275: #275 Scary Movies, Wrestling & Happy Clowns ft. David Arquette

Summary

Nateland Podcast #275

Scary Movies, Wrestling & Happy Clowns ft. David Arquette

Date: October 22, 2025
Hosts: Nate Bargatze, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, and Dusty Slay (out)
Special Guest: David Arquette

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Episode Overview

In this lively episode, the Nateland crew is joined by actor and wrestling champion David Arquette. Together, they dive into a mashup of Halloween-season themes—scary movies, wrestling nostalgia, and the joyful (and sometimes misunderstood) world of clowns. The conversation is a nostalgic romp through ‘90s horror, the wild days of WCW wrestling, personal stories, cultural impact, and lots of laughs. David Arquette’s multifaceted life threads through the podcast, from starring in Scream to his unorthodox wrestling career and his mission to bring back the "happy clown."

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Episode Structure and Highlights

1. Kicking It Off: Nostalgia & Catching Up

[01:17-07:59]

• The hosts reminisce about the early days of the podcast and their recent live shows.
• Sports talk: specifically Vanderbilt football’s best season in lifetimes, SEC hype, and field-storming etiquette.
  • “Imagine saying this even two years ago that you’d be top 10… and not storm the field because you were expected to win that game.” – Nate [06:04]
• Playful jabs about who really holds the podcast together.

2. Behind the Scenes: Touring, Comedy, and Arena Shows

[13:56-24:47]

• Inside look at the comic rotation for tour stops, the challenges of arena shows, and efforts to promote opening acts.
  • “The biggest thing you could give me is to go give these other comics—just listen to them, and you know, it’s awesome.” – Nate [23:19]
• Anecdote: Greg Warren’s shows explode from four to thirteen after opening, thanks to the podcast fans.
• Audience Q&A: On integrating local jokes and the realities of stand-up “acts vs. crowd work.”

3. The Yips, Eating Contests & Sports Memories

[25:46-41:54]

• Listener tales of getting “the yips” (softball, pitching), with stories of coaching tricks (like blindfold training).
  • “They finally fixed it by making him throw strictly blindfolded for about a week. He is now in the big leagues…” – Listener Vinnie [29:29]
• Personal highlights:
  • Aaron’s fond childhood memory: winning a watermelon-eating contest—"You just gotta go for it." [37:58]
  • Eating contest reflections: "It's usually not the biggest fattest guy." – Nate on competitive eaters [39:45]
  • The Krispy Kreme challenge episode: under-promising, over-delivering, and lessons learned.

4. David Arquette Joins – Scream, Horror, and Cultural Impact

[32:47-51:05]

• David shares how Scream became culturally iconic and behind-the-scenes memories:
  • On the infamous Drew Barrymore opening: “Drew Barrymore is the most famous person on the planet... for her to die immediately is—I'd always tell people, you don’t understand.” – Nate [46:04]
• On set stories: almost being killed off, test screenings, and how Wes Craven surprised him with his dad's cameo.
  • “Wes Craven was just such a cool person... in Scream 2, I speak with Ghostface... and he goes, 'yeah, he’s actually here…' He was thinking on that level.” – David [52:06]
• Nate's deep fandom: “You’re really it. As far as the movie left is—if I can get to meet all of y'all. I love Matthew Lillard... Jamie Kennedy... Courtney Cox... Nev... Like, it’s unbelievable. Like, you’re my—you're my starstruck.” [44:55]

5. The Making of Scream and Horror Movie Evolution

[51:05-62:52]

• Hollywood inside baseball: Scream’s original title (Scary Movie), script leaks, and how big reveals are protected.
• The blend of comedy and horror, why Scream stands out in the genre—less gore, more cleverness: “I think that’s why I think Scream was just so good. And then they went to, like, Saw... well, now we just have to show the inside of a bone.” – Nate [77:22]
• “You meet fans and... some of them are like, ‘We saw this on our first… now this is our kid, and they love the series.’” – David [67:18]

6. Culture Fandoms: Wrestling & Stand-Up as Community

[80:11-84:12]

• David digs into the overlap between wrestling, horror, and clown fandoms—how these subcultures thrive on community.
  • Nostalgia for the heyday of wrestling (Stone Cold, The Rock, Ultimate Warrior, etc.).
• His wild experience winning the WCW championship and the backlash:
  • “I did this one show… and they said to me, we’ll make you the champion if you go onto the pay per view. And I said, well, that’s a terrible idea, but I’ll do it…. And then they hated me for 25 years.” – David [87:11, 88:49]
• On wrestling’s legitimacy and reality, and being inspired by Andy Kaufman's performance art.

7. All About Clowns: "Bringing Back the Happy Clown"

[101:02-115:42]

• David’s passion for clowning, being a certified Bob Ross painting instructor, and his mission to revive “the happy clown.”
  • “I fell in love with Bozo when I lived in Evanston, Illinois as a kid… you want to bring back the happy clown. So we’re on this sort of journey to do that.” – David [102:19]
• Clown history, conventions, rivalry (“How can you guys be upset with each other? You’re all clowns!”), and famous clowns from Bozo to Chaplin.
  • “Clowns represent joy… a clown’s job really is to create happiness, make people laugh and uplift.” – David [103:34]
• The shadow of IT and real-life “scary clowns”—David details the struggle to steer the cultural ship back to joy.

8. Physical Comedy & Community

[119:02-120:31]

• The art of the pratfall, clowning, and what it means to take comedy seriously (“The idea of an act…”).
• David’s stories of clown and magic conventions, learning from the best, and why physical comedy is always funny.

9. David's New Projects & Closing Thoughts

[121:13–124:48]

• David plugs his new movie The Perfect Gamble and upcoming Scream VII.
• Discusses the importance of community in every field—from fandoms to performance art.
• David’s mission: “It’s all about bringing the happy clown back and having fun with it and having people have a great time.”
• “Nice to know that... a lot of people will be excited that you’re with the heart of you bringing Bozo back.” – Nate [124:48]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• [46:04] Nate: “Drew Barrymore is the most famous person on the planet. And, I mean, for her to die immediately is—I'd always tell people, you don’t understand.”
• [49:09] David: “It felt really special. The script felt really special… it was originally called Scary Movie.”
• [87:11] David: “We’ll make you the champion if you go onto the pay per view. And I said, well, that’s a terrible idea, but I’ll do it.”
• [88:49] David: “And then they hated me. For 25 years. They'd spit on me… I’d go to wrestling shows, they'd still be mad at me.”
• [103:34] David: “Clowns represent joy and having—like a clown’s job really is to create happiness, make people laugh and uplift.”
• [117:12] David (on bringing back the happy clown): “It happens all the time… we’re trying to fight against [scary clowns].”

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Reminiscing/Podcast Opening: 01:17–08:59
• Comedy Tours/Audience Q&A: 13:56–24:47
• The Yips / Sports Stories: 25:46–32:13
• David Arquette Joins ("Scream" discussion): 32:47–51:05
• Making of Scream & Horror Films: 51:05–62:52
• Fandoms/Communities: 80:11–84:12
• Wrestling Journey: 86:34–95:53
• Clowning Mission/Bozo History: 101:02–117:12
• Physical Comedy & Community: 119:02–120:31
• David’s Projects/Wrap Up: 121:13–124:48

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Transcript

[A]

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[B]

Hello, folks, and hey, Bear. Welcome to the Nateland podcast. I'm Nate sitting here. Brian Bates.

[A]

Right.

[B]

Aaron Weber. Back to the original dusty sleighs out.

[C]

It's what I always wanted.

[A]

It used to be just us three.

[B]

It used to be just.

[A]

Isn't that crazy?

[D]

Yeah.

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Old days.

[B]

Yeah, those were the good old days. Doing drive in movie theaters was five years ago.

[C]

Right at this time.

[B]

Oh, really?

[C]

October 2020.

[B]

That's when you started.

[A]

That's when we hit a groove, I feel. But I feel like we started in the summer.

[C]

The ones I did were. Yeah. In the fall.

[B]

Don't you. You were there the whole time.

[A]

He's talking about. He's talking about the pot. You're all talking about different things.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

I'm talking about the podcast started in the summer. The drive ins was that fall, though.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So now look at us back, winding it down.

[A]

Bookending this thing.

[C]

Is this episode 275?

[A]

Yeah, it's up there.

[B]

Crazy. Yeah, yeah. 75. Yeah. Two hours. 500. And there you go. 50 hours.

[A]

Yeah, man.

[B]

Is it?

[A]

Yeah, probably on average.

[B]

Yeah, that's. That's a lot of talk.

[A]

That's a lot. That's a lot.

[B]

A lot of stuff. A lot of talking. A lot of stuff. A lot of. A lot of content as the. That's what they want. You know, in general, nowadays, people want content.

[A]

Yeah. That's all they want.

[B]

That's it.

[A]

Just throw it at the wall.

[B]

Yep.

[A]

See what?

[B]

See what sticks. It's good times. What? So, yeah, I know I haven't been here for a minute, so it probably feels weird for everybody listening, but.

[C]

No, it was a nice break.

[B]

Yeah. I've heard everybody. I've heard the podcast. You know what? John Augustine told me the podcast has been great. Thank you. He listens and. Yeah. Without me on it. So. Yeah. But he said y' all been doing great.

[A]

Oh, thanks.

[B]

Yeah. We're trying to hold it down in a positive thing. I'm happy that you're doing great without it. And, you know. And I know a lot of people, like, when I'm not on it.

[C]

Well, no, no, Mainly just me. A lot of burner accounts out there.

[A]

Burner baits.

[C]

Give Bates more time.

[B]

Do you have a burner account?

[C]

No.

[B]

Do you? I would make. I could see you. You got a lot of stuff, man. You want to get out.

[C]

I would mess up, and it would still be obviously me.

[B]

I'm not even saying it's about Nateland, but I just think. I mean, you got some problems with some people.

[A]

I, too.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I'm not that guy anymore.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I'm not that guy, but back in the day. Yeah. I would. I would. I would pick some fights with people.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Like what?

[A]

Just Twitter and stuff? Just about, like, nonsense.

[C]

About. Not just.

[D]

Yeah.

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About nothing. Sports and sports.

[D]

Yeah.

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Whatever else.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

But those days are. Are long gone, man. I've matured. I matured. Now I fight with people with my actual.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah. Now you stand behind it. That's good.

[A]

Thanks, man.

[B]

Yeah. We had a big weekend for Vanderbilt, I'll tell you that.

[A]

Is it the. I mean, it's the biggest weekend. This is. This is as good as the best.

[B]

Team that we've ever had. In your whole life, maybe since 19 even.

[C]

In my life.

[B]

Yes. In our whole life. By far the best team we've ever had because they look so good. It's like we're. You know, you go back to, like, the game yesterday, the game Saturday with lsu. It was. You know, he had moments that you're just nervous, but it was like the. Just. We were the better team.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And then even the Alabama loss was like. We had two turnovers in the red zone. It was just like. We made some mistakes. It felt like it was reversed. Like, honestly, it felt like it was like how. Like, we would have beat Alabama in the past. Like, they made mistakes, and then we were, you know, and we're getting better as a team, but they got us AP. Number 10, top 10 top 10 Missouri next week. It's. Yeah, it's. It's something, dude. It is.

[A]

And y' all won and you didn't storm the field.

[C]

Yeah, that says something.

[A]

You're like, because you were the favorite. You were the favorite going into the game.

[B]

Favorite. We did the right thing. We were the favorite.

[A]

Imagine saying this even two years ago that you'd be top 10. You'd beat LSU and not storm the field because it's. You were expected to win that game.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

I think if we hadn't beat Alabama last year, we may have stormed the field.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Okay. That's fair.

[C]

This would have been our biggest win.

[B]

This would have been our biggest win ever. But being favored and stuff is.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Is still a little different. And. Yeah. I mean, I think it's just. I mean, man, Diego Pavia has been great. Clark Lee's great. The whole team, tight ends, defense, they're energy there. The stadium is. Feels like it's our stadium. Even though there's a lot of, you know, there's always been a lot. It's hard when other teams come in, they buy these tickets because Nashville is such a great place that people want to come to. But I mean, it still feels very. It feels loud on Vandy side when you're watching it on TV and it's. Yeah, man. It's been nothing but pure. It's so exciting.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

So exciting.

[A]

What a heartbreaker it'll be when Clark Lee leaves for Penn State though.

[B]

No, I feel good with Clark. Clark Lee went to Vandy.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

He's from here and he's building this into a program and Vanderbilt for whatever it is. If you, if they let him do what he's doing. It's a school you want to be in because it's a school that you can go make. You could go make that Penn State money and you're. You got a job for life. Like it's going to take 50 years before you get to that Penn State level where they're like, if you don't do good, immediately you're fired. So he's, you know.

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Yeah.

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You know, when James Franklin was here, we had a couple, I think a nine win seasons.

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Yeah.

[C]

But it still didn't feel like this. It felt like we got lucky. Tennessee was down at that time. We weren't playing Alabama and it still.

[A]

Felt like, yeah, you can win a game. And it feel like a fluke a little bit. And it hasn't felt like that for you?

[B]

No, it's felt like we're, you know, when they rank them, I mean, are we. You know, I guess we're what, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 in the SEC? That's just how. I mean, the SEC is just so stacked, like, it's nuts.

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It is. I mean, every week now.

[B]

What's the playoffs? 12 teams, top teams.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Every one of our teams. Notre Dame, Vandy, Alabama. Even Georgia Tech. John Crist.

[B]

Oh, yeah. Seven. Oh, imagine that. We have big Nate Land. Who are.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Of just kind of craziness.

[A]

Well, I appreciate y'. All. I mean, I almost enjoy Brian Kelly losing more than Notre Dame winning these days.

[B]

I appreciate that about us being ranked a bit against. Above Notre Dame.

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Yeah.

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Should be two losses.

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Should absolutely should be.

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We'll see how the season shakes out, but.

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Yeah. Well, y'. All.

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Well, yeah.

[B]

Who do y' all play? Like, just.

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This was our last year. Alcorn State, Air Force, the Coast Guard, Navy. We still got. We still got to win the Commander's Cup.

[B]

Yeah.

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But now we definitely. The hardest part of our schedule is over, so we just got to ride it out now.

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I saw AP put out a playoff projection, like, if the season was over now, and Notre Dame, even though they're 12th, wasn't on there. I don't even know how the playoff thing works.

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Vandy in it.

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Yeah, Vandy showed Vandy play in Georgia Tech.

[A]

Oh, that would be fun.

[B]

Can you imagine?

[A]

Oh, that would be so much fun.

[B]

Can you imagine? I don't even. It would be like. It's like the Pearl Harbor. Like, they couldn't even. They would have. They. They probably would have a record because Georgia Tech is in the sec. Yeah.

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A long time ago.

[B]

And so they. They might be like, these two teams played each other for many years.

[C]

Well, you know, we played them last year in the bowl game.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah.

[C]

Georgia Techs. Who holds the record for biggest. Largest margin of victory over Cumberland?

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Over Cumberland. What was it, 120 to nothing or two?

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222.

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Yeah.

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But Georgia Tech. I'm sorry, John. Chris. They haven't played anybody either.

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I played in London to start it off. Right. Or Ireland.

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Ireland.

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Yeah.

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Didn't play Notre Dame. Or they played someone. They beat Florida State. Or they beat. They did something. Yeah.

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They beat. I guess it was Florida State, four State.

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They're scoring just tons of points. I mean, it's like what Vandy's been doing is, like we're scoring, like, tons of points. You know, it's. It's. It's been pretty dominant. How about Indiana? Like, I mean, Indiana is a problem. Mm.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

You've got Missouri, Texas, Auburn, Kentucky, Tennessee left on the schedule. I mean, it's. I mean, it's super possible y' all went out and. I mean, it's going to be insane, dude.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. It's. I mean, very.

[C]

It's.

[B]

It's. It's. Honestly, it's very, very, you know, like, It's. We played 230 play at Missouri. Plays at home at Texas is always still going to be tough. Auburn, Kentucky, I mean, you never know because the SEC is just so good and at Tennessee, and it just depends if Tennessee is. You know, we would need. You know, you need them to be kind of beat up and let down by then, but you got a. You gotta. You got a fun schedule. I mean, the schedule is just so nuts. Yeah, it's. SEC is just Missouri 6 and 1. Yeah, yeah.

[C]

It's crazy.

[B]

But we don't have. Yeah. Texas at Texas. Man, imagine going in there. What time that game. That game's at? 11am I don't. Where am I. Where are we at in two weeks? Chase, I think you're off. Am I off? Oh, I think I have something we can't say.

[C]

Oh, I don't want to go to the game. That's what you're getting?

[B]

Yeah, Yeah, I gotta. I gotta see. I think I have something that I cannot say. But you will find out soon what it is going to be.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

Is it more important than going to Texas?

[B]

Yeah, no. I mean, you know, in the long run, yes. It's something I'm very excited about that I think will be. We're making something for people to watch and. Yeah, I don't know. I don't say. It doesn't matter, whatever I just said. But, yeah, I got. Yeah, I'm trying something. So. So we might be shooting at that. That day, right, Agent? Yeah. So. All right.

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[B]

And you sit with us.

[D]

Yep.

[B]

You said in our. Yeah. Must be nice. Haven't been to it yet. We've got a Nateland suite and. Glad everybody's enjoying.

[C]

I trashed that thing.

[D]

It was.

[C]

Yeah, it was wild.

[B]

The baits cost me.

[C]

And Tristan crashed. Was crazy. Throwing stuff out the window.

[B]

What's this? 40 Dr. Peppers.

[C]

They had a dessert cart that would go around from sweet to sweet, and I kind of tailed them for about four rooms down till they finally got to mine.

[B]

Do you sit in a chair at the door and wait till they get there?

[C]

I kept looking out the window. I mean, out the door. Knocked a couple kids down to get that front row seat in the suite.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[C]

You know Derek. You can tell he is a. I sit with Derek. Your brother Derek. He's a school administrator and a teacher. You can tell it, the way he handles kids.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Because he knows how to handle them. And he'll get stern with them.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

And they listen. That's a special skill.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Well, he's. Derek. Derek's very wise. Very wise. Wise person. We had a great talk the other day, and he's just. He's.

[C]

He's the best.

[B]

Yeah. He's a. He's a very thoughtful person.

[C]

I always tell people, if you need a tutorial on the bargazis, you're at a party, you're gonna. You think you're gonna want to talk to Nate. No, that's gonna be a mistake.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Nate's way down the list.

[C]

And. And then next, probably. Dad. No. If you're there for a long time, you better go to Derek or it's gonna be chaos. Derek's the one that, you know, he's very wise.

[B]

And it depends on the person, but if they want to have fun. Where are they going? Abigail. Abigail.

[C]

They want to get arrested. Go with Abby.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah. Depends on what you want to do. Yeah.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

But all the bargazis, they're a wild time. I mean, they're.

[B]

I would like to. It'd be nice if you say that.

[C]

We are.

[B]

Very nice. That'd be great to hear that.

[A]

Obviously. A great.

[B]

Especially in the suite that you stayed in. Of My families yesterday. So we can do jokes. But it'd be wonderful if you maybe just throw out that we're a wonderful, nice family that thinks about a lot of other people.

[C]

Well, you are welcome back. You are wonderful.

[B]

Other than that.

[A]

We're back, boys.

[C]

I thought that was a given. I'm.

[B]

Nice to hear it sometimes, I'll tell you that.

[A]

It's a given, but you got to give it every now and then.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's. That's the real.

[A]

You want to get in the comments.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

I can say real quick, Charles, shout out to everybody. Came up to see me in Charleston. He had a new club, the Wit's End out there. Josh Bates, the comic, he said it's just. It's like you can tell when a comic sets up a club. Like, the Green room was awesome and. And everything. It was just like. It was great. So thank you to everybody. Came out. See me in Charleston.

[C]

That's great.

[B]

We. Yeah. Our unbelievable weekend, though, this weekend. I want to say Lincoln, Nebraska. Cable guy came out, did a little.

[A]

I saw a picture of him on stage. Did he do a set or did he just.

[B]

No, he just came out at the end. He just did a show there. And so I. I closed on a story mentioning him. And so, like, it was the first time I. He knew I has been doing that, but he hasn't seen it. And so I told him, and I was like, well, just come out, like, afterwards.

[A]

Oh, okay.

[B]

They went nuts. It was wonderful.

[C]

That's great.

[B]

But, yeah, we had Tulsa, Lincoln, Oklahoma City. Unreal. Three shows in Dallas. Dallas was insane. Yeah. Yeah. Three 3pm show. We had 17,000 people there. It's the. I think it's the biggest 3pm show we've ever had. But they were unreal. And then ended it with Tulsa, who was great. And we look forward to this week. Chicago and United Center. Center Cincinnati. Yeah. So, all right, starting it off. This is somewhat pretty early starting off. Joel Thomas. I've been a huge fan since your first episode, and we'll have to say Aaron is the glue to this show.

[C]

That's why we've sunk.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah. A lot's changed since you've been out.

[B]

His wit knowledge, ad reads, his laugh is what keeps the show together. Can't wait to see you guys in Chicago on the big Dumb Eyes tour in October. All right, who's going? Are you. Are you with.

[A]

No, I'm not on that one.

[B]

Neither one of them are on it.

[D]

You're not.

[B]

Are you on it? No, no. I put a stop to that.

[C]

Joel. Yep. I am done.

[B]

You're done with me.

[C]

I thought you were implying. Oh, you put a stop to it.

[B]

No, I was joking about Chago. Do you have more dates with me this year?

[E]

No.

[B]

Do you? No. Oh, all right. We have next year.

[A]

I'll see you around.

[C]

All right.

[B]

I don't ever know who's coming out. Connor van Steen. Van Steenberg just saw Nate at his third sold out show in Dallas. How does Nate decide who opens for him at his. Different locations? Is it geographically based? Since Dustin is from Texas. It's funny that we're just talking about that. I kind of don't really. I have people helping me do it right now. I did it. We've always thought of it. Abigail did it for a long time. Abigail's great at. I try to. If I know people have their family somewhere or they're, you know, you're. There's a reason you feel to be there. We do try to do that now. We're trying to just. We can't get in the weeds of it too much. There's a lot of comics. I know you see me with them this week, usa, but there's a lot of comics I have started with and I've known for 20 years. We want it to be the best show. So we just. It's a mix that we do and try to be as fair as we can to everybody. These shows are big. That's the other thing. There's the, you know, the arena shows.

[A]

It's.

[B]

It's hard for us to get young comics. We try, but it's hard. It's. There's two. They're so big. Yeah. I really can't. This is what's beautiful about stand up. But it's just a different. It's such a different thing. And you're in the round and there's just so many people. Right. And. But what's great is when we have comics go up and they, you know, and they do good. Maybe they're playing a local club at the. If you ever go to a show going forward, we. We show a video for about an hour and a half. It has. You can go click on who. It'll show you who's opening. You can scan it, you can follow them. You can do all that stuff. We really want you to go find the comics that we bring out and go see them on their own somewhere on the road. One particular one that happened that was insane was with Greg Warren. Greg Warren was on the show in Kansas.

[A]

Kansas City.

[B]

Kansas City. He Was doing four shows at the, at the Kansas City Comedy Club. Four shows is what he did. So he did his set destroyed. Just destroyed. And then Julian would go up afterwards. Julian host if you've been Julian, if you by the way, get in there, get there on time. Julian's people, we get so many comments about Julian because they just love him. And Julian will talk to the crowd a little bit and he's just your anchor kind of that night for the show.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And so we, But Greg, it goes so good. Julian goes up, reminds the crowd. We remind if anybody's anywhere, we say, hey, don't forget this person will be in your town. You had it in Birmingham.

[A]

Oh yeah.

[B]

Which was. People came out, just had it in.

[A]

Denver not long ago.

[B]

Sold out, sold out show in Denver. You've had it like Cleveland.

[C]

I was Cleveland a week later.

[B]

Yes, that's right. Yeah. So when you do that stuff that is, that's the goal of all this is we just want you to go see these guys, you know, expand stand up comedy. We want, it's outside of me when you go see them. And uh, but Greg, Greg was crazy. He had four shows and they are now at 12 shows.

[C]

I think they just added 13.

[B]

Did they?

[C]

I think so, yeah.

[B]

Thirteen, I believe so. It's on. He. It was so funny because the guy that runs the club, Greg said, called him after the first show and goes, hey, what's going on? Where are you? And their website crashed because so many people bought tickets to a show that they've added 13. 13 shows, dude, that's crazy. I mean I, I've never, I don't think I've ever done 13 shows at a comedy club. It's, it's just.

[A]

You got to live there for a month.

[B]

Yeah, it's where so guys are coming back to the towns that you're going to come through. You know, if you can do it, we would love for you to do it. And that's, that's when we have a lot of comics and, and we essentially it's trying to, you know, spread it out and. Yeah, I mean that's man, it's that, that, that stuff. If you, that that means the most to me. If you can go and, and find those people. That's the biggest thing you could give me is to go give other. These other comics. Just listen to them and you know, and yeah, it's awesome.

[D]

All right.

[B]

Jared Cersei, my dad and I saw, saw Nate live in Bowling Green, Kentucky in that set you talked about going to Western Kentucky. For a semester and then dropping out. How often do you add new jokes that are specific to the city or area you're in while still getting your new material together, how you want it for the special? I don't add a lot of new stuff from the city. I did it there because I went to Western. I don't really know. I don't think I, I don't think I did anything for Dallas. I have a hard time.

[C]

You'll say one thing off the top.

[B]

Yeah, I can say Dallas. I can maybe say, come up with something. I'm a type of comic. I, I want to get in my act. I, I, I, I. I know we're in the moment, but the best thing I can give you is the thing that I've prepared and worked the hardest on. So I just want to. It's a show, and so I, I look forward to get into it because I then I know then I'm in control, and I know where all the laughs are, and I know where I can take you on this ride, and that's the ultimate go. So I'm not always the best. I should be a little bit better. But Julian, who host always talks about, you know, kind of the town. Some of the other comics will. And if something happened, we can. But I'm not always the best at doing that. But, you know, if I go to Bowling Green, like, even we got a show cut up in Nashville, it's like. I mean, I've talked about Nashville, but it's like, you, you think that you go up there and just talk about them forever and you're like, I don't know. I just. My mind doesn't. The way I write comedy is it's much more prepared, and it's not just like, figuring it out. R.D. stoller. I say esports is not even a real thing. A sport implies that there's action and athleticism involved. Esports could literally be played by someone with movement only in their fingers. If this is true, any competition could be called a sport. My son argues that it takes great coordination and ability and is there for a sport. I just think it should be called competitive gaming and not esports. It's an insult to true sports that require physical talent.

[D]

Yeah, all right.

[A]

I don't know. If the word means that much to you, then fine. You can call it whatever you want.

[B]

I don't mind. It's called competitive gaming. I don't think that's.

[A]

But you object to esports as the name.

[D]

No, I don't.

[B]

I mean, you're just a brand and you're just trying to make people do stuff and whatever. But it's, I do, I understand the fact that it's encouraging, you know. Yeah, it's, it's this idea and I do think they're like the focus and the mentality that it takes and they're moving their thumbs and they're doing all this kind of stuff. But you're like, well, would thumb wrestling be a sport?

[D]

It's a good question.

[A]

Arm wrestling and all that.

[B]

Arm wrestling they is. But you watch arm wrestling. Arm wrestling is, I mean it is full on real full body. The full body you have to work out. But yeah, with, with this I could see it. I, I, I think it's one of those that you're like, it's called esport because you're like, what are we going to do? You know, it's just, it's easier to do it and I don't care and no one cares and But I, I do agree with him. It's like, you know, you're, it's competitive gaming would be the better name but esports is going to sell more tickets.

[D]

Yeah, exactly.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Miles Jones. I got the yips while pitching underhand and coed all ages church softball league game. It hit me in the worst possible moment, the final inning which of course had no run limit. The other team ended up scoring like 20 runs. I was getting absolutely boat raced by a mix of little kids and youth pastors. It was like a bad dream. I mean, I love it. Yeah. Keep piping in these yip stories.

[F]

Yeah.

[B]

Because they're my favorite.

[A]

How do they not pull you after giving up 10 runs in the night?

[B]

It's like, you know, because you're in a church thing and everybody's like, you know, he's got to get it. He's got to, you know, it's, it's, Yep. It's so amazing. I, I can have it chipping sometime. It's like you just get stuck on one kind of thing. What I've learned how to get out of the yips is learn why you're yipping. So if you're doing it, you go, oh, it's because I release too early. So then you, if you know why you're doing it, then you can tend to focus on the other. But I, but that, that being said, I've had them where, yeah, like in softball where I was throwing them over a fence. So, but I mean, yeah, just underhand co ed just every, they score 20 runs.

[C]

I don't know yeah. How? Even softball, like unless you're walking them.

[D]

He's just getting rocked.

[C]

I don't know how that's that big a difference.

[B]

What do you mean?

[C]

I just think underhand softball pitching, there's not that much skill to it.

[B]

Yeah, but you get to. You just. It's yips. Can be anything. They can. You. You just get. It gets in your head and you're. You got a mental ball.

[C]

I guess my question is, is he walking them? It sounds like they're just ripping him.

[B]

And no, I would say he's probably walking them and then they're getting some hits. I mean, it's, you know, he's hidden on me. I mean it's everything. He's.

[C]

Somebody's taking a hit.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

By battery.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah. Vinnie Santa Serio Sentence Center Cereal. I played through the miners in the Dodgers organization. Sounds. That makes sense. And we had a pitcher develop the. Yepcept coming back from an injury. He was my catch partner and I could expect a 95 mile fastball. Fastball to be over my head or skipped in. They finally fixed it by making him throw strictly blindfolded for about a week. He is now in the big leagues, but I'm sworn to secrecy.

[C]

Wow. I think I know it.

[F]

Is.

[B]

That what you say? Yeah. I've met Clay Kershaw.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. He came to the show in Vegas. We could ask him. Let me get to the bottom.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

All right.

[B]

I'm gonna ask him. Be like Vinnie Santa cereal. Is that ring a bell?

[A]

You play catch with Vinnie?

[B]

Yeah. I like that. They blindfolded him and it worked for a week.

[A]

A week of pitching blindfolded.

[B]

Yeah. Sometimes you got to do it. I think that would golf sometimes. I mean, you know, there's a way you can too with putting. If you do it, you just look at the hole. When you putt, you don't look at.

[A]

Don't look at the ball at all.

[B]

You just look at the hole.

[A]

Wow.

[B]

Mike Yashimsky played at Vanderbilt, played Kansas City Royals. Right now.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

He's a. He's a whole looker at. He's unbelievable. But that's what he does.

[C]

I'd have a lot of whiffs if I did that.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. Alex Reyes. I once struck out 10 kids in a row as a coach because I had a tee time to get to and the game was taking too long. Straight heat down the pipe. Felt pretty good striking out those eight year olds, my son included. I like that.

[A]

Coach is doing a full wind up for these.

[B]

Yeah, I. I like It, I like it. Like he wants to get out of there and it's like, all right, I'm gonna bring some. I'm gonna bring some heat. And just throwing curveballs at the kids. Yeah. Just going at them a little bit harder, you know. And the guy that had great command that day.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Right on the pipe, out of the pike, just boom, plowing away.

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[B]

All right, we're back. We got a very special guest. I bet a guest that people would, you know, be surprised that we have.

[A]

Yeah, for sure.

[B]

But I'm very excited. He lives, he lives here. We've. I know we have a lot of mutual. Yes people. And so it's. I, I've wanted to have you come on. Welcome, David Arquette.

[D]

Thank you to. Glad to.

[B]

This is it, bud. This is it. I tell you what, this podcast goes out to nobody. So I hope you, you know, you can let it fly.

[F]

Well, I just wanted to come on here. So now that I have.

[D]

Nice.

[B]

Yes. Yeah, yeah.

[C]

It's been real.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You just want to get a little. There is a lot of stuff that you want to go. I just want to feel of it.

[F]

Yeah.

[B]

I remember doing there is this Byron Allen comedy You know that?

[F]

Yeah. It's so funny.

[B]

Yes, yes.

[F]

He's got this, like, media empire.

[D]

Like.

[C]

Yeah. He owns a Weather channel.

[A]

Yeah, Weather channel. Yeah.

[B]

Owns a bazillion.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Oh, my gosh.

[B]

But, like, doing his show was one that you were like, you kind of like, I just want to go on it. Because it could be kind of an awkward show.

[F]

Yes.

[B]

Because he would just turn to you and just out. I mean, like, out of nowhere, and be like, david, you like sharks? And you're like. And then you got to get into your shark material, like getting eaten by them.

[D]

Yeah. I. I have a funny Byron Allen story where I first tried stand up. I had a CPR dog and I.

[F]

Came up like it was a dummy. I was like, this is my friend Jimmy.

[D]

And.

[F]

Hey, Jimmy. You don't see him. Oh, good. What's going on, Jimmy? You know, don't laugh. It's not Jimmy. And.

[D]

And then later on, I'd get a Coke in a Pop Rocks, and I said, you know, there's a story about a kid that ate Pop Rocks and drank a Coke and died.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[D]

I'm going to do that for you right now. Just because I'm.

[F]

And I did the Pop Rocks drink the coconut, but then afterwards, by renal.

[D]

It was like, you should really go further with it. Really pass out. Yeah.

[F]

Give me some good pointers.

[C]

Can I have that?

[F]

Yes, you can have it.

[C]

I need a closer.

[B]

What we would need is for then the dog to get up and give you cpr.

[F]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah, that's a very funny. I love that. Like, to go like, you know what? I'm going to do that for you guys right here.

[A]

I probably eaten those things accidentally, too.

[F]

Yes.

[B]

Pop Rocks, probably.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

If I was eating Pop Rocks, I probably had a Coke.

[B]

I don't think anybody ever died.

[C]

That was always the urban legend, right?

[D]

Yeah, that was urban legend.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

It does kind of upset your diet.

[B]

Yeah, it does. It can.

[A]

You gotta think those are rooted in something. Like, I remember growing up if you can't swallow gum because it'll take seven years to pass through your system.

[B]

Right.

[A]

Or you can't swallow a watermelon seed because a watermelon will grow inside you. You remember hearing all that stuff. It's got to be rooted in something.

[B]

Yeah. The watermelon thing, I think I kind of remember hearing. I don't remember it being as much.

[A]

I mean, they had to police me a little more.

[B]

Yeah, He. He could eat a whole watermelon box. So they had it. They had to go to Aaron Quite a bit early.

[A]

And I want a watermelon.

[B]

It might have got started in your family. What if we all heard it? Because of the webbers. Got it. Because they go, you, our boys eating too many watermelons. And they. You can't really get mad because it's a watermelon.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

It's a fruit. It's a fruit. But they go, we think he's eating the seed and the skin.

[F]

The rhine.

[B]

Are you supposed to eat this? Is that the rind?

[A]

And that was the shell of it.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't call it the skin of it.

[F]

Okay.

[D]

I tried to make watermelon pickles because.

[F]

We grew these cucumbers. I have a farm here.

[D]

And we grew these cucumbers, but they came out round like little watermelons. Oh. And I was like, it would be interesting if you made them taste like watermelon pickles.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[D]

Yeah. Because I also made Gatorade pickles.

[A]

Oh, man.

[D]

You can get the powder of Gatorade and you put them in a pickle jar and they become incredible electrolytes. Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

And they taste, like, good.

[C]

I wish Dusty was here.

[D]

Throw pickle parties.

[B]

Yeah.

[F]

You're like the pickle party.

[B]

You're like the opposite of the doodle people now. Do it. You're the pickle. You're the doodle people of the pickles.

[D]

Yes.

[B]

World. Where you go, we're just trying to get. We're trying everything. Yeah, yeah. I'm drinking pickle juice for his hydration.

[D]

Yes, exactly.

[B]

It's a very good hydration.

[C]

You won a watermelon contest.

[A]

Yeah, we did one. My baseball team did one after. After practice one day, and I won a whole.

[B]

How big?

[C]

Just go back and forth. That was your, like, up and down.

[A]

Like a typewriter.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

You just gotta go for it.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Did you have hands or no hands?

[A]

Oh, you could use your hands.

[D]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

You got it.

[A]

Oh, yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Hands tied behind you. That would change the game for sure.

[B]

It would be more embarrassing to win that way. With no hands.

[A]

You're like, this is how I do it anyway.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

There's no hands. Just get in there.

[B]

Where is anybody close?

[A]

I don't. I don't remember. I just remember taking home the gold.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And I'm pretty proud of that.

[B]

This was just practice.

[F]

Practice.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Wasn't. It wasn't the championship game. It wasn't. This was just after practice.

[A]

This is just a team building activity.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

You know, building camaraderie.

[B]

Yeah. All right.

[D]

Would you ever do a hot dog Eating contest.

[A]

I've never done. I.

[B]

Man, he does them personally.

[F]

It looks so every Saturday. The way they like, just dip it in water, squeeze out the mud. The kid.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I enjoy a hot dog. I want to enjoy it.

[F]

Yeah.

[A]

You watch this hot dog competition. They don't look like they're enjoying the taste of them. You know, I did a chick fil. A chicken biscuit eating competition in high school and didn't. It was a fundraiser for something. I don't remember.

[F]

Let's bring in the champ.

[C]

What, even his school?

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Raising money.

[C]

Brought him in across county.

[B]

Raising money for gout. Yeah. And then it's all going to Aaron's left foot.

[A]

Well, this is the joke. Nate used to have a joke about, you know, the guys who win these eating competitions. They're not the guys who you think. It's usually not the biggest fattest guy.

[D]

Yeah, Joey Chestnut.

[A]

Exactly. Exactly. You actually have to be like, in good shape to perform. Well, things.

[B]

That's a fun. It was a good joke.

[A]

It was.

[B]

The joke was the idea that fat people are not even good at what they're good at because it would be a guy in shape. Like, that's got to be so deflating because, like some big 400 pound dude gets up there and is like, this is what I do.

[D]

Yes.

[B]

And then a dude that's shredded the. What's the other guy's name? Kobayashi. Was shredded. And I mean, he would just pound them and you're like, I mean, that's not the opposite of what you get.

[D]

Up there and just enjoy it.

[B]

How many? Dude, he did three, but, boy, he had a fun.

[A]

I think I put down. I put down three or four, but the kid that won ate like 12 or 13 and just starved them down.

[B]

We did a Krispy Kreme donut challenge very early in this podcast and we. So it was like, how many could you eat? And I. And can I just ask you, who.

[A]

Do you think won the competition of who could eat the most donuts in one sitting between the three of us?

[F]

Oh, you got a guilty look on your face. No, no, it wasn't you.

[A]

He looked like a sleeper. You quietly outperformed.

[B]

He did. He did really good. Yeah, it was like, it's like in the Dodgers where Ohtani hasn't been playing great, but then he just had 3 for 3 on home runs. That's what you were like. Like it was not playing.

[F]

Yeah, yeah, Come on.

[C]

We had a handicap.

[B]

Remember?

[C]

We set our goat like, standards.

[B]

He did. He outperformed. Oh, okay. I did Chocolate, which was, I learned, was a mistake.

[A]

Chocolate adds up.

[B]

Chocolate adds up quick.

[A]

But I learned a lesson that day too, which was to always under promise and over deliver.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Not the other way around. I came into it thinking I could eat 36 in 30 minutes, which is insane.

[B]

And so is deflating.

[A]

Yeah. So I still ate the most. But I. I had over promised more than anybody else.

[B]

But that's a win for you. You know, I think you would have probably felt more shame if you pounded 36 of them had exceeded your goal. It's at least, you know, at least you left with a win that you're not as bad as you thought. You know what?

[A]

That's a good way of looking at it.

[F]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah, I'll take it.

[F]

Yeah.

[B]

So it's. It's Halloween season. We got. We gotta. You gotta. You got the most stuff that we can talk about, which is very fun.

[C]

Like the most interesting man in the world.

[B]

Oh, gosh. I don't know if they took. But Scream is my favorite movie.

[D]

Oh yeah.

[C]

Not horror movie of any.

[B]

My favorite.

[D]

Good.

[B]

Thank you. I. I have a Scream bowling ball.

[D]

Oh my gosh.

[B]

It was. It came out with 96. 97. Something. Yeah. So I. I graduated high school in 46. I graduated 97. So it came out. It was, you know, it was probably about the first. I was allowed to watch a lot of movies and this was the first one where it came out where I was old enough to go watch it. And like, you know, I don't know if my parents knew or not, but I was like past the point of where I had to tell.

[F]

Yeah.

[B]

And so me, my buddy watched is so crazy how much stuff I can do. I could. I could quote the whole movie. I could watch it and say every single line. Like, even if I had to do it right now, it would. I'm not gonna get it all right. Because it's been so long, but I could do. I could. I could really nail a lot of it. I could probably nail a lot of it. I mean, just the word for word, the whole movie. I watched it so many times. I loved it. I want to meet. Begin to meet you. You're my first that I've gotten to meet.

[D]

They're all so great. You're gonna love all these people.

[B]

I'm very, very nev. Campbell's, the. I. I was. You know, one time I did. I was at a. I did a corporate gig in Utah and there was a. Like a horror convention. Yeah. And so I think you guys are there. Paula Shore was There. Yeah. And so I talked to him, and he said. And scream. People were there. And Nev was there. And I mean, I hung around in the lobby longer.

[F]

You got a little ghost face.

[B]

I got a little. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I. I was. It was. I mean, it was so funny because I was really. I really was in that. This is.

[C]

Two months ago.

[B]

Yeah. I mean, I've been four years ago. Like, three years ago, maybe. And so I was. Yeah. And I remember just. I was. Because all y' all were there, and I was like, man, if they come down, y' all are my. You're my. You're. You're really it. As far as the movie left is to. If I can get to meet all of y'. All. I love Matthew Lillard.

[D]

He's incredible.

[B]

And ski. Or like, Jamie Kennedy. Jamie Kennedy? You met Jamie Kennedy? Yeah, I do. That's true. Jamie Kinney's. I think he's a comic, so I don't know if I counted in my head. Yeah. But, yeah. Courtney Cox rose, like, yeah, Nav. Like, it's unbelievable. Like, you're my. You're my star. Starstruck. This is. Is from this movie.

[D]

Thank you.

[C]

So he's like a film critic when it comes to screen any other movie, he's, you know, that can.

[B]

I've seen them all.

[C]

But he, like, he'll tell you why it's great. The opening scene and how it was.

[B]

This was so great because it was like, this is the way movies should be made, where it's. You know, people die, but it's not. It's not the most cool. The worst part was with the Drew Barrymore at the beginning, but the shock of that totally. Drew Barrymore is the most famous person on the planet. And, I mean, I'm sure people Vol. I know they've all seen it, but it's like, for her to die immediately is. Is like. I'd always tell people. I'm like, you don't understand. Yeah, it was. Was she in the advertisements, too?

[D]

She was, yeah. Yeah.

[B]

So she was used to sell the. It's. It's. You know, where they did it, too. I felt like somewhere else. Wasn't Steven Seagal on some movie and they killed him immediately or there was something.

[A]

So you're saying there's almost a comfort watching her because you're like, well, she's not gonna die right away, right?

[B]

No.

[A]

Then she dies, and you're like, oh, my gosh. Nobody's safe.

[B]

Yeah. I mean, not, like, say, in any way, but at that moment, Drew Barry Moore is probably the biggest star right at that. Right at that time.

[F]

Right.

[B]

So why would she be in the movie for a second? Like, you know, and she's in the advertise. It's not, it's not like where it comes out of nowhere and then they do it.

[A]

She's not a cameo.

[B]

It looks like she's going to be in the movie, and then they just get it over with. The first scene is unreal. And so it was just me and my buddies and, like, it was just a movie that just hit us. And I'm gonna use you now to meet everybody.

[D]

Yes, please.

[B]

I'm gonna just follow you around until. Where are you going? You're going to Matthew Lewis just every day I'm calling you.

[F]

Yeah, yeah, we see him a lot.

[D]

There's some funny things. I don't want to ruin the movie for you, though, because you have such a love for it. But, like, they were going to fire Wes Craven after they saw dailies from the Drew Barrymore scene.

[B]

Oh, really?

[D]

Oh, yeah.

[B]

Why?

[D]

Let me just cut it together and then make your decision. And then he cut it together and they were like, oh, okay, go. You can do what you got to do. Yeah, yeah.

[C]

Now, wasn't she originally up for the main role? And then she decided put me.

[D]

I'm not sure if, if I didn't know that.

[C]

I read that originally she was up for Sydney. For Sydney's role. Nev Campbell's role. And then something came along and she said, well, put me in the beginning.

[D]

Oh, that's cool.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Oh, I love that story.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah, that, that is so funny that they were going to do that. I mean, you see that where, yeah. They let him do what he needed to do. I, I, yeah, I, you know, I, we, I like horror movies. We, we watch, we watch a lot of them. We watched them a lot on the road, like, now stuff.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

And. But Scream is my favorite. It's my, it's my favorite movie.

[A]

It's the first time I watched it was with Nate on the store bus. We got. I hadn't seen it, and he's like, we got to watch it.

[D]

Have you ever heard the commentary? I don't, I don't know if it would have ruined it either, but Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson do a commentary on, on the Scream.

[B]

Yeah. I might have done it a long time ago. I would go watch it. I would go watch that again. I mean, I've watched every one of them now. I thought the second one was great, too, because it was like the Stab. Like, it was just so. Like, it was a movie in a movie and, like, it was like. It was just like all this kind of crazy kind of world that it did. But, yeah, I mean, when he's. I'll be right back. And I mean, it's the best, dude. Like, it's the best.

[A]

At what point do you know or do you ever know, like, it when you're filming something like this, that it's going to be this culturally impactful or like this well loved by people, or does that come later?

[D]

Well, it felt really special. The script felt really special. And Hollywood, like, you get these scripts that kind of get a buzz to them, and that definitely had it. And it was just a different take on it. It was originally called Scary Movie. And. Yeah. So then they made the spoof up that. But yeah, when we were doing it, it felt really special and it was really amazing experience. It was the 90s. We're just having so much fun. Everyone hung out in my.

[F]

Oh, you know, this is a funny.

[D]

Story, but Lynn McCree is the Maureen Prescott. Sydney's mother. Yeah. She does not like me, apparently. I was very, like. I caused so much, like, trouble in the. In the hotel. The hotel staff hated me, apparently. She said this, but they did all hang out in my room. And I don't know if she had a room adjacent that we kept her.

[F]

Up or something, but she was very upset at me.

[B]

Well, that's got to be a while. You're all young. It's like you're. Yeah. You know, you're part of something. Like, you said that the whole town's talking about. No one can. Everybody's waiting for this movie to come out. And it was just such a. I. I think it set, you know, I mean, I'm not the biggest movie person that. I know everything about movies, but it's like, it just made it. It just set the tone that was like, well, if you want to be in horror movies, you got to be different now because. Yeah, totally. It just. It almost flipped and then it got into. Because even the scary movie stuff. Did y' all like that? Like, when they.

[D]

When they.

[B]

I thought it was very funny. I thought those movies were great. And they did it in ways that it wasn't, you know. Yeah. Like against. Yeah. But it was just like. And I almost. I think the respect people had for this movie, too. You were just like, the movies. Movie is the best, dude. Like, it's just the best.

[F]

I get called Doofy a lot.

[C]

Yeah.

[F]

I'm actually doing.

[B]

Yeah, Yeah.

[F]

I Actually just took pictures with Dave Sheridan, the guy that plays Doofy. Oh, yeah, so funny. We take these pictures and he has the vacuum with him. He pulls his hands down.

[B]

He's like, it's the funniest thing.

[F]

I cannot stop laughing in these pictures.

[B]

Yeah, it's funny to even think that. You go, you're. You've got. You're. Courtney Cox is your love interest. It's like, I mean, you're, you know, it's. Yeah, it's the best.

[D]

We met on that. We then started dating. We have a 21 year old daughter now, Coco. Yeah. So that was a real life changing experience. Wes Craven was just such a cool person. He like surprised me on Scream 2 and cast my father. And my father was on set like, dad, he's like in costume, like, what are you doing?

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[D]

And he did all of these really cool things. Like in Scream 2, I speak with Ghostface. I have this scene where he calls me and I'm on the phone waiting before the scene and I can hear breathing. And I say, hello. And he goes, hello? And I was like, oh.

[F]

I said, wes, he's on here. He's like, yeah, he's actually here.

[D]

I was like, wait, wait, wait, wait. Is this. It's a real person. He's like, yeah, it's a real person. I was like, where is he? He's like, well, he can see you. I was like, wait, does he stay at the hotel with us? He's like, no, he's never stayed at the hotels with like Wes. This guy's been on all of these sets and we've never met him or seen him. Like that was just. He was thinking on that level. I couldn't believe it.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[C]

To make it scarier.

[D]

Yeah. Roger L. Jackson's his name. He's amazing guy. Really funny.

[B]

That. Yeah, that is funny. That like that is the stuff you hear about with directors where it's like something cool to do that you. Because you would think like, yeah, you could just meet them all, whatever. And it's just nice to not, not meet him.

[F]

Yeah, totally. It really did add to the like, oh, creepiness.

[B]

We did this the with. Because we tell the movies. Chase. This is Chase. He's on the road. He. He comes out me on the road. So we were able to watch Blair Witch.

[D]

Oh, wow.

[B]

And. And he has not seen Blair Witch. She is not either. But we were able to watch Blair Witch and we just told him it was a. The what it was or what we thought it was when we did it. Which is very fun because you get. It's been so long now.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

That you get to go like, oh. Because, you know, now everybody knows.

[A]

Well, you told him it was real found footage.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[D]

That's actually how I saw that movie.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

I got a videotape and they. I got that same story. It was a videotape and I put it in before it was out in theaters.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

And I watched it that way.

[B]

Oh, wow.

[D]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was really interesting.

[B]

Yeah. Well, it was like, you know, you're going to miss out on a lot of that stuff, but it's fun to circle it back. We were, like, on the road in, like, Montana and just some crazy house, like, in the middle of nowhere, like an Airbnb that we just rented. And so we just like. We're like, yeah, yeah. This is like this old thing, like, you know, and there's so much weird YouTube stuff anyway, too now that's real and all this. So it's like, it all kind of can make sense now. And so it was fun to watch Blair Witch again with someone that went through it the way we went through it when it first came out.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

He was like, wait, this is the real. This is the real thing. Yeah, yeah.

[C]

Now, was it the part of Dewey? Wasn't it originally cast as a different type of person?

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[D]

It was supposed to be, like this big, buff, like, ex football player and kind of meathead.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

And I was like, Wes. When I went to meet him, they. I was being considered for some. One of the other roles, and I said, wes, I really love the role of Dewey. And he was like, wow, that's really interesting. Let me. Let me think about that. I never even considered something like that. And thankfully he did. And, you know, I really wanted to kiss Courtney Cox.

[F]

I thought.

[D]

No, but I did think those scenes would be really.

[B]

I would like to have a kid with. I don't think he can say.

[D]

Yeah, I'm happily remarried. I have an amazing wife, Christina, now. But, yeah, I recently was at a convention, one of those conventions, and they were like, spoiler alert. In Scream 5, something happens to my character, you know?

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

They're like, it shouldn't have been you. It should have been Gail.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

And I was like, well, I wanted to say that, but I can't say.

[F]

That about my ex wife. What?

[D]

Don't kill me. Kill my ex wife. But before that, she said, but your wife wouldn't have liked that.

[F]

I was like, actually, I'm remarried, so I'm sure my wife would have Been fine with it.

[C]

I read that Wes said his best decision was not killing you off in the first.

[D]

Yeah, he was so sweet. Yeah. My character was supposed to die, and he's like. He calls me to set. He's like, david, we're gonna roll you out of this house here in gurney, and you're gonna be dead. And I was like, oh. Wes said, well, but in the second take, we're gonna roll you out and you're gonna put your thumbs up, and we won't know. Maybe the audience will want you to live or maybe they'll want you to die.

[F]

Thanks so much, Wes. And then this other funny story that happened was so we did it, and.

[D]

I did the thumbs up and, you know, and then they do these screenings to see test screenings.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

And I used to work at this newsstand in la, and. And it was right on Melrose Boulevard. I was working there because now I'm not doing a movie and I'm back.

[F]

At work, and I'm working at this newsstand, and they're selling. I mean, one of the people comes.

[D]

Around and says, there's this move, free movie screening. And I was like, oh, what's the description? And they're like, small town killers call. And I was like, I knew it was the movie I just done. I was like, sure, I'll go.

[F]

So I get it. And I go. And I'm lined up in line at Paramount Studios, and they see me in line. They're like, you can't watch this, David.

[C]

Come here.

[F]

And I was like, I'm here now. They're like, okay, you can watch it then.

[D]

So they let me watch it in the back with Wes. So I got to watch Wes watch his movie with an audience like that for the first time. And he was just sitting there and he. Like, I would watch him and he'd be like, seeing him in the crowd laughs and then they scream and then they laugh again.

[F]

And it was just that he got.

[D]

Such a kick out of it. It was like one of my favorite things ever to see Wes watch his own movie.

[B]

So you. You went back to work like you had a day job?

[D]

Yeah, well, yeah. I mean, yeah, it was. It was my friend's newsstand. We all worked there during high school. And it was just one of those things like, hey, we can't, you know, Rich can't make it to work. Can you come in?

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[D]

You know what I mean?

[B]

It's our New York had. There was a dog walking kind of aspect too, that we had. Yeah, something like that. Where, like, a lot of comics would. You could pop in and, like, go make some money and stuff like that. And then you would go do shows and you're just kind of like. It's not like you have a day job, but you're. Yeah, it's like a perfect situation, actually.

[D]

Yeah. That place also was like a little hub where everybody hung out. It was like this fun little corner.

[B]

Yeah, that's. Yeah. To see it. Did you know at that time that you lived or did not live or did you see yourself?

[D]

I think I knew. I think I knew I lived or. No, I mean, I think that would. That if they said they hated my character, I probably would. Got cut after that screening. You know, that's what that screening was. But you could tell they enjoyed the movie.

[C]

We love him.

[D]

Yeah.

[F]

Yeah.

[B]

No, when you. When you die, they go. You just hear. You go, no, that's our main guy.

[C]

He was the best.

[B]

I. It's interesting. So I just. I shot a movie and. I know. So I know they've seen it. I have not seen it yet.

[D]

Oh, wow.

[B]

I'm gonna see it, I think maybe in November.

[D]

That's awesome.

[B]

They do the screen, but, yeah, it's. It's.

[A]

How are you gonna watch it? Are you gonna watch it alone, or are you gonna watch it with. With a test audience?

[B]

Me and David Arquette, Matthew Lillard. I would love it.

[F]

We have to do it in Indianapolis. That. No, I'm just kidding.

[B]

I'll bring it out there. But it's. I've never to not know what this thing's going to be, where you're going to sit there. And, like, when I'm seeing it, I don't know how we have it set up. It might be me and just, like, not a lot of people.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Just because we just want to make sure. Whatever. It's fun. But then I think I will watch it with some other people, but I know they have. But it's like an interesting. How many times did you see the movie before it was. It's like the premiere. Do you only see it like.

[D]

That was one time. Yeah. Wow. Until the premiere. Yeah.

[B]

Really?

[D]

I mean, sometimes if you have a relationship with the director or something. Something with producers or if you're involved in producing it, you can then see it earlier.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah, I'm involved in producing.

[D]

Yeah.

[F]

Congratulations. That's it.

[D]

Did you enjoy the whole experience?

[B]

Yes.

[D]

How awesome.

[B]

Yeah, it was fun. It was. It was. I was touring during. So we were very busy, but it was. Yeah, it was an amazing experience. I'VE seen. Because I've had to do some adr and I've seen, like, a little bit of it, and it seems. It looks like it's going to be. It's very fun and everybody seems excited, and I'm excited to see the whole thing. You go like, if you need that, you can change storylines, which is what's crazy with adr. So they get a shot of you, the back of your head, and you could be like, I'm going to the store now. And then it's like, maybe that wasn't said before, but it helps it. Or if you got to say a word, more clear. And, you know. So it's been a mix of that. But that's kind of fun because you're at least getting to see the movie a little bit.

[D]

Yeah, exactly.

[B]

And so you're, you know, you're getting to watch it, like, a lot. But it's also a lot of like. Ah.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

It's like stuff that's real embarrassing. You feel miserable. Like.

[F]

Yeah. You have to abandon the embarrassment.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

For stuff like that. Just to go for it and.

[B]

Yeah. Just to go, go, go crazy.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

I was seeing a trailer would be coming out soon, right?

[B]

Yeah. I don't know. Yeah, I mean, I guess it's. Yeah, it's getting close.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Did y' all know the Drew Barrymore part until, like.

[D]

Yeah, we knew that part. I think they may have held some of the ending away from certain people. Yeah. So they kind of. It was different with each movie. Like, I think Scream 2 script leaked, so they had to make a bunch of changes. And Scream three, something happened in the, like, world that we had to throw the whole script out or we had.

[F]

To scroll the whole script up.

[A]

How does something leak like that? Is it somebody accidentally, like, leaving it on a table at a coffee shop, or is it malice?

[D]

No, it's somebody inside who probably just wanted to feel special or something. It was the beginning of the Internet, you know what I mean? So it was like, real, you know, Reddit, kind of throwing it out there.

[B]

Sure, yeah. Yeah. You never know how that stuff does get out. But it's like. Yeah, they want. I mean, I'm sure someone could even offer someone money. Like.

[D]

Absolutely.

[B]

And it's. You know, I imagine that TMZ is that same world where it's like you get. Yeah, you get. A lot of people probably throw go five grand at someone for something.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

And it's a. Someone that's just starting PA or something. It could. Yeah. They could never get back. I Mean, now you got your names on everything.

[A]

Everything's watermarked, right?

[B]

Everything's watermarked. Which I'm sure it was back then, too, too, right?

[D]

I'm not sure. Yeah.

[B]

I'm not a little bit looser.

[D]

I don't know if they had watermarks back then.

[B]

It was pure trust. Now they have it where, like, I think they send you something. They can track it. Like, oh, yeah, it's. You got the fear of everything in you that you're like, well, I can't. No one's going to see this. Yeah, I shot a pilot and I remember getting to watch it at home, and I didn't. And I don't have any of it. And it was like. Because it was. You're just like, if they. You're just so scared to have it getting out. And now the pilot didn't go. And there's a little bit of me that I wish I just would have recorded it on my iPhone just so I could have it for my own. I recorded some parts, but, like, just, you know, just so you could be like, I just show my family and friends or whatever.

[D]

I always thought it would be great to have a network that all the.

[F]

Failed pilots or the one season things and all these funny things from all the history just be like, weird shows and like, all randomness.

[D]

I think that would just be.

[B]

I agree. Why would you not do that? You have all this stuff and you just put it out there and see what. You know, if a crowd's like, you almost, like, give the. The crowd the. You know, be like, all right, we're gonna go through these seasons. And you'd be like, oh, I like.

[D]

Yeah, you'd probably see, like, this one's actually being a lot. You said we made a mistake.

[F]

Let's bring it back.

[B]

Let's bring it back.

[A]

It's like a test audience doing it on the network.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

You have George Clooney, like, all throughout his growing years.

[F]

You know what I mean?

[B]

You'd have Brad Pitt all trying to bring.

[F]

They're all trying to, like, do these things.

[B]

They're like, we want that one. You're like, well, Brad Pitt's not gonna do.

[F]

Not anymore. Yeah.

[B]

Yeah, that's probably go. Well, if you can get him, it would be good.

[C]

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[A]

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[C]

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[A]

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[C]

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[A]

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[C]

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[A]

Right?

[C]

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[A]

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[C]

That's right.

[A]

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[C]

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[A]

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[C]

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[A]

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[C]

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[A]

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[D]

Yeah, yeah, I do. It's really great. I used to not want to do them and then. And then I sort of said that and then I've heard from fans and people like, we really want to meet you. We want you to come out. And then you go and you see it and then you. Then it like, totally changes your mind. I mean, you meet these fans and you just. Some of them are like, we. We saw this on the first, like. Like you're saying, like, it really had an impact on you.

[B]

Yeah. Yes.

[D]

And, you know, we met on our first date. Now this is our kid and they love the series. It's like, wow. And like, you meet some fans who's like, I just wrote this book. You inspired me. And, you know, and then you, like, read their book. I mean, it just becomes real. And like, you also go around and I don't know. It's just really deep. You start to get to know all.

[F]

The other kind of horror people, and.

[D]

Then you see, like, some of the old timers that are doing it, and that's kind of all they do right now, because they're. That's what, you know, that's their business. This business, in a way, that's their. You know, right. How they.

[B]

It's a big thing to be able to go to that. If you went to that, you affected culture.

[D]

Yes.

[B]

Because you. You can't just. It's. It's not. Everybody can just go to that. Like, it was like Pauly Shore was at, like, said that time. Y' all were all there. That one. But you look at, like, Pauly Shore. Paul Shore, it unbelievably affected culture. He was the biggest thing on the planet. Like, when I was in high, like, all his stuff coming out, you was like. It was. You could tell young people, you're like, you don't even understand. This guy was the biggest guy in the world. And so if you can have that big effect, it's like, yeah, people do want to see it. I have it probably the most with Scream. If it's like, it was. I mean, like, yeah, dude, I was down. I. Like, Paulie was down there, so I was talking to Paulie, but then they said all y' all were there, and I mean, I was like, man, if. Like, they come down here, like, I. And I really, you know, now you. After you meet more and more people that you, you know, it's like, it's. You want to meet people, it's fun or whatever, but to have the impact would be to. With you guys would just be pretty wild, because I just. I knew every word to the line. I've watched it the most. It's. You know, I'll watch it again.

[D]

I'm sure you get that with your comedy, too.

[B]

Like, people who are like, you know.

[D]

It just saved me. It just brings me out of a dark place where if I'm going through something hard, I can watch a comedy. It just lifts me up, makes me feel like. And that's sort of what we're doing all of this for. You know what I mean? We're here to entertain. We're here to do stuff that connects with people, and they don't always. With every project, so. So when you have one that really does, it feels special, and it feels. I don't. I'm grateful for, you know.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. It's you. I have it. Yeah. When you meet People and I meet them after a show and it's, you know, we get messages and where, you know, people have just been going through really hard times and all this stuff. And that stuff always means the world. And then they can. Because they can rely on it. And that's the whole thing that I want to try to build, is reliability, that you can trust it, I can rely on it. I'm going to be able to go to your thing, watch your thing, and, like, check out for a second, because I need to reset and it's, you know, and you get to do that. And then with something that was just such a. You know, it came at the right age. It came at the right everything that it just is, you know, the best. I mean, Henry Winkler in this.

[D]

No, amazing. Like, it's a really cool story with that, too. I. I grew up right down the street from Paramount Studios, Melrose and Gower. And I don't know what my parents were doing, but at, like, 8 years old, I would walk down the street all alone, stand in line, and I'd go see Happy Days. Laverne and Shirley Mork and Mindy. I just sit and wait. Well, they'd let me in. It would happen, like, right before it got dark. By the time I left, it was dark, and I'd have to walk home, but I'd wait there and I watch, watch them. And I love watching the cameras and, like, behind the scenes and, you know, see these people that I love so much on tv, like, do their shows. And I love the Fonz. And I waited after, and there were a few other people there, and he came around and he shook everyone who'd waited his hand. And I told him that story. And he said, well, let me shake your hand again.

[F]

Like, oh, you're the best. Henry Winkler is, like, one of the best in the business.

[D]

Like, he's such a kind person, has a great family, that kind of thing.

[B]

How would that. I mean, to see more community, I've heard, or any. I mean, just those shows. Be those giant things and be able to go see that.

[D]

Yeah, it was cool. My dad got to be on Morindy.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

And my dad was an actor for 45 years, and he was in, like, waiting for Guffman. He was the narrator. Really wonderful to see him sort of toward the end of his life, get a Improvisation recognition. He did a lot of improv with, like, Paul Sills and all these people. And he did more community and stuff like that.

[F]

So that I saw him, like, it.

[D]

Was my dad's on there, too, you know, while I was doing. It was a pretty special moment.

[B]

Yeah. I mean, I. I've heard Tom Warner, who found, I think, Robin Williams more commendian. He ran like, ABC for everyone he owned. He owns the Red Sox now. He's giant. But it was just back in those days, I think that that's when. When they. They would go to comedy clubs, they would actually find. They would really be searching out talent. And that's where those shows were, the biggest shows is you go find. There was a comic I knew, I know him, he's older, he was in that era, but he remembers the day that Robin Williams goes, hey, I'm doing. I just got a show. And I'm like playing like an alien. And like. So he remembers.

[F]

Oh, my gosh.

[B]

Yeah. He remembers that day that everybody's like, oh, man, that's crazy. And they.

[A]

Everybody's going, that'll never work. What a dumb shit.

[B]

Yeah. Whatever it is. It's like. It's such a cool kind of thing just to be in that. Yeah. In that moment. It's unbelievable.

[C]

Do you ever watch scenes from Scream, your own movies and get scared?

[D]

Not so much. I mean, not so much because. I don't know, I guess I. I guess some of their other scenes that I'm not in, you know, I could get caught up in it. I don't know. For Scream, it's a little harder. Some of the newer kind of horror films I can get me, like, you know, whatever. Are you. Yeah, I like horror. I like horror. I'm not as much as when I was younger.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

I directed a film called the Tripper.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Yeah.

[F]

That was a horror.

[D]

And I do love horror, you know, but I just don't watch it on my own that much anymore. But my kids are starting to get into my 11 year old and so I'm starting to watch some more. I like Sinners. It was incredible. There's been some great ones. Weapons was interesting.

[A]

I just saw Weapons.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

That was great.

[C]

I read about the Tripper.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Set at a music festival, right?

[F]

Yeah. It's about a hippie who's obsessed with.

[D]

Sorry. It's about a killer who's obsessed with Ronald Reagan who attacks hippies at an outdoor music festival.

[F]

Yeah. So talk about something funny. So we produced this on our own.

[D]

And distributed it on our own. It was a complete disaster.

[F]

But when we did our test screening, we showed it to these people and we're looking at the 18 through 34.

[D]

Group, and we're like, all right, what did you Think of the killer. And they were like, who's Ronald Reagan?

[F]

I was like, no, I missed the whole boat. I think they completely did not know who he was. He was the president.

[B]

Yeah. That hurts. It's gonna be tough.

[A]

Can't fix that, Nate.

[F]

$35,000 we made. It's like the worst opening, the most expensive college ever.

[B]

You just have to the beginning of it and just set it up. Ronald Reagan was a president of the United States.

[F]

I know. Well, that's probably what we should have ended up doing.

[C]

There's a organization or something called the Science of Scare project. And they come up with a formula to determine what's the scariest movie of all time. And they have 250 people participate and they monitor Tripper.

[B]

What?

[F]

Can you believe we made it?

[C]

Some unknown named Ronald Reagan. They. They monitor your heart rate and they look at how it changes during the movie. And anyway, they got a whole.

[F]

I'm just thinking about these people.

[B]

Just someone at the scariest might be the person in the room that's just level through the whole. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[C]

Oh, there it is right there. Okay. Sinister came out number one.

[A]

Wow.

[B]

Wow. Yeah. Really? I haven't seen Sinister yet. So we. Yeah, it's crazy.

[C]

We just watched the Conjuring.

[B]

We watched the Conjuring on the road. We watched Hereditary on the road a couple nights ago. Conjuring two still up there? Yeah. Is Scream on there?

[C]

No.

[B]

That's good that you brought it up.

[C]

Well, Scream they thought was a comedy.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah.

[C]

The only one they cared for was scream 6 is Blair.

[F]

Thank you. Thank you for the one I'm not in. Thank you.

[C]

Scream 6 they love.

[B]

That's the one that's up there. Scream 6.

[C]

Finally something believable.

[B]

I is, you know, it's funny. Paranormal Activity. Blair Witch is not on there.

[A]

No, I don't see that.

[B]

It's not.

[A]

It's not in the top 18 par.

[B]

Paranormal activity would be sp. The thing, it's the gore. I'm not a big Gore fan and I just think that's what made me like Scream so much was because it just didn't like you were. I mean, it's rated R and I'd imagine you couldn't be PG3. But you're like, it's a movie that you could like. You could put it on tv. You could swing a couple things and be like, it's not too bad. And it was like. And it was like. After Screaming, it's like. I think that's why I think Scream was Just so good. And then they went to, like, Saul. And so then it was like, all right, well, now we just have to show the inside of a bone.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

And you're like, oh, my gosh, I don't want to see that.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

And then it's. And it just got to that kind of point where Scream was just this perfect.

[D]

Like, they tried to give an NC17 rating, though, at the time.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

He has to do all these cuts. Like, if you see in the zoom in on and Drew Barrymore's body, there's like all these cuts.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Along the way, they had to actually do those cuts for the, you know, MPAA or whatever to get the rating that they got. Yeah, they were just nitpicking them. And also the. The town that we were in, in Santa Rosa, they. We shot a couple scenes there and then they. Someone got a hold of some of the script and saw the scene with the kids by the water fountain and they, like, shut the whole production down. We had to move to a following a. Of a city across the way.

[A]

Wow.

[B]

So when you're in the town, are you on a studio set or you're actually.

[D]

No, on the first one. We were on. On location in. In Santa Rosa. Like wine country up there.

[B]

Oh, no. You see the nice hotel?

[F]

Yeah. The double tree in where they hated me, apparently, thanks to Maureen Prescott.

[B]

Yeah. The double tree is. You're like, what do you. You. That's where. That's where the parties are.

[F]

Free cookie.

[B]

They give you a free cookie, you go, what do you want us to do?

[D]

Well, I mean, we. I literally bought a go kart and I'd run, like, drive it down the hallways.

[A]

Oh, you're a. Flip them around.

[F]

I was completely out of control. I get it.

[B]

So we're coming around on more in.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

You might have a point. It's when, like, as they made. When they made the second screams and third screams. And is it. Yeah. You get in that world where you gotta try to not let anybody know what's going on or what's going to happen. But is it like. This is what I think in movies where this is where it's with me where you're like. You just like it. So you're like, I'm. I don't. I. I'm just on board with the whole thing.

[A]

I just want to be in that world again and just hang out with everybody.

[B]

I think final dest. Probably it makes it, which. That gets pretty, like, insane. But that's a world that I think people just want to be in where you can go watch it. You know what it's going to be totally.

[D]

I think it happens with some Fast and the Furious. You get these groups that like, these are their things and they love that whole world. And that's why it's cool when you're like meet people who will kind of all love the same kind of stuff. It happens with wrestling. Like I, I love wrestling and I did a movie called Ready to Rumble and.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

And when you go and you see wrestling, you know, you go to a wrestling, like where they film wrestling, you figure out that the cameramen and the people setting up the stage, the people putting the wardrobe, they all love wrestling. That's all why they're all there doing this every week, the vendors that come around. So then you become part of this community where everybody loves kind of the same thing. They all talk about the same thing. They all have gripes about how it's going and how it's not going to. But that is what's cool about these little cultures that are all over the place.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

And comedy, I'm sure has a lot of that, right?

[B]

Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

[D]

You have like groups of like comedians that kind of like, you know, I guess they all sort of are in the same kind of fan base of comedians. You have the sort of other kind.

[B]

Well, I mean especially now you're having a lot of stand up comedy which, you know, the idea of it kind of been around, but where it's at right now is a newish kind of thing.

[F]

Yeah.

[B]

And so it's the, it's getting into a phase where a lot of people that we have come to shows have never been to a stand comedy show. They were maybe nervous to go to a comedy show because it was always too dirty or it was too this or to that. And that's what they knew. So it's. You definitely get a new kind of world. But then like, you know, I can talk about stand up comedy the way you could talk about movies or wrestling where you're like, yeah. The average person would be like, I'm bored with what you're saying. And you're like, I could keep going all day.

[D]

Right. You know.

[B]

Totally. I love the whole aspect of it all and. But when you have all of that come together on like for us, even on the road, we got a very good. Where everybody's in it that much.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

It's like it's just going to make the best show because you're just being the most serious about it, you know.

[D]

Also like comedy is also Standups, kind of like, I don't know if it's because of streaming or whatever, but it's now like more international, it seems. It feels like.

[B]

Yes.

[D]

Like people are understanding the whole art form a little more and like, I don't. That's also happening with movies. Like you meet the fans and they're, they're aware of like props and like, you know, storylines and how something doesn't, you know, it's harder to fool them in a way.

[B]

You can't. They're.

[D]

They're more.

[C]

Well, with wrestling, when I was a kid, we really thought wrestling, it was real.

[D]

It is real.

[B]

Yeah, it is real.

[F]

It is.

[C]

You know what I mean? The storylines.

[F]

What do you mean? Guess.

[C]

But now with the Internet, I mean people know every back detail. It's hard to even surprise them when somebody walks out.

[D]

Yeah. That's when, when you do like wrestling's an incredible like sport and when you do connect with them and make it real and make it real from. Even though some people are suspending their disbelief, some people really do, you know, believe everything going on and sometimes there's real stuff going on.

[F]

You know what I mean?

[B]

There's.

[D]

Sure there's all kinds of like layers to it.

[B]

Well, I imagine in fight, I mean. Yeah, you had that with who thought they're. Sean thought they were going to win the Michaels. Shawn Michaels.

[F]

Oh yeah. The Montreal.

[B]

That was like a real thing. Like he didn't. He think he was going to win it and they didn't. And it was.

[D]

Well, that, yeah, he did win but.

[B]

Oh, he did.

[C]

Bret Hart that thought it was gonna.

[B]

Yes, Bret Hart.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Didn't want to. Yeah, yeah.

[B]

But it's, it's like you can have these aspects and then these dudes are what they're doing with their bodies. Like. Well, it's very much real brutal.

[D]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

They're beat up.

[C]

Were you a professional wrestler before the movie or after?

[B]

No.

[D]

So I did this movie Ready to Rumble and it was with a company called wcw which was a competitor WWE at the time and they were having the Monday night wars.

[F]

Oh, look at this guy coming back. They beat me up. Just a little dewy in that lock there.

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[F]

Yeah, so.

[D]

So to promote the movie, they had me do a few shows, and I did a show in. In Colorado Springs and it ran over really well.

[B]

And then Diamond Dallas.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Oh, that's. He's the best.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

And that's Eric Bischoff and. And. Oh, geez. Jeff Jarrett.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[C]

Jeff Jerks from here.

[D]

Yeah, he sure is. He's amazing person. Wonderful person. An incredible wrestler.

[C]

You just won the title there.

[D]

Yeah, by accident.

[F]

I did. I went, no, this has to be a mistake.

[D]

What do you guys, don't.

[F]

Somebody. Somebody stop this.

[D]

Yeah, yeah. So they made me. I did this one show. It got a really big response, and they said to me, we'll make you the champion if you go onto the pay per view. And I said, well, that's a terrible idea, but I'll do it.

[F]

And it was kind of a dream of mine as a kid to have.

[D]

That moment right there, you know what I mean?

[F]

And I was like, oh, they'll think it's the same thing. And they didn't. They were like, no, you're an actor and this ruins everything.

[C]

Yeah.

[F]

You didn't deserve it.

[B]

Was that the downside of the wcw?

[F]

This might have killed it.

[B]

Yeah. Is this what. What turned Hogan bad?

[F]

Yeah, absolutely. He came back and was bad after this. Yeah, yeah.

[D]

I got to travel with Hogan and got to travel with all the wrestlers because that. That's Diamond Dallas Page said to me, like, listen, David, you don't have to do it, but if you don't do it, this is it. This is it with Ready to Rumble. This is it with wrestling, you know, you being a part of it or whatever. But if you do do it, then you're traveling with us.

[C]

You'll.

[D]

I was like, I get to travel with you guys? Like, yeah, you're on. We're all stay at those same hotels and party in my room. Yeah, so. So I. I was like, sure, I'll do it. And, yeah, so I went out and I. I did that. And then they hated me. For 25 years. They'd spit on me. I, like, I've been, you know, I'd go to wrestling shows, they'd still be mad at me.

[B]

Yeah.

[F]

People started pick.

[D]

Trying to pick fights with me first. Wcw, That's a worse decision than making David Arquette the champion, you know what I mean?

[F]

That was, like, forever. It still happens to this day.

[D]

So then I got. I had two stents put in my heart, and then I was like. My wife. My wife was saying, all right, see you on the other side, or whatever. Yeah, bad choice of words. No. And then I. I was like, I went under. And right before I went under, I was like, well, I. I have a great family. I've lived an amazing life. You know, I don't. I mean, I have some regrets, but nothing much. And boom, I went on. I came to, and my wife was like, how'd it go? Did you think about it? And it's like, I thought about wrestling, like, what? I was like, yeah, it was like one of the one things that was kind of unfinished. And she was like, oh, God.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

So then I independently wrestled for two years, and I went all over the country and wrestled and sort of came up the ladder and did a movie called you'd Cannot Kill David Arquette about that journey. Journey to sort of realize why they're so mad at me and what wrestling's about, and I really got a better understanding of it. And then you go, like, down to town and you, you know, you do all the things in your body, like, really hurts. You have surgeries and all the stuff that's involved with that.

[B]

I mean, you're on the road. Yeah. Like, so are y' all in it? Would they be in an arena every Night, or is it like Saturday night and then you're there all week?

[D]

Yeah, no, it's. It's a traveling circus. So we'd be in, you know, Syracuse, New York, and then, you know, travel down to, you know, that would be one night. And then you'd go and, you know, in the old days, you'd have these live shows that they wouldn't. We didn't do a bunch of live shows that they didn't film. So I think they had maybe two shows a week.

[E]

Week.

[B]

Oh, yeah, because, like, there was Thunder and Nitro. There's two shows coming up. When I. Yes. When I was younger, it's like. Yeah, you would see they would have some live. That's when they would have a wrestler. Be a regular guy's name.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

And like, that kind of stuff. Yeah, because then they would. When they. They'd come in town, like, on that Monday.

[F]

That's what I have. That's my wrestling name. It's just regular guys. I always wanted something better.

[C]

But what about Rob Boss?

[F]

Oh, Rob Boss. Yeah. I once wrestled as Rob Boss of Painter who Love. Yeah, there's this.

[D]

There was wrestling, pro wrestling, this amazing organization, like, wrestling group.

[F]

And. Yeah, so I painted little happy trees, and then someone came out to fight.

[D]

Me, and I was like, I don't fight. I'm a painter. But I do have some angry trees that I'll fight. So a guy in a tree costume came out and wrestled for me, and then I slapped the guy with the brush.

[B]

And how many people were in the crowd?

[F]

No, this one. This is like a, you know, Lions, you know, club or like, you know, Glendale or something.

[B]

It's a. Lions didn't. Yeah.

[F]

Yeah, it's like kind of like 100 people, maybe.

[B]

Yeah, I've done those shows.

[C]

I still do those shows.

[D]

Yeah, a lot of wrestling like that. When you do independent, you just go around. You never know how the show's going to be. You have to perform for whoever shows up. And some of them. It's funny, you go to these different towns and they have like. Like local wrestling legends that are there.

[F]

Like, they're really huge in this, like.

[D]

In this pro promotion. So you go. But then you learn, like, there's also, like, grandmothers who have, you know, brought their kids and they were brought there by the. So you see, it's generational, like this fan base.

[B]

So it's like a real tour. And then. And then. So. And. And do. And like, I. I read Stone Cold Steve Austin's book.

[D]

Oh, man, what a guy.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

He's amazing.

[B]

And so. But it was like you. He would essentially be on these circuits. Right. And then they're just. If they get a big following and they get like, big, it's like then they just slowly move up into the world.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Like, is Vince McMahon recruiting?

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Like, so they got.

[D]

Still recruit from them.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[D]

And then it's like in this market, like, if you're going through all the time and then you, like, it's. They. They say if you pop. If you have the audience pops, like, they scream for you or they boo for you. Either one's good.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

You know, as long as they're making a lot of noise and getting into it. So if you get a great reaction, they might make you the champion of that promotion.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

So then you have to defend the belt. You know, you have to sort of. Of figure out with them to come back next time you start a storyline with another person. Then if you're a bad guy, they want their local hero to come win the belt. So you have to go back and forth. So you. And then if you start winning a few belts, then you'll have a few belts and you'll go to all these different places. And those are typically the times when they start saying, oh, you should come try out for wwe. Or they offer you.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Once you have enough experience, they trust you that you know the business.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

But it's cool. It's like, is there any.

[B]

Like, who is Stone Cold One of. Like, he's the great.

[D]

One of the greatest.

[B]

And yeah, I agree. That was my. Yeah, that's my error.

[A]

But yeah. Enough that you read his book.

[B]

Yeah. I always joke that, like, it was his own book. Stone Cold. Stone Cold's book was the only book where I was like. Like, they're like, oh, they let him write this because it. It was. It was a very easy read for me. That it was not a lot of big words, lot of dead gummits.

[F]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[B]

It was like, oh, it was a guy you're like, speaks to me. Yeah. You're like, I think he wrote it. And then they. They put the book out and I'm not sure anybody else read it. No, it was. It was straight from his mouth.

[D]

He's a great. Yeah. He came up in such a time that was just. Just crazy.

[B]

And he went through this whole time, though.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Like, yeah, they did it.

[D]

That they were really big in y.

[B]

What about. And Andy Kaufman.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

When he.

[D]

I loved him. That was sort of my inspiration also behind me coming back, like Cuz I was an actor and it was like this phony kind of thing which they didn't get at first. I hope they got it now. But yeah, so I love what Andy Kaufman did, but he loved wrestling. That's why he did it. And he.

[F]

He was just so funny.

[D]

And, you know, he also loved the uncomfortable. Like, you know, that element of comedy.

[F]

And like just people like, what is going on?

[B]

Would you have ever seen him? Like, even when you were young? Like, I'd never seen. Seen him. Yeah. When did he die? Like something like. I didn't. Like when you went to those TV shows or.

[A]

84.

[B]

Oh, 84. Okay. Yeah, it was.

[D]

Oh, I may have seen him in those TV shows. Yeah. Yeah. But I probably believe he's got a great.

[B]

Tom Warner. Warner. He's got a great story with him. When he hired him for Taxi. Oh, wow. He saw him at the Comedy Store and was like, all right, come this. I mean, this is what TV was doing great. Tom Warner was like running abc and he would be the one going out looking, which is something that just doesn't always happen that much now, where the, you know, it's the people going out looking or usually just way down the totem pole and whatever. And it was like he was doing that. And Andy Kaufman, he goes, yeah, I'd love to have you come in and you know, do for this part for Taxi. And so he goes, all right, Andy's not gonna come, but his agent's gonna come. So this. The. So they're out there and is Andy Coffin. I think he was by a different name.

[C]

It's.

[B]

He said, I'm his. Andy Kaufman's agent. But it is.

[D]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was Tony. Tony Clifton.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And. And they had to. And Tom Warner had it in the moment, like, you know, he's like, what are we doing here? And then it's like, oh, we're doing this.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

So he just did the. He just talked to him. So we would love Andy to be a part of this. And then. And he negotiated like just. And yeah, but it was like that. But that's why that dude was. Tom is so brilliant. Just to go like, all right, this is what it is. The idea of, like. That's what you're buying. Of course I'm buying that you're crazy enough to do this, right? So this is what I want to go do. And him wrestling is the funniest. We say it all the time. Where he's like, I'm from. You guys are from Memphis, Tennessee. I'm from Hollywood.

[F]

Yeah, I did that too. I wrestled Jerry Lawler when I went around. Yeah, I did the whole thing. Yeah, like I'm gonna sue you.

[B]

Yeah, that's the best. It was.

[D]

Although he nearly decapitated me. I took a pile driver from Jerry the King Lawler and it nearly.

[B]

What do you think though? What are those guys getting paid on those small circuits?

[D]

Oh, no, not a lot.

[B]

Is it like 100 bucks a night or something? If they're lucky.

[C]

Stand up comedy.

[D]

Well, the bigger names are people coming in. It's different.

[C]

Different.

[B]

It's just tickets. It's what you're selling. Ticket. Yeah.

[D]

But at that point you're just trying to get some, you know, stage time. You know what I mean? You just really want to.

[B]

It is stand up comedy, dude. It actually, it is really crazy because you're making no money and you just need to get on stage. You almost drive anywhere you can't. You drive anywhere. You can't be there for the money. I remember going to an event and some. Somewhere maybe we were on the road. I don't. This was. I don't even know if I was. It was made the beginning when I started comedy years years ago. And I remember going. Watching it in something. It was pretty crowded and there. And these dudes, I remember they fought and they would fight like in the. By the concession stand. They would leave the ring and just be out in the middle. So. And I remember just being close and I mean they're fighting and I mean you're just. They're all there. And these are guys you don't really know. Like the people that do know them, know them in that. But we're in. It's the smallest of a. Smallest kind of thing. You like, you could touch them.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

You're, you know, the guy walks by and you're like, oh, go get. You're just into it. Yeah. And it was the coolest thing in the world. Yeah, I was a big. The Rock and.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

And a big. My favorite was Ultimate Warrior. Yeah, that was at the beginning. I love the Ultimate Warrior. Did you ever meet him?

[D]

No, I never met him.

[B]

He so big Ultima Warrior fan. And then when my big error was the Monday night Raw, like when it was Stone Cold and the Rock and like that whole. To me was like, I kind of. After that I kind of stopped. I think when it all kind of blended that WCW and WWE was blending a little bit.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

And. But it was like that was when the Rock and Stone Cold were going at it and at the peaks. It was. I mean, and I'm just. You're just at that age. Right Age, where you're just like, this is the best thing. I never would have guessed he's from Indiana. Yeah. I would have guessed ultimate warrior was born in an egg. Like, he just doesn't feel like he would be from somewhere.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

It's like how you feel like Madonna or Tom Cruise, where you're like, even Donna, you're like, where she's from, you're like, it doesn't matter. She's just Madonna. They're not from anywhere. They're just. They are that. Yeah.

[A]

The ultimate warrior went to Indiana State University for a year.

[B]

Wow.

[D]

It's weird to think of I couldn't.

[A]

Have just him in like.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Art history class.

[A]

Yeah, art history class.

[C]

Speaking of art, we talked about art last week on the podcast. Someone wrote in, said, you are a Bob Ross painting instructor.

[D]

Yeah, I'm a certified Bob Ross instructor.

[C]

What does that mean?

[A]

That's awesome.

[D]

That means I went New Smyrna Beach.

[F]

Florida and took a three week course.

[D]

To be able to teach people to paint in the style of Bob Ross.

[B]

Wow.

[C]

That's.

[D]

Yeah, I love his art and his style and his energy and the same thing.

[F]

You know, a little community of people who also love his stuff. And you're all communities. That's what it's about. And yeah, so I learned how to.

[D]

Paint and now I use it mainly for charity. Like tomorrow we're doing a big thing for, you know, preventing blood cancer, finding a cure for blood cancer. And so we'll do a bunch of shows for, I mean, teaching things. Yeah. On the. That they can put on the Internet to raise money for this thing. But yeah, so I use it for charity. It's fun.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. Have you ever got into anything that everybody wants to watch?

[F]

I'm trying to piece together all these pieces and then like. Oh, I like all those things too. You like all these things too?

[B]

I mean, it's like, it's different groups. I like it though. I like that you're into all this other stuff. Bozo the clown.

[F]

Yes, I love clowns. I love Bozo. I fell in love with Bozo when.

[D]

I lived in Evanston, Illinois as a kid. And, you know, do you want to bring back the happy clown? So we're on this sort of of journey to do that.

[B]

And yeah, my dad was a clown, so I know.

[D]

Yo, Yo. That is so awesome.

[B]

It's yo, yo the clown.

[A]

Yo, yo the clown.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Did he do Yo Yos.

[B]

Yep. No, no, I don't. I mean, he might have, but it was. It wasn't. No, no, it wasn't heavy yo yo stuff.

[F]

No Unicycle.

[D]

Yo yo.

[F]

That's a double yo yo unicycle. That's a good. That's a good idea.

[B]

I think people got upset because they were the lack of yo yos. And they go, but your name is yo yo yo. I was a big Bozo fan as well.

[D]

Oh, cool.

[B]

And I really remember where they threw the ball.

[D]

The grand prize game.

[B]

Yeah. And so I. Yeah. A giant. It is crazy because I think that name Bozo the Clown is. Is carried on even just today. And I would think most people don't know how they know it.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

It's just an insult now.

[F]

Yeah.

[A]

Call somebody bozo.

[D]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[F]

That's.

[A]

That's when you say you want to bring back the happy clown. What do you mean by that?

[D]

Just like, you know, everyone's scared of clowns now, so just so it's not just that. You know what I mean? Clowns represent joy and having like a clown's job really is to create happiness, make people laugh and uplift. Yeah.

[A]

What changed things, do you think?

[D]

It had a big thing to do with it.

[A]

It goes John Wayne Gacy probably too.

[D]

John Wayne Gacy.

[B]

That was a tough.

[F]

That pretty much inspired.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

You know what I mean?

[B]

Yeah. Yeah. It's hard to get. It's hard to turn it around. It's. It's a big ship and David's got it. We're staring it.

[F]

But he's.

[B]

He's got. He's got. Yeah. It doesn't help that a new it is coming out. I mean, these are all things that just.

[F]

I'm sure they're making a Casey movie that'll just set your best every time.

[D]

Time. Yeah.

[F]

We went to these clown conventions, which is another amazing community. It is so amazing. You, like, learn tricks from them. They teach you inside things. So this really works. Don't get the streamers that are like this. Get the streamers that'll just fall out of your hand.

[B]

I like the thing. You have auditoriums in the weirdest towns that you probably can't walk in because there's just some convention. Like the hotels you've been at the convention dimensions where you're like, it's going to be a problem. If I go in there and you're like, what? It's a Bozo the Clown thing. You go, let me tell you, I'm in with these people.

[C]

Yeah. Be Fun. If two of your communities, they cross paths. Bozo and the wrestling community.

[D]

And you'd be surprised. Wrestling and horror crossover, pretty much.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Yeah, that's a. That's a close.

[B]

That's as close.

[F]

Close connection there.

[D]

But clowns. Yeah, that's been harder to.

[F]

You know, there was. There was a few wrestling clowns.

[B]

What about Circus Soleil? I mean, that's.

[D]

Oh, yeah, that's amazing. That's the whole Montreal sort of French Canadian circus. But beautiful. Like, their artistry is so incredible.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

There's a guy named Nunu who's part of our new clown group, who was a. I don't know if Nunu's going to be Wikipedia.

[C]

He's pretty new, but.

[F]

Yeah, there he is.

[B]

Is that how you spell names?

[D]

Gabe Dell Jr. But new. New, no. Oh, real Nunu. Real, real Nunu. Real, new.

[F]

Real Nunu.

[D]

Bozo the clown. Oh, yeah. Gabe Dell as a clown. That's him down there. That's not our new new. But that's him in a. In a film that he did.

[C]

Willard Scott was Bozo.

[D]

Yeah, Willard Scott, he was Bozo. And then. Then as Bozo, he did a. An event with McDonald's and they sold a bunch of burgers and they got a really great response.

[F]

And then Willard Scott started doing a clown for McDonald's.

[D]

But the original. You look up the original Ronald McDonnell did not look like. No, not that one.

[F]

Oh, look there.

[D]

The first one. That's Willard Scott after the Bozo event. And that didn't work so well for the.

[E]

Them.

[F]

So then.

[D]

Then they had one that looked a little more. Not like Bozo, but similar.

[A]

If you're listening, he's got like a McDonald's cup as his nose.

[F]

Yeah.

[A]

And I mean, that's pretty much it.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Wait, so it's pretty good.

[F]

He's got a. A tray on his head with the burgers on it.

[B]

Wow. Wow. Was Bozo before. It was before this.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

That's what got him into. Ronald McDonald was so.

[D]

And then he became Ronald McDonald. So there was a little controversy in the Bozo community.

[F]

It's funny. We went to this one clown convention and then we went to another clown convention, and we found out that those two clown conventions were kind of feuding with each other. I was like, how can you guys be upset with each other? You're all clowns. I'm not going to that convention.

[B]

Yeah, you want to go? Guys, we. We need to get together.

[C]

It's like WCW and wwe.

[F]

Yes, exactly.

[C]

Competing.

[F]

Yeah.

[C]

Have you seen the Seinfeld Where George Costanza.

[F]

Yeah.

[C]

Talks about Bozo.

[D]

Bozo. Yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Bozo. That was amazing. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[B]

My dad goes to magic conventions.

[D]

I know that. I love that your dad's a magician now.

[C]

He will be soon.

[D]

I heard that.

[A]

Yeah.

[F]

They say it pays for, apparently.

[B]

Yeah.

[F]

Yeah.

[D]

A lot of clowns do magic, though. Yeah, it's fun.

[B]

Yeah. He always. Yeah, he did it the store. My dad has a lisp and. And he was able to hide behind the makeup with it.

[D]

Oh, that's cool.

[B]

And then. So it was. And then. And then he did it for a while then. And then he started doing. And just magic. And, I mean, he comes on the road with me now, so.

[D]

Wow, that's so cool. That's amazing. How was it to happen, a dad. Oh, how cool.

[F]

That is amazing.

[A]

MSG was dad.

[D]

That's amazing. How was it? Because my kids are like, my dad, he's a clown.

[F]

You know, they're kind of sure how they're taking it.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. It's. It. You know, it's like one of those. I always say, it's like. You didn't know that it wasn't normal in a weird way.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Because you just think. Think. I don't know. I don't know what I thought. My dad always was. He was a clown, and my dad always did magic and everybody kind of knew. And then. So you just. And it wasn't like he was doing. Wasn't like he was always on. It was like TV or. It was like this kind of fame thing. It wasn't David Copperfield, where it was like this kind of crazy thing. My dad is, I think, as good as David. He's very, very good at it. But it. So it was just like. Yeah, it's just what he did. And he. My dad was a teacher through all this, and so everybody was impressed by it. But, yeah, it took. I never. When I started comedy, you think my first joke would have been about this, but it. It took me a few years before I even, like, put it together. That you're like, yeah, yeah. That's not. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's kind of crazy.

[D]

Oh, wow.

[B]

You know, but then you. Yeah, then you slowly get it. But we go. I mean, I remember seeing Circus LA with my dad and we'd go to stuff and, you know, just the appreciation he would have. I think that's why even in my standup, I have such appreciation for an act. So, like, over, you know, like, there's this crowd work and there's these. Improv is, like, good, but it's reliant, like the idea of an act, the idea that you are someone has created a. Our show for you and the work that it's gone into it. That's why I think that's why I love it so much because even when I go on stage, we, we talked about it earlier in the, in the podcast before you were here. But they, we. Someone asked about like, I don't always talk to the crowd or talk about the town I'm in or whatever because I kind of want to just get up there and do my thing because I've just worked on it and I know where all the laughs are going to be and I just want to take you along for the ride. And I think that's what I like. Which is kind of an old school kind of way with comedy and with clown with everything is just that.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

What do you go try to be? Ronald McDonald.

[F]

He's back. Which is exciting.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

How do they think about Ronald McDonald in the clown community? Are they appreciative of what he did or.

[D]

I, I don't know. I think so. I mean, when, when, when Ronald McDonald was biggest, it was sort of when clowns were at their height. You know what I mean? So I think it's happy. We want happy clowns. You're supposed to try to hide your teeth though, a lot of the time.

[B]

Oh, really?

[D]

I mean, not, I mean, when you can. But he's showing his teeth there, especially now.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

But, yeah, I like Ronald McDonald. I always loved Ronald McDonald. I always thought clowns. And I went to like Ringling Brothers and I thought it was all part of Bozo's world. And then when I first started a production company, I met with Larry Harmon, the guy who made turned Bozo from a read along record at Capitol Records into Bozo, the world's most famous guy clown. And I met him, we had all these meetings, super long meetings and just telling all these stories. So I was like, you really need to have your story written down, like write a book. So I connected him with the writer and he finally got his book written called the man behind the Nose. And then he passed away shortly after. So then I was talking to his wife and then she passed away and I finally made a deal with their daughter and took me 15 years. So here we are.

[F]

It's been a long thing.

[D]

What you like, realize quickly is that so much goes into it. Like there's the. You do your own makeup and you travel and you carry your bags and you put these acts together and you you know, but it is really about creating a positive memory. Like, somebody has, like, this great time, and, like, you want the parents to have a great time. Cause, you know, it's so hard right now. And if they could just call me, like. Like, you know, their kids are happy. They're happy. That's what it's all about.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah, it is. I mean, I would see that with my dad. Like, I always say with stand up is like, I would just see how much he would have to take with him.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

He has to do his own makeup. Even when he gets into magic, it's like he has to bring extra, extra suitcases. It's. I mean, it's just an entire process that you're trying to do where with standup, you can just go, go. You could show up, you could wake you up and you could go, yeah, nothing, nothing. And you could just talk. That's good. So, yeah, it's a whole. It's a. It's a. It's a whole thing. Yeah. There's is clown school. Dj, have you been to a clown school or.

[D]

Like, I studied with the clown and sort of did clown school. It was.

[F]

Yeah.

[D]

Misha Usoff, who's an amazing clown. And. Yeah, I studied with him. It was mainly online. I mean, I met him at a clown convention as well. Well. But, yeah, they teach you a lot of really cool stuff. Really amazing things about being in the moment.

[B]

Yeah. Is both. That. That's. That would be a good thing to learn. Well, I think. But even for any. Any kind of thing is being in the moment. That's. You try to. I try to work that on. On stage, where it's. You remind yourself, like, if I'm telling a story, I try to really be in the story that I'm telling, even if I've told it a thousand times times. Just get yourself in that story so the people there.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Feel that is Bo. Is it Bozo? Is Bozo the top, like, clown right now?

[D]

Puddles is really great. Clownvis is doing incredible work. There's a lot of great clowns, but, I mean, there's a lot of incredible Russian clowns.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[D]

Slava is incredible.

[B]

Yep.

[D]

The snow show.

[B]

Yeah, I went to the snow show.

[D]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Snow show is incredible. That's such a brilliant. There's, like, beautiful clowns all around the world. There's clowns that are level, like Charlie Chaplin, that just aren't known yet. That's part of what I want to do. Like, you know, Bozo's favorite clowns, you know, What I mean, and just have all these incredible acts and just again, it's all about bringing the happy clown back and having fun with it and having people have a great time. That's really what it is.

[B]

But is Bozo the kind of, you would think the standard. Standard. Top Richard Pr.

[F]

If you talk to all the clowns, they're like, boos.

[B]

Really?

[D]

You know, wasn't a clown, like, that's what they typically say.

[B]

Famous.

[D]

Well, he was a kind of a game show host in a way. And he. He was kind of more of especially like Bob Bell at the early WGN Bozo. So it's more like a vaudeville show. So they did, like, acts, like skits and, like, you know, these really quick bits, which is also beautiful. And I love that my family goes back to vaudeville, so I think this has something to do with why I'm doing it all.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Just to sort of connect.

[B]

Who's the one that is like the cookie? Cookie.

[D]

Well, there's Noo. Noo. But we also introduced Jozo. Bozo. Jozo. Bozo is the world's first female Bozo the clown.

[B]

Oh, wow.

[D]

And she's sweet. Oh, no, that's a different Jozo. She's down there with me at the. Wait, where? Oh, right here. Yeah. That's a guy somewhere else, but.

[B]

Oh, wow.

[D]

We didn't want to sue him.

[F]

That's Jozo Baso.

[D]

Yeah.

[F]

Jonzo Baso.

[D]

Yeah. Yeah, that's Jozo.

[F]

She's wonderful.

[B]

But I think what I'm asking is, like, in the clown world.

[C]

World.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

The respected is their first. Is there Charlie Chad.

[D]

Oh, yeah.

[B]

There's a lot, like, you know, where they. They. They look at like, that as, like.

[D]

I might not pronounce his name right. Like Jerabelli. Girabelli. That was like an old famous clown. But it goes back. It goes way back. I mean, there were clowns in. Oh, wow. There's scary clowns come up. I know a lot.

[A]

That's what we're trying to fight against.

[D]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It happens all the time. Girabelli. I'm probably not saying it right, but he was kind of the first clown to bring, like, the sad clown Clarabelle. That was a really famous clown. That was Howdy Doody's clown. And yeah. I mean, so there's Camilla dell', Arte, which is like all of these archetypes, you know, of, like, it was. I think it was Italian. And it's all the archetypes of these different. Different kind of clowns. And they put on These acts, and they're like these running story lines that you can kind of piece them together, sort of led to the modern day kind of in vaudeville and all that kind of stuff. But they were like these archetypes where you have, like, the boss, the capitan, who's like, he's the boss, but he knows nothing, and he's, like, talking down to people, and then he. He'll get his.

[F]

And then, you know, there's like, all.

[D]

These different characteristics, like the greedy cloud and all these. You know, there's one called zani where the word zany comes from. Yeah, I think it's Z. Yeah. A N, I is the way they spell it. But, yeah, that's.

[F]

There's a zany cloud out there. That's a good name.

[D]

But, yeah, commedia dell' arte is just an interesting thing. I don't really know too much about it.

[B]

Is Chaplin considered anything in this?

[D]

Yeah, Chaplin was definitely a clown. Buster Keaton, all those original sort of silent film actors. A lot of, like, clowning is silent. A lot of clowns are silent.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Yeah. I mean, to tell a story without words is pretty interesting.

[B]

I was. When. When we did this movie, I was like, there's a stunt person, and so he's falling and all this. Yeah. And I want. I was like, I want to learn how to fall.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

I want to learn how to do this. So, like, you can put it in movies. Absolutely. Do it.

[A]

Start doing it on stage, too.

[B]

I. I don't. I wouldn't do it on stage, but it's the. But to do it in for the right bit, man. Yeah. You never know, something happens.

[C]

That's a Pop Rocks.

[F]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. My buddy Dustin Chaffin, who's a comic, was with us. He fell going up the stairs this weekend. I mean, in front of 16, 17,000 people. He just missed his step and just fell. Right. And you have to just. You have to, like, save it and be like, all right.

[F]

Yeah.

[D]

But I worked with the clown on a movie called C Spot Run. I worked with a clown named Lorenzo whose family were part of the Pickle Circus. Pickle Family Circus. And, yeah, so we worked together, and he, you know, we work out all these bits and, like, you know, map it all out and how it's going to happen. And it was fun to do that kind of stuff. Physical comedy is, like, one of my favorites.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. It's. I. Yeah, I want to learn, you know, just to be in movies. Just when you're just out of nowhere, like, you know, it's like the Dick Van Dyke fall. That where he was able to just go. And it's. It's a. Fall is.

[D]

It's good.

[B]

It's good. Fall is a good. Good.

[A]

It's always fun.

[B]

It's always funny. We need to get you to come out. We do Vegas some. Maybe you come out with my dad. You and him and y' all can go nerd out about he love. Yeah, well, he loves to do a bit, so he loves that kind of thing.

[F]

I love.

[B]

So it's like. Yeah, yeah. Like they. So it. If y' all went. You just have y' all come out and I gotta clown around. Yeah, the clown around and I gotta follow all. You gotta go up after. Just like, just stuff everywhere. Chairs are knocked over and I gotta go do stand up. My whole life's been like that. But it'd be very fun to do it.

[C]

And you have a movie coming out next month?

[D]

Yeah, I sure do. The Perfect Gamble comes out in November 17th or something. Yeah, yeah, there it is.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Gambling movie. Another little niche network, people.

[C]

Do you gamble? Do you play?

[F]

I'm a horrible gambler. I probably shouldn't say that words have.

[D]

Meaning, but yeah, I enjoy gambling quite a bit.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

But this looks super fun.

[D]

Yeah, yeah, it's a fun movie. Really. Yeah.

[C]

Where was this shot?

[D]

This was shot in Georgia and Israel.

[C]

It was the country of Georgia.

[D]

Yeah, yeah, the country of Georgia.

[C]

We.

[D]

We go to Georgia to open a online. I mean, a illegal casino, essentially. And then the Russian, like, mob there shows up and it's like, you can't do that. That's Daniela Pick Tarantino. She's amazing in it. And Danny AB is the director and he's also the third actor in it.

[B]

Where is it coming out on? In theaters or in.

[D]

It'll come in theaters. Yeah, it's going to be at the Vista Theater.

[B]

Okay, great, great.

[D]

Quentin Tarantino's theater and.

[B]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[D]

And then, you know, a few theaters throughout the country and then roll out a little more and then come online.

[B]

All right.

[C]

It's awesome. And Screen seven comes out.

[F]

Yeah, Screen seven. Screen seven. It's exciting. That's in February.

[B]

Yeah, I like that you can just come out in February. Like, Scream's just so big that they're like, yeah, we're doing Valentine's Day.

[C]

Yeah, exactly.

[F]

Yeah, exactly.

[B]

It doesn't matter.

[F]

That's good.

[B]

Awesome, man. It was. Is. You're the best.

[D]

Thank you. Yeah, you guys, I really appreciate it.

[B]

Yeah, we appreciate you. And I I Giant fan, so thank you. Yeah, I got so I get to mark you off now. I'll let you know when I'm slowly. As I head through my screen. Yeah, My screen people. Yeah.

[D]

Oh, I'll write them when they're coming through town.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. They ever want to come to the show? If you ever want to come. If you want to come, you're here now, baby. So it's like. Yeah, all right. Yeah, we'll get together. We're gonna hang out. All right. That's it for me. We're. I forget I'm in Chicago this week. I'm on the road 20, 26, a ton of dates, all that stuff.

[D]

I'm in.

[C]

Ontario, Canada, then Plano, Texas, Dallas, Texas, Tacoma, Washington, Portland, and Waco, Texas. Portland. The easier to fly to.

[A]

Jumping all around.

[B]

It is real.

[F]

That's what I did do.

[C]

That's what I do.

[B]

That's awesome. Yep.

[A]

Aaron Weber here this weekend. Buffalo. Never done comedy in Buffalo before. I'm doing the Buffalo helium on Thursday and then Albany, New York, on Friday and then Syracuse, New York, on Saturday and then Tampa next weekend. So come out and see me.

[D]

Awesome.

[B]

All right. You got your. In your movie, you don't have any appearances or.

[D]

I don't know if I have any appearances.

[B]

The movie we did go see the perfect gambler.

[D]

Dot com. We did some music, so we have an album. Album.

[B]

Oh, that's great. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[F]

But I'm a clown.

[D]

I don't know how to sell them.

[B]

Go to you guys. Is it just Bozo the Clown?

[D]

Bozo.com.

[B]

Bozo.Com.

[D]

Yeah, we don't even. We don't have it up there yet. That's probably part of the problem.

[B]

That's how you want to advertise.

[D]

Bozo.com works, but we just don't have the record up there yet.

[B]

All right, well, yeah, but it's nice to know that. I mean, look, a lot of people will be excited that you're with the. With the heart of you bringing Bozo back. It's not a bad thing. Most people would have got bozo and gone completely a different direction.

[D]

Yeah, no, they're doing scary stuff.

[B]

I was like, yeah, no, that's great. That's great.

[C]

All right, Nateland presents the showcase. Season three is coming to a close with our final set this Friday. Kira Solantovich Sultanovic.

[A]

Yeah, she. I think I hosted the show that she was on. So funny. She killed it. You're gonna love her. Go check her setup.

[C]

That's this Friday?

[A]

Yep.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah.

[D]

And who.

[B]

Brad Upton's Hour Special, January 25, two shows at the Den in Chicago. Yeah. And then all the other stuff we have on our YouTube channel. All right, we love you. Have a great week. Bye.

[F]

Sam.

[E]

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