeah. And I just stuffed it in my shirt and just wore it during the whole concert. Oh, my gosh. That's awesome. Yeah. So how do you think this tour stacks up versus you saw the Joshua Tree one? What's the first tour you saw? The first one I saw was the Vertigo one, and I was in college. I think it was my junior year, and I went by myself. By yourself?

Yeah. Oh, that's right, because you couldn't find friends to go with you? Well, this girl I was in college. I think it was my junior year and I went by myself. By yourself? Yeah. Is that common? Oh, that's right, because you couldn't find friends to go with you? Well, this girl I was supposed to go with, we ended up not being friends anymore. And, you know, when you are... Ice cold. Yeah. When you're a black girl who's like 20, you're not going to find a lot

of other replacement attendees for a U2 concert, so I just went by myself. Right. Was the seat open next to you? Yeah. That's fun.

Yeah. That was a great show. It was so good. And it had like not great seats but it didn't matter. It was so good.

So I saw that and then I was poor for a really long time because that's what stand-up is so I didn't see them again until Innocence.

Okay so Vertigo, Innocence, Joshua Tree and this tour. That's so cool, and now you are just going for it and seeing as many as you can. You know when someone's really poor and they find a thing to obsess over and they spend all their money on? That's what I'm doing with them. Yeah. That's great.

So how do you think this one stacks up versus... Gosh. It really is the spiritual successor to the Innocence tour. Yeah. Gross. I think this one is stronger than Innocence. I just think the songs are just stronger on this album. I mean, I think Joshua Tree is always going to hold a special place in my heart because that's where I met my boyfriend.

That was like, you know, an album like I never thought I was going to see perform live. So it was just very much like just a culmination of all these things that are just never going to happen. And his voice sound is so incredible. But this is a really good tour. And I remember, because I like follow all these like YouTube fan Instagrams and I kind of saw the set list or like her rumblings

that they're like not going to do anything from Joshua Tree or like whatever. And I was like, this is very controversial. Iumblings that they're not going to do anything from Joshua Tree or whatever. And I was like, this is very controversial. I don't know how I'm going to feel about this. But then you see the show and you're like, if they did Joshua Tree, Dorit, I don't think that it would be. It's like we've seen it. You know what I mean? And I felt like without the safety of those songs, the new songs were highlighted even more and showed how strong they are.

It was great. Yeah. Yeah. I was great. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't really miss them. Yeah. Because they have so many other songs that are great that they could just sprinkle throughout. It really allowed them. How many new songs do they play?

It seems like they play about six or seven, somewhere in there. Between the two new albums or the latest album? Just the latest one. It seems like they play quite a few. They start with three. Yeah. And then they end with 13. Yeah.

I'm just saying numbers now. They played where? Start with three, end with 13. You're the best thing about me and get out of your own way. Yeah. So at least six. And love is all we have left. Yeah.

So at least six. So at least six. Yeah. Six if not seven. And then they play, from Innocence, they play at least two. Yeah, Cedarwood. And another one? Or maybe Iris.

Iris, yeah, which is great. I wish they played Raised by Wolves. Me too. I love that song. Yeah, that's a great song. Yeah, they could throw that in there. Yeah, why not? Yeah.

Volcano, too. Just throw Volcano in there. It's in the news these days. Yeah, Volcano not? Yeah. Volcano, too. Just throw a volcano in there. It's in the news these days. Volcanoes. Yeah. Yeah, it was a great show. Yeah, I was very happy with it. Are you seeing, no, there's only one more here in the States, so you're probably not seeing, in Connecticut, right?

I'm not going to go to Connecticut. Yeah, you're not going to. That's too much. Yeah, it's too much to ask of you. What a weird closing night show, Connecticut. Yeah. And a weird opening one, Tulsa. But I guess it's better than doing your first one.

I think they usually do opening shows in smaller markets. Yeah, yeah. Yes. What am I trying? I'm trying not to insult Tulsa people. I guess it's better than doing it in front of real people, like Los Angeles and New York people. No, but they do.

So I have inside scoop because my boyfriend's a tour manager. He's like a lot of times bands will go to smaller markets like that because they run the show. They'll be there for like a week, and it's like way cheaper to do that there than to be at like New York and have everything set up there. So they can have the arena for the full week. Wow. Just like my friend Jared said when talking about tuna, that's a great scoop. Hey, come on, come on. Now, when you were in Tulsa, did you get to see them run through it before the full show or anything like that?

No, so I flew in, think the morning the day before and then i took the bf out and had like date night for him so we went took the butt fuck out what what is the weird name boyfriend but his name is also butt fuck um i took butt fuck out fuck jones yeah and so we just had like a date night where we like saw avengers and did stuff he wanted to do to like balance out why we were there. Yeah. Yeah. Is that what he's into, the Avengers? Yeah.

Yeah. How was the new Avengers movie? I didn't see it yet. It's great. You saw Ant-Man, but you haven't seen Avengers? That's right. It's really good. I was, at the end, I was like, I won't spoil it, but I was fully upset.

I knew. I heard what happens. Let's just talk about it. Everyone dies, right? Doesn't everyone die? Everyone in the theater dies. Whoa. I'm glad I didn't go see it.

Yeah, I mean, honestly, we're ghosts. Are these ghosts I'm talking to? Yeah, it was great. Yeah, but I love the tour. I think it'm talking to? Yeah, it was great. Yeah, but I love the tour. I think it's so great. I think it's strong. I feel like I had something else

I wanted to say about it other than that I loved it. It's interesting to see the culmination of, look, we didn't even know when the Innocence tour happened and the first record came out,

we didn't even know if they would ever complete another record or do the second part of this. So it's so interesting to see the culmination of this story that they started telling. Yeah. I'm ready for the next album. Yeah.

What do you think it'll be? I would say four years from now. Yeah. It sounds like it's going to be a while from what Adam said. It'll be a while. Yeah. It's been a while. It's been a while.

It's been a while. What do you think while what do you what do you think what do you want to hear in a new U2 album do you want one just like the last record or do you

like what is your perfect album what would you like to hear from them oh gosh I don't know I mean

I feel like so much of what they do is personal, so it's kind of dependent on where they are in their lives, because I think they'll be in their early 60s. I can't even believe it. Isn't that crazy? Jesus. But I mean.

Are they in their mid-50s right now? They're late 50s. Late 58, yeah. Whoa. Really? They look great. They do. When you got money, you look great.

They look great. Yeah. When you got money, you look great. do when you got money you look great they look great yeah when you got money you look great I mean yeah I need to get some money why are you guys looking at me

like you feel sorry for me I don't know I mean I really loved Zeropa like it would be cool if they did something in that sort of realm

yeah because I think that was really a great something super weird yeah get weird who the fuck cares at this point yeah really like you have nothing to lose like you have your fan base they're not going i guess every album could possibly be their last album though do you think there's some sort of pressure with that of like we don't want our last album to be like a fucking weird one you know what i mean like like yeah we want our last to be a giant hit or at least like uh sound like a normal u2 album yeah does this did this one do

well i have no clue if it's like a hit yeah i don't know i think it did well i think it was like debut number one the billboard charts when it came because it was tied into the ticket sales yeah i mean you don't have to bring that part up, but sure. You're like, well, technically, it's only because it was tied into the ticket sales. Everyone does that now, right? Yeah, that's true. It's like the only way you can sell records. Yeah, that's true. So it did well.

That's good. Yeah. What's so funny? What's funny? I just, I shut up for a second to hear what you were about to say. Because it looked like you had something to say. I had nothing to say. You're like, so it did well.

Meanwhile, you're scratching your arm. It did well. That's cool. Yeah, I mean, four years from now, we're all going to be different people. Yeah. You know, hopefully we'll still be living organisms on this earth. I'll be almost 40 then. Whoa.

Me too. That's Whoa. Me too. That's crazy. Well, I'm 26 now, so I guess I'll be 30. 30 or so. But that's a big milestone for me. Wow, you'll be almost 40. I'll be almost 50. And you'll be past 50.

Fuck you. But Hollywood 50. Maybe they have a hidden they have something already like ready to go I don't think so no

probably not no it takes them I mean remember when we interviewed them the first time and they were saying that they were

going to release it like you know the very next year yeah you know and then it took another two or two and a half

or something like that but this one was all hooky good songs yes like huge songs they really they really like two or two and a half or something like that. But this one was all hooky, good songs. Yes. Like, huge songs. They really,

they really like put out a solid, big, rather than like No Line on the Horizon which was like half good and then some of them

were just sort of like, It was a mess. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. No, I was listening to the record yesterday and I was surprised.

I hadn't really listened to it all the way through since the episode we did about it. I'd listened to the songs, you know, on random. And I was just surprised by like, there's 13 songs on it. And the first 10 or 11 are all like,

I was like, Oh, this is a good song. It's a good time. Like, I was like, Oh yeah, this is great.

This is great. This is great. Um, I, I, for somehow, I was like, oh, yeah, this is great. This is great. This is great. Somehow I think I had thought that Innocence was better or maybe this wasn't as good or something. But the songwriting is actually, you know, just as good as I thought.

So, yeah. Yeah. Some good shit. If you care what Scott thinks. There you go. And so are you guys going to – We can just edit this out, right? Are you guys going to see any more shows? Like, I'm going to go overseas. Are you guys going to- We can just edit this out, right? Are you guys going to see any more shows?

Like, I'm going to go overseas. Are you guys going to go over? Oh, really? Oh, we can't go overseas. I'm not allowed to leave the country. Yeah, he's wearing an ankle monitor right now. Unfortunately. No, I don't think- You're going to go?

Where are you going to go? Copenhagen. Cope? Oh, that's right. That'll be fun. For my birthday, so that'll be a fun one. Yeah, what is your birthday? September 28th. Oh, God. Yeah. What is be fun. For my birthday, so that'll be a fun one. Yeah, what is your birthday? September 28th.

Oh, God. Yeah. What is your birthday? My birthday? Yeah. April 3rd. Wait, you guys don't know each other's birthdays? And why did you hesitate on it?

You forgot it? I always forget my birthday. Wait, seriously? No. Okay. What's yours, Scott? Oh, July 2nd. Oh.

Happy birthday! My God. You know what? Scott actually told me yesterday. And you forgot. And I totally forgot. Well, yesterday we were at the show and I was like, man, I can't wait to see what you have planned for midnight. And then midnight came and went and I completely forgot. Why didn't you? We walked back to the hotel together.

No, you didn't. Yes, I did. I just remembered it right now. She mentioned her birthday. Seriously? Seriously, yeah. I don't care about my birthday. I wish you would have said something.

Why? Or reminded me yet again last night. I can't believe I forgot. What would you have done? Tickled me? Probably. Well, happy birthday, Scott. Giving me spankings?

This is a big deal. Wait, is this like not a bit? It's truly your birthday today? Yeah, yeah, it is. Oh my gosh, happy birthday. me spankings this is a big deal wait is this like not a bit it's truly your birthday yeah yeah it is oh my gosh happy birthday thank you so much

that's great it's not a big deal but I'll be spending it with my lovely wife tonight yes and that's all that really matters a little romance

I've been here with my best friends this morning a little bromance and then a little romance when you get home yeah that's cute how long is the trip to cope this morning. A little bromance and then a little romance when you get home. Yeah, that's cute.

How long is the trip to Cope? Is this an episode of how long is the trip to Cope? No. I didn't think it was. I was just asking. No, you were just asking. I don't know. I want to say it's like

six, seven hours maybe. Seven hours. It's not as long as it is when you're flying from L.A. Oh, yeah, that's true. Everything seems far, except for Hawaii. Speaking of volcanoes. Whoa. Yeah.

The big islands over in the sea, which is what they call them, experiencing some volcanic activity right now, guys. Thanks, Bill Nye. Hey, remember Bill Nye when we were at the White House? Yeah. Yeah. Wait, you guys were at the White House? Yeah.

We're big Trump guys, so we like go down there. We say what's up. We wear bag of hats. What have you found that right now? Like we're like full Trump. I would be devastated. Like we like you too and stuff,

but we're like into it. Well, that is one We like you too and stuff, but we're into it. Well, that is one thing I wanted to say about the show last night. There are so many Trump heads. I was telling Adam. Were you listening to the people behind us? Did you hear them? No, I mean there are some people like, trust me, there are some crafty white people out there who are like pro-YouTube

and also pro-Trump. How do you know? You just feel it. And why do you think that no one can hear you when you put up your mouth like that? There's a microphone right in front of me. No, last night, the dudes behind us, there were two dudes sitting behind us,

and one guy seemed like he was really into the show and had read the set lists and all that kind of stuff and his friend just seemed like normal guy who who likes YouTube

the one who said shut up and sing that guy yeah yeah yeah so I didn't hear this guy so the one guy the one guy is like like oh my god bro

does he have to fucking talk every single song has he never heard of U2 or what a U2 concert? This is what Bono does. Yeah. Yeah.

And then the weirdest part, I don't know if you heard this, is during the song where they show the video of the school children going to school with military helmets on to protect them. He just starts going, boo! What? See, that's, it's just like, what the fuck?

There's so many gross people. Why, like that is being encouraged and it's bubbling up everywhere and people are fucking booing kids. People think it's cool to boo.

Jesus Christ. I mean, it's more, I guess it's not booing kids as much as he's booing like a political statement, boo! But it's also like

they've been political since day one, but I think there are a lot of people who are like, they just want the vertigo and the elevation. It's like, that's fine. They're like, say catorce! Yeah, and it's like that's not their legacies. I'm fucking not counting properly

in Spanish. Yeah, exactly. Well, Phoebe, this is an incredible achievement of you to be on our show for the second time. A lot of people don't get to do that. Thank you so much for asking me back. Yeah, thank you for coming on the show and waking up early and all of that. I'm so sorry.

I hope I was pleasant or good. The best. Okay. Oh, my God. I mean, I'm gonna wait for the listeners to be the judge yeah

so any last words on you two you know I mean who knows I mean you're gonna see him

in Cope but I might go to Dublin too I really might push it oh you gotta see him in Dublin I think I gotta but the thing is

my publisher cause I have my book coming out literally 10 days after the concert, so I think they're a little nervous about me. Oh, because they want you to do press and stuff. Yeah, but I told them, I was like, guys, it's the... Do a owner from Dublin and see the fucking show. No, I mean, because it's the tour closer, isn't it? The Dublin show?

Yes, so that's why I want to go. And it's always their hometown one and it's always huge and so i think i'm gonna go yeah yeah i mean you'll be able to say for the rest of your life you saw you two in dublin yeah that's like that's like my dream so what if you go to it and then cut to the new york times bestseller list i'm last i sold the least amount of books? Guess I shouldn't go to Dublin. Yeah. Final thoughts. What I like about this tour is I really feel like it's for the fans.

Yeah. Where it's like, I love Joshua Tree and I thought it was amazing, but I think it's very much like people who only listen to him on the radio. And the crowds were great, but I just think there was something about this tour that makes people like us really come out and really appreciate the new music, which is I think what they want, you know what I mean?

I don't think they want to just live in like, this is what we did 20 years ago. So it really, it's not like the Rolling Stones where, I mean, I guess the last time I saw the Rolling Stones, they did play one, maybe two songs off the new record that they were touring with. But, you know, it's really just like, all right, here we go.

Hit, hit, hit, hit, hit, hit, you know. And then some of it, like they played All Because of You and Staring at the Sun, which are not hit songs at all. And definitely for the fans. Yeah, and Acrobat. It was great. Acrobat was awesome. It was so good. Acrobat, they've never the fans. Yeah, and Acrobat. It was great. Acrobat was awesome. It was so good. Acrobat, they've never played until this tour, correct?

Yeah. They've never played it on any tour. So cool. Mm-hmm. So, I'm sorry, were you done with your final thought? Yeah, I like that this was for the fans. It was for them to just tell their story, which I think is great. Mm-hmm.

Yeah. Mm-hmm. What stories do they still have to tell? We don't know. like for the fans it was for them to like just tell their story which I think is great yeah what stories do they still have to tell we don't know maybe we'll find out in four years this may be our final episode for a long time

we don't know perhaps perhaps but I want to tell you that they still have a story to tell us because next episode

we are going to have our exclusive interview with Bonobos and and then also uh as well as adam clay 2000 pounds will be taking us on a backstage tour that's incredible and showing us everything but that's next week until then from andy daily phoebe adam myself thanks for listening and we certainly hope that you have found what you're looking for. Bye.

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