#1981 - Pauly Shore

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[7] I feel like I'm going on up to the mothership with these things.

[8] Dude, you fucking killed at the mothership.

[9] That was the funniest I've ever seen.

[10] You were so loose and so silly.

[11] It was fun to see it.

[12] First of all, you could tell you've been doing stand -up.

[13] You look super comfortable, but you were so loose.

[14] It's, you know, it's stand up as you know, as you know, as a rhythm, you know, and you just kind of figure it out when you're on stage and you never know what the fuck's going to happen.

[15] Yeah.

[16] Yeah, he just, that night was just, you know, David was nice enough to let me on his show.

[17] And after I, you know, put my finger under his boobs sweat, I went like this.

[18] I like to do that a lot.

[19] And then he's got sweaty brows and I did like, like, Yeah, and it got me excited.

[20] For hormones.

[21] Yeah, yeah.

[22] And then I went, and then I saw Montgomery, and he had his flip his hair over, and then I punched Hans in the stomach, and then I got on stage.

[23] It was all happening.

[24] Perfect.

[25] Yeah, yeah.

[26] Sequence of events.

[27] So, no, it's, you know, what you set up there, it's, you know, it's in my veins.

[28] It's really in my veins.

[29] Like, just the second I walked in that room, I just felt this focus.

[30] And that's what I said to you.

[31] I just really feel like there's a, focus there.

[32] Well, that club was a rock and roll club.

[33] I mean, you see the picture that's in the tunnel when you walk onto the stage?

[34] Yeah.

[35] When you see the big picture of Steve Ray Vaughn.

[36] That's him performing on that stage in 1983.

[37] Yeah, that's the old Alamo draft house.

[38] It was only the Alamo draft house from the two, I think it was like 2007 on.

[39] Okay.

[40] Before that, it had been a bunch of things.

[41] It was a pool hall at one point in time.

[42] It was a nudie movie theater at one point in time.

[43] It was a punk rock club Like all the posters that you see That are in the green room That are in that those are all posters Of people performing at the Ritz It's all like the Misfits Before the Ritz before the Alamo Yes Oh it's been the Ritz since 1927 It has to stay the Ritz No matter what it is that sign The Ritz always exists Because it's a historical landmark Right Yeah I know Well it's just What you gutted it out though And you just I mean how much I mean you allowed to say how much money he spent on it?

[44] Yeah, well, I'm allowed to say it.

[45] Oh, you don't say it.

[46] Okay, well, you spent a lot, you spent a lot of money on it.

[47] Yeah, yeah, he had to spend money.

[48] And those two stages weren't.

[49] You have to pay construction people.

[50] Yeah, no, I get it.

[51] Yeah, they did a great job.

[52] It was, they fucking nailed it.

[53] Were there two stages before?

[54] Yes.

[55] Oh, wow.

[56] They had converted it when they converted it to the movie theater.

[57] I think that's when they turned it into two rooms.

[58] Huh.

[59] Yeah.

[60] I don't know how they did it, but we have the same architect, fortunately.

[61] So he knew exactly all the bones.

[62] the beams and all that stuff yeah all that stuff we're the electricals yeah so you know there's this thing that's happening you know and obviously i've been in it my whole life you know since i was four yeah and you know and it's i'm you know first of all i'm so proud of you you know i have i see you sometimes and we give each other hugs i say i love you and but i don't get to say how proud i am of you i've seen you my whole you know for years and and um You know, on behalf of my mom, too, you know, because I know how much you love her, and I know how much she means to you, and I know how far you've come.

[63] I know how far you've come, because I remember when you first stepped at the store, and I remember seeing you in Boston, and I remember, because we're the same age, and we came up at the same time.

[64] Yeah.

[65] And I'm so proud of you, dude.

[66] And when I saw you on that, when I saw you on that stage at MGM, when you worked with Chappelle, I was like, this guy's fucking funny.

[67] You know, like really funny, dude.

[68] And I'm not just saying that because, you know, you become this, you know, this, this massive business and you're just this, I'm saying that from comic to comic.

[69] I'm really proud of you.

[70] Thank you very much.

[71] Appreciate it, man. Yeah, and you're funny, dude.

[72] You know, well, no, for real.

[73] Because I've seen it all.

[74] I've seen, I've seen the best.

[75] You know, I see, I see you on stage.

[76] I see Knesson.

[77] You know, I've seen Kennison, I've seen prior, I've seen Eddie, I've seen all these guys at their best And then when I saw you at MGM, I'm like fuck dude, you're really like in the pocket Thank you're not pushing it you know what I mean and it's great been doing a lot of sets and moving out to here It kind of changed everything because I first of all I realized how important the store was Like I knew I was going to live out here but that having a community and having a place where you get to see people do sets all the time and you work with killers like all the time on the road the thing is you don't really work with other people that much you work with the two people that you bring with you or one person that you bring with you and you're not like in the mix with all the killers and i think that that's very critical to what we do well that's what you've done out here yeah that was that was the thing to do it was like the thing to do it was like there were so many comics that had decided to move here and a lot of them knew that i i tried to do it at another place and didn't work out and so that was like a big delay that that took like an extra year took a long -ass time yeah i mean um hans montgomery david lucas these these you know working with tony and just seeing these guys grow and now they're fucking headlining shows yeah i mean it's fucking derrick postin you've seen derrick and his honor those guys are killing yeah there's so much tighter and they're doing so many sets because we're doing two shows a night in both rooms So there's two shows in each room And night So they're getting all this stage time There's open mic nights, two nights a week Just like the store Yeah I talked to Lucas at the store Who you know works at the bar And I'm like dude You gotta just move out to Austin Because this is happening out here Lucas Earl He's a funny dude Yeah he's very funny And he's a nice guy and he cares And and you know Like you just said your guys Are becoming monsters on stage And a lot of it has to do with You know the platform that you gave them, you know.

[78] And I love the fact that you put the phones in the purses, you know, they put the phones in the...

[79] Yonder bags.

[80] Yeah, it's fucking...

[81] I think every comedy club should do that.

[82] That is a definite sense of freedom.

[83] Yeah, there's that, too, and it also keeps people from being distracted.

[84] Like, people are just so addicted to their fucking phones.

[85] I know.

[86] It makes a show better.

[87] I wanted to put my...

[88] I wanted to put this in a yonder here, and it's already...

[89] It's off.

[90] I still want to just want to fucking throw it.

[91] One of the things I've learned from...

[92] from doing this podcast is that it's really the only time during the day where I get to sit for a few hours and not look at my phone.

[93] Yeah, I'm not always just checking my email, checking my text message, responding to the text message I haven't responded to you, trying to keep up with email.

[94] Yeah, it's overwhelming.

[95] Yeah, I just did a five -day, pretty intense group therapy that I've been involved with since I was 19 years old and deals with a lot of trauma, different things like that and I'm actually a staff I kind of help people out with the stuff they go through and in return when you help people out you get help too like for instance for me you know I've been doing it since I was 19 and it's a five day program and it just helped me deal with the trauma you know my parents my parents passing and you know just different things that have happened personally in my life because you know I know when I was on here last time I was talking about the career and this and that and all these different things and you know a lot of those things that you know happen to us as people and people listening aren't who we are it's kind of it's it's circumstances that have happened to us that we become angry or become sad or we become depressed but it's not who we are because who we are are are we start off with it as innocent babies you know we go into the world and all these fucked up things kind of happened to us and you know the the the stuff with my family and the door and my mom, you know, I'm not just a whatever guy.

[96] I'm not Donald Trump.

[97] You know what I mean?

[98] Even though probably underneath it, he's probably fucked up, but I don't have, you know, but as far as being.

[99] You're not a turtle shell.

[100] Yeah, I have this emotion.

[101] I got that from my mom and my dad.

[102] And, and it's hard.

[103] You know what I mean?

[104] It's hard.

[105] But so I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, it's 30 years and I just want to try to be joyful and you know and and my thing is half full you know a lot of us in life we always look at other people and we're always like going you know oh like I can look at Adam Sandler I can look at all these guys that are just you know or I can you know look at the fact of what I have you know and it's and and I'm not the only one I think everyone should you know think about that because especially like you said with social media everyone compares himself how many people are watching how many people like us and all that shit yeah that's so fucked up for kids because they're just constantly comparing each other's likes and you know who you know who's got more followers and they're all competing against each other then you then you hear about these kids that are like youtube stars that are 14 15 years old and they've got millions of followers like what's the youngest YouTube star that has like a giant following these kids are essentially getting like and the tic -tokers the toys he's probably wasn't he like seven and he had like oh yeah that guy's that's insane maybe he's 10 now yeah he's that guy that's insane that little kid probably can't go anywhere imagine him trying to go to the park all the little kids probably freak out where's the toys bitch what did you do with the extra toys but what about what about you I mean you're you've really like I mean you've I've seen it everyone has seen it you've just really I mean you've how do people how do people get to you it's difficult no but you know what I'm saying how do you like for instance like you don't have a booker on this show well I do but I don't like I choose yeah you're the booker yeah but it's not like someone like picks the line up yeah and then I go over it with them no so like for instance like Nicholas Cage is my next -door neighbor in Las Vegas like he's a friend I've known him for many years like how would he get to you if he Oh, I love to have him on.

[106] I love that guy.

[107] Yeah.

[108] He's awesome.

[109] I saw a video they did about his house in Vegas.

[110] Oh, yeah, 60 minutes, right?

[111] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[112] He's awesome.

[113] I love that guy.

[114] I met him once a long time ago at a boxing gym.

[115] Yeah.

[116] He was there with his son.

[117] His son was taking lessons at this boxing gym that I used to work out in Hollywood.

[118] Super nice guy.

[119] But it was a weird one, you know.

[120] I was like, whoa, that's Nicholas Cage.

[121] Just hanging out in the boxing gym with a kid.

[122] So how do people like that get to you to get out of?

[123] this show just like this like this he he texts you you text me hey what's up right right nice to meet you he would be great on your show yeah yeah he'd be awesome he's a fun dude he's fucking I mean that with that Nicholas Cage movie what was it what was it what was it was the act I don't want to fuck the title but him and Pedro Pascal oh my god that movie's good yeah he's a he's fantastic wearable weight of massive talent yeah yeah so good because I see because Mark Maren I see at the store all the time and and he's always like you know You're Nicholas Cage, your next -door neighbor.

[124] You know, I wanted to have the podcast.

[125] And I'm like, and I text Nick.

[126] I'm like, yo, my friend Mark Maren wants to be on the podcast, and he didn't text me back.

[127] You know.

[128] So, I mean, not to dismark Mareem.

[129] I don't know.

[130] Maybe he was just too busy.

[131] Maybe he went on a retreat.

[132] The what?

[133] A retreat.

[134] Maybe he put his phone down for a week.

[135] Yeah.

[136] He did one of those things.

[137] Yeah.

[138] Could be.

[139] So, yeah.

[140] So I think he would be great on this.

[141] So if I know.

[142] I know any people that I think that you would like, I'll pass it to you.

[143] Yeah, so, yeah.

[144] It's a weird thing to, you know, have like this sort of a show.

[145] Yeah.

[146] But I got to keep doing it the way I've always done it.

[147] This is the way I've always done it.

[148] This is when you started in the basement with Red Band, right?

[149] Well, we were in a, we were started on my couch, right?

[150] On my couch, and then we moved to, I had a spare bedroom that I had converted into an office.

[151] So then we converted my office into the podcast studio.

[152] So it was half my office, half of it was the podcast studio.

[153] It was like so rudimentary.

[154] It was so, dude, it was so like Wayne and Garth, you know, right?

[155] Just like in the basement.

[156] It was, you know what it was?

[157] It was the response to, I always wanted, I loved the hang of being on those morning talk shows, but I knew that nobody would ever give me one.

[158] And I probably wasn't good at it anyway.

[159] Like, podcasting is like anything else, I think.

[160] I think you'd get better at it the more you do it.

[161] If you go back and listen to my early ones, that was terrible.

[162] You get better at it.

[163] And I think that what we missed was like the Opie and Anthony hang.

[164] You do the Open Anthony show.

[165] It was a bunch of comics just sitting around talking shit about things.

[166] It was so fun.

[167] So do you ever prepare for your interviews?

[168] Oh, yeah, for sure.

[169] Oh, really?

[170] Depending on who they are.

[171] Right.

[172] So did you prepare for this?

[173] No. No, you're my friends.

[174] He's like, fuck.

[175] I don't have to prepare for you.

[176] This is going to fuck.

[177] I have to prepare for things like.

[178] Oh, like scientists and things like that.

[179] If someone's coming on to discuss something really crazy, like I, I, I, I have.

[180] I really have to pay attention to what the questions are that I can ask.

[181] Like we had, Michio Kaku was on yesterday.

[182] Mishu Kaku.

[183] Do you know what he is?

[184] I heard about him.

[185] He's the scientist.

[186] Yes, he's a quantum physicist.

[187] And he was on discussing quantum computing.

[188] And it's so above my...

[189] I can't even open my laptop, though.

[190] It's so above my head.

[191] Yeah, yeah.

[192] It's so over my head.

[193] It's so hard to...

[194] He's like...

[195] He's so smart.

[196] It's like he's like hanging out with toddlers.

[197] You know, like, when he's...

[198] When he was...

[199] 17 years old he made a particle collider in his garage I don't know what a particle collider is it's miles and miles of copper tubing and it sends something through it and he photographed antimatter in his garage with this device when he was 17 wow that's a different kind of human you know 17 you were hanging out the store 17 I was in Newton Massachusetts like being a moron like this guy was making a particle collider at his basement or in his garage.

[200] It's crazy.

[201] There's people that are just, there's so much smarter than you in different ways, right?

[202] Like, I don't think he probably wouldn't be a great comic, but there's so, there's so, so, so you had to do a little research for, yeah, what's it called Michi chukukakakas?

[203] Michiokaku.

[204] Um, but some even more than that, like it depends on, you know, whatever the subject is.

[205] Like, some, some people I want to read their book first and then have them on, stuff questions.

[206] Yeah.

[207] And then as far as, And as far as living out here now, being in Austin, Austin is very, I don't want to use the word liberal, but there's a lot of hipsters and people's skinny jeans and that stuff.

[208] Is it weird being, because I don't want to say you're red or you're not red, because I don't fucking know.

[209] Most people think you're red.

[210] Is it like you're, you're red living in a blue city and a red state?

[211] That is, this is a blue city, but I'm not really red.

[212] What I don't think either.

[213] No, no. I've never voted Republican in my life.

[214] Yeah, I think that both systems suck.

[215] And I think that what I'm pushing back against is the crazy ideologies.

[216] It has nothing to do with universal basic income.

[217] It has nothing to do with welfare.

[218] It has nothing to do with funding community programs and cleaning up cities.

[219] Like, I'm all for all that stuff.

[220] I'm even for higher taxes if I believe the government was competent with your money.

[221] and it's not I'm not like higher if it's higher taxes and it proves that we have less crime and the world's a safer place that would be great but that doesn't seem like they know how to do that and it does what it seems like when you give a lot of money to the government they create a lot of government jobs and those government jobs make those people a lot of money we looked into the homeless situation in LA and it's my friend colion noir told me about this because he's a lawyer and he went to san francisco and he was in san francisco He was talking to somebody.

[222] It's like, why haven't they fixed the homeless thing?

[223] It's like a funding issue.

[224] And the guy was like, no, it's the opposite.

[225] They make so much money.

[226] The people that are in charge of dealing with the home situation, some of them are making more than $200 ,000 a year.

[227] Like $240 ,000 a year.

[228] And the homeless thing just keeps getting worse.

[229] So what do you think it is?

[230] Your opinion?

[231] It's mental health.

[232] Mental health.

[233] It's people that are addicted to drugs.

[234] There's a lot of soldiers.

[235] Unfortunately, there's a lot of vets.

[236] They came back and they're experiencing.

[237] were very traumatic for them and they never recovered and maybe they got on drugs as well there's a lot of people with mental they need group therapy you know it all started doing during the Reagan administration I believe check if this is true I think during the regular administration they changed what like they can do in terms of like mental health institutes they decided to like let people out instead of like there's certain people that just they have to be cared for you know they're so compromised that in a a a a good, just society, you would care for those people.

[238] And there would be a dedicated place, just like this dedicated place for people who have bad knees, you go and get surgery.

[239] You know, they don't go fucking walk it off, pussy, hobble around.

[240] No, they have a place that's dedicated.

[241] No, it's similar to AA, right?

[242] I mean, AA is pretty much a place, you know, for, we all have friends that are in AA, and they go there and they have, was it the 10 -step rules?

[243] 12, or 12 steps.

[244] how what not to do when you physically walk in a bar so here it is nineteen eighty one president ronald reagan who had made major efforts during his governorship to reduce funding and enlistment for california mental institutions pushed a political effort through the u s congress to repeal most of m h s a was considered landmark legislation in mental health care policy so i think what happened was when that m h s a act got passed in 1980, what happened was they just started letting people out in the streets.

[245] When I was a boy, I remember a marked increase in homeless people in Boston when this happened.

[246] And I remember people talking about it.

[247] And they're like, dad, they're just letting them on the street now.

[248] Like, it's not caring for someone.

[249] That's not being kind.

[250] That's insane.

[251] And you would see people just having screaming matches with themselves.

[252] Like, they're clearly mentally ill and clearly not on medication.

[253] Just screaming at people that aren't there and fighting demons.

[254] You see it on the streets.

[255] So if you were president in a serious, serious, because obviously you could probably run and probably win if you want to.

[256] I know you don't want to.

[257] Dude, I'm not running for anything.

[258] I know, but I'm just saying if you decided and you and one of your arms was mental health, and that was what would you do if you were talking to say, Tony Hinchcliff was in charge of the mental health?

[259] What would you tell him to do?

[260] That's the last person I'd put in charge.

[261] He'd have them all killed.

[262] That's true.

[263] Tony Hinchcliffe would tell him, hey, guys, keep backing up.

[264] We're going to take a picture.

[265] Maybe the edge of a fucking cliff.

[266] Tony Hinchcliff's ruthless.

[267] So what would you say to that?

[268] It wouldn't be me, but if somebody was president, if they were going to fix this, what they would do is re -institute something like that.

[269] Change what that was and go back not just to the old way, but even better.

[270] Go back to a way where if you have someone who's mentally compromised, you know that they could be cared for, and we would be willing to pay for that in taxes.

[271] I'm sure we would.

[272] I'm sure we would.

[273] If they knocked homelessness down to like a tiny, tiny fraction of what it is now and our tax dollars paid for mental health institutions, institutes, who knows if that wasn't like more profitable for the overall society?

[274] It probably would be.

[275] It would probably be more profitable if there was less break -ins, less crime, less people have.

[276] overdoses in the streets you know less assaults less I mean who knows what horrific things go on in those encampments they basically there's like these chaos shanty towns in the middle of one of the biggest cities in the greatest country in the world and everyone's just tolerating it but meanwhile if you jaywalk on sunset they'll fucking arrest you yeah like it or at least they used to so so back to the AA situation because my father Sammy Sammy sure rest in peace he was an alcoholic so he had to drink so it wasn't like one drink and they but he had to keep going so that's what he did is he he had to stop then go to a so do you think there's something like that for for people for mental health besides a with all the because there's some people that are addicted to pills or you know what I mean well I think if anything we should open up all possible options and make them legal and that would include psychedelic therapies because I know many people who have done ibegain ibegain is not a fun one apparently i haven't experienced it myself but it's a 24 hour experience that just rips you down to the core of your being and explains to you in some strange way all the different moments in your life that have shaped you and all the different things that have become a problem people quit cigarettes like that after they do they quit heroin like that it also does something strange to remap the mind can you put a Is it ibiscent?

[277] What is it?

[278] Ibogain.

[279] Can you put that up so we can just stare at it for a sec?

[280] Ibogain.

[281] It's ibogane.

[282] Yeah.

[283] And it comes from the aboga tree.

[284] I think it's from Africa.

[285] Is it part of the ayahuasca thing?

[286] No, it's different.

[287] It's a different type of psychedelic.

[288] And you think if you take that or there's been studies, if you take that, then you can get rid of these things?

[289] Yeah, many, many, many people have gone and sought ibogane therapy to get rid of pills.

[290] So then if you were president, which you're not, but you would tell you, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, the people, the people, the people in jail or something.

[291] What I would say to anybody who was going to be president, like maybe a Tulsi Gabbard, that would be something to do.

[292] If we could institute Ibegain, we had Ibegain centers in this country where people could go and have these experiences, I think we could create better people.

[293] We'd have less people that are addicted to pills.

[294] Yeah.

[295] I mean, is it going to be a one size fits all for everyone?

[296] No, nothing is.

[297] Not therapy isn't, psychedelics aren't, you know, exercise isn't.

[298] There's not a one size fits all for anybody to fix your life.

[299] But if there's anything that has been shown to be very effective, I think we should explore that.

[300] And one of those things is illegal, that doesn't make any fucking sense.

[301] And one of those things that is illegal is Ivy Game.

[302] Yeah, my mom, when she started to get sick with Parkinson's, we took her to, was it the Bahamas, and she got fetal cells injected in her.

[303] Yeah.

[304] And that was something that she was, you know, she was very, she believed very strongly that, you know, putting she was like put some baby cells in me put some feet dude it was fucking insane it was like me and bob wheeler the comedy store uh accountant over there we flew down to the Bahamas because you couldn't do it here get the baby tissue I don't know dude it was we but we I remember it like it was yesterday so we drove in a you know the doctor my mom paid like 20 grand or 10 or 15 whatever it was and they you know within that the package deal is is the the flight the hotel, and then the baby fetuses.

[305] So we went down there and in a car picked us up.

[306] It had a sign, Mitzi Shore, and we went in there and then we drove her the next morning and we put her in a room with the doctor and they injected her with fetal cells.

[307] But I personally, because she had Parkinson's for a while, I personally think it actually helped her.

[308] You know, I think it prolonged because if you put the baby cells in there, obviously baby cells why is that so funny it's just so fucked up to think of but that she did it a couple times they they've been shown with stem cells just all kinds stem cells that um put the baby in me what are you doing put it stop fucking around put it in me let's go you know what I mean it's such your mom it's so funny your mom was the best yeah I tell everybody that your mom was the number one she was so funny dude number one most important person in comedy that wasn't a comedian.

[309] Your mom, 100%.

[310] She was number one.

[311] So, so, so fucking...

[312] Yeah, everything lined up.

[313] Yeah.

[314] They don't use baby cells anymore.

[315] But the baby thing, well, maybe they do.

[316] What are you talking about?

[317] They're great.

[318] They really prolong my life.

[319] That is the reason why it took so long for stem cells to get use and funding in America because the people, especially people in the right, I thought that stem cells had to be like aborted fetuses.

[320] Like everyone connected.

[321] You mean they're not?

[322] Yeah.

[323] What's going on?

[324] So I remember when the really religious right wing people were talking about that, I was like, oh, no, like, this is crazy.

[325] They're killing babies for stem cells.

[326] And then when I looked into it, I was like, oh, no, no, no. So there's a bunch of different.

[327] You get stem cells from bone marrow.

[328] You get stem cells from adipose tissue, from fat.

[329] I need some for my penis.

[330] Whoa.

[331] Puck, boom.

[332] Imagine if they figured out a way to make.

[333] your dick burger.

[334] That's what I'm saying.

[335] Or harder all the time.

[336] It would just be like girls with giant tits.

[337] That's what it would be like.

[338] Guys would just completely overdo it.

[339] They'd have a useless dick.

[340] I mean...

[341] There'd be a lot of Instagram pictures of guys with useless dicks just eat nothing.

[342] I mean, I think there should be, you know, should be something like that.

[343] I mean, they, what do they take the they take the fat off your butt and they put it in...

[344] Into your dick?

[345] Yeah, into your dick.

[346] And they make it...

[347] I don't think you should let them do that.

[348] Right.

[349] I did, you know what, I did have a bladder surgery.

[350] Yeah?

[351] Yeah, I did.

[352] What happened to your bladder?

[353] I was just peeing a lot.

[354] Was it leaky or something?

[355] No, it wasn't leaky.

[356] What happened was I would go pee at night and then my bladder wouldn't empty.

[357] So I'd go pee and then I lied back down.

[358] I'm like, fuck, I still have more pee.

[359] And I'd do that four or five times in the middle of the night.

[360] And then I finally went, I went and got a, I went to my doctor and he sent me up with a urologist at cedars and he was this gay dude and imagine that a gay urologist and this isn't a joke this is real and he's like let me see your dick i'm like dude that's not fucking cool come on let me see it the fuck and so i showed him my dick he's like ooh i'm like what the fuck no so so i did a procedure called resume so if you don't believe me it's you can why would i not believe well i'm just saying because it doesn't sound real.

[361] It doesn't sound real.

[362] It doesn't.

[363] But it's resume.

[364] I said, I go, what does this do?

[365] He goes, well, once you do the procedure, then you resume how he used to pee before you had a pee problem.

[366] So you wake up in the, they steam your prostate.

[367] Steam it.

[368] They steam it.

[369] Press it.

[370] Yeah, they steam it right there.

[371] A resume procedure uses sterile water vapor steam that is injected into the enlarged portions of the prostate.

[372] The steam causes the prostate cells that are responsible for the enlargement to die, which then leads the shrinkage of the prostate, which in turn creates a more open urinary pathway.

[373] Oh, that's interesting.

[374] That's pretty cool.

[375] It was a pretty easy procedure.

[376] Science.

[377] It was a pretty easy.

[378] Fix Paulie's dick.

[379] Don't do it.

[380] I don't want to see someone's dick get steamed.

[381] So you wake up in the morning, or you wake up after the procedure, it's only like a 15 -minute procedure.

[382] You wake up and I had a catheter in my chest.

[383] dick.

[384] And then I had a piss bag right here connected to it.

[385] So I said, how long do I have to wear this?

[386] He goes, for a week.

[387] I'm like, dude, that's fucked up.

[388] So for a week, bro, I'm like saying high five to my friend.

[389] I might even seen you with the peep bag.

[390] I had a piss bag.

[391] So do you like tape it to your body?

[392] No, you do a Velcro to your leg right here.

[393] Whoa.

[394] And so I had it for a whole weekend.

[395] It was the best week of my life.

[396] Because I'd be going to dinner with friends.

[397] Just be pissing and fucking talk.

[398] at the same time and they're like what's so what are you doing i'm like don't worry go on this is a great story this fantastic oh that's and then um i drove from i remember driving from las no driving from l .a to las Vegas and it's a four -hour drive i didn't have to stop once but when i got to Vegas i had a huge like piss tumor connected to my um connected to my leg because you just keep peeing and then and then at what point in time does it become disgusting like you charting around Yeah, after a week, then it's like a wreck.

[399] A week.

[400] Yeah, after a week.

[401] What's the longest you've gone without changing it?

[402] For real.

[403] Oh, no, you never change it.

[404] I mean, dump it out.

[405] Oh, you just, every couple hours, you dump it out.

[406] Every couple hours.

[407] Yeah.

[408] But then.

[409] You never, like, walked around like four or five hours with a bag of piss.

[410] No, no, no. But, uh, so that was.

[411] That's what I thought you were saying.

[412] Did that what you thought he was saying?

[413] Yeah.

[414] We got confused.

[415] Uh, so you have to change the actual physical bag itself.

[416] Yeah, yeah, you had to change the actual physical bag itself.

[417] probably smells yeah but it was it worked good so if there's any of your listeners that pee a lot in the middle of the night check out resume did you eat any asparagus i just talked to that oh did you see my pee was green or something no no no because if asparagus makes your pee smell oh i was wondering like could you smell it through the bag that would be interesting because if like we all went to dinner i'm like polly have some asparagus if i knew the you had the piss bag on and then if i just smell asparagus pee i'm like you motherfucker just sitting there They're peeing.

[418] No. Would you be upset?

[419] You know what that is when you smell it.

[420] I think I'll probably let everybody know I was peeing if that was going on.

[421] I'm like, hey, guys, I'm about to pee.

[422] Just let you know.

[423] I don't have to go anywhere.

[424] Yeah, it was great.

[425] It's tough to sell.

[426] Like, hey, that's actually science has shown that it's actually the best way to pee because you just pee whenever you want.

[427] And holding your pee is actually very bad for you.

[428] Really bad for you.

[429] So we're just going to give this.

[430] Everyone just start walking around with a piss bag slapped.

[431] Yeah, they need one for shit, I think.

[432] That you think?

[433] You know what I mean?

[434] Well, the dumbest thing we do for shit is just smear it with toilet paper.

[435] Like, once I got one of them toilets that squirts water at your butt.

[436] Oh, wow.

[437] You never had one?

[438] No, I've seen it, but I never had one.

[439] Really?

[440] You've got to get one of those.

[441] There's a whole bunch of them.

[442] That's a bidet, right?

[443] Well, it's not a bidet because it's like a toilet.

[444] It's like a toilet seat bidet.

[445] Oh, yeah, you have one in the other room.

[446] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[447] Yeah, your guys show me around your place.

[448] Go try it out.

[449] You guys show me around your place.

[450] So you got the sauna and you got the cold plunge in the back?

[451] Uh -huh.

[452] Yeah, that's dope.

[453] Have you done that?

[454] I've done it, yeah.

[455] I've been sauning.

[456] I mean, that's, every time I see you talk about the cold plunge and the sauna, I'm like, yeah, that's my guy.

[457] That's what I do.

[458] Cold plunge is the best.

[459] Both of them reset your brain so well.

[460] Yeah, I usually go to the Russian bath house in New York and L .A. And then also the Korean spa.

[461] I love it.

[462] Yeah, he loves that Russian bath house in New York.

[463] So he's always going on those.

[464] Yeah, it's the best.

[465] It's so good for your body.

[466] Yeah.

[467] It really is.

[468] Yeah, it's great.

[469] Yep.

[470] Wait, you living in Vegas still?

[471] No, I kept a place there, but I moved back to L .A. Oh.

[472] Yeah, so I got...

[473] It's cool.

[474] It's all right.

[475] Everything's good?

[476] Yeah, everything's awesome.

[477] It's, you know, I don't want to tell you where my house is.

[478] There's people listening.

[479] But, no, I'm very happy there.

[480] That's where I was born and raised.

[481] Yeah.

[482] So it's like, you know, I feel good there.

[483] But I like to leave.

[484] I like it here, dude.

[485] It's fine.

[486] I fucking love it here.

[487] This is really cool here.

[488] It's fun.

[489] And what you're doing is, I mean, it's great.

[490] Thank you.

[491] Well, that was the whole, I mean, it worked out better than I thought it could, but that was kind of the idea.

[492] And I think it was kind of cool that, I mean, not kind of cool, but I think just obviously everything is up to this guy upstairs, but I think the two -year kind of building up to it, got your guys better, got everyone better working at the Vulcan and working around town.

[493] And, you know, it was this pimple that everyone was developing and developing.

[494] And then finally, boom, the mothership came, and then boom, everyone's like, boom.

[495] And now it's just bo, blah, blah, boom.

[496] And it's this thing, yeah.

[497] Well, and also that everybody had kind of shared my sentiments about getting out.

[498] Like Tom Segura was one of the first.

[499] Tony Hinchcliff was one of the first.

[500] I think Tony came out first.

[501] Ron White was actually already here before the pandemic.

[502] And it was also one of the reasons why I loved it.

[503] Because he was always telling me, he's like, it's the best fucking city.

[504] You ain't got to deal with all the bullshit you deal with in Hollywood.

[505] And, you know, he would always talk so great about this town.

[506] Well, I think what you're doing for comedy is great.

[507] I mean, you're creating this Emerald City for New York and L .A. And people to come out here.

[508] And you got all these stages, and it's great.

[509] And then also, Red Band started a club, too.

[510] Yeah, right down the street.

[511] That's cool.

[512] Yeah.

[513] Well, it was a club that already exists, and he bought into it as an investor.

[514] And they have a really nice room.

[515] I think it's like 500 seats right down the street.

[516] Yeah.

[517] And I think it's great because I remember coming back, I'm coming to Austin in the 90s when I was touring.

[518] And everyone remembers Austin 6th Street music.

[519] Yeah.

[520] Austin 6th Street music.

[521] And now it's slowly starting to be comedy is the first thing.

[522] And then music is the second thing.

[523] And it's great.

[524] You know, I think...

[525] Well, that one little spot, you have the creek in the cave.

[526] It's on 7th.

[527] And then you have the Vulcan, which is on 6th, and we're on 6th.

[528] And then next to the mothership is the Sunset Strip Club.

[529] They're all in the same era.

[530] You could...

[531] So guys are walking from club to club and doing...

[532] sets in town and you guys are doing four or five sets a night sometimes especially when they're doing two shows in certain places so it's uh and then there's other rooms outside it's like people are starting their own rooms which always happens you know like open micers it's one of the things open micers have always done like they'll get a Wednesday at some place and and they start you know having people come in they work a deal with the door like really sort of you know business minded open micers have done that forever no it's great No, it's great, and you, you know, you're the leader.

[533] Well, I just did it because I could, you know.

[534] It was like one of those things was like, if someone could, they should.

[535] And you can, so why aren't you?

[536] Okay, well, you should.

[537] You know, I had like a talk with myself about it, like, God damn, do you really want to take on this?

[538] Because I would always tell people, be nice to comedy club owners, because you don't want to be one.

[539] You don't want to be some person hoping that this guy shows up and he wasn't doing coke last night.

[540] and he isn't on a two -day bender, he didn't miss his flight, or he didn't sleep in, or it didn't, you know, there's so many factors dealing with your livelihood if you're a club owner, and then, you know, you have people get too drunk, they're crazy, they do this, they that, they wreck their hotel room, and, you know, you're constantly, like, putting out fires.

[541] I'm like, if you can make a harmonious relationship with a club owner, do it.

[542] Try to be as nice to them as possible.

[543] You work together.

[544] You don't want to be them.

[545] You don't want to open a comedy club.

[546] It's too much work, but now I wound up doing it.

[547] Yeah, so what's it like being an owner?

[548] You're 100 % owner.

[549] Yeah.

[550] So what's it like?

[551] Well, it's easy because the people that are running it are great.

[552] You know, if it wasn't for Curtis and Adam and Eric and Jody and all the people and carry the people that we knew from the store, it wasn't for them, it wouldn't be able to work like this.

[553] They have such a long experience in running clubs.

[554] So that helps a lot.

[555] And then for comics that are a big, big factor.

[556] For comics that are listening that want to get in at your club, what's the process?

[557] Yeah, I'm not going to, like, put that out there to figure it out.

[558] They have to figure it out.

[559] The best way to do is go to Open Mic Nights.

[560] If you're just starting out, or, you know, Adam Eaget is the talent coordinator.

[561] If you're an established comedian, reach out to him.

[562] But he's been reaching out to everybody anyway.

[563] It's like, it's nice.

[564] It's been very smooth from the opening jump.

[565] And then mostly the small room is the development.

[566] Total room?

[567] Not always.

[568] No, Chappelle did that room.

[569] the he broke it in the first night it's a fun room to do sets because it's very intimate because it's 120 seats yeah no i love that room that was a great room yeah tonight tonight i'm doing your other room and i haven't i did kill tony last night and that was great so tonight's the first night that i'm going to do a spot your you'll love it yeah you love it the sounds amazing it's just it's all it just we really spent a lot of time making sure that everything was dialed in and also i brought in louis ck who helped a lot louis ck uh had me changed a couple things about the small room had me make the stage smaller and lower the ceiling even more the ceiling was already low it's like can you lower it more i was like i think we can can we lower it more and then there was like all these discussions so it actually delayed the opening by a few weeks from his suggestions but they were all awesome they were all perfect suggestions and then everybody else suggested things too tony had some suggestions david lucas had some suggestions like comics have been coming to visit this for the last year and a half we've been talking wouldn't do you think we should do this it's like one of those things so I get everybody together and I'm like okay should we have screens where you could wash the comics in the green room yeah okay what about like if we have a clock over the screen like everybody has like a different idea okay what about if we had stars I think it might have been Brian Simpson that had that idea we have you know because the star like the light in the OR we have a blue light and a green light so we have the blue one for the big room and a green one for the little room and they go off when it goes off in that room they go off also inside the green room.

[570] So you could be sitting there, I go, oh, he's got the light.

[571] And you see it, and you just walk right on the stage.

[572] And then when the customer walks in, explain, I know we've seen the video, but they walk in, they go upstairs.

[573] The bigger room is on the second floor, and then the smaller room is on the third floor?

[574] Is that?

[575] Yes.

[576] Yeah.

[577] Yeah, it's exactly what it is.

[578] Yeah.

[579] And then.

[580] It's horribly.

[581] I don't even think of it as having that many floors, but I guess it does.

[582] And then also, So I know when I was backstage with you, when we were kicking it, you looked at your curtains, and you said, oh, we got to change the curtain in the bigger room, so it looks like the smaller curtain.

[583] Yeah, the smaller room curtain's a better curtain.

[584] Yeah, it's weird to be just thinking about those things.

[585] Yeah, so should we tell Curtis to do that?

[586] No, it's already done.

[587] Oh, you already did it?

[588] Yeah, it should be this week.

[589] It should be put up.

[590] Holy shit.

[591] So it's going to match.

[592] Yeah, it'll be better.

[593] I was going to ask you, I've been doing a, for the last couple years, I've been doing a one -man show about my childhood.

[594] Yeah, and it's kind of like my version of Undisputed Truth, which is the Mike Tyson play.

[595] Oh, nice.

[596] So it's called Stick with the Dancing.

[597] So it's called Stick with the Dancing, because that's what Mom said to me after she saw me perform for the first time.

[598] That's hilarious.

[599] So because I performed...

[600] Well, why don't you come out and do a weekend.

[601] That's why I wanted to talk to you.

[602] Do you have screens on the bigger room?

[603] Yes.

[604] Okay, cool.

[605] Yeah.

[606] So if I perform, there's things...

[607] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[608] But we have a projector in the ceiling, and the sound guy can...

[609] Oh, great.

[610] I want to do that.

[611] It'll take a little extra coordination with whoever is doing it so they know what the files are and you can go over them with him.

[612] But I'm sure we could do it.

[613] Yeah.

[614] It's a pretty cool show.

[615] I can't wait to see it.

[616] Yeah, it's fun.

[617] Dude, you got babysitted by Sam Kinnison.

[618] It's one of the funniest fucking stories of all time.

[619] Like, what a crazy thing your mom did.

[620] It was she left you as a little child was one of the most maniacal comedians that's ever existed.

[621] Well, it wasn't exactly like that.

[622] It was more like Sam was, I was 14 years old.

[623] I was a shorter to cook at the comedy store in Westwood.

[624] My mom would put Sam on last, because all he would do is scream.

[625] And then he would literally, you know, there'd be six people left in the room in Westwood, and he'd throw the stools, he'd throw his stool at the audience members.

[626] They'd scamper off.

[627] He'd smoke weed in the parking lot.

[628] And then he would, you know, I'd feed him hamburgers.

[629] So I kind of just, I was always taking care of comedians.

[630] What year was this?

[631] This was probably 84, 85.

[632] I was in high school, yeah.

[633] So he really hit in 86.

[634] Yes.

[635] And he really hit.

[636] Yeah.

[637] So, did I ever tell you my story how I found out about him?

[638] It's probably Boston with Parento or something.

[639] No, a girl that I worked with at the Boston Athletic Club.

[640] Still to this day, I can't remember her fucking name.

[641] She was really cool, though.

[642] She was this big volleyball player girl, a big athletic girl.

[643] And she goes to me, she goes, have you seen Sam Kenney?

[644] Sam Kenison, whatever's name was.

[645] I go, no, I have it.

[646] And so she acts out in the parking lot, the whole bit about him, like being - No, no, no, the homosexual necrophiliax.

[647] Oh, God.

[648] Yeah, yeah.

[649] She acted it out in the parking lot.

[650] She's like, oh, oh, life keeps fucking in the ass, even after you're dead.

[651] It never ends.

[652] Me laughing at her, acting it out in the parking lot, made me go get the VHS tape.

[653] So I got a VHS tape of his, his HBO special and I was like holy shit so I found out about it from a girl acting out the bit she's on her stomach in the parking lot going oh oh feels like something's in my ass you can't believe it that angle was genius it's such a fucking hilarious genius genius point of view that that night was that was 1987 and that was at the roxy on sunset and my mom had an after party for him at the house at the Doheny house so that night afterwards Sam came to the house with everyone and um and I was so excited because I wanted to show my my saltwater fish tank because as a kid I had a saltwater fish tank and I brought him up to my room and I said Sam look at my tank and he wasn't impressed at all he's like but he told me to take the top off the saltwater fish tank was a big black top and I took it down he dumped all this coke on it and he started chopping up lines and he says, have fun.

[654] And me and my friend Dave, we snorted Sam's Coke that night.

[655] Oh, my God.

[656] And I felt like so cool.

[657] I felt like, no, for real.

[658] I was like, fuck this guy.

[659] You know, and then I just followed him around.

[660] So as far as him babysitting me, it was, it was.

[661] So that's just the way ever described it?

[662] Yeah, I mean, Lois Bromfield babysitting me, Jackson Purdue babysat me. So you were essentially.

[663] Mike Binder, Argus Hamilton, all those guys, you know.

[664] So you were essentially just like his young protege.

[665] Yeah, I would fall.

[666] It was like the Michael Joel.

[667] Jordan commercial.

[668] Like, you know, the kid wanted to be like, Mike, I want to be like, or I want to be like Sam.

[669] Right.

[670] So, yeah.

[671] Look at you.

[672] Yeah, so.

[673] What year is that?

[674] I was probably 11.

[675] Wow.

[676] It was probably 11.

[677] What a fucking crazy place to grow up.

[678] Yeah, back then.

[679] Oh, my God.

[680] Yeah.

[681] Back then.

[682] I mean, back then.

[683] I mean, there's so many stories, dude.

[684] I mean, I'm there now and it's, it's great.

[685] Obviously, it's the store.

[686] But when mom was there, it was just like, you never know what the fuck was going to happen.

[687] You never knew who was going to pull in the fucking lot you never knew who was going to come up it was just like yeah it was like it was like someone shooting guns yeah not literally but just as far as the energy boom boom boom i mean eddie murphy used to show up with like six rolls royces like for real dude and then richard would show up and you know and all these guys would just roll and this is this is around when you got there it was kind of towards right you got there 94 that was probably before when i got there yeah i saw the um the calendar you had from my mom where she put your name i thought that was really cool yeah it's very cool yeah so um yeah so that was that was that time you know you know i'm really proud of his argus this right here yeah what is that what year is that that was last year no i'm saying polly shore bringing up eddie murphy yeah when did eddie retire so he retired in what year he stopped doing stand -up when um i don't know so while i was that i was at his house probably five years ago, and I was just like, dude, what are you doing?

[688] Like, you're fucking, you're the best, dude.

[689] Like, let's go.

[690] He's like, literally the best.

[691] I think he should come out here and do it.

[692] He'd be great out, because you put the phones in the pouches.

[693] Well, he could do that anywhere if you want to do.

[694] I think the hard part would be, like, doing it.

[695] Just getting going.

[696] I think if he did it once, then he'd want to do it all the time.

[697] You know, but it's like you get locked up in that movie world.

[698] But he's also, in case in his house, that's the same thing with Dr. Dre.

[699] Dr. Dre, he would be great.

[700] on the show.

[701] I'd love to have him on.

[702] Okay, Dre, what's up?

[703] I'm going to put you on his show.

[704] So we could text him right now.

[705] So I've known, when my mom died, he was one of like the two or three people that really reached out to me because he knew how close I was with my mom.

[706] Yeah, he sent me flowers.

[707] It was really beautiful.

[708] Oh, that's cool.

[709] Yeah, it was great.

[710] That's very cool.

[711] And, um, but I went to his house, you know, these guys get, these guys are so, so big and so wealthy.

[712] They enclose himself.

[713] Right.

[714] So, um, I saw him at, I reconnected with him at Dave Chappelle's show at the Hollywood Bowl.

[715] And he's like, yo, hit me up, da -da -da -da -da -da.

[716] I hit him up.

[717] I go to his house.

[718] And it's like, you know what I mean?

[719] It's like he's, I don't want to reveal all the shit.

[720] But it's like, you know, it's pretty heavy.

[721] But I go in there.

[722] He's the same fucking guy that he was, you know, 20, 30 years ago.

[723] Of course.

[724] Most people are.

[725] They do deteriorate psychologically, though, in isolation.

[726] Yeah, he says, yo, man, you want to see.

[727] me you come here so it was pretty cool that's also a nice thing about having this club that I'm hanging around with comics all the time you know yeah it's just there's you're not isolated you're out there and as a comic one of things that does happen when you tour we're talking about you you bring an opening act you maybe hang out with them and that's it like that's the whole weekend it's kind of isolating and if you're not with that person then you go and you use like local opening acts.

[728] I mean, maybe it's great and you meet a great friend.

[729] That's how I met Sigura.

[730] Or maybe it's terrible.

[731] And you have a shitty weekend with people who don't like.

[732] So, yeah, so what do you think of these guys?

[733] I mean, I'm like, I'm a fan, you know, of you, of Tom, of Bert and all these guys.

[734] Like, what you, you've, do you ever pinch yourself and see what you've really, I'm not saying you're the holier than now person that did this, the talent, their talent speaks for themselves.

[735] But you have a lot to do with these guys' careers.

[736] Well, they have a lot to with mine too though that's part of the appeal of the show part of the appeal of the show is like having those guys on is great for me too yes it's great for everybody but i'm just saying because i again i've seen it i've seen the the slow build yeah but they're they're huge because they're great that that's what it is like you have to you have to do the work and put it in it's like everybody should have a chance to do it like giving someone a chance to excel you shouldn't get any credit for that like the people that excel they get the credit like what they're doing is what's exceptional and it's they put in the work guys like bert put in the work like he's selling out fucking arenas i know it's insane it's insane but he puts the working no one can deny that man he is the machine is the fucking machine bro yeah i mean he just keeps selfless promoter he's always making these great videos he's always like fucking full -on raw raw burt with this big gut hanging out he's a wild man he's killing it and his new movie's hilarious yeah this machine movie's gonna crush it it's gonna crush it it's fun i watched one of the the previous that he showed us.

[737] Yeah, it's great.

[738] Do you show us other things other than the previews?

[739] No, right?

[740] Have you seen my movie Guest House?

[741] I have not.

[742] It's on Netflix.

[743] Eric Griffin's in it, Bobby Lee's in it, when was this?

[744] Like a couple years ago.

[745] Oh, no shit.

[746] During the pandemic, you guys made a movie?

[747] No, right before, but it came out in the pandemic.

[748] Oh, that's good.

[749] It's on Netflix, it's great.

[750] Okay, that's great.

[751] To have something come out when everybody's definitely watching TV.

[752] Yeah, it did well.

[753] It's called Guest House that play a guy that lives in the guest house that won't leave.

[754] So it's our rate.

[755] It's the first R -rated comedy I've ever done.

[756] Oh, wow.

[757] Yeah.

[758] Oh, that's nice.

[759] Yeah, it was cool.

[760] It was pretty wrong.

[761] I'll check it out.

[762] Yeah, it's cool.

[763] I think you'll like it.

[764] It's amazing the shows that popped off during, like, what do you think Tiger King would have become as big?

[765] Absolutely not.

[766] Right?

[767] No way.

[768] It's like a timing of the universe.

[769] It was like perfect door opened.

[770] Yeah.

[771] Where everybody's at home and then everybody's like kind of freaking out.

[772] What better way to stop freaking out to look at some people that are way more fucked up than you.

[773] Right.

[774] Like, at least you're not that guy.

[775] Yeah, yeah.

[776] This fucking outside brace on carrying a pistol everywhere and fucking all these straight guys Like this is wild.

[777] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[778] This guy, like, he owns tigers.

[779] Yeah.

[780] And how about the one person that got, I don't know if this person decided they're a boy or girl.

[781] Did they change genders?

[782] Whatever, whatever.

[783] Person got their fucking arm bitten off by a tiger.

[784] Yes.

[785] Instead of going through a bunch of operations, he said, no, I just cut it off.

[786] That was this boy.

[787] Yeah.

[788] I don't want to go through five operations.

[789] Just take this fucking arm off.

[790] Yeah.

[791] Bro.

[792] Yeah.

[793] I know.

[794] What the fuck, man?

[795] I mean, and then goes right back to working with tigers.

[796] Look, tiger in he, she, they, them's lap while.

[797] What do you think about the whole, I don't want to say the word, by the way, free Joe Exotic.

[798] Free Joe Zotic.

[799] Free Joe Zodic.

[800] Free Joe Zodic.

[801] Let's go do your mobile podcast from Joe.

[802] I wish, I wish you'd give them a day off.

[803] So what do you think?

[804] I think about the whole, I don't want to use the word, trajectory, because that's not a real word.

[805] Trajectory?

[806] Trajectory, thank you.

[807] Of what?

[808] Of just from the last 30 years of the entertainment business, you know, how it started off with, you know, movies, TV, and then like real world came, and then, you know, and then, what was it?

[809] Amazing Race and all these things, and then all of a sudden the internet came, and now everyone's got their own show.

[810] Yeah.

[811] And then when you watch a movie with great actors, like, you know, a Pacino or whoever you think is great, you're staring at your phone, you're looking at your leg.

[812] What do you think about that?

[813] Because growing up, I never thought that this would ever happen.

[814] I thought everything was always going to be like the 70s, 80s, 90s, early 2000s.

[815] I mean, you talk about when I was your age, this is really a big shift.

[816] You know, everyone's famous now.

[817] What do you think about that?

[818] Well, it's a big shift, but they're still making movies.

[819] They're made a video where he was explaining why people aren't making movies anymore, why they're not making good, and how hard it is to make a movie now.

[820] And he explained it as a person is like on the inside.

[821] And it's much more daunting than I thought.

[822] And then there's the television show thing.

[823] There's a lot of television shows now, right?

[824] There's television shows that are on Netflix and television shows that are on regular networks, but reality shows are very cheap, very easy, and very compelling, you know.

[825] And they found that out through.

[826] Fear Factor and through Survivor and through, you know, all those other shows, that kind of shifted the landscape away from the sitcom.

[827] And the sitcom was our Holy Grail, right?

[828] When we first came to Hollywood, not when you did, but my generation came to Hollywood in, like, 94, when we came out here, everybody wanted a sitcom, you know?

[829] I mean, I remember when you had your sitcom on Fox, I remember I came out to the premiere.

[830] Oh, wow.

[831] It was like, holy shit, you got a show.

[832] Like, that was it.

[833] That's what everybody wanted.

[834] Everybody wanted the golden, that was the golden.

[835] That was her rhythm.

[836] That was her rhythm, yeah.

[837] Well, that was the times.

[838] That was what it was back then.

[839] Nowadays, if you're trying to get a sitcom, other than Miss Pat, who's pulled it off, Miss Pat's show is fucking hilarious.

[840] It's really good, dude.

[841] But it's on BET Plus.

[842] It's not on a network so she can swear, she could say whatever the fuck she wants.

[843] That show's really good.

[844] But other than that, how many comics do you know that have a sitcom, a multi -cam sitcom, You know, Whitney had one for a while.

[845] A lot of people had them.

[846] Tom Rhodes had a show.

[847] Back when I was on news radio, he had a show.

[848] There was a lot of fucking people at shows.

[849] But now, now, no. Greg Giroldo had a show.

[850] He was right next to us where we were filming Fear Factor's or filming news radio as well.

[851] It's the same thing with the talk show format as well.

[852] Everyone's got a talk show.

[853] I mean, not everyone's got a talk show, but there's the three talk shows.

[854] But then there's guys like you.

[855] that trump the talk show well they're just playing with an outdated system so they're involved in a system that has to stop every few minutes um for commercials it only airs at a specific time meaning you have to be there to watch it or you have to set your DVR to watch it later it takes a lot of additional steps there's a lot going on that makes those things unappealing the other thing is a person goes on they only talk for five minutes if you're a person that wants us Explain something very complicated, like the Younger Dryas impact theory, or like, you know, if Bob Lazar wants to go on a show and talk about how he was hired by the government to back engineer flying saucers.

[856] That's not a five -clip on Jimmy Kimmel, right?

[857] Yeah, you're not going to be able to do it.

[858] It's literally they're completely handicapped by the system that they operate in.

[859] You can't do it.

[860] When I saw Tom Green's show, he had this show that he did in his house, that he set up a lot of, like a talk show set in his house.

[861] And he had all these cables that ran from the talk show set up to a server room.

[862] Like he had it, like his house had been converted into a television studio.

[863] So this is amazing.

[864] It was in 2007.

[865] And that was when I was like, okay, that's probably the way to do it.

[866] This talk show way, they're never gonna give me one of those things.

[867] If they do, I'll fuck it up.

[868] I'll say something stupid.

[869] So when you saw Tom Green's show, that's when you and Red Band sat in the couch.

[870] Well, we did it a couple of years later.

[871] We started doing things like we would do videos that we would do after shows or during...

[872] Hook a brother up, please.

[873] Hick a brother up.

[874] Dude, we're just hanging out.

[875] We're having coffee.

[876] Yeah, we're chilling, brother.

[877] Cheers, but.

[878] So we started doing that in like 2007 or eight.

[879] We started doing like green room shows with a webcam.

[880] Yeah.

[881] Just fucking around.

[882] Yeah.

[883] And then in 2009 we started doing the podcast again.

[884] Just fucking around.

[885] Yeah, because when I, when you and I talked, and we talked about me coming on your show here, I was so excited.

[886] It was the same enthusiasm I got when I used to get Letterman, because I was on Letterman a lot.

[887] And his show, I felt like this is a big deal.

[888] It was cool.

[889] So you're a big deal now with this.

[890] I mean, it's pretty fucking cool.

[891] So because your show is, it trumps Colbert.

[892] It trumps Jimmy Fallon, and it jumps Jimmy Kimmel show.

[893] Meaning it's a bigger deal for a guest to book.

[894] Oh, I'm on fucking Joe Rogan.

[895] Where are you laughing?

[896] What the fuck, dude?

[897] Come on.

[898] No, it's a big deal.

[899] So I got super excited when I was going to be on this, like I did back in the day when I got on Letterman.

[900] Because I was so excited to get on Letterman.

[901] I was excited to come see you.

[902] Well, I'm excited to have you here.

[903] You're a good dude, Pauli.

[904] You really are.

[905] You're a very nice guy.

[906] Remember when we did that show at the MGM, and afterwards we hung out and talked.

[907] It's like, you're a good dude, man. You know?

[908] I've known you a long time It's nice to see you happy And it was really like I said It was really nice to see you killing on stage Because you were having fun You were so loose We were all howling There's a bunch of comics in the back laughing And that reminded me in the old days It reminded me the OR Like when Joey Diaz would go on stage We'd all sit in the back Yeah Mooney Mooney was the fucking mess Oh my God everyone would sit down Well yeah I threw everyone under the bus That show You threw everyone under the bus?

[909] You know Nick and I was having fun some of your local, your local people here.

[910] Oh, oh, oh, oh.

[911] I was just fucking around with people.

[912] Oh, yeah, no, that was funny.

[913] Nick from the Volcan.

[914] Yes, Nick from the Volga.

[915] Yeah, he's a sweetheart.

[916] Yeah.

[917] Yeah, that, oh, that environment of the back booth, you know, of sitting in the back seat of the company, you would walk in, you always look, who's, oh, Eric Griffin, what's up?

[918] It was always like people sitting there.

[919] That's how Holzman is now when I see him.

[920] Yeah.

[921] Yeah, I saw him a couple weeks ago.

[922] He was really fucking nuts.

[923] Oh, he's out of his mind.

[924] Yeah.

[925] He's so funny, though.

[926] He's always got the absolute wrong.

[927] take on whatever the fuck has happened in the news.

[928] Yeah.

[929] In the most brutal way possible.

[930] Everyone goes left, he goes right.

[931] He goes hard.

[932] He goes hard.

[933] Remember when Susan Smith drowned her kids?

[934] Oh, yeah.

[935] He was on stage like a day later.

[936] I heard those bad kids.

[937] I heard they sat that close to the TV.

[938] They never put away their blocks.

[939] They always spilled their milk.

[940] Those kids will not be missed.

[941] It was just so crazy watching them do that.

[942] We were howling.

[943] Halsman's a funny motherfucker He was a funny motherfucker I was wearing my Brody shirt today Oh wow I got a Brody positive push shirt He was a funny motherfucker man He was a fun guy to watch at the end of the night You know there's a special moment That I only experience at the store And that moment is when the show is old And someone kills The store gives you this thing Where you get a chance to see when the show is old and someone goes up and kills when it's just like maybe there's 25 people left and it's late at night and someone just goes up and is coming in hot and they're killing for 25, 30 people yeah Rick Ingram has done really well too Oh yeah I'm really proud of him Yeah he's opening up for Chris Rock Yeah it's amazing That's how Chris found him At the store?

[944] Yeah he just saw him He's like fuck let's roll That's great And he went out there And then he took pictures With Paul McCartney that's pretty cool that's pretty cool yeah so um yeah so yeah if you I mean think about all the comics that have come from that place that your mother built what an amazing thing I mean so many comics over so long so long you know it's like so many years yeah Don Barris is doing great over there too he does this ding -dong show nice yeah he's cool so the thing about places like the store too is that it used to be C -Ros.

[945] It used to be another nightclub.

[946] He used to have, like, Jerry Martin and Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis performed there, and, you know, all these celebrities.

[947] Like, there's experiences baked into the walls of that place.

[948] Do you know how the, you know how the whole store started, right?

[949] Yeah.

[950] You know, with my father and stuff?

[951] Mm -hmm.

[952] Yeah.

[953] I mean, do you know a lot about my father?

[954] Not too much.

[955] Yeah.

[956] My father was never around when I was around.

[957] Yeah, but I'm talking about he wasn't, I mean, no one was around when he was around.

[958] I mean, he was never around when I was there, so whatever about it.

[959] Yeah, no, he, well, he, he, no, meaning he started it, you know, he started it, he started it with his partner, Rudy DeLuca, and they, you know, they got the room and they developed it, and, you know, my mom got the store, but my dad, a lot of people don't know who he is and what he's about.

[960] If it wasn't for my father, no disrespect to my mother, but there wouldn't be in a, there wouldn't have been a comedy store.

[961] She might have found her way somewhere else, but he's the reason why they moved out to California.

[962] So he's the reason because of his career.

[963] So my dad was guest starring on Sanford and Son.

[964] Sanford and Son, he played Brother Sam.

[965] How many episodes did he do with that?

[966] A couple.

[967] I mean, if you go on there, you could see Sammy Shores.

[968] That's awesome.

[969] Red Fox.

[970] I loved that show.

[971] I used to watch that show.

[972] Oh, it was the best show.

[973] It was the best show.

[974] Red Fox.

[975] Oh, my God.

[976] Yeah, there he is.

[977] That's my father.

[978] That's amazing.

[979] So I call my dad, I call my father like he's a, he took one for the team, meaning him and my mom never wanted to be together.

[980] So my mom got pregnant and had Scott, my oldest brother.

[981] And this was an accident and they got married and she didn't want to be with him and he didn't want to be with her, but he just sucked it up.

[982] And he was in this relationship with this woman, my mother.

[983] that he never really wanted to be in.

[984] So he, um, he started doing, he started, you know, acting and doing all that.

[985] And then he got, you know, he, you know, he was opening for Elvis.

[986] He was opening for, you know, Sammy Davis.

[987] He was opening for, you know, all these great comedians and, uh, or all these great entertainers.

[988] And he started it, you know, he started the beginning of it, you know.

[989] Wow.

[990] And it was in the original room?

[991] Just the original room, yeah.

[992] How many, it only ceded less people back then.

[993] though right yeah was like 94 people i think it was like that and they moved the wall yeah but yeah my dad my dad you know he he uh he took one for the team you know for us isn't amazing if he didn't do that if he didn't do that and didn't give the reins to your mother correct who knows what the comedy world would look like i mean who knows if a guy like kinnison ever gets off the ground correct you know what i mean like you need a place like that where it's a real artist workshop i mean that's a high flute and turnton But that's really what it is.

[994] Well, that's what my mom was.

[995] That's why my mom had this natural instinct to develop comedians because it was in her veins.

[996] So what would happen was is my dad would, that's where my mom met my dad is when he was performing in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.

[997] So my dad was the comedian for a month in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.

[998] It was a touring comic.

[999] And my mom started dating my father, and she got pregnant.

[1000] And then he took off.

[1001] And, you know, that's when the whole thing where they're going to have the kid.

[1002] And what happened is my mom would type up my dad's jokes in the back, would type up the jokes.

[1003] This is funny.

[1004] That's not funny.

[1005] Try this.

[1006] That's not good.

[1007] And then give him pointers.

[1008] So when my dad was always really nervous performing in front of my mom.

[1009] So, for instance, my dad got a shot on Ed Sullivan's show.

[1010] That was a big deal for him after Barbara Streisand.

[1011] So it was this big shot.

[1012] My mom was like, he fucking blew it.

[1013] You know, he's nervous.

[1014] He fucked it up.

[1015] And it just made him more, you know, this was part of the reason why I became an alcoholic.

[1016] Wow.

[1017] Was, you know, being nervous trying to make it.

[1018] He had always kind of like, in her eyes, you know, and if you Google my father, Ed Sullivan's show, Sammy Shore, you could see photos of him.

[1019] But that was a big shot for him.

[1020] And my mom says that he blew.

[1021] He blew it.

[1022] Not happening.

[1023] Do you ever watch the clip?

[1024] Yeah, I have.

[1025] I don't think he blew it.

[1026] I think he did all right.

[1027] Look at this.

[1028] Ed Sullivan.

[1029] Yeah, he was on there with the stones.

[1030] Look at Mick Jagger.

[1031] Look how amazing that looks.

[1032] Give me some volume on that.

[1033] I mean, Jesus.

[1034] This is the 60s, dude.

[1035] This was a big deal, dude.

[1036] Look at their faces.

[1037] Listen to the girl screaming.

[1038] Does anybody get that kind of reaction today?

[1039] They're just shrieking constantly.

[1040] So my dad.

[1041] my dad was very much like me he just wanted to be a free spirit just wanted to be on the road but he got her preggers and um he got her pregnant and he you know you can't really i guess you can i guess you can um perform and be uh dishonest in a relationship because he was he was he wasn't faithful to my mom you know he had a crooked dick you know shit like that and she would you know And it was tough for me growing up because I, you know, I love my father.

[1042] And he was a great dad, but my mom would always kind of like rip into him.

[1043] That ripping into him, though, like, that characteristic that she had made everyone better.

[1044] She was so good at, like, pointing out what was wrong with your act and, you know, that.

[1045] Natural.

[1046] She was so good at it.

[1047] Natural.

[1048] And when, yeah, I mean, it was hard for me, dude.

[1049] Like, we didn't, when I first started doing stand -up, it wasn't easy.

[1050] I'm sure.

[1051] It was fucking like...

[1052] I'm sure.

[1053] I mean, I had to make it quick.

[1054] Right, right, right.

[1055] I had to make it quick.

[1056] Right.

[1057] Because I started when I was 17, 18, or, you know, 17.

[1058] And what year was totally Pauley?

[1059] How old were you then?

[1060] That was early 20s.

[1061] But that time between high school, between MTV, was like this, was quick.

[1062] I had to like, you know, I was...

[1063] I mean, she kicked me out of the house.

[1064] I moved down the street.

[1065] I was like, fuck you.

[1066] It was that type of shit.

[1067] I mean, it got really bad.

[1068] Of course.

[1069] Yeah, it got really bad.

[1070] You get out of here, you know what I mean?

[1071] It was when I was hanging out with Sam.

[1072] I don't want you to hang out with Sam anymore.

[1073] He's an alcoholic.

[1074] He's a co -cat.

[1075] And I was like, Mom, I'm not hanging out with Sam because he's at.

[1076] I'm hanging out because he's a great comic.

[1077] She goes, you don't understand.

[1078] And she said, get out of my house.

[1079] And she threw her keys at me. And it turned into this whole thing.

[1080] What was it like in Westwood in the early days?

[1081] Like, you were there in 84?

[1082] like what was that club like like what what was the scene like there so the westwood comedy store because that's where they developed right yes yeah it was kind of like the uh let's call it the red band room no i'm just kidding no it was uh it was uh it waswood boulevard is here and then you got wilshire and then you got olympic you know that that the so the westwood comedy store was in between, it wasn't in Westwood Village, it was in between Wilshire and Olympic, and right next door was an arcade.

[1083] So there's this big arcade, and then there was the Westwood Club.

[1084] So on the stage, you had Dave Tyree, he had Andrew Dice Clay, Roseanne, you had Arsenio, Sam, Carl LeBoe, and Dave Tyree, Dave Tyree, remember Dave Tyree?

[1085] Yeah, he was funny, dude.

[1086] Yeah, he was.

[1087] Dave Tyree was really funny.

[1088] I remember one time he went on that stage, he was all coked out and drunk.

[1089] And he goes, I don't know what you people are looking at me for.

[1090] And he just fucking aged shit off the state.

[1091] But that's how it was back then.

[1092] Oh, my God.

[1093] Like, I want to see people fall at the mothership.

[1094] You know what I mean?

[1095] They probably will.

[1096] Yeah.

[1097] But, uh, yeah.

[1098] The back then it was like the whole culture was just hard partying, right?

[1099] Yeah.

[1100] But she developed, she developed.

[1101] She had a whole system.

[1102] I mean, her whole system was, you know, it was if she liked you, you know, it'd work the door and then she would go work Westwood.

[1103] And Alan Stevens used to, um, He used to, you remember Alan Stevens?

[1104] Yeah, he used to take me from the Westwood comedy sort of sunset, and he was always coked out.

[1105] So he would do lines of coke and then take his renegade black Jeep down sunset, and then he would drop me off, and I'd be there, and my mom would come out of the store into her black jag, and Argus would be chasing her.

[1106] Wow.

[1107] Yeah, and she would get off of me, Argus, leave me alone.

[1108] I want to go home by myself, leave me. You know what I mean?

[1109] Like that type of shit.

[1110] And then I got in the car, and then me and my, My mom would drive her car, and this was like two in the morning, down sunset, and we'd go, we'd drive by the whiskey, and black flag was playing there.

[1111] And then all the punkers would spit on my car, my mom's car, because we were rich or whatever.

[1112] They'd be like, get out of here!

[1113] And then we'd drive by the rainbow, and all the heavy metal guys would be in the street.

[1114] Yeah.

[1115] And then we'd go up, and then Argus would be pounding on the door.

[1116] Missy, I'm here!

[1117] I had to call the cops.

[1118] I had to call the cops on Argus.

[1119] Is that when Argus was in his drug days?

[1120] Yeah, of course.

[1121] Yeah.

[1122] Yeah, yeah, but I had a call the cops on him, but...

[1123] That's hilarious.

[1124] That rainbow bar and grill is such a strange place.

[1125] I only been there a couple of times, but it's like, Jesus, there's a guy from this band, there's a guy from that band, there's guys from Dawkins.

[1126] It's a weird, like, hangout.

[1127] Yeah, it was, it's, it's, it's, again, it was like, I think it was like kind of the comedy store for, you know, heavy metal bands, you know, where Guns and Roses would go.

[1128] Motley crew and, you know, and everybody knew that they would go there.

[1129] Yeah, and it was a big deal.

[1130] Yeah, it was a big deal.

[1131] And there was different rooms, and you can walk up there.

[1132] Is it still like that now?

[1133] No. I mean, it's there, but I haven't been there in a couple years.

[1134] The other place that's like that is, well, not like that, but a cool, like, hang is Dan Tanas.

[1135] Oh, yeah.

[1136] Yeah.

[1137] That's the best food.

[1138] That place has been around forever.

[1139] Great food.

[1140] When you're in that, it's like you're in a time capsule to a great restaurant from, like, the early 80s.

[1141] Yeah.

[1142] It's really good.

[1143] Yeah, the best is the cheese.

[1144] chicken parmesan and then everything's great their steaks are fantastic yeah we got to go next time linguine with clams it's amazing it's a really good restaurant and it's a fun hang too there's always a bunch of drunks at the bar you know it's like a lot of people go there just to hang out it's not just like go there to dinner they go there to hang out too kipadda used to go there before he passed they used to see him up there a lot i didn't even know he passed when did he pass um i don't know I was a couple of years back.

[1145] But, yeah, Westwood.

[1146] So Westwood was a great place.

[1147] What year did she open that place?

[1148] Argus knows the exact dates, but I think it was, I think, the late 70s, something like that, the late 70s.

[1149] What year did Kenneson get there?

[1150] 84.

[1151] So you were there when he got, which is so crazy that two years later he's doing his HBO special.

[1152] Yeah.

[1153] He was, I mean, dude, this five.

[1154] fucking guy.

[1155] I mean, when he, when he, I mean, his whole thing was the Letterman spot, the Rodney Dangerfield spot.

[1156] And like he did those six minutes on, on Rodney or whatever it was, sold out 3 ,000 seats.

[1157] And then he did, you know, and then he did the next Rodney Young Comedion Special sold out, you know, 8 ,000, you know.

[1158] And I got to go, I got to open for him, which was sick.

[1159] That's amazing, dude.

[1160] We did the, uh, his second HBO special.

[1161] was at the Wiltern and Ice Tea was there and this is when Sam was really fucked up so if you look at the special you're like fuck this guy's all coked out and he's like not doing well and this is when he came out with the chains with this girl Malika and Sabrina he's like oh oh oh oh and he's playing the music and Ice Tea was in the audience yeah that's right and he was like you know Sam was doing some racist shit yeah and it was yeah he was wild well Sam had did you ever read his brother Bill his book yeah brother sam yeah books called brother sam um he talks about the slide like that when he started parting all the time he stopped writing he wasn't performing as much and he just kind of lost yeah i saw yeah you could tell in the work if you go and watch his early stuff yeah it drops off a lot yeah which sucks because you know you'd like to see them just keep getting better you know if he was if he could somehow another have stayed alive and kicked his addictions and just got better But sometimes what brings you to the dance also sinks you, you know.

[1162] Well, he, him and I, him and, well, he introduced me to my business manager.

[1163] So I have the same business manager that I've had for 25 years.

[1164] His name is Lester.

[1165] Hey, Lester.

[1166] What's up, Lester?

[1167] Shout out to Lester.

[1168] And, uh, and Sam, when he was all fucked up and coked out and all that, he had fired everyone in his life, except for Lester.

[1169] So Lester was always, always with him.

[1170] And he said to me, or Sam, Sam said to Lester take care of him.

[1171] He's like my younger brother.

[1172] So ever since then, Lester's been taking care of me. Wow, that's nice.

[1173] Yeah, so Sam, you know, he was, to me, Sam was like Elvis, kind of.

[1174] He was fucked up, but he had the biggest heart in the world.

[1175] So he would come to my mom's house.

[1176] He would always bring presents.

[1177] You know, he's always bring presents.

[1178] That's cool.

[1179] Yeah, he was, you know.

[1180] Seeing the look on your face when you were in our bar, and seeing the picture of your mom, the neon sign that was very cool it was very cool to be with you like right next to you the moment you saw it yeah no it was uh you know like i said from when we first started talking here i was saying i'm saying that speaking on my mom's behalf i know her and i know what you're doing with her and how much you care about her and how much you love her and what she's done um i know she's really proud of you she's really proud of you and she's very proud of what you've done here and very proud of the bar and her spirit is in the bar for sure her spirit's in that whole building yeah you know um i mean we're all disciples yeah we're all disciples of your mom yeah i took care of her you know that last 15 years every time i'd see you every time i'd see you i always wanted at the store you know i never wanted to bother you i was always like i want to you i was always like i I wanted to always bring you to my mom, you know.

[1181] But I think maybe we talked about it and you're like, yo, I'm good.

[1182] I don't want to see her like that.

[1183] Isn't that what you said to me once, I think?

[1184] At the end, it was so bad.

[1185] It was just like, it was just so heavy.

[1186] Imagine me taking care of her for those years.

[1187] I couldn't imagine.

[1188] I mean, imagine me going in to see her and she's in the chair.

[1189] Yeah.

[1190] You know, and she's, you know, and I always made it a point to drive her.

[1191] I always made it a point.

[1192] You know, me and my mom's caregiver and Scott, we'd always, like, put her in the car and drive her.

[1193] And we'd always take her for drives until her back started hurting.

[1194] And she'd be like, get me home, you know?

[1195] But she'd always drive her by the laugh factory.

[1196] It's hilarious.

[1197] What the fuck is he working there for?

[1198] The fuck.

[1199] You know what I mean?

[1200] And then we'd drive by the store.

[1201] And then she'd be like, Why is that marquee like that?

[1202] Call Tommy.

[1203] You know what I mean?

[1204] Type shit.

[1205] I mean, Tommy, I mean, whatever he did, he did.

[1206] But he took care of her, dude.

[1207] He fucking, he did shit that a normal employee would not do.

[1208] Yeah, for sure.

[1209] Not do.

[1210] He would carry her up the stairs.

[1211] You know what I mean?

[1212] And she wanted him to.

[1213] You know, she wanted him to.

[1214] And she felt comfortable with him.

[1215] You know, whether good, bad, it's not us to say.

[1216] That's how she felt.

[1217] Yeah.

[1218] And, yeah, you know, during those, you know, she didn't want to get sick.

[1219] It started, you know, it started her.

[1220] My friend Bobby was with her in the front of the store back in the early 2000s, and she's smoking her capri cigarettes.

[1221] And she starts seeing her finger go like that.

[1222] And she goes, what's going on?

[1223] That was in the early 2000s, really?

[1224] Yeah, that's when she started getting sick, yeah.

[1225] What's going on?

[1226] and that's when she shifted her mind away from the store and she didn't want to get sick.

[1227] You know, she just, she didn't want to die at all.

[1228] And she did the best she could with, you know, whatever, you know, she got.

[1229] I think a lot of it had to do with, you know, the business, you know, because she was an artist running a business.

[1230] Let me say that again.

[1231] She was an artist running a business.

[1232] So she wasn't a real, I don't want to say her, the business.

[1233] wasn't really her thing.

[1234] She was about the comics.

[1235] Yeah.

[1236] And it's hard to do both, you know, with the numbers and the insurance and the, you know, and the taxes and all that shit that fucked with her.

[1237] Because that's not who she, because that's not who she was.

[1238] Of course.

[1239] Because if she was that way, she would never run the club the way she did.

[1240] That's, that's, she ran it like an artist.

[1241] So that's why I think she got sick.

[1242] That's my feeling.

[1243] Interesting.

[1244] You know, that pressure, the business part of it.

[1245] It could be.

[1246] I mean, pressure is fucking terrible for people.

[1247] That kind of stress is terrible for people.

[1248] In so many ways, heart attacks, you know, people freak the fuck out.

[1249] You know, like, you're not supposed to be redlined all the time.

[1250] You've got to find some moments where you're chilled out.

[1251] And she did, she did start making a lot of money, and she did start buying property.

[1252] She bought a theater on Lost Pomas and Sunset, and she called it the Richard Pryor Theater.

[1253] Oh, wow.

[1254] Did you know about that?

[1255] Yeah, I'd heard about it, but I'd never been there.

[1256] Yeah, neither was Richard.

[1257] No, but my mom loved him so much.

[1258] My mom loved him so much that she's, she calls it, she goes, he could develop his stuff here, Polly.

[1259] This is where he can go to develop all his stuff.

[1260] And that's how much she loved Richard Pryor.

[1261] She loved him so much that she, that's like you're going to buy Tony Hinchcliff a club, right?

[1262] No, I'm just scared.

[1263] And then she did the dunes in Vegas.

[1264] That was a big deal.

[1265] That was a big deal.

[1266] Doing the comedy store in Vegas was a huge.

[1267] Huge deal.

[1268] I got video of me and Chris Rock back then because she had the show called New Faces.

[1269] You never did that.

[1270] No. Because that was the 80s, late 80s.

[1271] When I came in, I had been doing standing for like six years.

[1272] And when I lived in Boston, the comedy store was Mecca.

[1273] It was the place that everybody talked about.

[1274] Like, you got to get to the comedy store.

[1275] It was like, Kinnison came from there.

[1276] Pryor came from there.

[1277] And all anyone talked about when they talked about clubs, I mean, there was clubs that we were doing in Boston.

[1278] There was clubs to do in New York, but really everybody wanted to get to the comedy store.

[1279] And then when I first got there, I was on a sitcom already.

[1280] And, you know, the sitcom was not doing well.

[1281] I was on Fox.

[1282] It was failing.

[1283] And the most important thing that happened to me was getting passed as a paid regular.

[1284] And the Todd helped me out.

[1285] The Todd sat next to your mom and was laughing really hard.

[1286] And then he came up to me afterwards.

[1287] He goes, hey, he goes, I laughed really hard at your jokes because you're really funny and also because Mitzie's sitting next to me and you're going to do that too to somebody else.

[1288] I'm like, okay, you got it.

[1289] I'm like, that's great.

[1290] Like he, like there was a community there.

[1291] Like he set it up.

[1292] Like what the Todd did, he set it up with me where I was going to do that for everybody.

[1293] Like anytime anybody was really funny, I would go and I would.

[1294] One time your mom, I don't want to say his name, but your mom booked this comedian that was fucking terrible.

[1295] host the open mic night and Chris McGuire was supposed to do his first audition in front of your mom and I was like there's no fucking way I'm like I'll do it so I hosted the open mic night just so that I could like set a stage for Chris I just wanted it to be a good show I don't know who Chris McGuire is he's a good friend of mine from Boston's funny guy okay kind of I don't know if he does stand up anymore he was a very good writer very funny guy it was a very funny comic too we started out together so he went on stage in front of her he didn't do good no he did well he did really well no he got passed but it was like i i i did the open mic hosting because i wanted to make sure it was set up good for your mom yeah tee it up yeah yeah i want to tee it up yeah i wanted to tee it up because like if you couldn't sit next to her and laugh you know like you should like tell her someone's funny you know but she if you fucked up though if you told her so you fucking think he's funny she would get so mad yeah she your mother had amazing taste though the funniest was is I'd sit next to her as well and I would see people go on stage and if she called you over you did good and if she didn't call you over she wasn't interested and I would I just they do their set and they just walk by her and they're like looking at her and she's just like just going through her papers and shit yeah but yeah but if she liked you you know she brought you in you know but having something like that like some gold standard bear keeper at the top was very valuable for comedians it was very valuable and she also would do when she thought you were funny she'd put you on after killers you always had to follow like whoever was famous that was going to go down there she wanted to make sure that you were tested throw you into the fire and that's how you get better she just fucking knew man she knew and it's all things that people talk about now but i think in in her own way she sort of devised uh like a modern strategy for getting better at stand -up.

[1296] Having the environment, which she created, having one person who's ruthlessly critical that watches over everybody's material and everybody sets, and then everybody aspires for the approval of your mom.

[1297] And she had it set up so perfectly.

[1298] And because she wasn't a comic either, and because she was, you know, she's royalty in the stand -up comedy world, she had everyone's respect.

[1299] And she was right.

[1300] She was right.

[1301] She knew.

[1302] She knew what the fuck to tell you.

[1303] She didn't like Seinfeld.

[1304] That's just hilarious.

[1305] Which is hilarious.

[1306] He lived up the street from me and my mom.

[1307] So me and my mom would walk the dog, Kelly, her dog, and we would walk by his house.

[1308] You know what I mean?

[1309] Oh, there he is.

[1310] Not happening.

[1311] You know, rat, tat, tat, New York.

[1312] That's so weird.

[1313] Keep it going.

[1314] Let's keep moving.

[1315] I'm like, Mom, be nice to him.

[1316] He's good.

[1317] let's go and she just didn't buy into it that's so funny you know what I mean she didn't buy into it I wonder why I wonder why maybe because he didn't need her I don't know because he had already made it and he had a sitcom he was Seinfeld oh so he was already on Seinfeld when he was a I mean he'd been on that show for a while it was around that time and was the early 90s right yeah I don't know what the exact date was or Seinfeld she didn't like it when you were too developed correct yeah She liked getting people that had talent that were on the up.

[1318] Yeah, and she didn't really like a lot of New York comics for some reason.

[1319] Interesting.

[1320] There was also a rift between, obviously, her and Bud Friedman and her and Lauren Michaels.

[1321] People asked me like, hey, when you're doing all your movies, did you ever do Saturday Night Live?

[1322] Did you ever host Saturday Night Live?

[1323] I never did, and I think a lot of it has to do with Lauren Michaels and my mom.

[1324] I'm sure it can't help.

[1325] No. Can't help.

[1326] Because she was harsh, you know what I mean?

[1327] My mom had Jim Carrey and Damon Waynes and all these guys, and they were from the store.

[1328] Yeah.

[1329] And, you know, so...

[1330] I wonder if your mom was concerned that if someone like Seinfeld got on, that people who would want to see sitcom -style stand -up, like very sterile stand -up, would start coming to the clubs.

[1331] Like, and then you would start getting people going to see people just because they're famous.

[1332] and not really because they're good.

[1333] I mean, she probably had a method to her approach.

[1334] I wonder what she was thinking.

[1335] Or I wonder if she just didn't want it because he was already developed and she couldn't work with him.

[1336] I don't think she just liked him.

[1337] I just don't think she liked that style.

[1338] But she's driving by his house.

[1339] She's still talking shit.

[1340] No, we're walking.

[1341] Yeah, walking by the house.

[1342] And then he said some shit.

[1343] He said, and that's another thing.

[1344] He never asked me on his fucking car show.

[1345] I got all my friends on his car show I'm like dude And it's again I think like It's always awkward And Leno too Whenever I see Leno It's fucking weird Letterman's cool I love Letterman But Leno's always been weird Because these guys Leno striked against my mom And there was this weird thing And you know And My relationship with Leno is very different He's always been very nice to me And we both love cars So I have great conversation With him about cars I don't know the history of that I mean I do know it But I wasn't aware of it But my point is, is that he never did anything to me. I'm just talking about my mom's relationship with Jay, and I think it has to do with the strike.

[1346] But when I did see Jay at the Palm Restaurant in Beverly Hills years ago, when my mom was there, he came up and gave her a kiss.

[1347] But then, of course, she mumbled.

[1348] That fuck is going on with him.

[1349] Tell me get the fuck out of.

[1350] That's just the way.

[1351] She was so funny, dude.

[1352] She was so funny.

[1353] You know what I mean?

[1354] Yeah.

[1355] And when your mom told him.

[1356] you were funny it was like the greatest gift yeah that you could ever give a comic she came up to you and like put her her hand on your arm that was really funny yeah she never said that to me i had to become famous bro before she put me on her stage for real dude i'm like mom can i go on stage these people are here to see me you're not ready not happening you got more and she was right yeah because i was fucking around right hey bro whoa it da da right you know you know I mean and I've been told by comedians that she was very proud but she never said to me that's another thing is she never told me she loved me oh wow I can't say I love you because then you wouldn't be a comic oh my god you're a science project she used to lock me in the back bedroom I can't say I love you because then you wouldn't be a comic wow she figured out a way to make you a comic I programmed him I used to put him in the back back bedroom he would pound his head against the crib it's true so imagine that was like how like a dictatorship created comedians like soviet block they decided to take over the comedy world and they're just going to torture kids just start open mics torture kids at a very young age i think we have a good thing here we could do it the mothership yeah you fuck them up now you'd have to do it in a country that doesn't have the constitution right if you're going to do it right it's got to be some communist dictatorship.

[1357] Maybe China could do this.

[1358] They're probably already kind of doing it.

[1359] Russia?

[1360] Yeah.

[1361] Russia could do that.

[1362] And then introduce them slowly to the idea of stand -up comedy.

[1363] But beat them first and torture them, right?

[1364] Definitely don't make them comfortable.

[1365] Right.

[1366] Don't beat them.

[1367] Did you get beaten?

[1368] No. See, that would be too much.

[1369] Yeah.

[1370] Then you wouldn't be able to get on stage.

[1371] You'd be fucked up.

[1372] Yeah.

[1373] Yeah.

[1374] I mean, if you really think about it, like, what are the odds that some, you know, someone becomes a stand -up comedy, a stand -up comedian.

[1375] If you look at the 300, whatever the hell, million people, it is just in this country alone, forget about all the other countries that do stand -up.

[1376] What are the odds that someone becomes a comic?

[1377] They're not fucking good.

[1378] They're pretty small.

[1379] I tell people, I say, because people come up to me, I'm sure they come up to you.

[1380] I'm like, don't do it unless it gets you out of bed.

[1381] Don't do it as a hobby.

[1382] Yeah.

[1383] You know, like I get, I mean, I'm 55.

[1384] I've been doing it for 35 years.

[1385] I love it now even more than I loved it back then.

[1386] I just love it.

[1387] I think when you get older, one of the things that happens is you can appreciate it more You can appreciate what this thing is You know you appreciate how lucky you are to be able to do it.

[1388] It's so much fun it makes people feel good It really does like the whole audience has a great time everybody feels better.

[1389] It's like a drug we all take together We're all laughing about things together.

[1390] Yeah, you know it's just my job to put it together.

[1391] It's your job to you know piece to together your ideas in the most palatable way possible.

[1392] That's what we're all just doing.

[1393] And it's the most fun thing to do.

[1394] And the fact that you do that for a living, of course you'd want to do it all the time.

[1395] And as you get older and you realize that most people don't really get to do what they truly love to do.

[1396] There's most people out there in some weird thing where they kind of like what they do, but they maybe wish they were doing something else.

[1397] When you're doing stand -up, when you're on stage killing, you never think I wish I was doing something else.

[1398] You're just like, this is so much fun.

[1399] It's so much fun.

[1400] It's the less, for me, it's the, and I'm sure for you, it's the, it's the, it's the place that I feel the less stressed.

[1401] Yes.

[1402] The least stressed.

[1403] Least stressed.

[1404] You know, after you get off stage, you're like, you know, there's this, I don't know if it's dopamine or I don't what the fuck it is, but it's a release.

[1405] Yeah.

[1406] Like when my mom was dying, like those 15 years, I was touring a lot.

[1407] I wasn't around the store a lot when you were there.

[1408] I was on the road and it fucking saved my life big time.

[1409] That's awesome.

[1410] Big time.

[1411] That's awesome.

[1412] Yeah, it is.

[1413] It's a stress reliever that we have.

[1414] We're lucky, yeah.

[1415] Yeah, we're very lucky.

[1416] It's just, you know, it's amazing how much it takes, like how many pieces have to be put into place to make a club work.

[1417] That's why it's amazing that your mom was able to do it and sustain it for so long.

[1418] There's so many moving pieces.

[1419] There's so much.

[1420] going on you know you're dealing with so many different personalities you know so many different crazy people that are performers it's interesting because when i'm there now i look around and i see her there like i said that's where she talked to rosanne that's where gary shanley was that's where sam walked into the bar you know what i mean these ghosts you know they're still there like i I feel like her there, yeah.

[1421] But, yeah, she, you know, she left an amazing legacy, for sure.

[1422] Yeah, she definitely did.

[1423] When you're doing stand -up now, are you doing clubs on the road?

[1424] Are you touring around?

[1425] Were you doing...

[1426] Mostly bowling alleys.

[1427] No, but I mean, you're doing the road?

[1428] Are you staying in L .A.?

[1429] What do you even doing?

[1430] Mostly the road.

[1431] Yeah?

[1432] Yeah, like I have a nice audience out there that after all these years, you know, I'm still, I don't want to say shocked, but I'm still appreciative that these people come in my, you know.

[1433] You put on a good show, man. You were funny as shit.

[1434] I really enjoyed it.

[1435] It was really fun.

[1436] It was fun to see.

[1437] It was fun to see you loose and relaxed because I think when I've seen you at the store, I think because you grew up at the store, the connection you have to the store, I think there's a lot of pressure on you, you know, I think there's a lot of pressure on you.

[1438] in not a positive way when you go on stage there.

[1439] Yeah.

[1440] Is that true?

[1441] Yeah, well, I said that to you.

[1442] I said that, yeah, because when I walk in the story, even if I'm not performing there, it's uncomfortable.

[1443] Right.

[1444] Because I'm walking into my mother.

[1445] Right.

[1446] I'm walking into my father.

[1447] I'm walking in all that history.

[1448] Right.

[1449] You know, and when I'm away from there, it's Polly Shore.

[1450] It's the guy from the movies.

[1451] It's the comedian guy.

[1452] It's, you know, they don't care about that.

[1453] Yeah.

[1454] You were silly and loose.

[1455] And I was like, I think that's the first time I've ever seen him like that.

[1456] Which is crazy.

[1457] All the years I've known you to see you that loose, like the first time ever.

[1458] Yeah.

[1459] But it's like...

[1460] And that was the first time I was ever on your stage.

[1461] Yeah.

[1462] So that was cool.

[1463] Crazy.

[1464] So I felt really...

[1465] You know, I love that room.

[1466] I love both.

[1467] Yeah.

[1468] They're both...

[1469] You're going to love the other one, too.

[1470] But that room is special.

[1471] There's something cool about it.

[1472] It's very unusual.

[1473] And so what's it like touring with Chappelle?

[1474] I mean, that must be...

[1475] You must be pinching yourself on that.

[1476] I see you on stage with him.

[1477] You must be, I mean, because you know, and I know, he's got to be the best out there.

[1478] He's the best right now.

[1479] He might be the best ever.

[1480] I agree.

[1481] I mean, his eight shows at the Hollywood Bowl?

[1482] I mean, Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, those guys, George Carlin, they never sold out eight nights at the ball.

[1483] No. And he could have done 20 more nights.

[1484] He could do whatever he wants.

[1485] What's it like working with him?

[1486] It's a privilege.

[1487] You know, you're very, very, very fortunate to have an artist of this.

[1488] that caliber as a great friend you know he came to the the club the first week it was opened maybe second week maybe he was second week yeah he was second week somewhere around there it was like right when we were like really open and he actually opened the little room he was the the first person on stage in that little room was Shane Gillis Shane did 15 minutes and he brought up Chappelle and then Chappelle did like man he did over an hour I think he did like an hour and a half and he was just fucking around and being loose and just working on new material he goes i'm in a practice on y 'all yeah he just goes he just practices on people and he and he comes up with material that way he puts himself in these very vulnerable positions and he works through ideas and has someone film it and then that's how he pieces together his material yeah you know when i watch his um netflix specials you know he's got so many of them they're still fresh yeah you know and and i watch other people's Netflix specials because I'm open to other comics and it's just like I can't connect.

[1489] Yeah.

[1490] You know what I mean?

[1491] And with him, like I always say, people always ask me who your favorite comedian is now.

[1492] I say there's Dave Chappelle and there's everyone else.

[1493] That's just how I feel.

[1494] Yeah.

[1495] And I don't know if it's because I grew up around it.

[1496] I'm not saying there's not great comics now.

[1497] But when I look at that OR stage now and I see the comedians on there, my mind goes to Kennisin, my mind goes to Robin.

[1498] And my mind goes because those are the people that I saw on that stage.

[1499] And with Chappelle, I'm just like, it's just, I've never seen anything like it.

[1500] You know, we're so blessed to have him in our lives.

[1501] It's not just that it's really funny.

[1502] It's like the things he's talking about and the way he's breaking things down.

[1503] His perspective on things.

[1504] So it's not just being funny.

[1505] No. It's a very interesting perspective.

[1506] It's a very smart perspective.

[1507] He's so relaxed and he's so like fucking.

[1508] Yeah.

[1509] Yeah.

[1510] And he loves it, man. He's on the road constantly.

[1511] He's always doing stand -up.

[1512] He loves it.

[1513] He loves it.

[1514] He loves it.

[1515] And then I went and visited him, him, and I got his shirt.

[1516] He gave me a shirt.

[1517] He has a shop.

[1518] He's got a Chappelle shop with all his clothes.

[1519] I went to his little town.

[1520] I'm sure he'd been there.

[1521] Have you been that Yellow Spring?

[1522] I haven't been to Y 'all Springs.

[1523] Yeah.

[1524] It's pretty cool.

[1525] Yeah.

[1526] It's a little.

[1527] Dope that he did it the way he set it up.

[1528] Yeah.

[1529] So, because we were at his house and he did that vitamin trip.

[1530] He did that.

[1531] Yeah.

[1532] And it was just me and him.

[1533] Do you ever do that?

[1534] I haven't done it.

[1535] Oh, no, wait, I did it.

[1536] No, they did connect me that day.

[1537] That day they gave me a vitamin drip.

[1538] Dude.

[1539] Yeah.

[1540] It's a bomb digity.

[1541] Really?

[1542] Yeah, especially if you feel bad.

[1543] If you don't feel well, it's really good.

[1544] IV zinc and vitamin C and so the nurse comes over.

[1545] Plutathione.

[1546] Yeah, they give you an IV.

[1547] Rehydrates you, gives you a lot of vitamins.

[1548] It's just athletes love it.

[1549] Yeah, I think.

[1550] They like to do it as much as possible.

[1551] Yeah, I think Adam Ray, I saw him recently in West Hollywood, and he was coming out of a place like that, and I think he was doing it too.

[1552] So I want to try.

[1553] Yeah, there's quite a few of those places now.

[1554] When you were living in Vegas, did you go up at all?

[1555] I did.

[1556] Where were you working at?

[1557] I helped start Wise Guys.

[1558] Oh.

[1559] Which is the comedy club there with Keith.

[1560] Right.

[1561] So Keith's the owner of the Wise Guys, you know, in Utah.

[1562] I heard the Wise Guys in Vegas is awesome.

[1563] Yeah.

[1564] So Duncan's played there, Ari's played there.

[1565] How many seats?

[1566] It's like 200, 200, 220.

[1567] It's in the Arts District.

[1568] Nice.

[1569] So, yeah, I played there, and I did some shows at the Laugh Factory.

[1570] Where's the Arts District?

[1571] If here, yeah, it's near off of Fremont.

[1572] Downtown is like another city.

[1573] Downtown should not be Vegas.

[1574] It's hilarious.

[1575] Don't call that Vegas.

[1576] What is that?

[1577] No, here's Fremont, and then the strips over here.

[1578] So Arts District is in between Fremont and, and the strip.

[1579] When you think of Vegas, you think of casinos, right?

[1580] But there's like a whole vibrant bar scene.

[1581] There's great restaurants.

[1582] Great restaurants.

[1583] There's a place called Esther's Kitchen.

[1584] There's Sparrow and Wolf.

[1585] But that is not Vegas.

[1586] That's like...

[1587] There's a small...

[1588] Yeah.

[1589] Right?

[1590] I guess it is Vegas.

[1591] What am I saying?

[1592] Those are the...

[1593] That's the heart...

[1594] That's the heartbeat of Vegas.

[1595] Oh, for sure.

[1596] The industry, the Vegas industry all live off the strip.

[1597] Right.

[1598] The dancers, the magician.

[1599] the bottle service girls, all those girls, and all the people, Summerlin, Henderson.

[1600] So I was there for two and a half years.

[1601] It was great.

[1602] It was during the pandemic.

[1603] I lived next to Nicholas Cage, which was cool.

[1604] Caratops actually the one that reintroduced me to him.

[1605] So, and I had known Nicholas Cage because we went to the same high school from back in the day.

[1606] So when we connected, it was fucking, it was weird because I'm like you, huge fan.

[1607] Yeah.

[1608] I mean, he's been doing it for 40 years, and his movies are, you know, he's one of the best actors.

[1609] So when I'm, he'll, he'll hit me up.

[1610] He'll be like, yo, come out.

[1611] Let's go.

[1612] And then he'll, like, text me and he'll be in his $500 ,000, you know, Ferrari.

[1613] I'm like, where are we going?

[1614] He's going to get some sushi.

[1615] So we'll go get sushi.

[1616] And then we'll drive down Las Vegas Boulevard.

[1617] I'm like, dude, you don't need that.

[1618] He's got eight cars.

[1619] I'm like, you don't need this.

[1620] He goes, yeah, but it's badass.

[1621] That's his answer to it.

[1622] It's badass.

[1623] I'm like, all right.

[1624] He's correct.

[1625] it's true and his house is awesome yeah but you're like you're a little more sensible okay yeah what are you doing nick yeah slow down he's trying to be nick cage yeah he is he's doing it he loves it and his house is cool and he's he's he's great very very but he doesn't you know he's not on social media we signed an nDA he made me sign an nDA wow that i can't like put any videos or photos anywhere no i'm just kidding he didn't sign it but i'm just saying but But he, but the one of the first conversations with him is when I came over to his house.

[1626] He's like, he's like, come over.

[1627] You're my neighbor out of nowhere, right?

[1628] So I come over.

[1629] We start having a nice glass of wine.

[1630] And he says, I'm not doing your podcast.

[1631] I'm like, I didn't ask you to fucking be on the podcast.

[1632] I'm just here.

[1633] What's up?

[1634] And he goes, just one thing promised me. He goes, don't ever, you know, post any pictures or videos of us together because I want to be private.

[1635] I'm like, cool.

[1636] And ever since then, it's been, it's been cool.

[1637] Yeah.

[1638] That's cool.

[1639] But I do have a lot of photos and videos of him.

[1640] Of his dick?

[1641] Of his penis.

[1642] Oh, nice, nice, nice.

[1643] But he is funny, dude.

[1644] I'm sure he is.

[1645] Yeah.

[1646] He seems like a real character.

[1647] And it's so funny that he changed his last name because he was connected to Francis Ford Coppola, right?

[1648] Because because of his nephew, is that what he is?

[1649] Yeah.

[1650] No, what he said, what Nick said is when he first started acting, he was on the set of, I think it was fast times at Richmond High.

[1651] He was with, I think it was Sean Penn. And, you know, there was different.

[1652] different actors and they go oh you're just here because your uncle is Francis Fort Coppola so he didn't want to be known as that so he didn't want to be known as that so he wanted his own identity and it worked you know because um America or the world they don't think like oh that's Francis Fort Coppola's nephew you know because his because his father was Francis Fort Coppola's brother right that was in the 60 Minutes thing right yeah talked about in there The 60 Minutes things was fun.

[1653] It was very fun.

[1654] But that's, what a great move, too.

[1655] And name yourself after a fucking superhero.

[1656] Nick Cage.

[1657] It's awesome.

[1658] Yeah.

[1659] And he's been in so many fun movies, man. Yeah.

[1660] I mean, that guy was in, um, what's the Arizona movie?

[1661] Raising Arizona.

[1662] Raising Arizona.

[1663] Yeah.

[1664] I mean, Moonstruck and leaving Las Vegas.

[1665] But Raising Arizona was fucking amazing.

[1666] So many.

[1667] So many fucking great movies.

[1668] Yeah.

[1669] Yeah, he's a good dude.

[1670] We hang out at this, uh, sushi bar in Vegas on Sahara.

[1671] Wow.

[1672] It's pretty good.

[1673] And we just, you know, he's just, you know, he's very sensitive, as you can imagine, but he's a sweetheart.

[1674] I'm sure.

[1675] I would expect nothing else.

[1676] Yeah.

[1677] Smart of him of staying off social media, too.

[1678] Yeah.

[1679] It's not his thing.

[1680] You don't need it, buddy.

[1681] Yeah.

[1682] It's not his thing.

[1683] You don't need it anyway.

[1684] You're Nicholas Cage.

[1685] And he goes from one movie to the next movie to the next movie to the next movie.

[1686] And he loves acting.

[1687] Dude, how about leaving laws of?

[1688] Vegas.

[1689] Remember that movie?

[1690] Hell yeah.

[1691] Holy shit.

[1692] That movie was heavy.

[1693] Do you see Pig?

[1694] No. That's his favorite movie that he did.

[1695] Really?

[1696] You got to watch Pig.

[1697] I've heard it's really good.

[1698] It's really good.

[1699] It's fucking great.

[1700] That and Guest House, my movie, guest house.

[1701] Watch Mindstoned.

[1702] Yeah, look at him right there.

[1703] What is Pig about?

[1704] someone steals his truffle pig oh no yeah and he's not happy about it oh he looks wild as fuck yeah look at him where is he supposed to be living um I think it's in Portland in the woods oh wow yeah no shit yeah he's such a sweetheart he's such a great guy and such a you know I'm very you know happy that I got to connect with him who has my pig is this an action movie does he fuck people up it's like a drama good movie is there like John Wick with pigs not not quite not quite but close There's all those movies Like you fuck with the wrong guy There's so many movies like that You know Boy did you fuck up There's so many movies like that That was the old man Did you ever see the old man?

[1705] It was a series that was on Is it on Apple?

[1706] It might be on Apple It's on one of them weird ones But it was really good at first And it just kind of teetered It's called what?

[1707] This isn't on FX.

[1708] Does that make sense?

[1709] Might have been on Hulu?

[1710] Put up an image of it so we can see it.

[1711] Old man. It's Jeffrey Bridges, and he plays an old hitman.

[1712] Oh, wow.

[1713] I love.

[1714] I love Jeffrey.

[1715] They fuck with the wrong guy.

[1716] It's one of them movies, or one of them shows.

[1717] I really enjoy the fuck with the wrong guy show.

[1718] That was really good in the beginning.

[1719] It's really good for a few episodes that I lost interest.

[1720] For whatever reason, but the beginning is it's worth the ride, you know?

[1721] I haven't seen it.

[1722] I haven't seen that one.

[1723] I haven't seen that one.

[1724] But yeah, so he's there.

[1725] Who else was there?

[1726] I don't know.

[1727] In Vegas?

[1728] Yeah.

[1729] Well, you have a lot of clubs there now.

[1730] Vegas is a real scene now.

[1731] There was Jimmy Kimmel's Club.

[1732] I think is that still there?

[1733] I think it's still there.

[1734] And then there's Brad Garrett's Club.

[1735] It's been there for a long time.

[1736] And then you have the seller.

[1737] that's there that's supposed to be really good I hear nothing but good things you have wise guys that's really good nothing but good things yeah and then you have the laugh factory at the chop yeah I mean that is a lot of comedy yeah you know and if they're doing daily shows how many of those are they bringing in people for an entire week like a headliner is that how they're doing it for the most of that?

[1738] Yeah sometimes they'll bring in yeah starting like on a Wednesday yeah well sometimes it's like on Monday I look at some of the schedules I don't say the last time I was at the chop of Canada but I remember a couple years ago I was at Tropicana.

[1739] Gallagher had like the he had the 7 o 'clock spot.

[1740] Oh, wow.

[1741] Yeah, remember Gallagher?

[1742] Yeah, sure.

[1743] Yeah, he passed.

[1744] Yeah.

[1745] I remember when his brother took over, became Gallagher too.

[1746] He quit, and then his brother started doing his act, and he's like, hey, I want my act back.

[1747] They had some sort of a dispute over who gets to be Gallagher.

[1748] Yeah, he wasn't happy about it.

[1749] Imagine Scott taking my act.

[1750] But just the idea that you could have a guy who kind of looks like you because he's your brother.

[1751] But everybody knows it's not really him.

[1752] Right.

[1753] Like how bizarre.

[1754] But they still pay to see him.

[1755] And then when you say, hey, I'm going to go back to stand up, you got to stop doing that.

[1756] It's like, fuck you, bro.

[1757] Yeah.

[1758] Like you literally gave this guy his whole career.

[1759] Right.

[1760] Yeah.

[1761] Unless there was maybe some legal work involved.

[1762] Well, there's also a lot of these lookalikes.

[1763] So like I saw, was it, I think legends of Los Angeles.

[1764] Vegas like because I saw some of the shows while I was there I saw a prince look alike and he was great like unfucking believable I saw Rod Stewart look alike and I saw Rod Stewart and the lookalike was better well the lookalike meaning an impersonator yeah the impersonator so like they sing them and the whole deal yeah he does the whole thing I mean I saw Rod Stewart well Rod Stewart's amazing but he's you know well you know what happened with Journey right I don't journey had um Steve what is this name?

[1765] Steve Perry.

[1766] Steve Perry retired from Journey.

[1767] Yeah, they got a kid, yeah.

[1768] And then this young guy who used to do a Journey cover band, who has the most insane imitation of Steve Perry.

[1769] His voice is incredible.

[1770] I remember.

[1771] So his name is Arnell Paneda.

[1772] I think my Pineda.

[1773] It might be a Pineda.

[1774] And he's from the Philippines.

[1775] And this dude was just a fan.

[1776] Gotta listen to it.

[1777] Listen, see if you can find one of them.

[1778] Listen to this.

[1779] Oh, wow.

[1780] I mean, it's incredible.

[1781] Oh, wow.

[1782] But he's so good, like, it doesn't bother you at all that Steve Perry's not there.

[1783] Maybe it bothers some people.

[1784] But it's so good.

[1785] Wow.

[1786] He sounds exactly like the dude.

[1787] Wait until he hits the high notes.

[1788] When he really goes off, Like you're like this kid is fucking talented That's the thing that's crazy Look at that audience Right they don't care Not only that, they're young Wow There's a young people Right These are like new journey fans Right Didn't they do this with Allison Chains too right I think this guy Does he speak Like perfect English Does he speak with an accent Which is wild Because he's saying perfect Yeah because he's Is he Filipino or Yes he's from the Philippines That's why he's holding up that flag.

[1789] Oh, wow.

[1790] Didn't they do this with Allison Chains, right?

[1791] Allison Chains?

[1792] Yeah.

[1793] Huh.

[1794] Is he in there talking?

[1795] Is that on Oprah?

[1796] I'm sure she must have a conversation with him.

[1797] There he goes.

[1798] Whatever.

[1799] It seems like he has at least a slight action.

[1800] Actually, play some Steve Perry.

[1801] Give me a comparison.

[1802] Don't stop believing by Steve Perry.

[1803] The original journey.

[1804] We're going to rock out, right?

[1805] I think he's doing something slightly different.

[1806] He's got his own spin on it.

[1807] And it sounds amazing, for sure.

[1808] It sounds amazing.

[1809] But there was something about this dude, because this dude wasn't very classically beautiful, like a lot of rock stars.

[1810] You know?

[1811] Yeah.

[1812] Jesus.

[1813] I mean, that's the fucking guy, dude.

[1814] Bro.

[1815] Yeah, that's the guy.

[1816] We wouldn't know the difference.

[1817] Did you ever get to see a lot of big hair bands back in the day when you're in the 80s?

[1818] Not really, man. Like big stadium bands like UFO or like The Who?

[1819] I saw Jay Giles band in Boston.

[1820] Of course.

[1821] I saw George Therogood.

[1822] Yeah, well, he saw some, I saw a couple other bands.

[1823] So the kids that I was hanging around with in high school, like to go to concerts.

[1824] I got to, I was like, what are you talking about?

[1825] We got to go see live music.

[1826] Johnny Winter.

[1827] We saw Johnny Winter, too.

[1828] This is Allison.

[1829] Chains were their new singer.

[1830] Oh, wow.

[1831] Were you a fan of Allison Chains?

[1832] It was.

[1833] So good.

[1834] Yeah.

[1835] Look at that.

[1836] Is this guy sound like him?

[1837] Or is he doing his own thing?

[1838] That dude's good.

[1839] Put on Lane.

[1840] Put on a song with Lane, Lane Stay.

[1841] Yeah, we'll go to that.

[1842] But what's that dude's name?

[1843] What does I do's name?

[1844] He's great, too.

[1845] Yeah, he's great too.

[1846] He's great, too.

[1847] Yeah.

[1848] Yeah, there's a...

[1849] Lane was fucking magical, this guy.

[1850] What is that, gentlemen's...

[1851] William Duvall?

[1852] William Duvall.

[1853] He's a talented motherfucker.

[1854] Yeah, look at Lane, though, dude.

[1855] Lane was the fucking man, bro.

[1856] Oh, my God, he was a maniac.

[1857] Oh, man. He was a man. I brought these guys on stage a couple times.

[1858] I mean, fuck, dude.

[1859] This was my favorite band out of Seattle.

[1860] Put them bones.

[1861] Put up them bones.

[1862] What a...

[1863] I mean, these guys.

[1864] Them bones is a fucking...

[1865] jam it's such a horrific song too because you know this this is this dude's talking about fighting heroin this fucking song rules so there you go and up the big old pile of I mean yeah the best if you're listening to this on the treadmill you will run faster put river of deceit mad season do you know who that is yes you do I do yes you do yes Yes, you do.

[1866] So Mad Season was a band that was put together with Lane from Allison Chains and the guys from Pearl Jam.

[1867] It was a side project.

[1868] I did not know about that.

[1869] Do you know about that?

[1870] Mad Season?

[1871] No. Well, I hosted MTV, so I was.

[1872] I was in the loop on this shit.

[1873] Check out this fuck.

[1874] Check out his voice on this.

[1875] What year are we talking about here?

[1876] This.

[1877] So in the band was Pearl Jam.

[1878] Because those guys were all incestrients.

[1879] you all those bands up there the Seattle scene this is I love this song this is beautiful wait to hear his fucking voice on this crank it maybe we should dim the lights bro let's do some heroin what do you think so these are the guys playing from Pearl Jam in the background is self -chosen so that's the same guy from Alice and Shane's it's lame yep yeah what a voice yet so unusual yeah I don't know if them bones is about him fighting off heroin but god damn it seems like it is you know yeah Mike Starr also was in the band he died as well him and Lane both died that heroin culture is a strange culture the heroin musician culture is very very strange because it's it's very prevalent amongst elite musicians you know in terms of like you look at the guys that we we all worship like Hendricks did heroin Morrison most likely did heroin right it wasn't he yeah Kurt Cobain did heroin yeah Lane Staling did hair the guy from Blind Melon the lead singer Blind Melon he died of heroin I think too yeah it's so prevalent man it's so prevalent it's just like you you know you gotta wonder like what is it about heroin in music like there's something about a there's probably a field to it or something.

[1880] I think it's a place they want to go.

[1881] So I think they're writing, but they feel like, yo, if I do this, I can go even to another level.

[1882] Like I don't know.

[1883] I mean, I can ask Jerry, the guitar player, he'd be a great guy to have on your show.

[1884] Jerry Contrell.

[1885] Ask him how Lane came up with those lyrics, I don't know.

[1886] If there's something, I think there's something to heroin and its effects on people that we're looking at it only in a negative way.

[1887] I've never done heroin, but I did do a morphine drip once when I had my niece surgery, and it was amazing.

[1888] So I would imagine heroin feels fucking great.

[1889] But there was a guy that I knew that was a pool hustler.

[1890] He was a big -time pool player in Connecticut in the East Coast.

[1891] And his name was Water Dog.

[1892] They'd call him Buffalo Bill or Water Dog.

[1893] And this guy was a heroin addict, and he would go into the bathroom and he would chew heroin.

[1894] And after he'd shot heroin, he would sit on the bar stool like this.

[1895] who stood at one of those billiards chairs, he would sit there like this.

[1896] Oh my God.

[1897] I'm not kidding, for like 15, 20 minutes.

[1898] Just sit there like this.

[1899] Wow.

[1900] And then when he got out, he couldn't miss a ball.

[1901] He couldn't miss. So he was gambling for thousands of dollars.

[1902] There was all these people yelling and screaming.

[1903] There was so much money involved because this guy who was like a local gambler, George the Greek was playing against him.

[1904] And there was a lot of money being bet on this, thousands of dollars.

[1905] And this fucking guy couldn't miss. He had eyes like a shark, like just like a. His pupils were fully dilated, and he was just firing balls in.

[1906] Like, he could see where the ball was going with pinpoint position.

[1907] It was wild to watch.

[1908] And I was like, what the fuck is going on with heroin?

[1909] Like, how do so many musicians create amazing works of art with it?

[1910] How does so many, like, Mitch Hedberg loved heroin?

[1911] You know, he's like one of the funniest guys that's ever lived.

[1912] Like, what is it about that drug?

[1913] Maybe I should do heroin.

[1914] I'm just kidding.

[1915] No, yeah, I know.

[1916] I definitely don't want to do it I'm scared but I'm wondering like What is it about?

[1917] Are you scared because if you did it You'd really dig it?

[1918] Oh yeah I don't want to do anything that I would really like That can eventually kill you Right You couldn't just like oh I'm just gonna try it No it doesn't seem like a try thing Heroin seems like it's like What about Coke?

[1919] Have you ever done coke?

[1920] No never done coke Really?

[1921] No never done coke No one believes that Which is very insulting Because I tell the truth about everything But that is the one that I have avoided it because when I was a kid, I had a friend whose cousin was selling it and his life fell apart.

[1922] And I watched his life fell apart.

[1923] I knew him before that and then watching him afterwards, I was like, fuck, man, stay away from Coke.

[1924] Do you think if you did it, you would want to do it some more?

[1925] I'm sure I would love it, yeah.

[1926] I'm sure I'd love it.

[1927] I think everybody loves it.

[1928] There's like there's certain things that even, you got to, a man's got to know his limitations.

[1929] You know, stay away from things like Coke.

[1930] What about?

[1931] Also, like, artistically, I'm not interested in anything that makes me more comfortable.

[1932] I'm interested in things that make me less comfortable.

[1933] I'm interested in things that make me less secure.

[1934] That's why I like weed, because it makes you, like, analyze your behavior more, you know, and see the faults in your own stuff because you're kind of looking at things almost semi -paranoid.

[1935] When you write, do you smoke a duby?

[1936] Yeah, right before?

[1937] Yeah.

[1938] And what's your writing process?

[1939] Depends on what time it is.

[1940] if it's at night and I'm leaving a club I won't smoke anything I'm already probably a little high and I'll just sit in front of the computer and I just start writing just start writing yeah just try to find anything and all I'm looking for is like paragraphs that I can extract I'm looking for a premise and some of my best bits have come out of that just like forcing it and then once I force an idea like get something down then I start dissecting it and chop And they didn't get it to a place where I feel like this is funny enough.

[1941] I know where it's going enough that I can talk about it on stage.

[1942] And when you when you write, you don't write for the joke.

[1943] You write for the angle and the story.

[1944] I just write just write on a subject.

[1945] So just like, so if I'm going to write, this is just one way I do it.

[1946] Another way I do it is I'll come up with something funny and then I write it down on my phone.

[1947] I do that a lot too.

[1948] But when I write, it's like say if I'm going to do something about caffeine, I'll just sit and write about caffeine.

[1949] Like, if there's, it's not really good subject, but, you know, whatever the subject is, they think is funny.

[1950] I just start writing about it is, look at it from all the different angles, looking at it from a silly angle, looking at it from a hater's angle, looking at it from a lover's, look at it, look at it, look at it, look at it, twist it up, make it so, like, even though it's a ridiculous thing to say, maybe this is good for society, if this happens, you know, and, like, have funny ways to look at it, and then I try it on stage, and then when I try it on stage, I listen to it, and I fuck around, and listen, to it back?

[1951] Yeah, I'll listen to it back.

[1952] Or, you know, or I know what I said, so I'll just go and work on it in the next set and try to find, like, another way to go in it.

[1953] Maybe I'm missing something.

[1954] Like, sometimes the best version of a bit came from just a chance way of saying it a different way one night.

[1955] And I'm like, oh, my God, it's so much better.

[1956] Like, you fixed it instantly.

[1957] So do you have, I don't want to say a team of writers, but people back there, you just have the audio?

[1958] It's just my just me But you remember it Well I record everything You record everything on my phone You're recording this conversation I record this conversation Yeah God damn it God damn it We're in trouble We're in trouble So So what about observational versus personal As far as where your head's at regarding that I think you should think and talk about what you're interested in thinking and talking about And right now What I'm interested in thinking and talking about is that this is a very bizarre disconnect between the people in this country and why we tend to join groups and decide that the people in the other group are the bad people and we're the good people and we're going to stop that the bad people and this is going to be great for everybody like slow the fuck down everybody this is what I'm thinking about today because I've never been more concerned that we could be in a fucking nuclear war in my life than right now.

[1959] I've never been more concerned about whatever the fuck is going on with Russia and Ukraine spilling over into the United States and causing chaos for everyone on the planet and death and destruction beyond our imagination.

[1960] The fact that that's on the table is so fucking crazy.

[1961] And he's not going to stop this guy, right?

[1962] Dude, the whole thing is a mess.

[1963] It's a mess.

[1964] It's a mess with NATO moving into surrounding countries.

[1965] It's a mess where, you know, You know, Russia invades Ukraine.

[1966] It's horrible.

[1967] So is it just about real estate?

[1968] It's about many things.

[1969] If you should, I'm not the person to talk to you about this.

[1970] If you want to listen to Dave Smith talk about it, he's very, very knowledgeable.

[1971] And he could explain in detail how NATO started violating some sort of an agreement and they're moving their arms closer to where Russia is.

[1972] and they had specific people had specifically said that they were trying to get ukraine to join nato if ukraine joined nato that would be at the border of russia an armed force of the whole world and it's just tactically it's if you're a general if you're a person who is a president or a king of a country you're not going to let somebody like pull right up on your fucking border like that with a new army attached to it like why why do you guys need a new army What are you planning on doing with that new army?

[1973] Why are your fucking cannons pulling in it at us?

[1974] You know, it's all bad.

[1975] It's all bad, dude.

[1976] And it's all bad because the military industrial complex is a gigantic force of nature and power and money.

[1977] There's so much going on.

[1978] And it's a natural thing that happens when people get into power.

[1979] When people get into power, if they have that kind of money, they're making that kind of money, one of the things that they absolutely are going to do is they're going to try to make as much.

[1980] money as they can with any situation that comes up.

[1981] Now, if you're in the business of talent jokes, that's great.

[1982] You're just going to tour and do bigger arenas.

[1983] Yay, you're at this big place.

[1984] Yay, you're at this place.

[1985] More seats, more tickets.

[1986] But if you're in the war business, you're just getting to the edge of no more civilization.

[1987] You're pushing things to the edge of what could happen today if someone's fucking crazy and someone is dying already and someone is a dictator that literally has the ability to launch nukes.

[1988] On your last breath, you could fucking do -y -j.

[1989] And then it's chaos.

[1990] And the question doesn't become whether or not he should have done that.

[1991] Of course he shouldn't have done that.

[1992] The question of could there have been steps that were made to prevent that from happening in the future?

[1993] And if those steps could be made, they should probably be made.

[1994] Because this is where we are.

[1995] This scares the shit out of me in a way that nothing in my life has ever scared the shit out of me. Yeah, it's been it's It's the real deal It's the real deal It's the real deal and it doesn't we do why are we involved in this?

[1996] Why is anyone involved in this?

[1997] Why are groups of people Involved in this kind of conflict when the groups of people don't benefit?

[1998] That's what's weird Well, I think that you know You know he You know we as Americans from my feeling is that we see these poor people get killed And we don't want to like have our guys You know like like Afghanistan go in there but here's some weapons because we feel bad for all your innocent people that are dying so you guys figure it out that's a great way to look at it right yeah that's a positive way to look at it like if you wanted to positively support the well that's america that's america that's what you would say i think that he i think that putin knew that going into it he goes we're going to we're going to do this and i know america is going to give these guys money and it's going to fuck up their economy could be I mean because our economy is pretty fucked up right now yeah but I think it would have been fucked up anyway I think these people are goofy I think um you know it's it's really hard to run a country and most people aren't very good at it just just how it goes there's very few people that are actually good at it and it's very clear that this country is being run by a bunch of people other than just the president I mean what I don't know how much say he has but it's a lot of other people are involved and they're not doing such a great job and they haven't made course corrections very good there's a lot of mistakes that have been made that didn't have to be made and that's just how it is it's just like it's not being run well and so you have to go well who could do it better could be a Republican or it could be a better Democrat and if it's not a better Democrat like how are we going to get a better Democrat if you don't let the president debate so they won't let them debate because Robert Kennedy Jr and what is that other woman's name Marion Williamson Marion Williamson apparently They're both promising candidates For the Democratic Party But they won't let him debate Before the primaries So it's like that's not that democratic Like that's not how it's supposed to do I agree with you I think both sides are fucked up Yeah I mean I think both sides are It's all run by money man It's like that's they let money into politics And people can profit off of decisions And it's a mess that you can't pull out of it's one of those things like once you've got that in there it's like you're not taking the pee out of the ocean kid it's like that's it's in there you're not fixing that yeah and the news organizations i mean i flip back and forth and when i was growing up it was just a news anchor just reading the teleprompter and basically just reading the news and now both sides have something to say and i never editorialize yeah i never remembered that and it's it's you know i watch it because i'm a comedian and i look at the comedy in it.

[1999] And I don't take it serious.

[2000] That's good.

[2001] Because otherwise it'll freak you out.

[2002] Yeah.

[2003] And, you know, these news anchors, they roll their eyes.

[2004] They say shit.

[2005] And they're both way too far left and way too far right.

[2006] Well, you're taking a real chance if you're running a corporate network and you have on people that are going to give opinions.

[2007] Because you're going to have people that just give the hot take of the day and repeat things that everybody says and, you know, use phrases that they've heard.

[2008] on TV and the news and know that they have to hit certain beats in order to be accepted.

[2009] And then you're going to get people that are very arrogant about enforcing their own personal ideologies in their sets and views of things.

[2010] And they'll argue with people in a very uncomfortable way where you see people with differing opinions now on the internet in particular, having thoughtful conversations with each other, even though they have different opinions.

[2011] It doesn't have to devolve to this stupid, like, name -calling, yelling, game.

[2012] Like, why?

[2013] Why are you calling each other names?

[2014] Why are insulting each other?

[2015] Like, is this getting anything done?

[2016] Like, can you keep it together as a human being?

[2017] Do you have the character to keep it together?

[2018] And so this, like, the way people communicate in these, like, short clips in these CNN things.

[2019] When you're watching people argue about stuff, it's like, my God, is this a bad format for this?

[2020] And my God, are you guys bad at doing it in this format?

[2021] Because it's like you're just virtue signaling and complaining.

[2022] It's like the way you're interfacing with people.

[2023] Yeah, I think it's all fake.

[2024] I think the second, the cameras are off.

[2025] I think Tucker Carlson is super liberal.

[2026] And I think that Don Lemon is super Republican.

[2027] I do.

[2028] I do really think that.

[2029] I don't think that.

[2030] But I do think that Tucker Carlson used to be a deadhead.

[2031] Yes.

[2032] Which is amazing.

[2033] Yeah, he's from California.

[2034] He's from Santa Monica.

[2035] But I think it's all entertainment.

[2036] I think these guys are as narcissistic.

[2037] as the most actors that are in Hollywood I think these news anchors the second the cameras off they're looking at their they're you know like anyone else I think it's entertainment dude they're just human beings at the end of the day they're just human beings and everybody is subject to the same weirdness all of them no matter what the profession is you know it's like the job of being a news anchor so strange you're distributing the news Hi, I'm Polly Shore with the news Today, Putin learned that Ukraine said They're gonna do, do, do, do, da, da, da, da, da, da, da.

[2038] And then you know that you don't know jack shit And you're just reading off a teleprompter And everybody comes to you and they want to take a picture with you At the restaurant, hey, it's Polly from the news And you're saying there, it's a fucking weird gig, man. You're a reader of the news And you have to do it in a fake way There's a way to talk, Polly.

[2039] a way that settles people and calms their fears.

[2040] And that's the way we prefer to talk here on K -106.

[2041] Yeah.

[2042] You know who I loved was Brian, Brian Williams?

[2043] Remember him on MSN?

[2044] Loved him.

[2045] Yeah, he was good at that voice.

[2046] I thought he was great.

[2047] He was very good at that voice.

[2048] He was great.

[2049] He had the best for...

[2050] Let's hear some...

[2051] He got in trouble because he lied about Iraq.

[2052] Yeah.

[2053] Lied about getting shot out.

[2054] Yeah, but then that kind of went away a little bit.

[2055] No, really.

[2056] Not the people that got shot at.

[2057] Oh, okay.

[2058] Yeah, they're not really interested in hearing from you anymore.

[2059] If you can just, like, make up a store.

[2060] But Hillary Clinton did that too, right?

[2061] Didn't she, like, make up some, or there was a dispute in her story?

[2062] I just wish there wasn't a Fox and a CNN.

[2063] I wish there was just a said news and just read what was on the news, and it was the people to decide what they think, as opposed to giving opinions.

[2064] That's my thought.

[2065] That's how it was when I was a kid.

[2066] The thing is, it's like you don't really know.

[2067] know these people very well.

[2068] So when they're giving their opinions, you don't know them very well.

[2069] You don't really know them.

[2070] You don't really hear them.

[2071] But they should probably have a disclaimer and say, like, yo, I don't know shit.

[2072] Yeah.

[2073] I'm just reading what it tells me to read.

[2074] So please don't get mad at me. My job is to read what's on there.

[2075] Imagine.

[2076] I want you to imagine this.

[2077] Imagine if all of your interactions for the rest of your life would be like you sitting on the couch of a talk show.

[2078] it would be you would go crazy you would go fucking crazy imagine if that's how you communicate for the rest of your life or if you only talk to people that talk to you like a news anchor imagine that I want you to imagine if the only way they talked they talked like a politician giving a speech Polly what we can do for this country is different than what anybody could do for any other country and I'm here to tell you that with my commitment you'd be like dude fucking relax slow the fuck down right speak normal what are you doing imagine if that's how people talked forever you would go mad you would literally go insane yeah like we we allow a certain kind of like fake kind of thing us a top 40 DJ voice yeah imagine if they only talked in top 40 DJ voices Polly Shore walking into the room ladies and gentlemen Polly sure can be seen at the blah blah blah at the blah blah blah Tickets available now.

[2079] Yeah.

[2080] Yeah, it's...

[2081] That's weird.

[2082] And then, well, then, you know, and then we go back to what I said originally, which is the phones, you know, before.

[2083] I always said that before the Internet, if you were a crazy person, you could just, back in the day, you would just, you know, be crazy and sit in the corner.

[2084] Now, if you're a crazy person, you can actually be crazy.

[2085] And I think that has a lot to do with it, too.

[2086] Yeah.

[2087] You know, people get to, you know, have their opinion.

[2088] You know, when I was growing up, I didn't know everyone wanted to be famous.

[2089] I thought if you wanted to, I didn't.

[2090] I thought it was just New York and L .A. I didn't know people in Iowa would be like, yo, check out my cornfields, dog.

[2091] You know what I mean?

[2092] Yo, check out my steak, dude.

[2093] Have you seen this guy who only gets hit in the balls?

[2094] I have not.

[2095] Have I said you that guy, Jamie?

[2096] Oh, which one?

[2097] The big fat guy.

[2098] He's like, which one?

[2099] It's missing teeth.

[2100] It's not a new thing.

[2101] Yeah, what's his name?

[2102] I don't know who you're talking about.

[2103] Oh, God damn.

[2104] I know I have it saved.

[2105] But this dude, let me figure out who I sent it to, because I sent someone recently.

[2106] Send it to me. This dude just keeps getting smashed in the balls.

[2107] And he's probably got a million followers, right?

[2108] People love it.

[2109] He probably does.

[2110] God damn it.

[2111] I'm going to have to find it.

[2112] I definitely sent it to quite a few friends, but I don't know where it is.

[2113] This dude just gets hammered in the balls all the time.

[2114] He's a big fat guy with tattoos on his face.

[2115] So that's my point.

[2116] You've seen him?

[2117] We played it before on here.

[2118] But that's my point, right?

[2119] What's the homie's name?

[2120] I have to find it out.

[2121] He's crazy.

[2122] He's like missing his front teeth and he just gets kicked in the balls.

[2123] And he's probably making bank.

[2124] Probably driving a Ferrari.

[2125] Yeah, I didn't know that.

[2126] Bro, he gets hitting the ball so hard.

[2127] Yeah.

[2128] So hard.

[2129] You're like, you're going to die.

[2130] You're going to die from your...

[2131] Who hits him just random people?

[2132] Well, I'll show you.

[2133] Multiple different kinds of people.

[2134] Oh, God.

[2135] They hit him in the balls with a hockey puck.

[2136] Watch this.

[2137] This dude...

[2138] So he's Canadian, obviously.

[2139] And this dude's a serious hockey player, too.

[2140] like he whips it in it oh my god he shot it right in right in on the sack bro wow this was four years ago okay so he's been getting kicking the balls for decades so his balls look like like cauliflower ears hold my fries is that a Canadian thing like hold my beer yeah but this is my fries maybe it's all just like grabbing your dick yeah this is what people want to see right um there's a lot more brutal ones and that.

[2141] Like him getting what did he get a I think he got a golf ball.

[2142] I think he's for fat guys.

[2143] Hold my fries is for fat guys.

[2144] Oh okay.

[2145] I think he got a golf ball whacked into his balls and a bunch of other stuff too.

[2146] But yeah, it's...

[2147] Yeah, and there you go.

[2148] You can make it.

[2149] That's my point.

[2150] You're going to make it out of your own.

[2151] But yeah, it's some, you know.

[2152] Yeah, you could do it a lot of different ways now.

[2153] And I think that's the big change.

[2154] You could do it a lot of different ways.

[2155] and there's people that become famous through TikTok and Instagram and all these different things and YouTube and podcasts and you know there's always going to be movies because movies are fun they're entertaining there's always going to be television shows because people like to watch television it's just they have to adjust to a different time you know but if you don't want to do that anymore as a comic you don't have to do that anymore because it used to be that you had to do that if you wanted to do comedy because if you didn't get a sitcom people wouldn't come to see in the clubs because they wouldn't know who you are right you know they you had to like someone had to find out who you were you had to either get a special on HBO or you'd have to do the tonight show with Johnny back in the day you ought to get there's there to be some what are what are you did was great with his special yeah that was amazing yeah but I thought just that I love how Ari just says fuck it you know what I mean it says I'm gonna do something completely different yeah you know and I thought that just and he thought about it for a long time yeah worked on that set for a long as time yeah but I just love that he um you know said fuck everyone i'm just going to do it myself and he he paved the way i mean big j oakerson did it right a lot of people have done that well shane gillis did it before him and a lot of a lot of his success came out of that as well and i i think i think you know the internet is a great thing for guys like me especially because you know if i'm not getting a movie offer if i'm not getting a tv offer and i'm going on stage i'm touring i still want to do other shit yeah and so for For instance, I can do a YouTube, I could do Instagram, do all my stupid videos.

[2156] So I think it's a good thing.

[2157] Oh, for sure.

[2158] Yeah.

[2159] No, it's definitely a good thing.

[2160] You know?

[2161] It's definitely a good thing.

[2162] And it's a good thing for several reasons.

[2163] It's a good thing to get your stuff out there, but it's also a good thing to stay creative.

[2164] Because in the old days, if you come up with an idea, you'd got to develop it and it takes a long time.

[2165] Yes.

[2166] Now you come up with an idea.

[2167] You could put it out the next day.

[2168] And I love that.

[2169] That's what's great about YouTube, you know, so I could put my stuff right out on YouTube.

[2170] I could do videos on there.

[2171] And I think it's cool.

[2172] Yeah, I think it's cute.

[2173] It's huge.

[2174] And it's also, it's great that comics can just be free.

[2175] And they're not attached to this thing that can't accept them if they have jokes about this or that or anything or if they're controversial or they swear too much.

[2176] It doesn't matter anymore.

[2177] Like now with podcasts or a completely new industry, that is as big as television is, if not bigger.

[2178] So a bad thing's a good thing.

[2179] Yeah, it's not even a bad thing.

[2180] It's just a changing thing.

[2181] And you give people access like this to something that's, you know, where you could pause it anytime you want, watch it whenever you want, like a regular talk show, it's clunky.

[2182] It's clunky.

[2183] It doesn't work that good.

[2184] Whereas if you were, you know, you're imagining where it's going to go, it's probably going to go to some completely unexpected place next.

[2185] Like nobody saw a podcast coming, right?

[2186] Nobody thought this was ever going to be a big thing.

[2187] So there's probably something like that that's going to be coming next.

[2188] And you'd have to, like, predict it based on, it'd have to be like, you'd have to analyze, like, lifestyle things.

[2189] And, like, you have to figure, like, what would, what new kind of technology would interface with people?

[2190] Like, how would people, how would people enjoy something in a new way?

[2191] I don't know what the answer to that is.

[2192] But whether it's virtual reality or augmented reality, but when that comes along.

[2193] It's also, when you go to a nightclub and you see a, you know, back in the day, when you go to a nightclub, you'd like people would be up dancing and now you go to a nightclub people are staring at their phones you know so if you want to talk to a girl you can't really because they're staring at their phone that's why i think it'd be cool to have some sort of uh you know where you kind of can can can uh hijack and go into someone's phone if you're like in a like imagine like you can air drop them a picture and said you air drop them an invitation to buy them a drink yeah buy them a drink can you do that i wonder if you can air drop a face time request That would be a fun That would be cool Like imagine some babe Yo Imagine some babe is like You know You want to talk to the babe But she's staring at her phone And you don't want to You want to buy her a drink And you're like You just air drop your video And then you're like Yo babe I'm right here Let me buy you I'm second thought That's a terrible idea That's a terrible idea I just thought about that Because I'm a guy Like if I was a girl That would be a terrible idea You'd just be getting Dicks air dropped too All over the bar Scenario where it'd be good But everyone has to be on the same page That's a very good good way of putting it jamie and then there's the dating apps whatever the fuck is next after phones is going to make phones look like a typewriter yes right whatever's next is going to be some mind changing shit like literal mind changing like some some sort of a neural interface something real next level where it's going to just you're not i mean they're talking about having uh like a portal to the internet that's like connected to your brain all the time What does that look like?

[2194] What does that seem like?

[2195] Well, you can put in, you could put in like something in here and go open the door like that now.

[2196] Yeah?

[2197] Like your fingers?

[2198] No, I have a guy I know that goes to his office and he puts like some chip in there and he goes like this and the door opens.

[2199] Oh, okay.

[2200] Yeah, so he has like a key fob.

[2201] Yeah, we have key fobs like that that do that.

[2202] Yeah, it's inside your hand, right?

[2203] Yeah.

[2204] Well, it doesn't have to be.

[2205] Are you talking about like an implant?

[2206] Yeah.

[2207] Oh, you're talking about an implant?

[2208] I thought you meant a ring.

[2209] No, like an actual inside.

[2210] They make you wear a chip ring.

[2211] You're like with the logo of the company on it.

[2212] Keep your ring on 24 -7, even on your shower.

[2213] Yeah.

[2214] If your ring breaks, we'll get you a new one.

[2215] But you are a proud employee of Walmart.

[2216] You will keep that Walmart.

[2217] You have a fucking Walmart ring.

[2218] Don't they do with dogs?

[2219] Don't you do that with a dog?

[2220] Are you calling people dogs that work at Walmart?

[2221] You son of a bitch.

[2222] Do you hear what he said?

[2223] You're dog.

[2224] I have a dog, I have a chip in my dog so my dog gets lost.

[2225] Yes, or if your dog gets, it's actually for your dog gets picked up at the pound.

[2226] Oh, okay.

[2227] So the pound can scan it and they can get your data.

[2228] Kind of like a head of lettuce?

[2229] Yeah, beep.

[2230] Yeah.

[2231] And if you have a chip in there and then they go, okay, we've, Paul, we find your dog, which is nice.

[2232] That's nice.

[2233] That's very cool.

[2234] Yeah.

[2235] It's a wildest time.

[2236] Yeah, it's going to get wilder.

[2237] This Michi Okaku interview that I did yesterday, we were talking about quantum computing and what that means and what they're going to be able to do as they get better and better and better.

[2238] It's like, holy shit.

[2239] yet.

[2240] He's like there's a giant revolution that's going to change the world and it's about to happen.

[2241] What did he say?

[2242] Well, there's a competition right now between Microsoft and IBM and Google and China and they're all trying to be the first to develop a real quantum computer.

[2243] They already have a couple that they've devised, but they're only designed to do very specific tasks.

[2244] They don't have like an artificial general intelligence quantum computer yet.

[2245] But when they do.

[2246] So what's that going to be?

[2247] It's whoever figures it out first.

[2248] There's a mad race right now between these giant corporations and between the country of China.

[2249] And they're in the middle of this battle to see who wins this.

[2250] And whoever wins this likely has technological superiority over the entire world.

[2251] Because these things will be able to crack any kind of code that anybody has, any encryption.

[2252] It'll be able to crack everything.

[2253] So what's it look like?

[2254] Or what is this guy's vision of what he thinks it's going to look like?

[2255] Well, what it looks like now is like some super fucking science fictiony space shit.

[2256] It looks like all these crazy golden coils that are wrapped around this one smaller device.

[2257] And the smaller device is this computer, is this quantum computer.

[2258] All that other stuff is just the cooling mechanism for the computer.

[2259] See, can you pull up an image of it?

[2260] whatever Mityo Kaku put on yesterday, it's the craziest shit.

[2261] Because you look at it and you go, oh my God, that looks like a science fiction movie.

[2262] Look at that thing.

[2263] Or a brewery in Iowa.

[2264] Welcome to the golden tap.

[2265] Right, exactly.

[2266] Look at that thing, though.

[2267] All that stuff on the top is all cooling.

[2268] And that small box at the bottom with that blue light on it, that's the computer.

[2269] So all that other stuff is...

[2270] And that's your friend?

[2271] No, no, that's not my friend.

[2272] That's the CEO of Google.

[2273] Oh.

[2274] So he's touching...

[2275] Mityo Kaku is the guy who was the guest yesterday.

[2276] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[2277] But that guy is one of the people that's involved.

[2278] That's the CEO of Google.

[2279] They're doing their own quantum computer and IBM is, I think, as well.

[2280] So this is to basically hack into everything?

[2281] What that is is going to develop a computer, what they're eventually going to be, whatever version of.

[2282] it and whatever it looks like when they get it done there it's going to be a computer that can operate like a million times or more powerful than any computer that's ever existed wow i think that's a correct statement is that right it's not it's not incorrect but i just i do want to correct you on one tiny thing this little pick on the picture here yeah that what you're seeing there that's like a router behind the machine oh so that's not the computer at the bottom the little boxes that he was sort of trying to explain like it's like oh it's right above It's more like this, and it's just covered up by everything.

[2283] Oh, okay.

[2284] I see, I see, I see.

[2285] Oh, okay.

[2286] So it's even smaller.

[2287] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[2288] It's more like a microchip, but a little bit bigger than a microchip.

[2289] Really?

[2290] Yeah, it's...

[2291] The computer itself is a little bit than a microchip?

[2292] That's from trying to...

[2293] It's bigger than a microchip, you know, but like a CPU compared to a PC tower.

[2294] Right.

[2295] It's kind of like that.

[2296] Like, this is like the tower cooling device for more of like a CPU that's probably like...

[2297] So how big is the actual chip?

[2298] I'll try to find that.

[2299] Hmm.

[2300] wild so this is a little chip like this joe it's like this oh my god look at it's not even that big jesus that's the computer bro what the fuck that's alien fits it fits into like it's gonna fit into your computer no that is going to be the computer wow that's what's and where do you stick it all the other stuff it's they instead of so instead of doing things with ones and zeros i'm gonna fucked this up I'm sure they're they're computing with atoms and they're they're doing their computation in atoms and these computations are happening in multiple universes simultaneously I'm gone right you say that I'm like I don't know what you're saying I'm just I'm repeating his words like it's too confusing he's saying that they're happening so that's the size of it look at that tell me if they found that and you said we develop we've found a computer that is one million times stronger than anything that exists here on Earth.

[2301] This must be from another planet.

[2302] Look at that guy holding that up in his hand.

[2303] Go back to that image of him holding it.

[2304] If he said that was recovered from a crashed UFO in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947, this is the answer to all of our worries.

[2305] If we can get this attached to the proper cooling, it will be one million times more powerful than any PC that's ever existed.

[2306] That's a scene in The Watchmen or something, right?

[2307] I picture them doing the same thing, but finding an iPhone that doesn't have power, and you're like, if we could just turn this on, we don't even know what that means.

[2308] Yeah, but then cell phone towers are out, and there's no 5G.

[2309] A device like that.

[2310] I don't mean like specific to that.

[2311] Right.

[2312] Imagine if they get past this whole cell phone thing and develop something that uses the Earth as a method of transmitting messages back and forth, the energy of the Earth.

[2313] Like solar or something?

[2314] I don't know, like sending something through the air that is possible.

[2315] powered by that very air.

[2316] Like, instead of using a 5G signal, you use the signal of the Earth itself.

[2317] Imagine if that becomes a thing.

[2318] Imagine if there's a way that you can, like, instead of like sending things from tower to tower, which is insanely impressive, what if you were literally able to connect just human beings, device, device with no network?

[2319] They're so powerful that just like you can air drops someone something on a plane, you know, even if there's no Wi -Fi or nothing.

[2320] Imagine if your phone just connects to other phones.

[2321] It just does it some other way.

[2322] It doesn't need a 5G signal.

[2323] That doesn't seem...

[2324] It's so crazy that they could do it already.

[2325] It's so crazy that they can send a video through the air and you can get it a second later.

[2326] That's nuts.

[2327] Well, you remember 20 years ago when you tried to download videos.

[2328] Oh, yeah.

[2329] It took a long time.

[2330] Oh, yeah, yeah.

[2331] It took forever.

[2332] Even pictures.

[2333] It was sending you a picture.

[2334] It was interesting because when Napster hit, you know, you're trading music, people are sharing music and all that.

[2335] And then you're like, well, people in the movie and TV business are like, hey, well, at least we're not going to get, that's not going to happen to us.

[2336] And then shortly after that, people are sending, you know, copies of movies.

[2337] Remember when like Spider -Man came out or something and they're like, oh, we got, you know, a copy and we're sending it all over the internet?

[2338] Yeah.

[2339] Or what I don't know if it was Spider -Man, but I'm, you know what I mean?

[2340] Yeah, that happens all the time in movies that get leaked.

[2341] Yeah.

[2342] But when it first started to happen.

[2343] Well, when it first really started fucking people up with NAPster, that freak people out.

[2344] You could download entire albums for free.

[2345] Yeah.

[2346] And everybody's like, wait, what's going on?

[2347] Yeah, yeah.

[2348] You know, and that, boy, you want to talk about a disruptive force in an industry.

[2349] That changed everything.

[2350] Yeah, that was a big deal.

[2351] You can't sell record.

[2352] anymore.

[2353] I had Paul Stanley on the podcast, and he's very bitter about it.

[2354] He doesn't like it at all.

[2355] Yeah.

[2356] He was saying it's stealing.

[2357] I'm like, yeah.

[2358] Yeah.

[2359] I mean, stealing is I steal a record.

[2360] But the digital recording, like that's like we used to always record off the radio.

[2361] You remember that when you were a kid?

[2362] You were to record on cassettes off the radio?

[2363] Yeah.

[2364] But that's okay.

[2365] Because it doesn't sound that good.

[2366] Well, yeah.

[2367] Nobody tried to stop that.

[2368] And there was no distribution method.

[2369] Would you stop an AI Sam Kinnison album from being made right now?

[2370] I would not.

[2371] I would not.

[2372] You know what?

[2373] It's like that big E. Tupac thing that we played yesterday, which is hilarious.

[2374] We played Mityo Kaku.

[2375] We played Notorious B .I .G. doing Nas lyrics.

[2376] Okay.

[2377] And like he was, you could tell, his eyes glazed over.

[2378] Just like me talking to him about quantum physics.

[2379] I feel like, though, if a Sam Kinnisson one, you guys know what that was like.

[2380] You know what you knew him.

[2381] Yeah, but you would have to write material that's worthy.

[2382] That's why I point when you guys would listen to it, like, this kind of sucks, but you could play it for a kid and be like, that's actually, I love this.

[2383] This is awesome.

[2384] And then you're like, you guys don't know what it was like, though.

[2385] To rewrite Kinnison, you'd have to rewrite Kinnis in the context of when he was hot in like the 80s.

[2386] You'd have to write more material from back then.

[2387] Because if you wanted to rewrite Kinnisin, he doesn't have cultural references.

[2388] Like, how would he know what the fuck is?

[2389] We know he's dead.

[2390] You train Chad GPT with some new TikTok references.

[2391] some new comedy and then all of a sudden you go like and now tell this in the voice to sam kinnison not only that tell if sam kinnison was alive today and in the form of sam kinsen from 86 yeah that's it right that's it could happen and someone will do it now that we've just put it out there point that's a very good point yeah i was thinking like you would like it's almost like if i wanted to see hendricks play if i wanted to see uh if i wanted to go to a vr version of a hendrx concert i would want to be in some fucking 1967 concert where the floor's muddy and there's dirty hippies around and you know and he's playing live in some club that's what's it what's it called a holograms holograms did that like fizz out yeah I'm fizzed out what about NFTs did that fizz out too those are hot again in fact I'm coming out my own collection great yeah um but you know what i'm saying the hologram phased out with tupac teupac too jacked people got upset yeah like enough with the hologram but it's also weird do you feel weird um i don't know if you feel weird but i feel weird about it when you go to a concert not obviously your concert but a normal um concert like a uh a music concert everyone is filming the act everyone is going like it's normal and back when i was growing up like i i saw the rolling stones i saw the clash open for the rolling at the it was at the Coliseum and I did a bad thing because I was obsessed with the Rolling Stones I took my little tape recorder and I actually recorded you know I pirated it or whatever it's called where you tape it and I drove to school on my bike and I listened to it and I came in my pants because I was obsessed with you know McJagger back in the 80s you know it was just like fuck isn't it crazy when you look at him in the 60s?

[2392] But I was just like this is amazing but you know people do that now like it's no big deal and the and the artists just let it happen well i don't think there's anything they can do about it i know there's nothing you can do about it it's information i mean but you guys did something about i know bruno mars puts puts the in the bag yeah that's good but what i'm saying is just like just with things that are on the internet if you have uh some sort of recording on the internet or it's like this world is just too strange when it comes to digital what this is that he yeah he recorded his own concert, right?

[2393] No, so this story happened recently.

[2394] Coachella happened over the weekend, or like the last two weekends.

[2395] This artist named Frank Ocean, his set was not streamed live on YouTube, like most of the other ones were.

[2396] But a fan found online like 450 videos of his concert and spent a lot of time editing him together and made the entire show available, like the hour and 20 minutes set, available through fan found footage online.

[2397] It's pretty good.

[2398] And now it was being sued immediately by Coachella for something you can't do this but he wasn't even there so how they sue him how can they sue him?

[2399] That's part of the it's a little bit of an issue and he like he went into saying I think when he found like right away they interviewed him he said I'm gonna leave it up and then they contacted him again and he's like okay actually I'll take it down off my website he was I think he had it available on like Google Drive and a few other place for people to download but now it's just out there and he's like it's already no people have it you're never going to sound this from being seen it exists why couldn't he put it out there he's he was only at a festival there is like when you buy that ticket you know you're buying you it's a contract right for the people that were there they were breaking that contract by filming it oh my god but everybody's doing yeah exactly and that's where it becomes a very everybody's taking photographs and everybody's filming well didn't the bc boys do that a long time i think they were the first ones they did it on purpose though yeah that was like yeah they they told that's actually cool yeah i know this is fucking dope that sounds brilliant and i I bet it's dope.

[2400] But how is Coachella losing anything on that?

[2401] Why would they want to sue someone for that?

[2402] I don't understand that.

[2403] They know people have phones and they know they're recording.

[2404] Not only that, if that's the source of it, it's just fan creative videos and someone creatively edited them together.

[2405] It's probably a dope video, too.

[2406] He downloaded 450 videos and he used, like, 150 of them to make the video.

[2407] That's a hero.

[2408] Yeah, that's great.

[2409] He's going to get probably hired to do other stuff now.

[2410] I want him to shoot at the mother's shit, pro.

[2411] We have it set up.

[2412] We have it set up for filming.

[2413] You could film there.

[2414] Yeah, that was part of the thing.

[2415] That's great.

[2416] Putting it together.

[2417] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[2418] You know, that's one of the reasons why I wanted to change the curtain to the other curtain.

[2419] I like, that curtain looks better.

[2420] Yeah, no, I remember you said that.

[2421] I think that's cool.

[2422] I'm excited to have me there, dude.

[2423] When are you hitting the road soon?

[2424] Do you got any dates to plug?

[2425] I'm all, I'll never stop.

[2426] I will never stop touring.

[2427] Beautiful.

[2428] Till I'm, you know, George Burns' age.

[2429] I'll always do stand up.

[2430] So I'm just always on the road.

[2431] Beautiful.

[2432] Yeah.

[2433] just love it um social media for yeah just uh pollyshore dot com austin texas wednesday may 3rd comedy mothership whoa yeah we sold that out that was cool beautiful yeah so i'm here i'd like to come here more often you know come here more for sure for sure you should and all these gigs are up um portland helium that's a great fucking club fucked up city but that's a great club los vegas hartford connecticut Albany, New York Yeah, and I also have this This is my new album This is cool It's called Polly Shore and the Crusties Do you want to put up Put up my YouTube for a second I have an album Yeah, we're releasing this on my website What kind of music is this?

[2434] It's just all covers, it's great Turn it around, look at the covers Wow Yeah Okay, let's listen to number two A whole lot of love Is that available?

[2435] What's available on YouTube?

[2436] I had rate me up What do you have?

[2437] Rate me?

[2438] Okay, let's go with that Look at this is my band Thank you, thank you Thank you So this is called Polly Shore and the Crusties Oh my God Where are you guys In my garage in Vegas That's hilarious The best bands in the world There's our neighbors Wave to the neighbors So your neighbors are out there Watching you perform Yeah It's called Rape Me And this isn't like our Do you have a crowd in the street?

[2439] People drive by But most people They keep moving This is the house set next door To Nicholas Cage What?

[2440] I bet Nicholas Cage is super thrilled about you bringing all the attention to his neighborhood.

[2441] Yeah.

[2442] And we might bring you here later.

[2443] So we call him Little Baby Larry David.

[2444] Yeah, we might rape you.

[2445] So go over there.

[2446] Here we go.

[2447] People at home, if you know the song, you're welcome to sing it.

[2448] Look at you with the slides on.

[2449] Okay.

[2450] Okay.

[2451] What the fuck he did?

[2452] I'm having fun.

[2453] It looks like you're having fun.

[2454] That's what it's about.

[2455] I get it.

[2456] So, yeah, we also have Polly Shore is dead that's on the 20 -year.

[2457] anniversary is this year.

[2458] Polly Shore is dead, so that's on my YouTube.

[2459] So I got a lot of stuff on my YouTube.

[2460] I'll see you tomorrow night.

[2461] Yeah, thanks for having me. Thanks for being here.

[2462] Peace out.

[2463] Peace out.

[2464] Bye, bud.