Whiskey Ginger with Andrew Santino - Ashley Benson

Episode Date: September 4, 2020

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Ginger. I like gingers. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Whiskey Ginger. My guest today is one of my favorite people on earth. I say that for all my guests, but I mean it once again today. It's Ashley Benson. Ashley. Hello. Cheers. Cheers. Clink. You're gonna keep the glass. Oh yeah, I'm keeping the glass, but you have to go down.

No, no. See, I don't go down. I was told that if you don't go down the glass we have to go down no no you see i don't go down i was told that i never go down i never go down no i always i always you're supposed to take you make eye contact i always go up oh yeah so my guy got down here that's good luck i'll have better sex though because i went down and you didn't like the eye contact doesn't really mean that much better sex for who though do you know what i mean if you don't go down if i don't go down and you go down that's on you that's all your shit that's that's on you not me wait but you always tap do you always tap no i just recently learned this like the past like six months that you that i learned in europe so i was like in paris and everyone's like you have to go down i was like

all right that was eye contact thing but now i i get it wait a minute when you were when you were in paris were you living there? I wish. Last time I saw you though, you were going to London and then Paris to do like a campaign. Uh-huh. And you said you were going to stay for a while. I was supposed to stay. I was going to be shooting there for like six months.

And then that didn't, it just didn't work out. So I was really excited to do that. But shit happens shit happens but dude i want to be in europe right now are you kidding me we can't even get there which sucks i know i know you can you can get on david geffen's yacht you can get on the yacht dude can you get yourself on the yacht i'll make a couple calls yeah make some phone calls i'll call some dudes let me call kanye and see if you can get us on the yacht um wait actually that's a good question if you could be anywhere in the world right now during the pandemic where would you

want to be i would i wouldn't i think i'd want to be in italy i don't know italy is my literally my one of my top i talk about it on this show way too much but i think i had when we went to sicily a couple years ago was the most fun time i've ever had in my life in my life i'm serious rented mopeds yeah it's amazing got wasted went all over the place found myself at like random beaches we didn't belong at ate dinner at someone's house it was so cool it's so nice just as like it's you just they feel they make you make it feel like uh they live like that all the time and i assume they do it's just so free and fun and loose and i don't know people's people's attitudes towards things are so different

there here we're much more um pressed for time and annoyed and angry and i feel like there they just don't really give a shit and you can't they can't during the day they chill they drink wine all day long like and like you said like you went to someone's house for dinner you can meet someone on the street and they'll literally invite you over it's what we have like a fucking amazing like pasta and like all the wine. It's just Tuesday for them. Yeah. It's every day for them.

I know. It's casual. If I could be anywhere though in the world right now, I think I'd be in like the Maldives or something. Or like Bali. Bali. I'd want like if I was going to be trapped somewhere. I've been to Maldives.

Yeah. You've been to Maldives? So nice. That's where I think I'd be trapped right now during the pandemic I feel like if I was gonna be totally stuck somewhere might as well be on an island yeah baby

we're not doing we're not working we're not doing anything are you do you have stuff in the can that's gonna come out during Pandy I have one

well not well I mean fuck who knows how long it's gonna go on for I have one film I finished called The Birthday Cake that will be coming out we're supposed to do like toronto film festival all that stuff but who knows with all that yeah um

we'll see when it comes out but i have like four things lined up that i'm gonna do just kind of depends on this whole thing yeah i know i just wrote like um i just wrote two films um and one of them i hope is going because it's based off the pandemic and like the situation yeah and um i got like super stoned one day and just had this idea can you want to share it or no don't share all right fine because it's really good and like i'm gonna try i my my goal is to film it end of september um and everyone's quarantined and like the whole thing but it is but it is based off of how we're living

right now and yeah it's interesting there's three people in the cast and it's really fucking good can you tell me

who's in it can you at least do that no come on no come on it's good it's really fucking good

it's cool but once that's like locked down and ready to go I can come on here again and tell you then you'll leak it back out to me yeah okay that's so funny that and ready to go, I can come on here again and tell you.

Then you'll leak it back out to me? Yeah. Okay. That's so funny that you wrote two movies during the pandemic. I couldn't even finish one TV show. We're doing like one TV pitch. I couldn't. My brain has felt so stinted.

Like you don't feel creatively stinted at all? I feel like I'm just kind of stuck a little bit. Yeah, I mean, I feel like every day is just like Groundhog's Day over and over. It's like, what do I do today? Okay, I'll get up, do this, do that, make up some work that I don't have. I do that.

I fake it all the time. Oh, I got so much stuff. I just talk to myself in the mirror and do scenes that I don't have to. Do you? It's going to be a day. You sing in the mirror. I do a whole musical.

I'm like, I've done so much. I've accomplished so much by just like doing a full musical by myself in a room. It's better than not. It's better than not doing a full musical though, right? You're making some effort. I'm, you know, and look, I'll start taping them and just be like, hey, I'm available to hire.

This is my self tape. It's fine. Yeah. I'm ready to go. This is my self tape. This is my self tape for every movie. Doesn't even matter if it's a drama. This is my self tape.

Do you want to, what do you want to, what do you want to start doing more of career wise people that if people at home that are listening that have no familiarity with you fuck you just kidding no you can't fuck you you should you should know you definitely should not what's the what what what to you would be the thing you want to be known for um right at this point. Damn. What are you the most proud of? I don't know. I mean, my favorite thing that I've done, the few things that I've done that I've really liked,

one of them mostly being Spring Breakers, just to work with Harmony. That was incredible. And I kind of want to go more in that lane, just film-wise. Turning off my phone, sorry. I did another one called her smell with alex ross perry elizabeth moss starred in it she's incredible um and i just finished one uh called the birthday cake and that was like ewan mcgregor val kilmer don't know any of those people never

heard of him me neither i was like ewan mcgregor and val kilmer so fun how's val kilmer so i didn't get to work with him but i just saw the trailer and um it was nuts like this is first acting role since everything happened yeah and it's crazy i mean he's so fucking good in it like he's so good and he's so dope man that dude is such a cool legend you know like it's yeah but you guys didn't have scenes together boomer major bummer. I know. Abuma. Abuma. But what I want to do, like, because essentially the other movie I wrote, I'm directing for the first time. Yeah, what's up, girl? So I want to go into directing as well as, like, doing everything else.

Sure. But, yeah, just producing, directing, writing things, and just kind of making my own films and, like, you know, limited series for myself. Because even, like like given the time it's going to be so hard for anything to be made at this point now like currently um so yeah just kind of putting all of my creativity in like different kind of areas and seeing how i can do it but it's worked out well so far um we just have to start working yeah production that's what i'm worried about i keep going back to like i just want to start working yeah production that's what i'm worried about i keep

going back to like i just want to get back to the place where i feel like we can be um we can be like in a schedule again i feel like everyone's kind of angry right now because no one has a schedule and everyone's just like annoyed that they're they're in our business specifically everyone's annoyed that they can't get like back on track so tensions feel higher for some reason always like everyone i'm talking to is just like an ad everyone's an attitude yeah everyone's annoyed you're like all right well then i won't call you anymore i just got i told i told i told uh alex he was hearing before this i got into a fight with me and bobby lee got into a fight because our agents are disagreeing on something and they're not communicating and it's like we're just trying to get something done but

everyone's just angry at each other and not listening yeah we're just fighting so it's never gonna happen we're just gonna fight for the next we'll just fight this until it goes away it's that's been my whole life lately is fighting it's so funny because like when you are working you're so lucky to be working and like the schedules are fucking brutal like the fucking hours are just like god damn like i have no time to sleep i'm over it but you have the best time it's what you do it's what you love and then the second you get time off you're like damn i want to go back to work i want to be working it's like one day you're like fuck but now it's been five months like yeah we're done i'm ready to get back i'm ready i'm ready to get back and not complain one for three years at least a year give it give it two hours i think i'll give it one i give it a half a season and be like i'm out of

here dude this is so annoying well because I'm supposed to film this FX show again hopefully in November I think but I just my money

if I'm a betting man if Vegas was taking money I would say not till February January or February I think that's realistically when everything's going to get back to normal

but a lot of my friends who are on shows right now are starting like in September I know but that's well are they shooting in LA? No. No.

See, Canada. I heard Australia is shooting a lot. I was with a dude the other day who's, two of his close friends are shooting a movie together in Austria or something. It's like, if they can get there, if they could get you there early and they quarantined you and they're shooting with local. Yeah, you're fine. But now that we keep going back and forth.

Anyway, whatever. But during the break, did you put something up on the internet? Are you moving? Are you moving somewhere? I bought a house. Yeah. You're moving? No, here.

This is like, how many, haven't you bought nine houses here? You've moved like six times since I've known you. No, I know. That's the thing. So like, well, A, my like, I mean, I guess now I have residents like here in New York, but like my main spot was in New York for the last four years. Yeah, for a long time you were there. And I had a house here, but like I just never came here and didn't want to move back.

And like, I'm really bummed because I want to go to New York really badly. Where's your place in Manhattan? Yeah, in East Village. Oh, the village. I was going to guess Soho, but I'm wrong. So I was in Soho first, then I moved to downtown, and then I bought a place in the East Village.

And I love New York. I miss it so much. I miss the energy. I miss walking around everywhere. Can't do it now anyway. What's the difference? Well, and that's the thing, too. It's like all my friends who live there, everything's open, everything's out on the streets, the streets are blocked off. What's the difference? Well, and that's the thing too. It's like all my friends who live there, everything's open. Everything's out on the streets. The streets are blocked off.

Come. God forbid something happens. I don't want to be stuck. And I also don't want to get on a plane right now. Yeah, I know. LA it is. Yeah, you're stuck here. And it's nice to be here though.

Because you can be in your house all day and not feel closed off. No, look, it's a great place to be trapped. If you're going to be trapped, it's not bad. The weather's fine. I've been just... It's so fucking hot though. Yeah, it's been too hot. I went to be trapped if you're gonna be trapped it's not bad the weather's fine I've been just it's so fucking hot though yeah it's been too hot I went to this place

called ghost town the other day and it's about three hours north by Ojai no that's too far no like past death valley oh okay

and it's this like random place and it's just a bunch of shacks and like these old houses and when you go there you think you're like no one would ever be able to find where this place is it's in the middle of nowhere like

you go through the mountains and like you're just encircled like with just shit it was terrifying it was so hot and they're like it's gonna be really cold like great like escape the heat it's like 112 but at night was when you wake up at night it was it wasn't bad but then driving back so i had to go back um last minute like really quick for work and we were driving and the tire like blew out in the middle of nowhere and like on your car or no so i had i had um someone pick me up to drive me back and LA. And because of the streets and the roads, it was all dirt and rocks going up to pick me up. When we were on the highway, the entire tire was fucked.

So we were there for an hour and a half. They were like, no one can come for four hours because I'm 50 miles north south, of any gas station. There's nothing there. So I get out of the car, and I try it. I was like, oh, let me see if I can hitchhike. Would never do it, but I was just like, let's see how good people are right now.

What a bad idea. Let's just see. I have my mask on. Let's see how I can get murdered. But let's just see if people actually do this, because I've never been in that situation. I was like, let's fuck around with it. Let's see.

One movie I'm doing that I wrote is kind of based on that like very small town middle of nowhere kind of like trash girl and i was like hey let me do some character research i called my producers i was like should i start like just filming random shit yeah they're like yeah like do it sure so i kind of use that as just another thing to be like oh i'm working right now i got stuck on the side of the road but i am working on my film did you did you hitchhike no no of course but i got picked up on a tow truck and then he drove me the whole way back to l.a it was crazy and then we stopped at mcdonald's like what'd you get i got i got a lot i got a chicken sandwich um two fries cheeseburger big mac chicken nuggets a frappuccino.

How high were you? I wish I was high. I was like, I wish I was higher drunk. That's such a pothead order where you're like, chicken, beef. But I was like, bro, I don't know when, you know. You don't know when you're going to eat again. Who knows? Who knows?

I could die right now. Could you imagine, by the way, hitchhiking? My last meal going out is McDonald's. Fuck yeah. Yeah, that's a good way to go out. I always go breakfast whenever I'm there, every single time. I've never, okay, so I haven't done their breakfast in so long. I haven't tried the little pancake sandwiches. It's the reason I's. Fuck yeah. Yeah, that's a good way to go out. I always go breakfast whenever I'm there. Every single time. I've never, okay, so I haven't done their breakfast in so long.

I haven't tried the little pancake sandwiches. It's the reason I go. Come on, the McGriddles? No, I've never had it. Wake up. We have to go. Those are the best.

Let's go. They're so good, it's unreal. You feel your heart slow down. Like you feel your blood get thick. It's the most unhealthy, delicious shit.

I can't, there's one, there's stuff that I can't give up in my life. It's pop that I can't give up in my life. It's pop. I can't give up Coke and McDonald's. If someone was like, I smoked for years, years and years ago before we ever knew each other. I quit smoking and I'll probably never smoke again.

That was easy to quit. I pretty much have put off things that I go, oh, if it's bad for me, I should slow down. I can't eat that anymore, whatever. I can't get rid of Coke and I can't get rid of mcdonald's it's impossible i mean it's pretty it's pretty impossible it's the thing that's like when i'm really bummed out i want it when i'm really hung over i want it it's like if those two moments are in my life i need mcdonald's it's hard yeah now we're gonna shoot to a mcdonald's ad right now how How funny. Zooms in, zooms out. No, but like, to be honest,

it's like, even in this pandemic, okay, first of all, no one's really going to restaurants. People are cooking. To go.

A lot of to go. It's all fast food and then I'm like, damn, what is, I want to know how much money liquor companies have made,

cigarettes, drugs, all that shit. I mean, there's nothing new. You're just at home every day. People- I can tell you, liquor put out, there was a report that I saw. It's crazy. 276% increase in liquor intake.

It's crazy. Yeah, it must be awesome. We should've bought stock in booze before the pandy because we're so rich right now. Because people, well well liquor was deemed essential right liquor stores were deemed essential yeah and you couldn't close gas stations because for jobs and communication so people need to travel and get to their work so you can't close down these things so people are going to eat and drink and go get gas and cigarettes and booze at

the gas station of their local stores and that's it that's the only thing that never stopped yeah that's like the only thing that was consistent at least in my neighborhood too the weed stores weed stores never closed oh weed stores well can't close them down do you do ease what's ease oh my god okay so i do this because you know i love to smoke weed like to go to bed or have an edible it's great go to bed or wake up or hang out or you know you know wake and bake hang it whenever really and like also for me if i'm writing i i have to get high for me if I'm writing I have to get high like that's just it's nice to get high

and write yeah it's really nice like with my two like partners and it's not like getting blitz of our minds but you know smoke some weed

then you're like holy shit like this works yes this is a cool idea or afterwards you're like that was a terrible idea

it's either good or oh my god why did we the zucchinis talking in this scene that can't be we have to wipe that out no that that is actually like yeah pretty spot on yeah yeah but um no yeah i mean so ease is this whole thing it's online they come to you within an hour ease yeah e-a-E. Okay. And you just pay them cash because they don't do credit cards. But anything you want, anything you want, it's all there on this website. And they just come to you, deliver it.

I get it like once a week. Gummies, like even they have like bath bombs. They have like every kind of like pre-rolls. Bath bombs? Yeah, everything. I've never heard of that. Then they have oils. They have like crazy shit.

And I've just been doing that because I'm like, I don't even want to go to a weed store. So a friend of mine is where I get anything I've ever needed from. Which one do you go to? No, my friend. I'm saying he literally has, yes, my buddy.

So he runs a company and anything I've ever needed, I just ask him for it. So like I haven't been to a weed store in quite a long time. So if I'm like, like lately I hurt my back um pretty bad my neck really really bad and i'm trying to go to physical therapy for it and that's weird because of what's going on

how does that even work out not it doesn't that's the problem i keep rescheduling stuff because i'm scared and then um i was like hey i i wanted to um i want to do like uh uh weed and cbd but with also like relief stuff like balm and he gave me this stuff and I swear to God in my life it's changed my life I know I sound like one of those people

selling an infomercial I put it on twice a day and it changes my like my neck gets looser again I'm not in pain early in the morning because I just don't want to take pills

like my doctor was like do you want to take do you want to take pills and I don't take anything I don't take I don't even take Advil when I get a headache so I was like no you want to take you want to take pills and I don't take anything I don't take I don't even take Advil when I get a headache so I was like no yeah I haven't yeah I don't want pills I just don't like them unless it's like Molly and you know it's a totally different story but then it's like no but I just don't want to take like Vicodin or I don't want

to take no dude I've never I don't I got like a really heavy surgery when I was 14 that's the only time I've ever had Vicodin and then my wisdom teeth out but did you like vicodin some people love it i don't remember some people hate it i was so young see i remember how much i hated it if i tried it now and i felt away i just can't even try it yeah you gotta get away from that and not that i would ever like do it but like you know like it's like oh all right easy to get hooked i tore ligaments in my leg and i was on vicodin i'm just too scared to try it i was like what if something happened yeah see that was my fear what if i'm allergic to it or yeah yeah and that's the thing too like i'm such a hypochondriac

anything i put in my body i'm like but what if like weed i know i'm fine yeah but then you have those scares like the other night i was watching this really fucking heavy movie. And I was smoking a joint. And then I had like a full like weed gummy. And I usually do like halves. I was like, eh, you know, I'm just going to go sleep. Let's go all in. But it was the high that like you never want. And I've had it a couple times.

Like you feel you're actually dying. Yep. And I'm in bed and I'm like, I was like, i i am about to die so i'm just gonna just tell you like this is crazy and you always know like i was one of my best friends when it happened to her and she was just like you know when you're just laying there and it's always like you just yeah you can't stop moving yeah yeah it's like i'm moving because i probably can't breathe or i feel like i'm gonna die so i'm just trying to adjust right how i feel my body because you think if you keep shifting yeah yeah yeah but it's like I'm moving because I probably can't breathe or I feel like I'm gonna die so I'm just trying to adjust

right how I feel my body yeah because you think if you keep shifting your body weight you're alive yeah you're alive

right so I just start doing this they're like are you good I'm like to be honest I'm not at all no

I think I'm gonna die no I'm having a terrible time right now I wanna get in a spaceship and leave everybody yeah I was in

we were in Phoenix me and a guy that was opening for me on the road and we smoked a joint but I finished it. Like we take, he take a couple hits

and I just kept smoking it on the way to the gas station. I didn't need to. There was no need and it had hash oil on it. I love hash. It's great but it was hash oil

and I smoked the whole thing and it just, some things just hit you away. It hit me a type of way and on the way home, I was checking the pulse, touching my neck. I was getting really sweaty palms,

and then I was like, all right, man, good night, and he was like, you're gonna go to bed? It's like 11, and I was like, dude, we got an early day. He's like, we're doing nothing.

We have nothing, and finally I was like, dude, I am so high, I need to lay down. He was like, oh, you're good, dude. Come hang out. So I go sit on the was like oh you're good dude like come hang out so I go sit on the couch and it was good for like

that's what's really annoying is when you when you level out and you're like okay it was good for like 10 minutes and then it spiked again in my head the worst

where I was like no and I went into the room and I sat in bed for two hours watching like just old movies until finally

it just you know when it finally settles like the dust settles then you feel good then you're like okay damn I actually go to sleep you know i can go to bed eric the farrier yeah yeah a good buddy of ours one of one of our best friends um i'll never forget he was we were in new york because he used to live in new york at the time and he just got super high yeah and i called him i was about to come over to his house. And I just like have a couple of drinks. Like do whatever. And he was like, I was like, hello.

He's like, I'm really high right now. I'm really high right now. I don't know what to do. Like FaceTime me. He can barely look. I'm like, are you okay? He's like, I got to tell you. I'm like, I can't even eat.

I can't eat. It's not supposed to fix it. I was like, no. Did you take edibles? He goes, yup. Yeah. like i can't even eat i can't eat it's not supposed to fix it i was like no did you take edibles he goes yep yeah it's like edibles nothing will fix your high on an edible if you eat in my opinion yeah it just makes you feel like you're still gonna die if you smoke weed from a joint or whatever you can eat and i feel like i'm completely normal no i'm always fine off a joint edibles do a different thing for me. It's the body high.

It's the body thing that messes me up worse. And then the heart palpitations. And I'm like, am I making this up in my head? Or is this really happening to me? I've called 911 before off of- No! Oh, yeah. What did you say?

I think I'm dying. That's the first thing they hear. Because when I would open my eyes, my eyes would roll back in my head. But it was just because mentally, you just tell yourself that that's what's happening. Right. Well, you're not really dying, but also you're inducing more panic. You can possibly die of a weed overdose from anxiety and panic.

I think if you could. You can get yourself to a heart attack. You could probably have a heart attack. Yeah. You probably have a heart attack from stress and stress and pressure on your heart for sure. But also I think the chances are probably unbearably slim have you ever done mushrooms a bunch those are my favorite if i was ever i'm terrified oh my god i did them can i give you something can i give you one a friend of ours makes mushroom

chocolates i that's right i did them on accident that they were like little um godiva chocolates because they were they look like godiva chocolates but they wrap in that wrapping paper just like you know hide or whatever fancy and i you know i had a little bit to drink and i was like okay i'm gonna have some chocolate i'm hungry yeah but i had three i've never done mushrooms in my whole life I lost my shit I thought I've never I can't I can't touch it

but everyone's like mushrooms are great it is great but that's because it was an unexpected high so the only reason I think that people have bad trips on mushrooms

is when it's like hits them out of the blue or they took way too much without knowing when you go in knowing what you're getting into it's the best my buddy got

my buddy had a bachelor party in January in New Orleans and we all took mushrooms and walked around and were drinking and hanging out and it was so nice i mean because you know what you're getting into on the chocolates or you can like so during the day if we took if we took like a half a half snap microdose yeah if we took a half snap of of a piece you wouldn't you wouldn't see much, but you'd feel a little wavy trippy, but you'd be more body trippy, like more like- But you're not like having a panic attack. No, I wasn't freaking out. No. I mean, but at night when we got really, really, really fucked

up, yeah, I mean, I would see stuff because we were out of our heads, but I mean, I knew it was coming. And I'd also done it, I don't know, maybe 15, 20 times in high school. And then in college, I mean, I don't know, a 20 times in high school and then in college i mean i don't know a thousand times and can you die from mushrooms no mushrooms is just basically food poisoning really it's just the the fungus interacts with you in a way that's like it's similar to how your body is trying to fight off food poisoning and i don't like throwing up either which i heard that you do throw up sometimes i never take too much i've never thrown up on chocolates ever but i've thrown up stems i've thrown up on you know i mean i never thrown up on chocolates, ever. But I've thrown up. It's just the stems.

I've thrown up on. No, I mean, I've thrown up on. I've thrown up when I've taken probably too much and it was foul. If it's really foul, it's the gag reflex too. Back in high school. Oh, I know. When you'd open it back. That immediate.

So we'd have to bury it in peanut butter or something. You should, let me get you something that'll be like a small dose that's the way you should do the venice chocolate is that what you're talking about i know that i've had those before that's like a big craze and i don't know how potent those are either i've never tried those ones but all my friends like those ones the venice yeah you know it's like a chick in venice that does all that and everybody knows this it's like comes from one person shut up i swear to god that's what's so funny i was like is this a company it's like no it's like one woman who makes all this chocolate for everybody like our own weed lines yes money on the side right now for pandemic well they or anything i mean it's gonna be hard and she has

mushrooms let's do acid i've never done benson santino acid i mean i would sell it and not do it okay just to make some money on the side i did it once and how was it for you acid's not my drug like yeah a lot of my friends really like acid but i just don't have any interest it's cool it's an interesting thing that i like that i tried but i i don't think i'll ever do it again it was not i don't i think i'm a guy the reason i like stuff like mushrooms or like weed is because like it's a super engaging drug like you can still it's like liquor the reason i love this is like we can drink we can talk you can still be a part of your world yeah acid for me personally was tough because i was super disconnected like i was really in my own little space and i was if someone was like

trying to talk to me i was like it was uncomfortable it was just like it was very like digitized and and i was like uh i don't want to talk i don't want to talk to you anymore i like i want social drugs me too i like social i like social drugs i don't want to be like in a corner having a panic attack like ketamine like i knew a guy in high school that loved ketamine he goes in a k-hole and they would see he'd sit and like stare at a pillow for like 40 minutes and like they can't speak or anything i'm like i don't know what's fun about that no i mean unless your head he's got to have him he's having fun up here, I imagine, but like. But then a zombie, like, to the real world. Right, right, right, right. You know what I mean?

I'm like, I always wonder, with that drug specifically, I'm always like, I wonder what is going on in their mind, because they seem, even though they can't talk or move or really do anything, they're having a great fucking time. Yeah, some people. If they like it that much, they wouldn't keep, you know, they wouldn't keep torturing themselves. It was such a bad high, even though they looked like they were about to die. They're like, woo. Yeah.

They're having some fun upstairs. Yeah. Yeah. And it's hard to understand. I'm like, I don't know what, I don't get it. No, I don't know. I just, I think social drugs have always been my, like, do you ever smoke or drink alone or do you always have to be with somebody when you're doing it? Oh no no no

No. I mean I don't really drink alone like I'll have a glass of wine or two or if I really want to I'll be like yeah fuck it like I'll like put on a movie and like do that. I'll smoke alone a lot. You will? Yeah. You prefer it? No I don't prefer it but like I also smoke I mean

I smoke all night when I'm sleeping. If I wake up i smoke weed just because it helps me go to sleep like my mind literally just goes so fast same that but now i just started the these like the wheat gummies i really like and i can't even remember what they are right now but they're watermelon like blueberry flavored they taste like the best candy you've ever had that's dangerous what if you would i... I would keep eating them. No, but I limit myself to a half. So I do a half.

And then I do it right before I go to bed. And if I wake up at like three in the morning, I take the other half and I'm out for the next five hours. It's great. Great sleep. Really? I can't do... I don't think I could do it.

I mean, I've weaned myself off of weed a little bit lately too. Or I would smoke weed. Yeah, see, I would rather just smoke. If I'm going to get back into doing it again, I would smoke. I'm going to have both on my bedside. So I'm like, or. So at any moment that you're ready to rock? I'm always like, okay, I'll either smoke a joint or I'll just take a little edible.

Right. It's just kind of how I'm feeling. I feel it. You know what? I never, I just reminded myself mentally about, I never told you this, but one of your castmates when you were on Pretty Little Liars, your cast mates when you were on pretty little liar well not when you were on the show her brother was my next door neighbor michael bellisario did i ever tell you that no he lived he lived literally next door to me and when i say next

door i mean like literally was next door to me and i would see him all the time i was just texting with him we just had um we had drinks the other night i love him so much yeah he's he's a really fun he's got he's got that huge uh that husky or whatever it is he's got that massive husky dog which is like sometimes dogs get to a size when i'm like that's not even manageable like it put it would pull him and you'd feel him like kind of fighting with the dog sometimes and he looked like he was not struggling but like putting up a fight what was the dog's name he always used to yell it in the hallways akita akia or something like that um one of the two i know the name but i've never met the dog sanita skidida kadida i don't know jamaica a room i don't know what it was but anyway it was so funny because i we never really got around to saying much to each

other in that regard we would always say hello but i wanted to say we had a friend in common but we never communicated it's so weird how like that's so you don't really you know your neighbors but you don't really know your neighbors you don't and like that's the thing like i just bought um this house which funny enough i just sold a house that i had bought like maybe a year ago you bought a house sold a house same time yeah no. No, no, no. I sold my old house, but then I just bought another house like back in April. And your house now is where at LAX? You're living right at the South terminal of LAX.

Yeah. I'm like, you know, whoever needs me again, like available for hire. I'm just on the runway. It's fine. She's on site.

She's out. She's right by the Southwest terminal too. If you need me, come find me. Why did you want to buy a new house why what was the um because you know

to be honest I was like I you know New York just didn't I've always wanted to live in New York and LA

yeah and um I just fell in love with this house and it was actually a cross street from my house that I had just sold

legit shut up yeah and then my three best friends are next door to me. Wait, what do you mean living in different houses next door to you? We're all in one community

and we're all like directly beside each other. So like people I've known since I was 10 years old are my next door neighbors. The person that you bought the house from, did you know they were dipping? Is that where you were like,

I'm buying this? No. So I randomly called my friend who lives in that neighborhood. And I was like, hey, I want to buy a house, but I only want to buy in a certain area that's secure, like a gated community kind of thing. And she was like, dude, just fucking see. And I looked randomly that day, went within the hour, and then just said, yeah coincidence that's insane got it which i didn't think i would right and then it was just everything was kind of meant to be at that point right but um

i just always know i want to live in that area and then just have best friends live across for me and just feel safe and like chill and like yeah you get to like living like it's like what if you were in high school and you know when you're in high school and you're like we'll all live next to each other one day

it's like this idea but you're really doing it it's a grown up sleepover but you just go from house to house and that's the other thing too that's fun is because we don't really have to go to like

bars or anything we just sure drink at home our people is it open door policy with us yeah thousand percent no one's like have to go to like bars or anything we just drink at home our people are is it open door policy with us yeah a thousand percent no one said no one's like uh just call text first you just walk

in i mean it's like it's like a set of seinfeld or something oh you would definitely text first but if they came through and it was fine i'd be like yeah dude fucking my door's always open but that's how my place in new york is it's open I have friends come through and her address is right here we'll scroll it right below if you ever want to just go I'll give you my exact address across the street it's all that

she's on Avenue A we'll scroll it right here so you guys can just walk in it's a three story walk up you're gonna love it take whatever you can find up in the living room by the way

there's some really good stuff there's a Banksy in the main hall no but I but I've always felt like the open door thing was great and I miss those days because now

people have families and it's like kids and it's weird it used to be when me and two of my buddies were living in West Hollywood together we were literally three blocks apart

from each other so I just I could walk over to his house walk in isn't it so nice I know I miss it yeah and the thing too like where I'm at in LA

is just walking to like my friend's houses even though it's like two steps it just makes me feel like i'm in new york we walk like the neighborhood or whatever it is i that's what i miss like i really miss you know going down to the deli and like knowing everyone who works there sure even just having like the minute you wake up you get your coffee but even before you get your coffee you have at least 500 interactions with strangers yeah you

just feel you know connected to something and like here in la in my opinion it's like you wake up you do your shit you get in the car you drive somewhere you drive to work you do whatever you're alone all the times besides where you're working yeah but in new york you're working and also having interactions with so many people and i've met a lot of my but in new york you're working and also having interactions with so many people and i've met a lot of my friends in new york by bumping into them on the street and not knowing doesn't happen here and even if they're like i don't know you sit at a bar hey let's have a drink and it's sketchy but at the same time like dude that's how new york is yeah here everyone's quite closed off i would say well

you just have to be a little bit it's kind of like we're all in our you kind of have to function at a different level because it's not i mean like our neighborhood is very walkable so that's great and so it's just the community that we live in but i do feel like yeah i mean we strive for that i wanted to get to a community that i can walk around in because it is tough but do you ever feel I mean do I ever feel like I just want to start punching people yeah

actually yes I see people I want to start killing them that's just human man that's me I get mad I've always thought about you I know

I snap quickly big bad temper no but I don't hurt the tantrums he used to throw I wouldn't hurt a fly no you know what actually

the only... I've never seen you angry in my whole life. You've seen me annoyed. My whole life. Since I was two, knowing you. I met you when you were one and a half. No, I met you... How long?

10 years ago? You met me at 20? 20? I think you were 20. No, 10 years ago? 10 years ago. 130. Yeah, 10 years ago is probably when it was

just about I think it's like 9 and your sister was a Laker girl yeah I remember that we went to Laker games your sister was a Laker what is she doing now

so she who cares about her anyway no I'm kidding what is she doing no so now she's she's married boo no yeah

good she's married she's she has kids she's a fitness trainer she would be a Laker girl a fitness trainer. She would be. A Laker girl to fitness trainer. That makes perfect sense.

Dude, I want to be a Laker girl so fucking bad just because I wanted to be there on the court. I love the Lakers. One of the things that fucked me up this year was I remember exactly where I was when I found out that Kobe died. Yeah, where? I was in London at this dog cafe

with my friend Liam. What do you mean random like it like he lives in notting hill and like we were um he has this amazing little pit and he was like hey let's you know let her up but she doesn't go to this cafe we could have drinks there and i was like oh dope like you can bring dogs inside yeah it's a dog cafe so dope so we would have the dog like running around there's a bunch of dogs there we were having drinks and then my friend britney was like oh my god kobe just died she's from south carolina kobe just died what and i was i was really upset like i loved kobe so much and i remember just

like crying right then and there being like holy shit like there's no way yeah and in london i think it was like like 9 or 8 p.m whatever time it was when they announced it here but i i couldn't believe it and that started off this whole fucking year was i know i know he knew to get out of 2020 it's like kobe knew he was like i'm out in january like him dying yeah and then everything the whole world went to shit after that but i'm like it's like he got out before it got went bad it's so weird to think about like literally after he died how much negative shit continued to funnel down our world it's super weird i was uh when kobe died i was uh um i was just leaving my house i was literally walking out my front door and i turned around to the old lady and i was like you're not gonna believe this i was like this has got to be bullshit like

my i thought it was fake i thought it was phony i was like this is some dumb internet bullshit yeah your instinct is like internet bullshit internet bullshit internet bullshit but i could but it was the weird and then the drive from my house down to the studio to the other studio it's not even far and it felt like hours because i just couldn't get out of my head i probably should have gotten to an accident because i swear to god i was i was like you know when you stare off and you're driving and at some point you snap to and you're like holy fuck i think i have i've been have i been not watching like i went through six lights i have no idea yeah because i've just in my head which i think is more dangerous than your phone because like on your phone you're like people on their phone are usually trying to look and check.

When I get zoned out, I will zone out and just keep driving and space cadet through a bunch of intersections because I'm used to being in them. But yeah, I remembered how much I couldn't. It was so, I don't know. It was very surreal. And it was just what?

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This is fucked up. So I've always had just randomly like weird shit and like don't think about it at all. So for example, like during 9-11, this is crazy to say. What's 9-11? What is 9-11? What is 9-11? What happened? what is 9-11 what happened so and at the time so i was in sixth grade i would have been about 10 10 10 is about 10 or 11 is sixth grade yeah something like that i was in high school so

but so september 11th was like when we you know you were going back to school all that shit and like so i got to go on like this whole, little shopping spree at Mervin's. You know Mervin's? Ooh. Mervin's shopping spree. What'd you get? Okay. So I got my back to school clothes.

But I've always loved New York, and I had never been there. And probably would never go there if I weren't in the business. Sure. Like, just didn't have any reason to. And so while I was shopping i was like oh my god this new york shirt and i swear to fuck like the day of 9 11 i got up at 5 30 in the morning to like get ready i had my whole outfit picked out and my shirt was new york city but it was just the twin towers shut up and i went like in my mom and dad's room to like go get breakfast and i was

fully dressed and then that happened you had a twin tower shirt on the day and it had like you know it had the view of the city but like the main thing was the twin towers the fbi is going to come uh talk to you in a minute get flying fellas she's here like what the fuck and i you know i was i was 11 i was like how like what's happening but then the other night like legit and not when he died but it was just funny enough you were wearing a ko Kobe shirt when Kobe died? No, no, no, no. I was going to say, you're a fucking curse.

It was yesterday, or for his birthday. But I just, it was Sunday night, and it was midnight. I was just changing to go to bed. And I was just, the lights were off, put on a shirt. And like I went to the bathroom, and you know flipped the lights on it was the 24th that's kobe's birthday and i swear to god it was kobe and his daughter all over the shirt and then had his number on the back i didn't even know i just picked a black shirt and put it on and i was like fuck and so i wore it for the next few days never took it off the vibe like that happened

to you all the time sometimes you they got some people have that thing where i have like a weird i don't like that that creeps me out like do you i don't know what the fuck it is do you ever have dreams that turn into reality a thousand percent i don't like that you're fucking your witch that's that that is that kind of stuff i have friends it's weird though i have really creepy psychic things that you're like even if you don't believe in it you go that's i don't believe in it but like oh it happens a lot and i'm just like it's so weird that is very that's very see i have nothing like that i like and to do like kobe and his daughter like are you fucking kidding me at midnight like literally him his birthday like on the 24th and then it was mom a day and like you know obviously you watched the game but like i didn't take the shirt off until before i came here to shower it's been six days what how many days

whatever how many it's been 10 days i'm not gonna shower it's mama time are you what do you are you watch do you watch the nba bubble do you like that it's horrible yeah i mean i watch it because i love basketball i think it's fun it's wild it's so the very first time that i watched the lakers play you can hear their sneakers going across the court. Yeah, I kind of like it. It was like a fucking empty basketball practice. Why would anyone want to do that? If I was on a team, I'd be like, fuck this.

I'm not doing it. Yeah. There's no one watching. I don't want to see people on a screen. That's weird. I don't. It's so bizarre. But they know there's millions and millions and millions of people watching it on TV

of course but like I just want to feel motivated to be like you know like I don't know like their whole

drive is based off of the audience right like yeah I think there is something missing you're right yeah yeah

fan interaction does help that's why home court advantage is a real thing right because you're at home

the vibe the energy that they feed off of I totally agree when you're in LA or anywhere, it's like, dude, we're in our fucking city. Yeah.

You know what I mean? Like, it's great. Yeah. Yeah, when Laker games are live, they're wild. They're like,

it's so loud, it's so, I mean, but that's any home team. Yeah. It's just like, yeah, any home team.

Yeah, any home team gets that. It is weird that they, that's not a thing that you can feel in the bubble. It is strange. I mean,

they pump in noise. Some of the coaches are like, none of them are wearing suits. I'm like, dude, like fucking wear a suit. Like, come on. You want to be formal? It's a game. Like, come on. See, I think the coaches.

They're just kind of relaxing right now. I think the coaches should wear uniforms. I think they should wear jerseys. I think that there was a girl in England. I'll never forget when I was in college, I was in England. And I never even thought about it to that point, but she was talking about, because I love baseball, and she hates baseball, and she was like,

baseball is such a stupid sport. And I was like, no, it's not stupid. I was like, it's a great sport. It's a beautiful sport. And she goes, no. And tell me, why do the coaches wear uniforms? And I was like, I don't know. I had never thought that managers in baseball wear uniforms. And I was like, I don't know. I had never thought that managers in baseball wear uniforms.

They wear a uniform. And I was like, that's the way. It's so true. She's like, no other sport. No other sport. And I was like, no other sport does it. That's so weird. No other sport.

Like a football coach doesn't wear a football uniform. No. And I was like, why do managers? It's so dumb that they have to wear the uniforms. And it made me think it would be so funny if every sport did that, though. Like if a football coach had to wear the football uniform. If a basketball coach had to wear some old flabby white guy with his arms in a shitty jersey. Yeah, in a jersey and short.

I think they should, though. I think it'd be funny. It's very childish and clownish. Like they should make them wear that. Wear the jersey. Put it on, coach. I mean, look. I wear Kobe's jersey when they're playing, mostly every time. I just put it on coach i mean look i wear i wear kobe's jersey

when they're playing mostly every time i just put over my shirt whatever you always put on it do you what you put on the jersey when you watch you like i did i i wore it the other day like and then i have like a bunch of laker jackets like um you're an la kid that's why or roll up yeah southern california kid yeah yeah whatever um but lakers like you know everything to me and um i still like i find myself wearing the jackets the last of kobe's game he had the specific jacket that i bought for me and my dad i have that i wear that i have my like a benzo like fucking you have a benzo custom custom jacket The Benzo custom Laker jacket. Wow.

But I just, I love to like just be there. You know, I'm like, if I'm in New York, I have Yankees. Like I have like my whole thing. Sure, you want to support it. Yeah. What's the best piece of swag you've gotten? I don't ever get it. Shut up.

No, I got a Yankees jersey with my name on it. But I mean from the business, you've gotten some great swag over the years. Have you ever gotten something that's ridiculous? Like, I knew a friend that was on a TV show I won't mention, and they gave them all rollies on a season. Fuck you. I swear to God. And fuck your friend.

That's not true. Yeah, it is. If I tell you off, I'll tell you off air what the show is, and you'll go, okay, that makes sense. Fuck that, bro. But it's an extremely successful television show, and they were, yes, it's a network show. I got But it's an extremely successful television show and they were, yes,

it's a network show. I got a chocolate bar for extremely successful TV show. Yeah, what are you kidding me? I get water bottles and shit. You know what I mean? Like I've never got,

when I hear stuff like that, I'm like, that's insane. Actually, I've gotten from this show, Dave. I get like blankets and shit.

Like blankets engraved. No, I've never gotten, or like some weird like face shit. I'm like, I really don't know anything. I got a cool gift from FX

bless up FX they were cool for this show Dave that I'm doing they were cool they did they did something cool for us I still haven't watched that

by the way and I'm sorry don't watch it dude no it's just I think they were cool to us they're a cool company but before them I just

the only thing I ever got was and when I heard my friend got a Rolex I was like that's like damn bitch we better be fucking working with somebody else yeah but they were

making money network TV dude cause your show was cable right Pretty Little Liars was cable Pretty Little Liars did you do you hate that name

or like that name Pretty Little Liars I love it Pretty Little you're a pretty little liar it sounds like a diss but it's a compliment. You know what's funny is when people...

How many years did you do the show? Seven. Seven years. And it was big years of your life, too, because you were how old? 19 to 26. That's wild, dude. Dude, my whole fucking 20s were there. I'm like, it's nuts.

But then that's the reason why I moved to New York, though, because I spent my whole life basically from 10 years old to 26 on TV. Yeah. Besides like a few films here and there, but I just always went from show to show. And by the time I was 26, I was like, you know, I still want to do TV, but limited series. And I also want to like move out of LA.

I've been here since I was born. Sure. I have to live somewhere else. And then I moved to New York like the day after we wrapped. And everyone was like, you're never going to move there ever. And I went there for three months just having like a little sublet in this amazing apartment in Soho. Yeah. And then I just never came back.

I didn't come back for four years. Yeah, but that seems reasonable because you're from here. So it's like you need to get away from the thing yeah you spent your young 20s here you gotta get out of here and i took off work for two years i didn't do shit like did you travel did you or did you stay in new york i stayed in new york i just wanted to just live a different life and like not work in that realm like you know i was still kind of doing a little bit here and there but i just wanted to take a break and just live in a place i'd never you know i'd been there so many times for work but like i got to know friends and like make some of my best friends i've i have still

till this day and um just be a new yorker like yeah that was my dream and then when i finally got the grids down i was like oh yeah i'll see like a tourist or whatever you know oh yeah just go down that way it's right there like i like was so happy to be able to give people directions in new york because before when i go there for work i was completely fucking lost and then just being able to know blindly like i can you know get myself i love that get my way through new York City without anyone helping me or my phone what about the trains

do you know all the trains well I don't do trains the only reason I don't do trains that should be your bio book I don't do trains I don't do trains I'm not trash I've done it

yeah I'm a sucker for trains I like to get high and ride the train I'm scared if I were to get stuck I'd have a panic attack and I'm filled with a bunch of people in one car and I can't. I would just eat somebody. I would just eat the fattest guy and there's always a fat guy in a car train in New York.

But also it's pretty sketch, but also seeing the people who are on the trains, I've witnessed a lot of weird shit. Yeah, the trains are, New York is filled with such nasty shit. Chicago trains are not like that. The Chicago trains have shit on them. It's crazy chaos, but like New York, there'll be like a guy eating another guy's poop it's insane you're like what how is it everyone people are clapping and shit yeah it's the weirdest shit it's it's a circus but that's kind of why I like it it's great yeah that's why I like it if I go to like

when I used to take the train to Eric's house there it was oh it was always late night taking the train back to Williamsburg and I loved seeing how much chaos was going on but the only train I will take is to a Yankee game

like just like all the way all the way all the way there and you know it's like a 30 minute train ride but like you get

all the people who are going to the games you get like the drunks you get whatever it's like it's full fucking entertainment it's so fun but god forbid

you're stuck I mean I would lose my shit but I will be stuck with Yankee fans just because everyone's like on one

and it's like fun yeah no it is you're right when I was in Boston I was in Boston for I think it was for I was shooting something

maybe I was shooting my half hour for Comedy Central I can't remember why we were there. But me and the old lady were there. And we were taking a trip. We went to Harvard. We went to go visit Harvard.

I just wanted to see the campus. I went there too. It's beautiful. I was like, I didn't go here, but I should have. I went to Arizona State. They booed me when I walked on Harvard campus. Get out of here. I just wanted to see it.

But we took the train and we were taking the train back to where we were going. Another dude was wearing a Boston jersey. And I was like, oh shit. I wonder if there's a game today. And we looked it up and there was a home game.

And you know, she's so cool. I was like, should we go? And she's like, yeah. We just jumped on the other train. That is so fun. It was so fun. And being on that train with all those boston fans look say what you will they boston has some of the most fun fans no they get it well but if you got to be you got to be on their side you know like if you're on the other side you're gonna get fuck you yeah fuck you that beat the

shit out of you but it was just so fun to go watch a nonsense game. It meant nothing to us. It was, it was Boston. And, um, uh, I can't even remember who it was. It was,

uh, another AL team, but it was just nobody, you know, I'm a, I'm a Cubs guy. So I was like, it didn't matter,

but it was so fun to feel that vibe. It reminded me of Chicago. It reminded me of like going to a, taking the train to a game. I want to go to a Chicago Cubs game so badly. I'll take you. Let's go. When they come back, let's go. I've been to Chicago once when I a game. I want to go to the Chicago Cubs game so badly. I'll take you. Let's go. When they come back,

let's go. So I've been to Chicago once when I was 11. I was doing a modeling job. What did you model for? I don't know. You did a bunch of kid modeling, right?

Yeah, but I don't remember where or what. What were you doing? Like Marshall's catalogs and stuff? No, to be honest, it's probably like a JCPenney thing. I don't know.

Yeah. Yeah. Back to school no for real yeah so me and my mom went there but it was just one day so they flew us in the morning and then i worked and we slept at a hotel that night but then got on a plane at six in the morning so i've never been back to chicago you've been there one last time i went to chicago i was at the o'hare airport there it is i was going okay so i went from brazil this is fucked so i went from brazil to la for 12 hours to go to the golden globes bullshit this year yeah after the golden globes i went back to my hotel at 12 a.m i landed mind you maybe 3 p.m la time that day from brazil right

and sao paulo time is went to sleep for four hours got back on a plane to go back to europe and i stopped at the oh here airport and I was like are we where Home Alone was filmed because if we are I'm gonna have a panic attack yeah that's where Home Alone was and I was in the worst mood I was so fucking tired I was like damn like I like was just so over because I had just been from Brazil the next the previous day Brazil to LA to Chicago to Europe less than 24 hours nightmare that sounds like a nightmare so I I was exhausted. Had to do all this shit. Like so tired. And then the only thing that made me

happy, I was like, dude, Kevin McAllister was here. First of all. Running through that tunnel. Everybody remembers that. And I was with like my greed was like taking me all the way to the airport. I was like, but this, but that, but that, but that. And I was like, I want Portillo's. Yes. They don't fucking have it there. Well, they don't have it at the airport. I was like, but this, but that, but that, but that. And I was like, I want Portillo's.

Yes. They don't fucking have it there. Well, they don't have it in the airport. Well, I thought they would staple. No, I know. I wish. And the only reason I know Portillo's is because it's in Orange County. Yeah, we have one here.

That's because Dick Portillo moved to Southern California. So that's the only way I even know about Portillo's. It's fucking amazing. You've had it in No C, right? Oh, yeah. Chocolate cake shake. We got to go back. We got to go. gotta go hot dog do you know what the secret is to their chocolate cake no mayonnaise no i swear to god bro they don't put fucking mayonnaise look at me in the face they put mayonnaise in their chocolate that's disgusting it's so moist honestly that's why it's that word moist i actually like the word moist when I'm talking about food by the way that's the name

of our acid company that we were gonna make before it's called Moist we're gonna be selling Benson Santino acid it's called Moist Moist Acid if you guys wanna buy it

please please buy it we'll I mean we're not gonna tell you where it's at you can trust us you can trust us

you can trust us we've never done it before we're figuring it out as we go we'll do like whole ceremonies and shit yeah come over to the house we'll make it a whole fucking program come over to the friend neighborhood house it's only $100 You can trust us. You can trust us. We've never done it before. We're figuring it out as we go. We'll do like whole ceremonies and shit. Yeah, come over to the house. We'll make it a whole fucking program. Come over to the friend neighborhood house.

It's only $100. Per hit. It's really expensive acid. It's very expensive. $100 a hit. Per hit. Per hit. But you know what?

You'll get to know yourself better. You'll get to know us too because we won't let you leave. And know us because we're going to rob you. We really will. We're going to rob you. We're going to take you for all your money. And then we're going to film you. Yep. And we're gonna rob you we really will we're gonna rob you we're gonna take you for all your money and then we're gonna film you yep and we're

gonna put it on the show it'll be the end of the show fucking great show yeah i would people that sell acid to kidnap people but it's fine yeah it'd be bad we'll probably be like yeah killed for that yeah we'd be killed we'd be in trouble we'd be in trouble but it's fine we're you know we'd be just figuring our lives out for other people for doing the greater good for other people. For the people that need acid. And for people that need to explore their mind a bit. Yeah, to open up your realms, dude. Tell me what's going on. You can plead the fifth. What's up in your love life, dude?

What are you doing right now? Are you married? Are you getting married? What's going on? I'm married. Okay, so this is one thing. Leak secrets, dawg. I'm going to leak some secrets hey i've been i've been

well okay everyone says i'm married all the time that's just like a thing if i'm walking with someone i'm married i know that's the joke i'm making people are like no no and she's married it's like no but i am i'm married all the time which is like news to me you've been married five times apparently i'm i fuck with it i'm like damn like yeah i'm married without the commitment yeah you're yeah yeah you're married on the fly no i'm not married i'm not married i'm in a relationship i'm not married um i don't know about marriage to be honest you don't want you guys won't get married no just me in general like i would love to get married but i also i like i don't know i feel like sometimes marriage is such a pressure right on relationship and like for me like how i am i love being

monogamous and like just like one you want the relationship yeah but the marriage thing is like no i would get married i think for me is i don't want to get married down an aisle have a big fucking wedding all that shit you don't have to have that but i i gladly do in a courthouse or i gladly make a commitment to a person without having the stress about being married yeah i'll have both i don't i mean either yeah well it doesn't matter there's no rules to it i mean also dude i didn't get married in a church i think you just figured out the way you want to do it ever get married to get married in courthouse and then have a huge party i did it we did in costa rica at a hot we rented a house on the beach but did you have a fuck ton of people or was it no no no no it was no, no, no. It was just, it was fam. But that's how you should. It was the fam.

It was brothers and sisters. And that's, that's kind of, well, because also I always felt the weird people being like, why didn't I get the, I didn't want, I hate that shit. If you're not invited, you feel a way, right? Yeah. I don't. I don't, I don't care, but people do. People do.

And so like, I know people who got married who are my friends. I'm not invited. I'm like, I'm fine not to be invited. Like, I know people who got married who are my friends. I'm not invited. I'm like, I'm fine not to be invited. Like, I don't have an issue with that. Yeah. It's just like, I'm not as close.

It's fine. But the stress of, oh my God, who the fuck do I know? Who does my partner know? Like, and God forbid you don't invite them. It's a fucking huge thing.

When they, when they, but when they say, why didn't you invite me? do they care anyways? No, they just want to to be invited they want to say that they invited me yeah so i'd rather get married in a courthouse or literally get married in bed just the two of us with no fucking anyone like that's it or just have a commitment and then a big party either way the party is what you want anyway that's the that's the only thing like realistically it'd be like in italy here it is here it is what what city in italy where would

you get married if you're where would you probably positano positano positano but so listen to this like uh pipes of the caribbean is like one of my favorite movies ever has nothing to do with italy but caves okay caves i'll never remember i'll never forget this one cave that i went to in positano you go in it i was in a canoe i went in with a guide it is all fucking like blue purple all these lights fish everybody you're in a cave like all that stuff if i could be if i could throw a party in a cave with everyone on canoes but then also set it up like Pirates of the Caribbean dude

you fucking got me right there so all you need to know like pirate themed all that shit like let's just have a fucking rager in a cave

in Italy and have all the wine all the drinks like do whatever and then if you've been to Positano have you not I have been to Positano

did you go to On the Rocks what to On the Rocks? What's On the Rocks? No, I don't know what that is. What is it? You're horrible. What is it? What is it?

It's a club. No. It's called On the Rocks in the Rocks. No, I didn't go. On the edge of the beach and you go inside and everything is literally on a rock. All the tables, all the benches, whatever. It's a fucking lit nightclub okay kind of cheesy yeah but again no no you're fucking in positon who cares who

cares and also i spent so many nights i was like dude this is fucking epic but that's where i want to get like you know have a little rager a little rager on the rocks and then canoe out or canoe out or do you this is completely different as well south of france like weird like old chateau maybe haunted a bit no gotta be haunted but have like activities everywhere and like it'll be a three-day thing which is annoying for everyone but if you're traveling that far just that should happen get involved and everyone's gonna be like kind of like drunk or whatever the whole time yeah no one's gonna be like sober so it's fun it's like we have activities every day you have like wine tasting wine wine toss all that shit but like and then a rager like fun yeah that's how i feel like it should be like just like

a good time it should be just no it should be a big rager no no pressure too much pressure like because because there's expectations on things are supposed to go a certain way. It doesn't go right. Yeah, who gives a shit? I don't think it should matter. If you're out somewhere like that and it doesn't go right, no one even knows. Nobody cares. We're having a huge fucking three-day thing.

By the way, the whole time people are just thinking at a wedding, the whole time they're thinking about when can I get a drink and when can I eat food. Just get drinks and have food available at all times and drinks. That's all. The bar doesn't close. People don't really care about all the other stuff. They're just like, when can i eat food just get drinks and have food available at all times and drinks that's all the bar doesn't close people don't really care about all the other stuff they're just like when can i eat they just want to have a good time yeah and good music that's one thing well let me officiate the wedding if you ever get married yeah you know what i mean let me if i'll be the officiant okay i would like to do that just say yes right now so i can lock it in everyone knows that since that Santino will officiate my wedding.

I'm officiating your wedding. Fine. I want to ask this. Again, say no. I don't care. Do you like your boyfriend's music? Okay, so this thing. It's really funny.

Say who your boyfriend is in case somebody doesn't know. Well, my boyfriend's name is Gerald. That's right. That's his name. But he is known as Che cheesy yes and what do you like his music be honest so i will get me when you say a thousand percent no listen yeah so i didn't know his music you never heard anything you ever did no all i know is fuck with me and get some money

right i still don't even know the regular name sure yeah i understand that's not the title so we've known each other for like two years but just like literally as friends like in passing we have a lot of friends in common sure um i don't really listen to like rap that much like maybe like rihanna who's not rap or like nikki minaj would be rap um and then i just listen like kind of like jazz and classical weirdly dork yeah i'm a weird like weirdo no but jazz classical good music really good music but um like rihanna obviously and like just certain people but mostly just jazz and classical um because i'm weird like that or like french music i think i live in like paris who are

you no not your little european girl but like yeah i love that kind of stuff and um there's times till this day where i'll be listening like a song i'll be like oh my god he's like that's me and i'll have no idea like i'm just like wait what you don't even know some of the shit he's made that's why i know fuck me and get some money but like you know did you tell have you ever had that discussion always he's like i love that you don't know it i'm like i don't because i don't really listen to that kind of rap like i'll listen to like kid cudi maybe or um well like jay-z obviously sure and kanye their album watch a throne yes that is like probably the last rap album i was stupid like they can be nauseous or cardi b is another one but like i don't listen

to like male rappers that much what about kendrick kendrick Lamar is great but like I don't have his album on the radio and like I don't do that anymore so for so I think the part of the reason he enjoys the fact that you don't know his music no he was like I'm so happy you don't like yeah he like literally we were driving the other day and like his song was like whoo whoo and I was like he was like that's me i was like oh yeah yeah obviously he has a song right now called ashley and you don't listen to music you don't even know but it is a song out right now it's all about me it's called ashley but it's spelled a-s-h-l-e that's about you would it would it be weird how about this would it be weird if he made a song about you no but like this thing like that wouldn't trip you up no i don't think so i mean it'd be like

yeah dude don't i don't know yeah but like because sometimes people make songs about people and if it was negative i'd be like not negative but sometimes i'll make one and put it out okay you'll put out a track about it by myself do it like itunes can you put this out and they would they'd be like for sure we can make money on that um no it's like what's great is um funny enough during quarantine because i've only been in that realm of like writing scripts um it's been really nice to be able to kind of have a creative outlet in music yeah and we've done we've recorded over like 30 songs together i want to say the house yeah so he's making music from the house and you're like i'm in so then i'll go down there and be like hey like let's record this or like let's write whatever and um it's really nice like it's been a really nice outlet to like

act like i'm doing something at midnight i'll be like i'll wake up like i'm bored i need to work and like funny enough when you're recording music no one wants to record during the day no it's tough the day is hard you don't and like for me especially not being in the

music industry I'm like I'm too shy during the day I want to be like at night in the dark I want to like

go outside and like take a break do whatever but catch a vibe and like have a drink and just like be there in the moment but we've recorded like at

least literally 30 songs shut up would you ever put it out no we've put uh we put one song out um there's there's a couple songs i'm on his album that he just did just for like quarantine um and then he's i think his i don't really know his schedule. Are you singing? Are you rapping? What are you doing? No, in the past thing, like I sang a little bit, but like we have literally 30 songs that have not been released that who knows if we ever will. But for me, it's just fun to do it. Yeah.

Are you doing the backup vocal thing? No, I'm like lead singing. Woo, woo, woo. La, la, la, la, la, la. Like the old 90s albums? And that's the man and that. I could sing. that backup would be all i would be able to be i love i love the old 90s albums when like girls in the background like yeah yeah that's what i would want to do like the moves like the move you know yeah yeah yeah uh i want i want to hear these songs so bad dude I'll fucking plan for you but like then we were thinking like

should we release our songs under like a pseudonym yeah yeah that'd be cool and then no one will ever know except for the people

that listen to this show then they'll know you'll never know you'll never know you'll never know but was it your idea by the way

to do music together or did he say come do some stuff with me no I asked like in the beginning of the pandemic I was like hey i kind of want to just record random shit i don't know like i was feeling a lot and i just wanted to write and then it just kind of became a thing and um yeah but it's good like i you know it's so fun to and especially like now like being able to do that with your partner is really fun to just

create and like a film that i wrote he's gonna do like the whole score on like that's cool yeah and he's never done that either so it's like a score for him is a whole different totally different world and you know he's very intelligent in that field and he loves like film and that kind of stuff so it's fun to be able to work on that like and he loves like film and that kind of stuff. So it's fun to be able to work on that. And like he can learn from me now that I know a lot about in score, but in film. But even with me, like if I were to like sing or do whatever, like we kind of get to vibe off each other in that way. Sure.

You know, you're inspired, you know, day to day. And it's really, it's fun. It's like the unknowing of like what can we create and we've done some pretty cool shit so it's nice do you think it makes the relationship stronger do you think it's like a great it's like a it's a bond that's made it even stronger now that you guys are making shit together i mean yeah but you know i don't know i think it's because it's hard like look a lot of people say working together is tough right like don't know i think it's because it's hard like look a lot of people say working together is tough right like we really have a lot of fun so yeah it's it's been it's been strengthened but i'm

i'm very much like no let me do it again let me do he's like holy fuck the hundredth time literally hunt there was one song he had 98 takes of just me oh my god but that's how i'm in acting so if i'm you know on a, do not let me see anything. Oh yeah. No, no, no playback. No playback. I have to do it again. And like, I relate that to if I'm doing music because I'm not a singer, I'm not in that

field. So it's like one more time, one more time, one more time. And he's like, dude, you've done it. Literally. We counted. It was 98 takes. He was like i can't do it anymore with you like at all but i just relate that to like perfectionism i'm such

a perfectionist and even with like directing a film i have to step away yeah like i have to let my producers like also my ad my dp be like hey you have it yeah because i will always second guess everything of course and that's just like a weird thing that i have but it is fun to be able to you know to create together yeah one night when i get um when i get funked up enough i want to come over and fucking come over come make some music a thousand percent is there is there instruments there too there's no guitar, drums guitar

piano yep I can't play any of those I just want to know that they're there I feel like it's nice that they're there they're there for your access

whenever you feel like you just want to come there to record we have a we have a keyboard at the house and she can play and it's one thing

I've always been jealous of people that can play piano it pisses me off because I think it's such a beautiful instrument and I know I can learn it but I just don't want to bro listen to this

so I'm not musically like at all you're not musically inclined listen but I am in a weird way it's my psychic shit listen

so I'm I'll close my eyes like he plays piano he just like started learning and like obviously he gets everything because he's a musician sure I'll be like this close my eyes i'll be like and it's legit like a full vibe shut up you can just tick you can tickle the keys what the fuck like how do you know and i'm literally i'm not even looking at like but i just hear it and then

it just goes so I'm like dude in quarantine at some point because it's not gonna end now I'm like I'm gonna actually like learn piano because I can hear it you self-teach have a very good ear yeah do you think you can self-teach I don't know but like I did it with guitar for a film that I had to do and like I had a teacher but also I was able to hear it and then just do it you know that's so so the there's two kinds of people that they say that when you learn instruments some people are better at at monkey see monkey do where it's like I can watch it and emulate it I can I can and you can I see and I hear it that's monkeys you want to do otherwise

people can someone can teach them and you can keep teaching like i learned how to play drums yeah see i learned how to play drums monkeys and monkey do i had a drum instructor try and i just didn't enjoy it and it's too confusing i just want to watch it and emulate it dude like i like don't tell me what to do just let me figure it out my own yes and eventually you'll get there and if you don't you don't yeah well i mean well it's like but because some people are I think some people are better at teaching themselves by watching

and like ingesting it in their own way like um god who is it I think it's Curtis Mayfield and I might be wrong and music heads might be mad at me but

Curtis Mayfield if I'm not wrong his grandmother played guitar um and she had a tune, Spanish tuning. And that's all of the black keys

on the piano. And he taught himself piano because he learned about Spanish tuning on a guitar. And he literally put the two together, learning the notes from a guitar note, from the black keys, and then just learned to incorporate

white keys on black notes. And that's how he taught himself piano which i think is fucking insane that his grandmother was like here's a spanish here's a here's spanish tuning natural tuning is what they call it i think and then he taught himself based on that with no fucking instructor just literally like took that and was like this is what i know from this and i can just put the rest of it together that's the kind of stuff where just natural shit you can't no one could teach you that yeah ability yeah so if you have it in you you got some magic even if it is 98 takes girl it's fine i'm a genius it's all it's fine i'm a genius it's fine i'm so smart and like so funny and what's your what do you what do you think do you have a thing that you feel like is a talent that you'll never get to put on display because it does it's not but you

but it's the thing that you're like i'm so good at this but no one will know do you know what i mean by that there it is you're a venture you're you're a ventriloquist no i can't a ventriloquist? No, I can't do ventriloquists because they don't do that. No, their mouth don't chew. What is that? You were just speaking through your... No, that's really hard. Try it. Try it.

Motherfucker. Oh, here. We're never causing you labor, bitch. But that's... Wait, but... Like, do you have a talent you can't exercise? I mean... Say that again.

I could maybe fucking do it. Say it again. Say it again. What did you say? Say it again. I just said what the fuck he says. Let me change it. Okay, go ahead.

Say I'm on whiskey ginger. Say that. Say I'm on whiskey ginger. Nope. I'm on whiskey ginger. No, see, I on whiskey ginger I'm on nope I'm I'm on whiskey ginger no see I can see you moving your mouth okay stop

don't put fucking pressure on me I see you moving your mouth it's fucking hard bro it is hard I know do it I'm on whiskey ginger

I saw you fucking move your mouth I'm on whiskey ginger I'm on whiskey ginger we've been drinking it's obvious we've been we've been boozing I saw you fucking move your mouth let's get ginger let's get ginger we've been drinking it's obvious we've been we've been boozing

we've been drinking cheers by the way cheers how fun and then tap you gotta you have to go down that's what we learned

from the beginning of this that's what we learned from the beginning yeah you can take you can take you can take this home take the glass home so look

we usually end the episodes the same way we end them with you saying one word or one phrase So look, we usually end the episodes the same way. We end them with you saying one word or one phrase directly into the camera. It takes us out. Let me get off camera first. And then when I'm cleared, you look in the camera and you say one word or one phrase and that's going to end the episode. So make it count.

Oh, I'll make it count. Make it count. Right now? Can they see me right now? Yeah, make it count. One word? Can they see me right now? One word? Pussy. In here, we pour whiskey, whiskey, whiskey,

whiskey, whiskey. You're that creature in the ginger beard. Sturdy and ginger. Like vampires, the ginger gene is a curse. Gingers are pugilist. You owe me $5 for the whiskey and $75 for the horse. Gingers are hell no. This whiskey is excellent.

Ginger. I like gingers.