Are You Garbage? Comedy Podcast - Josh Johnson!

Episode Date: June 12, 2025

Are You Garbage presents comedian and podcast host Josh Johnson! We're talking college parties, running to work and home cooking. You know Josh Johnson from stand up comedy, reactions,  The Daily Show, What's News With You? Josh Johnson & Ashley Gavin, The Big Interview, Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out Podcast, The Tonight Show, Chrissy Chaos, his Full Special Hashtag and so much more! Thanks for watching AYG Comedy Podcast. Love youse guys. Come to a live show!  AYG 2025 Live Shows: https://areyougarbage.com/pages/live-shows Watch Route 66: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSkJS1gCDR4 Live Shows: https://areyougarbage.com/pages/live-shows PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/AreYouGarbage MERCH: https://areyougarbage.com/ Sponsored By: Aura Frames: Exclusive $30-off Carver Mat at https://AuraFrames.com. Promo Code: GARBAGE Lucy Goods: http://lucy.co/garbage Comedians H. Foley and Kevin Ryan are self proclaimed GARBAGE. Each week a new stand up comedian gets put to the test. Steal shampoo from hotels? Own a George Foreman Grill? Ever worn JNCO Jeans? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Now here are your hosts Kevin Ryan and H Foley Hey everybody out there and welcome back to everybody's favorite podcast. This is are you garbage? Oh, yeah So a little show we sit down with your favorite comedians and we find that after you're to be classy Yeah, they're just a big old piece of trash trash trash trash trash I'm your host a truly coming at you on a beautiful day. We're out back here at Tooties in the new edition She just walked into a wasp nest. Okay, she's all stung up, right? fair enough My coach is coming at you from right next to me extremely unamused this week. He is the CEO of are you garbage? She is an international businessman. He's my best pal in the whole wide world not love him give it up for KJ Kevin James Ryan everybody. Let's go everybody

Thanks for tuning in as always use make sure you rate you subscribe on iTunes full video available on YouTube also full video Available over there on Spotify, baby, and then obviously the greatest website of all time WWW.patreon.com slash are you garbage go over there you get up to a bajillion hours worth of bonus content Yes, sir and And gang, we couldn't be more excited to have our incredibly and I mean incredibly special guest here with us today for the first time. He is a very funny, very successful stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and podcaster. He's written on 51 episodes of

The Tonight Show. Yikes. 867 episodes of The Daily Show which he is also a correspondent you've seen him on Hard in the City you've seen him on Conan the comedy lineup this week at the comedy cellar the late show after midnight game changer you can hear him every week on his amazing podcast the Josh Johnson show alright he has a special out on Paramount Plus called hashtag is YouTube page 1.7 million subscribers It seems like he's dropping a half hour every week every half hour and there's and they're all over a million two million This kid is absolutely killing it. He's about to start the European leg of his of his world tour You can get tickets at Josh Johnson comedy.com give it up for Josh Johnson

Both worlds you got the legacy media got the internet when you figure it out. Yeah, well you say legacy media I get nervous Usually legacy media is followed right by a takedown Yeah, you and your corporate chills man. Yeah, you're real popular with legacy media weren't you on some island I Got the flight man you sure additional media. Yeah, buddy. I mean we've been talking about it for months Congratulations, man. You're absolutely killing it man. You're moving some tickets It does well, and it's good to see and you're heading over to Europe, man That's fucking cool. Yeah. Yeah, so I'm gonna go some places. I've never been before Okay, that is where I get the most

nervous of like I want to like capture the the sensibility as As quickly as possible, but when you get there, and then you have to do the show right away It becomes a bit tough where not only is it a little bit easier because I'm actually an American But sometimes you do get the opportunity to go to a city a day ahead Yeah, and go like walk around or you meet people you talk to people and everything and so I'm I'm very excited to do those shows But those are probably like in the in the realm of nerves. Those are probably in those Last few rungs that you get.

Gotcha. You know? Yeah. Anytime I've ever performed overseas, I'm always like minutes leading up to it. I'm like, do you guys know what a supermarket is? Like I'm like, gee, I'm going to go into all the vocat words. Yeah, yeah. What a well-thought out, articulate answer.

I have a feeling we are about to get somewhat of a master class in class could be comes always a very kids put this guy's put together together also I mean you know pull the fourth wall back a little bit it's 1245 you offer him a beer I don't think he's cut from the same cloth as you are but he said that he's like no I don't drink I was like You start writing that sharp Take us back. Give us the origin story. Where were you born? Where did you grow up in? Correct? Is that true? Yeah I grew up in Alexandria, Louisiana

Okay, so the middle of the state central, Louisiana. No kid there is Disappointing amount going on. There is, to say you're in the middle, we're pretty far from New Orleans where everything is happening and what everyone knows and everything, but we are in an unfair path of the hurricanes. Okay.

To say that it's like, we're not in the Gulf. So it's like to still get hit the way we would get hit growing up. I've never picked up on your accent before and I'm hearing it now. Nobody does. That's crazy. No one ever does and it's kind of,

even people didn't pick up on it when I lived there. Where the hell are you from? Yeah. Like I used to. That's a goddamn Yankee outta here. Yeah, I used to work at restaurants and I'd ask for people's order and they'd be like, where are you from?

And I'm like right there That's my house right out the window. They're like no no way. I'm like yeah, no, I'm this is just how I talk I don't trust you get me another waiter What are we talking about? Like is it swampy is it what is that? You guys got land airs at all mushy. I mean there are levees that can break So I've heard on legacy media. Yeah there are by use and everything but you know it it's interesting because we had

everything that you would need for a Pretty substantial city. Okay, just didn't have any of it to the degree that it felt like a major city Okay, that makes sense so we didn't have and this is just some of this is opinion, but a lot of it is just fact We didn't have enough people okay, okay? That's usually a great Substantial city we have an airport, but I think there's only six flights a day That's pretty good a lot of places don't have a lot of places don't have an airport right? Yeah, but like where are those flights to the uh they're all connections. We only To I think Atlanta and to

North Carolina Yeah, so it's like you have to like when I was a gun running flight. Yeah, it's like when I lived in Chicago Like when I was a gun running flight. Yeah, it's like when I lived in Chicago Home and then I was like broke in Chicago So it's like I would save up to be able to go home to be on these two fights And the first time I had been on a plane was leaving like Alex and you had a move to Chicago Yeah So like when I graduated college and I decided to move to Chicago like start doing comedy and stuff That was like the first plane ride ever been on so I got such a terrible headache. I was

22 yeah, was it a normal plane or was it a smaller plan to be I didn't know I didn't know what a normal Propellers on it. There was no propeller. So it was it was a probably a Commercial plane but the commercial was short and so so then I remember taking off and being like, wow. And I was like, and it was emotional too, because I was like really leaving home. Like I had left home for college, but I was only two hours away. I was like properly leaving home.

And my mom was seeing me off and everything. And it was like, yeah. And so I was just, I was like really kind of getting cut up about it, like as we were about to take off. And then, as my first flight, so we're like 45 degrees and I'm like, whoa, this is the world? Doesn't even make it off the runway. This is the highest I've ever been.

The plane was not. You're going by feet? Mama! The plane was not high. And I was like, whoa, this must be what a billionaire feels like yeah and then and then we get we get about this is space yeah we get about 45 degrees for the turn and we start tipping and I'm like uh oh yeah because I always thought this is very

dumb but I always thought that when you flew you just flew straight like I thought they I don't just listen you're not wrong I feel like they turn too much yeah like I thought they don't listen. You're not wrong. I feel like they turn too much. Yeah, I thought they got on the runway And then they point it where they were trying to go and then they took off and went that way like a slingshot So as soon as we turned I was like, oh we're going down. This is what happens when you leave home Yeah, my mom's gonna watch me crash. This is bad. All right hang on so Real quick was the city something Years ago like was there industry there and it left like what yeah, it was like an Air Force base

It looks pretty it was an Air Force base Did you guys live in the city proper in the suburbs of the city so when I was born I? Believe we were in the yeah, so we were in the city proper like if you even Type in like I mean if you hey, okay, so maybe type in Alexandria, Louisiana Sonia quarters S-o-n-i-a and then quarters is that an apartment complex no no it is Like I got this does it look about Sonya quarters? Is that what you grew up in something like that? Yes, so it don't look great if I'm being honest

That's like Elvis's house yet. No no no so so if you zoom out so okay There's a there's a pretty substantial part of Alexandria, Louisiana. That is like really bad off. Are you from the 40s? That's crazy Well that picture might be but I I swear I born from now ish No, no, there's no centers going on. I was your was your house like that though Was it like an old house like that? Yeah, so so okay the Let me see if I can find the Let me see if I can find

Okay, are you looking at these I looking at the are you looking at more of the aerial view or the House so so this house Kind of would be something similar to when I was really let me see gotcha. Yeah, the one we were looking at yeah Yeah, Miles Davis was born. Yeah, yeah, and so then We lived in when my parents got back together We lived in Pineville for a little bit. Okay, I'm bill is actually having like quite the come-up now No, no, no, no, no like today. So Pineville is like

I'm so intrigued. I've never looked up someone's hometown. This is amazing. There's a couple of things Oh, man, you know what I should have done? Oh, Pineville's a little cute town. Yeah, so Pineville's cute now. There was a time. A great place to call home, the city of Pineville. Yeah, Pineville used to have just so much less going on. And so that was probably a little closer

to like the sticks a little bit. Then we were only in Pineville for a little bit. And I think that's cuz my dad's Apartment was in Pineville when we all moved in together We moved back and these are all across the river from each other. So it's just a lot of carrying trash Parents getting back together as a is always a red flag for garbage Across the river ain't great if I'm being honest didn't understand our airplanes work. Yeah, hold on. Let's go. Let's go back Yeah, so your mom and dad are from this town from Alexandria. Yes. Yes What did they do for a living? So both teachers? So my mom special ed teacher. Okay, and she

so basically she was special ed teacher up until I Was like 10 or like nine or 10 or something like that. Okay. And then she had to have brain surgery. Okay. And so, you know, that was like, that was a really scary time because they didn't give her like a great prognosis or anything.

Was it cancer? Yeah, it was, it was, it was a rare type of tumor. And then she had the surgery, surgery was successful, but then they were like, you're not gonna walk, you're not gonna, like it was all this stuff, and then she managed to make a full recovery, like walking and like all of her, like they were like, you're gonna have trouble computing and everything, like you just won't be the same

and stuff like that, and she was, it was really a miracle. And then she transitioned, cause special ed teaching is such like, hard, strenuous work and everything She couldn't do it after the surgery so she Transitioned to becoming a librarian and so then okay like basically most of my

Late elementary junior high all of high school was just like spin at the library after school because she would pick me up But then she's still at work So she would be picked she'd take her lunch break because she would pick me up. But then she's still at work. So she would be picked. She take her lunch break late to come pick me up from school. And then we would just chill at the library till she was done. No kidding. So school library, not the school library, public library. Yeah. She a teacher, though, at the same school that you would have

went to. She was in your school district. I wasn't there wasn't many. I wasn't in special ed. So it was oh, oh, gotcha. Gotcha. I thought you met at the same school. Like he just I wasn't in special ed so it was oh oh gotcha gotcha I thought you met at the same school like he just thinks everybody's in special ed I Made it the same school district Teaching in your school district like I guess you could say the school I guess I was so I was so little as well that I wasn't I guess paying attention what the district was So I'm sure I'm sure she would have been in the.

She had her own. I've also fully had such, he gets such, that's what makes him a great host and interviewer, he has such specific questions sometimes that I've never seen someone just go, I'm, what are you talking about? The dryness at which you answered that. I don't know, honey, I'm not, also he's like, you guys guys like the antithesis of each other. I've never thought about the what school district

I was in when I was in first grade All right, your mom's a librarian your dad's a teacher. Yes, okay brothers and sisters. No, it's just me just you. Yeah Yeah, and so my dad was like a pair professional so he was kind of in that same line of Education is my mom except he would be assisting a lot when it came to kids with special needs Okay, that went further beyond like just the the classroom if they need other other stuff and then he was like a Volunteer slash worked at the

boys and girls club after that cut from good claw cut from very very sweet people very sweet where did they both go to school where they both go to college they both went to Gramley University Wow yeah all right that's pretty good and where did you go to school I went to college at Centenary College of Louisiana it's in Shreveport. It's like two hours from where I grew up. Small school, private school? Yeah, it's like a small Methodist school.

Okay. Yeah, yeah, so that's where I studied. All right, so it's just the three. Is there extended family in the area, like on your mom's side or your dad's side? Yeah, yeah, so. So you got cousins, you got grandparents. Yeah, so.

Everybody's around. Yeah, yeah, everybody's around yeah. Yeah, every everybody is around had cousins Lived with my Grandparents for a bit. Let's get to that. What did your parents split up? Yeah, so they split up when I was like yeah around that time of my mom's surgery and everything Yeah, so after the recovery or like why it was going on It was yeah, it was it was kind of it was kind of during and after I suppose and then

It was definitely after that it was you know like official and stuff gotcha and and then We moved in with my grandparents lived with them Yeah, my mom and I and and so I was basically around my mom my aunt my grandma and my granddad for you know Like yeah majority of that junior high gotcha high school. So your dad's still in the area. Yeah See him. Yeah. Yeah, I still see him and everything and then Yeah, and then when my mom and I moved out on on our own everything, that was like the rest of high school. Gotcha. Yeah.

Okay, and then when did they get back together? Did they ever get back together? Not again. So they, yeah, basically they were together. And then I was born and then maybe when I was like two, they split up for a bit. And then they got back together. But then when I was like, maybe, it's hard,

because it's like a two-year process of divorce. So it's hard to say, I just kind of call it when it's final. So by the time I'm like 12 or 13. This guy calls balls and strikes. He's like, once the state gets involved, that's when I acknowledge it. Yeah, yeah. That's still common law wife, I'm telling you right now. So by the time I was in junior high and was fully official, they never got back together

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after my grandma passed away. And yeah, he passed away a little a little while back. But yeah, like twenty twenty one. But yeah, now my mom and my aunt are in Georgia. It's very easy to visit them. So that's home base now. When you go home, that's where you're going. Yeah, it's a hub to a hub.

So it's like I live in New York and it's finally an easy flight to see my mom. What a comic at heart. That's crazy. It's a hub to a hub. That's an easy flight for me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just-

Did a little crowd work, plus the website, I'm at it. That's the comic. Yeah, you have no idea the trials it would be to get home and how expensive it would be. I was like, it would be, and this is, I'm still working at the grocery store, stuff like that. This is when I'm doing comedy, but I'm just doing open mics.

It'd be like $6.50 to get home to a place that nobody's trying to get to. I know, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like, how is it expensive to get here? Sure. So you're out of there now, the family's out of there. Yeah, I know yeah, it's like how is it expensive to get here sure So you're out of there now the family's out of there Yeah, I saw some family there, and I'll see them once in a while But as far as like you're going home when I'm going yeah for holidays or Georgia you touch it a little bit

What was the first job growing up? I worked at a restaurant Mexican restaurant Mexican restaurant. Yeah, what a 16 16? Yeah, waiting or busing tables? So I started as a chip boy. What's a chip boy? I brought the chips and salsa. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a first. That was your only responsibility?

It was my main one, yeah. Yeah. A couple years I'll be on salsa. Because to be fair, at the time I was like, I was like, man, I got more potential than chips, but then But then looking back and like also having to work with 16 year olds when I was even 18 I was like, I understand why they just Start bussing tables, okay, but like soon, to be fair. So it's like, chips was like,

chips was like- That's like your orientation. Hey, chips is a good place to start. Yeah, chips was first week. And then after a week they were like, all right, he's not like a complete- He's got chips a lot. Yeah, yeah, he understands chips

and dip together to the table. And then I was bussing tables. That's interesting, cause to me it would go bussing then chips. interesting to me it would go bussing then chips anything You're anything with food. Mm-hmm typically yeah, but be above but you guys are not to make bussing tables sound more difficult than it is But I have in not not even in one restaurant like in many other Restaurant situations I've watched people bus tables in a way where I was like, oh, they need him doing something else. He needs to be on chips.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because like, I don't know, there's just- I'm gonna put you on ice for a little while. Yeah, take some care when you're stacking the plates of the cups, you know what I mean? I've just, I've watched, I've been at restaurants where people walk up and bust the table by sliding everything off with one arm. Sure. And I'm like, that's a-

You've seen me bust tables before. Yeah, I did. I remember the one time I put a glass in a glass and had too much liquid in it and that overflowed. And this big waitress slipped on it. And I mean, it was it was a scene in the in the dining room. How was that Mexican restaurant? It was amazing. Really? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, shit. Yeah. All right.

So that's you're doing that in high school. Were you playing any sports? None. Well, I I played. I played soccer when I was a when I was really little. And I actually talk about it on on stage sometimes about how I was part of like a sort of like community intramural, you know, those things where it's like, no one believes in these kids.

Sure. Like these, we are actually one step below Bad News Bears. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so I was on one of those for baseball and I was on one of those for soccer. Gotcha. And baseball, I was somehow more, because I had asthma growing up so soccer was never going to be like the move, you know what I mean?

I couldn't outrun the condition and then you would think baseball would be better since it's like more static, less spurts of running and then basically I I have no. No, you're okay. You're an alarm for 1 PM. Yeah, because we were supposed to be here at 3. Um, I apologize. No, you're good. You're good. So baseball was somehow worse because I I'm left-handed when I when I write and like even drawing stuff like that and I'm not even good at drawing, but I'm just left-handed when I write and even drawing, stuff like that, and I'm not even good at drawing,

but I'm just left-handed. So your left hand's even criticizing himself, it's like, listen, I'm not that good. But then when it comes to throwing a ball, I'm right-handed. What? But because I was little, I didn't know how to communicate any of that,

and so then the first day of like T-ball, they were like, which hand do you write with? That was like their question for like, what side they were gonna put you on everything, which made sense for every single kid but me. And so then they put me on the wrong side to bat, the wrong side of a mitt and everything. And so then the thing that made the most sense to me,

as a, and I'm little, but this was still very dumb, is that if a ball got hit by one of the bigger kids with coordination, and it was going up in the air, it's coming at me in the outfield, because it made me outfield because I was trash. Got you. It made more sense to just go ahead

and catch it with my right hand, and then throw it with my right hand but Because I told them that I was left-handed. This is also like they put the glove they just Everything was messed up. And so then I would take off my glove To throw the ball and they'd be like, what are you doing? And then no one really put it together That it was like oh, it's just everything's on the wrong side

Yeah, you might you might have been in special ed I Was in I was in like like special ed of sports. Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah, my P was not impressive So is that because they they trained you like should you have had the glove? You should have had the glove on your right hand and you should have thrown left hand Or is that Naturally how you so from what I was told that's nuts what I was told which was loud because I was very frustrating Because I said that I write with my left hand I should have been thrown with my left hand putting them like the mint on this hand throw with your right hand

But I throw my right hand so I would try to catch it with this one, then take it off, then throw. And it was just, we were losing. Like a guy with one arm. Yeah, like those one arm pitchers did. Yeah, yeah, yeah way less I mean, I think 500 went to the whole school from from 7 Yeah, probably a hundred people. Okay. Okay. What was the name that high school? Holy Savior Menard? It was Catholic With a Catholic school. Yeah, very nice. Yeah. All right. Good stuff uniform the whole nine yards Yeah uniform everything go to get to go to church every week They had mass Wednesday mornings right before classes started gotcha. Yeah, gotcha ours was Thursday in elementary What was that high school mascot an eagle?

Eagles are pretty good. What do you have over there? Dr. Lucas? They don't have a Wikipedia really we do We find out if the guest is notable alum. Oh, yeah, pedia Really we do we find out if the guest is notable along Wikipedia Sedentary College of Louisiana he is Sweet sweet. Oh, it's all happening Take that t-ball coach. Yeah, how were the grades I assume good. Yeah. Yeah, I was really good all the way up until about Seventh grade it was like like nothing could touch me.

And then at like eighth grade, the math hit hard. That comes in quick though. And so the math started, there was certain pieces of logic. I always thought you were a genius. Yeah, I mean, I don't know, man. Seventh grade? I thought you were gonna say college.

No, no, no, so eighth grade eighth grade The math hit hard. I was getting good grades and everything else and then My I didn't have trouble again. Once I understood the algebra. I was fine until Senior year they put me in AP biology and that was too much and I didn't want to be an AP biology But I had I basically the the way that my classes ran, I had to basically be in the higher level of science which I didn't even qualify for just to make my schedule work, which is insane.

And you've been getting applied wrong the whole, your whole life. Dude, the whole time because- They've been putting the glove on the wrong hand the whole time. Even with AP biology, I told my teacher, I was like, hey, I'm really not supposed to be in here. The teacher went to the principal,

was like, hey, you really not supposed to be in here. And then the principal was like, I don't know what to tell you. And then I even offered, I was like, look, I will come early, like I will come early every day just to study for the regular science class that the rest of the seniors are taking and then I'll just take those tests.

Can I just do that? Wow. And they were like, no. And I don't know if it's because they didn't believe I would do it or if it was that old thinking. Like basically what, in the same way that like COVID broke people's brains, it also opened up how many people were lying

this entire time. Like how many places you've worked where you're like, can I work from home for this very special occasion? Like I'm literally sick, can I work from home? I'll still work and throw up and work. And they're like, no, it's just not not sustainable And it's like no it was and then and then I offered to like I literally offered to Come like come in so they could see me in the building and just do all the reading and so I was like

I'll do it in front of whoever and just let me take the test and they were like nah You're better than me. I got dude in eighth or ninth grade I got put in special ed math, and I didn't belong in it, and I took it as I keep my fucking Yeah, yeah, so then that was like a C class for me, so that's pretty good You got a grade you got a you got a curve for the a YG I mean see is Moron, but no I'm like I got a grade you got a you got a curve for the a YG. I mean see is I'm a moron, but no I'm like I got a point to my freshman year of college Really? Yeah, and I graduated. He's a smartest in his family

I grad I graduated and I think third or fourth last in my high school. Yeah, but graduated's graduated You know, I mean they don't what hand the gloves on, baby. They don't put a number over your head in the picture. Great logic. That is sound logic. OK, all right. I have one more. Who was the most famous person you met growing up?

It could have been a local celebrity, a news guy, the pilot of the airplane. Anybody that you were like, oh my god, there's so and so, a radio. Oh, okay, actually, if you type in, I think it's Faith Ford, and she's an actress, and I. Yes, Faith Ford, American actress. Yeah, I served her chips and salsa.

Yeah, that was huge. I was like, oh my gosh, that's wild. Yeah, that was huge. I was like, oh my gosh, that's wild. Yeah, I remember her. Okay, born Alexandria, Louisiana. Look at that. And so sweet, was so, so nice. Wow. Look at that.

Was she back in town seeing family or something? I think so. What else do you think? Clearly that's a G. Maybe she heard about the chips. Get this kid down there, he's good. What was she doing in her hometown? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe she heard about the chips. Maybe. She's good. Um what's she doing in her hometown? You're living you're so most of this time in high school, you're at your

you're at your grandparents, right? A good portion, a good portion of it and then yeah, I think maybe I don't I'm trying to be fair about let me say I think it was probably in yeah, like 10th grade or something. We got you. What was what was the room? Arrangement at grandparents house. So it would have been me and my mom sharing a room and then my aunt in a room.

My grandparents in a room. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tough. You guys have dinner together and all. Wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's tough. You guys have dinner together and all that stuff? Yeah, yeah. We would have dinner together and everything. Who did the cooking?

My grandma did a lot of the cooking. Good? Yeah, phenomenal. Like, like in a, in a, in a way that's like, I don't even know how you would put this, but anybody who's had their grandparents cooking that's from like a certain time. Of course, I know exactly. There is no recipe. Yeah. It's like you were just alone in the house.

And then there's this soup that's like phenomenal that you and you didn't write anything down on how to make it. So it's like, you know, towards towards the last year of all of us living together, I think it was my mom or my aunt that asked my grandma to start like writing down a couple of these things. Yeah, just home runs. Yeah, my Emory Catherine's vegetable soup and rice pudding. It's like it's it's it's a nostalgic thing that you just can't.

Yeah, yeah. I don't even know what's in it because it's like you you were sick before you ate it. Yeah. And then you eat it and then three coughs later. You're healed. What was the vacations like were you guys going anywhere? Were you doing anything? Things were tight. I assume in that yeah. Yeah, I mean I I think okay so at one point my aunt Had moved away. Okay, and so when I was I'm trying to even remember I think I would have been like eight years old or something like that.

My aunt moved to like Mesquite, Texas or something. And I was just like heartbroken. I was like, you can't leave, what are you doing? You know what I mean? And I'm sure that like was heartbreaking cause she just, she was like, you know, we were always hanging out and stuff. And so I know we went to visit her, I think about two times and

then she had moved back. It was like she wasn't really gone that long in the grand scheme of the. Yeah, gotcha. So no real vacations. Disney World, the beach. No, I don't think nothing like that. No. What were you doing in the summers? You were just working in the summers? Yeah, once I was 16, I was like working in the summers. And in the when I was little, before I was working during the summer, I was just like at the library with with my mom. We read at the library. Do you read a lot?

Yeah, I would read and I do a lot of the the stuff that my mom had planned at the library, because she also became like the youth coordinator And everything and so I was right around the age that it was all of a sudden like My mom was teaching at my school because I was at the age that she was pitching the events for gotcha and you're helping her Yeah, man. Good guy All right, you got that then you go to college mm-hmm What was the social scene like in high school Jeff friends and all that stuff pretty yeah?

Yeah, I mean yeah, I made some good friends the the friends that I made in elementary school or like My best friend I met when I was like four And so best friends. Yeah, yeah, yeah Back there no no he lives in LA now But he actually did like directs my specials and stuff There we go so many couple of small-town boys made good baby do well to bring their homies along you love to see it I'm getting your own chips and salsa. This kid's killing it

And then basically outside of that I yeah I did have like a core group of friends that hang out with For for the most part during school and then a couple of people who I would hang out with that went to different schools Gotcha, but yeah, there wasn't a huge amount There was a there was a slight amount for these periods of time that feel longer when you're a kid But in retrospect were like a month where you tried to have a different group of friends, but then you realized that they're like

out of their mind or something. You're like in the backseat of a car, you're like, what the hell am I doing here? Any trouble when you were a kid? Arrested, anything like that, no drinking, nothing like that, no smoking doobies, no house parties, anything like that? No, no, like I went to a few parties,

but like I didn't drink, and I feel like I went to a few parties, but like I didn't drink and I feel like I missed I missed out on like that that curve of when you're supposed to drink gotcha because I was too scared of getting caught and getting in trouble sure as a as a kid uh-huh and then I was like I Don't know like by college. I had the reputation for being sober, so then people would make me the designated everything, except driver. Like I was like, not the driver,

but they'd be like, oh yeah, just walk back with Josh, he's not drunk, or like, you know, whatever. And so then I almost felt this weird responsibility like I couldn't drink, because now everyone, in fact, I was about to have my first drink in college. It was a real thought in my head because I was like, you know what, I'm 21, maybe, who knows?

Everyone seems to be having a good time. This drink at least smells delicious because a lot of alcohol also stank. And so I was like, yeah, in my head. Stank real good, baby. In my head, I was like, this stinks, so I don't know if I want, and then my friend's sick the next day, it just doesn't, I don't know.

And so the only time I really thought, maybe I'll have a drink, right? I was in my, yeah, like junior year, I turned 21. I was at my fraternity house. And I was at my fraternity house. All right, you're fraternity, there you go. Yeah, and I was at my fraternity house and then I'm standing outside and I was like, yeah, you know, maybe. And then I turn around to go back inside the house

because I was just chilling, you know, like taking a break to myself and everything. Tornado, rip the house apart. As I turn around, this kid fell off the roof. That was me. And like fell off the roof. That was me. And like fell off the roof in front of me so perfectly and like, and he gets up and like gets up immediately because it's not like our, like we,

the lip of our roof was not high. And so, so. It's still a roof. It's still a roof. It's not the floor. Gets up immediately and it's like, ah, ah. And like, I don't know what he had, I mean mean he may have broke his forearm I have no idea But he just it's up and I was like, oh, yeah, maybe I'm good And then I moved to Chicago and I was like too broke to like a new thing gotcha

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So that was like that was when I was like, oh I have to get it the the year When I I think I auditioned for JFL like two three times or something like that And the first year it was like such a long shock as even me getting an audition was late Mm-hmm And so I didn't even bother because I was like, all right, maybe we'll you know, we'll see and then I didn't get it Anyway, did you end up eventually going? Did you do JFL? Yeah. Yeah All right I didn't get it anyway. Did you end up eventually going did you do JFL? Yeah? Yeah, I thought so all right Just an all-around good guy. What is what was your first car? Oh? I can't drive I

Felt that way yeah, I can't drive at all guys. No he you know he just don't yeah Yeah, I could feel that in your bones He's driving in a backseat dude, I cannot drive I thought I would I would say kill so many people Yeah, no, no, no, no, you never got your license My my driving test was such a disaster that the dude made me stop How old were you? Yeah, I was I was 16. Okay? I may have taken it. I think yeah, I took it What one more time and then I was like guys. I'm good. I like For me this and drinking yeah, I moved to Chicago so I could take the train

Yeah, so I was like they have a good public transit system in Louisiana. I had to run Yeah, so I was like they have a good public transit system in Louisiana. I had to run You could also walk you'd have to run it well No, I had I had to run because I was not like an early riser I wasn't like a morning person so I would run to the restaurant and the restaurant was like three miles from my house What you were walking to work? Yeah, like that's like parolee type shit He's late again. Those chips wait for nobody, I'm taking that. Cause I don't know if you, yeah,

I don't know if y'all had this, but we had it to where the, we had the service road, we had the highway, and then we had the street. Yeah, we don't have real service roads up here. And basically, I, you, if you, depending on where you were going, you had to run in and out of the ditches.

No. Oh, OK. That's what you were doing? Yeah. I mean, if you had a cross, yeah. Admittedly, I went from a place where I couldn't drive but was almost exclusively a driving city to a place where I could walk.

So you were walking to work three miles a day or running the work three miles a day. Yeah. And it wasn't every day because once the family who owned the restaurant found out that I was like like running to work, they they would offer me rides. Running to work is crazy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That kid. You're the guy that they buy the car for. And it's out in the market with the big. Yeah. I can't drive. Yeah. No, no, no. Don't do this. Don't do this. You'll kill everyone. You're the guy that they buy the car

Don't do this don't do this you'll kill everyone we're all gonna die With a big bow on it. Yeah Dude yeah, oh man. This is a this is a strange mix Growing up at any point did your family keep the batteries in the refrigerator? Mm. Mm. Probably not. Are we talking like an Alzheimer situation?

No. No. It keeps them working. No, there's an urban legend that it keeps them working. An old wives' style that it keeps them fresher. No, no, no, but I remember a neighbor that I had tried to explain to me how to forge stamps Okay, yeah, I mean well. I mean back then they got to be what 29 cents. Yeah, yeah, but he was like no

That's like making a fake quarter. What's the yeah? What one has to do with the other but I like what this is going well No, I just I I'm I'm saying I was living in proximity to people who were probably putting their He moves quick up there But if the guys trying to teach me how to force stamp he's for sure keep it I'm clearly not in the best situation Yeah, yeah, cuz he was like no all you got to do like everybody and he was really doing letters Are you mailed that that's gonna make it? You know like one? Yeah? Yeah, but he was really doing it. How many letters are you mailing? That that's gonna make a, you know. Like one?

Yeah. But he was like, he was like, nah, like he was, you know, he was in that entrepreneurial mindset. That's, that's. Guys are hustlers, I don't let you think. Yeah, yeah, it is. It's a startup going. It is insane that the people, like,

when you look at whether it's like an Elon Musk or like a Sam Altman or something like that, it's crazy that the most, the richest people have the same ideas. Mentality, yeah. As the brokeest people you've ever met. Cause like so many of the things that I hear come out of their mouths,

especially like a lot of the technocrats and stuff like that, of like a better world or like a Like a a future towards AI or something like that is everything that I heard my pothead for insane college that are truly doing Nothing right now. This kind of so it stamps. Yeah. Yeah, and so so my thing is is To tell me another kid because it's a kid Tell me another kid, because this is a kid. Mm-hmm. It's a child.

I thought it was an old man. No, no. It's another kid that lived next to me that was like, hey, you know, a lot of people buy stamps to the post office like some suckers. Not me. All right? All you got to do is put where you wanted to go as the return address. Ah, yeah.

So he was just mailing wrong. Oh my god, that's funny. And it was getting to where, yeah. It's the same kiddie thing, if you jump out of the plane and run the other way, you'll be all right. That's funny. All right, let's talk about now a little bit. Things are going extremely well.

Oh, thanks, man. Can I borrow $500? Have you always been smart with money? Have you always been a saver? I've always been scared with money. So yeah, I guess that's like the same thing. All right. So when you when you started getting you know, when you're doing the Daily Show, when you know, the tickets start going, you're doing very well. Was there a silly purchase? Is anything did you splurge on anything?

You look down your splurge. I didn't need that. It could have been a keep it all keep it all in the bag. And live modestly. Yeah, I mean, I try to like live modestly. Like I don't really buy that much stuff. I like like everything that I buy is pretty cheap, luckily. OK, like what's the apartment sit right now? I moved into a place with with my girlfriend. We've been living together for a long time. Love that into a new place.

So that's probably the first big like different thing that I've done. Okay, but I guess that first like paycheck like when I got the Pay for my special Like that first one that I did I saved as much of it as I could and then I like used the rest to pay off my mom's house And so then that way But it's but it's fucking but it's better because it's like He's got to take care of you you start taking lessons from him. What the fuck are you doing? But it's better because it's like then she doesn't have to worry about you know

You think about other people not yourself. I got a big-screen TV But yeah, I just don't really I'm not into that much stuff Guy sharp. Yeah, but but it's like you know I will probably one day my hope is to have like a real like Classic library of comic books like I don't I don't necessarily splurge on the ones that are like novelty, the old first issue Spider-Man stuff I don't really buy, but I buy a lot of like Ed Brubaker. Like Ed Brubaker's my favorite.

What's that cost? This is the sweetest thing I've ever heard, by the way. What's like inexpensive, I don't know. If you get the omnibus, like if you get the full story, then it's probably like 50 bucks Okay, yeah, yeah, it might might run you if it's like if it's like a DC Marvel thing I'll probably run you 80, but yeah, you got cash get him. What are you doing? Yeah? What's the apartment? Did you buy it? Did you are you renting? Oh, no, I'm just renting your renting. Yeah. Yeah. All right in the city

No, no, I'm in Brooklyn. You're in Brooklyn. Yeah, all right, okay He's sharp, man He's a good guy. You are coming to cause an existential crisis You're just a better human being than I am it's crazy That's why I love you though. What um what's like if you go out? You know say it's your lady's birthday or so and you're like gonna take her out to dinner Do you like a nice dinner or do you splurge in there at all or no?

Just kind of something a little more reserved? No, no. I mean, I like the idea of an experience for her, like a nice dinner for her or something like that. For me, maybe food is where I splurge a little bit. I try to talk I try to like eat well Try to eat well, yeah, yeah, like good like like like healthy. Oh, yeah, that's another thing we'll get into another episode But yeah, sometimes you'll you know, like like if you go to Like a good example is like katsu nori, you know the hand roll place

It's like yeah if you if you go there that is depending on how much you end up eating that is expensive. But yeah that'll probably like you know that's like 50 bucks. But normally you pretty well you keep keep it tight at the house. I yeah I try to as best I can yeah. Are you working out? You work out? You just dropped a $50 dinner in your life. Yeah, that old breakfast thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, or if it's someone's birthday, that's when I'll really splurge.

So for instance, I had the shows in London, and they fell on my girlfriend's birthday. Beautiful. And so she came to London, everything, and then we had a big dinner with everybody that came out very nice so like every you know everybody came and that was really special so I took care of that. What did you drop on dinner? Two grand.

Three grand. I think it was 75. That would have been great if it had been 50 pounds Yeah, yeah, no at the I don't know what the conversion is but at the end of the At the end of the dinner for everybody was like nine 32 or something like that nine hundred and thirty two nine or thirty two pounds Yeah, so probably fifteen something like that. Yeah, yeah around there. That's not this kid's killing it We have some yeah, I guess just spend some of this cash 15 something like that. Yeah, yeah around there. That's not this kids killing it I guess just spend some of this cage

This is crazy Okay, huh? What about me? Hold on. Sorry. What about a vacation? Well, you're working hard You're flying all over to all over the Korea all over the world go down to the islands or go to the beach Yeah, I mean, I'll of the islands or go to the beach? Um, yeah, I mean, I'll take the train all the way to the end. Yeah, I will. I'll take like a vacation if my if my girlfriend wants to go somewhere, then I'm like happy to go there and everything. But I don't really. You're not chomping at the bit.

No, I don't really take vacations in that way. Where would she where have you taken it? Where would you where does she want to go? Like after London? We went to Spain Okay, San Sebastian for like three Three four nights all right you're taking care all this you got her. Yeah. Yeah. What does she do? so she works at a media company, and she's like

Publisher for the media company she helps launch okay like brand deals and so what did you guys meet you guys meet here? Yeah, we met here. Okay, and you've been dating for a while. Yeah Beautiful case. All right, I was gonna ask if you ever owned a switch What about in the apartment did you spurt did you splurge on like like a sectional or the TV are you a gamer? Do you play video games? I play video games, but not I'm not great at it. I I really am just like I'm getting the VR stuff. I'm into the VR. So I will buy like I have an Oculus 2, but I haven't bought the new one yet.

So I'm like saving up to buy the the new one and then saving up. What are you talking about? Save. What? You haven't posted a video on YouTube that did under 2 million views? It's like the last 8 months. What are you talking about? He's trying to wrap his... This is like the, again, polar opposites. This is the guy who spent every dollar he's ever made.

900 pounds? What are you doing? What did you say? Ask him how much he spent been on Yankee stick yeah no I so I bought my aunt a house oh so that's why can you look bad why why do you make you feel bad you're fucking awesome as he just called our business manager yesterday to get paid early because he needs the money but yeah so I'm just like yeah I'm trying to be so you bought your it the one that moved to Mesquite Yeah, so you bought her house in Georgia. They're all yeah, they're in Georgia. Are they near each other? Yeah, they're close

Yeah, so you bought you so you paid off your mom's house in Georgia, and you bought your Anna house in Georgia Yeah, and they're chilling and that's your that's your tight immediate family. Yeah And they're chilling and that's your that's your tight immediate family. Yeah You're that's the fucking stats unbelievable. Oh, you know that right? That's the sweetest thing. I've ever very yeah Yeah, I mean you own the house or does she own the house. Oh I own the house. Yeah. Yeah So you own some property so you so you have man you have spent the money that you're making But just in a very good way and smart way. Oh, I hope so yeah, but that's the that's a

Spurs and said $50 comic books, and I don't think he's I don't even think he's really but like yeah $900 dinner how many people are at that dinner um? Maybe it was 10 10. Yeah, it's like 60 bucks a head. I thought you were gonna say nine grand. That's not that math either. That's pretty easy to divide by ten. You won't find me in AP Biology. I think we're getting to the root of your problem over here. Four million dollars, that's like ten dollars. Alright, let's go into the house a little bit um Some garbage things okay, we can find a little dirt under these fingernails. Yeah, are you peeing in the shower?

No, no no no you brush your teeth in the shower No, I think you guys spit on your feet Never heard that logic. I use it a bar soap or using body wash I use the body wash and do you use it hand on skin or do you have like a loofer or something? So we have both. So yeah, sometimes it depends. It's like if I'm chilling, if I have to like be anywhere,

then sometimes it's just like regular washcloth, you know? And then if it's like I'm in a rush, it's the loofer. Are you flossing every day? Yeah. Brush your teeth in the morning and at night. Yeah. Yeah, no kidding your read before you go to bed I tried to but yeah, I don't really get to it often. Are you on your phone when you go to bed? I'm usually on my phone like but I'll I guess I guess I am reading but I'm reading on my phone Which is not the same energy like it actually keeps you awake. Yeah, but the blue light again.

King size bed, queen size bed. So yeah, we had a queen for a long time and now we have a king. Nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Letting your hair down a little bit. Yeah. What are you sleeping?

Like boxers, your pajamas. Yeah, yeah. Sweats. I sleep in my pajamas, yeah. Did you wear pajamas? Yeah, yeah. I got my like sweat pants on that I would work out in. They like double up. It's like I'll leave the actual pajamas. No, not like a onesie. Not like not like a you too. It's like from the being from a different

planet. I pictured him with like he would put on like the the pajama shirt, the pajama pants. He's not splurging for pajamas. Yeah, no, no pajamas for me is just a short sleeve shirt and the sweatpants gotcha yeah yeah are you a slippers man no actually i i want to be but i i think my feet sweat yeah so it's like i can't i can't get it the way that i want to get like I've tried twice and I've ruined two pairs of slippers Are you sleeping on your side? Their back I try so hard to sleep on my back, but I turn okay Yeah, you're hugging a pillow you got one between your legs one on the head how many pillows we operate with

Is that like a normal thing that people hug the pillow? Yeah, really? You don't hug you're not you're not spooning a pillow at all no wait what that's good proof I know is that that y'all aren't messing with me that's I mean between your legs is for like a back pregnant women and larger guys heavier gentlemen so you sleep on your side like you have one pillow you have one pillow behind your head and you sleep on your side yeah yeah yeah you have a ceiling fan is Is there a fan going? No, no ceiling fan. You fall asleep with the TV on No, not anymore Like I did when I was a kid sure keep that keeps the scary's out. Oh, yeah

Hmm you cooking at the house. I Can't cook well, so I so I have I have a couple things I can make and then that's about it What do you what can you make you? Um, I do some like nice I can make, and then that's about it. Hit me, what can you make, you feel? I do some nice omelets and everything, stuff that's not that difficult. I'll do a special little taco mix and everything, cook up the ground beef and season it pretty well, and then it's very simple stuff,

literally enough to keep you alive. On the regular, is that what you're doing, or do you guys order in? No, so in the move, I've had to order more just because I'm not around as much. So it's like I'm touring on the weekend, and then I have daily show during the week. Of course.

And then I get home, and yeah, there's not always enough time. So what would be a typical dinner for you and the Mrs, right? You guys would be she'd get home from work, guys would order dinner what would you normally get uh there is a phenomenal place in in in brooklyn uh called warood okay and it is like a asian mexican fusion place and so they have tacos they're like grilled shrimp or chicken mole but they might have they might have it spiced in a way that you wouldn't find like traditional

Mexican place. They also have these like, like ramen bowls that are I don't even know what you would call it exactly. But yeah, they have these like salmon bowls and everything. So I get that a lot. Okay, I get that as ramen. Yeah, especially once I get back into town, like if I just flew back in and everything, I don't really have the energy to cook. So gotcha. Yeah, especially once I get back into town like if I just flew back in and everything I don't really have the energy to cook so gotcha you doing smoothies during the day Yeah, yeah, I'll try to either do a juice or a smoothie, but mostly try to drink a lot of water

Huh a lot of water. Yeah, you don't really eat breakfast and stuff like that. I was for a while for a while I was very good about like kick-starting the meals and everything cuz I was just like I was on like a real mission to be a certain, I don't know, a certain weight and a certain level of strength that I lost right before the pandemic. So in 2019 was probably the biggest I've ever been, and I was the fittest I had ever been, and I was doing really well in the gym, and I felt ever been. And I was the fittest I had ever been. And I was doing really well in the gym,

and I felt really good. And I kept up with it as best as I could into COVID. But then by not having access to a gym, it just all started to be like calisthenics, which is fine. But and then once things actually took off, I couldn't. Calisthenics. I haven't heard that since.

Yeah. I mean, heard that since. Yeah. I mean, you try to keep up with you, bite your fingernails. No, no, no. Do you get manicures? No, does it look like I know that? Oh, no, I just I didn't know if it was a question or because you looked at my fingers right before, so I was like, that's like that felt like you were going to. I wonder if he's going to lie to to me you get manicures like you were looking Right at my hands. No, I don't I don't I just clip them. Yeah, I just clip them throw them out You don't throw them behind the couch or anything like that

Even if I throw behind the couch I still live there like they're gonna come to roost one day I'm they do your wife will find them Now let's go back to you. You're ordering that takeout you get the tacos season differently Yeah, it's delivered or picked up whatever you get back to the house It's in the container. Are you putting that on a plate and eating it or you eating it out of the container it came in? Oh That's a great question, so it So it depends on what I order. So sometimes when you order something, let's say there's a place, I'm trying

to remember what their name is because they're phenomenal. There's another place in Brooklyn with an Agnelotti that's really good. And I've tried to put it in a bowl and get all the sauce out and everything like that And it is just not the same It's not even when it's hot even when I get it immediately And that's the first thing that I do not even putting it in the microwave or anything

I'm like now. I'm gonna eat it like this. That's a very interesting point It does not there's some things and it's probably because we're eating out of black plastic that isn't meant to go in the human body But there are some things where if you have a specific sauce or like a roux that something is sitting in It's getting rules. It's not it's not gonna be the same in that order It needs to be in the order. It was dropped in after it was cooked completely yeah, this guy's all fucking Walking in both worlds that appeals to my trashy fat guy nature what you're saying But it's also very thought out correct and he said rule you would have said gravy or something I mean the kids a kid is all class

I mean if we're trying to find some some trash I can okay. Let me see the what Can you type in okay? Actually? I'll type it in if it's if it's too hard to show if it's too hard to find then I murdered six people Picture of a bunch of bodies. Oh, yeah, this was me by the way Okay, I mean listen. Are you a cologne guy, you use cologne? No, no, I don't really go for it that much.

Any jewelry, chains, anything like that? You like a watch? I'm pretty robbable, so I've let the jewelry go. I tried to wear a chain for a little bit, edit, edit. What kind of sneaks you got on? Only clouds or on clouds or whatever, right? Yeah, I got the on clouds. They're very comfortable. What kind of jeans?

Jeans? I think these are Levi's. You guys got Levi's? Sharp, man. The patented hoodie? What's the hoodie? You know what's crazy about the hoodie? Do you spend the money on the hoodie? That's a little bit of your trademark. A lot of these are gifts now. Like yeah, people get me like the hoodies for my birthday.

I mean sometimes fans get me hoodies, but like Yeah, that people know you're a hoodie guy to go. What's what's Josh gonna like? Boom? What a nice hoodie okay, so just to give you an indication of what the stay is like in In Alexandria, there's a place called the Greenbrier Motel, right? And you would stay no I wouldn't stay here, but a lot of people have. And some of my friends live there for a little bit. Or like, at least friends I was like, you know.

You're trying to find something garbage about you that's not about you from your hometown, which we do. Oh, that's not great though. Yeah, a lot of fridges outside the room. A lot of outdoor fridges that needs a new roof. Dr. Pepper mission This is nothing to do with him. This is beginning. This is the humble beginning

This is the close you could get to something trashy is a bad hotel in the small town that you grew up in I mean And got out of and bought your mom and your aunt house in Georgia But if you but if you go to the exterior photo, I think there's a dog on the roof But if you but if you go to the exterior photo, I think there's a dog on the roof. I think there's one there. There is there's a dog on the roof. So that dog love being on the roof. I don't know whose dog that was, but that dog would be on the roof. Listen, not if you came from humble beginnings, not a great area.

Yeah, that doesn't matter. You got out. You're doing I mean, you walk to work. You ran to work, ran to work. You don out you're doing I mean you walk to work you ran to work ran to work You don't you you're not drinking you you were good to your friends designated Walker Alright, they can't drive the left-handed glove thing. Yeah that that is you that that's a real motor skills issue Where we were a few this a few personal decisions away around junior higher high school. Right. That would have went the other way. Yeah. Yeah. You know what I mean? No, I listen you were in the setting. Yeah to be chasing that dog on a roof. But yeah,

yeah, you're not you're not at the Greenbrier hard working responsible. You're good with your money. You're not biting your nails. You're not peeing in the shower. Smart kid. Yeah. Yeah, all class man. Do you do any fast food at all? Will you have Mickey D's or Wendy's or anything like that? Nah. You don't put that in the body. Well, it just, I want to,

because everyone looks like that. It's literally like drinking. Everyone looks like they're having so much fun. And I fall off a roof in front of you with a Big Mac in my hand. But it's just like, I don't know, I guess the way I put it is that I don't do a lot of

What I do out of like trying to be a better person. I just don't Like the inconvenience of what it's gonna feel like later smart that makes sense He's like so fucking like I used to eat chick-fil-a fries sure, but then I was like this I feel sick you feel bad. I think they changed the oil Sure, but then I was like this I feel sick you feel bad. I think they changed the oil Because when I was little it didn't matter sure yeah, it's also I was also a kid Yeah, that's an age thing yeah bounce back as a kid and then with drinking in your 30s my friends who drink I'm I'm envious of because I'm just very aware when I'm not having fun at a party Like everyone else is like chatting and I'm and dancing and I'm like you really feel like dancing this place sucks sure

But the real sad part is when you're drunk, and you're also not having fun at the party And you're like this is the year that you're in a dark dark spot when that happens This is this doesn't happen often my friend 100% class all class. Oh really love to see ya. Oh, yeah, thanks Unbelievable yeah, you're about to head over to Europe you got your European tour going Josh 100% class all class. Oh really love to see it. Oh, yeah. Thanks. Thanks. Unbelievable. Yeah You're about to head over to Europe. You got European tour going Josh Johnson comedy comm The YouTube is killing it. Oh, thanks, man. You're on the road anything else you want the folks out there? No, you got coming up. Um, yeah so this tour is the the flower store and

Okay called it the flowers tour not just cuz every place has their own like designated or distinct flower like some states some cities and stuff like that but the the tour is as best as possible being like built around different forms of like volunteer work and everything and so we'll try to get people to come out to the like sorry Sorry, I apologize for my jealous dirtbag friend. But basically, we'll do our best in each city that has somebody who can come out to the show to have like a booth there so that people know what's already happening.

Cause like a lot of like what goodwill projects and like community efforts look like, it seems like so insurmountable because people think that they're gonna have to start the entire thing and it's like you have a life to live so you can't necessarily start an entire like community project but most of them are already happening and you're just bringing light to yeah yeah I'll just come here yeah like come to the show and yeah or people can can donate there at the show So it's already there, you know

The hell are you doing? He bringing me drugs of the show You might be one of the you think the best guy ever met that I don't I don't know about that He doesn't get out much. I mean, I don't want to take away the credit but yeah beautiful name of the tour the flowers tour And we ain't giving back this guy's awesome but it is yeah it's been really fun so I'm very thankful to everybody who comes out and everything yeah we try to do meet and greets after the show but sometimes it's difficult can't do it size wise yeah yeah sometimes it's size sometimes it's like venue curfew and stuff like that

and so yeah big shows, baby Yeah, it's great to see you're doing great. You're killing it. We're so proud of you. So happy for you We love you see like I said we talk about you often. Oh, great. You're doing man. I appreciate y'all. Yeah Man, Josh Johnson everybody. Thank you. Absolutely man. I love it. Yeah, we love you. Kippy. What do you got for? Uh guys, we're on the road right now as well fall and winter dates at our you garbage dot-com tickets are moving quick and then Due to the routing we can't add second show so get them while they're hot. You know what I mean gang We love you Josh. We love you. Yeah, man. Appreciate you. Yeah, you too