U Talkin’ U2 To Me? - U Talkin' U2 To Me? - iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Tour

Episode Date: July 15, 2015

Adam Scott Aukerman are back from experiencing the iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Tour at The Forum in Los Angeles and boy do they have a story to tell you! They’ll cover everything from the setlist to the once in a lifetime opportunity that will forever change the podcast. Plus, we hear the debut of Adam Singing Adam as well as get a much needed Harry Potter update!This episode is sponsored by Vivid Seats: Secure a spot in the audience for an upcoming event near you! Go to VividSeats.com/bono and for a limited time only, you’ll automatically receive $10 off a purchase of $100 or more at checkout.

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$10 off a purchase of $100 or more at checkout. From boy to breaking wave, every last one of them, that is. This is you too, talk. I've already messed it up. This is you. What is the name of the show? It's Talking You by Two. By Two. This is you talking you too to me, the comprehensive and encyclopedic compendium of all things you too.

This is good rock and roll music. Welcome back. And the worst part is I was reading that, and I still couldn't do it. What's wrong with you? Well, let me say that welcome to the show, and the worst part is I was reading that, and I still couldn't do it. What's wrong with you? Well, let me say that, welcome to the show, by the way, this is a little earlier than we usually do it. This is about 12 hours earlier than we're usually recording. Yeah, right now. Right now.

Right now. Great U2 song. Right now. Hey, I'm by the moment. You got the problems. Right now. Hey. You got the solution. Everything. Right now. Hey! You got the solution.

Everything. Right now. We got the pants on. Can we stop for one second? Sure. Can I tell you, you are a really good singer. Really? You have an amazing voice.

I know you're just joking around. Yeah, I was. I was just joking, but go ahead. But have you ever sang professionally? It's crazy. You're asking me this, Scott. No. What?

Yeah. You can't. I mean, you got to dust off that gold and let it shine. I've never been complimented on my- On anything? On my singing. Well, no, I've had compliments. You've been complimented by whom?

List them off. The people that have given me compliments? Not the people, the compliments. If you want to say the people, then sure. Oh, okay. Compliments. Hey, you look nice today. I've gotten that one. That was the first one? Ever? No, the first one. Go chronologically, please.

The first one I ever got was from the doctor when I was born. You know what he told me? What'd he say? Hey, nice butthole. Just kidding. He said, hey, you look nice today. Oh, right. Okay. So that was the first one. It was. Okay. Very good. But back to my singing, go ahead. Yeah. I mean, I know we're here to talk about U2 and everything and they're wonderful singers. Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. But forget about them for a second. I mean, I know we're here to talk about U2 and everything, and they're wonderful singers. Sure, sure, sure. It doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter. But forget about them for a second. I mean, I think you could either start a band or be in the opera or— Like professionally? Professionally. Really? You're really good. Thanks, Scott. You are really good.

Thank you. Let me hear a little bit more. Sure. Right now. Oh, man. That is amazing. See, this is crazy. I mean, I'm just like, you know, letting it out,

but I never really thought of it as a career or something I would go into professionally. What's weird is we've been doing this show for so long now, and you've never sung on it before until now. That's true. I had no idea. That's true. I would be talking about you, not this other band. Wow.

Well, does that mean it's, is this an episode of Adam singing Adam? Adam singing Adam, sure it is. Hey, welcome to Adam singing Adam. This is Scott. This is also Scott. We never introduced ourselves on our last show, by the way. That's true. But hey, no time like the present. This is Scott. And this is Scott. This is also Scott. We never introduced ourselves on our last show, by the way. That's true. But hey, no time like the present.

This is Scott. And this is Scott. And this is a podcast where Adam sings Adam. And he's going to explain what that means as he titled it. Well, the thing that we keep coming back to, I think, over and over again on this show, Adam Singing Adam, is, yeah, I'm a singer. Sure. Okay, but I mean, let's just put that out there. Maybe the best singer.

Perhaps. You said it, not me, but thank you. The thing that all of my fans, fans purely of my singing, not of anything else. Sure. And there are two separate camps. There are fans of everything else, and there are fans of your singing, and they and those there are two separate camps there are fans of everything else and there are fans of your singing and they do not intersect right and there is no venn diagram where there are fans of both exactly and if they ever see each other on the street they each pull out a long sword and chop their own dicks off because they all have dicks

yeah well that's yeah you don't have any female fans nope nope not a one um so so anyway so the thing that my singing fans like the most out of everything else is me just singing my name singing your name oh okay i had wondered if this show was about you singing songs by uh named Adam, like Adam Levine of Maroon 5. Yeah, but you wouldn't know it because it's the same name. True, true, true. Maybe I'm talking about Adam Chinecon. Sure. You don't know.

Or Adam Rumblefart. Yeah. Yeah, Adam Rumblefart. Sure. You could be talking about any of these Adams. But this is you singing your own name. Yeah. Okay.

Well, I mean, when do we get to this? I mean, I'm chomping at the bit here. Oh, we're not doing it on this episode. Oh, on this episode? Okay. But the next time we have an Adam singing Adam episode, we just don't have time today. Sure. I mean, we're running out of time looking at the clock right now.

Exactly. So next time, I will get to it. On a very special Adam Singing Adam. Exactly. All right, this has been Adam Singing Adam. I'm Scott. And this is Scott. Bye-bye.

Good ep. Great ep. Great ep. Hey, this is Scott, by the way. And this is Scott. Do you want to say hello to anyone? Hmm. No.

Very good. I hate to bust into one of our signature catchphrases, but it literally has been a while. It's been a minute since we've been in here. I was going to calculate it, and then I ran out of time. Okay, well, this is the seventh month, and we put out one on the second month. So what do your calculations tell you? Is that the last time we put one out? February, yes. February? Yeah. February is the seventh month and we put out one on the second month so what are your calculations tell you is that is that the last time we put february february yeah february is the second that's what i love about february it's the second month yeah of the year of the year of the calendar year not the fiscal year right okay because very different things do you go gregorian or do you go oh you gotta go greg these days. In this economy? I know.

In this economy. It's like, look, yeah, recession. I hear you. Yeah, but doesn't affect us. Very wealthy entertainment figures. Look, entertainment is always a very, very kind of flush industry. Remember the Depression? Remember the Depression?

I mean, man, they made out like bandits. Guess who was raking in the dough? All the people making the movies down on La Brea. Wait a minute, wait a minute. Are we talking about money? I think so. Hey, welcome to Talking About Money. This is Scott.

And this is Scott. And we're talking about people who raked in dough. Man, back in the 20s. Okay, there is a thing called the Great Depression. Sure. Do you, have you, you probably don't remember it because you weren't even alive yet. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.

I mean, you get me sometimes with those. We're getting a little long in the tooth, but not that long in the tooth. No, I mean. My teeth aren't eight miles long. No, I mean... My teeth aren't eight miles long. All right. This has been a great ep.

Bye. All right. Good ep. Yeah. We talked a lot about money. Yeah, we got to it. It's been a bit of a time before we sat our juicy butts down. Five months since we sat our soft, juicy behinds in these chairs.

And that one was a live one, so it doesn't even really count. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Jesus Christ. It's been since before. It's been since last year since we've done a studio app. So welcome back to the show to you, Scott. And thank you for joining.

You know what? It's great being in here. It really is, you know? It's nice. I miss this. Yeah, me too. You know? We talked about how we were going to do a ton of episodes this summer.

Did we? Yeah. And this is the first one that we've decided. Well, it's funny because YouTube puts out an album, they go on tour, and we stop making the show. They're more relevant than they have been in six years. And we just stop. But you catch us up. What have you been doing?

You, of course, you were working on this movie. I've been traveling a lot. And so we haven't really been in town at the same time. You've been traveling a lot and so we haven't really been in town at the same time. You've been traveling a lot. We've both been really busy. And you put out

that movie, the... The Offertit? The Nefertiti? No, the Overnight. The Overnight came out and it's still in theaters. Still in theaters.

Still on VOD too? No. is still in theaters. Still in theaters. Still on VOD, too, maybe? No. VOD in September. Okay. Whatever. I don't know why you're mad at me. Theatrical release only, Scott. Okay, okay.

And this was a movie where you were, you told me the story of how this came about. You read the script. Obviously, it was great. But then you were like, you know, I put out that show tell me you love me on hbo and i'm you know i i had that big fake you know prosthetic ding dong you can call it ding dong it's okay and uh i'm tired of people thinking that's my real ding dong i want people to see the real one that's right and so you showed everyone your penis in this movie, and how's the reception been? It was also a pretend ding-dong.

I don't think so. That's the cover story, I know. But did you look at it when you saw the movie? Did you look at it and go, yeah, that seems about right? That's about what I would imagine. Just a microscopic penis. Just like knowing your personality and how hard you try. Yep.

Adam is a small dick. The car you drive. That's right. That's right. Which is a red Lamborghini Countach. Countach. But yeah, it came out. It's a really funny film.

Thanks. I went to the South by Southwest. Did I tell people about what you said? No, no, because we haven't done it since then. I wasn't at South by Southwest. Yeah, I know, but I texted you. I done it. I wasn't at South by Southwest. No, you weren't. Yeah, I know. But I texted you. I saw that you had a movie at South by Southwest. And I know that you had been filming this last year.

And we talked about how you were producing this film with Naomi. And you were very excited by it. And I saw that you had a film at South by Southwest. I didn't know what it was. Yeah. And I texted you. I'm going to look it up here just to get the exact. I don't remember this exchange.

I texted you to say, hey, is this up here just to get the exact. I don't remember this exchange. I texted you to say, hey, is this movie The Overnight any good? And here it is. And you texted back a picture of a naked man. I did. Can I see the picture? Yep. That's a disgusting picture. It's like a really graphic it really is and i i liked how you were you know you weren't hyping your own film it took me to to realize i said oh wait like later oh wait

isn't this the one you produced that you shot last year and you just wrote back yeah bro like nothing about yeah go see it or I'm proud of it or anything. No, not at all. No. So, but yeah, it was really, really funny.

I really liked it. Thanks. So people should see it if it's out. Thank you. Yeah, we're proud of it and like it and everything. Whatever.

Oh, come on. Come on. So we've been away from each other. Yeah. And we, but we have some exciting stories to tell about going to the forum, the Songs of Innocence and Experience Tour.

Yeah, we went to see you two play in concert. In concert. In concerto. Live. Live. Yeah. They're right. My mic just.

Everything just went out. What the hell? What just happened? Are we back? Oh, we're back. Oh, just, everything just went out. What the hell? What just happened? Are we back? Oh, we're back. Oh, what was that episode of? Total Silence? That was a great ep.

That was very effective. No sound to be heard. Wait, I'm sorry. Is it time for another episode of Total Silence? I believe so. Good ep. Good ep. Great ep. That was so good.

No theme song. Yeah, we went to go see them live, and we'll talk about that after the break. You are not going to want to miss this story. Oh, you know, I've been going around the country with The Overn overnight doing Q&As in movie theaters. With the actual film canisters? Yeah. We don't show the movie. I just travel around with the film canisters and answer questions, give A's to Q's.

How many reels is this thing? Twelve. Twelve reels? That's a long one. It's a six-hour movie. and at every Q&A I was surprised I get at least two YouTube questions and there's always a like a moderator there like a guy that either works at the movie theater or like a local film critic so what like the usher like the teenage guy boy well it's usually like the theater manager or like a local like guy that works for Ain't It Cool or something.

They were all really nice and moderated these Q&As. But they would look at the person asking the question, look at me like, why is this person asking you a question about U2? Because I would get questions like, if U2 did the score for this movie, What's, you know, and it was really nice. Like people really listened to the show, which never fails to surprise me. This sounds like it's an episode, though, of I Love Films. Absolutely. Hey, welcome to I Love Films. This is Scott.

And this is Scott. We're talking about films here. But not movies. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no! I'm sorry for even saying it. Why would you say- not flicks, certainly. No, come on. You know what? Take that popcorn that you're about to eat and shove it up your butthole.

Shove it up your butt. Shove it up your butt. Shove it up your butt. One kernel at a time. Shove it up your butt. Shove it up your butt. Shove it up your butt. One kernel at a time. Shove it up your butt. Because we're talking, are we talking about films that can be shown at drive-in theaters? Oh, come on.

Come on. No, this is films that are shown at art house theaters. A movie theater and not digital projection. Please. Give me a fucking break. 35 millimeter. Yes. Or 70.

70 millimeter. 70. Those are the only two choices, 35 or 70. And even if you have a 70 millimeter film and you're like, tonight we'll just do it 35 whatever. No. No. No.

Fuck you. Fuck you. 70 millimeter. 70 or nothing, baby. I'm talking about films. Fuck you. Fuck you. 70, 70 or nothing, baby. I'm talking about films. Films. Lawrence of Arabia. Celluloid.

The Godfather Part 2. The tiny holes next to the pictures. Yes. This is controversial. And if you'll indulge me just for a second. Okay, sure. And if you disagree, that's fine. That's okay.

That's what film criticism and film loving is all about. If everyone loved the exact same films, then what would be the point of film criticism? What would be the point of films? That's what I say. Yeah, so go ahead. This is controversial? I thought that Godfather 2 came out in 1974,

Godfather 1. 1972. Yeah. 1974 also was the same Godfather 2 came out in 1974 Godfather 1 1972 yeah 74 also was the same year the conversation came out Coppola had just two great films shut up for a second

Godfather 2 for me for me sure better than the first and listen listen just hold on for a second

I know this is crazy but I think because by and large sequels are a waste of time sure it's a money grab okay the hollywood machine just churning out transformers 2 transformers 3 transformers 4 rise of the transformers come on rise of the ticket prices if you ask me yeah yeah with 3d conversions oh boy come on don't even start with 3D conversions. Ah, boy. Come on, don't even start with 3D conversions.

But for me, Godfather 2 is a worthy, worthy sequel. A worthy sequel. Yeah, I've never thought of that before. Yeah, it's a very good film. Okay, okay. Well, you know, I mean, I have a controversial take on films. Okay, let's hear it. Woody Allen. We all know Woody Allen. Ha, ha, ha, ha, I have a controversial take on films. Okay. Let's hear it. Woody Allen.

We all know Woody Allen. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. We love to laugh at Woody Allen. Super funny. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Woody. Another Woody. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

Everything you ever wanted to know about sex, but were afraid to ask. Really funny film. He has you rolling in the aisles. Bananas? That film is bananas. Oh, man. That guy's brain? There's no brain in thereanas? That film is bananas. Oh, man. That guy's brain? There's no brain in there. It's filled with bananas.

It's filled with bananas in there, like mushed up bananas, too, because he's crazy. Really funny stuff. I have to say that in 1977, he put out a film called Annie Hall. Oh, yeah. And for me, maybe it's just me, but for me,

that is a film where he started to take the art of film a little more seriously. Before then, he had made movies. Yeah, sure, sure. And that, I believe, is a film. And that signified, to me, the beginning of Woody Allen's sort of serious era where he could be considered an artist. A real filmmaker. A real filmmaker. For me. Those are two different words.

Film maker. Put them together. Filmmaker. Filmmaker. Because everyone is a maker. Sure. And not everyone is a film. Not everyone. But put it together. Film maker. You know, I have to agree with

you, Scott. I know we're going to get a lot of hate mail about this one. Sorry, everyone. Yeah, sorry, but listen, it may be controversial, but to us, to us. And this is merely to us. It's true. Yeah. You know, after Annie Hall, it was a real shift in his career.

Interiors. Interiors, yeah. Manhattan. Manhattan. Beautiful film. Black and white. He Manhattan beautiful film black and white he went back to black and white black and white which is what I don't know if you know this

but that's what films used to be shot on black and white film before color before color films yeah they were shot on black and white

because on black and white film black and white film exactly and he went back to that it's gorgeous to me the film Manhattan and this is another controversial take Black and white film. Black and white film, exactly. And he went back to that. It's gorgeous. To me, the film Manhattan, and this is another controversial take, I feel like the titular Manhattan is almost like a character in that film.

You know, I love that you're saying this, Scott. I feel the same way. It's as if we've got Woody Allen. We've got Woody Allen. Muriel Hemingway. Muriel Hemingway. Diane Keaton. Diane Keaton. Diane Keaton.

Those are the characters in the film. That guy. That guy. That guy. That guy. That guy. Exactly. But then there's another character in the film. Who's almost like talking and walking around.

Right. It doesn't have exactly a speaking part, but it's there. It's present. Kind of always over the other character's shoulders like, hey, I'm right here. Exactly. Manhattan is right here. Like tapping always over the other character's shoulders like, hey, I'm right here. Exactly. Manhattan is right here. Like tapping him on the shoulder and then they turn around and it's like I'm Manhattan.

Oh my god, I didn't see you back there. Right. Amazing film. It's a really astute observation, Scott. Thank you so much. This has been I Love Films. Great app. Great app. Great app. One of our longer apps. I feel like films – and sorry, I know we just closed the old I Love Films mailbag. Sure.

Is that what we have? Yeah. It's a mailbag. People don't know that that is not just a podcast. It's also a mailbag. Yeah. And we keep each episode in a large mailbag. People don't know that that is not just a podcast. It's also a mailbag. Yeah, and we keep each episode in a large mailbag. In a large sack, of course, yeah. I just feel like films are just...

Shut up. A gorgeous... We're not in there anymore. Okay. All right. Adam, I have to ask you, a lot of people have been wondering about this, and we haven't caught up with you in several months regarding this. We need a Harryry potter update yeah um what happened your kids yeah you were reading harry

potter to him you were in the middle of the prisoner of azkaban and my my boy got lost interest lost interest in harry potter himself he interest. The boy who lived? Yeah, but you know, I think part of it also is that the third— He's a magician himself. Right. The third movie is where things take a turn and it starts getting a little scarier. Mm-hmm. And he doesn't want it because the book was a little scary. He doesn't want to watch the movie.

So he's— So I think we're just going to wait like a year and pick up. So he's a coward currently, and in one year you think that he's going to wait like a year and pick up so he's a coward currently and in one year you think that he's going to gain some bravery well we'll see we we will see it's just going to take you smacking him in the head every single day exactly child abuse well that's too bad because those are wonderful wonderful novels yeah they are um and i i've tried many times to restart maybe i I'll try again. It's been a while. It's been a while.

How does a guy like you and Adam Scott, you have, look. Buy books. You have international fame. Right. You have all the money in the world. Right. How does an Adam Scott buy a book? Do you Amazon Prime it?

Do you go into your local bookstore? I mean, those are dying out, I have to say. Local bookstores? No, it is. It's a controversial thing to say, but print is... Print itself is dying. Yeah. I mean, it's almost like...

It's like attach the EKG to it. It's like, hey, are we getting a pulse? Yeah, get out the defibrillator on print. Clear! You know? We got to charge it up again. But it's almost like bookstores. It's almost like they're closing down all over the place.

Yeah, I know. But you know it's not the internet. Yeah, the internet's taking over. Do you think they should have charged people for the internet like $5 a minute? Yeah, I think that hopefully Congress will do something about this, but I think we should regulate the internet as far as pricing goes. Everyone should have to pay for the internet. Right, and that goes to all the independent

bookstores. Yeah, they have to pay everyone's fee. And it goes to all the music labels and, you know what I mean? Well, I think the big music labels. All the industries that have been hit by the internet. I think all the big music labels, all the big cable companies, all the big movie studios, they should get it for free. Sure. They get the internet for free, but I think all the big music labels, all the big cable companies, all the big movie studios, they should get it for free.

Sure. They get the internet for free, but I think they should get a cut of what we pay. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. You know what I mean? Because we need to subsidize. Substitize. I also think that we should – the content on the internet should be regulated.

We should get rid of all the filth. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I read an interesting statistic that porn is approximately 1% of the internet should be regulated we should get rid of all the filth yeah yeah yeah yeah i i read an interesting statistic that porn is approximately one percent of the internet i've heard that too i've heard it i've heard different figures i've heard it's even too much yeah well it's probably like 0.076 but they just rounded it up but since it's so such a small part of the internet i think we should keep it yeah but then all the other filth like people's opinions and and everything having to do with like like oh let let's let's help these people just get rid of it get rid of it and let's just um focus on the 0.076 that's the porn yes

just all either pornography or promoting new movies where Where do you stand on emails? You know, emails, it's funny. I've heard people call the post office type mail snail mail. As if it takes forever. It's like, hey, drop it in the mailbox. I imagine you'll be getting that delivered within like two or three days. Yeah, two or three days. What? Are you on some sort of a schedule, you stupid fucker?

Yeah, you know, I don't get it. I think there should be a mail e-postman. You know what I mean? Like right now email is too easy. There needs to be like you deliver your email to like an e-postman, and then he delivers it in a couple. Oh, so like a guy that his name is E from Entourage. Sure. Wait a minute, are we That his name is E from Entourage. Sure.

Wait a minute. Are we talking about Turtle? I think we are. Hey, guys. Welcome to Talking About Turtle. This is Scott. This is Scott. And hey, you know, the Entourage movie came out.

It did. Were you there? Did you see it? I did. I saw it in Cleveland. Clouveland? Sorry. Cleveland. it in Cleveland. Clouveland? Sorry. Cleveland.

I was in Cleveland, and I saw it there. I saw it here at the Cinerama Dome at 10 a.m., and I was one of three people in the Cinerama Dome. On opening day? That, my friend, I cannot tell you. I forgot. I think I saw it maybe the week after it came i think i saw two days after like the friday it came out on a wednesday i think i saw it friday morning at 10 a.m uh-huh and you went by yourself i went by myself i couldn't find anyone to go with me yep went by

myself and uh boy i loved it i loved it that's to me that that is what ho is. Oh, yeah. That's the lives. If anyone wonders, hey, is it glamorous being a podcaster? Just hand them a DVD of the Entourage movie. Not a Blu-ray. No, no, no, no. Come on. Not a thumb drive. No. A DVD.

Good old-fashioned DVD. How films were supposed to be viewed. I go with the old adage, if it's not DVD, it's not nothing. Exactly. Get rid of your 35mm, your 70mm film. DVD is where it's at. Keep it rolling, DVD, just like the ad says.

Yep, exactly. Oh, and Turtle was great in it. Great. And, as you were saying, you want all postmen to be E from Entourage. Yeah, exactly. And this has been Talking About Turtle. Good ep.

Yes. Not our best, though. Pretty good, though. Pretty good. Let's be honest. It's pretty great. Okay. It's great.

It was really, really good. So what else has been going on? What else have you been doing? What else is coming up? Shit, bro. Just fucking chilling, man. Yeah. Oh, by the way, we've gotten some great listener mail, but I forgot to bring any of it in.

Great. So thanks for all of it. Thanks for everything you've sent. Mail, like physical mail? Physical mail, like snail mail. Like an e-postman brought it? Yeah, like, you know, the kind of mail that comes really, really slow because it's not email. Don't you get emails or posts on, like, a board or something? Yeah, I do get emails.

I prefer them. No, but I mean, like, so they send actual mail. Yeah, physical mail. Yeah, snail mail. And you left it at home. Yeah, I left it at home. Why did you have it at home? Were you jerking off all over it?

It's cum splatter to this point. Great. Well, on that note, you two, if you're listening, we want you to come on the show. All right, we have to take a break when we come back we're going to have the exciting story of our two-night adventure watching you two one night you don't spoil it all right all right two-night adventure seeing the songs of innocence and experience tour at the forum the tour still in certain markets People can still buy tickets to it, or maybe they're sold out. I don't know.

But we're going to come back to that in just one moment. This has been You Talking U2 to Me. We'll be back in one moment here. Un momento. On this show. This is on. Yes, Cody, There we go. Hey, everyone.

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By the way, did you see the new video for Song for Someone just released? I did. I watched Rectify, and it was on. Rectum-fy? Yeah. It's my favorite show about, my third favorite show about rectums. What are your top two? The other one is Rectumize.

Okay. And then number two is just REC. Just REC. I like Rectum in effect. Yeah. Yeah, that's a pretty good one. That's definitely number four. Was that Great Bits?

That might be an episode of Great Bits. I did. I thought it was haunting. Very nice. Woody Harrelson is always entertaining. Is that the name of that guy who played Woody on Cheers? Yeah, Woody Harrelson. He's a very famous actor.

I thought I recognized him. Very famous actor yeah what do you think about true detective if woody no one likes this season why are people so like people are acting like this is a fucking crime star wars prequel or something it's not that i i actually i like it but what if what if next season it was like oh man we gotta write this ship let's get woody back and let's pair him with Bono. Oh, that's a good idea. That's a really good idea.

That's a really good idea. We all know, like, Matthew McConaughey, he's too big now. He won the Oscar. He's not going to come back. Bono. Put Bono in there. He's got the time. As the fly.

Yes. I mean, and it's a six-episode journey into the mind of a fly. Yes! That would be amazing. So, yeah, good vid, good vid, good on them. That just came out. Have you watched season two yet? I watched one ep of True Deck.

Did you think it was as, like, people are... Well, it just, you know, the first... Taking a big dump all over it. The first season started slow too so i i don't know what they're but by by now i think four are out or five are out at this point and no one seems to like it okay great um all right so let's talk was that an episode of who cares that certainly was on my end um let's talk about it so uh we had talked i think in our last episode or the previous episode we talked about how we were going to go to the forum yeah to see you two

in concerto can i just interrupt you really quick certainly which episode of true detective season two did you see the first one oh the first one Why do you think I would watch one of the other ones first? I know, you said you saw one episode. I didn't know which one it was. I was just checking. What did you think? Excuse me while I pee in a cup. I don't care.

Scott, why are you taking a dump in that glass? We said we were going to go to... Okay, so are we done talking about True Detective Season 2? Who cares? Jesus. See, I think Colin Farrell's particularly terrific in this show. Fine. True Detective Season 2.

Great. Are you trying to get on True Detective Season 3? Is that what's happening? are you trying to get on True Detective Season 3? Is that what's happening? Listen, all I'm saying is True Detective Season 2 might be the greatest show that's ever... Real question. Ever.

Would you be in True Detective Season 3 if they asked you to? Real answer? Yeah. The only thing I would ever want to be on, ever, for the rest of my life, is True Detective Season 2 because it is that good i think there's still time you could probably get on this thing are they still shooting yeah yeah yeah they do it and they're actually live that's a live show one reason why it's not exactly

like last year is they decide to shoot it live in front of a studio audience shit i should just go over there i can go to the studio and i could just just be on the show. Head over there on a Sunday. Yeah. Is that how all those people are on the show? Is they just happen to be in the area? Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Well, it's done at 30 Rock where they do, of course, the Immortal live from New York. It's Saturday night.

Saturday night live. Yes. That's also where Jack Parr used to come on stage every night and do... Hello, I'm Jack Parr. Hello, this is Jack Parr. You know me, good old Jack Parr. Doing the shaky shake, which is my signature move. Shaking my little butt around.

Shaking my little tush. Tushy-doo. I am Jack Parr Yeah, so that's I mean, they do it there every week If you head on over to New York one Sunday I'm sure they'll let you on Just head over there

And they'll let you play Do they do one Just play around? Yeah, just play They do one for the East Coast One for the West Coast Oh, shit How did I not know this?

You know what? I'm going to call my agent Mm-hmm You should definitely call him or her And just chat with them about other stuff i not know this i mean you know what i'm gonna call my agent you should definitely call him or her and just chat with them about other stuff and and not mention this yeah definitely and they have a studio audience and because it's so dramatic they're just deadly silent so quiet yeah i would never would have occasionally you can hear someone like a because they're crying because it's so powerful yeah it's devastating's devastating. You hear it like that occasionally.

Oh, I thought someone was doing cocaine in the audience. So, Songs of Innocence and Experience at the Forum. The tour. We thought, we had predicted in one of our previous episodes that we thought that it would be two different shows. Well, that's what it was originally conceived as. Okay. And they ditched the idea. Idea. Idea.

So that's what we thought. We thought it was going to be like they were doing One Night Would Be Songs of Innocence, and we also thought they were coming out with a new record to coincide with the tour, which they did not. We thought Songs of Experience might come out. We talked about that on our previous show. Like, I never thought that. Oh, Jesus. I don't think i ever thought it would actually be out who cares what

you thought let's just move on okay but you you were just saying that that's what i thought yes you thought that so uh so we were wrong on both counts um and maybe not necessarily wrong but the plans evolved for them and they decided to just kind of make it the same show every single night. Yeah. Now, so we had bought tickets. No, you had bought tickets. Here's the story. You had bought tickets through your manager for May 30 and May 31.

That's right, and I forgot that I bought the tickets. You forgot you bought tickets. But you bought them for us. You got. Yes, yeah. And we got two for each night. Is that right? Because Kulop was at it.

We were originally going to go with Kulop and Naomi. Yeah. But Kulop was out of town and Naomi didn't want to go or something. I can't recall. But you got two per night. Is that what can't recall. But you got two per night. Is that what happened? Yeah. So you got two per night.

Okay. So we got these tickets. Two pairs, I think. I think I got four. You got four per night? Really? I think so. I don't think you did for the 31st because this comes into play later.

Okay. So we have these tickets and we're like, boom, bam, bing, bong, bong, done. Dunzo. Dunzo. Dunzo. We're there. At least we're in the building. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. Hey, we're at, you, bam, bing, bong, bong, done. Dunzo. Dunzo. We're there. At least we're in the building. Yeah.

You know what I mean? Yeah. Hey, we're at, you know. Here we are. Who knows if we can get close, but at least we're in the build. Yeah. You know? And then what happens is.

Out of the fucking blue. Out of the fucking blue, this wonderful ticket agency calls us, and they ask us if we want to go they're fans of the show they're fans of the show and this is vivid seats vivid seats just calls up here wolf and says you know what we want to send uh adam and scotty over the old show uh victoriaver sets this up, and here's what she says. She says, pick anywhere. Pick anywhere in the whole build. Really? Pick anywhere.

I didn't know this. You didn't know? Yeah, I contacted you about this, and I said, where do you want to sit? You did? Yes. God. I can't believe how— Stupid I am?

That's what I was trying to say, but i couldn't formulate the words um yeah so she said pick anywhere and of course where do you front row center why bother if you're not front row center yeah you know um but actually front row center is a pit and i want there's no front i wanted to sit down so we they gave us these beautiful seats i actually picked the section that we wanted to sit yeah and they gave us two seats there. Okay. And this is for the 31st, the second night. Got it.

So we have these beautiful, beautiful seats, just prime location set up by this wonderful ticket company, Vivid Seats, which is nationwide. I want to give them a shout out. It's not just L.A. They're everywhere, and you can get seats. And they could get them anywhere. It was crazy. Wow. So we're set, right?

Dunzo. You were off doing the overnight, and you're texting me occasionally going, yep, I'm in Cleveland, but, oh, no, what are you doing in Cleveland? I was. You're doing some other movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, but you're texting me going, hey, we're going to go. I'm going to fly back.

Everything's fine. Everything's fine. Everything's fine. Don't worry. Don't worry. Don't worry. Yeah. Because I'm a bit of a flibberty gibbet. Yeah, you were kind of like...

What's happening? What's happening? ...worrying about the plans disintegrating. And for a while, I wasn't going to be able to go at all. Well, that's why I was worrying about the plans disintegrating. Okay, that's what happened

is that the movie I was working on that week... Get your thoughts together if you need to. That week, it was going to be a six-day work week, and so I was going to have to work on that day. Yeah, you were going to have to work and not going to be able to come out to see the shows at all. And you were texting me this, saying,

I don't think I can go, man. I don't think I can go. And then they were nice enough to move a day off of mine to that day. So I had two days off so I could fly back, see the show, and fly back to Cleveland immediately. So that's what it ended up being. Yes. You were going to be able to come on one night, the 30th. Yes.

Not the night that we have the really good seats. Yeah. But you had bought some seats, so we were in the building at least. So we're all good. Yeah. We're good at least for one night. Yeah. So – I think the seats I had were good the building at least. So we're all good. Yeah. We're good at least for one night. Yeah. So I think the seats I had were good though.

Okay. But I don't know. Not as good as these, I think. Oh, okay. In fact, I know that because this comes in play later. Okay. Okay. So we're all good.

So a couple days before, we're just making plans. You're saying, yeah, I land at this point. Meet me at the airport. Let's have lunch at the rock and roll. What is that place? What? The airport? Yeah, you wanted to have lunch.

You stepped off the plane. You wanted to have lunch immediately at that rock and roll place. Oh, Hard Rock Cafe. Hard Rock Cafe, yeah. Oh, it's the best. Yeah, right there at the airport. And I said, well, I don't know if I can drive all the way out to the airport just to meet you there before the show. But you were insistent.

Yep. So a couple days before, what happens? Now, you describe this, if you can even fucking remember it. Well, I got a text from Laura, who is a lovely, very sweet, and very cool. I'm trying to find her text. So you're stalling. You're complimenting her while you're stalling. Would you have said all these compliments if you had the information right at your fingertips?

Of course. Now, Laura is YouTube's publicist. Now, what does that mean for those people who are not in show business, who don't know what a publicist is? She is the person that handles all of their press. Publicity. Publicity. You don't need to say any more than that. Oh.

Well, you just asked me what that is as if people don't know what press is. you say once you say oh a publicist handles publicity people know exactly what you're talking about okay fuck you okay okay okay so she she just reached out how did she get your number um i think that i had met her before because she – I met her because she – a couple years ago, she got me Jack White tickets because I think she handles Jack White as well. Okay. This company – Yes. Handles a lot of musicians. Yes.

And so I met her at Jack White. She was super cool. And so she reached out, and she's a fan of our podcast, which is super nice. A fan of this show? This show. Or of I Love Films? Oh, maybe it's I Love Films. It might be I Love Films.

Yeah, because this show's not that good. And she said, do you guys want to come to the show? And you texted me all excited. Yeah. And that's how we communicate via text. And I was like, bro, bro, bro. You wrote that. You typed that out.

Bro, bro, bro. Bro, bro. And you said, hey, I think we're being invited by U2's publicists at least to come see the show. And very exciting. The fact that these people who are connected to U2 at least are fans of the show. Great. So they want us to come to the show. That's fantastic.

Yeah. So then that week, and this is a big tragedy for the band. I don't know if people know this, but their tour manager passes away unexpectedly. And that was a huge bummer for them. And so – and for fans of the band as well. I mean, he had had them forever. Yeah, he was their one and only tour manager. And look at those tours he had put together.

It's incredible. Yeah. So that was pretty sad. And I think they were dealing with it on stage. They dedicated a song, I know, to him at one point in one of those shows that we did not see. Yeah, and I heard that show that night was pretty charged and incredible. Yeah, I mean, a lot of bands could have come out and been like, said at the top, oh, by the way, this is going to be a shitty show.

Right. We're not into it. Or not done a show. Right, right. But they went out and put on an electrifying show. Yeah. Dennis Sheehan was the guy's name. And so the day of.

I'm sitting around, and I'm trying to play it cool. Day of our concert. Day of our concert. Which was like five days after Dennis Sheehan passed away, I think. They did a lot of shows in Los Angeles. Yeah, they did five shows in LA and they had done three up to this point that we had missed. The day of, I'm trying to play it cool even though we have no concrete plans at this point. I know you're flying.

But at the same time, I'm a little like going, when are we going to meet? When are we going out there? I don't know what's happening. Right. going when are we gonna meet when are we going out there i don't know what's happening right um and also and also i oh the other part of it is is we have these two extra tickets so naomi is gonna go right and then i am allowed thank you daddy to invite someone as well so i invite jimmy pardo okay because Cause Laura gave us four tickets. No, she gave, she gave us two tickets. Oh wait, she did give us, she gave us four tickets. Yeah. Like four

passes. Four passes. Yeah. Oh, that's right. And you still had the other two. And I had two extra tickets that I had purchased. Right, right, right. That I wanted to sell before the show. So she gives us four, Naomi comes, which is great. And, uh, Jimmy Pardo of the Never Not Funny podcast comes. And I believe I'm going to talk about some of this story on his podcast this week that comes out this week i can't wait your ears are going to be glued to those old earbuds um so so jimmy's going to come with me and i'm i'm writing to jimmy going you know uh yeah we have these passes i don't really know where we're sitting or you know what the deal is but at some point, Adam's going to tell me and we'll meet there at some point. And he says to me, oh, I've seen the show already a couple days ago.

It's really good. I'm going to have my mom come out and watch Oliver, but I hate to impose upon her to do it that early, so why don't I just meet you? I know what time they're going on, like at about 825. Why don't I meet you there at like 810 or something? And I'm like, okay, I think that's fine. That should be fine. Here's what confused me about Jimmy. Is that when Jimmy was on this show, he couldn't have been more ambivalent about you two.

Really? Yeah. He didn't seem to really. I mean, he knew Sunday Bloody Sunday, but wasn't a fan. Well, let me explain. He goes to every major concert, no matter if he likes them or not. He does? Yeah.

He just goes to see concerts because it's like, these people are legendary performers. This is like a major event. I should see it oh okay but it but i also think he's probably a fan not as big of a fan as he is of chicago or okay i just it didn't seem like he was that much of a fan and then that night at the show he had just seen he had just seen it and loved it. And so he's like, yeah, I would definitely go back. Okay, got it. So we have these plans, and it's about, I don't know, it's about 2 p.m. or something the day of, and I'm getting a little anxious, and I don't exactly know what our plan is, and I don't know if I'm going to be able to meet Jimmy at 8.10 before they go on. This is the kind of thing that makes you anxious. It does.

Not knowing exactly what the plan is. Well, I mean, especially like six hours before it's supposed to happen right it does make me anxious yeah are you are you just more of a go with the flow kind of guy we're like an hour before something's supposed to happen you get the details and you're just like yeah i guess so i i guess it was because i was flying in that day i just sort of thought we'll probably get there at the last minute and hopefully we'll get there on time because we were late naomi and i ended up being kind of late because of traffic and shit you weren't that late you weren't that late um so then i get this text from you do you want to say what precipitated it or do you do you just want me to read the text well yeah i got a text another text from Laura and again this is like that day and it was sort of

out of the blue oh I don't think it must not have been a text because she just said hey it's Laura the guys might want to say hello to you and Scott you want to get here a little early

do you think you could get here at 645 was, was it? Yeah, it was like 6.45. It was like an hour. 6.30 or 6.45. An hour and a half earlier than we thought we were going to. The guys might want to say hello. Yeah.

The guys. Now, did you know what guys? You got to assume at this point, if you have a head on your shoulders, she's talking about you too. She's talking about Bonobos. She's talking about Thedge. She's talking about... Adam Clay, 2,000 pounds. We're talking Larry Mullen Sr.'s son.

Yeah. All of them. Those guys. Those guys. Or there is a chance that she's talking about just some guys. Like some guys, like some Magic Mike XXL type guys that she's run about just some guys like some guys you know like some magic mike xxl

type guys that she's like run into it at your local and she not knowing that we're you too focused because it's the day of the show right she says i know some guys that would like to say hi to you no i assumed and correctly assumed she was talking about Bonobos. The band U2. Fedge. U2. U2. U2. Those are the four guys that she's talking about. The band members.

The band members of U2. Of the legendary rock and roll group. D-D-D-D. D-D-D-D. U2. D-D-D-D. It's weird because I thought it was a text but I'm not finding it here it might have been an email

so you reach out to me you text me and go I was really excited and you go dude the band wants to meet us yes so I was because I remember getting the text and being like yes yes yes and just like not knowing what to do.

And I was sort of just kind of walking around. I was in my bedroom, I think, just walking around in circles like I have to text Scott. I don't know. This is so exciting. I can't. What do I do? My thumbs aren't going to work. So I texted you right away.

You texted me right away, and I went, no way. And then I, in my mind, am like, oh, my God, how am I going to work this out with Jimmy? Oh, right, because there's this whole thing. Because there's this whole thing with his babysitter. And I didn't include you on any of this because I didn't want to be like the guy going, well, but Jimmy doesn't know if he can. So I was just like, okay, we'll work it out somehow. I get a hold of Jimmy and I go, hey, there's a chance that we can maybe go backstage and they may say hi to us

or something. Do you, can you get there any early at like 6.30? And he writes back, I'll work it out with my mom. Yeah, yeah,

yeah. And so, so great. So we're going to meet there at 6.30. He made it, no problem. Yeah. And so we, we are, we get there at 6.30. He made it. No problem. Yeah. And so we get there.

Yeah. And I had to figure out how to get the babysitter to come early. There was a whole thing. Just like Jimmy, I had to rearrange. But it was no biggie, and we got in the car and left. No biggie. Just like the world currently without Biggie Smalls, RIP. Or my penis in the overnight.

No biggie. So at this point, we don't know what's going to happen, but we're about to meet Laura, or you're about to meet her again. Yeah. I can't remember. We met, yeah. You had met at Jack White. But we met up in front of the forum.

I think you met up with her inside or something? Yeah. Okay. Well, here's what happened. We're invited to go into the forum club. We pick up our tickets. We're invited to go into the Forum Club, which is this very large backstage area that has catered food and free drinks and all this. It's the kind of place where when you get your VIP ticket, you're like, whoa, Forum Club, this is cool. I'm pretty exclusive. And then you get there and there's

hundreds of people in the forum and so and jimmy and i are there together and we're looking around going this can't be where we're supposed to meet the band right um and uh then i get a drink and we meet a very nice bartender who's a big fan of comedy bang bang that was really nice and we're waiting for you waiting for you and naomi and uh then laura comes up to me along with her partner steve or her boss steve i believe um they work together they're at least co-workers and uh they see me and come over to me and start chatting with me and at this point i don't know if she's a fan of the the show or has listened to the show or not you didn't know it was was Laura. I knew they introduced themselves to me, but I

didn't know exactly why we were there. Got it. Because you hadn't told me any of this. So I was just kind of like, I wonder why we're here. And Laura then started talking very specifically about previous episodes of the show and said she had just been listening to the Songs of Innocence episode that day, in fact, and had been laughing at some of our predictions of what the tour would be like and saying, okay, they got that right, they got that wrong, they got that wrong, they got that wrong. And she was saying, I can't wait for you guys to see this show because I really want to know what you think about it. Oh, that's cool.

Yeah, so it was very exciting of like, oh, wow. I mean, you know, she's heard the show and actually likes it and and is into it so that was very very cool that's awesome so then you and naomi get there and uh at that point we don't know exactly what's going to happen now i have prepped jimmy by the way uh because after our white house uh not even debacle but our triumph at the white house where if if you recall, Kulop wasn't going to be let in to see the president. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I very wisely said, now, Jimmy, I think what may happen, and I know you're going to get here early and work out the babysitting thing, but what may very well happen is they – bet they will take adam and i right into a separate room and leave you in the room but there's always a chance that you could go back there i don't know

and he was fine without it he was like whatever it's you know i'm happy to be here yeah and that is what ended up happening you and naomi initially you and naomi get there and laura took the two of us aside and said okay we're gonna lead you back and um you know we looked at those guys and said yeah you you guys get it and laura was cool about i remember she was like this is is this weird but but it's it's weird it's a thing and you have to just take you two and we're fine you too hey hey hey very. Very, very good. Very, very good. Thanks. And we were fine with it.

They were fine with it. We expected it might happen. Everything's cool. No hurt feelings. Everything's fine. Right. They take us back into a little tiny room. Right.

Very tiny. Like not a little bigger than dressing room sized, but not even as big as like a room in an apartment. Like a dining room sized room. Yeah, exactly. Like picture, all right, you're getting hungry one day. Yeah. You know, people tend to eat three meals a day. You're thinking about lunch.

And you're just like- Quite frankly. You're like, that was good. I want to redo that experience, but at night. Yeah. Yeah. Like six, seven, 8 o'clock. Somewhere in there.

Like, you know, let's not put a time down specifically, but around there. It may be a hotter meal than the one I had. Something hotter. I had a cold, cold sandwich. Ice cold. Yeah. I had an ice cream sandwich. Actually, a sandwich with ice cream and frozen ham in it.

And it was great. It was delicious. Best sandwich in the world. But I want something hotter. Right. So what do you do? You step into the dining room. The dining room.

Yeah. And you sit down and you wait for someone to bring you something. Yeah. And if there's no one there, you could be waiting a long time. A long, long time. A long time. But it's worth it. It's worth it because when you eat that food, you are no longer hungry.

So we step into this room and we're there with Laura and Steve. Yeah. And there are, I believe, two other people in there. Was it that empty? It was empty. It was empty. And I believe one of them was Hal Wilner. Yeah, Hal Wilner was there.

Mm-hmm. The legendary Hal Willner? Yeah, Hal Willner was there. Mm-hmm. The legendary Hal Willner. Legendary Hal Willner, whom I believe I had met before through Bob Odenkirk. And I tried to say something to that effect of like, I think I met you through Bob Odenkirk. And I— He didn't hear it. He didn't hear it. It may have been a give-a-shit situation.

But he knew you from Step Brothers. Is that right? Mm-hmm. But that's about it. There's really no one in there. And it's pretty empty. Right. And you know what? We have to take a break.

Okay. We have to take a break. But when we come back, we'll tell you who stepped into that room and what exactly happened. Oh, shit. Yeah. You are not going to want to miss this. So when we come back, we'll have the conclusion of this wonderful, wonderful story that is dragging on forever. We'll be right back with Hugh talking YouTube to me. hey everyone want to tell you about our sponsor for this episode of hue talking hue to to me vivid seats we're going to be talking about them in a bit vivid seats but

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Yeah, walls of caves. Yeah. I remember those. Yeah. Can something be called a wall if it's not man-made? Yes, and I'll tell you why. Scott, we all live on Earth, okay? I mean, hopefully.

All of us. Although I've met some women that I'm like, what planet are you from? Yeah, exactly. Are you from Venus? Because I'm from Mars. Yeah, we are from different. Hey, I'm surprised we're in the same solar system. Yeah, I mean, you know, bouncing around that big rock in the sky, that giant ball.

Oh, man. You said it. Anyway, I feel like a wall is simply, it could be invisible, it could be solid, you can knock on it, or you could walk right through it. A wall is simply something that keeps you confined. Do you think a door is a wall? A door could be a wall, because you could open that door and walk right into another room And you're filled with walls Is a door a wall Until you open it And then is it a door?

Sometimes There's a wall in front of me Be it Made of plaster Wood Or just My own imagination Sometimes it's those

Psychological walls Shut up Until I cut A hole in that wall and create my own door that wall is just the sunlight that guides the way you're a beautiful human being thank you you really are you are too scott hue too hue too hue too okay so let's let's recap we're backstage right we're uh at the forum. You went out, by the way, and scalped your tickets, which is illegal.

I didn't scalp them because I did not. Is it scalping if you end up losing money? Yes, it still is. It is? Yeah, but you sold them for less than what you bought them for. Yes. Yes. And you came back in, and we're backstage currently, and there's no one in the joint other than Hal Wilner and a couple other people in us.

Right, right. All right. So suddenly Laura and Steve come back with Jimmy and Naomi. Yeah. They went out to go get them. They found them in the forum club. They went out and they said, you know what? There's no one back here.

Let's go get these guys. It was really nice. Super nice. And they were very excited to be back there. The four of us sort of square off where I believe you – no, Naomi and I are looking at you and Jimmy. Okay. Okay. I don't remember this.

Naomi and I are facing you and Jimmy, and you have your backs to the door. Exactly. Okay. And they're chasing you and Jimmy, and you have your backs to the door. Exactly. Okay? And so Naomi and I are seeing then suddenly a very constant stream of celebrities walk in. Right.

And she and I are looking at each other like, whoa, and we're sort of like subtly trying to nod back at you. First two comes in, but Anthony Kiedis from the RHCP. The Red Hot Chili Peppers is the name of the band. Yes, sir. Ba-do-boom, California! That's right. He was talking about California. He's always talking about it.

He's trying to get people to move to the state. And he wore a t-shirt that says, I love California. And he's just, I never knew this, but he's part of the tourism board, I think. Yeah, oh yeah. Well, the Red Hot Chili Peppers are part of the California tourism board. Yeah, that grew out of the California tourism board. They weren't an actual band that started because they like rock and roll. Right. Right.

Well, they love their television show, of course, Californication. Of course, yeah. Which they starred in and wrote every episode together in a room. Yep. In a room. And so he walks in. We're like, ha-ha. All right.

Star meter off the charts already. You brought your star meter. I did. It suddenly started going, boing, boing, boing. And I looked down and I was like, these charts can't even cover Kiedis. Your star meter is your penis. Yeah, exactly. Boing, boing, boing, boing, boing, boing.

So then Gavin Rossdale of Bush comes in. I don't remember that. Mr. Stefani. I don't remember him coming in. Not to blow up anyone's spot about who was back there, but why not? We're the least famous people in the room. Exactly. Let's talk about it.

And then Lionel Richie and Quincy Jones come in. And then Hilary swank comes in brian grazer my old boss at imagine who anytime i would come up to him at imagine i would say hey i'm scott ackerman i'm working in your writer's lab you'd go i know even though he had a look of confusion before that it's a smart thing to say back to someone i know that's bothering you yep because it makes the person feel like shit and they walk away. Yep. They stop bothering you.

Yep. And then Cindy Crawford comes in. You guys said that and I never saw her. Oh, she was there. The famous mole herself. She's very beautiful, but I didn't get to see her. Yeah, my star meter, off the charts at that point.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then who comes back but Clune Dog. George Clooney. George Clooney with his new wife. Yeah. The nuptials had already occurred. Clune Dog comes back. I'm like, am I getting pranked by Clune Dog, the famous prankster?

No, it's him. Gorgeous couple. Gorgeous couple. Gorgeous couple. But I think the first thing that occurred to us, or at least me, was, oh, shit, we're never going to talk to you two. Why would they talk to us if they walked into this room? Yeah. And Laura and Steve are mainly just talking to us.

Yeah, they were super nice. They were super nice, and we were just kind of chatting about stuff. And maybe we were the only people that didn't intimidate them. Maybe. I like to think they were somewhat intimidating. Like, oh, we can just talk to these gross little trolls. Yeah. And so we're there and we're in this room and suddenly Adam and I are like, they're never going to talk to us. Right, right. And then who should walk into this tiny dining room-like room but the band Hue 2? And we realize, and you and I look at each other and go, you know what?

We got to get this on tape. Oh, yeah. So we're going to play a little bit of this tape from backstage. Here we go. But probably not. If we meet them, we probably should. No, we won't if we meet them, certainly. But, hey, we're backstage here.

This is Scott. And this is Scott. You talking U2 to me. We're backstage at the Forum. And the band has just entered the building. First of all, you can hear how kind of nervous i sound right yeah and how crowded like there's a lot of people there's a lot of people back there so it's very nice of them to get jimmy and uh and naomi back all right let's continue uh we're backstage with george

clooney and hillary swank and lionel richie and cindy crawford and anthony kidis and uh we're about to meet the band. Yeah, maybe. See, what we're kind of figuring out is, like, Quincy Jones is here. Like, why would they come talk to us? There's no reason that they would come talk to us. Other than we're their biggest fans. All right, we'll see how it shakes out. We'll tell you all about it for sure. Yeah.

All right. So we don't know. We don't know what's happening. And Laura had set it up, by the way, saying we don't know if they're going to talk to you because the recent events with Dennis, you know. Yeah, before we even left the house, it was like we're all kind of dealing with this tragedy. So there may be something before the show. There may not be. There may not be. Don't get your hopes up. So we're sitting there going, this is not going to happen probably. But at this point, it was like,

all right, well, they're obviously doing something before the show. But then when we saw those people come in, we're like, oh, well, why would they come say hi to us? You know, who cares? So then we're just standing there, and who walks up to us? Who? Adam Clay, 2,000 pounds. He's right here. He walks right up to the group of us. Yeah. Now.

And a gentleman. A gentleman has probably a three-minute conversation with us. Long time. And now, do I think he had any idea who we were? No. No. I think he did. Had he ever seen one of your movies?

Maybe, but probably doesn't even know who you are. No. Parks and Rec fan? Doubt it. Probably not. But came up to us and just started talking to us about the tour. And we started chatting and having a lovely conversation with him and uh i remember very congenial i remember the first thing you said to adam what did i say

and it was very charming scott honestly because i'd never seen you turn on the charm i i just had never seen you nervous before and we were all caught a little off guard because he did just sort of appear. He just like appeared. We thought we would be taken to them or something. He just like... He just walked up to us and started chatting. And he was like, he shook everyone's hand

and was like, how are you? And the first thing you said was... The first thing you said was, well, great. Hey, thank you for coming over and talking to us. Well, I thought that he had been like told to come over to talk to us. Maybe he had. Maybe he had, but I don't know.

After the conversation, it seemed more like he just was like working the room and came by just to say hi or something like, oh, here's some people. Yeah. Had a nice conversation about the tour and how it was going. Yeah, and then when he kind of sauntered, he was like, well, I got it. I'm going to go say hi to a couple people. He said, I'm going to go say hi to a couple more people, and then I do the show. So he kind of politely shook our hands again and walked off. And you were like, hey, looking forward to that show.

And Naomi, as soon as he left our area naomi was just like oh you guys are such fucking idiots because we were just so stunned well we're trying to act like normal people too you know what i mean we're sort of like wearing this halloween costume of like oh hey we belong back here meanwhile like we're sort of like freaking out. And Laura and Steve are laughing at us as well. Yes. I think Adam Clay 2000 pounds was the one that broke us in. Right.

You know, and we did act like idiot, like just dumb shit. And we sort of got it out of the way at that point because. He was very nice. He was very, very super nice and but at this point we're like

that's probably it. Yeah. I think. I just didn't want to be in a situation where we're like walking up to one of them and tapping them

on the shoulder. Yeah, and like inserting ourselves and hugging them from behind. I was just fine being there and letting them go and do the show and not being creepy about it.

Exactly, exactly. Just kind of hanging back and whatever. So we're there and we're thinking, yep, that's probably it. And, you know, let's like start making our way out and go watch this awesome show. Yeah. Very suddenly, Laura says, Adam and Scott, let's go. Yeah. She's like, right now, right now.

Yeah. And we're like, whoa, what? Is this happening? She's like, right now, right now. Yeah. And we're like, whoa, what? Is this happening? She's like, yep, yep. Come over here. Come over here. She leads us over to who else? Bonobos.

Bonobos himself. That's right. She leads us right over there to the man. And what does he say to us? He turns to us. He looks at us. He turns to us. He looks at us. He starts to chuckle. And he says, and I wrote this down.

It's the exact quote. Okay. We know more about you than you'd like. That's right. And then he walks directly out the door. And on stage. 15 minutes later, the door and on stage. 15 minutes later, the show starts. So they were the last people he talked to in the room.

Yes. And then he just exited. He just exited. So he's implying that he has listened to the show. Right. I don't know. Is that true? I don't know.

the show right i don't know is that true i don't know i i don't know either i maybe or in like a meeting they're like these two dumb shits have this show it's just it's like they're if you say hi to them they'll make another episode right it's that you know who knows but who knows it was really funny it was exactly what you want out of a Bono exchange. Yeah. Where it was just one sentence. Yes. A great little soundbite. It was witty. It was something we'll remember.

Yes. And it encapsulated just everything that you want out of that. Yes. And after he said that to us, shook our hand, and walked out of the room, we lost our minds. We came back to Jimmy and Naomi who were like, sort of giving us this like, oh, you guys did it. They saw the whole thing happen. I don't think they heard what he had said. I don't think they heard it.

But they saw him lead into us and say something and us laugh. And then, and Laura was kind of saying, hey, sorry, that was so short. And we said, oh no, that's exactly no, no. That's exactly what you want. That was fine. If we had had five minutes with them, I'm sure we both would have said something really stupid. Yeah. So it was actually perfect. It was perfect.

And then we kind of went, oh, well, let's go watch this show. Yeah. And that's what they did. Laura had hooked us up with these great seats in sort of the riser off to the side of the stage, the VIP riser. So we were on the floor, but like four feet higher. Elevation, you know what I mean? Just like one of their songs. So we were on the floor, but up a little higher so we could just kind of see above.

It was a perfect place to see the show. And it wasn't very, I mean, it was a sold-out show, but I mean to say it wasn't very crowded on the riser. It wasn't like they packed the people into the riser. There were two risers for the celebrities. I do believe that the Cloonies and Kiedises and Lionel Richies were on the other riser. I think they were in seats, actually. Oh, really?

Oh, that may have been it. Because, yeah. But very fun show let's let's get to talking about the show itself and what we thought of it okay all right so starts off you hear uh the patty smith song the people have the power yeah okay lights are on in the arena should we explain first the kind of geography of the stage? Yeah. It's an ovular arena like most arenas are. The stage is over on one end, and then there is a sort of platform, a walkway all the way up.

Yeah, a narrow walkway. A narrow walkway that goes over to a circular platform on the other end. So there are two stages, one smaller than the other. One smaller. With an arena-long walkway between. And the song comes, people have the power. Bono walks out, starts sort of lip-syncing along with it. On the smaller stage.

On the smaller stage. Meanwhile, the band members of Hue 2 all go to the other stage and they start playing the miracle of joey ramone the first song off the new record and bono runs over on the walkway over to the main stage lights go down they start playing the show yeah now it it seemed to me like the show was broken up sort of thematically, songs of innocence and experience. It sort of seemed like the early part of the show were all songs from the new record that had to deal with their teenage years and forming the band, mixed in with songs that had that sort of energy of the early years. Yeah, like a lot of boy songs. A lot of boy songs, but Vertigo was there, which is sort of a rockier song.

They had Sunday Bloody Sunday, I Will Follow. Great version of Sunday Bloody Sunday. And it seemed to me like then they took, in the middle of it, they took an intermission, which was The Wanderer, the Johnny Cash song played. And then they came back out, and then it seemed like it was, okay, now it's experience. This is some of our more hit songs, and this is sort of the rest of the band, the rest of the time that we spend in the band. They opened the second half with a great version of Invisible. Invisible, one of our favorite songs.

But let's talk about the first half, just so people know exactly what's going on. They played a lot of stuff from the new record, which was really good. But what was really interesting to me was I kind of assumed, okay, they're going to be on the big stage for a while, then they're all going to walk occasionally over to the other stage. But what was really interesting was around the fourth song, I believe,

the giant screens come down over the walkway. Yeah. They're as wide as the walkway is. Yeah. They come down

onto the walkway and they have stairs inside of them and people can see what's happening on both sides of this giant screen. And if you walk inside the screen, you can see the person.

You can see them in the screen. If they're shining a spotlight on them, you can see them in the screen. Yeah. So. Or they can light up the screen and the person inside the screen can disappear. Can disappear, yes. So basically Bono starts a whole section. Bono and the band, of course, you too. They start a whole section sort of about songs from the new record about their childhood.

And he's like, we're going to take you on a little trip here. And it starts with Iris, Hold Me Close. Yeah. And goes into Cedarwood Road, a song for someone. Raised by Wolves as well, I think. Raised by Wolves, yes, and Sunday Bloody Sunday. But what they're doing is

they have these amazing visuals on these screens and then Bono is in the middle of them interacting with them. So during Cedarwood Road, he's like literally walking down this animated Cedarwood Road and keeps getting blown back by wind

and disappearing, and then he'll pop up in another part of the stage. It was an amazing technical achievement. And then during Until the End of the World, which closes the first set, am I right? Yes. The Edge is inside the screen playing guitar, and Bono is outside of the screen, and his image is up on the screen.

So it looks like Bono is this giant being, and the edge is about as big as like a thumb, and he's spitting water onto the head. Onto the head, yeah. It was a really great image. Yeah. It's such a good – because literally there's no bad seat in the house with no i mean that was interesting was because when you go see an arena show you sort of figure like well if i'm not close by to the stage yeah you know who knows what's going to happen and then you know and you sort of think well they're probably going to go shake their little butts

down on the small stage over by little butts yeah somewhere maybe for like two songs or something but you don't realize that actually the best seats are the ones where you can see these giant screens uh so everything along the side which traditionally is just fine were the best seats in the house so and and it's amazing the the first half of this is amazing uh you know it's some of their lesser known material because it's the new record, but it sounds great. And just the whole technology part of it is just blowing everyone away. Yeah.

So then they take this intermission and then they come back and they do just hit after hit, after hit, after hit. They go off onto the smaller stage. They do kind of an acoustic set. Can I say one thing about the first half of the show? I'll allow it.

Something I really liked about the first half is that it's the Miracle Joey Ramone, Out of Control, I Will Fall. A bunch of boy stuff. Electrico. Electrico they played. Just on the main stage with just a light bulb down there. Just light bulbs. And kind of minimal lighting. And then once Iris starts, then the screen comes down and he emerges so it's a really nice

transition from just balls to the wall because you don't really expect like that's what i like about it is it didn't start with this massive screen coming down so it's like after three songs of that you're like oh that was it started just as a regular show so that when it comes down, it's like, whoa. And then when it starts coming down of like, oh, there's stairs in it as well. Yeah. And all of this – it can do all of these things. It was really impressive. And those first like three, four songs just on the main stage, they just like ripped it up.

Yeah. They were so good. And it's a pleasure hearing Electrico. Yeah, yeah. That sounded awesome. He sang Send in the Clowns during a little part of it as well. That was really good. So then they come back and they do Invisible, like we said,

and they're sort of – the whole band is in the middle of this screen. Larry Mullen, senior son, is playing just a snare with a cymbal, and two of them are facing one way and the other two are facing the other way, and they're constantly disappearing in the middle of like giant projected images of themselves. It was really cool. Then they come back and they do Even Better Than The Real Thing. They do Mysterious Ways, Elevation. And then they go over to this small stage where a piano rises up.

And they do a really fantastic acoustic version of Every Breaking Wave, which just sounds great. That's such a good song. And I think that's the hit off the album, if you can really call something a hit off the album. The audience went crazy for that song. Then they played Bullet the Blue Sky, and then, boom, Pride in the Name of Love. I remember Bullet the Blue Sky, they played that,

and this is like an hour or so into the show, and you and I kind of turned to each other and realized this is the first Joshua Tree song of the night. Yeah. Like when your biggest album is just being done at the end of the night. It's crazy. Yeah, like holy shit. Yeah.

So they do Bullet the Blue Sky, and that's not even one of the bigger singles off of it. I know. They just wanted to tear it up. But then Pride in the Name of Love, everyone goes crazy for. I mean, that is just I've said it's my favorite song by theirs. I mean,

I don't think you can beat it in concert. I know. It's great. The crowd goes crazy for it. It's great. It's just crazy, this band. They have a song like that that's just a touchstone for everyone. That every single person can sing along to. They have 12 of those.

Yeah. Maybe 11. Maybe 11. It's just crazy. So then they play Beautiful Day. Then they close the main set off with With or Without You, which just sounded amazing. I love that song as well. Come Back for the Encore, City of Blinding Lights, lights where they bring i don't know if you remember they brought

up this kid yeah who was a total dud yeah this kid was a bummer and the next night they brought up a kid who was who was really good oh cool but this night he was terrible he was like and i'm sorry if you're listening out there and you're this kid and you're like i was scared i didn't know what to do he He was not into it. But his eyes were, I mean, I think he was into it. He was just scared.

His eyes were super wide. They were like saucers and Bono's trying to get him to like raise his fist up on, oh, you are so beautiful. And he's just, doesn't want to do it

and he's shy and he's just like, what am I supposed to do? Poor guy. And Bono was just trying to work with him like, you know him to get something. Was it a kid the next night?

I think so. Maybe I can't remember, but I remember it working the next night and going, oh boy, that kid from the previous night was not so good.

Then they go into Where the Streets Have No Name. Yep. Then they go into I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For. Yep. And during I'm Still,

I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, they just walk off the stage still, I still haven't found what I'm looking for. They just walk off the stage one by one while they're still playing. Yeah. Edge is still kind of playing the guitar riff.

Yeah. And he just basically walks off stage still continuing to play this until the radio receiver kicks out and it just kind of like

cuts off in the middle of the riff. Yeah. Yeah. It was good. I was really, really, it was a really great show. was very full i felt like it was a conceptually really sound show it was it was a lot like in a way in a good way it was a lot

like going to see like a broadway play in a way it was very theatrical yes they were telling a story with yes and and and that's you know and that's what I know you and I really like about the new record, too, is it's not just some jumbled collection of songs. The new record is telling a story, and that's what they were attempting to do with this, which I really, really appreciated. Actually, I think it's really interesting that Invisible and This Is Where You Can Reach Me Now are two songs talking about very specifically the exact same thing. And it makes sense that they're not both on the album, that one's kind of excluded from the album a little bit because they're about the exact same moment in their lives. And they're just talking about it in a completely different way. That time that they turned invisible. Yeah, they actually got superpowers. And they walked into the women's locker room.

Yep. And they just went into a bank and stole all their money um so it was great and so what what was different the next night okay so so basically uh then the next night you couldn't go you had to go home and i had to go to cleveland which is cleveland right you don't you don't live in cleveland not anymore um laura wrote to us the next day and said so what did you think of the show was it Cleveland, right? You don't live in Cleveland? Not anymore. Laura wrote to us the next day and said, so what did you think of the show? Was it a C plus? She did? Yeah. Oh, she did that.

Oh, maybe she just wrote it to me. Does she like you more? I think so. I think we got something going on. As a matter of fact, I might leave Kulop for this. Really? Yeah. Scott.

I think I'm falling in love. Scott. What? You need to calm down think I'm falling in love. Scott. What? You need to calm down. I don't care. The heart wants what it wants. You need to think about this. I know that Kulop and I have 16 years together, but you know what?

I'm going to die at some point. I don't want to die with regrets. You're right. Laura, if you're listening, and I hope you are, I'm coming for you. You thought this was just a professional relationship you were wrong okay so the next night you couldn't go and this is the night that we have these great seats from vivid seats and then you like an hour before show write to me through our manager yeah and say hey can you find anyone to buy these tickets from me?

Because I had been trying all weekend to, they did five shows, so everyone that wanted a U2 ticket got a U2 ticket. So, it was hard to find

anyone that, who hadn't seen it already. Yeah, exactly. I went out to Andy Daly and he's like, oh, I had just seen it. And you didn't give me

any lead time on this and you wanted me to find someone to pay for them which was like i know you you ended up just giving them away no no no okay here's what happened so uh i said to our our mutual manager's assistant i said just you know leave him at the thing for me and i'll try to sell him right so i got him uh i went walking around the parking lot and looking for you know because there's a lot of guys you can tell are not fans who are going like extra tickets, extra tickets in there. And they're like constantly looking at the other people.

And so you can sort of see where the system is of the scalpers who are going to buy them supposedly and then jack them up another 200 bucks or whatever. So I was looking for real fans. Right. So I walked around the building a little bit and I saw these two kind of younger guys who seemed about like probably 25 or whatever. So I was looking for real fans. Right. So I walked around the building a little bit, and I saw these two kind of younger guys who seemed about like probably 25 or so. And they seemed like regular people. And they said, do you have any tickets? And I said, I do.

And they said, well, we're looking for like cheap tickets, just cheap tickets that are like, you know, not as good. Yeah. And I went uh well these are actually really good yeah um and how much did you pay for them like 350 a piece or something so i said i said something to the effect of like uh i'm gonna. My stupid friend made me come out here and sell these. Well, I said, I don't know. They're really good. Where is it?

Oh, I don't. I must have emailed it to you. But I said, they're really good tickets. I can't really take less than like 300 bucks for the pair. Yeah. And they said, I think we have 175 for the pair yeah and they said um i think we have 175 yeah yeah for the pair sold i was like it's getting to be showtime and i was like i and i said i'm sorry guys i just can't do it and they went well we might have 180 like and i and just my heart broke for him and i realized what the

fuck am i doing out here trying to sell your dumb tickets for you so i said you know what i don't care yeah just just give me? I don't care. Yeah, just give me $175. I don't even care about the extra $5. And then they start digging in their pockets going, no, no, I think we could go up to even like $195. I go, no, no, guys. I said, $175 is cool.

The deal is closed. The deal is closed. Buy yourself a beer or whatever. You're going to like these tickets. And then they went, but hold on. You're not like, these aren't fake tickets, are they? And I said, no, no, no, no. Actually, I'll be in there myself.

They're not that far away from me. I'll see you in there at the show. And then they looked at the location of the tickets and were like, whoa. And gave me the money, which I have to give to you at some point, although I don't believe I have it on me. Of course not. I was walking around with it for months in my wallet, and finally I just had to spend it. Yeah.

And then I went in there and I saw them. I went by the seats. And I went, hey, pretty good seats, right? And they went, dude, thank you so much. That's awesome. They were super nice about it. And then after the show, they actually came and found me again. And we're like, oh, my God, we can't believe how good this was.

They were really cool. It was really nice. That's great. So I felt like I'd done my good deed. You know, the night before the same thing happened, I was like trying to sell these tickets. And eventually, like, event. Because it was an event. Yeah, yeah. the same thing happened i was like trying to sell these tickets and eventually like event because it was an event yeah yeah it was a u2 concert i sold them for like i probably less than half of what i paid for them but it was just someone who was so psyched right to get these like decent seats

yeah yeah so it makes you feel good to give back like that. Yeah, not as good as breaking even, but pretty good. And did I not offer to pay for half of these tickets myself because you bought them for both of us? Yeah, I'm sure. I did offer and you said to go fuck myself. Yeah, which was a great move on my part. Are you not doing okay? I mean, Parks and Rec is over. Doing fine.

You're making these dumb independent films. Doing fine. All right, all right. All right, so then the next night, the set, pretty much the same. They played Electrico again, although I had heard they had played I Will Follow.

No, no, I heard they had played, what did they play? Out of Control? Out of Control, the previous nights. I would have liked to have seen Out of Control, but they didn't. So it's pretty much the same in the first half. Raised by Wolves, by the way, sounded awesome.

They come back with Invisible. Everything's pretty much the same, even better than the real thing. Oh, Mysterious Ways they played this night. They played that the first night. Did they? Okay. Okay, so then they go to the small stage and they play Angel of Harlem. Oh, that's great. That's awesome. Sounded awesome. They play When Love Comes to Town because B.B. King had just passed away. Okay, so then they go to the small stage and they play Angel of Harlem. Oh, that's awesome.

Sounded awesome. They play When Love Comes to Town because B.B. King had just passed away. Oh, wow. Every Breaking Wave acoustic. And then they go Bullet of the Blue Sky, Pride in the Name of Love, Beautiful Day. Then they go into, which they haven't played in a long time, All I Want is You. Oh, that's great. From the Reality Bites soundtrack.

Exactly. And that's how they introduced it. They said, is Ben Stiller out there? Janine Garofalo? No? All right, we'll play this anyway. This is for Ethan Hawke. Did the crowd go crazy for All I Want to Do?

Yeah, it sounded awesome. And I was telling you, this night was better than the previous night, I think. From song selection, how into it the crowd was. Maybe I was feeling that glow of being a humanitarian, giving these guys these great seats. Really patting yourself on the back for that one. For losing me money. You really felt great about that.

Then they go into With or Without You again to close it. They come back with City of Blinding Lights. It worked better with not this stupid dumb asshole kid. Apologies if you're listening, although why would you be? Where the Streets Have No Name. And then they close with, and I thought this actually worked better, 40. Oh, yeah. The classic 40.

That's a better closer. That's a better closer, I think. But other than – I still haven't found what I'm looking for. It was great. Yeah. But 40 just, I think, is a classic closer. Yeah. It was fantastic.

I was there with Neil Campbell. We had a good time, and the only knock on it was we had these amazing seats that were given to us, and the woman at the forum came by and said, oh, these seats come with, like, we're going to serve you food or whatever you want to order in these seats so you don't have to go get anything. I was just about to go get something. I was like, oh, these seats come with like, we're going to serve you food or whatever you want to order in these seats. So you don't have to go get anything. And I was just about to go get something. I was like, oh, great. I'll, you know, I only have like 10 minutes before the show starts. I'll just order here. Literally eight people came up to me, passed me. I, I, I grabbed them and said, can I order something? They said, we'll be right back. none of them came back and i finally grabbed one and i said i need to order with you before you leave or you will never come back and we ordered these sandwiches that never came that no they finally came but i was

just but this is in the middle of the second half already i was starving the entire concert are you gonna be okay i've eaten since oh you, you have? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, thank God. I had that one meal, and then I haven't been in the same situation. What kind of sandwich was it? It was an ice cream sandwich mixed with frozen ham. Oh. Yeah. That's the best.

Yeah, they're really, really good. So just a couple of great nights for me. Yeah, great shows. And great for me. The second night, I did not go. I remember that. I thought it was a great show. I'm going to try.

I really want to see the show again. What we should do, you and I. Because we saw it very early. The L.A. shows were just like a second or third stop. I would love to see it now. We should go see a show in some other city. Maybe we go to Madison Square Garden and check it out. That would be fun.

New York City, I mean. This is a big apple. The big, I mean, it's almost like a character in a Woody Allen film when you go there. Oh, man, it's like a character. You know Sex and the City? Of course, there's the four girls. Sure. You got Bonobos.

Fedge. Adam Clay, 2,000 pounds. Larry Mullen, senior son. You got those four girls there. The fifth girl, as far as I'm concerned, New York City. New York City, right there. So yeah, we should do that. That's going to happen at the end of the month. Maybe we record some there while we're in watching the show.

We should record some. there on the, like, while we're in watching the show, we shouldn't record. We were, we were, we were trying to keep a low profile because we didn't want anyone to necessarily know we were there. We saw a few fans and some people wearing

You Talking U2 to Me t-shirts actually. that's true. So that was nice. But, so maybe we go to Madison Square Garden, maybe not,

I don't know, but I'd like to go, you know, maybe we travel to Italy together to see these guys. That would be terrific. We just get a villa. Yeah.

Just lay around all day. Just tanning our butts. It was great to record another great ep with you, Scott. It really was. I think it's a triumph. How did it feel? Your first time? I think it's the best episode of anything.

Well, how did it feel meeting bono do you feel good yeah we accomplished something we didn't get him on the show it was it was a he didn't bring us any t-shirts it was a really fun uh night and it was a hilarious interaction i wouldn't have had it any other way no mean, he should be on the show, though. Yeah. But all the guys should be on the show. Yeah. But the way it happened was great. We should have recorded it.

I think you're right. Because we just talked about it, and it's not nearly as interesting as if we recorded it. But look, we're making progress. We're making strides. Whoever thought when we started this last year that we would even – Oh, my God. That this would happen. I know. It's an amazing night, and we have to thank these guys, Laura and Steve,

and then also Vivid Seats for getting us those other tickets. And what a – when I started out as a U2 fan as just a little boy, I never knew I would be a big boy. I thought I would die before I became a big boy. never knew i would be a big boy yeah i thought i would die before i became a big boy a big boy at a big boy concert all by myself without my parents certainly not did you ever think that you'd be a big boy at a big boy concert and you'd have a fine piece next to you like naomi and my side piece scott and my side piece jimmy parto but who knew if if you would have told me back when I was a little boy, just wanting to be a big boy

out there in Orange County, just watching my friends, U2 tribute band, going, you know what? In about 30 some odd years, you're going to meet those guys. Yeah. I would have said, you know what? Fuck you. That will never happen. Because I am going to make sure it doesn't happen.

Then I would have lived my life a totally different way. Yep. Yep. But fantastic night. Super fun. Thank you, Laura. Thank you, Laura. And thank you, Adam, for doing this with me.

Because if you weren't on this show, I doubt anyone would give a shit. That's not true. I don't know. But yeah. All right. Well, I have to go. So do I. I have't know. But, yeah. All right. Well, I have to go. Yeah, so do I. I have to go sooner than you.

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