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Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade

Jazz Fest + Manifestos

04 May 2026

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Chapter 1: What are the Desert Warrior box office numbers?

0.503 - 18.706 Dana Carvey

I'm such a notorious mumbler. Last night at the comedy store, half the time they can't even hear me. That's if a joke doesn't work. I think they can't hear me. And then the last night I was getting a lot of echo. And I don't even know anything about mics, even to this point. But I could tell something was off.

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20.208 - 22.671 Unknown

Well, I have the name for your next special.

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23.833 - 37.426 Dana Carvey

Go ahead. The mumbler. Oh boy. Now that's what I'm playing in the next Batman movie. Heather, can you turn that one down now? This is my eye that gets all Tom Cruise and squinchy like this. I know.

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Chapter 2: How did Simone Biles address the cost of glam?

37.546 - 59.46 Dana Carvey

So Dana, I have to talk to you about some things. OK, real serious thing. Well, first of all, I know I want I want to hear about your trip. I just want to tell you that it's not that exciting. Go ahead. Well, nothing I'm going to say is exciting that bus boys. I just saw a good piece of news that there's a movie. So first of all, this is my funny take.

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59.52 - 62.363 Dana Carvey

There's a place called Box Office Mojo dot com.

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I go to it all the time and I checked it last night to see how bus boys was doing.

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66.62 - 67.441 Dana Carvey

Oh, have you heard this story?

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No.

69.744 - 72.188 Dana Carvey

Busboys was a ghost. So go ahead. Jumping ahead.

Chapter 3: What was Dana's experience at the New Orleans Jazz Fest?

72.749 - 78.777 Dana Carvey

So I go to Box Office Mojo all the way back to like Grown Ups, all these other movies.

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Yeah, that's the go-to place.

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80.319 - 83.984 Dana Carvey

Because every night, what it made the night for, and like the top 40 or 50.

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Yeah.

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84.906 - 106.883 Dana Carvey

So we're independent, right? So it says, it had some weird name, but now it's called Busboys Holdings or whatever. But it usually says like Disney, Paramount, whatever, whatever, you know what I mean? Yeah. A24 distributor, producer, whatever. So when we were eight that first weekend, we were the only independent, only independent in the top 10. Fine.

106.903 - 122.968 Dana Carvey

So the next week during the week, I did some quick calculations in my head. I go, we're going to be about sixth right now, just during the week. And then by the time I get whomped by Michael Jackson, the weekend and five wide releases will be pushed down, but fine.

Chapter 4: How do manifestos influence creative expression?

123.252 - 139.658 Dana Carvey

So Monday doesn't say anything Tuesday, nothing. And I go, are they going to make us, they're not putting it back onto the weekend. So we have no idea what it made all week on the weekend. Nothing. You know, I think big movie got to him like big pharma, big movie.

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Oh, wait a minute. So what? Oh, OK. OK. Big movie. So basically what you're saying is Busboys was still in theaters incurring revenue. Yeah.

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151.661 - 160.397 Dana Carvey

But big movie mojo, whatever they are, box office mojo, a box office mojo and said, why are you putting it makes us look a little weird.

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They don't like indie films.

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163.095 - 163.957 Dana Carvey

You're off the resume.

Chapter 5: What are the implications of AI on content creation?

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They want you in a big corporate bubble. So I think Warner Brothers made a ringy dingy. I think Paramount made a ringy dingy.

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170.411 - 171.774 Dana Carvey

Conspiracy theory going around.

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They can't stop the people, though. Let me just put that out to you. People are people spoke.

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177.387 - 177.828 Dana Carvey

Yeah.

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$2,000 per theater with no advertising first weekend. Go ahead.

183.458 - 196.222 Dana Carvey

Someone wrote in and said, they'd only made $2,000 per theater. That sucks. I go, why don't you check the top 50? Because I think the top three make $2,000. Anyway, we were in lower theaters, but listen, it's not changing the world.

Chapter 6: What insights can we gain from Buzzing Around segment?

196.342 - 206.246 Dana Carvey

As I say, this is the kind of movie that you watch on your phone while you're driving. It's not a real cinematic experience, but it's fun, right?

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Or in your case, if you're in a bubble bath, you can just hold your phone up and play with the duck with the other hand.

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211.978 - 215.064 Dana Carvey

Go ahead. Or hold it under the water. You can still see it pretty good.

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Yeah.

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215.606 - 217.249 Dana Carvey

You don't have to hear it.

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Or get the audio book version that is already out. Busboys, you guys do a great job of vocalizing the movie and just put that in. Yeah. Look at look at pictures of you and Theo from the.

229.496 - 232.42 Dana Carvey

How about this? So listen, our movie all in. We lied.

Chapter 7: How does the podcast address current events?

232.46 - 237.108 Dana Carvey

It costs three, seven, not just three. But that's because music was about five hundred.

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Jesus, I can play a couple instruments next time.

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240.653 - 263.723 Dana Carvey

We should have had you come in there. Because, okay, it's a 3-7. So let's say it made another million during the week, blah, blah. But I just read that this new movie, it's called Desert Warrior. Heard about it? I didn't think so. No. It made $480,000, Heather, this weekend. Whoops. Budget? $150 million.

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263.956 - 265.378 Unknown

No, that's not possible.

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Chapter 8: What comedic observations are made about Hollywood?

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So tell the real story. That's very funny, David.

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268.281 - 280.154 Dana Carvey

The biggest flop in recent memory. It's Ben Kingsley, Anthony Mackie, big stars. It just something about it did not work. Obviously something. Well, something didn't work.

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Well, let me, I've got to unpack this. They make a movie for 150 million. Normally they match that with advertising another. So there are 300 deep and their first weekend Ben Kingsley is have a Poppin' Champagne, they do 400,000. So 1,900th of the box. I mean, there's flops and then there's flops.

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302.812 - 321.686 Dana Carvey

That's how it shows you how rough it is out there. So their per screen average is about 12 bucks. I don't know what I'm talking about. I don't know what it was, but you know what I'm saying? It's a brutal bloodbath. That one, I don't know what could have happened other than just no awareness. Now, we didn't have advertising. Well, I'd never heard of it.

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What's the name of the Ben Kingsley one?

324.77 - 330.598 Dana Carvey

Desert Warrior. Well, no, the real name, because that's ridiculous. That's a good generic name.

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That's like a guy with a gun. Desert craziness. Tanks nearby.

338.925 - 340.487 Dana Carvey

Tanks and things.

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Yeah, think of the worst title that would never have a human being buy a ticket at a centerplex.

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