1 00:00:02,520 --> 00:00:06,480 Speaker 1: Comedy Saved Me. Welcome to Comedy Saved Me. I'm Lynn Hoffman, 2 00:00:06,640 --> 00:00:09,240 Speaker 1: and today my guest is a man who has spent 3 00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:14,480 Speaker 1: his entire career proving that rage, when properly channeled, is 4 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:15,880 Speaker 1: one of the most healing. 5 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:17,000 Speaker 2: Forces on the earth. 6 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:21,520 Speaker 1: Lewis Black is the Grammy Award winning stand up comedian, author, 7 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:25,239 Speaker 1: and actor who became a cultural institution through his years 8 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:29,240 Speaker 1: as the longest running correspondent on Comedy Central's The Daily Show, 9 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:33,600 Speaker 1: where his legendary back in Black segments turned his volcanic 10 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 1: frustration with the world into appointment television. Now, whether he's 11 00:00:38,159 --> 00:00:42,720 Speaker 1: unraveling the absurdity of politics, the indignities of everyday life, 12 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:46,600 Speaker 1: or the sheer stupidity of the human condition, Lewis Black 13 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:49,280 Speaker 1: doesn't just make you laugh, he makes you feel seen 14 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:50,560 Speaker 1: and heard. 15 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:51,479 Speaker 2: Trust me. 16 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:53,800 Speaker 1: You may also know him as the voice of Anger 17 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:57,280 Speaker 1: and Pixar's Inside Out and Inside Out Too, which honestly 18 00:00:57,360 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 1: is the most perfectly cast role in history of animation 19 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:03,600 Speaker 1: as far as I'm concerned. His latest special, which is 20 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:07,680 Speaker 1: ongoing and has like two point two million streams right 21 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:11,319 Speaker 1: now on YouTube, it's called Tragically I Need You, and 22 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:14,240 Speaker 1: it picks up in the aftermath of the pandemic, exploring 23 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:16,800 Speaker 1: what happens to a man whose entire life is built 24 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:21,240 Speaker 1: around interacting with audience is when those audiences suddenly disappear 25 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:23,480 Speaker 1: and spoiler, it's not pretty. 26 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:24,880 Speaker 2: But it is hilarious. 27 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:27,640 Speaker 1: Head to Lewis Black dot com for his upcoming tour 28 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:29,640 Speaker 1: dates because this is one you don't want to miss. 29 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:32,039 Speaker 1: And by the way, if you're not already subscribed to 30 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:34,640 Speaker 1: his weekly podcast called rant. 31 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:37,200 Speaker 2: Cast, where Lewis tackles the week's. 32 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:39,840 Speaker 1: Madness and actually lets his fans submit their own gripes 33 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:42,479 Speaker 1: for his commentary, please can we just fix that right 34 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:46,640 Speaker 1: now immediately? Like it is seriously like therapy, but just 35 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:50,360 Speaker 1: a little bit louder the great Lewis Black. I can't 36 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:53,080 Speaker 1: believe I'm saying it is next right here on Comedy 37 00:01:53,120 --> 00:02:01,800 Speaker 1: Save Me. Don't go anywhere, Comedy Saved Me. Lewis Black, 38 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:04,080 Speaker 1: Welcome to Comedy Save Me. It is so great to 39 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:04,720 Speaker 1: have you here. 40 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:06,640 Speaker 3: Well, thank you man. 41 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:09,320 Speaker 1: You look great, you sound great, and you're still kicking 42 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:10,520 Speaker 1: ass and I just love it. 43 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:14,200 Speaker 3: Well, that's that's nice to you to. 44 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:15,400 Speaker 2: Say, Lewis. 45 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:18,040 Speaker 1: This show, Comedy Saved Me has built around the idea 46 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:20,639 Speaker 1: that comedy saves people, but I really want to start 47 00:02:20,639 --> 00:02:23,680 Speaker 1: at the source. Was there a moment early in your 48 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 1: life when you first realized that comedy wasn't just something 49 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:29,720 Speaker 1: that made you laugh, but it actually was something that 50 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:30,840 Speaker 1: kept you going. 51 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 3: You know, here's what's interesting. I didn't really start becoming 52 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:39,600 Speaker 3: I didn't go really fully embrace the fact that I 53 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:43,040 Speaker 3: was going to do stand up until I was forty. 54 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:49,440 Speaker 3: Oh so, you know, so I comedy saved me in 55 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:52,200 Speaker 3: the sense that when I was a kid, I listened 56 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:55,520 Speaker 3: to it a lot, and I guess really what I 57 00:02:55,560 --> 00:03:01,520 Speaker 3: wanted to be was playwright or and I really, well, 58 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:03,120 Speaker 3: that's really what I wanted to do. I wanted to 59 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:03,680 Speaker 3: be in the theater. 60 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:06,200 Speaker 2: And have you written any plays recently? 61 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 3: I haven't had the time. But one of the things 62 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:12,640 Speaker 3: that saved me was by doing stand up and becoming 63 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:16,040 Speaker 3: well known. They all of a sudden actually did a 64 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 3: play of mine, and I was able to get plays published. 65 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:22,839 Speaker 3: But I had to become a comic to get them 66 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:25,200 Speaker 3: to do the plays. It was unbelievable. 67 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:27,799 Speaker 1: Well, congratulations on that. So that that's sort of like 68 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:29,440 Speaker 1: a bucket list checkof. 69 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 3: Yes, and it still is. I still feel, you know, 70 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:40,880 Speaker 3: I would have been just as happy pursuing playwriting, but. 71 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 1: Comic sort of made it, made it easier for you. 72 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:46,440 Speaker 1: So that's that's very exciting. It definitely opens doors for sure. 73 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:48,600 Speaker 1: I mean, when you're funny, everyone wants to be around you. 74 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:53,880 Speaker 3: Yeah, and it also it also was it it's satisfied. 75 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:56,160 Speaker 3: The fact that I was. The reason I did stand 76 00:03:56,240 --> 00:04:00,560 Speaker 3: up initially was is that I didn't. I was fascinated 77 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:02,320 Speaker 3: by the fact that people would just get up and 78 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 3: make people laugh, and I was interested in the mechanics 79 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 3: of that, but became really would absorb me. What I 80 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:13,080 Speaker 3: was absorbed and eventually was the fact that it was 81 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:16,480 Speaker 3: I could write. I could find out that the trouble 82 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 3: you write plays, you send them and then two years 83 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:21,880 Speaker 3: later you find out that they think your play sucks. 84 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:26,000 Speaker 3: There's a comic, you get up on stage, you write something. 85 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:27,919 Speaker 3: So it was a way in which you get my 86 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:30,880 Speaker 3: writing out there and find out immediately and get an 87 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:34,440 Speaker 3: immediate reaction. And so it was a way in which 88 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:40,120 Speaker 3: I could really be a writer. But as I've said 89 00:04:40,279 --> 00:04:43,159 Speaker 3: time and again, if I was going to pick somebody 90 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:46,760 Speaker 3: to perform it, initially, I would have picked a hundred 91 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:49,640 Speaker 3: other actors that I knew to do the writing, except 92 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:51,839 Speaker 3: it was easier for me to just go across town 93 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:52,960 Speaker 3: and get up on stage. 94 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:53,400 Speaker 4: Yeah. 95 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:55,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not like you can be at every performance 96 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:57,800 Speaker 1: and see the audience reacting to your show that. 97 00:04:57,720 --> 00:04:59,560 Speaker 2: You're not in all the time. 98 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:03,440 Speaker 1: Well, you've described performing Lewis for a live audience as 99 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:05,599 Speaker 1: one of the most important relationships in your life. 100 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:08,880 Speaker 2: I found that very fascinating. When the pandemic shut all of. 101 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:11,839 Speaker 1: That down for you, What did you actually lose and 102 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:13,960 Speaker 1: what did you discover about yourself sort of in that 103 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:16,359 Speaker 1: silent time when we were all locked away. 104 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:21,400 Speaker 3: Well, what I lost was that was what I lost 105 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:23,240 Speaker 3: was the fact that I could go to a town 106 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:28,680 Speaker 3: and people would come out, and these people were happier 107 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:31,159 Speaker 3: to see me than I ever was to see myself. 108 00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:34,880 Speaker 3: So there was always something uplifting about that, because say, 109 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:38,840 Speaker 3: it was like, wow, I must be doing something. These 110 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:42,400 Speaker 3: people seem to be really happy about it. But what 111 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:47,320 Speaker 3: I lost, what I found out about here's the problem 112 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:50,919 Speaker 3: I really had, was is that I was alone for 113 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:55,360 Speaker 3: twelve weeks, so I was in lockdown. I was in 114 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:59,560 Speaker 3: solitary confinement for twelve weeks, so I wasn't so if 115 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:02,280 Speaker 3: I was somebody I was seeing them on zoom or 116 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:05,960 Speaker 3: talking on the phone. But it was twelve weeks mostly alone. 117 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:11,599 Speaker 3: And and what I've found out this is that your brain, 118 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:16,680 Speaker 3: when given that much time alone, is at first is 119 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:18,520 Speaker 3: like all excited, this is going to be the greatest 120 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:22,560 Speaker 3: thing ever I got. Finally it's just us. And then 121 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:27,240 Speaker 3: within two days your brain has gone through everything they 122 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:31,400 Speaker 3: can possibly fascinate it, and it turns on you, because 123 00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:34,440 Speaker 3: it really did with a vengeance. And that was that 124 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:35,280 Speaker 3: was rough. 125 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:39,000 Speaker 1: In what ways like you were I mean, I guess 126 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:42,240 Speaker 1: loneliness is a can be a killer. 127 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:45,080 Speaker 3: So it was so it wasn't the loneliness, but it 128 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:48,039 Speaker 3: was also I was going through my whole life now 129 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:51,919 Speaker 3: and judging it again. Yeah, and not again, but for 130 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:54,479 Speaker 3: the first time. I'm like going through it and I'm 131 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:56,680 Speaker 3: like going, oh, and then you screwed this up. Then 132 00:06:56,720 --> 00:06:59,800 Speaker 3: you screwed that up. Here, here are all your relationships, 133 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:02,240 Speaker 3: here what you did with those? You did this, then 134 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:04,520 Speaker 3: you did that, then you did this. And I what 135 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:10,080 Speaker 3: was funny was the tragically I I need you, I 136 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:12,560 Speaker 3: talk about the fact that what I what I I'm 137 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:15,560 Speaker 3: fascinating was when I finally was going on the road 138 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:19,680 Speaker 3: and talking to audiences. I'd like this thirty seconds to 139 00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:22,720 Speaker 3: a minute where I would scream at myself and in 140 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:26,440 Speaker 3: the fashion that was occurring in my head and really 141 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:29,080 Speaker 3: being like you, you know, you're a piece of dish, 142 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:34,000 Speaker 3: You're you're useless, You're nothing, and going on and on 143 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:36,960 Speaker 3: and on, and I thought, well, you know, and I 144 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:40,040 Speaker 3: did it the first time, and I thought well this 145 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:42,800 Speaker 3: I finished, and I thought, well this will lever. I 146 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:45,160 Speaker 3: won't be doing this again. And then the audience exploded 147 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:49,200 Speaker 3: with laughter and I went pole. They all went through it. Yeah, 148 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:53,280 Speaker 3: you definitely in this room experienced it. And that really 149 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:57,720 Speaker 3: stunned me and gave me uh and actually that's what 150 00:07:57,960 --> 00:08:00,680 Speaker 3: really helped me begin to get back contrack. 151 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:05,559 Speaker 1: Yeah, because too much time alone to think, like you said, 152 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:09,080 Speaker 1: can really go down rabbit holes that you don't want 153 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:09,600 Speaker 1: to go down. 154 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:12,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, especially when I mean, you know this from your 155 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:15,920 Speaker 3: probably your schedule, you know, if you've got that schedule, 156 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:19,080 Speaker 3: which is I was doing I was doing one hundred 157 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:24,360 Speaker 3: and fifty shows a year before the pandemic even more, 158 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:27,880 Speaker 3: and so you're you've kept all of that is taken 159 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:31,040 Speaker 3: up the time, yeah, you know, and so you don't 160 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:34,000 Speaker 3: really have time to worry about anything other than oh, 161 00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:35,439 Speaker 3: this is great. I'm going to be going there, and 162 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:36,840 Speaker 3: then I'm going to be going there, and then I'm 163 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:38,400 Speaker 3: going to be going there and this will be great, 164 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:40,400 Speaker 3: and I get out and dah da da da. So 165 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:43,640 Speaker 3: your time is all full, yeah, and then and then 166 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:44,640 Speaker 3: it's not anymore. 167 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:48,319 Speaker 1: No, And now I remember why I think it was 168 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:52,400 Speaker 1: a documentary, Joan Rivers. She made sure that she had 169 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:56,000 Speaker 1: to have that calendar full all the time. She wouldn't 170 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:58,320 Speaker 1: accept an empty calendar. And now that you're saying that, 171 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:02,240 Speaker 1: I'm thinking to myself, that's probably why, because too much 172 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:05,559 Speaker 1: time alone is not good. Well, tragically, I need you. 173 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:09,079 Speaker 1: It's such a perfect title for that experience. Where did 174 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:11,480 Speaker 1: the title come from? And how much I'm going to 175 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:13,160 Speaker 1: guess I might know the answer to that. But how 176 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:15,560 Speaker 1: much of the special is about your relationship with the 177 00:09:15,559 --> 00:09:18,880 Speaker 1: audience versus the world falling apart around you? 178 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:22,960 Speaker 3: Well, it was pretty close to both. I mean it 179 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:26,240 Speaker 3: was it was a balance, really, but it was really 180 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:30,440 Speaker 3: about you know, the part of it was just to 181 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:33,120 Speaker 3: go out there and find out if I was the 182 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:36,320 Speaker 3: only one who was spraying the boxes that I was 183 00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:40,720 Speaker 3: arriving in my apartment, you know with was I bleaching 184 00:09:40,760 --> 00:09:43,640 Speaker 3: them too much? Was I going to die bleach poisoning? 185 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:49,439 Speaker 3: This happened, and this happened. Then then you had people, unbelievably, 186 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:52,280 Speaker 3: while I was developing the material, you've got people heckling 187 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:56,480 Speaker 3: because you're telling him you wore a mask, and it's like, oh, 188 00:09:56,520 --> 00:09:59,400 Speaker 3: stop it. I chose, I did ask you to where 189 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:04,040 Speaker 3: one shows it idiots and you're finding out all this stuff. 190 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:06,760 Speaker 3: And then the tragically I need you it came at 191 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:11,320 Speaker 3: the end, was because I do this kind of you know, 192 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:15,120 Speaker 3: there's partly that thing where you're just telling the audience 193 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:20,319 Speaker 3: how much they meant to you and that how great 194 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:23,360 Speaker 3: that is and that, but also by tragically I need you, 195 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:26,280 Speaker 3: it's is like, you know, it's the it takes the 196 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:29,280 Speaker 3: air out of it in a way. It's like it's 197 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:31,000 Speaker 3: you know, it's great that I love you, but it's 198 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:32,120 Speaker 3: it's really tragic. 199 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:36,439 Speaker 2: It's tragic I need you. It's like the necessary evil. 200 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:39,679 Speaker 3: It is and it's sick. It's sick that I watch 201 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:44,199 Speaker 3: you I need you this much that but tragically raises it. 202 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:46,040 Speaker 3: It raises the steakes a little. 203 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:48,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's sick in the best possible way, which 204 00:10:48,440 --> 00:10:51,079 Speaker 1: is so funny. I mean you really you just speak 205 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:55,480 Speaker 1: for people and they just love it. You've turned anger 206 00:10:55,520 --> 00:10:58,280 Speaker 1: into an art form basically, And there's there's a real 207 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:01,760 Speaker 1: difference though, between anger that destroys people in anger that 208 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:05,360 Speaker 1: heals people, and what you're doing is so healing. It's 209 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:07,760 Speaker 1: just how do you know when you've crossed the line 210 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:10,440 Speaker 1: you know, from one of the other you know on 211 00:11:10,520 --> 00:11:11,360 Speaker 1: stage off. 212 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:15,720 Speaker 3: Well, because I literally it's it's when the anger becomes 213 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:19,760 Speaker 3: real and you can't it's not a great comic move 214 00:11:19,880 --> 00:11:22,800 Speaker 3: to be really angry. And it took me a while 215 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:27,720 Speaker 3: to learn that because you've got to play anger, which means, 216 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:30,760 Speaker 3: you know, that's if I have My strongest suit is 217 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:33,679 Speaker 3: my ability to play anger, and I know where that 218 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:36,240 Speaker 3: line is, and you've got to go right up to 219 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:39,160 Speaker 3: just you know a little bit away from the line 220 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:42,480 Speaker 3: where you're really angry. And when I hit really angry, 221 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:45,920 Speaker 3: I have to stop and go I and basically turn 222 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:48,320 Speaker 3: to the audience and say, well, I've I certainly have 223 00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:51,200 Speaker 3: gone over the line here, and then they respond because 224 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:53,040 Speaker 3: they know that you know that they. 225 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:56,000 Speaker 2: Know, yeah, they can feel it, yeah they. 226 00:11:56,040 --> 00:11:58,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, because it doesn't help. And that was funny. I 227 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:01,079 Speaker 3: mean initially it was like, how are you going to 228 00:12:01,160 --> 00:12:03,000 Speaker 3: do that? How are you going to be angry? I 229 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:06,480 Speaker 3: always had initially when I was first doing stand up. 230 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:09,760 Speaker 3: But I got really angry, I would turn around and 231 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:14,439 Speaker 3: yell at the wall behind me. I couldn't face the audience. 232 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:17,640 Speaker 3: And it took Once I learned to do that and 233 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:21,960 Speaker 3: be able to just yell right at the audience, that 234 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:23,199 Speaker 3: was a big turning point. 235 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:28,160 Speaker 1: Everything changed now, it did change, Lewis, do you have 236 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:32,360 Speaker 1: a defibrillator nearby or are you blood pressure medication? 237 00:12:32,679 --> 00:12:32,800 Speaker 5: Like? 238 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:36,480 Speaker 1: How do you keep that anger from really affecting you 239 00:12:36,520 --> 00:12:37,320 Speaker 1: in a negative way? 240 00:12:37,920 --> 00:12:39,440 Speaker 3: Well, it's weird because. 241 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:43,000 Speaker 2: I love your smiling when you're talking about being angry. 242 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:47,800 Speaker 3: It's because it's I've got perfect that because it's weird. 243 00:12:47,880 --> 00:12:50,160 Speaker 3: I've got the best blood pressure of anybody I know, 244 00:12:50,559 --> 00:12:54,520 Speaker 3: you do. My blood pressure is unbelievable. I mean, it's 245 00:12:55,160 --> 00:12:57,480 Speaker 3: exactly what it should be. So whenever I go to 246 00:12:57,520 --> 00:12:59,360 Speaker 3: the doctor, I they go, well we're going to take 247 00:12:59,360 --> 00:13:01,160 Speaker 3: you blood pressure. I'm going to tell you you're not 248 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:04,080 Speaker 3: going to believe this, and they do it, and it 249 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:07,120 Speaker 3: always is like you know, spot on, you know one 250 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:11,000 Speaker 3: twenty over seventy, but it's close to whatever that is. Yeah, Once, 251 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:17,680 Speaker 3: early early on, before I really become comfortable as a comic, Esquire, 252 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:21,720 Speaker 3: when somebody from Schuire was interviewing me and they had 253 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:27,920 Speaker 3: a blood pressure thing that they brought they and and 254 00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:30,719 Speaker 3: they they made they want they made me wear it, 255 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:33,400 Speaker 3: and then they got me upset. They wanted to see 256 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:36,800 Speaker 3: what would happen, so they got me upset and I 257 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:39,080 Speaker 3: was yelling and screaming about something, and then they did 258 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:42,960 Speaker 3: and it only took less than a minute from my 259 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:45,000 Speaker 3: blood pressure to return to what it should be. 260 00:13:45,320 --> 00:13:45,720 Speaker 2: Wow. 261 00:13:45,880 --> 00:13:48,839 Speaker 1: So you're super healthy, and you're like, you're like an athlete, 262 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:51,440 Speaker 1: like a comedian athlete at the top of his game. 263 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:55,880 Speaker 3: Well, that's very that's the kindest thing you've said all day. Well, 264 00:13:56,640 --> 00:14:00,199 Speaker 3: using the word athlete for somebody who's going honk hung 265 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:03,839 Speaker 3: quack quack and really walking no more than ten feet 266 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:07,440 Speaker 3: on either side of the mic. But it's funny. I yeah, 267 00:14:07,480 --> 00:14:11,080 Speaker 3: my blood pressure is great, but I'm convinced every other organ, 268 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:12,160 Speaker 3: all my organs are. 269 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:17,000 Speaker 1: Rot everything else. That's impossible because all that laughter is 270 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:20,240 Speaker 1: just so healthy. It's like medicine. You know, a lot 271 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:24,400 Speaker 1: of comedians talk about using the stage to process pain 272 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:28,880 Speaker 1: and your material, it often feels like it's processing a 273 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:34,400 Speaker 1: shared pain. Especially I've seen a few of your rant 274 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:37,560 Speaker 1: casts where people write in what really bothers them and 275 00:14:37,640 --> 00:14:40,480 Speaker 1: pains them and the frustration that we all kind of 276 00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:43,600 Speaker 1: feel but we can't really articulate or do it well, 277 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:45,880 Speaker 1: or even do it in public without getting things thrown 278 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:49,240 Speaker 1: at them. How conscious are you of being that vessel 279 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:50,360 Speaker 1: for other people? 280 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:56,640 Speaker 3: It's just for some reason. One thing that really did 281 00:14:56,720 --> 00:15:00,400 Speaker 3: it was being able to do the ran cast, because 282 00:15:00,680 --> 00:15:03,280 Speaker 3: not just that, I mean when when it started way back, 283 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:07,440 Speaker 3: is just being able to take from people what it 284 00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:11,000 Speaker 3: is that really bothers them, because I'm you know what 285 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:13,880 Speaker 3: bothers me is the comic is you know these people read. 286 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:17,440 Speaker 3: You know, I'm not really leading a real life. Okay, 287 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:20,640 Speaker 3: let's face it. I'm up in front of people and 288 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:22,880 Speaker 3: ha ha ha, and I'm on the Daily Show and 289 00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:26,880 Speaker 3: they did a movie and I have just enough pain 290 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:30,120 Speaker 3: that it's fun. You know, It's always been. I've never 291 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:33,240 Speaker 3: kind of went high up the ladder, partly because I 292 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:36,120 Speaker 3: didn't really care about it. What I cared about was 293 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:40,400 Speaker 3: doing what I was doing. It wasn't like let's let's 294 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:44,120 Speaker 3: get a publicist and I'll go out with Hoodi Patuti 295 00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:47,440 Speaker 3: and then we'll you know, pretend that we're having a relationship, 296 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:51,440 Speaker 3: and you know, late the night, it's seem insane. So 297 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:57,320 Speaker 3: this was it was always about, you know, the reading. 298 00:15:57,360 --> 00:16:00,160 Speaker 3: Those things really gave me a sense of like the 299 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:04,320 Speaker 3: person who really is the one who is working in 300 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:07,000 Speaker 3: a you know, Walmart, has to talk to these people 301 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:09,280 Speaker 3: on a daily basis and what drives them nuts, and 302 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:12,200 Speaker 3: the person who the one who has to deal with 303 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:14,840 Speaker 3: a real health issue, who has to deal with trying 304 00:16:14,880 --> 00:16:18,160 Speaker 3: to get health insurance. So all of that has kept 305 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:21,280 Speaker 3: me somewhat in touch with what's going on. And also 306 00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:25,080 Speaker 3: it's all you got to do is pick up a newspaper. 307 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:27,360 Speaker 3: In a sense, it's always been there. It's always on 308 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:30,680 Speaker 3: the front page. These people are getting screwed, These people 309 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:34,040 Speaker 3: are getting screwed, these people are getting screwed, or it's 310 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:36,240 Speaker 3: these people are doing really well, these people are doing 311 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:39,120 Speaker 3: really well. While they're doing really well, you know, there's 312 00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:41,120 Speaker 3: a whole group of people are getting screwed because they're 313 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:43,560 Speaker 3: doing really well. So it's always kind of been there 314 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:46,280 Speaker 3: in front of me in a sense. So when I 315 00:16:46,280 --> 00:16:49,840 Speaker 3: started talking about health insurance. You know, it was easy 316 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:54,040 Speaker 3: because it was how tough is that everybody is? It's like, 317 00:16:54,840 --> 00:16:58,720 Speaker 3: you know, are they kidding? You know, it's so true? 318 00:16:58,840 --> 00:17:00,640 Speaker 3: Well they go, you know, I mean you got an 319 00:17:01,040 --> 00:17:04,200 Speaker 3: these idiots, Well, we got the best health industry on earth. 320 00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:07,440 Speaker 3: What is the matter with you? We're dying, We're paying more, 321 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:11,399 Speaker 3: dying faster. You just can't. They're facts that we have 322 00:17:11,560 --> 00:17:15,400 Speaker 3: to deal with that. And then I what really made 323 00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:19,800 Speaker 3: it is he was as I was hospitalized in Ireland 324 00:17:20,600 --> 00:17:24,000 Speaker 3: for pneumonia. I said, it was like one of the 325 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:26,439 Speaker 3: great experiences of my life. I was in there for 326 00:17:26,520 --> 00:17:31,960 Speaker 3: ten days and I had a pretty bad case of it, 327 00:17:30,520 --> 00:17:35,800 Speaker 3: and it was they They were phenomenal. They were the 328 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:38,520 Speaker 3: whole thing because you're always treated but well, you know, 329 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:41,359 Speaker 3: you wouldn't want to be treated over there, Yeah, you would, 330 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:47,119 Speaker 3: you know, because you know, like they have their instruments 331 00:17:47,560 --> 00:17:50,960 Speaker 3: that they use on you are eerily similar to ours. 332 00:17:51,560 --> 00:17:52,560 Speaker 3: It's not like they're. 333 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:55,040 Speaker 2: Outfit crazy Lewis, what are you telling me? 334 00:17:57,400 --> 00:17:59,960 Speaker 3: You know, they're not out there with like I'm gonna 335 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:04,679 Speaker 3: I'm gonna click, you know, yeah, exactly, it's you know, 336 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:07,080 Speaker 3: I'm gonna clip these things on your ears, and we're 337 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:07,880 Speaker 3: gonna fight no. 338 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:10,760 Speaker 2: With no no vocaine. 339 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:15,480 Speaker 3: I'm gonna sniff your urine and tell you what's wrong 340 00:18:15,520 --> 00:18:18,679 Speaker 3: with you. It's really they were unbelieved. They were great, 341 00:18:19,119 --> 00:18:23,000 Speaker 3: The nurses were great, the whole thing, and it was. 342 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:26,119 Speaker 3: And then in the end what was truly great was 343 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:28,960 Speaker 3: I'm in a hospital for ten days, soup to nuts, 344 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:33,879 Speaker 3: everything including all of the you take a massive amount 345 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:39,800 Speaker 3: of antibiotics, and all of that plus the antibiotics they 346 00:18:39,840 --> 00:18:43,080 Speaker 3: gave me to take home with me, was eight hundred 347 00:18:43,119 --> 00:18:44,359 Speaker 3: and fifty dollars a day. 348 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:47,200 Speaker 2: Wow, that's insane. 349 00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:52,119 Speaker 3: It's staggering. So it's so it was eighty five hundred 350 00:18:52,119 --> 00:18:59,080 Speaker 3: dollars for everything from the examination, doctors for everything, nothing, 351 00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:03,040 Speaker 3: no breakdown note, Oh but you use this many tissues? 352 00:19:03,119 --> 00:19:03,199 Speaker 1: No. 353 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:05,840 Speaker 3: Eight one hundred and fifty bucks a day, which I've 354 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:08,600 Speaker 3: said you could get in New York. You could get, 355 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:12,399 Speaker 3: but that's what you might get. A room like a 356 00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:15,399 Speaker 3: room here might cost eight hundred and fifty bucks, but 357 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:18,720 Speaker 3: a hooker and a nurse's outfit isn't going to show up. 358 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:24,400 Speaker 3: So for eight hundred and fifty dollars you can't. And 359 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:29,320 Speaker 3: people really still in the audience didn't realize how cheap 360 00:19:29,359 --> 00:19:33,280 Speaker 3: it was. Yeah, no, say still here, Well that's a lot. Yeah, 361 00:19:33,280 --> 00:19:36,159 Speaker 3: it's a lot, but in comparison to what you'd be 362 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:40,200 Speaker 3: spending here, we would spend day in the hospital. 363 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:41,040 Speaker 2: Well, it's true. 364 00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:44,000 Speaker 1: And you touch on something that one thing I learned 365 00:19:44,119 --> 00:19:47,080 Speaker 1: early on was that you don't mess with people. There's 366 00:19:47,080 --> 00:19:49,000 Speaker 1: two things you don't mess with. You don't mess with 367 00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:53,400 Speaker 1: other people's wallets or their family. You know what you're 368 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:56,520 Speaker 1: saying is it touches everybody, and that's why you don't 369 00:19:56,520 --> 00:19:58,080 Speaker 1: mess with it. 370 00:19:58,280 --> 00:20:00,760 Speaker 3: And it's also it's exactly in its health. 371 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:01,440 Speaker 2: Yeah. 372 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:04,320 Speaker 3: And the one thing that Dayton get us to that 373 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:07,879 Speaker 3: you will get people to pay a premium on you know, 374 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:11,320 Speaker 3: it's like, well unless you give us two million dollars, 375 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:14,199 Speaker 3: you're gonna die. Well, you know what, they're gonna do 376 00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:16,560 Speaker 3: everything they can to find the two million dollars. 377 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:17,320 Speaker 2: Oh they will. 378 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:21,359 Speaker 1: And by the way, boys and girls, this is just 379 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:24,160 Speaker 1: a sampling of the rant cast. But the really cool 380 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:29,199 Speaker 1: thing is you literally are reading other people's frustrations to camera. 381 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:33,080 Speaker 1: What has that experience taught you about what's really eating 382 00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:33,760 Speaker 1: people alive? 383 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:34,320 Speaker 2: Right now? 384 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:38,879 Speaker 3: It's everything I mean and what's really interesting is that it's, uh, 385 00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:42,159 Speaker 3: you don't really know that with some people, what's really 386 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:45,400 Speaker 3: bothering them because they're screaming about the fact that they 387 00:20:45,560 --> 00:20:50,200 Speaker 3: like smooth peanut butter more than they like chunk. I mean, 388 00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:53,560 Speaker 3: I got a thing once from it's still one of 389 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:56,040 Speaker 3: the ones, the great ones, which was the guy who 390 00:20:56,119 --> 00:20:59,760 Speaker 3: got it. He wanted smooth peanut butter but it was chunky, 391 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:02,800 Speaker 3: and he flipped on. I mean, it was it was 392 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:07,600 Speaker 3: seven minutes of rage about and I mean, and you 393 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:10,919 Speaker 3: kind of go, wow, how do you hate chunky peanut 394 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:14,919 Speaker 3: pue that much? So there's something else that's going on. 395 00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:19,040 Speaker 3: It's deeper, but it's you know, pickles. They get up 396 00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:24,879 Speaker 3: that there was rotaries. That's at least any place where 397 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:27,159 Speaker 3: they've got to go around you know this in the 398 00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:31,520 Speaker 3: circle get to go that's supposed to be faster, potholes 399 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:35,760 Speaker 3: and drivers who don't know how to merge into traffic. 400 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:38,159 Speaker 3: I mean, and it goes up. And there's a scale 401 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:40,600 Speaker 3: that just goes up until you've got a kid who 402 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:43,919 Speaker 3: was going to join the Mormon Church, but it was 403 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:47,359 Speaker 3: on the day in which you know you've got there's 404 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:51,439 Speaker 3: that time frame where you have a ceremony and he's 405 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:53,240 Speaker 3: supposed to go down for that. And it's also the 406 00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:57,280 Speaker 3: day in which the Mormons said that that homosexuality was 407 00:21:57,320 --> 00:22:00,680 Speaker 3: a sin or whatever it was that they went out 408 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:03,840 Speaker 3: of you know, they went and you know, basically they said, 409 00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:08,320 Speaker 3: you know, you can't be homosexual and be a part 410 00:22:08,359 --> 00:22:10,359 Speaker 3: of the church. And he just went, Okay, that's it. 411 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:15,399 Speaker 3: I'm not done, and that's it. And and that was 412 00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:18,199 Speaker 3: the first that was unbelievable to me. That was one 413 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:21,240 Speaker 3: of the first ones I got. I've never had. Actually, 414 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:23,960 Speaker 3: there have been all sorts of things that have been 415 00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:29,520 Speaker 3: really well written and beautifully express a lot of the frustration, like. 416 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:32,760 Speaker 1: Mayon aise man As. I just thought that was awesome. 417 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:36,240 Speaker 1: You were laughing. I wonder if people get excited too 418 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:38,720 Speaker 1: when they make you laugh when you're reading their rants. 419 00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:40,919 Speaker 3: Yeah, then they get a big kick out of that. 420 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:43,720 Speaker 3: They think I made him laugh. 421 00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:46,600 Speaker 1: Oh my god, you're like a therapist and like you 422 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:49,120 Speaker 1: you're allowing them to feel what you feel when you're 423 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:49,760 Speaker 1: on stage. 424 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:51,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, which it's. 425 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:55,560 Speaker 3: Really it's been. It's well And it was also it 426 00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:58,320 Speaker 3: helped me because especially one of the things that got 427 00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:01,000 Speaker 3: me through the pandemic, because I wasn't to do a 428 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:04,919 Speaker 3: zoom zoom comedy made no sense to me. I just 429 00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:08,919 Speaker 3: unless I felt the people there. There's kind of like, 430 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:11,080 Speaker 3: I mean, it's one thing to be doing what we're 431 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:15,200 Speaker 3: doing now and I'd make you laugh, but having ten 432 00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:18,520 Speaker 3: people or twenty or thirty of it's just different. It's 433 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:22,600 Speaker 3: a different kind of a thing. It's not performing in 434 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:26,359 Speaker 3: the space with the bodies, with the humans with them there, 435 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:30,960 Speaker 3: so it's hugely different. But what I did know I 436 00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:35,200 Speaker 3: could stay in touch with my comedy by reading people's 437 00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:38,720 Speaker 3: rants because I knew how it was like a piece 438 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:42,000 Speaker 3: of music. I know how to do a rant. It's 439 00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:45,000 Speaker 3: to me, it's like music. So you give me the rant, 440 00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:49,560 Speaker 3: I can read it, and that really is what kept 441 00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:51,800 Speaker 3: me going. 442 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:55,600 Speaker 5: We'll be right back with more of the Comedy Save 443 00:23:55,680 --> 00:24:04,520 Speaker 5: Me Podcast. Welcome back to the Comedy Save Me Podcast. 444 00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:07,880 Speaker 1: What do you want people to feel when they walk 445 00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:09,919 Speaker 1: out of one of your live shows when they come 446 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:12,120 Speaker 1: to see you? Not what you want them to think, 447 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:13,760 Speaker 1: but more what you want them to feel. 448 00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:17,959 Speaker 3: Well, it's really both. But I want them to know 449 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:22,440 Speaker 3: they're not crazy. Yeah, that's really what I want them 450 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:22,639 Speaker 3: to know. 451 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:27,000 Speaker 1: You know, in a way, do you feel that at 452 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:28,840 Speaker 1: this point in your life, doing this is sort of 453 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:34,040 Speaker 1: giving back because of your successes all throughout your career. 454 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:36,240 Speaker 3: Doing it now is just because I'm stupid. 455 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:39,359 Speaker 2: You are not stupid at all. 456 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:42,440 Speaker 1: This is the smartest thing I've heard any comedians say 457 00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:45,560 Speaker 1: in a long time. Like, I'm gonna channel all of 458 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:47,439 Speaker 1: your anger and I'm going to get it out for you, 459 00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:49,120 Speaker 1: and you're going to get to watch me and I'm 460 00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:50,840 Speaker 1: going to laugh at your stuff and You're going to 461 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:51,720 Speaker 1: feel so good. 462 00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:54,320 Speaker 2: It's like you're giving them a taste of your medicine. 463 00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:58,359 Speaker 3: Yeah, but really, for me, it's like anybody else at 464 00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:01,320 Speaker 3: this point, I'm my ag should be going. Okay, I 465 00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:04,399 Speaker 3: did it to see you, to see you. But still 466 00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:08,040 Speaker 3: I did stop doing one hundred shows the year. I mean, 467 00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:12,560 Speaker 3: it was just getting it was we moved from an 468 00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:15,240 Speaker 3: industrial age into this technological age. 469 00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:16,640 Speaker 2: Yes, and with. 470 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:20,159 Speaker 3: That came the end of the way in which I 471 00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:23,800 Speaker 3: was able to get audiences to come out, which was 472 00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:27,600 Speaker 3: through radio and television, and and it went now down 473 00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:31,840 Speaker 3: to you know this. Yeah, so and I have not 474 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:35,200 Speaker 3: been able to and I really didn't make that transition 475 00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:37,080 Speaker 3: where did I want to By. 476 00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:39,640 Speaker 2: The way, for those listening. He held up his phone. Yeah, 477 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:45,520 Speaker 2: oh yeah, I forgot not talking to me. Sorry, No, 478 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:46,240 Speaker 2: it's true. 479 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:50,560 Speaker 3: That's funny, So I really did. The phone was really uh, 480 00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:54,120 Speaker 3: the you know, and my friend Kathleen Madigan, who's very 481 00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:59,200 Speaker 3: love it was a great comic. She has really found 482 00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:04,480 Speaker 3: a way to you know, you know, you find that audience, 483 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:07,520 Speaker 3: get them, you know, as a whole communication with them. 484 00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:13,560 Speaker 3: And I really just never made that jump because I 485 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:19,240 Speaker 3: just I didn't. I just didn't have it. Also kind 486 00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:22,720 Speaker 3: of my time was up in partly in a sense 487 00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:26,520 Speaker 3: in the sense that I really wasn't up for doing 488 00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:29,800 Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty shows a year. How many jokes 489 00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:33,720 Speaker 3: can you make about I mean, the Democrats of this, 490 00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:36,879 Speaker 3: the Republicans to that. I've done that twenty five different ways. 491 00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:40,000 Speaker 3: There's how am like, you know, I'll look, no, we're 492 00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:42,680 Speaker 3: not doing the I'm not looking for the twenty six 493 00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:47,320 Speaker 3: And then the audience too, in the part was starting 494 00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:50,679 Speaker 3: to come in with we got an audience that's and 495 00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:52,680 Speaker 3: it's easy for me if I do it twice a month, 496 00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:56,479 Speaker 3: and it is that you've got an audience that are 497 00:26:56,520 --> 00:27:00,520 Speaker 3: living in two separate realities. I mean, and they really are. Yeah, 498 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:04,320 Speaker 3: and it's true. I mean they will each each group 499 00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:07,680 Speaker 3: of people, and there may be actually fifteen realities. 500 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:09,040 Speaker 2: I was going to say that there might be a 501 00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:10,200 Speaker 2: lot more than just two. 502 00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:13,600 Speaker 3: Yeah. No, there's a certain group that's really out there. 503 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:19,840 Speaker 3: Yeah there. But it really is two separate realities and 504 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:22,880 Speaker 3: both of them can be offended easily, which is lunacy. 505 00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:24,840 Speaker 2: You know what you're saying that? 506 00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:28,840 Speaker 1: How important is it in your book to be able 507 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:29,640 Speaker 1: to laugh at yourself? 508 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:33,480 Speaker 3: Oh? I think it's really important, even if. 509 00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:36,320 Speaker 2: You're not a comedian, just a average person. How important? 510 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:40,960 Speaker 3: Yeah? And why I think it's important because it's the 511 00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:44,760 Speaker 3: ultimate sign of humility is to be able to go, boy, 512 00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:48,560 Speaker 3: I'm an idiot, boy, this is really what am I 513 00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:52,159 Speaker 3: what I just do? It shows the fact that you 514 00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:57,400 Speaker 3: are humble, you're not the smartest one and round, and 515 00:27:57,440 --> 00:27:58,760 Speaker 3: that's really important. 516 00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:02,120 Speaker 2: I think it's important. I think you're absolutely right. 517 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:06,520 Speaker 1: And also the fact that it's okay to laugh at yourself. 518 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:08,960 Speaker 1: And when you learn that it is okay, maybe it 519 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:12,240 Speaker 1: also might help to teach you to take responsibility for yourself, 520 00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:14,480 Speaker 1: and then that goes in a really positive direction. 521 00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:15,600 Speaker 3: Yeah. 522 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:17,200 Speaker 1: But I don't think a lot of people give themselves 523 00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:19,600 Speaker 1: permission to do that though, because they don't know it's okay. 524 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:24,240 Speaker 3: Look, the thing that I find astonishing over my careers, 525 00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:28,879 Speaker 3: I get to a point two where it's always worked 526 00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:31,560 Speaker 3: that whoever was the president, I could make jokes, I 527 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:34,159 Speaker 3: can say whatever I wanted about it. And this is 528 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:37,960 Speaker 3: the first time where all of a sudden, because it 529 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:41,320 Speaker 3: has always been what attracted my audience, I felt, in 530 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:45,440 Speaker 3: part was just that I had not a lot of 531 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:51,040 Speaker 3: respect for authority or stupidity, and so all of a sudden, 532 00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:55,640 Speaker 3: this whole group of people who are now enamored with 533 00:28:56,400 --> 00:28:59,720 Speaker 3: the president are This is a whole group of people 534 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:02,280 Speaker 3: who are a lot of them were fans of mine, 535 00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:06,080 Speaker 3: and they were fans because of that, because I didn't 536 00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:11,720 Speaker 3: have that thing for authority. And now here they are going, well, 537 00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:14,440 Speaker 3: you can't say about what are you talking about? 538 00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:14,840 Speaker 2: People? 539 00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:19,640 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, no, there still oh yeah, no, they still 540 00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:22,480 Speaker 3: get they get angry. I get I get it. On 541 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:26,000 Speaker 3: a variety of platforms, they'll say stuff and I'm stopped. 542 00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:29,200 Speaker 3: You know, it was like, uh no, come on, guys, 543 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:33,040 Speaker 3: but they'll yell stuff and then people in the audience 544 00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:35,800 Speaker 3: will yell at them. You know, you you didn't really 545 00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:38,120 Speaker 3: you used to be more even handed. I was never 546 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:38,920 Speaker 3: even handed. 547 00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:39,600 Speaker 2: Oh my god. 548 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:41,800 Speaker 1: Now you got to go like the Blues Brothers and 549 00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:46,960 Speaker 1: perform behind a gate on stage bottles. 550 00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:49,400 Speaker 3: It's calmed down a bit. It's only in the sense 551 00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:52,600 Speaker 3: that they don't yell stuff, but there it's pretty still 552 00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:53,560 Speaker 3: amazing to me. 553 00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:54,880 Speaker 2: Wow wow. 554 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:55,200 Speaker 3: Yeah. 555 00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:56,560 Speaker 2: Times certainly have changed. 556 00:29:56,640 --> 00:30:00,400 Speaker 1: And with all the social media too, it's they're there's 557 00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:02,960 Speaker 1: a lot of voices for a lot of people that normally, 558 00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:05,920 Speaker 1: you know, I was just thinking today, Lewis you remember 559 00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:08,520 Speaker 1: that saying that you know, what somebody else thinks about 560 00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:10,920 Speaker 1: you is none of your business. Yeah, like, how does 561 00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:13,280 Speaker 1: that even work today? Because everybody wants to know what 562 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:14,440 Speaker 1: everyone says about them. 563 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:18,280 Speaker 3: Now it's unbelievable. It's it's kind of what and what 564 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:22,360 Speaker 3: really they don't get because I'll get these things. It's amazing. 565 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:26,600 Speaker 3: I'll get something on on Twitter or something else where 566 00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:30,760 Speaker 3: somebody comments and or on my uh, you know, on 567 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:33,360 Speaker 3: the RAN cast on the you know, the comments that 568 00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:35,560 Speaker 3: come in afterwards, and I'm looking at them and I'm 569 00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:39,760 Speaker 3: going and I read it and it says somebody from 570 00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:42,520 Speaker 3: you know, says I'm not funny, and I read it 571 00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:45,840 Speaker 3: as if it's like a review from the New York Times, 572 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:49,280 Speaker 3: it's the la it's the la papers. I'm going look 573 00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:51,120 Speaker 3: at that. Good God, what am I going to do? 574 00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:53,440 Speaker 3: You know? And I'm going And then it takes like 575 00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:57,040 Speaker 3: or or I should write this person back? What is 576 00:30:57,080 --> 00:30:58,120 Speaker 3: the matter with me? 577 00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:00,000 Speaker 2: Do you? Did you? 578 00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:00,720 Speaker 3: I write back? 579 00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:00,880 Speaker 2: No? 580 00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:05,760 Speaker 3: I did initially. I would. What I did do initially 581 00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:08,120 Speaker 3: and I've stopped doing it was as I would if 582 00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:10,520 Speaker 3: I could get to you. They made it more difficult 583 00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:13,960 Speaker 3: on this, but I would. If there was a thing 584 00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:17,440 Speaker 3: where I could write to them without writing on the 585 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:21,960 Speaker 3: Twitter itself, I would write to them directly and say, gee, 586 00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:23,800 Speaker 3: you know, I'm sorry. I disappointed you. 587 00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:27,000 Speaker 1: Oh my god, that is so nice of you. 588 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:28,040 Speaker 2: You're like the sweetest. 589 00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:30,720 Speaker 3: When they'd write back, gee I didn't, I'm really like, Wow, 590 00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:32,160 Speaker 3: I can't believe you wrote me back. 591 00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:35,080 Speaker 2: Oh, now you're cool because you wrote them back. Yeah. 592 00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:38,479 Speaker 1: No, exactly before they had no problem being a cowboy, 593 00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:39,640 Speaker 1: keyboard cowboy. 594 00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:43,320 Speaker 3: Yeah exactly. No, it's pretty well you you probably experienced 595 00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:47,320 Speaker 3: a lot of it. It's horrible. No, no, zero, that's great. 596 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:49,800 Speaker 2: Oh see now that I'm saying this, now I will no. 597 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:51,720 Speaker 3: Oh, that's good though. 598 00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:57,240 Speaker 1: I actually write when in the late nineties when I moved, 599 00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:00,680 Speaker 1: or actually at the turn of the century, Lewis, when 600 00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:03,560 Speaker 1: I moved to New York City, that was when all 601 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:06,280 Speaker 1: of that tech kind of exploded. It was more like 602 00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:09,080 Speaker 1: emails and stuff like that. And I was considered myself 603 00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:13,000 Speaker 1: so lucky that by the time I left, sort of 604 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:16,160 Speaker 1: I was hosting a television show and I sort of 605 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:17,440 Speaker 1: went behind the scenes because. 606 00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:18,400 Speaker 2: I enjoyed it all. 607 00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:21,680 Speaker 1: But it was, you know, I was so grateful not 608 00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:26,760 Speaker 1: to be sort of public facing with social media because well, 609 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,880 Speaker 1: right now we're talking, so you're hearing my opinion. And 610 00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:33,240 Speaker 1: but I don't need to go tell everybody every time 611 00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:36,680 Speaker 1: something happens on social media what I think about it, right, 612 00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:38,800 Speaker 1: I just find that as a waste of my time. 613 00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:42,240 Speaker 3: So good, well, it's smart. I mean, you know, I've 614 00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:46,040 Speaker 3: stopped doing it. I mean, unless I have a good joke, 615 00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:47,280 Speaker 3: I don't do it much. 616 00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:50,600 Speaker 1: No, because it makes you become the worst version of yourself, 617 00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:54,400 Speaker 1: like because you get sucked into that vortex. And I think, 618 00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:56,160 Speaker 1: what you know, if you can find a way to 619 00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:59,560 Speaker 1: give back without having to do that, I mean, there's 620 00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:00,000 Speaker 1: nothing better. 621 00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:02,560 Speaker 2: And what you're doing really is that. 622 00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:06,000 Speaker 1: But I don't think you can ever retire Lewis because 623 00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:08,120 Speaker 1: you'll end up like it was in the pandemic and 624 00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:12,680 Speaker 1: then you'll have like rant Cast two point zero. It'll 625 00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:15,640 Speaker 1: be like you won't be able to do it without 626 00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:17,120 Speaker 1: being in every room of your house. 627 00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:18,720 Speaker 2: You'll have it live twenty four to seven. 628 00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:23,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, I will, in part because I want to. You know, 629 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:26,000 Speaker 3: the hard thing right now is I want to clear 630 00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:29,280 Speaker 3: things out so that I can write. I want to write. 631 00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:31,160 Speaker 3: I want to write another play. I want to write 632 00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:35,440 Speaker 3: another book, and I don't. It's hard. I don't have 633 00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:38,880 Speaker 3: that kind of energy that I had where I could 634 00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:43,000 Speaker 3: do stuff. And then I really want to give the 635 00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:46,000 Speaker 3: time and the energy to getting getting it out, because 636 00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:48,360 Speaker 3: I really I think there's another book in me. I 637 00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:49,600 Speaker 3: think there's a play in me. 638 00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:51,360 Speaker 2: That's exciting stuff. 639 00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:55,040 Speaker 1: Well, for anyone who hasn't seen Tragically I Need You 640 00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:58,680 Speaker 1: streaming now on YouTube, can you give them their best 641 00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:02,200 Speaker 1: pitch of why they need you and it in their 642 00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:03,080 Speaker 1: life right now? 643 00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:07,960 Speaker 3: Well, I think I don't think. One of the only 644 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,279 Speaker 3: reason I think you watched Tragically I Need You is 645 00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:14,040 Speaker 3: this because we have not what really we have not 646 00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:17,600 Speaker 3: recovered is the people from the pandemic, not even close 647 00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:19,600 Speaker 3: in it. You want to for all of this stuff 648 00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:21,840 Speaker 3: of like, well, gee, what's going on. I'll tell you 649 00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:24,520 Speaker 3: what's going on. A group of people locked up who 650 00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:27,759 Speaker 3: never were locked up, who socialized, who met over a 651 00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:31,320 Speaker 3: water cooler, who watched it occurred at the same time 652 00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:34,359 Speaker 3: that this phone nonsense, that all of that where there 653 00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:37,600 Speaker 3: was a complete change in terms of the way in 654 00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:42,480 Speaker 3: which we get our information. Everything changed at exactly the 655 00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:45,000 Speaker 3: same time, and we're hit with a virus that can, 656 00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:48,680 Speaker 3: whether you like it or not, can kill people. And 657 00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:53,320 Speaker 3: so I think that the reason you watch is because 658 00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:58,000 Speaker 3: it's it's a touchstone of what it might help you 659 00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:01,440 Speaker 3: realize what happened to you or to your kids or 660 00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:06,080 Speaker 3: your friend. Because I'm still I'm still a little rocky 661 00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:09,160 Speaker 3: from that point in time, and it drives me nuts 662 00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:09,719 Speaker 3: that I am. 663 00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:12,960 Speaker 1: No, but you're not alone. There's a lot of people, 664 00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:18,000 Speaker 1: myself included. It was definitely a life changing experience for 665 00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:20,000 Speaker 1: you know, hundreds of millions of people. 666 00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:24,080 Speaker 3: Yeah, it was, and I don't think they've come back 667 00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:27,680 Speaker 3: from it. And I think it's what makes it's people 668 00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:31,880 Speaker 3: go gee, everybody's yelling at each other. That's why because 669 00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:33,920 Speaker 3: they've lost the ability to communicate. 670 00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:36,759 Speaker 1: Yes, and the communicating that was coming in at us 671 00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:40,080 Speaker 1: was so shocking because everyone had time to actually pay 672 00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:43,480 Speaker 1: attention for the first time to see what was going on. 673 00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:46,480 Speaker 1: That's kind of shocking in and of itself. You know, 674 00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:49,920 Speaker 1: where can people find you Lewis Black on tour and 675 00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:52,440 Speaker 1: where do they go to submit their rage for your 676 00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:53,160 Speaker 1: rant cast? 677 00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:55,040 Speaker 2: Because I know a lot of people are going to 678 00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:55,759 Speaker 2: want to. 679 00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:58,920 Speaker 3: All right, well, if you want to, if you go 680 00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:02,000 Speaker 3: to Lewis Black dot com, it'll tell you exactly how 681 00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:04,800 Speaker 3: to a It'll lead you to where you can watch 682 00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:06,960 Speaker 3: some of the ran casts and see what I mean 683 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:10,640 Speaker 3: in terms of that, in terms of what I'm reading. 684 00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:13,919 Speaker 3: You can write in anything. I don't care what bothers you. 685 00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:18,200 Speaker 3: It can be small, it can be gigantic. And so 686 00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:21,719 Speaker 3: that's what I'm you know, you see, go to Lewisflack 687 00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:24,880 Speaker 3: dot com and that also will tell you where I'm performing. 688 00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:30,600 Speaker 3: So like it got it. April eleventh, I'm in Chandler, Arizona. 689 00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:33,400 Speaker 2: I'm in Trusted. No one ever knows their schedule. 690 00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:36,800 Speaker 3: Oh boy, yeah, when you when you have six dates, 691 00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:37,640 Speaker 3: it's no problem. 692 00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:40,120 Speaker 2: Yes, it's out of one and six. 693 00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:43,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, so there's a casino in Chandler. I can't think 694 00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:47,040 Speaker 3: of the name. And then I'm gonna be the Mystic Casino. 695 00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:51,959 Speaker 3: I think it's called in May first in outside of Minneapolis, 696 00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:52,680 Speaker 3: in Minnesota. 697 00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:54,000 Speaker 2: Very cool. 698 00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:57,600 Speaker 1: Now, let's just do an example of your rants real quick, 699 00:36:57,719 --> 00:37:00,160 Speaker 1: because I'm not submitting a rant to you, and I 700 00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:00,800 Speaker 1: will just give. 701 00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:02,399 Speaker 2: You the topic if I may. 702 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:05,839 Speaker 1: Yeah, bring your own bags to the supermarket after you've 703 00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:08,200 Speaker 1: just gone and spent half of your life's fortune for 704 00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:11,200 Speaker 1: the food, and then they are can you just put 705 00:37:11,239 --> 00:37:12,319 Speaker 1: that is my that? 706 00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:14,239 Speaker 2: And yeah, we can. 707 00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:17,040 Speaker 3: That's your main baby. You don't want to you want 708 00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:18,040 Speaker 3: them to give you the bag. 709 00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:21,280 Speaker 2: I don't do anything. All I do my socialization is going. 710 00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:23,560 Speaker 1: To the supermarket and talking like all my friends are 711 00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:27,000 Speaker 1: at the supermarket and then I work, so you. 712 00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:29,279 Speaker 2: Know, at least they could give me a bag for 713 00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:29,879 Speaker 2: all the money. 714 00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:32,600 Speaker 3: What's amazing is that first time when you go in 715 00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:34,920 Speaker 3: there and they go and I'll never forget it the 716 00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:36,880 Speaker 3: first time. I well, you are going to have to 717 00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:39,919 Speaker 3: pay ten cents for a bag. Just say I've spent 718 00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:42,880 Speaker 3: forty two dollars, yes on stuff, but I got an 719 00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:45,560 Speaker 3: eggplant I got this, I got this, I got this. 720 00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:49,200 Speaker 3: How much money do I have toay? No, we're switching 721 00:37:49,239 --> 00:37:52,080 Speaker 3: to this, you know. But you can buy a bag 722 00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:55,040 Speaker 3: for fifty cents and you can always use it again. 723 00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:57,240 Speaker 3: And now we have the bags. I got a hundred 724 00:37:57,320 --> 00:38:01,480 Speaker 3: bags now that you bought. I bought them. I've got them. 725 00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:04,600 Speaker 3: They hand them to me. People have handed me bags. 726 00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:08,000 Speaker 3: I've bought things where they go, here's this bag. It's recyclable. 727 00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:11,279 Speaker 3: You'll be heavily take you and I never remember them. 728 00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:16,160 Speaker 3: I don't go out with an empty bag, but people 729 00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:18,520 Speaker 3: do it. A lot of people do it, people who 730 00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:20,799 Speaker 3: seem to have more cognizance than I do. 731 00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:21,719 Speaker 4: I know. 732 00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:23,680 Speaker 1: And then you go to the store and you forget 733 00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:25,680 Speaker 1: the bags, so then you have more bags, and then 734 00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:28,360 Speaker 1: your whole trunk is filled with bags as bags in 735 00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:30,319 Speaker 1: your basement because you didn't take it out to the car. 736 00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:33,879 Speaker 2: It's all over the garage. And then all of a sudden. 737 00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:36,919 Speaker 1: It's like, wait a minute, isn't now We're getting away 738 00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:38,920 Speaker 1: from the whole reason why we were doing this in. 739 00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:39,439 Speaker 2: The first place. 740 00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:40,120 Speaker 3: First place? 741 00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:43,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, oh my gosh, thank you for letting me get 742 00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:43,960 Speaker 2: that off my chest. 743 00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:46,279 Speaker 3: Well, yeah, and the other great one. Somebody wrote in 744 00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:48,879 Speaker 3: a thing, which is also along those lines. Somebody wrote 745 00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:54,840 Speaker 3: in a spectacular one about how long the receipt is. 746 00:38:55,120 --> 00:39:00,880 Speaker 3: Oh yeah at a drug store, or but especially a 747 00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:02,920 Speaker 3: drug store where you know, it's like it goes on 748 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:05,840 Speaker 3: for days and days and day. You bought three things, 749 00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:07,800 Speaker 3: but it's a foot and a half that you've taken 750 00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:08,880 Speaker 3: home with you. 751 00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:11,239 Speaker 1: Yes, and half of the forest to print out the 752 00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:13,279 Speaker 1: stupid yes see exactly, but you got to bring your 753 00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:13,840 Speaker 1: own backs. 754 00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:16,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's insanity. 755 00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:20,960 Speaker 1: Lewis Black, thank you so much for coming on Comedy 756 00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:24,280 Speaker 1: Save Me and sharing your story with us. It's just amazing. 757 00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:26,360 Speaker 1: And it's been amazing to watch your entire career and 758 00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:29,359 Speaker 1: you're still kicking ass. And I love it, and I 759 00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:33,200 Speaker 1: love you. I met you in the nineties and I've 760 00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:36,160 Speaker 1: always been a fan and I just can't wait to 761 00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:37,319 Speaker 1: see what's next. 762 00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:42,719 Speaker 3: Well, thank you, and you know and and and for 763 00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:45,680 Speaker 3: those of you have kids, I'm the book What's Really Nuts. 764 00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:48,959 Speaker 3: I'm the voice of SpongeBob, of Santa. 765 00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:52,160 Speaker 1: Claus, Santa Claus on SpongeBob. 766 00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:55,480 Speaker 3: On SpongeBob five, it's like three or four years of it. 767 00:39:55,520 --> 00:39:57,160 Speaker 3: I just did a whole bunch of others. 768 00:39:57,360 --> 00:39:58,080 Speaker 2: You're kidding. 769 00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:01,759 Speaker 1: That is like my nephew's favorite show casey Want. That's 770 00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:04,080 Speaker 1: all we watch when he shows up here. SpongeBob when 771 00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:05,880 Speaker 1: we're eating a meal. We got to watch SpongeBob. 772 00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:09,239 Speaker 3: Well you can if you track down Lewis Black on SpongeBob. 773 00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:13,000 Speaker 3: I'm on a lot of them, I mean around Christmas. 774 00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:13,800 Speaker 3: It's crazy. 775 00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:18,839 Speaker 2: That's awesome. You're so cool, Lewis. Oh my gosh. Well 776 00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:20,600 Speaker 2: I could talk to you for more hours more, but 777 00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:22,239 Speaker 2: I know you're in high give me. 778 00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:25,200 Speaker 1: We can do this again sometime and certainly all right, 779 00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:27,120 Speaker 1: listen next time, I'm going to send you a car 780 00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:29,960 Speaker 1: because I'm writing Connecticut, just over the border, and you 781 00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:32,080 Speaker 1: can sit in the studio and I'll feed you. 782 00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:37,520 Speaker 3: Oh great, and we'll have fun. That'll be good. Do 783 00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:40,680 Speaker 3: it when it's warm, all right, I will. Well, that's great. 784 00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:42,439 Speaker 3: I look forward to it me too. 785 00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:44,480 Speaker 2: Thank you so much, thank you. 786 00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:49,560 Speaker 4: I'm buzz night, And thanks for listening to Comedy Save 787 00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:53,920 Speaker 4: Me with Lynn Hoffmen, And do check out our other podcast, 788 00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:59,680 Speaker 4: Lynn Hoffmin's Music Save Me Podcast. Also Sarah Harrelson and 789 00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:04,080 Speaker 4: Take a Walk Nashville and don't Forget also about taking 790 00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:08,640 Speaker 4: a walk. Hosted by Yours Truly. All shows are available 791 00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:12,520 Speaker 4: on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and are part of the iHeart 792 00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:13,640 Speaker 4: podcast network.