-Thank you for being here.
How great does that look when you come out and see all the --
-Hot. -Yeah, hot is exactly right.
Exactly right. We got a lot to talk about.
Since I last saw you, you got engaged to the lovely Megan Fox.
Congratulations. [ Cheers and applause ]
Congratulations. -It's great.
-Also, your latest album, "Mainstream Sellout," came out
in March and went right to number one.
[ Cheers and applause ] Not too shabby, bud.
-Thank you. -Number one, not too shabby.
And on June 8th, you're going to kick off a global tour.
Global. This is your first big arena tour.
Venues sold out in a day, by the way.
Dude, you couldn't be hotter right now.
-You're stroking my ego. -Sorry about that. I apologize.
What are the shows gonna be like when you do the arena tours?
-You know how, like, shows have big LED screens
and all that stuff? -Yeah, of course, yeah.
-Yeah, we scratched all that.
We're like, "A good showman just needs a show."
-But you've played kind of every venue out there.
-Dude, I can tell you Wi-Fi codes to like bars
in Blackfoot, Idaho.
-Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, you have those Wi-Fi codes.
-I can tell you the door code to some of these venues.
-So you've seen it all. -Yeah, all of them.
Except the arenas, so I'm excited.
-Yeah. I was gonna say.
You know what? There's a quote that I'm sure you heard this.
But I just have to tell you that
Mick Jagger said something about you recently.
Can I read it to you? -Please.
-"In rock music --"
[ as Mick Jagger ] In rock music, you need energy.
[ Normal voice ] Yeah, sorry. [ Laughter ]
"You need energy,
and there have not been a lot of new rock singers around.
Now, there are a few.
You have Yungblud and Machine Gun Kelly.
That kind of post-punk vibe makes me think
there still is a bit of life to rock 'n' roll."
[ Cheers and applause ]
Mick Jagger! -Alright!
-Mick Jagger!
-Yeah. -How does that feel?
Did you -- When did you hear that he said that?
-On a bad day.
-That's a good day to hear it. -Absolutely.
It was like -- It was a day --
I'm polarizing to people for some reason,
so there was a lot of -- Like, you can just feel a lot of hate
coming at you sometimes, and I just remember, like,
I was feeling it that morning, and then I read that quote
and then I just said...
"I didn't say it."
[ Laughter ]
-"I didn't say it. Yeah, he said it, not me."
That's got to make you feel fantastic.
-Yeah, it was great. -Have you ever met Mick Jagger?
-No, but it would be hard for me
to be across from him and not do this.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
And just do it.
'Cause you want to start doing the rooster with him?
-I might. -Yeah.
[ Laughter ]
You have to kind of do it when you see him.
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Yeah, that's the way -- Yeah, that's what I'm talking about!
You got to do that.
Congrats on "Good Mourning."
It's in select theaters and on demand now.
Mourning, by the way, is spelled M-O-U-R.
-Yes. -Yeah, "Good Mourning."
It's a comedy that you wrote based on a text
that you got from a girlfriend?
-From Megan. -From Megan?
-Yes. -Oh.
-I'm a one-woman man. -Of course you are, yeah.
So, you got a text from Megan and so it just -- What happened?
You spiraled out? -Yeah, it's like -- it started
with, like, Megan's very just in nature.
She's like -- That's where her head's always at.
The text -- It was this long paragraph that started with
like, "A raven came and sat next to me in a tree."
And then, you know, it was all this stuff.
And then she got on a plane and went to Europe
and didn't take her phone and I was just like, "What is that?"
Like, "You can't leave me with this."
And it was right when I was --
when we were starting to, like, be serious.
I just like took the message to all my friends
who aren't in relationships for relationship advice,
which is, like, great, and they were like,
"That's not good, dude." [ Laughter ]
And now, after doing all this press for the movie, I'm like,
"Why did I write --" Like, instead of just waiting
to talk about it, I like, got manic and wrote a whole movie
and got all this cast involved and spent the studio's money.
And I'm just like, "I should have just
waited a week and talked." -Yeah, and talked to her, yeah.
But you turned out with a great product.
When you do these movies, it's a big deal.
You also play it in front of audiences, like test audiences.
And you were telling me there's a couple things that got cut
from this movie that were high-budget things.
Big-budget stuff. I mean, like -- Yeah.
What were they, like, CGI?
-No, no. We were like, "Let's just go real."
So, we had a $50,000 lobster --
[ Laughs ]
We spent $50,000 between this lobster and an electric eel.
-You spent $50,000 on this lobster puppet?
[ Laughter ]
-Is there a picture of the eel?
But it might have gone to the LED lights that are put in.
None of which, either of these make an appearance in the movie.
They all got cut because we, like, screened it
and they had like a 15-minute section
'cause we thought it was so funny.
We were like, "Oh, this lobster section is going to crush."
And it did the opposite.
Everyone left with -- The only note pretty much for the whole
screening was like, "Great, laughed my ass off.
Why was there this lobster scene that was 15 minutes?
Like, what -- I hated it."
-Where is the puppet now? -We don't know.
[ Laughter ] You know what?
We probably need our money back. [ Laughter ]
I feel like I've seen five of these backstage in your show.
-Yeah, we make them.
We don't have $50,000 lobster puppets.
-It was for puppeteer costs too.
-Wowzers!
-We were super meticulous like, "We need its claws to move.
We need its mouth to move." We gave it abs.
[ Laughter ]
-Abs. I mean -- Well, it's getting its play tonight.
-There we go. That's almost kind of worth it.
-Your character is trying to get an audition
for the role of Batman in this movie.
-Yeah. -Did you know that "The Batman"
was coming out when you were writing this?
-No. It was just, like, very serendipitous.
It just worked out like that.
It's a crazy story, because Batman -- Batman and the entity
just kept popping up because, you know, "Batman" came out
a month before this movie came out.
And we were like, "Oh, my God, that's great. This is crazy."
And then also a month ago I was having my birthday party,
and you know, there was this one Easter where I was like,
"Hey, Pete, you got to come.
You know, let's go to my friend's house for Easter."
He pulled up and he had 40s and he was like,
"Let's do this thing."
And we went and it was Sandra Bullock's house.
We walked in. It was Jen Aniston and all these, like --
And Pete was like, "Why would you do this to me?
We look so stupid.
We have 40 ounces and we're at Sandra Bullock's.
Why didn't you tell me this is where we were going?"
-America's sweetheart.
-So, it's like my birthday last month. And he texts me.
He's like, "Hey, I'm about to come to your party.
Can I bring a plus-one?" I was like, "Yeah, of course."
And he pulls up and his plus-one is Robert Pattinson.
And I was like, "You brought Batman?"
[ Laughter ]
-Surprise! -Yeah, it's so funny.
Everyone just kept coming up
like, "Dude, is Batman at your birthday party?
It's funny when you become Batman because no one
refers to you anymore as your actual name. You're just Batman.
-Yeah, for the rest of your life, you're Batman.
-You're Batman. -Yeah.
Did you know Robert before?
-Yeah, again, always just out, seeing him and stuff like that.
But this was a -- it's just -- But now he's Batman.
So I'm just like, "What up, dude?
I know we know each other, but you're kind of Batman now."
-Now you're Batman, yeah.
Can we set up the film for anyone that wants to
know more about the film? -No.
I'm just kidding. No one go see it.
-It's a comedy. It's a comedy. -It's a comedy, yes.
It kind of just goes back to the classic days of, like, gag humor
and like, just, you know, $50,000 lobster puppets
that we thought were going to crush.
The cast is oddly great.
The budget was this big and the cast is this big.
-Snoop Dogg is the voice of a talking joint.
-Yes. -Yeah.
[ Laughter ]
Not too shabby. I mean, you kind of hit a home run there.
[ Applause ] Hit a home run right there.
That's all you need. That's all you need to really say.
I want to show a clip.
Here's Colson Baker in "Good Mourning."
Take a look at this.
-Leo?
What the [bleep] did you just do?
-London, what is this dust?
-That's not dust. That's people, man.
-Homey, did you just bring the dead grandma vase?
-Oh!
-We can fix this.
I think that was actually the cousin that no one really liked.
So...we got to pick him up.
-Whoa, I ain't [bleep] human remains, man.
-Dude, Leo.
You did it.
-It's all good. It's all good.
At least it was just one of 'em.
I mean, it doesn't even look that bad, guys.
[ Applause ]
-That's exactly right.
Colson Baker, a.k.a. Machine Gun Kelly, everybody.
"Good Mourning" is in select theaters and on demand now.
Catch him on tour this summer.