EITM: Tom Papa 6/6/24

Surprise! On the phone!

Episode Transcript

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Elliot. How are you, sir? I'm doing well. How are you?
How was your journey? You knowwhat it was? It was good.
I had never been to I hadnever been to Disney, and we
only did the Magic Kingdom part.That's all right, and only for a
handful of hours, but it wasyou know what, it was good.

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It was good. It was betterthan I It's dated, but it was
better than I expected it to be. Yeah, it's suppose that that mouse
is old, but it's still cute. The Yeah, no, exactly.
Hey Tom, you I'm assuming youhave been to Disney, Yes, many
times because of work or because ofpleasure against my will? Oh is that

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a product? Is that a productof living in la Though? Yes,
it is. They they we haveDisneyland, which is like a quarter of
the size of where you were yesterday, and it's it's cute, it has
all the stuff, but it's it'sreally close to the house. It's less

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than an hour, so they kindof treat it like going to seven eleven.
So I've been to Disney so manytimes that I really almost had a
nervous breakdown. But you know what, it's funny because I don't I don't
think of it that way of likethat's that's like for people in a work
pardon me, people into Orlando orlike when you're in Los Angeles and living

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there, is like that's your localtheme park. Yeah yeah, like that
doesn't dawn on you. Like ifyou lived in Orlando, I guess that
would be your local park and youwould go and same thing like you did
where you would just go all haveyou been to? Have you been to
Florida or just Lah When I wasa kid, we went to we were
in Florida and LA. I meanyou talk about old and dated the LA

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one, I mean that was theoriginal. So it's really feel and it's
really small, and there's six zillionpeople with especially just from the LA area.
And then you get the yearly pathand take a small mortgage out on
your house and you don't drive thecar that you want to drive, and
your kids get to go to Disneyonce a month. But you know what,

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say this, I will say thisthough, Tom, I've I've never
been on. It's a small world, right, And so I wrote it
yesterday. It really is. Itreally is something special to have been on
the ride on. It's it's supercharming. The guy who wrote the song

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just passed Away. He was ninetysix years old, and I forget his
name, but he wrote It's aSmall World. He wrote super califragilistic,
expialidocious. He wrote all of theuh songs from Mary Poppins, and they're
definitely that era. It is magical. It's like it's like it literally is

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like they built Christmas, you know, you know what I mean. It's
really heartwarming and special in the laSmall World. Did you hear about the
guy who ate mushrooms and ended upnaked just sitting in the display People were
going by in their little boats withtheir grandparents and there was a naked man
just sitting there among the little huladancers. The by the way, I

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could see I get yeah, therehe is, there he is. Yeah,
we just pulled that up. RichardSherman, by the way, is
the guy who wrote uh uh It'sa Small World. Yeahs yes, yeah,
guy not a naked guy. Yes, it was his brother. You're
absolutely right. But you know what, no, I was gonna say,
you know what is Yeah, therehe is. Now, now we've got
the video going, I'm distracted.I could see I could see getting on

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some of those rides though, anddoing like mushrooms or some gummies and that
totally totally age in the entire day. Well, that's what the power of
mushrooms and gummies. They they'll improveeverything. I took my wife to see
Godzilla Versus King Kong, and Iwas all excited and we came out and

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she had a lot of notes.She was not into the movie. She
thought it was flawed. I waslike, oh, wait, we forgot.
We were straight. We were supposedyou're supposed to be high before you
see King con versus Villa. Youcan't judge this like a straight, normal
person. And then I did somethingelse yesterday that I had never done before.

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I flew spirit Air. Oh god, that's scary. How was that?
You know what, Tom, I'llbe honest. It was smooth sailing.
It was great. That's so youwere on mushrooms on that also?

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Was it good? I'm always aprid and whenever I see it, I
have to admit I look for otherflights. The Oh no, no,
no, no, you're not wrong. Yesterday was my first time flying it.
But no, they were they weretotally fine. They were completely fine.
Oh that's good news. Yeah tohear because a lot of times it's
the only flight out of like someof these small towns, and you still

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won't fly them. No, I'llrent a car, Diva. I have
to stay alive. I have afamily. I have to go to Disney
again. All right. So you'reyou're a week and a day away from

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filming your special at the Warner Theater. And and like I said, there's
there's two shows next Saturday night,and I'm assuming and listen, people know
that, like you, guys willgo in, comics will go in,
and they'll they'll they'll take the showsand then they get edited down and then
that's used for the Netflix special.Are You Are You? Are You?

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Are? You? Are? Yougetting more and more nervous as the day
gets or you don't. That doesn'tbother you anymore. No, I feel
I'm feeling really great. This setis really solid. I'm gonna run it
a bunch, you know, justto keep keep it sharp. I'm gonna
go up to New England this weekendand then into New York on my way
down and then end up there atthe end of the week. And the

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seven thirty is pretty much sold out. Uh, there's still tickets on the
nine to thirty, but they're goingpretty quick, and it's really the biggest
thing, Like it's all the smallstuff that you don't really have to worry
about when you're just doing it onthe road, Like whatever I wear is
going to be what I wear onthe streaming service forever for the rest of

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the time. You don't want soyou don't you don't want to pick something
that's too fat around your chubby belly, or it's like a shoe that you
think are cool now, but ina year, they're gonna be like what
was I thinking? Like those littledetails are the only thing that I'm really
worried about. But I mean thereare people that like my fear would be

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like I would be wearing a shirtof somebody who was like like popular right
now and then like three years fromnow, it's the worst person that you
could be wearing at the moment,right, Yeah, you don't want to
be rolling up there in a BillCosby T shirt. No. But the

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set's really good, Like you know, I've been touring it, I'm building
it up for you know, lastyear and a half, two years,
so it's really in a fun stagenow because it's the set's really solid,
and now I can be looser withit and add things as I as I
go along. And you know,we picked DC because it's just one of
my favorite favorite markets from the timeI was coming up at the improv,

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you know, I'd play there oncea year, sure, and then the
Kennedy Senator, the Kennedy Center,and then when we saw that we were
able to get the Warner Theater sobeautiful in there, so we can shoot,
it's just gonna look amazing. Andas long again, as long as
I don't go on a like abuffalo wing binge over the last week if

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and end up bloated with a fatface, it should all work out.
Hey, Tom, let me letme ask you this. And maybe maybe
you've told me this in the pastand I just don't remember, And if
so, I'm sorry. Like so, when when you take the specials next
Saturday? Yeah, how long doesit take before Netflix turns around and airs

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those? Like how long do Ihave to wait to see myself or the
back of my head on TV?And it's gonna be very exciting to have
you as part of the special firstof all, and it'll be I think
the air date is going to bein October, and it really comes down
now and it really comes down tojust their programming and when they have slots,
and they don't like to air alot of things like the end of

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the summer. So yeah, inthe fall, that always feels good to
me. October feels like feels likea good month. We got to figure
out something to do. I'm thinkingmaybe like have you I mean, you're
gonna come out on stage before theshow, but maybe something in the wings,
maybe like have you like the crew? How about like I just can

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I be like that guy at DisneyIt just sit there naked, just off
to the side. That would bein the middle of the show. To
have you slowly walk out and sitdown on the stage and creep everyone out
for ten minutes and then get upand walk away. No explanation, No,

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don't even acknowledge, don't even acknowledge. Just let it happen. We'll
just move right on and everything willbe fine. And the little bonus,
I didn't realize that next Sunday isFather's Day. So if you want a
Father's Day gift, you get ticketsto my show. I think you're off
the hook. I don't think youhave to buy a gift. In addition

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to that, I didn't even realizethat either. That's a good call there,
Tom, that's a really good call. I did not realize that at
all. Well, it's the serviceI like to I like to provide to
my audience members. I know,buying dad's a gift is the most annoying
thing in the world. So nowyou can just give him a ticket to
the show. You don't even haveto go to the show with him,

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just buying tickets and send him onhis way, all right. So we'll
be filming his Netflix specials next Saturdaynight. There's two shows that night,
seven thirty nine o'clock. Ticketmaster dotcom to get your tickets. Tom,
I hope you have a I hopeyou have a very good next week,
and then I will see you overthe h I will see you over the

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weekend. Very exciting. I'm verypsyched to see you. Thanks for the
support. It's gonna be it's gonnabe great. This is my fifth or
sixth special, so I'm really I'mreally hoping I don't blow it.