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Recorded on: September 11, 2024Tom Segura is a stand-up comic, actor, podcaster, and author. He co-hosts two podcasts, "Your Mom's House," with his wife, comic Christina Pazsitsky, and "Two Bears, One Cave," and is the author of "I'd Like to Play Alone, Please: Essays." www.ymhstudios.com
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Thanks, I'm losing it, but it's what's left of it is still boom and we're live gentlemen. Hello Sean. Hey, how are you? Hello Tom. Hello Joseph. Let's go you guys did a movie. Did you make a movie? We made a movie Yeah, you guys do movies. We do we're movie guys. How many movies have you made? One well, but you've made how many you made before I like six. Yeah, but we've made one. We've made one What's your favorite one other than the one that's right now, which is definitely your favorite because you're promoting it right now Ah Sex drive sex drive. Which one was that? It's the one nobody knows about. Yeah, this is the first one Nobody knows about it. I mean it just it was one of those movies that just opened and nobody knew about it But it was it was a really really fun movie. Maybe we could change that. Yeah, I've tunes or Netflix. Yeah. Yeah It's all James Parsons in it This is the one is this one that you like when you made it you're like and maybe I'll go back to work in fucking construction Yeah, yeah, yeah, so I thought I thought it was over after that Did you finance it or anything? No, no, we made it We made it with summit pictures and it was it was it was amazing. They they we were in town trying to get a career going You know trying to trying to make things happen. We were making a TV pilot at the time, which was a living hell and and we had gone out and pitched this idea to a bunch of places and nobody bought it so then in the middle of our editing our pilot summit pictures called and said We really we keep thinking about that pitch Would you guys be willing to write it and I said, you know what? Tell them I was really busy I said tell them we'll write it if I can direct it But I figured that would make them go away and they said alright And so we went in and we wrote it and we turned it in and they greenlit it It was this crazy It was just this crazy process where we got this movie greenlit and I think we wrote the draft in like a month And we turned it in and they loved it. What's it about? It's a it's a teen road trip movie It's about this these kids that it was kind of in the early days of the you know Facebook and all that stuff and it might have even been I don't know I can never track the it might even been like sort of myspace into Facebook that era, you know But it was about a kid who meets a girl online and goes to lose his virginity on a road trip. It's funny. Yeah It is funny. Yeah Marsden's in it James Marsden. He's really funny Clark Duke and Yeah, I had a good cast and there it is Yeah, wow good But it was a really great experience It was really fun And then we we we tested it we did the test screenings and it just murdered like it was just and the studio got really excited And I thought oh my god, like I'm gonna have a huge career and the movie came out and didn't do anything Okay, I'm gonna go back to Wisconsin and and not have a career at all Is it true that instant family you hired Tom because Bert Kreischer wasn't available? Yes, God damn it Don't tell me that man. That's what I'd heard. Well, and he was asking he was asking for a lot of money a lot more within well He's like whatever Marx gets I want double