Speaker 1: My dad's mentality is if you don't get on stage,
Speaker 1: if you don't show up to work, all the stuff
Speaker 1: that could possibly make your life great just disappears. No
Speaker 1: matter what, you show up, get out there and grime
Speaker 1: the number one health and well In his.
Speaker 2: Podcast, Jay Seddy Jay Sheddy Z. Hey everyone, Welcome back
Speaker 2: to On Purpose. I'm your host, Jay Sheddy, and today
Speaker 2: I'm sitting down with one of the most entertaining and
Speaker 2: unstoppable forces in comedy, Burt Kreischer. From being named Rolling
Speaker 2: Stone's number one partier in the nation to becoming one
Speaker 2: of the highest grossing stand up comics, Bert has built
Speaker 2: an incredible career as a comedian, actor, podcaster, and entrepreneur,
Speaker 2: with six Netflix specials to his name. Bert's latest special, Lucky,
Speaker 2: was number three in the top ten most watch TV
Speaker 2: shows on Netflix. Bert continues to sell out arenas and
Speaker 2: is also the co host of Two Bears One K,
Speaker 2: one of the top comedy podcasts worldwide. Bert's energy, storytelling,
Speaker 2: and ability to connect with audiences is unmatched, and I
Speaker 2: can't wait for you to hear it. Welcome to On Purpose,
Speaker 2: Burt Kreischer. Bert, you know what's funny? What I still
Speaker 2: remember the flight we were on together and we sat
Speaker 2: down next to each other. And I'm going to sound
Speaker 2: like such a douche for saying this, but I have
Speaker 2: to say you were the nicest person in the world,
Speaker 2: and you were so kind and you were like I
Speaker 2: can't remember how you started the conversation. Maybe you can,
Speaker 2: but you were like, I really like your stuff, I
Speaker 2: love what you're doing. And I was the idiot who's
Speaker 2: living under a rock who was like, I think I
Speaker 2: know what you do. It's really cool, but I don't know.
Speaker 2: And I came back and I told my team, I
Speaker 2: was like, I sit next to Burt Kreischer, like you know,
Speaker 2: a texting. He's such a nice guy. He was so wonderful.
Speaker 2: And they were like, you met Burt Kreischer. They're like,
Speaker 2: he's amazing, he's funny. And I was like, I'm the
Speaker 2: idiot who doesn't know. And it was just one of
Speaker 2: those moments where like, you were so kind, you were
Speaker 2: so in and you were so sweet, and I was
Speaker 2: really touched by the interaction. I never in a million
Speaker 2: years thought the number one part here in the world
Speaker 2: and me would have something in common.
Speaker 1: So you've got a weird thing that like, usually only
Speaker 1: like Reese Witherspoon or or Jennifer Aniston get where you're
Speaker 1: strikingly attractive. So when I sat down next to you,
Speaker 1: I was like, who's the eyes are these? And then
Speaker 1: I was like, wait, I know him. I was like,
Speaker 1: oh shit, oh shit, this is Jay Shehtty. I've listened
Speaker 1: to so many of your interviews. You're so good, You're
Speaker 1: so good and so uh yeah. I was so excited.
Speaker 1: And then I get told by like my friends with
Speaker 1: a professional wrestler, Cody Rhodes, and he said, you know,
Speaker 1: when I met you, I've never seen more of a
Speaker 1: pro wrestler personality like you. You explain yourself with it
Speaker 1: a sentence and then and explain why you should like me.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, but it's yeah, I'm a talker on
Speaker 1: a plane.
Speaker 2: And you are so funny already. And I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: this guy's hilarious because you were like, you know what,
Speaker 2: like you, You're you're good, but I'm a pretty big
Speaker 2: deal too, you know, sound like me? It was, but
Speaker 2: it was it was endearing, like I want to put
Speaker 2: it out there like I'm not trying to overcompensate, but
Speaker 2: it wasn't arrogance. It was like I was laughing with you.
Speaker 2: It was just so you just broke the eyes and
Speaker 2: I was like, this guy's amazing.
Speaker 1: Texted such a I'm such a fan of yours. I
Speaker 1: really am.
Speaker 2: Well now I am too, So that's what I wanted
Speaker 2: to do on the show.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 2: When this opportunity came up, I was like, but it's
Speaker 2: the best. And then I got to watch the special too,
Speaker 2: and I was just like, I really wanted to get
Speaker 2: inside your mind. I was like, I really want to know,
Speaker 2: you know, the person behind the amazing success that you've had,
Speaker 2: and and the and the wonderful, endearing person you sit
Speaker 2: next on the plane. I was gonna ask you probably
Speaker 2: had some crazy plain stories. Oh no, no, what's what's
Speaker 2: the craziest plane story you've ever had? Seeing as that's where.
Speaker 1: We met, I got I got a good one, all right.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say real names too. I sat next to
Speaker 1: a woman first class when I was just married with
Speaker 1: kids like I had Isla and George, but they were
Speaker 1: still really young. And the woman was coming back from Tibet,
Speaker 1: and she was like, had the beads on and Hannah
Speaker 1: all over hot, attractive, probably a little older than me,
Speaker 1: maybe i'd say forty three. I was thirty maybe six
Speaker 1: at the time. And we start having drinks and we're
Speaker 1: talking and then she says, uh, what are you doing
Speaker 1: when you land in LA I said, I'm going home.
Speaker 1: She goes, don't come to my place. Let's have sex.
Speaker 1: I said what. She goes, Uh, I've been amount of divorce.
Speaker 1: That's why I went over to to bet. I'm a
Speaker 1: little lost, but I'm just looking to get and I
Speaker 1: went okay. I said, listen, I'm married, and so you
Speaker 1: got the wrong guy. I go, but I got the
Speaker 1: right guy for you. She said really, And I said
Speaker 1: trust me. Can you just trust me? So we land
Speaker 1: and I call Mike Young. He's a real name. I go, Mike,
Speaker 1: and you want sex tonight? And he was like with you.
Speaker 1: I go, no, I got a beautiful woman forty three
Speaker 1: years old, and he goes, yeah, give her my number.
Speaker 1: She gives her to the mother. They meet at the
Speaker 1: comedy store, they go back to her place, they have sex.
Speaker 1: They've never talked again, and I was like, boom man,
Speaker 1: slam dunk. I got great ones. I said next to
Speaker 1: Rick Flair one time, and we both drank identically we
Speaker 1: both ordered drinks for our wives and ourselves and then
Speaker 1: drank our our wives drinks and then drank our drinks
Speaker 1: and I was like, ooh, Rick Flair and I drink alike.
Speaker 1: I had a girl walk me into my room. And
Speaker 1: so the other night she was like, hey, when it
Speaker 1: come to your room. I was like, and I got
Speaker 1: her to the door and I said, listen. I was
Speaker 1: really drunk. I go listen. It's very sweet of you,
Speaker 1: but I'm I'm married and I'm happily married and I
Speaker 1: don't cheat on my wife. And she had this weird
Speaker 1: look on her face. And I woke up. The next
Speaker 1: time I called my wife, I told her, I go,
Speaker 1: I just I'm such a great guy. And then there
Speaker 1: was a note under my door and it was like, bert,
Speaker 1: I wasn't trying to have sex with you. You were too drunk.
Speaker 1: You couldn't remember what room you were in, and you
Speaker 1: didn't have a key. I just wanted to make sure
Speaker 1: you got home safe. I was like, oh, I shut
Speaker 1: down a good Samaritan.
Speaker 2: How does your wife react to stories like that?
Speaker 1: I've been doing that our whole marriage. Our marriage is
Speaker 1: based on fun and laughter. I mean, for real, it
Speaker 1: is probably the funnest. It's by far, it's the funnest
Speaker 1: relationship I have in my life. We joke NonStop. We're
Speaker 1: in a couple's therapy right now, and as we walk out,
Speaker 1: I decide who won or who lost. Like it's just
Speaker 1: a blast. And I've been doing that ever since, ever
Speaker 1: since we were a young married couple. I'd text her,
Speaker 1: I go, just do you know I'm getting jocked, And
Speaker 1: then I sat a picture in the end it's like
Speaker 1: she's got a lazy eye and I'm like, oh man, yeah.
Speaker 2: And she gives it back to you too, Oh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah. Her and my daughters are just bullies,
Speaker 1: like bullies, like they've never they called they call me
Speaker 1: baby Walrus. They've they've never They bust my balls harder
Speaker 1: than anyone I've ever met other than my two sisters.
Speaker 1: The women in my life run my life.
Speaker 2: Isn't that the best? Like my wife, we just did
Speaker 2: this video and it was planned by my team, but
Speaker 2: we did this video where my wife rated my looks
Speaker 2: on the red carpet. For the last seven years or
Speaker 2: however long, it's been great, And oh dude, I've got
Speaker 2: some embarrassing red carpet looks. And my wife does not
Speaker 2: hold back in this video. She just goes for it.
Speaker 2: And she's got so much banter and she's got so
Speaker 2: much sass, and it's like all the comments are like
Speaker 2: she's a savage. I'm like, yeah, you think she looks
Speaker 2: cute and all this stuff that this woman can like
Speaker 2: go in and it's and I can, I mean, I can,
Speaker 2: I can attest to the fact that those are terrible looks.
Speaker 1: Oh, Baby Walrus started our chat thread Baby Walris, and
Speaker 1: it was pictures where they thought I was cute, and
Speaker 1: it's like the worst pictures ever. And it's like one
Speaker 1: of them is me on a surfboard covered in in
Speaker 1: like in sunscreen, and I just am sitting crisscross apple
Speaker 1: sauce on a on a surfboard and I look fat
Speaker 1: and I got a hoodie on. It's so bad. But
Speaker 1: it's them sending pictures where they think I look cute
Speaker 1: but I look like an idiot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and so are they're paying you they think you
Speaker 2: look cute.
Speaker 1: I mean, the picture on Baby Walris is horrible.
Speaker 2: Let's see, we're gonna have to get this with the
Speaker 2: ideot as well as everyone on you.
Speaker 1: It's the one of me on the surfboard. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and they're all just pictures of me looking horrible.
Speaker 2: Oh god, there was We'll get back to the family
Speaker 2: in a second. But I wanted to you. Were you
Speaker 2: always the class clown? Was this always natural for you?
Speaker 2: Were you the guy who could make everyone laugh and
Speaker 2: get attention? Was that who you were?
Speaker 1: No? I was like, dare I say, like painfully serious?
Speaker 1: Like I mean, I always was funny, but I didn't know.
Speaker 1: I thought what I was doing was cool, and when
Speaker 1: from the outside looking in, it was and it was funny,
Speaker 1: So I didn't realize that I was being funny. I
Speaker 1: think a lot of comics have this, Like I told you,
Speaker 1: just told the story in therapy the other day. When
Speaker 1: I was in first grade, I played second base. I'm
Speaker 1: really into baseball. I was really into baseball growing up.
Speaker 1: I played second base. Flyball to me, Basis loaded flyball
Speaker 1: to me. I catch it, and then I spike it,
Speaker 1: and I take my shirt off and I start dancing.
Speaker 1: Now my dad was livid. He was like, what is
Speaker 1: wrong with you? And but everyone laughed, and I thought
Speaker 1: what I was doing was cool and that people were
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, but they just see this six year
Speaker 1: old seven year old dancing shirtless in second base. And
Speaker 1: so my whole life, I think I was always trying
Speaker 1: to be serious. I dressed up his kiss for the
Speaker 1: talent show. I'm dead serious, like you're gonna watch me
Speaker 1: like kill it out here. And I remember being in
Speaker 1: the thing. I had a guitar, car didn't have strings.
Speaker 1: I was going to air guitar and the kid looks
Speaker 1: at me and he goes. The kid next to me
Speaker 1: had a violin and he goes, you play the guitar
Speaker 1: and I said no. He goes, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: I said, just rock out. He was like, You're just
Speaker 1: gonna go up there and dance, and I was like
Speaker 1: And when he said it, I was like, this sounds silly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And then I just went out and just air guitared
Speaker 1: and danced in my mom's tights, no shirt, her belts
Speaker 1: around my chest, white face paint, but that me and
Speaker 1: Brian Callahan put on. So yeah, I think, and I
Speaker 1: think I was that way all the way through high school.
Speaker 1: I don't think I was very funny in high school,
Speaker 1: although I was. I learned how to tell a story
Speaker 1: in high school. It wasn't until I gave up sports
Speaker 1: in college that people started saying, I was funny.
Speaker 2: What made you learn how to tell a story? In
Speaker 2: high school?
Speaker 1: Going to an all boys Catholic high school, it was
Speaker 1: the best. It was the best, man, I'm saying, the best.
Speaker 1: Your currency was could you hold a table? Wasn't chicks,
Speaker 1: wasn't did you look good? Could you hold a table?
Speaker 1: And so for lunch you'd have a table your boys
Speaker 1: twelve and I would practice my story. Coming from religion
Speaker 1: to the table. I'd be like, all right, so we
Speaker 1: did a beer run right, and I'm driving, came in,
Speaker 1: comes in, he dives in, a dog, grabs his leg.
Speaker 1: I take off. That's when I'm practicing the story. And
Speaker 1: then I get there and they'd be like, hey, tell
Speaker 1: us about the fight. And I'd be like, okay, got
Speaker 1: a pivot. Here we go. And I remember the first
Speaker 1: time I set a line that like worked well, I said, dude,
Speaker 1: he got knocked out. I mean this punch started in
Speaker 1: Miami and ended in Washington State, and they were like, oh,
Speaker 1: like it was just it was like storytelling was our thing.
Speaker 1: And if you could tell a good story, like beach week,
Speaker 1: you came up to the room. Everyone wanted to know
Speaker 1: if you hooked up with that check and you had
Speaker 1: to have a story about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1: I remember one guy came up, older kid and he
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, I didn't have a condumn, so he
Speaker 1: used a plastic bag and we're like, what, like just
Speaker 1: wild stories. And then when I got to Florida State,
Speaker 1: that's when I started realizing I was funny.
Speaker 2: Old boys school too. But what I realized was that
Speaker 2: a lot of the guys had imaginary girlfriends, so a
Speaker 2: lot of the stories were just.
Speaker 1: Made out Jesus.
Speaker 2: And when you'd figure out that Felicity wasn't real because
Speaker 2: I was an American girl's name off a TV show
Speaker 2: and not a girl's name in England, like it never
Speaker 2: there's no one I've ever met in England called Felicity.
Speaker 2: And then one of our guys was danying a girl
Speaker 2: called Felicity, like he's been watching too much American pie.
Speaker 2: Like that's like, dude, no feeling. We'd get.
Speaker 1: Girls were a perfect example. I was so painfully serious
Speaker 1: about losing my virginity. I mean, I was dialed in.
Speaker 1: It was my only focus. And then when I did,
Speaker 1: it was such a tragedy that that story became I
Speaker 1: remember sitting down and they're like, bro, tell the story.
Speaker 1: And all of a sudden there's like three deep and
Speaker 1: the story I've told it on may not this may
Speaker 1: not be the right setting for it, but I'll just
Speaker 1: say it was fast and I did it wrong. And
Speaker 1: I mean and there were like dudes standing three people
Speaker 1: deep to hear the story. And then you know, we
Speaker 1: had two lunches. So the next people come in that
Speaker 1: was Ty Rodriguez, like tell it again, and I mean
Speaker 1: everything was like a tragedy, like a comedy of tragedies
Speaker 1: for me.
Speaker 2: And you've never reconnected back with this peasants.
Speaker 1: The woman yeah, yeah, you know, yeah, I know her
Speaker 1: very well. That's Tampa though I know her, I know
Speaker 1: her brother, her dad just recently passed. Her dad was
Speaker 1: a legend. Her dad was a legend. I got to
Speaker 1: say this, and you know, she cheated on me prompt
Speaker 1: with my best friend and we had to go spend
Speaker 1: the night at her house. Now I'm like, I'm a
Speaker 1: really sensitive guy, and I was so humiliated that instead
Speaker 1: of going back into the house where they dropped us off,
Speaker 1: I went out into her car and I said, I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna sit in her car this is. We didn't
Speaker 1: have a car to get home. I didn't have anybody
Speaker 1: to get home. So I sat in her car. I said,
Speaker 1: you know what, screw it. I'm I'm gonna sleep out
Speaker 1: in this car. And I laid in the backseat of
Speaker 1: her car and her dad just comes out knocks on
Speaker 1: the window. He's like boxers or whatever, and he's like, buddy,
Speaker 1: this isn't how it's done. I was like what. He goes,
Speaker 1: I know you're hurting right now. Come in the house.
Speaker 1: Trust me. I'll make it comfortable. I said, I they
Speaker 1: know I've been out here, and he goes, oh, we
Speaker 1: all know you've been out here. He goes, just walk
Speaker 1: in the house and sleep inside tonight. I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: you five minutes. So we went in. I waited five
Speaker 1: minutes and I walked in the house and very slick.
Speaker 1: Her dad was like, it was like, Bert, well, can
Speaker 1: I get you to drink? Would you like a beer?
Speaker 1: And I'm seventeen and I was like, oh, I would
Speaker 1: love a beer. And he's like, great, come on, we'll
Speaker 1: go sit outside, and just made it very smooth. But
Speaker 1: I still know her.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's ever. Yeah, that's ever. I remember breaking up
Speaker 2: with the girl, and I was just upset that her
Speaker 2: father used to have Manchester United season tickets and he
Speaker 2: still always take me along. I remember when I broke
Speaker 2: up with it, it was like harder breaking up with
Speaker 2: her dad than it was with her because we were
Speaker 2: like having this bromance moment of like supporting the same team.
Speaker 2: And it's just when I think back to times like that,
Speaker 2: think about how like those moments felt so big then
Speaker 2: and now when you look back you laugh at them, right,
Speaker 2: Like it's at that moment that humiliation. Was that like
Speaker 2: the biggest humiliation you'd had at that point in your life.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah, And I've had bigger, I've
Speaker 1: had bigger, but yeah, that was like that was tough
Speaker 1: because I thought I was cool, you know. And I
Speaker 1: think that's a little bit where my comedy is. I
Speaker 1: always come out the fool a little bit, you know.
Speaker 1: I'm always getting myself into something bigger than me, and
Speaker 1: I always think I'm doing the cool thing or the
Speaker 1: smart thing, and I always screw it up.
Speaker 2: I read that your dad was an interesting figure for
Speaker 2: you growing up, and he had like a certain take
Speaker 2: on life of like men don't cry, boys don't cry.
Speaker 2: They don't show emotions. Yeah, is that true?
Speaker 1: That?
Speaker 2: What's that like? Because I think we hear about it
Speaker 2: now and it sounds like almost like a character because
Speaker 2: of where society's kind of moved into now. It's like,
Speaker 2: but that was very real.
Speaker 1: Oh, very real. My dad. My dad's a great dad.
Speaker 1: I love my dad. But he just was like, hey,
Speaker 1: you don't cry. I was eleven years old. I was
Speaker 1: playing catcher and I got hit in the mouth of
Speaker 1: the baseball bat and I lost like twenty sixteeth and
Speaker 1: my dad came over and he's like, Okay, don't worry.
Speaker 1: It was my birthday, by the way, and I was like,
Speaker 1: he's like, don't worry, You're okay. Mom's gonna take you
Speaker 1: to the dentist. I need you to go to shortstop.
Speaker 1: I was like what. He goes, You're not dying, and
Speaker 1: if I sub you out of the game, we forfeit
Speaker 1: the game. So finish out the ending a shortstop. And
Speaker 1: I remember being like, what, I've been injured, and he goes, yeah,
Speaker 1: go finish shortstop and they hit a ground ball to
Speaker 1: me at shortstop. I caught it through it at first.
Speaker 1: My dad goes, I'm really proud of you go to
Speaker 1: the dentist. But my dad just he just didn't. It
Speaker 1: was not he didn't hit us, you know, but like
Speaker 1: he just was, like I remember his when I got
Speaker 1: into comedy, he told me really clearly, buddy, eat shit
Speaker 1: cash checks. That's how the world works. Eat shit cash checks.
Speaker 1: His dad was in World War Two. He stormed like
Speaker 1: Omaha Beach or Normandy, and his dad never talked about
Speaker 1: the war, sat in the garage, watched Mets games, listen
Speaker 1: to Met games, and drank beer. And so my my
Speaker 1: dad lost his dad at thirteen. So I think my
Speaker 1: dad was just doing the best he could. But yeah,
Speaker 1: he told me. I mean, I mean, I remember, I
Speaker 1: remember it like an older I remember getting anxiety attacks.
Speaker 1: This is how flat my dad was. One day, I'm
Speaker 1: laying in bed. It's like after after David Letterman, and
Speaker 1: I'm laying in bed. I had to be ten years old,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, I have this very crisp
Speaker 1: realization that death is real. And I went, hold on,
Speaker 1: I go, one day, you're gonna tell me my dad's
Speaker 1: gonna die. And I went, oh my god. I started
Speaker 1: having a real panic attack. And I went into his
Speaker 1: room and I woke him up. My dad doesn't wake easily.
Speaker 1: He's like, if you wake my dad, he's like cold on,
Speaker 1: you know. And so I scared me. I woke him
Speaker 1: up and I was like, Dad, are you going to die?
Speaker 1: And he goes what I said, are you're going to die?
Speaker 1: And he goes, yeah, you are too, go back to bed.
Speaker 1: And then I went, wait, I'm gonna die. I didn't
Speaker 1: think I got it. I knew you would die, but
Speaker 1: not me. And that was my dad. I had kids
Speaker 1: with panic disorder, and I was so not my dad
Speaker 1: with them. I was so like, yo, I got you,
Speaker 1: You're gonna be fine, Like but yeah, my dad just
Speaker 1: he was just trying to do the best he could.
Speaker 1: Uh stuck into a house that he couldn't really afford
Speaker 1: to make an ends meet. He's got three kids, didn't
Speaker 1: expect the third one. He's a lawyer. I don't think
Speaker 1: he ever wanted to be a lawyer. I mean i'd
Speaker 1: say that, I don't know what he'd say, but I
Speaker 1: wouldn't say he loves his job, but it's his job
Speaker 1: and he does it. But that was his do not cry,
Speaker 1: do not cry. And when now I got older and
Speaker 1: we got into a something and he saw me, like,
Speaker 1: well up, He'd be like, oh, you better enough cry
Speaker 1: and I'd be like, cry, now you might explain why
Speaker 1: I cried so much as adult.
Speaker 2: Now he just held you back.
Speaker 1: I tried my whole life. And then I remember the
Speaker 1: first time seeing him cry. It was when I graduated
Speaker 1: Florida State and they didn't let me graduate. Two teachers
Speaker 1: failed me because I was written up in Rolling Stone
Speaker 1: magazine and they were they thought I embarrassed the school,
Speaker 1: so they failed me. And I had to drive up
Speaker 1: to Tallahassee and they told me the ministry just go
Speaker 1: talk to the teachers. And I went to drive up
Speaker 1: to Tallahassee and my dad walked me out to the car.
Speaker 1: Was like six in the morning and I was getting
Speaker 1: in the car to drive Tallahassee and he started crying.
Speaker 1: And I'd never seen him cry, and I was like,
Speaker 1: what is this? And he was just and he's like
Speaker 1: when someone shook your kid Like I was like, I
Speaker 1: got I drove in silence, no music, just in the dark.
Speaker 1: Just what did I just witness?
Speaker 2: Did you ever talk to him about that?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Still too this day.
Speaker 1: Nah. My dad's an interesting guy. He's changed a lot
Speaker 1: the older he's gotten, he's way more sensitive than he
Speaker 1: was when I was a kid. Joey Diaz gave him
Speaker 1: marijuana one time on accident. He gave him like a
Speaker 1: handful of marijuana popcorn. Is the first time my dad
Speaker 1: had a brad in marijuana. Eastern morning, kids are searching
Speaker 1: for eggs. My daddy's a handful of popcorn. I go, buddy,
Speaker 1: that's weed. And he goes, what, there's popcorn. I go, no,
Speaker 1: that there's weed in the popcorn. He goes, how do
Speaker 1: they put weed in the popcorn? I go, Dad, it's
Speaker 1: called an edible and you just ate a lot of it.
Speaker 1: And so he goes, well, what do I do? And
Speaker 1: I said, I grabbed a handful, and I said, I'll
Speaker 1: go with you. We're gonna both eat weed, and we
Speaker 1: both ate weed. We did a podcast that day and
Speaker 1: then everyone leaves and it's me and my dad high
Speaker 1: as crap, drinking whiskey at like five in the afternoon,
Speaker 1: smoking a cigar, really high, and I leaned over to him,
Speaker 1: I go, why don't you like me? Oh, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get emotional, and he just goes, He's like, I love
Speaker 1: you. You just make me uncomfortable. He was like, I love
Speaker 1: you and I'm afraid you're gonna die. And so I
Speaker 1: don't know what that does, but I'm afraid you're gonna die.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna die. And he goes, you don't know that.
Speaker 1: He goes, I lost my dad when I was young.
Speaker 1: I'm terrified to lose you. And I don't understand you.
Speaker 1: I don't understand your lifestyle. And I said, well, how
Speaker 1: can we fix this? And he goes, I want to
Speaker 1: get you a cardiologist and I said okay, and he goes,
Speaker 1: you do that. I go, I want you to feel
Speaker 1: more comfortable with me. And he was like, I can
Speaker 1: get you a cardiologist. I can do all the tests.
Speaker 1: I can pick all the tests they do. And I
Speaker 1: said yeah, and he goes, okay, a cardiologist Monday morning
Speaker 1: for me, doctor Dan. And they did the CT scan,
Speaker 1: they did the stress test, they did all the tests
Speaker 1: my dad wanted, and everything came back clean. And my
Speaker 1: dad's like, now you'll go to him every six months
Speaker 1: and I said yeah. And I want to say, from
Speaker 1: that day on, our relationship has gotten so much smoother.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've forgiven him for stuff that he's did
Speaker 1: and we're just a lot, a lot closer now.
Speaker 2: It's incredible, isn't it. Like my parent's trying to hold
Speaker 2: us back from seeing their pain, but actually seeing their
Speaker 2: pain is the only thing that kind of penetrates to
Speaker 2: make you go, oh, wait, they're a human too.
Speaker 1: Oh. I found out my dad was human when I
Speaker 1: was twenty one years old. And I remember finding that
Speaker 1: out and I didn't understand it. My parents split up,
Speaker 1: and I was so mad at my dad. I didn't
Speaker 1: even want to talk to him. I did. I just
Speaker 1: I always wanted nothing to do with him. And my
Speaker 1: uncle Jerry called me and he goes, uh, when was
Speaker 1: the last time we talked to your dad? And I said,
Speaker 1: it's been a while, and he goes, well, that shit's over.
Speaker 1: He goes, you call him today, he's your dad. No, no, Jerry,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm mad at him, and he goes, yeah, you
Speaker 1: just found out your dad's a human. Okay, your dad's
Speaker 1: a human. He's a regular man, he's not some superhero.
Speaker 1: So you call him and look, you don't have to
Speaker 1: say I love you. Just call him, see how he's doing,
Speaker 1: and just touch base. I didn't, and and and then
Speaker 1: that was a period you know that was a growing
Speaker 1: period of that. But uh, yeah, he's a he's a
Speaker 1: pretty he's a pretty great dude. I'll just say this.
Speaker 1: You know a lot of people will be at his funeral.
Speaker 1: That's like the testament for like a great man. It'll
Speaker 1: be yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he means so much to you.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I think everyone's dad does, don't they. I mean,
Speaker 1: for all our differences, and we have a ton a
Speaker 1: ton if you met me and met him, you would
Speaker 1: not know we were related. He's pretty quiet, does not
Speaker 1: want to get on stage, and sincerely doesn't want you
Speaker 1: to get on stage. I mean, he just saw me
Speaker 1: do stand up for the first time. No at the Emily.
Speaker 1: Yeah no, after all these years, all these years, I
Speaker 1: did the Emily, which is the Arena and Tampa, and
Speaker 1: I said, Yo, if you're gonna you should come and
Speaker 1: see me here. I understand like comedy clubs, but you
Speaker 1: should come to the Arena. It's a big deal. Dad.
Speaker 1: And he got there and I don't think he realized
Speaker 1: what was happening for real, Like he knew I was
Speaker 1: doing a show there, but he called me and he goes,
Speaker 1: Wade Boggs is here. Wade Bogs like our hero playing
Speaker 1: baseball growing up. I said, yeah, I know. I put
Speaker 1: him in your box and he goes, no, budd, he's here.
Speaker 1: Do you think he knows you? And I said, daddy's
Speaker 1: at my show. He goes, Mine, I just saw Mike
Speaker 1: Austott football player. I go, yeah, He goes, do these
Speaker 1: people know you? I said, Dad, I'm the reason they're here.
Speaker 1: And then he came backstage and Derek Brooks, who's a
Speaker 1: legend played at Florida State, played it at at the Box,
Speaker 1: is backstage talking to my dad, and my dad's staring
Speaker 1: at Derek Brooks going, and he goes, and Derek goes,
Speaker 1: can you believe how far birds come? He's doing the
Speaker 1: amily and I he goes, I was his first show
Speaker 1: at Pop Belly's. And Derek Brooks leaves. My dad goes, Buddy,
Speaker 1: Derek Brooks knows who you are. I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, Dad, we just spent time with him. He
Speaker 1: knows who you are too now. But yeah, my dad
Speaker 1: just he just that was the first time he told
Speaker 1: me to tell me to stand up.
Speaker 2: What did he say?
Speaker 1: I got to be honest with you. I think it
Speaker 1: makes him uncomfortable, like I think he kind of half
Speaker 1: looks and half like, I don't think he I don't
Speaker 1: think he laughs a lot at it. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean he says, he goes, you're good, but I
Speaker 1: make him uncomfortable. I had a great Shack joke that
Speaker 1: Shack wanted me to put in a special. It's dare
Speaker 1: I say, borderline racist, But Shack and I talked. It
Speaker 1: made us laugh, and Shack's like, you got to put
Speaker 1: that in a special. And my dad's like, that does
Speaker 1: not go in the special. And I was like, dad,
Speaker 1: Shack says, it's okay, and he goes, I don't give
Speaker 1: a shit. I am not comfortable with that joke, so
Speaker 1: I took it out. Shack's like, you took it out
Speaker 1: because your dad? Yeah, what I got a better shock
Speaker 1: joke now?
Speaker 2: Okay, oh yeah, what's the best Jack Joe?
Speaker 1: I can't do it is I don't think your audience
Speaker 1: wants to hear it. Go see me on the psion
Speaker 1: A Party World Tour in September. There we go, that's
Speaker 1: pretty aggressive. Oh all right, that's fun.
Speaker 2: That's fine. People going to look forward to seeing that.
Speaker 2: But when you know what I'm hearing about your relationship
Speaker 2: with your dad, I think it's so interesting where we
Speaker 2: just talked about that unlock of you figure out your
Speaker 2: parents are human, and you also get context of their humanity,
Speaker 2: Like you were saying, his dad died when he was
Speaker 2: thirteen years old, and he saw that and then he
Speaker 2: was scared of losing you. Like I remember, my dad
Speaker 2: took me to his the home he grew up in
Speaker 2: in India, and his home was the size of this room.
Speaker 2: His home. So the kitchen's in a corner, there's by
Speaker 2: the way, there's five kids that grew up in this house.
Speaker 2: There's a bed over here. We get there. Outside there's bats,
Speaker 2: cockroaches and rats everywhere because he grew up in like
Speaker 2: slum like area. Disgusting. I'm nine years old when I
Speaker 2: first go, and then they shared a toilet with like
Speaker 2: twenty thirty families. And I remember going there at nine
Speaker 2: years old, and my whole perspective of my dad completely
Speaker 2: changed because all of a sudden, I had like a
Speaker 2: reference point. Now, my life wasn't luxury in London by
Speaker 2: any means, but it wasn't that. And when you see
Speaker 2: like bats and rats and cockroaches at nine years old,
Speaker 2: which like freak you out and you think that's how
Speaker 2: your dad just walked to the toilet, walked back to
Speaker 2: his house. He was the youngest of five kids, and
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, you just get like a completely
Speaker 2: different perspective on the man you're looking at. And it
Speaker 2: sounds like you had that moment as well. And I
Speaker 2: guess my question is it sounds like it's not something
Speaker 2: you had to reconcile through a conversation, Like it's not
Speaker 2: like you've sat there and therapized it out or fixed it.
Speaker 2: But there's a resolution that's almost happened between both of
Speaker 2: you where he can come and watch you on stage
Speaker 2: even when he hasn't for all these years. Like would
Speaker 2: you say there's been healing and you said this forgiveness
Speaker 2: from your side, Like what does that look like when
Speaker 2: there isn't a conversation, Because I think today we've got
Speaker 2: so much about you got to have the conversation.
Speaker 1: Yeah. No, you know, I think for my dad a
Speaker 1: lot of it was he always had the answer. You know.
Speaker 1: My dad's the kind of guy that when I was
Speaker 1: a kid, the Iraq War started and I came home
Speaker 1: and I was like, I was against war because I
Speaker 1: knew that's what hippies were about, and I wanted to
Speaker 1: be a hippie, and so I thought, that's what the
Speaker 1: right answer. I'm against war. And my Dad's like, no,
Speaker 1: you're an idiot. Why don't you go to your room
Speaker 1: until you realize what an idiot you are, and then
Speaker 1: when you come down, I'll explain to you why you're
Speaker 1: an idiot. So I went to my room and I
Speaker 1: was like, I don't know why I'm an idiot? Like
Speaker 1: what did I and everyone should be against war. My
Speaker 1: dad came downstairs. I go, I don't know why I'm
Speaker 1: an idiot, and he goes, okay, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: interesting things about this war. Number one is the first
Speaker 1: televised war we've ever seen. We're watching them go to
Speaker 1: war and it starts like a football game, and me
Speaker 1: and you have the opportunity to watch this. Number two,
Speaker 1: this man saw him saying is a monster who was
Speaker 1: own people and we are going in to get rid
Speaker 1: of him. You do not know any of the politics,
Speaker 1: so shut your mouth and sit down and watch the war.
Speaker 1: And my dad was like that with everything. If you
Speaker 1: ever said an idea, if I to this day, if
Speaker 1: I say, if I say something anything political, my dad
Speaker 1: takes the opposite side and will tell me so in
Speaker 1: a weird way. It never gave me a foot to
Speaker 1: stand on politically. So why I don't talk about politics
Speaker 1: on stage Because whatever I would say, my dad would
Speaker 1: tell me I was wrong. He wanted to show me.
Speaker 1: I think he was protecting me from looking foolish, or
Speaker 1: protecting me from being the guy at a party that
Speaker 1: was a no at all. And you know, my dad
Speaker 1: kind of flew under the radar always. And I think
Speaker 1: when I started getting successful, there was a part of
Speaker 1: my dad where he no longer had an answer for me.
Speaker 1: He no longer had the solution. He couldn't he couldn't
Speaker 1: put me in the right direction. When they fly they're older,
Speaker 1: I send them to a special interest at the airport.
Speaker 1: It's a little expensive, but it's easier for them. My
Speaker 1: dad had to broken hip and got knee problems. My
Speaker 1: mom's my mom's a piece, will work. My mom's like
Speaker 1: me okay and so, and he gets really up. He's like, buddy,
Speaker 1: I don't need this. I can't. You can't afford this.
Speaker 1: And I go, I definitely can afford it, and he's like, no,
Speaker 1: you don't know. So one day I had to send
Speaker 1: to him like my bank statement and be like I
Speaker 1: can afford to put you through there, And he was like,
Speaker 1: what the you like? He just I think and that
Speaker 1: it's not like the you know, the younger lion taking
Speaker 1: over the bigger lion, but like like me, like me
Speaker 1: not letting him pay for meals. That makes him uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: Like that's who he's been. He's been the leader of
Speaker 1: our family. And I'm not saying he's not still our leader.
Speaker 1: He is, by every stretch of the means he is. However,
Speaker 1: I think not having all the answers for me and
Speaker 1: not being able to tell me exactly what to do
Speaker 1: and be confident in his decision made him very uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: I think, I don't know, but.
Speaker 2: You never It didn't seem like you were searching for
Speaker 2: his approval at anybody.
Speaker 1: Oh oh my god, that's all I've been doing my
Speaker 1: whole life, my whole If he didn't like my long hair,
Speaker 1: got a flat top, came into his office and he
Speaker 1: was like, you look like an idiot. I was like, god,
Speaker 1: dang it, Like all I've ever wanted is that man's approval.
Speaker 1: That's it. That's it, entirely, without a doubt, I just
Speaker 1: like when he says, and he says very often, how
Speaker 1: proud he is of me. It doesn't it doesn't miss me.
Speaker 1: It hits me in the chest and it makes me
Speaker 1: feel great. And the fact that he'll call up and
Speaker 1: he'll be like, Buddy, we went to the macaroni girl.
Speaker 1: You know I I say my last name and they go,
Speaker 1: are you related to Burt Christ or they knew who
Speaker 1: you were? Buddy. I got a table right away. They
Speaker 1: gave me. You know, they do the bacon there, you know,
Speaker 1: the big bacon. My dad's like that, he loves it.
Speaker 1: And I think he kind of loves my whatever celebrity
Speaker 1: I have, because it trickles to him. And now like
Speaker 1: when he goes to like when he goes like he
Speaker 1: went to my Special, Him and my mom sat backstage.
Speaker 1: I didn't go in the They sat on chairs on
Speaker 1: side stage. And he's deaf and like not death, but
Speaker 1: he's losing his hearing. So I'm doing the show and
Speaker 1: I hear him say. What did he say? I'm like Jesus,
Speaker 1: Dad said. He said he saw her suck as dick
Speaker 1: what she lost Wade Albert, He saw her give her
Speaker 1: a Leanne gave him a blow job, and I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: you two shut up, but yeah, they yeah, I'm constantly
Speaker 1: seeking his approval. I think it probably could be said
Speaker 1: for my career. I think the reason I'm into comedy
Speaker 1: is I'm searching for approval. I want people to like
Speaker 1: me I do. I want people to have a good time,
Speaker 1: and I want people to go, you were fun. I
Speaker 1: don't need to be the best comic, but I want
Speaker 1: the people that see me to really have had a
Speaker 1: great time.
Speaker 2: And like me, when was the first time you felt
Speaker 2: like you got his approval?
Speaker 1: Will Smith? Yeah? Will Smith, Well, I got a deal
Speaker 1: and like twenty six years old, I've been doing stand up.
Speaker 1: On my twenty sixth birthday, I was in New York
Speaker 1: and I was just partying. I wasn't doing stand up.
Speaker 1: I've been there for a couple months and I got
Speaker 1: hammered the night before and it was my birthday. And
Speaker 1: my phone rang at like eight o'clock in the morning,
Speaker 1: nine o'clock in the morning, and I saw it was
Speaker 1: my dad call her. I d and I said, you know,
Speaker 1: I answer it, let him say happy birthday, and I
Speaker 1: go back to sleep. I answer it and he says,
Speaker 1: you are a tremendous piece of shit. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: I go dad, and he goes, yeah, yeah, it's your dad.
Speaker 1: And he goes, you are worthless. You have no humility.
Speaker 1: You're doing nothing. He goes, I just perjured myself in
Speaker 1: court because of you. The judge said, al, how's your
Speaker 1: son doing? And I said great, that is a lie.
Speaker 1: You are not doing great and you never will do great.
Speaker 1: I have failed you as a father. I gave you
Speaker 1: no humility. I taught you no life lessons. You never
Speaker 1: had to work for anything. Things came easy to you.
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you. And I said to him, I
Speaker 1: go it's my birthday. And he goes, I know what
Speaker 1: day it is. He goes, I gave birth to you.
Speaker 1: We were there when you got born. And he goes,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you. And I was like Dad, I go, well, okay,
Speaker 1: so what do I do with this? He goes nothing.
Speaker 1: He goes, I'll foot the bill, be a party boy.
Speaker 1: And I was like, well, I want to. I want to.
Speaker 1: I don't want you to feel this way about me.
Speaker 1: And he goes, no, you should not want to feel
Speaker 1: this way about yourself. And I said to him, and
Speaker 1: what can I do? He said, well, if you're serious
Speaker 1: about comedy, then you'll go to that club tonight and
Speaker 1: you'll do whatever you can to get on stage. You'll
Speaker 1: go to that man and you'll say, my name is
Speaker 1: Burt Kreisler. I would like to be a stand up.
Speaker 1: I'll clean up, I'll mop up, I'll i'll flip burgers,
Speaker 1: I'll stand out. I'll do whatever you need. But I
Speaker 1: need an opportunity. And I said, I remember saying to him,
Speaker 1: I go, I can't do it today tonight because I
Speaker 1: have a party planned. He was silent, and he just goes,
Speaker 1: you have a party. He goes, you don't deserve a party.
Speaker 1: What are you throwing a party for? You're a failure.
Speaker 1: You go to that club tonight, you take yourself to dinner.
Speaker 1: I want you to write down some goals, and then
Speaker 1: you after that dinner, you go to that club and
Speaker 1: you tell whoever you need to you'll do whatever you can,
Speaker 1: and you'll do it for free. And I said that
Speaker 1: that's not how it works. I remember him very clearly saying, Hey,
Speaker 1: first time young black kid in Harlem, that's how it
Speaker 1: works for him. Do you know why? Because he has
Speaker 1: humilion and he knows how to get what he wants.
Speaker 1: That's how it works for him. Doesn't work for you
Speaker 1: because you're white and you feel like everything should be
Speaker 1: given to you. And I went okay, so I said,
Speaker 1: all right, I'll do it. So I didn't. I took
Speaker 1: myself to a restaurant on seventh and Leaker, and then
Speaker 1: I wrote down twenty six goals that I had planned
Speaker 1: for that year. So I was starting twenty six. I
Speaker 1: went to the Boston comedy club. I met a god
Speaker 1: named Louis Shaeffer and I told him exactly what my
Speaker 1: dad said. My name is Burt. I want to do this.
Speaker 1: Any advice, anything you do, get me on stage. And
Speaker 1: Louis Shaffer said you should move back to Tampa, and
Speaker 1: I went what. He goes, You're not going to be
Speaker 1: a comedian in New York. You don't have what it takes.
Speaker 1: And I went home almost like victorious. I was like, so, Dad,
Speaker 1: this is how it works. I told you. I was right.
Speaker 1: I called him the next morning. He goes, how did
Speaker 1: it go? I said, not good. This is exactly what
Speaker 1: he said, and he goes, perfect, this is what I
Speaker 1: want you to do. You go back tonight and you
Speaker 1: say the same sentence as if he d never said
Speaker 1: it to you. And I said okay. So I said, well,
Speaker 1: what do I do if he says the same thing?
Speaker 1: And he goes, You're going to do that every single
Speaker 1: night until there's a point where you're going to break him.
Speaker 1: And he's going to go, fine, I'll give you a job.
Speaker 1: So I went back that night and I went, Hey, Louis,
Speaker 1: my name is Burt Kreischer. I want to be a
Speaker 1: stand up comedian. I'm from Florida. He goes, didn't I
Speaker 1: tell you to move back to Florida. I go, listen,
Speaker 1: here's the deal. My dad called me a piece of
Speaker 1: shit yesterday. I feel like a piece of shit. I
Speaker 1: need an opportunity. I go, I'm going to be doing
Speaker 1: this every night for the next year as long as
Speaker 1: you keep saying this. And he went, fine, if you
Speaker 1: can bring in twenty people, I'll put you on at
Speaker 1: the end of the night. Nice And I was like,
Speaker 1: for real and he goes, yeah, you can go on
Speaker 1: after it right before Godfrey, and I was like okay,
Speaker 1: and man, I brought in twenty five people. Someone got heckled.
Speaker 1: Karen Bergeren got heckled by four Puerto Rican guys. I
Speaker 1: brought in because one was going to jail the next day,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I said I and Louis Shafer
Speaker 1: comes out and he's like, where's a comic and I
Speaker 1: was like, no one's here, and he's like, you're on,
Speaker 1: Let's go put me on stage. And frat boy Burt
Speaker 1: came out and I lit these four Puerto Rican guys
Speaker 1: up so hard, and because I knew that guy was
Speaker 1: going to jail, and I mean, I was like, hey, man,
Speaker 1: have fun tomorrow. Don't drop the soap. The place is
Speaker 1: going nuts, and I was like, I was like, can
Speaker 1: I give you some advice about jail. I was like,
Speaker 1: suck it before you and I mean they it was
Speaker 1: so great. They walked out of the room. The place
Speaker 1: went nuts, and I was like, and I got a job.
Speaker 1: Louis Shaefer's like, you can do this every night. Six
Speaker 1: months later, Will Smith discovered me. Will Smith discovered me,
Speaker 1: and my dad was floored. He was fed. We watched
Speaker 1: the I Sprints on Monday night. Every Monday night. It
Speaker 1: was a six figure development deal, and I remember that
Speaker 1: was the first time my dad didn't have an answer
Speaker 1: and I said, uh, I said, what do I do
Speaker 1: with this money? He goes, I don't know. I've never
Speaker 1: gotten a paycheck like that. Here's buddy. I. I remember
Speaker 1: him stuttering like, I can't tell you. I don't know.
Speaker 1: He goes, let me hook you up with Bob Kazari
Speaker 1: and I still remember the guy's name over at Merrill
Speaker 1: Lynch and we'll figure it out. And that was when
Speaker 1: my dad was like, he's like, you met Will Smith.
Speaker 1: Will Smith taught me how to pitch movies and pitch
Speaker 1: TV shows, and he was like a blessing in my life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's beautiful. I didn't realize we had Will in
Speaker 2: commedy either.
Speaker 1: Will. I mean, I love Will.
Speaker 2: Yeah, one of my favorite He's one of my family.
Speaker 1: He is. He is the sweetest guy in the world.
Speaker 1: He was so good to me. He gave me great advice.
Speaker 1: We're about to pitch ABC. Jamie Tarz's got rest her soul,
Speaker 1: and I drove over from the valley with him and
Speaker 1: Jay j J L and Uh James J and I
Speaker 1: and I had to piss and Will came in and
Speaker 1: he goes, I'll go to the bathroom with you. So
Speaker 1: he sat at the stall right next to me at ABC,
Speaker 1: and all any guy knows that The sound of a
Speaker 1: man's urine hitting a toilet sometimes indicates how big their
Speaker 1: their their dick is. And he had a fire hose.
Speaker 1: I mean it was like aw and I got I
Speaker 1: couldn't peet, I got gunshi And Will says to me,
Speaker 1: can I tell you everything you need to know about Hollywood?
Speaker 1: But I'm so in my head going pee pee pee.
Speaker 1: I didn't hear a word. I didn't hear one word.
Speaker 1: And then he goes and then he stops peeing. I realized,
Speaker 1: if I can't be next to Will Smith, I can't
Speaker 1: sell it show next to Will Smith. I start peeing
Speaker 1: and all I hear him say is be yourself. That's it.
Speaker 1: That's the only thing I heard. And then I went
Speaker 1: into the room and uh, Will was like Burt used
Speaker 1: to party hard or something. I was like, yeah, you
Speaker 1: guys ever try to knock yourself out And they're like huh.
Speaker 1: And we used to do that in college, and you
Speaker 1: had to do it on the side of a like
Speaker 1: put your head against something because if you just hit
Speaker 1: your head, it's not gonna happen. And I knocked myself
Speaker 1: just like and we sold a sickcom that day.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's the best.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's the best, dude. It's like, as I'm listening
Speaker 2: to you, I'm just like, there's it's so interesting because
Speaker 2: I feel like that moment that you told me about
Speaker 2: baseball with you know, you and your dad and your
Speaker 2: dad telling you, like on your birthday, just go play
Speaker 2: and then we sort it out later. What was the
Speaker 2: power of that? Like, what was the good thing about that?
Speaker 2: And then what was the hard thing about that? Like
Speaker 2: there was good obviously that came from it. This work
Speaker 2: epic disability to turn off, the ability to push through pain,
Speaker 2: but there must have been some pain that stayed which
Speaker 2: search for that approval. But what was the good and
Speaker 2: the bad? Because it sounds like you've been able to
Speaker 2: process both.
Speaker 1: You know, he had a mentality shitting cash checks. And
Speaker 1: when I was at travel Channel at the very tail end,
Speaker 1: I was just hoping to get renewed, and I knew
Speaker 1: they were changing presidents and I had lasted like three
Speaker 1: or four presidents. But every time you went to a
Speaker 1: new president, and it was money and I needed money,
Speaker 1: had a family. I was ignoring stand up, I was
Speaker 1: ignoring the podcast, all the stuff that I do now.
Speaker 1: I was ignoring all of it. And I was at
Speaker 1: the beach with my dad. We're having a cigar and
Speaker 1: a glass of wine, and he goes, so, what's the deal,
Speaker 1: what's our plan? I was, I think I was forty
Speaker 1: two years old, forty three years old, looking for my
Speaker 1: dad's approval and this is so my dad. I go,
Speaker 1: you know, buddy, each shit cash checks thinking, he go,
Speaker 1: that's my guy, and my dad started crying. He goes, oh,
Speaker 1: I think I hit you up. He goes, each shit
Speaker 1: cash checks means is for guys like me with no talent,
Speaker 1: guys like you need to go after your talent.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: And he was crying. And you know, Rogan had just
Speaker 1: said that to me too. He had just had that
Speaker 1: conversation with me. And my Dad's like, if you don't
Speaker 1: go for it, now you're going to regret it. He's like,
Speaker 1: do it because I had this long standing offer from
Speaker 1: Showtime Gary Garfinkel, God rest his soul to do a special,
Speaker 1: and I kept pushing it to do Travel Channel stuff,
Speaker 1: and he goes, buddy, you should do it. You should
Speaker 1: hey follow your dreams. So I did this Showtime special.
Speaker 1: No one watched it because I took my shirt off.
Speaker 1: He's like I remember I'm remember them saying, you know,
Speaker 1: if you take your short off of giving the reason
Speaker 1: to change channel. But what's fascinating is the thing that
Speaker 1: gets them to change the channel. Back in the day
Speaker 1: where you were Caesar and you'd be like, no, no,
Speaker 1: is the exact opposite for the internet. You see a
Speaker 1: guy with no shirt on in the Internet, You're like,
Speaker 1: what's this? And you click it? And I posted the
Speaker 1: machine story and it went viral and it was I
Speaker 1: remember my but my dad gave me this like insane
Speaker 1: thing of even if you're sick, you show up, even
Speaker 1: if you're even if you're hurt, you show up. I
Speaker 1: think it's my punitive way that I work out is
Speaker 1: that if I'm hungover, I work out extra hard. I
Speaker 1: was hungover. I flew all, drank all day yesterday in
Speaker 1: New York, flew here last night. This morning, I got
Speaker 1: up at eight, got in the sawa for thirty minutes,
Speaker 1: got in the gym. We did abs. Who wants they
Speaker 1: do abs? Ran lifted weights and sweated out. But that's
Speaker 1: my dad's mentality is like, you get up, you do
Speaker 1: your work, no matter what. That was the lesson I
Speaker 1: mean I and my takeaway from being eleven and getting
Speaker 1: hurt when you finish in and you don't let anyone down,
Speaker 1: you don't you get you finish the game, you know.
Speaker 1: I had a showcase for ICM one time. This is
Speaker 1: just my dad's mentality, and there was a guy that
Speaker 1: went opened it and then the next guy went on
Speaker 1: was a guy named Earthquake. Do you know earthquake? Unfollowable,
Speaker 1: black dude who destroys, destroys. His name's Earthquake, I mean
Speaker 1: just and he's Earthquake because he leaves you the room
Speaker 1: in an earthquake. And I watched all my friends, I
Speaker 1: won't say their names, were all all my white friend
Speaker 1: comedians panic. No one wanted to follow Earthquake. And they
Speaker 1: just came to me. They're like, you want to go
Speaker 1: up after earthquake? And I just my dad would be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's your job, do your job. And I went up
Speaker 1: after earthquake and he had a joke. His last joke
Speaker 1: was about his name Earthquake. I forget the joke, but
Speaker 1: I knew My first joke was about my name Bert.
Speaker 1: So the joke was was my name is Burt. I
Speaker 1: know what you're thinking, hot sexy named you do porn. No,
Speaker 1: I said, BUR's the last name I want to hear
Speaker 1: during just someone check on top of you in the
Speaker 1: dark corn ah boot and then I go, sh call
Speaker 1: me earthquake and the place exploded. But you know, here's
Speaker 1: the thing, and this is my dad's my dad's Brent
Speaker 1: mentality is if you don't get on stage, if you
Speaker 1: don't show up to work, all the stuff that could
Speaker 1: possibly make your life great just disappears. And that's been
Speaker 1: my mentality this whole career is you show up, no
Speaker 1: matter what. You show up. You got an audition, you
Speaker 1: show up, you get they want to meet you in
Speaker 1: a general meeting. You still don't think it's right for you.
Speaker 1: You show up. And that's definitely the way I've taken
Speaker 1: the road. Dude, Let's do the road. Make sun makes
Speaker 1: hey while the sun shines. Get out there and grind.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, And that's what it takes. I mean, I
Speaker 2: feel like comedy is like there's a new comedian every
Speaker 2: month that's taken off. You've had like a long standing career.
Speaker 2: It's hard to do that. To keep reinventing yourself, keep
Speaker 2: coming back special off to special, success, off to success,
Speaker 2: It's hard to do that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it feels like it came from that idea. I
Speaker 1: mean a lot of my friends like it. Just like
Speaker 1: the pandemic hit and my brain was like, that doesn't
Speaker 1: mean we can't do stand up and then like no,
Speaker 1: the country is shut down, and I went, I'll figure
Speaker 1: it out. And I so I came up with a
Speaker 1: type of touring outdoor comedy festivals where I took drive
Speaker 1: a movie theaters and I plugged into their system. We
Speaker 1: showed it up on the big screen. We shot it
Speaker 1: with four cameras. All the feeds went into the car
Speaker 1: so everyone could say socially distant. And I did. I
Speaker 1: think I did thirty cities. I think maybe did thirty cities,
Speaker 1: sixty shows and shows I did. I tore the all
Speaker 1: through the pandemic. That's just the way my brain works.
Speaker 1: It's like, just because you say no, that doesn't mean look,
Speaker 1: you gotta do it. You gotta work. Yeah, don't just
Speaker 1: take the foot off the gas.
Speaker 2: What I love about the earthquake story too, it's like
Speaker 2: what your dad said, if you didn't put yourself under
Speaker 2: that pressure, you wouldn't have found that great new take.
Speaker 1: If you're a dad right now, when you're listening. This
Speaker 1: is the only takeaway you need. My dad, whether it's
Speaker 1: true or not, always told me you love pressure, buddy.
Speaker 1: When all the chips are on the table, you perform
Speaker 1: your best. I don't know what it is about you,
Speaker 1: but you love the pressure. You just love it. And
Speaker 1: I'll tell you my whole baseball career. If we were down, man,
Speaker 1: all first and second were down by two runs, that's
Speaker 1: when I performed. When we faced the fastest picture we
Speaker 1: ever faced. That's the guy I hit the best off of.
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you is in stand up I've always
Speaker 1: done best when the most pressure is on me. I
Speaker 1: need to do secret time. First show, I bomb. I'm
Speaker 1: only doing two shows. I bomb. I bomb. I hadn't
Speaker 1: bombed with this hour ever, and I bombed. The crowd
Speaker 1: had to wait in the rain, we had a power shortage.
Speaker 1: It just it was horrible and I'm nervous. I got
Speaker 1: one more show. This is my first Netflix special. I
Speaker 1: got one more show. And I'm sitting in the green
Speaker 1: room and Leanne just echoes my dash. He goes, well,
Speaker 1: you know you love pressure. This is when he's going
Speaker 1: to form the best sit back everybody, and man, that
Speaker 1: show I mean, best stand up show I've ever had
Speaker 1: in my entire career was that one show that was murderous.
Speaker 2: Well, people say, with comedians, obviously, there's such a defense
Speaker 2: mechanism with humor and comedy to mask pain and challenges
Speaker 2: and all that kind of stuff. I wonder, and you've
Speaker 2: said before as well, like I usually you know laugh
Speaker 2: through pain. It's like, what's the pain that you couldn't
Speaker 2: laugh through?
Speaker 1: I hesitate to even say this, but I've been very lucky.
Speaker 1: I've been very lucky. I haven't had a lot of
Speaker 1: tragedy in my life, and I can laugh at just
Speaker 1: about anything. I laughed at my grandmother's funeral. I laughed
Speaker 1: twice at my grandmother's funeral.
Speaker 2: Tell us.
Speaker 1: I started crying. My dad ADU like, don't cry in
Speaker 1: front of your kids. And I started crying. And this
Speaker 1: is before we put Priscilla down. I started crying. He goes, whoa, whoa, whoa, Hey,
Speaker 1: stand up. It's him and my uncle Jerry, and my
Speaker 1: dad goes Buddy pulled together and I was like, I'm upset,
Speaker 1: and he goes, why, I go because your mom is
Speaker 1: in a box up there, and he's like, yeah, she
Speaker 1: had a great life. You celebrate her life. You don't cry.
Speaker 1: Can't let your girls see you cry. Then they're going
Speaker 1: to be freaked out. I was like, Dad, it's just
Speaker 1: it's just hard looking at her. And he goes, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: you're fine. And I go, well, she they have her.
Speaker 1: She's not smiling, and he goes, are you an idiot?
Speaker 1: He goes, do you want her smiling in that box?
Speaker 1: Do you have any idea? Creep you? That is it?
Speaker 1: And I started laughing and then he goes, there you go.
Speaker 1: All right, you're out of it. Good, let's go. So
Speaker 1: then at the end of that funeral, everyone leaves. My
Speaker 1: dad and my uncle Jerry. Oh, I mean this makes
Speaker 1: they go, hey, come on, I said, what they go,
Speaker 1: let's go, let's go say good bye to grandma. And
Speaker 1: this was them saying, it's oh, create get a cry.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I've never seen two uglier cries in
Speaker 1: my life. These men let go of years of trauma.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you, I'll tell you right before she died,
Speaker 1: this is the hardest I've ever watched. These two men laugh.
Speaker 1: We go to the hospital. My grandmother's a congenitive heart
Speaker 1: failure or whatever. So we go to the hospital. Grandma's
Speaker 1: in the bed. Uncle Jerry and my dad are in
Speaker 1: the corner and they're hiding them their faces because they're crying.
Speaker 1: They're hiding their faces behind the curtains, okay, and they're
Speaker 1: really emotional, and I'm not, for whatever reason, I'm not
Speaker 1: in that moment. And I go, hey, Grandma, how you doing?
Speaker 1: And she goes, ugh, my back hurts. That's that's heart
Speaker 1: failures when your back hurts. And I go, well, do
Speaker 1: you want me to rub your back? And she goes,
Speaker 1: I would love that, birdie boy rub my back. So
Speaker 1: I start rubbing her back. I go, I love you
Speaker 1: so much, Grandma. I go, I think you're gonna make
Speaker 1: it out of this. And then I go, wait, I
Speaker 1: think you might have dropped a tissue behind your bed,
Speaker 1: because I can feel I think there's tissue falling off,
Speaker 1: and she goes, that's my skin. And my dad and
Speaker 1: my uncle go from crying to laughing hysterically, and my
Speaker 1: dad's going he's kicking. I'm going, he's.
Speaker 2: Rubbing skin over her back.
Speaker 1: He's rubbing skin over her back, and my uncle Jerry's
Speaker 1: just and I'm watching these two curtains shake, and I'm
Speaker 1: just rubbing skin off her back on I love your grandma. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I laughed. I can laugh through just about anything.
Speaker 2: Oh god, that's when was the first of you let
Speaker 2: you do? I see you cry?
Speaker 1: I start okay. Uh. I came home, I was on
Speaker 1: the treadmill. Leannon's in the room with the girls, and
Speaker 1: this is. This is in Priscilla's third knee surgery. Priscilla
Speaker 1: had five knee surgeries. On her second knee surgery, they
Speaker 1: realized the other knee was bad too. They were gonna
Speaker 1: have to do another one. And the guy goes, listen,
Speaker 1: you're fifteen grand into this dog. I think it's just
Speaker 1: I think we need to put her down. And I
Speaker 1: went what And he goes, I can't promise that these
Speaker 1: are gonna last. But like I'm telling you, the one
Speaker 1: that we already fixed, that's bad again. We got to
Speaker 1: do that again. So she's asleep. I can put her
Speaker 1: down right now if you'd like. And I went, well,
Speaker 1: hold on, and I went, oh my god, give me
Speaker 1: a can you give me a second, And he goes, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: give me Like, go talk to your wife, but call
Speaker 1: me soon. So I start crying and I'm trying to
Speaker 1: hold it together. And I walk in the room and
Speaker 1: the girls see me crying and they start laughing and
Speaker 1: they go, oh, mom, dad's crying, and Leanne goes, girls,
Speaker 1: if dad's crying, we're all about to be crying in
Speaker 1: a matter of seconds. He's like, this isn't funny, and
Speaker 1: I go they want to put Priscilla down in George
Speaker 1: lad like what and then pull it together? And we
Speaker 1: didn't put it down. We got two more We got
Speaker 1: those two knee surgeries, then two more knee surgeries and
Speaker 1: uh yeah, but they've seen me cry a lot now.
Speaker 1: Once I once the flud gates open. Dude, I cried
Speaker 1: it the Avengers movie when when Spider Man died Spider
Speaker 1: I was sobbing crying and Ila is mocking me. I
Speaker 1: cry at movies real quick, and they will and they
Speaker 1: just you just watch them. They don't even watch the movie.
Speaker 1: They just watch me and stare at me and giggle.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, Well that's why I find you to be
Speaker 2: such an interesting fascinating person, because like you've got this
Speaker 2: larger than life personality, You've got this party of background,
Speaker 2: and then like you've got like this soft time oh
Speaker 2: yeah yeah. And it's like and even when I met you,
Speaker 2: I could just tell immediately. I was like, you know,
Speaker 2: this guy's got the softest heart. And at the same time,
Speaker 2: if I swore you, I wouldn't necessarily have that, you know, perception.
Speaker 1: I think that's accurate. I don't think anyone. I think
Speaker 1: people will think I'm the one thing, and then when
Speaker 1: they find out, like the one that always shocks everyone
Speaker 1: is I've only had sex with six women and they're
Speaker 1: like what, And I was like, yeah, I'm just I
Speaker 1: wasn't that guy like the time I lost my virginity
Speaker 1: that changed my life. And that moment I went from Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm not cool guy that could just bang chicks. I'm
Speaker 1: super sensitive guy that needs you to get me because
Speaker 1: I'm not sure I do this right. Like my wife
Speaker 1: goes that's why my wife takes those phone calls and
Speaker 1: she knows I'm never gonna cheap. She knows I am
Speaker 1: a wreck. I am a wreck. But yeah, and so
Speaker 1: everyone's like, really, you've only had sex with sick. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So in college, I go to a bar and I'm
Speaker 1: just hoping someone would get me, like I wanted someone
Speaker 1: that wanted to watch Fletch three times in a night.
Speaker 2: How does she get about, obviously all of the exposure
Speaker 2: of her life and her sex life as well. What's
Speaker 2: like allowed? What? What do you need permission for? What
Speaker 2: do you get away with without.
Speaker 1: Any She says, as long as it's funny. Oh wow
Speaker 1: that she goes, as long as it's not mean and
Speaker 1: it's funny, I'm in I remember the time I realized
Speaker 1: she was game for anything. She farted during oral sex
Speaker 1: and I made a joke and she started crying. I said,
Speaker 1: what are you crying about? I'm not wanting the fire hole?
Speaker 1: Do you'm shit in my mouth? What do you you're crying?
Speaker 1: And she said to me, you're definitely telling this on
Speaker 1: stage and I wait, I said, what can I And
Speaker 1: she goes, well, yeah, obviously if I did this, someone
Speaker 1: else has done this. I'm not the only one that
Speaker 1: ever did it. And it's funny. You should talk about
Speaker 1: this on stage, and I did, and man it was.
Speaker 1: It was like a killer bit for a while, but like, yeah,
Speaker 1: she watched this hour and her note was I'm cool
Speaker 1: with everything you're saying. I need to know the way
Speaker 1: you're saying it has loved it, Like I started a
Speaker 1: smile in it because I was doing when you do
Speaker 1: material a lot, you get bored of it and sometimes
Speaker 1: you don't show the sparkle in it the way you
Speaker 1: did when you wrote it. And with this material, I
Speaker 1: mean making fun of a woman because she's getting older
Speaker 1: and she's going through menopause and she's aging. And if
Speaker 1: you don't say it with love or a smile. That
Speaker 1: was very exact word. There needs to be a smile
Speaker 1: and a little bit of rascal your voice, like you
Speaker 1: need to say. And so she was really adamant about that.
Speaker 2: I love that. She's like a comedy coach.
Speaker 1: Oh she's. I mean, look, she's not funny. Let's be
Speaker 1: very clear. I take offense when she tells the people
Speaker 1: at the party, I'm the funny one at home. I go,
Speaker 1: hang on, my comedy bought the house. Let's be real. Okay,
Speaker 1: she's she's a gangster. She's awesome, and same with our girls.
Speaker 1: She kind of monitors the material and and runs runs
Speaker 1: it by with them with her and talks to them
Speaker 1: about it. And you know, yeah, do.
Speaker 2: They think Dad's really cool or Dad's human?
Speaker 1: Oh? Human? They don't think I'm cool at all. They
Speaker 1: do not.
Speaker 2: When did that? When did it go from cool to human?
Speaker 2: Or was it ever cool?
Speaker 1: In the cool I don't think it's you know, I
Speaker 1: had a period of where Georgia I could tell, thought
Speaker 1: I was kind of cool. Like Georgia had this like
Speaker 1: we took her on fully loaded one year, her and
Speaker 1: her friend Daisy, I got this great picture at the
Speaker 1: end of the night, I we I tell the machine,
Speaker 1: and then I'd bring all the comics on stage and
Speaker 1: I'd have them bring me a beer and I'd kill
Speaker 1: a beer and I'd spit it in the air, and
Speaker 1: it was a fun moment to wait to close the show.
Speaker 1: It was always a really cool picture. And one year
Speaker 1: I call all the comics out and then everyone starts
Speaker 1: walking off and I'm saying goodbye, and Georgia comes out.
Speaker 1: I got this great picture and she throws her arm
Speaker 1: in the air like she just did a stand like
Speaker 1: she like she didn't stand up, and I was like,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? She goes, I just wanted to
Speaker 1: see what it felt like. But like I think they
Speaker 1: think I'm okay. I don't think they think I'm cool. Like,
Speaker 1: in all honesty, if I didn't ever go to their
Speaker 1: college ever again, they'd be very comfortable with that.
Speaker 2: Well, why do you turn up to the clubs.
Speaker 1: Like parents weekend, Parents Weekend, or you know. We went
Speaker 1: and looked at colleges. I wanted Georgia to go to Boulder,
Speaker 1: and so we went to Boulder and this kid yells
Speaker 1: out the window the machine and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: word got out on campus and kids started running and
Speaker 1: finding me. And I watched this kid, my child lose
Speaker 1: interest in a school very quick, A great school, one
Speaker 1: of the best schools in the universe. I love that school.
Speaker 1: And she was like, yeah, I'm not going here. And
Speaker 1: I was like, what, she goes, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: a place where you have fans. I was like, baby,
Speaker 1: I think that's gonna be tough. And then she was like,
Speaker 1: I won't go to Florida State. I won't go to Florida.
Speaker 1: I'm not going here, not going to Georgia. I'm going
Speaker 1: I'm gonna find my place. And so I didn't go
Speaker 1: look at schools with her. And the next two schools
Speaker 1: she looked at she loved. She got into both of
Speaker 1: them and she chose one and same with Isla. Would
Speaker 1: they hate when I get recognized? Last night we flew
Speaker 1: in and paparazzi was waiting for me at the airport,
Speaker 1: and Georgia was just like like she walked in and
Speaker 1: stood by a wall and was like, she was like,
Speaker 1: can we just mom, can make this stop? And I
Speaker 1: was like, I don't. I'm not rude. So I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk to them. If they want to talk
Speaker 1: to me, I'll say something to them. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: be there forever, but yeah, they I think they would
Speaker 1: be cool if I wasn't famous.
Speaker 2: How do you deal with that, Like with when you're
Speaker 2: raising kids, You've been doing this for a long time.
Speaker 2: They've probably been exposed to it since there were kids, Like,
Speaker 2: how how have you had that conversation with them? Because
Speaker 2: obviously it's still not easy for them.
Speaker 1: We had a moment we were skiing. It was a
Speaker 1: very luxurious thing to do. It's not lost on my
Speaker 1: kids because we didn't always have money. But we were
Speaker 1: skiing and Georgia was having a rough time. There was
Speaker 1: something going on with Georgia. By the way, we didn't
Speaker 1: know this, but we all had COVID at the time,
Speaker 1: and so George's having a rough time and she has
Speaker 1: a meltdown and she's you know, you know what a
Speaker 1: junior in college high school at the time, she's having
Speaker 1: a meltdown and I'm talking to her in front of
Speaker 1: where we're staying, right by the lifts, and we're both
Speaker 1: in our ski outfits. I'm hold by snowboard. She's got
Speaker 1: her snowboard and she's crying, and I'm trying to talk
Speaker 1: to her and help her out with this thing she's
Speaker 1: going through. And these two dudes are like, oh shit,
Speaker 1: the machine. And I just look in her eyes and
Speaker 1: she's like, and I was like, what's up, guys, Like
Speaker 1: can we get a picture? Like I'm kind of doing
Speaker 1: a thing like real quick, real quick, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: it's easier just to take the picture than to and
Speaker 1: so I take the picture. She goes, I understand that
Speaker 1: this allows us to do this. She goes, it would
Speaker 1: be nice just to have my dad sometimes, and I
Speaker 1: was like, I know, And it's sharing your your time
Speaker 1: with fans is what is difficult for them. And I'm
Speaker 1: not a good guy at like saying no, like I don't.
Speaker 1: I've seen my friends do that before and it always
Speaker 1: rubs me wrong. I'm like, just take a picture with it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I feel the same way. Yeah, it's like
Speaker 2: It's almost like this is the reason why you get
Speaker 2: to do what you love every day, and the least
Speaker 2: you can do is at.
Speaker 1: Least you can do is take a second and listen
Speaker 1: to someone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm assuming with you as well. People have
Speaker 2: great stories, Like that's why I feel like I get
Speaker 2: to talk to people who just have amazing stories to
Speaker 2: share and life changing moments. And I'm like, I feel
Speaker 2: like if I didn't sit there and listen to that,
Speaker 2: it almost gives me fuel to keep going and you know,
Speaker 2: keep moving because yeah, I hear amazing things. I'm sure
Speaker 2: you do too.
Speaker 1: Oh so, I mean, you know, you forget you know
Speaker 1: a little bit of what we do is talk. We talk.
Speaker 1: You know, there's someone right now that probably has a
Speaker 1: weird relationship with their dad and hearing this and this one.
Speaker 1: You know, there's things that we hope it's funny too.
Speaker 1: But you know, like doing the biggest one I always
Speaker 1: got was you got me through the pandemic, because you know,
Speaker 1: we put out content for them to distract themselves with
Speaker 1: a lot of people didn't have big houses to stay
Speaker 1: unduring the pandemic. They were in an apartment and they're
Speaker 1: just like, this is miserable, and I get that a lot.
Speaker 1: I get, you know, right now, the one I'm getting is,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, we just put our dog down.
Speaker 1: You I've never I've never laughed and sobbed at the
Speaker 1: same time. Thank you for letting us process. And but
Speaker 1: you know, at the least I can the least I
Speaker 1: can do is take a second and talk to someone
Speaker 1: who wants to say hi to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, And it's like, I mean that that's something
Speaker 2: that you do quite uniquely. I feel like the ability
Speaker 2: to make someone laugh and gray even like as we've
Speaker 2: been talking today, I'm like, I'm like having like a
Speaker 2: really emotional moment with you, and you're like making me
Speaker 2: crack off at the other end with like Grandma's funeral,
Speaker 2: like being in the hospital, and there's a there's a
Speaker 2: real beauty in that. Like have you ever sat and
Speaker 2: thought about like, was this the first time in this
Speaker 2: special that you got extra emotional and got people to crimes?
Speaker 2: Was this like one of the first times, or.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've never done this before. I mean, I'm I
Speaker 1: don't I don't mean this like cocky, but I don't
Speaker 1: think I don't think there's a lot of comics that's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying that are doing that? And I didn't
Speaker 1: know if I should do.
Speaker 2: It, like you made you do it? Why did you
Speaker 2: go there?
Speaker 1: It was ready. I did that story before Razzle Dazzle.
Speaker 1: I was gonna do it at the end Razzle Dazzle,
Speaker 1: and I just thought, I don't know it just it
Speaker 1: felt weird to me for that material. That material, it
Speaker 1: felt weird. And I and then and I was and
Speaker 1: Georgia called me one time on stage. I was on
Speaker 1: stage and right before I released Razzle Dazzle. She goes,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? I said, I'm going to stand up.
Speaker 1: She goes, oh, are you telling the escape room story?
Speaker 1: And I was like no, why should I? She goes, absolutely, Dad.
Speaker 1: Do you remember you almost shit in Papa's mouth? And
Speaker 1: I went, oh yeah, And then she kind of broke
Speaker 1: down the story on stage told it. I went, that's
Speaker 1: my closer and I was like, good, I'll get made
Speaker 1: fun of if I do this dog story. Everyone's going
Speaker 1: to make fun of me. And and and say, I
Speaker 1: just I can I'm thinking of it too much. And
Speaker 1: then I do this special and everyone I was working
Speaker 1: with was like, are you seeing what's happening in the
Speaker 1: room and I was like, no, because you can't really
Speaker 1: see anything. And they're like, yo, we're out there, and
Speaker 1: they're like grown men are sobbing crying, like people are
Speaker 1: holding each other and laughing and crying at the same time.
Speaker 1: They're like this is different. Like I remember a dude
Speaker 1: I really respect I brought with me on the road.
Speaker 1: He's like, that has to be your closer. He's like that.
Speaker 1: He goes, I don't know one comic making people cry,
Speaker 1: but making them happy cry like they're crying for something
Speaker 1: they love, and then they're laughing and you end on
Speaker 1: a laugh. He's like, you have to do it. I
Speaker 1: just didn't know if it was working. It was like
Speaker 1: where you said about writing a book, you sit with
Speaker 1: it for four years and then and I shot this
Speaker 1: in July and it just came out this March. So
Speaker 1: I've been sitting on this special and I just was like,
Speaker 1: I am going to get destroyed. Like I just started
Speaker 1: in my head going like, no one's gonna like this.
Speaker 1: Everyone's gonna make fun of this last story. They're gonna go, oh,
Speaker 1: bird always cries, that's all he does. And and I
Speaker 1: put it out like the first day. It was trending
Speaker 1: at number two and I went which I'd never trended
Speaker 1: over six, and I was like, WHOA, that's weird. And
Speaker 1: I went into my stories where people like mention you,
Speaker 1: and it just looked like a straight line and I
Speaker 1: was like whoa. And I was like, I only got
Speaker 1: one story. I only got one person mentioning me. And
Speaker 1: I hit it and I hit it and I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god. I couldn't get the line to go away.
Speaker 1: And I was like, and it was all about this story.
Speaker 1: Everyone was just sobbing, crying. People were sending me pictures
Speaker 1: of their dogs. They were holding their dogs, they were
Speaker 1: filming their husband's crying. They were I mean, it was
Speaker 1: so cathartic for me. And I'll be very real. So
Speaker 1: you go on Netflix on a Tuesday, you find out
Speaker 1: if you trend on Wednesday. I did press all Wednesday morning,
Speaker 1: from six in the morning till nine o'clock. I don't
Speaker 1: know if anyone's liked the special. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's trending. I don't know any of that. I go
Speaker 1: and take a nap and I'm waiting for an agent
Speaker 1: or someone to text me. Like I figured, I said
Speaker 1: to myself, if it's just trends in the top ten,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be happy. Look, i'm fifty two. Maybe there's
Speaker 1: guys doing it better than me, younger than me. I
Speaker 1: expect them to just blow my doors off. Just please
Speaker 1: tell me I have another year of doing stand up
Speaker 1: like the way your Head thinking. And I took a nap.
Speaker 1: I woke up and I got a text from a
Speaker 1: younger comic I really really like Ricky Blez and he
Speaker 1: just said, Yo, man, you're killing it. This is a
Speaker 1: great special. I've been a fan of yours for a while.
Speaker 1: I'd love to hang out next time in LA and
Speaker 1: not do a podcast hang out. And I was like,
Speaker 1: that's cool. And I like this guy. This guy's doing
Speaker 1: what I was trying to do at his age. He's
Speaker 1: doing it way better than I'm doing it. So I
Speaker 1: was like, oh nice. I was like, you liked the special? Cool.
Speaker 1: I was like nice, a young kid liked the special.
Speaker 1: And then my texts blow up and that's when I
Speaker 1: went into my stories and I saw it. And as
Speaker 1: I'm watching the stories, people are saying I started sobbing, crying,
Speaker 1: just out of gratitude, out of just sitting there going
Speaker 1: like oh, the thing I did is good. It's not horrible.
Speaker 2: It's not horrible.
Speaker 1: People don't hate me. Oh. I was just sobbing crying
Speaker 1: in my bed. I was like, and then Leanne comes
Speaker 1: in from her workout class. She's like, what's wrong with you?
Speaker 1: She just watched it. She goes, you're training at number
Speaker 1: two and I was like, what. I didn't even look
Speaker 1: at Netflix. And then I was like and so I
Speaker 1: was like, whatever, I'm good. My first day was good.
Speaker 1: And then it's been like that every day. The response
Speaker 1: has been crazy. People really are connecting with that last story.
Speaker 2: Yeah, talk to me about what you just said now,
Speaker 2: that that inevitable embracing of insignificance and irrelevance that everyone
Speaker 2: goes through, like that idea that one day, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: no one's going to care about me, No one's going
Speaker 2: to care about you, No one's going to care about
Speaker 2: ninety nine point nine percent of everyone who's relevant current
Speaker 2: whatever trending we want to call it. And there's that
Speaker 2: thing that creatives go to where you see them holding
Speaker 2: on to their last bit of relevance and significance. And
Speaker 2: it's painful to watch, Yeah, but you understand it because
Speaker 2: you go, well, wait a minute, I really liked no
Speaker 2: matter how much we say, Like you know, Ellen said
Speaker 2: something that I love, she goes. I used to always
Speaker 2: say I didn't care what people thought. That's when everyone
Speaker 2: thought I was amazing. Like, you know, it's like it's
Speaker 2: really easy to I don't care what anyone thinks when
Speaker 2: I'm the number one person in the world. But then
Speaker 2: when you actually are not number one, number two, number three,
Speaker 2: number four, you start getting down on that list. You'll
Speaker 2: be on number ten. Now you do start caring what
Speaker 2: people think, especially like what you said the New God like,
Speaker 2: and especially when the new God has respect, that's a
Speaker 2: beautiful thing. Yeah, But when the new god's kind of like,
Speaker 2: you know, living how you were when you were the
Speaker 2: New God, who has that overconfidence, that arrogance, how do
Speaker 2: you think about that? Like how have you reflected? Have
Speaker 2: you thought about that at all?
Speaker 1: It's all I think. You remember, I didn't. I was
Speaker 1: like I was just going to be a journeyman comic,
Speaker 1: Like I wasn't supposed to be successful. I you know,
Speaker 1: I did Travel Channel and I thought that was gonna
Speaker 1: be my life. And then when I got let go
Speaker 1: from Travel Channel and my special didn't do well, never
Speaker 1: the machine didn't do well, and I'm getting fast shamed
Speaker 1: by Tommy. I was like, okay, I remember saying, are
Speaker 1: we cool with this? Can we do this like this?
Speaker 1: At this level? Like I was the guy at the store.
Speaker 1: When people would talk to me, more successful comments would
Speaker 1: talk to me, they'd look over my shoulder waiting for
Speaker 1: someone better to talk to. I was a nice guy.
Speaker 1: People liked me, but I wasn't relevant to them, and
Speaker 1: so they were like, ooh, that guy's Oh, that guy's
Speaker 1: twenty eight and he's killing it. I'll give me one second,
Speaker 1: but I want to go talk to him. And I
Speaker 1: was like, am I cool with that? I remember one
Speaker 1: to him coming off stage, not wearing cool sneakers, wearing
Speaker 1: dad jeans and seeing a young comic murdering it in
Speaker 1: the car that my wife and I had seen in
Speaker 1: we had looked at that brand car and that he
Speaker 1: had the car they had in the showroom, a car
Speaker 1: was like two hundred and twenty thousand dollars and I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, how can you afford that? So I
Speaker 1: wasn't supposed to be successful, and I was cool with it.
Speaker 1: I was definitely cool with it. I was like, I
Speaker 1: can just do comedy at Funny Bones. I love comedy.
Speaker 1: I'll keep putting out specials. Maybe never know. Look, Rogan's
Speaker 1: a good friend. I can always do his podcast. You know.
Speaker 1: That's how my brain worked. I had my podcast, but
Speaker 1: no one cared. And then I had the conversation with
Speaker 1: my dad. I got like a from Travel Channel. I
Speaker 1: had the conversation with Brogan and him and Tommy, but
Speaker 1: I remember them both saying like, don't worry, we can
Speaker 1: help you get ad sales, and I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: and then I posted the machine story and then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden it went like crazy. I mean I
Speaker 1: had never experienced that before, like genuinely viral. And then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, I started selling tickets and I
Speaker 1: was like, whoa, holy crap, this is crazy. He's just
Speaker 1: selling out and not looking at ticket counts, just going
Speaker 1: in and knowing everything's clean. And so I really honestly
Speaker 1: had kind of already let go of all of it,
Speaker 1: but there's a part of me that remembers, Oh, it
Speaker 1: was cool when I remember getting right before I got
Speaker 1: let go in Travel Channel, I got into a town car.
Speaker 1: They got me a town car for something, and I
Speaker 1: remember getting in and going this is the last town
Speaker 1: car ride in I was like, I should really enjoy this.
Speaker 1: So I kept always saying that. Every time I went
Speaker 1: to theaters, I was like, I probably won't do theaters again.
Speaker 1: You only do theaters once. Really, I'll go back to clubs,
Speaker 1: but enjoy this. This is the Chicago Theater. Let's go
Speaker 1: for a job tonight, watch the sunset, and then yo ah,
Speaker 1: this is crazy. I'm doing the Beacon. I probably I'm
Speaker 1: not going to sell two shows at the Beacon ever again.
Speaker 1: So let's really enjoy this. And I brought my girls
Speaker 1: that I grew up with in Tampa up to the
Speaker 1: out to my bus and we hung out. And then
Speaker 1: when I started doing arena, I didn't even know I
Speaker 1: was going to do arenas. I didn't know I was
Speaker 1: doing an arena. I was in Green Bay and I
Speaker 1: was like, I'm doing an arena and they're like yeah,
Speaker 1: and I was like, whoa. I got to really enjoy this.
Speaker 1: And so I every step of the way have been
Speaker 1: like I got to enjoy this. But then you know,
Speaker 1: I take nine months off wait for the special to
Speaker 1: be released, and I was and I did it again.
Speaker 1: Am I cool with not being relevant? Am I cool
Speaker 1: with not being the thing, the shiny object and maybe
Speaker 1: going back to clubs or going back to theaters. I
Speaker 1: remember I texted my manager to day, I go, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: I don't need to do arenas anymore. I can do
Speaker 1: I love theaters. So Kevin Hart did a theater. I go,
Speaker 1: there's no shame. I've been doing a theater a lot
Speaker 1: of them. You can see a lot of me make
Speaker 1: more money than an arena. And then a special came
Speaker 1: out and I was like, it was just like a relief.
Speaker 1: I was like, I was like, I can breathe. I
Speaker 1: can breathe that. Oh my god, that is like and uh.
Speaker 1: And then we're on a call today and they're like, yo,
Speaker 1: you know, doing arenas again in the fall starting September.
Speaker 1: And I told him, I said, And I said to them,
Speaker 1: I said, you know, hey, when we book out twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six, I don't have to do arena tours like
Speaker 1: I don't have to be holding on to something. I'm
Speaker 1: cool with doing some clubs and doing some some theaters
Speaker 1: and doing some outdoor venues. I'd like to do the
Speaker 1: Gorge again, but like I go, let's shake it up,
Speaker 1: you know. And they were all like really, I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't care like it's but that
Speaker 1: it's I've watched it go away for people. It sucks.
Speaker 1: You're right, I watching someone hold too Tightly. It's by
Speaker 1: that song hold On Loosely by thirty eight Specials. So
Speaker 1: great loosely and don't leg shoh because if you hold
Speaker 1: you tight girl, You're gonna lose control. You're gonna you're gone.
Speaker 1: It's a great song. It's a great hold on Loosely.
Speaker 2: No. I love that.
Speaker 1: It's a great name for a special Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is a good yea, it is a good name.
Speaker 2: I love what you're saying though that I was. I
Speaker 2: was driving to one of my clients homes the other
Speaker 2: day and this is someone I grew up watching, huge
Speaker 2: fan of someone that I coach and work with, and
Speaker 2: I was driving to his house and I walked in
Speaker 2: and you know, it's like it's like a mile drive
Speaker 2: from the gate to even get to the house. And
Speaker 2: I was just like, I have to live in the
Speaker 2: moment that I cannot believe. And now I've been I've
Speaker 2: been working with him for seven years, so I've driven
Speaker 2: to this house like every day for years. But I
Speaker 2: was like, it loses its value when I stop being
Speaker 2: grateful for it. As soon as it becomes familiar, like
Speaker 2: what you're saying. I love what you just said. I love, love,
Speaker 2: love what you just said. Because as soon as greatness
Speaker 2: becomes familiar and excellence becomes familiar and all of this
Speaker 2: stuff becomes familiar, you lose its value. And then when
Speaker 2: you lose it, you don't you never got to experience it.
Speaker 2: So you realize you never had it in the first
Speaker 2: place because you were just running after it like you
Speaker 2: were chasing the whole time. Oh, you never held it.
Speaker 2: And what you just said is you held it for
Speaker 2: that moment.
Speaker 1: I still hold it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you still.
Speaker 1: I just signed up when I did the Machine. I'm
Speaker 1: my producer kle Boider. He's he's one of the greatest guys,
Speaker 1: like guys happens to be a great movie producer. And
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna not drink
Speaker 1: and not I'm gonna be clean, I'm gonna work out,
Speaker 1: i'm gonna eat clean, I'm gonna look good, and he
Speaker 1: just kind of looked at me and was like, ya, hey, man,
Speaker 1: that's that's not who I hired. He's like, look, if
Speaker 1: I know who you are, Like, if you're not having fun,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna it's gonna show up on screen. But
Speaker 1: if you're having fun, it'll show up on screen, like
Speaker 1: if you were having fun, And he goes, I can't
Speaker 1: tell you the movie's gonna be a hit. I can't
Speaker 1: tell if it's gonna be a flop. You never know.
Speaker 1: But what I can tell you is you're probably only
Speaker 1: gonna get to make one movie, So enjoy this process.
Speaker 1: Have fun. And man, I had so much fun making
Speaker 1: the Machine. It was the experience of a life time
Speaker 1: because every day I was like, I will never make
Speaker 1: another movie. I will never have another movie where I
Speaker 1: don't have to memorize lines because I say whatever I
Speaker 1: want to say, Like it was like the greatest life
Speaker 1: experience of my life. But yeah, that's how I look
Speaker 1: at every project. This is the probably last one I'll do.
Speaker 1: You know. I thought, I know I have one more
Speaker 1: special with Netflix, like I owe them one, and I go,
Speaker 1: that might be my last one.
Speaker 2: That only makes it better.
Speaker 1: That so the cool thing about a special and you
Speaker 1: don't get to experience this, And I don't think some
Speaker 1: comics think about this, but I think about this. So
Speaker 1: I take this material that I create about eighteen twenty
Speaker 1: four months out and I take this and I work
Speaker 1: it and I play with it, and at a certain
Speaker 1: point I get bored of it and I reinvent it
Speaker 1: and I come back to it. But I play with
Speaker 1: this for two years. I work on this same stuff,
Speaker 1: and when I do my last taping, I did six shows,
Speaker 1: and on my last taping, I was present and I said,
Speaker 1: this is the last time I'll say these words. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's like it's like I give them the universe there.
Speaker 1: I'll never get him again. And I get so emotional
Speaker 1: saying that. But you know, you're so your material is
Speaker 1: who you are, and I can and I go, this
Speaker 1: is the last time I'll say this word, this wording
Speaker 1: and this cadence, and it's just so. It's with the band.
Speaker 1: You never do that. And then sometimes you tell a
Speaker 1: story like a machine and you've been telling it now
Speaker 1: for fifteen years, and I'll still tell it. I'll still
Speaker 1: tell it. Listen. I was that story. He changed my
Speaker 1: I sat listen. I sat in the Rymen Theater. There's
Speaker 1: a woman named Angela Johnson, brilliant comic. She's got a
Speaker 1: great nail salon bit. I was with Arspear and Nate Bargatzi.
Speaker 1: None of us were working very well, none of us
Speaker 1: were making money. She had sold out the rhymen and
Speaker 1: they were chanting for this nail salan bit. And I
Speaker 1: said to the Lord, I said, Lord, give me one
Speaker 1: bit that people give a shit about. I'll tell it
Speaker 1: until the day I die. And he was definitely listening.
Speaker 1: He's like, I got you. I'll one up and I'll
Speaker 1: make it a twelve minute bit. You're gonna make a
Speaker 1: movie out of this bit. I'll tell I got you,
Speaker 1: And that's my nail salon bit.
Speaker 2: You've always been so open about mental health when I'm
Speaker 2: talking about anxiety, and you know, that's a big priority
Speaker 2: for us here as well, because I find that so
Speaker 2: many people in their journey never get to share that.
Speaker 2: People don't get to see that within people. You've talked
Speaker 2: about anxiety, intrusive thoughts like why were you comfortable enough
Speaker 2: to open up about that without thinking people are gonna
Speaker 2: pick it that look at that weird your peers kind
Speaker 2: of where where did that get you to get that
Speaker 2: courage and confidence?
Speaker 1: I think it was stupidity. I think I mean, I
Speaker 1: just was like, you know, when I got into the business,
Speaker 1: I was like one hundred percent transparency. I was watching
Speaker 1: comics as a character, and I was like, that doesn't
Speaker 1: seem fun. So you're gonna pick a character and then
Speaker 1: you stay a character your whole life. I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be Burt, and I'm just gonna be Burt
Speaker 1: and anything I think I say, and I'm gonna live
Speaker 1: by this sword, die by the sword. This is my thing.
Speaker 1: And when anxiety came up, I just was like, yo,
Speaker 1: it's I have anxiety. Like I have anxiety, have really
Speaker 1: bad anxiety. I have OCD, I have intrusive thought I
Speaker 1: have I have struggled with all. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't think I have depression only because I just I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't, I can't. I think people that had real,
Speaker 1: real depression. I think it's insulting for me to think
Speaker 1: the thing I go through is depression. I know what
Speaker 1: it's like to have anxiety. I had an anxiety attack
Speaker 1: driving in college and I didn't know what it was.
Speaker 1: I thought I had a brain tumor. And then the
Speaker 1: first time I was explaining it to someone then and
Speaker 1: this is I mean, this is probably twenty seven years old.
Speaker 1: Twenty eight years old. I was explaining it to someone
Speaker 1: and they were like, oh, you get anxiety attacks. I
Speaker 1: went to a therapist and she said, I have a
Speaker 1: fear of flying. I don't know if you've noticed, but
Speaker 1: I have a fear of flying ritual as I do
Speaker 1: when I fly. She said, well, yeah, you have anxiety.
Speaker 1: I'll let me give you Xanax. Then I took Xanax
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh my god, is this what
Speaker 1: regular people feel like? I was like, are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: And then I developed a problem with annex as many
Speaker 1: people with anxiety do. And my wife, right when we
Speaker 1: had Georgia, she said, yo, you're done taking xanax like
Speaker 1: I had taken it. I've been using it, you know,
Speaker 1: and off for like a year. And she may be
Speaker 1: a little more in george In lands like, you're done
Speaker 1: with x annex. It's you can have one if you
Speaker 1: need one, but it can't be your go to every night.
Speaker 1: It can't be the way you put yourself to sleep.
Speaker 1: And then when I said we started doing podcasts, I
Speaker 1: just was like, I don't know. I was like, I
Speaker 1: just be open and honest, you know, I have ruminating
Speaker 1: thoughts where I just chew a thought over and over again.
Speaker 2: What's been the most recent time this morning?
Speaker 1: You want me to the one this morning. I'm a
Speaker 1: great great comic. Nick Fune was telling me about when
Speaker 1: he quit drinking, and he said he was having a
Speaker 1: liver failure and his back was hurting. And this morning
Speaker 1: I woke up on my side and my back hurt.
Speaker 1: And I went, that does it. You've party too much.
Speaker 1: Your liver's failing. Your liver's failing. And I started going
Speaker 1: through thoughts. I could not stop. And I have a
Speaker 1: saying when I go, when I start having anxiety or OCD,
Speaker 1: I go, be like a shark, get out of bed
Speaker 1: and start moving. Second you start moving, things start helping.
Speaker 1: And I go, get in the gym, getting the saana.
Speaker 1: Let's get in the sauna. Let's getting the saw. Let's
Speaker 1: sweats some stuff out. It's just back pain. You trust me,
Speaker 1: you would have other symptoms and I but I can't
Speaker 1: connect with it, and it just it goes on and
Speaker 1: on and on, and I just obsess about it and
Speaker 1: then and I bring it up to almost everyone. I've
Speaker 1: brought it up to everyone I've seen today and then
Speaker 1: I go, no booze, no booze anymore. I'm done for
Speaker 1: a month. I'm gonna cut off for a month. That
Speaker 1: does it. And then I come up here and I
Speaker 1: see your house, I go, all right, bottle of champagne,
Speaker 1: what's it gonna hurt? Right? But I have a saying
Speaker 1: with life, whether you're dealing with anxiety, O C D, eating, uh, drinking, masturbate, whatever,
Speaker 1: you're a little thing is my saying is, and it
Speaker 1: kind of calms me down. Let's do today just a
Speaker 1: little better than we did yesterday. That's all. We gotta do,
Speaker 1: just a baby step a little better than yesterday. And
Speaker 1: if we have a bad day today, realize tomorrow we're
Speaker 1: gonna have We're gonna do better. We have an opportunity
Speaker 1: to do better tomorrow. And so I've been stuck in
Speaker 1: that mindset today and I said, let's just get let's
Speaker 1: do a little bit better today than we did yesterday.
Speaker 1: And so that's where my head's at. But yeah, they've
Speaker 1: got I've had, really And you know, my daughters have anxiety,
Speaker 1: and Leanne doesn't. They have sleep anxiety. They both had
Speaker 1: sleep anxiety when they were young. So Georgia would uh
Speaker 1: wake up and think she was dying. And I remember
Speaker 1: I was so glad I had anxiety thenks I could
Speaker 1: help her. Leanne's like, just go count sheep. I go, uh,
Speaker 1: let's not count. We're not counting. And that's the worst
Speaker 1: way to deal with this, just because if you it's
Speaker 1: shutting your brain off is the thing you need to do.
Speaker 1: And if your brain's just going after it, you're you're screwed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so uh, but Leanne's also gangster. She got both
Speaker 1: of them into therapy immediately.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: And this therapist helped them immensely. But now Georgia and
Speaker 1: I can text about anxiety and talk about it and
Speaker 1: and you know what's the best thing about it is
Speaker 1: when you know other people have it, is you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: so I'm not broken, I'm not crazy. Yeah, And that's
Speaker 1: the greatest feeling. And it's you know, my don't look
Speaker 1: at my family's seen me. When I get ready for
Speaker 1: a flight, it's like I get physically ill. I start
Speaker 1: feeling my head getting tight. I feel this and they're like, hey,
Speaker 1: you just have an anxiety. And then to recognize it.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it doesn't help one hundred percent, but you can
Speaker 1: breathe that's one another one thing I always say, like, wait,
Speaker 1: I'm breathing. I'm still breathing, and I just take deep
Speaker 1: breaths and I'm still breathing. Crazy anxiety scuba diving.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean definitely trying to breathe and scuba
Speaker 2: diving is odd enough.
Speaker 1: I mean probably one of the biggest panic attacks I
Speaker 1: ever had. We're scuba diving in a thunderstorm in Fiji
Speaker 1: at ninety eight and we're in a tin boat and
Speaker 1: I'm just like, I get in the water and we
Speaker 1: start sinking and I realize very quick nothing I like
Speaker 1: is down at the bottom of this ocean. And I
Speaker 1: start kicking up to the top and my dive instructor
Speaker 1: just grabs me, grabs my BC, grabs my thing, puts
Speaker 1: in my mouth, like just holds it there and just
Speaker 1: going like this. And I sunk with this Fijian woman
Speaker 1: who looked like Junior Sayou. She was a big woman,
Speaker 1: and she took me to the bottom of the ocean,
Speaker 1: and I was like and then, but you know, I
Speaker 1: got through it. You get through it. Yeah, you always
Speaker 1: get through it. No one dies from anxiety.
Speaker 2: You've developed enough coping mechanisms.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I have, and I don't know
Speaker 1: if they're healthy. I know alcohol has been a big
Speaker 1: coping mechanism of mine. Yeah. When I the first time
Speaker 1: I learned I could sleep without drinking, like you know,
Speaker 1: because you do it from twenty two to like, you know, thirty,
Speaker 1: and then one day you're like, I gotta try to
Speaker 1: go to sleep without a cocktail or out a goss
Speaker 1: of wine. First time I did that, I was like, whoa,
Speaker 1: I can fall asleep. Shut up. Oh my god, I've
Speaker 1: got enough tools to shut my brain off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that relationship feels healthier now with alcohol.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean, look must be real. Alcohol's poison.
Speaker 1: Everyone knows that it's not good you shouldn't do it.
Speaker 1: But I'm also not a Mormon. I like to have
Speaker 1: a good time. I like to get loose. It's for alcohol.
Speaker 1: For me. It's not even the buzz. I gotta be
Speaker 1: honest with you. It's the letting loose. It's the celebration.
Speaker 1: It's the hey, do you want to do a shot?
Speaker 1: And you go, oh, I definitely want to do it,
Speaker 1: like like the it's the permission to party like it
Speaker 1: literally is. I mean, I name that tour, this because
Speaker 1: when someone's like, hey, man, when someone likes a joint,
Speaker 1: you're like, you want that? That's that's like, go let's
Speaker 1: do it, let's get after it. I love when people
Speaker 1: crack open a bottle of wine, crack open a drink
Speaker 1: and go, hey, you want one. It's It's the funnest
Speaker 1: thing in the world. When when flight attendants say to me,
Speaker 1: can I get you something to drink? I love that
Speaker 1: because they don't always say that, but when they do,
Speaker 1: I go, here's gonna be a good fight. I always
Speaker 1: I said, I have a speech that i've I've people
Speaker 1: get passed around. But it is like a first kiss.
Speaker 1: When we got married, Leanne goes, I says, it bum
Speaker 1: you out, You'll never have sex with anyone. She goes, no,
Speaker 1: absolutely not. I said me either. I said, I think
Speaker 1: I'm good just having sex with you. She goes. What
Speaker 1: really bums me out is I'll never get a first kiss.
Speaker 1: I know for us, that's the worst because we got
Speaker 1: to do the kiss, all the anxieties on us, We
Speaker 1: got to wait the whole night. Does you want to
Speaker 1: kiss me? Is she gonna gets me? Should I take her?
Speaker 1: Should I do it in the car? Should do it?
Speaker 1: When we walk to the car. When should I do it? Oh? No,
Speaker 1: that was the wrong time. That was wrong time for
Speaker 1: a woman. It's just this excitement of like, when's it
Speaker 1: gonna happen? Is he doing it?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: When's it is it? When's my present show up? And
Speaker 1: that's how I feel about shots.
Speaker 2: Well, what's the whoop telling you? I see you're at
Speaker 2: the whoop onne.
Speaker 1: So I'm crazy, I'm crazy, neurotic. Okay, so I check.
Speaker 1: I check all of it. My favorite day in the
Speaker 1: year is what December thirtieth when they post our scores.
Speaker 1: I love whoop and uh. I have found that if
Speaker 1: I am overly hydrated, my heart rate is lower. So
Speaker 1: every night before I go to bread, I drink for
Speaker 1: liquid dests, nineteen ounce liquid dests. I drink four of them.
Speaker 1: I peel the middle the night, but I drink four
Speaker 1: of them. My heart rates around fifty six beats per
Speaker 1: minute when I and that's after having you know, bottle
Speaker 1: of wine or some porosos and so I'm wildly hydrated.
Speaker 1: And that is my key for my whoop. Also, you know,
Speaker 1: for me, it also tells you how hard to work out.
Speaker 1: I love that. I love a goal because you know
Speaker 1: when we did the first show of October, we were
Speaker 1: Charles all trying to set goals of how hard we
Speaker 1: can work out, and that when you see the top
Speaker 1: of the mountain, you know where you have to go,
Speaker 1: and so you go, all right, I'm not done. I'm
Speaker 1: getting back on the treadmill. I'm gonna get on the
Speaker 1: assault bike. Okay, here, we're going to do the ski
Speaker 1: org for We'll do And I like, I love that,
Speaker 1: Like right now I've already hit my goal. My goal
Speaker 1: was like I slept horrible last night. My goal was, uh,
Speaker 1: I think at ten and I'm at nine point six.
Speaker 1: But if it wasn't, go to the gym, hit the
Speaker 1: ski urg ten calories ten times and we'll see you
Speaker 1: just get there ten and get them a minute break. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I like this shit.
Speaker 2: I love it. I love whoop chair. It's great to measure.
Speaker 2: You need it.
Speaker 1: And then they measure your steps and you're like, yo, woop,
Speaker 1: how long have you been doing that? Because I didn't
Speaker 1: send this in. You just turn something on. Give me
Speaker 1: my old steps. I want to know what my old
Speaker 1: steps were. Yeah. When I started measuring steps was up
Speaker 1: very first. I got a fit bit, the little one
Speaker 1: you put in your pocket and brow that change again
Speaker 1: for me, I was like, I'm into fitness tracking. And
Speaker 1: then when they sent these to us for the first
Speaker 1: second Sober October, Buddy, I've been this thing does not
Speaker 1: come off my wrist unless I do a special I
Speaker 1: take it off. You're gonna need to pay me for that. Whoop.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we should figure that out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they used to. They still do. They They're pretty
Speaker 1: good to us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that, but it's been I mean, you
Speaker 2: are literally the best time, buddy.
Speaker 1: You're the best interview I've ever done. You're so good
Speaker 1: at this, but I feel so present. It's crazy you
Speaker 1: but you were so much fun. Now you gotta realize
Speaker 1: this is like there's good chemistry. What we should do
Speaker 1: is we should have a double date, your wife and
Speaker 1: my wife. I love that, and then my wife's gonna
Speaker 1: go shut the up Bert let him talk.
Speaker 2: I can't wait to me, I know, honestly, we have
Speaker 2: to hang outside of this, like I'd love that I've
Speaker 2: got your number. You're such a good time, and we
Speaker 2: end every episode with a final five. These questions have
Speaker 2: to be answered in one word to one sentence maximum. Okay,
Speaker 2: but I may ask you to elaborate, because I think
Speaker 2: you're going to give you some more. Some answers so questionable.
Speaker 2: One is, what is the best advice you've ever heard
Speaker 2: or received.
Speaker 1: Don't take anyone's advice. That's the best advice. But sometimes
Speaker 1: everyone's advice is so built up with their bullshit. I
Speaker 1: remember posting a dance video and everyone's like, why would
Speaker 1: you do that? It sold out my torn seconds. I'm
Speaker 1: so glad I didn't listen to anybody. Don't take a
Speaker 1: good show, don't take anyone's advice.
Speaker 2: I love that. I fully agree the amount of publishers
Speaker 2: that told me not to call my book Think like
Speaker 2: a Monk. That was my first book, and they were like,
Speaker 2: don't call it that. No one wants to Think like
Speaker 2: a Monk.
Speaker 1: They're telling they're giving you advice based on their failures.
Speaker 2: Totally, and you're not them totally. And then data, which
Speaker 2: is which is already in the past.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right. Having said that, Joe Rogan gave me the
Speaker 1: best advice ever. And he just said he just said
Speaker 1: to me, just you know, a little high, little drunk
Speaker 1: in the back of the store. He's like, you need
Speaker 1: a Netflix special. And I was like, yeah, he's like, no,
Speaker 1: you need one. I was like, do you don't know how
Speaker 1: to get that? Joe? And he goes, be undeniable and
Speaker 1: he just walked away. I was like, the fuck does
Speaker 1: that mean? I wrote in my joke book and I
Speaker 1: just tried to figure it out. And then what you
Speaker 1: are undeniable? You're like, h that was great advice.
Speaker 2: I love that question. On the two, what is the
Speaker 2: worst advice you've ever heard or received?
Speaker 1: Worst advice I ever got was you should start wearing
Speaker 1: a shirt. If I had more of shit told you that.
Speaker 1: I will say her name, but some of the work
Speaker 1: that showtime. She said, hey, you should wear a shirt
Speaker 1: for this. Trust me, no one does it without a
Speaker 1: shirt for a reason. You should wear a shirt. And
Speaker 1: I was and I almost did. And then she said
Speaker 1: how about this. You do one with a shirt, one
Speaker 1: without a shirt, okay? And I said, well then we
Speaker 1: can't cut them between them. She goes, yeah, we'll use
Speaker 1: one with a shirt. Do not do it without a shirt.
Speaker 1: And I was like, I don't know. I can't remember
Speaker 1: thinking I'm a little different, like I want to do
Speaker 1: it my way, like I know that, And then a
Speaker 1: lot of people were like, why would you not wear
Speaker 1: a shirt, my dad, Why would you, buddy put on
Speaker 1: a Brooks Brother's coat a tie look sharp? And I
Speaker 1: was like, no, I'm going to do it shirtless. And
Speaker 1: thank god. I mean, like, I think that's been my
Speaker 1: I mean that's how some people times. People just go, oh,
Speaker 1: I didn't recognize you with a shirt on. That's so good.
Speaker 2: I you know what, when you came in today and
Speaker 2: I buzzed you in and I saw you without your show,
Speaker 2: and I was like, he's gonna do it without shot.
Speaker 2: I love it. I love it. I was, he's gonna
Speaker 2: do with that shot. I told the team. I was like,
Speaker 2: he's coming with our shirt. He's gonna do it. And
Speaker 2: then you came out of the car and then your
Speaker 2: your your team had your shirt and I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: okay with this.
Speaker 1: People would my breasts are just too meaty. I'm at
Speaker 1: the point now where my breast at my stomach. You
Speaker 1: don't know what that's like. It's sad. I look good
Speaker 1: standing up shirtless, but sitting down shirtless, I have melted candles.
Speaker 2: Dude, it's great. I love it. I was, so I
Speaker 2: was like, guys, he's gonna do it.
Speaker 1: I can answer these last one shirtless, just just to
Speaker 1: really be brand friend. God, this is a nice shirt.
Speaker 2: It's a really nice shot.
Speaker 1: I really like it.
Speaker 2: Don't you look great?
Speaker 1: Bro?
Speaker 2: You look great?
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Yeah. It's like, wow, we're getting out there. We go Okay,
Speaker 2: we're getting the full experience. I love it.
Speaker 1: Now. I'm like, okay, what's our next question? They're amazing.
Speaker 2: I love this. Question. Number three is what's different and
Speaker 2: similar about the way you parent your kids and the
Speaker 2: way your dad parented you.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'll tell you what's similar. Okay, I parented my
Speaker 1: kids the exact way my dad parented me. What's different
Speaker 1: is my kids are smarter than I was. And they
Speaker 1: told me I was doing it wrong. A dude. I
Speaker 1: was a raise your voice, raise your voice kind of dad.
Speaker 1: Girls didn't. I remember the biggest fight we ever gotten
Speaker 1: with girls. They took the collars. They like when our
Speaker 1: dogs are naked and we have bull masters Like, oh, girls, second,
Speaker 1: you take the colors off. I can't control that dog.
Speaker 1: And they let both the dogs out and they chased
Speaker 1: a woman and I couldn't get them say that the
Speaker 1: collars and I came in and I started yelling at
Speaker 1: my girls, and Georgia goes, just so you know, when
Speaker 1: you get to hear, we know there's nowhere else you're going.
Speaker 1: And I was like what. She goes, the threat's over.
Speaker 1: This is as bad as a guess. And I was like, well,
Speaker 1: she goes, you're not gonna hit us, so it's not working,
Speaker 1: all right? And I was like, oh shit, and I realized, oh,
Speaker 1: it's not working. You can't just go like that, does it?
Speaker 1: I'm not because this is as bad as it gets.
Speaker 1: I go, Okay, where does it go from here? And
Speaker 1: then Georgia took the car with her friends and you're
Speaker 1: not allowed to do that, and she was like, here
Speaker 1: we go again. LeAnn caught her and I said, yo,
Speaker 1: come home right now. She drops her friends off, she
Speaker 1: comes home, she sits and she's like, all right, do
Speaker 1: it like that? I go, hey, it's just unsafe. Can
Speaker 1: you do me a favor? Just write, like, write like
Speaker 1: a thousand words on why you think that I'd be
Speaker 1: upset about this? And she started crying and she goes, wait,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna yell at me. I went, no, it
Speaker 1: doesn't work. You said that it doesn't work, and it
Speaker 1: doesn't work. You still you're still doing bad things. So like,
Speaker 1: just write a thousand words and then give it to me.
Speaker 1: And she started sobbing, crying, and she was like, she goes,
Speaker 1: I think you're you're turning into like a really great dad.
Speaker 1: And I was like really, and she goes, you understand me,
Speaker 1: your dad. It didn't work, and then she wrote a
Speaker 1: thousand words and it was all thousand words why she
Speaker 1: loves me and doesn't want to let me down. And
Speaker 1: I went, oh shit, yeah, I love my dad, but
Speaker 1: he didn't do that.
Speaker 2: Wow. Do you think having to do it has changing
Speaker 2: like that?
Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, those two kids, those two kids are just
Speaker 1: incredible kids, really incredible kids who get it and uh
Speaker 1: and get me and uh perfect trying to play on
Speaker 1: a trip to Hawaiian and both of them want to
Speaker 1: get jobs this summer. I'm like, what are we talking about?
Speaker 1: My dad said Hawaii. I'd be likeyeh, I've got my
Speaker 1: job tomorrow. Dad. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I love that question Number four. You're such an open book.
Speaker 2: What's something people don't know about you that they'd be
Speaker 2: surprised to hear?
Speaker 1: I think if people heard my inner dialogue sometimes interesting,
Speaker 1: I think they'd I think people would be bummed out
Speaker 1: for me. Oh interesting, You know how you say like
Speaker 1: you say, like the things sometimes you say to yourself.
Speaker 1: You go, I forget their quote, but it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: what would what would you say if someone was saying
Speaker 1: that about your daughter? Yeah, and you go, what, I
Speaker 1: beat that person up? And then why would you let
Speaker 1: them do it to you? Sometimes my inner dialogue is
Speaker 1: it can be really punitive, and I think I think
Speaker 1: if people heard it, they would it would break their
Speaker 1: heart a little bit. And I that's the one thing
Speaker 1: I tried better to change about myself is my inner
Speaker 1: dialogue to be more positive about myself. But at the
Speaker 1: same time, that punitiveness is the thing that drives me
Speaker 1: a little bit, where I go, don't let them if
Speaker 1: they think that about you, You change, you do better,
Speaker 1: You get that does it. Let's get in the gym,
Speaker 1: let's write, let's read that script, Let's let's do that movie.
Speaker 1: Let's challenge ourselves to do that. Let's go back on door,
Speaker 1: let's take time off. Like I think that inner dialogue,
Speaker 1: as unhealthy as it may be, I bet if most
Speaker 1: people heard that inner dialogue, they'd give me a hug
Speaker 1: and go I do the same shit.
Speaker 2: Mm yeah, definitely, Yeah, I think we will do. I
Speaker 2: do it. We all do it.
Speaker 1: You just look in the mirror and then you should
Speaker 1: be happy. Look at these crystal blue electric eyes.
Speaker 2: Oh, I think there's so many. I think you're spot
Speaker 2: there's so many. And by the way, it is that
Speaker 2: you're somewhat trained to be driven and you know that
Speaker 2: that level of setting that standard high is what lets
Speaker 2: you rise and keep going. Otherwise we would have sat
Speaker 2: every ten minutes and walked off right like what, there's
Speaker 2: no need. So there's that, and then there's the compassion.
Speaker 2: And that's why I've seen the best performers in the world.
Speaker 2: They have high standards, but then they have high grace.
Speaker 2: And it's like if you have one or the other,
Speaker 2: it doesn't work. If you have high standards and you
Speaker 2: have low grace, you can't actually keep to those high standards.
Speaker 2: And if you have low standards and high grace, well
Speaker 2: then you'll never get anywhere.
Speaker 1: I'm always blown away by guys with crazy confidence, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, is that real? Like I go like, like
Speaker 1: people just talk wild shit. I'm like, I'm like, yo,
Speaker 1: I'm actually a good comic. I'm better than like, I'm
Speaker 1: like legitimate, Like you believe that about yourself. I'm always
Speaker 1: blown away by that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you have to, Yeah, you have to. There
Speaker 2: was this great Federer gave this Roger feder of the
Speaker 2: tennis Player gave this amazing commencement speech last year, and
Speaker 2: he was saying that he's only won something like sixty
Speaker 2: percent of his points in his lifetime, and he was saying,
Speaker 2: the best thing I have to do is lose a
Speaker 2: point and then forget about that point. That could got
Speaker 2: to move on because others we're going to lose the
Speaker 2: next points, the next point if I keep thinking about
Speaker 2: that last loss. But because I've lost a ton of
Speaker 2: points in my life, he goes, My skill is not
Speaker 2: to not lose points. My skill is to be able
Speaker 2: to leave that point that I lost in the background
Speaker 2: to go win the next point. And I feel like that,
Speaker 2: that's that compassion, that's that grace of like move on
Speaker 2: next one, like you did with your next special the
Speaker 2: first one didn't work out, next one, Like let's see
Speaker 2: what can go.
Speaker 1: So it's crazy. I think that's uh, yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know who i'd be with if I like I sometimes
Speaker 1: toy with the idea of getting on prozac or something,
Speaker 1: and then I go but wait, I don't want to
Speaker 1: get rid of the Maybe that's my mom. I thought
Speaker 1: I was gonna own. Was like, she goes, oh, honey,
Speaker 1: those are your nooks and crannies. What my mom has?
Speaker 1: Zero anxiety, zero anxiety.
Speaker 2: Wow, I love that.
Speaker 1: My dad called one time he's called me on FaceTime.
Speaker 1: He goes, hey, buddy, I want to just tell you
Speaker 1: that I love you. I'm going into surgery tomorrow. I go, okay,
Speaker 1: I said, was it a crazy surgery? He goes no,
Speaker 1: but you know, you know, I just want to you
Speaker 1: know know, I love you. And I hear from my
Speaker 1: mom in the background go, sometimes they don't wake up.
Speaker 1: I was like, wait, mom, what she said? Sometimes they
Speaker 1: don't wake up, So your dad may not wake up.
Speaker 1: He may die. And I'm like I look at my
Speaker 1: dad's eyes and he's like I live with this woman.
Speaker 2: Oh good? Last two questions?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 2: Where am I? Let's do? Okay?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: So has there ever been a joke or something you
Speaker 2: said in a roast or something like that on stage
Speaker 2: where you're like, yeah, I went too far?
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, oh wow, yeah, every podcast I do.
Speaker 1: You're sensitive too, that's your thing. Oh, I never I
Speaker 1: never want a joke to hurt someone. Yeah, I remember
Speaker 1: I told a joke one time about a black women.
Speaker 1: It was a good joke. I would have stood by
Speaker 1: it had a fan not come up to me as
Speaker 1: a black woman. She was really pretty and she said, hey, man,
Speaker 1: I I'm a fan, and I was like cool. She goes,
Speaker 1: I just want you to know that that joke kind
Speaker 1: of hurt a little bit. And she goes, and I
Speaker 1: know that wasn't your intention, but it didn't make me
Speaker 1: feel like I was still part of the team. I
Speaker 1: felt like I was now an outsider. And I went ooh,
Speaker 1: she goes, yeah, I know, she goes, I didn't. I
Speaker 1: wasn't thinking about being black until you said that. And
Speaker 1: then when you said it, I realized. I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm the only black woman in there, and I went, oh,
Speaker 1: that's not my intention. She goes, I know that's why
Speaker 1: I'm telling you. Wow. That was like yeah, And I remember,
Speaker 1: But you don't realize that when you do call me,
Speaker 1: you're just trying to get last right. And the one
Speaker 1: time I didn't believe it, I was blind and he
Speaker 1: was blind. I really regret that I didn't. Tommy told
Speaker 1: me he wasn't blind. He was lying and I tested
Speaker 1: him and then he got up and he was really
Speaker 1: blind and I was like, wow, he's really blind. And
Speaker 1: then he got blind two days ago and I was like,
Speaker 1: oh god, so he wasn't it was, yeah, that was I. Hey,
Speaker 1: I can we could do a podcast on regrets. I've
Speaker 1: been doing this twenty five years. I regret a lot.
Speaker 2: Oh god, what about what about when you said your door?
Speaker 2: I see especially? And then like Dad stopped being a misogynist,
Speaker 2: like they were like.
Speaker 1: They told me, They go, yeah, I that is just
Speaker 1: a misogynist and I went, no, I'm not. And they
Speaker 1: went have you ever watched your stand up? And I
Speaker 1: was like yeah, and they're like do you hear the
Speaker 1: way you talk about mom? And I was like, but
Speaker 1: that's mom and they're like do dad? Dude, you're a
Speaker 1: wild misogynist. And then Isla was like, could you just
Speaker 1: write a joke for women, like to make the women
Speaker 1: feel like better than the men? And I was like,
Speaker 1: I can do that, and then I wrote it and
Speaker 1: they didn't like it. They definitely didn't like it.
Speaker 2: But but maybe that's coming. Maybe you're you're moving in
Speaker 2: that direction.
Speaker 1: Maybe I don't know. I don't know. What my direction is.
Speaker 1: Now that I have this crying joke at the end,
Speaker 1: I feel like everyone's gonna be like, what are you
Speaker 1: gonna make us cry about next? And I'd be like, oh, God,
Speaker 1: hope my dad dies so I buried my dad. They're like,
Speaker 1: here we go.
Speaker 2: Final question. We asked this to every guest who's ever
Speaker 2: been on the show. If you could create one law
Speaker 2: that everyone in the world had to follow, what would
Speaker 2: it be.
Speaker 1: The law I would make, Like I really dig like
Speaker 1: Siesta in Spain, but not everyone's a napper. But I
Speaker 1: like that concept that there's like I would do, like
Speaker 1: I would do state mandated happy hours, Like state mandated
Speaker 1: happy hours. We're like, we're like you had at five
Speaker 1: o'clock when you got off work, you couldn't go home.
Speaker 1: You had to go to everyone have quarter pointed bars,
Speaker 1: and you had to go to these bars and you
Speaker 1: don't have to drink, but you got to spend time
Speaker 1: and talk to people in the community. Like you've got
Speaker 1: to go there and people can drink, and it's only
Speaker 1: an hour. It's one hour, but everyone goes you and
Speaker 1: everyone has to go and be social and just be
Speaker 1: connected to That's where I think so cool about London.
Speaker 1: We were talking about that is the pub energy. You
Speaker 1: guys got that, and I think that in America if
Speaker 1: we knew, like I was like, oh, we got to
Speaker 1: wrap this up. We got to go to Chili's real quick.
Speaker 1: And you're like, oh, you go to Chili's too. I go, well,
Speaker 1: this week, I'm going to Chili's. And then we went
Speaker 1: to Chili's and you're like, we should get a drink.
Speaker 1: I think that would be awesome and I would definitely
Speaker 1: do comedy at those shows. I would love that court
Speaker 1: appointed mandated happy hour comedy shows.
Speaker 2: There we go, first time ever we've had that on
Speaker 2: the show. So it's a good answer. Well, I love it,
Speaker 2: but crashier lucky specials.
Speaker 1: Out the luckiest dude.
Speaker 2: This is so much fun.
Speaker 1: You're the best, and thank you for thank you for
Speaker 1: listening to me tell you how important I was on
Speaker 1: that plane. I'm so glad I said that.
Speaker 2: In the best ways. I was like, I was like,
Speaker 2: he is I already know he's funny, because I was like, no,
Speaker 2: normally if someone said that you just it wouldn't line.
Speaker 2: But you said it in the most sweet and daring way.
Speaker 1: I wish I had recorded that I wish I recorded
Speaker 1: that because I would love to hear what I sound
Speaker 1: like talking about myself because I know what I know
Speaker 1: it comes from a good place. But especially, like I kept,
Speaker 1: if I see someone I recognize, I get overwhelmed.
Speaker 2: You were amazing, You're so nice. And then you mentioned
Speaker 2: Tom Sagura and I was like, oh, yeah, I know
Speaker 2: Tom because my videographer works with Tom, and so I
Speaker 2: was aware. And then yeah it was and I knew
Speaker 2: what Too Bears was, but it was. It was one
Speaker 2: of those weird situations where like we just but we
Speaker 2: hit it off. Man, dude, you're here.
Speaker 1: What's crazy? As I had you. I had videos of
Speaker 1: you saved in my YouTube you send them to and
Speaker 1: I was like, I was like, I am watched, I
Speaker 1: watch you. I relax, I sit back and listen to
Speaker 1: your interviews. You're the best.
Speaker 2: I want to come to your next special, next live.
Speaker 2: I'm there in the audience.
Speaker 1: Done double date first.
Speaker 2: I'd love it for that that first. Okay, I love it.
Speaker 2: I'm in. I'm in, I love it.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 2: If you love this episode, you love My interview with
Speaker 2: Will Smith on owning your truth and unlocking the power
Speaker 2: of manifestation.
Speaker 1: Anybody who hasn't spoken to their parents or their brother,
Speaker 1: call them right now. Don't think you're going to have
Speaker 1: a chance to call them tomorrow or next week. That
Speaker 1: opportunity with my father changed every relationship in my life.