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Speaker 2: The dato.

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Speaker 1: I raised off a FaceTime with Krista Miller, who called

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Speaker 1: me solely to tell me how much she loved our

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Speaker 1: Andy Ramage episode Yay. She said it was incredible and informative.

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Speaker 1: I wonder if you guys have heard any good vibrations

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Speaker 1: from it. But people really liked it, at least anecdotally.

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Speaker 1: My friend liked it.

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Speaker 3: It's been very positive out there, people really loving it.

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Speaker 3: I would like to see if you guys take the challenge,

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Speaker 3: let us know how it goes. I was a little inspired.

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Speaker 3: I went out for my birthday and was like, you

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Speaker 3: know what, I'm going to do some of these non

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Speaker 3: you know, might pick up the challenge me do it?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, give it a try. I guarantee you. The only

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Speaker 1: You might listen to that and go interesting. Not for me,

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Speaker 1: But if you just do a month just for just

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Speaker 1: on day thirty.

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Speaker 4: Nice, nice little recap of our last couple of episodes, right.

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Speaker 1: There, Yes, and Vaginas. Vagina's was popular, right, Joell, Vagina's was.

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Speaker 3: Very popular, as always, historically very.

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Speaker 1: Popular, historically very popular. Did you get any good feedback

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Speaker 3: Joelle, only that it was hilarious, people spinning up drinks,

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Speaker 2: I love that these are your reviews, ladies and gentlemen.

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Speaker 1: Yes, please let us know what you like. Donald and

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Speaker 1: I don't aren't on Twitter and we barely read Instagram anymore,

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Speaker 1: Dale who are on every social media and let them know. Right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're here for it. Donald, I've been building the land

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Speaker 1: I was trying to brag to my assistant that it

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Speaker 2: But then you ran into your first roadblock, and you lie, I've.

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Speaker 1: Run into so many roadblocks, and you know, it's funny.

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Speaker 1: But it's such a fucking ordeal to take it apart

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Speaker 1: and you just go fuck it. There's this Olivia Ririgo

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Speaker 2: Daniel. It's like, you have any news you want to.

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Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, Dan, I'll tell the audience it has been

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Speaker 1: Did you consummate the marriage? Dane? Oh, my gentleman doesn't too.

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Speaker 4: Rained during our wedding. Yeah, but we built tints, we were.

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Speaker 1: They frantically built tents the day before in my backyard. Wow. Wow, Well,

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Speaker 1: That's funny. You have the right person who's not going

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Speaker 1: That was a show that you're not allowed to talk

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Speaker 1: A comedian that I really like and think is so

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Speaker 5: he's the story natural. So YadA round here, yeada round.

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Speaker 1: Here, ladies and gentlemen, go ahead, Donald, give.

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Speaker 6: It up for Pete's your's your that's your thunderous.

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Speaker 7: I really appreciate I wasn't ready at all. Your team

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Speaker 7: That was number one, and that you're often late.

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Speaker 7: Well, I appreciate it, but you jumped right in the

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Speaker 7: middle of backpack browsing, so I'm not quite ready.

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Speaker 1: Why are you in the market for a backpack? Pete homes?

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Speaker 7: Man, do you find that there's just seasons, there's just

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Speaker 1: What does that mean? Like you want to go camping?

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Speaker 8: You're yearning your zeal Zach Take any movie you've made

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm gonna tell you something. I went into Arii

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Speaker 1: have you been in there? Donald? It's incredible.

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Speaker 2: I went out here in Tarzanna.

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Speaker 7: Holmes, why real quick? Why go on?

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Speaker 2: I just got they got backpacks.

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Speaker 1: You should look it's going online, Pete Holmes. You should

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Speaker 7: You need the gear to survive the store. Okay, we're

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Speaker 7: doing We're doing that. Donald is nice to meet you.

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Speaker 7: We've never met.

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Speaker 2: It's nice to meet you too.

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Speaker 1: Never Pete. That's Joel, our producer and h and Daniel

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Speaker 7: Yeah, he has a robot voice.

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Speaker 7: When I made fun of Zach's character choices in his films,

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Speaker 1: I said it twice? Whatever. We adopted two things you

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Speaker 7: Speed degree? And scandal noted. I said it today. I

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Speaker 7: of you know. I'm reading an interesting book called The

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Speaker 7: Coddling of the American Mind. Have you heard of that?

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Speaker 7: You just jump right to it.

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Speaker 1: Ask us if we watch Below Decks. Some of us

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Speaker 1: That's a reality show, Pete, that follows the crew of

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Speaker 1: Donald doesn't watch it, but he watches Ah Soka.

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Speaker 2: I'm not to talk about that.

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Speaker 1: No, but see, Pete, this is something you need to

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Speaker 7: It's still in your background. Donald, you don't watch that show.

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Speaker 7: You roll your own cigars and like practice archery. You look,

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Speaker 7: that's a very fancy room, very.

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Speaker 1: Much, audience, Donald, And is in his new home.

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Speaker 2: Someone lived in it before and they had a very.

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Speaker 7: Who was it Aragorn, son of Arathorne.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Lord of the Ring, Pete.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's a good question. I The answer would be,

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Speaker 7: Raymond is a good one, but also SNL people. I

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Speaker 7: just didn't know any better. I didn't know, well, that's generous, dude.

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Speaker 2: You are the bravest individual to play.

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Speaker 7: I really appreciate that. And that's a very creative punishment

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Speaker 7: because if you don't want to do it, stand up

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Speaker 7: But because I wanted to do it and I stacked

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Speaker 1: Would love that. By the way, neither have I done

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Speaker 4: You may train as an improv you've done improv before.

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Speaker 1: Of course. Of course I do improv when I'm acting,

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's fun. That could be fun too.

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Speaker 7: Well because it's it's it's beautiful. And I really became

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Speaker 7: sorry that comedians stand up comedians are a little bit

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Speaker 7: They don't say that, but they're kind of implying. Whereas

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Speaker 7: And it's hard to do that when you got to

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Speaker 1: We'll be right back after these fine words. I've had

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Speaker 7: And still do nothing change.

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Speaker 7: It's not. It's not okay.

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Speaker 4: and be like, dude, I don't know why you're putting

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Speaker 4: yourself through this? And it was the same show every night,

437
00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:10,800
Speaker 4: and he was like, if I can just get this right,

438
00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:13,280
Speaker 4: if this comes out right, oh.

439
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Speaker 2: My god, you know what I mean.

440
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Speaker 7: I have a lot of thoughts about that. First of all,

441
00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:21,440
Speaker 7: stand up comedy is a never ending parade of humiliations

442
00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:23,480
Speaker 7: and embarrassments.

443
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Speaker 1: It does seem to be a really, really, really hard

444
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Speaker 1: attract Some.

445
00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:29,920
Speaker 7: People are like, oh, I tried it and then I stopped.

446
00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:31,480
Speaker 7: Should I get back into it? And I'm like, if

447
00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:34,399
Speaker 7: it didn't get its hook in you, why would you?

448
00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:37,480
Speaker 7: Why would you run through a like a sea, like

449
00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:41,399
Speaker 7: a navy seal obstacle course. When on the other side

450
00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:44,520
Speaker 7: of it is some dude says you can do his

451
00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:47,119
Speaker 7: show once a month unless you really want it, you

452
00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:49,080
Speaker 7: know what I mean. So the other thing I feel

453
00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:53,560
Speaker 7: very strongly about that I just think is really important

454
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Speaker 7: and it's a through line and a lot of the

455
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Speaker 7: people that I know that were successful in stand up.

456
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Speaker 7: Leave your fucking friends out of it, leave your fo

457
00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:04,200
Speaker 7: get the fuck out. I didn't invite my fucking friends

458
00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:07,720
Speaker 7: to come watch me when I knew I don't invite

459
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Speaker 7: my friends. Now, you know what I'm saying it's like,

460
00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:14,200
Speaker 7: get why would I want you to watch me rearrange

461
00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:17,280
Speaker 7: my chocolate paneled living room? You know what I mean.

462
00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:20,240
Speaker 7: It's like, it's stupid. It's private, it's between me and

463
00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:23,479
Speaker 7: the audience. It's not a social experiment. It's not something

464
00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:26,040
Speaker 7: I want you. I want your support. I'm in this

465
00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:29,160
Speaker 7: to be fucking Batman. And have you ever seen Batman

466
00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:32,240
Speaker 7: on a gargoyle? He didn't bring his friend Caleb to

467
00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:35,920
Speaker 7: watch him learn how to fight crime. Fucking beat it.

468
00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:39,720
Speaker 7: This isn't about you. I hope you never see me

469
00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:43,520
Speaker 7: fuck off. I'm doing this because it's a compulsion and

470
00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:48,760
Speaker 7: it's a passion, and it's embarrassing. It's embarrassing. Like Zach

471
00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:50,200
Speaker 7: came and saw me and it was a great show.

472
00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:51,639
Speaker 7: I'm at a point in my career people can come

473
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Speaker 7: and see me now. But for the first ten years,

474
00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:57,480
Speaker 7: you know, I worked at Bennegan's in on the South

475
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Speaker 7: Side of Chicago. A lot of people didn't even know

476
00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:01,400
Speaker 7: I was a comedian. That's the right way to do it,

477
00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:03,200
Speaker 7: just in the same way people don't know Bruce Wayne

478
00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:05,760
Speaker 7: as Batman. Beat it. You have nothing to do with it.

479
00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:07,919
Speaker 1: But how do you get up here's my question, how

480
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Speaker 1: do you get up? Because to me, that racket that

481
00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:13,840
Speaker 1: I sort of was exposed to was the you know

482
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Speaker 1: by the way they're going up at like five thirty,

483
00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:19,680
Speaker 1: you know the reason that they were getting up is because.

484
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Speaker 7: They brought friends. Those are called bringers.

485
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Speaker 1: Yeah, tell us tell you what. I've never audience. What

486
00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:25,560
Speaker 1: a bringer is the audience? I can't much.

487
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Speaker 7: I can't't, I can't, I can't. I'm just kidding.

488
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Speaker 1: That's kind of the audience about the tracks. One of

489
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Speaker 1: them is being is being a bringer? Go ahead.

490
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Speaker 7: Well, I never did bringers, and I don't encourage people

491
00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:39,679
Speaker 7: to do bringers. I think bringers are for the tourists.

492
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Speaker 7: There are exceptions to this. There are great comics that

493
00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:45,280
Speaker 7: did bringers, But a lot of people that do bringers

494
00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:47,959
Speaker 7: are just trying to pay it. Meaning like if I

495
00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:51,399
Speaker 7: get five friends to buy five tickets, so that's already

496
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Speaker 7: fifty bucks. Now two drinks and that's probably twenty bucks each.

497
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Speaker 7: I'm not here to do math, but you know, the

498
00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:59,399
Speaker 7: club's making a lot of money giving you five minutes

499
00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:04,120
Speaker 7: on a special show on a Monday night five thirty. Yeah,

500
00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:07,159
Speaker 7: and you bring me. That's a racket for the clubs.

501
00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:11,159
Speaker 7: It's like a pyramid scheme basically, and like it's also

502
00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:15,040
Speaker 7: I would say it's impossible to do well. I've been

503
00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:17,320
Speaker 7: doing it, Like I said twenty two twenty three years.

504
00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:19,439
Speaker 7: If you put me up at a six o'clock Bringer,

505
00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:22,000
Speaker 7: unless all I did was make fun of how horrible

506
00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:25,760
Speaker 7: the show was, which isn't kind. There's no way to

507
00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:27,840
Speaker 7: do well. You can't go up in that show and

508
00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:30,520
Speaker 7: be like, you know the funny thing about sand like

509
00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:33,480
Speaker 7: get at. Nobody wants to be there. They're hostages.

510
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Speaker 1: It's horrible. I've been to bringers. I never knew there

511
00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:40,000
Speaker 1: was a term. I've been to bringers that are so

512
00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:43,200
Speaker 1: cringe and you're there trying to be supportive of your friend,

513
00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:46,160
Speaker 1: but you still have to listen to twenty other people.

514
00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:47,600
Speaker 1: We're at this Bringer.

515
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Speaker 7: I'm telling you, it's like if aliens are watching us.

516
00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:54,200
Speaker 7: They're watching Bringer shows going like, look at what they do,

517
00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:57,359
Speaker 7: because it's a lot of to bringers.

518
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Speaker 1: I never knew there was a term club.

519
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Speaker 4: Okay, so look, and I didn't know they were it

520
00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:04,280
Speaker 4: was called bringers either. First of all, so when I

521
00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:08,000
Speaker 4: was growing up, my parents worked at it were a

522
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:10,440
Speaker 4: part of a theater company called the National Black Theater.

523
00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:14,720
Speaker 4: It was in Harlem, and for two seasons, Uptown Comedy

524
00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:20,280
Speaker 4: Club set shot its show at the theater. So I

525
00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:23,000
Speaker 4: got to see a lot of very young comedians, African

526
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:28,760
Speaker 4: American comedians, Ma Coo, Dougie, Doug, Tracy Morgan, a lot

527
00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:31,720
Speaker 4: of these cats perform and stuff like that. And so

528
00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:35,040
Speaker 4: on nights when they weren't shooting stuff like that, there

529
00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:38,240
Speaker 4: would be comedy night and they would set it up

530
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Speaker 4: just like it was on television, and people would come

531
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Speaker 4: on stage and those were the knights where that shit

532
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:45,920
Speaker 4: would be empty as fuck, you know what I mean,

533
00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:47,880
Speaker 4: Like nobody.

534
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Speaker 2: Would ever night.

535
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Speaker 4: Yeah it was well, yeah that's what it would be,

536
00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:54,680
Speaker 4: but you would you wouldn't know it, but fucking Dougie

537
00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:58,360
Speaker 4: Doug would host it or freaking Flex would be on stage.

538
00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:03,119
Speaker 2: This is back then, right, And I just remember, like

539
00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:06,720
Speaker 2: the ones that did bring their friends in, you know

540
00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:09,399
Speaker 2: what I mean, Yeah, they got the last they got that.

541
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Speaker 7: That's what I mean. It's it's ridiculous. So to jump

542
00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:18,040
Speaker 7: no bringers. I'm not saying nobody's done a bringer and done, okay,

543
00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:19,879
Speaker 7: I'm just saying that was my policy. I was like,

544
00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:23,399
Speaker 7: this is embarrassing. This is growing pains. Let's just do

545
00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:26,800
Speaker 7: this as privately as possible. Otherwise you're going to exhaust

546
00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:29,240
Speaker 7: your friend group. They're gonna stop coming.

547
00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:33,080
Speaker 1: I was exhausted fast because I once you go to

548
00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:35,640
Speaker 1: two or three bringers, You're like, how do I never

549
00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:35,960
Speaker 1: do this?

550
00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:40,000
Speaker 7: It's not a renewable resource. It's not a renewable resource.

551
00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:42,360
Speaker 7: And even if it is, you you're exploiting your it's horrible.

552
00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:44,480
Speaker 7: So what you want to do. And when I was

553
00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:47,000
Speaker 7: in Chicago and when I was in New York is

554
00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:49,120
Speaker 7: I would do open mics, which you're a different kind

555
00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:52,000
Speaker 7: of death, but it's a different agreement. In New York,

556
00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:53,959
Speaker 7: you had to pay, the comic had to pay. You

557
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:57,439
Speaker 7: had to buy two drinks or two items, so I

558
00:26:57,480 --> 00:26:59,560
Speaker 7: got you know, this is a time when money's very tight.

559
00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:05,200
Speaker 7: I buy two buy two cokes for two cokes. Yeah,

560
00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:06,800
Speaker 7: but you also have to sign up, which means you

561
00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:08,680
Speaker 7: might be going on thirtieth you know what I mean.

562
00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:10,640
Speaker 7: There's nothing good about a question.

563
00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:12,800
Speaker 2: You would have hit a bullshit? Wait, you hit a bullshit.

564
00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:14,919
Speaker 2: I used to have to pay for fucking drinks.

565
00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:17,840
Speaker 4: I'm a little kid, and I'm paying for sodas and

566
00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:20,720
Speaker 4: ship at this fucking comedy club and if I couldn't pay,

567
00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:22,240
Speaker 4: they would kick me the fuck.

568
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:24,160
Speaker 2: Kick.

569
00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:25,639
Speaker 1: I need to buy two cokes.

570
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:27,560
Speaker 2: This is my parents theater and shit.

571
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:29,399
Speaker 1: But the funny thing is they put them right in

572
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:31,439
Speaker 1: front of you, because you're like, all right, have you

573
00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:33,560
Speaker 1: have this agreement where you have to buy two drinks? Right,

574
00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:37,119
Speaker 1: so even if you're not drinking alcohol, you're drinking diet coke, Like,

575
00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:39,159
Speaker 1: they just put two die cokes in front of you.

576
00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:41,640
Speaker 7: Well, yeah, no, that that is how you could spot

577
00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:43,320
Speaker 7: a comic at one of these things, because you had

578
00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:45,639
Speaker 7: two glasses of coke in front of you that no

579
00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:48,400
Speaker 7: one wanted. And it was also at a time when,

580
00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:52,120
Speaker 7: like you know, that's probably in New York in two

581
00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:55,080
Speaker 7: thousand and four. I mean two cokes was probably still

582
00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:56,920
Speaker 7: about eight bucks, and you're just sort of like, I

583
00:27:56,960 --> 00:27:59,200
Speaker 7: don't I don't have eight but like this sucks.

584
00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:01,640
Speaker 1: So I have a question for you. When I walk

585
00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:06,240
Speaker 1: down McDougall, For those who don't know McDougall, what is

586
00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:09,120
Speaker 1: it street, boulevard? What is it? I think it's street

587
00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:13,639
Speaker 1: in Manhattan. Is not only the place where I think

588
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:16,760
Speaker 1: you would say the top comedy club in Manhattan is

589
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:20,440
Speaker 1: the comedy seller, yep, but also there's a few other clubs.

590
00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:22,480
Speaker 1: And when you walk down that street, and by the way,

591
00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:25,359
Speaker 1: a lot of Pete's show crashing takes place on that street.

592
00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:27,640
Speaker 1: And I remember, I remember seeing you guys shooting there.

593
00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:32,080
Speaker 1: There's guys and gals pamphleting. Yeah, now are they also

594
00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:33,159
Speaker 1: comics trying to get up?

595
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:33,680
Speaker 7: Is that another?

596
00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:34,560
Speaker 2: What's that?

597
00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:37,600
Speaker 7: And that is what I did? So I love this

598
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:39,920
Speaker 7: is such a generous line of questioning. I just really

599
00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:40,960
Speaker 7: appreciate your Well.

600
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:43,400
Speaker 1: We want to educate our audience on the life of

601
00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:44,840
Speaker 1: a stand up comedian.

602
00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:46,840
Speaker 7: Well, I appreciate anyone listening.

603
00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:50,000
Speaker 1: It's very We've done vaginas, and we've done penises, We've

604
00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:53,680
Speaker 1: done we've done alcohol. Now we've done horses. We did

605
00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 1: horses comedians.

606
00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:01,400
Speaker 7: Well, okay, what what? Oh? So that's called barking. And

607
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:03,920
Speaker 7: so what I did when I was in New York.

608
00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 7: And when I got to New York, i'd been doing

609
00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:07,160
Speaker 7: stand up for three years, but I felt like I

610
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:09,360
Speaker 7: was starting over. And I think we could talk about

611
00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:11,640
Speaker 7: that for a while, but that was important. I didn't

612
00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:14,480
Speaker 7: walk in going like I'm from Chicago and you will

613
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:17,400
Speaker 7: respect me. You just assume you're starting over, and that

614
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:20,040
Speaker 7: was that was a good attitude. I don't remember who

615
00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:22,840
Speaker 7: explained that to me. Probably somebody told me that, and

616
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 7: I just I went in headlow, you know. And then

617
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:28,920
Speaker 7: I did the open mics. But like I said, you're

618
00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:31,719
Speaker 7: looking at eight bucks a throw plus subway all that stuff,

619
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:36,720
Speaker 7: and they sucked. They sucked. They were I'm not saying

620
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:39,400
Speaker 7: I sucked. I did suck. Like I wasn't that bad

621
00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:42,000
Speaker 7: three years in. I wasn't that bad. But these shows,

622
00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 7: performing for other comedians looking at their notes, waiting for

623
00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:49,320
Speaker 7: their turn to go on again, it's it's an unwinnable situation.

624
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:52,240
Speaker 7: The only times I remember killing it open mics was

625
00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:54,560
Speaker 7: I had an opener where I'd go, look at what

626
00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:59,120
Speaker 7: we're doing and everyone would laugh because that was the

627
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:02,920
Speaker 7: only angle know your audience. It's like, look what is this?

628
00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:05,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's funny. That's a funny route. It's like, you know,

629
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:08,360
Speaker 1: the audience's other comics like make fun of the process.

630
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 1: You can't.

631
00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:12,040
Speaker 7: But I'm not even trying. There's no mark. Again. I

632
00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 7: don't want to sound like a like a capitalist, like

633
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:17,240
Speaker 7: swine or anything, but I wasn't getting in it to

634
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:18,920
Speaker 7: learn how to kill it in an open mic, like

635
00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:20,480
Speaker 7: it was fun to do every once in a while,

636
00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:22,640
Speaker 7: but I was like, I want to run bits, I

637
00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:25,520
Speaker 7: want to work out material, and it wasn't happening.

638
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:26,880
Speaker 2: That's what I was asking you.

639
00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:29,080
Speaker 4: Were you at the level where you were able to

640
00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:32,160
Speaker 4: run your bits and work out your material and try

641
00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:34,040
Speaker 4: and get your set complete you.

642
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:36,240
Speaker 7: Could do bits at an open mic, But like if

643
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:39,160
Speaker 7: someone kind of was like, huh, like that was a

644
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 7: standing ovation, you know, and really, and this is again

645
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:47,400
Speaker 7: we could talk about the theory of getting through open mics.

646
00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:50,200
Speaker 7: The mantra at that point is don't quit. It's like,

647
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:52,360
Speaker 7: it's like it's gonna suck. There's a line in Crashing

648
00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:55,840
Speaker 7: where Marina Franklin says to me, she says, if it sucks,

649
00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:58,280
Speaker 7: that's how you know you're doing it right. And that

650
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:01,240
Speaker 7: is absolutely true of the beginning of stand up. And

651
00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:05,200
Speaker 7: you have to frame it and renarrativize it as something romantic,

652
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:08,080
Speaker 7: as a lineage, as a rite of passage, because it's

653
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:10,760
Speaker 7: not gonna in itself reward you. But when I would

654
00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:15,320
Speaker 7: see like Dmitri Martin was like I barked at the

655
00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:17,360
Speaker 7: Boston Comedy Club, I was like I'm gonna bark at

656
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 7: the Boston Comic Club. Like that's what I'm gonna do.

657
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:22,000
Speaker 7: Jim Gaffigan was like, go to the Boston Comedy Club

658
00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:25,080
Speaker 7: and ask them how, and what they were saying, essentially

659
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:28,320
Speaker 7: was there's a dumpster fire over there that you can

660
00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:33,200
Speaker 7: at least find a couple tunicns and discarded paper boxes

661
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:36,240
Speaker 7: that you can lay on. It's gonna suck. Jim Gavigan

662
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:38,360
Speaker 7: said to me, this is twenty years ago. He goes,

663
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:41,800
Speaker 7: you're gonna think I'm insane, but you need to go

664
00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:44,440
Speaker 7: to a place that will like fold you into it

665
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:47,360
Speaker 7: and let you let you in. And the places that

666
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:52,440
Speaker 7: are gonna let essentially just a wandering you know, new

667
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:56,360
Speaker 7: comedian in aren't gonna be great places. So the place

668
00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:58,520
Speaker 7: that I got in was the Boston It's not there anymore.

669
00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:01,520
Speaker 7: We rebuilt it for Crashing, which was a real trip,

670
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 7: but was on West third and basically West third McDougall,

671
00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:09,280
Speaker 7: so it was like a block and a half from

672
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:13,000
Speaker 7: where I wanted to be, and my corner was McDougall

673
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:19,200
Speaker 7: and third. So I was standing watching my heroes. And

674
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:21,440
Speaker 7: when I say heroes, I don't mean names, you know,

675
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:24,560
Speaker 7: I just mean, any dude that was working the cellar

676
00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:25,040
Speaker 7: was my.

677
00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:27,760
Speaker 1: But that's good to say, But we should also tell

678
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:30,800
Speaker 1: the audience. He doesn't know that the top comedians stand

679
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:33,880
Speaker 1: ups in the world, if they're gonna make a surprise

680
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:37,360
Speaker 1: and shore somewhere, they go to the cellar so you'll see.

681
00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:39,000
Speaker 1: You know, you can be in there and all of

682
00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:43,000
Speaker 1: a sudden, you know Chappelle's going on or Seinfeld's going on.

683
00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 1: They just show up and surprise the audience.

684
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:48,960
Speaker 7: And that's the trip, is that that Chappelle would also

685
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,280
Speaker 7: come to this Boston because the Boston would let him

686
00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:54,600
Speaker 7: do three hours because it sucks and you want to

687
00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:57,360
Speaker 7: hear something crazy. This is when Chappelle's show is on.

688
00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:00,480
Speaker 7: So I'm barking. So I literally just went to the

689
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:03,480
Speaker 7: Boston Comedy Club. I met the manager. His name was Dustin.

690
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:05,800
Speaker 7: Somebody had told me go to the Boston asked for Dustin.

691
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:09,560
Speaker 7: I met Dustin, who's a great guy, and I said, like,

692
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:11,600
Speaker 7: I just told him what I've been telling you. I'm

693
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:14,080
Speaker 7: from Chicago, I've been doing three years. I'm just looking

694
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:16,960
Speaker 7: for a home club. And the moments in my life

695
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:21,000
Speaker 7: that hinged on some human kindness are insane. And we

696
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 7: could spend the rest of the podcast talking about those

697
00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:26,360
Speaker 7: kindness hinge moments, and this was one of them, because

698
00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:27,840
Speaker 7: he could have just said get the fuck out of here.

699
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:30,640
Speaker 7: He said what he said wasn't the best news. But

700
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:32,880
Speaker 7: he was like, if you stand on that corner for

701
00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:35,440
Speaker 7: four hours, I'll give you four minutes, you know what

702
00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:37,200
Speaker 7: I mean. A lot of people would be like that

703
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:42,120
Speaker 7: sounds like abuse, but I was like, I got my headphones,

704
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:45,800
Speaker 7: I'm going to stand out there. They didn't track it.

705
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:47,840
Speaker 7: Some clubs track it like you write your name on

706
00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:50,960
Speaker 7: it and they count how many people come in with

707
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:53,720
Speaker 7: a flyer with your name on it. They weren't doing that.

708
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:56,000
Speaker 7: You just had to do it, which felt a little

709
00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:58,160
Speaker 7: old Testament in a good way, in the way it's

710
00:33:58,160 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 7: like you want to marry my daughter, work in the

711
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:03,280
Speaker 7: fields for seven years, like it felt from it does

712
00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:04,960
Speaker 7: feel and it feels like fight club. You want to

713
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:07,240
Speaker 7: come in for Project Mayhem, stand on the porch for

714
00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:10,359
Speaker 7: three days. So I was like, Okay, we come from

715
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:14,080
Speaker 7: a species that values people proving that they really want something.

716
00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:16,560
Speaker 7: Sleep on the on the steps of the temple before

717
00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:19,279
Speaker 7: you come in on karate. That's what it felt like.

718
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:22,000
Speaker 7: So I was like okay, and I that was like

719
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:24,719
Speaker 7: I felt like that was my first break was that

720
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:27,640
Speaker 7: Dustin was like I'll let you bark and I went out.

721
00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:30,680
Speaker 7: I was pretty good at it, meaning I just kind of,

722
00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:33,640
Speaker 7: you know, I've cut corners in my life when I

723
00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:35,520
Speaker 7: was a waiter, I would cut corner. I was kind

724
00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 7: of lazy and stuff. But with this, I was like

725
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:40,359
Speaker 7: dead serious. So I was like handout flyers, going for it.

726
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:42,680
Speaker 1: What was your line that would get people to Trey

727
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:43,360
Speaker 1: live comedy?

728
00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:46,279
Speaker 7: I just said great live com you guys, you guys. Look,

729
00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:48,960
Speaker 7: that's all I said. Great because there's so many people,

730
00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:50,520
Speaker 7: it's got to be quick, great live comedy, and that

731
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:51,280
Speaker 7: great live comedy.

732
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:54,000
Speaker 1: Here's there's also a lot of people. When you walk

733
00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:56,400
Speaker 1: down Mcdogal, there's a lot of people doing this to

734
00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:59,040
Speaker 1: get you to the different clubs. Yeah, it's kind of

735
00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:01,840
Speaker 1: like the red Light District in Amsterdam. It's very Instead

736
00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:03,959
Speaker 1: of it prostitutes, it's guys like Pete.

737
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:07,120
Speaker 4: It's the it's the fucking well, I don't want to

738
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:08,720
Speaker 4: say that, now say it.

739
00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:13,200
Speaker 7: It's the It's yes, yeah, it is, you know what

740
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:15,680
Speaker 7: it is. It's like the gym too, Like it's just

741
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:18,160
Speaker 7: like this. I like the kung Fu thing. It's like,

742
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:20,279
Speaker 7: go sleep in the rain, go sleep on it in

743
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:23,480
Speaker 7: a ditch and prove it. And I actually I'm one

744
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:25,680
Speaker 7: of those old people now that I'm like, this is good.

745
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:30,000
Speaker 7: You shouldn't get famous on TikTok right away and not

746
00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:32,960
Speaker 7: be very good. I'm not thinking about anybody in particular

747
00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:36,640
Speaker 7: and just get catapulted into fame. You should lower yourself.

748
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:39,520
Speaker 7: It's fucking Indiana Jones. Only the pendent man will pass,

749
00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:41,280
Speaker 7: and you got to get on your knees and fucking

750
00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:46,320
Speaker 7: get fucking humiliated. What is the root of humiliated is humble.

751
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:48,840
Speaker 7: It's also the same root as human. It's also the

752
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:52,439
Speaker 7: same root as soil. It's like, get low. And that's

753
00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:54,239
Speaker 7: what Bill Burr told me. I was very lucky that

754
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:55,520
Speaker 7: the first people that I opened.

755
00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:59,279
Speaker 4: Forgot some really fucking, really cool dudes advice right away.

756
00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:01,880
Speaker 7: Jim Gaffigan and Bill Burke used to come through Chicago,

757
00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:04,640
Speaker 7: and my friend Dan Kaufman hooked me up and got

758
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:06,800
Speaker 7: me opening for them. We didn't those weren't like huge

759
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:08,719
Speaker 7: names at the point. They were to me, but not

760
00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:12,360
Speaker 7: to the world. And and Bill Burr said he was

761
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:13,959
Speaker 7: the one that said go to the Boston Comedy Club,

762
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:17,120
Speaker 7: and he said, keep your head down, don't be a dick.

763
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:20,560
Speaker 7: You'll get in. Though I still have that email, I've

764
00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:23,000
Speaker 7: looked at it, not recently, but I have checked that

765
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:25,279
Speaker 7: I got that wording right, and that's what it was.

766
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:27,640
Speaker 7: So keep your head down and like cand of keep

767
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:29,960
Speaker 7: your mouth shut. You know, people are gonna make fun

768
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:31,719
Speaker 7: of you, people are gonna tease you, but like, just

769
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:36,399
Speaker 7: let the craft speak for itself. Just get better. And

770
00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:38,600
Speaker 7: the tip that I think you were steering me towards

771
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:41,640
Speaker 7: that was that, like I have a stack of flyers

772
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:44,720
Speaker 7: and you'd have to like take a flyer out, snap

773
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:46,719
Speaker 7: and put it in front of somebody. Yeah, and if

774
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:48,839
Speaker 7: they don't take it, which most people don't, put it

775
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,480
Speaker 7: back in the stack, so you snap it again. You

776
00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:54,200
Speaker 7: don't just leave it out there like you need the

777
00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:56,520
Speaker 7: movement and some sort of razzle.

778
00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:58,359
Speaker 1: They're also very tall. What are you six?

779
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 7: What six six? Yeah?

780
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:02,719
Speaker 1: So six six helps? You're gonna get people are gonna

781
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:03,080
Speaker 1: look at you.

782
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:05,840
Speaker 7: Yeah. And you know what else helped is is like

783
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:10,880
Speaker 7: I'm an effusive person, I'm a communicator. This doesn't always work,

784
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:14,320
Speaker 7: meaning I would tell Dustin how much it meant to me,

785
00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:17,040
Speaker 7: like even after a night, sometimes the show was canceled.

786
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:19,960
Speaker 7: Often the show was canceled. You bark for four hours,

787
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:22,680
Speaker 7: you come back, no one's there. You just go home.

788
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:26,400
Speaker 1: Oh my god. But I was so humiliating and humbling.

789
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:29,640
Speaker 7: But if you keep doing it, you know what I

790
00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:31,600
Speaker 7: mean by old testament. It's like, you must really love

791
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:33,960
Speaker 7: my wife or my daughter, you can marry her.

792
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:37,120
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stick with the Miagi analogy. You fucking learned

793
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:38,399
Speaker 1: to wax on wax off.

794
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:43,440
Speaker 7: Yeah, But like I also was very clear, I'm not

795
00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:46,360
Speaker 7: a tourist, meaning I'm not just doing this to have fun.

796
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 7: This was I didn't lose in my fantasy football thing,

797
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 7: like I want I want this, I want to do

798
00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:56,440
Speaker 7: this and thank you for the opportunity. Now, that sweetness

799
00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:59,279
Speaker 7: didn't always work. I remember there was a club in

800
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:01,000
Speaker 7: Boston that I was trying to get up and I

801
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:03,200
Speaker 7: would He told me, he was like, we'll get you

802
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:05,320
Speaker 7: up another time this month. And I used to call,

803
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:08,680
Speaker 7: just every day, just calling, and the dude, fine, I'd

804
00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:10,800
Speaker 7: get the machine. I'd leave him like the seventh message,

805
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:12,839
Speaker 7: This coked up club owner picks up the phone. He's

806
00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:15,200
Speaker 7: like this isn't how it fucking works. I call you like,

807
00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:17,880
Speaker 7: he like chewed me out. So I couldn't just be

808
00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:22,200
Speaker 7: like the borderline Mormon sweet level, you know what I mean.

809
00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:26,360
Speaker 7: Like I was so doe eyed and kind, I'd like

810
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:29,480
Speaker 7: to think, but gentle and happy to be here, almost

811
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:31,600
Speaker 7: like Jack McBrayer or Buddy the Elf, you know what

812
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:35,320
Speaker 7: I mean. And that did it. Yeah, it did work

813
00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:40,080
Speaker 7: with Dustin in the sense that he knew I meant it,

814
00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:43,560
Speaker 7: and he's a true comic and he respected the part

815
00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:45,640
Speaker 7: of me that wanted to be a true comic. And

816
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:48,160
Speaker 7: then the trip was I was gonna say, when Chappelle

817
00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:51,600
Speaker 7: would drop by, we'd go out on the street. Again.

818
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 7: It might be ten o'clock at night, the Terrible Show

819
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:57,640
Speaker 7: is already going. There's like seven people in the house.

820
00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:00,360
Speaker 7: I'm waiting to go on and the and they go

821
00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:04,240
Speaker 7: Chappelle's here. He's It's so fucking what is there anyone cooler?

822
00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:07,560
Speaker 7: He's walking in. I can remember it, and you know,

823
00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:12,200
Speaker 7: he's smoking, and Dustin would say, go back out, and

824
00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:14,160
Speaker 7: we would go back out. Of course, would go back out.

825
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:16,480
Speaker 7: Then all we had to say was Dave Chappelle's in here,

826
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:19,720
Speaker 7: and the place would be full in like fifteen minutes.

827
00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:21,800
Speaker 1: Wow, but here's the word back out. I could picture

828
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:24,480
Speaker 1: all the comedians who thought they were going to go on, yeah,

829
00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:28,600
Speaker 1: are now running out with their flyers. It became Chappelle, Chappelle, chappelle.

830
00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:30,239
Speaker 1: But it probably means you're not going to go on.

831
00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:33,480
Speaker 7: No, it was a mixed bag. At first, it was awesome,

832
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:35,959
Speaker 7: and I'd say this to Dave, it's not shit talk.

833
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:39,400
Speaker 7: At first it was awesome, and then after a while

834
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:42,959
Speaker 7: that just meant, here's what's going to happen. One hundred

835
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:44,880
Speaker 7: and fifty people are going to pack out the club.

836
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:46,960
Speaker 7: He's going to go on. He's going to go on

837
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:50,759
Speaker 7: for two hours maybe. And by that I mean he's

838
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:54,800
Speaker 7: not and he you know, he can do whatever he wants,

839
00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:59,000
Speaker 7: but he's not necessarily doing material. He's fucking around, which

840
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:01,759
Speaker 7: is his right. I say, you see the hierarchy. There

841
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:04,880
Speaker 7: is like a respect pyramid of stand up, and we

842
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:07,360
Speaker 7: take that seriously. So that was fine. I would watch it,

843
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:09,839
Speaker 7: and I learned a lot about what it's like to

844
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:14,120
Speaker 7: develop material really raw, just literally asking somebody like what's

845
00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 7: your favorite breakfast cereal and riffing on cinnamon toa's crunch

846
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:21,520
Speaker 7: for five minutes. But it wasn't he wasn't doing you know,

847
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:23,600
Speaker 7: he's feeling prepared.

848
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:26,960
Speaker 1: No, I've seen this, by the way. I've seen this. No,

849
00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:31,960
Speaker 1: I've literally seen this carry out. I've been in the

850
00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:34,160
Speaker 1: cellar when oh my god, she Pell's here. She might

851
00:40:34,239 --> 00:40:39,040
Speaker 1: everyone gets excited. Yeah, and then he starts smoking and

852
00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:42,600
Speaker 1: there isn't even what seems like the seed of an idea.

853
00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:46,040
Speaker 1: It's just it's just him smoking, and he just like

854
00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:50,000
Speaker 1: starts shooting the ship with an audience member. And because

855
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:52,960
Speaker 1: he's who he is, he's earned the right yeah to

856
00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 1: do that. And then if you're in the audience, you're like,

857
00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:57,279
Speaker 1: when's he gonna start telling a joke?

858
00:40:57,440 --> 00:40:57,840
Speaker 3: Yeah?

859
00:40:57,680 --> 00:41:00,880
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah. And there's a certain kind of writing you

860
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:03,080
Speaker 7: can only do on the high wire, like you want

861
00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:05,280
Speaker 7: to be in front of the crowd, Like I write

862
00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:07,720
Speaker 7: and then I go on stage and it just juices

863
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:10,160
Speaker 7: it up. You just like being in front of an audience.

864
00:41:10,239 --> 00:41:12,280
Speaker 7: You like the thrill of the laugh and all that stuff.

865
00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:14,520
Speaker 7: So I get it. He's going up and and and

866
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:17,200
Speaker 7: he's an EmPATH, but he's absorbing that energy and it's

867
00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:21,320
Speaker 7: inspiring him. But he's also like a cool ass dude,

868
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:24,319
Speaker 7: that's very calm, So he doesn't mind just sitting there

869
00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:27,080
Speaker 7: and smoking if that's what happens for a couple of minutes.

870
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:32,480
Speaker 7: So then the best case scenario would be he doesn't

871
00:41:32,520 --> 00:41:37,400
Speaker 7: do too long. He says thank you, and then I

872
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:44,560
Speaker 7: he didn't talk about and no one yeah, right, hey, Hi,

873
00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:48,520
Speaker 7: get off, and then the barkers, as we were known,

874
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:51,759
Speaker 7: because no one is left and no one wants to

875
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:54,759
Speaker 7: go next. So now everyone wanted to go next. Now

876
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:57,520
Speaker 7: Chappelle went up, no one wants to go next. So

877
00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:00,680
Speaker 7: the number of times that I went on stage, and

878
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:03,040
Speaker 7: my opener, if you want to call it, that was

879
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:06,399
Speaker 7: please don't leave, Please don't leave. David Chapelle was great.

880
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:11,319
Speaker 7: I know, please don't leave, and everyone would leave. But guys,

881
00:42:11,719 --> 00:42:14,400
Speaker 7: I'm forty four, and as I tell this story, I

882
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:18,440
Speaker 7: have a huge smile on my face. It was essential.

883
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:22,880
Speaker 7: It was essential. It was like, that's why I told you.

884
00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:24,840
Speaker 7: When people say I did stand up once or twice,

885
00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:26,800
Speaker 7: I took a ten year break, Should I do it again,

886
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:31,839
Speaker 7: I'm like, no, you either know this is your shit

887
00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:35,680
Speaker 7: even when you suck, but you still have those dreams

888
00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:40,440
Speaker 7: literally in my case, literally dreaming about it. Dreaming about

889
00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:43,600
Speaker 7: hanging out with Zach and Donald on a podcast. Fucking

890
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:46,120
Speaker 7: dream come to you know, my first specscript with Scrubs.

891
00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:51,880
Speaker 7: By the way, this shit, this shit was fucking in me,

892
00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:56,200
Speaker 7: you know what I mean, So like you gotta take

893
00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:59,399
Speaker 7: the win, and the wind was this sucks and I'm

894
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:02,000
Speaker 7: not quitting. I know that sounds like a little like

895
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:04,960
Speaker 7: a refrigerator magnet, but I was like, I'm proud that

896
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:07,400
Speaker 7: I went into Manhattan, a place that used to it's

897
00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:11,280
Speaker 7: At that time, it was scary to me. Unsettling. People

898
00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:14,400
Speaker 7: are mean, Comics are mean. People would say right to

899
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:17,360
Speaker 7: your face, I don't like you, like fucking weird shit.

900
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:21,120
Speaker 7: And I stood there holding my empty porridge bowl and

901
00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:24,360
Speaker 7: just like smiled like the fucking Buddha and just waited

902
00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:26,759
Speaker 7: my turn. And then me and the Barkers would talk shit.

903
00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:28,400
Speaker 7: Of course we hated everybody.

904
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:32,160
Speaker 2: Is that a young man's game, that's a good question.

905
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 7: I mean, I was twenty five, but Dmitri Martin was

906
00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:41,520
Speaker 7: in law school. He was in his second year of

907
00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:45,279
Speaker 7: law school and he quit. That's fucking courage and certainty

908
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:48,640
Speaker 7: and skill. Like he recognized his skill, so he didn't

909
00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:51,680
Speaker 7: start until he was already out of college and two

910
00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:54,600
Speaker 7: years into law school. But Tim Allen is always the example.

911
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:57,080
Speaker 7: I like, sometimes people go, is it too late for

912
00:43:57,120 --> 00:43:59,680
Speaker 7: me to start? And whatever age they are, I go,

913
00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:02,239
Speaker 7: Tim Allen was in jail when he was your you

914
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:06,680
Speaker 7: know what I mean, like meaning it if it's in you,

915
00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:07,960
Speaker 7: you know what I mean, like there can be a

916
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:13,759
Speaker 7: later break. It's just in fact, the older you get,

917
00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:17,680
Speaker 7: you know, I think, the funnier you get, and you can,

918
00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:21,800
Speaker 7: especially these days, you can cram conversation like this, cram content.

919
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:23,759
Speaker 7: I was just talking to somebody on my pod today.

920
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:25,239
Speaker 7: I was like, I used to go to the library

921
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:28,560
Speaker 7: and get like prior VHS's and stuff, and like, you know,

922
00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:31,080
Speaker 7: you'd have to take this in Boston, take the subway

923
00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 7: into Tower Records just to look to see if they

924
00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:37,360
Speaker 7: had a comedy section. They didn't. You just go home.

925
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:41,160
Speaker 7: Like but now, if somebody was starting in their thirties

926
00:44:41,239 --> 00:44:44,319
Speaker 7: or even their forties, I wouldn't roll my eyes at that,

927
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:47,320
Speaker 7: you know, And Roseanne, there are a lot of people,

928
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:51,800
Speaker 7: I think, especially now, I wouldn't think this do paying

929
00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:56,840
Speaker 7: shit though I don't know. It's an ego question. Some

930
00:44:56,880 --> 00:44:59,880
Speaker 7: people have egos that they can detach from them, so

931
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:02,040
Speaker 7: I was a little bit more easily and because I

932
00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:04,200
Speaker 7: was young and didn't have as much of an ego

933
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:07,400
Speaker 7: like dude I was. I was on an airplane. I

934
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:09,520
Speaker 7: had a first class ticket on a flight. They moved

935
00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:11,680
Speaker 7: me to another flight. My seat wasn't first class, and

936
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:13,160
Speaker 7: I got on the plane. I was not rude about it,

937
00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:14,920
Speaker 7: but there were empty seats in first class and I'm like,

938
00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:16,719
Speaker 7: can I have one of these? And they were like no,

939
00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:20,120
Speaker 7: and I was like, and I was so shocked that

940
00:45:20,200 --> 00:45:22,440
Speaker 7: they said no. I didn't do anything rude, but I

941
00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:24,360
Speaker 7: was like, dude, I couldn't do it now, you know

942
00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:26,520
Speaker 7: what I mean. Like, I wouldn't go and be like

943
00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:28,279
Speaker 7: I just barked for four hours and they're like, show

944
00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:30,160
Speaker 7: is canceled. I'd be like, well, I'm not coming tomorrow.

945
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:34,400
Speaker 7: This isn't working. But to that, I knew dudes that

946
00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:37,120
Speaker 7: came to New York and weren't willing to eat shit

947
00:45:38,120 --> 00:45:40,680
Speaker 7: and they are not doing comedy anymore. And that's okay.

948
00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:43,200
Speaker 7: I don't say that and spit out their name from

949
00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:46,960
Speaker 7: my mouth or anything. I'm just saying there were two

950
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:49,160
Speaker 7: people that in the scenes that I came up with

951
00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:51,920
Speaker 7: that didn't make it. One was people that weren't willing

952
00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:55,400
Speaker 7: to eat shit, eat a shit sandwich. And that's within reason.

953
00:45:55,440 --> 00:45:57,560
Speaker 7: I'm not talking about taking abuse from club owners or

954
00:45:57,600 --> 00:46:00,200
Speaker 7: other comics. I'm saying, within reason, the parameters that we've

955
00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:02,480
Speaker 7: kind of been discussing, the other dudes that didn't make

956
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:05,000
Speaker 7: it and women that didn't make it, were the shit talkers,

957
00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:08,279
Speaker 7: Like if all you did was complain about what other

958
00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:11,000
Speaker 7: people were getting and how fast they were getting. Because

959
00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:12,919
Speaker 7: here I am handing out flyers as these I'm sorry

960
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:17,120
Speaker 7: shows up on the scene. Dude is instant, from my perspective,

961
00:46:17,480 --> 00:46:21,000
Speaker 7: instantly in Rolling Stone, on the hot List, you know

962
00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:22,680
Speaker 7: what I mean, or something like that, and you're like,

963
00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:28,840
Speaker 7: dude's twenty years old. If you let that jealousy permeate

964
00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:31,640
Speaker 7: you and get in your bones, I call it comedy cancer.

965
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:34,799
Speaker 7: You're done. You're fucking done. You keep your head down,

966
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:39,359
Speaker 7: Bill Burr, keep your head do beit deck like you

967
00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:42,080
Speaker 7: can't look at your neighbor's paper. And that's why you

968
00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:43,880
Speaker 7: don't invite your friends. I don't give a fuck what

969
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:46,640
Speaker 7: my friends think. I know I suck. It's my time

970
00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:49,080
Speaker 7: to suck. Let me do it privately, let me do

971
00:46:49,160 --> 00:46:50,000
Speaker 7: it alone.

972
00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:51,960
Speaker 2: Let's take a break.

973
00:46:52,000 --> 00:47:01,600
Speaker 1: We'll be right back after these fine words. Let me

974
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:04,240
Speaker 1: ask you this. They used to be the old prayer

975
00:47:04,520 --> 00:47:08,160
Speaker 1: was that you would get a sitcom, right, So nowadays.

976
00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:08,960
Speaker 2: Isn't that still to say.

977
00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:10,640
Speaker 1: Well, it's a show. I'm sure, but.

978
00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:13,360
Speaker 4: No guys getting in the stand up really just to

979
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:15,279
Speaker 4: make everybody laugh for the rest of their life. They

980
00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:17,480
Speaker 4: want to fucking turn that shit into fucking.

981
00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:21,520
Speaker 7: Of course, of course some do, some do really, there

982
00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:25,880
Speaker 7: are there are purists. Yeah, for sure, there's a great story.

983
00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:28,120
Speaker 7: Hannibal Burris. I don't think it'd mind me telling you this,

984
00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:30,880
Speaker 7: but like he used to go into meetings with networks

985
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:32,080
Speaker 7: and he'd just be like, I just want to get

986
00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:34,120
Speaker 7: good at stand up. Like he'd be completely honest with them.

987
00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:35,560
Speaker 7: They're like, yeah, but do you have any pitches? And

988
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:37,160
Speaker 7: he's like, I want to get good at stand up

989
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:39,239
Speaker 7: Because he knew the order, he was like, you're not

990
00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:41,160
Speaker 7: gonna We're not going to do this. Now. I'm glad

991
00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:45,360
Speaker 7: we know each other. I'm extrapolating. I just remember Hannibal

992
00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:47,400
Speaker 7: was one of those dudes that was like, I just

993
00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:48,799
Speaker 7: want to be one of the greats, you know.

994
00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:52,799
Speaker 1: So, but yeah, my question is how do you now

995
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:55,399
Speaker 1: make a living at it? Because I know you've had

996
00:47:55,680 --> 00:47:58,920
Speaker 1: you have a successful tour. You have an upcoming Netflix

997
00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:00,279
Speaker 1: show which we should plug.

998
00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:02,560
Speaker 7: What's it called show ten twenty four. It'll be out

999
00:48:02,560 --> 00:48:04,600
Speaker 7: ten twenty four. It's called I Am Not for everyonty.

1000
00:48:05,120 --> 00:48:08,040
Speaker 1: I am for everyone. Yeah, I am not for everyone

1001
00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:11,880
Speaker 1: on Netflix. I've seen this show, by the way, with

1002
00:48:11,960 --> 00:48:14,560
Speaker 1: Bill Lawrence. Bill and I went to one of the

1003
00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:17,920
Speaker 1: last times you were sort of doing it for an

1004
00:48:17,920 --> 00:48:20,560
Speaker 1: audience at Largo in Los Angeles before you went to

1005
00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:23,600
Speaker 1: shoot it. I believe right, And I'm not just saying

1006
00:48:23,600 --> 00:48:26,640
Speaker 1: this because he's here. Bill and I belly laughed for

1007
00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:28,600
Speaker 1: an hour and a half. How long did you did

1008
00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:29,760
Speaker 1: it end up being ninety minutes?

1009
00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:31,560
Speaker 7: No, I cut some stuff.

1010
00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:34,200
Speaker 1: It's funny. That night I was like that night, I

1011
00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:36,600
Speaker 1: was like, I said to you, oh, I'm sure you're

1012
00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:38,040
Speaker 1: going to cut it down to an hour, right, And

1013
00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:40,000
Speaker 1: you were like, no, No, I think I'm going to leave

1014
00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:44,680
Speaker 1: it long. But even the ninety minutes, we bally laughed

1015
00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:48,360
Speaker 1: the whole time. It was so fucking funny. I promise you, audience,

1016
00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:51,000
Speaker 1: if you're listening and you're a fan of Donald and

1017
00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:54,520
Speaker 1: I you will laugh at Pete's special. It's so smart

1018
00:48:55,239 --> 00:48:57,719
Speaker 1: and funny. And I like comedy that does not only

1019
00:48:57,719 --> 00:48:59,680
Speaker 1: make me laugh but makes me think, and your hour

1020
00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:02,560
Speaker 1: certainly does that. Oh thanks man, But I wanted to

1021
00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:06,640
Speaker 1: say My question is how I've gone to the Cellar

1022
00:49:06,680 --> 00:49:08,799
Speaker 1: and seen so many brilliant comedians. That's where you go

1023
00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:11,040
Speaker 1: when you want to see the best in town, and

1024
00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:15,560
Speaker 1: I don't. They aren't necessarily household names. They aren't necessarily

1025
00:49:15,600 --> 00:49:19,080
Speaker 1: people you'd recognize. How do these people make a living?

1026
00:49:19,120 --> 00:49:22,440
Speaker 1: Do they do they tour? They's? Do they tour at

1027
00:49:22,440 --> 00:49:24,759
Speaker 1: different levels? Are they hoping for a special? What is

1028
00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:27,560
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty three way that a stand up comedian

1029
00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:28,160
Speaker 1: makes a living?

1030
00:49:28,719 --> 00:49:32,440
Speaker 7: Again a generous question. We we cover this a little

1031
00:49:32,440 --> 00:49:35,160
Speaker 7: bit on Crashing, but the answer is more than what

1032
00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:38,480
Speaker 7: we showed on the show. There's different markets, right, so

1033
00:49:40,120 --> 00:49:42,719
Speaker 7: there there are still to this day people in New York.

1034
00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:45,080
Speaker 7: What I was smiling during your question that there are

1035
00:49:45,080 --> 00:49:46,879
Speaker 7: people that I want to go like, what what are

1036
00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:49,200
Speaker 7: how are you doing? Like I do like I don't know,

1037
00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:52,080
Speaker 7: I want to go, Like what is what's your strategy?

1038
00:49:52,160 --> 00:49:55,040
Speaker 1: Like where do you live? How do you ben in Manhattan?

1039
00:49:55,320 --> 00:49:57,120
Speaker 7: Well? You can take it up from the bottom right.

1040
00:49:57,160 --> 00:49:59,360
Speaker 7: There are some dudes that do so many sets in

1041
00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:03,120
Speaker 7: the city. That's what they that's what they do. Like that,

1042
00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:05,719
Speaker 7: and I'm sure they tore some but like you know,

1043
00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:10,600
Speaker 7: if you do, because the Fat Black Pussycat is right

1044
00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:12,520
Speaker 7: around the corner from the cellar, you can go back

1045
00:50:12,520 --> 00:50:15,040
Speaker 7: and forth between those two clubs. I've done it and

1046
00:50:15,160 --> 00:50:17,880
Speaker 7: go up eight times at the night and.

1047
00:50:18,200 --> 00:50:19,759
Speaker 1: That's in your show. By the way, I just want

1048
00:50:19,800 --> 00:50:23,239
Speaker 1: to say a funny little connection here. Jessica Curson, who

1049
00:50:23,239 --> 00:50:25,680
Speaker 1: we should have on Donald is my stepsister and she

1050
00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:29,080
Speaker 1: is a very accomplished, that hilarious stand up comedian.

1051
00:50:29,560 --> 00:50:31,319
Speaker 2: She did it a unique way.

1052
00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:34,120
Speaker 4: Also, where she got she was already out there, but

1053
00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:36,359
Speaker 4: she got on through a reality television show.

1054
00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:39,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that was her. That was her introduction, started

1055
00:50:39,520 --> 00:50:39,759
Speaker 2: her up.

1056
00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:41,360
Speaker 1: She was on one of those what was it the

1057
00:50:41,360 --> 00:50:46,759
Speaker 1: comedian competition she was. Yeah. But also what I just

1058
00:50:46,760 --> 00:50:48,280
Speaker 1: wanted to say that one of the great things about

1059
00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:51,520
Speaker 1: Peete show Crashing is he had all the real people

1060
00:50:51,520 --> 00:50:54,759
Speaker 1: playing themselves. All the go to not all, but a

1061
00:50:54,760 --> 00:50:56,680
Speaker 1: lot of the go to stand ups in this circuit

1062
00:50:56,920 --> 00:51:00,200
Speaker 1: are in the show, including my stepsister Jessica Curson was

1063
00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:02,839
Speaker 1: in a very funny episode where Pete and she are

1064
00:51:02,920 --> 00:51:05,319
Speaker 1: running back and forth between these two clubs. So I

1065
00:51:05,320 --> 00:51:06,560
Speaker 1: just had to digress and tell that.

1066
00:51:06,520 --> 00:51:07,040
Speaker 2: And then we go.

1067
00:51:07,239 --> 00:51:09,200
Speaker 7: She does another one where we go to North Carolina.

1068
00:51:09,239 --> 00:51:11,800
Speaker 7: She was in the only episode where we flew somewhere

1069
00:51:11,840 --> 00:51:14,200
Speaker 7: to shoot it, and she's just she's sweet as pie.

1070
00:51:14,239 --> 00:51:17,440
Speaker 7: I love her to death. I'm not just saying that.

1071
00:51:17,320 --> 00:51:19,600
Speaker 1: Like I have like a special She's someone you don't

1072
00:51:19,600 --> 00:51:21,759
Speaker 1: want to follow because she every time I see her.

1073
00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:23,440
Speaker 1: That's why I'm the most often that I'm in the

1074
00:51:23,480 --> 00:51:25,400
Speaker 1: Cellar is because Jessica's going up and I'm going to

1075
00:51:25,480 --> 00:51:27,680
Speaker 1: see her and I'm gonna see some other comics. Yeah,

1076
00:51:27,719 --> 00:51:29,320
Speaker 1: And every comic will tell me and they're not just

1077
00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:31,439
Speaker 1: saying this because she's my stepsister, Like you can't follow

1078
00:51:31,480 --> 00:51:35,080
Speaker 1: her because she's so funny and she's so outrageous. Donald.

1079
00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:36,480
Speaker 1: Have you ever seen her do her thing?

1080
00:51:36,880 --> 00:51:38,880
Speaker 2: Yes, I have so funny.

1081
00:51:42,840 --> 00:51:44,600
Speaker 7: She told me once she didn't like a crowd at

1082
00:51:44,600 --> 00:51:45,960
Speaker 7: the Cellar and she did the rest of her set

1083
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:48,400
Speaker 7: with her back her back to them, which I was like.

1084
00:51:49,560 --> 00:51:51,879
Speaker 1: She does this sort of inner monologue thing where she'll

1085
00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:54,600
Speaker 1: she'll be performing and if and if something bombs, she

1086
00:51:54,680 --> 00:51:57,879
Speaker 1: goes upstage to the wall and turns around into the mic.

1087
00:51:57,960 --> 00:51:59,880
Speaker 1: She does like an inner monologue, like, don't listen to them,

1088
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:03,360
Speaker 1: You're doing just great. This is very hard. You know,

1089
00:52:03,680 --> 00:52:04,600
Speaker 1: I'm not selling it well.

1090
00:52:04,600 --> 00:52:08,680
Speaker 7: But yes, great, Yeah, she's letting them into every element

1091
00:52:08,760 --> 00:52:13,640
Speaker 7: of the experience. So anyway, the answer is there's city

1092
00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:16,480
Speaker 7: spots and then the first break. For a lot of

1093
00:52:16,520 --> 00:52:19,240
Speaker 7: people in Mike, I'll just speak for myself. My first

1094
00:52:19,320 --> 00:52:22,920
Speaker 7: sort of foray into touring was colleges, and especially when

1095
00:52:22,960 --> 00:52:27,120
Speaker 7: you're in your twenties, colleges are incredible and there's things

1096
00:52:27,120 --> 00:52:29,720
Speaker 7: called NAKA. Musicians do it as well. It's a National

1097
00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:33,839
Speaker 7: Association of College Acts or something like that. You go

1098
00:52:33,880 --> 00:52:36,640
Speaker 7: to a NAKA. It's in a hotel. We did an

1099
00:52:36,680 --> 00:52:39,040
Speaker 7: episode about on crashing and people are curious. I'm very

1100
00:52:39,080 --> 00:52:42,360
Speaker 7: proud of the NAKA episode. I got a college agent.

1101
00:52:42,800 --> 00:52:46,920
Speaker 7: I'm forgiving out. I can't exactly remember how, but somebody

1102
00:52:46,960 --> 00:52:50,200
Speaker 7: probably a VHS tape that I sent and then they

1103
00:52:50,239 --> 00:52:54,319
Speaker 7: submit that VHS tape into naka's on your behalf. You

1104
00:52:54,400 --> 00:52:56,920
Speaker 7: have to pay it's like three hundred bucks just to

1105
00:52:56,960 --> 00:52:59,399
Speaker 7: submit again at a time when you don't have three

1106
00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:01,440
Speaker 7: hundred bucks, and then if you get in, it's a

1107
00:53:01,480 --> 00:53:04,960
Speaker 7: really big deal. I often didn't get in. I eventually

1108
00:53:05,080 --> 00:53:08,920
Speaker 7: finally got one. I went and you perform at like

1109
00:53:08,920 --> 00:53:11,719
Speaker 7: eleven in the morning. And who's there as all the

1110
00:53:11,800 --> 00:53:14,920
Speaker 7: people from our colleges that ran the Student Activities Council.

1111
00:53:15,200 --> 00:53:18,359
Speaker 7: So everybody's shirt says sack or CAB. They're all called

1112
00:53:18,440 --> 00:53:23,280
Speaker 7: soccer Cab, soccer Cab, Student Activities Council or CONCL.

1113
00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:26,640
Speaker 1: So they're the students.

1114
00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:27,760
Speaker 7: Yeah, they're students.

1115
00:53:27,760 --> 00:53:30,080
Speaker 1: So they're students who have been tasked with booking the

1116
00:53:30,120 --> 00:53:30,920
Speaker 1: acts for this.

1117
00:53:31,160 --> 00:53:33,640
Speaker 7: Yeah, but let's be real. These aren't the hippus students.

1118
00:53:33,640 --> 00:53:37,400
Speaker 7: These are are kids that wanted to run the yearbook.

1119
00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:39,640
Speaker 1: Basically they have a lot of power. Though they do

1120
00:53:39,719 --> 00:53:40,040
Speaker 1: have a.

1121
00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:41,920
Speaker 7: Lot of power, and that's what's so funny about it

1122
00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:46,120
Speaker 7: is you're kissing your my future, my rent, and my

1123
00:53:46,280 --> 00:53:49,799
Speaker 7: livelihood is now tied to my ability to not only

1124
00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:52,200
Speaker 7: perform well but also hobnob and the lobby of a

1125
00:53:52,280 --> 00:53:56,680
Speaker 7: highest regency with some eight nineteen year old girl who

1126
00:53:56,719 --> 00:53:59,480
Speaker 7: still has braces, and she's deciding whether or not they

1127
00:53:59,480 --> 00:54:01,960
Speaker 7: want to spend the eleven hundred dollars to have me

1128
00:54:02,040 --> 00:54:05,080
Speaker 7: come into the Upper Peninsula, Michigan and do a show

1129
00:54:05,120 --> 00:54:07,120
Speaker 7: at noon. You know what I mean. So it's a

1130
00:54:07,320 --> 00:54:13,040
Speaker 7: very I'm telling you, it's a never ending parade of humiliations. Guys,

1131
00:54:13,080 --> 00:54:16,440
Speaker 7: it's never ending. It doesn't end. I'm still doing it.

1132
00:54:16,520 --> 00:54:18,160
Speaker 1: So you do the set and then you have to

1133
00:54:18,200 --> 00:54:21,640
Speaker 1: go in the lobby and be like, so, Michelle, no,

1134
00:54:21,880 --> 00:54:24,120
Speaker 1: it's worse.

1135
00:54:24,680 --> 00:54:30,080
Speaker 7: You stand at a booth you after your set, pet Homestan,

1136
00:54:30,680 --> 00:54:34,000
Speaker 7: it's your My agency was called Auburn Moon. I would

1137
00:54:34,040 --> 00:54:38,359
Speaker 7: stand at the Auburn Moon booth and watch people walk by.

1138
00:54:38,520 --> 00:54:40,439
Speaker 7: So I did two necas, one where I did very well,

1139
00:54:40,440 --> 00:54:43,399
Speaker 7: one where I didn't so one where you didn't do well.

1140
00:54:43,440 --> 00:54:45,319
Speaker 7: And you have to stand at the booth trying to

1141
00:54:45,360 --> 00:54:47,839
Speaker 7: hand out your merch because you're giving because college kids

1142
00:54:47,840 --> 00:54:49,560
Speaker 7: love free stuff, so you're trying to give them T

1143
00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:52,040
Speaker 7: shirts or trying to give them a water bottle or

1144
00:54:52,080 --> 00:54:55,160
Speaker 7: something like that, or a carabeaner that says Pete Holmes dot.

1145
00:54:55,200 --> 00:54:57,759
Speaker 1: And then see them let's say you didn't kill that day,

1146
00:54:58,040 --> 00:55:01,040
Speaker 1: and well yea, And so you see them gathering around

1147
00:55:01,040 --> 00:55:02,600
Speaker 1: the booth of the guy who killed and they're all

1148
00:55:03,440 --> 00:55:09,360
Speaker 1: get get the asease Carabina.

1149
00:55:09,760 --> 00:55:12,479
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, dude, I don't know if he's ever didna.

1150
00:55:12,640 --> 00:55:14,480
Speaker 7: I think as blew up real fast and kind of

1151
00:55:14,480 --> 00:55:18,800
Speaker 7: pole vaulted that. But when I did it the first

1152
00:55:18,840 --> 00:55:21,600
Speaker 7: time and I knew it was a big deal, it

1153
00:55:21,680 --> 00:55:23,960
Speaker 7: was like I was more nervous, more jacked up for

1154
00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:26,000
Speaker 7: it than like my first late night or anything. It

1155
00:55:26,080 --> 00:55:29,600
Speaker 7: was like it really felt like no one will ever know,

1156
00:55:30,160 --> 00:55:31,319
Speaker 7: you know what I mean. It's not going to be

1157
00:55:31,320 --> 00:55:34,680
Speaker 7: on TV. But if I do this, it'll fill my calendar,

1158
00:55:35,120 --> 00:55:38,040
Speaker 7: like it'll fill out my whole year. And when I

1159
00:55:38,080 --> 00:55:40,239
Speaker 7: said eleven hundred dollars, that wasn't random like I would

1160
00:55:40,280 --> 00:55:44,600
Speaker 7: say the average I don't not even mid level, low level,

1161
00:55:44,719 --> 00:55:49,400
Speaker 7: but headlining early comedian, especially if you're clean, which I

1162
00:55:49,440 --> 00:55:52,360
Speaker 7: was clean at the time, you'd make about a grand

1163
00:55:52,680 --> 00:55:54,759
Speaker 7: unless they clumped them together. Now you're doing it for me.

1164
00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:56,200
Speaker 1: You get paid more if you're clean.

1165
00:55:57,160 --> 00:55:59,320
Speaker 7: You book more if you're clean, because.

1166
00:55:59,080 --> 00:56:01,919
Speaker 1: They don't want a lot of just don't want dirty talk.

1167
00:56:02,400 --> 00:56:05,319
Speaker 7: Absolutely not. In fact, you once you book the gig

1168
00:56:05,400 --> 00:56:06,800
Speaker 7: and you get this a whole I could write a

1169
00:56:06,800 --> 00:56:08,880
Speaker 7: book on how to do colleges, but once you get

1170
00:56:08,920 --> 00:56:12,799
Speaker 7: there you can ask and say, really, that.

1171
00:56:12,960 --> 00:56:16,120
Speaker 1: A really good cock joke. Do you guys want it? Yeah?

1172
00:56:16,200 --> 00:56:18,560
Speaker 7: Yeah, And it's the same with you know, I do

1173
00:56:18,680 --> 00:56:20,959
Speaker 7: corporate gigs now too, and they're always like, you book

1174
00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:23,160
Speaker 7: it because you can do an hour squeaky clean, and

1175
00:56:23,200 --> 00:56:25,200
Speaker 7: I can and I do and I like it. But

1176
00:56:25,360 --> 00:56:27,279
Speaker 7: sometimes you get there. Last one I did was for

1177
00:56:27,360 --> 00:56:30,040
Speaker 7: like liquor salesmen. I'm like, these guys want to and

1178
00:56:30,160 --> 00:56:32,439
Speaker 7: these men and women would like to hear about this

1179
00:56:32,680 --> 00:56:35,160
Speaker 7: sex story or whatever it is. They're gonna like it

1180
00:56:35,239 --> 00:56:35,960
Speaker 7: the sex joke.

1181
00:56:36,320 --> 00:56:38,719
Speaker 1: So anyway, there's a section in your new stand up

1182
00:56:39,960 --> 00:56:41,359
Speaker 1: I'm not for everyone? Is that what it's called?

1183
00:56:41,440 --> 00:56:42,440
Speaker 7: Yeah, I am not for everyone.

1184
00:56:42,560 --> 00:56:46,600
Speaker 1: I am not for everyone where it's not dirty necessarily,

1185
00:56:46,840 --> 00:56:52,680
Speaker 1: but you speak in a very funny way about uh sexuality? Right?

1186
00:56:52,760 --> 00:56:56,000
Speaker 1: Is that the way way to put it? And I

1187
00:56:56,400 --> 00:57:00,400
Speaker 1: just thought it was so funny and interesting. But it

1188
00:57:00,400 --> 00:57:03,400
Speaker 1: would that be considered But would that section be considered

1189
00:57:03,440 --> 00:57:04,040
Speaker 1: all rated?

1190
00:57:04,320 --> 00:57:09,680
Speaker 7: Yeah? Everything in my new special, with few exceptions, would

1191
00:57:09,719 --> 00:57:12,640
Speaker 7: be too edgy for a naka. But the great thing

1192
00:57:12,719 --> 00:57:16,240
Speaker 7: is is because I was raised religious, I fuck naka.

1193
00:57:16,280 --> 00:57:17,560
Speaker 7: I thought I was going to go to hell if

1194
00:57:17,600 --> 00:57:19,560
Speaker 7: I was a naughty boy. So I was way ahead of.

1195
00:57:19,480 --> 00:57:22,160
Speaker 1: The curve, right, something that's in Crashing and we haven't

1196
00:57:22,200 --> 00:57:24,800
Speaker 1: touched on and we can. We can just touch on

1197
00:57:24,840 --> 00:57:28,440
Speaker 1: it briefly. One thing that's interesting about your story is

1198
00:57:28,480 --> 00:57:31,240
Speaker 1: that you grew up quite religious, correct and then so

1199
00:57:31,520 --> 00:57:33,480
Speaker 1: part of the story of Crashing is not only is

1200
00:57:34,200 --> 00:57:36,840
Speaker 1: it Pete's story, he's a young, wide eyed stand up

1201
00:57:36,880 --> 00:57:40,800
Speaker 1: coming to town, but your character and you grew up

1202
00:57:41,560 --> 00:57:42,320
Speaker 1: very religious.

1203
00:57:42,640 --> 00:57:45,720
Speaker 7: Yeah, and it really is sort of like a I

1204
00:57:45,720 --> 00:57:48,600
Speaker 7: don't want to say thrown into the wolve's den, but

1205
00:57:48,680 --> 00:57:51,400
Speaker 7: it had a little flavor of that more because of

1206
00:57:51,480 --> 00:57:54,320
Speaker 7: how sheltered eye was. And you know, Nate Bargatzi was

1207
00:57:54,360 --> 00:57:56,160
Speaker 7: there at the same time as me, and he and

1208
00:57:56,200 --> 00:57:59,040
Speaker 7: I bonded a lot over just like we're you know,

1209
00:57:59,080 --> 00:58:02,120
Speaker 7: we're afar away from the from the church life, which

1210
00:58:02,160 --> 00:58:04,480
Speaker 7: which was very sweet and nice. I'm not saying anything

1211
00:58:04,480 --> 00:58:08,320
Speaker 7: bad about it. Now everybody's you know, doing everything that

1212
00:58:08,360 --> 00:58:11,479
Speaker 7: you could think, drugs, drinking, and there's a lot of like.

1213
00:58:11,920 --> 00:58:13,720
Speaker 1: When you're still a religious man, are you not?

1214
00:58:14,120 --> 00:58:16,640
Speaker 7: I'm a spiritu Yeah, it's a spirit deeply spiritual person.

1215
00:58:17,120 --> 00:58:19,240
Speaker 7: And that and that informs it. You know that we're

1216
00:58:19,320 --> 00:58:21,560
Speaker 7: changing gears a little bit. But it's like, I think

1217
00:58:21,600 --> 00:58:24,680
Speaker 7: there's a big difference between dirty and ugly. My comedy

1218
00:58:24,720 --> 00:58:26,960
Speaker 7: is very dirty, but it's not ugly, and I think

1219
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:30,160
Speaker 7: you can do clean comedy that's very ugly. I think

1220
00:58:30,240 --> 00:58:33,600
Speaker 7: what you should really pick up on, thanks Ton, is

1221
00:58:33,680 --> 00:58:39,680
Speaker 7: like the undercurrent, like what values, what attitudes and perspectives

1222
00:58:39,720 --> 00:58:42,680
Speaker 7: are you championing? And if you don't say fuck, it

1223
00:58:42,720 --> 00:58:46,320
Speaker 7: doesn't matter. Did you just say a man should be

1224
00:58:46,320 --> 00:58:47,880
Speaker 7: able to hit a woman? Did you kind of like,

1225
00:58:47,960 --> 00:58:51,040
Speaker 7: let's really reduce what you just said. Isn't that what

1226
00:58:51,080 --> 00:58:53,200
Speaker 7: you just said? And this could be a clean comic?

1227
00:58:53,480 --> 00:58:55,040
Speaker 7: And then I go up and I say, like, you're

1228
00:58:55,040 --> 00:58:59,360
Speaker 7: the joke you're referencing. I think, is you know Kinsey approved.

1229
00:58:59,360 --> 00:59:03,600
Speaker 7: It's very interesting about the spectrum of sexuality and it's dirty.

1230
00:59:03,640 --> 00:59:06,600
Speaker 7: I'm talking about jerking off in sacks and all this stuff,

1231
00:59:06,640 --> 00:59:11,680
Speaker 7: but like, underneath that, I'm saying, we're all in this together.

1232
00:59:11,760 --> 00:59:15,640
Speaker 7: It's a sexuality strange and it's unifying, Like my goal

1233
00:59:15,720 --> 00:59:16,880
Speaker 7: is for it to be unifying.

1234
00:59:17,320 --> 00:59:20,280
Speaker 1: You never punched down in your and your kind and

1235
00:59:20,320 --> 00:59:24,080
Speaker 1: there's there's a kindness to your comedy. You're saying some outrageous,

1236
00:59:24,400 --> 00:59:27,920
Speaker 1: funny things, but you're not taking aim at anybody in

1237
00:59:27,920 --> 00:59:28,600
Speaker 1: a mean way.

1238
00:59:28,800 --> 00:59:31,080
Speaker 7: I appreciate that if I do take a cheap shot

1239
00:59:31,160 --> 00:59:34,680
Speaker 7: or punch down, even if it's briefly, it's because that's

1240
00:59:34,760 --> 00:59:38,160
Speaker 7: true to our experience, that everybody has a mind that

1241
00:59:38,280 --> 00:59:42,600
Speaker 7: occasionally thinks something that you don't approve of, and I

1242
00:59:42,600 --> 00:59:45,160
Speaker 7: think that's valuable to talk about as well. Meaning like this,

1243
00:59:45,280 --> 00:59:46,920
Speaker 7: I say this all the time, but the sweetest nun,

1244
00:59:47,600 --> 00:59:50,520
Speaker 7: the most gentle woman in the world, sometimes is stirring

1245
00:59:50,520 --> 00:59:52,800
Speaker 7: her coffee and she's like, I don't know why, but

1246
00:59:52,840 --> 00:59:54,920
Speaker 7: I don't like whatever. You know what I mean, I'm

1247
00:59:54,920 --> 00:59:56,040
Speaker 7: not I won't say it, but.

1248
00:59:56,040 --> 00:59:57,560
Speaker 1: Like, oh, I wanted you to go there. And just.

1249
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:02,120
Speaker 7: Example I usually give is I'll be on a plane

1250
01:00:02,200 --> 01:00:03,440
Speaker 7: or something, I'm like, I don't know why, but I

1251
01:00:03,480 --> 01:00:05,480
Speaker 7: hate the back of this guy's head, like I fucking

1252
01:00:05,520 --> 01:00:10,120
Speaker 7: hate the shape and fucking this dumb hair. So one

1253
01:00:10,160 --> 01:00:12,800
Speaker 7: of the unifying things you can do. And I know

1254
01:00:12,840 --> 01:00:15,000
Speaker 7: I'm having my cake and eat it too. But if

1255
01:00:15,040 --> 01:00:17,880
Speaker 7: I do make a joke that's cheeky or a little

1256
01:00:17,880 --> 01:00:22,360
Speaker 7: bit wicked, it's because I'm trying to demonstrate shamelessly and

1257
01:00:22,480 --> 01:00:26,320
Speaker 7: innocently that all of us know how lonely it is

1258
01:00:26,600 --> 01:00:31,560
Speaker 7: to be stuck in these fucking outdated biological spaceships that

1259
01:00:31,760 --> 01:00:35,280
Speaker 7: because of the wiring and the pattern recognition and the

1260
01:00:35,440 --> 01:00:38,440
Speaker 7: judging and the labeling and the consumerism and everything, that

1261
01:00:38,560 --> 01:00:41,840
Speaker 7: all the impetus that we're constantly being flooded in your brain.

1262
01:00:42,520 --> 01:00:46,040
Speaker 7: It's like a fucking washing machine filled with marbles, and

1263
01:00:46,080 --> 01:00:51,080
Speaker 7: shit's flying out sometimes, and it's lonely and isolating and

1264
01:00:51,440 --> 01:00:55,959
Speaker 7: honestly encouraging of dark and weird thoughts to not say, hey,

1265
01:00:56,520 --> 01:00:59,680
Speaker 7: sometimes I have a thought like this and it's fucking weird.

1266
01:01:00,200 --> 01:01:02,479
Speaker 7: And if I can use my platform to make people

1267
01:01:02,520 --> 01:01:06,360
Speaker 7: feel less shame, that's great. And sometimes it might be

1268
01:01:06,400 --> 01:01:08,880
Speaker 7: at the expense of whatever, like some joke that you're

1269
01:01:08,880 --> 01:01:11,280
Speaker 7: not ooh, that you're not supposed to say that, yeah, okay,

1270
01:01:11,320 --> 01:01:13,240
Speaker 7: and here we are and here we are. You're also

1271
01:01:13,240 --> 01:01:14,919
Speaker 7: not supposed to think that, you're not supposed to feel

1272
01:01:14,920 --> 01:01:16,800
Speaker 7: that you're not supposed to do that, but we do.

1273
01:01:17,280 --> 01:01:20,160
Speaker 7: I have a joke in my New Hour about taking

1274
01:01:20,160 --> 01:01:22,600
Speaker 7: my daughter on a carousel, even though my friend like

1275
01:01:22,680 --> 01:01:24,960
Speaker 7: couldn't find his daughter, and I could have helped him

1276
01:01:24,960 --> 01:01:27,520
Speaker 7: look for his daughter, but it's a whole story. I'm

1277
01:01:27,520 --> 01:01:30,560
Speaker 7: not proud of that story. They found her, I.

1278
01:01:30,480 --> 01:01:33,400
Speaker 2: Can't find my daughter. Okay, I'm gonna go with that's.

1279
01:01:33,200 --> 01:01:38,280
Speaker 7: Exactly the joke. But that to me using a high

1280
01:01:38,280 --> 01:01:41,800
Speaker 7: status position loud voice, I'm talking, let's go back to

1281
01:01:41,880 --> 01:01:45,000
Speaker 7: being Bonobo's babies. You know what I mean, loud voice.

1282
01:01:45,280 --> 01:01:48,160
Speaker 7: I'm up high and I'm in the light. So that's

1283
01:01:48,200 --> 01:01:53,000
Speaker 7: an alpha position. And to use it instead of championing

1284
01:01:53,040 --> 01:01:56,040
Speaker 7: myself and telling you all my virtues and all my

1285
01:01:56,480 --> 01:02:01,000
Speaker 7: gloriousness like a dictator and how ineffable I am, instead

1286
01:02:01,920 --> 01:02:05,080
Speaker 7: being vulnerable enough to be like I should have not

1287
01:02:05,320 --> 01:02:08,720
Speaker 7: gotten on the carousel. That's more valuable because people are like,

1288
01:02:08,800 --> 01:02:13,600
Speaker 7: you know what, dude, in this flawed, imperfect thing. Sometimes

1289
01:02:13,600 --> 01:02:15,280
Speaker 7: I do that, And if and if you can laugh

1290
01:02:15,360 --> 01:02:19,120
Speaker 7: at me and then still quietly be like I've done

1291
01:02:19,120 --> 01:02:20,240
Speaker 7: stuff like that, that.

1292
01:02:23,080 --> 01:02:24,400
Speaker 1: Well, that's the most common.

1293
01:02:24,480 --> 01:02:26,880
Speaker 7: What is gained if I get up and just tell

1294
01:02:26,920 --> 01:02:29,080
Speaker 7: you how fucking great I am and how perfect I am.

1295
01:02:29,240 --> 01:02:31,080
Speaker 7: And you know what I hate most comedy is just

1296
01:02:31,080 --> 01:02:33,040
Speaker 7: going up on staying and saying, isn't food great? Isn't

1297
01:02:33,040 --> 01:02:36,720
Speaker 7: sex great? Isn't winning great? Isn't isn't that's it? Isn't

1298
01:02:36,760 --> 01:02:37,360
Speaker 7: money great?

1299
01:02:37,680 --> 01:02:39,439
Speaker 2: It's something I remember back in the day.

1300
01:02:39,520 --> 01:02:41,760
Speaker 4: It was always there was some women that would come

1301
01:02:41,800 --> 01:02:43,520
Speaker 4: on stage, a lot of women where my big women

1302
01:02:43,560 --> 01:02:47,720
Speaker 4: at that shit used to be like the first motherfucking my.

1303
01:02:47,640 --> 01:02:51,040
Speaker 1: God, wear my big women at him that.

1304
01:02:51,360 --> 01:02:55,280
Speaker 7: You know, what I hear constantly is who's drinking? But

1305
01:02:55,480 --> 01:02:58,960
Speaker 7: that is who's drinking? You guys partying and then you're

1306
01:02:59,000 --> 01:03:03,080
Speaker 7: into drinking, but that is also Look, I have respect

1307
01:03:03,120 --> 01:03:05,280
Speaker 7: for anyone doing comedy, so I'm not gonna, you know,

1308
01:03:05,680 --> 01:03:09,160
Speaker 7: broadstroke dismiss anyone. But if I go on stage and

1309
01:03:09,240 --> 01:03:12,000
Speaker 7: do a bit about how great alcohol is in a

1310
01:03:12,000 --> 01:03:17,920
Speaker 7: club where everyone's drinking, nothing has happened. People who already

1311
01:03:18,000 --> 01:03:20,960
Speaker 7: liked alcohol like alcohol. If I can go on stage

1312
01:03:21,480 --> 01:03:23,840
Speaker 7: and make them, and it doesn't have to be alcohol,

1313
01:03:23,960 --> 01:03:25,840
Speaker 7: but just kind of like take the other side for

1314
01:03:26,000 --> 01:03:28,560
Speaker 7: fun and get people to laugh at not even something

1315
01:03:28,640 --> 01:03:31,760
Speaker 7: that challenges them, but like something a little bit more

1316
01:03:31,800 --> 01:03:36,840
Speaker 7: interesting than just like, isn't aren't orgasms great? Isn't dopamine great?

1317
01:03:36,960 --> 01:03:39,520
Speaker 7: Isn't you know? Or a story where you go and

1318
01:03:39,640 --> 01:03:42,800
Speaker 7: I say, get the fuck out of here, clown, and

1319
01:03:42,840 --> 01:03:43,920
Speaker 7: everyone cheers for me.

1320
01:03:44,600 --> 01:03:45,240
Speaker 2: Right.

1321
01:03:45,280 --> 01:03:47,439
Speaker 1: Well, I thought you did that in spades with the

1322
01:03:47,640 --> 01:03:52,240
Speaker 1: run you do on sexuality and the Kinsey scale. I

1323
01:03:52,280 --> 01:03:55,360
Speaker 1: thought it was really funny and interesting and certainly not

1324
01:03:55,480 --> 01:03:59,280
Speaker 1: something I've seen anyone talk about in a comedy set.

1325
01:03:59,320 --> 01:04:00,680
Speaker 1: I thought that was really unique.

1326
01:04:00,760 --> 01:04:02,360
Speaker 7: Thanks, man, I really appreciate it.

1327
01:04:02,600 --> 01:04:03,320
Speaker 2: Let's take a break.

1328
01:04:03,400 --> 01:04:12,200
Speaker 1: We'll be right back after these fine words. What are

1329
01:04:12,240 --> 01:04:14,240
Speaker 1: your parents? Are they alive? What do they think of

1330
01:04:15,000 --> 01:04:18,800
Speaker 1: your comedy? I imagine they're religious. Still.

1331
01:04:19,400 --> 01:04:22,400
Speaker 7: You know what's really really weird is that my parents,

1332
01:04:22,400 --> 01:04:25,000
Speaker 7: my mom was more was very religious, and that was

1333
01:04:25,320 --> 01:04:27,120
Speaker 7: I wrote it in my book that my brother and

1334
01:04:27,160 --> 01:04:30,200
Speaker 7: my dad had sports and me and my mom had Jesus,

1335
01:04:30,320 --> 01:04:32,480
Speaker 7: and that was like our interest. We knew the stats,

1336
01:04:33,320 --> 01:04:38,040
Speaker 7: you know, you knew all the stats, all the teams.

1337
01:04:40,560 --> 01:04:44,600
Speaker 7: But like, as my mom's gotten older and I've gotten

1338
01:04:44,600 --> 01:04:47,080
Speaker 7: older as well, that's how it works. I've gotten way

1339
01:04:47,120 --> 01:04:49,960
Speaker 7: more spiritual and my mom's gotten a little bit less

1340
01:04:50,000 --> 01:04:54,040
Speaker 7: interested in that stuff, which which is not you know,

1341
01:04:54,120 --> 01:04:58,440
Speaker 7: she's eighty two and that's not my favorite. Only I've

1342
01:04:58,440 --> 01:05:00,560
Speaker 7: said before, I'm like, I wish it would be if

1343
01:05:00,600 --> 01:05:03,560
Speaker 7: my mom would be like comfortable and feel held in

1344
01:05:03,600 --> 01:05:05,440
Speaker 7: the world and be religious in a way that I

1345
01:05:05,480 --> 01:05:09,760
Speaker 7: don't share all of those beliefs, but like felt secure

1346
01:05:09,880 --> 01:05:12,440
Speaker 7: in the universe. That's my hope for her, and that's

1347
01:05:12,440 --> 01:05:15,240
Speaker 7: why now I push it on her a little bit,

1348
01:05:15,480 --> 01:05:18,480
Speaker 7: so at the tables of turn. But answer where I

1349
01:05:18,480 --> 01:05:20,640
Speaker 7: think you were going. My parents don't really know. I

1350
01:05:21,000 --> 01:05:23,320
Speaker 7: think they don't really know what to make of me

1351
01:05:23,640 --> 01:05:24,080
Speaker 7: to this day.

1352
01:05:24,120 --> 01:05:26,760
Speaker 1: Do they watch it? Will they watch this new special?

1353
01:05:27,920 --> 01:05:29,840
Speaker 7: Yeah, the last one that came out. I think they

1354
01:05:29,880 --> 01:05:31,840
Speaker 7: watched it with some church friends and then they just

1355
01:05:31,920 --> 01:05:36,240
Speaker 7: call me and we were so humiliated, and I'm like,

1356
01:05:37,240 --> 01:05:40,520
Speaker 7: you see, this is full circle, man, because me saying

1357
01:05:40,640 --> 01:05:43,880
Speaker 7: don't bring your friends is me also saying don't bring

1358
01:05:43,920 --> 01:05:47,480
Speaker 7: your family. No, it's not about them. And what I

1359
01:05:47,520 --> 01:05:50,080
Speaker 7: always say to my mom with all love and to

1360
01:05:50,160 --> 01:05:52,280
Speaker 7: my dad as well as I go, it's not for you.

1361
01:05:52,640 --> 01:05:56,560
Speaker 7: And any artist that's making something with what will my

1362
01:05:56,680 --> 01:06:00,600
Speaker 7: parents think, isn't giving me all of themselves? And I'm here,

1363
01:06:01,400 --> 01:06:04,360
Speaker 7: you know, I don't want to, you know, blow my

1364
01:06:04,440 --> 01:06:06,320
Speaker 7: own horn, what is it?

1365
01:06:07,440 --> 01:06:08,400
Speaker 1: Blow it to it?

1366
01:06:08,920 --> 01:06:11,960
Speaker 7: But I want to, like mine deep I want to

1367
01:06:12,000 --> 01:06:15,720
Speaker 7: share humiliations. I want to share vulnerable feelings. I want

1368
01:06:15,760 --> 01:06:17,520
Speaker 7: to make fun of my parents, you know what I mean. Like,

1369
01:06:18,160 --> 01:06:20,640
Speaker 7: I spent a lot of my life being like, yes, sir,

1370
01:06:20,840 --> 01:06:23,640
Speaker 7: and and this is your show and I'm just you know,

1371
01:06:23,720 --> 01:06:26,280
Speaker 7: I'm one of the one of your crew, you know

1372
01:06:26,360 --> 01:06:29,840
Speaker 7: what I mean. Like, and it's like, that's fucking over, man,

1373
01:06:30,480 --> 01:06:30,840
Speaker 7: I was.

1374
01:06:30,800 --> 01:06:33,120
Speaker 1: Just talking iry to interrupt you, But that kind of

1375
01:06:33,440 --> 01:06:36,360
Speaker 1: informs the title. I'm not for everyone. You're saying, I'm

1376
01:06:36,360 --> 01:06:39,000
Speaker 1: not for mom and dad. No, I'm going to be vulnerable.

1377
01:06:39,160 --> 01:06:42,200
Speaker 1: I'm going to do my thing. I'm definitely not for everyone.

1378
01:06:42,560 --> 01:06:45,800
Speaker 7: If it's for everyone, it sucks for everyone.

1379
01:06:45,880 --> 01:06:48,880
Speaker 1: It sucks, Amen, And that allowed for the people in back.

1380
01:06:49,200 --> 01:06:51,840
Speaker 7: That's really true. And dude, you see that in your

1381
01:06:51,880 --> 01:06:54,320
Speaker 7: films for sure, you know what I mean.

1382
01:06:55,000 --> 01:06:57,560
Speaker 1: For everyone, but no, but gosh, for the people that

1383
01:06:57,720 --> 01:07:00,640
Speaker 1: respond to them, it's such as that's the reason you

1384
01:07:00,680 --> 01:07:01,080
Speaker 1: make them.

1385
01:07:01,280 --> 01:07:02,960
Speaker 2: They say, that's why we're in this.

1386
01:07:03,040 --> 01:07:05,240
Speaker 1: We're not in you know, Scrubs was not for everyone.

1387
01:07:05,280 --> 01:07:08,840
Speaker 1: You know, we're here doing a Scrubs podcast and all

1388
01:07:08,920 --> 01:07:11,880
Speaker 1: the people listening obviously loved the show, but the show

1389
01:07:12,000 --> 01:07:14,800
Speaker 1: was never a runaway hit. Every season we were like,

1390
01:07:14,840 --> 01:07:17,280
Speaker 1: are we coming back? And that happened for nine years.

1391
01:07:17,560 --> 01:07:20,480
Speaker 7: I told this to Bill. I was like, that that show.

1392
01:07:21,280 --> 01:07:23,640
Speaker 7: I know. I said this to Zex's on the pod

1393
01:07:24,160 --> 01:07:26,760
Speaker 7: three times and I'm sure we've talked about the episode

1394
01:07:27,240 --> 01:07:31,120
Speaker 7: where j D is wondering how he'll die. He looks

1395
01:07:31,560 --> 01:07:33,600
Speaker 7: at you, Donald and you're eating a sandwich, and he's like,

1396
01:07:33,600 --> 01:07:35,840
Speaker 7: heart failure, you know what I mean? And he looks

1397
01:07:35,840 --> 01:07:37,880
Speaker 7: at him and then he looks at his own reflection

1398
01:07:37,960 --> 01:07:40,240
Speaker 7: and goes, I don't know, stress. I have the chills

1399
01:07:40,240 --> 01:07:42,880
Speaker 7: as I'm telling you this. I saw that stuff and

1400
01:07:42,920 --> 01:07:45,560
Speaker 7: I was like, that's what you're supposed to do with

1401
01:07:45,600 --> 01:07:49,520
Speaker 7: a platform. And again, we watched some popcorn shows. We

1402
01:07:49,560 --> 01:07:51,240
Speaker 7: watch things that are for we're not you know what

1403
01:07:51,280 --> 01:07:53,200
Speaker 7: I mean. We don't have to put down other things.

1404
01:07:53,760 --> 01:07:57,680
Speaker 7: I'm just saying there's a special place. I was just

1405
01:07:57,720 --> 01:07:59,960
Speaker 7: talking to a comedian where I was like, the money,

1406
01:08:01,000 --> 01:08:05,240
Speaker 7: it's for the discomfort of dealing with the people that

1407
01:08:05,400 --> 01:08:07,640
Speaker 7: might be like, why did you make that joke about me?

1408
01:08:07,760 --> 01:08:12,320
Speaker 7: But it's my fucking job. It's my job to risk it.

1409
01:08:12,760 --> 01:08:15,520
Speaker 7: That's really what the money is for, you know. Bb

1410
01:08:15,640 --> 01:08:17,400
Speaker 7: King used to say, I do the shows for free.

1411
01:08:17,400 --> 01:08:19,880
Speaker 7: They pay me to travel. I do the shows for free,

1412
01:08:20,000 --> 01:08:24,439
Speaker 7: they pay me to deal with the draining feeling. I

1413
01:08:24,479 --> 01:08:26,839
Speaker 7: was just in Salt Lake City. I did four shows.

1414
01:08:27,080 --> 01:08:30,120
Speaker 7: I come back to the hotel, and I've been, you know,

1415
01:08:30,280 --> 01:08:33,759
Speaker 7: making fun of my family, making fun of myself, sharing

1416
01:08:33,800 --> 01:08:36,720
Speaker 7: like I said that story about the carousel, and I'm

1417
01:08:36,720 --> 01:08:39,280
Speaker 7: just sort of like, you feel what my wife and

1418
01:08:39,280 --> 01:08:43,000
Speaker 7: I call everybody calls a vulnerability hangover. You feel hollow

1419
01:08:43,320 --> 01:08:46,880
Speaker 7: and tender. I was just rewatching Phantom Thread when he

1420
01:08:46,960 --> 01:08:49,559
Speaker 7: does his show and then he gets the next day,

1421
01:08:49,560 --> 01:08:51,479
Speaker 7: it just cuts to him in bed. I don't want

1422
01:08:51,520 --> 01:08:53,800
Speaker 7: to make it too dramatic here, but I'm like, that's

1423
01:08:53,840 --> 01:08:57,080
Speaker 7: what the money is for. It's for this feeling of like,

1424
01:08:57,520 --> 01:09:02,720
Speaker 7: oh my god, I just show my realness to a

1425
01:09:02,760 --> 01:09:06,240
Speaker 7: lot of people. Yeah, I'm not one hundred percent of voyeur.

1426
01:09:06,439 --> 01:09:09,080
Speaker 7: Part of me likes being seen and celebrated. But a

1427
01:09:09,120 --> 01:09:14,679
Speaker 7: lot of you goes like, I just really that was real.

1428
01:09:15,160 --> 01:09:18,200
Speaker 1: I think I first, I love that expression of vulnerability hangover.

1429
01:09:18,280 --> 01:09:20,840
Speaker 1: I think I felt that every time I release a film.

1430
01:09:20,840 --> 01:09:24,200
Speaker 1: I feel, of course, I feel like, oh my god,

1431
01:09:24,240 --> 01:09:27,240
Speaker 1: you rip yourself open uh. And then and then of

1432
01:09:27,240 --> 01:09:30,840
Speaker 1: course you're you're judged positively or negatively. And then and

1433
01:09:30,880 --> 01:09:33,240
Speaker 1: then people's watching and they don't and then there's then

1434
01:09:33,280 --> 01:09:37,879
Speaker 1: there's just quiet and you feel a vulnerability hangover, yeah.

1435
01:09:37,680 --> 01:09:40,040
Speaker 7: And you feel empty and you feel tender, and you

1436
01:09:40,439 --> 01:09:45,040
Speaker 7: feel just my wife is so good at it. But

1437
01:09:45,160 --> 01:09:48,719
Speaker 7: there is like a rebuilding process and that's a whole

1438
01:09:48,760 --> 01:09:51,559
Speaker 7: other podcast. But like getting your balls right, getting your

1439
01:09:51,600 --> 01:09:55,559
Speaker 7: family right, having interests outside of this. There's a lot

1440
01:09:55,560 --> 01:09:57,760
Speaker 7: of people in our town, you know, we never talk

1441
01:09:57,840 --> 01:10:01,000
Speaker 7: about comedy or anything. It's really good for my spirit.

1442
01:10:01,160 --> 01:10:03,080
Speaker 2: You know. I was about to say, how does that work?

1443
01:10:03,240 --> 01:10:07,439
Speaker 4: Like doesn't everyone when it's your profession and you're around

1444
01:10:07,520 --> 01:10:08,640
Speaker 4: your peers.

1445
01:10:09,160 --> 01:10:12,240
Speaker 2: Do you guys talk about jokes all the time? Are

1446
01:10:12,280 --> 01:10:14,439
Speaker 2: you on? Is this? You know what I mean?

1447
01:10:14,479 --> 01:10:16,240
Speaker 7: Like I wouldn't call it on, you would love it.

1448
01:10:16,640 --> 01:10:19,880
Speaker 7: That's my answer is it's it's the best hanging with comedians,

1449
01:10:20,000 --> 01:10:22,639
Speaker 7: especially if they're like minded comedians. There's still some ball

1450
01:10:22,640 --> 01:10:25,160
Speaker 7: breakers that aren't my favorites. But if I'm hanging out

1451
01:10:25,200 --> 01:10:27,200
Speaker 7: with Mike bro Bigli or I was just hanging out

1452
01:10:27,240 --> 01:10:31,360
Speaker 7: Eddief did my podcast today, it's heaven because they especially

1453
01:10:31,400 --> 01:10:33,639
Speaker 7: guys my age, men and women my age, they've been

1454
01:10:33,680 --> 01:10:35,760
Speaker 7: through a lot of the same stuff. So you said

1455
01:10:35,800 --> 01:10:39,799
Speaker 7: trenches earlier, but there is a like you're bonded by

1456
01:10:39,880 --> 01:10:42,720
Speaker 7: having shared this experience and a lot of us we

1457
01:10:42,760 --> 01:10:45,000
Speaker 7: were doing it alone, and now we all get to

1458
01:10:45,040 --> 01:10:47,760
Speaker 7: get together and be like that was some shit, right,

1459
01:10:48,040 --> 01:10:51,479
Speaker 7: and like and support each other and you do.

1460
01:10:53,280 --> 01:10:53,439
Speaker 2: You know.

1461
01:10:53,520 --> 01:10:55,240
Speaker 7: I have it with you guys right now. But it's

1462
01:10:55,320 --> 01:10:58,160
Speaker 7: nice to be able to just go it's not weird

1463
01:10:58,200 --> 01:10:59,920
Speaker 7: if I tell you I'm working on a bed about

1464
01:11:00,120 --> 01:11:02,000
Speaker 7: this and and just kind of say it and then

1465
01:11:02,040 --> 01:11:03,160
Speaker 7: they kick it back to you.

1466
01:11:03,400 --> 01:11:05,360
Speaker 1: I love that with you. When I do Pete's show.

1467
01:11:05,960 --> 01:11:08,559
Speaker 1: By the way, for interested, I've done like you said,

1468
01:11:08,600 --> 01:11:11,280
Speaker 1: I've done Pete's Show three times, and you can check

1469
01:11:11,320 --> 01:11:13,519
Speaker 1: it out. It's called you made it weird?

1470
01:11:13,680 --> 01:11:16,559
Speaker 7: Right In sex defense, we don't say the name of

1471
01:11:16,560 --> 01:11:17,040
Speaker 7: the show a lot.

1472
01:11:17,280 --> 01:11:18,120
Speaker 1: Yeah you don't.

1473
01:11:18,439 --> 01:11:20,160
Speaker 7: There's no reason you should really know it.

1474
01:11:20,439 --> 01:11:22,200
Speaker 1: I've done it three times. I should be definitive.

1475
01:11:22,880 --> 01:11:25,120
Speaker 7: No, I'm saying you shouldn't. Every time you've done it,

1476
01:11:25,160 --> 01:11:27,040
Speaker 7: I haven't been like, welcome to you made it weird.

1477
01:11:27,040 --> 01:11:30,720
Speaker 7: I'm here with that, but it never comes up.

1478
01:11:30,760 --> 01:11:33,880
Speaker 1: But the reason, the reason I keep doing it, honestly, Pete,

1479
01:11:33,960 --> 01:11:36,840
Speaker 1: and I hope we graduate to being real friends in

1480
01:11:36,840 --> 01:11:40,840
Speaker 1: real life. But I I just love coming and laughing

1481
01:11:40,880 --> 01:11:42,639
Speaker 1: with you. I think we have we.

1482
01:11:42,600 --> 01:11:44,240
Speaker 2: Haven't coming and laughing.

1483
01:11:44,520 --> 01:11:49,040
Speaker 7: I love coming in that order to the release laughter.

1484
01:11:49,439 --> 01:11:52,240
Speaker 1: I love laughing with you. We have a very someatimes

1485
01:11:52,280 --> 01:11:54,160
Speaker 1: of humor. And the last time I did it, Donald,

1486
01:11:54,520 --> 01:11:56,880
Speaker 1: we brought up Glen Gary Glenn Ross and spent the

1487
01:11:56,920 --> 01:12:01,839
Speaker 1: bulk of the episode just just purely probably poorly quoting

1488
01:12:02,000 --> 01:12:03,200
Speaker 1: Glengary Glenross.

1489
01:12:03,240 --> 01:12:05,839
Speaker 7: I would put it to Mammot himself that it was excellent.

1490
01:12:07,439 --> 01:12:10,439
Speaker 7: I mean that movie all all my comedian friends, most

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01:12:10,439 --> 01:12:12,040
Speaker 7: of them are obsessed with that movie, and it goes

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01:12:12,040 --> 01:12:13,679
Speaker 7: all the way up to Seinfeld. He's not my friend,

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01:12:13,680 --> 01:12:15,800
Speaker 7: but like I know a lot of comedians that love

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01:12:15,880 --> 01:12:19,280
Speaker 7: that movie because it talks about the brutality of selling

1495
01:12:19,360 --> 01:12:22,640
Speaker 7: your wares, of like salesmen that have to use their

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01:12:22,680 --> 01:12:25,080
Speaker 7: personalities to like kind of get ahead. So of course

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01:12:25,120 --> 01:12:26,040
Speaker 7: comedians would relate.

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01:12:26,320 --> 01:12:28,519
Speaker 1: Well, they must have loved our episode, Pete, because that's

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01:12:28,680 --> 01:12:29,880
Speaker 1: mostly what we talked about.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, Jodo Ros and I text each other exclusively in Glengarry.

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01:12:33,800 --> 01:12:37,080
Speaker 1: Quotes, Yeah, I've exhausted the only gifts available on I

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01:12:37,240 --> 01:12:39,639
Speaker 1: message to you. I believe there's only a couple. There's

1503
01:12:39,640 --> 01:12:43,360
Speaker 1: always closing going to Safari. Yeah, you help me find

1504
01:12:43,680 --> 01:12:47,400
Speaker 1: better Glen Glen Ross gifts. Yeah, Pete, thank you so

1505
01:12:47,520 --> 01:12:50,479
Speaker 1: much for coming on. I Am not for everyone. Is

1506
01:12:50,560 --> 01:12:55,200
Speaker 1: on Netflix on October twenty fourth. That's right, not a

1507
01:12:55,280 --> 01:13:00,000
Speaker 1: question mark, an exclamation point and audience, I'm telling you.

1508
01:13:00,240 --> 01:13:03,760
Speaker 1: I saw this live with Bill Lawrence and I. I

1509
01:13:03,760 --> 01:13:06,000
Speaker 1: remember it was a holiday, right, Pete was Labor Day

1510
01:13:06,040 --> 01:13:09,559
Speaker 1: or Memorial Days, one of those days, and we were

1511
01:13:09,720 --> 01:13:11,320
Speaker 1: both kind of tired, and we said, let's go. It's

1512
01:13:11,360 --> 01:13:14,160
Speaker 1: Pete's hilarious. It'll be great, and we went and I

1513
01:13:14,960 --> 01:13:19,480
Speaker 1: genuinely laughed my butt off. It's so funny and so smart,

1514
01:13:19,560 --> 01:13:24,120
Speaker 1: and I encourage you all to check it out. Thanks man, Donald,

1515
01:13:24,160 --> 01:13:25,439
Speaker 1: say something nice about Pete.

1516
01:13:25,600 --> 01:13:27,679
Speaker 7: Donald, You're welcome anytime. He's salty.

1517
01:13:27,760 --> 01:13:32,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, Donald, come, don Are you willing to talk about

1518
01:13:32,680 --> 01:13:34,400
Speaker 1: Are you to talk about Star Wars? Where are you

1519
01:13:34,439 --> 01:13:36,880
Speaker 1: on Star Wars? Because that's Donald's favorite thing to talk about.

1520
01:13:37,240 --> 01:13:39,320
Speaker 4: He knows Bill, he knows Bill Burr. He was in

1521
01:13:39,360 --> 01:13:41,439
Speaker 4: Star Wars. That's how I found out who Bill Burr was.

1522
01:13:41,400 --> 01:13:43,360
Speaker 7: Actually, because he was in The Mandalorian.

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01:13:43,520 --> 01:13:45,280
Speaker 2: Because he was on the Mandalorian, I was like, who

1524
01:13:45,360 --> 01:13:46,080
Speaker 2: is this guy?

1525
01:13:46,360 --> 01:13:49,200
Speaker 1: Pete? Could you fill an hour with Donald talking about

1526
01:13:49,240 --> 01:13:49,800
Speaker 1: here the key?

1527
01:13:49,960 --> 01:13:52,960
Speaker 2: I had been watching him like on the Chappelle Show

1528
01:13:52,960 --> 01:13:53,880
Speaker 2: back in the day and all that.

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01:13:53,920 --> 01:13:55,160
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, that Racial Draft.

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01:13:55,240 --> 01:13:58,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you can do Marvel Star Wars stop motion

1531
01:13:58,400 --> 01:14:02,240
Speaker 1: animation as a focus. Uh, sports basketball. If you could

1532
01:14:02,240 --> 01:14:06,719
Speaker 1: fill an hour with that, Donald will crush your podcast. Uh,

1533
01:14:06,840 --> 01:14:07,479
Speaker 1: bag of dits.

1534
01:14:07,880 --> 01:14:09,680
Speaker 2: No, I'm not gonna We're not gonna go into that.

1535
01:14:10,479 --> 01:14:13,599
Speaker 1: Pete Holmes, we love you. The special is called I

1536
01:14:13,640 --> 01:14:17,080
Speaker 1: Am Not for everyone. Yeah, but Pete, in my mind,

1537
01:14:17,160 --> 01:14:17,640
Speaker 1: you're for me.

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01:14:17,840 --> 01:14:21,120
Speaker 7: You're definitely, and that's what we've learned. Thank you, definitely,

1539
01:14:22,240 --> 01:14:22,960
Speaker 7: really really cool.

1540
01:14:23,080 --> 01:14:25,160
Speaker 2: You are fucking Batman dude, you are bad.

1541
01:14:25,400 --> 01:14:28,000
Speaker 7: Thank you? Oh yeah, the Batman series is on YouTube now.

1542
01:14:28,000 --> 01:14:30,599
Speaker 7: We're dropping every Thursday. By the time this comes out,

1543
01:14:30,640 --> 01:14:32,960
Speaker 7: they might all be out, but we're firing everybody on theh.

1544
01:14:32,840 --> 01:14:34,560
Speaker 1: Why didn't you ask Donald or me to be a

1545
01:14:34,680 --> 01:14:36,000
Speaker 1: character and that fucking thing.

1546
01:14:36,120 --> 01:14:38,880
Speaker 7: If we thought Donald would do it, leave you out

1547
01:14:38,880 --> 01:14:42,640
Speaker 7: of it. I didn't mean to. I didn't mean to.

1548
01:14:43,560 --> 01:14:45,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, I did your funny Friends, but I never got

1549
01:14:45,920 --> 01:14:46,360
Speaker 1: the email.

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01:14:46,880 --> 01:14:49,559
Speaker 7: You'd be great. I mean we we still have a

1551
01:14:49,560 --> 01:14:52,600
Speaker 7: lot of people to fer. We need a riddler. We

1552
01:14:52,640 --> 01:14:54,280
Speaker 7: could do riddler, we can do. We want to do

1553
01:14:54,320 --> 01:14:55,960
Speaker 7: poison Ivy commissioner Gordon.

1554
01:14:56,240 --> 01:14:56,960
Speaker 1: Who could Donald?

1555
01:14:58,920 --> 01:15:00,000
Speaker 2: Yeah you could.

1556
01:14:59,800 --> 01:15:02,599
Speaker 7: Be Gordon, Yeah you could be modern Gordon. But Mat

1557
01:15:02,640 --> 01:15:05,679
Speaker 7: McCarthy is our Gordon. We already you already got Sorry,

1558
01:15:05,960 --> 01:15:09,759
Speaker 7: who can Donald be? That's a great Gordon, the newest Gordon.

1559
01:15:10,680 --> 01:15:12,000
Speaker 7: I don't know, but the Batman.

1560
01:15:12,120 --> 01:15:15,520
Speaker 1: Impressions you do a nice you. You don't do impressions

1561
01:15:15,520 --> 01:15:17,360
Speaker 1: on stage, but you are pretty good at impressions.

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01:15:17,439 --> 01:15:20,160
Speaker 7: They come out sometimes and it evolved from good to

1563
01:15:20,240 --> 01:15:20,720
Speaker 7: pretty good.

1564
01:15:20,760 --> 01:15:22,679
Speaker 1: And do you want to give us a quick al pacino?

1565
01:15:22,720 --> 01:15:23,400
Speaker 1: And then we have to go.

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01:15:23,520 --> 01:15:27,479
Speaker 9: Pete, I want to say you thank you so much

1567
01:15:27,880 --> 01:15:33,160
Speaker 9: for having me on his podcast. It's been wonderful to

1568
01:15:33,160 --> 01:15:42,400
Speaker 9: sit with my friend zach Rath and Donald.

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01:15:45,640 --> 01:15:46,639
Speaker 1: Or I'll give.

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01:15:49,640 --> 01:15:54,720
Speaker 7: I like my aides to be presentable. I've gone with

1571
01:15:54,720 --> 01:15:57,679
Speaker 7: my mouth. That's shore taking it out. It's a little

1572
01:15:57,680 --> 01:15:59,080
Speaker 7: bit better without the gun.

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01:16:00,360 --> 01:16:02,640
Speaker 1: Al. We usually end the show by counting five to

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01:16:02,720 --> 01:16:04,920
Speaker 1: six seven eight. Would you count us out? Five six,

1575
01:16:04,960 --> 01:16:08,800
Speaker 1: seven eight is Alpha shooting? Hell yeah A five six.

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01:16:09,400 --> 01:16:15,040
Speaker 5: Here's some stories that show we made about a bunch

1577
01:16:15,080 --> 01:16:19,240
Speaker 5: of times and nurses in Jana, I said, here's a

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01:16:19,400 --> 01:16:25,400
Speaker 5: story net. All s no, so gadder round you here,

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01:16:25,520 --> 01:16:31,320
Speaker 5: our gadder round you here, our sweat show. Is that no,