Hanging With an Oscar Winner

What's up guys, welcome back to Views. We are back, new pod, new vlog is up. Let's go, freaking go, let's go. Jay, for the last— Jay, for the last like 2 or 3 pods has kept trying to bring up Jamie Foxx because we went to his house. Now, and I keep saying, please just wait till the vlog is out. Now you can bring up how much you were fangirling over him.

Oh man. Let's just say, obviously he's so funny, but he's just such a nice guy. Like great energy.

Yeah.

He's the best.

He's trying to lift people up around him.

Yeah.

So we went to Jamie Foxx's house. Jon was even there.

Yeah.

And he's really nice.

Yeah.

I go play pickleball there sometimes, like Wednesday nights at these pickleball things.

Right.

So about like a month ago I went I don't like talking about like celeb friends until I've like put them in a vlog.

Sure.

Then I feel like they're on the table for like I could mention anything about them.

Right.

But like a month ago we were playing pickleball and I hit Jamie in the face.

Oh yeah.

And I felt so bad because I'm like, I, you know, I'm trying when I'm there. Like, I don't just go to like, fuck, I'm not going to go easy on Jamie Foxx because he's in fucking the coolest movies ever.

He's Jamie Foxx.

Yeah.

He's Electro from Spider-Man.

Like, just because he's in a couple of Spider-Man movies, I'm not going to take it easy. Yeah. Hit him in the face, and I felt really bad. He went upstairs right after.

Oh my God.

Yeah, it was— I texted, I texted, I texted like my group chat, like, I just hit Jamie in the face, I don't think I can come back. But we came back next week, and he's—

he totally forgot.

Um, and he's so great, he's so welcoming. Yeah, like, I, I brought— I bring everybody there, like Alex, John, Ilya, Jay, you came. Ah, and incredible. And he's the best storyteller like on the face of earth. He has like a million stories.

Yeah.

And he said this interesting thing that I said on the pod a really long time ago, a really long time. Like, I think when we started, and I don't know if I necessarily agree with this statement that I made, but he kind of like almost backed it up. Jamie was saying when he started off in the comedy world.

Yeah.

That there was like, he went on stage a couple of times and this old timer that's been there for a while was like to him, you're funny. All you need now is time. Like, you just need experience. You need life experience. That's all you need. Like, there's no— you can't sharpen your tool of being funnier other than with life experience. And I don't know if you remember, but I said this like 5 years ago. I was like, I had a realization that I think like everyone's— like, if you're a funny person, you're born with the maximum amount of funny.

Yes.

But then your life experiences are the things— are the only things that can make you funnier. That's like— I like— I don't know. I don't like necessarily 100% stand by it.

So what do you stand by?

Well, I think it's 50/50. I think there are people that are just so funny that if you don't have life experiences, or if you don't have vocabulary, you can't be funny. That's what I suffer with. You just need to know things.

We have someone that's pretty funny in the room that is also lacking vocabulary.

Yeah. Jon.

Jon. You don't need vocabulary. You just need the words. What's the secret, Jon?

What's the secret of being a comic like you? Just forgetting things?

Yeah.

Just mixing things up. Dyslexia?

You know what he did that was so great.

This is what—

how I want to be. I wish I was more this way. He came in, the funniest thing he said was—

he walked into the room and he goes, "Doe Breezy!" Oh, Jamie Foxx? Yeah, he called you Doe Breezy, which I thought was—

no one's ever called you Doe Breezy.

No, it's really crazy. He like really hypes me up. It's so bizarre.

He hypes you up, and then what I loved what he did was he was like, "You should just stand up," and you were like, "No, no, no, no, no, no," and he's like, "No, no, no, no, no, you should just stand up," and then he like walked you to his stage And he like put you on stage and put a mic in your hand and was like, go, like, be funny, go, try, try, try. And I was like, oh my God, no one does that.

He's like a stand-up comedy room. Yeah, it's really funny. There was one time like I was playing pickleball and then he was like, he was bringing people down on his golf cart.

Yeah.

And then those people came up to me and they were like, the entire car ride down, Jamie kept saying that there's a big celebrity here and it's you. He kept hyping you up. I'm like, is Jamie Foxx on fucking meth?

I thought it was so—

it's really funny. Funny.

Yeah, I also never knew that Jamie Foxx is not his real name.

Oh my God, that was crazy!

Wait, that's not his real name?

No, no, I think I knew that.

It's Eric Bishop. Is this right?

Did you hear the story?

Yeah, that was fucking insane.

That was the craziest thing.

The story was— you want to say it?

Yeah, he was saying that back in the day when he was like— and he first started out in stand-up. I didn't know that either. I thought he started in acting, but he started up as like a stand-up.

And if you don't know Jamie Foxx, he's in Django Unchained. He's— I mean, he's huge, but he's also a singer. Sure, he's in Gold Digger with Kanye.

He's like the Ray Charles, one of Oscar?

Yeah, he's Oscar Award-winning, Grammy Award-winning. He's fucking incredible. Yeah.

But when he first started, he couldn't get booked. Like, he would go wait in line at the comedy stores or whatever comedy places, and he was the Black guy in a room of a lot of white people, and they were just like, no, you're not getting— you're not getting up until later, you know, whatever. He'd get like the worst.

And they were letting like the girls up.

Yeah.

Okay.

So that's why, long story short, he changed his name.

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

He changed his name to like a unisex feminine name. Yeah. So when the person was going through all the names.

Yeah.

They were like, Jamie Foxx, that's a woman's name. Now that I'm thinking about it, I'm like, oh my God, Jamie Foxx.

And it's like a sexy name.

It's like a sexy name. And he said like when he got off stage as his first day of being Jamie Foxx, people were like, yo, Jamie. And he was just like not even looking at them because one, he didn't associate himself with the name. And two, he's like, that's not my name. But like it stuck with him. Like, that's so crazy. And now he is forever known. As Jamie Foxx. So then more name drop. We went to Adam Levine's.

Just get it all out. Yeah, yeah, might as well.

Let me get my name drops out at the beginning. Adam Levine's house. They had a private show in Santa Barbara. Natalie and I went with Susie and Olivia. Yeah, um, that was a fucking blast. That was a blast. His— that's, that's one person that I wasn't expecting to be a big fan was Adam Levine's father. Adam Levine's like, we like, yeah, like the band went out to like dinner after.

Mm-hmm.

And we stopped by and his dad like stood up out of his seat and was like, I have been wanting to meet you for so long.

Wow.

How old is he?

This is fucking crazy.

I don't know.

I mean, like, if he listens to this, 30.

Super young.

Yeah. But I thought that was like really cool.

It's pretty wild. So he watched your videos?

Yeah. I met like, I met Adam's brother like 6, 7 years ago now.

Okay.

And, and the first time I found out Adam Levine watched the video was like 6, 7 years ago. And he's like, me and my brother, we put your videos on like in the movie theater and we watch them. Oh wow. Um, that was especially really crazy because I was like 20. I was like 20 at the time, right? We were making the vlogs and I was like, Adam Levine puts me in his movie room? Like in LA?

Like what?

Like that's like, that's like so many things going on. Like Maroon 5? Yeah, yeah, it's really wild.

Damn. So look at that, Dave got Jamie Foxx. Who else? Adam Levine.

That's all the name drops.

Sydney Sweeney. Any Sydney Sweeney, uh, moments this week?

No Sydney Sweeney.

Adam's wife, Victoria's Secret model, the hottie. That was my highlight of the week. She's so cool.

Natalie loves meeting her supermodels. Natalie has so much— every time we meet, like, every time there's a supermodel in the wild, I just like turn to Natalie, I'm like, what fun is it?

Because I know all of them by name.

I'm like, what is she known for? And then now, like, every, every woman apparently is the hottest of her generation. You feel they're all like about the same age.

He's like, oh, it's funny too, because like Bahati was in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit and she's obviously like same as your year. Yeah. No, no, not my year. Not my year. She's like an OG. And it kept being like, it was like the funniest thing, like just the both of us in the room and like, I don't know, just funny that.

Yeah. I wanted to tell her that Natalie was Sports Illustrated.

Why didn't you? He was like, Natalie, go up there and tell her that you were also in the issue.

And I was like, I'm sorry, you were? You?

You?

Oh, I'm like, I know it's hard to believe.

That's the bit John jumps in at. You fucking ugly bitch. He just gets it out there.

Are you sure Sports Illustrated swimsuit?

Yeah, the one in the bikinis.

Yeah, not Skank Magazine.

Skank Magazine. But yeah, that was a good time. Then we got to borrow the Batmobile from our friend for another bit, which was really fun.

Yeah, and crazy. He had crazy cars in there. There was like, remember he had like a Flintstones mobile? Jurassic Park.

Has the craziest cars. It's like Incredible.

Yeah.

And then after the bit, Jay, I was with him for an hour and a half because he couldn't get the Batmobile back up.

It died.

It died on the street. So I sent my security from my house to stand guard because the Batmobile was just sitting in the middle of the street. So I was just like, can you just go stand till the, like, till the morning, till, like, his team can come get it?

Wow.

So they just stood there with the Batmobile so no one, like, tags it or anything. But a really, really dope car. Oh, I thought of something the other day. As I was shooting, I was shooting with somebody. They said something that was like not controversial, but they thought was controversial. And they said, everybody finds a reason these days. That's what, you know, that's like a typical saying.

Sure.

And then I thought of my genius new saying that was, it's not everyone finds a reason these days. It's that these days find everyone. It's pretty cool. Oh, I think that's what it is. It's just that like, look at you, Mr.

Poet Laureate.

I mean, kind of, no, like think about it.

It's that These days, now everyone has a voice. So you offend. So there's, you know, every culture, everything is— everybody's like, everybody has a voice. Everybody's a critic is the way to say it. So I think that's why a lot more things are offensive, or at least they play on because more people are vocal about it, which in some aspects it's incredible. In some aspects it's annoying.

Right.

So yeah, there's, you know, There was definitely like a white line of—

It's funny to see celebrities get just torn apart now.

I always get—

Because I remember when there wasn't the internet and be like, those people, they were just, you know, you couldn't touch them.

I always think this is why celebrity is still celebrity. Like, just fucking go. Like, just like, chill. Unless you're a singer.

But what if you have a movie to promote? What if you—

But just stop.

Just go to Vernon Hills.

Just stop making movies.

Just go to Vernon Hills.

I don't know, but that's— they can't. They have to promote the movie.

It's part of the job.

I'm talking about like those like uber rich people that like, I guess they still must love it, but like, go like enjoy time with your family. Like, you've made it, you're lucky.

Like, just like fucking go.

We've had this conversation before. I've, I've taken that side too. I know what you mean, right?

Yeah, I'm only saying this for no reason at all. I feel like that's like Yeah, I guess it just depends. Like, if you really love your job, you love your job. That's right.

It's kind of a stupid argument.

It's pretty cool actually to shoot a movie, but it's pretty fun.

Yeah, I agree. The genius quote I came up with got me like inspired to look up more quotes.

Yeah.

And I was like, what other quotes like are really cool? So can I read you some?

Yes.

These are— this is gonna— this is a really good segment of David's favorite newest quotes. You can apply them to your life. I think these are great. Ready? These are my favorite quotes I've written down. I looked up and you tell them how much you like them.

Okay, we'll rate them on a scale of 1 to 10. Here we go.

Okay, my first one is, only a fool Only a fool trips on something behind them.

Oh, that's really good. John, what does that one mean?

Trips someone behind them.

That's what he said.

Oh, like you tripping someone. John, you stick your foot out, you know how you kick their shoe and then their shoe flies off a little bit?

Yes, from behind. Got it. What do you rate that quote? He goes, that sounds dumb.

He put his own spin on it.

I don't think that's what it is, John. That doesn't make sense.

Fool trips on something behind them. It's like, what? It's like you trip on things that are in front of— dude, I can't believe I'm doing this. You trip on things that are in front of you, right? So if a situation's behind you or a problem's behind you, no need to trip over it.

Like, don't dwell on the past.

I'll make it easier.

So he's not tripping on anyone?

No. And like, like a better saying is—

I can't tell if he's pretending.

I think this one he's acting. That's— you're acting, right?

Right.

Okay.

I think you have too much of a literal brain. Like you have a science brain.

I do have a literal brain.

I think that's what it is. A little, a little, little brain.

Okay, a literal brain.

Literal.

Ready?

Guys, I got more. I got more.

You see what I did there?

I did.

This one is, this one's a little religious.

Okay.

Ready?

Okay.

Why seek validation from a world that crucified a perfect man? Pretty good.

That's a good one.

Now I got John brain. I'm trying to follow that one. Why seek validation?

He goes, who did you crucify behind you?

Why say it one more time?

Why seek validation from a world that crucified a perfect man?

Ah, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.

Okay, this one I've known for a while. I really like this one. I have it on a snow globe here in my house. When you turn and face the sunshine, all the shadows fall behind you.

I love that one.

That one's nice, easy to understand. Yeah, I'm not going to repeat it for you, Jay. I know, I could tell.

I got it.

You sure?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Sun sets nice. The sun is nice.

Yeah, this was a slob on my knob like corn on the cob.

That's my favorite.

Yeah. That's— there's 2 more guys. 2 more. Bear with me here. This is really important. I like this segment.

My neck, my neck, my neck.

I like this.

You're inspiring the people.

No, I feel like we need more things where we inspire things.

Inspiring is good.

Yeah. Okay. This is a good one. Never miss someone who knows how to find you. Okay.

I like that.

That's a good one.

I like that.

Yeah.

That's fucking good. Yeah. These are fucking awesome.

You should write a book.

I mean, I didn't come up with these. Stole these from the internet, but that one's fucking good. I love that saying. What is it? Like, if someone could, they would or something like that.

Your book would be like, join them.

Can't beat them, join them. No, John, you're just throwing out another rhymey phrase. No, it's just like the fact that if you're texting a girl or a guy and they're like, if you wanted to, you would.

I can't this week.

There's no such thing as can't this week ever. Ever. Ever. I don't care who you are unless you're like, rocket's taking off. Actually, even then, your priority's the rocket. Like, that's just it. Like, it's just he doesn't want to. You're just not the number one priority. That's how I see it.

He's just not that into you. That was a famous phrase from years ago.

Oh, another good one.

Okay, and then this is a good one. There's nothing in nature that blooms all year round, so don't expect yourself to.

That's good too.

Pretty damn good. Yeah, so that's it. These are— this is all the ones I have for this episode.

Are you writing these down and then thinking about them and internalizing them for yourself?

Yeah, I really should. There's like 10 of them that I—

yeah, that sounds like nothing you would ever, ever apply.

Yeah, are you practicing what you preach?

No, it seems like he could because all—

he could. Yeah, no shit, chat. So this is why this one applies to Dave.

Like, I can't—

you see, he was canceled.

Hey, hey, I didn't say that.

Like, I can't see you like being somewhere and you know, saying that quote to yourself and looking at the sun and be like, well, Dave, the shadows are behind me. You know what I mean?

I don't know.

I do like—

you should try to, though.

I do. I do like things that are written pretty.

I do, actually.

I haven't been able to look at these like as much, but like, I do like, like, lame quotes like that. Not lame. Sorry, not lame, but just like—

quotes are great.

And I like those quotes because they do. There's like some actual, like, reason behind it. Like, it makes sense in my head.

Well, Natalie said something really interesting right before we started recording, which was you were looking at a picture of yourself when you were ripped and you were like, wow, I was really ripped. And now, like, what did you say?

I said that David has this problem where he can't— in the moment, he doesn't like appreciate.

Yes, that's not it.

I have that problem.

It's like never enough.

It's like you're a very glass half empty kind of person.

100%, for sure. And like, thank God I am, because like, you know, that's how it should be. But no, no, that's a whole different thing with like when you're in shape like you start getting so nitpicky. You're like, this ab, dude, for—

no, no, no, that's— it's not about that. It's not about— we're not saying like—

no, no, I know, I'm agreeing with her, but I'm saying that specific moment, right, had to do with like literally being in shape. Like, I remember when I was like fully had all six packs, right? Yeah, I remember like there would be a day where I would have an extra slice of fucking cheese.

Yeah, the next morning I would wake up and I'd be like, oh my God, it's fucking gone. That's a— that's mental to think like that, right? You know how angry that made me? Like, that makes me so angry. And that's why I have a divide between me and Ilia. It just— it just— it really makes me— it really makes me mad, like, to, like, count stuff like that. And I've— I get into this argument every time we're on the pod about health and fitness. Like, now I'm so happy to be in, like, a place where, like, I'm not— like, I'm actually thinking about what I'm eating, but I'm still not like—

You're still enjoying.

I'm still enjoying, but I'm definitely not doing what I was doing before.

No, I think—

Like it was bad.

The conversation about health and fitness is not what I'm getting at. I'm getting at the idea of like, hey, you just posted a great vlog. Like, I just hope you enjoy yourself and I hope you recognize and you take these little moments for yourself and be like, oh, good job, Dave. Or you have that inner monologue. That's all.

There's— hold on. I don't like when people do this to me. What you're doing here.

Oh my God. What is he doing?

Well, we finally, we have something to talk about.

What do we do?

Because, because I think, I think I have moments where I'm like, like, like, yeah, I'll post like a vlog or I'll go shoot a bit.

Sure.

And it's not the way I want it to be.

Right.

And then I'll be very glass half empty about it. But like, but like, let's be honest and we're calling a spade a spade here. Like I've been very happy doing absolutely nothing for the last 3 years and just sitting here. And I'm very glasses filled to the top brim, pouring down waterfall, infinity pool for how I view and how excited I am about just hanging out in life. So I think there's a mix of that. I think when it comes to my work, I'm glass half empty. When it comes to just like smelling the flowers, I think I'm a little bit different. But you can argue with me.

Yeah, no, I see what you're saying. I just hope that you take the time to—

Fuck you!

I hope you take the time to, like, be nice to yourself. That's all.

Really sweet.

But no, I think he takes— I think he really hypes himself up.

Yeah, I agree on that one. All right, so what's the problem?

It's about the others around you.

You want me to build you up?

Fuck yeah.

I yelled at Natalie today and she has like a knee spasm.

Yeah.

Oh my God, my knee today has just been like spasming.

It's driving me nuts because she'll sit by me editing and my leg will just fold up. On, like, twitch, and I'll literally go, Natalie, is she making noise? No, but she goes, oh, oh, oh, oh, she's making noise. Scares the fucking shit out of me. It's like her sneezes are already one thing that I have to deal with. Like, it's, it's like a volcanic eruption from her throat. Like, her sneezes are really fucking loud. And now she's, she's picked up a new spasm, which is crazy. And then she found out that it's when I stress her out, her knee starts to spasm.

Crazy, dude.

It's like, it's not that crazy, but yeah.

Well, he was yelling at me about something else, and then my knee started twitching, and again. I was like, I found out why it's fucking twitching. You're stressing me out.

I saw TikTok the other day. This is really funny. It was, uh, tell me your—

tell me your— tell me what your job is, but in the most Neanderthal way possible.

Okay, the comments are really good. The comments are— I took some screenshots.

It's me see man no swim, me swim lifeguard.

Oh, okay, someone commented You don't want grandpa?

I take grandpa.

Elderly care worker.

Retirement home.

Me sleep, me do nothing. Caveman husband hunt and gather. There's another one that's me apply, job say no. Me apply, job say no. Me apply, job say no. Car no clean, car now clean. Me carry many plate. Armstrong. Balance like mountain goat.

Oh, this one's good.

Sorry, last one. Sorry, I know I'm finding joy in the stupidest things here. Dig in rock. Dig in rock. Look at rock. Understand rock.

Oh, he's a geologist.

Yeah, yeah, pretty good. Wow, I fucking love TikTok.

Yeah, it's pretty great.

You do? So open your TikTok right now. What's the first video that comes up?

Oh, that's a good question. These are always so scary.

I saw Shawn Mendes do an interview once.

Yeah.

And it was like, and someone asked him like, can we see your For You page? And he was like, I'd rather not. And I never like understood it. And then I like started to realize like, damn, these are really like tailored.

Yeah.

Like, like there, there's, there was a day where like I had like 5 hot girls in a row, just like hot girls. And I was like, what is this? And it like literally made me feel, I was like, if somebody saw this, it'd be like, this is concerning.

I had to, that's happened to me too.

I had to go into settings and here, let's see my first one.

Right now.

Okay, what is that?

What is that, a dance video?

Yeah, it's a girl twerking. No, okay.

Oh my God, no, it's an HBO Max commercial, so that doesn't count.

You want to hear Ilya's favorite quote?

Sure.

Uh, fuck this guy.

I don't know if I like hearing the first word. It's something about power and greatness. I know it.

It's something—

I'm gonna be a billionaire.

Is it there is no difference? Does it go?

No, there is no such thing as free cheese.

Oh, okay, good.

The only free cheese is in a mousetrap.

I like it. I like this one better. Early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. Why? Why would that—

what does that mean?

The second mouse— the first mouse dies in the mousetrap trying to get the cheese, and the second mouse learns from the first mouse, can't get trapped, eats the cheese.

So someone has to die.

Someone—

one of us in this room will be executed today for the podcast.

Not me.

No, it's Ghost.

And only then will we be able to achieve Golden Globe status. Golden Globes and Illuminati have personally called me.

My sister texted me yesterday, she goes, are you in Illuminati? I just sent her back the shh emoji.

I'm not telling her. When you joined, did they have you keep it a secret, Jay?

Join what?

Very good. Dude, John just freaked out for a second. Cut that out, Jay.

I'm kidding.

Oh, John, I've been meaning to talk to you about this.

What?

Someone— so John wants to move out with his girlfriend.

Oh, Johnny.

What? Actually, let me backtrack it.

I feel like you started a trend.

Julia wants to move out, wants to get her own place. Yeah.

And I don't know.

Are you going to cry?

He starts breaking down.

Can you just give me a sec?

You need a Kleenex?

And, uh, no. Well, basically, basically when I, basically when I found out about this, I was like, John, what the fuck? Like, we'll give you guys the bigger room, whatever.

Your room?

Uh, no, no, Alex is in the bigger— Alex is the best view in the house. Oh yeah, like if we were to compare like how much rent should be in every room, John's rent would probably cost $3,000. And Alex's room would cost like $8,000. Yeah, like Alex's room is like by far the best room. So I was like, okay, what if you and Alex switch rooms? And Alex does not care for the room because he doesn't care for the view, and he actually wants a colder room. That's John's. So it was perfect. So situation solved. But then I read some comments, and yeah, like on Snap, and they were like, Dave, you gotta let your friends go. And it made me realize I totally fucking do. So yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's funny that comments made more sense to you than the people around you. They got through to you.

Yeah.

Well, also, my sister texted me the other day. It was really funny.

She texted me. She's like, she's like, we were like having like an argument about something about like, I don't know. And she's like, what makes you happy? And then I sent a picture of like John playing pickleball and she goes, don't you pay him?

And I'm like, fuck, dude, like, this is crazy.

Yeah.

I guess I fucking pay John now. So yeah, yeah, you didn't have to pay me.

No, I know, I know, I know, I know.

But like, I pay you because you are my friend, not backwards. That makes sense.

Whoa, wait, wait, what? So John, you're gonna go?

Go where?

Oh yeah, you're gonna move out.

Don't play this fucking Abbott Costello shit with me.

John doesn't want to match.

Wait, this is like, it's like a who's on first. You know who's on first?

Don't do that with him. Yeah, yeah.

So you are moving out? Out?

Um, I told her to extend the runway.

Um, here's John's problem.

Let me, let me do it because I told John—

extend the runway.

John doesn't want to pay rent.

Gotcha.

So if he moved out with his girlfriend, yeah, oh, he'd have to pay rent.

Yeah, of course, you have to pay for everything. Food, eat.

I mean, to be honest, like, I feel like—

Wi-Fi.

I mean, I get, you know, growing up and like wanting to move out. I obviously did that, but I also feel like like, you know, I don't know, I wouldn't, I wouldn't leave.

Hell yeah, Natalie drank the Kool-Aid!

Well, no, I just like, not paying rent is such an amazing thing. Yeah, because rent is so fucking expensive.

So expensive.

So, and if you do, if you get the bigger room— your room right now is fucking ass. I can't believe they even still live there.

Still, that's a horrendous room.

Yeah.

Okay, you guys did not say anything for the last two goddamn years because I never go in there, and then when I do, I'm like, oh shit.

Hey John, it matches your purse.

Fix it up.

Obviously you could change the shit in your fucking room, dude.

Bro, I can't get rid of the goddamn gel blaster lighting.

You have to keep those.

That's our, that's our armory in case the apocalypse ever happens.

Oh well, these people should know that, yeah, David had a little thing with gel blasters and so one wall, yeah, is like all gel blasters.

Not just the whole, the whole fucking room.

Yeah.

Is imagine an arcade and then a rainbow came and fucked all the walls. It's pretty crazy. I mean, it's a trip. And the craziest part is he doesn't even have a ceiling. Like, the walls are covered by gel blaster and his ceiling are like cotton balls to mimic clouds. And if you hit a button, it'll look like there's a thunderstorm in the clouds.

It's nice when you get freaky, huh, John?

Yeah, it's like, I turn that shit on, man.

Speaking of getting freaky on His— the panels behind his bed are like light panels. They're like little squares.

And like over the months they've fallen off because he's getting freaky in there.

I think. Okay, that's not—

that's not how it happens, dude. Anyway, the double-sided tape, obviously.

It's all right. Own it, John. You're a freak.

Yeah, own it, dude.

I fucking hear you fucking masturbating.

I hear you jerking off.

Do you?

Yeah, he goes— he's the craziest when his girlfriend's not there. This man is a solo maniac.

Does he speak in a different language when he jerks off?

He speaks in Filipino.

He does?

Yeah, that's what I figured. Tagalog and he just goes crazy by myself. No, no, but looking up at the clouds. But yeah, the clouds are the scariest part because I'm like, how have you not removed those? Because like, like I could just— one, it's the fucking craziest flame fire hazard I've ever seen in my entire life.

Yeah.

And I've walked into John's room and there was a candle on at like 4 AM and he wasn't home. Oh, like really, really scary. The whole house would be ablaze if one of those clouds caught on fire. And also So like, John sleeps with his mouth open like a fuck— like the Hoover fucking Dam. So like, I'm surprised that like—

How do you even know that?

I come in there to make sure you're still home.

That's kind of weird, bro. He's still here, right, John? There he is. Um, no, but, uh, but like cloud— I'm surprised like a piece of cloud hasn't fallen into his mouth and just like choked him. So yeah, you gotta fucking change that room. But John, you should move out.

It's a work in progress.

You're 31. And I'm putting my foot down. Wow. Yeah, and I'm gonna play the other side.

The move, Jon, really would be to get Julia to move in here, and you guys don't pay rent, you save for a house.

That's what they're doing. That's exactly what they're doing, actually.

Oh.

I don't know about the house, but the rent for sure.

Yeah, they're— 'Cause Jon's like, "Why would we get a place?

We're gonna be gone for Thanksgiving and Christmas. We might as well stay at Dave's for a little." Yeah.

So he's gonna stock up the money, and then February, maybe, you'll move in?

Move?

Yeah, February, March.

It's not going to happen, dude. It's so fun. I can't wait to fucking look back at— well, actually, Julia will make it happen.

Julia's going to want—

but if it was up to John—

yeah, if it was up to me, dude, what the fuck? Why do I pay the, the big man when I can just not pay the big man?

Oh my God.

Yeah, that's pretty funny. Yeah, that makes sense. That adds up, dude. Alex, like, I, I feel like I have to to like buy random things for his room, be like, can you just please hang this up?

Yeah, you know why? Because my room's clean, so there's room to decorate.

Well, yeah, but that's what I'm saying, like you should be decorating a lot more.

I think my room had—

you just like snack a lot, dude.

Your room would be—

your room would be clean. He has jam, he has jam, and like luggage bags. Like he illegally imported jam.

Where'd you get the jam?

It's really weird. I don't know why he does that shit.

You big into Jelly?

It's—

okay, first off, it's habanero blueberry jelly. It's really good.

Oh, so it is illegal shit. So it's like, yeah, I could make—

what do you do with it? You put it on toast?

Crackers, you know, up in the room. Obviously. Yeah, the crackers, the cracker station.

You got a butter knife? You got a butter knife up there?

Yeah, yeah.

Sometimes, you know, I have a basket of goodies for Julia too.

It's just a bunch of candy for Julia. Yeah, right.

Julia has no idea where that basket is.

It just so happens to be on John's side of the bed.

No, it's not.

It's on her But we have Alex here, guys, who just had his first DJ set. Alex has been training to be a DJ for a really long time.

I would say that was like one of my favorite, favorite, favorite clips I've ever seen in your vlog was when you were—

when he cried.

Crying. Yeah, it's like such a sweet moment. Like, that's crazy. And I get it, I get it. Like, it was— the look on your face was like someone gave you like $100 million.

That's what it felt like. Like, David's obviously done a a shitload for me. Like, you moved me out here, you gave me a car, whatever. Um, this is like by far the most.

I got one more quote for you. Whoa, Jesus Christ. Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day.

Yes.

Give a man a fishing reel, he'll eat for life.

Give a man—

you taught me how to DJ a nightclub in a bedroom.

Yeah, give a man his own nightclub in his bedroom, he'll work for life. Something like that.

Yeah, hopefully. That'd be really sick.

Yeah, that'd be cool.

Yeah. So how was that?

How was the first show?

It was incredible.

I had so much fun. It was like, it's like euphoric.

No, I wasn't there for that. So I wasn't there for the moment. If you see in the vlog, yeah, at the end of the credits, Ferris, who we work with, like got a moment where Alex was crying. I wasn't there. I was upstairs and Alex is like crying too. Alex is crying too. I was crying too. Um, yeah, I was crying.

I was crying. I was stressed. Yeah, so, so it's a lot of people. Yeah, I was really stressed and the lights, everything stopped working like right before. So I wasn't having the same experience as Alex. Alex was like, Alex was so zoned in on his music. When I was even, when I was like, the lights aren't working, he's like, I don't care, I just need to like play this. Like, are the speakers working? Like, that's all he, he didn't care about anything else other than his songs. But I was so stressed about like how the shots were gonna look and everything was falling apart. So I didn't think it went well while Alex was downstairs crying. So I'm like in my room and I'm like, fuck, I'm like having my own panic attack. And then there's this moment where Alex goes up to Natalie and what happens?

He was just like tearing, like crying or whatever. And then I was confused. I didn't really know why he was crying either. And then I figured out that it was out of joy.

Yeah.

And then we were whatever.

Natalie was obviously hearing from me the most, where I was stressed. And so then I got a text on my phone saying, Dave, you got to come down here. Alex is crying. And I'm like, oh my God.

Yeah, like everybody, everybody's panicking. And then, and then we—

and then I still haven't seen Alex. I— everyone like got on the bus to go to the party bus. Yeah. And I'm just like, I can't go to the club. Like, I'm down in the dumps. I wish this fucking pyro— like, there was like pyro and there were certain things I wanted to work in the room that weren't working.

Right.

And I was so stressed out about them. I was like, I'm just going to stay home. And just sleep. Like, I was just in— I was not in the best mood. But then I was like, I promised the people at the club that I'd stop by, so I got to go do that. And I walked in and I knew that Alex was crying. And I saw Alex, like, right when I walked in. And I didn't even— I didn't— like, I didn't want to talk about it because I was like— because, like, I just— I don't want this to ruin everything. So I was just like, walked by Alex. He didn't even hear me because he was drunk and having a really good time. But I walked by him and I go, I know, I know, I know. We'll talk later. And then I go up to Farrah And I go, and I go, tell me what happened with Alex. Why is he crying? And he's like, he loved it. And I'm like, be deadass with me, what happened? And then he's like, deadass, he like had the best time of his life. And I'm like, Ferris! Deadass! We don't lie, I'm deadass! And he's like, I'm not fucking kidding. Then I went up to Alex, I was like, how was it? He goes, it was amazing. And I go, are you fu—

I was like, wow, it's crazy like what two completely different experiences we had. And I just had no fucking idea because I was so stressed about all the shots.

Wow, that's great.

Yeah, damn, it's really funny. But yeah, it turned out great. His DJ name is DJ Rent Free. I don't know if you want to stick with that. You can always change it, you know, like, don't— later. Yeah, yeah.

Now I'm—

no, I think— oh, for now you're gonna go DJ Rent Free? Yeah.

You got any other names thinking, Percolatin?

No, it's just tough.

It's tough to like— you have— it has to be something like, you know, like a fucking kitchen item, like butter knife, buttersquash. It can't— like, that's kind of what—

or like a non-word, like Zach like that kind of shit.

Well, yeah, but then you, you don't want to get into like Apex. Like, you don't want to get into like— I do. You don't want to get into like 2011, like Call of Duty, like cool names, like too futuristic. You know what's actually cool? Starkiller. Something like, something like that would have been really cool when you were 12, right? Like, think of a name where you were trying your hardest to be cool when you were really young. But it would come off lame now. I feel like that's kind of where we're at. I feel like that's the market.

Tennis Killer, you're like Tennis Killer in fifth grade.

Oh, Tennis Killer is where I got that inspiration from, but Starkiller is like, damn, what's Starkiller? Starkiller?

What's Starkiller?

Nothing, it just sounds like a—

oh, it just sounds cool.

Sounds like a lame Call of Duty name.

Oh, gotcha.

But I feel like that's kind of what it is.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Or like Mac and Cheese. I don't know.

Were you nervous before Yeah, I was freaking out because like he said, like nothing was going right. The power went off like 5 times.

Oh wow.

Literally right up until we actually brought people in.

Everything. And we were plugging in fans because it was so hot in the room.

It was the hottest day of the year.

It was the hottest day of the summer and it was like 100 people in a bedroom. So it was like, it was really fucking hot. But luckily, luckily it fucking happened. And, and after I got to look back at all the shots, I was like, okay, this is really fun. But yeah. But, you know, when you have like a certain idea of like everything you want and like the little things don't happen.

You like being in clubs?

I would like performing at them.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's— dude, there's nothing better than performing at a club over being at the club.

Sure.

Sure.

Like having a genuine—

like having a purpose at the club.

I'd rather be the bartender than at the club. Yeah.

Yes. 100%. And like, but, but even, even being the bartender, I can't speak for all bartenders. I can't speak for any bartender. I feel like, like, not— yeah, not only do you have a purpose, but I feel like that's like fun, right? Like, I feel like you're still experiencing the actual fun part of the club.

Yeah, yeah.

Without like the symptoms of like, why am I here? I'm shitting my life away. Does your mom text you?

She called me like 10 minutes ago.

But really?

Yeah.

Ferris is helping with something.

Should we get her on the pod?

She texted.

She texted saying, hi, Taylor, it's Jackie, Alex's mom.

I just want to—

I just want you to thank David for doing the DJ thing for Al.

I just watched the video. Alex looks so happy.

Happy DJ Rent Free, freaking hilarious. Love you all for helping Alex make his dreams come true and supporting him. It means the world to me. Heart.

Should I call her?

Yeah, that's really—

she's still crying.

That's really sweet.

Maybe that—

maybe—

sorry, go ahead.

What?

Well, on that note, I just got a text while we were just podcasting too from our friend that does all the— like, he's the athletic director at UCLA, and he was like, hey, can I hire your friend DJ Rent Free to do all of our like Fan Fest stuff for this upcoming like football season.

What?

Wow.

Fuck yeah.

Yeah, that's great.

Are you serious?

Yeah, Alex, at the Rose Bowl before our football games.

Oh my God, that'd be sick.

Big time now.

Oh, you're gonna like seriously have a full-blown career.

That's kind of cool to do videos like that, Dave.

That'll be—

you know what I mean? Like, rather than give someone a car, if you can like make somebody's dreams come true, that's fucking so powerful. You know what I mean?

Yes, yes.

Sorry. Yes.

But I'm so—

send John back to the lab.

Well, no, that's what the joke was.

On that note, another bit we filmed for the last vlog was Jonah at a gas station. Yeah, breaks my Tesla windshield. Yeah, so John is there like cleaning it up into a bucket. Yeah, Jonah points at John, he goes, what the fuck? We hired John to be an assistant, like we plucked him out of being a doctor and now he's cleaning up glass at the Mobil.

So yeah, that is really funny. It's really funny. Yeah, well, not—

flowers don't blossom all year round. Do you want to call your mom or—

Sure.

Well, hello. Hi, we got, we got your text.

I wanted to say to you, that was kick-ass, that video that David posted of you with the DJ. That was amazing.

Yeah, Alex blew the house off. He killed it.

That was So fun. DJ Rent Free. I love it. Who came up with that name?

Who do you think?

Alex? Not me. No, obviously not you, Alex.

But he came up with the name. It was either No Rent or Rent Free.

But, but he's gonna—

he has time to change it. I think he doesn't have any other— yeah, I don't have anything. You gotta come to his next show, the next bedroom show.

It was amazing. It's like the most fun I've had honestly at any, uh, club in LA.

Yeah, you looked like you were truly enjoying yourself. That makes me so happy. I almost cried. I almost cried.

I cried.

I'm kind of disappointed you didn't.

That's not the Newman family way.

Um, yeah, I almost cried, but I, I It was amazing. It was so good.

Thank you.

When did that— when did that all happen?

Sunday, 2 days ago.

Sunday. Oh, why don't you ever call me and tell me this shit, dude?

I was prepping.

I was preparing.

Tell your mom how you got laid after.

Okay, that's— I'll call you back. We're gonna, we're gonna end the pod.

Okay, we'll wrap it up, kiddo.

Okay, more than which—

more ways than one, if you know what I mean.

No Newman babies.

No Newman babies.

Okay, break the chain, Alex. No more babies.

Oh yeah, we have a family history of not wrapping it up.

Alex's sister has 19 kids.

No more babies out of wedlock.

All right guys, that's all the time we have.

All right, well go check out DJ Rent Free, DM him if you need him for any music or anything like that.

Um, go check out Natalie's clothes. Pickle, go check out the new vlog.

Pickle, my Pickle is wearing rent the fucking clothes. We talk about this, I told you this so many times.

My bad, whatever. All my used underwear, go check it out on Natalie's Pickle.

I hope she's washed it.

Go check out Jason's podcast, All Good Things. Anybody else want to say something? Do you want to shout out your kids?

Uh, Brian.

No more time.

Terry.

Hi, Brian and Terry.

Yeah, I forgot their name.

You changed Charlie's name to Terry.