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You looked at whatever the piece of paper you're like, "Oh, this is not
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funny. I'm not gonna [laughter] do this." They were, "No way."
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>> They were going wild backstage like, "God, the host." >> You look around the audience, you
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realize, "Oh, half these women think they might like they they're [laughter]
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here to potentially be pulled out of this audience to be I did a show called The Man Show that was designed
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specifically to counteract Oprah and uh my wife." Well, we have James Jimmy.
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>> James Phineas Kimmel. No one knows that that's his middle name. >> Jim Kim,
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>> also known on Howard Stern as Jimble Kimble, >> uh, is a friend of the show
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and I've been on his show probably 20 times. That's, you know, when I'm
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promoting, I usually pop by Fallon, pop by Kimmel, and >> there's no Ellen right now, but uh I
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have a lot of fun with this this guy and he's always a good audience. I will say
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he's a good laugher. >> I go on there, >> he kind of lets me know. He knows kind
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of what I might talk about. He just says just go just start blabbing and he'll
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chime in like something funny to add to it. So, it's a good time on there. And
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now we get him. We've had him before. He interviewed us on here a while back. He
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interviewed us. He came around and he's um we got him on this podcast. He had
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just finished his show. >> All right. He was in person when he interviewed us right here in this room.
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And then we got him after the show and he was nice enough to jump on with us. And we talk about his show and how hard
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it is to do it, how long he's going to do it. >> Yeah. >> And we basically just laugh a lot.
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>> Yeah. And we do get some inside baseball about his personal life and what what
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his happy place is not doing the show. >> Do you have a happy place, David? You
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know what's your happy place? >> Not really. >> Besides being on this podcast with me,
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>> think of something else. Um, >> when I'm uh in line at McDonald's at the
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drive-thru. Don Rickles used to say there was no greater thing than when he would kill in
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Vegas and he's in the jet. I don't know if it's private or and he's flying away
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with a big fat check. He did the work and he got the money. That's >> Yeah, I do I do say there's stuff in
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life that's still fun and it is coming up with a joke that works. When you think about I thought of one yesterday
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morning and I wrote it down. I was like giggling going this might be funny. I'll
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have to try it. I don't know what it is right now. But that stuff is fun. And it
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gives you a little endorphins. >> Yeah. In the end of the day, that's that's kind of what it is. Like Jay Leno
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was obviously the uh Svengali of standup, you know. Yeah. It's very simple, you know, because people are
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asking, "What do I do?" He goes, "Hey, you write write joke, >> tell joke, get check. Write joke, tell
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joke, get check [laughter] all into the drama and I should be a middle act." And what do I write joke
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tell? Someone stole my act. Write another joke then. Just write more jokes. >> Anyway, here's Jimmy Kimmel.
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>> Here's Jimmy Kimmel, not Jay Leno. [laughter] >> Hi there. >> Or there's a rumor that you're going to
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do Smartless after this. But >> no, [laughter] >> I mean, how many What when does
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>> You couldn't do that after your whole show. >> How's it going, guys?
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>> I get exhausted thinking about your schedule. >> This is bad enough. [laughter]
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It's not, you know, it's, you get used to anything, right? I mean, [laughter]
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whatever the schedule is, you become acclimated to it. >> Yes. >> Yeah. If you do a movie and you're doing
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14 hours a day and you get a 12 hour day, you're like, "Yes." >> Yeah. Right.
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>> If you do any other show and you work an hour, you're like, >> "Yeah." And when you and John Oliver and
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Fallon and you know um all the all you guys Coar come into the podcast world, we will welcome you. There's 4 million
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podcasts. >> Thank you. Yeah, it's there. We need we do need more for sure. I think it's
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might be a bad sign for your podcast that this is my second time on and I've
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never I was only at Saturday Night Live once. [laughter] I went to watch >> I didn't even get it on your TV. Do you
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realize how famous you are? How many years is it? 23 year. I don't know. How
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long have you been? >> 23. We almost 23 on the show. >> Yeah. J 23 in January. Know it's crazy,
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right? >> Can you go to a mall without a baseball cap and no one knows who you are?
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>> Why would you? >> Are there still malls? You know, I do go to the mall every once in a while. And
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have you guys been to the mall? >> I love it so much. Well, one is it's the
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only time I get in the Christmas spirit is a mall with all the music. And then I
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saw a AI woman waving at me and everywhere I went, she looked and winked at me and it was like a hologram. So I I
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do like a mall, you know. >> That's What mall were you at? Are you sure it's not at the mall and not
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tripping or something? Because >> Chico Chico, California. >> Oh, yeah. That's the No, that's a
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prison, Dana. That's You [laughter] prison. >> No, Jimmy. All [clears throat] kidding
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aside, I know Dana likes to joke around. I don't. >> I joke around. David, give us a serious
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question. >> I went to the Grove this weekend and there was all the uh the tree and all
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the stuff. So, I see what Dana is talking about. It's very >> festive and I ate at the Cheesedick
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Factory, which I still go to. I still like. [laughter] >> Wow. >> And you know, there's some good stuff.
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They have a new item on page 88 [laughter] of the menu. It's longer than the Bible.
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More chap. There are chapters [laughter] on that menu. >> Are salads? Where are salads? That's
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chapter seven. I go, "Oh, okay. >> Can you get everything in the world at
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Jerry's Deli with the big laminated still around? >> It's gone. There's no deli. I just
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myself." Okay. >> Okay. You got to get out of the house. >> Billy's Deli.
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>> Billy's Deli. Yeah. >> How [laughter] about Hamburger? Don't
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tell me Hamburger Hamlet's not there. >> Like, where can you play a good game of
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pinball? [clears throat and laughter] [gasps] >> I, you know, I'm nostalgic about
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Hamburger Hamlet because of >> I love that place. I used to go there >> that one on a Dhenian sunset all the
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time. >> David, did I tell you I don't remember if I told you this, but I saw you
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walking one day and I [laughter] don't know why. >> How was he walking? He was just walking
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on the street and I almost I I had to pull a maneuver cuz I was like, "Oh, I
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got to text him while he's walking." And I don't know why that I thought that
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would be a great thing to do, but it became it was too dangerous. It was um it was in Hollywood. You were walking
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somewhere and I thought it was interesting. And then the circle was completed this evening when Kevin Nean
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was on my show. You guys know Kevin. And he said that of all the guests, of all the 170 some odd guests on his show,
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Hiking with Kevin, the most difficult one to walk with, was none other than David Spade.
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>> Yeah. >> Who, and correct me if I have have any of this wrong or if he had any of this
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wrong, but he said that you requested that there be no incline whatsoever, [laughter]
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>> which is not hiking. You have to have an incline if you're going to hike.
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Otherwise, it is just a stroll. It's strolling. >> This is getting into semantics. It is.
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It's really down to a trick way to do an interview. So, it's like, "Hey, we're
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gonna go bowling. Hey, we're going to be in a ice bath." >> So, I said, "Kevin, I barely like
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walking, so I don't want to hike." Plus, I got a bad neck. So, I go, "Listen, why
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don't we go to the Kmart parking lot [laughter] >> and walk? And it'll be funny because
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we're It's easier for you, too. and then we won't be like and then I got a Hotel
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Transennsylvania, you know. [laughter] So, so I said, "I might be a better interview." And he was like, "No, no,
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we'll we'll go on a little. It'll be barely. It'll be flat." And then we get
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up there in the middle of the interview. I go, "Dude, are we going uphill?" I of
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course got insensed, >> right? Sure. You promised. >> Have you been on it, Jimmy? Have you
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been on hiking with me? >> I have. Yeah, we went on. And um it's funny because well, for people who
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haven't seen the show, Kevin goes on a hike with somebody. But it's funny
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because it's not like it's not like he cleared the area. So when you walk in
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and Kevin's got his selfie stick, which is just a dangerous way to walk anyway,
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everyone passing you flips out because you're there with, [laughter] you know,
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attention, please. >> A giant. And then so like 3/4 of the interview is being stopped by people who
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want to like take a picture or something because they don't understand there's a
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show going on. >> What are you doing? [laughter] >> There's a big drone. He has a drone
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controlled too. >> He has a drone now and he's doing that. He's got a siren on his head and so
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everyone's like I thought Jack Black was funny. You know I I have seen it. We are
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buddies with Kevin forever. Uh it is hysterical but he's really like lugging
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waters. He's got like a emergency cinder block. >> Yeah. >> I'm like Kevin you don't need all this
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stuff on you. It's [laughter] so hard to hike for you. >> He's also serious a lot. Still
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complaining. >> He gets real serious about the equipment too. Like you see that serious side of
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Kevin that you didn't know was there? >> The technical thing. >> Yeah. This is a camera Nikon TX40 uh
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comes sucker 3000. I'm like, "Oh, so it's just a camera. I got it."
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>> There's a real dad thing that happens all of a sudden. He's like, you know,
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it's like, "Oh, yeah. This is what he's like with his son. Like, you know,
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making sure the equipment is right and don't >> Oh, that's right. >> He spanked me one time [laughter]
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>> over a rock. >> But you learned your lesson. >> Where did you guys go to the Iger
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sanction? You're so tough. >> We went to uh I don't know somewhere in
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the valley. It was like a a hiking area I was unaware of in in the valley. I mean, he must repeat those because not
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everyone wants to drive out to Chino Valley. >> He must repeat it. And also, it's weird
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to get an invitation to do a talk show and you and he's dropped a pin. That's
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where [laughter] that's how you find them. >> There's no address. >> Yeah. [clears throat]
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>> Yeah. Ways and then an Uber. Uh >> yeah, we're cutting through like
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somebody's yard in a culde-sac to get to the the hiking area. >> [laughter]
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>> Oh, I got a question for you. First of all, I do It's about your show, but also
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about your show. What is the rigorous schedule down to at this point? Is it still rigorous? It's still hard to do a
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show. >> Yeah. >> But what is the first thing in the morning? You start getting hit up with
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joke ideas or pre-tapes or >> um Well, you really want to know the schedule?
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What have you hosted? You've >> hosted you. We kind of know the schedule, but
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>> mine was harder when I hosted. >> I'll go through it really, really
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quickly. Is um in the morning at um 9:15 I get an email with like 30 pages of jokes and bit ideas.
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>> Shut up. Is that true? Perfect. >> I mow through that. I whittle it down to
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about four pages. I send it back. I then get on a Zoom with our producers and have a meeting about the guests that
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night. I take a shower. I drive into work. I have rehearsal as soon as I show up, which is at 11:30.
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And then I go up to my office and um review a bunch of material. I go through those jokes again, go through the bits.
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I'll make edits on bits and we shoot things if we have to. And then at uh from 3 to 5, I write the monologue with
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two other guys here in the office. >> Really? And um they do a draft of it and
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I sit and rewrite the whole thing. [laughter] >> I mean I would No, I don't mean I
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rewrite the whole thing. >> You just got to make it in your own voice. >> Yeah, I do. And then I go do the show
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from 5 to 6. >> How often like you're in the wings and you're about to come out and you just
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go, >> "Yeah, I we don't got it tonight. This is stinker. I I got to just riff it." I
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mean, >> you know, you know, you can always kind of reach in and and pull something out
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[laughter] >> tonight. really good crowds. How was tonight? >> Backstage tonight. It there it was full
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crickets. It was I was like, "Oh my god, is anybody out there? Mike is did they
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people show up?" And that's where it becomes like that's when you get a
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little bit nervous. And but I find that if I just like add a little if the audience has too much energy, I will
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subtract some and if they don't have enough, I will add some. >> Oh yeah, that's a good idea. Sometimes
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they're too energetic and they're laughing at setups. like, "Let me just
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get this out." >> Yeah. Yeah. It's funny because I'm never happy. Whatever. It's like either they
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laugh too much or they didn't laugh enough. >> Shut up. [laughter] >> Very rarely do we hit that exact right
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you know, first one in the Tonight Show and I knew it was in the afternoon, but you just when you're watching that as a
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kid, the Tonight Show, you know, you think it's midnight, you know. >> Yeah, it's called the Tonight Show for
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God. >> I know. And you guys are all like afternoon Mike Douglasy hours, you know.
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>> It's not called the hours, [laughter] you know. >> Well, we were live at the beginning. So,
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and we were on at midnight on the East Coast. So, we were on from 9:05 to 10:05 p.m. back in the old days. And that felt
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um that really felt like a a late night show. And also, there's a crazy energy
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out on Hollywood Boulevard at that time every night because there's a lot of
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crazy people out on Hollywood Boulevard at that time every night. And so, then everything like it was weird because if
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we do pretapes, it suddenly would go from night to daytime. And then I felt like, oh, we should do all our pre-tapes
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at night, >> but we're, you know, that didn't really work because we were doing the show from
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9 to 10. And it became just like a like an 18-hour a day job and it became crazy. But then over the years,
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>> people had kids and I had another set of kids and we started like shortening the
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day and eventually this is as short as it can get though from 9:15 till till 6:15. That's that that's the the minimum
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amount amount of time you can put into it. >> Yeah. I even did that lights out show
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and it was way harder than I thought because from the second I get up there's
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just a stack of emails and things and things. And I'm not Jimmy Fallon. Like
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we both have to say we're not out there doing like tap dancing with JLo. He's
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got to drive to Staten Island and do like a bumper cars or someone and he's got to learn a song and dance with
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Ariana Grande. It's hard to do all that stuff. It's so much energy. >> Not for him, but I think yes. for us it
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will be hard but I have witnessed him um in action and it is uh it's quite remarkable. It's like
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>> it's weird because you have a lot of professional singers who you know show
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up and >> like he doesn't even wear the earpiece that you need to wear to make sure
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you're singing well. He just sings well. He has a super I don't think people
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realize like how talent actually it's a weird thing because you're like oh he's
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talented like [laughter] we're not I'm not talented you know like I I can go up
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and tell some jokes and write some stuff but he has like real talent in the oldfashioned way. I was told that if he
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choreographs a dance number, even with Justin Timberlake, whoever, he just has it.
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>> He does. I've just seen that happen. >> He came on our show and he did a
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Christmas song and he was he was uh there were no mistakes. >> He just nailed it and it was
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unbelievable. It really was. >> Hey, it was a crazy Christmas song, you know. Amazing.
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So that's just my >> like so kickball chain fan fan back and you're like yeah
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>> it was disheartening is really what it was. >> Yeah. I have a very thin lane of just
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mumbling jokes and then some people do a lot more Dana does a lot more. >> Yeah. Dana's got talent. Yeah.
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>> Not not like f there's only but I I you know you know what wears kind of well
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though later on at least for me on YouTube at night is Dick Kavitt. I mean I really enjoy watching old Dick
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Kavitts. He got his ass kicked by Carson or whatever you want to call it. >> They were kind of like the original
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podcast. You could hear traffic going by. It was very lowfi, long interviews with Robert Mitchum and stuff. Very,
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>> you know what I love? I love watching with these old talk shows, especially
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like with Carson. What I really love seeing because we've all seen >> we all seen the the hatchet the
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highlights and like all these visuals that we're all so familiar with, but to
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watch like a year three when he's still in New York Wednesday night show and
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they have these at like the Museum of um television radio >> and and some of them are just dreadfully
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dull and it makes you feel better. It really does. Like you >> when he was 90 minutes it was rough. 90
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minutes was a very long time to do a a live >> third guest or fourth guest he's like
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now what do you do sir [laughter] >> you know interviewing is tough that interviewing is the toughest part for me
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>> I I have a >> doinging your show >> an appreciation for how you do that
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because it is it is like trying to catch the wind you know you let the guest go you you do I jump in now you know how
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like over the years has your kill skill set in your find increased in terms of letting the moment happen and not
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interrupt. It's just hard. Well, there's a lot of factors I think and one, you
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know, one of them is when you're you're interviewing a comic, which is always,
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it's weirdly the easiest and the hardest at the same time because you do not
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want, you know, my natural inclination would be to say something funny when a story's been going on for a bit, but you
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know, with a comic that they're getting to something. Ideally, at least they're
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getting to something and you don't want to jump on on their setup. You know, you
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don't want to ruin it. So, you have to be cognizant of that. And I also don't
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love knowing the jokes beforehand. So >> I know I hate it. >> Yeah. So I don't want to know like you
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know but you know when to jump in but Jay used to think of jokes back. I didn't know that. Like he would look at
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it and he goes when he gets to this point I'll say this and he would I would
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be in the middle and say something kind of funny. I go oh but I realized later that was part of the meeting is like
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what could I say here? What could I say? So he was really coming off better than
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me. >> You don't want to know the bits. You just get it like a bullet point. You
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don't want to know the line by line. Yeah. >> Yeah. I don't want to know. I I prefer
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because then it's just like the whole thing feels fake, you know? So at least
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I'm a member of the audience. I'm sitting there with a with a comic. Unless they need me to know something,
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>> I prefer not to know. I try to tell when I go on Ken who works me I say try to
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give him as little as possible or maybe just give him an out where he knows it's
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over. >> Right. Right. >> And then you're kind of just get to go.
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All right. I kind of know what spades and he's going to [ __ ] around here and I
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just got to know when to keep it things moving. >> I feel like also that David you've been
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on so many times now that I just kind of know where where you are in the story. So, and u we don't really need
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>> you go. This is funny because I do this is really funny because he did it last
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time. [laughter] >> Can I tell you? >> He did the story three times. Okay, I
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know the story. This [laughter] >> Rickles would do that every Rickles had,
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you know, Super Dave also was another one was great because he would do the same stuff. He once I was watching an
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old video of Super Dave on Carson. It was shortly after he'd been on my show
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and he did exactly all the same material and I was like, "Oh, this is incredible." Like his his philosophy
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was, "Nobody gives a [ __ ] Nobody remembers." And it's true. I mean, we
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were all so like, "Oh, I can't do that joke." Um, you know, Co Bear did a joke
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like that in October of, you know, 2020. >> Nobody's keeping track of all or
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>> who's going to see both shows at the same time? I I saw Rick's guys on
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something two nights ago where he's walking around like at the Golden Globes
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and he's and he's walking the crowd. He goes, "Julie Roberts is over here.
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Julia, I live near you in Malibu, two houses down. You don't invite me over for uh dinner." And she goes, "Don,
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anytime." He goes, "You have no lines, Julia." [laughter] He and that she laughed so hard
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[clears throat] lib with him and no, Julia, no lines. As a kid, I didn't understand as a young person, but it
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seemed like [laughter] mayhem when he came out. Give Ed a cookie, put him in the corner, the show
00:23:41
started, you know, all these abstract put downs. He didn't have any jokes. He
00:23:46
just had these rhythms of put downs, you know, Frank that the mob called Vinnie Pal, [laughter]
00:23:51
you know, and they're on YouTube and you just go and same thing with Rodney. I'll
00:23:54
see YouTube clips of Rodney and just go, damn, the amount of great jokes. Just appreciate those guys. It was funny with
00:24:01
Rickles like he had some sense that he he' done like some of these jokes before. So he would truncate them in a
00:24:09
way that sometimes cut out the setup to the joke. Yes. So like he had some jokes
00:24:13
about his wife like very like hey she with the jewelry she's signaling ships
00:24:18
and it was like wait but what led us to that? What [laughter] >> jewelry? She's got big jewelry.
00:24:24
>> Yeah. He's like he's doing Joan Rivers. >> Johnny Johnny it's over. Okay. You know,
00:24:29
it was all these >> I like Johnny it's over. That was funny. Johnny >> It's [laughter] over.
00:24:34
>> Yeah. Martin Short, who's we love, of course. You know, you're the compliment
00:24:38
and then the chairs pulled out, you know. [laughter] >> You know, now I love your show. When I
00:24:43
need to sleep, you know, it's just all I love. >> I was at a dinner at Martin Short's
00:24:48
house one night with Rickles and his wife Barbara. Oh my god. >> And they're sitting there, and this is
00:24:53
something I say to my wife a lot now because it made such an impression on me. Rickles is is trying to um he he's
00:25:00
he's telling a story that his wife Barbara has heard thousands of times, you know, and she would she would just
00:25:05
kind of fill in the blank like he'd be like and uh then uh and she'd be like
00:25:10
Vinnie Bumba and he's like oh Vinnie Boom, you know, whatever. And he get the
00:25:13
thing and she had had enough of these stories. I mean she had heard them too many times and and he said something and
00:25:19
she looks over him. She goes talk talk and she does a little hand motion. He's
00:25:25
talk talk. He goes talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk
00:25:28
talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk without without talk talk talk talk talk you'd
00:25:31
be a derelct [laughter] >> I say that to my wife sometimes but you'd be a derelct [laughter]
00:25:41
>> such goes perfect word >> Johnny Johnny your wife Alexis uh you're
00:25:46
going to pass away one day and she'll be like too bad about Johnny I'll take the
00:25:49
red dress [laughter] >> yeah he just >> he's outspending your money Johnny you
00:25:54
stand. [laughter] >> We went out to a >> He explains the joke to him.
00:25:58
>> We went out to dinner one night at um Craig's where um Don Rickle, you know,
00:26:04
like everybody >> the hangout place for sure. >> And uh at the end of the night, you
00:26:09
know, he was fragile. He was he was in his 80s at the time. At the end of the night, these uh two bus boys come over
00:26:16
uh two Mexican guys and to help him up. And um they help him up and he stands up
00:26:20
and he he gives them each $20 and he goes, "Hia, buy your mother a house."
00:26:25
[laughter] >> Reges Filman used to open for him and Regis said, "Honest to God, some nights
00:26:36
you don't know if he's going to make it out there. He gets two high balls in
00:26:38
him. He's rubbing his knees. They're playing the trumpet. Sometimes it doesn't happen." You know, [laughter]
00:26:44
>> rubbing his knees. >> Rubbing his knees as he goes out. relate to that to God. That was Regis.
00:26:51
That was his phrase. Otters to God. I got to tell you >> that's beautiful. I had Regis.
00:26:56
>> He goes, he shows he goes this guy in the crowd. His friends are upstairs in
00:27:01
your hotel room stealing all your stuff and then it's they cut. It's like Quincy
00:27:04
Jones going [laughter] my friends because he still there was a lapse there where he was doing those jokes a little
00:27:13
too late in the game and it was like [laughter] during the Oscars or something and I'm like wait a second I
00:27:18
don't I don't do that anymore. >> To have the band all with that trumpet
00:27:22
and his theme every time when he came out you know was a very cool thing. when he come on my show, he'd look around at
00:27:30
the band and we have a, you know, a Japanese guitar player and um two uh you know, Mexican guy, you know, so he'd go
00:27:37
right into it. And it was funny because I think the first time he was on the show, it got big laughs. And as the
00:27:43
years went on, people [laughter] became more sensitive >> and you know, nobody in the band cared.
00:27:47
They they all thought it was funny, but then it was the same jokes every freaking time. But um you [laughter]
00:27:52
know it it after a while it became like I just knew that what we were going to have to do he was going to come out. He
00:27:58
was going to do those racist jokes. I was going to edit all of those top that whole top of the segment out and I would
00:28:04
just take a beat let him do all those jokes and I'd say how are you [laughter]
00:28:10
see on TV. >> Yeah. You have to tell me the other day when you were talking to Kate Beckansale
00:28:16
is this a joke with the with the eggs? I didn't get >> it was not a joke. I didn't hear the end
00:28:20
of it and I was like is something going on I don't know about. >> Well, what happened was Kate Beckansales
00:28:27
>> Jody I don't think um Dana knows yet. Thank you. >> I don't know. I'm hearing it the story.
00:28:31
>> So Kate Beckansale the actor from England very uh very beautiful obviously
00:28:38
>> also very um funny like kind of weird you know and like funny like in way you
00:28:43
wouldn't expect. >> Her daughter's boyfriend laid a couple of eggs. not in the same
00:28:50
night. Um, over the course of a few weeks, an egg which I saw a photograph of and it looked it looked like a yellow
00:28:58
egg. It was hard to tell. >> This could possibly be a big story if it's true.
00:29:02
>> It could be a big story. It and it I still haven't gotten to the bottom of
00:29:06
it, but something that looked like an egg came out of his his um intestines >> and she showed me a picture of it. It
00:29:13
was pretty gross. It was hard to tell what the size was because there was no point of reference. It wasn't like
00:29:18
somebody's hand was in there, >> but >> it looked like an egg and then it
00:29:22
happened again a few weeks later. And they don't know what it was. They don't
00:29:26
know why it happened. And um they ruled out sexual play as a a cause of it. They
00:29:32
they don't know what it was. He didn't swallow a whole egg. It was perplexing
00:29:37
to all of them. >> The first thing would be maybe something was up there and then ultimately came
00:29:41
out. My guess is it was some kind of gelatinous mass that accumulated in his body.
00:29:48
>> Sickening. This is not the fun ending of it. >> Where has the world gone? I mean really
00:29:54
gone. >> So I understand there was a >> Johnny would have loved that.
00:29:58
>> And your rectum. You hear about that, Ed? >> Because the story was like 20 minutes.
00:30:02
I'm like get to the part where you're joking. I'm like, where is this going?
00:30:06
>> This was not a joke. It was, you know what it was really for me? I wanted to
00:30:10
hear the whole story. So that after we put it on YouTube, somebody would solve the mystery.
00:30:15
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What happened? No, >> I forgot about it. I didn't bother
00:30:18
>> to look. I'm going to look because I was going I used to know her a little bit.
00:30:22
I'm like I do know she does jokes and stuff, but that one it was too It wasn't
00:30:28
really a joke cuz she was going too long. I'm like, >> well, there was a picture of it, too.
00:30:32
So, >> and that's where I started to go, okay, I I jumped out, but I go I'm going to
00:30:35
just wait and ask Jimmy. Now, if Kate Beckansale fabricated that photograph, which was disgusting, by the way, I give
00:30:43
her even more credit because that's an extreme that she went to >> Randy Kaufman like situation.
00:30:48
>> Yeah. Yeah. That's something that's something a little extra special. But I
00:30:51
do think it's interesting when David, you say things like, "Yeah, I used I
00:30:54
knew her a little bit." And it makes me think, "Oh, what did you do to her,
00:30:58
David Spade?" >> No, we used to be friends. >> Yeah. What do you mean know her? I don't
00:31:04
know a little bit. No, I same thing as you. I'd see her out and she was always
00:31:09
saying like um very sharp like mean funny comments, right? >> She was like, "I have a sense of humor,
00:31:17
too, even though I'm really pretty." >> So, but that was fine. But she would do
00:31:21
jokes on my Instagram and stuff like that, you know, like make fun of me. That was it.
00:31:25
>> Um >> but I have more questions for you. Don't It's not over yet, Jimmy. Mhm. Uh, do
00:31:29
you have any interest in 31 Atlas? >> In 31 Atlas, >> the big monster spaceship coming to
00:31:39
America that's supposed to be a comet. >> Uh, I don't know anything about it.
00:31:44
>> You don't, Jimmy? >> But I'm now interested. It's coming
00:31:49
specifically to America or it might hit any part of the of the planet. I thought
00:31:54
you knew about this. Um 31 Atlas, which this should be most of your monologue. It is a comet.
00:32:01
>> Okay. >> And a lot of people from NASA, a lot of people are saying um that uh it doesn't
00:32:07
look like a comet. They think it's a spaceship. >> Oh. >> And it's on its way. And when it goes
00:32:14
around the sun, they'll know more about it. They said, "Okay." That was about a
00:32:18
month ago. And they said, "It doesn't do anything a comet does. It slows down. It
00:32:22
speeds up, it zigzags. They're like, "This could be the mother ship." And so,
00:32:26
it is sort of a story, but >> does it look like >> the scientific community? There's a few
00:32:31
people that sort of went along with it. So, >> what if it's the egg up the butt?
00:32:35
>> You're not connected this. >> I'm going to text Kate that can sail
00:32:39
right now just because the egg thing and the rocket ship. Let's see what she
00:32:42
says. >> Yeah. See what she says about that. I You know what, David? I You have my
00:32:46
curiosity peaked. I did not know about 31 Atlas. I did >> lazy writers they might know.
00:32:53
>> I did have a um long conversation about UFOs with my guest LA the night uh last
00:32:59
night Paul Anka >> um who is very into UFOs more >> the the the singer the singer
00:33:08
>> I was watching his thing last night >> my way. >> Yeah. Yeah.
00:33:11
>> Oh his Yeah. He watched his documentary last night. Yeah. He he's really into
00:33:14
UFOs and um you know we discussed various theories like including that they all are under the sea that that's
00:33:22
where they >> I think a lot of them come from the ocean. Yeah. >> Now are you a UFO guy, David?
00:33:27
>> Yeah, sort of. I mean just for something to do to seem interesting. >> Dana, are you um I'm more I I like
00:33:35
astrophysics. Like I like you know what are the odds that the Earth exists and that we're on it? Now I
00:33:43
guess right now it's two trillion to one. So they're looking for seeding
00:33:47
which would be 2001 of space odyssey because the bacteria how it got here the oceans came from comets and how it was
00:33:55
all stacked. It's two trillion to one that we're here and that fascinates me.
00:34:00
>> Yeah. >> Well yeah cuz I think we are here. >> I just blew his mind man.
00:34:04
>> Yeah you did. I mean I really didn't realize >> these are the same odds as the Jets
00:34:07
winning the uh Super Bowl. [laughter] But >> hire me. >> I'll fill out that monologue. Boom.
00:34:16
Boom. >> Let's [laughter] watch writers. >> Does Molly ever watch you? Molly's
00:34:21
Jimmy's wife reading your jokes in the morning and you scratch one out and she
00:34:25
goes, "Well, what's wrong with that one?" >> Um, we do have some things like that,
00:34:29
but I will tell you, um, and she'll be horrified that I told you the story. She
00:34:32
was very mad at you once because, um, she wrote a bit that you liked, um, for the show and you're a guest on the show.
00:34:40
>> Okay. And um they worked on it for a long time and you seemed to be into it
00:34:43
in the in the dressing room and you guys like kind of worked it out the whole thing and then once you got on the air
00:34:49
you looked you looked at whatever the piece of paper you're like h this is not
00:34:53
funny I'm not going to do [laughter] >> they were no way >> they were going wild backstage like god
00:34:59
the host >> yeah when no when you're a guest on the show yeah when you're a guest
00:35:04
>> what a [ __ ] not like me but plus I like mine >> it sounds so much like you. It sounds
00:35:12
Molly helped me when I did the one where >> where I was the talent coordinator and
00:35:18
Julie Bone was there and I was the new talent coordinator and I was asking her interviewing her pre-in that I liked. I
00:35:24
thought that was funny. [laughter] >> All right, I'll tell her. I'll let her
00:35:28
know. >> And she helped me with that. But >> she's over it. She's over it. But it was
00:35:32
uh you know for >> I love that story because I don't know what it is. when you tell me and then I
00:35:36
realize it's true and I find out more, I'll be like, "Oh, what a primadonna."
00:35:41
[laughter] >> Well, it's you know what it's when you have that kind of talent, you're you're
00:35:47
entitled to be a primadonna from time to time. >> Well, I I think the only problem would
00:35:51
have been if I think I wasn't good in or something. I was like, I could not.
00:35:56
Sometimes stuff gets written for me, even on the old show, and I'd be like, I
00:35:59
don't think I can pull this off. Like, it's good. I'm just not as good in it as
00:36:02
I thought I'd be. >> Something like that. We saw that play out in real time.
00:36:06
>> Yeah. [ __ ] kill you. You're not supposed to go along with my what
00:36:10
[laughter] I say. You're supposed to say I'm a super talent. >> It's all It all sounds very logical.
00:36:16
Have you What are [clears throat] the people who've sat in that chair? >> Uhhuh.
00:36:20
>> Yeah. Man or woman where the the charisma or their beauty or whatever that was just vibrating a little almost
00:36:27
like distracting. >> Oh yeah, that does happen from time to time. It is interesting. Yeah, some
00:36:34
people just like have this this thing and the audience just gets wild. Like first of all, when there's like a a
00:36:40
good-looking guy, especially a young guy on the show, good-looking guy. You look
00:36:44
around the audience, you realize, oh, half of these women think they might [ __ ] him. Like they they're [laughter]
00:36:49
here to potentially be pulled out of this audience to be [ __ ] by this guy. Yeah. And they and I think that's a
00:36:57
that's something that only women have like that thought like we never like we
00:37:00
wouldn't show up to see Galadote and think like she's going to pull me out of
00:37:05
the audience. >> They rarely like stop at a commercial and go this is a little unorthodox but
00:37:10
this gorgeous woman in the fourth row. Could she come backstage with me right now? The main tell of this is like women
00:37:16
will chase teen idols like obviously the Beatles chasing them but you never see men
00:37:22
>> chasing a woman and >> no cuz they'd be arrested. Exactly. >> You know they would be arrested and if
00:37:28
they are chasing them they're probably gay. I mean let's [laughter] be honest,
00:37:32
you know. >> Sh let's be honest. Let's be honest. [laughter] >> I love let's be honest about everything.
00:37:39
Uh, I get it because sometimes when we were on SNL, by the way, this isn't really even an SNL podcast anymore. We
00:37:46
do whatever. But when we were on there and you would meet a host, when I saw like Sharon Stone, even Alec Baldwin's
00:37:53
first time in the meeting, >> I would think to myself, >> this person is a movie star. Like, this
00:38:00
>> has star quality. They're great looking. They sound cool the way they walk in.
00:38:05
And there's some I thought were just flatlining. Here's a list. No, I'm
00:38:09
kidding. But um [laughter] there's some where you go, I don't even get this at
00:38:13
all. I don't know. >> But you know, you remember that, David, where it's the the hostesses come in on
00:38:17
Monday and they come to your office and they go, Robert Mitchum would like to meet you. You're like, what? Charlton H
00:38:24
is down there. You're just walking, you open the door, and then you're meeting
00:38:27
these iconic people. It's just very surreal. I would say that the the best answer to that question is probably
00:38:35
Oprah, who >> yeah, >> like >> I didn't get the whole Oprah thing for
00:38:41
much of my life. In fact, I did a show called The Man Show that was designed specifically to counteract Oprah and uh
00:38:48
my wife my ex-wife would watch Oprah and then I'd walk in I'd come home from work
00:38:53
and she'd be yelling at me for something she saw on Oprah and I was like, "Who is
00:38:57
this Oprah? Why is she ruining my life?" like it was it became personal with me
00:39:02
and and but when she you know I think we did the show for like 10 years before we
00:39:07
had her on the show and I was like >> oh wow I get it now because she was like
00:39:13
she just was a presence almost a religious experience for everyone there and she was so she she understood what
00:39:22
she was to everybody and she gave them that thing and she like we had I think we shot a bit with Oprah. That was a
00:39:30
really, really funny bit. It started at 5:00 in the morning and it went till very late at night. It was an all, it
00:39:37
was more than an all day thing. It was a whole bunch of setups and we and the day
00:39:41
started with Oprah in my bathtub in my dressing room. Like, that's how that's
00:39:45
how the day started. So, we spent the whole day together and then, you know, you'd expect after a 17-hour day that
00:39:53
Oprah would hightail it the [ __ ] out of there. But instead, Oprah got a bottle
00:39:59
or a couple of bottles of very expensive tequila and she gathered everyone on the
00:40:04
crew and everyone together and gathered around and gave this beautiful toast to everyone and then took pictures with
00:40:12
everyone. And then then and only then when she had like interacted with every single person there did she get in the
00:40:19
car and leave. And I was like I now I understand. >> Mhm. >> Some people get that they're a big deal
00:40:24
and they this is the only time people see them and they make it like a nice thing.
00:40:30
>> Yeah. Yeah. Some people really understand that. And I've had experiences in my life before I was on
00:40:36
television where I I've met people and who meant a lot to me and then didn't
00:40:42
then you know they were always cordial or whatever but when you don't get that
00:40:46
kind of like >> you don't get warmth back you don't get anything really back it's it's
00:40:52
disappointing and um you know I always feel like I never want to be that uh that person who disappoints.
00:41:00
>> There is a force field. There was an actress. I was doing some Tom Hanks.
00:41:04
Anyway, long story short, and I was approaching the table, there were other people and I just wanted to say hello
00:41:09
and I just saw the radar come up like and I sort of I just waved, you know, because there are certain people are so
00:41:16
famous that they're it's exhausting for I just got to tell you, >> you know, it's like you meet Paul
00:41:22
McCartney, I'm sure you've met him several times. I just got to tell you
00:41:25
what you meant to me. >> Yeah. >> And it's hard. I mean, I saw Jimmy Steu
00:41:28
I met Jimmy Stewart and at an event, you know, AFI Kirk Douglas Salute and I got
00:41:34
I I was young. I just had been on SNL for a few months and I walked over to Jimmy Stewart and he grabbed my hand and
00:41:40
he just said, "I know. I know." [laughter] >> Wow. I mean, heard it
00:41:45
>> so much. >> But that's what I learned about show business around the table. People are
00:41:50
talking, you know, and they kind of said, "Yeah, Jimmy Stewart not working much anymore." And I go, "Then you can't
00:41:57
[ __ ] win show business." [laughter] >> Yeah. >> There's no winning. He's 83. Not getting
00:42:02
the nah. >> Someone goes, "Is he still in the business?" And you go, "Oh my Oh, yeah.
00:42:07
It's tough." If you see people come up, they're a little nervous and they got
00:42:10
their phone and you just skip the middle part and you go, "You want to take a
00:42:13
picture?" It sounds so cocky, but it is what they want. >> But they're just that, too.
00:42:18
>> It takes the eight minutes in the middle out. So, >> I had a guy I had a kid who was like
00:42:24
looking at me and he had his phone and I was like uh I was at I was at like a hockey rink or something and uh um I
00:42:32
just see him doing it and I was just like hey uh you want to take a picture? He's like what?
00:42:37
>> I said do you want to take a picture? He goes, >> "No, you just you got you have mustard
00:42:41
all over your face." [laughter] >> I know. >> I like Oh, okay. I mean,
00:42:49
>> but I did go back to Jimmy Stewart after the dinner was over and um >> and he goes, "Well, you already already
00:42:56
said hello to me. What the [ __ ] do you want from [laughter] me?" Jesus. I go,
00:43:00
"God, it's a wonderful life." Not >> I just did that for Jimmy Stewart. When
00:43:06
you go to like one of these parties, it's kind of show busy and then you see
00:43:09
someone you like. You do partially part of you wants them to like somewhat or know what you do. And when they
00:43:17
don't, it's such a blank stare. It's like, oh, [laughter] >> I mean, it's nice to meet them, but you
00:43:22
kind of wish they saw something I did on TBS at some point on a rerun and said, "Hey, weren't you some guy in some
00:43:31
stupid shit?" >> It is funny what you don't want. Like you're like, "I don't want to be
00:43:34
bothered. I don't want to put it in there. You're like, "Oh, you know, you
00:43:38
know who I am, right?" [laughter] >> Dude, it's like everyone in the DMV line
00:43:42
talks to you and then you get up to the lady and she doesn't know you and she's
00:43:45
like, "This isn't going to work." And I'm like, "Uh, don't like you should be
00:43:50
the one that's fawning over me to help me, but the one person that matters doesn't give a fat fuck." And they're
00:43:56
like, "Yeah, back of the line. Start over." I'm like, "God dang it."
00:43:59
>> Yeah. I'm most embarrassed, most ashamed of myself when I um start um dropping
00:44:04
things um in front of my kids friends, you know, like uh oh, look at look at who texted me, Olivia Rodrigo.
00:44:13
[laughter] >> That is a good when you go to someone younger, you're like, "Oh, I guess we
00:44:17
got Sydney Sweeney on the show tonight." Yawn. And they're like, "She's coming
00:44:22
in." Yeah, yawn. [laughter] You add that. No, it's I We all sound like [ __ ]
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00:45:39
>> Give me a couple are you like who's your closest um friend in show business?
00:45:45
>> Yeah. >> Or one of the closest you you seem to be you're very social.
00:45:50
Jesus doesn't count. Um >> Mhm. >> It counts. Yeah. >> Who is my closest? Well,
00:45:56
>> is there a kind of a posi with Jennifer Aniston and you and Jason Bakeman? And
00:46:01
there's a group of friends. I >> I had dinner with them all last night as
00:46:05
a >> serious power bar. >> Yes. with Paul Anka. >> And it's funny what we were just talking
00:46:13
about a second ago because Cindy Looper happened to be there and she came up to the table and we were excited to see her
00:46:19
and >> she drove all night >> and Paul was um happy to see her and Paul said, "Hey, you know, I covered
00:46:25
Time After Time on one of my albums and she had no idea [laughter] >> who he was." She's like, "You did?" He
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said, "Yeah, I did." And uh then he said, "I'll send it to you and she goes,
00:46:36
"I'll look it up." [laughter] I owe that guy five grand. I owe Paul an
00:46:42
five grand. >> What did you do? >> Kevin Pollock had a birthday party in
00:46:46
Vegas. We had a room playing blackjack. I'm terrible. Paul Anka comes in. I have
00:46:51
$500 spend. He sits next to me and he starts coaching me in blackjack. You got to whack it. Whack it. Split it. Whack
00:46:59
it. Whack it. >> Split it. >> Within a half hour is up to five grand.
00:47:04
>> Yeah. Oh, >> I did it my way, but I've never publicly thanked Paul Anka.
00:47:09
>> Well, I feel like you should you should get to keep some of that, shouldn't you?
00:47:12
Since it was your money that you were investing. [laughter] >> What if he just took it and walked away
00:47:16
and he >> But he was kind of brilliant at I bet he's probably banned from the tables or
00:47:21
something. I don't know. >> In that documentary, he's in Vegas all
00:47:24
the time. >> Yeah, he spent he lived in Vegas for a for a very long time. >> It was very cool to hear him talk. I
00:47:30
mean, My Way is obviously a huge one. I was thinking, what is Sinatra's most
00:47:33
well-known hit? Is it my way New York? New York or >> other? >> I think it's
00:47:40
>> I could talk about him. >> Strangers in the Night and uh I think Strangers in the Night.
00:47:44
>> It's got to be my way. It it it's my way. >> Okay. Can I just as a fan out for a
00:47:50
second, you know, Late Night and car stereoss are [ __ ] nuts, right? Uh Got You Under My Skin
00:47:56
>> is so brilliant and the way he sings it and the lyrics and also the Summerwind.
00:48:02
Summerland is one of those very go through the V. You know, he died in my arms. You know that story, right?
00:48:08
>> Frank Sinatra died in your arms. >> I was in Cedar Sinai getting a stent in
00:48:13
those days and um >> and then there was this hub. I was just reading a magazine. It was like
00:48:18
midnight. They go, "Oh Frank Sinatra just checked in and uh he was in the room next to me. They took him down to
00:48:24
the ICU and he passed away that night." >> Mhm. >> Wow. >> But before that,
00:48:29
>> in your arms. Well, before that, I just snuck out of my room and kind of knocked
00:48:33
and go, >> you know, and we had a moment. >> Did you sing that's life? [laughter]
00:48:39
>> I just want to tell you >> that's you go. You should take a selfie,
00:48:44
but it was like too late. He's like, just real quick before you take, [laughter]
00:48:48
>> would you mind Mr. Sinatra? >> I just have to tell you, just real
00:48:53
quick. >> I just got to tell you. I got to tell you. I got to tell you. I like to go the
00:48:58
fat just checked in like it's a hotel. >> Oh, >> well, it was just sort of surreal,
00:49:03
right? Just like >> how crazy. >> I know. Why was I there that night when
00:49:07
he was Everyone's got stories like that. >> I had a bunch of nobodyies.
00:49:10
>> Have you ever had a polter guy? So, you ever had a out of body ghost experience,
00:49:15
Jimmy? >> Me? >> Yeah. Jimmy, >> it's weird you say that with uh when
00:49:18
you're talking about hospitals because the reason uh No, I haven't. And the
00:49:21
reason I don't believe in ghosts is because I feel that if there was such a thing, there would be hundreds of
00:49:28
thousands of them in every hospital because that's where people die. And it would just be like you wouldn't be able
00:49:34
to get into the elevator. There would be so many ghosts. And yet, I've never seen
00:49:38
or even heard a report of a a ghost at a hospital. >> H Yeah, >> that's good theory. H
00:49:46
>> Yeah. Have you >> Let me just crack a story about this. I I had a wake either a waking dream
00:49:52
state, but we I was this San Cedro Ranch Hotel with my wife in the 80s. So, we just go to sleep and then um I feel this
00:50:00
pressure pulling me back in the mattress like >> pushing on you >> in the middle of the night pushing down
00:50:05
on me. I What the [ __ ] So, I get up, I use the restroom, I'm adrenalized like
00:50:10
what a weird dream. I just assumed intellectually I was in a waking dream state.
00:50:16
>> Yeah. >> Sleep paralysis they call it. And then when I went back back in, I thought I
00:50:20
was as awake as I am right now. And then it started again and it was aggressive and it was pounding and holding me back
00:50:28
and I was like really flipped out. So middle of the night, 3:00 a.m. my wife's
00:50:33
asleep. This is why we've been married a long time. I tapped her on the shoulder
00:50:38
and I said, "We got to leave." And she said, "Okay." She [laughter] didn't even
00:50:42
ask why. >> No explanation. Well, then I explained it to her and there was a painting of a
00:50:48
little girl with curly red hair on a tricycle from like 1880 that flipped me out.
00:50:53
>> Nope. >> And we left. And then it was there was a stormy night and there was either a rat
00:50:59
or some kind of animal on the road. And so anyway, that happened to me and I just talked to someone recently who had
00:51:06
the same paralysis, but then when they got up to go to the bathroom, they were standing and the thing was pushing
00:51:12
against them. >> Oh, wow. Oh wow. >> It's just sort of I don't have an
00:51:16
explanation for it, but it never left me as far as just like what the [ __ ] >> Wow. Yeah. No, I've never had anything.
00:51:23
Nothing ever happened. >> You feel any pressure on this podcast? Like you can't get out. You've already
00:51:28
done a 14 hour day. You feel like it just goes on and on. [laughter] >> What if I learned that you guys are
00:51:34
ghosts and I just sat here for an hour with two ghosts? >> I just go to h how do we get here? Why
00:51:41
are we here? what's going on here? So then I sort of opens my mind like what
00:51:45
the [ __ ] What are we doing here? >> It is. Yeah. I I don't know if there's
00:51:50
an answer though. I I feel like >> we're just But aliens, >> we're just here. Yeah, maybe we came on
00:51:56
the earlier comet. >> What's under the pyramids? Go [laughter] >> dirt.
00:52:04
>> Okay, you got that one right. That was lucky. Okay. >> I would [laughter] say Walt Disney's
00:52:09
head is underneath the pyramids. >> No, I have a lot of pyramid talk. I'm
00:52:15
going to save it. >> He's a UFO pyramid guy. I'm more >> No, I think the pyramids go down deep
00:52:21
and I think there's things down there and they they're kind of like antennas.
00:52:25
I I don't know. It's all weird. It's just something to do. It's better than
00:52:28
drugs. Can I just mention very quickly before we wrap up, which is we're living
00:52:32
in a science fiction world and that >> these giant companies are building these
00:52:37
data centers to get super intelligence that will supposedly solve cancer and energy. And so we're in the middle of
00:52:45
this thing that is like a science fiction movie. >> Uh and the energy they need and how vast
00:52:51
it is and the I mean what? >> Yeah. Yeah. Well, >> well, yeah, we're in a lot of trouble.
00:52:58
There's no question about it. Hopefully the all the energy that AI needs, hopefully AI will figure out how to
00:53:04
provide all the energy that it needs. >> True. >> And if it is something that we should
00:53:10
all fear, it probably will figure that out for itself. But in the meantime, it's uh not great for people who like to
00:53:17
have their air conditioner on in the summer, >> right? And isn't it weird that you I
00:53:22
never thought about like the idea that it took power to do any of this stuff. Like I was like what what power is this?
00:53:29
I'm writing in like give me a synonym for um Cheerios and uh you know coming
00:53:35
back with a list of this is what I I use it as a thesaurus and then there's some
00:53:40
data center somewhere that is that requires a huge amount of energy to do all this [ __ ] Who knew that? You go on
00:53:49
uh Sora, I I have Sora Pro. You make up a video. It goes all the way to a da d d
00:53:55
d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d da and
00:53:56
then it gets inside the data center and the GPUs, all the chips and there's inference which makes it intelligent and
00:54:04
that's where it's exponentially going to increase. Anyway, I find it fascinating,
00:54:08
a little scary, but yeah, they need energy. They need energy. >> So much so much smarter than I imagined,
00:54:13
especially when it lined up right next to David. I mean, >> I'm about the same as what you thought.
00:54:18
>> Uh, yeah. Yeah. No. Yeah. A little less. There's a little less, but yeah.
00:54:21
>> Well, we This is a Christmas theme. I didn't want to bring it up. And he's
00:54:24
green and I'm red. And it's sort of our own little joke. >> There's Dana's tree behind him.
00:54:29
>> Oh, I like [laughter] that. >> You have to have a plant when you do
00:54:32
your podcast. You got to have a fake plant. >> You do have to have one. And Dane, I
00:54:37
David, I noticed you have a little rocket ship behind you. Is that um representative of your UFO fascination?
00:54:43
>> No, I don't think so. I think we just rotate things around back there.
00:54:46
>> I see. They're just general. There's props. >> Yeah, there's books.
00:54:50
>> He's got a cool set. I Here's my last question. >> Yeah. What's your next When we go
00:54:55
Goodbye, Jimmy. What's your next one hour like? >> Yeah. Where do you go? Podcast.
00:55:00
>> I will go change out of the suit. I will take off my suit. Y >> I will um
00:55:05
>> take a bath. >> I will go home >> and I live about 15 minutes away.
00:55:10
>> Nice. >> And I will catch my kids before they go to sleep. And then my son will demand
00:55:15
that I lay with him, which he makes me do each night. And I will lay with him in bed until he falls asleep.
00:55:23
>> Usually I fall asleep before he does. And then I have to wake back up and go
00:55:26
do my homework, which is kind of miserable. But he's 8 years old. He still likes me to lay in bed with him
00:55:32
until he falls asleep. And even though we feel he's too old for that, um, we
00:55:36
love it. So, uh, we don't want to, you know, we don't really want it to stop.
00:55:41
>> I think age is fine. And I think 18 we could talk. >> I did it till probably nine.
00:55:47
>> Eight is fine. You know, love them up. Do you read books to them and stuff like
00:55:51
that? >> We are. Well, we read children's books, but also we've been read we we just
00:55:55
finished book four of Harry Potter, which I'd not read before, >> right?
00:55:59
>> And uh then that that's um that's fun. That's my daughter, my son, and I that's
00:56:04
our our thing. And then at the end of each book, we will watch the movie. >> And then when Oh, yeah. Yeah, I mean
00:56:11
Harry Potter is is brilliant for what it is and it's generational now. So when do
00:56:16
you actually go lights out? Like when can you get asleep after all this stimulation? Like by 9:30 or 10 kind of.
00:56:23
>> No, I'll go to bed later than that. Usually around 11:30 or so last night. I
00:56:28
think I was up till 12:30 because we went out to dinner. But um yeah, I'll get to bed. I don't you know I I I like
00:56:34
to stay up left to my own devices. I would be up until 4:00 in the morning every night. Really? And I'd wake up at
00:56:40
noon. But um that's not um realistic for me. >> So you're nocturnal.
00:56:45
>> I am. Yeah. >> Genetically. >> Yeah. I think just like I have a loud
00:56:49
Italian family and it was the only time it was quiet in the house was late at night after everyone had gone to sleep.
00:56:56
So that was my like my time to watch Letterman and and just kind of stay up and work on little projects. That's John
00:57:03
Travolta's thing is the world stops and it's very quiet and he's nocturnal. I
00:57:08
think he's up pretty much all night and then sleeps. >> I'm actually up with John Travolta that
00:57:14
time [laughter] together talking about flying planes. >> You know, Jimmy Kimmel comes over and
00:57:20
you know, we spoon a little bit, but there's nothing going on. We just like being up late at night together. That's
00:57:26
him from 1975. >> Pretty good. Rock and rolling one night guy. That's That's my John Travolta
00:57:32
right there. Yeah, I like that. >> Oh, wow. Him and >> Vinnie Barbarino.
00:57:36
>> Yeah. And you know, Pulp Fiction. I You just love love that guy. And he's he's
00:57:41
the nicest celebrity I've ever met of a superstar. >> He is very nice. Yeah. Yeah. He's super
00:57:46
nice. Yeah. You know, most of them are, you know, most I mean, I'm sure like
00:57:49
everybody's got their own things, but I have this I've kind of over the years I
00:57:54
just kind of go like, "Oh, okay. Well, even if he is pretending to be nice,
00:58:00
he's pretending to be nice." And that's um being nice. That is [laughter]
00:58:04
>> actually being nice. >> Yes, I agree. That is a good way to look at it.
00:58:08
>> Like that maniac Tom Cruz, he come he was on our show and it was one of these
00:58:14
things like Tom has to be out of here at 6:04. If Tom it goes 1 second over 604,
00:58:22
you are, you know, he will will never be, you know, they were very very very >> adamant. We're like, "Okay, don't worry.
00:58:28
We're going to be now Tom uh being Tom Cruz seems to have no idea of this and
00:58:33
decides to go into the audience and greet every single person in [laughter] the audience which they are over the
00:58:39
moon about. They are absolutely out of their minds with joy. But it takes a you know a very long time and it turns out
00:58:46
whatever that deadline was wasn't so hard after all. >> Wow. >> They they they're all scared of their
00:58:53
job. I've seen that all over the place. And then the actual person goes, I don't
00:58:57
even know what you're talking about. >> Yeah. Right. Yeah. >> That seems so Tom Cruz
00:59:03
>> to go in and meet every person. I mean, the drive of this guy is just my I mean,
00:59:09
I will go to every movie. He's hanging off the plane. He's holding his breath
00:59:13
for six minutes. I mean, you just go for the spectacle of what he's putting himself through physically to entertain
00:59:19
you. >> Yeah. Now that I think about it, maybe the reason Yes. Maybe it's all this being nice to
00:59:26
everybody all the time and greeting all these people. Maybe that is why he's
00:59:30
trying to kill himself on film. [laughter] >> Yeah, he's like an old school movie star. You
00:59:35
don't really see him and then when he comes out he saves all his energy and then he's super nice to everyone and
00:59:40
very energetic and then he hides again because >> the old days we were talking you didn't
00:59:45
see Carrie Grant on TikTok that much. She didn't see all these people and then
00:59:50
they were kind of stars then you saw their movie and then they disappeared and now it's everyone's everywhere.
00:59:56
>> They call him the last movie star but he he rejects the title. You know I think
01:00:01
you know Brad Pitt uh this summer and Tom Cruz it's kind of cool guys in the
01:00:07
early 60s looking great being action stars and still at the top of their game you know.
01:00:13
>> Yeah. Still hard as a rock in the sack. >> Yeah. I'm sorry. Oh, sorry. Did I say
01:00:17
that out loud? >> Yeah. Yeah. Muscular problem. >> If you take a Tom Cruz and you take uh
01:00:24
you know Brad Pitt in the musculature of the >> and the the abs and all the delts.
01:00:32
[laughter] >> We love >> Jimmy. Thank you for doing this after your show and do this next hour and hang
01:00:38
out with your son and thank you for coming on. >> If you like I could just bring the Zoom
01:00:43
and we could just I could try we could I could drive home with me. you can see what's going on there and uh [laughter]
01:00:49
>> maybe >> always lots of laughs. We always crack up. Every time on your show, we crack up
01:00:53
the whole time. So, it's great to see you and uh thank you, buddy. >> It's great to see you guys. You guys are
01:00:59
the best. And um and David, if I see you walking. >> Yeah. >> Um I'm going to bounce. So,
01:01:05
>> yeah, do a bit, dude. For sure. >> Definitely. >> I'm so embarrassing in the real world,
01:01:09
so just do something that'll [laughter] be for sure embarrassing to me. Uh all
01:01:14
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