MINISODE: Detroit Event

Should we dive into our Coney a little bit?

Yeah, I know.

I'm like, what are we doing?

Oh, we're doing a Coney recap.

You're sick. I'm me. So who knows?

Let's recap Coney. I wrote an intro, but we don't need an intro. Let's just go.

Do you want to read the intro? Well, first to explain what the Coney is.

Well, that's in my intro.

Oh, well, then you do the intro.

I'm just going to read the intro. That's what I'm saying.

You do the intro. Let's pretend none of this happened, and we're starting. And go.

Okay, fanaritos. Jodi and I spent the weekend in Detroit with our dear friends Dave and Melissa Coulier. And we have so much to catch you up on. We were there for the Coney. which is a benefit created by Mark Evan Jackson and the Children's Foundation of Michigan that raised an incredible $ 2. 7 million for youth arts education in Detroit.

Amazing.

And between hanging out with Dave and Mel and their sweet dogs, boating on the lake, meeting Amber Ruffin, and having dinner with Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, it was a pretty unforgettable weekend. throw in a Full House skit with Andy Richter and a Coney hot dog making contest on stage and we have so much to explain.

So let's get into it.

Boop!

There we go.

First of all, we will tell you what the origin of the Coney is. It is a Coney hot dog. Yes, we know Coney Island is in New York. Here's the story. Italian, Greek immigrants from Coney Island Two brothers came. They were coming to the Midwest. They wound up in Detroit. They started a Coney hot dog business, bringing, you know, the taste of Coney Island to the immigrants that had moved sort of into the Midwest. Then something happened. There was a split, as there always is. With any good food, one goes off one way and one goes off the other.

And they have slightly different, it's Lafayette.

Lafayette and American are the two different types of hot dogs.

Yeah, yeah, Lafayette and American, and those are the two breeds of Coney dogs.

And people are divided. Like, this is a dividing issue.

People are hotly divided. The Coney is what Detroit is known for. It's much like a cheesesteak in Philly, although it's named for something that's not actually in Detroit. But besides the point, the Coney- That's where it comes from. It's a Detroit thing. So because it was benefiting Detroit and a lot of the talent were from Detroit, they thought naming it something that was sort of ultimately Detroit would be the thing.

I love it.

And who doesn't love to do an event named after a hot dog? Right?

I mean, this is– it was great. It was fantastic.

So much fun.

I thought of a tangent. I'm not going to go on that tangent.

No, no, do it. Do it.

No, no, because it really has nothing to do– My favorite hot dog is actually in Maine where my in-laws, my ex-in-laws are from. It's Wass's Hot Dog and it is so good. And I've always wanted to bring, like create a franchise and bring it out here to the West Coast. Yeah, because it's so good.

Get your Wass's over here.

Get your Wass's.

Oh my gosh.

See, I should make this happen. But anyways, speaking of like Coney Island and then the hot dog movie, that was just my, that's where my brain goes when it's on Dayquil. Hot dogs.

Okay.

But let's stay in Detroit here. We stayed at Dave's and Melissa's house, which was so beautiful.

We did. It was our first time out there since they'd built it. Yeah. And since Dave had been sick because it was, you know, we didn't want to travel and bring stuff. Of course.

Of course. Yeah. He and Melissa have been there about two years. They built the house themselves. And yeah, Dave built it, moved in, and then got cancer twice. So like he's finally, this is finally like, hey, he's welcoming people into his home.

Yeah, yeah. And it was beautiful right on the lake. Gorgeous.

And so very Dave too. Very modern.

Yeah, very modern. Dave is a super minimalist, super modern. So yeah, it was like very, very clean. He has some amazing art that he's done up there that I was like, wait, you did that? I thought it was like, Oh, wow. Yeah, it was really incredible. So bravo.

Who knew he was so artistic? He's got great talent.

The puzzle one I love. I just, I really, I like that puzzle one. Anyway, I, it was a great, it was a great weekend to get to spend some time with them and raise some money for some really good causes.

Yeah.

Friday was fun too. Friday was very fun. Friday. When we met with the kids.

The dinner. Oh, oh, oh yeah. The improv. We did. That's right. I didn't put that in the rundown.

Yeah.

We did. We met up with the Detroit kids with the, with the performing arts high school.

Yeah, there were two different schools. There was a Detroit School for the Arts, DSA, and another program that also benefits arts programs in Detroit. There were several, I think, that benefited from the Coney event.

And their teachers came.

Yeah, yeah. But it was great. There were, oh, how did, like, what? 50 students, probably?

Yeah, what did you say?

80? 30? 30? I don't know. I obviously am terrible at guesstimation.

I don't know. There were a lot of students.

Yes, a lot of students. We filled a room. Yeah, a lot of students and a lot of the stand-ups and guests and, you know, actors and stuff showed up for it, too. It was an optional event, but a lot of people came.

Yeah, it was great. We did, like, team-building exercises.

It was like improv gamers.

It was fun. And I liked how they started out slow, how it was like, hey, everybody... find people with the same birth month. And so there were only three July, which was nuts. I don't know how many Januaries there were.

We had a lot of Jane with a fair amount of January.

Yeah. Um, but yeah, just fun improv games. It was great to meet the kids are so excited and they did so good. Like they had to perform improv in front of all of us. And so I'm like, that's, that's gotta be intimidating. And they did so well.

There were a couple of kids that came up to me that were like, I was so nervous. Like, and I was like, well, did you have fun? They were like, yeah, it was actually really fun. I'm like, Good. I had fun too. Yeah.

I had a blast. It was so great. Yeah. I'm really glad they put that together.

And it's so important. I mean, arts education should not be an optional thing because it's, I mean, scientifically proven that it helps in every area of your life and creativity is a necessary human function. Right. It shouldn't be an optional thing, but I was just so proud to see such an investment by the entire city in arts in general. You know, this program and just so much of the art revitalization, whether it's restaurants or galleries or film, you know. Yeah.

Oh, it was it was so great. I loved every minute of it. Arts is usually the first thing to be cut, and it shouldn't be.

Right, because people see arts as optional. They're like, who needs music? And you're like, everybody?

The world. Yeah. You need to express yourself artistically, whatever form that looks like.

Plus, it also does help with math. There's some transitory things that sort of help with both. It's very important.

You've got to focus on the whole child or the whole student.

Exactly. Kids are much more emotionally literate if they have a creativity.

I agree.

Yeah, that's our tangent, and we're sticking to it. Right. But it was so much fun. Yeah, Andy Richter was lovely. He was so nice. So nice.

I loved him.

Our bit got cut down, though, because by the time we got to the end, we were nearing three hours of a show.

It went a little long. Well, when I saw the script, the script was like 70 pages long.

Yeah, we were like, I don't know if you're going to fit that all in there. But ambitious.

And Full House came at the end, so yeah, we got cut down to like 30 minutes.

Particularly because there was no rehearsal. Like literally, we all got together, we rehearsed the first number where everyone walks out on stage and sings a medley. we rehearsed the ending thing where everyone walks out on stage and sings a medley. And that was it. And then everything in between was like a first for everybody.

Anything goes.

Anything goes. And the best part was nobody in any of the other parts knew really what was happening because as typical, we all just read our own parts and then we were like, what are you doing?

Yeah.

I was like, you're doing a what? A hot dog contest. Yeah. It was It was great because it was just so much fun. It was like a bunch of theater kids just getting to play and have fun and be creative, you know, as those of us that were in the show. So I'm just really proud of it. It was great.

I'm proud of it, too. We rewrote our Full House skit because that's what we do. We were like, let's make it more Full House. Let's make it.

Well, we were like, this is not, it's not working.

Let's make it work. Right. So we kind of ran it together a few times. This is when we were on the boat on the lake.

Oh, yeah. We wrote it on the boat.

Yeah, that's right. We were driving the boat and we're like, let's rewrite it.

Yeah. Dave's driving a boat. I'm writing a new script on my notes app on my phone. I can't hear. Yeah.

And we're throwing out, you know, we're riffing on things.

Yeah.

Throwing out ideas. But it was cute. So we so it was the three of us and Andy Richter. And so we were sitting on couches sort of like late night style, like a late night interview. And then Andy prompted the question, hey, girls, what was it like growing up with two comedians and a Greek god? Right.

And so the beginning part was that he thought, you know, the joke is he thinks he's doing his entire hour long podcast. And then, you know, the stage manager, quote unquote, that's like the character is like, actually, you have six minutes go. So the first few minutes, which is what we cut, which then made it just a very sort of strange jump into everything was that whole bit explaining why the hell Andy Richter is sitting down with us in the first place and why it's so short.

That's true. We did cut that.

Yeah, we cut the context, but it's fine. By that point, we were all just like, doesn't matter. Give it two minutes.

Let's go. We can make it work.

Make it work.

So then there's a music cue, the sad violins, the sad, sappy full house music. And then, you know, one of us is sad and Dave brings out Mr. Woodchuck to try to cheer us up. Right. And then it ends with a big family Tanner hug in which we bring Andy Richter into the family. Right. It was it was, you know, we got it done. We got it.

We did it.

And it was fun. You know what? We got to throw our hat in with everybody else raising some money.

Yeah.

It was so fun.

I would definitely do it again, though. I would love to do it again.

They want to make it an annual thing, so I hope we get to year two.

I'm in. I hope we get invited.

I'm so in.

You and me and Dave can write it.

Oh, yeah.

If anybody wants us, you know, we're offering our services. Yeah, I think we could do pretty well.

The script is very Detroit-specific, too, so we definitely need a Detroiter to get in those insider jokes. Because a lot of that went over my head.

Right. Yeah, a lot of it. There was a whole song about the terrible bridges. Oh, yeah. That was the very last song that we all came out for. And I, you know, gathered what was going on from the song. But, yeah, if you did not have any idea what was going on, you would wonder why people were wearing bridges on their heads.

That's right.

It was just... It was like a fever dream at times. I was like, what is happening?

Yeah, no, but it was so great. And I just loved like so many people showed up to be a part of it. And we're really excited about it. It was great.

Yeah, the enthusiasm was great. The momentum.

We sold out the Detroit Opera House.

They sold out. They did some live auctions on stage too. Dave auctioned off a night with the Red Wings and him and meeting the team. And then Kristen Bell, who could not be there.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

She sent in a video, and she auctioned off a red carpet Frozen 3 experience, which was for a lot of money.

So it was great.

It was just really, really cool to see the enthusiasm and the generosity, too.

Oh, yeah. Pretty spectacular. You know me. I thrive in an environment where it's like, we're just jumping off the ledge. See what happens. Let's go. Let's fly. Let's go. Oh, I was in heaven.

I was like.

Let's just, it's all, it's just play. It's play and it's having fun and anything could, anything went. And it was just, it was a really, really good time.

Yeah. Yeah. What was your, who, who, who, who were you most excited to meet? I mean, I think I know the answer to this question, but who was, who were you most excited to meet and who were you, who did.

You enjoy meeting? Amber Ruffin. Definitely. I, I love her comedy. I love, uh, you know, how she just is with the world. She doesn't, you know, she takes no big shit and she's, so funny. Um, and just, yeah, she's really great. And after, you know, the correspondence dinner fiasco, I was like, I love you girl. Yeah, it was, it was great. So I, I was, it was fun.

I got to kind of shoot the shit with her a bunch and we were, you know, joking around and stuff. So yeah, she is lovely and was absolutely, uh, yeah, she was definitely one of the people I was looking forward to meeting.

Yeah. She, she was so nice.

Yeah.

Um, I was very excited to meet Mark Evan Jackson cause I was a big fan of his on the good place.

Yeah. Yeah. Um, And Mark and I had done a quiz show.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah. So I had met him.

He's so nice. And he was just, from the jump, he was like, thank you so much for coming out here. And I'm like, thank you for inviting us. Like, you don't have to thank me. And then he wrote a handwritten thank you that he included in the swag bags for all of us.

Oh, yeah, yeah. That was so sweet.

Channeling Sherry Barber and my grandmother, who are all about the handwritten thank you note. It's a lost art. And so I made sure I mentioned that to him, that I appreciated the effort of the handwritten thank you note. So, yeah, class act, that guy. And he just put so much of himself into this event. And, yeah, that was definitely a highlight. And just spending time with Dave in his own habitat, you know, with his dogs, Cooper and Ziggy.

Oh, my God. They were so cute.

So great. The cute little, what were they?

Shih Tzu. Ewoks. Pomeranians.

Yeah, they looked like Ewoks.

Ewoks. Yeah, yeah.

And Mel is just the greatest host ever. Like anything you need. She's like trying to anticipate our needs the entire time that we're there.

Oh, she was. Yeah, it was great.

She was so nice.

And that massage chair. Dave has this one of those like spaceship massage chairs in his garage. And that was amazing.

And I.

Yeah, that was really awesome.

That felt great. He has an indoor pool.

Oh, it was lovely.

You spent some time in the sauna and the steam room?

I did.

Both?

I didn't steam it up. No, I did the little sauna, and then I sat in the hot tub, and then cold plunged, which was very cold.

Okay, so you were on top of your game after that. I was. I was.

I was awake.

Yeah, ready to go. Yeah, it was good. And then the greatest compliment for me was when Andy Richter said, after our set, he's like, you remind me of my good friend Amy Sedaris. And I was like, what?

What?

Like that. I'm like carrying that with me to my grave. I'm so excited.

Like, yeah, that's amazing. Yeah.

Um, he's a very nice guy. Um, but yeah, I loved, I loved all of it. The fundraising event, meeting new people, and then just spending time with Dave, which is, it's never enough time.

Yeah.

I just appreciate every moment I get to spend with him even more now.

Yeah. Me too. Me too. No, we had, we had the best time. Uh, if you were there, fan or Rito's, let us know. We'd love to hear if you had fun, what you thought, you know, all of that. And hopefully we will get to go back to the Coney next year because it was a really good time.

Good time. Looking forward to it.

All right, everybody. Well, that is our little mini-sode for Detroit. We will catch you next time. So, you know, find us on Instagram at HowRudePodcast, emails at HowRudeTanneritos at gmail.com. Like, subscribe, all the things. And we will see you, well, hear you, or whatevs, next time. So remember, everybody, the world is small, but the house is full of art. Just art everywhere. Singing, dancing, painting, composing, just all of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I thought you were going to say hot dogs, and I was excited about that, too.

You should have said hot dogs. You know what? We'll take the bottom floor as hot dogs and the top floor as art. Because you don't want the hot dogs and the art together. It's going to stain.

It's going to mess it up.

Too much chili. We'll do that. That works.

Okay.

Bye.

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