WEBVTT - Kalea McNeill & Andrew Rivers 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.160 When I do live gigs around the country, I'll be 0:00:02.160 --> 0:00:04.880 honest with you. I sel t shirts and swag to 0:00:04.920 --> 0:00:07.120 the folks who are there, and then people always say, 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:09.680 can we get this wag without sitting through a whole 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:13.800 evening of you. Well, it's happened. It's finally here. You 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:17.160 can buy Craig Ferguson merch on the Craig Ferguson Merch 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:20.360 website and you can buy it for yourself or someone 0:00:20.400 --> 0:00:23.159 you hate or someone you love. For more information and 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:25.520 link to the web store, please go to the Craig 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:29.120 Fergusonshow dot com. That's all lowercase, the Craig Ferguson show 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:33.879 dot com. My name is Craig Ferguson. The name of 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:38.680 this podcast is Joy. I talk to interest in people 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:46.000 about what brings them happiness. Welcome to the Young Comedians Special, 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:49.160 where I, as not a young comedian, will talk to 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:52.199 to young comedians about being young comedians. 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:54.440 And they're very funny, they're very interesting people. 0:00:54.800 --> 0:01:04.680 Andrew Rivers and Khalia McNeil enjoy. 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:07.520 So let's just before we start. 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:09.679 I do want to just reiterate because I did just 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:12.080 say this before we started that as I look at 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:15.000 the two of you right now, and I think I 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:19.000 think you might have said it first for Buddy Cop movie. 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:23.440 All right, you are a professional officer that has been 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:27.080 forced into the situation of taking on a partner who 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:33.360 is a well connected, you know, loser, try. 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:34.440 To clean it up the second time. 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:37.520 I think loser is fine, but I realized when I 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:40.240 said loser that it might I thought you were a loser, 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:42.880 and that is not what I'm thinking. And also I 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:44.959 may have impliedately that you were a professional and I 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:48.200 wasn't couldn't be further from this, So I don't want 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:50.840 to to start stereotyping you guys right from the get go. 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:52.840 I just what the reason why I asked you both 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:55.680 here to get out of this. You're both young comics, 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:58.480 you're both comers. In my opinion, you're both at the 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:02.320 beginning of what I predict is big careers. You're both 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:06.000 very similar and not in the way that you do 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:08.519 the stuff or even what you talk about. But I 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:11.480 noticed with both of you you're both anecdotal comedians, and 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:14.520 I like that. You're both kind of old school, but 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:18.120 you're young comedians, and so I wanted to talk to 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:20.080 you and get the vibe and get the feeling and 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:22.040 get to know what the young folks are talking about. 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:27.520 But fart Craig needs to stand up lessons. Actually, he's 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:31.239 like that the career has passed me by got you. 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:32.400 We're gonna get you. 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:35.320 We're gonna get you in a supreme outfit, you know. 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:38.600 And do you think do you think is that a thing? 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:40.520 Is there a look that you have to go for? 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:43.480 Like in your special? Right, you look very cool. 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:46.160 I think that's part of me being old school. Though. 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:50.400 When I if it's something like a special or something 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:54.000 that's being filmed like that, I deem serious. I'm going 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:56.000 to put a little something on. I'm gonna have some 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:58.200 slacks on. I'm gonna, you know, put a suit on 0:02:58.280 --> 0:03:00.360 if I can. I just think that's classy. But I 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:04.160 also understand, you know, you know your you know your style. 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:08.000 Your style matches you sometimes. And when I I love 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:11.800 watching a laid back special and dude looks like he's chilling, 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:13.280 but his jokes are also like. 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:14.200 You you know very much. 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:17.320 Enjoy Andrew's work because that's what he's wearing right now. 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:20.680 I feel like I've seen you do stand up. I 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:23.400 just go on stage with what I wore. That day. Yeah. 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:26.079 I actually got a comment on like my Instagram the 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:28.920 other day it was like comedians used to dress proper whatever, 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:29.320 you know. 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:35.960 That's actually that was me. Yeah yeah, I was like, 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:39.520 come on, you wear a tie? Yeah, that's not funny. 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:41.160 Real comedian wears a tie? 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:42.320 Do you know what that? 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:44.080 I remember? I used to get a little when I 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:47.400 was a young coming when I swore. People would say 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:49.440 a real comedian doesn't have to swear? 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:49.880 Do you do? 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:55.080 They still come after you for the swears. My mom yeah, 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:56.120 my mom says that. 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:58.080 She's like, you know it was it was nice, but 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:01.640 you know, Sindbad didn't go, and I'm like, all right, 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:03.120 shit's crazy. 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:06.520 Now, Yeah, Richard Pryor did, though, I mean he did 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:10.680 Carson and I no I cast now expressions on Sinbad. 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:12.440 He's a fine performer and a lovely man. 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:15.840 But in the Hall of Fame of stand ups, Richard 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:18.640 Pryor Sindbad, I think even Sindbad would be like, I 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:19.880 think Richard probably. 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:22.080 Edges me a little bet, Yeah, you cuss. 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:24.640 A little bit and your Yeah, I think they They 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:27.520 used to say that about political comedians too, And then 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:31.920 it's like, well, Carlin had a fine career you know. Yeah, 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:34.760 I think at the end of the day, you don't 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:37.719 need permission to make art. So it's like those people, 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:39.640 you know, like, this is what I'm doing and it 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:43.200 should make me happy first, and then the world is 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:46.719 big enough now for you to find your own audience. 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:50.120 I think that's that's quite interesting because you guys are 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:52.920 coming of age and coming and you know, making your 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:58.160 bones at a time when comedy is is more. Uh, 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:00.560 I'm not going to say it's under the micro school more, 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:02.200 but it kind of ends a little bit. 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:04.680 I think there's like a boom of it for sure, 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:08.960 but then yeah, more attention causes more scrutiny causes. 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:11.919 Do you find that your audiences kind of find you? 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:15.000 I mean like, do you get a black gay audience? 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:17.000 Do you get you know, stone or audience. 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:25.440 It's funny that you say that is I've recently finally 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:28.880 started noticing that very thing because it was you know, 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:31.520 I've for a few years now kind of been on 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:34.120 the road, and you know, you have great shows, you 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:36.560 have shows that sell very well, but it's also like, 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:40.719 you know, did this show sell really well because you know, 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:44.560 it's a Friday night in Connecticut or were they really 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:46.360 coming to see you know me specifically or is this 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:48.560 just what they wanted to do tonight and. 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:51.559 Whatever? 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:56.000 And but no, recently, I had a show in January. 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:57.920 I did a weekend at this comedy club in New 0:05:57.960 --> 0:06:00.520 Orleans called Comedy House Nola. And I never I've been 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:03.120 to New Orleans to do like Thebakri, but I've never 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:06.400 performed in New Orleans, right, and so first time performing, 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:07.359 I'm like, you know, what's it going to be? 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:07.440 Like? 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:09.120 You know, I'm doing my promos as much as I can, 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:11.039 so on, so forth. And it hit me when I 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:12.800 was on stage, like I'm looking at the crowd and 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:15.920 I'm looking at people who look like me, and it 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:17.599 was just one of those feelings like I knew for 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:21.120 a fact like they you know, either saw my flyer, 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:23.640 saw my clips or saw matter or whatever, and we're like, 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:25.760 you know what, we're comfortable going to see that, you know, 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:28.839 going to see her. And yeah, So from that point, 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:30.800 I'm starting to pay attention and seeing a little bit 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:32.080 more of that now and it feels great. 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:32.480 Yeah. 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:33.800 I was going to say, does it feel good? 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:37.040 Or does it I mean, cause like I'm a white guy, 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:38.560 I'm used to see an audience. 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:38.920 Just look like man. 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:42.320 But but it's but I like to see people that 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:44.360 don't live. In fact, I'm looking for people that don't 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:46.040 look like me and my audience. I kind of I 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:48.960 kind of like that. But I suppose the numbers are 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:51.320 are different percentage wise anyway, right. 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:53.760 I mean it's it's kind of a little bit of both. 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:55.839 It feels good, but at the same time, it's just 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:58.359 just me personally. It's like, I grew up in Fairfield, California. 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:00.760 I grew up right outside of Napa, about twenty five 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:04.240 minutes from San Francisco, So I grew up around everyone, right, 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:06.839 so when I you know, most of the shows I 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:10.119 do are for everyone if you get my drink, of course. 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:12.160 But I just I guess you can say now, it's 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:14.480 like I'm just starting to see an influx. 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:16.640 Of and you are not doing chromic, so you're going 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:18.560 to talk about your own life experience just like you do. 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:18.960 Andrew. 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:21.760 It's like you, you talk about what's happened to you. 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:24.440 It's why I'm interested in you both. You're not you 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:27.080 do jokes, but you're not joke merchants. You're not you're 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:30.600 not gag merchants, which I think right now, that's where 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:32.200 the big money is. I got to tell you, I 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:35.920 think right now is gag merchants that that's switching it up? Well, 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:38.560 it's I don't know, though, I don't think you can. 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:42.120 This is why I think you're both here because like me, 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:45.720 you really can't do anything else. But it's a slow burn, 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:47.920 you know. I think I think they got to get 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:51.040 to know phase off. You know, it's it's getting there. 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:53.040 I think with the way you guys have to do 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:53.360 it now. 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:55.840 It's a lot of social media involved, right and you 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:59.480 do you you have your own Instagrams and tiktoks and 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:02.160 all that stuff, and are you aware like do you 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:05.600 put together I better do a minute on Is that 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:06.520 too much on TikTok? 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:06.880 I don't know? 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:09.880 Forty five seconds? Like I have to do a joke today? 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:10.560 Is that a thing? 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:13.960 Yeah, I mean it's part of growing your brand and 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:16.880 those things, you know. I think of the clips as 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:19.040 like almost like a quarter in a slot machine, where 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:21.160 it's like, if one of those things pops off and 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:24.560 gets twenty million views, then your whole life could change. 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:26.960 Is that true? Yeah? Does that really work like that? 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:30.440 I mean I know two people personally that it's happened 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:32.520 to two of the biggest arguably the biggest names in 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:35.680 comedy right now, Matt Ryf and Morgan Jay. Yeah, like literally, 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:38.880 Like I mean the Netflix Festival two years ago, Matt 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:39.520 and I did a show. 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:41.720 Could not fill the Bourbon Room. He just sold out 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:44.520 the Hollywood Bowl. That's amazing. From a crowd work clip, 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:44.720 you know. 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:45.000 What I mean. 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:48.360 Now he's he's he was extreme in his handsome face. 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:51.960 Well yeah, but there's a lot of really cute guys, 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:54.319 you know at a bar show, right, That's true. 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:55.880 It was one of them. 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:58.520 Well see that's the thing you guys go, I just 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:01.080 find out as you go here you actually did a 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:02.280 show together, that's right. 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:05.280 Yeah, we did a show up in ever Itt, Everett, 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:06.319 washing Classy. 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:08.520 Yeah. It's called The Dope Show. 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:12.880 So the premise is that comedians they do a set 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:14.600 and then they take a smoke break and then they 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:18.719 come back stoned and it's hydrinks. But really it's like, oh, 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:23.240 comedians performing like they normally just higher. Yeah yeah, because 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:25.360 I was gonna say, but the audience is in on 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:28.080 the bit, so you can get you have permission to 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:30.560 get a little loose or go down a weird riff 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:32.760 rabbit hole that doesn't always end well. 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:35.160 Or what I'm saying is that the audience may also 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:40.959 be high. Yeah, so it's basically a marijuana Okay, that's fine. 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:43.360 The hard part is staying sober until the first set 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:46.760 I think, and I think you I just always forget 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:50.240 a joint. I'm like, oh shit, okay, I'm supposed to 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:52.800 be sober later or present a sober Yeah. 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:53.240 I see. 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:56.280 It's funny marijuana, which I mean, you're both very comfortable 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:59.880 with it. I was funny, uncomfortable with marijuana, admit me, 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:01.680 paranoid and sad. 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:03.120 We just got to get you the right strength. 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:04.160 No, everybody said that. 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:10.200 He got you. No. No, that's what happened to me. 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:12.400 When I was talking to a gay friend about when 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:15.439 I tried, like, I tried being gay and I did 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:18.679 a gay thing with me and another man and we 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:21.960 did a gay and I said, after it, you know 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:25.320 when when the penis, when the penis comes to your face, 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:29.319 I said, it's it's not for me. Yeah, that's what happened. 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:30.960 When I did a straight I said, you know what, 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:33.120 I don't like it. Well, no, I get it, but 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:35.120 so it's kind of the same. It's the penis comes 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:37.240 out here, You're like, no, for me, thank you. But 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:39.480 do they do that with coke too, where it's like, yeah, 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:40.880 I just don't really like it. No, you just got 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:42.000 to try my coke, you know. 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:43.719 No, they don't. They don't want to give away cat 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:44.560 That's what I remember. 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:49.160 But I discussed my friend of mine who's a gay man. 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:51.280 He said it was just the wrong penis. And I'm like, 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:54.280 was it though? Because they are kind of you know, 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:56.360 they vary a little bit, but not enough for me 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:58.560 to go, you know. And I think marijuana is the same. 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:01.960 It fairies a bit, but not enough. Okay, you know so, 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:04.440 but when does it wear off? By the way, am 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:04.839 I am? 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:05.960 I not? Uh? 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:10.640 I mean, I hate to say I smoke often, so I'm. 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:14.240 No, I'm not talking. I'm not talking right now. I'm 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:17.000 not talking about marijuana. I'm talking about the gay. When 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:18.040 does the gay wear often? 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:20.960 How long ago was that? It was about thirty years ago? 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:25.480 Year thirty five? Okay, when you go to the beach, yes, 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:26.560 what do you wear? 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:30.640 A suit? Long sleeves. 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:35.600 Maybe if it's very hot, an open toed esper drill, 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:36.440 But that's it. 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:41.000 He opens a bottle and a sweatshirt. No, why why? 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:41.520 Why would that? 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:47.040 Like as Speedos, it makes a European which also is gay. 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:51.240 Right, I wouldn't wear Speedos though, Okay, I think just 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:53.960 because I'm uncomfortable with speed So handsome? 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:56.400 Do you think the Rock is? Oh? Very handsome? 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:59.679 Indeed very Actually, you know, when I think about it, 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:01.440 maybe I would be willing to give. 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:04.800 That might be the one, that might be the one. 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:09.560 You know, you have a gay checklist. You're smoking again? 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:12.160 Yeah, I'm kind of you know what I think about it? 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:14.240 Maybe it didn't wear all. You know, he was on 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:16.960 the late night show The Rock, and I was like, god, 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:18.600 you are did you get to like feelhim up? 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:19.880 Or no? I don't feel him up? 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:25.000 But he's the Rock, you know, by like, I was 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:27.520 appreciative of the beauty of the human. 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:31.120 He was gorgeous man, he really is, no doubt about it. 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:33.480 But he wasn't high. So you high right now? 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:33.640 Then? 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:34.160 Did you smoke? 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:38.080 Only because this is our first meeting and because I 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:40.440 listened to your last episode where I heard you say 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:41.440 you don't do drugs. 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:42.840 I am not high. 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:44.840 Well, I don't want you to not do drugs because 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:47.359 I don't work. As soon as I leave here. Yeah, 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:51.200 but also and also Andrew in no way observed that rule. 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:54.760 Well, this isn't the first impression. Well is that true? 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:56.559 I mean, have you smoked today or no? 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:59.600 I haven't smoked in a couple of days. So am 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:03.000 so sorry, thank you. I feel how dare you judge 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:06.440 and stereotype based on previous knowledge and conversation. 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:10.280 Based on everything, everything that we met at a weed. 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:12.960 Show and then yeah, and then you had your intern 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:13.520 research me. 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:15.960 Wait a minute, you guys are turning it around on me. 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:25.960 I don't quite know where I am now. Is that 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:28.280 is that a drug that you're comfort I mean, clearly, 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:30.000 it is a drug you're comfortable performing with. 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:32.200 I used to drink, and that used to get in 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:34.080 the way. I couldn't really do it. 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:36.280 It's kind of for me at least, it's it's almost 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:38.080 a little bit of the routine. It's part of my 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:41.760 pre show prep. I actually can't have a drink before 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:42.280 I go on stage. 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:42.760 I don't drink. 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:44.040 I don't have a drink it so I get off 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:47.000 stage and it's not like I'm, you know, blowing blunts 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:48.800 to the face. I take a couple of puffs of 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:51.199 the joint and there is there. 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:53.839 Like a Chappelle ish comic that like smokes a joint 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:54.600 during the set. 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:57.040 There should be there should be I think I think 0:13:57.120 --> 0:13:59.679 Dave Chappelle might be one of those guys. Actually, this 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:03.000 day he smokes a cigarette, smokes a cigarette of vapes. 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:06.240 Maybe he's got that kind of little fay. Yeah, can 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:09.040 you vape marijuana? I'm sorry for it. Yeah, we can 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:14.319 teach you. Papa, no, Papa, No, I am papa. No, 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:18.880 I'm be doing Papa. I am Papa. Like Papa's got 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:21.200 the drug. I didn't like the vape pen because it 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:22.080 was too easy. 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:24.840 Like, I feel like there should be shame involved in 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:26.600 You shouldn't be able to puff a cloud of vapor 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:29.360 and disappear like Batman and be like I know evidence. 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:30.120 You know what. 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:33.440 Shame is a much underappreciated quality in society. 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:34.240 There's enough of it. 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:36.800 It's going away, and we need to bring a little bad. 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:39.760 Everybody is too positive. I was, I was raising up 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:42.120 those high schoolers, well you know I was. I was 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:45.520 raised with a certain amount of shame, and I feel like, actually, 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:48.160 you Tube must have had it too, probably, yeah, because 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:50.400 you don't become a stand up unless you have some 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:54.720 right some shame, so some bad and my my wife 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:57.760 says that all stand ups are the same mom cold 0:14:57.800 --> 0:14:58.800 with bad boundaries. 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:01.840 Does that sound and it way familiar? Maybe she's just 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:02.800 saying it, but my mom. 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:05.400 I think she's finding a way to talk about your 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:06.440 mom without talking. 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:10.120 To Look, she's not lying about my mom. But I 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:11.120 mean my mom was. 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:13.040 She's a lovely lady, but she I mean it was 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:15.520 definitely a strict household, that's for sure. 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:19.560 Yeah, my mom was the enforcer. I mean, my dad 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:23.480 was the creative. Your dad was in Yeah, so her 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:26.160 job was to make sure he sobered up eventually, you know. 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:28.800 So she did all the business and all the and 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:31.280 he was like, I'm gonna write wacky songs, right see. 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:34.440 No, my mom was a correctional counselor, okay. And my 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:36.640 dad friend to your mom. And I've never even met 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:37.080 your mom. 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:42.320 And my dad, once he retired from paroles, became a preacher. 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:46.120 Oh no, I wish I had the show dad, that 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:46.680 would be cool. 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:48.880 Well, I don't know, I mean they both kind of 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:52.320 like my dad was worked in the post office. I 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:55.440 don't know why I even ended up with a stand up, 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:58.040 but it sounds fairly okay, compared to the trauma. But 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:01.040 you guys like show business or past are you are 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:02.040 you still religious? 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:04.040 It's there, you know what I mean. 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:06.680 I'm not going to church every Sunday or anything like that, 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:09.960 but I'm not also anti. You know, when I'm home 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:12.120 for the holidays, when I'm home, I'm going to church 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:13.080 on Sunday with the family. 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:15.680 And you know some of the preachers. 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:19.120 You know, Sam Kennison was a preacher by yeah, Sam 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:22.960 Kennison used to he was way back before he gets 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:24.720 Do you guys know who I'm talking about, because it's 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:27.600 a long time ago. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Sam was 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:37.080 impression just remembered. Oh yeah, the U. But he was 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:41.800 a very aggressive is the wrong word, but very like 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:47.160 a fiery fiery stand yes. And he was a preacher 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:49.120 when he started a lot the preacher, the style of 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:50.960 preaching in churches can be. 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:54.320 Well, he wanted to be he wanted to tell more 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:55.440 truth in stand up. 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:59.960 I think, how I I know a stand up just 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:01.880 stopped to be a preacher. 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:07.440 Who's his name is Aaron All Yeah, and he's he's 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:09.840 moved to Florida, So I don't know if we'll ever 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:10.640 hear from him again. 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:12.840 Well you moved to Florida, become appreciate you make a 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:15.840 lot more money than even maybe in a stand up Yeah. 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:18.760 It's funny how that because the tradition of where I'm from, 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:22.119 preachers you know, they don't you you don't you're not 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:22.920 looking for a show. 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:25.760 In a Scottish Protestant chart, it's like. 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:30.160 You out bad Jesus is coming to get you. 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:34.080 Look out that guilt driven yeah kind of yeah, a little. 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:35.399 And we have the choicen ones. 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:41.520 Yeah, well Black Baptist church, lots of singing, lots of clapping. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:44.399 it's a little it's a it's a three hour event. 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:46.800 You gotta you gotta ration it because usually had a 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:48.639 Black church will have two services a day. They'll have 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:51.240 like an eight o'clock and a ten thirty or an 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:53.679 eleven o'clock. You want to go to that eight o'clock 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:56.200 because you know there there has to be an end. 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:59.320 Time, right, it's like to finish it at some point. 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:01.320 Second serve is the only time there is an end 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:02.880 time is on Super Bowl Sunday. 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:06.000 Wow. See that's a that's a lot of chart for me. 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:07.520