Well within his back is number five hundred and eighty hey Chris Kyle. What are you doing here just wandering through your stuff and figured I'd, say hello? Why aren't you wearing pants? Don't worry about it? Ok, I'm not worried! Oh yeah, why don't worry about it? Ok, Katie? This is where this is we're going to discover this weird on CD. Underbelly of Kyle Clark's life, I mean that's for sure true, but I mean we don't have to advertise the America you just advertised it you're your own free commercial. I mean this fall. Tiles dark side coming, this fall Kyle. Oh, I can't wait for this fall now. This episode is spike, fairest and who is turn on a lot of really amazing shows and is super funny guy like when I'm in Lizzie, with some kind of Seinfeld, the soup Nazi episode.

Like? Has a new show called car matchmaker, which members October 14th in the Esquire network and basically he's a super huge car, nerd guy, and so he is like a matchmaker, but for a person's personality and the type of car that they should have an indian companies really great vintage cars and he's a good guy and really really really funny and so watch car matchmaker October 14th Square network. But now there's podcast, five hundred and eighty with spike, fairest and yeah. You I am ok. Why is it 'cause? I can see it now. We all enjoy your day, we're now in danger, I didn't I didn't bring my alien now entering Nerdist dot com,

welcome. Thank you where to start hi, hey how's, it going. No! No! We just we have not even really just started. Welcome and I apologize. If I look tired yesterday was my first kind of Emmys thing and it was you're still you know I would. I would be surprised at all. Thank you, and so I I went to I went to a couple of the after things.

Knowing that I had to work this morning and we can have a woman in a maybe all that I'll be back here. So when I feel like I owe you must have been a million times, I've been yeah for eight right. Now I don't really go anymore is what I remember is nothing to eat and having to sneak in protein bars and things like that, what they're there's nothing to eat and then, when I get well, this is about to sound like a big luxury problem. I got off the road curves. It took so long to get through that by the time that they were seeding people they shut down the snack bar and they wouldn't give out water right yeah. But I just got off the yeah. It's suffering. It is a little bit of Abu grade the Emmys I mean. Not exaggerating the real heroes here, I think, having to go through a red carpet in a tuxedo which are out of the way it's weird it's like having it yeah, just move it into the corner. There ok good, but it was. It was really surreal but fun, and what did you do exactly

I presented in a war did yeah and how did that feel it? Well it, was a modern amount of pants shooting for the whole day leading up to it and uh, and then I I called I talked to Cole bear the night before because anyone in my mind that could do the correspondents dinner, especially the way that he did it and is fearless, and so I was like. I don't know, I'm nervous, and I don't know what this is like a much different. I've done a million award shows, but not like they and he just said he just you know like remember, just play to the camera and don't worry about the select, yeah right, I'm television, and so- and I I just for God, I just for God and he and I and I he had to remind me how to do it and I when I went out? I was super nervous, but then I just kind of was like okay, I'm going to do this and I did not look at anyone in the audience and I just play to the camera, and I think it was fun up anyway. That was my

What's my mom too, and then what happens for you after the Emmys governor's ball any parties? I think it straight to the Oscars. Oh you mean last night was it enjoyable at all. I'm trying to number anything enjoyable, but me experiences. I've had other than pictures with my buddies out front once drove yellow Cadillac Fleetwood, seventy three, with all the Letterman writers in it to the Emmys. That was really fun. Tastic. Hanging out of the Sun Roof Drinking Jack Daniels. So no it was. You know it's! It's still this this, it's very exciting to me still, because no did you meet a lot of people, a lot of people I met uh Lena Headey, the who else uh the Lorne Michaels, and I don't know it was just to hold it was like. Oh you I recognize your you, but then

the environment, everyone is pretty chill because they're all in the same here in the club. Well, it's just that everyone is kind of vulnerable 'cause. Everyone is kind of nervous and stressed because they have to go out and present or is it so everyone was very, very cool, but I mean the stuff that you've worked on is I mean like? I could just talk to you for an hour about space, ghost yeah. Let's talk about space, I mean you but people people know everything right. People know everything. I don't know most people don't know who I am even after the talk show, even after the talk show, I'm just a guy. That kind of looks like you a little bit Seth Meyers, just like we don't exactly there's. Definitely like a white guy creature, Mold Rite, whereas like drop yeah, any guys spiky hair. I cannot yeah yeah yeah. There's definitely will through the club a job

Yes, no well, yeah he's a he's, a good looking guy. He is a little different than us, we're spindly, wiry guy, also very tall jewel, very tall, Jules the giants. Yes, yes, we're different. The gentle giant affect people, probably think we're all the same guy with his different glasses in her know we're the same guy as well. Now now that he's super now he's super famous, but and Paul would be in there. Yeah Matt, Matt Bellamy from Muse would be in that as well. There are only about one hundred and fifty eight human prototypes make alert like sixty eight square, sixty eight. So that's what we are whatever the

Detroit of humanity is like we rolled out of that factory line, no get meerkats, I mean it's. The same with people were sixty eight yeah. We should have her own little club inspected by then we get little spectrum by stickers. I thought you were great on Bill Maher at the other. Now. Thank you very much. I love that show. That's it's one of my favorite late night should be done. It have not done it. I don't want to do it. I don't like getting close to things. I really like 'cause, it's going to ruin the experience, so you don't want too much of the behind the scenes. I don't much of the behind the scenes like Howard, stern or or that show. I really love those shows and I feel like if I go on, I'm going to lose I'll just work against myself in my own head using no matter, even if I kill it, I'm going to kill myself like? I won't sleep for two days and I got the way I looked or what I said did I do it that way, then I won't be able to watch the show anymore yeah. Ok, I totally,

so the unit, but we were watching you, my wife and I we thought you're really healthy. My wife didn't know who you were, but as who's that guy he's a really funny. He looks like you. Sixty eight We are the sixty eight. Someone should just mean that is basically just just like just do a grid of different model to have like different different model type yeah and read the sixty eight and then we like the ninety nine square, it's an upgrade from where I showed up last, which was on men who look like oldlesbians dot com with Dana Carvey and Al Frankin and Todd Rundgren. I would rather be on the 68th and that's

beyond uh, I love. I love a good Todd, Rundgren reference, but there's something anything I was fucking fantastic. Do you like? Rundgren fan? No, ok! Well, I just like the reference, it's a good reference, but it's also a phenomenal album and you're cheating yourself, you're, just kidding yourself after this. Did you you're not going to rush right after this? I can do that. What so you did use you started as bad as a pager you've started as of just over at us and in turn I was an intern on at NBC. I was the guy who is getting but Tall's in cheese, burgers for the graphics guy who handled so get live and Letterman. Who is on the late night by that point? And then it's at what point? Did you start tossing jokes harassing Dennis Miller to do jokes? I think when I shortly after I was hired to be the receptionist on Saturday Night LIVE and my office, my desk was right in front of Dennis, is

office, and all I did was read newspapers and answer phones and tell us jokes behind me and he started doing him and before you know it, people were asking who wrote that joke and it was that kid spike at the desk, and you know it. Leverage that into a writing job on night music, with it's I don't know if you remember that short lived star, trek music show. Oh my god, I don't this is this: it was Sunday night, Michelob presents Sunday night, it was a Lorne Michaels music show that Jools HOLLAND and David Sanborn hosted, and we had Todd Rundgren on it. Anything anything in the Michelob Comedy brand

It was an incredible show. How will you still the music supervisor for us and now is doing the music supervising for it, and so we have like the chili peppers and MILES Davis on stage together and clapped, and it was incredible show. Sadly I don't think you'll see it because of music clearances again, but it must be on you tube somewhere. I think they're pieces of it and snippets here and there, but I get to meet so many credible like MILES Davis. You know you don't expect to meet miles. Davis, when you get into business. No, no there's a certain type of person, that's so kind of ingrained in our cultural dna that when you see them in person or like you're, a hologram

an actual person. I couldn't just poke you well when I met a Marcus Miller brought me in the room. Thank you shoot little short films that would run as bumpers in the middle of the show. You know that's how crazy the show, as they were just like here's, this camcorder shoot things and we'll put it on yeah, go shoot something with MILES Davis number yeah, I'm a former bartender intern guy going to meet MILES Davis. I walk into the room, you know I go to shake hands and I shake it like a white guy which immediately throws off MILES Davis. I was going to do the fake kind of black right and, and he was upset by it, and he went down what the and Marcus Miller starts laughing and then he dropped his trumpet and it fell right on the bell and that the trumpet kind of bent- and he just looked at me and market- said you better leave right. She said what he goes just walk out. And I walked out. Marcus came out because, okay, we're going to, I want to come back in the room and pretend nothing that happened, happened and shake his

and the way you want to shake it the way he wants you to shake it. I mean, and I walked back in reenacted the moment. This time he had a new trumpet didn't drop. It was pure insanity every moment it was excellent. I was like this is would be the most awesome moment of my life and he just pretended like nothing ever happened. Nothing happened, absolutely nothing! Then. I took him into a room with a camera in line him up, and I said all I want you to say: is I've had a sore throat for thirty three years, framed him up anyway, sore throat for thirty three years and then I would put the little music bumper on it, and that was our little short film. For the week I like to think that maybe miles Davis' with some type of an android or something, and then they basically powered him down when you walked out of the room and then just tweaked a little programming and then and then launch relaunch they rebooted him. I mean all of that was I went to music school. So I'm spinning out of Berklee College of Music meeting meeting these guys and hanging out.

Them, and you know who's? In my mind, you know what what instrument did you re going to play? I was rather than score: movies can write songs. I mean it really. I thought for sure I'd end up being a school teacher. You know teaching, music and if I'm lucky I'll, be composing like elevator, music, music, music was based in Boston, that's about as high as I aimed at that point It wasn't until I started watching early Letterman shows that I realized there's a place for me: network television. In fact it was Dave. One night was throwing light bulbs, often a tower and smashing them, and I had just been thrown out of the dorms for doing the same thing we always find. When David does it- and I was out of breath- no- the prickly skill music- it's just a weird Clinton, so I thought well that guy is getting paid by NBC to do what I just got kicked out of the dorms for this place. Network television must be where I should go.

And I started setting on my sights on getting on that show, no matter what, even though that shows in new york- and I was in Boston and no kidding A month later we hire a new cocktail waitress at the place I'm tending bar and she walks in with a Letterman varsity jacket, and I see where you get that she goes. I was dating the graphics guy for David Letterman, I said: can you get me internship. She said yeah, he still in love with me. He'll do anything I want and a minute later you know flying to New York on big apple air, for twenty nine bucks your friends floors to go, get your sexually transmitted employment, it's right and you know, and then eventually just drop out of school and just go. This is where I'm supposed to be. Oh wow and so the whole time you were there. You must have had your eye. Okay, now I'm in this department, but that's where I wanna. It was basically we just basically like leapfrogging. I was no. I was just in I felt like I was in a movie. I was just it at this.

The show incident live show. I grew up watching so I read the first Senate LIVE Book and I'm like shit, there's Al Frankin, oh my God there's the Lord Michael. You know, I'm Senator Al Franken Senator Al Franken uhm, you know just these people, I've only read about and finding out that there's this career called comedy writer and these guys get paid to be lunatics into just write. Funny thing, it didn't even know that existed or I would have been going to college for it. If I could it what year was this where you working in a cheese Letterman I work one thousand nine hundred and ninety to ninety five adjoining it. At that point uh I got two NB years in there yeah and the NBC years were terrific and a lot. And then, when we went to CBS he you know he owned a lot more. The show in the full around stuff I mean we were driving golf balls in the hallway and just reckon thirty rock and have a good time and you know dropping. Will.

Water bottles down, elevator shafts did them explode everyday. An We went to Ed Sullivan, you know we had to kind of grow up a little bit set up a little bit then switch so that's sort of where in suit full suits and fancy shoes I don't know I always mention to the clothes. No, no well it big, but but the clothes really define the tone the original show was when he was the guy that wore the blue, the the kind of sport coat in the sneakers right and then went to CBS. It was like full suit yeah, which to me was a very but with a very much a tonal shift, yeah in okay, we're grown ups now right now, this time it's the grown ups kids will watch; no, it is not just for so that it that was a that was a very interesting total ship, but I I'm, but I'm also fascinated that

that you had any kind of a connection with Dennis Miller, because he, I don't know he just seems like. He he was it I mean it's super nice guy back and back in those days is really from well from my ex my my experience with him back then was he was really super nice. Well then, okay to nice guy. You were maybe on I mean I'm nobody walking in and answering phones and saying Haiti. Would you read some of these jokes anti cancer prepare for everyone see that makes me very happy, you know and and then doing them. I because I I have my my experience with him- was at the nineteen ninety five, music awards and I was working in tv at the time and he was such a deck. It was unbelievable and- and it was me because yeah I know his black and white special, I think- is one of the best. What did he do that? Why was he said today the he was there and he

my friend, Rick Overton was riding with him and it's funny to think about. The villa maze is anything about the and he was there in. I was he he kind of got mad at me. He c k e d b he kinda late into because I was telling I was, and I wasn't really talking about telling recover the story about. Courtney, love sound check and she said this meltdown because she wanted to start rehearsing, but they had put all the instruments. Yet she was like whenever you guys play and they're, like the instruments are plugged into issues like shut up Eric. You know how to play guitar like she literally said that, and so she just kind of had this weird mount down, but it was obvious that it's like yeah, but everyone's just give it a second and then everything will be plugged in. So I was telling the story like Jesus Christ, man, she Totale, you know, heard thing worked you're talking about it like he laid me for like retelling the story, in other words like you're, giving her attention, but it right, but he was really like it felt like I was being bitten.

And it really hurt, because I'm like sorry nobody hero. You know I mean I I've. I said: what's that special, so many times, yeah, it was so he's do watch it now or I have a lot of it and I haven't watched in a long time because it is tell you think, every has their moments that I had an awful moon with Bill Murray that still bothers me to this day. An innocent question asked to the urinal and he just went off on me and and still to this day. I believe hates my guts of, but hates my god. I think he probably still thinks about it all this time. He does he I'm telling you it followed me for years. It was such

simple little and it's I don't even think it's a mistake. You tell me if this is a mistake. This is one thousand nine hundred and ninety four and it comes around to the writers head writer. I think Rob Burnett says the bill Mars. Look for an idea to do tonight. Anybody have any ideas, and I pitched that this whole idea, where bill from the guest chair, looks out into the audience right at the beginning of his slot as a guest. It sees a pretty girl and says: excuse me Dave that woman is just so distractingly beautiful I have to and he just gets up and he walks out of the guest chair and then throughout the show they get engaged. They get married, it's fantastic. They come back in act. Five we've got our second child here then things

wrong. There's a divorce in a second wife is a funny kind of by the way is also very much in the bill Murray Voice, very much and and and not a big deal that he decides to do it and then changed his mind at the last minute. Does somebody else's idea? I didn't care, but I find myself Sorry. It live party that Saturday night in the bathroom next to Bill Murray, who had been sitting with. I believe me and my brother, and so you know he sits with crew. I was sitting with him and chatting having a nice time and I look over making. How do you say hey how come you didn't? Do that idea, mine and he goes uh. I don't have to fucking tell you that and I used immediately hostile and before I can back off and go hey. I was just joking around just making small talk. He just starts unloading on me and he runs out of Bathroom goes up to my brother. He goes your brothers are fucking asshole. Do you know that he's a fucking asshole

that her hair yeah last night. I had this number. The bill Murray told me. I was in it who I love yeah. I love this guy. I think he's fantastic, some like whatever you know I up. I should miss anything to the guy. You know he's he's a bit of a land mine here and there four years later, he's hosting yes bees and Mine is good. Friends with him is going up to seems like come on, we're going to hang with Bill Murray and I'm, like you sure, that I'm coming because you might want to just mention it's your friend spike from Letterman he's yeah he's not going to problem. I could just mention it before I go up there, so I don't have to get bitten twice. As you said, she goes upstairs calls down. She goes yeah. You can't come up so now. It's I got smoked so now. You know I'm on the outs with one of my big heroes. Oh that's a ten in my awful. If I could just cut Dennis Miller in a bad moment, we've all and still

think about Bill Murray. Like I think of any of us. We all have these bad moments. I wonder what someone has a bad Chris Hardwick moment. Probably one of these two people- room right here: oh not these fuckin' hassles uh yeah! Well, because because uh, you know throughout the course of your day, you'll have a lot of diff. Emotional tones throughout the day, and if someone, if someone just happens to catch you- and you don't even know- thinking, because your your head is in something else and then that's their experience that all the sudden sort of it that sort of supplants the that becomes your avatar in their head? The of do you even know that I don't know, but the Bill Murray Story sounds like his mentally. You lose it and I'm just nervous, I'm just nervous

No, they they shouldn't. I've learned now not to talk to men at urinals now not to not to get too sake deep into this, but I wonder if it had anything to do. Maybe it was like a flash back SNL or like the days when it might have been like super competitive or super. Why did you might it that's right? You might have just hit like a fucking, crazy back door, but I think it's a generational writing thing that moment I don't care, I'm making small talk, I'm nervous. I just want to strike up a little conversation with a guy. I really admire yet you're right. I've said something general generationally, which I have bumped up against football now he starts yelling at me in the bathroom is just like Jesus and ninety four is: is Post Groundhog day bill so he really is like he's still, as I mean like now he's a to, but I like

the logical status yeah but anyway, just some enemy has tons of another one of my bits of right when we first went to CBS he. I had a my writing something on days Desco. The idea was we're over at CBS no going to know who you are Dave you've only been on NBC B. I have no clue who you are I'm going to fix that right now and spray paints. The word David of course yeah. He does it. You know. So it's not like. I cared that I had written a couple of Bill Murray Pieces before: oh, my god, she's yeah, if he's ever on the podcast, we like. You know how you tell me there was just a real and or fake facebook. Bill Murray going around that we all thought might be real and I get banned from that. So you may ill he might have just decide in that moment. You know what I need in them a sense, and I'm just gonna pick this guy. I'm! Just going have funnel all of my well. It's awful

sorry I you like him. That would be the I I would. I would be heart broke, I mean I'm, I'm I'm amazed that you recovered from that. Well, I will try to patch things up with you and Dennis. If you can help I appreciate that I think Dennis are privately. The attack in around the man. I don't. Even if I didn't, what do you mean, but the the the the training grounds of SNL, an Letterman and then Seinfeld, which I mean three completely different types of rooms, is there one that you prefer in particular price sounds like a b. They were all they're, all wonderful, they're, all like Comedy college Letterman is really lots of reps. That's five years. You five you six pages of

in your generating every day it's really a great workout. You get really sharp and good, but you're honing in on we used to say Davis, comedic sensibility for the show was like well. If all of comedy was a football field with Dave wanted was like one square inch that you would just mine down to China. It would evolve slowly, you know, but that's not working on any late night show. Is this not just Dave? It's just like we talk about the day's events, and then we talk about just these subjects so that you know that's quite a workout where you get really good at certain style of writing and then Letterman I mean Seinfeld, very different experience, but liberating in a different way in that Larry and Jerry only wanted you to come in and tell stories that happen to you. You know

in general, they would say we don't really want you to write something. We want you to come in and tell us what happened to you at the cocktail party last night that you thought was odd and what you want to say or wanted to do. So it's almost like a it was kind of sounds like the alternate, like an alternative comedy show where the results in a comedy show with that I for The first time I watch alternative comedy was in nineteen. Ninety two or so called on cabaret in a cab. The whole thing was, you can't do jokes. You just have to tell stories right about what happened right, but should feel organic right, and I you know I go back and I see some of the episodes that I wrote. They're all things that happen to me. You know you're the soup episode right. The soup episode the little kicks all the story. Inside of them the muffin tops they're all little stories that happen to me. Well, I lived in New York, some of them in la the talking, the talking stomach. I mean it's, it's kind of it. I. I wonder why. I wonder why more shows, because it

The reason why I think that show felt so different is because it was so unique and specific and it was not sit. If I hold that thought that question you were just you wonder, why never well networks, I know, but every time you try to go near stuff like that they're so confused, but it's so I mean but like how? Can you not look like that? Like look at Louise Show yeah yeah, I mean that's for sure you know, but I I always say that that the network would look at Louis Show and they would not, because it's very difficult to put this on a on a on to make this a data point and say because it's not it's not really quantifiable, it's not really tangible and since we go We just kind of let a guy be funny in the way that he's funny and been organic to how he is or there. But I would never the glue shown go okay. So what America wants is a guy who's like forty six, with a red with like a g your go t like they would. They would look at all the wrong right, not like. No, no you just let him tell stories and like be funny the way he's funny. They don't that's very well. They they yeah ski. Well, you know

story right you. We all know the story that they didn't have anything to do with it yeah. He just have given the money and I'll make it know more. The points of wire me the money. I said why and I will deliver the show, but nothing you get zero and I think he told me the closest they got to it with somebody from fx came and had coffee with them just to have coffee with him, and he showed him a joke or something to the your show casting now with a budget. Now, I'm showing you nothing and then we get Louise Great show. Yeah I mean I I I I'd say I don't you know not. Everyone could pull that off. Blue Louis couldn't even pull it off. I mean Louis,

I've been watching Louis make his shows for an awful long. Time is short films and, what's so interesting to me, is he cast it every time he would make something that didn't quite work or it or the h B, o show people would say in colluding, may just go broader, go don't go in the direction. You're headed go back, so you know it in a CBS direction in and take out the dirty stuff, and maybe just talk about the kids, because your observations are so amazing. You could build a show around. It and he said- I'm going completely the opposite way. You know I'm just going to drill down and get more and more pure with my comedy and that's what this fx show is. You know he finally just got rid of everything except for him. You know what he wanted to do and sensibility and that's why it works. But it's the unexpected, like from where I saw him years ago when we were running on Letterman together. But there's something that's I mean you know when you, when you kind of peel back the layers. Look at that sure you look at look at Seinfeld. I

part of the reason why they resonate people, because there is there's a lingering credibly authentic about where you were you. Do you don't feel like they're trying to sell me a like a car salesman, something that feels like these are real human answer right and the comedy is coming out of this very authentic place and that's, I think, that's what makes them work as opposed to the complete opposite that sort of that sort of CBS style show it's like all these people are good joke writers. You know like right, like a gold, girl said, which I fucking. I adore that show it's a good show with solid jokes and strong but obviously like it's all completely fabricated. Well, it's funny. We used to say, and it's the it's still is this way from a if you, if you start funny story. You can hang jokes on any story. You want, if you're a network that goes well. Let's do a girlfriend story

dating to girl who doesn't know which one you can still hang funny jokes on that right, that we're sign Felder curb, does it differently? Is they start with a funny story? You know I you know, I didn't buy the blazer. I return. I bought the blaze. Out of spite, and now I want to return the stupid, but you can also hang funny jokes on, but the spine. This story is different and funny by itself. It's not a tired premise: we've seen a thousand times right and that you're right. That is what Smith that, even though, like their show like Silicon Valley there, killing it right now in their cells, are gonna, show yeah yeah, because it's it's it's a hanging jokes on real stories as opposed to hanging jokes to disguise, yeah and I'm right. I'm notice and Alec Berg is working on the show with former Seinfeld writer. I've seen a couple things that make me you know in card. That is, I think, that's a definitely a a Seinfeld story eat. Remember one of the characters was:

there's, a story about Steven Spielberg fluff floating around back in the day about how he'd discovered burger king and how he sent his assistant, who we all knew out for all the things on the burger King Menu delivery. Through with that yeah. Try this discovery, I yeah a burger king yeah and I saw that beat in the show. Do that and I'm pretty sure that's got to be Berg and that's gonna be Spielberg yeah! That's got to be one that is in that Seinfeld Ian right there. You know George Costanza's answering machines, the same thing to remember that we I was sitting with Jeff Schafer when he said check out my friend's answering machine and she had that message on her phone and we were playing it for weeks and just laughing in the Seinfeld writer's room, and then we went haywire we putting in the show so uh. I think Schaefer did that story for George believe it or not, I'm not on the phone that one river we shut. The whole episode had it edit.

Who is about to air an Schaefer called the girl and said watch Seinfeld tonight and just hung up didn't say who it was just left a message on her machine. So she got to experience that that outing, that's in a very grand way. She must have felt honored to be represented in such we never talked oddly soon now, but was should probably have to sue. Who is it? Who is all they ever did? Was it when Larson herbs Steven with who did the yeah, he did Chris Mcnair good question. Was that wasn't bochco? It was done anyway. It's really not relevant at all I did like the greatest american hero was a fun show, but what with the what was weird it's where to space ghost, when I had the space ghost well is a little detour when I was writing Letterman. My brother had written an epic,

I didn't know it was, but he pointed that out to me, and it just blew me away with how absurd it was and how it seemed like it was anything goes kind of writing situation whatever you want just write whatever you want and make it weird, and that really appealed to me. I I think the first time I saw space ghost was I am. I must I received mid nineties. And I was working in tv at the time and somehow I track down a number for their production office and I just left, Long rambly measures and, like my name, is Chris Hardwick I fucking love you so so much. If there's anything I can ever do on the site. I pitched myself to them on their voicemail in like ninety six, maybe nine thousand five hundred and ninety six and

because I was so so in love with it and it and and and to me that was kind of the beginning of that that that sort of ushered in the era of very self aware met a type of comedy. You know like it because we had to cycle through the seventies and the eighties to then be able to startin, basically sat using all of it and that that sort of ushered in that era. You know that's what attracted me to Letterman in the beginning and made some of those bits that made absolutely no sense, like you know there's viewer mail letter word, somebody asked Dave. What would life be like without the? U S, constitution he's Paul. I don't know what would life and then the you know, they're touching the chains and a glance, and it was just Dave and Paul tied to a stake, while a giant rat in a purple gown with them for like forty five seconds,

hey you know, I'm in my dorm room, smoking pot going. This is the most the credit there's, nothing like it on tv and it's it was like a little secret that we're all watching like holy guys, come in and look at this or or the tribute to the troops. You remember this one, a tribute to our Us Marines. How about we have a nice tribute to the Us Marines right now in a marching band, comes out there, all in uniform to the blue doors and for some reason, there's a giant hot dog marching with them like so it goes two minutes and they they they sing some song at the end, everybody plug and Dave goes Paul very touching tribute for our forces, but the the the hot dog. I don't understand, the hot can talk as well. These Dave, I thought the hot dog with your idea, the hot dog that test acting suspicious

hey hold on hot dogs and hot dog runs security. Chases him. You know those. Those are the things that drove me. Nuts, like I have to work on that show an I saw, those same moments in space coast, but in spades. You know they were just everywhere and I again. I was like you, whatever you guys want. Can I just write one of these? You don't even have to pay me. I just want to be a part of it in some small, what's your? How? How are you when you, when you have to write eight pages of jokes today, are you have to like? I have to go pitch to layer table now it has. How do you? How do you push through it? If you don't mind, if your stock, you know just a deadline, always helps. If, if he is like right now, I don't have a deadline and putting together half hour pitch and there's no deadline. So it's really hard to learn, but in some points that produce who's going to call

yeah and go hey. Can you come in and pitch in a couple of days and that's where I'll get work done? Actual work done? When did? The fox show was two hundred and six thousand two hundred and nine yeah yeah. We did three seasons over on Fox and they blew. It is usual. So, did you do it short of ember? Do they come to you? I really wanted to get back. I missed writing late night and I believe the time I was talking to Norm Macdonald about doing a late night show I met with him, okay and doing them and yeah and then and then- and I I you more than anybody, it should be hosting your own. Late night show this maybe two thousand five, and I said why don't we put together pitch she's like well lets the pension? Thank you hosting a late night show. I get it like. What's the you, your point of view is the point of So seen these shows n

n a n a sounds good, but we need an idea, a late night with Norman DOT. He just you know right over his head and in it I get frustrated with it because they had a written up. Some you know bits like two or three pages of things that I thought were missing from late night and then decided to take him out of my own called up CA and said: look I want to try. This Conan obviously is done well. Why don't we go in and see if we can sell it and walked in a fox? Just you know it's one of those things that just happens. One of those magical moments, there's so much pain in this business. It's so much incredible pain. Then there are these incredible moments that happen. That surprise you, where we walk in on the same day with the right production company that had just sold something great to Fox and they're, just so happy yeah, will take that too. We make a pilot and suddenly they're, like you know, I remember we made it from MIKE Darnelle and oh yeah. I don't mind um c um

the crew over there at Fox TV, and do you know we shot it. I think we shot on the best. Damn sports is to set that's what we did. We shot one pilot. You know I felt like you know it's insane. You've done Joe before it's completely insane. No, I'm not a comedian. At that point, I'm just the guy. You know writer hop in behind a desk and you know like I do. I think about a twenty minute presentation that that I think does well Jason Bateman. Does it Seinfeld walks out? No, I got those guys, but they they were part of it. And then I didn't hear anything for three weeks and I was driving down little Santa Monica in Beverly Hills and the phone rang. It was Darnell and Gail Berman. Who was the President Fox at the time they're like we love this Going right on the air, you know and I almost crashed into a mailbox. You know this is not the call you usually get. No, I wish I had one wheel up on the sidewalk right by Kate. Chocolate can just done that. I'm coming on I'm just like I'm not hearing what I'm hearing and we're gonna pick up the.

For year, congratulations and then they hang up, and I don't you know and I'm driving home I was. I was at a Volkswagen, facade, armor for some reason. I remember that car just going- and I called my wife and like the most fuckedup thing- yeah, that's stupid, little presentation, thing: 'cause, I'm a writer at that point, I'm not expecting work out, but they really love what Colin was doing and they thought this is the way to build the next late night franchise and they thought I'm the guy. You know and I'm laying in bed dying of excitement and fear at that moment, like you'd freaking out, So we have a uh, a big lunch schedule, the next day with the Fox people. Let's go celebrate their ordering forty six episodes and then two weeks later, Gail permanently fox two weeks later and now everything is on hold the red blinking button on the phone beeping. Now you're, fine you're, fine everything's going to be fine, but it's not fine. You can tell it's not fine and they hire

really gory and Peter Watch is it. He goes. I really like this, but just let's take this slow. I think we want to shoot some more pilots and, oh, my God, Another year goes by and we shoot six pilots and eventually get Peter Chernin on Board, and you know the thing the thing takes often launches you know, but but but more under the radar than it had been sick for highlights. Yeah we shot. You know six pilots all together. Let's say I I believe we shot two or three hours that night just had multiple gas and chop them up into six pile. But it was just one big shoot and then, with the with the idea of being we're, gonna cut into a sizzle, and then you know what it ended up at the upfronts which I didn't expect, but that's that that that feeling of never it is a it. It really does train you to never feel safe. Like we're always just like okay, okay already trains, he teaches not tell anybody

yeah, because your shows picked up, you haven't read about it. You have to read about stuff. First, that's that's the new rule. Once you read about it, everything's fine, until you read about to keep your mouth shut, so now, I'm just a guy walking around Hollywood going yeah. I know I'm going to be the fox late night dinner like yeah right, you don't know, but they said Gail said she said I know and she's not there anymore. No, I know that, but it you know, but did I mean we are easy and it's really the most the one of the most exciting experiences of my life and you know not long after I went to an affiliate meeting in January with a so. We just want to meet the Philly it's in LAS Vegas and on Tuesday morning they picked the show up on the anniversary of Johnny Carson's death. I remember

but you know he usually exciting, and then you know we were off kind of building this little late night franchise with you know no money and next to no support- and you know, go ahead, you guys have Saturday night, have some fun and see if you can make some noise, and so they with the bits and what's interesting, is that they gave it three years. And that, like you, think what we were doing really. Well, I mean we were very viral. Who is new and we were we had the top. You know before viral content was viral content, which is everywhere now you know we were. We were at, had higher hit counts. Then, Tina, Fey is Serra Pailin in the family, get you know we were putting out some really great stuff in becoming very viral. Show that was making noise, and you know Brooke clips- would roll the next day on the view and things, so we were doing our job for a show that I think was budgeted at three hundred grand an episode which is ridiculous for a late night show and with no promotion. You know not a single bill

not a single magazine ad and maybe one or two network promos in three years. You know so we were doing well and it came down to the not wanting a late night franchise. You know them, not having the space, because in syndication they had all of these. Shows, and they didn't quite know what to do with us. Yeah. That is, and that that that I think what, but I think most people try don't understand about how television works is that you know is obviously different. Apartments in one department hints like first of Lexington like reruns and then another will handle like original programming and in a lot of cases you know they just start doing math and they go oh well, so if they're getting the same numbers, we can get x amount of dollars for the syndicated show, but we're not producing. You know right or not. Well, in this particular case, as you probably know, I don't know, if you do with affiliates and comedy central and it's the small businesses around the country with guys running them, they have three or four stations in Minnesota. So the president, the network, can say one thing, but he's then got a

so now to the different affiliates and convince them right there like well, why do you mean the spike show right now Thailand is doing great. We don't need this guy. You don't understand that stuff out a coconut? No, I know what the show is. Don't you believe, almost found them they're going to get off the island soon. I always feel like, though it's I mean, no like. Why not invest in something that could be a big. You know like really if a channel and identity as it because syndication doesn't necessarily identify you know, but uh like a face like personality that yeah it definitely it definitely would have helped. But you know all things considered. We are the just running late night. We did do an excellent job, I'm very proud of the work we did there and and very happy with what we created did you, really want to take the show somewhere else, or were you just by the time we were. You know the it's? No, I did it there's just no way to go at that point and,

the sea was very happy with what they had going on CBS with you know: where do you go? What do you do at that point? And you know I just retreated it was? It was a rough year. It was, I think, I got canceled about two weeks after my dad died, so I had that want coupons not to bring everybody down, but no, no, no, there's, not much fight in me left at that. Right in and just you know, we had just had a baby and I was just like I'm just going to be a dad for a year and chill out, and you know right yeah I have the. I have the opposite way. I had it, I mean my my dad died last year too. So I sorry to hear no, no, of course. So I know that I I know I know I know that you know that pain, and I also know where other stuff happens in your like

you know? I it is it's a it's a one two punch in it was less about the show and more about the provider anxiety. So the the sequence of events is, I have new baby father dies a month later, show gets canceled, so it's like Bang you know now it's too bad, you weren't moving at the same time, so you could really divorced and then so you can see what I could take. Yeah yeah yeah but you know you know here- I am fine yeah, it's fine, late night show gets canceled folks and your father dies in the same way. You'll be fine, you'll, be ok define will be here with Chris it'll all be chest. Fine, about it? Did we did well? Did that day? Do anything to you writing wise, or did you did you cut it? Did you sink into comedy at all to get to deal with it, or did you have to put comedy aside for a

No, it comedy is always the same. It's work, it's fun, it's a privilege to get to do it and I think the only thing I really did was just kind of retreat into list, my friends and family a little more and happens. Normally, when you have kids anyways, you know you just around that stuff and not making this business. So important is definitely a relief yeah. It is it that that's a perfect, that's a perfect way to describe. It is a relief because so much of your young life when you're pursuing stuff it is. They are the most important calls that you guess and that's the most important. Oh and this is the biggest oh. This is going to change everything and you know if you really stop to think about like what is it that you actually want. You know what I mean like people. I think most people wouldn't really like. Well, I don't know I just want well work is your whole life, and this is your work. Show business yeah, we're in for

insane ride. It is such a roller coaster to Yo Yo, it's so up and down, and it's vicious and it's excellent it it's it's professional racing is really what it is. You can win the race to be drinking the champagne and kissing the girl, or you can hit the wall and X, and just burn in front of everybody and they're very few people that can do it and come out of it not really feeling angry about it. Longer than a day. Let's say I don't know how long it takes you to cycle through your pain, but it's it well. I I I like. I was able to condense it to like a day. It's usually the only four hours right, yeah like and it's like all right. Let's try something else here we go. Is it's like a mild food poisoning, it's in my system right and right now there is diarrhea yeah and it ain't no and then you're fine. No, I'm I'm a I'm on the floor. Crying may like grabbing my stomach and then and I'm like hi. I think Ok, you know I'll try a taco today, your calloused more baby skin, when it's ready goes away. Your fun yeah,

give me the rob me: what do you got? I could take it like? Then it just becomes that, but it but it, but I think it's a you know it is it is. It is dangerous. It's a dangerous because if that is the only thing that you have or you care about, then it really it's. It's such a it's so hard, especially in this business, not too throw yourself Stephen. Today, all the external things you know like work. And whatever else and don't believe any of it. That's the safest space yeah well into the hype, the badge just don't just walk through it like Cary, Grant, just smile, hello, darling. It's going to be fine. Don't worry about that! My show got cancelled, oh said that really well, let's go have tea, dad passed away, Drat yeah, my cigarette, that's it that's it Cary Grant theory well and also. You are also really close to

biggest names in comedy as well and must have like? Did you notice? Who is that? I wonder I? What who am I close to you we'll sign, Felder, Letterman or yeah now or like any of us, seeing yeah yeah working with I'm sure you see, but but did you see any person I like stuff from them like did you see the personalities involved or did you see them get weird? Or did you see them they all care. They'll care like we do. You know they go through the ringer. It matters as much as we pretend it doesn't. It does right now yeah I think Jerry is probably the most well adjusted guy. I've ever worked with in show business just relax it love works harder than anybody else and smiles his way through it? Well, I guess that's. The point is that if you I mean I, I always say this- that you know if what, whether your goal oriented process oriented and in think people who are process oriented fare a lot better because goal oriented people can get disappointed a lot because

try to make a thing, and then it falls down like goddamnit, but the guys, the guys I really like the process or like okay, well just starting to process, so you have to be open to different directions for sure, because you- you're never going to know what direction you're going and if you want to achieve this thing, I have to win an Oscar right, you're going to be very disappointed, but if you want, if you put yourself into an environment where something happen. You might win. You know the Oscar for best wardrobe guy or something you know anyway. You never. You can't predict your direction. You kind of have to take your opportunities as they come in there odd. They can come in weird directions. I think it's a to have a goal like head be nice to win an Oscar, but I think the real part of that is, but what I'm really going to do is just work as hard as I can to do. The best work that I can possibly do and try to enjoy that and then, if you sort of you know, if that's kind of in the back your mind, you know I think you're we can sort of get lead in that direction.

Ultimately, you know you should be focusing on the work and not the frame, because that one moment also- Very satisfying in the sense that then you get it and then the second later, like I'm falling. What do I have this like the end of princess bride, because I'm not in the revision this anymore, like what do you? What do you do when you? Finally, it's a perfect segue for this new show? Actually, because I created this new show, because I wanted to create a perfect day of work for myself, it shows called car. Matchmaker were going be debuting on Esquire network, which is a network. The magazine anymore. You know it's a network. Well, I know all about Esquire because that's where almost took over G4 almost and then now G4 is just some dead satellite national. It only runs three runs. The show that you have to do in a live via mom left. Me was thirty four. After that, of course, there was well really yeah when it ended that that the chill and nothing to do with me, leaving that the channel had to do with the fact that there was some high level corporate pissing match between direct.

Tv and Comcast that had nothing to do with G4 I had to do with something like carriage rights for a carriage fees for the golf channel, but there is a jeep four still there still four but they're not producing any programming, but they discovered that just by re running like literally running x, play which is breaking video. Game news from three years ago. So, Can you hear about the assassin's creed that came out in that year and it still getting the same numbers that it go back, go and so they're just leaving their base so Esquire took over what was the style style channel and the style channel came back to did they owe it did yeah? I think they did isn't their style channels, there's a style chance, so they didn't you can cut our heads off, but they just took over channel two hundred and thirty five hundred t the simplest way of thinking about it, good. So the house, the show been working with the esquire. It's been great. We just

getting back to what we were talking about. What I wanted you know, I'm a car nut as well like a car nerd. I guess to keep in theme with the Nerdist here. Yes, Anna Comedy at the same time, and I've worked for Letterman and Seinfeld, who are both Caran comedy guys themselves and not surprisingly, when I last year is thinking so I want to try next, I thought if I could create a comedy car show a show or I go to work. I drive cars, talk about cars and be funny. I would do that and I had been in contact with Oprah Winfrey former producer, Alan Racket, ten and we were hanging around ideas, and she said you know you're so good with finding people, cars and I'd, given her some advice which she did not taking. She regretted and she said why don't we do like a car matchmaking thing and I went boy, that's a great hook for show. I don't know what the show is. Neither of us knew what the show would be, but Kerr Match maker is just the perfect way to sell a show like I could

so in and did go in and just said car matchmaker and they went. We want it. What is it don't know yet well talk later going to match guys with cars. We want it right now and you know we sold the show just like that in the room. So you know from there what we developed with it's a simple idea for guys, because Esquire network is a guy's network. It's you know Smart Non Donald, sterling types like the Esquire man and it's a simple idea: it's guys who don't know what to for cars. Come to me. I hang out with them. I give them experience a dealership, wouldn't give them and then pick three cars that are perfectly in their life and in the end they pick one just a really simple format that I can then do kind of late night comedy in

guy in myself, going down to a dealership and around with the with the dealer, or you know I just did an episode with my brother who's. The cue card guy for Saturday Night live who bought a convertible to commute into New York. So it's a front wheel, drive car that, not surprisingly, he can't drive in the snow, so we drove out to EAST Hampton and had lunch with Jerry. So felt who schooled him on all wheel, drive and weather in Manhattan. You know- and that becomes a funny form remote. You would see in a late night show and then he comes back and I picked out we all wheel, drive cars and he picks one and buys it so I'm going to picture car tender if can find a car and then you can just go get in it

another ten minutes. No, you which is my car now he's having images get inside the car for thirty minutes, and then you leave it Kerr tender and then that's it yeah despite their cars and then and then that's it, that's not bad. What could be a sketch that could be a sketch in the show? I am not. I I'm. I like I like pretty cars, but I I understand, like I wouldn't know like yeah. This is got one of them. Him means insight, like I don't know any of that stuff. All of that stuff is so boring. Isn't it all of all of those details, there's plenty of guys doing that stuff. That's not what what I do on the show. I I mostly talk about the way car looks and what it says to the world. Yeah like clothes, make the man so is the car, and yet there lots of guys. Maybe like you, maybe not. I don't know what you drive, who just like how it doesn't matter, what I drive and, and it does the world is judging you and

You have a girlfriend she's quietly, judging you and and and lots of people panic when it comes time to lease this car. They don't know what to get and they make a mistake, and I really believe at any price point you can get a car, that's cool, that kind of works in your life or whatever age at you know when I moved to LA. I had two thousand bucks for a car, so I I bought an old, Lincoln Cougar Xr7 convertible that had just the rails for the roof, but the canvas, but it was excellent. It was an excellent two years in that car, I loved it. The girls I was dating loved it kind of fit my personality at the time and instead of going with, like the GEO, Metro or Dodge Neon something small and goofy, you know that would have not looked right driving on a studio lot and then you then you could be, and then you could be when your link and you could be a lawyer, who's

pull out. What do you drive? What do I drive yeah? I have a. I have a to a twenty third team, Jaguar XKR, you do that's a cool car. Why did you pick Jaguar? I'm I don't know. I just didn't have one before no, it's a funny. It's a funny brand leeches jump into I'll. Tell you why it's like they're too, because it yeah sure do made out of dialects and be more british, and you know it it's. I just like the lines on the car, and I thought it was a very pretty I just I just love the lines in the car and it was was one of the bond cars, and so you know I I test drove it in it and it felt it was really great. Lg inside the car is very bad, like all the on board technologies, very bad, very old, because they don't make a lot of them, so they just don't have the date the. I think they were fresh that in the F type that just came they did. The F type is an incredible

it's a good idea. I don't know much about the brand at all and I just drove. We did a special Jaguar episode where I drove that f type convertible and I lost my mind. It is so much fun and everything about it is perfect. Oh good! That's a car for you! You should Finally get that car. Well, I'm getting one next week for a week, if you want drive it that be amazing. Here's a deer! If this is an amazing thing that happens once you get your own car show you become part of the car press, which I am Kerr Press technically, even though I can't really tell you how an engine works, you just call these guys up and they'll drop the car off our house every week. Whatever you want to draw any day of the guardian, I have just a minute she, where I can right now. I've always wanted to drive one of those goofy Kardashian g wagon season. So I called up my ladies and they said it will be in your driveway in an hour, wow I'm driving it, and so every week I get something new and interesting to drive from Like Nissan Lease Nissan GT, R, as t the latest Porsches and Ford's every anything. So I did and I think I've driven just about every car in the world in line

four months. I was kind of interested to see the the Bmw, I8 or yeah. They were. We just saw those up to him on a right and have they are there out there? They were, none of 'em in Monterrey for car week, um in fact, at the hotel was staying at there were, of them. Like all I know when they have their own specific, beautiful, sound. They look like They sort of look like Tron, Tron, Tron, Tron I'll, tell you. The design is very polarizing gender, wise men, like them, women really seem to hate. This really matches, don't like just like. I hate this and I think it's that Tron look. It could be, but I also think that there's a certain type,

of car. I think the are it's a pretty car. I mean there are it's an interesting looking car in it's a completely impractical car and there's a certain type of car that I you know. I think I was at the upper end of a car. It was the way I I go up how much of it should had like you can't take this car to the store. Like there's some cars. You can see like that. That's not exactly true, because that's the car that guys who don't want to drive Ferrari four hundred and fifty eight by right, they go. I don't want to be the schitt head in the ferrari. Four hundred and fifty eight- and I know a couple of guys out at Santa Monica Airport, who got rid of them because they got they didn't like the raised. Eyebrow looks they were getting more, sometimes getting flipped off on the highway for driving it. So you can speaking of likes to me in our eight, you can't go. I'm going to go pick up some golden games at the store, Will you can I don't know here's the thing you

right and you're wrong. It's! It really depends on who you are. If I knew you little better, it sounds like I'm getting. No, you sure you're, not that guy you're right. That's the two weeks, supercar problem after two weeks, you'll, never drive it again, This new Aston Martins were like that. For me, I had it. Aston Martin drop one off. We got James Bond themes, put it in the dvd player cd player and we're just playing James Bond themes for the first, a week later I didn't want to drive. It was just too much of a production to get it is. I I took a just for fun. I did I was going to get it, but I test drove a couple years ago: net. What was the sort? successor to the Db9, the yes. No The demented should vented no, no, not the vantage there was it does, but there's one other model, and I can't member what it's I came aboard. It's called the vanquish, the vanquish yes and it it was just too it was just it's fun. I mean it's so fun, but it's again it's that kind of two week rule yeah, it's like! Is it right after that? Big big commercial? The

Austin, Martin commercial, wears off in your head, then you're right, you're, going to Ralphs you're, getting charcoal briquettes, yeah and Everything feels wrong. It's just like. I can't go to the gardening store. I got dirt you if you're like me, you go everywhere in everything like I drop, my kids off at preschool in a race car I like it. I'm not lying in one thousand, nine hundred and sixty eight Porsche Factory Race Car, because that's it's fun and it's crazy for an old land rover. That's the thing 'cause! I don't really care. I mean to me: you know when people sorry, I'm driving someone running like! Oh, my god! I don't want to hurt your coming out. Fucking care alright. Alright, I know I'm not getting it because I feel like it defines me. I just think it's a pretty like I happen to be at a point in my life, where I can afford to have a swanky car, and that may not always be the case. I'm like why don't you don't exactly? Why not it's silly! You know like you're, not a guy, that needs help you're happy you're, fine good. There are people who, unlike you, who are very unhappy or making really stupid, shows you really don't know what to do. There's grown,

in buying white jaguars, for instance, with tan interiors, who get out and you're like what? What is that you get a necklace next and maybe and pumps it doesn't look Like who you are you and you know those are the people who to help the most. So sometimes we have interventions. There are lots of like guys and husbands driving around in cars, their wives and girlfriends hate afraid to tell them right now, I'm really embarrassed to go out on date. With you in this car you know, can we do something else and it I always, I always kind of think like maybe I'll, just get like a fun just to like a banger. Utility vehicle like yes, the weekend car is what something that is and what would that be? I don't know I don't know an old mini Cooper would be cool for you something really stupid and impractical, yeah a Ford pinto. Something

really Onyx and AMC Eagle, AMC Eagle that I could run. I could make up like a tardis or gremlin like it yeah. That would be great for you. You know something funny the card that I really loved. What like a car that I really wanted when I was. I got my first car. You know, and I had to buy, budget of a few thousand dollars is. I really want to find like an old b m w two thousand two or like an old Pmr weather like in a larger city like one of the old diesel Mercedes, you know get like an old 70s or like a late, 60s Mercedes motoring, dot, com, yeah Glendale to Brooklyn Hipster, you guys restore Mercedes diesels ladies motoring duck and they're the coolest cars in the world, they're all very affordable, Bmw, two thousand to their amazing too. Those are two fantastic choices that the the two thousand two was such a big job just the is such a pretty car had a still are there collect, they're very collect, and I like I like them. You know there was a certain amount of like

sun, fading on the paint where it just sort of it? Wasn't it didn't look damaged, but it just kind of looked it. Just had a nice texture to it, I'm going to show you a car when we're done that you're going to love, all right, absolutely love, lime, green with purple pinstripe only got eleven Mercedes. You have a good day. You have. I have a picture of it right here. Okay, I'm trying to liberate it from Mercedes motoring, guys well, look at it. They won't sell it. When is your? When is your show up to? 14th nice, I believe, that's a Tuesday, Tuesday, nine hundred o'clock. How did you know? That's a Tuesday because talking dead comes back o'clock, Tober 12th, I'm aware of things as they really were, going to be premiering two half hour episodes and then airing throughout the fall on Esquire network and they've been fantastic to us. You know stayed out of the way and just let us make a fun car show and I promise you it's different than any car show you've watched you're going to digital that is. Are you are you? Are you on twitter? I'm on twitter at spike? First, in just a

people want to like hey here's, my car, here's, you know yeah, they can reach me at spike first in or we're about to launch your set. I guess by the time this airs our sites, bikes cars is going to be up and up and running so their Facebook Arats bike. First, an axle happy to answer questions talk cars whatever you like, just don't ask about the engines. Just tell Ask me what a carburetor is. I don't know how that works. I don't understand a manifold I don't put out. Tell you that show came about, because that year when Ellen called me. I had sold or had a hand in selling thirty cards. Oh my a variety of famous friends, friends of wives, my agent, you know I'm

that sounding board and I'm able to match people with cars that they end up loving. I mean that whatever that is whatever, if that's a talent or that's just being a resident car guy in your neighborhood. It's also. It's also interesting that this is. This is kind of what the entertainment industry is involved in two is where you get to say. Like you know, you get that I, when people ask when I'm talking to people but like what they want to do, I was kinda go like will write down like three or four things he really like and see. If there's a way to create some unique thing, that is a mash up of all the things, because the right or the more spears that you can add

more specifically the more unique your voice. You like your thing, is going to be yeah and it really is just based upon the stuff that you can actually give a about half it really. Is you go? You know for me for me when I, when I started there to stuff it was like. Well, you know I like all these at the these are the spheres of things that I like. I have caught, I'm I'm a stand up and I also have hosting experience, and I love science and technology, and I can if I no one else, has quite that at least at that time. No one else, I didn't think I had quite that election of

of interests in and experience, and so it's something you did that that that that is exactly that's exactly it new. You know we we've cycle two cars like crazy, my friends and I and I pretty much. I think I've driven everything at this point and own cars. You know I did grow up with money. So old. You know american cars for six hundred bucks to new Ferraris and the I I know what it's like to live with the car's, not yes, to acquire something like you're saying that supermarket analogy is spot on perfect. It's very insightful comment: you make is a lot of people. Don't no, that that about two weeks in you feel like an idiot in the realms parking lot or you don't depending on who you are right or the front end scratches bumps, because the clearance is too low. So you won't drive that car again, but a lot of people don't know that yeah there are definitely weekend cars and they're. Definitely day to day exactly, and I really did for the first month that I had this this car. I just I just I felt like a car

like, and I felt like me and I felt like, but but again, but but that, but it is sort of the you're going to be dead, ruled out. This is another one of my rules. You were going to be dead in twenty years, yeah. Maybe forty if you're lucky right, nothing that happens here. Matters enough. People aren't even going to remember Bhama, it's just nothing. None of it enjoy your life. If you really want an experience, get that thing sure don't worry about the kids college money get a hang drive it. If you do it right, it's old you'll make money on it and, and they have a few nice weekends in it, go for a few nice dries with your friends, yeah you'll. Thank yourself. That's all I do that's my for the favorite part of my week is putting my kids in in the call are going for a cruise to Malibu and just driving through canyons, You know having a nice afternoon with them or go, or we just drove back some friends of mine from Monterey. We left pebble beach yearly. All the blue bloods with the funny suits and just drove down the coast and drank coffee, others passed away

That's happened to the car and go for a drive, let's get the hell out of here and it is it might 'cause. When I was in college. I worked at a twenty cl and I worked at this country Club Bel AIR Country Club. While worked at a place in Beverly Hills there and it's in Bel AIR like up in the in the bell and and so I worked, I caddied network in the back of my work in the pro shop and I worked in and and but ultimately and I worked in locker, but then, ultimately, I settle for last year's over to the parking lot. So I sat in everything and one of my favorites, such a distinct smell of one of my favorite smells- is like the way that the leather cures in an old Mercedes, like some of the people, would come in in these, like you know, late, 70s, SL, Mercedes and there's something about the way that the leather and it would get really glossy

and it just this. The smell of it was so interesting. It was just like a different when it was new right. There was an eight like an age, a letter smell in those cars that I absolutely every car has its own little smell, you're right, it doesn't quite matter if you get get in a seventy three nine eleven r S, they all kind of smell the same, and so I got to drive a lot of really. I just like park. Basically a lot of really interesting cars and Carroll. Shelby drove a Shelby. Well, that's cool yeah, but it was. It was fun. It was really fun so October, Fourteenth October, Fourteenth Carmen maker, he was senior tv good to see a man thanks for some very nice to meet you meet you after yeah. It is it what a it's! It's. I'm always surprised that people that I feel like I can't believe I haven't met that person yet either so much crossover that it just it seems odd, but anyway, that's how I felt about Jeff Goldblum, just man, it's chaos,

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