#1305 - JD & John Witherspoon

[0] I do these all the time.

[1] We're live, ladies and gentlemen.

[2] What's up?

[3] It's hilarious.

[4] He and the two of you guys together.

[5] When your son told me, when he told me he was your son, first of all, he instantly became my friend.

[6] And the second of all, I was like, what is it like having John Witherspoon as a dad?

[7] That's got to be crazy.

[8] But mind you, I only told you because he was asking me, because I go to the clubs all the time hanging out and went on and just kicking it with friends.

[9] And he said, who's at the club, Nat Day?

[10] He's like, dude, he said, he was telling him, JD, who, who?

[11] who is it that uh who's who's who the bringer there who the funny one who the ones and i was like i was like i mean there's a bunch of women's like you know brandon i said joe's always there he's got a bunch of people who comes to his show he's like joe rogan i'm like i know joe that's we had worked together when i was at the comedy store yeah yeah and he told me to say hi yeah yeah so last time i saw you i think was carolines in new york we were doing i was doing like the eight and you were doing a 10 or something like that oh i would do two shows but it probably on a Thursday, you probably did.

[12] Something was happening when we were doing it close to each other.

[13] It was a long time ago.

[14] It was a long time ago.

[15] Like maybe 15 years ago.

[16] Yeah.

[17] Oh, yeah.

[18] I haven't been there in a while.

[19] I've worked.

[20] I haven't been New York in a while.

[21] I stopped going to New York for about that.

[22] Caroline's a weird one.

[23] Have you done Carolas?

[24] It's like a touristy place.

[25] All tourists.

[26] And foreigners.

[27] It feels like you're doing...

[28] Right in Times Square, right?

[29] Yeah, yeah.

[30] It doesn't feel like you're doing stand -up in New York.

[31] It feels weird.

[32] Oh, yeah.

[33] It feels like what people want.

[34] New York to be, but they're from somewhere else, like a good percentage of them are?

[35] Guadamala.

[36] But it's great.

[37] Look at you like that good.

[38] It's a great club.

[39] Oh, yeah.

[40] But it's just, you know, it's different than the seller or, you know.

[41] Dangerfields is my favorite.

[42] Joey Diaz was just down there and he said he did Dangerfields like five, six nights.

[43] I never did Dangerfields.

[44] Nobody does Dangerfields.

[45] No. It's half full all the time.

[46] It's amazing.

[47] They're still around.

[48] Yeah, they're still around.

[49] Somebody's got to be selling Coke.

[50] Somebody.

[51] Somebody.

[52] Or somebody must be on Coke all the time.

[53] to keep that place like that.

[54] Well, the name alone probably brings people in, but it's an iconic place, man. Yeah.

[55] I like New York.

[56] I haven't been back since Letterman gone.

[57] I don't go do his show anymore.

[58] I haven't been to Carolans in about three years, four years.

[59] But you do a lot of clubs in the road?

[60] Oh, I do 40, 40 -some clubs.

[61] Wow.

[62] 40 clubs a year?

[63] You know, my agents come to my house in January, and they tell me all the clubs I got that year.

[64] they tell you what date we go over it we go over everyone um all right june 15th okay you're gonna be in so and so you're like the money we're gonna get yeah okay that's a go that's a go so we do 40 -something club i said man this is too much work I ain't been 52 weeks in the year yeah that's crazy I gotta have some time off what about me y 'all worry about this money but when you have time off all you do is complain about not being on the road I complain about people telling me what to eat, what to drink.

[65] Oh, my goodness.

[66] I like to get me a little taste every night and the end.

[67] Everybody needs a little taste.

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

[69] Everybody needs to keep the wolf off your back.

[70] That's right.

[71] So I get me a little taste.

[72] The real problem is that travel, though.

[73] That's what we're talking about.

[74] Oh, that's too much.

[75] The air travel over and over and over again.

[76] And then we were freaking out about 837s, and you were explaining it to us that mostly they use them in overseas and some southwests.

[77] And African countries.

[78] And in an Asian country, they use them.

[79] Well, they had like two planes that just got lost, right?

[80] One from Malaysia and all the other ones.

[81] I think that's all pilot doing all that.

[82] Lex Friedman is a software engineer and he specializes in AI.

[83] He's a professor at MIT.

[84] And he was explaining to me, basically the software glitch was making it nosedive.

[85] Yeah.

[86] Yeah.

[87] That's not.

[88] That's not something I would want to hear.

[89] Not when I pay $2 ,200 to get my seat.

[90] Well, if you're a software engineer, you have to, you would have to up the pilot or co -pilot to let them know, like, hey, someone has to, obviously they all know what they're doing in the cockpit, but does someone know what to do if the computer's going down?

[91] That's a really good question.

[92] Do they have any training in how to reboot computers, or is there a bypass or a workaround for the computers?

[93] Yeah.

[94] Lex does artificial intelligence.

[95] That's mostly what he does.

[96] He works on, like, cars, autonomous cars and planes and stuff.

[97] And he was talking about, as these things get more and more updated, you just have glitches happen.

[98] It happens all the time with your phone, right?

[99] You get a new bug and Twitter just crash on you all the time, and they release an update.

[100] But if you're on a fucking plane, what are you doing?

[101] Yeah, and how do you react?

[102] How do you react?

[103] How do they practice it?

[104] Wow.

[105] You'd have to go through a flight simulation of, hey, that's scary.

[106] There's a bug in the plane.

[107] Here we go.

[108] How do they run over all that software before they put it on a plane?

[109] You know, they had the plane that.

[110] crash, what was the last plane crash?

[111] That was where?

[112] In Africa?

[113] I don't know.

[114] There was two in short, except one was, was one Russia?

[115] No, not in Russia.

[116] Yeah, I know, I think it was in Africa.

[117] Anyway, those pilots are trained to the end, to the hill.

[118] They train those pilots, but they don't know themselves, some of the guys who was training the people, what the heck's going on.

[119] It was a pilot that was off work that was on the plane just before this plane, the crash.

[120] same plane.

[121] They had trouble before, and he came out of his seat and went up to the the cockpit and saved the plane.

[122] Jesus Christ.

[123] He knew what to do.

[124] He's the only one knew what to do on the plan.

[125] Imagine being in that fucking plane watching that guy, looking down the eye and watching that guy walk into the cockpit.

[126] Yeah, what are you doing?

[127] No one, they protect that.

[128] They put the food cart in front of the...

[129] Yeah.

[130] Is that food cart stopping anybody?

[131] No, but they got a bolt on the door All those doors But the pilot is in the bathroom Taking a boo -boo Yeah That's what that is They don't have their own pilots bathroom No, they don't have their own pilots bathroom?

[132] No, they can't fit it Can't fit on the plane They blocked the area Yeah, they put that food cart there See, I've seen that many times That's a weird move Like don't you have like a dedicated thing for it Why is the food cart The thing you don't you have like a Should have a gate Someone should have another Leap that Right, they should have another door Just like they got on the cockpit Yeah they should have like some Like you know they do one of those metal gates in front of glass windows.

[133] Yeah, that one of those.

[134] Click, clamp it down.

[135] Well, they knew that didn't work because they had the riot in 66 and they tore all them down.

[136] Oh, the gates on the doors.

[137] I remember that.

[138] I was watching them guys.

[139] It's something they did it to the lock.

[140] That fucking flew open.

[141] Yeah, what could you do to stop someone from bumrushing the cockpit?

[142] Like those flight attendants are not going to stop it.

[143] No, no, hell.

[144] Well, they should probably prepare planes with a flight attendant who has training like that in the future, like a female or male who's just.

[145] No, that's too much trouble.

[146] That's too much money.

[147] Too much money.

[148] Too much money.

[149] They're not going to do it.

[150] The pilot is locked in the bathroom.

[151] The other pilot and the stewardess is locked in the booth when they fly the plane.

[152] So you ain't getting in there anyway.

[153] I guess, yeah.

[154] Unless when the pilot comes out the bathroom.

[155] Then he's not, when he opened a door, but they got the other guy, stewardess got to come out.

[156] He got to go in.

[157] it's too complicated now being the people that said now I'm going to know what's happening you're going to jump up I know somebody That's chaos on a plane If you start seeing all that That you're talking about Well what don't you think Turbulance is chaos I was on a plane Once two dudes almost got into a fight The lady stopped serving them One guy was putting his luggage In a spot above another dude's head And the guy said that's from my stuff And he said no whoever gets there first Is the one who gets it And he's like bullshit And he's like grabbing his arm and, like, you know, got, like, physical for a second.

[158] I had, I had a, you know, I took my bag out to get something out of my bag.

[159] I'm on the plane first.

[160] Some guy walked past me, I said, okay, excuse me. And then I'm looking for myself, he going to put it.

[161] Hey, hey, bro, you see his bag here?

[162] That going up there.

[163] He said, well, you should have had it up there.

[164] I looked at this sucker.

[165] He said, sorry, sir.

[166] He got in his seat.

[167] Now, he's sitting next to me, too.

[168] For the reason, A whole flight.

[169] He didn't say it's nothing.

[170] I should have it up there.

[171] Get the hell out of my way.

[172] Take that crap out of here.

[173] He thought I was a crazy man. Tough guy, huh?

[174] I wasn't tough.

[175] I just didn't know.

[176] The plane is full now.

[177] Yeah.

[178] One seat next to me open.

[179] He going to put this stuff.

[180] I'm getting myself trying to find my earphones.

[181] The punk going to put this stuff up there in front.

[182] Before you just come in, there's a place for you above my head I'm in my bag you don't think that's my bag because you were going through your bag to put this stuff up there I'm doing like this looking for my thing some people just look for an opportunity to be a dick I think planes are the closest that people get to walking that emulates road rage yeah the line yeah it's the closest thing like when people get up and they get up too soon and then like they're pushing forward already and you're like come on man let everybody get up in the line some people like nah don't push through yeah I was at the gas station just now and you know how they have the big oil tankers, they have to bring the gas to the gas station.

[183] They were blocking, they were blocking in where people needed to go to park, and the guy who was there was telling me that some lady was just there, and she was mad at him because he pulled in a few minutes after she parked to get gas in her car, and he was saying that she was like, you're blocking me in.

[184] He's like, lady, I'm either going to block you in or I'm blocking the street.

[185] I can't block the full street with all the traffic.

[186] And then by the time she was ready to go, she finally was like nudging her way out of the gas station.

[187] And the guy was trying to help her And she's like Don't help me I don't need your help All right And she's like And he said I'm sorry It's gonna be a minute She's like I don't got a minute And then I asked him I was like What kind of car is she driving He was like He was like a range rover New New Ranger I'm like She's got plenty of time She's got She'll be okay So One guy put his seat back Before the plane took off You know he put Get comfortable here The seat all the way And see it all the way And so hey Hey buddy Hey Hey you cannot put your seat back Before the plane Get up in the air He said What the fuck What?

[188] got your knees on somebody's legs I got the back of the chair on someone's knees I said buddy I've been doing this for 20 30 years I don't get well fuck what you've been doing you cannot do it today See they got into a spat Oh my goodness Two passengers Two passengers That's what why is one passenger Playing cop Yeah That's just how it is Seat cop That's yeah There's videos of that all the time I remember I saw one One of them out here Leaving like a Or coming into or leaving Burbank And it was like two guys who either the plane just landed or they were just about to take off got into a full fist fight over.

[189] Mind you, it's a Southwest flight over a seat that didn't belong to anyone.

[190] You know, because over there at that airport, they're probably going from Burbank to Vegas.

[191] And then dude was like, hey, man, I'm taking that seat.

[192] No, no, that's my.

[193] And then next thing you know, it's a fight in between the aisle.

[194] It is crazy that they serve you booze on the plane.

[195] You can get drunk at the airport.

[196] You can get drunk.

[197] I mean, alcohol is a drug.

[198] And that drug is everywhere there's flying.

[199] Everywhere that's flying.

[200] It's 100 % set up.

[201] But you can't bring any alcohol through security.

[202] No. We use our security.

[203] We're going to use our alcohol.

[204] Yeah, it's hilarious.

[205] And they'll pour that stuff, brother.

[206] Then they all know me on the plane.

[207] So they give me a bottle of the gold.

[208] You think of my.

[209] Mr. Whittlespoon, wrap it up in a towel.

[210] Big fucking towel.

[211] I'm going to sneak out here with this big -ass bottle in a towel.

[212] But I do it I put it right in that book I put it I get it You know You know They don't want like liquid bombs Or some shit They don't want you bringing Something on the plane I get it I get it It's true I wish that wasn't something You ever had to think about But if it happens Once every few years It's enough that you gotta Think about it You know I had You can't have Three ounces Liquid In your bag So I had a three ounce bottle Of my expensive cologne, but I used half of it.

[213] So I ain't got no three ounce.

[214] I got one in a half now.

[215] We got to take the whole thing.

[216] I said, no, you're going to take on a microphone?

[217] That clump caused me about $300.

[218] Sir, I'm taking a $150 discolone.

[219] Because you got, they took my cologne.

[220] Did you spray it on yourself before getting on?

[221] One more pump for the road.

[222] I sprayed this and going to everybody else, too.

[223] That was, that was, but they're serious about that.

[224] Yeah.

[225] Some dudes still rock cologne.

[226] I wear a cologne.

[227] Heavy.

[228] Do I get it?

[229] Oh, I get it from Bird off Goodman.

[230] I get this stuff.

[231] See, when I grew up, it was a lot of pimps around the neighborhood, and they wore the best cologne.

[232] Them dudes were sharp, the hair be shiny.

[233] And they had a cologne on, and they hit them cell like this.

[234] So when I got old, that's what I would do, I get the cologne like this.

[235] You just start smacking yourself with it?

[236] The pimps used to crack me up, but it would be so sharp.

[237] Shoes would be so shiny.

[238] And they get that cologne.

[239] I'm now, you're smelling me, talking to him.

[240] That boy, smell good.

[241] I'm broke.

[242] I got about three cents in my pocket and holes on the bottom of my shoes.

[243] And then pimps me up the, yeah, the fella, yeah, you're going to be all right one day.

[244] Just hang out again and keep doing what you're doing what you're doing.

[245] Oh, boy.

[246] You ever see pimps up hose down?

[247] Yeah, oh, yeah.

[248] The do you.

[249] I know what's the name.

[250] The real life.

[251] It's like, oh, that's a weird life.

[252] It is some clowns.

[253] they like clowns who get together and that's what they do and that's where they live I used to be around 12th Street you know you weren't in Detroit you were too young No 12th Street Black Bottom They call one place called Black Bottom Hacing Street All pimps and holes They had them Big old hats on And they didn't have Back then They didn't have High His shoes on You know them What do they call them Platform Back then Detroit was booming Right?

[254] Oh, yeah.

[255] Detroit fell off quicker than any city in the Western world.

[256] Yeah.

[257] In terms of, like, it was the richest city in the world during the light of the car.

[258] Motor City.

[259] Yeah, because the people, the factories closed.

[260] And when the factories closed, people had put their money into the house, the car, factory money.

[261] Yeah.

[262] They got that loan.

[263] Because you've been here 15 years.

[264] You've got a good record.

[265] You've got a good thing.

[266] They give you a car and give you a home.

[267] But when that's like a failboard, those people, oh, my God, what am I going to do?

[268] What am I going to do?

[269] What caused it?

[270] Do you know?

[271] I mean, obviously manufacturing, moving to Mexico and other world countries.

[272] All that stuff.

[273] A little bit of that.

[274] A little bit of that.

[275] Everybody were for themselves.

[276] General Motors, Ford, for themselves.

[277] But a lot of companies are still there.

[278] It's just the much just the, but the, but like a lot of car companies, you know, like Ford, right, General Motors.

[279] Not like it used to be.

[280] GM.

[281] Yeah.

[282] They're still there.

[283] but they're there in a much more limited role.

[284] But it's weird role.

[285] They're kind of like the base or kind of like the warehouse or maybe they move that too.

[286] Maybe they're...

[287] You know that show Top Gear?

[288] Yeah.

[289] They do a new show called The Grand Tour.

[290] They do it on Amazon and they did one episode where they went to Detroit.

[291] And they were in Detroit.

[292] They bought a house for like two grand.

[293] Oh, yeah.

[294] Like a whole house for $2 ,000.

[295] $6 .000 for $2 ,000.

[296] Like a fucking whole house, like a house house.

[297] That's crazy.

[298] Like you could live in it.

[299] Like, yeah, oh, yeah.

[300] Wasn't a bad house.

[301] I mean, it needed some work for sure.

[302] Everybody moved together.

[303] But nobody's there.

[304] Everybody's gone.

[305] Everybody's.

[306] When we were there, when we drove through, it was like the amount of giant warehouses that are completely empty with all the shattered windows.

[307] It's very depressing.

[308] It's very weird.

[309] But it's coming back.

[310] And I was there.

[311] Yes, it's coming back.

[312] I was there two months ago.

[313] My brother had died.

[314] I went to his funeral.

[315] And we drove around.

[316] I couldn't find my grandfather's house.

[317] They tore that shit down.

[318] You know, they had.

[319] somebody burned it down some of the stuff like that but it was it was just like any other city to me it's coming back for sure but it's also like you know there's a lot of young businesses are starting up and yeah craft businesses and you know when there's enough people around people have ingenuity they figure out a way it's just not going to be what it used to be yeah and it's a whole new ballgame now it is a new ballgame new people these people are young my son uh what's Alexander is how old is he 23 23 he loved Detroit he's never seen this mean we were downtown Detroit on Saturday night warm hot night people walking around these beautiful women walking around there my son was crazy he said let's go back to Detroit well we don't we don't go there and you're from there we don't we just don't go to where his family's from a lot so it's one of those things where my family gone you got so you got relatives I don't know them.

[320] I don't know my brother's, I don't know my brother's, daughter's, brothers' brothers.

[321] And neither does Alex or me. That's why Alex was more inclined.

[322] He was excited.

[323] His nieces, oh, my God.

[324] They loved him.

[325] And they walked around.

[326] I said, look, I'm going back to the hotel.

[327] I was getting too much harassment.

[328] So I said, I'm going back to the hotel.

[329] So I told the driver, take me back.

[330] They can jump out.

[331] You can pick them up later.

[332] And they've got a ride.

[333] So they got back to the hotel.

[334] tell about two, three hours later, but I was sleeping by the end.

[335] Well, but Detroit is nice.

[336] When I was there, I'm telling you, man, Detroit was nice.

[337] Yeah, I did the Fox Theater.

[338] And it's so old that they have these pillars in the wall that are stained from cigarette smoke, like a darkish, orangeish stain just from nicotine.

[339] That's crazy.

[340] A beautiful theater.

[341] Yeah, beautiful theater.

[342] They had to replace one of the pillars.

[343] So they had one pillar that was clean.

[344] and then the other pillars, you go, whoa, that's cigarette smoke?

[345] And you get to really see it.

[346] And everybody sang there.

[347] Frank Sinatra got this signature all over the place.

[348] Oh, really?

[349] Oh, yeah.

[350] I put my signature down about 20 times.

[351] I was on, I've been there about eight times.

[352] It's a great place.

[353] I remember watching Temptations down there.

[354] Oh, wow.

[355] Temptations.

[356] Frankie Landman and the teenagers.

[357] That was a long time ago.

[358] Wow.

[359] But beautiful, beautiful place.

[360] All the other place is torn down.

[361] The Olympia Stadium where they used to play and sing, and the Pistons used to play basketball there.

[362] They tore that place down.

[363] I saw Elvis Presley there, Elvis Presley.

[364] A little kid, and I saw Elvis.

[365] I always wanted to go to see the Kronk Gym, but I think they tore that down, too.

[366] I used to play basketball at Kronk's Gym.

[367] Really?

[368] You see, it used to be a basketball court there.

[369] Then they tore it, might have torn it down now, but they had, they built boxing rings around there.

[370] So all the boxing, well, we play ball, they've got boxing.

[371] around that.

[372] I went up there one day with my shoes.

[373] What the hell happened?

[374] They closed the doors and everything.

[375] Turn into boxing.

[376] Not like great boxers.

[377] It was in Tommy Hurons and then people came out of there.

[378] Sure.

[379] Lennox Lewis.

[380] Nathan Stewart.

[381] Manuel Stewart was the head coach there until he died.

[382] Yeah, that wasn't an amazing gym.

[383] But it was why one of those places is a few places where you want to go.

[384] Like when you're in L .A., you want to go to Wild Card.

[385] You just want to just say you've been there.

[386] I want to go to the cage where you commentate.

[387] Any time.

[388] Anytime you tell me Knock the crap out of it Let me know Anytime you want to go There's going to be some fights in California I want to look through the screen like this Get that motherfucker Oh man We can get you pretty close We get you right up there We can hear the smacks I like to get real close to take I look at this boy I can't believe That dude like this You got to knock the fuck out That's really serious about that Have you ever gone to one of them live No No never?

[389] Never Oh yeah let's hook that up Yeah that'd be funny Just imagine you should film him I stay ready I stay ready I'll be like so what are your feelings about the fight He was almost set up a tripod in front of him Oh my God Just reacting Yeah straight Like a GoPro or something Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, a little GoPro aimed at you.

[390] And they, I love it when they do a little thing on their background.

[391] They do a little piece on the background.

[392] And I saw one, this guy was woofing, woofing, woofing.

[393] Oh, he's talking about, well, whenever I whip your ass, I want your wife to come over and clean my house.

[394] I want her to come and cook me a meal.

[395] She cooked anything I wanted to cook me. This dude told me, this guy was Brazilian.

[396] the guy, the opponent, he said, well, man, come on, man, you do know what to be, let's play and let's fight, and you ain't got to talk about my wife and stuff.

[397] Man, you don't tell me what to do to tell you or something like that.

[398] Chale Sutton is his name.

[399] The Brazilian is Anderson Silva.

[400] Oh, yeah, yeah.

[401] He's old, and one guy's old.

[402] He's about 43.

[403] Anderson's 40, Chale might be a little older than that.

[404] Yeah, Anderson's greatest middleweight of all time.

[405] First round, this boy put his foot up the foot did like that are you talking about the one where his ankle snapped are you talking about that one or are you talking about he kicked him He's talking about kicking him in the head It was a fight But I never seen a foot come up that quick And that's and the toes Hitting the motherfucker I said I never seen nothing like this And the boy That boy did like that Fell asleep I think you're thinking of a different fight now Oh yeah You're thinking of Vitor Vitor Belfort and Anderson's It was woofing, woofing, woofing.

[406] Yeah.

[407] And he's running his phone.

[408] That's the Vito Belfer one.

[409] That's not the guy, though.

[410] That's the front kick to the face one.

[411] That's like a legendary kick.

[412] The other one was Chale Sunnan.

[413] The Chale Sunning one, he kicked him and he dropped him, and then he kneaded him to the body and took him out with punches.

[414] Unbelievable.

[415] How?

[416] He'll talk to the mic, this.

[417] Unbelievable how.

[418] He can work that foot.

[419] How do you feel about your son's impression of you?

[420] It's really good.

[421] He doesn't think it sounds like him at all.

[422] He doesn't.

[423] It's, I got, you know, uh, well, here, I only know it because this is how he talks to me all the time.

[424] He always has to be like, um, JD, uh, what, what you, what you're doing today?

[425] You got work, hmm, you got to go, uh, sit back and talk to all them, people.

[426] Hmm.

[427] Hey, never.

[428] He does all, all the noises, you know, like, he's, he's, he'd be, hey, you'd be perfect for ASMR.

[429] I, we should just make that type of stuff.

[430] Yeah.

[431] Like him, him just breathing.

[432] I was in line at the airport coming from.

[433] I think I was in St. Louis or something like that.

[434] And so I'm behind this lady, anybody in line, but two, three people in front of her, and I'm behind her.

[435] So I back there by making my little noise.

[436] She was back.

[437] She was like an old, old Latino woman, Spanish woman.

[438] And she looked back, and she went back, back to looking forward.

[439] And then she, I said, well, I don't care, whatever.

[440] She said, you make a lot of noise.

[441] Wow.

[442] She said, you make a lot of noise, sir.

[443] I said, I don't remember making any noise.

[444] That's funny.

[445] You do.

[446] When you got in the car today, you got in the car and you, I got to express myself.

[447] It's noises and noises and questions.

[448] Those are his, those are his, those are it.

[449] Like the moment you get in the car, now, JD, so how far we got to go to get to Joe?

[450] We got, hmm?

[451] And we're driving 30 miles an hour.

[452] He's like, I think you're going a little fast, don't you think you're going to, a little quick, a little quick on the freeway.

[453] I'm like, we're on the freeway.

[454] It's 60 miles.

[455] I'm going slow right now.

[456] What is that?

[457] But no, his voice is just like one of many I've come across because I do voiceover and all that stuff.

[458] So it's one of those things where I'm lucky enough to have that one in my back pocket because sometimes I'll throw it out there.

[459] And people that be like, I don't know.

[460] A lot of people do a John Witherspoon impression's interesting.

[461] That's a random one.

[462] Yeah, we get some practice on it.

[463] Yeah, man. It's got to be nice, though, seeing him get in the show business, getting into stand -up.

[464] I guess so.

[465] Do you like it?

[466] Yeah, I guess.

[467] He's funny.

[468] I don't, you know I came from 11 kids 11 kids so Hope you be successful I'm gonna try my best to be successful He's too busy counting his coins To worry about my career And God bless us all You're on your own good luck I mean no he's you know He's supportive but he's one of those guys where Because I didn't want to do entertainment at all When I was younger I wanted I wanted to do art And when I was drawing I used to go to college And then I didn't know how to turn art into a career So one of my friends was like Why don't you try acting?

[469] You're always wasting time in class, making us laugh.

[470] And I was like, oh, that's interesting idea.

[471] So I started, like, doing commercial acting and whatnot.

[472] But I have friends who are comics.

[473] Like, I don't usually bring up, he's my dad.

[474] Like, it's something that just randomly happens, usually.

[475] Like, and when that comes across, they're like, oh, that's crazy.

[476] So you got, like, a well of information in the sense of being a good comic and writing and this and that.

[477] I'm like, ah, not yet.

[478] Like, not that I don't.

[479] But it's just asking him questions about stuff like that is the funniest stuff because he's just very, Like he just said, it's very flat out and just kind of like, yeah, JD, be funny.

[480] How much more can you tell a guy, though, really?

[481] Yeah, you just got to get your own, you know.

[482] We were talking about that last night.

[483] People ask me, do you go to the clubs and look at your son and help him right?

[484] Hell no. He doesn't, I featured for him, and he doesn't watch my set.

[485] Like, I just go up and I do my time.

[486] and I come into the cream room and I'm like hey you ready to go and he's like oh yeah JD they sound like they were laughing so sound like you did all right I'm like I'm like yeah man what is a father to do my daddy didn't do any criticism or any pointers or anything huh you ever give him any pointers any tips better be funny I'm I'm usually the one I'm the one on the opposite spectrum giving him tips about like how he can how he can how he can leverage like his you know his uh his notoriety in this day and age on the internet that's my thing so it's one of those things we're like if i have a question about stand -up i'll ask but he doesn't you know yeah you should definitely have a very active social media yeah we've i help him run it so i see um yeah who's on there all the time kevin hartn's always on always here's a thing and the nail she's always on there's a thing literally creating his social media was just a fluke because one day like five or six or seven years ago someone trended that he passed away and because of that we had to create social media for him so when that happened he's calling me and I'm getting calls from random people who know him and also my cousins like I got family calling me crying like is he okay is everything okay and he called me and he's like JD you got to help me something wrong on the internet they think I'm gone he's saying all my family's calling me and I don't want to talk to him So we created him a Twitter that day And then through Twitter I told him I'm like Well just tell people you're around And we tweeted out like Hey y 'all this is the real John Witherspoon blah blah blah Don't listen to those phonies Making up them rumors Because it was worldwide trending Or whatever Like hashtag RIP pops or something And then off of that His Twitter gained like 25K And him like an hour And then later on down the road He got into Instagram Kind of randomly Where he just He had an Instagram didn't really post and then I think one day you did you did just a random thing where he was rammed I talked to I talked to Megan and and what's the name in oh he was made he was making he was making like a joke about like Bill's Cosby and whatnot and he was like Bill came around with them that stuff bill and whatever but other social media platforms randomly found it reposted it and now he's like he went from like 6k to like 120 yeah a lot of people following me I just don't do anything yeah he doesn't understand like how social media you know is like the future But I try to keep them in a loop.

[487] It's a great way to avoid doing morning radio.

[488] You don't like doing morning radio, do you?

[489] Oh, God, I hate doing it.

[490] I get to get up Friday morning.

[491] I get to, listen, I get to Kansas City at 10 o 'clock that night, Thursday, tomorrow night.

[492] And then I had to get up Friday morning.

[493] I don't know the time or anything like that yet.

[494] But I probably do three or four radio stations.

[495] Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.

[496] They drive you.

[497] And you're so sleepy.

[498] Yeah.

[499] You're driving back over here, you ain't going to eat?

[500] You go to eat?

[501] No. take a nap later, and then you're still kind of wrecked when the first show rolls on.

[502] Then you've got to do two shows.

[503] So it's not fun, and I'm, I'm, you know, I'm slowing down.

[504] But if you build up your social media, you can cut that part of it out.

[505] And I'm sure you have, like, relationships with some of those radio stations where you like them.

[506] Oh, yeah, they like me. You want to come in and do it.

[507] I mean, that's cool if you want to do it.

[508] But to have to do it, to have to do it.

[509] It's bad for your sleep.

[510] It's just not good for your brain either.

[511] You can post like a story or on like IG or you could post an Instagram video saying like, hey, I'm going to be here this weekend.

[512] Bill Bellamy does that.

[513] Oh, yeah.

[514] Everybody does it.

[515] Cut it in half.

[516] Cut the time and half.

[517] Yeah.

[518] You don't have to do that get up in the morning stuff.

[519] But they want to see me. These radio DJs.

[520] Right.

[521] They want to see pops.

[522] They want to see pops.

[523] Oh, man, this is legend coming in.

[524] That's how I ain't no damn legend.

[525] I just needed some money.

[526] That's why I'm a comic.

[527] I go out and work all the time because I need money.

[528] Definitely explain that because I did have a question when I first started doing stand -up and I was like, hey, dad, from a motivational standpoint, I was like, hey, dad, what got you in a stand -up?

[529] What is it that, like, motivated you to want to do it?

[530] He looked at me and said, motivated me. I was broke.

[531] He was like, I was broke, and someone told me I was funny.

[532] So I went to California and got on stage and just started making dollars.

[533] I was like, so then what are you doing here?

[534] You don't even like this?

[535] I mean, it's all right.

[536] I do my day, you know?

[537] I'm not a comic who's just love to make people laugh.

[538] What do you love to do?

[539] Count that money.

[540] Count that paper.

[541] Oh, my God, let me tell you.

[542] Sometime on the way home, see, if I had a good week, because some of them clubs pay a lot of damn money.

[543] They pay over $37 ,000 for six weeks, six nights, I mean, four, six shows a weekend.

[544] And I don't count the money, but when I do one -nighters, they have to pay you half of the money up front and give you money just before you go on stage.

[545] So some of them, I have $14 ,000, $15 ,000 in my pocket.

[546] Brother, I'd be on that plane, filling that money.

[547] I give me a glass of wine.

[548] I get me a tall glass of that.

[549] These are his passions.

[550] These are his passion projects.

[551] And I'm having a good time.

[552] And look at there.

[553] And I'd be getting an account.

[554] I call the Bank of America and check out my account.

[555] four o 'clock in the morning I punch in my thing punching this and you have your balance is I said ha ha ha ha that's so ridiculous we gotta get you we gotta get to the app we gotta just get to the Bank of America app you save the phone call I don't mind I'd rather go through the motion hit your you like to hear it tell you the last phone number you're social security number do do do then they should And your balance is, oh, this is so wonderful.

[556] I was broke when I was coming up, man. Where'd you start?

[557] Where'd you start doing stand -up?

[558] Back in Detroit.

[559] In Detroit.

[560] Yeah.

[561] I was, my brother used to go to acting class on Thursday and his wife.

[562] So I said, boy, that's pretty cool.

[563] I should try to be an actor.

[564] So I got in the yellow pages.

[565] They had them yellow pages.

[566] They don't have them now, though.

[567] Everybody got to go through their phone and get the number.

[568] But they had the yellow pages.

[569] I went through the other page and went to an acting class, private acting lessons, and I called a guy, he said, $25 an hour, come on over, we can get started.

[570] So this teacher at John Binkerman's acting classes put in a comedy show once a year.

[571] And you see, I want you to be on the show.

[572] I said, I don't want it about no comedy.

[573] He said, well, you, this is a very lucrative business.

[574] You can make a lot of money.

[575] I said, really?

[576] I would have.

[577] I went there and stole the show.

[578] Wow.

[579] I said, wait a minute.

[580] That's funny.

[581] I used to do impressions of Nike and Cole, Johnny Matthews, and, uh, what was the boy, Joe Cocker and all that stuff.

[582] Oh, Mick Jagger, I used to do Mick Jagger.

[583] He's so cold.

[584] He's so cold.

[585] And they had about 500 people out there for the show.

[586] I'm bouncing across the stage like Joe Cocker, boy.

[587] It was so funny.

[588] And I got a stand ovation.

[589] And I said, wait, I could probably make some money.

[590] doing this so it really was money money was your number one motivation when you broke money is you know talking about love and affection that's some bull he didn't have that luxury no luxury get out of my way so I can count this money where did you start out in L .A what clubs did you start out here oh I drove from the chart to L .A I moved to New York I moved to New York um 671 1971 I was about 30 years old 2930 And I went to New York to be a fashion model I was a fashion model in Detroit Really?

[591] commercials I worked at Cadillac motor car and and my job was plating bumpers these big fucking bumpers and so the bumpers I need the money so I'm picking this sucker because you don't use and now you're using adrenaline and you lose endorphins and everything else you got in your body kick in and put that big bump on this fucking line to keep going and get into it plating pit so I have now the bumper go down and I had about three minutes I look at this magazine I saw a guy standing next to a car and said I look better than that dude damn I went to the I went to the yellow pages again and got me called the acting lady called the motling schools they said oh sure come on in they gave me a job that weekend I thought I was hot I went to New York them dude look ten time better than me they told that's you a model?

[592] He said, you a model?

[593] I'm the midget model.

[594] So I couldn't do that.

[595] So I got the hell out of it.

[596] I went back to New York.

[597] I stayed in New York three years back to L .A. I mean, I went back to Detroit and got a car and drove L .A. by myself.

[598] And when you went to L .A., you went to do stand -up?

[599] Yeah, I went to do acting and...

[600] Stand -up?

[601] I cut that modeling out, but that shit that worked.

[602] Where did you start out doing stand -up?

[603] here at the comedy store the store yeah i was the first one i was there with mitsy wow i was there with mitsy first started sammy had the place sammy and mitsy breaking up mitsy sammy used to sammy went on the roll sammy was a big he was a big time comic he was working for sphinxedatru and dean martin all up he opening for them mitsy needed somebody to i needed a place so i'm i got a job missy gave me a job the MC.

[604] Dave Lattimore was the MC the first show, I emcee the second show.

[605] He didn't have no money then either.

[606] He had a wife.

[607] He had a red truck and a dog named Bob.

[608] That's the only thing he came to L .A. with.

[609] I just had this blue, I had this blue Mustang I bought for about $150 to drive to L .A. $150 car drove to L .A. Wow.

[610] You know, I was determined to get out there and get me some of that money.

[611] That car leaked all the transmission sewer.

[612] I had to get out every 200 miles to fill the car back up with oil and transmission fluid.

[613] Every 200 miles?

[614] Every 200 miles.

[615] I'd be out that night, man. You hear it.

[616] Oh!

[617] Oh!

[618] You hear that shit.

[619] And there's only light you see in the headlights on the car.

[620] I got my stick.

[621] I had a stick with me. Had the little funnel, put that oil in that car.

[622] Looking around, you know, I'll be doing it.

[623] Uh -huh.

[624] And got to California.

[625] No, I actually went to Las Vegas first.

[626] I got stuck.

[627] I got stuck at Los Angeles.

[628] Yeah, he told me about that.

[629] What happened?

[630] I blew his money.

[631] I had a guy tell me. Try to keep this thing in front of you.

[632] Can you grab that?

[633] Oh, here.

[634] Yeah, man. I had a guy tell me. My friend, he's rich boy, he said, look, just go to Los Vegas first.

[635] See, with the comics of doing.

[636] Then you go to L .A., then you know what they're doing in Los Vegas.

[637] That's the comics they work in Las Vegas all the time.

[638] I went there.

[639] Them old -ass joke, Jewish joke, they're playing.

[640] But Gabe Kaplan, that's old funny, big -haired motherfucker ain't funny.

[641] He's a good actor.

[642] But he was, I waste all my time.

[643] But he told me, stay there half an hour.

[644] I mean, half of 30 days to stay there.

[645] So I paid up my rent for 30 days.

[646] And I went that night, got my new, my Navy suit on and as sharp as I can be.

[647] Boy, getting modeling clothes, you know, standing around, you know, a big old Afro.

[648] Man, I lost every dime.

[649] I had at that fucking horseshoe casino.

[650] I was, I went back home crying.

[651] Now, I don't know what the hell I'm going to do.

[652] Here I've been, drove two and a half days across the country.

[653] And so I called people in Detroit, try to get some money.

[654] But, you know, when you call, when you're a long ways away, everybody got no money.

[655] And people don't answer the phone.

[656] They say, oh, no, I ain't got no money.

[657] Click.

[658] So I got some more borrowed money from some of my friends.

[659] And I had to stay there for six months.

[660] Until I got enough money to go to L .A. Well, you said that didn't you tell me that you did one of the salado machines and it hit with like three grand or something?

[661] I had $150 left.

[662] I saw Dina Ross.

[663] See, what I would do, I would go at night and during the weekend, during the week, I mean, you can go to the front of the casinos.

[664] And the guy in the front there, you say, I'm a comic.

[665] I'm going to sit in the back here and watch the comic and I'm gone.

[666] They let you do that.

[667] You sit there.

[668] Nobody's sitting there.

[669] got 2 ,000 seats in those places and something like that.

[670] So I had a dollar and a half left.

[671] I saw Diana Ross.

[672] She had a great show.

[673] So I'm going to weigh out.

[674] I'm going to play this fucking money.

[675] I just be broke.

[676] My check is coming from the unemployment.

[677] It'll be here another day or two.

[678] I can go without food for a day.

[679] My stomach said, you better put some down here, nigger.

[680] Yes.

[681] So I put that money in the machine.

[682] It runged up, I think, but $7 ,000.

[683] Really?

[684] Yeah.

[685] I thought I fucked up something.

[686] Oh, shit, now what have I done?

[687] The guy came, well, he said, I just got on job.

[688] Just hold on, sir.

[689] I just got here.

[690] You have struck the jackpot today.

[691] I said, what jackpot?

[692] He came and just put them $100 in my hand.

[693] It was like a miracle.

[694] It was like Moses came down and handed me some money.

[695] or something.

[696] They were so damn that money felt so good.

[697] I went home and packed my stuff.

[698] I had about two more days on my rent.

[699] I got in that car.

[700] I got me some gas.

[701] I drove, you know how they have in Vegas.

[702] They got to the island in the middle of the street.

[703] Drove over that damn thing going back, going the other opposite direction.

[704] I said, hell with this.

[705] And when you go over an island, the car said, boom, boom, Boom, boom, boom.

[706] Combs come out, dust come out, old combs, old stuff come on all on your seat on your hand, your feet be dirty, the dust be all over there.

[707] I drove all the way from 3 o 'clock in the morning, 4 o 'clock in the morning, whatever time it was, I drove all the way back to L .A. Oh, man, and my friend let me stay at her house for about a month.

[708] Candy, she was a good friend of mine.

[709] I'm glad she let me do that because that was amazing.

[710] She lives in Beverly Hills from a apartment, a motel, I mean.

[711] No money eating the potato.

[712] I know the time me to get some money.

[713] I've eaten a baked potato, a white potato now.

[714] With the white potato and some old bread and some syrup.

[715] And I said, I can get the fuck out of here.

[716] This ain't going on.

[717] This is not good for the kid.

[718] I come out here with big plans.

[719] I went straight to her house, and I got a job at Gucci, and I went to the comedy store and everything.

[720] I just stayed there.

[721] If you didn't go to Vegas, would you have even got stuck?

[722] No, I wouldn't have got stuck.

[723] So that's a six -month waiting game that you had to play because you lost your money on accident.

[724] The worst.

[725] I was counting airplanes coming in and taking off, because you can see them from my door.

[726] You see the plane coming to a little car, I think the name of the hotel.

[727] It would be the plane.

[728] terminal.

[729] They come in, you see them take off.

[730] That's all I did all day long.

[731] He plane coming in.

[732] That's wild.

[733] Playing taking off.

[734] Playing coming in, playing taking off.

[735] And you just stuck there?

[736] Stuck in Los Vegas.

[737] I learned.

[738] I deserve my money.

[739] So people tell me, you love money?

[740] Yes, I deserve every dime.

[741] Because I went through the shits.

[742] Oh, my God.

[743] And that car lasts another four or five years.

[744] 65 Mustang.

[745] That's a great car.

[746] It is a great car.

[747] Regular gas.

[748] I got me some new tires.

[749] Like I told you, I got me some new tires.

[750] A case of oil and a case of your head.

[751] And I got, I forgot, I got my old color TV and a bucket of Kentucky fried chicken.

[752] Back then when you were trying to get up in a store, how did the auditions go?

[753] What did they do?

[754] No, you had to go through the, um, you had to go through the, um, Pot luck.

[755] You had to go through that.

[756] Yeah, oh yeah.

[757] Open mic.

[758] Same thing.

[759] Same is today.

[760] But it wasn't that many comments.

[761] They closed it about 11 o 'clock because there's no comics to go on anymore.

[762] How many comics were there?

[763] Oh, it must have been about 10, 15.

[764] Really?

[765] And what years is?

[766] Huh?

[767] What years is?

[768] 74.

[769] So it was of the beginning.

[770] The very beginning.

[771] Oh, soon as Missy just started.

[772] I was there in the beginning.

[773] She liked me. She would get me, she, Johnny, come out of here and work the door.

[774] You can do anything you want to sign a job, Mitchie.

[775] And so I hustled the door.

[776] Missy, she said, y 'all better watch Johnny.

[777] He can make some money at that damn door.

[778] What I would do, I was the, what are they called, matriety or something?

[779] What do they call it?

[780] Yeah, matriety.

[781] So I would put reserve signs in the front seats up there.

[782] Reserve for the owner's grandmother.

[783] Reserve for the mother's grandfather.

[784] And so now the main room, I mean, the main room in the other room be crowded, packed.

[785] I said, we sold out, sir.

[786] He said, what are the tables up there for?

[787] I said, that's the owners who's grandmother to be here soon.

[788] He said, well, $500, put me in that seat.

[789] I said, right now.

[790] So, I would make, I would make, I would make, I would make $200 a night, sometime $500 ,000, just at the door.

[791] Then she had me go MC and all that stuff.

[792] Well, you said $500 ,000?

[793] You meant $500 ,000.

[794] A thousand.

[795] Oh, no, it wasn't that kind of money.

[796] Okay.

[797] That's, that picture's her.

[798] That's Mitzie.

[799] I know I recognize that picture.

[800] Yeah.

[801] That's when she was younger, though.

[802] Yeah, there's a photo that was from the comedy store that was sitting around the back room and Taylor Boss.

[803] That's when I, that's why I, um, that's what I knew her when she was like that.

[804] She was, she was a, she was right there.

[805] Yeah, that's the picture he used.

[806] She was a smart lady.

[807] Sure was.

[808] Let me tell you something, brother.

[809] she was a whip she was she had her ways yeah she was she was definitely eccentric but she's one of the most important people ever in comedy in comedy and people don't realize that a lot of people don't realize it mitsy was the shits she and had little paulie was crazy running around that little baby i know them all i know paulay says it's a baby i know i'm all mitsy mitsy hammondy ain't got to come back we don't have nobody to work the door i can get up and go over there so i'm at the door I got 8 o 'clock show you know 8 o 'clock so I'm emcine and working the door and everything and hosting the room and all that so I'm up there on stage um put the you've got a little rope you put across the door and close the curtain and you know people come up in the original room they come up the steps there you know the original room yeah so she's in the booth taking money taking taking money and getting selling tickets she and I had the only one there working and the bar in the back so Mitzi I'm going to stay now I've got 10 people in the room so she said I'm just go here and I get them give me the cover and you go ahead put the rope back so now I'm up there about I got 15 minutes she said about three minutes four minutes into my Johnny there are people that line come down here let them in you cannot do you more no more material Come on, Johnny.

[810] I said, Missy, I'm trying to finish my act.

[811] Johnny, come on.

[812] I want to get this money.

[813] That's what I learned from her, too.

[814] I'll get this money before they turn around and go home.

[815] Oh, God.

[816] That was the funniest.

[817] She's a funnest lady.

[818] She's a funniest lady.

[819] Let me tell you, she was hot.

[820] She was tough.

[821] Missy was tough.

[822] She told me, you stick with me, I'll make you a rich man. I said, Mitch, I come here to be a comic.

[823] I can come here to be a comic.

[824] I can come to be a comic.

[825] But she is too much trouble.

[826] Too much eccentric.

[827] I'd say eccentric, too eccentric.

[828] I didn't want to hang around too long.

[829] Argus is still there out of his mind, see.

[830] Argus is still there.

[831] Argus is still there.

[832] He was there last night.

[833] Yeah, I know it.

[834] I go there and see him.

[835] I see him all the time.

[836] When I go by it, I want to go once a year or so.

[837] But I see Argus.

[838] I like Argus.

[839] He's talented.

[840] He is.

[841] A genius, but he didn't want to lead a comic store.

[842] He's got a radio station downstairs, he told me. They have a podcast.

[843] Oh, it's a podcast.

[844] Yeah, they have a podcast studio.

[845] You ever know that?

[846] Yeah, yeah.

[847] studio.

[848] But Mincey, I've been knowing Missy.

[849] I knew her in 1974 when I went over there.

[850] And I noticed when I got on Open Might Night night night for people who want to try to become on the regular show, Mitzie used to love Impressionists.

[851] She loved people who can do voices.

[852] And I just realized that after about three weeks of being there trying to be funny, I'm doing old Red Fox jokes.

[853] I'm doing a fucking The horse race was gone And the jockey Was riding on my dick The horse name was my dick This fucking red fox He would come by and he would be so fucking funny Then the person come out and sing She loved people to sing Tina Turner Women that sang Tina Turner She put two or three of them Right behind each other They do the same song I said Missy going crazy Why do you think she did that?

[854] She loved impressions.

[855] But she put them on back to back?

[856] And she loved the women.

[857] Because, you know, the women, all of them got the same impressions.

[858] But she put two or three them on the same show.

[859] Wow.

[860] Same impressions.

[861] I went up to, I started doing impressions.

[862] Because I did them in Detroit on the show there with Neckin -Colding him.

[863] She said, oh, Johnny, this is so wonderful.

[864] I want you to work Friday night.

[865] She put me on early.

[866] He put me on some nice times and said, But she wanted me to stay with her on that door and emceeing help her out.

[867] She had me close the door, close the place one day.

[868] I shouldn't be responsible for this.

[869] You can't close the door.

[870] She's locked the fucking door.

[871] Well, she's always had comics work there from the beginning.

[872] All the time.

[873] I wanted to work.

[874] I wanted to work there.

[875] Most of them comics living in her house upstairs up there.

[876] And Crest Hill.

[877] Yeah.

[878] Yeah, they lived on the hill there.

[879] She bought all the property around there.

[880] Yeah.

[881] Yeah.

[882] Missy own so much She won't so much money when she died.

[883] Oh my God.

[884] The house up on this house This house that, you know the house She had up on the hill there?

[885] Crest Hill.

[886] Yeah.

[887] That's what the name of the house.

[888] That was the one where a lot of comics lived in it.

[889] No, no, no, no. The comics lived behind the comedy store up the hill.

[890] She got about three or four of those.

[891] Yeah, yeah.

[892] She owned about three or four.

[893] I went over there She would have a party over there.

[894] The fucking party was fabulous.

[895] Oh, we're looking in California.

[896] And these dudes got the house all dirty you know they see whether and try to make the bed and the covers throwing on top of the bed you know just throwing nothing tucked in anything missy on all that back up in there yeah i almost bought that crest hill house yeah it was for sale back in the day i went to look at it but i had a dog and i was pretty sure he's not he was going to get out of that backyard i had a crazy dog i was like this is not a good it's the one right behind the store right i think i think there's a paulie have it i think paulies got the one that's up into the right oh okay he's got one that's like he did At the top of the driveway.

[897] He owns it, I think.

[898] Yeah.

[899] I saw him the other night at the, at the store in the parking lot, and he was telling me, like, how Jake used to watch him all that.

[900] Oh, my God, I do this.

[901] I don't watch his ass.

[902] I watched him run to the wall and stuff.

[903] He had Kinison babysitting him, man. Kenison used to babysit him, too.

[904] That's crazy.

[905] Imagine leaving your fucking child with Kenison.

[906] Oh, yeah.

[907] Kenison was.

[908] I told David Letterman, he said, Spoon, anybody knew at the comedy store that's really?

[909] funny.

[910] I said, man, you got to see this crazy dude named Sam Kenison.

[911] And so he said, have him have him send me to tape or something, but give us a call on the show.

[912] I said, Dave, you're going to love him.

[913] Man, Sam went on that show where Dave just fell on the floor.

[914] Sam was so funny.

[915] And Sam, Sammy, I said, Sam, Dave had him, let him want to see you on his show.

[916] He said, oh, really?

[917] He's on his first time he ever got on TV.

[918] Wow.

[919] And he was so He's always been my friend.

[920] Sam?

[921] Sam Kenneth, always was my friend.

[922] So I used to work.

[923] Missy, after a while, she would get these young cats to, like David Letterman, to be the emcee of the first show.

[924] So I would work at the 12 o 'clock show, all the crazy people holding the show.

[925] Me, Paul Mooney, Sam Kenison, all the, what's the boy named?

[926] He talked like, he'd do Elvis, and he did.

[927] Andy Kaufman?

[928] Andy Kaufman.

[929] I remember introducing him.

[930] I introduced to all of them He's my name is Andy Cognin Yeah, I know Just say They come to me And tell me what they want me to How they want me to introduce them Right Just see I can come And Andy Chorkeman I'm looking to do like he's out of his fucking mind I'm Andy Coogan Lenny Schultz You ever seen?

[931] Sure, Crazy Lenny Crazy Lenny with the, with the pigs.

[932] Yeah.

[933] He used to bring dolls on the stage and punched him.

[934] Oh, wow.

[935] He had a baby you to do about like, like, remember the only the bear, Smokey the bear?

[936] Only you could prevent four.

[937] He would pull out the bear.

[938] Only you could prevent four.

[939] Sorry, he was, fuck you.

[940] And he punched the bear.

[941] It was so ridiculous.

[942] And people would come down just to see him.

[943] He would go nuts.

[944] He was like really, like crazy expressions.

[945] Just an unbelievably funny guy, like a naturally funny guy.

[946] He was an East Coast legend.

[947] Oh, where?

[948] Yeah, he's one of those guys.

[949] Then he got, I forget, a lady broke up or something.

[950] And he got a divorce or she moved out of something.

[951] Oh, my God.

[952] Then it was crazy there and boy.

[953] He was, the bears and all that shit that he would beat up.

[954] Oh, he was whipping their ass.

[955] What did the lady pull?

[956] Did you know Bob Woods?

[957] Bob Woods is another legend, another, like, East Coast legend.

[958] East Coast?

[959] Big giant guy.

[960] He was like a Long Island legend.

[961] So he didn't play a comics to that much.

[962] I don't think he ever made it out here.

[963] Oh, he didn't make it out.

[964] I don't know.

[965] There's a few of them.

[966] If he did, he didn't stay.

[967] I'm hanging.

[968] That's Bob Woods.

[969] Yeah.

[970] Oh, where?

[971] Oh, no, I didn't know him.

[972] Yeah, he was a Long Island legend.

[973] Really?

[974] Yeah, it's like back in those days, like, long, there was like, He was a legend in Long Island around the same time, like those Boston guys, like Lenny Clark.

[975] They were all big time in Boston back then.

[976] I knew all the Boston guys.

[977] They were tough.

[978] They don't have a club there anymore.

[979] Well, they have Laugh Boston.

[980] They do local headliners.

[981] They have Nick's comedy stop.

[982] You know, Laugh Boston does guys to tour there, go there too.

[983] But, I mean, they still have some, like, good local talent.

[984] And then they do, like, the Wilbur.

[985] But it used to be, there was like 10 fucking clubs.

[986] You don't at the seat's too fucking close.

[987] Really?

[988] That's what I like.

[989] Oh, but they got people.

[990] They're jammed in each.

[991] People come in late.

[992] They come in late and they're trying to get to the front when they got to see that.

[993] They take 30 minutes.

[994] I say, bring ass on up here.

[995] Jump over somebody.

[996] Jump over the divider.

[997] I filmed my last special at the Wilbur.

[998] At the Wilbur?

[999] Yeah, I loved it.

[1000] I like the club in Chickapie.

[1001] Oh, that place way out there.

[1002] Yeah, yeah.

[1003] About an hour and a half.

[1004] You've got a drive an hour and a half.

[1005] And the club at the, what is the mall right there?

[1006] They call it the, what the other club used to be.

[1007] What was the name of that club?

[1008] In Andover, is that what are you thinking of?

[1009] No, it's right there at the mall, you know, where all the stores and things.

[1010] Oh, Fanyl Hall?

[1011] Fanyl Hall.

[1012] Yeah, the Comedy Connection.

[1013] That's gone.

[1014] Yeah, that's gone.

[1015] It's been gone.

[1016] That was amazing.

[1017] That was a great club.

[1018] Yeah.

[1019] They wanted to hold about $4 ,500.

[1020] It was a big place.

[1021] Yeah.

[1022] And you do a show there and then drive all the way to the church.

[1023] Chickapy, an hour and a half.

[1024] Then an hour and a half back and do another show on Friday.

[1025] Oh, man. I can't do this.

[1026] And then you go out to Chickapie.

[1027] It's a Hawaiian, Chinese Hawaiian restaurant.

[1028] Yeah.

[1029] And they try to give you enough to last a whole month.

[1030] What?

[1031] You eat.

[1032] Then they try to give you enough to take with your.

[1033] To go box.

[1034] To go box that's bulging with food.

[1035] Yeah.

[1036] They got to get rid of it.

[1037] Oh, my God.

[1038] Excellent.

[1039] And the food was excellent.

[1040] Yeah.

[1041] It's gone, I'm told.

[1042] Is it gone?

[1043] The kids, the kids didn't want to stay there.

[1044] I think that's what it was.

[1045] The mother and father died.

[1046] The kids didn't want to keep her in the restaurant.

[1047] They didn't want to keep the place.

[1048] Beautiful place.

[1049] And then there are Hartford, Connecticut, Hartford, because Chickopee is in, Chickapee.

[1050] Chickapee's in Massachusetts, Western Massachusetts.

[1051] But those were the days, boy.

[1052] long as flight but I love the fact that the airport was 10 minutes from the hotel Get you in, get you out Get me and get out There was a lot of clubs back then Oh my lot of clubs A lot of clubs It's interesting There's more comics now than ever But I don't know if there's more clubs It doesn't seem like that Well they got a lot of clubs around But they only book They don't have They don't have Showcase nights Like you have 15, 20 comics they don't have that they have right three comics and that's all they have yeah so they make their money it's a whole different ballgame there's like independent shows now that's that's how it is nowadays like the club circuits pretty kind of the same there's some new clubs but you know i i hear i hear like most clubs on the road like they're not like the ones out here or new york no because you don't get a chance to really showcase you have to either already be somebody or they book you in january yeah be on your way type of thing yeah i've been booked at what kansas said, I've been booked January 2nd or 3rd in Kansas City.

[1053] When is it, when is it next?

[1054] This week is 20, it'll be December 1st, December, June.

[1055] I mean, June to be, what, Friday or Saturday?

[1056] This weekend.

[1057] Yeah.

[1058] Yeah, Saturday.

[1059] I've been booked six months on this battle already.

[1060] Jesus Christ.

[1061] Six months solid.

[1062] I'm talking about a book in this club six months ago.

[1063] I'm booked all year for this year.

[1064] I got dates.

[1065] I wish I brought my stuff.

[1066] I have dates that I know I'm going to do in December 12th to the 15th I think I'm going to be in Arlington, Texas but I know that you I do get with Chris Smith and them but they want 10 % but they book your ass if you want to get to a club, you can get that they got they have you book your buddy you'd be in bed talking I'm booked I'm booked I'm booked I'm booked too much do you still enjoy the shows though?

[1067] No I had enough I've had enough You know your fans may or may not watch or listen to this right They know they know that You know it's hard work It's hard work You're there performing Yeah whenever I've done Whenever I've done shows with him The moment Because I'll hang out Because after every show He'll try to sell merch and take pictures But as soon as he gets in the green room He's like Hey do you see how hard I work You see this you see all this I'm doing right you don't know nothing you don't know nothing about this hard work I'm like okay show business is tough yeah it's a grind you do five six weeks in a row that's what I hate I'm on I'm on my second of five weeks the second second week now so I got to go next week I go to Hartford, Connecticut Hartford Springfield that's why you actually fly into that then I go to Memphis so wait you said you hate it But why don't you just stop?

[1068] Paper.

[1069] You set him up.

[1070] You lobbing his way.

[1071] The only time, the only time I've ever seen him do anything outside.

[1072] Because he's old school, so it's one of those things where he's so used to, like, you know, he's so used to.

[1073] You got his agents, his managers, and he's so used to someone giving him work.

[1074] So it's one of those things where I'm, you know, on the road, you're giving the spots.

[1075] You're giving the clubs.

[1076] And I was like, well, what do you like doing?

[1077] Because you asked that earlier.

[1078] And, like, the one thing that we've made between, like, him doing comedy and now is, you We created a YouTube channel for him where he does like a cooking show, right?

[1079] So he has his own YouTube channel because I do YouTube and all this stuff.

[1080] I do like gaming videos and a bunch of other random stuff, sketches and blogs.

[1081] But he was like, well, he's like, well, I guess I got a little time off.

[1082] We can do something.

[1083] He's like, maybe we can do this cooking idea I got.

[1084] And I said, sure, let's do it.

[1085] We create the channel.

[1086] We make it.

[1087] And it's called cooking for poor people.

[1088] Cooking for poor people because when you're hungry, everything tastes good.

[1089] Yes.

[1090] And his channel is D. John Wood.

[1091] So I eat a bunch of crap.

[1092] I cook a bunch of crap Chicken feed and rice Chicken feet We did chicken feet Pig feet Oxtail I've had job Chicken feet What is chicken feet like Tough You gotta be You gotta be But you know Asian people eat it Do they eat it every day He tried to feed it to our dog And our dog ran away from him So that's like a clip He don't know what a delicacy it was That's what that was Yeah And then I recommend wine I have wine I have a tall glass of mad dog 2020 with the chicken feet with them chicken feet and Thunderbird Thunderbird wine Underbird wine Cisco Where do you get Mad Dog 2020 He's good to finding That's a place Right they're on Van Nuys Really?

[1093] Some Mexican sell it Yeah Yeah They're hanging out You know just like It old school They're hanging out in the front With their bottle They bring it down here And hide it behind the crate And they bring it up And hit that tongue yeah then you go buy some more and I'm shocked it there we go there you look at it so I helped yeah I helped him produce and create help them work on this thing but you know it gets it gets good people you get that pick feet right there and I guess somebody Shelley threw my shit away I can't believe she threw the old pig feet away oh I like the kitchen too yeah that's old school whose kitchen is that it's it's it's our house we have we bought the house next to us oh nice so I got the house next to me and I tore the whole fence down.

[1094] Guess house kitchen.

[1095] And I got all that old kitchens.

[1096] I said, I'm going to eat that.

[1097] I'm going to eat that.

[1098] That's a perfect kitchen for a show on cooking.

[1099] It's tight and old school.

[1100] It reminds you of, like, growing up.

[1101] Yeah.

[1102] And it works well.

[1103] You know, we, we, I don't know, I think we made maybe 12, 15 of these things, but people watch them.

[1104] It's just one of those things where he works on the road.

[1105] So whenever free time comes around, we used to sit back and knock them out and try to shoot them and I would edit them and whatnot.

[1106] But now I'm busy, so he has an editor.

[1107] But, you know, I try to help them market it when it's, like, finished.

[1108] I'm like, all right, post it on the social platforms, get it out there and whatnot.

[1109] What about a comedy special?

[1110] I've done that.

[1111] You think about doing one now?

[1112] You think about doing one now?

[1113] I did one.

[1114] I paid for it myself, but my stomach too big.

[1115] I looked at that damn stomach of mine.

[1116] Oh, man, what the fun?

[1117] I'd have spent $10 ,000.

[1118] It was a $15 ,000.

[1119] a stomach horrible how long ago was this that you filmed oh I did it though I must have been about four years ago four five years did you release it no I got oh you're talking about that one I thought you're talking about the one that's already done and out there no and that's called you got a coordinate yeah that one was from showtime so you made one you didn't release it because you didn't like your stomach I ain't like my stomach but you didn't you didn't get but you also didn't get anybody to finish like editing it right did they finish it it's all finished it's finished I don't know that what's your friend name that does the animation and stuff uh Gabe Gabe did the seat he did the artwork the artwork on it oh that's random I didn't know you I thought you you always shelved that because you watched it and you didn't like the way it came out and then you never finished editing and post putting it my stomach came out you better take that right now Take that right now and sell that bad boy I gotta look at it I hate to see myself My stomach being Why don't you get somebody else to look at it?

[1120] I'm gonna do that eye down Just plug your ears Just walk away from it Why you cut that wine And cut that wine And bring that stomach down Everybody need a little taste No It never makes any sense Never makes any sense I hate Joe should have some wine here for me right now I'll get some of you like some Joe don't get him anymore We have wine in the back Oh my gosh A bunch of liquor on that A bunch of whiskey He's just going to shame himself Later in the mirror Just leave Oh look at that joke That big bottle I'm going to joke at Why But you don't want to lose weight Right You're not interested I want to lose weight But they say you got He wants to lose it While drinking out Cause They want you to stop drinking Yeah You get Or take it in increments Do it break Dude I do I get a bottle a day Do you drink a whole bottle of day?

[1121] Oh, yeah.

[1122] You can't.

[1123] You should get together with Ron White.

[1124] Dude.

[1125] No, he drank that hard shit.

[1126] I don't know.

[1127] I don't want that shit he drinking.

[1128] That shit, key.

[1129] He drinks his own tequila.

[1130] Oh, my.

[1131] Yeah, I saw that last night.

[1132] He was in the back bar.

[1133] Yeah, we had some of his tequila.

[1134] He drink too much.

[1135] I know that shit getting him fucked up on stage.

[1136] I see him up there.

[1137] He can act like he's not drunk.

[1138] That motherfuckerer drunk.

[1139] as he can be.

[1140] Ron White goes hard.

[1141] Yeah, he goes very hard.

[1142] He goes hard.

[1143] He goes hard every fucking night of the week, too.

[1144] Yeah, that's tough.

[1145] That's tough.

[1146] Yeah.

[1147] But it's working out.

[1148] I drink white wine, chardonnay.

[1149] Oh.

[1150] Then I drink a like, like a cabinet sabignon.

[1151] Nice red.

[1152] Yeah, right.

[1153] Yeah, but then you get another one and then maybe one more.

[1154] And then you get the bottle and put up to your mouth And drink you a swig And then put it away and go to bed That ain't nothing bad Until the next day Until the next bottle To give me another swig There's some evidence that wine's good for you A little bit of wine A little bit of wine's not bad for you A little bit Two glasses of wine a day For longevity and health Yeah there you go How much wine's in the glass And how big the glass I said what about 10 If you're so good, what about 10 glasses?

[1155] That's even better.

[1156] Man. You'll get you ready to go to work.

[1157] You got to go back.

[1158] I'm in no rush.

[1159] I'd say something if I had somewhere to be.

[1160] I don't want you rushing down that freeway.

[1161] No, no. He's being a dad.

[1162] Good for you.

[1163] You're stepping up to...

[1164] I'm being a dad, too, guy.

[1165] I got money at home.

[1166] I got a couch.

[1167] It always comes full circle.

[1168] No, I host a show.

[1169] Was he always like this?

[1170] Always.

[1171] Oh, no. People, no. I've got friends who ask me. so your dad just that's who he is or does is that a character i'm like oh no no no he got on for being himself yeah he's one of lucky he's professionally himself yeah i told him that jokingly back in i was like i was like i was like you know you lucky right he's like what you mean i was like i was like you are you're where you are because you are who you are you you don't have to fake it you just go you're supposed to when you're acting you should be yourself yeah you're funny enough you definitely be yourself yeah i'm on the cartoon what is the boondocks I didn't change my voice for the Boonex No I did all I did that And they're coming back They're coming back That's a great show Yeah It's one of the best cartoons I've ever been I met the dude who created He was friends with my friend Todd Yeah I'm a Grutter Yeah We've been over smart dude Yeah Yeah Very smart He did But like Jesus also He wrote that too Like Jesus Yeah That's another one that you're on That he like fell into That's the funny part Because Because remember the thing is I went in for that show to play one of the leads or whatever.

[1172] It didn't happen, but I remember, because he's, you know, he's friends with Aaron and whatnot.

[1173] Aaron just called him to do a, like, a one -day role, remember?

[1174] Yeah, he wanted me to, he said, John, we need your character to just do the pilot.

[1175] I tried, man. I don't feel like doing no. Jesus, I'm a homeless man, so.

[1176] So I got into it, I thought it was cool.

[1177] Yeah.

[1178] He said, he wants a job as yours.

[1179] I said, well, good.

[1180] So he went in to do like a guest star role, and then they were like, dang.

[1181] He's funnier than what we were thinking.

[1182] So they gave him a role.

[1183] He was a series, right?

[1184] You did three seasons.

[1185] You did two.

[1186] They aired.

[1187] We finished the third.

[1188] Did a third one that it hasn't aired yet.

[1189] And I used, see, when I did Hollywood shuffle, I played a man who had lost everything.

[1190] He was homeless.

[1191] So I'm sitting out there.

[1192] And Robert Townsend didn't have any money for a wardrobe.

[1193] So I went at the secondhand store and Goodwill and bought cover rolls and an old shirt.

[1194] And I had a T -shirt.

[1195] shirt that I tore and put a pen to put it back up.

[1196] So that was, I thought that was clever.

[1197] And so this happened 20 years ago.

[1198] I kept that outfit in my garage for 20 years.

[1199] And I used it on Black Jesus.

[1200] Same thing I wore on the Hollywood Shuffle.

[1201] Wow.

[1202] Not Hollywood Shuffle.

[1203] What was it?

[1204] Whole Cake.

[1205] What's the name of that?

[1206] Hollywood Shuffle.

[1207] That was Hollywood Shuffle.

[1208] Yeah, yeah.

[1209] Are you, there it is?

[1210] Yeah, he got all that stuff.

[1211] But then they, so, yeah, so then they took, so then he wore it, they, they did their thing, and then they were like, well, this thing stinks, so we'll just recreate it for you.

[1212] They did everything over.

[1213] He got the same outfit that I had.

[1214] Look at that one.

[1215] I got Thunderbird wine.

[1216] I got my little wine.

[1217] Look at there.

[1218] Focase.

[1219] Whatever happened to Robert Townsend?

[1220] What is he up to?

[1221] He's a director now.

[1222] Just directing different movies?

[1223] Not a different movie and commercials and things.

[1224] He used to do stand up, too.

[1225] Oh, yeah.

[1226] We just stopped doing tour with him.

[1227] We worked all the big places.

[1228] I remember his specials.

[1229] He always had those HBO comedy specials.

[1230] Damon Wayans did him.

[1231] A bunch of people did him.

[1232] Yeah, Robert Thomas.

[1233] He's still around.

[1234] I saw a picture on my phone.

[1235] I don't know how.

[1236] Where's my phone?

[1237] I don't know.

[1238] It's probably in your jacket, man. I don't want to lose my phone.

[1239] He does that at home.

[1240] He'll say, hey, I don't live with him.

[1241] I'm grown.

[1242] I'm married and all that.

[1243] stuff.

[1244] I live on my own with my wife.

[1245] He'll call me and say, JD, you've seen my cameras.

[1246] I move my camera and I don't know where it is.

[1247] I was like, I don't live with you.

[1248] I have no idea where your things are.

[1249] He's like, well, you know.

[1250] And my brother lives with him still.

[1251] So it's one of those things.

[1252] I'm like, why don't you ask Alex?

[1253] He's around or someone who maybe is at the house more often.

[1254] He's like, now I feel like you might be the one who might know what his thing is.

[1255] Because I've seen you around here.

[1256] I know you come around.

[1257] You come take my things.

[1258] Take my stuff.

[1259] I don't get me. I don't take your stuff.

[1260] I get, I buy cameras, I buy a camera and put it over there.

[1261] Because I know where is that because it's over there.

[1262] I come back, it ain't over there.

[1263] Now, I have no idea where it's at now because I put it over there.

[1264] That's because you and mom and Alex and whoever else roams through the house will move things around all the time.

[1265] I don't, I'm not there.

[1266] I'm not there to move things.

[1267] But I know where I put things in that.

[1268] And when I come back, it's not there.

[1269] But the thing is, why do you call me when I'm never there?

[1270] you know what they are see it doesn't make any sense you and your mama mom will take his stuff mom will go shoot her little her stuff because she like produces does her little independent movie so she'll when she grabs your cameras that's where they moved to did you feel pressure doing stand -up because this is your dad no actually I didn't want to do it never really because I got into acting and I thought that was far enough I was like I'm a dad or does that I don't want to jump in the rest of that stuff and acting was just kind of like on a whim And then stand -up was like a dare.

[1271] A friend of mine was like, we should, because we, back in the day, not too long ago, maybe early, 2011 or 12.

[1272] It's not back in the day.

[1273] But me and my boys were hanging out one night in our 20s, and we just went, we had come from a club and we drove past the laugh factory.

[1274] And I was like, I was like, you guys want to go watch comedy?

[1275] I don't know.

[1276] I was like, I don't know.

[1277] I was like, the owner knows me from when I was a baby.

[1278] If he's there, maybe.

[1279] He's a babysit you.

[1280] Yeah, yeah, Jane Massada.

[1281] Buddy, I watch your baby, buddy That's his introduction to Every time I'm there Whatever I do shows That's his introduction for me He'll be like He'd be like hey buddy I want you to make Johnny Witherspoon son I used to carry him when he was baby Buddy I used to carry him around Like baby But uh We bring him on stage Yeah we went there We went there randomly one night And so fucking funny That's good That's a good impression.

[1282] We went there randomly one night, and I remember the door guy, I was like, hey, is Jamie here?

[1283] And he's like, Jamie here?

[1284] And he's like, as if I didn't know him.

[1285] I was back in that, I was like, you know, the owner.

[1286] And he's like, tell him J .D. Wutherstoons here.

[1287] I didn't think anything.

[1288] I don't use my name like that.

[1289] But then he, like, come down.

[1290] He's like, buddy, what are you doing here?

[1291] This and that.

[1292] You're doing comedy?

[1293] I'm like, no, no, no. Me and my friend just, we just won't watch a show.

[1294] He's like, yeah, come, come in.

[1295] Let's get him a bottle of wine, all that stuff.

[1296] And we're just hanging out.

[1297] But then later, like, you know, through the night, he was talking.

[1298] He was like, he was like, so you're trying to do comedy like your dad?

[1299] I was like, no, I'm good.

[1300] I don't want to, I don't care to do that.

[1301] I'm fine.

[1302] And my friends were with me. He's like, come on.

[1303] He's like, he's like, you should try it.

[1304] You're probably funny.

[1305] Maybe even funnier than him, buddy.

[1306] And I was like, I don't know.

[1307] But then later on that same week, he was like, well, if you ever want to come by, he said swing by, do the open mic or whatever.

[1308] And my boy, Henry, whatever.

[1309] Yeah, Henry.

[1310] Henry was like, hey, we should do that, man. That'd be kind of funny.

[1311] you know maybe we be comedians i was like nah i don't think so and then one night we just said i think i think i had someone's email from the laugh factory and hit them up and was like hey me and my buddy are going to come by maybe we can do the mic and then they were like yeah sure we'll throw you up this and that and uh my buddy henry uh he's the one who pressure me into it we practiced our jokes on camera at home to see how that would look it was the weirdest thing it was so weird because I was I was like getting into like creating content and I was going to film school and I was making like my YouTube videos I was doing like sketch comedy on YouTube and then I like we shot like a little thing we watched it back I was like I guess and then we went to the mic that night and we went I did it I was at the back end of the lineup so I actually had a decent crowd it was like because you know it starts off there's nobody there it's just comics and then by the time it was my turn it was like close to the 8 o 'clock show so it was like 35 40 people.

[1312] I had three jokes for my three minute set, clean, and I did it, and they did all right.

[1313] People laughed and I was like, oh, okay, that's cool, random, you know?

[1314] And I didn't think much of it.

[1315] Henry bombed.

[1316] I know you've got upset.

[1317] Yeah, no, but it was just one of those things where after that, um...

[1318] Go ahead.

[1319] Which way is it?

[1320] Right up there past the werewolf.

[1321] Where did the camera?

[1322] No, the cameras are up here.

[1323] The cameras are over there.

[1324] You could...

[1325] If you got to go piss, say it to the camera.

[1326] He just said it.

[1327] He just said it.

[1328] Oh, man. But, yeah, no, so we...

[1329] Dude, your dad is a trip.

[1330] He's so funny.

[1331] I got a bit about how when you just get old, you just don't care.

[1332] You just don't care about what you say.

[1333] He doesn't give a fuck.

[1334] No, not at all.

[1335] But also, like, that's part of who he is.

[1336] Like, part of his business is not giving a fuck.

[1337] Yeah, pretty much.

[1338] How funny is he, though, man. That's, I mean, he's the funniest dude.

[1339] I personally not.

[1340] That's how I categorize it, you know?

[1341] Oh.

[1342] That's...

[1343] I would think that, like, if that was my dad, I would feel a lot of pressure.

[1344] I think it's pressure if I, from the beginning, always want to do stand -up.

[1345] You know, kind of like a Michael Jordan thing.

[1346] I never, like, it was, it was all, a majority of the stuff I do now is very, like, just happenstance.

[1347] It's like, oh, I just fell into this, and I'm all right at it.

[1348] So I'll just keep doing it.

[1349] Why not?

[1350] You know, when it comes to things like YouTube and, like, I know you do unboxing videos and game -related videos, you can kind of do that now.

[1351] If you're a, if you're an interesting person, you don't really need much.

[1352] No, no, definitely not with the internet.

[1353] Like your dad, if you came along today, if it just didn't exist and all of a sudden he existed, it didn't have this giant body of work, and you just put a camera on your dad, like, this is my dad.

[1354] Your dad could be fucking famous today.

[1355] If he was like a guy that works at the post office, just a regular guy.

[1356] Film this guy at the post office.

[1357] And you were telling your friends, like, my dad is the funniest fucking guy alive.

[1358] And then you put a camera on him, he would blow up.

[1359] Yeah, yeah.

[1360] It's interesting and whatnot.

[1361] I never really think of it because people always ask me when I was growing up, they'd be like, how is it that your dad, how do you feel?

[1362] I used to get the whole time.

[1363] Like kids would be like, your dad's whoever, blah, blah, blah, famous this and that Friday, the Wayne's brothers.

[1364] And I'm just like, yeah, but to me, he's just my dad.

[1365] Like, he's just, he's just a goofball.

[1366] It's normal.

[1367] Like, to you, I get it.

[1368] To you guys, you see somebody who's an entertainer and whatnot.

[1369] I'm like, he's just, he's always like that.

[1370] Dude, how funny is he shelved his special because he doesn't like a style.

[1371] Oh, he does funnier stuff.

[1372] He does, he does weirder stuff.

[1373] Oh, I mean, we could post it.

[1374] It's definitely, or he could sell it.

[1375] And nowadays, he could hit up, I'm sure his people can hit up Netflix.

[1376] Like, we have a, we have a body of work.

[1377] People would watch it.

[1378] That's the thing.

[1379] Could you talk him into doing a new special?

[1380] Got to get that stomach down.

[1381] Got to get, got to talk him into coming back here and hitting the gym.

[1382] Does he exercise?

[1383] He does, but the thing, the main thing is the consumption.

[1384] I told, you know, it's, all right, let's cut back on drinking and then continue exercise and you'll see the change.

[1385] I try to tell him, do a drink every other day.

[1386] It doesn't sound like he's interested in that.

[1387] No, it doesn't, does it?

[1388] It sounds like he's 100 % interested in drinking.

[1389] Or just enjoy, he's 100 % enjoying dead money and drinking my wine, drinking my wine.

[1390] Yeah, that's.

[1391] It's having a good time.

[1392] He's back.

[1393] Yeah, man. He's living his life, enjoying it.

[1394] Yeah, but that's how I got into comedy.

[1395] And then I just kept doing it, and my friend was like, yeah, now I'm good.

[1396] How many years are you doing it now?

[1397] I would say I started in 2012 But I want to say I didn't continue in the beginning so consistently I did like mics for the first Two years and then I started getting booked on shows And then I kind of got lazy It was one of those things where everything I was doing Like I would weigh my options If something was more of an opportunity I would do that over trying to get better at stand up But now I've been consistent for like three years Three to four years just like grinding at it because I've made strides doing things and acting and creating content on the internet.

[1398] So now I kind of have, I guess, a little bit of a cushion to just go and get good now, you know, because I've been working.

[1399] You're doing other stuff.

[1400] You don't have to totally rely on it.

[1401] Well, it's one of those things where because I don't have to rely on it, it's that much more, it's that much more of something I want to approach.

[1402] I'm like, oh, well, now I can, like, have fun.

[1403] I don't feel pressured.

[1404] not with anything about that but more like I don't feel pressure to get book, get book, get on a show, get a special this and that.

[1405] I just feel like, oh, I can just take time and get good now.

[1406] Thumbs up.

[1407] Get that money.

[1408] You were around when Prior was in his hayday.

[1409] Oh, yeah.

[1410] That must have been something.

[1411] Oh, yeah, we, uh.

[1412] So you were, you were just kind of, that was, in 74 when you were just getting there, prior, that was he was in the peak.

[1413] He was already.

[1414] He was in the peak, right?

[1415] Big time.

[1416] Oh, yeah.

[1417] He was big time.

[1418] And, um, what was that like?

[1419] It was, he would, you know, when I was around the comedy store, I was basically the host of the comedy store.

[1420] When I emcee, you know, and I go to the door, if they have a problem, I go to the door and settle the problem and all this stuff.

[1421] Just Missy one.

[1422] She knew I'd do all the stuff in it, and it wasn't fighting in them, just being polite and stuff.

[1423] And Richard would come in.

[1424] I look at the back of Richard's in the back.

[1425] I was, what the hell are you doing here, Richard?

[1426] How are you doing?

[1427] He knew Paul Mooney.

[1428] Mooney was in, and David Banks, all he's in it.

[1429] Anytime you got all these guys at the comedy store, Richard wanted to do another album.

[1430] So what happened is Richard, the first time I saw Richard in the back, I said, Richard, how are you doing?

[1431] Spoon, I just come about to see how you're doing.

[1432] I said, fine, I'm doing, Richard.

[1433] He never come about to see how I'm doing.

[1434] He's just saying this to set it up for he want to work on his act for a new album.

[1435] So I said, Richard, did everything fine?

[1436] You want to drink?

[1437] No, no, I'll be fine.

[1438] You want to go to stay?

[1439] No, no, no. Just come by and see how you doing.

[1440] I said, oh, good, how are you doing, how are you doing, Rich?

[1441] So I would go, I know to go away and come back.

[1442] And so, Richard, whatever you want to drink, then he wanted to drink now.

[1443] See, he wanted to drink.

[1444] He'd get some little red drink he liked with olive and, what do you call it, cherry in it, and he liked that kind of stuff.

[1445] And so I know to go away, I go away.

[1446] They told me, Richie's going to drive you crazy.

[1447] Richard come back.

[1448] Richard going to drive you crazy.

[1449] So I go away, come back.

[1450] Richard, everything, I'll find.

[1451] Anything else you want?

[1452] He said, want to go stay?

[1453] He said, no, Spoon.

[1454] I don't want to go to stay.

[1455] He's coming out.

[1456] I say, how you doing Spoon?

[1457] He always has to play with you.

[1458] Hey, he's gone.

[1459] How are you doing?

[1460] Be hollering, spoon, real loud and shit.

[1461] And so I go away and come back.

[1462] I said, Richard, do two minutes.

[1463] Some people said, Richard Pry came by the conference.

[1464] So he said, sure, I go up and do too many.

[1465] He said, when do I go on?

[1466] I said, when do I go on right after this guy get off?

[1467] I put you on right now.

[1468] And he'd go up and do two hours.

[1469] Then he'll send, he'll call, he'll have his secretary to call me the next day.

[1470] He said, thanks for helping me get on stage.

[1471] Helping me get on stage.

[1472] He had to be pushed on stage.

[1473] That's so weird.

[1474] Yeah, that's amazing, ain't it?

[1475] Robin Williams, bloop.

[1476] They would just run up there.

[1477] But Richard would do like two hours?

[1478] Was that a regular thing?

[1479] Hour and a half?

[1480] A hour and a half.

[1481] Regular thing, huh?

[1482] Well, his album, you know, he got to do his whole album.

[1483] Then he had his writers in the back.

[1484] Mooney would be there writing him, coaching him on stuff to say, you had all that stuff.

[1485] He had all that.

[1486] And then he would have a three weeks, weeks in the original room where he would work every night he'd come by every night wow it ain't like some comics get you know get too high they can't come by he'll be about every night and so missy put me on the show with him so i would open this show and do 45 minutes and the rich would come on and do it hour and a half and then we moved to the main room after about three or about a month in the original room we moved to the main room that's when man he would draw so miss will make so much money he would draw so many fucking people.

[1487] Old holes ain't been out on the street a long time with fur collars fur coat of fake furt coat on pink and yellow and shit.

[1488] He would have in the main room he would have oh my God he had Mick Jagger what's the name the boy that what's his name?

[1489] Willie Nelson I had I talked Willie Nelson to go up on the stage and sing a song in the original room really?

[1490] Yeah he's a really You got your guitar.

[1491] Yeah, I got it.

[1492] Could you go up to sing a song?

[1493] I love Will and Nelson.

[1494] He was so good.

[1495] He's still around, though.

[1496] I'm scared.

[1497] I'm so nervous.

[1498] Don't be nervous with these fucking people.

[1499] He went up and sang one of his son, boy.

[1500] That was a thrill for me. So then we moved to the main room.

[1501] But I would kill every night in the audience like that.

[1502] I would get a stand ovation because I would do math that I learned from Detroit and knocking them I would do Johnny Mathis at my last bit and I would do Al Green just before that and I and I would I saw El Green throw roses out to the ladies one time I was that what is it this theater now anyway he would throw roads he handed roses to the ladies so I when I was working at the comedy store and I'm in front of I would get dandal lines a hand in front the ladies and some lady did exactly what I want her to say.

[1503] She said, Al Green give us roses.

[1504] I said, well, you're lucky.

[1505] These ain't plastic because I ain't got no damn money.

[1506] I go home and watch these, so can get them back to you tomorrow night.

[1507] And what I did that and then, J. Johnny Matthew, this is just impressions that I added to my act because there are a lot of ladies out there and they love that shit.

[1508] And I got the women through the roses back at my feet.

[1509] I said, damn, this shit is cool in the mother and fuck.

[1510] And Richard told me, I said, everybody said, bitch, you should take Spoon on the road with you.

[1511] You're going on the tour.

[1512] He said, I love you, Spoon, but you're too funny.

[1513] I can't have you out there on the road with me. He said, I was too funny for him.

[1514] Wow.

[1515] And he took Finis.

[1516] You know Finis Henner's going to do impressions instead?

[1517] He did all impressions.

[1518] So he took him on the road.

[1519] He told you you were too funny?

[1520] Spoon.

[1521] You're too funny.

[1522] I love you, but you're too damn funny.

[1523] You're open for me. I don't want to be who had to work that damn hard.

[1524] The women would throw up roses back at my feet.

[1525] Denner Lines.

[1526] That's hilarious.

[1527] That was a great compliment.

[1528] But I have the billboard of the comedy store at Richard Pry and John Bouleispoon.

[1529] Wow.

[1530] I had it somewhere in my phone.

[1531] Yeah, I think Mom posted it and then I think I reposted it on your IG story and then the comedy store screenshot it and posted it.

[1532] Oh, did they?

[1533] Yeah, they did that like a month or two ago.

[1534] But older than day, Richard Pratt had his own TV show.

[1535] You know, he's on NBC at 8 o 'clock, and he was so fucking high, boy.

[1536] Richard, I knew we weren't going to last.

[1537] I knew that's it.

[1538] We only did four shows.

[1539] We had scheduled 22.

[1540] Richard was too fucking high.

[1541] And, oh, man. What was he high on?

[1542] Cocaine and vodka and stuff, you know.

[1543] But I didn't have no money.

[1544] I probably would have got me something if I had some money.

[1545] I ain't had no money.

[1546] money.

[1547] I'm making this little $400, $400 that they give me for this week.

[1548] He said, y 'all, y 'all ain't making no money, but I'm making $250 ,000 a show.

[1549] That's what damn.

[1550] Wow, he's making that much.

[1551] Look at that.

[1552] Richard Pryor and John Withersfield.

[1553] Wow.

[1554] It was in the year.

[1555] I wish I had the year up there, probably 77.

[1556] God, that's amazing.

[1557] 77.

[1558] But I know Richard, we just go to his house every Sunday.

[1559] We used to be at his house every Sunday.

[1560] And he had, he had a barbecue he had people he had a little he got a gym boxing gym where you box tennis court swimming pool he had about four acres over there and I remember it was it it's on Parthenia that house there was for sale recently for about four million but I don't think people realize their riches pride living that they don't want to do that because he'd be caught on fire over there.

[1561] Remember the time he got caught on fire?

[1562] That was that house?

[1563] It was in the house there.

[1564] Fuck, I would love to own that house.

[1565] That's in like Northridge or something, Partini.

[1566] Yeah, it's on Partina.

[1567] When I'm doing, like, Jesus.

[1568] It's right down the street of Dorff Hills, yeah.

[1569] Yeah, yeah.

[1570] We should go over every Sunday.

[1571] Imagine owning Richard Pryor's old house.

[1572] It's kind of cool, man. Fuck.

[1573] I don't go in that, that spirit might hit me out.

[1574] He on fire, going to run past the swimming pool.

[1575] You know Those cocaine dames must have been crazy there Oh man And what's amazing about this It's so cold boy When stuff got on radio That Richard Pryor is in hospital In critical condition From burns From a pipe that blew up His family Went there and stole all of his People that He probably never seen In him seen in years Jumped over that damn He had a huge fence And stole all his watches and everything.

[1576] All this stuff was taken out of his house.

[1577] Then they say he's going to survive.

[1578] They jump back on the fence and put it back.

[1579] No. What?

[1580] They jump back on the fence with his stuff.

[1581] They put it back?

[1582] Yeah, they put it back.

[1583] Richard Price, you're going to steal his stuff.

[1584] You've been borrowed from him for 20 years.

[1585] Now of a sudden, you're going to steal his watch.

[1586] That's crazy.

[1587] Yeah.

[1588] It's hard to be at the top.

[1589] But we had so much fun over there, and Sammy Davis Jr. would come there every Sunday.

[1590] in a limousine and a tuxedo on.

[1591] Really?

[1592] We got shorts on, you know, the ragged as short you can find, old t -shirt, we play in basketball.

[1593] Sammy come at the high mind.

[1594] Sammy, go put some fucking shorts on.

[1595] How old was he back then?

[1596] Sammy?

[1597] Yeah.

[1598] Oh, I bet he wived.

[1599] This was 76.

[1600] So he must have been, while he was young then.

[1601] Because he died about 60, he was 62, 63.

[1602] He must have been in his 50s, 40s and 50s.

[1603] Tuxedo, huh?

[1604] Tuxedo.

[1605] And a limousine.

[1606] Imagine being a fly on the wall.

[1607] Sammy Davis Jr. pulls up in a tuxedo.

[1608] Oh, man. Steps out of a limousine.

[1609] Yeah, why they're playing basketball.

[1610] We all so fucking, we all so fucking raggedy, stinking.

[1611] We didn't play ball all day long.

[1612] Sammy walked past him.

[1613] Hi, man. Sammy, wrong house.

[1614] Come on pay some ball with us, Sammy.

[1615] But we, I mean, it was.

[1616] Look at that.

[1617] It was, uh, hey.

[1618] Hey, look at how sharp he is.

[1619] Wow, look at the bell bottoms.

[1620] Oh, yeah, that's the day.

[1621] That's the day, brother.

[1622] Wow, that's crazy.

[1623] Richard played tennis.

[1624] Did he?

[1625] Yeah, he played tennis, yeah.

[1626] And basketball.

[1627] We playing ball.

[1628] Richard, he's checking me and grabbing my dick.

[1629] Richard, this ain't on basketball.

[1630] I can check the only way I know.

[1631] Richard, back off me, brother.

[1632] Oh, God.

[1633] He was a funny man. So when you were around when Kinnison came by, when he first started working there, that was a, he was a big shift, right?

[1634] That was a, no one had seen anybody like him before.

[1635] Oh, no, even since.

[1636] Yeah, he was a very, he was so funny.

[1637] What's so funny one time, he, he bought some Chinese food with a hat on his head with a long coat on and some big sunglasses.

[1638] and ate it in front of this Korean store, just standing in the window, he's outside, standing in the window doing like that.

[1639] Fucking Sam.

[1640] Well, how was he doing that?

[1641] They're just crazy.

[1642] He had the same thing.

[1643] He had the same thing.

[1644] He had the same thing on the stage at the comedy store.

[1645] He would be up there with his sunglasses on, and he would have Chinese food or Korean food.

[1646] And he sat there, eat and tell some jokes and they go about to eat on stage at them in the original room that's fine I've seen them crazy I've seen some crazy as people in the original room they were funny what a comedy store has a lot of history oh my God and Missy let them do it yeah Missy was so nice to people she was brilliant let me tell you some she knew to let the comedians run the place she was smart joke around about it yeah the island of misfit toys But you know what she's, I try to tell her, I said, Mitzie, give the comics $5 to buy some eggs and bacon on the way home.

[1647] She didn't want to do that.

[1648] And they don't deserve nothing.

[1649] This is college.

[1650] This is their college, Missy.

[1651] Anybody paid to get in here.

[1652] You better go on and get these people.

[1653] They're going to mess up your, and then when she went to a big stink with the strike, the strike, big stink.

[1654] And then you had some.

[1655] people that were, you can tell some people crazy.

[1656] What's the name?

[1657] Jumped off the roof of the Hyatt House.

[1658] What was his name?

[1659] I knew the name.

[1660] I knew the kid.

[1661] I used to introduce him all the time.

[1662] Oh, shit, I don't have his name right now.

[1663] But I said, Mitchie, just give them something, you know.

[1664] So they think that they're, they've done something since they, most of them drove right here.

[1665] And they all want to something.

[1666] They want to, like they succeeded something.

[1667] She's paying us.

[1668] She's paying us for, for eggs.

[1669] but she didn't want to do it I don't know how much they get today how much you get you don't know do you how much you get I'm not a regular so you get a percentage of what the take is for the door in the main room so if the main room sold out you can make money yeah they used to do that before I think the OR you like 50 bucks 25 bucks yeah I think get four or five hundred dollars in the main room you can make some money yeah but for guys like us It's more important is a place to exercise.

[1670] It's like a gym.

[1671] Oh, yeah.

[1672] I did two shows there last night.

[1673] I used to love to work with Richard Pryor boy.

[1674] Wow, what a wonderful.

[1675] The audiences on, every note, everything you say there right there.

[1676] Oh, I'd imagine.

[1677] Oh, man. They must have realized, too, because before, when you think about, like, real giant, famous comedians before Pryor, this is like a tiny handful of them.

[1678] Yeah.

[1679] Nobody like him.

[1680] So he was just one of one.

[1681] I remember Red Fox used to come through there and you know I want to get me a double A cabasset and a Coke and I ain't paying for none of this shit I was so funny boy Red my man Red I bought it I was at a gas station stop one day you know in the little stores and I had cassette tapes of Richard Pryor performing live at Red Fox's Club Red Fox at a club they just had a recorder and he's just fucking around You can tell he's ranting and raving.

[1682] Oh, yeah.

[1683] He's just high, just laughing and talking shit on stage.

[1684] Like, it's not a prepared material, half of it.

[1685] It was amazing.

[1686] What a character, Red Fox, that boy.

[1687] He wouldn't pay his taxes.

[1688] So the government came there one night when he, all the people in the room, just took everything, everything, went to his house, took everything.

[1689] He took a ring off his finger.

[1690] He took his shoes.

[1691] They took him.

[1692] And left him a chicken raw to cook in the oven.

[1693] And so he, they shut him down, it's the place he had.

[1694] I think it's on La Cianica somewhere.

[1695] It was in L .A., yeah.

[1696] In L .A., yeah.

[1697] So he's crying.

[1698] Oh, he called Sammy Davis.

[1699] He called Frank Sinatra, and he took everything on.

[1700] I worked so hard to be who I am.

[1701] I didn't do them.

[1702] Not just that old taxes, it ain't that bad.

[1703] They took everything.

[1704] So Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis, Jr., and some other friends, went to his club and worked two or three weeks every night two shows sold them out to get enough money to pay get his taxes and get his club back he was so happy to everybody he said oh my God I want to thank you for doing what this for me oh please just take my my hug let me just hug you hugging everybody so they all went on their separate ways Red Fox still didn't pay his fucking taxes no come again to lean on his ass you son of a bitch they weren't Franks and after the neighbor not coming back now see oh my God wouldn't pay taxes again he ain't pay no taxes was this before after Sanford and son it was before and I don't think he paid after Sanford and son he didn't believe it paying no taxes it's my money I paid my taxes uh uh uh -uh damn yeah you got to pay him I got I had tax problem We had an apartment building in Beverly Hills Our own apartment building in Beverly Hills I said boy I'm doing good I just riding my car past there and saying That's my place And I swear The taxes got bad If something happened to me and they took that fucking place I had to sell it They didn't take it I had to sell it I hate that today I hate that You hate all that money you miss don't you Oh God well just a rat pass And look at the place And some lady called We had a person to clean up the place all the time See a manager of the hotel And so my wife was out there Watering the grass and stuff And she called the police Called him And said there's a black lady out here Or watering the grass And we don't recognize her Somebody who was a tenant Or you're talking about the manager Yeah, a tenant Called the manager And he said It was probably the owner And it was Angel out there That's funny I used to go back there and sit Because they had the wash machine And dryer up outside In the back It near the parking lot So it was outside But it was in clothes I sat out there Boy, it would be so quiet back there I said boy This beat Detroit Them dogs chasing my ass down the street This is much better I got a pocket full of money I ain't want to leave I got a pocket full of money I didn't want to leave I ain't want to leave They got my ass out that down place You need to make a podcast Call it the Pocket Full of Money podcast Have you ever thought about doing one Huh?

[1705] Have you thought about doing a podcast?

[1706] What is that?

[1707] That's what we're doing right now I don't want this thing to be on the air You can't He's in a different realm, Joe But you can sell out everywhere if he did that.

[1708] I guarantee you.

[1709] You can make money off of it, first of all.

[1710] Somebody told me that.

[1711] Somebody told me, oh, I don't want it to do comic club.

[1712] I sell out anywhere.

[1713] I sell out in comic club.

[1714] I don't have trouble with those.

[1715] Theaters?

[1716] If I'm on, they don't pay enough money.

[1717] You mean sell out, I go up there and do, I mean hours you have to do.

[1718] For a podcast?

[1719] Yeah.

[1720] You just do whatever you want.

[1721] You could do, like, you could do it every time you're on a plane.

[1722] Just talking to your phone.

[1723] Were you talking about how much time you're doing with the podcast or the theater?

[1724] What are you talking about?

[1725] As much time as you want.

[1726] Say if I was in the theater and I'm doing a podcast.

[1727] You've got to sit at a thing like this and talk to people.

[1728] You're not in a...

[1729] See, I knew he crossed it.

[1730] I was like, what?

[1731] No, no, no, no. That's the son.

[1732] I heard.

[1733] No, no. He's saying, can you sell out theaters by yourself?

[1734] That's what he asked you.

[1735] I doubt that.

[1736] Okay.

[1737] So, we established that.

[1738] You sell out clubs.

[1739] But then he was saying if you were doing a podcast, kind of like what we're doing right now, that's what this is.

[1740] you could as you know build up the podcast you could be promoting it and recording it you wouldn't have to do it in theater you do it in that comfort your own home you could do it yeah you could set it up just like this just like this and then you become popular sure I mean you've got popularity behind you so I'm sure people want to hear it 100 % yeah just people listening to this are gonna want to hear it yeah I have a podcast with Paul me and me and my buddy Paul we have a podcast it's just me and my buddy and we talk like video games and video games, technology, whatever you, current events and also like movie.

[1741] We'll do little mini movie reviews on it.

[1742] What kind of setup do you have?

[1743] Do you have permanent microphones?

[1744] I'm like a tech dude, so I have everything.

[1745] My office at my house is, it's like decked out with a bunch of stuff.

[1746] I brought him over there recently to help me. I get him to do videos with me just because it's like, they're funny and I don't care.

[1747] And like, let's just make something random because the other day we played Mortal Kombat.

[1748] And I had him react to the face.

[1749] So I was like, that's a funny video.

[1750] My dad reacts to Mortal Kombat Fatalities.

[1751] And literally, we're watching it.

[1752] Literally, he's just like, oh, my, look at the head go left and right on this.

[1753] So, it's amazing.

[1754] That stuff is.

[1755] And that's on my gaming channel, which is Run J .D. Run on YouTube.

[1756] That stuff is too serious for me. But like our podcast.

[1757] But we've also, I've also had him play VR because he wanted to play VR real bad.

[1758] He's like, gee, I've seen you doing the virtual reality.

[1759] Let me, do you try that.

[1760] So we did the one with the one with.

[1761] The shark attack where...

[1762] Oh, God, that's another one.

[1763] This one wasn't even a game.

[1764] It was just like a tutorial.

[1765] Like, you just put it on and live through the thing and it's like a deep ocean dive.

[1766] And he was tripping out.

[1767] It's like...

[1768] This shark...

[1769] I saw the shark go past me. Yeah.

[1770] The shark's in his face and he's screaming about it.

[1771] He's like...

[1772] He's like...

[1773] And mind you, there was a point in the video where he's...

[1774] He's not talking, but he's shaking.

[1775] And I thought something bad was that.

[1776] I thought something was happening.

[1777] I'm like, Dad, are you good?

[1778] He was trying to...

[1779] He was like trying to kick and or...

[1780] strangle the shark, which was virtually in front of it.

[1781] He was like, he was like this.

[1782] And I'm like, Dad, you're good?

[1783] And he just yells out at the shark.

[1784] He's like, fuck out of here.

[1785] Get out of here.

[1786] What's your name?

[1787] What's your name?

[1788] Shelly was standing in the cage.

[1789] The cage take you down.

[1790] Yeah, I then bought him a PlayStation 4 to play the game at his house.

[1791] And I don't know what happened to any of that stuff.

[1792] Your son took it.

[1793] My brother took it.

[1794] Because my brother uses it for Netflix.

[1795] He just watches the play.

[1796] There it is.

[1797] There we go.

[1798] That's us.

[1799] Look at them.

[1800] Look at them going, crazy.

[1801] Look at my neck.

[1802] Yeah.

[1803] He's bugging.

[1804] And that's me and my brother.

[1805] We're going, we're like dying laughing about it.

[1806] That damn thing's over my head.

[1807] Oh, Jesus, look at his face.

[1808] Yeah.

[1809] Look at my neck.

[1810] Look at my neck.

[1811] My eyeballs are down to my neck.

[1812] Oh, man. Oh, my God.

[1813] Oh, my God.

[1814] This is the show.

[1815] Yeah, no. The show is you and him.

[1816] We, we've, I mean, we, I try to create stuff with them all the time just because it's random and funny.

[1817] Back in the day, I probably didn't do it because people it's one of those things where uh it wasn't a huge deal but now what is the video title jamie for people my dad freaks out playing VR yeah i didn't see this the youtube channel is it's on it's on my channel which is youtube dot com slash run jd run is the name of the channel my face is cramping from laughing shelly you got us you got to see it and it's in tired.

[1818] It's so goofy.

[1819] This is a show.

[1820] You two together.

[1821] You do it once a week.

[1822] Get together with your dad.

[1823] Just go pick them up, grab them, make it really easy.

[1824] Breaking the airplace.

[1825] You do a show with him once a week.

[1826] Boom.

[1827] That's it.

[1828] Might have to do an audio thing.

[1829] Oh, my God.

[1830] Yeah, because I had, yeah, the setup.

[1831] Do an audio thing.

[1832] Yeah.

[1833] What's an audio thing?

[1834] Easy.

[1835] Audio this.

[1836] Podcast.

[1837] Like this here.

[1838] We got to find it.

[1839] We got to find the name.

[1840] We got to find the name.

[1841] I'm going to go finish packing.

[1842] I'm going to get out of here.

[1843] All right.

[1844] Let's wrap this up.

[1845] Get to my way.

[1846] He's the king of complaining, man I'm trying to tell you I was trying to tell him on the way over here I'm like, hey man, don't be weird I let's just hang out and enjoy it I'm gonna do my thing, JD but if I gotta do my thing I'm gonna do my thing I gotta pee I'm gonna pee If I gotta take a shit I'm gonna take a shit My face hurts right here It's like these muscles are cramped up You're a goofball man Anyway you ain't got no cuth Where your cuth at?

[1847] John I appreciate you There ain't no coof.

[1848] What is coof?

[1849] It's nonsense.

[1850] It's lesser mortals.

[1851] Yeah, he's a clown, bro.

[1852] I appreciate you, sir.

[1853] Thank you very much for being here, man. When we were we at James' place when I knew?

[1854] Yeah, sure.

[1855] Yeah, that's probably when we first met.

[1856] You must have been young.

[1857] You were a little kid then.

[1858] Yeah, I was a little kid.

[1859] I was in my 20s.

[1860] Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

[1861] Yeah.

[1862] Back in the day, man. I was about 60.

[1863] Wow.

[1864] It wasn't about 15 years ago, 14 years ago?

[1865] Probably somewhere around there.

[1866] Maybe more than that.

[1867] Maybe more than that.

[1868] Yeah, more than that one?

[1869] when I met you.

[1870] Yeah.

[1871] More like 20, late 50s or something.

[1872] I probably were doing the Wayne brothers or something back today.

[1873] Yeah, you were.

[1874] Yeah, that's probably what it was.

[1875] You were 40s.

[1876] Friday.

[1877] Yeah.

[1878] I'd be doing Friday.

[1879] Doing Friday the Wayne's brothers.

[1880] Yeah, all that.

[1881] Yeah.

[1882] It's been a long time, my friend.

[1883] Oh, man, it's amazing.

[1884] Thank you.

[1885] You're hilarious.

[1886] It's a pleasure having one here.

[1887] Yep, that's what we're doing.

[1888] Yes.

[1889] A podcast.

[1890] You guys are going to do it, too.

[1891] We've got to come up with a name.

[1892] Let me know.

[1893] I'll have you back on.

[1894] We can just talk about your dad.

[1895] We'll figure it out Oh my goodness Give your Twitter handle your Instagram All that jazz Oh yeah At JD Witherspoon everywhere And if you want to see those gaming videos It's a It's run J .D. Run On YouTube That's me And then you got your joints At John Witherspoon I have something like that Oh man this is so hard You understand Joe He thinks he's in a simulation I can't He thinks he's in the Matrix He might be correct The internet is crazy to him But yeah Thank you, gentlemen.

[1896] What's that at John?

[1897] John Wetherspoon is the where your cooking show is at on YouTube.

[1898] Just type in John Witherspoon on the internet.

[1899] J .D. Witherspoon, if you want to see some goofy stuff, we're here.

[1900] Thank you, John.

[1901] All right.

[1902] Thank you.

[1903] Thanks for having this, John.

[1904] All right.

[1905] That's it.

[1906] It's not.