#194 - Dominic Sessa

Dominic Sessa joins the pod for a special culinary themed ep to discuss his new movie TONY (A24, in theaters nationwide this Friday, August 21), calculate how much lobster Stav ate on set, talk about working with director Matt Johnson, lament how much cooler it is to be a musician than an actor, promise to hire Stav as his coach if he’s ever cast in a fat role, recount his prep school schemes, and much more. Dominic and Stav help callers including a guy whose girlfriend is so far out of his league that strangers comment on it in public, and a guy wondering if he should tell his girlfriend that him and one of his best bros used to fool around. See Dominic Sessa’s new movie TONY (A24) in theaters nationwide this Friday, August 21! Follow Dominic Sessa on social media: https://www.instagram.com/dominic.sessa/ Thanks to our sponsors! Visible - https://www.visible.com/ SWITCH NOW! ☎️ Want to be a part of the show? Call 904-800-STAV and leave a voicemail to get advice! 🎟️ 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

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• 0:00Stavros Halkias?

  Folks, we have an incredible episode with my boy Dominic Sessa, star of Tony, which is out this Friday nationwide. Go see it. And also, go see Tires in the comfort of your own home. It's on Netflix. It came out last week. So proud of this season. So, so funny. Shane McKeever, Steve Gerben, we have Foley, so many friends of the podcast, Dan Soder, my beautiful wife, Steph Tolev, so many people that have done this podcast, some of the funniest people on earth. We made a really, really, really great season of television. I can't wait for you to see it. Please check it out. Check out Tony. And then, of course,

• 0:41Stavros Halkias?

  Uncle Stav comes out September 8th in a couple of weeks here. So, it's busy here at Stavvy Baby Enterprises, and we hope you will like all the stuff we worked really, really hard on to put out this year. And for right now, enjoy the podcast with my pal and yours, Dominic Sessa. Papa! Welcome, everybody, to Stavvy's World. 904-800-Stav. Call the Stavvy's World hotline. Presented by Visible. We'll solve all your problems. And today, I'm very happy, I don't know if you can tell, it's a bit of a themed episode. We have my boy Dominic Sessa on the couch. Dom, what's up, baby?

• 1:18Speaker 01

  Hi, look at this camera.

• 1:20Stavros Halkias?

  Dude, look wherever you are, dude. There's no cameras here. It's just us talking. It's exactly like our regular conversations.

• 1:27Speaker 01

  I want to speak to the people.

• 1:28Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah. No, we actually cannot have our regular conversations on camera. We will be toning it down just a little bit, folks. But, we have here the two, I think arguably the two most important parts of Tony, the movie. We are doing a podcast. Tony in theaters in New York and LA right now, and I think next week it opens live when this comes out.

• 1:55Speaker 01

  Yeah. Is that right?

• 1:57Stavros Halkias?

  It is, when it comes out. We got it. Don't worry, guys.

• 2:00Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 2:02Stavros Halkias?

  You've been fucking doing movies. You don't know that sometimes we record things ahead of time, you dumbass. We're not live going on YouTube right now. You've been doing too much press. Your brain is fried. You're like, huh? But it's not even out yet.

• 2:19Speaker 01

  It is crazy that the movie hasn't even come out.

• 2:22Stavros Halkias?

  It is nuts, dude. Honestly, I will, I'll suck us off a little bit to start. The movie's awesome. And I know you're not supposed to say that when you're in the movie. You're not supposed to be like, oh, it was fucking good as hell. But it rocks, guys. You're gonna like it. I saw it with my mom, dude. I told you that.

• 2:37Speaker 01

  My mom watched it. She went to the premiere.

• 2:40Stavros Halkias?

  That's right. I met your mom. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Great lady. Great vibes, honestly.

• 2:44Speaker 01

  I need to meet your mom now.

• 2:46Stavros Halkias?

  Dude, absolutely. We should, yeah. We should set up mom playdates. I legit think they would get along. I caught your mom's vibe. I was like, whoa, yes, she's awesome. Your sister was there. It was a family affair.

• 2:57Speaker 01

  Yeah, it was awesome. No, we had a lot of fun making the movie.

• 2:59Stavros Halkias?

  The movie was, yeah. That's the thing.

• 3:01Speaker 01

  Thank you that you can see that.

• 3:02Stavros Halkias?

  It is, it is the only time, like, I feel like, look, obviously, I don't know shit about, I've just started acting. You're a, you're a little baby who's only done a couple movies. So, we don't really have, we don't have like the experience for this shit. But I feel like every time I see somebody promote a movie, they're like, we're just, we were all friends, and it was so fun. And you know, half the time, they hated each other. You know what I mean? That they can't even be in the same room.

• 3:26Speaker 01

  Yeah, barely talk to each other.

• 3:27Stavros Halkias?

  Barely. But we, our movie had a problem because we would sometimes play Mario Kart too long, when we were supposed to go back and shoot.

• 3:34Speaker 01

  We were late to set.

• 3:36Stavros Halkias?

  We were late to set because we were across the street in a different house, hanging out.

• 3:40Speaker 01

  So, when did you got there, when we were all like in the restaurant?

• 3:43Stavros Halkias?

  Exactly.

• 3:44Speaker 01

  So, we were, we were basically staying in a, we all shared a green room. It was the house across the street.

• 3:50Stavros Halkias?

  Yes.

• 3:51Speaker 01

  And Reese, my good friend Reese.

• 3:52Stavros Halkias?

  Shout out to Reese.

• 3:53Speaker 01

  Who was with us for the entirety of.

• 3:56Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah. I know. Reese gives a star turn, folks. You'll see him. Look at, when you watch the movie, look out for the man with the best hair.

• 4:04Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 4:05Stavros Halkias?

  That's Reese. That's the only clue we're gonna give you. Look at, when you see a man, you're like, why the fuck does his hair look like that? That's Reese.

• 4:13Speaker 01

  Dead giveaway. Yeah.

• 4:16Stavros Halkias?

  But he's awesome. He's the man. And he, yeah.

• 4:18Speaker 01

  He, you sent him on a, on a very important mission to get a TV.

• 4:23Stavros Halkias?

  Incredibly important mission. And that was the day we were shooting the clam bake, and it was hot as fuck.

• 4:27Speaker 01

  It really boosted the morale.

• 4:28Stavros Halkias?

  It was, when we got there, I was like, this, it was hot as fuck. Remember, it's like, fuck, the hottest day. There's no sun. It was my first day shooting. We hadn't done any of the kitchen stuff yet. I was like, damn, this, everybody was kind of pissed, it felt like.

• 4:41Speaker 01

  What was the, did they give you like any, because you were obviously making all these lobster rolls. Did you have any sort of instruction?

• 4:49Stavros Halkias?

  I had, I had two, I had one day of training.

• 4:52Speaker 01

  Yeah. How was that?

• 4:53Stavros Halkias?

  With our food coordinator. She was awesome. She was the best. And she would, she would also make us, I ate so much lobster, and then sometimes you would just be like, hey, can you make me some more lobster for lunch? She, we could sneak over to her. Leo, Leo was getting buttered lobster every day for lunch.

• 5:08Speaker 01

  Yeah, they were hooking it up.

• 5:09Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, they really were. It was, I will say, be like, being fat as hell in one of my first big movies being a Bourdain movie, I'm so spoiled. Because now, I just did a movie where it's like about country music. I'm like, this fucking sucks. Well, no, the movie's awesome. But I was like, where are the lobster? Where's the oysters? There's no all you can eat. There's no all you can eat. I mean, look, it was cool. I got to meet some fucking country music stars. But I would, no disrespect to them.

• 5:38Speaker 01

  Yeah. I mean, people ask me a lot, like, what was the best eating I did, like, in Cape Cod? And I would say, on set.

• 5:47Stavros Halkias?

  Totally.

• 5:48Speaker 01

  It's just like, I mean, we had fresh lobster, fresh oysters, fresh fish every fucking day. It was amazing.

• 5:54Stavros Halkias?

  And everyone was so, like, you can't have shitty food on a Bourdain movie. If you, if our food looked like shit, that would have been, like, we could have been bad at acting.

• 6:04Speaker 01

  It's the one thing we needed.

• 6:05Stavros Halkias?

  The one thing, yeah, yeah, yeah. We could have blown it. But like, if the food looks like shit, like, don't do the movie. So, they were, they really cared about that. And we were.

• 6:14Speaker 01

  They spent more money on the food, probably.

• 6:15Stavros Halkias?

  Dude, I've said this, I've said this 100 times. They definitely spent more money on lobster I consumed than what they paid me. It's not even close. I was straight up, remember how many lobsters I was taking down?

• 6:26Speaker 01

  I mean, what does a lobster go for? Like, a pound of lobster?

• 6:30Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah. Elders, do a little fucking, do a little market research, dude.

• 6:33Speaker 01

  Yeah, let's do some math.

• 6:34Stavros Halkias?

  Come on, man. Yeah, let's actually do some math. We were in the kitchen, what, for like two weeks we were shooting in there?

• 6:39Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, two weeks.

• 6:40Stavros Halkias?

  Okay, two weeks, so 10 days of shooting.

• 6:42Speaker 01

  Yeah, 10 days total.

• 6:43Stavros Halkias?

  Let's say I averaged six lobsters a day, which actually is low.

• 6:47Speaker 01

  Yeah, that's, that's a generous average.

• 6:49Stavros Halkias?

  That's really conservative. That's insanely conservative.

• 6:53Speaker 02

  We're, we're looking at a retail in a range of 14 to 25 per pound at local, local fish market.

• 6:59Stavros Halkias?

  So, let's, how much, how much is a, what, one lobster's what, half a pound, would you say? A big ass lobster?

• 7:05Speaker 01

  I mean, maybe we should do it by the lobster roll.

• 7:08Stavros Halkias?

  Right, right. Ooh, great point. What does a market price lobster roll go for, Elders? And quick, hurry up!

• 7:14Speaker 01

  This is live.

• 7:19Stavros Halkias?

  This is live, dude.

• 7:20Speaker 02

  25 to 40 is.

• 7:21Stavros Halkias?

  Wow. Okay, so, let's say I had eight lobster rolls a day, which feels right, which honestly legitimately does not feel, because also, it was also funny, because every time between takes, you're like, all right, reset. And I was like, uh, we're gonna need more.

• 7:36Speaker 01

  We need more, more.

• 7:37Stavros Halkias?

  I ate the lobster roll I just made.

• 7:39Speaker 01

  So, let's say they're 30 bucks, 8, $240 a day.

• 7:44Stavros Halkias?

  A 240 a day? That's honestly, yeah. And that's so conservative.

• 7:50Speaker 01

  Yeah, I mean.

• 7:51Stavros Halkias?

  Three grand at least I took down on lobster rolls.

• 7:54Speaker 01

  You got paid $300.

• 7:55Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah. Yeah, I had to sleep at the foot of Matt's bed. They didn't put me up. It was funny, though, because I was like, did you, did you get to have some time? Like, because we, we shot actually in P-Town, Cape Cod. Did you get any time to like, hit the beach, do any of that shit? Did you get any tours?

• 8:12Speaker 01

  A little bit, yeah. Well, the first night that me, Leo, and Amelia were there, we were all staying in the same hotel.

• 8:20Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, that's sick.

• 8:21Speaker 01

  And Leo, you know, he's just, he's like, he's a, he's a social butterfly.

• 8:26Stavros Halkias?

  He's the man, yeah, yeah.

• 8:27Speaker 01

  Yeah, he's a people person. So, he had made friends. Just walking down the street within the first two hours with like all of these restaurant owners and bar owners.

• 8:36Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 8:36Speaker 01

  And he was like taking us out the first first night and and then Matt joined us. And we kind of, yeah, I guess showcased ourselves.

• 8:46Stavros Halkias?

  Beautiful.

• 8:47Speaker 01

  To the town.

• 8:47Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, it's true, because people are probably pumped you're there.

• 8:49Speaker 01

  They were so happy we were there. And we were meeting them and they were excited. They were so stoked about the movie.

• 8:55Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah. Dude, we gotta.

• 8:58Speaker 01

  It was awesome to like rap and then just wa- run into the ocean.

• 9:01Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 9:02Speaker 01

  It was super hot. I mean, we were there.

• 9:04Stavros Halkias?

  And you and what sucked is we all rapped and then you had one day where it was just you, right?

• 9:10Speaker 01

  Dude, I.

• 9:11Stavros Halkias?

  That was so.

• 9:11Speaker 01

  I had so many days.

• 9:13Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 9:13Speaker 01

  One before you got there too, where I was just like, I'm all by myself.

• 9:18Stavros Halkias?

  Totally. You're right. Cause this movie, you're it's you. I mean, you're in every part of the movie. And so there must have been times where they're just shooting your face close as fuck for a whole day with nobody around.

• 9:28Speaker 01

  Matt talking to me.

• 9:29Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 9:30Speaker 01

  No, it was not like, thank God we had Matt.

• 9:33Stavros Halkias?

  Truly.

• 9:34Speaker 01

  Is like, I don't know. He was he was just with us all the time.

• 9:37Stavros Halkias?

  A hundred percent. Kept the morale going.

• 9:39Speaker 01

  Dude.

• 9:39Stavros Halkias?

  He's fun. He's he's like, the way he directs is so sick, cause it's like, uh, he just explains everything so well. And he just, every note he gives you, he directly, it's for a reason that he explains immediately.

• 9:54Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 9:54Stavros Halkias?

  Like, you know exactly what what you're trying to achieve.

• 9:57Speaker 01

  Right.

• 9:57Stavros Halkias?

  And there's no like guessing. I don't know. I don't know if you've ever worked with, I mean, I haven't worked with that many motherfuckers, but it's like, I do feel like some directors.

• 10:03Speaker 01

  Of course.

• 10:04Stavros Halkias?

  Kind of, they love being like the little king of their.

• 10:07Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 10:08Stavros Halkias?

  You know?

• 10:08Speaker 01

  And just like, yeah, they wanna sound like they have some sort of like breakthrough idea.

• 10:13Stavros Halkias?

  Right.

• 10:13Speaker 01

  And it holds everything up because they're trying to like be smart.

• 10:16Stavros Halkias?

  Yes, yes, totally, totally.

• 10:17Speaker 01

  But with Matt, like, even if even if he doesn't know you that well, or like, you're just there for the day.

• 10:24Stavros Halkias?

  Totally.

• 10:24Speaker 01

  He you feel like he's your friend.

• 10:26Stavros Halkias?

  A hundred percent.

• 10:27Speaker 01

  You don't feel nervous. I don't know. I don't know. It's like, I never felt nervous like acting in front of him.

• 10:33Stavros Halkias?

  Totally. He and great and he, the best note he gave was like, cause he asks you to do so much dumb bullshit, like that feels embarrassing. You know what I mean? Like, in the moment, like, remember that day where I just had to roast you?

• 10:43Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 10:44Stavros Halkias?

  I had just met you and I was like, I don't know. I would honestly, dude, I was like, I was hoping you were gonna be a piece of shit. I was like, this little asshole, this guy, this guy gets, the first movie he makes is awesome. He's with Giamatti being the man. What the, out of prep school? Fuck this kid. And then he's handsome, he gets every, and then I met you, I was like, fuck, he's awesome. I don't wanna make fun of him. And then immediately Matt's like, all right, no script, uh, go ahead and just roast Dom for twenty minutes.

• 11:11Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 11:11Stavros Halkias?

  Silent, silent. Nobody's allowed to laugh, cause it's a movie. It doesn't make sense if you hear the crew laughing. It's all I got was Matt like snickering with his little iPad.

• 11:21Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 11:21Stavros Halkias?

  He would lay, all those kitchen scenes for everybody listening, Matt was li- literally laying on the ground, hiding under. Under a steel, like, in every scene that we're in the kitchen, Matt is like laying tummy time, giving himself tummy time, looking at his iPad. And directing us. And all I had, all I got was Matt occasionally, if I had a really good one, he would be like.

• 11:43Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 11:45Stavros Halkias?

  But but but because before that, he was like, uh, he was like, um, look, this is gonna feel dumb as hell, but every, I will never make you look. I will do my best to make you look like a genius. Like, I'm never gonna hang you out to dry.

• 11:58Speaker 01

  And he did.

• 11:58Stavros Halkias?

  And he never did, dude. He never did.

• 12:00Speaker 01

  He, he's like, I feel like he casts people that he knows, uh, uh, already going into it. Like, he doesn't really have to work too hard.

• 12:10Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 12:10Speaker 01

  Get what he needs out of them, you know?

• 12:12Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, and I wonder if it's because like all that Nirvana, the band, the show shit, he basically created, he basically would cast insane people off the street.

• 12:20Speaker 01

  Right.

• 12:20Stavros Halkias?

  To make the show. And he would just, I I bet that motherfuckers like.

• 12:25Speaker 01

  How did you even meet him in the first place?

• 12:27Stavros Halkias?

  We just met because he he was like, there was, he was working on a different project. Like, I liked, I was a fan of his. I guess he was a fan of mine. And and we just met about something like a movie that I don't know if it's still in development or if like whatever. And it sounded cool. And more more than that, I was like, I really like this. Like, I was like, this guy's awesome. And I had seen, I had, me and Elders, we we live. I moved to, we moved, we moved in together in a story like twelve years ago at this point.

• 12:54Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 12:55Stavros Halkias?

  And that was the height of Vice, right?

• 12:57Speaker 01

  Right, right.

• 12:57Stavros Halkias?

  And look, you're, this is our generational difference. When I was your age, it was like, the millennial Vice, that was the coolest. We were like, dude, Vice is awesome. It's not news like for old people. Sometimes the guys that do news, they smoke weed, you know? And I remember being like, whoa, dude.

• 13:14Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 13:14Stavros Halkias?

  And and then and then Vice, it was, you could tell when the when the fucking channel was failing, cause then every other show was like.

• 13:20Speaker 01

  What happened to Vice?

• 13:21Stavros Halkias?

  Dude, I I don't exactly, actually, isn't Matt literally making a movie about Vice right now?

• 13:26Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 13:29Stavros Halkias?

  Fuck, fuck him. We're plugging his next project. Fuck that movie, Tony.

• 13:33Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 13:33Stavros Halkias?

  That's the only one. We're not in Matt's next movie, so don't watch that one. Watch only the ones we're in.

• 13:39Speaker 01

  Right.

• 13:39Stavros Halkias?

  But it was like that that channel started falling apart, cause every other show was just green screen or about smoking weed. Smoking weed at the library, like smoking weed, smoking weed and going shopping with two chains. It's like, all right, guys. This this isn't fucking.

• 13:56Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 13:56Stavros Halkias?

  This isn't real entertainment.

• 13:57Speaker 01

  Yeah, I guess I remember like the sort of, yeah, the end of that, when it was all of the shit was on YouTube.

• 14:03Stavros Halkias?

  Totally.

• 14:03Speaker 01

  And it was, yeah, it was exactly that sort of thing.

• 14:05Stavros Halkias?

  And look, the best, I loved Action Bronson, the fuck that's delicious was so awesome. And like, literally, I feel like Action Bronson does. Everything he's done, I'm like, fuck dude, that's what I wanted to do.

• 14:17Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 14:17Stavros Halkias?

  But he just got to it seven years earlier, you know? And he's just me, but cooler. Like, musician is so much cooler than comedian. Comedian's pathetic. Rapper.

• 14:27Speaker 01

  Dude, yeah, I always think about that, like, being a musician, like being a rock star. I don't know, like, I mean.

• 14:34Stavros Halkias?

  Coolest shit in the world.

• 14:35Speaker 01

  I know. Like making, uh.

• 14:39Stavros Halkias?

  Even act.

• 14:39Speaker 01

  Like, acting is fun.

• 14:41Stavros Halkias?

  But it's embarrassing.

• 14:42Speaker 01

  Like.

• 14:43Stavros Halkias?

  With theater kids.

• 14:44Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.

• 14:45Stavros Halkias?

  It's like, it's like, we literally, different people write stuff.

• 14:49Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 14:49Stavros Halkias?

  And we're like, all right, I gotta say these words.

• 14:51Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 14:52Stavros Halkias?

  Good.

• 14:53Speaker 01

  I can pretend to be cool.

• 14:55Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, exactly. Your job for this movie is to pretend to be the coolest guy ever.

• 15:01Speaker 01

  That's like, that's like a challenge.

• 15:03Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The job is so like, and then you, Matt's the best director, but most of the time it's like, did I do a good job, daddy? You want me to do it again, sir? It's so, it's literally demeaning as fuck.

• 15:19Speaker 01

  You're afraid, yeah.

• 15:20Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, it's.

• 15:21Speaker 01

  You wanna, you're afraid to ask for to try it again.

• 15:23Stavros Halkias?

  Totally. Yeah, yeah, exactly. You don't wanna ask for anything.

• 15:26Speaker 01

  But, yeah. Yeah, why not just cast a a real life cool person?

• 15:30Stavros Halkias?

  Totally.

• 15:31Speaker 01

  Hire this person whose job it is to pretend to be cool.

• 15:34Stavros Halkias?

  Cause they would be like, they would be, oh, fuck, I think I cut myself on the fucking, this is a real knife, folks. I barely stopped before it broke. Oh, yeah, a little blood here.

• 15:42Speaker 02

  We don't have first aid in the office.

• 15:44Stavros Halkias?

  We do have first aid, fucking idiot. No thanks to you. You're supposed to be managing everything. God forbid, you fucking, you don't even know I bought one, dumbass.

• 15:52Speaker 02

  All right, it's good we have one then.

• 15:56Stavros Halkias?

  Um, fuck, what were we talking about before I cut myself on the knife? It was something I had a point to make too. Fuck, Eldis, did you, were you paying attention, producer of the podcast?

• 16:11Stavros Halkias?

  No, no, guess. Yeah, just give us something to go out. Now.

• 16:14Speaker 02

  Coolest guy.

• 16:15Stavros Halkias?

  Yes, okay.

• 16:16Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 16:17Stavros Halkias?

  You actually helped me. No thanks to yourself, but, um, uh, cause of an actual cool person, they'd be like, okay. They would, they would show up the first day.

• 16:26Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 16:26Stavros Halkias?

  And they would have, maybe they would have a good time. And then the next day, they'd be like, all right, see you at seven AM. And he'd be like, no. And then he'd smoke cigarettes, do drugs and like.

• 16:34Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 16:35Stavros Halkias?

  That's why you have to get active. You can't get actual cool people.

• 16:39Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 16:39Stavros Halkias?

  Except sometimes, I mean, the Sapphies do a good job about it, the the street casting, Jen Vendetti, who's cast all their stuff, they do an awesome job, but you gotta have a mix.

• 16:47Speaker 01

  Yeah, like being a rock star though, it's like.

• 16:50Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, my God.

• 16:51Speaker 01

  It seems so awesome.

• 16:51Stavros Halkias?

  Can you, do you have any musical talent whatsoever?

• 16:54Speaker 01

  No.

• 16:54Stavros Halkias?

  No.

• 16:54Speaker 01

  But I feel like, I don't know.

• 16:56Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 16:57Speaker 01

  Today, you can just kind of pretend.

• 16:58Stavros Halkias?

  Totally. You could.

• 17:00Speaker 01

  Should I start a, uh, uh, my, uh, write an album?

• 17:04Stavros Halkias?

  That would be awesome. That would be, no, you can't now, cause you're already an actor.

• 17:07Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 17:07Stavros Halkias?

  If you weren't.

• 17:08Speaker 01

  Wait for this to start like going sour.

• 17:10Stavros Halkias?

  No, no, cause that's pathetic.

• 17:13Stavros Halkias?

  When a failed actor is like, check out my band.

• 17:18Stavros Halkias?

  It's like, yeah, it's like, check out the fucking music, like, uh, and they all, I mean, I mean, yeah, when when they're like, don't ask me about movies. Ask me about my band. It's like, all right, man.

• 17:27Speaker 01

  Right.

• 17:27Stavros Halkias?

  All right. I remember Bruce Willis had a band for a while.

• 17:30Speaker 01

  Nobody cares about your fucking band.

• 17:32Stavros Halkias?

  We don't wanna see you play harmonica, Bruce. We wanna see you.

• 17:35Speaker 01

  Tell us about Die Hard.

• 17:38Stavros Halkias?

  Shoot some guys and throw them off a roof.

• 17:42Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, dude, sorry, you missed your mark, but you could have, honestly, if it wasn't for acting, man, you could have been an industry plant for sure.

• 17:48Speaker 01

  What does that, what does that mean?

• 17:49Stavros Halkias?

  It just means like they pick, somebody picks someone and makes them a star. Like.

• 17:54Speaker 01

  Like, what's, what, somebody like who, like, uh?

• 17:57Stavros Halkias?

  Like, they see like, like an executive, like, uh, like, like, it doesn't happen so much anymore. I mean, I guess it still happens. Now they have to hide it.

• 18:05Speaker 01

  But like, wait, like, what would they, what would they choose you based on?

• 18:08Stavros Halkias?

  Just being a piece of ass.

• 18:10Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 18:10Stavros Halkias?

  So they would see, they would see you, they would put you in a leather jacket and sunglasses.

• 18:14Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 18:15Stavros Halkias?

  And they'd be like, just lip sync. Or they'd give you a guitar and be like, don't worry, the guy backstage is actually playing it. You know what I mean? Or they'd, or they'd let you like have the, just the easiest drumming of all. They'd figure something out.

• 18:25Speaker 01

  Right, right.

• 18:25Stavros Halkias?

  You know, they, you could have been plucked. If they hadn't gotten you for, uh, for holdovers, they could have gotten you for, for, for, uh, for being a, uh, a fake musician.

• 18:34Speaker 01

  Singer.

• 18:35Stavros Halkias?

  Dude, I know, I I would always be like, damn dude, being a fucking singer would be so sick. Playing guitar or rapping.

• 18:41Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 18:42Stavros Halkias?

  That's like.

• 18:43Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 18:45Stavros Halkias?

  And that's a real problem.

• 18:46Speaker 01

  Pro athlete.

• 18:46Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, dude, that's.

• 18:47Speaker 01

  That's peak.

• 18:48Stavros Halkias?

  That's the, but but that's the opposite of like, you basically put every awesome moment of your life into like ten years.

• 18:55Speaker 01

  Right.

• 18:56Stavros Halkias?

  You know, cause like, twenty, twenty-two to like thirty-four as a pro athlete.

• 19:01Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 19:01Stavros Halkias?

  Is the best shit in the world.

• 19:02Speaker 01

  I can do this for a while.

• 19:03Stavros Halkias?

  Exactly, yeah. You'll, you could do this for the rest of your fucking life, dude.

• 19:06Speaker 01

  Right.

• 19:07Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, have you ever thought, yeah, I mean, you're still, you're still in like young fucking ingenue territory, but you could.

• 19:13Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 19:13Stavros Halkias?

  Would you ever, what's the, do you, you ever wanna be a body transformation guy, dude? You wanna get, you wanna get fat as shit for a role?

• 19:19Speaker 01

  Yeah, I would. That would be fun.

• 19:22Stavros Halkias?

  Hire me as your consultant.

• 19:26Stavros Halkias?

  If you have to put on forty pounds per roll and I don't immediately get a phone call, lose my number, bro.

• 19:32Speaker 01

  I have Marvel paying.

• 19:35Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, they cast you as like the blob.

• 19:37Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're paying you to take me out to fucking eat.

• 19:42Stavros Halkias?

  I would be so good at that job. Honestly, if any studio out there wants me to fatten up a star.

• 19:48Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 19:49Stavros Halkias?

  Go to me, I'll do it cheap. And listen, how about we put me in the movie, I'll do it for free. How about that? Fuck, yeah, exactly.

• 19:56Speaker 01

  Yeah, high calories, low quantity.

• 19:58Stavros Halkias?

  I wake you up in the middle of the night, just put a milkshake in your mouth. I just fuck it. I put a beer bong in your mouth. I'm like, I'm just putting cookies and cream.

• 20:07Speaker 01

  You just got a button with tubes.

• 20:11Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, in the movie, Banderas wakes you up with fucking water. I just wake you up with pudding. I'm like,

• 20:17Stavros Halkias?

  eat your way through it, pal. Each morning starts with two thousand calories of tapioca pudding.

• 20:23Speaker 01

  Chocolate.

• 20:24Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, pure chocolate. I do think it would be hard to get you to gain weight though, because you fucking, you're like, uh, your diet is very like, you eat fucking, you know, noodles, you eat tendies. I would have to do liquid calories for you.

• 20:38Speaker 01

  Yeah, what would that consist of?

• 20:41Stavros Halkias?

  I mean, honestly, honestly, yeah, milkshakes, sneak a little olive oil in, you know, sneak a little olive oil in like a cocktail.

• 20:48Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 20:49Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, you know what? Getting fucked up would be the secret.

• 20:52Speaker 01

  Yeah, drink a lot of alcohol.

• 20:53Stavros Halkias?

  Drink a lot of booze. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That is true. That is true. We'll figure it out. We can, we can figure it out. This episode is brought to you by Visible. The smartest upgrade this season isn't a new phone, it's a better wireless plan. Switch to Visible, the ultimate wireless hack. You get unlimited 5G data and unlimited hotspot powered by Verizon. We have Visible here at Stavi Baby Enterprises. We love it. We just got a new assistant. She loves it. She's taking all our sushi orders. They're going through the Visible network brought to you by Verizon. It's fast, it's reliable, it's so sick. They sponsor the Stavies World hotline, as you know, and make it possible for us to help all our callers out. Oh my God, they're the best. Switch today at visible.com. The Visible plan starts at twenty five dollars a month.

• 21:38Stavros Halkias?

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• 22:23Stavros Halkias?

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• 23:06Stavros Halkias?

  with your first subscription order of AG1 Next Gen or AG1 Pro. That's drinkag1.com/stavi. What is like your treat? Like, do you have like a specific meal? Do you have like a, when you really want to treat yourself? I know we've had some fried chicken together. That's a very decadent meal. We've had some decadent fried chicken.

• 23:25Speaker 01

  You know what I like making for myself?

• 23:27Stavros Halkias?

  Please, tell me.

• 23:28Speaker 01

  And it's like, if I have friends over too, I'm trying to make a meal, I'll cook a ribeye, like a thick ass ribeye.

• 23:36Stavros Halkias?

  Hell, yes.

• 23:36Speaker 01

  And mac and cheese as well.

• 23:38Stavros Halkias?

  I love that, dude.

• 23:39Speaker 01

  Joe off camera.

• 23:40Stavros Halkias?

  Joe.

• 23:41Speaker 01

  Makes the same dish pretty well.

• 23:42Stavros Halkias?

  I love it.

• 23:43Speaker 01

  The thing is, Joe prefers Velveeta mac and cheese on the side.

• 23:47Stavros Halkias?

  Joe, you white trash.

• 23:52Stavros Halkias?

  Our friend Joe, Dom's manager is here.

• 23:55Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. I, I, I'm a, I prefer Kraft.

• 24:00Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, okay. So you're also white trash. Just a different type of white trash.

• 24:06Stavros Halkias?

  That, yeah, Kraft. Okay, yeah, this is, this is you being fucking twenty three. You're like, where your big meal is cra-. You're, you fucking put a ribeye with Kraft mac and cheese, you fucking dumbass?

• 24:17Speaker 01

  It's amazing.

• 24:18Stavros Halkias?

  It's like, you're getting a seventy dollar cut of meat and a one dollar twenty five cent.

• 24:23Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's, it's, my Whole Foods receipt is like two ninety nine for Kraft mac and cheese. Seventy eight dollars for a steak.

• 24:33Stavros Halkias?

  Honestly, though, I am shitting on you. That does sound good.

• 24:36Speaker 01

  Dude, when the, when the like steak juice seeps into the mac.

• 24:44Stavros Halkias?

  The amount you love Kraft is good. This is good though, because you're growing up. Because I feel like even like two years ago, you would not have had a rib, you wouldn't have cooked your own ribeye.

• 24:52Speaker 01

  No.

• 24:53Stavros Halkias?

  You know, you would have just had Kraft mac and cheese and like, you know, chicken tendies.

• 24:56Speaker 01

  Chicken nuggets, yeah.

• 24:57Stavros Halkias?

  Nuggets, not even tenders. Tenders is a big step up for you.

• 25:00Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 25:01Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, that's good. That's good. Next year, you'll actually have some artisan. I like what you're saying.

• 25:05Speaker 01

  Maybe I'll get rice going.

• 25:07Stavros Halkias?

  Rice is, yeah.

• 25:11Speaker 01

  Some rice pilaf.

• 25:12Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, all right, a little pilaf for you.

• 25:14Speaker 01

  That's a, that's like an upgrade from Kraft mac.

• 25:17Stavros Halkias?

  I think it, or we get, listen, we don't gotta go away from mac and cheese, Dom. We'll get artisan cheeses. We'll fucking mix a couple different types. In fact, well, in fact, actually, when all, when I'm done with my shit, like when I'm done with my, because the special comes out in September, which, which Matt directed, when I'm done doing press for that, we will get, we will, we will make the most upgraded mac and cheese of your life, you know? And we also have to dabble in like, I think we need to get some soul food mac and cheese in your life too, you know? We got it, we got it, we gotta expand. This is how we're gonna expand your culinary horizons. Yeah, yeah, we start with, we're gonna, we're gonna have you sample four different types of mac and cheese. Okay, I'm liking this a lot. What about a potato with the ribeye?

• 25:59Speaker 01

  See, like, I don't really.

• 26:00Stavros Halkias?

  Not a star.

• 26:01Speaker 01

  I'm not been like a big potato. Like, I've just started to kind of like mashed potatoes. But one time when I was little, I like, I had mashed potatoes with like melted cheese on it.

• 26:14Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, okay.

• 26:15Speaker 01

  And it made me puke. So I kind of like, since then, I've had a long time.

• 26:20Stavros Halkias?

  I had the same shit with strawberry, I had strawberry like milk, you know, they like strawberry Yoohoo's?

• 26:25Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 26:26Stavros Halkias?

  As a child, I remember it was like my, it was my Christmas party for third grade. Yes. And I was, and I was just like, gong, gong, gong. I was crushing it, dude. No other, all the other kids. I think it was something where I got there late and all the chocolate milk was gone and nobody wanted. If you can have strawberry, if you have chocolate milk, you're not taking strawberry.

• 26:44Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 26:44Stavros Halkias?

  So dude, I was, I chugged like five little cartons of strawberry milk and seven seconds later, and it was like, it was our Christmas party and all, and it was like, and they were like gifts strewn about, like, and I was just like, and I was just pink exorcist vomiting all over and I ruined like our third grade Christmas party. And, and, and that ever since those days, like, to this day,

• 27:10Speaker 01

  strawberry.

• 27:10Stavros Halkias?

  Seeing you, and I love Yoohoo's, or actually it was strawberry Nesquik. Seeing, uh, seeing strawberry Nesquik to this day makes me sick.

• 27:16Speaker 01

  Yoohoo's really fucking good.

• 27:18Stavros Halkias?

  I fucking love Yoohoo's. Elders, were you in that? Were you, me and Elders have known each other since kindergarten. Were you in Miss? Actually, it was first grade.

• 27:25Speaker 01

  You guys were in kindergarten together?

• 27:30Stavros Halkias?

  It's insane. I've known Elders thirty, I've known Elders literally ten years more than you've been alive.

• 27:43Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, we're old, we're washed.

• 27:45Speaker 01

  Wow, sure.

• 27:46Stavros Halkias?

  Were you in Miss?

• 27:47Speaker 02

  In.

• 27:48Stavros Halkias?

  First grade.

• 27:49Speaker 02

  Yes, yes, I was.

• 27:50Stavros Halkias?

  Do you remember that? That was the class.

• 27:52Speaker 02

  Maybe, maybe a little.

• 27:54Stavros Halkias?

  Okay.

• 27:54Speaker 02

  I just remember I got bullied really bad there for a couple weeks. I snitched on the kid.

• 27:59Stavros Halkias?

  Oh yeah, for what?

• 28:01Speaker 02

  I like raised my middle finger in class accidentally. Remember that fucking kid that always like boogers on his shirt? I'm sure he's probably abused somehow.

• 28:11Stavros Halkias?

  You wanna talk about white trash?

• 28:12Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah. He loved the Kraft mac and cheese.

• 28:15Stavros Halkias?

  That kid has the same mac and cheese taste as you.

• 28:18Speaker 01

  What was the school called?

• 28:19Stavros Halkias?

  It was called John Ruhra Elementary.

• 28:21Speaker 01

  John Ruhra.

• 28:22Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah. Shout out to John Ruhra. And of course, everyone claims that he haunted the halls. He was like a doctor or some shit. That's what we were told anyway. So wait, you were, they were, they were trying to get you to snitch?

• 28:34Speaker 02

  No, I, I raised my middle finger in class and he looked at me and I realized what I did. I was like, oh? And then he like saw my distress.

• 28:42Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, and he pounced.

• 28:44Speaker 02

  And then he was like, I'm gonna tell. And I got all these sick ass pencils for a couple weeks and he made me give all of them to him. Eventually I had a snitch on.

• 28:52Stavros Halkias?

  You let him fucking shake you down, dude.

• 28:54Speaker 02

  I got shook down.

• 28:55Stavros Halkias?

  And Elders was literally a recent refugee from Albania. He came to America for a better life.

• 29:01Speaker 02

  I was literally in Esol at the time.

• 29:03Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, you could, he actually couldn't speak English at the time. So this, this piece of fucking white trash just found him and was like, just was like, oh, nice. You want a piece of the American dream, pal?

• 29:12Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 29:12Stavros Halkias?

  Give me those, give me those Transformers pencils. Those are mine now, or you're, or you're, I'm telling.

• 29:18Speaker 01

  Yeah, you ever heard of taxes?

• 29:20Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, you got taxed big time.

• 29:22Speaker 02

  I'm sure his life is terrible.

• 29:24Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, yeah.

• 29:24Speaker 02

  I pray.

• 29:25Stavros Halkias?

  No, no, don't pray on it. I mean, everyone we went to school with, it was like, so everyone's life is bad. Like, I'm trying to think, I'm trying to think from our first, I think literally just me, you and are the people, or fucked, bleep it out. Me, you and the mysterious and elusive Big P.

• 29:43Stavros Halkias?

  Our other friend we've known forever. I think maybe it was only us that have good lives from our first grade class. It was, yeah, Baltimore, the nineties was not great, but you know, we made, look, we made it out. We're podcasting now and that's what's important. Were you ever, what, do you remember the first time you ever got in trouble? Did you get in trouble in school for anything?

• 30:01Speaker 01

  Yeah, the first time I like really got in trouble.

• 30:09Speaker 01

  I'm trying to think like when I was like younger.

• 30:11Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 30:12Speaker 01

  When I was in like high.

• 30:14Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, whatever. If you have.

• 30:14Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah. The one that like, the one I could think of is when I was in high school. My first year at boarding school.

• 30:20Stavros Halkias?

  Mm hmm.

• 30:20Speaker 01

  We were like.

• 30:24Speaker 01

  We were experimenting with drinking like over the counter cough syrup.

• 30:32Stavros Halkias?

  Robo tripping?

• 30:33Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Drinking like a whole thing of Robitussin. And we like went on these fucking like mall trips.

• 30:42Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 30:43Speaker 01

  And there was a CVS at the mall.

• 30:45Stavros Halkias?

  Hell, yeah.

• 30:45Speaker 01

  And that was like our.

• 30:46Stavros Halkias?

  Time to re up.

• 30:47Speaker 01

  Yeah, but we, we weren't even old enough to buy. We weren't even, we weren't even eighteen yet. So we had to steal fucking Robitussin from the CVS and.

• 30:57Stavros Halkias?

  That's so funny.

• 30:58Speaker 01

  And then like, I don't know. I think we, they, you know, they do like random room searches.

• 31:04Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, yeah, of course.

• 31:05Speaker 01

  And then in my friend's room, they found like eight bottles of.

• 31:09Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, my God, dude, of Tussin?

• 31:12Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 31:14Speaker 01

  And we got fucked.

• 31:16Stavros Halkias?

  That's so funny.

• 31:17Speaker 01

  My friends got like, I mean, a couple of kids got kicked out of school.

• 31:20Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 31:21Speaker 01

  I survived them because I was well liked. I was well liked.

• 31:24Stavros Halkias?

  Right, right.

• 31:24Speaker 01

  So I was able to kind of like. Work it out.

• 31:28Stavros Halkias?

  Do some politicking.

• 31:29Speaker 01

  Dude, I had to politics so hard.

• 31:31Stavros Halkias?

  I, I bet the kid, because usually the kid who holds on to it is also the kid that's probably been in trouble the most.

• 31:37Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 31:38Stavros Halkias?

  That's why he got, got tossed. I'm sure you were actually like, I, I can't see you being a big troublemaker as a youth. Am I wrong about that? Were you like?

• 31:45Speaker 01

  No, I mean, like.

• 31:47Stavros Halkias?

  Like, yeah, I was pretty reserved. I feel like I, I mean, no, I, I definitely got in like a good amount of trouble though.

• 31:53Speaker 01

  Like, I was not, uh, I was well behaved in school, you know?

• 31:57Stavros Halkias?

  Right, right.

• 31:57Speaker 01

  But I felt like because I was in boarding school.

• 31:59Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 31:59Speaker 01

  You're in this environment for like nine months.

• 32:02Stavros Halkias?

  Of course.

• 32:02Speaker 01

  When I was home for summer, I would do a lot.

• 32:04Stavros Halkias?

  What? How? When did you start doing that? You're thirteen, fourteen?

• 32:06Speaker 01

  I was like fourteen, yeah.

• 32:07Stavros Halkias?

  That's fucking insane. You must have been pissed, like, what the fuck? I gotta go live.

• 32:11Speaker 01

  Yeah, nuts.

• 32:12Stavros Halkias?

  Those are tough. That's a tough time to have a roommate.

• 32:15Speaker 01

  We, yeah.

• 32:15Stavros Halkias?

  You got, those are prime beating off years.

• 32:17Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 32:21Stavros Halkias?

  Another fourteen year old dude?

• 32:22Speaker 01

  No, the school, the school I was at, we all had single.

• 32:26Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, that's huge.

• 32:26Speaker 01

  Which was awesome.

• 32:27Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.

• 32:28Speaker 01

  But you still couldn't like, you had to, like, if you wanted to hang out with a girl, you had to like break the rules.

• 32:34Stavros Halkias?

  Of course.

• 32:34Speaker 01

  Like that, like that was for me, like that was my version of like being.

• 32:38Stavros Halkias?

  That's your oppression.

• 32:39Speaker 01

  Yeah, like being bad.

• 32:40Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 32:41Speaker 01

  Hanging out with a girl.

• 32:42Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 32:43Speaker 01

  Without telling like my dorm parent.

• 32:45Stavros Halkias?

  Of course, of course.

• 32:45Speaker 01

  You know?

• 32:46Stavros Halkias?

  Dude, that, and were you, did they just send you there? Because were you like a little prick? Or were they just like, we gotta get him out of the house?

• 32:52Speaker 01

  Well, I wanted to like, uh, I don't know, like I, I wanted to go to a like good college. Like, I don't know, like I had this idea in my mind when I was really young that if I just like did like the hardest things possible. That I would be like rich one day.

• 33:09Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 33:09Speaker 01

  Like, I, I don't know, like that's like, I kind of just like walked around in life and like, I, I looked at my parents and I was like. I, I hated like how satisfied they were and just like how like, you know, like they were just, I just like chill. Like, I don't know, like.

• 33:24Stavros Halkias?

  That's so funny to have, to be like, my parents are too content with life.

• 33:28Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, like they're too happy. This pisses me off. Everybody's around me is happy.

• 33:33Stavros Halkias?

  You're a little broody.

• 33:33Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 33:34Stavros Halkias?

  Shit, that's so funny.

• 33:35Speaker 01

  Yeah. And I don't know, like, I guess just like from watching movies and shit or whatever it was, like, I like, I wanted to be like, I don't know. I wanted like some crazy life.

• 33:45Stavros Halkias?

  Interesting.

• 33:46Speaker 01

  And I just told myself like, if I like work really hard in school, go to like a good college.

• 33:50Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 33:50Speaker 01

  That's like somehow something will like lead to.

• 33:54Stavros Halkias?

  Huh.

• 33:54Speaker 01

  Something will work out.

• 33:55Stavros Halkias?

  That's fascinating. I'm trying to think like when I, I never, yeah, I'm trying to think like, that's an interesting ambition to have as like a, as a little kid to be like, I have to do all. I guess I kind of did that too, because my family, I had the immigrant shit where it was like, you have to do it. Like, my parents were like, hey, we need you to fucking do well. We're fucked if you don't.

• 34:13Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 34:13Stavros Halkias?

  Um, but it's interesting because like you also, because you grew up on the beat, right? You grew up in Jersey and.

• 34:17Speaker 01

  Yeah, I grew up in.

• 34:18Stavros Halkias?

  On the wall.

• 34:18Speaker 01

  Ocean City.

• 34:19Stavros Halkias?

  Ocean City, Jersey.

• 34:20Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 34:20Stavros Halkias?

  It's a bizarre place to grow up also.

• 34:22Speaker 01

  Yeah, it's like, there's not a lot of kids and.

• 34:24Stavros Halkias?

  Why, why were you guys living there? Your parents like work there? They just.

• 34:27Speaker 01

  I mean, yeah, like, I guess, like, both of my parents are from New Jersey.

• 34:30Stavros Halkias?

  Okay.

• 34:31Speaker 01

  And like my grandparents live there.

• 34:33Stavros Halkias?

  Gotcha, gotcha.

• 34:34Speaker 01

  So just fucking moved there. Yeah, I don't know.

• 34:38Stavros Halkias?

  But Ocean City is fucking crazy, you know?

• 34:40Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 34:41Stavros Halkias?

  Isn't that, it is a tourist, because I, I know Ocean City, Maryland.

• 34:43Speaker 01

  Dude, yeah.

• 34:44Stavros Halkias?

  The much more, yeah.

• 34:45Speaker 01

  It's a tourist place for sure.

• 34:46Stavros Halkias?

  So boardwalks and shit like that.

• 34:48Speaker 01

  Yeah, like most of my friends from high school from Ocean City like aren't from Ocean City. They're from like Philly.

• 34:55Stavros Halkias?

  Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.

• 34:56Speaker 01

  Like other places like Pen, Pennsylvania.

• 34:58Stavros Halkias?

  Gotcha, gotcha.

• 34:59Speaker 01

  They have their families have like beach houses and shit.

• 35:01Stavros Halkias?

  I see, I see. But you lived there. So your, your friends would like, that was their like part time like beach house zone and you actually just lived there the whole time?

• 35:09Speaker 01

  Yeah, exactly.

• 35:10Stavros Halkias?

  That's hilarious.

• 35:10Speaker 01

  And maybe that was something too, like I was constantly comparing myself to these fucking rich.

• 35:14Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 35:15Speaker 01

  Kids who's like.

• 35:16Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 35:16Speaker 01

  You know, their families have these giant houses and shit.

• 35:19Stavros Halkias?

  Was that kind of the vibe a little bit where it was like your family was like, kind of like, like on the line of it of like, you're hanging, you're in these circles and you're going to boarding school, but like. It sounds like it was a little tougher for your family than the other people there?

• 35:31Speaker 01

  Well, I feel like I, I guess like specifically in school, like I didn't have a, like I had to get a like scholarship basically. Financially, which is a little bit different than how it works in college. Like these schools don't have as much of like an allocation to give.

• 35:51Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 35:52Speaker 01

  Money, you know, so like, it's a lot harder to kind of get that.

• 35:55Stavros Halkias?

  Did you have to like, was it, because I also, my.

• 35:57Speaker 01

  And I wasn't like, and I wasn't like good at anything.

• 36:02Speaker 01

  So like, that was, that was the problem. Yeah.

• 36:05Stavros Halkias?

  That's so interesting. I, it's so funny because when I was in fifth grade, yeah, I grew up in Baltimore, like I said, Baltimore, the nineties, and public schools were pretty bad there. And so I did apply to a lot of these like really exclusive.

• 36:18Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 36:18Stavros Halkias?

  Like, we didn't have boarding schools. We had like private schools that at the time, we're talking when I was eleven, so we're talking over twenty years ago, twenty five years ago. Jesus fucking Christ, that's, I'm having a lot, a lot of realizations.

• 36:30Speaker 01

  Quarter of a sentence.

• 36:31Stavros Halkias?

  That sucks. Shut the fuck up.

• 36:35Stavros Halkias?

  Don't tell, I know how long it is, Dom.

• 36:38Stavros Halkias?

  But we, I mean, at the time, thirteen grand a year.

• 36:42Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 36:42Stavros Halkias?

  Twenty five years ago to go to middle school, right? Insane. And I applied and I, I thought, my identity as a little kid was, I was just, because we went to this, this, this school where, uh, you know, the impoverished were bullying refugees. Like, it was not, it was the Wild West, right? It was not a good school. And I was pretty smart, but like, they literally, remember Eldis, we had a, the gifted and talented program?

• 37:06Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 37:06Stavros Halkias?

  Where it was literally like.

• 37:07Speaker 01

  Gifted and talented.

• 37:08Stavros Halkias?

  It was like a small, it was next, it was like next to the administrative offices. And it was like a room that housed like nine kids and they were like.

• 37:16Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 37:16Stavros Halkias?

  All right, you guys might make it.

• 37:22Stavros Halkias?

  And so it was like me, Eldis, mysterious and elusive Big P.

• 37:25Speaker 01

  Oh, you guys were both?

• 37:26Stavros Halkias?

  Dude, yeah, yeah. We, they, they.

• 37:28Speaker 01

  ET.

• 37:28Stavros Halkias?

  Exactly. They saw us. They were like, as soon as they taught Eldis English, they were like, oh.

• 37:32Speaker 01

  Yeah, I remember when they did that shit in like fourth and fifth grade and you would just, you would just feel so, uh.

• 37:39Stavros Halkias?

  Superior. I felt superior.

• 37:41Speaker 01

  I wasn't in it, so like.

• 37:42Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, yeah.

• 37:44Speaker 01

  You would watch like the two kids in your class like stand up and be like, all right, we have to go now.

• 37:48Stavros Halkias?

  Okay, time to, uh, okay.

• 37:50Speaker 01

  And then you just sit there and you feel like a dumbass.

• 37:52Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, everyone, we're gonna take the children with potential out of the room now. Now that we've all had.

• 37:57Speaker 01

  They're now, yeah, yeah.

• 37:58Stavros Halkias?

  Now they've all read a story or something.

• 37:59Speaker 01

  They're, they're three hours a day away from all of you.

• 38:03Stavros Halkias?

  Dude, exactly. Oh dude, and I, from the flip side, when we got the, when, because that's exactly how it went, you would go to your class for like the beginning of the day and there was some, I don't remember elementary school now, some warm up, some bullshit like that. And there was a moment where they call you up and it was like getting up to go to gate. I was, I felt like the man. I was like, all right, see you bozos later. Time to fucking apply myself.

• 38:27Speaker 01

  Yeah. Did you get like, like, uh, like National Honor Society?

• 38:31Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, like, yeah, in the middle school. Yeah, I care, and I didn't care about learning. I just liked the attention.

• 38:36Speaker 01

  Right, right, right, right. Yeah.

• 38:37Stavros Halkias?

  I didn't realize until very late, like later, uh, later in life, I was like, oh, I only had good grades because like that.

• 38:44Speaker 01

  I think about that a lot. I, yeah, like, I think back to the good grades I got and I'm like, I'm, I feel like I should have, I should remember something.

• 38:53Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, right, right, right, dude. I can't do algebra.

• 38:56Speaker 01

  I really did just like study to get the grade and forgot about all of it.

• 39:00Stavros Halkias?

  A hundred percent.

• 39:01Speaker 01

  Just.

• 39:02Stavros Halkias?

  But, but also that's life. Nobody fucking knows anything. They just have a problem they have to solve for like a week or two. You solve it and then you keep it pushing. Um, but.

• 39:11Speaker 01

  True, actually.

• 39:11Stavros Halkias?

  But, thank you, man. I'm wise, I'm wise as fuck.

• 39:14Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 39:15Stavros Halkias?

  But.

• 39:16Speaker 01

  Eleven years.

• 39:17Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, dude.

• 39:19Stavros Halkias?

  And, and so I remember being like, so I went to these like exclusive schools and I interviewed and I did all this shit. And then I got in, but they wouldn't give me a scholarship.

• 39:29Speaker 01

  Right.

• 39:29Stavros Halkias?

  And there's no way we could afford it. And my mom, my mom, I remember my mom like came and she was like, don't, she already was working two jobs. She was like, I'll, I'll, I'll pick up more shifts as a waitress. I was like, you don't have to do this.

• 39:41Speaker 01

  No, yeah, it's not.

• 39:41Stavros Halkias?

  And then the way I coped with it is I made, uh, on N sixty four WWE, WWE No Mercy. And I created a version of the guy, the like guy who interviewed me from that, from that school. It was called, it was the Gilman School in Baltimore.

• 39:55Speaker 01

  Yeah, the Gilman School.

• 39:56Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah. And I literally just, and in No Mercy, I made the guy who interviewed me and I, and I just like to, uh, just beat the fuck out of him in, in a wrestling game.

• 40:07Stavros Halkias?

  I pick like fucking.

• 40:08Speaker 01

  Where did, where did you guys like hang out in the summer?

• 40:11Stavros Halkias?

  The summer was like, uh, we, well, sometimes we would go to, I mean, every other year, my family would go to Greece, which was awesome, but we were just hanging out like, I was at my.

• 40:21Speaker 01

  It would be like the group of kids with the fucking, with like their Gilman hoodie.

• 40:24Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, yeah, yeah. No, listen, that was the, I didn't go to that and I, it's the best thing that ever happened to me because. I I I would have become like a little like I would have been the poor I was so I would have been so much poorer.

• 40:39Speaker 01

  Right.

• 40:39Stavros Halkias?

  Than all those kids.

• 40:40Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 40:41Stavros Halkias?

  I would have tried to fit in to people that now I hate.

• 40:44Speaker 01

  Right, right, right.

• 40:44Stavros Halkias?

  Like I I'm afraid I would have like become like a like I would have become like a fucking banker or something.

• 40:49Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 40:50Stavros Halkias?

  Like I would have been the worst guy of all the I've been some fat guy with plugs.

• 40:54Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 40:54Stavros Halkias?

  With hair plugs that works at a bank in Baltimore right now. I would have the worst life ever and be like, isn't it? Uh, you know what? Uh, you know, I just think we need, look, uh, I I just think we don't need to talk about all this. I don't it's nobody's business who's gay or not, but just keep it away from me. I would have been one of those guys like.

• 41:11Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 41:11Stavros Halkias?

  I would have been just such a piece of shit. It's like, no, I'm just, I just like lower taxes.

• 41:15Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 41:15Stavros Halkias?

  You know, I'm racist, you know what I mean? Like, I would have been a piece of shit if I went to that school. I'm so my life and also dude, I went to Baltimore City Public Schools. You had to be funny. You're like those kids were fuck. It was like the funniest people I I will ever meet.

• 41:29Speaker 01

  Right.

• 41:30Stavros Halkias?

  Were like, just like s- s- kids in seventh grade that I went to school with.

• 41:34Speaker 01

  Did you guys have a rival school?

• 41:36Stavros Halkias?

  We had the so in Baltimore, there were two good uh, high schools.

• 41:40Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 41:40Stavros Halkias?

  There's Poly and City, like public schools anyway.

• 41:43Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 41:43Stavros Halkias?

  And yeah, that was theoretically our rival school, but it was like, there were no.

• 41:47Speaker 01

  There was no bad blood.

• 41:48Stavros Halkias?

  No, pre yeah, it was just like, again, it was kind of like the gate program uh, writ large where they were like, all right, these two schools, these kids might do something.

• 41:57Speaker 01

  Right, right.

• 41:57Stavros Halkias?

  And every other Baltimore City Public School was like, like my, they called them your zone school.

• 42:01Speaker 01

  Right.

• 42:02Stavros Halkias?

  You know, kids were fucking my and my brothers, my brothers didn't go to my middle school. They went to like, still a a like, you know, uh, it was called the Ingenuity Project at the time. But it was just a shittier version of the one I went to and like, the first day my brother went to school, a kid was like, he was like, hey, yo, I like your pants. Give me them. And my brother just had to run.

• 42:27Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 42:27Stavros Halkias?

  He had to, he just like huh? And he just fucking booked it and like the first day somebody tried to steal my brother's pants.

• 42:32Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 42:33Stavros Halkias?

  And that was the third best public middle school in Baltimore. A kid got stabbed for his Charizard in that school.

• 42:39Speaker 01

  Fuck.

• 42:39Stavros Halkias?

  Um, so it was like, it it was that was, that's where the the there was more, it was like interschool rivalry, not era intra, not in- inter.

• 42:48Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 42:48Stavros Halkias?

  Whichever one of those that means.

• 42:49Speaker 01

  You ever see like a lot of kids get stabbed and shit?

• 42:52Stavros Halkias?

  I never saw, I did not see stabbing. I saw a lot of kids get the fuck beat out of them.

• 42:55Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 42:56Stavros Halkias?

  Um, but but you know, that was, it was more just the verbal, it was just getting good at ro- I didn't realize, they were preparing me to be a roast comedian. Like, they were preparing me to be good at crowd work.

• 43:09Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 43:09Stavros Halkias?

  Because that was, that's what the lunchroom was. It was like, you better, you better find someone to make fun of if you're a fat white guy.

• 43:16Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 43:17Stavros Halkias?

  At in Baltimore City Public Schools. Like, you better find somebody.

• 43:20Speaker 01

  I felt like it was pretty easy in my school to make people laugh because it was so, uh, I don't know, like the the it was a pretty like controlled environment. And like, everybody was pretty well behaved.

• 43:32Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 43:33Speaker 01

  So just kind of doing something that was a little bit risky or dangerous was like, could draw attention immediately.

• 43:39Stavros Halkias?

  Right.

• 43:40Speaker 01

  You know?

• 43:40Stavros Halkias?

  And I'm sure it was like the one, as much as annoying as it is to be like sent away and have to feel like, it's got to feel sort of like really nice jail on some level, right?

• 43:51Speaker 01

  It was nice like being away from like parents kind of in a way like, like you had a sense of responsibility where, you know, you didn't have to, like you could, you could actually like mess up and and deal with that on your own without like being yelled at.

• 44:07Stavros Halkias?

  Totally.

• 44:07Speaker 01

  Because it it's illegal for your teachers to like, like, you know, curse at you.

• 44:14Stavros Halkias?

  So you'd be a little piece of shit.

• 44:15Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 44:15Stavros Halkias?

  Um, and also you're there with like, all boys sucks, but it's also.

• 44:19Speaker 01

  We had girls, we had girls.

• 44:20Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, you did have girls. Oh, it was like an act. Oh, I didn't realize that.

• 44:23Speaker 01

  It was coed, yeah.

• 44:24Stavros Halkias?

  That's insane.

• 44:24Speaker 01

  Yeah, but uh.

• 44:25Stavros Halkias?

  But most of your time in the dorms and shit, you're with the with the bros?

• 44:28Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah. It's a, it was great, actually. Like, I, but when I went to film The Holdovers, my senior year, I my room was connected to my best friend's room.

• 44:39Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, hell, yeah.

• 44:40Speaker 01

  And he was like, is it okay if I uh, like, use your room for some more space?

• 44:45Stavros Halkias?

  Hilarious.

• 44:46Speaker 01

  And I came back.

• 44:47Stavros Halkias?

  He had a two bedroom?

• 44:48Speaker 01

  My bed was gone. Yeah, it was like, it was like four uh, like plug-in griddles.

• 44:58Speaker 01

  And like, yeah.

• 44:58Stavros Halkias?

  That's so funny.

• 44:59Speaker 01

  Like a mini fridge with like eggs, bacon.

• 45:01Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, but this man fucking made a little diner in your bedroom?

• 45:04Speaker 01

  Four TVs.

• 45:06Stavros Halkias?

  Respect. This guy sounds awesome.

• 45:07Speaker 01

  We had double stacked couches, so it was like movie theaters.

• 45:10Stavros Halkias?

  Hell, yeah, dude.

• 45:12Speaker 01

  It was awesome.

• 45:13Stavros Halkias?

  You must have gone, I mean, I mean boarding school, there must have been some like legitimately evil people. Like, you must have, there must have been like, you must have last paid staff were like.

• 45:22Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah, for sure.

• 45:23Stavros Halkias?

  You know, made money off of genocide.

• 45:24Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah. It's just like oil people.

• 45:26Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, oh, yeah, that.

• 45:28Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah, yeah, it's fucked up. When you think about like, who was like, who you're brushing your teeth next to.

• 45:34Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, dude. I bet if you, if we looked up some of the motherfuckers you graduated with right now, it's like,

• 45:38Speaker 01

  Dude, dude.

• 45:39Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, they're the people destroying the world.

• 45:41Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 45:43Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, they're next up.

• 45:45Stavros Halkias?

  Was the, how's the food at boarding school? Pretty good, I would assume, right?

• 45:49Speaker 01

  Dude, yeah, sometimes better than, I mean, I felt bad for uh, a lot of the people that worked in the dining hall because, like, they would try and make like really nice things, but the only time the kids got excited was when they made like chicken tenders and shit.

• 46:07Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 46:08Speaker 01

  Like buffalo chicken balls.

• 46:09Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. They don't want lobster thermidor.

• 46:12Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 46:13Stavros Halkias?

  They don't want that shit.

• 46:13Speaker 01

  Yeah, it's like shrimp scampi and we're like, fuck.

• 46:16Stavros Halkias?

  Boo. I want fucking.

• 46:19Speaker 01

  Chicken and ranch.

• 46:20Stavros Halkias?

  Get me McRibs. Can you bring in some McRibs and salt serve ice cream?

• 46:23Speaker 01

  That's what we we did like my senior year. I guess like we can, I I mean, nobody's gonna fucking, can't get in trouble now.

• 46:31Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 46:32Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 46:33Stavros Halkias?

  Yes, let me, let me tell you right now, you don't have to worry about your headmaster anymore.

• 46:39Speaker 01

  But um, senior year, we, when I came back from shooting that movie.

• 46:46Stavros Halkias?

  Uh huh.

• 46:46Speaker 01

  I uh, had a car with me and I was like, I don't have time to go all the way home. I have to bring my car back to school.

• 46:54Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 46:55Speaker 01

  It's like, otherwise you needed some like crazy exemption, like the only, the only other kid who had a car on campus, he had cancer and he had.

• 47:02Stavros Halkias?

  Right, right, right, right, right.

• 47:04Speaker 01

  You know, like he needed to go.

• 47:05Stavros Halkias?

  Of course.

• 47:06Speaker 01

  But he needed that fucking car.

• 47:07Stavros Halkias?

  Of course, of course.

• 47:07Speaker 01

  Um, but I was able to bring it back and they were like, you just can't drive it. You have to turn in the key.

• 47:13Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, wow.

• 47:14Speaker 01

  To like the the um, I don't know, the grounds people.

• 47:17Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 47:18Speaker 01

  But I had an ex- I had an extra key that I kept for myself, honestly.

• 47:22Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 47:23Speaker 01

  And me and my my best friend in high school, we, he made like a fake Snapchat account. And we decided we were gonna go sell like fast food to the campus.

• 47:37Speaker 01

  And.

• 47:38Stavros Halkias?

  Fuck, yeah, dude.

• 47:38Speaker 01

  Yeah, we started with Chick-fil-A because like, you could DoorDash, you could Uber Eats, McDonald's, I think, a few other places. But Chick-fil-A was like.

• 47:47Stavros Halkias?

  Right.

• 47:47Speaker 01

  These kids, they haven't had it in months, you know? We've been there for all the winter.

• 47:51Stavros Halkias?

  Yes.

• 47:52Speaker 01

  It's the longest term.

• 47:53Stavros Halkias?

  Yes.

• 47:53Speaker 01

  Uh, so we knew this was like an untapped.

• 47:56Stavros Halkias?

  Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

• 47:58Speaker 01

  Um, so he made this account and we had, I mean, like basically half the school, like probably like four hundred orders.

• 48:04Stavros Halkias?

  Incredible.

• 48:05Speaker 01

  And.

• 48:06Stavros Halkias?

  Immediately?

• 48:06Speaker 01

  Imme- I mean, like throughout like the weekend. We said like.

• 48:09Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, wow, in one weekend?

• 48:10Speaker 01

  Well, throughout the week, I guess he put it up on Wednesday and he was like, order coming in Friday night, like.

• 48:16Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, wow. So you're doing like catering, basically?

• 48:18Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.

• 48:18Stavros Halkias?

  You're ordering the big ass ki- did you get caught or did you, did you pull it off?

• 48:21Speaker 01

  No, so what we did was, we had all the orders in and we uh, I guess, yeah, we had like two thousand dollars in Venmo.

• 48:31Stavros Halkias?

  Incredible.

• 48:32Speaker 01

  Cause we upcharged, I mean, we were, we were char- we was like.

• 48:34Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 48:35Speaker 01

  Like fifteen bucks for a chicken sandwich.

• 48:36Stavros Halkias?

  You're sell- you're selling the son of the uh, of a guy who works at Raytheon.

• 48:40Speaker 01

  Yeah, and we're also, I mean, the risk we're running too.

• 48:42Stavros Halkias?

  Of cour- yeah, there's pride, there's cost, man. There's cost associated with this.

• 48:46Speaker 01

  Exactly.

• 48:46Stavros Halkias?

  That's really funny, man.

• 48:47Speaker 01

  And we drove the car through like the cornfields in the back of the school and then like two and a half hours Chick-fil-A.

• 48:54Stavros Halkias?

  That's so funny. Two hours?

• 48:56Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah. And like that guy, the guy, the people there.

• 49:00Stavros Halkias?

  I thought it was fucking down the street.

• 49:02Speaker 01

  No, no, no, no, no, no. It's like, it's far, you couldn't order it. So, the guy.

• 49:07Stavros Halkias?

  That's so fucking funny.

• 49:09Speaker 01

  We go, we order it and they were like, we're gonna have to talk to the chef.

• 49:13Stavros Halkias?

  Hmm.

• 49:13Speaker 01

  Uh, and then we, they were like, we need, give us like twenty minutes and the chef will come out and talk.

• 49:18Stavros Halkias?

  That's so funny. Oh, so you hadn't planned ahead, you just got there?

• 49:21Speaker 01

  No, we didn't call them. We, we went to the register.

• 49:25Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, that's.

• 49:27Stavros Halkias?

  I'd like two thousand dollars worth of nuggets, please. Quickly.

• 49:32Speaker 01

  What the fuck? And so, yeah, so.

• 49:37Stavros Halkias?

  That's hilarious.

• 49:37Speaker 01

  Uh, we were like, all right, um, we might be screwed. But the guy came out and he had so much energy and he was so excited.

• 49:44Stavros Halkias?

  Hell, yeah.

• 49:44Speaker 01

  Do the order for us.

• 49:45Stavros Halkias?

  Wow.

• 49:46Speaker 01

  And um, the people working behind the register were fighting to ring us up because it was like a record for that store.

• 49:52Stavros Halkias?

  Interesting. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 49:53Speaker 01

  And they took our photo.

• 49:56Stavros Halkias?

  That's so funny. You get caught, is your principal fucking on a road trip? He's like, huh?

• 50:00Speaker 01

  What the fuck?

• 50:01Stavros Halkias?

  Fucking those two assholes doing on the wall in a Chick-fil-A in Jersey.

• 50:04Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah. But we got them, we picked up the order. It was like four giant catering boxes.

• 50:10Stavros Halkias?

  Hell, yes, dude.

• 50:11Speaker 01

  Got it back and uh, I think we both profited like fifty bucks.

• 50:18Stavros Halkias?

  That's so, but you were heroes.

• 50:20Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 50:20Stavros Halkias?

  Everybody, yeah, that's incredible. Yeah, I mean, I sold weed in high school and I remember being like, I remember being like, wow, I probably made like five, I'm like probably five, ten grand going into college and and I never, I never kept track. Anytime I wanted to order food or buy booze or, you know, do anything, go to the movies, I would just take it from my weed thing and then. Let's get, yeah, let's get a nice fresh A and W for the boy. And I remember being like, nice, I'm gonna go into college like, rich dude. And I, I had after a year of selling weed, $200. Like I, I would smoke, anytime I wanted weed, I would just smoke my own weed. Anytime I wanted to buy chicken wings or Chinese, where I would just get that. And I just used all the money in me, I didn't save anything, I was just, it was so funny, I was selling, yeah.

• 51:05Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 51:05Stavros Halkias?

  In my, in my mom's home, like sell it, using her Weight Watchers scale to sell weed.

• 51:12Stavros Halkias?

  He was.

• 51:12Speaker 01

  It was such, I mean, yeah, the Ocean City was such a joke sometimes, like we were selling, me and my friend were selling fake IDs for one summer.

• 51:20Stavros Halkias?

  Awesome.

• 51:21Speaker 01

  And we sold fake IDs to like, a 19 year old cop.

• 51:27Speaker 01

  He's like our friend.

• 51:28Stavros Halkias?

  What, a cop, breaking the law?

• 51:29Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, he was like, he was like our boy, he was like our boy, and that summer, he became like a rent-a-cop.

• 51:35Stavros Halkias?

  Awesome, awesome, that's so awesome, that's a hilarious job, that was 19, like, I don't respect anyone who's a rent-a-cop. But a 19 year old telling me to keep it moving?

• 51:46Speaker 01

  Right, right.

• 51:46Stavros Halkias?

  Like, how about you suck my dick, you're a child, I'll do whatever I want, go get your dad, maybe I'll respect him. Dude, that's hilarious, um, we, we gotta, we gotta, uh, we gotta do some calls, but I also, real quick.

• 51:57Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 51:58Stavros Halkias?

  Giamatti was the man, right?

• 51:59Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 51:59Stavros Halkias?

  He seems like the fucking man.

• 52:01Speaker 01

  Honestly, like, yeah, he's, he's the goat, like, I really, I really think he's the best actor.

• 52:06Stavros Halkias?

  Dude, he's such a great actor.

• 52:07Speaker 01

  I've yet to meet someone or work with someone who I've been like, uh, I don't know, that kind of, just taken aback by how

• 52:14Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 52:14Speaker 01

  cool and humble.

• 52:15Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 52:16Speaker 01

  And talented they are.

• 52:17Stavros Halkias?

  100%, yeah, and I do, my favorite thing about Giamatti, and you don't have to comment on this if you don't want to, is that

• 52:25Stavros Halkias?

  he was.

• 52:26Speaker 01

  He's got a.

• 52:26Stavros Halkias?

  The scene, he did a scene in Billions, uh, where he like, had hired a, like a hot dominatrix.

• 52:33Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 52:33Stavros Halkias?

  And then.

• 52:34Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 52:34Stavros Halkias?

  On a red carpet, or like at some party, there was a pictures of him with her just hanging out. Like spit game to the dominatrix, the hot, the hot actress. And I was like, salute.

• 52:47Speaker 01

  Yeah, respect.

• 52:48Stavros Halkias?

  You're just a little fucked up looking guy, and you're getting these hot girls, I was like, you are my hero, sir.

• 52:54Speaker 01

  Yeah, bro.

• 52:54Stavros Halkias?

  Like, if I could have like, if I could do like, point 1% of the character actor career

• 53:02Speaker 01

  Dude.

• 53:02Stavros Halkias?

  that Giamatti has, and then also pull, like Giamatti pulls, dude?

• 53:05Speaker 01

  Dude, he's, have you ever seen, you ever seen that movie, what's it called, Barney's, Barney's version, Barney's something?

• 53:11Stavros Halkias?

  No, I haven't.

• 53:11Speaker 01

  What's it called, can you look it up? I might be misremembering the title of this movie.

• 53:15Stavros Halkias?

  Just, yeah.

• 53:15Speaker 01

  It's a Paul Giamatti movie.

• 53:17Stavros Halkias?

  Let's see what else, let's see what else he comes up with, I'll check it out.

• 53:19Speaker 02

  Barney's version?

• 53:20Speaker 01

  Barney's version, yeah.

• 53:21Stavros Halkias?

  Just look up Giamatti.

• 53:22Speaker 01

  And he plays like, a badass in this movie, like, he's like, cool.

• 53:26Stavros Halkias?

  That's awesome, I like what, and, and what's interesting too is like, I love that, cause it's like, you know, now, I mean, especially his character in The Holdovers is like, the least cool guy in the world.

• 53:34Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 53:34Stavros Halkias?

  But, which is so awesome, but, that's what I also love about Antonio's career, like, in Spain, his early movies, he plays fucking weirdos, and he plays like

• 53:43Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 53:43Stavros Halkias?

  nerds, and it's like, what? It's so weird, like, these guys are such good actors that, you see them and you're like, they can embody anything that they feel like embody.

• 53:52Speaker 01

  Also like, the people that, uh, like all, the actors that have Tony worked with too, like

• 53:57Stavros Halkias?

  It's insane.

• 53:58Speaker 01

  You watch all of his old movies, it's like crazy.

• 54:00Stavros Halkias?

  It's insane, dude.

• 54:01Speaker 01

  The people that are, like, he's worked with.

• 54:03Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, and, and he's, he's had an insane career, and he's played every type of guy, and

• 54:07Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 54:07Stavros Halkias?

  I mean, I, we just rewatched Desperado, I just got, uh

• 54:10Speaker 01

  Dude, yeah.

• 54:11Stavros Halkias?

  I just got.

• 54:11Speaker 01

  Amazing like stunt sequences.

• 54:13Stavros Halkias?

  Incredible, so fun, such a great movie, and like, he looks such, he's such a badass in that, yeah, I just got a nice, you guys see the new apartment, I got, I got a, like the sick TV, and I'm, I'm going, I'm becoming a, I'm becoming a like, 4K guy, like, my favorite movies, I just wanna have them in the best resolution, like, I just wanna, I just wanna, and I got surround sound, I'm becoming like a home the, like, I wanna be a home theater.

• 54:38Speaker 01

  You still have that same TV that you got.

• 54:39Stavros Halkias?

  It's here now.

• 54:40Speaker 01

  Oh, okay.

• 54:41Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, the, the 100 inch, the 100 inch TV was too big for my apartment.

• 54:44Speaker 01

  Dude, yeah.

• 54:45Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, I had to settle for a 75 inch.

• 54:46Speaker 01

  I feel like TVs are better, Joe, Joe says they're better than projectors.

• 54:50Stavros Halkias?

  I think so, I mean, projectors are a pain in the ass.

• 54:52Speaker 01

  Like, what's the best projector you can get?

• 54:55Stavros Halkias?

  I mean, listen, if you get the best projector you can get.

• 54:56Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 54:57Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, you're, you're like, you're really cooking.

• 55:00Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 55:00Stavros Halkias?

  The thing projectors have is that, and I know this cause I've been shopping, I've been thinking about gigantic televisions the last two years. When you go over 85 inches, like, after, when you go over, yeah, 85, like, every inch is like, $500.

• 55:16Speaker 01

  Really?

• 55:17Stavros Halkias?

  So like a hundred, like, we got that, the 100 inch TV, it was like an open box thing, and I got it so cheap, but like, a hundred inch, like a really good 100 inch TV costs like $15,000, so like, a projector, you get like, for a thousand bucks or whatever, or even cheaper if you want to, you get a really nice one, for a thousand bucks, and it could be 150, like, so that's if you want huge, go projector, but if you need anything 85 and under, just go TV, they're also, projectors are kind of a pain in the ass to get going.

• 55:45Speaker 01

  Yeah, I've never, I've not gotten to the stage in my life yet where I can like, not break a TV within six months.

• 55:54Speaker 01

  So I go for, like, the, the $80 Roku.

• 55:57Stavros Halkias?

  Of course, the Roku, yeah, the Roku's we sent Reese to buy, so that we could play, yeah, cause we, not, we didn't have, we needed to buy a separate TV to move from set to set.

• 56:05Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, exactly.

• 56:07Stavros Halkias?

  Dude, I've purchased so many $200 Roku's in my life, absolutely, dude, I have so many random Roku remotes in my apartment. All right, well, listen, we, we could talk all day, but we got it, we also gotta help the people, we need, we need Dom's, uh, uh, you know, this man has so much life experience. He needs to share it with her, with the people, so, uh, why don't we hit the visible hotline, Eldis, and, and of course, let's remind people, go see Tony, what are you doing?

• 56:33Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 56:34Stavros Halkias?

  This, we need, me, this is gonna be so big for, if you like either one of us, seeing this movie would be huge for both of us.

• 56:41Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 56:42Stavros Halkias?

  This motherfucker.

• 56:42Speaker 01

  This is big for us.

• 56:43Stavros Halkias?

  This is, this is actually really big for us, with this good, you know, I'm, you know, I, I wanna play a fat bully in every Hollywood movie from now, I wanna be the first call, when they're like, mm, we need a fat bully. Let's get Halkias on the line, you know, that's, if this goes well, and then Dom, look, this kid's gonna be fine either way, really, I'm the one who needs it, this kid's gonna be in movies for the rest of his life, but if this fucking bombs, I'm fucked, guys, all right, so go see Tony right now, if you're in New York or LA, and next week, it, it opens everywhere, and by the way great, like, it, it cuts across, like, I literally saw it with my mom, I saw, they're like little kids at the premiere who had a good time, it is a, it is an awesome movie that, and

• 57:20Speaker 01

  A fun watch.

• 57:21Stavros Halkias?

  And like we said, Kurt, like, Matt's team is so good, that they edited this movie, this is like a fun summer hangout movie, like, there's so many ways to it, and fucking Mike, uh, uh, Baumann, Cinematheque.

• 57:33Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 57:33Stavros Halkias?

  The guy who did One Battle After Another did this, dude. Little, yeah, yeah, I wonder if he had more.

• 57:39Speaker 01

  How did we do, how did we get that?

• 57:40Stavros Halkias?

  I don't know, that's the one where I'm like, what? When he told me that was, he was like, Matt was like, that's, cause I remember my first day on set, I looked at, I looked in the camera, I was like, what the fuck?

• 57:50Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 57:50Stavros Halkias?

  I was like, dude, this is insane, this is like, and you know, I like Matt, but, and, and his shit, they do so much document, I mean, BlackBerry's cool, looks good, but like, Nevermind the Band of Show is like that's, it's not, it doesn't look good, it just is fucking weird and fun.

• 58:02Speaker 01

  I think it gave Matt so much freedom too, to just like, chill with us.

• 58:05Stavros Halkias?

  Totally, yes.

• 58:06Speaker 01

  Work with us, you know?

• 58:08Stavros Halkias?

  Mike got to do all the

• 58:09Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 58:09Stavros Halkias?

  And I remember being like, dude, how the, what is this, this looks incredible, he's like, that's PTA's guy, I was like, what? I was like, fuck yeah, dude, um, but, it looks awesome, it's a summer hangout movie with a bunch of incredible, the cast is so good, but also, it's edited in a way that's not, cause those movies sometimes, in my experience, can be a little lackadaisical, it's about the hang.

• 58:28Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 58:29Stavros Halkias?

  This movie

• 58:30Speaker 01

  It moves quick.

• 58:30Stavros Halkias?

  It's under two hours, and you're never bored, even though, you know, stuff happens, but it's not like there's set pieces, it's just like

• 58:36Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 58:36Stavros Halkias?

  It's just vibes between characters, and you're gonna love it, but, uh, tell us what you think about it, hey, watch the fucking movie or else, you motherfuckers.

• 58:48Stavros Halkias?

  Eldis, play us some calls, buddy.

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• 1:00:14Speaker 05

  Hey Stavi, eldest and guest. Um, I'm a huge fan of the podcast. Thank you for everything. Thank you for all the laughs. Um, so my girlfriend and I have been together for about eight months. I love her to death. She's the best person I've ever met. We have such a great relationship. Um, she is also absolutely beautiful. She is stunning. She's an 11 out of 10. Um, she's incredibly nice and one of the smartest people I've ever met. She's also incredibly funny and I just feel so lucky to be with her.

• 1:00:49Stavros Halkias?

  What's the but? What's the but?

• 1:00:51Speaker 05

  And uh, with that being said, uh, she is incredibly out of my league. Um, I, I, I wouldn't consider myself unattractive. However, I am not of her caliber.

• 1:01:06Stavros Halkias?

  Fucking believe in yourself.

• 1:01:08Speaker 05

  And that honestly made me feel better about myself because you know, I, I must be a good enough person to, to be with her and, and you know. Uh, she must find me attractive. So, um, I, I don't really, you know, I don't really think about that all that often.

• 1:01:26Stavros Halkias?

  You clearly do. It's clearly keeps you up at night. Clearly. It's the thing you think about the most in your life without question. That haunts you every moment. Anyway, keep going.

• 1:01:37Speaker 05

  Um, however, when we go out in public, um, and we interact with, you know, like a server or a bartender, or maybe I'm being introduced to one of her friends or whatever.

• 1:01:52Stavros Halkias?

  That's what they say when there's a restaurant.

• 1:01:55Speaker 05

  Saying, you know, oh, bro, she's way out of your league. Like how, how did someone like you pull her?

• 1:02:01Stavros Halkias?

  They say that to your face?

• 1:02:08Stavros Halkias?

  That is wild disrespect. Alright, I, I see what's going on here. Let's let him finish. I know what's going on though.

• 1:02:14Speaker 05

  And you know, she could do so much better. And I can, I can take a joke. I don't necessarily take it to heart.

• 1:02:22Stavros Halkias?

  Yes, you do.

• 1:02:23Speaker 05

  The issue is after eight months of this consistently happening, I do think sometimes like, you know, why is she with me and whatever? So, um, it does, you know, after, after it's consistently been told to me, it, it does kind of, I, I, I do think about it more often. Um, so I know this is necessarily, uh, not gonna change, but, uh, how could I maybe go about dealing with this, uh, better? Um, thank you guys. I appreciate it. I love the podcast.

• 1:02:56Stavros Halkias?

  This is funny.

• 1:02:58Speaker 05

  See ya.

• 1:02:59Stavros Halkias?

  This is so awesome. And also, yeah, you, you, you have no idea what to say, Dom. This, you've never had this problem in your life. What do you mean? Everybody says we're both hot when I'm with a model. Everyone, no one even talks, looks at us. We're too, I'm with a woman that people are afraid to stare in the eyes. I'll take this one, Dom.

• 1:03:20Stavros Halkias?

  Uh, this literally, this is so clearly a mindset thing because I loved, I dude, when I was, when I, when I, when, uh, when people, now it's like, I don't know. Now, once you kind of, once you're famous or whatever and your life, people sort of know who you are. It does, becoming a like, like being like notable, being like a notable comedian or whatever. I always say it kind of feels like becoming a hot girl because you get attention, you get so much unwanted attention from men. You know, it's like, you walk the streets and it's like, people like, you know, like not everybody, but every once in a while someone like, you feel them lock eyes with you.

• 1:04:02Stavros Halkias?

  Like you feel their gaze on the back of your head. And so now if people see me with a hot woman, they're like, alright, well he's, now they don't give me credit. You're like, oh, he's fucking rich. She doesn't like him. Which also I don't give a fuck. But this was my, when I was broke, this, you know, I don't want to toot my own horn. I was, I was always punching above my, my, uh, weight class, uh, metaphorically. Clearly not, well, maybe, who knows? Uh, but, who knows? Not everybody, sometimes. But, uh, uh, I loved it. I loved getting a glance from a guy who's like pissed. Like when I'm walking down the street with a hot, with a hot girl and I was bald and toothless, people be like, what the fu, people were mad.

• 1:04:45Stavros Halkias?

  It was the best feeling of my life. I was like, not yet. And I hope you, go, go do some fucking pull-ups, you piece of shit. I have, I don't need all this to, to achieve what you can't even get. But your problem so clearly is you don't believe in yourself.

• 1:05:00Speaker 01

  Right.

• 1:05:01Stavros Halkias?

  Because I know people thought that about me when I was with a hot woman. Nobody said it to my face. Like I was, cause I wasn't acting like I was happy to be there. I wasn't acting like it was a fucking make-a-wish. You know, like you're, you're with your, you're with your girlfriend who loves you, who you've been with for eight months. And you're acting like you want to fucking sweepstakes, bro. I bet you it's your body language. It's, you're embarrassed, you're sheepish to be around her. You have to believe in yourself. This is an aura problem. Cause these guys see you and they're, what they're doing is letting her know they would fuck her.

• 1:05:36Stavros Halkias?

  In front of you. It's not about you at all. That, that is literally some like this, what, what's happening is you are quite literally being alphaed in front of your girl. And she, cause she really does like you because this is the kind of behavior, if you put up with this too much, it's like, that's unattractive. You, you, who you are is not unattractive. She likes you. What could possibly be a problem is you just getting fucking, you constantly being a pushover. Like they're like, whoa, how did you get her? And you're like, huh huh huh, I know. You can't react like that. They'd be like, oh, good one, pal. You gotta get back at them. I don't, I don't even know what to say because.

• 1:06:16Speaker 01

  I think the key is what he said. It was like, uh, I don't know why, you don't, I don't know why this person is with me. And like, you know, that's, you should be, you know, you should be able to come up, think to yourself, why, outside of your, your physical, uh, I don't know, uh, disappointment.

• 1:06:33Stavros Halkias?

  Right, right, right, right. Yeah, you're not as hot as her. I got news for you.

• 1:06:37Speaker 01

  That's a massive compliment. When a beautiful woman, you know what I mean? Like I never, I never, I, uh, wanna feel like, I love when there's a, when, when the, when the woman I'm with is way more attractive than the night.

• 1:06:50Stavros Halkias?

  That's what you want? You're like, oh no, I've achieved an awesome thing.

• 1:06:54Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:06:55Stavros Halkias?

  And look, here's, we know how society works. Like, here's the thing, let me, let me also take a little sting off this. Unfortunately, life is worse for women. And they do have to, on average, end up with someone that looks worse than them. So that's just reality, bro. That's, we live in, you know, this is a paternalistic society. That's a problem. We should, you know, take steps to fix it. But right now, we're not changing that within your lifetime. So, uh, A, so really what this comes down to is yes, she's with you for a fucking reason. This is a self-esteem thing, bro. Why do you, let's even take your girlfriend out of this. Why do you feel this way about yourself? Like what is it? And really think about it. And I'm sure there are reasons because look,

• 1:07:37Stavros Halkias?

  sure, I'm talking, I'm talking a big game now, whatever. And I, I'm at the point in my life now, when I was at the point in my life when I was like 25, where I liked that attention. And, and I also was pretty combat, I mean, look, I, I like, I could also, I just, I also knew that I could, if this guy tried to get at me, I knew I could insult anyone better than they could. So I know, it's not the same thing. I get that. I had, I had something in my back pocket and an anger problem and a chip on my shoulder. Um, so I did like it. And maybe you're just like, uh, you know, maybe you're not, that's not how you're built. You don't like confrontation, whatever. And not that I do either. I just, in specific circumstances I did, but, um, this is not even about your girlfriend. This is about what you think about yourself.

• 1:08:20Speaker 01

  Right.

• 1:08:21Stavros Halkias?

  You, you are allow, you are putting out the energy that says, come disrespect me in front of my beautiful girlfriend. You gotta change that. That's the problem. And, and so like, think like, what do you, what's good about you? Be realistic. Are you like, she's with you for a reason. And stop acting like you want to contest. You start acting like you, you, you deserve to be there. And this is a little tough because this is a nebulous problem. I almost want to talk to this guy, maybe on a hot call.

• 1:08:48Speaker 01

  Like, and, and thinking about what are the, like, what were the things that, uh, how, how did you portray yourself at first with this person? Like, did you kind of give a false, a false, uh, image of yourself? Right. That you're, you're having a hard time living up to that now. And, and you're, and you're coming to terms with the fact that she's, maybe she fell in love with, uh, a persona that you would put on or something.

• 1:09:12Stavros Halkias?

  Something that you projected.

• 1:09:14Speaker 01

  Right.

• 1:09:14Stavros Halkias?

  That's, that's definitely a possibility. Maybe that's, maybe that's the root of his insecurity, but whatever it is, it is based in insecurity. And so figure that out, dude. And I'm sorry because I, I mean, there's not much we can tell you other than believe in yourself, but you cannot let that slide. I gotta be honest with you. You cannot let people talk to you that way. How are you, a server? A fucking guy you don't know at all? He's at work? He could get in trouble for this? They're not allowed to fucking tell their customers they're ugly?

• 1:09:41Speaker 01

  What the fuck is she doing with you?

• 1:09:43Stavros Halkias?

  That's, this guy was, this guy thinks he has, you're such a little threat that he is willing to break the rules of his workplace. And, and by the way, you're paying the tab. He's like, you know what? I don't need a tip. I just want, I just want this hot girl to know I'd fuck her. That's how much they don't respect you. So you have to fix that. And I know that is not, that is not, I'm not giving you concrete stuff. Because we need to, I need to know what the root of your insecurity is. Is it in your, look, if you, if, and it's, and while you're, and you know, this is a two-pronged solution. Figuring out the roots of your insecurity takes time, right? This is like therapy stuff, this is thinking about, but.

• 1:10:24Speaker 01

  This was the first conversation Stavros and I ever had.

• 1:10:26Stavros Halkias?

  That actually is, oh my god, that's true. In the parking lot, we were talking about that.

• 1:10:31Speaker 01

  Nice to meet you, I need some advice.

• 1:10:33Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, that is really true. Oh my god, that's so fucking funny. We immediately started talking about, yes, girl, girl problems. This, dude, you have to fucking believe in yourself, you have to do, and, and look, like I said, macro, work on the root of it. Micro, though, if you really do wanna go about it this way, start fucking improving yourself. Eventually, you need to convince yourself you are enough. But in the meantime, if you wanna hit the gym, if you wanna.

• 1:11:00Speaker 01

  Start hitting the gym.

• 1:11:01Stavros Halkias?

  If you wanna dress a little better, if you wanna, if you wanna, uh, I don't know, literally practice your public speaking so that when these guys mock you, you have some way to get back at them. I don't know what it is in the short term. I, I've always, I've always said for me, like, it really was, I mean, I, there was one summer, I went to the gym and I just got the confidence of getting into better shape, whatever.

• 1:11:24Speaker 01

  Right.

• 1:11:24Stavros Halkias?

  I got a girlfriend, immediately got fat as shit. Immediately, like, once I had the girlfriend, I was like, I'm done.

• 1:11:30Speaker 01

  Job done.

• 1:11:30Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, that didn't, and I learned that's not how you do that, but I will, that helped me. That, and I also during that relationship, made the decision to do stand up and was so much happier than I was when I was in college and trying to have a regular, you know, you know, life, whatever. And those things did it for me, and find a version of that for you. I don't know what it is, you know, do, you said, did he say he has a good job? Did he say anything like that? He was just talking about himself.

• 1:11:55Speaker 01

  Get good at golf.

• 1:11:56Stavros Halkias?

  Golfing, yeah, golfing's another, yeah. Any, honestly, I think, any skill is important, right? Golf can suck my dick.

• 1:12:02Speaker 01

  Take some cooking class.

• 1:12:03Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely, fucking, yeah, get, get.

• 1:12:06Speaker 01

  You want, yeah.

• 1:12:07Stavros Halkias?

  Take her to see Tony out in theater.

• 1:12:09Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:12:10Stavros Halkias?

  Take her to have a, yeah, every, every call we work in, and by the way, go to Tony. But hey, nice date night. Take her out for a nice seafood dinner.

• 1:12:18Speaker 01

  Date night, yeah.

• 1:12:19Stavros Halkias?

  Uh, and then go see Tony, and if the waiter is like, whoa, look at this hunched over piece of shit you're with, ma'am, punch him in the fucking jaw. No, don't do any violence, don't do any crimes, also, don't listen, legally, you don't listen to anything we say, this is for pure entertainment. But yeah, dude, you gotta believe in yourself, dude, that is the problem here. That is the, that is at the root of this, and I know that's easier said than done, but you, you can fix this. She's with you for a reason. What else we got, LD?

• 1:12:48Speaker 05

  Hello, um, Stavi, eldest esteemed guest. I'm 24, from the Pacific Northwest. Basically, just wanted to call in because I'm in a two-year relationship. Lovely girl, um, I plan on marrying her in the future, and she's awesome. And I've got some homies who, we used to be friends back in high school, pretty darned close, and now I joined the military for a little while, and then just came back and we've been reconnecting, but me and them and my girl have all been hanging out together and stuff like that. To preface this, one of them is definitely gay, he used to be bi, but obviously, definitely gay now.

• 1:13:35Speaker 05

  I would say I am probably pretty darned straight now.

• 1:13:40Stavros Halkias?

  Now?

• 1:13:41Speaker 05

  I, back in high school.

• 1:13:43Stavros Halkias?

  What's going on with this? Everyone in the, everyone in the crew tries on sexualities, which is cool, no judgment. But it is, you did gotta catch us off a card, I'm confused about what this question, I'm very, I don't know where this is going, and I can't wait to find out, Eldis.

• 1:14:01Speaker 05

  I, back in high school, kinda fucked around with this dude, cuz I was open to the idea. Getting more smooched, maybe putting it in his butt, he put it in mine. Just little stuff.

• 1:14:17Stavros Halkias?

  Now, you know what? These are good friends.

• 1:14:21Stavros Halkias?

  That's a really good pal. I will say, Eldis, you know, that's where, that is, I, rarely do I hear about a friend group closer than ours, but.

• 1:14:30Speaker 01

  This is why he went to the military.

• 1:14:31Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly, get out of his system. But even in the throes of desperation, when we were just virgins with no way out.

• 1:14:39Speaker 02

  We've been through a lot together, I don't think I could put it in your ass.

• 1:14:42Stavros Halkias?

  No, first of all, I would fuck your ass. Let's get that very clear right now.

• 1:14:48Speaker 02

  Or vice versa.

• 1:14:52Stavros Halkias?

  I wouldn't, but if push came to shove, I would fuck your ass.

• 1:14:55Speaker 01

  But this is the guy, the same guy that he's.

• 1:14:58Stavros Halkias?

  I believe, yes, his bi, his bi friend was really, he used to hook up with his gay friend.

• 1:15:03Speaker 01

  He fucked around with him.

• 1:15:03Stavros Halkias?

  Yes, yes.

• 1:15:04Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 1:15:05Stavros Halkias?

  Keep going, Eld, I'm interested.

• 1:15:06Speaker 05

  Little stuff. Anyways, didn't wanna knock it till I tried it type thing. Tried it, not really knocking it, but just isn't for me kinda thing. Fast forward to the day, we all hang out now again, that have kinda reconnected, and I don't feel like it's a huge weight on my shoulders.

• 1:15:23Stavros Halkias?

  I haven't seen it in a couple of years.

• 1:15:27Speaker 05

  Connected, and I don't feel like it's a huge weight on my shoulders, because, you know, I'm not feeling too fruity these days. However, I just wanna know if I'd be doing my girlfriend a disservice by not telling her, just cuz we're all hanging out again these days. And also, she's like, pink hair, very liberal, you know, let me see you kiss a boy type shit, so like. I don't think she'd be that mad about it. My one reservation is, I don't wanna her to see him differently, or be like, it's weird, all hanging out now. I don't know. She knows he's gay, but doesn't know that I've done all that with him. Anyways, love the show, bruh. Yeah, peace.

• 1:16:10Stavros Halkias?

  Respect. Well, I don't know, man, let's put this pink hair to the test.

• 1:16:15Speaker 01

  Let's see.

• 1:16:16Stavros Halkias?

  Let's see if this, if that, if that haircut is earned.

• 1:16:18Speaker 01

  Right.

• 1:16:19Stavros Halkias?

  You know, cuz if she.

• 1:16:20Speaker 01

  See her show her stripes.

• 1:16:22Stavros Halkias?

  A hundred percent, cuz if she, yeah, if she wants, literally, the problem might be, she hears about this, this is kinda the reverse of like, usually, it's, this happens in the reverse, where like, a guy, uh, you know, so, a girl is bi or maybe experimented.

• 1:16:38Speaker 01

  Right.

• 1:16:39Stavros Halkias?

  And she tells her, you know, straight boyfriend, and he's like, huh, could I fuck both of you? You know what I mean? Like, usually, that, this is, this might be the reverse, where if you have kind of like a queer girlfriend, or a bi, or like, just an, an open girlfriend who wants you to be a little gay, and you tell her you used to do gay shit, she might wanna watch you suck dick.

• 1:16:58Speaker 01

  Right, it sounds like, yeah, it sounds like it's more about, from the ways he's describing it, it's more about the tension between the friend group that he's trying to avoid.

• 1:17:07Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 1:17:07Speaker 01

  I think, I think you're fine with the gay thing.

• 1:17:09Stavros Halkias?

  For sure.

• 1:17:10Speaker 01

  Like, she does not gonna give a fuck about that.

• 1:17:11Stavros Halkias?

  I don't think so, yeah.

• 1:17:12Speaker 01

  Yeah, that's fine.

• 1:17:13Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 1:17:13Speaker 01

  But, uh, I don't know, like, trying to put myself in this position.

• 1:17:18Stavros Halkias?

  Well, it's like, it's like, it is just like.

• 1:17:21Speaker 01

  Yeah, if there was.

• 1:17:21Stavros Halkias?

  If you were hooking up, like, let's say a girl.

• 1:17:23Speaker 01

  Right, yeah, that's what I'm trying to think, it's like, would I, would I tell, if, and she was my friend, and this was a, like, I don't know, I probably wouldn't say anything.

• 1:17:33Stavros Halkias?

  I know.

• 1:17:33Speaker 01

  I don't, it's like, I don't.

• 1:17:34Stavros Halkias?

  I wonder if the juice is worth the squeeze.

• 1:17:36Speaker 01

  Right, right, right, it's like, uh, I think, well, I don't know, I wonder how, yeah, I wonder how the friend feels, too.

• 1:17:44Stavros Halkias?

  That's a good point, I wonder what his vibe is.

• 1:17:47Speaker 01

  Like, is he wanting to re, I don't know.

• 1:17:49Stavros Halkias?

  I don't think, I mean, that's not what I, that's not the vibe I'm getting from this. I think that, so yes, we have kinda two separate issues here. One is a kind of classic dilemma, which is, do you tell your partner? A lot of people have friends that they maybe used to date or hooked up with or whatever. Now, for me, I'm, I'm at the point in my life where the people who I'm friends with, that I dated or used to hook up with, that was so long ago. It doesn't even feel like the same person anymore, right?

• 1:18:16Speaker 01

  Right, right, right.

• 1:18:17Stavros Halkias?

  But when, when this guy, this kid's 24, he said, and, and this was high school, when you're, you know, for you, that was a long time ago. I mean, high school, 24, you went to the army, you've lived a bunch of life.

• 1:18:30Speaker 01

  Completely different person.

• 1:18:30Stavros Halkias?

  You're a completely different person, completely different life, and also, high school, and, and like, college is like, so, you kinda do get a pass for experimenting overall.

• 1:18:39Speaker 01

  Right.

• 1:18:39Stavros Halkias?

  So it's like, it, it just, it's, in, in general, would I tell my significant other, it's like, hey, my friend, we used to like, hook up a little bit, like, it wasn't serious, whatever, we're totally friends.

• 1:18:53Stavros Halkias?

  I don't know if it's the kinda thing you even have to make a big, if it comes up.

• 1:18:57Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, right.

• 1:18:57Stavros Halkias?

  It's just like, hey, what's, like, then you'd be like, oh yeah, like, we like, hooked up a couple of times, cuz it doesn't sound like you even, it's, it'd be different if you guys straight up dated, like, if it was your boyfriend in, for a year or whatever, that's a little different.

• 1:19:09Speaker 01

  And you can say it just what it was, cuz it's not something you have to underplay.

• 1:19:12Stavros Halkias?

  Exactly, you're like, yeah, we, we like, we fucked around a little bit, I was curious, it ends up, it wasn't really my thing, but whatever. If it comes up, I would say it, but I don't know that you have to make this big declaration.

• 1:19:25Speaker 01

  I wouldn't lose sleep over it.

• 1:19:26Stavros Halkias?

  I wouldn't lose, I think it's fine, I think it's the kinda thing where, you, yeah, exactly, stop thinking about it.

• 1:19:31Speaker 01

  Right, right.

• 1:19:31Stavros Halkias?

  Because your boy probably doesn't give a fuck.

• 1:19:33Speaker 01

  Yeah, you're, and you're.

• 1:19:34Stavros Halkias?

  In fact, he's probably like.

• 1:19:35Speaker 01

  You're creating this thing in your mind that really doesn't exist, maybe, you know?

• 1:19:38Stavros Halkias?

  Totally, especially with his girlfriend.

• 1:19:40Speaker 01

  Of course.

• 1:19:41Stavros Halkias?

  Would it be a little different if you had, if you were dating somebody who was like, a fucking bigot? Sure.

• 1:19:46Speaker 01

  Right, right.

• 1:19:46Stavros Halkias?

  But you probably wouldn't be dating that person anyway, right?

• 1:19:48Speaker 01

  Of course, yeah, yeah.

• 1:19:49Stavros Halkias?

  So, so, to me, dude, I think you're just kind of overthinking this, it's like, if, if he, if he wasn't, if it was a, well, now I'm actually thinking, though, cuz I was gonna say, if it was a girlfriend, right?

• 1:20:01Speaker 01

  Right, right.

• 1:20:04Stavros Halkias?

  I could see, I still think you probably don't tell her unless it comes up. If you're like, yeah, we hooked up a couple of times, we're mo, we're mostly friends, especially somebody who's like, you know, young, she seems to be cool and like, sexually liberated, all that kinda stuff. This is a minor blip, it's fun, it's a funny aspect of your.

• 1:20:21Speaker 01

  And it doesn't sound like it was something like, serious, it's not like it was like a serious relationship.

• 1:20:26Stavros Halkias?

  So I say, only bring it up if it comes up, and when it comes up, don't be all nervous and weird about it, if it does, just be like, oh yeah, I mean, you know, we used to go, he was bi back then, I was curious, he's clearly gone his direction, I've gone my direction, and all that might happen is, she might want to make you do more gay stuff. I think that's the most likely outcome, if you tell her, she's like, oh really? Cuz like, dude, if I'm dating someone, and she's like, yeah, I used to go with, I'm like, can I see you? Really? When's the last time you put her titties in your mouth? And can it be soon? And can it happen again? Um, so, yeah, you're fine, dude, but shout out to you. Shout out to you, I wonder if you, did he do any gay stuff in the army, is my question.

• 1:21:08Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:21:08Stavros Halkias?

  It feels like you probably would, just cuz.

• 1:21:10Speaker 01

  He came back straight.

• 1:21:11Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:21:13Speaker 01

  You gotta imagine something.

• 1:21:14Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, the, that's, Pete Hegseth's gonna put that on the brochure. Send your gay children to the army, we'll make them straight.

• 1:21:22Speaker 02

  I went in by, but I saw some shit over there.

• 1:21:31Stavros Halkias?

  Well, yeah, you see such unspeakable horrors. It takes away the delights of homosexuality.

• 1:21:39Stavros Halkias?

  Next question, LD.

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• 1:23:05Speaker 06

  Hi, Sav, and esteemed guests. Been a fan for a long time. I've been doing online therapy for anxiety, which basically means that my therapist and I meet online instead of in person. And it's been going really well. But my therapist did tell me that she uses AI to take notes from our sessions.

• 1:23:39Stavros Halkias?

  Ah, notes.

• 1:23:40Speaker 06

  And

• 1:23:40Stavros Halkias?

  A little different, but.

• 1:23:41Speaker 06

  Um, that's been going really well. But I don't know how to feel about like AI having all of my therapy thoughts in some kind of cloud somewhere. So just wondering what your thoughts are on AI having notes from therapy sessions. Love you, love the show. Thank you.

• 1:24:10Stavros Halkias?

  Interesting. Yes. Well, look, there's a little, look, the thing about AI that's interesting is that they're basically calling like eight different technologies AI, right?

• 1:24:21Speaker 01

  Right.

• 1:24:21Stavros Halkias?

  They're calling, now it's become a branding. It's like when Wagyu, everyone's claiming every beef was Wagyu beef.

• 1:24:26Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:24:27Stavros Halkias?

  It's like, no, it's fucking not. You know what I mean? Like, I know this fucking deli doesn't have the Wagyu chopped cheese. You know what I mean? I know it's not the same that they got in fucking Japan, right?

• 1:24:35Speaker 01

  Right, right, right.

• 1:24:36Stavros Halkias?

  And, and so it is like, like, yes, using it to like draw or like, like write paragraphs for you or some shit like that. You're corny. You're a corny bitch if you do that. But using it for transcription, you know,

• 1:24:53Speaker 01

  It's like a practical.

• 1:24:54Stavros Halkias?

  Exactly.

• 1:24:54Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:24:55Stavros Halkias?

  Using it or like, like, there's so many technologies, like photos, what is Photoshop? Other than AI, like some Photoshop plugins, you could, if they existed, if they were creating Photoshop now, they would say, check out AI, our AI tool, where it's like, it's just a techno, a lot of this is just technology, right?

• 1:25:11Speaker 01

  Right, right.

• 1:25:11Stavros Halkias?

  When we edit the podcast, there's tools where you could like line up the sound with the, with the, with the video, right?

• 1:25:17Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:25:18Stavros Halkias?

  Instead of doing it step by step yourself. That shit, who cares about that?

• 1:25:21Speaker 01

  Right.

• 1:25:22Stavros Halkias?

  That's no big deal. But the privacy concern is a different thing, right?

• 1:25:26Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:25:26Stavros Halkias?

  So I would say, I would just have the conversation with her where it's like, hey, I'm a little worried about, you know, any of my personal information getting, I don't know, with this company.

• 1:25:36Speaker 01

  And I think, yeah, if, if she's not open to, I don't know if it's he or she, whatever.

• 1:25:39Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 1:25:39Speaker 01

  They're not open.

• 1:25:40Stavros Halkias?

  Therapist, yeah.

• 1:25:40Speaker 01

  To taking handwritten notes or whatever would you, would make you feel more comfortable than, fuck them, get a new therapist, you know, that's not a good therapist.

• 1:25:48Stavros Halkias?

  Exactly. Or you could even, yeah, exactly. Because if you're saying, hey, this is, you're somebody with anxiety.

• 1:25:53Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:25:54Stavros Halkias?

  And you're like, are they stealing my data? You know, that's so fucked up of your therapist to do.

• 1:25:59Speaker 01

  Right.

• 1:25:59Stavros Halkias?

  So I would say, just have the conversation, then be like, hey, I get it, you, you need us to review the notes, but is it, is it possible for you to use this to transcribe and then keep the notes off the cloud and then have my name not associated? Because the other thing is, she probably, or he or she does, probably doesn't have your name. I would hope not. Or like, or like, tell them to, to store all the information under a different name or, because this is mostly a privacy concern. This is just a privacy concern.

• 1:26:26Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:26:27Stavros Halkias?

  And it would kind of be the same if, I mean, let's be real, if your therapist took hand, typed the notes and had your name on it, and just had it on Google Drive.

• 1:26:36Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:26:37Stavros Halkias?

  It's still po, who knows what the fuck.

• 1:26:38Speaker 01

  Well, I imagine for this, you'd probably have to, fuck me.

• 1:26:41Stavros Halkias?

  No, it's all good, dude.

• 1:26:42Speaker 01

  Imagine they probably have to be recording, right?

• 1:26:45Stavros Halkias?

  Right, right.

• 1:26:45Speaker 01

  In order for, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:26:46Stavros Halkias?

  That's a great point.

• 1:26:47Speaker 01

  So it's like.

• 1:26:47Stavros Halkias?

  So I guess what I would do is just have the conversation with, with them and be like, look, take notes, fine, after our session, but afterwards, if you could put them in a localized, you know, put it on your computer.

• 1:27:01Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:27:01Stavros Halkias?

  And delete whatever the fuck, don't have my shit in the cloud. And who knows? You don't even really, I bet you don't even know what, they might be doing this anyway, right?

• 1:27:09Speaker 01

  Right.

• 1:27:09Stavros Halkias?

  If they're a good therapist who understands patient confidentiality, they're not going to have your shit on fucking, you know, on their notes app, you know, like, like, so that's, that's what I would say. This is just a conver, this is a pure, this is a conversation thing. And I will say, as somebody with anxiety, it's not a bad conversation to practice, right? Like, practice setting a boundary, even with your mental health professional, if anyone should understand.

• 1:27:33Speaker 01

  It's great advice.

• 1:27:34Stavros Halkias?

  If your theater, if your fucking therapist is like, fuck you. Then they don't care about you and get a different therapist. But I don't think that's what's going to happen. I understand your worry, but I think this is actually a, not a big deal. And that's coming from me, I've been very vocal on the whole thing. So, um, yeah, you're good. Keep doing therapy. We're proud of you. Uh, you know, and just have the conversation with your therapist. We got something fun, Eldis, here? Something fun to go out on? Sure.

• 1:28:04Stavros Halkias?

  And you know what? Before we do, actually, I want to, Dom, you've done such a great job podcasting. I want to present you your whites. I want to present you your chef. You've earned your podcasting whites. There you go, chef. Yeah, yeah, keep the tag. We're, we're fucking returning both these immediately. I'm basically doing a shittier version of Brittany, Brittany Broski's like royal court. Stop Rose Halkias's fuck shitty kitchen. Brittany, come on the pod, please. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Brand new, dude. That's the, that's the smell of podcasting. Beautiful, man. Beautiful. Yeah, you look good.

• 1:28:50Speaker 01

  This is more like, I feel like we're in a bakery.

• 1:28:52Stavros Halkias?

  I know.

• 1:28:55Stavros Halkias?

  For real, dude.

• 1:28:56Speaker 02

  You look like you're about to stick some chickens in the machine at Purdue.

• 1:28:59Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 1:29:01Speaker 01

  Feel like, in like the toothpaste factory.

• 1:29:03Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, this really, this is not, nobody actually cooks in this shit. You gotta be making like cris, the fluffiest croissants in the world, just like this. All right, LD, what do we got? What's our final call here? Don't let me down.

• 1:29:19Speaker 05

  Hey, Sav, long time listener, big fan. Um, I've got a friend I've known since high school. We probably met at fifteen, we're twenty nine now, so like fifteenish years almost. Um, and in high school, we were both like, I don't know, I was always kind of a fat guy, but he was a skinny dude, but now he's fat. Um, and he's like, you know, been creeping closer to three hundred pounds, but maybe he's at like two eighty, right? We regularly

• 1:29:49Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, so he's not that fat?

• 1:29:50Speaker 05

  We ourselves.

• 1:29:51Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, so he's got just ten pounds overweight. Oh, it's not a big deal. Next question.

• 1:29:59Speaker 02

  That's the show.

• 1:30:02Speaker 05

  We've been closer to three hundred pounds, but maybe he's at like two eighty, right? We regularly weigh ourselves in our friend group because we're like mentally ill.

• 1:30:11Stavros Halkias?

  Well, is he short of the five, seven? Because then it's a problem. But five, seven, two eighty, I mean, that's a normal dimensions for a guy to be.

• 1:30:22Speaker 05

  Um, but he has known.

• 1:30:24Speaker 07

  Attention of ever losing weight and he eats like shit. He works from home, he smokes weed all day.

• 1:30:30Stavros Halkias?

  Sounds cool.

• 1:30:31Speaker 07

  And I've been trying to convince him that it'd be hilarious if he got to 300 pounds. So I was just hoping, and he's a big fan of yours. I was hoping that as a fellow fan guy, he could

• 1:30:42Speaker 07

  help me get him to 300 pounds. I'm like 250 myself. I, you know, 300 is not for me, but it's for him, so. Any advice you could give to help me get him to that?

• 1:30:55Stavros Halkias?

  This is awesome, dude.

• 1:30:57Speaker 01

  Yeah, this is, I mean.

• 1:30:57Stavros Halkias?

  You wanna get your boy to be 300. I will say, I kinda know what he means.

• 1:31:02Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:31:02Stavros Halkias?

  It would be funny to say you weigh 300 pounds. That's, that's, that's a badge of honor. Very few of us get to wear.

• 1:31:09Speaker 01

  Right.

• 1:31:09Stavros Halkias?

  Uh, that's so funny. Alright, well, I would say he's well on his way, right? He's, as someone who got to 300 pounds, smoking weed and eating like shit every day? That's the secret. That's the way to do it. What's his ice cream consumption like? That could be, if he's not, if he's not eating ice cream, he's making a big mistake. Cause in terms of gaining weight fast, get him on the pints. Get him on a pint of Ben and Jerry's. We've talked, that's, that's a big lore of this podcast is me, me and Eldis, when we lived together in Astoria. There was a, there was literally a time where we averaged a pint and a half a day. Me and Eldis were spending, well, we were broke, by the way. We did the math. I was, I think there was a couple of months I spent more on ice cream than rent.

• 1:31:52Stavros Halkias?

  Cause my rent was $500 a month at the time, and a pint of Ben and Jerry's was $6.

• 1:31:57Speaker 01

  Yeah. Is that by far like the most effective food?

• 1:32:01Stavros Halkias?

  Ice, ice cream is the devil when it comes to like, when you're trying to, cause it's like, a pint of Ben and Jerry's is a thousand calories. You know what I mean? Oh, yeah. If you eat the whole thing.

• 1:32:10Speaker 01

  Yeah, I guess it's a lot of fat, right?

• 1:32:12Stavros Halkias?

  Lot of fat, lot of mixins.

• 1:32:14Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:32:16Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, they go down easy, brother. There's no, yeah, oh, man, I'm now I'm fucking about to go buy a pint. I'm reminiscing, fuck. And I was, uh, anyway. Ice, look, what, cause he's eating like shit, but dessert is really the solution here.

• 1:32:31Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:32:31Stavros Halkias?

  If you wanna get him to 300 pounds, eating bad savory, everybody, everybody can go, you know, get some chicken tenders and fries. Can you then follow it up with an even more caloric dessert?

• 1:32:42Speaker 01

  Right.

• 1:32:43Stavros Halkias?

  That's where we separate the men from the boys.

• 1:32:45Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:32:45Stavros Halkias?

  Alright, that's where we separate the true eaters. And so that's what I'd say, if your friend really wants it, smoke more weed. The, the secret is smoking weed between meals. You wanna smoke weed right before your dinner? And then you gotta get the second, the second one like, oh, fuck, I'm full. Time to take that, I'm ready to go. I'm ready to, I will say that, the reason, cause I'm on GLP1s. Every, every time I stop smoking weed for like a week, I lose like 10 pounds on these. And like, and, and, and, but.

• 1:33:20Speaker 01

  I feel like if you smoke before you sleep too, then you wake up hungry.

• 1:33:23Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, it, it, it does something. You wake up in a groggy, hungry state.

• 1:33:26Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:33:27Stavros Halkias?

  And so, yeah, I would say the solution is, he's gonna have to, if he, if he really wants this, he's gonna have to smoke more weed and eat more ice cream.

• 1:33:38Stavros Halkias?

  That's good to do it for us.

• 1:33:41Stavros Halkias?

  Go see Tony in theaters now, New York and LA, everywhere next week. Dom, I mean, that's all you gotta plug. That's, that's a nice thing about being an actor, though. You fucking have one big project.

• 1:33:51Speaker 01

  Watch Tony.

• 1:33:52Stavros Halkias?

  Watch Tony.

• 1:33:53Speaker 01

  We're both in it.

• 1:33:53Stavros Halkias?

  We're both in it, we're both in it. Um, and, uh, yeah, it was a, truly, the movie, I don't know, man, I, I really, I watched it. Again, I watched the premiere, I watched it with my mom at the Museum of the Moving Image. And not to be corny, you know, we hate to be sincere here, but I fuck, I really feel like we, we did something special. I mean, you and Matt really fucking pulled it off, bro. So you should be really proud of yourself, my friend.

• 1:34:15Speaker 01

  You too.

• 1:34:15Stavros Halkias?

  Um, and folks, go see the, truly, go see the movie. I really believe in it, and I do think you're gonna have an excellent time, so. We'll see you next time. Bye, bye. And, uh, Uncle Stav, September 8th on Netflix. And actually, Tyre's out this week, I believe, too, so.

• 1:34:28Speaker 01

  Nice.

• 1:34:29Stavros Halkias?

  A lot of shit going on. It's the summer of Stav, folks. Uh, see you guys next week. Bye, bye.