uh okay uh keely cat's mom wants to know have you ever worked on a
project
at your living space or shop that has made your neighbors not like you so much
i think you'd have to ask them
when you are thank you sir when you are a maker you're one of the things you
make is noise uh i used to have a uh
that didn't work i used to have a loft down uh
in hunter's point on yosemite street in the old sir and the old uh
canning factory down there it's next to the police station that's right next
door that wasn't there when i lived there um
it was a great place it was a great i loved that place anyway
um you asked about my neighbors yeah i had
a neighbor she moved in next door she uh her name
was young and ann young moved next door and she
said what's it like here it's going to be noisy i work every
night i work all day long and i work all night long
and i was like grinding and uh yeah i remember her pounding on the wall one
night late at night like she couldn't sleep and i was like i was totally
honest with you you moved into an artist's lob space everyone here works
all night long and you know then i quiet it down um i
do sometimes wonder if my neighbor's here in the the the
workspace building because i do have some neighbors in this
building i wonder if they are sick of my music
yeah i seriously wanted that because i listen to i mean
i'm all across the map some days it's fleet with max some days it's james
taylor sometimes it's sean colvin lately it's ton of billy eilish and uh
who else ed sheeran yeah i mean this is the kind of music i find comforting as i
work i was just listening to the soundtrack to high fidelity to get
myself some good stevie wonder um but i also
don't mind listening to things on repeat right like you know i get into a bruno
mars kick because i'm working and i feel like kind of
moving around while i'm working and i'm i put that up loud and i
listen to 24 karat magic like four times in a row because it's one of the best
songs ever written um yeah
look you know i i don't mean to say that i was callous with young
about the fact that she moved into a building uh that had
that we were noisy in um because you know i did stop making noise
in the middle of the night because you know i'm human and i'm empathetic
but also like one of the reasons one of the reasons i moved into that
building uh was because i wanted to make make noise all day long
i've never burned anybody else's house down i did have a co-worker who did that
uh they uh they literally did some i can't remember which kind of oil that
if you have the oily rags it's like a furniture finishing oil and if you leave
the rags together they spontaneously combust yet he burned down a neighbor's
garage that way that is yeah i'm glad i don't have one
of those in my past uh a few years ago you hosted a show
jack means says a few years ago you hosted a show at the royal albert hall
for michael g aquino how did you guys first meet well
we met at a gathering for nerds that's what um
bill praty was one of the the creator and show runner
uh big bang theory for the first several season for
yeah i can't remember how many years big bang theory won but for roughly i think
two-thirds of its run bill pretty was the showrunner then steve molero was
both good friends of mine and bill uh has before the lockdown
would have um uh uh regular gatherings of remarkable nerds and they were
delightful amazing gatherings i saw lots of old
friends there because we have a lot of the same
friends and i met lots of new friends there
and at one of the more recent ones i went to which is now like two years ago
two and a half years ago um
i was in the bar and i heard someone say my name then turn around it was michael
jacquino and he was a huge fan
and we started talking and the thing about jaquino
is he's ludicrously talented obviously and ridiculously annoyingly
productive obviously uh he's also one of the nicest
human beings alive seriously um he's one of my favorite
people and
you know sometimes you meet people and you're like oh i wonder how this is
going to go i wonder if we're going to be friends i met him and we both knew
almost immediately like yeah yeah this is
this is real we're gonna be friends for a long time um and we talk frequently
um yeah i love that guy so that's how we met about probably
actually it's more than two and a half years ago it's probably more like four
years ago uh time is moving much quicker for me now i
don't know why billy kroger i'm stu i'm unstuck in time
and it's just whizzing past um but yeah i think i
honestly couldn't tell you how many years it's been now um
that royal albert hall thing by the way
i'm i'm a i'm a performer i've performed on stage on television and films all
sorts of different places and i have performed for crowds of
people as large the largest crowd i have
performed for 220 000 people yep at the mall
in dc at the rally to restore sanity and or fear
and jamie and i were the opening act for that
i remember a few months before that rally i got a
text a text yeah i got a text from stephen colbert
i didn't know he had my number he texts me and he says
hey i'm a fan john and i john stewart and i want you and jamie to be the
opening act of this thing and i got this text and i turned and i
showed it to my wife my wife was like really that's and i'm like yeah wow
so i start to respond she's like you're just gonna respond like he's a person
yep i responded and we went and did that 200 plus thousand people on the mall a
mile of people from the stage i sat stood on a mile of people into the
distance i walk out on that stage with jamie
teleprompter completely did not work teleprompter
shut the bed failed entirely but because i had written
what we were going to do and jamie and i had rehearsed it we're pros and we got
it done we we hit all the marks and we managed to
get it across the line that was not remotely as
intense as stepping onto the stage at the royal albert hall
and facing a completely full house jaquino's 50th birthday celebration
which was a night of incredible guest appearances from all
the directors of the movies that he's worked on colin trevorrow
gareth edwards j.j abrams uh brad bird oh my god i mean it was
like a murderer's bro some of my favorite directors in the
world and some of my favorite people in the world
uh and yet stepping out onto the stage of the royal albert hall
i made a classic mistake as a performer which is i was
i'm standing in front of a slightly unfamiliar crowd a british crowd
and i'll tell you having performed in many countries every country is slightly
different australians are strangely quiet in
crowds i don't know why new zealanders way more
noisy than i would have expected these are the things you learn
and with each foreign crowd you kind of need to even though they've come to see
the show there's always a little bit of a sort of
setting of expectations that's necessary a great comedian and comedy writer once
taught me this after i had bombed on stage he said
if you're going in front of a crowd that doesn't know you just many crowds you
need to like set your expectations and you started cursing right away and
because you're on television and you don't curse on television the
audience had trouble transitioning this is
back when i bombed at the royal albert hall
i think i needed to set expectations because i walked out i made some jokes
and my i had a friend punch up the monologue and i had this great monologue
it had some funny jokes in it and every joke i had died died
crickets and after the third joke died i drew a total blank on stage like a
complete brain wipe in a full house in the royal
albert hall and i'm like scrolling through i've been
rehearsing come on along backstage for hours
but there it is it's not in my head and that is maybe one of the only times in
my life that's ever happened like a complete blank i
i started to say well let's go and then i realized i hadn't introduced the
conductor and that's when i remembered the rest of
what i was supposed to do on stage and we got it across the line but for a
second there boop nothing was going on up here kevin b
wants to know can you give us a funny story about grant
that we haven't heard before
um grant was hilarious grant i mean you
know this grant was funny but inter-personally he was
hilarious and the thing about him was that
he was an uncommonly good impressionist and he had impressions of all of his
co-workers including me his impression of me
it was that it was drumming on tables or anything that was near you yeah that was
definitely part of his impression of me his
impression of jamie was this the jamie mustache joke
was grant i ca soon as i saw him do it i'm like i'm taking that i hope you
don't mind and he was like yeah no that's cool man
um but i want to point out something important about being a great
impressionist is one of the things that's always
surprising when someone does a great impression for you
is they often are unpacking something about the person they're doing an
impression of that you didn't notice before
something that was like totally obvious and yet you hadn't connected with it
uh and i i think that grant like great like many
people who can do that well paid a lot of attention
he was a real listener um so all that is a preamble to say
that there were there were times he could
like take a person you know and sort of do an impression of them having a whole
adventure
i'm sorry i am being circumspect around this because uh there are
yeah i i kind of don't want to tell names i don't want to like i can't
it's not going to be as funny to you and i'm not going to start unpacking all
these names of people i used to work with at ilm
suffice to say that grant could have you absolutely clutching your slides in
stitches doing impressions of your co-workers going through going
through oh yeah so when he came up with this
mustache thing this wasn't the only one this wasn't the only jamie mustache
impression grant also did jamie sabra jamie jamie surprised
just like a total miyazaki thing he would do jamie scuba diving you know
like the mustache flowing underwater like a kelp forest
thank you for that i'm not thinking about that guy
i miss him
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