I was told to keep this microphone
very close to my face,
because I think these are from the 1940s.
Yeah, that might be too close cause you're distorting.
Okay.
That sounds nice.
This is good right here?
Is this, hello?
Don't be afraid.
Okay, I don't know, it's just so, it's so shiny,
and it's, it's different, and my feet are dangling,
I feel really weird.
(laughs)
You need a little apple box.
(laughs)
Yeah. This is a little embarrassing,
we didn't check out the space beforehand.
Let me set the table for those of you listening.
We are at the Sirius headquarters in Los Angeles
and this is the mothership.
This is a beautiful building, very high-tech.
Now, Sona and I, we've done a show here before.
I don't remember your feet dangling.
(laughs)
You look like someone just threw
a ventriloquist dummy in a chair,
(laughs)
and walked away.
Slouch.
Yeah. No, no, no. It's fine, your feet can dangle.
It's fine, yeah, just be yourself.
Be relaxed.
People love you, Sona, for you.
That's okay.
Yeah. Okay.
I don't know. I'm, I'm very, I'm okay.
I'm gonna be fine. It's just that it's,
I didn't expect this, this threw me off a little.
You are, you're fine.
Well, my legs are 90% of my body.
Yeah.
And I'm over eight feet high.
Now let's talk about Matt Gourley.
Matt, this is the first time that you've been
in this Sirius studio because
Sona and I did a show here once before.
Yeah.
This is all new to you.
Yeah. This is changing my life.
Yeah.
I met someone from Pasadena.
(laughs)
Yeah. There's a woman who came to see the show today.
I asked the audience just beforehand
who came the farthest distance.
This woman very confidently raised her hand.
I mean, first of all, how would you know?
You didn't poll the rest of the audience.
I think she's right.
No, we have two people here that,
that came from Venezuela.
(laughs)
Yeah.
They took a boat all the way from Venezuela.
She's from Pasadena via the long way around the Earth.
Oh, I see, I got it.
I got it.
But she, I asked her, she's a Gourley fan.
Oh.
And she said,
and she's a regular listener to the podcast.
I kind of jokingly said, have you
looked for Matt Gourley in Pasadena?
She said she has.
Oh.
So she's had her eye out for you,
but hasn't seen you yet.
Well, vice versa.
I'm respectful.
Yes, of course.
And I have noticed a silhouette in the window at night.
Respectfully.
You're respectful.
It's a respect.
You're a respectful stalker.
You're a stalker that has principles.
You know what she is?
She's a COVID-safe stalker.
(laughs)
She follows protocol.
She always wants to keep a safe distance,
and makes sure that all the rules are followed.
Yes.
Well, it's lovely to have you here.
I'm meeting some wonderful people that are in our audience.
That's nice.
My life is constantly meeting people now that listen
to the podcast regularly.
I've often met people who are
in the process of hearing the podcast on earbuds.
That's happened to me many times now.
Today was interesting because there's someone
who came all the way here to be here.
Robert, who doesn't, has never heard the podcast before.
Oh.
And when I asked him
he made the sort of wavering hand motion.
It's the universal signal known throughout the world
as "eh".
Yeah. Have you heard a podcast before?
Yeah.
Ooh.
Oh, he said that so confidently.
Like he listens to every other podcast except this one.
Yeah. I wish Robert had said,
"I do not know what these podcasts are."
Then I'd feel better about it all,
but it turns out he loves podcasts.
Yes.
He chooses not to listen to this.
Yes. He actively chooses not to.
He skips it.
This podcast.
And he's also, he lives with his wife and-
That makes sense.
Assuming, I'm assuming you do.
(laughs)
I only say that because my wife and I,
we no longer live together.
(laughs)
Her request, we're gonna straighten it out.
I don't blame her.
No, no, no. No one does.
Yeah.
Everyone's on her side.
I think so.
Let's just say she had had enough of my banter.
She also chooses not to listen to this podcast.
She also, yeah.
Or, or to me.
No, I live in a little bouncy castle behind the house.
(laughs)
But you know, that's, it fascinates me.
That wife, an avid fan, loves the podcast.
Always listening to it.
And yet that's really telling that you're living
in close proximity to a super fan that would come to
a broadcast like this.
And yet, a taping like this.
And yet, you still refuse to listen.
And I may talk about nothing else.
I may not even bring a guest out today.
I know, you're so angry.
He's also got earplugs in right now.
Yeah.
Yeah. He's like a child.
He's got his hands over his ears,
La, la, la
And he's going, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.
I'm still stuck on you sleeping in a bouncy house.
It's very difficult.
Cause when I roll over at night,
I bounce out through the top of the castle.
Doing, doing, doing, doing, doing!
You could sleep anywhere else.
Whenever I, I can always tell that Liza, my wife
is annoyed with me because
she quietly walks out of the house
and then I hear the sound of a bouncy castle inflating.
(laughs)
(mouth blows)
She's doing it manually.
That's how much she wants you out.
She's doing it, just by herself?
She does it manually, yeah.
Oh, man.
Well, she's Amish, they don't believe in using tools.
She's Amish.
I married into an Amish family.
But they believe in bouncy houses?
Oh, they love bouncy houses, yeah.
But they do not believe, you're learning
a lot about Liza today.
Yeah.
(mouth blows)
She's got incredible lung capacity.
They're recruiting her for the, for the Olympics.
Oh, God.
Yeah.
Holding her breath underwater for hours at a time.
I'm gonna tell you that I think that we are gonna
convert Robert today by the end of this podcast.
Yeah.
He's gonna be, because already he's like,
"Oh my God.
This guy, where is all this funny information coming from?
He must have, he just thought of Amish.
How did he do that?"
(laughs)
And he's probably freaking out thinking like,
when you see a magician perform,
you're like, what's the trick?
How does he do it?
I think your neediness is driving him
further away from the podcast.
Yeah.
I think he's like, "Oh my God.
Is this what the whole podcast is?
Is him singling somebody out who doesn't listen to it?"
There are 29 super fans here.
And all you can think about is the one husband-
You zeroed in on the one.
Let me explain to the rest of you how it works.
When you're someone who's afflicted
with whatever it is I have,
and you see an audience
and everyone's happy except one person.
You only think about that one person.
Oh.
And I'll go tonight
when I'm in that bouncy castle,
trying to fall asleep,
slowly bouncing up and down,
I'll be thinking about Robert.
How come I couldn't win Robert over?
That's the way it is.
No, that's not, that's not healthy.
It's not healthy and it's not wise.
You know, Robert's got the demeanor of like,
a dad from the 1950s,
when you come over to date his daughter
and you're in high school and he's just like,
"You got a lot to prove kid."
Yeah.
No, I saw him just fish out
his car keys from his pocket.
I think, he's either gonna attack me
with them or drive away immediately.
(laughs)
I say, listen, I am thrilled
that we have a great audience here.
We're here in this incredible, it's like,
it's the Death Star.
And I mean that in the nicest way.
I was gonna say, is that good?
That's good.
Meaning it has the capability to destroy planets.
And may will, maybe it will
but also it's advanced technology here.
Which death star, the first one or the second one?
I don't know.
Oh, God.
Those movies all run together for me.
Oh, really?
You've seen one, you've seen them all, you know.
Oh, well, okay.
(laughs)
Let's, let's take it easy, now, okay.
(laughs)