Ever wondered what it takes to keep your favorite celebrity happy on tour? Spoiler alert: It's not just about the glitz and glamour! On this episode of the Powers Point Podcast, Scott Powers and Jim Banks dive headfirst into the outlandish and downright hilarious travel requests of the rich and famous. From comparing these extravagant demands to their own family’s quirks, to sharing personal tales of summer vacation envy, we promise you’ll be entertained and chuckling along the way. And as if that wasn’t enough, we throw in a dash of sports talk, cheering on the Edmonton Oilers in the NHL finals and marveling at the historic distance between the competing cities.
Get ready for a rollercoaster of bizarre celebrity tour riders that will make you question everything you thought you knew about fame. From Van Halen's notorious M&M demands to Britney Spears' odd McDonald's cheeseburger order and David Hasselhoff's life-size cutout of himself, we dissect each eccentric request with humor and curiosity. And let's not forget the cherry on top—Lady Gaga's mannequin with puffy pink pubic hair and Kanye West's booze-filled slushie machine! Whether it’s Larry the Cable Guy’s wing obsession or Cher’s separate room for her wigs, these stories are guaranteed to give you a unique peek behind the curtain of celebrity life. So, tune in for laughs, surprising insights, and a fun-filled conversation you won’t want to miss!
Ever wondered what it takes to keep your favorite celebrity happy on tour? Spoiler alert: It's not just about the glitz and glamour! On this episode of the Powers Point Podcast, Scott Powers and Jim Banks dive headfirst into the outlandish and downright hilarious travel requests of the rich and famous. From comparing these extravagant demands to their own family’s quirks, to sharing personal tales of summer vacation envy, we promise you’ll be entertained and chuckling along the way. And as if that wasn’t enough, we throw in a dash of sports talk, cheering on the Edmonton Oilers in the NHL finals and marveling at the historic distance between the competing cities.
Get ready for a rollercoaster of bizarre celebrity tour riders that will make you question everything you thought you knew about fame. From Van Halen's notorious M&M demands to Britney Spears' odd McDonald's cheeseburger order and David Hasselhoff's life-size cutout of himself, we dissect each eccentric request with humor and curiosity. And let's not forget the cherry on top—Lady Gaga's mannequin with puffy pink pubic hair and Kanye West's booze-filled slushie machine! Whether it’s Larry the Cable Guy’s wing obsession or Cher’s separate room for her wigs, these stories are guaranteed to give you a unique peek behind the curtain of celebrity life. So, tune in for laughs, surprising insights, and a fun-filled conversation you won’t want to miss!
Thank you for joining us on today's show, as always, we appreciate each and every one of you! Talk to you soon.
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Speaker 1:
On this episode of the Powers Point podcast, scott and I discuss the crazy and weird requests from celebrities and musicians when traveling.
Speaker 2:
Hey, scott drop hello, welcome to the Powers Point Podcast, season 5, episode 19. 1,000% sure that that's it. Okay, I trust you. I'm your host, scott Powers, and with me is my other host of the show, god, jim Banks. Hello, hello everybody. And if you guys are just tuning in and you're wondering what we are about, well, let me give you a quick rundown of this show, so I ain't wasting your time. So we talk about anything and everything, with the exception of two things we don't talk religion, we don't talk politics. So if you're looking for those, well, go to the 600 Club podcast or go to the he's my President podcast.
Speaker 2:
There's plenty of those podcasts out there. They're very I don't know to us. They're gloomy, they cause trouble Stressful is the exact word and we're trying to make everybody happy. I appreciate you being here. We got a good topic today, yeah, and, as Jim said at the beginning, there's a lot of crazy people musicians and actors who Not just your family members. We're going to be happy to know that there's more people out there that are crazier than Uncle John and Uncle Billy and all that other stuff. So we're talking about weird requests. When people get booked to do a show, like a singer or an actor or whatever and I've personally dealt with this the writers send in requests and we're going to tell you a few of those. So I'm look forward to hearing what Jim's got the requests are often called writers.
Speaker 1:
That's what the that's what I wanted to establish.
Speaker 2:
That before we get into the weird conditions, or I just said that then cut it out, forget it.
Speaker 1:
Jesus Christ well, I didn't know.
Speaker 2:
I can't hear over here, okay, then cut it out, forget it, jesus Christ. Well, I didn't know, I can't hear over here, okay. I was like I'm going to send you some new headphones over there, man, or something. Oh yeah, these crappy ones. Right here the cut sign. So, jim, what have you been up to in the last week? I know summer vacations started. Yes, any adventures with you and Jimmy.
Speaker 1:
Not yet no adventures, it's just the adventure of going to work, and that's not much of an adventure, more of an annoyance. It seems like whenever summer comes and vacations, doesn't it seem like everybody else is like racing off and doing things, and you're like still doing the work, work, work. And you're like, and then you hear about and you're like why can't I do stuff? You know?
Speaker 2:
and the thing that drives me crazy, but it doesn't make me upset or anything. But people like with less income, yes, are doing around the world vacations. You're like busting your butt at work. You're going nine, ten hours a thing and you can't even go across the street.
Speaker 1:
We're going to Disneyland or we're going to freaking like Rome or something. Well, guess what? I could barely get out of state with my family.
Speaker 2:
I can't even go down the street With the price of gas everything. Yeah, now, now we're going to sound like two grumpy old people. Man, well, let's save that for the next episode. Yeah, yeah, it drives me crazy. You know, like the guy across the street he has, he always brings these big yachts to his house, you know on the trailers, and he's like, yeah, a professional fisherman or angler, he's always in like the fishing magazines and all that for like a contest and the damn thing's bigger than my garage. You know like, and then, and then he'll take that somewhere. And then he brings in another one like two weeks later. It's even bigger.
Speaker 1:
So he's a professional fisherman. Yeah, what's his nickname? Tugs.
Speaker 2:
Jesty, I forget what they call him, but yeah, call him Tugs Gently. He wins a lot of awards, you know, for like biggest fish. He's on like TV. Sometimes he's in the angler sports angler. That's going to be the most boring magazine you know well, it's still magazines.
Speaker 1:
I mean, who buys magazines anymore?
Speaker 2:
right, he's in like field and stream magazine, yeah, and uh, yeah, as you said, hugs gently but yeah, yeah, and he's always, and then he'll bring in a real small one. I'm like, ah, that's more my size, you know. And then immediately you take that away and then bring up yeah, that's the boat of his boat, you know, like his lifeboat. So, uh, what else you've been up to anything?
Speaker 1:
um the nhl uh finals. This series has started to crown a Stanley Cup champion. It is between the Edmonton Oilers versus the Florida Panthers.
Speaker 2:
You know what? It's good to see a Canadian team back in the playoffs. That's what I'm saying. And the Hurricanes aren't in it. You know people that are always in it. I'm sick of that you know.
Speaker 1:
But the last five years a Florida team has been in the finals. Tampa Bay did it three years in a row and this is the second year for Florida Panthers and I don't want Florida winning. So I'm all Canada right now Go Edmonton.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, I guess I'm rooting for it too. So is that just about to start, or have they played?
Speaker 1:
any. Tomorrow, saturday, they start the uh game one. And did you know that it is the the? This finals, it'll be the furthest between two cities in nhl history. The total distance 2,543 miles, from all the way in the corner, edmonton, to all the way in uh, florida, panthers huh, you are our panelists, dave, he.
Speaker 2:
He lives like down the street from damn arena, so I can only imagine what traffic's like around his house. Yeah, maybe he could be one of them guys that uh hunter looney's, you know, for a parking spot. Hold on, I was just looking. I always talk about my dog, but I was checking on him, yeah. So I really hope Edmonton shuts down. So do I, yeah. And then also, the NBA finals are about to start, or it's going to be game two. It's a Celtics versus the Mavericks so dallas, mavericks and the celtics.
Speaker 2:
So celtics is like old school to me. Yeah, you know I love the gardens floor, that that looks really awesome. You know it's like different. But then you got the mavericks, who's owned by uh mark cuban. So I'm looking forward to uh to this topic.
Speaker 2:
Like I said, I've dealt with a couple of them and I and they really pissed me off like uh, uh, waylon jennings, grandson, shooter jennings, really always, yes, dude, he, uh, he knows everybody's waiting for him outside the bus. He wants everybody to be counted and then he wants the exact number of people that are there. Why, I mean? And then don't there better not be another person, cause you know like people pay. You know like 120 people pay to get autographs, yeah, and so he'll have a uh, the, the promoter count, and then his number goes to uh, his guy and then he'll stand behind you and then shooter will take forever to get off the bus after he gets that number and then there better not be any more people numbers because his guy will count. So once that number's counted, then he'll cut you off, no matter what but who's what?
Speaker 1:
what does shooter jennings do? First of all, he's a country singer. Oh, I didn't know that. I thought he was just living off his dad's name, like who'd want his autograph, he is he's like a country rapper oh, he's trying the new rap uh and it's good was it called dickhawk yeah that's it, hiccup.
Speaker 2:
I had to deal with this for a whole weekend down in indianapolis at the fairgrounds and the promoter he only brought me in to handle everything with him and two other people to handle the whole fair by itself, man. And so I had to like, whenever the rider request would happen, then I would have to hurry up and go get it for them. You know, oh yeah, like Shooter Jennings again, he wanted big carpeting for his bus. So you have to hurry up and go and like, oh, I want a 20 foot long carpet. You should have bought that for your bus before you got here. That's what we said, man, how many of those damn carpets you got on your bus? You know, are you going to sell some rug outlet or something? You know, there's so many and it's, oh god, it drives me crazy.
Speaker 2:
Uh, the thickness of this one. Uh, the moonshine bandits, they're another, they're another. Uh, hiccup, and they sound like they could be your neighbors. They got mohawks. Uh, they wanted, like all these hand towels all around the stage so when they sweat they can just wipe it off. You know, and and uh, so we got them 20 towels and then they, uh, they didn't like the thickness and they wanted 20 more oh, for god's sake, they just wanted 40 of them right, you know.
Speaker 2:
So you go to the dollar store and buy something like okay, 20 hand towels. Well now, now they want 40.
Speaker 1:
See, I in my work I got to deal with customers that act like that. They're all, all prissy and like they.
Speaker 2:
they come there wanting a fight because their their life is miserable and demand, act like a god or something. It's like, no, just get out of here, right. And then the moonshine bandits also wanted, uh, uh, three bottles of jack daniels, the 750 milliliter, the big bottles. They wanted, uh like, bags of skittles. They wanted, uh like it was so weird. And then I only bought two of the bottles of Jack and they got all pissed and I'm like, oh my God, plus all the beer. And then the problem is is they don't even drink at all. They leave a lot of it. So you're like blowing cash out of your pocket to make them happy. Hell, no, you know, but you have to do this. So when we come back, yes, let's get into it.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, let's just jump right into this and we'll be back after these messages. Hey, this is Fred Awanek from Corner Gas and you're listening to the Powers Point Podcast. All right, welcome back, jim. As I said before the commercial, there's some crazy requests out there that people have. I got a list and I sent you the list. I don't know if you're playing off the same list. Let me get my spectacles on here. Oh, your glasses. That's one of the business.
Speaker 1:
The first one, the crazy one, was 1982. This band did it just to see if everybody at every city was paying attention and reading the list to the fullest. And then the band was van halen. They asked that every stop on their tour provide them with a bowl of m&ms and that the brown m&ms were picked out of them. Yeah, I've heard, I heard that, and everybody pretty much afterwards started playing top this about?
Speaker 2:
uh oh, and they do. So how about cycle britney spears? When she was playing in the london's o2 arena, she requested a framed photo of princess diana to be hung, but in her dressing room. Because britney adores the monarchy, diane was in many ways her inspiration. She also really wanted some mcdonald's cheeseburgers, but hold the buns. Well, wait, hold the buns. How are you gonna hold the buns? Wait, hold the buns. How are you going to hold the buns? Don't even give her bread, just give her the meat with cheese, onion, ketchup, mustard and pickle.
Speaker 1:
I don't think she seemed like a knife and fork girl and sitting there with a knife and fork eating it. Then I imagine she's just grabbing it Up like taco.
Speaker 2:
What do you got man?
Speaker 1:
David Hasselhoff talk on. What do you got man? Um, yeah, david hasselhoff, he requires a life. A life-size cutout of david hasselhoff set up backstage where he's at, so he's staring, because he gets to stare at himself good old hoffs. He like talking to himself yeah, I knew he'd bring happiness.
Speaker 2:
He wants to see us, life-size, stand above himself and I'm sure in germany he got a couple of them. They probably have a crown for him, probably, since he was there when, uh, they broke the wall down. He sang.
Speaker 1:
He sang a concert I thought he was the one that got the wall broken down, probably with his good looks.
Speaker 2:
All right, I got kevin hart. Good old comedian kevin hart. His request could be the most absurd. He asked to have five women between the ages of 21 and 27 with an athletic sexy build at the venue one hour ahead of time and to stay one hour after. The ridiculous writer said t-shirts and tights would be provided to the women and the only sizes are extra small, small and and medium.
Speaker 1:
What he likes his women, yeah, but OK, you know, I don't know. Some of this, some of these requests from these celebrities over in the past, that kind of can come back to bite you If people are speaking out about insane stuff celebrities are doing nowadays.
Speaker 2:
I don't know, that's just weird. You said that was the most absurd, but I got one. That's beyond that in my opinion. But what's your next?
Speaker 1:
one. My next one is Larry. The Cable Guy requested 50 Hooter Styles wings I guess they're how they make them and four cans of berry flavored chewing tobacco.
Speaker 2:
I wouldn't mind the wings, but berry style chewing tobacco. I guess they have berry flavored or something, I don't know. I don't know. Man, that's a, that's a weird one. You don't even hear of him anymore, like no that must have been a real old one.
Speaker 2:
Huh, you'd think you'd have a special drink to have to wash those uh wings down I don't know if it's good old salt, like really like sloppy saucy, you just tip the the cardboard up and and take a drink of the sauce. I don't know, that's weird. So I got lady gaga. Everybody knows lady gaga. This one to me is super weird, man okay, one of them being she wants a mannequin with a puffy pink pubic hair. What she wants puffy pink pubic hair put on a mannequin. She was also in the need of extra long straws and lots of tea, as every fan knows. She's obsessed with it. But the mannequin with puffy pink pubic hair.
Speaker 1:
That's just being weird for weird's sake, I think. Oh my.
Speaker 2:
God, imagine that you're having a good day and your boss says hey, I need you to take these clippers, I need you to go to the bathroom and just trim away. You know, like dye it first and then shave it. That's too much, that's crazy. So what do you got next?
Speaker 1:
next one in 2019. Cher wanted an entire room just for her wig collection when she performed in London well, just see, here we go with another singer in London.
Speaker 2:
Oh crazy Britney, now crazy Cher. A separate room what's that who's?
Speaker 1:
who's in that room?
Speaker 2:
my wigs like okay it's just like, uh, it's just like schitt's creek. When they have like all the wigs hanging on the wall and everything in their room. Yeah huh, here we go. This celebrity has been in the news lately. Good old, another psycho, crazy Kanye West. Uh-oh, he said the most important things to him. On his rider was chief among the requested Carmex chapstick, sun-kissed salted pistachios, bottles of Propel water and booze, which includes a bottle of Hennessy, a bottle of Sky, a bottle of Absolute Vodka, a bottle of Patron silver tequila and four six-packs of Heineken. And when Kim Kardashian was still married to him, she threw in an alcohol-abused slushie machine to be put in their dressing rooms.
Speaker 2:
It's just too much, man oh my gosh Dude, just the liquor alone is over a couple hundred dollars. So you're paying this person to come in and perform. So now you're paying this person to come in and perform and then to make them happy? No-transcript, and he's not even going to eat this shit. And it's so specific, like like sun-kissed salted pistachios, Like I didn't even know sun-kissed made pistachio flavor, I don't know.
Speaker 1:
That's just well, people, the companies are going to make it. If someone demands, you know someone that powerful or rich or whatever demands it, it's so stupid man.
Speaker 1:
It's a waste. I mean that's a lot of wasteful stuff. Here's what you got, here's for the world. Kind of crazy. But I mean, uh, paul mccartney, yeah, uh, his writer states that there will be no meat or meat byproducts allowed to be served in the dressing rooms, production office or any other areas backstage. I didn't know he was a vegetarian. Uh, he's all about animal. You know, free and and don't eat animals. But how can you, how can you? That means to tell me you have one person in every area, every room, a policeman, watching everybody eat. Wow, you can't make people not eat something. I mean, that's weird.
Speaker 2:
That is weird man.
Speaker 1:
And does he walk around and just go? What's that? I smell chicken nuggets. It's like freaking out looking around. I'm leaving, that's it. Close it down, we're all going home.
Speaker 2:
It smells like my ex-wife's leg, oh damn you had to go there.
Speaker 1:
I'm sorry dude.
Speaker 2:
How about the guy who's bringing sexy back? I'm talking about the one and only justin timberlake. He requires someone to disinfect the doorknobs of any backstage venue or hotel he's in every two hours. On top of that, it's necessary for him to have the elevator to himself and an entire floor of a hotel by himself. That's just okay. Okay, and you know they're not staying at. Leave the Light on Motel 6, you know that. Leave the light on motel six, you know. So now the person has to pay for the whole floor of this expensive like the hilton or the hilton.
Speaker 1:
That's probably even low class to them, but it's crazy too, man, that's see, that's just nuts, because I also heard a on a graham norton show one time he said that a celebrity wanted to have nine rooms. He wouldn't say that the celebrity was. They wanted nine rooms and they demanded it and stuff. And when they got nine rooms at the last second, uh, their, their person, their handler came by and said, uh, they need another room. And they go, why do they need another? Why does this person need another room? They said, well, he wants to charge his phone, so they had to. He wanted a room just to charge his cell phone.
Speaker 2:
A whole room and the charger cable will still end up missing somehow some way.
Speaker 1:
I was like no way there's I mean, forget about it there's. That's the most stupidest thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 2:
An entire room. That is all I have for these crazy requests, man, and you know what. Everybody comes from somewhere and then they make it big and then they all of a sudden this is where my biggest pet peeve is is arrogance. You know, don't forget the ladder that you go up because you got to come back down. You know, and you're not better than you were 20 years ago, maybe a little richer, maybe a little bit more famous, but you're still the same damn person. You know, I don't think I would have anything like that. I hate I. I wouldn't maybe like kanye west's request, like have some propel water that's it.
Speaker 1:
I think I would only have like don't have people, you know, saying stupid stuff around me or something, or like just annoying me yeah, or if you're going somewhere and you like it, then take it with you. Yeah, you know like everything I do in life, I never almost never put anybody out. I'm always like I don't need nothing. I don't need nothing and I'm they're just like god. You don't even want anything. I'm like no.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, so do you have any more, or? That's all I got for it.
Speaker 1:
That's all I got enough. Enough of those spoiled celebrities, Like you said.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, let's move on, cause they're they're starting to piss me off. Hey, before we leave, this is another short. They pissed me off so bad that my request is I'm getting out of here. I just want to say again thank you to all the people that are listening. That's stuck by us, new and old, and, like I've always said, like us, follow us, share us, because it's so important you guys help us move up the ranks. I don't see no reviews being put up. Please, dude, it's only a couple seconds. You know. You can find me at Podcast Scott on Twitter. You can find me at Powers31911 on Instagram. You can find Jim.
Speaker 1:
I'm still debating on Instagram. I might.
Speaker 2:
Jim's anti-social media. No, I know, Don't worry this guy. He don't have Twitter, doesn't have Instagram.
Speaker 1:
I'll try to get like a Facebook group or something, so everybody can get in contact with me and us.
Speaker 2:
My mom won't even leave a review. Yeah, she's like I already had them, so I'm not leaving a review.
Speaker 1:
It was painful. I'm sharing with the world.
Speaker 2:
It annoys me daily, and if you'd like to show anyone you think of an idea and you're like, oh, this would be a good topic for Jim and Scott to talk about, let us know we're not psychics. If you want psychics, then you go see Psychic Patty, our other friend of the show. That's all I got Jim, before we leave yes, give us that quote.
Speaker 1:
All right, this is to help everybody dealing with annoying individuals. Some people are like clouds when they disappear, it's a beautiful day.
Speaker 2:
I wish some people would just disappear.
Speaker 1:
So I'll just treat them like clouds and they'll go away, don't worry hopefully so.
Speaker 2:
We will talk to you guys next week time to say goodbye. Thanks for the time spent together. The podcast is finished, but no worries.