WEBVTT - My Standup Promoter - Andy Levitt 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.080 So like the first time I booked a proper tour, 0:00:03.480 --> 0:00:06.200 I was like, let's do it for just two months. 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:09.480 That doesn't seem long. Sixty days, but I go. But 0:00:09.560 --> 0:00:13.160 I don't want any nights off, So sixty days, sixty shows. 0:00:13.200 --> 0:00:15.800 But then it started selling well and so we did 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:18.560 two shows every night, So one hundred and twenty shows 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:20.000 in sixty days. 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:21.959 It was crazy. 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:37.720 Pasha Tosh show up, Tosh Show Show Tosh Show Eddie, 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:49.560 you hit him with a hoodie? Who I'm fired up today? 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:50.680 Why are you fired up? 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:55.400 The fans of this show that want it both ways 0:00:55.680 --> 0:01:01.160 are driving me insane when people get upset about the 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:04.880 money I spend on something. A few weeks ago, it 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:07.840 was I mentioned how much it costs to line my 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:14.319 drawers throughout my house. I know it's absurd, okay, but 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:20.320 I think it's interesting to share with you the real numbers. 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:23.959 So if I'm gonna share with you the real numbers 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:27.520 things cost and what I get paid for things, because 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:30.240 I think that's very interesting and I think you would 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:34.120 like that information, then I need you not to be like, oh, 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:36.880 I can't log I believe somebody was learning does what 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:41.720 it's what it is. It's not your world. It's relative. 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:45.000 But you don't get it both ways. Either I'm not 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:47.880 gonna tell you the numbers, or I'm gonna tell you 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:52.200 and you'll just be like me, Holy shit, that's crazy, right. 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:55.440 I think that's fair. 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:56.960 They're gonna ruin it for everybody. 0:01:56.960 --> 0:02:00.600 You're gonna ruin it for everybody. Just enjoy that. It's 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:02.960 a world you'll probably never be a part of. 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:05.200 Exactly. 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:08.280 Let's be clear. I know where I came from. I 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:13.119 moved fourteen times before I was twelve years old. Then 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:17.919 when I was twelve years old, I moved to Florida, Titusville, Florida. 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:23.440 Our home cost around seventy five thousand dollars. Three bedroom, 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:28.119 two baths, four kids, two parents, great home. They owned 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:31.560 it for thirty years ish and then they sold it 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:34.919 for ninety two thousand or something like that. 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:35.600 I killed it. 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:40.320 Oh my goodness, what a huge return on investment. That's 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:44.359 what you get in Florida. So I grew up in 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:49.640 that world. I appreciate, you know, everything that I've received. 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:54.240 But you know easy by the way, I got so angry, EDDI, 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:57.639 you're gonna like this. We're going to talk comedy now, Okay, 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:03.600 Like every other comics podcast. I brought my calendars from 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:04.359 back in the day. 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:05.320 Oh it's great. 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:07.880 Oh man, I found them. So we're going to go 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:10.400 through my calendars. This is so you can see what 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:13.200 I was making and where I was. This is back 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:17.080 in nineteen ninety eight. All right, I was at Loonyes 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:22.200 in Colorado Springs from the twenty third through the twenty seventh? 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:27.120 Would you make for five nights? Two shows a night? 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:29.640 I made a total of four hundred dollars. 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:30.440 Wow. 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:35.000 And then on the thirtieth, which was Yam Kapor, I 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:38.440 have a note to call Bobby Jewel down there. That's 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:42.080 the owner of Side Splitters in Tampa, Florida. He was 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:46.640 a comic slash comedy club owner. Then in October the 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:51.400 seventh through the eleventh, then was at the Zanies in Nashville, Tennessee. 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:52.840 All right, what'd you make there? 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:57.560 I made five hundred dollars for a week of work. 0:03:57.720 --> 0:03:59.880 The following week I got to I was in Tennessee 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:02.480 staying in Tennessee. So I'm in Tennessee for two weeks. 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:07.480 Then I was at uh Comedy Catch in Chattanooga. Guess 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:09.880 how much I made for that week? Four hundred and 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:14.000 fifty dollars. Not friends with that person. Don't remember who 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:15.720 it was, but I remember that at the end of 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:18.880 the week he gave me a stern talking to and 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:22.440 told me that I need to stop making jokes about 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:26.839 some of the other people that work there. I forgot 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:27.360 who it was. 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:30.080 Who's the funniest. 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:32.120 Man in America? What was his name? Oh, Dick Gregory, 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:36.920 Dick James Gregory, James James Gregory. I remember making fun 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:38.640 of him on stage and the club owner pulled me 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:40.479 aside and said, don't you ever make fun of him. 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:43.760 November nineteen ninety eight. Oh, I was doing a run, 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:48.279 a run of creative gigs. Okay, so now, creative gigs 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:50.680 they were the comedy zones. They were in the Southeast. 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:54.200 You would do one a night in a different venue. 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:57.640 One night you wouldn't get paid, and they're like, just 0:04:57.640 --> 0:04:59.560 don't worry about it. And the next night you would 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:01.640 do a show at a different club, you know, one 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:05.680 hundred miles away, and they're like, this club would overpay 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:08.599 you three hundred and fifty dollars. That'll make up for 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:11.960 the night before. So they would just like rob one place, yeah, 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:14.200 and the other place. I just don't worry about it. 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:17.480 But I was making one hundred and fifty night. I 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:21.760 was in Hickory, North Carolina. Then I have a note here. Well, 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:25.640 I say it like Hickory, like that comedian John reap 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:29.240 Our Fred John Reap. I have a note here. They 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:33.160 did not pay me. The check bounced. Then I was 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:37.080 in Columbus, Mississippi. I went to Miami for the fifteenth 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:39.880 and sixteenth of November nineteen ninety eight. Then I was 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:44.760 in chapel Hill, North Carolina on the eighteenth, Harrisburg on 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:49.119 the nineteenth, Charleston, West Virginia on the twentieth, and twenty first, 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:53.640 for a grand total of three hundred and fifty dollars. 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:59.000 Here's a big one. December nineteen ninety eight, I was 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:05.080 at Uncle in Davy, Florida. I was the MC. The 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:09.160 middle act was Greg Hahn. The headliner Doug Stanhope. 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:11.200 Oh wow, uh huh, fun week? 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:15.000 Would you make four hundred dollars? Four hundred dollars man? 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:15.840 I was living it up. 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:16.040 Oh. 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:19.279 I also made an appearance December seventh. I popped into 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:23.719 comedy Traffic School oh and did a surprise set. You 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:26.400 know that is, guys, when you'd get a ticket you 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:28.520 could go to traffic school, but in Florida they would 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:32.279 have comedy Traffic School, which was taught by comedians that 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:34.440 had failed. But some of them were my friends, so 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:36.640 they'd be like, Hey, come by, I have to teach 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:38.960 for four hours and you can just do a set 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:41.919 in front of these people. It's just miserable. Then I 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:45.360 was off to Macon, Georgia, heading to the Comedy House 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:48.640 Theater the fifteenth through the twentieth. Got to stay in 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:52.279 the Shoneyes in so I had a free hotel room 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:56.000 and made for six nights a total of four hundred 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:56.719 and fifty dollars. 0:06:57.279 --> 0:06:57.920 That's good. 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:02.640 New Year's Eve nineteen ninety He ate bonkers. Huh, that's 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:06.640 a good gig. Joe san Felipo, owner of that club. 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:10.480 It was in three D's, which was Dennis Scott's restaurant. 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:14.400 He was with the Orlando Magic at the time. Oh man, 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:15.280 guess what they paid me? 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:20.080 No clue, they didn't. Oh they didn't. 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:22.520 Didn't make it, didn't pay me. Well. This one's sad. 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:28.000 January nineteen ninety nine, From the fifth through the tenth, 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:33.400 I was in Side Splitters in Tampa, Florida with John Pinnett. 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:35.640 Oh, rip, what'd you make? 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:39.200 Five hundred total? But he probably gave me a few 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:46.200 extra bucks. Oh. The twenty seventh of January nineteen ninety 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:49.520 nine was the first time I performed in Los Angeles. 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:52.640 I flew out to do a show at the Melrose 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:59.600 Improv Nice. Uh huh, no money, so like, get off 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:02.760 me when I fucking tell you what stuff cost? Check 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:07.240 this out. April nineteen ninety nine, got to do a 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:12.840 show on the fifteenth for e my first like television. 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:15.600 I was doing some wild on thing. I don't know 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:16.080 what it was. 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:18.040 You get the money in there for that. 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:21.240 A couple hundred bucks seven No, it says seven hundred dollars. 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:25.880 Seven hundred dollars they paid me. That's pretty good. April 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:30.760 nineteen ninety nine, the twenty fourth I opened for the 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:33.080 Beach Boys. What do you think the Beach Boys paid 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:36.920 me in nineteen ninety nine to open for them? Two 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:40.679 hundred and fifty dollars Speech boys. Yeah, well, this is 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:45.480 a big date. June first, nineteen ninety nine. Guess what 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:46.040 I did. 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:49.520 June first, nineteen ninety nine. I think a college gig. 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:53.360 Nope, moved to Los Angeles. What yep? And got to 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:56.760 do a show that night, hosted an open mic night, 0:08:57.200 --> 0:09:00.720 got paid ready for it? Yeah, seventy five bucks. First 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:02.800 night in la I made seventy five bucks. Yeah, this 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:06.920 is not bad. That's not bad at all. Nop same month, 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:10.480 back to Florida. On the twenty fifth and twenty sixth 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:14.400 of June nineteen ninety nine, got to open in Melbourne 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:18.280 for Larry the Cable Guy. Okay, yep, two hundred bucks. 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:19.679 God, what's happening? 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:23.960 Two hundred bucks. August nineteen ninety nine, August fourth through 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:28.400 the eighth, Tulsa, Oklahoma open for Todd Glass. 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:29.640 Okay yep? 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:34.160 Five fifty six hundred bucks. Yeah, Todd made sure I 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:36.480 got paid. I'm gonna I'm not gonna stop. I'm gonna 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:40.040 go through this. This is this is good stuff. What's 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:41.200 the Imperial Palace? 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:44.160 Oh, that's a casino in Vegas. What was probably a 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:44.800 couple of them, but. 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:48.440 It was this one I think is in Biloxi, Mississippi. 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:54.000 Track I made for eight show. It appears eight shows, 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:57.400 seven hundred bucks. That's not bad if I'm in a casino, 0:09:57.520 --> 0:10:01.160 because you know I won on the tables. Also on 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:05.840 the twenty first of that month, I had my cable 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:07.400 installed between ten and two. 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:11.559 Uh, that's big. 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:14.280 I want to know what I paid for that? No, no, no, 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:18.120 that's not written on here. October nineteen ninety nine, October fifth, 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:22.840 I shot Comedy Central's premium Blend Who. That was the 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:27.319 beginning of the relationship that blossomed into one of the 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:30.440 greatest TV shows the network had ever put on the air. 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:31.720 South Park. 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:33.560 Hey. 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:37.199 I opened for Todd Glass on the twentieth of October 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:42.199 nineteen ninety nine. Guess what I got paid? Fifty dollars. 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:45.640 How about that? Okay, here's a big gig. Nineteen ninety nine, 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:50.760 November twelfth, I was at FSU. They were going to 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:53.800 pay me five thousand, five hundred dollars. I said they 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:56.480 were going to. They canceled me before I flew out. 0:10:57.320 --> 0:10:59.520 Would have been my biggest show today. Canceled. 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:00.640 That's a big one. 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:05.760 Yeah, it's stune, God, it's stung. Oh. Here New Year's 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:10.280 December nineteen ninety nine. I'm opening for Lewis black back 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:14.200 at Uncle Funny's. Did five shows, got one thousand dollars. 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:18.600 There you go, Yeah, chut ching. I'm not done, guys, 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:24.240 I'm not done. Year two thousand January the twenty fifth 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:28.400 through the thirtieth, I'm opening for Dave Chappelle with Cap City. 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:32.440 I'm in Cap City in Austin, Texas show. Yep. Guess 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:35.880 what I got paid for that week? Eight hundred bucks 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:39.120 because I got to headline the first two nights because 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:42.360 Dave doesn't would never do a full week. Oh, I 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:48.240 did a college in Georgia, Columbus State. Got one thousand, 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:54.680 three hundred and ten dollars negotiated. That's stupid, That's so dumb. 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:57.040 I can't stop doing this, guys. I'm gonna go the 0:11:57.080 --> 0:12:01.440 whole way through. Oh, here we go, Sacramento Punchline February 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:05.840 two thousand, the twenty third through the twenty seventh. I'm 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:09.680 opening for Dave Hotel. Huh. That was a big deal 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:11.679 for me. I was excited. Fifty How much did I 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:14.839 get paid? No, five hundred dollars plus accommodations. 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:15.200 Yeah. 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:19.000 But that was where my you know, my love of 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:22.480 Tahoe started because I would drive over to Sierra Tahoe 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:26.920 every day. I would snowboard and then drive back and 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:30.679 do the shows at night, all for a week at 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:34.120 the Best Western at the Punchline there. I had a 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:37.760 free hotel room and I got five hundred dollars. So 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:43.000 don't And that's only twenty four years ago. The guys 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:47.040 get up my ass because I pay too much for 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:51.480 an airstream renovation. April fourth, two thousand, I have a 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:55.640 pitch at MTV A little Did I know then that 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:57.800 they were going to say no to me for the 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:03.160 next decade. Oh, this is exciting. May two thousand, where 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:04.920 am I New Zealand? 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:05.600 Wow? 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:11.760 For two weeks I get paid four thousand, four hundred dollars. 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:15.880 Guess what They decided to only pay me two thousand, 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:20.480 two hundred dollars after I did the shows. Yeah, he 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:25.160 still owes me. I'm sure he'll make right. Ah one 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:27.960 of my favorite places to perform. Perform there with Eddie 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:30.960 open for Eddie there. This wasn't the week that I 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:34.400 opened for you, but I was May twenty fourth through 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:39.360 the twenty eighth in Appleton, Wisconsin, working for Cliffy, working 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:40.720 for Cliff and Pat. 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:42.800 Don't make short, Pat, I won't. 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:45.320 Pat was working there at that time. They had a 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:49.360 pitch on the twenty first in June with MTV again 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:54.400 with rod Asa again passed on me, always passed on me. 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:59.000 Eh probably made the right choice. I can't stop this man. 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:03.480 Oh August two thousand, from the eighth to the thirteenth, 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:07.400 I was at Catch a rising star in Reno, Nevada. 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:10.320 There you go, my first time in Reno back then, 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:14.520 oh man, eight hundred and fifty bucks. They treated me right, Yeah, 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:17.120 and I guarantee I won on the blackjack table. My 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:20.240 first weekend in Las Vegas was October two thousand, the 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:23.880 sixteenth through the twenty second. That is a long that 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:29.040 is seven days. That is seven days, fourteen shows. Guess 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:33.440 what I got paid? Eight fifty twelve hundred dollars plus 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:37.640 room Riviera, yep, at the Riviera. I refused to stop 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:38.080 doing this. 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:39.800 They brought it on themselves, Daniel. 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:43.080 They brought on themselves completely act like, you know, to 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:46.920 act like I was born with a silver spoon in 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:50.160 my mouth. All right, let's get into this episode. I'm 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:53.960 no longer putting hundreds of thousands of miles on my 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:59.360 nineteen ninety one Honda Civic SI black hatchback with the 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:04.160 moonroof bass cannon for one hundred bucks a night. Okay, Now, 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:09.960 I got jets and tour buses full of dogs and kids, 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:15.680 and today's guest is always there making sure Team Tosh 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:25.920 keeps on perring like a kitten. Enjoy Pasha, my guest today, 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:28.320 has spent time on the road with almost every famous 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:31.400 comic you can think of. He's seen me perform live 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:35.400 over sixty thousand times and is the only person I 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:39.080 enjoy seeing backstage because he has my paycheck. Please welcome 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:44.240 Live Nations VP of Comedy Touring aka my promoter, Andy Lovett. Andy, 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:45.040 how are you? 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:46.240 Things are good doing? All right? 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:49.160 This is a big get for me having you on 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:52.600 the show. Andy. Do you believe in ghost I do not? 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:57.240 Okay, but real quick, I'm shocked that most comics say 0:15:57.240 --> 0:15:59.160 that the Comedy Store is haunted and they've always had 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:00.000 these experiences. 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:05.160 Nothing's haunted in the Comedy Store is just dirty. That's 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:08.960 just the sound of seamen sticking to your feet as 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:12.120 you walk through. Let's start with some simple stuff. You 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:15.160 grew up in Baltimore. I know you're a big sports fan. 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:20.960 Colts are Ravens Ravens. Do you pronounce it Baltimore or Baltimore? 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:21.760 Baltimore? 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:25.960 Lobster Crab Crab is the Wire the greatest television series 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:26.560 of all time. 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:29.480 It's up there Breaking Bad is up there too. I think, Okay, 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:31.400 are you sick right now? I'm not. 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:38.000 I always accuse Andy of being sick. I don't for 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:42.160 whatever reason. Whenever he's on tour with me, I'm like, 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:44.040 are you sick? And He's like, no, I'm not. I'm 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:46.520 just getting over something. I'm not contagious. I'm like, God, 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:47.120 damn it. 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:50.240 There was one time I was pretty deathly sick on 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:50.600 the road. 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:54.080 Yeah, but you weren't in my bus. You know you 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:57.160 were in. That was a baller move I had. I 0:16:57.200 --> 0:17:00.480 had two buses, one for the openers, or as I 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:03.160 like to refer to them, the riff raff. All right, 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:06.600 we'll get into Please describe to our listeners exactly what 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:10.320 your job entails, because even I'm a little in the dark. 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:13.080 Here, the biggest things are just like routing the tours, 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:15.040 which I really enjoy. So it's kind of putting the 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:17.679 puzzle together of how the tours come together, what cities 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:19.800 they want to be in, what cities that common want 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:21.120 to be in a what day, and routing it out 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:23.400 be is it ten shows, thirty shows? And then it's 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:28.040 negotiating the deals with the artist representatives, and then it's 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:31.320 making sure the tickets sell so the artists can make 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:32.919 as much money as possible. We can make as much 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:36.680 money as possible, and then it's it's uh, it's followed through, 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:39.000 follow following through with the show all the way to 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:42.280 the end, making sure that the show goes smoothly from 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:44.919 the moment you or the artist walks into the building 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:46.840 until they exit the theater. 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:50.960 And sometimes you're actually even just with the artists throughout 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:51.879 the entire tour. 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:55.760 Yeah, we you know me personally, and you know Live 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:58.560 Nation Comedy. We really try to be as hands on 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:01.240 as possible and you know, take care of the artists 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:02.120 as much as possible. 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:04.600 And so for people listen it. So you work for 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:09.840 Live Nation and you basically only handle comics that can sell. 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:12.520 What's the smallest venues that you're dealing with. 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:16.320 We do shows in some clubs that have like four 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:19.399 hundred seats or so okay, and we also have comedy clubs. 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:22.359 You know. We have the Punchline in San Francisco. 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:24.120 Uh huh, and that's owned by Live Nation. 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:29.080 The Punchline in Philadelphia, the Punchline in Sacramento as well. 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:34.840 My first experience with the Punchline was in San Francisco 0:18:35.359 --> 0:18:37.000 was such a big deal to get it, and I 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:40.000 got like you get like a shit week when you're 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:42.600 first getting there. It was like a Thanksgiving week, and 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:47.919 me and Sean Rouse went up there. Rip to Sean, 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:51.679 he's dead. He was an amazing comedian and he just 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:54.919 like literally blew me off stage every night, like he 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:56.159 was so much better than me. 0:18:56.440 --> 0:18:58.320 I hung out with Molly actually a few weeks ago. 0:18:58.440 --> 0:18:59.639 She says, hello, by the way. 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:03.560 Ah, Welly's a wonderful woman up in San Francisco with 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:07.600 tattoos of Dave Matthews and lyrics on our artist. That's 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:11.520 right now this interview you were I don't know if 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:14.560 you were hesitant. I certainly know your boss Jeff was, 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:20.200 because you're privy to such information about artists, and they're 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:23.480 just like making sure that you can't talk about people. 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:26.680 So at times I'll allude to things and you can 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:29.040 just shut me up if I'm going down the wrong band. 0:19:29.160 --> 0:19:31.679 But let's start from the beginning. How did you get 0:19:31.680 --> 0:19:35.680 into promoting comedy and booking comedy. 0:19:35.880 --> 0:19:38.760 I went to college at American University in DC. Is 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:41.639 that a good school, I'd say so. And I was 0:19:41.680 --> 0:19:43.879 a broadcast journalism major. So I thought I was going 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:46.320 to go down that track and wanting to be sportscaster. 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:49.959 But I just started going to tons of concerts at school, 0:19:50.160 --> 0:19:53.080 like just you know, music shows, some comedy shows, but 0:19:53.119 --> 0:19:56.800 more music shows, and just started befriending some of the 0:19:56.840 --> 0:19:58.600 bands that were playing there and they were up and 0:19:58.600 --> 0:20:01.840 coming bands, and then got involved in the college radio 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:05.280 station and really just started being involved in the music 0:20:05.359 --> 0:20:07.600 side of things. And then there was a programming board 0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:12.040 on campus which helped bring bands and comedians to school 0:20:12.200 --> 0:20:13.920 basically using the school dollars. 0:20:14.520 --> 0:20:17.680 What people don't know about these campus activity boards is, 0:20:18.160 --> 0:20:21.320 like you said, you're an eighteen year old and all 0:20:21.359 --> 0:20:24.760 of a sudden, you're getting to play exactly with budgets 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:28.760 that are so much larger than anybody ever really knows, 0:20:29.040 --> 0:20:32.879 exactly like what it costs to bring real entertainers to school, 0:20:32.880 --> 0:20:34.520 and then they give you, I mean, what kind of 0:20:34.520 --> 0:20:36.360 budgets were your school's letting you play. 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:38.320 We had a pretty healthy budget when we had half 0:20:38.359 --> 0:20:40.880 a million. I think it might have been a little 0:20:40.920 --> 0:20:42.440 less than but for the whole course of the year, 0:20:42.480 --> 0:20:44.760 you had the program something in the fall, so you 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:46.520 just couldn't blow it on one event. No, I know, 0:20:46.800 --> 0:20:49.480 but yeah, overall it was like budgeting and yeah, we 0:20:50.080 --> 0:20:51.680 could get a big show in the fall, big show 0:20:51.680 --> 0:20:52.800 in the spring, that sort of thing. 0:20:52.840 --> 0:20:54.560 But you know, I'm in the Naco Hall of Fame. 0:20:54.760 --> 0:20:58.160 I didn't know that, but well I am. So that's 0:20:58.280 --> 0:21:01.359 these organizations that book entertain hainters into colleges, and I 0:21:01.400 --> 0:21:03.800 did a ton and ton of colleges. I remember once 0:21:04.119 --> 0:21:08.480 talking to my good friend Nick Schwartz and outside of 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:11.800 the Melrose improv This is when we're kids, and I 0:21:11.840 --> 0:21:14.040 was like, I'm doing about one hundred colleges a year 0:21:14.760 --> 0:21:17.960 and he's like, oh, I'm doing about six. And I go, oh, 0:21:18.000 --> 0:21:19.639 what you gotta do more? I go, I go the 0:21:19.640 --> 0:21:21.359 money's so good. He's like yeah, I know, but like 0:21:21.760 --> 0:21:23.800 I don't. And then I was like, well, I'm getting 0:21:23.800 --> 0:21:26.639 like fifteen hundred a show, and he's like, oh, I'm 0:21:26.640 --> 0:21:31.320 getting like twelve thousand, and I was like, oh, you're 0:21:32.320 --> 0:21:34.760 I was like, oh, Nick is so much smarter than 0:21:34.760 --> 0:21:37.520 I am. He was doing six shows a year for 0:21:37.600 --> 0:21:40.520 twelve thousand a pop. I was doing one hundred for 0:21:40.680 --> 0:21:41.639 fifteen hundred. 0:21:41.840 --> 0:21:44.159 Anyway, So yeah, so I got involved in it with 0:21:44.200 --> 0:21:47.000 d in DC that way and then you know, fulfilled 0:21:47.000 --> 0:21:49.119 my major and did all my requirements. But I really 0:21:49.240 --> 0:21:51.960 kind of got turned off by the whole journalism side 0:21:52.000 --> 0:21:53.399 and all that and just wanted to get into the 0:21:53.520 --> 0:21:56.400 entertainment side. And when I graduated, I was like, well, 0:21:56.400 --> 0:21:58.280 this is fun. Let's just I don't want to get 0:21:58.320 --> 0:22:00.440 a real job. And then I kind of morphed in 0:22:00.480 --> 0:22:02.000 the real job and just kind. 0:22:01.840 --> 0:22:03.400 Of do you feel like you have a real job now? 0:22:03.520 --> 0:22:05.600 I do. Yeah, I mean, but I enjoy it. 0:22:05.680 --> 0:22:07.280 But you don't know, you no longer love it? 0:22:07.400 --> 0:22:10.399 No, no, no, I still love it. I tell my 0:22:10.480 --> 0:22:14.040 friends like when an athlete retires, like they know it's time, 0:22:14.720 --> 0:22:16.840 Like it's still fun for me. So I know if 0:22:16.840 --> 0:22:17.679 it's like going. 0:22:17.560 --> 0:22:18.800 What are you going to go to next? 0:22:18.840 --> 0:22:21.000 I don't know. That's yeah, but I still love it. 0:22:21.040 --> 0:22:23.080 I still love it. Stressful days at times, but I 0:22:23.119 --> 0:22:23.680 still love it. 0:22:23.800 --> 0:22:26.080 You've got some good comedy friends. 0:22:25.920 --> 0:22:29.040 Absolutely, yeah, that we're you know, just I think people 0:22:29.040 --> 0:22:31.720 don't realize like how how many people are involved in 0:22:31.760 --> 0:22:34.520 making a show happen, So like just friends within the 0:22:34.560 --> 0:22:38.880 office and the venues and marketing, ticketing, production, So it's 0:22:39.359 --> 0:22:42.520 you know, you become you become friends with all these 0:22:42.520 --> 0:22:43.760 people because you're just around them. 0:22:43.920 --> 0:22:47.040 And some of them some of them not friends, some 0:22:47.119 --> 0:22:49.040 of them borderline hostel. 0:22:50.119 --> 0:22:53.560 Things can get things can get crazy, sometimes stressful situations. 0:22:53.600 --> 0:22:57.280 But because you're dealing with entertainers that come from all 0:22:57.320 --> 0:23:02.040 walks of life. I walk off stage, you're there. I 0:23:02.080 --> 0:23:05.000 actually refuse now to even take a settlement sheet. I 0:23:05.080 --> 0:23:09.000 might just email me like the Moneies get wired. Yeah, 0:23:09.400 --> 0:23:14.280 but there are still these performers that want a briefcase 0:23:14.320 --> 0:23:15.520 full of cash. 0:23:16.119 --> 0:23:18.480 There's yeah, I mean I think it's a little probably 0:23:18.480 --> 0:23:19.880 not as common anymore, but some. 0:23:19.840 --> 0:23:21.480 People, but it still happens, doesn't it. 0:23:21.560 --> 0:23:21.760 Yeah. 0:23:22.080 --> 0:23:24.360 More on the music side, i'd say, oh really, yeah, 0:23:24.359 --> 0:23:24.760 I think so. 0:23:24.840 --> 0:23:27.359 But there's there's definitely a few comics that are like, no, no, 0:23:27.760 --> 0:23:32.600 give me you know, six figure amounts in cash after 0:23:32.600 --> 0:23:35.119 I get off stage, and then they're just it's just 0:23:35.240 --> 0:23:37.600 crazy to me. Yeah, And there's been times where you 0:23:37.600 --> 0:23:41.359 didn't have the cash? No, or is that not true? 0:23:41.560 --> 0:23:42.000 Not true? 0:23:42.119 --> 0:23:46.760 Okay, how many people have mistaken you for the talent's accountant? 0:23:48.640 --> 0:23:50.159 You know, it's probably happened a few times. 0:23:51.480 --> 0:23:54.600 So so one tour I did. When you get to 0:23:55.720 --> 0:23:59.280 the level of needing your expertise. It's like it's a 0:23:59.320 --> 0:24:03.280 big deal. And comics career you go from comedy clubs 0:24:03.280 --> 0:24:06.240 to theaters. And so once I got to that point, 0:24:06.320 --> 0:24:09.639 I was like, oh, this is going to disappear any moment. 0:24:10.720 --> 0:24:15.719 Little did I know that I'm bulletproof. But so like 0:24:15.760 --> 0:24:19.600 the first time I booked a proper tour, I was like, Okay, 0:24:20.320 --> 0:24:23.680 let's do it for just two months. That doesn't seem long. 0:24:24.000 --> 0:24:26.480 Sixty days, but I go, but I don't want any 0:24:26.560 --> 0:24:29.960 nights off, So sixty days, sixty shows. But then it 0:24:30.000 --> 0:24:33.240 started selling well and so we did two shows every night, 0:24:33.280 --> 0:24:36.320 so one hundred and twenty shows in sixty days. 0:24:36.440 --> 0:24:38.760 It was crazy. Do you remember Julie that we had 0:24:38.760 --> 0:24:40.720 out on the road for She was. 0:24:40.680 --> 0:24:43.359 Trying to fly to every city every day commercially and 0:24:43.400 --> 0:24:45.280 it wasn't working. So then she's like, I'm just going 0:24:45.359 --> 0:24:48.200 to run an RV And she was just driving behind 0:24:48.200 --> 0:24:50.520 her bus and an RV. I guess, and should have 0:24:50.600 --> 0:24:52.080 I invited her on the bus? Is that what I 0:24:52.080 --> 0:24:52.600 should have done? 0:24:52.720 --> 0:24:56.200 Probably? Yeah, we still talk about it to this day. 0:24:56.359 --> 0:24:58.600 I mean, I didn't know protocol. 0:24:58.760 --> 0:25:02.199 No, it's fine, it's I mean, there's no right answer. 0:25:02.280 --> 0:25:05.399 But it was it was a lot of dates. 0:25:06.800 --> 0:25:09.360 Well, I remember she had got one of her friends 0:25:09.400 --> 0:25:11.840 to like drive the RVY and she was trying to sleep, 0:25:11.880 --> 0:25:15.360 but like an RV is not meant for like sleeping 0:25:15.400 --> 0:25:18.080 and going ninety miles an hour down the highway. 0:25:18.119 --> 0:25:19.760 And it wasn't her fault. But then I think like 0:25:19.800 --> 0:25:22.520 the RV that they rented somehow got like infested with 0:25:22.600 --> 0:25:25.040 bugs or something like. It was just so it just 0:25:25.080 --> 0:25:27.080 became like a nightmare of a thing. 0:25:27.560 --> 0:25:30.840 That was the same tour that my manager Christie Smith 0:25:31.000 --> 0:25:33.800 ended up breaking rule one on the tour bus o. 0:25:34.080 --> 0:25:36.440 Well yeah, because she and she blamed it on the lobster, 0:25:36.520 --> 0:25:39.320 but we all ate the same lobster rules. And then 0:25:39.320 --> 0:25:42.000 all of a sudden she was just blowing up the bathroom, 0:25:42.800 --> 0:25:46.640 flying down the highway. Oh, I was disturbing. Hey did 0:25:46.680 --> 0:25:48.600 I push you in the ocean Halifax? 0:25:48.720 --> 0:25:52.120 No, that I think you pushed Andrew. I vividly remember 0:25:52.240 --> 0:25:54.359 like that those days in Halifax. 0:25:54.400 --> 0:25:58.199 So I remember Halifax too, And I here's what I 0:25:58.240 --> 0:26:01.399 remember that we that we I remember crapping my pants 0:26:01.440 --> 0:26:05.000 on a hike that I remember, But also I remember 0:26:07.080 --> 0:26:09.480 we asked you to take a photo as we called 0:26:09.520 --> 0:26:12.080 you shaky Andy, because yeah, you were trembling. 0:26:12.119 --> 0:26:14.560 I was trembling, and I was like, and then you 0:26:14.640 --> 0:26:18.199 later found out, Yeah, that was the shortly thereafter, I 0:26:18.240 --> 0:26:20.240 found out I had a lot of other symptoms, and 0:26:20.280 --> 0:26:22.960 I found out that it's type two diabetic, and my 0:26:23.000 --> 0:26:26.159 blood sugar was just completely out of kilter at right 0:26:26.240 --> 0:26:28.600 a moment. So so everybody's making fun of me, and 0:26:28.640 --> 0:26:31.719 then I realized that was the condition that was causing that. 0:26:31.800 --> 0:26:34.159 Now I'm reversed in, very healthy. 0:26:34.240 --> 0:26:39.280 But what you're telling me is that my mocking yes 0:26:39.800 --> 0:26:40.400 saved your. 0:26:40.320 --> 0:26:44.760 Life exactly, exactly. Yeah, but that day was crazy because 0:26:44.760 --> 0:26:46.480 I remember we went on that hike and I was 0:26:46.520 --> 0:26:48.359 so out of shape and just everything that I just 0:26:48.400 --> 0:26:51.119 looked like you would have thought it was like a 0:26:51.160 --> 0:26:54.920 death march or something. And I gave I gave Pete 0:26:54.920 --> 0:26:57.800 a picture that I found from that day, Oh Man, 0:26:57.920 --> 0:27:00.359 of me, you and full Sharon at. 0:27:00.240 --> 0:27:04.200 Full Sharon, good dude, good stuff. The big college tour 0:27:04.240 --> 0:27:06.679 that you and I did. Everyone was worried about you 0:27:06.720 --> 0:27:10.240 because you were deathly sick. The whole time you needed 0:27:10.240 --> 0:27:12.160 to leave, You're like, listen, I am going to die. 0:27:12.520 --> 0:27:15.160 So you left, and then you brought this other guy 0:27:15.200 --> 0:27:19.200 aboard that dressed like a Would you describe how he dressed. 0:27:19.240 --> 0:27:22.480 Like casualfari casualfari? 0:27:22.960 --> 0:27:26.960 This guy like he's still doing his thing. Yeah. 0:27:27.000 --> 0:27:29.520 He His diet is concerning too. 0:27:29.680 --> 0:27:31.000 I'm not sure about his diet weekend. 0:27:31.080 --> 0:27:35.440 He only would eat it raising canes. Have you ever 0:27:35.480 --> 0:27:36.159 tried stand up? 0:27:36.320 --> 0:27:38.960 I actually have never tried it, But I did write 0:27:38.960 --> 0:27:41.080 a lot in college, and I never had the balls 0:27:41.119 --> 0:27:41.800 to give it a shot. 0:27:41.920 --> 0:27:43.040 So you have a journal. 0:27:43.160 --> 0:27:44.600 I wish I still had it. I had it. 0:27:45.080 --> 0:27:47.200 Give me that journal I could get at least five 0:27:47.359 --> 0:27:48.200 new minutes out of it. 0:27:48.480 --> 0:27:51.040 I had, I had five minutes at the time, but 0:27:51.080 --> 0:27:52.399 I just never went with anything. 0:27:52.600 --> 0:27:56.120 Has Louis c k ever masturbated in front of negative 0:27:57.440 --> 0:28:00.600 on a tour bus? Does Kevin Hart have to sit 0:28:00.680 --> 0:28:01.600 in a child's seat? 0:28:02.680 --> 0:28:05.040 I don't work on Kevin's tours. I can't answer it. 0:28:05.119 --> 0:28:08.000 Were you in charge of making sure Dimitri Martin had 0:28:08.040 --> 0:28:09.480 an easel on every show. 0:28:10.040 --> 0:28:14.080 That's on his rider? Yes, if if in fact it's 0:28:14.200 --> 0:28:16.199 part of the show, then yes, we had to make 0:28:16.240 --> 0:28:16.880 sure it was there. 0:28:17.160 --> 0:28:18.880 How's my rider is very. 0:28:18.920 --> 0:28:22.120 Uh, You're one of the more simple riders out there, 0:28:22.160 --> 0:28:25.080 which is great in terms of like hospitality needs. It's 0:28:25.600 --> 0:28:27.959 actually become like a kind of a joke. But it's funny. 0:28:28.040 --> 0:28:29.360 What's the what's the joke? 0:28:29.400 --> 0:28:31.000 Oh No, it's just like there's not a lot on there. 0:28:31.040 --> 0:28:33.000 It's like for the longest, for all the years we've 0:28:33.000 --> 0:28:39.520 born the it's like bottle of water and a candle. Yeah, well, 0:28:39.800 --> 0:28:42.920 now a scented candle. And it's very very important that 0:28:42.920 --> 0:28:44.040 the candle is like a good. 0:28:43.840 --> 0:28:46.040 Candle, right, it can't be a fucking glade. 0:28:45.880 --> 0:28:47.440 You're like TVs or no. 0:28:47.440 --> 0:28:50.320 No, I want like a locally made nice candle, and 0:28:50.360 --> 0:28:53.320 then I collect I use him in the green room 0:28:53.360 --> 0:28:56.240 and then when I get uh, when I get home, 0:28:56.320 --> 0:28:58.440 I have a whole stack of candles from from being 0:28:58.440 --> 0:29:00.880 on tour, and I don't have to eye candles because 0:29:00.880 --> 0:29:01.480 that's annoying. 0:29:01.760 --> 0:29:04.280 Oh yeah. On the previous tour, I remember like all 0:29:04.320 --> 0:29:06.479 the cities of just trying to make sure everybody had 0:29:06.520 --> 0:29:08.520 a nice candle. We want to, you know, to make 0:29:08.560 --> 0:29:11.480 sure some places like it was harder to find like 0:29:11.520 --> 0:29:14.800 a nice candle shop, so we would like, you know, 0:29:14.840 --> 0:29:16.600 we would find a place and then just like buy 0:29:16.640 --> 0:29:21.760 them out. Tell Andrew Lantuck back in the day. If 0:29:21.760 --> 0:29:23.480 you like get just buy twelve of them. 0:29:23.520 --> 0:29:26.400 You know, that's a stupid Well. Now here's another thing 0:29:26.480 --> 0:29:28.760 that a lot of people don't know about artists is 0:29:29.160 --> 0:29:32.000 they can put whatever they want in their rider. The 0:29:32.120 --> 0:29:35.480 artists themselves are paying for it, like it's coming out 0:29:35.480 --> 0:29:38.840 of an expense. Correct. So it's like people always say, oh, 0:29:38.840 --> 0:29:42.160 can you believe they wanted a tiger backstage or whatever 0:29:42.200 --> 0:29:44.479 the nonsense is. It's like, well, yeah, I don't want 0:29:44.480 --> 0:29:47.280 to pay for that, so yeah, I'll have some water 0:29:48.040 --> 0:29:50.160 and a candle and some celery. 0:29:50.280 --> 0:29:53.040 Yeah, the veggie tray was kind of an added that 0:29:53.160 --> 0:29:53.600 got added. 0:29:53.760 --> 0:29:56.440 That's not even for me. That's because if if Todd 0:29:56.480 --> 0:29:59.160 Glass or somebody's with me got it, they freak out. 0:30:00.200 --> 0:30:02.000 Which comedian has the worst fan base? 0:30:04.000 --> 0:30:05.280 No, I can't answer that. 0:30:06.600 --> 0:30:10.440 Drawid Carmichael opened for me. We were in Hawaii together. Yeah, 0:30:10.720 --> 0:30:13.200 so we ran in a beautiful house in Hawaii right 0:30:13.240 --> 0:30:16.080 on the beach for a few days, I don't know, 0:30:16.200 --> 0:30:19.480 a week. He never once left his room. 0:30:20.080 --> 0:30:23.320 Yeah, I recall that too. Is I love Gerard, But yeah, 0:30:23.320 --> 0:30:26.480 that was kind of the strain that was, like, enjoy Hawaii, 0:30:26.520 --> 0:30:26.760 you know. 0:30:27.160 --> 0:30:29.080 We never made He did enjoy it, I know he did. 0:30:29.160 --> 0:30:30.880 We never saw him. He never came out of his room. 0:30:31.440 --> 0:30:33.400 You And there was also actually when we did it, 0:30:33.480 --> 0:30:37.200 when we did Maui, he was on stage crushing opening 0:30:37.480 --> 0:30:38.920 and there was, like I'll never forget, there was like 0:30:38.920 --> 0:30:40.600 a fight that broke out in the theater, like somebody 0:30:40.760 --> 0:30:42.960 was got thrown off the balcony. It was crazy. 0:30:43.160 --> 0:30:43.320 You know. 0:30:43.480 --> 0:30:46.959 I have had a few fights breakout in the audience 0:30:47.040 --> 0:30:49.840 during my shows, and I have I've gotten to a 0:30:49.880 --> 0:30:53.320 point my career where like I don't even care. I 0:30:53.320 --> 0:30:56.280 don't even want to acknowledge it. I'm like, whatever, I'll 0:30:56.280 --> 0:30:58.520 just keep talking to the people. 0:30:58.200 --> 0:31:00.800 That are in the front. Yeah, let's to deal with it. 0:31:01.040 --> 0:31:03.680 Yeah, but security is garbage for the most part at 0:31:03.720 --> 0:31:06.000 these venues. I was on stage at one time and 0:31:06.320 --> 0:31:09.480 somebody stormed me on the stage and no one ever 0:31:09.560 --> 0:31:10.160 stopped them. 0:31:10.360 --> 0:31:13.040 Yeah, they finally did. But luckily I don't think that 0:31:13.080 --> 0:31:14.800 person was coming the leg hurt you in any way. 0:31:14.960 --> 0:31:16.000 He's just a crazy person. 0:31:16.000 --> 0:31:18.479 But yeah, so will you negotiate with my agent? By 0:31:18.560 --> 0:31:21.280 the way, do you do you enjoy negotiating with Stacy? 0:31:21.520 --> 0:31:24.840 She she can be hugh. She can definitely be tough 0:31:24.840 --> 0:31:26.719 at times to make my life a little crazy, but 0:31:26.760 --> 0:31:27.840 we get along well. 0:31:28.000 --> 0:31:31.280 So is there actually any hostility toward her ever? 0:31:31.560 --> 0:31:33.959 No, I mean sometimes it gets it gets Uh. 0:31:34.200 --> 0:31:35.920 Do you have to tell her, hey, knock it off 0:31:36.800 --> 0:31:39.360 and let's just talk about me personally because you're allowed to. 0:31:39.880 --> 0:31:43.240 If she's like demanding this and you're like he's not 0:31:43.360 --> 0:31:45.400 worth are you yelling like he's not worth that? 0:31:45.680 --> 0:31:48.080 No? No, I don't. I don't think so. 0:31:48.000 --> 0:31:50.280 How do you haggle? How do you haggle her down? 0:31:50.520 --> 0:31:53.080 I just know it's it's just trying to state the 0:31:53.120 --> 0:31:55.720 facts of what I believe in. The risk involved and 0:31:55.760 --> 0:31:56.040 all that. 0:31:55.960 --> 0:31:58.080 Stuff is there is there a lot of risks with me. 0:32:00.840 --> 0:32:02.400 Putting up the expenses and all that. 0:32:02.440 --> 0:32:04.640 So I try to stay in my lane. No, totally 0:32:04.720 --> 0:32:08.000 in venues. I'm not trying to play things that I 0:32:08.040 --> 0:32:10.880 can't sell my you know people, I have said this before, 0:32:10.880 --> 0:32:15.400 but like, I try to stay in the fifteen hundred 0:32:15.920 --> 0:32:18.760 you know, maybe at the max forty five hundred seats. 0:32:19.040 --> 0:32:21.240 That's my sweet spot because I don't want to do 0:32:21.240 --> 0:32:24.360 a lot of promotion. That's really it. What's your favorite 0:32:24.400 --> 0:32:28.000 cities to work in? Well? I guess. 0:32:28.240 --> 0:32:31.080 Cities and theaters. I guess, but like I love Chicago. 0:32:31.360 --> 0:32:33.040 Chicago Theater is an amazing theater. 0:32:33.560 --> 0:32:35.680 It's too big, the ceilings are too high. 0:32:35.880 --> 0:32:36.520 I still like it. 0:32:36.640 --> 0:32:37.280 It is pretty. 0:32:37.760 --> 0:32:41.560 Seattle, the Paramount I like a lot, the Masonic, and 0:32:41.600 --> 0:32:44.720 San Francisco. I like the Bay Area. The Bay is great. 0:32:44.880 --> 0:32:46.440 The Ryman in Nashville is cool too. 0:32:46.800 --> 0:32:47.560 I love the Ryman. 0:32:47.680 --> 0:32:49.720 That's a good Yeah, that's a great theater. I mean, 0:32:49.880 --> 0:32:53.000 just the intimacy and it feels cool. Yeah, the Mother 0:32:53.120 --> 0:32:53.840 Church they call it. 0:32:53.920 --> 0:32:57.720 I mean these theaters are some of them. The older 0:32:57.720 --> 0:33:00.920 they are, the more beautiful they are, the more despicable 0:33:01.160 --> 0:33:05.880 backstage is and and anyone over six feet tall is 0:33:05.920 --> 0:33:09.400 going to have their head just blasted off over and over. 0:33:09.680 --> 0:33:13.000 I never care about these the like I don't go 0:33:13.040 --> 0:33:13.800 to sound check. 0:33:14.440 --> 0:33:17.560 I just but there are certain theaters that you had 0:33:17.560 --> 0:33:20.440 a did like Radio City mean anything that you know. No, 0:33:20.600 --> 0:33:23.440 so some people have like the bucket list of venue. 0:33:23.520 --> 0:33:26.800 No bucket list. Yeah, and also like whenever they want 0:33:26.800 --> 0:33:30.000 to like give me a tour of the theater, like 0:33:30.000 --> 0:33:32.480 oh we need to, We'll bring you back down to 0:33:32.600 --> 0:33:35.640 the basement and what's the Georgia one the Fox there Fox, Yeah, 0:33:35.720 --> 0:33:37.920 don't they They like they brag about having like the 0:33:37.920 --> 0:33:39.080 first air conditioner. 0:33:39.280 --> 0:33:41.720 They had an air conditioner before the White House. 0:33:41.720 --> 0:33:43.760 Right, But it's because it's in Georgia. We's hot. 0:33:44.080 --> 0:33:44.280 Right. 0:33:44.360 --> 0:33:46.960 What's the worst market in America to celtickets? 0:33:46.960 --> 0:33:49.680 And that's a tough question. I think it depends on 0:33:49.720 --> 0:33:52.400 who the artist is. And I'm always a proponent though, 0:33:52.440 --> 0:33:55.320 of the colder the venue or the colder of the market. 0:33:55.480 --> 0:33:57.720 That's when you should be there when it's freezing, like 0:33:57.880 --> 0:34:02.280 people like in you know, Duluth, Minnesota, only have x 0:34:02.320 --> 0:34:05.720 amount of like sunlight and nice weather. So I think 0:34:05.760 --> 0:34:08.040 something might sell better there in February than it would 0:34:08.080 --> 0:34:08.760 in August. 0:34:08.920 --> 0:34:14.160 You one of the greatest comics stand up performing Brian 0:34:14.200 --> 0:34:15.799 Reagan is a good friend of yours. 0:34:15.880 --> 0:34:16.520 Yeah, the best. 0:34:16.600 --> 0:34:19.000 You travel with him constantly. 0:34:19.239 --> 0:34:22.520 I used to do still work with him, but I 0:34:22.640 --> 0:34:23.880 used to be on the road constantly. 0:34:23.960 --> 0:34:28.360 Yeah, every venue for six six years. Yeah, sixty shows 0:34:28.360 --> 0:34:29.280 plus a year. 0:34:29.200 --> 0:34:31.320 Yeah, definitely more than sixty, probably seventy eighty. 0:34:31.480 --> 0:34:32.040 That's a lot. 0:34:32.160 --> 0:34:33.840 It was a lot, but it was I mean it 0:34:33.880 --> 0:34:37.160 was a great life experience and cool to travel all 0:34:37.200 --> 0:34:40.200 fifty see all fifty states Canada, and it was really 0:34:40.200 --> 0:34:41.960 cool to see all the venues because if you see 0:34:42.000 --> 0:34:43.920 the venues, then you kind of know, all right, this 0:34:43.960 --> 0:34:46.680 comedian might work here, this comedian might not work here. 0:34:46.840 --> 0:34:49.040 This venue is good for this reason, this venue is 0:34:49.040 --> 0:34:50.879 not good for this purpose, that sort of thing. 0:34:50.960 --> 0:34:52.640 Did Brian like like you as a person or no? 0:34:52.960 --> 0:34:55.120 I think so. I think you'll have to have him 0:34:55.120 --> 0:34:57.560 one next No, I don't have comics on that. 0:34:57.760 --> 0:35:00.799 Okay, all right, you were you were on the road 0:35:00.840 --> 0:35:04.240 with Brian Reagan and audio issues. 0:35:04.320 --> 0:35:06.840 Well, when you do as many shows as we've done there, 0:35:06.880 --> 0:35:08.560 you know every once in a while there's gonna be 0:35:08.600 --> 0:35:10.759 a faux power two. But yeah, I was doing a 0:35:10.760 --> 0:35:13.280 show with Brian and Fargo, North Dakota. 0:35:13.440 --> 0:35:15.360 Which a lot of people think is like like a 0:35:15.440 --> 0:35:19.000 tiny city, but it's the largest city in North Dakota. 0:35:19.080 --> 0:35:21.879 Agreed. I think it's completely underrated. It's a cool town. 0:35:22.040 --> 0:35:23.000 Yeah, I have no issue with it. 0:35:23.080 --> 0:35:26.640 Yeah, we're doing the show, sold out show and Dennis Reagan, 0:35:26.719 --> 0:35:29.480 his brother, is opening and Dennis goes on stage to 0:35:29.520 --> 0:35:31.600 start the show and he does a few lines, but 0:35:31.640 --> 0:35:33.799 then all of a sudden, the mic cuts out, So 0:35:33.880 --> 0:35:35.520 Dennis just immediately walks off. 0:35:35.400 --> 0:35:37.880 And Dennis got a little bit of an attitude. It 0:35:37.960 --> 0:35:39.480 probably wasn't thrilled, not. 0:35:39.560 --> 0:35:42.440 At all yet. Okay, So Dennis walks right off stage. 0:35:42.800 --> 0:35:44.920 So Brian's like, we need somebody to like go out 0:35:44.960 --> 0:35:47.200 there and just keep talking to make sure it works. 0:35:47.360 --> 0:35:49.759 You know, we can't have this happen again. So kind 0:35:49.760 --> 0:35:51.960 of like all eyes appeer on me. So I go 0:35:52.000 --> 0:35:53.879 out this is your big break. I go out there 0:35:53.960 --> 0:35:56.279 in front of all these people and I just say, 0:35:56.320 --> 0:35:58.360 all right, we're just gonna I'm gonna keep talking to 0:35:58.440 --> 0:36:00.520 make sure we can fix this. And I just start 0:36:00.560 --> 0:36:02.919 saying the alphabet and I get to maybe the letter 0:36:03.080 --> 0:36:04.759 like I don't know Q or P, and I just 0:36:04.960 --> 0:36:07.400 at that point got a little stage fright and freaked 0:36:07.400 --> 0:36:09.319 out and I just couldn't remember the alphabet at that point. 0:36:09.960 --> 0:36:11.920 And then everybody just starts cracking and then it just 0:36:11.960 --> 0:36:15.239 becomes like, you know, chaos a little bit, and I'm 0:36:15.280 --> 0:36:19.400 getting pretty flustered on stage. I don't even remember what 0:36:19.440 --> 0:36:21.160 I did, but it was pretty embarrassing. And then I 0:36:21.200 --> 0:36:24.160 get off and we fixed the issue. We get back 0:36:24.160 --> 0:36:26.920 out there and Brian jokes saying, thanks everybody for their 0:36:26.960 --> 0:36:30.480 patience and then thanked busting me for not knowing the alphabet. 0:36:31.920 --> 0:36:34.279 And then Brian got off stage, because Brian comes off 0:36:34.280 --> 0:36:37.440 then does an encore, And I said to Brian, I'm like, 0:36:37.600 --> 0:36:40.040 literally the only thing keeping the show going right now 0:36:40.160 --> 0:36:42.919 is this little fan here. So I'm like, go out 0:36:43.000 --> 0:36:45.080 and do your pop tarts bit as quick as possible. 0:36:45.160 --> 0:36:46.840 Let's get get the fuck out of here. You know, 0:36:49.320 --> 0:36:51.800 he's got a few bits that the encore in summer 0:36:51.880 --> 0:36:53.840 longer than the other. If you really do spelling bee, 0:36:54.160 --> 0:36:55.400 w'd be there seven minutes. 0:36:55.520 --> 0:36:56.440 Oh yeah, gotcha. 0:36:56.520 --> 0:36:58.239 So I'm just like, we got to get to get 0:36:58.280 --> 0:36:58.719 out of here. 0:36:58.880 --> 0:37:02.400 You were to Bill Cosby's first comeback show. After all 0:37:02.440 --> 0:37:04.040 the rape allegation is true or false? 0:37:04.320 --> 0:37:04.920 No? False? 0:37:06.640 --> 0:37:09.520 Would you have any interest in promoting a tour with 0:37:10.160 --> 0:37:14.400 Cosby and Hannibal Burst together? No? No calling it like 0:37:14.440 --> 0:37:19.040 both sides. Do you work outside of the US? 0:37:19.320 --> 0:37:22.239 Yes? I think that. You know, that's becoming more and 0:37:22.280 --> 0:37:25.600 more of a business now, you know, with Netflix and 0:37:25.880 --> 0:37:29.359 streaming platforms and comedy specials in general. It's just yeah, 0:37:29.600 --> 0:37:32.520 things are becoming just more universal now. 0:37:32.800 --> 0:37:34.520 No, it's so much you have to travel so much 0:37:34.560 --> 0:37:35.640 farther but you did. 0:37:35.640 --> 0:37:37.880 You did some shows Abraad, We did Australians. Yeah, but 0:37:37.880 --> 0:37:39.560 that was only so I could watch tennis. And there's 0:37:39.600 --> 0:37:41.239 a lot of people that do that. They build a 0:37:41.320 --> 0:37:42.960 vacation out of it. That's the way that that's the 0:37:43.000 --> 0:37:43.600 way to do it. 0:37:43.719 --> 0:37:48.080 No, I refuse to travel anywhere on my own dime. Right, 0:37:48.320 --> 0:37:49.320 do you take vacations? 0:37:49.400 --> 0:37:51.799 I do. I've been a lot better about it over 0:37:51.840 --> 0:37:52.640 the past few years. 0:37:52.680 --> 0:37:53.920 And you're taking some crazy trips. 0:37:53.960 --> 0:37:56.680 Yeah, like in December when the business kind of slows 0:37:56.719 --> 0:37:58.520 down a little bit, I kind of try to get 0:37:58.560 --> 0:38:00.520 away and do cool, cool shit it. I guess I 0:38:00.560 --> 0:38:01.759 did Patagonia one year. 0:38:02.400 --> 0:38:05.799 How did you do in Patagonia? Where you did? You 0:38:05.800 --> 0:38:06.560 do some big hikes? 0:38:06.680 --> 0:38:09.120 Yeah, huge hikes. Yeah, Toros del pay nationally. 0:38:08.800 --> 0:38:13.080 Because I mean Califax reminder that we walked a half 0:38:13.120 --> 0:38:17.040 a mile and he almost die. Yeah, much healthier. Now 0:38:17.160 --> 0:38:19.879 let's talk about COVID. There were no live shows. 0:38:20.320 --> 0:38:21.719 Yeah, it was pretty pretty Narl. 0:38:21.800 --> 0:38:24.160 Did you did you go, Oh my goodness, my career 0:38:24.280 --> 0:38:24.680 is over. 0:38:25.160 --> 0:38:26.520 I mean, I think we all knew we were going 0:38:26.560 --> 0:38:28.560 to come back, but we just didn't know when how. 0:38:28.520 --> 0:38:31.759 Much did Live Nation lose dollars that year. 0:38:31.840 --> 0:38:34.880 No idea, no idea billions, I have no idea, but 0:38:35.239 --> 0:38:37.879 like I mean, I think I think the company did 0:38:37.880 --> 0:38:40.239 an incredible job trying to take care of as many 0:38:40.280 --> 0:38:42.400 people as they could under the circumstance. 0:38:42.440 --> 0:38:45.000 Did you do like, what are those dumb like zoom 0:38:45.080 --> 0:38:46.040 stand up shows? 0:38:46.200 --> 0:38:48.600 Well, I did one of them. Actually, I booked a 0:38:48.719 --> 0:38:53.160 Zoom comedy show and I booked Tom Poppell on and uh, 0:38:53.200 --> 0:38:55.399 he actually did fairly. He did better than I thought 0:38:55.440 --> 0:38:57.239 it was going to be. But it was weird to 0:38:57.280 --> 0:38:59.640 just see people in the boxes just like laughing at 0:38:59.640 --> 0:39:01.640 this that he was doing from like his living room, 0:39:01.680 --> 0:39:04.359 you know. But we we did do some shows. I mean, 0:39:04.400 --> 0:39:07.800 we helped produce all the Chappelle shows in the Cornfields 0:39:07.840 --> 0:39:09.360 that he did in Ohio. 0:39:09.040 --> 0:39:14.680 And you and Chappelle drove not a tour bus, right 0:39:15.120 --> 0:39:15.920 in a minivan. 0:39:16.120 --> 0:39:18.640 It was one of his first shows back and. 0:39:18.960 --> 0:39:22.160 Back, meaning after he kind of quit kind of the 0:39:22.280 --> 0:39:24.840 entertainment business after Comedy Central show, et cetera. 0:39:25.080 --> 0:39:28.560 Yeah, some time went by and then he decided he 0:39:28.640 --> 0:39:32.200 wanted to play the Filmore in Detroit, very cool theater. 0:39:32.600 --> 0:39:34.160 I said, He's going to do that show, and then 0:39:34.200 --> 0:39:36.239 he was going to do three in Toronto. So I 0:39:36.280 --> 0:39:38.120 went to the show. Everything went great, and then I 0:39:38.200 --> 0:39:40.000 was like, all right, i'll see you tomorrow in Toronto. 0:39:40.160 --> 0:39:42.279 My flight gets in at like eleven am or whatever, 0:39:42.360 --> 0:39:45.160 you know, and he's like, whoa, I'm driving tonight. So 0:39:45.239 --> 0:39:47.640 I thought, you know, you're coming with me, and I'm like, 0:39:48.640 --> 0:39:51.040 this is kind of crazy. So at like one point 0:39:51.000 --> 0:39:53.200 thirty in the morning, two in the morning, we literally 0:39:53.200 --> 0:39:56.600 get into his minivan and he drives for it. 0:39:56.680 --> 0:39:58.040 Nice. Was it nice minivans? 0:39:58.120 --> 0:39:58.319 Yeah? 0:39:58.320 --> 0:40:00.239 It was all right, yeah, let me see he eats 0:40:00.239 --> 0:40:02.680 town and country, I think, so, yeah, Okay. 0:40:02.719 --> 0:40:06.360 Four and a half five hour drive to Toronto, but 0:40:06.520 --> 0:40:10.680 about that last hour it was really rough. We were 0:40:10.680 --> 0:40:13.640 both pretty exhausted. So once we got the Toronto, the 0:40:13.680 --> 0:40:18.240 shows great shows. Kind of the funny story that happened 0:40:18.320 --> 0:40:21.160 that in Toronto you're not allowed to smoke in the venues, 0:40:21.200 --> 0:40:24.680 and Dave smokes on stage, as many people know, and 0:40:24.719 --> 0:40:27.040 the venue was like, you can't smoke on stage. The guy, 0:40:27.280 --> 0:40:29.160 the general manager of the venue told me that, and 0:40:29.200 --> 0:40:31.319 I kind of was like, well, you have these sold 0:40:31.320 --> 0:40:33.439 out shows with Dave Schappelle's you's just got to deal 0:40:33.480 --> 0:40:35.920 with it, and he didn't like that too much and 0:40:36.480 --> 0:40:38.080 was like, no, I don't think you understand. It's like 0:40:38.160 --> 0:40:41.440 provincial wall here, like you know, the health the equivalent 0:40:41.480 --> 0:40:44.200 of the Health Department could come in, shut the show down, 0:40:44.400 --> 0:40:47.319 find you as the promoter. So I then realized the 0:40:47.320 --> 0:40:49.600 gravity of it all and we kind of explained the Dave, 0:40:49.680 --> 0:40:52.120 you really can't smoke on stage, like it's pretty serious. 0:40:52.280 --> 0:40:55.160 Then the next morning I get a phone call that 0:40:55.280 --> 0:40:58.920 David walked to the mayor's office asking why you couldn't 0:40:58.960 --> 0:40:59.920 smoke on stage? 0:41:00.040 --> 0:41:00.880 Did he get the mayor? 0:41:01.080 --> 0:41:03.279 He got the mayor, and the mayor was like, I'm 0:41:03.280 --> 0:41:06.759 glad you're here, but you cannot smoke on stage. So 0:41:06.800 --> 0:41:09.319 he didn't smoke on stage. Then the irony goes a 0:41:09.320 --> 0:41:13.120 few months later, sadly that mayor was the mayor that 0:41:13.880 --> 0:41:18.000 smoked some other things. He's a crackhead and he has 0:41:18.040 --> 0:41:19.439 since passed away, which is said, but. 0:41:19.640 --> 0:41:22.160 That part is sad, Yeah, But the part about the 0:41:22.200 --> 0:41:24.960 crackhead telling the guy you can't smoke. 0:41:24.719 --> 0:41:26.960 A cigarette, the irony there is pretty would have. 0:41:27.000 --> 0:41:28.640 Dave been allowed to smoke crack on stage? 0:41:28.920 --> 0:41:31.600 Probably? No, I think everything is off any version. 0:41:31.719 --> 0:41:34.960 Yeah, yeah, I always give my I guess something, but 0:41:35.040 --> 0:41:35.359 you don't. 0:41:35.360 --> 0:41:35.600 Really. 0:41:36.120 --> 0:41:40.000 Nothing in my house is something I think you would want. 0:41:40.040 --> 0:41:44.000 But I still have a few things. This I want 0:41:44.040 --> 0:41:46.880 you to have. This is this is unused. These are earbuds. 0:41:47.600 --> 0:41:50.920 They're they're made to Christy Smith. They have her name, 0:41:51.719 --> 0:41:55.960 the cheap motherfucker at Comedy Central that like took over 0:41:56.239 --> 0:41:59.520 after like he fires everybody and gets rid of every show. 0:42:00.200 --> 0:42:04.320 This was the parting gift he gave to Christy Smith 0:42:05.040 --> 0:42:09.239 for my show of thirteen years right, and he did. 0:42:09.360 --> 0:42:11.080 They didn't even give it to her. They sent it 0:42:11.080 --> 0:42:13.560 to me, and I've never given it to her. But 0:42:15.120 --> 0:42:17.719 I'm gonna so now you have some earbuds. Yeah, or 0:42:17.760 --> 0:42:19.880 maybe I'll go along to a Christie and you know, 0:42:20.040 --> 0:42:23.080 don't give it to her. It's neat that you have Christy. 0:42:23.320 --> 0:42:24.960 And then this is just an old photo of me 0:42:25.000 --> 0:42:26.480 as a kid with jay Z. 0:42:26.880 --> 0:42:30.759 As a hilarious that's this is hilarious. I just thought 0:42:30.800 --> 0:42:33.319 that'd be Nice'll go in my office. Yeah, I have 0:42:33.360 --> 0:42:35.360 an old picture like this of me and doctor j 0:42:35.520 --> 0:42:37.520 that I have to show you. Okay, I'm like up 0:42:37.560 --> 0:42:38.240 to his knee. 0:42:38.360 --> 0:42:40.880 I will happily put that on my desk, Give me, Dodger, 0:42:41.000 --> 0:42:43.279 get this off my desk. I don't want it's on 0:42:43.360 --> 0:42:47.319 my table. You toured with Bill Murray? Is he the 0:42:47.400 --> 0:42:48.680 coolest motherfucker alive? 0:42:48.880 --> 0:42:51.640 He's like. I was a little nervous at first, and 0:42:51.640 --> 0:42:54.799 then I'm like, this guy is literally the greatest personal nerve, 0:42:55.239 --> 0:42:57.520 Like he is right, it's just everything about it. It's 0:42:57.520 --> 0:42:59.920 like a unicorn, Like, it's just it was awesome. 0:43:00.120 --> 0:43:01.080 What was his show like? 0:43:01.360 --> 0:43:04.160 So the concept was I had heard that he was 0:43:04.200 --> 0:43:06.200 classical music, right, it was a bunch of stuff. I 0:43:06.640 --> 0:43:09.080 had heard that he was doing these shows and that's 0:43:09.120 --> 0:43:12.040 clinical music. And he doesn't have an agent or manager, 0:43:12.080 --> 0:43:12.319 which I. 0:43:12.360 --> 0:43:14.879 Really knows, like the landline that you call, you leave 0:43:14.920 --> 0:43:17.279 a message and if he's interested, he'll call you back. 0:43:17.360 --> 0:43:19.080 Yes, I'm like, all right, how am I gonna? Like? 0:43:19.440 --> 0:43:22.080 Who's doing this show that he's doing? So I found 0:43:22.120 --> 0:43:25.680 out he was tied the two classical musicians and the 0:43:25.800 --> 0:43:27.160 agent was out of Germany. 0:43:27.760 --> 0:43:28.719 So I called. 0:43:28.480 --> 0:43:32.480 Germany just one number, yeah and just explain my yeah exactly, 0:43:33.280 --> 0:43:36.439 and explain what I do and if there was any 0:43:36.480 --> 0:43:41.280 more shows available, and she was like, oh, the timing's amazing. 0:43:41.520 --> 0:43:44.960 Look we're having trouble finding venues in two cities, okay. 0:43:45.000 --> 0:43:47.000 And I thought she was going to say, like Topeka, 0:43:47.320 --> 0:43:49.239 and she's like, well, we can't find venues in San 0:43:49.280 --> 0:43:52.040 Francisco and Seattle. Oh my god. And I'm just like 0:43:52.080 --> 0:43:55.400 this is like this is so easy, this is unbelievable. 0:43:55.440 --> 0:43:58.320 Uh huh. So we booked the I booked the shows. 0:43:58.760 --> 0:44:03.960 It was a few classic, classically trained, incredibly talented classical musicians, 0:44:04.440 --> 0:44:09.080 so a combination of like classical music, storytelling, poetry, some singing. 0:44:09.160 --> 0:44:12.080 Bill has a great voice, so he did some contemporary 0:44:12.080 --> 0:44:15.200 songs covered like a Van Morrison song, John Prime song, 0:44:15.440 --> 0:44:18.920 just insane, just unbelievable, and like you see, like we 0:44:19.040 --> 0:44:21.480 deal with comedians all the time, but then you see 0:44:21.520 --> 0:44:24.480 like the talent of a classical musician, it's just mind boggling, 0:44:24.520 --> 0:44:27.160 you know, it's different a little bit, just a little bit. 0:44:27.880 --> 0:44:31.279 So I did one show with them in Seattle. I 0:44:31.320 --> 0:44:34.239 didn't even like was nervous, Like Bill had some friends there. 0:44:34.239 --> 0:44:36.000 I didn't even really talk to him that day. But 0:44:36.160 --> 0:44:39.560 then did one more show in San Francisco and everybody 0:44:39.600 --> 0:44:41.120 kind of like warmed up through each other and then 0:44:41.160 --> 0:44:43.680 we just became this like unit and they did about 0:44:44.040 --> 0:44:46.239 maybe twenty shows, and I did about fourteen of them, 0:44:46.560 --> 0:44:49.920 including London in Scotland. So yeah, the last time I 0:44:49.960 --> 0:44:53.880 saw him was in London. Great show. Then went to 0:44:54.400 --> 0:44:57.160 the Chiltern Firehouse was which is just this like epic, 0:44:57.360 --> 0:45:00.759 very famous bar that you kind of need to be 0:45:01.040 --> 0:45:04.120 asked there, invited in, and you just had a They 0:45:04.200 --> 0:45:06.400 did Bill just get to walk in? I mean we 0:45:06.440 --> 0:45:08.319 didn't have any trouble getting in. I mean maybe he 0:45:08.680 --> 0:45:10.839 maybe he gave the heads up or something, but they 0:45:11.000 --> 0:45:13.440 gladly let us in. But yeah, just a great night 0:45:13.480 --> 0:45:15.640 there and then kind of you put me in a 0:45:15.680 --> 0:45:18.279 taxi back to my hotel, thank me. And I haven't 0:45:18.280 --> 0:45:18.960 seen him since. 0:45:19.080 --> 0:45:20.080 Did he pay for the taxi? 0:45:20.560 --> 0:45:21.880 I don't think so, I paid for it. 0:45:21.960 --> 0:45:24.279 Do you hate some of these YouTube stars that can 0:45:24.280 --> 0:45:26.759 sell tickets? Are you getting to that age where you're like, 0:45:26.840 --> 0:45:31.080 oh shit, these younger performers. I have no interest in 0:45:31.120 --> 0:45:32.600 listening to them? Or do you? Are you like? No, 0:45:32.960 --> 0:45:34.400 it's good too? No, I like it. 0:45:34.440 --> 0:45:36.360 I like it too. I mean, if they can sell tickets, 0:45:36.360 --> 0:45:38.279 it's worth looking at. I mean there's a lot of 0:45:38.400 --> 0:45:41.920 artists that you might not have the like personally. 0:45:42.360 --> 0:45:45.439 When I was a kid, and he's like to see 0:45:45.440 --> 0:45:48.000 a stand up comic and a large venue. There's like 0:45:48.040 --> 0:45:51.200 two comedians and Steve Martin, I don't know somebody else, 0:45:51.640 --> 0:45:54.440 But now it just seems like there's so many comics 0:45:54.440 --> 0:45:57.600 that are at the level of performing in larger venues. 0:45:57.680 --> 0:45:57.880 Is that? 0:45:58.080 --> 0:45:58.680 Am I wrong? 0:45:59.200 --> 0:46:02.120 Totally right? Larger venues and just smaller venues. I mean 0:46:02.160 --> 0:46:04.720 there's the days of all right, you got to putting 0:46:04.719 --> 0:46:06.839 your time at the club and do that is kind 0:46:06.840 --> 0:46:08.359 of you know, I think I think there's a lot 0:46:08.400 --> 0:46:11.120 of artists where they might become big and then the 0:46:11.200 --> 0:46:14.520 fans might they just might want to see them in person. 0:46:14.560 --> 0:46:16.360 It might not even be about the material. They just 0:46:16.560 --> 0:46:18.080 want to have that moment with them. 0:46:18.440 --> 0:46:21.120 Huh. What other shows are they doing besides stand up? Well, 0:46:21.280 --> 0:46:22.200 what do they do live? 0:46:22.520 --> 0:46:25.880 Sometimes it's sometimes it's stand up. Sometimes it's like sketch 0:46:26.000 --> 0:46:28.839 or improv or where you know, or podcasts are going 0:46:28.880 --> 0:46:30.120 live now too, I mean that's. 0:46:30.239 --> 0:46:31.640 Do you promote live podcast? 0:46:31.719 --> 0:46:32.359 Absolutely? 0:46:32.440 --> 0:46:34.640 So it's just like you imagine how horrible this would be. 0:46:34.680 --> 0:46:36.000 There's an audience in front of us. 0:46:36.080 --> 0:46:39.879 Yeah, yeah, people would be paying to see me seeing you, 0:46:39.920 --> 0:46:41.080 But yeah, who's. 0:46:40.880 --> 0:46:44.799 The next big superstar, comedian, tough to say. I never 0:46:44.880 --> 0:46:48.440 can pick it. I like people tell me, like, who 0:46:48.520 --> 0:46:48.960 do you think? 0:46:49.080 --> 0:46:52.120 I'm like, are there any comics now that you like 0:46:52.160 --> 0:46:52.399 a lot? 0:46:52.480 --> 0:46:52.680 Though? 0:46:53.280 --> 0:46:56.040 Or I like them all? 0:46:56.200 --> 0:46:56.399 Yeah? 0:46:56.520 --> 0:46:58.840 I mean I can get into im. I'm I'm a 0:46:58.880 --> 0:47:01.960 big there's room forever everyone. But no, there's some great ones. 0:47:02.080 --> 0:47:04.640 I know Andrew Schulz's camp or big fans of yours 0:47:04.800 --> 0:47:08.240 and one of his openers, Mark Gagnon, very funny comic. 0:47:08.800 --> 0:47:11.600 He's from the Orlando area, so like you're like his 0:47:12.760 --> 0:47:16.279 you know, Orlando, Florida. Yeah, man, that wasn't that was? 0:47:16.320 --> 0:47:17.839 That was some tough sledding back then. 0:47:17.960 --> 0:47:20.279 Yeah, it is kind of weird that there's tons of 0:47:20.320 --> 0:47:23.279 comics from Florida, though, it's like it's just I don't know, 0:47:23.320 --> 0:47:25.879 it's just like an anomaly of just other like you know, 0:47:26.239 --> 0:47:27.440 Larry the Cable guy. 0:47:27.640 --> 0:47:30.240 I mean, Mitch Hegberg really started in West Palm too. Yeah, 0:47:30.320 --> 0:47:32.040 even though I know he's from Minia. 0:47:32.200 --> 0:47:34.080 Carra top always Scott. 0:47:34.320 --> 0:47:35.239 He love him. 0:47:35.239 --> 0:47:37.399 He makes me laugh so much. I think I told 0:47:37.440 --> 0:47:39.400 you this. I saw him once at the Vegas Airport 0:47:39.880 --> 0:47:41.560 and I'm like, oh, that can't be carrat top. 0:47:42.200 --> 0:47:43.759 What he had a hat on his head, carrat top 0:47:43.920 --> 0:47:45.359 with his shirt with an arrow pointing. 0:47:47.120 --> 0:47:49.279 I just like couldn't believe. I'm like this guy, like, 0:47:49.360 --> 0:47:52.160 why is he like he could clearly just private or whatever. 0:47:52.239 --> 0:47:55.600 And of course he's he's worth one hundred million easy. 0:47:56.280 --> 0:47:59.880 You know, his social media presence is is so sexual. 0:48:00.640 --> 0:48:02.680 I find that disturbed. He was. 0:48:02.840 --> 0:48:04.600 He was in one of your videos for a while, 0:48:05.000 --> 0:48:06.680 your intro videos on stage. 0:48:06.760 --> 0:48:09.040 Yeah, me and him doing this Selena Gomez. Yeah, that 0:48:09.160 --> 0:48:13.239 was pretty I was that was a second, but I 0:48:13.360 --> 0:48:17.040 was in character. I was pretending to be Selena. Now 0:48:17.640 --> 0:48:20.239 we can't talk about certain things, but there are a 0:48:20.280 --> 0:48:23.480 few performers that you've worked with in your life that 0:48:23.719 --> 0:48:26.879 when they and knock on wood that it's not anytime soon, 0:48:27.160 --> 0:48:30.279 but hopefully it's before this podcast stops. Me to think 0:48:30.640 --> 0:48:34.960 when they pass away, that you'll come back on and 0:48:35.520 --> 0:48:40.200 we'll have some discussions about them. Fair enough, Okay, that's 0:48:40.200 --> 0:48:42.840 good to know. People at home they can just guess like, 0:48:42.880 --> 0:48:48.120 oh my goodness, who could this positively be? All right, Well, Andy, 0:48:48.719 --> 0:48:50.960 I'll see you back on the road. Thank you very 0:48:51.040 --> 0:48:53.160 much for being on the show. Thanks for having me 0:48:53.200 --> 0:49:01.359 my pleasure, Pasha, and not about I want to thank 0:49:01.400 --> 0:49:06.120 Andy Levitt for being on the show Live Nation. They 0:49:06.160 --> 0:49:09.640 get things done, Carl. Do you enjoy Andy Levitt? He's 0:49:09.680 --> 0:49:12.319 a good man. Every time he sees you on the road, 0:49:12.320 --> 0:49:15.319 what does he do? Huh? He tossles your hair just 0:49:15.360 --> 0:49:18.839 a little bit, just like that. We like Andy. We 0:49:18.880 --> 0:49:24.239 appreciate what he does to make tour life way more enjoyable. 0:49:25.160 --> 0:49:27.680 Anything I want on the road, he gets it done. Hummus, 0:49:27.880 --> 0:49:31.480 it's in my green room, Celry. What you like carrots? 0:49:31.880 --> 0:49:32.080 Oh? 0:49:32.160 --> 0:49:37.279 You loved carrots. Speaking of food, I got a little 0:49:37.280 --> 0:49:39.719 egg on my face for this story. My wife bought 0:49:39.719 --> 0:49:44.879 a bag of hard boiled eggs for our daughter, thought 0:49:44.920 --> 0:49:47.400 maybe there'd be a quick little snack for her, and 0:49:47.640 --> 0:49:49.600 she didn't want to eat them. And I'm like, I 0:49:49.640 --> 0:49:53.640 love a hard boiled egg, you know, a little salt 0:49:53.880 --> 0:49:57.680 pop it in delicious? Right, Carl? Okay, but how many 0:49:57.719 --> 0:49:59.239 hard boiled eggs you really want to eat? 0:50:00.400 --> 0:50:00.839 I don't know. 0:50:01.080 --> 0:50:03.160 This is a big old bag of hard boiled eggs, 0:50:03.239 --> 0:50:08.440 and a bag of hard boiled eggs sounds disgusting. Kept 0:50:08.480 --> 0:50:11.200 snacking on them? Hey? You know, one week turns into 0:50:11.800 --> 0:50:14.719 a couple months and there's still a handful of hard 0:50:14.719 --> 0:50:17.279 boiled eggs left in there. And I keep looking at 0:50:17.280 --> 0:50:20.800 the expiration date every time and it says as like 0:50:20.920 --> 0:50:23.600 says mid May or something. I'm like, either a great, 0:50:23.640 --> 0:50:25.600 they're still good. Carly's like, what are you doing? You 0:50:25.600 --> 0:50:27.719 can't eat those? I like says mid May, it says 0:50:28.000 --> 0:50:33.839 expires or idem say expire said sell by mid May. Right, 0:50:33.960 --> 0:50:37.560 So I'm fine. The last hard boiled egg. After a 0:50:37.640 --> 0:50:40.240 dozen or so of these things over a three month period, 0:50:40.560 --> 0:50:45.520 I realize that it's yes, Uh, you know, they expire 0:50:45.600 --> 0:50:52.759 seven days after you open the bag. So whatever. I'll 0:50:52.800 --> 0:50:55.680 be honest with you, My stomach handled them every time 0:50:55.719 --> 0:51:01.560 I open it. The whole room would, but hey, what 0:51:01.600 --> 0:51:02.160 are you gonna do? 0:51:02.680 --> 0:51:02.879 Well? 0:51:03.800 --> 0:51:06.920 My stomach handled it. That's all that matters. The Goat 0:51:07.040 --> 0:51:11.200 premieres in two days. Guys. There'll be three episodes available, 0:51:11.280 --> 0:51:16.320 but currently you can see the very first pilot episode 0:51:16.360 --> 0:51:21.840 the first episode on YouTube. God, Amazon, you are confusing, whatever, 0:51:22.280 --> 0:51:25.960 don't forget to check out Boyswearpink dot Com, the hottest 0:51:26.040 --> 0:51:30.560 toddler line out there. My tour Come see Me and 0:51:30.640 --> 0:51:36.520 all the fun cities Louisville Detroit, Columbus. I don't know 0:51:36.520 --> 0:51:38.960 what we're gonna do in Columbus. I tell you what 0:51:39.000 --> 0:51:41.279 I'm gonna do. I'm gonna blow the roof off of 0:51:41.280 --> 0:51:48.279 that venue when I perform my jokes. Speaking of unwatchable, 0:51:48.600 --> 0:51:52.160 another one of my kids' bedtime stories. See you next week. 0:51:52.960 --> 0:51:58.600 When to pilot time. A deep deep out, a big 0:51:58.760 --> 0:52:05.600 big ty what some little little orion? But they what 0:52:05.880 --> 0:52:11.600 he did? Ham hot doss ham? He they what he 0:52:11.680 --> 0:52:17.359 didn't ham? But they said it? What what? Turkey meatballs? 0:52:17.760 --> 0:52:19.400 All right, well, hold, let me say so there's three 0:52:19.560 --> 0:52:22.800 there's three lions in a cave and they wanted ham. 0:52:23.480 --> 0:52:28.400 But their favorite thing is turkey meatballs, hammaidballs, Ham meatballs, 0:52:29.280 --> 0:52:29.960 turkey meatballs. 0:52:30.000 --> 0:52:33.320 Okay, go on, sorry, Okay, now we do another story. 0:52:33.680 --> 0:52:35.560 That's the end of the story. 0:52:35.800 --> 0:52:36.640 Another story. 0:52:36.880 --> 0:52:38.720 That story is garbage.