WEBVTT - My Teamsters President - Sean O’Brien 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:04.320 Are the teamsters affiliated with the mob or were they ever? 0:00:04.600 --> 0:00:09.799 Well, I'm sure back in the day, the fifties, sixties, seventies, eighties, Yeah, eighties, 0:00:09.800 --> 0:00:13.920 there's no more organized crime. There's there's no organized crime 0:00:14.040 --> 0:00:15.160 in the team scision. 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:28.240 In Pashasha Shush show. Uh, welcome to Tosh Show. I'm 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:33.600 your pilot, Captain Dan Tosh with me Eddie Gosling. Hello, Dan, 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:37.680 You guys are in capable hands today. If you look 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:41.040 out your window, you'll probably see another car. Give him 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:48.000 a honk, let him know you're a toshakle. Two toshakles. Toshakles. 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:49.639 That should be the thing. 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:50.120 I like that. 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:52.239 Oh man, what am I doing with my hair? I'll 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:54.920 tell you what I'm doing my hair. Nobody asked, but uh, 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:58.600 I just haven't gotten it cut in so long. I'm 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:05.679 scheduled for Tuesday next week. So that's big. That's big. 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:08.840 I had a great week. I went out to Palm 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:14.720 Springs as I do every year, for the Indian Wells. 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:18.720 Did they say Indian Wells anymore? Would you say Indigenous Wells? 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:23.000 Doesn't matter. The tennis tournament it was great now. Sadly, 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:26.960 Djokovic had gotten knocked out in an early round, so 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:32.440 he wasn't there when I went. I was gonna heckle, 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:35.720 I was gonna boo, but he had he had took 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:38.880 the cowards way out and lost in the first or 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:42.240 second round. I believe I took my father in law 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:46.080 and my mother in law. My father in law was 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:49.800 it was like it was like bringing my grandma. Didn'tan wells. 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:51.720 It was it was cold. I'm not gonna lie. I 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:54.960 was in the fifties. In the evening session, he's bringing 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:57.600 a blanket from the Airbnb. I don't know if you're 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:00.400 supposed to take blankets off the property, but he did. 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:06.120 He's he's bundled up. I'm taking photos of him just 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:10.360 half asleep. He's like, I wasn't sleeping. I was a cheering. 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:14.200 I'm like, looks like you were half asleep there, buddy. 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:18.480 It was it was fun. Went to a Nobu one night. 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:19.160 Nice. 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:22.239 They have a Nobu restaurant at Indian Wells and it 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:25.239 overlooks Court too. Now, if you sit right on the 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:30.240 edge those seats, which I do every year, you get 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:33.519 to watch a match. This year there was a little 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:36.760 mix up. Pete. Pete messed it up. He doesn't he 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:39.320 doesn't admit it, but they're like, oh, we got you 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:41.160 close to the window, and close to the window you 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:44.400 can't see anything. That doesn't matter anyway, long story short, 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:47.200 they kick some people out and we got to move 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:49.919 over to the window. And then I ordered my drink. 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:53.760 Had had an alcoholic beverage, Eddie. This is big. Yeah, 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:57.639 some passion fruit margarita. It's delicious. 0:02:58.040 --> 0:02:58.639 Are you hooked? 0:02:59.160 --> 0:02:59.200 No? 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:03.360 I have it once year. That's my drink. 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:04.440 You're hook buddy. 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:08.000 I drink one drink a year. That's great that I 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:12.400 actually look forward to. That is Draper. Draper was on fire. 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:15.680 Didn't really Nobody could really hold a torch to him. 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:20.280 I saw Alcarez. Gosh, when you look at Alcarez's thighs, 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:23.480 it's hard not to be impressed. You're like, that is 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:28.240 those are some Those are some strong legs and quick 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:33.040 as a cat too. And guess what else made the 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:37.640 Jumbo Tron the big screen. That's that's your dream, you know. 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:40.120 And it wasn't for the cool reason like where they 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:43.920 go around, you know, show the celebrities. No, they had 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:46.400 no idea. It was me. They were just zooming in 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:49.960 on my daughter. There you go, Yeah, she was doing 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:52.760 something funny. It was. It was making everybody laugh. She 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:57.040 was taking a yogi. You know what yogis are. Oh yeah, yeah, 0:03:57.040 --> 0:03:59.280 they're disgusting. But anyway, she was putting yogi's on my 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:01.920 lip and then biting him off. And then next thing 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:04.800 I know, we're on the big screen. I'm like, listen, guys, 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:07.720 I have to I have to do this yogi thing 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:13.200 or she's gonna start screaming during points you don't else 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:16.960 said it. Eddie went surfing in Palm Springs you believe it, 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:19.080 not even near the ocean. Now. We went to the 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:24.120 Palm Spring Surf Club. Pierre came out for the day. Brian, 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:28.480 my friend from Sunny Day Coffee. He came with me 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:35.400 and and Lochlan. Lachlan Patters say. Lachlan was he was struggling. 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:38.400 That was fun, always watching him panic. It makes me laugh. 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:42.000 But yeah, we surfed the wavepool, you know, put on 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:46.240 the slab setting, getting fun little barrels. Believe it or not, 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:48.560 that wave can actually hold you down under water for 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:52.080 quite some time. I didn't. I didn't get any bad holddowns, 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:55.440 but uh, Pierre had a couple. It made me it 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:57.960 always be Pierre got sucked into the machine at one point. 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:01.480 That was a stare he got. He got to He 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:05.320 said that I distracted him because the waves coming like little, 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:09.200 these old three wave sets, and and he uh was 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:11.440 getting in position, and then I started messing with him. 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:14.279 And anyway, next thing I know, he's getting sucked into 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:18.160 this machine and his boards banging around. He was he 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:21.400 got really scared and I was crying laughing. Might have 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:23.520 been my favorite part of the day, not even surfing, 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:27.200 but just watching him get swallowed by a huge machine, 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:33.360 eaten by the machine. He was so scared. Oh god, 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:37.880 it was funny. Yeah, that was cute. I enjoyed my life, 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:40.799 you know, get out there, spend time with the family, 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:44.400 do stuff like that. I don't get these people that 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:47.120 want to be the hardest working person in show business. 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:51.200 That's that seems like a horrible way to live. I 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:53.240 didn't get into the show business because I have a 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:56.440 good work ethic. Eddie, do you ever have a real job? 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:57.200 I did? 0:05:57.640 --> 0:05:58.720 What kind of job did you have? 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:03.040 I always say I audited at a meat plant, like 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:05.160 they're a meat production company, and I would audit the 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:07.440 orders to make sure they were in the margins. What 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:10.520 you just said, words, Well, That's what I did as 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:12.640 an auditor at a meat processing. 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:13.839 To see if they were in the margins. 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:14.080 Yeah. 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:16.240 If you ordered a bunch of cheese and there was 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:18.520 like it was outside of the plus seven percent, they 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:21.159 wanted to make it too low, you'd bring it over and. 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:24.440 Payer basket to stop Eddie. I mean that you couldn't 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:26.360 have described. How long did you work there? 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:27.320 A couple of years? 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:30.400 While you worked there a couple of years? Yeah, you 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:32.360 just you just kept them in the marching. Were you 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:33.240 good at your job? 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:34.920 I mean if it was out of a margin, I'd 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:36.240 highlight it and put in a basket. 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:38.040 I don't know, you don't know if you were good. 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:39.520 Did you ever? How much did you get paid? 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:42.200 I mean enough to have an apartment in San Antonio? 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:45.000 Do you think it was over over twenty dollars an 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:46.640 hour or over ten dollars an hour? 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:47.200 Over ten? 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:50.200 Not over twenty, No, maybe around fifteen. Did you have 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:52.120 to have a college degree for this job? Oh? 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:54.240 No, you just had a no shotgun. He'd be a 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:56.280 bass player in a band and his mom worked there. 0:06:57.000 --> 0:07:00.840 Oh literally that was you and you worked there for 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:04.320 two years? And how and when you quit there? What 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:08.200 did you go to just comedy folks. That was you 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:13.040 went from from that auditing this meat packing place to comedy. Yep, 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:15.600 you think you're the only person that's. 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:18.920 Gone that route from a Pelly Brothers, Yeah, I do. 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:23.600 See. I always think that that one of the keys, 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:28.400 uh to my stand up was that I never actually 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:32.360 had a real job, So I never quit something that 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:38.200 provided me any quote stability, so I wasn't leaving anything 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:41.680 on the table. I always admired people that like went 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:45.200 into comedy that I had a like, like an actual job. 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:46.840 Oh yeah. When you hear like this guy used to 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:49.320 be a lawyer or doc and they leave that profession 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:52.000 to become comics, I'm like, what is happening? 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:56.440 Well, your job? I mean, I just can't imagine having 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:58.920 the confidence to go from that to be, like, you 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:01.200 know what I could I should entertain people. 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:02.560 I really took a leap. 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:10.040 Well all this good stuff. Yeah, yeah, I mean I've 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:15.120 never I've always been fascinated, uh with people that have 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:18.480 quote real jobs. I don't really have any blue collar 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:20.440 people in my life. When I was growing up, it 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:23.320 was all it was all white collar and that that 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:27.400 probably doesn't surprise anybody when they look at how fancy 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:30.400 I am. I tell you what what confuses me about 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:34.520 blue collar is, Hey, they're really not collar people right 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:38.760 for the most part. They're more in tease. They're the 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:43.880 crew neck boys. Boy. But without blue collar workers, this 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:50.800 country would fall apart. In today's guest, oh this guy. 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:54.600 This guy cares more about the working class than anyone 0:08:54.640 --> 0:09:04.320 I've ever known. Enjoy Pasha, break or breaker? Do you copy? 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:07.080 My guest today is from Boston aka being town ak 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:09.640 my favorite city to shit on that I secretly love. 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:11.719 He is the general president of the one of the 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:15.280 most powerful unions in this country, protecting the hard working 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:17.880 men and women trucking up and down the roads, keeping 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:21.040 our shelves stocked, our tanks full, in our economy. Humming, 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:25.840 Please welcome Sean over. That was mantro awesome. First question, 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:26.840 do you believe in ghosts? 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:30.360 I'll put it this way. There's been people put on 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:33.240 this earth I believe to haunt my life daily. 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:36.640 I mean, probably the best answer I've ever heard one 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:39.280 agree with that. I'll be honest with you. I almost 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:43.560 believe it's almost a majority that people put on this planet. 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:45.960 We're here to do just that to me. You group 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:48.920 in Boston I did. Oh man. I mean, if if 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:52.360 you were to write Boston and then show a photo 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:53.640 of some it is you. 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:56.840 You are Boston. Am I that handsome? I mean it's 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:59.280 a we are a good looking city. 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:02.719 No, you're nodding. I mean you look like you could 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:04.839 take a two by four to the neck and it 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:05.679 wouldn't bother you. 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:07.319 You know, I do have failing sir. 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:10.000 Are you a softie? 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:12.360 Yeah? You know, I like long walks in the park 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:13.160 and I'm on aries. 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:14.440 Did you grow up fighting? 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:16.960 Ever? I always tell people, I mean I grew up. 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:19.959 I have two brothers. My dad was My dad was 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:24.959 a big guy, a well respected guy, you know, and 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:27.040 we were always taught and my mother brought us up 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:29.679 pretty much. She was grew up in the projects in Boston, 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:32.640 raised her three younger brothers. She is the toughest O'Brien. 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:34.880 She's probably one of the toughest women I've ever met 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:38.000 in my life. Very classy, but she always made certain 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:40.880 that two things. One that you have two brothers and 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:43.319 you always got to protect each other and have each 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:46.160 other's back. And I expect that if one to use 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:48.360 in a fight, both use better be and all three 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:50.400 is better be in that fight. So we were always 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:53.199 brought up to stick off for each other. Was violence promoted? No, 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:56.040 but wasn't an occurrence. Absolutely, I get. 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:59.040 It, and it's not. I mean, it's probably technically some 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:02.480 of those circumstans this was probably wrong. But I mean 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:07.640 I just fled, fled conflict my entire life, like, Nope, 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:10.439 time to leave here. I think my mom would be like, 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:13.320 if your brother's getting beat up, just run. I don't 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:16.199 better than better than both of you getting. 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:18.280 My mother used to say, if your brother comes home 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:20.079 with a black guy, you both better come home on 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:20.640 the black guy. 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:23.520 No, my mom would be like, well he wasn't fast enough, 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:26.240 was he? And listen, it's not like I grew up, 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:29.240 you know, I grew up poor. I lived in Saint Louis. 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:31.640 That's as a kid, I just didn't have it in me. 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:34.480 I just wasn't that kid. I didn't know how to fight. 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:37.000 I didn't have it. And my dad wasn't you know, 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:38.960 he wasn't. He's a big man. He's six foot he's 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:39.679 mean to people. 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:42.320 My mother had a presence of being six foot five 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:43.719 and she's about five foot two. 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:47.120 Yeah, well, no, my my mom was sweet. I'm not 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:49.679 gonna knock my mom and how she raised pussies, but 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:53.160 she did have You still live in Boston. 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:55.760 So I live in Boston when I'm I'm home, but 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:58.840 primarily I live in Washington, d C. Because that's where 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:01.520 my day job as the international president of the Teams 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:02.040 This takes me. 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:03.280 So you like d C. 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:06.079 I've been there three years. I love the city. The 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:09.079 people were Uh, it was tough to adjust to the 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:10.960 people down there because you know, I was brought up 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:14.280 in an area where you're pretty direct. What you see 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:17.080 is what you get. And when you are dealing in DC, 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:20.360 whether you're dealing with politicians or whoever, you know, they'll 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:22.000 say one thing and do another. So I had to 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:24.120 kind of navigate through. I remember the first three weeks 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:26.559 down there, I'm like, I hate this fucking place. Why 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:29.000 did I take Why did I take this job? But 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:32.080 it's like anything else, you learn to adapt to situations. 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:36.160 And and you know, I think living down there, being 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:39.000 from where I'm from, with the personality that I have, 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:42.000 it's gotten a lot better. You know, it was just 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:43.480 it was a tough adjustment at first. 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:46.440 I love d C too, I mean it's a city. 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:48.840 I love Boston more I always say I like New 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:51.320 York more just because there's a it's a bigger fan base. 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:53.400 I sell more tickets. So I lie to those people. 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:55.719 I sell them I love them more. But the reality is, 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:57.320 if I had to live in a city, I'd live 0:12:57.360 --> 0:12:59.560 in Boston. But not year round. That's nonsense. 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:01.640 Yep, Boston. I mean Boston is a great city now 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:04.360 because I'm from there. It's a small city but a 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:08.920 big presence that's pretty and it's clean, very clean, clean. 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:11.960 Now the people I could do without, but fair enough 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:12.880 that that's that's. 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:15.040 How you want to live in a clean city with 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:15.520 no people. 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:19.839 Oh, now you're talking right, that's a home. Yeah. You 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:20.760 attended U MASS. 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:21.319 I did. 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:23.840 How many the other six hundred colleges within the city 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:24.559 did you apply to? 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:26.480 I didn't apply to any of them, to be honest. 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:28.080 In matter of fact, I got a great story about 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:30.199 how I ended up at U MASS. So I was 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:33.040 recruited to play football for the University of New Haven. 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:36.800 I was a great high school football player. But you know, 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:39.640 I'm not a huge person, so my potential. I reached 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:41.280 my potential, So I wasn't going to go to a 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:43.199 Division one school. I was a running back and a 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:47.040 linebacker and sometimes an offensive lineman, sometimes alongside whatever they 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:49.320 needed me to do. I got recruited by a Division 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:53.000 II school that gave me a full scholarship. So I 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:55.640 ended up going to University of New Haven for about 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:58.520 a minute and it just didn't work out. It was awful. 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:01.520 So I ended up believe in there, and so my 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:03.319 father picked me up and he was like, hey, you 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:06.600 know what's it's tough. Sometimes you're going to make tough decisions. 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:09.280 And I'm like, this is great, Like my father's supporting 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:09.920 this decision. 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:10.480 Uh huh. 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:14.320 And next day he says to me, what'd you do today? 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:15.640 You losa? Do you go get a job? 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:16.000 Oh? 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:18.280 And I'm like, oh my god. So I was like, yeah, 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:20.000 that was that was something going. I'm going to go 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:22.160 And I was in the Union at the time, so 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:23.760 I'm like, ill, maybe go to Maybe I'll just go 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:25.240 in the Marine Corps. So I was going to go 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:28.440 talk to a recruiter to go into the Marines, and 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:30.440 all of a sudden, this guy in a station wagon 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:32.360 pulls up and I'm going to standing in the corner 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:35.800 aimlessly thinking about my life. It's eighteen years old, and 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:38.040 the guy looks up at me and he says, aren't 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:40.120 you supposed to be playing football University of New Hand? 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:42.360 What are you doing? It didn't work out? He's like, 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:44.920 I coach football you Mass. Mike really goes like Dick, 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:48.160 I graduated high school. Your mother. His name was coach Kent, Okay, goes, 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:49.800 you want to go to your Mass and play football. 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:52.320 I said, yeah, sure I'll do. I'll give it a shot. 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:55.720 So I walk home and I gave him my phone number. 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:58.000 So I walk in and you know, there's my mother 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:00.160 and father sitting there, and my father's like, did you 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:02.240 do today? I go, well, I was going to go 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:05.800 join the Marine Corps, I said, but funny thing happened. Uh, 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:08.480 Coach Kent pulled up in a station wagon. I'm going 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:10.680 to you Mass, Boston to play football. He's like, how 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:12.000 are you going to do that? You didn't even apply 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:16.160 the phone rings. My mother is like, Jim Kent Charlestown High. 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:18.760 I was in your Mass playing football the next day. 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:21.160 So to your question, I didn't apply to one school 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:21.960 in Massachusetts. 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:22.560 It's pretty great. 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:26.920 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. The American American. 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:29.120 Dream and how that football career end. 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:31.200 It went great. I mean I started as a freshman, 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:34.600 but I knew I always had a passion and I 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:36.960 always did well in school. But I didn't want to 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:38.440 be in school like I didn't I wanted to be 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:40.760 out working like. I loved the union because it was 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:44.480 around me my entire life for generations. I loved my 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:47.200 father's friends. I loved, you know, the old timers. I 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:49.080 loved going to union meetings, and I knew, like I 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:50.920 want and I worked in the union in high school. 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:53.320 I worked in the theater district in Boston. We used 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:57.240 onload and load Broadway shows UH, and it was great, 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:00.160 And I just loved the camaraderie. I love the the 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:03.200 passion that people showed going to work every single day. 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:07.560 But more importantly, I love the UH loyalty that I 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.560 was taught about the organization. So I knew this was 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:12.960 just a shortstop for me, and I knew that I 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:14.880 wanted to I wanted to be in the team stage union. 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:17.120 And now you're the president of that union that you 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:20.760 once idolized. You're a lot like Mark Zuckerberg in your career, 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:23.200 minus the net worth. 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:25.880 I gotta be honestoring, no one has ever compared me 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:27.040 to fucking Box I'm. 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:30.640 Just saying, you drop out of high school, boom, big dreams. 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:33.960 I love doing shows in Union cities, to be honest 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:37.000 with you, Like, if I'm in Chicago, of course you 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:40.280 go to a Taylor Swift show, you obviously understand the 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:43.920 just bells and whistles. They're incredible what they're doing. Me, 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:46.720 I'm going out to a microphone. That's it. But yet 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:50.120 still at Union shows it's like, M pete, knock it off. 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:53.120 Don't touch that fucking stool. That's somebody's job to bring 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:55.240 that stool out there instead that That's sure, I have 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:57.240 to pay a little more at that venue, but god 0:16:57.280 --> 0:16:57.720 do I love it. 0:16:57.840 --> 0:16:59.320 You probably make a lot more at that venue. 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:02.000 I mean because it's a better market, right, I mean 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:04.000 it's it's usually the best markets that have those. 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:06.440 You were in Boston recently, right, M I do? 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:07.000 I am? 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:09.000 What did you? What did you perform in Boston? 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:09.920 Is that bad? 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:12.520 Those are all team since? 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:13.879 Of course? Now I love it. 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:16.399 I worked on those theatas in high school. Ah, but 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:19.240 they were Broadway theatres. They were either Broadway of Music. 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:21.120 Now there's been such a shift with comedy. 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:25.680 Uh, that's that's It's so easy comedy like it's that 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:28.280 you don't bring anything to show up, do a show. 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:32.400 Explain what the president of the Teamsters does besides challenge 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:34.639 senators from Oklahoma to fights. 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:39.760 That was that was unfortunately a defining moment in my career. 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:41.879 Because it was certainly it was certainly a highlight. 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:43.920 Yeah, you know what it is. It's just like we 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:46.320 talked about earlier. You enabled your grown you don't let people, 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:48.320 you don't let people shot on you, you don't let 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:49.240 people try and bully you. 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:52.720 You would have destroyed that. There's no doubt that you 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:53.520 would have won the fight. 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:56.639 Look, you know what, here's the thing. And I've actually 0:17:56.680 --> 0:17:59.200 become friends with Mark Wayne Mullen, and you know, he's 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:01.480 a big strong he's a cauliflower is. 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:03.280 I mean, it just depends on how serious you take 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:06.080 the fight. If the first part you go for it, 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:08.480 take out what you're willing to do to win exactly, 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:10.520 That's where I'm at. You know, you go to a 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:15.120 kneecap right away, cauliflower ear be damned, by the way, 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:17.359 do you ever think of a million years Bernie Sanders 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:20.639 would be the one to break up a fight that 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:23.320 you were in. I mean, how how's a bizarre world where. 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:25.159 You like, like that was like and yelled at by 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:28.960 your grandfather. You know, it's like, you know, Thanksgiving, Denny 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:31.560 has spilled something at the table and you Jesus Christ, 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:34.680 you know, and look, that was the first sentate hearing 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:39.720 I was ever in and you know, so I was like, 0:18:40.280 --> 0:18:43.119 I was like, look, I just went I wouldn't let 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:44.960 this guy shoot on me in my neighborhood. I'm certainly 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:47.040 not going to let him do it here. So yeah, 0:18:47.119 --> 0:18:48.359 that was that was pretty fun. 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:50.280 Did you ever drive an eighteen wheeler all the time? 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:51.960 What I mean all the time? How ill I still 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:52.119 do it? 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:52.240 You? 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:52.600 Still? 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:54.320 I still like him when I every once in a 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:57.080