Speaker 1: I listen to the Black Coo Tips podcast because Rod
Speaker 1: and Karen.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome to another episode of the Black Hotels podcast.
Speaker 2: I'm your host, Rod Geordia is always by my cost,
Speaker 2: and we're live on a Tuesday, the last Tuesday of
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: And you can see from Karen's festive gear.
Speaker 4: I should have never.
Speaker 5: Stopped this motherfucking trend, because Lord knows, I love these
Speaker 5: motherfucking things that glitter and blink and shit.
Speaker 2: But we're in a festive mood as we are, and
Speaker 2: like all festivities, it's better with guests. And we have
Speaker 2: a guest today, first time guest that we that he's
Speaker 2: had ever been on our show. We were just on
Speaker 2: his show last week. You can check it out on YouTube.
Speaker 2: I'll posted the feed. I shared it on our social media's.
Speaker 2: But he is a stand up comedian, professional speaker, radio
Speaker 2: show host and now host of the stand Up with
Speaker 2: Pete Dominic podcast. Pete motherfucking Dominique.
Speaker 3: What's up man?
Speaker 1: Yeah, riding Karen, great to be here. I think I
Speaker 1: should have been warned about my pacemaker. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: that that strobe light is helping at all other viewers.
Speaker 6: Probably there you go, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2: I like we're doing everything but getting drunk, like seeing
Speaker 2: in right, Pete Man, First of all, we're going to
Speaker 2: be hanging out with you in April, yes, for a
Speaker 2: thing called pod Jam three. Uh what is pod Jam three?
Speaker 2: Can you tell our audience?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: From firsthand experience, because we've just been telling them what
Speaker 2: we think it's gonna be.
Speaker 1: But you know, yes, it's a show and an experience.
Speaker 1: So it's like two to three day event, depending on
Speaker 1: how long people want to come. If you want to
Speaker 1: come and just see the podcast taping, you can do that.
Speaker 6: But there are just parties we hang out.
Speaker 1: There's my friend has an awesome house with an amazing
Speaker 1: pool and a DJ, and we go and we eat
Speaker 1: and we drank and we dance and it's just people
Speaker 1: hanging out. My goal since Covid, since I left Serious XM,
Speaker 1: my corporate media career kind of like aenning and starting
Speaker 1: this own independent thing, was not actually to create community,
Speaker 1: but it accidentally became that as a result of COVID.
Speaker 1: Because I started having these zoom hangouts during lockdown.
Speaker 6: More and more people would come.
Speaker 1: We created this kind of online community and We're like,
Speaker 1: is it's gonna be weird if we get the better
Speaker 1: together in person?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 1: But we were like, we put our social anxiety and
Speaker 1: our introversion away if we had that and people met
Speaker 1: up in the first time was two years ago and
Speaker 1: it was amazing, And the second time was last year
Speaker 1: it was even better in many ways. And this year
Speaker 1: inviting you guys, trying to connect our community to your community.
Speaker 1: The goal being the thing that fights loneliness, which kills people.
Speaker 1: Is every single philosophy, religious or moral or psychological says
Speaker 1: that community matters. I'm reading Victor Frankel's uh Man Search
Speaker 1: for Meaning right now. You know, Holocaust victims and community
Speaker 1: in the concentration camps. So not to get too dark,
Speaker 1: but you got to go as dark about it as
Speaker 1: you can to talk about the importance and the light,
Speaker 1: which is what we bring.
Speaker 6: A lot of light like that on Karen's.
Speaker 1: Head of people connecting meeting and you know, like, I
Speaker 1: think it's fair to say that they're similar values. They're
Speaker 1: generally they're progressive. I guess it's the easiest way.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of ethnic diversity, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: age diversity, gender. We got a lot of members of
Speaker 1: the LGBT community, and then we have like a lot
Speaker 1: of male models like me.
Speaker 2: Oh nice, listen, we all we could always use more
Speaker 2: apacs and come gutters and all that good stuff to see.
Speaker 5: I am here for when you talk about community, community
Speaker 5: is very important, and I think for a lot of people,
Speaker 5: COVID kind of killed community because people kind of went
Speaker 5: inward and they never came back out, you know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying, Like they never came out to society and
Speaker 5: to reality and the things around them. So community is
Speaker 5: great because it allows people to talk, It allows people
Speaker 5: to open up, It allows them to realize that.
Speaker 4: You actually are not alone. We guess what, we all are.
Speaker 5: Struggling, We all going through something, We all are facing difficulties,
Speaker 5: and so sometimes it's good to realize that you're not alone.
Speaker 2: I also think community is what a lot of people
Speaker 2: are gonna have to lean on to get through this
Speaker 2: era of the Trump administration. Yes they are, because they
Speaker 2: have so many of the levers of power right now
Speaker 2: and they're passing laws and stuff that the only way
Speaker 2: around those laws it is for us to help each
Speaker 2: other to look past like a law or rule and
Speaker 2: be like I just see you as a person, right,
Speaker 2: how can I help you get something to eat today today?
Speaker 3: Like like, rather than be like, well, don't worry.
Speaker 2: In a couple of years, it'll be time to vote again.
Speaker 2: Like that shit's not going to do it for a
Speaker 2: lot of people.
Speaker 1: It's Those are all really important points. And I can't
Speaker 1: say enough about the importance of community and community building.
Speaker 1: And I can't also say enough about how rewarding it
Speaker 1: feels to be involved in connecting people with each other.
Speaker 1: And I think that part of as you said, car
Speaker 1: like COVID really killed community in a lot of ways.
Speaker 1: The Internet, did you know, the kind of degradation of
Speaker 1: religion and churches where people had community did And there's
Speaker 1: a lot of different reasons for it. But as you said,
Speaker 1: it's so important, it's so valuable to your life, to
Speaker 1: your life force.
Speaker 6: We all have a bag of rocks that we're.
Speaker 1: Dragging, and more specifically, when it comes to politics and
Speaker 1: the political and technolgical world we're living in, it's important
Speaker 1: to be like connect with other people in other parts
Speaker 1: of the country, in the world.
Speaker 6: And be like, hey man, are you seeing this?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Absolutely, what I see looks cray cray.
Speaker 6: But I can't even believe that it's today, and good did.
Speaker 1: And here's the thing when you I call it Earth one,
Speaker 1: we're connecting people who live on Earth one.
Speaker 6: We don't agree on everything.
Speaker 1: We have some pretty good arguments, some fun arguments about
Speaker 1: stupid shit, and some important arguments about important stuff. But
Speaker 1: we do agree on a certain set of ideas critical thinking,
Speaker 1: open mindedness, expertise, trust, and we communicate in such a
Speaker 1: I think, nuanced way that we're not We're not trying
Speaker 1: to like blow each other up.
Speaker 6: So we're over here on Earth one saying are you
Speaker 6: seeing this?
Speaker 1: Because it's important that we recognize with the rise of
Speaker 1: AI and this political narrative and movement that is so
Speaker 1: hard to to wake up and be in it every day,
Speaker 1: but it's harder to eat to wake up and find
Speaker 1: people that you know and love that are in it. Yes,
Speaker 1: and so a lot of are you seeing this? Are
Speaker 1: you okay?
Speaker 6: Am? I?
Speaker 1: You know, through COVID, through Trump, fascism, through the rise
Speaker 1: of AI, all these other things that scare us connecting
Speaker 1: with other people and being like, hey man, I'm a
Speaker 1: fifty year old white guy, I live in the Burbs.
Speaker 1: You're a forty three year old black woman, you live
Speaker 1: in Houston, you're a older white woman who lives all.
Speaker 6: Over the country. All types of people who all are
Speaker 6: on Earth one. That's what we're going for.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And also something I realized too is when I talked
Speaker 5: about it killing community, it also created community, but it
Speaker 5: created a lot of toxic community for people.
Speaker 4: So it's a lot of people that.
Speaker 5: Were looking for community and couldn't found that positive community.
Speaker 5: So they found a negative community because they wanted a community,
Speaker 5: like like they wanted a.
Speaker 2: Group of like what happened with QAnon, Yes, what happed
Speaker 2: my dad could not have happened without the pandemic happening
Speaker 2: at the same time.
Speaker 4: Yes, And so you have a collective of people.
Speaker 5: It's like, Hey, I want to be a part of
Speaker 5: a community so bad that I will sacrifice my morales,
Speaker 5: I will sacrifice my humanity, I will seck, I will
Speaker 5: do things that I normally would not do to be
Speaker 5: a part of this community versus taking it and making
Speaker 5: like you said, make something more positive out of it.
Speaker 5: Because you're gonna end up in a community whether you
Speaker 5: want to be or not. I ain't not trying funny
Speaker 5: you like you're gonna be in somebody's community. You're either
Speaker 5: gonna be in the community somebody.
Speaker 4: Created for you or one did you create it for yourself.
Speaker 2: What was it like going from like stand up to
Speaker 2: radio to your own podcast, because as you said, I
Speaker 2: think community changes based on like being a stand up
Speaker 2: comedian is almost like a lone wolf, right, you don't
Speaker 2: you have followers and fans that you don't have to
Speaker 2: create a community if you don't want to. You could
Speaker 2: be like, man, I just get up here and kill
Speaker 2: my joke, take my ass home. Radio is kind of
Speaker 2: like a community because you your callers and stuff, but
Speaker 2: you know they can be anywhere and all that stuff.
Speaker 3: But sometimes you get regulars. But I feel like.
Speaker 2: A podcast you start having a real community, Like these
Speaker 2: are the people that are talking to you every week,
Speaker 2: These are the people that are listening to you, These
Speaker 2: are people that come out to events. So like it
Speaker 2: hasn't been different for you at different stages.
Speaker 1: I mean each stage that you mentioned just there is
Speaker 1: a huge chapter of my life that I could, you know,
Speaker 1: have fun talking about for a long time. But I
Speaker 1: think the specifically to answer your question, I think live
Speaker 1: radio builds community all the way back when I was
Speaker 1: growing up when we were growing up, and I worked
Speaker 1: at Here six M and so I worked with all
Speaker 1: the Howard Stern show guys and Arti Lang was Howard
Speaker 1: Stern's psychic and Arti Lang and I were really good friends,
Speaker 1: and I was Arti Lang's opening act for years, and
Speaker 1: during that time I was also hosting my own radio
Speaker 1: show and then opening for Artie. And I watched the
Speaker 1: listeners of Howard Stern come up to him, you know,
Speaker 1: after show or just on the street, and the way
Speaker 1: they talk to him guys was like they knew him
Speaker 1: and that he was their friend. And then we learned
Speaker 1: there's a word for that, a parasocial relationship, where you
Speaker 1: think your friends with the show host in this case.
Speaker 6: And I saw that and I was like, I want
Speaker 6: something similar. I want to create something similar.
Speaker 1: What I learned basically was if you're on the air
Speaker 1: live the way I was and still am every day,
Speaker 1: and you share stuff about your personal life, if you're
Speaker 1: vulnerable on the air, you talk about your struggles, your suffering,
Speaker 1: you make fun of yourself, it connects you with an
Speaker 1: audience in a way that nothing else can. The opposite
Speaker 1: of that is overwhelming bravado and genius and brilliance, which
Speaker 1: is what had so many of the right wing radio
Speaker 1: show hosts of my day did and still do.
Speaker 6: The great one Brain is on loan from God. Now
Speaker 6: my show is like Pize's an idiot, let's do.
Speaker 1: My show was interviewing experts to say that and still
Speaker 1: is the shortest way to explain it. But it created
Speaker 1: the community live radio, old school you know, terrestrial radio,
Speaker 1: satellite radio to a large too. And I think podcasts
Speaker 1: are probably create that community even more niche, and I
Speaker 1: think there's probably a safety element in it where you
Speaker 1: actually start to get to know people.
Speaker 6: You see them at virtual.
Speaker 1: Hangouts, you meet them and events, and I think there
Speaker 1: can be like I have a deep personal relationship with
Speaker 1: lots and lots of people who've been listening to my
Speaker 1: show from Serious XM to now I mean hundreds of friends.
Speaker 1: I have a like just an embarrassment of riches of
Speaker 1: people in my life.
Speaker 6: And yet Roden Careen I get lonely.
Speaker 3: Too, we all do.
Speaker 2: I think also, like with podcasts, you opted for our
Speaker 2: audio listeners, you got to go back to.
Speaker 3: Minute mark.
Speaker 2: But the I think also like podcasts is such an
Speaker 2: opt in format and you have to find it too.
Speaker 3: That's what I mean. You have to want to get it.
Speaker 2: Like radio can be passive sometimes like not as much
Speaker 2: so it's serious, like you gotta pay for that ship
Speaker 2: and then you start finding your channels and then that
Speaker 2: become like who you fuck with.
Speaker 4: But like.
Speaker 3: A lot of stuff is just.
Speaker 2: Kind of like, oh, this is on TV, this on
Speaker 2: A this is what I was listening to. I got
Speaker 2: in the car. Podcast is like I want to find
Speaker 2: your voice. So I feel like that's one of the
Speaker 2: reasons that the community gets so tight for podcasts.
Speaker 4: Will.
Speaker 1: I mean, for sure, I think it's true, though still
Speaker 1: of a political radio show, it's a specific plan of
Speaker 1: politics where you have as similar values as that person
Speaker 1: on the right and the left or whatever else, conspiracy whatever.
Speaker 1: But you're absolutely right. I think we can talk about,
Speaker 1: you know, the pros and cons of that. But for me,
Speaker 1: it's just been who I never thought that, Mike. Because
Speaker 1: I started as a stand up comic, I was living,
Speaker 1: I lived my dreams. I did everything I wanted to
Speaker 1: do in comedy, I really did, and I'm super proud
Speaker 1: of everything I accomplished and my career in broadcasting, radio
Speaker 1: and television, and most importantly I'm proud of my girls.
Speaker 1: My wife and I and are separated, but we have
Speaker 1: an awesome relationship. My girls are eighteen or twenty one.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm most proud of. But like to build
Speaker 1: a community and to have that be basically my job,
Speaker 1: and to try to maintain and nurture that community.
Speaker 6: It's really hard because I'm like the HR Department.
Speaker 1: We don't have a lot of problems, but you know,
Speaker 1: and I try not have to get overly invested in them,
Speaker 1: and I try to see people connected. I try to
Speaker 1: create a safe space, keep people connected to reality and
Speaker 1: to our suffering as we help navigate it with.
Speaker 6: Each other, especially if we get older. You know, we're
Speaker 6: just getting older. Is the real deal too?
Speaker 5: Yeah, how was it when you first got recognized? Because
Speaker 5: you know, you're watching other people get recognized, but it's
Speaker 5: completely different when it's you, because I know it was
Speaker 5: very different when it was me. When I was kind
Speaker 5: of out in public as somebody yelp my name and
Speaker 5: I had to look at them and I had to
Speaker 5: go down my mental road to day I was like.
Speaker 4: Okay, I don't know you're here. I don't know here, here,
Speaker 4: I don't know here. Then they say I know you're
Speaker 4: from the show.
Speaker 1: Was like, oh, okay, well, well let's just talk about
Speaker 1: let's just talk about the racial component of that, which
Speaker 1: is black people will overwhelmingly Black people have called black
Speaker 1: people overwhelming because it's not like an Indian guy. Black
Speaker 1: people in America will stop you and recognize you and
Speaker 1: pay you really nice compliments, and you can almost see
Speaker 1: it coming. It's often in an airport, white people will whisper,
Speaker 1: not bother It wouldn't it wouldn't be bothersome for a
Speaker 1: white person stop me in react same way a black
Speaker 1: person doesn't. But my first like you know, I would
Speaker 1: get from doing stand up to a certain extent after
Speaker 1: shows and stuff like that. But that was like and A.
Speaker 1: But once I started doing I started doing CNN every night.
Speaker 1: I was on at eight pm every night, Live on,
Speaker 1: and so during and and then after that year, I
Speaker 1: was on TV a lot. But during that year and
Speaker 1: after that year, for those those couple of years, I
Speaker 1: was getting recognized like everywhere I went, and it.
Speaker 6: Was mostly black folks who would say stuff.
Speaker 1: And I love that, And I just want to talk
Speaker 1: about why that is.
Speaker 3: Why I love this too.
Speaker 1: We're funny guys, think, but white people are more likely like, hey.
Speaker 6: I think that's the good guy from seeing them James
Speaker 6: Carvel or Daughtry Like it's either black people say hey.
Speaker 3: Man, you're the guy.
Speaker 6: I'm like yes, and then I have a new friend
Speaker 6: at the airport.
Speaker 3: What were you doing on CNN?
Speaker 6: Every day eight I did a Man on the Street segment.
Speaker 1: I got hired to do, like a like an Andy
Speaker 1: Rooney commentary piece at the end, that's what they wanted
Speaker 1: me to do. But I'm not a good writer, so
Speaker 1: I could knew unless I had help, I couldn't write something.
Speaker 6: Like that every night. That would be worse.
Speaker 1: But I but I'm my other skill sets like hosting
Speaker 1: and talking to people, you know, interviewing people.
Speaker 6: So I go, how about I do a man on
Speaker 6: the Street thing?
Speaker 1: So literally every morning I went into the streets of
Speaker 1: several cities in the country. CNN sent me all over
Speaker 1: the place, and I put a microphone in people's face
Speaker 1: like I was the original. Not the original. Sorry, there
Speaker 1: was a lot of people did Man on the Street
Speaker 1: before me, but I was one of the first people
Speaker 1: to really do it the way I did it on
Speaker 1: cable television. It was like twenty ten, but I did
Speaker 1: it in a lighthearted way too. We cut it up,
Speaker 1: we edited it, and then at the end of and
Speaker 1: then at night they would air at the end of
Speaker 1: the show to end the hour in kind of a
Speaker 1: lighthearted note asking people on the streets.
Speaker 6: Hear it, and it was called Pete on the Street.
Speaker 6: Let's go to Pete on the Street.
Speaker 1: And then John King, who was the host of the
Speaker 1: show and hate laughing and comedy, he and I would
Speaker 1: close it live. We would do would we would show
Speaker 1: them show my Man on the Street piece, and then
Speaker 1: he would go back to me, and then I would
Speaker 1: give my daughter's a signal that they can go tonight
Speaker 1: on live TV.
Speaker 6: They can go to bed dead.
Speaker 1: He loves you, go to bed and then I would
Speaker 1: talk to John and then they would throw to the
Speaker 1: eight pm hour.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: That's always interesting too, in the mix of comedy and
Speaker 2: serious stuff. Like I'm a guest on this podcast Marvel's
Speaker 2: in Nomadic University.
Speaker 3: I love it. It's all nerd stuff. I love talking
Speaker 3: to Marvel.
Speaker 2: But okay, so Howard Bryant is a guest on there
Speaker 2: sometimes too. Howard Bryan is a very studious, serious like writer,
Speaker 2: like he writes books about sports and race and he's
Speaker 2: and when he's on there, the amount of effort I'm
Speaker 2: putting into trying to get this motherfucker to laugh is insane.
Speaker 3: It is insane. I take it as a challenge because
Speaker 3: it is the mix.
Speaker 2: I'm like, he wants to come in here and be like, listen,
Speaker 2: the very serious function of Galactus is about racial disparity.
Speaker 3: And I want to be like, oh, man, how big
Speaker 3: you think his underwear are? Whatever?
Speaker 2: Just to see if I can break this man. Did
Speaker 2: you take that challenge when you were working there?
Speaker 1: I to describe it because we would be live, you know,
Speaker 1: when you're on the air with someone live like we
Speaker 1: are now. Like, I think my style at least is
Speaker 1: to throw the ball to you and hope that you
Speaker 1: see it coming and hit it, like setting you up.
Speaker 1: I'm off in the setup guy, And I also think
Speaker 1: if you set me up, I better see it, catch it.
Speaker 6: And do what I need to do with it. To
Speaker 6: continue the sports metaphor.
Speaker 1: I'm on Live TV with John King, who God loved him.
Speaker 1: He was real good to me and he does have
Speaker 1: a great sense of humor, but he too had that
Speaker 1: issue where I don't think he ever really wanted to
Speaker 1: do that segment.
Speaker 6: He's a serious news man. I don't think he wanted
Speaker 6: to report all the things he's reporting and throw this
Speaker 6: dumb dumb be fair. But I would set him up.
Speaker 6: I'd throw him the ball.
Speaker 1: I'm out, you know, via satellite outside always freezing my
Speaker 1: ass off, and he's in the studio in DC. I
Speaker 1: was usually in New York, so I would throw him
Speaker 1: the ball, guys, and it would just hit him in
Speaker 1: the chest and bounce off.
Speaker 3: Don't worry.
Speaker 2: You being a correspondent on the street, What is up
Speaker 2: with that one one to four second fucking delay?
Speaker 3: How have we not solved that?
Speaker 6: Oh? Have we not? Really?
Speaker 1: I don't know what that, but I can tell you,
Speaker 1: like being live on the street, the way that people
Speaker 1: come up to you is it's it's a lot worse
Speaker 1: for women, but it's it can be really weird and
Speaker 1: it can make you feel uncomfortable, but it's mostly like
Speaker 1: when you're live, you're terrified someone's gonna like jump into
Speaker 1: your shot.
Speaker 6: Got worse. But one time, you, guys, this is true story.
Speaker 1: You could find the clip I was live on CNN
Speaker 1: and Michael Richards, who played Kramer and Seinfeld, walks up
Speaker 1: into my live shot like, and I go, Michael Richards
Speaker 1: is here, and then John interviewed him, but I had
Speaker 1: the earpiece so I had to like repeat the question.
Speaker 6: But he was like, I don't want any problems or something,
Speaker 6: I'll clip.
Speaker 3: That's crazy.
Speaker 6: A lot of things happened, but that was the craziest
Speaker 6: one that ever happened.
Speaker 2: It's always it's always funny to me with the news
Speaker 2: because they're like, you know, we're gonna go to live
Speaker 2: on the scene to so and so, and it's always
Speaker 2: that like we're we're like everything else has been fixed,
Speaker 2: and we have a we have fucking like flyovers. You
Speaker 2: can send a drone and kill somebody in another country tonight,
Speaker 2: but we cannot stop the one fucking second delay. We
Speaker 2: can't edit that out in post or nothing. We just
Speaker 2: got to deal with this delay for the rest of
Speaker 2: our life.
Speaker 3: Oh man, that's fucking crazy.
Speaker 6: I don't know who's still got that delay. Who you're noticing?
Speaker 6: You gotta. I mean, it happened, It does happen. But
Speaker 6: I local news.
Speaker 1: I was just on with Australian show earlier, celebrating New
Speaker 1: Year's eat with them on an Australian news show, and
Speaker 1: I was just I was like, I can't believe there's
Speaker 1: no delay. We have such a strong connection, no delay
Speaker 1: all the way to the bottom of the earth and back.
Speaker 1: And I was also lying to their whole audience that
Speaker 1: I was in Times Square. I was like, it was
Speaker 1: just in my backyard.
Speaker 3: Where are you located in the United States?
Speaker 6: Now, it's called Rockland County, New York.
Speaker 1: It's just north of New York City, on the border
Speaker 1: of New Jersey and on the Hudson River, the beautiful
Speaker 1: Hudson Valley, New York.
Speaker 2: And also I saw that you used to open for
Speaker 2: like The Daily Show and stuff too.
Speaker 3: Is that is? What was that like? Was that was?
Speaker 3: Is that like hard? Is it? Does it get repetitive likes?
Speaker 3: How's that work?
Speaker 6: Oh? Man?
Speaker 1: Well, I was the audience warm up comedian for The
Speaker 1: Daily Show with John Stewart and then I did that
Speaker 1: for about a.
Speaker 6: Year, and then Stephen Colbert's show spun off.
Speaker 1: He was a correspondent and they spun off the Colbert
Speaker 1: Rapport and I went with Steven and did that show
Speaker 1: for six years and then I left for CNN. But
Speaker 1: I did like eight years of radio audience warm up TV.
Speaker 1: But I had to get there is the interesting part
Speaker 1: to get the Daily Show and the Colbert. I also
Speaker 1: worked on John Oliver's show for three years last Week
Speaker 1: Tonight at HBO, So.
Speaker 6: I worked on all those shows.
Speaker 1: I've always been part of that kind of political comedy
Speaker 1: world and staff and family, and I created a channel
Speaker 1: in that, in that image on serious XM. You know,
Speaker 1: politics done by comedians right left. I didn't care what
Speaker 1: you want. I just wanted to try to bring more
Speaker 1: entertainment to it. But those jobs were the greatest, man,
Speaker 1: those were the smartest shows in television, and they were
Speaker 1: the smartest audiences on television. They were young, they were diverse,
Speaker 1: they were experimenting in so many different ways.
Speaker 6: They were just brilliant writing staffs. And I was the fluffer.
Speaker 1: I was the audience warm up comedian and it was
Speaker 1: an amazing God. The money was amazing, first of all,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't repetitive because you couldn't be contrived. You
Speaker 1: couldn't make that audience think that you had done this before.
Speaker 6: I mean I did, but I usually.
Speaker 1: I mean it was all improv every night in front
Speaker 1: of this really smart audience.
Speaker 6: So it's really challenging.
Speaker 1: It made me a much better comedian, smarter person also
Speaker 1: made me way more judgmental and sensitive.
Speaker 2: But when I did when I wrote for Game Theory
Speaker 2: with Mionnie Jones Sidney Castillo sometimes with warm up the audience,
Speaker 2: and they'd sometimes bring in comedians the warm up the audience,
Speaker 2: and it was so funny because like this there was
Speaker 2: all these stand up comics on staff.
Speaker 3: There were writers and shit, and they always would be like.
Speaker 2: Looking down on the idea of doing the warm up,
Speaker 2: like they're like, I gotta fucking do that, and then
Speaker 2: they go out there and start doing their thing, and
Speaker 2: I'm just like, this is like, I don't know why
Speaker 2: y'all are shitting on this. Not everybody can do this.
Speaker 2: These people don't fucking know you. They're coming to have
Speaker 2: an experience on this show. They're not even looking forward
Speaker 2: to you personally, like you kind of in the way.
Speaker 4: Yes, they're like, okay for something else, and I'm getting.
Speaker 2: Comedy, and like between between like different segments, you gotta
Speaker 2: come back out there and be like, all right, guys,
Speaker 2: we're about to do this.
Speaker 4: You know the warm up up.
Speaker 5: You got the plays because I've attended several of the
Speaker 5: live tapers and that's what happens. You have a comedian
Speaker 5: come out on you up, the host comes, they take
Speaker 5: a break because you know, you're filming, and then they
Speaker 5: gotta be like, hey, y'all, we're taking.
Speaker 4: A break of Hey y'all, something happened. It's a delay.
Speaker 4: Waka wa.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I could, and so could other warm up comics. We
Speaker 1: could do a show just about warm up. At the
Speaker 1: history of it, the different shows, Uh, it is really hard.
Speaker 1: You have to have a certain skill set, certain talent
Speaker 1: for it. Luckily I got to the point where I
Speaker 1: was working on the best shows, had the best guess,
Speaker 1: the best audiences that people, you know, tickets were free,
Speaker 1: but there was always a long wait to get a
Speaker 1: ticket because the shows was such a big deal. So
Speaker 1: those audience came to laugh. They were comedy shows. But
Speaker 1: I worked on shows where the audience did not plan
Speaker 1: to be there that day, you know eight Sometimes they
Speaker 1: were sometimes they were homeless. I asked the guy in
Speaker 1: the audience one time, I'm doing crowd work. That's what
Speaker 1: you do and warm up. Where are you from? He
Speaker 1: said outside? I go what brought you here?
Speaker 6: That? He said?
Speaker 1: They said there would be pizza. I mean, it can
Speaker 1: be really depressed and it can be really sad. The
Speaker 1: one moment you talk about when you have to come
Speaker 1: back out. I usually didn't do that. I usually could
Speaker 1: get mental.
Speaker 6: Production staff to no.
Speaker 1: It was so awkward to have to come back out
Speaker 1: during a break and try something new.
Speaker 6: I just I just couldn't so, but one time I
Speaker 6: did have to do that.
Speaker 1: This was on a show for the New York Yankees
Speaker 1: television network in New York, and the episode of the
Speaker 1: show was called Captains, and they had on panel four
Speaker 1: of the most famous New York athletes ever Harry Carson,
Speaker 1: New York Giants, Michael Ruzzioni, New York Rangers, US Olympic
Speaker 1: team to beat Russia, Derek Jeeter, Dom Mattingly, the Yankees.
Speaker 6: Okay, I'm backstage with them.
Speaker 1: These are my boyhod idols, especially the baseball players, and
Speaker 1: I introduced my dad to Yogi Bearra that night. It
Speaker 1: was an amazing, magical night, but there was a production
Speaker 1: is shoot. There's a light lighting issue, and they go, Pete,
Speaker 1: get back out there. So I walk out and now
Speaker 1: I'm standing in front of these four legends trying to
Speaker 1: get this audience's attention, like how why would you want
Speaker 1: to hear.
Speaker 6: From this guy? They've never heard of me. I'm a monkey.
Speaker 1: I'm just out there shuggling trying to make but I'm
Speaker 1: too smart for that. I'm like, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: act like I can do anything to distract these people
Speaker 1: from those legends.
Speaker 6: So I start to say, I'm gonna to these guys.
Speaker 1: Let's do a little Q and A with these guys
Speaker 1: while you know, the lights are down and or while
Speaker 1: the tech issue was being fixed. And that's when Don Maddingly,
Speaker 1: whose poster I had as a twelve year old, who
Speaker 1: I went to New York City's first time to see him,
Speaker 1: sat on the first baseline whose rookie card I saved
Speaker 1: up to buy. He said, Dom Manley, my boyhood idle,
Speaker 1: yelled to me, Hey Derek, he goes, hey, Jeter doesn't
Speaker 1: think you're funny.
Speaker 3: Shit.
Speaker 6: Oh no, Maddingly.
Speaker 1: Yelled to me that another New York legend didn't think
Speaker 1: it was funny. So these two guys are talking about me.
Speaker 1: I go, oh no, Derek, Jeter doesn't think I'm funny.
Speaker 1: All that matters to me right now is that my
Speaker 1: boyhood idol just said my other idol doesn't.
Speaker 4: This is right, yall know I exist.
Speaker 1: And then in that moment I realize what my strategy
Speaker 1: is gonna be, and it was what I what every
Speaker 1: comedian does. It doesn't matter who it is, it is
Speaker 1: time him to attack for Jeter's family. He was wearing
Speaker 1: a yellow suit. I go, I can't believe Derek Jeter
Speaker 1: is making fun of me. I would never want to
Speaker 1: say anything that would upset him, certainly not the fact
Speaker 1: that he's dressed like a mustard packet.
Speaker 6: Oh fa.
Speaker 3: No, that's that's hilarious man.
Speaker 2: It's it's also like such a vulnerable thing to be
Speaker 2: on the microphone talking in front of people, uh in
Speaker 2: the first place. And I think, you know, especially in
Speaker 2: that situation, you kind of get a little bit of
Speaker 2: a boost if you're a gamer, Like it's it's like,
Speaker 2: all right, I gotta get up for this. And like,
Speaker 2: it was so funny watching these you know, veteran comedians
Speaker 2: that at my job be like, oh, fucking normous and
Speaker 2: then they just fucking turn it on like a muscles,
Speaker 2: Like what the fuck?
Speaker 5: You were just back here, And I was gonna ask
Speaker 5: you that, as you've been on live TV, like ready,
Speaker 5: on all these other different things, what is what is
Speaker 5: it that drives you to continue to go like as
Speaker 5: a muscle, because I didn't even realize I have.
Speaker 4: A muscle for this.
Speaker 5: Because for those of you that don't realize, we you know,
Speaker 5: we do Bottels Deep, which is our sports show with
Speaker 5: Justin and just one time Justin told me, he said,
Speaker 5: you have a switch.
Speaker 4: I said, what do you mean?
Speaker 5: He say, we could be casually talking and he said,
Speaker 5: the second we go live, he say, it's just something
Speaker 5: kind of changes and all of a sudden, I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't even realize I'm doing it.
Speaker 5: Like when is it that things became so automatic that
Speaker 5: you go, okay, I can adjust to anybody.
Speaker 6: Well, it's a.
Speaker 1: Very that's a great question and a very flattering suggestion
Speaker 1: that that's a talent that I possessed.
Speaker 6: But I think it is I can get to survival.
Speaker 1: I mean I I definitely fashioned myself to be the
Speaker 1: kind of comedian who could entertain any audience anywhere. So
Speaker 1: what corporate you know, gig at an industry event, or
Speaker 1: you know all black people in Harlem, or Jewish like
Speaker 1: a synagogue or like even I used to do this
Speaker 1: gig every summer, young kids at a synagogue. I'm not Jewish.
Speaker 1: I didn't know anything about grown up Jewish or being
Speaker 1: in a second they had boys and one side girls.
Speaker 1: On the other side of it was religious. And I
Speaker 1: just went in there and did an impression of a
Speaker 1: cat barfing, got my two hundred bucks and went home.
Speaker 1: I wanted to make money, so I made myself as
Speaker 1: adaptable and I want it and I love people, all people,
Speaker 1: so I want to make everybody laugh. I want to
Speaker 1: entertain everybody. And I also think, like you're the reason
Speaker 1: why you have that quality, why anybody does, is because
Speaker 1: when the lights turn on when you go live, in
Speaker 1: this case, there are people watching. We should be entertaining.
Speaker 1: We should do our job. Our job is to entertain.
Speaker 1: I hate these people are like, you know.
Speaker 6: I don't want to promote my show, you know, I
Speaker 6: just wan like, no people.
Speaker 1: Are there because you have a microphone and there's a camera,
Speaker 1: and you should use all of it and you should
Speaker 1: be interesting and entertaining and smart or whatever or don't
Speaker 1: waste people's time.
Speaker 6: So that's the job.
Speaker 1: The lights go on when when you go live, be good,
Speaker 1: be be interesting, be engaging.
Speaker 5: If you want their money, because it's like, oh, people
Speaker 5: are paying to be here or paying for whatever this
Speaker 5: thing is at a later date or yeah, we would
Speaker 5: have everyone so while we'd have a podcast guest back
Speaker 5: in the day who was like too cool for school. Yes,
Speaker 5: it's like, dude, you're fucking killing me, Like what are
Speaker 5: you doing?
Speaker 6: Man?
Speaker 5: You're giving me nothing to work with and so not
Speaker 5: time time because me and Roger got professionals. If you
Speaker 5: are a droughtwall, we will look at each other and
Speaker 5: act like you ain't in the room.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll bounce.
Speaker 2: We'll just bounce off each other if it gets that bad.
Speaker 2: I remember once as a joke, though this was on purpose.
Speaker 2: This is when we were still experimenting with what is
Speaker 2: a podcast? It's sixteen years ago, and my brother came
Speaker 2: on as a joke because we were like me and
Speaker 2: here were riffing one day in real life and we
Speaker 2: were like, dude, you know what fucking sucks rappers who
Speaker 2: do radio interviews and they just fucking are so vague
Speaker 2: because they're trying to be cool. I fucking hate I
Speaker 2: was like, I love hip hop, I hate a rap interview.
Speaker 2: Now it's changed over my lifetime because all these motherfuckers
Speaker 2: got old and they went to therapy, and now I
Speaker 2: opened up and ship. Now you just you know like
Speaker 2: the method man is talking about depression and ship. But
Speaker 2: back in the day, it used to be like, yeah,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying on me. And so one
Speaker 2: time we have usual words. We had my brother come
Speaker 2: on the show and pretend to be this rapper that
Speaker 2: we just made up the name like it was like
Speaker 2: MC no name remember that years ago and.
Speaker 3: The audience guys, because we did. We didn't tell the
Speaker 3: audience it was a skit. They got so mad.
Speaker 4: It was like, what is this ship?
Speaker 3: And I was like it sucks. I was like, we
Speaker 3: learned two lessons today.
Speaker 2: One that was much funnier to me and my brother
Speaker 2: than it was to everyone else.
Speaker 3: Too.
Speaker 2: You gotta let the audience in on the joke because
Speaker 2: that was it was. It's still funny to me, but man,
Speaker 2: that did not that did not rogue.
Speaker 1: But it's also just like one of the coolest things
Speaker 1: about working at Serio six M almost fifteen years but
Speaker 1: I hosted a live show there, and at first it
Speaker 1: was on the comedy channels, that was on the political channels.
Speaker 6: Then it was on like this hybrid channel.
Speaker 1: So I had all types of people coming in being
Speaker 1: guests on the show and huge big name stars acts musicians,
Speaker 1: comedians obviously, artist, journalists, politicians.
Speaker 6: You name it. You know, anybody who's promoting any book.
Speaker 1: I got to interview everybody, and so I have a
Speaker 1: billion stories just about that.
Speaker 6: But the point that I.
Speaker 1: Think is really, you know, relevant, when an actor or
Speaker 1: a rapper or a musician especially come in and they're
Speaker 1: they're not interesting, It's like, yeah, because someone wrote your
Speaker 1: shit for you.
Speaker 6: Yes, comedian isn't interesting. That's just sacris saying.
Speaker 1: And here's no compassion to that guy because he's he
Speaker 1: should be good.
Speaker 6: He writes his own stuff. He's supposed to be able
Speaker 6: to improv right, and be good in a woman.
Speaker 1: But I was always so excited when someone came in,
Speaker 1: whether they were a big name or not, and they
Speaker 1: they could banter, they could play, they knew how to
Speaker 1: how to improv.
Speaker 6: And I just one quick one, and there's so many.
Speaker 1: My favorite moment probably ever was the actor Jeffrey Tambour,
Speaker 1: who was in Larry Sanders Show and Arrested.
Speaker 6: Development and so many other things.
Speaker 1: One of the funniest guys ever in the moment and
Speaker 1: when you get him, he's just he's a master. So
Speaker 1: he would those guys would come in and they didn't
Speaker 1: know me. I knew them, but they would always test me.
Speaker 1: Another example would be Norm McDonald or William Shatner or
Speaker 1: Bob Sagett like coming in and boom boom, boom boom,
Speaker 1: Kevin Hart like, oh, I knew him because he's a comic,
Speaker 1: but like some of these guys, so they would test me.
Speaker 1: And once they knew I got the game, then we
Speaker 1: danced right. The third time Tamboor comes in. He knows
Speaker 1: that I know. The rule is comedy, don't matter who
Speaker 1: gets hurt, that's the rule. Top of the interview, he goes, Pete,
Speaker 1: I'm glad to see that you're still here.
Speaker 6: A little surprised.
Speaker 1: Why why are you saying that, Jeffrey, I mean, right
Speaker 1: away he said he opened the interview. I go, things
Speaker 1: are going great. I actually just launched this new channel.
Speaker 1: I spearheaded it. It's going great. Things have not been
Speaker 1: going better. Why are you saying it like that?
Speaker 6: He goes, no, no, no, I'm just surprised. I well,
Speaker 6: why are you surprised? And he goes, because you're not good.
Speaker 3: Off the top road and starting to show.
Speaker 6: Of the opening of the interview.
Speaker 1: No even he had to be there for another thirty
Speaker 1: minutes he said, you're not good. He was like, just
Speaker 1: like such a pro move and such a it was
Speaker 1: a test for me. And so many other people did
Speaker 1: that same thing right at the top because they didn't.
Speaker 6: They needed to know if they could have fun.
Speaker 1: They didn't care at that point about what side they're
Speaker 1: so famous this person or that person.
Speaker 6: Jeff Goldbloom's another one.
Speaker 1: I mean I could think of they just come in
Speaker 1: and they play, and if you play with them, they're happening.
Speaker 6: If you don't, by the way, they don't come back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And they've been doing it so often. Some of
Speaker 2: these people when they're promoting shit.
Speaker 4: That just stuff gets boring, especially.
Speaker 3: Those guys who promote books because like if.
Speaker 2: You know, if you guys on this side of the
Speaker 2: al I know fans, y'all might not know this, but
Speaker 2: we get like pr releases and shit, and it's like
Speaker 2: so so has a book and they'll even send you
Speaker 2: like here's the ten questions to ask and and like
Speaker 2: you know, so it doesn't you don't even have to
Speaker 2: read the book. You just go in and you ask
Speaker 2: them some basically, so the economy, what's going on with that?
Speaker 3: And it fucking sucks?
Speaker 6: I don't. One of the suggested questions is, so the economy,
Speaker 6: what is up?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like Barron Allen. It's like Barron Allen. It's
Speaker 2: just like, I know you have a joke about airplanes.
Speaker 2: It's like, so you've ever been on an airplane? It's
Speaker 2: like where could this possibly go by?
Speaker 4: It?
Speaker 5: And the thing is, whenever Roger has authors on, he
Speaker 5: actually reads the books and they're shocked in surprised because
Speaker 5: he's like.
Speaker 4: These very in depth and deep questions. That's like, oh you.
Speaker 2: It does take a lot longer for them to be
Speaker 2: guessed though, because I'm like, I'm gonna read the shit.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna bullshit you. But maybe you gotta wait
Speaker 2: a month come on the show. But you know, if
Speaker 2: you give me an advanced copy, you know, hey, it's
Speaker 2: still gonna line up with when it's time to sell
Speaker 2: the books.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I do like that stuff. But it's mostly
Speaker 2: because I hate so many of these.
Speaker 4: Generic r and they all sound the same.
Speaker 2: They're just they're just doing the thing. They're holding up
Speaker 2: the book to the camera and being like, so it's
Speaker 2: a book about this.
Speaker 6: I always try to be different.
Speaker 1: I always try to make the guests my show, and
Speaker 1: that's what I've been doing for years. I mean, you
Speaker 1: should do three guests a day, five days a week.
Speaker 1: Now I do one or two to day, but either
Speaker 1: way you can see it's just like some of the
Speaker 1: books behind me. I have thousands of books whose authors
Speaker 1: I've had the great privilege to interview, and I love
Speaker 1: it and I try to give them as much respect
Speaker 1: as I can and the prep, but also I try
Speaker 1: to give be different and make sure the audience isn't
Speaker 1: bored by this subject matter this guest, because a lot
Speaker 1: of times the guest is a real good writer, right,
Speaker 1: a journalist, but not.
Speaker 6: A good.
Speaker 5: I've heard terrible interviews, like you're writing it's beautiful.
Speaker 2: But I'm not gonna say no names, man, But like
Speaker 2: I was one time, I was in a situation where
Speaker 2: I was so disappointed because I read this book and
Speaker 2: this dude was so fucking funny. I was like, oh
Speaker 2: my like crying, laughing reading this book and it's like, oh,
Speaker 2: he's gonna be here today.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh shit, this is fucking but he was.
Speaker 2: He didn't have the he didn't have the gift of gab.
Speaker 2: He had the book, the gift.
Speaker 4: Of right, And I was like that this.
Speaker 2: Interview would be awesome if you could like maybe type
Speaker 2: out a page and then come back in ten minutes
Speaker 2: and then say.
Speaker 3: To answer to this question. But like, right now, I
Speaker 3: just want to fucking jump out.
Speaker 2: The studio and go to commercial and never come back
Speaker 2: and just pretended to like, this is not selling your book.
Speaker 2: This is on getting your book return. No one's believing
Speaker 2: me when I'm like, no, this guy fucking Lyris. You
Speaker 2: guys got to read the book. Okay, you know what,
Speaker 2: shut up, let me read your book. Okay, but yeah,
Speaker 2: it is the worst. How'd you grow up?
Speaker 3: Like? Were you in the theater? Were you into sports? Like?
Speaker 1: What did you?
Speaker 3: How'd you grow up and get into this lane of entertainment?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 6: I was into everything.
Speaker 1: I was a social butterfly, but I was both a
Speaker 1: jock and a theater kid. I went from lacross practice
Speaker 1: to play with her. I did the morning announcements, that's
Speaker 1: very rare. I was ski club president, student government president.
Speaker 1: I made it my business to know everybody. I never
Speaker 1: missed a day as school. I did the morning announcements
Speaker 1: like my junior and senior year. I hosted the talent
Speaker 1: show my junior and senior year. It was a graduating
Speaker 1: class like five hundred upstate New York outside Syracuse, a
Speaker 1: pretty pre rural area, almost entirely white Christian, so very
Speaker 1: homogeneous and very country.
Speaker 6: And I grew up that way. My dad grew up
Speaker 6: in the city of Syracuse.
Speaker 1: My mom was a public school teacher in the city
Speaker 1: of Syracuse. But there's two types of people who become comedians.
Speaker 1: My theory, if I want to be so binary, those
Speaker 1: who didn't get enough hugs and seek it out and
Speaker 1: those who had too many hugs and seek constant love.
Speaker 1: I had constant love in my home growing up, and
Speaker 1: I wouldn't change that or trade that for the world.
Speaker 1: Maybe makes it harder to establish resilience when you struggle
Speaker 1: when you're.
Speaker 6: Older, I've found.
Speaker 1: But my parents are still alive and still love me
Speaker 1: and are still super proud of me, and so I
Speaker 1: think I've always kind of s album.
Speaker 3: But it is weird. It is weird having good parents.
Speaker 6: It is.
Speaker 2: I didn't think it would be weird, But the older
Speaker 2: I get, the weirder that I see it is because
Speaker 2: there's so many people that are just like, oh man,
Speaker 2: my parents fucking suck, right, don't they all suck? They're
Speaker 2: just the god damn worse. Oh Thanksgiving shit, I gotta
Speaker 2: fucking see these motherfuckers get And I'm.
Speaker 3: Just like, I'm not gonna say anything because it's just gonna.
Speaker 2: Feel like I'm either rubbing it in or being trying
Speaker 2: to be contrarian. You know, this is not when we
Speaker 2: were growing up and there were movies about this. It
Speaker 2: was supposed to be like a cool time.
Speaker 3: But it is cool for me. But I'm sorry it's
Speaker 3: not cool for you.
Speaker 2: But you're right, a lot of funny people, I feel
Speaker 2: like it's all like h coping.
Speaker 3: Mechanism or trauma response or whatever.
Speaker 2: I think a lot of my humor comes from when
Speaker 2: my parents would argue. I would kind of be this
Speaker 2: weird mediator between them, and.
Speaker 3: I think that's like how it's like. But if we're
Speaker 3: all laughing, nobody's mad.
Speaker 6: You know, it's always interesting, weird. You're dancing in the
Speaker 6: corner distracted that too.
Speaker 1: My brother my dad had some issues, but more than
Speaker 1: anything else. And I think the answer to your question,
Speaker 1: I didn't quite like why humor. I was tiny, little fella.
Speaker 1: I was the smallest person in my class for sure,
Speaker 1: and almost every year, including high school when it really mattered,
Speaker 1: especially to boys. Junior high and in high school, I
Speaker 1: went to.
Speaker 6: Pretty late and lost my hair early, which was a
Speaker 6: bit my actual year. Shit, And yeah, the simp, thank you,
Speaker 6: thank you for the right.
Speaker 1: God.
Speaker 6: What kind of a god would do that.
Speaker 1: I was small and so being small, you know, and
Speaker 1: wanting to people to like me, and also just as
Speaker 1: a protection mechanism as a boy to not be bullied
Speaker 1: by their boys if if they bullied me, you know,
Speaker 1: they were all they could beat me in a in
Speaker 1: a fight, and I got beat up plenty, but they
Speaker 1: were more likely to want to be friends with me
Speaker 1: than to suffer my verbals, so I would be I
Speaker 1: would take them down. And also my brother was bullied,
Speaker 1: My older brother was bullied, and I watched that happen.
Speaker 6: It's very much a part of who I.
Speaker 1: Am today why I'm very much into righteousness and justice
Speaker 1: and equal rights and human rights and civil rights.
Speaker 6: I mean because it started with my brother being.
Speaker 1: Bullied, and he was also got radicalized by Noam Chomsky
Speaker 1: and made me like an anti racist, anti sexist when
Speaker 1: I was younger. I'm still racist and sexist, don't get
Speaker 1: me wrong, but I understand the idea, and I'm trying
Speaker 1: not to be all the time, especially against Malaysians.
Speaker 6: I don't know if you meant any Dominicans either.
Speaker 2: I don't know many, but you know, I mean, I
Speaker 2: can I can be talking to being racist against people
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think that's the easiest way, is if you know him.
Speaker 3: It's harder to be racist.
Speaker 4: It is.
Speaker 1: I lived in a Dominican neighborhood and I didn't know
Speaker 1: anything about them, and then I learned and not all I.
Speaker 6: Needed, and I was out of there because the music horrible.
Speaker 3: Oh you had you can't? You can't? Is it that
Speaker 3: you can't dance?
Speaker 6: Pete?
Speaker 3: Is that we're gonna find out?
Speaker 4: Let us know you got two left feet?
Speaker 2: It is the Dominican music to too. Is it too
Speaker 2: much for you?
Speaker 6: I'll have you know, m h.
Speaker 1: If there's a dance floor, I'll have everybody in a
Speaker 1: circle around me. Which is another early of me as
Speaker 1: a performer roller skating parties. Dance in the middle of
Speaker 1: the gym. The whole entire class was watching me break dance.
Speaker 1: I made it my business for everybody to know who
Speaker 1: I was. I was the center of attention whenever I
Speaker 1: could be, and I used that, like I say, a
Speaker 1: skill set.
Speaker 6: To punch up.
Speaker 1: So when the bullies were in my age and younger
Speaker 1: bullying kids who are nonconformist artists, whatever, I would crush
Speaker 1: those kids.
Speaker 6: Right were my friends already, so I just had it. Recently.
Speaker 1: I'm still very good friends Loud. I got my buddies
Speaker 1: from high school. And one of the biggest meanest jocks
Speaker 1: he said I was mean to him in high school.
Speaker 1: I go, well, you probably deserved it. You would probably
Speaker 1: be mean to me or somebody else, marginalizing somebody else,
Speaker 1: and he goes, you don't understand. I go, what, this
Speaker 1: guy's still like six', five good looking, guy very, successful
Speaker 1: and he, goes you.
Speaker 6: Called me disproportionate body.
Speaker 5: Boy he remembered that that.
Speaker 4: You sketched that on that man's.
Speaker 1: Heart as soon as he said, THAT i just started
Speaker 1: dying laughing because it was my.
Speaker 6: JOKE i was, like that's look at.
Speaker 3: You, YEAH i, mean it's. Good gotta give it up.
Speaker 5: That that's hilarious and for me AND i SOMETIMES i
Speaker 5: think about me And. Roger roger actually helped me get into.
Speaker 5: COMEDY i feel bad For roger BECAUSE i grew up
Speaker 5: in a non funny, Household like literally everything was, serious.
Speaker 4: Everything was taking the heart like all that.
Speaker 5: Stuff so When roger's first started dating, me he actually
Speaker 5: had to be, like, hey calm, down it's a. Joke
Speaker 5: like he actually actually had to do that several, times
Speaker 5: and father was, like, oh, oh you're not.
Speaker 2: SERIOUSLY i THINK i think one of the STILL i
Speaker 2: still live by THE i still live by THIS u
Speaker 2: comedy only really works in safety when you feel. Safe
Speaker 2: i'm not saying you are, safe BECAUSE i don't think
Speaker 2: anything safe in comedy just one fucking thing and you're, Like, god,
Speaker 2: damn fuck that one. Up but the idea we're, collaborating
Speaker 2: you're you're in a place where the intentions are good
Speaker 2: and we're having that's it's hard to build that with,
Speaker 2: people but once you build, IT i, mean it's basically it's,
Speaker 2: sacred you.
Speaker 3: Know like AND i think.
Speaker 1: Speak to the different cultures of, comedy AND i would
Speaker 1: talk about three in, particular like kind of white boy
Speaker 1: comedy like WHERE i grew, Up jewish, comedy and black.
Speaker 1: Comedy we can do, gender BUT i don't think it
Speaker 1: really changes any of these things BECAUSE i think it's
Speaker 1: more about the. Culture AND i can see to each
Speaker 1: Of my opinion of each of those genres, is But
Speaker 1: i'll just say.
Speaker 6: THIS i grew up in my, culture.
Speaker 1: The homogeneous culture THAT i grew up in the eighties
Speaker 1: and nineties And Upstate New. York LIKE i, said, white Mostly,
Speaker 1: christian very little. Diversity AND i was exposed to more
Speaker 1: diversity because my mom was a public school, teacher and
Speaker 1: cousins who were mixed, race and a couple of other
Speaker 1: experiences my parents luckily put me. Into but, mostly you,
Speaker 1: know pretty much just, SO i grew up with that,
Speaker 1: humor which is still within itself. Diverse six of my
Speaker 1: closest friends were all funnier than, me funny, guys really funny.
Speaker 1: Guys then there was another tier guys who were also,
Speaker 1: funny but not as funny as. Us and then there
Speaker 1: was the other guys that tried to be but they.
Speaker 1: Weren't THEN i went to college and that's WHEN i
Speaker 1: BECAME i KNEW i wanted to be a, comedian SO
Speaker 1: i became a student of. Comedy and in COLLEGE i
Speaker 1: met a lot of gay, people On jewish people out
Speaker 1: Of hispanic, people BUT i gravitated towards black, people and
Speaker 1: it was.
Speaker 6: Because of humor.
Speaker 1: AND i could talk about that. EXPERIENCE i kind of
Speaker 1: want to write a book about, it BUT i would
Speaker 1: want to write it with, them those guys Who i'm
Speaker 1: still friends, with and they taught me a whole different
Speaker 1: brand of comedy THAT i can speak. To and then
Speaker 1: WHEN i moved To New york and lived in The
Speaker 1: Upper West side and was around on the, comedians so
Speaker 1: many More jewish comedians that were very.
Speaker 6: Influential gay, comedians different.
Speaker 1: Women for, Sure but that's SOMETHING i THINK i always
Speaker 1: was curious.
Speaker 6: About what made people.
Speaker 1: Laugh and obviously culturally there are similar. Experiences nobody's monolithic
Speaker 1: blah blah. Blah but let's be, Honest like we have
Speaker 1: jokes about hunting deer and and it's mostly a white person.
Speaker 6: Thing well what about my, friend my black friend who's hunts.
Speaker 6: Deer all, right he can laugh, too.
Speaker 3: But right, right this is not gonna kill in this black.
Speaker 2: Room and you know, it, yes like you had.
Speaker 3: To figure it out.
Speaker 6: EARLIER i wanted to make every audience.
Speaker 1: Laugh and best, comics to, me the best white comics
Speaker 1: there kind of was like black comics and white, comics,
Speaker 1: right like the black and on The pantheon of The
Speaker 1: beast it's mostly black, comics, Right it's then It's George
Speaker 1: carlin and you know a couple of others.
Speaker 6: Whatever BUT.
Speaker 1: I thought Watching Bill Bill BURN i came up together
Speaker 1: and Watching bill and a couple of other white comics
Speaker 1: who name you probably don't, know but everybody Knows. Bill
Speaker 1: he worked those black, rooms AND i was, LIKE i
Speaker 1: want to work those black. Rooms and because of my college,
Speaker 1: experience like those guys brought me. Up and then ONCE i,
Speaker 1: did it was it was the greatest. Achievement it felt
Speaker 1: the greatest just Because i'm white and they're all, black
Speaker 1: AND i think everybody knows what that's.
Speaker 3: Like and there's a bump to get over when you
Speaker 3: walk in that room because.
Speaker 5: People will photo, arms look at you and and it's.
Speaker 5: Different it's that make me.
Speaker 2: Laugh but as with all things, too there's also the
Speaker 2: curve the other, way, right there's like the bounce that
Speaker 2: you get off of, it because it's it's like white
Speaker 2: people being good at anything that black people feel like
Speaker 2: we're the best. At, Right if you can, dance there's
Speaker 2: an extra level like the white boy can. Dance if
Speaker 2: you can play, back if you can play basketball is
Speaker 2: like an extra level.
Speaker 3: Like, hey check out the white, dude you could actually play.
Speaker 1: Basketball there's there's always a make me laugh posture for any,
Speaker 1: audience but black people have the righteous like opinion of,
Speaker 1: like why WOULD i laugh at? You, yeah and so
Speaker 1: and and it's also true for black comics.
Speaker 6: Too don't get me.
Speaker 1: Wrong it's certain of a white comic walks in front
Speaker 1: of the black, room but if a black, comic black
Speaker 1: people are just as afraid to perform in front Black.
Speaker 6: Everybody knows what happens when you when you bomb in
Speaker 6: front of a black, audience it. Happens it's the, worst
Speaker 6: and it hurts real.
Speaker 3: Bad it's the.
Speaker 1: Worst white audiences are far less, verbal more, patient but
Speaker 1: the true you just, said the bounce if you if
Speaker 1: you're a white person or a black, person but if
Speaker 1: you're any, comic but especially if you're a white gyle
Speaker 1: say it seems a little better to make other people
Speaker 1: who aren't your, quote people people who don't look like
Speaker 1: you haven't lived.
Speaker 6: Your, experience to go and kill.
Speaker 1: In front of a black, room WHICH i did a
Speaker 1: lot in the late nineties and early. Arts there is nothing.
Speaker 1: Better the people are running, around.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah it's the, Best yeah we have it's the, expressions,
Speaker 5: yeah physically react kicking.
Speaker 1: Legs, yeah kind of the kind of, like, uh physical
Speaker 1: jubilation that you get from a black audience is so,
Speaker 1: wonderful and.
Speaker 2: It's only you can only get that from stand up
Speaker 2: and sleight of hand.
Speaker 3: Magic those are the only two Times i've seen.
Speaker 4: It, now we love slight of hand magic because.
Speaker 3: It's not even it's not even like on. Purpose.
Speaker 2: No, remember we went to that fucking bowling alley thing
Speaker 2: and that dude came home and started doing slighter hand
Speaker 2: magic in front of us and some weird ship with
Speaker 2: the phone. Man it took everything from me AND i
Speaker 2: could get up and. RUN i was, LIKE i want
Speaker 2: to clap at him.
Speaker 6: More i'll give you two. MORE i can't attest to.
Speaker 1: It but do you think black folks will watch a
Speaker 1: hilarious TikTok video where someone slips some falls to get
Speaker 1: scared and run. AROUND i think they'll laughed At, yeah black,
Speaker 1: people not all black, people but a lot of black
Speaker 1: people will laugh at black people beating up white people with.
Speaker 6: Chairs that was.
Speaker 3: Good that was a good. One that was a great.
Speaker 3: Name and we don't have enough of.
Speaker 2: Those to be, honest we do not like we should we,
Speaker 2: should we, should we should make that an annual. Tradition
Speaker 2: you don't find some allies that are willing to reenactment
Speaker 2: Like Civil war. Reenactments but it's just the chair at the,
Speaker 2: dock never.
Speaker 3: Forget, yeah like we're both.
Speaker 2: Like, hey we get some cool white people to line,
Speaker 2: up we will beat you too.
Speaker 3: Hard you.
Speaker 2: Know it's it's just like The Civil. War there's no
Speaker 2: good there's no real bullets in the.
Speaker 5: Musket why did you name the boats folding chair because
Speaker 5: that was the name of the.
Speaker 4: Boat it was, not, sir but that's what we. GONA
Speaker 4: i love.
Speaker 3: It we had a whole alternate.
Speaker 6: History.
Speaker 3: Man, yes.
Speaker 6: The first time you're watching, it like, damn the second
Speaker 6: time you watch, it you were.
Speaker 3: Die, yes, yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah that is another thing, too BECAUSE i feel, like you,
Speaker 2: know the gallows humor of like having to go through
Speaker 2: like oppression for any, group, right not just black, people
Speaker 2: any group like you.
Speaker 1: Have like THAT'S i think it's fair to say that
Speaker 1: that that's a lot of truth to why The jewish
Speaker 1: community in The black community, right are so funny and
Speaker 1: obviously art comes out of not always not always out of,
Speaker 1: suffering but a lot of times out of suffering obviously
Speaker 1: a lot of the best. ART i usually Think i'm
Speaker 1: never gonna be a great comedian BECAUSE i had a
Speaker 1: lot of privilege AND i had a good, childhood AND
Speaker 1: i was always, LIKE i always felt Like i'm a good,
Speaker 1: comedian But i'm not a great comedian BECAUSE i didn't
Speaker 1: HAVE i wasn't. Molested you, KNOW i Watched Emmy norton
Speaker 1: go up and talk about being. Molested nobody's like Dying
Speaker 1: louvor suicide Or i'm just like all the, worse you,
Speaker 1: Know BUT i think, that, yeah human suffering is where
Speaker 1: a lot of times the lotus flower grows out of the,
Speaker 1: mud and so did the, jokes and people have.
Speaker 6: Studied that pretty.
Speaker 1: Well but it's also like through solidarity, Too and you,
Speaker 1: know that's like hanging out with all those black guys in,
Speaker 1: College like they taught me a kind of humor and
Speaker 1: a brand and almost a way to, laugh a way to,
Speaker 1: react facial, expressions, noises you name, it AND i couldn't
Speaker 1: LIKE i never wanted to, appropriate But i'm SURE.
Speaker 6: I did, it And i'm SURE i do a little.
Speaker 2: Bit BUT i, think like so appropriation has gotten like
Speaker 2: a weird rep BECAUSE i DON'T i think some stuff isn't.
Speaker 3: Appropriation it's like cross. CULTURAL i agree with.
Speaker 6: YOU i agree with. YOU i mean LIKE i didn't
Speaker 6: want to be appear to be.
Speaker 2: Like you don't want to be like an art like
Speaker 2: a cultural, archivist like Like Indiana jones of, Comedy like
Speaker 2: you just show up and be, like, oh so, well
Speaker 2: what y'all think is? Funny Are you're just writing in
Speaker 2: this corner with a notepad.
Speaker 6: From them and wear it if it wasn't, mine you, know?
Speaker 3: Right what was that?
Speaker 6: Great is THAT i.
Speaker 1: Was this kind OF i wasn't myself such a. REDNECK
Speaker 1: i was in between kind of. Like but but they
Speaker 1: the WAY i dressed versus the way that all the
Speaker 1: black eyes dressed in nineteen ninety five three to ninety
Speaker 1: five WHEN i was in, college those guys all had
Speaker 1: a very similar fashion with their.
Speaker 6: Clothes LIKE i don't have to explain it to you or.
Speaker 1: ANYBODY i was more, filthy tight all the, things my,
Speaker 1: hats all my hats are all beata.
Speaker 6: And like that gave them jokes every.
Speaker 1: Day but also they also the rules were very quickly, established,
Speaker 1: Right and that's WHY i was let.
Speaker 6: In that's why you, KNOW i lived with them they.
Speaker 1: Were my roommates AND i ate with them every, day
Speaker 1: and they were BECAUSE i knew the, rules just LIKE.
Speaker 2: I think a, big a big part of that two
Speaker 2: IS i went after them.
Speaker 3: Hard, YEAH i think a big part of that two,
Speaker 3: is like.
Speaker 2: There's this thing that happens where like some of my
Speaker 2: favorite white people are just regular white. PEOPLE i don't
Speaker 2: like the like it's like How eminem is respected in
Speaker 2: rap Because eminem never really tried to be. Black eminem
Speaker 2: is just about LIKE i fucking hate my mom And
Speaker 2: i'm on these pills and you're, LIKE i don't even
Speaker 2: relate to, this But i'm appreciate you staying in your
Speaker 2: lane and you are fucking your.
Speaker 5: Skill and my thing is he was authentic to hisself
Speaker 5: and that's kind of all that.
Speaker 2: Mattered and like when there would be a rap, battle
Speaker 2: be for this black people with This eminem sometimes and
Speaker 2: he come back, hard but it would you you respected
Speaker 2: it because he wasn't like trying to come at it
Speaker 2: from a lane of Like i'm a better black person than,
Speaker 2: you which which can often be the like death. Knel
Speaker 2: like that's the thing that will kill everything is WHEN
Speaker 2: i remember once back WHEN i had white friends.
Speaker 3: Uh this one dude told.
Speaker 2: Me he was, like uh, hey Uh, rid you know, what,
Speaker 2: Man i'm blacker than. You AND i was, like how?
Speaker 2: So and he was, Like i've been to. JAIL i was,
Speaker 2: like you stupid.
Speaker 3: Motherfucker LIKE i was slapping ship out of. You what
Speaker 3: are you talking? About he's, LIKE i probably have sex
Speaker 3: with more black women than. YOU i was, like what is?
Speaker 3: This what what does that? Mean what does that? Mean,
Speaker 3: like let's talk about.
Speaker 2: It AND i just made it get very LIKE i
Speaker 2: JUST i could have bailed him out, laugh but INSTEAD
Speaker 2: i just got very serious at the, table and so
Speaker 2: it just got real, quiet and everybody's leaning forward waiting
Speaker 2: for the, answer, like, Yeah, ben what does it mean
Speaker 2: to go to jail and have sex makes you more?
Speaker 2: Black and he's, like, oh never, MIND i was just.
Speaker 2: Joking but if if you just kind of stay more
Speaker 2: in your, lane, like there's a love of respect that
Speaker 2: comes and a level acceptance that.
Speaker 3: Comes that's WHY i say it's not really.
Speaker 2: Appropriation it's like cross cultural exchange.
Speaker 6: Exactly all, that and if you be, real you will be.
Speaker 1: Respected and so when it came to, me hanging out
Speaker 1: was not only a lot of black. Men there's a
Speaker 1: lot of black. Women as a matter of, FACT i
Speaker 1: JUST i just got together with five black women THAT
Speaker 1: i went to college with and just me at a
Speaker 1: house Of Martha's vineyard for a, weekend and it was
Speaker 1: like one of the most we reconnected on the.
Speaker 6: Way but the humor was back right away and to the,
Speaker 6: point LIKE i was always just.
Speaker 1: Me AND i think what was different from me with
Speaker 1: humor WHEN i was with all those black folks in
Speaker 1: the nineties WAS i was less inhibited.
Speaker 6: Than, them the men.
Speaker 1: ESPECIALLY i was a silly goose and the best thing
Speaker 1: you could hear for, me the nicest comment Was, pete
Speaker 1: you so stupid the.
Speaker 6: Girl that's a. Compliment, yeah it was always a. Compliment
Speaker 6: it was as an. Acceptance and you, know BUT i,
Speaker 6: NEVER i, never.
Speaker 1: You, know you talked about the guy that says he's
Speaker 1: blacker than, you LIKE i did anti racist jokes with,
Speaker 1: them OR i asked them ignorant questions to set them
Speaker 1: up for a. Joke like one time we were like
Speaker 1: walking back from cafeteria dorms nine of us AND i
Speaker 1: finally just Go and there's always like like always In
Speaker 1: alpha and he was my closest friend and the biggest,
Speaker 1: guy AND i just my dad told me to make
Speaker 1: friends with the biggest guy in, school and that will always.
Speaker 1: Worked AND i said to, HIM i, go, hey his
Speaker 1: name Is. TAEKWAN i, go, hey, man why do why
Speaker 1: do black people walk so? Slow why are we walking so?
Speaker 6: Slow it's? Cold it's?
Speaker 1: Cold and he stopped like it should be in a
Speaker 1: movie that she seems to be in a. Movie he
Speaker 1: has stopped and everybody, stopped and he just looked at
Speaker 1: me and he, goes why do white people walk so?
Speaker 6: Fast?
Speaker 1: Yeah and there was that was. All it was always
Speaker 1: stuff like, that like about your friends Saying i'm blacker than.
Speaker 1: YOU i was in LIKE i made like anti racist.
Speaker 1: JOKES i don't know where this came, from BUT i
Speaker 1: remember going to, him you are black and AND i am.
Speaker 6: White you'll be blamed for a, CRIME i commit to night.
Speaker 1: Hilarious doing stuff like that On they were just always
Speaker 1: taking shots at each other in the most brutal, ways
Speaker 1: and it was such An it was like an. Internship
Speaker 1: it was like a cultural experience you could never. Design
Speaker 1: BUT i give myself credit for diving into people who
Speaker 1: weren't like, me always the case the gay, Community jewish.
Speaker 1: Community i've always been more interested in them than the
Speaker 1: PEOPLE i came. From to a certain, extent you're not
Speaker 1: as interested in the people you come. From and to another,
Speaker 1: extent white people.
Speaker 6: Are they can be.
Speaker 2: Boring, yeah well they're kind of, default, right salt and pepperty,
Speaker 2: taste they're they're the you, know it's, like who doesn't
Speaker 2: even for? Us, right we have to know white culture
Speaker 2: to move in and out Of. America so it's like
Speaker 2: it's like more of a survival, skill, like, yeah you gotta,
Speaker 2: know you, know like you'll see this often with certain,
Speaker 2: People like people will be, like you know the secret
Speaker 2: to such and, such and like WHAT i know how
Speaker 2: to talk to these white. People it's just, like hey,
Speaker 2: man it's a valuable, skill but you, know it's not
Speaker 2: necessarily something a white person has to have in other
Speaker 2: areas unless they decide to go into those. Areas like you,
Speaker 2: like if you just, Decide i'm staying in my.
Speaker 3: Pond i'm never.
Speaker 2: LEAVING i can be a mainstream success without ever really
Speaker 2: trying to explore other.
Speaker 3: Areas but once, again once you step out of.
Speaker 2: Those, areas it does behoove you to know how to
Speaker 2: talk to other people.
Speaker 1: The simplest way to illustrate what you just said is
Speaker 1: we could you could do a segment as guests on
Speaker 1: my show WHERE i take callers and, say ask black
Speaker 1: people a, question and white people would call in and
Speaker 1: ask all.
Speaker 6: Kinds of, fun, ignorant maybe racist.
Speaker 1: Questions but you would never be me on your show
Speaker 1: and be, like black people ask white people a? Questions
Speaker 1: could you already know the answer than we? Do you
Speaker 1: know the answer better than we do about. Us if
Speaker 1: you were, like do white people watch their? Legs i'd be, LIKE, i,
Speaker 1: HONESTLY i don't. Know IF i don't, know, yeah the
Speaker 1: answer is, no you missed.
Speaker 2: It just because you wash your legs doesn't, Okay we've.
Speaker 1: Done black people have to know if you're the we're
Speaker 1: not supposed use to the word.
Speaker 6: Minority i'm toldy.
Speaker 1: More but if you're the minority in a, room you
Speaker 1: need to be able to protect. Yourself so you need
Speaker 1: to know who's in the room and what they might.
Speaker 1: Do women know more about, Men black people know more
Speaker 1: about white people to protect themselves from generations of.
Speaker 6: PREDATION i, MEAN i don't think that's breaking any new.
Speaker 1: GROUND i don't think that's a genius, thing BUT i
Speaker 1: think it's it's why you would never be, LIKE.
Speaker 6: I don't know about these white. PEOPLE i just don't
Speaker 6: understand white.
Speaker 2: People but white people are also mean to white people
Speaker 2: in a way that's so. Weird like as a white,
Speaker 2: Dude i'm sure you've experienced this or at least seen.
Speaker 2: It but it's like the dude that gets drunk around
Speaker 2: the homies and they're just, like, uh fold them, up
Speaker 2: throw them in the, fridge.
Speaker 3: Whatever god dick on his.
Speaker 4: Face.
Speaker 2: Wow back WHEN i had white, FRIENDS i remember one
Speaker 2: time they sent me a picture on my phone of
Speaker 2: one of the. Homies, uh and he was but ass,
Speaker 2: naked folded, up sat into a sink and like drawing
Speaker 2: on and they sent it to me like ha, Ha
Speaker 2: AND i was, like is he?
Speaker 3: Okay where's?
Speaker 1: He?
Speaker 2: He?
Speaker 3: Do we need to go get? Him and they're, like,
Speaker 3: no it's fucking. FUNNY i was, like who did this to?
Speaker 3: Him and they're, like we.
Speaker 4: Did it was, like, fuck y'all, right that's that's not.
Speaker 6: Funny my friend got.
Speaker 1: Drunk he had a bad issue with the. Alcohol he
Speaker 1: would drink you pass. Out we did a lot of
Speaker 1: camping and, drinking and so we stood him up against
Speaker 1: the tree and we duc taked him to the, tree
Speaker 1: and then of course.
Speaker 6: The obligatory white guy think we drew a deck in his.
Speaker 6: Face that's kind of. Me and then we took A.
Speaker 4: Why is that a? Culture i've never understood. That do
Speaker 4: you do this? Right i'm, like that's supposed to.
Speaker 2: Be, listen what happens when you don't have apex? Predators
Speaker 2: you just start doing weird shit to each other because you,
Speaker 2: like no what we're we're enforcing our own, rules like
Speaker 2: polar bears.
Speaker 6: BLACK i would say that black humor the JOKE i.
Speaker 6: HAD i had a fun argument With Van, nathan you, Know,
Speaker 6: Lathan Yeah nathan about.
Speaker 1: THIS i, said black comedy is meaner than white. Comedy
Speaker 1: it is much. Meaner he disagrees with. Me and but
Speaker 1: what you're saying is, like why do white guys do
Speaker 1: that to each? Other it's a white guy thing, more
Speaker 1: but it's a white thing pranks and stuff like.
Speaker 6: That AND i don't know if this is along those,
Speaker 6: lines but All i'll say.
Speaker 1: About black culture or black people is they don't like
Speaker 1: that very. Much and to a certain. Extent let's get
Speaker 1: to specifically eating in. Food so there we, Were i'm,
Speaker 1: eighteen sitting next to this guy grew up in The
Speaker 1: bronx around almost entirely black, people AND i reached onto
Speaker 1: his tray to take some of his, food to take
Speaker 1: A french, fry and.
Speaker 6: Do you know what he?
Speaker 3: Did slapped your hand?
Speaker 6: Away worse what not as? Bad spit in the? Food
Speaker 6: what do you? Do stab my hand with his.
Speaker 3: Fork, okay that's, okay that'll teach into.
Speaker 6: FOOD i will say.
Speaker 1: This, then all those black guys did have a prank
Speaker 1: that wouldn't work on white people because we wouldn't. Care
Speaker 1: but the prank was. This when you got your, food
Speaker 1: usually your dessert at the cafeteria in the dorm at,
Speaker 1: college you'd sit down a piece of. Cake one guy
Speaker 1: would have his finger into the, cake and then the
Speaker 1: guy couldn't eat. IT i would not happen to a
Speaker 1: white guy if you jammed your finger into my, CAKE
Speaker 1: i would be LIKE i WOULD i would just be,
Speaker 1: like eat.
Speaker 6: IT i would.
Speaker 2: See, WELL i THINK i think the thing with white
Speaker 2: comedy and mean IS i feel LIKE i feel like
Speaker 2: white comedy is mean to people who aren't in the.
Speaker 2: ROOM i feel like black comedy everybody in the room
Speaker 2: is on the menu like.
Speaker 3: That and that's the that's the.
Speaker 2: Rule that's the. Deal like we can fuck everybody up in.
Speaker 2: Here like the amount of times you watched like Either
Speaker 2: Deaf Comedy jam or you go to a comedy club
Speaker 2: and you just, realize oh, Shit i'm on the menu
Speaker 2: like these like like they're looking around the room like
Speaker 2: and look at this. Motherfucker you're, Like god. DAMN i
Speaker 2: did not want to be part of.
Speaker 1: THIS i mean the great talking about in, COLLEGE i
Speaker 1: mean that's WHERE i learned. That but then sitting at
Speaker 1: the table at the comedy cellar With patresea O'Neill And
Speaker 1: Keith robinson and AND i MEAN i could just name,
Speaker 1: it you.
Speaker 6: KNOW i mean When Kevin hart.
Speaker 1: Started Kevin hart used to come up From philadelphia With
Speaker 1: Big Jay operson and you come in to comedy. Club
Speaker 1: we every knew he's, funny and but he was obvious
Speaker 1: as you, know he's. Tiny he would get roasted By
Speaker 1: patrice was, huge and so many other kind of everybody
Speaker 1: and we all would and it was just it was
Speaker 1: always a firing, squad and you, know whatever your insecurity,
Speaker 1: was that's what they were coming. For LIKE i Remember
Speaker 1: college's tall BLACK i couldn't. DUNK i thought he was
Speaker 1: going to kill himself with the, insults but they were.
Speaker 2: Buddy, yeah, racism we love.
Speaker 3: It it's given us so.
Speaker 6: Much.
Speaker 2: Uh, now what about with politics and, comedy BECAUSE i feel, like,
Speaker 2: uh there's definitely been a tightening of the like political
Speaker 2: like what what what can we?
Speaker 4: Love we're doing?
Speaker 3: Here like don't you?
Speaker 2: Know over the, Years AND i think a lot of
Speaker 2: that's because the advent of social. MEDIA i always THINK
Speaker 2: i always say bloggers and stand up comedians were like
Speaker 2: the worst fucking Ben diagram to ever, meet because it's
Speaker 2: like two myopic people that are, like only my point
Speaker 2: of view is, valid and then they're both just shitting
Speaker 2: on each other and it JUST i feel like that
Speaker 2: just bloomed into the Entire internet, now and that's kind
Speaker 2: of like a lot of the. Culture it's definitely not
Speaker 2: that way in the, room, Right, so like you go
Speaker 2: to a stand up comedy special or just, whatever just
Speaker 2: stand up comedy in your, area it doesn't feel like.
Speaker 2: That it's not tight like. That but a lot of
Speaker 2: the way we consume comedy now is not in the room.
Speaker 2: Anymore it's for everyone outside the. Room so like going
Speaker 2: into politics after coming out of, comedy did you feel
Speaker 2: that tightening do you feel it loosening it?
Speaker 3: Back is like how does it feel to you?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 1: Ah such a really important question and end conversation to.
Speaker 1: Have BUT i MEAN i generally have always felt like
Speaker 1: a lot of that has been. OVERBLOWN i feel like
Speaker 1: the main prime rule of comedy is still the, truth
Speaker 1: which is don't punch. Down the greats didn't really do.
Speaker 1: That you, Know George carlin didn't go after vulnerable. Communities you,
Speaker 1: Know Richard pryor didn't go after your own. People you can,
Speaker 1: say you, can you can punch down to a certain,
Speaker 1: extent make a funny, joke but like you, know partying,
Speaker 1: Today like there's so many comedians like going after trans.
Speaker 1: People it's so LIKE i find that so uninteresting and
Speaker 1: almost always not funny because if you just knew anything
Speaker 1: about the, transmmunity you, know like a lot of them
Speaker 1: are really really struggling and suicidal the suicide. Rates it's,
Speaker 1: like why would you go after our, community who you,
Speaker 1: know like is has a lot of suicidal, ideation or
Speaker 1: going after.
Speaker 6: Like the gay community and making gay.
Speaker 1: Jokes like WHEN i started as a comedy a, COMEDIAN
Speaker 1: i didn't even like to put like my then girlfriend
Speaker 1: and then wife THAT i.
Speaker 6: Never punched down at.
Speaker 1: Her my jokes were about me being like, short my
Speaker 1: shortcomings in the, marriage poor, her she has to deal with.
Speaker 1: Me BECAUSE i just felt like that kind of overt
Speaker 1: sexism of male comedians some about their, WIVES i just
Speaker 1: felt like that was over and SO i just never
Speaker 1: was really impressed with. That SO i think like the
Speaker 1: that whole idea of punching down and punching, UP i
Speaker 1: still feel.
Speaker 6: Like that should be the.
Speaker 1: Rule there are exceptions of, sexism and racism can be.
Speaker 1: Funny The holocaust could be, funny cancer can be anything
Speaker 1: can be. Funny if it's done the right way by
Speaker 1: the right, person that might be. Home BUT i think
Speaker 1: that you need to know who you are and who
Speaker 1: you're talking to and who your audience, is and not
Speaker 1: all comedy obviously has a political.
Speaker 6: BENT a lot of, it doesn't you.
Speaker 1: Know ard Of George carland's act was fart jokes and
Speaker 1: observational humor and and and and jokes on, language brilliant
Speaker 1: jokes on, language and then a lot of the other
Speaker 1: stuff with social and culture and. Political but it depends
Speaker 1: on who you are and how you fashion. Yourself but
Speaker 1: it has really interestingly changed in terms of like from
Speaker 1: liberal to, conservative the left of the right in the,
Speaker 1: spectrum in terms of what we.
Speaker 6: Laugh, at what we're allowed to laugh, at, Right.
Speaker 1: AND i think the one thing that is so often
Speaker 1: we believe narratives because they seem to. Fit but like
Speaker 1: the idea that liberals are more, sensitive it is probably
Speaker 1: true in a lot of, ways at least in that
Speaker 1: we care about.
Speaker 6: Strangers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah it's like When Rob reiner died and people were,
Speaker 2: LIKE i didn't agree with his, politics but let me
Speaker 2: And i'm like his politics of.
Speaker 3: Inclusion, diversity, care.
Speaker 2: Empathy you should kind of be a little bit ashamed
Speaker 2: to say that part out. Loud you should just go
Speaker 2: straight to the, like, man it's sad that he's. Dead
Speaker 2: you should just skip that part ABOUT i didn't like
Speaker 2: that he.
Speaker 3: Was like such a nice. GUY i wanted everyone to have.
Speaker 3: Equality that was kind of.
Speaker 1: CRAZY i just think that the difference Between, yeah it's,
Speaker 1: ridiculous the difference between like a liberal and conservative comedian
Speaker 1: to a certain extent or.
Speaker 6: Person, yeah when it comes To, county it's like they
Speaker 6: can't laugh at. Themselves no they.
Speaker 5: Can't and a lot of the you don't have a
Speaker 5: sense of. Humor they're like like they, Trumper LIKE.
Speaker 6: I had a. Trumper come, on you, know some maga
Speaker 6: guy in the live.
Speaker 1: CHAT i was doing A i think it's WITH, jl
Speaker 1: and some guy in the comments said some. Nonsense but
Speaker 1: then he said some stupid maga. Nonsense but then he called.
Speaker 1: Me he SAID i look like a baby, hamster AND
Speaker 1: i was, like, Funny.
Speaker 6: YEAH i. DO i.
Speaker 1: Do, LOOK i do think that about. MYSELF i do
Speaker 1: think that's. FUNNY i can laugh at that.
Speaker 6: Joke which is a direct insult HOW i, look AND
Speaker 6: i think it's. Funny so you can definitely make fun
Speaker 6: of my. Beliefs you can make fun of all kinds
Speaker 6: of things about.
Speaker 1: Me And i'm able to laugh at myself BECAUSE A
Speaker 1: i'm confident BE I i don't take myself so. Serious
Speaker 1: but those, guys they they can't laugh at. Themselves they
Speaker 1: that's why also why.
Speaker 6: They're not very.
Speaker 1: Funny they're not very many conservative comedians are very funny at.
Speaker 2: All it's much more like cultural, signifying, Right like it's
Speaker 2: a lot of a lot of the conservative stand up
Speaker 2: now is very much like because we all agree on
Speaker 2: and it's a premise that only if you're in like
Speaker 2: a certain circle of the, world would you be, like
Speaker 2: this premise makes. Sense so if you're, like, look, man
Speaker 2: these trans people are shooting up.
Speaker 3: Schools there's no factual basis for that. Joke but if
Speaker 3: you're in.
Speaker 2: A certain of a certain belief system and you're in that,
Speaker 2: room you're, like we are going with that. Premise now
Speaker 2: you make the funny joke about trans people shooting up
Speaker 2: schools where even though it's not fucking, true and that
Speaker 2: does suck because it feels like they have taken the
Speaker 2: universal appeal of what comedy is supposed to.
Speaker 3: Do they just kind of bastardize. It like it's LIKE
Speaker 3: i prefer that even if you.
Speaker 2: FAIL i prefer you're attempting to make us all. Lad i'm, like,
Speaker 2: hey it's. Hard it's not an easy, job BUT i
Speaker 2: understand the attempt when you're like, BOOM i said this. Thing,
Speaker 2: fuck it didn't, work as opposed to JUST i know
Speaker 2: this joke is not that, funny BUT i know it'll
Speaker 2: work because the people in this room want it to
Speaker 2: work more than they wanted to be.
Speaker 1: Funny the rules are the, Rules LIKE i, said you
Speaker 1: can make comedians and satirists and everybody you know the
Speaker 1: rules are.
Speaker 6: Anything so the example that you gave is a tough
Speaker 6: one to make. Funny school shooting tough to make.
Speaker 1: Funny BUT i will help you and everybody who wants
Speaker 1: to think about making a. Joke if you want to
Speaker 1: make a joke about school, shooting best to make it,
Speaker 1: truest which is about a white. Guy those are the
Speaker 1: jokes about school shootings that. Work it's why is it
Speaker 1: always a white? Guy why is it always a white?
Speaker 1: Guy it's always you, Know and and that's.
Speaker 6: Where the comedy and that.
Speaker 1: Subject there's not a lot of, it but if you
Speaker 1: want to find, it it's in why is it white?
Speaker 6: Guy lots of comedians are doing that?
Speaker 2: Joke, Right, yeah it's the people that GO i pick on,
Speaker 2: Everybody And i'm, like not a lot of dead cop
Speaker 2: comedians out, here not a lot of not a lot
Speaker 2: of motherfucker's making that premise work. Hard, Yeah no one
Speaker 2: picks on. Everybody you pick on war jokes out? Here come, on,
Speaker 2: now get, soldiers what are you?
Speaker 4: Doing you want to?
Speaker 3: Leave you want to leave the fucking you want to
Speaker 3: leave the room, alive.
Speaker 6: Bitch alex soldiers or?
Speaker 2: Don't speaking of, which, man how'd you meet jail covid,
Speaker 2: Man how how did because we are meeting you through, jail,
Speaker 2: yes which is uh probably the first positive thing.
Speaker 3: That's happened through us knowing. Jail so how did how
Speaker 3: did you meet a stand up?
Speaker 1: COMEDY i was probably five, six maybe a few your
Speaker 1: few years more ahead of, him and.
Speaker 6: You, KNOW i, started meaning like five or ten years
Speaker 6: maybe even ahead.
Speaker 1: HIM i THINK i recognized his talent right, away AND
Speaker 1: i also recognize his, character and we became.
Speaker 6: Friends LIKE i like this. GUY i think he's, funny
Speaker 6: he's helpful to.
Speaker 1: Me I'm i'm gonna help. Him and ALSO i, think
Speaker 1: IF i, THINK i probably had him open for me
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of, events or at least
Speaker 1: a few BECAUSE i recognized how funny he wasn't, be
Speaker 1: how smart he wasn't for. ME i wanted to give
Speaker 1: opportunities to all kinds of, people but IF i was
Speaker 1: gonna be on the road with, somebody or If i'd
Speaker 1: be doing a gig with, somebody in a car with,
Speaker 1: SOMEBODY i wanted it to be with somebody who, is you,
Speaker 1: know better than. Me in, general those are my. Friends
Speaker 1: they're better than. Me their, character their, intellect their. HUMOR
Speaker 1: i Think jail's better than me in all those, ways
Speaker 1: and SO i probably you know THAT'S i gravitated towards,
Speaker 1: him AND i always just thought he was, underrated still
Speaker 1: do and always wanted to promote.
Speaker 6: Him he's always good to come on my.
Speaker 1: Show he always knocks it out of the park then and,
Speaker 1: now and SO i JUST i love, HIM i admire.
Speaker 1: HIM i feel bad for him when he's in, pain
Speaker 1: which is most of the.
Speaker 3: Time when is he not in?
Speaker 2: Pain in one, question Like karen always tried when he
Speaker 2: comes on, Here karen tries to like fix, Him i'm just, like,
Speaker 2: no let.
Speaker 4: Him i'm, SORRY i let you stay.
Speaker 2: Broken he needs the misery in the way that Like
Speaker 2: Michael jordan made up that people used to talk bad about,
Speaker 2: him and then later we will find out in the,
Speaker 2: documentary like that guy never even said that shit To Michael.
Speaker 2: Jordan Michael jordan fucking made up that that guy called
Speaker 2: him a piece of shit just so he could put
Speaker 2: fifty points on.
Speaker 3: HIM i feel like That's.
Speaker 2: Jail you just gotta let him cook and then eventually
Speaker 2: life will throw him from curve balls and a little
Speaker 2: great great comedy out of.
Speaker 3: It and that's What i'm in it. For, okay good.
Speaker 4: Comedy, Yes i'll get.
Speaker 2: Excited WHEN i hear something bad happen In New. Jersey i'm, like,
Speaker 2: ooh a train was. Late all, right let me turn
Speaker 2: into the, podcast see what's going on over.
Speaker 6: THERE i, MEAN i think he's happiest when he's making people.
Speaker 6: Laugh that's what damn. Sure if you've seen him performing
Speaker 6: live and seeing him killing, like he also is happiest to.
Speaker 1: Laugh he's happy To he's as happy to appreciate your
Speaker 1: joke as he is to make a.
Speaker 6: Joke he loves.
Speaker 1: Humor and, comedy especially when it's good and when it's.
Speaker 1: ORIGINAL i think he's probably happy when he's around his.
Speaker 6: Dogs he seems to really like a. Girl he has
Speaker 6: moments of.
Speaker 1: JOY i wish for him and for all of us,
Speaker 1: to you, know have more moments of. Joy BUT i
Speaker 1: think it's important to recognize that life is filled with.
Speaker 1: Suffering it's mostly suffering a lot of. It so when
Speaker 1: you find the, joy it's awesome and and get to.
Speaker 1: It that's my practice and certain Imit's, buddhism and that's
Speaker 1: that's WHY, i you, know focus ON i try to
Speaker 1: spread that to. Him BUT i, also you, know try
Speaker 1: to get get him to leave That catholic. Church but
Speaker 1: he's he's the real deal.
Speaker 6: And that he he, yeah.
Speaker 1: HE i Mean i've seen him and know a lot
Speaker 1: of things he does privately that are part OF i
Speaker 1: think influenced.
Speaker 6: At least by his.
Speaker 1: FAITH i like to THINK i do similar things and
Speaker 1: don't have to be a member of an institution that
Speaker 1: is protects.
Speaker 2: Pedophiles, saying but, well you, know, look some people need
Speaker 2: to you, know they need to fight to fight the
Speaker 2: system from the, INSIDE i, guess BUT i prefer to
Speaker 2: be on the, outside like to be part of.
Speaker 6: The church that would allow my daughter to rise to
Speaker 6: a position of. Leadership that would be, nice you.
Speaker 3: Know just, basically we weren't patting the pope on the
Speaker 3: back for being Like. Gabe they are, right.
Speaker 4: Like what.
Speaker 3: Human, yeah, Listen i'm Aw i'm a different type of. Pope.
Speaker 2: OKAY i take the money from the gay, People i'll
Speaker 2: take the money from the straight.
Speaker 3: PEOPLE i don't give a. Fuck black people bring the.
Speaker 2: Money we need ten percent of. Everything but but it, is,
Speaker 2: uh it is funny that to see him like earnestly
Speaker 2: running for office like cause, like on the one, Hand i'm, Like,
Speaker 2: damn this dude is so funny and he's such a
Speaker 2: but also like he's such a he's so.
Speaker 3: Used to running up against this brick wall of.
Speaker 2: Comedy yes THAT i feel like politics can't be that
Speaker 2: much harder than ever brickwall than what he's already been.
Speaker 2: DOING i feel like him coming up to people Called
Speaker 2: turkey to, say sign this, petition how's that different than
Speaker 2: A bringer?
Speaker 3: SHOW i think he was built for.
Speaker 1: THIS i think THAT i think that there's been parts
Speaker 1: of his career that are obviously really his impressions have
Speaker 1: gotten him a lot more attention than his stand up
Speaker 1: and it's it's only because like he's not for enough.
Speaker 6: People it's not because he's not, funny it's not because
Speaker 6: he's not.
Speaker 1: Brilliant it's like there are certain people who always have
Speaker 1: smaller cult followings because you, know they don't have that
Speaker 1: kind of universal. Appeal and part of that is because
Speaker 1: he's so. SMART a lot of his jokes are too
Speaker 1: high prow for a larger mass audience and, appeal and
Speaker 1: his style and his demeanor and a lot of those.
Speaker 1: Things but, also And i've always said, this you, know
Speaker 1: at his, part he's a public.
Speaker 6: Servant he's always done.
Speaker 1: Service acts of service as a volunteer as a student
Speaker 1: for all different kinds of, communities and that's what he's doing,
Speaker 1: now this nonprofit that he's working in to fight homelessness and.
Speaker 1: Eviction and that's why he went to law, school and
Speaker 1: that's what his family brought him up to. Be is you,
Speaker 1: Know dad was very influence on. Him and you, KNOW
Speaker 1: i THINK i think that this is really suited for.
Speaker 1: Him AND i think in This Dan angel politics where
Speaker 1: you need people who can fight and can, banter who
Speaker 1: can you, know that's he's the kind of person you.
Speaker 1: Need you need people who are good performers and who
Speaker 1: are good fighters and who are.
Speaker 6: Smart he's all those. Things And New jersey's eleventh district
Speaker 6: would be real lucky to have him. Represented.
Speaker 2: ABSOLUTELY i think so. Too LIKE i definitely agree with
Speaker 2: the fighter part.
Speaker 6: Too.
Speaker 2: Man i'm really focused on that in twenty twenty six
Speaker 2: Because I'm i'm tired of arguing with people over degrees
Speaker 2: of difference on the.
Speaker 3: Left it's it's so.
Speaker 2: Fruitless we're not getting much out of it except eroding
Speaker 2: the goodwill we have for each.
Speaker 3: Other, YES i Think.
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna practice the next year is just when
Speaker 2: somebody says something AND i would have normally been, like,
Speaker 2: well wouldn't it be, Better i'm just gonna be, LIKE
Speaker 2: i don't know you're, gonna but you're gonna vote for
Speaker 2: The democrat when it's time to.
Speaker 3: Vote fuck?
Speaker 6: It no.
Speaker 2: COOL i, Like i'm tired of arguing about shit that's
Speaker 2: just Not it's, like ultimately it would be a luxury
Speaker 2: for it to, matter but we need to get in
Speaker 2: a position to be in a, luxury like to have
Speaker 2: that luxury of, like, no seventeen dollar minimum, wage rather
Speaker 2: than starting with this motherfucker says sixteen dollar minimum, Wage
Speaker 2: i'm staying, Home, like we gotta figure a way out
Speaker 2: of that part so we can get to this other.
Speaker 6: PART i fully agree with.
Speaker 1: THAT i would only add along the line that's like,
Speaker 1: politics LIKE i have lost my patience with at least
Speaker 1: certain people in certain. Situations i'll say around scientific, consensus
Speaker 1: specifically obviously Climate i've never had any patience for people's
Speaker 1: skepticism about the.
Speaker 6: Census consensus around climate, change but specifically on the. VACCINES
Speaker 6: i was talking to a friend of, mine a guy
Speaker 6: hadn't talked to in.
Speaker 1: Years GUY i used to be really good friends with
Speaker 1: the colleagues with work in, media did.
Speaker 6: A lot of good things for.
Speaker 1: Me but he also looked up to me and admired,
Speaker 1: me and SO i decided when he was said some
Speaker 1: ignorant nonsense about, VACCINES i was just, Like he's, like
Speaker 1: we just had our. Daughter you just had a. KID
Speaker 1: i was, like oh my, God i'm talked ten. Years it's, like,
Speaker 1: congratulations you're a.
Speaker 6: Dad that's.
Speaker 1: Amazing hold one years. Old and what do you think
Speaker 1: about the? Vaccines it's like What he's, LIKE i don't.
Speaker 1: Think we're not gonna do. Them we're not gonna do
Speaker 1: them all at.
Speaker 6: Once.
Speaker 1: Whatever so myra this, time because of who he was
Speaker 1: in my life and because of what his background, does
Speaker 1: and because WHAT i, KNOW i, go what are you fucking?
Speaker 6: STUPID i are you.
Speaker 1: A stupid person's and he did this whole you, Know
Speaker 1: i'm doing my research on being. Responsible i'm, like you
Speaker 1: don't know how to do. Research you're a Stupid you're
Speaker 1: you're in. Media you don't do. Research STOP i read a.
Speaker 1: Study you don't know how to read a?
Speaker 6: Study?
Speaker 4: Stupid, right most of us don't study was?
Speaker 6: Conducted do you know who conducted?
Speaker 1: It do you know if they used a blind randomized control?
Speaker 6: Variable do you know how many studies they were on
Speaker 6: that one?
Speaker 1: Studies do you know any of the words That i'm
Speaker 1: saying BECAUSE i just learned him from a guy who does,
Speaker 1: RESEARCH i don't know you, stupid fuck.
Speaker 2: STUPID i feel LIKE i, uh and it seems like
Speaker 2: you have it. Too BUT i definitely have this fucking
Speaker 2: like bit of A Debbie downer in, me this like
Speaker 2: hyper vigilance part THAT i try to keep in, check
Speaker 2: but it pops out like that because and it's it
Speaker 2: pops out more with IF i care about, you like
Speaker 2: like IF i, don't IF i, don't like If i'm
Speaker 2: at the basketball court you say some ignorant shit or,
Speaker 2: whatever it's, LIKE i don't know this. Motherfucker but if
Speaker 2: it's like my brother and he's, like, Yeah i'm not
Speaker 2: getting my kids, Vaccinated i'm.
Speaker 4: Like hole.
Speaker 2: CRANGE i, can't LIKE i can't stop myself from. It
Speaker 2: AND i think that does come from being a nerdy
Speaker 2: kid that got picked on and and and all that
Speaker 2: type of shit, Too like it's still in me to this,
Speaker 2: day like like there's, times matter of, fact my friend
Speaker 2: justin one of my best. Friends we became cool because
Speaker 2: we were playing basketball against these guys and the guy
Speaker 2: goes to Insult justin and he Called justine he's some
Speaker 2: form of like. GAY i don't think it was a,
Speaker 2: slur but it was like the implication Is justin is.
Speaker 2: Gay and we're in the middle of the game and
Speaker 2: we just stopped the clock AND i was just, like,
Speaker 2: so what would be the problem if he was? Gay it's, like,
Speaker 2: man just you, know, man just check.
Speaker 3: Up, man that's just we're like.
Speaker 2: No but like like so if he was, gay like
Speaker 2: what he he wouldn't be as good at basketball or.
Speaker 2: Whatever and everybody's like take the ball, up just fucking
Speaker 2: play the.
Speaker 3: Ball AND i was, like, nah but it's serious because
Speaker 3: like why would you do?
Speaker 2: That and like another, time there were these two girls
Speaker 2: that waited all day to play with us and all the.
Speaker 3: Guys there's like ten guys and they're just, like.
Speaker 2: Nah, man we got, ten AND i was, like, well
Speaker 2: the girls have next, Right, no they can't, play. MAN
Speaker 2: i was, like they're gonna play or no one's gonna, play,
Speaker 2: Right and it's LIKE i part of me is like
Speaker 2: life would be fucking easier if that didn't. Exist in,
Speaker 2: Me but it'd be harder for, them, right it'd be
Speaker 2: harder for those two girls cause they never get to
Speaker 2: fucking play because the guys are just so fucking.
Speaker 3: Selfish and it was an easy. Solution one girl on
Speaker 3: one team weren't girl on the other.
Speaker 2: Team oh, FUCK i just solved the goddamn they pay each.
Speaker 2: OTHER i just, solved for fucking. Pie it wasn't even
Speaker 2: fucking hard to. Solve but it's just that unwillingness and
Speaker 2: selfishness that people. Have And, yeah LIKE i, said part
Speaker 2: of ME i hate. THAT i can't stop, it but
Speaker 2: part of ME i. DON'T i can't imagine being a
Speaker 2: person that didn't have it BECAUSE i look at those
Speaker 2: people as like.
Speaker 1: Cowards, YEAH i love the way that you talked about
Speaker 1: that quality of, yours and it makes me like you
Speaker 1: a lot. MORE i admire you a lot more and
Speaker 1: probably think that might be why we are connected to
Speaker 1: a certain, extent BECAUSE i live by a couple of simple.
Speaker 6: Ideas be the change you want to see in the.
Speaker 1: World so if someone is putting someone, down treating someone,
Speaker 1: poorly what.
Speaker 6: Are you doing in that?
Speaker 1: Moment if you don't if you want to say the,
Speaker 1: environment what are you doing about. It another one is
Speaker 1: surround yourself with people who fight for you in rooms
Speaker 1: that you're not.
Speaker 6: In, right, someone If i'm in a room with all.
Speaker 1: White guys and they say something about black people or
Speaker 1: more likely you, KNOW i guess the best examples in
Speaker 1: the nineteen GUYS i talked to in a text chain
Speaker 1: from high school After Charlie kirk. Died the one there's
Speaker 1: a couple of trumpers in. THERE i hate them and
Speaker 1: didn't want them, invited but they're in, there But i'm
Speaker 1: there to confront.
Speaker 6: Them So.
Speaker 1: Charlie this guy went off On Charlie kirk and how
Speaker 1: good he, was AND i was, like wrong. PLACE i
Speaker 1: let him on fire and we haven't heard from him,
Speaker 1: since And i'm proud of. That At, like you, know
Speaker 1: surround yourself with people who fight for you in the
Speaker 1: rooms that you're not. In and, finally the one THAT
Speaker 1: i think about all the, TIME i heard This australian
Speaker 1: general say it years.
Speaker 6: Ago was covering this issue in the.
Speaker 1: News it was during they had some horrible incident of sexual,
Speaker 1: harassment which all militaries have an epidemic of, it men
Speaker 1: harassing women and other men generally.
Speaker 6: Speaking but there was some horrible.
Speaker 1: Issue and so This australian general in his Cool australian,
Speaker 1: accent basically he, said the standard you walk, past he's
Speaker 1: the standard you. Accept the standard you walk past is
Speaker 1: the standard you. Accept so if someone's over, here you,
Speaker 1: know making gay jokes and you're just allowing, it or
Speaker 1: making raisist jokes and you're just allowing, it there's a
Speaker 1: million ways to handle.
Speaker 6: IT i know it's, uncomfortable BUT i know that.
Speaker 1: If if My jewish, friends my gay, friend my black
Speaker 1: friend or loved one knew THAT i stood by and allowed,
Speaker 1: that they would be disappointed in the shame of.
Speaker 6: Me AND i personally can't live with their.
Speaker 1: Disrespect So i've been that way pretty much my whole,
Speaker 1: life and it has made me a lot more, friends
Speaker 1: then it's lost. Me it's gave me a lot more,
Speaker 1: respect then it's lost. Me and it's my favorite quality.
Speaker 2: Because in some ways like it like in a way
Speaker 2: it's not even really about the.
Speaker 3: Other it's about.
Speaker 2: Me Like i'll just like in a way it is
Speaker 2: about me Where i'm just Like i'm not gonna be
Speaker 2: in a place where this is Where AND i don't
Speaker 2: know if you found this, too But, uh all this
Speaker 2: talk like alpha mal this all this. Shit men are
Speaker 2: so fucking easy to just be, like, no we're not doing,
Speaker 2: that and the vast majority of the time are just, like, oh,
Speaker 2: OKAY i see what you.
Speaker 3: Mean like it's like it's not always a. Fight like.
Speaker 3: Uh the WAY i lost my white friends was when
Speaker 3: they When trump was.
Speaker 2: RUNNING i, remember uh he was saying the first, Time
Speaker 2: he's Like mexican's a rapists and, shit AND i was,
Speaker 2: like this guy's a fucking. Racist what the? Fuck no,
Speaker 2: one you can't vote for this. Shit it was, like,
Speaker 2: well you, KNOW i, Mean i'm more about the. ECONMYE
Speaker 2: i was, like fuck, you and fuck. That don you
Speaker 2: vote for this. Dude we won't be hanging out. Anymore
Speaker 2: and uh one of them like got a little chippy
Speaker 2: and was like what do you? Know you just have
Speaker 2: like a podcast and and all this.
Speaker 3: Shit you don't know what the fuck you're talking.
Speaker 2: About AND i was, like, oh, okay my little, podcast okay.
Speaker 3: Cool SO i was, like, Uh i'm gonna Read i'm
Speaker 3: gonna read this.
Speaker 2: Email on our, pod little podcast that no one listen,
Speaker 2: too that you don't. Respect and the way this man
Speaker 2: got SCARED i didn't say his name or anything.
Speaker 3: Like he was just, like, man take it, down take it.
Speaker 2: DOWN i was, like, Now i'm just gonna post screenshots
Speaker 2: without your name and it just And i'm just gonna
Speaker 2: say on my little, platform, hey this is what the
Speaker 2: fuck white people are talking about With trump and excuses
Speaker 2: they're making for his racism and. Bigotry and that's and
Speaker 2: that was when the other white friends popped up to be,
Speaker 2: like hey, man you maybe take it down man or.
Speaker 3: Whatever AND i was, like fuck.
Speaker 2: Everybody and that's HOW i lost, him BECAUSE i was,
Speaker 2: Like i'm not gonna be an environment where him saying
Speaker 2: that to, me y'all didn't say shit Right WHEN i was,
Speaker 2: like hey, man this guy's, racist AND i thought you guys.
Speaker 3: Weren't y'all were like, crickets Like rod'll handle.
Speaker 2: It but then When i'm, like hey, Man i'm gonna
Speaker 2: put you on, blast they're like, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 3: Whoa, now let's not go too.
Speaker 2: Far AND i, think you, Know i'd Rather i'd rather
Speaker 2: be like this than to be like.
Speaker 6: That you.
Speaker 1: KNOW i think one of the major issues that we've
Speaker 1: seen lost as, results specifically If trump and the genre
Speaker 1: of the movement that there's a loss of. Shame, yes
Speaker 1: and you can say anything you want to anyone you.
Speaker 1: Want and So i'm always for putting someone on. Blast
Speaker 1: oh if, if, if that doesn't, matter if YOU i
Speaker 1: love these videos when someone just says some horrible stuff
Speaker 1: and people tape it and you know they they have their,
Speaker 1: lives you, know. DESTROYED i wouldn't wish that on, somebody
Speaker 1: but it's important that the rest of us see.
Speaker 6: That be, LIKE i should keep some things for, myself you,
Speaker 6: KNOW i would be out.
Speaker 1: Here shame is a really really important. THING i, MEAN
Speaker 1: i try to change AND i could tell, you you,
Speaker 1: know we all should be able to have a lot
Speaker 1: of stories where we stood up and did the right.
Speaker 1: Thing it's, like you, know like when the woman's being
Speaker 1: cat called in the street one time In New York.
Speaker 6: City this you, know guy's leaning out of his. Truck he's,
Speaker 6: like hey, Mommy Hey, poppy why don't you come over
Speaker 6: here To? Poppy he gets something that, whatever and the
Speaker 6: woman's like looking at. Him he's walking AND i just
Speaker 6: walk up to, him lean up to his. TRUCK i was,
Speaker 6: like Hey, poppy.
Speaker 4: And it don't feel good due when.
Speaker 2: Unwonted, yeah one TIME i was at the court and
Speaker 2: my BOY mt saw some chick walking.
Speaker 6: Up let me.
Speaker 2: Finish oh of, course, yeah, NO i assume that that's
Speaker 2: WHY i didn't cut you, off BECAUSE i was, like
Speaker 2: you don't even need to tell.
Speaker 3: HER i know how.
Speaker 4: THIS i hope you charge the fair price for your.
Speaker 4: Services don't do it for.
Speaker 3: Now, yeah the game's to be so not. Told BUT
Speaker 3: i remember.
Speaker 2: My Friend empty there was some girl walking up on
Speaker 2: the track when we were playing, ball and she was.
Speaker 3: Attractive but he was, like, hey hey girl or.
Speaker 2: Whatever empty's, white by the, way but he's, like hey, girl,
Speaker 2: Hey AND i was, like what are You are you doing.
Speaker 3: That to impress?
Speaker 2: Me like she can barely hear, you and she's definitely
Speaker 2: not gonna be, like oh my, GOD i need to
Speaker 2: run downstairs and give this guy some. Buzzy so what
Speaker 2: like WHAT Id you're clearly just doing this so THAT
Speaker 2: i know that you think that girl's.
Speaker 3: ATTRACTIVE i can see from down.
Speaker 6: Here.
Speaker 2: Motherfucker now you just got us looking. Corny AND i
Speaker 2: just kept calling him corny but like a. Lot LIKE i,
Speaker 2: said it's so. Funny people get so worried about not
Speaker 2: fitting in or. Whatever then since we were like, kids
Speaker 2: and it is so funny how you flip the power like,
Speaker 2: that and almost every time it's, like oh, yeah, noah,
Speaker 2: No i'm much cooler than. THAT i actually could have
Speaker 2: walked up there and got her, number Because i'm a
Speaker 2: real cool kyle like.
Speaker 3: That i'm, like, yeah you were, corny and don't let
Speaker 3: me catch me at corny in front of me. Again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well it's, sexist and, like we're all, sexists and
Speaker 1: we need to recognize it and see it for what
Speaker 1: it is and try to be. Better and the best
Speaker 1: example of that behavior you just, mentioned the best national
Speaker 1: example Was Billy bush on The Access hollywood Tape Oh
Speaker 1: god And hot mic catches then Celebrity trump, saying, yeah your,
Speaker 1: fingers you can grab him by the, pussy And Billy
Speaker 1: bush just laughs and doesn't say, anything and then the
Speaker 1: world finds that out. Later, WELL i was On Real
Speaker 1: time With Bill maher ON hbo And Billy bush was
Speaker 1: on that. Episode oh you go watch the, clip Because
Speaker 1: Billy bush still didn't seem controlled even Though Bill maher
Speaker 1: brought him back to like to a rehabilitation, time you.
Speaker 1: Know AND i went After Billy bush similar to the
Speaker 1: WHAT i said here about the PRINCIPLES i lived. BY
Speaker 1: i said that quote the standard walk past is the.
Speaker 1: Standard except mar did not like WHAT i.
Speaker 6: Said so he talks to me.
Speaker 1: And he's, like, Oh, pete you've always been great with,
Speaker 1: women and you've never this and, that AND i, said, no, man,
Speaker 1: NO i absolutely objectified women in my. Life i've absolutely
Speaker 1: thought about women as vessels to be. CONQUERED i still
Speaker 1: catch myself doing it and thinking and saying inappropriate. Things
Speaker 1: BUT i did mature at a certain.
Speaker 7: Point and more, IMPORTANTLY i was never in a group
Speaker 7: of friends or with a bunch of men that talked
Speaker 7: about taking sex or joking about assaulting.
Speaker 6: Women what we, did what most GUYS i.
Speaker 1: Know do locker room talk was, THIS i want to
Speaker 1: fuck that, girl and then your buddy's, going she'll never fuck.
Speaker 6: You and at this.
Speaker 3: The real locker on, top they, talk they.
Speaker 4: Talk i'm not primitives, too sometimes. Ragitment we don't talk like. That.
Speaker 2: Yeah that was actually the most offensive thing about That
Speaker 2: trump shit was when they were like his locker room.
Speaker 2: TALK i was, like, no it's not, WELL i don't
Speaker 2: know what the fuck you guys talk about in the locker.
Speaker 2: Room that is not the locker room. Talk is like
Speaker 2: put your old balls.
Speaker 1: Away like even my, TWENTIES i don't know how you
Speaker 1: were raised or how that guy was. Raised but in
Speaker 1: my twenties or my, thirties obviously NOW i have. Daughters
Speaker 1: For god's. Sake sometimes people, like, oh you shouldn't be
Speaker 1: like a pro woman feminist type of person just because
Speaker 1: you have. Daughters i'm, like, WELL i would care more
Speaker 1: about cerebral palsy if my kid had.
Speaker 6: That SO i have. DAUGHTERS i think a lot about, women.
Speaker 1: And i've worked on, issues you, know with women's equity
Speaker 1: and reproductive rights and domestic violence and all these. Things
Speaker 1: and the bottom line is like in my twenties or
Speaker 1: thirties are now like IF i knew a, MAN i
Speaker 1: knew whether if he was a stranger even as we're
Speaker 1: talking about much LIKE i knew touched a woman right
Speaker 1: woman right, That like my what would my? REACT i
Speaker 1: probably slapped the shit out of, him BUT i would
Speaker 1: certainly say, something.
Speaker 6: And it would be. HORRIBLE i don't know IF i,
Speaker 6: would like who's doing?
Speaker 3: That and that's definitely not the homeless.
Speaker 2: Like like he's definitely also not the guy that's like
Speaker 2: you're kicking it, With like he comes, back and he's, like,
Speaker 2: DUDE i just grabbed so many pussies and you're, like, whoa,
Speaker 2: Whoa i'm gonna.
Speaker 6: OUT i will out my.
Speaker 1: Friend this, SUMMER i was at a birthday party for
Speaker 1: my buddy's fifty so we're all, fifty and my friend's
Speaker 1: eighty year old mom was, there and he is so
Speaker 1: drunk that he put his arm around her and WHAT
Speaker 1: i thought was not an appropriate, way but she didn't.
Speaker 1: CARE i don't think because he's.
Speaker 6: So small and non threatening and so, drunk but it
Speaker 6: is weird that he put his arm around.
Speaker 1: An eighty year old our friend's mom like he basically
Speaker 1: in the past as a fifty year old at our
Speaker 1: friend's eight year old MoMA was, like what ARE i?
Speaker 6: MEAN i grabbed him and pulled him out of the,
Speaker 6: tuition but still, like what are you?
Speaker 5: Doing she's, bro mama gotta have a life time trying
Speaker 5: to find him a sugar?
Speaker 3: Mama was she upset with? You she's, like, DUDE i
Speaker 3: almost got some fucking. Action what are you. Doing i've
Speaker 3: Been i've been.
Speaker 2: Fucking i've been working this fifty year old dude all goddamn.
Speaker 4: Night i've been working this.
Speaker 6: ROAD i end up poking up with her.
Speaker 3: Like a. Gentleman. YAKAY i was sober, consent, like, yeah
Speaker 3: you're absolutely.
Speaker 2: Okay, LISTEN i hear what's going on in these old
Speaker 2: folks home. Communities, man they're spreading his STDs. Around, bro
Speaker 2: they know what's. Up they, like we ain't got much
Speaker 2: longer to, Live so, like what's living six more months
Speaker 2: with The? Clap you know What i'm? Saying, like why are?
Speaker 2: We why AM i even stressing that right? Now OH
Speaker 2: i CAUGHT i caught. Syphilist oh, no not not not
Speaker 2: me a Ninety.
Speaker 1: OH i MEAN i like to think that at that
Speaker 1: point in my, Life i'll have so few shits to
Speaker 1: care about and so much less time to live THAT
Speaker 1: i would sign up to live in a nursing home
Speaker 1: called The.
Speaker 3: Clap, yes, HONESTLY i think that's that's when you let
Speaker 3: loose with the. Drugs i'm up.
Speaker 2: At The, clap The Clap Community, Home Shady Shady, acres
Speaker 2: The Clap. Division, Pete, man this has been so, fun.
Speaker 2: Man you have to come back another. Time we'll do
Speaker 2: less of an interview thing and we'll do some pop. Culture, yeah,
Speaker 2: well we'll play some. Games we'll actually about white people
Speaker 2: because we don't know that much about white. People we
Speaker 2: have a lot of news about white, people and we're
Speaker 2: just always hopeful that maybe the white people we have
Speaker 2: his guest might know who these people.
Speaker 3: Are, like, uh, okay let's do.
Speaker 2: One zachary Ty brian could face full prison. Sentence, yeah
Speaker 2: you know that Is karen. Actors karen's going with Actor.
Speaker 2: Pete you know Who zachary Ty brian.
Speaker 6: Is, yeah he was on the Show Home.
Speaker 3: Improvement it's a fucking magic. Trick i'm gonna get up running.
Speaker 6: Around Yeah zachary type.
Speaker 4: Woh rodigas stand stuff.
Speaker 3: Up i'm dropping stuff because that Was that was a magic.
Speaker 3: Trick that's what that. Was sleight of. HAND i don't
Speaker 3: know who that man, is But pete.
Speaker 4: Did we can't hear. Him, baby you're.
Speaker 3: Frozen Oh i'm. Frozen my internet disconnected for a. Second
Speaker 3: let me try. Refreshing oh my, god.
Speaker 6: That really just.
Speaker 2: Happened oh, man they're gonna hear this later and be,
Speaker 2: like what the fuck?
Speaker 3: Happened?
Speaker 6: Oh joy off the. Internet that's how good it was right.
Speaker 4: Back it was so.
Speaker 3: Good it was a magic. TRICK i LITERALLY i dropped my.
Speaker 2: PICTURE i dropped my picture off the wall BECAUSE i
Speaker 2: ran away because that sleight of hand that he just
Speaker 2: did was was a magic trick to.
Speaker 3: Me, guys that was. AMAZING i don't know who the
Speaker 3: Fuck Zachary, Brian Tyd. Bryant he has three first.
Speaker 2: NAMES i have no idea those are three white first
Speaker 2: names except unless It's, tyrone AND i would have never.
Speaker 1: KNOWN i just read a news story one for you.
Speaker 1: Guys do you know in the news right. Now it's
Speaker 1: a controversial story about uh, someone do you Know.
Speaker 6: Ian zeringe Is Ian? Zerring he's got to be an.
Speaker 3: ACTOR i know all.
Speaker 4: MUSICIAN i know, this you KNOW i don't Uh.
Speaker 1: God nine two, One, oh that's, Right Steve sanders nine
Speaker 1: o two and oh here's what we've got before You,
Speaker 1: rod since you, won we do have very excited uh
Speaker 1: small sandpaper.
Speaker 3: Block, yes. Nice i've never you, know For, rick never
Speaker 3: watched that, show not a one. EPISODE i loved that
Speaker 3: shit WHEN i was. Younger oh, man yeah it was my.
Speaker 4: FRIENDS i never saw. FRIENDS i have.
Speaker 3: Such huge cultural holes in my.
Speaker 2: Life meet too in the nineties BECAUSE i went through
Speaker 2: like the Nineties Spike, Lee MALCOLM x hat days WHERE
Speaker 2: i would just be, like that's white people, shit and
Speaker 2: THEN i just wouldn't watch.
Speaker 4: IT i never saw, friends they never Saw. Sinfield and
Speaker 4: THEN i REMEMBER i got.
Speaker 3: A tv in my room with me and my little,
Speaker 3: brother and it couldn't get.
Speaker 2: Cable it could only get the like regular over the air,
Speaker 2: channels and so every DAY i would Watch.
Speaker 3: SEINFELD i was, like this is the fucking funniest Shit
Speaker 3: i've ever seen in my.
Speaker 1: Life the opposite like growing up white and nnies and
Speaker 1: the access you, Had like the REFERENCES i had the
Speaker 1: black people in black culture were mostly, television, entertainment, music
Speaker 1: AND i was never a big music person of any.
Speaker 1: Genre but a lot of WHAT i thought about used
Speaker 1: to do this joke with my standing back in front
Speaker 1: of black. AUDIENCES a lot about WHAT i thought about
Speaker 1: black people in black culture was SOMETHING i learned, from you,
Speaker 1: know a predominantly black, show which you, know most of
Speaker 1: the time did a pretty good job in the seventies
Speaker 1: and eighties of. Representing but the show that was most
Speaker 1: indelible to, me the show THAT i laughed the hardest,
Speaker 1: at AND i wouldn't say it was like typical of black.
Speaker 6: Culture whatever it was mixed with The.
Speaker 1: Jeffersons, YES i Love The jeffersons is a show to this,
Speaker 1: day AND i can still hear my. Brother we would
Speaker 1: what we call scream laugh screaming laughing At George jefferson
Speaker 1: And florence whose, name what's her?
Speaker 6: Name after's? Name she's still, Alive, Marla.
Speaker 1: And that show for me Was Marla, GIBBS i Think Marla.
Speaker 1: Gibbs and there were a lot of, other you, know
Speaker 1: predominantly black shows too that, YEAH i. LIKED i liked
Speaker 1: black like sitcom and comedy and oh.
Speaker 3: That's the, thing.
Speaker 2: Dude black culture is Basically american, culture, Right like so
Speaker 2: much of our cultural expert In america has just been
Speaker 2: like black people. Shit like even stuff that's white people
Speaker 2: shit now was black people shit.
Speaker 3: There it was rock and, roll it was.
Speaker 1: Jazz and Think i'm just speaking Of i'm speaking out
Speaker 1: of a lot of, agents BUT i think it's.
Speaker 6: TRUE tv was overwhelmingly.
Speaker 1: Dominated by white actors and white shows, always so the
Speaker 1: point where you could talk about the first black on
Speaker 1: screen kiss with Like Sidney, poitieri the first black, lead
Speaker 1: or or even on The, awards we.
Speaker 6: Could it's just more.
Speaker 1: Nonsense but like so four white people who were at
Speaker 1: least trying to be open mind or curious whether they
Speaker 1: knew anything or.
Speaker 6: Not but CERTAINLY i was GROWN i was curious that,
Speaker 6: Way like it was hard FOR tv was your. Thing
Speaker 6: music was never my.
Speaker 1: Thing if music was more of the, thing music radicalizes
Speaker 1: people in all kinds of, ways AND i just never
Speaker 1: got into. It it's white cultural blind, spot but television
Speaker 1: and particularly comedy that was.
Speaker 2: Weird AND i guess WHAT i mean to say with
Speaker 2: that is like you would Think The jeffersons would be
Speaker 2: like a niche show because but it's it was like
Speaker 2: a lot of people Love The jeffersons because it WAS i,
Speaker 2: mean it was just.
Speaker 1: Dope there was a, thing and a lot of black,
Speaker 1: COMEDIANS a lot of comedians have done this, joke but
Speaker 1: there was there is a there was also a. Thing
Speaker 1: it's all kinds of things that it did that didn't
Speaker 1: help white, folks. Right, yeah used to be able to
Speaker 1: jokes that you know, WHAT i thought black people didn't
Speaker 1: this or. That, Right but but one of the jokes
Speaker 1: is that like growing up white In america watching a
Speaker 1: lot OF, tv you might have been vulnerable to the
Speaker 1: idea that there were a lot of young black boys
Speaker 1: with that disease where they didn't grow into full Men's
Speaker 1: there was only like nine shows ON, tv and one
Speaker 1: Was Emmanuel lewis and one Was Harry. Coleman why would
Speaker 1: casting these cute young black boys because they had the
Speaker 1: maturity of an older boy and they could play a,
Speaker 1: kid and they had those funny.
Speaker 6: Lines they were so good at.
Speaker 1: Comedy as a, result what you talk about willis but
Speaker 1: it was also where white people were, like what's wrong
Speaker 1: with Little why are those little black boys not?
Speaker 6: GROWING i think that agent like.
Speaker 2: CARTOONS i Think Larry wilmore in his BOOK I Wish
Speaker 2: We Got. CASINOS i think he's called Those shetland. Negroes that's,
Speaker 2: hilarious like a Little.
Speaker 6: Oh, god that's not.
Speaker 4: Nice that is.
Speaker 3: Hilarious, YEAH i remember reading that.
Speaker 2: Chapter fucking crime. Man oh my, God Pete, man this
Speaker 2: has been.
Speaker 3: Fun. Dude oh tell the people where to find you
Speaker 3: y you, know and like how to Be down With
Speaker 3: Pod jam Three.
Speaker 1: Pod Jam april. Ninth check it. Out there's a link
Speaker 1: for people to go buy tickets on my. Website Stand
Speaker 1: up With Pete that's my show is a daily. Show
Speaker 1: every DAY i interview really smart, experts really great entertaining.
Speaker 1: PEOPLE i do a full news recap every day. Too
Speaker 1: it's my whole, job my whole. Life my kids are
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Speaker 1: i love my work and SO i produce a show every.
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Speaker 1: podcasts stand up With Pete dominic AND i can't wait
Speaker 1: to join forces with you guys more throughout the year
Speaker 1: and certainly up To april.
Speaker 6: And connecting our communities as much as we, can hopefully in.
Speaker 2: Person, yes sir jam, Three, yeah, man looking forward to.
Speaker 2: It never been To, vegas so you, know we'll see
Speaker 2: what that's. LIKE i Know pete famously does not like the,
Speaker 2: city And i've already got listeners that are, like, No
Speaker 2: i'm gonna show you the Real vegas or.
Speaker 3: WHATEVER i will, see. GUYS i don't want to end
Speaker 3: up with my hand and.
Speaker 6: Advice the new the new, sphere the, sphere, yeah the.
Speaker 3: The energy sucking uh.
Speaker 6: Got his own time.
Speaker 2: ZONE i do want to see the, sphere THOUGH i
Speaker 2: feel Like i'm part of the problem Because i'm like as,
Speaker 2: MUCH i, mean it's already. THERE i do want to
Speaker 2: look out the side of a plane and be, like
Speaker 2: that's a big ASS. Tv, yes that's WHAT i want
Speaker 2: to do.
Speaker 1: Too we came over the hill and we're in the
Speaker 1: car In vegas and my Friend nick he sees it
Speaker 1: and he, goes.
Speaker 5: Is that the?
Speaker 6: SPHERE i was, LIKE i tell, you stupid, motherfucker the Moon.
Speaker 6: Land of, course it's what else couldn't be. Far that's.
Speaker 2: Amazing we'll be back throughout the week. Everybody for premium.
Speaker 2: People we're doing our sports show tomorrow and we're gonna
Speaker 2: do our nerd off with just me And karen where
Speaker 2: we're gonna talk about our favorite nerd things we did
Speaker 2: this year and and and give you all our wrapped
Speaker 2: like here's the video game we played the, most you,
Speaker 2: know all that ship they send.
Speaker 3: You we're gonna do That.
Speaker 2: Thursday so we do have a busy week for people
Speaker 2: behind the paywall and the rest of you guys will
Speaker 2: see You.
Speaker 3: Saturday so until next, TIME i love.
Speaker 4: YOU i love. You why