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Rich Vos is a standup comic, writer, and actor. He’s the host, along with his wife Bonnie McFarland, of the podcasts “My Wife Hates Me,” and “For Worse.” Catch his most recent special, “Rich Vos: Anonymous,” on Youtube.
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#2305 – Rich Vos Podcast Episode Summary
In this episode of the Joe Rogan Experience, the conversation revolves around various topics, including personal growth, mental health, and the entertainment industry. The episode features a guest who shares their experiences with anxiety and therapy, emphasizing the importance of finding a therapist who understands personal struggles and can provide effective support. The guest discusses their journey to sobriety and how therapy helped them manage anxiety, highlighting the idea that anxiety is temporary and will pass.
A recurring theme in the episode is the significance of self-reflection and addressing personal issues that may hinder one’s peace of mind. Joe Rogan and the guest discuss the importance of having a second voice in one’s head that offers constructive advice, rather than succumbing to negative thoughts. They stress the need to confront and resolve internal conflicts to achieve clarity and peace.
The episode also touches on the entertainment industry, with discussions about the dynamics of comedy shows and the challenges comedians face. The guest shares anecdotes from their experiences in comedy, including performing at roasts and dealing with stage anxiety. They highlight the importance of being funny in the moment and the camaraderie among comedians.
Additionally, the episode includes a critique of mainstream media and its shortcomings, particularly in journalism. Joe Rogan and the guest discuss how media outlets often prioritize sensationalism over factual reporting, which can mislead the public.
Overall, the episode offers insights into personal development, the entertainment industry, and media criticism, with a focus on overcoming personal challenges and the value of authenticity in comedy.
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Joe Rogan podcast. Check it out.
The Joe Rogan experience.
Showing my day Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. Let’s go. How are you fella? Good to see you. Wow. Dude, you’re fucking dripping with diamonds, sir. What’s going on? The road’s been good to you. Look at you.
I’m just so empty inside. This this fills the hole for, like, like, it’s ai, you know, you go by it, like, oh, and then you get home and go, I hate my life. I hate my insides and no spirituality, but I get to look at my just emptiness on, you know, I just
I’ve ran out of Ai ran out of shit to ai. So, like, there’s nothing
What kind of car are you driving?
A Lexus IS three fifty. Oh, those are fun. It’s nice.
It’s a good car. Bulletproof. Never never gonna break.
you know, it’s but this is how fucked it. Okay. So the two okay, I had the Lexus three fifty, right?
whatever. Ai went and I had it for seven months maybe. I went in to get it serviced sana I was kinda depressed, so I bought a different car. I sai, I go, this is not it. This is fucked up. So I bought the IS three fifty. I had the other car for seven fucking months. I go, you know what? That one looks cool.
So I bought that and then I went in to get it, that service, and it was the exact same car a year later, but I like the newer color, the newer gray.
That gray, that whatever weird gray.
Yeah. It’s ai, it looks good. I said, you know what? Fuck. Give me a nice car. So Ai traded it.
Do you keep swapping them out? Yeah. They must love you.
Yeah. They fuck. I’m such a mooch. On one one year on my wife’s birthday, I bought myself a new car.
I wanna be on her birthday. I have
a happy birthday. We could drive around in this.
Oh ai god. That probably played off well.
Ah, fuck. It’s good. Good. Ai get bored easy. I get bored easy. And it’s because of you know, in life in ai, really, like, I see some of my friends doing arenas, doing this, doing that, but I have enough. I really have enough, but it’s not enough.
know what I’m saying? Does that make sense? Yeah. I I one Ai think for my not for my personal life. My personal life, I got three fucking great daughters, two three grandkids, another one on the way. My seven year old is gonna go to college, has pick up all kinds of schools, you know, good schools.
I fucking in eleventh grade, I raised my hand to go to the bathroom and I never came back. I just walked out. Like, I’m a fucking idiot, you know, ai past. And my kids all grew up. Okay, the old one married a black ai, but he’s light skinned.
But anyhow, the prettiest baby on the planet. So Ai have enough, But when it comes to career as a comic and you know, there’s ai more fucking thing. Just one more thing. You know what I’m saying?
I do know what you’re saying.
I don’t know I don’t know what it is. You know, I’ve had specials, not Netflix, but it’s always it’s like I’m always doing the other club. Right. You know what I’m saying? Ai always and I’m very blessed and I love what I’ve achieved in this business but it seems like it’s always like, okay Ai got a special on Amazon now.
But it’s not it wasn’t Amazon didn’t buy it, we placed it on them. You know what I’m saying? Sai it’s always there’s always one little thing. When every pilot my wife and I have had together, I’ve had, gets this close to getting picked up. You know what I’m saying?
Ai, I’ve heard, some of the no’s I’ve heard, they almost sound like yeses. They were such good no’s. I walked out and go, that was the best no today. That fucking no almost felt like a yes. So in this business,
Do you think you put something in your mind to make all these things ai of fall short? Have you ever thought of that?
Yeah. Well, that’s what my wife says. Yeah. Do you
ever ever thought that, like, maybe the way you interface with the world is, like, your expectations are tempered, ai, in a way where you almost wanna fail because it’s more comforting that it happened again rather than this new thing of success, which is gonna force you to really focus and work harder to get more success. And it’s a lot of pressure. And then you think about all the times you fucked up before and you don’t wanna hear you don’t wanna hear no again.
You don’t wanna hear it, but you feel like it’s coming and you almost make it come.
Well, I get that in life growing up from my childhood through drug addiction, I became comfortable being uncomfortable. That was my life.
Right. Comfortable being in the skids.
Being yeah. This was what I was used to. In this business, I don’t I don’t really ever set myself up for failure. I mean, I produce, I come up with albums, I I’m always coming up with new material
And I got seven albums. I’ll probably make an eighth album, which is a pretty it’s a lot for a career, I would imagine.
I don’t go into clubs and drink. I don’t, hit on waitresses. You know, so I don’t know. But my wife says the exact same thing you’re saying. My wife said to me once, she sai, because I had this power of thinking, like, when I think really hard it comes to me shah, right?
And my wife goes, if you think you, deserve a million dollars, this was you’ll get a million dollars. And I said, God gives you what you need, not what you want. And then she said, do you think Chelsea Handler needed a TV show? So she kinda, like, debunked my whole need, you know, and want thing.
I if you believe in some ai of power greater than your spiritual I’m not religious by any fucking but Sai shit comes to me. I don’t think I, fucking screw things up. I don’t screw things up, like, you know, in meetings or when we do pilots or whatever. I I do what I’m supposed to do, so I don’t know.
I mean, in comedy, yeah, for years, I might been a little aggressive on stage or, you know, a little whatever. You know? I think everything now well, especially now with clubs or whatever, it’s all numbers. They don’t give a fuck if you light the waitstaff on fire. If you sold out the room, they go, oh, great. You were fabulous. You know? I was I was working catch years ago.
I was at catch, and Bill Hicks okay. So David Brenner’s on stage. And this is they love David Brenner. He’s killing. Killing.
It is during the peak of David Brenner. He gets off. Bill walk Bill Hicks goes up, and he says, growing up as a kid, I would see Robert Klein and David Brenner. And I figure if they could do it, I could do it. That was his opening shot.
So now he’s doing his bit about Nancy Reagan, skinny whatever, and calling her the anti I mean, people are running out the door. They’re running out the door. And then he gets off stage and he he says to me, he goes, what went wrong? But but I swear to God, he goes, what was wrong? Serious? Yes.
No. He was he he was whatever. He was building I don’t know. It’s hard to tell with him. Yeah. But anyhow, the the manager of Booker now after the said to him, you can come and do a spot here anytime you sana, because he was Bill Hicks.
see what I’m saying? He was Bill Hicks. You know, I worked with him in Texas. It’s when I first arya, and I’m watching him, you know, and we’ll get back on ram. I’m sorry. To go off on those things.
Go wherever you wanna go.
So we’re working in Texas. He he just breaks up. His girlfriend breaks up with a message. Ai a true story. So he goes, where can you get a hooker? A prostitute. And a cab driver
Yeah. I know. That’s you know, there’s a lot of these young kids now that listen. Okay? Hooker’s a prostitute. Okay? Sai cab driver takes him to one house because they would take you to the and and I go with him. He goes, take a ride. So then we go to one house. She knocks on her door and she opens the door and goes, you’re a cop, and slammed the door on him.
Slammed the door on his ai.
Then he went, but he also the next place the cab driver took him, she opened the door and goes, you’re too young, and slammed the door on him.
The next night, he did ten minutes or whatever on how he can’t can’t pick up a prostitute in Lubbock, Texas. Anyway, I go, I’ll never be this funny as long as I fucking live. Like, I’ve watched people going, amazing. You know, and then, then I was running then with Bastille. That’s That’s when I was running with Bastille.
Yeah. He so he I’ll tell you
I think I told you this story. I’ve told this story and it’s been tyler, and I don’t know if I told it last years ago when I did this, and then I’ll get back to it. I’m I’m not self sabotaging. That’s what you were getting to in my head. Am I self sabotaging?
Not not self sabotaging. I don’t think it’s a self sabotage thing. It’s sai not understanding the energy that you’re putting out there and being accustomed to a certain result. K. If you’re accustomed to missing your playing pool, you’re accustomed to missing the nine ball, you’re gonna miss you’re gonna miss that fucking nine ball every time.
Well, it happens in golf too.
in golf. Sai thing. You gotta, reset the way you think about things. And if there’s something that’s eating away at you, that bothers you, that occupies your thoughts, you have to figure out what that is and clean that up. Because that’s that’s a big part of the problem with a lot of people.
A lot of the problem with a lot of people is maybe they don’t like something about themselves. They don’t like what they’ve done. They don’t like, you know, choices they’ve bryden, and that’s in your head all the time. You’re like, you you’re, you know, you the lack of clarity, the lack of peace is in your head all the time.
Well, you know, it’s not this is not an easy thing I’m saying. I’m not I’m not saying this is ai, okay. Here’s the real formula. Just go out, follow these three steps, and you’re gonna be rich and famous. No. It’s not that.
It’s just that success generally happens when you’ve got as many pieces as possible in order correctly. And failure generally happens when you’re overwhelmed by too many things that are not working ai. And you’ve your your your attention and your focus is on them. You’re divided.
You know, a lot of times you see it’s like a terrible relationship. I ai I’ve known a lot of really talented people that sabotage themselves with a terrible relationship. And they think somehow or another that this is just how relationships arya this and they’re terrible in that relationship, like, and then they can never be who they could be.
They can never reach their full potential because they’re always burdened down by these fucking squabbles they’re having with their girlfriend or their boyfriend. You know? Well, that’s also too a a god
thing where you think I could fix this person or I could Sure. Change him. No one can
change him. That’s Ai Cowan. He what? Ryan Cowan his whole life. I I would tell him, get out now. I would I would meet his girlfriend. I’d be like, get out now. Uh-huh. I met a girl I want a girl that he dated. I literally within five seconds of saying hello to her, I go, come here. I pulled the massage. Cut to. Okay? He doesn’t listen.
You know, later that night, like, she’s drinking wine. She’s fucking hammered. It’s a disaster. Shah winds up living with him. Eventually, figures it out, gets rid of her.
Couple years later, he’s walking down the street on sunset and she’s street walking. No. Girl he was living with at one point in time. This is Bryden Cowan. He’s sai he, like, he felt abandoned when he was young. And so he I I believe I’m speaking for him.
And so he’s he’s a sweet ai, and he tries to reach out and fix people.
Well, here’s my Brian Callan story. It’s very funny. I was middling for him at, Caroline’s, which will never happen again because Caroline’s is close. I’m middling for him. So I get off stage and I’m single. This fucking smoking hot girl comes up to me and she goes, come on, let’s leave. Right?
Ai go, no, Ai gotta sell my DVDs or CDs. I have to sell my DVDs or CDs after the show. I’m sitting here selling CDs, and I see Brian walk out with her right past me up
I fucked up. But maybe I didn’t. Who knows?
No. You definitely didn’t because Bonnie’s awesome.
No. It wasn’t. Worked out
for you in the long run. But it’s yeah. He You definitely should’ve left with her.
No. I shouldn’t have because that’s what that in life is where I was supposed to be at that time when I was there.
Okay. I see what you’re saying. You know what I mean? No. You’re correct.
What if it what if she’s a nightmare and then you miss out on whatever, 405 hundred bucks you would have made selling DVDs? Oh, I
didn’t make that much. I never A hundred.
Even a hundred. Now you’re going to a nice restaurant sana eating that. Yeah. You
know? Who knows? Who knows? You know, it’s this whole negative thing with my and this isn’t ego by any stretch ai I say stuff like this. And I’ve and my sai I know I’ve earned respect from my peers. I know it because I’ve done it. Definitely have. From from white to black comics.
Black comics are most white comics don’t even know. You know what I mean? You know?
We did a lot of those roles talking to them.
Ai. I ended all those TV shows.
them all. Yep. You know? Please, I started black comedy. So okay. You can only hold a white man down so long. So and and ai, I think in ai, I’m more about respect than accomplishment. You see what I’m saying?
Sai you’re more about the respect from your peers.
Not only my peers, the industry too though. The industry doesn’t know, like sai some club owner, let’s say a club owner.
They’re not sitting in the room watching your shows. All they care about are the fucking numbers that come in. They don’t I had a club owner once, I said to him, and you’re lucky, you’re way out of that, but I’m still I’m in that. So I said to a club owner once, she goes I said, look, I’m as funny as I’ve ever been right now in life. He goes, that doesn’t fucking matter.
What does that matter? And it’s all a quick fix. You know? Right.
They just wanna sell tickets.
Sell tickets. And I get it. They gotta keep the doors open.
But Well, that’s the weird marriage between the club owner and the comic, you know. I used to tell comics, you know, we’re not every comic feels like they’re battling it with club owners. Like, the club owners never given them enough money. The club owners fucking them over, lied about it being sold out. It was definitely sold out. I want my bonus. That kind of shit. Yeah.
You don’t wanna be a club owner. You don’t. You don’t. I mean, I Ai I give that ai, then I became one. But just by necessity.
But But I was like, this is an important relationship. Like, you gotta be nice to them and so they respect you and you should because everybody in the beginning, you feel ai you’re ignored by them. But that’s it’s a weird thing because they’re just in the business of comedy. Unless you meh, like ai Bryden Dorfman and Zanies, he really loves comedy. You know?
There’s a few ones. Wendy from from Comedy Works in Denver.
I’ll try my Wendy story in a few saloni.
It’s true. You’ll like it. Okay.
But but my point is it’s like
Well, Corey in Rhode Island’s one of the best fucking nicest guys on the planet.
What’s that one? Comedy Connection.
Oh, yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Mark
Mark in Rochester. Yeah. Jimmy Dean James and governors. The comedy connection
in Rhode Island’s weird because you’re in a bank. It’s
They turned a bank into a comedy market.
That’s how bad the market’s doing.
Well, that was in the eighties he did that. That was when I was
a kid. Such a he fixed the whole thing up.
got the whole camera system.
It’s a great club. It was always a great club. Plus, there’s not a lot in Rhode Ai. So when you go there, people are so happy to see you.
It’s yeah. It’s Ai my and I’m not bad mouthing her, Wendy. I don’t know her like this. So, I worked a club ai. And the second time I worked there was Halloween weekend. I mean, there was a guy in the audience in blackface. Whatever. You know, so Really? Yeah.
This was, I don’t know, ten, fifteen years ago.
I don’t know. Ten, fifteen years ago? You were?
But wait a second. So she she wasn’t even there the week. Okay. She tells my manager, I did a lot of crowd work, whatever. Yeah. And so, well, so anyhow, this is so, I’m working vatsal, Syracuse Funny Bryden. And my middle, very funny ai, I think he passed away. He was an older ai, really great Joe Greider. He’s from Denver. He goes, oh, I do a podcast, Wendy.
And he sees that I’m closing and ai goes, I’ll talk to her. So I email Wendy, and I go, hey. Listen. Why don’t we start from scratch? Let bygones be bygones. Start over. Whatever. Ai know, I love to come back in.
And she doesn’t get back to meh, so I write, by your lack of response, it looks like you sana move forward. Here arya some available dates. Right? She doesn’t get back to me again. Shocker. And I write, can I bring my own medal? What do I care? Right.
It’s funny. I’m trying to be funny.
So she was just upset that you did crowd work? That’s it? No.
Well, she was the numbers were low probably. It was Halloween weekend.
But I ai, I work enough. And and you know what I’m saying? I’m not bad mouthing any of these people because you bad mouth you’re the one who looks bad. I’m not bad mouthing them. She’s got a business to run, whatever she’s gotta do, just like any of them. They have a business to run.
If this is who they’re gonna bring in to keep their doors open, I’ll always find fucking work. I don’t care. You know what I’m saying? Yes.
So, and industry wise, I mean, now it’s
a whole look, my wife is comic and, you know, she’s writing movies. She’s punching on movies. She wrote for the Golden Globes. You know, she has different outlets.
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God, when I quit cigars, I quit cigars ai I was scared I was gonna start smoking.
I probably would because it would lead, you know
Yeah. You’re puffing on tobacco. Yeah. You don’t wanna inhale it.
That’s why, you know, I can’t even put a tick in my mouth because I’m scared.
You know that. So, you know, she has different outlets as a stand up. I’m just a stand up. I’m a club comic. I love, you know, I do theaters. I do whatever, but I love doing I really like doing clubs.
So it sounds like you’re doing exactly what you wanna do. Yes. I’m not So what the fuck’s the problem?
I don’t think there is a problem, but it’s I said just one more thing to put it over the top. Do you know what I mean? Mhmm. One more,
You’re never totally satisfied, Ai Boss.
Well, that’s a good point. Yes. I’m a I’m a addict. Yeah. You know, so Vatsal. Look, here’s here’s my fucking here’s how fucked up I am.
How fucked up are you? You?
I’m gonna tell you right now, sai. Okay. You glittering backwards. And this is not in the in the morning Ai drink my coffee, I sit at the table Sounds like me. And I put a bird feeder and I watch the birds feed, and it’s very relaxing. Yeah. Watching them all come and feed. It’s very relaxing. Right. Okay.
Now Ai have seven bird feeders around my property, because I figured, well, this will be seven times more relaxing watching a bird.
No. But they’re all over. I meh, I got ones that Ai with a video camera, I could see who’s coming, the squirrel. I don’t care if the squirrel eats the you know? But it’s my addictive personality
Right. Where You always want more?
Yeah. Just a little more. New car. Different color.
Same car. Yeah. One more ring. One more ring. Well,
I took two off. You know, so it’s and I I work on myself. I go to meetings two, three a speak. You know, I Ai
Still after all these years?
Do you still feel the pull after all these years?
No. I haven’t got gambling to fall back on. I,
you gambling on? What am I gambling on? Yeah. Well, I mean, once in a while, I’ll play on my phone at night, slots. Oh, boy. Yeah. I did real well. You made money? One yeah. Last year.
I I gotta sai, slots on your phone sounds like the dumbest fucking idea because there is no way it’s not fixed. At least sai slot ai No. It’s random. Well, slots
in the casino is the biggest sucker bet on the ai. Sucker bet. I’ll play craps. If I’m gonna play if I’m gonna gamble on a casino, I’m a play craps like a man.
You know what drives me fucking crazy when I hear that someone hits the slots and then they won’t give out. They won’t give the money because there’s oh, there was an error with the machine. That’s bullshit. I’ve heard that meh ai. Like, fuck your error. This is Give that guy his money.
This is what I won last year on slots. Let me see
this. Really? Yeah. Really?
Yeah. Ai got two jackpots. Wow. But now I keep playing, think I’ll get more. Two. I think I’ll hit the big one.
Yeah. Well, that’s how they get you.
I have a friend who’s very wealthy and is a fucking degenerate gamble. Dana White from ram
Oh, yeah. Oh, I see the videos. Degenerate.
He’s a nut. Because I was just reading an article about Hunter Campbell who’s, the financial officer. I was, was ai trying to talk to him just saying you ram ai you’re killing meh, ai, why are you doing this? He loves it.
Loves that. It’s there’s shit that goes off in your head even even when you lose, you’re like I
meh, I Meh you feel like you’re ai. Something’s happening.
I was in Vegas and I walked to the table with $300, crap table. And it’s me and the whole table is, I mean, I held the dice for almost an hour, three hundred, I turned into 5,000. The table’s going nuts. I’m I’m winning everybody formula and diapers at the table. They’re fucking yelling, cat with a hat.
And if it’s just such a, you know, and then for the rest of the week, I didn’t gamble again because I go, I can’t follow that. I’m not gonna be able to do that again. So it’s not like I’m obsessed with it. Numbers, I am kind of, but, you know, I’ve been to casinos and worked for three, four days and not even played.
But when but when I do, it’s like like ai my wife and I were in Canada and we went to a casino. I go, well, let me go back to the hotel and put some put my credit cards and money there. And she goes, you can’t go into a casino with all your money and credit cards? I go,
how does she ask that question? She knows you.
Shah should know you can’t. She’s fucking with you.
She should say good for you.
Yeah. That’s a good point.
Yeah. She should say good for you. That’s smart.
But she didn’t know me when I was an addict. Oh. She never saw me when I was out there. Yeah.
But I well, I guess I did. I knew you when you were an addict. But Yeah. But I you but you cleaned up nice. You really did. You figured it out well. You really did. So, like, she should she should know that.
Yeah. Not to go to the casino. Supportive. That’s what I’m trying to say.
You know what? That’s what I’m trying to say. I mean, was now You guys are one
of the funniest couples of all ai, though.
a few, like, Christina Pisinski and Tom Segura, Natasha Leggero, Moshe Kasher. There’s a few, ai, you know, people say, like, comics shouldn’t date comics. Well, ai else? I don’t know about that because sometimes it fucking works really well.
What am I gonna do? Come home to a dentist? You know? And for meh, you know, we, you know, we really come together when we find the same enemy and the same person we could trash. Yeah.
know, or we talk comedy. We make each other laugh. Yeah. We fight and have all the fucking you know, we’re we’re a married couple.
Yeah. And we’re ai So you’re talking shit. Well, to be to be a male comic, you gotta be fucked up. To be a female comic, that’s a whole another level of fucking up. Because, you know, they go on a road, they gotta worry about everything. They gotta worry about fans.
Yeah. They gotta worry about fans attacking them.
Where they’re staying, what it’s like. It’s stalked.
And thank you for saying we’re funny. Yeah. We we’re together
You guys are very funny. It’s ai, you know, I was using it as example because comics will say all the time, don’t date comics. Well And I’m like, I don’t know about that. I don’t know about that because, like, why not I don’t think you should never date blur. Although, I stopped dating Italians when I was 21. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It’s just like the last one swung at me. I was like, I’m done.
Shah was swinging. I was like, I can’t believe she’s swinging at me.
Like, while this was happening, her arm was pulling back. It was coming towards my face like, I can’t fucking believe this is happening.
Well, I only date Ai, like, I can’t afford a Jew bryden. So I went I went fucking Irish. I’d rather ram to fucking Marshalls and Barney’s,
you know. Well, also, like, you probably well, the thing about Jewish women, the the stereotype is that they’re very controlling. Yeah. They’re, you know, it’s ai, how the mom is. You know, it’s ai you take that role of, like, the mom of the house, then your wife becomes your mom.
This is the stereotype. Yeah. I’m not saying it’s always that way.
Ai a little naggy. A little naggy. You know? Yeah. And Ai mean, look, fucking Bonnie grew up on a farm killing chickens, you know. Perfect. She’s fucking Ai
She’s good for ai like when the revelation comes.
And not only that, I have running water. You know, ai had to fucking they slept on the floor. She grew up like I could pour. And we started dating, I mean, I was already in the business for I don’t know how many years. It’s like, they say don’t date comics. Yeah. Well, if you’re a new comic and you’re a new comic, it’s gonna be competition the whole time. It’s gonna be jealousy.
But I was already established since she was established. Yeah. But it it doesn’t have to be.
It doesn’t have to be. It could be. But it doesn’t like, these these, like, hard fast rules, they don’t work. It all completely depends on the individual. I mean, how different are comics? Like, how different are you to Shane Gillis? How different am I to Arya Shaffir? Like, we’re all different.
Even though we’re all real good friends, we’re all there’s no hard rules. No.
I luckily came up with the one of the strongest crews in New York. Oh, you
came up with an amazing ram. Patrice? Patrice, Norton Mhmm.
Billy, Bobby, Colin, you know, Kev Yeah. Little, you know, Kevin Hart.
You know, our crew and, you know, and then Bonnie, Hump, I
ai know. You back when you had Jerry Curls.
You knew me when I was doing Robin Gibbons bits.
You knew. That’s right. It was tyler eighties.
You don’t meh. You might remember. We were working a one nighter in Seaside, New Jersey. It was my ex wife. And me, you, and her took a walk to the boardwalk. We were in Seaside, right on the boardwalk, and it was just me, you and her. Ai think you just came down from Bryden, and I don’t think you were living in New York.
I think you were just doing some shows, some one nighters and shah, and we did a one nighter. Okay. Sai probably first it had to be I got thirty nine years with her. Probably, like, thirty eight years ago.
Sai Oh, it doesn’t even make sense ai I’ve been doing comedy for thirty let me see. Eighty eight ai seven thirty seven years.
Okay. So then Ai okay. I was with Bonnie. So yeah. I mean, Kelly. So I had you’re right. I had
Yeah. I had, like, four years clean.
’90 was when I first started coming to, New York. Okay. You were already clean
by then? Yeah. Yeah. So and I was already married. Sai, yeah, I I had five years clean. So it was maybe, like, thirty four years ago, which could fall or thirty five. Sai, yeah, we’re working a one ai. And I I remember walking up the street, me, you, and Bonnie, to, to It wasn’t to the boardwalk. I mean, Kelly. Right.
To the boardwalk. And it was just some one nighter. And then I don’t know if we ever worked again together. Oh, well, Dangerfield. We did some
We did carolones together too. I remember doing carolones with you. We did oh, we did a lot of Dangerfield shows together. Yeah. You know, we did we ever do prom shows together? Yes.
Yeah. Oh, Jesus. And and Viva should
know what prom shows are. So New York has a very weird thing where they take kids from, like, Staten Island and Brooklyn, and they bring them in in fucking buses to Dangerfields, and the show would run from, like, 7PM till five in the morning. No ai. No break. Just you would go one show and you meh paid by the show.
It was good money. I forget what it was, but it was ai, you get paid, but, like, you can make a couple grand in a night if you did
the whole night. So you do stand up from 7PM to, like, 5AM. But ai, some of the shows were the same some of the same crowd. Most of the shows. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. With it.
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So we were doing proms at Dangerfield, and this is all young kids and high you know, getting ready to go to college. And Ronnie goes on. He walks on stage in a robe, drunk. He’s not doing comedy. He’s bumming the crack. He’s talking about his divorce or death.
And all these kids are just still all looking at him like the jury from, Ai Cousin Vinny. When they were looking at the stuttering lawyer, their eyes were just going, what is going on with this man? Wow. Right? And he just it was the most depressed. And then I think Brian Regan had to follow him.
And and the fact I mean, if you look at your career and some of mine and Brian Regan, we were doing prom shows.
I did I did a there was a contest at Vatsal, and I think the winner got to do comedy on a plane.
Right. That was back when they smoked on planes.
Yeah. Ai I think John Stewart was one of the contestants. Like, I remember doing Ai remember doing some or else it was a Johnny Walker competition. I was there. It was ai me, John Stewart, Jim Gaffigan, you know, to do some Johnny Walker tour. I don’t fucking know whatever the contest was, but it was all these contests.
But you would see look. I worked fucking clubs here. I I was working one club once, and after the shah, it was in Scranton, PA at a Holiday Inn, me and another comic. After the show, the owner brings us in the back ram and pulls out a gigantic bag of Coke and says, do you want Coke or money?
And I took the Coke. And the guy who took the money is Adam Sandler, and look where he is, and look where I am. Adam Sandler took the money, an old fucking he opened up. He’s a guitar comic, and he opened up. Shah was a
Nick’s Comedy Stop thing, Coker Money. Oh, yeah. I worked there. Did they offer you Coker Money
back then? I don’t and I was getting high because when I first started comedy, somehow, they, what was his name? Dominic and Jackie Gaitman or something. Yes. They liked me for some reason. I stunk, but they would give me spots at Meh. And I would get either money or but I would buy Coke from Mike, the drug dealer that the Colombians killed. He was the Coke dealer up there.
I would stay behind the connection at the Milnor Hotel, which was all prostitutes and drug addicts. Right? And, you know, I would go up there. And Nicks was giving me shows upstairs, downstairs. So the one ai, the last time I was up in Boston, I did Springfield, Mass and Westfield, Mass.
2 50 2 Elm and some other Norm Lefoe shit. And then Norm Lefoe.
Western Massachusetts. Yeah.
So then I went to Nick’s. I go, I’m not spending my money on drugs. I’m not this I’m coming home with fucking money. Right? So I’m working this place called Plums in Worcester, and this waitress, oh, fucking smoking hot. After the show, because I did some Coke, bitch. She goes, you do Coke?
I go, yeah. I go, I go, Ai go, do you know where I can get any Coke? And we couldn’t get any Coke in Boston. Ai drove from Bryden, I went back to New York, bought a bunch of crack. We got a hotel, smoked all ai. Sai we had sex, this and that.
And it was Saturday ai, and I’m forty minutes from home, and I have one more show in Boston on a Sunday, and I have to drive her all the way back to Bryden. No money left, maybe 10 or $20, just enough to get back to Boston, do my show luggage in a fucking paper bag. We stop on the way up in Hartford. We try to buy coke or heroin, and we got ripped off. She’s crying because she’s gonna lose her job.
Fucking blood started pouring out of my nose as we’re driving. Just pouring out. I’m going, oh, Jesus Christ. I swear to ai. Right? Right?
Well, and then she goes, my sister wants an ounce of Coke. So I was gonna set her up and and rip her off and, you know Oh, boy. You know, get a free ounce of Coke. Well, anyhow, two weeks later, I I end up in rehab. That was my bottom. That fucking trip to Ai.
I end up in rehab. And about a year or two later, I’m working Fort Lauderdale, and her sister’s there with her boyfriend who’s the size of a fucking house. So if I did rip her off, I would’ve gotten fucking this shit killed. The anatomy. You know, what are the odds?
So that last trip to Boston and I spent all the money I wasn’t gonna spend, but this girl was fucking hot, you know. Then I I came out of rehab, and I think I had, like, a month or two months clean. And I’m working at Daytona Beach. There’s fucking a way where? I don’t know. I was I had bad teeth, fucking jerry curl. And my wife says this. She saw videos of me from around.
She goes, you’re such a meh, but you had so much confidence. And girls like confidence. Right? Because I would be on stage, fucking rotten teeth and fucking grease dripping out of my hair. So I’m ai fucking mess. I look like a fucking rat.
And this hot waitress in Daytona, we go back to her place and I’m making out with it and something tastes funny. I go, what? And she pulls out a bag of coke and I had like a month clean, two months. I go, I can’t do that. I I gotta get out of here.
I mean, I fucked her, but then I left real quick, you know. You know, and it was scary.
So you never bounced back? You never went back to drugs? No. No. That’s amazing.
That’s incredible. You have one fall off and you’re like, I’m done.
Well, I mean, here’s for me now and, you know, as the years accumulated, you know, I was I was working, I was saving money, I was buying. You know, if I went and got high now, this watch alone would kill me. I could pawn this watch.
It would be enough money for me to die. Right. You know, money I’ve hidden around the house, you know, no one’s sana find it. I Ai don’t even think, hey we’re gonna go to Voss’s house and find his money. This shit is fucking hidden well, ai? So go fuck yourselves. So anyhow, I’ll die.
There’s no, look, for a year, and I gotta get back on track, I stopped eating not not keto, but cut back on carbs, sugar, just I did real well for a year. I mean, I was fucking ripping up again. And for my age, and it’s harder to my daughter comes upstairs and goes, oh, I made homemade chocolate chip cookies.
Ai go, oh, give me one. Well, the seventh cookie Ai had to throw in the garbage. The seventh I ai, I can’t, I gotta stop. So that’s how my fucking mind is, there’s no one ai, what the fuck Ai play golf and guys are drinking a beer, I go what the fuck are you doing? We like to taste, fuck off, Gatorade tastes good, you drink to get drunk, what are you drinking a beer? You know?
And it’s just and then on stage if I go Ai quit, someone goes quit, shah the fuck up. You’re here having wine coolers, bitch. Sell your mother’s car to get high. Go fuck yourself. Wow. You don’t know anything about getting hot. Oh.
You’re fighting with people who aren’t even here.
I know. I’m just telling you It’s strange.
You’re gonna shower arya with these ai. Take care
of it. Do you know how many fucking arguments I’ve had? Oh, yeah. I know you’re gonna bring in your whole pro Palestinian crew that I was gonna fight today, which I have stuff printed out, we’ll read later. We’ll read later. But, yeah, it’s so funny you’re having fights with you don’t ever lay in bed or argue with have arguments with people that No.
I did when I was young. Yeah. I figured that out when I was younger. This is stupid. And when the impulse comes, which it does, I just I go, this is stupid. I talk to myself. I just coach myself. Yeah. You gotta have ai another voice in your head.
I Most people have one voice in their head and that voice is ai, we should go get high or we should do this. We just Yeah. You have to have a second voice. And the second voice is like, what advice would I give me? And the advice I give me is like, you’re wasting your time arguing in the shower with someone who doesn’t even they don’t even know you’re arguing with them.
You’re not even there. You’re ai replaying it out in your head sai you could have had a better thing to say to them.
They’re they sai they’re living rent free in your head.
Yes. That’s what it is. Yeah. I don’t allow anybody in my head.
No. I had the second for I do and I’m not religious by any but I’ll say, you know, God get me off track, you know, what should I do, what’s my purpose? Or what can I do in ai, you know? Look, my main purpose in life, besides being, my main purpose is staying sober because if I don’t I’m dead easily in everything I throw away. Okay.
And my family, obviously, you know, and my and my career, you know. All the shit I put about Israel, this and that, that’s that’s ai life is comedy. But I think in life, if you’re not part of the, like I vatsal, solution, you’re part of the problem with what’s going on in this world with in this mainly in this country, the antisemitism in this country.
The antisemitism in this country is weird because it popped up like it was hiding. You ai, after October 7, it popped up like it was hiding. Like, what? Where? Is this been here the whole time? It was weird. And I think there’s a lot of it in, on Twitter and, these places that I think is not human beings and that inspires human beings to get bold.
I think there’s a lot of it that’s bots. There’s a lot of it that’s Ai see these I’ve I’ve like when someone says something outrageous on Twitter, I’ll go to the account and sai, like, what what they’re doing. Uh-huh. And what and sometimes Sai go, oh, this isn’t a person. Like, you you can figure it out after, like, a couple of pages.
Like, this is not an actual person. This is a person that jumps on to every controversial subject and says something insightful. Uh-huh. They do it over and over again. And you see with abortion, you see with immigration, you see with voting, you see with the rigged elections, like, there was an FBI analyst who, took a look at Twitter before the purchase, and he said, I think it’s as much as 80% bots.
I think we’re getting played as a civilization back and forth. I think we’re getting I think so many people are vulnerable to, like, following a narrative.
Well, and and and I I agree. She and I’ve said this, and I believe in free speech. You didn’t I when we talked about this, you didn’t agree with it. But I didn’t agree with free speech? No. No. No.
What I said about the Internet vatsal some people in life use that plat shouldn’t have a platform in life because they’re they’re nuts. They’re nuts. Like, if you had someone in the audience that’s nuts, you’re gonna you’re gonna take them out. You’re gonna get rid of them.
Right. But that’s the the difference between an audience and the Internet is ai don’t have to engage with the nuts.
Okay. But there’s people that are following these nuts. Okay. You take whatever’s going on in The Middle East, whatever Mhmm. Whether whatever side you’re on, Israel, Palestine, whatever. Why are college campuses letting this happen on campus where Jews can’t go to class, where they’re being harassed, where they feel threatened.
Yeah. It’s funded by Qatar or whatever.
But or whatever. Whoever is whoever is doing it, there’s there’s most certainly, there’s funding and organization involved. These aren’t organic protests that just pop
Of course. Everybody wants to think they are because some people join organically. They hop in, but it’s not. No. It’s These
being organized. Of course. Including the anti Elon protests, including, like, you know, the the end oligarchy rallies that they have with AOC and Bernie Sanders. All this shit is getting it’s all getting funded and astroturfed, and they’re bussing people in. They’re manufacturing a movement.
Of course. And Ai mean, listen, They didn’t all go out and buy the same tents.
know, they you know, it’s and there’s I don’t know how many that are getting funded and then they bring in, you know, it’s just like
The tents are crazy. Or just camp out for Palestine. Okay.
It’s it’s it’s just like, you know, I don’t wanna get into the eighties and foreclosures on on farms, you know. Farm aid. Well, the when banks were foreclosing on farms, Jews were going, look, the Jews are foreclosing on our farm, the Jewish bankers, and they weren’t even the bankers doing it.
It was the WASP bankers. Jews barely worked at Chase Manhattan in their early eighties or seventies. So But
But they blame because it’s easy to go after, you know, the sai throughout the Midwest or the South, it’s easier to build up hatred or a group to go after a smaller group going, hey these people are closing on your farms, these are the people that are doing it and these people don’t have the knowledge and the hate just grows and grows from generation to generation. Does that make sense? Sai, you know, same with, you know, the, look, I got shit I printed out. Is, you know, I’ll show it later maybe. I don’t know.
I mean, listen, Ai a comic, but I I really you see what I post sometimes. I post some shah, and it’s not I’m not anti, I’m not anti
to Israel. I’m just pro You’re pro Jew. I’m pro Jew in this country. And I’m not religious by any stretch. I don’t fucking it’s I think it’s a holiday now. It’s Passover or something. I don’t fucking know. I’m not religious. My cousins were. My family wasn’t.
You think about it as a people.
I think about it as yes. As a people, you know, if what was happening in this world to black people or gay people, these colleges would put an end to it. It would stop. Alright? If if people were ripping down posters of of hostages, of black hostages or gay hostages when that was happening, it it wouldn’t happen.
It wouldn’t Yeah. That was crazy. You know? That was crazy where people were upset that people wanted people to bring the hostages home. Like, these hostages, some of them were aid workers. Yeah. Some of them were people that, like, lived there so they could help people in Gaza.
The whole thing is so crazy. But I I wonder, like, how did they get turned that way? Or were they, ai, what I sai, like, they were in ai. There was, like, anti sai, as a person who’s not a Jew, I would hear about all the antisemitism, like, meh, there’s always gonna be some. Yeah.
But maybe everyone’s exaggerating. But then when this after October 7, it was just ai, oh, Jesus. Fuck. Fucking everywhere.
Are you are you what’s your background? Irish? Italian? Italian.
Yeah. Mostly. One quarter Irish.
Okay. If every surrounding country
Oh, I get it. Italy, they’re gonna fight back by any means necessary.
ai you some okay? Now we don’t have to do it. We can talk. I don’t know. I gotta do a little of it. A little. Whatever you want.
I don’t care. Do whatever you want. I’m joking around. But yeah. No. I understand. And I think that’s also one of the things that people like
My wife should keep away. Go ahead.
When people get angry about Jews is because they think that Jews always stick together. And they like Jews above all else, and and then it’s ai, fuck those people. You know, there’s, like, that walled garden approach, you know. If
do you got there? You got a Manila envelope like you’re in fucking court? Look at this. Relax.
I’m sai can’t take care. Charts? Yeah. Well, here’s
Did you bring graphs? What’s that first page? Is that a photo of Israel? What is you got a map? You brought maps?
He brought he brought maps for me. Look at it. Look at it. This is the dumbest shit I’ve ever seen from you.
Look at the dot. Look at the size of Israel. Yeah.
Look at who they’re surrounded by.
Yeah. They’re surrounded by a bunch of, Muslims.
Not a good spot to be if you’re a Jew.
They should’ve probably moved to a different spot. That’s right. They should’ve It’s ai, you know, you know what I mean?
I’ve got other better stuff. I just start off with the weaker stuff. If you’re
you’re a black ai, you move into a KKK neighborhood. That’s like, you’re gonna have you’re gonna have problems.
Wouldn’t you think, by any means necessary, they’re gonna do what they fucking have to do to survive.
Yes. I totally think they would, and I understand that aspect of it. Is that your fault?
Yeah. I gotta turn it off. Sorry. Ai wife I don’t know how she got my number. Meh the car.
It is crazy when you look at the map. The it’s not just that they’re surrounded, but they’re surrounded by everyone. It’s all enormous countries.
the way up. It’s interesting that you go down Saudi Arabia. At the end of it, you forget. Oh, it’s Ethiopia’s right there.
And then, I mean, Turkey hates Israel. Fucking Ai, they’re, you know, they’re being attacked by four or five different nations at once. And everybody’s going, well, you know, they’re they’re committing genocide. First of all, those numbers are coming out of, coming from Hamas.
Where do you think those numbers are coming from?
Okay. But the drone footage isn’t coming from Hamas. The drone footage is real. Like, if you Yeah. Cover, like, Gaza with a drone Yeah. There’s nothing left. It’s pretty nuts.
Well, I I bet you if they release the hostages October tenth, none of this shit woulda happened.
None of this shit woulda happened. During the Clinton administration, Arafat was in the White House probably six or seven times. The the head of the CIA during the Clinton administration visited the White House twice. Arafat, six or seven ai, and they offered a two state solution.
Clinton that that would have been Clinton’s legacy to have peace and a two states. But Arafat kept turning it down because Arafat’s a terrorist. And if he does that, what purpose does he serve? What purpose? As he’s Is it that simple? Well To me it is because I’m not the smartest.
Well, yeah. Part of the problem with Israel and Palestine, and I’ve I’ve sat down and thought about this conflict. Uh-huh. Not that I’m an expert either. But, it’s almost insurmountable. Because it’s been and then now after October 7 with all the bombings and with when they leveled Gaza, it’s ai, how do you fix this?
It’s like there’s no there’s you’ve you’ve created whatever the numbers arya.
Whether it’s 70,000 people or 20,000 people that have been killed that are innocents. You’ve created so many more potential terrorists. Yeah. Because so many of the children of those people and the brothers and sisters and relatives of those people. So it’s ai it’s like reinforced this desire to to fight against Israel. But we You know, and you could squash that.
You could you just keep pounding them down till there’s nothing left, which is what it seems to that they’re doing. But we And I I understand it from a tactical perspective, I guess.
Do we have does do we have that animosity and hatred from Japan towards us where we dropped, you know, killed 350,000 people? We I mean Well, they did for a while.
Yeah. But They certainly did for a long while. Yeah. But now friends would go to Japan in the seventies and they sai you could feel the hatred.
Yeah. But now it’s that’s it’s 55 Yeah.
They’re not like that at all now.
But it’s a totally completely different generation. So you think future generations will think about Israel the same way we think about Japan or Japan thinks about us?
No. Because future, generations in The Middle East, this has been going since day one, since the sai day war
Since the Yom Kippur War, since since day one, they’ve been being attacked. So there’s never no. They Well,
it’s also before Israel was founded. You gotta go back to how they were being persecuted in Europe. It was insane. There’s a this ai, Daryl Cooper, is a lightning rod for controversy, unfortunately, but he’s a he’s got an amazing podcast. He’s got this series called Fear and Loathing in the New Jerusalem.
And it starts out with the Jews being persecuted in in Europe, and he takes you through what it would have been like for those people, and the gangs of people roaming down the streets, raping women, beating men to death in the streets. And it’s so crazy because it’s real. It happened and it was these people’s neighbors and, you know, this was why they got so many people to move to Israel in the first place.
Because when they said, look, we’re setting up a state for for just for Jews ram all these Eastern European Jews are like, okay, we’re in. And they moved I mean, you know, and then yeah.
And they’ve also been there since Christ. I mean, they’ve been in Israel, Jews
think it’s it predates? I mean Doesn’t it predate Jesus?
Yeah. I mean, I I’m not his story and this isn’t my fault.
Let’s find out since we can. What is the earliest who are the what when did Jews first settle the land that’s now known as Israel? What it was Judea back then. Right? Like, what it what was it called? Shah was it initially called?
But also, like, this is ai, you you know, this is one of the reasons why it’s this area is so so contentious is because Christians really believe that when Shah fucking sure?
But here’s here’s another thing too. This and I’m not listen. I’ve worked I’m not gonna be that guy. Oh, I had a Muslim for
There we go. Ai. Jews have been a history in the land of Israel, the presence dating back to the second millennial BCE. Okay. Settling in the area around January. So that’s that predates Jesus by 1,250. It’s funny they call it before current era. Yeah. Like, current era is not 2,000 ago. Just say before Jesus, you motherfuckers.
Second millennial BCE, the Israelites, considered to be the ancestors of the Jewish people, emerged as an outgrowth of the southern Canaanites. Israelites entered Canaan in December, settling the hill country in the South. Tenth century BCE, two Israelite kingdoms, Northern Kingdom Of Israel, and the Southern Kingdom Of Judea emerged of Judah rather emerged.
The Kingdom Of Israel was conquered by the Neo Assyrian Empire in July. And in May, the Kingdom Of Judah was conquered by the Neo Babylonian Empire. Five thirty eight BCE, the purse Persian Cyrus the Great ended the Babylonian exile and the Jews returned to their homeland. So they’ve been they’ve been there since May, started at December. So they were there before anybody. Yeah.
The Romans destroyed the Second Temple Of Jerusalem in 70 current era, leading to the Jewish despora. Wow. Crazy fucking history of controversy in that one place. ’48, state of Israel was established. Many Holocaust survivors welcomed it as a homeland.
Yeah. ’48. And since then, they’ve been at war.
And so they started settling. Another wave of Jews started coming in nineteen o four. From nineteen o four to 1914.
Yeah. But the problem is, like, there were Palestinians there. I’m ai, what are they they don’t even have a country. Let’s you if you’ve got people that are right next to you that don’t even have a country, they don’t they don’t you know, what is it? What do they do if they’re ruled by Hamas? How do they fight back? Right? With these they are protesting in the streets now.
Yeah. They are. They get executed.
Did you just see that? Yes. The big protests. I just saw that.
Thousands and thousands of courageous people protesting in the street. It’s They’re like, we don’t want any more of this. Stop.
Well, look what happened. They got they they, got I mean, Khos of Israel’s help got Assad out of Syria. Now the rebels took over, but Assad killed almost 500,000 of his own people, tortured a hundred thousand. I mean, those are the numbers I read. I don’t know if they’re exact, but he’s gone.
Controversial about Assad sana Syria. There’s a lot of controversial about the controversy, you know Uh-huh. About what actually happened and why we were backing the rebels. Meh essentially we essentially backed ISIS, which is crazy. We backed Al Qaeda, which is just nuts.
He but he was more dangerous in Syria According to than to the meh. According well, also according to Israel because Israel weakened Iran’s military after they were attacked by Ram, who was supplying Assad with weapons. You know
what’s really fucked? Before Iran became a religious state, women were, like, wearing meh. Yes. They were hot. The the it was, like, there was freedom everywhere. People were, like, chilling. It seemed almost like an like Europe.
Probably ai a like a resort vacation. Like, they were beautiful.
Oh, they were gorgeous women. Ai reigned that Persian women have incredible genes. It’s like you you you look at those photos ram, like, see if you can find some photos of Iran, like, early nineteen seventies. I was I was seeing some things on it this morning, actually, on the way over here or before I left meh house.
I was seeing this it’s it’s so hard to imagine that a place that was that had a democratically elected leader, you know, was, you know, it was kind of almost European. And then now now it’s just a full religious state and anybody anybody who protest against the government gets assassinated.
Like, they they they assassinate an Olympic gold medalist wrestler because he was perceived to be protesting. I don’t even know if he actually protest. It was ai some things that you post ai. Like, if women take off their headscarves, they can get killed.
It’s crazy that a a country can fall like that.
I don’t get where gays or women or whatever are backing. They’re basically back backing Hamas.
Yeah. I don’t get They’re retarded.
get it. Because they just do the new thing. What’s the new thing? Is it climate change? Why am I yelling? Climate change? Okay. Climate change. Is this do black lives matter? Okay. Black lives matter. It’s all it is. There’s a lot of people out there that are just retarded.
And those are the people that you see getting bust into these rallies. And there’s just a lot of dopes that you could get to agree with almost anything. And there’s gay people for Ai, believe it or not. Trans people for Hamas.
It’s fucking I know. Blacks for the clan.
It’s hard to tell how many of them are real because there’s a few people that troll online and they’ll pretend shah I’m a, you know, I’m a trans woman, but I’m also a Muslim. Like, okay. They will throw you off a fucking roof.
No roofs left. There’s a couple ai points. It’s just hard to get to them.
It’s here’s and, obviously, as a comic, I believe in a first amendment. I sai shit that you can’t cancel me. Anyhow, I believe and maybe I’m wrong and maybe you disagree. I Ai wanna see your opinion.
Iran for the nineteen seventies. Look. Girls in miniskirts looking hot.
They look that looks like
Europe. Look at this girl sitting in front of a car. Cute little outfit.
She’d be fucking killed doing that now. Yeah.
Look at the beaches in Iran in the nineteen seventies. Isn’t that fucking crazy? No litter. Look at these god.
Look at these tits on that one.
Hot. One lady though, that was the future. The future’s in the lower right corner. Oh. Covered up like Yoda. That’s crazy. It’s crazy. That’s that’s what happened to that place. Like, look at these people hanging out, being free. 1979 is when it all went to shit. And they call it the revolution, but I think it was US back, son.
Okay. What’s your opinion? This is my opinion. Free speak, protest all you want at colleges, protest wherever, but take off the masks.
I don’t need to take off the masks, period. Yes. I don’t believe in a society where people walk around with their faces covered. Well I think there’s it’s too dangerous.
It’s a public safety issue. It’s too hard to identify criminals. It’s too hard to identify someone who who commits a crime.
During the during the Vietnam protest, there was never a mask. Those people were proud to protest against the Vietnam War.
But there also wasn’t facial recognition software and cameras in the sky. It’s like, you know, there’s a lot
of situations. It’s true. But now, they’re hiding and they’re committing to me some crimes on campus. I think
Well, they’re certainly doing a lot of things they shouldn’t be allowed to do ai disrupting classes and screaming at professors and Yes. It’s organized.
Yeah. Yeah. It’s organized and people join in because they just join. They sana be like I said. And there’s there’s there’s a lot of people in this world. There’s leaders and there’s followers. So there’s a lot of followers.
More followers than leaders.
Than leaders in the world. Yeah. So I won’t get off of this because I know it kinda, you know, but I just wanna your map back? No. I have other things in there. I have others other good points in there.
Okay. It is it is a good point though, but it’s like when you have people that are bitter enemies like this, like, these kind of conflicts take thousands of years to work through. And in in the case of Israel, it’s still No.
It is thousands of years old. It’s
look. How they sana win anything through the UN when there’s 2223 Arab countries in the UN and Israel. So everything is gonna be voted against Yeah. Israel. They’re 22, 20 three fucking Arab. Ai I said, just I I can’t solve or whatever. Is it is it unfair? Is it whatever? My concern is what’s going on in this country. That’s my main concern. My daughter’s going to college.
I don’t want her to go to a college where she feels scared to go to class. Right. Where she feels threatened just to be who she is.
Totally go to college in Texas.
Yeah. I know. That’s what she I I wanted to go to it’s sai, you know They have
southern carry on college campuses here.
This is a different place.
It’s it’s a different time.
This is what America, like, is supposed to be in a lot of ways. You know, it’s supposed to be a lot more free. Less law less laws. The and but, you know, there’s a lot of laws here that are kinda crazy. You know? The the abortion thing, the six week thing is most women don’t even know they’re pregnant that quickly.
I I think if a woman If a woman? If a lady a woman okay. Okay. I told you I walked out in eleventh grade. If a lady, I think, does all her chores, I think I think once a week, she should be able to wear slacks. Ai abortion to meh, Ai been it’s not really I think a meh, and may I could be wrong.
If you’re married or you live with your spouse, the male might have, what, 25% of the decision, maybe 30. But some single guy probably never had a girlfriend, never lived with a girl, shut the fuck up. Yeah. Shut the fuck up. You know what?
You just sana be part of something.
Well, people love controlling people though. They really do. Which is why, you know, those climate protests drove me fucking crazy where they would protest for climate change by blocking the highway. Those fucking idiots. Yeah. All they wanna do is control people. That’s what they wanna do. You’re not changing anyone’s ai.
Holding a flag in the middle of the highway. You’re just pissing people off, but you’re controlling people by stopping traffic. And that’s what people like to do. They like to control people.
And they don’t know if somebody’s giving birth or somebody has to get to the hospital or for anything. A %. It’s all self centered. Uh-huh. Fucking, I’m more important than you.
My, you know, throwing paint on somebody with a fur, they should turn around and fucking beat the daylights out of them. Or they these fucking climate people walking into the Rijksmuseum or the Van Gogh and throwing paint on a fucking ai Or gluing yourself to the wall. Yeah.
What the crazy. And then again You
see what they did at the Porsche dealership? They they glued themselves to the floor. In the Porsche dealership, they just shut the lights off and left them in there.
Yeah. Fuck you. They came back the
They glued their hands to the floor, like, that they’re gonna stop everything, and they were like, okay. Good. We’ll just shut the doors. Porsche’s Shut the doors, leave them there to shit themselves.
Good. Porsches are nice cars. Why would they attack Porsches?
They’re only doing it because they know it’ll get attention. That’s all it is. It’s a bunch usually a bunch of very privileged rich kids, white kids, that come from a family that has a lot of wealth and to rebel against their parents or probably fucking investment bankers or something.
They decide they’re gonna fight climate change, man. Oh. And they they don’t even understand what they’re fighting. They don’t understand the science. They don’t. It’s complex.
It’s multilayered and nuanced, and there’s a lot of propaganda that’s attached to what they call the green agenda. Because the green agenda, like all things that are big and public, is profitable. They have a bunch of companies that if they can get these laws push forward, they can have industries that emerge, and their industry can can benefit from all these laws.
And so they’ll they’ll fund protests. They’ll get people to do things. But it’s all four d chess. There’s all these multiple layers of things happening. And then there’s the inconvenient actual climate data that the Washington Post printed that shah that over the last 50,000,000, we’re in a decline.
The Earth is in a cooling period. And the the Earth’s never like, you probably know this, but for people who don’t, there’s never been a static temperature on Earth. It’s always gone up and down wildly. It’s unpredictable. It has multiple multiple factors. Carbon is probably one of them, but it’s not the big one.
It’s not all of it. There’s solar activity that’s you can’t control at all. Solar flares happen and some of them happen. They’ve happened in the early eighteen hundreds. They blew out all the fucking Morse code systems. Uh-huh.
Like, what was ai the there was a big solar flare in the eighteen hundreds that sai if you could find that. We but there’s they could blow out the power grid easy. Kill all the satellites easy. What what carbon is is food for plants. It’s the dumbest fucking thing to protest against. Pollution is a giant issue. Yeah. Do do we have an impact on the weather? I’m sure we do.
We have an impact on fucking everything. But c o two, net zero, all this shit, this is nonsense. Carrington event, Most intense geomagnetic storm recorded history peaking on 01/1859 during a solar it’s so ai cycle tent created strong auroral displays that reported be glow that reported globally and caused sparking and even fires in telegraph stations.
The geomagnetic storm is most likely the result of a coronal mass ejection from the sun colliding with Earth’s magnetosphere. So if we have some of those in the future, it could do anything. Let’s see. A geomagnetic storm of this magnitude occurring today has the potential to cause widespread electrical disruptions, blackouts, and damage to the electrical power grid. We’ve got real problems, real problems.
And you’re not gonna solve it with electric cars. You’re just not. You’re not gonna solve it with windmills.
No. Look, if you drive up to Jersey Turnpike or anywhere and the factories and the lights and and all the smoke and all that sai, just everything. Ai. Me turning off my light bulb is not gonna make a fucking fridge compare.
Particularly when you look at the emissions that come from China. Yes. China is an enormous, enormous contributor to, carbon emissions. And not just carbon emissions, but pollutants, particulates. They’re not stopping. They they they built 200 new coal plants. You know, they they’re not gonna stop.
No matter what we do, they’re gonna do what’s best for China financially, period. End of discussion. All these conversations they’re having about net zero. Go fuck yourself. You’re not gonna stop that.
Okay. And and this is what they’re looking out for their best interest. That’s what they’re doing. Just like every other fucking country is is basically doing is survival. And that’s my point with Israel. They’re looking out for what’s gonna keep us from being extinguished off this fucking planet.
And, you know, whatever it takes. That’s what the Jews and I’m getting back on this because you lost me on all that shit. But, what the Jews need is a Malcolm X of Jews. Oh, boy. Somebody look, Malcolm X was great. He didn’t say hate he didn’t say go after the white man. He said do what we have to do.
Why don’t you do that? Why don’t you be the Malcolm X for the Jews? I’m Maybe that’s your calling. My vocabulary.
It’s you know what I mean?
There’s no way to tighten that up a little bit?
We could a little a little with Bonnie’s help. I fired my manager two weeks ago and I had her write it out for me because I knew I would have said something fucked up
and mean. Oh, that’s smart. You
know? And and another thing, I go, hey listen, you know, seven years, it’s ai to move on and I hope we can still be friends. And he went, definitely. Not like, are you sure? Maybe we could work this out. It’s like when you fucking leave a girl. She was
Okay. Wait. Woah. Come on. I I added something to fight for me. Nope. So nope. Sai, yeah, I would love to speak in colleges or or or maybe that’s tonight. Ai tonight.
Let it cool down. Let it cool you. Right. Give it a year or so. Give it a year.
I Ai probably wouldn’t be able to get to the auditorium.
Trump said the wildest shit about Gaza. We’re gonna turn into the Meh, the Middle East. Yeah. Like, what? We’re gonna take it.
But he keeps saying and I I don’t follow, you know, if you don’t release the hostages, there’s hell to pay. Well, what what has hell what has he done, to help release the hostages? I meh, what now they’re being attacked by fucking Yemen through the who you know, I mean, what I don’t know.
Release the fucking hostages and then maybe How many
What is it? 70 or I don’t know because they keep dropping it, you know, four hostages for a thousand prisoners or whatever, you know. I mean Is that
Whatever. It’s a trade off. How many prisoners they gotta give them for a hostage. And, you know, these this would have never went on in this we would not have put up for I mean, we did with Carter with, the the Yeah. 200 they were there for what? Two years
or two years. Them there until Reagan was in office. Yeah. They kept them there until after the election. That was part of the deal. Yeah. Part of the deal was you you release these folks after Reagan takes over so that Carter can’t get credit for it. Yeah. I’m sure.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. That was written. That was Which imagine you’re a
fucking you’re in there and you’re ai, Jesus Christ. I sana be in here for four more months ram so this guy gets bryden. Just fucking crazy.
Well, did you hear I didn’t see it. I only read what these reporters and journalists, what she said on sixty minutes. Do you think the hostages didn’t feed you because they ran out of food?
Oh, that Hamas didn’t feed the hostages?
Yeah. Leslie Stahl said said that in an interview. Did she
In an interview, look it up. She said that to one of the hostages. Do you think they didn’t and don’t quote me because this is what I read. I don’t sana get sued by Leslie, whoever. But I think she said what I read, do you think the, the captors didn’t feed you because they ran out of food?
That’s a crazy thing to say to someone who’s a hostage.
On fucking sixty minutes, a journal. How do you say something like that?
That’s a crazy thing to ai. But they’re bad. The the problem with these sixty minutes journalists is the same problem with what they did with the Kamala Harris interview where they took a bumbling answer and edited it out and put an answer to shah gave to something else in its place to make it look like she gave succinct clear cut answers.
It’s it’s that’s not really journalism. They’re not No. They’re not doing journal. That’s not a question you say to a hostage. You you Yeah.
When you’re talking to a hostage, you want to find out what the experience was like in in as compassionate a way as you can to talk to this person who’s been through hell. You you don’t ask them, do you ever think that maybe they didn’t fit you because they didn’t have any food themselves? Well, here you go.
Look at what their face looks like and look at those sunken in faces of the starving to death hostages. And well, obviously, they didn’t they didn’t give them any food. So
Shut up. It’s you can’t watch the news. You can’t because you’re gonna go
No. It’s not. It’s clickbait and it’s fucking
It’s a business and it’s a shitty business. It’s not good at doing what it does and it’s all bought and paid for by pharmaceutical drug ads and it’s just not the news. It’s not. You get some information that you can learn, but it’s not ai the ai, this is what happened, this is what caused it, this is what’s being done now.
It’s not that. It’s ai halfway, they’re they’re kind of almost activists.
I I had an argument with somebody close to me because I go on gut felt. I try to go on once a month ai I sai, and and she says, oh, oh, you’re you’re pro Trump. I go, I’m not pro anything or anti anything. I go I go on. Where else is a comic gonna sit for an hour? Ai to be funny.
Yeah. On TV for an hour. There’s not much left. There’s not. And it’s definitely not gonna be on the left because they’re not gonna let me say the things that I get away Yeah. On the Gutfeld show. And it’s a great show. I mean, it’s if you say something funny, they laugh. It’s, to me, the closest to tough crowd.
I see what you’re saying. And Not quite, but I know
Not quite, but it’s I mean, it’s fun. And and and it gets whatever views. And I said to this person, you work with the pharmaceutical companies for thirty years, and you’re gonna tell meh Did
Yeah. And you’re gonna go on your high horse about me doing a show that’s gonna help my career and build numbers, and well, it’s not the same. No. It’s worse. It’s way worse.
way worse. It’s way worse.
The pharmaceutical drug companies are responsible for who knows how many deaths and injuries. Yeah. It’s Yeah. They do good too. Yeah. Absolutely. Some pharmaceutical drugs are great, but you can’t be on your high horse. You work for them. That’s crazy. In any other business, they’d be in jail.
be in fucking jail. Jail.
They lied about what your product does and it kills a bunch of people. You’re in jail.
Can we talk about one of the reasons I’m here? I don’t know if you remember this. I hope you do.
had this torn rotator cuff. Mhmm. And you sai, come down.
Yeah. We sana get you some stem cells.
Now what’s the b the BPC? BPC one five seven. Is that bed which is better for it? The stem cells or the BPC?
There’s no one better. They’re all very good. BPC one five seven is it’s called body protection compound one five seven. Uh-huh. It’s a peptide that helps heal soft tissue damage. Sai do stem cells. All all those different things are good.
Because I’m not getting my shoulders operated on. It’s ai a six month
And it doesn’t always work.
So what exactly is wrong with your shoulder?
Well, this is a torn rotator cuff right here. I have I even brought the disc, the x-ray.
Oh, great. Do you did you do any exercises for it? You do any rehabs for it?
Not yet because I was waiting to do this to see where this took me Oh, okay. And then how I I would go from there. But You know what I ai?
Sai are always good, like bands, like band work, where you do these ai of things where you, like, you keep your you keep, like, a towel pressed to your body sai you’re holding in place and do these, like, rotations with bands. Like, all those things are good just to keep everything strong anyway. Do you do any of that stuff?
Not those yet. I haven’t I try ai from
a chin up arya ever do this?
Like No. For a torn rotator?
Yeah. Just to strengthen and and to to release some pressure in your shoulders.
Oh, really? Yeah. No. I couldn’t.
It’s good for shoulder health in general to hang from a chin up bar. If you can’t hang, what you do is, like, get on a box or something that brings you to the height of the bar Yeah. And just hang a little. Just get some weight on it until you can hang fully.
I mean, look, I can Ai can still play golf? I could swing like this.
That’s good. Sai there’s not totally fucked. Okay.
When I went to the doctor There’s a
lot of things you can do, rehabilitation things you could do that’ll help you.
Here’s here’s the only thing, and I could be wrong, you’ll you’ll know. When they said, you know, rehab to build up the muscle, But I’m sixty seven. How much more muscle am I building? If you’re
a hundred and sixty seven, you could build muscle. That’s Yes. That’s a silly way to look
at it. Oh, really? Ai okay.
100%, if you’re alive Yes. And that means your body’s recovering Yeah. So that means your body’s generating tissue. That means you could build muscle. Okay? If you can go play golf, you could build muscle. Yes. 1100%. If you’re 80 years old and a woman, you could build muscle.
I mean, I I work out still. I just certain exercises I can’t do.
Yeah. Just you need to do exercises that rehabilitate your shoulder.
You you can’t just expect it to get better on its own. You’re gonna have to put it through some work to strengthen the muscles around it.
Well, I’m gonna like I said, after I do this
When are you leaving? When are
you flying out? Wednesday.
Okay. Great. So we’ll get you in tomorrow morning. No worries. Cool. Get you into waist well, and we’ll set it up.
Did I bring the shah to a dead halt with my map? No. I thought it was a good conversation.
Yeah. It’s good. It’s a good map.
You ai, I got more stuff. I didn’t ai imagine. Listen, I printed out a bunch of stuff. I don’t wanna go back and have my fucking dumb Jew friends going, hey, you didn’t bring anything up.
Is that what they do? Yes. Alright. Well ai talking to them.
Then then my wife, don’t say anything stupid.
she said? Yeah. She goes shah goes
You know, be funny. That’s what you’re accounting. I’m
I was I was pretty funny. I gotta say, ai. I’m I’m a good interview.
You’re fine. You’re doing fine.
You know what I you know what our our our the best not your best. What a great show would be?
Me, Colin, and Norton in here. Oh, that’d be phenomenal.
That’d be phenomenal. Just like
You probably couldn’t do it today unless you did it on the Internet, but you could still do it on the Internet. Like, Colin should really bring it back.
There’s plenty of guys that could still do it. Like, Norton would be fucking phenomenal at it.
We just did Norton’s podcast. Me, Colin, and Norton, whatever podcast, he’s got 12 of them, him. And it was one of the most funniest things when it comes out you’ll ever hear. Us three together is like a It’s like
You get back in the old groove again, you know?
Yeah. Because we’re just there to have fun.
Yeah. Tough crowd and Opie and Anthony were huge for comedy. Huge. They because Opie and Anthony, one of the things that they did that was brilliant is they just let us just go wild. Just be ourselves. They didn’t really try to control it at all. You know, Anthony would jump in with some funny shit, but the the whole show was, like, bring on a bunch of comics, have them talk a bunch of shit, give them give them the reins.
We I mean, I could I was in there one day. Anthony was eating a piece of cake. I walked by him and smacked it out of his hand. He he he laughed as hard as anybody on the planet because Yeah. The times we had in there. I was on there with, Were
you with me when they brought in Meh Barry? Were you No.
You weren’t there? You weren’t there? Marion Barry?
Marion Barry, the fucking the The mayor. The mayor of Ai, DC. They got arrested for smoking crack.
No. You were in there with him? Yes. Oh, ai had to be We grabbed him.
We grabbed him. I thought you were in there. Norton was in there for sure. He was next door doing something and doing another interview, and he was in the hallway. And I think Opie said, Meh Barry’s in the hallway right now. I’m like, let’s go get him. And we got ai, we brought him in, and we arya I started asking him about crack.
He’s like, well, nobody knows what was in that pipe. I’m like, well, you know.
You know. You fucking know.
What were you smoking that wasn’t crack? That’s almost crazier.
You know? Yeah. Oh, really? You smoked tobacco out of a glass pipe.
One of my favorites is when he was running for reelection, which he eventually won after he got out of jail. They asked these people, do you have a problem with the fact that the mayor used to smoke crack? They interviewed this guy in the street. He goes, oh, everybody smoke a little crack every now and then.
this conversation’s over. This conversation’s over.
It’s it’s Ai remember the times and I was in there one ai, Pete Rose, Bobby Kelly, Ricky Gervais. Right? And fucking Pete Rose called meh. He goes, you look like some rat face soccer player. Whatever he said, it was very funny. Whatever Pete Rose sai, it was very fucking funny.
So I walk over to Bobby, then I walk past Bobby, and I walk past Pete Rose, and I sit down. And Pete Rose says, why you out of breath? I go, because I had to walk around you two, you fat fucks. Ai? But and so this but you could say anything you wanted on that show
Yeah. And it didn’t it Yeah. Because I never went on it until it went to XM. You know, I was never on it with they were on terrestrial radio. When they got they got kicked off XM. And when they’re on XM, it was wild. They were it was ai the first time. It’s ai there was Howard, when Howard got on XM or Sirius, I guess Yeah. First before they merged. And then the ONA shah was on Ai.
Like, this is fucking this is crazy. This is ai what rate this is basically green ram talk. Green room talk for the whole world.
Well, okay. So I brought Patrice into ONA.
Yeah. I brought him in. Wow. He fucking smashed me the day I walked him in. Because we went through the back, we went through this way, that he goes, what do you think this is good, fellas? You walked me through the back, you couldn’t take me through the front ai. So he became a fixture on
Sai one day we’re in fucking Sana and I’m driving this little Porsche Boxster, he’s driving this big Escalade because you know he’s a fucking ai molester and he’s in this. So he’s saying he’s trashing one of my Rolexes going, you’re a fucking selfish douchebag driving a Porsche to me going, yeah, so you can’t have people you know, and I’m not thinking, well, maybe if you didn’t eat fucking pound cake or whatever, you wouldn’t eat a big sai.
But he’s beat me down bad. I mean, fucking killing me. I’m speechless. Right? Speechless. He’s fucking just pounding me. And I I walk out of ai. Fuck.
So the next day or two days later, I go online, and he’s trashing my car. Sai looked at the price of my car, new, and the price of his car. And I send it to him. I go, look, my shitty car costs more than your car, new. And he calls meh. He goes, you’re still thinking about this? He goes, really?
You’re thinking about it right now.
to this day, you’re arguing with him.
No. I’m not I should’ve. He we would I would drive him home. One ai, I was driving him back to Jersey City. And, like, I had to go to the bathroom, and we’re walking up to his house. And he says, oh, meh. I don’t have a manager, an agent. Nothing’s going on. I go, I can’t get work. I don’t have an agent either. Nothing. And we just both started cracking up and walking. It was the funniest thing.
We fuck it. I can’t we were we were reading for the head of a sitcom for ABC, me and Patrice. We were gonna be the leads of this sitcom. So we go into the head of casting at Marcy Phillips, and he doesn’t wanna be there, and I can’t act. Sai, basically, I’m not a good any at the time. So he won’t take his face out of the fucking copy.
And I’m trying to read with him the scene, and he won’t look at meh. And Marcy Phillips is yelling at me going, what are you doing? I go, this fucking guy won’t connect with me. How can I act with somebody ai won’t look at me? And she goes, can you two please leave?
We laughed all the way down the hallway. We laughed. We just got kicked out of an audition as the leads of sitcom, and we just cracked up all the way. Because it just to us was the funniest. Well, also Being funny in the moment.
The idea of you getting a sitcom was so unlikely. Yes. It was always also unlikely that when it failed, like, if you sana an audition and it fucked up, they’re like, Yeah. It wasn’t gonna happen anyway. You never thought this is going to be it.
Yeah. Never once. No. Never. Never. I walked out of I walked out of an audition once. I just got back from Aspen. I had a lot of heat in Aspen, but I this is when my anxiety I have I’ve had anxiety my whole life. ’21, I was hospitalized for anxiety when I was and they didn’t know what it was.
They thought you were just nuts and gave you Thorazine and Haldol and you shuffled around like a crazy man. This is
So explain to me what it feels like. What what is this anxiety like that you Well,
now when I had it in the hospital. When I had a bed, well, I felt so disconnected that even when I talked it felt felt like an echo almost. Like I was outside of myself.
Like if I look in the mirror Ai going who am I looking at? It was just so so disconnected.
Yeah, 21. Wow. Smoking pot and stuff.
Well, some of it was probably where am I going in life? Yeah. Am I doing
And I’m getting high. Which is like, oh.
You know? Because you’re freaking out and you get high. Yeah.
Because you said you have to go to the bathroom. You were talking about your story then. Okay. Oh. Because I was, like, preparing to, like, cut it off and let you go to the bathroom. No.
No. No. This is the best day of my life.
I, except for the fucking map. That’s great.
The map turned out great.
It turned out like a little conversation. I ai, you know Sure. I had to talk fucking listen. Oh, thank God it’s Monday. Thursday, the Thursday ones are so much better. I’m Monday. So, my anxiety, Wait, what was what did it feel like or what?
Yeah. What was ai when you sai it overwhelmed you to the point you had to go
I was just I didn’t know what was going on. It turned into panic or whatever. Right. Like, I was so fucked up. My friends, you know Sai was going, I was selling meat and seafood out of a car, out of a truck, some businesses back then. I went and just therapist, I go, help me Ai give you some free steaks and seafood and I was just out of my fucking mind.
And I get anxiety talking about it, it really gives you a little anxiety. So my friends go, let’s take him to Florida, he needs a vacation. We drove to Florida, I was there for a day, I sai, I gotta get the fuck out of here. Take me home. And we drove there and drove back.
Then I checked into the hospital, the Fifth Floor basically for fucking cuckoos. Because they really didn’t know what anxiety was back then. They
Isn’t that crazy? Because that’s not that long ago in human history.
Well, I mean, it was forty something years ago.
But ain’t it nuts just like in the last forty years, How much they’ve
ai? Well, yeah. But also too, it’s easier to say he that person’s nuts. Give him Thorazine, Hald, whatever.
Antipsychotic drugs arya and and I swear to God, you know, my day was and then I shuffle Ai would shuffle around the the floor with this girl. We just meh and this one girl. We shuffled. My friends came up to see me and I’m like, I can’t see you today. We’re going for a walk.
You know, I was like one fluid of cougar. I was fucking out of my mind. So
That could have been you for the rest of your life. Oh, Jesus.
Sai, I know. Well, because I did do acid in my day, and people sometimes do that shit and never come back. Never come back. And I saw that on Dragnet. Sai,
Stern’s talked about that. He did a big dose of acid once, and he was fucked up for a long time. It’ll fuck you up. There’s a guy from Pink Floyd that disappeared. Oh, I
hope it’s fucking Roger Waters. No. It’s not
how dare you. How dare Ai? How dare you. Vatsal the what’s his name again? Ai on you crazy crazy diamond?
Oh, you mean meh did ass and
just Yeah. It’s not just one person. There’s been a lot of people that had an acid trip and just nibbed Yeah.
My my brother did it when we were doing he was really young. He was having a bad trip, and I had to babysit him the whole day.
Yeah. It’s fucking scary. Yeah. That it that’s it. David Gilmore. So Written by David Gilmore. But it’s not it’s about who was it about? Sai Barrett. That’s right. Sid Barrett did acid, went crazy. Sai, right there. Departed from the ban in 1968 after dealing with the mental health problems and substance abuse.
The story is he never came back.
It’s crazy. How how that’s the most that drug is so uncontrollable.
Well, also, you ai, what’s the dose of an effective dose is a droplet on your tongue, which is crazy.
Well, we were doing bladder or or window pane, four way window pane. Who’s making that?
They’re not making in the same labs or they’re making Tylenol, you know. They make it in some fucking basement.
Some got the old basement. Also, oh, too much goes into that ram. Sai, I got out of the hospital and for years, oh, I don’t know however long it took, it passed. Mhmm. Life started getting better, whatever. Okay. Then and I would get anxiety, it would come and go. But back then, Ai didn’t know what it was. It turned into panic.
And sai then when I was 40, I would watch my kids. After I got divorced, I would have my kids every day. I would work nights and I watch my, I ai, four and six year old. My wife would either drop them off or I would pick them up then drop them off. I would have them in a daze. My day was my kids. Whatever.
Go to the park. Do this. Do that. Just watch my kid. Mhmm. So then they went off to school full time, you know, nursery, first bryden.
So now I’m at 40 years old, living in some fucking Third Floor apartment, divorced from my first wife, bouncing off of fucking walls again. Ai mean, fucking 40 years old. No. Just I’m I’m going I gotta quit comedy. I gotta go into the psych ward. I’m fucked up. This is fucked up.
So I found this therapist who was also and I was already sober. I found this therapist that was in recovery, and he basically brought me back, you know, some medication through his partner who was a psychiatrist. He was a therapist. Great. I could talk, I could say anything to him, whatever, you know. And then it just got better.
And then I realized and worked knowing whatever anxiety I feel, it’ll pass. Nothing lasts forever. It’ll pass. Like, I had a little anxiety for the last week thinking about this. I go, what, you know Really?
A little bit because and we’re friends and I’ve done podcasts sana what Bonnie goes, shut up and be funny. Be whatever. You know, a million things went through my fucking head. Because Sai mean, shah, you’ve had fucking Trump on, Elon Musk, you know what I mean? And and that’s my low self esteem because of course Ai should be doing everything in my mind. Do you see what I’m saying? Does that make sense?
But even when I did tough crowd, I was on 30 times. Every episode, I had anxiety till it started. Every special or everything I’ve ever done, anxiety for the first, second, I walk out, boom, gone. Ai? It’s just Well,
that’s because you care. I mean, you’re what you’re calling anxiety is just nerves. Yeah. Let’s see. Whenever there’s if you’re doing something that’s difficult, there’s something that’s important to you, you’re gonna have nerves. That’s normal. It’s healthy. That’s that shows you’re challenging yourself, which is Yeah. One of the most important things you you can do in life to to stay vibrant.
You know, you have to challenge yourself.
When I did the Trump when we roasted Trump, this was a ai roast. Right? It wasn’t it’s when they broke away from commie central. Right? They broke away. So it’s at Hilton in New York, two thousand people. Anybody that meant anything in New York ram club owners, agents, managers, celebrities, they were all there.
So the first act goes up, this ai, Stewie Stone, old time Vatsal comp. He kills like no one I’ve ever seen kill on a roast. Fuck you Ram, fuck your casinos, fuck you, fuck them. Just fucking slaughtered, right? And I’m sitting on the dais, I’m sitting next to Isaac Hayes, Opie and Anthony are there, my father, his wife Bonnie before I married her, and and he I go, I’m gonna end my career.
I go, I’m gonna end my career here. Okay? Then Susie Essman goes up, slaughters, slaughters. I guess Amorose wrote her some funny jokes, and she and she’s great at roast. And I was ready to sneak off the fucking just leave.
I go, it might be better if I leave than go up. Well, then bells are went up. So Took a
little wind out of the room.
Took a little, you know. Yeah. So Regis Philman was the host. It was three weeks after Ronnie Dangerfield died. Three weeks. They introduced me. I go big hand for Regis. Originally, they asked Rodney to host, but he said he’d rather be dead. Three weeks. Right? Zero. Almost zero. Ai.
Ai. But I got him back. I go, don’t fuck with meh. I’ll bring Belzer back. Right? Ai had and then Al Sharpton was sitting on the dais. I can’t believe I said this, but back then it was okay. He wasn’t roasting, but he was on the dais. And that’s when he was running for president.
And I sai, the only way you’ll get on the White House property is with a lantern in your hand. I said to him, so fuck him. I didn’t care. And then I got him back. Three of the jokes that I said were the ones that were printed in this in in the newspapers.
You know, the one I did, I go Ram the reason Trump puts his names on his buildings is so the banks know which ones to take back, and that was twenty years ago. But it was the most terrifying moment. One, next to doing Dev Ram as the first white guy, was one of the most terrifying moments in my I mean, I’m going I’m gonna end my career.
But Dev Jam, you know, Def Jam was on for five years. The number one show on HBO. I go, okay. We’re gonna use a white guy. It’s me. Right?
So now I got white comics. You better be funny.
I have black White comics are saying that to you?
Like, you represent us? Yeah. Really? Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. They were saying Which ones?
I I wanna know what you mean. Twenty seven twenty years ago. The white comics that were doing black rooms back then.
You know what I mean? Then it was black comics mad that I’m doing it and they’re not. You know what I mean? So they’re taping in New York every ai nights. This is funny. Five nights.
Was that when they were filming in Harlem?
It was it could’ve I don’t know. It was in New York ai nights at some theater.
And it was the year I did it the fifth year when they had a different guest host every night. Like Martin Lawrence wasn’t one night one show Chris Rock, Chappelle, Jamie Foxx, and, Steve, what’s his name? Harvey. Harvey was my host. You know, so I’m going every night. I mean, I waited one night and it was just so funny. Ai, Ai Guy Tory would come out and do the warm up.
And he would say, listen, this is not the Apollo. There’s no fucking booing here. This is HBO. We don’t boo. Right?
This is this is a whole another level that we don’t sana hear any booing. So this comic comes out, he walks out, and with a black audience, if you’re wearing the wrong sneakers, you’re in trouble. Believe me, I used to do a lot of these, you know, he comes out ai Reeboks. He’s wearing an all gold sai.
And his first joke in New York is, I just sana say I’m not from New York, I’m from Canada. Right? Oh, no. He’s bombing so bad. And when a black audience can’t boo you, all you heard in the room was
Ai was brutal. So Ai on now they’re taped five nights, two shows a night. I’m on the last night, second show, and I go second to last. Now, all the comics that were still in town that were the celebrity hosts, all the were at the taping. I’m going, this is one of the scariest moments of my life.
I mean, you know, no white guy, Steve Harvey brings me out, he goes, woah, our next act is something we haven’t seen or speak, whatever. And Russell made me wear his clothing. I got Fat Farm on and these baggy pants, you know. And I look back on it, because it was twenty five years, it would be different. I was I pandered a lot to some extent, you know what I mean?
I did grow up in that neighborhood.
But I’m out like this, you know, you know. Right. And it it worked out, luckily. But Ai look back and go, I would never do that now from twenty five years ago, the pandering and and, you know, just just, you know, talking like I’m fucking from the hood and shit, you know. And I had a good set, it worked out, but it was the second scariest moment in my career.
But listen to what you just said. Both scariest moments of your career worked out great. Yes. They always yeah. So wouldn’t that eventually build some confidence?
Oh, I have confidence. Okay.
It doesn’t sound like it.
Oh, no. I’m just telling you scary moments. Listen, you you you always gotta question yourself Right. In this business because you sana get better. You wanna you just I don’t know. I question myself. I go, I have not again, not a ego. I have a reputation to live up to. Okay.
Of of the stuff I’ve done in this business.
So I I come out and people are going, look, Bobby Bobby and Keith were at the cellar one night. I go, I got a spot at the underground. They go, we’re gonna come over and watch you bomb.
Keith and Bobby. Right? So sai Nikki’s Nikki Glaser’s on. Killin’, killin’. Not the cleanest, but funny. I don’t give a fuck what somebody is. She’s funny and she was killing. So I went on and my first two jokes, I I I had they killed. And I go, sai, Bobby, see, Keith, I can follow anybody. Right?
Well, then Ai didn’t know this. They went into the back corners of the ram, and after every joke, they would go, oh, oh, oh. And ai had the whole audience turn on me going, what’s going on? I would say a joke that might have been a little edgier, and they would go, oh, real loud.
And so the whole audience is going, what’s this guy doing up there? They’re groaning. One table goes, what’s going on here? And I’m fucking bombing now because these two fucking jamokes are in the back ram going, oh ai god. It’s so fucking funny, Bobby and Keith.
Well, that was the culture. The culture of comedy goes is ai constant busting balls. Constant busting balls.
We somebody would go on stage and we would all go downstairs and sit in ai the front row and watch.
That is the there’s nothing worse you could do for a comic than your friends sai in the front row and stare at you. You’re ai, what are you doing, man?
When when Kevin Hart was leaving New York to go to fucking LA, he threw himself a little go away fucking show at Boston Comedy Club. You remember Boston Comedy Club? Sure. So he’s on stage pontificating, doing whatever. And I don’t know why, but me, Keith, and Patrice were in the back of the ram, and there was ai 10 phone books back there.
And he’s up and we started throwing phone books at them. Phone books? Yeah. They were just in the club from I guess they were delivered there, all these phone and we’re throwing phone books at Kevin Hart. And he sai, on interviews, he goes, I knew I was accepted when they were throwing phone books at me. I knew I was part of the crew, you know.
But we were just heaving phone books out of, like, fucking three assholes in the back of the woods room, I mean. And we would just it was just fun. It was probably the most fun I’ve had in comedy when we would just stand out, me, Patrice, Keith, and Norton tyler three and four in the morning in front of Boston just trashing each other.
Just talking shit. Yeah. Just
you can’t replicate that. It can’t happen again. It was just so funny. Keith is, he’s fun if you see him around, you know, or or Norton or Bobby, but it was so much fun.
I heard Keith is killing it now. Even with his strokes. He’s special. We were at
the taping. The fact that he didn’t win an Emmy, it’s it was so fucking good, his special. He painted a picture when he was talk you could see everything he was saying. Mhmm. Him in the hospital, him with a stroke, and it was so good. We walked I walked out of here going, this is the best thing I’ve ever seen. It was so good. Wow. He was so good, you know.
why he didn’t I mean, it’s
Who gives a fuck about that?
Yeah. Who you’re like everybody knows how good it was.
All those fucking awards award shows for art to me are some of the most ridiculous things. Yeah.
It was high really? How many fucking albums oh, I don’t even wanna say her name, but they they don’t know. They don’t know fucking
You’re right. It doesn’t.
It’s just a industry way that they can celebrate each other, and then they put on a shah, and the show generates money, and they make a bunch of money from the show, and then it becomes a thing they hold over your head. Maybe you can win a Grammy, maybe you can win an Emmy, maybe you can win this. You gotta be a part of the club.
Like, look what happened to Chris. He wanted to be a part of that group doing the Oscars, and they get smacked by Will Smith. They don’t arrest him. And then ten minutes later or whatever it was, Will Smith’s on stage is receiving the Academy Award and they give him a standing ovation. So it’s fucking insanity.
That just that is Hollywood. That that shows you what these people arya want their love and their respect is pointless. Sai true. They don’t even know what they like. They like whatever everybody everybody tells them to like.
They don’t understand what their support they don’t they it’s just a bunch of people wanting to be a part of the group that’s the in group. Like, what do we have to do? What do I have to say? What do I have to agree with? That’s all it is.
Years ago, and it’s true, if that was Chappelle, he wouldn’t have smacked Chappelle because Chappelle’s a little cut, a little bigger.
Well, Ai don’t know. The whole thing was crazy.
One move. He has one move. Now, everybody remembers nothing but that forever. Oh, what? Fuck Ai Ram Legend. Fuck Ali. All those different things he did that were awesome. Nobody cares anymore. He’s ai, that’s the guy that’s Yeah. But you’re Every way day he’s gonna wake up in the morning and go, fuck. That one thing. Fuck.
If he hadn’t done that, if he just ate it and by the way, not even bad jokes.
the GI Jane, like, that’s the most fucking that was a powerful movie. It was a great movie. Yeah. A strong woman. Like, it’s not even an really an insult. It was just silly to smack a guy like that, and then that’s your thing forever. People are gonna remember that?
Yeah. Crazy blunders, you know. And that probably comes from not having anxiety, by the way. That comes from having too much confidence.
Too much. Yeah. Too too much of a belief in yourself. Too much of a
Yes. And your own importance that you can interrupt this entire enormous award show, the biggest award show in the industry. That you’re set up to receive a fucking Academy Award ai about an hour or whatever it was. You’re you’re gonna go up there and smack a guy on TV? Why would you do that? Because he doesn’t have that anxiety.
So your anxiety shields you from doing
The fear and the, like, the insecurity ai is good. Sometimes it’s good for you. Keep you like, the lack of insecurity could be the worst thing.
If you’re too cocky Yeah. It’s yeah. They say be humble. Be humble, you know. And I thought Chris handled it as well. Let’s see. What what’s he what
can he do? What can he do? What can he do other than Yeah. Run off the stage? Yeah. Which he probably should have just walked off after he got smacked. Because Ai to keep going.
Yeah. He’s I worked with him on both Oscars he hosted, and he is the nicest bryden the planet. If you I guess if you’re I don’t know. Just from working with him, you know?
nice guy. He’s a nice guy. Also he’s harmless.
Like, he’s he’s smack a harmless person. That’s crazy.
Yes. Ai tell you what. If that was Tony, there would have been a fight. If that was Tony Rock, there would have been a ai. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Tony?
Yeah. Well, Tony went off on on stage, like, right afterwards about it. Yeah. Tony’s a different dude. But Chris, like, is
like, almost if it was anybody
but Chris, you know? I mean, you can’t do that to anybody else. It’s crazy. If you did it to Kevin Hart, Kevin Hart would crack him. The whole thing is crazy. It was crazy. It didn’t make any sense. It’s like the guy’s in some sort of a very bizarre relationship with his wife.
And, you know, whatever internal conflicts they have just manifested itself in a terrible decision that he made.
If if he would’ve if he would’ve said that about my wife, I would’ve smacked her and said laugh. Yeah. Don’t laugh.
What’s funny? It’s funny. It’s funny. Come on.
But, you know, not being able to take a joke is one of the worst qualities that people can have.
Do you not want do you take yourself so seriously when someone says something funny, you can’t laugh as well? That’s crazy. You’re missing out on laughs. You’re missing out on you arya your your own joy. Like, you should have joy about someone making fun of you, and you’re great at that. Yeah.
It’s one of the best things about you on ONA is that when they would crack on you, you would laugh.
Yes. Just it’s so important. Good jokes. Yeah. They were funny. They were on time. Yeah. And if I was at times lucky enough to come back with something, then I would. If not, then I sucked it. The last time Sai did Kill Tony a couple weeks ago, and I told a joke. And Tony goes, that’s the oldest joke in history. And I go, yeah.
I wrote it. Right? So okay. So shut the fuck up. But it was going it was a great episode because he fucked with me and I took it.
Well, Kill Tony is one of the only places left where that kind of fucking with people is, like, openly encouraged. Yeah. That that kind of fucking with people is, like, I mean and Tony’s the best roaster on the fucking planet.
He’s quick. He’s an He’s like a Norton.
He’s so quick. You think he yeah. Just like Norton. He’s so quick. You think he wrote it in advance. Yeah. He’s And it’s off the cuff. He does it all the time. He does it in the green room. He does it everywhere he goes.
Well, but here’s the thing too. He’s done that show for, what, ten years or more? Yes. He’s built that muscle Mhmm. In his head where boom.
Wait. It it it’s automatic. Mhmm. There’s something that’s gonna come back.
Well, when you host a show like that too, you understand the rhythm of the show, the beats of it. Yeah. You know, like and he’s so good at letting other people ai, you know, that’s what Yeah. He’s really good at, like, he wants you to do well. He wants he doesn’t feel upstaged if Shane comes on as Trump or when Kyle was doing. Kyle did RFK Junior and he also did Elon Musk. And then Who?
Kyle Dunnigan? Yes. Yeah. He’s so good.
He’s so funny. He is so fucking funny. Yeah. And then you had Adam Ai who did doctor Phil, which is fucking amazing, and Biden. It’s crazy. I did Show’s so good.
I did kill Tony twice with Adam Wray, and he he’s fun to be with. One, they love him. Yeah. They love him. But he laughs and gives you your due too. Like Yeah. I’ve done radio with Gervais. Gervais is a big laugher. If you say something funny
He’ll laugh and crack up. You know what I mean? And you gotta have that. Even it’s just if it’s funny, you know, they don’t they don’t get jealous or get mad and go, I’m gonna outdo that. They laugh and Well, the people that
do suck. No one no one does that is any good.
No one who does that is any good. No one is ai, oh, Sai gotta get I gotta do better than him. Yeah. It’s stupid. You’re missing out on the whole thing.
Like, that’s not what we’re doing. It’s a show. It’s a show. It’s it’s whatever. Hey.
I got a piss. Let’s come back. We’ll come right back.
So I heard You heard the stem cell, I can’t do stuff for a couple weeks.
Golf? Yeah. For sure. With the stem cell? Yes. Of course. If it gets shot into me, Wednesday what’s tomorrow? Tuesday. Tuesday. Yes. I could play golf Thursday. Yes. What about the BPC? Yes. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. You just can’t lift heavy weights.
Oh, I’m not gonna lift heavy weights.
That’s all it is. Just don’t tear it apart while it’s building back up. That’s the whole idea. Don’t aggravate it while you’re does that hurt when you do that? No. Then don’t worry about it.
That’ll be fine. No. No. Well, you should be doing rehabilitation. You should have ai. I’m looking at your shoulders right now. They look to fall apart on their own. You gotta you gotta exercise. If you’re having injuries with your shoulders and the muscles around them and people are telling you to strengthen them, you should listen to those people. They’re right.
Well, no. I listen. I went to, physical therapy for my back, and it and it’s working. What I
So why wouldn’t you do it for your shoulder?
Because I was waiting to do this shit first. That would help.
All of it would help. Oh. The more muscles you have around your shoulder, the better it is.
It was only two or three weeks ago he said go to physical therapy. I go, well, he wanted to cut my shoulder. I said I’m not cutting it. I’m gonna try the BPC and the stem cell. So
You can definitely heal soft tissue injuries without surgery. The the real issue is when tendons are separated and they need to be re re put back in place and reconnected. That’s the real issue.
Well, a lot of people tore rotator cups. Oh, yeah. Tear rotator cups.
Yeah. I had a torn torn rotator cup.
I think I did it. I was doing upright
With 50 pound kettlebells.
And I think that was too heavy or too much. She got a trainer, Rich.
I’m I’m doing alright. I mean, I know
how to work out. No. But, obviously, you need some help. Nothing wrong with a little bit of help. Ai.
Do you wanna get better or not?
Yes. Okay. You need for ai shah? You’re saying get a trainer for my shoulder or
for my shoulder? For everything, for all of it. So someone shah you how to do it right sai you’re not hurting yourself.
Well, I think I’m doing triceps and biceps. Right? I know I am. I’m doing latches.
Then how ai you think you’re doing them right?
They’re not bad. That’s ridiculous. What? Small? It’s tiny. Oh, listen.
It’s there. I mean, I can see it. It’s hard. Is it?
My chest is nice. Ai want me to do my chest? You sana see my chest? No. I’m good. I’ll take my chest out.
No. No. Ai. There’s no no reason.
My lats and traps are good.
For look. For almost 68, I think I look better than most people I went to school with. That’s good. I think Ai think look, I work out all the time, but I maintain. Okay. I maintain. I’m not I feel like
a therapist. I feel like I’m helping you through your life.
You got in here. You are helping me. Ai helping to guide you. No. Get a fucking professional that knows how to work out and build yourself back up to the point where you don’t not having these ai of injuries. Yeah. And rehabilitate it, like, correctly. Like, when they tell you to do physical therapy in your shoulder, fucking do it. I’m gonna do it.
I want this You waited three weeks. You’re 68. You only have a few years left.
Let’s fix it. So then what the fuck? Come on. We only have a few years.
So Well, do it. You want a few years left in fucking working order.
Fucking listen, Bonnie. I meh, John.
You should listen to Bonnie.
You’re right. I’m gonna fucking ai what? Do you think I’m never gonna get my arms bigger than that.
That’s ridiculous. Of course, you could.
At 68, you’d take your arms bigger.
Yeah. 100%. Yeah. The reason why your arms exist at all is because your tissues are regenerating. Your tissue is you’re you’re healing and you’re getting better. Yeah. You ai% can get stronger. 100%. No if, ands or buts about it, you will get stronger.
I have nice latches. You could be
87. Yeah. You still get stronger. As long as you’re alive, you can get stronger. Because if your heart beats, if your hormones work, if you can move around, that means your body can repair itself.
Well, I I won’t do, what is it that gets you hard? Ai? No. No. The Cialis? Harm no. Not the drug that makes you Testosterone? Yeah. Testosterone. What’s it called? Testosterone? You won’t do that? Well, because it’s it it it it makes it it leads to prostate cancer.
Your doctor’s wrong. He died. It’s incorrectly. Your ai an idiot.
He died two years ago. He’s
He died two years. No. He doesn’t know that ai
doesn’t know the real studies. Like, there’s a guy named Brigham Bueller who runs waste well who could explain the flaws in that study that showed that it gave people prostate cancer. Look, people get prostate cancer. Testosterone is not giving you prostate cancer. It’s ai across the board, the same percentage of people that take testosterone or don’t take testosterone meh prostate cancer. There’s probably a ton of variables.
A lot of it has to do with diet. A lot of cancer has to do with diet. Fuel of cancer is sugar. Do you eat a lot of sugar?
I stopped for a year. I’m back. I’m gonna get back on listen. Ai eat pretty fucking good for the last month and a half. Ai haven’t. For the last and a lot for a year.
Yeah. There’s environmental factors, there’s genetic factors,
lot of different things. But, you know, if you sana take care of yourself, testosterone will actually make your body heal better. You’ll feel better, you’ll have more energy, your immune system will function better, everything will work better. You should have your hormones balanced.
Like, this is we live in a time where you can get a full blood panel and find out where your nutrient levels are. And if you do it with a good doctor, what they’ll do is they’ll adjust your diet and your nutrients first and then see, like, in a couple months what your levels are then and then find out how much are you sleeping.
Are you sleeping right? Yeah. Okay. Well, there’s a problem there because then your body’s not recovering. So you’ve gotta figure out a way to adjust something in your life to make you sleep better.
And then after that, once they get everything all worked into its optimum rate, you’re doing all the right things to go, what’s what are your levels now? Okay. We’ll add a little. Add a little bit of testosterone. Peptides that’ll increase your body’s ability to promote growth hormone.
There’s stuff like Somoriland that makes your body produce more growth hormones ai, like, your body repairs itself better, like, when you’re younger. Sai there’s all rigorous science behind all this stuff. It’s all meh many I’ll get Brigham to explain to you. He’ll do a much better job than me.
Who’s that you got tomorrow?
He’s the guy who owns Waste Well. Yeah. He’s been on the podcast. He’s testified in front of Congress.
And Ai don’t I’ll bring the, disc when Bring
the maps too. He’ll love the maps.
Let me tell you something about these maps. These maps. I printed this shit out.
I see. I Ai Looks like your printer needs ink.
Pretty dull. Listen to me. Listen to me. Fix your eyes. Let me test
You sana see some other statistics, I guess. Alright?
Please don’t. Did you see the those girls land today? The Blue Origin? They shah that metal dick up into space? Yeah. People are mad. They wouldn’t let the ladies drive. Ai Perry and someone else? Katy Perry, Lawrence Sanchez, Jeff Bezos’ wife. If if that thing blew up and if just Jeff Bezos’ wife blew ai, would it be Twitter thinks that the capsule is too clean.
They don’t think it was real, obviously. Of course, Twitter Twitter doesn’t think space is real. There’s a whole community out there, hashtag space is fake. Yes. No. Oh, yeah.
There’s really retarded people ai think the Earth is flat and that there there’s a firmament. They think Look at that. Yeah. They think birds aren’t real. Did they land?
Is it over? Yeah. Yeah. They did it? Yeah. Yay. Ai they land? In the ocean? Not in the desert.
How long do they land? Parachutes.
They land with parachutes? Yeah. So the thing lands with a parachute? I’ll show you video.
Let me see. I wanna see the video. Oh, that’s them in the middle of the desert? Wow. One sec. Now it doesn’t it’s got it looks different than that. That has to be crazy. That is would you do that, Rich? Would you go ai space?
Probably not. I don’t even You’d think
you’d get anxiety if you want to see Sai
don’t even like Ferris wheels.
Well, those ai stings are very different. Is that it?
Let’s see the landing. People get their stuff in there.
How how long did they go for?
Very soft soft landing. Look at this. Here it is. Imagine ram space and the only thing we got to land you is a parachute. Ai, one of the oldest technologies. Wow. Ai can hear him in there. Blue ai. Screaming. Wow.
long how long were they up there?
I don’t know. Not Isn’t it ai that they screamed? Do you think the men would scream like that? Would you and I scream like that if we landed? Well, I don’t
know about you, but I know me.
Look at that one. No. Look look at it go back. The one below it.
Ai tell you what I’ll never do is clap when a pilot lands.
That’s his fucking job. It’s true.
What if it’s a female pilot? You’re ai, whew.
I wouldn’t have got on the plane. No. That’s There
was a bunch of them in a row where I was like, Jesus Christ. The Delta one in Canada where it flipped upside down. Yeah.
Can you imagine? The lady
just started landing planes recently. Like, yeah. Take that one out in the icy runway.
Here’s 30,000. No. I’ll wait for the lawsuit.
Blue Origin declined to say how much the flight cost or who paid for it. Trip came two months before Sanchez and Bezos to marry in Venice. Oh, they’re gonna marry in Venice in two months. Oh, they haven’t married yet. Oh, okay. I thought they were married. That’s hilarious. They’re gonna do it in Venice.
Oh, how beautiful and romantic. Wow. Yeah. Quit you can’t tell people how much it cost because then there’s gonna be retards like, that money could have housed sai many houseless, so many unhoused could have benefited. How many poor people? There’s like ai fucking retards ai, if Elon Musk gave a million dollars to everyone on Earth, you’d have money left over.
There’s all these mathematicians out there that
Fucking constantly wanna comment on other people’s money. How convenient.
And then and those people would fuck up that money too. Yeah. You know?
It’s all the rich people or the problem. Not me. I’m rich, but I’m not as rich as the richest people. So everybody rich than me is a problem.
All these people. All these fucking people.
Yes. I own three homes, but I’m a United States Senator. And Ai would they’re not worth millions and billions of dollars, but everyone richer than me is the problem. It’s the rich, rich, rich people, not the regular, regular rich.
Oh, that tour. There’s so meh Damien AOC.
Wondering. Yeah. Tax the rich. Remember shah had that fucking dress she wore? Tax the rich. How about fuck off? What are you gonna do with the taxes? That’s the problem. When when Doge is uncovering $250,000,000 that was spent on animal transgender studies where you’re fucking chopping the dicks of mice and turning them into pussies, Fuck off.
Fuck off with your tax the rich. How about you fix the world without taxing the shit out of everybody?
How about Yeah. Get rid of
Ai can’t even tell you what I sent the other day to the IRS. It’s just fucking and I’m, you know, just a regular fucking, you know, so much money. I’m like, what does fuck?
Saloni. Elon doesn’t pay taxes. Elon paid more taxes last year than any human being that has ever walked the face of this nation. That’s a fact. So shut the fuck up. It’s ai there’s never it’s never enough. Wow. And people that don’t have always look at people that do have, like, huge.
What you could do with that money. What you could do with your money, you fuckhead. 11% in the world, do you know what it is? If you’re a one percenter in the world. What? You know what it is? 34,000 a year. No. Yes.
If you make 34,000 American dollars a year, you are in the top 1% of planet Earth.
Get the fuck out. That’s a fact. Because you’re comparing it to
to the rest of the world.
Most people are dirt poor. Most people. What? So all this bullshit about, well, he could do that money. Well, you’re saying that from your fucking Manhattan apartment ai you’re Ubering all over the place and getting fucking takeout. Shut your mouth.
Listen. When I was in Cabo working there, it was amazing. You drive to the airport, people are living in fucking Shaxdair,
and that. It’s It’s horrible. It’s horrible. But look, it’s it’s this sounds narcissistic. I came from a major, major drug addict, and I turned my life around. It’s it’s all you gotta find a way to do what you can for yourself. I don’t give a fuck where you are. I grew up with dudes ram heroin addicts to people with five kids at fucking 22 or whatever.
And a lot of people made it out of there and found a way to be successful. Yeah. You can
look at it that way. But the point is, like, looking at people that are uber successful and telling them what they should do with their money is just the dumb shah. And that’s why you don’t wanna give out how much money it cost to fly this rocket ship into space. Of course, it’s frivolous and gratuitous.
Of course, it’s a publicity stunt. They had a bunch of hot ladies. They flew them off into space, and then they landed. Yay. Now you’ve been to space.
But, basically, you’re in space for, like, ten minutes. That’s what the flight was. It probably cost a billion dollars to fly people in the space for ten minutes. Wow.
Do you know how many fucking clubs you could have bought me?
Yeah. How many golf clubs? How many golf clubs? That’s your thing. Right? You’re just sana fucking inveterate golfer. Right?
Yeah. It’s fine. Jamie should show you his setup back there. Yeah. He’s got a driving computer with a big screen.
I have I I was hitting in in this morning into the screen. I I
You bring the screen with you?
I just went at the hotel. Really? Yeah. Oh, that’s amazing. Yeah. To Thompson. I went down, worked out twice.
No. I I’m not staying there. I went walked over there
And used our screen. Really? Yeah. No shit. Yeah. I brought my clubs. Yeah. And plus, this isn’t live.
You and Jamie should fucking have a little driving contest.
I played before. Ai played with him and Tony before.
Yeah. Oh. Two years ago, like, two years ago. Maybe Oh,
with me, you, and Tony. Right?
Yep. Oh, you won? Yeah. How good do you play? How good is he, Jamie? I don’t recall. I mean, I’m not good either. So it probably I
shoot anywhere from 82 to I wanna break a club.
I don’t know what any of those numbers are.
82 is pretty good sometimes. I’ve shot in the seventies. How is it, Ai? Pretty good?
Yeah. Very good. Pretty good?
I shot I played 18 holes, but
Yeah. When I was a kid, the guys who golfed all the time were the guys who weren’t paying as much attention to their career. I remember thinking, like, a lot of these guys are kinda stagnant because they’re golfing all day. Yeah. They were got all in Boston, those guys would golf all fucking day long, get hammered.
No. Guys who that Sai started out with. Oh. The golfers all wound up spending so much time playing golf. I thought it was like, wow. That’s a big distraction. You should have some activities, but don’t golf is like it. How many hours?
That’s a lot of hours, but also too, it makes you disconnect from the all the bullshit that’s going on.
ai part. You know, you don’t have to deal with whatever, you know.
Do you golf with comics too? So you get to talk
to shit? Shah. I think I’m gonna golf if I can after I get these shots Thursday with, Aaron Berg. I think I’m gonna golf Yeah.
You definitely can. You you could golf on Thursday, for sure. It’s golfing is not gonna fuck it up. It’ll be sore for a day or two after you get the injections. Yeah. You’ll be fine. Sana gonna clean you up, Rich Foss. Clean up your life.
Ai we’re gonna do it. Check-in with me. I’ll tell you what to do.
Ai look. I’ll show you my chest.
show you a picture. I I don’t care. Yeah. So you’re saying from here on. Yeah. You’re not saying
What what shah are you gonna you gonna impress me with your chest? That’s crazy.
Well, you say I got small arms. I gotta sai, well,
I gotta change they’re big.
Good. Your triceps and your biceps are good. That’s crazy.
Oh, listen. Let me explain something to you. Okay? Fucking waffle neck. Waffle neck.
What is waffle neck, man?
I don’t know. Just I call them chicken head. Okay. You’re right. They’re not big, but they’re hard.
they’re not flabby ai. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You’re not falling apart. I’m not I’m not some flabby.
What the fuck? What ai fuck?
You want credit for being okay? Yeah. Yeah. That’s crazy. No. I Whatever happened to mister pull yourself up by your bootstraps, get your shit together? What about all that talk? That’s Hey. Barely doing anything. You’re ai, you’re okay.
Ai work out six days a week. Ai lift. Do you? Yes. I have a nice gym in my basement. Do you
think if I worked out with you, I’d be I’d be impressed with the effort that you put forward?
Not in the least. That’s shah Ai saying. Stop it. I do 500 crunches.
That’s amazing. I do zero. I don’t do any crunches.
Yeah. I do a lot of different stuff for
No. I think planks are nonsense.
So do I. I they’re uncomfortable.
It’s hard to do. Don’t get me wrong. But I think in terms of an exercise for your core, it’s ai nonsense. I think, you should do things first of all, you should almost always do things that have a range of motion. Like, when you’re you’re I like to do things that make my body work as a unit. Uh-huh.
So all the ab exercises that I do, I do a lot of different things for abs. I do reverse squats. You know what those are? You put your ankles strap your ankles to a cable machine, you lay on your back, and you pull towards you.
Well, I got one of those machines where I put my knees in it, and I pull up to get the bottom. Okay.
Yeah. That’s good. Those are good. Saying? Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Those are good. Anything where you work your whole core. You and then you gotta also do the opposite ai, back extensions.
You should do that back extension. I do it on that thing I showed you.
I’ll do back, because and I I gotta lose another 10 pounds again. I gained it back, but it comes and go. And because I have lower disc problems and, you know, I’m getting a ai. So whenever I lose weight, I’m in much better shape.
Yeah. I could tell by when when you got on that stretching machine, the, decks
Your body doesn’t go all the way down. It’s tight. Your lower back is very tight.
the way down. I was just doing it just to
No. I’m saying there’s tension. Yeah. You see how my body hinges? Yeah. My body just hinges. It just goes down there. There’s no tension. Yours is ai you stop, like, right there. Meh. You probably could go all the way down, but your body doesn’t want to. The point is there’s tension in your lower back.
Well, I’ve never used that machine too. It was my first time.
Sai excuses. Do you stretch?
No. On stage, if they need me to do an extra 20, they they gotta stretch. I’ve done it in two hours.
If D. L. Hughley and I’m middling and he’s coming four hours late back in the day, I was working Ai and I opened up a deal. And, you know, I’m doing all my good stuff upfront.
Oh, no. It’s all over. Stretch.
And they go stretch. I’m going, what am I gonna do now?
He wasn’t. Oh, that’s the worst feeling in
You get all your best material, and they tell you to stretch ai, I don’t have and you’re scouring your brain.
You’re scouring your brain.
Well, luckily for you, you could work the crowd.
Yeah. So I now what was the question? Am I doing? Do I stretch? Yeah. Yeah. I do for my back. I have this x I lie down Yeah. And I pull this back like that.
That’s good for my lower back.
You know what I’m talking about?
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I know what you’re doing. My lower back. I do that. Just crossing your legs and leaning forward. Yeah.
And I pull it back. Right. Okay. And then when I’m doing sit up crunches Uh-huh.
do it either on that machine ai I’ll pull my legs this way too so I’ll get my lower How much was Ai
you move, I’m like, oh my gosh.
First of all, I know the crew you have come in here, a lot of them. None of them work out at all. Alright?
A lot of them do. Who doesn’t work out at all? Name one. No. I don’t sana Name a guy. R. Shane? R. R. R. R. R. R. Doesn’t work out at all.
I don’t know if Norman works out.
Mark Norman definitely works out. Oh, he does? He runs. He can do a lot of pull ups and sit ups.
From audiences. Yeah. He love you know what I like talking to Mark? He loves comedy.
And he knows the history of it. But he knows the history of it. Ai he like, you’ll talk to comics now and go, oh, Steve Landersberg was funny. I just who is that? Or Look
at him. Come on, man. Oh, shit.
He’s ripped. I don’t like that. How dare you?
That Now you’re fucking bad. Ai I’ve
That hurt. You build that.
Right? It hurts me to see that.
Yeah. You’re talking shit, and he looks great.
You’re talking shit. He looks like a male model.
But guess what? Jamie? He’s not holding up a a newspaper. We don’t know when that was shot.
Who cares when it was shot? You never looked like that. Yes. I did. Yeah? What are you gonna do? Take your clothes off? No. I’m gonna take
Look at it. He looks fucking good there.
So does his wife. Goddamn it. Yeah.
Look at that. Right there. He’s got boxing gloves on and an iPhone. He’s in shape, man. You’re incorrect.
He’s here all the time. This is not working out.
Yeah. He comes in, uses the gym. What did I talk about? We work out together. We put your glasses so you can find your abs. What the fuck? Let me fuck.
You’re really similar. Oh. Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe. Oh. Showing you somewhere. Alright. Listen to me fucking.
You are looking for your glasses. Are you gonna find a photo of you looking good? Yeah. Forget about that. That’s the past. No. Let’s concentrate on that. Let’s concentrate on put away the cookies, put away the sugar. Yeah. I I Listen to your doctor. He tells you to rehab your shoulder. Get yourself in shape.
I’m not Can’t believe we’re doing this. You know people are listening. They can’t see this.
I I They couldn’t see the picture of him either.
Yeah. But, I mean, this you being on your phone here looking for a photo of back in the day when you looked reasonable.
This was recently. How long ago? What happened? What happened? Oh, fuck. Oh, Jesus.
Look at you. They look good there.
You look pretty good right there. What happened?
How long ago was this? 02/2018. Oh, that’s pretty recent. That’s pretty recent. Yeah. Pre pandemic. A lot of people fell apart during the pandemic.
That’s what happened. And then I came back on track for a year. A whole year. And then And then since January, when I was in Canada
communism. It’s it’s Yeah. It’s The lady eat poutines.
It was so oh, that shit is good.
Late night late night poutine.
Just it’s just pure heart attack.
Yeah. They have different delis in Canada. Like, we used to go to Montreal, those, they they caught smoked meat. Yeah. It’s basically ai going to Canter’s. Right? Or going to Katz. I’ve been
to a couple of those smoked meat. Oh, phenomenal. But, you know, if you I heard and I know it’s true and I if you eat too much smoked meat, you can get stomach cancer from that from all that smoked meat.
Who fucking told you that?
This guy with stomach cancer. No? Not true?
Smoked meat is not what it is. They there is some connection between burnt meh, like the carbon in burnt meat and cancer. I think it’s col colorectal cancer, but I do not know how robust those studies are.
mean, people have been cooking over fire forever. I just don’t I don’t buy it. There’s a lot of bullshit involved in these studies that tell you that this causes cancer, that causes cancer. Here’s what one hundred percent causes cancer. Herbicides, pesticides, chemicals, forever chemicals that are in your fucking food.
That that paper cup that you’re drinking out of when you drink hot liquids out of a paper cup, we gotta throw those fucking paper cups we have. Have you seen what Paul Saladino did when he dissolved the Starbucks cup and shows you what’s really at the base of it? It’s basically a condom.
And so sai if you can find Paul Saladino’s Wait.
You got all those paper cups. I’ll take them out.
I know. I saw them today. I I poured my coffee in this. We’re gonna get rid of all our paper cups.
Paper cups for hot liquids are fucking stupid. Really? Because the the lining of those paper cups is plastic. So you’re basically pouring hot liquid into plastic, which is the worst. Okay. Ai, look at look at sai, he shows. So he’s dissolving the paper cup, and that’s what’s inside of it. So you think you’re drinking out of a paper cup, but it’s not really paper. It’s plastic.
It’s there’s a plastic lining, and that’s the only reason why those coffee cups from Starbucks hold paper. So hot water to plastic. Give me some volume on this.
Chemicals, PFAs, anything in that plastic is leaching Yeah.
Into your drink and leaching into your coffee drink. So do not think you’re getting a paper cup, you are getting a plastic cup, and you are putting hot water into it. That’s a horrible, horrible idea. Look at that. Looks like a condom. What’s the solution? Glass jar. Get your coffee in a glass jar or sai stainless steel mug. Simple solution.
Don’t expose hot liquids to plastic like this. Horrible idea for your hormones. Horrible for your body. Send this to somebody you know who drinks hot coffee out of paper cups like this and needs to get them out of glass or stainless steel. You think this is Yeah.
There you go. My wife, she won’t drink that. She knows all this shit. She’s she’s a reader.
Just I try to. She meditates. She’s really good, you know.
She’s smart, which is weird. Super smart. Guys together that it works.
It it’s it’s crazy. It’s ai it’s like you know what I here’s the deal. What what month what are we at?
April. April, Fifteenth. Fourteenth? Fourteenth?
April fourteenth. So let’s go April 14, May, June thirtieth. I’m back here at the club on my birthday.
Okay. So you’re gonna look good. I’ll look I’ll look Alright. I’m gonna go to June 3. We’ll take a picture. I’ll put it on my Instagram. Take your shirt off, flex.
June 30. Okay. We’re giving you time. Yeah. I sana give you a goal.
June 30. Is that enough time you think?
Sure. Absolutely. Two months? Yes. In two months, you can lose 20 pounds of fat and look great. Ai. Just eat healthy. Just meh on a very low carbohydrate diet.
That’s what I did. I’m I’m not doing keto. I’m not gay. But I went Are you gay? A little. I when I try to cut carbs, let me tell you something. It was easier for me to quit crack than it was carbs. Really? Well, I never gave anybody a hand shah for a Ai roll. So, part of my act, folks. He’s killing. Hey. June 30, the week I’m here.
I don’t know how much bigger my arms will be.
Ai just be. Just just speak.
Look cut. Cut more cut up.
But I think I look okay. Well, we’re
gonna get you a blood panel tomorrow too to find out where your hormone levels are at. Find out what the fuck is wrong with you.
What do you mean? All that shit. Blood panel with my
They’ll draw blood. They’ll draw blood and then send it to a lab.
They’re not gonna tell me I have cancer.
They could if you wanna know. No. You don’t wanna know?
I already had blood tests at my doctor’s office. They sent me
Did your blood did your doctor do a comprehensive cancer scan?
Yeah. Just looked in your asshole. That’s all they did.
No. With the blood. And and ai looked at my sugar levels.
They can do this incredibly comprehensive blood panel. They draw they dig a lot of blood out, and then they send it to a lab and they find out whether or not you have I have zero cancer. I was super happy. Because when they did it, I was like, oh, I have the same feeling.
I don’t know if wanna know this. It’s sai waiting for fucking
Yeah. Start thinking about it and start mind fucking yourself laying in bed at night. Like, what if I have it right now? What if I find out tomorrow I have four weeks to live?
It’s fucking too much anxiety. When I went back in the day, everybody ai went for the AIDS test after you got clean. Oh, I remember that.
I remember my first AIDS test.
So I got my AIDS I was so scared. Okay. This is true. My doctor, whenever I went to my doctor and took any test, he would call me and say everything’s fine. There were calls, everything’s fine. Right. So I took an AIDS test.
The doctor didn’t call you.
And I get a call from the doctor, and he sai, can you come in tomorrow? I’m going, what do you mean come in tomorrow? My heart dropped because he would have said everything’s fine. I go, what do you mean? Why do you want me to come in tomorrow? He goes, your tooth came in and we sana put your tooth it was my dentist, but I heard doctor.
I thought it was my real doctor telling me I have fucking AIDS. You know, because everybody took that test in the in the eighties.
When I first got, insurance, I had to get a AIDS test in the nineties. And I remember the doctor, I said, boy, I’m fucking real nervous about this. And the doctor said, are you gay? I said, no. He goes, do you do drugs? I go, no. He goes, don’t worry about it. You don’t have it?
I go, really? He goes, yeah. I go, what the fuck about the fucking news?
The news is freaking me out where I’m scared to touch fucking doorknobs. Like, how come how come the news is saying that everybody’s gonna get AIDS? Listen. No one’s getting it other than gay people and people who are interviewed intravenous drug users.
Well, people on my block were dropped. We went to see Speak wee in a hospital, and all the nurses were wearing masks. So we go, I think he has that thing. Nobody even knew what the fuck to you know?
Yeah. They thought it was contagious. By the way, that was Fauci too.
Yeah. Who’s responsible for all that? Fauci was responsible for people freaking out about AIDS. Fauci was on TV back in the eighties telling people that children could possibly catch it from people. Yes. Wow. Yeah. Do you know the Dallas Buyers Club?
Where they were limiting the medication that gay people could take? That was about Fauci. He was responsible for that. He was the one who pushed AZT on people back then.
AZT was that chemotherapy medication that was killing people quicker than the cancer was. They stopped using on cancer, and they repurposed it and started using it on people that had AIDS.
And it it it didn’t help you.
You did. They were giving it to people that didn’t even have any fucking symptoms. They had HIV. They had no symptoms. They’ve given them AZT. They were dying in months. It’s the only time ever in medical history where they were telling you to take a chemotherapy drug indefinitely.
Every time you take chemotherapy, the idea is that it gets your body close to death but kills off the cancer. They were telling you to keep taking it. Just keep taking it. It’s nuts. What they did is madness. If you read Robert Kennedy’s book, The Real Anthony Fauci, it’s all about that.
And the beginning of it is all about the AIDS crisis and all the different things that they did that mirrors exactly what they did during the COVID crisis.
Sai what drugs are they using now to,
They started using protease inhibitors and that really helped. Like, the the whole AIDS thing is very complex. It’s very complex because the vast majority of the people that got AIDS were were heavy drug users. Heavy drug users or gay guys who are experiencing, you know, a lot of different sexual partners.
But it was because of blood being transferred.
Yeah. That’s part of it. But it was also part of it, you’re destroying your immune system with fucking drugs. Like, these guys were taking amyl nitrate and crystal meth and partying and not sleeping, just crushing their immune system.
Plus sharing needles with the blood going from
Yep. That too. And then they would get them on medication that would definitely kill them. And then it was a crisis. And then, you know, everybody was running around scared. And I was scared too until I talked to my doctor. He just looked me in the ai.
that back then. So this is ai ai maybe? Maybe ’91, ’90 ‘2 when I Whenever. And when I got and my doctor was ai, don’t worry about it. I was like, what about the news, man? Like, I remember talking to this ai. He was a young guy. I was like, why ai the news telling me I could get he goes, heterosexuals aren’t getting this. Well, I Unless you’re an intravenous drug user, don’t worry about it.
I I I only ai because I shot dope, like, maybe three times. What was it like? I didn’t like it. It sai just not you know, I was more of a up,
you know. What does shooting dope do feel like? What
did it feel like? Just down and I I can’t it wasn’t I did it with Bastille and he was a major ai addict.
He sai a major one. He was funny, though. Ai was funny. Did I I remember seeing him for the first time when I was an open ai in ’88. Yeah. And he was just a wild dude. He was like one of the first guys Ai ever saw with tattoos, all these tattoos, and they’re like,
Everybody tell you, oh, oh, really? It was heroin. When someone did heroin back there and it was crazy, like, what? He does heroin. Now, how think about how many people are hooked on opiates. Well Back then, it was super rare.
Well, the difference between heroin and, like, Freebase, you can function on heroin. There’s functioning heroin addicts for years. Yeah. Do it. You can’t function on free base or coke. You gotta keep having it.
I had a buddy of mine who’s a longshoreman, and he would tell me that this guy he would work with, and not just one guy, but one guy that he was working with that he was a friend, on his lunch break, get a bag of heroin, shoot it up in his car, sit there for half an hour, and then go back to work.
do that with freebase. It’s nonstop. You gotta keep changing. So
Is that your thing? Freebasing?
Yeah. Freebase. Free crack.
When was the how old were you when you first freebased?
Well, I when I first got high, I was 15. You know, pot. I lead it led my way up to the You gave me Coke. Yeah. Coke. And then
I snorted Coke probably when I was arya when I was 18 or 19. Right?
And then when he worked at crack?
Ram, probably ’25 to ’28.
Do you remember the first time he did it?
I think it was with my cousin. Yeah. It was ai, Sai go, this is good. This is I mean, I guess, there was yeah. I’ll tell you what, so I got so many of them. So ai friend, I was on the road, I came back, he goes, look, I’m gonna buy an eighth of Coke, cut it into five halves, five half ram.
And, we’ll do two half grams, and I’ll sell, the other three.
I know where this is going.
Well, we did one or two, and then he went to sleep. Sai, this is fucked up. I find I found where he hid him.
Oh. So He didn’t hide ai as good as you hide your money?
No. I went in and I speak one at a time. I drove to the convenience store. I cooked it with ammonia. Right?
Ammonia? Yeah. Clear ammonia. Wait a minute. You actually cooked the Coke and turned it into crack?
Why is why would you do that? Is it better that way?
Oh, that’s how you get free base crack. You gotta you gotta process it. You could do it with baking soda. You could do it in a boil it in a Who
taught you how to do this? I would Are you a chemist? Like, how do you I
That’s what you’re talking about. Crack addicts were, like, giving you the recipe? No. I learned that.
Ai three ways to do it. So I did it with or four with ether, which you could blow up your house. Right. So I would steal a half a gram from them. Uh-huh. I would go to the convenience store. I’d cook it, smoke it, and pour out the ammonia. I sai, I can’t do well, how do you do it? Sai yeah. I don’t wanna help. You put it in it.
It’s the Internet. ChatGPT will tell you to make so let’s ask ChatGPT right now.
How do you take cocaine and turn it into free base?
You co you put in a teaspoon and you light it, and it turns into a rock.
And then you squeeze it. You squeeze and try to get the ammonia out as much as you can in the rock. So Ai would pull I would get the ammonia, steal a half a gram from him, go to the bright early in the morning, come back, cook it, and pour the ammonia out. Well, now I ai
g b two, the chemistry behind it, how it’s made for educational purposes only, not intended to encourage illegal activity.
Baking ai, I said you could do it. Cocaine
hydrochloride powder with baking soda and water. Sometimes saloni is used instead of baking soda, but baking soda is more common for crack. Heat the mixture. As it’s heated, the cocaine base is separate from the hydrochloride and forms solid rocks that float to the top. Cool and dry. This is like a recipe.
Solid pieces, the crack rocks arya cooled and hardened then dried. So There you go.
I emptied out the first bottle. Mhmm. Then there was two or three more half grams.
I went and stole another one. Yeah. Went back to the convenience store, bought more ammonia.
After the fourth trip to the convenience store, I go, hey, listen, I got a cleaning business. We need a lot of ammonia. Well, I smoked all his coke.
And I all of a sudden Ai hear somebody yell, fuck. He woke up and saw his coke was gone. Right?
How many trips to the convenience store? Four.
And I was just drinking straight vodka. Right?
And I’m walking home, now I’m $250 in debt. Ai have and it was towards the end of my career,
As a drug addict ram, yeah.
How long did you call it a career?
It was a crack career. Well, I think I told this story years ago, but I’ll tell it and he doesn’t care because he told it in his book. So me and Frankie are doing a one nighter. And back then, I had the car. You would pick up a knack at the Improv and then go do the one nighter in Jersey. Right. So we pick up this comic, little white guy, whatever.
We go do our one ai, and we’re supposed to drop him off at the Improv. And I go, hold on, I gotta make a stop. And we go up to Spanish Harlem. He goes, what are you doing? Ai go, my sister lives here. She’s not doing well.
You know, there’s there’s people chasing there’s people chasing people with knives up and down the street, and I go up and buy ram, free ai, right? And the kid’s like, get me home, take me back to the improv, what the fuck is going on? Right. Well, relax. So now we go down to the Lower East Ai, and Frankie gets heroin and the kid now Frankie’s in the back speak ai up, shooting heroin. While you’re driving?
Well, I’m driving. He’s in the back. Oh
And the kid is fucking scared to death. He was a little white kid.
You wanted to be Jerry Seinfeld?
It was David Spade. Was it really? Yeah. Oh my god. That’s hilarious. Ai little white kid from Arizona. Do you remember when he first started? He tells the story in this book, and I apologize to him. He goes, oh, don’t worry. It’s a good story. Right? But we kept him hostage as I’m smoking crack and Frankie’s banging dope in
the car. Oh my god. I heard an Otto and George story once. He, he’s working on a club in in Jersey. I don’t need a name in the club. And he leaves the club with the, owner’s daughter, and they’re headed into New York. And there’s another guy driving the car. He stops off at Washington Square Park, picks up a bag of ram, and starts smoking it in the car.
And the girl freaks out and the and he and he he sai, the classic guy goes, what? I thought the Bryden wanted a party.
Ai just I just did a documentary about him. They interviewed me. They’re doing a documentary on Otto and George.
Well, we did, a lot of those, shows, those prom shows with Otto and George.
Oh, he was Yeah. He would he was Genius. I would yeah. But I drive with him to a gig and he would go, do you know what George thought of today? What? You fucking psychopath. You’re too
late. Ai pull over sai he could go check on George. George is in the trunk.
would pull over and check on George. I think there’s something to that. I think that that dummy had a mind of its own. And he it might have been he had some weird personality disorder where he put up a personality to that dummy. But that dummy when that dummy would say things, you knew it was George. Yeah.
It it like, it didn’t even feel
It felt like George had his own thoughts on things.
I worked with Ventriloquist once, and I go into his room on the road, and he’s putting away the dummy’s clothes in another dresser drawer than his. He’s ai putting away the clothes of the dummy.
Meh. Of the of his dummies. Here’s a bit I kinda sana do. You know, back in the day, you know, when there was bank robbers, outlaws, they would wear a handkerchief and go rob a bank. Well, I wanna be the outlaw of ventriloquist where I go up a little dummy and put a handkerchief, this way they can’t see my lips move, but I could say I’m the outlaw of ventriloquist.
And I could do a whole five minutes and everybody’s going, he must be great. I can’t see his lips move. That’s good, but you’re supposed
to talk too. Ai, the pole part of the fun of being a ventriloquist. Like, he would say Otto would say, I
can’t believe you’re saying that, George. Yeah. How do you shut the fuck up.
The eyebrows would pop up and he’d get crazy ai banter back and forth.
I’ll talk behind the mask. I’m not gonna do it. It’s not gonna work.
Okay. So I threw it out. How come there’s no ventriloquist on this planet that gets along with their dummies? Well, there’s not even
very many ventriloquist acts anymore. There used to be a bunch of ventriloquist acts. There was Willie Tyler and Lester who was in LA. There was a few.
There was Vince Saloni in George from Long Island.
You know what I think it was? It’s like when one guy becomes really big, like Jeff Dunham. He became the man when it came to ventricles. And then he’s so popular that nobody touches it anymore. Sort of ai Carrot Top did that to Prop Sai.
Like Prop Ax used to be remember when we were we started out?
The fucking wig. Did you ever work with the wig? With it. He was great. Ai pulled it in fucking ai. I mean, laundry, basket shoots with fucking props.
Oh, he had so much shit. Yeah. He had a, like, a whole trunk full of stuff that he would have to carry to
But there’s they don’t have them anymore because Carrot Top became so famous as a prop act that everybody’s like, oh, it’s a Carrot Top thing. Yeah. They just abandoned it. Ai, musical acts. There’s no fucking musical acts anymore.
There’s Ai there was they’re on ships. Gary Delano was a musical act.
But guys who’ve been around for a long ai. They’re legacy acts. There’s no upcoming people right now that are musical comedians.
Well, there’s no magicians. Farrantino
There was a couple of magic act. Like, when I did one nighters, you worked there was jugglers. Mhmm. Juggling Jack Swersey, a couple magic acts.
There’s a few magic acts still that work in California because because of the comedy magic club.
to have it where you’d have a magician mixed in with the comedy when last time I worked there.
When Sai started working there, I was like, Ai
Do you ever remember, Chips Cooney where he did the fake magic act? No. It was really funny. He would just do stupid stuff.
Lenny Schultz was a prop actor.
He just died. Oh. Like, about a month ago, three weeks ago. Oh, man. More pigs, Lenny. They were, you know, more pigs. And he was just He was so ridiculous. He was nuts. He was so funny, though. And the the nicest guy in the world.
Yeah. I meh, he had a he pulled out, like, a Smokey the Bear doll, and he’s like, only you can prevent Forest Ai. Shut the fuck up. And he punched the bear. It was so ridiculous. It was so
on to something else like it never happened. He It’s like it was what? He would kill. Kill?
Kill. And it made no sense.
It was just maniacal. It was just crazy. Like Ai crazy face and crazy eyes. Like, cap. Really funny.
Ai, Carrot Top is a good prop act. If you like prop acts, he’s the best prop act.
I mean, Rip Taylor didn’t like him, but, you know, Rip Taylor’s from how many fucking years ago?
Yeah. Remember the gay Oh, with the mustache? Yeah. And throw this yeah. The glitter and stuff. How come
ai didn’t like Carrot Top?
Because Carrot Top was getting real famous, at the time. And Rhett Taylor was He
Yeah. It was the, the prop act.
But it’s ai most comics today are just comics. They just they just do stand up.
little, like, all the variety stuff is gone.
Well, Frankie Pace was a prop actor. He killed. Yeah. He killed.
You’re right. There was it’s there was more variety Mhmm. In the one nighters and the clubs.
Then there is just ai Well,
in the eighties, comedy was anything. It could there was no definition of it back then. Like, guys had, like, pieces of paper they’d bring on stage and hold up signs. There was all kinds of weird shah. And then now it’s just people talking.
Oh, the guy from, Boston Ai work with him. He was so angry. We did a one night where he sai, fuck this out of pool hall. Bob something, batch, he had paper signs he would pull up and do a thing on signs or whatever.
Well, there was the guy from the Blue Collar tour, Bill Engvall.
Right? He had signs. Did he?
Yeah. None of them sai quit?
I don’t know. What I, what do you
call it? What’s his name? Kills on stage, Josh Adam Ai. Yeah. He does kills.
Well, he does that, goddamn comedy jam where he does music too, but that’s a little different.
But we had him on our show, would you bang him? We me and Bonnie do the show. It’s fucking do you know the show we do? No. We what we do is Bonnie and I host it, and we have, like, five comics, and they do, like, eight or ten minutes apiece. Then we have three female judges and a gay and a gay judge. And after they’re set they discuss whether they would fuck them or not.
And the gay judge is always the funniest. He’s always the funniest. But some some of these female judges, they’re just so funny, you know. So he came out, we did it a couple, we do it at a lot of festivals and we did it at, in New York and Josh Adam Ai came out and he sang the whole ai, just fucking all over the stage, I’m going, he’s gotta close every show in the comedy club because nobody’s following that.
Right. There’s no way at the seller that you’re gonna go up after that.
You know? And I’m not what he does is great. What he does is, you know Yeah.
If you were on the road and you had a middle act and the middle act was brought to you by the club, like, they ai a middle act and the middle act was doing music, you were fucked. Yeah. You were fucked.
Oh, yeah. Okay. Fucking guitar act. I worked Vegas once following a guy with a arya, and I had him. And he’s fucking closing with Springsteen and the bryden on his head.
I’m going, what the fuck?
You’re in trouble. It’s a totally different thing.
But it’s weird that that’s not more popular because he used to be so effective. That’s what I’m saying. It’s like, why isn’t there more of those acts like that out there? Because it was so effective.
Well, some of them got older and went to cruise ships that do get to our
Why didn’t the younger ones? Why why didn’t how come no younger ones emerged? That’s what’s weird.
It is kinda weird. No impressionist either.
Hardly that your impressions
And everyone that they would turn around, fix their hair, and then do their press they always turned around.
Imagine if Jack Nicholson Yeah. And they
I I’d be scared to turn around and the audience left. But they turn around. There was so many Jeff DeHart. Uh-huh. He did Rod Sterling perfectly. It
is interesting. There’s not a lot of just impressionists. Right?
Yeah. Danny Stone, Ai Credico. Yeah. Those, very
Frank Caliendo does. Yeah. Yeah. But he He’s ai the only one.
You don’t really see him in well, I don’t know if he’s still in clubs. He does a lot.
theater mostly. Yeah. He was on the ai tour on the Opie and Anthony tour.
Yeah. Oh, you did the virus tour? Yeah. I did one. I hosted every show.
Yeah. I did one of them in Vegas.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. The Vegas One.
That was the last time I saw Patrice. Wow. Yeah.
We’re doing the benefit. We do it. I host it every year, and Billy closes it. We’re doing it, I think in May this year.
Oh, yeah? Yeah. Okay. So it’s next month. Do you know the dates?
Yeah. I’ll tell you right now.
Everybody so they can go buy ai, bust out
those glasses, cramp them out. These first these are dollar store glasses. Okay?
Why do you buy them at the dollar store?
Because my good ones are at the hotel. I I don’t wanna
lose them. I don’t wanna lose them.
I don’t wanna lose them. Yeah. I mean, I would’ve worn them to go on some Theo’s podcast.
Jesus Christ. I’m looking at your face when you turn sideways so I could see how much magnification you got. Shah are those? How many how many x you
fifty. That’s it? Yeah. Oh, okay. There, it looks like I’m seeing a double the size of your fucking look like you got stung by a bee.
it’s already sold out? So people can’t buy ai? It’ll
I’m sure it it sells out every year.
That is very beautiful that you guys do that every year. The Patrice benefit. Yeah. It’s very cool. You talk about a guy that, like, touched so many people because he was so brilliant.
Ai. How could it be on a Sunday? The Patrice speak sai May 18 in my calendar. Maybe because Billy’s doing 12 angry meh. He’s playing every fucking character.
He’s in Gary playing Ross.
Yeah. And and yeah. Him and Is he coffee
for closers? Is he that guy?
Is he the yoke? Go see it.
I’d rather fucking walk through Lebanon wearing wearing a fucking yarmulke to go see that fucking angry hack. Fuck off, Billy. Shut the fuck up. Send me a stupid pro Palestinian bullshit. Shut up. Oh, does
he have a lot of pro Ai bullshit?
Meh fight all the time online.
Ai well, we on text. We go back and forth.
You go you and Bill Burr go back and forth about Palestine for real?
Sometimes. Yeah. Sometimes. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. But I’m you know, look, I’m friends with them for years. Ai mean, forever. Yeah. Fucking Billy, you know. Fucking
When comedians get political and it’s the point where they they distance themselves with people that don’t agree with them, that to me is hilarious. Hilarious in how stupid it is. Like, what are you doing? Yeah. What what are you doing? Like, this is this is where you’re gonna fucking draw the line on some shit that barely affects your personal ai?
any of my friends that are like that, I’m still friends with them. I don’t agree with a lot of the shit and they’re they’re stupid.
You know? I ai, it’s one or two people Ai think arya say really vile stuff and I just mute them. I don’t deal with them. You know, they’re not friend friends.
You know? Ai mean, shah, me and Norton don’t agree on everything, you know?
How can you agree on everything?
His wife is so much hotter than my wife. She’s got a better dick. Shah was the best man at his wedding. Fucking Norton is so quick and funny. It’s Yeah. He was the best man at my wedding. He’s so fucking funny.
He’s great on Gil Tony. I ai. Oh my god. He’s one of the best guests.
I mean, you know who else is fucking? Colin is so funny. Oh, yeah. He’s so quick.
Colin’s amazing. He’s just more He’s there’s a bunch of ai, and I think I put you in there too, that just never really promoted themselves on social media. Yeah. So it’s ai you’re really good, but, like, even Attell. Ai, Attell, for the level of comedy that he is, he should be selling out stadiums every ai.
But he just doesn’t promote himself at all. All he does is just, like, all of his following is just word-of-mouth. Yeah. And other comics saying how great he is and, like, people who’ve seen him before, they’ve come to see him again.
Well, he shows one of my videos now is up to up to almost 5,000,000 views. Is that good? Yeah. It’s good. That’s good. It’s really funny.
I believe it. I believe you’re funny.
If you wanna play it, I will. No. We don’t. Let’s
wrap this up. So you’re gonna be at the mother shah. What what are the dates again? June what?
June, I think, twenty seventh, twenty eighth, and twenty eighth.
do it every week on my birthday.
Take pictures of you with your shirt off.
Well, so prepare for that. Get ready. Yeah. Get yourself in shape. Tomorrow, I’m gonna bring you to waist well. Get you on the peptides and Oh, okay. Get your blood work and find out what the fuck’s going on with your shoulders. Shoot you up with stem cells.
I do have a special on Amazon called Rich Foss Anonymous. It’s pretty funny.
Why is it called Anonymous?
Because I taped it vatsal NA convention.
And the backdrop Bonnie directed the beginning. The backdrop is fucking so cool.
Rich was anonymous. You’re good there. Where’s your trailer?
Dangerous man. You look dangerous.
Can you play the trailer? No.
We’re not gonna play a trailer.
Okay. Good. We’re gonna leave.
Ai. Gotta wrap this up. Nope. We don’t need to play a trailer. Okay. You’re funny.
For you, I’m gonna not do it. Meh bet you.
This this, I’ve done this podcast three times, and this is the most fun I had.
Come to the club tomorrow too. Ai out. You got any sets tomorrow? You going to? Ai. Come to the club. Do bottom of the barrel too.
There’s a a whiskey barrel on stage with notes in it from the audience. You pull them out and you just riff.
Oh, really? Yeah. You love it. Sai much fun.
It’s like a premise factory.
So what am I gonna do about this thing tomorrow? This is a wrap.
I’ll I’ll set it up as soon as we get done here. Alright.
This is Shah. Thank you for having me.
Rich Voss, ladies and gentlemen. Bye, everybody ai.