Episode 427 - S19E17 - Send In The Clowns

**Matt Reuter** (0:05)
The Show Hello, listeners, and welcome back to another episode of Law and Order Special Viewing Unit, the show where we view, review, and lovingly ridicule everyone's favorite question mark cop drama, Law and Order Special Victims Unit, every episode in a row. From the beginning...

**Aviv Rubinstein** (0:20)
Daddy?

**Matt Reuter** (0:21)
This is a fucking weird one tonight, guys.
It's a fucking weird one. I am your host, Matt Roiter, joining me as always on this fool's errand of a podcast that we've created.
No, I don't... Who do you... No, that's not... There's not a... There's really no good... You're the guy... You know what? You are the butcher selling expired meat to some guy in Jamaica, Queens. That's Aviv Rubinstein over there. How are you doing tonight, Aviv?

**Aviv Rubinstein** (0:58)
Can we hurry it up? I'm late for a meeting with Lin-Manuel.

**Matt Reuter** (1:01)
I... The fact that that was a name drop, I was like, wow, that really just brands the day.

**Aviv Rubinstein** (1:07)
Um, I'm doing pretty well, Matt. I am so fucking tired. I'm almost... So I'm flying to Portland tomorrow to do... To film a comedy show.

**Matt Reuter** (1:18)
Portland, Oregon?

**Aviv Rubinstein** (1:20)
Portland, Oregon. Oh, and right over... Right over your... How long you have time for?

**Matt Reuter** (1:24)
You're not that far.

**Aviv Rubinstein** (1:25)
30 hours.

**Matt Reuter** (1:27)
Oh, you're... Oh, so you're...

**Aviv Rubinstein** (1:28)
If you want to come to a... If you want to come to a comedy show tomorrow night for free, we're doing a taping of a comedian named Cat Alvarado and her one-person show called Trad Wife.

**Matt Reuter** (1:40)
Oh, okay. Thanks for the offer. I do think we have plans tomorrow, though.

**Aviv Rubinstein** (1:46)
Thanks for the offer? No.

**Matt Reuter** (1:48)
Well, if you were in town for the weekend, it was like, oh...

**Aviv Rubinstein** (1:50)
Yeah, I wish that I could, but I'm just flying right back on Saturday, like after noon, Saturday, like five.

**Matt Reuter** (1:59)
Yeah.

**Aviv Rubinstein** (2:00)
Well, that's exciting.
It's exciting. I have to get up at like four in the morning. I just got a text, literally, as you were speaking that sentence, I just got a text from our cinematographer asking, how many checked bags do I get? I'm trying to figure out how to pack my tripod. So I'm doing that. I'm filming my little short film on August 8th and 9th. And so I'm like doing fucking, doing shit every, every... Let me tell you something.

**Matt Reuter** (2:28)
Let me tell you something. Tell me, tell me, Aviv.

**Aviv Rubinstein** (2:30)
I did... So Leanne is producing this, and I didn't tell her this news because she would have actually gone to jail for murder. So the lead of the film is like the, you know, impetus behind this. And so she put everyone together and her boyfriend slash partner is the cinematographer for that, for that show. And he's been, you know, interesting to get a hold of. He's a busy guy. I get it.
And because he's doing this project for free, sometimes it's hard for him to focus. He's like not remembering how many days people need to be on, not remembering prices, that kind of thing. And so today, he texted me and I'll read this verbatim.

**Matt Reuter** (3:18)
Oh boy.

**Aviv Rubinstein** (3:18)
I just wanted to run something by you. And don't worry, nothing has changed. But hypothetically, how troublesome would it be to try to push our shoot forward to Monday and Tuesday, the Monday and Tuesday before we were supposed to start shooting on that Saturday and Sunday. So four days early.
And I was like, well, impossible.
And he said impossible. And I said, three of our actors are out of town until the fifth. And Michelle, your partner does not land in LA until the fourth. And we'll lose all of our extras and we'll lose our location. And he's like, okay, that sounds impossible. Just just try to get a temperature check. I got offered another job. And I was like, listen, if you have to leave, you just tell me and I will replace you. But we are not moving this shoot.

**Matt Reuter** (4:09)
Did you tell him that?

**Aviv Rubinstein** (4:11)
I did. And he was like, no, no, I I'm committed to this shoot. And I was like, okay, dude, whatever.

**Matt Reuter** (4:18)
If you who are you trying to convince, sir?

**Aviv Rubinstein** (4:21)
Yeah. So, you know, that's how he's like, no, no stress, happy to be a part of this. And I was like, you're right.