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Speaker 1: My name is Craig Ferguson. This podcast is called Joy.
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Speaker 2: I talk to people I like about their pursuit of happiness.
Speaker 2: Here's Gabriel Iglesias, one of the most successful comedians on Earth.
Speaker 3: Enjoy.
Speaker 2: Okay, So I was watching your or stadium special last
Speaker 2: I think you might be the only comedian I know
Speaker 2: who's ever done a stadium.
Speaker 3: Are you the only one that's done a stadium?
Speaker 4: No, Kevin Hart did it. He did it in Philadelphia
Speaker 4: a few years ago. And I want to say, Larry
Speaker 4: the Cable Guy did one for a special at a college.
Speaker 4: And there's this comedian I forget his name. He's a
Speaker 4: German comic.
Speaker 3: Right, who was the one?
Speaker 4: He's got a special one that set he set the record, right,
Speaker 4: I know, right, Germany, German comedy.
Speaker 3: He was the comedian. Was he Austrian?
Speaker 2: And was it in Nuremberg because that's a completely different
Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, everyone was having a great time.
Speaker 4: We have a good time. So the actual, uh, the
Speaker 4: Guinness Book of World Records Biggest comedy show was set
Speaker 4: by a German many years ago. Yeah, I want to
Speaker 4: say it was sixty seven thousand.
Speaker 3: Year after that record.
Speaker 4: Aren't you know what? That would be a great goal. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it would be a great goal.
Speaker 2: And you you're so I think when I watch you,
Speaker 2: because i'm a comedian as well, I've never played a stadium,
Speaker 2: but I like to think that I've got some chops
Speaker 2: a little bit. But I'm watching you and this thing,
Speaker 2: especially because I'm watched it last night, and I'm thinking,
Speaker 2: you're playing this like it's like it's a club like
Speaker 2: I've never You were just relaxed.
Speaker 3: Didn't look to me like you were like umped or.
Speaker 2: Anything, which I think is amazing because I know what
Speaker 2: it's like to get up there and to feel the
Speaker 2: energy of a crowd and to try and fight against
Speaker 2: your own tendency to just run around to make a noise.
Speaker 3: You know. It's like it was amazing it like did
Speaker 3: you chant? Do you have a meditation process?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's been a question, like what's his routine off stage?
Speaker 4: Believe it or not. I'm just usually having a conversation
Speaker 4: like this with somebody, either the tour manager or my
Speaker 4: buddy Martine, or somebody who's right there next to me
Speaker 4: off stage. We're just chit chatting and tell the either
Speaker 4: the intro video or the the you know, whoever is
Speaker 4: introducing me, introduces me, you know what I'm saying, And
Speaker 4: then yeah, so I just I'm having a conversation. I
Speaker 4: know a lot of entertainers that like to get in
Speaker 4: the zone. They like incense, They have to drink something,
Speaker 4: they have to smoke something, they have to be in
Speaker 4: a corner, they got to you know, and I'd rather
Speaker 4: just have a conversation and just take this and just
Speaker 4: keep going up there.
Speaker 3: It's almost weird, Gabriel.
Speaker 2: It's kind of like that because it's like when you
Speaker 2: know the thing in Silence of the Lambs, which part
Speaker 2: was in Silence of the Lamb when they're describing Hannibal
Speaker 2: Lectern and they said he they had the pulse meet
Speaker 2: on him and he bent off and nurses the ear
Speaker 2: and his pulse didn't change.
Speaker 3: That's when they knew.
Speaker 2: He was like a crazy He was so crazy that
Speaker 2: he didn't even get a dreamal when he was doing it.
Speaker 2: Is that how crazy you are you don't even get
Speaker 2: I do get excited.
Speaker 4: It's just that for that one in particular, I just
Speaker 4: think that we were It was a year in the
Speaker 4: making from the time that we planned it, and once
Speaker 4: it was there, it was just, you know, it felt
Speaker 4: very much like a homecoming. It felt like everybody there
Speaker 4: wants me to do good. I felt like it was
Speaker 4: a celebration of something bigger than me. You know. It
Speaker 4: wasn't like I was trying to go out there and
Speaker 4: kill it. It was like everyone knew what it took
Speaker 4: to be at that moment and we were all just
Speaker 4: celebrating it.
Speaker 2: You are a very interesting comic to me as well.
Speaker 2: I think because you have no other comedian that I've
Speaker 2: spoken to has the level of goodwill that you have.
Speaker 3: Everybody loves you. There's like everybody you can find haters.
Speaker 2: No well, I guess you can find them because you're
Speaker 2: a comedian.
Speaker 4: Do you go looking for them? You don't go looking
Speaker 4: for them. But you know, I do read my own
Speaker 4: social media. I run my own social media, so I'm
Speaker 4: looking at comments and stuff, and you know, people say, oh,
Speaker 4: you got to just brush it off, but it's you know,
Speaker 4: or not pay attention. But I have to pay attention.
Speaker 4: That's what makes me me.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So you know, but you know, every now and then
Speaker 4: there's there's someone who doesn't get what I.
Speaker 3: Do to get to you, does ever get to you
Speaker 3: to get you done?
Speaker 4: It makes me question, well, what is it that I'm doing?
Speaker 4: What is you know, I've been in enough therapy sessions
Speaker 4: to be able to question myself.
Speaker 3: Now do you get Do you get therapy? I mean
Speaker 3: I've had a ton of therapy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I've done it for years.
Speaker 2: And it's interesting because you come across and I think
Speaker 2: a lot of your audience think like.
Speaker 3: He's just a guy. He's the guy who says funny things.
Speaker 2: But there's no such thing as just a guy who
Speaker 2: says funny things in a stadium.
Speaker 3: That's not like a normal guy, you know.
Speaker 2: I mean, I know that you are normal in the
Speaker 2: sense that you're not crazy, but you are a little
Speaker 2: bit crazy because you're a stand up comedian. A lot
Speaker 2: of it is about for me, I think everyone I know,
Speaker 2: and I know a bunch of them, there's a kind
Speaker 2: of there's an energy in the darkness that goes with
Speaker 2: it too, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely you have to have something going on with
Speaker 4: you to want to get up on stage and get
Speaker 4: the laughs and to make people smile and just you know,
Speaker 4: there's there's something there.
Speaker 2: What do you think it is with you? Because I
Speaker 2: most people like talk to. I don't want to lead
Speaker 2: the witness, but most people like talk to. I think
Speaker 2: it's it's in childhood somewhere.
Speaker 4: I was about to say, I've always been a big kid.
Speaker 4: I've always been the last to get chosen for activities.
Speaker 4: I've always been the you know, the unpopular one, chubby kid,
Speaker 4: messed up teeth, you know.
Speaker 3: I had to acting messed up teeth with just making
Speaker 3: it normally.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: It's like.
Speaker 4: Things that that you know, kept me from being social
Speaker 4: because people would you know, the kids were cruel, you know,
Speaker 4: I mean they bullying now is one thing, but back
Speaker 4: then they added, uh, it was physical too. Yeah, so
Speaker 4: there was just a lot of that, and and I
Speaker 4: think that once I found comedy, comedy was the it
Speaker 4: was my hero, it was my savior. It's what protected
Speaker 4: me and kept me from feeling all those different ways.
Speaker 2: Was a conscious thing as a kid, because I mean,
Speaker 2: of course you hear comedians say it was I used
Speaker 2: it to protect myself and I and I did too,
Speaker 2: but but I didn't.
Speaker 3: I wasn't aware that I was doing that at the time.
Speaker 2: I was just like, you just do anathing available to
Speaker 2: protect yourself, right.
Speaker 4: Comedy For me, I definitely knew that that's what it
Speaker 4: was doing, and it made me want to do it more.
Speaker 4: And I loved it too. I love the attention, of
Speaker 4: the thrill, the butterflies that you would get right before
Speaker 4: you'd walk out on stage.
Speaker 3: When did you first start doing it?
Speaker 4: I was ten years old the first time I tried it.
Speaker 4: I did a school talent show. I was up on
Speaker 4: stage doing impressions. Because I didn't exactly know what comedy
Speaker 4: was exactly. I had watched an Eddie Murphy special and
Speaker 4: probably not the which it doesn't matter which one it is.
Speaker 4: It probably wasn't something that a ten year old should
Speaker 4: be watching. But I love the fact that he was
Speaker 4: doing the voices and the characters, and that's what I
Speaker 4: was drawn to. I was drawn to the animated part
Speaker 4: of it, not so much the foul language or whatever
Speaker 4: else he was talking about. I was drawn to the
Speaker 4: animated part. And I knew that I had this ability
Speaker 4: of altering my voice and playing. And so I got
Speaker 4: a chance to audition for a school talent show and
Speaker 4: they said, well, you know, what are you going to do?
Speaker 4: I said, well, I did voices, and I didn't know
Speaker 4: what really, you know, how to do comedy, But I
Speaker 4: knew that I had seen enough of a guy by
Speaker 4: the name of rich Little way back in the day Mary. Oh, yeah, impressionist.
Speaker 3: He did the White House correspond the year before I
Speaker 3: said it.
Speaker 4: He was he was really oh okay, yea yeah, So.
Speaker 2: I know exactly who you mean, because I have you
Speaker 2: done that yet? No, So you stay away from I
Speaker 2: stay away from too. I just I mean, that's I
Speaker 2: think that's the reason why they asked me. I mean
Speaker 2: a big I used to talk about it a little
Speaker 2: more of the night, do not.
Speaker 3: I'm like, no, it's just crazy.
Speaker 4: Did you ever talk about it in the beginning? I
Speaker 4: did when it wasn't so taboo, whereas now you sneeze
Speaker 4: the wrong way and people are like, oh oh, it's
Speaker 4: like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you talk about that was that in
Speaker 2: the It was one of your specialists. You talk about
Speaker 2: they're trying to somebody trying to blackmail you like that,
Speaker 2: that fate.
Speaker 4: But that's all the time though. I can't even say
Speaker 4: that that's a one and done. People are always like,
Speaker 4: you know, once you have a little bit of success
Speaker 4: or a lot of success, people want a piece of
Speaker 4: the pie, and so they'll they'll try to you know,
Speaker 4: hey I got this photo of this, or hey I
Speaker 4: saw you doing that, or you.
Speaker 3: Know, are you a party animal?
Speaker 4: Do you not a party animal? I'm forty six now
Speaker 4: I just want to I just want to do my
Speaker 4: show and go and hang out my dogs and grab
Speaker 4: a soda. I was more partying in the in the
Speaker 4: twenty you know when I was When I was twenty Yeah,
Speaker 4: twenty twenty five, that was I was.
Speaker 3: That was more so did you ever get like I
Speaker 3: was shocking drunk? That was my twenties. I had to
Speaker 3: get so.
Speaker 4: I would drink a lot. Yeah, I would drink a lot. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Did you did you get to get out of hand.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm sure it did.
Speaker 3: See I knew I liked you.
Speaker 4: I'm sure there are photos. But you know what, it
Speaker 4: was a different time.
Speaker 3: You know, it's a different time a little bit.
Speaker 2: I feel sorry for a lot of the youngsters today
Speaker 2: because I like, if there were cell phones around when
Speaker 2: I was drinking, I mean, the level of embarrassment and
Speaker 2: shame that they could.
Speaker 4: You had time to prepare if somebody was going to
Speaker 4: take a photos like, oh.
Speaker 5: Look at me's getting drunk hold on or the guy
Speaker 5: puts the black thing over his head and you're upside
Speaker 5: down and you have to stay still and then the
Speaker 5: flask goes off.
Speaker 3: Gotcha? So that darkness.
Speaker 4: Then we'll answer your question from earlier voices and the
Speaker 4: characters and stuff. I went up on stage and I
Speaker 4: realized that I had something going there because that night
Speaker 4: when I went up there and I was doing impressions
Speaker 4: of pee Wee Herman, who at the time was you know,
Speaker 4: he was still pee Wee Hermant, Petere Herman, Ronald Reagan, Popeye,
Speaker 4: Mickey Mouse. These are the characters I was doing when
Speaker 4: I was ten years old, and the crowd reacted to
Speaker 4: it and they're like, wow, look at him, and I
Speaker 4: had a microphone and it was loud and I could
Speaker 4: actually hear myself. It was the first time I worked
Speaker 4: with the microphone. Even with me. I was like, oh wow,
Speaker 4: I'm mont to something. And then I did the talent
Speaker 4: show again the following year, and then I went seven
Speaker 4: years before I was in high school. I got on
Speaker 4: the speech team and that's where I got the courage
Speaker 4: to get up in front of class. And then I
Speaker 4: just started doing that every single day, getting up in
Speaker 4: front of the class, until eventually I was just super
Speaker 4: comfortable in front of people. And then once once I
Speaker 4: started doing school, I was no. It was. It was
Speaker 4: a shit school. Yeah, you know. I mean I'm proud
Speaker 4: of because I graduated from it. Lombich Wilson, what's up.
Speaker 4: But there are many better schools, a lot better schools.
Speaker 4: But that's that's you know.
Speaker 3: It was a violent environment.
Speaker 4: During that time, yes, yeah, oh there was always school
Speaker 4: fight and rights and the you know, on the pot
Speaker 4: and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: That's a lot of a lot of comedians, I know, particularly.
Speaker 4: I avoided them though. I was, yeah, the schoolmash pit.
Speaker 2: But that I think because I think of you as
Speaker 2: a I mean, if you were a British comedian, I'd
Speaker 2: say you were a working class comedian.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean.
Speaker 2: It's like you're I feel like you're I mean, this
Speaker 2: is a compliment. By the way, this is like a
Speaker 2: blue collar guy. You're from a working class environment, even
Speaker 2: to the extent you still know no.
Speaker 4: Silver spoon for sure. My mom and I. It was
Speaker 4: just my mom and I, no dad in the picture
Speaker 4: section eight housing, public housing. We were on welfare, which
Speaker 4: is the wick of today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you think that's part of it. My wife is
Speaker 2: a theory that all stand up comedians have the same mother.
Speaker 4: Oh she's She was very strong, very strong, very very opinionated.
Speaker 4: Did not think I was a good comedian. She didn't
Speaker 4: think I was funny. Period.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I see that, that's exactly.
Speaker 4: But I didn't need a fan. I needed a mom, right,
Speaker 4: I get it.
Speaker 2: But it's it's an interesting thing because I think it
Speaker 2: takes you take your personality of a cave like a
Speaker 2: chubby little kid who's afraid, because that's exactly what I
Speaker 2: was when I was a kid. I was afraid, and
Speaker 2: you start being funny and you don't even know you're funny,
Speaker 2: but you know that they're not hitting you if you
Speaker 2: can divert their attention, right, it is a kind of
Speaker 2: darks and then you get in a drinking Were you
Speaker 2: ever in a drug taken?
Speaker 4: Not really more of an advil PM kind of guy.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, you didn't go for it because I always
Speaker 2: liked cocaine. I always thought it was a good vitamin
Speaker 2: to help you drink more. I never I never thought
Speaker 2: it was a drug. I just thought it was like
Speaker 2: a drinker's vitamin, like a kind of like the way
Speaker 2: the kids use Red Bull.
Speaker 4: Now it's dry red Bull.
Speaker 2: You never got into though, because because there's a I
Speaker 2: think particularly you know, if you grew up in La,
Speaker 2: La has a real culture.
Speaker 3: Of you know, you get drawn and all that. As
Speaker 3: a young per.
Speaker 4: There was a lot of it around. You know. What's
Speaker 4: crazy is that I always heard stories where big guys
Speaker 4: usually did not handle cocaine. Well, right, it was always
Speaker 4: you know what, if you're big and you do blow,
Speaker 4: then you're gonna die. You're gonna have a heart attack
Speaker 4: and die because big guys can't hang. And so I
Speaker 4: that alone was more than enough to keep me scared
Speaker 4: straight where I'm like, no, I'm big, I can't be
Speaker 4: doing that. I'll just I'll have a drink.
Speaker 3: So you didn't have a self destruct thing.
Speaker 2: It was just like it was just like to get
Speaker 2: messed up, but it wasn't to destroy yourself.
Speaker 4: But also too, I mean I worked a lot. I
Speaker 4: really focused, and I was so excited about doing stand
Speaker 4: up where that's what I wanted to do. It wasn't
Speaker 4: the party after that I was after. It was actually
Speaker 4: the stage. Yeah, so you know I was just trying like, Okay,
Speaker 4: where can I find another stage? Where can I go up?
Speaker 4: You know, this is before social media, so you actually
Speaker 4: had to go and hang out with people and like
Speaker 4: you're at Denny's at two three o'clock in the morning
Speaker 4: with other comics are somewhere on something else. Some are
Speaker 4: just there to do exactly what you're there to do.
Speaker 4: And you know that was your social circle, and you
Speaker 4: know you kind of built off of that. You'd say, hey,
Speaker 4: can I get so and So's number? Can I call him?
Speaker 4: You know, if he's booking, where can I send a tape?
Speaker 4: You know, this is all stuff that you had to
Speaker 4: do back then at a lot of homework. You wouldn't
Speaker 4: know any of these guys. Yeah, it was it was
Speaker 4: a so When.
Speaker 3: Did you start?
Speaker 2: When did you start moving up? Do you think when
Speaker 2: did you start start working?
Speaker 4: I was very fortunate that I caught lightning in a
Speaker 4: bottle really quick. So April tenth, nineteen ninety seven is
Speaker 4: my first official start date where I called myself a comic.
Speaker 4: I was in Long Beach, which is where I live
Speaker 4: now still and.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because you like you drove here today in LA
Speaker 2: and it was raining and I was like, I can't
Speaker 2: believe you didn't cancel the fact.
Speaker 3: That I canceled. I nearly canceled, and I'm like five
Speaker 3: minutes from here.
Speaker 4: And I felt bad because I'm like, I'm a be late. No,
Speaker 4: I'm still coming, see, but I'm gonna be late. I
Speaker 4: think that's a that's a working sales here. That's that's
Speaker 4: your mom did that? That's your mom did that? I
Speaker 4: sailed here.
Speaker 3: You have to get to that. You have to get there.
Speaker 3: If your mom was Scottish that you have to get there,
Speaker 3: who do you think? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Ge Lannel told me this thing that when he took
Speaker 2: over the Tonight Show, it used to say the Tonight
Speaker 2: Show as starring Johnny Carson, and then when he took over,
Speaker 2: it said that Tonight so starring Jay Leno, and he
Speaker 2: told his mom and his mom said, well, his mom Scottish.
Speaker 2: He said, oh, the tonights was starting, Jaylando was starting
Speaker 2: Jilano was it?
Speaker 3: Who do you think? Yeah? So he had to change
Speaker 3: it to The Tonight Joe with Jaylano.
Speaker 4: Because his mom.
Speaker 3: Because his mom, he's frightening.
Speaker 2: She also he was on the cover of Time magazine
Speaker 2: and in Boston where he grew up, and his mom said,
Speaker 2: it's probably just the local Time magazine. He said, Mom,
Speaker 2: isn't the local Time magazine. See, I think moms are
Speaker 2: of comedians are kind of like that, you know, they're
Speaker 2: kind of.
Speaker 4: They're the humblers. Yeah, there was no time where I
Speaker 4: could brag around my mom. No, unfortunately not, she's been
Speaker 4: gone ten years now. But I know that anytime I
Speaker 4: say something out loud that that kind of like I
Speaker 4: could hear my mom already, like how she would have
Speaker 4: reacted to that. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's interesting I feel that.
Speaker 4: Okay, oh look at you.
Speaker 2: Oh that's exactly my Yeah, I wanted because you're you're
Speaker 2: quite open.
Speaker 3: I say that. I don't know if you're open.
Speaker 2: You talk about your family and your act, you talk
Speaker 2: about your son and you're right. Whenever I talked about
Speaker 2: my kids they don't like him, and they stopped me
Speaker 2: doing it, like, nope, that's done.
Speaker 4: That's where I'm at right now.
Speaker 3: Oh really saying you got to stop it.
Speaker 4: It took a minute. He didn't say I have to stop,
Speaker 4: but he made it clear that he didn't appreciate it.
Speaker 4: And I didn't want to keep doing it if it
Speaker 4: was going to bother him, because I don't want the
Speaker 4: resentment and want him getting you know, for me, I
Speaker 4: just saw it as my form of parenting because I'm like,
Speaker 4: you know, before shaming was a thing. That's how you.
Speaker 4: You make fun of him. You embarrass him. You embarrass
Speaker 4: your kids so that they wouldn't do it, And I
Speaker 4: figured embarrassing them was better than spanking them. Yeah, it's
Speaker 4: better than yelling at them. Hey, look, I'm just going
Speaker 4: to make you feel stupid and hopefully you don't do
Speaker 4: that again.
Speaker 2: Well, it's get an interesting thing because doing that now
Speaker 2: like people, because I agree with you, it's like somebody
Speaker 2: makes you feel dumb about doing something, you're less likely
Speaker 2: to do it again. And if he's done from a
Speaker 2: loving position, then that's fine. But I think the problem that.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think people are having with the younger generation right now,
Speaker 2: is maybe that they don't handle any kind of contrary
Speaker 2: opinion very well. I don't think he's any to do
Speaker 2: with woke. I think decent people have always been decent people.
Speaker 2: But I think the idea of you know, I should
Speaker 2: have a hassle free life go, really, have you ever
Speaker 2: been on the four h five, Because there's no such
Speaker 2: thing as free life. It's like you're going to get hassled.
Speaker 2: It's just one of those things. I mean, you should
Speaker 2: get trained for it a little bit. Well, it is
Speaker 2: your boy now twenty five. Yeah, it's the type of
Speaker 2: stop hit you if you don't stop. Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 2: So when he was growing up, now you were, you
Speaker 2: were with his mom?
Speaker 4: Yes, I got him when he was seven, his stepson. Yes,
Speaker 4: my mom would call him aftermarket.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I listen. I don't hold with that.
Speaker 2: I think love is love and family his family, and
Speaker 2: I don't buy any that kind of half brother, step
Speaker 2: sister all that. It's like, it's just it's a it's
Speaker 2: a way of kind of fine tuning the description, that's
Speaker 2: all it is.
Speaker 4: But my mom was pretty hardcore and set against me
Speaker 4: having any type of relationship with anyone that already had
Speaker 4: a what did she call it? She said, Oh, that
Speaker 4: girl you're dating, she has a pre existing condition. I go, Mom,
Speaker 4: I go, it's not a medical thing. She's got here.
Speaker 4: What's the big deal?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 4: She goes, you need to have one of your own.
Speaker 4: And I'm like, Mom, it's fine.
Speaker 2: That's an interesting thing that you. Did your mom ever
Speaker 2: come around to it?
Speaker 3: Is?
Speaker 4: She?
Speaker 3: All right? In the end?
Speaker 4: You know what? She was not really she was just cool,
Speaker 4: like okay, fine, but she wasn't going out of her
Speaker 4: way to be like hey, come here, hey let me
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: It was more so just like all right, he's here, cool, hello,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: That's interesting.
Speaker 4: And trying to get my mom to change that was
Speaker 4: that was a mission in itself. And I think, just again,
Speaker 4: we're in a time now, we're now we're that person
Speaker 4: and now it's like, okay, so she.
Speaker 2: I mean, she lived long enough to see you get
Speaker 2: very successful. Yes, right, so, which must have kind of
Speaker 2: freaked around a little bit, you think.
Speaker 4: I don't know. I honestly don't know, because I mean
Speaker 4: I was working so much and she didn't exactly like
Speaker 4: watch me on television or anything like that. She knew
Speaker 4: I was always working, because you know, we would talk daily.
Speaker 4: Where are you at now? Where are you at now?
Speaker 4: When you're coming home, I'm hungry, take me to eat?
Speaker 4: So she wanted to know when I was, I was like,
Speaker 4: go and pick her up and take her to eat
Speaker 4: and tell her about my week and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: But I don't think that she knew that it was
Speaker 4: going to get to where it is now.
Speaker 2: So many people go to where you are now though,
Speaker 2: I mean it's kind of like stratospheric at this point.
Speaker 2: Where do you see it going comedically? I mean there
Speaker 2: is I talked to you about the idea of going
Speaker 2: after that German Guys record for the biggest comedy in
Speaker 2: the show ever and maybe that.
Speaker 3: But is that? Is that it? Or you happy?
Speaker 2: Are you still happy playing, you know, a club with
Speaker 2: two hundred people in it?
Speaker 4: I'm very happy with being able to like I shoot,
Speaker 4: I was at the Funny Bone in Columbus, Ohio this
Speaker 4: past weekend and the room seats maybe two fifty three hundred,
Speaker 4: and I was having a great time. I loved it.
Speaker 4: It's it's you're right there with the people, but don't
Speaker 4: get me wrong. I love being gold driven. So having
Speaker 4: something to you know, work towards how can you outdo yourself?
Speaker 4: Because you know, a lot of times I think that
Speaker 4: people get into the you know, competition of oh, what's
Speaker 4: that guy doing, what's that guy doing, what's that guy doing?
Speaker 4: Whereas I find myself like, all right, how can I
Speaker 4: outdo what I did last time? Versus trying to figure out, Oh,
Speaker 4: this person's doing this, this person's doing that. That's why
Speaker 4: it's like people kept saying, you should do a podcast,
Speaker 4: but I'm like, that's not me though, or you should. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you should be either do this kind of show.
Speaker 3: You got point. Yeah, I think it goes with your
Speaker 3: driver's licenses.
Speaker 2: If you want to have a you know, or get
Speaker 2: avoid getting audited by the taxman or something, you have
Speaker 2: to do it, you know.
Speaker 4: But as far as what's the next goal, I think
Speaker 4: it would be awesome because honestly, I contemplated retiring at
Speaker 4: Dodger Stadium. I thought about retiring because of the fact
Speaker 4: that I'm like, can I outdo this? Is this the
Speaker 4: biggest thing I'm ever gonna do? And if it is,
Speaker 4: what better way to hey, thank you good night?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I don't think you should do that.
Speaker 2: Look, I'm not a therapist, but I think that would
Speaker 2: be a bad idea.
Speaker 4: I think I'd miss it.
Speaker 3: You miss it. I think it would turn on you.
Speaker 3: I think that.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, you don't I don't have to be
Speaker 2: an expert in the human condition to what you do.
Speaker 2: Stand up and go. That guy has got demon So
Speaker 2: that's the only way.
Speaker 3: You get up there.
Speaker 2: You don't get up there just ah, he's just a
Speaker 2: guy goes to Red Lobster. He goes to Red Lobster
Speaker 2: with his kid and they have a nice time to go. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he does do that. But you know there, you know,
Speaker 2: there's gotta be some dark in that fuel. There's gonna
Speaker 2: be some I think it would turn on you. The
Speaker 2: thing I think I'm going to say something to you.
Speaker 2: This is not by way of advice. It is an observation.
Speaker 2: I spent a long time. I was talking to some
Speaker 2: guys earlier. But I worked with Mick Jagger for a
Speaker 2: little while writing a screenplay, and so I was on
Speaker 2: tour with the roland Stones, and I watched Keith Richards.
Speaker 2: Keith Richards is just as happy would the Rolling Stones
Speaker 2: being that band, as he would be if it was
Speaker 2: in a ship band playing in a pub in North London.
Speaker 2: As long as he's playing the guitar, he doesn't really care.
Speaker 2: Nothing else really matters. And I think you have a
Speaker 2: little bit of that as long as you're doing the show.
Speaker 2: Like you said, you know, you just you just like
Speaker 2: to get up there. You want to get up there.
Speaker 3: You know. I think if you were not doing that,
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 2: It would it would come get you. I think you'd
Speaker 2: find a way to.
Speaker 3: To get that.
Speaker 4: Something would happen. Yeah, I guess with me, the problem
Speaker 4: is is that I'm afraid of all the work that
Speaker 4: I've put in over these years because this is your
Speaker 4: twenty six now for me, and I'd be afraid of
Speaker 4: like getting to a certain point. And then because it's
Speaker 4: not every day you could say you saw your peak, right,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean? And I don't know if
Speaker 4: this is the peak. I don't know if it is.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's the highest point I've reached so far, right.
Speaker 2: But is it all about professionalism? Are their ambitions personally?
Speaker 2: Would you like to sail around the world? Would you
Speaker 2: like to, you know, get ripped and climb Mount Everest?
Speaker 3: Is? Is there the other goals? Outside of performance.
Speaker 4: Outside of performance, I mean, done a lot of traveling,
Speaker 4: been a lot of places, seen a lot of things.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you're always doing a show.
Speaker 4: No, it was always around a show. I've never taken
Speaker 4: a vacation just to take a vacation, and that that
Speaker 4: blows people away too, that you know, No, I get,
Speaker 4: I just do not go anywhere like for me, I
Speaker 4: don't see a vacation as a vacation that I'm doing
Speaker 4: all the things I don't like doing about comedy without
Speaker 4: the comedy. So what, I gotta get on a plane.
Speaker 4: I gotta go to the airport. I gotta get on
Speaker 4: some shuttle bus. I gotta check in a hotel. I
Speaker 4: gotta worry about bed bugs. I gotta worry about you know.
Speaker 4: Let's yeah, all that, and you don't get there somewhere
Speaker 4: to eat. You know, what's going to be the situation
Speaker 4: once we get there?
Speaker 3: How are you flying in airplanes?
Speaker 4: I'm fine. I usually, uh we fly private, right, fly private,
Speaker 4: but mostly if it's for my dogs. I travel with
Speaker 4: my dogs and so you know, they keep me happy.
Speaker 4: Let's tu chiawas they go anywhere? They go everywhere? But yeah,
Speaker 4: I usually fly with them. And if they're not going
Speaker 4: with me on fly commercial.
Speaker 3: Right, But you don't have any fear of flying things?
Speaker 2: Right. That's interesting because I feel like I want to
Speaker 2: try and find out what's kind of making you tech,
Speaker 2: and I think you kind of you're luding me, not
Speaker 2: on purpose.
Speaker 3: I just can't put my finger on it, which I
Speaker 3: think is fantastical.
Speaker 4: Nice.
Speaker 3: No, I think that's I think it's great. I mean, they.
Speaker 4: Gotta break them down. I'm gonna break them down right now.
Speaker 3: I don't feel broken down.
Speaker 2: I feel kind of I'm quite intrigued by because I
Speaker 2: think you're a very singular human being. I think that
Speaker 2: you must be very strong emotionally, are you do you
Speaker 2: think you said?
Speaker 4: I think it all depends setting boundaries. I think it's
Speaker 4: the boundaries are only as good as the person who
Speaker 4: you're trying to set them with.
Speaker 2: Real be sure, because I think some people like need
Speaker 2: stricter kind of information you.
Speaker 4: Can tell them. But I think a lot of times
Speaker 4: people are just gonna do whatever they want to do,
Speaker 4: and so you got to be selective about who you
Speaker 4: surround yourself.
Speaker 3: With, and you're careful.
Speaker 4: I try to be, but there's some people that have
Speaker 4: I guess been grandfathered in because they've been around so
Speaker 4: long and you just know, like, ah, don't talk about
Speaker 4: this around this person, don't bring up that. And you know,
Speaker 4: I see that start to stop Watch.
Speaker 2: That's an age, I think because I could that too,
Speaker 2: because like young people is like if they don't agree,
Speaker 2: they're not friends. I'm like, hey, I'm like I have
Speaker 2: friends who are like awful, But what am I gonna do?
Speaker 3: It's my friend, you know.
Speaker 2: It's like, you know that guy's a racist, to go
Speaker 2: he is, he's a terrible racist.
Speaker 3: But what am I gonna do? He's my friend.
Speaker 2: It's like that thing like Megan Markle and Prince Harry
Speaker 2: said there's a racist in the Royal family and I'm like, no, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's a it's a family. If you don't know who
Speaker 2: the racist is in your family, it's because it's you know,
Speaker 2: you're the racist. You're the Yeah, It's it's crazy. It's
Speaker 2: like Grandpa's going to make a speech. No, he is
Speaker 2: not one of make a speech.
Speaker 3: He's no.
Speaker 2: I mean, do you find because your Mexican heritage, right,
Speaker 2: have you encountered I don't know, have you encountered prejudice
Speaker 2: from any angle because of that?
Speaker 3: Do you think you know?
Speaker 4: Yes, But I think a lot of times it's like,
Speaker 4: am I overthinking it? Am I? Am I looking into it? More?
Speaker 4: Am I? Am I looking for it? Versus is there
Speaker 4: something that's clearly like am I clearly being held back
Speaker 4: or being challenged or being you know, made to feel
Speaker 4: less than? Because I mean, we've gone to some places
Speaker 4: where you know, stereotypically it would not go well, right,
Speaker 4: and it does. And I think that For example, there's
Speaker 4: been some shows that we've done where I'm doing meet
Speaker 4: and greets afterwards and there's people coming up and they've
Speaker 4: got Confederate flags on the t shirts and the tattoos,
Speaker 4: and you could tell that, you know, they might have
Speaker 4: set a racial slur or two in their day. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but uh, for some reason, around me, it's weird to like,
Speaker 4: you know, you think you're gonna get one thing and
Speaker 4: then it's like, you know, I'll have people say things
Speaker 4: like we were eating at a at a Mexican restaurant
Speaker 4: before we came to see you, because we knew we
Speaker 4: were coming to see you, so we wanted to go
Speaker 4: eat some tacos and drink some Mexican soda before we
Speaker 4: came to see you, and part of me wants to
Speaker 4: go the what the hell does that even mean? But
Speaker 4: it's like when you hear what they're saying, it's like
Speaker 4: they're trying to find a way to connect and be close,
Speaker 4: even all the way that they're saying. What they're saying
Speaker 4: is just like are you come on? And so you
Speaker 4: want to get offended, but you realize sometimes sometimes people
Speaker 4: don't know any better. They have the best of intentions,
Speaker 4: but they don't know how to convey it. And so
Speaker 4: you're like, all right, okay, ro I'll get people. Oh lah,
Speaker 4: I'm a big fan of yours. You know, I want
Speaker 4: to be your amigo. I'm like yeah, I'm like like, okay,
Speaker 4: you you are a fan clearly, but your approach is just.
Speaker 3: I can I can very much relate people. People come
Speaker 3: up to me and go, oh, Shrek ferty don't. I
Speaker 3: was like, really, didn't make you me feel weird? Like
Speaker 3: I don't know Shrek? All right? I do know Shrek,
Speaker 3: but I don't. We don't get along all right. Do
Speaker 3: you speak Spanish?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 3: I do. Do you do gigs in Mexico?
Speaker 4: I recently performed in Mexico, but I don't perform in Spanish,
Speaker 4: it loses a lot in the translation, and then depending
Speaker 4: on what part of Latin America you're in, you're in,
Speaker 4: you know the slang, it's it's very different, right.
Speaker 2: You interested in it because you know Eddie as as
Speaker 2: a friend of mine and Eddie she performs in lots
Speaker 2: of different languages, Like Eddie will go to France and
Speaker 2: not even speak French and then learn the act fanatically
Speaker 2: and then perform it as as an experiment. That's incredible,
Speaker 2: that's crazy, right, But I think you have a little
Speaker 2: bit of that in the sense, so because you work
Speaker 2: with the sound, Like the amount of voices you do
Speaker 2: in a show is crazy, like the different like you
Speaker 2: can do my voice. I heard you do it in
Speaker 2: that set Calm that you did for Netflix.
Speaker 3: You did a Scottish accent that way.
Speaker 2: That's actually oh bad, and nobody can do a Scottish
Speaker 2: accent and you can do it. And I think you
Speaker 2: have that fanantic thing, doesn't it. I think you should
Speaker 2: try a gagainst Spanish.
Speaker 4: I you know what I've done. I've performed in Spanish
Speaker 4: for fifteen twenty minutes, right, and so I in my
Speaker 4: head I translated it and trying to you know, like,
Speaker 4: all right, here we go, right, and it went, okay,
Speaker 4: you know, I've opened up for Mexican Spanish speaking comics.
Speaker 4: We did. We actually made it a challenge where I
Speaker 4: opened up for a comic by then in a Francois
Speaker 4: Camilla who's massive in Spanish, and I challenged, Hi, all right,
Speaker 4: now you got to open for me two minutes in English.
Speaker 3: Did he do?
Speaker 4: Yeah? We both did, and we both agreed that we
Speaker 4: should never do that again. It was a horrible idea there.
Speaker 3: No, I don't know, man, i'n't love to see that.
Speaker 4: It was you know, it was it was cool to
Speaker 4: say that we tried it. And I'm like, okay, because
Speaker 4: the show that I opened for him in Mexico City
Speaker 4: at the Arena, he was taving a Netflix special and
Speaker 4: I went out there and it was just like wow,
Speaker 4: Like it was because I was really I had to
Speaker 4: really think about what I was saying, and that was
Speaker 4: messing with me. Yeah. I had him open for me
Speaker 4: at Staple Center when it was still Staple Center, and
Speaker 4: again he was back there and he's just sweating bullets
Speaker 4: and you know, he's talking to me and he's like,
Speaker 4: oh yeah, you know, oh my goodness, it was. But
Speaker 4: the fact that Eddie can do that, I think I
Speaker 4: know it.
Speaker 2: But I think it's it's something to do with maybe
Speaker 2: a musician's brain.
Speaker 3: Are you a musician?
Speaker 4: My whole family they're all singers, songwriters, and you know,
Speaker 4: a priest. It's the weirdest combination of No.
Speaker 2: That to me is like I used to recipe for
Speaker 2: a stand up a priest and a musician mixed together.
Speaker 4: That's on my On my father's side, it's it's priest.
Speaker 4: There's priest and Mariacci's so.
Speaker 3: No way to me if there's a priest.
Speaker 4: And I know you see is a problem. But that's
Speaker 4: why I usually just say Mariacci and kind of just
Speaker 4: so and whateveres everybody else do they're just you know,
Speaker 4: they're spiritual.
Speaker 2: Right, So that is so, there's the spiritual side. And
Speaker 2: are you a musician though? Do you play anything?
Speaker 4: No, I don't know. I'll get drunk and do karaoke
Speaker 4: and that's the extent of it.
Speaker 2: You still get drunk, Yeah, good for you, Good for you.
Speaker 2: It doesn't get in the way of what I don't
Speaker 2: know life. I mean, for me, I can't get drunk
Speaker 2: or I'm like things get arresty or I.
Speaker 3: Just hate myself, you know.
Speaker 4: I mean I hate the next day when you're dealing
Speaker 4: with a hangover or if you have a flight, or
Speaker 4: if you have to be functional. Right, that's when it's like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for me, that that next day is kind of
Speaker 2: about three months.
Speaker 4: I remember being on the road having a good time
Speaker 4: and then you know, no big deal, wake up the
Speaker 4: next morning, go to the airport. You know, it was
Speaker 4: all good. And then you know, as soon as I
Speaker 4: hit forty, that stopped. Now because you're a big guy.
Speaker 4: And back to that question about setting goals and stuff
Speaker 4: like that, you know, traveling or whatever it is. Yeah,
Speaker 4: my goal has always been, you know, if I could
Speaker 4: just you know, do this would be to lose weight.
Speaker 4: I'd be lying if I if I didn't say that
Speaker 4: the weight lost art.
Speaker 3: It's really hard. I mean I struggle with it, and
Speaker 3: I really do.
Speaker 2: I struggle with it all the time, and I get
Speaker 2: crazy about it sometimes.
Speaker 3: How do you approach it trying to lose weight?
Speaker 4: Well, clearly I haven't.
Speaker 3: I don't know, Man, you look like something.
Speaker 4: I mean, this is not my heaviest I was actually
Speaker 4: from right now, I've been I was one hundred pounds heavier. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I filled in the couch.
Speaker 3: That's crazy. Well, congratulations on that. That's incredible. Feet.
Speaker 4: There was a point in time where a comedian arrest
Speaker 4: in peace. Ralphie May and I were very cloa, very close.
Speaker 4: But yeah, during COVID, I had an opportunity to get
Speaker 4: a trainer and then I'm diabetic, so I want to
Speaker 4: go see a doctor and I got put on some
Speaker 4: you know, good medication to control that, and that helped
Speaker 4: out so that automatically, without even really you know, having
Speaker 4: to do much, the weight to started coming off because
Speaker 4: I wasn't eating out every night.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because we were home. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Did
Speaker 3: you get it? Did you get COVID?
Speaker 4: Yes? I got COVID one time. I know people that
Speaker 4: got it four, which I think is insane.
Speaker 3: I've had it twice. It's well, no counting now because
Speaker 3: I feel like I might I've kidding.
Speaker 2: I feel a bit monkey POxy, but I'm okay. COVID vise,
Speaker 2: I'm fine. I've just been checked. It's fine.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean, do you want to draw
Speaker 3: up more?
Speaker 4: I do, and not so much for like, oh, I
Speaker 4: want to look better, but i'd rather you know, I'm
Speaker 4: coming up on the age now where it's like I
Speaker 4: might want to start.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, you got to think about it for sure.
Speaker 3: It's a thing.
Speaker 4: That's that's more so the thing like okay, I just
Speaker 4: you know, to feel better.
Speaker 3: Right, So what do you do about it? Do you fast?
Speaker 3: Do you like on Gwyneth Powers, was bowen soup or
Speaker 3: something nice?
Speaker 4: I haven't done anything yet to make that change. I
Speaker 4: think I got to get it right here first and
Speaker 4: then I can do it, yeah, because I don't want
Speaker 4: to just start and then be like all right, that
Speaker 4: didn't work out and then just feel like I've failed.
Speaker 2: I think for goal orientated people like you, and I
Speaker 2: think weight loss is even harder because you try and
Speaker 2: make a goal for it and people say make a goal,
Speaker 2: make a goal, and don't. I don't see it like that.
Speaker 2: I think it should be like it's today, today's the goal.
Speaker 4: I get a lot of people to say, oh, it's
Speaker 4: just it's a lifestyle change. Yeah, it's a change of lifestyle,
Speaker 4: like is it a diet or am I you know
Speaker 4: what a what do you mean lifestyle?
Speaker 2: No, it's just today, it's like you know what, am
Speaker 2: I going to have a candy bar never or no,
Speaker 2: all right, I want to have it now. That's it,
Speaker 2: that's only I mean, that's why I had to do
Speaker 2: to stop drinking, because the idea, even though I haven't
Speaker 2: had a drink thirty one years, but the idea of
Speaker 2: no ever drinking again. I'm not prepared to make that commitment,
Speaker 2: you know. I just like, I'm not going to have
Speaker 2: one today.
Speaker 4: And that is very impressive because I'm sure you've been
Speaker 4: putting a lot of situations where the alcohol is right
Speaker 4: in front of you.
Speaker 2: I live in Scotland, man, it's like you lost the window.
Speaker 3: It's like it's right there, go buddy.
Speaker 2: Right, you'll have something like no, I don't want to
Speaker 2: darg come out.
Speaker 4: Have you ever played Scotland? No I haven't. But actually
Speaker 4: I will be playing it very soon. Really yes, it'll
Speaker 4: be the first time. I know. I'm doing the UK,
Speaker 4: I'm doing London, and I'm going to be doing.
Speaker 3: Let's Go Edinburgh. There will be one of those.
Speaker 4: It's going to be one of them. Know it's coming up.
Speaker 2: It maybe both, It might be No, it's coming up.
Speaker 2: I want to come and see you. I want to
Speaker 2: come and see you in front of a Scotch crowd.
Speaker 2: They'll eat you up, they'll love you, you will kill
Speaker 2: over there.
Speaker 4: I've heard of all the festivals and all the comedy
Speaker 4: shows that have happened there, and I'm just like, how
Speaker 4: have I not gone well?
Speaker 3: I think because you were successful enough you didn't have to.
Speaker 2: I mean, the the Edinburgh Festival is about really for
Speaker 2: a lot of people, about getting started, you know, So
Speaker 2: if you're doing well in the United States, you don't.
Speaker 2: It wouldn't be on your radar if you were, if
Speaker 2: you were an up and come comic in the UK.
Speaker 4: But it would be more so like to just get
Speaker 4: my foot in the dorm and at least you know,
Speaker 4: like all right, you know, for example, like with Montreal,
Speaker 4: Montreal was always.
Speaker 3: The judge for last festival. Yeah, you've done that.
Speaker 4: Right, yes, multiple times. So it's like, you know, even
Speaker 4: now where it's like I don't have to, but I
Speaker 4: like going because then I can catch up with a
Speaker 4: lot of comics I haven't seen.
Speaker 3: Them, see that I do the same thing. Sots far
Speaker 3: As like, hey, so who do.
Speaker 2: You who do you hang with? Who do you like
Speaker 2: and who do you rate in the comedy world? Now,
Speaker 2: who do you like seeing? Do stand up?
Speaker 4: You know what, My favorite comedians are comics who don't
Speaker 4: do what I do, which is basically like comics that
Speaker 4: get very controversial political comics that that touch on topics
Speaker 4: that like, yeah, I've intentionally avoided in order to maintain
Speaker 4: the stylistic choice.
Speaker 3: I mean, Gaffigans like that as well. Jim Gaffigan.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you know Jim, but jem Is
Speaker 2: is like he's as cranky and cussy as any other comedian,
Speaker 2: you know, but he said, I made a show. He
Speaker 2: keeps his show totally clean. He keeps it, you know,
Speaker 2: family friendly. Atlanta is the same.
Speaker 3: I mean, Atlanto can cause like a sailor, you know,
Speaker 3: anytime you.
Speaker 4: I've seen someone scratch one of his cars, he can cuss.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, but but he doesn't do that in
Speaker 2: his eyes.
Speaker 3: He keeps it. I wish I could.
Speaker 2: I keep trying and then I just one or two
Speaker 2: slip out every time.
Speaker 4: I remember I was talking to Jim. Jefferies is one
Speaker 4: of my favorites. Bill Ber, Jeffrey Jeffers, Bill Burr, Tom Segura,
Speaker 4: He's an oh great Chapelle. I mean, you know, I love,
Speaker 4: I love these performers are incredible. I was doing Jim
Speaker 4: Jeffrey show. And after the show was over, you know,
Speaker 4: we're in the bathroom just that and there I go,
Speaker 4: I go, Jim, can I just tell you something?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 4: I go, I go, I envy your freedom on stage
Speaker 4: to say anything you want and feel feel good about it.
Speaker 4: He looks at me and he goes, I envy your money.
Speaker 3: All right, Yeah, that's fair. I think that's to shave
Speaker 3: my friend. Do you ever think about doing a show
Speaker 3: where you could just unleash.
Speaker 4: From time to time? I will, You know, I won't
Speaker 4: keep it as squeaky clean as let's say, Jim Gaffigan would,
Speaker 4: but you know, in my set, I will I do
Speaker 4: cuss in my show. I mean, I'll do a show.
Speaker 3: Yeah. It doesn't come across like you're doing a clean shows.
Speaker 4: It's but it's not every other word. You know, there's
Speaker 4: some times that it's like a tick. It's just it
Speaker 4: comes out every two seconds. But I'm very selective. So
Speaker 4: if I'm telling a story where there's a big statement
Speaker 4: to be made and I insert it there and it's
Speaker 4: like okay, you know right, and it's and it's impactful. Oh,
Speaker 4: he doesn't use that a lot. He dropped his f
Speaker 4: bomb card, you know, but it's not.
Speaker 2: You know, I think you're right, because then then it's
Speaker 2: got some power. If you use it all the time,
Speaker 2: it just doesn't go any power. Do you ever go
Speaker 2: and see comics like I know, some people like hang
Speaker 2: out in the Comedy Store, and I've never been able
Speaker 2: to hang like that.
Speaker 3: I can't really do it. You know, you you hang
Speaker 3: with other comedians.
Speaker 4: You know what. The Comedy Store is one of those
Speaker 4: places that in the beginning, I always felt like it
Speaker 4: was super clicky and I didn't feel like I fit
Speaker 4: in right. There was always these groups of comics and
Speaker 4: I just like should I It felt really off.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's scary. It's like high school, isn't it. I
Speaker 3: hated it. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I got a chance to perform there recently and I
Speaker 4: had a great time. It was really really cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because you're one of the biggest comics in the
Speaker 3: fucking world. That's why everybody's like, oh, yeah, it different.
Speaker 4: It was different now, yeah, but uh yeah. I was
Speaker 4: never one to hang out. I didn't want to hang
Speaker 4: out at the club. I wanted to just go in
Speaker 4: do my thing. If there was somebody that I enjoyed watching,
Speaker 4: i'd watch them, but then let me just leave to
Speaker 4: not get caught up and things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's I think that's very smart because
Speaker 2: the I think also it's very stand up comedian, to
Speaker 2: be honest, because I think they are solitary animals. We're
Speaker 2: kind of low in predators really, and then the idea
Speaker 2: of that we'd all be It's been people say the
Speaker 2: Hollywood community is full of evil, twisted people.
Speaker 3: I'm like, have you ever been to Hollywood? There's no
Speaker 3: fucking community and show.
Speaker 2: Business all these people are out for themselves, for themselves, like,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, we all get together and make a decision.
Speaker 3: No, we don't.
Speaker 2: You know, there's no there's no uniformity of thought here.
Speaker 2: I don't think where would you go to love? Because
Speaker 2: you still live down in the old neighborhood, right.
Speaker 4: Gay still the momach. I live literally four minutes away
Speaker 4: from where I basically, you know, grew up. I live
Speaker 4: very close to my my old neighborhood.
Speaker 2: Is that manageable because you've got to be highly recognizable
Speaker 2: down there and people getting well, I guess it's la
Speaker 2: you're in.
Speaker 4: Your car a lot, you know what. It's I'm close
Speaker 4: to where I used to live, but it's not where
Speaker 4: I used to live, so it's very you know, difference.
Speaker 4: And if I think if people know where you're at,
Speaker 4: that's that's one thing. People do see me driving around,
Speaker 4: you know, and I freak with the same you know,
Speaker 4: Starbucks or wherever you know I'm going. It's like, you know, like, hey, hey,
Speaker 4: it's him.
Speaker 3: Do you ever get uncomfortable with that?
Speaker 2: Because it's like every time you go out, especially now
Speaker 2: with the way phones are you're on, it's like any
Speaker 2: mistake you make, any little bit of road rage, any
Speaker 2: picking your nose in the car, any like, you know,
Speaker 2: passing gas and the line at Starbucks. I'm not saying
Speaker 2: I've ever done that, but I might have. You know,
Speaker 2: everybody's gonna record you. We got good days and we
Speaker 2: have bad days.
Speaker 4: If I'm not feeling good, I try not to go out,
Speaker 4: but it doesn't mean that I'm not gonna have a
Speaker 4: moment of weakness where I'm you know, getting upset over
Speaker 4: the way someone's driving or or or somebody messing with you.
Speaker 4: Because I have people that will mess with me intentionally
Speaker 4: to drive through and I'm trying to maintain and it's
Speaker 4: hard sometimes because people want to challenge you they want
Speaker 4: to get a rise out of you.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, because and they're holding your food hostage.
Speaker 4: I already paid for this. Can I just get my thing?
Speaker 3: Say hey?
Speaker 4: Say how to say how to my sister? Say out
Speaker 4: of my sister. Man, she's your biggest fan. Your brother
Speaker 4: has my food, and if I don't say hi, he's
Speaker 4: not going to give me my food. Mat throw some
Speaker 4: ranch while I'm talking to your sister. Now it's like
Speaker 4: a negotiation, Like negotiate to get my food. So I
Speaker 4: gotta don't you have staff? You should have staff. But see,
Speaker 4: that's the thing though, is that I don't want to
Speaker 4: I don't want to have to rely on staying in
Speaker 4: my own little box and sending people out to the
Speaker 4: real world to go get me things I don't. Then
Speaker 4: that feels like I'm disconnected. I'd rather go out there
Speaker 4: and if nothing else, it'll be a story.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: I'd rather. I'd rather. I still want to live. The
Speaker 4: only time I get concerned is if if I have
Speaker 4: my dogs with me, which is most of the time,
Speaker 4: and people.
Speaker 3: Dogs with you today, I was going to bring them, Yeah, man.
Speaker 4: I was going to bring them. They've been on a
Speaker 4: lot of TV shows. Uh you, Yes, I have German shepherds.
Speaker 4: You have real dogs. They're pretty good. Actually, you can't
Speaker 4: put them in your hoodie.
Speaker 3: You can't.
Speaker 4: I can put my dogs in my hoodie.
Speaker 2: But you can actually get your You could send a
Speaker 2: German shepherd to buy you hoodie.
Speaker 3: Yes, okay, which color would you like returned? Presently? What's
Speaker 3: the correct change?
Speaker 4: I love that you gave the dog the accent German.
Speaker 3: Accent.
Speaker 2: I don't know, you know what I come on. You
Speaker 2: have a voice for everything. You got to have a
Speaker 2: voice for your dog.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I do.
Speaker 3: You don't have to share it with me. I don't
Speaker 3: want to know.
Speaker 2: But I don't want to hold be the guy holding
Speaker 2: your food right now?
Speaker 4: No, I have I have, you know, I'll do a
Speaker 4: little like you know, the hey daddy, I want this
Speaker 4: or that, but they don't have like accent, like why
Speaker 4: don't you put me in your right? It's not like, yeah,
Speaker 4: make my dog? I feel bad like I forced you
Speaker 4: Mexican my dogs now.
Speaker 3: Their Mexican dogs. About the Yeah, did you have them growing.
Speaker 4: Up from the age of twelve until now? I've always
Speaker 4: had a Chihuahua.
Speaker 3: How long did Chihuaiwa's live.
Speaker 4: You know what, small dogs live a long time. Yeah,
Speaker 4: they go for a while, they live a long time.
Speaker 4: I had one Chiuaha that lived to be almost nineteen,
Speaker 4: my oldest right now she's gonna be she's right around seventeen, okay,
Speaker 4: and the other one's twelve.
Speaker 2: Okay, So you know I like German Shepherds twelve that's
Speaker 2: kind of the bigger the dogs. Yeah, that's why I
Speaker 2: wouldn't have like, I like big dogs. But you can't,
Speaker 2: you got they just break your heart. So I have
Speaker 2: two German Shepherds and a Jack Russell okay, which is
Speaker 2: very different, is like an Irish Chihuahua.
Speaker 3: Nice, Like what the fuck you look at that? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Fucking botter fucking right. But they are crazy, are you?
Speaker 4: Dogs?
Speaker 3: Aggressive?
Speaker 4: They're aggressive whenever someone comes near me, if someone approaches me,
Speaker 4: like quick, okay. That's why any ofthing, oh my god,
Speaker 4: they react to.
Speaker 3: So that's why you keep them in your hoodie in.
Speaker 4: The hoodie or you know, in the car and stuff
Speaker 4: like that. So whenever somebody approaches the car, I'm concerned
Speaker 4: more so for my dogs, not so much for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you don't travel with security, right maybe on the.
Speaker 4: Road it depends on where I'm at. When I was
Speaker 4: in Mexico City performing, I had four armed guard It's
Speaker 4: which I thought was excessive.
Speaker 2: But they're like things can get there, Like I could
Speaker 2: not be down there sometimes, you know.
Speaker 3: I mean it's like if you're a high profile indivision
Speaker 3: here too. Though, yes they can.
Speaker 2: It's not like it's not like a kidnapper can't say
Speaker 2: let's not talk about this. It's freaking me out. I
Speaker 2: don't know why I even brought this up. I'm talking
Speaker 2: about kidnap and now I'm worried about kidnappers.
Speaker 4: I've had a I had a break in in December.
Speaker 4: They broke into my house and I thought my place
Speaker 4: was like solid.
Speaker 2: I would fucking move if someone broke out of my eyes,
Speaker 2: I'd fucking leave.
Speaker 4: And it's one of those things where people say, oh, well,
Speaker 4: what do they take?
Speaker 3: I go.
Speaker 4: They took my peace of mind, is what they did.
Speaker 4: You know, I had a giant I still have a
Speaker 4: giant fence that surrounds the property, multiple camera systems, a
Speaker 4: security system. You know, I'm lucky that they weren't home. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I had them with me, so I was like, Okay,
Speaker 4: just look at the brands but as far as it's
Speaker 4: traveling with security, you know, it depends on I don't
Speaker 4: think that I need an actual like team of people,
Speaker 4: but it's always good to have somebody there to just
Speaker 4: be the go between. Where like, if a bunch of
Speaker 4: people approach, Hey, okay, he'll take a picture. Can you
Speaker 4: get them all in line? Like, folks, please get together
Speaker 4: form a line. He'll be happy to take a full
Speaker 4: Keep the peace, you know what I mean, before it
Speaker 4: gets chaotic, because if I get people coming at me
Speaker 4: from every angle, and then again, if I have my
Speaker 4: dogs with me, I'm only worried about my dogs.
Speaker 3: Are you romantically involved right now? I mean I'm not
Speaker 3: gonna no.
Speaker 4: I was in a relationship for almost thirteen years. You know,
Speaker 4: I'm still good friends with my ex.
Speaker 3: But how long ago did that end?
Speaker 4: Been a few years now, about four, four or five?
Speaker 3: That's time, man, you know, so it's at that we're cool. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but I mean it's time. It's time you get it.
Speaker 4: Oh, start going out. I've gone out.
Speaker 3: I've got a nice scale for you in Scotland.
Speaker 4: Oh nice. Yeah, I've gone out on a few dates
Speaker 4: and it's just like okay, and I'm like, I'm good.
Speaker 4: I'm good. I'm gonna go home and set my thermostat
Speaker 4: to whatever temperature I want, and I'm gonna play with
Speaker 4: my dogs. I'm gonna fart and just call it a night,
Speaker 4: because I can.
Speaker 3: You can do that when you're married, too. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I don't want to be obligated to do things that
Speaker 4: don't make me feel like a better person.
Speaker 3: Why the fuck should you get away with it?
Speaker 4: You know, I'm just I'm just making up my mind
Speaker 4: that I don't I don't think I want to. I
Speaker 4: don't want to do the relationship thing anymore. I'm okay
Speaker 4: at first when I when I first broke up, oh man,
Speaker 4: I was just like, I want, I want someone I need.
Speaker 4: I've never been alone, right, and uh, you know it
Speaker 4: took some time to get used to that and appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Do you have a space do you think in your
Speaker 2: life if someone blows your mind to come out, I'm not.
Speaker 4: Going to say never or or no. But I haven't
Speaker 4: met that. You know, that hasn't happened yet, right, And
Speaker 4: it has to be somebody that's on board with what
Speaker 4: I do.
Speaker 3: I think it's going to be fair. You know, anyone
Speaker 3: who meets you was going to know what you do.
Speaker 3: It's not like you go and so what do you do, Gabriel?
Speaker 3: Do you have a where do you work?
Speaker 4: But you know, even in the past, you know when
Speaker 4: I was I've been doing this in twenty six years,
Speaker 4: so I've had a couple of relationships where they knew
Speaker 4: what I did. And I tried to explain, Hey, look,
Speaker 4: you think it's cool and it's fun right now, but
Speaker 4: it's gonna get crazier. Yeah, I'm gonna be working more.
Speaker 4: There's going to be more opportunities. And I don't want
Speaker 4: to say no to potential opportunities because you don't you know,
Speaker 4: you're gonna miss me or this or that. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 4: I can get it.
Speaker 3: I get it.
Speaker 4: And unfortunately, and you know, it got to a point
Speaker 4: where there was a lot of resentment. I remember I
Speaker 4: had gotten a deal with Netflix for for a sitcom
Speaker 4: and when I told her about it, she goes, well,
Speaker 4: I'm happy for you, but I'm not happy for us. Why,
Speaker 4: she says, because that's just more time that you're away.
Speaker 4: And I'm just like, all right now I'm feeling.
Speaker 3: Bad for bad about getting a sitcom deal.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's and so it's like, yeah, you know.
Speaker 2: See my wife, if I said I gotta deal with Netflix,
Speaker 2: she'd say, how much is it? And I tell us,
Speaker 2: to God, that's so great. I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 2: So there are people out there that are, you know,
Speaker 2: going to be very cool with you.
Speaker 4: Get But then too, I don't know who to trust,
Speaker 4: you know, because they're they're meeting this one right here,
Speaker 4: versus that's who you are in industry, but it's who
Speaker 4: you are.
Speaker 3: Like I remember once when I was in I can't
Speaker 3: remember I was. I was dating some girls years and
Speaker 3: years ago. I've been married forever, but.
Speaker 2: Years ago, and somebody said to me, she's just going
Speaker 2: out with you because of who you are. And I'm like,
Speaker 2: but that's sure, I am, so of course she's going.
Speaker 2: I don't want her to go out with me because
Speaker 2: I'm somebody else. So I don't think it's it's not
Speaker 2: that big a deal. What if you find like, like
Speaker 2: a female comedian, Oh.
Speaker 4: God, no, God, no, why because.
Speaker 2: She wouldn't understand the game. And you know, no, okay, man, man.
Speaker 4: I'm just sitting there at the dinner table and she's
Speaker 4: trying to tag my ship. I'm like, nah, no, no,
Speaker 4: Now we're good you know.
Speaker 3: If you said that, I feel bad. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: But I do think you seem to me like I
Speaker 2: don't know you very well. We've talked a couple of times,
Speaker 2: but you seem to me and you come across as
Speaker 2: a very warm, loving, sensible human being. And maybe that's
Speaker 2: what human beings are like when they're not in relationships.
Speaker 3: They're fair. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I do remember I talking to do you know the
Speaker 2: Broadway performer Kristin Chenning was I know the name. She's
Speaker 2: very talented, big star on Broadway, And I remember her
Speaker 2: talking about she was, you know, very committed to being single,
Speaker 2: and she was talking about what she does requires rest
Speaker 2: and solitude that a relationship doesn't afford her.
Speaker 3: Do you think that's true?
Speaker 4: I think it depends on who you're with well, because
Speaker 4: you know, and then also too, there's because in the beginning,
Speaker 4: in the beginning, it's always great, it's always great. In
Speaker 4: the beginning, you're both both trying to make each other
Speaker 4: as happy as possible, right, and you're both giving it everything.
Speaker 4: And then little by little, you know, one starts giving
Speaker 4: more and one starts given less, and then that's when
Speaker 4: you start getting that divide. So I think depends on
Speaker 4: where you're at where you get that piece, all right,
Speaker 4: because towards the end of mine, it was just, you know,
Speaker 4: it was so.
Speaker 2: Oh when they go bad, they go bad. Yeah, It's
Speaker 2: it's like fish and once it goes off.
Speaker 4: In coming back, it ain't ain't coming back, no, I know.
Speaker 4: But I do miss that whole being close to someone, having,
Speaker 4: you know, being able to just you know, sit on
Speaker 4: the couch, you put your leg on somebody like hey,
Speaker 4: you know that, I mean stuff like that. I do.
Speaker 4: I do miss simple little things, little car ride.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, I think it what it is.
Speaker 2: It has some whoever for me anyway, because I've been
Speaker 2: in a one successful relationship and a bunch of relationships
Speaker 2: that were so successful, and it seems to me that
Speaker 2: the person has to be your friend like that, like
Speaker 2: your partner has to be your friend too. And if
Speaker 2: you say, hey, I just got to deal with Netflix,
Speaker 2: I'm really excited about that, they would be really excited
Speaker 2: for you to genuinely and if it was something that
Speaker 2: was going to get in the way, you go, well,
Speaker 2: I'm going to have to come with the set, now,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: And it's like it's to be part of it.
Speaker 2: But sometimes do you find it easy to share your
Speaker 2: success with someone who's close.
Speaker 4: I used to try to share as much of it
Speaker 4: as I could, and then for some reason, it felt
Speaker 4: like I was bragging through their eyes. It didn't feel
Speaker 4: like I was sharing anymore. I felt like my coming
Speaker 4: across like a like, I'm bragging to this person? Is
Speaker 4: it sharing? How are they looking at it? Because the
Speaker 4: good for you and way to go started, you know,
Speaker 4: it was less and less and less. Yeah, And it
Speaker 4: was more so like, am I making this person feel bad?
Speaker 4: Because I continue to like things started just snowballing where
Speaker 4: it's like, oh my god, and then this happened today,
Speaker 4: and then this happened today, and then with success comes
Speaker 4: like opportunities to meet people, to do different things and
Speaker 4: experiences and you're just like wow. And the only person
Speaker 4: I was able to totally just share things with was
Speaker 4: my mom, and she was never going to look at
Speaker 4: it like you know, and I couldn't. There's no way
Speaker 4: I could ragged to my mom. Look at your world, traveler, OI,
Speaker 4: look at you. Can you even pick up a phone
Speaker 4: to call?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Oh you listen.
Speaker 2: You don't have to explain that mom thing to me.
Speaker 2: I totally understand.
Speaker 4: But sharing your what you do with people, I found
Speaker 4: that I had to cut back because I was not
Speaker 4: making people happy by sharing. Yeah, and I'm just like, well,
Speaker 4: you know, are people happy for me? Not happy? You know?
Speaker 3: It just weird some I mean, success is a weird thing.
Speaker 3: It's that thing. Bette Midler said, No everybody.
Speaker 2: One of the most disappointing things about success is finding
Speaker 2: out that no everybody is happy for you.
Speaker 3: Actually, that's very true. It's a little different. You, sir,
Speaker 3: are a joy.
Speaker 2: I really love talking to you, and whatever you've got
Speaker 2: going on.
Speaker 4: I would tell you, but I don't feel bad about it.
Speaker 2: No, I think I think whatever I think, whatever you
Speaker 2: got going on, you know, it's so I'm so I
Speaker 2: can't tell you. See, I've lapsed into German dog accent
Speaker 2: now in order to disguise how I truly feel.
Speaker 3: It's been great talking to you. Man. Continued success.
Speaker 2: I hope you get that record of the giantest, biggest
Speaker 2: thing in the world.
Speaker 3: I think it will be.
Speaker 4: I gotta see what that next big goal is going
Speaker 4: to be. But until then, I'm just gonna.
Speaker 2: I think take play a state you know, like if
Speaker 2: you've going to a stadium, I think the next thing
Speaker 2: is to start with a small state.
Speaker 3: Said like I'm going to.
Speaker 2: Play Rhode Island and it's the whole state. The whole
Speaker 2: state has to be there. Yeah, you can work your
Speaker 2: way up to Texas or something. To start in Rhode Island.
Speaker 3: Just a small state and then you see how it goes.
Speaker 3: You're a good man. Thank you. Turkis Bob