WEBVTT - #230 - Akaash Singh 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:03.400 Buleg Cam podcast Special guests were live in New York City. 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:06.920 Oh gosh, what's up. Welcome sir, Thank you for having 0:00:06.960 --> 0:00:09.360 men of course, man, of course, I've been a big 0:00:09.360 --> 0:00:11.200 fan of you for a long time. Thank you so much. 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:14.440 It's always crazy when someone I'm a fan of tells 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:16.480 me they've watched my stuff. I'm like, that's creak. Get 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:19.440 out it you're doing. Yeah, dude, you're special. Which came 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:21.239 out what it was like four or five months ago now, yeah, 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:25.239 it came out February of twenty twelve. Crazy special. Thank 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:28.480 you so much. Man. I remember like first kind of 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:32.800 diving into like Flagrant when it was the original crew 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:38.160 and it was like kind of like a weird sports podcast, 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:42.360 but it evolved into something else like soup yeah, very fast. Yeah. 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:44.800 But for people who don't know, like what were the 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:48.960 original like, because obviously Andrew went from like guy Code 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:52.319 to Brilliant Idiots and then launching Flagrant, what was kind 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:54.880 of like the original crew? Like what was the original 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:58.600 I guess theme of the show because now it's it's 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:01.600 it's it's its own thing. It's way different than it was. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:04.800 going super far back when Andrews started brilliant idiots. I 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:07.399 said to him out loud, this is the only time 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:10.679 I've ever been jealous of you, right, is when you're 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:12.840 When he was doing the podcast with Charlemagne, and it 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:15.240 wasn't like real jealousy, but like really, what I was 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:17.240 thinking in my brain was I had nothing. I wasn't 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:19.000 on Guy Cut, it wasn't on TV, so we had 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:21.959 to take that opportunity. Charlemagne is amazing and huge, so like, 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:23.520 you gotta do that. But in my mind I was like, 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:25.319 if we did a podcast, I think that shit would 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:28.959 go right, so but I obviously go crush it. Brilliantties 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:31.800 did great, and then when Andrews started talking about do 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:33.840 us doing a podcast a few years later, I think 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:36.000 he felt like he wanted to start another thing. Also, 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:39.000 I was obviously down and we had been kind of 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:42.680 like brainstorming, and uh, we did a brilliantated this episode 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:44.640 with Kaz. We thought Cas was great, so we brought 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:47.400 him on board. And then the idea of doing sports, 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:49.520 which I love sports. I could talk sports, so you gotta. Yeah, 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:51.840 you always are throwing your little tidbits in about sports 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:54.400 that make me be like, oh, he's a real sports yeah, yeah, yeah, Yeah, 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:57.440 and Andrew liked sports, but he also understood something that 0:01:57.480 --> 0:01:59.760 we had talked about, which is like, yo, we can 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:02.360 only dip into these crazy things we say, like when 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:05.520 we're hanging out, just saying wild jokes about whatever. But 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:09.080 an easy entryport is sports because sports fans tend to 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:13.000 not get super triggered about anything. They're not it's nuts, political, 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:16.000 it's just sports. So the idea was always too evolve 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:19.000 it into something else. And then Alex got more and 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:20.919 more involved, and that was amazing. He was so funny 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:23.120 and like we would encourage him when he would chime in, 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:25.400 we'd be like, dude, you're funny, chime in. And then 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:28.000 Mark Andrew started working with Mark. And Mark is a 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:30.920 brilliant kid, super funny, super talented. He's a star. And 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:32.880 I didn't know him that well. And he's doing stand 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:34.560 up there he does. Yeah, he well, he started as 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:36.959 a stand up He's been been doing stand up for 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:39.120 years and that's how him Andrew connected. He opened for 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:43.160 Andrew and then Andrew brought him on board. He was like, 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:45.080 he's a smart kid. He has like good ideas for 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:47.080 merch and all this stuff. A lot of the set 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:49.720 design of the new set was Mark Set's crazy. Yeah, 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:51.680 he does so much of our YouTube stuff. He's a 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:54.280 fucking brilliant kid. And so when Andrew was like, I 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:56.160 want to start bringing Mark on the pot, I was like, yeah, 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:57.919 I don't know him super well, but bring him on. 0:02:58.280 --> 0:02:59.720 And then I got to know him. He's a great kid. 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:02.400 And it has evolved into flagrant and then when we 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:04.720 built a new studio, we wanted to try to find 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:07.320 a place for them as well on camera because they 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:09.840 contribute so much off camera. Yeah, for sure, it's just 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:12.680 evolved into this like four guy hang. It is definitely 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:14.840 a hang, and I love it because it is like 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:20.800 the most saying the crazy shitne I always yeah, when 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:22.639 the podcast is on and my wife's in the car, 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:27.280 she's always like, what the fuck are you listening? She's like, 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:31.520 what's wrong with it? My wife doesn't listen. There's episodes 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:34.119 that I'm like, hey, I think you'll like this one. Yeah, 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:37.680 listen to this one, this one because you might divorce me. Yeah. Yeah, 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:40.400 She's just like all right, fine, No, it's great because 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:43.480 it's like today's uh you know, obviously climate. It's just 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:48.119 nice to have a place where like there's just zero fuckski. Yeah, well, 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:50.520 I think Andrew probably knew this on some level, and 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:52.840 I maybe did, but I won't even give myself that 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:56.280 much credit. If you think about like when somebody when 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:59.680 there's always this like there's always too much, like there's 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:01.760 an over correctness for anything. Of course, there's always a 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:03.920 little voice that's dissenting. I'm like, you don't need all this. 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:07.040 So everybody's getting so picy and so piecey. I think 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:09.400 we were the first, one of the first at least 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:11.560 to be like, yo, fuck all that, let's just have fun. 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:13.520 And if the intention is to be funny and not 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:16.680 to hurt feelings, great, Andrew I said, judge me by 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:18.920 my intentions, and I've always agreed with that, Like that's 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:21.400 a comedy, right, Yeah, that's comedy. We're trying to be funny. 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:24.520 If I'm trying to hurt your feelings in a hateful way, 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:27.039 then fuck me. But if we're just trying to be 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:29.480 funny and I'm making it all funny, then great. Has 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:33.479 ever been an episode or like a moment where you 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:38.440 were a little nervous about whether the Cancel Culture people 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:41.560 were coming for y'all or not Cancel Culture, or just 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:43.480 like you know cause I feel like, obviously you come 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:45.640 from a traditional Indian background, you know what I mean. 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:47.560 But there you guys be saying some shit on there. Man, 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:49.560 you know what, I just in my mind, I'm like, 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:51.200 my parents don't know how to use the Internet. I 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:54.320 don't know why, but I like it. It's so stupid. 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:56.599 But I'm like, my mom is sixty seven, she's not 0:04:56.720 --> 0:05:00.800 using she's not diving into the forty seven minute mark. Yeah. Yeah, 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:03.640 it don't matter. So I don't ever consider it. And 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:06.040 I've told them from the moment I started stand up. 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:08.960 I was like, don't watch, don't watch. Just it. Just 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:11.559 if I'm making money, be happy for me, but please 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:14.039 don't watch because I can't live with that because I 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:16.320 do think about that a lot, even like the roasts, 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:18.440 like the roast that Andrew Will do so like he 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:21.279 just did the Kanye one. But man, some of those 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:26.240 roast lines are fucking oh good. Yeah, the Will Smith one, 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:29.200 Oh it was so good. Oh yeah. And I felt 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:32.040 like we, I think we both felt personally like yo, 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:35.520 fuck this guy. Yeah yeah, and then every he just 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:37.520 those roast lines were crazy. I didn't I'm not going 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:39.320 to take credit for writing those jokes. That was him 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:42.760 and well what like, fuck dude, those are great jokes. Yeah. 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:44.640 The Will Smith thing was something where it was like 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:46.960 it was kind of dope to see like just all 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:51.080 the comedians just kind of gang up on what on somebody? Yeah, 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:53.000 and it was like it was done in a way 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:56.039 that was like so like the jokes that came from 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:58.680 were like maybe it was worth Chris Rock taking this 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:02.600 lap comedy We got out of it like he had 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:06.160 to sacrifice his his his dignity for a night and 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:09.080 uh and and we got some great comedic moments from it. 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:11.760 You know, I really think Will Smith is like he 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:15.240 opened the floodgates for all of the attacks. Oh for sure, 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:17.960 what's his name? Salmon and Rusty getting some resty getting 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:21.279 stabbed on stage. That shit's crazy. I think it's this 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:23.400 just the girl getting the beer thrown at her. It's 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:25.360 all open. Now. You think that kind of like had 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:27.320 a little bit to do with like having people get 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:30.599 a little you know obviously uh, embolden to do some 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:32.799 shit like that. You know, this is a crazy, crazy 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:36.320 comparison and how Columbine there weren't really school shootings and 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:39.160 then after Columbine people were like, yo, that's a possibility. 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:42.480 Like like deranged people were like, oh, that's what I got. 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:44.560 That was like the first one. Yeah, well in a 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:47.960 much less significant and all. I'm not saying the significance 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:49.960 is the same, but like on a smaller, much smaller level, 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:52.200 people are comedy shows and their brain is just opening 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:54.440 the possibility. Deranged people are like, I could fuck this 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:57.320 guy up, and I'm a fuck up guy. Like, I'm 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:00.320 a very fuckppable person. So I've always I kind of 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:03.039 had an awareness of that, and like, I never wanted 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:05.359 to cross a line. I also don't want to be 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:08.120 so disrespectful that you should beat me up, but you 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:10.600 won't because I'm small and I'm that Like, I try 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:12.880 to play with the line and I'll say it shows like, hey, 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:15.120 if you're genuinely if you feel like I crossed the line, 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:16.480 if you just don't want me to talk to, just 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:18.160 give me something like this and then we'll move on. 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:20.760 Oh like like if you do the crowd work thing, 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:22.800 yeah yeah, but now I'm like I do it earlier. 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:24.280 I'm like, I need to make sure y'all are aware 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:25.880 of this, and then if you give me this, we're 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:27.920 not going to try to do this yeah, Columbine is 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:29.760 kind of like the Sugar Hill Gang of school shooting 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:35.800 for sure. Right, It's like just I said, a hip 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:38.240 hop the first hit, the first hit, the first hip 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:42.200 hop hit, right, it was it was like it was 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:45.160 like the message from grand Master Flash. Good Mine is 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:50.680 a it's a classic through the ages. It's the back 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:53.280 that ass up. But you know it really is. It's 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:56.200 like weird too because now, like my I think it 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:58.920 was one of my nieces was showing me like on TikTok, 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:02.080 there's like a whole like underbelly of girls who are like, 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:06.840 uh that worship like the shooters, like what I remember 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:09.120 the names of the kids from Columbine, but like there's 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:12.240 like a full like fan girl club of like nineteen 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:14.840 year old girls who like, you know, fucking play with 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:16.960 themselves while looking at pictures of these dudes or whatever. 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:19.160 It's pretty wild. But you know what, Andrew has a 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:21.560 joke about this. Every school shooter says the same thing, 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:24.000 nobody want to have sex with me. All these inseels 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:25.880 are the ones that so these girls could be a 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:28.160 very valuable asset. You just got to start sucking the guys. 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:30.560 You just gotta start fucking the guys who listen to 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:34.200 ICP and you know, fucking go on for shower, suck 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:36.840 a couple of dicks. Somebody should do the like the 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:42.200 four chan grinder, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, sixty nine 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:47.520 sixty let's do it. Oh man, So for you like 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:51.559 talk about just like obviously your come up as a comedian. 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:54.760 You were telling me earlier that you started doing comedy 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:58.400 on Cali. I started in La in like oh seven, Okay, 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:01.240 so that's damn oh seven, about fifteen years deep. Now. 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:03.640 I did a couple of times in college, but then 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:05.920 I really started when I was in seven. I moved 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:09.000 to La on a whim. Just really were that or 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:10.960 just yea before that? And I didn't know you were 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:12.920 supposed to move to New York. But my best friend 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:15.400 was going there to be a cinematographer. My other best 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:17.840 friend from college. We convinced him to go because he 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:19.000 was going to go there in a year to be 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:21.720 an actor and a musician. So I was like, yo, 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:24.200 let's just all go. And then I got my mom's blessing, 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:26.560 which was a man everything. I wouldn't have gone without that. 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:30.680 But yeah, I started in seven, and like man, it 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:32.640 was rough. But then everybody told me a year and 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:34.560 a half I was actually doing fairly well in LA 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:37.079 open mics, and I think they looked at me not 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:38.760 like this kid is a star, but they looked at 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:40.200 me like, this is a kid that's going to be 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:44.040 really funny one day, right. But the vets would tell me, specifically, 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:46.080 the black bets would tell me, you're in the wrong 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:47.920 place to get funny. You go to New York to 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:50.520 get funny, and then you come to LA to get famous. 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:53.160 And I knew I wanted to be funny more than 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:55.360 I wanted to be famous, as great as famous would be. 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:58.000 I was like, I need funny. I can't live if 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:00.679 I'm not good at comedy. I can't with myself. I'm 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:02.800 famous and shitty a comedy. So I moved to New 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:05.040 York and then that was That was rough, but it 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:08.160 was very worth it. But it was rough. So originally, 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:10.760 before you moved to Cali, where are you originally from Dallas? 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:13.760 Oh you're from Dallas origin in Southwest I used to, uh, well, 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:16.559 I had a girl I was fucking with. It was 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:21.840 a twin Peaks waitress in plant in Plano text Peaks. 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:25.080 Oh my god, I didn't know you fucked white girls like, no, 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:29.640 definitely not. Why really peaks lovely lovely, light skinned young 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:35.240 sister in Plano, Texas about six years ago, shutting twin Peaks, Plano, Texas. 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:37.360 I don't know, maybe that's odd. That's the only time 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:39.040 I only went to I went to Dallas one time 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:42.319 for WrestleMania in like twenty fifteen. Okay, we had a 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:45.200 hotel in Plano. I went to a strip club that 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:48.080 was called Onyx. Maybe I don't know, but yeah, it 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:50.640 was like a BYO B strip club, which they don't have. 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:52.679 I think that's just in Texas. I've been to one 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:55.480 a couple bring your own bottles. I had been in 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:57.040 one strip club by the time I was like twenty 0:10:57.280 --> 0:10:59.240 seven or something. And then I got a free lap 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:01.120 dance because I was so uncomfortable that the girl thought 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:04.280 it was hilarious to just give me a lap dance. Yeah, 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:08.480 the whole the strip club dynamic is interesting. It's a 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:11.719 terrible place. It's there's no cemetery on earth as dead 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:14.439 as a stripper's eyes, and they just sit on your 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:18.199 lap and just just like assume that that's what you want, 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:20.560 and then when you say I'm good, they get up 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:22.880 and it's like they're offended. It goes from nice to 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:26.520 attitude so fast. It's like I'm here for chicken wings, yeah, 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:28.079 or you know, I'm here because my friend wants to 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:29.760 get the leg to talk to him. I'm just hanging 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:32.319 out one hundred bachelor party ninety five percent of the time, 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:34.160 So what are we doing? You know? The saddest thing 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:36.680 I remember watching the guys like put the dollar bills 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:38.840 like on the ground or whatever. It wasn't even as 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:40.640 sad as at the end of the song watching them 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:43.240 scurry the strippers to pick up like eight dollars. I 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:45.240 was like, yo, this is sad. Though. That is the 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:49.319 most demeaning part of the strip club experience is at 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:51.440 the end of the girl's stage, she has to bend 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:54.280 down and I would rather if I'm a woman, I 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:56.360 think i'd rather you put it in my fucking g 0:11:56.520 --> 0:11:59.480 string ass crack. Then I got a scurry like a mouse, 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:01.440 like especially if they make it rain, Like there's a 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:04.720 there's a club in La called Sam's. It's like the 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:07.640 middle stage is just full of like ten girls, and 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:11.040 if I make it rain on one girl, every girl 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:12.800 on stage has a right to any of the money 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:15.000 that touches the stage. So when people make it rain, 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:19.000 it's like throwing fucking pigeon food at the park. It's 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:21.840 fucking crazy. It's like it's like it's like the funnest 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:23.440 strip club to go to if you really want to 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:25.120 just be a piece of shit and watch chicks hit 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:26.640 the floor and like dive for money. You're like, let 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:29.960 me get a hundred once and call some fucking chaoste degenerate. 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:32.400 That would be fun. Yeah, you know, it's not bad. 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:35.280 So being from Dallas, you're like a Cowboys guy. Yeah, yeah, 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:37.800 I wish I wasn't, but I have to Mavericks. Yeah, 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:39.880 of course, I mean Luca, you know, Luca's that's fun 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:41.560 to root for the Cowboys twenty eight years of just 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:47.040 tell Yeah, yeah, dude, it's so funny to watch because 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:49.320 I still listen to a sports radio station in Dallas 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:51.800 till this day. I mean, I'm from Phoenix, so that's 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:53.560 what I do. I listened to my local station on 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:55.640 tune in and then yeah, that's yeah, all I care 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:57.400 about is Arizona sports. I don't give a fuck about 0:12:57.440 --> 0:12:58.960 Lakers or I'm sure you don't care about the Yankees 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:01.880 or anything. Now we don't. The NIXT being bad is 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:04.160 funny to me, Like I would. I would like to 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:08.200 be here when they're good because you, Yeah, when Lin 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:10.320 Sandy happened, you could feel it right right, right, right 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:12.680 right energy. I don't normally feel it, but when the 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:15.040 sanity was happening, you could feel the whole city buzzing. Yeah. 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:17.760 So the Knicks were good good, which they might be, Uh, 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:20.280 that'd be fun. But generally speaking, I think it's funny 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:21.920 to watch the Knicks fan suffer. So you were here 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:24.400 during the insanity moment? Yeah, yeah, yeah, And that was 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:26.520 as close to his Indian basketball players we've ever had, 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:30.880 so right, Yeah, that's my guy. You guys have never 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:34.120 had an NBA player ever. No, well, we had Nam Singh, 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:36.920 who's in the D League, right, the guys pin Jubbie 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:39.400 dude like seven three where he speaks English. But you 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:41.480 guys do have the what's the name of the wrestler, 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:46.000 the great, the Great Colleade he's he's we also have 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:47.640 Oh my god, I can't believe this guy's I don't 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:49.199 remember this guy's name. He follows me on Twitter. I 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:53.360 hung out with him. What is his name? Gender gender Mahal. Yeah, 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:55.320 I'm a big wrestling guy. God, dude, you know my 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:59.600 bad with him in Tampa before nice guys, dude, super 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:02.920 guy definitely on steroids. He tells me he's not, but 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:06.000 I'm like, he is. It's okay. Yeah, he went from 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:09.080 being like kind of a chubby, bigger dude. He got 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:11.600 fired and then he bounced back and he was fucking 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:15.640 shredded like a manie. I'm like, yo, this guy's six 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:19.560 months the craziest turnaround them steroids was serious. His shoulders 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:22.040 are nuts. Yeah, I'm wondering, man, because you're one of 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:23.840 the you know, obviously you were lucky enough to be 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:26.480 able to go on Jo's Joe Rogan's podcast. Yeah, you 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:29.240 always hear that like he's the king maker. Yeah right, 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:31.480 did you notice? I mean, obviously, you guys have a 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:33.520 crazy phone. You guys got one of the biggest patreons. 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:36.360 You guys have your own universe. You're in, you're already 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:38.560 selling out dates. Your special was doing well. But did 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:42.920 you notice the like uptick in everything? Yes, after going 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:45.840 on the show. So my views, it was cool. It 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:47.880 was like trending on YouTube the first couple of days 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:50.480 and it was like then it hit like three hundred 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:53.720 thousand and like whatever two days and then you could 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:55.680 see a level off pik into the views on YouTube. 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:58.320 And then the second the Rogan dropped, it doubled. It 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:00.760 hit another three hundred thousand in the next days, and 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:03.720 that's completely It would have done this, but with Rogan, 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:06.400 it did this, and it was like it might even 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:08.040 be more than like two and a half x or 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:12.000 whatever you see, and he's the fucking greatest. The experience 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:15.120 is intense because like we're chilling, we're hanging out, rear 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:18.320 leaning back. You know how how many people are listening 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:20.680 to Rogan and he's gonna give you every ounce of 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:23.960 attention possible. So if I don't return that, I'm a 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:27.160 giant dickhead. You know, he's locked in. He's locked the 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:29.800 fuck in here. And for that guy worth that much, 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:32.080 with that much power to be locked in for two 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:34.480 hours with you or however I don't return it, who 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:37.120 the fuck am I? So I was like you know 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:39.840 what I mean, like, yeah, I went there during uh, 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:43.520 like COVID, I went there with Freddy Gibbs, and you know, 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:46.600 I had it in my head, Uh what I thought 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:48.520 it might be. Yeah, but it's like kind of like 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:50.360 in like a little like business complex where there's like 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:52.520 a doctor's office and shit. Yeah. Yeah, I was like 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:54.400 I was a little I was like, damn, I really 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:56.880 expected to come to like some giant warehouse with like 0:15:57.000 --> 0:15:58.920 weights every where. I think there's a lot of shit 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:00.960 in the back. They're probably it is, yeah, because Andrews 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:03.080 telling the how to get fucking swab just to walk 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:05.800 in there. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, they weren't playing. They're not playing. 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:08.920 Andrew's telling me he did like like he Joe shot 0:16:08.960 --> 0:16:10.920 like a bow and arrow from like one hundred yards 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:13.360 out and it's just crazy hit, some crazy bullseye or something. 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:15.720 But it was in that facility, So I think it's 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:19.280 a whole thing, you guys. I feel like obviously Andrew, 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:23.600 I think I credited him to changing how people consume 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:26.280 comedy and how they did how they think of comedy. 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:30.040 And I think kind of the innovation, you know, I 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:32.520 think when we go through something like COVID, right, Yeah, 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:35.920 it kind of forces you to change your approach to 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:40.000 whatever your livelihood is. Yes, And I just think back 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:42.360 to the like turn your phone this way brilliant, and 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:45.320 how it just kind of changed just you know the 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:47.440 way people and I know Luis c K was releasing 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:49.880 specials on his own, but just like on the YouTube side, 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:53.160 like I can't really think of anybody doing the YouTube. 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:55.000 So I know in India they were doing a lot 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:57.160 of comedy clips online because that was the only way 0:16:57.160 --> 0:16:58.920 they could do stand up right, get it out there. 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:02.240 But Andrew was the first guy in America, which is 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:05.159 kind of where everybody's looking for the guiding light of 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:07.639 stand up to be like, yo, nobody's buying the special, 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:09.720 I'm just gonna put it out online. And if it 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:11.760 wasn't for that, I would not only because he's done 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:13.600 so much for me, but like I wouldn't be able 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:15.160 to sell in tickets on my own because now I'm 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:17.840 selling tickets through just stand up clips because I saw 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:20.320 that model. So I'm like, oh, and now you're scrolling 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:22.239 through ig. It's nauseating how much stand up there is, 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:24.720 and that's all. It is very nauseating for sure. Because 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:26.560 I follow a lot of comedian I'm like, fuck, everybody's 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:29.280 got a fucking even some of these guys are just 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:32.760 not funny. It's they absolutely should do it. You gotta 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:34.800 do it. But sometimes I'll see the crowd work stuff 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:38.600 and I'll be like, oh, yeah, the crowd. Yeah, it's rough, 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:41.200 it's rough. Luckily we were forged in the comedy club 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:42.720 where we came up with wasn't even a comedy club. 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:45.320 It's called the Village. Lantern is a bar upstairs and 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:47.879 the announcers in the basement. There was nobody there and 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:49.720 they would just let us do stand up. We would 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:51.920 get people off the street, bring them down. If you 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:54.919 had five people, you could do a show. But five people, 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:57.119 I can't do my bits for five people. You got 0:17:57.240 --> 0:17:59.200 to interact. You gotta interact with those people. Yeah, I was. 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:00.919 I think it's even three people sometimes and they'd be 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:03.240 looking at me like, are you fucking is this? Are 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:05.320