Bussin' With The Boys - Joe Gatto Reveals Why He Left Impractical Jokers + Talks New Comedy Special 'Messing With People'

Episode Date: October 1, 2024

Episode 296 | Recorded: SEPTEMBER 30, 2024 In this episode of Bussin' With The Boys, we're joined by comedian and former Impractical Jokers star Joe Gatto! Joe sits down with Will Compton and Taylor Lewan on the bus in Nashville, Tennessee. The Boys have an unfiltered and hilarious conversation about life after Impractical Jokers, his journey in comedy (including his new special, Messing With People), and what’s next for him. From behind-the-scenes stories of the iconic prank show to Gatto’s passion for stand-up comedy and spending time with his family, this episode is packed with great stories, including Joe's near-death experience, his thoughts on Murr's accident (James Murray), and a whole lot of Dad Talk. Tier 1's... if you're a fan of Impractical Jokers, comedy, or just love chopping it up with the Boys, this one's for you! Don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe as we dive deeper and deeper into SPOOKTOBER! TIMESTAMP CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 0:48 Welcome To Spooktober 11:21 NFL Recap 26:14 CFB Recap 40:16 Jack Needs To Break The Titans Curse 40:51 JOE GATTO INTERVIEW STARTS 43:12 Joe Is On Tour 44:06 The Start Of Impractical Jokers 51:02 Any Pranks That Didn’t Get Aired 52:30 Did It Get Tough To Not Get Recognized? 56:41 Knowing Each guys Kryptonite 59:48 What He Misses Most From Impractical Jokers  1:04:27 His Special “Messing With People” 1:06:46 Joe Gatto, The Magician? 1:11:49 Joe Almost Died During A Show 1:18:37 Doing Pranks For Specific People 1:20:38 Murr Dying Prank 1:21:50 Going After The Guys Phobia’s 1:22:37 Teaching Joe Spooktober  1:27:39 Being Able To Be A Kid Again With Your Kids 1:35:22 Getting Famous By Being Himself And Being Fans Of People 1:41:17 The Stand Up World And Balancing Family 1:48:38 Tier Talk 1:58:45 The Boys Have Met Joe Before 2:04:10 Twisted QOTW 2:07:43 Big Sports Guy? 2:10:46 What Tests Did He Make Growing Up?For more, visit barstool.link/bussinwtbSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Dad, two more sleeps. That's what they said. The first thing they said to me. They got a, Dad, two more sleeps and then hugs. So my kids are fully invested. in Spooktober, we're literally going to go to Michaels today. As soon as I'm able to leave this shop, I'm going to go pick my daughter up at school and we're going straight to Michael's.

I told her, $200. You got $200 spending on whatever you want to decorate your room. Time to decorate. And so we are going to get after it. Now is when I started building the foundation for Roo. You're at the perfect time. Take her to a store. Like here's how we start embracing the Spooks regard.

And it's very, very slow, but sure the pumpkin, you get her excited about the pumpkin. That's the first step. And then you just slowly integrate more and more spooked over stuff. Now win, being seven, she's like, that I want scary stuff in my room. I'm like, honey, no. So you think you do? You think you do, but it changes everything.

When you just lay there up late at night and start thinking, you start playing these games in your head, could this thing come alive, could something pop out of the closet? Yeah. It's a whole different ballgame. We're not that detailed. We're not that detail for a specific reason because the kid's imagination is incredible. But yeah, we're fired up. If you are joining us for the first time, go ahead and sit back, relax.

I'm going to tell you all the rules of Spooktober. If you're here consistently, you already know the rules, but go ahead and get a pen and a pen and a notepad out because we're going to tell you everything. Listen, four key rules to spooktober. The first rule is it's no longer October. It's spooktober from here on out. If you're going to talk about this month, add a spook to the tober. Call it spooktober. That is what you're doing. The next step in you achieving spooktober nirvana is going to be put something spooky on every single day. Now that sounds like a very tall task because there's 31 days of fright. It doesn't have to be festive, festive. Be Be festive. It doesn't have to be a horror film.

If you are my age, if you're 33 or Will's age, 35, you remember watching Disney Channel and Nickelodeon and every single day. The TV shows that were on, there was always themed Halloween stuff going on. You pop that on for 10 minutes, baby, guess what? You did it. You've been invested in Spooktober for that day. It's just a daily check. It's like making your bed, getting a workout in, making sure you do a couple of things every single day. Pop something on for 20 minutes. Now every once in a while, take the time. Put on that spooky movie.

get yourself a little scared when you turn the lights off at night because that's good for the soul. You need that. That is great for the soul. The next thing you're going to do in the journey to Spooktober Nirvana is going to be enjoy something fall festive every single week. And it could be a pumpkin patch. It could be as simple as you go into your local coffee shop and get yourself a seasonal beverage. It doesn't have to be the be all end all every single day.

That's exhausting. We don't want that. Spooktober doesn't need to be something where it's like, I can't believe I have to do this. because we've been there before we've been there you get over to you get to october 18 and above you're like bro i'm kind of like ready let's get to get to go into christmas thanksgiving you know the whole thing so just integrate it where you need to but make sure you get in the seven days you get a little something in there for me personally my wife and i either this thursday or friday we can get a little banged up

and we're going to go to a haunted house and that's just to me that is like the the the core dude just being a little scared and talking yourself into being scared. And the final rule, Will Compton? Decorate. You have to decorate your house, whether it's on the lawn with the house, inside the house. It doesn't matter whether you just have a few pumpkins out front, one pumpkin out front. You've got to do something to bring out the theme of the year, and that is Spooktober. Those are your four rules.

That is how you execute with the boys. We need to be talking about it on socials. We got to keep each other accountable, keep each other in check, and let's have a phenomenal spooky season this year. It's a big year for Spooktober. Right. And people, I already saw in the comments. And merch too. Merch is true. That's not a rule, but our merch, this, I don't know if this was last year, the year before. We usually have some fun merch every year for Spooktober. Those will be up on the site. We had new merch dropped today as you're listening. So if you go to store.dop barstolesports.com. Click on the brand, busing with the boys. It should be right out there at the top somewhere on the first page. But our new Spooktobermer merch is out. Embrace the fucking spook with the boys. Because it's, again, it's a massive month. It's our. favorite month and this is how you fully buy into busing with the boys fully buy it and g did an incredible job he sent me a couple of uh merch items that we're putting out there and it is it's awesome

the thing i'm wearing right now this spooktover dad sweater the one that g's also wearing it's my favorite my all-time favorite piece of merch we've ever made and this i will literally run this sweater into the fucking ground for the next 31 days i personally i love this i love the orange and i also love the purple one that we've had in the years past i love the kind of colors that bring out the fall Don't forget about the sleeper, the newspaper one of you with the Michael Myers mask on. Bro. We got to run that back. That one was biblical. Yes. I thought that one didn't get enough love. Yeah. That was, when was that? That was like three years ago? Yeah. Right. The Michael Myers mask on just standing in public. Yeah. Yeah. We might get that one back. Yeah. I was at Party City a couple weeks ago with my wife and I did that. I found a Michael's Myers mask in the corner and I just kind of started doing that to her. Yeah. In the hallways. Just started randomly standing somewhere. She just like wouldn't be able. I was zero help. Yeah. whatever we were trying to do.

But I also saw a couple of comments. I'm going to get with Coup, our graphic designs guy, about movies, watch list, 31 days. So after we get done with this episode, I'm going to go and type a couple of movies up and we'll make sure to get that out this week for you, hopefully by tomorrow. Hopefully by tomorrow would be absolutely fantastic.

That's what you want, man. But God, it's here. Do the boys want to say anything about Spooktober? Do you guys want to get anything going? Mitch is holding microphone up. Hold on. Do you just want to talk about how fired up you are about Spooktober? And also the lights?

Incredible. Incredible. Yeah, I mean, as you can see, Shirm and I were pretty dialed in to this spookover thing. Are you guys dressing up every week? Yeah, we're going to try and we're going to have an outfit or a costume. I love that. For each week right now, I'm a football player.

You don't know. I'm a football player. As you can tell. Shirm, what would you like? As you can tell, I am a pirate. I am paying homage to the OG pirate, Mike Leach, the inventor of the spread offense. Org. And RIP is in the chat.

Can we plan on the other four boys to wear some costumes this week, this month? Yeah? Oh, wow. All right. Bying into the spook. Got to dive right in. Should we dive into this massive weekend of NFL football we just watched? Absolutely.

I had to pull up the all 22 this week and catch up as it was. a long week. The boy might be dusting off the old Redskins jersey because Washington has a squad. Jaden Daniels. Jaden Daniels is nice. And nice enough to where he might be getting himself

into the MVP talk at some point. If he keeps this up, because I want to say his completion percentage is like, what was it, 82, 84, something like that? That's insane. The highest completion percentage was the 100 game minimum

like over Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Drew Breeze. Like legit, bro. He's nice. him they've had man i forget what it is like 16 it was either 16 or 14 consecutive scoring drives which is like a record they've only punted like one time right three in the last three games bro i think they've only punted one time yeah that's while i get so worried about jaden daniels just because of rg3 for sure but the way this kid can spin a man he can be

off balance like and he just flicks the wrist and it is a piss missile bro like he is very good because a couple weeks ago, I want to say they were one-in-one. I forget who they were about to play. Who'd they play two weeks ago? It wasn't the Bengals. Bengals was last week. Last week. Was it the Patriots?

No. Can you bring up their schedule? Shirm? Yeah, we're computers having some technical. But a couple weeks ago, it was like, I want to say they were an underdog. The Giants. Yeah, the Giants. And you're sitting there and you've seen how bad the Cowboys played.

You're seeing that the Eagles are there, one-and-one. one as well. Like the inspiration in locker room, like, hey, you know, the division is obviously wide open. There's not like a true frontrunner in the NFC East right now. They pull off a win against the Giants. They go into the Bengals. And it's the same situation. It's kind of like they could have a massive game here because everybody knows how the Bengals start very slow and Joe Burroughs starts slow. And you see how well they played against the Bengals, 38 to 33, beat them at Sinty. Then they go to Arizona, right? They go to Arizona. Cliff Kingsbury. Yeah, when I was on the pro football football show my whole thing with big cat was like it's like you want to pick them but

at the same time you want to see how they handle winning because you got a brand new quarterback they've they haven't start they they rarely start this way to where they're like two and one going on the road two arizona and arizona is like a spicy team with kailer murray and everybody else but you want to see like how they handle winning because that organization's always been usually like a 500 ball club there's always been a cloud over them anytime we we would get out ahead like you drop one you drop two but the way they fucking beat the shit out of the Cardinals, 42 to 14 at AZ after going into Sincy on the road and beating them at Sinci.

It's like, yo, Washington could be for real this year. Like a real contender this year or a playoff? I think so. I don't see why not. It's like J.N. Daniels, again, we're talking about him. He's playing at an MVP level, not like offensive player of the year, not like, hey, he's the best rookie quarterback. Like right now, he is fucking spinning the rock.

And I'm telling you, you know how the locker room can be. If you have a hot fucking quarterback, like you always got a shot. And you know he can run. He's like, he can run like fucking Michael Vic. Yeah. But, uh, yeah, I think that they're a real contender this year. It's like legit. Washington is up right now.

It's crazy to me that this Jaden Daniels kid, that video that came out when he was leaving ASU. You have you seen that video? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You bitch ass cracker, go ahead and go. Yeah, out of here. We don't need you anyway. Right. And there goes the locker video.

Does what he does, wins the Heisman and now this. Like the kid just lives with a chip on a shoulder. Yeah. continues to do this. And he's a genetic specimen. Right. I'm telling you, you should look at some of these highlighted throws that he has. Like, he's, like, unbalanced and it's very, he's got the quickest release.

He can kind of be in a very uncoordinated spot. And he just, I mean, rockets, bro. Put a dime out there. It is impressive, man. I hope they can continue it because that kind of story to me is awesome. Especially a team like Washington that just needs, they need something. Yeah. They need something to keep going.

And the district gets fucking hype. Now that they have a good team and they got a quarterback like this, like, they're about it. They're about it, bro. I'm telling you that place is going to be on fire. I feel like the NFC East is just that is like the media mecca for the NFL. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Eagles seem to be like they're in trouble.

Yeah. Yes, absolutely. And but Baker Mayfield all the same playing the Eagles this week seems like he's the fucking man. Yeah, he bounced back. Did you see the Tom Brady take on the leadership? He was like, hey, they want me to come in, like basically bring some juice, like reignites and fun. The guys weren't having. Yeah.

And Tom Brady had the comment on his. commentary of like, you know, his, his stress was not having Super Bowl rings. Like, it's not about having fun. You're coming into work. You're coming in to get something done. Like, that's the mentality of a champion. Spoken like a true goat. Yeah. Like a true goat. What's your, what's your take on like him? I don't think he's taking a shot at Baker's leadership style. I think he was just talking about it from his perspective. I have to, I saw I read the quote. I didn't, I didn't see him actually saying it. It would have to, I would have to see like his tone of voice when he's saying it. Because, I feel like Tom is a type of guy

that will joke around and have a good time with his boys but the minute like anybody comes at him he's like he kind of comes off as like a sensitive cat like he doesn't want if he's in the locker room everyone's like you know Tom's like I'm about winning that's what I'm about. So it's kind of he follows back every single time

there's more than one way to skin a cat right? For sure I think there's plenty of leadership styles out there get after it. I think you see a big difference in Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes Patrick Mahomes obviously has great leadership and he's got elite talent level but they seem like they have a little more fun

Kansas City than you would watch when Tom Brady was at the Patriots for 20 years or in Tampa Bay for the couple years he was when they won a Super Bowl. So, you know, if I'm Baker, I'm taking everything personal because you just, you continue to, you know, you were the first overall pick in Cleveland, took him to a playoffs. They said, okay, that's not good enough. You bounce around a little bit. Now I find a home in Tampa Bay and he's really just lighting it up. If I'm Baker and it wasn't meant as a shot, I'm still taking it as a shot.

Like now I have a vendetta against a goat and I'm going to prove him wrong as well. I could see it just being water off his back. I mean, he understands the spot he's in. He understands the locker room as well as anybody else. He's obviously the quarterback. He knows the juice that he brings. So I'm sure if he hears that, I could easily see it just being like, yeah, you understand Tom is saying the comment that he is, but he's saying it from Tom's world.

And obviously you can't argue Tom's world. He's got, what, seven Super Bowl rings, eight Super Bowl rings. But knowing Baker, like, he could, I mean, he understands the pulse of the locker better than anybody. He understands his role. I think he's completely comfortable in knowing that the way he's doing is totally like his way. You know what I mean? It's the point that there's a lot of different styles of leadership and everything else. You got like an older team. There could be some times where you're around the same thing every year. You lose a little bit of spark. You lose a little bit of fun because of just the veteran mentality that can kind of like sink into the place and knowing that

Baker's kind of got that youth to him, that fun where he talks shit. He's a little more savvy about it. He puts your shoulder into somebody. He knows that like that. can ignite like then when you're a vet just in the monotony of professional football year in and you're out day in and day out you kind of like see it and it kind of brings like that youth that youthism back to you on just having fun playing the game the thing i love about baker mayfield is that being a first overall pick and then being widely seen as like a bust after the whole cleveland thing like if you think he was going to take cleveland make him a super bowl team over and over again right then he leaves and has to go a bunch of different places but baker

hasn't changed him at all right he hasn't like tried to become something he's not to get away from the the comments of like oh he's you know maybe a distraction he's a little too much about himself those types of things he's just continued to be him and just allowing us play to show like hey you can act this way and still be the fucking exactly because you'll never i mean there's no video evidence of tom brady hitting like the gritty or hitting some dance in front of the team the team going nuts like yeah baker's just got a different type of swag to him yeah yeah yeah as a freshman circled up doing the dance dude it's cool too like and and pivoting from that like you can he's seeing a guy like Sam Darnold.

I was going to say. And Sam is like not near the... Friend of the show. Friend of the show. But he's not near like the personality that Baker Mayfield is. But I'm sure like he had to go through the same like type of like mental trials and tribulations that Baker went through as well with everybody kind of shit in him. He got him getting drafted to a big media market. Everyone kind of being like this is our guy.

This is a guy. Now he's like, no, he's not our guy. He's dead to us. Goes to Carolina. Goes to Carolina. Finds a home at the Vikings. The Vikings draft a quarterback with maybe the future best quarterback of all time. Well, he also spent time with San Fran, too.

It's just like the backup. He never got an opportunity behind Brock. So he's just been sitting and stewing. And anytime you're like, if you're viewed as a big time player and then all of a sudden, everyone's like, you're actually not a big time player, you're a bust. You could just be a good backup. Sit in the shadows for that many years and they come out and play the way he is and be four and no with the Minnesota Vikings is. And still keep that mental. It's my favorite story in the NFL right now.

And still like keeping that mental fortitude of like, you know, I can still do this shit. I think he's with, you know, this is a great example, too, of being in the right situation. Right, right coaching too. Right. I mean, obviously, you never want to see anybody get hurt. But sometimes when you're a backup, like, when somebody gets hurt, that's your opportunity to come in. And when JJ McCarthy went down, I don't think anybody was crowning the Vikings as being a contender yet because it's like, all right, rookie quarterback. Let's see how he does.

High praise and everything else. It'll probably take a year. He goes down. Vikings are completely counted out of the conversation in the NFC North with the Vite or with the Packers, the Bears, the Bears, the lions. They're kind of like that. No one's even talking about them. Right. It's a great division too. Right. Right. And for Sam to be in that spot with that staff, you got Kevin O'Connell, who's a quarterback whisper, awesome coach, phenomenal head coach, West Phillips, who's the O.C. They've all came from that webbing of Shanahan, McVeigh, all of that stuff. And for him, this is a great

example, just kind of being in the right situation, the right opportunity coming about, keeping that mental fortitude about you and taking advantage of your fucking opportunity. He is playing tremendous. Like he's somebody, I think he's got 11 touchdowns. to three interceptions. He's truly somebody that could be in the MVP conversation because everybody's like, you know, they might drop one this week and they've handled business.

They can throw the ball well. They can run the ball well. And they're playing great defense because Flores are in the second year with Flores' system. Like he's obviously showing that he's a, he's always been an incredible coordinator. He's been a great quarterback.

Had his laps as a head coach down in Miami. But it seems like the Vikings are like finding their swing and they truly, they could be the guys in the NFC. Yeah, Flores has always done a great job of getting his defensive linemen to be penetrating defensive linemen and just messing up run games over and over play action passes like he just kills it imagine a imagine a year of like the buccaneers the washington commanders and the minnesota vikings are the three teams in the nfc that would be insane imagine those three

quarterbacks being up for the MVP exactly just crazy that's the comeback story of the year right there well obviously jane he's not coming back but baker he got his big bag he's still playing very well but can there be like, could Sam Darnel be a comeback player the year just based on, based on how he was just counted out yesterday? Like, do you have to be injured or sick or sustain a massive injury? Like, what's the deal? What did Joe Flacco? Dude, speaking of Joe Flacko, Gary, Gary just brought out.

Anthony Richardson goes down. And, dude, we were talking about like, Anthony. Yeah, for the Titans. Yeah, Anthony Richardson goes down and you know half of the coaching staff was like, yes, Joe Flacco's going in now. Yeah, you know that. like you know Flacco going in what he did with the Browns last year, that everybody in that locker room, everybody, everybody likes Anthony Richardson wants him to play well. He was the first,

he was their first run draft pick. He was hurt last year, the front office. Everybody wants him to play well because he's there. He's there as the first rounder. He's there as like your franchise quarterback. But you know even when he goes down and you have somebody like Flacco on the roster, you know, everybody's kind of just fired up because it's like, yeah, let's watch Joe spin it again. And they might be a better football team now with Joe Flack. under center because Anthony Richardson, as much as much of a high ceiling that he has, there are intermediate throws and stuff that he, you know, everybody kind of talks about his accuracy a little bit.

With Joe, the entire playbook pretty much opens now because he's been in systems. He's cut his teeth in this game for so long. Like he knows everybody's playbook. You know, he can take shots, intermediate passes, run game. He doesn't have the legs that Anthony Richardson does. But you got a guy who can legitimately make you a contender and you get a win over the Pittsburgh Steelers who has the best the best defense in the league.

Maybe the Vikings do, but one of the best defenses in a league and to beat their ass. By the way, I did pick and I did bet on the Colts. Did you really? I just want to... You had a big week. You had a big week. You had a big week. I agree. Yeah. Obviously, we'll get to college football, but I had a big

week in college football team. The Colts, literally the only thing that the book closes on when Anthony Richardson is out and Joe Flacko goes in is the RPO. After that, it's like you can literally sling it. And Anthony Richardson, like he still got, like you said, A lot of ceiling, like a very high talented individual. And you see like these kind of circus throws off his back foot early in the season. But then you go watch the entire game.

And it's like he's kind of missing it here, missing it there. But you can see it in those couple of throws. And he could go, holy shit. This guy could be a guy. I think he could just set his feet, step into his throw and have like accuracy on the regular place as well. Yeah. Because Joe, Joe might be the man again, dude. He might just gave the Colts life.

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No, we had a bad fourth quarter. We had a bad fourth quarter. The boys were up 24 to 3. Oh, yeah, we were watching the game together. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we're up 243. They got an on-side kick. Let the, well, there's-very. Very questionable off-size penalty.

A lot of different calls could have gone in a lot of different ways that game. I'm very happy at the brown jug, as it should be, stays in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Great ball game. Throw out the records. Throw out the talent. We are the best football team to not throw the ball in the entire country.

No one runs it better than us, consistently better than us. This Mullins kid might be a Heisman trophy candidate. Might be a Heisman trophy candidate beyond Travis Hunter right now. I'm just saying, it's a good ball club up there in A2.

We're doing good things. And a couple weeks ago, a lot of boys back there and over to my right, we're talking a little shit about Michigan, saying, oh, they're going to struggle. They're going to this. Minnesota is going to be a problem.

They weren't even a problem. It was nothing, dude. That was nothing the entire time. You don't think that. Now being 10 and 1 going into the game, very alive. Yeah, man. Three point win, but the scoreboard doesn't tell. And also, they don't ask how many.

Right? For sure. Because we could literally say the same thing about Georgia, Alabama, G. Except for Georgia, Minnesota. What do you mean, dude? The frozen tundra? those boys are built different in Minnesota Alabama was stomping that ass against Georgia

and all of a sudden they let Georgia come back Georgia takes the lead late in the game two minutes and a 17 year old kid said let me go and put the crimson tight on my back that game was incredible Ryan Williams could play in the NFL right now at 17 years old it's insane

dude the kid as a freshman in high school qualify for the 6A Alabama State Championship in the 100 meter and the 200 meter And he is a specimen. He is him. When he caught that one like back shoulder and stopped on a dime made two defensive backs, like not linebackers, not de lineman, run into each other. Yeah, other athletes stop and start and excel and go score.

Like his ability is incredible. And then that one over the middle, that deep one over the middle that was bouncing to keep his coordination and catch the ball. Like Ryan Williams is insane. And then his trolling job. Did you see his troll? with beating Georgie, he put a profile picture of Michael Vic like holding the puppy. Like having that type of pro-troll mentality at the age of 17 is iconic.

Like he's building something extremely special. All my stock I am in on Ryan Williams. Yeah. For him to catch that 75-yard bomb from Jalen Milrow, do a half spin, freeze in the air, and you see him look back, like where are they at, then spin back. and he was literally defying gravity. It was the most incredible thing I've ever seen. And Jalen Milrow...

Learn to throw. I mean, he's outrunning SEC defenses like to the sideline, walking the tightrope very quickly and just accelerating. Like, he is insane as well, and he can throw the ball very well. Yeah, man. Alabama looks tough. Alabama looks tough. I was surprised to see Georgia come back and get the lead back and everything else

because you guys started fast and it looked like, oh, yeah, dude was like step on their throat. But that game was, I mean, that was a classic. Yeah, I think, I mean, obviously, it doesn't matter how. But you got the dub. I think the one thing we learned was, like, you just can never let off the gas, especially when you're playing Georgia.

Yeah, or Minnesota, 100% dude. Minnesota or Georgia, same difference. But there was, I've obviously watched it two, three times since then, but there's a couple drives where you're like, you know, you can't be greedy, but you're like, man, if we could have just scored on this one. Like, you could have put them away, not knowing what's coming. But insane atmosphere.

Like, it just, you know, I love seeing coach get fired up on a PI call. And, like, you know, the team just rallies around them. But, yeah, I mean, you couldn't ask for a better first quarter. Who's the quarterback for Georgia? What's his name? Carson Beck. Carson Beck. Carson Beck. He had a couple of miscues, too, yeah?

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, bad first half. because they were they were coming back like that game was awesome yeah they turned up in a hurry once they started taking their shots it was like all right fuck yeah let's just settle down throw it yeah of course he's like i almost i almost cashed out on my five-leg parlay because that game was so close i'd like 250 on this five-leg parlay it was nebraska to win michigan to win alabama to win kansas state to win and notre dame to win so alabama was the last

game yeah and i put 250 on it to win like six 1550 and the cash out was flirting around $1,000, $1,040. And I was flirting with it because I didn't know how that game was going to go. But all the boys were like, no, you have to run that. A couple guys. A couple guys. A couple guys didn't say cash out. Yeah.

It feels like you should have won more than what you won. Right. Well, and Georgia scored late on like really quick, really fast. I looked at will. I was like, that's perfect for your parlay. That's exactly what you want. That was the closest margin of air, though. I think it was almost like a pick-em or Bamar was favored by two or something.

like that. Georgia was favorite. Like Michigan had a bigger one. Nebraska had a bigger spread to cover. But I just, and I just chose money lines. Like I didn't pick them covering. Right. Because you guys didn't cover.

No, we didn't. We were covering until the end. Yeah. Georgia of the North. Georgia of the North, Minnesota. That's a good call, Gee. You all haven't seen it. The, uh, that final Ryan Williams play, do you all see the Japanese commentators?

No. On that. It's crazy. It makes a play that much better They just losing their minds? Oh, losing their minds. Well, can we play the audio? We can't play.

We could maybe put it in post right now. Mitch does look insane. But it makes it that much better. They went crazy. They went nuts. Hey, big bounce back win for Nebraska. Hand-on-business Purdue. It was closer for a second.

Purdue was up on it's like 30. I think what was it, zero-zero going in a half? seven punts, three missed field goals. I mean, guys, we've had some special teams woes in the, in recent years. Like, I mean, if we, if we, I'm just saying, I never want to go after a college kid for missing field goals. But that is something you just, you know, we got to get, we have to get corrected. Because he obviously lost us the game by not making that game winning field goal against Illinois. Then you go in, you still got the yips carrying over into Purdue.

dude and you missed two field goals in the first half. Like Brett Mahart just got hired there as like the consultant to coach kickers. Brett, we need to have that shit right. But nonetheless, big win. I think what, 28 to 10? Massive fourth quarter for us. We finally woke up. Dylan Rail was first game on the road.

It was Nebraska's first game of the year. First game on the road this year. We got a big one. We got a big one with who. I think we got Rutgers this week. Rutgers and Indiana. And both teams undefeated. Indiana is nice, man.

Big Ten. Two undefeated teams coming up. The Big Ten is becoming solid. Yeah, we have a solid middle class in the Big Ten. Because Rutgers is undefeated. Indiana is undefeated. Indiana does look really good. What's the line right now?

For Rutgers, Nebraska. Yeah. I'm not sure. USC snuck one out. Wisconsin was in their ass bro, but then they just came alive. And they didn't score in the second half. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, Wisconsin really. had them on the ropes and they could not put it together. It would have been great to see like USC just go completely defeated an all-bay 10 play. Hey, welcome to big boy ball. Right. Welcome. But a fickle, man, he hasn't really putting it together in Wisconsin at all. I know. He needs to get that going. We had some stuff going on with the Wi-Fi, man. It is tough out here. Hey, JP, South Carolina is looking a lot better the way Kentucky's been playing. Upset over Ole Miss, which nobody's all coming. People are refusing.

to give us our credit for that win too, which is wild. Like nobody is talking about it's always a fluke. Like, oh, dang, how did South Carolina beat him that bad? Maybe we've been them that bad because we're really good. Maybe you guys actually have a squad and the rest might have actually fucked us against LSU. So I would have preferred to play Ole Miss if Ole Miss was undefeated because I always love handing teams their first loss. Sorry in advance to Garrett and Alabama.

Yeah. But we'll go ahead and bury Ole Misses. playoff chances. Yeah. Beamer tell the team bring the shovels because it's over and we would be spreading dirt

on the rebels. But yeah, dude. Just poetically murdering a team right now. It's looking nice. If we got our quarterback and running back back

and we get a dub over Ole Miss, I do love the time of year we're playing Alabama because they have Tennessee right after us. And we are definitely a team that they could probably

overlook. Look at as a track game. Right. So I like where we're at right now. You're in a good spot. You got to beat Ole Miss. Jack, you've got to be feeling good with Tennessee, man. They're in the top five now, yeah? Yeah, number four right now.

It's just nice to have a stress-free weekend. We had the bye week and the Titans obviously played yesterday, Monday night. But to not have a Saturday and Sunday just stress fest, it's beautiful. It's like you remember what the weekends are like. And we've only been in this for a month, five weeks now. But it's nice. We got some rest going into Arkansas playing in Arkansas. I feel like they always kind of play pretty tough-nosed ball.

So every game moving forward, you know, you just got an oh-and-o. But I was happy to see Bama win for the reason because October 19, 3rd Saturday in October when Tennessee and Alabama play, Texas and Georgia also play. So the fact that Georgia is now a one-loss team, you want to be in that primetime slot. You want that prime time slot. Especially for us.

A lot of implications, yeah. Yeah, we want to have the biggest possible energy going into that game. But JP's saying it might not even be the case because the gamecocks might be sliding one in on Alabama. Who knows? Who knows? I mean, Texas, too, kind of looked. They didn't look bad by any means. The final score doesn't, I feel like reflect the game they had against Mississippi State.

But Mississippi State is undeniably bad. And I was kind of shocked that Texas had them, what was like 14, 7 in the going. Yeah, 6, 7 and a half. And obviously they turn on the jets, but I'd love to see a Texas loss too before we can go in the next few weeks. But yeah, it's nice to have a little bit of confidence. But the Titans on Monday night,

historically we are awesome against the dolphins. On Monday night, we're three and one. So this would be the most hilarious and classic Titans event to go when we've had some embarrassing losses in the last few weeks and then go in and take care of business. but I don't know what'll happen. It's so weird, huh? I just feel like the yips a little bit.

He does have the yips right now. And especially now, our only primetime game of the year when, like, he's under a microscope, which I almost feel for the kid, because any small mistake he's going to make is going to be just blown out of proportion, whether it's just fight or not. But if he makes one just dumb play,

he's a meme again, and it's just a snowball effect. So we need one clean game from him where he just plays well, stays in the pocket, hopefully the old line can protect him enough. And on the grand stage,

hopefully kid a fucking win. Yeah, talk about guys that are taking shots left and right. NPF is getting destroyed on Twitter right now. And I just know how that boy feels. Who's MPS?

Who's MPS? Nicholas Petit Ferrer, the right tackle for the Titans. Listen, if you see this clip, I've been there. Just keep fighting through the friends. Just keep treasures through the mud.

It'll get better, I promise. That is the, the worst feeling in the world to have everybody against you. You're going to be a right though. Couple of things, do we talked about last week's podcast. Like, Nicholas needs to just clean up a couple of things from a technique standpoint. It's the easiest thing to do and keep the confidence, which is the most difficult thing to do. I actually have a bone to pick with you, Jack, going into it since we've obviously been talking Tennessee and college football.

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BUS for new customers to get $200 in bonus bets when you bet just five bucks only on Draft Kings. The Crown is yours. And the Titans need a win tonight, dude. They need a win. Otherwise, Joe Flacco and the Colts, C.J. Stroud and the Texans. And then, I mean, Trevor Lawrence. Jack, have you done anything to make amends with that Titans lost last week?

And here's the only reason I ask. Here's the only reason I ask. This is while you're pulling this off again. I know. But here's the only reason. I ask. The Florida State you know, that curse of the kid not eating the poop,

they still suck. It's a ball's fall for me at this point. The Titans lose, so I have other things that... And who's a team with the burrito in their ass? Joe's here. I don't know. I forget who it was. Boston College? No, not Boston. No, it's not BC. Joe, what's up?

How are we doing, bro? Look at this. Yeah, it's got to get a lot of dialed in. You bought a dog over him? Spooktober is here. We got you a spot. We got you a spot. We got you a spot.

All right. Who's the burrito curse? What team? Oh, Kansas State. Kansas State. Hey, Jack, Kansas State, the burrito curse happened where he said he'd shove a burrito up his ass if they lost last week. He shoves a burrito up his ass. They end up beating the hell out of Oklahoma State.

So that's the only reason I ask if you've made amends because it seems like this curse stuff is real. So do you want me to kill myself to amend this curse? You said you didn't say that. I never said you had to do that. We're also asking how much you love the Titans as much as the next guy. Let's give Joe some context. I got it. You got it?

You want me to murder him. Yeah. No, Jack, unfortunately, it has to be self-inflicted for Jack to break his curse. Jack said if Malik Willis and the Green Bay Packers, Malik Willis used to play here. He said if Malik Willis and the Packers beat the Titans, he will kill himself. Really? The Packers won. So not that we don't want Jack to actually kill himself.

We love Jack. We love Jack. Nobody's saying that. But we are saying, you said it. But there are, I know, man of your word is little harassing. There are curses out there, Florida State. They lost their very first game. And somebody on the Internet said that they would eat some dog shit if they lost.

He never ate the dog shit. They're still winless. Kansas State, they lost a couple weeks ago. And the curse out there was, I will shove a burrito in my ass if we lose. They lost. He shoves the burrito in his ass. They beat the shit out of Oklahoma State this week. That's local.

So I'm trying to ask Jack, if he's doing anything. to break this curse because if the Titans lose tonight, I do feel like all eyes will be on Jack to help. The curse being broken will me being publicly hating will love us again. Look at this. That's a burrito in a person's ass. Yeah. That's a perfect way for all the people listening on the show.

Jo did a great job of painting that picture for you. That's what you think. That is a full double meat, Chipotle burrito. The integrity of that burrito was actually pretty insane considering. That is insane. That didn't shake at it. just tightly wound, a tightly wound burrito. Joe, we're happy to have you wanted.

Perfect for him to come in on some prank stuff like that, too. Of course. I mean, this is the guy who's an icon. Well, I want to be clear. I've never seen a burrito on my head. Never once. Let me be clear. Yeah, man, that's happy.

This is awesome. Glad to have you. So you're in town, you're touring right now? Yeah, I was in Chattanooga last night. Yeah, how was that? Oh, so fun. Yeah? Yeah, really good.

I got my, let's get into a tour just kicked off. So I'm a turn with a brand new hour. It's been fun, man. This one's dropping tomorrow. So what spots are you going to here? Nowhere here. I'll be back through. But, yeah, I've, I'm in different, you know, it's a countrywide thing.

So I'm going everywhere. Where you go next? Next is, let's see, what's next? Next is, oh, actually, next weekend is Memphis. I'm in Memphis. And then I'm in St. Louis, Lawrenceburg. And one more show, and I forget where. But it's Joe Gatto official.com's got all the places.

I just go in a tag. Joegadoo official. Not jogato.com. I don't know that guy. Okay. I can't vouch for him. He's probably shoving burritos places they shouldn't be.

Yeah, no doubt. No doubt. It sounds like you have a great team around you to be like, I really don't know where I'm going. Just taking me where I've got to go. No doubt about it. Have you noticed it's been doing what you do now compared to impractical jokers? What has been the hardest transition for you in this?

Being by yourself, for sure, right? You're with your friends all the time. And that was the hardest part. So I started stand up three years ago with my first tour. And that was the biggest thing. I've been performing live my whole life, but just to be on stage by yourself. Right.

And be responsible for the full 60 minutes. That's like, you know, that's a big change. You don't have to lean on. Yeah. You don't have a squad with like production and everything else to where you kind of know what's coming a little bit. It's you and a microphone. It's pretty interesting.

But the cool thing is that you're like able to, when it sucks, it's your fault. But when it's great, it's your fault too. Like you don't have to share any accolades. So you come off stage sometimes like, wow, that was a really great show. So, yeah, that part of it was really fun. Has comedy always been something you've been interested in?

It was always a side gig. It was always a side hustle for a long time. I mean, the guy started, you know, decades ago at this point. But I always just did it for a love of just making people laugh and entertaining. And then I got the opportunity to quit my day job.

And I took the leap and I'm glad it, I'm glad it panned out. What was the day job? I was selling high-end baby gear and baby furniture for a company called Giggle. Oh, no shit. That's right, man. Yeah, I was a salesman.

Just the rich mom. He's selling all the baby Bjorns, those baby girls. carriers and all that stuff, you know, the bugaboo, you know, stone and all that stuff. So I did, I did that. And during a two week, uh, I took my vacation to film the pilot, my two week vacation. Yeah. And then when we got the series, I was, I went for a six. I said to the CEO, I'm like, yeah, I got to take a six month hiatus. And she's like, so you're quitting. I was like, no, no, no, no, it's a hiatus. I need the option to come back if I need. I know. She's like,

well, no, I can't leave your job empty for six months. Good luck to you. It panned out. So I'm not back to some of baby stuff yet. Yeah, no doubt. Still working out. So you feel, you feel, you go take a two-week vacation, you film this pilot, how long do you have to wait for this pilot to come out when you're still just selling baby stuff? Yeah, it was pretty quick, actually. They made the decision real quick. It was only, I think, about a month and a half, maybe, two months.

The pilot wasn't super hard to edit. It kind of made itself. Like, we knew the structure of it, you know. We didn't have a lot of money, so we didn't film that much. Yeah. Just filmed enough to make the pilot. And it was pretty quick. And then the offer came real quick.

And it was like, okay, what are you going to do? You're going to quit your job? And I was the only one that had to quit. because Sal owned a bar and a comedy venue at that point and he was bartending and doing that so he could do overnight. Q was a fireman. He would do his 24s and come and film.

And Murr worked for the production company that ended up producing the show. So I was just like, I was the first one I had to like, I was like, all in. I was like, all in. I was like, guys, this has to work. I'm betting on the boys right now. But it was good because I always had an affinity

for production directing. So I was able to jump in in a different capacity and learn all that and do that, which was I liked arguably as much as being in front of the camera. So did Murr approach the production company with the idea? We all did.

So Murr was in like development stuff and he was realizing that there was an itch for like a new type of prank show. And we didn't want to do a prank show where you make people feel bad. And we're like, you know what? Why don't we just do? Embarrassed my comedy is always how I made these guys laugh anyway.

Like Sal and you know, Q and all. They would hate to be an elevator with me or like the subway because I knew we were in closed space I was just going to act a fool and we were going to have fun. And so the doors would be. shut and they would just turn beat red and start sweating immediately because they knew I was going to start doing something. So we just were like, let's just do what we do. And we filmed this as a real with our iPhones. Yeah. Time Square and just went through and that's awesome. That's awesome. And you do

notice I, I, my wife and I went through a phase of just watching that show endlessly at night, literally laughing, like out loud to each other. Thank you. And you noticed that you personally, like, and this is a mad compliment, is like, are the most shameless of the four. Yeah, for sure. Like you were, you were willing to really go above and beyond. Yeah. I was, I just didn't. I always did. I always that like anyway so it really wasn't the good thing about the show for me and i'm not an actor i wouldn't act i never had i never wanted to be in front of the camera right i was able just to make my friends laugh be me i had fun with it and then we were able to build all these weird characters and do all this fun stuff so it's like a playground you know so it's funny because people were like

oh it's like just hidden cameras there's so much writing producing production i went into it developing of all these characters ideas writing but we wanted to keep it looking like you just went up there and yeah yeah yeah but then stuff happens where like you have all this thing planned out this woman walks in with a huge hat and you're like okay well I'm gonna have to get that hat on me you know and all goes out the window it just happens that was the fun part of it too though was there ever what was like the couple of top three moments where you're like I really do not want to do this but I'm gonna do it early on I remembered like you all find your role right and I all knew when they were getting the punish me it was always more fun to make them laugh and own it and I would always be able to get through

it being able to be like oh this would be better if I just go buck wild so when So I figured that out. I was like, okay, this is insanity. I remember one of the first punishments we did ever. It was, we were doing strip high five in Union Square. So me and Murray is just a stupid thing. We had both lost. And we had to get high fives from people as they walked.

And if they didn't high five you, you had to take something off. First guy was naked loses, right? So it's me and Marry and we're just sitting there. You had to pick your people. And I was just like, high five, you know, whatever. And I just came out with like a different energy. It's like, here it is. Up top.

Let's do it. Like if people aren't right. Right. But then eventually it started like a crowd formed. And we started going. and we were down to like underwear to underwear. And I said to the show run, I was like, what happened? I said, oh, I said, I said, we can't get naked here.

He goes, yeah, he goes, don't worry. I said, we have a permit. He goes, no, don't, don't worry. I was going to get arrested. So they had like a car running on the side. I was like, oh, this is really fun that we're going to do it this way. So he did it. Murren's a blues and whatever, you know, so I run over and I just like pants and whatever.

He grabs his junk and he jumps in the car and leaves and they're gone, you know. So it was just such a weird thing. And I was like, okay, so I like that. I like being owning it and doing it. But there's just sometimes you don't want to do it. We were in a Mets game. And they had Noah Sindegarde. They had me calling him Jeter.

I kept calling him Jeter. And he was throwing the balls into the crowd to the kids signed. Yeah. And they made me, he was in on it. So he kept throwing them to me. And I had a fanny pack. And I kept stuffing them in. And they were like, you can buy them on eBay.

You could buy them on eBay. You could buy them on eBay. And dude, everybody, the parents are going nuts. And this one woman, for some reason, I talked to her and give me her a kid. She was always had this two-year-old toddler. She was always like, I want one for my son. So you could grow up and I said, I'll give me, I'll get a fee.

She gives me her son and I'm holding this guy. I was like, for the kid, for the kid. He throws it to me. I give it back and I put the fanny pack in the ball of my fanny pack. I was like, you could buy it on eBay. She lost her shit. She melted down screaming at me. I was like, you just gave a stranger your child.

Yeah. And now you don't get the ball, right? So it was crazy. Imagine you give him Willie. I'm sorry. Yeah, she lost it. God. Yeah, she's like, we had to blur her and her kid.

But it's like the whole place stopped. Like you heard her throughout the place. And in my ear, like you have the. you have the earpiece and you know right there that moment you normally I say what are we going to do here fellas and it's dead quiet everybody nobody knows what to do so I'm like by myself and I'm like okay you can buy it on eBay you do not have eBay so yeah it's great you see how bad I'm sweating it was a rough one yeah is there is there uh you're owning it there though I am I just sit in the moment yeah I just sit in the moment is there a prank that you guys had that never got aired no I mean for the

most part we would know what would work or whatnot there was a couple that we wanted to do that sometimes the network just didn't get, it became this thing of lore. It was called bus to Tampa where we would handcuff a guy at the Grand Central Station, you know, in the Port Authority in New York to a bus that was going to Tampa. And he had to go to Tampa. And it was like, and the network was like, okay, what's the puncher? It was like, you're on a bus to Tampa. You can't get it off.

You're stuck on this bus to Tampa. And like, we don't get it. I'm like, it's great. Like, you end up in Tampa. Like, what happens? You're like, you can't leave the bus. And it just didn't get it. Like, and it was like, it became the thing that every season, the first

punishment in every packet to our executive was bust the Tampa you get the guy on the bus it just moved that paper out of the way yes we did that and then in the pilot packet like we had to submit like ideas and we never pulled it off because we thought it'd be too mean we wanted to interrupt a wedding and just like realize you were at the wrong wedding apologize and leave so the moment you get that would be funny sorry you're not Marie and then go but we didn't want to ruin somebody's day that's like such a big moment right never it felt good on paper but it felt wrong yeah that turned to Sal becoming the best man at one and we wrote a part we wrote

him interrupting the speech for the best man speech and we wrote the speech for him and he had no idea what it was and he just started oh and it was this big Italian wedding in Jersey he got totally like that was rough so as you guys are like transitioning it's like a pilot no one knows who you guys are you guys are working you're selling baby stuff you got a fireman

like everyone's kind of doing their own thing how hard did it get once the show really got traction to not be seen and people be like aren't you the guy yeah well we got lucky because they bought a lot of episodes before we even aired. Oh, yeah? So we did, like, I think we did, like, 16 episodes or something like that before we even hit air.

Like, they saw the, they saw the pilot, and then they ordered the first episode. They ordered, what it was, six maybe or something. And they saw the first episode we submitted, and they said, we want more. And they bought it, like, the full season right away, which was without it airing. They just saw that it was, like, light in a bottle and really fun. So we were like, okay, great. So here we go. And then it was on True TV, you know, which nobody knew.

Yeah. Channel One Million Basic Cable. Nobody's seeing it. You know, so we were just like in New York City too, which was an ally because there's so many people, you know, if half the city knows you, four million people don't. So you just like find somebody who doesn't. And then we kind of are like forgettable looking. We're kind of like normal looking kind of is guys.

Blend in. You're able to see if somebody knows you or not. You know, we talked to people for 10, 15 minutes before we even started just to see if they were the right kind of person. You get one shot at it. You want to make sure it's going to be a good person. So we just sit on a park bench and start bullshit. Yeah. See if they're how interactive they are.

See if their eyebrows. ways, you know. Were there any moments like as the shows like growing and taking off like obviously the four of you go in on this production element, were there ever growing pains between you four? For sure. Like business wise is it all starts to creep in? It takes off like that, right?

We had been working together for years together. So we kind of had a one voice when it came to comedy for the most part. You have outliers and different things. Some people have a little bit darker. But all kind of aligned into our brand. Right. You know, so that wasn't hard. But then when you have this specific ones I remember where we just came up with this line

We're like trust me. I'm going to I want to do it because it's everybody's show So like we would talk everything out. We'd all try to get it to the right place. But I remember there was just one punishment where Sal has a mind that self implodes. Like he's got super a lot of neuroses. I was like it'd be kind of fun to mess with Sal so much that he thinks he's getting his punish. But he's not.

But he is. But he's not. But he is. And I said and he'll have a mental breakdown on camera. It'll be so fun to watch. And I pitched it. And everybody's like, no, I don't know if it's going to work, whatever. blah blah we got to the network i don't know and then i was talking with q and we're going back and forth and i just

said to him i said cue i'm going to do it it's going to work trust me he goes fine and that was it and that became the line like i'm going to do what it's going to work trust me like that was it because these three other funniest guys you know like of course we're going to give it and it's also everybody's show so who are you to say no you know what i mean so then we just started doing that and then i remember the moment of that punishment where sal's mind started going crazy and you saw it and q stopped and he just turned to me and gave me a hug and said You're a genius. That's gotta be the best feeling in the world.

It was one of my favorite punishments ever because it's so personal too. Like that's the one that wouldn't work with any other friend. Like you do things just for Q that you know are going to be, Q is going to crush. Yeah. And when you're in it too, you're like, oh man,

this is so bad, but I'm so proud of them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's such a good one, you know? You know what we all need to get more of?

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Bam's afraid of snakes. Like you kind of figure out everybody's like quirks and personalities. Yeah. Can you give me the three other guys like, oh, I can get them with this, this and this. Like these are the traits. It all evolved. Yeah.

Because the more you do with the thicker skin you get, right, with anything. Right. But in the beginning, it was very like, you know, Murr was like a little bit of a schemer. He was always try to find work an angle and it normally failed, which was fun to watch. Q was just very guy, a guy's guy, you know, so he would get away with a lot of like, just being like very, like came across very blue collier.

Oh, like he came across like very friendly as a friend, like quickly, easily. Like, it's like, oh, I get this kind of guy. You know, kind of remind you like of a neighbor. You know, so he would go into that. Sal just had so many things wrong with him. like he was afraid of stuff and like he was afraid of cats so we just used that so much and but like he was he afraid of cat was there like a childhood trauma thing yeah and it was just so stupid the ideas we came up with that was so easy and dumb like we had this big we rented this thing Benjamin cat and we rented a

we rented a cat suit and we'd make it pop up and chase him and he knew it was a person but he would be like he played up like what get away from me like you just get annoyed and it would just be fun to annoy him you know, stuff like that. And then for me, it was more just like, they just wanted to see me just cause a havoc. Like, it was just like put him into a place where he's going to just make it awkward for everybody and just come out clean. Like so the bigger the scene, that was always like my kind of thing.

It was like, we got to make a scene. It's gaddo, you know? Yeah. You know, so. Have you always been a guy that's like completely comfortable with being in the uncomfortable? Yeah. Always.

No, no. Well, it happened. I remember a moment. Like I have an older sister. I have two older sisters, but I had wanted to get along with. And it was, we were at Bella Vita, which is. this big Italian restaurant in Staten Island for Easter Sunday packed with all these Italians.

My parents were smokers at the time and this is when you could smoke in restaurants but they had the room that you had to go in by itself with the door shut. I had to go to the bathroom. Me and my sister go through this packed place. I don't see this step and I fall. Hit hard.

One of those at the place goes, oh, and my sister's like laughing going, ha ha ha ha, ha. And the whole place. And then I popped up and went, ta-da! And everybody started laughing and clapping. And I was like flipped off my sister.

And I was like, all right, this is cool. I don't have to be embarrassed. And that was like definitely a defining thing you're like 11, 12 years old or I was like, okay, maybe I'm overthinking this thing. And then I just started being more comfortable with not caring what people think.

Not in the way we're like, I don't care what you think, but more like people are going to think what they think. Right. It doesn't matter, you know. Not the defensive type. Some people have a defensive side of that. I don't care what you think. Yeah, yeah.

People just want to be cool all the time. Yeah. I don't care what people think, you know? Yeah. It's not necessarily the right way to live. You know, but if you are comfortable and be like, this is me and I just did it. Like, I was always comfortable with my weird body.

Like, I've always very comfortable on a dance floor when I shouldn't be. I didn't mind being a spectacle. I was an icebreaker all the time when I was out with my boys. Like there's a, you know, a group of girls, you know, just I'd send me in. It didn't matter. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All my friends were really good looking too, so it was really funny. I was always like the funny, okay looking guy. Like, and I'm like, oh, look at this guy. I got supermodel friends over here. Like, it was so fun. So I was just that kind of person. And it just became my personality. Yeah. What do you, uh, what do you miss most about the impractical jokers? Is it the squad? Because you guys are all still good friends. Right. Absolutely. Yeah, working with

friends. I was just with Q. And, uh, yeah. In Vegas, we went to the Imagine Dragons Gala, and we were, we actually ended up having to host it because one of the hosts plane couldn't get out of L.A. So 10 minutes before it starts, they're like, hey, could you guys host this? It was like a 2,000 person gala at the wind. They're like, could you guys host this?

With Joel McHale? We're like, yeah, sure. So me and Q got up there, messed around. No shit. It was really fun. But those kind of things are great when your boys with you. Like, I wasn't scared of that at all. We have Q, you know, just got it up there and do it.

But the script was already written for her. So we were like trying to like make a bit out of it. It was really interesting. But yeah, I just, you know, we're still best friends. We were friends before it, friends after. We're just not friends from work anymore. So that's the biggest thing you miss working with you. Yeah.

How hard was that approaching that conversation to like, hey, this could be the end or the breakup or the final chapter? It's what you imagine. You know, it's hard. It's hard. But it was open arms kind of thing. You know, we're all boys. So it's like, this is what it is. We all want what's best for each other.

Yeah, we'll get through it. And, you know, continue to support each other. You know, they have, when we do, when they do, when they do, their shows I go out. When I have my show, sometimes I come out. You know, when I have their solo shows, I go to Sal show. I go to Merge show, pop on stage, say hi. We're in the same town.

You know, the hardest part is like appointment friendship now, right? Like, I never had to experience that. You saw your friend. We'd see each other forever every day. So now it's like, we've got to try to make time to see each other. Go to each other's houses. You have to like intentionally. Yeah, especially when kids get involved and all that.

Yeah. So I got my two kids, which is a big part of it, you know. Yeah. And now that takes a major focus in my life. That's part of the reason. You know, so it's like I got this family. dynamic I'm dealing with. Mm-hmm.

So. Do you have a, you got a, you got a, a boy and a girl. Boy and a girl. Perfect. Nine-year-old girls, seven-year-old. Perfect. We got some, we do have some merch for you. Some girl-dad merch.

Oh. Oh, nice. That's sick. I love that. Thank you. So we got you hooked up. Oh, that's awesome. This is your merch?

Yeah, this is our merch. Smart. Dad, boy, mom. You're just dad? Yeah, I'm just dad. Okay. We have dad stuff. I got two girls.

I have one girl. Another girl on the way. Oh, okay. You got to give us some pointers on how to have a boy, dude. Oh. We had a Randall Cobb in here. He's like, to the left, two of the right. Two in the middle.

Let it dribble. And I'm thinking to myself, I don't think I have that kind of talent. Like, you're talking about six different pumps. Yeah. I don't have that in me. It's tough, though, man. I want a boy so bad. Yeah.

I want one so bad. But I don't think I'm ever going to get it. Yeah. Just going for a third and risking that it's a girl. And then you're just surrounded by four women. I was a third. That's one guy's my son. that my my my my my two older sisters and they didn't find out really yeah and then my he didn't know

till the doctor was his his they became friends he delivered all the children they were you know at statenown growing up every knew each other so he uh he he held me the story goes he held me to the back and you know my dad was standing by my mom's head and he just went ah there they are the family jewels and he turned me around no sure i'm sure he lost his mind he was so far yeah well he snuck into their delivery room in scrubs because they were like it was a situation where they didn't want anybody in there whatever and he was like oh it's my wife and they're like oh you know well don't worry you could and he just put scrubs on and he came in and my mom was like is this a doctor he goes sh it's me it's me it's me oh shit did you get your uh your humor from your

father and mother on the perfect mix of both them my dad was an assassin he would say something just loud enough that you could hear it and when everybody was let when you were laughing and everybody's like what are you laughing at he'd like I don't know like he was like one of those guys yeah my favorite story about my dad doing that way he was in it was in Atlantic City back in a day and he's with these two gangster types playing craps and he's on one side of the table and there's this woman on the other side and she's rolling and the two gangsa guys are smoking cigars and she's having a good role and the guys like come on you come on you broad let's do it you know come on you ugly you know and they're making like fun or whatever and she rolls whatever and you know

my father just stops and he says to them he goes guys could you stop talking about my wife like that no shit and they mouth jaws open and he hysterical and he's just kidding come on lady let's do it and he just hung out with these two half of gangsters all the because he just made them laugh, which was good. And my mother was like the complete opposite. Center attention, lit up the room which it came in. Bad shit crazy. And that's me too.

So I'm the mix. I think of all the men. That's awesome. Bad shit. Yeah, absolutely. Five foot nothing spark of life. She was great, man. Yeah.

That fires me up. Yeah. When you, go ahead. Go ahead. No, I was going to pivot to his YouTube. I love how he just lays it out. He goes, I was about to pivot. I was done with that shit.

Yeah. Move on. Move on. Checking the boxes. I like. All right, all right. Go ahead, Bob. Go ahead and pivot.

No, I was going to pivot to his new special on YouTube messing with people. Messing with people, yeah. Can you give us some background on that? Yeah, so when I started my tour, Joe Gatto's night of comedy, you know, I did it for two and a half years. You know how it is when you work on something so hard, you don't want just to go away. So, you know, I was like proud of it. And I was like, I want to put it out here for the people.

So I filmed it and put it on YouTube. And we did it with 800-pound gorilla. Those guys are great. And it was fun because in that, like, I get to talk a lot about me more. So, like, fans, when you're on stage, you get to show. share the spotlight you talk about 25 minutes just yours but then it's just like when you can really dive in about you about everything about like I realize how messing with people is in my core and I just tell I'm a storyteller so I just told all these stories and link them together and then how my kids now are

you know I realize that with my kids I'm a role model which could be dangerous you know I talk about my mom and stuff and it's fun it's just like it's a nice a nice way to weave together a little bit more of me and now my new tour is more of like the personal side yeah more personal of it and then the let's get into it to where I started like you do a lot of reflection right so when I separated from my wife it was the first time I ever lived alone I was an apartment by myself 47 years old first time ever living alone I always live roommates my parents her whatever you know and then you like sit there and you're like wow you really start like reflecting a lot you know yeah and you're just sitting there and you're thinking about it and I always think about how do people become the people

they are and the only journey you know is yourself you know like you've been there for every minute of you right so then I just started like the new hour I'm doing let's get into it I really break down. How do I be how do I become this loud, boisterous crazy dude when I was when I was a kid. I was such a geeky, nerdy, math loving, you know, making tests for my father when he came home from work. Like that kind of kid, you know? So that's really just a weird way to get through it all. So that's what my new hour is about. And it's a deeper dive and it's really fun to reflect on that stuff. It all started with falling on a step in an Italian restaurant. Dude, that's it, man. I should put that story into the hour. I really thought it's got to be. No, yeah, it's not.

That's a part of the shame gene stuff that goes, you know, but I talk about, you know, being a geek. I was like a real OG back in the day original geek I was like super nerd I like loved fantasy stories I used to creative write

I watched the movie Willow I don't know if you guys know the movie Willow I saw the movie Willow back in the day it was like a Lord of the Rings light before they had like special effects like all puppets and stuff Val Kilmer's in it

and it was like a thing that just like sparked all this weird creativity in me and I started writing short stories reading them I did magic it's like my parents and stuff yeah it was really weird You still do a little bit of magic

I got two good Good tricks. Do you? Yeah, yeah, I got a good car trick. That's easy for everybody to learn. We got to get a car trick. We got to get cards. I love magic, bro.

Magic's fun. We had Dr. O's on the bus. Oh, really? And it was mind-blowing. I don't think he's a, he's not a doctor. He doesn't have a PhD. Yeah. Dr. Oz.

And then O's the Mentist. And then O's the Mentless. I thought he meant O's. Yeah, yeah. You put a doctor on and I thought I got a PhD and I wasn't aware. Yeah, I'm glad we had to clear that up for you, no problem. I had a, I was, I found myself at a dinner with David Blaine. How is that?

Oh, fuck, that is awesome. Dude, it was so funny because there's also a moment where we're all just chilling. It was at somebody's house that we were all mutual friends with. I had never met David. He had his daughter with him. And he just nonchalantly takes a deck of cards out of his inside pocket. Like, we're all literally just talking about something else. Like we're talking about like a movie or something.

And then he's like, cling, and the whole place just stops. And he just starts going, whatever. And I had never met him. And I'm just sitting across from him. And he starts talking. And he's like, okay, could you sign this card, whatever? And he puts it back in the deck. And he starts talking about it.

He goes, you remember what the card was. I was like, yeah, you know, seven of hearts. He's like, okay. And then he opens the deck. He's like, oh, it's not here. He goes, where could it be? I'm like, I don't know. He goes, I noticed you have a nice watch.

And I said, yeah, he just could you turn your wrist over? And I turned it over and it was folded inside the wrist of my watch. Like, how the fuck does you do that? He never touched me. Never. Never even looked at me. I was across the table from. That's the kind of stuff that gets you going to.

I said, get out. I said, get out. I get away from me. Yeah, that's it. And it was so crazy. He was so, but it was so funny because when he was talking regular and you were talking out with him, like, with him. He was like, he was like, hey, man, so good to see him. And he was like, think of a number.

Like, he just turned out of every guy. Like, while he like got in the zone, it was really cool. Think of a number. Like in a kitchen. Oh, Henry, it was, it was, it was Harrison Ford. Harrison Ford. Where he tells me, he kicks him out of his kitchen. Yeah.

And he like cuts the orange open. He cuts the orange open. It's insane. That's nuts. Like, how does that have? He's got to have people go implant stuff somewhere. He was by himself with him and his daughter, unless he's got his daughter working the angle. Right.

you know, in the markets, they have like the monkey that steals the igor, you know, like that. Dude, he's got to be. Yeah. I don't know. He's something special. He's a hell of a showman, man. It's incredible.

And they hit that tone too. I'm sure he's like, hey, guys, hey, good to meet you. Do me a favorite. Yeah. Notchalally taking out the cards. Which is the most wild move you could do at a party ever unless you're David Blaine. I know. Or was the mentalist.

Yeah. And then it just messes it. If he missed it, it'd be like, dude, we just had a nice meal. He's severed everything up. Dude, he did something to us. It was doing birthdays and different things throughout all of us with a calculator. And then we pulled out a $100 bill. It was a serial number.

Yeah. First he did cards. And then he did the serial number of that. And it was like, pull a random dollar bill out. It was insane, man. Insane. Brought one of our guys from the other side over and then guest basically said his pin code for his ATM card. Oh, no.

Wow. That's a nice side hustle. The magic thing is so funny. Yeah, this is him just absolutely blowing. We're going to wear a suit when you do that. Always. Always. You got to always do that.

You big suit guy? I throw on a suit every now and again. I clean up nice. Yeah? I worked at Nordstrom. So I was in the men's retail. So I know my, I'm a little bit of a fashionista.

Thank you for asking. I appreciate it. I just want to get to know you as much as I possibly can. There you go, man. That was the next bullet point. It was like so. Do you like fashion? Yeah.

So you got me in a suit. That shoot is great there. That's, they had to actually put pants on me because I did the shoot without pants. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. because I was like, you know what?

Because that was one of our first photo shoots ever, and the guys were so nervous. And we would never done anything like this. It was a full thing. And we walked out. I felt everybody was so nervous. So I just came out the dressing room without pants. And they were like,

and everybody started laughing. We had a good time. And then they were like, could you go put pants on for one? I was like, sure. And that's the picture they used, me with pants on. But yeah,

that's one of my favorite jackets. If you scroll to the left there, that was at the movie premiere, the golden jacket over there that I got on the other. Yeah, see it right there. That's fantastic. Look at that. That's got to be so expensive at Nordstrom.

No, you know what? I bought that like that was like a thrift store. No way. No, I've got it like, I'm a deep discount shopper. I love a Nordstrom rack. I don't really hit the Nordstrom. Yeah. I go to the rack.

I love it. Racks got the best, the best election. If you can stiff through the bullshit. You have to get through the BS. Yeah. Sometimes it's not worth it. But when you find a diamond in the rough, oh, that jacket doesn't fit me anymore.

I was in my fighting weight back then. It seemed that you summed up a little bit. I did a little bit. I'm a, I teeter totter. Yeah. I was, my fattest, I was at, I think, 225. And that was like season three when we just switched to high definition cameras. And I was like, oh, you got to do soft of chums.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Switch it up and you see us the first couple seasons. We don't give a shit what we look like. We're wearing like what we rolled out of bed in. And then it's like, oh, this is where people see us. Okay, we've got to start doing something. I started doing a little bit because I heard when we were getting ready for this episode. Yeah, there I am.

Really chubby. See that? Look at that. What did you Google to bring up a side by side of fat Joe and skinny Joe? Yeah. Addo. Joe Gatobado before and after. Look at that face.

I look like Jabba the Hut. I look like my neck is made a plate of. Eyes are popping though. Dude, I got them all. That's all I got all day, all night upstairs. Sometimes that's all you can see. It's mesmerizing. It takes you away like David.

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Like, I was underneath getting oxygen. So Nitro circus, they wanted to do a live thing at the 100th episode. It's live TV. It's the 100th episode. So we're going to do this obstacle course and make you guys do all these stupid stunts. Okay, let's do it. We saw it. I'm so curious, like how you went into the cordial arrest.

Don't know why we did it. It's so off brand. It's not our thing. We're not physical. I dressed up by Captain Fat Belly. I was like, let's make it a thing. So I go out, and the first time I go, they make it to, we get to the bike course, the mini bike thing.

Like when they were training us, Q broke a rib. Like he got rolled over. Oh, really? Yeah, they rolled over on them. Those guys are just psychos. Yeah, they're not. It's so weird, but they got this partnership with them. So we do it.

We start and the thing, the mini bike doesn't start. And the clock's ticking. It's live, and they're like, go, go. And I'm like, it's out. So I try to push it. It's too heavy. I'm like, F it, I'll just run. So I run.

the minibike course and I'm in no sort of shape to run it's like uphill this divots and then I just so I basically end up running this whole course and the last thing of it which is so fun is we we had three doors that you had to jump through with our faces on them two of them are locked one is it right so I decided to run and jump see they're behind us there and I would yell and jump and I would go hi-o and I could hit the door and slide down I did it on purpose and I was like oh that'd be funny and I was like all right and I was like the second one I was like all right and I'm like stumbling up to steps and I get out a half a hyyo. I'm like, hi-yo, but when I hit the door, and I, when I hit the floor, I like kind of blacked

out for a minute. And I was like, I either could get up and have a heart attack on light television or I could just lay here. So I just call time out and they go to commercial. And when they try to get me to my feet, I can't stand. And I'm like, oh, I was like, something's really wrong here. And I just was like heaving like, uh, right? So they pull me in underneath the bleachers.

They had like a med station and they pull me in and I go underneath and they hook me up to oxygen and they give me IV to fill me up with some. fluids. I'm like seeing stars. They like give the whole thing there. And now everybody else is going. So everybody else is going. It's the end of the episode and the producers come in. They're like, hey, could you, you got to come out and everybody's got to see you're okay. And I'm like, I'm not okay. So they like wheel me out of the last shot. They like, it's like weekend at birdies. I'm like, hey.

They're like, Joe's okay. I'm like, yeah. And then they put me in the ambulance and I went to the hospital for a checkout. Yeah, it was so, so bizarre. So what ended up being like the medical reasoning? It was just like fat. Yeah. I'm very much that's bad out of shape, dude. It should not be trying to run a quarter mile at top speed and a captain fat belly spandex suit. I'm sure it wasn't very breathable outfit.

We were having a hard time in that thing. It was just like in all the flavor. Yeah, that's it. I was like, he was going. But I was just not in, you know, any shape. It was actually, you know, it was built for like people who were in shape would have a hard time because you're supposed to be on a bike. Yeah, I wasn't supposed to run that much.

I ran a lot. So is it the last time you dealt with natures circus? Ever, yeah. Ever, ever, yeah. It was good, though, because like, we did it. And as you get more into it, more established, you could be like, no, that's not weird. So the next time it was time for like they wanted to do something else, we were just like, no. No, thank you.

It's like one of those perspectives. Right. But there was also so much turnover at the network. I think we had, in my tenure, I think there was five different presidents of the network. So everybody just came in and was just like leave Jokers alone. It's doing its thing. So it was kind of just like a Wild West situation, which was fun. That's got to be a great feeling.

How familiar are you with Nitro Circus and Travis Pistrano? Great guys. We hung out for a weekend at their ranch to train and taught us how to use all the stuff, which was fun. Super down-the-earth guys, really cool. Had a great experience with them, you know. They do what they do very well. And it wasn't for us.

Yeah, clearly. Travis is one of the Taylor's icons. Yeah, dude. I'm obsessed. Oh, good, man. I grew up on it. But there was a, I don't know if you can pull us up, Sherman, but there's like an x-ray of Travis Pichana's entire body.

And it's like the most destroyed thing you've ever seen. He's had like 27 surgeries, multiple knee. Replacements. Yeah. Oh, yeah. He was telling us some horror stories and stuff,

but I was like, and I asked him, I remember we were talking, Q was obsessed with it when Q got hurt. Like, we ended up just hanging out and talking with him.

And he was like, why did you do? He's like, why do you, why do you do it? And he just, it's because I would I do. I was like,

that's such a badass answer. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what I do. You know, he just used to, that's so insane. Look at that white shoulder up there, all the little. His hips,

his hips are just way off. Yeah, his hips don't lie. Breaking a femur? Did you imagine breaking your femur? No. Such a dense and stup your toe and be like, this is the worst pain in the world.

It's a fucking worst. You get to take a leak. You're in a hotel room. You don't know it. Camp Barstool. Shattered my toe on the first base bag playing softball. Playing softball.

And it was purple black like it was brutal. He got hurt playing softball. And it was brutal. I know. I know. I know. I still finished though. There you go.

Whose needs of those? Probably Travis's. Oh. Is that Travis? Yeah, that's Travis. He had one. He had one man. There was,

so they had like Nitro Circus 1, 2, and 3 that came out when I was in middle school. And there's one of Travis hitting this step up, which is like you go off a ramp but you land higher than you took off.

Yeah. And he like just endos his bike, which is the front wheel coming up. And you just... I'm familiar with an enda. He's like, yeah. He just like,

like scorpions himself. Yeah. And I think it's when he broke his femur. It was like the most insane. And he just, the guys just fucking do it. But the nerve to do that. Right.

It's just, they have like, Toddler bravery. You know that? Like they don't know that they could get hurt. Just kind of lean over. I wonder if I felt, well, I'm going to fall down. It's crazy.

I'm with my family where my daughter, we're in Turks and Kekos on vacation. And my daughter goes, dad watches. They have like a pool, like a little rock pool is good. She climbed up on a rock and did her front flip into the pool. I was like, oh my God. I said to my wife, I said, that's so cool. I was like, you knew she knew how I do that. She goes, no.

I was like, well, we're bad parents. I'm like, honey, I'm like, don't do it. And she was like, it's fun. I was like, I'm like, do it. And she went out, she's not doing flips off the rock. And I'm like, it's crazy. Like, no fear to do it. It's so fun.

I know. I wish we all kind of had that still. Yeah. Because being a kid and not being afraid of things is the best. That's it. They made me break tables with my body, which was a fun one. Whenever I get to use my body as a comedic weapon, it was always fun. So they did this one where I was the manager and they planted 10 breakaway tables in this restaurant.

And I had to find them. So I had to just jump on these tables and see if they broke or not. So some of them would jump on and I would just land on people's entries. Like, so it was so weird. So the last one, they put on these. put up they put yeah I got coming up I dropped I dropped I dropped an elbow off the ladder I mean this is happening and I was like this is like that's what I yelled this is happening I tap my elbow and I came off the top and they had miss I overshot and I missed the bag underneath so they had like put like a

little bit of an airbag to soften the fall but I overshot it and I hit hard like that one didn't break so this guy's just trying to eat his antipas and I'm ass up and it was bruising your day it was really it was really fun man thought that is so yeah so we did stuff like that but that was brand for us. You know, that was stuff. So we kind of, we figured it out, which is cool. Now, if you asked one of the other three guys to do a prank like that, would they feel comfortable doing that? Yeah, I think so, but they would know, they would say that's better for you.

Like, you know, we'd be in the room, everything. We would just start talking, like, what can you do? And if it made us laugh and you can envision somebody doing it, you know, who's it was. Right. You know, but half the time was like, oh, it'd be funny. If God, it was a genie, we just used them like a wrecking ball. And it was like, yeah, we'd just paint him purple and we just bounce off and roll. And it was

necessarily like it was one of the funniest thing they ever did you know but like there was some of them was so simple and it took a little selling but I remember vividly we're just sitting there we're talking about punishments because you know we write them up you know you're gonna get punished across the board you start thinking about it and eventually when time comes you probably forgot that you were going to do it and we're just sitting there and I go what if I was a massage chair and we all just started laughing I've seen and they go what is it I'm like and I was like and then he was like yeah I'm the chair I'm the chair and people said it and I got to massage them and we hysterical laugh and then we write it up and we sent to the network.

It says, massage chair punishment, Joe's a massage chair. And the network calls him to like, what is it? And it's like, Joe's a massage chair. And they start laughing. They go, yeah, but what is it? He goes, that's it. He's like, you're laughing. So they made the massage chair and I sat in a massage chair. And when people sat down, my arms could come out of it and I would just start massaging people and start making the massage chair noises. So I'm just going, doga, doga, doga, and robbing these people. It was so stupid and so fun. But then to get me, they flew in

Bayumba, the sumo wrestler at the end. And he comes and he just, he just, jumps on the chair on me and it was oh my god it was the worst but it was it was really fun but you know those are for me or yeah there's bioma doing it he just came in and i was like get off me by him and i start shaking him and he's wiggling it's really fun that's awesome but you know you know what you know what you could do well you know when you're comedian because it's a comedy show too right you want the right guy doing the right thing like you know what sal or q or mergin to do right so you try to put them in their best life so you guys would know what the punishments were before you went through it some of them for the most part no yeah but some of them if we thought about

them, we would just, like, if we came up with them, be funny, we wouldn't let them know when it was happening. Got you. So it would be like, it's your punishment, but you don't know what it is. You never knew what it was what you were walking into. And then when it happened, it was like, here you go. Because there's one going viral right now with Murr faking his death for Sal punishment. Obviously, he didn't know about that one going on. Have you seen the clip?

Yeah. Pull up. Yeah. Just let's refresh the memory. He falls off the car. Yeah, he falls off the car with the stuntman replacement. Yeah. And Sal looks like he's about to puke.

Well, yeah. I mean, he thinks his friend died. So, I mean. That one's not your cup of tea? Yeah, we'll plead the fifth. Oh, no way. Yeah, I mean, there's a little mental trauma for a guy. Yeah, bro.

Like, damn, our boy really just... Yeah, yeah. He might be gone. Yeah, yeah, that's... That looked like me after the nitro circus. Salas seems like the most squeamish of the group, yeah? No, I mean, he puts it on, too. You know, he's pretty good.

But he definitely has the most visceral reactions. Like, you see him react. You literally, it's one of those guys you could see his skin crawl. Yeah. And one of my favorites is like, Q is definitely afraid of spiders. So we were like, you know, we have to put a tarantial on you, buddy. And he's like, no, you can't. You can't.

And then eventually he was like, eventually he was like, you know, he's like, all right, maybe. All right, maybe. But he's got, I got to be able to pull it if we can. I was like, fine. So we forget about it for a season. And then we do this tarantial punishment where we bring him in and we put a tarantial on him. So he gets through it. He was like, it felt bad in the moment.

But he was getting through it. And we gave him like a safety word. If he said, pump or nickel, it would be a safety word. So he says pump or nickel. We're just kidding. There's no safety word. But we could tell. We got thrown in it.

And then off camera, we were like, all right. Off camera, we're like, you good, you good. He's like, I'm good, I'm almost done. I'm almost done. And then when he said he was done, we pull it, right? But we don't show that, you know?

So then we do the same exact punishment reenacted. We do it with kittens with Sal. And he reacted worse than Q's it with tarantulas. Like he was screaming. And then we did this part where we were going to bring in, you know, a big cat and put it in there with him. And it was so docile. It wasn't even scary.

It sounds just because it's sal. You know, but you could literally see his skin crawl as much as Q. Yeah. You know, it's just, it's crazy. Could you imagine being afraid of kittens? Kittens, yeah. I know, man. That is the most wild.

Probably the softest thing to be afraid of. Sure, yeah. Yeah. Maybe balloons. Yeah. Yeah. But then, hey, there's Pennywise. Yeah, it is.

Yeah. Think about Pennywise. My daughter loves horror. Man, my daughter would love this place, by the way. Yeah. My daughter loves horror. She's in, she's in second grade. She goes to school as Pennywise.

That's what you wanted to be. No. In second grade? Sounds like my kind of daughter. Yeah, she was great. Spooktober. Oh, yeah. It's officially started.

Oh, well, I mean, is it spooktacular? Like, what spooktober? Is it like your thing? I'm so glad you asked. So, yes, it is. Okay, great. Spooktober is, so it's obviously the start of Halloween, right? October 1 is Halloween.

And now October becomes spooktobers. It's what you call it. Okay. It's not only the fall. It is like the kickstart of all of the holiday season. So you know for the next three months, dude, you're eating candy, you're gorging yourself on Thanksgiving and you're enjoying Santa Claus coming down your chimney or whatever holiday you happen to believe it, but it all happens.

in the same time. So to embrace these 31 days of fright is like the most important thing you can possibly do because it just, it fires you up. Spooked over. Especially when you're a dad.

You got to like dive into it. There's rules too. Like you gotta watch, you gotta watch something festive every day. Yeah. Once a week, whether it's you, the fan, whatever,

you got to do something that embraces the spook. So whether it's like a pumpkin patch a haunted house, whether you go to a coffee shop and get yourself a pumpkin spice latte. Oh, of course. You do one thing a week

that embraces the spook. And the final thing is usually, you make pumpkin. Pumpkin spices spooky. Yeah. It's a seasonal. It's a seasonal. I got some bracing it, man.

And what's the final thing? The final thing is you got to do a little decoration in your house. Got it's outside, inside, one pumpkin, eight pumpkins, skeletons crawling on your house. We do something to embrace us. We dive in hard. That's my fan there. She's Pennywise. Yeah.

How did you find a picture of my daughter? You are a wizard. You're also very creepy. So you can tell the history of my son and my daughter. My son's like, I'll wear my Spider-Man hoodie. And my daughter's like, could I please me the scariest thing I could be? Yeah, no doubt. Do you let her watch any of those shows?

The super scary ones? We just started. Like, we just started, but she really, I let her watch a scene of Pennywise. So I let her watch it. That is a crazy move. When he's in the sewer? I let her watch it to get her, to get her, to dip her toe. And she was like watching it with me.

And she goes, and she got like really scared. And she's like, this is so cool. I'm like, that's enough. I was like, yeah, you got enough. We also watching on like on Sunday morning at 8 a.m. Like, I'm not letting her see before she goes to sleep. But she's super cool. Yeah, but we do the spook fest.

We go down that with Fatone all the time. down to the Hollywood Horror Nights. This is a picture of us in Q. We go down to Hollywood Horror Nights all the time. I'm not a big, like, spook guy. My wife loves it. And I remember one of our first dates, she wanted in Manhattan.

They do like one of those big, like spooky haunted houses. And I would just, like, where the people come out and scare you? Yeah. But it was in a chainsaw. Yeah. So they had all those, you know, like, when you go to like a car wash, there's those things that hang that block the room so you can't see it. Yeah.

So I'd always just push my wife into the room first through that thing. And everybody would come out and I were just walking like, hey, and I knew where everybody was. And you're like, stop. because your idea to come here. That's my parents. Yeah. That's a joke we did on the thing because my parents died, you know,

and I'd always bring out skeletons of my parents because the boys, you know, at that point, had their parents alive. And I'd be like, I had this joke all the time. You'd be surprised. You could find a picture of a skeleton doing anything.

So whenever we're in the car driving or doing anything, I always like, Q'd be talking about. I was like, oh, my mom. Just looked to my mom. Yeah. I was like, oh, yeah. She's like, yeah,

she went apple picking or whatever. And I'd be like, oh, that's cool. And then you would Google skeleton, apple picking. and it would just be a picture of it. And I would be like, oh, it's my mom facetiming me. Hey, mom. And I would show the picture.

He's like, dude, just so messed up. That is just twisted in the head. Yeah, my son wanted to be Earth. This is my son being Earth. He chose to be Earth. He was like, what do we want to be? He was like, I want to be Earth. So he was Earth.

My daughter was an astronaut. I was a pilot and my wife is a NASA employee. It was really funny. My daughter was like an astronaut. I want to be Earth. I want to be a planet. He was obsessed with planets at that point. He's just getting into it now.

The hardest. was last year he wanted to be like he's obsessed with minions want to be minions he's like I want to be grew and at the last minute he wanted to be a minion so I had to be grew and I kind of look like Steve Corell as it is so like I had like oh yeah there it is yeah that's that's that's my daughter was a minion and uh oh he made loss of but yeah so my daughter was like a minion so we tried to do the family thing but they're kind of outgrown it now and that's me is that's that's heartbreaking when that is perfect yeah yeah the whole outgrowing thing I'm dreading that what is Halloween their favorite no um

Christmas, right? It's their birthdays, kind of. They really enjoy us up. You must do it up on the birthdays. We used to throw these big parties, but we just started saying, do you want to go on vacation? Instead, we just had these huge parties at the house for my daughter. And last year, she was like, could we just go away as a family,

which I thought was really cool. Yeah, that's awesome, man. My son loves Legos. We go to Legoland in upstate New York. There's a big Lego land, so we go there for his, and we just did Disney World for hers. And they just started watching all the Star Wars stuff. Yeah.

That was fantastic. That's all the whole of them, right? You got to watch my special. I tell a story about how my son gets, scarred for life in the Star Wars. He's five years old. He's never been on a ride. And we go to Star Wars and it's an immersive experience. You know, everybody's in character, whatever. And he thinks he got abducted by aliens. He never seen a movie. He's never been on a ride and he starts screaming. I want to go back

to Earth. Hugging the site. It was hysterical. And I was like, oh, my God. Yeah. So it was interesting. But he went on it this year because we had watched the movies and he absolutely loved it. Okay. He conquered his fear. Now you brought up Legos or were you a Lego kid growing up? So this is for you and your son. You guys got to do that all day every day. I got into it during COVID too. Like you started with the puzzles and both things. Same right. And then you started with the Lego sets and I started doing the Legos.

I went to Park City, Utah with my family and they had like a Lego store at the airport. And I bought the Titanic. And it's been a year and a half now. I'm still like halfway through it. But every once in a while I'll go in there, my daughters will come in and we'll put like three pieces on it. And then we'll just move on to whatever they want to do. I can't believe that you're able to just leave it sitting there like that. Yeah, it's incredible.

I think it's a difference between having girls and boys. Yeah, but I've told them. I've literally threatened their lives. Like do not under any circumstances. ever touches for that down right. You're not fuck this up. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Because all I know, they step, they put one brick wrong in step 13. It games over. You're over at step 42. You're trying to connect something. You're like, disassemble. They'd be punished for life.

Yeah, for life. I would never forgive them. Because I was a kid that dude, anytime you wanted me to sit down for two hours, just get me a Lego set. I would all day. Just do that. I was all about it.

See, what I don't like about the new thing is the instruction manual. I used to free brain it and just build like a ship. Oh, then you're a real man. You're a real man from the Northeast. I appreciate that. I'm a domestic kid a cat. I need all of those, all of those little sheets interkindly.

Okay, that's where it goes. Did you ever hear the toy pipe works? Did you ever have that growing up? No. So it's a PVC, I'm sure a picture will be up of it in a minute. It's a PVC construction, life size construction set

where you could like build these like forts, go carts and whatnot. I was obsessed with them growing up. No shit. My kids have them now and they're humble. How old are your kids? Seven and four. Oh, you gotta get yourself some of these.

Yeah. So this is, there's a new company that makes them. That's the old school version. And the new ones are called, You could search for it. You'll find them. But you build like stuff like that. And it's just a full set.

And you can build whatever your mind creates. So they... And we build these forts, these climbing things, all this stuff. It's really fun. There's no directions. Essentially, you get to do what you want. There is an extra... There is a thing that you do if you want, but...

Have you seen Magnetiles? You've been on a Madentiles game? I'm a magnetal. Yeah, guru. My daughter and I, we make like civilizations. Oh, that's great. I love that. We get the whole thing.

You do the triangle ones too there. Oh, yeah. I could do the Marble Madness. things too, the marble mazes. Those are right there. What's the marble maze? The marbles. So they give you just the tubes to build your own marble maze.

And it's kind of as like really fun where you can just put a marble in and it has all these different tracks. Oh my daughter would love that. It's really fun. Yeah, I got to get on that. It's called marble man. It's when we're little. That's it right there.

Yeah, those guys. That's fun. Oh, yeah. I remember those. We're just still on the train track in our house. Train track is great. I never got into the Thomas or any of those train track things. See, I grew up like in time because I was never like a Lego guy.

I was never a Lego guy. Lincoln Logs kid. Love Lincoln Logs. Oh, Lincoln Logs. They were boring as shit. I know, right? I'm saying. I was going to build it.

A cabin. Like that's it. Like my cabin. Dude, I feel the same way because everybody's a big Lego fanatic and I just never got into it. I felt like all the dads in my circle always loved building the cars, like the old school cars. So they always had them hanging up on their shelves. Yeah.

But I was just never a Lego guy. I don't know why. If you're a train guy. I was a hot wheel. Yeah, I was simple. Lincoln Log's a Hot Wheels. Me too. I love the jumps.

I'll just do tournaments all day long with Hot Wheels. Those cool orange tracks too, get them to do a loop. What about the electric ones? Those two? Yeah. They had the little gun thing. I never got to that.

Those are fun. That's above me. You've got a... And then the simple like town rug where you just, you got the hot wheels and you're pretending you're, you're an NFL player like, oh, this is my house and you're like driving through, but that was, that was as far as I went. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Always an NFL player.

Always an NFL player. I was always an NFL player. I was always an NFL player. That's true. Yeah, yeah. That is so funny. How much you love. football.

You grew up playing football too? Yeah. Oh yeah. I was obsessed with it from the start. From the start, man. My dad was all about it. We always played in the backyard. We'd be the Dallas Cowboys in the 90s.

Oh, really? So I'd be like Michael Irvin. He'd be Troy Eggman. I'd get to be all the skill spots. Emmett Smith. That's great. Jay Novichick to tight in and we'd just like, obviously, we'd win like 80 to nothing. But it'd just be me and the old man pretending to be the cowboys.

So I've always loved it. I was the same way about bowling. Who do you think you are? I am. Yeah, that's me, man. I'm a bowler, dude. Are you really? Yeah, bowler and mathley. We live very different lines. Bowler, mathly, magician. That's it, man.

The Joe Gatto story. So cool. Were you the type of kid who, like, made, like, their own kind of board game on, like, notebook paper? 100%. Like, you'd always have a buddy that'd be like, hey, I made this game and it'd be, like, on their notebook. And you just play with the... I know you got to a shield right here.

You can't do it unless you have this many tokens. I never got into Dungeons and Dragons, which now I... Now I think I would love, but I did this thing. So when I was younger, my best friend and next door neighbor, Jason Joseph, was like you. Like he became like a football kind of guy. But growing up, we were best friends. Two biggest yards in Staten Island, all the kids within the neighborhood would come over. Playing the yards hanging out just a chain link fence between us, right?

As we got older, I started doing creative writing, better at math. Jason was like better at football, talking to girls, right? So all the kids ended up in his yard playing like flag football. I get these pipeworks toys for my 12th birthday. And I build a sword and a shield It was when I was into my fantasy stuff I had just seen Willow And I start playing out this thing in my mind

About like oh I'm battling this dragon in my head right And I'm just this lanky kid or by myself in my backyard And then you know when you feel somebody looking at you I look over and all of them are lined up on the fence Being like Joe what he doing to what I explained what I was doing right And Jason was like I was like I'm battling this dragon And it's got his two heads And Jason like do you need help and he hopped the fence

And he built like a bow staff And me and him kicked that dragon's ass right That whole summer everybody came and we played adventure games where I would narrate these stories and all the kids in my neighborhood would play these things it was the best summer of my life

and that was just what we did like I would give everybody powers I weave this whole story I ended up writing them at the end it was really really cool that is awesome yeah I have a movie yeah I have the script which is funny

do you really because I always wanted to be a director so that's why I got into the whole game no shit film directors that's what I'll be when I grow up because if I obviously every kid goes to like a sword and shield phase yeah 100% but like in my mind I was like

don't ever have let somebody see you do this. Like you gotta, this has got to be at night in the dark. We've never known the kids are around. Windows shades poles. Right. You're this out in the open chain link fence.

Kids are play tackle football. You want your mom knocking on the door. I'm like, what are you doing in there? I'm just playing with my sword, mom. Yeah. And these kids just look over and they're like, we got to help him out. Yeah.

It's so far. And it became like this adult thing. This Renaissance fairy stuff. Yeah. Larping. Bro, LARPing happens down the road from our house in like that big field right before you in the We gotta go do it.

Every weekend I see people learn. It looks so great, man. And what a community, right? What a fun thing to be a part of, right? Yeah. It's so, it's weird a little. Let's be honest, if we're going to talk about it. But if you've got a high bird a certain way,

I don't know if I could get into it like that, but I think I might be able to. I think I invented LARPing if I come down to it. I think me and my friends are larping it up in Staten Island. No doubt. If we got a group of boys like this, when we all dressed up, I would have no problem buying into something like this. Yeah.

And just knowing who the king is, knowing what your role is going to be. Yeah. Who's the king around here? One guy's his way of his hand. It's like, get them. just go after him. Oh my God,

you imagine you showed up with these guys. Oh, yeah, it would be awesome. Because everyone plays like video games like that. Like you've ever play Skyrim? Yeah.

Those types of games. It's like, this is, we're just bringing it to real life. 100%. It's cool because it's also a community's built around it. I love that.

I love when like-minded people find stuff together. That's my favorite part about it. Even like live events, concerts, comedy, like when you go and you're in a room. I have people come to the shows

all the time that don't know anybody. I love that. They come to like, I don't know anybody here. Like, Who'd you come with like by myself? And I was like I love that because you have the confidence to be around like I go to like I go to movies by myself. I go to like I love that stuff.

Movie going to a movie by yourself and breakfast on like a Saturday morning by yourself is kind of an all time move. A cup of coffee by yourself like I love that stuff. Yeah. Is um God I had a I had a question. Dude I wanted to ask how sick is it? Because you seem like a big perspective guy. But how sick is it looking back knowing that you've ultimately gotten to be yourself. make a living from it

you know the fame all that all that stuff's great but just knowing that you got to be you how cool is that man I was so happy that I didn't like end up on a show

where you had to play a character right because you just get to be show yourself and then get accepted by this crazy fandom just by being you and then as people get into you a little bit more and stuff

like and you find out like it's so cool that people could talk to you could talk to your fans like Instagram messaging right Comic cons all this stuff Like you have that accessibility and I'll hear stories all the time about people being bullied and whatever.

And that's like when I started doing my anti-bullying work. It was like, I was like that too. I was like, and then you realize you're that for people and that changes your whole perspective like that. Like in the beginning, you're like, oh, this is so cool. I'm on TV. But then when you realize what you are for people, family, what laughter does. Because the network played in hospitals, prisons.

Like this is where it was. I got a flat tire in LA last year. Guy shows up 1230. Gets out. Huge dude, tatted up. He comes out. He was like, oh my God, Joe. I'm like, hey, he's like, I just got out of prison five months ago.

You got me through. Could I have a hug? That's amazing. It's insane. I was like, yeah, and thank God because you're very scary. And I'm on this dark alley and set down. Broken down, you know? So like, it was so cool to be like that.

But then you realize that you're at hospitals and people are just going through these things of like, people are finding you at their lowest for a reason to laugh, going through chemo, doing whatever, all this stuff you hear. And it's like, wow, you don't even think that, right? When you're like, I'm just making my friends laugh. And then you realize that. And then you realize you have a family. you have a legacy.

It's like all that stuff comes in a perspective and you just get to be you. That's so cool. Yeah, because it's like you were pushing the, you know, the baby toys or the baby gear. It's like people are in these, you know,

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A lot of times it's tough because people will be like, because you're Joe, right? So on TV, they're like, Joe. And I'm like, oh, this guy's a fan, right? So I'll be like, there he is. Like, I don't know where I know you from yet. I'm like, hey, I'm like, you want to take a picture? Like, I was your neighbor. Like it's like, how are you?

It's so funny. And then you see people again and again because they're fans. And the fans, you recognize some and they come into your fold and whatnot. But, you know, a lot of times people like, it's like, I never say nice to meet you. I always say good to see you. Because you learn it. They're like, if you met somebody before, to them meeting you is a big thing. But, you know, you meet so many people being in the public eye.

Right. I'm sure you guys know it. Like, it's with fans of your stuff, see you. It's like, I used to meet you. It's very hard. They're like, we met before. And I hate that moment. And they go, they go a step further and say, do you remember?

Do you remember? Those people, like, fuck. Those people get the hell out of you. I know, why you put me in the spot, man? You can tell I don't. We just have a good time together right now. Yeah. Like, let's just say good to see each other.

They go, where do I, where do I, where do I, where do you know me from? I'm like, clearly I don't. So what do you want to talk about here. Yeah, exactly. Right. Yeah. The fans, fans are awesome having all that. There's always like the one or two that like, because you always try to make them have a good time with you.

Yeah, for sure. And you want to feel like, hey, you're one of the boys right now. Yeah. But then they take it. Yeah, yeah. You don't want to mess it up either. No, yeah. But you know, like, come on, you're rooting for them.

You're like, come on. Come on. You got this. Because you like, I grew up like, I didn't get famous. I grew until 34. I wasn't on TV until I was 34. So I grew up a fan of people. Like, I was a fan.

So you understand it from that side. Like when you get into Lime Light later in the years, you realize that. You have that fandom has a special place in your heart because you are a fan of people. Like we worked with Vince Vaughn and I'm a huge Vince Vaughn fan, right? Who is it? And I remember when I met him for the first time we were playing the Nashville Comedy Festival, you know, seven or eight years ago. And we're here in Nashville, right? And he comes in there.

I get in the elevator with him. And we were there for him. Like you knew what we were. And he's with Steve Byrne. And he goes, hey, he goes, he goes, oh, Steve's, hey, Joe. How are you? I looked at Steve. He's like, this Vince.

I'm like, I didn't say anything. The door shut. We got off the elevator. I was like, and the doors were shut, and I went, bye. And he's door shut and I was like, what am I doing? I was like, I just shit the bed on meeting Vince. You know what I mean? So it was such a weird thing.

Then thankfully, I met him again. We became friends. But it was like such a weird thing that as a fan, you still choke up. 1,000. Dude, Steve Byrne is so, his network. He got introduced to events where we were at the Notre Dame game. It was Notre Dame Ohio State. Last year.

And we were fired up. I forget how Steve knew that we were all. all there together. We texted him. Yeah, yeah. We were texting Steve. And he goes, hey, here's his number. Just text him.

He'll know. And Taylor and I are like, are you sure this is okay? Because we're thinking the same thing. Like wedding crashes, all of it, right? Massive Vince Vaughn fans. And he was so fucking cool. We were on the sideline, watching the football game, talking about what play you should run.

And it was all time, man. And he's very much himself. Like, you talk about being Joe and playing Joe. I feel like Vince for so many years, like played himself because you met him and the personality, the back and forth. I said in the other.

It was like, he looks over, he's like, Tom Osmoreman never on this. And I'm thinking, does he know I play for Nebraska? Is he just kind of saying like a historic head coach? I have no clue,

but this is the sickest moment of my life. Right, right, right. I remember he is very endearing because it's so funny because he's so big. He's such a big guy. He has such a big presence. But when you talk to Vince, he's just like very endearing. Like when you talk to him,

he's him, like you feel like it. And I feel like he's just like, he could be super intimidating, right? He's like so big, so loud. But he just knows. how to do it. And Steve's the best. Steve just, I mean, I've been friends with Steve 10 years.

We do our podcast together. You've got two cool moms. And he's, uh, he's just so great to like, know because he's always like loves to connect people. He loves to. He's such a good day. And he did a great job with his, uh, like late show type of stay. I directed that. I think it's so, did you really. Yeah, I directed his special. Yeah. That's awesome. I think it's so fun. Yeah. The last late night was so good. He, he, it's such a good moment that he, he's such just so funny, so fast and just a great dude. Yeah. When you were getting an accommodated, did you feel like there were a lot of clicks involved was it kind of tough at first for you at all?

I feel yeah not really I mean comedy stand up comedy especially could get I feel like this is a very nice place now because people are very accepting of the format love it you know whatever and people are doing their thing but I feel like it's very

it's different because it's like late nights putting your work in it's hard and it's hard to find your voice and hard to build it but everybody has their own process to get there you know which is which is cool but to get to meet all these people inside of it and know them to be fans

and be fans of them. Like, that's really fun to do that. But it's definitely its own thing. I took Steve with me during my first show week at Appleton on purpose. I did Joe Gals and Night of Comedy.

Steve was with me. And I was like, because I respect him as a stand-up. I know he's good. And I was like, all right, Steve, come with me. And if it sucks, you gotta jump on stage

and help me out, whatever. So we go, he goes up. I brought him. I brought Mark Jagartigan, another comic who's on tour with me now. And I do my, I do 35 minutes the first time I'm up. And I come back in the green room

and he's sipping a scotch. I go, how was it? And he goes, fuck you. He goes, I've been doing this few years. You're up to a year, natural. I hate you. And he's so laughing.

And he was like, it's good. He's like, it's good, man. You just got to figure out what you're going to talk about up there. He helped me build that. So that first year with Steve, he would come on the road with me a lot. He was a super great mentor.

Just somebody knows what they're doing. So it really helped you become comfortable. That's awesome. Yeah. How do you find your voice in watching so many other comedians that already found their voice and you love it?

And you're like, oh, man, I'm a fan of what they're doing. thing to do is just be me on stage and I'm not try to be delivering jokes. And I found out quickly, I'm a storyteller. I love telling a story and people really enjoy that part of it. So I just was like, okay, what stories am I going to tell? How do they connect? And then how can I make them as funny as they could be? And that became my process with it. So I, that's what I really enjoy. I grew up. I mean, I'm 48 at this point. I've had a very storied life. I've been through a lot of stuff. I've got lots to talk about, which is really cool.

So that's what I do, but I don't shy away from the fact that people know me. You know, they know me from TV. I'm Joe. So if you like to me on TV, you're probably going to like hearing me just talk up there and tell you more about me and stories. I just feel like it's important. If you're having fun and people watching you have fun, it's impossible for them not to. Right.

I've always lived that way. And just enjoy their time. If you're enjoying what you're doing up there, like me and the guys, when we're on stage, we're just having fun. You can't sit in there and be like, this is terrible. Like you're having fun with people. I wanted to make an event, especially now when life sucks. so hard for people.

Like get out there. Have some fun. Have some less. Forget about the bullshit. I'm not up there talking about politics or bullshit. Whatever. I'm just talking about, you know,

how this fat kid from Staten Island found his way, you know? I think it's important. LARPING in the backyard. Yeah. LARPING it up, man. No doubt. Did you ever, like when you were leaving impractical Jokers,

we were like, okay, I want people to know me for comedy now instead of impractical jokes. Did you ever struggle with that at all? No. Great question. All right. What do you got,

well? No, I think that's important though because people are like, okay, this is my identity now my identity is joe like it or not this is me right so let's get out there and laugh together and that's why i say like i go on my special i comment on every i respond to every comment i'm messing with people on youtube every comment i go to and it's me responding because it's like if people are like oh this is stay in your lane this is it for you i'll write back thanks for giving

you the shot be well if you didn't like it's comedy's 100% subjective if you didn't like this one right it's fine you know but it's clearly my lane i'm doing you know a tour around the theater tour around the country like you know if you didn't like it it's fine i don't take offense to that but i am if you take me and put that on tv like it's going to be the same guy same voice same thing i know who i am right i didn't want to try to discover myself as a stand-up of course there's different aspects you have to think about you know and do different things but i still want to keep the core right yeah do you find it hard to kind of uh because stand-up i know you got to be on the road a lot but balancing the family time and everything else it's honestly easier a lot easier i mean i'm working 10 days in october you know i'm on the

10 days before was a travel. Some people are on the road. I'm on the road a lot, but people don't understand the balance of it, you know, because I'm there for what I consider the important stuff. I'm there to drop them off at school, helping homework after the day during the week. The weekends, they're normally busy anyway.

They got played dates, birthday parties, bullshit. Like, during the week is when, you know, that's when the misses needs to help. That's when it's more important. I'm there for family dinners, talking about their day. Helping if they had something in school that went wrong. I think that's the part of it that's good.

And you're in charge of it, you know? It's like, I'm not going to go on. These are the weekends I can go. I'm going to be here for their birthday. You know? Right. When we toured for the first year, I didn't even realize I missed my wife's first Mother's Day because it wasn't even in my mind and we booked the tour so far out.

And it was the first Mother's Day and my daughter's first birthday. I both was booked for both of them. And it was like, in hindsight, I'm like, you fucking dummy. Like, what are you doing? You know? Like you're so caught up. And it's so much. You're so much in it.

And then you just start going. And I tell the story about my daughter. It was just before COVID. She's five years old. I come home. I was on tour with the boys. I was at work, whatever, and she was so excited to see me. And she ran up and goes, Daddy, I love when you come to visit.

And I'm like, oh, that's hysterical and hurts so bad. Yeah, yeah. So I was like, oh, I got to, there's a balance thing going on here, you know. No doubt. It's so hard to find, especially as they get older. It is. I think the big thing that I've taken away from it is there's no such thing is balance. It's focus.

It's like you're focusing your energy here. Everything is always swirling around you, but you got to take that five minutes to build Legos to hang out or take your car and be on the racetrack. You know, whatever it may be, but you need to take those times. Like my son says, dad, can we play? I'll stop whatever I'm doing for five minutes and play with him because that five minutes will be for him and that'll be his favorite part of the day and I'll find that five minutes somewhere else.

I'll stay up five minutes later. I'll do whatever, you know? So for the most part, you try to do what you can and focus on what you need. I think that's the biggest takeaway for dads and entertainment. It's really a hard thing. And I think, you know, especially it really is taxing on you to be, I think people are getting it,

but it's really, really hard to balance all that stuff. Right. Yeah, I agree with that. Because it's more of like you understand what your priorities are, how you kind of want to build your life. And it also helps you, okay, these are the things I want to focus on and put my energy into and I kind of have everything scheduled out.

Now, ultimately, this gives me the reason to say no to everything else. Because I would be somebody who enjoys, like, saying yes, like, okay, maybe I can do that. Always at least say maybe. But I feel like I've learned since Ruse came into the world that, like, I've learned what to say no to. It's like, okay, I know I want to do bussing. I know I want to do family time. Everything else I can basically just say no to, unless it's something that would be, you know,

pivotal for the show or for the family. It kind of like helps you deviate from like, all right, I can say no to this. 100%. You look at it through a different lens. Right. Like I just wrote,

I wrote a kid's book, right? Right. Where's Barry? It's my new kids books. I got to send you guys copies. It's great. So it's a story about my son. And it's, he's animated in it as a cartoon.

My dog Spamoni's in it. Like it's so like, like it's smolony. So that's like. We haven't even touched on the dog. Yeah. He's just been saying you're telling a story and just stroking. Yeah.

We have my evil. It's spectacular. But yeah, it's like to be able to do that. Yeah, that's my son and Spamoni right there, like animated in the book, you know. But to see your kid be like that and that's part of your thing. Like you get to be able to do those kind of things now. Right. Which is totally different.

Like years ago when I was selling kids books, I was like, oh, I'm going to be. Yeah. I'm going to have one of these one day. It wasn't even in your like lens, you know, but it's fun to do that stuff and celebrate the parenthood and make a part of your personality. Absolutely. Yeah. Definitely need that book. Yeah.

I got to have it. I'll send you. Yeah, it's great. But at home. it's available now to purchase. Where's Barry? Check it out. No doubt.

You guys want to hit some tier talk? I would love to hit some tier talk. So I'll break down tier talk for you. I'm sure you watch a show all the time, but I'll just do it for the fans that are watching. Please. A lot of first time is here. A lot of first time is here.

I bring on by star power. Yes. Star power, guys. So basically, there's going to be a category. At least 10 people. We'll go through the category and you'll start at your tier three. We'll see your third best. You're going to paint a picture for us,

tier two. And then finally, tier one, your favorite. Got it. Now, there's always the outlier. Maybe we all agree on one thing, and that becomes a God tier. I don't think we'll find that today. Got it. But that's just, just to put in there.

Once you're finishing your tear talk, we will go around the bus. Everyone will give one word to express how they feel about your cheer talk. Okay. So that's what we have. All right. Great. So the cheer talk today is spend the night pranks. I do.

I like the night pranks. Yeah, night pranks on friends or activities with friends. That's what it is. Okay. So we can take a couple minutes. Think about it for a second. I'd like to go second or third. I'll just throw that in it.

I'll just throw that in the universe. I know two I have for sure. I just got to figure out what my third one's going to be. Spending the night with friends pranks. Got it. Okay. So things that you do as a group? Yes.

As a group. Do you have yours, Taylor? I have two. So I need three? You need three. Yeah. Tier talk. Your tier three, you're tier three, you're tier two, you're tier one.

I got them. Right well. My tier three. And I hate to admit I never had the balls to go through it and do it. But when your boys, you start prank calling, when it was just to land lines back in the day and you had whatever numbers you wanted to do,

hey, I'll call my uncle here, we can get them with this. I never had the balls to be the one on the phone. We always had a Joe that was with us that was shameless and he would do it. I feel like doing the prank calls and when you get somebody and they have no fucking clue and they start calling friends to figure out who it is, I love that little like giddy feeling as a kid

sitting around spending the night with your boys. My tier two is going to be ding-dong ditching. When you first learn you get your license, You want to just get into some, you want to get into some stuff with the boys. And you drive around, you ding-dong ditch. You go and sprint. And you're sprinting to the car. Come on, we got to go.

We got to go. That escape plan is all time. My tier one, which I love the most. And it's so important for Spooktober. But T-Ping, throwing toilet paper in your friend's yard. My mom, she would drive the getaway van. We'd be at Walmart. You know, you have the jokes.

Like, somebody's got an upset stomach at the house. Like buying all these rolls of toilet paper to throw them in the van. We'd this. red minivan. She would drive and me and my boys, we'd go and TP, you know, whoever's not in the crew, you go and TP their house. There are rolls of toilet paper everywhere. My mom actually set us up one time. Where we go, we went to one of like her friend's house and we knew it was also her friend's house, but she had a son that we wanted to get. And so we start TP in their yard and somebody had a chainsaw in the garage and somebody was ripping a four wheel around the other side. But somebody

started screaming, rips the four wheel around. We like, we got to go. We got to go to where we start exiting toward just where the garage was. Somebody comes screaming out of the garage with a chain saw. We are losing our mind sprinting away. My mom's sitting there laughing. You realize there's a whole setup. But T-Ping is by far in a way, my tier one. Okay.

That concludes my tier talk. Great. Classics. Solid. Edgy. Tradition. Nostologic. Shocking.

relatable, I would say, yeah, for sure. Solid. Do you want to go next? You want me to go? I have two of mine. I can probably go. You want to go? No, you go.

Okay. I'll go. You go. I'll go. Okay. So my tier three is very Arizona specific. And here's why. During Spooktober, always on the 30th of October was kind of known to everybody as

mischief nights. When you go out, you do the rocket, all those types of things. Yes. So every once in all in Arizona, unless you have all the money in the world, everybody has rocks. As they're like landscaping, they don't have grass.

And what we would do is if a rain was ever to come, we would take fruit roll-ups and we put it on their rocks. And when the rain would come, the die would die everybody's rocks on their landscaping. I know it's kind of nasty. It's a nasty thing to do, but that's why it's my two or three.

That's a little too hard. Yeah, that's like... And it only came up like one or two times. Shout out Angela the court. He's a kid that we happen to get one year. I feel really bad. his parents were really mad my tier two my tier two is going to go to the classic warm bowl of water

to the heaviest sleeper um finger in the bowl kind of thing finger in the bowl you put it in there they wet themselves and the boys got because they knew I had a bed wedding problem like I got god on that one you got got on that yeah yeah I peed the bed until I was like 14 me too it was it oh nice Pete brothers let's go yeah yeah I was never found one I love there man I also level my bear I was I slept with my barrel until I was 12. Hey, when you, when you, what the bed at your boys' house?

Yeah, it sounds like you had a hell of a childhood. Terrible. And you're just up in the middle of night, stuffing in a bag, trying to get rid of all the evidence and then blame it on the dog. Terrifying. Do you ever stand up and peeve by accident?

That's my tier two. So, yeah, yeah, you're too too. And finally, my tier one is going to go to the T-Ping. It's getting some people is great, but to me, high school T-Ping was all about getting that girl you liked. The Alex Max-Sudian, and you go over there, you find her house.

And all the boys can say, they're like who we're going to get and you want to somehow put it in there hey would you get Alex? No one really knows you like her but you want to get her and once you get all the boys to dive in throw it over the trees over the house and everything like that it's just it's a fun easy it's a fun thing that's innocent right it's a nice little deal I would I would come back from college at Nebraska and still get the same crew of boys and we'd TP somebody yeah if we had if we happen to have a bye weekend I'd go home and we'd rally up the troops and go TP love TP I did have a couple more but they were kind

of bad. Dude, yeah. There's like, people would do forks in the ground, plastic forks on like a cold night, and then they'd be stuck in the ground. They would egg your car and throw flour on top of it. Like, people would do some crazy shit. Because the egging was always,

it was a bad deal. Yeah. We would, this kid named, what was his name, Anthony, Anthony Romano. We called him maggot because he was so short. And he would take wire. You called a maggot? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That was a track. We would take a wire on this busy. street and we put it across like at like a four foot five foot level and cars would go drive by and it would scrape their entire car all the way through oh man oh my gosh that was one that was like i'm not gonna put my i have my word for yours okay mean yeah yeah yeah fair enough diabolical yeah there you go devious deceptive unique dangerous Fun Okay

Hyphenated Fruit by the foot Fruit by the foot All right Joe the floor is yours I didn't know the fourth thing The fourth thing yeah That's cool I

So I have to put The prank call Is Tier 3 But we even used to do it Nextel I used to call up When we were on the bus

On tour We would just kill time And I would call up As an impractical joke assistant Antoine and I would call a place and be like yes we want to come in to eat here I have the impractal joker's they'll have my ass if we don't get a corner table do you have a corner table available it'd be like a chilies and they're like when you're talking about it was so money and we would set up this whole thing and do that so that's my number uh three for two three cheer

two for me is a thing we used to do a lot it was called you'd have to get a group of guys we used to do it and it was a perkins by me i don't know if you know perkins it's like yeah breakfast spot yeah yeah okay it was 24 hour in satan island or late night, whatever. And we used to do this and call we work here. And when it'd always be so busy that there'd always be a chance that the host stand would be open. So one of us would work as the host stand and we would see people and that somebody would come over and take their order as another friend would come over at the waiter to take their own. And these people would think they're being helped. And we would just like leave and wait looking through the window.

And they'd be waiting and complaining about their food. Oh, bro. And we would just sit there like, we never took your order. Like that was really fun. We used to do we work here at Perkins. But the number one- You take their order and go and sit next to him and start eating your food. We would just sit and wait and watch them start going to start going to

because some of our friends would be inside that didn't work there, right? Yeah. We used to go a group of like four or five guys and then they would just wait, looking through the window and we just hear the people going crazy and that was really fun.

But my favorite thing we always did and it worked its way into the show was just up your ass into the left. So whenever anybody asked you with something place, someplace is. Do you know, excuse me, do you know how I get to Central Park?

Yeah, it's up your ass to the left up over here and you have to say that to them looking them in the face. and we did it for decades and then on the show I'm in the park doing a petition thing or whatever and somebody walks up to me and he goes excuse me do you know where the bathrooms are

and in my ear I go you got up your ass up your ass to the left here and it became a thing we montaged it on the show we did it one million times on the show so whenever anybody asked us anything but you don't realize because if you just look at them in point they're like oh thank you and they say thank you and walk away it's crazy yeah

it's up you up here up yes it's all like a Jedi mind train it's a David Blaine act Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And they look under their watching as I call it. What's your favorite number? Yeah. She just strokes of the dog. Professional.

Fun. Legendary. Veteran. Creative. Original. Comratery. Harmless. We tried to be.

Great. I do need a call quick break. I have to pee very badly. I have to pee as well. But I'll wait. Don't go together. Did you know about the show at all before you came on? Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, I met you guys before. Oh, shit. Yeah. No, I'm not. What have we met? I met you. You guys were doing Burt outside of Zaney's with Steve Byrne.

It's great. I make an impression. Hold on. Hold on. Not awkward at all. Hold on. That's good. It's good to see you.

Was I there? Yep. Yeah. We talked for three to five minutes. It's great to see you again. What a fucking time. Good to see you. It's not great to meet you.

There was one, um, no, it was honestly. It was Bert's wife. Bert's wife was doing a show. It was, they were doing in Zanis. There was the, uh, they were doing a podcast inside there. And then, and then it was on the bus when you came out, you guys were, you were, on the bus doing it doing somebody. You were doing a thing and I just popped and said a low. You were there.

You were doing a podcast. No shit. Yeah. Yeah. God, what a fuck idiot. It was, you guys, say me on that? Dude, it was quick. It was quick.

I won't be surprised. I'm going to eat it. I'm going to. pretend like it doesn't hurt me right now and then I'm going to wait till we separate and I'm going to think about this all day long it's gonna be fucking brutal no I never met you all right all right are you serious are you serious you'll never know and that's how you do it that is you do have me a blender right now turn your watch over this car no doubt what um you bring your dog everywhere uh no when I'm when I'm only flying once I take her yeah yeah I only flew into uh

in here and then we were uh drove around so I could take her but she's your real service dog or you get the note from the doctor that allows you to not put her under oh no you buy this on amazon you just yeah easy yeah i think you don't have to pay for her on the airplane when it's a service dog but yeah no there's a if you have they can't ask you for anything so it's it's not really a thing but when you fly delta they just have a thing that you have to you literally have the sign that she won't pee on the plane that's literally it they're like yeah she can and if she pees on the plane you have to pay for them to clean it like that's that's their problem you know so i heard you guys laugh really loud

and I had a lot of FOMO. Oh, he put me in a blender. And he'll tell you why, I go, Pete. He said, uh, he said, uh, did you know about the show before? Whatever night. And I met you guys. And I said, uh, he said, no, you didn't. I said, yeah, I met you guys in Nashville outside of his Ameas.

I said, when you guys were doing, you guys were doing with Bert and I met you guys. And he was like, I wasn't there. And I told him, I was like, yeah, you guys were filming an episode. And he's like, no, we weren't. I said, oh my God. Yeah. I said, yeah, it's good to see you again. And then I, and then he was quiet and I went, I never met you.

And he goes, not, did you? I said, I don't know, you'll never know. I was like, you weren't there, were you? No, outside. I'll tell you because he's not here for real. When you guys, you guys were doing a thing with Bert, I said a little quick. And I met you. Oh, fuck.

At Zanis. When he was performing at Zanis and I think he took a bird. And you guys were doing, like a, the bus was outside. You guys were doing the thing or whatever. And I had come. Got you. Yeah. Got you.

Yeah. So I did that. And then I told him, I never met him. And then he was like, wait, did you? And I was like, you'll never know. How'd you meet Steve? So he had a show on TBS. He had Sullivan and son.

Okay. And we were on True with ours. So we ended up being at the same like up front and all that stuff. And then they were on tour doing their Sullivan and Son tour. And we were torn as a jokers. And we ended up in the same towns. And we were both in like, I think it was Phoenix, Arizona. We were both somewhere once together.

Dude, he's truly one of the best guys, man. Greatest, world. Oh, I don't know why. Oh, Josh Wolf. Mm-hmm. He was in town. And he was doing a stand-up at Zanis. And he has this bit where he has a rookie comedian come up and go for five,

10 minutes or something like that. Well, I was one of those one time. So I did like a five to 10-minute thing. And Steve was just helping me like, you know, I like write all my stuff and he'd help me punch up on all of it. He's just one of the best, man. He truly is one of the best human beings. And when we toured the UK, he came in open for us.

And we did an arena tour. They were like played the O2 and shit. And he ended his set by doing a sing-along to the Killers. Mr. Brightside? Mr. Brightside with everybody. Kill. That is awesome. It warmed up everybody.

It was so fun. How is it touring internationally? Oh, insanity. So fun. I just did Australia, which was cool by myself. I've done Canada, which was cool.

And then we did, as Jokers, we did London, which was great. Twice we did it over there. And it was Ireland. It reaches that many people. Because you're probably thinking,

all right, yeah, let's go international. You might be thinking like. We went to do a London episode. Everybody knew us more than New York. It was insane. We could barely feel.

Like, is anybody even going to know us over there? Yeah, it's crazy because we aired on Comedy Central there, but they picked it up in the fourth season. And every Monday for two and a half years, there was a new episode. So imagine you have a brand new show that you love and every Monday for two and a half years is a new episode.

So it caught fire like nothing over there. Like the fucking Beatles. That's awesome. So yeah, we walked over there. It was cool. I love that. Twist the question? Yep.

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Twisted tea is there to turn up your game day. keep it twisted with the boys and grab a twisted tea today our twisted question Mitch would you like to read it yeah I'll read it all right all right our twisted question this week you have to sneak into a highly secured museum to steal a diamond what's your disguise slash character you're playing and who would you recruit to be a part of your heist you recruit anybody or is it like three people or something like that let's let's do a squad of four people so you and three other guys And it could be people we know

or could be anybody. Anybody. Let's do anybody. Okay. All right. I think whoever I'm going to have just calling the shots is going to be Nicholas Cage.

I think you have to have Nicholas Cage. I think you only have those skills one is a script though. I mean, if you're looking for it to Rio. But you're the director. Maybe you're the director all day. All right. I think you got to have Nicholas Cage. I don't know who my fourth one would be,

but I know another one would be Owen Wilson from Night at the Museum. You put them in your pocket. Whether I'm a janitor and I get in, I let him out to go, like, sneak out, find the diamond. But you have little Owen Wilson running around, you know, running around the museum. Okay. But that would, I know I have two for sure. Do you guys have anybody else?

Yeah, I absolutely do. I would obviously be a security guard. I think that's the easiest thing for me to disguise. Disguise as. I would have a person calling the shots, George Clooney. Ocean's 11. Smart. Very smart.

He's going to know everything, Gary thing. And what do you do with George Clooney? You put his right hand men next to him, Brad Pitt. You got to have Brad Pitt with him. You got to have Brad Pitt with them. For sure. And then finally, who's going to go down the zip line to make sure everything goes according to plan? And when they get themselves in a pinch, figure it all out.

Tom Cruise. I thought you were going to say Kim Possible. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's a kid possible. Kempossil is crazy about it. Yeah.

That's my three. For me, I got to get Lucy Lou in the mix. Okay. I feel like she's easy on the eyes and is a bad ass on the cover. And she with Michigan. And she, yeah, especially that reason. Yeah. I think that.

Elon Musk has got to be in there because he's going to throw some serious. serious money behind it. You're not right and he's going to invest some shit. You got to have that. You got to have that. I know, just we'll buy it. Take the diamond. You could have it. I would be philanthropist, Colvon Cole would be my disguise. Someone who's very regal and I would need to have my personal security with me at the rock. And I think that would be exactly, that would be my crew to roll. That's a good crew. As if shit goes down, you need them to do some stuff or, you know, I think it would work. You understood this assignment 100% and I've done it. You've stolen diamonds before? Ta-da. Yeah, here it is. My life.

Last addition to the roster, Tom Cruise. Yeah, Cruz is a good one. You add him in there, Nicholas Cage, Tom Cruise. Yeah, if you bring Matt Damon in as the character born, then for sure, that's another good one. But I feel like Tom Cruise does his own stunts. So he's going to be able to pull it off. He's going to be able to pull it off. He's going to throw him down a garbage, you know, disposal for some reason.

He's there. Elevator, the elevator scene in the first movie threw me off so bad. It was the first or the third. The first. The first. The first, that elevator scene fucked me up. Don't know why. Mission Impossible.

Yeah, Mission Impossible. When Tom's outside, the guy gets. squished. Yeah. That really messed me up. Do you take elevators? Just stairs now? You're strictly a stairs guy.

I'm all elevators all the time. Even if it's up one floor. Stairs are right next to it. I'll wait. It's too much. Too much. Too much. Lucy lose a good pull.

Yeah. I'd feel like she's a badass and she could figure out a lot of stuff. I think she's like the third though of all the Charlie's Angels. The third of them? I would go third. Yeah. Ranking up according to what? Height?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, maybe. We'll just say height. Taylor's preference on women. He's not a big age guy. He's not a big age of. There's that fucking scene, man. Oh, that is terrible, yeah.

Tough scene. Are you, are you an NFL guy? Like, who's your team? College NFL? Oh, dude. He's northeast. He has no college team. I'm known famously for knowing nothing about sports,

but being able to fake my way through it. Okay. Dude, I was like, what team do you fake your way through it with? Well, I'm a New York guy, so I always rooting for New York, no matter who they're playing. Jets or Giants?

Oh, yeah. But, like, I'll, like, you know, it's so funny because I'll be able to be, like be able to hold it up. Like the Eagles, you know, they're going to have a good season. You got to be careful.

Their secondary is really lacking. They got to make out for a new line. I'll say shit like that. You just get people talking like that. No, just people like, yeah, that's true.

Yeah, that's true. I like, you know, good point. Got knows the stuff. Yeah, it's back and forth.

You know, I'll read like Yahoo news is headlines. And I'll be like me all right if I got to go. But I love like a live event. I'll go to live sports and stuff. But I don't, I never really got into it. I was never good at it.

never really tracked it. But I love like a live, you know, growing up in New York, though, like the Yankees, like going to those games and, you know, during the day, day and stuff. It was, that was always fun. But I'm known for, like, being not a sports guy. You weren't into that shit growing up. Mathematics.

I threw out throughout the first pitch there. That was great. How'd you do? I watched Steve do it. Yeah, yeah, Steve threw it out, but I was his hype man. I ran out and fired it. This is what I do. This is what I do at sporting events.

This is a perfect freeze frame of me. I just get the crowds going. I'm a crap I'm a hype man to the extreme Yeah you'll find if you ever had to do a hype ice Then you need somebody's a hype man Yeah These guys are still the best diamond Get it

You guys, yeah That's it They're gonna be the best to steal on these diamonds Yeah you have no idea You need a scene made You need a distraction I'm your guy If you show baseball is probably number one

Of the sports you don't care about Oh for sure Yeah yeah that's that's number one Give me your top three sports you don't care about Okay I would definitely say soccer Okay Or futable I'll even say that

And I would probably say it would be baseball I would say football is my most I would like to watch I could get through I watch a Super Bowl every year of course but I would say the other one is probably tennis Not a big tennis guy

You and JP are not a lot No yeah JP loves soccer and tennis Who's your tennis guy You're your tennis guy It's Jokovic right Yeah for sure But I like got him in the in the goat race

Of course But as far as guys I like to watch now I'm partial to my guy Dennis Sheppevall. I was a Canadian guy. Oh, killer overhand. Nice, he did it again. Overhand might not be the move for him to pretend it.

Dude, oh. He's, oh, yeah, killer overhand. Versatile, right? Versatile on the courts, though. Yeah, I do have a question, though, unless... Go ahead. My dog just stepped on my phone and made it talk. What's the dog's name again?

This is a Spamoni. Spamoni from Hey Arnold. Remember him? Yeah. Oh, yeah. You know, all my dogs are named after Italian desserts and pasta dishes. So I have 11 dogs, and this is Spamoni. Oh, yeah, that's right.

You do have a shitload of animals. All rescues, right? All rescues, yeah. I have a rescue in New York, gatto pups and friends. It's a senior dog rescue. How in the hell do you balance 12 animals? It's their pack mentality, man.

They're all mostly just old and don't care about. I have a couple big ones, but for the most part, they're all just like... Spamone is the leader? Spamoni is not. Biscotti is my girl Biscotti. Yeah, Biscotti.

My fault, JP. I know you had a... Oh, no, you're good. I was just going to ask. You said you made your dad test for when he came. Yeah, from work. What were the tests? I used to have the new book of knowledge encyclopedias,

and I used to just open up the encyclopedias and go buy and pick out like random facts and make a test around. And then I had gotten the Snoopy insight. Yeah, those are my dogs. Then I got my Snoopy Encyclopedias. They used to sell them at Pathmark, which is just like the, you know, the key food or the supermarket by me.

Yeah. And they came out with a 12 book series that I was on the hunt for in vintage stores to find for my kids. And they were called the Snoopy Encyclopedias. And I was obsessed with them. So I used to write out these tests for my dad. And now my son makes math.

tests for me and I'm like sorry dad I'll be so mad coming home from work and I just like get me a scotch he's just laughing at you while you're getting all the answers wrong yeah yeah that is funny man dude joe thank you for coming on man this has been awesome yeah really this has been awesome it's so good to see you again good to see you yeah amazing amazing and nice to meet you the blender too yeah he was telling me and I was like oh fuck did he did we actually see him yeah he was getting me

too I guess I truly don't even know yeah I'm not that forgettable, I guess. This pod, this pod was awesome. We had a great time. This is so good, thanks making time, man. I hope you enjoy. And remember, embrace a spook. Dude, I got it.

If nothing else, it's time to embrace this spook. You gotta buy him. Boo. Yeah. I'm gonna get a pumpkin spice lot there right now. They gotta do it. Thanks. There you get tomorrow.

Thank you, bro. Yes, sir. Appreciate you, brother. Appreciate it. Spimoni. Good girl. Sure, of course. Also, by the way,

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