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Today's episode, you guys know him.
He does the booking here.
He's also a rising actor in the Hollywood scene.
He's got so much energy.
He's one of a kind.
We're so happy to have him here and how we met him is absolutely fascinating and came to be in his life.
I mean, it's just, it's, here he is, ladies and gentlemen.
From the new movie, Ma, which comes out tomorrow.
Which comes out tomorrow.
Thank you.
Nick is in here.
Which comes out tomorrow.
our friend, Mr. Gianni Paolo.
Oh.
All right.
Here we go.
Sitting here with this guy, huh?
Gianni.
What's up, man?
I'm chilling.
How are you?
I'm good.
I'm good, man.
How are you today?
I'm good.
It's kind of weird because we set everything up and we usually like get everything together and then I just go sit over there and chill and it's weird being in the seat.
Yeah, man.
It's weird having you in the seat, man.
It's exciting.
I know you...
And Gianni just hit up the podcast like maybe, what, a year ago and just said, hey, man, I like the podcast.
Yeah.
I think about through Burn.
Oh, that's right.
So I filmed the movie in Mississippi, kind of where Theo grew up a little bit.
Yeah.
And then I just remember talking because I always talk about comedy.
Like, I love it.
And I was listening to the podcast on set while before I would go and film my scenes.
I'd be listening to this past weekend.
And one of the PAs came up to me, my friend Jared, and he knocked on the door.
He's like, are you listening to Theo?
And I was like, yeah, dude, I love Theo.
And he's like, oh, like Byrne, like the guys at Smoots down there, like they all know Theo.
And I was like, really?
So we filmed the movie or whatever.
And then afterwards, like.
And no one knows who Byrne is.
Right.
Byrne is the drummer in Bishop Gunn, whose dad, I used to work on his farm in the summertime up in Mississippi.
So he was working as a PA or as a transport or something on the movie that you filmed in Mississippi.
So you ran into one of his buddies and he's like, oh, Byrne knows him.
And then that's how it all came to pass.
Yeah.
And then I was like, I'd love to help, you know, help the podcast.
I love it.
I listen to it, you know, and I do social media stuff.
So that's kind of how we all linked up.
And then, yeah, the rest is history.
That's it.
We've been together for a year.
A year, dude.
And so first I want to talk about the movie.
So the movie is Octavia Spencer is the lead of the movie.
Yes.
Is that a safe term?
Yeah.
She's like the main lead.
Okay.
And so the movie is called Ma and it comes out.
May 31st.
So this is going to air May 30th.
So tomorrow it comes out.
Okay.
Yeah.
Wow.
So the movie comes out tomorrow.
And you can see Gianni, who does all of like, who does all of our booking.
And here's a trailer, a little bit of it.
Can we watch this or listen to it or not?
Or we won't be able to.
He's going to check with the publicists.
I think we're going to get whitelisted on it.
But yeah, if you want to watch a little bit of it.
Okay, cool.
So let's take a peek at the trailer and we can't.
Okay.
Woo!
Maggie came to party.
Let's get filthy.
Watch your sipping on the Excuse me.
Can you buy some booze for my friends and I?
Not interested, please.
Hell.
There's my girl.
This never happened, okay?
Thanks again for doing this, ma'am.
You guys want to party like rock stars?
Follow me.
Let's get drunk.
The bar is open.
What do you think?
We don't know this chick.
It ain't much, but it's all you.
Cool basement.
You're free to do whatever you want down here, but let's stop real quick.
So we got a bunch of white kids going to drink in a black woman's basement, right?
Correct.
Basically.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
We have one, there's another African-American with us.
Okay.
So, and is there any, like, is any of the movies like a, is there racial stuff in the movie or not really?
So much towards the end, there's like a, you will see it in the trailer.
It does touch on it a little bit, but it's not, it really has nothing to do with like the film in that sense.
Like, it's just more like, yeah, like a black woman can be a serial killer, too.
You know what I mean?
Oh, really?
Yeah.
You just give away the whole movie?
No, no, I'm just saying, like, like, it's possible for a black woman to be like a villain.
You know what I mean?
I didn't mean she's a serial kid.
Oh, I see what you're saying.
Oh, yeah, I guess that's true, huh?
They don't have like a lot.
Well, I guess even just growing up, they didn't have like a lot of black characters in a lot of movies.
I'm trying to think of like a black villain that they had.
Yeah.
Gray skull member, that guy from He-Man.
Well, see, what I find interesting is, like, I, like, would look in the internet and people like, um, would get upset that they'd be like, well, why is the African-American the villain?
Yeah.
I'm like, no, that's, like, the total opposite of like what Octavia wants.
Like, she wants to be the villain.
Yeah.
Like, she wants to, everyone can play every role.
Like, there's not like a, she doesn't have to play a nurse or a maid in every movie.
Right, of course.
Yeah, and there's always black, like, there's this thing out there that's just black anger.
Like, anytime a black person, like, open, like, breathes, somebody's like, oh, why do they have to breathe?
You know?
Yeah.
Like, a black person, like, oh, they have to breathe in the same planet as white people, you know?
So sometimes you just get that black anger out there.
Was it intimidating?
Because this is your first, like, lead.
So, so you're one of the, what do you play in the film?
So I play Chaz.
He is a, it's one of the teens where we party with Octavia.
And it's just like a high school kid.
There's five of us.
And yeah, and we meet Octavia and she starts buying us booze and alcohol.
Is it real booze when you're on the movie?
No, it's just water.
Oh.
Yeah.
So what thing you have to pretend to be drunk?
Yeah.
You have to like, you have to, like, also, there's also a scene, there's a clip of it on the Instagram where I like drink the water and I go, oh.
And I was like, it's just literally water, but you have to like, I guess, play it as if it was.
But the worst part was the fucking joints.
Like, because I smoked the whole movie in pretty much every scene and I'm smoking the joints and it's like fake tobacco.
So you're like, I'm waking up, my lungs are fried because I'm smoking it for like four hours.
Right, you're still smoking.
Yeah.
But it's not even real tobacco.
Would you have rather have been just regular tobacco?
I would have rather it have been like maybe like vape juice or like something like that.
Like not because they would roll joints like that.
Like I would rather have just vaped the whole movie instead of like just legit like because you're still smoking like the spliffs.
Is that what they call them?
Like the horse legs, boy.
Yeah.
The big jaunts.
Yeah, dude.
Of course, Gianni's name is Chaz in the movie.
All my names have been Brayden and Power, Chaz, Brian.
I forgot there was.
Brayden and Chaz.
Dude, those are such, I feel like those are like white slave names, I feel like.
You're going to get me in trouble, dude.
No, I'm sorry.
I'm just whipping Gianni.
My name is Gianni Paolo.
Sure it is.
You don't have an identity, boy.
Your name is Randall.
Yeah, and you're rushing a fraternity.
So you get put into a lot of roles.
I know you've said this.
And so also, so just to clarify, so also Gianni's done all the booking.
Gianni Kimon has done all the booking for almost all the guests that we've had, really, or reached out to them.
I've gotten a couple hitters, but yeah, for the most part.
For the most part, it does help a lot.
We get a good thing going.
Yeah, no, you guys have been great, man.
And you guys put up with me a lot of times, which I know isn't easy, especially over text message.
And name five guests that we've tried to get that we haven't gotten.
That people love, that they really want.
Danny McBride, who I've tried a lot.
Recently, Chris Pratt, he's busy.
I'm just trying to think of the ones more recent.
Like Ana Ferris, like people who also have podcasts, Dak Shepard.
Those are the people who I have reached out to just because they're kind of in that world and it's realistic.
Okay.
Boosie.
Lil Boosie.
We tried him.
Yeah, we've tried him.
Pretty much in the group, everyone who's been like, we really want him.
I'm like, I tried him three months ago.
I tried him last week.
Amanda Knox.
Amanda Knox, we tried her a lot.
So yeah, we try.
Norm McDonald.
We should kill her roommate.
That would get her in here.
Sorry, dude.
That's best.
And that's a joke if anybody's roommates ever died.
So we tried almost dead.
Like, are we strategic about it?
What's it like to reach out to somebody?
Because you do that.
What's that like?
I don't mind it just because it's publicists.
So it's like they're people.
Like I don't have Chris Pratt's email.
You know what I mean?
I would like to.
I bet it's Chris Pratt at Gmail.
Yeah.
So I just reached out to publicists and I'm like, listen, well, see, I was talking to Nick about this before you came in.
It kind of upsets me the whole, like, what's going on now because a lot of people to go and promote movies, they're going on Kimmel.
They're going on like weird cable like cooking shows and to promote things the generic way that it's always been done.
And that's not the way people are listening anymore.
They don't get the views anymore.
It's podcasts.
It's Joe Rogan.
It's you.
It's Tiger Belly.
Like those are the ones that that's what's getting the listens from the millennials.
And that's what this movie is about, which is why I've been going on podcasts to promote.
I mean, I wouldn't go on Kimmel anyways because I'm not big enough, but like this is it.
This is like what the studios have to realize.
Like this is where people are going to go to.
And it's a full-length thing.
Yeah.
Like if they're listening to a clip on Jimmy Kimmel and they're talking about Zach Efron, you know, his dick came out in a movie scene or something like that.
Who was on a plane with me a week ago?
I saw his plane.
He walked by three times, dude.
Dude, I love him.
I mean, like, in like a straight way.
He kept trying to pretend he was all tired when he was walking by every time.
Really?
Yeah.
Was he in first class with you?
I was like, you can't be that tired and walk up an aisle three times.
Just yawning and stretching.
Yeah.
Like he'd like seven fake yawns.
Like he was almost a cheerleader by the end of it.
Where was he coming from?
Like where was this when you went to New York to New York?
Yeah.
But so did you send yourself an email to get booked on here then?
Yeah, I did.
I sent myself a confirmation.
Yeah.
Weeks without a reply, too.
Yeah.
Yeah, weeks without a reply.
Who was the one that Gianni, we missed him because Gianni dropped the ball.
Who was it?
Callan.
But I didn't drop the ball.
It was Brian Callan.
Yeah.
Because he pretended he never had the ball.
He knew.
Brian knew that he was coming on this past weekend, but it conflicted with Rogan.
So like they're right across the wall.
So I assume they're going to do their episode and then just come.
He's going to walk in here after because I confirmed with him like a week before this.
And then he went on Rogan.
So he's like, oh, You forgot about Dio, but you went on Rogan.
Okay.
Yeah.
I think if you hear the word Rogan, you just forget about everything.
But I don't blame him.
It's like, I'm going to go to Rogan or I'm going to go to Danny's over here where these guys are fucking shoveling bootleg CBD oil that's mint flavored.
Shout out Uncommon Apothecary.
Yeah, shout out Uncommon Apothecary.
Well, dude, first of all, I just want to say thanks so much, man.
And second of all, yeah, it's crazy.
It's almost like we backdoored ourselves into a guest with Gianni, you know?
Yeah, I worked for 52 weeks just to get on this podcast for free with one meundies a month.
Okay.
I got one pair they're supposed to send you.
Which I'm wearing right now.
Are you really?
Oh, wow.
Yeah, those are good ones.
Yeah.
I'm telling you, I've really adapted to these mediums.
They're not showing up for Gianni.
Yeah, dude, I didn't get my May fucking thing yet.
You ordered mediums?
Yeah, I ordered Medium.
I don't know what happened, man.
We'll check some of these boxes.
But we definitely should get you some more pairs.
So when you're shooting the film, how long does it take to shoot a movie?
Like for somebody that doesn't know, like me?
This took about, I'd say, four weeks.
That's it.
Yeah, and then we, because it's a blumhouse film, so they do like smaller budgets, you know, not as, you know, big and crazy as like the action movies.
Those probably take like three, four months.
Right.
Yeah, this was about four weeks, but then we did go back and do reshoots because they wanted to, you know, fix some stuff at the end.
So total about five weeks, five and a half weeks.
And was that the most, the first time you'd ever spent really a lot of time in Mississippi?
Yeah, it was the first time I'd ever been to Mississippi, and I loved it.
Yeah?
Like, honestly, like, I would consider getting a house there because I loved it that much.
Wow.
Yeah.
And do you, so now, when you're on these sets, they look like they had some ladies in there in the film, too.
Are you guys like, is there a lot of like chicanery going on behind the scenes?
Like a lot of like, you know, you know, people, you know, meeting up at night?
Is it pretty low-key?
Well, we, since this was such a smaller budget, like you're filming like for 13, 14 hours a day.
Wow.
So you like don't have time.
Like you, like that whole day is to film and like you got to be up in the morning and get going again.
But I don't smoke or drink, as you know.
So like that's not my thing.
Like people would go out to bars and stuff and party that night.
I'd go right to bed, make sure I was off book for the next day.
I'd wake up at 5 a.m.
I had a personal trainer because I had to get naked in the movie.
So I had a personal trainer.
Even I had to or you just did in every scene.
That seems like something Gianni would do.
I was like, yeah, are you sure you don't want me to take your clothes?
I'd be like, dude, you're in math class.
Okay.
Keep your fucking clothes on.
Like, all these books are heavy.
Gianni sounds like a young Jocko Willink.
He's just getting up.
Everybody's going out to parties, waking up at 4.30 training.
I ran around Mississippi.
I would run the hills of Mississippi.
There's a hill.
Do you know where the Magnolia Bluffs Casino is?
Yeah.
That big hill that goes up to where the hotel is?
I would run that every morning at 4.35.
And then I would go to my personal trainer and lift.
God, man.
That's crazy.
And what would you do then?
Paint yourself green and just attack people?
It seems like you're very incredible.
What did you think about Mississippi?
Like, what was some of your first thoughts whenever you were there?
So day two.
So we went to the hotel and we kind of went around the town a little bit for the first, you know, the Natchez.
This is the Natchez, correct.
We stayed at the Magnolia Bluffs Hotel for a couple weeks.
So we walked around there and I thought it was incredible.
Like we went to this place called the Pink Pig, the barbecue place.
Oh yeah, I've been there.
So good.
I just like, you know, Cotton Alley Cafe.
Like, a lot of the places we're doing- Fat Mama's at Tamale Place?
Yeah.
We went there and I like, I literally loved it.
Like I can't stress enough how much I love Mississippi.
But day two, we're filming.
We go to, we go to set, we're filming outside a liquor store.
And it's in a pretty seedy area, like where the liquor store is.
And there is an urban gentleman, as you would say.
Oh, yeah.
He comes out of his house and he starts like, he's probably fucked up on something.
And he's like, yelling like, you ain't filming no fucking movie in front of my house.
Like getting like aggressive.
And then like a bunch of more.
Was it Cat Williams?
Yeah, it was Cat Williams.
Yeah.
He wanted to be in the movie.
We still have a role for him.
Really?
So someone was getting aggressive?
Yeah, someone did get aggressive, but that was kind of the only like negative experience.
And it's not even that negative.
It was just some guy that was yelling at us.
I was probably fucked up.
Yeah.
But I truly did love it.
Like the people there were so nice.
I specifically remember going to Mississippi and then I would like, if we go to the markets on the weekends, I'd be leaving and I'd be like, like to the people with the carts full of stuff, like, thanks, everyone.
Have a good weekend.
And everyone would be like, oh, thank you so much, man.
And then the next day, when I came back to LA, I went to the Whole Foods and I went to turn.
I was like, have a good weekend, everyone.
And everyone was just like, yeah.
Get out of here.
Yeah.
Who the fuck is this idiot?
Yeah.
Get out of here.
Logan Paul was in here earlier.
Who the fuck are you?
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
Yeah, there is something different.
It's just like there's more value on just like, but do you think that that kind of stuff is real?
Sometimes I wonder if it's like genuine or if there's just that people, there's more time for people to spend with each other so they even enjoy the smaller things like even waving goodbye to someone.
In Mississippi, you're saying?
Yeah, just like in slower parts of the country.
And Mississippi is probably in some ways from the places I've been one of the, like, it gets really slow there.
You know?
Like, if you pick up a seashell off the ground, you can definitely hear slaves in the back.
Deep in it.
Like, it's old school.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, they still have, there's Civil War reenactments in the back of every chevron.
You know what I'm saying?
It's very...
I went there on Thanksgiving, actually.
Really?
Yeah, some lady burned her hand in the cobbler, I remember, and they had to call the paramedics.
But yeah, it has an old school vibe, doesn't it?
It does, 100%.
I think people are brought up with those values in Mississippi.
Yeah.
And not so much LA because no one really gives a fuck about anyone else but themselves in LA.
Yeah.
Like in Mississippi, there's really not much more to do.
Right.
So values and stuff like that are important.
Yeah.
Oh, it's interesting, man.
Yeah, that's so crazy.
You got to be down there because, I mean, who else even gets to go there?
Nobody even ever even thinks to go to Natchez because it used to be like a major stop on for the gambling boats and all of that.
It was incredible.
I truly think that was one of my best experiences of my life so far.
I loved it.
Now, the nights where you do get a little lonely out there, because I know if you're working out hard in the morning, you're sweating all day, and you're, you know, I mean, you're like a rock star.
You're shooting a movie in a small town, you know.
You have somebody with a walkie-talkie walking around with you.
You know, I know what it's like, you know, to at least have, you know, you get that, you know, you get a little bit of pomp, right?
Yeah.
When you get on a tender in a place like Mississippi, you get on the bumble or bumblefuck, is it?
Because you're out in the rural sticks there at that point.
They should have bumblefuck for rural areas, shouldn't they?
Yes.
How is that not an app?
Bumblefuck.
Yeah, bumblefuck for anybody who's trying to get laid outside of the city limits.
I like that.
Did you say if you open those apps up, what's it like out there?
I didn't.
You didn't?
My Instagram was popping pretty, like, in the requests.
But I'm going to be honest, like, this is a, I think it was around the time where all the Me Too stuff happened.
Oh, okay.
And it was like people were just getting in trouble doing stuff on movie sets.
And I was just like, listen, I'm not even going to put myself in that position, like to even be with a girl alone, like who was an extra in the film or something like that.
Like, this is my chance.
Like, I'm not going to worry about a girl.
Like, and I'm not going to get myself in trouble in any way.
So I stayed away from it.
That's awesome.
Yeah.
I was pretty dedicated for these four weeks.
It sounds like actually, you know what I did?
So I got a porn hub or a browser's account.
Wow.
Wow.
Going high neck.
I got a browser's account.
I don't even think it's 4G in some of their LTE and some of those areas over there.
I don't even know.
But it was so funny because I checked on my account like my credit card saving like three months later and it billed me for like a year.
Of course.
Like the month before.
So I called them and it didn't say browsers.
It said like CTE billing or something.
And I called and I was like, hey guys, like why, like, what is this charge for?
Let's go to that call right now, actually.
I wish we had that call.
Guys just discussing their browsers expenses.
But I had it on speakerphone and I was with one of my like buddies who's like not super close, but like he's close.
And I had it on speaker in my living room.
And I was like, what's this charge?
Like, I didn't do this because I was just trying to figure out my finances.
And he's like, oh, did you sign up for a brassers in Natchez, Mississippi?
I was like, yeah, that was me.
Dude, it must have been pretty cool, though.
So Octavia, obviously an African-American black woman, to be a lead on a movie in Mississippi were probably 100 years earlier, especially like, you know, people with her skin color were probably having a much tougher, you know, a tougher time.
They still do in a lot, especially like in some rural parts of that state, you know.
Louisiana as well.
Yeah.
And Louisiana.
Yeah.
It must have been pretty cool kind of.
Yeah.
It actually is, like, I did not think of that.
That's, it is pretty incredible.
Like, she's leading a studio film.
Yeah.
And it's her.
Yeah.
Did she comment on anything like that?
Like, not like in a, not in any sort of negative way, but did she, like, I wonder if she even noticed that.
Yeah, not that I can remember.
Yeah, I don't know.
But I mean, it's definitely like incredible.
Like, honestly, because on power, like, the showrunner for me is a black woman, too.
Yeah.
So, like, that's a show that I'm on, like, for a long period of time.
And I'm doing this movie and like the leads of black women.
So it's kind of cool.
Like, everything that I'm doing are led by black women.
You know what I mean?
Which is like, it's awesome.
It's a great time for that.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, it is definitely a time where it's like you got to have more like, yeah, especially now as like America gets more like more diverse than it was when we were kids to have more people like putting their influence on things, you know, so you can get different perspectives and stuff.
So if what's another type of movie that I would see and then I would be like, oh, then you'll like Ma?
It's kind of similar.
Is it like Halloween kind of?
It's a little bit like, it kind of has elements of that, but I would say it's more psychological.
So it's like, I would say it's like get out and screamish like American Pie combined.
Like it's a like, I'm telling you, it's a lot of fun.
It's a really fucking fun movie.
Like if you're in college or high school or like young like that, that audience, like they're going to fucking love this because it's just like crazy.
It's like a party movie and then it turns deadly.
It's wild.
Is there any breaks in it where you can make out with somebody or not?
Or is it pretty?
I do make out with someone in it.
Really?
No, I'm talking about if you're in the theater.
Yeah, I could see like a scene or two where you fucking, you know, you could just kind of doze off a little bit.
Oh, I remember that, huh?
Trying to get that over the pants hand job, you know what I mean?
You can get all of it.
Nothing gets me going like Octavia Spencer stabbing someone, burning Gianni with an iron.
Yeah, that is true, huh?
Nothing gets me fired up like seeing a white freshman getting burned with an iron in Mississippi.
Oh, man.
I mean, sit me in the erection section.
Fear is nature's most powerful aphrodisiac.
Oh, yeah.
You know, when they say when a plane's going down, 90% of the men in there are erect.
Really?
That's crazy.
Is that a real thing?
Yeah, that's a statistic.
And you already get airplane boners, so I can't even imagine.
You'd bust.
Dude, do you have one right now, bro?
No, I don't.
But so much so that I get them that people fucking complain about them.
That's how much I get them.
Dude, that's so exciting.
So how do you start to, so you're going to be in a film?
Like, what do you, how do you try to like, like, what are your expectations of like what your career is going to be like after this?
How do you manage those expectations?
Like, what do you start to think about?
Because this is like, I mean, well, people, you know, watch Power.
You know, that's a popular show.
But this will be, you know, this is like a film.
So what is like your brain go there?
Like, does your brain have you like in like a hot tub in two weeks in Aspen?
Like, I'm just trying to think, because you have a young brain, you know?
Yeah.
I got an old brain that's like, oh, dude, you'll be definitely still working for us in a month.
Yeah, he's like, we're going to, I'm going to drop him like a bad hat.
I actually the total opposite.
Like, I hope this launches me into just something like that I can consistently work on a show for like four years.
But like, I don't want to leave the podcast.
Like, if something were to, I'd have to like shoot away, like, I would still find a way to like remotely bookcast and like work with you guys because this is like the most fun part of like my job.
Like the reason why I am an actor is because like I like to have fun.
Like I like to show up on set.
I like to like joke around and like, you know, it's, it's fun.
You've been on sets.
Yeah, you're always in a good mood, man.
I wish I was in a good mood as much as you are.
Yeah.
Yeah, you're always in a good mood.
Dude, well, maybe one day we'll do a movie and you can lead it, you know?
I would love that.
I really would.
And that's just something that I like doing.
Like, This has been incredible for me.
I've learned so much from you and Nick.
I know so much about the podcasting world and other people.
So honestly, after this movie comes out, I'm hoping that I get a TV series for a long period of time.
It films in LA and I have a couple hours a day free where I can podcast and come in and do this.
It'd be fucking awesome.
Nick, do you think once Johnny starts to pop off a little bit, you know, and he starts buying jewelry and stuff like that, buying his brother like fancy necklaces and stuff, you think he'll still come in with us or no?
I got to believe the little guy.
Really?
Yeah, I think he truly loves this.
Like he said, he loves comedy.
He was listening to him before he worked with us.
So being around it, I see him squealing his tires outside of the studio while we're trying to record a year from now.
Fuck you, Theo.
Yeah, no, and we're getting a new studio.
Like, I'm so excited about that.
That's true, man.
This is our last guest in this studio.
So it's actually fitting since you've booked so many of them to come in and close it out.
Yeah, I think I started right when you guys moved in here.
Like, I think my first day, like, you had had one guest in here, and I think it was Jaymoore, and I wasn't there for that.
Yeah.
That's crazy.
That's crazy, man.
I think of all the guests that have come through here.
Yeah, that's like 120 episodes since we've been here.
Yeah.
That's crazy, man.
Yeah, I can't even fathom that.
It's been fun.
We should do like one of those graduation videos where it's like, dan, and then, and, and it, like, cuts to all the guests.
Yeah.
And he gets older, but he never looks any older because he still looks 14. What's the youngest you can go read for in a film, honestly, and legitimately play?
I read for 15, like maybe three months ago.
Now, do you take supplements and stuff to keep your hormones down or keep your hormones at bay?
No, I do not.
Really?
Yeah.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
I don't.
I guess I look, yeah, I look a little young.
No, I could see you as Abe Lincoln's young son who's like leaving the family to go play rugby, you know?
You look like you sell snake oil on fucking Hollywood Bullwide, dude.
Oh, dude, I definitely look like a fucking, I look like somebody that gets shot in one of the, oh, I look like somebody who's looking for something by a stream in Red Dead Redemption.
You look like Paul Rubin and Ruben Stutter.
Like, come on, dude.
Dude, I used to have this joke.
It was Ruben stuttered.
No, he didn't.
You saw that on stage?
No, I never told it to anybody until right now.
Oh my God, dude.
Look, dude, here's another 14-year-old boy.
Here's Justin Uber's son.
That's my castmate, Corey Fogelmanis, on the movie.
Is it?
Yeah, he told me he sent in a video.
This kid's like a teen heart drop.
He's got like 3 million followers.
Is he really?
Corey Fogel Manis?
Yeah, he was.
So you know Boy Meets World?
Yeah.
They did a reboot, and he was the lead of Girl Meets World.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, with Topanga Miller?
Correct.
Or did Topanga Canyon or what is her name?
Topanga.
Danielle Fischelle is a real name.
She blocked me on Twitter.
Actually, the whole cast of Boy Meets World did because I had this friend who would tweet at them constantly like they were actually their characters.
And I jumped in on it.
It's hilarious.
They blocked us all.
Danielle, when are you and Corey getting mad?
How am I not surprised Nick is blocked by a bunch of teens, dude?
Yeah.
First of all, good.
Probably great to be blocked by teens, Nick.
I can't remember the dad's name, but he blocked it too.
I love when we're all in court a year from now for Nick.
Did you use this?
And they're just flashing through all the teens that have blocked him.
Danielle Fischelle is a full-grown adult now.
I wonder what she's like, though.
Is she cool or not?
I wonder.
I met the guy, Corey.
I heard she was a little crazy.
I could see her being nuts.
I met the guy Corey from the first season.
He was super cool.
Not Corey, who's his friend?
Ben Savage.
Ryder, Ryder Strong.
Oh, yeah.
From the original season.
He played Chinese.
Yeah, he was a really, really cool guy.
Dude, Ben Savage's brother, Fred Savage, he's like a director.
Like, he's killing it.
He's a workhorse.
He does commercials.
He does full-link features.
He was on that Netflix show.
What was the one with...
No, no, with Nat Faxon and Keegan Michael Key.
Oh, yeah.
You know which one?
He was on that one.
Sounds like.
Billy Eichner.
It was pretty good.
I'll look it up after this video.
Let's hear Mr. Fogel.
What's the young man's name again?
Corey Fogelmanis.
Corey Fogelmanis is his last name.
Hey, bro, bro, Gianni.
It's Corey here.
I just first want to say I'm so excited for Ma.
I think it looks incredible and you look so great in it.
Um, but yeah, so my question for you is, Who is your most famous friend?
That's all right.
He wants me to say him.
Of course.
But you know who I'm going to say is 50 fucking cent is who I'm going to say.
Really?
Yeah.
I wouldn't say he's my friend, but.
He backtracked off the table.
Yeah.
I always think about this.
Oh, that's most of the question, dude.
Otherwise, you're just saying, who's the most famous person you can think of right now?
Okay.
Corey Fogel Manus, dude.
This guy really likes you, Gianni.
Yeah, well, we became good friends on the movie.
Like, he's an awesome kid.
When they were hanging out more around the movie, you'd watch Gianni's Instagram stories.
And Gianni's like, he just bothers Corey on his Instagram story.
It was pretty entertaining.
Because we go to like, it's pretty crazy.
You go to a Walmart in Mississippi and none of these people are expecting, you know, like anyone to be there.
Right.
So like Corey would walk in and like a family would be crying.
He'd be like, we love you guys so much.
And like, I'm sitting there like recording it because I think it's awesome.
And he's like, dude, stop it.
And he gets like really like embarrassing.
It's also funny, like, like you see, like, like Octavia and like, like, I stayed for Thanksgiving at Tate's house.
So like Jessica Chastain was there and the director of the movie, Tate Taylor.
And so I stayed for Thanksgiving and they would go to Walmart, like all of them.
And it's like, you're all A-listers, like in a weird like town in Mississippi.
Like no one expects this.
You know what I mean?
So I always think that's like wild to me.
You know what I mean?
I've been in that wall-y world over there.
The big one, the big Walmart.
Oh, yeah.
Yes.
It's nice.
I mean, it's good.
It's good.
They got a McDonald's in the back.
Yeah.
But the director, Tate, loves you.
Really?
And the producer, John, yeah.
He's like great director.
He directed The Help.
He directed Get On Up, the James Brown movie.
Now you're making me feel like I should have done that because I went and met that guy, Lee Daniels, recently.
Harvey Lee Oswald?
Yeah, Lee Daniels.
Yeah, Lee Daniels, Harvey Oswald.
The guy that did the movie The Butler and the guy that does that show Empire.
Oh, okay.
Little Jesse Smollett.
Yeah, Jesse Smollett country.
And he gave me a role in the room.
Really?
For which show?
He's got a cast on.
It's some new pilot that Whitney's doing.
Yeah, he's like, who's that guy, like that comedian on your Instagram?
Like, he's hilarious.
We love him.
So it's like there.
And does he prefer men or women, this guy?
Well, he is married to the producer of the movie.
He's a man.
Who's a what?
But who's a man?
But it's also Because I didn't get But it's so weird because They're pretty much beautiful women.
Yeah, they're like the mayor of like Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
Like when we went on for Thanksgiving, he like left in the car and he like he went.
Mississippi has no rules.
He has like this white Cadillac with like...
Yeah, dude.
He has like this Cadillac and it's like he's got in a fedora and he's buying guns and shrimp and alcohol and propane and he's just driving down the thing.
He's like this gay man with a fedora and a white Cadillac, no roof on it.
It's just like hilarious.
That sounds like a casserole he's making, dude.
You put a little propane and some shrimp in a bucket and fucking shoot it four times, dude.
Voila, baby.
Voila.
That's some dynamite shrimp, you know?
Definitely.
That's awesome, man.
It's so cool you got to go there and just spend time, man.
It's such like a, it feels almost like when I go to Mississippi a lot of times, especially in Natchez, that I'm traveling to the past.
Yeah.
They draw like another time.
I would love to go back.
That's why I thought you were going to go to that festival with this weekend.
With Bishop Gunn, is it?
Well, it's two weekends ago.
It was two weekends ago.
It was a great time.
But I would have went.
We saw the live feed.
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Nick, how has it been?
Because you work with Johnny sometimes because he's here, he mills around, he loiters, I like to call it.
How's that been for you, I feel like?
It's dope, to be honest.
We rip on each other, but he's super fun to have around.
Like you said, he's always in a good mood.
I'm working here by myself a lot, so his energy, it's great.
Honestly, he's great to be around.
And I'm just super impressed by it because we haven't even said Gianni's 22. Oh, yeah, that's true.
I think.
And I don't know.
He's a workhorse and he's very strategic in what he's doing.
I don't know.
I see bright things for the kid.
Thank you, man.
Yeah, man.
I feel you, dude.
Yeah, it is really exciting, bro.
Especially since you get to see what the podcast world is like and then also see what the Hollywood world is like.
It's like, yeah, you'll be able to probably learn enough to kind of hedge one against the other at certain points.
If you wanted to produce your own thing or make your own film that you wanted to star in, it's like you know where you can find an audience for it if it's something that's good.
Which I think a lot of it is going, like it's going away from Hollywood and it's going more towards like it's in your hands.
You know what I mean?
Because I'm writing and trying to develop my own show and that's the way it's going.
You know what I mean?
You don't need Hollywood as much as you used to.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's like you can really make your own Hollywood kind of, you know?
I mean, you got to have, I just, I can't see how it's not going to go more that direction.
There's so many different outlets now, like these other streaming services are getting like more money behind them.
Like, I mean, this is sports, obviously, but like that Dazone channel, like it's the, it's now on par with the quality of content that like ESPN streaming service is putting out, and it came out of nowhere.
What's it called?
Dazone.
It's spelled D-A-Z-N.
Honestly, that's their biggest problem is the branding.
But like they signed Canelo for like 300 million.
They got money behind them.
Right.
It's a whole strategy.
But these things are springing up all over.
So there's, if you put out good content, you're going to find a place and someone who's going to give you money to produce it.
And it doesn't have to be through the traditional channels.
Because it's almost like Miundi's doesn't go to a store anymore.
They go directly to the people, and that's what the content creators are doing.
Well, it's weird because it's also like the whole like Louis C.K. like he just doesn't even need any networks.
He just has his own website and people go and listen to his special.
You know what I mean?
So it's like he doesn't need Netflix to buy his special.
He can just put it on his own.
Well, the first one he did, but then after that, he went back to Net.
He went back to.
I think he, did he sell it, sell the one that was already up on his thing back to them?
I'm not sure.
That's a good question.
Because then he made double the amount of money.
You know what I mean?
He sold it to everyone and then was like, okay, I made all my money.
No one's buying it anymore.
I'll sell it to Netflix.
People will still watch it.
It'll get exposure and I'll make money.
Right.
And if he would have, we might have said this on the podcast before, but if he would have had like a podcast during the whole time, he could have even not went away and like still had like this groundswell of people in his corner that like, I don't know, like, yeah, he did something wrong, but we're not going to just drop him completely instead of going dormant or whatever for the last year and a half.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's kind of interesting to like, you know, it's kind of interesting and it's kind of like scary to think about like, yeah, like what, you know, like what's going to be next?
How it's going to change?
How are like the, you know, how are, because so many people listen and watch podcasts and go to.
More than cable now.
Yeah.
And go to see those entertainers, you know, and that, those are the entertainers that people go out to see.
Yeah, it's just kind of like, it kind of like doesn't plague me sometimes, but it just has me thinking like, well, what are the possibilities of like creating our own, you know, network and making sure we think about getting advertisers attached so that we don't have notes and it can just be straight out of our own brains.
Exactly.
Well, I'm super excited about your special because I mean, I don't know if, I mean, most of you guys have probably seen Theo on the road, but dude, your fucking hour is incredible.
It's like the best hour I think I have seen maybe ever.
And you're, no offense, like, that was great, but like, this is a whole new level.
Like, so I agree because like, incredible.
Ari Manis, he follows you on the road.
He opens for you.
He sends me the footage.
And sometimes there's whole shows on there, and I'm trying to find, like, interesting parts.
So, like, I'm listening to it on like two times or three times speed, but like, you listen to it, and it's like, it's like music.
You can just, all of a sudden there's laughter.
Theo says something, there's laughter, and it's just this constant wave.
It's crazy.
Like, how it's boom, boom, boom, boom.
Well, every time you, like, because I have your email on my computer because, you know, we book guests.
And every time like a, like a clip from like the ice house will come in, I'll be like, oh, shit.
Like, I don't know if I can listen to this.
Like, I just, like, I think I truly, that's how I first knew of you.
I went to the comedy store one night to watch Dalia and Sebastian.
And I think you had a later spot because at this time, you like weren't as big as you were then.
This is maybe two and a half years ago.
Yeah.
And you had like an 1130 spot and I was going to leave.
And then you came on and I was sat in the front row and like everyone around me had already gone.
And I was like, who the fuck is this guy?
Like this is the most unique, like interesting.
It was just so different to me.
And I was laughing my ass off.
And that's how I just knew of you.
And then I started, like, I went to a couple of your shows and I started listening to the podcast.
And then, you know, it's crazy.
Here I am, you know?
Yeah, here we are.
I mean, well, thank you.
That's nice of you guys to say, man.
I know that I've been hard to deal with sometimes over this year.
It's just been tough, man.
For me, it's just been, you know, it's been fun to have a lot more work and stuff, but it's been such like a level of like just stress, I think, and fear, you know, like working like so long in an industry and like, you know, not, you know, not really getting much traction.
And then like, yeah, getting a lot of traction, but also like it's your own traction kind of that, you know, that we've created here with the podcast.
Yeah.
And, you know, not alone, but with, so it's just like kind of scary.
It's like, and then suddenly everybody wants to come and like get you to do stuff.
And you're like, well, what do I do?
Am I making good choices?
Am I making bad choices?
Well, when I first started working here a year ago, you had, I think it was 68,000 followers on Instagram.
You have 800,000 now.
Like that is incredible.
You know what I mean?
Like, and that's all through the podcast and comedy.
You have it.
It's not like you did a fucking studio movie.
You know what I mean?
It's not like you're on a TV show.
That is all through comedy and podcasts, which is what people need to understand.
Like that, it's the podcast world, which is like, and social media through Instagram.
Like, that's what's blowing people up.
You know what I mean?
So it's like you can, you did that without Hollywood.
Yeah, well, you can get your voice out there.
Well, I mean, I had a lot of help.
I mean, Nick's done a great job.
You know, I mean, Nick has done a great job.
And even like, you know, moments today, like this morning, you know, sometimes I'll wake up.
There's two ways I'll wake up.
A good way and then the other way.
I'll wake up and I'm a fucking loot.
I'm a little bit more.
And I can tell right when you text me which one it is.
It is so crazy how you can tell via a text.
I can feel the energy.
Well, because, yeah.
Well, look, there's energy that goes into that screen.
So I'm glad some of it's coming out the other side.
When he wakes up, it's either like, hey, man, good morning.
Like, ready to get today going?
Like, all this stuff.
Like, do we have everyone good?
And then it's also like, hey, man, what the fuck is going on?
Why the fuck is the studio not at 68 degrees?
Yeah, it broke the thermostat.
What happened?
Dude, you think those fucking two plants can survive in there?
Thinking about yourself, Gianni.
Dude, the new studio, we got windows, dude.
We're going to have a fucking forest, dude.
Yeah, you guys don't even know.
We'll put some of the footage on to the Patreon.
Yeah.
Gianni Just started helping out, like, kind of get trying to get to our Patreon to like a better level where you guys can see some of the behind-the-scenes stuff that we do better.
Um, and we'll put like those videos of whenever we went over to the new studio and checked it out.
Um, yeah, it's kind of crazy.
There's definitely more room, uh, there's gonna be just a place where you can put stuff.
What are you looking forward to, Nick?
Because you're in the studio most of the time.
Yeah, I mean, uh, if we, I think we could find talent and kind of it's gonna be hard to get any show to the level of this because you're a unique, you know unique talent.
But I think we could find people who we think have potential that aren't seen and produce their own pods and recreate kind of the formula we have, like the Clips channel and the Instagrams that help blow them up.
And then with our connections, the other pod, get them put out.
And I think we could have our own network.
I mean, your mom's house is doing it.
No reason we can't.
Yeah, I want to steal Dr. Drew from him.
Yeah, we should steal Dr. Drew from him.
Man, he's so good.
Our own potential production company, like Onward Productions.
And we just do our own shit in-house.
You don't need to go to some sketchy thing.
We sell our own ads.
It's like it's all together, and it's like a collaborative, creative experience.
It's not like you have to deal with some guy in a fucking suit telling you you're not funny enough.
You're like, well, what have you ever done?
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, look, man.
I mean, it would definitely be neat.
You know, I think my fears are just, you know, doing too much other stuff so I can't do stand-up that much or I don't do it.
I do think it's like, use your umbrella, though.
Like, don't necessarily pile on you more stuff, but it's like use your umbrella to put on other stuff.
Like you start growing, like you're just branches off.
And it doesn't always have to be you.
You like when we have someone with a show, you're their first guest and stuff, kind of help pop them off, but then we go running with that.
Yeah.
It's like the same thing, like what Kevin Hart does.
I mean, he has Heartbeat Productions, and he does so many different shows and like executive produces them and like creatively, you know, helps him, but he has really not much to do with it.
It's just kind of his name and his brand will help get it out there.
He has LOL Network too, which like it's more urban skewed.
I've seen Facebook a lot.
Yeah, I actually interviewed them before I was at Funny or Die and I almost had it, but I think I didn't know it was as urban as it was.
And I kept telling him, like, they have all this Just for Laughs content.
They own a bunch of that.
And I was like, oh, that's like where you want to go.
And that's like nerdy white comedy.
And so I think that's kind of where I Jerry Seinfeld.
Yeah.
What's the big deal?
It's watermelon.
Have you heard of this guy, Theo, from Louisiana?
Although that's a bad example because you got that swag.
But yeah.
Yeah, dude, black guys love you, man.
They do?
Yeah.
I wish someone would come to the shows.
There's been 11 that have come to the shows, I think, this past year.
And they're always like, hey, man, just want to let you know you have some black support.
And one of them is my friend Stan that came to two shows for him.
He's like, I told all my friends about you, and they beat the shit out of me.
Yeah.
But dude, you know what I was thinking?
There's not a lot of crossover.
In music, there's a lot of crossover, right?
Isn't crossover as in what?
Like if you look at black and white audiences that go to see entertainment, you know, there's still a lot of black audiences go to see black stuff.
A lot of white audiences go to see kind of white stuff.
I think it bends in some places.
Music is definitely a place where it bends a lot.
Well, I think because like Post Malone, I don't think a lot of black people go see Post Malone, but like Drake, like black people go see Drake and like white people go see Drake.
So I think it's more the black artist that the white people love.
But I feel like sometimes when it's a white artist, like there's not support from maybe the black community because they're like, oh, he's like, he's like white, like trying to take what we created.
So I think that's kind of like.
Like from Michael Rappaport.
Yeah.
Like you don't know.
Gary Owen a little bit.
Yeah.
Actually, black people really fuck with Gary Owen, but he married also a black woman.
I think you have to go that far, really.
Like Neil Brennan, he married Dave Chappelle.
He married himself a couple times, too, I think, if he could.
Bill Burr.
Bill Burr, yep.
But his content is so white.
Like, it's like, remember I was drunk driving at the McDonald's?
It's like, black people are like, no, we don't remember that.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, he's just so frustrated with everything.
He's the best.
Have you seen those two black guys?
They have a YouTube channel and they'll watch white comic stuff.
They've done one on you and they just absolutely loved it.
and I've seen them do Burr.
I wanna find their names'cause.
Yeah, it is interesting.
I wonder if there's like a, I think it would do things.
I think it would, if there were more, and maybe this will just happen with time, where more black people support white things and not think that it's like they're, because a lot of white people aren't like support my stuff.
I'm like a, you know, like, they don't have any, there's no ego, there's no racial ego in it.
I think there's sometimes there's probably like, you know, when you've been like a community that's been like historically kind of like held, held into such a place and not had opportunity, then you probably think like, oh.
Yeah, this is our opportunity.
Like, why are you taking this from us?
Like, we have this.
You know what I mean?
Why are you taking that too?
I guess it may be what the feeling is.
But out here on the West Coast, I see a lot more guys who are just like, it doesn't really matter.
I think that is one thing you find more.
And even just as time goes on, I see a lot more people.
It doesn't really matter kind of like.
That's where I see it going where it's like, like a lot of it now is that like, we want to give diverse people jobs, like, which is great.
Like, I fully support that.
But it's like, like, I'm hoping in like the next like 30 years where it's just like, no one gives a fuck.
It's equal.
The funniest person gets the job.
The best writer gets the writing job.
The best actor gets the acting job.
Like, yeah, we want it to be diverse, but like it should be like, that shouldn't matter.
You know what I mean?
It should just be who's the best.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's been as long as everybody has the opportunity to be the best.
Correct.
And also, I think one thing is like, you know, a lot of, like with struggle comes, without struggle, you don't get any, you know, you got to have some to get to have something, I think.
Exactly.
You know, like you don't get a diamond without some pressure.
Like, I think, like, you're going to see a lot more softer black athletes over time.
You know, as like, yeah, once, like, great, like, once you realize what it's like to grow up in an area where, you know, like you have sweaters all the time and shit like that, dude, you're going to have black guys that can't even dunk.
That's already.
Imagine that.
It's already kind of happening.
Jimmy Butler, when he was on the Wolves, like, he hated his teammates because they're all like younger millennials and they would play video games constantly.
Like they're always playing Fortnite.
And he fucking hated his teammates.
Yeah, like he's fitting in way better in Philadelphia.
He screamed at him one time at a practice and it made a bunch of news.
He's like, you fucking need me.
And then he demanded a trade and he left because Jimmy Butler's old school.
Oh, he's old school.
Yeah, it's definitely, yeah, I mean, it's definitely like, yeah, it's going to be, I mean, I do look forward to a day where maybe there'll be an opportunity for a white man to be able to start on a basketball team, you know, just because, you know, like, because Larry Bird, dude.
But that was that one guy.
We had to go to Poland to find that guy.
They said that they found him in an iceberg thought out.
Who's that guy, Diochik or something?
For the Nuggets?
Oh, yeah, the Joker, Nikola Djokic.
He's our Vita Sabonis reincarnant.
I love Nikola Djokic.
I can't even pronounce his name, bro.
That's how fucking European he is.
I call him the white guy in the NBA.
He was top five this year, and he's a seven-foot, like, two, huge, thick center in being the guy with the ball on pick and rolls.
Like, they run him at point.
He's a crazy good passer.
It's sweet.
Yeah, you've had to really go deep into Europe, man.
Deep into like those, you know, like the just the crevasses of Europe, you know, to really find like a white guy that can play basketball.
We got a white guy that wants to ask Gianni a question.
Oh, this is dad?
This looks like his dad, bro.
Is this your father?
No.
Let's get this video out.
Oh.
How long were y'all there?
What's up, Gianni?
You sexy little shortbread.
About time you found your way on the podcast, boy.
I want to know what it's like to be on power.
I also want to know what it's like to work with Theo.
I know that you must think that he's super funny, just like we all do.
And I want to know what that's like, man.
I know that y'all must have some good times and have a bunch of laughs.
So, yeah.
And also, how do I get my chest bigger, bro?
I'm trying to get my chest bigger.
Gang nipples there for a young guy.
How old is that?
Gang gang.
Probably 28. Gang, gang, man.
We probably should do more activities as a group.
You know, maybe we'll have more opportunity to do that in the new studio.
Because there'll be a little more room.
Yeah.
What's it like to be on power?
It's incredible.
I think it's so much cooler being on a black show than a white show because you show up to a white show and everyone's just kind of like when you get the cast and crew of like a black show and they're laughing like at what you're doing, it feels better almost.
Oh, yeah.
It's just like, it's the same thing.
It's like when you're wearing like an outfit and like a white guy comes up to you and he's like, dope outfit.
And you're like, okay, dude, get the fuck away from me.
And then a black guy's like sick outfit.
You're like, fuck yeah.
I can do anything now.
Maybe I can play Pro Ball.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm going to go try for the NFL.
I'm going to see.
Yeah, CFL.
If a black guy even pats you on the back or accidentally bumps in you in the elevator, I feel like you could play Pro Ball.
Why is it so much cooler?
I think there's just like, because I think, you know, I think for me anyway, let me think about that.
You know, I don't know.
Black guys just seem more confident and comfortable.
Agreed.
So you feel like if, oh, you wish you had that?
Or for me, I wish I had that.
So if they like, if they think I'm that way or something, then.
It's PDE, dude.
Yeah, when's the last time you seen a black guy with like a disease?
You know what I mean?
It's just like, it's just like, I never see, it's just like, they're just like, fuck it.
We don't need, we don't got that.
And they don't talk about it.
You know, like, yeah, a cool black guy's not going to talk about his disease, dude.
He's just like, yeah, I got it.
Whatever.
Yeah.
It's cool we're ruining Yanni's career together.
I know, right?
But no, look, I think there's always been something that, you know, like, or for me, it was always something you wanted to be accepted by the black community.
Also making any other community laugh is also a fun thing.
The only community I had around growing up in my area was black and white, so there wasn't any other options.
But yeah, if you're like, you know, you're in a group of Latinos and you make all those guys laugh.
It's so much cooler.
Yeah.
It's like, oh, fuck, it's so much cooler.
They think I'm cool.
Well, I mean, working with 50 Cent is literally like a dream.
Like, if you told me when I was 10 years old, 12 years old, that you're going to be on a show with 50 Cent, I would be like, you can kill me afterwards because I don't need to live anymore.
And so is he a big guy?
What is he like?
He is.
So the first time I ever met him, so I went for season six, I went to go film episode one and we were doing the table read for episode two.
Yeah.
So I saw him come in and he's way bigger than you think.
And the table read is when everybody gets together from the cast into a whole cast, correct to practice the script.
Yeah.
So we did that.
And then I like saw him a little bit, but not much because he was directing episode three.
So that's when he like kind of takes over.
But because his character is dead and he's now just an executive producer on the show.
So he didn't have to do much.
So he didn't say much.
I didn't really meet him.
And I left because I had a meeting right after in New York.
So then I went the next day I had to film episode one and I went in the gym upstairs of the studio because we film at Steiner Studios in Brooklyn.
So there's a gym up there and I'm lifting and I'm listening to 50 Cent, no word of a lie.
Get him up.
Yep.
It was it was put his brains out.
Fuck, but heat.
I think it was called heat.
And he comes in.
It's with Al Pacino.
Yeah, it's with Al Pacin.
To listen to a movie while you're in the gym.
Go on.
Yeah.
So he walks in and he starts lifting next to me.
Is he strong?
His arms are bigger than my head.
Like no joke.
They're massive.
And he's like in like jeans, like just got off like set.
And yeah.
Damn.
He's ripped.
He's ripped.
So I'm lifting and then his tits look like hammocks, bro, for muscle.
He's got to help out that guy that just asked the question.
Yeah, there.
If you want to know, yeah, go read that men's muscle fitness episode with a magazine with 50 cent Curtis.
I don't think he looks like that now.
That was like maybe he's like 40 something now.
His arms are just big.
I think he's got a little stomach.
He's been relaxing.
He was eating fucking Twizzlers on set all day.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Does he have any children or not?
Yeah, he has a son.
I think he has two sons.
One he hates and one that he likes.
That's young.
It's very fucking Lannister of him.
So he came up to me and he was just like, you film yet?
He came up to me and I was like, oh, shit.
And I was like, no, I'm going down after this.
I don't have a call time till three.
And I was like, are you starting your pre-production for directing?
And he's like, yeah, we started doing all that.
And then I filmed episode two and I actually filmed two and three back to back.
So I stayed in New York.
Did you spot him?
No, I didn't.
Did you hold water in your mouth when he was thirsty?
He did his own thing, dude.
He got benched by him.
Yeah.
But so then we came at breakfast and we had already filmed one day for episode two and then we had another day for episode three.
Okay.
So he comes up to me at breakfast.
It's like 6 a.m.
because I went and lifted early.
And he comes up to me.
He's like, dude, like, your shit is like super funny.
Like, I watched this stuff from yesterday.
Like, you're hilarious.
Oh, that's cool.
Oh, shit.
And that was like kind of like maybe one of the coolest moments ever.
Like, 50 Cent tells you that you're funny.
And like, I'm at breakfast, I'm alone.
And he could have easy just walked in, got his shit, and, you know, went and did it.
It kind of seems like he keeps coming over when you're by yourself, though.
Maybe.
No, but the craziest thing was.
This is how people get molested in Hollywood.
They don't know what's going on.
Maybe.
Maybe.
Yeah.
They're just all of a sudden like 50 Cent's like fucking you know.
Does he have a lot of ladies around him or not?
No, not when we are.
He's pretty professional.
We actually got an email that came out and be like, no one's allowed to come on set because this is when the whole 6ix9ine shit was happening with like, like he was getting shot at and stuff like that.
And 50 Cent's friends with him.
So they're like, no people allowed on set like that aren't approved.
But, you know, the craziest thing was, fuck, I forgot what I was saying.
Women?
No.
Oh, no.
So that morning, I missed Sebastian in here.
Like, I booked him, and then he came in and I was filming power.
So I was watching the live.
Yeah, I was watching the live in my dressing room.
So 50 maps out the scene that we have.
Like what the director does, he'll tell you, like, you should walk here.
Like, does that feel comfortable for you when you say this?
And you kind of work with the director with that, you know, but as for the listeners.
And so we do that.
And I go upstairs to go watch the live feed.
I had like 20 minutes to kill and I had to change my outfit.
And all of a sudden I look on Instagram and he bought like the first two sections of Ja Rules of Ja Rule's show.
Oh, yeah.
And like bought those tickets so no one would be there and then posted it on Instagram and like caused like a major issue, like a major beef again.
He like rekindled the 20 year old beef.
And he'd just been totally chill.
And he's just been totally chill.
And then he puts his phone down, directs us, like we do the scene.
We get off set maybe like an hour and a half later and he's like, yeah, like that was fucking awesome.
Like all this stuff.
And then he goes, oh shit, I just fucking called out Ja Rule and forgot about it and like went on his phone and was like, oh shit, like I totally forgot I did this.
50 Cent buys 200 tickets to the Ja Rule concert to keep seats empty and ongoing.
October 30th because I would film the episode on Halloween.
He just put more money in Ja Rule's pocket.
No one was showing up to that show.
Except Fire Festival money.
But he is a fucking entrepreneur.
Like he is a true, that guy knows what the fuck is up.
Like every time he has something he wants to promote, something goes in the news.
Like he knows what he's doing.
It's all strategic.
He's a fucking genius.
Yeah.
So when you're around him, it seems like, what does he seem like?
Does he seem like a tough guy?
Does he seem like a businessman?
Does he seem like he seems like a comedian?
Really?
Yeah.
He's got like, he's very similar to like Shaab and like that kind of whole like that tough guy like comedy.
You know what I mean?
He's very similar to that.
I know I don't want to give Brendan that satisfaction that he's like 50 Cent, but.
Oh, Brennan probably definitely can hear this wherever he is.
Brennan can always hear people talking about it, no matter how far away they are.
And the guy also asked what it's like with Theo, which I did want to comment on this working with you guys.
It is fucking hilarious, which is why my laugh ruins episodes.
You know what I mean?
It's like, and the anthrax challenge, like, it's, you guys are laughing.
Like, imagine being in the room with it.
Like, it's fucking hilarious.
Like, my laugh is annoying.
I get it, but it's hard because it's funny.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
Yeah, you definitely, your laugh was egregious in the beginning.
A lot of people were.
Jimmy Tantrops.
Yeah.
That was the, that was the infamous one.
Well, that was the first time I got a mic.
And then Theo texted me that morning like, hey, man, got a lot of problems with the fans.
No more mic.
That was my first episode with a microphone.
And then I got no joke 200 DMs.
Who's the clown in the back, huh?
Did you specify it wasn't me?
That's always what I'm worried about.
Who's the clown with the microphone?
Yeah.
Jesus, love the F, but that guy in the caps.
But I've gotten better.
A lot of people are like, okay, like, it's good.
So I got my microphone back and no more laugh.
I cover my mouth.
Well, I think that's why this episode is good because people can experience a little bit more of the joy.
We call them Joyani.
Yeah.
You know, and yeah, it's, yeah, man, it actually is really a blessing.
And I'm glad that you and Nick have a good rapport, you know, even when I'm not around because, yeah, I think if it were, yeah, I just, I know I couldn't keep, yeah, I don't even know if we'd probably still be together if it wasn't for Gianni passing through with the joy sometimes.
Because it's been a lot.
It's just been a lot of work.
It's been a lot of work for Nick.
It's been a lot of work of back and forth.
And so, yeah.
Well, that's originally why I wanted to start with you.
Like, like, I mean, I'm not going to say, I'm going to say like I saw like so much potential because I like, like, I think, I was like, this guy is going to be fucking huge.
Like, people just don't know about him yet.
And I'm like, I want to help in any way I can because I assumed it's like pretty fucking stressful.
You're on the road, like, you're trying to sell tickets.
You're doing a podcast.
So that's when I originally came and was like, I want to help with social media stuff.
And like, I mean, it's what you've done, man.
And look, you've done it to an end.
Yeah, you're right, man.
You said, I just want to help.
And, you know, that's a good going, Nick.
I was just going to say, booking is not easy.
It's the worst.
Like, there are companies that like people pay thousands of dollars to to like get guests for them and stuff.
Like, and especially if we're trying to hit a specific day, like, it's not easy.
And I'm super glad I don't have to do it, to be honest.
Yeah, that's true, man.
I don't even know if we could have had guests.
Like, I don't know.
I mean, I guess I don't know if I was planning on doing it.
I had no idea what the plan was.
Yeah, when I came in, we only had Jay Moore and a Greyhound bus driver.
Oh, and that the homeless guy.
What about the homeless guy?
Oh, uneven Steve, dude.
And he must not be doing well.
I haven't gotten a text back with him in a while, about eight months.
But then we also had some faults.
Like, if we can look back, like The guy who had Tourette's, which we don't really know if he beats Tourette's, and then we found out later that he was involved in a sex cult where they all got everybody got Tourette's.
I didn't know it was an STD.
I think it's going around.
And the crazy part is, one day these same people are going to be probably maybe sooner than later, going to be emailing you back to book you.
They'll be like, yeah, we'd love to have that person on.
Can you come on our podcast?
Yeah, which is funny because now I do have a publicist because, you know, a couple months before the movie comes out, you want to like, like I go on podcasts because I want people to see the movie.
You know what I mean?
And she helps me with that.
And it's kind of interesting because, yeah, that is like I was, I email other people like Bobby Lee.
I'm going on Tiger Belly.
Well, I would have already have been on.
But yeah, like before I'm emailing like, hey, George, can we get Bobby on this past weekend?
And then it's kind of the opposite now.
Like, hey, you want to come on like Tiger Belly?
That's cool, man.
Yeah.
And Gianni's getting cornered by the shows he goes on.
Why can't I go on Theo's show?
I have twice.
Twice.
Twice.
They're asking you, why aren't you on Theo's show?
No, no, no.
They're asking me why they aren't on Theo's show.
Oh, wow.
Well, look, talk to my booker.
That's the only thing I can say, man.
That's why I don't handle it, dude.
Bro, even the, well, the funny thing is now, like, even David Spade the other day, like, he's like, hey, man, I think I need some help with this podcast thing.
And I'm like, that's just crazy that Dane keeps his text.
Hey, man, I'd love to come back on the podcast.
Dude, we're going to have him.
Me and Dane have the same public.
Y'all do?
Yeah.
That's going to be a studio one day.
You never know.
Yeah.
It's like, and we can make good content and stuff that's more fair, I think.
And people can own a part of what they do.
Because it's kind of bullshit that no one owns the stuff, like you're a showrunner and you don't have any say in what happens to your show.
It's like, this is mine.
You know what I mean?
Like, this is my, people do 20 years of development just to get stuff made.
And these personalities, like, when they go on networks, usually they get stifled and it doesn't end up being them.
Like, David Spade could have an awesome podcast.
If he wanted to, he could be so good.
Yeah, I know.
Is he looking to do one?
Yeah, he's saying, like, who would be a good co-host for me to do one with?
Us, dude.
How are we going to do it, though?
We'll talk about it off air.
But like, yeah, because him to be Schwartzen would be dope.
Dude, the other night, so, you know, obviously name-dropping here, but I went and met up with Spade to get some food just to have dinner.
And I'm walking up to the restaurant to open the door and Schwartzen comes running up behind me to like scare me.
Scared the fuck out of me, dude.
Really?
Did he shit himself while he did it?
I think that was his move, yeah.
He's like, diarrhea.
He's like, dang, you were so scared.
I just shit myself.
But then we stood around and talked for like two minutes, and it was literally one of the funniest conversations that I'd ever been in.
Really?
See that?
See, well, that's the stuff that I fucking love.
Like, when I'm going on set with actors, like, it's not that I don't get along with them because I do.
Like, I met Corey, but I feel like out of place because they're like very like PC and it's like, you have to do this.
And I trained at Juilliard, and that's not the way I am.
Like, I fucking chill with you.
And like, you know, like when I went to the comedy store that night, Bobby Lee and Crystalia and Sebastian are all standing around.
Like, that's like, I'm not saying like, that's like who I think I am, but like, that's like the crew that I like feel like a part of.
And then I go on set with other people who are like actors and they're just like, they're kind of like off-putting almost.
Yeah, you don't take it as seriously.
You know what I mean?
You take it seriously in your work, but you don't take it as seriously in your ego.
And that's something Nick said earlier.
Actors are like empty vessels almost.
They're told, like, be here, say this, do this.
And I feel like it bleeds into it.
That's why you don't see actors on this show a lot.
I don't find them as interesting generally.
You don't have a ton of life experience stuff.
But Gianni was a hockey player.
That's true, dude.
Gianni was a hockey player.
I mean, look, Gianni could be the hottest twink in this fucking city.
You don't see a twink pound for pound as a, you know, and a twink is a sort of a lean.
What is a twink, Gianni?
It's more like a young, hairless, kind of like a little skinnier, boyish gay male.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That all the older gay men want.
Yeah.
And then when, yeah, they hire him to like carry muffins around and like fold drapes and stuff.
My mom actually was like, why does, why is everyone commenting on your Instagram, you know, get that hit a twink?
She's like, why are people, why is everyone calling you a twink?
Saying boy.
And I'm like, why don't you fucking ask to do with a mullet?
Okay.
Yeah.
Why don't you ask?
I want you to be grateful to be in Hollywood.
You freaking little hairless ingrate.
Thank you very much, Nick, for putting up with everything and for getting us this far.
Thank you, Gianni.
Thank you.
Yeah, man.
It's special to be a part of this.
Like, it really is.
Like, I love being here, and we have a great time.
Yeah, well, I'm excited to see where your career goes, man.
And I just hope that we don't lose our booker.
But for real, though, everyone, so the movie will be coming out tomorrow when this airs on Thursday, May 30th.
The movie comes out Friday, May 31st.
Please go see it.
You're going to love it.
It's fucking awesome.
And let me know what you think.
Yeah, let him know what you think.
Now, there's a great opportunity for you to have, you know, to let Gianni know what you think about that movie.
And it's called Ma starring Octavia Spencer.
So talented.
She was in the help, man.
She's incredible.
So good.
And it's so weird because you go on set with an, like, she's a prime example of someone that I did gel with because she's not a typical actress.
You know what I mean?
Like, she is an Oscar-winning actress.
And then you get on set and she's crazy and she's funny and she's doing accents and she's like, like putting on wigs and stuff like that.
She's hilarious.
She's cool, huh?
Yeah.
So that's what I was super nervous about going into.
I was like, oh, fuck.
Like, I have to do a scene with her where she fucking pulls a gun on me.
Like, are you shitting me?
Scary.
But then you go on set and she makes you feel comfortable.
It's great.
There you go.
Go see Ma.
Johnny, thank you for being here and thank you for everything you do for this past weekend.
And I'll talk to you guys soon.
Now I'm just floating on the breeze and I feel I'm falling like these leaves.
I must be cornerstone.
Oh, but when I reach that ground...
I'll share this piece of mind I found I can feel it in my bones But it's gonna take a little time For me to set that parking break and let myself on wine Shine that light On me, I'll sit and tell you my stories.
Shine on me, and I will find a song I will sing just for you.
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