1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:01,320 Speaker 1: Taking a Walk. 2 00:00:01,920 --> 00:00:04,000 Speaker 2: I remember saying to somebody like in the moment, I 3 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 2: was like, you know, when you have a kid, you're 4 00:00:05,559 --> 00:00:07,120 Speaker 2: supposed to say it's the best thing that ever happened 5 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:09,960 Speaker 2: to you. And I'm like, there are some days you 6 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:11,800 Speaker 2: wish your kid would walk into the woods and never 7 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:12,160 Speaker 2: come back. 8 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:15,320 Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of The Taking a Walk Podcast, 9 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:20,120 Speaker 1: the podcast where Buzz Knight speaks to musicians insiders, and 10 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:24,119 Speaker 1: today has slight detour with a great comedian on the podcast. 11 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:26,840 Speaker 1: Because if you love music, there's a good chance you 12 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:30,400 Speaker 1: love comedy as well. Today a returning guests to the show, 13 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:34,680 Speaker 1: comedian Paul mccurio. Paul is an Emmy and Peabody Award 14 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:37,280 Speaker 1: winning comedian who currently works on The Late Show with 15 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:41,320 Speaker 1: Stephen Colbert and appears regularly on that show. He's worked 16 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:43,519 Speaker 1: on The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, and has 17 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:47,199 Speaker 1: been seen in his series on HBO and Comedy Central specials. 18 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:50,720 Speaker 1: He also has a new Broadway play called Permission to Speak, 19 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:53,279 Speaker 1: and he's going to talk about that at. 20 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:54,640 Speaker 3: A theater near you soon. 21 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:59,200 Speaker 1: Here's Buzz and Paul mccurio on the Taking a Walk Podcast. 22 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:02,959 Speaker 4: Welcoming a returning guest to the take out of Walk podcast. 23 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:06,440 Speaker 3: Hello, Paul mccuril, Hey, buzznight, how are you buddy. Good 24 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:08,360 Speaker 3: to see you again. It's great to see you again. 25 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:10,360 Speaker 4: Last time I saw you, we were I think, huddles 26 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:13,720 Speaker 4: in a corner, looking like maybe a couple of whinos 27 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:16,759 Speaker 4: around the corner from the cold theater. 28 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:17,399 Speaker 5: Yeah. 29 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:20,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, we picked up a few shekels from that. People 30 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:22,479 Speaker 2: were throwing throwing money into our hat. 31 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:23,240 Speaker 3: We weren't even. 32 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:25,120 Speaker 2: Asking, it was just we looked at We're like, yeah, 33 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:27,560 Speaker 2: we were huddled together. Yeah, that was a lot of fun. 34 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:29,880 Speaker 2: That was Its a great time walking around and talking. 35 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:31,960 Speaker 3: It was great. I loved every bit of it. 36 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:33,920 Speaker 4: So I did want to ask you, so, since the 37 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:37,760 Speaker 4: podcast is called taking a Walk, if you, Paul mccuriel, 38 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:41,680 Speaker 4: could take a walk with anybody living or dead, who 39 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:43,920 Speaker 4: would it be and where would you take a walk 40 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:46,480 Speaker 4: with him? 41 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:51,920 Speaker 2: I think Winston Churchill, and I probably take a walk 42 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:54,160 Speaker 2: with him through London and ask him to explain to me, 43 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:57,360 Speaker 2: like what it was like at the height of the bombing, 44 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:01,640 Speaker 2: and then how much he liked to drink what he 45 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:05,880 Speaker 2: liked to drink of his cigars, get drunk with him, 46 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:08,160 Speaker 2: have him tell really great Hitler stories. 47 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:11,280 Speaker 3: I think it would be hilarious. Come on, it doesn't 48 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:13,560 Speaker 3: like a good Hitler joke, right and. 49 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:18,200 Speaker 2: Go on, always funny, anything about the mustache, the whole 50 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:21,400 Speaker 2: like whatever, because there was like the very important like 51 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:24,120 Speaker 2: is Hitler, But then there was like Daisy was tired. 52 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:26,160 Speaker 3: It was just like the lazy thing like yeah whatever. 53 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 2: It was sort of like the yeah whatever salute like 54 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:31,359 Speaker 2: it was like you know, like so you could tell 55 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:33,519 Speaker 2: like he wasn't dialed in on those days. And I 56 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 2: always thought the troops saw that and they go like, well, 57 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:38,880 Speaker 2: if Hitler can't do Hitler, why would I do the Hitler? 58 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:40,480 Speaker 2: And then they all just laid back, and that's how 59 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 2: they lost the war. They lost the war because of that. 60 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:47,560 Speaker 2: If he had just kept it strong, they would have won. Anyway, 61 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:50,960 Speaker 2: I'm rambling. I would say Winston Churchill would be awesome. 62 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:56,160 Speaker 2: And because God, like, you know that guy's good stories. 63 00:02:56,240 --> 00:02:58,440 Speaker 2: You know, oh yeah, come on, he had to go 64 00:02:58,560 --> 00:03:03,200 Speaker 2: on couple here and there, just a couple. W's the Churchill. 65 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:05,160 Speaker 2: He's a man, he has needs, you know. 66 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:09,240 Speaker 3: Oh man, I love it. 67 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:09,560 Speaker 1: Now. 68 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:13,119 Speaker 4: I have a deeper question knowing your ninety six year 69 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:17,760 Speaker 4: old mom as you do yeah, and thinking about Winston 70 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:20,920 Speaker 4: Churchill as you've just described, how do you think those 71 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:21,880 Speaker 4: two would get along? 72 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:25,360 Speaker 2: Oh my god, Churchill would rather hang out with Hitler 73 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:25,920 Speaker 2: than my mother. 74 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:27,040 Speaker 3: It's like brutal. 75 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:31,520 Speaker 2: She can't. She would just totally dominate the conversation. She 76 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:36,600 Speaker 2: just she's like, she's nice, she's ninety six. She won't stop. 77 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:38,960 Speaker 2: Were trying to get We just got her to retire. 78 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:41,160 Speaker 3: She's mad. She's retired. 79 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 2: She had furniture business she started in nineteen sixty on 80 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:46,320 Speaker 2: her own and with my father and a tenement house 81 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:49,920 Speaker 2: in Providence, Rhode Island. And I said, ma, you retire. 82 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 2: I don't want to retire. 83 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:53,320 Speaker 3: What am I going to do? I'm like, ah, you 84 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:54,680 Speaker 3: will you take trips? 85 00:03:54,720 --> 00:03:56,200 Speaker 2: We'll go to the senior center. She goes, I'm not 86 00:03:56,200 --> 00:03:58,000 Speaker 2: going to go there. Those people are old. I'm like, 87 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:01,360 Speaker 2: you're old. You're ninety six. What are you gonna go 88 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:05,560 Speaker 2: scuba diving with Matthew McConaughey, you're old. Okay, you start 89 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:07,760 Speaker 2: stripping at a club like a year old. 90 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 3: And so she won't, you know, she won't like, she 91 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 3: just won't stop. 92 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:17,360 Speaker 2: She's like insane, see, and so you know I had 93 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:22,000 Speaker 2: to have her car fumigated because she went shopping for food. 94 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:23,760 Speaker 2: She was having some of her friends over and then 95 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:25,440 Speaker 2: she bought some cheese. And then she was on the 96 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:28,160 Speaker 2: way home from the market, she stops at Target. Was 97 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:30,920 Speaker 2: in the summer, and then the car just stunk. 98 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:31,680 Speaker 3: I go, what happened? 99 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:35,320 Speaker 2: She goes, well, I went into the store, so I 100 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:38,800 Speaker 2: locked the car and I hid the cheese under the 101 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:41,320 Speaker 2: front seat of the car. And she forgot the cheese 102 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 2: was there, and it sat there for two days. And 103 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:46,200 Speaker 2: so when I said to her, why did you put 104 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:48,000 Speaker 2: the cheese onto the front seat of the car, And 105 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:50,640 Speaker 2: I'm quoting now, she said, oh, I didn't want people 106 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:53,520 Speaker 2: to steal with cheese. I'm like, okay, what are we 107 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:54,120 Speaker 2: doing here? 108 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:57,159 Speaker 3: What is there a gooda thief running around New England 109 00:04:57,160 --> 00:05:00,280 Speaker 3: that I'm not aware of? Like so, I I think 110 00:05:00,279 --> 00:05:02,680 Speaker 3: he would he would literally go like, can I go 111 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:05,640 Speaker 3: back to the war? Talk to my mother, Megan, I'd 112 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:07,680 Speaker 3: like to go back to the war. Can I go back? 113 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:12,680 Speaker 3: Give give our love to your mom? Would you please? 114 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:13,560 Speaker 3: I will? 115 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:14,120 Speaker 5: I will. 116 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 2: She's all right, she's hanging in there, good, good, good, Well. 117 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:20,720 Speaker 4: I think when I saw you and we recorded the 118 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:24,560 Speaker 4: previous episode, you were in the beginning stages. If I'm 119 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:28,000 Speaker 4: not mistaken of the creation of Permission to Speak? 120 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:32,640 Speaker 3: Am I right about that? Yeah? It was a show 121 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:33,160 Speaker 3: we're doing. 122 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:36,000 Speaker 2: We ended up doing off Broadway and Broadway, and it 123 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:38,760 Speaker 2: was born out of my stand up where you know, 124 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 2: I like to talk to audiences and some people call 125 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:42,480 Speaker 2: it crowd work, but it became more than that. 126 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:43,840 Speaker 3: Like crowd work is like I'm going to talk to 127 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:46,200 Speaker 3: you about your hat. I don't really care about your hat. 128 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:47,479 Speaker 2: I'm just going to talk to you about your hat 129 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:49,880 Speaker 2: because I have a joke about a hat and I want. 130 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:51,080 Speaker 3: To make it look like I did it off the 131 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:51,840 Speaker 3: top of my head. 132 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:54,599 Speaker 2: So I create this artifice, but it's not a real 133 00:05:54,640 --> 00:05:56,640 Speaker 2: conversation that the comic really cares about. 134 00:05:57,080 --> 00:05:59,040 Speaker 3: This is not that this is like I just. 135 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:01,600 Speaker 2: Started to get these crazy stories from people because I 136 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:03,200 Speaker 2: would ask that you know, you were into a few people. 137 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:04,960 Speaker 3: It's not that first question or the second one. 138 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:07,320 Speaker 2: It's the third, the fourth to fifth one where you 139 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:10,040 Speaker 2: peel back the onion and you get gold. And that's 140 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:12,359 Speaker 2: what started happening, and then some producers saw me doing it. 141 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:15,359 Speaker 2: We turned it into a theater show with a set 142 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:17,280 Speaker 2: designed by the set designer for The Lake Show with 143 00:06:17,320 --> 00:06:20,840 Speaker 2: Stephen Colbert where I work and we have animation in 144 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:24,760 Speaker 2: a screen that we're projecting into by J. J. Settlemeyer, 145 00:06:24,760 --> 00:06:27,599 Speaker 2: who did Beavis and butt Head and all the SLTV 146 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:30,559 Speaker 2: finals videos. And my director is the great Frank Oz 147 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:36,280 Speaker 2: who created the Muppets and is the director of Marlon Brando, 148 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:39,880 Speaker 2: Robert de Niro, Eddie Murphy, Dirty Rot and Scoundrels his bowfinger. 149 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:44,360 Speaker 3: And then he's also the original Yoda. Like he's Yoda. 150 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:48,880 Speaker 2: Try being directed by Yoda. He's never wrong and he 151 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:52,720 Speaker 2: never stops. He never stops with the backwards talking, like 152 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:54,440 Speaker 2: you go out to dinner with him, steak, I will 153 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:57,000 Speaker 2: have I get it. Frank your Yoda, take your hand 154 00:06:57,040 --> 00:06:59,200 Speaker 2: out of my ass and let's eat. Okay, I'm not 155 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:05,520 Speaker 2: a puppet, and we focus, please focus. So and it 156 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:09,080 Speaker 2: just became, you know, you're the creative person. The best 157 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:12,760 Speaker 2: stuff happens when you don't plan it. And what happened 158 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:15,080 Speaker 2: was it just organically started to take on a life 159 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:16,440 Speaker 2: of its own where I would talk to more and 160 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:18,440 Speaker 2: more people, and the producers saw me doing this and 161 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:20,080 Speaker 2: they said, we think there's a show in this. And 162 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:23,520 Speaker 2: so the premise of the show is we're nameless and 163 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:28,480 Speaker 2: faceless and disconnected and divisive, especially now, but if we 164 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:31,400 Speaker 2: get together and share stories, we realize we're all in 165 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:32,119 Speaker 2: this boat together. 166 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:34,640 Speaker 3: We're all living screwt up lives. We have more in 167 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:37,640 Speaker 3: common than we think, and maybe we don't. 168 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:39,400 Speaker 2: Have to be so divisive and have to be show's throat, 169 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:41,440 Speaker 2: and maybe we make connections with each other that we 170 00:07:41,640 --> 00:07:45,760 Speaker 2: wouldn't normally ordinarily make through comedy and these stories. And 171 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:47,480 Speaker 2: I'm doing a lot of my stand up in my 172 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:50,360 Speaker 2: own stories, but then I'm just bringing audience members into 173 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:55,600 Speaker 2: these conversations. And it's been absolutely hilarious and crazy and 174 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:58,400 Speaker 2: like just lots of like I can't believe I just 175 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:01,080 Speaker 2: heard that. Moments and stuff really been great. 176 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:04,760 Speaker 4: And it's coming to the United Theater in Westerly, Rhode 177 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:07,680 Speaker 4: Island on March the eighth, so folks can get tickets, 178 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:10,560 Speaker 4: I'm sure at the theater, but also I'm sure through 179 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:12,200 Speaker 4: the other ticket services and everything. 180 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:15,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, through the United Theater dot org or my website, 181 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:16,400 Speaker 2: paulmecurial dot com. 182 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:19,920 Speaker 3: But but yeah, it's it's literally stories where you go. 183 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:22,440 Speaker 2: If we were writers and writers from people, we'd be 184 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:24,800 Speaker 2: like tear it up because people wouldn't believe that story. 185 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:27,520 Speaker 2: And they're all real and that's what's really interesting. We 186 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:30,680 Speaker 2: live fascinating lives. This is a place for people to 187 00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:32,800 Speaker 2: kind of say what they want to say. Don't worry 188 00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:35,719 Speaker 2: about political correctness. Nobody's judging you. And I find that 189 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:37,440 Speaker 2: the one of the things I've say in the show 190 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:39,679 Speaker 2: is some people everybody has a story. Some people want 191 00:08:39,720 --> 00:08:41,880 Speaker 2: to tell their story, and some people need to tell 192 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:44,200 Speaker 2: their story. I think a lot of people feel unheard. 193 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:47,480 Speaker 2: Not a political show, but like just a place for 194 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:49,520 Speaker 2: people to hang out and have some laughs and share 195 00:08:49,559 --> 00:08:50,280 Speaker 2: some stories, you know. 196 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:52,960 Speaker 4: And the cool thing about it is no two of 197 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:56,559 Speaker 4: these shows that you do are alike exactly. 198 00:08:56,720 --> 00:08:59,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, they'll be like I'm always doing different material and 199 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:02,320 Speaker 2: the audience. I say to the audience, this is our show. 200 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:04,480 Speaker 2: No one else will have this show because we're never 201 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:06,080 Speaker 2: going to be together again. And they really did that, 202 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:09,160 Speaker 2: they really It's like it makes it a really personal experience. 203 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:11,880 Speaker 2: And then you know, we get some real characters in 204 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:13,640 Speaker 2: the show too. It's been incredible. 205 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:15,199 Speaker 3: Well, here's what. 206 00:09:15,160 --> 00:09:17,240 Speaker 4: I love about this moment. So I'm going to act like, 207 00:09:17,559 --> 00:09:22,240 Speaker 4: you know, some big shot that's hosting something on you know, cable, 208 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:25,920 Speaker 4: and I'm gonna be able to say, well, Paul, do 209 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:28,280 Speaker 4: you have a clip that you can maybe share with us? 210 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:31,600 Speaker 2: But let's pretend you're Johnny Carson and we're setting up 211 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:33,120 Speaker 2: a clip, and then I'll be the guest. 212 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:37,640 Speaker 3: So go ahead, Okay, go ahead, So Paul, what's the show? 213 00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:37,960 Speaker 4: Like? 214 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:40,920 Speaker 3: You can you share maybe a clip with us that 215 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:45,160 Speaker 3: was terrible? That was really horrible? And then and I'm 216 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:47,000 Speaker 3: the guest and I go, I don't know, I don't 217 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:48,319 Speaker 3: think we have a clip. Do we have a clip? 218 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:48,520 Speaker 2: Oh? 219 00:09:48,559 --> 00:09:49,240 Speaker 3: That's that? 220 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:52,600 Speaker 2: And then you see Johnny like eyes Bert like they 221 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:55,720 Speaker 2: want to like like know like the guy does that. 222 00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:58,880 Speaker 2: The actor doesn't know it doesn't know what the clips about. Yes, 223 00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:02,160 Speaker 2: we got a really clip here of this guy's name is. 224 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:04,440 Speaker 3: Travis, but Travis has polio. 225 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:06,400 Speaker 2: Now I like to talk to people who I think 226 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:07,760 Speaker 2: a lot of people don't talk to. I saw this 227 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:10,520 Speaker 2: guy with these crutches. You could tell it was a condition. 228 00:10:10,679 --> 00:10:12,520 Speaker 2: He wasn't he didn't like break his ankle. It wasn't 229 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:15,520 Speaker 2: those kind of crutches. So I like to talk to 230 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:17,560 Speaker 2: this because a lot of people don't because they're worried 231 00:10:17,559 --> 00:10:19,640 Speaker 2: about they're going to say something wrong, so they don't 232 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:21,440 Speaker 2: talk to them at all, and they marginalize them, and 233 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:22,000 Speaker 2: that's worse. 234 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:23,960 Speaker 3: So I just talked them like the regular people. 235 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:26,439 Speaker 2: So I bring him on stage and you'll see he's 236 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:29,240 Speaker 2: like a real strapping guy, and he's young, and he's 237 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:30,640 Speaker 2: got a kid, and he has polio. 238 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:33,320 Speaker 3: And I never mean it with polio. And I said 239 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:34,400 Speaker 3: to him. 240 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:36,040 Speaker 2: You didn't see this in the clip, but I did 241 00:10:36,080 --> 00:10:37,960 Speaker 2: say to him, so if you have polio, can you 242 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:38,559 Speaker 2: get aroused? 243 00:10:38,559 --> 00:10:41,040 Speaker 3: He goes, you're damn straight. So he's very proud of that. 244 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:43,800 Speaker 2: And then the other one was how do you explain 245 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:46,080 Speaker 2: polio to your kid? And that's what he tells us 246 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:46,640 Speaker 2: in this clip. 247 00:10:46,679 --> 00:10:48,920 Speaker 3: How he did it? Travis? How are what do we 248 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:50,520 Speaker 3: got here? What's the issue polio? 249 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:50,920 Speaker 1: Oh? 250 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:53,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, my kids are younger. 251 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:55,440 Speaker 5: I would go to the school plays. Obviously kids are black. 252 00:10:55,760 --> 00:10:56,760 Speaker 4: Hey is that you're dad? 253 00:10:56,800 --> 00:10:57,559 Speaker 3: Is he RoboCop? 254 00:10:57,559 --> 00:10:58,520 Speaker 5: Blah blah blah. 255 00:10:58,520 --> 00:11:01,560 Speaker 4: I would tell the kids, Hey, I'm from Vietnam. 256 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:03,240 Speaker 3: That's how I got hurt. They were like, really, you 257 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:07,560 Speaker 3: were in Vietnam? And I was like, yeah, it was 258 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:08,080 Speaker 3: a joke. 259 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:12,280 Speaker 4: But my daughter's eighteen now and a few months ago 260 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:13,960 Speaker 4: she was like, Dad, were you really in Vietnam? 261 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:15,400 Speaker 3: I was like, oh, I forgot I told it. 262 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:27,040 Speaker 4: I told everybody, were like, I never fixed it. How 263 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:28,880 Speaker 4: do you get this out of people, Paul? 264 00:11:29,559 --> 00:11:33,080 Speaker 2: You know people have asked me that I think I 265 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:37,040 Speaker 2: don't know. It's not I'm just asking questions. I think, 266 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:39,400 Speaker 2: you know, for Frank, like in that clip where Frank 267 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:41,480 Speaker 2: Oz likes about it is I'm very direct, but out 268 00:11:41,520 --> 00:11:44,520 Speaker 2: being offensive, like because Frank always last, because I say. 269 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 3: To the guy, what's the issue here? 270 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:48,000 Speaker 2: Like, well, I don't know what, Like, I don't know, 271 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:50,599 Speaker 2: you got crutches in there, There's something going on. I 272 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:52,520 Speaker 2: don't know how to say it. I do think that 273 00:11:52,559 --> 00:11:54,319 Speaker 2: they know that I'm not going to make fun of them. 274 00:11:54,559 --> 00:11:57,839 Speaker 2: I do think that they instinctively intuitively, audiences are very 275 00:11:57,880 --> 00:12:00,320 Speaker 2: smart and they can pick up on and smell like 276 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:03,040 Speaker 2: a mile away if somebody's a good person or not. 277 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:06,080 Speaker 2: I think they know that. I just I'm not not 278 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:07,240 Speaker 2: gonna make fun of it. I'm not going to be 279 00:12:07,280 --> 00:12:09,280 Speaker 2: a kumbaya guy either. It's just like we're just have 280 00:12:09,320 --> 00:12:11,120 Speaker 2: a real conversation. If you say something crazy and I'm 281 00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:15,320 Speaker 2: gonna say that's crazy, but I would never think to 282 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:18,079 Speaker 2: say that I got injured in Vietnam and then forget 283 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:18,960 Speaker 2: to tell your kid. 284 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:21,480 Speaker 3: And he was the star of the night. 285 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:23,520 Speaker 2: So this is the other thing that's happening is people 286 00:12:23,559 --> 00:12:25,400 Speaker 2: are connecting with each other. So they're going up to 287 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:28,120 Speaker 2: these strangers and saying, oh, I love that story. And 288 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:29,760 Speaker 2: I've never met a believe with Polo, I'm good for 289 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:33,480 Speaker 2: you and you know, And so a cool thing is 290 00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:36,079 Speaker 2: happening where we're getting out of our own shell and 291 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:38,480 Speaker 2: we're connecting with each other in a way that we 292 00:12:38,520 --> 00:12:39,880 Speaker 2: maybe normally would you know. 293 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:42,000 Speaker 3: And he was a star of the night. He was 294 00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:44,000 Speaker 3: so funny, he was he was the best. 295 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:47,320 Speaker 4: So is there a star every night, like, for example, 296 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:50,160 Speaker 4: the Bowling Alley guy. I mean that that guy is 297 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:50,560 Speaker 4: a star. 298 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:54,280 Speaker 2: This guy, this guy absolutely so this guy. 299 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:56,400 Speaker 3: The other thing the reason we take it around the country. 300 00:12:56,600 --> 00:12:58,080 Speaker 3: This show that you're seeing this clip from. 301 00:12:57,960 --> 00:12:59,640 Speaker 2: Is in Chicago, so we want to take it around 302 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:02,320 Speaker 2: the country to get a flavor of communities. 303 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:04,200 Speaker 3: Instead of them coming to my show in New York, 304 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:05,240 Speaker 3: I'm bringing my show to. 305 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:08,400 Speaker 2: Your house, so to speak. So it is a perfect example. 306 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:10,480 Speaker 2: You'll hear when I say to this guy, what do 307 00:13:10,559 --> 00:13:12,400 Speaker 2: you do? He mentions he owns a bowling alley, and 308 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:15,280 Speaker 2: the place goes crazy and you could see I'm like 309 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:17,000 Speaker 2: a deer in the headlights because I had never heard 310 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:19,160 Speaker 2: of this bowling alley before. But it's like the coolest, 311 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:21,160 Speaker 2: most popular bowling alley in Chicago. 312 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:23,360 Speaker 3: And then it goes from there. Check it out. 313 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:27,880 Speaker 5: I owned Versy Rock and Ball. I was controlled over 314 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:31,800 Speaker 5: a bank invest and software company. Left that job to 315 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:34,960 Speaker 5: buy the bowling there for two dollars with my friend Gary. 316 00:13:35,559 --> 00:13:43,560 Speaker 2: Well you needed a friend because you didn't have two dollars. Carry, 317 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:44,760 Speaker 2: He sells me carry. 318 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:46,320 Speaker 3: I got a great deal, but I only have a 319 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:47,079 Speaker 3: dollar on there. 320 00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:50,079 Speaker 2: Come on, man, I can't. 321 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:51,920 Speaker 3: All right, Okay, let me call somebody else. 322 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:54,720 Speaker 4: Wait, incredible, my god, did you go to the bowling alley? 323 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:56,160 Speaker 3: I gotta think you know he did? 324 00:13:56,240 --> 00:13:58,760 Speaker 2: I went and I had drinks and then and then 325 00:13:58,760 --> 00:14:01,800 Speaker 2: a follow up to that. I just love that he 326 00:14:01,840 --> 00:14:04,320 Speaker 2: needed a brand to help him with two dollars to 327 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:05,800 Speaker 2: buy the bowl, Like it's like. 328 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:06,600 Speaker 3: Really you can't. 329 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:09,480 Speaker 2: So what I'm doing is I'm doing my own comedy 330 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:11,320 Speaker 2: and stuff in it. But I'm also just grabbing what 331 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:13,200 Speaker 2: people say and then making comedy out of it. 332 00:14:13,240 --> 00:14:15,040 Speaker 3: In the moment, I'm just improvising with it. 333 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:17,800 Speaker 2: And then the follow up to that with him was like, so, 334 00:14:17,880 --> 00:14:20,640 Speaker 2: what's the craziest Because I did the bowling out, especially 335 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:22,720 Speaker 2: like younger, and I've got drunk, cut and thrown out, 336 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:24,720 Speaker 2: done stupid things, throwing bottles whatever. 337 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:27,760 Speaker 3: So I knew that. I go, what's the craziest thing 338 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:28,520 Speaker 3: that happened to? Bullying? 339 00:14:28,560 --> 00:14:30,320 Speaker 2: He goes, oh, He goes, oh, oh, we had these 340 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:33,960 Speaker 2: Northwestern grads. They're all so smart, right, yeah, I caught 341 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:36,920 Speaker 2: two of them. They were screwing on Lane thirty six. 342 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:40,760 Speaker 2: I go right there, goes yeah, right on the table, 343 00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:42,880 Speaker 2: and I go, what did you do? He goes, I 344 00:14:42,920 --> 00:14:44,720 Speaker 2: threw him out. I go, did you clean the table 345 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:47,120 Speaker 2: with that chee disinfected? He goes, hell, no, I just 346 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:48,640 Speaker 2: rented the room dead another. 347 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:53,000 Speaker 3: What is going crazy? Oh my god? 348 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:56,840 Speaker 4: So and that disinfected is the worst smelling disinfectant. 349 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:59,320 Speaker 2: I said to him, you guys, you don't even try 350 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:01,480 Speaker 2: with that dis effect. Then you kind of spray it. 351 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:03,960 Speaker 2: It doesn't do anything. I said, I've got eight layers 352 00:15:03,960 --> 00:15:06,320 Speaker 2: of athletes foot from your bowling alley industry. 353 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:07,160 Speaker 3: I'm suing you. 354 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:12,280 Speaker 2: But what ends up happening is it ends up very 355 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:15,280 Speaker 2: quickly feeling like you're hanging out in somebody's big basement 356 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:18,200 Speaker 2: having drinks and telling stories, because then they'll start you 357 00:15:18,440 --> 00:15:22,720 Speaker 2: yelling out to each other and saying stuff and like 358 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:26,560 Speaker 2: and so you know, it just becomes like a thing 359 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:28,640 Speaker 2: of its own. Like you know, like I a lot 360 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:32,560 Speaker 2: of times will talk about kids, and like I remember 361 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:34,400 Speaker 2: saying to somebody like in the moment, I was like, 362 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:36,040 Speaker 2: you know, when you have a kid, you're supposed to 363 00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:37,360 Speaker 2: say it's the best thing that ever happened to you. 364 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:40,240 Speaker 2: And I'm like, uh, there are some days you wish 365 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:42,320 Speaker 2: your kid would walk into the woods and never come back. 366 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:45,200 Speaker 3: You really, like, you know, because you right. 367 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:48,200 Speaker 2: Anybody listening to, anybody watching, you love your kids. But yeah, 368 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:51,520 Speaker 2: you know so so like my son had a baseball 369 00:15:51,520 --> 00:15:54,000 Speaker 2: tournament and it was three days father son bonding weekend. 370 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:55,520 Speaker 3: My wife's like, you should go just to two of you. 371 00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:57,880 Speaker 2: And at at the end of the weekend, it hit me, 372 00:15:58,160 --> 00:16:00,720 Speaker 2: I don't really care for the kid with you as 373 00:16:00,760 --> 00:16:04,440 Speaker 2: a very well, they're very needy and it's there, it's 374 00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:07,480 Speaker 2: all about them, like it's we work hard, it's our 375 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:10,480 Speaker 2: weekend too, right, And first of all, you put them 376 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:10,680 Speaker 2: in it. 377 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:12,840 Speaker 3: You put a kid like seven eight years old in 378 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:14,640 Speaker 3: a hotel. He wants a grilled cheese sandwich. 379 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:16,760 Speaker 2: It's seventeen dollars for a grilled cheese sandwich with a 380 00:16:16,760 --> 00:16:19,160 Speaker 2: shriveled up pickle and no friends fries. Then they burn 381 00:16:19,280 --> 00:16:21,200 Speaker 2: like one corner of it and a little baby can't 382 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:23,240 Speaker 2: eat it. So you gonna get another thing of I'm 383 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:25,280 Speaker 2: like thirty four dollars into bread and cheese. I got 384 00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:28,120 Speaker 2: nothing to show for it. And then I want to 385 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:30,720 Speaker 2: go to a strip club and he starts complaining Daddy. 386 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:34,560 Speaker 2: The lady on the pole scares me. This Jack Daniels 387 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:40,560 Speaker 2: is burning my throat. Come on, really, really, I kind 388 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:42,000 Speaker 2: of get to say what I want to say in 389 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:44,240 Speaker 2: my show and people go, yeah, I kind of feel 390 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:45,640 Speaker 2: that way too, And I'm glad you're saying. 391 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:48,720 Speaker 3: It's Oh, it's brilliant. You can't make this stuff up. 392 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:52,480 Speaker 4: And and that's what I love about the show, Permission 393 00:16:52,560 --> 00:16:56,640 Speaker 4: to speak, It's all. This is real authentic. I mean, 394 00:16:57,600 --> 00:17:00,600 Speaker 4: you really run the gamut. Just like the last clip, 395 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:02,120 Speaker 4: would you set up the last clip? 396 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:02,960 Speaker 3: Yeah? 397 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:07,560 Speaker 2: So this last one, somebody who is a gay young gentleman, 398 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:09,080 Speaker 2: and you know, I just asked him what it was 399 00:17:09,119 --> 00:17:09,720 Speaker 2: like to come out? 400 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:10,440 Speaker 3: Was come out? 401 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:12,840 Speaker 2: And because I'm not gay, I don't have a lot 402 00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:14,600 Speaker 2: of friends in that in that world, but. 403 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:17,359 Speaker 3: Whatever, I don't know. I just asked questions like what 404 00:17:17,480 --> 00:17:19,080 Speaker 3: is it like? What is it like to keep that 405 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:21,639 Speaker 3: a secret? You know? And not come on? So I 406 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:25,920 Speaker 3: just simply asked him, like, how was it coming out 407 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:27,679 Speaker 3: to your mom? And what did she say? And this 408 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:31,720 Speaker 3: is what happened. I was a pretty gay little boy. 409 00:17:31,840 --> 00:17:34,960 Speaker 3: How did you react when he told you? The first 410 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:36,439 Speaker 3: thing she said was why are you telling me at 411 00:17:36,480 --> 00:17:37,320 Speaker 3: ten thirty at night? 412 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:41,680 Speaker 5: Man? 413 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:44,520 Speaker 4: You have an incredible you've got you have an incredible knack. 414 00:17:44,720 --> 00:17:45,440 Speaker 3: You really do? 415 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:49,520 Speaker 4: You make that everyone feel comfortable. Yet you're you're rare, 416 00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:50,879 Speaker 4: You're there ready to pounce. 417 00:17:51,760 --> 00:17:53,919 Speaker 2: I think so yeah, I mean, you know, I do. 418 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:56,280 Speaker 2: I have been getting that. It's nice for people to say. 419 00:17:56,320 --> 00:17:59,320 Speaker 2: But like that clip. I like because if we were 420 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:01,560 Speaker 2: writers on a movie or in a TV show we 421 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:02,280 Speaker 2: had to write a. 422 00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:04,400 Speaker 3: Scene about a kid coming out to his mom. 423 00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:07,119 Speaker 2: We'd write it like he's got angst and then she 424 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:09,560 Speaker 2: says it and she cries and they hug each other 425 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:11,919 Speaker 2: and I understand and I love you. But that's a 426 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:14,520 Speaker 2: lot of time, not how real people talk, because they 427 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:17,600 Speaker 2: don't have the time. She basically was saying to him, 428 00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:20,359 Speaker 2: I've known you since you came out of my womb. 429 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:22,840 Speaker 2: I knew you were gay before you knew you were gay. 430 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:25,600 Speaker 2: I'm your mother. Can we move on? I have a 431 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:27,800 Speaker 2: big meeting. I don't give a crap if you're gay 432 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:29,800 Speaker 2: or not. I got it too well at this meeting. 433 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:33,199 Speaker 2: Like that's how real people talk. Yeah, and some and 434 00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:35,160 Speaker 2: I work in this, work in this as a writer. 435 00:18:35,320 --> 00:18:38,399 Speaker 2: Sometimes I think in writing fiction you use sight of 436 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:39,680 Speaker 2: how real people talk. 437 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:41,680 Speaker 3: And that's where I really love the clip. 438 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:44,560 Speaker 2: Plus it's hilarious and plus for him to say I 439 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:47,600 Speaker 2: was always a pretty gay little boy was like so, 440 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:51,560 Speaker 2: so like they know, they know that this is this 441 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:52,920 Speaker 2: is a place where you can say what you want. 442 00:18:52,960 --> 00:18:55,080 Speaker 2: And our our show has been getting like a lot 443 00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:57,840 Speaker 2: of support from the gay community, transgender community because like 444 00:18:57,840 --> 00:19:00,360 Speaker 2: we're just inclusive whatever, we're not you forced it down 445 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:02,400 Speaker 2: your throat, but we're not going to like shun you. 446 00:19:02,440 --> 00:19:05,880 Speaker 2: And people are also saying it's like a big group 447 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:09,800 Speaker 2: therapy session that's fun and so there's some mental health 448 00:19:09,840 --> 00:19:11,960 Speaker 2: professionals that have kind of caught wind to the show 449 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:16,040 Speaker 2: and are driving people to come to the show because 450 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:19,160 Speaker 2: they feel like it's cathartic for people. So it's kind 451 00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:21,959 Speaker 2: of it's supposed to be funny first, and it is, 452 00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:24,199 Speaker 2: but there's all this other cool stuff coming out of 453 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:27,280 Speaker 2: it from it that's like I'm pretty proud of and 454 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:31,520 Speaker 2: we didn't expect and Frank oz Is really feel strongly 455 00:19:31,560 --> 00:19:34,280 Speaker 2: we need a show like this now given how crazy 456 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:35,240 Speaker 2: things are in the world. 457 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:38,440 Speaker 4: So you're putting good energy into the world always. Paul 458 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:42,399 Speaker 4: Mercurio really appreciated. 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We're gonna 479 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:23,560 Speaker 3: hang out like panhandlers again in the city. That'll be fi. 480 00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:25,600 Speaker 3: I'll do it in Boston with you this time. Let's 481 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:25,960 Speaker 3: do it. 482 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:30,439 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to this episode of the Taking a 483 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:34,360 Speaker 1: Walk podcast. Share this and other episodes with your friends 484 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:37,920 Speaker 1: and follow us so you never miss an episode. Taking 485 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:41,880 Speaker 1: a Walk is available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 486 00:20:42,080 --> 00:20:44,360 Speaker 1: and wherever you get your podcasts.