Full Transcript for Border Crossing

I don't know how long are supposed to hold your breath before during 62 00:04:46.279 --> 00:04:50.399 after? I don't know, but I think I tend to do I tended 63 00:04:50.439 --> 00:04:55.720 to do that previous to COVID, just maybe more selective based on the way 64 00:04:55.720 --> 00:05:00.240 of the person coming towards me look especially like and walking around. For sure, 65 00:05:01.839 --> 00:05:05.199 I still do it, I still for sure do it. Yeah, 66 00:05:05.639 --> 00:05:10.560 and like hold your breath like silently or like this do go no, no, 67 00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:14.600 no, I don't, I don't plug the nose and then a good 68 00:05:14.639 --> 00:05:17.040 breath of air as you walk past them too. Just get it out, 69 00:05:17.399 --> 00:05:23.360 get it away from me. Whatever people are, especially people are coughing around 70 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:29.040 me, just likeload away. Yeah, airports have been tricky, but yeah, 71 00:05:29.600 --> 00:05:34.879 still safe. So yeah, amazing. Yeah. So I so you 72 00:05:34.920 --> 00:05:40.319 both have some stories and I just want like a few moments to kind of 73 00:05:40.360 --> 00:05:42.879 get the lay of the land here. How long have the two of you 74 00:05:43.040 --> 00:05:46.519 known each other? And how old is like straw Hut, Like, how 75 00:05:46.560 --> 00:05:49.480 did you come about doing this? Yeah, straw Hut. No, there 76 00:05:49.519 --> 00:05:53.839 was going to be a quiz, right, I think straw Hut, we're 77 00:05:53.839 --> 00:05:58.360 reaching five years, Ryan, I think we started it in twenty seventeen, 78 00:05:59.120 --> 00:06:02.319 November of twenty seventeen. Yeah, we started the company. Yeah, but 79 00:06:02.360 --> 00:06:06.720 we met previous to that because we worked at a book publishing company together within 80 00:06:06.839 --> 00:06:12.240 the marketing department, video department, UM and I got I started there in 81 00:06:12.240 --> 00:06:15.959 twenty fifteen, So okay, and I was there already, so I think 82 00:06:15.959 --> 00:06:19.040 I've been there like a year before you showed up. Yeah. So so 83 00:06:19.079 --> 00:06:25.079 we've known each other for seven years. Yeah, and you met there, 84 00:06:25.199 --> 00:06:28.839 you met at this book publishing company. Yeah, we just had all these 85 00:06:28.879 --> 00:06:31.439 weird things in common where we knew people, and we had filmed the same 86 00:06:31.480 --> 00:06:35.879 band's play and like our moms worked together. We found its really weird. 87 00:06:38.399 --> 00:06:41.720 But the name of the publishing company was called hay House, and which is 88 00:06:41.720 --> 00:06:45.920 why, which is where straw Hutt came from, because we just we weren't 89 00:06:45.959 --> 00:06:51.000 creative. We had to come up with a business instead of RT. I 90 00:06:51.040 --> 00:06:55.639 guess we went with, well, you already had RT because you're Ryan Telethon. 91 00:06:55.759 --> 00:06:59.639 So yeah, yeah, yeah I had it. Ryan and Tyler wouldn't 92 00:06:59.639 --> 00:07:02.279 work anyway. Yeah, so straw Hut hay House, you know, pretty 93 00:07:02.279 --> 00:07:05.680 simple, huh. Yeah. And then you kind of looked at each other 94 00:07:05.759 --> 00:07:11.360 one day and said, let's let's start a podcast company. I mean pretty 95 00:07:11.439 --> 00:07:15.759 much every day we hung out at work, like lunch, or we like 96 00:07:15.839 --> 00:07:17.040 text each other like want to go grab a coffee. We did a lot 97 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:20.959 of walks together. So we just started talking about just different ideas and things 98 00:07:21.040 --> 00:07:26.600 and it was like it you know, it evolved over time, and then 99 00:07:26.720 --> 00:07:30.680 I was going to be quitting and moving to Los Angeles with my now wife. 100 00:07:31.560 --> 00:07:34.720 And originally I thought that hay House would be okay with me doing that, 101 00:07:34.759 --> 00:07:39.800 and now I think they would, but they're remote now. They're all 102 00:07:39.800 --> 00:07:43.399 remote now, yeah, exactly. But at the time they were very against 103 00:07:43.399 --> 00:07:47.079 it. I thought Ryan was a crazy extremist to want to work remotely. 104 00:07:47.680 --> 00:07:50.040 Yeah, and so I said, all right, peace, I'm gone. 105 00:07:50.279 --> 00:07:55.360 And that's when, really I think I moved. And then maybe a few 106 00:07:55.399 --> 00:08:00.879 months later we like started the business and then Tyler was still at hay House 107 00:08:00.959 --> 00:08:03.839 and I was like just running things kind of on my own. And then 108 00:08:03.839 --> 00:08:07.839 he would like call off sick for a few times depending on what we had 109 00:08:07.879 --> 00:08:13.480 to do. And then like also had also had Fridays off. Yeah, 110 00:08:13.519 --> 00:08:16.759 we worked for ten hour days, so um, we started trying to squeeze 111 00:08:16.759 --> 00:08:20.040 if we had to be on set or like do things like that. We 112 00:08:20.360 --> 00:08:24.040 were trying to do like Friday, Saturday, Sunday, um, you know, 113 00:08:24.079 --> 00:08:26.040 for at the beginning, and then we got to the point, I 114 00:08:26.079 --> 00:08:28.959 mean, really a great shit that happened to us. Story is the reason 115 00:08:30.000 --> 00:08:33.360 why I left the company. It was because we had an opportunity to help 116 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:39.960 produce a movie. But yeah, it went to complete shit. It was 117 00:08:41.080 --> 00:08:46.399 such a disaster. I hear about that. Yeah, let's not say any 118 00:08:46.519 --> 00:08:52.080 names or okay, yeah, I don't know how Okay, how would you 119 00:08:52.240 --> 00:08:54.919 well, we'll refer to the director as P. How would you like to, 120 00:08:56.320 --> 00:09:00.440 um, describe how you met Pe and how we got involve this. 121 00:09:00.679 --> 00:09:07.159 Okay. So I was working for a client in Los Angeles, is one 122 00:09:07.159 --> 00:09:15.639 of many we had, and

she had this opportunity for another job from P 123 00:09:16.399 --> 00:09:18.039 to do like a commercial and she was going to be in it, and 124 00:09:18.840 --> 00:09:22.919 and I was, you know, we were hired to shoot this commercial. 125 00:09:22.200 --> 00:09:28.519 Um, we did it. It turned out really great. Pe loved it 126 00:09:28.840 --> 00:09:31.200 and then approached me later and said, like, I'd like to make a 127 00:09:31.240 --> 00:09:35.039 movie. Would you be able to like put together a team and help me, 128 00:09:35.399 --> 00:09:39.799 you know, you know, like DP this thing and run the camera 129 00:09:41.039 --> 00:09:43.480 crew and all this stuff. And I was like, yeah, that sounds 130 00:09:43.519 --> 00:09:46.440 like a blast. That's been my dream. I would love to, you 131 00:09:46.480 --> 00:09:50.240 know, make a movie with you. Anyway, It just yeah, we 132 00:09:50.279 --> 00:09:54.039 did it. We brought together a whole team, we ran the whole crew, 133 00:09:54.080 --> 00:09:56.679 we handled payroll, We handled everything. We bought a lot of equipment, 134 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:01.360 We bought a van, we bought by all kinds of stuff in preparation 135 00:10:01.480 --> 00:10:05.559 to make this. We went all in. I quit my job, Tyler 136 00:10:05.759 --> 00:10:09.759 quit his job. Basically moved to LA for a couple of months, stay 137 00:10:09.559 --> 00:10:13.000 couches and staying yeah my couch or no, we we had it. We 138 00:10:13.080 --> 00:10:16.919 had a guest room at time, and you had friends here too, and 139 00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:20.919 then UM and P actually wanted me to move in with him. Yeah. 140 00:10:22.600 --> 00:10:28.159 I found very uncomfortable and I looked at Yeah riding and the eyes and I 141 00:10:28.159 --> 00:10:33.360 said, please don't let this happen to me. Yeah. I don't know 142 00:10:33.399 --> 00:10:37.559 where to take the story from here, but like I mean, basically, 143 00:10:37.559 --> 00:10:41.720 it's just a whirlwind of bad things happened from wildfires we had. We had 144 00:10:41.879 --> 00:10:48.200 three different locations scheduled and kind of paid for to film at, and two 145 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:52.240 of them got completely shut down. I was during the LA fire, so 146 00:10:52.320 --> 00:10:54.360 like Mount Mount when Malibu was up in flames. I think that was at 147 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:58.879 the same time. And you know, the advice we had given P was 148 00:11:00.120 --> 00:11:03.039 like, I think we need to postpone the shoot, and and really like 149 00:11:03.120 --> 00:11:09.000 I think that's what we need to do because we're our cruise doesn't feel safe, 150 00:11:09.000 --> 00:11:11.200 our crew doesn't feel safe to go out, and and you know, 151 00:11:11.279 --> 00:11:18.799 and he said no, and he wanted to h He pretended that he had 152 00:11:18.840 --> 00:11:22.480 scouted a couple locations before we got there to shoot, and we had never 153 00:11:22.480 --> 00:11:26.200 seen it, so we didn't know what part of these locations we were filming 154 00:11:26.200 --> 00:11:28.240 it. So, you know, these long days are turning into double long 155 00:11:28.360 --> 00:11:31.840 days. And because all of our shot lists for our pre production, for 156 00:11:31.919 --> 00:11:37.559 the locations that we had planned for, were just turned to shit, and 157 00:11:37.600 --> 00:11:39.600 so it's like it's like, wow, do we I don't know, how 158 00:11:39.600 --> 00:11:43.039 do we run a crew of like fifteen people and nobody knows what the fuck's 159 00:11:43.080 --> 00:11:48.279 going on? And then we slowly learned that the script itself, this guy 160 00:11:48.679 --> 00:11:52.840 wanted to kind of improvise a movie while we were shooting and wasn't going along 161 00:11:52.840 --> 00:11:56.639 with the story structure that Ryan had spent months helping him kind of rite and 162 00:11:56.679 --> 00:12:01.559 develop. And he was adapting as script based on like us not being able 163 00:12:01.600 --> 00:12:03.840 to shoot certain places. He's like, well, what if the main character 164 00:12:05.639 --> 00:12:07.679 is doing this at the time, We're like, okay, well, and 165 00:12:07.720 --> 00:12:11.360 then he tried to Yeah, he tried to bring in the element of the 166 00:12:11.399 --> 00:12:13.200 fire and like, let's use this for our story, you know. And 167 00:12:13.240 --> 00:12:20.919 I'm also acting in the movie. Oh yeah, he's the star. Yeah. 168 00:12:20.960 --> 00:12:24.600 And you know, if you know, off off recording, we can 169 00:12:24.679 --> 00:12:30.360 send you some information on this director. And he had made you know, 170 00:12:30.480 --> 00:12:35.639 there's movies online that you can stream with big actors and uh recommended, Like 171 00:12:35.840 --> 00:12:39.720 I think one of them even is a recommended movie somehow, like got decent 172 00:12:41.039 --> 00:12:45.679 reviews. Um. So Ryan and I were excited about it, like, 173 00:12:45.720 --> 00:12:48.960 Okay, maybe this is just how this guy works. He improviser shit and 174 00:12:48.960 --> 00:12:52.000 and uh and and it'll all work out. And then slowly, you know, 175 00:12:52.039 --> 00:12:54.320 crew members are like, hey, this isn't gonna work. I've been 176 00:12:54.360 --> 00:12:58.639 on sets like this like and we're like, yeah, we're starting to get 177 00:12:58.679 --> 00:13:01.960 that, you know, sound guys, they're staying Uh, catering isn't happening. 178 00:13:03.120 --> 00:13:05.720 It's like all just a nightmare. The things that he was supposed to 179 00:13:05.759 --> 00:13:09.720 take care of he didn't and it looked bad on us, and yeah, 180 00:13:09.759 --> 00:13:11.000 it looked really bad on us. And we so we ended up shooting for 181 00:13:11.039 --> 00:13:16.639 a total of uh I think five for six days and then we closed it 182 00:13:16.679 --> 00:13:24.960 down and um, yeah, and then he had had really nice equipment. 183

00:13:24.879 --> 00:13:31.080 Yeah. I mean there was one scene where he got a piano shipped in 184 00:13:31.159 --> 00:13:35.519 for this really successful uhum concert stunt. What was the end of the piano 185 00:13:35.720 --> 00:13:43.799 that whatever? That bige whatever, very famous, but he had used it 186 00:13:43.080 --> 00:13:46.759 in a scene that we filmed with like Jones and three different cameras, and 187 00:13:46.799 --> 00:13:48.919 we had got all this footage of it, and he tried to like, 188 00:13:48.960 --> 00:13:52.279 Okay, well what if we pitch this to the piano company and make it 189 00:13:52.320 --> 00:13:56.200 a commercial for the piano company. And I think I spent like three weeks 190 00:13:56.240 --> 00:14:01.279 trying to edit a commercial out of this like piano and o scene and just 191 00:14:01.399 --> 00:14:03.799 really stretching it along and and and I don't think we ever got paid for 192 00:14:03.840 --> 00:14:07.679 that. Yeah, no you didn't. But it was some of the most 193 00:14:07.720 --> 00:14:11.440 beautiful stuff we've ever shot, you know, it really was like it was 194 00:14:11.559 --> 00:14:13.799 nice footage. So I think we were kind of excited about about, you 195 00:14:13.840 --> 00:14:16.279 know, trying to repurpose it. But just in the end, you know, 196 00:14:16.320 --> 00:14:18.879 if your director doesn't know what they're doing, it's it's not going to 197 00:14:18.960 --> 00:14:24.679 work out. So the movie never really went anywhere. No, we can 198 00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:28.159 send you the little featurette that he put together about I would love to see 199 00:14:28.200 --> 00:14:33.399 that the movie. It's very strange. But oh so that really was the 200 00:14:33.440 --> 00:14:37.440 ship that happened to you guys in the beginning. But then I was forced 201 00:14:37.159 --> 00:14:41.480 I didn't have a job anymore, and I was forced to Ryan and I 202 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:43.480 were out on our own. I think we had a couple of clients, 203 00:14:43.480 --> 00:14:48.759 and we were paying the bills and or whatever we needed to to exist m 204 00:14:50.120 --> 00:14:52.679 rent wise and things like that, and we're like, all right, now 205 00:14:52.720 --> 00:14:56.759 we have no choice, let's let's do this. Go in yeah. Yeah, 206 00:14:56.759 --> 00:14:58.399 Well, and that was good timing, you know, with the kind 207 00:14:58.399 --> 00:15:01.039 of boom of podcast. I mean I was like, what, I was 208 00:15:01.039 --> 00:15:05.639 like twenty seven years old or something at that time, so I was like, 209 00:15:05.200 --> 00:15:07.600 it doesn't feel that risky to me. I mean, I'm in my 210 00:15:07.639 --> 00:15:11.519 twenties. Let's just go for it. I don't know, twenty six whatever, 211 00:15:13.399 --> 00:15:16.600 And how many podcasts do you produce on straw hut? Well, I 212 00:15:16.600 --> 00:15:20.919 actually was making a list today to figure out a bunch of separate things, 213 00:15:22.000 -->

00:15:26.000 and like currently like weekly, right now, we have twenty one shows weekly, 214 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:31.120 but like we have I think in total it's like thirty six or something 215 00:15:31.279 --> 00:15:35.519 that we've kind of done or maybe forty maybe forty because there's a lot that 216 00:15:35.559 --> 00:15:37.159 just um, you know, we do one season, it's one and done, 217 00:15:37.399 --> 00:15:41.759 you know, yeah, but they still exist. Awesome that they still 218 00:15:41.799 --> 00:15:46.559 exist, of course. Okay, great anyway, I mean that was a 219 00:15:46.600 --> 00:15:50.480 good story I forgot you know me too. Yeah, That's what really like 220 00:15:50.600 --> 00:15:54.519 started us off and got us to you know, no more. We were 221 00:15:54.559 --> 00:15:58.080 trying to get our crew out into the fires. You know, there was 222 00:15:58.120 --> 00:16:00.480 one point where we could see you know, we could see where the fires 223 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:03.639 were over this hill and we're like, this isn't good. Oh, and 224 00:16:03.759 --> 00:16:07.159 that have the masks. And then we had this big crew truck and he 225 00:16:07.279 --> 00:16:11.600 tried he made us go up this one path and it ripped off the top 226 00:16:11.639 --> 00:16:15.879 of the truck that we had rented. I mean, just like everything everything 227 00:16:15.919 --> 00:16:19.279 that could go wrong. Yeah. Yeah. It was like these really narrow, 228 00:16:19.360 --> 00:16:25.639 windy roads up into like Malibu Canyon and like, um and yeah, 229 00:16:25.679 --> 00:16:27.960 like I don't know if you're familiar or been to Malibu, but there's obviously 230 00:16:29.039 --> 00:16:33.159 the beach, then there's hills right on the other side, and that's all 231 00:16:33.279 --> 00:16:37.799 part of this huge, gorgeous canyon in Malibu, and and that's where we 232 00:16:37.799 --> 00:16:41.440 were shooting up in these hills and yeah, and it you can't take a 233 00:16:41.679 --> 00:16:45.480 you can't take like a big I don't know what kind of truck is that. 234 00:16:45.559 --> 00:16:49.159 I mean, it was like the size of a semi tall wise just 235 00:16:49.240 --> 00:16:52.480 not as long, not as long. Yeah, and uh and the driver 236 00:16:52.519 --> 00:16:56.240 should have known his limitations, but yeah, it was really I was falling 237 00:16:56.240 --> 00:17:00.639 behind him. It was after like a fifteen hour day on set, and 238 00:17:00.960 --> 00:17:03.599 um, I was following him back and all of a sudden, this tree 239 00:17:03.920 --> 00:17:08.880 that's sticking over the road. Just I see him hit it so hard. 240 00:17:08.920 --> 00:17:12.440 I heard this loud sound. I slammed on the brakes and you see this 241 00:17:12.680 --> 00:17:17.400 big gouge out of the whole side of the truck. And I was like, 242 00:17:17.599 --> 00:17:23.920 that tree ripped it through And was this did you buy this truck or 243 00:17:23.960 --> 00:17:26.960 this was like our

rented It was part of the rental for the crew, 244 00:17:27.279 --> 00:17:30.799 for the you know, like all the hardware that you need to shoot. 245 00:17:30.279 --> 00:17:33.720 We did rent a van. I'm sorry, we did purchase a van that 246 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:41.759 I just sold last year. Um, but but we rented this with this 247 00:17:41.880 --> 00:17:44.839 vehicle. Yeah, and you know, including the driver, so the driver. 248 00:17:44.920 --> 00:17:48.680 It really was on the driver. But I felt really bad yeah. 249 00:17:48.759 --> 00:17:51.759 I mean, yeah, it's not up to us to tell you if you 250 00:17:51.839 --> 00:17:56.400 should drive up certain things. He should be able to gauge you know, 251 00:17:56.519 --> 00:18:00.960 his truck. But we did feel very bad. He was pretty upset. 252 00:18:02.680 --> 00:18:06.319 I remember like one of one of the scenes we were shooting that wasn't going 253 00:18:06.359 --> 00:18:10.440 well, and I started to argue with Pe for a second of like why 254 00:18:10.519 --> 00:18:12.640 this wasn't working? And then Arturo was just like, dude, this is 255 00:18:12.640 --> 00:18:18.039 the funnest part when productions aren't working. You just go our friend Arturo who 256 00:18:18.079 --> 00:18:22.400 was who was helping he was he was shooting it, right, you see 257 00:18:22.400 --> 00:18:27.599 amatographer on that was no Mike was was the camera operator. Yeah, yeah, 258 00:18:27.839 --> 00:18:32.039 um, and he goes, he goes. At this point, all 259 00:18:32.039 --> 00:18:33.359 you do is go, oh, that's a great idea, and you nod 260 00:18:33.359 --> 00:18:36.559 your head. And then we were we roll and he's like, it's the 261 00:18:36.559 --> 00:18:38.519 funnest part when you just know it's going to go to shit and you cannot 262 00:18:38.519 --> 00:18:42.000 find And then from there we just started we started having We were just laughing. 263 00:18:42.079 --> 00:18:45.359 Yeah, you know, we're just you know, uh, we knew 264 00:18:45.400 --> 00:18:48.720 it wasn't going to work out, so what do you do? You know, 265 00:18:48.839 --> 00:18:52.680 we were all giggling and the crew started having so much fun because it 266 00:18:52.759 --> 00:18:57.079 just got more and more ridiculous, Like every new idea that P had what 267 00:18:57.359 --> 00:19:00.680 was more and more ridiculous. So yeah, yeah, the crew really enjoyed 268 00:19:00.720 --> 00:19:06.920 that after a certain point until their until their safety problem. Yeah. And 269 00:19:07.279 --> 00:19:08.960 this is a director that you're saying, like if you had and I know 270 00:19:08.960 --> 00:19:11.640 you're not going to say the name, I don't want to know the name, 271 00:19:11.680 --> 00:19:14.640 but if we if you said the name, we would like know we 272 00:19:14.680 --> 00:19:19.720 would probably not but you wouldn't know his name, but you would. He's 273 00:19:19.759 --> 00:19:23.599 worked, He's made some successful movies with people whose name you do know? 274 00:19:25.240 --> 00:19:30.160 Yeah, a huge name with huge actors. Yeah, okay, yeah anyway, 275 00:19:30.279 --> 00:19:34.680 yeah, yeah, good stories. Yeah. So now, um, 276 00:19:34.880 --> 00:19:40.440 there are other stories that you have that have happened to both of you along 277 00:19:40.519 --> 00:19:42.319 this journey. Yeah, so that just kind of set the stay. I'm 278 00:19:42.319 --> 00:19:47.279 working together for a long time, so um, you know and really scrambling. 279 00:19:47.839 --> 00:19:51.599 One one of the stories I was going to bring up was UM, 280 00:19:51.720 --> 00:19:57.400 while Ryan UM recently started traveling to Mexico a lot, both for planing your 281 00:19:57.440 --> 00:20:03.559 wedding and UM just in general just an attraction to Mexico City and how amazing 282 00:20:03.559 --> 00:20:07.720 it is there. Um. I live in San Diego actually where Ryan's from, 283 00:20:08.039 --> 00:20:12.640 but he's in La and Um, he was planning on one of the 284 00:20:12.680 --> 00:20:18.480 easier ways to travel to different parts of Mexico if you want to fly is 285 00:20:18.519 --> 00:20:22.039 by crossing the border through San Diego. You walk over. They have a 286 00:20:22.079 --> 00:20:26.160 really cool system, um CBX, and you cross over and then it takes 287 00:20:26.160 --> 00:20:29.920 you straight to the Tijuana airport where you can fly out way cheaper than if 288 00:20:29.920 --> 00:20:33.039 you're flying out of San Diego, and it just makes it really simple. 289 00:20:33.599 --> 00:20:37.039 Um, you don't even steps in Tijuana when you do it. It's just 290 00:20:37.079 --> 00:20:41.039 a tunnel in. Yeah. Yeah, it's an incredible experience. And from 291 00:20:41.079 --> 00:20:45.359 Tijuana to Mexico City round trip was like sixty bucks and it's like, that's 292 00:20:45.519 --> 00:20:48.000 wild, you know, it was like three hundred or four hundred bucks from 293 00:20:48.079 --> 00:20:52.240 La. Yeah, it's like. But that being said, there is a 294 00:20:52.319 --> 00:20:59.039 huge difference between going to CBX and going to Tijuana. And so Ryan and 295 00:20:59.119 --> 00:21:04.680 Mag's Maggie his now wife, needed a ride to CBX to do the flight, 296 00:21:04.759 --> 00:21:08.400 and I picked him up from Ryan's dad's house in San Marcos where it's 297 00:21:08.440 --> 00:21:14.559 in San Diego, and um, you know, I think we initially put 298 00:21:14.599 --> 00:21:17.599 in the right address. We put in CBX, but we stopped for a 299 00:21:17.640 --> 00:21:22.000 coffee and my maps got turned around, and then when we got back in 300 00:21:22.000 --> 00:21:25.599 the car, you just go through the history and it's just like recommends where 301 00:21:25.599 --> 00:21:27.839 you want to go, and I just hit I think we hit Tijuana Airport 302 00:21:27.880 --> 00:21:33.599 for some reason. Yeah, instead of CBX that I had already had in 303 00:21:33.319 --> 00:21:36.519 UM. So I just didn't even pay any attention

to it. It's like, 304 00:21:36.599 --> 00:21:38.920 yeah, we're going to and then when you you know, we're talking 305 00:21:40.400 --> 00:21:42.279 for the whole time, just conversing, going down and when you get to 306 00:21:42.359 --> 00:21:48.279 a certain point in this highway that I took, there are walls to the 307 00:21:48.400 --> 00:21:51.319 right and left of view, and it just takes you straight into the border 308 00:21:51.359 --> 00:21:57.599 crossing and you there's nothing you can do. Apparently I really thought I could, 309 00:21:57.960 --> 00:22:02.119 um. But so once you realize that, it goes, you know, 310 00:22:02.200 --> 00:22:06.200 because Mexico border only these signs that we're starting to realize what I'm doing 311 00:22:06.240 --> 00:22:10.599 here, like oh shit, shit, we're going into Mexico right in Mexico. 312 00:22:10.720 --> 00:22:15.720 So but there's a little embassy um kind of situation and bathroom and I 313 00:22:15.759 --> 00:22:19.480 did have to pee anyway, So before you actually go through the little gate 314 00:22:19.799 --> 00:22:23.920 things of being in Mexico. There's one bull off area and there is a 315 00:22:25.119 --> 00:22:30.279 gate that they block off that looks movable you can turn around, So I 316 00:22:30.400 --> 00:22:33.480 pull over, I go pee, and I talked to the two the It 317 00:22:33.640 --> 00:22:37.200 was a lady and a guy, and I think they both had their rifles 318 00:22:37.240 --> 00:22:40.920 out right there, like they always do down there. They're m sixteens. 319 00:22:40.920 --> 00:22:44.160 It's very and I'm standing there and I'm like, I'm like, oh, 320 00:22:44.240 --> 00:22:48.000 hey, I need to turn around because I didn't mean to go to Mexico. 321 00:22:48.039 --> 00:22:51.920 And the guy's like, you're in Mexico and I was like, oh 322 00:22:51.960 --> 00:22:55.279 no, I'm not, though, because that's the gate right there, and 323 00:22:55.519 --> 00:22:59.160 because the gate is different because well you think it is, because there's like 324 00:22:59.200 --> 00:23:03.160 the stop lying and there's a person that there standing and letting you come through, 325 00:23:03.559 --> 00:23:07.960 and so you assume that's you assume that's Mexico. But it turns out 326 00:23:07.480 --> 00:23:11.000 he was told. He told me for four times, and like the girl's 327 00:23:11.079 --> 00:23:15.000 laughing. It's a very shaw. He's like, you're in Mexico, and 328 00:23:15.039 --> 00:23:17.279 I was like, I know, but there's a little thing right here where 329 00:23:17.279 --> 00:23:18.880 it says you can turn around, but it's blocked off. Can you just 330 00:23:18.920 --> 00:23:22.359 open it for me. He's like, bro, you're what do you understanding 331 00:23:22.720 --> 00:23:27.079 You're in Mexico. I'm like, I don't want to be though. I 332 00:23:27.160 --> 00:23:32.960 don't mean to insult you, but my wife is eight months pregnant at the 333 00:23:32.960 --> 00:23:36.640 time. There's perfect timing. I don't know if you just heard my daughter 334 00:23:36.680 --> 00:23:41.240 in the background. Um, so she's do any minute at this point, 335 00:23:41.240 --> 00:23:45.160 any day. I mean, she's we're full along, We're there. Um 336 00:23:45.200 --> 00:23:48.480 And like Tyler, you were I don't even know if you bought a wallet, 337 00:23:48.519 --> 00:23:51.799 but you were like in like gym shorts and just a T shirt. 338 00:23:52.200 --> 00:23:55.480 I think I had gotten done with yeah, fighting jiu jitsu that morning, 339 00:23:55.640 --> 00:23:59.759 so um, which I get up for four thirty in the morning and then 340 00:24:00.519 --> 00:24:03.480 and I had already done that. I had, I had my wallet, 341 00:24:03.519 --> 00:24:07.519 I didn't have a passport, and I'm in Mexico. Yeah. Actually they 342 00:24:07.519 --> 00:24:11.440 searched. They did a really interesting thing too. I think they saw my 343 00:24:11.519 --> 00:24:15.359 hesitation of going across the border, so they actually made us pull over to 344 00:24:15.480 --> 00:24:21.200 go into Mexico, which is rare. Yeah, that search coming back for 345 00:24:21.359 --> 00:24:26.720 contraband and things. But they actually searched my truck going into Mexico. I 346 00:24:26.759 --> 00:24:29.160 think I think they saw that I didn't want to go, you know, 347 00:24:29.240 --> 00:24:32.440 so they were like, this guy has a little sketchy. I would say 348 00:24:32.599 --> 00:24:37.240 probably sketchy, Yeah for sure. Um, but I didn't have any contract. 349 00:24:37.279 --> 00:24:41.640 I wasn't bringing anything into Mexico other than Ryan and Mago. So um. 350 00:24:41.680 --> 00:24:44.279 But that process, you know, to get them to the airport, 351 00:24:44.319 --> 00:24:48.440 it was right down right down the street, and yeah, then you went 352 00:24:48.480 --> 00:24:52.279 to Mexico. Then I went to Mexico and I dropped them off and uh, 353 00:24:52.319 --> 00:25:00.000 they had a beautiful flight. Um. And then I spent the next 354 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:02.960 hour or so being told not to go through you know, I put on 355 00:25:03.000 --> 00:25:06.960 my maps and they tell you which which entrance is quicker back into the US, 356 00:25:07.039 --> 00:25:10.720 and it goes not the one you're at to the go to the other 357 00:25:10.759 --> 00:25:14.119 one. It's gonna be It's gonna save you at least two hours. I'm 358 00:25:14.119 --> 00:25:15.359 like, okay, cool, then I'm gonna go to that one. I 359 00:25:15.440 --> 00:25:19.279 get in line there, and I've been through this border before, and Ryan, 360 00:25:19.279 --> 00:25:22.440 you're kind of familiar. I'm not even close to the bridge. Oh, 361 00:25:22.519 --> 00:25:26.000 the O Tai one is the one you ended up going to. Yeah, 362 00:25:26.000 --> 00:25:27.079 you know the big bridge that you get stuck on. Me. I'm 363 00:25:27.119 --> 00:25:30.559 not even I'm probably two miles behind there and there's a line. Geez. 364

00:25:32.000 --> 00:25:33.480 So I get in there and I'm like, and I look it up and 365 00:25:34.079 --> 00:25:37.599 I'm in line, and there's no turning around once you're in that line either. 366 00:25:37.640 --> 00:25:42.160 I had to get gas too, but that was relatively easy and it 367 00:25:42.200 --> 00:25:48.599 took me. I got in line at ten am after I dropped them off 368 00:25:48.599 --> 00:25:51.799 of the airport, directly at the airport. It was really convenient from Yeah, 369 00:25:51.799 --> 00:25:55.960 it was really nice. They walked straight in the air for it, 370 00:25:55.960 --> 00:26:00.039 and their flight was on time. They finished. They got to Mexico City 371 00:26:00.079 --> 00:26:06.960 before I got home to San Diego. I got home at three thirty pm. 372 00:26:07.039 --> 00:26:10.960 Oh no, and got in line at ten am to across the border. 373 00:26:10.960 --> 00:26:18.839 That day. Did pe and the help the whole time? Oh yeah. 374 00:26:18.880 --> 00:26:22.799 I had a coffee and some water. I peeed at the gas station 375 00:26:22.839 --> 00:26:25.720 before I got gas, but I did have to pee the entire time. 376 00:26:26.359 --> 00:26:30.480 Um and luckily I had a full tank of gas. So yeah, yeah, 377 00:26:32.200 --> 00:26:34.079 yeah, it was a long It was a long, long day of 378 00:26:34.200 --> 00:26:37.799 nothing much. I mean, I didn't have my laptop. We had clients 379 00:26:37.240 --> 00:26:41.039 emailing us and stuff, so I'm just answering emails. But I'm not able 380 00:26:41.039 --> 00:26:45.000 to do anything, yeah, production wise or physically edit anything, you know. 381 00:26:45.799 --> 00:26:48.160 Um, but I got to the front, I'm all nervous because I 382 00:26:48.200 --> 00:26:52.960 don't on my passport either, you know. And then the guy's like I 383 00:26:52.039 --> 00:26:56.440 rolled down the window and it's like, why don't you have a passport? 384 00:26:56.799 --> 00:27:00.720 And I was like, oh, I do. I just I didn't bring 385 00:27:00.759 --> 00:27:03.240 it because I wasn't supposed to go to Mexico today. And he's like, 386 00:27:03.359 --> 00:27:07.680 I'm not really sure what that means. I'm like, yeah, it's He's 387 00:27:07.680 --> 00:27:08.640 just like, it seems like you've had a rough day. I'm like I 388 00:27:08.720 --> 00:27:11.359 have. He's just like, all right, take it easy, you have 389 00:27:11.200 --> 00:27:15.000 a good one. He's just let me through. I mean, do you 390 00:27:15.160 --> 00:27:18.119 that must happen. It can't be here the only person that that happens too. 391 00:27:18.200 --> 00:27:22.880 Oh no, I mean I hear about people going with just their driver's 392 00:27:22.880 --> 00:27:25.599 license all the time and it not being an a yeah. And now since 393 00:27:25.640 --> 00:27:29.200 I just got married there, um, I learned a whole bunch of new 394 00:27:29.240 --> 00:27:33.480 information about it. And like, you know, the time it takes to 395 00:27:33.480 --> 00:27:37.319 get

into the US is the US Customs and Border Control, and they are 396 00:27:37.359 --> 00:27:41.359 obligated to actually if you're a US citizen to let you in like that is 397 00:27:41.359 --> 00:27:45.839 like they're there. They have to let you in. So they could put 398 00:27:45.839 --> 00:27:48.480 you into secondary and they can question you all they want and that takes another 399 00:27:48.519 --> 00:27:52.599 hour or so, but ultimately they have to let you in. Yeah, 400 00:27:52.640 --> 00:27:55.079 but if you don't have your passport, how can you prove that you're a 401 00:27:55.160 --> 00:28:00.359 US citizen? I mean hopefully you have your driver's license. Yeah, right, 402 00:28:00.440 --> 00:28:03.519 yeah, and then I'm sure they would put you into some other you 403 00:28:03.559 --> 00:28:07.759 know, a million people. Yeah. Yeah, I did have a picture 404 00:28:07.799 --> 00:28:11.279 of my passport, that's if it came down to it, so they would 405 00:28:11.279 --> 00:28:15.039 be able to look up my number and compare it to my idea and things 406 00:28:15.039 --> 00:28:17.640 like that, which it didn't come down to. But yeah, that's good. 407 00:28:17.759 --> 00:28:19.519 That's good. Yeah, And you didn't like pull out like a ten 408 00:28:19.640 --> 00:28:22.799 or twenty and no, because these are American have made it worse, right 409 00:28:22.880 --> 00:28:27.559 right at this point, they're Americans, the guys, and the guys before 410 00:28:29.240 --> 00:28:32.119 I should have been maybe they would have turned around, maybe they would have 411 00:28:32.119 --> 00:28:33.440 opened up that gate. I didn't have any cash on me. Can I 412 00:28:33.519 --> 00:28:38.279 venmo you one hundred bucks that help me not go to Mexico. Turns out 413 00:28:38.440 --> 00:28:41.559 Mexico does not do VENMO. That would have been really helpful for the wedding. 414 00:28:42.000 --> 00:28:48.240 Oh yeah, that's right. Anyways, that's my that's me Ryan and 415 00:28:48.279 --> 00:28:51.599 I had and then he Ryan got me a cool shirt when they got to 416 00:28:51.680 --> 00:28:55.599 Mexico City that's just like has a logo on it of someone's head in a 417 00:28:55.640 --> 00:29:00.720 cloud and it just says, I don't know, just he's just that reminded 418 00:29:00.880 --> 00:29:03.559 him of me, because you know, I was flustered at that point. 419 00:29:03.279 --> 00:29:07.759 Yeah, or I went to Mexico didn't mean too Yeah, yeah, yeah, 420 00:29:07.799 --> 00:29:11.359 that's exactly what it was. Yeah, most of the times I've been 421 00:29:11.359 --> 00:29:15.759 to Mexico, I've really really meant to do it, um with full intentions 422 00:29:15.759 --> 00:29:18.039 of going to Mexico. This time, you know, getting lost in TJ 423 00:29:18.160 --> 00:29:22.000 and on the phone with my pregnant wife and trying to find the right border 424 00:29:22.119 --> 00:29:25.759 entrance to go to it was a little scary, but once I was in 425 00:29:26.000 --> 00:29:27.799 actually it was like really calming once I was in the line, because I 426 00:29:27.880 --> 00:29:32.960 knew I was going the right way. But yeah, just not the unknowing 427 00:29:33.000 --> 00:29:37.119 of how long something's going to take is very frustrating for a somewhat impatient person 428 00:29:37.200 --> 00:29:38.880 like myself. Yeah, of just like I don't know how long this is 429 00:29:38.880 --> 00:29:41.240 going to take. I have no idea. I don't know how close I 430 00:29:41.279 --> 00:29:44.880 am. I don't want to turro. I don't want to buy your dog. 431 00:29:47.319 --> 00:29:49.200 You know. You mean it's happening while you're laying, while you're standing 432 00:29:49.200 --> 00:29:52.839 in line, and this when you when you're driving a line, people come 433 00:29:52.880 --> 00:29:55.160 up to your window and they're trying to sell you stuff. They try to 434 00:29:55.200 --> 00:29:57.200 wash your windshield, they try to you know, um, they try to 435 00:29:57.240 --> 00:30:02.559 sell you a puppy. They they do all that. But I didn't purchase 436 00:30:02.599 --> 00:30:06.039 any Turos or anything. No. I usually do, and they're delicious, 437 00:30:06.039 --> 00:30:11.400 they are very good. I just wasn't in So I just have to tell 438 00:30:11.440 --> 00:30:17.400 you it's I mean, that totally didn't happen to me. But I'll tell 439 00:30:17.400 --> 00:30:21.359 you what did happen to me at a border kind of thing. Um, 440 00:30:21.480 --> 00:30:25.200 I went with my friend to Spain. She invited me. She used to 441 00:30:25.240 --> 00:30:30.920 work for um Abbott Labs and they used to like give give away these huge 442 00:30:30.960 --> 00:30:36.440 trips to their employees who had you know, like big years you know, 443 00:30:36.559 --> 00:30:38.680 and um it was like amazing. I don't think they can do it anymore, 444 00:30:40.119 --> 00:30:44.839 said years. No, big big years years. Yeah. Yeah, 445 00:30:44.839 --> 00:30:48.720 so um she her husband couldn't go this year this time, and she was 446 00:30:48.759 --> 00:30:49.839 like, let's um, why don't you come with me to Spain. I 447 00:30:49.880 --> 00:30:53.480 was like okay. So so it was great. It was a beautiful like 448 00:30:55.279 --> 00:30:56.960 it was an amazing trip, like it wasn't just your average trip to Spain, 449 00:30:57.039 --> 00:31:00.680 like they really did everything, like we went to a castle and all 450 00:31:00.759 --> 00:31:03.519 kinds of things. Anyway, so we get there and you know, you're 451 00:31:03.519 --> 00:31:07.400 standing in line like to like get get into the country. I'm like, 452 00:31:07.440 --> 00:31:11.640 oh, this is a cool thing. And I take my phone and go 453 00:31:11.680 --> 00:31:15.960 and take a picture of basically like what is you know, I can't think 454 00:31:15.960 --> 00:31:21.559 of words anymore, like when they're checking you in, like it's not the 455 00:31:21.599 --> 00:31:25.000 border customs. Customs, Yeah, like customs.

I take my phone, 456 00:31:25.000 --> 00:31:30.440 I'm like click and I literally no, I literally took a picture of the 457 00:31:30.519 --> 00:31:36.079 sign that said like no pictures loud. So it was like it's not that 458 00:31:36.200 --> 00:31:38.960 loud, you know, but all have a sudden I all these custom agents 459 00:31:40.039 --> 00:31:42.839 like we're on me, and they're like come over here, man, well 460 00:31:42.839 --> 00:31:47.279 in Spanish, come over here, you know, and they like and now 461 00:31:47.400 --> 00:31:51.160 my friends, I'm with my friend and her friends and they are get through 462 00:31:51.160 --> 00:31:56.640 customs and they're like going on, and I'm detained over here, and you 463 00:31:56.680 --> 00:31:59.559 have to know, like I'm like a person who just tries to do everything 464 00:31:59.640 --> 00:32:02.519 right most of the time, you know, Like I don't I didn't get 465 00:32:02.599 --> 00:32:07.880 into the principal's office. All of my like Lincolnwood friends will like know this, 466 00:32:07.039 --> 00:32:10.160 Like I was just like a really good girl, you know, and 467 00:32:10.200 --> 00:32:15.640 now I'm detained by like costumes in Spain and they're like, he's like, 468 00:32:15.799 --> 00:32:19.119 you know, one minute, he's got to go talk to some very official 469 00:32:19.119 --> 00:32:22.480 people about this awful thing that I did. And he finally comes back and 470 00:32:22.519 --> 00:32:24.799 I'm like, can I just delete the picture? Like is that okay? 471 00:32:24.839 --> 00:32:30.319 I just delete the picture and was delete. So I delete the picture and 472 00:32:30.359 --> 00:32:32.839 then they let me go. Luckily, but who knows. I could have 473 00:32:32.880 --> 00:32:36.839 been like I don't know why that is a thing. I've seen that before 474 00:32:36.920 --> 00:32:40.039 and I've gotten yelled at, but I've never gotten pulled away. But like 475 00:32:40.480 --> 00:32:45.279 it must be they think that you're like photographing their process of or something, 476 00:32:45.480 --> 00:32:49.640 or like getting information about them or the I don't know what the deal is 477 00:32:49.680 --> 00:32:54.359 about the photos in the customs line. I don't know righte, spy look 478 00:32:54.440 --> 00:33:00.200 to you so well, I did have brown hair then, but no, 479 00:33:00.400 --> 00:33:04.960 I'm like the suburban you know, like mom, like I probably am the 480 00:33:05.079 --> 00:33:08.680 least likely person. That's why, you know, that's it. Maybe that's 481 00:33:08.680 --> 00:33:12.440 a trigger now, you know. H Yeah, yeah, sure, you 482 00:33:12.480 --> 00:33:15.200 are right. Right. They don't do anything to me anymore they used to. 483 00:33:15.480 --> 00:33:23.640 Yeah right, I got through two borders. Yeah right, doesn't even 484 00:33:23.640 --> 00:33:30.359 mean the passport, yeah right right. So yeah, anyway, all Ryan, 485 00:33:30.440 --> 00:33:31.839 let's hear your story. I mean, I guess

we we're bringing you 486 00:33:31.960 --> 00:33:37.440 three talk about Yeah, okay, I'll tell you this one. It happened 487 00:33:38.039 --> 00:33:42.200 I don't know, a while ago. It's with a it's a it's regarding 488 00:33:42.200 --> 00:33:47.000 a podcast that we actually never ended up producing because of it was just a 489 00:33:47.000 --> 00:33:52.160 whole shit show. Um. And so I'm not going to say the person's 490 00:33:52.240 --> 00:34:00.319 name against that's fine, but it's a very it's a famous actor. And 491 00:34:00.799 --> 00:34:04.319 I thought it would be a great show and it would do very well, 492 00:34:04.920 --> 00:34:10.440 but quickly realized how how tough it was going to be. Um. But 493 00:34:10.599 --> 00:34:15.679 this one time, in particular, it was ten am and I had just 494 00:34:17.599 --> 00:34:22.360 recorded with another show, and I went and actually had breakfast with Catherine keener. 495 00:34:23.000 --> 00:34:25.760 And then and it was close to where I was going to be heading, 496 00:34:27.000 --> 00:34:30.760 I'm gonna call this person. The other one was Pete. I'm gonna 497 00:34:30.760 --> 00:34:37.400 call this one L like I don't know, okay, and and then it's 498 00:34:37.400 --> 00:34:45.400 almost alphabetical. Yeah. Yeah. I was texting L being like I'm gonna 499 00:34:45.440 --> 00:34:49.119 be a few minutes later, but i'll be there at I think I was 500 00:34:49.159 --> 00:34:51.880 saying like instead of ten of ten, I'll be there like ten thirty. 501 00:34:52.079 --> 00:34:54.840 No response, nothing, and I have got all my gear ready to record. 502 00:34:55.679 --> 00:35:00.880 Um, I can't remember who our guest was, but someone also famous. 503 00:35:01.000 --> 00:35:06.239 That's just how it works. And so no response, no response, 504 00:35:06.280 --> 00:35:08.039 no response. I ended up pushing a little later because I still hadn't heard 505 00:35:08.079 --> 00:35:13.800 a response. I get there. I get to Elle's house at ten forty 506 00:35:13.800 --> 00:35:21.000 five and everything was closed and lockdown in the like the windows usually open, 507 00:35:21.199 --> 00:35:24.679 the doors usually open. There's a screen a gorgeous house in Malibu right on 508 00:35:24.679 --> 00:35:30.800 the water, and I'm like looking in the window and I see this figure 509 00:35:31.719 --> 00:35:38.239 walking around and then I so I'm like I'm knocking, and I'm like ell 510 00:35:39.159 --> 00:35:49.039 all yeah yeah, because I was calling nothing, texting nothing, and Elle 511 00:35:49.079 --> 00:35:54.239 sees me and comes stumbling to the door, opens it up and says, 512 00:35:54.320 --> 00:35:57.400 Ryan, we have to leave right now. Do you have a car. 513 00:35:57.559 --> 00:36:01.960 And I'm like, oh shit, I walked here. Yeah. I'm like 514 00:36:02.039 --> 00:36:05.920 okay, why are you okay? He's like yeah, we just have to 515 00:36:05.960 --> 00:36:10.760 go right now. And I was just like, okay's and he's like,

516 00:36:10.800 --> 00:36:14.920 where's your car. I'm like, it's on the street. He's like, 517 00:36:14.960 --> 00:36:16.480 okay, pull it up in the driveway. I'll meet you out in front. 518 00:36:17.119 --> 00:36:22.039 And so, what the fuck is going on? Okay? So I 519 00:36:22.119 --> 00:36:24.440 go, I get the car, I turn around, I come up the 520 00:36:24.519 --> 00:36:32.760 driveway, Elle walks down the steps, stumbles into the car, smells like 521 00:36:32.800 --> 00:36:42.679 booze, is obviously inebriated. Yah yeah um, and he's like, oh, 522 00:36:42.719 --> 00:36:45.079 okay, just just head that way. I'm like, where are we 523 00:36:45.119 --> 00:36:45.880 going. He's like I don't know, we just got to get out of 524 00:36:45.920 --> 00:36:52.880 there. And I'm like okay. So I'm just driving with him and we 525 00:36:52.920 --> 00:36:55.239 passed by Uh. He's like, oh, there's like there's a hotel. 526 00:36:55.280 --> 00:36:59.800 There's a hotel up the street. And I'm like, okay, great, 527 00:36:59.840 --> 00:37:02.159 I'll I'll drive you there. As we're driving to this hotel, apparently just 528 00:37:02.320 --> 00:37:07.519 on the on the what is that sunset on the wap on the one yeah. 529 00:37:08.360 --> 00:37:13.280 Um, there's a liquor store and Ell was like, can you pull 530 00:37:13.320 --> 00:37:17.840 in? Can you pull in here? And I'm like sure, Like maybe 531 00:37:17.840 --> 00:37:22.199 he's getting a coffee, yeah, getting get a coffee. Yeah. So 532 00:37:22.280 --> 00:37:28.039 I pull in. Else stumbles out, walks and goes and he comes back 533 00:37:28.880 --> 00:37:32.079 with two bags, brown bags. I don't know what's in. Um. 534 00:37:32.840 --> 00:37:37.960 Um closed the door. I start driving and he just opens one up start. 535 00:37:37.039 --> 00:37:39.199 He twists off the bottle. It's up. There are two bottles of 536 00:37:39.320 --> 00:37:45.840 chardon ay and he just starts drinking it in my car as we're I'm driving. 537 00:37:45.840 --> 00:37:51.800 I'm just like and he's just like guzzling, guzzling shardon And I'm like, 538 00:37:51.840 --> 00:37:54.880 okay, so where's this hotel. He's like, it's up here. 539 00:37:54.880 --> 00:37:59.599 You know it's up. It's up up, you'll see it. It's on 540 00:37:59.599 --> 00:38:01.599 the right. I'm like, okay, I find the hotel. I pull 541 00:38:01.679 --> 00:38:06.639 in. I pull into the parking spot and he's like, would you mind 542 00:38:06.679 --> 00:38:09.079 just going in and just you know, getting me a room? And I'm 543 00:38:09.119 --> 00:38:15.440 like, hmm, I will not get you a room, but I will 544 00:38:15.559 --> 00:38:19.159 see if they have availability. So I walked out. I left him in 545 00:38:19.159 --> 00:38:22.559 the car. I go in. Turns out, this very fancy place right 546 00:38:22.639 --> 00:38:31.599 on the one overlooking the ocean thankfully did not have availability. So I look 547 00:38:31.599 --> 00:38:34.800 at my I get back in the car and tell him it. He gets 548 00:38:34.800 --> 00:38:38.960 all hitsy about it, and then I look at my phone. I'm just 549 00:38:39.000 --> 00:38:43.000 like, okay, what I just need a cheap hotel right now. I 550 00:38:43.039 --> 00:38:46.039 just need to put this person in a cheap room somewhere. So the closest 551 00:38:46.079 --> 00:38:50.280 thing I could find was in Santa Monica. There was like rooms for like 552 00:38:50.280 --> 00:38:53.760 two fifty a night. I found it. It was like a thirty five 553 00:38:54.000 --> 00:39:01.840 forty minute drive from where we were in Malibu, so yeah, oh yeah. 554 00:39:01.840 --> 00:39:05.760 He finished one of the Chardonnay bottles by the time we got there. 555 00:39:06.519 --> 00:39:13.440 Um. I get to this other hotel, I asked if they have availability. 556 00:39:13.559 --> 00:39:15.840 They do. I asked if we could get early check in, because 557 00:39:16.199 --> 00:39:19.800 you know, usually you can't get in your room until like three or whatever. 558 00:39:19.880 --> 00:39:22.360 And it was like, I don't know, eleven eleven thirty maybe at 559 00:39:22.360 --> 00:39:29.760 this point. And got the room, you know, paid for it on 560 00:39:29.800 --> 00:39:36.039 the company card, and and and then go back to the I was in 561 00:39:36.079 --> 00:39:39.119 a loading zone right on the street, and I told the valet guy, 562 00:39:39.159 --> 00:39:43.000 Can I just leave my car here? Well, I'm gonna walk el up 563 00:39:43.039 --> 00:39:47.760 to the room. And l was a complete mess. He had a bottle 564 00:39:49.199 --> 00:39:52.679 Chardonnay in his other hand and his like dangling on my shoulder. And I 565 00:39:52.760 --> 00:39:59.199 was like walking him through the hallways in this Santa Monica hotel and his room 566 00:39:59.239 --> 00:40:01.320 was like on the eighth or or something, and so he's I'm just like 567 00:40:01.400 --> 00:40:09.360 dragging this this dude into this elevator and I get him in there, I 568 00:40:09.480 --> 00:40:15.800 give him the keys. I say, I'm gonna get going, and he's 569 00:40:15.800 --> 00:40:19.880 like looking out the window. I don't know, it's like a very silhouetty 570 00:40:20.039 --> 00:40:22.000 iconic pose, just like looking out on the window, like his side, 571 00:40:22.519 --> 00:40:24.639 you know, hips to the side, his hand on his hip and just 572 00:40:24.760 --> 00:40:29.519 like looking out. And I was like, ell, I've got to get 573 00:40:29.519 --> 00:40:32.239 out of here. And then he came up towards me and he just gave 574 00:40:32.280 --> 00:40:37.360 me this hug and he started crying on my shoulder. Oh, he just 575 00:40:37.360 --> 00:40:39.679 started crying. And I don't know exactly what he said, but he's like 576 00:40:39.719 --> 00:40:46.679 slobbering on my shoulder. Ryan's also texting me. I'm like, I don't 577 00:40:46.679 --> 00:40:52.599 know, man, I probably would have hit him, all right, Yeah, 578 00:40:52.599 --> 00:40:57.000 it was very

frustrated. It was he was crying. I said, 579 00:40:58.079 --> 00:41:01.480 I hope everything works out out, you know, uh, let me know, 580 00:41:05.519 --> 00:41:07.360 referring to I don't you know, I don't know what his issue with. 581 00:41:07.480 --> 00:41:13.480 It was some kind of issue with his wife and a thing, and 582 00:41:13.880 --> 00:41:17.519 I don't know exactly what happened. He's also he's also a recovering. He's 583 00:41:17.639 --> 00:41:22.880 recovering. He knew this at the time that he's and he's drinking, right, 584 00:41:22.840 --> 00:41:27.000 I didn't know about the recovery part of it. I mean, he 585 00:41:27.039 --> 00:41:31.880 didn mention a sponsor at one point, okay whose name rhymes with schmell Schmidt, 586 00:41:34.639 --> 00:41:37.320 which is probably not the best. Yeah, he did, but I 587 00:41:37.360 --> 00:41:38.760 thought that was on the drive, as when he was mentioning that to me 588 00:41:40.480 --> 00:41:45.840 that forty five minute drive, it's when I was when I called yeah yeah 589 00:41:45.880 --> 00:41:53.119 and uh and uh yeah yeah. So cry I I leave. I feel 590 00:41:53.280 --> 00:41:58.199 really bad, I mean, but granted I also did pay for his room, 591 00:41:58.559 --> 00:42:02.880 so feel a little less bad, and um I I left the next 592 00:42:04.000 --> 00:42:07.000 morning. Though, however, is really really what was What was interesting is 593 00:42:07.000 --> 00:42:15.920 that I got a call from the police m because because L wouldn't leave the 594 00:42:15.000 --> 00:42:21.480 room, at his checkout time, and so I had to have a long 595 00:42:21.519 --> 00:42:23.679 conversation with the police. I'm like, do you have his wife's number? 596 00:42:23.679 --> 00:42:28.000 Here's his wife's number. Do you have this. I'm like, I've paid 597 00:42:28.000 --> 00:42:30.679 for his room already and it's not something I'm willing to do again. And 598 00:42:30.719 --> 00:42:35.159 so I think they anyway, Yeah, I think they took him in. 599 00:42:36.480 --> 00:42:40.840 He has a manager, who I find to be one of the most irritating 600 00:42:40.880 --> 00:42:45.679 types of people, who, you know, Ryan's like, hey, I'm 601 00:42:45.679 --> 00:42:49.400 busy dealing with the cops. Can you get ahead of get ahead of his 602 00:42:49.920 --> 00:42:52.559 get ahold of his manager to tell him the situation, you know. So 603 00:42:52.639 --> 00:42:57.199 like we're texting him like, hey, there's police involved. I just want 604 00:42:57.199 --> 00:42:59.159 you to know, like a head's up, this is your friend, blah 605 00:42:59.199 --> 00:43:01.400 blah blah, Like you know, Ryan's dealing with it. He shouldn't have. 606 00:43:01.480 --> 00:43:05.840 He's a podcast producer, you know, Like and then he goes, 607 00:43:06.719 --> 00:43:08.199 who do you think I am? Jesus, what do you want me to 608 00:43:08.280 --> 00:43:12.800 do? I'm in Canada or something like that, And I said, I 609 00:43:12.840 --> 00:43:17.719 said something like I'm just informing you that your friend and your client, and 610 00:43:19.800 --> 00:43:22.239 you know, like he's in trouble, and he needs your help. I 611 00:43:22.280 --> 00:43:25.000 don't. I don't expect you to do anything. I actually don't expect to 612 00:43:25.000 --> 00:43:30.039 talk to you ever. Again, I would prefer and we've already had other 613 00:43:30.079 --> 00:43:32.159 issues with this guy too, and I just I have no patience for rude 614 00:43:32.239 --> 00:43:37.039 people like that, you know. Um, just like how like putting it 615 00:43:37.039 --> 00:43:39.320 on me? Like what does it seem like a crazy thing for me to 616 00:43:39.360 --> 00:43:44.840 be contacting you about your client who's in trouble? You know, like is 617 00:43:44.840 --> 00:43:46.920 it that big of a deal? Like yeah, He's like, what do 618 00:43:46.960 --> 00:43:50.239 you want me to do? And I'm like, I don't know. I 619 00:43:50.239 --> 00:43:54.000 don't know what to do in this situation this person. Yeah, exactly, 620 00:43:54.199 --> 00:44:02.599 you know, I don't know. But yeah, anyway, God, it 621 00:44:02.679 --> 00:44:06.519 had so much potential to be a great show. You know, we were 622 00:44:06.519 --> 00:44:10.199 both really excited about it, and we were able to release a few episodes, 623 00:44:10.280 --> 00:44:14.440 but um no, well yeah, we ended up not releasing it. 624 00:44:14.639 --> 00:44:17.480 Oh yeah, it's not out. Actually I think we did one as we 625 00:44:17.519 --> 00:44:22.639 did one at first, and then we had to take it off because it 626 00:44:22.840 --> 00:44:28.000 just what's the point of releasing one episode or something? Yeah. Um, 627 00:44:28.159 --> 00:44:34.599 but anyway, I hope he's okay now, Yeah, we does he remember 628 00:44:34.760 --> 00:44:37.280 like do you think he remembered this? He did apologize later. Um, 629 00:44:37.280 --> 00:44:42.719 he actually has been texting me as of this week. So well, he 630 00:44:42.760 --> 00:44:45.440 did ask you for a ride to the grocery store once. Yeah, yeah, 631 00:44:45.440 --> 00:44:47.719 it got it, went down to best Let, Slippery Slope. He 632 00:44:47.719 --> 00:44:51.880 asked if he could crash on my couch she's at you know, asked, 633 00:44:52.159 --> 00:44:54.119 um, yeah, it was all kinds of weird things. Does he want 634 00:44:54.119 --> 00:44:59.480 to do the podcast? Now? Hey, let's get him on the ship 635 00:44:59.559 --> 00:45:04.440 that happened to me. Yeah, maybe he might be. He might be 636 00:45:04.480 --> 00:45:07.559 done with podcasting. I think he just wants to be my friend. Maybe 637 00:45:07.599 --> 00:45:09.960 I don't know you. And that's sweet. It's a good it's a good. 638 00:45:10.119 --> 00:45:14.360 Uh, that's a good having dinner at dinner party conversation like how did 639 00:45:14.360 --> 00:45:20.400 you guys meet? Yeah, I get I have all kinds of weird situations 640 00:45:20.440 --> 00:45:22.519 like that with the

Yeah, we have found that a lot of these. 641 00:45:22.840 --> 00:45:27.079 You know, Ryan's the one who's out there in LA and he has he 642 00:45:27.159 --> 00:45:32.719 you know, he deals with a lot of our I guess celebrity type clients 643 00:45:32.719 --> 00:45:37.079 that we've dealt with in the past, and they, yeah, they they 644 00:45:37.679 --> 00:45:45.440 they cling on to the friendship or the maybe because like we're not necessarily in 645 00:45:45.519 --> 00:45:50.079 like the Hollywood, Hollywood industry, so maybe they like like a puranis to 646 00:45:50.320 --> 00:45:54.639 it and Ryan's a nice guy, and they i mean even even p in 647 00:45:54.679 --> 00:45:59.800 the previous story, you know, like wanting me to live in his house. 648 00:46:01.159 --> 00:46:06.960 You know, I have a life, man, I can't um anyway. 649 00:46:07.079 --> 00:46:10.920 Yeah, that's it. That's those are our stories to it. I 650 00:46:10.920 --> 00:46:15.880 mean, I think it's so like for someone who's like not involved in that 651 00:46:15.960 --> 00:46:19.639 world at all, and it's just to want to be like it. It 652 00:46:19.639 --> 00:46:22.639 can be you know, disappointing to learn like these real things about you know, 653 00:46:22.679 --> 00:46:27.400 like we just like have this like image of all of these celebrities as 654 00:46:28.079 --> 00:46:30.960 you know, like Steve Carrell is just like a really nice guy. And 655 00:46:30.000 --> 00:46:34.599 maybe he is just a really nice guy, you know, but he probably 656 00:46:34.800 --> 00:46:38.119 like you know, gets drunk or fights with his wife or there are some 657 00:46:38.159 --> 00:46:44.679 really real yeah yeah, yeah, like Tom Hanks. We I don't ever 658 00:46:44.719 --> 00:46:47.079 want to know anything bad about Tom Hanks. Yeah, I know. Maybe 659 00:46:47.239 --> 00:46:52.000 like we just started a show with Harvey Gean for he's the guierma and what 660 00:46:52.039 --> 00:46:58.000 we do in the Shadows and Harvey is the sweetest man ever. Love him, 661 00:46:58.280 --> 00:47:00.360 so have a couple of his guests, you know, like Fred Armison 662 00:47:00.599 --> 00:47:06.880 was such a sweetheart to be to come on the show with him and yeah, 663 00:47:06.679 --> 00:47:09.239 and he was just like actually thankful to be on the podcast. Yeah, 664 00:47:09.480 --> 00:47:13.679 yeah, thanks for including me. You know. That's it's always nice 665 00:47:13.679 --> 00:47:16.840 to hearing there's definitely like super sweet people out there. There's just also so 666 00:47:19.119 --> 00:47:24.199 I'm not sweet. Yeah. Yeah, Well I just saw. I was 667 00:47:24.239 --> 00:47:30.480 in um Long Island last week and we went shopping one day in the Hamptons, 668 00:47:30.239 --> 00:47:35.039 the Hamptons and um, I was in sag Harbor and I saw in 669 00:47:35.079 --> 00:47:39.440 a store, um Melaura Harden, who played Jan on The Office. Yeah, 670 00:47:39.480 --> 00:47:45.639 and yeah, yeah, she just like walked

right by me and smiled, 671 00:47:45.679 --> 00:47:47.599 you know, and like I smiled, and I was like, oh 672 00:47:47.639 --> 00:47:52.440 my god, that's Jan from the Office. So she's beautiful. And so 673 00:47:52.559 --> 00:47:58.199 I left the store. Yeah, I told Steve and you know, my 674 00:47:58.440 --> 00:48:02.559 you know cousins that I was with, and and my you know cousin Scott 675 00:48:02.639 --> 00:48:07.400 was like, are you sure it was her? You know, maybe maybe 676 00:48:07.400 --> 00:48:08.800 it was someone who looked like her, And I'm like, no, it 677 00:48:08.920 --> 00:48:15.199 was her. And so now now I had to go back in and with 678 00:48:15.320 --> 00:48:19.639 him because he'd like didn't believe me, and so, but he's a big 679 00:48:19.719 --> 00:48:22.599 chicken. So and when I go back in, I'm like, well, 680 00:48:22.679 --> 00:48:24.599 now I'm going to talk to her, right, And so we go back 681 00:48:24.599 --> 00:48:29.920 in and I'm like, he said, he really like appreciated, like my 682 00:48:29.920 --> 00:48:32.960 my process of pretending to buy a pair of ear rings when really I was 683 00:48:32.960 --> 00:48:36.719 just trying to get close to her. And so I'm like looking at some 684 00:48:36.840 --> 00:48:38.960 ear rings and then i just kind of sidle up next to her and I'm 685 00:48:39.000 --> 00:48:43.000 like, oh, I want to be honest and say I had to look 686 00:48:43.000 --> 00:48:45.599 her name up after that day, but you know, I went up to 687 00:48:45.679 --> 00:48:49.880 and I'm like, oh, you're m Laura Harden right um, and she 688 00:48:50.039 --> 00:48:52.360 was like yeah, And I was like, oh, you played Jan on 689 00:48:52.400 --> 00:48:53.840 the I want to let you know how much I enjoyed your performance. Is 690 00:48:53.920 --> 00:48:57.639 Jan. She's like, well, thank you so much. I'm glad you 691 00:48:57.719 --> 00:49:01.119 enjoyed it. Super nice. So now we leave and Scott was ready to 692 00:49:01.239 --> 00:49:06.159 like run away. He was so freaked out that I was talking to her 693 00:49:06.360 --> 00:49:10.400 just like that. Yeah. But the best part was it if we were 694 00:49:10.440 --> 00:49:15.320 walking around and she just kept showing up, you know, with her friend. 695 00:49:15.519 --> 00:49:20.559 So at one point she passed us and she practically was like hi, 696 00:49:21.239 --> 00:49:23.360 you know, like she was so friendly. So at that point I'm like, 697 00:49:23.480 --> 00:49:29.000 hey, can we get a picture because my kids think this didn't really 698 00:49:29.039 --> 00:49:30.880 happen if I don't have a picture, which was a lie. They were 699 00:49:30.920 --> 00:49:35.599 like, oh cool mom, you know, but well, kudos for knowing 700 00:49:35.599 --> 00:49:40.119 her real name too. No, I looked it up. Old been too 701 00:49:40.119 --> 00:49:44.519 embarrassed to be oh you and then she would have been like, well I 702 00:49:44.559 --> 00:49:45.679 have a real name, you know. Yeah right, yeah, no, 703 00:49:45.760 --> 00:49:49.119 I had to look it up. That was one of the reasons I left 704 00:49:49.159 --> 00:49:52.599 and went back and so and it was kind of a weird moment because she 705 00:49:52.679 --> 00:49:55.199 was like, okay, we'll take a selfie and she like took my phone. 706 00:49:55.679 --> 00:50:00.320 She was like reaching from my phone. I'm like, here, take 707 00:50:00.400 --> 00:50:05.880 my phone, do whatever you want. Nice and she too, yeah right, 708 00:50:06.280 --> 00:50:08.960 I think that's what it was. Yeah. Yeah, so that was 709 00:50:09.079 --> 00:50:15.559 now she I tagged her. She still hasn't liked it, but that's okay. 710 00:50:15.719 --> 00:50:21.559 Yeah she was really she was really nice. So good. Yeah, 711 00:50:21.679 --> 00:50:28.840 anyway, I think that's really special. Yeah, yeah, it made it 712 00:50:28.920 --> 00:50:32.280 was a highlight, one of the highlights. So good. All right, 713 00:50:32.360 --> 00:50:37.800 guys, Well thanks so much for coming on and telling me those stories. 714 00:50:38.000 --> 00:50:45.920 And yeah, and you know, if l or P or Fred Armison want 715 00:50:45.960 --> 00:50:50.960 to come on my podcast, you know, I mean, I'd welcome any 716 00:50:50.960 --> 00:50:57.320 of them. Yeah, and yeah, so and hopefully Maggie will feel better 717 00:50:57.320 --> 00:51:00.760 soon and we'll get we'll get her on soon. Yeah. I think next 718 00:51:00.800 --> 00:51:04.400 week is definitely gonna happen. She is, she says, she feels fine. 719 00:51:04.440 --> 00:51:07.760 It's just this cough that's not going away right now. So that's tough 720 00:51:07.800 --> 00:51:13.360 for a recording. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, right, all 721 00:51:13.440 --> 00:51:16.199 right, all right, well thank you, thanks, Yeah, we'll talk 722 00:51:16.239 --> 00:51:22.480 to you soon. Bye bye bye right bye bye. Thanks for listening to 723 00:51:22.519 --> 00:51:27.360 my ship. I really appreciate it. Come back and hear more shit next 724 00:51:27.360 --> 00:51:29.920 time on the Ship that Happens to Me podcast. Do you think I've said 725 00:51:29.920 --> 00:51:34.760 shit enough for one podcast episode? Tune in next time to the Ship that 726 00:51:34.800 --> 00:51:44.079 Happens to Me Podcasts. You Got a Baby