Episode 45: POP Quiz with Cazzie David
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Time Crisis, back once again.
I'm rejoined by my good friend Jake,
who's been on a wedding tour across America.
We'll be talking about the last stand of Belgium's Wendy's,
and not the Wendy's you think.
We'll also be joined by Kazzy David
to discuss clubbing,
Niall Horan,
and Seinfeld trivia.
All this on a very special...
Time Crisis, with Ezra King.
B-B-B-Beast...
One.
# They passed me by
# All of those great romances
# They were a wealth of a belief
# All my rightful chances
# My picture clear
# Everything seemed so easy
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# One of us had to go
# Now it's different
# I want you to know
# One of us is crying
# One of us is lying
# Leave a lonely way... #
Time Crisis, Los Angeles, California.
What's up, Jake?
It's June 2017.
That's right. Deep in 2017 now.
- Jeez. - Almost halfway done.
I know it's a cliche, but the year is flying by.
It's good to see you, Jake.
You've been on the road a lot lately, man.
I feel like you're on a wedding tour.
It's true.
I'm getting texts from you, seeing Instagrams,
where I'm just trying to figure out where you are.
You know when you see a picture of some random bus,
and you're just like, "Where is that?"
I know that's not an LA bus, not a New York bus.
Or just a weird pizza hut,
and then the location on my gram just says, like,
Pineville, Minnesota.
Like a weird CVS in suburban Minneapolis.
So what's going on? I guess it's springtime.
- It's wedding season. - I've been to two weddings
far from LA in the last three weeks.
But the good news is I'm done for the summer. That's it.
- Oh, really? You banged it out? - Yeah, banged it out.
Yeah, 'cause some people got, like, seven, eight weddings a season.
- That's insane. That's crazy. - So both of these people
- were your girlfriend's friends? - Yeah.
Last weekend was DC, and then two weekends before that,
Memorial Day weekend, was Minneapolis.
You came in today wearing a T-shirt,
which I believe is from the same Minnesota trip
that you were just waiting for.
It says "Sweet Martha's Cookie Jar."
It looks kind of like an early '70s logo.
There's an anthropomorphized female cookie,
or at least-- we don't know if the cookie's female,
- but this cookie-- - No, definitely a female cookie.
Well, it's probably what they wanted to imply.
The cookie has kind of, like, lipstick on and high heels,
- but, you know-- - Eyelashes.
They're going for, like, a Minnie Mouse look on this cookie.
What is Sweet Martha's Cookie Jar?
Okay, well, this is something I learned about on my trip to Minnesota.
The Minnesota State Fair occurs the final two weeks of August of every year,
and it's the second largest state fair in the country,
so it's a big deal.
Like, a family friend of Hannah's
runs this business called Sweet Martha's Cookie Jar,
and so at the fairgrounds, there's a giant cookie stand
that sells cookies in buckets.
So, like, you buy, like, four dozen chocolate chip cookies in a bucket
- for, like, $17 or something. - So you can't buy a single cookie?
- I think you can, but here's the thing. - Yeah.
It's a very popular item at the fair,
and people wait in line for hours.
And I saw aerial photographs of zombie hordes
trying to get to the cookie stand.
People wait in line at the Minnesota State Fair to get--
Sweet Martha's Cookie Jar chocolate chip cookies. That's all they sell.
Because Sweet Martha's Cookie Jar, there's no brick-and-mortar retail establishment?
Nope. They sell this cookie-- Okay, they sell these cookies
only 12 days a year at the Minnesota State Fair,
and this operation is so successful and legendary within the state of Minnesota
that that's their yearly income.
- That's so crazy. - Yeah.
They make a good living every year selling cookies 12 days a year.
Sweet Martha's Cookie Jar only exists at the Minnesota State Fair
once a year for 12 days.
- They're covering their yearly income. - Yep.
Colin just showed me an article on his phone,
and I didn't want to speculate on their income
because I knew the business did well.
But this article the Hebrews brought up said that they make $3 million annually
selling cookies. Now, I know that they have 600 employees working the fair.
- I don't know what their overhead is. - But that's for 12 days.
- That's insane. - They're probably paying college students $7.50 an hour.
So I know people that-- Oh, this dude Sean that I met,
his girlfriend--
- Had worked at the fair? - No, no, no.
His girlfriend's mom is Martha.
- Is Sweet Martha-- - Sorry to cut to the chase.
- Wait, so did you meet Sweet Martha? - Oh, yeah. I went out-- Okay.
Okay. Full disclosure. I went out to their lake house.
- You went to Sweet Martha's lake house? - Yes, I did.
That's where I met her and her husband.
- I mean, it must have been a sick lake house. - Yeah, it was amazing.
- Yeah. - And then we just rolled in blind.
I didn't know anything. I didn't know anyone there.
- Just eating caviar for breakfast. - Yeah, exactly.
Slowly this story emerges about Sweet Martha's and the cookies.
And I'm like, "Okay, they have a cookie franchise.
I'm sure they have outlets, locations, and various strip malls
around the greater Twin Cities."
Not the case. 12 days a year.
- And so-- And actually-- Okay. - Dad's like,
"Jake, have you ever seen $3 million in cash?"
Like, "No, sir." Like, come down to the basement.
- Yeah, seriously. - This is still from 2012.
I haven't even had time to deposit this.
Okay, well, check this out, dude.
So there's the 12 days a year, but if there's a big event
at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds, they will open up for a day.
Now, the Saturday that we were there for the wedding,
during the day, there was a hip-hop festival curated by this guy, Atmosphere,
who's like a local Minnesota rapper.
And he had put together a big hip-hop festival,
and so Sweet Martha's was open for the afternoon.
So we went over to the fairgrounds and got a tour of the full facilities.
- Is it a permanent structure? - Oh, yeah.
- Major, major infrastructure. - You know what?
- Major investment went into this. - It's like the Venice Biennale.
- Kind of. - 'Cause there they have, like,
- every country has their pavilion. - Sure.
Which, you know, it's really every two years.
So for the vast majority of the time, they build these big permanent structures
that I'm sure they do other stuff in between,
but really, it's there for every two years.
- Yeah. - And this is every one year.
So did you see a lot of, like, Atmosphere fans
schlepping around a giant bucket of cookies?
- Yep. - Just, like, in the crowd,
- everybody was holding it? - Yeah, everyone was hitting Sweet Martha's.
According to Google, there's only 90 calories in a Sweet Martha's cookie.
- Well, they're small. They're small. - Okay.
- And did you-- So you ate one? - Oh, yeah.
- Probably ate, like, six. - I mean, when in Rome.
I wanted to make a song about where I'm from, you know?
Big up my hometown, my territory, my state
But I couldn't figure out much to brag about
Well, Prince lives here, we got 10,000 legs
But wait, the women are beautiful, to me they are
And we're not infested with pretentious movie stars
And it hit me, hit me, Minnesota is dope
If only simply, for not what we have, but what we don't
It's all there, it ain't out there, it's in there
It's in the mirror, behind the breast, under the hair
Follow the dream, doesn't mean leave the love
Roam if you must, but come home when you've seen enough
I love New York and Cali, but I ain't moved
Too overpopulated, saturated with humans
And I'm not big on rappers, actors, or models
If I had to dip, I'd probably skip to Chicago
None of this is to diss no one, nowhere
Like damn, I'm from Minnesota, land of the cold air
Too many mosquitoes and a fair share of egos
But like my man Sabi says, that's where my money stands
So if the people laugh and giggle when you tell 'em where you live
Say, say
And if you know this is where you wanna raise your kids
Say, say
If you're from the Midwest and it doesn't matter where
Say, say
If you can drink tap water and breathe the air
Say, say
Got trees and vegetation in the city I stay
The rent's in the mail, and I can't always find a parking space
The women outnumber the men two to one
Got parks and zoos and things to do with my son
The nightlife ain't all that, but that's okay
I don't need to be distracted by the devil every day
And the jobs ain't really too hard to find
In fact, you could have mine if you knew how to rhyme
This is for everyone around the planet
That wishes they were from somewhere other than where they're standing
Don't take it for granted, instead, take a look around
Quit complaining and build something on that ground
Plant something on that ground, dance and sleep on that ground
Get on your hands and knees and watch the ants walk around the ground
Make a family, make magic, make a mess
Take the stress, fuel your motivation, and build your nest
It sucks that you think where I'm from is whack
But as long as that's enough to keep your ass from coming back
And with a smile and a hint of sarcasm, he said
I beg your pardon, but this is my secret garden
Alright
(Middle of the land of ice and snow)
(Middle of the land of ice and snow)
So if the people laugh and giggle when you tell 'em where you live, say
Say
If you know this is where you wanna raise your kids, say
Say
If you're from the Midwest and it doesn't matter where, say
Say
If you can drink tap water and breathe the air, say
Say
If the playground is clear of stems and syringes, say
Say
If there's only one store in your town that sells 12 inches, say
Say
If no one in your crew walks around with a gun, say
Say
And if you ain't gonna leave 'cause this is where you're from, say
Say
St. Cloud, Minnesota
Mankato, Minnesota
Duluth, Minnesota
Kansas City
St. Louis, Missouri
Columbia, Missouri
Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Madison, Milwaukee
Cincinnati, Ohio
Columbus, Ohio
Bolo, Colorado
Lawrence, Kansas
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Indianapolis, say
You know, I've always hated Otis Spunkmeyer. It's just one of those brands that rub me the wrong way.
I think I've talked about this on the show. If I haven't, I'm glad we're talking about it now.
I just remember being a kid, and at my school, they had grandma's cookies.
Grandma's sucks too.
Yeah, those suck too. But then they would have these greasy, hot Otis Spunkmeyer cookies.
I always just felt like I don't like the name Otis Spunkmeyer. I think that that's...
That's a terrible name.
And I'm not even saying because of that. I just don't like it.
And I don't like how greasy they are.
I don't know. There's something about having your full name, first and last name, on the cookie.
I'm down with Sweet Martha's, but it should be Grandpa Spunkmeyer.
Otis Spunkmeyer, it's arrogant.
So I've always disliked Otis Spunkmeyer, but I just want to say that
Mr. Spunkmeyer, you spend all year trying to get into schools
and selling these gross cookies at the mall.
I just want to say Sweet Martha's mops the floor with you.
Sweet Martha's cleaning up three million in twelve days.
In November 2006, the company was sold to IAWS Group for 561 million.
That's how much Otis Spunkmeyer went for?
IAWS already owned Cuisine de France and La Brea Bakery
and merged with High Stand to form Azerta in 2008.
Yeah, so you really want your cookie coming from an international conglomerate
that sounds like a cholesterol medication?
Yeah, like a pharmaceutical... Yeah, exactly.
Azerta.
Ask your doctor.
Okay, well first of all, Azerta.
561 million for Otis Spunkmeyer, you got ripped off.
Yeah, you overpaid, dude. You overpaid like crazy.
That's a Kushner move.
Yeah.
Jared Kushner definitely brokered that deal.
That's like a half a billion.
And I also want to say, Mr. Spunkmeyer, yeah, you got a big fat check,
but you know what? I'd rather be like some kind vibe Sweet Martha's thing.
Just every 12 days, you rake in that check, and then the rest of the day you chill.
Because it's like, would you really want to be a billionaire if it meant that every day
you're taking advantage of people?
You're waking up stressed out?
You know, forget-- like Sweet Martha's, that's the sweet spot of commerce.
You made something, it's local, it's regional, people like it, you're getting paid great.
You're a local legend.
You don't need to franchise that out.
No.
If Sweet Martha and the gang spend the past 30 years building the brand,
they're like, we're opening one in Madison, Wisconsin.
We're finally going to Chicago.
She's down there all stressed out with the architect.
Just like, oh my god, the Chicago and blah blah.
Little by little, it's growing and growing.
Then they get a chance to sell, and then they have to bring in all these finance dudes.
And then finally, after 30 years of stressful stuff, getting in fights with Otis Spunkmeyer.
What's the other one at the mall?
Mrs. Fields.
You get in fights with Mrs. Fields, blah blah blah.
And then finally, it's like you're 70, and you get that check for $561 million.
And you're just like, cool.
I could have been kicking it at the Lake House.
Right.
Great.
Yeah, your kids are pissed off at you.
Right.
You know, the people that were OG Sweet Martha's fans are inundated.
The stress of--
The quality of the product went down so far when they sold.
The insane stress of when you first open--
When you're trying to open the one in Italy, and the local bakers revolted.
Right, right.
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- So Jake, we got a hell of a show today.
- Sweet.
- Seinfeld 2000 helped us get a great guest.
You wanna tell us about the guest, Seinfeld?
- Sure, her name is Kazzy David,
and she's the daughter of Larry David,
the creator of a TV show called "Curb Your Enthusiasm,"
the co-creator of another show called "Seinfeld,"
which was a popular sitcom.
- We're familiar.
- Yeah, I know her kind of through Instagram.
There was some direct messaging going on,
and then she seemed very on-brand
for this particular program,
and she's graciously agreed to join us.
- You've been hooking us up
with a lot of great Seinfeld-adjacent content,
because the truth is,
nobody wants to hear us really talk about the show,
but you got us the composer of the Seinfeld theme.
- That was great.
- Yeah.
- And now you have Kazzy David,
who not only is Larry David's daughter,
but she's also following in her father's footsteps now.
- She has a web series called "The 86th,"
and it's very funny.
- It features her as Remy, a neurotic semi-narcissist
who, across several episodes ranging four to eight minutes,
tries to win her breakup.
But social media and technology,
and again, her own neurosis,
keep thwarting every attempt.
Very on-brand for "Time Crisis."
So she's gonna be here soon.
Jake, we got a real heartwarming show.
A lot of "Time Crisis" is becoming kinda NPR.
A real heartwarming story out of Belgium.
- Oh, this actually ties in nicely with "Sweet Martha's."
- So going back to "Sweet Martha's,"
and we're talking about,
on "Time Crisis," we don't necessarily have an ethos,
but more or less, we really turn a critical eye
on big corporate food.
- Sure.
- And we like small business.
But we also have a critical eye on small business,
but similar to "Sweet Martha's" cookie jar,
which has built its own regional brand,
despite the disgusting harassment
of Otis Spunkmeyer and Mrs. Fields.
- And the Grandma's Corporation.
- We got a great email from Belgium.
I wanna read it.
"Hi, Jake.
"My name is Celine.
"I'm a Belgian TC fan.
"I love the show and your paintings."
- Woo! - Nice.
"I wanted to write you because I just read this article
"in the Belgian newspaper De Morgan
"about how Wendy's is prevented from expanding to Belgium
"and the Netherlands because one man is unwilling
"to change the name of his snack bar,
"which is also called Wendy's.
"He named it after his daughter,
"just like the founder of the American Wendy's."
She sends a picture of him.
He looks like kind of an average Joe.
There's literally a stain on his shirt in the picture.
He's got a little snack bar.
Looks like they got sandwiches, fish and chips, fries.
- It looks like it's in like an airport.
- It's got kind of an airport vibe.
So she says, "This year, Dunkin' Donuts, Pizza Hut,
"Taco Bell, Five Guys and TGI Friday
"have all opened up branches in the Netherlands.
"Obviously, Wendy's can't stay behind."
- Damn, all this year? - I know, brutal.
"But apparently, they've been in a legal fight
"for almost 20 years now with a small town snack bar owner
"who owns the rights to the name Wendy's.
"They might even be unable to expand to Europe at all
"because of the persistent snack bar owner.
"In response, Wendy's hired the international law firm
"Hooghroekmanegger.
"When confirmed with their lawyers,
"the snack bar owner said,
"'They look just like those CSI ladies.
"'They look too perfect.
"'Wendy's lost the lawsuit in February,
"'but they're appealing against it yet again.'"
This is a great email.
Thank you so much, Celine.
And it's nice to hear from a Belgian "Time Crisis" fan.
"Time Crisis," we gotta take sides.
I mean, Wendy's big corporation
versus the little Wendy's guy in Belgium?
Like, come on.
- Yeah.
I'm shocked that this is even an issue,
'cause he owns one snack bar.
He doesn't own a chain of snack bars.
Like, you could, like, I could open a sandwich place
on, like, Sunset and call it Wendy's.
- No, I bet you couldn't.
- I bet I could.
- No, they wouldn't, no, man.
- No, come on.
- I'm surprised that you--
- If I call it Wendy's, okay,
his is Wendy's Fish and Chips.
So what if mine was like Wendy's--
- Dude, these big corporations are psycho.
- Sandwiches and wraps.
- I bet we could open a cookie stand called Wendy's
on La Cienega, and Wendy's would sue us.
They'd be like, "We don't like,
"no, these companies are crazy."
- Really, 'cause Wendy's is like,
that's a name that's general enough
that other companies could use.
Like, it's on McDonald's.
- One would think.
- And it's not, it's not even Arby's.
- But even McDonald's.
I bet if we opened a burger place called McDonald's
and we were like, "You know what?
"It's just a great Scottish name,"
they would sue us like crazy.
- Yeah, I believe that.
- No, because corporations have this insane power
where they can, like, keep a name like that.
So it's insane that, well, first of all,
I think it's cool.
Like, why should Wendy's just get to go all over the world
and trample this guy's rights?
- Yeah, absolutely.
- And they're coming with some big law firm.
- I love that quote about the CSI ladies.
- Yeah, and also, you know, there's country,
like Burger King in Australia is called Hungry Jacks.
- Okay, so they do the--
- Copyright law is funny.
- I hope this guy holds out.
- Yeah, I mean, if we have anybody
in Belgium or Netherlands listening, please support.
- Love to get him on the phone.
- Yeah, yeah, oh, we should try to get him on.
- That'd be great.
- That'd be an interesting talk.
- I also want to point out,
time crisis has always been harsh on Wendy's,
like the international corporation.
They have that weird thing about how fresh they are.
- Right.
- Also, really, Wendy's, like,
how many locations do you think Wendy's has globally?
It's thousands.
- Hold on.
- You're gonna guess.
- I'm gonna say, like, around 10,000.
- That's, I was gonna say, like, 2,500.
- No, no, way more than that.
- Really?
- I mean, McDonald's is like 30,000 locations.
- I know, but McDonald's is, like, insane.
- But Wendy's is no joke, dude.
- Can we get a number crunch on that?
- 6,100.
- Okay.
- Split the difference.
- Split the difference.
Okay, so I'm just saying,
you have 6,100 Wendy's in the world.
You really need it in Netherlands and Belgium?
Just chill, take the L.
In fact, I'm boycotting Wendy's
until they leave this man alone.
- I like that.
- Wendy's stay the hell out of the Flemish-speaking
part of the world.
- There's already enough burgers there, as is.
- Yeah, chill, Wendy's.
- Time Crisis on Beat One.
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- So we are now joined in the studio by Kazzy David.
Where'd you grow up, LA?
- I grew up in Brentwood, yeah.
- Oh, nice.
- A very enclosed childhood.
- What year were you born?
- 1994.
- Ooh, Brentwood '94.
- Hot.
- What was going on then?
- What, OJ Simpson, right?
- Brentwood '94.
- OJ Simpson.
- When was OJ?
- '94, bro.
- That was '94.
- Were you born before or after the murder?
- I know so little about this murder.
I have no idea when I was born around that time.
- Wait, what month were you born?
- May.
I don't know when it was.
- Just before the murders.
- Yeah, you guys can figure that out.
- The murders were in June of '94.
- So your parents are at home in Brentwood.
- Yeah, they have a month.
- With their baby daughter.
- Month old.
- Flip on the TV, their next door neighbor
is ripping down the freeway in a Ford Bronco.
And an earthquake the same year?
Wow.
- And the riots years before that.
- Yeah.
- So what, is there a lot of--
- Talking early, mid '90s LA history at this point.
- It was a crazy time.
- Is there a lot of fast food out in Brentwood?
Obviously that's an affluent community.
There's a lot of fancy restaurants.
You got the Country Mart.
- Yeah, the Country Mart's the (beep)
- They're not gonna have a Wendy's at the Country Mart.
But, so what do you have out there?
There's like a soup plantation, right?
- There's a soup plantation.
I think there might be like a Baja Fresh.
- Is there like a main drag in Brentwood?
- Yeah, there's San Vicente, there's Montana,
but then you're getting into Santa Monica.
- I don't know this area at all.
- But I don't eat fast food.
I have never had.
- Never? - No.
- Never? - No.
- So no fast food?
- None.
- I'm intrigued.
- Well, so what about, how old are you now?
- I'm 23, it took me.
- Have you been to Del Taco?
- No.
- Have you been to Taco Bell?
- Wow, you grew up in Southern California?
- No.
- In-N-Out?
- I had In-N-Out maybe twice.
- Wow, McDonald's?
- No.
- Not once?
- You've never had McDonald's in your life?
- I had fries like one time.
- And they were somebody else's fries?
- Yeah.
- Wow.
Because I also feel like I grew up in kind of a crunchy,
health food oriented household, but I wanted it more.
- It makes me feel so sick.
- That's fair, good for you.
- And my parents just terrified me about it.
They just scared me so badly that I never want it.
Yeah, I'm so scared to eat anything that's bad.
- So do you remember feeling the draw to McDonald's?
Like your friends were hitting McDonald's in high school,
and you were just like,
"My parents scared the (beep) out of me."
- I think there was like one thing
that I was really jealous of,
and I would just like be so upset that I didn't have it,
and it was the frosting with the sprinkles
that you dip, dips, dip.
- Oh yeah, fun dip? - Oh, that's nasty.
- Those were good.
- Right, and that's like pure sugar.
- That was like, "Please mom, get me these sticks."
- But when you're like a senior in high school at lunch,
and kids have cars, and they're like,
"We're going to McDonald's."
And you'd be like, "Guys, my parents are gonna kill me.
"I'm just gonna get high in the parking lot."
- Yeah, that was pretty much.
- Or you were just like, "I'm not interested."
- I was kind of like, "You guys are gross.
"You shouldn't be going to McDonald's."
- Look at you, God.
- I'm grossed out by you.
- That's advanced.
- I don't need McDonald's to have fun.
And honestly, I feel bad for you guys.
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♪ Meaning lies about a little ♪
♪ Some of them cries about a little ♪
♪ Some of them dies about a little ♪
♪ Everything about a spoon full ♪
♪ It's spoon, it's spoon ♪
♪ It could be a spoon full of coffee ♪
♪ It could be a spoon full of tea ♪
♪ Just a little spoon of your precious love ♪
♪ Oh, well, that's good enough for me ♪
♪ Meaning lies about a little ♪
♪ Some of them cries about a little ♪
♪ Some of them dies about a little ♪
♪ Everything about a spoon full ♪
♪ It's spoon, it's spoon ♪
♪ It's spoon, it's spoon ♪
♪ It's spoon full ♪
♪ It could be a spoon full of water ♪
♪ Save you from the desert sand ♪
♪ But one spoon of liquor might put a fire ♪
♪ To save you from another man ♪
♪ Meaning lies about a little ♪
♪ Some of them cries about a little ♪
♪ Some of them dies about a little ♪
♪ Everything about a spoon full ♪
♪ It's spoon, it's spoon ♪
- Love your web series.
I did notice one thing that prominently in one episode,
there's ice cream.
- Yeah.
- So you could just go get ice cream.
- I like ice cream.
Ice cream I'll do, but the ice cream we got
is like very organic, which embarrassingly enough,
it's like the healthiest ice cream you can eat.
- Well, what's it called?
- Sweet Rose.
- They use some special sugar or something?
- No, it's like, it's regular sugar and dairy,
but it's like all their ingredients
are from like the farmer's market.
- Right, local.
- I'm so LA and annoying, so.
- No, that's fine.
Well, one thing that I liked about it,
the kind of like thing that you point out in that episode,
and I've thought about this before,
in this episode, your character gets ice cream on a cone
and the two people she's with get it in a cup
and she's going through a tough time in her life
and she's saying like,
"You guys couldn't have just gotten a cone
in solidarity with me."
And I've thought about that a lot.
It is funny, like when you go get ice cream with people,
'cause already in our culture,
we know that there's something shameful
about going to get ice cream.
We know that we're doing something bad
when we go to get ice cream together.
- Right.
- And so it's a little bit--
- Bummer.
- No, I'm just saying,
like we live in a very health conscious culture
where it's hard to just enjoy ice cream.
Like we know we're being, that's how I feel.
You know you're being bad, but it's kind of like,
so if you're going, the whole experience of ice cream
does involve getting a cone,
which you expertly pointed out.
And it's funny if you like make a plan to get ice cream
and then you get the cone
and then somebody else just gets a cup.
- Right.
- It's a little bit like,
I thought we were gonna rob this bank together.
- Right.
- Yeah.
- I think that's with so much stuff though,
'cause there's sometimes where you're out for dinner
with friends and you're like,
"Does anyone else wanna get a drink?"
And if they don't wanna get a drink,
you're like, "Okay, thanks.
I guess I won't get a drink."
But it's not their fault that you can't drink,
but it is at the same time.
- Yeah, I just ignore that.
I just get a drink.
(both laughing)
- You know, it's also weird when people,
some people feel very strongly about
they don't wanna eat if the other person's not eating.
- Right.
That's a weird girl thing.
Do you guys do that?
- Do you mean if the food comes before
the other food comes? - Some guys.
- Or just like, "I already had lunch, I'll sit with you."
- Yeah, because I feel like the whole thing is
we're just getting together to chop it up.
We're just getting together to have a good time.
Like, I don't know, so Jake, if you...
- Okay.
- If you hit me up, if you were in my neighborhood,
and you said, "Hey man, I'm in the hood."
- Starving.
- Starving.
Wanna crush a burrito with me.
And I say, "You know what, Jake?
I already cooked myself a nice organic stir fry at home,
but I'd love to come sit with you at the burrito place."
- Chipotle.
- Yeah, Chipotle.
Would you be like, "Sweet, meet you there."
Or would you be like, "Forget it."
- I'd probably be like, "Forget it."
- Really?
- I'd wanna hang, but I wouldn't wanna like,
subject you to like, sitting at the Chipotle with me.
I'm picturing the Chipotle on Beverly and La Brea.
- Melrose and La Brea.
- Okay, Mel, sorry.
Melrose and La Brea, Chipotle.
I'm like, "Dude, I'm like 10 minutes out.
Roll at me.
Let's meet.
I'm gonna sit down and eat a burrito in front of you."
- You don't want me to come to the Chipotle
'cause I already ate?
- It depends.
Like, it's honestly like a really hard call.
- I think it depends on like, what I'm dealing with.
- I just wanna add one wrinkle to the equation.
You're working that day.
You're sweating it out on the job site all morning.
- Okay.
- You have 45 minutes for lunch.
We haven't seen each other in a few weeks
'cause you've been at all these weddings.
And then you hit me up.
I got a tight 45 to leave the job site,
hit Chipotle and get back to the job site.
- I love this job site.
- Do you wanna link up?
And I say, "Absolutely, man.
I'd love to see you in Ketchup."
Although, I'll be honest, I did just go to Sweet Greens
and eat a kind of kale thing.
- Kale Caesar.
- Are you gonna literally just slam the door shut?
We're not gonna see each other otherwise.
- I am.
I'm gonna slam it.
I'm gonna slam it.
- Wow.
- I know we're trying to get away from this,
but I actually thought of the example
that is better than yours.
- Okay.
- So you and your friend both have lunch together
and you get the same lunch, like the same amount of food.
And then two hours later,
you're kind of in the mood for a snack.
And you're like, "I think we should get a snack.
Don't you think?"
And they're like, "No, I'm not really hungry."
- Ooh.
- Okay.
- Then you're like, "That sucks."
- Because you guys are just spending all day together?
- Because you would feel like we had the same amount of food.
Why am I hungry and you're not?
- Oh.
So it's a full day hang.
- Yeah, like why are we not both wanting a snack right now?
I mean, that's almost like a couple situation.
- Maybe.
- Like a couple, like, you know,
eat lunch with your girlfriend, it's the same thing.
And then two hours later, you're just like.
- Yeah, but in a couple, you know each other so well
that I don't know.
- Okay, so there's less.
- It's more of a competitive friend thing.
- Right, right.
- Yeah, in a couple, it's not gonna be.
- Okay.
- If you're with your girlfriend, you're like,
"I really could go for a Modelo."
She's gonna, "Of course you can."
- Yeah, copy that.
♪ I hear some people ♪
♪ They're talking me down ♪
♪ Swing off my name ♪
♪ Passing 'round ♪
♪ They don't mention the happy times ♪
♪ They do their thing ♪
♪ I do mine ♪
♪ Ooh baby, that's hard to change ♪
♪ I can't tell them how to feel ♪
♪ Some get strong, some get strange ♪
♪ Sooner or later it all gets real ♪
♪ Walk on, walk on ♪
♪ Walk on, walk on ♪
♪ Walk on ♪
♪ I remember the good old days ♪
♪ Stayed up all night ♪
♪ Getting crazed ♪
♪ And the money was not so good ♪
♪ But we still did the best we could ♪
♪ Ooh baby, that's hard to change ♪
♪ I can't tell them how to feel ♪
♪ Some get strong, some get strange ♪
♪ Sooner or later it all gets real ♪
♪ Walk on, walk on ♪
- So Kazzy, as we said earlier,
Seinfeld 2000 is what brought you to Time Crisis.
So we have him on the mic.
What's up, Seinfeld?
- Hey, what's up?
- So you guys met via Instagram DMs.
- Yeah.
The most millennial way to meet someone.
- Extreme millennial.
Slid into my DMs.
- Which is probably why you thought I was 15, 14 years old.
- Yeah, you were 16.
- Seinfeld 2000 is a man.
We won't say much beyond that.
(laughing)
- He's a full grown man.
- He's a full grown man.
And tall.
- Good looking too.
- And handsome.
- Oh, absolutely.
- Okay, so this kind of begs the question,
obviously Seinfeld must have loomed large in your life
with your father being the co-creator.
But is it a situation where people assume that,
wow, you must have grown up so in the mix with Seinfeld?
I guess by the time Seinfeld was off the air,
what, you four?
- Yeah, I was so young.
I mean, there's like pictures of me as a baby
on the set and stuff,
but I don't remember anything because I was so little.
But I didn't know the impact till I really went to college.
- And people were like, whoa, that's your dad?
- Well, I went to basically like screenwriting school
for TV.
So it was like in every class and I was like, whoa,
this is so weird.
I guess I'm an idiot, but.
- Wait, you did?
Wait, that's a thing when you're 18?
Could a?
- Well, Emerson has the major in screenwriting for TV.
- Gotcha.
- When it came up,
would kind of the whole class look at you kind of thing?
- I hoped most people didn't know about it,
but some people did and some people would look at me.
But it was awkward.
- I can imagine this situation would be.
Is it awkward?
'Cause you know, Seinfeld 2000,
as a major Seinfeld enthusiast,
on the show many times,
another beloved 90s sitcom, "Friends" comes up
and I can see that.
Yeah, exactly.
- The way he, even just the word "Friends",
he just bristles at it.
He really dislikes it.
He's agnostic on "Frasier",
but "Friends" really bothers him.
- That really makes me so happy though,
I have to tell you.
Because there's a lot of people that don't even know
that it was a copy.
- Yeah, I know.
- There's people that aren't even aware of it.
- Nah.
- Wait, wait, wait.
- It's really upsetting.
- I think I might be one of these people.
"Friends" is a copy of "Seinfeld"?
- How many shows were in a New York apartment
before "Seinfeld"?
- I'll tell you.
- Family, domestic situation.
- "Money Moaners".
- "Friends" wasn't the only one that copied it also.
- Oh right, 'cause it wasn't a family show.
- But there's so many factors to it.
I mean, they could easily have just had Chandler and Joey
live a door down and it had to be like right across.
Like that's the exact same.
I mean, there's actual shots,
like cinematic shots that were taken.
So it goes so far, but I'm like so passionate about it
because I can't really talk about it
'cause people are like, "Okay, 'cause yeah."
- Right, but you feel like you looked at this,
you looked at the evidence dispassionately
and you realize that this is the case.
- It couldn't be more obvious.
- I feel like tonally, they're worlds apart.
I mean, yes, they're both set in New York
with people in their apartments.
First of all, the "Friends" people are in their 20s.
The "Seinfeld" characters are in their late 20s, 30s.
- See a massive difference.
- No, no, no, no, no, no.
Not to split hairs, not splitting hairs.
Totally couldn't be farther apart.
"Friends" is sincere.
- I mean, you're not gonna be able to write the same way.
That would be impossible.
But I mean, I think they were like,
"Oh, that show did really well.
"Let's make the exact same plot,
"but we'll be writing it."
So it'll be, I mean, that's not,
I don't know if that's exactly what they thought,
but it's like- - Who created "Friends"?
- Someone named Marty Kaufman and then two other people.
Crane, I remember seeing in a credit.
I love "Friends," by the way.
I watch "Friends" all the time.
- Okay, you're not mad at it.
Okay, that's important to point out.
- I watch it all the time, but I know it copied.
- Is there a Kazzy Kaufman?
Have you guys ever crossed paths?
(all laughing)
- No, that would be very funny.
- So "Seinfeld 2000,"
maybe some "Time Crisis" listeners
might primarily know you
as you're the person who runs "Time Crisis 2000,"
the account, you have your Twitter account,
but more than ever,
you have this thriving Instagram account.
- Yeah, it's booming, for sure.
- And before you came on board
as one of a beloved member of the team,
back when you and I were kind of more,
I guess, what you'd call frenemies,
you were this wild Twitter account that I really liked.
And we've had our ups and downs,
but we kind of ended up in a good place.
And at this point,
not only do I consider our beef squashed,
I really, I feel defensive of you and "Seinfeld 2000."
I've noticed because Instagram,
just one more way that the social media
can toy with our emotions,
they've gotten the explore column on Instagram,
whatever they did to the algorithm, it's bananas.
I'm trying to pay attention to something.
I'm like, "Let me close this (beep)."
And then it's literally, I've got it open again,
and I have no memory of opening it again.
You ever have that experience?
You close Instagram, and you're looking at it again?
And increasingly, I don't even look at my feed,
so I don't even look at what's happening
with my friends and loved ones.
I'm just looking at this,
do I interact with accounts similar to this one?
So I'll show you this one.
So anyway. - I never look at that.
- Don't look, man. - Yeah.
- It's gonna suck you in. - You'll never be able to stop.
- Jeez, all right.
- Because I follow "Seinfeld 2000,"
I'm getting all these "Seinfeld" accounts,
and increasingly, I'm looking at some of them,
and I'm like, "Is this 'Seinfeld 2000'?"
'Cause it's this whole booming industry,
and I feel like you're the OG.
- Yes. - Is it fair to say
that you're the first person
who ever took an image from the news
and then did a slow zoom
and played the "Curb Your Enthusiasm" music?
- Well, here's the thing about that.
You know when you can have an idea,
and you think it's an independent idea,
and then concurrently, there's been another idea?
- Like Edison and Tesla. - Yes.
- Exactly, or-- - "Seinfeld" is French.
- To quote, right? - Maybe.
- It's Ziggy.
People have pointed out to me
that this apparently was a thing called the "frolic effect"
that was a thing on YouTube.
But as far as I'm concerned,
I kinda took it to another level.
- If you thought of it yourself, you got the credit for it.
- And I feel like he brought it to Twitter
and to Instagram. - True.
- Like you did the first Chris Christie one
standing next to Trump, right? - Yes.
- Yeah. - That's hilarious.
- That was a pivotal moment in that meme.
- "Seinfeld 2000" is so cool, by the way,
'cause it actually isn't just like repeating memes.
Like it's original.
It's an original concept.
- And sometimes people think that these memes are repeated,
or, "Oh, you took that from me?"
No, it's all stuff that I come up with.
I try to be original.
So thank you for recognizing that.
- I have to ask what your guys' beef was about, though,
'cause that was like a quick mention.
- Oh, yeah. - I'm so curious.
- That's true, and sometimes "Crisis" listeners,
depending when they got on board, might not remember.
And maybe you can chime in here.
This guy, for years, has this deeply held belief
that "Seinfeld" could come back on TV.
He started out guessing about what "Seinfeld"
would be like if it was on TV,
and then eventually a corner was turned
where he wasn't just saying,
imagining a modern "Seinfeld."
He truly started to believe that it might happen.
And I just think there's no evidence to support that.
And I would sometimes say to him,
"You know, this is a pipe dream."
And the way he would react,
it would be as if I told him
that Donald Trump wasn't president.
- Right. - You know, he'd act like--
- Or it's like a 9/11 conspiracy.
- Did we ever think that Donald Trump would be president?
No, and yet here we are.
- That's a very good argument.
- Okay, I picked a terrible example.
Okay, but my point is that the way
that you would talk about it made me feel unheard.
And the way that you jumped down my throat about it--
- That is so funny.
- You jumped down my throat about it, and I just--
- Guys, guys, you know, we're cool now,
and that's really all that matters.
♪ I'll leave my words, I swear I will ♪
♪ If I am wrong, I'll pay the bill ♪
♪ No God for me, I'd look, but still ♪
♪ There's one here up my sleeve ♪
♪ Believe I'm wrong, I'll never win ♪
♪ But I've been around when times are thin ♪
♪ Will I miss you, I bet I will ♪
♪ I might even lose some sleep ♪
♪ I'll leave my words, I swear I will ♪
♪ If I am wrong, I'll pay the bill ♪
♪ No God for me, I'd look, but still ♪
♪ One here up my sleeve ♪
♪ I'll leave my words if I am wrong ♪
♪ You can count when I sing my song ♪
♪ You don't hate me, you hate my tongue ♪
♪ You won't even read my will ♪
♪ Won't even read my will ♪
♪ Won't even read my will ♪
♪ Leave my words, leave my words ♪
♪ Leave my words, leave my words ♪
- Time Crisis.
- With Ezra Keenan.
- Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep.
- Peace one.
- I have another question. - Yeah.
- You kind of have an accent.
- I have an accent?
- Yeah, where are you from?
- Okay, this is interesting because my whole life
people have said to me that I have an accent.
So I was born in New York,
but I grew up in New Jersey, Northern New Jersey.
So my entire life I've been in the Northern New Jersey,
New York. - That's not the accent.
- Metro area. - I think that wasn't it.
- I remember being in high school,
and I think I went on a trip with a band trip,
and we were with another regional New Jersey
high school band, and we were like in a hotel.
And I remember-- - Band.
- You have an accent.
Band, band.
- I think it's unique to Ezra.
- It's cool, no, I really like it.
I was just wondering if it's from somewhere.
- I don't know, I've thought about it a lot.
Like my parents, I think,
wait Jake, have you chatted with my parents before?
- I don't think so.
- Like my dad's from the Bronx, my mom grew up in Jersey.
My thing, my friends think of them
as having New York accents, kind of.
But you don't hear this as a New York,
New Jersey accent. - My first thought
was that you might have been maybe a little Norwegian.
- Whoa, wow, didn't see that coming.
- Just a little. - Deep.
- Like slightly.
- Like not American.
- No, I mean yes, but you have a little ting.
- What's like the Brentwood accent?
- You know, I was talking about this with someone recently,
like where accents originate,
and everyone was just like, oh yeah,
like California's the only one without an accent.
But that's just because other people have different accents.
So I guess it is an accent.
- I'm trying to imagine, if I just heard your voice,
didn't know anything about you,
would I think this is California?
You know what's funny about Jake?
Jake was born and raised in Connecticut,
John Mayer's home state.
And I feel like Jake spent so much time on the West Coast,
'cause he went to college in Portland,
lived in SF for a while, LA,
that Jake, and Jake's whole vibe is so West Coast
that I feel like your cadence and your language is very,
maybe not LA, but certainly West Coast.
But that might be more vocabulary.
- Yeah, I don't know.
- At your school, would people use the phrase
crush a burrito?
- No.
- Gnarly?
Did they say buff?
- They said some gnarly, I guess.
- Oh, gnarly, really?
- I feel like my lingo is just based on my group of friends.
Groups of friends form their own
sort of like linguistic ecosystems.
- True.
- And I'm just sort of like, I don't know,
yeah, just like catch phrases or slang
just thrown around.
- No, and definitely, you've rubbed off on me.
I was doing an interview recently,
and I did describe something as gnarly.
I was like, would I have said that a few years ago
when I was in--
- That warms my heart.
- Yeah.
Gnarly comes up.
- It's a buff traffic sitch.
- Yeah, are you familiar with the phrase buff traffic sitch?
- No, I've never heard buff before.
- You don't know buff?
- No.
- Buff is super, like, I'm not a surfer,
but I have a lot of friends that are surfers.
- Yeah, you actually do sound like a surfer.
- Really?
- So you've definitely gotten that from your friends.
- I'm terrified.
I went out a few times on the board,
and it was just, I couldn't deal with it.
Like, kind of a buffy break today.
- I like it, I really like it.
- Buff just means like rough, scary, messed up.
- So it could mean everything.
- You can apply it to other situations besides the surf.
It's just like, this traffic is buff right now.
- The words that mean, that could mean anything,
it's just like, why are we even talking, you know?
- Could mean anything, well, but it means something.
I mean.
- No, that mean everything.
- That mean everything.
- Yeah.
- I picked a brutal from you.
I call everything brutal now.
Just like.
- So brutal, bro.
- Yeah, when you don't have anything else to say,
and somebody's just like, oh my god,
of all things, like, brutal.
I definitely say that a lot.
And then also, you know, I got another friend
who rubs off on me a lot,
and he's kind of like,
comes from like, 90s hip hop background,
so I always call stuff ill.
- Okay.
- And I'm like, I wonder if I should pump
the brakes on that one.
- Sick, I would say is a little less annoying than ill.
- Like that's sick?
- Yeah.
- I definitely say sick.
- I say sick too.
- You have some good ones, Ezra.
You have chop it up.
- Oh, chop it up.
- What does that mean?
- Which I never use.
- That just means to talk.
- I like it, or hang out.
- Yeah, like, or, yeah.
- I don't think hang out is Ezra's.
(laughing)
- Chop it up.
- Chop, chop it up.
- Oh, it means hang out, okay.
- In Norway, we say hang out.
- Yeah, yeah.
- I know it sounds wacky.
- It just means hanging out with your friends.
(laughing)
- Okay, back to Seinfeld.
We have Seinfeld 2000,
one of the premier Seinfeld accounts.
And I just also want to say,
fuck all the other accounts who give this guy grief.
- Right.
- He's the OG.
- Thank you.
- OG.
- We got Kazzy, who obviously has a family connection
to the program.
And then we just got--
- But knows nothing.
- That means nothing.
And then we got me and Jake,
who are just two chill bros who are familiar with the show.
- Fans of the show.
- Fans of the show, having grown up in America.
- Not heads.
- In America.
Yeah, I wouldn't say a head.
- What does that mean?
Is that a crew?
- Oh, head?
- Yeah.
- Like a massive fan.
- Okay.
- Like a dead head.
- That's a good one.
- Yeah, yeah.
- I like Seinfeld, but I'm not a head.
(laughing)
Like this--
- I've probably seen like 80% of the episodes.
- You haven't seen all the episodes?
- I haven't seen--
- You know what?
I haven't either.
- Never seen the finale.
- Yeah.
- Never seen the finale.
- Oh, I watched that live.
- Yeah, me too.
- Well, look at you guys.
- Maybe I am a head.
Okay, so we got Nick Weidenfeld,
member of the TC crew, getting on the mic.
He's going to run the Seinfeld game.
How's this gonna work, Nick?
- All right, well, we have names for the teams.
- Well, what are the teams?
Is it me and Jake versus--
- You and Jake versus Kazzy and Seinfeld 2000,
which on the surface,
that would seem like the winning team, right?
- Yeah, I'm very nervous about this
because I'm just not a trivia-minded person.
My brain doesn't really work that way.
- You're a head, dude.
- I'm a head, but we'll see.
We'll see what happens.
- You'll be fine.
I'm about to let down my entire family.
- Seinfeld 2000 and Kazzy David,
you guys are the Yankees of this.
Maybe you guys gotta be the Yankees.
- The Yankees and the Mets, sure.
- Yeah, I guess the Mets are like a scrappy underdog
compared to the Yankees.
- I was gonna say like the Brewers.
- Okay, we're the Brewers.
- Twins.
- The Yankees.
We have the Yankees versus the Twins,
and the way the game's gonna be played is
each team's gonna get five questions.
If you get it right, you're gonna hear this.
If you get it wrong, you're gonna hear this.
(toy horn)
- Love it.
- If there's a tie at the end, there'll be a tiebreaker.
And Leah, let's do a flip of the coin to see who goes first.
Let's do a flip of the medallion.
- The Twins will take the top of the cap.
- It's the bottom of the cap.
- It's the Yankees.
- Yankees.
So the first multiple choice question,
Yankees, what causes George's fiancee, Susan, to die?
- Oh my God.
- Envelope, it was an envelope.
- What a joke.
(popping)
(laughing)
- I mean, we didn't even need the--
- Okay, that was a softball.
Let's see what we get.
- Twins.
- Yeah.
- What, in almost every episode,
is found on the shelf in Jerry's apartment?
- Cereal.
(toy horn)
- Woo!
- All right, yeah, we don't need the multiple choice.
- Wait, we got that wrong, or what?
- Wait, that was wrong.
- Wait, oh, that was wrong?
(laughing)
- Can I take this one?
- Was that wrong?
- Wait, wait, that was wrong.
(toy horn)
- Oh wow.
- Do we get the question if they got it wrong?
- Bottled water?
- Oh.
- What was it?
- Superman.
- What?
(popping)
- All right, debatable, moving on.
- Debatable.
- Cereal was a great answer, it was a really good answer.
- All right, thank you.
- Yankees, what was, quote, "Little Jerry"?
I know this one, do you know?
There's an animal?
It was, wasn't it a rooster?
(popping)
- That's right, Kramer's pet rooster.
- Would you have known that?
- No.
- What season is, do we know what season that is?
- I would have guessed like six?
- It seems like a, that's a late season.
- Yeah, that's a late one.
- That's like when Kramer has his head
on the turkey kind of situation.
- Right, right, right.
- All right, twins, back to you.
- Okay, oh man, all right, we're gonna get our (beep)
together.
- In the quote, "Bubble Boy", what game does George
and Bubble Boy fight about?
- Oh.
- That's a good question.
- Is it a board game?
- Probably a board game.
- You mean multiple choice?
- Yeah.
- You can ask for multiple choice from now on.
- It's only a friend.
- Yeah.
- Okay, A, Monopoly.
- That wasn't a move.
- B, Uno.
C, Trivial Pursuit.
Or D, Go Fish.
- They all seem possible.
- Doesn't help.
- Um.
Trivial Pursuit?
- Oh yeah.
- Nice, dude.
- Wow.
- I think we got in a fight about something trivial.
That was my thinking on that one.
- Well done.
- Thank you.
Back on the board.
- Currently scored two to one, Yankees.
So Yankees, what does Elaine buy a lot of for Mr. Pit
but doesn't get the right kind of?
- Mr. Pit.
- Is it socks?
- Nice one.
- It is socks.
- Nice one, Kazzy.
(laughing)
- All right, this is turning out about how one would expect.
All right, you guys are doing well.
- I thought these questions would be harder, to be honest.
Anyway.
- I didn't make up the questions.
- That one was hard.
I wouldn't have gotten that.
- I wouldn't have.
- Seinfeld 2000 is head, so.
- Yeah.
- I love how stressed Seinfeld was about these questions.
- All right, twins.
What kind of pasta does Kramer make a Jerry figurine from?
- Pusilli.
- Pusilli?
- That is correct, it is Pusilli.
- Clutch, dude.
- All right, Yankees.
What does Kramer have installed in his shower?
- Oh, that's a, is it a garbage disposal?
- It is.
- Wow.
- In his shower?
- It's a very funny episode.
- It's an episode where he wants to eat in his shower.
- Okay.
- Is that the one where George Easton says--
- So he has a garbage disposal inside his shower
and I think--
- To save time, right?
- To save time.
- You know what, actually, I haven't watched all of Seinfeld.
Maybe I never.
Next time we're doing Curb, 'cause I would shred it then.
- Yeah, I would shred it that too.
- I would shred it.
- I haven't seen the last two seasons of Seinfeld.
- Wow.
- Maybe we'll, you know what, maybe that's what we'll do.
- Well, there's not gonna be a bonus.
- Oh, those are the weird seasons, though.
The show kinda goes off the rails a little bit.
- Out of familial pride, you were like,
"I don't need to watch these last two seasons."
- Yeah, I mean, he didn't watch them,
so I was like, "Why would I watch them?"
- Not canon.
- Wow.
They don't count.
- Not canon.
- Twins.
In one episode, what does Jerry say
his girlfriend's laugh sounds like?
- We're gonna need multiple tries for this.
- I don't know this one.
- A, Elmer Fudd sitting on a juicer.
B, Jake's Home Depot playlist.
Z, a snorting pig.
D, a monkey with a flu.
- Wanna say Jake's Home Depot playlist,
but I feel like that's not it.
Just the timeline doesn't work out on that one.
- What was the first one?
- The first one is Elmer Fudd sitting on a juicer.
- I think that's it.
- All right, let's go for it.
- Ay!
- I don't even know what that means, though.
- You know what, Elmer Fudd?
- What does the juicer do to the voice?
- I guess his buttocks would be shredded
into a bloody pulp by the juicer,
so it would be some kind of agonizing...
(laughing)
That's actually a really gnar image.
You should have a word with your father about that.
- I don't think that's appropriate for NBC must-see TV.
I'm gonna write a letter.
So this is game point for them.
- This is game point.
That is correct.
All right, Yankees.
What is one surefire way to open up Elaine's vault?
- I don't know.
- I know it.
- Oh, you know?
- That's all you.
- All right.
- It's alcohol, right?
It's the schnapps, the peach schnapps?
- That is right.
- Okay.
- Is vault a code word for her vagina?
- Yeah, the secrets that she keeps.
(laughing)
- Or is it like her actual vault?
- No, no, no, it's the secrets that she keeps.
- It's like her mental vault.
- It's everything she knows.
- Oh, no, okay.
She says that, like, I don't tell secrets.
- That's right.
- It's a vault, but then the key to the vault is peach schnapps.
- That's right.
- The question was a little ambiguous.
- Twins, we're gonna give you one more.
If you get this, we're gonna go even,
and we'll tie and have a tiebreaker.
What did Kramer call the fragrance
that Calvin Klein stole from him?
I'll give you multiple choice.
The ocean, the breeze, the beach.
The bread absconder.
- Okay, the ocean, the breeze.
I wanna say the ocean, man, I don't know.
Do you have any idea, Jake?
- No.
- I'm gonna go with the beach.
Nice.
(laughing)
Great Leonardo DiCaprio film.
- Well done.
- Okay.
- All right, it's a tiebreaker.
The closest team to this answer is going to win.
What was the exact date of the first ever airing
of Seinfeld on TV?
- October.
- October 3rd, '89.
- I know it's '89.
- I think it was October.
- I think it was like June, right, though?
'Cause wasn't the show supposed to be like a summer?
- You should know 'cause you should be like
posting an Instagram on that.
- You're ahead.
- Right, right, yeah.
- A real head would know.
- I'm gonna really need an A now.
I'm gonna need a final answer.
- October 3rd, '89.
- I'm with it.
- We're locking you in.
- Okay.
- October 3rd, '89, all right.
- Oh, the exact date.
- I'm gonna say June 12th, '89.
- The answer is July 5th, 1989.
- Is it like the Price is Right
where you get the closest person?
- You win, you win.
- You win.
- Wow.
- Okay, Seinfeld cred.
- Just imagine that, man.
July '89, George H.W. Bush is president.
You just went to a barbecue.
You got (beep) faced with your boys.
You lie on the couch, hungover on July 5th.
Turn it over to NBC.
Catch a quirky new sitcom.
(imitates music)
Immediately, you're taken by the rhythm of the bass line
and how the tempo matches Jerry's cadence.
We had the composer of the Seinfeld theme song on once.
- I actually heard about that.
- And you're just like, what is this?
And then it opens.
- You got a real wry sensibility.
- And just two guys chopping it up in a diner.
- This is a very self-conscious sitcom.
- And you're like, you know what, man?
It's 1989, but I honestly feel like I'm witnessing
the beginning of the coming decade.
(laughing)
All right, let's get into the top five.
Kazzy, will you join us for the top five?
- Yes.
- It's time for the top five on iTunes.
- Today on the top five, we're gonna be comparing
the top five iTunes songs right now in 2017
with the top five Billboard hits of 1989.
- This week, '89.
- This week in '89.
Kazzy, does '89 mean much to you
outside of the launch of Seinfeld?
- No, I'm just curious, obviously these songs
are gonna be different.
How are we supposed to compare songs that are so different?
- This is the backbone of this entire show.
I mean, yeah, we listen to the number five song from 1989
and then we listen to the number five song from today.
- And then you're like, yeah, they're different.
- We compare, yeah, sometimes we're like, wow,
that one, the first one really sounded like it was from
1989, whereas the second had this more modern,
current 2017 feel.
You know, that's one thing you might say.
- Yeah, okay.
(laughing)
- Sometimes there's weird parallels.
- Sometimes there's weird parallels.
- Lyrically or--
- Okay, I'm excited, yeah.
- And then sometimes we just kind of imagine
what it was like, you know, similar to the guy
who was hungover after the Fourth of July
and happened to catch the first episode of Seinfeld.
- Yeah.
- And then we just imagine what was happening in 1989.
So you were not alive.
- I was not.
- I was 12.
- I was five.
You know, this is gonna mean something different
to all of us.
- This is a nice range here.
- Yeah.
So the number five song this week in 1989
is Naina Cherry, "Buffalo Steps."
Good song.
- Great song.
- Do you know this song?
- No.
♪ We just sit down ♪
♪ With the (beep) and scratchin' and gigglin' ♪
- Is she the daughter of--
- Don Cherry.
- The jazz musician.
- Right, I thought so.
♪ Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to introduce the hi-hat ♪
♪ Go on ♪
♪ Mm, that's good ♪
♪ Now tambourine, right now ♪
♪ Mm, woo, yeah ♪
♪ DJ ♪
♪ Who's that gigolo on the street ♪
♪ With his hands in his pockets ♪
♪ And his crocodile feet ♪
♪ Hanging off the curb ♪
♪ Looking all absurd ♪
♪ At the boys from home ♪
♪ They all came running ♪
♪ They were making noise ♪
♪ Manhandling toys ♪
♪ The girls on the block ♪
♪ With the nasty cook ♪
♪ Wearing padded bras ♪
♪ Sucking beer from the straws ♪
♪ Dropping down their drawers ♪
♪ Where did you get yours ♪
♪ Gigolo ♪
♪ Huh ♪
♪ Sucka ♪
♪ Gigolo ♪
- Sucka.
- So her dad is American, but she's like Swedish.
- Oh really?
- So she's like a cool Swedish woman, rapping.
- So her dad married like a Swedish model or something?
- A Swedish woman, I'm guessing.
I don't know.
- She's very cool.
♪ My money man ♪
♪ With my love ♪
♪ It's sweet ♪
- I was gonna say, there's a long wait for the payoff.
- Right.
- Which is not very 2017.
♪ We do the dialing time dance ♪
♪ I give you love baby not romance ♪
♪ I make you move nothing ♪
- The DJ sound is really not 2017.
- Yes, like the 90s you were just a little kid.
So when you hear like DJ scratching.
- Yeah, that's definitely an 80s cliche.
- Yeah.
- Also lyrically, she's saying no money man.
She's like, I'm not interested in a money man.
- Right.
- That's like some 60s stuff.
- That's very popular.
- But the way people rap, how much can it change?
Because you're just talking in a beat, you know?
- Oh, it can change quite a bit.
- Oh, it's changed.
Yeah, that was very stiff, I thought.
- I just think like the flow changes.
- Yeah.
- Like, well, what's like a big rap song?
Do you listen to rap?
- Yeah.
- What's like your favorite new rap song?
All My Friends Are Dead, that one?
- No.
- Everybody loves that song.
- She doesn't like being put on the spot.
- Yeah, no, I'm sorry to put you on the spot.
- I like the new future song,
but you can't understand what he's saying.
So it's not a good example.
- But like, Percocet, Molly Percocet.
- Oh, that one.
- That's like that rhythm feels very current.
- Yeah.
But he isn't like a good example of rapping
'cause it's such a different style, it feels like.
But that girl, like that could have been Nicki Minaj.
- Yeah, if that came out today, it would still be cool.
1989 was not that long ago.
- The number five song today is David Cuetta
featuring Justin Bieber.
- The song sucks.
- Oh!
- Well, I like you have an opinion though, it's nice.
- I like that you have an, yeah.
That's nice.
- Is this the--
- This Too You?
- Desperado.
- No, it's Too You.
- Oh.
- Wait, Desperado, you think, no, Despacito.
Did you just think of The Eagles?
- Did you guys see the video of Justin Bieber
like not knowing the words to it?
- I've heard about this, we'll get into that in a little bit.
- I don't know anything about that.
God, Bieber's all over the top five recently.
- Biggest singer in the world, man.
- He's amazing.
- So you like Justin, but you think this song sucks?
- Yeah, I just don't like this song.
This song feels outdated.
This song feels like it could have been 2014, '15.
- What's wrong with that?
That was only two years ago.
- It's just that we've heard this like drop
and it's just, it doesn't feel new or fun.
Like, do you can't, what do you do to this song?
- You've been enjoying the more tropical Justin
and this feels like regressive?
- This just feels like not,
like what do you can't really dance to this song.
You wouldn't really listen to this in the car.
- This kind of has like a Jersey Shore vibe.
This is like a fist pumper.
- Yeah.
- What's the drop?
- Also the lyrics are weird.
- What are the lyrics?
- They're like our souls intertwine.
- Oh, okay.
- But shut up.
- This sounds like the new Phoenix there.
- The new Phoenix?
- That drop there.
- It might be a little bit in common.
Wait, so it sounds like you're a Justin fan.
- I am a Justin fan, yeah.
- Are you a head?
- Are you a Stan?
- Is Stan just like a little less than head?
- It's like beyond head.
- I'm the one level less than head.
- Have you seen him live?
- Yes.
- How many times?
- Once.
- Have you ever chopped it up with him?
- No, I have not.
- You never, you got the picture backstage?
- No, no, no.
- Near a waiting line?
- No, not about that.
- Okay.
Respect.
The number four song this week in 1989,
Richard Marx,
satisfied from the album Repeat Offender.
- Wait, wait, what's satisfied?
- I don't know.
What does Richard Marx actually sound like?
- Oh, this is like up-tempo Marx.
'Cause he's like the king of the power ballad.
- This sounds super '89 to me.
- Oh my God.
- Brutal.
- I've never heard up-tempo Marx.
- This is terrible.
- I'm kind of amped.
- This would be...
- It's a good movie song.
- Oh yeah.
Montage scene?
- Yeah, an old movie.
- I'm waiting for the hook here.
- Yeah, this is like the try...
- I thought that was the hook.
- This is like the verse.
- Trying on outfits part.
- Here we go.
- This is crazy.
- This is like Rod Stewart meets Brian Adams,
but much worse.
- Dink, dink, dink.
- I almost wonder if he was like listening
to like Guns and Roses and was like...
- Don't you know?
- Yeah, Richard Marx can rock too.
Bam, dink, dink.
- 'Cause he's like...
- Welcome to the jungle.
- This is like him trying to do Welcome to the Jungle.
- I wonder if like the producer of his record
was just like, "Dude, we need some up-tempo stuff
on this record."
- Right.
You're getting pigeonholed as the ballad guy.
Okay.
♪ I will be right there waiting for you ♪
- Oh, that's Richard Marx?
♪ Wherever you go ♪
- Okay.
- That's what I thought we were getting.
- That's a good song.
The number four song in 2017 is Sam Hunt.
We've heard this song quite a bit over the past few months.
Are you a country music fan at all?
- Like, not yes, but I don't wanna be like,
"No, I hate country," 'cause everyone says that.
- It's played out to say that you hate country.
- You know?
- But like, I don't know.
- I don't like...
- Do you know who Sam Hunt is?
- Yes.
- Do you know the song "Body Like a Backroad"?
- If you play it, I'll probably put it on the radio.
- Radio?
- Yeah, I listen to the radio.
- Do you listen to the radio?
- Yeah.
- Like, in your car?
- Yeah.
(soulful music)
♪ Got a girl from the South Side ♪
♪ Got braids in her hair ♪
♪ First time I seen her walk by ♪
♪ And I about fell up out my chair ♪
♪ Had to get her number ♪
♪ And it took me like six weeks ♪
- Does it sound familiar?
- I haven't heard it.
I don't think I've heard this.
♪ Like Cadillac seats ♪
- It's back in the top five.
♪ Back road driving with my eyes closed ♪
♪ I know every curve ♪
♪ Like the back of my hand ♪
♪ 15 and 30 ♪
♪ I ain't in no hurry ♪
♪ I'ma take it slow ♪
♪ Just as fast as I can ♪
♪ Why you spitting them bitches ♪
- We've heard this song a million times.
We've also gone very deep on this song.
I mean, it might be new to you,
but the song's called "Body Like a Backroad".
The chorus is,
♪ Body like a back road ♪
♪ Driving with my eyes closed ♪
♪ I know every curve ♪
♪ Like the back of my hand ♪
♪ Doing 15 and a 30 ♪
♪ I ain't in no hurry ♪
♪ Who cares ♪
- 15, he's driving 15 miles an hour.
- No, I think the point is that he's taking his time.
- He's looking for a parking space.
- Is that a good music comparison though, would you say?
Or is that just like still lame?
- Oh, when we compare the 89 to the--
- No, no, no, those lyrics.
- Oh, you mean like the metaphor?
- Yeah.
- I mean, I don't have any like special insight on this.
I mean, I've always been a little bit weirded out
by body songs.
- Totally.
- I don't think I'm like a prude.
I'm like, you can have songs about sex.
You can have raw sex songs.
I'm down.
- Hearing just the word body makes me really uncomfortable.
- How about bed sheets?
How do you feel about that?
- How about Ed Sheeran's song?
- Yes.
- Made me so uncomfortable.
I was like, this girl's probably like,
"Ed, please stop."
Like, I'm so mad.
- Yeah, because Ed Sheeran's always talking about bodies.
You got body like a back road.
Back in the day, you had, "Your body is a wonderland,"
which for me was one of the first times
that I actually thought to myself,
I don't like songs where they talk about body.
- Like the word body.
- That's so interesting.
- It's too close to corpse.
- Yeah.
You know, speaking of slang,
I always like the slang body meaning to like destroy or end.
- What?
- Like the Golden State Warriors bodied the calves.
- I don't know that term at all.
- Oh, okay.
It's like a football term.
- Or like hip hop body or like--
- I think the word body is just a gross word.
- It sounds like, it's like health class.
- Yeah, it's gross.
- Yeah.
I'm gonna write a song called "Body in Some Bedsheets."
♪ Body in some bed sheets ♪
Just let me make sure that nobody ever listens
to Vampire Weekend again.
Body in some bed--
That also sounds like you murdered them.
- Record it. - Body in some bed sheets.
- Record it for the box set.
♪ Body in some bed sheets ♪
- Let me rip a solo over it
and then just bury it for 20 years.
- I love you ripping a solo over it.
♪ Woke up in the morning ♪
- Brutal.
♪ Looked at my bed ♪
- Crush and brutal.
♪ Looked under the bed sheets ♪
♪ Saw your body ♪
♪ Pretty brutal ♪
♪ Went above ♪
Yeah, I don't know, B words.
I don't like B words.
Wow.
See, here's where we get into these
kind of like freaky connections.
- I hate B words 'cause my least favorite word is,
I can't even say it, I hate it so much.
- Wait, what?
- Come on. - Can you spell it?
- My least favorite word is breath.
I just think it's the most disgusting word
and when people say it, I'm like, please stop.
- Wow. - Oh my God.
- Body feels similar to me.
- Yeah, B words are kind of weird.
♪ Every breath you take ♪
- Yeah, that's disgusting.
- That's a good song.
But you know what, I bet there's probably
thousands of songs that's like,
♪ When I feel your breath on my body ♪
♪ I feel your breath on my body ♪
♪ In these bed sheets ♪
- That's terrible. - Buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh.
So anyway, back in 1989, this is freaky.
This song is by Bobby Brown.
(laughing)
- Oh, nice.
- Every Little Step, not familiar with this.
- Oh, what?
Oh, this song is huge. - I mean, I know
my prerogative.
- Dude, this song is...
So light years beyond my prerogative.
- Do you know who Bobby Brown is?
- Yeah, the makeup?
No, just kidding.
- Oh yeah, the other Bobby, yeah, you're right,
there's two Bobby Browns.
So that's a no.
- No, I've heard of him.
♪ Telephone ♪
- This song's written by L.A. Reid and Babyface
before they were big executives.
- Oh, early Babyface.
- And L.A. Reid, early L.A. Reid.
- I don't know who that is.
- He's a major music executive.
- Okay.
- Recently fired.
- I like a songwriter turned executive.
- Yeah, he's like Jimmy Iovine producer.
- Real.
- He's written Tom Petty records.
- Bruce.
- Bob Seger.
- And Bruce, yeah.
♪ Strike that, strike that ♪
♪ Every little step I take ♪
♪ You will be there ♪
♪ Every little step I make ♪
♪ We'll be together ♪
♪ Every little step I take ♪
- Good song.
- Great song.
- Nothing bad to say about it.
The number three song.
- Same, yeah, nothing bad.
- Okay, glad to hear it.
The number three song.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
The number three song back in our era
is by Niall Horan.
Do you know who that is?
- Yeah, unfortunately.
No, not unfortunately.
- Who is it?
- Great guy, great guy.
- Wait, you don't remember who Niall Horan is?
- He's from One Direction, right?
- Thank you.
- He's the one who loves Don Henley.
- I was thinking he's from New Edition,
but that's Bobby Brown.
- That's Bobby.
- He's from One Direction.
So that's a weird comparison.
- So has he just gone solo too?
- Yeah, he's been gone solo.
He's had, his first single came out like last year maybe,
and this is kind of like his second big single.
So I'm curious.
So you're 23 now.
When Justin Bieber and One Direction came out,
were you in the age range to become a serious fan?
You were too old.
- Yeah, way too old.
- So when you saw these images of,
you saw on the news,
One Direction, you were just kind of rolling your eyes?
Or you were like, that would be me a few years ago?
Or would it not have been?
- No, I think it was just,
yeah, I think I was too old for that.
- But you went to see Justin Bieber.
- I didn't fan out.
I was the Jonas Brothers era.
I fanned out over Nick Jonas.
- Right.
- That was my young age.
- So One Direction, did you like it in a kind of chill way?
Or you were just like, this is not for me?
- It was like, it was like not for me,
but I like seen all their music videos
in like a one night board thing.
- Right.
- Yeah.
- And are you interested in their solo careers?
- No, but I'm pushing for Harry to be the best,
better than Zayn,
because Zayn kind of bothers me for some reason.
- Interesting.
- Yeah.
- I think it's worth getting into this for a second.
- Mm-hmm.
- Why?
Why does Zayn bother you?
- I just feel like Harry was always the one
that was supposed to go solo first,
and then Zayn like sneakily like did some,
I don't know, but I just have this theory.
He just like sneaked into it first and it kind of,
- But their music's so different.
There's like no comparison.
- Yeah, no, no.
But it's also the thing where it's like--
- What, do you like that Harry went
for more of a tasteful 70s rock palette?
- Yeah, I think he's cool.
But isn't his song kind of like,
isn't it a copy of something?
- Yeah, a lot of things.
- Yeah, that happens.
That's always a bummer.
♪ The sound of the times ♪
- That was a good song.
- Wait, wait, what's the Zayn single?
- Zayn had a single called "Pillow Talk."
That was his biggest song.
- But "Pillow Talk" is again,
it's like a bed sheet body type song.
- Yeah, "Pillow Talk" is a little close
to bed sheet body territory.
- Exactly.
- I like that Harry at least went,
he didn't do a song about sex or bodies.
- Yeah, same.
- Not because there's anything wrong with that,
but it's just like enough for it.
- It's always respectable for people
to not make music about that.
- So Niall, his song is kind of about sex as I recall.
This one's called "Slow Hands."
And Niall has--
- "Slow Hands?"
- Yeah.
- Ugh.
- Is this about Eric Clapton?
- Yeah, you know what?
"Slow Hands," it's like in a perfect world,
we'd hear about Niall Horan's song called "Slow Hands."
We're like, maybe he's talking about
doing some like carpentry, some whittling.
- Wait, is this a song,
the whole fantasy about me running a hardware store?
- Yes, because this is--
- Is Niall working for me?
- You know, he's like "Boys" with Don Henley now.
He's very inspired by the Eagles.
- Oh, yeah.
- You Eagles fan?
- Yeah, I love the Eagles.
- Okay, so now Horan, similar, like Harry's vibe is kind,
Zayn was like, I'm going kind of like R&B, modern pop sounds.
Harry was like, I'm going for the tasteful '70s palette
of like David Bowie and stuff.
And now it was like, I just want to sound like
early Don Henley solo.
- Early '80s Henley.
- Yeah.
- Dirty laundry.
- Is this top three?
- Yeah, this is number three.
- Oh, good for him.
- Back in the top five.
- Yeah, yeah, this song is doing well.
- Got legs.
- Oh, I think I've heard this, I just didn't know it was him.
- Yeah.
♪ We should take this back to my place ♪
- He's that weird vocal effect.
- No, I haven't heard this.
♪ I get my news on the evening news ♪
- Wait, what?
- This is pure Don Henley.
- Yeah.
♪ 'Cause I want you bad ♪
♪ Yeah, I want you baby ♪
- Oh, yeah, the chorus on this one is tight.
♪ All day ♪
♪ And I hope you feel the same way ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ 'Cause I want you bad ♪
♪ Yeah, I want you baby ♪
♪ Slow, slow hands ♪
♪ Like sweat drippin' down that dirty laundry ♪
♪ No, no chance ♪
- Oh, yeah, the dirty laundry reference.
♪ That I'm leaving here without you on me ♪
- I'm into this song.
- Yeah, it's tight.
- Yeah.
♪ Yeah, I already know that there ain't no stopping ♪
♪ Your plans and those slow hands ♪
- That was sick.
Good for him.
- Keep it going, dude.
- The tasteful palate of early '80s Don Henley.
Wait, Jake, you know somebody emailed us a while ago
'cause we were talking about it?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- And they said that Don Henley calls Nalhorn son,
and Nalhorn calls Don Henley dad.
- How often are they hanging out?
- It might be over the phone or via text.
- Whoa.
And I wonder what if Don's just like--
- Dad, have you heard my new single?
Yes, son.
I love the tasteful palate that you're referencing.
- I love that you're riffing on my material
from 35 years ago.
I wonder if Don's like, I like what you're doing, Nal,
and I think your lyrics are gonna mature as you mature.
- Don Henley's very supportive.
He's like out there doing press for Nal,
being like, I love this kid.
He's got what it takes.
The thing I also like about Nal is that,
'cause you were saying that there's this kind of like
Zayn-Harry thing, Harry maybe is supposed to go solo first,
and then be like Zayn or Harry.
And then Nal's like slow and steady, winning the race.
- Yeah, but also there's the other kid, Louis Toml.
- Yeah, Louis, he's got a tough road ahead.
- Who's the young in this equation?
- There's not one.
- Okay.
- But Louis' song is like kind of like rocking too,
but he's like a really,
one of those really annoying faces, so.
- Oh, you just don't like his face?
- Hate his face.
- What also I like about in this crew,
it's like the two guys with the slowest start
also have babies.
- Oh my God.
Wait, no, that guy isn't solo yet.
- That's Liam.
He just dropped his first single, but he has a baby.
- How's the single?
- It's not great.
It's not in the top five, as we can see.
But I also, I really like that all these other guys
are racing each other to release their singles.
And whereas Liam had a baby with Cheryl Cole,
who used to be one of my favorite British pop stars.
- Oh, (beep)
- I don't know who that is.
- I don't know that, yeah, that's crazy.
- Good for him.
- That's great.
- He linked up with a single mom,
10 years older than him, had a baby with her.
These guys are out, you know, grinding in the studio.
He's becoming a father.
Good for him.
- Pretty dope.
- Out of everything produced by Solo One Direction,
Liam's baby is the best thing that came out of it.
It's better than any Harry's Tasteful Palette.
It's better than Slow Hounds.
I just feel like if you were in a boy band with five guys
and you see these guys like in this arms race,
who's going to be solo first?
Wouldn't you want to be the guy who's like,
I'm going to have a baby with Cheryl Cole?
- And give it like 10 years.
- Yeah.
- Liam's going to drop like a cool singer songwriter record
in like seven years.
He did drop one single already featuring Quavo.
It wasn't what I was hoping for, but whatever.
I like that he's taking his time.
- Yeah.
You think it's weird though, like,
what else are they going to do?
They're obviously going to go solo.
There's nothing else for them to do,
but it's still annoying.
Like, oh yeah, you're going to go solo.
Like obviously, but it's why wouldn't they?
- Yeah, you know.
- They just kind of have to, right?
- Yeah, what else are they going to do?
- No, but they're singers.
- They don't have to.
All these guys are worth,
well, I don't know what kind of deal they had.
I'm guessing they all have at least like 30 mil.
- Jeez.
- Yeah, they definitely do.
- That's a lot of money, Ezra.
- I know, I know.
Of course it's a lot.
- That's a crazy amount of money.
I'm actually surprised by that.
- They're like the biggest band in the world for a while.
Okay, let's say all these guys--
- I thought bands didn't make any money anymore.
- They definitely made a lot of money.
- These guys are going around the world
playing stadiums, massive.
So let's say each of these guys has, I don't know, 20 mil.
Oh, actually now Nick's showing us,
maybe they're worth 50 mil.
- I'm just saying it'd be interesting
if one of those guys was like,
you know what, I got 50 mil.
I'm gonna open up like a sandwich,
chain of sandwich stuff. - I can't think of anything
that they should do,
but I wanna think of something else
they would be good at.
- Maybe you should invite one of them
to intern on your web series.
- Yeah, they would have a really good time.
- Maybe some of them can act.
- I'm literally the intern on my web series.
Like that's how low budget it is.
- You're your own intern.
- I'm going to pick up the equipment.
- Dude, let's have Liam call in.
- Let's see if we can get Liam.
- I'm a baby.
- Let's see if we can get a single member of one date.
- Yeah, 'cause I bet one of them is a Vampire Weekend head.
I bet one of them is.
- That would be real bad if none of them are.
- So listeners of Time Crisis,
if no one from One Direction ever calls in,
that means they all hate Vampire Weekend.
- I'm trying to think of like any,
nah, I've never heard it through the grapevine.
It wouldn't be hard to get in touch with some of these guys.
We got plenty of connections to them.
- I'd like to have the guy that does the Don Hen,
Niall call in.
- Let's see if we can get Niall.
- You guys can totally get Niall.
- Talk Henley with him.
- That's easy.
- Let's talk Eagles with Niall.
That'd be tight.
- I think if we came to him respectfully
and we were like, "Niall, no gotcha journalism.
We just want to talk to you
about your love of early Don Henley."
- No, let's just talk Eagles.
- Just talking Eagles.
- I don't want to talk about you.
I just want to talk about the Eagles.
- Yeah.
And maybe we ask him about the other guys.
- No, I don't even know who they are.
I could care less.
- I think it's like in their contract
they don't talk about the other ones.
- Oh really?
- I've never even heard One Direction.
- I assume so.
- That'd be smart.
Okay, I like this idea.
Let's get Niall on the phone talking Eagles.
- I feel like Niall, Jake can't name
a single One Direction song.
So it's so chill.
- No, no, no, but you can't.
See Jake, Jake, Jake, Jake, Jake, Jake, Jake, Jake.
- You can't even mention One Direction.
- Let's just talk Eagles.
- But you gotta be respectful
'cause you gotta understand.
- No, I am respectful.
- No, no, no, these are young men
who they know that you're looking at them
and you're like these guys have got 50 mil each.
- No, I'm not.
- And you're like these guys are untouchable.
But in their minds, they're a little insecure
about like do grown men respect their music?
- No, that's not the vibe I'm bringing, man.
I don't think of them as untouchable.
What I'm saying is I'm not a fan.
And what I'm saying is that's what I'm saying.
If I was like nervous and like thought these guys
were like amazing rock stars,
then it would be like an awkward, stilted interview.
What I'm saying is man to man, let's just talk Eagles.
- Okay, so just don't lead with the I'm not a fan part.
- Maybe just don't air this conversation
and you'll have a good chance.
- That's a good idea.
I think you just guaranteed that it will be aired though.
All right, let's go back to 1989.
Okay, we all know this song.
Bette Midler, this is from the Beaches soundtrack.
You don't like B words.
Are you cool with W words?
- Yeah, why?
- Like wind and wings?
- No, not anymore.
- I don't know if I know this.
♪ It must have been cold there in my shadow ♪
- Bette Midler.
- Don't know it.
- Born December 1st, 1945.
- So unnecessary.
- In Honolulu.
- Interesting military family.
- When Hawaii was still a territory.
- Dude, right at World War.
- Kazzy, did you know that Bette Midler
wasn't even born in the state?
- I did not.
- She was born in territory.
As a young girl in Hawaii,
Bette worked at a pineapple processing plant.
- What?
- A what?
- This is blowing my mind.
- A pineapple plant?
- Did you two seriously didn't know
that Bette Midler worked at a pineapple processing plant
as a young girl in Hawaii?
- No.
- That's such a cute story.
Like I wanna have worked at a pineapple plant.
- That sounds brutal.
That sounds like the worst job ever.
- Depends what you're doing.
- That's a cute job.
- I'm picturing like a canning facility.
- That's cute.
- It's like a John Steinbeck novel.
You're like working 14 hour shifts and canning.
- Yeah, the canning aspect is kind of brutal.
- Just like dull pineapple on the shelf.
- All right guys, here comes the chorus.
- What is this?
♪ Did you ever know that you're my hero ♪
- So her dad was like military straight up.
- Who knows?
- What if people live in Honolulu?
- No, but she's born,
she was conceived during World War II in Hawaii.
- That's good math.
- That's like, thank you.
But you know, that's like the Pacific Theater.
- That's true.
♪ You are the wind beneath my wings ♪
- You know, this is a beautiful song.
The less than tasteful late 80s palette,
I don't love.
- Yeah, it's rough.
- You know what I would love to hear,
a wind beneath my wings,
with kind of the more tasteful 70s palette
of like a Harry Styles record.
- Or Niall even.
- Or even Niall.
- Niall would do a lovely version of this.
- So much reverb on everything.
Oh, the drums.
I wanna hear this dried out
with that kind of tasteful Niall Harry sound.
The number two song, back to Bieber.
This is a spoiler,
but Bieber's got three songs in the top five right now.
He's kind of the king of music.
This song is called "I'm the One".
- TJ Khaled, but Justin is-
- I hate this song.
- You hate this song?
- Yeah.
- As a Bieber fan, you hate two of his current singles?
- Yeah, it sucks.
- Wow.
- What sucks about it?
- It's really annoying.
- So he's peaked?
- No, I know he has more in him, obviously.
It's like bedrock, but not as good.
- Oh, bedrock, that was a good song.
- Bedrock was so dope.
And this is just the worst version of it.
- Yeah, they're both kind of like happy rap songs.
- Exactly.
♪ We the best music ♪
- Nick loves it.
- That's pretty catchy.
- I don't mind it.
- It's really good in the headphones.
- Yeah, that synth bass is pretty good.
- Yeah.
- Justin Bieber writes his lyrics?
- No.
- No.
He should work with a different lyricist.
- In fact, Justin Bieber's not even credited
as the songwriter on this.
- That's so funny.
- So Jake, this song is gonna be on DJ Khaled's
fourth coming album, you know what the album's called?
- No.
- Grateful.
- That's so classic, though.
- Jake's a big Grateful Dead fan.
- Huge.
- Grateful Dead's just in the atmosphere right now.
- Oh, wow.
- That picture is so cute.
- That's a great cover.
- It's such a good cover.
- You're a fan of his son?
- I didn't know it was his son,
and I saw that picture and I was like, that's so cute.
But if you just imagine the placement of that happening,
trying to get that picture,
it's such a different experience.
- No, that's a really good point.
I'm sure you thought about this a lot,
'cause your show is a lot about social media and stuff.
You see an image on Instagram,
and actually another one of the episodes
was kind of all about you trying to get somebody
to post a picture to make a point to your ex-boyfriend,
and it's funny, you could see a picture
and just take it at face value and be like, that's so cute.
Look at this gorgeous little baby in a pool.
And then if you take it one step deeper,
you're imagining parents of a three-month-old baby
placing him in a pool.
- Please put your arms up.
- Putting his arms down and being like,
hey, chill, chill, chill, hey, hey, hey.
- With the photo lights.
- Yeah, bright lights on the baby.
- So when are the bubbles going in the jacuzzi?
- Also, okay, I know they had to get the picture,
and I've never been a parent,
but I feel like babies in pools
seems like a really stressful situation.
I mean, it's really brutal.
You hear these horrible stories.
You know, even OJ's daughter in Brentwood,
he lost a child drowning in a pool.
It's awful. - Really?
- Yeah, it's awful, it's awful.
I'm not trying to bring down the whole vibe here.
- No, man. - I'm just saying--
- My whole day is ruined, honestly.
- It's super stressful, pools and kids.
I understand, right, Nick, you're a parent, right?
That's stressful.
- It makes me think of that Nirvana cover.
- Yeah, you see, exactly.
- And that kid is probably like 25 now, 26.
- I feel like every year he pops up,
they're like, really? - That kid has gotten
so much publicity. - I know, it's like--
- I don't even know. - Yeah, just for that.
- It's always like, it's the 19th anniversary of,
never mind. - It's the 20th.
- Let's catch up with the kid.
It's the 21st and a half anniversary.
- It's really-- - Let's catch up with the kid.
- We have different internet--
- I know, I've seen that so, I've been like,
I am so sick of this. - He recreates the picture
every year. - Does he really?
- Yeah. - Oh my God.
- I don't know. - Okay.
- I'm just saying, babies-- - I feel embarrassed
bringing it up. - Babies in pools
is stressful. - It's so stressful.
And you just like, everyone knows at least one story.
- Right. - Yeah, some horrible story.
- But I'm wondering about DJ Khaled.
I mean, you put a baby in a pool.
- Of course it's safe, nothing was gonna happen.
I'm not trying to put him on blast.
- I'm not worried about the kid.
What I'm saying is, how can you not think about Nirvana?
I mean, that's like-- - With the kid in the pool?
- One of the most iconic covers ever.
- Oh, well that's because Nirvana's less culturally relevant
than DJ Khaled in 2017, Jake.
Is that fair enough to say as a younger millennial?
- Well, I mean-- - No, I would just say
that he is above water in the art.
So just because there's water in it,
similar to the Seinfeld friends.
Your argument is-- - There's a lot in common
but they're very different shows.
- Yes. - And maybe, Jake,
in your opinion, DJ Khaled's album cover
is the friends of the situation.
- The baby looks so hood in this cover,
it's like nothing like it, almost.
- It's a very different vibe.
- Well, you're saying-- - Different atmosphere.
- Different tonally. - Very tonally different.
The number one song this week in 19--
- Damn it.
- What, Jake, it's the changing of the guard, man.
Kurt's gone, dude, 20 years.
- Kurt's gone, Jerry's gone.
- Jerry's gone, man, 2017.
- Kurt and Jerry died in consecutive years,
that's a rough run.
- And then Tupac and Biggie.
They're all gone, man.
All we got now is Niall and Justin, deal.
Justin is Jerry, Niall's Kurt.
It is what it is, man.
- That's such a sad thought.
- Okay, you know what, Jake?
Next time Niall Horan comes to town,
you and me are gonna take a tab of acid each
and just take it all in, man.
It's gonna be fun.
- In.
- Hundred.
- The number, what was it, Hundo P?
- Hundo P.
- Hundo P, my man, Hundo P.
The number one song this week in 1989.
Do you know New Kids on the Block?
- Yeah.
- Do you know New Kids on the Block?
- Yeah, of course.
- Boy bands, there's always a boy band.
- Will there always be boy bands, though?
- Write stuff, hang tough.
- You know, that's a good question.
By the time One Direction came out,
it almost seemed like--
- It was like weird.
- It was like people were like,
we don't need boy bands anymore.
We got Justin Bieber, we have--
- Well, I think the double of the Backstreet Boys
and NSYNC kinda killed it.
- It was too much, yeah.
- Too much at one time.
- I don't know this song.
- Again, a less than tasteful palette, I would say.
- I love the use of palette.
It's so hilarious. - That's a long-running thing.
Would you consider this a tasteful palette?
- I don't even know what that means.
- Well, the thing is, Jake loves the tasteful palette
of, say, 1970s rock, like The Eagles or something.
- Warm tones.
- Whereas Jake-- - I like it warm.
- Organic. - Yeah.
- It's very non-aggressive.
- Whereas Jake finds the Chainsmokers palette to be--
- Brittle, acidic.
- Not tasteful. - Dystopian.
- Dystopian.
- That's incredible.
Their last, Chainsmokers' last song, "Horrendous."
- "Paris" is the worst song I've ever heard in my life.
- What's it called?
- "Gone in Paris" to get away from your parents.
- Oh my God.
- Okay, here's the question. - Keep that "New Kids" going.
I wanna-- - Sorry, I--
- No, no, no, no, I wanna see where it goes.
This is the most mild music.
- And also, it's worth pointing out,
"New Kids on the Block" was basically,
you know, Bobby Brown was a new edition,
which was a group of all black tweens,
and "New Kids on the Block" is all white tweens,
and I'm pretty sure they're both from Boston.
- I thought "New Edition" was, really?
- No, no. - Okay, my bad.
- Maybe you're thinking of Boyz II Men.
"New Edition" is also from Boston.
And basically, "New Kids on the Block"
was somebody looking at "New Edition"
and saying, "I'm gonna make a white version of that."
- Yikes.
- And they did.
We don't need to keep, this song is nothing.
The "New Kids" had a couple gems, but not that one.
- When did Mark Wahlberg last listen to that song?
- Well, Mark Wahlberg was not in it.
His brother Donny. - I know, dude.
I know.
- I could imagine he had Donny over for a barbecue,
and he said to his wife, "Put that 'New Kids' ballad
"on the Sonos.
"I wanna bust Donny's balls."
- Summer 2009. (laughing)
- Yeah, July 4th, 2009.
Donny was like-- - Everyone's sober.
- Everyone's sober. (laughing)
- They're drinking. - They're drinking O'Doul's.
- Donny's like, "Hey, put on that new Kanye.
"I like Kanye, you like Kanye, Mark?
"You still keeping up with rap?"
And he's like, "Oh yeah.
"One second, Donny, I'll put on some Kanye."
Then he says to his wife, "But I'll be loving you forever
"on the Sonos, I wanna bust Donny's balls."
And then Donny's like, "Wait, wait, what's this?
"Oh my God, still busting my balls, Mark,
"for all these years."
The number one song
in 2017.
Increasingly, it seems that this song
is gonna define the summer.
The first summer of Trump.
I guess we could say there's some poetic justice
in that the first summer of Trump,
we have a mostly Spanish language song.
That's cool.
- Desperado? - That's awesome.
- No, Despacito.
And okay, so Kazzy, you were saying before,
Justin got in trouble.
What's the story?
- He was like singing in a club.
They gave him the mic to sing Despacito.
And then he started to sing it.
And then once it got to the Spanish verse,
he was like, "La, la, la, la, la, la, la, burrito."
Like, it was so, it's so bad.
Like, you watch it and you just can't stop laughing.
It's like really bad.
- And also, you know--
- So he just didn't remember the Spanish?
He like--
- No, he knows no Spanish.
- He just never knew them.
- But I thought he sang in Spanish in the song.
- No, no, no, he sings in English.
- No, he sings in Spanish.
- So this was, I think also the fact that people,
yeah, people were like.
(guitar music)
- Justin could have been--
- Great song.
- You're in?
- Yeah, I'm in.
- Okay, cool.
- This is a good song.
(guitar music)
- It's the king's English, man.
- I think it switches.
- I think he sings in Spanish, but he just learned it.
He coached up.
- He says one word in Spanish, the title of the song.
- Okay.
- That's not true.
- Wait, what else does he say in Spanish?
- I think we need to listen.
I remember him speaking Spanish in this.
- So what's he supposed to do, though, in the club
when the Spanish part comes out?
- What he did.
(guitar music)
- That's not Justin, though, obviously.
As a professional musician, I can tell you guys,
that's not Justin singing anymore.
I believe that's the response he--
- I think the chorus is more than that.
The video's hilarious.
(singing in Spanish)
- That's Justin.
Oh, he's doubling the guy.
Okay, you guys are right.
The problem is that we wanna believe
that people from different countries can come together
to do hot remixes to become the songs of the summer,
and we wanna believe that there's mutual respect happening.
I don't know, so just like making jokes
about, I guess he kept saying the phrase Dorito
when he was singing.
- Yeah.
- That's like some juvenile 22-year-old humor.
- He wasn't joking.
I think it was the only thing he could think of
that ended in O.
- And as we know, Doritos are an American product,
so it's not even--
- Freed away.
- Do you think this is the song of the summer, though?
- It seems like we have no choice.
Is this your song of the summer?
- I thought "Slide" was gonna be the song of the summer.
- What's that?
- Oh, Calvin Harris?
- "Slide" is pretty cool.
- No, it's too cool to be the song of the summer.
- Too cool?
- I like the other one with Ariana Grande, too.
Is that what that's called?
- Which one?
- It's called "Heat Wave" or something.
- Oh, I haven't heard that.
- "Despacito" is the song of the summer.
There's nothing that any of us can do about it.
- It's been number one for a few weeks.
- It's been number one.
It's the song of the summer.
- It's still early in the summer.
- It's true.
- It could change.
- Get it done.
- "Lean On," was that not the song of the summer?
- It kinda was the song of the summer.
- I guess it's different as a top one in your mind
what really the song of the summer is.
- As I get older, the summer means nothing to me.
Maybe just 'cause I've been in LA so much.
It's like when people talk about it's June
and it's the beginning of summer.
Who cares?
- I was back in DC last weekend.
It felt like summer.
- Just that humid East Coast?
- Oh, yeah.
- So now that you're out of college,
does summer mean anything to you?
And you live in Los Angeles?
- This is my second summer since college.
So I haven't really gotten there yet.
Summer still is feeling like summer.
- This is exciting.
It's exciting that it's summer.
- Yeah.
- And when I was 23,
did I still get excited about the summer?
- I don't ever really get excited about anything,
but it's like, oh, summer.
- But once or twice this summer,
you're gonna call up everybody,
jump in the car, go to Sweet Rose, blast "Despacito."
- Totally.
- That's gonna happen.
- That's in my future, yes.
- Do you go to clubs and dance?
- Like once a year,
and then I'm always like, I'm never doing that again.
And then the next year I'll forget.
- And do you hold things in your hand?
'Cause this is something we were talking about.
- Yeah, I got, I'm like, will hold like-
- Double fists?
- That would be even more comfortable.
I really try not to smoke.
And when I'm like out, I just like, can't not do it.
I feel so embarrassed even be out somewhere
that I have to be doing something.
- Do you smoke cigarettes at the club?
- I really try not to.
- You can't smoke in the club though, can you?
- No.
- Maybe, I don't know, maybe you go underground.
- I do sometimes, yeah.
- Okay, so you're at the club, feeling uncomfortable
'cause you don't like to dance at the club.
- Yeah.
- So to make up for the discomfort,
you got a cigarette, lit cigarette in your mouth.
- And a drink.
- And a drink in each hand.
- And I hate doing both those things.
- And you're just kinda swaying, or you're doing moves?
- Yeah, I mean, sometimes I'll take a Xanax
if I have to go out.
- Whoa.
- Yeah, so I can just do it,
pretend to be someone else for a night.
So I get sometimes comfortable enough
to dance like the other girls.
- Right.
- Yeah, but it's an embarrassing sight.
If you walk in there sober, you're like, what is this?
What are we all doing?
- I feel like I need to definitely be lit, as they say.
- Where are the clubs in LA?
- Like West Hollywood?
- Man, Nice Guy, Bootsy Bellows.
- Are they on Sunset in West Hollywood?
- Bootsy Bellows is on Sunset, but it's like--
- Bootsy is so cracking, it's like--
- That's like a Models and Bottles club, club, billionaires.
- Everyone has extensions, everyone's naked.
Not actually naked, but--
- So, okay, okay, so--
- And that's also--
- Can I just roll in there?
Or is it the kinda thing that--
- You honestly, it's so hard to get in.
I couldn't get in one time, the only time I went,
and it was so embarrassing,
and then everyone's just waiting outside,
'cause they all--
- Oh, because they're your friends in?
- Tried to go in, yeah.
- Is it just based on a, is it like a TV show?
Is it like Sex and the City, where it's like,
there's a guy that's like judging you,
and then you can't get in?
- I think it's like, it's at the point
where you need a connection to someone
who has a table inside to get in the club.
- I got two questions, did you consider
dropping your father's name?
And if you did, even if the guy was like,
just imagine like the guy at the door is a huge Curb fan,
and he's like, that's awesome, I love Curb,
I don't see the connection between coming to Bootsy Bellows.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Yeah, no, I would literally never do that.
But one time my friend literally was like,
dropped it without asking, even though I don't know
why you would even ever do that.
And they were like, I have no idea who the (beep) that is,
like, please.
It was so, it was humiliating.
- No, because the truth is, you can strike out
big league when you drop a name, because--
- You're really putting yourself out there.
- You're really putting yourself out there.
- It's awkward. - It is so awful.
'Cause also you're making an assumption
about the other person, that even if you drop
like a sick name, like a great name
of a talented, amazing person--
- Dr. Dre.
- Dr. Dre, you're also making the assumption--
- I'm rolling up in a polar fleece.
- Yeah.
- Because maybe that person is just like deeply--
- 40 year old white guy. - Ingalitarian.
- But being, what you're saying is like,
you're saying like, it's the most--
- Honestly, I feel like this probably happened
on Curb Your Enthusiasm, it's also like,
you try to drop a name, 'cause maybe the person says,
I'm really sorry, we're full, and then you say,
well, blah, blah, blah, and then they might,
if it's very possible, they might be like,
that's great, but as I said, we're full.
What are you trying to do here?
I mean, I don't know, what are you gonna say?
- I'm on Time Crisis.
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- What's a cover at a club like that?
- What do you mean, the cover?
- Like the cover charge.
- I think there is no cover.
- Oh, no, no, no, there's no cover.
- Probably not for women, right?
- Yeah, no.
- Maybe for guys.
- What about? (laughs)
- Well, because they make all their money
from bottle service, yeah.
- What if you and I just tried to go to this club,
what's it called?
- Bootsy Bellows.
- Okay, we tried to go there on a Saturday night,
just you and me.
- Okay, and I'm not making any phone calls or anything?
- No, no, yeah, no phone calls.
- Just showing off.
- But we're dressed appropriately, we're like wearing
whatever, like a suit, whatever you're supposed to wear.
- What time are you going?
- We're wearing going out shirts.
- Yeah.
I don't know, what's like 11.30 on a Saturday night?
- And we just get in line and wait,
we're gonna wait there all night, that's my gut.
- Yeah.
- Well, okay, okay.
- We're not getting in.
- What if the movie could make?
- The move we could make is, I would put out an APB,
I don't know, I'm honestly not sure.
First I'd hit up my manager saying,
me and Jake really wanna go to Bootsy Bellows.
- It's Jake's 41st birthday, he really wants to.
- And he wants to go solo with me to Bootsy Bellows.
I would hit up that, you know who I would hit up?
My trainer.
- Oh, no way.
- He's like a going out type guy, Fred.
- He's into it.
- I would text Fred like, Fred, two questions,
can you do 10.30 on Monday?
And also, can you get me in front of the Bootsy Bellows?
- That's a bit of a stretch.
- People really, they'll say anything to get in.
- For what?
- I've witnessed like crazy things.
- So you've been once?
- To Bootsy?
- Yeah, Bootsy.
- I know, I lied, I've been a few times.
- I mean, you're calling it.
- I've been like maybe three times.
- You're calling it by just part of its name.
- That's how you do it.
- You're on a first name basis with Bootsy.
- It's two Bs, it's a hard one.
I have to stick with the one.
No, people, yeah, I don't remember what I was saying.
- People say the craziest things to get in.
- Yeah, yeah.
And then there's like the times where like they're getting,
girls are getting kicked out and they can't speak
and they're still trying to get back in.
- Oh, 'cause they're hammered?
Is that why they're getting kicked out?
- Please, everyone.
- And when you go to these clubs,
they're super crowded, they're loud.
- Yeah.
- This is what's happening.
So let's say we got in.
- Are they playing the chain smokers?
- Yeah, let's just play this out.
- They might, they might have a more tasteful DJ.
But let's say we actually got in.
It's me, you, and my trainer.
- Can I come?
- Yeah.
- Me, you, my trainer, and Kazzy.
- Thank you.
- It's the four of us rolling in.
- She avoids dropping her father's name.
- She avoids dropping her father's name.
We get in, it was all about the trainer.
He got us in.
And then we're just in there.
I'm like, you guys want a drink?
You're like, what man?
And I'm like, you want a drink?
And then you don't see me for 30 minutes.
And then it's just like the three of you sit.
Like literally, this is what happens.
- Are we standing or are we trying to get a table?
- This is so accurate.
- You're standing, kind of looking for a place.
- Also like, good people are touching you.
- Yeah, you're getting pushed by all these people.
Like there's a lot of skin.
People are just like, people are like treating you like dirt.
- Are you dancing?
- Well, see here's the thing.
- No, because you're not even in a place where you can dance
'cause we're in the entrance still
'cause it's so crowded.
- Right.
- We're on the perimeter of the thing.
So I'm getting a drink.
Like maybe my trainer's on the,
he's actually like having a good time.
So then it's just you and Kazzy now.
And then you're kind of like,
neither one of you are dancing that much.
You're like, so yeah.
You're trying to have a conversation like,
this is funny, what?
It's like crazy.
- It's like, you can't talk, you can't dance
'cause it's like embarrassing.
What are you gonna do?
- What are you dropping on those drinks?
You're getting drinks for you, me, Kazzy and the trainer.
- It'll probably be $40.
- Yeah, what do you want?
- That's it?
- No, it's gonna be more than 40.
- Really? - What do you want?
- A vodka soda.
- What do you want, Jake?
- Tequila on the rocks.
- Okay.
- Not Patron, like Well.
- On Yeho?
- Well tequila. - Well tequila?
- Yeah. - All right.
It's probably gonna be 13 each.
- That's not terrible.
- Maybe more, maybe like 15.
- What's bottle service?
What is that?
- Bottle service is when you charge
for a bottle that would cost $40 at Costco,
you charge 12 to 1500.
And occasionally--
- Solid markup.
- So the way that clubs make money
is not from the schlubs like us,
pushing our way in to drop 100 bucks.
It's by they give a table to somebody
who will bring out,
they bring out the champagne with sparklers on it,
and they might be like, order a fancy champagne.
Maybe that, you know,
get the occasional person in Bootsy Bellows
who probably single-handedly drops $50,000.
That probably happens every weekend.
- Worth it. - A couple times.
It's worth it.
So we're just in there,
packed like sardines. - It's worth it.
- I just like come,
we're just like awkwardly drinking these things,
kind of dancing,
but we don't even have room to dance.
And then best case scenario,
we see Leonardo DiCaprio sitting on the top
of one of the benches in a booth.
That's it, kind of.
- Best case.
- That's best case scenario.
- No, he would never be there.
It would be more like someone like,
I once saw Chase Crawford there.
That's like the most famous person I've seen at a club.
I like a Bootsy club.
- Maybe Drake has been to Bootsy Bellows.
I mean, that's like, yeah, maybe not everything.
- Really?
- Yeah. - I guess I don't.
I feel like Leo is like so past the club scene.
Maybe he just hasn't been single in a while.
- I've seen Leo at art openings.
- Oh yeah? - Oh yeah.
- That's more a scene. - So you already saw Leo.
You already saw Leo.
It's not gonna be fun.
- 50 grand?
More than like a public school teacher's salary for a year.
- Yeah, man. - On like champagne.
- I've been trying to tell you, man.
- And like nachos.
- The millionaires and the billionaires
are out having fun at Bootsy Bellows
while the average American.
- That's why the terrorists hate us.
- Yeah, I mean, it's not a good look.
- It's a terrible look.
- And then like, so then we're in there for a while.
- I just don't understand.
Even if I had like $80 million in my checking account,
I still can't conceive of like dropping 50K.
- But they don't even know how much
they're gonna be spending until after the bill comes
because they'll keep bringing bottles
of girls at their table are like drinking.
If they drink more, there's like 20 people at the table.
All the drinks will be gone.
So then they'll keep bringing drinks.
- They literally might have a friend cruising around
to get like all the hot girls to come sit at the table.
- But then they end up paying more.
- This must happen where some guy's not loaded.
Some guy's fronting when he's loaded.
- It happens all the time.
- And then he's just like rolling with the momentum.
And then the bill comes and it's like 34,000
and he's got like 60 bucks in his checking account.
Like how does that play out?
- I don't know.
Maybe they just like, they beat him up.
- What?
Cool business plan.
- You try to split it with like everyone
who's at the table.
Everyone would be so confused.
No one's ever had to split anything before.
- Debit cards, just like 16 different debit cards
at like 2.15 in the morning.
Everyone's putting like 1200 bucks on a debit card.
- Oh God.
Yeah, that's best case scenario.
Then we're walking out of there at 2 AM.
Ears ringing.
- You hungry?
- Yeah, then we're going to Mel's.
Just get a cheeseburger at Mel's.
Yeah, I don't get it.
- Crazy.
- And it's not fun.
- It's not fun.
And I think even like, even people who love to dance,
that's not where they wanna go.
That's not where you're gonna have a good time.
We should start at a club night.
I think it'd be a good way
to make some off the books money.
I bet there's a lot of people in LA.
- That's a really good idea.
- Oh, like a time crisis club night?
- We should do a time crisis club night
for people who don't like the chain smokers
and wanna dance to the more tasteful palette of 70s rock.
- What's our venue?
Like an all ages club?
- I'll find some place.
And then we're doing a $20 Modelo's.
- Still not chill.
- And the night will be called $20 Modelo.
It'll be like a thing.
It'll be kind of fun.
We even like slap a sticker on it
so you can do an Instagram
like a view of your $20 Modelo.
- I think we do free beer, dude.
- Free beer?
- I think we throw like a kegger.
- So you're gonna have just guys in there.
- This is it.
Okay, you're right.
- We really need to widen the attraction.
- Okay, this is a good idea.
I'm glad we had this brainstorming,
this brainstorm sesh.
Time crisis club night.
- I'm in.
- We gotta do one club night
to get Jake's guitar out of the pawn shop
so that he can rip a solo on the Vampire Weekend album.
That's the plot.
- Love it.
- Jake had to pawn his beloved Strat.
We gotta throw one sick club night to get it unpawned.
Okay, Kazzy, thank you so much for coming through.
- Thank you for having me.
- To Time Crisis.
Everybody gotta check out 86.
You just go to YouTube.
You don't need to go to anywhere else, right?
- Yeah, you can just go on YouTube.
- Google Kazzy.
That's her full name.
David, you'll find it.
Come back sometime.
- I would love to.
This was a blast.
- We really appreciate having you here.
As I reflect on the show today,
I don't feel as strongly about boycotting Wendy's,
but I don't know.
Let's readdress on the next episode.
- Let's talk to that guy if possible.
- Let's get that guy's side of the story.
- Wendy's fish and chips.
- Let's talk to the Wendy's guy over there in Belgium.
Okay, everybody, thanks for listening.
We'll be back in two weeks.
- You're listening to Time Crisis on Beat One.
Squad!
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