E535 Joe Gatto

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Today's guest has been entertaining humans and taking care of dogs for

Speaker 1 most of his life. And we're lucky to have been on the receiving end of some of that.
You know him from impractical jokers he has a new stand-up comedy special out on youtube called messing with people

Speaker 1 as well as a new children's book called where's barry i always enjoy my time and grateful to sit down with just a light of the world today's guest is mr joe gotta

Speaker 1 light on me

Speaker 1 i'll sit and tell you my stories

Speaker 1 Shine

Speaker 1 on me.

Speaker 1 And I will

Speaker 1 find a song out of this thing else.

Speaker 1 And now I've been through the wind.

Speaker 2 This is awesome, right? I've never seen this place. It was awesome.
Oh, you haven't been here before? I've never been here before, yeah.

Speaker 1 Oh, wow. It's nice.

Speaker 2 Fantastic.

Speaker 1 Yeah, sometimes you just forget where you've been or where

Speaker 1 you haven't even been, you know?

Speaker 2 You never know where you haven't been. Yeah, that's true, huh?

Speaker 2 That's true.

Speaker 1 Good to see you today. You brought a little buddy, huh?

Speaker 2 Yeah, Spimoni. Oh, wow.

Speaker 2 One of the Ghato pups.

Speaker 1 And how is

Speaker 1 it a man or woman?

Speaker 2 This is a woman. It's a woman.
This is a woman. Yeah, this is Spimoni.

Speaker 1 And how is she doing?

Speaker 2 She seems okay. Yeah, she's doing all right.
Last time we spoke, she's fine. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 2 She's good. She's one of my travel pups.
She just comes on the, when I'm not flying a lot and I'm just on on one or two and driving, she'll come with me, you know. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 She's not a great flyer, but she loves to chill.

Speaker 1 And yeah, she seems very calm.

Speaker 1 In Japan, they were

Speaker 1 giving pills to a lot of those dogs so they could take good, cool photos of them. You seen the ones with their tongue hanging out?

Speaker 2 I know those. I have a lot of those kinds of dogs because I have a senior dog rescue and all their teeth are out.
So they just, yeah, they just hang out. That's weird.

Speaker 2 I didn't know they do a pill-induced tongue out.

Speaker 1 Yeah, put that up if the Japanese were.

Speaker 2 They wanted the tongue out so it was like it made them like really like thirsty or just yeah yeah i think nicotine the mouth a little bit it just like

Speaker 1 you know like that yeah like just gives you the like they lived in baltimore kind of you know like some of these baltimore hitchhikers like bring bring that up if they were

Speaker 1 dropping tongues out and uh japanese pilling up the dogs

Speaker 2 There's a supplement. No, no, no.

Speaker 1 Were the Japanese giving pills to the dogs?

Speaker 2 That's all right. That's a pretty good prompt.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 you're just looking at medication.

Speaker 2 You're just looking at dog pills.

Speaker 1 Or some of they hide a lot of the good stuff.

Speaker 2 Yeah, that's something you got to dig deep sometimes. And then come back for it.
That's not going to be on the first results. No,

Speaker 1 yeah, that's true, man. We got to learn to go deep, dude.

Speaker 2 And sometimes the way that Google finishes you, or do you ever find that?

Speaker 2 Like when you put in something and the way the search engine finishes what you started is more interesting than what you were looking for. He just calls, what is this? And you click that.

Speaker 1 yeah that's really weird yeah and all of them it's always like gay it's like

Speaker 2 dead gay yeah it's all that stuff yeah yeah dude it's all that's always ridiculous man right good to see you bro good to see you it's been a minute man yeah it has been a minute last time we saw each other we were on both in the same city on tour and we got some pizza yeah in milwaukee milwaukee and a pizza took forever man forever i went back and got it yeah that's dude i think I think we left and you just went yeah you went back

Speaker 2 let me get this later we wanted these pizzas pizzas and they gave it to us. They owed us some pies, man.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Oh, those people were, they did not want me to give it up. And I'm like, well, if you don't want to give out the food, then don't be a restaurant, right?

Speaker 2 Right, right. This is your thing.
This is what you do. Yeah.
Like, I was back there.

Speaker 1 He was eating. He was back there eating too, the one guy.

Speaker 1 Yeah, whenever we saw him.

Speaker 1 Congrats, man. You got a new special out.

Speaker 2 A new special out, yeah. Your first special.
First special. Wow.
Messing with people. Yeah.
It's really excited about it. It's out on YouTube.
And

Speaker 2 it was great, man. I toured with it for two and a half years.
And you know how it is. You don't want the content to just to go away.
I'm super proud of it. Yeah.
So I put it out there. It's great.

Speaker 1 Was it

Speaker 2 any trouble? Come here. Smallone.
Come. Come on up.
Good girl.

Speaker 1 When you guys taped it, how many tapings did you do? I did two.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Two in one night.
I did the Paramount in Huntington,

Speaker 2 Long Island. And it was, it was fun, man.
Like, it was the first one, you know, you get a little nervous.

Speaker 2 Like, it's all, and I wasn't used, the jib almost knocked me out like four times because I'm very physical on stage running around, you know? So I ran to like the Sud and the jib was like right there.

Speaker 2 I was kind of like knocked out, but it was good. It was really cool.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And the jib is like the camera.
That's the camera that's on the

Speaker 2 arm. Yeah.
Oh, you forget, right? That's for everybody at home.

Speaker 1 Yeah, just because some people don't know, you know, some people don't know what's going on.

Speaker 1 Yeah, there you go, right there.

Speaker 2 That's it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Did some of the other jokers come out?

Speaker 2 Yeah, they came to the taping.

Speaker 2 Sal came to the late taping, I think. And then the next, I was working that weekend and then Q came out and stuff.
But yeah, it's good. They come and see me.
I see them when they're on the road.

Speaker 2 It's fun.

Speaker 2 We try to give each other the support you know how it is have you gone to one of their shows like because because you don't do you still do the touring show with them or no no right no so i did they just wrapped up their last tour and i came out on stage there and then when they did radio city i popped out uh that was really fun yeah when i came to radio city was so cool it was really great the place exploded so it was really nice yeah yeah um have you missed that aspect because they just came out with their last their the 11th season right of their show yeah yeah of jokers yeah they're doing that now uh they just wrapped shooting that one i think they got another one but uh yeah i mean you know you miss it you miss it with your friends the hardest part for me is like it's appointment friendship now right like you got to think about like used to see each other all the time oh and now it's like you know like i feel like i you know i haven't seen you in for right and when you see them it's like they're working together or doing something you're trying to find a time together so that gets a little tricky yeah you know so but everybody always asks you still friends you know i always tell people no i hate those guys like i'll just say stuff to mess with people people like do you like them i'm like no we don't talk anymore i was saying for a while that salad slept with my wife.

Speaker 2 That's why I left.

Speaker 2 It was so fun. He's like, dude, you got to stop saying that.
Someone's going to believe you.

Speaker 2 But yeah, it's good. We're still, we're still boys.
Yeah. Just trying to see each other gets a little tricky.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I think that just gets trickier as you get older, too. Like just being an adult, it's like everything gets like more appointment.
That's why I missed like,

Speaker 1 it's like, you never know when you're in like high school and college and stuff like that, that those are going to be like the greatest times because everybody is just there. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Everybody's, you're going to bump, the bump into factor of a college campus, right? You might just bump into somebody on the way to the calf or something.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 That's totally different because you're all enclosed, like a community. It's like a cult almost.
Like you're living on this, you know, this stockade thing.

Speaker 1 Yeah, dude. That's one thing.
It's like, but you don't realize that when you're there. Like I remember whenever I was like graduating high school, whatever, I was like, thank God, I'm graduating.

Speaker 1 But then you don't realize that like 10 years later, you'd do anything to go back and have one big full day of high school.

Speaker 2 Yeah, for sure. But there were some people you were looking forward to getting rid of too.
That was the bad part, right? That's the other side of it.

Speaker 2 Like you're like, I cannot wait till I don't have to see this person again.

Speaker 1 Like the ROTC guys were really at our school were very,

Speaker 1 they kind of acted like they were like a gang sort of or whatever. You know, like those guys with the wooden guns, you'd see them after school or whatever.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And they wouldn't even have like the part of the gun that like had the bullets in or something.

Speaker 2 It would just have like it's like a chlorified stick.

Speaker 2 Yeah, dude. Yeah.
It was the right shape of a stick.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And they would be running through the halls, like, yeah, like yelling different quadrants at each other and shit, doing this stuff, hand signaling.

Speaker 2 You're like, guys, I'm getting to algebra. Get out of my way.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I didn't, uh, we didn't have RTC at our school, but we definitely had

Speaker 2 different clicks because I went to an all-boy Catholic high school.

Speaker 2 So all-boy school definitely had like a different type of like click setup kind of thing where you had your jocks and your math leads, which I was a proud leader of. Were you? Yeah, yeah, math guy.

Speaker 2 Yeah. So I was like geeky, but I was a bowler.
We talked about this just quickly.

Speaker 2 I was on the bowling team and stuff. So it was like a different thing.

Speaker 2 But then humor, like once, once people found you were funny in high school and you're with all dudes, I think it's a different thing.

Speaker 2 I think it's like, oh, you know, and then people like want to be around you and having fun. So once my humor started coming out, it was a different animal.

Speaker 1 That was so much fun. Yeah.
Dude, being funny in high, that was like the, I think that's what it was too, because you always had an audience around. You always had like, everybody was right there.

Speaker 1 So you could make so many jokes and references. And like, like, you'd see each other in the hallway in between classes.

Speaker 1 And that was the weirdest thing because you had like one second where you were passing your buddy in the hallway. And you got to just

Speaker 2 drive by. Yeah.

Speaker 2 I was known for prat falling in high school. So I used to prat fall into my Spanish class every day.
And Mrs. Lonzo, my teacher, always thought it was this guy, Mike Irving, that was tripping me.

Speaker 2 And she would always give him the tension on it. And he's like, dude, you have to stop, stop.
It wasn't me. And I was like, oh, he tripped me, you know, like that.

Speaker 2 So when I got my diploma, my mom knew that I was big. And my mom was always like, you know, you had to be respectful.
So I'm getting my diploma and everybody's like, trip, trip, trip.

Speaker 2 Like they all wanted me to fall on stage. And my mother like threatened my life.
She's like, if you trip on stage, you're done. You're done as a card.
I can't make my mom mit. So I don't get it.

Speaker 2 Then I surprisingly get an award. I got an award.
They were like, they were giving out these awards. And one of them was, you know, some of the, and I look at my father and he goes.

Speaker 2 And I went up and I went, when I went to get the award on stage, I bit it and I like fell off the stage. The place went absolutely nuts.
It was so funny.

Speaker 2 I was like, that's the reason why I won that award so I could have my moment. Yeah

Speaker 2 That's class bro. Yeah, I love that.

Speaker 1 That shit was so much fun man.

Speaker 2 Yeah, you think about just do you have friends from high school anymore? Yeah, yeah that you keep in touch with yep.

Speaker 1 I still got actually a pretty decent amount I've always done a good job of like trying to call and connect every now and then and just see what's up, you know, with folks, but or from definitely from high school.

Speaker 1 And yeah, so I keep in contact pretty decently with some of them. Who's your oldest friend?

Speaker 1 Do you have somebody like from my buddy Scott from where we were in second grade or whatever? Oh, wow. Just went to his wedding.
He had a destination wedding.

Speaker 2 Oh.

Speaker 2 Yeah. We're on the same page.

Speaker 2 You mean a forced vacation for you?

Speaker 1 It is a, it is, yeah. Yeah.
And then some people can't be there, you know, and then they feel bummed out about it.

Speaker 2 For sure, because somebody had to miss it. And then both people feel bad.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 There's two different, you know, schools of thought about it, you know, but because the other school of thought is what?

Speaker 2 Like, it's like you're making a memory for everybody that can make it and you're making it more of like an event and you're spending your money.

Speaker 2 You might as well get this big memory out of it instead of being at a, you know,

Speaker 2 a hall in Queens,

Speaker 2 you know, and spending all this money. But for me, we almost did it, but I just, at the end of the day, I feel like it's a lot, it's a big ask.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Did you ever renew your vows?

Speaker 2 So after we got back together, my wife and I, we were thinking about doing that. And then we did you guys get divorced or no? No, we just got separated.

Speaker 1 We got separated for two years. And then.
Oh, wow.

Speaker 2 wow it's a long time it's a long time yeah wow yeah i had never lived alone so i was 47 years old for my first time living alone did you get an apartment an apartment yeah

Speaker 2 no if you look if you and your wife get separated you have to get an apartment you gotta get an apartment you can't get a house you can't get a house though you're in the dog you're in the dog

Speaker 2 like you're getting there no that's what that was actually the reason kind of like why we got back together was i had put a bid on bid in on a house because it was like okay this is not happening and i was like i'm a grown man i'm not not going to live in this apartment.

Speaker 2 I needed a yard. I had my dogs.
I'm like, I just didn't want, there was a fire drill in my building. I'm outside at 11:30 in my robe.
And so I was like, are you Joe from Empracto?

Speaker 2 I'm like, get the hell out. Like, this is my life right now.
So I was like, yeah. So I put a bid on a house and I didn't get it.

Speaker 2 Could you imagine you're going to the fire drill of your building and Joe is there in his bathrobe? I was like, with how many dogs? Dogs in my Truella Joville.

Speaker 1 You're just out there with a fucking million pups.

Speaker 2 So it was like, yeah, so it was rough. And then, so then I put a bit in on a house and I didn't get it.
And then I was like, oh, I had to look at another house.

Speaker 2 And I said to her, I was like, oh, what about, I was like, I'm looking at this house. It wasn't too far from the kids.
And she just went, do you want to get back together?

Speaker 2 And I just instantly, I just went, yeah, do you? And she goes, yeah. And that was the first time we said it out loud.
We both weren't thinking we were going to. We reflected on it after.

Speaker 2 And it was just that moment. And we just, we were in a, I was doing a dog event in the city and we were waiting in a hotel room for the dogs to be ready.
She was napping. I was working.

Speaker 2 And then we just started talking for like four hours. Wow.
And I said, okay, let's give it a couple of months. I'm not going to move back home.

Speaker 2 Let's make make sure it sticks, make sure you want to do it. And it did.
All worked out. So then I came back home.
But living alone was like so weird. I didn't even like hang stuff on the walls.

Speaker 2 It was so sad. It was like those white,

Speaker 2 freshly painted sheetrock. Oh, you know, yeah.
Like I hung like one picture, and then I was like, I don't even know if I like that there. You know, it's just like, you felt like you had to.

Speaker 2 Went on Wayfair and I bought a bunch of like discount furniture. And I go to the house, there's all the nice furniture.

Speaker 1 You're like, hey, at least let me come back and shower. Yeah,

Speaker 2 you got that good loofah.

Speaker 1 Wow. And what did you, right after you guys decided, okay, we're going to do that, did y'all go eat somewhere or something? We did.

Speaker 2 We had dinner that next.

Speaker 2 Well, we always, I always went to the house for dinner. The kids didn't know of any sort of disruption.
So that was always good. I was always at the house having dinner, family dinner.

Speaker 2 I was always still very involved. The kids didn't really know anything because at the time, they're nine and seven now.
So they were between, you know, six and eight or whatever.

Speaker 2 And the next night we went to one of our favorite restaurants in town

Speaker 2 and we just had a nice date night and it was nice. And then we went away, just the two of us, and for a night up at this farm in upstate New York.
And just all worked out.

Speaker 2 You know, it was a lot of conversations. Yeah.

Speaker 2 A lot of hard stuff you got to talk through, a lot of forgiveness and talking about, you know, I think the biggest thing always is in any relationship, you always, especially with your significant other, you always think it's your soulmate and you know what they're thinking and you just don't like people as well as somebody, you just have to say it.

Speaker 2 So we just started talking. And it just opened up everything, you know?

Speaker 1 Dude, the craziest thing is how hard it is to say stuff, even if like you're with a person, you're married. It's like, and they would rather you probably say it so you can get to the next part,

Speaker 2 but we just hold the fucking words. Yeah.
And then you get mad that they don't know what you're thinking. That was the funniest thing.
I used to say that to all the time.

Speaker 2 I said, you get mad because I don't know what you're thinking. I have no, I don't, I'll admit, I don't know what you're thinking.
I'll never know.

Speaker 2 You know, so that's like the biggest thing I found in relationship is really as we're starting to like get through it again. It's like, just say what you're feeling.
Life's too short, man.

Speaker 2 Just say what you're feeling. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Just say, I wish your legs were longer.

Speaker 2 Longer. Just you had longer legs.
How'd you know? Did she tell you that was the thing? She's like, Joe, I wish you were five. I wish you were six foot, man.
You had longer legs.

Speaker 1 No, yeah, I don't know. I mean, that shit's all that stuff's complicated, man.
But that's awesome, man. Congrats.
So that feels good then. Yeah.
So you got the family back on track?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'm back on track, baby.

Speaker 2 I'm a dad. I'm a real dad, which is nice.
I feel really tight with the kids. Good partner.
It all feels good now. Yeah.
Yeah. And creatively, I'm doing everything that's good.

Speaker 2 You know, it feels nice to be able to dabble in different stuff. And did you?

Speaker 1 Oh, your kids came to the special because I saw them. You give them like a hug before you go on stage.

Speaker 2 Yeah, they gave me the microphone before. And

Speaker 1 one you gave a hug, and one, you gave a high five.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I gave the high five to my son. He was super, he was super nervous.
So he was like, Yeah, he's cute. He's she is like me, dude.
She's comes out for a bow. She loves it all.

Speaker 2 Like, she's all about it. My son is a little bit more of a wallflower, but he really likes to laugh and to make me laugh.
And we do like fun. Oh, there.
That's the

Speaker 2 thing. Oh, good.

Speaker 2 So, yeah, that's the kids. So the,

Speaker 2 he's my tour manager. So he's on tour with me.
But then, yeah, this is my, my, my daughter and my son there. Oh, that's good.
And he's really excited. I give him a little song.
Oh, you talked.

Speaker 1 Sorry. I mean, you didn't.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah. I love my son.
Don't try to.

Speaker 2 I already see the clip, Jonas. I love his son.
Son of flitting hairs, dude.

Speaker 2 I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 Starting such a drama.

Speaker 1 I was trying to remember that. Yeah, dude.
Jiggy was there. That's awesome.

Speaker 2 Yeah, he's with me all the time. He's on my new tour with me.
He's my feature.

Speaker 1 he comes with me the whole time hell is crazy so funny he has one of the best stories i don't know if he turned it into a show into a stage but it's like he met a girl on an airplane right so he's on an airplane he's sitting next to like this beautiful brazilian

Speaker 1 brazilian girl he said and like the plane kept getting delayed or whatever Finally, they get them all off the plane and it's like midnight. They're not going to leave till the next day.

Speaker 1 And the girl's like, you can come stay with me or whatever, you know? Or at least she says, she could have said goodbye in Brazilian.

Speaker 2 that's what he meant but that's how he took it yeah yeah so he's like she's like watch this guy in my car

Speaker 1 he's following her out of the airport her grandmother comes and picks her up right so now they are all the he and this girl you just met stay at the grandmother's house and they just had it was like a big studio so they're sleep in one bed amazing all together and they watched um

Speaker 1 I can't, I think they watched Saving Private Raw, which is

Speaker 2 a real warming, romantic story. It's like the house in like Charlie and the Chulka factory where everybody sleeps in the same room in the same bed.
It's all the old kid and all the parents.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, but Grandpa Joe. Grandpa Joe is there, yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's hysterical. And then, yeah, because I think he thought he was going to go to this kind of romantic night and then he just stayed in there all, yeah.

Speaker 1 And I guess something else occurred, but it was pretty unbelievable. But

Speaker 1 yeah, that story is great.

Speaker 2 He met the family already, though.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, that's good. Yeah.
And they, oh, he said that they had popcorn. And then,

Speaker 1 yeah, and then I guess they all fell asleep.

Speaker 2 He, oh, could you imagine being somebody who came home from work? And that's where you see they, like, what they, where they pick up this straggler who came in. He's the best to go on tour.

Speaker 2 He's just a bundle of joy and like energy.

Speaker 1 He's just so positive and fun.

Speaker 2 Like, we click really well on that, but he gets like. We make fun of him because Steve Burns on the road with us a lot too.

Speaker 2 And we love to watch him eat when he's hungry because he literally, if you, he doesn't know you're watching him. I'm not even kidding, Theo.
He'll go like,

Speaker 2 he'll be like excited to eat. And he'll be like, doing nim, nim, nim.
And he moves his hands and you just watch him. He's just like a little kid for the first time.
I'm like apple pie.

Speaker 2 Like, it's so funny. I'm like, dude, you're a grown adult, man.
You have a child. Like, what are you doing?

Speaker 2 He gets so excited. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. He's classic, man.
He's so funny. Yeah.
His energy is some of the best energy to be around.

Speaker 2 Yeah, for sure. For sure.

Speaker 1 Yeah, what's going to happen? Oh, Dekembe Matumbo died. You see that?

Speaker 2 No, did he? Yeah. Oh, no.
When?

Speaker 1 He just died brain cancer 58 that's young that is young 58 the kime but hall of fame finger wagging center yeah he did that man

Speaker 2 with the big finger yeah he kind of gave uh i wonder if after he did that is that when they came out with those finger things or not you know no i think those i think those were wear number ones i think that's where that comes from oh i see but i think people started using it and as it wasn't intended yeah this was not for this this was for yeah we're number one

Speaker 1 like no no no no no no you're not yeah yeah dude He had that. That was wild.

Speaker 2 Finger wag, yeah. That's funny that that becomes like your thing.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
But then you have to do it all the time. Right.
People are waiting for it. Yeah.
People are always like taking photos and people are like, can you do the?

Speaker 2 Yeah, could you do this? Yeah. It's like me getting yelled Larry.

Speaker 2 What do you get asked the most, you think, when people want to take a picture with you?

Speaker 2 Or like when people see you? What is like the thing that they what's Bobby Lee like?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 So you get old time, right? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Tell me about Bobby Lee. Is he real? Is it real?

Speaker 1 They'll say, they'll call him an it. And I'm like, that's crazy.

Speaker 2 Are they referring to Bobby?

Speaker 2 I don't know.

Speaker 1 A lot of people don't believe in like people of the Orient. But, and also, look at the guy.
I mean, there's,

Speaker 1 you know,

Speaker 1 there's definitely 50 shades of Shazwan right here. So there's a lot going on.

Speaker 1 Then after we got to interview Trump, I get asked about that a lot. Oh, yeah, for sure.
Just what it was like to be there or something. We got to go up to Bedminster, New Jersey.

Speaker 1 That was nice up there. Yeah.

Speaker 2 I think I talked to you when I saw you. There was just the rumblings that you might have been able to sit with him.
And I think you told me me you were like, dude, it's crazy.

Speaker 2 I might be able to do it. So that had to be a wild experience.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it was crazy.

Speaker 2 That took a long time to come together, I imagine. It wasn't like a.

Speaker 1 It was kind of on and off, and then it was just on. Yeah.
You know, but it was definitely interesting.

Speaker 2 Don't think I didn't notice you put on a suit jacket. Thanks, dude.

Speaker 2 You throw on a jacket.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I appreciate it. I think it's been at two funerals and one presidential interview, brother.

Speaker 2 I'll tell you that, dude. It's a famous jacket, bro.

Speaker 1 So it's on its way up, bro.

Speaker 2 Here you go.

Speaker 1 Yeah, DeKimbe had that thing. Dude,

Speaker 1 what finger is used for different stuff than most? Do you think this is for...

Speaker 2 Yeah, this is always good and this is always bad, right?

Speaker 1 This is good. This is bad.
This one is.

Speaker 1 So, yeah, if this is bad.

Speaker 2 This is never good. This could be bad with a thumbs down.
Yeah. I think every finger has a personality.
Kind of for sure. Yeah, right.
So you could use this for that.

Speaker 2 This is probably the most useless, right? The ring finger.

Speaker 1 Well, unless you.

Speaker 2 When you were a little kid, this came in big because you'd be like, I'm not giving you the finger. Oh, that's true.

Speaker 1 You would hide it.

Speaker 2 Yeah, you'd hide it.

Speaker 1 But this one is also the ring finger. So it also is like signifies, yeah.

Speaker 2 Someone has claimed you. Yeah, you're locked.
You've been claimed.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you're owned.

Speaker 1 Yeah, this

Speaker 1 is for hitchhiking, too. Used to be hitchhike.

Speaker 2 The thumb has the most versatile, I think. Hitchhiking, you're the best.
Kill them. Yeah.
Kill them, right? Murder.

Speaker 2 This is a murder indicator. Straight murder.
What are we doing here? Yeah. Yep.
This is the first thing I taught my kids, by the way. That was a parenting hack I heard from somebody.
Thumbs up.

Speaker 2 Teach your kids because a lot of times your kids are like far away if they're scared or something.

Speaker 2 Teach them to give you a thumbs up if they're okay or a thumbs down if they're not. Because if you can't see them, or you know, if you only see them, you can't hear them.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 So I had my daughter on top of like this huge slide down where I was by a playground. And I was like scared for her life.
I'm like, okay, she's like, and then she went and I was like, okay, crazy.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Oh, and then they do this thing, right? This thing. That means help me.
I'm being, I'm taking Cole Liam Neeson, right? That means like, I need to. That's what that means.

Speaker 2 Yeah, this is like, this is the thing. Like, if somebody goes, yo, this is like the wink back in the day, like, something's up.
If somebody does this to me, I'm wave it back.

Speaker 2 I'm like, you're something.

Speaker 2 It's like a puppet show. Yeah, I'm leaving, dude.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Dang, brother. Yeah, I can't believe that, man.
I can't believe that we only get five fingers.

Speaker 2 Have you ever been so mad that you double-barreled somebody with a double like FU? Like, that's a different level of getting somebody angry that they're like, I need both hands.

Speaker 1 Well, if you do this, this, and then you're erect too, it's a third.

Speaker 2 If you hit him with that, I've only done that once. I like to talk about it.

Speaker 1 These are just predecessors. You know what I'm saying?

Speaker 2 That is the big finale. Yeah, that is the big finale.
Yeah, the double guns, I call that, right?

Speaker 1 I wonder if in every culture, that means if every culture of people, that's like world like all over.

Speaker 1 Like if you were in like the jungles of Zimbabwe or something and you saw it and you were angry at some dude, some guy popped out and surprised you. He thought you were a, like a.

Speaker 2 A warthog? Yeah, a warthog or something.

Speaker 1 He tries to stab you with his stick or whatever.

Speaker 2 And you'd be like, ah, you didn't get me. And then he high fives it.
You're like, wait, what does this mean? He's good. He's like, got you.

Speaker 2 The high five and stuff, too, like all those gestures, they all come from somewhere, which is so weird, right?

Speaker 1 The high five is kind of crazy. If a dude was like, hey, man,

Speaker 1 hit it. That was good.
That was good. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Just smack my hand.

Speaker 1 Just smack my hand.

Speaker 2 That's because that feels not even that cool.

Speaker 2 Just when we did it now, felt weird, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah, because it wasn't. It was very soft.
You got to really do it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Glenn Burke, a former outfielder for the Los Angeles Daughters, is credited with inventing the high five during a game against the Houston Astros October 2nd, 1977. Wow.

Speaker 2 So I'm only one year older than the high five. Wow.

Speaker 1 When he ran toward home plate and raised his hand to greet a teammate who had just rounded the base after a home run.

Speaker 2 Wait, so why did I give it to him? Who's a teammate? Because he just had his hand up. He was just doing a hand in the air.
The guy who high five Glenn Burke. Oh, is Glenn Burke the guy that did it?

Speaker 2 That's crazy.

Speaker 1 One guy was a white supremacist. And then he came by and said, he ran into it.

Speaker 2 He was waving to his grandmother in the stands. He's like, hey, Mom.

Speaker 1 He's like, hey, you're white, so am I. Let's do it.

Speaker 1 Let's make it happen.

Speaker 1 That's crazy. That is crazy.
The high five, dude.

Speaker 2 Yeah. The fist bump, it seems.
Do you ever get the aggressive fist bump where somebody just fights your fist? They don't know how to, they just punch you in the hand.

Speaker 2 Because, like, you meet a lot of people, right? You don't always want to be touching people and stuff, right? You're like, oh, fist bump.

Speaker 1 Sometimes you'll do fist bump.

Speaker 2 If there's a lot of people, they just come in you and hit you hard. Like they just punch your hand.

Speaker 1 Or yeah, sometimes people will keep pushing against your hand.

Speaker 2 Push your back. Are you trying to move me? What am I doing? Yeah.

Speaker 1 But yeah, and also people have a lot of people have sweaty, wet hands now. Yeah.

Speaker 2 It's a thing.

Speaker 1 Oh, it's gotten way worse. And when I was a kid, everybody's hands were dry, right? Like, you know, sometimes you'd see like some facial sweat or somebody with like, who never shaved their neck.

Speaker 1 They'd have like a lot of sweat and hair on their neck or whatever.

Speaker 1 But you didn't see people's hands just, you know, shopping.

Speaker 2 Yeah. The worst is when you're done with it, now this is your sweat that I have on my hand.
What am I going to do with it? Am I going to ruin my pants? Am I finding a piece of furniture?

Speaker 2 Like, you have to figure out where to put it.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 they don't give you any direction. It's like, hey, here's some wet, here's some wet me.

Speaker 2 This is your your problem now.

Speaker 2 This is some wet me that you have to deal with. Yeah,

Speaker 1 one little wet me. Dude, somebody said that Pharrell,

Speaker 1 the singer,

Speaker 1 had really dry hands. Dry.
Somebody told me that once. I remember that.

Speaker 2 That he wasn't like, he wasn't sweaty or was it dry to the fact that you felt it was like sandpaper. Yeah.
Like, wow. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Very dry hands. It could be from mixing those albums or whatever.

Speaker 2 He gets calluses. Yeah.
That could be it. He works with his hands.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's a good point, man.

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Speaker 1 What a day, man.

Speaker 1 What else is going on? Those storms, dude. It's so heartbreaking.

Speaker 2 I know. I know.
I had a show in Evans that I had to reschedule. Uh-uh, did you? Yeah,

Speaker 2 I got my one off in Savannah and then went to the Evans one, the place, you know, the power. They didn't have power in the theater.

Speaker 1 Evans, Georgia?

Speaker 2 Yeah, Evans, Georgia. Oh.
Yeah, it was tough down there. And then

Speaker 2 they were like, you know, we don't have power. I was like, we're not going to do comedy by candlelight.
Like, what do we have to do? We have to reschedule it. So,

Speaker 2 yeah.

Speaker 2 But down there, the people are so like equipped to handle it and be like, it's such a community when stuff like that happens down there. It's crazy.

Speaker 2 Like, because we were there and there was people going, driving over to be like, oh, we're just going to go get, they had like family and whatnot.

Speaker 2 I was talking to somebody at a restaurant and they were like, we got to go pick up my aunt. Like, they just know what to do and they're just ready for it.
It was.

Speaker 1 Yeah. People in the South are really dialed in with their families.
You know, being close with your family is like, it's one of the main things. Yeah.
You know, and everybody has a truck.

Speaker 1 Everybody wants to help out.

Speaker 2 Everybody has a truck. Yeah.
That's so different down there. You know, down there, everybody's got, yeah, Kenny, he's got it.
Call Tim. He's got the, you know, cousin Tim's got it.
He's got the truck.

Speaker 2 People are like, I don't know one person with a pickup truck in New York. Yeah.
I don't know one person.

Speaker 2 People are like, I'll fucking help out right now.

Speaker 1 What do you need me to do? Everybody knows CPR or knows a fireman that says he knows CPR.

Speaker 2 And then when he has to prove it, it's a problem.

Speaker 2 He's just blown in this guy's face.

Speaker 2 I was in a situation where somebody was choking on I had to, I jumped into action.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Our tour manager, our tour manager had this, we didn't know he had this.

Speaker 1 Where are we all eating at?

Speaker 2 We were, no, we were, he was signing. We were doing the settlement down at the,

Speaker 2 we were in the hotel ballroom, one of the things at the hotel. Like we had a little room and he was signing the check to pay us for the weekend.

Speaker 2 And he had had this condition when he coughed, he would lose his breath and just like pass out, but we didn't know that. So he started coughing and he was talking through it, right?

Speaker 2 So it's me, Sal, and Murray. And he's coughing.
He's like,

Speaker 2 and he just goes,

Speaker 2 and he just shuts down.

Speaker 2 And so I'm sitting next on one side, Murray's on the other. And Murray just starts shaking and goes, his guy's name was Jeff.
He's like, Jeff, Jeff, Jeff.

Speaker 2 So I hopped up and I was like, all right, I got to do something. But I didn't do the highlight.
I did like an over-the-shoulder, like seat belt.

Speaker 2 Like, and I just started like shaking him, trying to wake him up.

Speaker 2 Sal ran over, and it was at the Hoyt Sherman near the Hoyt Sherman theater and he ran and grabbed the the phone that was connected to the bell desk and he was like call 911 instead of calling 911 he yelled it to the phone and i'm hugging him and i'm like and then all of a sudden he just came back to life and he's like oh and i'm over his shoulder and he goes did it happen again and we're like what are you talking about dude yeah so i have no skills The only person that had any skills was Q because he was a fireman and he was in bed.

Speaker 2 So we could,

Speaker 1 hey, that's typical fireman.

Speaker 1 If there ain't a fire, dude, I'm asleep. Put a hot dog in my jaw jaw and I'm going to sleep, dude.

Speaker 2 Done. Yeah.
So I'm not equipped for any of that emergency stuff.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's scary, dude. We had one time, me and my buddy Scotty, the same guy I was talking about earlier, we'd eaten some LSD, right?

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 we were children, man. And so we went.

Speaker 1 We got to the Waffle House, you know, and we were so excited. You know, it was like 4 a.m.
We're at the Waffle House.

Speaker 1 And there was, and we were laughing so hard, dude. We had the giggles so hard.
And they had a

Speaker 1 gay gentleman working there, right? And we'd never seen a gay gentleman. You'd heard about it or seen drawings of like a guy like grabbing somebody's wing or something.

Speaker 1 See somebody chisel that into like a tree or into like a side of a bridge or something. But we'd never seen like a gay gentleman.

Speaker 2 In the wild.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
In the wild, dude. And in the wildest place on earth, bro.

Speaker 2 The fucking halfway house that has a waffle maker. You know?

Speaker 1 So we're in there dude and he's like being real like he had like as much gay as you could have inside of somebody like in for his frame or whatever and you could just see it kind of bubbling out of his shoulders every now and then you know and

Speaker 1 uh we were laughing so hard my buddy scott like he when he laughs he kind of does like this choking thing so the guy thought that my buddy was choking dude so he comes around save the day yeah starts doing the homicide buddy scott's a little guy guy.

Speaker 1 Starts doing the fucking homicide on him, dude.

Speaker 2 And I am laughing so harder. Oh, dude.

Speaker 1 I'm laughing so hard. I remember I had to beat my feet against each other because, like, just, I needed to get more sound out of it.

Speaker 2 More energy. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Dude, he fucking seeing a gay guy do the homic maneuver.

Speaker 2 Bouncing your little friend around.

Speaker 2 Thinking he's saving the day? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 It was just like spamone on your lap, brother.

Speaker 1 So that was so, that that was like a crazy thing that happened, like the first time anybody ever choked by us or something.

Speaker 2 I've seen, I've seen people successfully do it, and it's so weird that people don't know what to do. Oh, it's beautiful when people

Speaker 2 do it for well, when they do it well, and the piece of the chicken bone just comes flying out, whatever, and then everybody just starts clapping, yeah, like it's like the plane landed.

Speaker 2 It's like everybody's like, Yeah,

Speaker 2 like that's so weird to take a lap because you just saved this guy because he didn't chew his filet mignon, yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, dude, we had um

Speaker 1 what was happening. Oh, dude, I was at a hotel in Hawaii, and a guy starts choking at the breakfast bar.
And it was like, it was a nice breakfast bar. They had like cereal, fruit,

Speaker 2 assortment of different styles of eggs.

Speaker 2 Scrambled, hard-boiled.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they had a couple of, they had those little, the big silver things you have to open up and see what's in it.

Speaker 2 Oh, surprise.

Speaker 2 They want to keep you guessing. Yeah, it's like aloha.
What do we got here?

Speaker 1 And then there's like two of them that just have smoke come out.

Speaker 2 There's just like warm water. They're just watering it.
They're like, oh, we're bringing it back out. We're bringing the ham out.

Speaker 2 you're like i think i don't think that anything was ever in here but they make it look like

Speaker 2 the water out thinking it's something exotic like i'm getting out the wine hot water

Speaker 1 oh god i'll have another honey give me another bowl give me a bowl of that pineapple hot water that's great so this guy starts uh choking

Speaker 1 And they bring out one of those like divider things where you just like can divide a room, you know, with one of those, and they bring that out because there's like all these tables right there just eating.

Speaker 1 And so they bring that out. And one guy keeps eating.
And people are like, quit fucking eating, dude. You don't fucking.

Speaker 2 You don't eat in front of a possible death situation.

Speaker 1 Like seven feet over, you can hear this guy like struggling for his life, dude, right?

Speaker 2 And this guy's chomping on his cornflakes right here.

Speaker 1 And Magic Johnson was there, dude. So at a certain point, and this took a long time.
They were trying to revive the guy. And

Speaker 1 so at a certain point, everybody starts looking at Magic Johnson, like, fucking do something, Magic Johnson. You're Magic.

Speaker 2 yeah,

Speaker 1 that's in your name, like, just yeah, go double-dribble on his heart or something.

Speaker 2 You can't do that, right? Yeah, cross over his arteries,

Speaker 1 right? Do something. You can tell him, you can't fucking pat him on the back in a special way.

Speaker 2 Yeah, at least give him a hug or something.

Speaker 2 One more assist, right?

Speaker 1 And so it got so crazy. And then nobody would eat, dude, because they were really like boom, raging into him and beating on his chest or whatever.
And, um,

Speaker 1 and then

Speaker 1 finally,

Speaker 1 I, they they took him out of there.

Speaker 1 He didn't make it. I know that.

Speaker 2 So that was his last breakfast. It was his last breakfast.

Speaker 1 But at a certain point, we'd all sat there and then somebody has to take the first bite.

Speaker 2 And the guy with the corn flag says, who's laughing now? I didn't miss a step. I'm ready to go.
Yeah, taking the first bite in that situation is rough. Yeah.

Speaker 1 It just broke my heart, man.

Speaker 1 And I was like, I told my dad, I was like, we are not doing do not eat first. Yeah.
Yeah. Let somebody else let magic eat first.
Let somebody eat.

Speaker 2 I think everybody looks at Magic Johnson in that situation. And I think ceremoniously he should be like, let's eat.

Speaker 2 It's like your dad at Thanksgiving when he's like, okay, we could do like, I've done carving. We could eat.
Yeah, that kind of thing.

Speaker 2 He puts it out.

Speaker 1 But that was crazy, man. So, yeah, I mean, it's crazy because you're in the guy who can, who is magic himself and he could do nothing.

Speaker 2 Yeah. You know, I think it'd be worse if there was a real magician there, like if David Blaine was there and they're like, dude, make the chicken bone and his throat disappear.

Speaker 2 Like, do some buttons, make it come out of behind his ear or something, you know?

Speaker 1 But keep pulling those rags out until there's a piece of chicken.

Speaker 2 At the end, he's got the bone coming out, right? Yeah, I think that'd be tough.

Speaker 1 Yeah, dude, that flooding stuff just makes me so sad. And it doesn't seem like there's much you can do.
You can donate, right? Like, I've reached out to a couple of friends to find ways to, like, do

Speaker 1 a type of event or something because it looks like it's really bad.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Yeah.
They got, it came in hard. It came with the coast the the other side, too, right?

Speaker 1 It came in Asheville, North Carolina. I mean, look how beautiful that area is, too.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Man.

Speaker 1 And they had alligators, too. Did you see those?

Speaker 2 I've seen an alligator. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 But did you see them at this?

Speaker 2 I haven't seen them there. No.
Oh, they go.

Speaker 1 Alligator surprised during hurricanes.

Speaker 2 Like, it's not bad enough. Now you're going to have alligators rolling up to your porch.
Yeah. Oh, that's tough, man.

Speaker 1 Wow, that's a damn gator, baby.

Speaker 1 Well, and they had two alligators at the mall, too, they found at by like an Arapistale or whatever.

Speaker 2 They make them into purses?

Speaker 1 I have no idea.

Speaker 1 But also, it's like, I guess alligators never eat the mall. If you're an animal, you never even get to go to the mall.
So this is your one shot.

Speaker 2 Like, I'm going to go and see what's on the sale rack. I got these little arms.
I got to keep myself warm.

Speaker 2 Props to this guy for seeing that's an alligator. I wouldn't have known that was an alligator, right? That looks just like another piece of debris.

Speaker 1 I'd have just gone missing.

Speaker 2 Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 1 Yeah, an alligator at the mall. Like, you have a really long medium, you know? I need it.

Speaker 2 You got a, you have a tailor because I'm going to need it.

Speaker 2 Then they go into Lacoste and they think they get a discount.

Speaker 2 Like, my face is all over this place, man.

Speaker 2 Come on.

Speaker 1 Come on, guys.

Speaker 2 I did a...

Speaker 1 They can't even get up to the counter at like Panda Express, you know?

Speaker 2 He forgot his wallet. Lagar's got to go back.

Speaker 1 He forgot his wallet, but then he realizes that his tail's made out of wallet.

Speaker 2 See an alligator try to get on the escalator, that'd be a good time. It's like

Speaker 2 flat, wiggling out,

Speaker 2 takes up 16 steps. Yeah, alligators are crazy.

Speaker 1 And we're joking, guys. Obviously, there's a lot of people that are struggling over there, but we're just trying to bring some laughter to it.

Speaker 2 For sure.

Speaker 1 That's the worst. Have you been involved in a big tragedy? It's like a tragic environment like that.
Like,

Speaker 1 were you guys in New York or during 9-11? 9-11, yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah. I live in Staten Island during the time, but I was, you know, New York came together in a way that day there for sure.

Speaker 2 Um, yeah, I think 9-11 is the closest I've come to some sort of tragedy like that. Yeah,

Speaker 2 um,

Speaker 2 it's always tough, but I do find always, and I, and I, people always say this, you know, people come together when it's that, like, I find that's so true, don't you?

Speaker 2 About like human nature shines brightest when it's tragedy, when it's wrapped in tragedy. I think people just come together in a real way and be like, we got to tackle this thing, you know?

Speaker 2 Yeah, really help. Let me grill something.

Speaker 1 Let me help.

Speaker 2 I got a truck. I got a.

Speaker 2 But even like you said like you could donate and all this stuff i feel like people just really just like come and do stuff even if they're not there you know what i mean it's like just it's really cool that people do that and and grill it's because people grow for oh yeah let me get up there and grill isn't that the thing too like it's always people send food right even like in a personal tragedy like i remember when my when my uh my father passed away and they were like people would send food to the house and my mom was the one that cooked and it was like she's like no i still got this but do you know how to like to pay the electric bill

Speaker 2 you know

Speaker 2 so funny Uh, but food is always such a thing of like, we got to feed these people, right? It's just the thing that people don't want people to have to worry about.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's a good point.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, it is amazing that the ways that people come together and help each other, even like when you look at people donating organs and stuff, you know, oh, yeah, are you an organ donor?

Speaker 1 Uh, yeah, I am. Yeah, yeah, I would definitely wouldn't do it to somebody.

Speaker 2 This is these, these are not good, really.

Speaker 2 This is a used car. This is there's no lemon law when it's like, dude, like, we got you a kidney, and they're like, from who? Like, I'm like, oh, shit.
Who else you got?

Speaker 1 Yeah. If you put it, if you, if you put your ear up to the kidney, they can hear a murr just giving.

Speaker 2 Doesn't one kidney what to say to the other kidney? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 I think everything is just like, I think if it's not my eyes, you don't want it. It's like, he's got a nice set of eyes.
Give him his eyes.

Speaker 1 Get the eyes, yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah, the organ donor thing is, that's so selfless too, but that's so smart if you think about it. Like, I mean, you're not going to use them.
What are you going to want?

Speaker 1 Yeah, what are you going to do? But then I think part of you wants to always feel whole.

Speaker 1 It's like you want to be like, okay, i want to know that when i'm laying there dying i'm still able to like chill or relax or think or whatever right now because imagine that's the deal like you that's how it all comes down to it you're still thinking you're laying there and you don't realize it because we don't know what happens you're just thinking that some guy just stole your leg in a back of a college you didn't go to

Speaker 2 like this is crazy

Speaker 1 how to get there yeah it's crazy that'd be pretty wild man

Speaker 1 um

Speaker 1 yeah so with the new tour you go to so now now you have to start with the building the new material and stuff, huh? Yes, I got the new tour now.

Speaker 2 Let's get into it. It's been really fun.
I was I head off for the summer to hang out with the fam and the kids and stuff, which is great. So I finished this in March, the messing with people tour.

Speaker 2 And now this new one just started in September. And it's cool.
It's it's real fun. There's, you know, as a comic, it's you're nervous about you're trying to build it and whatnot.

Speaker 2 But then when you get what your ideas are, I'm a storyteller. So I just like figure out what stories I want to tell.
But I had always talked about sitting alone.

Speaker 2 Like I was stuck with my thoughts so much where I was thinking about how you end up the person that you you are. So I'm like, let's get into it, Tor really is like about how did you end up like this?

Speaker 2 Because I started as like a real, we were talking like a geeky kid. Like I used to make tests for my father, like open up the encyclopedias.

Speaker 2 He would come home and I would have a multiple choice exam from him after his 10-hour day trying to sell life insurance door to door.

Speaker 2 I'd be like, Pop quiz, bitch, like, get out of here, you know, like that. And now I'm this.
So I was always thinking about that. So I just like tell a lot of stories and think about your life.

Speaker 2 And it's really, it's been really fun. I like this one a lot.
I like this one. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. It's funny to see how you'll evolve too and like how your brain will start to think of things that are like a little bit more,

Speaker 1 you know, just more personal or, you know, like how you get out of just telling jokes and try to like share something. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. It's kind of fascinating, I think, how that kind of works out.

Speaker 2 Do you feel like you share

Speaker 2 more? I mean, you've talked, you talk so much, right? You talk so much with the podcast and everything, right? Do you feel like...

Speaker 2 Do you think about after

Speaker 2 you've, because people get to know you in a real way on when you're, this is you talking.

Speaker 2 So do you feel like that you have, people know you in a way different way than they would like five years ago if you were just doing stand-up?

Speaker 2 You know, does this podcast open up a completely different part, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I think so, because we talk about a lot of, I mean,

Speaker 1 yeah, we, cause sometimes we talk about stuff that's personal or like, you know, I was kind of like a late bloomer, I think, in dealing with like a lot of stuff from when I was young.

Speaker 1 And so I didn't even know that I had still had a deal, you know, I didn't even know what was going on. So I think I've learned about a lot of that stuff, like even second the past five years.

Speaker 1 And so we'll probably try to share kind of like candidly or sometimes you're talking and you just learn something as you're talking.

Speaker 1 So like things like that have happened a pretty good bit because a lot of times you get busy with work.

Speaker 1 And then one of the times that I would sit down and kind of be with myself was when I was podcasting. So you'd just be sitting there sharing and thinking.

Speaker 1 And then, yeah, sometimes you kind of get into some stuff that's pretty personal. And then,

Speaker 1 yeah, people will come up and say they, man, I could relate to this.

Speaker 2 Yeah, that's a cool part.

Speaker 1 Thanks for talking about this or that.

Speaker 2 i love that yeah that's that's what's really cool yeah too but i've always been associated with a group so right so the past four years is now just me by myself so it's a little different where you're not you know your opinions are like your your own or your feelings are like your own or whatever you're not like lumped into a category of just what everybody and you get to they get to know me people who started with fans of like jokers are like fans of me which is it's really it's a cool evolution which i i really like and you do that yeah was it hard to make that was it hard to like

Speaker 1 were there moments where it was like man it's tough to do my own thing? Or

Speaker 2 yeah? Yeah, I think the, well, you're part of such a great legacy.

Speaker 1 I mean, it's like being part of it. It's like playing with three Tom Brady's, and then now you're like, I'm going to go be my own Tom Brady.

Speaker 2 No,

Speaker 2 I'll do what I'm doing. I'll play flight football.
I'll see how I can do.

Speaker 2 But I think it's the best part about it was like, I was part of that. And I don't shy away from that because you find people like when they talk to you, like, oh, you know, I love Joe Andrew.

Speaker 2 And they're like afraid to talk to me about Jokers. But I'm like, that's my legacy.
I mean, I'm so proud of that. You know, it was a decade of my life, 300 episodes.

Speaker 2 Like, it's not something that I shy away from. And even in like my stand-up, the show, I was me.

Speaker 2 So if you watch the show and liked me, you're going to like me when you see me because it's the same guy. I wasn't being a character.
I wasn't playing an actor.

Speaker 2 So there's just like some benefits to it, which is cool. And it's part of my personality.
Yeah. You know, so I don't mind it.
But it is cool to be able to try different things.

Speaker 2 You know, like I want to write a kid's book. I wrote a kid's book.
I wanted to do the stand-up thing. You know, I've been always wanted to be a filmmaker.
So I've got some scripts.

Speaker 2 Like, and I never had time for any of that stuff. Right.

Speaker 1 So it's cool.

Speaker 2 Is this their last season is it uh I think they are signed they're gonna go back into production to finish their last season as of now but you never know I think they'll

Speaker 2 they might get renewed again I don't know yeah

Speaker 2 but I think they'll let them go till they don't want to anymore

Speaker 1 you know yeah it's like it's uh it's just so good like why oh yeah I mean some of my first fans were you guys' fans you know from going on the Joker's cruise and getting to meet people on there and then like

Speaker 1 fans that we'd have for years you know and that still are yeah so thank you man you got it man yeah loyal fandom.

Speaker 2 They really are. It's cool, dude.
Yeah, I get them come out to the shows. It's funny, too, because you see them, they see me by myself now, and they're like, Wow, you were really funny.

Speaker 2 I'm like, Thanks. Like, were you expecting not to be? Like, yeah, but it's interesting for people to see you in stand-up.
It's a totally different world by yourself, 60 minutes talking.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah, dude. That was the biggest thing for me, not being on stage with other people.
Oh, yeah, huh?

Speaker 1 You're like, you just like, yeah, you take it 30 seconds.

Speaker 2 There's nobody there.

Speaker 2 They're like, oh, just look.

Speaker 1 And sometimes people make you the craziest thing, dude. This, uh, somebody made me this.
They brought this

Speaker 2 weekend. Unbelievable.

Speaker 1 It's a real taxidermied rat.

Speaker 2 That is the racket. That is

Speaker 2 unbelievable.

Speaker 1 Smet's very real.

Speaker 2 It was real. Yeah, at one point.

Speaker 2 That's super cool, man.

Speaker 1 Pretty cool, man.

Speaker 2 I got somebody who made me.

Speaker 2 It was very interesting. He made me and him this weekend.
He made me, he made us Funko Pops.

Speaker 2 But he made himself as well. And it was me with one of my, my biggest fan.
He made himself. And we're both holding teddy bears because my new kids book, Where's Barry?

Speaker 2 And he's like, hey, you don't have one of you with the bear.

Speaker 1 And I was like, how'd you know I had any?

Speaker 2 I was like, my Funko pops. And it was just like, yeah, he made me see there's a Captain Fatbelly one there for me in the show that I had pretty famously.

Speaker 2 And he made me one, but he made one of himself and he gave me a two-pack. And he's like, now we could be together.
We could be best friends. I'm like, all right, yeah.
But it was so cool. I love that.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's funny, man. Yeah, it's funny.

Speaker 1 All the things, like just little things that people will make that are like you talked about on a show or like moments that affected them or something like that, you know? It's pretty cool.

Speaker 1 But even like you're saying, it's like when people get together, there's a sense of, you know, when people want to do something for one another, you know, like when people want to help out, whether it's a

Speaker 1 storm, whatever it is, you know, yeah, for sure. People want to like kind of latch in, you know.
Yeah, but yeah, they gave me that rat, baby, and that thing.

Speaker 2 That is,

Speaker 2 that is insane to think, first of all, to think of it and execute that, that's really cool.

Speaker 1 And if you can't see it at home, it is a, it's in a little

Speaker 2 like a little like a protective aquarium, yeah, yeah, like a small, like eight-inch diameter round aquarium that's about a foot high. Imagine like the brain that they kept for Frankenstein.

Speaker 2 They had that jar. It's the same thing.

Speaker 1 So it's got a rat in it. And it's got a rat in it, and he's wearing like a fancy gown.
He has a scepter, has some flowers. Dude, in New York, they just put out,

Speaker 1 they have a rat problem there. Yeah, huge.
You know,

Speaker 2 you're welcome.

Speaker 1 That's what they get for.

Speaker 1 That's what they get for fucking being know-it-alls, dude.

Speaker 2 I'll send more.

Speaker 2 You'll send more. You think you got it under control? Look out.
Here come more.

Speaker 1 I'll send more. So now they're trying a new tactic against me.
The war on rats could soon shift from trash to a new target procreation. Rat birth control could soon roll out in New York City.

Speaker 2 Little rat combos? Yeah.

Speaker 2 Give me a minute, honey.

Speaker 1 She's like, you got a dick like a mouse.

Speaker 2 He's like, shut up. I'm a rat.
I'm a rat.

Speaker 1 New York City Council on Thursday will vote on a bill that would introduce rat contraceptives to the city's rodent fighting arsenal.

Speaker 1 If the bill passes, city officials will choose two rat-ridden zones to place the contraceptives and then monitor whether they reduce rat activity.

Speaker 2 How did you do that?

Speaker 1 The pilot programs

Speaker 2 set up some voyeurism

Speaker 2 going on.

Speaker 1 It's just right outside of the craft cheese plant.

Speaker 1 The pilot program will last 12 months, dude. Unbelievable.
And now rats are going to be hearing that other rats are on birth control and go over there and trying to smash.

Speaker 2 Yeah, they're going to be like, yeah, it's no risk rat smashing.

Speaker 2 It's insane. Like I've walked down certain parts of the city and you just, it looks like the sidewalk's moving.
It's insane. There's just

Speaker 2 moving. It looks like

Speaker 2 an ocean. Like there's just like waves.
It's crazy. It's beautiful.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 The build of Flacco's law is focusing on mitigating the risk of rodenticides. Rodenticides? Rodenticides.
On other animal populations like birds. So what does that mean?

Speaker 2 Well, the birds are going to be the birds. It has a reverse effect on birds.
It's like Viagra. So, the pigeons are just going to be pounding away.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Because, well, how do you know what's going to eat it? Right? Because if it's just on the floor, like birds are going to eat it, right? Pigeons eat the same stuff rats do.

Speaker 1 Oh, so they can't poison them because they said other animals will eat them in those animals. Like if owls, it says.
Oh, gotcha. So that way they can't poison them.
So they have to try this.

Speaker 1 They have to try birth control. Unreal, dude.

Speaker 2 They don't want to get rid of the owls. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Everybody loves owls. Now they're they're going to be on.

Speaker 1 So now Big Pharma is basically

Speaker 1 animals are on. Is your animal on any

Speaker 2 drugs? No. No, she's free and clear.
We have some animals at home, the older ones that are on some sort of things and whatnot.

Speaker 1 And what do they get on blood denters or whatever?

Speaker 2 They give them, depends what they have. Trazodone is a big one for dogs if they're nervous.
Like a lot of dogs that we have a couple of dogs that get nervous during thunderstorms and whatnot.

Speaker 2 It's like a calming thing. You could give it to them before they fly.
She doesn't eat it. She's good.
But like some dogs, Trazodone is like a big one. They get that Trazzy in them.

Speaker 1 I'll pop a little Trazodone, dude.

Speaker 2 You get a little nervous? Yeah, just take some trazzy, man.

Speaker 2 They're just all, it's so funny because they get, it like dehydrates them, too. So they'll just be like laying there panting with their eyes half closed.
And like, you can clearly see.

Speaker 2 Yeah, that's, that's a big one for them. But they get some kidney medicines, the old ones, all my old ones.
It's just so, I have, so my rescue is all senior dogs.

Speaker 2 So I get them when they're all jacked up. Really? Yeah.
So it's like.

Speaker 1 You ever get any of the ones that are in the wheel to little chariots?

Speaker 2 Yeah. I get a couple of Roman soldiers.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 We said, they're going to live. We're like, no, no, we're going to, we're going to make it.
We got a couple of those. Thumbs up.
Yeah. So that's, yeah, like Michigan.

Speaker 2 That was my first senior, the one on the fourth there. The one, one more, yeah, that one.
So that was my first senior dog and had no teeth, the tongue hung out. That dog's not on that Japanese pill.

Speaker 1 That's just how it lives. Yeah, sure.
Looks like Biden, dude, that one.

Speaker 2 A little. A little bit.
Yeah. So that's what was our first senior.
But now we get these seniors and they're all jacked up.

Speaker 1 And where do you get them? Do you go meet somebody? Do you guys meet at like a Howard Johnson's or something?

Speaker 2 How do you pick them up?

Speaker 2 Panera.

Speaker 2 Aggressive lunch.

Speaker 2 We get them from kill shelters in New York sometimes, or we get owner surrenders. A lot of them have, when they're this old, like older people die and nobody can take care of the dog.

Speaker 2 It's like, you know, it's this, they've had this dog. So the dog is like 12, 13 years old.
And they're like, could you take it? So we do a lot of owner surrender work. We try to find new homes from.

Speaker 1 And your wife likes taking care of them too? She loves it.

Speaker 2 Yeah. She does.
That's her thing. She started all, really started it.
She

Speaker 2 that's her day-to-day kind of thing. She like runs, runs it all.
And, you know, we have come together to work it out now that it's our thing, which is fun.

Speaker 1 And do y'all pet every dog every day, you think?

Speaker 2 We have volunteers too that come and come and pet them. They come pet them, come play with them.
We have an adoption center in town where people come through. Yeah, right there.

Speaker 2 That's the adoption center we just opened up last year, and people could come through and hang out with the dogs and pet them a little bit. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah, if you ever want to see these, yeah, these are some of our VIPs right here. So if you ever want to come through and pet a dog when you're in New York, buddy, I got you.

Speaker 1 Oh, I'll come one. I'll fucking, I'll rub one out.

Speaker 2 They're fun, man. I mean, I'll not pet the dog.

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Speaker 1 Dude, I remember the first time I ever saw a dog inside somebody's house, right? I was at my buddy Scott's house and they had a

Speaker 1 golden retriever came around the corner in his house, dude. And it was beautiful.
It was one of like the, it had the most beautiful hair I'd ever seen on a man or woman or anything.

Speaker 1 That was it, but it was long-haired yep google long-haired golden retrievers

Speaker 2 oh like the wisps like it yeah like it goes back when they when they run it bounces like those things yeah yep it was like it had like it looked like pam anderson dude it came out came out of the water slow yeah i was like

Speaker 1 just shaking its hair off yeah the droplets slowly flying i was like damn so you must have been inside the home you're like what the hell is it i just couldn't believe what was going on i was like where how did this what is this first of all this really beautiful pony i thought it it was.

Speaker 1 It was pretty big. And then how did they get it inside?

Speaker 1 Because in our neighborhood, it was just dogs outdoors biting a, you know, just like ruining your fucking birthday because you had to get stitches or something.

Speaker 2 My next door neighbor had a, so we had a little mutt, midnight, her name was. She was a mixed between a schnauzer or whatever.
And then

Speaker 2 my next door neighbors had a full Doberman pincher. Her name was Ninja.
And they kept her, they had to keep her outside. So she had an outdoor pen.

Speaker 2 And my dog was like, would go under the fence and they would like hang out.

Speaker 2 And he was like afraid. Like there was this huge, like, yeah, like that, like one of those big, you know, like in the movies, those big, like, German looking, yeah, like those dogs, right?

Speaker 2 Like Big Scare. And I had this little mutt.
And they would just hang out. It was an oddest couple.
And they hung out, but they had to keep that dog outside. They didn't bring him inside.

Speaker 2 So when Jason came over to my house and my dog was inside, he's like, oh, you get to play with it, like on the couch. He's like, this is so weird.

Speaker 2 Cause you play with his in the dirt, like in the backyard, you know?

Speaker 1 Wow, dude. Yeah, I guess having that much dogs brings brings you a lot of joy.
The other day, I was sitting at a meeting and somebody's dog came up, and even when I petted it, it makes you feel good.

Speaker 2 Darvin is, yeah, yeah, it's great for sure. You don't, you don't have a dog.

Speaker 1 No, I'm going to get one as soon as I get. I think after this year coming up, late in the year, I'll kind of take a break from touring for a while and then

Speaker 1 get a nice pet.

Speaker 2 You need, if you want a messed up, one-eyed one, you call your boy.

Speaker 2 I'll take care of you.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I guess. And what are some of the tougher things about dealing? Oh, research has shown that simply petting a dog lowers the stress hormone cortisol.

Speaker 2 That's for truth. That's true.

Speaker 2 when i have her on the road with me i sleep so much better really yeah for sure they said that a new study just came out that i had just seen too that it was if a dog uh hearing a dog breathe with you is like kind of lowers your uh makes you go into a deeper rem cycle yeah which is cool and i have eight dogs that sleep in my bed so i'm all i'm in a coma

Speaker 2 wow bro

Speaker 2 You over like Joe OD. Yeah, yeah.
I get like three hours sleep and I'm set for like two weeks.

Speaker 1 Wow. Yeah, they have a lot of people.
Oh, benefits of sleeping with your dog. Decreased sleep, so you don't have to sleep as much.
Eases insomnia, comfort.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Promotes theta brain waves. Wow.

Speaker 2 I get them thetas up.

Speaker 1 Do you? Yeah. Yeah.
Rush theta. Yep.
And then lowers blood pressure, sense of security.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Warmth. Come on.
Now they're just fucking.

Speaker 2 Now they're just throwing in buzzwords. It's like you decreases loneliness.
Yeah, because you're not alone.

Speaker 2 You can sleep with a catnail to decrease loneliness.

Speaker 1 That has nothing to do with a dog oh that's beautiful dude yeah i wouldn't like to get me a couple puffs and do like a little ididarod or something that's something i'd always love to do and idirod with dogs is be in the ididarod man yeah because there's a parade i think the day before the ididarod look up ididarod parades if you can

Speaker 1 and uh all the dogs go through the town or whatever and you get to see them all

Speaker 1 that's cool Yeah, and look at the ones with those blue shoes on. That's mine.
Those are fancy.

Speaker 2 Yeah. I think they're sponsored by Nike or something.
Oh, I'd have them.

Speaker 1 I'd have mine and some fucking Yeezys out there.

Speaker 2 You know what I'm saying?

Speaker 2 When we used to have the dog of the city, we used to put these little balloons on their feet because the city's gross.

Speaker 2 And then you have these dogs and their paws are like porous. So my dog used to walk around these little balloon shoes.
They were literally like,

Speaker 2 yeah, those, that's them. Exactly.
Oh, that's it. Oh, look at those.

Speaker 1 What, those fresh paw belugas? Look at those right there, the third picture.

Speaker 2 Yeah, right there. That's it.

Speaker 1 Right? Let's zoom up on that a little bit.

Speaker 2 Something to those guys. Yeah, she's got them.

Speaker 1 Wow. New York fashion week.

Speaker 2 Oh, they did Yeezy inspired sneakers for dogs.

Speaker 1 Wow. Unreal.
Some people have too much freaking money. Too much money.
Yeah. Yeah, but he said Mark Cuban on here.
That guy has a crazy amount of money. Some people are billionaires.

Speaker 1 Isn't that crazy, dude?

Speaker 2 That's so nuts. That's so nuts.

Speaker 1 Can't even imagine. Like, yeah.
What would you, and then how do you even...

Speaker 2 5.7 billion

Speaker 2 is what Google's telling us. That's that's a lot of money.

Speaker 1 Well, you would think at some point you wouldn't need, want to try and make any more money, I guess.

Speaker 2 Right. Yeah.

Speaker 2 But is it that like you're just like so good at it that your money's making money? Right. Cause Because people say, like, why wouldn't you stop? He's like, I did stop.

Speaker 2 I'll just, my money's making money. Like, what do you want me to do? You know, it's like out there.
Like, Musk is like, you think he's out there being like, let me clock in?

Speaker 2 Like, his money is just making money. You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
It's not like he just like has to drive over to work in the morning.

Speaker 2 Bye, honey. I got to get to the office.
Like, you are the office. Like, you can do whatever you want.
Yeah. Wow.
Yeah. I think that's a big part of it.

Speaker 2 That's one of the problems I'll never have to worry about.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I think I felt like you think at a certain point you would just want to do helpful stuff and not make any more money.

Speaker 1 But then I guess if you want to do helpful stuff, you still have to keep making money to do it.

Speaker 2 Maybe that's part of the thing. Yeah, I think I think Bill Gates talked about that, right? When they were talking about like the Bill Gates Foundation or whatever.

Speaker 2 And he was like, people are like, oh, you could just give all your money away. He's like, yeah, but what do I do when all my money's given away? I need to make money to give away the money.

Speaker 2 Like it's part of it all, you know? It's just cyclical. You got to keep putting money back in the bank to give it out.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Are you a charitable fella?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I think so, man. Yeah.

Speaker 1 We do trying to start a foundation to start doing more charity stuff. Oh, cool.
So did you ever do something like that? Yeah.

Speaker 2 Well, I started my for my

Speaker 2 nonprofit for the dog. It's like a real nonprofit.

Speaker 2 Last year we did it. Oh, sweet.
So Gattopops and Friends, like a registered one now. So that was our thing.

Speaker 2 But I give to like, we, we do a lot of animal, mostly animal stuff, I think I do, but I also work with a couple other foundations in New York.

Speaker 2 But I, I, I like it, but you get tapped a lot to be like the celebrity, like at the events. Like you have to, I've hosted so many like things.

Speaker 2 Like you ended up hosting and like doing, you know, the charity drives like the auctioneer and stuff like that which is like bomber honors for narcolepsy or whatever like

Speaker 2 it's always crazy you're trying to get out there and you have to auction off this like you know this uh trip to hawaii for these people and you run around like auctioning trying to pit people against each other so it's fun but i could see that being a cool that's a cool part of it i do a lot with the howard stern does the uh the north shore animal league that's the big um north shore animal animal league is in in on long island it's a big dog foundation there and they do their cat rescue with them.

Speaker 2 So I've done a couple of events with the dog with them. And it's so funny just to be at these big events.
Yeah, that's nice. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 And they're and see as many dogs as you can.

Speaker 2 So many, yeah. I try not to take them home.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 So cute. Yeah, I think I have a goal.
I want to like start, like, I want to,

Speaker 1 well, we want to like make like kind of like a halfway house, but I don't know what it's going to be for really, like an addiction place, you know?

Speaker 1 So we started a group that meets online on on Tuesday afternoons. That's a Zoom meeting.
And it's like intimacy disorder, sex and love, addiction, all kind of stuff like that. But then

Speaker 2 it meets online once a week. Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's cool. It's pretty good.
And then, I mean, it's awesome. What am I saying? It's pretty good.
It's cool. You see guys start to turn their lives around and stuff.
That is awesome. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But then we want to get like eventually make like a center, you know? But we'll see one step at a time.

Speaker 2 For sure. For sure.
Like right now, all the dogs living in my, like at my house, like I want to eventually have like a place.

Speaker 1 A little motel.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah. I want to, it's definitely like a motel six bed and breakfast oh yeah

Speaker 1 dude take over that one in seattle did you see that there's a uh somebody made a white house

Speaker 1 um homeless people are just making their

Speaker 1 making houses they're like literally a lot of them aren't even homeless anymore they're making houses

Speaker 1 Making their own homes? Just in parks, yeah. Just like, okay.

Speaker 2 Building? We're all building a home.

Speaker 1 Yeah, look at this guy built a freaking White House somewhere.

Speaker 2 Oh, my.

Speaker 1 Look at that. Near downtown Seattle, the Soto White House.
That's it.

Speaker 2 He built, he made that

Speaker 2 with the fence and everything.

Speaker 2 So it's crazy that somebody get out there and build it. They won't come, man.
You just do it. You solve your own problem.
This guy built his own. Look, he's like, stop filming my house.

Speaker 2 He came out to get the mail or something.

Speaker 1 It even has an address on it, number 12. Go back and look at it again.

Speaker 2 He gave himself his own ass. If he gets mail there, that'd be amazing.
What? That is amazing. That's pretty impressive, actually.

Speaker 1 Oh, it's unbelievable. A lot of stuff people are doing.
There's so many great,

Speaker 1 a lot of homeless people are just taking on ways or like they're in between homeless and not homeless. You know what I'm saying? But they're finding like a way to make it work.

Speaker 1 I mean, there's people building all kinds of like small businesses and stuff. They're just out on the street, you know?

Speaker 2 There's a lot of the barter ends up, right? It's going back. It's taking like a step back inside that community where it's like, you know, help each other out.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'll treat you soap for nails or whatever.

Speaker 2 Something like that. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Human ones. No, I'm good.
Even though some nails are trying to build this White House.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's changed a little bit.

Speaker 2 Yeah, but it's interesting to see how that community starts sticking together. Yeah, it's the same thing, man.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, because you see homeless people, they're usually like in big groups. Like if you go down to like

Speaker 1 some of those areas, we were just in Vancouver and they have a street there.

Speaker 1 I can't remember the

Speaker 1 hatching or something.

Speaker 1 It was Vancouver. Hastings, that was.

Speaker 1 Hastings, yeah and man we went down there at night but they're still like all in groups somebody's got the grill out and somebody's like it's like a tailgate somebody's a jets fan or whatever you know it's like

Speaker 2 but yeah yeah

Speaker 1 but it was just like out there everybody working together somebody's cooking up a drug somebody's you know yeah they're all there that that's that's like a sense of like people are busking they're trying to make some money you know i saw i watched somebody the other day play tears in heaven on a vacuum cleaner down there

Speaker 2 so

Speaker 2 some real talent is what I'm saying. Get down to Hastings in Vancouver and you want to find the next Justin Bieber.

Speaker 1 You got a tear coming out of your eye and the carpet's clean.

Speaker 2 It's fucking.

Speaker 2 How can you lose, bro? I lose.

Speaker 1 But that's what I'm saying. There's so much skill out there in a lot of these communities and they're working together, you know? Yeah.
You want to cut the AC on a little bit?

Speaker 1 It's a little warm in here, do you think, or no? You fine?

Speaker 2 I'll take some AC if you got it. Okay.

Speaker 1 I was in the ice bath.

Speaker 2 Oh, really?

Speaker 1 Earlier. Yeah, or I was in an ice tub or something.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 It gets, and then you're so cold, you don't know what's going on.

Speaker 2 How long do you do it for?

Speaker 1 I stay in for 10 minutes.

Speaker 2 10? Yeah. I never done it.
I did a cold plunge

Speaker 2 in a spa once, and I was like, this is not familiar.

Speaker 2 But people love it.

Speaker 1 You're more that warm boy, huh?

Speaker 2 I'm more that warm boy. I love a good saw in a steam room.

Speaker 1 At night, do you sleep in bed with your dogs or not? Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I got eight of them in the bed with us. Boy, my god.

Speaker 1 There has to be like an Amy's Law or something to get that huh. What is it?

Speaker 2 There has to be some sort of. of.

Speaker 2 Yeah, this is, this is, yeah, this is pretty close to it, actually. Yeah.
That's my

Speaker 2 and do they all do they get like testimonial. Oh, no, no, Sponge's on this picture, actually.
There's a that's Piscotti, my, my favorite in the top show.

Speaker 1 Do they all have to pee at the same time, kind of like a winner basketball team or whatever?

Speaker 2 They hold it, they hold it for 10 hours.

Speaker 2 They go to, yeah, they go to the bathroom at like seven o'clock, we take them out, and then at 5.30, they're up and we take them down.

Speaker 1 Wow. So at 5.30, you got to take them down.
Yeah. Wow.
Yeah, yeah. Even in the winter.

Speaker 2 That's why I sleep so good.

Speaker 2 I get that four hours. I'm ready to go, baby.

Speaker 2 Yeah, even in the winter, in the rain. Oh, the rain's rough.
It rains worse than winter in the rain. But we have a run so they could go and, you know, out by themselves.

Speaker 2 I don't have to like walk them, thank goodness. But yeah, that's tough when it's in the rain.
They don't want to go outside. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 What's

Speaker 1 some, what's a crazy gift that somebody brought you guys one time? Did anybody get it?

Speaker 2 More of it's the tattoos. Like you get this too, right? People tattoo themselves.
I saw this woman, this woman just tattooing our faces on themselves and stuff.

Speaker 2 This woman on her upper thigh gave like the, the, a caricature version of the jokers, like of each of us, like around her thigh. And it just said in prayer.
And I was like, that's for life.

Speaker 2 Like, that's great. Like that, you sign people, like they put their tattoos on you.
That's crazy. I started doing this thing where I, I started, people asked me, oh, could you sign me so I could.

Speaker 2 you make a tattoo. I said, can I just draw you something instead? I said, because I feel like that'd be

Speaker 1 a heart with like a paw.

Speaker 2 That's a heart. I was like, this is important to me.
It'll be cool that you do that. So, but yeah, like, see, this woman has her name all written on all of us.
Wow. That's all of our.

Speaker 2 She finally got all of our signatures. Yeah, she got Salad.
Who held out?

Speaker 2 I think the last one was, I think she had to meet Q, I think it was. You can tell by the placement.
Like she met Sal early. Sal's right in the middle of the arm, you know? Yeah,

Speaker 2 Sal's got the Sal guy. Look at Murray's always in the back creeping.

Speaker 2 But yeah, people like get our signatures a lot. But then people get like interpretive stuff too, whether it just be like a bowl of mashed potatoes of mashed potatoes.

Speaker 2 Like, look, I got skoosky potatoes off me. I'm like, dude, it's like, thank you.
I guess that's very odd. Oh, because of a joke you made, you know, know, so that's really weird.
But we've gotten like,

Speaker 2 I get a lot of fan art of like drawings. Like I see, you notice you have some drawings and stuff too.
I get some drawings and some of them are just like really, really well done. And it's like, wow.

Speaker 2 And then you just get some that are like, that's really bad. Oh, yeah.
It's like horrendous.

Speaker 1 Or interesting. A lady this week gave us a painting and it had a rat and an open vagina on it.
The rat was very like a vaginatic or whatever. It was something in heat or whatever.

Speaker 1 Yeah, gotcha, gotcha.

Speaker 2 And uh, well, you gotta send that thing to New York. Solve that problem real quick.
It was crazy, dude.

Speaker 1 It was just like, it was a really neat painting, too, but it was definitely wild, man. Um, yeah, I'll have to put the picture on the YouTube if we can.
I don't even know if we can put it up.

Speaker 2 I had this woman who took a picture off my Instagram of me and my daughter. It was a jewel, and she made a jeweled painting of it.

Speaker 2 So she used like jewels, just different colored jewels, and she made me and my son and my daughter. Oh, it's beautiful.
And it was, I framed it and I put it in my office. It was really cool.

Speaker 2 I get some really cool stuff. It's so funny because it's so talented and I can't, because you draw, I can't draw for shit.
I'm so unartistic. So I'm like taken aback by it.

Speaker 2 I'm like, wow, this is really, really nice.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. If our teacher tried to get me to draw, I'd accuse the teacher of touching me or something.
I'd be like, dude, we're shutting this down.

Speaker 2 I didn't have, we had art history,

Speaker 2 which is insulin in high school. Like, we didn't even have like our art class is art history.

Speaker 1 Bro, is there anything worse when you think it's going to be art, dude? And it's art history, dude. You get in there and you're you're like, where's the art at? Yeah.

Speaker 1 And they just give you a fucking book about Stony.

Speaker 2 You got to rewrite.

Speaker 2 And you're just out here reading about art. Reading about art is the worst.
It's the worst thing. Let me read about art instead of doing it.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Dude, even if when you're at the gallery or something, you see the little thing with the name. I'll read only like a third of that little card that is a guy's name.
It's like.

Speaker 2 Tell me what his inspiration was. Oh, God.

Speaker 2 I do like going and sitting amongst art. I feel inspired by it.
I like taking a look, but I don't read the things about it. I don't know anything about artists.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I don't know a lot. You know, I could pretend about some stuff, but I don't know that much.

Speaker 1 It's like some stuff I know a little bit. Do you have any?

Speaker 2 Do you have any art?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I got a nice piece of art. This lady.

Speaker 2 Tell me the history of it.

Speaker 1 This lady

Speaker 1 is an artist out of Louisiana, and I saw her in Hawaii, and I bought a piece of art that she had.

Speaker 2 Oh, that's cool.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 Korkowski. Korpowski, can you look it up? Korpowski.
Laura Korpowski, maybe?

Speaker 1 Maui artist, L-A-U-R-A.

Speaker 2 Korpowski. Korpowski.
Wow.

Speaker 1 Yeah, she has some really cool art, man.

Speaker 2 I like that. So you saw it at a gallery and you got them, yeah?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I got it. And

Speaker 2 it spoke to you, as they say.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it just makes me feel like, I don't know, you can feel when somebody puts something into something, you know? For sure. Yeah, but she had some really neat things.

Speaker 1 And she was from Louisiana and we met each other in Hawaii. And so I was like, oh, this is like a cool sign or whatever.

Speaker 2 There's a, I did, I was in San Diego for Comic-Con. And who's the guy that drew Bugs Bunny?

Speaker 2 Move.

Speaker 2 Mon Blanc, right? So they did,

Speaker 2 they did,

Speaker 2 the old Warner Brothers lot used to have a Bugs Bunny stop sign. So Bugs Bunny would be standing there with a stop sign when you pulled into the lot.

Speaker 2 And he did 50 50 versions of it and i bought one of those and but it's huge it's a size of like this so i actually mounted it inside a sliding door in my house oh it stays in there yeah it stays in there i'm like that's a really cool thing it's signed by himself he only made like 50 of them and it wasn't that expensive and then i went back a couple years later to some comic-con again the guy was like you said got that bugs bunny right i said yeah and he's like it had gone up like exponentially no and i was like really he's like yes so some things like i i didn't get in for the game i just love bugs bunny yeah grew up with it you know so i was like i was like oh that's really cool that actually it is something but now it's a door in my house so i'm like if i wanted to sell i have to sell the door yeah it's that stop sign right there bugs bunny stop it a lot yeah i remember seeing that on the shows a lot that's it yeah so chuck jones that's it chuck jones.mil chuck jones trying to think of other things that uh anything else i got another piece of art um

Speaker 1 I don't know if it's a piece of art or whatever. It's just like, there's some other nice things that people have drawn us that are up in the studio

Speaker 1 in Los Angeles. Yeah.
Some other stuff.

Speaker 1 But yeah, it's amazing, man. People, like, the other night, two kids gave me these little bracelets that they made.

Speaker 2 I love that. Yeah.
They make the bracelets and say stuff. Yeah, just like.

Speaker 2 And bracelet culture, because Taylor Swift, she did something right there with that. I mean, everybody's giving out bracelets.
I love that. You get them all the time.

Speaker 2 So I get bracelets from the kids and I actually bring them home. And my daughter loves them.
My daughter will like keep me and stuff, it says.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I have a pretty good collection. They're like different rocks or something.
People give you rocks. But then somebody brought me their molars one time.
They gotten taken out.

Speaker 2 somebody brought me what's the story behind for a reason or just wanted to give it to you uh i can't even remember what it was yeah

Speaker 1 i have oh it was crazy people had brought me um

Speaker 1 like a box that smelled so bad dude i opened it up and it just there was nothing in it and it just smelled

Speaker 2 horrible like it's hot soup water from hawaii just brought me the fuck just what yeah you know terrible yeah i've gotten i've gotten some like weird stuff too but a lot of people just like to bring me food.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Because I'm known for being like a sweet tooth kind of, you know, kind of guy.
So I'll get paid. People bring me in cannolis and like pastries and like donuts and stuff.
That's awesome.

Speaker 2 You know, but I'll never eat that. Like I made you these cookies at home.
I'm like, I'm not eating these.

Speaker 2 It's like in a saran wrap. Like it's still like greasy.
I'm like, I'm good. Like they're like, eat one.
I'm like, I'll eat it later. Like, make sure you do.
Yeah, like, it's so weird.

Speaker 2 It's like tracking devices in it.

Speaker 1 Oh, I had a guy bring me 10 hits of LSD one time. He's like, I know you're sober, but here's 10 hits of LSD.
And I was like, this is fucking

Speaker 2 could go.

Speaker 1 do you know how sober means and you direct this could go this couldn't it go this could go poorly um but yeah a lot of times just some super neat stuff and uh yeah it's crazy sometimes and then just people like adding to your world of like of your podcast or of your show you know or of you guys podcaster um which is kind of fascinating yeah um

Speaker 1 what else is going on dude oh i saw that uh the space x they're going to pick up the

Speaker 1 those

Speaker 1 the astronauts that got stranded. You see that?

Speaker 2 Oh, I did not.

Speaker 1 So, two astronauts got stranded, right? I knew that part

Speaker 4 on the International Space Station, and for the stranded astronauts, the arrival of their ride home. Perhaps an additional reason for Butch and Sonny to celebrate.

Speaker 4 The SpaceX rescue mission was launched from Florida with just two astronauts on board. The other two seats kept free for the extra passengers when it returns to Earth in February.

Speaker 4 It is a coup for the company, but an embarrassment for Boeing, which is still trying to work out why thrusters on its own Starliner capsule failed as it docked in June, leaving the test pilots marooned.

Speaker 2 Lots of cheering here in the room. There you go.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 2 they called an Uber?

Speaker 2 They called an Uber. They're like, can you come get us? They called Uber X.

Speaker 2 Dude,

Speaker 1 Elon SpaceX is going to pick up these two two stranded astronauts, bro.

Speaker 1 Imagine being just stranded out there.

Speaker 2 That's insane.

Speaker 1 Imagine you think you're going home. You're supposed to go home.
And then they're like, no, it's going to be from June to February, it's going to be seven more months. Eight more months.

Speaker 2 I mean, there's got to be nine more months.

Speaker 2 Do they have enough? Do they have enough food? Packets of oatmeal? Do they kind of have enough?

Speaker 1 I bet they pack like a head, but like, surely.

Speaker 2 Seven, nine months more? Yeah. That's a full baby being born.

Speaker 1 And even the person who packed it up was probably like, they're not going to be out there that long.

Speaker 2 Let's take some of this oatmeal home.

Speaker 2 100%.

Speaker 2 They don't need this much of this oatmeal.

Speaker 2 You think they need 80 jars of applesauce? Give them 68 and 11 on the difference. Meanwhile, they're over there like licking the spoon.

Speaker 2 We just had 12 more jars.

Speaker 1 God, dude. But yeah, Elon's going to get him.
I actually tweeted at him the other day to see if they would let me.

Speaker 1 I wanted to interview the. Oh, go

Speaker 2 sick, dude. They're sending Theo to go pick him up.

Speaker 1 Would you take that risk, you think, if they said you could go?

Speaker 2 No, definitely not. Definitely not.
That's a big risk, it would feel like that. Yeah, but that would be, that's a one-in-one bajillion thing.
Nobody else would ever say they did that.

Speaker 2 You know, picked him up. Who'd they send? Did they send people that were equipped to do it? Or was it?

Speaker 1 I don't know. Hopefully, they send Ben Affleck because

Speaker 2 he's working on the drill.

Speaker 1 Well, I think he could just use it.

Speaker 2 Him and Bruce Willis is who I'd want to send, right?

Speaker 2 They got that work experience.

Speaker 1 Bruce Willis is already, he's out to space currently. I think he has dementia right now, which is basically free outer space.

Speaker 2 You know what I'm saying? He's just there.

Speaker 1 And I'm just joking, Bruce Willis. Yes.

Speaker 1 But no, Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore have been strained in on the ISS since June after the Boeing spacecraft suffered thruster failures. SpaceX rescue flight will not return until February.

Speaker 2 Oh, wait, it arrived already, though.

Speaker 1 But arrived just. So they already picked them up.

Speaker 2 No way. But arrived just after 10.30 p.m.
on Sunday.

Speaker 1 Oh, so they already. They were there.

Speaker 1 That was really them picking them up.

Speaker 2 They're in today. They're in.
But at the ride back, they're hitting some traffic.

Speaker 2 It looks like the Ways map is telling them that they're going to be hitting some traffic. Okay, so they got them.
So halfway there.

Speaker 1 So coming back must take so much longer than. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah. How'd they get there? So quick.
That doesn't make sense. I guess so.
Let me see. When did they leave to go get them?

Speaker 1 NASA confirmed in August that the two will return to Earth and will not return until 2025 with SpaceX now in charge of rescuing the astronauts on a crew dragon flight.

Speaker 2 But what's the plan if they don't send send SpaceX? What's the plan? How do they get these guys home? They put their homes out the side and it's like, oh,

Speaker 2 I get a war.

Speaker 2 A crew situation? Like, come on, stroke, stroke. Take me to the river, right?

Speaker 2 What is the plan? What is Boeing's plan? Oh, that's crazy. If Elon doesn't bail him out like that.

Speaker 1 That's crazy that there's a late. Yeah.
But everybody's flights are getting delayed now. That's the crazy thing.

Speaker 2 You're equating a Southwest flight being delayed.

Speaker 1 Still a flight.

Speaker 2 It's true. I guess

Speaker 2 a favorite.

Speaker 1 Everybody's having trouble, dude.

Speaker 2 Nobody's above it, man. Yeah.
We're all just you at the end of the day. Nobody's above it.

Speaker 1 But yeah, I wanted to get to interview the two astronauts, podcast with them. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 2 they'll come. You think so?

Speaker 1 I mean, it would be interesting.

Speaker 2 Yeah. If they're fans, yeah, sure.

Speaker 1 If they're just, they don't have anything. If they don't have anything to do also, you know?

Speaker 2 I mean, their job's done. They never have to work a day again in their life, right? They're done.
They get some sort of pension. Oh, you kidding?

Speaker 2 name a bigger hero. You went and saved two people from space.
That's, that's a movie plot, a real life movie plot.

Speaker 1 But that's working for NASA. That's working for the government, man.
Dude, you work at the post office. They barely give you a fucking, you know,

Speaker 2 some guy who

Speaker 2 was stalled over on McDougal. They couldn't pick him up for three weeks.

Speaker 2 Where's Jim? Oh, his car broke down on McDougal. We'll see him in March.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so let's don't put it past the government.

Speaker 1 First of all, if the government said, hey, I want to take you and a buddy to space, I'd be like, fuck no, dude. You guys can't even decide on the correct price of stamps, dude.

Speaker 2 All expense paid. You guys are going to space.
Thanks. I'm going to be like, dear God, no.

Speaker 1 But everything's become privatized now. That's just how everything is, you know? Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Even rescue missions, apparently.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's crazy. It's like it used to be everything was kind of like the public things were rocking, you know, and then now it's like

Speaker 2 not. They've just gone home.

Speaker 1 It used to be the postal system. Now it's Amazon.
You know, it's just like everything's kind of

Speaker 1 or a lot of things have become more that way.

Speaker 1 What else is going on with you, man? Sorry, I feel kind of tired today.

Speaker 2 Do I seem tired?

Speaker 1 No, you're doing great.

Speaker 2 Really? Am I boring? No. Okay, good.

Speaker 1 You're doing great, dude. I've been trying to fast a lot.
And so I think it's slowing my energy down some.

Speaker 2 Yeah, you look good, though.

Speaker 1 I feel pretty good.

Speaker 2 Where are you in

Speaker 2 your weight loss journey or your weight gain journey? Are you like trying to do something?

Speaker 1 No, I've just been trying to fast just to like see if it helps my brain get like more like sharp yeah just sharp and just like they say it can like reduce inflammation and stuff like that gotcha yeah but then you find yourself like suddenly you can't think or anything right like get cloudy yeah but maybe it's just part of the process do you do you do do you drink caffeine do you drink like coffee and stuff or no i've been off of it for a little bit yeah yeah so i do a cup of coffee you do yeah i do coffee i i had a cup before i came here that's why i'm so bright-eyed

Speaker 2 i normally have one early in the morning earlier in the morning but i didn't get get one i was i was kind of late getting it but but I got one in the afternoon and I realized it woke me up a little bit.

Speaker 2 So that's good. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, dude. One time I took 30 days off of coffee, man, and I felt wide awake, dude.
Did you?

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 I felt like rocking, bro. Really? Yeah.

Speaker 2 I think for sure, like, I also like the taste of it. There's some people that don't even like the taste of it, but I enjoy a cup of coffee.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 There's some people like, oh, I need my coffee when I wake up because it's got to wake me up. I never drink it to wake me up.

Speaker 2 drink it just because i wanted to like i enjoy a cup of coffee and that's a warm beverage yeah it's nice you know yeah there's something nice about it something kind of romantic about it a little bit by the fire cozying up

Speaker 2 what else is happening dude what else is going on joe i got uh lots man you know i got my kids' book came out where's berry is really fun yeah and what's it about so you did it you had another kid's book a few years ago i had a book a cookbook uh it was a photo book photo book the dog father my love of dogs desserts and growing up italian yeah and i was during covet i had taken pictures of my dogs because i'm a photographer, amateur photographer too.

Speaker 2 And I had done a bunch, but my Warriors Barry book just came out. And

Speaker 2 it's like a legit book, which is cool. It got published by Penguin.
No way. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Dude, congratulations.

Speaker 2 And that's Spamone's actually in the book, too, but that's my son and my childhood bear. He animated for me.
So that's really cool to see that happen, you know.

Speaker 1 And what happens with Barry? What's he dealing with? What is it?

Speaker 2 So my son and it, Remo, he lost his bear and it's bedtime. So he's having a little bit of a meltdown, you know, and that's like the worst catastrophe for any parent.
So he has to go find it.

Speaker 2 But in reality, it's based on a story. My son is beside himself at night and he's like, I can't find it.
And I was like, all right, well, where'd you put it?

Speaker 2 And I had to teach him how to like calm down and trace your steps. But he had, he was decided in real life to play hide and seek with it.
And he hid it under a pot in the kitchen, like in a cabinet.

Speaker 2 I never would have found it ever. So I had to like calm him down and he went and found it.
So I wrote this book up and I sent it over. And the guy that did it, Luke Flowers, is awesome.

Speaker 2 He's a huge Jokers fan. He put a bunch of Jokers like Easter eggs in it, which is really cool.

Speaker 2 When I got the first things, but it's a really good book. I mean, I like being a part of bedtime.
I think it's pretty fun.

Speaker 2 I read it to my kids, my kid and my son. I went to the school, got to read it to the school, which was fun.
Yeah. So my son's like, he's like, I'm in a book.

Speaker 1 It's really cool. Was he excited when his dad came to school or not? Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah. He's super excited.
They love when I get to come to school and do stuff. But they come on the road with me too, which is cool.
They're going to come on the road with me

Speaker 2 next week, actually. That'll be two weeks.
They'll be with me. And they're going to come hang out on the road, road, which I love.
I'd love to get to take them out. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
It's fun.

Speaker 2 They, you know, they love coming on stage at the end and bowing like they did at the end of the special. It's really fun.
But they just like to be like room service.

Speaker 2 You know, it's like, can we get pancakes? Like, you know, it's like, he's like, feels like a king, which is fun. They get to see these towns, which I like too.
They get to go to different places.

Speaker 2 You know, I like to

Speaker 2 not be, you know, sheltered. I want them to see the world and stuff.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we were just in

Speaker 1 Milwaukee. Milwaukee was a really amazing city that I didn't know it was like that.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah, Milwaukee is great.

Speaker 1 Bro, I had no idea. And then there was another city that we were just in.

Speaker 2 Springfield, Missouri.

Speaker 1 Springfield, Missouri.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Yeah.
It's a sleeper. Yeah.
Yeah. It's a fun one.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 2 yeah, I don't even remember where else. Jesus.
Yeah, but isn't that, that's like my favorite part about it is like when you go to these little towns. Two years ago, I wanted to perform live comedy.

Speaker 2 I wanted to perform live in all 50 states. So I did it.

Speaker 2 I checked off all of them. My last one was Fargo, North Dakota.
You went through there, yeah. Which a cool, such a cool little town.

Speaker 1 And then you get to all these little towns.

Speaker 2 I love that about going down Main Street. You see all their little stores.
Oh, yeah. Little pop-up pops.
Every store, every street's got like a candles and bullshit.

Speaker 2 You know, got a store and they got their coffees. And you just walk around.
I love that.

Speaker 1 That's so cool. Yeah, that is awesome.
Oh, yeah. Just a simple fact of getting to see certain places, man.
Like we got to go through like Eastern Oregon.

Speaker 1 And that was just.

Speaker 2 Do you ever do the Coast Drive? Did you ever do that drive on like the Pacific Coast Highland?

Speaker 1 I've never done it. Oh, no?

Speaker 2 Yeah, that's really fun.

Speaker 1 Oh, wait, I've done it down by California, but I've never done it all the way up.

Speaker 2 Yeah, so my wife, when she was, when I was still my girlfriend, I picked her up. She lived in off near Seattle, this town in Seattle.

Speaker 2 So we took her from Seattle and I drove her down to her parents in San Francisco. So that was such a pretty drive.

Speaker 2 And then when I lived in LA, I never did it all the way, but I've connected each piece, you know. But it's really cool.
It's like movie sets. It's unreal.
You know, it's pictures of it.

Speaker 2 That's so pretty.

Speaker 1 Yeah, America is a beautiful country, man. Yeah.
There's so many cool spots. Yeah, we just saw some Mennonites, too.
We were in

Speaker 1 Little Rock, I think, and they we saw some Mennonites outside of there. Um, bring up a Mennonite there, you guys.

Speaker 2 Was it creepy? No, they were cool, it was just did you see them at night? No, they disappear, right?

Speaker 1 I don't know what they're up to at night, but we saw some, yeah, lit up ones, we saw some daytime ones, daytime Mennonites.

Speaker 2 It's my favorite type of Mennonite, nighttime Mennonite. That's kind of creepy, yeah.
Yeah, that's like a that's like a major like trope in horror films, right? It's like that type of life, Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah. That's crazy.
I could never do that.

Speaker 1 What are people feeling? Is there a lot of, do you see a lot of political stuff up in Staten Island? Is it like a...

Speaker 2 Long Island? Yeah. Not really.
I mean,

Speaker 2 I feel like it's polarized everywhere. Yeah.
You know, but I kind of steer clear of that stuff. I don't.

Speaker 2 I don't really try to put my opinions on people because I don't know much about anything. You know, I'm going to make their own thing.
Do you find yourself getting in the mix a lot?

Speaker 1 No, I think so. Like, it's like,

Speaker 1 it's hard for me to talk, think think about it, and talk about it at the same time sometimes. It's like, and I don't know when to like kind of put my thoughts in.

Speaker 1 Like, this year we started having just different people on. Like,

Speaker 1 like, we had some politicians on, and then we had, like,

Speaker 1 even last week, we had Mark Cuban on, and we talked about some political stuff, but sometimes it's hard for me to

Speaker 1 like think and share what I want at the same time, you know? Just some of those conversations, it's not as fun, you know, it's just

Speaker 1 not as fun. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah. And then you want to.
I'm sorry when people don't really talk about politics, you know, because it's like, it's a divisive in nature. Yeah.
You got to pick a side.

Speaker 1 So yeah, you want to be respectful too of what somebody thinks, but at the same time, sometimes it's like, you don't want to get into like a rebuttal.

Speaker 1 And then it's like, you know, so it's just some of that's kind of like a learning curve. Even with doing podcasting, it's like.

Speaker 1 How do you get into conversations with people also when they have more knowledge than you do too about stuff?

Speaker 2 Because you're learning and contributing.

Speaker 1 Or they think they have more knowledge, you know?

Speaker 1 Because then you feel like, well, I think something, but I may not know a fact on it, but it is how I feel, you know, and like when to speak up.

Speaker 2 When people try to talk you out of your feelings, that's like the worst thing ever. When you feel a certain way about anything, you know, and they try to like disprove how you feel about something.

Speaker 2 Like, I feel like that's wrong. Well, blah, blah, blah.
And they hang you with all these like facts, which some were probably made up, you don't even know.

Speaker 2 And it's like, okay, but I still feel that way.

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah. What are you trying to talk me out of, you know? Exactly, dude.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 It's an interesting thing to.

Speaker 1 What else is happening in the news? What else is going on, man?

Speaker 2 You read the news when you wake up?

Speaker 2 How do you get your news?

Speaker 1 That's a good question.

Speaker 1 Probably

Speaker 1 TikTok,

Speaker 1 websites.

Speaker 2 That's it, really. Stuff that comes across your radar?

Speaker 1 Yeah, kind of like that, or things that I'll see kind of over and over again. Dude, you see that snake that's head got bit off and it still bit itself?

Speaker 1 Watch this. They cut the snake's head off, right? Yeah.
That's its head at the bottom.

Speaker 2 That is insane.

Speaker 1 And so, yeah, that's from Satan, dude.

Speaker 2 You think it's having a bad day and then it just gets

Speaker 2 hurt?

Speaker 2 Oh, bro, look at that.

Speaker 1 Its head was a foot away from the end of its body.

Speaker 2 It taps it and then there you go.

Speaker 1 And then the other end of the snake curls over and touches the head just reflexively.

Speaker 2 And it just opens its mouth and instinctually just chomps down on itself. And now the snake is like, not only have I lost my head, but now it's biting me.

Speaker 1 Look, I've tried to do some things to myself.

Speaker 2 You know what I'm saying? Like the talent, right?

Speaker 1 Junior high or whatever.

Speaker 2 But this is kind of crazy.

Speaker 2 Did you, do you have a fear of anything?

Speaker 1 Are you afraid of like snakes make me very nervous? That makes me nervous.

Speaker 2 I'm not really afraid of snakes.

Speaker 2 That clip changes my mind.

Speaker 1 Well, it makes me feel like they're directly from Satan. Also, huge corporations make me very nervous.

Speaker 2 Snakes and huge corporations

Speaker 2 are evil. Yeah, those are tough.
Those are tough.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and genocide also makes me nervous, too, a little bit.

Speaker 2 And we're talking in no particular order.

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 All three of those things make me pretty nervous. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Sometimes you see animals pull off some stuff and you just can't believe that they're real with stuff.

Speaker 2 You ever see like when you see these falcons, they're like 100 feet out of the water and they see a fish and they just dive, get it out of the water and just come up and have lunch.

Speaker 2 It's like, I missed a turn on the way here, and I have GPS.

Speaker 2 You know what I mean? It's like crazy, it's crazy what some of these animals could do, but biting yourself with your head off-that's

Speaker 2 bonkers.

Speaker 1 That's some ditty shit.

Speaker 2 Look at all that. These are these are nuts, they just die and they go underwater, they can't and they can't breathe them, they're just dive in and going.

Speaker 2 He's like, Boom, I'm just gonna grab this fish right out of the water. Oh,

Speaker 1 if you could train a falcon to do that, and you showed up like at a bass tournament,

Speaker 2 everybody's there with their rods, you're just there with the little helmet on it

Speaker 2 go ahead maximus tony yeah in 30 minutes you go you're done i love birds you're done for the day you do i love birds man if i could have a falcon i'd have a falcon i had a i had a i had a african gray parrot for me no way the best maximus his name was his little little bird i had he was so funny yeah those guys are super smart um

Speaker 2 and can are these the ones that can read and write or not yeah they're they're the most intelligent of the parrot yeah they got their red tail they're really fun but I didn't teach it how to talk because I only taught it to go like that because they live to 80 years old.

Speaker 2 I don't want 80 years old. They're like, hello.
Like, I don't want 80 years of saying hello to this bird. So I didn't teach it how to say hello.

Speaker 2 Come on. So I'm like, what am I going to do? I'm going to be answering questions.

Speaker 1 That's like having a toddler or whatever. You don't teach him anything.

Speaker 2 It's a bird, though. He liked his life for a while.
It was great.

Speaker 1 And what happened in the end?

Speaker 2 I moved. I ended up moving to LA and I didn't have an apartment or anything.
And I was living with a friend. So I couldn't bring a bird in a birdcage with me.

Speaker 2 So I ended up, there was this bird rescuer that worked at with the Bronx Zoo. And she came over and took it and interviewed her, and she was really nice.

Speaker 1 They got a good zoo in the Bronx. A lot of union work, a lot of union animals.

Speaker 2 A lot of union animals up there. It's clean.
A lot of union animals. Yeah, the Bronx Zoo is like one of the biggest ones.
Wow.

Speaker 2 They do a big thing at the holidays, too. I think all the zoos do it where they light up and do that at night thing.
Oh, and it's really, really cool.

Speaker 1 Animals at night or whatever.

Speaker 2 When I went to Australia, I did the weirdest thing. They had the

Speaker 2 nocturnal animals, they change their clock on them.

Speaker 1 So they make, they're all indoors in this facility, right?

Speaker 2 There's like these mice and whatnot, and they change their clock because they are supposed to be asleep at night, that they make it sun at night inside this building. It's sun up.

Speaker 2 And then during the day, they make it night in this building. Isn't that a war crime? I think it is.
I think these mice are like, hey, if they ever get out in the wild, it's not going to do it.

Speaker 2 But it's great. You walk in, it's like you're walking through the prairies at night.
I think it was in Sydney, the Sydney Zoo or wherever I was. And it was crazy.

Speaker 2 Like you walked in and it was like you were walking through and it had all these mice running around, all these different owls, bats. It's crazy.

Speaker 1 I wouldn't be able to be a night animal, dude.

Speaker 2 No, you're too lazy.

Speaker 1 Well, it's just too risky out there. Something like attacks you in the dark.

Speaker 2 Something always sees better than you. Yes.
That's tough.

Speaker 1 Yeah, dude. And if you can't see that good and it's nighttime or whatever, and you're like, I'm an animal or whatever, you're done.

Speaker 2 These scary movies, too, where people like run through the woods at night. No, I'm going to stay here until the sun comes up and then I'll figure it out.
Yeah. Like trying to run through and stuff.

Speaker 2 I can't do that.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Like they used to those Friday the 13th movies.
They were like that. Yeah.
Did you ever watch those?

Speaker 2 Yeah. Yeah.
I did. I did.
I like some horrors and stuff. Yeah, that's it.
Nocturnal house.

Speaker 1 The Taronga Zoo upper nocturnal house, Australia.

Speaker 2 So see that? That's the indoor. So they totally change it.

Speaker 2 It's broad daylight outside. You walk into night.
It's

Speaker 2 these crazy squirrel things. And all the Australian animals are all batshit crazy.
They got some weird sounds over there.

Speaker 1 Well, even if you think about like, like it's funny, because if you looked at, like, say, if you walked into the forest or whatever, and they had, you saw a bear in there, right?

Speaker 1 But he was drinking, um,

Speaker 1 you know, he's sitting there drinking like 20 cups of coffee and smoking cigarettes, and it's like on his computer all day.

Speaker 2 You'd be like, something's wrong with this fucking bear.

Speaker 1 The other bears are just having fun, scratching their backs on trees, dude, you know,

Speaker 1 eating berries or whatever.

Speaker 2 And he's just over there like, you you know, got to get this report to corporate. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Like, this bear's got something wrong.

Speaker 1 It just shows you what sick animals. We are just like humans, we've gotten kind of sick.

Speaker 1 Bear appears to carry a laptop computer at Montana Roadside. Never mind.

Speaker 2 This guy, he was like, dude, I got to give Theo a story.

Speaker 2 Wow.

Speaker 2 People get stupid around bears, though. They always want to pet them.
Yeah. Like, that's, it's got to be the number one.

Speaker 1 There's always a video in the background. The kid's like, touch them.

Speaker 2 And people think they're scarier than them. They're going, oh, oh.
And meanwhile, the bear rips the head off. Like, it's so dumb.

Speaker 1 Don't be a wimp, Dot.

Speaker 2 Yeah, go get him.

Speaker 1 Dot is fucking, Death puts a bike helmet on and goes to fucking talk to the bear. You're like, it's okay.

Speaker 2 And he puts his hand out. He's like, oh, oh, like, what are you doing? The bear's like, I'm going to eat you, you dumb human.
It's so stupid. People get so ballsy or so scared of bears.

Speaker 2 It's unbelievable.

Speaker 2 Yeah. I don't know why people think bears are friendly.

Speaker 2 Because they look cute, right? But the people are like, oh, they're friendly. But like, nobody goes up to like lions and tries to pet them.
Lions are cute, too, right?

Speaker 1 But they're not as bears have been like commercialized as being so cute. The Berenstain bears, right?

Speaker 2 The teddy bear.

Speaker 1 Yeah, the teddy bear.

Speaker 1 Yes. Bear grills.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 1 People approach him like that.

Speaker 2 You're like, it's got the fight.

Speaker 1 People just bear spray him all the time. No, no, no.

Speaker 2 Give another thumbnail finger to a bear. He's like, you're not going to eat me today.

Speaker 1 Dude, that'd be the best. You see a bear, like in a Hakeem Elajuan jersey somewhere

Speaker 1 or in a Nuggets jersey.

Speaker 2 And the bear is, the bear is going,

Speaker 1 yeah, dude, nature is crazy, man. Do you think that

Speaker 1 we're like divinely separate? Or do you think that we're just part of nature? Do you think?

Speaker 2 I think there's a, I think we're, I think we're part.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's, it's hard.

Speaker 2 I, I, I think we are part of it, but i'm not sure i think we fit in in a different way we think we fit in a different way than we do i think it's like we're supposed to be part of the mix way more we're not in charge of half this shit yeah we're supposed to be part of the mix way more 100 like we have to put these animals in cages to control them and some are like we're the dominant speeches like yeah really let them out of the zoo and see what happens

Speaker 2 i think it's crazy that way yeah i love animals though Yeah, man, I think I wish I would spend more time around them.

Speaker 1 We had this neuroscientist on, and she was saying that, yeah, being around animals, being around horses,

Speaker 1 even just if you have a big family and you all sleep together in the same house, that it creates more

Speaker 1 like

Speaker 1 feelings of like low stress, you know? Yeah.

Speaker 2 Horses are used a lot in therapy, right? Equine therapy, what they call it, whatever. You like hug a horse, you go to a ranch for like a month.
Yeah. Those are big.

Speaker 2 They think it's like a horse hugging. That's the thing.
I didn't make that up. That's right.

Speaker 1 But it can escalate, too.

Speaker 2 You'll marry this horse. I found love in Arizona.

Speaker 1 You'll end up in

Speaker 1 one of those donkey shows or whatever. How does equine therapy help trauma victims? That's a good question.

Speaker 1 Equine therapy is an excellent option for trauma victims who have a hard time opening up about their experiences or who feel overwhelmed, anxiety, or panic.

Speaker 1 Equine therapy provides a unique environment in which individuals are able to heal their invisible wounds in a way that is intuitive and fun.

Speaker 2 It's fun. Therapy could be fun, man.

Speaker 1 This is a website, I think, trying to sell us something. Is there actually,

Speaker 2 can you find something that's a little bit more information, just like the actual information please I'm curious about that yeah there's a because how do you do it you know so it's basically just kind of like you're around because they're low stress animals or like you know you have to be calm around a horse or you have to calm yourself down I think that's part of it so I think that's that that does it but it's it's weird like you see these people like they're laying down with the horses and just petting them and they're you see what the problems they're dealing with it's crazy oh yeah I met two alpacas outside of a Lowe's outside of

Speaker 1 Park City.

Speaker 2 What were they picking up? Some

Speaker 2 picking up some two by fours.

Speaker 1 No, I don't know what they were doing.

Speaker 1 One of them named Macaroni. I remember that.

Speaker 2 That's great. Love that.

Speaker 1 I'd love to put that video in of it. The movement of horses can improve motor function and core strength.

Speaker 1 No. The psychological effects of equine assistive therapy come from the horse's ability to recognize human emotions and provide an intense intentional response.

Speaker 2 Okay. So if you're like, you're freaking out, they'll just come over and be like, look, it's okay.
I'm a horse.

Speaker 2 Improve self-esteem. Okay.

Speaker 1 Yeah, man. I think my brain just feels slow today.
Do you ever have slow days? Do you take days off sometimes?

Speaker 1 I just got off the road, too, for a few days, and it was just that's always the hard one, yeah.

Speaker 2 You think? Yeah, I think when you get back to settle in, it's it's nice. You're trying to readjust because your clock's off too, right?

Speaker 2 Because like you're having that high of doing a show at night, meeting all those people and doing everything, right? So it's a little different. You don't get that at home.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 What time do you normally go to bed if you're at home? If I'm at home by 11. Oh, really?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 What about you?

Speaker 2 I go to bed probably around 1.

Speaker 2 No way.

Speaker 1 1 a.m.

Speaker 2 12, 1. Yeah.
Joe, that's late. Yeah, I probably should get more sleep.
But I, like I said, I sleep hard with these dogs. I get a good five hours.
I'm raring to go. I'm a napper, though.

Speaker 2 Sometimes I'll shut it down for 20. I like a good cat nap.
Oh, yeah. I'll grab a nap.
You nap?

Speaker 1 Yeah, dude. I like nap.

Speaker 2 That's the best. I think they're the best.

Speaker 2 Could you nap for longer, though? Like, if I go over like 25 minutes, half hour, I'm like, I slept. Like, I need to go to sleep.

Speaker 1 My dream is to take an alarmless nap, dude.

Speaker 2 Wake up when the body says it's time. Yeah, dude.

Speaker 1 Before God starts pulling on your strings.

Speaker 2 That's right. Yeah.
Blacked out curtains. Yeah.
Maybe the AC's on.

Speaker 1 I like it. AC on, earplugs in, fan on.
Yeah. One of those Vietnamese water fountains playing in the back or whatever.

Speaker 2 You got it, of course.

Speaker 1 Water dripping directly on my forehead in the center. Like,

Speaker 1 I like to be like a POW.

Speaker 2 That's it, getting out, right?

Speaker 1 Oh, I want, yeah. You do, do you do ear? I want somebody that's just slipping me a small tin of beans around 8 p.m.

Speaker 2 That's maybe lucky paper cuts on your foot. Yeah, dude.
Like, did you do ear? Do you do like I'll do earplugs, yeah? Earplugs, yeah.

Speaker 1 Dude, I'll wear earplugs now, so now it's till like 11 a.m. It's like there's just too much noise in the world.
I don't want any of it. I don't care.

Speaker 1 I've heard so much of it. Put the earplugs in, see people they don't know.
Oh, yeah. Talk loud to

Speaker 1 My God, neighbor's loud.

Speaker 2 Yeah,

Speaker 2 Theo's got his ears going.

Speaker 2 Do you have them in now? No, I don't. I don't know.

Speaker 2 But I'll put them out.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I put them in a lot, dude.

Speaker 2 That's good, though. It shuts you down.

Speaker 1 What else do I do? What's something else that I like to do a lot?

Speaker 1 Oh, I used to sleep in a neck brace when I was young to try to make my neck longer. Do you ever do anything? Stretch it out?

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 No, I didn't sleep in a neck brace, but

Speaker 1 I had a... It's hard.
It's pretty pretty hard to do.

Speaker 2 Did you ever have braces growing up? Oh, yeah. Yeah, so I had braces.
I was the last one that I get if some, my doctor was totally through this thing where, you know, he had the headgear thing.

Speaker 2 And like he, because I was the last one in the family, he was like milking it. He didn't want the gaddles to be out of that

Speaker 2 orthodontic game, you know? So I had to wear a headgear for like

Speaker 2 for.

Speaker 2 five braces for five years. And he was like, you have to wear the headgear, you know, when you sleep.
And I was like, you know what? I don't want to wear it for five years.

Speaker 2 I was going to wear them all the time. So I just used to wear it like 24-7.
I would have this headgear. Yeah.
I'd have the headgear on like air traffic controller.

Speaker 2 I would just have the like piece thing. Yeah, similar to that.
That's a little, that's a little bit, yeah. Could you Google like 1980s? Like that's

Speaker 2 that's like

Speaker 2 keep your mouth open thing. Yeah.
That thing. Yeah.
Like the headpants.

Speaker 2 The same thing basically.

Speaker 1 So, bro, early braces was crazy. When you saw somebody with that shit on, you'd be like, what are you a part of?

Speaker 2 I know. I'd go to school like that.
Yeah. What? Because I didn't want to wear braces for so long.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 It was weird.

Speaker 2 That's the only thing I really did. But that was because I wanted to get, be done with it sooner.
That might be me, actually, that picture right there.

Speaker 1 That third one, that guy.

Speaker 2 That third one there, that guy. Rubble, dude.
Yeah, he's like, I don't want to do this.

Speaker 1 Yeah, those things were crazy, dude. Yeah, like, what were the first braces ever, I wonder? What did they look like? The first teeth braces.

Speaker 2 I don't know any before this, besides the silver things, they would glue to your teeth, right? They put it on with the adhesive to the front of your teeth. That's what I had.

Speaker 2 The exposed ones, kind of like 2D has right there.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and then they put the ones with the little

Speaker 2 rubber bands. Rubber bands underneath the band.

Speaker 2 You have to bring back the overbite. But then the big one was when they went to a clear front, clear one.
So they were trying to fool you that it was clear.

Speaker 1 Egyptian mummies were found with metal bands around their teeth, and archaeologists believe they used cat gut to tie the bands together to move them.

Speaker 1 Primitive orthodontic appliances were also found with early Greek and Roman artifacts. Really?

Speaker 2 They were getting in that straight your teeth game early.

Speaker 1 But imagine using cat gut.

Speaker 1 Cat gut your tongue.

Speaker 2 Get gut your tongue. That's right where it comes from.

Speaker 1 Oh my god.

Speaker 2 We thought it was gut. It's cat gut your tongue.
And we solving, we're solving mysteries here.

Speaker 1 Cat, gut your tongue.

Speaker 2 Dude, you got cat gut tongue. Look at this shit, bro.
Oh.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God.

Speaker 2 Oh, they like drilled through the teeth, though. That's not right.
They shouldn't have done that. That doesn't seem correct.

Speaker 1 Horrible ideas. Yeah.
This is also, who knows if this is a reliable website? It's 123dent.

Speaker 2 They might have put this up together in Canva in the back and just like threw together a graphic.

Speaker 1 Bro, that's the crazy thing about news nowadays. You don't know what's news and what isn't.
I mean, it's crazy. You don't know what is real, what isn't.
You can go down a rabbit hole.

Speaker 1 You could, and even the real.

Speaker 2 If you find something that gets disproved on the next page.

Speaker 1 And the real news channels, they're not even serving you news. No.
So it's like, what the fuck are they?

Speaker 2 Their opinions. Yeah, yeah.
That's why I asked you where you get your news from and you said TikTok, yeah, which is an insane answer if you think about it. TikTok, rumors,

Speaker 2 what my neighbor says, oh, for sure, whispers

Speaker 2 at the coffee bean,

Speaker 1 people things yell out during sex or whatever.

Speaker 2 Anyway, did you hear about that? Yeah, I heard it from Doreen, my neighbor. Yeah, dude.

Speaker 1 Trust me, every now and then when Hank's home early, she leaves her window open, and you'll get the real scoop.

Speaker 2 Oh, she's she's yelling, SpaceX is saving the ashtray!

Speaker 2 Like, God, well, what do of you guys come already

Speaker 1 sick of hearing this

Speaker 1 dude you what about all that diddy stuff man he's gonna go down huh

Speaker 1 did you ever meet him i never met him never met him no we're asking everybody now in new york he was always around but i never i i never met i mean that was you know i'm only in the public eye for a decade now he's been around forever i never really ran i know him seeing him though is kind of crazy seeing that all that happen you know i to me it's crazy i wonder

Speaker 2 if

Speaker 1 say he does have tapes or information on like other people other people yeah

Speaker 1 i wonder if they are gonna

Speaker 1 use that to get people to support different

Speaker 1 like i wonder if the government is gonna use that to get people to support different um agendas agendas political agendas like that's what i wonder it's like okay this tape won't come out we need you to support this candidate or we need you to support this bill or bill or policy or something.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 I mean, it's not beyond comprehension, right?

Speaker 1 I don't think so. Yeah.

Speaker 2 I mean, there's definitely stuff that people are afraid to have out there for sure. I mean, you know, he famously said that he's got tapes of stuff and everybody knows.
So.

Speaker 1 And then imagine if you were ever even there. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Even if you were just eating an hors d'oeuvre.

Speaker 2 Before you realize what's going on, you're just having some deviled eggs. And you turn to your left and you're like, I should leave.
But it already got you on camera.

Speaker 2 Deviled eggs, you know, that's rough.

Speaker 1 A couple four eggs in a baguette in your mouth or something. And people are like, this guy's involved.
I don't know. That would be, oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 That's right. I mean, it's going to be interesting to see how it shakes out for sure.
I think it's going to be, that's going to be a long time coming out, though, right?

Speaker 2 That's not going to be like a, I think it's going to go on for a while. Yeah.
They got to drag that out. They got to drag that out for sure.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 What else is going on?

Speaker 2 This is a

Speaker 2 you're such an interesting fella. I am.
You are. Yeah.
Do you feel that? Because you you are one of the most interesting people to sit down with. I love it.
Every time we sit down, dude, I love it.

Speaker 1 Really? I just feel like, yeah, I feel like my brain is a little bit off today, kind of. It's actually, it's been good.
I just sometimes feel a little bit like, I don't know.

Speaker 1 Like, you got too much sleep. You didn't get enough sleep.
I don't know.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 1 You know, it's a mixture of both.

Speaker 2 You need a nap and we gotta, we gotta tie you up and drop some water on you.

Speaker 2 We okay. Get you in some sleep.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Did you ever go do one of those military shows abroad? Like

Speaker 1 military tours?

Speaker 2 No, no, I didn't. I wanted to.
I've never did that. Have you? Yeah, those are pretty cool.
Is it cool? Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, just because you get to go to places you never would even think that we have like military presence and you're like, oh my gosh, we're in this place.

Speaker 1 And like suddenly you're performing and there's just like people, you know.

Speaker 2 Do you get like the military escorts and all that stuff too? Is that like when you get when you're going on the way there?

Speaker 1 I had a girl who offered a BJ to me once in a black hawk.

Speaker 2 That's not

Speaker 2 wait. Not that kind of escort.
I meant like they take you.

Speaker 2 Not like a girl who's in the military offering.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I don't know what you're talking about now.

Speaker 2 No.

Speaker 1 This girl, but she had like, oh my God. Yeah.
I just remember.

Speaker 2 In a blackhawk. Yeah.

Speaker 1 She's like, there's blackhawk down.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 She was blackhawked down, man.

Speaker 2 Well,

Speaker 2 I don't know what she was into.

Speaker 1 She was whitehogged down.

Speaker 1 But she, yeah. And I, um,

Speaker 1 I just, I didn't do it. I think I got too nervous.
She also had a big, huge pimple on her neck, and it made me nervous, too.

Speaker 2 Yeah, that's a,

Speaker 1 that's not going to do it for you. It just made me so nervous.
I was like, I don't, you know.

Speaker 2 Does she have one neck curve piece? I don't know. Yeah.
Some weird shit having her disease.

Speaker 1 So I don't know. That shit made it.
But then, oh, one time, there was another time on a military, I think it was an Air Force base.

Speaker 1 They were doing like runs in the morning and some girl came by my room in the morning. And

Speaker 1 I don't remember what it, you know, I don't exactly remember what happened, but it was all above board or whatever. Yeah.
Yeah. But

Speaker 2 it was above board. They did love too on the, on the basis.

Speaker 1 Yeah. She was, she'll, she'll be probably a little late for work, two minutes late for work, but still.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah. She was just

Speaker 2 a couple minutes. Turn around.
I'm not going to brag. She was, yeah, 80 seconds late for work.
A minute 30 at most. Yeah.
I hear that.

Speaker 1 What's been something that you didn't expect about heading off in a stand-up comedy? Like, did you expect it would be different? Do you expect it would be like the challenge of it?

Speaker 1 Like, I know you've always been on stage and been a performer.

Speaker 2 Yeah, the challenge of it for sure. Like, you have to talk for 65 minutes, like, you know, and do all that and just put it together that way.

Speaker 2 That was really like the crafting of the hour was such a, it's such a really cool thing to do, you know, and being aware enough to be like, this isn't as funny as the other stuff. This has to go.

Speaker 2 That was such a weird thing.

Speaker 2 Like, the editing of the hour, you know, is like where you think this is going to be a great part of it and then you go and just some other stupid thing that happened and you're like oh wow this is so much funnier than that and it becomes a big piece of it like a year into the tour i found a different story and i just was like oh i got to pull this out this is not as funny as the other stuff and that that was pretty cool i never really experienced that because you think you have it you're like oh this is a great hour and then you have something like no this is a great hour you know Yeah, I just had my son and I had a story about my, in the new special messing with people, I had a story about my son going on a Star Wars ride and he didn't, he didn't really, he'd never been on a ride and he never saw Star Wars.

Speaker 2 He's five years old and he thought he got abducted by aliens. So he legit, he starts screaming, I want to go back to Earth.
And it was so funny.

Speaker 2 And like I saw, and I was told Steve Byrne that story as we were driving and he's like, dude, you got to try that in the hour. He's like, that's funny.
He's like, got to tell that story.

Speaker 2 And I was like, what? And that night, we were driving that night. He's like, just tell it.
Just start telling it. And I told it.

Speaker 2 And then I just started embedded, like working it out and, you know, figuring out what a punches were. And it was, it's such a cool part, but I had never really talked about my kids at all.

Speaker 2 And that was like, that's a really cool piece to add to the puzzle.

Speaker 1 And a really cool way to do it. A really cool way to do it, yeah.
Let's see just a just a bit of it.

Speaker 2 Big Star Wars ride. Any other Star Wars fans up in here?

Speaker 2 I got to go on that Star Wars ride that they built. And if you don't know about it, they spent like hundreds of millions of dollars on this ride.
It's basically a movie set.

Speaker 2 It's unbelievable, but it's also an immersive experience, which means everybody who works on the ride is in character. They play a character.

Speaker 2 So when the ride starts, you're in the woods with all the rebels and they're moving you down the line. Thanks for joining the fight.

Speaker 2 You go through the woods, a big alarm sounds, and they go, The first order's coming, we got to get you out of here. You turn the corner, there's this humongous spaceship.

Speaker 2 The doors open, you get in with these big LED monitors all around you, these 90-inch TVs, and you take off into outer space.

Speaker 2 A battle begins, you get sucked onto the Death Star, and the next time the door is open, you're on the Death Star, face to face with 100 animatronic human-sized stormtroopers with their guns pointed at you.

Speaker 2 And I was like, This is the coolest thing ever. Are you kidding me? This is so cool.
What a cool experience for me. Not for my five-year-old son,

Speaker 2 who's never seen a Star Wars film or been on a ride.

Speaker 2 That's good, dude.

Speaker 1 Wow, that's hilarious, dude. Yeah, when you take it back and think about that,

Speaker 2 I think, like, he's going to think he was abducted. Like, later, it's going to be on a Netflix documentary.
Be like, I got sucked in his face.

Speaker 1 And they sucked on my butt. Why is it that everybody is taking his face?

Speaker 2 everybody gets there and probed everybody? What is so interesting about our asshole? I don't know.

Speaker 1 And we can't even see them, dude. That's the scariest part.
That's right. If all the information is there and you can't even see it,

Speaker 1 that's the shit that just like, well, what are we fucking doing at the end?

Speaker 2 That's why they're the higher, higher intelligence.

Speaker 2 They got all the secrets we keep in our ass. Yeah, dude.

Speaker 1 Meanwhile, we look at dogs, like, look at these idiots.

Speaker 2 They're all like reading each other's QR codes.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's the devil's QR code right there, dude. That's true, huh? And you know, no two assholes are the same.
It's just like your fingerprints.

Speaker 2 Same exact thing. I don't know if that's true.
Really?

Speaker 1 It's the 11th fingerprint.

Speaker 2 That's what they call it. Yeah.
Maybe.

Speaker 1 Google the 11th fingerprint and see what it says.

Speaker 2 I think,

Speaker 2 you know what? It seems possible, but I don't know if that's a fact. But also, how do you prove that? You got to know everybody's asshole print? Yeah.

Speaker 1 What is the rarest fingerprint type? Well, that's not it.

Speaker 2 Arch.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Arch holes.

Speaker 2 Yeah. The arch

Speaker 1 11th fingerprint. I use the numbers.
I think you have to write it out. E-L-E-V-N-T-H.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 It's going to be one, two, three dentists is going to tell us which one.

Speaker 1 Oh, they're fucking hiding the truth.

Speaker 2 That's it. Here it is, man.
We got to ask your neighbor.

Speaker 2 Real news.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Wake up, Spamone.

Speaker 2 Yeah, Yeah, come on, Spamo. She's doing great, man.

Speaker 1 Thanks. Oh, she's doing great.

Speaker 1 Joe Gotto, you got the new special, Messing with People. Yep.
It's out now on YouTube. It came out September 17th.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 17th. September 17th.

Speaker 1 September 17th. Yeah.

Speaker 1 You have your new children's book, Barry.

Speaker 2 Where's Barry? Where's Barry? Where's Barry? Where's Barry came out? And then I got, I'm on tour now at my new hour. Let's get into it, Tor.

Speaker 1 And where's the

Speaker 1 Where's Barry? What ages is it for?

Speaker 2 It's four to eight. It's a picture book.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Beautiful. More people who just one day want to have children.
you know, if they don't have kids now, it guarantees that you'll procreate, actually.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it reads it.

Speaker 2 It's on the back flap.

Speaker 2 It's the opposite of the thing for the rats. So that's why the rats can't read it.

Speaker 1 If you play it backwards on a record player,

Speaker 1 yeah, thanks so much, man. I appreciate you guys.
Shows coming up in Memphis, St. Louis,

Speaker 1 Indiana,

Speaker 2 Akron,

Speaker 1 Oklahoma, Texas.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I'm in Atlantic City, October,

Speaker 2 I think, 19th. Yeah, October.

Speaker 1 Wow, you're doing a lot of shows.

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 So I just kicked off the new tour. So, you know how it is.
You know, you get out there and do it. Yeah, I'm excited.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Well, dude, thanks so much for all the entertainment over the years, man.
You're the best.

Speaker 2 Yeah. It's always so great to see you.
It's been awesome.

Speaker 1 And thanks for the nice gift. You gave me a nice, like, it's like a, it's almost like this, it's like a counter puzzle thing that you had sent to my room whenever we're in Milwaukee.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 It was just thoughtful. It had like a funny note on it.

Speaker 1 But yeah, thanks for all the thoughtful humor over the years. Congrats on the new special man.
and um,

Speaker 1 yeah, uh, and you have also have the podcast, yep,

Speaker 1 two cool moms, two cool moms with Steve Burn with Steve Burn.

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah, find that word together.

Speaker 1 Um, thanks so much, Stu, for hanging out. You're the best, I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 Love you, buddy. Love you, man.
Now, I'm just floating on the breeze, and I feel I'm falling like these leaves. I must be

Speaker 2 cornerstone.

Speaker 2 Oh, but when I reach that ground, I'll share this peace of mind. I found I can feel it in my bones.

Speaker 2 But it's gonna take

Speaker 2 a little while.