Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum - Full House Icon Bob Saget

Episode Date: February 9, 2021

Listen as an old pal Bob Saget (Full House, Here For You) joins us to share laughs and jabs through serious conversations of loss and grief. Bob talks about using humor and literal onstage performance to numb the loss of loved ones throughout his career. He talks about how it’s a balancing act of grieving and ensuring ‘the show goes on.’ We had a ton of fun this week while getting into BTS stories in the comedy scene, his take on cancel culture in standup, and some honest reflections of his time as America’s dad on Full House. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Ryan stressed. You were stressed out. You were stressed out. Dude, I could tell there's a certain, you're so light and carefree. You're like a doublement commercial. You're just, but you seem a little bit. Too much on your plate, I'm taking it. Too much on my plate.

Worried I might have overextended myself and just overcommission. Why do you do that? I don't know, because it sort of started, I guess I was in a transitionary period of my life and I was accepting a lot of, I was sort of saying yes to all the stuff. And then a pandemic happened and it all kept going. So for you, it was more like, you know, nice work when you can get it kind of thing. And then all of a sudden you're like, now I'm working too much. Now I don't.

It's very hard to have that balance. And especially when you're sort of in a state of flux where you're like, you know, I'm You know, in Rosenbaum's show, but I'm doing these other things. And now you add a couple more pieces. And now you're, like, stressed out. You got a relationship. You got all this stuff. You got to edit my show.

What takes priority in my show. And, you know, you start to go, well, you know, for instance, I got somebody who's editing my summertime neighbor video from the album. And he's like, hey, I got a few other projects. And I go, well, we're releasing this album soon. So I kind of need this, you know, done. He's like, oh, I didn't know the urgency of it. So I guess the thing is, I'd say freelance editors right now, got a lot of shit.

on. Yeah, good for you. We have somehow, and there's much sympathy out to everyone who has not been working, because this is a terrible time. But I think freelance editors have been in constant demand. Well, hot damn, Ryan. You know, nice work when you can get it. Careful what you wish for. Also, you're young, you're eager, you're smart, you're capable, and I think you're going to be fine. Yeah, I had one of those nights last night. I'm sure, because I think you've had some of them too. I just couldn't sleep. Just laid there, just couldn't do it. Well, I just got this stuff. I'll give you some. My doctor gave me. It's not prescription, but it's CBD and magnesium. And boy, I really like it. It's just, it worked last night. So I feel, I feel a little bit tired

today, but I'm, you know, overall, it helps you sleep. Magnesium is something you should take. It helps you poop, too. We got a great guest today. Before we get into that guest, I want to thank everybody, of course, for listening to the podcast. And if you're listening because you love Bob Saggett or you're interested. I hope you hang around and you subscribe to the podcast. Ryan, tell more they could subscribe. Uh, at Inside of You Pod on Twitter. At Inside of You podcast on Instagram and Facebook. Those are the handles and you could also go on on YouTube to subscribe. Oh yeah, YouTube.com slash Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum. You could also go to Apple Podcast. And please write a review. Believe it or not, the algorithms and all that shit,

it helps. And this is a show that just wants to grow. And I think people get something from it. I know I get something from it. It's therapy for me and therapy for all my friends and all my lovely patrons who keep this show afloat and lovely Westwood One, thank you. Thank you, Ryan. Thank you, uh, Bryce. Thank you, everybody out there. Um, it's, it's freaking February and I can't believe a year has almost passed since this

whole COVID thing. And, uh, you know, the end is near. I think the, the light at the end of the tunnel is, I could see it. It's flickering and, uh, I just want that fucking vaccine. God, please. I have to take my grandmother at some point to get vaccinated. Good. My grandmother just got vaccinated.

Because Michael, I got vaccinated both of them. Now I could you still do nothing. That's good. What do you mean? Well, all my friends are getting vaccinated, so hopefully we could play some poker. I'm like, oh, that's good. I'd love you to gamble as the first thing you do after COVID, because she does big bucks. She won, I think, $8 last time she played back.

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have a low thing. I could have them reboot my modem if you want to wait five. I think it's pretty good right now. If we go into a problem, then I'll have them do it. All right. And I'm hardwired, if you know what I'm saying. All I got was hard. I couldn't get the last. Oh, my grandmother. Are you not? And everything else seems good? With my life? Yeah. Yeah. Your life seems good. I saw you on Sam Rubin, you got to be doing good. I mean, if you're on Sam Rubin, KTLA-5, life couldn't be better. He and I go to the same cleaners, Fasios. And so we see each other there.

And when we go, when I go on there, which I do a couple times a year, all we try to talk about is Fosios. We do like an ad for Fosios, and then I get into what my business is. Has business gone up at Fosios? Not really. I mean, COVID doesn't help because who's, you know, dry cleaning. it's like where you going what what gala are you going to he's got more energy i wonder if he does i mean he doesn't probably but i mean his coffee i think he does red bull maybe i don't know i know he's not on stuff he's not like one of our uh political official no he really

that's our job to get up early in the morning and be 104 and then go serve on the supreme court nothing nothing makes me more anxious than thinking sometimes you you meet other people that had obviously different jobs and you're like, I could never do this. I could never be a morning on-air person or even on-air because I know I will F-I can't say talk, but I'll say- Can I swear on my own podcast, right? I think so.

I think I do. But you're not sure. Well, you know, I try not to F too many times. Me too. And the reason is weird, but like I just had Mark Merron on and we couldn't help it. I mean, and certain comedians egg me on because they know I'll do it. I mean, if they go there, that's the whole point of like the aristocrats. I didn't want to do that, but they like gagged me on.

And that's like, oh, finally, I'm popular in high school. Oh, I can out F you. You know, we met. We've known each other for a while. And I always miss that we are not closer, that we haven't seen each other more. Now, of course, in quarantine, we're all sappy. And oh, man, bro, when this is over, we're going to go. we're going to be and we're going to F you we're going to F each other and it's going to be so much better

but go ahead what were you saying I'm sorry well we didn't meet at this particular place but we have mutual friends one of your closest friends is Jonathan Silverman who we love love him so much and you guys are incredibly close yeah he's a great guy you know you know since he's you know he's married now and with a kid it's like when you see each other you're like ah you know but you get it it's one of those things you don't miss a beat but I know you guys are incredibly close and we went out one night because you were friends, I believe, with this singer that I love from the 70s, 80s, Stephen Bishop. I love Stephen Bishop. Oh, we went to that guitar shot. It was, wasn't it your connection? Didn't you know Stephen Bishop? Yeah, I know Stephen. And I just think he's, you know,

on and on. You know, that's my, that's my choir boy that's a priest touched voice. Oh, God. You know, he's saying that song from Tutsi, something's telling me it might be Jews. It might be Jews. That's what they're going to come. back to it always is going to come back to that and you put the you kept the rosin baum i mean you got a double threat because rosin they already know you're jewish and then baum's just adding burg you know or ring you know you're you're you're you're going to come for you i think so i think they are i was zag it or zogit so we don't know my roots really but you are a jew i have a jew i'll show you but i'd have to stand um but you are a very proud jew and

And I remember, I remember all of our conversations. And we might have been partying, too. It might have been that time where we were. And I know that your unit is larger than most baby's legs. What? No, you got the wrong guy. No, no, you were bragging it. You were, you were talking about it.

It might have been that we were going through this cancel culture now, kind of faux time of, of pretending that we're gay. and well I was but but the point is that that was kind of the comedy and now it's just I don't want to hurt anybody you're helping people I'm trying to help people and I don't want to hurt and I don't even understand why I was that immature and that but that's what we did that's what we would do and I did it with my gay friends that doesn't help you that doesn't get you out of it well you know I think it's funny because you know we're obviously i'm i'm flawed as can be and the more i embrace that and the more

i talk about it the better i feel it's just like that makes you non-flod because you're working on it and um i mean you i'm sure you see a shrink or you talk to somebody on on the uh zoom or yeah you know i do because i think that you know i come from a family that you know my my dad doesn't believe in that stuff he doesn't you know you know you don't talk about his feelings and things like that and I just think he's just very your dad's British no no he's not he but no he was just this guy that just didn't I never saw him cry until which was really emotional where I lost my sister um and I know you can relate to that but I've lost I've lost two of them so I'll see you and I'll raise you you raise me a sister right well I'd like to raise her but she's not gonna look good

I mean her hair is probably going to leak like Giuliani's you know see this is how I get through it, Michael. I do go to a shrink. I have saved my life, literally saved my life. When did you start going? I heard you talk. I've heard you talk about this. You talked about it a lot, actually, of when you hit that moment where you just don't do it. You can't do anything. You cannot function. You get to a point where you're, I couldn't fill out, not that I, and I have a travel agent, but I couldn't, I want to, I like to book myself sometimes. I had pleasure in knowing that I booked it and everything's right i'm a control freak i could not put my name into american airlines just to type my name and then i called two friends who've been begging me to go to a shrink i had

another shrink before that didn't work out right but um and that's another danger for people but it i was stunted completely i was this recently recently oh this is like 10 years ago eight years ago and it's because i know you lost your mom and dad in the last 10 10 years, right? Yeah, yeah. And you also lost your sister many years ago. How many years ago? I lost two sisters.

I lost one in 1994 from scleriderma, which is hardening of the skin. And it's similar to COVID that your lungs fail. I usually always say, please hold your laughs till the end when I talk about that. And my other sister, I was like 26 years old. and she died at 34 of her brain aneurysm and she went through some real tragic mental health stuff and there were people that didn't help her she was a you know a bit of a victim of people and you were you wait you were 26 when that happened yeah and at 26 you'd already had lost two sisters no i lost the second one later i lost the other so that one i was 26 i don't know how old

I was, I'm 64, so, let's see, 20, oh, 26 was 84. So I know that because I just posted my first appearance on the Rodney Dangerfield Young Comedian Special. It's the only way I know any time. That's how narcissistic I am as far as my IMDB goes. I mean, you know, you talk about this stuff, and I didn't want to get into this stuff right away. I mean, I was going to slowly maybe get into it.

But like, I mean, you're an open book like me, and you've always been sort of open and just like very generous. Well, you started with saying your sister. So what happened to your sister? Well, my sister passed. She's 15. She was born with a chromosonal disease. Trisomy 13, I believe it's a rare thing.

And so she was pretty much on her deathbed from birth. And so she's lived in children's hospital and a children for her life. And she couldn't walk. She couldn't really talk. It was just she was there and this poor, helpless soul. And so there was those days where when you pray, pray, please, like, you know, you want her to pass away. in a very uh sort of just selfless way more of like a just give her peace and so when it finally happened after all those years you think that uh you know it'd be more of a relief now for my father

she died in his arms it was i mean i'd never heard my father cry ever i'm 48 years old and hearing him so emotional on the phone i broke down i was like whoa who what's going on and I was just like I love you dad and he's like I love you too and I was like what this has never happened was just so it was good it was cathartic in a way I hate to say it but through tragedy is what brings people together and that I'm really sorry about your sister I mean what horrible what horrible life she had to live and yet she she probably had a pretty unusual attitude about that i would think well i think she just was you know i hate to say but she was sort of just there and she had great doctors and nurses who loved her so she wasn't uh coherent mentally really not really

not i mean she was you know she could she noticed people recognized people and would but couldn't really so it's different i mean you had someone in your life these two sisters where you're they were a part of your life and they were active and all these things and then one day you get a call and then something happens you're like she's gone just like that right when the brain aneur is Well, one was instant. Brain aneurysm, I was in Detroit doing stand-up, and I got a call, and my mom called me and told me. And it happened in her sleep, and we're not sure what happened.

We'll never be sure, amen. What do you do, though? I mean, are you just completely... I did two shows that night in Detroit. And I was in shock, and now I know better. You don't do the shows. But I did two shows in Detroit at the Comedy Castle, and I didn't.

get any laughs. They knew something was wrong with me. I was just going through a recital of stand-up and I'm a guy who functions on being present and when I do stand-up since my beginnings, 43 years ago because I'm 120. I'm a sequoia.

But I did the show and the only laugh that I got was for me when I heard in the club the ice machine dropped like 50 pounds of ice as it was making it. And I said, oh, there's my sister. And the audience just stared at me.

Now, today, if I had a show must go on mentality, it depends. You know, I don't know. I might cancel or I might not depending on who the person is and I'm able to function. But I don't function well. I was doing a show with Rebel Wilson called Super Fun Night, and I came into Player Boss, and they said,

if this goes good, we want to have you on all the time. I said, well, whatever you guys want. I mean, I love Rebel. And before I go in to do my, the scene I've been working on, the one thing that was the monologue, which was a tongue twister, and it was complex to, you had to memorize it. It wasn't something you could learn. Right.

And I get a call from the car, and my mother goes, Bobby, I'm in the doctor's office. I've had an endoscope and a, and a, and I, and I, I go back into my voice I'm Anthony I'm Anthony Perkins you're thinking in you

yeah but she had the colonoscopy at the same time they put the camera down her throat so the two cameras kind of met in the middle

and wanted to tickle each other but they couldn't because she was riddled with tumors I don't know why they say riddled it sounds like she's a Batman villain or something riddle me this cancer

and so right before I'm about to go shoot this scene, she says, and I've decided to not get chemo or radiation. I'm going to go into hospice in a couple weeks. And I said, mom, why did, why you, what? And this happened literally before I was to go to camera. So then I'm sitting in an office. I can't remember one thing. I can't remember anything. I had complete flop sweat. It was, and Rebel was there trying to help me. and I just couldn't do it. So what I did was I joked with the crew

and I ate up about an hour of their time just riffing about my mom has cancer and they were laughing but they were watching like a guy have a breakdown because what? I mean, you know, if you're going to die mom at least let me get my shots done. You know, I had coverage to do.

And so, but other times I guess you don't, I was opening for Frank Valley and the Four Seasons when his daughter died of a drug overdose. And that's what Jersey Boys is based on. I was opening for Frankie Valley and the Four Seasons that night. And that's what Bobby wrote Jersey Boys, Jerky Boys, Jersey Boys and Frankie. And it changed Frankie's career and gave him the full, you know, resurgence and appreciation. I was literally opening for him.

And I said, right before he went on, I was right near him. I'm always drawn to people that are hurting for some reason. I went, like, I'm the opening act. I'd open for him once before. Why am I standing next to this guy? And I said, I'm really sorry. I lost my sister. And at that time, I had lost the one that was 26.

When I was 26, and she was 34. And I said, I'm really sorry. And he looked up and he went, thank you, thank you, Bob. And then he opens the door and he sings, walk like a man. so there is a show must go on mentality but how long ago did you lose your sister well a couple months ago two months ago oh my god yeah but back to you it's one of those things you said i couldn't do it i couldn't do it and then all of a sudden you get the call and then it's almost like you go into cruise control it's almost like uh right maybe that's not the right word but you sort of kind

of go on it's autopilot autopilot cruise control autopilot whatever you want that's cruise control that's fine But you just somehow just go, and maybe that it's shock and you go through it. But I couldn't imagine having to do a monologue or a TV show or like, you know, I think I've prayed before. Like, please don't die while I'm filming. Yeah. Wait till I'm done. It's so selfish. Please.

Have you had it happen? No, because I just, I don't think I can handle it. I don't think I'm wired. Maybe now I'm a little, the wiring's a little better. But back when I was, you know, doing shows. early on and I was young. I was so lost and scattered and hadn't gone to therapy that I was. So when you were Lex Luthor on Smallville, you had not gone to therapy? No, I hadn't gone to therapy. And boy, did I need it because I noticed that my family around me were so highly

dysfunctional that I'm like, oh, I'm the normal one. But little did I know you're not. You are getting all this around you and it's just inside and it's building and building and you're going to blow, you know. That's why I was drawn to you because there's a similar energy in a shark that doesn't stop moving. It's like you have a strength about you. I was doing two shows, going out of my mind, went through a divorce during the end of full house and I was still doing the video show. That's bad.

Divorce is bad. Have you been married? No. That's not a bad thing. I mean, it says locals only on your shirt. So I think that would mean you just got to be around. Well, you just got married again, second time. Yeah, two years ago.

And she is fantastic. She's upstairs. And she said, I have a FaceTime business meeting. Don't come in. And I went, this is perfect. Well, when were you divorced the first time? 23 years ago. And was there a long time?

We were married 14 years and we've been divorced 23 years. And we talk pretty much every day. So your best friends? Well, it's, we are definitely friends. The first 10 years, we were not friends. It was a lot of pain. and I had guilt I had three young children

when I split up at four, seven and nine were my three daughters at the time and I tried the best I could do I was with people would say oh do you do you ever see your children I went what do you ever see your children you know because they were with their mom

and if I'm not off doing a movie or something or I went and directed that year so I flew my kids to Toronto but it would be one week mom one week dad and sometimes it would be you know Thursday to Monday with dad I drive them to school I pick them up you know you love kids and you drive them um but now we actually are friends because we we but that's it's 23 years later right yeah but you got to think like I think this at a 40 as a 48 year old in many years before that

but like you know and knowing you a little bit I I get a sense that maybe like me you at some point right in the last 23 years of you said you were single. Were there moments where you look in the mirror and go, you, my friend, are going to be alone for the rest of your life? I was positive. I had a, you've had girlfriends. I know that. Yeah.

And what's the longest running relationship? Probably three years. That's a lot. I had a two and a half year, I think. And then it got closed to either ending or not ending. And then when, you know, I got cheated on, I realized, oh, this is probably not going to work. Oh, God, yeah.

But, you know, karma, I don't know. That's the worst thing. Cheating is the worst thing because some people are good at it, you know. Some people, you can just do it and not care. I don't have that Tony Soprano kind of mentality. I just, I can't cover all the lying. It's enough lying. I can't, I got too much to do to have the bandwidth to keep a lie floating with everyone.

And everybody knows anyway. I mean, people can tell anyway. It's like so silly. Do you think you're healthier with someone? Like if you have someone consistently and you're not thinking about other girls or anything, does that help your life with sort of your routine and things? Well, what's this part about not thinking about other girls? I don't understand what language you're speaking.

Yeah, that's impossible. But like, for instance, you know, being single or dating and this, it's kind of like a pain in the ass. It's kind of like. It's horrific. It's horrific. And in the age of this quarantine we've been through coming out of. of we will we will um i i love my wife so i'm not i'm not effing this up as they say in the

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I look at you as a young kid too, which means when this is over, we're going to be, we're going to be hanging. No, but like when you're young, I mean, did people, your parents always look at you like, were you an extrovert, where they like this, there's something special about Bob. Bob's naturally funny, so quick, he's so this. Even when you went to college, I read something where somebody was like, no, you're going to do something. And they're like, no, you need to be in the entertainment industry at a young age.

Yeah. Boy, you really researched me. And I know things about you, too. I know all your measurements. Tell me, I knew a new coat. Yeah, I had a teacher. I was going to go pre-med at Temple University, and I had a teacher who passed away,

who was this great lady. And she said to me, don't become a doctor. The joke is I became a comedian, and I said, she saved thousands of lives. It's a joke. It's so true. I would have killed. If I had killed one person

or if I didn't know someone died on my watch and I couldn't save them, I don't think I could have survived that. That's where I understand how a doctor, not has a holier-than-now attitude, but an attitude of a little bit of, they close himself off emotionally a little bit because they have to protect themselves.

Otherwise, you just lose it every time you lose a patient, which is the worst. There must be, think of all this shit going on right now, man. and there must be so many people in pain over not being able to help people. Yeah. Could you have been a doctor, though? I went to film school instead.

Could you have been a doctor, though? Do you honestly, all joking aside, do you think if she wouldn't have said anything and you went to pre-med, do you think you would have been able to figure it out and become a good doctor? I did pre-med for one semester, and I couldn't do calculus or chemistry or biology.

I couldn't do it. I just like, I knew potassium was K and iron was F-E, you know, I held on to that from junior high. I knew a ripple tank, you know, I don't know. I could do surgery, but not through having a degree. But did you think you were going to be, did you think you were going to be famous? Some people think they're going to be famous. Some people, you know, they have that feeling of like, I honestly did.

At the end of college, I just remember, I'm going to go and I'm going to make it. I don't know why, but I really innately, it wasn't like me bullshitting. I just knew it. you know it i didn't what college did you go to well i went to western kentucky university in bowling green kentucky okay and did you study theater i did a lot of plays and i just felt like uh things were starting to go people were i just fell at some point i was getting the roles i was getting some attention and i and i felt like i finally you know found what i can do there was nothing else really and you've heard the actor story it's like when i was a character i didn't have

to be me i wasn't comfortable i still am not necessarily comfortable being me so being someone else was easier did so right but what about you did you uh with me i started writing songs serious songs like 60 songs and i'd copyright them and send them to the library of congress when i was 14 but i started making eight millimeter movies when i was nine so i have 60 hours of eight millimeter movies and uh 60 songs where can we hear these songs the songs are the worst songs ever come on you You have 60. There's got to be one or two. I'm 16. Here's one. When I was a boy, I wished I would get older.

When I was a youth, I was going to be a soldier, but now I look back. Now I've got my dream. It's a guy, a 16-year-old talking about like he's been in Vietnam. Now more was going on. I'm 18 years old. I want to live to 90. The battlefield is cold. My past is left behind me.

Anybody that writes that, should I put in jail? You, by the way, hang on, stop. You use the word youth. That's, that's what got me. The fact that you threw in youth, I don't think I've ever. Because I was so wise at 16. I missed the draft for Vietnam. I had, they called my number, but I was one year younger than that number being called.

So I would have been in Vietnam. And I had a cousin that went, and he ended up getting sprayed by Agent Orange. And then his rest of his life was getting deteriorated from a war that, was wrong. I don't know if you heard, but it was wrong. Yeah, I heard that. I heard that from some people. But I don't know. I won a radio contest. Things just happened to me. It wasn't like I, and it never wanted to be famous. I never looked at that. I wanted to be with the best people. I wanted to be with people that I was attracted to artistically, even though I didn't know I could be an artist. I didn't know I would be saying I thought I was one. But I would go sneak in to see Don

Rickles at the Latin Casino in New Jersey. I saw Martin Moll. I'm working on a documentary about him right now. And I saw him at the main point, which is where Springsteen and Jackson Brown used to play in Philly area out on the main line. And Martin Moll was just doing comedy songs, and he was kind of a genius, you know? And then he did Fernwood Tonight. I don't know if you remember that.

But it was an amazing show. We're paying tribute to him. You know him from a lot of other stuff. Oh, I know I'm from Mr. Mom. Yeah, Mr. Mom and Roseanne. Yeah, of course. Sabrina for the youngans. Yeah.

And the youngans that are oldens. And, but it's interesting. The influences, Don Rickles was a big influence. Rodney was a big influence. Tell me about Rodney. I want to hear, continue, but I got to hear about Rodney. He's my favorite. That's a picture of Rodney behind me with Red Fox right there.

Oh, two of the best. They're having a convo. It's really. weird because and that's on my Instagram right now I posted it and it's my set from the Young Comedian special on HBO

when I was 26 in 1984 and Rodney really loved me and I only had I met him in La Jolla at the comedy store and he came in and he was at La Costa to clean up because he had you know been he's a partier

you know he loved pot I'm going to smoke it every day of my life man I don't care who knows it And he comes to the club with two ladies on each, a lady on each arm. And he goes, oh, man, I saw you, I'm Merv Griffin, man. You got a good head. You're Jewish. You're Jewish. You're Jewish.

All right. I have to curse. Well, I'll do it. No curse. What are you doing? Yeah. You're Jewish. You're fucked up.

You're never going to be happy. You know, your mind can't stop working. You don't sleep. And my joke was a new friend, you know. And then he hung out with me all weekend for three days. Rodney was everywhere. And he just, he saw himself and me and always liked to help young comedians. But on this young comedian special, I had three minutes and 45 seconds,

but I'd done a 15 minutes set. And I introduced him to Sam Kanasin. And I also got Sam his first spot at the comedy store. And so I had a closeness with Sam in the beginning of after he was done being a faith healer and wanted to be a comedian and obviously we see what happened with him and tragically his ending and Rodney

I said why did I only have three minutes and 45 seconds because I was you know I had a really great set he went can't help it man Sam Sam crushed man I went well I did pretty good and he went Sam oh man Sam I was like okay you always rejected by somebody

So he was, oh, God, he was, he was so funny. So he comes in, he goes, man, I don't know how I'm doing this. This is the comedy store in La Jolla. He goes, no booze, no coke, no pot, no pills. I don't know how I'm doing it. I'm going, wow, that's a comedic sentence without even effort. Was he a lonely guy? Did you feel like you ever, like, hey, Bob, come hang out with me?

Well, I would hang out with him, but he also married Joan. And so I would see her. And, you know, he has two wonderful. kids. I don't see Brian or talk to Brian. Occasionally I talked to Melanie. I recall Melanie Roy because Rodney's name was Jack Roy. And before that, it was Jacob Cohen. And so he went through a lot of incarnations to try to survive. Well, he had a lot of problems with his father, right? I read the book and he always wanted to get approval, which I could understand. I always wanted my father to be proud.

I always wanted to love. And when I read that, it made me cry because I thought I just want to make my dad happy i just want to make him you know like me and and i when i i saw that other someone else went through that it just i you know you get that feeling like oh that's kind of like me i get it i get it did he ever talk to you about that yeah actually we talked about a lot of stuff but we're quick i just want to ask you after you lost your sister recently have you and your dad somehow gotten a little closer through this time yeah yeah yeah we it's it's been a little bit better over the last couple years because my grandfather had Alzheimer's so and i've talked about that on the show but he, uh, you know, he's, he's tried. He's like, you know, I always, I don't hold grudges.

I really forgive everyone for, you know, you know, life goes on and you're like, okay, what kind of relationship do I want? I don't, and never was really close, but had, you know, so you don't want to set yourself up for disaster. You don't want to get close to someone who's just going to crush you every time. So you got to stay away from that. There's a, there's a thin line. So if you see potential in someone and they're trying, I always say keep people at arm's length until you're really sure that you can open up more. And so he definitely tried. I could see some effort in him that just, you know, and I think he went through a lot of stuff. And I think sometimes people think because they're going through stuff that they could act a certain way or do certain things. And, you know, I just sort of,

it was, if we didn't talk about sports, there wasn't really anything else to talk about. Hey, how about the Mets? Yeah, yeah, yeah. They suck. Yeah, right? I'll talk to you tomorrow. I'll talk to you next week. And do what a lot of us do is figure out, consider the source, what was his situation so we assume his father didn't ever hug him and well we're getting to that you know we're getting to that in fact i think i might be doing your podcast is that true you are you're we're doing it the the trading podcast things because i can't stop talking to you well i love it i mean to me it's like now it's been years and last time we were out we were we were both uh well actually that was the stephen bishop night that you were mellow then i was mellow it was uh it was stepan bishop

it was Stephen Bishop and you know what song I loved is the one from Italy little Italy separate lives that's the one that Phil Collins made famous yeah I don't know if is it from a movie I'm not I don't know if it is yes I don't think it is yes it won a one a Grammy I believe but but but was it was it was your I'm looking at the same time you are because it's such it's one of the prettiest songs um just wondering what movie I'm looking right now oh white nights was the most white nights yeah it wasn't yeah it wasn't right it wasn't a giant movie but it you know you have no right

it's the perfect breakup song you have no right to ask me how I feel you have no right to speak to me so kind someday I might find myself looking in your eyes but for now but for now we'll go on living separate lives and that is that's just gut

wrenching because that's about finding love and then losing love and then there's still hope that one day maybe I'll be looking in your eyes. And it's just there was a time during divorce is hard and especially when there's kids. And there were times during other breakups where everybody has their music mix, you know, and they go to old standbys or new ones. And that was one of them.

I literally played it on a loop for 24 hours. Why do we torture ourselves? We do that. I've talked in therapy about that. When we're sad, we want to. get sadder we want we want to play saved by zero by the fix a hundred times in a row and feel rock bottom and and we it's almost like like relatability or whatever like you know when you hear someone else going through you're like you just want some kind of connection yeah exactly and the other

thing is if you're manic depressive and you really need medical attention because you're god forbid suicidal then you have to seek help you just have to call your doctor or call 911 or whatever. But if you're doing it the way I did it, because I was more OCD, I still am a bit, but, you know, to go

into the sadness as deep as you can, you know this, it's one of the first rules of therapy, and my acting teacher taught it to me, Darrell Hickman in 1982, the only way to get through something is to go

through it. You have to go through you have to go through it you have to feel it so i probably like yourself and a lot of people we want to feel things and once you're sad if you can go as sad as you can go and as i get older it's much easier i can process it in hours rather than what took me at at 29 years old that was depressed the whole year so i didn't even want to live at 29 years old i didn't care if a plane crashed with me on it and then i would look around at the people on the plane i go well, they don't seem so happy either, so, you know. Did you, have you ever taken anything?

Have you ever been on an antidepressant or anything like that? No, I've taken stuff to help sleep, not Ambien, but I was on that for a little bit, but that's the devil's pill. The Ambien, when Ambien first came out, I'd be on flights and I'd watch a guy on Ambien, and he'd be moving around like some slow motion, weird Smeagle type character, trying to get something out of his carry bag. It's not his bag. He's movie streaming, dreaming and moving and eating and eating.

And then I realized I'm off of this stuff because I'm not going to do that in public or in front of my kids. I mean, you just think that with all the shit you've been through, especially with all the loss, that there might have been a time of your life. You're like, I just need help. I can't feel this low all the time. I need something to, you know, did you exercise? Did you? What was it that you did?

I exercised a lot. I'm trying to do better now. I recently lost about 10. pounds because um i i i took a crap and ejaculated at the same time so it was in five pounds each side that was a giant load good good for it was unbelievable i've been building up and my wife has helped me stay for quite i'll never have prostate cancer he said knock on knock on wooden nuts hey let me ask you uh you so you look very few people have the success you had now i know you're self-deprecating and all this shit and you

I'm self-defecating I stand on my head in the shower and poop self-evacuating but you I mean you did a show that was stood the test of time people remember that show forever I mean you've talked about it ad nauseum and all these things do you like on full house and then America's funny

I mean you had two shows that lasted what 10 years each eight years each eight years each nobody has that very few people they do Seinfeld friends but very few big bang did you enjoy everybody loves raymond were you always the guy on set that everybody enjoy you're talking about a

smith the simpsons okay i'll start naming shows first of all every pilot that doesn't make it to series but did you did you do you remember do you look back and recall it was just all easy and fun and i liked everybody or was it like it was kind of like a family and sometimes it was dysfunctional and i wanted to kill the kids and i wanted to fucking smack stamos in this pretty face or was it all just fun and loving or was it like sometimes a pain in the end Um, I've always had love for all people, but I, Dave Cooleyer used to say about me, if you're very, very quiet, somewhere in the world, you can hear Bob complaining, you know, so that's just, uh, did you complain a lot? I complain. Well, actors, as you know, complain if they're working or not working. So, you know, Full House was a gift. I, I got fired from a CBS morning show. They fired me and, and then I, I, found out Jeff Franklin, the executives, you still wanted me to be Danny Tanner on Full House. It's funny, Danny Tanner to me is like saying a curse word. Oh, man, I'm going to Danny Tanner her. But I grew into loving it more and more. I was so lucky to get the job and wanted it so bad to be on a sitcom.

It wasn't to be famous. I just wanted to act and be on a sitcom and get laughs. And money. Get money. And the money is something that really did a lot. and it gives you stuff for your kids. And then the video show happened not even a year later. We did a pilot, and then it beat a 60 Minutes rerun,

and then ABC ordered 13. And it was that when I was writing, doing the voiceovers, like my mother's voice, look out, you know, that kind of stuff. Right. Want to be Mel Blank, who people don't know is Bugs Bunny and Tweedy Bird. Every Warner Brothers character was just one man, this genius. So I copied him. and doing voiceovers of a dog pushing a rock.

So it's funny. I didn't always appreciate it. And now I completely do and understand what it is. And I like doing family stuff. People go like, you know, say it, come on, be the saggett, you know, be the entourage. You know, be that motherfucker. And I'm like, you know, okay, but this isn't appropriate to do that at this thing.

You know, sometimes I've done giant gigs where I'm performing in front of 10,000, thousand people and that I often don't go to the very blue depending on the audiences. Right. So you gauge your audience at this point in your career for many years now. You know when you audience you have. I'm sure in the beginning

there was some audiences like I read them wrong but now you really know how to read an audience. I know right away and I know if it's my problem or I've done a couple of things since February. I did one event which was I did a small thing for my friend Tom

Popper. I know. I did a small thing for my friend Tom Papa. He did a thing on a sound stage. And then it was like 10 comics and it was kind of like Largo in a warehouse in Burbank. I did 10 minutes and I got out and everybody had masks and socially distant,

far from each other. And then I went to Chappelle's summer camp, which was a dream. That I wanted to stay longer and they had to shut it down. And that was pretty amazing. I got the camaraderie that I haven't had in a long time. We're all gone through someone together. And it was, you know, it was Louis

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at participating Wendy's Taxes Extra. You know, I think I feel I could bring this up to you because most people probably can't bring it up to you. But you and I share something in common is we both went, both did a long show that lasted a long time with someone who got in trouble. I have someone who is, you know, Allison. She's, you know, she was part of that nexium thing. And she's being tried and she probably will get sentenced to prison time. I didn't even know that. Yeah, she and I worked with her for seven years, and it was kind of like, holy shit, you know, and so obviously Lori Loplin, you, I mean, you, I'm sure you were close with her. Was this a big surprise to you? I love her. I love her. And, you know, I've been asked it a lot. Oh, you have. Yeah, I've gotten whittled down. But you're tired of it. You know, I just love her. And so that's, uh, I don't know. I'd like to see a lot of other people doing time.

There's a lot worse people in the world I don't know Because we're in such a place Where no matter what I say I'm screwed You know And I just love her So that's

That's where I am on that But I know more people than that That have been canceled Literally canceled Their careers have been canceled Due to You know Cancel culture

Things that had to do With real serious stuff like underage girls and stuff like that. And there, you know, last year was a lot of standups just got an actors. I mean, look what happened. I mean, it was, it's, and a lot of it had no court trial, but it was like it was done and done, you know, Twitter can destroy you. You can destroy yourself on Twitter.

Right. I could write a tweet right now that could literally shut me down right now. It's so easy. Isn't that something? And I did a joke. in 1984 on this clip on this Rodney Dangerfield special and I was 26 years old and I had a joke

and I apologize for it on posting on an Instagram because they said you can cancel me for this and the joke was I never got to go to camp because my mom thought I'd get embarrassed on dressing in front of little boys but I kind of like it now and then I would go

no that's not true I like it a lot no that's not true I'm not a senator so at that time some senator had been caught with a minor so that's not a joke i can do right now and yet if i tried to do something like that i would tee it up for five minutes then you get you know a 10 second laugh and then people wince and then you got to do another three minutes to dig out of that so what's the point that's not the point of the joke if you're smart enough or not even that smart is that you're getting to the point of the senator you're almost speaking from them you're not saying you would do this you're like you know i did say in that joke that i like

getting undressed in front of little boys now but then i would say that's not true so what does it leave you with it leaves you with something where there are so many heinous things that have happened since from the priesthood to boy scouts who thought the boy scouts would go through this you know it's it's just uh you know when your group leader says tie a slip knot on my penis Jimmy, you know, that's not what you're in there for. Now, that could get me canceled because it's tragic. So I'd like to apologize right now. What happens is from my point of view for me is when I make a dark joke that is about

the worst thing, it's my way. There's two options. I either, there's three. I shut up, which would be what I should have done. I make the joke and then have to explain the context of it or I simply do a public service announcement for can you believe this is happening and that young people need to be protected

and what a horrible, horrible world we live in where human beings could do this to a child and that is a sin against God. That's the meaning of the joke. That's what I'm saying. but you don't sarcasm satire there's so much pain and so many people have been heard it doesn't work anymore it will again but maybe not on that level not when it comes to sexual abuse and stuff not it won't work on that level but it's like john rickle's doing his hack today

it wouldn't be the same because he was making fun of every nationality every shade of skin every religious person and he still would do anti-Semitic self-loathing jokes which is another problem you know for people but he got out just in time though I wish he was alive because I was close

to them and I loved him so much but you know people change times change and people know what good people are I think you know a person that professes goodness and you can tell that they're and they don't look at creepy while they're professing it, are basically, you know, I think noble at heart.

I'd like to think that people are better than they're being portrayed right now, even though we do have horrific things happening on a much broader level because of the internet, because of the world. Yeah. When you and I met, when you were doing Smallville, I had dial-up internet at full house. You know, it was dial-up, and I would go into chat rooms on AOL. I remember going to the Sharon Tate House. Yeah, that's Jeff Franklin's.

It's not the house. They knocked it down and built the new house. Right. But it seems to have the same gates that were on once in once upon a time in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino's movie. Right. Where you can go to the left and go up into that house or to the right where the third act happens in that movie. Right.

It was interesting to see that movie for me in some ways because I... Stamos and Jeff Franklin threw my 60th birthday party in Jeff's house and with the band and the Beach Boys played Mike Love and a bunch of the guys and Bruce Johnson

and it was really I got to sing with the band that's my birthday wish because you're in a band right so you love it right love it. I just love music that's it. Me too. Me too and I do play with a bunch of people

Norman Lear has a thing in his house used to. Now we do it on Zoom, but we don't really play. Norman Lear. Norman Lear. Creator of every great show. Norman Lear is a friend of mine. Oh, my gosh. What I am.

And he is everything you'd want him to be at 98. And he does three shows in production. He said he had to sign a three-year contract when he was 97. So that means he has to re-up when he's 100. That's what we should strive to do. That's what you need to do is live that long. Well, I think I just want to, I always say it, it sounds so whatever. But when you're 80 or whatever, however you live and you're on your deathbed, you say,

did I live the life I wanted to live? Am I proud of the life I lived? Was I really myself? Did I find who I was, what my, you know, destiny, what fate was? Did I help other people? I hope that when that time comes, I could really say, because that's it, really. You don't want to be 80 and go, God, man, I was just a fuck. up who was I doing this all for who is I what I was I wasting no you don't you don't want to do that

and and you're already way past that you're you know you're very self-aware and you're very honest and your podcast helps people and people that are listening right now there's no fake in this there's no phone in this in you know this is being in every moment so it's a combination of broadcasting and therapy as you've said it's therapy for you I've caught up on all your stuff, just like you were forced to catch up on my stuff. Well, what about, talk about your podcast, because I'm going to be on your podcast. This is a good time. How long you've been doing it?

Very soon. I'm a newbie, so I've been doing it for, um, since February or March. So I'm in my almost 70th episode, I think. And it's, um, Bob Sagitt's here for you. Some people call it here for you, but there's another podcast called here for you. So don't go to that one. No, but you can. It's probably good.

But, um, Mark Merrim. was funny. This is WTF, you know? And he was saying to me, what is this here for you? Are you telling people you're there for them? And I'm like, why would you do that? I'm like, no, I just, it came out before the pandemic, before quarantine, I titled it because I was out doing stand-up and I was feeling that people are separate. There's so much animosity in my audience. And my job is to bring them together and have them all have a good laugh, no matter what political party, religion, or race, and just get out of the – and actually, here we go. I'm talking to Norman Lear, my Obi-1, Canobi, but my friend. And I said to him once, you know, I get to take people out of their lives for however long my show is, you know, 90 minutes.

Exactly. that's it they're with me they're with me and i get to take them out he goes no no you bring them into their lives it's like thank you take the thank you norman yeah i love that hey that means that means that you bring them into the moment and and and that and that's what this is so i started the podcast and i call people sometimes i just have them call a number on my podcast thing whether it's apple or spot you know it's same as you yeah you're on stitcher snatcher clencher snitcher snatcher and i think i curse just because it's during like a thoughtful moment i'll just throw some odd thing i don't feel yeah that's what i do i don't feel comfortable i'm

like i'm being really sincere and vulnerable that i eat shit i'm constipated like come on dude stay in the fucking moment so bob sagg it's here for you it's really about chlamydia it's really about clemedia please listen he's he's such a fun guy to listen to and talk to as you as you can here today and very honest and open and uh i know you guys are gonna like it um i have really quick these are this is a rapid fire bob sagget shit talking with bob sagot here we go these are from fans of my patreon uh excellent mark a says were you surprised that you weren't asked to appear in how i met the how i met your mother thing the reboot well here's a little surprise for you i was in the very last episode uh dancing at the wedding and i was removed because it should have been an hour

episode and it was only a half hour. So they had to cut it off. They call me shoe leather when I appear as a cameo and something. They just trim it out. But I also narrated the last episode on the DVD set where, and I had Josh Radner on my podcast who played Ted Mosby and I'm the older Ted. And I went, why can't Josh be Ted? And they went, no, no, you're, he said he's drank and smoked for 20 years. So you wanted to make him meet an older dude that drank and smoked. I didn't do a past tense anyway uh it was interesting to do that show and he narrated the last episode which people got a little ruffled about but i i loved it i thought those carter and craig and pam freyman they're brilliant they made a lovely show that was too long an answer for that

that's all right we can make the next one shorter jennifer s how hard was keeping the secret of being on the mass singer from your family and friends it was difficult it was horrific i signed at nda they signed an NDA my wife my oldest daughter my middle daughter I didn't sign an NDA because she barely listens what we say to her while we're talking to her she's like oh daddy have fun I hear you're doing a show

and it's like but yeah but honey you can't tell anybody okay I love you you know but it was I had a shirt that said don't talk to me on it that they give you a zip up hoodie and I had on a mask and a visor

that's how I would fly now also and have and it was quite quite difficult my wife just would call me squiggly and it would say we'd be on the set they go i got squiggly walking squiggly's walking and i don't know who other people are i don't know who jellyfish or broccoli is it was an acid trip i never saw anything out of this this giant helmet and then i would look over and see a i don't know mushroom i'm like where the hell am i step a between you got to answer this honestly between candace jody and the Wilson twins, which of the kids did get along with best? Whoever I was with at the moment, just like my own kids.

I'm very close with Candice, always was since we did the pilot. Jody used to sleep over my house and play with my daughter, Aubrey, my oldest. Ashley and Mary Kate, I love so much. And when I'm in New York or when they're here, when we can, we see each other. So I can't, there's no favorite. It's just like picking your own kid favorite. But they're all friends. It's not like their kids.

Right. But Jody was probably more like a kid to me than Ashley and Mary Cater more like friends because I kind of got the whole thing of everything they're about. And Candace is a friend. And they've all been there for me. There was a, they've all been there for me in a big way when I've gone through hard stuff. That's beautiful. Lisa H. saw you doing stand-up twice.

Question statement in regards to your stand-up. I love when you break out your guitar and sing along during your live show. Do you prefer the improv, singing, guitar, playing, or just the regular bits and jokes? I really love being a nude dancer the most, but no one comes to that show. So I like, sometimes when I have the guitar on, I will be nude, but they can't tell that I'm, you know, that I'm out. But I love all parts of it. I kind of kept the structure of my stand-up, but I'm going to change it more. I think on my next special when I'm allowed to do one.

I'm not going to do a socially distant special, but I really, really love stand-up a lot. I get that muscle, and that's jokes and improv and stories. And the improv is like jazz. You know, you just go. You just like, it's like when you're playing with your band and you just go.

And then the music stuff, I've written some new comedy songs that I think are the best that I ever wrote. So, and they're funny and they're poignant, I hope. So I'm happy with, I love the whole thing. That's why it's a package. You know how important your package is. Henry asked your stand-up persona is much different than your full house persona.

You've heard this question, but what is the most interesting comment you received from a fan? It was caught off guard by that. It actually happened on a special I did called Zero to Sixty. It was really interesting because I'm kind of at this place of embracing the father image. Because, you know, obviously you're on a sitcom, you're on a show. Lex Luthor's not you. You know, it's an evil bastard. you're a thoughtful, caring guy trying to figure life out.

That's kind of the opposite. I don't think people think if you're doing eight years of something that you are that person, which is really weird. But I am part of that. So kind of what's happened for me is there's a blend of being incredibly considered about the younger generation and the older. And also loving to be irreverent and say things that are like, what that?

Did he say that? Oh, God, or just they laugh because it's fast. I try to do things like fast humor too. sometimes but I did a thing at the end of this special zero to 60 and someone they were applauding someone goes we love you Bob I go thank you I love you too this is in the special we put it in and some guy goes we need you Bob and that just stopped me it stopped me because it's like a sense of purpose and and I went well as long as you need me I'll be there it was kind of a Batman statement you know it was like you know the Michael Keaton mom

of Batman. And when I said that, they just started to applaud and it was so moving for me that I know it was moving for them because I could see them moving. They were leaving. But it's really

that is, when people say, oh, my fans, I love my fans. It's just, I don't even call them fans. I call it people that get what I do when I'm performing and appreciate it. Or I made them feel good. So I don't look at things as being famous or having fans or being

a celebrity. All those are like disgusting words to me unless they're done right and it's a big check. But otherwise it's just nice to have that exchange with an audience no matter what you do as a performer. Emily asked what's your reaction or what was your reaction

when they decided to bring back full house on Netflix. This will be the first short answer for you. I actually was not surprised because is John Stamos and Jeff Franklin have been trying for years. And I just thought this will be interesting because everything else was getting rebooted.

And people want that. They want that familiar feeling again. And I thought they did a really nice job. And Netflix did a great job launching it. And it was on six years. But when I first found out, I was happy. I would get to play with everybody. And we weren't there all the time.

John, Dave, Lori, and I would do like three or four episodes the season. That's how it worked. Myesha says, do you have any stories from working with Richard Pryor, critical condition? What was that like? I have a lot. The fun one is that there was a body being wheeled past us because Richard was pretending he was a doctor in a hospital near, he escaped from Rutgers Island, and he wastes ashore at a hospital pretends he's a doctor to be, you know, to not get arrested.

He doesn't know anything about medicine, and I'm a young doctor. So they wield this body bias, and it's an actor covered in water and he's dead. And Richard, I was supposed to say a few lines. I was supposed to say like, oh, they found him in the drink after the storm, couldn't get the water out of his lungs. It went on one sentence too long. And the director was Michael Apted, an amazing director and a beautiful guy, right? So we had 40 takes because I couldn't say it to Richard.

And it's a lot of extras around. and I looked in some of the major cast and the thing and I'm looking into Richard's face and I'm telling him because he says, what happened to this guy? And I, he's lost him in the drink. You know, his lungs are full of water or something. Every time I'm, it hit me,

I just didn't stay in character at that moment and realized, holy shit, you're talking to Richard Pryor and his face just made me laugh. I couldn't help it because he was so earnest. You know, that sweet face that he would make. Yeah. What happened to that guy? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's a good impression. I didn't really try to do that. I just, but I could see it. I could feel like what he does that we love so much, that innocent life. And, oh, wait, I can't do an impression of him. It's funny because Dave Coyer, who was in a full house, was, is an amazing impressionist. And in that movie, critical condition, Richard wouldn't go in to do the TV-friendly version and take out the curse words. and they really wanted a black actor to do it.

But nobody did a better impression of Richard than Dave Coyer and this French Canadian kid from Detroit. So they brought Dave in and Dave looped Richard's lines for the TV version. Oh my God. All right, this is very good. This is the final question, but it's not even a question. That was my short answer. I love that.

Oh, my God. Anything Richard Pryor. Lee Ann P. just wants to say, love your podcast. It was great talking to you on the phone. You're really there for your listening. and made my day a lot better by just talking to me. Thank you for that. I really appreciate you.

You were a true mensch. That's really sweet. I remember her. Yeah, people are, as you say, about your podcast. They're looking for some solace. And it's, you know, it was the days of free radio where you'd go and you listen to talk radio and people would call in and say, I'm upset about this. And it still exists.

You'll have someone, and you know, they'll have 100,000 listeners if they're doing okay. But with this, you can wind up with hundreds of thousands or millions of people. And you look at Joe Rogan, that's an empire where it's, and that's kind of the size of the Johnny Carson audience. You know, it's the whole country. These podcasts have really helped a lot of people. So I'm not doing it.

Some people are doing it. Oh, I can't shoot my shows. Or can't make my movie right now. So I'm going to do a podcast. And they do it for a few months. and then, oh, I'm going to stop doing it, because I'm going to go shoot this movie. If I have a thing I'm planning to direct, if I'm out directing, my board is coming with me. My podcast board's going.

I'm not going to not do this. This is really special to me. I know yours is. You're wonderful in yours. Thank you. I do. I fell in love with it. At first, I didn't know really why I was doing it.

And then all of a sudden, you start to realize it not only helps you, but it's helping other people. And it just began, it definitely has become a passion. I didn't expect it. And that's, it's funny how the hand of fate kind of takes you sometimes, you know. You know, and that's what I've learned in therapy, in therapy therapy, which I say twice. It's an OCD thing. But Charlie Babett, Brent the Toast. But my therapist taught me something really smart.

And he said, what's the thing that you think you do best in your life? I said, well, I'd like to think it's being a dad. He said, well, take everything else that you do in your life and bring it. it up to that level. Somehow put that much love and attention and compassion and passion into all different kinds of work. And I think you'll agree with me that doing a podcast, doing a broadcast, doing a show, it could be free radio, it could be a television show, is we need it.

We need it. It's an exchange program, but I know it does a lot for me personally. And it brings up your higher self. And then the rest of your day, it's like, tent pole for your day and I'll go to dinner and I'll say to my wife I'll go to dinner a hundred feet away and I'll say to my wife you know I just had the best talk with Michael Rosenbaum I had such a nice talk um you're gonna want to listen to that and that's like saying I just saw a friend and I loved being with that friend or you were on you know I was on

David Letterman last night and boy I really had a connection with him last night and that's unusual and that felt great that's the word man connection absolutely when you can connect to who you're listening to and it's just it's good all around and it does give you purpose like I feel like this gives me purpose absolutely listen to your podcast Bob Sagitt's here for you it doesn't necessarily Bob's there for you but he is there it's more proverbial it's someplace to go to listen and just get away and enjoy and it will become part of you. Thank you. That was the sweetest plug I've had since prison.

On that note, dude, I love you. I can't wait to be on your podcast. I can't wait either. It's going to be, we're going to go nuts. We will. Crazy is going to happen. I can't wait. I got all kinds of things I want to know from you.

Well, I'm sure you will dig deep, my friend. Just be careful. Be careful. I'm constipated. Thank you for allowing to be inside of you, my friend. Bob, thanks for coming on. Thanks for letting me be inside of you. I loved it.

Just a great guy. Yeah. And he's worth a lot of money. I mean, he's worth... That's the important thing. No, I said good guy at first. And he's worth a lot of money. I mean, sometimes you ever go to those things where it says net worth?

And you're like, okay, they're an exaggeration. But still, anybody who they exaggerate has more than $20 million. He's pretty humble for a $20 million person. Yeah. But I always like Bob. He was just always very genuine and sweet and smart. And even to this day, you know, I get text from him saying, you know, how you doing? Or just nice little notes.

And he's a busy guy. He doesn't have to do that. But I really respect you, Bob. And I appreciate you coming on the podcast. And once again, if you guys enjoyed today's episode, please, please subscribe, Ryan. At YouTube.com slash inside of you with Michael Rosenbaum. That's true. and you can go to all the handles and follow us on at inside of you podcast on uh facebook

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