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David0:08Moment view
Guys, we're here today with Diplo and Dillon Francis. Everybody applaud.
Jason0:12Moment view
This is big.
David0:15Moment view
Two ginormous DJs.
Diplo0:16Moment view
Okay, first of all, Jay, you just asked, why do we call you Diplo or Wes?
Jason0:20Moment view
You can call me Wes.
David0:21Moment view
Wes, it's such a thing in LA. Did you see that TikTok? It's like how girls in LA are, like when someone brings up this dude. This has happened to me personally. Someone will bring Diplo up and they'll be like, "Ah, there's a party at Diplo's," and then someone will go, "Who? Oh, you mean Wes?" And they'll just fucking have to prove, like there's always one person here that needs to prove that.
Jason0:40Moment view
Those girls are liars, but you know, the thing that's funny is when I do a show, people that only read my Wikipedia page, 'cause my first name is actually Thomas, they're like, "Thomas, Thomas!" They run out to my car or something after the show, they're like, "Thomas!" I'm like, "What? Is my mom here or something?
David0:54Moment view
I don't know who that, who's Thomas?" So people will try to prove to you that they know you.
Jason0:57Moment view
Yeah, that they really know me.
David0:58Moment view
Like they know my first name, but I'm like, "Nope, who is that?" We always talk about this we always talk about Diplo in some way, and you always say, he has no idea who you are. And I always think that too. I'm like, I feel like Diplo doesn't know who I am.
Jason1:10Moment view
No, you were— well, you came— I met you backstage one day, and you were like, I thought you were just Dylan's friend with a camera.
David1:19Moment view
Well, I am Dylan's friend.
Jason1:20Moment view
Yeah, so that's all I knew. And then I never really met you properly until— I think we just met tonight, actually.
Dillon Francis1:26Moment view
I'm pretty sure that this is the first time you actually have kind of ever like talked to me.
David1:29Moment view
No, I was doing like an interview like at the AMAs, like on the red carpet. And he came up behind me and like to say hello. And Natalie, I think, or somebody was with me and she was like, you know, Diplo? And I was like, I don't think I do. And I honestly don't think he knows me either. And then I told you about that.
Dillon Francis1:43Moment view
And I think, I think he's just like, oh yeah, I remember that guy's hair.
Jason1:46Moment view
No, I literally just thought it was like, I always thought you were just Dylan's like really happy friend with the cool hair. And I, now I'm like, you have a house and stuff and like podcast. I was like, I thought we were gonna like, I thought you ordered pizza or something for, I was just gonna hang out with his friend. I didn't know it was like cameras.
David2:02Moment view
No, yeah, I always thought that I was like just some sort of like made-up like figment of Diplo's imagination. Like he sees me at parties and stuff.
Jason2:09Moment view
You are like a spirit though. It's like you just are like, I don't know, everywhere.
David2:12Moment view
But that's how I feel like you are. You're everywhere. I watch your Insta stories and I can't tell what location you're in because we were just trying to seek, especially to do the podcast, where I was. You have stories from like 9 different countries going up at the same day.
Jason2:23Moment view
I did a lot of traveling today. Yeah, I was in Moscow. Yeah, a couple places.
David2:28Moment view
I read that you used to work at Subway, right?
Jason2:30Moment view
I did, yeah.
David2:31Moment view
And you would get mugged there?
Jason2:32Moment view
Lots of times.
David2:33Moment view
And what do you mean you got mugged? How did that work?
Jason2:35Moment view
The subway I worked at in Orlando was open till like 4 AM. So if you want to rob someplace, it's the only place to rob, like after clubs got out or whatever. So we got robbed a couple times, and then eventually I just started like locking myself in the freezer. And then like, so like I was like, whatever happens out here now, like, you know, I never had a gun. People just like came in like, yo, give me your money. I was like, all right. I never saw like a weapon or anything, but we got robbed twice. Oh, so they're probably— there's cameras. Like, well, they're not gonna think I stole it because they see someone came in here, but I just gave—
David3:02Moment view
someone came in and was like, give I know your money. There was no threat. You didn't see a knife or a gun and you were just like, here you go.
Jason3:08Moment view
Yeah. Who else is gonna say that?
David3:11Moment view
Like, I don't know.
Jason3:12Moment view
I'm not gonna say like, no. I mean, they were like, I think they probably would've hurt me, but I just, it wasn't my money.
David3:16Moment view
Did you ever steal from that Subway?
Jason3:18Moment view
I stole so much shit from them. And my real racket was that like, I didn't steal money 'cause I don't wanna go to jail, but I stole, back in the day, Subway had this thing called Sub Club cards. Does anybody remember that? So whenever you eat at Subway, they give you a little stamp that says like, oh, you got a footlong. So eventually if you had, if you got 8, You get a free footlong. Yeah. So I stole the entire roll of those things one day because they just came in the back like the mail's like, no, no one hooked us up to the thing. So I just took it in my pocket and I left. And that summer I was like 18. I ate Subway like every day. I was hitchhiking across the world. I had like every Subway. I was like, wherever I go, I get free drink and free Subway and chips everywhere I went. So I had like nothing but Subway for an entire summer. I ate like free food and I was like hitchhiking and just being like a total punk.
David4:00Moment view
Why were you hitchhiking? Just to hit as many Subways as you can?
Jason4:02Moment view
Yeah, just to see the whole Subway tour of the world. No, but I was like, I was like, when I was like in high school, I was just like a little graffiti punk traveling guy. I didn't have much money. I just like traveled a lot and just like hitchhiked. I went to a thing called Rainbow Gathering, which is like Burning Man for like homeless people. And just went out there and I like hitchhiked.
David4:20Moment view
Wait, sorry. I just said, right. What did you say?
Dillon Francis4:21Moment view
Right. No, Burning Man for homeless people.
David4:25Moment view
Oh, okay. Well, what did you call it?
Jason4:27Moment view
It was called Rainbow Gathering. It still happens.
David4:29Moment view
Rainbow Gathering.
Jason4:29Moment view
It's like a total like hippie festival. You just go there and just like, live and eat pancakes and like make food in the woods.
David4:35Moment view
And that was where you were heading?
Jason4:36Moment view
Yeah, I was like going to that. I went to that and I came back and I like hitchhiked and I went to like Nashville. I just, it was hard to like hitchhike actually.
David4:42Moment view
This was '18 or this was last year?
Jason4:44Moment view
This is last year actually.
Dillon Francis4:45Moment view
This is during COVID I wanted to do a tour of the whole world.
David4:49Moment view
You guys are both always on the road. Is there a fast food place that you guys go to that prevails over anything? Is there like, when you land in Dubai and you're like, no fucking way they have a Sharky's here. Is there anything specific?
Jason4:58Moment view
I would love that.
Dillon Francis4:59Moment view
Damn, if they had a Sharky's there, that would be sick.
David5:01Moment view
Do you go to Dubai often?
Dillon Francis5:02Moment view
I've been there one time.
David5:03Moment view
Has there ever been a situation where someone's like, someone like a sheikh has flown you out just for a very specific thing, like just for somebody's like 14th birthday in Dubai and the money's fucking like oil money, ridiculous money?
Dillon Francis5:15Moment view
Did you?
Jason5:16Moment view
I played a couple like bar mitzvahs and sweet 16s.
Dillon Francis5:18Moment view
I did that. I did that too.
David5:19Moment view
Bar mitzvahs?
Jason5:20Moment view
Bar mitzvahs are popping. Yeah.
David5:23Moment view
Do you prefer a bar mitzvah or Coachella?
Jason5:25Moment view
Bar mitzvah by far.
Dillon Francis5:26Moment view
I don't know what the fuck this guy's talking about.
Jason5:29Moment view
No, I've been to some pretty like high-end bar mitzvahs, but I'm also from like South Florida.
Dillon Francis5:33Moment view
So what bar mitzvah did you play? Because the last one that I played was in Chicago and the kids did not give a fuck about me. They put me up in this rafter and then they had this MC guy doing like the, the Hava Nagila.
Jason5:45Moment view
I hope you're my bar mitzvah guy. I'll get you some.
David5:47Moment view
Did they give you a big intro? Yeah, they did.
Dillon Francis5:48Moment view
And the kids were like, fuck.
David5:50Moment view
Well, why did, why did, why did the parents choose you? Were the kids fans of you?
Dillon Francis5:53Moment view
Was it just a bad idea that I had? I, I used to have this website where like you could pay me to become—
Jason5:58Moment view
great story.
Dillon Francis5:58Moment view
Yeah, you could pay me to become a vegan for a year. Or you could pay me to do like—
David6:04Moment view
wait, you used to have a website where you could pay me to do— just you?
Dillon Francis6:07Moment view
Just me.
David6:08Moment view
Oh, what was it called?
Dillon Francis6:09Moment view
It was called my website, dylanfrancis.com, where you could pay me to be a vegan. You could pay me to do your taxes, which I would probably fuck up, and a bunch of other stuff. But I had on my website like, I'll play your bar mitzvah for $10 grand. And we forgot to update the website when like you got bigger. Yeah. And then all of a sudden this kid from Chicago, this, this, these like parents from Chicago that like owned a casino were like, oh, this is great.
Jason6:34Moment view
Great.
Diplo6:34Moment view
Let's book him.
David6:35Moment view
He's like, book me. And he'll do my taxes for an additional 2?
Dillon Francis6:37Moment view
They did.
Jason6:38Moment view
They did.
David6:38Moment view
Wait, what are the other options?
Dillon Francis6:40Moment view
There was, I would chug, uh, a gallon of milk in 1 minute.
David6:43Moment view
Oh, this is like that website where you can get people to do random things.
Dillon Francis6:46Moment view
Yeah.
David6:47Moment view
We, we were doing that. But it was just Dylan Francis. It was just me.
Jason6:49Moment view
Only him though. It was only me. It was like Cameo, but he's the only person on there.
Dillon Francis6:53Moment view
But like all, all, all the money we would give, like we would give to, um, what's it called? We'd give to charity afterwards.
David6:58Moment view
So how was that Fortnite concert you guys did?
Jason7:00Moment view
We did the Fortnite concert and then I'm like, I have a TikTok account and whenever I post something on TikTok, most of my comments are Fortnite guy. Hey, Fortnite guy's back on here again. I'm like, I'm like, well, guys, I really like had a career before Fortnite. Like I did like Grammys, whatever. They're like Fortnite guy. What's up Fortnite guy?
Dillon Francis7:17Moment view
I'm like, that's the only thing that happens to us on TikTok. Nobody knows us for being DJs on TikTok. I'm either David Dobrik's friend, dancing queen DJ guy, Fortnite guy.
David7:25Moment view
You actually get the dancing queen thing?
Dillon Francis7:27Moment view
Yeah.
David7:27Moment view
At shows.
Dillon Francis7:28Moment view
There was recently when I went to a Chipotle, this lady— well, hold on, hold on. It just goes back to you because she was looking at me. She goes, oh, you look familiar. And I'm like, maybe. And she's like, I don't know. Hold on, hold on.
David7:40Moment view
David Dobrik. I'm like, what? How?
Dillon Francis7:43Moment view
I had a mask on too.
Jason7:45Moment view
Right, right.
Dillon Francis7:45Moment view
Yeah, you hang out with David Dobrik. You're that DJ guy from David Dobrik's vlog.
Natalie7:49Moment view
Wow.
Dillon Francis7:49Moment view
David's friend.
David7:50Moment view
Yeah, that's fucking crazy.
Dillon Francis7:51Moment view
Yeah, I'm David's friend.
David7:52Moment view
Does that feel shitty?
Dillon Francis7:53Moment view
No, I actually appreciate that I'm known for so many stupid random things.
David7:57Moment view
Right, right, right.
Dillon Francis7:57Moment view
I have 5 of those things.
David7:59Moment view
You've been my cat guy.
Dillon Francis8:00Moment view
David Dobrik guy, dancing queen DJ guy, Diplo's friend.
Jason8:04Moment view
I'm not even David Dobrik's friend. I'm just Fortnite guy. So it's like, kind of sucks.
David8:07Moment view
Well, you're getting closer, bro. The fact that you're here and you found out that I'm a legitimate human.
Jason8:11Moment view
I was like, wow, it's not an AI. I thought you were an NFT for so long. I didn't know.
David8:20Moment view
I know you guys do like New Year's shows and stuff. How does that work? What's the most amount of shows you've done?
Dillon Francis8:25Moment view
West wins this one.
David8:26Moment view
Yeah, you can do multiple shows. Explain that. How does that work?
Jason8:29Moment view
I did one show. New Year's, you always do like 2, sometimes maybe 3 if you're, if you're crazy.
Dillon Francis8:33Moment view
But yeah, I've done 3.
Jason8:34Moment view
I did one tour, it's called Trap Hawk Down. It was in—
Dillon Francis8:37Moment view
so good—
Jason8:38Moment view
it was in like East Coast. It was a helicopter tour, and I started in Baltimore at like 4 PM. Then I think I played 2 shows in Philly, like a one underage party, then like a, at a shoe store. Then I flew to Atlantic City like at like midnight, and I played this like casino there. Then I flew to New York and played this like 5 AM show. So I did 5 shows, what, in different cities in one day.
David9:00Moment view
What Do you play? You've done it?
Dillon Francis9:01Moment view
I've done like New York to LA.
David9:03Moment view
You'll do like a 10 o'clock show in New York and then you'll do the midnight show in LA?
Dillon Francis9:07Moment view
Yeah, and then you'll do an after party.
Jason9:09Moment view
You can barely get that. That's like, I'm doing the logistics. You have to go, you have to think about this. You get off stage at like 10 o'clock in New York, you have to drive 40, 30 minutes to like a place or helicopter to LA.
Dillon Francis9:20Moment view
Right, a private jet.
Jason9:21Moment view
Whatever, private jet, then you do private jet to LA. Then you still have to take that, and LA traffic is crazy.
David9:25Moment view
Nice plane.
Dillon Francis9:25Moment view
LA traffic during—
Jason9:27Moment view
Or helicopter.
Dillon Francis9:29Moment view
You get a police escort, okay? You know the drill.
David9:33Moment view
You get police escorts? Yeah, we do every time. We used to before Fortnite.
Jason9:40Moment view
Not in America. You get police escorts in some places, but like not America is not that easy. Yeah.
David9:44Moment view
Oh, so it's easy. It's better to perform in other countries because they give you like better service.
Dillon Francis9:47Moment view
But I've got a police escort in San Diego when I played.
Jason9:50Moment view
San Diego is different. Yeah. Anybody get police escort in San Diego when you play the— I got a police escort to Subway in San Diego once. I just dropped like $6. Like, you can take me there.
David10:01Moment view
And we were also Talking about like, there's also when you're, when you're at like a club, you have, where is it? At the, at the Wynn? Wynn?
Dillon Francis10:08Moment view
Yeah.
David10:09Moment view
So they, they have this thing where you can buy certain packages. Like you can get a lot of chicken tenders, you can get champagne and you can also meet the DJ.
Dillon Francis10:16Moment view
Yeah.
David10:16Moment view
And it's like $50,000 just to do all that. Are those packages throughout like every country or every place?
Dillon Francis10:23Moment view
No, I think it's only Vegas.
David10:24Moment view
Right.
Jason10:25Moment view
Oh, I mean, sometimes someone will come and be like, hey, you want to meet the DJ? I'm like, no, like, You got the money, you want me to do it? I was like, okay, yeah. It's like under the table. The Vegas one's probably on the menu, 'cause there's a menu for, you know, yeah, it's literally on the menu.
David10:35Moment view
$50,000 for a bottle of champagne and to shake Dylan Francis's hand. And you've gotten it once.
Dillon Francis10:41Moment view
I think one time. Yeah.
David10:42Moment view
That's pretty fucking sick. Yeah. You better have fucking made that dude's day.
Dillon Francis10:45Moment view
I did. I sucked him off.
Jason10:48Moment view
Yeah. That was like, that was $55,000.
Diplo10:50Moment view
Yeah.
David10:50Moment view
I got an extra 5 grand out of it. You throw an extra 5. I, I, you know, I don't want to get into this, but there, there are a few DJs, uh, Dylan, that you told me that you have beef with.
Diplo11:01Moment view
Um, oh, David, don't, uh, don't bring this up. No, David, get a, um, a different game. David, get a, um, get one of the— David, get a— the, um—
David11:15Moment view
yes, what?
Diplo11:16Moment view
David, get a, uh, David, get a—
David11:20Moment view
uh, do you guys actually have beef with them? Because then I don't want to put it in.
Dillon Francis11:23Moment view
I mean, no, I don't, I don't give a shit.
David11:24Moment view
Oh, okay.
Jason11:25Moment view
Dylan had the weirdest beef with him that he didn't understand.
David11:28Moment view
Oh, you did have beef with him?
Jason11:29Moment view
No, but Dylan targeted him for some weird reason, and the guy was like, so targeted, but he was so confused by Dylan like making fun of him.
David11:35Moment view
He was like, look, we had this whole joke planned for David Guetta because it was perfect, and then I didn't know you actually had fucking beef with him.
Diplo11:43Moment view
So you have beef with a lot of people?
Dillon Francis11:43Moment view
No, no, no, not that many. I think just David. It was the best, it was the best beef ever. So David Guetta posted this video. I hope you can find it. It's David Guetta standing in the Shibuya Crossing just looking at the camera for 45 seconds. And during this time, this was when Black Beatles, like, mannequin challenge was happening. So I took the video and I put Black Beatles to it and I wrote this huge Instagram post where I was like, I don't know what the fuck David Guetta is doing standing in Shibuya Cross staring at a camera without Black Beatles playing. It must be that he forgot to put the song on or he grabbed the wrong MP4 file.
David12:17Moment view
It wasn't even bad.
Dillon Francis12:18Moment view
No, it was just me helping him out. So yeah, and then, but But then he went in and he just like went immediately to money and like views and was like, hey man, well I have 600K views on my video and you only have this amount. And then I went in and was like, well actually you have like 6.4 million followers. I have 1 point something at this time. And if I have 200K and you have 600K, I actually have more views than you.
David12:42Moment view
My engagement is better. Yeah. So you have actual social media beef with David Guetta?
Jason12:47Moment view
Oh, fuck.
David12:47Moment view
My bad. I didn't mean to bring that up.
Diplo12:49Moment view
Do most DJs take themselves seriously? You guys are fun, but—
Dillon Francis12:51Moment view
I think David Guetta did not understand what I was doing at all. I did shake his hand one time, like afterwards. He was not— he said— it's actually the best quote that he said to me. He goes, "Next time you're going to make fun of me, text me." I love that.
Diplo13:08Moment view
It's good policy.
Dillon Francis13:09Moment view
So good.
Jason13:10Moment view
Pretty good policy.
Dillon Francis13:11Moment view
All right, David, I'm posting something that's really going to make fun of you today.
Diplo13:15Moment view
Cool.
Dillon Francis13:15Moment view
Yes, very cool, Dylan.
Jason13:17Moment view
I mean, most of DJs take themselves way too seriously.
Dillon Francis13:20Moment view
Way too seriously.
Jason13:20Moment view
Like, it's kind of like we're, we're like lucky to be up there and like have fun. Yeah, yeah. So I'm like, why do you guys— why you guys so like, so like crazy with it? But, um, most of them are like fun. Like TSO.
Dillon Francis13:30Moment view
Yeah, TSO is one of the best.
Jason13:32Moment view
I have some weird beefs with people, but honestly, like, I— if you— if you're in this game that long and you know all the DJs, you, you all become friends, right? You know who's like— they're all like, for me, they're like different like Mortal Kombat characters.
David13:42Moment view
Like, they're all like special.
Jason13:43Moment view
Like, this guy's from Holland and he does this. Yes, guys like Korean It's like, just like, kind of like, it's like WWE at this point. I love 'em all.
Diplo13:49Moment view
Remember when we went to Vegas with Dylan?
David13:52Moment view
Oh yeah, I remember.
Diplo13:53Moment view
That was fucking really cool.
David13:54Moment view
Yeah, it was the best. But, but he was on the 4th floor, bro. I thought he was on penthouse suite. I will never forget this.
Dillon Francis14:00Moment view
Oh yeah.
David14:00Moment view
Where do you stay when you stay at a hotel? Top level or bottom floor?
Jason14:04Moment view
I mean, they kind of gimme whatever room on that, the, the suite.
David14:09Moment view
I remember. I, I, dude, I thought like when Dylan first invited me, I was like, this is gonna be fucking insane. And it's literally, it was just me and him hanging out in his hotel room and I still had to ask for permission to eat the cashews. Like, It was like there was nothing about it that was like, well, first of all, he flew Southwest.
Diplo14:22Moment view
We did fly Southwest, which, and I was like, which is nice, which like we fly Southwest, which is great. And then Dylan was with us like, oh, Dylan must just be like chilling with us.
David14:30Moment view
I thought he was doing that for us.
Diplo14:31Moment view
I thought he was doing it for us too.
David14:33Moment view
Yeah. Yeah.
Jason14:33Moment view
So I was like, no, I always fly Southwest. We're just cheap.
Dillon Francis14:37Moment view
Dude, it's the best flights.
Jason14:38Moment view
At the end of the day, we're like, you know, the Southwest flight, it goes from what, Burbank straight to Vegas. Yeah. It's always on time. If you get a jet from, it is, the jets aren't on time.
Dillon Francis14:47Moment view
And also a lot of the times there's nobody in those.
Jason14:49Moment view
Yeah, right.
David14:50Moment view
So it's kind of like you have a private airline for like $5.
Jason14:54Moment view
If we could choose to like go on Southwest for like $150 or pay $15,000 for round trip, which is probably longer, right? That's like my kids, like, you know, a year of college. Like, what's the point of like going on a jet if you don't have to?
David15:06Moment view
I didn't know I was going to hear all this financial stuff from you. I mean, I'm feeling a lot more responsible. I should have been calling you about my stock portfolio before AMC.
Jason15:13Moment view
You should hit me up. I could have hooked you up.
David15:16Moment view
No, but then, okay, the flight was one thing. But then, but then when we got to the hotel, like, nice room, nice room, very nice. I remember we got in the elevator and I saw the buttons. I saw 50 floors and I was like, we're fucking going all the way up. We deserve this. Like, I've vlogged hard. Let's do this bitch. And, and then he hits 4 and I thought, I thought maybe he was getting his tour manager to be like, we're here, come on out. But no, we went in and that was his room. And it was cool. It was like a suite. But it was like, you know, it was just— it was a room. It was not the Dylan Francis at the Encore. Yeah, DJing here once a week residency. Like, I literally thought it was gonna be bottle service when you walk in. But you made a good point why you choose the 4th floor.
Dillon Francis15:59Moment view
It's the closest to being able to get downstairs.
David16:02Moment view
It's fucking—
Diplo16:02Moment view
it's sensible DJing.
David16:04Moment view
Yeah, because when you're on like the 50th floor of those things, you're fucking stopping at every floor.
Dillon Francis16:08Moment view
And those elevators take so long when it's like primetime hours.
Jason16:12Moment view
You want to be away from people in the elevator as much as possible, right? No, they're gonna be like, wait, is that Dylan Francis? And then you're like 40 floors with this guy.
Dillon Francis16:19Moment view
Like, and then they'll follow you to your room.
David16:21Moment view
I've had people knocking on my room, be like, yo, we know you're in there, come party with us across the way.
Dillon Francis16:28Moment view
Like, no, please.
David16:29Moment view
We read this about you, Wes. Is it true that you can't watch TV unless you— am I reading this wrong?
Jason16:36Moment view
Unless I'm on it?
David16:37Moment view
No, no. Is that true?
Jason16:38Moment view
Yeah, I only watch episodes that I've appeared on.
David16:42Moment view
Oh, because I read somewhere that you can't watch TV unless you watch at least 2 hours of Sesame Street.
Jason16:46Moment view
That's— I don't know.
Dillon Francis16:47Moment view
I think you mixed up two things right there. Like somehow Wes watching TV. Were you on an episode of Sesame Street? No, no, that was when I was younger.
Diplo16:56Moment view
I think that's a Dylan note.
Dillon Francis16:59Moment view
Oh, it's a Dylan note? Yeah, that was when I was younger. I had to watch an hour of Sesame Street to watch a regular— be able to watch regular TV.
Diplo17:06Moment view
So it was a real note.
David17:06Moment view
I thought you were talking about like, that's the stupidest note ever, but you were just claiming it as your own.
Dillon Francis17:10Moment view
Yeah, yeah, no, that's mine.
David17:11Moment view
But what is it?
Dillon Francis17:12Moment view
That was when I was younger. It's not right now. I don't have to do that anymore.
David17:14Moment view
I don't have to do that anymore. Sorry, our notes aren't up to date.
Diplo17:17Moment view
Yeah.
David17:20Moment view
Okay. Okay. This is, this is a good one too. The least amount of effort you've given during a show. Ooh.
Jason17:29Moment view
Ooh.
Diplo17:29Moment view
Ooh.
Jason17:29Moment view
Ooh.
Dillon Francis17:29Moment view
Okay. Um, this is actually pretty bad, but there's a reason for why I gave such little effort. So I had flown from India that day to Australia. We had to drive to the venue that was out in this— on this fucking like cliff, right? And my set time got pushed back like 5 hours and I was so tired. So on stage I was playing for 30 minutes, like the sound was fucked up. I just— I, dude, I was literally just like playing things and I just remember walking off stage and I was like, Mike, I'm not playing anymore. I'm sorry. I didn't even say bye to the crowd or anything. It was really fucked up on my part and it was really windy too. So I think it was affecting a lot of people that were like trying to have a good time.
David18:06Moment view
You're blaming it on the wind?
Dillon Francis18:07Moment view
Yeah, I think the wind was mainly—
Jason18:09Moment view
If you lose the vibes of the crowd, it's really hard to get it back. Like, on stage, like, there's not one comedian— if it's not going good, you're just like, next joke works. So it's like kind of hard to like— it's interactive all the time.
David18:19Moment view
But how often do you lose the crowd? Like, per year, if you have— let's say you have 100 shows, which I know you have more, but per 100 shows, how many times do you lose?
Jason18:25Moment view
At this point, I don't really— I mean, if people come to my shows, they're going to kind of come like they're going to take whatever the fuck I give them. Like, I'm like, this is my thing.
David18:33Moment view
Old MacDonald Had a Farm.
Jason18:34Moment view
Yeah, you know, I love that song. Big tune. But, um, big tune. But if there's if there's a technical problem, that sucks, you know? And if you're doing 300 shows a year, you might have like 3 or 4. Like, I did a show in Nigeria once, raining outside, and everything was shorting, all the plugs are shorting. I go on stage and I'm like, okay, I'm playing my big record, this is like a Jackie record, and I was like playing this piano intro, everything going crazy. And I go jumping on the stage going crazy, and only the monitors are playing. Like, the speakers aren't playing.
David18:59Moment view
Oh my God, yes!
Jason18:59Moment view
So I'm just like, like, this girl's not feeling me, but fuck it, I'm gonna go. And then I'm like just going there. I'm like, gee, this sucks. And then they come, they come and just turn me down. Like, yo, just wait a minute because like we gotta fix it. And I'm like, but the mic works. So I'm like, what's going on here? So I'm like, okay, walk a little back. But the crowd's like, they're like the kind of people leaving because it's raining. I'm like, this sucks. And then I get on the mic, I'm just like, hey guys. I start telling jokes, whatever. And at the moment, like, Big Brother Nigeria was like a really big show. And this guy's like, tell some jokes about Big Brother Nigeria. So I was like I don't know what you think about this, but he's like, do this joke. I was like, okay. So I did like a little standup for like 5 minutes, like about Big Brother in Nigeria. And, um, the crowd kind of laughs a little bit, whatever. And then slowly they kind of walk away. But it was then, like, then finally it does plug in outta 2,000, maybe 100 people are still left at the end. And I did do a show and I was like, wait, wait, wait.
David19:50Moment view
Out of the 2,000, 100 people are left?
Jason19:51Moment view
Cause it's like 30 minutes and it's raining. People are not gonna stay for a show.
Dillon Francis19:54Moment view
By the way, that happened to me at one of his festivals as well, the Maddie's and Block Party, where I did the exact same thing where the monitors were on. And you just fucking go so hard on the first song you're playing, and it's the most embarrassing thing possible.
Jason20:06Moment view
Imagine like some guy dancing on stage with no audio, just like going crazy by himself. That's what you look like.
David20:12Moment view
It's just this mic is working, you just hear yourself breathing.
Dillon Francis20:16Moment view
It's so sad to look down and just see faces of just like, yeah, this—
David20:19Moment view
if people aren't moving, it's like you're so in the moment, and you can't tell, right? Because this— because your speakers are so loud.
Dillon Francis20:24Moment view
Yeah, my speakers are so loud. So then, then someone had to come over and be like, Oh, the fucking main speakers are on. And I was like, are you fucking like, what the fuck is happening?
David20:32Moment view
How is it possible?
Jason20:33Moment view
That's like the worst.
Dillon Francis20:34Moment view
It's so bad.
David20:35Moment view
And then I've also noticed that like different crowds will come in to like different shows.
Dillon Francis20:39Moment view
Yeah.
David20:39Moment view
And you'll have to like change your music style just for that crowd that's coming in. So it'll be like a football team and it'll be more like pump up stuff or whatever.
Jason20:47Moment view
I had to do a show. I did, uh, when the Eagles won the Super Bowl, I'm a big Eagles fan. It was like 3 years ago in Minnesota. And I got booked like last minute to do the Super Bowl after party. It was me and Cardi B and I was in Pakistan. I was doing a show then, had to fly from Pakistan.
David20:59Moment view
Dude, this is fucking—
Jason21:00Moment view
Minneapolis and back to India because I had to show the next day. But I went there and I'm like playing like randomly hip-hop records for all the football players. And then the owner of the club's like, can you play Tom Petty? I won't back down. I was like, all right. So I was like, play all— everybody like, all the football players like going crazy. Lil Uzi Vert's playing, Cardi B. I was like, all right. But I'm just like, I had to go back and forth to like classic rock.
Diplo21:20Moment view
Holy shit, that's, that's funny. Like you guys are artists, but at the same time someone can be like, hey, that's the DJ, tell him switch the tunes up.
Jason21:28Moment view
But at this party, I'm not the headliner. It's the Eagles. I'm making everybody happy. I'm so happy that they won the Super Bowl. This is like a rare event.
Dillon Francis21:35Moment view
Right, right.
Jason21:35Moment view
It's their day. Also, at the end of the day, we're DJs. Like, I'm happy to present my music and play records and make everybody happy and enjoy my content. But at the same time, I want to— we're like vibrators. We want people to be crazy. If the situation's not good, me and him are both DJs at the bottom and we're just like, we can do— we can figure it out. We can figure out the puzzle. To make everybody happy at one point.
Dillon Francis21:54Moment view
I know how to play Black Eyed Peas. I can do it.
Jason21:57Moment view
It's gonna work.
David21:58Moment view
Do you guys hate when people come up to you and like ask you to play specific songs?
Dillon Francis22:02Moment view
If it's a bad song?
Jason22:03Moment view
Yeah, I hate that.
Dillon Francis22:03Moment view
If it's a good song, then I'll be like, oh fuck yeah, I'll do that.
David22:06Moment view
That happens every show. There has to be like a drunk dude or a drunk girl coming up and being like—
Dillon Francis22:10Moment view
Well yeah, ever since like the phone, the Chiron thing has come out.
David22:14Moment view
People will put it on their phones.
Dillon Francis22:15Moment view
Yeah, they'll be like, play Dancing Queen.
David22:19Moment view
That's not my song.
Jason22:21Moment view
I mean, 'cause all the TikTok records are so big, by the time we get back to the clubs, I don't think people know who those records are though. They're like, there's songs that are 15 seconds. Play the one with the dance. I'm like, what is this? There's like no one knows.
David22:32Moment view
Play this one.
Jason22:34Moment view
Nobody knows who the songs are or what they are, so it's gonna be a little bit awkward to figure out.
David22:38Moment view
Your sets are gonna be 3 minutes long. You're just gonna go through the TikTok playlists. Are you guys good car DJs? I know it's stupid, but are you?
Dillon Francis22:44Moment view
No.
Diplo22:45Moment view
Awful.
Jason22:45Moment view
I feel like people would love if you gave your Spotify playlist up. I would follow you. I love seeing people's playlists.
David22:50Moment view
Dude, he just found out who I was today and he's already—
Jason22:52Moment view
I know, I'm already about your— I'd rather follow you on Spotify than any other media. I think that means so much more to people, like, because that's like what you put your heart into. Like, oh, what makes you like happy in the club, whatever. I mean, people— what makes you happy in the club? I'm saying, I meet people all the time, I'm like, I actually follow people's Spotify. I like— I check that. I check what they listen to.
David23:09Moment view
Really?
Jason23:10Moment view
Yeah.
David23:10Moment view
Oh, fuck. Okay. Yeah, I'll go update my Spotify.
Jason23:13Moment view
I would follow it.
David23:13Moment view
You like Portugal. The Man?
Jason23:15Moment view
I love Portugal. The Man.
David23:16Moment view
Great. That's why I have like fucking 3 songs on there with Portugal.
Jason23:18Moment view
All right, well then. I only know one of their songs. They're homies of mine.
Dillon Francis23:20Moment view
I was trying to make a song with them, but Before COVID hit.
Jason23:23Moment view
They're not even from Portugal. They're from Alaska.
Dillon Francis23:25Moment view
No, they're from Seattle. I thought one of them's from Seattle.
Jason23:27Moment view
Alaska.
Dillon Francis23:27Moment view
Really?
Jason23:28Moment view
Yeah, they're from Alaska.
Dillon Francis23:29Moment view
Anchorage?
Jason23:29Moment view
No, somewhere. Aren't they?
David23:31Moment view
Maybe they're not real people. Maybe they're also—
Jason23:32Moment view
Are they even real guys? Dylan used to have a festival in Alaska called Dalaska. No, you didn't. Yeah, you did. He had two of them. It was like, it was his own festival.
David23:41Moment view
Wait, what? I don't know why.
Dillon Francis23:43Moment view
I just like one day I called my booking agent. I go, yo, I wanna play in Alaska. I just need to see it.
David23:47Moment view
And that shit just happens.
Jason23:48Moment view
Yeah.
Dillon Francis23:48Moment view
He's like, yo, I got you. It was wild because everyone's like, yo, we don't get any artists up here. Like, thank you so much for doing this. It was amazing.
David23:57Moment view
People showed up.
Dillon Francis23:58Moment view
I think the first one was like probably, you know, 10. I think we bumped it up a little bit. I swear to God, I'm not even joking either. It wasn't like a crazy amount, but then the next one got bigger.
David24:07Moment view
But everybody was fucking feeling it because—
Dillon Francis24:08Moment view
yeah, but then everyone started copying me.
David24:10Moment view
Does that—
Jason24:10Moment view
I did, I did one too after that.
David24:13Moment view
Alaska too. Yeah, I did it.
Jason24:13Moment view
I did Madison Block Party, Alaska. But But the best thing is they have a strip club there called the Alaskan Bush Company. It's like a 100-year-old strip club. And it was like the craziest strip club I've ever been to. They have like people, burlesque shows in like an old tub. Like it's like pioneer stripper.
David24:27Moment view
Right, right, right. Like OG strippers. So wait, what's the most amount of people you guys have played to?
Jason24:31Moment view
I played in Havana for like 2 million people.
Dillon Francis24:34Moment view
Yeah, he beat me.
Jason24:34Moment view
Why? Major Lazer did too.
Dillon Francis24:35Moment view
Yeah, 'cause they did the first show in Cuba.
David24:37Moment view
You did the first show in Cuba?
Dillon Francis24:39Moment view
There's a documentary about that.
Jason24:40Moment view
It was actually the second one 'cause Rolling Stones played before us, but we had a bigger audience than Rolling Stones.
Dillon Francis24:44Moment view
It's so sick to watch.
Jason24:45Moment view
Oh my god, it's called Gimme Future, about like, about just kind of like young people in Cuba.
David24:51Moment view
And 2 million people showed up.
Jason24:52Moment view
Yeah, free show in the streets.
David24:55Moment view
That's fucking insane.
Jason24:56Moment view
It's— the documentary is great because it talks about how everybody has access to information, but there's no internet in Cuba, so people trade USBs full of information.
Dillon Francis25:04Moment view
Don't you have to go to a park to go?
Jason25:06Moment view
No, guy goes like your house and gives you this USB and you share it like every week. It's a new USB.
David25:11Moment view
Wait, I'm sorry, did you say there's no internet in Cuba?
Jason25:13Moment view
For a majority of people, there's no internet. Yeah.
David25:15Moment view
News, someone will go write a bunch of things on a USB. They'll be like, Diplos coming to town.
Jason25:18Moment view
They aggregate it from like America or Europe and Spain, and they just put all this stuff on one USB and they trade it.
David25:23Moment view
How did Cuba promote that? Was that like the biggest thing in Cuba ever?
Jason25:26Moment view
We had a big fan base there because our records were kind of, you know, they were sort of like Caribbean reggaeton influence, but the government liked our records, so they actually promoted it on the radio because our records were about positivity. Like our big record was Lean On and Light It Up. There were records that didn't have any curse words, and it was kind of conservative country. But so they helped us make the show together and we were like not very— we knew they knew we weren't going to say anything stupid on stage and everybody loved it. Oh my God. I just, I studied Spanish for 2 weeks to try to like talk to people. I was just like, uno, dos, fucking jump. I was like, yeah, I was like, if you were like, all right, whatever.
David26:06Moment view
Um, that's all the time we have for Dylan Diplo. I'm going to leave all their shit linked in the description below, including new Diplo masks out now.
Jason26:12Moment view
Yeah, yeah, it's only 3 of them, but yeah.
David26:19Moment view
Natalie, you have some news for the entire world. Natalie's been super stoked to share. Jay, I don't know if you know this. I've known—
Diplo26:25Moment view
I don't think so.
David26:26Moment view
I've known this for— this is like Natalie's biggest announcement she's ever had.
Diplo26:30Moment view
The way things have been going for Natalie, I can't imagine. Like, it could be—
David26:35Moment view
it rhymes with type house. Oh wait, that sounds like high pass. I meant to say the White House. Either way, it'd be big news. So what's the news?
Natalie26:43Moment view
Okay, well, should I put my phone up?
David26:44Moment view
Sure.
Diplo26:44Moment view
Can I guess?
David26:45Moment view
Yeah.
Natalie26:46Moment view
No, no, no, no, no, just let me say—
Diplo26:48Moment view
pregnant?
David26:48Moment view
No. Why'd you make that— why'd you make that face like it's gross?
Natalie26:52Moment view
Because everybody, every time I tell anybody that this news, I'm like, I have something really amazing. Like, you're pregnant or you're married, they look at my hand for a fucking ring. I'm like, no.
David26:59Moment view
Okay, so no pregnancy, no marriage.
Natalie27:00Moment view
I would not come on The Views podcast like this and be like, I'm pregnant.
Diplo27:03Moment view
Wow, you would, wouldn't you?
David27:05Moment view
Wait, where would you go?
Natalie27:06Moment view
Wait, you'd go somewhere else for the announcement?
Diplo27:08Moment view
How could you not come here?
David27:09Moment view
Were you gonna go Fallon? Natalie, what the fuck are you saying? You're kind of— yeah, I wouldn't go on my boss's fucking podcast show that he cares about deeply. I'd go with the news somewhere else.
Diplo27:19Moment view
It really hurts.
Natalie27:20Moment view
That's not what I meant. That's what I meant.
David27:21Moment view
Okay, go. Okay, what's the news?
Natalie27:24Moment view
I am in Sports Illustrated Swim 2021. No way!
David27:32Moment view
Isn't that sick?
Diplo27:33Moment view
Congratulations, Natalie.
Natalie27:34Moment view
Thank you.
David27:35Moment view
That's my assistant.
Diplo27:37Moment view
You had nothing to do with it. Natalie, that's amazing.
Natalie27:40Moment view
Yeah, it's really cool.
Diplo27:42Moment view
Oh my god.
David27:42Moment view
She got asked to do it a couple months ago, and she told me, and I was like, cool. I had no idea what it was. I didn't know what it was. And then she explained it. She's like, there's only, there's only one issue of these a year.
Diplo27:54Moment view
You've never heard of the swimsuit issue?
David27:56Moment view
No, I have, but I thought they came out every month. I was like, oh, you're like, they chose you. I was like, she's gonna be in a collage full of other people that they like found off Instagram. But like, no, they flew her out to Miami Miami to do a full-blown fucking shoot for this.
Jason28:07Moment view
Wow.
Natalie28:07Moment view
It was the most amazing experience ever, ever in my entire life.
Diplo28:11Moment view
So proud of you.
Natalie28:12Moment view
Yeah, it was really cool, and it was just like so like impact— like I've never, I've never done a photo shoot like that ever before in my life. Obviously like I like model on my Instagram or whatever, but like I've never actually modeled, never done like a photo shoot professionally. And it was so cool. I had a whole like— it was like 20 people, police cars, like it was—
Diplo28:28Moment view
wait, wait, police cars? You had a police escort?
David28:30Moment view
Yeah, well, not an escort, a police escort.
Natalie28:32Moment view
They just had like 2 police cars like following us everywhere so that no one would like bother us on the set. And like, if people—
David28:38Moment view
you're so hot, people would just come up to you.
Natalie28:40Moment view
Well, they're very— the issue only comes out once a year, so they're very like— everything is very top secret. Like, I haven't even been able to see a photo until literally an hour before this right now.
David28:48Moment view
This girl was going to a local college in Vernon Hills studying plant biology.
Diplo28:52Moment view
Remember when she was like, I don't know if I want this job? And then David walked out of the room and I pulled her aside. I was like, you're crazy.
David29:01Moment view
Okay, so you haven't— she hasn't shown me a picture yet.
Natalie29:04Moment view
Okay, I haven't shown anybody the final like images.
Diplo29:06Moment view
Was it hard to be photographed? Because I know for me, if I got the swimsuit issue—
David29:10Moment view
Were you trying to say, was it hard to look sexy?
Diplo29:12Moment view
No, no, no. I know if I was like being photographed, anytime, even we took merch photos the other day, I am really uncomfortable. You know, like, was that hard? Were you good with it?
Natalie29:21Moment view
Well, I was very, very nervous.
David29:22Moment view
You guys have two different body types. I think it's a little easier for Natalie.
Diplo29:30Moment view
I'm sure it's easier for her, but still, you know, she— I would like get in my head or like you know, like having to pose. Did they make you do— the thing I've heard about these swimsuit things is actually really hard. Like, you have to like be in the water and like, oh, it was hard to pose.
Natalie29:44Moment view
It's crazy that like that—
David29:46Moment view
it's—
Natalie29:48Moment view
no, it's crazy that that was like my first experience because it was like all in. Like, this is like world-renowned photographer and team and all this stuff. And like, yeah, I'm like in the water, like crawling out of it all sexy.
David29:59Moment view
How many pictures did you guys take in total?
Natalie30:01Moment view
Out? Thousands.
David30:01Moment view
Okay, this is the one that you're— the one you're about to show us.
Natalie30:04Moment view
This is the one I'm about to show you. Is just the announce— so tomorrow, or it gets announced this week.
David30:09Moment view
Okay.
Natalie30:09Moment view
And this is the announcement photo. They're only releasing one image. I, I shot in like 16 different bikinis from like 4 AM until 4 PM that day. It was crazy. It was so intense, or I was like just going on adrenaline. It was awesome.
David30:20Moment view
Anyway, where did you change? I know it's a stupid question.
Natalie30:22Moment view
They had— they brought a little changing tent like right on the beach, and they would hold it up around me.
Diplo30:26Moment view
And I would recognize you from the video.
Natalie30:28Moment view
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Diplo30:29Moment view
There was like, yeah, there was like girls, they're like, go Natalie!
Natalie30:32Moment view
And I was just like, you know, whatever.
David30:34Moment view
All right, can we see the picture? Natalie's texted it to all of us.
Natalie30:37Moment view
I haven't texted it yet officially.
David30:38Moment view
Okay, okay, Natalie, Natalie texted us. I'm opening in 3, 2, 1, open it. Whoa, whoa, what the fuck? Oh my lord, Natalie, this doesn't look like you. This, I mean, it looks like you.
Natalie30:55Moment view
I know, but it's like the most ultimate sexy hot version of me, which is like not a version of me ever.
Diplo31:00Moment view
You look so good, man.
David31:01Moment view
Notable alumni from Lake Forest College, Natalie Maradona and her ass. Wow, this is fucking crazy.
Diplo31:10Moment view
I love the way they did your makeup.
Natalie31:12Moment view
I know, the hair and the makeup was like insane.
Diplo31:14Moment view
You look like, um, like Sheena Warrior Princess. Like, you look like you're in like an action show or something.
David31:21Moment view
And this is, I imagine, after months of Photoshop. How did it— no, but how, how similar was this to— is it— you were telling me about this, that like it wasn't even like— they don't Photoshop shit, right?
Natalie31:33Moment view
No, I mean like my stretch marks are on there, like my whole body is just like there.
David31:36Moment view
Right, so this is— it's just like they're so good with the lighting. I mean, you're obviously very pretty too, but they're so good with the lighting.
Natalie31:41Moment view
No, no, no, like I literally— for my first photo that I took, I was very nervous. I didn't even want— I was like, I don't want to be in the bikini, you know, whatever. And I wore a bikini that wasn't too like revealing. Yeah. And then, um, and I was kind of like just shy and not like moving my body and like being free. And and they were like, okay, come look at these photos. And I took like the first couple photos and I looked at the monitor and like literally my jaw dropped and my heart was like racing because it was just like, they have, they have screens for lighting, the literally a leaf blower blowing my hair and everything is like perfect to a T to make this perfect photo. But like even on the monitor I was like, holy shit. And then I just like snapped into it because I was like, this is fucking sick.
Diplo32:17Moment view
Jesus Christ. I, um, I actually have some news, uh, if you guys Well, it's pretty exciting. Uh, if you want to check your phones, I was selected to be on the COVID of, uh, Sleep Apnea Today. And then I think we have a picture of it right here.
David32:35Moment view
I didn't know we had effects like that. I didn't even just call for shit like that. Nah, this is sick. What is your— what does your friends from your hometown say?
Natalie32:42Moment view
I haven't shown anybody.
David32:44Moment view
What do your ex-boyfriends think, you think?
Natalie32:46Moment view
Oh God, I don't even want to know.
David32:47Moment view
I can't imagine.
Natalie32:48Moment view
I can't imagine.
David32:49Moment view
You moved out here, you're dating the sexiest fucking guy probably in like Studio City, Sherman Oaks Yeah. And then, and then you're on— you're in a Sports Illustrated issue. You got fucking—
Natalie32:59Moment view
I think people— I, I told my friends that I was like going to Florida and like doing this whole thing, doing the shoot and everything, and they were— people were all like very confused. And like, the best way—
David33:08Moment view
did you win the contest?
Natalie33:09Moment view
Well, they were like, how did you— how did you even get— because there's only like—
David33:14Moment view
are you dying?
Diplo33:14Moment view
Is this your make-a-wish?
David33:15Moment view
This is my make-a-wish.
Natalie33:17Moment view
Um, no, but there's only like 20-something girls that are selected for the issue.
David33:20Moment view
It's like a Like, there's only 20 girls.
Natalie33:23Moment view
24, I think.
David33:23Moment view
So are you like a full page?
Natalie33:25Moment view
What is it? I am— I'm like a part of— so I have my own rookie page because I'm a rookie, it's my first year. So I have a whole like spread dedicated just to me, and then I'll have another few photos. I think there's like 3 photos. It's crazy. And that's in my little section.
Diplo33:39Moment view
You have 3 photos in the issue?
David33:41Moment view
Wait, so you'll be an entire page? Yeah.
Diplo33:43Moment view
You have 3 photos in the issue?
David33:45Moment view
Oh wait, I don't know what the confirmed photos are, but you said you're the COVID of the issue.
Dillon Francis33:48Moment view
Shut up.
Diplo33:50Moment view
No. And you're dating Dwyane Wade.
David33:52Moment view
And all the other girls suck? No, just the worst rumors. Yeah, this is sick.
Diplo33:57Moment view
Congrats. And is it gonna have like a little like blurb about who you are and what you're about?
David34:01Moment view
Is it gonna mention me? Am I in a Sports Illustrated?
Natalie34:03Moment view
No, there was definitely like—
Jason34:04Moment view
it's—
David34:04Moment view
are you fucking knowing Natalie? She changed the words. Natalie, her own boss, moved out to LA to start her own business. No, she calls it DD LLC, would not tell us what it stands for, but she's so stoked about how it's going. Also, she just started —All by herself. That's sick. Yeah, what is it gonna say about you?
Natalie34:27Moment view
I mean, I have no idea. I don't know what anything— it doesn't come out till July. The official issue doesn't come out till July. They're just announcing me as the first rep.
David34:33Moment view
This is just a little tease. I have some news too. Oh yeah, big news actually. So you know I'm such a big fan of awards. Yeah. So yesterday I went over to my friend Kourtney Kardashian's house and we're just hanging out.
Natalie34:46Moment view
Did you steal one of her awards?
David34:48Moment view
Yeah, I stole one of her awards. Shut up. No, you didn't. I swear to God, I walked out, I was— I was— I went to her office and I noticed she had an E! People's Choice Award and it said Keeping Up with the Kardashians on it. And I was like, that would look so cool in my podcast studio. So I just went for it.
Natalie35:03Moment view
Wait, are you being serious?
David35:04Moment view
You know you took it. I'm being dead serious. No, she knows. I, I told her, I was like, I'm gonna, I'm gonna go— because I wanted to not tell her, but I was like, I feel so bad. And I was like, can I just take that? I'll give it back.
Natalie35:14Moment view
And she goes like, okay.
David35:15Moment view
She goes, fine. I didn't even know it was there. And then so went back in and I took it. But what you didn't know is that I took another one.
Natalie35:24Moment view
Oh my God, David.
David35:25Moment view
So when I went back in, I took, I took 2 People's Choice Awards, which is pretty sick. So now I have a total of 4.
Diplo35:31Moment view
It's a great way to get a guest on the show.
David35:32Moment view
They have to come back. They have to come back and get— I'm going to start breaking into celebrities' homes.
Diplo35:37Moment view
That should be your thing.
David35:38Moment view
You steal awards. This is sick though, bro.
Natalie35:40Moment view
They've won so many People's Choice Awards too. Have they?
David35:43Moment view
Right, because it's, it's by E. Like, yeah, they, they basically run They probably print these in their backyard. Yeah, this is pretty sick. It's cool that I think this is worth something. Yeah.
Natalie35:55Moment view
Oh, 100%.
David35:56Moment view
Keeping Up with the Kardashians, the best reality show of 2018. Does it have a year?
Natalie36:00Moment view
What's that one? 2020.
David36:02Moment view
Oh, I have the newest one. I mean, dude, this shit can go for a lot. And then as I was walking out, I also—
Diplo36:08Moment view
no, I'm just kidding.
David36:09Moment view
It's her dog. It's her Chihuahua. Our manager Jackson here. Jack, did you just do coke? No, but I have like a runny nose for some reason, so I'm sorry. Talking to Mike. Sorry.
Diplo36:20Moment view
Can you imagine if he's blowing through all your money with coke? Like, he has a crazy cocaine—
David36:24Moment view
not only that, but like, Jack, like, if you want him, like, for— he's my manager, and if you want him here for a meeting, it takes a little bit. But today we're like, hey, you want to come be on the podcast? He goes, I'm actually right outside, 7 minutes away. He literally got here so fucking quick. So I was like, there's something in a system.
Natalie36:40Moment view
I'm always here to support you guys, David, you know that.
David36:42Moment view
Well, thank you, dude. I wanted to show you this before we even go anywhere. Okay. Yo, you won't believe this. Check this out. Guess who this is? Sports Illustrated.
Natalie36:52Moment view
Whoa, Natalie!
David36:54Moment view
Yeah, I know, I know.
Natalie36:57Moment view
I don't want to get in trouble, so I don't—
David37:01Moment view
whoa, I think that's good enough for me. My wife loves the spotlights.
Jason37:05Moment view
Let's just move on.
Natalie37:09Moment view
All right, so Jack's here.
David37:09Moment view
But congratulations, that's really cool. Jack's here 'cause, well, we wanna talk about, we just launched our app Dispo, which is really sick. Quick rundown of it, it's, I mean, the reason we started the whole thing was because our friends would have disposable cameras at every party. Like every party we'd go to, they'd have disposable cameras all throughout the house, and they'd urge you to take disposable pictures throughout the night, and then, at like 4 AM they'd come and collect all the cameras, or like 9 AM the next day they'd come and collect all the cameras, and then they'd get the pictures developed, and then you saw all the photos from the night before, and it was literally like, it was like the end of The Hangover where like you reveal, like you saw all the clips, and it was like everybody was like hungover, everybody was like throwing up and puking, and it was like the funniest thing. And the best part about disposable cameras is like they never ruined a moment, which is so important to me. So yeah, so we wanted to make an app, a social media app, app where you can take those disposable pictures, but you can share them with your friends. And what's so cool about Dispo is that what we wanted to do is now you can take pictures and you can share them into a roll. So how that works is let's say you're on a family trip. Your dad can be like, take pictures into the Cabo roll. So all 5 of you will be shooting pictures into the Cabo roll, and then in the morning at 9 AM you get a notification and everyone sees all the photos from the trip taken from different angles. And no one has to send each other pictures or anything. You guys are all in the same group. And it's also great for like sororities and fraternities that are having parties and it's like, girls, everyone shoot into the Alpha Phi roll today and like you have a party and like every girl in the sorority can be taking pictures under one roll and then in the morning it's this cool unboxing experience like it's Christmas morning and you can see all the pictures from the night before and I love that. So I'm super stoked.
Diplo38:54Moment view
I'm really, really excited about it. Congratulations.
David38:56Moment view
Thanks, we got a new roll. It's huge. We've been working on it for a really long time. How long have you been working on it for? Probably like 2 years. Yeah, like really, really long.
Diplo39:02Moment view
And it was out just as a camera for a while.
David39:04Moment view
It was out as a camera, and then we started talking about we wanted people to share roles, and then that's when we started doing like investor meetings, and then—
Diplo39:12Moment view
And now you can have followers on there, right?
David39:15Moment view
You can have followers, and then it became public that we were doing something, and then yeah. But yeah, I'm super stoked about it. We just made a commercial for it, which was so fucking fun. We shot it with Mark Romanak. Yeah, it's amazing. Super talented dude. And in the commercial, I have makeup on, prosthetic makeup, The guy who made my makeup, his name is Kazu. I can't fucking explain how talented this man is. It took like 6 hours to be put into makeup, plus like 4 hours the day before because they had to like figure out my face. Or sorry, it was 4 hours like a couple weeks before. And he's just so, so incredibly fucking talented. He's an Oscar Award-winning special effects artist. So he's done— he did Benjamin Button, he did Zero Dark Thirty that he won the Oscar for, he did the Grinch. Grinch, which is crazy.
Natalie39:59Moment view
I think he may have won for it.
David40:00Moment view
I don't know.
Natalie40:01Moment view
I gotta look that up.
David40:01Moment view
He may have won. He did The Grinch, and like, so he put Jim Carrey into makeup every day for 6 hours, and then to take the makeup off is like another hour, hour and a half, and they would do that every day they would shoot. It's fucking insane. We did it one day, and I was just like, how does someone sit here 6 hours a day just sitting here just to put makeup on?
Diplo40:17Moment view
Didn't he like even do like the hair coming out of your skin?
David40:21Moment view
Oh, I mean, yeah, you see pores. It's like crazy. No, it's insane. And like, and the craziest part is the whole thing is like super fucking pricey. Like the whole makeup job was what, a little over $200,000? A little over $200,000.
Diplo40:35Moment view
I saw him outside. I showed him my Dr. Phil.
David40:39Moment view
Yeah, yeah, he dresses up as Dr. Phil and Jason's standing outside with Kazu. He's like, look, I dress up.
Diplo40:45Moment view
I was debating the moment because I was like, but you know what, no, he'll appreciate this, I think. And then I showed it to him and he was really sweet. He just goes, why do you do this? What did you say?
David40:55Moment view
I said, I said, I make videos. And he goes, oh, I want to get out of here.
Diplo41:01Moment view
And then, you know what he said? He— I swear to God, he goes, he goes, thank you for showing me that. Like that. Like he learned something from it.
David41:07Moment view
That was really sweet. And like, even— I don't know, that it was just a crazy, crazy process just to watch him work. And I felt like super stoked on that.
Diplo41:15Moment view
Yeah, David really cried in the commercial. Those are real tears.
Natalie41:19Moment view
Yeah, yeah, that's what I wanted to kind of dive into.
David41:22Moment view
Jack— yeah, Jack was like, yeah, so I had to cry for the commercial. We had a couple takes to do it, so I cried on 3 different occasions, I think. We did 3 takes.
Natalie41:31Moment view
Let me just kind of set this up. So we're there, we're in Malibu, we're at this small house. It was beautiful, the lighting was great, the setup is there. David sits down, and like, I remember thinking like, you know, this could be awkward, this could be weird.
David41:44Moment view
Oh my god, when Mark pitched me the commercial, he's like, yo, the main shot is gonna be you crying. I was like, dude, like, fuck.
Natalie41:54Moment view
So everyone's on a monitor and we're watching this, and you know, I'm sitting there, obviously Jason and Natalie are there too with Dan, and it was just fascinating to me because you're not an actor, right? You know, like, and you— but you do talk about— you do talk about in a funny way, like, David will bring this up sometimes, or like, I don't know if you remember saying stuff like this, like, what does an actor do? Like, what, what is an actor? Actor, right? Like you've said that before, I'm sure. And but even in my, in my head, I was kind of like, yeah, like there is kind of a point there. Like when someone says, oh, I'm an actor, like what does that mean? And so the reason I want to bring it up is like, that was the first time that I had seen you completely fearless, dude. It was like, whoa. Yeah, it was. Yeah. And I cried. Really?
David42:41Moment view
100%. I actually know I got off, I got off my first cry and I think that was like the better one, and I was like, how'd it go? And Jack's wiping away his tears.
Natalie42:52Moment view
Yeah, Natalie was kind of like, what the fuck, Jack?
Diplo42:53Moment view
Yeah, but he just got a big payday from Chipotle.
David42:59Moment view
I was like obsessed with— I was like obsessed with acting. I would like read all up on like actors and like how they cry and stuff. And there's this magazine when I was I think 12 years old, Emma Watson was being interviewed for Harry Potter, and it was like a teeny bopper magazine type thing. And the question was, how do you make yourself cry? And her answer, I remember for the rest of my life. I have no idea why it stuck to me, but she's like, she said, you just have to think of really some— you just have to think of something really sad and put yourself in that moment. And it was so simple, but like, but like, that's all it was. And I was just thinking of Emma Watson the entire time, and I was like, that's how I'm gonna do this, is like exactly what she told me. This is interesting. And yeah, and in the picture, in the, in the commercial, I'm going through, I'm going through like all the pictures of our friends, and like, I haven't filmed in a while, and I fucking miss face it. So I literally just, I just like the, there's two people that really made me cry and it was Jason because I thought of him passing away and I'm being serious. I thought of him dying.
Natalie43:53Moment view
When you were in that chair, you literally thought about that?
David43:55Moment view
I thought of him dying. Like, so, so, cause I imagined it like he's dead and like he's gone. And then, and then, and then Carly for some reason, Carly and Contra, cause I haven't seen her in a while. I haven't seen her in like 6 months. And like that, that like made me cry too. So like seeing all my friends and like those interactions That, that's always making me amazing segue.
Natalie44:13Moment view
So I, on the car on the way home, or when I got home from the shoot, I just wrote this on one of my, on the, like the, the app, um, the notepad, whatever. And I wrote, Dispo shoot. I've worked with David for 5+ years and I've never seen him do anything that fearless. Wait, you're gonna love this. And this is literally what you just said. This is why it's crazy. I cried 3 or 4 times. The room full of people was a mixture of David missing friends, missing parties, missing moments, but most importantly missing life. 2020 was a year that separated David from his vlog and his friends. The crying was a culmination of a lot of things. I felt David's pain. He wasn't faking anything. He didn't give a shit if people saw him cry. It was fucking magical.
David44:52Moment view
You totally did blow on your way here.
Natalie44:58Moment view
That's why I wanted to read on the podcast because like, that's so sweet.
David45:01Moment view
When did you write that?
Natalie45:02Moment view
Like literally when I got home then I'm like, I gotta bring this up.
David45:05Moment view
You wrote that home the night you You got—
Natalie45:06Moment view
yeah, I was like, I gotta let David know that, like, wow, I appreciate that.
David45:10Moment view
It was cool. Damn, I didn't know that moved you so much. Yeah.
Natalie45:13Moment view
And then the best part was I kind of looked at Natalie. I'm like, Natalie, how fucking good is it? And Natalie, I swear, deadass goes, David knows I don't cry. Like, I was like, oh, well, Natalie's like, I'm gonna go get lunch.
Diplo45:30Moment view
I finished my book and I had to to send it to the people that are written in the book, and that was really— For approval? Yeah.
David45:38Moment view
Oh shit, and what's your book about?
Diplo45:39Moment view
Like, it's a memoir? Yeah, it's like a memoir. It's just like a funny book about my life.
David45:44Moment view
Is it more like a look how I made it?
Diplo45:47Moment view
Yeah, it's like my story. Oh. You know, it's like how before I met you, my life before I met you.
David45:51Moment view
How many pages?
Diplo45:52Moment view
I think it's like 270.
David45:54Moment view
And the first 250 are just a bloodbath?
Diplo46:00Moment view
Yeah, yeah, it kind of is. Like, I had to reread it this weekend and it kind of is. Like, you started crying? I did. I was reading it and I was like, oh my God, I was like, something— I can't believe something— I would see— I would read something bad happening to me again, maybe like the 9th thing, and I was like, no way.
David46:16Moment view
So you sent it to your ex-wife?
Diplo46:18Moment view
I sent to my ex-wife and my dad. Oh, fuck.
David46:20Moment view
Yeah. Oh shit, your dad. You talk a lot of shit about your dad. What did he say?
Diplo46:24Moment view
He wrote me back, he was like, "Get rid of chapter 2." He was really nice about it. The day I was born. Chapter 2 is like childhood, you know? The first chapter is about being married and having no job, and the second chapter is about childhood, right? So I was fat, I was overweight, my father's really macho, I was a pussy, shit like that. It's funny, but he just read it and was just like, no.
David46:50Moment view
Wait, why didn't he like it? Because he was portrayed in it?
Diplo46:52Moment view
He was portrayed poorly in it. But, but if, like, I reread it, I had my mom read it, my sister read it, and I like light him up in it. Like, I'm like, I say like how great he is and all his good characteristics, and— but he just didn't read that. So then I went back and I just read into all the negative stuff. Yeah, he just said like, you know, he's like, he's like, I didn't abandon you, like that.
David47:13Moment view
I didn't say that. No, it doesn't say abandon me. His hair was beautiful, his eye color It was awesome, but he abandoned me.
Diplo47:20Moment view
No, I didn't say that. I was like, it doesn't say. It was like, it was like a fun conversation back and forth, and then Marnie was great with it.
David47:27Moment view
So, well, you don't complain about your ex-wife there?
Diplo47:30Moment view
Uh, no, I think maybe because she works in TV that she understands like what a story is, so she was okay with it. She asked me to change one thing. Oh, also, she has different recollection of how we got divorced because I have like a story in there like what I thought happened. She's like, that's not what happened. Happened. Her version is that I cut celery wrong. Like celery, like celery, you know, when you get a bag of celery. Yeah. So one night I like, I just like tore the celery open and I like ripped the pieces out and then I put it back. And that, that's what she says was— that was like the last—
David48:00Moment view
that was the last straw for her. What did you say it was for you?
Diplo48:03Moment view
She asked me to leave the office so she could work out.
David48:06Moment view
Damn. And that's when you went to go grab the celery? Yeah. And you're like, I'm gonna rip this fucker to shreds. Yeah.
Jason48:12Moment view
Oh wow.
Diplo48:12Moment view
So anyways, I thought that was interesting. Am I— did you write about me? Yeah, yeah, you're in like 3 of the chapters. Did you read? You're, you're, you're great in it.
David48:21Moment view
Oh no, I'm not worried.
Diplo48:23Moment view
Yeah, I'm not gonna read it.
David48:34Moment view
I had all these fucking mean jokes planned at you, but like, I can say it's just going so well, I just don't even want to do any of these. I mean, if you want to just Just like, do them off, do them quick. Dylan has a residency at the Encore, which is pretty ironic because he's never been asked for one.
Diplo48:48Moment view
Oh, that's a pretty good one.
David48:50Moment view
Bail, bail on these. He's not taking you well. No, no, no, we're good, we're good.