Jay Pharoah | Club Random with Bill Maher

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Speaker 1 I opened up for Dave Chappelle. Jay Furrell, how were they tonight? Dude, I got a stand in ovation.

Speaker 4 Now I got to throw out all the Jay Furrell bomb jokes.

Speaker 1 Sorry, ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 1 It's crazy.

Speaker 1 That's crazy. What do you mean?

Speaker 1 That's crazy. There's so many.
Wow, that's going to be mean.

Speaker 1 Let me tell you something. If we're still talking at 8 o'clock,

Speaker 1 I heard you upset at 8 o'clock, 5.30, then this has gone very well. What's going on, bro?

Speaker 1 I know it will. It's been a minute.

Speaker 1 I've never met you. I've never met you in person.
I said it's been a minute. You sound like a magician.
We've never met. Am I right? We've never met.
And I've never performed this trick on you.

Speaker 1 Nothing has been pre-arranged.

Speaker 1 Nobody's going to pop out of it.

Speaker 1 There's no invisible. That's what I love about doing this podcast is that you get to, I would normally take a midweek break

Speaker 1 right at this hour

Speaker 1 to probably smoke pot with somebody, but now I get to do it with you or Quentin Tarantino last week.

Speaker 1 You know, it's just not that I don't love my, all my friends, but like, it's like, I have never met you. It's great.
And I've been a fan.

Speaker 1 It's insane. Because it, like you said, it feels, it doesn't feel like we haven't met because we've, like, I've consumed, I've watched, of course, I've been a fan for years.

Speaker 1 So it's like, I've, dude, for years I've watched you. So thank you for having me, brother.
Oh, yeah. What do you, now you're on tour? Is that why you're in town? I am on tour.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I go usually in the weekends. I go out.
I would definitely see you. And I wouldn't see a lot of comedians.
Oh, thank you, man. Thank you.
I love to.

Speaker 1 Every once in a while, I just drop into the back of the comic, comedy store or the improv.

Speaker 1 And it's just, it's like, first of all, it takes me back to when I used to be at the clubs. So it's kind of nostalgic.
But also, like, it is so much fun to just laugh.

Speaker 1 at a comic. And it's tough when you are a comic because you know the tricks.
So, you know, it's a little like what W.C.

Speaker 1 Field said about, like, you can make a regular person laugh by dressing up as an old lady to fall down a manhole cover, manhole. But to make a comedian laugh, it has to really be an old lady.

Speaker 1 It's a little like that. It's a little harder to find a vein.
Yeah, yeah,

Speaker 1 but it's like you're saying,

Speaker 1 if it's good.

Speaker 1 If it's good, it's authentic. It's like, wow, I can't, like, sometimes

Speaker 1 it's more like you're watching,

Speaker 1 you're watching as like a player. You're looking at like, oh, what's he doing? Like, oh, that's dope.
How could he, oh, he's been working at that. Like, he's been, he's been working on his three.

Speaker 1 Or he's been, you know, oh, he can dump it now. You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 And the last time I went to the comedy store,

Speaker 1 had been a while. And

Speaker 1 some of the things that they were doing reminded me of the exact same.

Speaker 1 stupid mistakes I was doing when I was their age.

Speaker 1 You know, like, well, like a guy was doing not that bad. Right.
But it wasn't great, but he just kept referring to how bad he was doing, which I used to do also. And it just makes it worse.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And as a person in the credit, I just wanted to say, bro, you're not doing that bad. Right.
We're enjoying it. When you hear,

Speaker 1 you know, especially in the black community, if

Speaker 1 you're not doing well on stage, they'll let you know through

Speaker 1 cutlery. You know, you'll start hearing knives and forks.
Purposefully doing that? Yeah, you'll hear knives, they'll get louder. You'll hear the sipping of drinks.

Speaker 1 And then this motherfucker don't know no, you know, you'll hear a lot of that. And all of that mixed together definitely throws you off as

Speaker 1 a comic who doesn't want to bomb. But now, the sharpening of the knives, it is so they can actually stab you? Is that what you? I think so.

Speaker 1 I think they're like, oh, yeah, motherfucker, I've been waiting for this. Yeah, you just wait till I get outside.
Shit, nobody better say shit. I just got out, motherfucker.

Speaker 1 I've done every type of room. I've done mixed, I've done white, I've done black, I've done everything.
So, yeah,

Speaker 1 I mean, you know, it's funny you bring that up because, like, there's a term crossover artist that we've had forever.

Speaker 1 I feel like maybe we're at the point almost where we could retire that because, like,

Speaker 1 we're all becoming more mingled

Speaker 1 to a degree. I mean, look,

Speaker 1 do you get a much larger black audience and I get a much larger white audience than you do? Yeah, because we're still tribal.

Speaker 1 I think you have more black people than I do, Bill.

Speaker 1 Thank you.

Speaker 1 I don't think that's true. I'd like to.
I think that's true.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 You have way more. There's way more black people.

Speaker 1 You know, actually, I peeped your set on Deaf Comedy Jam and I loved it. I was like, yo, Bill.
Deaf Comedy. Jam.
Deaf Comedy Jam. He's like,

Speaker 1 I'm fucking with you.

Speaker 1 I was going to say, because I have smoked a lot of pot, and I might have forgotten that. Man, I saw a clip, speaking of that, of Smokey Robinson.
Oh, man. Did you, you know the clip I'm talking about?

Speaker 1 Was he doing the video?

Speaker 1 He's on Deaf Comedy Jam. Oh, is he? It's from, oh, it's from quite a while ago.
Was it Deaf Poetry Jam he was doing? No, no. It was Deaf Comedy Jam? That's what it said.
And he is killing.

Speaker 1 He's doing a routine that I cannot quote

Speaker 1 because he's talking about different names.

Speaker 1 N-word and uh-huh. Gotcha.
But before that, it was

Speaker 1 black.

Speaker 1 Right. I mean, black, African-American, black.
And then the further we go back, I can't say them. Right, right, right, right.
Even one that used to be completely the right one.

Speaker 1 The 1800s one, you might not want to bring that one. It's the one that we were using even in the 60s.
Yes. That isn't like

Speaker 1 a slur. That's what Kennedy and Martin Luther King said.
Yeah, it's

Speaker 1 still around, but yeah, go ahead. Yeah, he was.
But we're so sensitive that I just, it's just not worth saying. Anyway, he's going through this whole litany and he's just basically saying,

Speaker 1 who makes these changes?

Speaker 1 You know, he was, he,

Speaker 1 he was fine with black. He did, he thought the move to African-American was a little too much.
And he was asking if

Speaker 1 this is one person

Speaker 1 who decides this or is there a... Hey, who is the in-word orator who decides?

Speaker 1 No, you can't. No, you can't.
You can't, you, too.

Speaker 1 Was it just us as a community fully? Oh, yeah, please light that up. A lot of people don't even know that.
Like this up? Is that what you're saying? Please. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 A lot of people don't even know why. You don't have to.
Oh, you're doing it. You're going to do it.

Speaker 1 You're going to do it.

Speaker 1 I have such a different.

Speaker 1 I think I got people. I don't think people really know me like that.
I have this.

Speaker 1 I don't. Yeah.
I know you as Mr. Funny Guy, mostly on SNL.
Yeah. And,

Speaker 1 you know, my favorite thing from the beginning on SNL has always been celebrity impressions, not just yours. Yours are great.

Speaker 1 So that, I mean, I remember the very first thing

Speaker 1 they gave Bill Hater to do. And I loved him from the beginning because Al Pacino, right? Correct.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 The very first time I saw it, I was like, oh, fuck. And then when they do those things where like, this is the the casting we had for a certain movie, and then they showed the auditions.

Speaker 1 The auditions.

Speaker 1 Such a great premise.

Speaker 1 So I've always been a sucker for your bread and butter.

Speaker 1 I think we did the Back to the Future sketch, and he, you know, he did Pacino. And I think in that sketch, I did, I did Eddie.
I did Eddie back then. Yeah, that's what it was.

Speaker 1 And he was at a flex capacitor. What is a flex capacitor? That's hilarious.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 what's, you know, I find it so funny, though, Eddie Murphy doesn't even, he doesn't, that's a character voice he's using. Yeah, sure.
You know, you know, Eddie Murphy normally just talking regularly.

Speaker 1 Yeah. He's got like,

Speaker 1 he's like, wow, I just, I'm just chilling and having a good time and, you know, smoking a J.

Speaker 1 You know, life is fucked up. You know, you just,

Speaker 1 you know, one day you just walk in and then, you know, you get hit by a car and you're like, hey, motherfucker, what the fuck you hit me for?

Speaker 1 Like, you know, and there's nothing you can do about it because that's how fast life hits you. It's like, wow.
It's like, real, you know, no, you've captured it.

Speaker 1 He has a philosophical,

Speaker 1 like, he's a dad of like 10 kids. He probably like is always talking to his kids.
And he's kind of

Speaker 1 anybody that raises that many kids and busts that many nuts is very philosophical. Should talk to Nick Cannon.
I'm sure he's philosophical as well.

Speaker 1 He's

Speaker 1 filling his sophical nuts. That's what he's doing.
Did you see the movie

Speaker 1 Eddie did with Jonah Hill? Oh, yes, I did. What did you think of that? I thought it was good.
I did too.

Speaker 1 Although I had quibbles. Go ahead.

Speaker 1 You had quibbles? Well, it's a little woke for me, yeah. Okay.
Okay. Like, it's a little,

Speaker 1 you know,

Speaker 1 I forget what. Also, they...
what they meet fighting for a cab. I mean, I felt like Jonah gave himself some cringy lines about,

Speaker 1 you know, I just can't stand the,

Speaker 1 you know, I'm sorry, before we even begin a conversation, I must apologize for what every white person in history has done, but you left your lights on, please.

Speaker 1 There was a little of that that I always like, I'm a little allergic to, quite frankly. Yeah, a letter is a letter, an open letter written apologizing for slavery, those type of things.

Speaker 1 Do you remember

Speaker 1 the Keenan movie where he's the mailman?

Speaker 1 And I think it's. Is this, I'm going to get you? Is it

Speaker 1 no no no it's the it's the real straight up comedy it's like don't drink don't drink your juice and self-centric drink your juice and hood yes you're just like somebody will have a line in the movie and it's a pat i mean he did parody like nobody oh absolutely and then he would be the he was the guy he played he was directed i think but he just gave himself this cameo and he'd message remember that he turned right to camera and went message

Speaker 1 He was, they've always I love when they take the piss out of

Speaker 1 shit like they break the fourth wall well also just taking the I mean you know it's harder for white people to do that about any black stuff but to take the piss everybody needs to take the piss out of

Speaker 1 everything yeah take the piss out of everything and you're right that you know everybody is so uh everything is so serious people are so ready to get uh offended over whatever you know what i mean just so they can feel included in the

Speaker 1 feel included in the oh it's it's happening to me too But yo, I'll tell you some real stuff.

Speaker 1 I did a show in, and it always happens when I'm in, always happens near Cleveland, always happens in, always happens in Cleveland. Cleveland, yeah, always happens in Cleveland.

Speaker 1 Well, always happens in Ohio. Shit always happens in Ohio.
Everywhere I go in Ohio, there's always some weird stuff. Had a lady walk out of a show.
Oh, her fam? Oh, please. Yes.
Oh, God. Yes.

Speaker 1 Well, what weird in what way? What are we talking about?

Speaker 1 So she, her and four

Speaker 1 of her

Speaker 1 family members that she was with, all Caucasians. You know, so I'm using the N-word.

Speaker 1 And as is your right. As is my right.

Speaker 1 And she gets mad and she walks out. And I got ADD.

Speaker 1 Wait, a white lady walked out on a... Okay, this.

Speaker 1 I'm going to let you, I'm going to let you finish, Taylor. But

Speaker 1 this is is what just

Speaker 1 makes the left, this kind of thing, so obnoxious. People wonder what you listen.
So why do you hate the left so much? I haven't straightened my head who's actually more dangerous.

Speaker 1 And of course it's the right, but it's this kind of shit that in the pit of your stomach, you just fucking hate people.

Speaker 1 It's yo. So go ahead.
A white lady walks out on you. She walks out on me.

Speaker 1 Because I'm using it. Now, everybody's having a great time.
Now, I got ADD, so immediately, I said, where y'all going? What the fuck y'all going? I dropped the mic and I followed him.

Speaker 1 Wait, you do have, really do have ADD? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's bad. It's bad.

Speaker 1 I'll real quick, you know. I've learned how to, um, I've learned how to combat it with weed, but for the most part, it's, um, I could be all over the place, whatever.

Speaker 1 I've learned how to turn it into a superpower. But anyway, go back to the story.
Right.

Speaker 1 I walk out.

Speaker 1 And I'm looking and I'm like, um,

Speaker 1 I'm like, why did you walk out? She was like, that word used.

Speaker 1 I said,

Speaker 1 ma'am. I said, which one? Because, you know, I talk a lot.
Which word are you talking about? The N-word. I start walking away.
She says, where are you going?

Speaker 1 I said, I'm not having this conversation with you. No, my grandson is black.

Speaker 1 So because.

Speaker 1 All right. I'm going to.

Speaker 1 I'm going to beat this right here for the end of the day.

Speaker 1 You're not even here. I'm going to fucking beat her.

Speaker 1 I wish that was the world's smallest violin and I could play it right now.

Speaker 1 How about you good? No, I don't do drugs. Oh, okay, cool.
That's what's no, I'm kidding. Give it a try.
Okay, cool.

Speaker 1 Please.

Speaker 1 You're good. You're good.
You're good. No, I'm good.
Okay. All right.
Put it down. All right.
Yeah, I'll take it. Yeah, please, man.
Come on.

Speaker 1 Please take it. I honestly think that that is much more offensive than a white person actually using the word.
Yes.

Speaker 1 I'm glad you. How dare you? How dare you? Yeah.
You're trying to deprive, trying to deprive me of my colonial right of saying this word? She really got mad. She's like, well, you shouldn't use it.

Speaker 1 My grandson, I said, ma'am,

Speaker 1 how about being viewed as one of those to the general populace that doesn't even know all of the different levels to the word? I said, think about that.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 I keep walking. Well, fuck you.
Well, fuck you too. Really? It got to that? Yes.
How old was this person, may I ask? She was like, she had to be in her 60s. 60s.
60s.

Speaker 1 I would have guessed way younger, but it just shows that the woke mind disease

Speaker 1 does exist. Yeah.
And it does exist in potentially anybody.

Speaker 1 You know, people really got on Musk for saying woke mind disease. And let me tell you, he's got a woke mind disease now, too.
I mean, and that's the political situation we're in, basically.

Speaker 1 It's like, he's not wrong that there is a woke mind disease on the left. I agree.
But

Speaker 1 Trumpism is also a mind disease. Oh, absolutely.
And,

Speaker 1 man,

Speaker 1 some of these guys who used to be center-right have gone full-on, you know, like

Speaker 1 the way Trump either makes you go so far left, you're obnoxious, or you're so far that you're insufferable. Okay.
And here I am in the middle. Can I ask you this, though? Is it

Speaker 1 do you look at Trump as a

Speaker 1 do you look at him from a comedic aspect, like standpoint? Like that's how I try to do.

Speaker 1 Because, okay, whatever he says is going to be crazy as shit. A lot of it, a lot of it has to be fact-checked because like

Speaker 1 90% of it is. You can just assume it's wrong.
Right. Because he, I mean, that sounds snarky.
It's just true Because he would be the first to tell you if he could be rational about something,

Speaker 1 but he said it in so many words to other people in interviews that he's not even attempting to tell what's absolutely, like factually true. No.
It's sort of spiritually true.

Speaker 1 Like you can't take it literally.

Speaker 1 And he's not even attempting it. It just feels right to say, and then he'll pull something out of his ass, like unemployment, the official is 3%.
It could be, they say it could be up to 45. Well,

Speaker 1 it plainly could not and is but he said things like and he does it all the time um so it's a tremendous superpower in politics because you do that constantly and none no one expects you to make literal sense can you imagine what kind of advantage of that is in a in a presidential race not to have to make literal sense he's got that going for him wow

Speaker 1 he's got the keys but you do him i do um

Speaker 1 damn i'm gonna do it right now i didn't hit the no

Speaker 1 ball.

Speaker 1 You're not a performing hero. No, no, no.
I'm just asking. No, I do.

Speaker 1 I started. He was the last.
He's one of the last ones.

Speaker 1 At first, I didn't want to do him because

Speaker 1 everything that

Speaker 1 everything that he stands for, I mean, everything that he's

Speaker 1 done.

Speaker 1 He's done some.

Speaker 1 He's a bad guy. He's just a bad guy.
I don't like him.

Speaker 1 But then I started saying,

Speaker 1 well, if I watch this guy,

Speaker 1 if I absolutely look at this man

Speaker 1 and I see exactly what he's trying to do,

Speaker 1 I'm basically

Speaker 1 a genie in a lamp. Rub me, rub me, baby.
Rub me, rub me the right way.

Speaker 1 And swear to God. People will die.
No one will care. No one will care about the death.
No one cares.

Speaker 1 Death. People die all the time, B.
Hey,

Speaker 1 just like money-making mitch said,

Speaker 1 like he said in paid in full

Speaker 1 inwards die die every day baby they absolutely do

Speaker 1 they die okay i'm out

Speaker 1 i will not say my

Speaker 1 wow my ninth cousin

Speaker 1 twice removed is an octoroon and i

Speaker 1 do i can you still say that one

Speaker 1 gives a fuck you don't mind do you uh go ahead man that's a funny word

Speaker 1 octaroon

Speaker 1 I mean, the fact that...

Speaker 1 Octoroon? You've heard it. No, I've never heard that word.
Are you serious? What is Octorun? You never heard Octorun? No, no, no. What is Octorune? Well, Oct from eight.
Uh-huh.

Speaker 1 I think it's someone who was one-eighth black. Oh, wow.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 they had words like that. Like, I think that's if one of your grandparents.

Speaker 1 Wow. I've never heard that before.
And Octoroon. Yeah.
That's a

Speaker 1 no, we've heard like

Speaker 1 this person's mixed or something.

Speaker 1 I don't think it was. It certainly was not used as a slur.
Yeah. There was no, you damn

Speaker 1 that sounds.

Speaker 1 I'm sorry. Octoroon.
That sounds delicious. Whatever

Speaker 1 it does.

Speaker 1 It sounds good. Yes, I'll have the octoroon.
Yes, please. Can I get that with rice? Hey, can we get a couple more octoroons over here? Oh, compliments to the chef.
The octoroon. It's amazing.

Speaker 1 I love this octoroon. This could also be a drink.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 A little Octorooni before work, huh?

Speaker 1 How's about me and you

Speaker 1 obsessing Octoro?

Speaker 1 Why does that guy shoulders? Why is that guy shoulders like this? What the fuck? Here, please.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Well,

Speaker 1 that is a great Trump. It's so funny to me that Trump, I think nobody like got him.

Speaker 1 They did these these impressions like Alec Baldwin, which was funny and fine, but it wasn't him.

Speaker 1 It wasn't spot on.

Speaker 1 It didn't capture the essence of him or really the sound. And then you got it.

Speaker 1 Our guy, Matt Friends, got it.

Speaker 1 The dude on SNL now. I always try to

Speaker 1 know his name. He definitely got it.
He totally is a genius at it.

Speaker 1 Several people. And it's funny.
There was a breakthrough. There was a certain moment.

Speaker 1 It's the hands. It's the.

Speaker 1 Did I just drop the baby?

Speaker 1 The baby.

Speaker 1 I dropped this baby.

Speaker 1 Someone pick up this baby quickly. We don't want it to turn to.

Speaker 1 You know what it is?

Speaker 1 It's the channeling of the stream of conscious. Yeah.
That just goes. Because he just is a mental patient.
So it's just a guy ranting and the way he connects.

Speaker 1 They once did one on SNL and they put me in it because Chris Christie, he's like, I saw Chris Chris Christie on the panel. He had to sit there with the other dopes.

Speaker 1 He didn't even get the top spot in the front.

Speaker 1 And then he goes from like that to, you know, pirates.

Speaker 1 It's just, it's, it just, it's all over the place. And, you know, when you capture that, you capture him and you have.
And he's so appreciated. I, you know, a lot of people don't see me do that one.

Speaker 1 I, you know what, man?

Speaker 1 While we're even talking about this, a lot of folks don't even

Speaker 1 know that I do

Speaker 1 white folks. They don't, they don't, they're just like, they ask questions.
Does he do white people? Like, yeah, of course, I can do white folks.

Speaker 1 You just did Trump. I just did Trump.
Like, come on, son. I mean, there's more, but you know,

Speaker 1 there's so much. Like, everybody's voice is different.
So you just got to be able to tap into it. Also,

Speaker 1 you go where

Speaker 1 the

Speaker 1 customer has been underserved.

Speaker 1 And the customer has traditionally been underserved with

Speaker 1 doing the black voices because most of the Impressionists were white.

Speaker 1 I never heard anybody do Denzel,

Speaker 1 which, you know, who has to be my favorite movie star. I realize when I, when I.

Speaker 1 You see, that's the thing. That's the thing, Bill.
They don't understand.

Speaker 1 They don't understand how much dedication it takes to put inside the pot the right ingredients to make that gumbo. You understand?

Speaker 1 That's what it is. Wow.
Yeah. It's kind of scary, right? It's like it's in.
It's so scary that when I close my eyes, I couldn't tell that it wasn't.

Speaker 1 You know, that's the thing, though. You know, if you open them as well, you can also see it.
You can just, you can see me go right into the pocket. You know, that's the pocket right there.

Speaker 1 You look in both pockets and you pay the bill. That's what you do, Bill.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Who thought you'd be sitting here? Who thought, hey, Denzel Washington and Bill Maher smoking a J together? I would really love to do it with the real one.

Speaker 1 Can you connect me?

Speaker 1 Really, I'm such a, I'm sure you have meetings.

Speaker 1 You know what? I met Denzel. There you go, brother.

Speaker 1 He's just the coolest. He is.
Him and Lenny Kravitz, man.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 1 I met him. He's a big fan.
Yeah. Like I could tell, legitimately, I was so honored.
I saw him at the Oscars, trying to get him here too yeah

Speaker 1 but uh denzel like

Speaker 1 just as far as like the batting average of entertaining movies one after another i just watched the for the second time the third equalizer

Speaker 1 because it was so good yeah he and fuqua yeah what a great team training day yeah man trump reminds me now

Speaker 1 i've said this i think somewhere of denzel at the end.

Speaker 1 I'm King Kong up in the

Speaker 1 I think Trump's power is ebbing finally. Yeah.
I don't think he's going to win the election. No, no.

Speaker 1 And I think he's a little bit like, I'm King Kong up in here. And people are like,

Speaker 1 we were afraid of you for so long and we're under your thumb. And you know what? We finally, even us who liked you,

Speaker 1 we've had enough of the act. Absolutely.
And and they just start walking away throwing their bandanas now right

Speaker 1 well that's certainly not what the republicans do but you know their version of that yeah they don't yeah they they yeah they right oh my uh

Speaker 1 my editorial at the end of the show this week is about matthew perry and the drug industry oh man and the doctors who killed him and uh i mean it was just just like uh

Speaker 1 i mean i have very mixed feelings about western medicine i'm glad it exists, kind of in the same way. I'm glad guns exist because otherwise it would be at the mercy of people who are stronger than us.

Speaker 1 But I don't want to use them, and I don't want to use Western medicine unless I have to, but sometimes you have to.

Speaker 1 But I mean,

Speaker 1 their callousness, you know, I mentioned not just him.

Speaker 1 There's a line in it about doctors killed Elvis, they killed Prince, they killed Tom Petty, they killed Michael Jackson,

Speaker 1 Michael Jackson. They've killed more rock stars than twin-engine planes.

Speaker 1 Which is like

Speaker 1 pretty on the edge of what you really should be able to say. Yeah.
But it's true.

Speaker 1 But you never had a drug problem, right? No, no, no, no. I've never had a drug problem.
You can always get the drugs you need.

Speaker 1 But it's no problem. It's like you can go, yeah, you go right there to the dispensary and get what you need.
But did you do through your 20s and stuff, did you do every kind of drug? Did you try?

Speaker 1 You never tried all the different kinds of drugs? No. No, just pot.
You know what, man?

Speaker 1 Yeah, just pot because Charlie Murphy told me, I got mollied one time. That happened.

Speaker 1 I didn't know it was in the drink, whatever, but it was six doses, bad. Six doses.
Six doses. Yeah.
That were put in your drink. Yeah.
Yeah. You know, I got roofied once.
Really?

Speaker 1 Well, I just remember being at a bar, and

Speaker 1 it was the, like, I've been drunk, I certainly was drunk a lot in my 20s and 30s, and I hate to say it

Speaker 1 kind of ashamedly, but into my 40s and a little into my 50s.

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Speaker 1 But, like, no matter how drunk I got, there was not like a four-hour period when I remember nothing. Right.
And that happened one night. I was at a bar.
This is about the year 2000. Again, I'm 44.

Speaker 1 I shouldn't even be in a bar, but fuck it. You know, a lot of us grow up late.

Speaker 1 Or if you're lucky, not at all.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 I'm in this bar and then I was home. And yes, did I leave with a woman? Yes.
And I don't know if she, I don't think she did it.

Speaker 1 She seemed to be in a very good mood the next morning, so nothing bad happened. But there was like a four-hour period where I don't remember anything.

Speaker 1 And that never, I must have been on, I must have been roofing.

Speaker 1 Wait, what? When roofied you when you emptied.

Speaker 1 It was when you emptied out, did you feel

Speaker 1 anything happen?

Speaker 1 It was 25 years ago. I don't remember that kind of, I mean, I don't remember anything bad.

Speaker 1 I remember thinking, oh, good, someone's going home with me.

Speaker 1 I remember that. I felt good about that.

Speaker 1 I don't think she had anything to do with it. She certainly didn't have to roofie me to get me to go home with her.
I was prepping.

Speaker 1 That's another thing, though. Check it out.
When you put the shoe on the other foot,

Speaker 1 you're talking about, all right, like you got Roofy. I got Molly, whatever.

Speaker 1 But if something would happen to us, like, say a woman would do something, like, you know, nobody would say, everybody would be like, oh, stop. I'll stop bragging.
You know what I'm saying? Right.

Speaker 1 As well, they should. But

Speaker 1 as well, they should. See, I don't think people did it to me.
I think probably, here's my theory.

Speaker 1 I'm in this bar. It was like a big bar, you know, one of those, this is, again, a long time ago, very big bar around the whole room.
So there's like a million, you could see like a million people.

Speaker 1 I would say this bar was, oh my God, at least 30 feet long. And so you could see like,

Speaker 1 I think somebody across the way was like, saw me, some guy, and had brought some roofy shit. And again, I say roofy.
I don't know what the drug was.

Speaker 1 Somebody told me it was probably GHB, whatever that is. Whatever it was, I lost like four hours.
But I think some guy

Speaker 1 was there and he was like, there was no girl he wanted to do, but he saw me and hated me

Speaker 1 from television, Bill Maher from television, of course. Who's very popular and also hated by a lot of people and thought, oh, I'll fuck this, I'll fuck this guy up.

Speaker 1 And that's just a theory. He was just looking.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Oh.

Speaker 1 Oh, I've been waiting to use this motherfucker.

Speaker 1 I mean, I made that up, but it couldn't, that definitely, I couldn't think of anything why someone would put or in my drink. Or it could have been something else, maybe.

Speaker 1 Well, why did they do it to you? Oh, it was just, it was the people I was with.

Speaker 1 The people you were with. Yeah.

Speaker 1 This girl was a rocket, whatever. She had girlfriends.

Speaker 1 She was a rockette. A rocket? A rockette.
Like, literally at the

Speaker 1 Rockefeller Center? Yeah, she was a rocket. Yeah.

Speaker 1 No, you said it was such pride. Yeah.
No, like, no, I'm sure sure she's very attractive. They don't hire

Speaker 1 no ugly rockettes. No, no, they're not at all.
They're adorable. Yeah, you're rockets.
Yeah, you're knocking off rockettes. You're a baller.
Hey, man.

Speaker 1 I'm just listening. Hey, I can introduce you to the June Taylor dancers.

Speaker 1 I think you will be very impressed, my friend. Just introduce me to the river dancers.
Just show me some river dancers. I'll be good with that.
All right. So the rocket roofied you? Yeah, it was.

Speaker 1 Wow. No, no, because all of her friends were about to, they were about to do it.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 I saw champagne. The rockets are loaded like that? Yeah, they got shit.
That's why they kick like that. Yeah, that's why it's so high.
Cause I see. Yo, dude, it's.
Okay.

Speaker 1 We learned stuff on this podcast. Okay.
So the rocket.

Speaker 1 I was hanging out with her. and her friends and somebody had it.
And I didn't know that it was the champagne. I didn't know it was champagne.
I didn't know it was in the champagne.

Speaker 1 Oh. And

Speaker 1 they didn't tell you on purpose? No, no, no, no. They just, you know, nobody's, I guess it's known.
I guess they're regular molly takers.

Speaker 1 It's just assumed it's in the champagne. Oh, yeah, he knows.

Speaker 1 Please. Yeah, it's champagne.
Of course, he knows. In the VIP section, of course, there's molly in the champagne.
We're not animals here. I mean, we're not farmers for crying out loud.
Come on, man.

Speaker 1 Sophisticated.

Speaker 1 city. Yeah.
Who serves champagne without Molly in it? Oh, okay. Okay.
So

Speaker 1 it was there and I like champagne. So

Speaker 1 I drink fast. I used to drink very fast.

Speaker 1 Stopped doing that, Bill. Had to stop doing that.
So you don't drink at all? I don't drink anymore. That's good.
Drinking is the worst. Yeah, no, no, no.
But you here, please.

Speaker 1 No, I drink a little, but I drink so much. You know what? I saved my drink for this show.
Yeah. But really, I have literally two or three drinks a week.

Speaker 1 Oh, I used to have two or three before I went out. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Mine was a little bit more than that, I believe. Oh, really? You had a drinking problem?

Speaker 4 It wasn't a drinking problem.

Speaker 1 What it was,

Speaker 1 you could get all the drinking with the liquor you wanted. It was.
It was just one. It was there.

Speaker 1 It was there. So you just have a couple, then you have a couple more.

Speaker 1 And then you have another one. Right.
And then it's like your five, six drinks in. But my mother has a very high tolerance.
So

Speaker 1 for you or liquor? Liquor.

Speaker 1 So that's like a thing. I don't know if it's a Brooklyn thing or whatever, but it ain't a Brooklyn thing.
It's just her thing, whatever. So me and my sister, we got these,

Speaker 1 we got these crazy tolerances. So

Speaker 1 I could drink eight in a day or something like that. Yeah.

Speaker 1 There are people who do way more than that. Yeah.
They're called the British.

Speaker 1 I mean, really, the British rock stars, the British actors,

Speaker 1 especially the old school dudes like Michael Caine,

Speaker 1 and talking about Oliver Reed, Peter O'Toole,

Speaker 1 Richard Burton, that crew.

Speaker 1 They like put away bottles

Speaker 1 in a day.

Speaker 1 Like they'd have a bottle.

Speaker 1 And then like wine at lunch, because that was just like almost

Speaker 1 to be that pissed and still act.

Speaker 1 So eight, yeah, I remember certainly going out when I was 20s and 30s. If you went out, you had all this energy back then.
And also, you were always on the hunt,

Speaker 1 which is just so embarrassing to think about it, even when you were young. But, okay.
So, you'd go to like two or three different places in a night. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So, okay. And each one, you'd have two or three drinks.
Okay.

Speaker 1 So, if you go to three places times three drinks, you know, yeah, you're already up to.

Speaker 1 So,

Speaker 1 so, yeah. Your body is almost too good when you're young because it allows you to abuse it this much.
Yeah, you're right.

Speaker 1 You become allergic to things that you were never allergic to before, like Caesar salad. Yeah.
You want to kill me easily? Just

Speaker 1 give me a chicken Caesar wrap. I'm gone.
I'm out of here. I think it's the anchovies in it.

Speaker 1 But I grew out of that. When I was 30, I had that.
And by the time I was 35.

Speaker 1 Did you ever get close close to getting married oh i mean yeah early in my 20s

Speaker 1 but you got out of it yeah i got out of it she had a daughter which was cool you know i loved her daughter as well as her

Speaker 1 but um

Speaker 1 yeah man i just i hadn't lived life man so

Speaker 1 i just uh i got out of that situation And I tried to come back because, you know, you think, you know, you like, man, well, I'm over there. I'm on SNL at this time.
Right. Dude, I'm what?

Speaker 1 I'm 20, 20, 22 when I got the job. Really? That young? 22 years old when I got the job.
So 23, 24,

Speaker 1 25, like I'm teetering or whatever when it comes to, you know, the relationship.

Speaker 1 Cause

Speaker 1 only thing I requested was like no stress. Oh, you know, don't stress me, whatever.
I got to be at this job that requires,

Speaker 1 it requires my attention. That is the.

Speaker 1 It's the, yo. Well, I mean, that's the hardest thing to request, I think, of a woman, and the most amazing thing to find, if you find that in a woman,

Speaker 1 that gives you no stress. Absolutely.
I don't feel bad about staying single my whole life

Speaker 1 looking for that. Yeah.
And when you find it, it is pretty amazing. Yeah.
I mean, because just, and I'm not knocking women. It's just like in their nature, certain things.

Speaker 1 When I look back on my life, I realize that the majority of the stress did not come from work, even though people would think, Oh, Bill, you're mixing dangerous chemicals every week on that show.

Speaker 1 I mean, and I am, and there are been very stressful moments, and each week, I guess, is

Speaker 1 somewhat stressful. But the real stress in my life came from relationships, even good ones.
There's just a built-in,

Speaker 1 like,

Speaker 1 I'm living my life and I have to kind of live your life too. Yeah.

Speaker 1 The way you said that. No, because

Speaker 1 I feel you.

Speaker 1 I know you do. We all feel this way.

Speaker 1 It's harder. Yeah, man.
And to incorporate, like you're saying, I got to, I'm incorporating your life and mine. And I'm trying to move at a level and I'm trying to elevate.

Speaker 1 I also, I got to think about my day and apparently yours. Yours.

Speaker 1 It's like, it's two days but it is only oh it's 48 hours and 24 hours and it's crazy if you can really if you can find someone who like I give a shit if you asked about my day right that is a real find oh oh man let's just sit there in silence and it doesn't mean you don't care right we admire each other

Speaker 1 this is admiration and and like

Speaker 1 but I always wonder why people just why don't you want to just when you're with the person be at your best? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Like, of course, if there's something serious, you're significant other, you should, you want them there for you. And, but, like, just day-to-day shit, like, my boss doesn't understand me.

Speaker 1 It's like, why don't you just let the character actors handle that? Absolutely. And then you just be the star of the show and have it be a great romantic comedy every time.
But it's hard, I guess.

Speaker 1 I don't know. It's just what you.
But now you're totally single?

Speaker 1 Now, God dang it.

Speaker 1 No, no, no.

Speaker 1 You know what? I wouldn't want to answer the same question, so just pick up.

Speaker 1 I'm like,

Speaker 1 let's... No, no, no, no, no.
I would tell you this.

Speaker 1 There is a,

Speaker 1 there is a lovely, there is a lovely piece of me that I have found. Piece of what? Piece of me that I have found.
Oh, good. I thought you said meat.
No.

Speaker 1 Oh, no. No, no, no.

Speaker 1 Piece of meat. I mean, come on, be a little more gentlemanly than that.
No, Bill, I don't go to the parties. I don't do that.

Speaker 1 We stay away from those.

Speaker 1 Piece of me you found. Yes.
That's a good title for something. So I would say.

Speaker 1 Piece of me I found.

Speaker 1 I mean, you got to find people that,

Speaker 1 you know, just.

Speaker 1 I don't know, gel with you in a certain way and they understand.

Speaker 1 Don't stress you.

Speaker 1 That's right. You You got enough of your own stress.
Exactly. So, you know,

Speaker 1 she don't stress your boy out. I'm like, listen.
Right. Sweetheart.
Beautiful. Right.
That's the piece of me you found. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Because if you don't have that, what you're saying to somebody is, you want a piece of me?

Speaker 1 And that's why I like marijuana.

Speaker 1 Hey, man, I love it. Oh, my gosh.

Speaker 1 It is a beautiful, it's a beautiful addition to the household. However, well, you know, there's only really

Speaker 1 I was

Speaker 1 thinking about this issue with what we were talking about before and what I was working on this week, although it's not in the piece, but

Speaker 1 like people are always asking, what's the gateway drug? They're very obsessed with that, especially people who don't think drugs should be legal and so forth.

Speaker 1 And my answer always is,

Speaker 1 whatever is the first one you do. For some people, it's beer.
For some people, it's pot. Kids these days, Riddle in or whatever.
But the first time you go from, oh, reality to

Speaker 1 this is something where my mind can go, and it's

Speaker 1 different than reality. Yeah.
It's a little better. It's a little, it can be a little worse.
Yeah. But it is different.

Speaker 1 And there's nothing wrong with that. No, but.
It's like having a vacation home. But, yeah.

Speaker 1 But what if your timeshare becomes your home? That's the problem. Exactly.
Some people want, that's it.

Speaker 1 Some people cannot go on vacation either one day or even one day because then they'll just stay on vacation. Get lost.
I mean, there are a lot of people who stay on vacation.

Speaker 1 I mean, in America, you know, I'm generally liberal on these things, but we also do have a lot of

Speaker 1 deadbeats and ne'er-do-wells and people who take advantage of our often generous system.

Speaker 1 You know,

Speaker 1 knuckleheads on January 6th, you know, Trump is having a award show for them.

Speaker 1 They'll get off. They'll absolutely get off.

Speaker 1 Really?

Speaker 1 You won't have to worry about voting in four years. No one have to worry about it.

Speaker 1 Did anybody just hear what this motherfucker just said? Yeah, I did. I heard that.

Speaker 1 You're right. He says the quiet part out loud.
You got to give him that.

Speaker 1 What?

Speaker 1 But these guys, you know,

Speaker 1 I'm not saying they're not sincere, but North Korea is not that bad. It's not that bad.
We can change America into North Korea. Why not? One person will follow me.
Who else?

Speaker 1 Lick my wounds, lick my toes.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Remember he wrote a love letter to Kim Jong-un? Oh, my gosh, man.
What the.

Speaker 1 But those guys, you know, again, deadbeats in America. I just got to say,

Speaker 1 they're all about being hardworking Americans, but somehow they all had a day off in the middle of the week.

Speaker 1 Somehow nobody missed work. No.

Speaker 1 Like when it came to J6 Day, they were able to get the day off. I feel like a lot of them just had the day off.
Yeah, they had the day off.

Speaker 1 I don't think it was a problem.

Speaker 1 There was a list.

Speaker 1 They had an Instagram page. They had the whole nine yards.
They did. Yes, they did.
They did.

Speaker 1 They said, we're going to meet on this day. Everybody clock in.

Speaker 1 They had a piece of paper. They passed it around.

Speaker 1 There was a meeting. There were definitely meetings.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I always thought that they

Speaker 1 accented too much Trump's

Speaker 1 activities on that day, which were, of course, reprehensible, but legally to try to get him on that is just too tough.

Speaker 1 The crime he committed was having not conceded the election up until that day. And of course, every day after it, up until the present, still hasn't conceded.

Speaker 1 But, you know, the election was early November. This was January 6th.
He still had not conceded the election in that whole time while trying a million different ways to stay in office.

Speaker 1 That's the crime.

Speaker 1 The entire time span from, okay, we'll give you a week after the election. Certainly all the votes are in by then.
No, they don't all come in on election night now. We do it by mail.

Speaker 1 I don't know why they can't get it better. Other countries do it.
Brazil did it in like fucking three hours. But okay, it's America.
We fuck things up. But a week after the election,

Speaker 1 that's it.

Speaker 1 Okay, that's it. After that,

Speaker 1 you got to like take one for the team. I know it hurts to lose.
Yeah, he was squatting in the White House.

Speaker 1 He was a squatter, yes. He was just squatting in the White House.

Speaker 1 Didn't LeBron have squatters? Yeah. Didn't he have a thing about squatters? What the fuck? No.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he owned some prop, yes. I think

Speaker 1 somebody broke people in his own house, of course. But he owned some other house.
And, you know,

Speaker 1 it's funny out here in liberal LA when something actually happens to the liberal.

Speaker 1 Suddenly they like understand what people, you know, like. all the migrants that got bused to New York and Chicago and

Speaker 1 LA, we get them directly. But,

Speaker 1 you know,

Speaker 1 I was very sympathetic to those border states who were like, yeah,

Speaker 1 you're yelling at us.

Speaker 1 But now you see what we're dealing with.

Speaker 1 You know, now they're in your hotels.

Speaker 1 It's costing your taxpayers. We're not even saying we shouldn't have immigrants, but somebody's got to pay for it.
Somebody's got to pay for them. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 So, you know, now you're so bitching, they're on Martha's Vineyard.

Speaker 1 Okay, well, I thought you were the ones who said you wanted them. You know,

Speaker 1 let's spread the pain around. This is so beautiful.
I love this place here. I love that.

Speaker 1 No, it's just, you know, somebody just chilling. Somebody chilling there at the venue.

Speaker 1 Oh, I see. Somebody at the venue.
Yeah, it's a very nice house.

Speaker 1 I love it.

Speaker 1 It's the microwave. It just got off the box.

Speaker 1 That's what I want. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And then you have to have the liberal Karen there with them. Can I get you anything?

Speaker 1 You must be so sorry. You must be so thirsty walking a thousand miles.
I did not walk. I took a plane because that's how most migrants get here.
They take a plane and then they just stay. Right.

Speaker 1 They don't like crash through the, I mean, some do, obviously. Many do.
But most people who are in the most... Some of them use abilities.
Yeah, the wall is not, unless the wall can stop planes,

Speaker 1 it's not going to do anything.

Speaker 1 People come, you buy a ticket to America. Anybody can do it.

Speaker 1 and then yeah you're supposed to go back and then they just disappear yeah it's called greyhounds quick or greyhound it's just you know it's not rocket science you go getting into this country it's a bus

Speaker 1 it's not hard

Speaker 1 yeah i feel like it was easier to joke around

Speaker 1 uh on racial stuff years ago am i wrong about that no you're absolutely right about that because like i said everybody is just so

Speaker 1 everybody's so ready to get offended. Everybody's so ready to be part of the general populace.
Like, yeah, I'm mad too. I'm angry too.
So, you know.

Speaker 1 It offends me because like, I feel like you should trust me. Right.
Unless I do something really horrible, which I'm not going to do.

Speaker 1 But you should trust me that if I make a certain joke, you know where my heart is. You know where I've been.
I mean, I gave Obama a million dollars. Okay.

Speaker 1 I think I paid my dues. Like, so that we can just joke.
And of course, it's better when we do joke. Yeah.

Speaker 1 When you keep it bottled up.

Speaker 1 Also, because it's like it's a bonding mechanism. Yeah.
It's like, but you have to trust the person

Speaker 1 is not doing it with ill intent. But like, you know, if you do a, or any black comic does a white voice,

Speaker 1 you know, they all have the way the white guy talks, right? I'm sure you got your.

Speaker 1 I'm basically, mine just sounds like John Mulaney I guess just

Speaker 1 okay there you go I mean but so that's funny and it is funny I always laugh at it but I but I can't if I do it if I did a black voice

Speaker 1 they'd be canceling me the next day

Speaker 1 that's and that's just like really you don't trust me that's to the people that's just the folks that are that are in charge not everybody else like on the ground level some people don't care some people

Speaker 1 don't care okay most people don't care but they still go along with it because nobody wants to be the one who gets called out by the mean girls on Twitter that you're not, you know, you're not in line with the wokest of the woke.

Speaker 1 So they get into, you're right, people don't really care. Yeah.
But we've seen it too many times where

Speaker 1 they also don't want to stick their neck out. Right.

Speaker 1 Not that it should be something that is that

Speaker 1 requires that much courage, but

Speaker 1 I don't know if you saw Bobby Kennedy

Speaker 1 endorse Trump. Yes.
Right. And then, you know, he's married to Cheryl Hines.
Yes.

Speaker 1 Larry Davids' work wife on Curb Your Enthusiasm and many other projects. And, you know, I know her, I know them.
And I really felt bad for her because they came after her.

Speaker 1 And, you know, Bobby Kennedy

Speaker 1 does do a lot and say a lot. Weird fucking shit.

Speaker 1 I mean, eating bears and cutting up dead whales. And I mean, what the fuck? What's

Speaker 1 a worm in his brain? Yeah,

Speaker 1 he must watch anime or some shit, some hentai shit. It's fucked up.
You know what I'm talking about.

Speaker 1 I mean, I know what anime is. Okay.
You know what Hentai anime is. I don't know what Hentai is.

Speaker 1 That's some other crazy. What is it?

Speaker 1 It's like anime porn, but it's like fucked up shit, like motherfucker tentacles and shit like that. Oh, okay, sure.
Yeah, so he must be watching, he must be seeing some of that type of thing.

Speaker 1 I remember reading something about that, that Japanese porn got into the tentacles because for some reason, I think they were highly censored after the war so that you couldn't show a penis.

Speaker 1 I didn't know that.

Speaker 1 I'm not sure I know it. I'm just saying I think I read that.

Speaker 1 But that makes sense to me. I feel like that does resonate, that there was some

Speaker 1 very strict laws about what you could show. And so

Speaker 1 the tentacle became sort of a replacement for the penis. Yeah.
And then they got into it because humans are fucked up like that. They like octopus porn.
That's what they like. Octoporin.

Speaker 1 As opposed to octoroon. Octoroon.
Yep, which is one eighth. Yep.
And thank you because that's a new word I've learned.

Speaker 1 I never heard of that. Well, Octoroon.
We're going to have to find out how offensive it's going to be. But I meant no offense, and you took no offense, right?

Speaker 1 No, it's historical. It's historical.

Speaker 1 That's a word that's been used.

Speaker 1 It shows that

Speaker 1 people back then were like just obsessed with race.

Speaker 1 And then I feel like they got less obsessed. Now they're back to it.
Absolutely.

Speaker 1 So maybe we'll be hearing that word again, but I hope not. I just,

Speaker 1 I mean,

Speaker 1 I'm on the old, old school liberal. I guess I'm showing my age, but you know, Martin Luther King,

Speaker 1 content of their character, not the color of their skin.

Speaker 1 You know, colorblind society. We don't,

Speaker 1 we know, of course, we know it. Like, we, you know, you're not blind, but you could care less.

Speaker 1 That I thought was the goal.

Speaker 1 But now people, yeah, like you're saying, people are picking a baby.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 But, you know, I also get that side a little bit because like,

Speaker 1 you know, there's still lots of racism in America. It's not like we got rid of it.
Yeah. But it's like saying there's criminals.
Yeah, there's always going to be criminals.

Speaker 1 And there's always going to be.

Speaker 1 It became more emboldened in 2016, though.

Speaker 1 Absolutely. Trump gave them a lot of permission.
And as soon as he got in there, now folks are, now the racial slurs are going up. People are being more violent towards, you know, POCs or whatever.

Speaker 1 You know, just, it just,

Speaker 1 it became a super hatred society. You know, it seemed like it was happening and it was, it was bubbling up.
And he just, he just basically just turned the flame on.

Speaker 1 It was a combination of, and of course. He turned it up.

Speaker 1 He's part of this, but it was a combination of Trump in and also after eight years of obama yeah so anybody who was not really down with the idea of a black family eating off the white house china

Speaker 1 shall we say i got anyone who was not really down with that

Speaker 1 you know had a yeah yeah had a voice well they just it was

Speaker 1 it had to there had to be there was going to be some level of backlash right

Speaker 1 um oh we've been waiting for this they just yeah I mean, the reason why I gave him a million dollars was the second term.

Speaker 1 I thought him having a second term was even more important than the first term. Yeah.
It had to,

Speaker 1 it had to,

Speaker 1 it had to be a successful presidency,

Speaker 1 or else they would have said, well,

Speaker 1 we tried it,

Speaker 1 but never again. Well, you know, it didn't.
And the truth is, it was like among the most successful because I still don't think they really talk about it enough.

Speaker 1 He came in like in the middle of a shitstorm,

Speaker 1 the economic crash, the worst kind of shitstorm, and made the right calls. You know, saved GM, bailed out the banks as much as people hated that.
I mean,

Speaker 1 I think people really don't understand enough how close we were to

Speaker 1 a depression, not just a really bad recession, and how they,

Speaker 1 looking back they kind of like you know they made the right moves yeah

Speaker 1 and as much as people were screaming at them yeah it had to be it had to be done I just I remember how much pride we took man it was 2008

Speaker 1 we took so much pride man at 91 there was this

Speaker 1 I remember we were at the Chick-fil-A I was at VCU at the time VCU yeah Virginia Commonwealth University okay yeah I was there and we were out there marching and and it was this lady at the Chick-fil-A and she was always so mean, angry lady, whatever.

Speaker 1 You can't have that.

Speaker 1 You can't get yourself a sausage biscuit. You can't do that with a chicken biscuit.
You can't do that. And we'd be like, all right, well, forget you, you know, fuck it.
You know? Right.

Speaker 1 We went in there that night.

Speaker 1 She was like, I can't believe this happened. She just let us walk out with all the chicken sandwiches

Speaker 1 and sausage and egg biscuits. Yeah, she didn't even care.
She was so flabbergasted. She was, I can't believe that happened.
Now, y'all go ahead and do what you want to do, have whatever.

Speaker 1 Like the world had come to an end. Like the world had come to an end.

Speaker 1 Give up. Yeah.
I'm pretty sure she's not here now because that was 2008 and she was about,

Speaker 1 she was like 78 years old. And that's the, you know, again, one of my beefs with the left is like, they never acknowledge like where we really are now.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Not all the way. But those kind of people,

Speaker 1 exactly what you said. They're dead or dying.

Speaker 1 It's just not where the zeitgeist is. Right.
You know, I mean,

Speaker 1 I think the, you know, bringing up the rear is possibly cops

Speaker 1 because they still

Speaker 1 bringing up the rear, saying bringing up the rear in 2024 is crazy. That's, that's, that's crazy.
What do you mean? That's, that's crazy. There's so many.
Wow, that's going to be memes.

Speaker 1 But they also have the hardest job. Yeah.
I got what you're saying, but like, like, Bill, like, we're about to get memed and shit for that comment. They're going to meme the shit out of this.

Speaker 1 The cops won't like it. No, forget the cops.
It's not the, it's the internet. Them motherfuckers.

Speaker 1 And they brutal. It's okay.
Fuck them. I mean, but it's, I mean, look, I've defended the cops.

Speaker 1 and also been very hard on them when they deserved it.

Speaker 1 And also want people to acknowledge that from when I started, because I just did a book where I went through all the editorials over the the years. So I know exactly what I used to say,

Speaker 1 and it's different than what now. There was a number of them that were about how whatever cops do,

Speaker 1 they just will say, well, we actually did it by the book and we did nothing wrong. And none of them ever went to jail.
And that's different now. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Like there's been a dozen cases where they go to jail.

Speaker 1 most famously the George Floyd case and where the cop, the other cops don't defend.

Speaker 1 It used to be like the blue line and there is never a crack in it. That's not where we are now.
I'm not going to like pretend we're in a place that we're not. That's not what I do for a living.

Speaker 1 It's what anybody should do in journalism. Talk about where we are.

Speaker 1 But, you know,

Speaker 1 I'm sure there's still

Speaker 1 you know, some pullovers and shit that should not be happening. I just think it's ingrained in the police culture a little bit.
Yeah, I mean,

Speaker 1 I think police are damned if they do and damned that they don't. Correct.

Speaker 1 You got the hardest jobs in the world.

Speaker 1 And at the same time, one false move. And, you know, it's either a rap or, you know, now, like you're saying, now you're getting locked up or something.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 being on the end of it,

Speaker 1 because I have been wrongfully detained before. I got wrongfully detained in 2020.
You saw that? I think

Speaker 1 what happened?

Speaker 1 I was on Ventura. I was running down Ventura, and the cops came up.
They had the guns on me and all of that. Running.
Yeah. I was running.
From what? I was just exercising. Oh.
I was gaining weight.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and when I gained weight, I don't gain weight like a normal person like you. You probably gain weight in your stomach or your face, your arms.
I don't gain weight. You don't gain weight at all.

Speaker 1 Well, I make sure I know.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 But if you ever did, you know, well it's not you you if you ever gained weight hypothetically you gain weight as a dude i gained weight at your age yeah oh really okay yeah i was much less careful about what i eat but you had like a you had like a gut or something you know what i mean i've never had a gut okay but i've been

Speaker 1 at my most probably almost 20 pounds heavier at one point um

Speaker 1 so

Speaker 1 Yeah, I could have, I could, I get it, you know, you're, you're, so you porked up a little, you're running. And so they just porked up a a little.

Speaker 1 So they just

Speaker 1 tackled you just because you were a black man running? I wasn't tackled. It was a, they had the guns on me.
They told me to get on the ground. The first dude, the first one did.

Speaker 1 And then the other ones came up and I was on the ground. Now I got four cops with the guns.
But they sick because you look like somebody who they were looking for? That's what they said.

Speaker 1 Look, is this like do police work?

Speaker 1 This is a guy jogging. Right.

Speaker 1 Exactly. It's it's it and they just then invite all this

Speaker 1 criticism about being racist and it's valid. And it seems, yeah, it seems fitting now.
It seems fitting because of what you just,

Speaker 1 what you just did. Oh, he's a

Speaker 1 well, you look like, you look like who we're looking for. Well,

Speaker 1 with a hoodie. And right.
And that's the first step. Black dude.
I don't want a hoodie like

Speaker 1 go a little further. Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's

Speaker 1 say something about my lips or something.

Speaker 1 Get people who, like,

Speaker 1 I mean, I'm sure there are many cops who are better at it and are,

Speaker 1 I've known good cops,

Speaker 1 really smart cops who do this kind of work. But, you know, I guess not enough.

Speaker 1 But I always think about when I was in Israel making religilis and I had this thermos in my suitcase, which looks just like the bottom of a bomb, I realized. And

Speaker 1 they took me out of line. But the person who interviewed me was, you know, Israel doesn't fuck around.

Speaker 1 That ain't the

Speaker 1 TSA over there. Right.
That's ex-Army intelligence people. They are the

Speaker 1 and she, this woman took me out, talked to me and my assistant, and in five minutes, let us go because she used her mind. It wasn't just, you have something that looks like a bomb.
Who are you?

Speaker 1 And she could tell, okay, we're not the people blowing up this plane. Right.

Speaker 1 They are legitimately some comic from America as assistant making a movie, and this is for serial.

Speaker 1 And she, you know, they just she had a high IQ. Yeah.
She knows. We need more of that.
Yes. You know, just better ways to identify them.
Yeah. He's black.

Speaker 1 We're looking for a black guy, but not this black guy. Right.

Speaker 1 We have to be able to tell them apart, you know. Especially not.
God dang, you look at me, god dang,

Speaker 1 is me like you could have said anybody. Well, they look like Andy Murphy, they look like Charlie Murphy.
Look at him, you know. He looks like

Speaker 1 so

Speaker 1 he looks like somebody. Did you register your unhappiness with this event at the time? I did.
What? I did at the time. I, uh,

Speaker 1 you know, I talked about it. To the cops, I mean, oh, man, I was pissed off, bro.
I was, I was really pissed.

Speaker 1 What did you say?

Speaker 1 I was like, yo, get these fucking cuffs off me, yo, because it was like, oh, we sorry, sir. We sorry, sir.
We uh,

Speaker 1 sir, we, um, you're not the guy.

Speaker 1 I was like, I know I'm not the guy. I tried to tell you that, you know what I mean? See, here's where that white accent would come in handy.

Speaker 1 You're not the guy. Sorry about this.

Speaker 1 It's totally ridiculous. I told you it was John Mulaney.

Speaker 1 That's all it is.

Speaker 1 That's all it was

Speaker 1 and all it ever will be.

Speaker 1 What?

Speaker 1 Well,

Speaker 1 on behalf of all Caucasians, I apologize.

Speaker 1 I do.

Speaker 1 We feel terrible. Oh, you know, no need to, man.
I know. I didn't do it.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 If you asked me how high I got with Bill Maher, I would say, I saw Jesus. Now, will you be able to perform your little skits tonight at the

Speaker 1 comedy store?

Speaker 1 Will you be able to? I'll be fine. I'll be fine.
I'm sure you will be. It's a 15-minute set.
So it's like, you know, you do them.

Speaker 1 Your homeboy, it's your.

Speaker 1 Yeah, who's come through?

Speaker 1 Because you're a star now. Yeah.
It's a comedy club. They're going to be very just happy to have you.

Speaker 1 But I'm coming with the bars, though. I ain't lying, so you know.
Yeah, of course. Got out of the bars.

Speaker 1 Got out of the bars, man.

Speaker 1 Well,

Speaker 1 I guess I should let you go so you can get to your 8 o'clock. No, man.
I mean. Yeah, or if

Speaker 1 you're good,

Speaker 1 you know,

Speaker 1 if you get me drinking and smoking and having a laugh, you know,

Speaker 1 I'm Irish. It's very hard to very hard to stop me.

Speaker 1 Let's,

Speaker 1 when can I ever say, when will I ever be able to say that I did this shit, man? Like, this is. We can do it again.
You know,

Speaker 1 before we built the cameras into the walls here so we could do a show.

Speaker 1 This was always my party house. I don't live here.
You think I live here?

Speaker 1 I live next door. I know.
Um, this is the place

Speaker 1 it always just had a great vibe. So, like, I never stopped doing that.
But you don't live in LA, do you? I do. Oh, you do? Yeah, I'm in.
I'm in the valley. Oh, well, then there's no problem.

Speaker 1 Next time there's a party here.

Speaker 1 Because,

Speaker 1 you know, as the older I get,

Speaker 1 I still have

Speaker 1 a good core of friends my age.

Speaker 1 But more and more, my friends are not my age because the kids my age don't want to play anymore. They don't smoke pot anymore or they have to be in bed by eight o'clock.

Speaker 1 I mean, people call me up and they say, you want to have dinner? I'd love to. How's six? Six?

Speaker 1 Six at night are you talking about?

Speaker 1 I can't live that way. No.
But so like people your age, I wind up gravitating to because you're you're still down for like

Speaker 1 continuous

Speaker 1 until you get high. Yeah, which didn't take very long.

Speaker 1 You uh, this is this is that's that's that Bill Maher strand.

Speaker 1 So I appreciate that. Nothing could really have warmed my heart more than you saying that, that I get that imprimatur from you.
I'm sorry, I'm serious. That like you, my pot did not disappoint you.

Speaker 1 It did not at all. When it came to my pot, a hero will rise.
A hero with... Yeah, that's...
That's a quote from Dark Knight. You watch the show.
That's the quote.

Speaker 1 That's every fucking one of your movies.

Speaker 1 It is always a hero will rise.

Speaker 1 I mean,

Speaker 1 and always just like how they became.

Speaker 1 Even when they make a remake, they're still making it like how I get it, how they became. That seems to be the only story that they want to hear it doesn't get tiresome

Speaker 1 hey man

Speaker 1 I don't know why I'm making you defend all of superhero movies but I'm doing it I'm gonna make you defend all of superhero movies what about um

Speaker 1 uh you know um black panther

Speaker 1 what about it like it's what is your impression what is your review no no no it

Speaker 1 of course the second one second one felt like it was missing Chadwick.

Speaker 1 There's a second one? Yeah. Oh, okay, okay.
Kidding.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 the first one, I felt like, okay, everybody's celebrating, but what did we're celebrating, but we still don't own

Speaker 1 any of this. You know what I mean? Of Wakanda? No, no, no.

Speaker 1 It's not real, you know. No, I understand.
No, I'm talking about the budget, man. Like, we don't owe any of the.
Whoa, whoa, wait a second. Eddie Murphy

Speaker 1 got an award a few months ago. I can't remember what the organization was, but he made a speech.
And in that speech, he... Are you paying your taxes?

Speaker 1 No, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 1 Maybe that went viral too, but this was well reported.

Speaker 1 He was getting some kind of lifetime achievement award, and he sure deserves all of them. Right.

Speaker 1 And he said, when I started in the business, like there was one black movie star, Sidney Poitier, and there was like two black people on TV, and there was no black cinematographers or directors.

Speaker 1 And he went through down the list, and he said, we got all that now.

Speaker 1 That's Eddie Murphy. Okay.
I'm just saying things have changed a lot. No, I'm not talking about from an actor's standpoint.
That's not what I'm talking about.

Speaker 1 I'm talking about from a standpoint of straight up ownership. kind of like Tyler Perry did.
Tyler Perry.

Speaker 1 With taking it from the ground and now building and everybody having a piece of it. It's like, okay, yeah, that's over there.
That's at Marvel. Do you watch Tyler Perry movies?

Speaker 1 Seldom. I do.
Really? I watch them sometimes just to, okay, like I'll give you an example. The recent ones that he's come out with, man, let me give props to him because

Speaker 1 To be able to go from zero to basically from zero to 100,

Speaker 1 how he took everything he was a homeless man he was homeless

Speaker 1 tyler perry was homeless tyler peri he he wrote these screenplays and then created this one character medea

Speaker 1 that right that he that just went through the black community and caused like an uproar like when i was 14 years old and i went down to key west and i was hanging out with my cousins they were playing that downstairs they were watching i had never seen it before but it's like a cultural thing and to be able to take that, elevate it, and now you're a billionaire.

Speaker 1 Like, we don't own any of the universal. We don't, we don't.
Like, we don't got any of that. You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 Tyler Perry has it, but god dang it, is there a way? Is there a way to put everybody in a position? Is there a way to do that? Now, I don't know.

Speaker 1 Maybe it's something that's been proposed for years, but we keep saying time, Bill, but time is ticking. Time is wasting.
And time is changing because there are Tyler Perry's, Jay-Z's, LeBron James.

Speaker 1 There's billionaires now. I mean, there's a bidding war now going on between two, not just two white billionaires, but two white Nepo baby billionaires.
Oh, Lord. That means, oh.
Paramount.

Speaker 1 Billionaire nut. Paramount.
That's crazy. Is on the block.
Paramount. CBS and Paramount, same company.
Yeah. Okay.

Speaker 1 The bidding war is between the son of Larry Allison of Oracle, one of the richest men in the world, lives in San Francisco, his kid,

Speaker 1 and Edgar Bromfman, who was the scion of the Bromfman liquor family. They're Seagrams.
They're from Canada. Wow.
I believe Montreal.

Speaker 1 Billionaires. So, and I'm sure these are nice people, whatever.
I'm not knocking them. They were born who they are, but there's two Nepo baby white billionaires.
What I'm saying is,

Speaker 1 yeah, that's still

Speaker 1 a lot of the world we live in. I just don't know how to, and it would be a better and more fair world if there was some black billionaire Nepo baby to compete with them.

Speaker 1 That will happen,

Speaker 1 but I don't know anything we can really do to make that happen like that.

Speaker 1 I mean, hey, I mean, Blue Ivy might be one of them or maybe one of them. Right, exactly.
And that will happen. That's what I'm saying.
Yeah, yeah. But I don't know what we can actually.

Speaker 1 You can't just snap your fingers and make that happen

Speaker 1 as a lot of the social justice warriors would want you to believe that you can just somehow mandate that or legislate that.

Speaker 1 It would be a better world if we could, but it will just happen. And the thing is, it is happening.
I mean, there is that.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 economics is the one place, like, especially family wealth. It's like crazy.

Speaker 1 How does that be addressed? Now, some people would say reparations,

Speaker 1 like make white people write a check that California has voted on this. Yeah.
Not for it yet, but like

Speaker 1 I would not endorse that

Speaker 1 solution.

Speaker 1 But I understand the impetus for it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 You understand?

Speaker 1 it's asking white people who are also

Speaker 1 economically right on the edge

Speaker 1 to

Speaker 1 that to write a check for people who they personally never did anything against.

Speaker 1 And a lot of people will say that. That's not going to happen.

Speaker 1 Well, yeah. And a lot of people will, and a lot of people will say that.
A lot of people will say,

Speaker 1 all right, well, it wasn't us. We didn't do it.
So, you know,

Speaker 1 why do you need it for? Well, it's like, I don't know, there's still trauma. That's just generational trauma.

Speaker 1 There's a lot. Totally.
There's

Speaker 1 so much. That will not go away for hundreds of years.
Right.

Speaker 1 You don't, the

Speaker 1 level of

Speaker 1 healing is always going to be commensurate to the level of injury. If the level of injury happened over hundreds of years, the level of healing is not going to happen in a generation or two.

Speaker 1 No, but I'll tell you this.

Speaker 1 And I think it was a Dave Chappelle bit years ago what he said.

Speaker 1 He said, nobody's going to be racist.

Speaker 1 Nobody's going to be racist when everybody is the same fucking color. You're good.

Speaker 1 And by God, that's real shit.

Speaker 1 That's like Dave now, isn't it? Smoking Dave. He's Dave that will do four hours.
He does four hours, I do four hours on stage. That Dave.
Do you ever go out with him and his traveling road show?

Speaker 1 That, I mean, I know so many comics who say,

Speaker 1 not so many, but some who say, like, you know, I ran into Dave and said, what are you doing, Friday? It'd be great to see you. I'm doing a show there.
Oh, what are you doing? I don't know.

Speaker 1 Why don't you open for me? You know, like, there's just this freewheeling aspect that I get about his

Speaker 1 cavalcade.

Speaker 1 I opened up for Dave Chappelle for his first Netflix special. Oh.

Speaker 1 And if you look in the credits, it says the thanks. It says Jay Farrell.

Speaker 1 He let me open up for him. And that was a dope night because Stan Lathan was there.
Everybody, like people that, okay, Deaf Comedy Jam was like, you know, as a kid, I'm watching that.

Speaker 1 I'm like, yo, this shit is crazy. Everybody's running, like, like.
people running around slapping the lit like it's insane but the jokes are so high high like

Speaker 1 they're they're so high energy, you know.

Speaker 1 So you're sitting there watching the guy who

Speaker 1 take that. You're out there

Speaker 1 and doing a good job. Like I killed, I got a standard ovation.

Speaker 1 I get off stage. Dave's coming down the stairs.

Speaker 4 Jay Ferrell, how were they tonight?

Speaker 1 I said,

Speaker 1 dude, I got a standing ovation. He said, word, word.

Speaker 4 Now I got to throw out all these J Ferrell bomb jokes.

Speaker 1 I was about to be out there. Sorry, ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 1 Sorry for that little stinker that came out. That's funny.
That's really funny. It's real, though, man.
Like, so, yo, the fact that, yes, I have worked with Dave Chappelle. I have worked with Dave.

Speaker 1 And,

Speaker 1 man, he's a sweetheart.

Speaker 1 He's the sweetest dude. Oh, that's good to know.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 You've met him. Of course.
Yeah, you've met Dave.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I can't get him here, which I would love to also. Please help.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. And I can't get him on real time.
I'd love to have him on either or both. But I don't hold that against anybody.
People have their own. I say no to people too.

Speaker 1 You know, we all do what we got to do, and we all were going where we're going.

Speaker 1 And just like we don't want to be stressed

Speaker 1 by any relationship, we don't want to be stressed by any professional relationship either.

Speaker 1 So, like, you know, Dave knows I would love to have him, but you know, he's got his own thing going on. And

Speaker 1 I'm an admirer as I am of anyone.

Speaker 1 I love anybody who says,

Speaker 1 I will not let the mob

Speaker 1 tell me what I can or cannot say. I don't care how loud they're screaming at me.
Absolutely. Kanye said it too.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 When he came out for Trump, and he like I could not disagree more, of course, about the Trump thing, but I loved it when he said, the mob can't make me not like him. We need so much more of that.

Speaker 1 The most. What the mob can't make you do.
And those are the most unapologetic people. And those are the warriors.
It's like, yeah, because

Speaker 1 I'm ready to die. I'm ready to die about what I'm standing on.
And I don't care what anybody says. You're not going to move me from that.
I'm going to pillar on this and I'm going to stand on it.

Speaker 1 And those type of folks. Hell yeah.
And David.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I mean, look, is he like,

Speaker 1 to my view, like way more obsessed with the trans thing than he needs to be? But that's his thing. So what? Get over it.
It's free speech. And plus, I get why, I think I get why.

Speaker 1 That sticks in his craw. Because I think,

Speaker 1 and again, you correct me because you would know better than me. But I feel like if I was a black person, I would also be like peeved by all the minorities who kind of glom on

Speaker 1 to the

Speaker 1 victim thing when they just don't have the same purchase on that.

Speaker 1 Like Indians and blacks, that's one category. And then everybody else,

Speaker 1 yeah, people have been mean to everybody, but it's just not like these other two things.

Speaker 1 And I feel like that's what pisses them off about trans or anything else that like tries to like sort of, again,

Speaker 1 you know, leech off that level of victimhood. You just don't have it.
So stop like putting yourself in the same, up on the same shelf. Absolutely.

Speaker 1 Especially when,

Speaker 1 like you're saying, especially when it's like,

Speaker 1 you don't really do anything.

Speaker 1 You just sit there. You're part of the problem.
You're not getting, you understand what I'm saying? Who's who you're talking about now? Who's just sitting there?

Speaker 1 What I'm saying, those folks that feel like they're entitled to reparations or whatever, if you're sitting down, like in your house, you're not doing anything, you're collecting a check, like do you like you don't, do you deserve that?

Speaker 1 Because you're not doing anything to try to get yourself out of the situation. You're not elevating.
You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 You're staying right where you are, but you're just taking the pit, you're taking the pity off.

Speaker 1 And you're pretty much already getting it in that standpoint because you're not doing anything, but you're living.

Speaker 1 So people are paying for you to, people are paying for you to live. You're not.
doing anything about it. You don't have to stay here.
You can break through. Anybody can.

Speaker 1 There's been so many stories in history. Folks that do it all the time.

Speaker 1 Even if you look at Jay-Z, you look at 50 Cent, you look at all these guys who have broken, who have broken the ceiling on that.

Speaker 1 Those guys are from those places and they didn't let those, they didn't let their surroundings kind of keep them down in it. Whereas the other folks, they let the surroundings just clamp them.

Speaker 1 And then they're stuck. And before they know it, now they're still on, they're still on support at 84 years old or whatever.

Speaker 1 You're about to die your whole life. You didn't do anything.
I love his line.

Speaker 4 I'm not a businessman.

Speaker 1 I'm a businessman. I'm a businessman.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yo, Bill,

Speaker 1 you ain't want me to do it, but, you know,

Speaker 1 especially when, you know, you had a little bit of,

Speaker 1 you know, this right here, you know.

Speaker 1 When you had a little bit of that right there, that's when it gets deep right there. Yeah.
And I wasn't,

Speaker 1 you know, again, I wasn't trying to like,

Speaker 1 you know, it's just like free-flowing and natural, you know, yeah.

Speaker 1 Because, um, I love the song he ends when he goes, it's only entertainment.

Speaker 1 You know, that song, stupid shit or something, I forget that something was shit in the title. No, it can't be.
Whoa, ape shit. Ape shit.
Was it ape shit? No. Something.

Speaker 1 It's like everybody's stupid shit. Everybody's full of stupid shit.

Speaker 1 That boy, man, when you do people,

Speaker 1 it's just so right on.

Speaker 1 What a great trick to have in your back pocket because you need it. Because you can just talk also.

Speaker 1 And I see that you're sort of entering this phase of your career, perfect time to like, yeah, be more like, this is me. This is the real me.

Speaker 1 But it's great to always have that. that thing in your pocket.
Well,

Speaker 1 I think about it like this.

Speaker 1 Your talent somehow has made somebody happy, it's made somebody laugh, whatever. People that come up to you, they're fans of you, whatever.
They quote your stuff, whatever.

Speaker 1 Mine started with just doing impressions. Hey,

Speaker 1 I could do stand-up in certain environments, but if I didn't know the environment, I couldn't do it as well as I wanted to. Just because I got to be able to study.

Speaker 1 I got to be able to study where the hell I'm headed. You know what I mean? I'm like a lion.
I'm over there studying trying to, I used to do stand up at school. I do stand up at my church.
Boom.

Speaker 1 Kill there. Go out.
I was a shelter kid for so long. Apostolic family.
Apostolic. Apostolic family from the age of what, six to

Speaker 1 so that's some sort of super Christy.

Speaker 1 Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.
It's a but you got over it. Oh, yeah, absolutely.
Oh, good. I had to.
Oh, man. Oh, did I break out? Oh, boy.
Thank you, Jason.

Speaker 1 Listen.

Speaker 1 Nothing happened. Nothing happened bad to me, but whatever.
Things happen in the church. That's how they are, whatever.

Speaker 1 But coming from that

Speaker 1 and

Speaker 1 coming from that and like

Speaker 1 finally breaking out and getting a chance to live. It was, it was, it was total.
Oh, my God, dude. It was the, oh, man, Bill.

Speaker 1 Well, it seems like you're living your best life.

Speaker 1 Uh, you got to be on stage in 20 minutes, so I'm gonna, I'm gonna release you back into the wild, but I would stay here all night. You're a pleasure, absolutely, man.
You too, brother.

Speaker 1 Only the first time, right, sir. Okay, I'll see you back here.
Cameras or no cameras, absolutely.

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