WEBVTT - Josh Wolf: America’s Funniest comedian! 0:00:09.360 --> 0:00:16.560 Carol. She's a queen and talking and so she's getting 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:19.600 really not afraid of fail. It's so so just let 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:27.280 it flow. No one can do with Carol Carol. Okay, 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:30.440 so I had the Funniest man alive on with me. 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:32.680 And when you mean, that's a strong title, but I 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:34.839 think you can unphold it, don't you think? Well, I 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:39.040 mean as soon as about twenty nine other people die 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:47.400 then yes, okay, I think thirty at least. It's just yeah, yeah, 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:49.360 you know what you know what I love about comedy? 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:52.400 This is Josh Wolfe by the way. Everyone you know 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:54.320 I love about comedy. I would love to know what 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:58.520 you love about comedy completely subjective. What does that mean? 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:02.600 That means that, like, there's something out there for everybody, 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:05.200 if you, if you want. I love when people are 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:07.800 like I don't like comedy, like you don't. Have you 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:10.240 ever heard someone said that. I've asked people, do you 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:11.720 go to stand up shows? You're like, no, I don't 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:13.760 really comedy. You don't like to laugh, you don't like 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:17.480 having fun like I don't understand what that means. But 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:19.959 what I love is that no matter what you like, 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:24.840 you could be the t totnist church going list, and 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:27.399 you're gonna find a comic out there that works for you. 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:31.520 But you could be the raunchiest sitting the gutter, you 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:33.600 know what I mean, And you can find that too. 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:36.880 You're right, you have to find the comic that works 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:39.600 for you because like some I'm not really like a 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:42.120 super raunchy person who likes to like talk about a 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:44.040 lot of like I don't know, like some comics are. 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:45.840 Like it's just like I don't find it funny. You 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:48.240 I find really funny. Like I feel like you definitely 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:51.160 push the envelope, but it's like all within like a 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:53.160 boundary that I can still really laugh at and not 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:56.240 feel like weird about laughing at. You know what. I 0:01:56.880 --> 0:02:00.040 toured with Lady the Cable Guy for a while and 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:02.720 he said to me, he was like, you know, the 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:08.520 trick for me is I'm not dirty, but I'm naughty. 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:12.240 I'm naughty, and I would say I'm one step above him. 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:16.359 He doesn't swear and all that stuff, but I'm not, like, 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:21.280 I'm not dirty, but I feel like I'm relatively naughty. 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:23.440 I get that. I totally get that you say what 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:25.760 everyone's really feeling, but you don't say it in a 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:27.839 way that makes people feel like, oh god, I can't 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:32.880 actually listen to this. Yes, yes, and I you know, 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:36.240 one of the reasons Los Angeles was a tough place 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:39.320 for me to perform, And it was by the way, 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:41.760 I'm not I'm not a dude. I live in Nashville now, 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:44.840 but I'm not a dude who is leaving Los Angeles like, so, 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:47.800 you know, I'm not bad mouth in it. But for 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:51.680 me personally as a performer, it was my place that 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:54.200 I hated performing the most. If you say, what city, 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:56.880 what city do you hate performing in the most? I 0:02:56.880 --> 0:03:01.120 would tell you Loss Angeles. Okay, details and again this 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:05.760 could be me. And the comedy Store is my that's 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:08.160 a legendary. Everyone goes through the comedy store. So did 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:10.320 you go through the comedy store? Oh yeah, that's my 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:13.760 home club comedy but also the club that makes me 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:17.320 the most matteress. Okay, tell me why. I've just never 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:19.760 been one of the cool kids. I don't consider myself 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:21.520 to be one of the cool kids. I figured the 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:23.440 comedy store is where the cool kids are. I have 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:30.000 a very Middle America relatable aesthetic, you know, and I 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:32.960 don't feel like that is what plays the best. So 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:34.640 what do you have to be to be a cool 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:37.520 kid at the comedy club. What's the vibe? Well, I 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:40.360 feel like this is my own personal stuff, your own 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:42.520 personal stuff. But in your opinion, what's the vibe to 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:44.680 be a cool kid at the comedy club. Oh, I 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:49.200 don't know. That's a great question. I would say, Um, 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:51.040 I don't know. I don't know how to explain it. 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:52.240 Like I said, this is my own I think it's 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:59.640 my own personal Like, but like my my jokes are okay, 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:04.200 my jokes are right here, you're in front of your face. 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:09.480 They're pretty simple, they're pretty linear. There's stories. Um, there's 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:12.400 nothing clever. I'm not making a statement, you know what 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:18.200 I mean. None of that stuff, which I think plays 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:21.360 better especially at the comedy store, do you know what 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:23.880 I mean? And especially for a long time, I was 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:26.840 just the dude talking about his kids, and that's not 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:31.520 super relatable for that part of the country. People are 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:34.040 a little older when they have kids. You know. When 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:37.280 I sit at Zany's and I talked about, you know, 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:39.880 at my age having a twenty something year old, people 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:43.960 are like, yeah, like I just took my kid to preschool. 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:45.600 You know, I'm not I'm not relating with this. You 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:48.719 are just on a different plane, You're in a different 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:52.520 arena and your wife than maybe everyone else I feel like. 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:55.359 And but by the way, I will say also, but 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:59.440 that nervousness that I had performing there, which was just 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:03.719 mes what other comics were putting on me, maybe better. Yeah, 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:06.760 it made me better. Well. Yeah, if you can do 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:08.520 well at the comedy club in l A, then that 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:11.320 means you are, like, you're great, because that's like the 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:14.760 that's like the rhyman of Nashville, like the opery of Nashville, 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:17.720 you know country music. It really is. You know that 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:23.559 place when I first started UM, a woman named Mitsy 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:28.240 Shore owned it, and um she was the original owner 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:30.799 and she when she passed me. So what would happen 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:32.279 is is that you would have to go up for 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:37.040 three minutes in front of Mitzy UM and nerve wracking, 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:38.840 and if you don't crush in those three minutes, you 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:41.320 don't get a chance. You'd have to come back and 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:44.320 sign up again. So she just sits there with her 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:49.479 arms crossed and she's like make me laugh, ye, like, 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:51.840 walk me through this audition. This is nerve wracking. I 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:54.000 watched that show on Netflix. What is it called what 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:56.160 was it called, like the comedy club or something that 0:05:56.240 --> 0:06:01.040 comedy like it was something the store coming. The store intense, 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:04.320 Like the comedy world is hard. It's hard to break into. 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:06.440 It's hard to like stay into. It's like this whole 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:10.280 inner web working and it's like whoa, and you have 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:12.680 to like get your jokes all right, and like you 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:15.919 have to think. It's much different than music though, I 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:20.480 mean it's super cutthroat and there's a lot of people 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:23.440 going after very I would say the difference is this, 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:26.240 Well I don't know the music industry well enough to 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:31.240 say this, but nowadays as a comic, yeah, so the 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:34.120 comedy Store doesn't pass me. Who gives a ship? I 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:38.719 have twelve million people on Instagram and you know eight 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:41.039 million on TikTok, and that's where I do my stand 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:42.360 up and I don't need to do my stuf, you 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:45.600 know what I mean. So it's a little different. Um, 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:49.920 But to be a true stand up comic, you can't 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:51.960 do it on TikTok and you can't do it on Instagram. 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:55.520 You have to get on stage. Yeah, the comedy Store 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:59.000 is for me where the best came and you would 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:02.600 go when Mitzi would sit in the back row up 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:06.760 against the wall, and if the person before you did 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:11.120 really well, you were fucked because she was she was 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:13.560 going to call him over to talk to her. She 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:17.000 wasn't gonna hear a second of your set. She was done, 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:18.560 like what she found on she liked. She was kind 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:20.360 of like done for the day, that wasn't it. She 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:23.320 was just gonna talk to them. And you were performing, 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:25.920 so she might miss your set and you just have 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:27.600 to come back and at the time, and then somebody 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:29.680 else would come up, Oh okay, so it's like they're 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:33.560 keeping it going no matter what he's doing. I think 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:36.240 there was like three or I forget it was so 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:39.240 long ago, but it seemed like three two, three, four 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:42.480 showcases something like that, and she called me over. Somebody 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:44.880 was like after. I think this was my third time 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:47.360 going up in front of her, and she called me 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:50.600 over and she sat me down. And when you get 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:55.600 called over, you were like, oh man. And I sat 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:57.560 down and she said you were very funny, and I 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:00.520 said thank you, and she said enhanced. I said, oh, 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:02.600 thank you. She said you remind me of a young 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:06.960 Steve Guttenberg, and I was like, uh, is that good? 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:10.320 I don't know, you mean the guy from police Academy. 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:14.880 I don't it worked. It worked? Yeah, yeah, But then 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:17.520 she said I want you to work the door, and 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:21.080 so is that like a good thing. Well, as a 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:23.600 young guy, I took it as an insult. What I 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:27.120 know now is that she wanted you to learn from 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:30.760 the best. So sit right there and watch the best 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:34.120 people in the world every night work their craft and 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:38.200 watch how they change jokes from Friday to Saturday depending 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:42.960 on what worked. Watched them work out and be working comics. 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:46.600 It was like apprenticeship. Yeah, I get to sit and watch. 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:49.600 This was fascinating for me. You took the job at 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:52.200 the door even though it offended you, You took it. Well, 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:54.720 I didn't. It didn't offend me after it was explained 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:57.199 to me. You know, but at the time, I was 0:08:57.240 --> 0:09:03.640 a single dad raising three kids. I also a huge accomplishment. Josh, Well, 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:06.599 I mean, I mean that's hard work. Yeah, they're a 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:11.200 live There are a lot say who's the best? Mama? 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:14.120 I mean you really like you really crush you really 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:17.640 crushed that. And defany, I feel like I kind of 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:20.400 looked into I think I might have found her in 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:24.560 a moment of weakness, her weakness, not mine. And yeah, 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:26.600 I think she was in a moment of weakness. She 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:29.320 wasn't sure what was happening. Might have something to do 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:31.920 with the Rufi's. You just slid in there and you said, listen, 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:35.480 we're gonna this is gonna happen. This is happening. I said, 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:38.520 I mean, listen, let me ask you. How hard is 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:41.720 it to pitch? I'm a single to have with three 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:45.160 kids and I'm a stand up comic. Waka waka. You 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:48.679 know what I mean. Come on, isn't that enticing? Investing? 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:51.560 Is this beautiful film director? She's like one of three 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:54.079 women in the in the whole world who produced major 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:57.960 motion picture. She's incredible in every way. Yeah, y'all are 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:00.360 a perfect match. Though, well, I have to tell you 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:04.520 like she and thank you that I that for you 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:08.040 to imply that I somehow match with hair. But she 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:15.080 she's like, she hasn't started really aging yet, which is no. 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:19.560 Can I tell you something. I'm gonna tell you something 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:22.400 that she's gonna kill me for telling you. Okay, good, 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:28.560 yeah tell me. Yeah. She's pretty decent looking person. Oh yeah, 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:32.920 she talks. She hasn't worked out and probably fifteen years 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:35.000 she's just one of those people that just like stays 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:37.319 probably fit without working out, and then she like binges 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:39.600 on candy when she's in the middle of a stress moment. 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:43.120 That is exactly right. I tell her all the time. 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:46.720 I'm like, so, how was your booty getting better with 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:50.880 not working out? Like? What is the exercise? If she's 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:53.079 just visualizing it in her brain. She's so powerful in 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:55.560 her mind. She's just all she's doing is just putting 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:59.280 it through her brain and she's got it. It's it's 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:01.160 so crazy to me. I mean, I'm like, I need 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:03.800 how many carbs in that? What are the sugar? And 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:07.240 she's like, do you know? We used to sit in 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:09.360 bed and I would just look at her and she 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:13.319 would eat just watching because we'd sit and watch. So 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:15.720 when we lived in l A, we would make sure 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:17.480 we were bed by liven o'clock so we could watch 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:19.840 the back to back Friends. By the way, how such 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:22.520 are you to watch that Friends reunion? Oh my god, 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:24.520 I mean I'm putting I'm trying to keep it low 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:27.120 key because I have a lot of expectations for it 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:30.000 that it needs to fulfill in my soul, because I mean, 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:32.600 Friends is hello, It's Friends. So I'm just like trying 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:36.960 to say chill about it, and I'm really just praying 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:39.560 it's everything that we all are praying it will be. 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:43.679 I am you know what, it already is hit met 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:47.720 expectations for me. And I'll tell you why I am there. 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:51.199 You know what I love. So I was on a 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:53.480 show called Chelsea Lately for a long time, right, yeah, 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:55.319 you were. And also we gotta get back to your 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:58.720 door story I segue from you, so don't forget to 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:01.160 go back to that. Okay, all right, but but I will. 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:03.800 And the and the thing that I learned from being 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:09.000 on that show that I yeah, and then I deal 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:10.840 to get on that show that was like a big 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:15.120 late night national syndicated show, and she was like right 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:18.160 after like the was David was David Letterman and Jay 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:19.800 Lennard were the aready gone. It was like the late 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:23.920 night funny show. She was on at the same time 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:30.840 as those guys and on and what it was crasshing 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:33.720 for a while there, I don't think I realized how 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:36.400 big that show was. How did you get on that show? 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:38.560 And then yeah, what do you learn? She's the last 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:41.800 person I dated before I met Beth. Oh really, Yeah, 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:44.480 that was a good one. David's not the right word, 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:47.640 but you know, you have a good time. Yeah, we 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:51.600 did drugs and went out and you know what I mean. Yeah, Yeah, 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:54.120 it was just we were young and she was listening, 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:56.520 you know what. She was a ton of fun. We 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:58.520 went out one night. Ready, So we went out one 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:00.720 night and we and we went to a party that 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:04.480 my brothers were at a house party and we were 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:06.199 kind of sucked up and there was a pool table 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:10.719 there and she was limping and I walked into the 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:12.200 room and like, what are you doing? She was just 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:14.040 she was like, just go with it. She told everybody 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:17.920 there she had a wooden leg. I can't imagine two 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:20.840 comics actually dating each other. This would be really funny. 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:24.560 Well we we, so I just went with it. But 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:29.520 it was so funny. She was like, you know, at 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:32.400 one point, she switched limps on her legs by accident. 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:34.000 I'm like, you're limping with her wrong leg. She was like, 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:40.760 but she I love going out with her because, especially 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:44.040 when she was younger, she basically walked in. If she 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:46.320 walked into a room, she was gonna walk up to whatever. 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:48.960 Dude felt like he was the biggest alpha and she 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:51.400 was gonna take the piss out of him like that. 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:55.959 She wouldn't know. She wasn't gonna let that. She never 0:13:56.080 --> 0:14:00.320 let even that long ago in a room in l A, 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:05.600 dudes who thought they were the ship, she wouldn't let them. Never. 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:07.360 She went in right away. If you were going to 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:10.360 think you were the the alpha, she was going to 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:15.040 let you know who was the real alpha. I No, 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:17.880 I loved it. I loved it. And her attitude was like, 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:20.200 fuck these guys, they can't tell me what to do, 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:23.280 like this is not that's not up to them. How 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:25.880 I go about the world, what I talk like, what 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:30.760 I act like. And I really I really respected that 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:34.240 in her a really a lot. She was the first 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:38.560 woman that I remember getting on stage and just talking 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:41.080 freely about being an alcoholic and having sex with a 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:44.600 ton of dudes. Yeah, people have come along since then, 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:48.160 but you know what, one joke I'll always remember. And 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:50.640 I was like, Oh, I love this woman. She's she 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:53.960 and she was as a young comic and I think 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:58.800 I think her last few specials or whatever, but I 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:02.160 think I think, you know, to be a stand up 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:04.600 it takes a lot, a lot, a lot of practice, 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:07.400 you know, And she took a little break. But I 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:11.880 think she started out like such a unique she said. 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:15.840 Once she said, Um, I was out with this guy 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:18.840 and I was drinking and I was on my like 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:21.800 my fourth drink, and um, he said, you know, you 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:24.360 don't have to drink to be more interesting, and she 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:29.000 was like, I'm drinking to make you more interesting. I 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:33.320 was like, yeah, that's I mean, she had unapologetic you know. 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:37.600 But UM, what I learned on that show is that 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:43.120 just like Friends, you know what people when they turn 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:44.760 on the show, when I turn on TV, if you 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:48.240 can show them a dysfunctional family that they relate to 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:51.200 people where they're like, oh, I'm you know what people 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:54.120 love doing in Friends, I'm Phoebe, Oh I'm Chandler. Right, 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:57.720 you're relating. And so one of the things about Chelsea 0:15:57.840 --> 0:16:01.680 is that people turn it on to watch a dysfunctional 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:04.920 family make fun of each other and bicker at each 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:11.160 other but ultimately love each other. And I'm watching I 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:14.840 watched the did you watch the trailer for the Friends thing? 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:20.840 Like I did? I'm sure twelve times. I'm already getting 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:24.720 all the fields the song you play, the song I'm in. 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:28.520 But seeing them talk to each other and go remember remember, 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:31.320 all I need is nostalgia. I'm not even in it 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:35.160 for the last can I want to I want to 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:38.000 feel those fields? Do you know what I mean? And 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:43.400 I already I already am so it. It's already, it's 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:47.400 already there for you get expectations. Yeah. Do you want 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:49.520 to talk talk about remembering a joke that Chelsea's that 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:51.920 impacted you when Michael and I went to watch you 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:54.320 with Zany's a few weeks ago or a month ago 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:57.960 or something. You said something that we quote all the 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:01.440 time because people and I have been together. We've been 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:04.359 together like over ten years, like dating, married, all of it, 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:06.199 Like we have been through it all the ups and 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:09.000 downs and started dating as kids and like we broke up, 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:13.240 got married off things. So you were talking about marriage, 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:16.480 and you were like talking about You're like, who's who's 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:18.720 newly dating in the audience, Like who's out there that 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:21.280 just started dating or just got married? And then like 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:23.240 someone raised their hand and they were like all in 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:25.919 love and like so in the butterfly face. And then 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:28.080 you're like, Okay, now who's been married for like a 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:30.560 long past time. And you found someone who's been like 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:35.000 forty two years and you said the people and the 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:36.920 four the people who have been married for forty two 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:39.040 years had a fight in the car that would ruin 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:43.439 you to the newly ones. That is so true. You 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:45.800 could like be totally like going at it, whether you're 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:47.320 a person, are you going for years? Then you wake 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:48.960 up and you're like, Okay, I'm gonna go get a 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:52.800 drink and then over over. I say it all the time. 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:55.840 If you've been married over twenty years, you you said 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:58.960 something to each other that day that would end other 0:17:59.040 --> 0:18:03.159 relationships because because you can just be like fuck you, 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:05.760 fuck you, and that all right, that's it. Do you 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:08.560 know what I mean? Like, that's it? Like I hate you, 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:11.160 I hate you? Two and where are we going to dinner? 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:13.640 Do you know? That's if you're like brand new, you're 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:19.640 like if that's it, it's over. Yeah, that is over. 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:23.000 It's one of the things that is great that they 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:27.160 don't tell you about being in a relationship for that 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:30.119 long is that the level of comfort you have to 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:34.360 have with that other person is something you didn't know 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:38.840 going in would be the benefit of a long term 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:43.800 relationship where you're like, I actually can just relax. Do 0:18:43.880 --> 0:18:45.879 you know I've never heard of like that before. I 0:18:45.880 --> 0:18:48.639 think that's one of the biggest blessings of being in 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:52.080 a long term relationships is you literally can just put 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:56.920 your full self on display at all time. It's so comforting, 0:18:57.040 --> 0:18:59.800 right just too. You know, when you were first dating 0:18:59.800 --> 0:19:02.840 you guys, and you spent the night, did you worry 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:05.040 about how you look in the morning, woke up and 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:08.280 like Brandon bathrooms and make up for gas and like 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:10.879 brush my hair and like tie my shirt up or something, 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:13.600 you know, and you might wake up with a booger 0:19:13.680 --> 0:19:20.040 on your face. Now you don't care, You're like whatever. Whatever. Yeah, 0:19:20.119 --> 0:19:25.000 I mean, it's such a different and it's hard to 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:29.640 explain how when you don't have to worry about that stuff, 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:32.600 the other stuff you can kind of let into your life. 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:37.320 You know what, when I look, I mean I never, 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:41.320 thank god never had to be on a dating app 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:50.479 or that stuff looks horrible, like horrible. I know. I 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:53.800 can't even imagine the stress of just like did they 0:19:53.840 --> 0:19:59.240 not swipe? Or how's that nobody's picking me? Or I 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:02.879 I don't know about you. I don't I was not 0:20:03.160 --> 0:20:09.080 good at meeting strangers. I was like fine with many strangers, 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:11.480 but I was terrible at dating because I did not 0:20:11.600 --> 0:20:13.840 know how to date. I was like super insecure and 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:16.160 I get defensive and I did not put myself out 0:20:16.200 --> 0:20:18.280 there and I would just I was an awful Later, 0:20:19.480 --> 0:20:22.280 what was your upbringing like, were you were religious? Were 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:26.520 you conservatives? Bringing super conservative upbringing? I mean also like 0:20:26.600 --> 0:20:30.840 open minded parents, but like very very uh. I was 0:20:31.320 --> 0:20:36.879 very traditional and raised really sheltered in a good way. 0:20:36.920 --> 0:20:38.720 And I just like, I don't know, I just a 0:20:38.800 --> 0:20:41.840 lot of it. Was there guilt associated with any of 0:20:41.880 --> 0:20:46.199 the like for a long time, Like I just didn't 0:20:46.240 --> 0:20:49.160 know who I was as a person, and I felt 0:20:49.160 --> 0:20:51.159 like super insecure about that, and I felt like not 0:20:51.240 --> 0:20:54.320 I always struggle with worthiness and not feeling good enough 0:20:54.359 --> 0:20:55.919 and feel like, oh, people were better than me, so 0:20:55.960 --> 0:20:58.000 than if someone actually got to know who I was, 0:20:58.600 --> 0:21:00.320 then they wouldn't want to date me. You So I 0:21:00.320 --> 0:21:02.639 had to put up this hard guard even though I 0:21:02.760 --> 0:21:04.480 was great. You know, I was just like a kid. 0:21:04.560 --> 0:21:06.760 You didn't know who I was. But when I was 0:21:06.800 --> 0:21:10.399 in it, it was very all consuming. You know that 0:21:10.480 --> 0:21:16.320 sounds very familiar to me, Like the I just reasonly 0:21:16.640 --> 0:21:18.600 and this has been maybe the biggest change in my 0:21:18.680 --> 0:21:24.440 life ever in my life, but I just recently realized 0:21:24.960 --> 0:21:28.320 how dangerous your inner dialogue it can be if you're 0:21:28.359 --> 0:21:32.520 constantly calling yourself a piece of ship. Self talk. Yourself 0:21:32.560 --> 0:21:35.560 talk is everything. It's the voice that you listen to 0:21:35.640 --> 0:21:38.879 the most. So it doesn't matter what other people are 0:21:38.920 --> 0:21:42.240 telling me. If I'm constantly saying but you or I'm 0:21:42.240 --> 0:21:46.120 never forgiving myself. Oh yeah, that was hang on stuff. 0:21:46.880 --> 0:21:49.360 I have recently done that, and I have to tell you. 0:21:49.560 --> 0:21:53.400 I'm like, if I catch myself and everybody does where, 0:21:53.400 --> 0:21:56.560 I'm like, you're just such a for not And then 0:21:56.560 --> 0:21:59.840 I'm like, relaxed, man, just pick it up tomorrow. And 0:22:00.160 --> 0:22:07.320 it's changed. It's I'm telling you, it's changed. I you know, 0:22:07.359 --> 0:22:09.400 the one thing I noticed is that my I used 0:22:09.400 --> 0:22:13.160 to want my shoulders are a little tense. My shoulders 0:22:13.200 --> 0:22:16.960 are damned you know. I can see it. On stage two. 0:22:17.720 --> 0:22:20.200