No Brown M&M's

Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

Armstrong & Getty

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4.8 • 815 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Van Halen famously demanded in their contract riders that no brown M&M's. What would Jack & Joe include if they were Eddie & Alex?

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0:00.0	No green Eminem's. It's one more thing.
0:02.9	Armstrong and Getty.
0:04.2	One more thing.
0:08.6	Isn't that the famous, was it Van Halen?
0:11.6	Who was it?
0:13.0	There were urban legend or whatever.
0:15.7	They had a writer in their contract.
0:17.2	You couldn't.
0:17.9	They wanted a bowl of M&Ms with all the green ones taken out or something.
0:20.6	It wasn't an urban legend. They confirmed it and they gave the reason for it, which I thought
0:24.1	was interesting. That being their stage production had so many pyrotechnics and mechanical things
0:29.9	that were, it was important that they get these things exactly right, that they put that in there
0:34.9	as a test to see if people actually read their what they were requesting.
0:38.6	The whole thing.
0:39.3	Yeah.
0:39.7	Yeah.
0:40.0	It had less to do with a particular hatred of a color of Eminem and just making sure that they weren't going to set their drum set on fire.
0:47.3	It was a trigger.
0:48.1	It was a safety check.
0:50.0	But Ellen DeGeneres's bizarre demands have been revealed by a TV producer.
0:56.5	It seems like she might have been a nightmare to work for.
0:59.6	It does.
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