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Speaker 5: So I was watching this.
Speaker 6: New show on Netflix with John Mulaney called Everybody's Leave
Speaker 6: of John Wade. So basically it's a one hour talk
Speaker 6: show and it's kind of like they have a topic
Speaker 6: and it's more of just a it's just weird. It's
Speaker 6: a variety show. And he comes out and starts off
Speaker 6: the show last night with a ten minute story that
Speaker 6: I've condensed quite a bit here and I cannot stop
Speaker 6: laughing at this.
Speaker 5: So you need to know two things.
Speaker 6: You need to know that I think the show's probably
Speaker 6: not it's doing okay Becau's on Netflix, but and he's popular,
Speaker 6: but they're finding their way. And the best thing you
Speaker 6: could do is like, let him just do ten minutes
Speaker 6: to stand up, and that's better than anything will happen
Speaker 6: on the show. His sidekick is Richard Kind. You may
Speaker 6: know from a lot of things.
Speaker 1: You know him is George Clooney's ace homie, Drew Carey's.
Speaker 5: Show for a while too. Yeah, a lot of things.
Speaker 3: Richard.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, he's like old John mulaney Kind.
Speaker 6: This story is so good and I'm just gonna I'm
Speaker 6: just gonna play. I've convinced this as much as I could.
Speaker 3: It's so good.
Speaker 7: Let me tell you about the week I had. We
Speaker 7: had something very special plan for you this evening that
Speaker 7: we had to scrap. I'm just as mad as you are,
Speaker 7: though I have way more information. Tonight on the show,
Speaker 7: we were going to announce that Richard's pet tortoise had died,
Speaker 7: and that Richard was very sad. This was a bit
Speaker 7: don't worry, and we're gonna be like, oh my god,
Speaker 7: you know, no one should outlive their pet, and it'd
Speaker 7: be very you know, we played very serious. Then we're
Speaker 7: going to be like, how can we possibly pay tribute
Speaker 7: to this dead tortoise? Then ding dong, the doorbell would
Speaker 7: ring and it's Bone Thugs and Harmony, and they were
Speaker 7: going to say our tour bus broke down and we
Speaker 7: heard you guys are sad and set up didn't even
Speaker 7: make sense at all. But then in honor of the tortoise,
Speaker 7: they were going to perform Crossroads.
Speaker 6: All right, So you have a pretty good premise going, yeah, good,
Speaker 6: that's the plan, That's what the bit was supposed to be.
Speaker 7: And we reach out to a contact we find online
Speaker 7: for Bone Thugs and Harmony and we schedule a zoom
Speaker 7: with their manager. Three weeks ago. My writers and I
Speaker 7: get on the zoom with just the manager. Let me
Speaker 7: be clear, the members of Bone Thugs and Harmony, that
Speaker 7: is Busy Bone, Lazy Bone, Crazy Bone, Wishbone, and Flesh
Speaker 7: and Bone are not on the zoom. But the manager
Speaker 7: assures us that they're really into the idea and want
Speaker 7: to do it, and they really liked the script. We're
Speaker 7: in business. I mean, I could already picture the Emmy
Speaker 7: in my hands, you know. The manager then says, hey,
Speaker 7: you won't get all five of them. One of them
Speaker 7: is not available. I ask which one. He says Busy Bone,
Speaker 7: which makes sense that he would be the hardest schedule.
Speaker 5: Okay, that's good, pretty good setup so far, right, it
Speaker 5: was a lazy bone. He said, it was a lazybone.
Speaker 6: I might be asking, are you sure he can't do it?
Speaker 5: So four of them of the five, okay, but whatever.
Speaker 6: He also said, I had a lot of faith that
Speaker 6: the audience wouldn't know there's five.
Speaker 7: Just this past Thursday, I checked back in because they
Speaker 7: had not signed their contract yet.
Speaker 3: The manager says, in.
Speaker 7: Order to get there next week, we need twenty eight
Speaker 7: hundred dollars cash of just running around money. He says,
Speaker 7: they're in the middle of a tour and it's not
Speaker 7: so easy to just dip out.
Speaker 3: I check online.
Speaker 7: They have a show April nineteenth in Inglewood and then
Speaker 7: another one in June, also in la and.
Speaker 3: They needed the cash by Friday.
Speaker 7: The cash had to come from me, like I couldn't
Speaker 7: pay it through the show budget. So now I need
Speaker 7: to withdraw twenty eight hundred dollars okay. A few years ago,
Speaker 7: in an effort, in an effort to safeguard my sobriety,
Speaker 7: I set up a system where I cannot have at
Speaker 7: any time more than three hundred dollars cash unless I
Speaker 7: alert certain people. So on Friday, I call my wife Olivia,
Speaker 7: who is in New York, and I say, I need
Speaker 7: to get twenty eight hundred dollars cash. I need it today.
Speaker 7: And she said what is it for? And I said,
Speaker 7: it's for bone Thugs and Harmon. Well only four of them,
Speaker 7: seven hundred dollars a bone. And she's like, John, you know,
Speaker 7: I love you. If you want to tell me something,
Speaker 7: you can tell me it.
Speaker 6: That's pretty good because he's, you know, cocaine guy. Yeah,
Speaker 6: you know, been on the straight and narrow for a while. Hey,
Speaker 6: just take twenty eight hundred dollars.
Speaker 5: Out, all right, weird lie man? Just tell me so good.
Speaker 5: So here is how it kind of sort of.
Speaker 7: I get the cash out of the bank. Then I hear,
Speaker 7: forget the twenty eight hundred dollars cash, just give us
Speaker 7: all the money for the appearance upfront. I said, I
Speaker 7: can't do that. I cannot give you all of the
Speaker 7: money upfront. I can give you half. You just have
Speaker 7: to sign your contract. I don't hear. Back two days ago,
Speaker 7: on Monday, I am told that bone Thugs in Harmony
Speaker 7: booked on this show since the first week in March,
Speaker 7: are in the studio all week and cannot be on
Speaker 7: the show, but he's like, don't worry. We can get
Speaker 7: this all wrapped up and be there next week for blank,
Speaker 7: blank dollars. The original fee was going to be fifteen
Speaker 7: thousand dollars half upfront. They asked for one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 7: I said, there's no way I can make that happen.
Speaker 7: And then I said, very uncharacteristically, you have disrespected me.
Speaker 7: I brace for an apology. It turns out there isn't
Speaker 7: a sorry bone. Two hours later he writes back, we
Speaker 7: can get this taken care of for seventy five thousand dollars.
Speaker 7: I was like, hey, you screwed me over, and you
Speaker 7: screwed our show over, and I won't forget.
Speaker 3: This disrespect now.
Speaker 7: I didn't tell you all this just to air the
Speaker 7: dirty laundry of what it's like behind the scenes of
Speaker 7: a show. Okay, I'm telling you about it because I'm
Speaker 7: genuinely worried. After a little investigating, I have come to
Speaker 7: believe that the man I was talking to was not
Speaker 7: the manager of of Bone, Thugs and Harmony. In fact,
Speaker 7: several sites list a different person. Also, Busy Bone is
Speaker 7: scheduled to appear at all upcoming shows, so it appears
Speaker 7: it isn't so hard to get the fellas together. If
Speaker 7: you or if anyone you know is a member of
Speaker 7: Bone Thugs and Harmony, please call that number.
Speaker 3: Let's clear this up. Okay.
Speaker 6: The reason I like this show is because it is
Speaker 6: live and they do take calls.
Speaker 3: It's got a little radio.
Speaker 6: Podcast but also TV show vibe altogether, and the whole
Speaker 6: show you're kind of waiting to see is like, is
Speaker 6: someone gonna call? It didn't happen, but that story is
Speaker 6: how it started, and the show was very entertaining last night.
Speaker 1: So man, there was a time where Bone Thugs and
Speaker 1: Harmony were in Dallas for the I believe it was
Speaker 1: for the diff Film Festival, and there was a documentary
Speaker 1: about Bone Thugs and Harmony that was showing, and one
Speaker 1: of the organizers of the film festival was going to
Speaker 1: get him on our show. But it was real, half
Speaker 1: assed and real, Okay, we think it's gonna happen, and
Speaker 1: I think it was. I thought it was crazy Bone.
Speaker 1: Maybe it was busy Bone. I don't remember, but I
Speaker 1: did not expect it to happen. And there kept being
Speaker 1: all this conversation. It kept being like, okay, well we
Speaker 1: have to do it this time, but we're not sure.
Speaker 1: You know, his manager's not sure if he's gonna show.
Speaker 1: I mean, this sounds like a whole other premise. But
Speaker 1: he was laying it out. I was like, I remember
Speaker 1: how difficult it was to even know if they were
Speaker 1: going to be available.
Speaker 3: To call in.
Speaker 1: And finally I said, hey, it's really not that big
Speaker 1: a deal to still. I mean, I was really doing
Speaker 1: a favor to the film Festival, right, because I'm not
Speaker 1: some big bone thugs and Harmony fan. I mean, I
Speaker 1: know people that love them, but I was I was like,
Speaker 1: really just kind of doing a favor for to the
Speaker 1: film festival people. And then it got to be so
Speaker 1: convoluted and confusing and difficult. Was like, man, we're good.
Speaker 1: Thank you, though, I really appreciate you thinking about this. Man,
Speaker 1: that's an awesome story. I like, I didn't know that
Speaker 1: they paid these guys that much money to do stuff.
Speaker 1: I just every guest on First of all, I'm looking
Speaker 1: at the show, going this is badass.
Speaker 2: I do like how creative it yeak it is. I
Speaker 2: haven't watched it yet, but this is enough to entice
Speaker 2: me to do that. But if you're going to launch
Speaker 2: a new show. It's got to be different, it's got
Speaker 2: to be unique in this way. And this sounds like
Speaker 2: they're going to do that. But do you think that
Speaker 2: they in their budget everybody who appears gets like fifteen
Speaker 2: or twenty grand.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 6: And see that's something that he said at the end.
Speaker 6: I just knew we wouldn't have time, so I cut
Speaker 6: it out, he said. And to the guy who I
Speaker 6: spoke with, I would have given it to you for
Speaker 6: fifty thousand if you would have.
Speaker 5: Kept going wow.
Speaker 6: But he was like, I admit, I don't know how
Speaker 6: much things cost. This is the showrunner of this show.
Speaker 6: I admit I don't always know how much things cost.
Speaker 6: But it sounded like fifteen thousand. I believe that.
Speaker 5: I don't know how many of these have there been.
Speaker 5: Last night was episode four?
Speaker 3: Has it gotten better?
Speaker 5: Last night was wonderful?
Speaker 1: But do you think the other ones were good?
Speaker 5: Kelly Roll was Actually it wasn't Jelly Roll. It was
Speaker 5: Ady Bryant SNL being Jelly.
Speaker 3: It was so fun.
Speaker 1: The one I saw I got halfway through and bailed out.
Speaker 1: Fred Armison sat on a couch for a half hour
Speaker 1: and never said a word.
Speaker 5: It's a problem.
Speaker 6: If you have a comedians there and someone tries to
Speaker 6: take it over and they're not delivering, like last night.
Speaker 6: One to Sikes was your probably your headliner and she
Speaker 6: didn't really talk much. But usually when the person's not
Speaker 6: like you have one one person that kind of gets
Speaker 6: boxed out of the conversation.
Speaker 3: Uh huh.
Speaker 5: And they had four people there last night.
Speaker 6: But it was about squatters, which happens more in LA
Speaker 6: than it does here. But in LA or in California,
Speaker 6: if you just go claim a spot and keep it
Speaker 6: for five.
Speaker 5: Years, it's yours. Yeah, so this is pretty interesting.
Speaker 3: Wow, that is good stuff.
Speaker 5: I'll have to give that show a watch.
Speaker 3: Good stuff.
Speaker 5: Kevin coming up and accent around the sports.
Speaker 2: The Cowboys traded for a quarterback and the Mavericks came
Speaker 2: through with a big, big win late in the game.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about both things next