1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:01,000 Speaker 1: What is. 2 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:07,120 Speaker 2: Weird the show? And Greg Fitzsimmons is here. 3 00:00:07,480 --> 00:00:12,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, thank you for coming in and being here, 4 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:15,040 Speaker 3: and you know, always like having you on the show. 5 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:17,639 Speaker 3: And I mean, look, I like the vibe. The vibe 6 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:19,880 Speaker 3: is a good, is a good. Fit is a good 7 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:23,040 Speaker 3: it's a good hang. It's always it's always fun, great storyteller. 8 00:00:23,079 --> 00:00:24,560 Speaker 3: Who do you think is really killing it right now? 9 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:27,000 Speaker 3: As far as comedy goes, who are the guys in 10 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:30,640 Speaker 3: your opinion? Like, we like your comedy, so like who 11 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:31,159 Speaker 3: do you like? 12 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:32,159 Speaker 2: Yeah? Who do you think? 13 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:34,879 Speaker 1: David tal is always to me the best comedian in 14 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:37,680 Speaker 1: the country. He has been for twenty years and if 15 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:39,240 Speaker 1: you get a chance to see him. 16 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:41,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, especially since I mean he's a club comic. 17 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:43,720 Speaker 1: I mean, Luis c K to me is the best 18 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:47,640 Speaker 1: comedian period in the last really twenty years. 19 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:49,000 Speaker 2: But he's a theater comic. 20 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:53,680 Speaker 3: Okay, David's comic is David is a down in dirty 21 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:55,120 Speaker 3: basement comic. 22 00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:59,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, who riffs, who messes with the crowd, whose stream 23 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:03,640 Speaker 1: of consciousness and then also has the hardest, tightest comedy 24 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:04,000 Speaker 1: out there. 25 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:06,959 Speaker 2: And then Louis is just brilliant. Yeah. 26 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:09,240 Speaker 3: I didn't know much about him until he started blowing up. 27 00:01:09,319 --> 00:01:12,280 Speaker 3: Was like Shane Gillis, Oh yeah, you're a new fan 28 00:01:12,319 --> 00:01:14,959 Speaker 3: of his right. Anthony jessel Nick is another guy that 29 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:16,479 Speaker 3: Shane love Shane. 30 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:18,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, and then you know, you got there's some guys 31 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:21,880 Speaker 1: out of New York, Mark Norman and Sam Morrell and 32 00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:24,039 Speaker 1: Joe List. There's a whole bunch of these guys that 33 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:26,880 Speaker 1: are like, you know, a generation behind me that are 34 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:29,920 Speaker 1: really really like, you know, there are people that are 35 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:34,080 Speaker 1: not looking to parlay comedy into a TV career or whatever. 36 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:36,720 Speaker 1: They just are pure road comics. 37 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:39,000 Speaker 2: Yeah. You know what keeps popping up to is uh 38 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:47,240 Speaker 2: uh British Jimmy Carr. Yeah, that's amazing. The dude he's sharp, 39 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:48,320 Speaker 2: he's so dare and. 40 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:50,320 Speaker 1: If you hear him in interviews, he's like, you know, 41 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:55,200 Speaker 1: these British comics they make me ashamed because they're just 42 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:58,400 Speaker 1: they're just like I had a guy on uh the 43 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:04,280 Speaker 1: other day on my podcast Bridge something Bridge, and like. 44 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:05,960 Speaker 2: Wait, he was on your show and you can't remember 45 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:08,560 Speaker 2: his name. I don't remember anything. Like tomorrow somebody said, 46 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:11,359 Speaker 2: who was on mc creigh. No, I literally I don't. 47 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:14,960 Speaker 2: I don't remember something. It's yeah something, I. 48 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:21,200 Speaker 1: Know it's on a Goldfish Ash every last so funny, 49 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:24,160 Speaker 1: and he's like he learned different languages and he performs 50 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 1: in different languages, and it's like, you know, I I 51 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:31,280 Speaker 1: just want to, you know, touch myself and sleep and 52 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:32,240 Speaker 1: then go do the show. 53 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:33,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, when I'm on the road. 54 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:36,919 Speaker 3: Yeah, we could check out fitz Dog Radio podcast. It's 55 00:02:36,919 --> 00:02:39,120 Speaker 3: a it's available. We can get right there on the 56 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:41,360 Speaker 3: website Greg Fitzsimmons dot com. 57 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:41,760 Speaker 4: Yeah. 58 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:44,359 Speaker 3: I see these guys or like the Jimmy Carr thing, 59 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:47,600 Speaker 3: and just in general, I'm always impressed by comedians. Is 60 00:02:47,639 --> 00:02:50,480 Speaker 3: it is it hard? Like what's the hardest part? Is 61 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:52,800 Speaker 3: it just being on the road part? And then the 62 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:55,120 Speaker 3: comedy part is just a talent either have or you 63 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:55,560 Speaker 3: don't have? 64 00:02:56,240 --> 00:02:56,880 Speaker 2: Or Yeah, I. 65 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:00,400 Speaker 1: Say they I I do comedy for free, but they 66 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:01,320 Speaker 1: pay me to travel. 67 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 2: Yeah that makes sense. I was just in Vegas last week. 68 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:08,120 Speaker 1: Brad Garrett has a club and at the MGM, and 69 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 1: it's a beautiful club and Brad comes down and does 70 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:14,360 Speaker 1: some of the shows and he is the greatest guy 71 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:15,120 Speaker 1: of all time. 72 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:16,840 Speaker 2: He just is super generous. 73 00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:19,480 Speaker 1: Like last time I was there, it was Valentine's Day 74 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:21,640 Speaker 1: and we couldn't find a table because it was Vegas, 75 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 1: and and so Brad got us a separate room in 76 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:28,280 Speaker 1: the best restaurant at the MGM. We had our own 77 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:31,359 Speaker 1: there's like a speakeasy room that opens later. He had 78 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:33,639 Speaker 1: them open it just for us. We had our own waiter. 79 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 2: Uh picked up the check at. 80 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:41,040 Speaker 1: The end of the meetum there he just like gave 81 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:43,440 Speaker 1: me a huge bonus, took me out gambling and just 82 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:46,560 Speaker 1: kept throwing hundreds in front of me. And and he's 83 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:48,760 Speaker 1: just really and he's just he's just the greatest guy. 84 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:52,560 Speaker 1: But anyway, it's seven nights and you know, you real, 85 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:57,360 Speaker 1: like Vegas is a horrible place and you go there 86 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:03,480 Speaker 1: and it's just like, you know, I'm gambling. I'm playing, Uh, 87 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:05,880 Speaker 1: I'm playing blackjack because I figured how much can I 88 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:06,920 Speaker 1: lose playing blackjacket? 89 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:07,320 Speaker 4: A lot? 90 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:07,839 Speaker 2: A lot. 91 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:10,280 Speaker 1: When you get the dealer, you know, the dealer who's 92 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:14,840 Speaker 1: like from some southeastern Pacific island you've never heard of. 93 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:17,520 Speaker 1: She's got like nine vowels in her name, and she 94 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:20,800 Speaker 1: gets a twenty one every single time, like she's doing 95 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:23,440 Speaker 1: witchcraft and stuff. At what point she gets a two 96 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:28,440 Speaker 1: and then a three and then a sixteen of spades, 97 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:34,280 Speaker 1: I'm like, wait, car, you want to play again, and 98 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:36,239 Speaker 1: I walk out to see a picture on the wall 99 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:37,280 Speaker 1: employee of the month. 100 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:41,960 Speaker 2: That's not what you want. Yeah, she's their best table person. 101 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:42,560 Speaker 4: Yeah. 102 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:45,320 Speaker 1: And then you've got like seven nights a week is 103 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:48,280 Speaker 1: Saturday night there, and you see gaggles of women. Is 104 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:50,720 Speaker 1: it called a gaggle, geane the gaggle. Yeah, once it's 105 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:54,280 Speaker 1: over three, it's a gaggle. And on their way out, 106 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:57,839 Speaker 1: they've got on you know, five inch heels, the hairs. 107 00:04:57,640 --> 00:04:59,480 Speaker 2: Up, the sparkles. They're ready to go out. 108 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:01,880 Speaker 1: I see them after the show on their way home 109 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:05,720 Speaker 1: and the shoes are in the hand. I thought that 110 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:09,280 Speaker 1: means you can't hit on those girls anymore. They're out 111 00:05:09,279 --> 00:05:11,440 Speaker 1: of the game. They're still on the field, but they're 112 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:14,120 Speaker 1: out of the game. It's like paintball. If someone's got 113 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:16,440 Speaker 1: a splatter on them, you can't shoot them again. Yeah 114 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:19,839 Speaker 1: it's a football player. Yeah, the football player after the game. 115 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:22,560 Speaker 1: He he's carrying like the jersey that still has the 116 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:25,400 Speaker 1: pads and yeah, like he's not ready to go in 117 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:28,560 Speaker 1: and play anymore. So it's just really like, because I 118 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 1: think every time. 119 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:31,719 Speaker 3: I see comedians or talk didn't hang out, you know, 120 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:34,680 Speaker 3: with comedians, it just seems like everybody's always having fun, 121 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:37,000 Speaker 3: right you see it that way? 122 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:37,520 Speaker 2: Yeah? 123 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:41,760 Speaker 3: Yeah, like because like, uh, okay, last time that I 124 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:45,160 Speaker 3: saw you not in this environment was at Burt Kreischer's 125 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:48,960 Speaker 3: event in Pittsburgh at the PBG Paints Arena and he 126 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:51,880 Speaker 3: had like this big like after party thing, and a 127 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:53,440 Speaker 3: bunch of Steelers players. 128 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:55,000 Speaker 2: Were there, and all these other dudes were there, and 129 00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:57,400 Speaker 2: like everybody's just kind of hanging out and having a 130 00:05:57,400 --> 00:05:57,800 Speaker 2: good time. 131 00:05:57,839 --> 00:05:59,560 Speaker 3: And that's when you know, Greg and I were just 132 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:01,960 Speaker 3: sitting there chopping it up and everything, and it's just 133 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:05,279 Speaker 3: they'll do it again tomorrow after after the next show, 134 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:06,960 Speaker 3: just wherever they're at. It will be a different group 135 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:08,880 Speaker 3: of friends or people that are fans that come by 136 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:12,839 Speaker 3: to this like after party that Joey always seems to 137 00:06:12,839 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 3: be having the best time. 138 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:18,280 Speaker 5: With him in Pittsburgh all day and all we did 139 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:20,520 Speaker 5: is go shopping and practici. 140 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:21,240 Speaker 4: Yeah. 141 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:23,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, you're more like you're more on the 142 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:25,160 Speaker 3: quiet side, like you're not throwing like a big after 143 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:25,800 Speaker 3: party after. 144 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:29,480 Speaker 2: Okay, Well that makes it more different. I really I 145 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:30,760 Speaker 2: struggle on the road. 146 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:32,200 Speaker 5: Have you tried not having it? 147 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:35,000 Speaker 2: Have you just tried not having it? 148 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:38,279 Speaker 1: Actually is the answer. I mean it literally is just 149 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:41,040 Speaker 1: sometimes you just got to go. I just don't feel 150 00:06:41,040 --> 00:06:41,680 Speaker 1: this way right now. 151 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:43,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, just don't don't act this way. 152 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:47,960 Speaker 1: And but you know, uh, I just when I'm on 153 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:52,520 Speaker 1: the road, it's just like I've got my Wow, this 154 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:55,680 Speaker 1: is really heavy. But no, I mean I I have 155 00:06:55,920 --> 00:06:58,960 Speaker 1: fun like I'm married, but like I will have sex 156 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:02,200 Speaker 1: with waitresses like that, and then I don't drink. 157 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:04,880 Speaker 2: But when I go on the road, I'll drink. Oh 158 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:07,839 Speaker 2: it doesn't count. No, I'm just that's kind of like 159 00:07:07,839 --> 00:07:09,200 Speaker 2: when cigarettes don't count. 160 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:12,360 Speaker 1: I mean, when you're sober and you're not screwing around 161 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:14,800 Speaker 1: your wife. Like this is just not that much because 162 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:16,960 Speaker 1: the staff will be like, hey, we're going out to 163 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:20,560 Speaker 1: the you know, the the whatever bar, and I'm like, 164 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:22,640 Speaker 1: for what, I don't drink. 165 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:24,120 Speaker 2: I'm not going to hit on it. This is going 166 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:25,600 Speaker 2: to only lead to trouble. 167 00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:29,000 Speaker 3: Are you an anti social person? Like outside of it, 168 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:32,160 Speaker 3: I'm extremely social. Like I live in Veniceon. 169 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:35,160 Speaker 1: My neighborhood is very social and we have the I 170 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:38,040 Speaker 1: mean we raised kids together and I've had friendships for 171 00:07:38,080 --> 00:07:41,440 Speaker 1: twenty five years with the same like ten couples and 172 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:44,720 Speaker 1: we play beach volleyball every Sunday, we have poker nights, 173 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:47,880 Speaker 1: dinner parties. We just you just walk in and out 174 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:50,600 Speaker 1: of each other's houses. And so that's cool. But maybe 175 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:53,760 Speaker 1: like on the road hanging I'm not social at all. 176 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:55,840 Speaker 1: Comedy club like you're like, that's the part. Like it's 177 00:07:55,840 --> 00:07:58,320 Speaker 1: like hanging out co workers. Like when they have these 178 00:07:58,360 --> 00:08:01,240 Speaker 1: little they try to force everybody here to friends, like 179 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:03,280 Speaker 1: with other stations pizza. 180 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:05,040 Speaker 3: It's not that you don't like these people. It's fine, 181 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:07,520 Speaker 3: but it's like if it's a choice between I can 182 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:09,840 Speaker 3: be at my house, I can go home now, or 183 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:12,520 Speaker 3: I can hang out here for the free pizza in 184 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:15,040 Speaker 3: the iHeartRadio sweatshirt, they're gonna be raffling off. 185 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:19,000 Speaker 1: People always go like how is Cincinnati? And I'll just 186 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:21,120 Speaker 1: go like is that where I was? Like, I went 187 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:23,480 Speaker 1: from the airport to the hotel to the club and 188 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:27,160 Speaker 1: that's it. But then I went to Alaska. This is insane. 189 00:08:27,440 --> 00:08:29,360 Speaker 1: I was in Alaska two weeks ago and I'm not 190 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:32,880 Speaker 1: making up a word of this stone what part Fairbanks? Okay, 191 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:38,480 Speaker 1: because we just went on a Disney Alaska cruise. Oh 192 00:08:38,520 --> 00:08:42,480 Speaker 1: I love Juno's my face. So I get there and 193 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:44,600 Speaker 1: uh and I'm there for like three nights. So I 194 00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:46,280 Speaker 1: say to the guy that owns the theater, I go, 195 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:49,400 Speaker 1: I'd love to do something fun during the day. So 196 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:51,640 Speaker 1: he calls me back and he goes, I got this 197 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:56,280 Speaker 1: guy and he is like from this famous outdoorsy family. 198 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:59,800 Speaker 1: They've got a company that's had like ATVs and snowmobiles 199 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:02,640 Speaker 1: for generations, and he's a huge fan of yours and 200 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:04,400 Speaker 1: he wants to take you out and you have an adventure. 201 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:06,800 Speaker 1: So now I'm kind of intimidating because I grew up 202 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:09,160 Speaker 1: in New York. I've been living in LA I'm soft 203 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:11,240 Speaker 1: and these guys are you know, these are the guys 204 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:14,679 Speaker 1: who shake you want to crush every finger in Your're like, 205 00:09:14,679 --> 00:09:16,400 Speaker 1: all right, you're not gay. 206 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:16,920 Speaker 2: I get it. 207 00:09:18,760 --> 00:09:20,840 Speaker 1: And so now I'm like, all right, I'm gonna be wet. 208 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:23,120 Speaker 1: I know I'm gonna get wet today and I'm gonna 209 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:25,120 Speaker 1: be cold. But then I was like, all right, man up, 210 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:28,640 Speaker 1: just man up, like you said, don't be depressed. So 211 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:31,679 Speaker 1: the guy picks me up and he's in a monster truck. 212 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:33,040 Speaker 2: The wheels are as tall. 213 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:35,560 Speaker 1: As I am, and he's he's hauling like a dune 214 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:39,360 Speaker 1: buggy that's covered in mud, and so I get in 215 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:42,160 Speaker 1: and he but he but he's like this gentle guy. 216 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:45,520 Speaker 1: He's retired, he's selling the business. He's moving down to Mexico. 217 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:47,120 Speaker 1: And I'm like, all right, I think I'm I think 218 00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:49,280 Speaker 1: I'm in safe fans. He seems like a really decent guy. 219 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:52,600 Speaker 1: He's talking about his wife and his kids. So we're 220 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:55,679 Speaker 1: driving down looking at the Alaska Pipeline because I've never 221 00:09:55,679 --> 00:09:57,480 Speaker 1: seen it before. So we're on like a side street 222 00:09:57,640 --> 00:10:01,920 Speaker 1: and then a police siren goes off and I was like, what, 223 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:03,240 Speaker 1: I go, you didn't do anything. 224 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:07,160 Speaker 2: He goes, this is bad. I'm like, what do you mean? 225 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:09,640 Speaker 2: This is bad? He goes, this is bad. I go what. 226 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:13,200 Speaker 1: So the cop starts walking up to us, and he 227 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:17,480 Speaker 1: takes a plastic baggie with white powder and he hands 228 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:18,840 Speaker 1: it to me and he goes get rid of this 229 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:19,760 Speaker 1: and it spills. 230 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:21,160 Speaker 2: Some of it spills on my. 231 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:23,600 Speaker 1: Pants, so I knoff it under the seat in the back. 232 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:26,760 Speaker 1: The cop walks up. He goes, huge, dude, He goes 233 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:31,040 Speaker 1: license a registration. So the guy goes, get my registration 234 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:33,600 Speaker 1: out of the glove coupbox. I open it up, and 235 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:36,880 Speaker 1: a baggie with pills and one hundred dollars bills starts 236 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:39,080 Speaker 1: falling out. I shove it back in with my hand. 237 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:41,440 Speaker 1: I cover it with paper, and the cop goes, what 238 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:44,920 Speaker 1: are you hiding? So what are you hiding? So I 239 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:47,520 Speaker 1: hand him the bag of drugs. So now I'm an 240 00:10:47,559 --> 00:10:51,960 Speaker 1: accessory to a felony, and so the cop grabs. He goes, 241 00:10:52,120 --> 00:10:55,040 Speaker 1: both of you, put your hands on the dashboard. So 242 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:58,440 Speaker 1: I got my hands on the dashboard and I'm and 243 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:00,760 Speaker 1: the cop takes his life and then he goes back 244 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:03,400 Speaker 1: to the car to run it comes back and he goes, sir, 245 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:06,280 Speaker 1: do you know you have an outstanding felony warrant? 246 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:10,160 Speaker 2: And he goes yeah. I go, yeah, you doing it? 247 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:12,520 Speaker 2: Why did the theater run a seven? So then the 248 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:13,840 Speaker 2: guy goes uh. 249 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:18,640 Speaker 1: He goes, are there any firearms in the car? I'm 250 00:11:18,679 --> 00:11:23,120 Speaker 1: sure this rocket launcher here somewhere, and he says no, 251 00:11:23,240 --> 00:11:26,600 Speaker 1: there's not. And so then the cop takes the guy 252 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:28,840 Speaker 1: out of the car and he cuffs him right in 253 00:11:28,880 --> 00:11:31,880 Speaker 1: front of me, and he uh, he pats him down, 254 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:32,640 Speaker 1: and then he. 255 00:11:32,559 --> 00:11:33,920 Speaker 2: Takes him back to the car and he puts them 256 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:34,640 Speaker 2: in the back of the car. 257 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:36,600 Speaker 1: And I'm sitting there going like I got a show 258 00:11:36,679 --> 00:11:40,200 Speaker 1: in four hours. I just flew like eleven hours to 259 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:42,160 Speaker 1: get up here to do the show. And so he 260 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:46,200 Speaker 1: comes back and he goes and he's standing off the 261 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:49,640 Speaker 1: back window. You know that power move? Yeah, And he goes, 262 00:11:50,160 --> 00:11:52,400 Speaker 1: uh oh, and I took my hands off the dashboard 263 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:53,439 Speaker 1: at one point, and he goes. 264 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:55,600 Speaker 2: Put your hands back on the dance. I put my 265 00:11:55,640 --> 00:11:56,640 Speaker 2: hands back on the dadok. 266 00:11:56,960 --> 00:11:58,960 Speaker 1: And then he's like, he goes, I'm not coming close 267 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:01,640 Speaker 1: to the car because that's fentanyl on you. 268 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:03,360 Speaker 2: Oh my god. 269 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:06,959 Speaker 1: So now I'm frozen. And he's like, where are you from? 270 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:10,760 Speaker 1: And I said California? I said, dude, I'm a comedian. 271 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:13,000 Speaker 1: I said, I'm here to do his show. I met 272 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:15,920 Speaker 1: this guy twenty minutes ago. And he goes, he goes, 273 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:18,360 Speaker 1: oh really, he goes, I'm not buying it. Sure, he goes, 274 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:21,600 Speaker 1: you're from a drug feeder state. And I don't think 275 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:23,199 Speaker 1: you're a comedian because you're not funny. 276 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:24,760 Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm not funny. 277 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:27,600 Speaker 1: Like at what point was I going too? 278 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:31,880 Speaker 2: My pants are wet. 279 00:12:30,920 --> 00:12:33,880 Speaker 1: And you don't think this is funny. I'm a great 280 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:37,319 Speaker 1: bit someday. So he goes, where did you get the drugs? 281 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:39,920 Speaker 1: I go the glove compartment. He goes, no, he said, 282 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:45,880 Speaker 1: they're yours, and so he goes, are you feeling any 283 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:48,520 Speaker 1: effects the fenceadel I go yeah, I said, I feel 284 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:51,400 Speaker 1: really lightheaded. I'm freaking out. And he goes, well, I 285 00:12:51,440 --> 00:12:56,400 Speaker 1: have a what'sarkam in the car, So he goes, don't move. 286 00:12:56,880 --> 00:12:59,440 Speaker 1: He goes get out of the car, but don't stir 287 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:02,120 Speaker 1: it up. So I get out and we walked back 288 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:04,840 Speaker 1: to the car and uh, he opens up the back 289 00:13:04,880 --> 00:13:08,040 Speaker 1: door to the police car and my driver gets out 290 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:10,040 Speaker 1: and then the two of them look at me and 291 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:12,200 Speaker 1: they go, we're coming to see your show tonight, and 292 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:13,160 Speaker 1: they start laughing. 293 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:18,760 Speaker 2: The whole thing was gone, whoa fell and around. 294 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:23,199 Speaker 1: I was on all fours out of relief, and also 295 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:24,160 Speaker 1: I started laughing. 296 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:28,319 Speaker 2: I could stop laughing. I was laughing for like ten minutes. Yeah, 297 00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:31,720 Speaker 2: at that point, sure, that's awesome. It was. I felt 298 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:35,240 Speaker 2: like I was in training day. 299 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:38,000 Speaker 3: Uncontrollable laughter is what happens in that situation right before 300 00:13:38,040 --> 00:13:38,720 Speaker 3: a heart attack. 301 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:40,880 Speaker 2: Yeh, that's how you know you're about to have a 302 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:41,360 Speaker 2: heart attack. 303 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:44,360 Speaker 1: So we drive back to the cops house and uh, 304 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:47,040 Speaker 1: he changes and then we get into the and then 305 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:49,520 Speaker 1: he gets into the monster truck and we drive like 306 00:13:49,559 --> 00:13:52,720 Speaker 1: an hour and they take me to these hot springs 307 00:13:52,760 --> 00:13:55,240 Speaker 1: that they have up there, and we all get into 308 00:13:56,120 --> 00:13:59,320 Speaker 1: our bathing suits and we jump into this hot springs 309 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:02,240 Speaker 1: and it's like it's like boiling and there's there's like 310 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:04,800 Speaker 1: pockets of heat that hit you and you have to 311 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:08,240 Speaker 1: like dive because so and then and then we go 312 00:14:08,559 --> 00:14:11,760 Speaker 1: directly into an ice building. 313 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:12,840 Speaker 2: It's made out of ice. 314 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:18,160 Speaker 1: It's the only Yeah, it's the only frozen building in 315 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:21,080 Speaker 1: the world. And they and the guy bring the guy 316 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:23,440 Speaker 1: that owns this place brings us in and he's like 317 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:26,680 Speaker 1: an Alaska cowboy. And then they have a bar set 318 00:14:26,760 --> 00:14:29,040 Speaker 1: up and it's a it's an ice bar. It's made 319 00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:32,080 Speaker 1: out of ice. And then the stools have like elk fur. 320 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:34,800 Speaker 2: It's like that place that you can't take pictures minutes 321 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:42,480 Speaker 2: in Vegas. They always want you to pay for the photographer. Like, yeah, 322 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:45,720 Speaker 2: they gave us let people do social media to get 323 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:46,600 Speaker 2: so much more marketing. 324 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:49,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, and they got this ice sculpture guy who's in 325 00:14:49,960 --> 00:14:51,080 Speaker 1: there and uh. 326 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:52,720 Speaker 2: And so they sit down at the bar and they 327 00:14:52,760 --> 00:14:53,440 Speaker 2: start drinking. 328 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:56,800 Speaker 1: They've got a tap that pours apple teenis and so 329 00:14:56,880 --> 00:14:59,800 Speaker 1: these guys sit down and they proceed to have like 330 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:03,480 Speaker 1: seven apple teenis and I'm sitting there going like, and 331 00:15:03,480 --> 00:15:06,160 Speaker 1: we're telling bar jokes, like and they're the most of 332 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:09,600 Speaker 1: the ones from the last yes racist right, and uh 333 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:12,440 Speaker 1: so I'm sitting there watching these two guys get drunk 334 00:15:12,480 --> 00:15:15,080 Speaker 1: and and tell racist jokes. And then and then we 335 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:19,360 Speaker 1: leave and they're stumbling and my guy gets behind the 336 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:22,360 Speaker 1: wheel and I go, hey, dude, I go, why don't 337 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:22,720 Speaker 1: I be. 338 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:25,560 Speaker 2: The Disney driver? He goes, I'm fine and I can 339 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:26,200 Speaker 2: get pulled over. 340 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:30,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, I go, dude, I go, I'm not getting in 341 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:31,400 Speaker 1: this truck. 342 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:32,920 Speaker 2: I go, I'm driving. So now I'm. 343 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:36,680 Speaker 1: Behind the wheel of an eight ton monster truck on these. 344 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:41,520 Speaker 2: Winding roads I doom buggy towing a dune buggy with. 345 00:15:41,560 --> 00:15:44,600 Speaker 1: Two guys laughing at me the entire time about how 346 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:46,640 Speaker 1: they got. And then I get back to the hotel 347 00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:48,640 Speaker 1: and I was already late for the show I had 348 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:52,720 Speaker 1: that night. They came to the show and hackled me 349 00:15:53,240 --> 00:15:54,200 Speaker 1: throughout the performance. 350 00:15:54,280 --> 00:16:00,520 Speaker 3: So fun Yeah, I love Fitzdog. His storytelling is so funny. Greed, 351 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:02,600 Speaker 3: you can see why we love having this guy in. 352 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:05,640 Speaker 3: Greg Fitzimmons is here, Ladies and gentlemen, he's gonna be 353 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:09,960 Speaker 3: hosting the Best Buddies Benefit of the Comedy Store on Sunday. Uh, 354 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:13,720 Speaker 3: you got a whole bunch of Craig Robinson Andrew Setina who. 355 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:17,680 Speaker 1: Loves to be a big special guest. You said, right, Yeah, 356 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:20,200 Speaker 1: big special guests we can announce. For tickets, go to 357 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:23,080 Speaker 1: fitzdog dot com. It's f I t Z d O. 358 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:24,400 Speaker 2: G dot com. 359 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:31,200 Speaker 3: Three. 360 00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:36,720 Speaker 2: All right, Greg Fitzsimmons is here. 361 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:40,960 Speaker 3: Check him out on his website Greg Fitzsimmons dot com, 362 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:43,240 Speaker 3: Instagram at Greg Fitzsimmons Twitter. 363 00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:44,280 Speaker 2: Of course you can find in there. 364 00:16:44,440 --> 00:16:46,480 Speaker 3: Which one do you find you're putting yourself, you know, 365 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:48,920 Speaker 3: most effort into, Like of all the social media, I 366 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:50,800 Speaker 3: think for us it's definitely uh what. 367 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:54,480 Speaker 2: Instagram and a Facebook menace? Or like I mostly do? 368 00:16:55,040 --> 00:16:57,280 Speaker 5: Yeah, I would say Instagram. I mean that's where we 369 00:16:57,320 --> 00:16:58,080 Speaker 5: have this strongest. 370 00:16:58,200 --> 00:16:58,760 Speaker 2: Yeah. 371 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:02,320 Speaker 1: I do my Space and friends there, but I haven't 372 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:03,920 Speaker 1: been to the site in a little while. 373 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:04,720 Speaker 4: Yeah. 374 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:07,280 Speaker 2: Now I do Instagram. I mean I do my like 375 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:08,200 Speaker 2: Instagram the most. 376 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:10,640 Speaker 1: I do two podcasts a week and so I put 377 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:13,880 Speaker 1: those up like usually a clip from those. But I'm 378 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:16,840 Speaker 1: not very active. I need to be it's stupid. It's 379 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:18,919 Speaker 1: like it's the whole business now. It used to be 380 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:21,199 Speaker 1: if you did the Tonight show, you could draw at 381 00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:25,040 Speaker 1: the clubs, and now you have to do uh social 382 00:17:25,119 --> 00:17:28,119 Speaker 1: media constantly, and I just I hate doing. 383 00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:31,040 Speaker 3: It if you don't want to talk about its time. 384 00:17:31,040 --> 00:17:32,960 Speaker 3: We're having fun here and I'm not trying to get like, 385 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:36,359 Speaker 3: you know, like serious. But you weren't invited to be 386 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:39,200 Speaker 3: part of that whole What was the big comedy festival? 387 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:42,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, you were you part of that. You weren't part 388 00:17:42,520 --> 00:17:46,240 Speaker 2: of that that was in Vegas that weekend. 389 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:51,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, No, you know, look, I I would uh, I 390 00:17:51,080 --> 00:17:54,080 Speaker 1: would say that going over there. 391 00:17:56,080 --> 00:18:00,600 Speaker 2: Is okay because you are bringing new ideas. 392 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:02,879 Speaker 1: I mean, you're going over there into a place that 393 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:07,320 Speaker 1: is shut down and not exposed to Western thought. And 394 00:18:07,359 --> 00:18:09,480 Speaker 1: I think I think you can justify it as long 395 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:11,960 Speaker 1: as you go over there saying I'm going to talk 396 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:13,560 Speaker 1: about stuff they wouldn't want me. 397 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:15,800 Speaker 2: To talk about, not like be an outlaw. 398 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:18,840 Speaker 1: But I would think that, you know, I'd be scared, 399 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:21,080 Speaker 1: and but I would donate the money to charity, and 400 00:18:21,119 --> 00:18:23,960 Speaker 1: then I would I would talk about stuff that might 401 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:25,359 Speaker 1: push the boundaries. 402 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:27,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, because there was man a lot of these comics 403 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:31,000 Speaker 3: got lit up on that backlash. Yeah, but man, when 404 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:33,879 Speaker 3: you get think about I mean, it's how it is. 405 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:35,800 Speaker 3: Think about the average person and they have like some 406 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:39,600 Speaker 3: huge chunk of chain. People go like, oh, you sold that? Well, yeah, 407 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:41,720 Speaker 3: and what was it? Menas, what's that quote you always said? 408 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:44,480 Speaker 5: Oh yeah, it's from Charlotte and the God. He says, 409 00:18:44,520 --> 00:18:46,719 Speaker 5: I can't wait to sell out because there was somebody 410 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:48,920 Speaker 5: has to buy in. That means that people have to 411 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:52,119 Speaker 5: like believe in you. There is behind you. 412 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:53,840 Speaker 3: There's something like that. The only people who say they 413 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:55,879 Speaker 3: wouldn't sell to the people who have never had the opportunity. 414 00:18:56,680 --> 00:18:58,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, yeah. 415 00:18:58,359 --> 00:19:01,119 Speaker 3: I mean, look, you kDa to do what you already do. 416 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:03,520 Speaker 3: But you're a plumber. Someone says, hey, man, I want 417 00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:08,919 Speaker 3: you to repipe my house. I normally don't go to 418 00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:11,000 Speaker 3: that part of town, but I think for this I will. 419 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:12,960 Speaker 5: My thoughts on it is like, why are we trying 420 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:15,400 Speaker 5: to go and police everybody everywhere else when we still 421 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:16,440 Speaker 5: have a lot of problems here. 422 00:19:17,080 --> 00:19:18,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, No, it's true. 423 00:19:18,080 --> 00:19:20,200 Speaker 1: If you if you there's a lot of countries, which 424 00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:22,639 Speaker 1: countries do you decide? You know, like, what about what 425 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:27,440 Speaker 1: about England? They colonize the world. They starved the Irish 426 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:29,680 Speaker 1: to death during the famine. 427 00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:34,000 Speaker 2: It wasn't a famine. The English basically took all the 428 00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:37,000 Speaker 2: food out of Ireland while there was a potato like 429 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:39,720 Speaker 2: there was plenty of other good crops, and they starved 430 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:43,520 Speaker 2: a million people to death. And another thank you very much? 431 00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:49,760 Speaker 2: Am I not supposed to do? This is awesome. 432 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:52,879 Speaker 3: When everybody was giving Chick fil A a bunch of 433 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:56,399 Speaker 3: heat about you know, homophobia, whatever, I'm like, the chicken 434 00:19:56,440 --> 00:19:58,919 Speaker 3: is delicious. I separate my politics from my chicken. I 435 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:02,280 Speaker 3: separate my politics and things from music or movies or 436 00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:05,320 Speaker 3: because if you have to agree with everything that this 437 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:08,760 Speaker 3: band or whatever the people in the band like like, 438 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:10,399 Speaker 3: you won't like anybody. 439 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:11,120 Speaker 2: Know the KKK. 440 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:14,880 Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that you took out for the KKK. 441 00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:19,680 Speaker 1: They're bake sales believable air. 442 00:20:19,840 --> 00:20:23,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true for now. 443 00:20:23,119 --> 00:20:24,919 Speaker 3: The other thing you got to check out if you 444 00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:28,240 Speaker 3: enjoy Greg Fitzimmons and his storytelling and his comedy. 445 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:28,800 Speaker 2: It's Uh. 446 00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:31,680 Speaker 3: It's on YouTube. It's his latest special, it's called you 447 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:34,880 Speaker 3: Know Me and Uh. Part of the new special, it's 448 00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:38,680 Speaker 3: you talk about how like when kids become teens, right, 449 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:41,360 Speaker 3: like they think that you are so uncool. I'm kind 450 00:20:41,359 --> 00:20:44,520 Speaker 3: of going through that right now. My son's fifteen, my 451 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:47,680 Speaker 3: daughter's thirteen, right, it's rob How old are your kids now? 452 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:51,439 Speaker 1: Well, now they're twenty five and twenty that seems to 453 00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:53,719 Speaker 1: be the the best, Like you're out of the woods. 454 00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:55,879 Speaker 3: Yeah, because now that it's a the early part of 455 00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:58,240 Speaker 3: their adulthood where they're kind of struggling and they kind 456 00:20:58,240 --> 00:20:59,520 Speaker 3: of have more of an appreciation. 457 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:02,280 Speaker 2: Well, I wait for my kids to struggle. 458 00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:05,480 Speaker 1: Now is just fun because like you know, they they 459 00:21:05,359 --> 00:21:08,440 Speaker 1: they're at the age where they start thinking they're smart now. Yes, 460 00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:12,119 Speaker 1: And so here's a conversation I had with my daughter 461 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:14,920 Speaker 1: the other day. This is word for word. Hey dad, 462 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:17,000 Speaker 1: what'd you do today? Oh? I went on like a 463 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:21,040 Speaker 1: thirty mile bike ride. She goes, look at you, Louis Armstrong. 464 00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:30,960 Speaker 1: I said, Lance Armstrong, And she goes, is that the 465 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:32,359 Speaker 1: guy that walked on the moon? 466 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:46,280 Speaker 2: God? Yea stretch Armstrong? Yeah? 467 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:51,960 Speaker 3: Getting yeah, because man, uh, they I don't know, Like 468 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:54,480 Speaker 3: I wonder sometimes like do you survive? This is like 469 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:57,600 Speaker 3: I think you either it's live or die, Like getting 470 00:21:57,640 --> 00:22:00,520 Speaker 3: through the teenage part of parenthood. 471 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:03,160 Speaker 1: Right right, Well, keeping them off drugs is really hard 472 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:06,199 Speaker 1: because like both my kids got very into weed because 473 00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:07,639 Speaker 1: it used. 474 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:10,360 Speaker 2: To be you came home and you smelt like weed. Yeah, 475 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:11,560 Speaker 2: now you just eat a. 476 00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:14,920 Speaker 1: Gummy or you got a vape pen, right and every 477 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:15,800 Speaker 1: and you know. 478 00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:18,119 Speaker 2: Once you know California, I saw a change. 479 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:20,719 Speaker 1: My kids were teenagers when it got legalized, and all 480 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:23,520 Speaker 1: of a sudden, they were just high. It just became 481 00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:27,520 Speaker 1: like every single adult thought it was novel to have 482 00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:29,960 Speaker 1: a vape pen or gummies in their sock draw and 483 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:32,399 Speaker 1: you're a kid, it's the first place you go. You 484 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:35,520 Speaker 1: go to your parents' sock drawer, you find the vibrators 485 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:40,959 Speaker 1: and you're like mo and and so like it's just 486 00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:42,959 Speaker 1: it's really hard to stop it. 487 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:44,560 Speaker 2: You know, there's not much you can do. 488 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:46,960 Speaker 3: So the best advice, like for for something like me 489 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:48,600 Speaker 3: is my wife and I. You know, we get to 490 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:50,320 Speaker 3: the point where we're ready to you know, pull our 491 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:52,919 Speaker 3: hair if we if we could quit these kids, we would. 492 00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:55,560 Speaker 3: Sometimes you know, I've said like you love them, but 493 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:57,440 Speaker 3: you hate being a parent, or you can say I 494 00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:00,760 Speaker 3: love you, but I really don't like right now. 495 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:02,639 Speaker 2: Yeah, my parents used to say that to it. 496 00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:04,000 Speaker 3: And I try to be I'm like, kind of the 497 00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:07,000 Speaker 3: more cool, calm one. My wife is the one losing 498 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:11,199 Speaker 3: her mind. I know she starts fighting, dirty arguing, name calling. 499 00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:12,280 Speaker 2: The same with the kids. 500 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:15,399 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, she'll get into it. I got to like 501 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:16,040 Speaker 3: sometimes like. 502 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:19,600 Speaker 1: Oh, you have sons and daughters. My son is fifteen, 503 00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:24,000 Speaker 1: my daughter's thirteen, so I really have a rough time. 504 00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:26,240 Speaker 1: From thirteen to eighteen is really hard. 505 00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:28,399 Speaker 3: But like right now, it's my son and my daughter 506 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:30,919 Speaker 3: who are because they are the same person, and so 507 00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:33,000 Speaker 3: they have to have these So any kind of advice 508 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:35,560 Speaker 3: you have, I will I will accept because I just. 509 00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:38,600 Speaker 1: Think you know something you have to You have to 510 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:42,320 Speaker 1: make them feel like they can talk to you about anything. 511 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:44,280 Speaker 2: Yeah they can, that's true. 512 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:46,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I just think you can't be judgmental, 513 00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:49,640 Speaker 1: you can't be authoritarian. I mean, this is the new 514 00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:52,440 Speaker 1: school of parenting. Some people think that this is wrong, 515 00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:54,800 Speaker 1: that you should, you know, be really strict with your kid. 516 00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:56,560 Speaker 2: You're an old Irish cow. You got your ass kicked. 517 00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:59,719 Speaker 3: I got my ass kicked, I got b right, and 518 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:02,560 Speaker 3: you wish you could still do that. The other day, 519 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:04,480 Speaker 3: I'm like, wouldn't it be great like in the old days, 520 00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:05,760 Speaker 3: Like we just beat the crap out of here. 521 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:07,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, and be done with it. 522 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:08,760 Speaker 4: I got the beatings and the. 523 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:17,160 Speaker 1: All of it, the silent hate what he loves it. 524 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:21,119 Speaker 2: That was more debilitating than my father used to beat me. 525 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:24,199 Speaker 1: But I would have taken that over a week of 526 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:26,639 Speaker 1: neither parents speaking a word to me. 527 00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:29,679 Speaker 2: I mean, think about what that. Absolutely. 528 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:32,359 Speaker 4: My mom gave me the silent treatment once for a week. 529 00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:34,119 Speaker 4: My dad was out of town on business and for 530 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:38,919 Speaker 4: one week, not one word we've spoken. It was the 531 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:41,639 Speaker 4: most awkward and the worst feeling in the world. You 532 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:44,119 Speaker 4: talk about depression is when you don't want to be 533 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:46,640 Speaker 4: where you are. I just wanted to be somewhere else, 534 00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:48,840 Speaker 4: and I'm a kid, I'm at home. It's not like, hey, 535 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:50,320 Speaker 4: I'll be at my weekend place. 536 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:53,240 Speaker 6: Yeah, and you're stuck at home with a mother who 537 00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:57,440 Speaker 6: won't speak to you. It's in that situation, okay. But now, Greg, 538 00:24:57,680 --> 00:25:01,199 Speaker 6: as as a married dude and your wife's Matt and 539 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:03,479 Speaker 6: she gives you a silent treatment, is that not awesome? 540 00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:08,879 Speaker 6: That's fantastic, right, you want to be There's a switch 541 00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:10,439 Speaker 6: that happens at some point in your life where like 542 00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:12,560 Speaker 6: getting the silent treatment goes from when you're a kid. 543 00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:14,680 Speaker 2: It sucks to it rules and you're like, what did 544 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:18,520 Speaker 2: I do? But let me know, I want to do 545 00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:19,040 Speaker 2: this again. 546 00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:21,800 Speaker 1: It's okay to have that, But I really do believe 547 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:23,760 Speaker 1: in that thing of like, don't go to bed angry, 548 00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:26,879 Speaker 1: like because if you if you can straighten it out, 549 00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:29,399 Speaker 1: it's such a bad hangover. If you get up in 550 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:31,560 Speaker 1: the morning and you were angry the night before and 551 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:33,040 Speaker 1: you hadn't dealt with it, you know. 552 00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:34,800 Speaker 6: And you wake up and you think, oh, that's right, 553 00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:37,520 Speaker 6: we're mad at each Yeah, exactly. 554 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:39,560 Speaker 2: The other way, I'm like, you know what, sleep on it. Yeah, 555 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:44,160 Speaker 2: because you're not as something happens when you sleep. Let 556 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:45,000 Speaker 2: me just go to sleep. 557 00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:47,679 Speaker 3: Leep. Yeah, something happens when you sleep, you know, just 558 00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:50,240 Speaker 3: you wake up and whatever you thought. Yeah, it's like 559 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:53,080 Speaker 3: right after you, Joe, right like, as soon as you're done, 560 00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:56,359 Speaker 3: everything that seemed like a good idea seconds ago no 561 00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:58,760 Speaker 3: longer a good idea gone, yeah, and you just kind 562 00:25:58,760 --> 00:25:59,960 Speaker 3: of maybe move on and just shrug it off. 563 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:03,720 Speaker 1: But that is the problem, is you're fatigued, and that's 564 00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:07,280 Speaker 1: the moment where the real parenting usually comes in. 565 00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:10,159 Speaker 2: It's the end of the night and you gotta be 566 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:13,560 Speaker 2: it's all about consistency. You want to have boundaries. 567 00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:15,920 Speaker 1: I'm not saying like I'm saying, be gentle with them, 568 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:17,760 Speaker 1: but also have consistent boundaries. 569 00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:18,920 Speaker 2: Were you cool parent. 570 00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:20,359 Speaker 1: As far as like you know, were the kids allowed 571 00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:23,000 Speaker 1: to get away with certain things or super You say 572 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:23,640 Speaker 1: you're strict. 573 00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:25,800 Speaker 2: I was strict. 574 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:28,080 Speaker 1: My wife was not as much, which I think it's 575 00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:31,359 Speaker 1: good to have a good cop bad cop thing. But 576 00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:36,119 Speaker 1: I was strict, and but I didn't yell. I yelled once, 577 00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:38,480 Speaker 1: and I was just talking to my daughter about it. 578 00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:39,480 Speaker 1: We had dinner last night. 579 00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:41,719 Speaker 2: Here's what's great about my daughter. She's twenty two. She 580 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:44,159 Speaker 2: lives in the guest house in the back. Oh, because 581 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:45,040 Speaker 2: it cool. 582 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:50,520 Speaker 1: She comes in, Yeah, guess yes, it's perfect the guest quarters. 583 00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:52,520 Speaker 1: And she comes in and she she she likes to 584 00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:54,439 Speaker 1: have dinner with us, and she likes to talk to 585 00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:56,480 Speaker 1: We have dinner and then we sit there for three 586 00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:59,600 Speaker 1: hours and talk about life. It's actually really amazing. That's 587 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:01,879 Speaker 1: the point I want to get to. That's what my 588 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:03,600 Speaker 1: wife and I keep thinking about, like if we can 589 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:06,600 Speaker 1: survive this. On the other end, is this so I'm 590 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:08,399 Speaker 1: sure some people feel about working out, like mom, I 591 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,439 Speaker 1: can't get myself to work out. But like when you like, 592 00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:13,639 Speaker 1: you're eventually gonna be able to look in the mirror 593 00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:16,439 Speaker 1: and at the rezonte feel good about it. Right, Eventually 594 00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:17,479 Speaker 1: we're gonna be able to get through this and we're 595 00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:19,399 Speaker 1: gonna be able to look at them and go, you 596 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:19,760 Speaker 1: know what. 597 00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:22,680 Speaker 4: It was worth about daughters? Like when a girl turns thirteen, 598 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:25,600 Speaker 4: that's when she starts hating her parents. Is that true? 599 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:26,160 Speaker 1: Oh? 600 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:30,040 Speaker 2: My god, so true? Didn't hate us? 601 00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:32,639 Speaker 1: Like, thank god, we never got the I hate you. 602 00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:34,760 Speaker 1: I don't know that I could have handled. 603 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:37,159 Speaker 2: We've got that. I feel like we get that on 604 00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:37,960 Speaker 2: a pretty regular base. 605 00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:42,840 Speaker 1: Oh you've been told that? Oh yeah, oh god, I 606 00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:45,800 Speaker 1: know it's not real. People say that stuff in anger. 607 00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:48,080 Speaker 1: But then I can't wait to move out. I'm like, yeah, 608 00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:50,120 Speaker 1: I can't wait for you to move out, Like, look, 609 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:51,119 Speaker 1: we have so much in common. 610 00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:57,600 Speaker 2: I'm moving out all right. Your suitcases on the front. 611 00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:00,240 Speaker 3: I made that joke since the kids were born. I said, hey, 612 00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:03,200 Speaker 3: you know what birthday is one through seventeen. You tell 613 00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:05,080 Speaker 3: me what you want on your eighteenth birthday, I can 614 00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:05,920 Speaker 3: tell you what you're getting. 615 00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:06,560 Speaker 2: It's luggage. 616 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:09,879 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but I but we I think we stood 617 00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:12,000 Speaker 1: by her through the tough teen years. 618 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:16,400 Speaker 2: So when she turned like eighteen, she just completely came 619 00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:18,360 Speaker 2: back and looks at us for advice. 620 00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:19,119 Speaker 4: Yeah. 621 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:23,160 Speaker 1: And you know, the pandemic happened right around that age, 622 00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:29,320 Speaker 1: and she and my wife would just have cocktails every night. Yeah, 623 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:32,480 Speaker 1: you play games like the pandemic was actually really good 624 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:33,760 Speaker 1: for our family, good old days. 625 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:34,200 Speaker 2: Yeah. 626 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:36,640 Speaker 4: Well that's why there's that old saying, the older you get, 627 00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:39,960 Speaker 4: the smarter your parents get. Yeah, because you realize, oh man, 628 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:41,280 Speaker 4: they were right right. 629 00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:44,280 Speaker 1: What we were talking about, going to bed angry, waking 630 00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:47,040 Speaker 1: up and it's not post, not clarity post. 631 00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:51,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's happened before real. Greg Fitzimmons is here. 632 00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:54,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, he's hosting the Best Buddies Benefit of the Comedy 633 00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:57,960 Speaker 3: Store on Sunday. The show, A bunch of other comedians 634 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:01,600 Speaker 3: are on there and the tickets are available Fitzdog f 635 00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:04,200 Speaker 3: I t z dog dot com. You can get all 636 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:07,680 Speaker 3: the information there. We got more with Greg Fitzsimmons coming 637 00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:09,040 Speaker 3: up here on The Woody Show. 638 00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:10,880 Speaker 2: A Woody Show