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June 29, 2026 / 01:01:35

This episode features David Spade and Theo Von discussing comedy, personal stories, and their experiences in the entertainment industry. Topics include their work on the film "Bus Boys," anecdotes from their past, and interactions with various celebrities.

David Spade shares his experiences growing up and his journey in comedy, including a humorous story about a shower incident with a fellow comedian. Theo Von discusses his struggles with addiction and how it influences his comedy.

The two comedians reflect on their friendship and collaboration on the film "Bus Boys," highlighting the unique humor that Theo brings to their projects. They also touch on the challenges of filmmaking and the creative process.

Throughout the episode, they share funny anecdotes about their interactions with fans and fellow comedians, including a memorable encounter with Kate Hudson. The conversation is filled with laughter and camaraderie as they reminisce about their careers.

The episode concludes with discussions about the current state of comedy and the challenges of creating original content in today's entertainment landscape.

TLDR

David Spade and Theo Von share comedic stories and insights about their careers, friendship, and the film "Bus Boys."

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Well, he's taking his shoes off and what are you doing? You're just kind of standing there and what's your and
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what's your motivation in the scene >> too >> to not get laid. >> So, you never worked with props. Did you
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go through any incarnation where you dressed in something different or you were always Theo right up like
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>> I mean I've been a recovering drug addict most of my life. So, that is the prop that never leaves your
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>> It's always goable. >> That's that monkey on your back. If that's not a prop.
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>> I mean, David's the best to be around. Every everybody loves him. He's the funniest. Everybody says he's the
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funniest. >> Mhm. >> So, how does that when you hear that, Dana? How does that make you feel? Sorry
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to spin this back on you. >> Oh, holy [ __ ] >> What's up, guys? What? >> I like your shot. See, why are we all
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tight up here? >> I know we look like dog [ __ ] I don't >> I'm on the bad side of 50.
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>> I thought y'all looked better. I thought y'all were going to look worse, honestly.
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>> Yeah. >> Oh, we got tools. We have tools. >> I knew you'd wear a baseball cap. That's
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why I did this. >> Oh, thanks, man. >> But your hair is crazy in this movie. Your hair is wildly
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>> awesome in Bus Boys. >> Yeah. I mean, it's pretty l I mean, it's definitely >> we cut it.
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>> Crazy. >> Well, didn't they put a lot of product in? I mean, it looks like extra extra I
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mean, nothing like urban. Nothing that would get me accepted in like, you know, in the urban community.
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>> B see you. >> Yeah. Nothing that would get me into Oh, I I thought he said herb like in peppers
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or something. >> No. Nothing like >> the funnier way. >> Theo has Theo has the hair for about six
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people. It's like sprout. There's a sprout over here and there's crops over here. It's just there's so much going.
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But in the movie, I remember he came out with one day with like a little stash and he's like, "Maybe we what if I had a
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little stash?" And I go, "Yeah, that wouldn't be bad because it still looks like you and we don't want to shock
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people with a total Dairo transformation." But then he came out a minute later, he goes, "Yeah, I took it
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off." I'm like, "Okay, >> this would have been good for Theo." I I wrote a character once in a movie that
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shaved his or took his eyebrow off and then put it down and pretended and glued it and pretended it was mustache.
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>> Oh, yeah. Well, we've all I think that's a common prison experience is people
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uh you know transferring hair amongst each other for you for for different uses. But I was on a cruise one time and
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they had like a costume party and we didn't have any um we needed a mustache and we didn't have any.
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>> So this Brazilian guy had a bunch of good hair and so he cut us off probably a couple grams of hair.
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>> Yeah. >> And uh we baggy. >> Yeah. Just Yeah. just something to get us through the evening, you know,
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>> just under the legal amount. >> I thought that would be a conversation stopper. That was common. No way.
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>> Theo comes up. Well, of course we had mustaches glued to us on a boat. What are you talking about?
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>> Yeah, there's a guy had a a a mustache in the movie and when we we walk out of
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frame, Theo goes, I like he's got those prison curtains or something. And I was like, Theo always comes up with
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something to say. >> Prison curtain. And Dana was saying one of the big laughs cuz you know when Nate
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Diaz beats up the car, we're not going to talk about the movie the whole time, but when Nate Diaz beats up the car,
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Nate and Chris, and we're just standing there, we have nothing to say other than
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just watch the action. Then Theo goes, "Hey fellas, we're going to get some pizzas. Medium pizza."
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>> Yeah, that made me laugh out loud. The whole thing >> because it's so I don't something about
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it. It's so specific and gentle versus all their weird violence and just why would they need that information?
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>> So Theo's whole thing why >> questions it gets funnier like >> well those guys were those guys were
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alarming I think and they just >> alarming is a good sedative word for what they were on on the
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>> do they scare you for reals a little bit cuz don't they just punch people? >> Look I think they grew up in an
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asbestous home maybe even uh >> lead. Yeah, heavy lead. Probably pencils everywhere. Unlimited. There's probably
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boxes of pencils in the walls, >> different kinds of fungus in the in the freezer,
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>> fungi, >> weevils, mold. Who knows what's what they've been through. >> Yeah, they've been through a lot. But
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when they came to the set, Theo did get a little giddy. It was like they're here. So, we went over there to make
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them feel at home like we do with everybody. We come say hi. And then that was the day they beat up someone and
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threw them in the trunk. I don't know if they know they're not supposed to actually beat someone up. So, we have to
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say pretend beat up, which is not really what they do. And where are they from? Stockton. Is that what it's
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>> Yeah, they're from Stockton. And this is a It is a fist first community up there.
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I believe >> that's what the license plate says. Fist first in this town. >> So, is San Francisco shockingly
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I was in Hate Ashberry. We were flowers first. Sorry. >> Yeah. You were on Pulk Street.
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>> No. Yeah. Where were you down there? Were you down there? What were you doing down
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there? Canoodling down there under the bridge or whatever. >> Laundry mat turned into a comedy club
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called The Other Cafe. Corner of Carl and Cole right in the hate Ashberry. >> That was
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>> Okay, I'm going to tell you a story, Dana, and Theo, you can listen. >> Okay, you have 20 seconds. Um, when I
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was just a tyke and I came out from Arizona to stay at my mom's house and try to do standup, I I had seen a comic
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in Arizona, the first one I saw do an hour, don't guess. And he was great. And I was like, is he making this [ __ ] up?
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It's like comedy is so I was only doing amateur nights, but I'm like, this is so
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crazy to see a guy do a whole hour. I'd only seen guys on late night talk shows do five. So anyway, he talks to me. My
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friend knows him. He says, "If you're ever in LA, say hi." Of course, I thirstily hit him up, which is like the
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worst thing you can do because they don't really mean it. >> But he's like, "Hey, let's go walk
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around Westwood. I drove my mom's rabbit." You know, we had a pretty cool car. And so anyway, we're there and he
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goes, "We should go see The Wrath of Khan." This is such a specific story I remember cuz it was traumatizing.
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>> Should we guess who the comedian is? >> No, I want to guess. You both know. You
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both know. >> Okay, you'll figure it out. So then I go, "Oh, we're we're in uh Westwood. I
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got to run home. It's about half hour. I think I can make the movie. I got to take a shower." He goes, "You can take
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one here." Now, what gentleman says to a new friend, "You can take one here." But of
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course, me? >> Probably Kevin Spacy. I'm going to guess. I already put a guess. >> Don't jump ahead. Innocent, sweet,
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adorable me. Uh, it's like Tim Dylan in the movie because we don't understand what's going on. So anyway, here I am.
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He goes, "Take a shower at my house." I go, "Oh, no alarms went off. No red flags." Okay.
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So I go in the shower. I hear [ __ ] door open. I'm like this. It's like, "Uh, did you get the per plus? Are you
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finding everything? Am I finding everything? I found the water coming down. I found the soap."
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He goes, "Need any help?" I go, "Help. Help what, sir? I've taken so many showers at this point. I've almost got
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it down pat." And he just stays in the bathroom. The bathroom's this big. And the curtains here. He's on the other
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side going, "So all systems go. All we're doing great. We're going to make the movie." I'm like, "I can hear you
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from outside the door." >> And then, but of course, no alarms. Looking back, traumatized because then I
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finished and he lost interest in the movie. So he's like, "We can still go if you want." I'm like, "Was that was the
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whole point, right?" And he goes, "No, the shower was." So, um, >> so he was Native American.
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>> I don't know. I'm going slow motion like they do on Instagram. It's funny. Uh, so
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we go to Wrath of Khan, which is [ __ ] I won't I don't want to give it all away, but
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>> Oh, I like that. Ricardo Maltabon, >> are you closet at the end of this story?
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What is this? What I'm here What I'm thinking is um ladies and gentlemen, the molestable David Spade.
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>> We did a movie called The Molestables. >> I had two situations like that. So, I've
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got a couple of those. >> This is how it happens. This is how >> No, it just kind of shocked me. It was
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just a comedian friend at my apartment, whatever. Yeah, see you later. Just >> And then I take a shower. He's gone, you
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know, and then and suddenly he's in the bathroom. Hey, what's up? I mean, same kind of story. I'm like, what? And then
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another one, I was in an apartment and this guy got the wrong idea. He was a script supervisor on a show I was doing.
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He knocked on the door. >> He walks He's supposed to deliver a script. He walks right past me. There's
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a loft. He sits down on the bed, stops starts taking his shoes off >> just like that. And I had to kind of go,
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I think you got the wrong idea. I mean, what would you have said in that situation, Theo? I I was I was tongue
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tied. >> Well, he's taking his shoes off and what are you doing? You're just kind of
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standing there and what's your and what's your motivation in the scene >> to get to gently explain to him feeling
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mostly empathetic of like you got this all wrong. I mean, he turned bright red. He was humiliated.
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>> He's still at the door. You're still like >> No, I mean, I had my shoes off, too. We
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sat it doesn't matter. No, but it was I felt bad for him instantly. It was leading the guy on a little bit to be
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honest. >> It's hard to get someone out of a bean bag chair to be honest. >> Yeah. Yeah.
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>> You got to pull them. They got to roll off. >> I was clickbait then. I had blonde
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bangs. I look like a child. >> Clickbait. >> I was so hot. I got kidnapped almost
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when I was in a mall when I was a kid cuz I >> No way. >> I had a blonde long hair. I was about
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10. Honestly, it was almost enttrapment. I was so [ __ ] cute. I look like early
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Home Alone McCaulay Caul like the first one >> and uh I was just like trala and this
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guy. I'll tell you later, Theo. But this was >> Yeah, let's stay with this theme.
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>> No, but we're doing good here. But imagine >> But we're doing good here. >> Imagine
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>> Let's stay with this theme. Go ahead. >> Imagine some pedophile picking up one of
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you chatty Cathy's, dude. They would have >> They'd have been like, "I gotta get
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They'd have dropped you back at the mall." >> Yeah. We're in the van and he's like,
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"Is this story almost over? We got to stop." I'm like, "Keep going around the mall, dude. I got more to say." He's
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like, "Oh boy, >> this is one long run-on sentence." >> Yeah. There's just no there's no perfect
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way to get sexually assaulted, I guess, is something to say, you know, and that >> I think we can all agree. Let's look at
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a clip. >> All right. >> No. Um, >> you think you guys would have made it in the Epstein files or not? Let's get real
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about it. Let's get political. >> Let's get political. Theo's whole Theo's whole thing is let's tiptoe into
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politics and then run away and go what? What? It's like the water touched him. He goes,
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>> "Oh, bying everything in there, >> God, you're walking him. You're walking the crowd."
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>> Dana, come back. >> Oh, he just went to the bathroom. >> By the way, >> when I first saw Theo, Dana
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>> Oh, there's Epste. He's got a little puppet. >> Witness protection. >> That's not Epstein. That's a
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>> I'm not Jeffrey Epstein. I Uh, this is crazy. >> Yeah. >> So, that's it. >> So, I wanted to use the puppet. We'll
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see. >> Let the end know what's going on. His show has no [ __ ] puppets. It's flatlining.
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>> I love that. I love the puppet idea. The You know what? You know what? I will say
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this. When I first started doing comedy, you'd find more men with puppets and with um
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>> Yeah. >> You know, onstage animeia with uh you'd find more men doing a guitar act. A lot
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of that has disappeared. >> That's true. A lot of uh song parodies. I used to love
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>> I had a I had a trunk because Rob Whims had a trunk. I had a trunk. I'd go to a
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toy store and get things. I had a Gumby doll and I would just hold it up and say, "Ladies and gentlemen, Gumby." And
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then I would just stretch it and go a huge laugh. >> I see it. That's like a Stretch
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Armstrong Gumby. >> So, you never worked with props. Did you go through any incarnation where you
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dressed in something different or you were always Theo right up like that? >> I mean, I've been a recovering drug
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addict most of my life. So, that is the prop that never leaves your >> It's always go toable.
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>> That's that monkey on your back. If that's not a prop, >> you know, like here's Theo's first
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standup set. Hi. Uh, when I was in third grade, my teacher was an ocelot. Everyone's like, "How many people were
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at this tiny town, Covington?" >> Well, here's I will say this crazy story is that um David shot Joe Dirt, too, in
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the town that I grew up in. >> That's right. >> And I went, >> did you go watch the movie getting made?
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Were you just a little kid then or something? >> I saw the first the first one. I
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remember seeing the first one and I didn't know that whatever I'd watched it on, we watched it on the intercom. We
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didn't have regular audio at the house. >> Sure. >> And so we had to we watched it we had to
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listen to an inter >> Wait a minute. The sound for the TV came over an intercom.
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>> Yeah, cuz we lived in part of an old school. >> Yeah, we hearing. Okay. So, go ahead.
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>> Well, it was just the way it was set up. Look, I just live there. >> Yeah. >> All right. You guys want to judge a
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child? You guys want to judge a a child? >> But, uh, >> it sounds like heaven compared to my
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childhood, but it's not a competition. Go ahead. >> Okay. Go ahead. But anyway, yeah, it's
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not a competition. But anyway, so it was hard to tell and everything kind of sounded like a documentary. I remember
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the first time I saw uh Jo, I thought it was a documentary. I thought this young
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man had been left at the um >> it was like a date almost like a dine episode or something that was really
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long and it was like this young man had been left at the Grand Canyon by his family.
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>> Yeah. >> And so we were always looking for David when I was a kid. Like we were like
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>> that's nice trying to help out. >> Yeah. Like have we has anybody seen him or whatever? We would draw pictures of
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him around town like look for him or whatever. And uh but anyway, yeah, so when I f so years later I learned it was
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an actual film and that David was an actor. He let me down before I even met him.
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>> Yeah. >> Um cuz yeah, I was always one in the missing child spade, you know, the one
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that was just the chatty Kathy. >> Definitely more interesting. >> The chatty Kathy.
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>> Chatty Kathy is a funny phrase. But anyway, so but anyway, it was just ironic that years later he shot that in
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the town that I'm from and then um years later that we that we became friends and
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that we wrote uh Buzz Boys together. >> You know, when I heard about Theo because they just said this guy is a
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mullet and that's that's enough to get me in the building. And I think I talked to Theo with Adam Eaggan and some other
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people in the hallway at the Comedy Store for definitely a long time before I saw Zach. I already was in on his sort
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of uh unique unicorn type of humor, which you don't see a lot. You know, you see a lot of funny people, but you don't
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see like an interesting more one-of-a-kind thing. And then I was laughing anyway and then by the time I
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saw his act, I saw you one time at that COVID in the round Saratella show. What is that called?
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>> Oh, yes. Supernova. >> That place was crazy. And they're like, "We're going to pay you like $2,000.
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We'll have to pay you at midnight. We're gonna pay you. >> It won't be money. >> Yeah. It was a n like a Nigerian guy
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will email you. You're like this is >> Yeah. We're gonna pay you in peacons which are going up during co
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>> uh and then Yeah. >> Wait, let me tell you one of his jokes. >> Good. Dana, let him do his story.
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>> I know. I like to interrupt. >> Yeah. Never mind. Then do it. If I get to five, I win something. It's a It's a
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poly market thing. Go ahead. I think Dana, I was just saying like early on one of the I think he's Nicaraguan. So
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he says, "Where are my knickers at?" That was funny. And then I think you said something about if you were ever
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reincarnate. You go, "I heard about I was talking to someone about reincarnation the other day and you know
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what? I think I'm going to do it." That was like funny that it was going to be your decision and then things you would
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come back as. What race? He asked somebody, "What race?" >> Yeah. >> Would you come back? Mexican is what I
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would have landed on after much >> landed on >> after much debate and discussion with my
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Lord and Savior. I have if if Mexicans will have me, that's what I'm going to be next time.
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>> Yeah, I think it's a good move that 52 nation. >> Yeah, dude. That's who they are, bro.
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The 52 nation. Dude, you get to be the same height as your girlfriend. That's the beautiful thing about being Mexican.
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>> Oh, it's a big advantage, >> dude. Heather is laughing at every single one of your jokes if you
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>> I know. It's great. This is the This is the >> killing. This is the hardest. Heather,
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>> usually 20 minutes go by before we hear a giggle, but this is >> I look at Heather and she's like this.
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>> She's used to all of our stuff. >> Yeah, she's like this. >> Uh, no, he did that. And then even in
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Bus Boys were writing and putting together the stupid movie. But that's number four on Amazon. And then um but
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also when there's some jokes in there that people were like, "Did Theo just make that up?" I'm like, some he did,
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but some he makes up while we're writing it and they sound like they're just made
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up. When Leah Mckendendrick, who plays Romina, who actually I don't know if you know this, Theo, she just wrote and
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directed a a romcom on Netflix. >> Did you really? >> Yeah. Voicemails for Isabelle. It's
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number one right now on Netflix. Did you know that? I didn't know. She was great
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in the movie, but she we're introducing ourselves and she says, "I'm a Sagittarius, blah blah blah." And then
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Theo goes, "We're two adult males." And >> yeah, >> see, so anytime it's like that, you
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know, it's a Theo joke cuz I wouldn't have written that joke for him. I would He just says something different on
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almost every take and then you have to say, "Which one should we use?" You know?
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>> Well, David has David has all the jokes in him, right? So, you have to trick him. You have to do something. He's
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like, "Oh, I couldn't I wouldn't have done that." Right? I think that's like a lot of ways with most comics. They you
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have to find something that they like. I don't know. That's how comics get impressed. Like, oh, I that wouldn't
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have like >> Oh, he tricked me. Yes. Because I would have written something maybe more
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normal, but that's the beauty of like there's some stuff that's more my humor and and the combo is more fun cuz Theo
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is one of the funniest guys I know. So, >> so funny. And so, when he puts those things in there, we just all laugh when
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we cut because you don't know what's coming out. And that's what people, I think, wanted to see from him. And
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that's the hard that's hard, but he does a great job with that. >> Well, that's nice of you. Yeah. Um I
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don't believe I I believe you believe what you're saying. >> Yeah. >> I don't believe the nice
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>> It's a lie, but I do sort of believe it. >> Look, look, kid, we got to get you back
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to the mall, man. This is getting >> dude, there I am in the mall and that's your happy place.
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>> Yeah. My mom would drop us off, you know, in those days. She dropped us off at 10:00 a.m., pick us up at 600. I
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mean, a good eight hour chunk. She gave me a quarter in case everything went sideways, but but no one blinked. There
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was no moms on Facebook going, "Bye, I saw Judy Spade dropping." No, no one gave me fat [ __ ] And they were like,
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"What a great idea. Get rid of these [ __ ] kids." >> Yeah. >> The mall was so fun. I wound up in the
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card store and for some Then my mom came in a few hours later. I don't know she's
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in there. And this guy who's like 50, which is not old now. It's not old to then to when I'm 10, it's old.
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>> And not my type at all. He comes up and he goes, "Hey, are you Hey, do you want
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to go uh do you want an ice ice cream cone?" And I go and I go, "Could it be a snow cone?"
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First of all, I'm like, "No, no, ice cream. Ice." Like, why am I bartering? It's the It's like winning the lottery.
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Of course, I won it. There's no red flags. There's no tingling. So I go, "Of course." And I go, "Could it be a snow
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cone?" And he goes, "Uh, okay. What are you waiting for, sir? There I'm going to be chained to a
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radiator in five minutes. There's no ice cream or snow cone. What do you care?" Then the second he
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>> It's hard to eat ice cream by a radiator, too. >> Yeah. And it's all hot. It's melting.
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>> Fast. >> I'm like, "Dude, you waited a hair too long." Cuz then my mom says, "Hey." And
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I go, "Oh, there's my mom real quick. I should get my windbreaker." And he goes,
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"No, no, no." And I go, "Hey, mom. I'm gonna buzz by this guy with his van. We're going to grab." And she's like,
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"No, you're not." And I go, "Hey, dude. Mom says no. Go." He's like, like, we had a deal. But I didn't know how
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traumatizing it was for him cuz he had me on the hook. And then uh >> I was like, "Oh." And I'm just bummed I
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didn't get a snow cone out of the whole deal. >> Yeah, dude. Well, you hate to lose a
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good kid that you don't know that well. That's got to be tough for that guy. >> Yeah. Yeah. And you're just he could
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have been innocent, >> but it's got to be a lot for those guys to drive all the way over to the mall.
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You know what I'm saying? Clean out their van first. Probably some of them. I mean, the decent ones.
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>> Just the gas. >> Yeah, the gas alone of being cuz then they got you going to drive you a
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hundred miles at least after. >> Oh yeah. We got to drive in circles while I yap a [ __ ] blabalanche.
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>> So what happened like the next weekend at the mall with you? I mean, was there
00:21:19
more? >> No, I don't know either. I wasn't as hot. I don't know, but I wasn't getting
00:21:25
the attention I deserved. >> Yeah. >> Oh, I got a funny story about Theo. So, we're at this Netflix brunch a couple
00:21:32
weeks ago at Ted's house. >> Oh, yeah. Dude, it was crazy. All of like the people you ever even have seen
00:21:39
that made you laugh were there. >> Everybody from comedy was there. It was, you know,
00:21:43
>> standing around, dude. >> And Dana was invited, just so the record knows. Ted even hit me up twice said,
00:21:49
"Bring Dana. Bring Dana." And I said, "If you were actually maybe going to be in town, Dan, then you you you
00:21:54
>> No, I I've weirdly injured my back cuz I was traveling so much and all the suitcase stuff, a rolling suitcase on
00:22:01
carpet for a half mile." >> So then I found out about this guy who could just do all that in Malibu. So
00:22:07
that's why I wasn't there. I would have been there. Would have dominated. >> Oh yeah, he would have. So, here's me
00:22:15
and Theodore and then uh and uh Bobby Lee and then we see Kate Hudson. And so, >> oh yeah,
00:22:22
>> she says, "I've seen that guy on something." And I said, "Yeah." I go I go, "You should meet him. He's really
00:22:27
nice." So, I say, "Theo, you want to say hi?" And here's where Theo cracks me up
00:22:31
again. He comes over. He's kind of got his arms straight and stiff. Total weirdo. And then she goes, "Oh, hi,
00:22:37
blah, blah." And then he's like, "Where are you from? Covington, blah, blah, talk." And then we're under this tent
00:22:43
where it's only like 70, but outside of the tent, he's standing in the sun and it's about 90, right? And she goes, "You
00:22:50
look hot. You have long sleeve black shirt on." He goes, "Yeah." And she goes, "It's colder under the tent." He
00:22:55
goes, "Yeah, I know, but but there's no signs. There's no signs to tell you it's colder
00:23:03
under the tent." >> Oh, yeah. Well, that's a problem. >> That's why I prefer graffiti. I prefer
00:23:08
areas with graffiti because you get more information. And that's why I like living in those neighborhoods.
00:23:15
>> But dude, that was cool, bro. Meeting Kate Hudson, dude. >> Yeah. >> Oh my god.
00:23:20
>> Yeah, Theo is the bell of the ball. We go around and all these cute girls like,
00:23:25
"Is Theo coming?" I'm like, "Who cares about Theo?" >> Yeah, he's in the bathroom right now
00:23:29
touching himself. Give him a couple minutes. >> Yeah, give him a second. By the way,
00:23:33
before he gets here, he likes dudes. >> I don't like dudes. But >> I saw you singing with Ella Langley
00:23:40
who's this really pretty country star Dana. He was a stage coach and uh >> and she invited him up and he he jumped
00:23:49
around a little fruity at parts but overall he was with a girl so it was sort of cloaked a bit and uh that was
00:23:56
good and it was viral because everyone's like where's the he said stage coach I heard I go look at this guy the boy can
00:24:04
get around. So what happened there? How did that happen? >> They She just um Well, she and I are
00:24:10
friends and so then well, she'd invited me to do her like the part in the song is a man's part.
00:24:17
>> Okay. >> So, you got to get a man. And then they uh she'd offered it to me a couple weeks
00:24:23
earlier at some other place at um the Ryman here in Nashville. >> Yeah. >> And I wasn't ready. I didn't I didn't
00:24:30
hadn't practiced my lines. So then, um, anyway, this story is bad, but I saw her, uh,
00:24:37
>> we're in a commercial right now. >> Okay. I saw her not long after that and she
00:24:43
goes, "Well, if you're I wish you can be a stage coach next weekend because I'd have you read the lines over there." And
00:24:46
I said, "Well, I'm going to be over there." And so that was that. >> And so then, yeah, they just
00:24:52
>> Yeah, it was it was it was cool out there, dude. I'd never been a singer cuz I'm not a singer.
00:24:58
>> Yeah. >> Could you see it? cuz I I'm I'm I'm in a other age group. But did Could you give
00:25:03
us a sample of the song? >> Could you give us just about three or four minutes? >> Three or four? Well, just like one line
00:25:10
like what was it like I love you baby or what? >> No, it's uh let me think. Oh, it's like
00:25:16
um Well, I walked into a bar and across the uh right across the tracks um or it's like I walked into a
00:25:24
methadone clinic and right across the tracks it was No, hold on. Let me think. That Sh. I just turned my chair around.
00:25:31
>> Okay. Oh, damn. >> No, that means I like you. >> No, I'm liking this. >> Yeah, I like it.
00:25:35
>> This is I've never heard Theo sing this. That's And that's what we don't want to
00:25:39
get to here. That's what I'm avoiding. Okay. >> Well, Theo, didn't you talk a little and
00:25:44
then you sing? Is that how it is? >> Yes. You have to talk. It's like, you know, I walked into a bar and the
00:25:48
prettiest little thing I'd ever even seen in a pair of boots >> and she and she looked at me and uh
00:25:55
>> I looked at her. >> Yeah, something like that. I can't remember. Guess ahead.
00:26:00
>> I don't know the lines, right? >> It's like Johnny Cash. It's basically Johnny Cash.
00:26:04
>> Yeah, very much. It's Johnny. Yeah, some Johnny some currency. >> Um I don't know if it's a US dollar.
00:26:11
>> Johnny Pesos. It was a guy from Latin America. He did a good job. People loved
00:26:16
it. And >> um I went viral. Yeah. >> I will tell you a funny story about it though. My friend wrote the cards. He
00:26:24
wrote all the words down on the cards. Right. So he's standing right off stage with the words because we've been we've
00:26:30
been practicing, you know, cuz you up there with Ella Langley, man, and she knows what she's doing. She's
00:26:34
professional. >> Yeah. >> You know, and I'm amateur. And so my buddy, we had him write all the work. We
00:26:40
wrote all the lyrics on the cards. So he's standing off stage with all the lyrics.
00:26:44
>> Well, he starts getting mad, but when I got up there, I felt good and I felt some confidence.
00:26:50
>> So he's standing off stage and he starts shaking the cards like, "Bro, look at
00:26:53
the cards." And I'm like I'm trying to give him like I don't need the cards, you know? But he got upset that I didn't
00:26:58
like wasn't he kept like like shaking. >> Yeah. >> It's like dude, I'm not looking at the
00:27:03
cards cuz I don't need the cards. You're second Yeah. You're second. It's you're
00:27:07
you're a backup. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're there in case of emergency. >> Yeah. In case of emergency,
00:27:12
>> but it is scary. It's better. It's like SNL. You know, you have cards if you need them and uh it got
00:27:19
>> But you don't want to have to go to them. Did you guys ever get stuck in a spot where you had to go to the cards or
00:27:23
was that pretty common? >> I think we're always on cards to be honest. >> Well, you go to the cards a lot. I once
00:27:29
time I was playing Keith Richards and I took such a long pause, but I did it for
00:27:34
comedic effect, but the card guy was doing what your guy did. He's shaking it like and pointing at him. Come on. He
00:27:41
thought I spaced out, you know. >> Yeah. >> But yeah, we got to get you hosting SNL.
00:27:46
I can't wait. >> I bet they've asked you. What' you say now? I don't remember. >> Yes, Theo. I guess it was no because you
00:27:53
didn't do it, but >> I don't remember what happened exactly. >> Yeah, >> but I did get to go over there one
00:27:58
night. I got to go to y'all's 50th anniversary of the 50th >> That's right. >> of the show and David was there. And um
00:28:07
who else was there? Bill Murray was there. Were you there, Dana? >> No. I kind of felt like you were my
00:28:12
surrogate when I heard you were going. I figured Theo's my guy. He's represents me that night.
00:28:17
>> You took your spot. No, I wasn't there. Dan Akroyd, Bill her and I watched it
00:28:22
together. >> It's weird. Why would y'all just go there instead? >> No, I was >> Don't dig too deep.
00:28:29
>> Okay. Sorry. >> I was getting over I I was still not feeling 100%. I had the flu. Wicked flu.
00:28:35
>> That's the real story. Not very exciting. But how um where are you in your fame ladder right now? Like seems
00:28:43
like when I first you were on David's show, like how big were you when you first went on Lights Out? Like where
00:28:49
were you? Like was that a big deal to go on David's little show? I mean, did anyone ever see it?
00:28:55
>> It was fun. I don't know if anybody saw that show. I think some people did. >> No, I'm kidding. I love the show, by the
00:29:00
way. >> Yeah, I thought the show was good for sure. I mean, David's the best to be
00:29:05
around. Every everybody loves him. He's the funniest. Everybody says he's the funniest.
00:29:08
>> Mhm. >> So, how does that when you hear that, Dana? How does that make you feel? Sorry
00:29:12
to spin this back on you >> because you're so to be so close to being that funny.
00:29:18
>> Really angry and then sad >> and then I just practice gratitude. I take deep breaths.
00:29:25
>> Gratitude. >> No. Well, you have your own lane. No one does what you do, Theo. So, you're the
00:29:29
funniest guy who does what you do. Does anyone do what you do? David has his own
00:29:35
soft >> very verbal pattern that's really lowfi but very funny all the time. >> Yeah. You never expect what he's going
00:29:44
to say kind of and he and he just knows so much and you're shocked by how verbose his awareness of things is.
00:29:52
>> Oh my god. >> He's probably one of the most aware guys. >> You mean about darkness and stuff?
00:29:57
>> Well, oh yeah. I'm not even sure what verbose means. I >> think it's kind of a good one though. I
00:30:02
think it's some it's speakers. We're selling speakers. But um but no, just his awareness like he just like he's so
00:30:09
like up on like just whatever the current events are, he just has all the >> the pattern pattern.
00:30:15
>> Yes. He's very Dexter. He doesn't just bring one weapon to the thing. Like Dexter always had like a ton of weapons
00:30:20
and like >> you know he'd be the he'd be the most he'd be the Michelangelo of killers, you
00:30:27
know? >> Right. You never got to hang out with Dennis Miller. would like that too,
00:30:31
>> dude. I did one at the fights. >> Oh, you did? Okay. >> It was the best. I got to sit right in
00:30:37
between them, dude. So, >> yeah. So, they would go like that, right? Huh? >> Yep. Best threesome I've ever been in,
00:30:43
honestly. >> Yeah. It was Dennis mumbling jokes on one side and me on the other. And we
00:30:51
were all hilarious. And uh I mean, we were all laughing the whole time because Theo says stuff. And Theo's like new
00:30:58
>> to the whole thing. and just everything is fun and exciting. I Theo I went to
00:31:01
the Ronda Rousey fight. I don't think I don't think you were there, but I was in
00:31:05
the second row. Dana White always puts us in the front row and it's such a world of difference because the second
00:31:10
row I I told Dana I had Michael Irvin in front of me. All it takes is one person.
00:31:14
It's over. Like he stands up. It's like full eclipse. I'm like, is the fight still going on? Because he stood up for
00:31:21
anything. They tie the gloves up. >> That's end of round up. >> Beginning of round up. I'm like athlete.
00:31:28
Yeah. So that and when John's Bones Jones was there too, I love him. >> Well, he's tall.
00:31:32
>> What a badass. So anyway, uh Theo and I had gone to the fights a few times. That
00:31:37
one time we got lost. Theo got frustrated because um >> I had a driver but the guy wasn't there
00:31:43
and we were late. >> The driver spoke a language that no one's ever spoken. >> No. And it's not even racist because I
00:31:50
never saw his face. So I'm not But I was in the back and I thought it was my driver but I didn't know Theo called an
00:31:54
Uber. So, we're in the SUV and I go, "Just go to the back entrance like we we said." And then he goes, "Oh, no, that's
00:32:02
for special." And I go, "What? No, I know. We're going to the back." He goes, "No, that's VIP special." I go, "Well,
00:32:10
what about us? We" And he goes, "Yeah, no special." Yeah. He kind of glanced and he goes, "No, no special here." And
00:32:16
then we go, "No, no, we're getting more mad cuz he won't." I go, "Actually, actually, it'd be great if you're going
00:32:22
to the front. We need to go to the loading dock." He goes, "No, very special." >> Yeah. Yeah.
00:32:26
>> And this is just a uh recreation of what happened, but it's not. And then uh >> and I was showing him pictures of David
00:32:33
like in all his like I'm like Roberts. I'm like this is >> Roberts is not the one to ring the bell.
00:32:41
But anyway, he goes, "Oh." He goes, "He's in sitcoms and stuff and movies." He goes, "Oh, you're in a a sitcom now."
00:32:47
I go, >> "Yeah, well, not the second." He goes, "No special." And we got out in the street because we
00:32:54
weren't getting even close. And then we got out and I think that was the first time I realized how famous Theo was
00:33:00
because so many people were coming up especially to fight and we had to wait for them to send someone to give us our
00:33:05
tickets and people kept coming up and it's the first time where you can see it. For both of us it starts to get a
00:33:15
little nerve-wracking because you're stuck. You can't keep moving because we're waiting. So then he goes, "Let's
00:33:21
just walk to the back." And I'm like, "Well, they're not gonna we they might not let us in and then we're gonna
00:33:26
there's already the guy at the front with our tickets." So we sat there and everyone means well, it just when they
00:33:31
get around you cuz they're fight fans, you know, and they're bored and we're just standing there like, "Hey, blah,
00:33:36
blah, blah." Right. >> Yeah. Everybody was kind of bored. It was just like, "Yeah, you're just
00:33:40
waiting in line kind of." So it was like a lot of um but that driver, he just did
00:33:44
not think we're special enough to drop us off in a decent area. >> Yeah. and he kind of dropped us off in
00:33:49
like a used person area. I was like, "That's even worse than just regular." >> He goes, "How about this part of the
00:33:54
median?" I'm like, >> "Yeah, >> that guy." >> Yeah. We got out in the middle of the
00:33:59
street, bro. >> Yeah. Yeah. It was funny, though. >> But David David like knowing David's
00:34:05
just been such a like just even getting to go to UFC, like I I got to sit in the
00:34:08
front row because of David. That was awesome. Um, you know, just some of the relationships that I got to build over
00:34:14
there. Uh Dana White did a really nice thing for our movie actually. Um >> Oh, that's right.
00:34:19
>> That I don't even know if we can say it or not, but he he saw that we had made
00:34:23
it ourselves and made it with our own money and he called us one day just out of the blue.
00:34:28
>> Can we even say that, David? >> I think so. Yeah, he doesn't care. >> We can cut it. And he said he said he
00:34:33
was going to make some make some commercials for us and put it in some of his uh fight
00:34:37
>> during the fight before the main event. And I and then I forgot cuz I thought,
00:34:41
"Oh, what if it doesn't happen? And I don't want to say anything because also he's the boss but you know whatever. And
00:34:47
then my friends are like I'm watching the fight dude. They're showing bus boys trailers. That was really cool Dana cuz
00:34:52
Dio originally when we were looking for money I tried Dana cuz I'm like Dana White's rich and this is his bar tab so
00:35:01
I can just ask for a little bit. And he goes, you know, I don't mind this idea. Let me talk to my guys. Give me a couple
00:35:08
days. And then Theo goes, "Hey, oh, I just got a guy that's gonna do it." So I called. I said, "Dana, don't worry about
00:35:14
it." And then uh so that's he was kind of aware of it. He hadn't even read it yet. He just goes, "Oh, I like the idea
00:35:20
of you and Theo uh doing a movie." And then we had a guy, Ezra. And then we we kind of got it going then, but uh it was
00:35:27
it was a long road. But yeah, it was a lot. I mean, I'd never done it before. It's a lot of work. It's a lot of stuff
00:35:34
that you guys do. People don't realize a lot of it, you know. I think it's some of it probably seems easier than it is
00:35:40
from the outside. >> Um, but yeah, putting it all putting it all together. I mean, we put it all
00:35:45
together. I couldn't even believe it was real. I mean, writing it was one thing.
00:35:48
It was like >> we would keep find ourselves in these problematic areas with the script where
00:35:53
things didn't make sense. And I think some of the movie still doesn't make a little bit of sense.
00:35:56
>> Yeah. >> But that's fine. You got to suspend disbelief. Right. >> Well, for that low budget, I've never
00:36:01
done for that low budget. And >> you don't get you don't get a full timeline on that. I mean, we we had the
00:36:08
problem with Jod, too, where >> they were taking out budget during the shoot, which is impossible. Me and Fred
00:36:14
are going, "Wait, we have to lose a set piece." Well, that that brings us from here to here. So, we're that was a time
00:36:22
jumping because we had to because we're like, "Then I jumped ahead three years."
00:36:26
Everyone's like, "Huh?" But we had to. But this one, it was just they had the fires were going and there was a lot of
00:36:33
wind. One day we couldn't really shoot. Yeah. >> And it's just those things when you're
00:36:38
outdoors and um it's very comp complicated and we weren't screening it. So we just were like asking two people.
00:36:48
We knew does this make sense to you? And then we figured out a few questions and
00:36:52
we went back and reshot a half a day and just said this will answer a couple things. And so far honestly Theo I get
00:36:58
probably 80% people that it's almost like they really like it or hate it. It's there's almost
00:37:04
no in between. These people that love it and watch it four times and then there's
00:37:08
about 10% that absolutely [ __ ] hate it. Yeah. >> And it's not even it's not even a toss
00:37:13
up. They're like this is the word F minus. They don't need to throw the minus. We've talked about this.
00:37:20
>> F is fine. Just go to G if you're going that low. Like >> a musical scale. What do you have a
00:37:26
Rotten Tomato score? Do you have a score on Rotten Tomato? >> No. Thank God because why have a
00:37:32
audience score? They said there's not enough reviews. >> Not enough reviews to get
00:37:36
>> because Yeah, because that's good or bad. >> Stu, it's good. >> Yeah, that's I I don't know what it is,
00:37:42
but I never heard of it before. >> Well, studios send it to be seen and screened
00:37:47
>> and we don't send it to anyone. >> Yeah. >> So, there's like internet people that
00:37:53
go, "Hey, I just saw it." And they might say something, but it's not enough for Rotten Tomato. So, we just have like a
00:37:59
75% audience. >> Really? Do we have that? That's amazing. >> I think that's good. That's like 75% of
00:38:05
my family liked it. 25% were like, "Shouldn't be doing this kind of stuff. We thought you were doing stuff with the
00:38:10
church now." >> Yeah. This was uh didn't pull punches with the R rated. You guys, did you
00:38:18
write stuff and go, "Oh, we can't do that." Was there anything off limits? The greatest thing about the writing was
00:38:24
we would get into some real culde-sacs and I would literally tell David and it would seem like he was not going to be
00:38:29
able to get us out of it and then he would come up with the idea and he'd be like, "No, this can't do that."
00:38:34
>> We started >> I was I Yes, I wrote it, but most of the I was the stenographer. I was the court
00:38:39
reporter. That's what I was. >> Well, you need someone to physically do it. And sometimes I I say
00:38:45
>> that was me. I was the minor. David was the jeweler, you know, the guy, you know, he was the guy with the, you know,
00:38:51
he was the guy with all the gems. I was just the guy who was like >> Theo's on the road and we get on a Zoom,
00:38:58
but we did laugh our [ __ ] asses off. And it's funny if you see a scene that's not that funny. Me and Theo are like,
00:39:03
"Ah, that's so great." And people like, "Is it?" But you know, you write it and it goes through different form then
00:39:09
we're like, "Oh, we hit a wall like [ __ ] Well, how do we get the drugs and how do they end?" How did you come up
00:39:15
with the I I don't for the people haven't seen it, but the acidy thing of where you have that thing in your car
00:39:20
and it identifies what kind of animals you're hitting. >> Like that was that was radar.
00:39:26
>> Very like rodent radar. Yeah. It's not fair that we live in 2021 or whatever and you look
00:39:35
and you're driving and you don't know what kind of animal you just hit. >> Yeah. It It's not fair.
00:39:39
>> Where's Tesla? Where's >> What is this? What is this? uh Little House on the Prairie. Like, well, how do
00:39:45
we like what is going on? So, >> right because we were hitting things, but we didn't realize they were drinking
00:39:53
water that was laced with cocaine. I don't think anyone realized that at the end of the movie.
00:39:59
>> That's kind of smart when you realize that's what it is because the cocaine is
00:40:04
getting lost in the water and broken up and >> yeah, there was a lot of things. >> There's some unanswered questions.
00:40:09
People are clamming for a sequel. They're like, "Just so we know what what's going on."
00:40:15
>> It's kind of like Highway to Heaven, you know? It had one. >> Exactly. >> It had one good season. Um
00:40:22
>> redoing Highway to Heaven. I love >> Highway Heaven. Yeah. Michael Landon. >> They've tried to redo it. I will say
00:40:27
this that they are redoing Little House in the Prairie. It's coming out on Netflix soon. Um
00:40:32
>> they're going back to 1980. >> 70s, late '7s. >> Yeah, that'd be great. Yeah. They just
00:40:39
have people that that's how they're like, "Here's how we live, Paw. Let's go to the mall, Paw."
00:40:45
>> It's fun to play a character that says, "Plind girl." >> Steo like the blind girl, Mary. What was
00:40:53
her name? >> Yeah. Well, she got kicked by a horse. David, >> is that That's not what happened. She
00:40:57
got acid thrown on her by a >> She got asked what do you think? She was at like a what? Like one of those uh
00:41:02
like a Rufus Dol concert or something like she was robbed about. Oh, she was >> Yeah, she was robbed of her pelts and
00:41:09
they threw acid. >> I missed that. >> No, I don't know. I'm trying to get us out of this.
00:41:13
>> I'll just be the audience for a second. What are you guys talking about? >> This is This is how we're writing the
00:41:19
movie. Yes, we're writing the movie. No, but this was this was true though. I had
00:41:22
a show up in Winnipeg last year and um I had a show up in Winnipeg last year and
00:41:28
after the show they're like uh some of the cast of Little House in the Prairie is here. They would like to say hello
00:41:32
and I was like >> they would like to say hello, >> dude. And I watched every episode. I'd
00:41:36
read the books. >> Mhm. >> So, um, I even met Nelly Olsen at a Starbucks when I first moved to LA. I
00:41:43
was there for like two weeks. >> Villain. >> I know. And I was trying to like I wasn't trying to flirt with her, but I
00:41:47
was like, I'll work at your house. I'll do whatever you need or whatever, you know, like I'll put I'll put stuff on
00:41:52
the shelves at the Merkantile. I'll do whatever you need. Right. But, um, anyway, they said the cast of Little
00:41:57
House in the Prairie is there and the the lady that played the mother, they're like, "This is the lady that plays Ma."
00:42:03
And I gave her like the biggest hug. Like I was like this kid like who would like like idolize this like character
00:42:08
when I was a kid, you know? >> Anyway, >> she's cute too. >> Um yeah, she's a really nice or cool
00:42:14
actress. Crosby is her name. Fitzgerald maybe I think is the actress. Oh, the original one, but the new one is named
00:42:20
Crosby. Fitzgerald. >> Oh, you know, um Nelly Olsen should be on Villains that show. Is that what this
00:42:26
show is called? Villains. Yeah, she was a good villain. By the way, Theo, this is off the record, but I got offered a
00:42:32
gig in Mur Freezeboro, Tennessee. Do you know where that is? >> Yeah. And I haven't been there though.
00:42:37
I'd come though. >> How far is it? An hour from you? >> Probably 40 minutes. I'd drive 40
00:42:42
minutes. >> I'll do it. I thought it was way far. They said, >> "Wait a minute. You're going to
00:42:45
advertise this and say my friend Theo's going to drop by?" I mean, >> no, he's not. I'm just asking how far at
00:42:50
the office. >> He's from Smashville. >> I'll jump on if he's got time. >> I want to go to that zero tax state,
00:42:58
man. What am I doing here? >> I know. That's the only bummer about LA. I love LA. Theo has a little place here
00:43:04
in Westwood, right? >> Yeah, but he's 181 in Tennessee, you know. >> 181 days. >> So much money. He's like Scrooge McDuck.
00:43:12
He just sits on a pile of money every night. >> That is not true, dude. I If I could
00:43:17
have I wish I could have some more money, but I just don't have anymore. >> If I had yours, I'd throw mine away.
00:43:23
>> No, but Theo has a special. Dana, Theo has a special coming out. Do you have the name of it or when it's coming out?
00:43:30
Yeah, >> we haven't decided on the name. I'm trying to figure that out right now. You
00:43:32
guys have any ideas? >> Um, I might pick one of them actually if you guys come with a good one.
00:43:38
>> Oh, yeah. That's a good idea. We should >> David also looks like David Dukovny
00:43:42
today, which people we we should say that. >> Oh, yeah. For people that aren't watching David Davney
00:43:48
>> slick today. >> People confuse him a lot. I've been with him before. >> Yeah.
00:43:53
>> You know, and some come up and whisper in his ear. He's like, "They're out there, aren't they?"
00:43:58
>> How about this for a title? What's up, y'all? >> All right. And what other >> I wanted to think of the worst title.
00:44:06
>> Scribbling them down. >> I want to think of a title where you would What's up?
00:44:11
>> I already used that one. That one. >> Um, spa. We were going to call this podcast Rackom.
00:44:18
>> Oh, yeah. Rack. >> That was David's. >> What do you say after you knock a ball
00:44:22
in a cub? >> Come here. >> Rackom. What were your previous specials names? >> Uh,
00:44:30
dang, I cannot even remember right now. Oh, um, no offense was one of them. >> Yeah, it's not very good.
00:44:36
>> And the other one was called Yes. >> Yes. How about some taken? >> Yeah, that's pretty good.
00:44:44
>> Yeah, >> some taken. That's another XFiles reference, isn't it? David Dukovny. I
00:44:48
believe that's about people getting abducted. Dude, it never ends today. >> Working it working it out. Y all working
00:44:55
it out. Y you all. >> No. No snap to it. >> No. I think it's good, man. I just I
00:45:01
look Yeah. I I don't know. I got to listen through one more time. I've been doing the editing and stuff.
00:45:05
>> Oh, no. That must drive you [ __ ] bonkers. >> Well, it's all bon I mean, it's just
00:45:09
like I mean, even with Bus Boys, it was like we had to do a lot of the, you know, we had editors, we had a um a
00:45:15
great director, and it's like we had great people, but in the end, if you're like producing it and stuff, you kind of
00:45:21
have to make a lot of choices. And you know it was tough. Someone >> we would go back and forth D like he
00:45:27
would in the edit for a while and then we look at it and then we go but I was always careful like if it's a Theo joke
00:45:35
>> I didn't want to just take it out >> unless I was like oh I don't think he'd want this one in but sort of you want to
00:45:40
go I don't want to be in charge of his joke in case he likes it but if he took one of mine out it's either to cover
00:45:48
each other to make sure you don't look stupid but some are so weird. There's a thing where you're you're with the guy
00:45:55
in the wheelchair and you're going on and on and that's some people's favorite thing and you just made all that up
00:46:02
while you're doing it. Commitment. >> Yeah. I think I I probably could have had a better I get used to editing just
00:46:07
my own podcast so we'll go through, you know, I'll watch everything and I'm sitting there giving notes and so I
00:46:12
probably could have done done a better job. I think I probably there was probably some of David's jokes where I
00:46:16
was like I don't think he you know for sure >> I like and I was like probably should
00:46:20
have asked him uh before just like taking some assumptions. Um but then there were some parts it was like I just
00:46:26
don't maybe this angle doesn't look great or something. It's like you want to make your boy look good. Um and then
00:46:33
but yeah I I learned a lot man. I learned a lot about like I don't know sometimes you want to learn lessons
00:46:39
easier ways you know but you learn them when you're in the fire you know and it's like I think I could have been a
00:46:43
better teammate at times I get used to like doing you know comedians you get used to doing everything by yourself
00:46:49
kind of it feels like a lot of times >> podcast well I understand podcast by yourself it's a hit
00:46:56
>> uh standup write it yourself it's a hit so even though we're good together it is
00:47:02
hard to say Oh, even forget us to say let set dressing deal with the plates because we're both going, do these do
00:47:11
these make sense? You know, and and you kind of start secondguessing every department. There's almost too much to
00:47:16
worry about and that drives people crazy. And then dailies are coming in which look bad because they're so
00:47:22
confusing. Now, that's one more thing spinning in your head and then we're it's just all hard and uh but I do like
00:47:29
the final product and going back and forth and saying like I would call Theo and say, "Hey, can we put this back in
00:47:36
or did you like this or or were you on the fence about like that kind of stuff?" And then so by by the end we're
00:47:42
both like, "Okay, this is it. We like it." And then whatever happens happens. So, I just like having it floating out
00:47:48
there and then kids can watch it or mostly under 8 years old is probably our crime.
00:47:54
>> Yeah, it's for kids. It's for kids who are getting dropped off at the mall who
00:47:57
are just burning time until they meet someone >> until they meet their someone >> or they get a snow cone by other means.
00:48:05
Yeah. >> No, David had some of the best choices. There was like this Steve Steve thing
00:48:09
that's in the beginning that I I was like, I don't get it. But then that was one of the biggest laughs in the
00:48:13
theater, you know. Um, and >> people like I like that moment >> and and I was like I just don't I don't
00:48:20
really see it that but we're in there and people die laughing and that was like a big moment for me. I was like
00:48:24
dude you sometimes you do not know what you're doing. >> Well, you never know until you see
00:48:28
crowds they laugh at something you don't think like a cutaway joke. But even I like when we're looking at the uh the
00:48:36
wedding ring and it's so tiny the diamond and you're like which one's the front? I'm like I think I saw it
00:48:41
earlier. Where's the diamond? Oh. Oh, here it is. You're like, "Yeah, that's some marriage metal."
00:48:45
>> Oh, yeah. That's some real. >> But when I say you keep >> I remember that. >> We're like, he's trying to help me out.
00:48:50
He's like, "This girl likes you still." >> I go, "But she doesn't even text me back
00:48:54
and she went to Palm Springs." You're like, "Yeah, cuz that's suspense. Haven't you heard of Jaws?" What a dumb
00:49:00
thing to say. >> So dumb. >> What a dumb. And you go, "We're saving Private Ryan." I'm like, "Well, Jaws
00:49:06
sort of makes Yeah, sure. >> It was dumb, dude. It was fun. Uh, I'm trying to think of another
00:49:13
really Oh, my favorite scene is probably David in the bathroom with Tim Dylan. I
00:49:17
think that's just such a good when he's like, "Make your favorite face." You mean he's like
00:49:23
does that >> and he's like, "Fuck yeah." >> Yeah. They had some funny angles on David with that, you know, bugged out
00:49:30
>> coming down on me like this. Also, Tim face. And then Theo, you put in a few extra shots cuz you're listening and
00:49:37
those are funny cutaways cuz you're doing different faces. cuz you're like sort of agreeing and then you're like
00:49:42
then you're back. And so that combo was fun. We did it. And when he says, "Hey, I'm not gay." And you're like, "Oh, no.
00:49:50
I'm not What do you think? We're here to suck your dick." And you're like, "I can't even suck my own dick. What a dumb
00:49:54
thing to say." And we all laugh. No, I know. >> I can't I'm not going to walk around
00:49:59
through life pretending like I'm a guy blow himself. >> No, you showed us at lunch. You can't.
00:50:04
>> Yeah, that's not who I am. >> You proved it. Um, uh, >> it was a lot, man. Thanks you. Thank
00:50:11
you, David, for just like honest. >> Anything else for Theo? Uh, Dana, we could go on and on forever with this.
00:50:17
>> We go on forever. I um >> I know this is more fun. I I didn't know. I'm not on SNL, so I haven't been
00:50:22
able to come on here. >> No, I This is our first time with Theo. We talk about them all the time.
00:50:26
>> Well, we have people that have have never been on SNL all the time now. That was
00:50:30
>> It started off as an SNL only. It was very exclusive. It was Marago. It was the Mara Lago.
00:50:36
>> Yeah, it was. It was >> we came out with 10 bangers, 10 all-time greats. And then, you know, it's been a
00:50:43
little pull up, pull up. But, >> by the way, we I just saw You didn't go to that UFC fight. I think you were
00:50:50
working on the reflecting pool. >> Yeah, I was probably doing something. >> Yeah, I think I was busy.
00:50:57
>> Yeah, you were busy. Uh, >> I think I was busy. But I thought it was one I thought that they did a great job.
00:51:02
I thought it was really amazing that Dana White gets things done. He's a kind of guy that continues to get
00:51:06
>> He's a stud. He's a good >> something that he says he's going to do. >> Um >> yeah, he's not a big bullshitter. I I'm
00:51:12
going to probably go to that. I might go to the Conor McGregor. At least I'm going to watch it. That one's coming up.
00:51:15
Do you know where that one is? >> I believe that's in Las Vegas. I'm I think I'm going to try to go to that
00:51:20
one. Um that would be awesome. But yeah, even just to be welcome at those things
00:51:23
is pretty special, man. I've met a lot of amazing people over there. And then you all have this thing in common. Yeah.
00:51:29
Nobody has like representatives or agents or man with that with them. So you just like you can just meet people
00:51:33
and talk to them like and everybody has like the fights in common. That's been um
00:51:38
>> that's been something special. Yeah. And getting to go with David, dude. David
00:51:41
took me to meet freaking Drew Brees one time at a party in his freaking backyard
00:51:44
in his in Scottdale. >> That's right. Oh yeah, it was it was a big >> Who's it was Kurt Warner's
00:51:52
>> Warner at a party. Kurt Warner has a half of a football field in his own yard.
00:51:55
>> [ __ ] that guy's rich. It was five acres. God dang. What happens? I was in Scots
00:52:00
there. Everybody got rich. Yeah, >> that was a lot of fun though. They were all nice. All those football players
00:52:05
were fun. >> And and Steve Maruchi was there. Mooch. >> Oh, that's right. I've seen him since.
00:52:10
Mooch. Well, we won't keep you. You're a good guy. That Hawaiian shirt looks very
00:52:15
>> BLM. Dude, I wore my freaking uh Tom Celic for you guys today. Nobody even called.
00:52:20
>> There was Oh, yeah. I'm seeing it now. >> How did we not mention BLM shirt? I
00:52:26
>> know. TLM, dude. And he passed away, huh? Who? >> Tom Celich. I don't think so.
00:52:34
>> Oh, >> no. Maybe Magnum did in the show. >> Oh, somebody. >> Oh, wow. You really brought somebody
00:52:41
pass. >> The third season of Magnum. I mean, today >> my funeral feed. No, my funeral feed is
00:52:46
Sorry, >> it's mess. >> Oh, you're you got a funeral app. >> I got a bad Yeah, I'm getting We're
00:52:51
getting some bad intel on it. >> Yeah. Okay. Um, well, Dana, >> the only thing I wanted to say is your
00:52:58
podcast, >> the Amish boy you interviewed and some of the UFC fighters, it's extremely
00:53:06
high-skilled interviewing and and it's it's just great content. I love I love your lane, what you do that no one else
00:53:14
does. I mean, there's Rogan and stuff, but you do have your own style and it's you were so gentle with that boy and
00:53:20
kind. I I don't know. just just putting some sugar out there, just saying, "Hey,
00:53:25
what's up?" you know. >> Well, thanks, dude. I appreciate it. Yeah. I don't really know what my lane
00:53:29
is. Sometimes I know that I work really hard. Um >> it's almost all I do most of the time,
00:53:34
you know? It's like the safest place for me to be. Even like with my thoughts or
00:53:38
feelings, I put them into work cuz I feel like it's just I know there's a potential return there, you know? So,
00:53:44
sometimes I wish I could do a better job of putting like that same energy into like um other fields of my life
00:53:50
probably. But it has been great, dude. It's been great just to sit and talk with people, to learn how to listen.
00:53:55
I've done that, been able to do that a little bit better over time. Um, you know, I'd like to be able to just like,
00:54:00
yeah, sometimes you want to have fun, but sometimes you want to talk with somebody something that means something.
00:54:03
And they let me talk to children, which is nice. And so, you know, that Amish boy, who knows what happens to him. He
00:54:08
might end up, you know, >> you know, you know, we don't know how it's going to go for him. We hope he
00:54:13
does well. We hope he stays over there milking with the boys or whatever. I don't know what that term means in some
00:54:18
communities, but um but he might give up and he might go out into the secular world or the insular world. I can't
00:54:24
remember what it's called. >> Yeah. >> And live at a Dave Busters and drink his life away. You know, I don't know what
00:54:29
he's going to do. >> All scenarios are very >> He was pretty poised for his age. I I I
00:54:34
got a good feeling about him. >> He's really He's really fallen off the cow's back since then. That's what
00:54:39
that's >> He's not going to die by nail gun. I don't know Amish community where they
00:54:45
build everything with like chewed up gum stuck together. >> They have it done. I don't think they
00:54:50
even got co or something. They really stay out of the fray. >> Yeah, cuz it's not Well, it wasn't real.
00:54:55
That's a new thing. I don't know if you read Tulsa Gabard's new report, but uh that's
00:54:59
>> Yeah, I It's sitting on my desk. I haven't read it yet. >> Tada. So interesting. Interesting. So
00:55:06
here's my question. If people didn't die of CO, what did they die? What What happened? Yeah, Dana will tell you
00:55:12
because he does Fouchy. >> Oh, he does. >> Tell him about the shot. >> Oh, do the Yeah, do that.
00:55:17
>> Well, this was when Yeah, the uh people were getting their shots. They were timing their shots because the thing
00:55:24
kept mutating, you know, and Fouchi had to come out. I KNOW I TOLD YOU WHEN YOU GOT THE VACCINE, you'd be dancing in the
00:55:32
streets. I MISSED IT BY A LITTLE BIT. You can have 10 vaccines and four boosters. GET AND GIVE CO TO ANOTHER GUY
00:55:41
WITH 20 vaccines and 19 boosters. YOU CAN HAVE 45 VACCINES AND 200 boosters you can get and give. Anyway, THAT'S WHY
00:55:52
I'M INTRODUCING TONY Fouch's daily shot. Every day you go to your healthc care provider and you get a shot. BY THE TIME
00:56:00
YOU GET TO YOUR CAR, YOU GOT NO IMMUNITY, BUT IT'S A beautiful 39 seconds. Anyway, that was my poem to try to help
00:56:10
me deal with the whole coy thing. >> I got a couple death threats, but that's okay.
00:56:18
>> Hey, come on. >> We were right. >> Um, but yeah, who knows? I don't know. Um, but I think who I don't know
00:56:26
anything. >> Yeah. >> Well, but thank you guys for having me, man. It's it's an honor to be on here
00:56:31
with both of you guys. Thank you guys for all the laughter, for being some of the greats. I don't think they have
00:56:35
humor like you guys made anymore. I think it's pretty diluted the stuff we're out here. You know, you guys were
00:56:41
dealing with pure I mean white flake stuff straight out of Colombia. That's the stuff that you guys were giving to
00:56:48
the masses >> um through humor. And we're out here. This stuff has been stepped on. The
00:56:53
stuff that we're delivering, it's got baby laxative in it. We're just out here. We're barely filling the diaper.
00:56:58
And you guys were just blowing them out. >> Fruit fresh in it. you know, uh, I saw
00:57:03
Wedding Crashers in a in a related story and some of the jokes are pretty rough and you didn't even think of it back
00:57:08
then and now you see like a movie and there's like two big comedy stars and it's like they're kind of roasting each
00:57:15
other like look at those shorts you look like some crazy guy in them and everyone's like are these jokes but it's
00:57:21
the safest joke world and I think that's why there's not a lot of R-rated movies
00:57:25
cuz >> the bigger the corporation the more they're scared of offending and hurting
00:57:29
feelings and some of the ones and saw our movie were like, "Oh, that's a little spicy. I don't think that would
00:57:35
work with us." And that's okay. We kind of knew what we were getting into. >> That's good. Yeah. Some of the streamers
00:57:40
passed on it right out of the gate, you know, and uh Good. I don't you know, can
00:57:45
we >> Yeah. And I've seen so much bad [ __ ] on some of the streamers that uh I think we're in a good Let's don't
00:57:52
pretend like just because it's a they have a channel that the [ __ ] on there is
00:57:56
great. How many bad movies are on most of these streaming platforms? Most of the streaming platforms.
00:58:02
>> It's it's uh it's very difficult sometimes. You always >> I'm not saying that. I'm not saying ours
00:58:08
is >> Yeah. We're not the greatest. I agree with you're saying that. >> How many movies have you turned on?
00:58:13
You're like, "What are we even doing here?" Okay. >> Yeah. I think what happens like with
00:58:18
>> definitely >> comedies is you start to get the same seven jokes that are sort of approved by
00:58:24
everyone and not offensive and now it's just different versions of just a handful of jokes that are like
00:58:28
everyone's like okay I mean we don't laugh at that but that's acceptable >> well that's what happened with late
00:58:33
night too late night kind of it felt like it got a little bit like that sometimes you know um especially
00:58:38
political and >> yeah political and then there's only one group to make fun of type of thing but
00:58:42
um >> I will say that uh I thought it was cool that we made something and we got it
00:58:48
done and we got it all the way through and that gives me like a lot of pride that I got to do that with David
00:58:52
freaking Spade, dude. >> Um, >> no, listen, I had a such a such a great experience going like from having an
00:58:59
idea and being buddies and then just putting something together. So, thank you for doing that.
00:59:04
>> And Dana, who's one of the top 10 SNLs of all time, this is the compliment Dana
00:59:10
gets. >> They go, Dana, always funny, >> always funny on here. And then when people come to me, they go when they
00:59:16
come on the show, they go, "Dana, you were unbelievable. Top 10." And they go, "And Spade, you were on there, too. You
00:59:21
did some stuff." And I go, "Thank you." But you can't even compete with legitimately with all the cast members
00:59:27
that D. >> That's what I was built to do, man. I mean, >> sketch comedy. That's how I was made
00:59:32
for, but I didn't know it till later. But you guys are >> We sat through a lot of bad cast members
00:59:36
to get enjoy you. >> I'll say that. >> All right. Thanks, buddy. And uh Well, let's get back.
00:59:45
>> Well, if we think of a name for your special, I'll reach out. >> Yeah, we'll text you
00:59:48
>> because I do like that stuff. I was just joking around, but yeah. >> No, and it can be racial, too, if it
00:59:52
needs to be. I'm okay with it. >> Okay. >> Black like me. >> You could say that's not bad. The nword
01:00:00
and then you put Nashville. What did you think? >> Yeah, actually think. Speaking of the I
01:00:04
just bought 40 nword passes online. >> You can get them online. >> Yeah, I got 40 of them. selling six of
01:00:10
them for charity, but they're like peptides or something. >> You can just use them out in the real
01:00:15
world. >> I mean, they look these are official. They're official. So, we'll see how that
01:00:19
>> So, you don't get in trouble. Is that what it is? >> TBD, man. Times have changed.
01:00:23
>> Yeah. TBD, dude. >> Times has changed. That's not bad. >> You guys in the streets, M.
01:00:28
>> Yeah. Okay. >> All right. Listen, if you're enjoying the fly on the wall, of course,
01:00:35
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01:01:05
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Episode Highlights

  • The Weight of Addiction
    Theo discusses how addiction is a constant presence in his life, likening it to a prop that never leaves.
    “I've been a recovering drug addict most of my life.”
    @ 00m 18s
    June 29, 2026
  • Unexpected Encounters
    A funny story about a misunderstanding during a script delivery leads to an awkward moment.
    “I think you got the wrong idea.”
    @ 08m 59s
    June 29, 2026
  • Humor in Dark Situations
    The conversation takes a turn towards dark humor as they discuss uncomfortable experiences.
    “There's just no perfect way to get sexually assaulted, I guess, is something to say.”
    @ 10m 44s
    June 29, 2026
  • The Mall Adventure
    A nostalgic trip to the mall reveals unexpected encounters and childhood innocence.
    “The mall was so fun.”
    @ 19m 04s
    June 29, 2026
  • Theo's Viral Moment
    Theo's unexpected singing performance at a brunch goes viral, showcasing his charm.
    “Theo is the bell of the ball.”
    @ 23m 20s
    June 29, 2026
  • Dana White's Generosity
    Dana White surprises with support for a friend's movie, showcasing unexpected kindness.
    “He said he was going to make some commercials for us.”
    @ 34m 33s
    June 29, 2026
  • The Long Road to Filmmaking
    Creating a movie is a complex journey filled with unexpected challenges and hard work.
    “It's a lot of work. It's a lot of stuff that you guys do.”
    @ 35m 30s
    June 29, 2026
  • Audience Reactions
    The film has polarized viewers, with many loving it and some absolutely hating it.
    “It's almost like they really like it or hate it.”
    @ 37m 00s
    June 29, 2026
  • Editing Challenges
    Editing a film can be a complex process, requiring careful choices and teamwork.
    “I think I probably could have done a better job.”
    @ 46m 14s
    June 29, 2026
  • Unique Podcast Style
    The host praises the podcast's distinctiveness compared to others like Rogan's.
    “I mean, there's Rogan and stuff, but you do have your own style.”
    @ 53m 16s
    June 29, 2026
  • Meaningful Conversations
    The host reflects on the value of deep discussions over casual banter.
    “You know, sometimes you want to talk with somebody something that means something.”
    @ 54m 02s
    June 29, 2026
  • Gratitude for Laughter
    The host thanks his co-hosts for their humor and contributions to the show.
    “Thank you guys for all the laughter, for being some of the greats.”
    @ 56m 31s
    June 29, 2026

Episode Quotes

  • I thought y'all looked better. I thought y'all were going to look worse, honestly.
    Theo Von: UFC With Dennis Miller & Was Joe Dirt a Documentary?
  • The mall was so fun.
    Theo Von: UFC With Dennis Miller & Was Joe Dirt a Documentary?
  • You have to talk. It's like, you know, I walked into a bar...
    Theo Von: UFC With Dennis Miller & Was Joe Dirt a Documentary?
  • You got to suspend disbelief. Right?
    Theo Von: UFC With Dennis Miller & Was Joe Dirt a Documentary?
  • I think I probably could have done a better job.
    Theo Von: UFC With Dennis Miller & Was Joe Dirt a Documentary?
  • Thank you guys for all the laughter, for being some of the greats.
    Theo Von: UFC With Dennis Miller & Was Joe Dirt a Documentary?

Key Moments

  • Awkward Encounter08:59
  • Dark Humor10:44
  • Nostalgic Mall Days19:04
  • Theo's Viral Performance23:20
  • Dana's Generosity34:33
  • Filmmaking Challenges35:30
  • Rich Guy51:55
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Tension Over Time

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