Throwing a $200,000 Birthday Party

What's up guys, welcome back to Views. Yeah, fuck Natalie.

Why would you say that? Why would you start like that with the negativity?

Because I want to start with some fire and passion.

Okay, well fuck you.

Actually, how's that?

Natalie did a great job last night.

No, that's good, I like that. Yeah, I like that.

I'm the biggest champion.

Giving it back to me. No, now actually texted something funny this morning.

I was gonna say that.

No, I was gonna Natalie made me laugh.

I read it to Naveen.

It's so rare. We both want to share it right away. Yeah. We're like, she made us laugh. It happens, everybody.

No, Nat's been, that's been a lot funnier.

Natalie texted at 11 in the morning. She said, I chugged a coffee. I'm ready to get this bread on views today in all caps. Let's go. And then no one texted back. And in 10 seconds she, she texts, contributes nothing in like 2 asterisks.

Yeah.

I have been, you could, you could contribute a lot. I've been seeing a lot of DMs that's like, I love Natalie's input.

Really?

Yeah. And you keep us balanced.

Yeah. In the episode you weren't here, people were like, thank God Natalie's back the next episode.

Yeah. 3 people were fucking really happy to hear you.

Yeah, maybe 7. You 3 that are out there.

You know how it works here. 3 people represent 300,000. That's how we do it. So 300,000 people were stoked to have you back.

Oh, thank you.

It's just me and burner accounts, you know.

Actually?

Yeah. All the people DMing you.

Oh, I should do that. Wait, they should do that. Cause I know you fucking see it and you like, I should send you some.

I would probably know your burner accounts.

No, you wouldn't.

Yeah.

No chance.

It says Ella Day.

Harry Legs 14.

Harry Legs 14. No, you wouldn't have a clue.

Well, today is my birthday. Unofficially.

Happy birthday, Davey.

I hate not celebrating my birthday on my birthday.

I know.

I've been getting birthday texts literally all week.

Yeah.

And every day it's like, happy birthday. Like it's today.

Yeah, it's funny because like, you're not someone that likes birthday attention at all.

Yeah.

And we've literally been celebrating your birthday for like—

you can't even say that anymore. Like, you can't say I don't like birthday attention when we've like had 3 birthday parties that have like the production budget of a wedding every time.

Yeah, yeah. But that's not like because you're like, oh fuck, yeah, it's my birthday, right? Just because it's an excuse to throw a nice event.

No, totally. Like, okay, so we have these parties here, right? We have them like 3— we have them like twice a year. We have Halloween and we have the birthday.

Yeah.

And every time we get like a performer and it's like kind of fun. And you would think it's because I love partying and partially it is.

Yeah.

But it's also like just to like kind of give back.

Mm-hmm.

To like all the people that we work with, just, you know, like, you know, like when you have like a company and you have like a company party, like an office party.

Yeah.

It kind of feels like that.

It's our office party.

It's an office party for Los Angeles.

Yeah.

So, so it feels like, it feels like in part it's like you're giving back to the people that have invited us to their parties.

That's so funny.

And it's like, hey, thanks for having us at your house. Mm-hmm. So here, let's host you. And then it's also like, Dobrik's, Wavers, Zila, like it's all, you know, noobs. Yeah, noob sour strips. Join us, new candy company. It's just like being able to celebrate with everybody there. But, um, but yeah, I don't like the birthday part of the party. Like, I don't, I don't want a cake. I don't want to be sung to.

Oh, we got you a cake.

No, I saw the cake. Uh, sorry, the cake's fine. I meant like I don't like being sung to.

No, I know you will be sung to though. No, no, you always are.

I don't think we've ever done it.

Of course you have.

Um, not like the whole party singing to him.

No, no, it'll be like, you know, never or something.

Yeah, yeah, we'll do the cake like with a private little group.

Yeah, like 4 AM. Oh, it's like, oh fuck, we still have the cake. 4 AM when Natalie gets hungry. Yeah, she opens it first. She's like, oh my God, the birthday cake. She knows that first you have to sing the birthday song.

But do you get nervous when you have a big party tonight? You're about 6 hours away.

Yeah, I hate it.

You do? Yeah. I would be so nervous.

Like the worst version of David is like 3 hours before the party.

What is it? It's like Bridezilla.

Yeah, he's, he's like, he's Birthdayzilla.

I mean, it's pretty crazy.

What's this plant here?

And we've been planning this party.

No, no, it's exactly like what you just said. Why is this plant here?

Why explain here? Can I keep my Aston Martin in the driveway or do I really have to move it?

I mean, that's the, you know, make the chips look nice. No, it's very, it's very, I get really, really crazy with it and it drives me nuts.

Oh my God, you nuts. We've been planning this shit for over a month.

Last year, half of the disco, we have like a disco floor, so the floor lights up and it's mirrored. Last year, half of it didn't turn on. Yeah, like for the first like hour and a half of the party, I stayed in my room. I told Natalie, I'm like, I'm not coming out till that disco floor is fixed because I was so stressed about I— the one thing I ask for, one thing I ask for at the parties is lights, lights, lights, lights, lights. Like, I want so many lights where we have to have like an epilepsy warning when you walk through the door. Like, like, to that point, I love lights. I just love disco balls. I love it to the point where we've bought our own disco balls.

Yeah.

So now we have these huge— because disco balls are expensive to rent. They're like $2,500 apiece, like the big ones. So we purchased them and now we keep them in storage and we bring them back every party. That's how much I love them. This time Natalie only brought back one disco ball because I asked David and fucking Bridezilla came out. I go, why the fuck would I buy two and you're only bringing one in? No, I really think that— I, I really wish like the whole pre-party planning would be documented.

We should do a little docu-series. Yeah, it's like a channel, pre-birthday main channel.

It's been a lot better. And then don't even get us started on like booking an artist.

Oh my God, what happened?

Well, the rapper community—

yeah, it's— well, just the music industry in general is, as everybody knows, is like incredible. Like there's so many people involved on everybody's team So you have to get all these approvals and then this person wants this amount of money, but this person already said, okay, if you do this in cash, we'll do it. But then the agent's like, no, we need $20,000 more or whatever it is.

It's just like, yeah. And then the agent and then the managers are like the first, the managers will offer the deal and then the agents, their agents will hear about it. So they'll be like, nope, we need $80,000 more. And it just like keeps going and like they'll give you a price and then they'll give you another price and then you keep saying yes and they'll keep going up and you're like, what the fuck is this? It's rude. And that like today. Okay. So this morning we were booking with an artist. I'm not going to say who, because I don't want to, We just booked the artist 5 hours before the party started. Yeah, we booked an artist that was another artist.

Yeah.

And yesterday, like, we kind of like got to a place where he want— like, how much he wanted. I'll say he wanted $25 grand. Okay. So basically how these parties work too is we'll get like a big sponsor to come in and like pay for it. So like, yeah, like this is— I mean, the party takes like, it's like $150, $200 grand, right, to put on.

Yeah.

So it's a lot of money. So sponsors come in and those— they're all over the place and it's like kind of fun. Like, they all have a purpose. They're not just like— it's not like a NASCAR where it's just like stapled all over. Like, you have like your little sections of like, here you have clothing, here you have snacks, whatever. It all makes sense. Alcohol sponsor. Um, but so this artist wanted $25 grand, right? Which is okay, okay, we'll do it. And then he's like— and then his man— we're just texting his manager. His manager's like, you know what, I can't take it to him for $30. And we're like, okay. And then, and then these are the texts I'm getting. He said he's available but just wants more than $30K. He's currently out of town and he's trying to get it done by the morning. And then I said, okay, give him $35K. And then she texted back, okay, now they're saying it has to be $50K unfortunately, because he was saying the $30K was a steal, so he's offended that you wouldn't offer him more after he said it was a steal. And then I'm like, okay, let's do $50K. And then his manager responds, that he's offended and he doesn't want to take the offer to his artist of $50,000 because it's still not high enough. And he said, and he said he's losing patience with us. Whatever. He said he's losing patience with us when every time, every time the manager comes back with a new number, we're like, okay, fine. Yeah, we have a budget in mind and we're not going to go past it. But like, but it's crazy. It's crazy.

And they never give you a number either.

They're just like, they don't give you a number. They're like, we're losing our patience. We're like, we're not gonna just fucking offer you great random numbers feed your ego. Like, tell us what you want and we'll tell you.

We can try to do it. Yeah.

No, it's like, did you find that everyone negotiates that way? No, it's just music artists. I've never seen anything like this in my entire life. That's why I didn't get any sleep this morning, because I knew Natalie was handling it. And I'm like, I'm like, I know I'm gonna wake up to a text saying, unfortunately, he's not gonna make it.

Wow.

And you did.

And that's exactly what happened. But like, it's, it's not only that, like, the artist, even if you haven't booked An artist can just be like, I don't care. Like, he could decide an hour before. Yeah, I'm good.

Well, there was artists that were available and they were down for the rate that we had scheduled, and then 24 hours later they were like, oh no, sorry, they left LA, they're going on vacation now. They don't, they don't give a fuck anymore. And they just—

Yeah, because yeah, it's just a person has a lot of money and like they're coming to play. Like, dude, there's some artists that like, I mean, dude, We've got some crazy quotes, like how much people make for private parties.

Like, well, that's what I think it is. Like, the private event thing is also such a big moneymaker for these people. Like, they—

I think that's like where they make their money, is a lot of these artists are like the bigger ones that you've heard of. I'm not talking like Jay-Z, Beyoncé level, but like a little bit under. Yeah, it's like $750,000 to $1 million for like 4 or 5 songs, which makes sense.

You're kind of in a bad spot too because you've got your date and you've paid all this money and now they can kind of hold a gun to your head.

Um, I mean, they definitely know they have the upper hand, right?

Yeah.

Like, an artist can come last day and be like, I'm not showing up, you know?

Sure.

It's kind of crazy.

Fine, here's more money.

No, no, no, no, we're not doing that.

Who's your favorite artist you had here?

Favorite artist? I don't know. So, so far we've had J Balvin, Snoop Dogg, Wiz Khalifa, 50 Cent. 50 Cent. All-American Rejects.

Tyga.

And Tyga.

Wow.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's kind of crazy.

Yeah.

He was the coolest.

It's really crazy.

He was sick. And he was also the first one that we did. Yeah.

50 was really cool. And he came to my room and he was like really fun. And we like took shots of his— like, he's like whiskey or something.

Yeah.

Yeah. He signed some bottles, left them in my room. I regifted the bottles to my parents for Christmas. They're like, who signed this? I'm like, that's 50 Cent. Oh, so that's really funny. Snoop Dogg was of course cool.

Yeah, he was sick.

Snoop Dogg's always cool. So like, I mean, it's like Wiz was sick too. Like, Wiz was amazing. Wiz liked hanging out after.

Yeah.

And he was like, yeah, he was like hanging out with like Ross Smith and his grandma, like smoking weed. I obviously hit his joint before. It's really—

Oh, was it a different kind of weed or?

No, actually, it was actually pretty fine. Yeah, I handled it. I feel like pretty okay.

Really?

But what did you feel?

Did you feel it after you got off the stage? He's like, I am so high.

No, no, I didn't say that. I was panicking that I was going to get high.

Okay. Yeah.

Cause I was like, fuck, why did I do that? But it actually didn't hit me as scary as I thought.

And then do you feel a pressure to hit the joint when it's a big artist?

Yeah, you have to. It's like, I find it so rude when someone says no. Yeah. Like there it's like, it's, it's, it's 1000% a power dynamic that you have to like bow down and lay. Lay down and be like, yes, I will take your— like, Snoop Dogg offered me a joint. Yeah, I hit it. And Wiz. And I'm really, really stoked that I have those two under my belt now.

Yeah.

Um, and you can't say no. Yeah, you can't say no to those guys. It's just like, it's just like a thing that you can check off your bucket list. J Balvin was amazing. Um, him, we did his performance, we did, we did like a more like a private thing with like 100 people, and we did it inside the living room.

I remember.

Which is really fun. So he hung out for a while and he performed on the bar. Yeah, in the house, which is really fun. That was great. It's really fun to like look back and be like, oh my God, these guys performed.

Yeah, that is nice.

In the living room. It's really fucking confusing.

Damn.

Today's performance will be YG. You familiar?

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I, um, yeah, yeah. Um, wait, doesn't he sing My N-Word?

Yeah, that's really funny.

Isn't that his song? I am also scared about him singing that song.

I know, me too, because it's like definitely his most popular song. Yeah, yeah, I literally thought about it this morning for like 5 minutes.

I know.

Back up, we might have a problem here.

Well, why?

I don't know, something might go wrong.

You just have to do an announcement. Nobody better— nobody fucking sing this unless you're allowed to.

Everyone shut up. That's gonna be—

everyone's watching you with a mouth.

It's gonna be hard for him tonight, you know.

A lot of his songs actually are like very N-word based.

No, it's, it's fine. It's just like, now we got— now we're gonna find out who our real friends are. We're gonna We're gonna find out who we're kicking out.

That's crazy.

This is a test. This is all a social experiment. Um, yeah, so that's gonna be really fun. I'm really excited. Other than that, but yeah, I am like very much— this, this is, I think, is our best theme. Natalie decided to do Beverly Hills Hotel.

I love this thing.

And the Beverly Hills Hotel actually let us, um, what did they let us borrow?

They let us borrow one of their like bellhop cars.

First of all, first of all, they're letting us use the aesthetic, which is kind of crazy that they're like not mad. Yeah, because they're like so prestigious here in LA.

Yeah, and they also— they're like the iconic like baby pink, like vintage. I think it's a Chrysler or something, vintage car. It's like a '60s car.

I've seen it.

Yeah, that's usually parked outside the hotel. They let us borrow for the night.

They brought the car that's parked outside the hotel to my driveway.

Yeah, crazy.

It's really crazy. And I just met the guy who like takes care of the cars. Yeah, he's been taking care of the cars at the hotel for like for 30 years now. Uh-huh. He's been taking care of the car. That's a guy we should have on the pod.

That's quite the job.

30 years at the Beverly Beverly Hills Hotel.

Yeah, like, that's fucking— imagine the stories he could tell. Yeah.

Should we, should we see if he wants to be on the pod?

Yeah, go grab him.

Thanks for joining us, Michael. Michael from the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Well, good afternoon, everybody. We're bringing a little bit of the hotel up to David's house for his birthday.

Yes, yes.

My background is I have 30 years running the garage at the Beverly Hills Hotel. So we, uh, the garage of the hotel is kind of like the Batcave, and I'm like Alfred. Yeah, so we, uh, we do quite a few things that, uh, it's, uh, the garage is known around the world. I, uh, took care of Mr. Peterson's cars from Peterson Automotive for 25 years.

So that's the big museum that has all the cars.

Peterson was also Peterson Publishing, so of course that was Hot Rod magazine, which was the Bible of building cars through the '60s, '70s, and '80s. It was really quite a, quite a deal. But, uh, I got, got to, uh develop a relationship with Carroll Shelby, and I kept some of John von Neumann's cars at the hotel. And of course, uh, Ken Miles, who was racing for Carroll Shelby.

Shelby, um, is that like Shelby, like Mustang Shelby?

Shelby Cobra. Shelby Cobra car, right? So if you saw the movie Ford versus Ferrari, um, Ken Miles drove for Carroll Shelby. That character was in that movie.

Oh, okay, okay.

Driven for Carroll Shelby. He drove for Porsche, which was John von Neumann. So we, we have quite a history in the hotel.

Wow.

So it's kind of a cool thing. So we're going to let David have the '57 T-Bird that we commonly keep at the front door.

Wow.

Yeah, if you look in the hotel lobby, you'll see photos of this vehicle all over the place. So it's kind of a famous '57 T-Bird. Well, thank you for that color combination of the hotel, so it works well with the, uh, motif. And so we look forward to David having a great birthday party here at the house tonight.

Thank you. Right, wait, So can I ask?

I'd love an invite, but it's fine.

Are you coming?

I'm going to be here because I'll keep my eyes on the car in case we need to move it or do any of that stuff.

Yeah.

You know, so, so you've probably seen the most wild amount of celebrities come through that hotel, correct?

So being in the hotel for 30 years, of course, we have a relationship with quite a few people and we like to keep it under wraps. It's— but again, it's just about everybody you can imagine. There are some stories like Michael Jackson used to call me at night and I used to come down and I kept my '50 Cadillac in the garage of the hotel. And right next to my Cadillac, I used to keep Prince's Cadillac and his baby blue Bentley.

Wow.

And one night Michael called me, I came down, picked Michael up from the garage, we were driving around Beverly Hills in Hollywood. So we were on Sunset going on Hillcrest going into Hollywood and Prince came pulling up alongside of us in his Cadillac and his headlights were turned off. So on my big '50 Cadillac, Michael rolls the window down and we're yelling at him to turn his headlights on.

Oh my gosh.

And so it's kind of a surreal thing, you know. But I was also building a Hummer for Princess Diana when her and Dodi Fayed were killed. And so it's a lot of, a lot of history car stuff. How—

so you, you were driving with Michael in that car?

I was driving with Michael. Michael used to call me and I'd come to the hotel and Michael would come down, no security, nobody, get in the car with me and we would go drive around Beverly Hills.

Wow.

In my '50 Cadillac. It was a big '60 series with the big white— did you guys— white wall tires.

Did you guys hit the bars or you guys just like—

no, no, just all this he wanted to do is just go for a ride in the car, cruise slowly.

He didn't That's like a very Michael Jackson type of story.

What did Prince say to Michael?

So they were laughing.

Were they competitive or were they, were they jokesters?

No, no, they were— it was totally cool. It was like, yeah, he was looking, he's like, yeah, I got it, turned his headlights on, you know. And then, but, you know, it was just very surreal.

Was the Beverly Hills Hotel like, at the time, was that like a big, uh, meeting place for a lot of big celebs? Like, is that like a place that everyone would always get dinner? How—

the Beverly Hills Hotel has always been a big meeting place for the celebs. Yeah, take the Polo Lounge, for instance. Yeah, the lounge used to have phones at the tables, and people used to— up-and-coming stars used to have people page them to the phones at the Polo Lounge so their name could be heard in the Polo Lounge. So it was, uh, it was quite a thing, you know.

Wait, what does that mean?

Like, so you would— you can actually get telephones. They bring telephones to your table.

Okay.

And so they would— people would page people, oh, telephone call for Michael Douglas or Humphrey Bogart or Elizabeth Taylor, and then they would bring it to the phone, or they'd have the phone at the table.

Oh my God, just so your name was heard inside the Polo Lounge.

Oh my gosh, the whole celebrity thing is basically 90% of it's luck. And so lightning strikes, uh, very few places, but probably more place— more times at the Beverly Hills Hotel than anywhere else on the planet.

Sure.

Yeah, that's why it's kind of that, right?

How about that Cobb salad, huh?

Everything is great.

No.

Yeah, but I'll tell you what makes the hotel are the people that work there. The hotel is iconic and it's, it's been there forever and it has a historical, uh, background. But the people who work at the hotel make the hotel very special.

I mean, they must if you've been there 30 years. So you— yeah.

How— if I want to keep a car at the Beverly Hills Hotel, how much does that cost?

when you say back calculation, when you say Batcave, how big is this thing? Well, this garage—

if you're driving up the front drive of the hotel, yeah. Then you'll make a right into the first underground parking below the big famous sign that everybody photographs themselves. Yeah, that's where the garage is.

Oh wow. Oh wow. Okay, I had no idea there was even a garage.

It's kind of cool. So we keep it, you know, we, we, uh, it's private down there and it's, it's a very interesting—

if you're here, who's watching the Batcave?

Wait a minute, we have people there. Okay, there's very high security in the area and all of that stuff, so we don't worry about those kind of things.

Just want to make sure there's no heist being planned just not right now.

No, no, it's It's very cool. And so, you know, like tonight, so you're having your party tonight.

Yeah.

And then eventually the cool people all end up in the kitchen, you know, talking, right?

Yeah.

So the hotel, the garage at the hotel is like the kitchen at the party.

Oh, so cool, right?

So it's kind of cool. You'll never know who you run into down there. And everybody's car people and all that stuff, so they're always coming down to check out to see what we got going on.

It's also nice because it's like paparazzi-proof, probably down there, right? So you can get in your car and leave and then—

Yes, it's— yeah, it's a very secure part of the hotel.

We would— a lot of— do a lot of celebs make, uh, the Beverly Hills Hotel like the residence, like when they're in LA? Is that how it works?

So a lot of times they'll come to the hotel, and there's not a better place in the area for this. If they're doing a shoot or if they're doing production, they'll come and they'll, they'll stay in the hotel, and they could, they could read, practice their lines. They can do makeup there, they can do wardrobing there. It's really a phenomenal place, and they're there, and this way nobody is going to their residences. So they, you know, they come You know, their anonymity is very important. So they show up there, have all their stuff done, they go to their event. If somebody follows them back to the hotel, hey, guess what? Big deal.

You know, it's not your private home.

So it's kind of a cool thing.

What have you noticed about like rich people in general over the years?

They're actually really sweet. And I'm a car guy and they love their cars. So they treat me, you know, like their doctor. It's, you know, it's been very cool. And most of the people are really, really super nice.

If you could have any car in the world, what's your dream, dream vehicle?

Oh, okay, there's— I mean, a Toyota Corolla, really. But you know, that was my first car. No, you're bulletproof, you know. You put oil and gas in it and that's it, you know, right? You could be an actor for the rest of your life, you know, right, right, right, right. So it's just like that, you know. But there's some really cool cars. Some of the old vintage cars are really great. The early '50s cars are nice because they still spent a lot of time and money on the appointments of the cars. When they started to get in like the '57s and that, then the pencil pushers started to get involved and everything was cost cutting and that kind of thing started to happen.

So are you into any of the newer stuff or no? Like, or—

yeah, we do what— we do everything. We do the supercars, we do everything. We get everything. Bugattis, Paganis, we get the LFA, you know. Yeah, Lexuses, you, you name it.

Yeah, down there. Dang. Well, thank you for coming and giving us some knowledge about the hotel. No, listen, and thank you for letting us borrow the car.

My pleasure. And listen, and don't forget to, uh, to read my daughter Haley's book. Oh yes, which is North of Sunset, and it takes place in Bel Air 100 years from now, and it's like The Great Gatsby meets 1984.

I can't wait.

$30 on Amazon right now, and it's genre. So it's called North of Sunset, and it's really amazing.

What's her full name? Haley.

It's Haley Ahern.

Well, please go check that out.

Right.

Yeah.

Listen, everybody, it was a pleasure to be here. You guys have a great day. Enjoy the party.

Thank you. Thank you. I love it.

Thanks, Michael. That was great.

That was really fun. My favorite part was obviously everything's confidential. We're like, he probably has the craziest stories. Like, obviously he's going to keep them a secret, right?

Yeah.

Which is good for him.

Yeah. You have to.

Good for him. Like, and that's how you know that his stories are probably insane. He didn't even fuck. He didn't even stutter. He's like, yeah, they're confidential.

That's it.

Bye.

They're probably fucking wild.

Check out my daughter's book.

But I mean, like, even, even just the story alone though of Michael Jackson and Prince pulling up next to each other at a light.

Yeah.

I mean, that's fucking wild.

Yeah.

There was one time that actually reminds me of a story I pulled up next to a legend.

I'm not going to say who it is.

No, I'll tell you who it is.

Confidential.

No, it's not. It was, I'll never forget it cuz I was so embarrassed.

Yeah.

And this isn't going the way you think it's gonna go, but I was, I was in high school, I was in Vernon Hills.

Yeah.

And my parents pulled me out. I think I like lied that I was sick or something and I got outta school. I was basically playing hooky or something.

Okay.

Like in the middle of the day. And when I was driving by the retirement home, kind of by our house, I, I pull up next to Natalie in her car. Oh yeah. And Natalie is also pulling out of school at the same time. And I thought it was the craziest thing ever. And I roll my window down, I'm like, Natalie! She's like, Dave? And I'm like, what the fuck? We're both leaving school, it's like noon. I'm like, this is crazy. And I'm like really excited about it and she's not. And I'm like, and I say this and I'll always remember this for the rest of my life. I don't know why, but this is like one of those things that's not significant, but for some reason it is. I go, I'll never for— I'll remember this for the rest of my life.

And Natalie looks at me and goes, what, you fucking loser?

And then I was like, oh, okay. And I don't know why I was so excited about it, and I said the words, I'll remember this for the rest of my life. And I was so excited about running into her like during a school day out in the real world, and she didn't share the same enthusiasm, and it shot me down like crazy. And I was like, what the fuck? What am Am I weird for being this excited? Do you remember that at all?

I don't know.

You probably don't. There's no way you do.

Natalie getting the ick right now.

Yeah, no, it was definitely a moment where she was like, this guy's fucking weird.

No, yeah.

But yeah, that was one of my favorite moments.

The fervency for which you talk about high school is just so incredible.

Yeah.

It's amazing.

You see where he just pumped, like got so jazzed right there?

Yeah, what's fervency mean?

Fervency, like you got so excited. You're so excited about talking about high school anything.

Yeah, I don't know, awesome. I also love all this, but like, I, I think I talk about high school so much because I never got to like document it as well as I got to document the rest of my life.

That's interesting.

So like, I need to express like, I love that it was lit. Um, and yeah, and there's just, there's nothing better than growing up. There's nothing better.

Hey, I wanted to ask you, because remember how you wanted to—

I like when he like transitions like that. It literally, that sounded like he cut in the pod, doesn't it? Yeah, I'm here, I'm sitting next to you and I feel like we're just there was like a weird edit. Hey, I wanted to ask you, you like oranges? What's the question?

I wanted to ask you, because I know you used to have dreams of being a late night host, if you had any thoughts on what's happened to the late night landscape in the last week or the last year or so, because I think it's really interesting.

With Colbert?

Yeah, well Colbert's gone. Remember like when you did Fallon and you like sat in his chair?

Yeah.

And that was so cool and such a cool moment. You even said like, I want to be a late night host, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I just thought, I didn't know if you had like an interesting take on all that. I think it's cool.

I think it's as interesting as like, I don't think I'm gonna say anything that people already don't know, but like, I don't think late night is what it used to be, obviously. That's just because it's just, there's just so many mediums to consume things. Like, I think our new late night people is Jake Shane. I think it's Alex Cooper. I think it's, uh, I don't know what the other people are, but I think it's, I think there's just so many niches and I think there's so many, right? Like, I don't think it's Jimmy. I think he's still great, but like, even when— even, even 8 years ago when late night was a thing, like, I didn't love it for the interviews. I always said this. I said late night's important because it's like you need the mothership, and that's CBS or ABC, and that gives you your credibility. You need that. But where people actually consume it is on YouTube, right? It's been like that for a while. Yeah, and now it's getting to the point where now the influencers are trying— not influence— now that influencers are starting to be seen as more of a useful tool for mainstream media, now it's all leveling out. Now you don't need the CBSs and the ABCs for that credibility. Now you just need 3, 4 good episodes under your belt and people to take you seriously. That's all you need now. Now, now I don't think like I don't think now I get a call from ABC, obviously I'd still jump on it. Fuck yeah, I wanna be behind that desk. It's just like a dream. But I don't think, I think I am the last, maybe the last age group that aspires to be behind Jimmy Fallon's chair.

Right.

I think everybody else wants to now be Jake Shane. Yeah. Wants to be called, you know what I mean? On Call Her Daddy. They wanna be the Call Her Daddy girl. That's what they wanna be now. I think I'm the last person to want to be on ABC News channel.

It's so interesting though, because like those guys are so talented.

Yeah, they are.

Like Colbert is like— he is a really talented guy, like comedically, and I mean, they're all writing, and he did it all. He came through Second City.

They're all so good. Fallon. But like, Fallon. But I don't know, I think we're gonna get hit with like another wave of people that are like— that are more than just I don't know. It's so tough.

It's almost like—

It's so tough because it's like you don't get like— you don't— it's almost not like— like Jimmy Fallon is like a Swiss Army knife.

Yes. He could do so much.

Yeah. Like he could sing. He's funny. He can make the guests feel warm. He can make fun of you. He can build you up. Like, he's so good at it.

He's quick.

And that's not even from like him doing it for so many years. He's just like naturally talented. Yeah, that's— and you almost don't need that as much in today's world. I remember seeing him because there's so many niches.

I remember seeing him around New York when he got SNL. He used to drink with my friends, and he had just such like a magnetism to him. It's insane. Yeah, yeah, he just had this like— he would— he just— I don't know, people were just so drawn to him. It was—

did I tell you when I was in New York? I was in New York like a year and a half ago.

Yeah.

—for, uh, uh, fuck, what was it? I don't know, for like a job. And we are at dinner, and a couple tables over, they were— when we walked in, they were all standing. It was Fallon. Do you remember? Who was it? It was Fallon, Colbert, Trevor Noah, and, uh, fuck, Seth Meyers. Seth Meyers. Yeah. It was like— and there was one more. It was like all of them getting together. They were all having dinner. Wow. Yeah. I remember I went to go pee and I was like, come on, I got to get some of— I got to get somebody here. I was really excited because I was like, I really wanted like Fallon. I wasn't going to approach the table, but I was like, I hope Fallon's here. Yeah. Or Trevor Noah. Like, I've got to talk to those guys. They're really sweet. Yeah.

Those guys, you know. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. I don't know where I met Trevor Noah.

I think can.

No, no, I've known him for like a— oh, he— I remember when we built our podcast set, he asked me to connect him with the builders because he was building his own podcast set. Yeah. Um, but, um, but yeah, but yeah, so I was like really excited. Like, I'm gonna go pee. I know someone's gonna be peeing. There's 5 of them, someone's got to be peeing at the exact same time. Colbert was. We're on the same schedule. What'd you say? Nothing, nothing.

Nice penis.

No, we just literally just walked in. He was walking out when I was walking in. That was like really cool, like in New York, the 5 guys getting together. Yeah, my dream job as a kid, all 5 hold the dream job, and there's not many of them in the world. And here are 5 out of the 10. Yeah, that are sitting at this dinner. Mount Rushmore. All right guys, that's all the time we have for this podcast. Thank you guys for listening. Thank you for Michael from the Beverly Hills Hotel for joining us. Please go buy Zara's book. Um, Natalie, thank you for joining us. You're a legend. Thank you. Um, we have Alex in the room with us the entire podcast. You don't know this, but he was listening. So thank you for joining us, Alex, for listening. That was amazing.

You should have charged him.

He got a live pod. Which I'm still gonna charge.

Okay, good, good.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll get $20 out of it.

You want to do the meet and greet?

Yeah, let's take pictures. Don't get me sick though. Um, all right, Jason, thank you. Thank you, Dave, for hosting this podcast. Do you still do that pod? Yes. Oh, we'll see you later. All right, bye-bye.