Hollywood Handbook - Pete Holmes, Our LIVE Friend
Episode Date: September 1, 2014In this first ever live Hollywood Handbook episode recorded at Molly Malone's in LA, Sean and Hayes bring a lucky fan up on stage to do a live version of "Pitch Perfectly" with "The Wedding S...inger". Then, PETE HOLMES joins the guys to talk about suing TBS, search for love, and make fun of Hayes' face. Finally, the first real-life Popcorn Gallery asks about Conan and Marvel.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Welcome to Hollywood Handbook.
This show is an insider's guide to kicking butt and dropping names of the red carpet linebacker hallways of this industry we call Showbiz.
This is our first live show ever.
The clapping is great.
The clapping element that we don't know if some of our listeners are able to get to a library,
to get on the internet and hear what we're doing.
And so just to actually see people's faces when we give out these sort of gems of wisdom
and to see you not totally getting it but wanting to get it has been just so rewarding.
Because Engineer Brett will not clap when we do it.
No.
He's trying.
He's getting there, and his hands are making
contact now when he
tries to clap. It's a coordination issue
for him. He's willing
to clap, but he's unable to clap.
Yeah.
Do you see how nice it is, Brett, when people clap during the show?
See the energy that it creates?
It's nice.
It feels...
It's fun.
Yeah, it's fun.
Brett?
Brett?
Are you here?
Yeah.
Come up.
Oh, God You look fiendish
You look like you're on vacation
You're something I don't get on life
Can I sit?
You just look like a fiend, a gross fiend
You look like you're on a disgusting vacation, like a very bad vacation.
I don't actually have to record you guys tonight.
I just thought I got tonight off.
What do we say about riffing for you, buddy?
No, riff-free zone, right?
I'm not trying to riff.
How are we going to know?
Are you going to give us some kind of time notification as we're going?
Yes, we're concerned.
We have to keep track of time.
Okay.
You want the time?
Well, we've started now.
I believe I asked you to buy a great big watch.
Yeah.
What did you say?
It's 8.34.
Oh, I couldn't hear you because I was talking when you said it.
I believe I asked you to
buy a great big watch, and ideally
one of those Flavor Flav dealies that you could wear
around your neck and I could see it from the back. With Indiglo.
Indiglo, so we can see it. Some sort of Indiglo technology
and they have that technology now.
I couldn't find one anywhere.
Go sit down.
Okay, go sit down.
Brett, Brett, Brett, Brett, Brett, Brett, Brett, Brett, Brett, Brett, Brett, Brett, Brett, Brett, Brett.
Gum, gum, gum.
My gum.
Go.
Thank you for teaching Brett how to clap.
So,
what did we want to talk about tonight?
I guess,
I guess Hollywood can be kind of fun, can't it?
It actually can be a little fun sometimes.
And I think that gets lost in all this sort of drive and focus.
And we are guilty of it.
We get caught up in the career side of it.
But we really got into it because movies can be magical.
We love movies.
We do want to explain to all the people who are
coming here from flyover states
to learn about movies.
This is not
movies. No, no, no.
I would hate for you to think that this is movies.
You're sitting, you are
sitting down.
The difference is
movies is on the screen
and the screen is paper.
It's like a kind of paper.
That's a great explanation.
And what we are is not paper, and we're people.
Yes, we are people.
I mean, there's a version of the world where you could touch us, actually,
because we're actually physically here.
But you're sitting and you're watching something.
So for those of you who did think it was movies, you're pretty close.
Yes, this is probably the closest you've ever come, and to allow other people to enjoy some of the success in this town that we have.
And so we were wondering if there are any aspiring movie makers in the audience or someone who...
Has anyone ever had a dream in their lives?
Yes.
Is there anyone who has a dream of any sort?
Does anyone have a favorite movie?
Here's what we want to do.
There's a segment we like to do on the show called Pitch Perfectly.
We're going to teach you in the audience how to pitch a movie to a studio.
We're not expecting you to come up with your own movie on the spot.
No, that's too much pressure.
Just a movie that you like.
Anything you've ever seen.
If someone could come and sort of pitch us a movie they love.
Does anyone know any movie?
Has anyone seen a movie?
You've seen The Wedding Singer.
That's perfect.
Yeah.
I don't know it myself.
Yes, it's better if you pick something we've seen,
but at the same time.
Could you pitch us The Wedding Singer?
Come on.
Come on.
All right. Boy Meets Girl. just the one singer? Come on. Alright, uh, boy meets girl.
Mmm.
Mmm.
Let me
stop you. Yeah, you're gonna want to
start, you know,
you're sitting in front of people, you're explaining to them
your idea, you're gonna want to start from the very
beginning of the movie. What's the
first thing that happens
in your movie?
80s music.
Say, lights up.
Yes, yes, yes. Lights up.
Do you remember
the very beginning? Dead or Alive's
right round.
Like a record.
In parentheses. Plays.
There are people dancing.
Let me stop you.
One fun thing
you can do
is kind of ask these movies guys
a question and get
them to it. And you go,
hey, doesn't weddings always have singing?
You know what I mean?
And if you frame it like that,
they go, hey, weddings does have singing.
And it puts them in this headspace
where they feel like they're making the movie
with you.
Okay?
Have you ever been to a wedding?
Okay.
I'm getting out my checkbook right now.
They're saying, yes, yes.
Yeah.
You know how there's a party afterwards?
Okay.
Let me stop you.
First of all,
when you were describing the beginning of the movie,
you forgot the part where they show all the names
of the people who were in the movie.
They're going to walk back.
Imagine doing the movie and just starting it right in the middle of it
and not saying the movie's starting.
So I think probably what's happening to you is you're thinking,
when I see that part, these are just words.
Why are they on the screen?
That's not the movie.
But those words is people's names.
That's the names.
And those people did the movies and so the people that
you're asking to pay for the movie are going to want their names to be the names on the movie
and say the names of the people in the room when you're saying who's on the movie screen
yeah they can be movie stars to start over then the music comes up you're alive you spin me around
like a record yeah good, good. New Line Cinema
presents... That's great. Oh, wow.
Yeah, this is good. That's a great
shingle.
I don't remember the rest of them.
Keep going.
Adam Sandler.
Yes. Possibly a Drew Barrymore type.
Let me stop you.
Drew Barrymore.
I like what you're doing here with this cast.
Yeah.
My one note is you're not going to get them.
You came from the audience.
You know what I mean?
And I sometimes, and this is embarrassing for me to admit,
but I sometimes have trouble getting Drew on the phone.
And so knowing that you were in the audience and that you didn't even really seem to want to come on stage. for me to admit, but I sometimes have trouble getting Drew on the phone.
And so,
knowing that you were in the audience and that you didn't even really seem to want to come on stage.
Well, maybe could we get an
Alan Covert? He's probably
affordable. Yes, but
you have to get Adam to get Alan Covert.
That's true. Anyway, keep
going.
Okay. You know what?
We get to the big, there's like the big tennis match at the beginning.
Talk about that. You remember that?
Don't quite remember the tennis match.
There's a big tennis match.
And the two guys, there's the two guys
that do like the head dance
in that movie.
Um...
I remember that, sure.
And I remember there's a bride
dancing with a baby
with no diaper on. Could you talk about when they
crash the weddings and then they're just having
all, you know, meeting girls?
Yeah, talk about that. Sure, you got a charming
Owen Wilson type.
And a tall, really sarcastic
cynical
Vince Vaughn type.
Yeah.
And you know weddings. Yes. And you know weddings.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
They go to weddings.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Even though they're not invited.
Mm-hmm.
And is somebody singing at the wedding?
No, they're crashing at the wedding.
Oh, okay.
Don't ever say no.
Yeah.
Yes.
And. Okay. That's good. This. Yes. And.
Okay.
That's good.
This was great.
Thank you so much.
This was really good.
You did a great job.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
That was really good.
Thank you to this person.
What's your name?
I didn't hear it.
Really important to let them know
that you have a name
because if they did like your movie pitch
they wouldn't necessarily like that one
but if you had one they liked
they're going to want to contact you
and what a huge lesson
because I think Hayes and I
probably had 10 or 12 movies
that we sold
when we first came to Hollywood
that they took months tracking us down
yeah
it was sort of a Cinderella
thing where we had each left
he had left a shoe and I had
left a really cool
fitted cap.
And they would bring people into the studios
and have them try on the fitted cap and the shoe
to see if that was who had pitched the movie
so that they could pay them the millions
of bucks.
We have an exciting guest.
We have a guest.
That's right.
Just the concept of a guest.
Yes.
The guest has a name, and his name is Pete Holmes.
You don't even know what he does yet
He's a comedian
Fans of the name
But not the profession
What an unusual
Pedalic ship
Well, let's see what he looks like
Yes, let's look at his face
Please, Pete, please be here and come.
Pete?
Pete?
Pete?
Have a seat, Pete.
Hello, Peter.
Hollywood advice
getting it
yes
giving it
your face
well it's just not
what I expected
at the whole thing
I'm not what you expected?
I was just picturing
something else
who were you picturing?
I thought you would be doing
like a Sherlock Holmes
like a
I thought that was part of your thing.
The Cumberbatch.
Yeah.
Just to be clear, you booked me because you thought I was a Benedict Cumberbatch?
Well, like a Sherlock Holmes comedian.
A mystery-solving comedian.
That's sort of what I thought.
Yes, then you sort of told a joke up top that had some sort of mystery inside of it.
And then through a series of observations, we were able to reveal the humor in the joke.
It was a cool concept to us.
You wanted me to come and discuss the way that I weave a mystery into my opening joke,
and then solve a crime?
Well, we could discuss anything. It's free form.
We don't have to just talk about that.
That's what we thought you were.
That is so wholly disappointing.
I thought you were fans of me,
not because my last name is the same as a famous...
No, we are.
We are.
Mr. Holmes.
We are.
Famous...
Yeah.
Dr. Holmes.
No.
Please.
I'm not a doctor.
I'm a man.
I'm a regular human man
doctors aren't
aren't men
doctors can be men
I'm not a doctor
instead
I'm a man
have you seen
House
yeah
that's a doctor
and it's based on
Sherlock Holmes
did you know that
yeah
that's a show that
British guy
Jess and Lennon are
doing
it's funny I hope it comes back Jess and Lennon are doing. It's funny.
I hope it comes back.
Jess and Lennon?
Yes.
No, that's Playing House, I think.
They're Playing House.
Yeah, they're Playing House.
T-H-E-I-R?
They're Playing House?
Yeah, they're Playing House.
Or is they are?
They are.
This is some doctor shit.
Contractions and stuff?
Oh, yes.
Conjunctions?
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm. Keep going. stuff. Oh, yes. Conjunctions. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Keep going.
Your hair, never.
Your hair kind of looks like a cummy batch.
I'm not roasting you.
I'm just saying if one of us were solving crimes, it would be you.
Lucky you're not roasting him, you know, because you don't want to tangle with this guy.
Yeah, that wouldn't be something you'd want to do.
I tell you, you don't want to be on the other side of this guy when somebody tries to roast him.
Well, you don't want to hurt feelings in show business.
And that's true.
And show business has fun sides to it,
but it has some other sides to it.
Very sad sides, yes.
And I think we've talked about some of the fun stuff.
We remember someone without a name pitched us a movie.
But it's a pretty litigious town. about some of the fun stuff. We remember someone without a name pitched us a movie. But
it's a pretty litigious town.
Now, you're embroiled
in a pretty ugly lawsuit against TBS
because they were filming you without your consent.
Yes.
That's correct.
The Pete Holmes show
was unbeknownst.
It was not explained
to me.
And I'll tell you something.
With that title,
I think you've got a case.
When they called it
the Pete Holmes show,
I said, oh, they're in trouble.
Because that's going to
hold up in court for you.
They shouldn't be able
to use your name.
If they just filmed it
and they called it
something else...
The Big Guy Show. Yes.
Sherlock. Lumbering
Ogre Show. Yes.
Large Buddy.
Large Buddy? Like your favorite
camp counselor? Yeah.
Like a kid like, who told you you could have more
mac and cheese? Large Buddy. Yes.
They can't remember my name? I have what I
call, what police call probable cause.
See, what people might not know about show
business is we're constantly... Weird week to
invoke the police.
We're what? It's a weird week to invoke
the police in a positive way. I'm just
saying you might not want to take sides on that
whole issue. You're giving me...
This is going out.
This is going out. So you're saying that you love
the police. We don't want this podcast to get sued.
Yeah. You know?
There's just a lot going on. So you're saying that you love the police? We don't want this podcast to get sued. Yeah. You know? Don't say...
There's just a lot going on.
Don't talk about the police.
Well, don't say you love them.
Can I say I love Sting?
And for people
who are just listening,
they're pointing at each other.
He just pointed at me
and I just thought
I should point back.
And I think it's sort of Hay nice shared moment And I think it's
Sort of Hayes acknowledging like
You got me there
Is I think what the point means
He did give me a free bath
And truly from the sidelines he did
Now
I think what happened is
TBS sent over a flower delivery man
And he put a bunch of hidden cameras inside your
sizable living room. Yeah. I mean, that was a very big living room. Very modern. Yes. It was a modern
kind, you know, it's Japanese influence design, right? It's very sparse. A lot of Ikea. I built,
I built like a, like a stage and I just enjoyed kind of discussing my feelings into my mirror,
stage and I just enjoyed kind of discussing my feelings into my mirror which I didn't know they had installed the camera in so all of that was just me being me my friends would come over
they'd plug their projects yeah they tell you what you're up to they're up too late yeah I would
always turn to my mirror and say we'll be right back and you dress up as Batman and things I would
also yeah would would throw to tape, they call
that. That's a little terminology.
You throw to tape, it's something
you tape. It's terminology from your house?
I use it in my house.
And I
found out, I tried to sue TBS
and then they explained
that the reason they did it was
because you can be sued for anything
in late night if you do late night. If you do any
move, if you do the string dance
that Conan does, if you're
adorable like Jimmy Fallon,
you're sued. You get sued
immediately. Or if you think stuff is awesome
like Jimmy. Yeah. I fell
into that a lot. I'm a positive man.
Yeah, yeah. I really am.
And so because this was
categorized as a reality
show, they were starting a lot of those issues.
No problem.
Smart!
I mean, it is smart.
Are you gonna see
any of that, Dosef?
Dosef?
The Doremi
money.
You guys are wasted on a podcast because your
face is hilarious.
It should be.
It's a podcast.
They can't see my face.
It should be a TV show.
It should definitely be a TV show.
Yeah.
No, they had to pay me out.
That's how I got money from them
was I was like
if you're going to continue filming me
in the talk show that is my life
you're going to have to give me some of that cheese
do you like having that money
yeah people like money
yeah it makes you feel like a big man
what kinds of stuff
does you have with him?
What do I buy with money?
Hmm.
How is this an audio show?
It's 90%.
It's 90% your face.
Hmm.
I think he's looking at Sean just for the eye.
Nope.
You can buy, you can pay rent.
You can pay a human man's rent.
That big living room is probably pretty pricey, huh?
Yeah, hard to heat.
And you appear to have basically office sets inside your home as well.
Where you do sort of job home as well. Yes. You do sort of
job interview type things.
Yes.
Yeah.
I've turned all the bedrooms
into places we can
shoot sketches and stuff.
Yeah.
You know what the weirdest thing is?
Now that the show's not on,
just continuing to do it
for no one is quite sad.
Sure, sure.
Now that you know
what was going on.
Yeah.
They've made it
a little bit more fun.
It's sting.
It does sting. We're in our 15 a little bit more fun. It does sting. It does sting.
We're in our 15th season in my house.
We're going strong.
Yeah.
Your face.
What is it about it that's so hilarious to you?
Yeah, speak.
Speak on that, his face.
Please speak on his face.
I would cast you as a man.
Yeah, you said it.
My face should be a TV show. No. Your face should be a TV show. Yeah speak on his face. I would cast you as a man. Yeah, you said my face should be a TV show.
No, your face should be
a TV show. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You're the fiancé in a movie.
Yes. And you wear long
boots up to your knee and you're always
you're hunting fox.
You're always hunting fox and she's like
I love him. He comes from a good bloodline.
Who's she? Who plays her?
Let me stop you. Frame comes from a good bloodline. Who's she? Who plays her? Let me stop you.
Frame it as a question.
Would you hunt fox?
Yes, yes.
And wear long boots while a woman waits for you
and pines for you?
God, I would trust you with a bow and arrow,
is what I'm saying.
I would trust you to vanquish foes from some sort of, you know, castle.
How much?
How much?
Deal points.
What's the...
We're negotiating if you want to do this.
Are there any terms?
Oh, like back end?
That's something, yeah.
We'll give you 20 back end.
Okay. Out of back end. Okay.
Out of a million.
Okay.
Now, Pete, you said that you wanted to come on the show
to find a long-term girlfriend from our audience here.
Yeah, I was hoping to come to this bar and leave with a long-term love.
Well, you were saying it's so hard for you as a comedian to meet a girl
who wants to attend other comedy shows
and that's your favorite thing to do.
Live podcast tapings, things like that.
Just looking for a girl that I can go to
a lot of live podcast tapings.
Yes.
Someone who is willing to pay for something
and travel to it
when they have also the option to listen for free at home.
That is my kind of girl.
Easily confused.
Frightened.
And open.
Does anyone want to be Pete's long-term girlfriend?
I like that this room is set up so that there's no seats in the front.
As if there's a mosh pit that's going to happen.
And everybody has to stand in the back like we're in a bus teetering off a cliff.
Like, get to the back!
Lest we all die.
That's number one rule of live performing.
I know this is your first live podcast.
Keep the audience the fuck away from you.
You don't want to feel their energy.
You don't want to hear them.
You sure as shit don't want to see them.
I will say we did clear a big path
to the stage, anticipating
that when we asked if people wanted to be your
girlfriend, we would
get at least one
person who would say yes
and run up to the stage.
We wanted room. We didn't want anyone to get sort of crushed
up against the stage, So we left some space.
We had the fireman in here.
Yeah.
To make sure it was okay.
I'm not Minuto.
Yeah.
That's a good reference.
That's a sweet reference.
Speak on making references and funniness.
When you make a reference, you're rewarding an audience for listening and watching other things.
They say,
I know that. Right.
A comedian can make a reference to his own act,
which is called a callback. Yes, like the sting one I made earlier that you didn't catch.
No, I didn't hear it. How many
beagles do you own?
Do I smell like beagles? No, no, no.
I bet you smell like cedar. I'm not close
enough. But I bet you
smell great and you keep a journal
and like a soft leather diary.
Featherbed, canopy, always eating.
These are all nice things.
I don't see what's so funny about it.
I don't see what's so embarrassing about owning nice things.
That's one of the things that you can do with some of that money that we talk about.
Oh, I was talking about rents.
Oh, it's so funny to spend money on luxury goods.
Or to write down your memories in a nice journal.
Yeah.
So you can reflect on them.
I'm so cool because I go around just forgetting my memories.
Yeah.
Instagram.
Right?
I mean, that's what they do.
That is.
It is. Yes, it's all on computers now That is, it is all, it's, yes,
it's all on computers now. Yes, it's all
computers, and you know what? Speak on that. And when the grid
goes down, Pete, that
leather journal's gonna seem like a pretty sharp idea.
What do you think about
all these computers, Pete?
I mean,
I feel like movies can predict the
future, and ever since the 80s,
we've been making movies about robots taking us over,
so that's definitely going to happen.
And aren't they too small?
Like some of these iPods, are they getting too small?
It's like, cool, you can fit songs in there,
but I'm losing the freaking thing.
I know.
It's like stuck in my sheets or something.
I mean, honestly.
And I can't necessarily trust my cleaning lady.
So, you know.
She's a klutz.
You're saying because of Apple, more cleaning ladies are being fired
because you're just losing your iPod, but you're blaming your untrustworthy cleaning lady.
That's a take, yeah.
I think that is what I said.
I'm pro-computer.
Will you back up your mind if you're able to in 2054?
What?
Well, I know what that means, but tell everyone else.
We love science.
Some of these people might not know, and I read science books.
We're nuts for science.
We read so much science books, and clearly you do too.
Tell them about some of the science we all understand.
Well, they say in around 2054, you'll be able to back up your own consciousness.
Exactly.
Yes, you will.
So just as preposterous as it seems to not back up your phone,
people will be like, back in the 2014s,
people used to just walk around with only one consciousness.
Yeah.
Are you going to do it?
In Google class.
No, that's another thing.
It sure is.
Those are...
Have you seen some of these helicopters now?
You guys are just naming technologies.
Different existing technologies.
This song means it's time for the Popcorn Gallery.
Popcorn Gallery, it's time for it now.
The Popcorn Gallery, you explain it and I will sing the song.
So, uh, Pete,
we do a segment on this show
called the popcorn gallery.
It's about movies
and the movies are the reason
it's called the popcorn gallery.
When a group of people asks questions or chimes in,
but they're not part of the main event,
they're sometimes called the peanut gallery.
But when you go to movies,
movies doesn't have peanuts, right, Pete?
A lot of times you're eating popcorn.
Popcorn.
And so we call it the Popcorn Gallery, and we get questions for the guests from the...
And I feel like the song part of it is...
Yeah, I feel like we've done the song part of it.
Are we going back through the song?
It never really stopped.
He stopped and I just kept it going.
And that can be fun.
Let's get a question from the audience for Pete Holmes.
Let's get a question from the popcorn gallery.
And that's you guys.
That's what it is?
Does anyone have a question?
Does anyone have a question for Pete Holmes?
Oh, yes. Good. Thank you. Yes. what it is. Does anyone have a question? Does anyone have a question for Pete Holmes? Oh, yes. Good.
Thank you. Yes. Hello, sir.
Hi. What was it like?
How did you meet Conan and what was it like
working with Conan? What was it like working
with Conan? How did you meet Conan and
what was it like? What was it like? What was it
like meeting Conan and how did you like
meeting Conan?
Well, I
met Conan in court because I
was suing TBS.
Rigging my
home against my will with
cameras and an audience.
The courtroom is the new golf course, isn't it, Pete?
I mean,
that's where a lot of these deals get made.
We're all just suing each other and
hanging out in the waiting room
and trying to get on a good jury.
When you're going to court to get on a jury.
Well, I'm there anyway,
and so I just throw my name in there and go,
ooh, maybe I can get a good movie idea
from a scandalous trial.
That hot coffee lady?
Spill the coffee?
Yes.
Burn herself?
Coffee was too hot?
Yep, yep.
Allison Janney And that's how she got started
From mom
Yeah, I didn't get the Leary
I call references Leary's
Because Dennis Leary is the star of the movie The Ref
I didn't get the Leary
In itself a reference.
Yeah, yeah.
It's an uribus.
What do you think about that round of applause you got?
I've built a career on the spattering.
Yeah.
That's the name of my autobiography.
I've built a career on a spattering.
Mmm, yes.
I feel like you should be in the woods
hanging up wanted posters for Robin Hood
well he was a thief
I don't understand why people are going around
acting like he's this
some sort of hero
he stole from people
he gave it away
that's how you become loved
but he took it from people who had actually earned it when I'm doing my money, it's like I actually got paid that money so nobody's you know
Necessarily writing a tune about me
Did they have tunes about Robin Hood? Oh, baby. Yes. Yes, you bet. That's how we know about it
It all traveled through song back then
Oral history moral tradition. Yeah, Sean knows about that. He's one eighth new. I'm one eighth Native American It all traveled through song back then It was an oral history Moral tradition, yeah
Sean knows about that, he's 1 8th Native American
I'm 1 8th Native American, yeah
That song sounded Native American
Yes
Okay, well don't do it in front of me
You know, I am
I am one of these guys
That wasn't offensive
Oh, come on
I'll tell you if I'm offended Oh, come on. Let him decide if it's offensive. I'll tell you if I'm offended.
Oh, come on.
I don't sound like that.
Give me a break.
What is your tribe?
Where do your native...
Oh, it's one of the biggest ones, yeah.
Yeah.
One of the bigger ones.
Cherokee or...
Yeah.
It's the one with the arrows.
Yeah, they used arrows
and they would
Navajo
yeah
and they loved
you know
nature
buffalo pieces
yeah they were
yes
and it was a big
really big tribe
a deep rich
mythology
yeah
feather headdress
and uh
you know
you know
they were doing
a lot of stuff with the earth their headdress and, uh, you know, they're doing, uh,
a lot of stuff with the earth.
Let's get another question.
What we forgot to do, we have to reach
into the bag, we have to play the sound drop where we reach
into the bag to get the popcorn questions.
Oh, that's right. We did forget to do that.
Brett, do you have that sound drop
for us? Brett, play the sound drop.
In the popcorn.
Oh, it's a Sting CD.
So I think what happened there is our friend Mark,
who records these sound drops for us,
my friend from high school,
was rooting around in a popcorn bag
and found a Sting CD.
Sweet leery.
The sound drops are getting increasingly referential
to the content of the show
as it's going.
What it sounded like in that case
is he was trying to do one of those callbacks
he heard about from earlier in the show.
He was trying to get in on that
but not fully understanding how it works.
Not really knowing how it works, yeah.
Yeah.
He's a nice guy.
So anyway, that was that sound drop.
Yeah.
Let's get a question from...
Brett?
Brett?
Brett?
Brett?
Is he in the room?
Brett?
Engineer Brett?
Cody?
Engineer Cody?
Brett's out back.
Could you go get him?
Our engineer
went outside.
Oh, hi, Cody.
Oh, my God.
No, Cody, Cody, Cody, Cody, Cody,
Cody, Cody, Cody, Cody, Cody.
Cody?
Cody? How are we for time?
How are we doing on time?
That's what's left?
Then do we start?
Each one more fiendish than the last.
You don't look like you're on vacation.
You look like you're hard at work painting a house.
Look at the rope of chocolate he has on his shorts.
And Cody, when we send you to get break, you go around.
You don't have to go over the stage.
You go around outside.
And Cody, I hope that house comes out nice.
That's great.
That is just primo.
Is there another question for Pete Holmes?
Oh, yes.
Do we have one more question?
It is difficult.
Oh, yes.
Thank you.
Have you ever gotten any responses from Marvel
about your X-Men sense?
Okay, so the question is,
have you been talking to Marvel or anything?
Have they been talking to you about the X-Men stuff?
Nope.
I mean, what do you got to do
to get the attention of big Marvel?
You know what I'm saying?
Do you love that stuff like we do?
We're such huge nerds for that,
and we'll just nerd out right now.
Oh, gosh.
You guys are big nerds.
Oh, huge.
Oh, huge.
It may not look like it, but really.
Yeah, it's confusing,
because that just seems like that's very in vogue,
and maybe you guys are kind of monopolizing on a trend.
No, we love all the X-Men.
We love the big monster.
I hope you're having a joke on us,
because we absolutely love the X-Men and some of the Avenger men, too.
You love the Avenger men?
Yes, the ones...
Name one Avenger.
Oh, please.
You don't want to tangle with me on this kind of thing.
We'll be here all night if I start naming them
because there's so many that I know
now
isn't it
fun to nerd out and isn't it not fair
that bullies picked on nerds and now
aren't we in charge
yeah
could you speak on that Pete I mean yeah we were just shoved into lockers and i had a lot of
sand kicked in my face i had my comic books uh stripped from me and now i own a volkswagen golf
so fuck you with your white baseball hat that says Cox.
What does that mean?
Yeah, it's USC.
It's Gamecocks.
Yeah, USC Gamecocks.
So you guys knew that?
It's a college football team.
You knew that right away.
And that just makes you further suspect.
Well, if I say Tony Stark, who is that?
Oh, gosh, Tony.
Well, he is Tony, yeah. He is in
the movies.
He's in the movies.
And he is
a fighter.
Yup, it's true.
And you don't want to get a big punch from him.
No, you don't.
Bad guys, look out.
You said you liked the big monster.
Yeah.
Ian X-Men?
Yep.
The Big One.
Yeah.
Do you not know it?
I thought you said you liked comics, Pete.
I never did.
Oh.
That's why I only talk on podcasts, so you can
prove it. That's a lesson I've
learned the hard way. Find where I said
I liked comic books. Speak on that.
You can't
trust. What was the hard way you learned? Talk about that
experience you had. I was talking to Don Cheadle
and I kept
saying, you should do
Cheetos commercials
and say, I'm Don Cheeto.
Cheeto.
I love Don Cheetos.
Yeah.
Cheetos.
So it's a new kind of Cheetos for toddlers
because they call them Cheetos.
So he's like, hey, are you tired of these grown-up Cheetos?
And the toddler's like, over here, I am.
He's like, have some Don Cheetos.
Yeah.
And, like, I gave him that idea,
and then like, he totally didn't use it.
So that's why I only speak to recordings.
I think you understand what I'm saying.
Sure, that definitely connects, yes.
Yeah.
If I hadn't, if I had recorded it,
I would have been able to sell the idea.
And that's what it's about.
Pete!
What was that movie with Brendan Fraser?
Where he lives in a time capsule for a long time.
And then ends up in the present day.
Yeah, like Blast from the Past.
Blast from the Past!
Is that what it is?
Yes, thank you.
It's not a good title.
I need to make a phone call real fast.
Sorry.
You guys keep going.
Um...
Pete, what was the movie?
It's Brendan Fraser.
And he's...
Hello?
There's like animals...
Blast from the past.
There's like animals attacking him or something.
It's too late.
There's animals attacking him?
Yeah, there's...
The animals are mean and he's mad at them.
Could it be the mummy that you're talking about?
The mummy.
That was it.
There's some animals.
What is...
Are you making a phone call now?
Keep going.
Yeah.
Mummies, huh?
Is that about the scariest thing you've ever seen in your life, or what?
The movie The Mummy?
Or any mummy.
He thinks it's the mummy.
I'm not afraid of mummies or zombies.
Anything that looks like a good whack with a shovel.
Yeah, right.
Imagine a mummy were coming right up on you, and he was
attacking you, and you had no
defense, you had no weapons.
Imagine if you had no weapons and you wouldn't be
scared. Yeah, right.
Thank you, Just In Time.
Did you hear that?
Was that the movie? It was called Just In Time,
not Blast From The Past?
He said that if he saw a mummy, he wouldn't even be scared even if it was coming right up on him and he had no weapons.
I never said that.
That is what he said.
That is what he said.
That is what he said.
Okay, let me get this straight.
He didn't say that.
Okay, you're here, mummy's here, coming at you.
He's coming right up at you.
Oh, and he sees you.
And he's coming at you.
And you got no weapons.
And not even like a rock, which is not necessarily a weapon, but you could use it as one.
You got none.
And you're not scared?
Hmm.
Yeah, right.
Forgive me, Pete, but that's a yeah, right for me.
I'm sorry.
Is this a way for you to try to attract a girlfriend finally from this audience?
That I'm not afraid of mummies?
Yeah, being brave.
I find that women get real excited when you say that you're not afraid of mummies.
Well, I don't...
Yeah, not really working tonight.
I don't think they're attracted to lies.
And honestly, you saying that you're not afraid of mummies,
I mean, that's about as crazy as you saying you're not afraid of a Frankenstein or a Skellington.
I know, a Skellington.
A Franken...
Speak on that.
Speak on that.
A Frankenstein?
Frankenstein or a Skellington.
A Frankenstein, yes.
I mean, and bear in mind, you've got no weapons when these guys are coming at you.
Sketch idea, win Frankenstein's money.
Thank you so much for that.
It's been so much fun.
If I tweet sketch idea colon win Frankenstein's money, how many faves before I leave the stage?
Do you want to find out?
Yeah.
Okay.
Little game. Do you do like find out? Yeah. Okay. A little game.
Do you do, like,
something at the end?
Yes.
Oh, subscribe to the podcast
on iTunes and Reyes
and Hayes.
Could you take it from here?
Yes.
You buy the pro version
of our podcast as well.
It's very fairly priced
and you get a lot of bonus features,
discounted tickets to the next live show,
lots of great information,
and Betsy from the audience got the...
She bought the pro version this week.
She slipped us...
You couldn't see it,
but she slipped us some cash
and her prize is a behind-the-scenes peek
at Pete Holmes' Twitter account and she's
going to get to see how many faves he gets.
Yeah.
And she also gets an answering machine message recorded by Pete Holmes.
Yeah.
For who?
Betsy.
Hey, Betsy.
But, hold on.
It's one of those gag ones.
It's one of those gag ones. It's one of those gag ones.
Hey Betsy, just kidding. It's your answering machine.
That's so fucking foot-tested.
That's so weird.
If I heard that, honestly,
I'm hanging up.
I'm hanging up if I hear that.
There's no Sal in here.
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