Joy, a Podcast. Hosted by Craig Ferguson - Tweets and Emails Pt. 2

Episode Date: March 18, 2025

Another week of Craig responding to tweets and emails from you - the fans! EnJOY!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is me. Listen and subscribe to Leave the Gun, Take the Canole on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is me, Craig Ferguson. I'm inviting you to come and see my brand new comedy hour. Well, it's actually about an hour and a half, and I don't have an opener because these guys cost money. But what I'm saying is I'll be on stage for a while. Anyway, come and see me live on the Pants on Fire tour in your region.

Tickets are on sale now and we'll be adding more as the tour continues throughout 2025 and beyond. For a full list of dates, go to thecraigfergussonshow.com. See you on the road, my dears. My name is Craig Ferguson. The name of this podcast is Joy. I talk to interesting people about what brings them happiness. Now, I know what you're thinking. You're looking behind me here and you're thinking, Craig, are you in an enchanted magical forest? Is that in the wintertime?

Are you doing a show from Narnia? Are you going to be talking to Mr. Tumnus, the man that has horse legs for trousers or something? No, I'm not actually in Narnia, but very close to Narnia. I'm in a place called New Jersey. And in New Jersey, I know if you can hear in the background, you might be able to hear in the background, I'm by something called a freeway in New Jersey. They have a couple of freeways in New Jersey. And the reason why I'm talking to you from there today is this. Last week on the Joy podcast we did an

episode of tweets and emails where I answered tweets and emails and like I used to do in the old late night show you know you guys send in some tweets and emails and I answered them and rabid on and blether about whatever nonsense comes into my head as you know stimulated from the conversation or from the email. It's not really a conversation because it's just me talking. But what I'm saying is this, it was an overwhelmingly positive response apparently. Everybody was very happy about it.

I thought, well, it's quite hard to put together a podcast from the road. And I'm on the road doing some shows right now. Hence I'm in New Jersey, which is a much maligned state, by the way. It's actually very nice, much nicer than you would think. In fact, I think that should really be what the state model should be. New Jersey is much nicer than you would think. I think that would be a more accurate description of the area. Because you think it's going to be just all the freeway and nudie bars and car dealerships. And it certainly has that. But doesn't every state

have that? Well, some states have that. New Jersey has that. Anyway, look, what I'm saying is it's much nicer than you would think. New is, it's much nicer than you would think. New Jersey, it's much nicer than you would think. So I'm in a hotel in New Jersey and I'm traveling from one show at the show last night and I'm going to do another show tonight in Pennsylvania. So I stopped at this hotel. The bottom line is we're going to do a second episode of tweets and emails on the Joy podcast where we have received further tweets and emails and questions from everybody.

And what we're going to do is answer those as accurately or as irresponsibly as possible. And then we'll resume normal Joy podcasting next week when I'll be talking to someone about something as opposed to me talking to you about your thing. But I have the tweets and emails and I will begin. This is an email from Panna Slaughter. Now, that's a lovely name, Panna Slaughter. It sounds a little bit like panna cotta, which is a delicious thing to eat, panna cotta. I think it's clearly Italian. I wonder if Panaslotta is Italian, or maybe more kind of around that area, maybe eastern, east of Italy, in the Adriatic somewhere.

I don't know. I don't know. But Padaslotta, who's not Panna Cotta, asks, who would you never invite on the show? Well, you know, I don't really have rules about that. I'll kind of talk to anybody as long as they'll talk to me. I'm kind of interested. The only people I do avoid, and I avoided when I was doing the late night show, there was a bunch of people I avoided. And New Jersey springs to mind actually because I would never, I loved the TV show The Sopranos and when I was doing late night The Sopranos was on TV and I would never invite any of the cast members from The Sopranos. I don't know if they would agree to come on anyway, I didn't invite them but I would never invite them on because I was watching the show and I loved the show and I didn't want to meet the actors and have the actors

be the actor and kind of destroy the fourth wall thing that I enjoy in TV. It's an interesting thing that because actually a few years ago, I was having a conversation with Kevin Bacon. Kevin Bacon, as you know, is a very interested man, very, very busy actor and he was telling me that he had done a TV show. I won't say which one because he's done so many, but he was doing a TV show and the production company had asked

him to tweet as the show was going out about his experience as doing the show, like, you know, oh, you know, this day was raining and I farted or something. And he said, he really didn't want to do it for the same reason as I wouldn't invite the Sopranos on the show, because his job as Kevin Bacon is to convince you he's not Kevin Bacon. That's kind of the job. That's what he was saying. It's like, I have to do all this work to convince you I'm not Kevin Bacon. I'm actually somebody else.

You know, Joe the astronaut or Bob the guy who works in Starbucks or something. And it's clearly it's Kevin Bacon, because you can see it's Kevin Bacon, but the art and cleverness of what he does is conventional. He's not Kevin Bacon. And if he's tweeting out on his account, that he is Kevin Bacon and he was Kevin Bacon when he was doing it, he's kind of working against himself. And I see that. Anyway,

that's why I wouldn't invite anyone from The Sopranos on the show. And the other people I wouldn't invite on the show, there was only one other person, and I've talked about this at the time, that I would never invite David Bowie on the show. Now, I'm not saying that he would ever agree to have been on the show, but I would never invite him on the show because I was concerned because of the never meet your heroes thing. I always like the mystique and the slightly from another planet version of David Bully. He was from somewhere else with his eyes a different color. And I thought, if he becomes normal to me, I'll lose something.

Because people do become normal, sort of. When you meet them, like over the years I was doing Late Night and doing this show and doing other shows, you meet people who are very famous or very accomplished in what they do. And of course, they're human beings. And when they become human beings and when they become human beings they cease to be our demigods to you and whilst I'm fighting with that most of the time boy was a demigod that I kind of didn't want to give up. Is that weird? I don't know I mean I guess I'm just a fanboy and it's

funny because some people who came on the show you know I were only I was only kind of a little bit aware of but as they came on the show I became much more of a fan of them so I guess it and some people are disappointed I think it would be kind of mean to say that you know so I won't say that but who I would never invite on the show is the cast of The Sopranos which is not TV anymore or David Boye who is not available anymore to do talk shows anyway. So pretty much everybody else is good. All right.

I hope that helped, Mrs. or Ms. or Sir Panna Slaughter. I don't know the correct pronoun for that name, actually. Panna. I don't know what Panna. I don't know what is connected. I don't even want to talk about this. All right. So this next one is from Eliza Vezin. Eliza Vezin or Vezin or Eliza Vezin. I don't know. But Eliza said, what made you want to become a comedian? Well, I don't know that I ever did want to become a comedian.

I think it, I don't even know if it is entirely an accurate, I mean, I do it. I do stand up comedy and I enjoy doing it and it is, it is a very big part of my life and I love it. I love doing it. It seems to go okay. Most of it went well in Jersey last night and the night before in Boston it went well and you know, I'm kind of blowing my own trumpet here, but I was going to humble brag, but, but what I'm saying is, um, I do it, but I don't define myself by it.

If that makes any sense. It was kind of the same as being a late night host. I mean, for me late night, there are people, young people I'm aware of now. You see who, like they look for a career in comedy or they would like to be a late night host. And once I understand it, I mean, it's been very good to me and it's a lovely job. I never really set out to do that. I wanted to be what everyone else wanted to be when I was a kid, which was, there

was really three, three things I wanted to be when I was a kid. I either wanted to be an astronaut, which in Scotland is, was a limited, there wasn't a huge space program in Scotland in the 1960s when I was born, or indeed now, I don't even think they have a particularly big space program. I'm sure there must be a Scottish astronaut somewhere, but anyway, I wasn't cut out for astronauting. And I either wanted to be a sports star, you'll be really good at sports, particularly football, or as we call it in America, soccer, but football in Scotland. I wanted to be a star football player, but I wasn't any good at football.

So that gets in the way. It's a, I mean, you really can't hide in sport. It's one of those things like, like in show business, you can be shit. It doesn't matter. You know, if you get a good agent and you're in a good thing and people like you the right way and stuff, you can, and even in a band, you can kind of hide as long as somebody else kind of covers for you, but in sports, it's on you, man, you, you better be good or you're fucked. But anyway, I wasn't good.

I wasn't good enough. I wasn't even remotely good. I wasn't good enough to be even sort of considered as someone who could hang around. And the other thing I wanted to be, of course, was a musician. And I think in a very strange way, that's kind of what I am. I mean, I still play, I play the drums and I play the guitar and I don't play them publicly because that,

I think, would be a way to look foolish in a way which probably I'm not quite ready for. And then the, I've sung in my life. I've done shows where I've sung songs and I'm not a great singer, but you kind of don't really have to be a great singer to sing. I mean, there's a lot of, particularly now with auto-tune, good Lord. I mean, you just kind of go, and then they put it through a program and you sound like Maria Callas or something. I don't know who's a really good singer. Anyway, I don't know enough about

Oprah or even what she did. I don't know. I think so. I think I've wandered off track here. What I'm saying is, I don't consider myself really a comedian as such. I think of myself more as a kind of, I mean, look, I'm right. That's what I do. I express myself right now. I express myself orally in a kind of Socratic sense, I suppose, in doing stand-up comedy, but I don't really tell jokes in that

same way. I mean, it's not, and I'm not even, I don't think so. I don't think I'm one of those kind of, Hey, have you ever noticed how some things are like other things or what's the deal with those things? I'm not really like that. My standup tends to be more anecdotal. I mean, look, it's a lot of it is, let's be honest, it's lies and fabrication of or artistic license. Certainly the current tour is called pants on fire, just that flat out admitting that a lot of this is made up, but it's based on truth. I always think that when you see a movie and it starts with this is based on a true story and you go well

isn't everything based on a true story? I mean, who the fuck are you kidding? Based on a true story? Sure, that is based on a true story. But then you add, you know, aliens and stuff and, you know, or whatever you're adding. Anyway, the upshot is I don't think I did want to be a comedian. It wasn't something I aspired to. Some people do and I admire it, guess it's a skill set which there are some great but like Billy Connolly I think who the great Scottish comedian who was Billy's about 20 years old on me so when Billy was just coming through

and breaking through he was in his early 30ies and I was in my early teens. And he was very profane and comedy was done in vinyl albums back then. And we would get his vinyl album and our parents would not allow us to listen to it because he sent swear words and he was dirty and stuff. But it was great. He was so good. But Billy is also a musician. So he would play a little, he actually came through playing in a band called

the Humble Bums with Jerry Rafferty. He was a folk musician. And he's a good banjo player, Billy, and he's a good singer. And so he kind of drifted into comedy from doing, playing folk clubs. And so I was very heavily influenced by Billy because he was from the same He kind of drifted into comedy from doing plain folk clubs. And so I was very heavily influenced by Billy because he was from the same socioeconomic background as me. He was the first person I ever saw who was famous, who sounded like we did,

like my family or my friends and stuff. So he was very, and he was and is a great comedian. I mean, for me, he's like Jackie Robinson almost, if you know what I mean for me. He was like he had that kind of, he was the first guy into the big leagues. I think that that, if anything, made me want to be a comedian.

It was maybe to emulate Billy, but Billy is a raconteur, he's a musician, he's a very, is a raconteur. He's a musician. He's a writer. He's an artist. And so whatever path he carved, I think I kind of rather pathetically follow in his wake, let a little kind of tribute band, um, not that there's anything wrong with being a tribute band, but that's what I.

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And I want to let you know I have a brand new stand-up comedy special out now on YouTube. It's called I'm So Happy. And I would be so happy if you checked it out. To watch the special, just go to my YouTube channel at the Craig Ferguson Show. And it's right there. Just click it and play it and it's free. I can't look I'm not going to come around your house and show you how to do it. If you can't do it, then you can have it. But if you can figure it out, it's yours.

All right. This is from Kelly Dillmeister, which almost sounds like, like you may be related to Lenny Kilmeister from Motorhead, but probably not because different name. What music are you currently listening to? At the moment, I have, for some reason, I'm listening to a lot of Schubert. I know. It's the weirdest thing. I listen to a very eclectic taste of music as most people do,

and I listen to a lot of different things. I like death metal and bossa nova and everything in between. But I reread a book recently that I'd read a long time ago, a book called The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. It's a great book. If you've never read it, give it a go. It's a fabulous book. And in The Master and Margarita, there's a reference at one point when I'm not going to do any spoilers for you, but the protagonists imagine a place where everything is all right and they can walk in the park and listen to Schubert. And

I thought, I don't really know anything about Schubert. So I listened to some Schubert and I gotta be honest, I know this is probably not news to some of you, but pretty fucking good. Pretty, pretty fucking good. I'm not a huge fan of, it seems terrible thing to say it, that I'm not a huge fan of classical music,

but I'm kinda, kinda not really. You know, there seems to be a lot of dum-da-dum, yamada-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum- So the big news from today's show, I think that is going to rock, it's just going to shake the foundations of the music industry is that I think Schubert is pretty good. All right. This is from Itbecht. Itbecht. Itbecht says, it's a lovely name, Itbecht. Just one name like Sting or Madonna or Flash.

I don't know who Flash is. Flash Gordon, but that wouldn't be one name, that would be two names. It would be Flash, just Flash. Maybe I'll call myself Flash. Flash. Hey, it's Flash. Hi, everyone. It's call myself Flash. Flash. Hey, it's Flash. Hi, everyone. It's me, Flash.

Anyway, this is from Itbect, who is just a one name. I like Flash. He said, of the many venues you've performed in, which one sticks out to you the most and why? Well, I have performed in a great deal of venues. Some of them are quite unusual. I remember I did stand up once on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. It was weird. It was one of those corporate gangs, which everybody in show

business does, like everybody. If you think, oh, yeah, my my favorite rock band would never do a corporate gig, they've fucking done it. Everybody does it. So I was doing a corporate gig on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. And all they did was they just, after the day's trading was over, a bunch of stockbrokers got together and they hired me to come up and tell them stories, jokes and stuff. And I did it and it was okay. I felt a little weird doing it. And I think it was a little bit of a strange experience, but it worked out all right.

And that was quite memorable. One of the memorable things about that was there was no dressing rooms. There's no dressing rooms in the New York Stock Exchange. So there wasn't a place for me to go and prepare myself for the day. You know, to put on my outfit and makeup and stuff. But usually there's a dressing room or something where you can go and like, you know, hang out until it's time to go on, on stage or on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. And they didn't have anywhere for me to sit. So they said, oh, we'll just go into the chairman's office. You can just go into the chairman's office of the New York Stock Exchange because he's not there. Now, I don't know who that is, but I mean, it's somewhat super powerful, probably like,

I don't know, Satan or something, Satan's office at the New York. I don't know if Satan, I don't think it's Satan, but somebody, you know, somebody very powerful who runs the New York Stock Exchange and they had this very fancy office and obviously it was in the evening. So this individual wasn't there. And I went into the office and on the wall was hanging a Jackson Pollock painting. Now, I don't know if you know anything about Jackson Pollock, but Jackson Pollock was the, he's the scatter man of modern art.

And the paintings are, the title paintings, they're abstracts. And they're kind of, they're evocative and emotional pieces of art, but they're not figurative. You know, they don't have, there's not a picture of a cat or, you know, or a little boy fishing or a senorita turning to you or anything like that. So you know, so it's not, uh, it's the kind of thing my wife is more involved in. She knows all about that, but I really, I like paintings of things, you know, like, Oh, look at that. Look at that painting. It's a painting of a cat.

Isn't it really good? But she understands Rothko and Jackson Pollock and you know, Cy Twombly and all those very clever people. But it was the first time I had been in the presence of an actual Jackson Pollock painting. And the first thing that, you know, I'd seen reproductions of his paintings in photographs, as I'm sure all of you have and we could probably put some up in the website or something.

Do we have a website? We probably do. We have a website, right? So you can put a Jackson Pollock up and you go, oh yeah, I know what you mean. But what was interesting was that being in the presence of the actual painting was a very different experience. It hit me like a freight train. It was amazing because I was like,

oh my God, this is, and I can't put into words what it did. I know this sounds fanciful and a bit really Craig, but it was a very emotional response and I couldn't describe it in words. Look, I'm no fucking slouch when it comes to describing things. I work with words. I'm fairly decent at describing how I feel or how I see things. I like to think I'm fairly erudite, but I couldn't express the emotion that this painting

seemed to construct or elicit from me. And I was, I'm still kind of impressed by that. I'm kind of amazed by that. It made me kind of drew me into it. It wasn't all happiness and it wasn't all sadness. It was, it was a very weird kind of thing. The only thing I can kind of equate to is a sort of fairly low impact drug.

You know, like maybe shit cannabis. But it kind of, or maybe like weak, like a weak diazepam or something. It made me feel kind of good and a little bit different. But it was a visual experience. That's what I thought was so amazing about it. And so I became a little more converted to the world of abstract expressionism from doing that gig. So in answer to which venue sticks out to you the most,

I don't know if that sticks out the most. But what it does do is it certainly changed me. There are venues that I've played, you know, in doing stand-up. I think I'm the only person I know that's played the Carnegie Hall in Dunfermline, Scotland, and Carnegie Hall in New York City. I, I, I've known him and they're very different venues. Uh, or, or as we say in New York, Carnegie Hall. Uh, but as they say in Dunfermline, Carnegie Hall. Uh, I think probably there's some more Carnegie Halls. I think there's one in Pittsburgh.

There's gotta be one in Pittsburgh. They're very different venues, the Carnegie Hall in Dunfermline and the Carnegie Hall or Carnegie Hall in New York. When I played the Carnegie Hall in Dunfermline, Scotland, it was before I stopped drinking. It was in the early days of stand-up when I was still performing as a character that I called Bing Hitler. It was a whole story.

When I was doing a character thing and, and I was playing a kind of, a kind of buffoon, uh, I kind of idiot who was sort of from Dunfermline, Scotland. Now that's a bit of a problem because I'm not from Dunfermline, Scotland. I'm from a term called Cumbernauld, which is just outside Glasgow in Scotland, kind of the New Jersey of Glasgow. And so I was a kind of natural enemy to the audience there anyway, and there was a lot of punk rockers and stuff like that. And it was the upshot of it was that I was drinking, I went on stage, I did not go down well with the audience,

and I was still playing a guitar at the time and they started throwing things at me and then they rushed the stage and they stole my guitar and things were getting a little hairy, and I had to get a cab out of there to get back to Edinburgh, to get away from the audience who were, at that point had they kind of morphed from being an audience and the more of a kind of angry Bob and they chased me out of the venue and I jumped into a taxi and I was driving away in the taxi and somebody threw a rock

and it broke the back window of the taxi I had to pay the taxi driver but he was like you'll have to pay for that. I went, fine, just keep going. I mean, it was like, and he drove me back to Edinburgh. It was very cold because the window and it was glass, but I had to pay for his rear window to get fixed. This is a long time ago. That was my experience playing the Carnegie Hall in Dunfermline. Now, years and years later,

I played Carnegie Hall in New York City. City actually did it twice in the same day. I did I booked a show and it's all that and they said we do another show and I'm sure said but we only have a manny available at half past two in the afternoon. Alright give it a go so I played Carnegie Hall in New York twice in the same day half past two past two in the afternoon. I've got to be honest, it was a little sedate. It was a bit of a sedate. It was more like a Schubert concert, to be honest with you. But the evening show was very much the same thing. Nobody beat me up or chased me out of the venue at Carnegie Hall in New York.

Nobody stole my guitar. I wasn't playing a guitar at that point. The audience seemed much happier with the show than the audience in Dunfermline, the New York audience. I will say this though, the difference is that by the time I played Carnegie Hall in New York, I had stopped drinking. I had stopped drinking for about, probably about 15 or 20 years at that point.

So I imagined the performance was of a different type. I think that's the case. And I rather loved it. I will give you a little piece of information about Carnegie Hall as well, just to say if you're ever playing it, be very careful. There is a very steep rake on the stage. A rake is a kind of gradient on the stage, which slants towards the front of the stage, so that the audience, when they're looking from the auditorium, get a better view. I think it's really for plays and for orchestras and stuff like that. It gives people a better view or maybe projects sound better or something. I don't know. But Carnegie Hall in New York is a very steep rake and it's made of wood with the floor. So all I'm saying is don't wear your socks when you're playing Carnegie Hall in New York. Wear a pair

of grippy shoes or you could come a cropper. I learned that hardly. Innovator Award recipient Lady Gaga. I Heart Icon Award recipient Moriah Carey. And I Heart Breakthrough Award recipient Gracie Abrams. Watch live on Fox, Monday, March 17th at 8, 7 Central. Hey, it's Amartinez. The news can feel like a lot on any given day, but you can't just ignore las noticias when important world changing events are happening. That is where the Up First podcast comes in.

Every single morning in under 15 minutes, we take the news and boil it down to three essential stories so you can keep up without feeling stressed out. Listen Up First from NPR on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. September 1979. Virginia's top prison band, Edge of Daybreak, is about to record their debut album, Behind Bars, in just five hours. Okay, we're rolling.

One, two, three, four. I'm Jamie Petrus, music and culture writer. For the past five years, I've been talking to the band's three surviving members. They're out of prison now and in their 70s. Their past behind them. But they also have some unfinished business. The end of their great eyes of love

was supposed to have been followed up by another album. It's a story about the liberating power of music, the American justice system, and ultimately, second chances. Listen to Soul Incarcerated on the iHeart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I'm Bob Pitman, Chairman and CEO of iHeart Media. I'm excited to share my podcast with you, Math and Magic, Stories from the Frontiers of Marketing.

This week, I'm talking to the CEO of Moderna, Stephane Bancel, about how he led his team through unprecedented times to create, test, and distribute a COVID vaccine all in less than a year. He becomes a human decision to decide to throw by the window your business strategy and to do what you think is the right thing for the world. Join me as we uncover innovations in data and analytics, the math, and the ever important

creative spark, the magic. Listen to Math and Magic, stories from the frontiers of marketing on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. This is from Tyler Brole who says, Hi, my name is Tyler. I know. I have a question about fatherhood. All right. Later this week, my second child will be born and I'll become a father of two.

What tips do you have for someone bringing new life into the world? Well, Tyler, as the father, I have to say it's pretty obvious you are not the one bringing new life into the world. You are the one witnessing new life be brought into the world, I suppose. I mean, it's semantics really. I was there at the birth of both my children and I have to say it's quite a show. Isn't that anyone who's been at a live human birth? I mean look, for the mothers involved, you know, I can't even imagine. I mean, it's just craziness and pain and all that, but as a witness to your child being born, my goodness.

It's a weird, it's again, again, it's something that's very difficult to describe. You know, maybe I'm learning on this edition of the podcast that I'm nowhere near as erudite as I think. I can't really describe the emotion of what it's like to, because you know, when it, when someone is, is being, when a human is being born in a room and like, there's a kind of weird like anticipation and then someone news there and like, Oh my God, so wild. And there's a lot of, you know, a lot of gory business. I'm no good with any of that. I would have been a terrible doctor. That and the fact that, you know,

I'm not clever enough to be a doctor, but also I think that, you know, to feel squeamish is not something you want in a doctor. You don't want a doctor going, oh, like that. That's not what you want in a doctor. Do I have any tips about bringing you like tips about fatherhood? You know, it's funny. I, I, you know, I spent, uh, cause I'm playing in Jersey, uh, my oldest kid

who's now nearly 24, he's not kid anymore. We were hanging out after the show last night. He lives nearby and, and, uh And it's an amazing thing about, I actually remember it from the movie Lost in Translation when Bill Murray's character is talking to Scarlett Johansson's character about his children and said that, you know, as their babies, and when they're little children,

they're so adorable and they're little children and they're funny and cute and all those things. And then when they grow up, and this is at the point of father, you know, the, my, my youngest boy is 14 now. So he's not a, not a baby. He's not fully cooked, but he's not a baby. And, but I mean, is anyone fully cooked? Oh, I mean, I'm 62.

I don't know if I'm fully cooked, but the, uh, I've been baked a couple of times on my ride, the business, uh, I've been baked a couple of times. I'm all right. The business of what Bill Murray's character says in that movie is that they become just these very interesting human beings, maybe the most interesting people you know, and they do. My kids are the most interesting people I know. And if you know me, you know I know some pretty interesting people, but nobody is interested as my kids. All right. This is from Elsa G. Hernandez-Gonzalez. I'm guessing maybe,

I think I can guess your kind of ethnic background, I think. Elsa G. Hernandez-Gonzalez. I may be wrong, of course. That may be a married name and you've married into the Hernandez-Gonzalez's. Whoever it is, great. You've spoken about your favorite bands and artists in your talks and I've wondered,

would you make a playlist of your favorites to share, like a playlist on Spotify or anything like that. That's a very long. It's always interesting to see what others enjoy, especially if it's someone with good music taste. And yeah, I would do that. It's like making a mixtape for someone you don't know. I think that making playlists is kind of interesting from

artists that you like. So I guess that's what Eliza is saying. Yeah, I would do that. I think there would be some Schubert on it, obviously. Then I'd balance it with some Motorhead, maybe the Ramones. Here's the thing about the Ramones, I want to tell you. It was something I was talking to a British person about this fairly recently. And they were talking about, it was an English person,

someone from North London, which is kind of a niche market. And they were telling me, as I'm sure many Americans have heard before, when talking to English people, the phrase that begins, you see the thing about Americans, you see the thing about Americans is, I'm like, well, what Americans would be talking about here. I never understood that. Well, you see the thing about Americans. And then they start talking to you about, you know, some guy they've seen on a British documentary who was, you know, survived on his boat in a, you know, hurricane in Florida and he was wearing a

hat that said who farted and and they say that's America, that's part of America and God bless him that's great I think that's awesome but the the idea that America is one thing well talk to Eliza G. Hernandez-Gonzalez or Craig Ferguson I mean America's very as we know it know, how do you even define that? But what this person says, the thing about America, two things. One was that Americans are such loonies. I'm like, okay, well, I think there are certainly loonies who exist here, but America doesn't have exclusivity or loonings. And the second one is, you always say this in British people, British people from the intelligence, bourgeois British people also always say this, think about America as they have no sense of irony.

They have no sense of irony. And I remember one of the writers on the late night show, I was telling them about this, a guy called Ted Mulcairn, who was one of the head writers on the late night show. And he said, Americans have no sense of irony. I said, that's what they always say. He said, well, that's rich coming from a country that calls itself Great Britain.

I was like, oh, touche, it's also a milk for you, Ted. Anyway, the reason why I bring this up is about the remote. Because the type of america that i wanted to be. What is the kid was a very odd mixture of i wanted to be an astronaut. I could i'd seen astronauts landed on the moon when i was a little kid. landed on the moon when I was a little kid, and they were American, so I wanted to be one of those.

But as I got a bit older, I wanted also to be in the Ramones because I saw them. I wanted to be like the Ramones and I wanted to be like Iggy Pop, and I wanted to be like people who were in rock bands, and people who chewed gum and had teeth. Here's the thing that really got me when I first visited America in 1975 when I was 13, I went to a bowling alley for the first time. We did a bowling alley in Scotland at that time. I went to a bowling alley, I'd never seen a

bowling alley before. I was like, this is amazing. And I tasted a beverage and I remember it to this day. It was root beer over crushed ice. I was like, oh is amazing. And I tasted a beverage and I remember it to this day, it was root beer over crushed ice. And I was like, oh my God, whatever this is, I have to have more of this as much as possible for the rest of my life. Now, I'll be honest with you, I don't drink a lot of root beer over crushed ice, but every now and again, I have one.

And it brings me back to that. And anyway, what I'm saying is, for some reason I was talking about the Ramones. I want to be a Ramones type, I think you pop American, but also an astronaut American. I think what I like about being an American is you can be anything. It's America. Oh, well,

here's an email about that and then probably we'll get done after this. But this is from Tony Gallo who says, when you first landed in Smithtown, which is the first place that I went to in America, Smithtown, Long Island, on your first trip to America, what hit you hardest? The accents, the aggressive left turns, or the crushing realization that this was it?

What was your funniest moment of culture shock? I don't know. I think I've been, you know, mine in the culture shock thing for a long time now. I'm kind of like the Scottish Yakov Smirnoff or something, you know, it's like in my country, you know. When I first came here, it was the root beer over crust. That was the thing that really got me. That was the first way.

And also you've got to understand, it was 1975 when I first came here. It was the summer of 1975. I was 13. I'd never been out of Glasgow. And I go to Prestwick Airport in Scotland and I get on an airplane that lands in JFK in 1975. And I go from Glasgow, having never left there, never been anywhere, to New York City in 1975.

And to this day is, to my mind, still the greatest city in the world, New York City. It's just over the George Washington Bridge, and I'm going to go there in a minute. To answer a question that's come in, because I moved back to Scotland for a long time. If you'll say to me, you still live in Scotland, or I moved back to Scotland for about five years.

And I don't, I don't. I live in New York City. So I'm gonna go home. I'll see you guys later. Bye. So, I'm gonna go home. I'll see you guys later. Bye. Awards are coming back Monday, March 17th on Fox, starring Bad Bunny, Glowrilla, Kenny Chesney, Money Long, Nelly, your host, I Heart Radio, LL Cool J. Are you guys ready to have some fun tonight?

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