Life in San Diego and Skating Roots

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For the live show, we were on their Mod Max sofa. It's modular, so you can kind of move it around however you want. Honestly, that setup worked. Perfectly for the show. I'm not kidding. I I would have taken that whole setup home. It looked great. Felt very comfortable, you know? Really did feel like we were just hanging out in someone's living room. Ashley is all about style that's made for real life with white glove delivery right to your room of choice. Visit your local Ashley store or head to Ashley.com to find your style. Smartless live or at the Avalon. Hollywood Mm-hmm. Oh good. Sorry, hi! He tried to come out loud big entrance. No, what happened? Anyway. Hey, I'm here now. Hey, hi. Hey, welcome Philip uh Los Angeles. One more crack at it. Get one more crack at it. Let him have one more crack. Um guys, we're so excited we're here and thank you for coming out tonight. This is very exciting for us. Yeah. I gave Sean a big smack across the face right before we came out, and I'm just waiting for her to hit me back. So just pardon me if I'm over here. It was so loud, I can't believe you heard it. It's a little bit red over here. It sure it is. It's become kind of her tradition. This is how we'll do it. We'll do it. This is how we'll do it. Just keep them in a clinch. It was so fucking hard. Fix your mic. It's like I got. The rest of the show is gonna be less violent. Less violent. Okay, so. Very happy to be here. This is our second time here at the Avalon. Thank you for having us. Come on, that's it. Thank you guys for c I'm gonna do a little set. You think go for it. Um This should be good. Thank you guys for coming. We've got a nice uh stuff to sit on from Ashley. Yeah, skinny pop. Right. Oh yeah. T shirts. Got a couple t shirts here, look alive, everybody. No fighting. We're sorry there's no there's I don't know. Close. Very close. I couldn't get it up. We got more coming. We got more where that came from. That hurt. Oh. Jason leaves tomorrow. Jason. I leave. Yes. I'm going to go work um tomorrow. Yeah. Cause this isn't work. This is fun. I'm going to go, I have to leave my family for a good long start. Now you know how my dad feels. This is uh it's high class problems. I'm not I'm not complaining. Um but it's hard because I've been home for like a year. Now I'm not gonna be home for three weeks. But it's exciting because you're gonna direct a film. Right? Yeah. And It's very to us it's very thrilling. To you it's work, but to us it's very thrilling that you're gonna get behind the camera again and wow us With this other talent that you have that not a lot of people have. And very excited. I think everybody's happy that you're going behind the camera again. You know? I think you can make because you're a good director. Yeah. Right. That wasn't a compliment, was it? Did he sneak in an insult? No. No. But you just got back from working away from home for a long time, but you had Scotty with you, so uh all you missed was Ricky. Yes, I was g we were gone for three month three months. We just got back last week. And uh but Amanda will be with you in New York, right? No, she's gonna be here. Um Franny's gonna be with me for a little while. And then um Amanda and Maple are gonna come out for a little bit. You know what, just just email me the itinerary, we're good. Yeah? What did you what did you end up doing with your dog when you were in New York for so long? We left the dog um nobody knows actually. The dog is still missing. No, that we we left put the dog in a uh what's it called uh when you board them prisoner, No, when you board them? No, I'm just saying what it felt like for the dog. No, we we yeah, it it's cost a fortune, but he was with other dogs and he could play and he was good. He seemed happy. He seemed happy when we talked to him on the phone yeah. No Are you guys just meeting for the first time? What's happening? This is the weirdest. I've I'm so far away. I know. Well it's different than the podcast. We are gonna have a guest that's gonna come out here in a second, so that's why we're all separated. We do have a guest. Sean and I don't know who the guest is. We never know. Every once in a while is somebody who on our except for like the presidents of the United States. We jun we we really don't know and so it's always a surprise. And we do never talk about what we're gonna talk about. But you guys when I bring on a guest, um when we do you guys the microphone. I see you guys uh typing on your computer, uh quickly Googling that person as soon as they don't have a lot of people. No, no, but not because they don't know it, but like to like come up with like questions and stuff like you're not gonna have that. That's fucking bullshit. No, it is a bullshit. Sean definitely does that, but I do it be but if I don't know the person. It's like if a sports person comes in. I do not do that. How dare you accuse me of that? What are you basing that on? No what are you playing with? I'm messaging people, dude. I'm busy. I mean I don't you I don't know who it is and so You're gonna like him. I like him. He's a friend of mine. Wait, can I before before that, I can I I just have a little something I brought with me that I want to show everybody. So so today today, only eight hours ago Uh at eleven o five a.m this morning. Scotty and I chatted with a friend of ours and a friendly chatted? Sh chatted. Shatted, sorry. Sh you can't hear ourselves up here. I'm so sorry. We brought a friend over and we just chat everywhere. At 1105, we both uh happened to chat. No. No. We chatted with a friend of ours and a friend of ours and a friend of the podcast. Oh. And it's pretty unbelievable. And we cut together Scotty cut together this twenty second video to show you what we did only eight hours ago today. This is what Are we going to the tape? Yeah. We haven't seen this. Hello to everybody at the Apple! Isn't that crazy? Look at her shirt! That is so cool. And can you see my own? Yes! That is wild. Just looking at the shirt. Look at that. Ready? Yep. So this is like our kitchen table. This is our this is how we warm up food. Oh we got some garlic and onions and some fresh fruit on the table. That's gotta make the place smell real good. Isn't that amazing? So we that is so close. That was this morning. And and she's like, Do you want to just chat? I'm like, on the fucking international space station? Yeah. So for 45 minutes, we were just chatting. She showed us around, she showed us the Russian astronauts and the Japanese section and the I don't know. So that how cool is that to see our our government, you know, tax dollars at work. Did you say forty five minutes you talk? Forty five minutes we hung out with her today. Isn't that was there a phone number? No, she she she sends us a link to uh like uh Not Zoom, but something else. But wait, yeah, w Google Meet or whatever. So wait, I wrote down these things. She they they are moving five miles a second. They rotate the earth every ninety minutes. That's how fast they're going. Isn't that crazy? And I said, What experience you're working on? She said Something like astronauts get blood clots, so they're doing something of that. And they're growing they're growing crops like Matt Damon and the Martian. And they're And there are DNA therapeutics, protein crystals, future propulsion systems. But what's fascinating is that she said when you go up there, something happens to the back of your eyes because there's no gravity in it, flattened the back of her eyes. So she doesn't need glasses on earth anymore. Isn't that amazing? Disney classes. And so she has twenty twenty visit. What's that book you're reading? I just saw you It's my phone. Anyway, I just wanted to share that with you because that happened today. How are you because I remember when she was on the podcast. Yeah. We must have covered this. But remind me how are you friends with an astronaut? Because of the podcast. What's with the look on your face? So shitty. Why are you mad at why are you mad at him? He doesn't know anybody. He barely knows his dog. He knows Scotty pretty good. What happens is he meets people and they want to continue to have a relationship because he's nice. He doesn't have a shitty look on his face. And by the way, you just described yourself and you were describing me. Um Yeah, isn't that wild? Anyway. So she's currently on the space station. Wow. And I'm complaining about going to Jersey for three weeks. Exactly. But you we we can talk to her again, like we can hop on there. I asked her tons of questions. She loves it. They love it. J B, are you were you thinking about like How fluid would move differently if you were up there like in your face and stuff. No, I the you do look puffy when they do those those little hits from out of space. I w I wouldn't be into it. No no. I just do radio from out of space. It does, it lifts. Sorry guys, camera's not working again. Radio from space. No, I don't care about this is just a bit. I don't care about that stuff. Alright, so there's no vanity. Sean, do you have any more bits? Any more uh stuff for that? Any more pre-tapes, Sean? I always have tons of stuff. I just said that we never do anything planned and then you did a went to a video package. Yeah. Well I w I wanted I wanted to make sure I left space for her, but I didn't know how to plan it. Oh my god, I can't find my intro that I wrote for the freaking cast. This is so real. Michael, bring me those cards, please. God damn it. So what else is going on? Unreal. I just quit smoking recently. No, you didn't. What? You did? Smokey, it's Maple Bateman. Yeah, Maple. Maple Babin. Oh, this is gonna be a disaster tonight. Um all right. Freestyling now, intro the guest. It could be short. This guy I'm an actor. I this supposed to be written for me and then I can see. I can see your sweat. I know, I'm in deep sweat right now. Um Okay, so uh this is a fella. Um he is extremely I think he's one of the greatest comedic actors we have. Full stop. Okay, that's that's A, that's a good start, right? See me vamping. Um but he doesn't just make you laugh, he makes you cry sometimes. All the phones are up. What's going on? Feel like Ariana Grande. Um he's been nominated twice. For an Oscar for fancy movies, right? Not just the comedy stuff. This guy's a big shot. He's also writes and directs movies, done a few of those. What is it, Ryan Reynolds? No, he hasn't written or directed a film yet. Um Uh And um and I have found that while he's incredibly talented, his heart's even bigger. Because we've become friends over the past few years. Um you know him from Getting Sarah Marshall. You know him from uh uh knocked up, 40 year old version. Um you know him from Super Bad Moneyball Wolf of Wall Street, ladies and gentlemen, the one and only Jonah Hill. Oh Oh What is she gonna say, dude? Sean, how are you? I was already nervous and like, oh, he already fucking. Yeah, what were you thinking, Jonah, what were you thinking backstage when Bateman blew it with the total wipeout. I'm just coming back out here uh like in crowds and stuff. My wife's here. I'm like and and I'm like Jason's gonna hook me up and he's like oh I don't have an intro. So I'm sitting back there going like he's gonna go, he's a guy that I'm friends with, that I text with and like I was like, oh fuck, he probably wrote something nice and now it's gonna get like dumbed down to the You know how to improvise. I don't I'm all right at the improvising, but you're the you're the you're the Mac Daddy. You and Vince Fawn, no one better. Brilliant ever. All right, so right, so you're not in front of c you're not in front of crowds all the time. You're not up in LA, you're down in San Diego for the most part now. Oh you live in San Diego? Oh yeah, so okay, so real quick before we go any any further My my wife is here, my best friend and business partner, Matt Dines, is here. Shout out to my beautiful wife, Liv. Where is she? Oh, baby. Um And then so so I live in a very small town in San Diego and it's amazing and my neighbors are incredible people and when we had our first kid, we moved out there. three years ago. And um Uh My neighbors are so cool. I I want to leave LA and raise a family outside of Los Angeles and and um out away from entertainment. I can maybe come back and then you know go back and forth. And my neighbors are so cool. They never treat me weird or ask me about my job or anything. And My neighbor is one of my great friends, Dr. Sean. Uh. He never he never asked he's here tonight. Who hold on. He never bothered me or was like, oh what's this person like? And then like after like a year we were in the sauna just chilling like two dads and he goes. He goes Can I ask you one question? And I was like, Yeah, sure, man. And he's like Jason Batem a cool guy. And that was his one question about show business. And I was like, yeah, he's an amazing guy. And he and he and he goes, He's like Fucking cool, I'm a big fan of his, so Shout out to Dr. Sean and Dr. Bob. And Heidi and Laura love you guys. Well, you know what? It sounds like JB, you might be able to get in that sauna with these guys. Yeah, listen, I love a good song more. What do you think? John, you think? J B is good in the sauna? I get super nice in the Schwitz. Um, Jonah. Yeah, nice to see you all. Thanks for uh Mm. Jonah, thank you for doing this. This is a very easy no. And you said yes. You know? You could just say, Oh, I'm down in San Diego now. We drove in today with why now will you stay overnight or will you drive back? Yeah, we're staying at a hotel. We brought both our kids and Oh that's nice. We have a new little baby who's like Uh just a Lu brand new baby and then we have a almost three year old. Oh both boys. That's so nice. So now what d what do you miss about LA when you come up, what do you like to do? You're City Walk? I grew up here. It's LA was such a cool place to grow up in the nineties because you could like Um, you know, you could go skateboard downtown or you could sneak into a movie premiere, or you could go sneak into a comedy club and see like Chris Rock or some you know, you had access to like show business stuff, but you had access to like punk and and and and skating and graffiti and all the like naughty stuff and Um there was no internet. It was just so awesome and and it was you were you you were skating, right? 'Cause your first film mid nineties which is awesome. That like you certainly were at least familiar with the skating culture. I I mean, yeah, I I still skateboard every day, right? Come on, yeah. You do, really? Okay. 'Cause my daughter Maple is we I I took her to the skate park this morning, Pedlo over there in uh in the valley. Um She's working on um Pop Shovitz, Ollie's. She just dropped in uh last weekend. Um amazing. So You're already better than I ever was. When I say a skateboard every day, now with my son, we surf skate, which is like way easier. It's like um I don't do tricks or anything anymore. I'm too old, I'm forty two. Surf skate means you're on a longboard, you just kind of cruise. Let's not go crazy. I'm not on a longboard, Jason. I'm not sure you were part of her board, but you were part of that skate culture just a little bit. I loved it. Yeah, it was amazing. Like sc anything skating, hip hop, and comedy when I was a kid, I was like anything about any of it, all I could. Did you cross paths with Spike Jones at all back in the day? I did a ton and Spike is my biggest mentor and one of my best friends. Incredible director. What a nice guy too. He's like one of the most amazing people and and I and Uh before I directed mid ninety I wrote mid nineties at his apartment. Oh really? And New York we were both