Hello smarty panes and welcome to Smart Camp welcome welcome it’s uh Tom rhods and Ash Roan hey hey it’s um divorced with shared podcast yeah because we still have this podcast yeah and uh it’s interesting I actually had thought about changing the name Smart Camp because the
Last couple years I didn’t feel too smart don’t be silly well you know um but thank God for ason roen who’s kept uh this podcast alive so including today including today you she drove all the way over here to record a podcast driving is so much fun and Ashna
Has been studying for her driver’s license test you uh you’ve never had a driver’s license you’ve never driven in your life because you grew up in a city right correct yes I went to the university with the train and then we had the trim we had the subway I had a
Bike uh what else we had a well we didn’t have Uber but we have a lot of transportation we got like a solid Europe is the best why would you need a car especially reram um oh my God and when I was there uh what in November um
Roddam is like the coolest city in Europe now oh you mean about oh yeah you mean about the yeah the highrises oh it looks like Manhattan right now yeah and that new comedy club is right on the river uh The Comedy Club H H and it looks like
The Comedy Store yeah it’s The Comedy Store in London yeah it’s perfectly designed it’s really nice it has great sound great lighting as well so if you ever in reddam you know just go to the comedy and and say hi to my mom uh and you have a beautiful view of
That Ur asmus Bridge oh yeah it’s gorgeous ah we should like send a photo or something post a photo yeah so uh let’s start out by talking about where we got these sweaters this was not planned we did not plan on uh we didn’t tell each other we were I just
Got this sweater this is uh what I like to call the um the Jack Dempsey all these pictures of Jack Dempsey as the heavyweight champion in the 1920s he had a cool sweater like this also blue yeah yeah cool well I mean it looks blue and black and white
Photos yeah I like I like those sweater so man it’s very Dandy uh and do you remember I told you a story one time about Mark Maron I was with him and some young comedian asked him where he got his clothes and he said listen man it
Took me a long time to develop my style and um you got to find your own style so don’t tell anybody why you got that sweater from well that’s I was going to say I want all my people to dress well so the brands that I love Pendleton and
Uh LL Bean this is a LL Bean Nice I don’t know I don’t even know what my sweater you don’t know where you got yours where did you get your sweater I don’t know Target Marshalls you love Marshalls well I like Marshalls for the house things the
Kitchen stuff yeah yeah now uh I was looking at the California drivers book with you before we started rolling yeah and you’ve been working on this for a while yes I think it’s very Dreadful um to learn the book um it’s very boring material it’s very important
I know um but yeah so I’m I’m procrastinating for 14 years uh but looking at that book with you you know once you pass this test you never have to do it ever again that’s true yeah uh but I learned some things like the painted curbs oh you just
Learned it like an hour ago looking at the I’m like wow I have a California driver’s license I didn’t like white is passenger drop off only MH a white curb a green curb is limited time parking only wait you just remember that red is a loading zone uh no red is you cannot
Yeah but I think it’s like a loading zone no that was um uh that was uh green no green is limited time okay well one or the other and then blue is handicapped can you say handicapped disabled like what can you say today I’m not sure what the um
Wheelchair um yeah and then you were asking me what about that move when you pull up into the intersection I I want to explain halfway through the intersection go ahead so so the first time I came here in state 15 years ago there was this there is this situation
On the on the intersection where the car for some reason goes in the middle of the intersection and then just stops and then and then you like for one second or like whatever minute you you’re like facing the other car which is the most weird situation for European
Ever and then I asked Tom like a minute ago you know what’s the situation and you said so you’re talking about the situation where you’re pull up half like the it’s green in both directions but you want to take a left so you pull up halfway through the intersection because
Once the red light turns red and the oncoming traffic from the other side stops you can do this uh left turn yeah and I told you uh never mention that you do that because I’m not sure if that’s legal or not that’s total California move I did not know that it wasn’t you
Know maybe it’s tolerated I I think it’s but it’s not in the book so I thought ah it’s not if it’s not in book it’s it’s tolerated but not a rule or something but it’s so funny because everybody does it yeah it’s total California move you
Don’t see that I mean you see that in other places New York but not really in Florida so much or different places it’s um it’s kind of a impatient Californian I got to be somewhere and I’m not waiting for the next cycle of Lights wait California are impatient
Yeah on the road yeah yeah yeah yeah you should have you should have seen that I told you the story I was driving down here and it was three lanes going to one because there there had been a mud slide this is on lasena heading towards the
Airport and uh this guy wouldn’t let me over and uh and then he’s going next to me and had his passenger window down and I said uh really dude you’re not going to let me over and he uh he goes you’re smoking oh that’s it oh well that’s
That’s really Californian yeah yeah guy was um he was slightly feminine and um was very upset that uh I was smoking so that wasn’t uh that disqualified me from being let over and he needed to make a point and I saw Andre 3000 on um what’s Andre 3000 he’s from
Um uh Andre 3000 the the singer oh oh that’s a singer yeahor shake it shake it like a Polaroid picture you remember that song yeah yeah that’s Andre 3000 um I can’t think of the name of the band that he was in with the other guy
Um so you saw him where in the car being interviewed uh a few nights ago and he they asked him what his least favorite smell was and he said uh cigarette smoke so maybe maybe Andre 3000 wouldn’t have let me over either that’s a good point I
Mean you smoke so you you don’t smell it anymore yeah no yeah like you go to someone’s house who makes who eats bacon and they the whole house smells like bacon and they can’t smell it you go to a smoker’s house and they can’t smell it
What about cats oh I want tell Cat people too I want to tell you something interesting you know for Breeze yeah the the spray so for breze wanted to make their product successful and they targeted people who had smelly houses because they thought oh that those are the
People who going to who going to buy our product right but turned out that that that wasn’t the case because people for example people with cats or dogs whatever they don’t know they don’t know and they don’t care about it because you know they love their cats yeah it’s not
Until someone comes over and goes damn it whoa yeah and you know who the target audience was for for Breeze people who are already clean yeah wow yeah just wanted to share that so how do you feel about this driver’s test I think this is um a huge leap in your
Life yes I’m excited about it um I do think the written test is Dreadful but I’m already you know three qus in um and I’m going to take it like next week or something I’m excited but I’m also like scared to death because you always here
Oh this person died in an accident in La driving is so fun you’re going to love it your whole life is going to change yeah that’s yeah I’m going to visit you every week great we’ll do then we can record the podcast at my house cool back to the book uh the book
Background the book background yeah so um and and you did the parallel parking the last time I was here yeah how did I do smoking uh you did great we went to an empty parking lot over by the beach and uh I set up some chairs and and you did
The parallel parking you were so kind you took two chairs from my balcony and uh yeah you put one on the on the front and one in the back and we pretended that those were cars yeah these are these are the bumpers yeah and and you you nailed it you were so good
At it Tom is the friendliest guy ever yay so uh this Super Bowl just passed and um I was in Las Vegas was it busy it was so busy over the weekend uh there was so many cars I was staying way up high in the tower and looking out the
Window every direction was bumper-to-bumper traffic but it was um it was an exciting time to be in Las Vegas because um Taylor Swift was coming I’m kidding well I remember three four months ago Taylor Swift was coming to the Grove and and uh promote her uh
Her her um her book movie or something yeah I think her movie oh yeah she did a uh she did a Premiere at the Grove that’s right yeah and they they closed everything like the president was coming they had like everything was blocked off all around there can you imagine how
Important she got wow yeah and Ryan holiday posted that video saw did you sent it to me right you sent it to me ah and uh he was talking about the genius of Taylor Swift that she overcame some guy bought the rights to all brown what’s his name you don’t know this
Story no Scooter Brown bought all his rights and hers her rights yeah and then he sold it you know he’s like an investor or whatever and uh he made lots of money uh from it and then she decided to re well everybody knows the story yeah which I
Think is very badass of her and then and then uh but she also said or she named the album you know this is my version right 1989 well no she she let the people know that this was her version so people would know not to listen to that one to
The scoter Brown version but her version which is great and what is fan holiday saying that that how she overcame adversity and that that was like um the stoic way to handle the situation instead of being defeated or feeling powerless she made the decision to re-record all that stuff so that she
Would own it again and uh and then told her fans you know listen to that version and uh and then she’s become like one of the most powerful people in in entertainment yeah she’s got a lot of influence do you remember that first Grammy she won and uh Kanye West jumped
On stage and he took the Grammy away from her mhm yeah I remember feeling so bad for her at the time and uh look at Kanye West now well actually driving back from Las Vegas the other night I heard a bunch of great new music uh and
I wanted to say that the winner of the Super Bowl was Usher uh I Usher I listened to Usher’s new album on the drive back I worked with Matt Richards this great guy in Las Vegas last week and he wanted to fly back to New York from
Los Angeles instead of Las Vegas because Monday after the Super Bowl was going to be like the most crowded day ever at the Las Vegas airport and and we listen to all this new music uh Beyonce put out like a two country songs did you know that and Usher’s new
Album is actually great I heard of Kanye West just put out a new album and um some of the songs were great you know and but but was he on the in the performance like who was that guy ludicrous oh with the big afro no there
Was this guy with his mask over his over his uh I think that was ludicrous and then he took it off and he had a big afro right oh I don’t know yeah I don’t even recognize anybody I just recognized Usher and you know what Usher didn’t
Even AG one bed he is still the same it’s 7:00 I’m in my drop top thinking of you again remember that song that’s a sure so yeah I thought his performance was great I thought uh when he just started the microphone went off or something and
It it kept going and I’m like I don’t care this this is this his moment you know I was just trying to feel what he was feeling you like oh his heart must be bouncing right now yeah so I saw the human you know behind behind the
Performer and and and then he said something about his mom like people people say that I that I didn’t make it or something but here I am Mom something like that and I was like rooting for him like it was my brother saying that you know that’s nice it was very nice well
My favorite thing about the performance was he he busted out the roller skates that’s right and he did this I thought about you when did that so he’s doing a residency in Las Vegas and apparently he roller skates in the show yeah so he he brought his Vegas routine uh on with the
Skates and I hope that that like ignites some great new roller skating Trend in the United States now because hope so because Usher made it look cool yeah and then you and I have been roller skating for the last what three years yeah he’s good at it too because he was jumping on
It I mean that’s some skills and he could skate backwards I can’t skate backwards yeah that’s really you remember when I tried to roller skate backwards and I um sprained my ankle you sprained your anle yeah yeah it took like 3 months for that to to heal mhm
But um yeah I’ve said it many times before the only thing that can save um the Middle East and the world and is uh is Roller Boogie so I think people getting back into that happy roller skating fun thing fun stuff like eating ice cream and uh you know the United
States is you know people hate each other people are divided the the Super Bowl is the one and only thing that we unite for every year yeah like when Americans get along like um other countries have um soccer soccer St Patrick day yeah uh yeah and and it
Seems like that’s the Super Bowl is the one day when everybody can like not hate each other and unite for the commercials the game the halftime show and then they go back to hating each other the next day you know what I thought was interesting uh Taylor Swift and that
What’s the guy’s name that in the in the in the team that she’s oh yeah yeah Kelsey Kelsey I thought it was such a a classic High School Story you know the girl gets the guy from the sports team yeah yeah and I thought oh this is this
Is kind of like this American story coming true but he was like he’s like a really big guy and he’s the tight end which is a guy who catches he’s on the the he’s not a quarterback that’s like a what’s his name mus masan uh Patrick momes is the
Quarterback for the Chiefs yeah um there was one I guess he had a fumble during the game and there’s one scene where where one moment where he went over and yelled at the coach and he’s just out of his mind but like I guess he was yelling
Like don’t you dare take me out out of the game or something but he was like out of his mind with um uh with with rage and adrenaline and then after the game when they were getting their trophy uh he was like you know party yeah uh you got to fight for your
Right to party but um it seemed like a lot of um uh masculinity a lot of tough guy yeah a lot of lot of tough guy football thing so yeah because the guy before him momies was yeah it went well like very you know like professional political and who what studious studious
And then he like like an animal like you know Irish guy hilarious he’s just seemed like a real you know jock tough guy um which a lot of her female audience um might call that toxic masculinity are you throwing something out there the I’m just saying like you
Know maybe the the world has shifted well I was watching the uh the Super Bowl with my two friends and they’re both psychologists okay what they say okay so one is school psychologist and one is uh doctor psychologist and she said she uh also has kids um you know
Like uh older and they’re in the in the team of their high school and they’re like you you know she’s they’re tough looking right and she l them the most because they’re sweet sweet guys you know and they cry sometimes yeah and then when I saw him with all that male
Energy I thought oh he must be like that one of those sweet guys you know yeah well he guys obviously got something if he Taylor you’re so awesome when you on stage he he landed um you know Miss America The Girl Next Door that’s right Miss America yeah yeah um she’s the
Opposite of everything I’m attracted to what what do you mean like don’t bomb our podcast no I I love her music I love that uh midnights that album is amazing I have it on vinyl but I divinal yeah um but but yeah I I I I shouldn’t say that I I guess uh
American she’s just she she’s American sweetheart American sweetheart yeah that’s why I call it yeah yeah cuz cuz all most of my relationships have been with non-americans so I was just kind of oh okay making a joke let the podcasters know uh the podcast audience know let
The record stand let the record stand I was looking for those words okay let me tell you another thing another cool thing about football yeah and soccer the difference between football and soccer what I noticed is that in football it’s all about stealing ground stealing land
It’s a land battle it’s like a war it’s you fight for the land yeah and you go full m to you just like yeah once you conquer conquer all the land then uh you know you get a touchdown you conquer all the land you win the the battle yeah
Yeah and you go baby steps because like every piece of land matters yeah now Tom don’t you think it’s interesting that in Europe it’s more about collaborating on the field and passing the ball yeah you know I’ve been doing that joke about uh soccer that uh my favorite thing about
Soccer is when a player scores he’ll often take off his shirt and he’ll go running and all of his buddies go Che oh that’s the the joke is that soccer is about the recognition of your friend’s achievements oh that’s nice that’s what soccer is about because very often in
Soccer a player will score and he rip his shirt off and he go running and all of his buddies will go chasing after him then they catch him and they hug him and they tickle him and they blow little stomach farts on his belly and this celebration time is allowed on the clock
That’s why it’s a beautiful game celebration is a part of the game American football they stop have a meeting stop having a meeting stop having a meeting everybody hates meetings and that game is one meeting after another this huddle should have been an email it’s funny you say everybody hates
Meetings that game is one meeting after another this huddle should be an email should have been an email that’s funny it’s a good joke that’s a good joke are you still doing it uh yeah once in a while I didn’t I didn’t I only did it once in Las Vegas
CU it was Super Bowl week you know yeah but I had I had I had a good time the um Tom seura and and Bert ker played at the MGM and I went over oh they were not for the game there I think play there they did a show at the MGM
The night before and then I met up with them they had an Afterparty and Vince vaugh was there I met did you get to beat him uh he was standing close to me I met him he was like one of The Producers on Sullivan and Son remember
The Steve Burn sitcom that I had one line on yeah um he was one of the producers so I met him then but he didn’t recognize me uh and he was he looked like he’s super tall too yeah um but I was with Matt Richards we went
Over there and Michael Chay you remember Michael Chay we met him at the comedy seller in New York uh talked to him for a minute in it um and I met guy Fier who’s oh the guy with the blonde spiky hair oh food guy the food guy the
Diners Dives and Drive-ins show that the guy has Co and Bert ker called me over and he was like you got to meet this guy and he’s telling who the food guy he was telling food guy this to me he goes you got to meet this guy this is one of the
Greatest comedians who’s ever lived it’s Tom roads and then so like you know you know nice to meet you nice to meet you and then guy Fier starts going well you know it’s kind of all about business you know it doesn’t matter what you do you
Know what what you do on stage is one thing but then you got all those other hours in the day where it’s all about business so he went into some kind of like business uh pep talk about for for you he was saying you guys comedians you
Know oh yeah that he was he seemed stressed no it just seemed like I don’t know um I I mean or maybe well you just wanted to talk about hamburgers or something yeah maybe I should think more about uh about business where can I yeah maybe that’s it maybe I should have
Taken the guy’s advice uh but ber ker it was really sweet that he gave me props like that and uh and I got to talk to him and Tom seura for a minute and uh Tom’s a you know a genius I love his comedy and I love there were buddies because you know
He’s from Florida and oh I forgot that yeah yeah and he’s from Vero Beach his mom is from Peru she married a white guy but his mom taught him Spanish my mom is from Argentina she married a white guy she did not teach me Spanish so um that’s the difference between you you
And that’s a difference between Tom and Tom one speaks Spanish and one I yeah anyway um I wish I spoke Spanish and I was learning Spanish but now I’ve been studying French and we we can talk about that in in a minute before it changes who you did before we before we before
We move on um with Las Vegas in the Super Bowl um I have been reading this book you ready for this mhm it’s called the Sammy D Davis reader and it’s all these different articles and stories by people who knew him or there’s like a Playboy magazine piece in here that was
On him in like 1955 I guess he became a star in 1955 that’s a year before Elvis hit and um Life Magazine piece articles that were written by people who knew him and uh fascinating guy and Samy Davis Jr helped he was one of the people who helped build Las Vegas
Oh no him Frank Sinatra Dean Martin uh Sammy Davis Jr and and Peter Lawford were the Rat Pack and Sami Davis Jr started out in Vaudeville there was like little theaters All Over America and his father was a Vaudeville performer who did a show with this guy named will Aston
So semi Davis Jr and uh his father and mother got divorced and the mother was a show girl in Vaudeville and she went off on another show and Samy Davis Jr’s father raised him and his grandmother who lived in Brooklyn but he went on the road with his dad and will Aston
And from four years old onwards he started performing wow so he was part of the ACT first he would just he’d watch the shows and then he would do IM ations and then then he would come out and like you know a little Top Hat little you know tuxedo and people
Absolutely loved him and he learned Show Business from uh his dad and will Aston and the guy could dance he could do Impressions he could sing and he was one of the original hipsters and and then when he’s oh and then they start playing he met Frank Sinatra in Detroit
Detroit when Frank Sinatra was singing with like the Tommy dorsy way before Sinatra became um huge yeah and so they were they were friends for a long time and Sinatra helped them get uh some really good gig in New York and then they played at SOS in Los Angeles which
Is where the comedy store is now what’s it called c zos c i r o apostrophe s and this was this famous you know was like the hottest nightclub and and and then he’s like a teenager I think at this point or about 20 and they were the
Opening act for some woman and they blew her off the stage and then she wanted to switch and they were like an unknown act but it was the strength of Sammy Davis Jr uh and so then they you know there there star is skyrocketing and then wait Ritz frankon
Ra no no no Sinatra helped them get some gigs some really important gigs before anybody knew who they were and then it was clear when he was about 22 years old that he was the star and these other two guys are getting old so it was
Inevitable he would go out on his own and so he signed a contract with them that he would split his earnings three ways the the money that he made yeah and he long after they retired I think into his 40s everything Samy Davis Jr made he
Split with his father and this guy will Aston because he felt so indebted to them for teaching him everything how to dance how to sing wow amazing what a good guy and then so they start playing in Las Vegas and uh black people were not allowed to go in casinos they weren’t
Allowed to stay stay in hotels and he they were playing at I think the frontier one of these places at the time was you know a hot Casino yeah and they couldn’t even stay in the casino they had to go stay on the black part of town
There was like some black part of town where like you know the maids and you know people who did a lot of the the the labor lived and they had to go stay in some groming house in the black neighborhood and the woman charged them way more money than she of because you
Knew they were entertainers and anyway when Sammy Davis Jr this is where the story is going when Sami Davis Jr started becoming a big huge star on his own uh you know and then his dad and will Aston fell out of the the the thing
And then it just became s Jr on his own he wouldn’t perform any place that didn’t let black people come in so Samy Davis Jr singlehandedly kind of changed everything in Las Vegas for black people and people of color wow and like you I didn’t know that cuz he was huge and he
Had power he’s selling tickets and at that time super racist America um you know and and there criticisms like oh great now black people can go get ripped off on their money like things like that but the he really was like the Jackie Robinson of entertainment and you jump to today with
The Super Bowl in Las Vegas you know and Usher doing the halftime show and Beyonce and Jay-Z’s there and uh Alicia Keys all these you know uh the these major brilliant performers um it’s a whole different world we live in yeah but you know Jackie Robins um Sammy Davis Jr he had
To hear a lot of racial slurs you know and put up with a lot of lot of and it is 1900 something right the 50s into the early 60s that’s that’s not a long time ago I guess I guess like so in the early 60s him and Frank Sinatra and Dean
Martin and Peter Lawford started performing together and uh and then they did a lot of racial jokes to him at his at his his expense um they said really nasty things like um Frank sinach told him to keep smiling so they could see where he was on stage which is like a
Really horrible old racist joke a cheap a cheap joke I think yeah lots of cheap stupid and he he’s like you know acting like it’s the funniest thing in the world but um those guys partied and then Sammy Davis Jr uh is great him and Peter Lawford
They made movies together oceans 11 and then some other Goofy movies but Oceans 11 really captured the way they looked and their their hipst are cool and the way they talked and these guys would do shows every night party till sunrise and the sun’s coming up and then go you know
Shoot the movie which they didn’t put too much effort in into their movie Parts but Sammy Davis Jr and Peter Lawford went to London in the end of the 60s and they’re like rock stars and it was swinging hipster London uh with the hippies and the peace movement and all that and they
Got into that him and Peter luffer started dressing like hippies and wearing like big you know big collars big collars and Flowery shirts and stuff and um Samy Jr had a uh a a big cocaine problem for a long time and he dabbled in the Church of
Satan for a while he was wait wait wait what yeah really interesting guy uh he you know the Church of Satan yeah he embraced the dark side for a while and he was hanging out with porn stars I don’t get it he gives like a third to
His the royalties like as royalties he gives it he’s so kind and then he goes to the Church of Satan yeah really I mean fascinating guy and I don’t I don’t know how long you dabbled with the Church of Satan but Marilyn Chambers was the no Linda love lace was the uh star
Of this movie called Deep Throat yeah early ’70s it was like the biggest Smash Hit uh porno movie yeah uh that that made a ton of money uh he was hanging out with her and um all these porn stars and in the Church of Satan for a while
So maybe he was just a Rabel he wanted to be a Rabel uh they Sammy Davis Jr dealt with a lot of stuff he had you know some self-hatred issues from oh he did from being treated um you know like a second class citizen but oh I and then
Even the black community would on him and criticized him for a lot of different you know way he handled things but he was all very generous always giving money to different uh oh yeah he endorsed Nixon oh yeah so a lot of people thought
He you know kind of had sold out at that point but just fascinating story and you you’re not even you have so many so much information and you just read like what 50 pages over I’m yeah about halfway through it oh halfway to it okay okay okay yeah interesting I like that you
That you read biographies I love biographies yeah you have a reason why you love biographies right well it’s great to know what people struggles people had you know and what people went through did you read the biography of uh Ava Gardner no I have that but you have
It in your house and I always look at it I’m thinking should I start reading it because it’s like that fat as the same J you know yeah you think it’s worth it because you have interesting stories fascinating life that when she gave up the movies at one point and went and
Lived in Spain and dated a matador total badass woman um that sounds already badass yeah and she was from she moved to Spain and dated a matador she was like from Rocky Mount North Carolina this little tiny Town mhm and uh the Louie Armstrong is another
Biography I want to read I got a lot of I just got a biography on uh artha Franklin oh cool yeah I think I’m going to read that one next okay what biographies uh did you read you read a lot of biographies God I couldn’t even
Name them did you did you read the one uh of Lou Reed oh yeah I have like four Lou Reed books I’ve I’ve read two of them yeah you get four biographies or four books of him they’re biographies basically wow yeah so why are you so
Interested in him I love Lou Reed uh his lyrics he was very poetic he such a badass I love The Velvet Underground I think they kind of Changed music um underground alternative you know so much about music I think you should start a separate podcast that’s just music just
Just you know like the Rolling Stones talks about music and but there’s no songs in there they just talk about you I CD or they used to have it no no that’s your uh uncut magazine unut and Mojo puts out you get a monthly CD with
It but they talk about music right yeah they talk about music and then they’ll the cool thing about it is they have uh a CD they put out of the that month’s best music I feel that you could do podcast and F fill it up with stories
And I wish I could do that like uh and then put out a little Tom roads playlist yeah that’d be awesome we did it one time though but then we yeah we had Del shut it off because then then all of a sudden Spotify came up you know because we
Started before Spotify even existed it was the early days well I think this was like eight years ago nine years ago when we moved to LA and I actually played the vinyl record of I queued up the songs and then you and I would talk about it yeah yeah
And then and then when all the streaming channels uh became in existence they did not like that so we had to um get that one yeah yeah and then we had to unfortunately we had and a cool sound bites we did we had to delete those yeah yeah unfortunately we
Had to delete the the intro that we used to have yes CU we it had it had this badass music underneath it and we had like really great sound bites I think that made our podcast right um remember that the first one you did with Doc Stan
Hope if we had to played the comedian we would play little clips of their standup exact throughout the conversation and then one brilliant one I think the first one you got guys do you did or the second one you did with dog Sano it was episode number one end yeah at the end
You guys both sing a song Ricky Lee Jones we belong together and then the editor uh Ryan I think from Florida uh had the brilliant idea to to end it end the podcast with that piece and he put the music behind it so it ends so
Majestic you know but we had to delete that too yeah it’s too bad yeah Doug and I were talking about doing mushrooms together together it was too bad but the podcast is still there the episode you did mushrooms together and then there’s a story about the universe so if you
Want to listen to it go to episode one episode one scroll all the way down I gave birth to the universe yeah yeah and then doc sop peed in his pants right yeah and I vomited on his the old days the old days yeah the hippie old days
I’m glad I don’t party like that anymore so uh um yeah that was uh that was the Super Bowl that was my Las Vegas your Las Vegas experience yeah yeah I watched some really interesting movies recently I’ve watched a bunch of old Japanese movies there’s a uh kurasawa movie called stray dog from
1949 so it’s post-war Tokyo MH and it’s about a detective who gets his gun stolen on a bus he’s on a crowded bus and someone steals his gun and he’s like a rookie cop so the whole movie is this guy trying to get his gun
Back and it’s shot so cool and it’s in July so it’s sweltering hot people don’t have air conditioning and you just feel just the uh and I I guess a lot of kurosawa’s movies he had he used a lot of rain so there’s a lot of like heavy downpour rain
Shots and uh great dialogue brilliant film uh every people should watch that movie stray dog stray dog is wait is it like a bro movie no no no it’s great and there’s a there’s um a young woman in it who it’s interesting I watched the uh you know
The the little documentary that went with the film as well was great oh that’s cool yeah you think a Taylor shft audience would like it that’s why I thought about it yeah I think anybody well I remember you used to not like you didn’t like old movies that were in black and
White yeah when I was growing up and I was in my 30s I didn’t like that no but now I like it okay I just recently watched this super old version of um Scrooge when around Christmas and it was so interesting with what how they filmed it was this was
1930 I think I watched that on YouTube with my mom and it’s it’s in England and it’s these really old actor people yeah and I think you didn’t have music right because that that was something new mhm oh do you remember this H this really long documentary like 13 parts and it’s
About about film remember that yeah the story of film The Story of yeah I have that on DVD oh it’s so fascinating if you want to watch it I have it do you remember the guy saying the wind in the trees yeah yeah so anyways that documentary is about how film uh how
Film uh originated evolved evolved from the shots it’s all about like shots and the way they shot things and the just uh storytelling development yeah and like the things that we we take for granted uh like like one scene uh uh is Montage with another scene so then you
Have the you have that notion of oh that person is is walking downstairs because you see one scene to the other you assume that he went off the stairs think things like that they didn’t even use back then because they didn’t know that you know like story-wise that would make
Sense right yeah it’s just fascinating the story of film great and then another great movie I watched recently is Lady Snow blood is that Japanese as well either from 19 yeah it’s from Japan 1970 or 1971 and this is the movie that inspired Quinton Tarantino to write Kill
Bill and this woman Lady Snow blood some bad happened to her mother and uh she was um she she she just got screwed by these like four people and uh I think she was raped and then the daughter was a a product of the rape so the the
Mom raises this child her she’s a raises her to be an assassin and her whole life is builds up for her to a Avenge the bad that happened to her mother and she’s kind of just like this badass going around and just slicing people uh
And she’s like such a badass killer and it’s such a interesting when she slices somebody open or or Cuts their head off it’s like a garden hose of blood shoots out of them and this is where Quinton Tarantino got the idea to like you know be overly um bloody bloody uh and
Really badass flick Lady Snow blood it’s a really great cover too yeah it came with a little poster I hung it up I hung it up yeah really good movie what did you you watch what did you watch recently Dune oh yeah I watch Dune
Um I hated the original Dune but I loved that uh remake that you just watched I didn’t see the original but the Remake was uh I think everybody should watch it a few times because you you pick up different things you know um the second
Time I watch it I do think I did think that the the lady characters in DIA her memory comes up so many times that I didn’t notice the first time because she’s so beautiful right but the second time I’ve seen it and then I thought
Well this is like a lot of times he’s getting the same same memory you know yeah so June 2 is coming out in March oh okay if you go to Fango or the IMC theaters you can already um okay yeah pay for the ticket and and and choose
Your seats nice yeah I mean it’s it’s full but but yeah I’m excited to go and see it because now I really want to know what that that memory from the girl is from like what does it mean because they showed it so many times you know piece
It all together I remember there there was a series of books I remember my oldest brother Dave used to read those Dune books really really yeah they were like uh really popular science fiction book series yeah there’s like a lot of parts right yeah like many um books yeah
That’s great that means you know there’s be movies 40 50 more movies coming exactly yeah yeah so did you like the movie right yeah yeah the Remake yeah I loved it it was great yeah and um Timothy Shalay oh did you see the new Willie Wonka movie
No did you see it oh yeah I liked it it was okay did you see it in the movie theater I saw it in the movie theater with my mom when I was home uh I was expecting a little more Chocolate Factory um the the factory doesn’t come
Until like the very end of the movie but obviously they’re setting it up for more episodes more um sequels oh yeah sequel is the name right for investors hey but so do you do you remember the the the first one the Wily Wonka my favorite movie of all time
Isn’t that the wi Wonka in the Chocolate Factory is the greatest movie ever made okay and then Johnny dad made one too yeah he really disliked that version he had this like high squeaked Michael Jackson voice and his dad was a dentist who wouldn’t let him eat
Candy and then the the Oompa Loompas just was one guy recreated many times oh yeah where in the Timothy Shalay version it’s um Hugh Grant is the is the Oompa Loompa I love Hugh Grant yeah and he was actually he was actually really cute in it and my mom after we
Watched the movie I was like what did you think she goes you know it’s a Pity that guy used to be such a big star and now he’s just got this small little um role where he had to play the the little Oompa Loompa and I’m like Mom
That was like a great part yeah and it’s a big movie and the GU everybody remembers OA looma the guy’s still working and my mom was like oh so so sad I used to really like him it’s it’s really sad that he you know he has to be
Like play some little Loompa Loompa in a movie you know I’m like I don’t know how people look at the world you know well it’s very it’s very important to understand other people’s perspective yeah yeah yeah I just saw a movie a series with you grant
It’s called the undoing is it good with Nicole kid tell me about it on HBO Max okay um yeah it’s interesting um it’s um somebody gets murdered and um your grand might be involved that’s what the story is yeah and you can see Nicole Kidman as well
And she doesn’t age either I mean you know or she does a really great job you know with her but um yeah I mean he’s still the same that’s maybe less of a less of a right huh he does it all the time right like
Uh the movies he used to be in like the old movies he’s in he always does this thing like this with is right yes that that British Awkward Moment he’s he’s very good in that right yeah and in reacting like that that’s his acting technique yeah so he doesn’t have that
He doesn’t do that uh in this movie what about the oompaloompa um I I can’t remember I just thought it was funny my mom had total pity for the guy she felt that his his career was in a bad spot because he wasn’t the star of the
Movie you know what it would be funny if you watch a few interesting movies with your mom and see what her opinion on it is for example well you remember a long time ago we did a um it was my mom should choose the Oscar we did a movie
Review episode with her a long time ago yeah yeah remember that yeah I remember cuz she looks at things my mom thinks every movie should end with uh the family all going to church together every whatever the movie is if it’s Godzilla if it’s Lady Snow
Blood that at the end everyone should go to church together isn’t that cute yeah it’s cute it’s cute it just reminded me of something is that remember that every so French movies are very different right than American movies yeah and when you said your mom thinks that every movie
Should end it reminded me uh that French movies always end very peculiar right very like screwed up like even if it’s a comedy like everyone will die of cancer at the end like it’s French movies are are wild oh wait I wanted to say something about it go and I just
Discovered the reason why French movies are are so different than Hollywood movies is that the government still um it was like Foundation or something so it’s not founded by subsidies they they they they gave government subsidies yeah so so you know people who like how you say it um like
Everyone can if you have a good script everybody can could make a movie can make a movie yeah oh I didn’t know that yeah so but it’s not like Hollywood that you really have to have a movie that that would would Target the mainstream you know the mainstream
Mainstream audience so you always have these sequels or these hero hero movies because they do well globally you know so that’s kind of cool by the French I watched this French movie called wages of fear by uh this guy named cluzo uh cluso it’s a detective clo no
Uh you’re thinking of cluso oh well excuse me uh really these guys are in South America doing like this like hard work for a little money they’re trying to get enough money so they can move back to Paris and uh there’s truckloads of nitroglycerin that need to be driven to
Some place where they can blow up some mountain and it’s going to pay a lot of money so these these guys are desperate and they need the money so they’re driving this like truck on this bumpy road with like the first truck explodes and then these other guys uh is it a
Comedy no no no no it’s called wages of fear grade film it sounds like a great uh yeah there’s a scene where the the truck goes up this hill and then it it goes it slides backwards and there’s a like a wooden ramp built on this cliff
And the truck is like on the edge of this Cliff really great scene it’s like uh every second is fearful wages of fear yeah and uh is now a good time to talk about that I’ve been studying French I’ve been taking doing dualingo French and uh and then I’ve been doing
This Great Courses um um what did you learn um excuse Mo uh um uh justu ftig um I’m uh I’m learning so uh I met a woman in Paris and she’s learning English and I’m she’s helping me with French and um it’s pretty interesting so I told my mom and
She goes out goes Spanish and in comes French because I met this woman so okay translate this uh let me think uh uh ju I have no idea I’m still working on cats and dogs man and woman this one uh can become handy it’s it’s um I forgot
My keys in the room in hotel room and Ill is he and they ill L is she and they um I’m just I’m just working on the the cognitives she’s happy beautiful oh okay what’s happy happy happy oh happy is tell it’s h u e r u x Arrow
Hero oh I can’t pronounce it that’s like happy more like oh but happiness yeah more like oh it was a happy moment it’s a complicated word it’s hard to say yeah like like uh uh uh uh la la la this room was very happy a room I’m sorry she was very happy like
Uh yeah TR I don’t know how to pronounce it um any who we we’ll come back to that jimel you know jimel jimel I I jimel Tom my name is yeah um anyway it’s interesting um it’s tough isn’t it it’s very difficult it’s very difficult yeah
It’s difficult I I want to learn but I told you the woman in Paris has been watching my uh standup clips on YouTube oh that’s how she learns her English so to help her with her English so I think it’s funny if this woman learns how to
Speak English the way I speak on stage she would be like a comedian all the time that’s a bunch of [Laughter] so um should we talk about the the hummingbirds before we wrap it up yeah yeah your hummingbirds well what’s the story well there’s always a dominant
Hummingbird MH and they always fight over the nectar so I have the nectar that’s why I was asking you are you using that old hummingbird feeder why you oh you wanted to show because I have like 10 hummingbird feeders set up so an amazing thing has happened they’re
Fighting less and now I’m getting like four or five at a time but there’s still one dominant hummingbird that will chase off the other ones but I’m getting more hummingbirds coming to my balcony now and I’ve got like 10 feeders hanging all around so with cocaine in it
Well the humble the hummingbird nectar that you can buy on Amazon so I’m I’m giving them the good stuff the good stuff for hummingbirds so the main so I looked up a lot of facts on hummingbirds recently um because remember during the pandemic I was really studying the hummingbirds the main Predators for
Hummingbirds are cats Hawks uh praying mantises and spider webs praying mantises eat hummingbirds yeah wow spiders the leading cause of death of hummingbirds is dirty feeders what’s dirty feeders dirty feeders like when you make your own hummingbird stuff with sugar in the water the the feeders can get clogged oh
Uh that’s why I use that store-bought nectar it doesn’t have that problem so like dirty feeders wow um Can screw them up hummingbirds do not mate for life and males have to court the female for each brood after mating the female builds the nest tends the nest and feeds the young
They aggressively defend their nesting territory looking for areas close to nectar and protein sources so um the hummingbirds have to find a new mate every time they mate they don’t mate with the same hummingbird wow so you got to go through this whole so the way they fight off
Other hummingbirds from the nectar they do that with the females also hey man that’s my chick get away from they aggressively have to fight the other ones away wow so every time they want to mate they have to do that same thing that’s fascinating uh hummingbirds recognize
Human faces and the people who feed them oh they all know Tom they love I have a I have a great Yelp review on the hummingbird Yelp world uh hummingbirds need nectar and Tiny insects and it is a felony to try and keep one to keep a hummingbird to try and keep a
Hummingbird um uh if a hummingbird flies close to an individual’s face or even hovers nearby momentarily it may be interpreted as a sign that positive energy is present or that transformation is imminent what do you mean I had coming Bird come close to me then they’ felt positive energy I’ve got a good
Aura and they’re saying that it’s a sign that something good might happen oh um you had it happen too right yeah when I saved that one’s life it came back and like buzzed right in my face like a few feet in front of me just looked at me
And I told you he was cuz he’ been stuck in my apartment and I got him out but it wouldn’t let me catch him at first yeah or her uh or maybe it was a trans hummingbird um the uh when I when I got it to safety it came back like the next
Day and it hovered right in front of my face just to let me know you know I had time to think about what happened and I realized that you were trying to help me you’re a good guy yeah and I just wanted to say thanks when a hummingbird spots a
Food source they will Dive Right In and stake their claim however if an intruder comes along they are more than prepared to defend what they Define as their territory so they’re Defenders good Defenders they they will attack not only their kind but also bees butterflies and
Moths oh and bees and wasps and those kind of things can kill them also if they get stung on their heart they’re they so they have a big conflict with because the bees also want the nectar a that’s right so um for migration purposes the hummingbird must be prepared by fueling
Up their energy levels before taking off on their long journey that’s why they always need Hector because nectar because they’re burning so much energy and when it rains they come out a lot too because they’re um expending a lot of energy it’s harder to fly in the rain wow hummingbirds are the smallest
Migrating bird and the only bird that can fly backwards hummingbirds have no sense of smell I just I thought you gonna say no sense of humor they don’t laugh at anything um they’ve watched Chappelle tapes and specials snapstick won’t even crack a smile uh the average weight of a
Hummingbird is less than a nickel less than a nickel yeah wow a Mayan Legend says that the hummingbird is actually the sun in Disguise and he is trying to court a beautiful woman who is the moon that’s very poetic hummingbird facts it’s a shame that they didn’t make
It the Native American cultures two Native American cultures uh they have long portrayed hummingbirds as healers light Bringers and helpers from the spirit world who carry luck Joy joy and love to those they greet along their Journey okay I like that I like that in an ancient story
From the ketua people in Peru a hummingbird fetches drops of water to help put out a great forest fire the other animals laugh at her but the bird replies I’m doing what I can that’s nice in the Bible the hummingbird stands for Faith and and hope we are reminded
To remain still live in the moment and stop obsessively thinking about the past and the future hummingbirds were created by God to make the world more beautiful and peaceful nice huh well they certainly make your life peaceful and More Beautiful yeah it’s a little irritating when they’re I put out all these 10
Feeders and they’re still fighting each other it’s like there’s enough for everybody and that’s the the thing about the story of humanity what I’ve learned about these small creatures is the story of human beings is there’s enough for everybody and they’re still fighting like look around there’s enough for
Everybody quit being an and yet they it’s something in their you know genetic makeup that um they have limited mindset they’re and they they think they need everything to survive the Aztecs saw them as Messengers between them and their ancestors or the gods okay isn’t that nice oh that’s
Funny to the ancestors and their gods well yeah that’s kind of cool because they can fly backwards they’re the only birs that can fly backwards yeah so yeah they they’re good messenger yeah I think these are all my okay thank you Tom yeah these are my hummingbird facts thank you you’re
Welcome okay well um that was a that was a nice um episode to get back into the groove get back into crew and this is the first time we’ve used handheld microphones that’s right how do you feel I feel good because we don’t have to sit
Uh on the well I like the table but it’s weird that you have to look in the camera and it’s very distractive distracting sorry because then you’re you have a whole different conversation where you’re just looking at yourself you’re conscious of your and so we we we’re just looking at each
Other uh we’re doing close-up camera shots because apparently that’s the hot thing and um I wanted to tell you one last thing well I just don’t want to edit too much too many you know yeah just like I just want easy editing that’s it well thank you for editing and thank
You for cracking the whip to get me to record again when I was in Vegas after the show one night I met uh an interesting couple they had met on uh a dating app they met on hinge and I’ll have to tell my hinge story after this but they the woman was
Uh from India and she was Hindu and her boyfriend was American and he managed a steakhouse oh what a what an interesting uh Dynamic you know um you see uh him serving her dinner uh would you like some would you like your God sliced up with some peppercorn sauce oh she
So I went on this dating app hinge the end of last year uh I was desperate I was lonely and you can choose and it was I shouldn’t have put my real age because it was all these like old grandma-aged women that were sending me messages one
Woman wanted to knit me a sweater another woman uh wanted me to go to Costco with her and get free samples uh another woman asked me if I would drive her home from her colonoscopy oh yeah right nobody was older women and you can choose five photos in one video and when
My friend sa came over from Amsterdam last summer I took him and his family to the beach and I roller skated and they were on bikes and he filmed this video he’s like on his bike like this and I’m behind him and I’m shirtless 170 lbs I look gorgeous in the
California Sun I’ve never looked better and you thinking about every moood I’m like oh my God that looks so cool and then the last it’s a 19-second video in the last three seconds of the video he goes like this and I put that 19-second video on hinge and some woman uh
Commented can you introduce me to your friend who appears at the end of the video o so I I deleted the the the app I decided not to swim in in that pool of mediocrity anymore and uh I lasted 4 days on on that dating app I’ll never do
It again you’re hinged four days I’m unhinged now well done okay well um that’s it I gotta I got to drive to Hot Yoga class yes yeah you got a gig at a comedy store tonight I have a gig at the comedy store tonight yay
And um I just got a haircut today so that’s why I look like Tintin well thank you for listening and watching um more episodes coming soon okay and um asna you’re you’re killing it and thanks for you know being my best friend and you know hoay for Humanity a
Thank you for being my best friend of course forever and ever
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