When Reality Hits with Jax and Brittany - Tom Schwartz + VPR Season 11 Premiere!

Episode Date: February 1, 2024

Tom Schwartz returns to share his feelings about the premiere of Vanderpump Rules Season 11, the state of Schwartz & Sandy's, where he stands with ex-wife Katie Maloney, what Tom & Jax used to do to get by living in Los Angeles, Jax gives the latest in air travel news, AND MORE! Check out our great sponsors! Factor: Head to FactorMeals.com/realityhits50 and use code "realityhits50" to get 50% off your first box and 2 free wellness shots per box while subscription is active! Peloton: Get moving with a Peloton Bike or Bike+ rental at OnePeloton.com/bike/rentals 

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We have a special guest today. Brittany had to work, so I brought in my bestie, Mr. Tom. I'm sorry, Schwartz. He's here. And it's a big day for him. It's premier day for him. But we're not going to talk too much about that. We're going to get into some real stuff.

So how you doing? Jack's mother, Taylor, back where he belongs in his natural habitat on the cusp of being on television again where he belongs. That's right. How you feeling? I'm feeling great. I'm feeling great. Excited, excited for your premiere.

Not only that, I know you got a premiere party going on at sports and sandies tonight. Thanks. I got a premiere party going down the street at Jackson's. Why are you trying to poach my glory? I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

Hey, I'm just trying to make a block here. Everybody's got to eat. We all got to eat. Everybody's got to eat. Speaking of that, I know I've been talking to you and Tom and Tom. We got to do a bar crawl. We got to figure out something where it makes sense,

where the fans can go to all Lisa's places and then mine and kind of do some kind of thing where it's fun for everybody. We've been working on that actually behind the scenes I don't want to but we're working on a formal little problem. Okay let me know because I think that would be kind of fun. Yeah I do I got you. You get to go to each bar you get to sample different foods from each bar different drinks and you can just meet your favorite Bravo Labs or whatever you want to do I think there's something there. Yeah by the way give a shout out to Jackson's and Rocko Studio City.

We were there for the playoffs. You know, a great day if you're a chiefs fan or a 49ers fan for the rest of America. It was bad. A very sad day. I'm so sad, as you guys know, I am from Michigan. I'm from a suburb of Detroit. And yeah, we went pretty far.

I'm just happy for the city. The city of Detroit needed this. It was just so nice for the fans to come together. Everybody was so happy that we made it this far. We'll get them next year. Honestly huge W for the city I know all the local businesses, especially people in our work of a line of work benefited from that yeah, and It was a hell of a season, you know our version of Taylor Swift is Eminem and Eminem was there It was nice to see that. But yeah, unfortunately, we came out on the bottom of that one.

But it was just awesome to see Detroit, you know, just go that far. There's so many diehard fans in Detroit. Detroit showed up for Jackson Studio City. We did. And I think that was our busiest day ever. I mean, we were packed. And I just want to say thank you for everybody that's listening. That was showed up.

It was awesome. We had so much fun. On that note, before we move on, I want to say give a special shout out to everyone who came into Schwartz & Sandy's the last week. The energy was just undeniable. I heard it was really busy this last week. I don't know if something, it's like there's a revitalization process going on.

You know, we're revamping, we got a new sound system. DJs are coming in, working on some live music, new food and new drinks. Anyways. And you added TVs today new food, new drinks. Anyways. And you added TVs today. Yeah, we actually just added. Yeah, we'll never be a sports bar per se, but we have TVs now for the big games.

And you're adding a new DJ booth? Yeah. Awesome. Anyways. No, that's awesome. So hey, listen, it's Premier Day. I'm not gonna talk too much into that, but I just want to know.

No, we can talk. I just want to know, what is your Premier Day routine? Like, after this, I know we each got to get out here because we both got events at our bars, but what is your routine? Well, I wake up and our theme song, Raise Your Glass High by Dina Deedly, it's just haunts me from the moment I wake up.

It's like- Is that song kind of like the friend song? I'll leave it, she's token to that song. It's so good, but too much of a good thing can just destroy you and I met the writer by the way he came in he brought his wife into Schwartz and Sandys and I don't know if I don't want to put him on the spot but I'm gonna show me a giant rock on his finger he goes hey your theme song got me this rock it's a big beautiful diamond but he was very cool and yeah I, I wake up, I worked out.

I had a little session with my therapist, Cody from Peloton. Nice. I'm joking. Oh no. He's actually one of the instructors. I just like him. He's funny.

And I like to do Peloton. I got a tonal now. It sounds like we're plugging ads, but I'm really not. We all got tonals. I know. We all did that. We all went to that gifting suite. We all got tonals. You know I'll never forget how I acquired a really not. We all got tonals. I know. We all did that. We all went to that gifting suite. We all got tonals.

You know I'll never forget how I acquired a tonal. We went to the party. I know, but it was the day that Katie divorced me. Oh my God. Yeah. Oh, I'm sorry. It's okay. We don't need to get into that.

No, no, no, no. We're not getting into that. I mean, Katie, you're in great terms. I love her. I'm always rooting for her. Shout out to her new podcast. I love you always taking the high road. I wish I, I need to take a note with that.

That's one of the things I, well that's what, that kind of goes into my next kind of topic. Like everybody, everybody's cool with everybody right now. Everybody seemed to- I could say loosely everybody's cool right now. Oh sure. I wasn't, this year was weird for me because I'm not used to being an outcast.

You know me, I'm usually the one, I'm usually the one with the diplomacy who's trying to bring everyone together. Look for common ground, look for a resolution, look for solutions, you know, sometimes to a fault. And sometimes that can be interpreted as being spineless, as the girls say. Being compassionate and trying to give people

a little grace, a pass, understand where they're coming from. I do get frustrated at how that gets misconstrued as being spineless sometimes, but I know it's said with love. It's kind of a facetious thing at this point. It's not in your character to just create drama or be in drama, be involved in drama. You want nothing to do with that. So seeing you into that atmosphere, it drives you crazy. It's kind of like you feel awkward. You're in a place where you don't want to be. That's so funny because some people like yourself, I feel like you were born and raised to be on reality television. You know what I mean?

Yeah. The world's a better place when Jack Taylor's on TV. Let's be real. Me? This is a fluke. I did not belong. Although I think maybe that's one of my assets. I don't know. I'm a guy who on reality TV, this is our 11th assets. I don't know my guy who on reality TV This is our 11th season I don't know if I have any business being in this world, but I do love it and I love my cast members each and every All of them all of them right now. I'm on great terms with everybody. I that's what I was trying to listen You know, I haven't had a lot of contact with Ariana, but I got to say I got to give her a shout out kiss a little ass She just had a Broadway debut, Chicago, I think. Yeah, New York, right?

Yeah, and. How incredible is that to be in Broadway, New York? She's just crushing it. I gotta, everyone's kind of thriving right now. I mean, I'll be honest, the past two years, it got bleak for a little bit there for me. And I'm just talking about stuff going on in the show, but with my family.

That was, I was gonna dive into that in a minute, but just like opening, man, just, I'm gonna keep it positive today, but I gotta say, man, I was a basket case for a few years, but something in me has changed. I have a newfound sense of optimism and hope. And I think it's, I think a lot of it's just coming from more consistency and discipline and having habits,

you know? Routine. Routine, writing. It's important. Dude, I'm back to like journaling, writing things down. When you have like these nebulous, vague ambitions, it's just so much less likely to come true, you know what I mean? Right, I remember when you used to journal back in movie

at 551, I'd find all your books, you would always buy all these obscure books, not obscure just because the titles, I didn't understand any of them. But yeah, I would always flip through these books and you would write your notes and all that. You used to like, I don't see journal, but you would take notes on everything. You'd always have notes written down. So it's good to see that you're back doing that again.

I think for the first year, it was me, you and Tom, and I was in shock for the first year that I moved here. You know what I mean? I was shocked that I quit a good job with a lot of a lot of potential for promotion within great fringe benefits as like an account executive, but um, you know when I saw you you I was green behind the gills, wasn't I? Yeah, you were like, dude, what what is this here? You didn't know what to make of me. It's kind of fun though because I got to mold you a little bit because by that you weren't jaded but you had seen and done you knew your way around the business.

Right. You can pretty much call me worm. Yeah. Do you ever watch rounders? That is our exact dynamic. I'm worm. Yeah. Well, Josie Wales, he always doubles back for a friend. Always, always. If there's a corner to be cut, I'm gonna cut it. How many times have I doubled back for your ass? Literally bailed you out. 100% literally, figuratively, mentally, everywhere. I keep coming back for you because I love you. I love you too. Hey, not to harp on this, but your family, your brother, he's doing better. Dude, that's so nice to hear.

Just got out of surgery, right? Don't make me cry. That is so thoughtful of you to ask. Well, I know it was a hard time for you and I know you're going through a lot with that emotionally and it's not like they're just a hopscotch of a jump away. They're literally across America. They're in Florida. So, it was far.

Thank you, man. I really appreciate that. I got to say, my brother Robert, I don't know if he's gonna hear this or even knows what a podcast is. It's so funny because they're younger than me, but they're like dinosaurs when it comes to technology. They're just now embracing Facebook.

I'm like, what do, what do you know? It's almost like, I almost wish, it's kind of like bittersweet, you always want, but how nice is it to not understand that? And knowing that what we know now, how social media is, wouldn't it be nice to not know that for a minute? To not have your life be involved with social media?

Imagine that for a second. I know, because it's such a powerful tool. It is. And it can be, and you know, if you monetize it, and you're smart with it, you're savvy, you can make a lot of money, and you can foster a really strong community. Me, I haven't done a great job with it lately. I think I fell out of social media.

I fell in love with social media around like 2019, late 2019, but I think we're talking again. I think I'm rekindling my love and appreciation for social media. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you're not odd in as much as you could be. And I think that's probably more of a thing that you just want to stay away from it because you don't want to read into it too much.

But you're not odd in a lot, are you? I mean, do you grace through it daily? Like how long? Okay, what was the word I'm trying to say? How much do you think you're on it per day? Do I mind the scroll? Yeah. God damn it, I do. More than I want to, dude, I'm like,

for a while there, I'm ashamed to admit this. My average screen time was like around eight, sometimes nine hours, much to my chagrin. But dude, I'm usually down to around like five or six and a lot of it's, you know, I'm actually doing something like I'm making, I'm working on merch. Right. Yeah, you're always working on merch, dude. You're, you're, that's one thing you are good at. You're really, really good at it. I took a breather.

You getting back into it? Because I need, I need some help with that. I mean, I just, I need some new ideas. Well, you're, you're, you're hat's simple, but I love the way it fits. It's a perfect fitting hat. I don't know who made those. I gotta, anyways, this is boring. Ah, Kinetics. Kinetics. They're a clothing line in downtown LA. They're awesome. I use them for everything.

Their hoodies are amazing. But it's a, I'm a basic bar. I don't want too much frill. I don't like too busy. I just want to say what it is. No, that wasn't a slight in any way. It's a beautiful, simple hat. I rock your Jacks' hat all the time.

And I appreciate that. Hey, I saw Katie now has a podcast. Yeah. How do you feel about that? I think, first of all, I'm very happy for her. And I think her and Dana have a great chemistry, a solid rapport, and they're kind of snarky and very sardonic. And you know, I think it's going to be a success.

No idea what that word means, sardonic. I used to write those words down in my journal when I lived with you. What does that word mean? It just means like sarcastic or kind of like seetchus. It just means like, I guess like an edgy sarcasm. Well, all right, but are you gonna go on it? Oh, I never thought about it.

Do you think Katie would ask you on it? Would you go on it? No. Well, you didn't hesitate. No. Do you think Katie would ask you on it? Would you go on it? No. Whoa, you didn't hesitate. No. Have you talked to Katie? Have you talked to Katie? I haven't.

I don't really, and there's nothing negative there. I just really have nothing to say. Yeah. Well, me and Katie are cordial. Yeah, we, I think it's gonna be really, okay. Prepare yourself for the stock PR statement. I think it's gonna be really fun for viewers to see how Katie and I's post-divorce relationship

has evolved. You know what I mean? I don't appreciate the little digs that she gives. She gives a lot of backhanded digs. That's kind of like, and then you go on top and you just kill it with kindness. You're just kind of like, well, that's okay. I understand. It's kind of like, that's got it, man.

I wish I had that in me to like, if someone said something to me and this is not me, because I'll go back and I'll hit below the belt. But you you just like you can just take it with like a grain of salt, you know like I don't I know This is an old thing Which he said that you look like a couch or something. Oh that was that stick stuck with me I'm like how can you say something that was the sweetest thing she said? Dresses well, I'm not trying to do a dig at her, but come on. It's not like you are a fashion icon I think Katie's getting she's aware she gets roasted alive on the internet for her fashion takes. Well, I just think, I just think,

just take the high road, you're a grown ass woman. That was, no, that was facetious, that was like, but like, no, I do sometimes see, she takes like these little, these little snide, like chips away at me sometimes, or takes like a backhanded compliment here and there, but honestly, I don't know, man, it doesn't really get to me that much. We'll get we'll get out of that. It's okay No, no, we can talk about that, but no, I'm hype for and she's got a lot of good things going on and

It's it's nice to be on good terms with Katie. We have some We have some really weird Situations that we've worked through this season. I think it's gonna be fun for people to watch. Oh really? Yeah. You two kind of. Yeah, dude, it's a good season. I don't supposed to be promoting Vanderpump Rules.

Yeah, I'm on it. Are you excited? Are you happy about it? Are you excited? I'm stoked about it, but at the same time, I've been a little nervous about over exposure. Right. Hyper saturation or like, dude, it's like,

it was a fucking sensation this year and I think it's gonna be a killer season but sometimes I worry about overexposure. Is it safe to say that we're kind of, we can stop talking about the word? You know what of all? I don't even wanna say it anymore. Don't say it.

I don't, I'm not even saying it. When I hear it, I feel like it's a- My mind goes numb, everyone's moved on. Well, almost everyone. We've all moved on, right? Almost everyone. I think so and- There's some people that are still living in the past. But I mean, Everyone's moved on. Well, almost everyone's moved on. Almost everyone. And some people that are still living in the past. But I mean, I even moved on.

I like, hey, Tom's been in my bar doing karaoke like crazy. And I love it. You all gotta move on. You didn't kill anybody. Okay, life's short. You move on, you make mistakes, and that's it. It's been a year. It's time to stop talking about it.

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What are we doing sitting here doing a podcast all these years later? We should have. Sorry, man. I don't mean to not answer your question, but I just was looking into your eyes and I'm thinking about the time where we spent two days scrounging,

selling things in pawn shops, scrounging up every dollar we had so we could get a new computer screen so I could continue submitting you on modeling jobs. Oh my gosh. Let's tell the story. So I had an iPod shuffle that I got for my birthday and Tom and I were down to our last down. I don't even think we had a dollar. I might have had, I might have had $230 in my account if I had a good day.

We spent, so we had to shuffle and we really, really needed a new computer. Oh no, I had the, I had the computer, I had the brain. Yes. We needed, we broke my computer screen. I think in a fit of rage, by the way, I never spaz out, but I think I had a really bad run on computer online poker with money I couldn't afford to lose one day. And I just lost it. There may have been some alcohol involved, but then it was, it was just a little crack, but we needed a new one. We needed a new one. And we literally took, and I say all day, not stretching the truth, we were going back

and forth. Mind you, this is an iPod shuffle. This is something that was probably $60 at the time, maybe. And we went to a pawn shop to look for a PC screen. It took all day. Just so Tom could submit me on model, was it model mayhem? Model mayhem? Well, LA casting.

LA casting, model mayhem. Let's not forget old faithful, Craigslist. Oh, Craigslist. Yeah, so Tom would submit me for jobs and then whatever jobs I give him, I would give him a cut of it. You'd give me 10, sometimes 10, sometimes 20%. Yeah, whatever it is it got.

Because you and Tom, I don't think people realize that you guys actually had a pretty successful modeling career, but there was a time when I met you guys, you guys were slumping. Yeah, towards the end. We just didn't want to do it anymore. And it was like, mind you too, in the modeling industry,

there's no union, you're not protected. So if you do a job for X amount of dollars, they can take a year to pay. They don't have to pay right away. So you're like literally, yeah, you could be working a lot, but they're not paying you. By the time they do pay you, you're so behind on your bills, it's kind of like, it was just so annoying.

So these Craigslist jobs and these Model Hain, Mayhem jobs that Tom would get me, just through him, they would pay you that day. So it was just kind of like, so like a normal job through my agency would pay, just for instance, I'm just giving you a number, say $2,000. I would do the job for a thousand cash,

knowing that I would get paid that day, and it was worth 2,000 to me, if it makes sense to you. Yeah, and by the way, for the uninitiated, like trust me, $2,000 is a lot of money. You know, when you're... It's like people are thinking, dude, what are you complaining about? There's days where you make $2,000 in one day. Dude, you get the check two months later. First of all, 20% off the top. Sometimes there's an extra manager fee. So maybe it's 30%. Also, the agents, the taxes and the agents take the like they take on maintenance fees, right? Yeah, they take digital housekeeping fees all kinds of BS. It sounds awesome, but dude, it's like it's not it's tough Unless you're a big time model. It's absolutely brutal. I had this conversation. I'm gonna cut you off

I had this conversation with I think the last week There's probably a handful of male models in this world that were super, super successful. The Tyson Beckfords, the Marcus Schenkenbergs, like those guys, there's a couple guys that have made it, but no, for the most part, men, there's no super model man, really. It's streaky, you can have a killer,

you can have a run for like two, three years that you make, you know, you're making six figures, maybe up there in seven, I don't know, but dude. It was a tough run, but we got by, we got by. We got by. And I gotta gotta tell you it was some of the funnest times in my life when I was living with Tom and Tom Yes, we had no money But those are the times it was fun because we just didn't care and we didn't really have a pride or an ego We just didn't care we never said no. We need yeah, we never we took any job we could get and man We really went through it together. That. You and Tom really took me under

your wings. You guys helped me get legit agents. You helped me get a good modeling agency, commercial acting agencies and you guys took me on some of my first castings. I'll never forget Jax. I'll never forget we went on a high end modeling casting. When you were with LA Models you know what I'm saying. I know you're going to bring up. Dude, Jax wanted to kill me. So he took me out. I think this is one of your first auditions. Yeah, and it was downtown, man.

So it was a food, I think it was for. Fashion week. It was for fashion week. And I'm in there, I'm like, oh my God, these are legit models. And I'm sweating, my hands are clammy because I have one corny ass headshot. Headshot, mind you.

And we go in there, you know, Jack goes ahead of me. I go in there, I do like a little walk. He asked me about like my modeling career. And I'm like, you know, Jack goes ahead of me. I go in there, I do like a little walk. He asked me about like my modeling career. And I'm like, you know, I've never really done any modeling. I'm more of an actor. And Jack's was an ear shot. And then he didn't say anything. And as we're walking out, you're like,

what the fuck are you doing to me, man? So I grew up, you grew up when you do, when you come out to LA and you do the acting, the model thing, you say you do it all. And then you know what? When you get the job, you figure it out afterwards. Do you fly plane? Hell yes.

Can you ride a horse? 100%. Can you drive stick shift? Sure. You say it all. And then if you get the job, then you can panic. Yes. But you lie to their face.

And in those days, they couldn't fact check you. There was no Google. There was no, you know, you can tell them whatever you want and they believed it. So the funniest part is I had zero acting credits or experience at the time, but I'm like, yeah, more of an actor. I was just reading Stanislavski on the way here. Yeah, no, but I guess I could rock down the runway for you if the price is right. And then the casting director is like, thanks for penciling us in, dude.

I don't think people realize, I don't know if they care either, how hard we grind it, dude. I would sometimes wake up five in the morning, drop food off for love catering. Then I would hit three to four auditions a day, commercial acting, modeling, then I'd pick the food up at the end of the day. Then we would go bartend. So I would literally be working all day, all night, grinding it out and still barely getting by with the exception of the occasional

commercial where you're to give us temporary financial relief, you know, 10K, 5K. But then again, the same thing. We were so behind on credit cards and everything else in life, student loans, whatever it may be. Yeah. If you got a big check, it was nice, but in hindsight, we had so many bills because we're so behind that it was just kind of like a, it was a quick, yes, you're excited because you're working, but at the end of the day, you're like, damn, I've never had a game. Like you never had like a bank account. Yeah. You know what we used to do, which is cruel and unusual in hindsight, Jackson, remember back in the day, we would, when we would get overdraft fees, overdraft statements, we would

staple it to the wall and shame each other. Dude, Bank of America loves sending me overdraft fees. Man. Oh my God. Dude. They knew me by name and they're like, how you back again? And then we would cash, then we would cash, and then Tom and I knew we had overdrafts,

like we knew we wouldn't cash our checks. So we would go to Western Union to cash our checks. That was a Jack's Taylor signature move. Cause I'm like, I'm not gonna go to Bank of America. They're gonna take money out of my account. So I'm just gonna go to Western Union and cash this, so freaking depressing. Yeah. It was so depressing.

But it was honestly, it was the best of times and it was the worst of times. And I wouldn't trade it for the world. I know it's horrible and I don't wanna romanticize. We were in a, I think we were almost at poverty level or below and I gotta say, man, I don't wanna romanticize that but it was some of the best times of my life. Just being in LA, finally taking that leap of faith.

If you're listening to this and you've been on the fence, don't wait till it's too late. And you're like, man, what if I would have taken that shot? And I'm not just saying that I'm on a reality show. I don't by no means have I made it. But if you're thinking about it and there's something inside of your heart that tells you, I want to pursue the arts, I wanna be a musician, an actor, a YouTuber, an influencer, just fucking do it. Just fucking do it.

If it doesn't work out, you can go back to your other job. I don't think necessarily you have to move to California anymore. No, not anymore. And if you are, again, Tom and I were talking about this on the way here, literally save your money. Save it, because I tell you what, as soon as you cross that border

to California, they got you. They got you. They got you by the balls. It's so hard to save money here. I mean, you literally, and when I say you have to have your hand in five or six different pockets, you really, really do. You gotta diversify.

You gotta hustle here. I mean, especially if you want a family, if you buy a home, I mean, they really, really get you here. So yeah, you definitely come here if you have the dream, but if you can do it at your parents' house, or if you can do home, I mean, they really, really get you here. So yeah, you definitely come here if you have the dream, but if you can do it at your parents' house or if you can do it in middle America somehow, some way with obviously technology is so different now. I feel like people can make it kind of wherever they are now.

You don't necessarily need to be here for auditions anymore. Yeah. Do it there. But like I said, if you do come here, the best advice I can give you is do your research. Do your research. Find out who made the mistakes before you, save your money, and be careful who

you trust because everybody's out here is trying to climb to the top. But yeah, that's all I got to say about that. But let's get back to... Hey, we're going to Montreal. Oh, we're going to Montreal. We're going to a place called Pangea, right? Is that the name of the place? Panjia? I don't know. I think it's called Panjia. But I mean, she come hang out with us. We're doing an appearance in Montreal. We're back to appearance mode.

Oh my God. It's been a while since you and I had been on appearance mode. Tom and I used to get nuts. We're no spring chickens, but no. We used to have a lot of fun on appearance mode back when Vanderpump was started. We went on these just, these runs. And when I say runs, we would go to Vegas. We'd go to Texas.

We'd go to Florida. We'd go to Ohio, we go to Texas, we go to Florida, we go to Ohio, Michigan, any state that would really have us, really, and we would just go have a lot of fun and get drunk and just make bad decisions. I think we've grown up, we've matured, you got a kid now, you got a family, we're business owners. By the way, how has being a new bar owner been?

I know it's, if if if not handled with Finesse and balance it can be detrimental to not only your personal life, but your love life It can just wreak havoc because that's the late hours you end up drink inevitably drinking a little more than you usually would yeah That's the problem it honestly and people are always buying you drinks and you feel bad if you don't do it And I have it now down to where my bartenders like give me water Give me water like do a shot of water, but then they start smelling they smell it Yeah, they'll give you the smell check and if they're on their honeymoon if they've come all the way from Australia I feel terrible and I'm like, you know what my liver can handle one more. Also. I only do that's why I implemented half shots

I'm down to quarter shots now Yeah, you should offer that on the menu like do quarter shots. Well, I have it Oh, this is gonna be at Jackson's too, but we have a signature shot that's off the menu. It's the Schwartzi. Do you know what that is? Oh, I'm going to offer that at Jackson's. Okay.

I'll get, it's Tom's Good Love and Whiskey. That's our house whiskey. And you get one of my, this is a company I invest in. Passion, passion tree seltzer. They're freaking amazing. You get it. So you get a mini seltzer, a half shot and you get a dollar scratch off. What?

The Schwartzi baby. That's a great. 12 bucks. I think The Schwartzy, baby. That's great. 12 bucks. I think I'm gonna, I gotta get some Tom's Good Loving from my bar. Oh. So I can have, I want, what I wanna do is I wanna have a drink from Sir, I wanna have a drink from Tom Tom, I wanna have a drink from Schwartz and Sandy's. And that way when we do our Vanderkrawl, you can go to each place and you can try different

people's drinks. So if that way, if people get a chance to go to your bar, not mine, they can try something from my bar and you know, or get merch vice versa. Yes, we're gonna cross pollinate, cross promote. I think it's a good idea. You know, Tom's Good Loving's whiskey is, it's good and all, but you know what? I'm really been craving lately. What's that? Some Jack's Motor Boat and Rum. That's such an obscure reference for the deep hardcore Vanderpump rules fans. Google it. I'm just making sure that I'm getting this right. Oh, here we go. We are, Tom and I are going to, here we are, I'm just making sure that I'm getting this right. Oh, here we go.

We are, Tom and I are going to, here we are, I'm looking at right now. It's called Panjia. Just guys, let you guys know. We are going Saturday, February, what is that? 17th. Sorry, I couldn't read that. February 17th, Tom and I will be at Panjia. That is in Montreal, sponsored by Heineken and 818.

We're going to have some good time there. We're super excited. This is our second time to Montreal. We had a great time our first time. I love Montreal. It's beautiful. It feels kind of European. The historic...

Steep to cobblestone streets. It's just f***ing... It's such a cool city, man. What was that? Main Street or Don... What was the name? It was like old churches and stuff. Yeah.

The beautiful... The cathedral. Gothic architecture and just... I'm a sucker for cobblestone and the food and the drinks I mean they go over the top in Montreal, Canada's just got some amazing people. They're just such good people there We had so much fun. We may or may not have hit a strip club The thing about strip clubs there. It's not as like crass or like Soft morick or whatever whatever the word is it's not like it's Fred. It's more it's like it's for normalized there

Yeah, it's more mainstream right right, it's not like it's fried. It's more, it's like a, it's more normalized there. Yeah. It's more mainstream. Right. Right. It's not like you go, not that there's anything wrong with going to strip clubs. Anyways, no, so we're getting off subject. Sorry about this. So guys, say if you live in Montreal, save the date, February 17th, and we will be there at Pangea. I think it's almost sold out to be honest. It's, it's doing really well. Starting Starting is everything when it comes to fitness. So lately we've been going on our Peloton a lot. Obviously it's right after the holidays and the fact that it's right down the hallway just makes everything so easy. Plus with the amazing trainers,

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My next thing I wanted to talk about was, we're gonna get into a little bit of news here, is the far, the only reason I'm saying this is because I was booted off a plane. The farting on the plane. Did you hear about this? A plane had to go back. Steve, fix me, am I saying this right?

The plane had to return back to the terminal because somebody had such bad gas. This is correct. This is on people.com or the magazine and the airlines. This is on American Airlines. The flight had to turn around. How far were they from the actual terminal? Because when they kicked me off the plane,

I want to say we were about 50 yards from the plane. Have you been candid about what happened? Have you told your listeners? Yeah, told everything. Can you break it down? Give me like the 30 second. Okay, so I was on JetBlue Mint, which we love. I still love JetBlue very much. The best first class in the biz.

Thank you. Forget about it. Forget about it. You know, it was six in the morning, okay? And I'm not complaining, but it was six in the morning. My seat only reclined. It didn't go back up, right? So they're like, sir, you need to, I go, it's not working. I don't know what you want me to do. It's not reclining. I go, they're like, you, you need to, I go, it's not working. I don't know what you want me to do. I, it's not reclining. I go, they're like, you're going to have to go back to coach. I go, well, I paid $3,000 to sit here and I, it's a six, it's a five hour flight and I got a child that I got to take care of all day. I go, I can't sit coach.

I'm sorry. And they're like, well, sir, then you're going to, we're going to have to bring the plane back. I go because of the plane was, the seat was reclined the whole way and they made it out to be like, I was fussy and I didn't want to move my seat, but I'm sorry, you're dropping 3000, maybe 3000 and change on a seat for jet blue mint. Yeah. I want to sit that. It's a five hour flight. It's a lot of money. So that was the reason. So they had to return on, but they made it to be, I didn't make any commotion or anything.

Did you do a fit? No, no, no, no, no. I walked off the plane and I just said, listen, I need to, you need to rebook me. But this situation is a little different. This guy had a full-on fart No, it sounds like he he had used gaseous. Okay, so So did somebody complain Steve? Do the it must have been a horrid gas. It must have been medicine farts Oh, there's a quote on here We all breathed a sigh of relief when he was removed a witness to the gaseous passenger wrote on reddit apparently he aggressively and continuously acted

in such a way that it was egregious. Dettromental, egregiously detrimental, Tom, to everyone's well-being. I'm seeing more of these stories, and I don't know if it's because I hang out with Jack Taylor and my phone listens to him or not. It's a hotly contested subject,

because me and I, like Jackax, it's common courtesy. You don't fart on a plane. There are exceptions, maybe. What if you have a sore stomach? Okay, that's okay. It depends. You got to maybe let one out and if it smells bad, no more. Okay.

And what I do is I go to the bathroom and always buy, let's shout out Pooperie right now. You've saved so many flights for me. You're their biggest endorser. I know. If Pooperie, give this guy some money. I've not sponsored ship yet. Yeah, you need to be the full sponsor for poopery.

But it's a poop with confidence. You get a little poopery or something like that. You go in there, maybe you fart, hang out for a little bit, little how's your father? I don't even know what that means. Saw it in Austin Powers. Let me ask you this. So this gets into my next thing. I'm like, I, maybe when I was younger, I would, but at my age now I'm not holding it apart. I'm not, I'm sorry, I'm not holding one in. Okay, all right, hold on.

I'm not gonna get a sore stomach because I don't wanna upset somebody. First of all, me and you, we're not always flying first class, let's be honest. Let's say your row, your seat 32E, we're flying to Dallas. And you know. Spirit Airlines.

It's a packed flight. You're 32E, you're in middle seat, you're farting. First of all, I will never, never, ever be in a middle seat, ever. Okay. I will cancel my job. So if I am farting, if I'm in the aisle or the window, yeah, I'm sorry.

Like dude, if your stomach hurts, dude, I'm not gonna be like, oh, I better hold it in so the guy behind me, I'm sorry, I'm just not gonna hold it in. It's funny you say that because, so like a lot of my friends that are in the business and they're like, yeah, dude, no one's, my friends aren't bougie, but they're like I got a thing like I might What are they? How do they say it my?

My my protocol is if I'm in first class, and I'm paying a lot of money. I'm gonna let the farts fly You know, but often coach and you know, I'm smushed between two other people. I'm gonna be respectful. You know what I mean What do you think about that? We're gonna move on from this but hey listen, I'm not saying that I'm ripping farts the whole time It's just like it'll be like one big fart and then I'll let it go. I think that's fine. We'll move on from this But I'm sorry. I'm not holding on to a fart. I'm not well also that you know what they say Never trust a fart Guess what happened to me today?

I got jury duty. Damn. I got jury duty. Have you gotten jury duty yet? Jury duty. Have you gotten any? I'm gonna knock on what I haven't got jury duty yet. Let me ask you this.

You're rolling up, right? You're in some big trouble. You're going to court. You see Jack Taylor. That's one of the jurors. Oh my God. What do you do? Do you just say, just send me to jail now?

Just handcuff me now. It's over. Jury duty, man. I was like, you know, if I didn't have a child, a business, couple of TV shows, a podcast, and all this stuff going on, child, like my kids keep, I'm like a basic as chauffeur right now. My kids got so many things going on.

Plus I'm just trying to have a life. I wouldn't mind doing jury duty. Hold on, You just prompted an interesting question because now, dude, you are a family man. You're married, you got the kid. Now that you're going back into this strange, bizarre world, do you have any apprehensions about being on reality television? Again, you know the pitfalls

that come in this business. You have to radically expose every aspect of your life. You don't have to, but it's like an unspoken bond or handshake you make with your executive producers. How you feeling about that? You know, obviously I've been off TV for a couple years now and the world that has left us now, there's a new Jax Taylor, let's just say that.

It's a new Jax Taylor. And I definitely had to keep it in the back of my head about how I acted and everything like that. And yeah, of course, I'm a father now. And you know what? Obviously, because the internet, Vanderpump rules is never gonna die. My kid's gonna look up one day,

he's gonna watch this one day. And the only thing I can say is, if I was before you and I was a kid and I was an idiot. But- I thought you were gonna say you're welcome. Yeah, that too, you're welcome. Well, let's see all your toys, you're welcome. It's like, you've, I mean,

but dude, you're no stranger to being vilified. You've been called an asshole. I've called every name in the book. Every name in the book, but it's like, how do you do it now with a child is what you're asking? You shoot first, ask questions later. I do. I feel like, I feel like.

That's also what gives good TV. You're, you know, that's saying, like a wolf in chief's clothing. I'm a hundred percent a wolf. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, You're very f**king reactive. I'm not trying to come down on you. You're just one of the most reactive people. It's okay, you're my friend. You're a lobster. I love you. This is said with love, but I've noticed a change. You're not as reactive anymore. I see you take a moment, take a breath.

Or am I wrong? No, you're 100% right. And I have to think, obviously, Brittany on that, I have to think my son. Having a kid, you have to think twice. And that was my problem. I never thought twice. I just did. And then, I think, I'm Brittany on that, I have to think my son. Having a kid, you have to think twice. And that was my problem.

I never thought twice. I just did. And then, you know what, there's, and then I'm like, oh, I'm sorry. But having a kid now, you definitely think twice about what you do. And again, he has to live with the fact that Jack Taylor's his dad.

So I can only go from here on out and be a good person from here on out. I can't change the past. And even though if I want to, I don't know if I've changed the full past. I mean, there's a couple things I would change, but more or less, I mean, I wouldn't have what I have today if I didn't do the things that I did. So I feel like everything, you know, played its part to why we're here. You know, there's some different paths that I wish I would have took that I didn't, but you know what, it led me to the person that I am today.

And I feel like I've grown a lot. I feel like not being on Vanderpump Rules for the last couple years was definitely great for me. I needed that, I needed to clear my head. I look at the silver lining. I definitely went into a hole for a while because I was like, you know what? My life was just all this and then all of a sudden,

it stopped and I was like, in the beginning, I said this before, I was ecstatic. I didn't want to be part of it anymore. But then when it's set in, when the reality, no pun intended, set in, I was like, now what am I gonna do? And then instead of being a victim and pouting, I said, you know what, I'm gonna create a show.

I'm gonna create a show. I called Alex Baskin, I go, I have an idea. Meet me at a hotel, it was a rainy, cold day, I've explained this, but said this before. I have a show idea. And to be honest, what I wanted to do is be a producer and create shows. I thought, I just wanted to develop the show

and maybe pitch it to other people. But then when Alastair's talking to me, he's like, you need to be in the show. This is for you. And I thought, okay, we're gonna do this a different way this time. This is gonna be kind of a newer version. People like to see growth.

They wanna see where we've been and what we've gone through. So yeah, so I'm excited about the new show. I obviously it's announced, we can talk about it now. The Valley, we're very excited about it. By the way, I don't know if you're listening, well your listeners are probably my listeners. There's a lot of cross-pollination,

but I know I'm friends with everyone on your cast. You are. And these are all solid people. I mean, you know, I've known them for a long time. I think you guys have great chemistry. I think it's gonna be a hit, man. Yeah, I don't know if I'm allowed to say this or not, but I think I saw Alex say it. So we do have crossovers. There's people from Vanderpump coming on the valley. There's people

from Valley going on Vanderpump. So just a little cross ball in it. Nothing crazy. Nothing crazy, but it's, it's, it's, you kind of have to, because we are all friends regardless of what everybody thinks. We are all friends. We all hang out whether you're on the valley or on Vanderpump. We're all friends. Whether you're filming or not filming, although with Vanderpump, obviously, there's never been a chasm like there was this year within the group. You know, I think everyone knows that now and you see how we try and, well, I try and rehabilitate that and bring everybody back together, I guess, this year. But anyways,

yeah man, we're, this is like, it's, we're all real deal friends, man. I always have to remind people. I do. I know. People just think we're like, is that real? Yeah, and I think that's, again, that's why VaynerPump rules, and you'll see the value, will be so successful because we are not casted people. This is not like, all right, we like Tommy, Susie looks good, we can have Susie hook up with this. That's not what we do, and I think that's so transparent.

That can work sometimes too. Like some of the housewives, they weren't besties before, but the shows are phenomenal. Because they all are bred from the same cloth Yeah, so it works for them. It's not like they're just trying to play characters. They're all those characters. They're just put into that group Wait, Jack Taylor My dear friend. I've known but do you watch other shows on Bravo? No, you don't I've been getting into housewives of Salt Lake City No, and I've been watching um housewives of Beverly Hills recently. Dude, I totally get its appeal.

You want to watch something that'll really tug at your heart? Yeah. You watch Love on the Spectrum. Oh, it's killer. Oh, my God. Love, love, love on the Spectrum. Katie got me in that. I am obsessed.

Yeah. And I love every single one of them. And I just, I'm like, they see the world. So like, I'm getting emotional right now. Like I watched the last episode I wanna spoil it when they were start singing the Lion King song and like he took his girlfriend to Africa and then the older guy, I love the older guy.

Remind me, he's just such a sweet guy. Like everybody is so like, I literally just like, God, I just wanna live in their head. I wanna, they just see the world. God, I'm sorry, I'm getting choked up, just thinking about it. Yeah. But it's just, if you haven't seen

love on the spectrum, wait, am I saying it right? Love on the spectrum? Yeah. Watch it. And then also I think it's down with love. That's another one too. But they're so, you watch those and you'll just, you just want to, I don't know.

It just, it makes you feel so, what's the word? It's a feel good show. What's the word? I need one of your big words. It's uplifting. It's um, You just feel good about yourself. And you just? I need one of your big words. It's uplifting. You just feel good about yourself. You just want to, I just want to be friends with all of them.

I really, really do. They're all such great people and great human beings. And I hope, I mean, they're just amazing people. Anyway, I'm choked up. Whoa, look at you. I think having a kid made your heart grow by. Oh, it's one of the sweetest shows ever. How many sizes did the Grinch's heart grow by?

Three times. Three times, Jacks. I think his is around three or four. It's my favorite show. And I also just watched Griselda last night. I binged it. Holy hell, that woman was nuts. Oh, I don't know. Griselda.

Oh, is that Sophia Vargara? She's a beauty. I tell you what, if you've watched any documentaries on Pablo Escobar, Pablo Escobar said, the only man he was ever afraid of in life was Griselda. Wow. So that just goes to show you something. You guys got to watch that show too. Should we do a poll like they do when Watch What Happens Live? How many of you are excited to see Jack's Taylor back?

Oh, that's right. Let me talk about that. I forgot to mention that. Yeah, I guess we can all talk about that now, that I am back on not only the Valley, but I will be on Vanderpump Rules as well. I'm super excited to be back. I think the world, like I said before, the world needs Jack's Taylor MTV. Dude, you're where you belong. I am where I belong. It's good to be back.

You're good at what you do, amongst other things. You and I have some great scenes together. We do, we had some fun this season. Yeah, it was fun. We had some explosive, not me and you, but you and some other people had some explosive moments that we won't talk about. I had some stuff that I was just carrying around for a long time, and then I needed to get off my

shoulder, but I did, and I was happy with what I said. And yeah, but I'm excited to be back. I think the audience is going to really, really appreciate both shows. I really think they're going to see some growth. There's a lot of, I can't believe, I can't get over the amount of drama that's happening on the Valley after the fact Cuz we're we are done filming. Yeah now. There's so much crap going on I'm witnessing it in real time and some of the group chats unbelievable unbelievable some of the stuff is happening I'm shocked that they don't have the cameras back up like they did with you guys because the stuff that's happening on our show right now is It's I didn't think that was gonna happen

That wasn't my intention my intention was to show everybody on the next stage of their lives And I feel like everyone's diving back into our old ways. Not everyone. Certain people are diving back into the old ways. And I just was like, that's not why I created the valley. I created the valley to see where we're going now, to see the growth. Are we gonna see glimpses of the old Jacks?

Be honest. I mean, I tell you what, they're never gonna be able to get rid of him. I know, I know. He's there. I have to work my ass off. Like I said, I I tell you what I'm never gonna be able to get rid of I know I know he's there I have to work my ass off like I said I have to read I have to read what it says on my arm for my dad make good Choices I have to read that every day. It's hard for me. It is I have to make the good choice Take the good with the bad when your friends at Jack's because because like I I'm like worm man I'm you know, I'm if there's an easy way out if you can cut a corner. I'm gonna do it

By the way, if you've never seen Rounders watch it. Watch Rounders. It's the greatest poker movie of all time and just objectively a killer movie with an unbelievable soundtrack. Oh yes. Yeah man. Yeah yeah yeah. What else? So what are you doing special for your bar tonight? Is there something that you know? We got a watch party. Right. Watch party tonight. We're gonna do a special event something romantic for Valentine's Day. Oh you are nice. We're gonna have a a special event, something romantic for Valentine's Day. Oh, you are. Nice. We're going to have a prefix dinner, and then up after 10, we're going to lean into like

the single life. You know, if you have a bid or X, somebody that just drove you crazy, you come by, we'll have some specialty shots, we'll have a DJ. Oh, nice. It's going to be a good vibe. If you guys haven't been there, the food is absolutely amazing. Thanks, dude. I love the food.

You guys always take such great care of me there, and your bartenders are super super nice. Everybody's super. Everybody's just fun. It's a beautiful establishment. If I had one complaint about it, it's the location. That's just because I live in the valley and I hate going over the hill. But other than that, your place is awesome. I'm a hermit man. I don't ever want to leave my apartment anymore. It's tough. It's like jet setting around the world. Plus it's just like as soon as you look at your social media, as soon as you look at the news, it's just depressing. There's always something negative going on, you know? And it's just tough to be happy. When you wanna be informed, know what's going on in the world,

but you can, you know, in moderation, take breaks. Like you don't need to know everything. I think everyone knows this by now. Like you don't need to know everything that's going on in the world. You don't have to be up to date on every show, every headline. I think you know what?

To 2024 is the year of... Yeah. Chill. Chill. Yeah. Maybe I... How about just some less... Wait, wait, wait. Why don't you go back to that? That was one of your first generation one Tom Schwartz merch, wasn't it? Officially chilling. You should go back to that. Bring it back. Your cloak of all things chill. Yes. Is it weight... That was a good little stick. You're waiting to let the world know that you're taking it easy. You should say 2024, the year of chill and then. That was a good little stick. You're waiting to let the world know that you're taking it easy. You should say 2024, the year of chill

and then do your ice cream logo. You were to hear first, right? Yeah. I think that's a good idea. What are you doing for, are you guys doing anything for Valentine's Day? Man, I gotta do something big. I gotta do something big.

I've been slacking in the romance department again. And it's just, it's so hard when you have a kid, you got your shows, you got podcasts, you got, and like I said, my kid just takes a lot of my time, that sometimes I put my relationship on the back burner and it's tough, we all do it, the bar doesn't make it easier, and I'm not saying I'm going on to get drunk, but I feel like an obligation that I have to be there.

Like when you started your bar and I was always after you, I was like, why are you at your bar so much? Why do you do this? And now I said this to you the other last weekend, I'm like, I feel like as a, I just have a big heart. And here's a funny story. So last weekend, the bar was the busiest ever been. And I felt so bad.

My friends were all there. I kind of ghosted all my friends. I went back in the kitchen, I go, guys, what can I do to make your life better? Can I give you some drinks, some shots, whatever. They're like, Jax, can you go get us a speaker, a JBL speaker? I go, done.

Left my football game, went to the store, bought him a JBL speaker, and those guys were so happy. So, and I didn't have, I was out of a bus boy, my bus boy got arrested, so I was helping everybody clean up. But it's just something about, sorry, something about owning your own bar. You just feel like I just wanna help,

and I wanna be there, and I feel like people are spending their time coming to my bar that I owe them something. Back, by the way, let's take a moment just to shout out all the back up first of all everyone who works in the hospitality industry But especially back of the house, you know underappreciated often goes without thanks aside from the occasional My compliments to the chef bullshit, but like seriously shout out to the back of the house man holding it down Oh my god, they were I've never seen those guys. They were crazy. Doe was flying, because they were making pizzas.

There was pizza in the air, dough in the air. Wings are going out, the girls are stressed out. People are yelling, my food's taking this long, and this long, and this long, it's just like chaos. And we were both in that world for a long time. So we understand it. And I think, excuse me, I think that's why we care so much about our business.

It's not me that we wanna go there and get drunk. No, we wanna go there and help and make the business thrive and help that our wait staff out because we've been there. We know what it's like to grind and to work hard and just being, you know, co-op to people. Like, what can I do to help you? Anything we can do to help our staff, I think that's just where we come.

And I said this to you the week and I go, I totally get it now. Like, I literally said this to you the other day. I'm like, I understand why you're at your bar now because you just feel like you need to be there. You owe it to them. You want to help and you want everyone to be happy. The most important thing to me is my wait staff, making them happy.

Yes, exactly. It's always without them. Take care of your wait staff. Make sure when you guys out, make sure you always tip your bartenders as they're working really, really hard. It's super important. I'd said this on a good day LA today. It's so obvious, but if you're on a date it's like one of the biggest red flags of all time is when

you see someone be disrespectful or discourteous or just like condescending to a server or a busboy, a host, anybody, a bartender. And I'm not going to lie, I've done it a couple times. Huge. I've done it a few times. You've actually caught me on it a few times. Like, you know, when I'm drunk and I just don't pay attention or I don't tip enough or I'm just rude, like I've done it and I've caught myself. And I've literally had to go back and apologize because I just feel awful after doing that. Yeah. Well, I'm sure everyone's done it at some point, but this is, yeah. Just a couple quick shout outs. I want to give a happy 60th birthday to my partner Roger. He's going to turn 60 this Friday, very excited. Also, people have been asking me about the shirts that I used to work out and I use the same shirts when I work out because it's super comfortable,

but I absolutely love the shirts. It's called Quince. You can find them on social media, it's Q-U-I-N-C-E. They're the most comfortable shirts that I've ever had on and I love them so a lot of you have been asking about that. Do you have any chattels that you wanna give anybody? You wanna say hi dude, you got any future projects? Let's see, obviously Vanderpump Rules is starting tonight. You want to say hi, dude. You got any future projects? Let's see.

Obviously Vanderpump Rules is starting tonight. Yeah, VPR is starting tonight. Give a shout out to everyone at Passion Tree. I'm a proud investor in that social company. And also, just like shout out to my partner Greg. He's been, you know, we went through some weird times in that bar in the past, you know, six months. It got a little rocky there, but you know,

he's been keeping it together behind the scenes. So shout out to my partner Greg. And shout out to Franklin Village. Shout out to Bird, shout out to La Pubelle, shout out to Creation, shout out to La Vila Cantina, shout out to the Oaks, shout out to the Gelsons across the street. I fucking love Franklin Village.

I don't know if it was the right place to put shorts and sandies, but I stand by it, I love it. And I'm proud to be part of that neighborhood. And also, oh dude, you gotta come to brunch at TomTom. We got brunch now, baby. I didn't know that. So when did that start? I know, we got brunch, noon to five, Saturday and Sunday.

I will be there. And it's really fun, dude. That's awesome. No, that's really, really cool. You need a little wee hill in your life. I do, I do. It's hard to get over that hill once you move to the valley. Also, just a little shout out to all the flight attendants

and the people that work at the airport. It's been a little hostile on social media at the airport lately, but give them a little love. Yeah, show them a little shout out to all the flight attendants and the people that work at the airport. It's been a little hostile on social media at the airport lately, but give them a little love. Yeah, show them a little love, man. Sorry, Tom, I forgot to ask you. You asked me what I was doing Valentine's Day. I think the question, the big question, everybody knows what I'm gonna be doing.

I may be with my wife and my son. But the big question is, what is Tom Schwartz gonna be doing on Valentine's Day? Now you don't have to give us a name or that, but do you have plans? I can give you a name and a place. Whoa, a name and a place, what? I'm gonna be in Toronto.

You're gonna be in Toronto. Yeah, I'm actually, I'm actually, I forget the name of the place. I think it's called Trist. What, is it a club? Yeah, Trist. It's a bar club and I'm gonna be making drinks for the single ladies, the single dudes.

Wait, is this before Montreal? Yeah, it's on the 14th. Maybe I should come out with you. I would love if you came out with me, but I'm... Where are you gonna let me go? So you're gonna be, you're okay, you're gonna be in Toronto. I'm gonna be there, but I, you know, do I have a romantic interest?

Yeah. Are you gonna make it up to her when you get back or before? Both. And where are you gonna take her? Hey, well, we don't have to get into that. I'm just hanging out, man. It's weird, I don't know. It's weird, but I'm happy right now.

I'm just doing my thing. And that's all anybody can ask for as long as you're happy. Hey, quick thing, favorite sandwich shop in LA. Whoa, did not see that coming. But so there's this new place called We-O-U-I on Melrose that has killer sandwiches, but like my go-to is all about the bread, which is also on Melrose.

And I like giadas on Melrose and I like giadas yeah and I like I said one time okay thank you okay I'm even down with Subway right at no way I got his new place called Amici's I'm obsessed well I'm obsessed their pizza is amazing it's almost comparable to Costco which is my favorite pizza and they also have the delicious subs which remind me from back home my favorite sub shop back home in Michigan is called Boucher Mies. It's absolutely amazing. But anyway, try a Michis here.

This is not an ad. If you guys live in North Hollywood, go to a Michis. Anyway, signing out. I think we had a great day. Solid job. We got a really, really busy afternoon. Tom's got to get out of here. I got to get out of here.

We got to get ready for our premiere night. Thank you so much, Tom, for stopping in. I really, really appreciate it. Love you, brother. Love you too man and we'll see you guys next week. Hopefully Brittany will be back and yeah we're out of here. Take it easy guys. Let's go.