Speaker 1: Carol. She's a queen and talking and so she's getting
Speaker 1: really not afraid of fail. It's so so just let
Speaker 1: it flow. No one can do with Carol Carol. Okay,
Speaker 1: so I had the Funniest man alive on with me.
Speaker 1: And when you mean, that's a strong title, but I
Speaker 1: think you can unphold it, don't you think? Well, I
Speaker 1: mean as soon as about twenty nine other people die
Speaker 1: then yes, okay, I think thirty at least. It's just yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what you know what I love about comedy?
Speaker 1: This is Josh Wolfe by the way. Everyone you know
Speaker 1: I love about comedy. I would love to know what
Speaker 1: you love about comedy completely subjective. What does that mean?
Speaker 1: That means that, like, there's something out there for everybody,
Speaker 1: if you, if you want. I love when people are
Speaker 1: like I don't like comedy, like you don't. Have you
Speaker 1: ever heard someone said that. I've asked people, do you
Speaker 1: go to stand up shows? You're like, no, I don't
Speaker 1: really comedy. You don't like to laugh, you don't like
Speaker 1: having fun like I don't understand what that means. But
Speaker 1: what I love is that no matter what you like,
Speaker 1: you could be the t totnist church going list, and
Speaker 1: you're gonna find a comic out there that works for you.
Speaker 1: But you could be the raunchiest sitting the gutter, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, And you can find that too.
Speaker 1: You're right, you have to find the comic that works
Speaker 1: for you because like some I'm not really like a
Speaker 1: super raunchy person who likes to like talk about a
Speaker 1: lot of like I don't know, like some comics are.
Speaker 1: Like it's just like I don't find it funny. You
Speaker 1: I find really funny. Like I feel like you definitely
Speaker 1: push the envelope, but it's like all within like a
Speaker 1: boundary that I can still really laugh at and not
Speaker 1: feel like weird about laughing at. You know what. I
Speaker 1: toured with Lady the Cable Guy for a while and
Speaker 1: he said to me, he was like, you know, the
Speaker 1: trick for me is I'm not dirty, but I'm naughty.
Speaker 1: I'm naughty, and I would say I'm one step above him.
Speaker 1: He doesn't swear and all that stuff, but I'm not, like,
Speaker 1: I'm not dirty, but I feel like I'm relatively naughty.
Speaker 1: I get that. I totally get that you say what
Speaker 1: everyone's really feeling, but you don't say it in a
Speaker 1: way that makes people feel like, oh god, I can't
Speaker 1: actually listen to this. Yes, yes, and I you know,
Speaker 1: one of the reasons Los Angeles was a tough place
Speaker 1: for me to perform, And it was by the way,
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not a dude. I live in Nashville now,
Speaker 1: but I'm not a dude who is leaving Los Angeles like, so,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not bad mouth in it. But for
Speaker 1: me personally as a performer, it was my place that
Speaker 1: I hated performing the most. If you say, what city,
Speaker 1: what city do you hate performing in the most? I
Speaker 1: would tell you Loss Angeles. Okay, details and again this
Speaker 1: could be me. And the comedy Store is my that's
Speaker 1: a legendary. Everyone goes through the comedy store. So did
Speaker 1: you go through the comedy store? Oh yeah, that's my
Speaker 1: home club comedy but also the club that makes me
Speaker 1: the most matteress. Okay, tell me why. I've just never
Speaker 1: been one of the cool kids. I don't consider myself
Speaker 1: to be one of the cool kids. I figured the
Speaker 1: comedy store is where the cool kids are. I have
Speaker 1: a very Middle America relatable aesthetic, you know, and I
Speaker 1: don't feel like that is what plays the best. So
Speaker 1: what do you have to be to be a cool
Speaker 1: kid at the comedy club. What's the vibe? Well, I
Speaker 1: feel like this is my own personal stuff, your own
Speaker 1: personal stuff. But in your opinion, what's the vibe to
Speaker 1: be a cool kid at the comedy club. Oh, I
Speaker 1: don't know. That's a great question. I would say, Um,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know how to explain it.
Speaker 1: Like I said, this is my own I think it's
Speaker 1: my own personal Like, but like my my jokes are okay,
Speaker 1: my jokes are right here, you're in front of your face.
Speaker 1: They're pretty simple, they're pretty linear. There's stories. Um, there's
Speaker 1: nothing clever. I'm not making a statement, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. None of that stuff, which I think plays
Speaker 1: better especially at the comedy store, do you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? And especially for a long time, I was
Speaker 1: just the dude talking about his kids, and that's not
Speaker 1: super relatable for that part of the country. People are
Speaker 1: a little older when they have kids. You know. When
Speaker 1: I sit at Zany's and I talked about, you know,
Speaker 1: at my age having a twenty something year old, people
Speaker 1: are like, yeah, like I just took my kid to preschool.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not I'm not relating with this. You
Speaker 1: are just on a different plane, You're in a different
Speaker 1: arena and your wife than maybe everyone else I feel like.
Speaker 1: And but by the way, I will say also, but
Speaker 1: that nervousness that I had performing there, which was just
Speaker 1: mes what other comics were putting on me, maybe better. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it made me better. Well. Yeah, if you can do
Speaker 1: well at the comedy club in l A, then that
Speaker 1: means you are, like, you're great, because that's like the
Speaker 1: that's like the rhyman of Nashville, like the opery of Nashville,
Speaker 1: you know country music. It really is. You know that
Speaker 1: place when I first started UM, a woman named Mitsy
Speaker 1: Shore owned it, and um she was the original owner
Speaker 1: and she when she passed me. So what would happen
Speaker 1: is is that you would have to go up for
Speaker 1: three minutes in front of Mitzy UM and nerve wracking,
Speaker 1: and if you don't crush in those three minutes, you
Speaker 1: don't get a chance. You'd have to come back and
Speaker 1: sign up again. So she just sits there with her
Speaker 1: arms crossed and she's like make me laugh, ye, like,
Speaker 1: walk me through this audition. This is nerve wracking. I
Speaker 1: watched that show on Netflix. What is it called what
Speaker 1: was it called, like the comedy club or something that
Speaker 1: comedy like it was something the store coming. The store intense,
Speaker 1: Like the comedy world is hard. It's hard to break into.
Speaker 1: It's hard to like stay into. It's like this whole
Speaker 1: inner web working and it's like whoa, and you have
Speaker 1: to like get your jokes all right, and like you
Speaker 1: have to think. It's much different than music though, I
Speaker 1: mean it's super cutthroat and there's a lot of people
Speaker 1: going after very I would say the difference is this,
Speaker 1: Well I don't know the music industry well enough to
Speaker 1: say this, but nowadays as a comic, yeah, so the
Speaker 1: comedy Store doesn't pass me. Who gives a ship? I
Speaker 1: have twelve million people on Instagram and you know eight
Speaker 1: million on TikTok, and that's where I do my stand
Speaker 1: up and I don't need to do my stuf, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. So it's a little different. Um,
Speaker 1: But to be a true stand up comic, you can't
Speaker 1: do it on TikTok and you can't do it on Instagram.
Speaker 1: You have to get on stage. Yeah, the comedy Store
Speaker 1: is for me where the best came and you would
Speaker 1: go when Mitzi would sit in the back row up
Speaker 1: against the wall, and if the person before you did
Speaker 1: really well, you were fucked because she was she was
Speaker 1: going to call him over to talk to her. She
Speaker 1: wasn't gonna hear a second of your set. She was done,
Speaker 1: like what she found on she liked. She was kind
Speaker 1: of like done for the day, that wasn't it. She
Speaker 1: was just gonna talk to them. And you were performing,
Speaker 1: so she might miss your set and you just have
Speaker 1: to come back and at the time, and then somebody
Speaker 1: else would come up, Oh okay, so it's like they're
Speaker 1: keeping it going no matter what he's doing. I think
Speaker 1: there was like three or I forget it was so
Speaker 1: long ago, but it seemed like three two, three, four
Speaker 1: showcases something like that, and she called me over. Somebody
Speaker 1: was like after. I think this was my third time
Speaker 1: going up in front of her, and she called me
Speaker 1: over and she sat me down. And when you get
Speaker 1: called over, you were like, oh man. And I sat
Speaker 1: down and she said you were very funny, and I
Speaker 1: said thank you, and she said enhanced. I said, oh,
Speaker 1: thank you. She said you remind me of a young
Speaker 1: Steve Guttenberg, and I was like, uh, is that good?
Speaker 1: I don't know, you mean the guy from police Academy.
Speaker 1: I don't it worked. It worked? Yeah, yeah, But then
Speaker 1: she said I want you to work the door, and
Speaker 1: so is that like a good thing. Well, as a
Speaker 1: young guy, I took it as an insult. What I
Speaker 1: know now is that she wanted you to learn from
Speaker 1: the best. So sit right there and watch the best
Speaker 1: people in the world every night work their craft and
Speaker 1: watch how they change jokes from Friday to Saturday depending
Speaker 1: on what worked. Watched them work out and be working comics.
Speaker 1: It was like apprenticeship. Yeah, I get to sit and watch.
Speaker 1: This was fascinating for me. You took the job at
Speaker 1: the door even though it offended you, You took it. Well,
Speaker 1: I didn't. It didn't offend me after it was explained
Speaker 1: to me. You know, but at the time, I was
Speaker 1: a single dad raising three kids. I also a huge accomplishment. Josh, Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean that's hard work. Yeah, they're a
Speaker 1: live There are a lot say who's the best? Mama?
Speaker 1: I mean you really like you really crush you really
Speaker 1: crushed that. And defany, I feel like I kind of
Speaker 1: looked into I think I might have found her in
Speaker 1: a moment of weakness, her weakness, not mine. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I think she was in a moment of weakness. She
Speaker 1: wasn't sure what was happening. Might have something to do
Speaker 1: with the Rufi's. You just slid in there and you said, listen,
Speaker 1: we're gonna this is gonna happen. This is happening. I said,
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, let me ask you. How hard is
Speaker 1: it to pitch? I'm a single to have with three
Speaker 1: kids and I'm a stand up comic. Waka waka. You
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Come on, isn't that enticing? Investing?
Speaker 1: Is this beautiful film director? She's like one of three
Speaker 1: women in the in the whole world who produced major
Speaker 1: motion picture. She's incredible in every way. Yeah, y'all are
Speaker 1: a perfect match. Though, well, I have to tell you
Speaker 1: like she and thank you that I that for you
Speaker 1: to imply that I somehow match with hair. But she
Speaker 1: she's like, she hasn't started really aging yet, which is no.
Speaker 1: Can I tell you something. I'm gonna tell you something
Speaker 1: that she's gonna kill me for telling you. Okay, good,
Speaker 1: yeah tell me. Yeah. She's pretty decent looking person. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: she talks. She hasn't worked out and probably fifteen years
Speaker 1: she's just one of those people that just like stays
Speaker 1: probably fit without working out, and then she like binges
Speaker 1: on candy when she's in the middle of a stress moment.
Speaker 1: That is exactly right. I tell her all the time.
Speaker 1: I'm like, so, how was your booty getting better with
Speaker 1: not working out? Like? What is the exercise? If she's
Speaker 1: just visualizing it in her brain. She's so powerful in
Speaker 1: her mind. She's just all she's doing is just putting
Speaker 1: it through her brain and she's got it. It's it's
Speaker 1: so crazy to me. I mean, I'm like, I need
Speaker 1: how many carbs in that? What are the sugar? And
Speaker 1: she's like, do you know? We used to sit in
Speaker 1: bed and I would just look at her and she
Speaker 1: would eat just watching because we'd sit and watch. So
Speaker 1: when we lived in l A, we would make sure
Speaker 1: we were bed by liven o'clock so we could watch
Speaker 1: the back to back Friends. By the way, how such
Speaker 1: are you to watch that Friends reunion? Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I mean I'm putting I'm trying to keep it low
Speaker 1: key because I have a lot of expectations for it
Speaker 1: that it needs to fulfill in my soul, because I mean,
Speaker 1: Friends is hello, It's Friends. So I'm just like trying
Speaker 1: to say chill about it, and I'm really just praying
Speaker 1: it's everything that we all are praying it will be.
Speaker 1: I am you know what, it already is hit met
Speaker 1: expectations for me. And I'll tell you why I am there.
Speaker 1: You know what I love. So I was on a
Speaker 1: show called Chelsea Lately for a long time, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: you were. And also we gotta get back to your
Speaker 1: door story I segue from you, so don't forget to
Speaker 1: go back to that. Okay, all right, but but I will.
Speaker 1: And the and the thing that I learned from being
Speaker 1: on that show that I yeah, and then I deal
Speaker 1: to get on that show that was like a big
Speaker 1: late night national syndicated show, and she was like right
Speaker 1: after like the was David was David Letterman and Jay
Speaker 1: Lennard were the aready gone. It was like the late
Speaker 1: night funny show. She was on at the same time
Speaker 1: as those guys and on and what it was crasshing
Speaker 1: for a while there, I don't think I realized how
Speaker 1: big that show was. How did you get on that show?
Speaker 1: And then yeah, what do you learn? She's the last
Speaker 1: person I dated before I met Beth. Oh really, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a good one. David's not the right word,
Speaker 1: but you know, you have a good time. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: did drugs and went out and you know what I mean. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was just we were young and she was listening,
Speaker 1: you know what. She was a ton of fun. We
Speaker 1: went out one night. Ready, So we went out one
Speaker 1: night and we and we went to a party that
Speaker 1: my brothers were at a house party and we were
Speaker 1: kind of sucked up and there was a pool table
Speaker 1: there and she was limping and I walked into the
Speaker 1: room and like, what are you doing? She was just
Speaker 1: she was like, just go with it. She told everybody
Speaker 1: there she had a wooden leg. I can't imagine two
Speaker 1: comics actually dating each other. This would be really funny.
Speaker 1: Well we we, so I just went with it. But
Speaker 1: it was so funny. She was like, you know, at
Speaker 1: one point, she switched limps on her legs by accident.
Speaker 1: I'm like, you're limping with her wrong leg. She was like,
Speaker 1: but she I love going out with her because, especially
Speaker 1: when she was younger, she basically walked in. If she
Speaker 1: walked into a room, she was gonna walk up to whatever.
Speaker 1: Dude felt like he was the biggest alpha and she
Speaker 1: was gonna take the piss out of him like that.
Speaker 1: She wouldn't know. She wasn't gonna let that. She never
Speaker 1: let even that long ago in a room in l A,
Speaker 1: dudes who thought they were the ship, she wouldn't let them. Never.
Speaker 1: She went in right away. If you were going to
Speaker 1: think you were the the alpha, she was going to
Speaker 1: let you know who was the real alpha. I No,
Speaker 1: I loved it. I loved it. And her attitude was like,
Speaker 1: fuck these guys, they can't tell me what to do,
Speaker 1: like this is not that's not up to them. How
Speaker 1: I go about the world, what I talk like, what
Speaker 1: I act like. And I really I really respected that
Speaker 1: in her a really a lot. She was the first
Speaker 1: woman that I remember getting on stage and just talking
Speaker 1: freely about being an alcoholic and having sex with a
Speaker 1: ton of dudes. Yeah, people have come along since then,
Speaker 1: but you know what, one joke I'll always remember. And
Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, I love this woman. She's she
Speaker 1: and she was as a young comic and I think
Speaker 1: I think her last few specials or whatever, but I
Speaker 1: think I think, you know, to be a stand up
Speaker 1: it takes a lot, a lot, a lot of practice,
Speaker 1: you know, And she took a little break. But I
Speaker 1: think she started out like such a unique she said.
Speaker 1: Once she said, Um, I was out with this guy
Speaker 1: and I was drinking and I was on my like
Speaker 1: my fourth drink, and um, he said, you know, you
Speaker 1: don't have to drink to be more interesting, and she
Speaker 1: was like, I'm drinking to make you more interesting. I
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, that's I mean, she had unapologetic you know.
Speaker 1: But UM, what I learned on that show is that
Speaker 1: just like Friends, you know what people when they turn
Speaker 1: on the show, when I turn on TV, if you
Speaker 1: can show them a dysfunctional family that they relate to
Speaker 1: people where they're like, oh, I'm you know what people
Speaker 1: love doing in Friends, I'm Phoebe, Oh I'm Chandler. Right,
Speaker 1: you're relating. And so one of the things about Chelsea
Speaker 1: is that people turn it on to watch a dysfunctional
Speaker 1: family make fun of each other and bicker at each
Speaker 1: other but ultimately love each other. And I'm watching I
Speaker 1: watched the did you watch the trailer for the Friends thing?
Speaker 1: Like I did? I'm sure twelve times. I'm already getting
Speaker 1: all the fields the song you play, the song I'm in.
Speaker 1: But seeing them talk to each other and go remember remember,
Speaker 1: all I need is nostalgia. I'm not even in it
Speaker 1: for the last can I want to I want to
Speaker 1: feel those fields? Do you know what I mean? And
Speaker 1: I already I already am so it. It's already, it's
Speaker 1: already there for you get expectations. Yeah. Do you want
Speaker 1: to talk talk about remembering a joke that Chelsea's that
Speaker 1: impacted you when Michael and I went to watch you
Speaker 1: with Zany's a few weeks ago or a month ago
Speaker 1: or something. You said something that we quote all the
Speaker 1: time because people and I have been together. We've been
Speaker 1: together like over ten years, like dating, married, all of it,
Speaker 1: Like we have been through it all the ups and
Speaker 1: downs and started dating as kids and like we broke up,
Speaker 1: got married off things. So you were talking about marriage,
Speaker 1: and you were like talking about You're like, who's who's
Speaker 1: newly dating in the audience, Like who's out there that
Speaker 1: just started dating or just got married? And then like
Speaker 1: someone raised their hand and they were like all in
Speaker 1: love and like so in the butterfly face. And then
Speaker 1: you're like, Okay, now who's been married for like a
Speaker 1: long past time. And you found someone who's been like
Speaker 1: forty two years and you said the people and the
Speaker 1: four the people who have been married for forty two
Speaker 1: years had a fight in the car that would ruin
Speaker 1: you to the newly ones. That is so true. You
Speaker 1: could like be totally like going at it, whether you're
Speaker 1: a person, are you going for years? Then you wake
Speaker 1: up and you're like, Okay, I'm gonna go get a
Speaker 1: drink and then over over. I say it all the time.
Speaker 1: If you've been married over twenty years, you you said
Speaker 1: something to each other that day that would end other
Speaker 1: relationships because because you can just be like fuck you,
Speaker 1: fuck you, and that all right, that's it. Do you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Like, that's it? Like I hate you,
Speaker 1: I hate you? Two and where are we going to dinner?
Speaker 1: Do you know? That's if you're like brand new, you're
Speaker 1: like if that's it, it's over. Yeah, that is over.
Speaker 1: It's one of the things that is great that they
Speaker 1: don't tell you about being in a relationship for that
Speaker 1: long is that the level of comfort you have to
Speaker 1: have with that other person is something you didn't know
Speaker 1: going in would be the benefit of a long term
Speaker 1: relationship where you're like, I actually can just relax. Do
Speaker 1: you know I've never heard of like that before. I
Speaker 1: think that's one of the biggest blessings of being in
Speaker 1: a long term relationships is you literally can just put
Speaker 1: your full self on display at all time. It's so comforting,
Speaker 1: right just too. You know, when you were first dating
Speaker 1: you guys, and you spent the night, did you worry
Speaker 1: about how you look in the morning, woke up and
Speaker 1: like Brandon bathrooms and make up for gas and like
Speaker 1: brush my hair and like tie my shirt up or something,
Speaker 1: you know, and you might wake up with a booger
Speaker 1: on your face. Now you don't care, You're like whatever. Whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's such a different and it's hard to
Speaker 1: explain how when you don't have to worry about that stuff,
Speaker 1: the other stuff you can kind of let into your life.
Speaker 1: You know what, when I look, I mean I never,
Speaker 1: thank god never had to be on a dating app
Speaker 1: or that stuff looks horrible, like horrible. I know. I
Speaker 1: can't even imagine the stress of just like did they
Speaker 1: not swipe? Or how's that nobody's picking me? Or I
Speaker 1: I don't know about you. I don't I was not
Speaker 1: good at meeting strangers. I was like fine with many strangers,
Speaker 1: but I was terrible at dating because I did not
Speaker 1: know how to date. I was like super insecure and
Speaker 1: I get defensive and I did not put myself out
Speaker 1: there and I would just I was an awful Later,
Speaker 1: what was your upbringing like, were you were religious? Were
Speaker 1: you conservatives? Bringing super conservative upbringing? I mean also like
Speaker 1: open minded parents, but like very very uh. I was
Speaker 1: very traditional and raised really sheltered in a good way.
Speaker 1: And I just like, I don't know, I just a
Speaker 1: lot of it. Was there guilt associated with any of
Speaker 1: the like for a long time, Like I just didn't
Speaker 1: know who I was as a person, and I felt
Speaker 1: like super insecure about that, and I felt like not
Speaker 1: I always struggle with worthiness and not feeling good enough
Speaker 1: and feel like, oh, people were better than me, so
Speaker 1: than if someone actually got to know who I was,
Speaker 1: then they wouldn't want to date me. You So I
Speaker 1: had to put up this hard guard even though I
Speaker 1: was great. You know, I was just like a kid.
Speaker 1: You didn't know who I was. But when I was
Speaker 1: in it, it was very all consuming. You know that
Speaker 1: sounds very familiar to me, Like the I just reasonly
Speaker 1: and this has been maybe the biggest change in my
Speaker 1: life ever in my life, but I just recently realized
Speaker 1: how dangerous your inner dialogue it can be if you're
Speaker 1: constantly calling yourself a piece of ship. Self talk. Yourself
Speaker 1: talk is everything. It's the voice that you listen to
Speaker 1: the most. So it doesn't matter what other people are
Speaker 1: telling me. If I'm constantly saying but you or I'm
Speaker 1: never forgiving myself. Oh yeah, that was hang on stuff.
Speaker 1: I have recently done that, and I have to tell you.
Speaker 1: I'm like, if I catch myself and everybody does where,
Speaker 1: I'm like, you're just such a for not And then
Speaker 1: I'm like, relaxed, man, just pick it up tomorrow. And
Speaker 1: it's changed. It's I'm telling you, it's changed. I you know,
Speaker 1: the one thing I noticed is that my I used
Speaker 1: to want my shoulders are a little tense. My shoulders
Speaker 1: are damned you know. I can see it. On stage two.
Speaker 1: You're more comfortable just being yourself. And we talked a
Speaker 1: little before this interview. You're like, I now know who
Speaker 1: I am, I know what my mission is, I know
Speaker 1: what I'm trying to do, and like if someone misinterprets that,
Speaker 1: that's really not on you, that's on them, and that's
Speaker 1: a freeing place to get to. Yeah, thank you. Change
Speaker 1: this inner dialogue and get there. What was like the
Speaker 1: catalyst for that? Well, you know what, honestly, Um, moving
Speaker 1: to Nashville allowed me to relax. Okay, why is that? Well?
Speaker 1: The one thing about being in Los Angeles is that
Speaker 1: you're constantly surrounded by people who are not only more
Speaker 1: successful than you, but it's just always in your face.
Speaker 1: And so I would get up and instead of doing
Speaker 1: what I do now, just get up, drink coffee, walk
Speaker 1: my dog, come home, hang out with Beth, and then
Speaker 1: turned my phone on. At noon, I would wake up
Speaker 1: early because now I can wake up and go back sleep.
Speaker 1: L A I woke up, I was like, what am
Speaker 1: I missing? Right on the phone. Other people's in, other
Speaker 1: people's lives so much better than mine, other people's lives. Well, my,
Speaker 1: why did they book that? How come I'm not at
Speaker 1: this club? I didn't get in that theater always about
Speaker 1: somebody else's life and not about mine. And so nash
Speaker 1: has been a good move for you, for me, it's
Speaker 1: been a godsend. You've loved it. You don't at all
Speaker 1: regret moving here. I missed Jacob, I miss Caitlin, I
Speaker 1: missed my brothers Um, and I missed the weather. Nobody
Speaker 1: told us that the weather Nashville was hoary, Blake I told,
Speaker 1: I told Bethany that the weather like from January to
Speaker 1: mid March. Well, December works because it's Christmas, so there's
Speaker 1: magic in the air and there's all the good Christmas vibes,
Speaker 1: so you know, and like it's fine to be cold
Speaker 1: and have a little bit of miserable weather when there's
Speaker 1: like Christmas everywhere, but they're in well or holiday for
Speaker 1: the season, because I know not everyone is listen. I
Speaker 1: want to tell you something. As a Jew, when someone
Speaker 1: says Merry Christmas, I say thank you because what they
Speaker 1: are actually saying to me is something nice. It's just reading.
Speaker 1: They're not saying Jews, you know what I mean. If
Speaker 1: they're not saying you're not allowed to they're just saying
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas. Because that that is in my brain, the
Speaker 1: same as Happy Holidays, the same as everything else. It's
Speaker 1: somebody sit wishing something nice to me. So for me
Speaker 1: to correct them and make them feel like an asshole
Speaker 1: because they don't know I'm Jewish is the dumbest thing.
Speaker 1: You correcting yourself just then it's one of the things
Speaker 1: that you and I were talking about before the show.
Speaker 1: You don't have to apologize for that ship, right, right,
Speaker 1: you know what you're intentive. I'm not playing Merry Christmas
Speaker 1: and suck the Jews. You're saying merry Christmas because it's
Speaker 1: Christmas season. If no one else, the majority of people
Speaker 1: celebrate Christmas. Right, So if you're going to say one
Speaker 1: thing that seems to be grouping grabbing the most boats,
Speaker 1: it's so silly, isn't I carry you on that? Yeah? Totally?
Speaker 1: So Okay, you have a Christmas holiday season in December,
Speaker 1: so it's fine, but then January hits, you have New
Speaker 1: Year's which is still fun, and then after that it
Speaker 1: is you have to get out of town. I mean you,
Speaker 1: I mean I have stayed here most years, but like
Speaker 1: I would much prefer to have somewhere else to go
Speaker 1: from January to mid March or April because it's really
Speaker 1: to wrench and terrible. But then it starts to get
Speaker 1: a little human, yeah, which we weren't used to, like
Speaker 1: Collen and allergies. Yeah yeah, yeah, there's a there's a
Speaker 1: lot more going on than what we were warned about. However,
Speaker 1: I would not trade it back, you know, honestly, meeting
Speaker 1: people like you and Michael and just you know, Philip
Speaker 1: and Becky Sweet and just the people that we've met
Speaker 1: and and outside of the business in Nashville are just
Speaker 1: more my speed. What I always say I love about
Speaker 1: Nashville and entertainment industry is, yes, you have your superstars,
Speaker 1: you have for people who are like crushing it, but
Speaker 1: everyone is super chill and laid back. And I'm not
Speaker 1: saying people don't have like personal issues and things going on.
Speaker 1: No one's perfect anywhere, but it is like this community
Speaker 1: of people who are down to earth they want to
Speaker 1: hang out. That's very include so and it's very supportive.
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's there's things that need to change
Speaker 1: obviously within the country music and like to expand, and
Speaker 1: I feel like everyone's starting to become more aware of that.
Speaker 1: But like, I just feel like people want to be friends,
Speaker 1: they want to help people out, they want to be
Speaker 1: a good person, they want to collaborate. Collaborate is so
Speaker 1: cool now. And by the way, I don't want to
Speaker 1: put them on the spot, but I'm trying to get
Speaker 1: your husband to write a funny song on me. I
Speaker 1: know we were talking about that. I think he's nervous
Speaker 1: because he's never done comedy. It makes total sense. It
Speaker 1: makes total sense because as performers, the thing I think
Speaker 1: we're all worried about the most is looking stupid. Yeah,
Speaker 1: do you know what I mean? And you know what
Speaker 1: you're lane is, and you're like, well, I don't look
Speaker 1: stupid in this lane, but that lane I'm look real, don't.
Speaker 1: Now I am a person who not only doesn't mind
Speaker 1: looking dumb, I kind of like it. But it's like
Speaker 1: you look dumb on your own terms, Like you create
Speaker 1: the dumbness that you look. If that makes when you're
Speaker 1: looking down doesn't catch you off guard per se, you
Speaker 1: might be prepared for it. Well, I'm setting myself up
Speaker 1: to look dumb because I'm trying something I've never done before,
Speaker 1: Like trying something I've never done before for me, you
Speaker 1: know what? Okay? Okay, So as an artist, the thing
Speaker 1: that I as I got older, I missed the most
Speaker 1: was like I started to a stand up in Seattle,
Speaker 1: and I would sit at this place called the Hurricane
Speaker 1: Cafe with my friends when we were young comics, and
Speaker 1: maybe we could all afford one pot of coffee, but
Speaker 1: we were talking about jokes and like, you know, spitballing
Speaker 1: and oh yeah, that was great to do that that
Speaker 1: feeling you lose the longer you go, the more comfortable
Speaker 1: you get, right, And so to put myself in situations
Speaker 1: like this remind me of that young art where I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is that excitement that I don't get anymore. But
Speaker 1: what's such a huge part of why I loved what
Speaker 1: I did? Don't make sense? Yes, just that adrenaline, the rush,
Speaker 1: the unknowingnus Like you're still proving yourself on every level.
Speaker 1: You don't even know if it's gonna work for you,
Speaker 1: but you know you have this passion in this dream.
Speaker 1: You just need people to receive it. You gotta put
Speaker 1: yourself out there. Yeah, you get started in comedy, like
Speaker 1: who wakes up as a human? Is Like, I'm going
Speaker 1: to be a comedian because to me that feels I've
Speaker 1: said this even before I've known you, Like being a
Speaker 1: comic would be like the worst job for me. I
Speaker 1: would feel so much anxiety and stress in like a
Speaker 1: forming jokes And then how do you know when to
Speaker 1: like drop the punchline and make people laugh and like
Speaker 1: have them flow and like where to push it. We're
Speaker 1: not I mean that to me is just like next
Speaker 1: level stress central station. I want to tell you I
Speaker 1: told Beth not too long ago that you would be
Speaker 1: a very good comedian. Oh no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no no no. I agree that thing at people,
Speaker 1: But I am not funny. That's not true. So here's
Speaker 1: the dude. You are two of the things that make
Speaker 1: a comic good. You're honest, you can't help, you can't
Speaker 1: help but be who you are. And you tell a
Speaker 1: good story. So if you told the story right that
Speaker 1: was about some of the house that happened with your
Speaker 1: kid or your husband, that's relatable, and then that somebody
Speaker 1: like me would sit there and go, Okay, tell me
Speaker 1: the story. Here's a joke for this part. Here's a
Speaker 1: joke for this part. Here's a joke for this part.
Speaker 1: And now you're a stand up comic, how do you
Speaker 1: find the jokes? Like? That's the thing, Like, how do
Speaker 1: you make a joke out of just like a normal
Speaker 1: everyday life Like, Okay, for instance, I just got twelve
Speaker 1: chickens with Michael, how do you make that funny? Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: first of all, why did you get the chickens? We
Speaker 1: got chickens? As Michael's always wanted chickens. He wants to
Speaker 1: be a farmer. He grew up on a farm, and
Speaker 1: he just wants chicks. Okay, right away, You're like, first
Speaker 1: of all, you know what am I'm not providing? Do
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Like you want to turn
Speaker 1: it inward? Right, so you want to turn it inward?
Speaker 1: Like should I feel offended? But I'm not enough to
Speaker 1: any twelve chickens? Like you know, am I not? You know?
Speaker 1: I mean, depending on how far you want to go? Like,
Speaker 1: am I not producing enough eggs? This dude? Like, so
Speaker 1: there's so many different possibilities. You can tell the story
Speaker 1: of going out and the first time you don't know
Speaker 1: how to get eggs from a chicken, so you think
Speaker 1: it's like you know, bugs, bunny cartoons, you're just lifting
Speaker 1: them up, you know, like like foghorn, leghorn, And there's
Speaker 1: so many things that you could do, right, But that's
Speaker 1: all comes through just practice. But what I do with
Speaker 1: stories because I tell them exactly how they happened the
Speaker 1: first like five or six times, just to hear which
Speaker 1: part of the truth is really interesting? Do you like practice?
Speaker 1: Do you like speak to your mirrorge? Do you speaking
Speaker 1: to the mirror, like, how do you work these bits
Speaker 1: out in front of people? So? Do you just love
Speaker 1: with it your head? Do you ever speak out loud
Speaker 1: before you speak in front of the audience. No, generally,
Speaker 1: not because they're winging it well. No, because I'm pulling
Speaker 1: from stories that happened, so I don't have to write
Speaker 1: them down. They're up here, and if I write them down,
Speaker 1: they end up sounding for me to rehearsed. But I
Speaker 1: don't need to write them down because I got it.
Speaker 1: I'll write down some punchlines, like if I'm writing punch
Speaker 1: lines that didn't happen, I'll write those down because I
Speaker 1: have a harder time remembering those. But the very first
Speaker 1: time I helped that stage, I was fifteen, Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: how did you know that? Like, Oh, I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: go be funny. I'm stage like I'm a comedian, Like
Speaker 1: get that thought in your head. I was watching TV.
Speaker 1: I saw some stand up. I thought, man, I had
Speaker 1: done some musical theater. Um, and I loved it. I
Speaker 1: loved being in front of people and UM. I told
Speaker 1: my dad and mom I said I want to do
Speaker 1: stand now, and they were like, okay. I said, there's
Speaker 1: a open mic one town over, Will you drive me
Speaker 1: over there? And they were like, yeah, So I went over.
Speaker 1: I signed up. I asked the guy, I said, what
Speaker 1: should I talk about? And he said, well, have you
Speaker 1: ever done it? I said no, and he said, talk
Speaker 1: about what you know? And all I knew was my parents,
Speaker 1: right so, And the funniest thing to me about them
Speaker 1: is that they both have really bad guys. Out of
Speaker 1: your house. They were they were there was one time
Speaker 1: and I ended, this was my closer. I ended this
Speaker 1: one about my parents. They have really I was fifteen.
Speaker 1: Do you want to hear the first joke I ever told?
Speaker 1: I would love to. Actually, my parents are sitting in
Speaker 1: the front room, and this was back when they had
Speaker 1: you know, I could hear my mom taking zick click,
Speaker 1: you know, one of those old click, like the like
Speaker 1: the little Kodak cameras that they take pictures with, you know,
Speaker 1: they had to wind up and stuff, and she was
Speaker 1: like the knicks. She was so excited. I walking on
Speaker 1: the stage. Or do you want to hear what I
Speaker 1: was wearing? Okay, I had acid washed jeans. Okay, those
Speaker 1: are back in style now. They they were tucked into
Speaker 1: my untied very chunky white high tops. Okay, filing still
Speaker 1: in style. Actually, I had a mullet I had that
Speaker 1: looked just like this atipt. It was not Cambo, but
Speaker 1: the same kind of style, but it was. I played
Speaker 1: on my baseball team, so it was my high school
Speaker 1: baseball team. Hat. I had a thick silver chain, not
Speaker 1: like a rope, but like when you find on King Tuck,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking about, Like one of those
Speaker 1: thick silver chains and wait for it. I was wearing
Speaker 1: a white mess shirt. I feel like, kind of, Josh,
Speaker 1: that's like all back in trend, like you sort of
Speaker 1: were like, have you ever have you just like staying
Speaker 1: consistent of that style all these years because it's like
Speaker 1: right on pretty much is it it? Minus the mess shirt?
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm a millionail. The Mess shirts probably
Speaker 1: making a comeback soon though, I mean going in and
Speaker 1: no time. But I'm that's ballsy. So you just started off,
Speaker 1: You're like, hey, I'm here, I am here's my nipples
Speaker 1: and everything. Yeah, well it was like a like a
Speaker 1: smaller mesh like a football shirt. Okay, so you can
Speaker 1: nipples right right, Well you can see you know. When
Speaker 1: I was growing up, my brothers used to tell me
Speaker 1: that I had meeting nipples. That's why I was I
Speaker 1: was the kid who wore a T shirt to the
Speaker 1: pool because my brother was I was like, you gonna
Speaker 1: let those meeting nipples out of the pool, Like, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not. It turns out I don't have meeting nipples.
Speaker 1: I just have like a meteor area. We didn't. Okay, good,
Speaker 1: So I come up on stage and I said, Hey, everybody,
Speaker 1: I'm Josh. I'm fifteen years old. And they clapped and
Speaker 1: I said my parents are here tonight, and they clapped,
Speaker 1: and I said, I'm pretty excited because this is the
Speaker 1: first time I'll be have to fucking swear and from
Speaker 1: my cut sucking mom. Gosh, can I tell you? The
Speaker 1: room exploded? And I was like, yeah, I got it.
Speaker 1: I love this, And can I tell you something else?
Speaker 1: Since that day, I'm not a dirty coming. But when
Speaker 1: I when I when my mom comes to the show
Speaker 1: filthy Why because you just want to show you want
Speaker 1: to prove that, like you don't have to mind her rules. No,
Speaker 1: because you know, if you know anything about me, I
Speaker 1: like making people feel uncomfortable and nothing makes my mom
Speaker 1: more uncomfortable than me being dirty. And on top of that,
Speaker 1: Caroline she feels like she has to laugh at every
Speaker 1: joke er it gets. It makes me laugh that I
Speaker 1: look at her and she's like, she doesn't want to laugh.
Speaker 1: And my dad will always come with me before a
Speaker 1: show and be like, are you gonna tell him? Do
Speaker 1: you have to? I'm like, you know, I do know
Speaker 1: why you know I do? I just this is for me.
Speaker 1: You sure that that she comes to its purely. So
Speaker 1: you love those the most because you just get the
Speaker 1: most joy out of making your mom's feel so uncomfortable
Speaker 1: as come into it. Where did your farting parents come
Speaker 1: into this? So at the end of the set, I
Speaker 1: was telling jokes about their different styles of farting. My
Speaker 1: mom was more of so embarrassed. Yes, I told him.
Speaker 1: I was like, my mom is like she likes to
Speaker 1: walk and fart, you know, one of those and my
Speaker 1: dad You can always tell because my dad would just
Speaker 1: he would lift his whole body up like that, even
Speaker 1: in a restaurant. You like trying to be more subtle, right,
Speaker 1: and they don't know they're fine to just let it
Speaker 1: fly at any time. Zeros to give there. They don't
Speaker 1: want to hold their gas and they gotta let it out.
Speaker 1: We were on the mass turnplates. The U in Massachusetts
Speaker 1: there major like the the turns like the highway is
Speaker 1: called the Mass Mass turn okay, And we were on
Speaker 1: the mass turnplate and we were in um We had
Speaker 1: one of those station wagons with the seat that faced
Speaker 1: the back and the way back, and my mom was
Speaker 1: just far enough storm she was in the whole car.
Speaker 1: She I think maybe she had had like in the
Speaker 1: middle of a high protein diet or something. I don't
Speaker 1: know what was going on, but she was making things uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: And my dad pulled over and he goes, hey, you
Speaker 1: gotta get on what he was like, yeah, yeah, you
Speaker 1: gotta step out. You're killing the car. And she goes,
Speaker 1: what do you want me to do? He goes, I
Speaker 1: don't know, walk it off. So she because you know,
Speaker 1: he was like, it was like, it's stuck in your
Speaker 1: pants or something. You gotta just walk it off. She
Speaker 1: walked above him. Oh my god, I love it. Y'all
Speaker 1: are just so like chill about farting all the time.
Speaker 1: It's like no big deal. Our house was a I
Speaker 1: grew up at three older brothers. At one point in time,
Speaker 1: my mom had four teenagers boys in her house. Oh,
Speaker 1: she's a saint. She deserves it, Like she really does
Speaker 1: deserve an award for that. There's having only had one
Speaker 1: in the house, I can't imagine the smell that just
Speaker 1: permeated that house all of the time, and just like
Speaker 1: the unruling nous that must have been going on at
Speaker 1: all times, Like did she just lose control? Was there anyway?
Speaker 1: Is that why it isn't just something called controlled chaos? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what he's probably started from childhood. Yeah, probably right.
Speaker 1: I think I think I did maybe learn and I
Speaker 1: told my mom this recently, that you just get from her.
Speaker 1: You just gotta pick your battles. I can't be yelling
Speaker 1: at these four dumb apes all day every day. I
Speaker 1: just gotta pick the important stuff, right, So a lot
Speaker 1: of it just has to like go. You just gotta
Speaker 1: let it go. It's the it's maybe the biggest lesson
Speaker 1: I learned as far as parenting, which is especially when
Speaker 1: they get older or younger, it doesn't matter your kids
Speaker 1: do things what you consider to be wronging right all
Speaker 1: the time. Do you want to spend your whole day
Speaker 1: do you want to be known as the person who
Speaker 1: is constantly just correcting and telling that person what they're
Speaker 1: doing wrong. No, yeah, it's it's not fun for either
Speaker 1: one of you. It's not the relationship you want to have.
Speaker 1: So for me like I, I and I, especially when
Speaker 1: I was raising those three kids, I had to pick
Speaker 1: and choose. I wanted to more you a single dad.
Speaker 1: Uh for a few years. How do you manage that
Speaker 1: with being a comedian and working in like one of
Speaker 1: them was like a baby, right, Yeah, you know. I
Speaker 1: had some help from my brother, especially from one of
Speaker 1: my brothers. All my brothers kind of help. But uh,
Speaker 1: it's funny though, you know. They have all had the
Speaker 1: same attitude, which at the time I didn't enjoy but
Speaker 1: now understand, which was if I had a sense, like
Speaker 1: to do some stand up, they were they would help me.
Speaker 1: If I wanted to go on a date, they were like, nah,
Speaker 1: because there thing was, look you you made this bed,
Speaker 1: so we're happy to help you try to get out
Speaker 1: of it. But as far as you're using us so
Speaker 1: you can go out and live it up, now you're
Speaker 1: gonna have to hire a babysitter. Like that's not that.
Speaker 1: By the way, me too, and so I had comics help,
Speaker 1: you know. One of the I met Chelsea because she
Speaker 1: used to watch my kids while I went on stage.
Speaker 1: Comics helped me. My buddy Joey Diaz helped me a lot. Um,
Speaker 1: but babysit. You know, as long as I cooked him
Speaker 1: a turkey burger, he watched the kids. Um, you did
Speaker 1: everything for those kids and work. I mean, what did
Speaker 1: you learn about yourself in that season? Um? I think
Speaker 1: I learned what's important. I I you know, I was.
Speaker 1: I know that recently and recently I found this out. Recently,
Speaker 1: I found that some comics thought I was aloof, aloof,
Speaker 1: aloof because I would go to the comedy store and
Speaker 1: then leave. Yeah, And I was like, yeah, dude, I
Speaker 1: had a life. I couldn't sit around and talk to
Speaker 1: you guys about whatever the you guys were talking about.
Speaker 1: As much as I wanted to shoot the ship, there
Speaker 1: was other things that was just more important. I knew
Speaker 1: I had to be up at six in the morning
Speaker 1: and take the kids to school. I knew. I knew
Speaker 1: I had to go home and make lunches, and I
Speaker 1: knew I had to be fresh. I knew I had
Speaker 1: to get up two kids were going to school, and
Speaker 1: I had to be with the baby all that. Like,
Speaker 1: what were you guys doing Actually, that's totally impressive though,
Speaker 1: to be uh, such a committed single dad like that,
Speaker 1: that's hard work. One kid is hard three It's like, man,
Speaker 1: I I I get I thank you. I. So my
Speaker 1: situation was, you know, I met a woman. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you know this. I met a woman. She
Speaker 1: had two kids, we had a kid together, and so
Speaker 1: when I kept her out, kicked her out, I kept
Speaker 1: the three kids. And and so it wasn't never a
Speaker 1: question of you just do those are your kids? Like
Speaker 1: do you know what I mean? Like, it's not even
Speaker 1: a question of what you should or should like these
Speaker 1: are my people. So you you take care of your people,
Speaker 1: you know. And I it really did early on. And
Speaker 1: I'm glad I never got sucked up into l a
Speaker 1: because what was important was always staring me in the face. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you get sucked up. Really, you know what's funny And
Speaker 1: I'm sure you have recently seeing this for the kids.
Speaker 1: It struck me with the kids, was I, Oh, and
Speaker 1: this is not a bad thing. This is what everybody
Speaker 1: should do. I've always just thought about myself, right, Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: you don't realize how selfish are until you have kids
Speaker 1: and you're like, literally, you don't ever get to think
Speaker 1: about yourself every now and then you do, but like, yeah,
Speaker 1: the vast majority of the day for sure not. And
Speaker 1: by the way, you know, I think people use selfish
Speaker 1: like it's always a negative. I don't think it's always
Speaker 1: a negative. And I think in the business that we're
Speaker 1: in to be successful, your business is you, So you
Speaker 1: have no choice but to be selfish. That's why I
Speaker 1: give entertainers a little bit of a past. When people
Speaker 1: are like they see those self and at alved happy
Speaker 1: if they're If they don't find themselves the most interesting,
Speaker 1: then who else will have to be have to constantly
Speaker 1: be looking at themselves in the mayor have to constantly
Speaker 1: go how how does this appear to other people? You're
Speaker 1: constantly you're in the business of you, So to get
Speaker 1: sucked down the selfish drain. I get plus, if you
Speaker 1: get successful, not only the business of you, everybody else
Speaker 1: is too. Exactly you know. So, but kids don't they
Speaker 1: don't let you. As soon as you're like, yeah, what
Speaker 1: about me, someone throws up on your foot. You're like, god,
Speaker 1: so when did you know that you had made it?
Speaker 1: When did you know you were like a successful comedian.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know how to answer that, um,
Speaker 1: because I don't look at myself that way. When did
Speaker 1: you thought that you were having a thriving career as
Speaker 1: a comedian, that this was like you have respect, you
Speaker 1: had people that loved you, you could sell tickets to
Speaker 1: shows and do well, Like when did you know that?
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this, I can. I can tell you
Speaker 1: that when I was growing up, I always had a
Speaker 1: dream to have a late night talk show called the
Speaker 1: Josh Rope Show. And I did. I had it was
Speaker 1: now it only lived six weeks and it was on CMT.
Speaker 1: But that was the moment, you know, my dad called
Speaker 1: me and maybe it might might have been the day
Speaker 1: before I premiere and he said, um, hey, I just
Speaker 1: want to call you and say, you know, we can't
Speaker 1: wait for tomorrow and and he said, do you remember
Speaker 1: the conversation about what your dream was when you were
Speaker 1: a kid. And I was like, I don't think so.
Speaker 1: And he's like, let me put it back and he
Speaker 1: ran it back and I go, that's right, and he
Speaker 1: was like, and you all you were like, I want
Speaker 1: to have the Josh roll Show. And he said, do
Speaker 1: you realize how many people get to imagine a dream
Speaker 1: and have it come true. Dang, that is serious right there.
Speaker 1: And I said, yeah, that's and he said, so everything
Speaker 1: else from here is the success for this. Even the
Speaker 1: show lasts a day, a six weeks, six years, sixty years.
Speaker 1: You got it, you achieved it, you visualize it, created
Speaker 1: it out of your imagination, and then you get a
Speaker 1: whole network and crew of people to get on board
Speaker 1: of it and spend time and energy money. Here's how
Speaker 1: messed up our businesses. Eventually everything is a failure because
Speaker 1: it gets canceled. Right, But why is that a failure?
Speaker 1: You know what my dad said? This is so many
Speaker 1: things that my dad had said to me recently that
Speaker 1: have really helped our business. Especially So, you were in
Speaker 1: a band, what was the name of your band called
Speaker 1: Stealing Angels, Stealing Angels, the Stealing Angels making an album
Speaker 1: We did, but it was never released. And but you
Speaker 1: got together with a group of people made now right,
Speaker 1: that is like you created something. Do you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? Like in our business unless you're Kevin Hart
Speaker 1: or Luke Bryan. Yeah, I love when people call Judge Reinhold.
Speaker 1: Do you know who? He is? An old actor and
Speaker 1: he was like in Beverly Hills. Cop has been Yeah,
Speaker 1: his career in for Hollywood was fifteen years of every
Speaker 1: movie and now he's that's the way it goes. He's
Speaker 1: not a hasman, dude. He is in the one percent
Speaker 1: of people who have ever done that job exactly and
Speaker 1: done it well and had success. You know what. It
Speaker 1: is so true. It's like just because your streak per
Speaker 1: se is over and has like faded, like I think
Speaker 1: every artist, musician, entertainer for the most part, and then
Speaker 1: you have your enigmas like Reba who have like lasted
Speaker 1: for decades and like people who have you know, transcended
Speaker 1: through all the all the years. But I think everyone
Speaker 1: has like a moment, you know, where you have like
Speaker 1: this is your moment where you are like on top
Speaker 1: or you are having all the success. It's like your season,
Speaker 1: and then it's gonna obviously it's gonna go to someone else,
Speaker 1: you know. And that's just the way it is. It
Speaker 1: makes me laugh. People use Polly Shore as a punch line.
Speaker 1: You know, this dude's career in the when when he
Speaker 1: was the Weasel, he was just about the biggest thing
Speaker 1: in entertainment on planet Earth. He was in movies that
Speaker 1: made a gazoonian dollars that now it's time for somebody
Speaker 1: else's so for somebody to use him as a punch line.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, yo, he did things that you could
Speaker 1: count on your hands and feet. That people have done
Speaker 1: has been what I mean, it's very specific. Nobody's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that dude the accountant, Yeah he was better in the nineties.
Speaker 1: You're like, yeah, they still are on account and they're
Speaker 1: still doing their thing exactly. It's a crazy thing that
Speaker 1: happens to artists. It's almost like they people are waiting
Speaker 1: for them to drop a little bit so they can
Speaker 1: punch it. Well. I feel like that's why so many
Speaker 1: artists have massive breakdowns, especially when they've been like on
Speaker 1: top and like everyone's loving them and praising them, and
Speaker 1: all of Suddens brings us like squash or I have
Speaker 1: no idea what his mental health is like, or his
Speaker 1: life or whatever. But then all of a sudden, he's
Speaker 1: not on top of people are dogging on him. It's
Speaker 1: like that can send people into sanity in their minds.
Speaker 1: You know, It's like everyone dogged up Britney Spears when
Speaker 1: she crashed and burned. But like can you even no
Speaker 1: one can even imagine what if you take it on
Speaker 1: one step a couple of runs down in the entertainment,
Speaker 1: Take any band that had one big hit, two big
Speaker 1: hits right these by the way, that's not easy to sustain.
Speaker 1: Now you have all this attention, you're on the road,
Speaker 1: this is a great tour. And then now now again
Speaker 1: the fact that you had a hit that made a
Speaker 1: gazillion dollars and it still puts you in the one
Speaker 1: percent of people who have ever picked up a guitar.
Speaker 1: How the business that makes you feel like you're a failure,
Speaker 1: even though you done something that millions of people have
Speaker 1: woken up and dreamed of doing. Having all hit would
Speaker 1: hang their mothers in the backyard it do you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? Yeah? Hit, And now all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: these people are no man that it's such a that
Speaker 1: shift in perspective. I think it's something that has happened
Speaker 1: to me. But that shift in perspective, like of how
Speaker 1: you look at yourself is I think so important, you know,
Speaker 1: like and certainly way back is that's what really has
Speaker 1: brought you, that inner piece and that voice to calm,
Speaker 1: that voice that's negative and making stead positive. Is that
Speaker 1: really the awakening that you've had. Yeah, I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you something that happened to me in Nashville that changed
Speaker 1: my life. Maybe when this when the snow storm drapping
Speaker 1: five and I'm gonna try not to cry, And so
Speaker 1: this did. This was the final cherry on top of
Speaker 1: the changing Sunday. I was. Remember when we were having
Speaker 1: the puge snowstorms. Remember when you guys relying to us
Speaker 1: about the weather. Um, I was walking down Kirkwood in
Speaker 1: between twelve stop and eight. I was walking my dog
Speaker 1: and there was a woman walking. Um. I was walking back,
Speaker 1: she was walking up and we both had our masks
Speaker 1: on because that's what we were doing at the time.
Speaker 1: And and I say hello to everybody. By the way,
Speaker 1: if I'm walking down the street and it's me and you,
Speaker 1: we're saying hello, whether you want to acknowledge or not.
Speaker 1: And if you don't acknowledge it, I'm gonna say something
Speaker 1: to you about not acknowledge. But if I opened the
Speaker 1: door for you and you don't say thank you, I'm
Speaker 1: will probably follow you into the building. You'd be like,
Speaker 1: did you not I'm sorry the door for you? If
Speaker 1: you didn't see me that was me, you know. So
Speaker 1: I walked by her and I just dropped my mask
Speaker 1: and um, I go, hey, how are you doing? I
Speaker 1: hope you having a great day? And she dropped her
Speaker 1: mask and she I recognized where she was, this woman?
Speaker 1: Do I I seem panhaning up at Kroger A bunch handling, yeah,
Speaker 1: begging um and and I said how you doing? She
Speaker 1: said good. She was carrying like a little plassic bag
Speaker 1: that had some to go food containers and how are
Speaker 1: you doing? She was pretty good? And we just started
Speaker 1: talking and I go, how's it going? She was pretty good?
Speaker 1: She said, I gotta run up the street. There was
Speaker 1: a woman who had seen her also out at Kroger,
Speaker 1: and as I I was like, look, I can't give
Speaker 1: any money, but it's supposed to snow for four days.
Speaker 1: Do you want to come stay in my backhouse for
Speaker 1: four days so you can get out of this no
Speaker 1: stranger telling a stranger right? And I was like, I
Speaker 1: was like, Wow, that's amazing. And I was impressed with
Speaker 1: this woman. And this homeless woman says to me, she
Speaker 1: was yeah, I want to get home. I bought us
Speaker 1: to taco if there's a taco chark right at the corner,
Speaker 1: and she said, I thought I saved up the money
Speaker 1: from today to bias. It was a taco plate. A
Speaker 1: taco plate, and I want to go home and share
Speaker 1: it with it. And it just struck me that somebody
Speaker 1: who had nothing gave everything. Oh yeah, I couldn't get
Speaker 1: over how here's a couple of things I couldn't get
Speaker 1: over one. How genuinely happy she was to be able
Speaker 1: to do this for somebody else. And I thought, honestly,
Speaker 1: in that moment, why does she know more about happiness
Speaker 1: than I? I have? On paper, I have so much
Speaker 1: more than she does, But I can't remember the last
Speaker 1: time I was that happy with myself. Wow, Josh, that's serious,
Speaker 1: that's profound. And how proud proud she was of herself.
Speaker 1: Was like, what am I missing in this life? What
Speaker 1: am I prioritizing that I apparently I've prioritized them so
Speaker 1: much that they're not attainable. That I'm just constantly reaching
Speaker 1: for this thing that's just out of my grass. Hers
Speaker 1: was right here, she grabbed it, and I was so
Speaker 1: happy to do this for this woman that I profoundly.
Speaker 1: I went home. I probably cried for about a half
Speaker 1: an hour straight. It really it impacted I mean it
Speaker 1: impacts me too, but like that was a moment that
Speaker 1: like it changed the course of your thought about life
Speaker 1: without a doubt, without a doubt. It it it made
Speaker 1: me want to be to find happiness in this simplicity.
Speaker 1: It doesn't like, look, we get one ride on this rock,
Speaker 1: what am I chasing? The happiness I get you on that?
Speaker 1: And especially so easy, there's always something else to get.
Speaker 1: And as soon as you get what you think you wanted,
Speaker 1: there's something else and someone else has this, and it's like,
Speaker 1: but like, what are we actually going for happiness? Look
Speaker 1: what you got in front of you get that beautiful baby,
Speaker 1: and you get that tall, strapping, handsome husband, and happiness
Speaker 1: is in front of you every day. But for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: we're always looking at our front door for happiness and
Speaker 1: so look, obviously you can't it. There has to be
Speaker 1: the blend. There has to be the balance, and part
Speaker 1: of the balance has to be that happiness is in
Speaker 1: front of you and to find that and to embrace
Speaker 1: it into not prioritize or to put your what you
Speaker 1: consider to be your financial happiness or your business above
Speaker 1: what really is important, which is those people when you're
Speaker 1: eighty who are going to be sitting next to you,
Speaker 1: smiling with you, laughing with you, rememory stories about your
Speaker 1: beautiful life, do you know? And so I don't know
Speaker 1: that I would have found that because I'm not sure
Speaker 1: I would ever allow myself to get off the wheel.
Speaker 1: L A, I get that. And so it's been such
Speaker 1: a and John arriving here, which brings me to I mean,
Speaker 1: I want to keep talking to you. I'm gonna start
Speaker 1: to wrap it up, but I want it brings me
Speaker 1: to you thriving, which is you're doing all these shows
Speaker 1: at Zaney's. They are hacked. You're doing like okay, So
Speaker 1: tell me about the one that's coming up, like this
Speaker 1: big one, because like I feel like you're like on
Speaker 1: top of your game here and like in your life emotionally, spiritually.
Speaker 1: Just hearing you in this interview and then like your
Speaker 1: career to me is like reflecting your internal state because
Speaker 1: your career is like crushing and thriving, and like if
Speaker 1: you're just doing so well here, I thank you for
Speaker 1: saying that I feel so good and that's a key
Speaker 1: thing to feel good as an artist. You know that
Speaker 1: to be true that you are when my shoulders were
Speaker 1: up like this. There was no flow, yes, and so
Speaker 1: I think nothing was coming out of and the things
Speaker 1: that we're coming out of me felt a little forced.
Speaker 1: And and one thing that really one thing that I
Speaker 1: really didn't do much in l A, just because I
Speaker 1: was more worried about what other common experience. Yeah, my
Speaker 1: guitar doing the guitar county and I love it. You know,
Speaker 1: there's silly parodies, I write some originals, I do some
Speaker 1: character stuff, but it's just silly fun and we and
Speaker 1: so on June, I'm recording my very first comedy and
Speaker 1: music album and I'm wanna have a pretty far I'm
Speaker 1: first penty it adds as so it's live. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be a live recording. So you are doing a show
Speaker 1: and you're recording the whole show. So that's a big deal, Josh.
Speaker 1: The other thing that I like to do, and I
Speaker 1: think we've talked, I'd like to push myself into things
Speaker 1: that make me nervous that I've never done. So live
Speaker 1: show means I don't get to stop down and do
Speaker 1: it over if I mess it up, which on a
Speaker 1: special is a little risky, but it's kind of how
Speaker 1: I like to do it. It's kind of how I
Speaker 1: like to do it. I really feel like, especially with art,
Speaker 1: that the perfection is in the imperfection. With love, especially live,
Speaker 1: I want to know I'm at a live show. I
Speaker 1: want to know that ship happens, life is happening, and
Speaker 1: we're still all here together and we can move on,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Like And so this show
Speaker 1: will have crazy surprise guests. Is there anything you can
Speaker 1: tell us that will be there? Well? As always, My
Speaker 1: partner in crime on stage is Felip Sweet from a
Speaker 1: little big thing. He's you know what he really is
Speaker 1: like and he and I are so similar in so
Speaker 1: many ways. We really love to just go what's gonna happen?
Speaker 1: I don't know, let's go see Let's have some fun
Speaker 1: and that's it and fun vibe to work with. And
Speaker 1: he's so talented. So when you're both talented and you're
Speaker 1: both willing to let it roll, you have all the
Speaker 1: creativity is just flowing. And neither one of us care
Speaker 1: about and I'm not going to use the word fail,
Speaker 1: but neither one of us care about bumps in the
Speaker 1: road on stage because that's part of the deal. That's
Speaker 1: part of the deal. And you know, what I think
Speaker 1: as an audience member, it's kind of fun to see
Speaker 1: that every now and then we're like, well that could work.
Speaker 1: You know. It's fun to see people recover from it too,
Speaker 1: because you're like everyone has bumps in the road in
Speaker 1: their life, and like when you see someone who's putting
Speaker 1: themselves out there on stage and then they can like
Speaker 1: recover and make it funny and like move along, it
Speaker 1: just kind of gives you, like the confidence in yourself
Speaker 1: that it's okay to mess up. It's fine. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: by the way, as an artist, for me, you can't
Speaker 1: get better unless you fail. You have to realize what
Speaker 1: doesn't work, you have to try, and if you don't
Speaker 1: try new things, a lot of times you never find
Speaker 1: the gym. So true, you never find the gym any things,
Speaker 1: and push yourself into that uncomfortable place too, because it
Speaker 1: just stretches you to that spot where like, yeah, there
Speaker 1: it is, there's a gym. Do you remember, I imagine
Speaker 1: for you because you're very open on his person, but
Speaker 1: do you remember the first time you kind of dipped
Speaker 1: your toe into that water in public and how nerve
Speaker 1: racking that was? Well, that would probably be for me
Speaker 1: when I started like singing live in front of people,
Speaker 1: like even like in like high school and junior high
Speaker 1: and started performing, and I really wasn't that great at
Speaker 1: the time. I got a lot better. Yeah, you start
Speaker 1: putting yourself out there to be judged on your what
Speaker 1: you think is your talent. You know. So, by the way,
Speaker 1: why aren't you and I singing a song on stage?
Speaker 1: Retired from singing, but I still can sing. I just
Speaker 1: don't really sound live a long time. I mean, but
Speaker 1: what we're doing together, and you've heard me singing, so
Speaker 1: you're gonna sound great next to me. And we'll write
Speaker 1: a funny song. We could write a funny song about marriage. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm not shutting down the idea, Okay, I keep I'll
Speaker 1: keep it open. June twenty off, Guys, it's live. It
Speaker 1: is going to be It's gonna be a bang, and
Speaker 1: they can everyone to buy the CD afterwards. H Yeah.
Speaker 1: I will post the video on my YouTube page and
Speaker 1: then um, I will release it on iTunes and if
Speaker 1: you if you, yeah, I do like in my stand up,
Speaker 1: which I do like storytelling, and so it's becomes a
Speaker 1: mixture of storytelling you news. What is your YouTube page
Speaker 1: and your website, Where does everyone find you? Website is
Speaker 1: comedian Joshua dot com. Social media is all josh Wolf
Speaker 1: comedy and uh, I think it's Josh Wolf Comedy on
Speaker 1: YouTube too, and I think I got over a million
Speaker 1: people over there, and the videos are a ton of them.
Speaker 1: That's so big, they'll have a million people following you.
Speaker 1: Do you think like a million people or do you
Speaker 1: just think of it as like you're just talking. I
Speaker 1: am so humbled. This is true every time I step
Speaker 1: on stage, and I mentioned there's a lot on stage,
Speaker 1: especially on the roof. It's a very humbling job for
Speaker 1: me because when I see people in the audience, even
Speaker 1: if there's only say there were only ten people there,
Speaker 1: I still know who's on my list of people that
Speaker 1: I would leave my house to go see. So to
Speaker 1: be on anyone else's list is like so humbling. It's
Speaker 1: hard for me to put it into words. That's expective
Speaker 1: to always do it like that. But someone is willing
Speaker 1: to go to the effort to leave their house, to
Speaker 1: spend the money to buy the ticket, to arrange whatever
Speaker 1: they need to arrange to be there to see you,
Speaker 1: because it's worth their time. It's what makes them feel better.
Speaker 1: I always think that, like, what is it as an
Speaker 1: entertainer that you are offering to someone? What are you
Speaker 1: giving to them to bring them something that they need
Speaker 1: in their life? And that's where I feel like entertainment
Speaker 1: is so precious is because everyone has hard lives and
Speaker 1: struggles and things they have to deal with. So entertainment
Speaker 1: is that moment to laugh, to feel something, to reset
Speaker 1: your soul, to get out of your grind. It's needed.
Speaker 1: It's important for your spiritual being to like drop that
Speaker 1: guard that you carry all day and that monkey on
Speaker 1: your back and like have a good time, you know,
Speaker 1: like people need that. I think the biggest thing for
Speaker 1: me that And when I talk to a lot of
Speaker 1: people over this past year, when I asked them, I'm like,
Speaker 1: what's the A couple of tell me the big things takeaways?
Speaker 1: And there were three big takeaways that were consistent. One
Speaker 1: I it made me refocus on what was important in
Speaker 1: my life. I hear that over and over again about
Speaker 1: and whatever it is that was important. It made you go,
Speaker 1: what what have I been doing right? The other thing
Speaker 1: that um being inside for a year made people remember
Speaker 1: I gotta remember to have fun. Like I think people
Speaker 1: go through their lives and forget to have fun. Anytime
Speaker 1: anybody tells me I didn't have time, all I don't
Speaker 1: have time, I don't. So you break down your entire day.
Speaker 1: And I don't know about you, but I funk about
Speaker 1: for more, way more than a half an hour a day.
Speaker 1: You can't find fifteen minutes for yourself every day, that's
Speaker 1: a lie. At the minimum, fifteen minutes. What do you like?
Speaker 1: What is it you like? And make sure for at
Speaker 1: least fifteen minutes a day a you're finding that piece.
Speaker 1: And I think over this past year, a lot of
Speaker 1: people have been like, yeah, I just need to remember
Speaker 1: what I like to do and to do that, you know,
Speaker 1: and entertainment, man, you got people forgot to have fun.
Speaker 1: That people have been living their whole lives with no fun.
Speaker 1: It's stress, stressful, and like all the good stuff comes
Speaker 1: when you let yourself have fun, because then you can relax,
Speaker 1: and then you can let your soul come out, and
Speaker 1: then you can remember why maybe you're here a little bit,
Speaker 1: not just to work and die. There's so much more.
Speaker 1: What you get one ride on this rod? One you
Speaker 1: get one ride? How do you want to live it?
Speaker 1: You want to live it, um yelling at people online
Speaker 1: who probably aren't even the people you think they are.
Speaker 1: Or do you want to go outside like your life
Speaker 1: and enjoy your own life? You know, I really believe
Speaker 1: this to be true, and um, I think if you
Speaker 1: you could probably take this the wrong way. But the
Speaker 1: way I mean it is is I think if you
Speaker 1: really want to make a difference, and if everybody was
Speaker 1: like I want to make a difference, cool, that everybody
Speaker 1: should take care of the people who live in their community. Right,
Speaker 1: be good to the people who live in your community.
Speaker 1: So if it's a bad always rapidly leave your life.
Speaker 1: So what do you want people to know? So I
Speaker 1: feel like this is it? How do you let's wrap
Speaker 1: this up with this? Because this is a good ending moment.
Speaker 1: I love this. Take care of the people live in
Speaker 1: your community. Right. This doesn't mean you don't care about
Speaker 1: other ethnicities or other marginalized groups. But so say we
Speaker 1: live in If the ven diagram is you're taking care
Speaker 1: of people in your community, well you and I both
Speaker 1: belong to different communities, right, so some overlap, but if
Speaker 1: everybody is good to the people in their community, it
Speaker 1: overlaps to the point where we're all just good to
Speaker 1: each other. Do you know what I'm saying? I should Look,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna use this as an example, and I'm not
Speaker 1: going to get into whatever side side somebody might think
Speaker 1: I am. But I've seen Portland being thrown in the
Speaker 1: news for the last year Portland Portland, Portland as a
Speaker 1: rally rallying cry. Why do the people who don't live
Speaker 1: in Portland give us ship? Take care of what's happening
Speaker 1: in Alabama? Or do you know what I mean? Like,
Speaker 1: if you're worrying about ship, that don't affect your life,
Speaker 1: And the only way it affects your life is it
Speaker 1: adds stress and anger because you're letting people push fear
Speaker 1: of look around you. Take care of the people in
Speaker 1: your community. Does that people need that person needs a lift?
Speaker 1: Does this food bank need help? Can I have? You know?
Speaker 1: Just do we need to volunteer at the school? Whatever
Speaker 1: it is? Everybody does that? What's the problem. I agree
Speaker 1: with you. I totally agree that if we all took
Speaker 1: care of everyone around us, if we all did that,
Speaker 1: then what a wonderful world it would be. It's it's
Speaker 1: it's not as hard as it seems. And and um,
Speaker 1: this one person can't do everything, and I think that's
Speaker 1: like the stress that I feel, especially with like all
Speaker 1: the news and all the social media and all the
Speaker 1: access to seeing everything going on at all times. I'm
Speaker 1: a super empathetic feeling person, and I feel like a
Speaker 1: lot of people are too, and it just feels like
Speaker 1: it's just too much, Like I don't even know how
Speaker 1: to like get it, get going to help all these
Speaker 1: giant problems, Like I feel like I can all. And
Speaker 1: I've kind of come to the same realization with you
Speaker 1: because I'm like, what am I doing to help the world,
Speaker 1: And I was like, you know what I am? What
Speaker 1: is what I can contribute is my podcast. I can
Speaker 1: bring guests on that share stories that can help others
Speaker 1: and that can spread and that's where I feel like
Speaker 1: I have a gift. And then I can help where
Speaker 1: I live in my community exactly what you're saying and
Speaker 1: what comes into my life that I can be a difference.
Speaker 1: I can do that. But besides that, you can't stretch
Speaker 1: yourself out across the whole world. It's not possible. It's
Speaker 1: really very difficult. And by the way, I'm not saying
Speaker 1: that we shouldn't be trying to supply clean drinking water
Speaker 1: to places in Africa. And I understand that what I'm
Speaker 1: saying can be broken down to you broke blah blah.
Speaker 1: But I think the thing I will add to that
Speaker 1: is I think you can do things worldwide, but you
Speaker 1: need to let yourself be called to it, like you
Speaker 1: just you don't have to do everything in the world
Speaker 1: because you said you have to. I think you should
Speaker 1: go where you feel a calling to help, because then
Speaker 1: you really will impact. I agree, and I also am affirmed.
Speaker 1: And this is just again me, but I feel like
Speaker 1: kings well, like I feel like I'm more useful talking
Speaker 1: to people individually or in groups in person. I don't
Speaker 1: do a lot of spousing about stuff online because it
Speaker 1: becomes white noious, And I really do want to be useful,
Speaker 1: but I want to be useful in the way that
Speaker 1: I think that I I can be, like I know me,
Speaker 1: and I think the changes that I make are best
Speaker 1: face to face with people, and if that's one at
Speaker 1: a time, five people at a time, or whatever it is.
Speaker 1: But I think Twitter and face Book and Instagram you
Speaker 1: just end up shouting and do an echo chamber. And
Speaker 1: I don't know that anybody's minds or lives are changed,
Speaker 1: you know, and so I choose not to do that,
Speaker 1: and I choose to make my difference in the world
Speaker 1: in real time. M hmm. But there may be someone
Speaker 1: who feels like they connect on you know, YouTube or
Speaker 1: Instagram or whatever. So it's really goes back to you
Speaker 1: have to do what feels right for you where you
Speaker 1: can make the difference and really like feel like you're
Speaker 1: impacting in your own life. And then we're just gonna die.
Speaker 1: So that's it. That's it, and then you just hip start.
Speaker 1: You high five someone on the way out. Good luck
Speaker 1: out over from here, it's gonna be a long, buppy journey.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have a lot of great times. It's as
Speaker 1: gonna be really emotionally stressful, and probably some trauma's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: But overall, I hope you get to the point where
Speaker 1: you see the point of it all. Yeah, enjoy yourself.
Speaker 1: I don't forget to have a good time. I up that, okay, Joshua,
Speaker 1: If you're amazing, I can literally talk to you for hours.
Speaker 1: You're such an awesome guy. I'm so happy to have
Speaker 1: you as a friend. I love your comedy and everyone
Speaker 1: who's in Nashville. You'll need to go June twentie. Get
Speaker 1: your tickets for Zanies because I'm sure it will be packed.
Speaker 1: And then if you can't make it, make sure you
Speaker 1: follow along on Josh's handles and figure out how to
Speaker 1: get this live CD that's going on. Then you're coming
Speaker 1: to the show, aren't you. Yeah, I'm gonna call. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna really play for it and get a babysitterre and stuff. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's hard for me to fly by a stick in
Speaker 1: my pants, no, you know, but I uh yeah, we'll
Speaker 1: be there. Yeah, it's so it's the opposite for me. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm like, what are we doing? I don't know, ask
Speaker 1: me tomorrow. Isn't that great that you like you? You
Speaker 1: know what it's like to be strapped down in the
Speaker 1: best way by kids where it's like you have to
Speaker 1: only do what you can do and then that's it,
Speaker 1: nothing extra. And then when the kids are all grown
Speaker 1: and like on their own, it's like you got I mean,
Speaker 1: you can just run wild. I got a hot wife,
Speaker 1: we got some pretty time. Yeah yeah, yeah. Now, I
Speaker 1: will tell you we're at an age now where if
Speaker 1: someone was like I want to have sex all night long.
Speaker 1: I'd be like, that sounds terror, that sounds I'm good
Speaker 1: for one time in an episode of Friends? How about that?
Speaker 1: Can we can we compromise? You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Right now, at my point in life, if someone was like,
Speaker 1: I want to have a threesome, I'd be like, cool,
Speaker 1: my threesome. My my my ideal threesome is Beth. Beth and
Speaker 1: I are having sex and you're cleaning up the house.
Speaker 1: Is that cool? Well? I mean, really, fantasy st change
Speaker 1: the longer the older evolved. They definitely do. They definitely well,
Speaker 1: josh thank you so much for joining me. You're awesome.
Speaker 1: This is so fun, and everyone check them out just online,
Speaker 1: josh all things. I don't know your handles, but what
Speaker 1: are they spout them out over time. Me and Joshua
Speaker 1: dot com is the website in Joshua comedy and all socials. Okay, great, okay,
Speaker 1: Joshua