Bonus #148 - Live Call Show Vol. 32 w/ JP McDade (Euro Catch-up) [PATREON PREVIEW]

Patreon preview. Unlock full episode at https://www.patreon.com/stavvysworld The boys are back for a special Euro recap edition of the live call show!! With returning ace JP McDade to assist with jetlag, Stav AKA Hollywood Halkias discusses his exciting red carpet debut at the Venice Film Festival, bombing with Willem Dafoe, how his red-light curiosities were thwarted by a well-meaning fan in Amsterdam, and how Eldis took a three-week vacation on the same continent but didn’t work. Stav, JP and Eldis talk directly to Patreon members, including a woman who’s dating a guy who’s a god in bed but wants nothing serious, and a defeated man who’s wondering if he should leave his cheating wife or just turn the other way. Follow JP McDade on social media: https://twitter.com/jp_mcdade https://www.instagram.com/mcdadebaby 🎟️ See Stavvy live on the Dreamboat Tour 🛥️💕!!! https://stavvy.biz/ for tickets ‼️ Bonus episodes every week! Unlock exclusive, Patreon-only episodes at https://www.patreon.com/stavvysworld ☎️ Wanna be part of the show? Call 904-800-STAV and leave a voicemail to get advice!

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• 0:59Stavros Halkias?

  It was a crazy trip. And so we figured we'd open it up. There we are.

• 1:04Speaker 03

  I mean, the first time I saw it. I was expecting an image like this to come out. And even still, nothing could have prepared me when this hit the timeline.

• 1:16Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 1:16Speaker 03

  I was, I was filled with such joy.

• 1:19Stavros Halkias?

  Just me and a lot. Couple of, you know, Oscar winners, Oscar nominees, two of the best actors of our generation, one of the greatest filmmakers, a legend. Aiden, my boy Aiden, he was great. He was, he's in the movie. Anyway, I, yeah, Venice. So we started off with Venice, which was fucking crazy. And then.

• 1:37Speaker 03

  This is literally the film festival that like the world's elite go to. I saw a video of how they planned their like yacht schedules to like be in the Caribbean or the Mediterranean. And they want to be here for like the Formula One Grand Prix and the fucking Venice Film Festival.

• 1:54Stavros Halkias?

  It was fucking crazy.

• 1:55Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:55Stavros Halkias?

  It was fucking insane. You pull up on a little boat. You have to go, you'd have to take boats everywhere. There's no cars. It's like an ancient city. And each boat rides like 200 fucking euros. These motherfucking, these fucking Italians fucking really. They know you're fucked. They're like, okay, walk.

• 2:11Speaker 03

  We are the only game in the town. The fuck are you gonna do? Swim, bitch?

• 2:17Stavros Halkias?

  So.

• 2:17Speaker 03

  In your Armani suit.

• 2:19Stavros Halkias?

  Uh, but yeah, I was tuxed up, you know, on the fucking red carpet. Standing ovation, Venice, you know. I will say, I hadn't seen the movie. There's no more nerve wracking moment of my life than in a tuxedo. Having just been on a red carpet, everybody sucking your dick and then being like, what if I suck in this movie? I know, I'd never seen shit and I, I did fine. Uh, you know, whatever. I didn't embarrass myself.

• 2:44Speaker 03

  People typing up reviews, whole movie great except for stop, bro. Completely took me out of it.

• 2:48Stavros Halkias?

  That happens with comedians so often, where like comedians get their big shot in a movie and they're so bad. It's just, their career is just craters. You know what I mean?

• 2:58Speaker 03

  No, dude, see, just seeing the trailer and how this movie cut, like the general tone, like the, the Fargo-esque kind of tone that I was getting.

• 3:05Stavros Halkias?

  Dude, it's good.

• 3:06Speaker 03

  It's like, it's your perfect fit to fucking slide in there.

• 3:09Stavros Halkias?

  I think so, and I, I have some notes for my own performance for the future, but it was a great, I mean, this is, this is one of the best things that's ever happened. Like, it's insane to be like, oh, nice. I'm, my life is peaking. I'm experiencing the peak right now.

• 3:23Speaker 03

  Entry, this is the atrium of the peak, my friend. The way we're talking about the Cheeks Tower.

• 3:28Stavros Halkias?

  We gotta, listen, we got a couple more years, but let's be honest. It's gonna level off. It's fine. That's fine. I don't want, I mean, whatever. It doesn't matter.

• 3:36Speaker 03

  Beginning of your John Goodman arc.

• 3:39Speaker 04

  This is your brand, your Brando arc, but your Brando arc for your whole life is like the second half of his life.

• 3:44Stavros Halkias?

  It's just him and fucking, uh, the, Mr. The Island of Doctor Moreau. I know, I just skipped the part where you're hot. I just skipped the part where he's one of the sexiest metal, where he fucks every hot woman and man in Hollywood. And I just get to the point where he's losing his mind and his fat ass shit.

• 4:01Speaker 03

  Just, just put me under a sheet and shoot all my coverage for Superman by myself. I, I'm just going to make the production very difficult for everyone else involved.

• 4:11Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, I'm just, I'm a fat, I'm a fat, difficult queen.

• 4:14Speaker 03

  You send eldest to receive your Oscar and he's wearing a Native American headdress.

• 4:19Stavros Halkias?

  He's wearing a traditional Albanian gear. I changed my tune. I'm, I'm all for Albanian independence now.

• 4:27Speaker 03

  This belongs to the people of Albania.

• 4:29Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, but it was fucking crazy, man. It was, it was fucking, it was an insane, yeah.

• 4:33Speaker 03

  Clemens and Stone good hangs?

• 4:35Stavros Halkias?

  I mean, they're the, they literally are the coolest people of all time. It's fu- like,

• 4:38Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 4:39Stavros Halkias?

  That was the, I mean, I did the movie and I was nervous because I don't know these people at all, obviously.

• 4:44Speaker 03

  Sure.

• 4:45Stavros Halkias?

  And I get there and they were cool as shit and me and Clemens hung out all the time and Stone was there a little bit and she was cool, but we didn't chill that much. I got there.

• 4:54Speaker 03

  Oscar winners are just on a different schedule and like.

• 4:56Stavros Halkias?

  But she was, no, no, the, during the movie, when I got there, she couldn't have been like nicer. It was fucking awesome. And her, her husband's a fucking awesome dude. He was on SNL.

• 5:04Speaker 03

  He's a director, right?

• 5:05Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, he's on Good Neighbor. He was cool as shit. We actually, that's the, that's the reality is like, oh, there's a fucking comedy guy here.

• 5:13Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 5:13Stavros Halkias?

  We fucking hit it off. It was awesome. I mean, Clemens is the man. Aiden's awesome.

• 5:18Speaker 03

  I was, I had finally just watched Breaking Bad for the first time and like the Clemens arc later on. I, uh, this guy really is fucking unbelievable.

• 5:26Stavros Halkias?

  He's, he's truly insane.

• 5:27Speaker 03

  He's, he's not, he's underrated if anything.

• 5:29Stavros Halkias?

  But it was awesome. There were some hilarious moments of, you know, you take fucking black cars to get to boats and shit and they just kind of shuffle you in there. And I just ended up in a car with Alicia Silverstone, me, and in the middle was Willem Dafoe. And dude, I am just, I ca- I am bombing with Willem Dafoe. He's just, he does not like anything I'm saying. He's being polite. It was like, it would have been better if he was like, shut up, but he was like, like, you know, when you're bombing and first like, mm-hmm, yeah, nice. Yeah. Oh, okay. Like, just kind of keeps the conversation moving, doesn't want to make it all like, is being nice about it, but he clearly, I'm just nervous.

• 6:12Speaker 03

  Just kind of brushing it away. Like, what kind of angle were you taking conversation?

• 6:15Stavros Halkias?

  I don't know. You know, you know, I don't even, it was just like, I'm trying anything to get a laugh.

• 6:20Speaker 03

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• 6:22Stavros Halkias?

  You know, I obviously, yeah, that would have been awesome. I'm, I'm obviously complimenting him because he's incredible. I wish I had said Boondock Saints, but I didn't. I really, I was, that would have been, at least if I had said I love Boondock Saints, I would have gone down swinging instead of being like.

• 6:38Speaker 03

  The big home run. Cause you know, of all the people who approached Willem Dafoe to compliment it, the, the most annoying guys have to be the worst.

• 6:48Stavros Halkias?

  You're so right. Thank God I didn't say that. But he was treating me, you know.

• 6:51Speaker 03

  Bro, dude, I fucking love Boondock Saints, bro.

• 6:53Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, I wish.

• 6:54Speaker 03

  Have a picture with us, dude.

• 6:55Stavros Halkias?

  I wish I would've said that because I do love Boondock Saints, but.

• 6:58Speaker 03

  Wish we do.

• 6:59Stavros Halkias?

  We do. It's a great movie, but I can't, you know, just on all his fucking movies, whatever. Um, but yeah, it was just unexpected. Cause it's like, you know, everybody else I know and like I have some rapport with them and it was, it was just, and then, you know, we get in a boat again and it's like the bigger crew and I'm fine. But I'm telling, I am just bombing with Willem Dafoe, dude. Bombing.

• 7:20Speaker 03

  Cause you're, you're an outgoing guy. You're gonna chat up whoever, but do you ever get in your head as I do, like, oh, maybe I'm playing it a little bit too cool around this famous person?

• 7:28Stavros Halkias?

  Absolutely. That, that happened instantly when I didn't, like, when I just kinda falter on three exchanges with Dafoe, I'm like, I'm cooked. And now you're in your head. Now you're getting to like rumble. It's like college football, NCAA and it's like the stadium pulse is going. I'm like. I'm like the kicker about it and the whole stadium's like.

• 7:47Speaker 03

  Routes are wiggling.

• 7:48Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Here we go. Here's one last riff on third and 12. Can he get it? And I just fucking fumble the, it just slips through my fingers and I just stay silent.

• 7:59Speaker 03

  False start, offense.

• 8:04Stavros Halkias?

  Made a joke, completely went over everybody's head. And even if it connected, they probably would've given him a weak chuckle anyway.

• 8:12Stavros Halkias?

  Um, but it was still awesome. It was fucking incredible. Oh yeah. There's me and my girl, Emma.

• 8:17Speaker 03

  More candids.

• 8:19Stavros Halkias?

  I didn't see that one. Where'd you find that one, Elvis?

• 8:21Speaker 04

  Just Google, man.

• 8:22Speaker 03

  She's, I mean, I, I love her in everything she's in and like so good at comedy.

• 8:27Stavros Halkias?

  Well, the, I know, very funny and an incredible actress. I mean, the thing about these fucking red carpet guys though is like, they're fucking rude. Like I was just being like, I, I told the guy to shut the fuck up. Cause it was rude to Alicia Silverstone. I was like, dude, shut the fuck up.

• 8:42Speaker 03

  Was he a paparazzi guy?

• 8:43Stavros Halkias?

  He was trying to get her to sign something. He was like, you are so, he was like, you are so mean. You are, you are stingy.

• 8:50Speaker 03

  What a fucking pig.

• 8:52Stavros Halkias?

  It was crazy.

• 8:53Speaker 03

  Everyone was, was jumping all over, um, who is the sexy guy, the tall, tall guy with the dark hair.

• 9:00Stavros Halkias?

  Lordy.

• 9:00Speaker 03

  The lordy, because he, he told some guy on the red carpet, like, don't ever tell me what to do.

• 9:04Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 9:05Speaker 03

  But it's like, apparently those guys are super fucking rude.

• 9:08Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, yeah. I was like, dude, I was like, you need to check your attitude.

• 9:13Stavros Halkias?

  It's awesome because celebrities, celebrities have to be like nice, but I didn't have, it was fucking cool, dude. I got to just be like, shut the fuck up.

• 9:20Speaker 03

  Podcaster's privilege.

• 9:21Stavros Halkias?

  I was like, fuck you, dude. They didn't know who I was, dude. Oh, the best part was when we get out, you know, they start with like, obviously the least famous people, it's like reverse fame.

• 9:32Speaker 03

  The procession, yeah.

• 9:33Stavros Halkias?

  So I'm in a car with, or you know, not even, not even famous. It was like, you know, whatever, the like, the way you're billed, right? And like Silverstone is a great, she's really great in her part, but it's a small role, right? So she's first. I go, they, they assume I'm like security or something. They don't even, they don't even, they skip right past me and I go after Jesse, I think, or like something weird happened where there, I'm like, all right, here's my moment.

• 10:01Speaker 03

  You're like striking poses?

• 10:02Stavros Halkias?

  And then they're like, Mr. Plamas. And I was like, wait, I'm in the fucking movie. Cause it literally just looked like some fat guy with Alicia Silverstone.

• 10:10Speaker 03

  Dennis Frans, you are blocking the view of a four or five important people. Get out of the fucking way.

• 10:15Stavros Halkias?

  Oh dude, it was fucking crazy, but it's in fucking sane, dude. It's fucking crazy. Like that, that whole, that whole experience is like, I don't understand how, like, how famous people don't go insane. Cause it's like, that amount of attention and that amount of like the pictures and the like.

• 10:34Speaker 03

  Anytime you move.

• 10:36Stavros Halkias?

  It's, it was fucking wild, dude. And I, and it was just like, you know, it was cool to experience and it was literally like hallucinatory. Like when it's over, you feel like you just did a drug. Like it's just, your body's in such a weird.

• 10:49Speaker 03

  Doesn't feel real.

• 10:49Stavros Halkias?

  Your mind is like, what the fuck's going on? This is one of the most unnatural things possible. And again, they didn't know, but he knew the fuck I was. Everybody else is getting their name shouted. Everybody wants autographs. I didn't even bother to go over to the autograph section. I'm like, I don't need to be, to like, have one guy pity ask me for my autograph.

• 11:08Speaker 03

  A big huge Come Town fan.

• 11:10Stavros Halkias?

  There was one guy. There was one fat guy in a Hawaiian shirt and he tried to get me to sign an autograph, but it's like dude, we're literally leaving like I'm going on a boat and he was like, oh, you big timed me. I was like, I was like, you picked the wrong time dickhead. I was doing nothing for a half hour. You could have asked me then.

• 11:27Speaker 03

  That's why I take it with a grain of salt. Whenever anyone has a report of like a firsthand encounter of a celebrity being rude or whatever, or not signing an autograph, it's like you have no fucking idea like.

• 11:36Stavros Halkias?

  Well dude, the crazy thing is some of these motherfuckers just bring you stacks and they clearly just want you to sign.

• 11:42Speaker 03

  Here, I brought you 15 minutes of work so I can make money. What the fuck?

• 11:45Stavros Halkias?

  It's so funny. Shane was telling me that like people just tail him to get him to sign stuff. Like he can't even like, and he's like, how, and then you think like, who the fuck's buying this? But people buy it online. It's kind of crazy.

• 11:57Speaker 03

  Yeah, there are collectors, a whole market for that. It's fucking brutal.

• 12:00Stavros Halkias?

  Should we start, should we just start our own, should we just flood the markets?

• 12:03Speaker 04

  We gotta sell autographs.

• 12:04Stavros Halkias?

  Maybe we should dude. That's actually a great idea. Give out signed pictures so they're worth nothing.

• 12:10Speaker 03

  Drop them from a plane over, over LA, over all these, like, yeah. Was this your, was this the first thing you did in Europe? Or did you just like hit the ground? It's like get right into fucking mess?

• 12:20Stavros Halkias?

  Hit the ground. I had, I was insanely jet lagged. I take a weird fucked up nap. This is where I was making fun of Italians. That was killing on the red carpet. I was like, Emma, please. If I don't get this picture, I'm gonna kill myself. My whole family is gonna starve. I'm not buying a linguine.

• 12:35Speaker 04

  I'm the only person in my family who work. The entire rest of my family work a collective for three hours a week.

• 12:45Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, I was getting, I was getting big laughs mocking the Italians on the red carpet to my stat, to my, uh, you know, my coworkers.

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