KFC Radio - Robert Iler on the Sopranos' Environment On Set - Full Episode

Episode Date: September 3, 2024

Timecodes: 0:00 Start 01:41 Marty Mush vs Carlos Alcarez 07:34 Niche Scandals 20:38 Robert has no social media and lives in bliss 30:16 Becoming the 9pm guy 33:53 Girls who want their bfs location 37:54 Robert is too germaphobic to watch Jersey Shore 46:17 Dating apps 51:10 Getting recognized as everything but being on the Sopranos 55:48 Rob's a fan of Tigerbelly, YMH, and Howard Stern podcast fan 01:03:09 Getting recruited by Tom and Bert at YMH 01:08:09 Rob's gay manager who discovered him at 6 years old 01:12:12 Rob and Jamie-Lynn Sigler's relationship 01:20:34 The Sopranos cast enjoyed hanging out with eachother on set +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Gametime: Download the Gametime app today and use code KFC to easily score great deals with the new Gametime Picks! Chubbies: Get 20% off with the code KFC at https://www.chubbiesshorts.comYou can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/kfcr

Hey, KFC Radio listeners, you can find every episode of KFC Radio on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. We didn't even know where our campers were on Sopranos. We'd all be sitting around in one person's thing, smoking, like, fucking laughing, like, making fun of people and shit. And, like, I think that was part of it. Like, people would see us together and be like, wait, you guys, like, why are you guys all together? And it's like, because we want to be yeah that gracie films t-shirt you have is like

it's like maybe top three shirt of all time you know what's crazy is It's like, it's an XL, and it goes down to like here. What are you, Tuck? Huh? You got a Tuck? I had a Tuck, yeah. What a fucking weirdo move that is. I think I'd rather, I think I'd rather roll up with my shirt down to my knees than the Tuck. Dude, the Tuck is, the Tuck's very long. The Tuck's back.

You can pull off a Tuck. I can't pull off a Tuck. You got to be taller than me to pull off than the tuck. Dude, the tuck is very long. The tuck's back. You can pull off a tuck. I can't pull off a tuck. You've got to be taller than me to pull off a tuck. If you're my height and tucking, it's a problem. It's a real – it's not a good – You're talking, bro. You can't be talking. It's not a – I'd probably rather give it to, like, my little sister

and be like, hey, can you cut this up and, like, make it look somewhat cooler? I can't talk. I've tried to do that before, too, the self-cut. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's not good. Yeah, no, no, no. It ends up being like a hula hoop. It looks like a hula hoop surrounded.

I guess it loses the weight of the hem, and it just blows up like that. I feel like Marty Mush pulls shit like that also. Marty can do whatever, Joe. Marty Mush. shit like that also. I've seen him. Marty can do whatever, too. Marty Mush. When's this going to go up? We might have to cut this, but I wanted to tell you. Did he do tennis?

So he played Carlos Alcaraz yesterday. Marty's doing this thing where he goes around and he plays professional athletes at their sport to show how good he is. And he's shockingly good. Tell me he returned the serve. He hit Trevor Bauer. He faced MLB pitching, got base hits. Really? He based a couple guys?

No, he got a base hit. They have a sensor thing. So it's like that would have been a base hit to left field or whatever. It's not just like, oh, I would have caught it. It's like, no, this camera, there's a whole 3D thing. That's sick. But, I mean, he started like, he,

he did something funny with like the New Jersey Jackals. He played like, he played like in a summer league, like single a ball. But, and then he like faced a reliever and then he faced like the, the, albeit the Oakland athletics,

but he faced like the A's ace. And then there was another guy who was trying to make the team. And he was like, fuck, like, I think if people see this, I'm not going to make the team anymore. And then he faced another guy who was trying to make the team and he was like fuck, I think if people see this I'm not going to make the team anymore. And then he faced Trevor Bauer and just like within I think like four

pitches or four at-bats. He went like three for ten. He was just like... Bryce Harper went 0 for 6 for me the other night when I had him to get a hit. And Marty Mush is fucking hitting singles. Marty Mush getting hits. But then this one, Carlos Alvarez serves. He played Pat Friermuth. He played cornerback against Pat Fri, the tight end of the Steelers.

Stopped him, which, again, is like a corner stop. You get a little bit lucky. Yeah, you're lucky. And then yesterday, he showed up. I think the ATP is in Cincinnati. Showed up in Cincinnati in front of a crowd. Returned the first serve from Alcaraz. I knew it, dude.

I'm so so Marty also over COVID when everyone was trying to figure out content ideas he did he got heavy into those trick shots you know yeah yeah I remember

and he was like throwing pencils into water bottles and shit and then they would get progressively crazier and sillier and I think it was the pencil

into the soda bottle from like across the room and I was like they said how many throws is it going to take how many pencils and i was like infinity you're never going to leave this room yeah it's never going to happen he didn't like 42 shots and since that day i and actually then then the baseball one i was like bro listen you can do a lot of silly shit but you're not going to hit major league former Cy Young pitching and he did and so now I said I will literally never bet against Marty ever again because Jeff D'Lo did the same thing he's like Marty's great at a lot of stuff but come on Carlos Algaraz he serves at 136 miles an hour and I was like I've done this I've done this I've done this four or five times you could argue that

a professional athlete is more nervous against Marty Mush. Probably. They have a lot more to lose. Yeah, and you see great wide receivers drop passes when there's no one around. And now they're more nervous because it's like, oh, my God, this is actually – you fuck up against Marty Mush. I mean, you got – the locker room has got to be just fucking clowning you. What if Marty Mush goes like 10 for 10 against Bauer? What happens? What's the next thing?

I think you just get a 10-day contract in the bigs. Bauer. What if Marty has to change careers? He's like, I've got to go play pro sports now. I've been doing too well. What's funny about him is... He just can't choose which one. He's got tennis, baseball.

He's got a lot of offers. He's got tennis, baseball. He's got a lot of offers. He's got to do a selection, you know, get the hats. What's funny, though, is he still, he doesn't look the part. He's tall, but, like, he still is pretty gangly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so it's not like it's, you know, like, oh, he's a natural athlete. It's like, but I get, no, he is a natural athlete. He just doesn't look it.

I don't know. Because then when he, even when he does it, it's like, not like the prettiest swing or whatever, but he gives it a shot. And he seems surprised when he does it. But I think at some point he's got to start just believing it. What about him and Burt in competition? There you go. Yeah. Burt's one of those guys too, the Mickey Mantle Jean.

Marty has the Mickey Mantle Jean to the max. Like, maybe even more than Bert. Everything Marty does, it reminds me of like I played hockey, so occasionally I'll go play like men's league hockey, and there will always be some guy in incredibly old equipment who's fat and out of shape, and you're like, I am going to fucking smoke this guy. No, sir. He's not good. He's not like he's fast or anything.

He just understands the game. He'll have bounce passes off the boards. I would never think to do that. You understand geometry, you son of a bitch? Well, yeah, because the thing that's crazy about Marty is those guys probably go all the fucking time. They play like five times a week. And it's like, yeah, if I just trimmed this layer of fat off me, I would be a star. So I can't be a star.

But I play all day, and I know the angles. I know that these guys just show up. This is the first time you've played in like 10 years. And I know that about you. So I'm going to do this, that, and the other thing. Marty, it's not like he trains as far as I know. He's just like, yeah, I'll do that. And he he just fucking does and then there's just some people also where shit comes naturally like the people like you know i don't know if it's like eddie van halen or who

but it's like yeah the first time i picked up a guitar like i was just pretty good right yeah so some people are just like they understand that stuff and then you go like i i kind of feel that way with like uh poker i would say you probably see the matrix when you're playing poker right not even like see the matrix but when people can't figure out the basics i'm like i don't understand how you don't know that you couldn't coach people really i i don't i like if somebody's like i can't learn the abcs yeah i just can't figure like what comes after f like i'm like no no this is how it goes and like there's people who've been playing poker for a long time and they'll still forget like oh yeah oh, yeah, no, no, no, that beats that, or, like, I couldn't use this card.

And you're like, what? Like, how do you not? That's crazy. That basic understanding is such a foreign concept to me that it ruined the show Queen's Gambit. Like, when that starts off and she's just seeing chess pieces, I'm like, no kid sees chess like that. And then it turns out they do. That's, like, actually the one thing where there are, like, childies yeah yeah did you see the latest uh chess scandal last week no this woman russian no uh dagastani not it doesn't matter she was 43 years a 43 year old coach and she has this

long time rival they've been playing since they were kids so this girl the other girl is 36 she's 43 and i guess they've been playing against each other their whole lives. And two weeks ago, this one girl beat her at some tournament. And then like a week later, they had another tournament. She snuck into the room early and rubbed mercury all over her pieces

and fucking poisoned her. And it was one of those like, you know, they do like all sorts of different types of chest. I think it was, like, a rotating round thing or whatever. So she was supposed to be at this one table for, like, five hours while everybody came to her. And after, like, 20 minutes, she said she, like, tasted iron in her mouth

and, like, couldn't see, and her head started to hurt. And so they, like, got her medical attention, and the doctors were like, this sounds like poisoning. And then they started to investigate, and they said there was some security guard who said that this woman came up to him and said are those cameras on like those security cameras on and like he didn't think to like speak up about that or whatever but there's footage of her like walking in she's all alone she's with a range finder yeah she really didn't want something up her ass, huh? There's some scandals in the there was my favorite

one was the tennis one last year, or the chess one last year, where they said that the guy had the vibrator up his ass. I still don't know what he was doing with that. Everyone was like, oh, he's got the vibrator's ass. And I was like, what does that mean? Because I think it's like A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and then 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

So I think you can be like – But then what? And then 6. Like, someone's telling him where to move? Like, someone's Googling? It's the same thing they have with poker where it's like you – Oh, so you push it under your ass. They have game theory optimal.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Of course. That's how he does it. They know what game theory optimal is. So they know the optimal next play like the computer knows it so then because what they did is they taught a computer how to play poker and then they had the computer play poker against the computer and then they figured out after running enough hands they went this is the optimal way to play poker like this is the best this is how you

do it so they they know with chess too like the optimal move so they let him know like the next bet i'm putting i'm running this in the computer and the next optimal move is got it you know fucking you're sitting there yeah yeah yeah rook to three you know f7 yeah yeah that's hilarious congratulations the win thanks i also came four times magnus carlson loved this match let me tell you what he was really celebrating we're gonna have to figure out a way to make these games shorter and that but the year before that there was the fishing scandal where those guys were loading up their fish with those lead balls. They won like 500K, though.

That was some shit. You're taking half a million out of somebody's pockets. There was a video of the guy. He slices it open, and he pulls it back. He goes, we got weight! We got weight! And the place erupts because they knew that he was cheating, but they couldn't prove it.

Oh, so good. Those fringe sports. For sure. There was a poker scandal at the World Series of Poker this year, but because it's poker, nobody cares. What happened with poker? I don't know if it was down to three people, but definitely when it was down to two, the guy who was – one of the guys who was playing heads up had his team behind him running simulations on laptops, and then he would walk away and then go talk to them and then come back. But it was like – Like they were in the room?

In the room. In the table room? They were in the room? In the room. In the table room? They were behind him with laptops open. How the fuck is that even? Yeah, it's crazy. But they were saying that like... And they announced before everything, they call it RTA, which is like real-time assistance.

And they're like, you're not allowed to have real-time assistance. People can't be helping you. Because what it is is like, they can help you in the hand, but then as soon as the hand is over, they run over to their people and they're like, okay, here's what he did last hand. This what he did this time this is the range he's

playing this is when he's betting this this is what he's doing and they're like telling him what to do and they're saying like you can't do that so there's a big like argument in the poker community that's like similar to the astro stuff it's like you can go back to the locker room or the the dugout and you can go on your ipad and the pitches, but if someone's banging on the cans, maybe that. But so if he got his hands done and he got off the table, he could walk over to those guys and they could openly talk to him. Right. And that would be legal.

Or is that what the debate is? They could talk to him, but they can't be running simulations on the side with their laptops. And also, it's like, obviously this is going happen but like his because he's heads up you can you're you're the odds of your best friends being the top poker players in the world are very high because and and they were but also they don't know like who he was paying off being like hey if if i win and you're behind me and you're running these simulations right i'll give you five percent maybe i'll give you nobody knows what was really going on i can't believe this year that was royal cheese poker this year and no one talked Nobody knows what was really going on. I can't believe. And that was World Series Poker this year? That was World Series Poker this year, and no one talked about it.

No? Yeah. I actually was fairly dialed in to World Series Poker. No, I don't think. Why is he not? I mean, not to me. He might have blogged. I don't know, but he hasn't mentioned it to me.

That seems like a very easy thing to fix, where it should just be you're not allowed to talk to anybody while they're playing. Yeah, well, the problem is to is to get like if you put three guys two guys playing heads up at a poker table how many people watch or when you put them in these arenas with all these people cheering and going crazy and it's like gladiator it's really great for ratings and this and like poker is doing everything they can that i understand but i just feel like you should not be able to get up from your seat and go talk to those people well the problem is something like that the final table can be 12 hours 14 hours and it's like you can't talk to your fucking selves you gotta you know

and some of like the most viral moments are like people sitting in their crowds cheering for that card to come in like poker needs that i can understand but maybe it's just like if you know you're caught talking about it people should just not be able to have technology yeah you can't use a phone when you're sitting at a table that has like r rfid uh like that can read the cards and like know what the cards are because then you could be like there were scandals this guy like mike possell allegedly like i mean crush this game for so long and there's people who break down the videos of him cheating and it's insane like because if you're ahead of the curve on the cheating shit you can

get away with a lot because people are not even they don't even know our fid scanning fucking right or whatever like they're not even thinking about it have you ever been involved in a game that had like uh what i say in rounders a wrencher a wrench uh no uh oh what's that uh what is the mechanics grip but i forget exactly what he says yeah we, we got a hanger, Sarge. That's what he says. I've been in games where shit's not cool. Like, because, you know, I've been playing for like over 20 years now

and I went to a lot of like underground games in the city. And I never felt anything was going on at a casino. But like those underground games, sometimes you're like something. That feels like it's just ripe to rob people. Right, but the problem is when you're living in New York City city like what am i gonna do drive two hours to atlantic city every time i want to play three hours of poker it also it also is pretty cool to play underground games it's awesome new york city you guys are running a scam on me and shit it's pretty cool

yeah yeah yeah were you was it a little before you like was molly's game was that ever with you so they just played stakes that were they're playing for millions of dollars i'm not i'm not that dude like i'm playing like you know a thousand or two thousand dollar buy-ins like shit like that where they're playing for like you know these are guys who are you know like make like they like own watch companies yeah it's like i don't know hypothetically ben affleck yeah exactly i was like was one of them that was like i watched that for the first time very recently i like this i didn't realize i loved jeremy bloom was good i didn't realize it was his sister wait who what jeremy bloom he was the uh he was a wide receiver and skier yes yes yeah he was like the first person to kind of sue the ncaa because like yes he could

ski in the olympics but he still wanted to play wide receiver Buffalo right um I forget if he sued the NCAA they had some kind of argument about whether or not he could keep his amateur status and be an Olympian I think he lost it it's crazy yeah I think he couldn't do both um but I did not I didn't realize that that was like his sister that was a wild family I mean that I mean, that tale is fucking nuts. But I've also played at games, like, in the city with, like, big people that back in the day, it was like, oh, this guy's starting a game in his office. Like, everybody's just hanging out. We got two tables, and we're laughing, and we're doing it. And then, like, three years later, it's like, that's now the biggest game in the city.

And you watch, like, the evolution and how they, and it's, and I've also been, I mean, this is a long time ago, but I've been in that and this is before like cameras were everywhere i've been in a game watch cops come in shout out cops love cops but i know cops i saw them walk in talk to the guy it's a game stack of cash and walk yeah i didn't see the cash and then like it's like you know when you're at a legal poker game the cops come in it's like like you know you're you're at a legal poker game and the cops come in, it's like, oh! Like, you know, you're like, oh, shit. And then, like, you saw how they were giving, like, pounds,

and they're like, yo, what's up? And I'm like, what? And then, like, they go, and you're like, okay. And then you're like, I'm always coming back to this game because now we can't get, you can't get busted up. And then I was at a game that actually got raided by cops. I forget if I was, I don't, no, I wasn't there at the time that it was in the paper,

but it was like Alex Rodriguez, Robert Eiler, like all these people who were like playing at this place when we got bagged. And then people started – You were playing with A-Rod? He was playing in the same place as me. Yeah, there's something to me about like – I mean maybe it's like a movie like Rounders or whatever where – It's so good.

Like it's so good, right? It just like romanticizes the fuck out of it. Yeah. Matt Damon, I think Dan Patrick showed maybe when he's promoting uh the instigators was talking about it hell yeah because like as a guy who knows a lot about poker 99 percent of time when you're watching poker movies you're like oh it's so cringy and just like this is so weird like he's like i have a royal flush and he's like i have them like shoot like and it's like there's the worm and just the royal flush. And he's like, I have them. Like, shoot. Rounders is like, oh, shit.

Real deal. And it's like, there's the worm. And just the way they did it, everything was like, fuck, this is good. Dude, is it Malkovich? Is the guy in that? Yeah. John Malkovich. Oh, yeah.

He is so good in that. When he flips like, when he thinks he has them, he's like, what the fuck? What the fuck? Teddy KGB. Oh, such a star. That era. Pay him his money. Yeah.

He's pretty good. When, like, I was probably middle school. Like, that era when poker was really hot was awesome. I'm not a big poker guy. Rounders into Moneymaker. Chris Moneymaker was like the... Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, that was so sick.

There were, like, all the sites, yeah. That was so sick. There were like... All the sites were legal. You could play anywhere. And it was every night. It was like, here's a tournament for $27. In first place, it's like 40 grand. What? Football's back.

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But I love and that's like I'm so grateful for that. Like I can, you know, like YMH has a social media team and they're awesome. And they take care of it for you. They're just. Yeah. They do all that stuff. And I just. Yeah.

It's it's the it was really the only thing that I'm like, I can't I can't do social media. My like my ADHD just gets like out of control when I'm on social media. Yeah. So you were on it at one point and then were like, fuck it? Very briefly. I remember I was on vacation with a bunch of people and some girl was taking all these great pictures of all of us. And I was like, hey, can you put those on a CD for me? And she was like, excuse me?

She was like, no. There's a difference between I'm not on social media well this was like you put those pictures on this was a while ago i think it's at cd rom yeah and she was like disc here and the way she looked at me i was like oh now i know this girl will never fuck you know i was like i just blew and i'm like i can't do this again she's like she's like listen this is when like Facebook was big. And she's like, get on Facebook and like, I'll send them all to you. Like, I'll tag you in them. And I'm like, okay.

So I started Facebook. That didn't last long. I was like, I don't like this. And then I remember like I was dating this girl and we broke up and everyone was like, you got to get on Instagram. And I was like, if that's what everyone's saying. So I got, I was on Instagram for like, again, a very short period of time. And I was like, I just can't.

I remember I was sitting up. I've been sober for 10 years. So I remember I was just getting into reading and meditation and trying to be like, I need to calm down. I need to do this instead of fucking drinking and taking pills all day. And I was sitting up by the West Side Highway watching the sunset and like trying to chill and like calm down. And I would see people when you'd walk up, you'd see the sunset and people would take out their phone, take a picture and then sit down. And not even look at it.

And just have their head down. And I'm like, you're telling people that you're watching that you're making people care that you're watching this sunset that you're not even watch that you don't even care. And I remember being like, this is fucked up. Like, I don't want to be this. Like, I don't even care and i remember being like this is fucked up like i don't want to be this like i don't want to do and i i did start getting into the the thing in life where like i'd be in a moment then i'd be like oh i'm gonna grab my phone out and i'd be like i hate i hate that person yeah yeah i don't want that i think most people hate that about themselves but they just don't do anything about it it's good to hear that you like but also kept to it it's it's different for guys like you and i don't want to say me, but us,

where you can be like, hey, that's part of my job. This will get me views, which then equals this, and it's better for my podcast or this. Where I know people even in my family where that's them, but they have 170 people who follow them and don't even really care. That's crazy to me. I really think if I didn't have this job, I don't think i'd be doing any of that right but when i see people like like they're like agonizing over the caption or or like workshopping a fucking uh cap i mean a filter i was talking about agonizing

on which filter and then they're workshopping the captions like there's like 60 people i'm gonna see this right and again there's nothing wrong with that but i'm just saying you know like there's nothing wrong with having 170 followers but then it's like when that's taking up a significant part of your brain and like your daily thoughts and this it's like it's not worth it yeah i think that's like the appeal of it is that like it's a scratch ticket like this next tweet or this next tiktok might be the one that goes viral because right i almost think like tiktok in particular I feel like it's intentionally done that way where everyone's always like,

you never know. You really don't understand it. You never know. Yeah, that's why they want you to keep fucking posting so you have that dream you're chasing. I think they just every now and then go like, hey, you go viral. And they bump the views so that it is totally random

because some of the shit that I see on there with the views that it has, I'm like, what the fuck? You know what I've heard too? That sometimes people have gone viral because like something was on in the background like like like the olympics was on in on the tv in the back and they were saying something like so dumb but because it was like the you know men's hurdle where the usa won like everyone was searching that the algorithm picked that up in there and all of a sudden this person who's just like talking about

what they got at the store has like 300,000 hits. And then they're like, I'm next. And it's like, no. And they don't understand the algorithm. They don't know that it was the hurdle. With your using – because I've been trying to use it less, and I've done a pretty good job. But the thing I've noticed that now pisses me off, instead of like media getting me mad is that i'm i'm off it but what you're exactly what you were explaining about the sunset stuff like that

that just gives me the same anger that social media does where i'm like like i'll be at a concept like just put your fucking phones down you're mad at other people yeah yeah yeah just like people in front of me and everyone's like hey you're pretty worked up i know i'm like yeah i know i've been off social media a little bit you know it'd be better if you would just take your phone out and calm the fuck down yeah yeah go scroll instagram for 20 minutes but it's like when charlie kelly's like hey grab a cigarette some coffee relax i mean concerts are ruined i mean just ruined it's and you go you're so dumb yeah like it's it's you can't because i like everybody the first time i went to a concert and had a phone like that i was at like a jay-z concert madison square garden i'm like oh

like filming stopped this and then like the next day i was like that was dumb yeah like i'm never gonna watch this i'm never and then like 10 years later people are still in the front and it's like no no no but also and now you're like i gotta get the 250 gig iphone i got a lot of pictures saving they're all stupid pictures get rid of all of them one of the all-time moments of and this is like when all this stuff kind of changed for me too was when mariano rivera retired i remember there was a great fucking um like photo of him from behind like the 42 and he's got the fucking hat up and you see the people i don't know if it's on the cover of whatever but like you see all the people in the crowd and half

of them are like this yeah and you and it's like you could have been you were at that moment where espn was filming people went to college people went to college to learn how to film to film this moment that was gonna to be out forever. And you thought, no, no, no. Let me take my iPhone 3 and capture this. And now, like, that photo is in the Hall of Fame. And you go, you're telling your kid, hey, you see that iPhone 3? Daddy's behind.

And you've got to feel like such a piece of shit. And that was one of my moments where I was like, this will never be, you will never see me at a big moment. You're that guy because every now and then there's a picture where there's like a thousand people with their phones out and there's one like grandpa who doesn't. And they circle him and they're like, this guy, he's living in the moment.

That'll be you. I'm grandpa. I do exactly, I had almost the exact same thing where it wasn't Mariano Rivera. It was whoever the horse that won the last Triple Crown was. Exactly the same thing. On the cover of Sports Illustrated, same shot of the finishing at the Belmont. Yeah.

Every phone was up. And I was like, I'm not doing that. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And it's basically like what you do with rubbernecking. Like, I intentionally don't rubberneck. I hate when I see a ton of phones out i intentionally don't put my head down i drive i'm not i'm not a hypocrite i'm not looking but so wait you you went to and then you you so now like ever since then i'm like when i see a ton of phones i'm like i'm not doing it

yeah i also the other side of it though is i i get the people who are like the people who do take the time to post the picture and be like, look at how none of these people are present in the moment. It's like, I don't know. Shut the fuck up. Do whatever you want. I don't know. I go back and forth. It's like I don't really give a shit. It's a little weird when it's literally everybody.

That's what's crazy. What I have to remember sometimes is like – it was like when I was living in Vegas. I was like, oh, yeah, people are here that maybe like for the one time in their life right so they need to remember this forever right and so it's like you know maybe like you know in my head i'm like i can go to a concert if i remember some people it's like this is the one concert you know maybe in five years that they can go to so it's like if they want to they there's also so much that's a good perspective clout is such a you know it's like if you have any sort of online personality, you want to show people that you were, I was here for the grand premiere. I was at the Jay-Z concert.

I was at this or that. And you can't repost the main photo that everybody has. You have to be like, this was mine. And, you know, I could understand some people being like, that's how you grow your brand. And people think, you know, whatever. But I don't know. It's just so annoying. I just don't fucking care.

I just don't. No one cares. I don't care enough. I'm just saying, though, I don't care enough. Was that the concert? But then I'll also be like, man, like, how is that guy so successful? And it's like, they don't ever stop.

You know, they're always making it, always filming it, always posting it. I'm like, oh, okay. But then once in a while, I'm also on YouTube watching a moment at a concert, and I'm like oh okay but then once in a while i'm also on youtube watching a moment at a concert and i'm like this is amazing but i like hate the person who's recording it you know it's like oh my god michael j fox came out and played guitar with coldplay and like you're watching it from somebody's phone on youtube and then you're like and then like the

next day you're like fuck that guy recording that moment you know so you you don't have you don't even have like an instagram i have nothing because i i feel like if you if you talk to a guy and he's like i don't have instagram do you think that's weird uh it's just like a red flag yeah it's a red flag well it's just like i don't believe it like what life are you what girlfriend are hiding yeah that's where i think most girls think that like that's what's going on but also if you met like someone older would you would you be like oh and then you would just be like he's old like like if i confirmed that he like isn't hiding anything then i'm like

okay that's cool right but but you have to like investigate to make sure he's not lying i'm very lucky in that like when i'm dating somebody they're never worried about me cheating because i'm like listen i barely want to date you. You know what I mean? Like, I want to be alone all the time. And I'm making an exception for you. So you and like, I really like all the last three girls. I've been a lot of scary parallels. I'm going to check out.

You guys start a new show together. The last three girls I've dated have been like, it's so great dating you because I don't feel ever like and like i'm not a dude who's always sitting home like there's times where i'm like i'm at a poker game at 3 a.m and she's like have fun because i'm never yep i'm just i lived in vegas for years like i i have no nothing no itches left to scratch there's something to me about like i really believe in the idea of like sowing your oats, like, getting it, you know. Because even, and I think, you don't even have to be, like, a party animal who fucks and drinks and smokes and sniffs and gambles and all that.

But there is, at least for, I think, for the average dude, there is a level of, like, I don't think I did enough yet, you know. But then when you do enough, like, you're good. You know what I mean? That feeling of, like, once FOMO disappears hundred-percent like this is great yeah you know now I'm like I'm so good just like chillin you know and every now and then there's something I'm like I wish I went to that but it's not gonna really affect me you know and then you go to it and it reminds you why you don't do something I'm me, like I'm at something

and I'm like, I should be home on my couch. I'm like, this sucks. And it's like the best. This sucks. Yeah, I just, I just love being home and chilling.

Dude, the, I was like, I was actually thinking last night, last night I fell asleep at like 9.30, maybe. Like, it might have been earlier.

I woke up to a lot of text messages, just people having regular conversations at regular hours yeah what did i have for dinner and i woke up and i was like it has happened so fast of like i was a 4 a.m guy yeah and then i was in 2 a.m guy and then i was a midnight guy but like the 4 a.m guy was for 20. And then the 2 a.m. guy was for a year. And then midnight was for a year. And now it's like, well, in six months, I became a 9 p.m. guy.

How the fuck did this happen? No, you want dinner at 4.30. I do. Oh, man. I do. When people make dinner reservations, I'm like, please say you want to do the first sitting. Like the 9.30 reservation? No. I'm like, please say you want to do the first sitting. Like the 9.30 reservation? No.

I'm like, a.m. for breakfast? What do you mean 9.30? I'm done. I'm on second dessert, and I'm in my pajamas, dude. I went to dinner last Thursday night, something like that, with a group of people. And someone in the group chat was like, how's 7? And I'm right away. I was like, done.

And then everyone else was like, I was going to say like 930. I'd be like, sounds a little too late for me. I mean, if you asked me, like, what is dinner time? I would say 6 p.m. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I would be like, breakfast is when you wake up in the morning. Lunch is like around 12 and 1. Dinner's at 6 o'clock.

Yeah, if I'm having dinner at 8 p.m., it's like a monumental thing. Like something has really, it's like a monumental like something has really it's like whoa remember that like it probably happens twice and i eat the same thing every day i just eat fucking like i'm slowly learning oh that's i guess that's a little bit different but every time you know every everything on social media is a like a medical diagnosis you know i i eat like the same food i'll get on a kick and i'll eat the same food for maybe like potentially every meal i'm talking for like 50 straight days same and people are like that's a sign of like autism and uh adhd and i'm like yeah i don't know so i think it's a sign of my life

fuck you what are you doing yeah i also i mean i'm like i think it's a sign that I like tacos. But whatever. Maybe I also need Ritalin or something. I don't know. But I'm just eating tacos. On that 50th day, I walk in there and I'm like, this place smells disgusting. I'm like, I want nothing to do with this place. And then three months later, I walk by it.

I'm like, I'm back. That's the fun of it. It's the best. When the addiction comes back, you're like, all right, I'm back in. And that's why girls know I'm not cheating too. I won't even cheat on sweet green. I'm at sweet green every day for three years. They like open the doors.

I'm the most scheduled man in the world. I never – I don't stray. What if a girl wanted to have your location on? I've been hearing a lot of that recently. Get the fuck out of here. I think – I wouldn't even – that would be the end of us talking. The relationship, yeah. If a girl's like, I want your location on i've been hearing a lot of that recently i think i think i wouldn't even i would that would be the end of us relationship yeah if a girl's like i want your location i don't

know why i've heard a lot unless i was going to a poker game and she was saying like it was for my safety and like i really actually i need to if i was like in love with her and like believed her and she was a really good person i'd be like okay i could see you wanting chances are she's lying about that to get you to turn it on and then never turn it off. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just need it for tonight. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Dude, I'm the only one. I feel like I've just been hearing it everywhere.

Podcasts and Instagram and maybe it's just my algorithm, whatever. I think it is lunacy that it's even like remotely a thing, let alone, I almost think it's become kind of like the norm. It's 100% the norm, particularly with women, but like... Well, girls sharing a little bit different.

All the girls have their locations on. I think that's even a little silly, but I get it. You might get raped. What the fuck are you going to do with your friend? It looks like she's in Brooklyn. She's probably getting raped. I don't know. If a girl wants your location and after she says that, you still want to be with her because

you do love her, I think the next step is then talking about the trauma of why she wants you. Yeah, let's work our way out of this. Yeah, you have to be like, what happened to you that you need? Because, like, the last couple girls I've dated have been my age or older, and, like, if a 41-year-old girl is asking me for my location i'm like this is a huge we're like when i was 24 like if a girl said that's gonna understand there's insecurities or this we're now like um we're at an age where it's like listen yeah i guess if somebody was like you know if they i guess if they're articulate enough and old enough

and emotionally like intelligent enough to be like i have an an issue with this. This will set me at ease. No. I still don't. I was going to say I'm trying to. I think it is patently ridiculous that it's like, I will electronically track you wherever you go. That is insane. I think all of that. The ring cameras everyone

uses all over the place now. You know what I would like to do if a girl said that to me? I'd be like, you know what I would like to do? If a girl said that to me, I'd be like, you know what? Here's my location. And then go out that night and then come back the next day and be like, you have my location, right?

Everything was good. And then she's like, yeah. And I'm like, you know, I fucked two bitches last night. I was in sweet green. I was fucking these girls in sweet green. Just saying. Fuck two.

It's like, how does that make no sense? But I was hearing, I can't remember what it was they were talking about I leave my iPad on location in my house and I go out with my phone it's like you're thinking of all these ways around it it's like I don't know

just find someone who's not fucking like Mission Impossible tracking you that is insane but also the other part I understand is like I think a lot of times girls think they've been cheated on in relationships in the beginning when a guy you but also the other part I understand is like I think a lot of times girls think they've been cheated on in relationships in the beginning when a guy was like we're not together you know so they have it in the back of their head like well he already cheated on me one time me and an ex-girlfriend

accidentally I honestly to this day I don't know how we did it but we accidentally shared locations and but then it became like you can't turn it off i can't turn it off right because what's your logical reason like turn that shit off now you do look like a psycho but again but again that's even crazy because you should be able to go hey you're like i have a homing device on me now can you turn that shit off yeah yeah but yeah we live in a world where if you asked to turn that off it would be like why do you want to yeah and off? And I remember one Sunday she texted me, and I was just hungover on the couch in my apartment. And at the time, she was very Italian. And from New Jersey, I had never seen Godfather or Sopranos.

That did not sit well with her family. Right. And they're like, are you gay? You bring a gay guy home? And, like, on a a Sunday afternoon I got a text and I was like hey my mom wants you to come over

and watch The Godfather and I was like I was laying on the couch so hungover I was like I can't even fucking lie to her she knows exactly I wanted to be like

I'm at the office or like I got something to do today and I was like alright I'll be there that sounds like a Costanza storyline

she's like I'll give you a blowjob you're like that's an offer I can't refuse it's funny you say that the guy Pabst who was just in here a Costanza storyline. She said, I'll give you a blowjob. You're like, that's an offer I can't refuse. It's funny you say that. The guy, Pabst, who was just in here a second ago, said when he was growing up, he was not allowed to watch Jersey Shore because it was like a bad representation of the Italian culture. Oh, I didn't realize that's why. Yeah, because we were talking about Sopranos and how you had seen it.

And then Jersey Shore came up and he was like, yeah, my dad forbid me to watch Jersey Shore. He said, I would rather get caught by my parents watching porn than watching the Jersey Shore. Some episodes are pretty close to the same thing. Whenever I hear Jersey Shore, they're like, I fucking love Jersey Shore. It was the best.

It's iconic. It literally is like It was the best But I It's iconic Right It literally is like You know a pillar of reality TV It's so good But like I'm a I'm a germaphobe In like a lot of ways

I have a little OCD with stuff Whenever I hear Jersey Shore My body goes Ugh Cause I think of Snooki Running around on the Jersey Shore In her slippers

And then getting back in bed And sleeping with those slippers on Ugh It any It made It kind of changed my life To where like shore in her slippers and then getting back in bed and sleeping with those it any it made it kind of changed my life I bring like my own sheets to places now like I bring I always bring my own towels like when I travel somewhere I bring my own like I clean towels at home I put them in a bag and I travel that somewhere with them cuz I'm like I cannot I also lived in Vegas for years and I saw people do in hotel rooms yeah, I can't wipe my clean face with this towel.

I just can't do it. Every hotel room is covered in cum, but Vegas ones have got to do it. And even more so, towels are covered in cum. Yeah. I mean, they're just – That's what they are. I thought they were cum towels. There's so much cum on hotel towels.

It's really – it's disgusting and i can't i feel the same feeling i get when i think of snooki with the slippers in bed i get when i go to grab a towel i'm like i can't do it i can't dry myself off here dude the i i'm i actually very recently have started to be like that like with with i don't know when it happened i don't know i don't know what the the impetus for it was i like like at night if i get up't know when it happened i don't know i don't know what the the impetus for it was i like like at night if i get up and get a snack and i go into my kitchen and like i'm barefoot and i think like damn like all these dirty sneakers have walked on this floor and now i'm gonna put it in bed yes you're an adult you've become an adult is that what it is

yeah it's like my kids run around with like fucking you know mud all over them shit all over them and then just jump around they don't think about shit and then when you're an adult you're like oh this is disgusting and don't get me wrong i haven't changed anything but like yeah i mean i put my dogs right back in my bed but i'm thinking about it the whole time but the we interviewed uh a couple times i get older i'm realizing i'm a disgusting piece of shit i woke up the other day with just raspberries mashed in my bed. Because I fell asleep with like, I was trying to eat healthier. So I was like snacking on like frozen raspberries.

And I fell asleep. And I just like rolled around in them. It was like the godfather waking up. Well, dude, that happens when you eat raspberries at 9.15. You're a maniac. What are you doing? You should know better. But we've had Howie Mandel on, and he's talked about the trauma of like – also, how many bags do you bring?

He says he brings sheets. He brings towels. He lays towels. Towels are hard to pack. Yeah. Do you freeze dry them? Do you suck them down? Well, I'm not a guy who travels somewhere for like three days.

I've been here in New York for a long time, like two months. That's how I like to live. I travel because otherwise, like I'm leaving. I'm going back to Austin in six days. It's all I'm thinking about. My whole brain is talking about it. Home is Austin? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm living in Austin now. So I'm just like – I'm all I'm thinking about is like, all right, I'm basically leaving today. Six days is not enough. Like friends would be like, oh, we should go to the Bahamas for a weekend. I'm like, for what? Like as soon as I land, I'm just going to be thinking about how I'm leaving in two days. Like I hate flying. I hate it all.

So my whole family's here. I grew up here in the city. So like, yeah, I just, I have a big suitcase and I'll put, I'll like clean one towel. Like I'll put it in the washer, get it out. And then I'll put it in like a clean garbage bag. Cause I don't want it to be in the suitcase where it's dirty. i put it in there and it's like you know it's thin and good and you just put it on the bottom and then we get and then i feel i love having my own towel so much psycho yeah full yeah like i i don't i don't deny that everything you're saying is true everything's

gross everything's germy i'm just like whatever and it's just you know what it is like people are like you think about this stuff all the time and it's like no no it's the opposite i do things like that so i never think about it because otherwise i'm like i'm watching tv and i'm like my face is covered in other people's cum like just whose cum is on my face right like i can't do it so now i bring my towel i never think about it i'd use my title i never and so like like do you freak out about like every like doorknob you touch not at all because i'm like i'm somebody who's the towel thing yeah because i'm i'm i always wash my hands before i eat or before i do anything so i'm like yeah my i i always assume my hands are dirty so when i'm touching stuff i grew up in new york city i'm like yeah i get it wash your hands after you pee uh it depends if what

what goes down like because sometimes I pee without touching. You piss all over your hands? Sometimes I can pee without touching anything. You know what I mean? You get in there clean. But usually, yeah, I just peed when I got here and I did. You washed your hands. Yeah, yeah.

But if I'm home, no way. No, no, no, never. Yeah, of course. No. Dude, despite all the thinking about it, I went to see a movie the other day. I took the subway and then I opened door handles got to the theater and ordered popcorn

sat down in my seat and was like fuck popcorn too you're just like rubbing yeah but I'm pretty persuasive with myself what are you going to do these are all things that I absolutely realize and then I just go I don't know

when I'm at a dinner I'm like uh i'm like a sniper where like i'm watching like we all sit down and like the bread comes and somebody like starts touching i'm like dead like i'm just like i'm just like eyeing the things that are dead to me you know what i mean like a napkin i'm like that's dead like i'm just all the time i'm like dead dead and this is fucking dead you're like jason bourne when he's like why i know i can run this far at this height i know where the exits in this building are. I know the clean napkins. I'm like, I know my aunt had to take the 6 train to get here, and now she's breaking the garlic knots over to her dad.

Just everything dead. Dude, I'm the almost opposite where I know what I will dead, and I intentionally don't look like. I was in the bathroom last week and the waiter came in at a restaurant. I got out as fast as I could because I didn't want to know if he washed his hands or not. He washed his hands and his hands are stroding his cat. They're both clean and dirty.

I don't know. This kind of sounds like white guy 100 years ago but shouldn't they have their own bathrooms? Waiters should have... Is it rude to say that waiters. Let's also get their own water fountains. And you can't sit on that bus. Is it rude to say that waiters.

I feel like at good restaurants they do. Like at really good restaurants. It makes a lot of sense that they. Yeah. I think it's. I don't know. It's been a while since I've experienced that. I think I'd be kind of uncomfortable if I was like in the bathroom and like especially

if you see a no hand wash yeah well yeah i mean i i would think if you're at a like michelin star restaurant i can't imagine they just put up a sign that says like employees must wash hands yeah they gotta be like no for sure separate you know yeah but i think even like mid-tier you know because like you know i go to sweet green all the time so i don't know because sweet green is just like a-person bathroom. So if they're coming in after me, it's totally normal. Right. But, like, if I'm in there and I see something, like, uncool, like, you know what I mean?

If I'm like, uh-oh, is this guy? Yeah. Dude, I've been at a, not, like, crazy nice, but, like, a fairly nice Italian restaurant in Boston before, before a Bruins game, and, like, I was peeing, and someone was putting in work in the stall. And he finished before me, and he walked out with an apron on. And I was like, oh, what?

Yeah, that's what I'm, yeah. And then you're just like, fuck, I don't want, like, because you see those videos of, like, when a toilet bowl flushes, all the stuff comes out and it's like, yeah, you want to, like, don't keep your toothbrush out and, like, blah, blah, blah. You know what I saw the other day? I think it was probably in Japan. It was a bathroom that like

after it's a single use bathroom and afterwards it like explodes with water yeah it had like of rushing water on the floor I think it was wow yeah and it like pushed like everything on the floor into like a it just dropped off and like a whatever

and I think like blue bleach everywhere or whatever it was like this is fucking this is what's up we need this shit we talked about on my podcast i think last week where i put my dating app in japan because i was like i want to see what's going on out there because every the way people talk to me about japan i'm like i would never want to leave like they're like it's so clean there's no crime everybody that they love americans the food is amazing it's it's like you get the best sushi in the world for like very cheap everywhere you want to go like everything they say to me i'm like uh-huh so i was just like let me just toss my dating app in japan and just see what happens okay dude they

love america really it was like right away you know Because here's the other thing. I remember the first dating app that I went on. I was like, okay, like I'm not doing great. And then I had another friend who was doing like really well. And I was like, he even said that I'm better looking than him. But I'm like, all right, whatever. It is what it is. And then I realized what happens is I'm a short guy, and women make a height range. So women aren't even seeing me.

Oh, really? I don't even get seen on TV. I'm just out there. You're also not that short. No, I think I'm like 5'7". For girls these days. But guess what? 5'7 in Japan.

Hey! Like 5'10". You are the king! I'm like 5'11". Yeah. I am your king now, everybody. like 510 like 511 yeah their height ranges are like 5'4 to 5'11

like 5 5 4 to 5'11 yeah they're like so I was like oh it was instant just like

that's funny full to the max the height thing on dating apps is that's another thing that I think is a little bizarrely

accepted where it's like I don't know if we just had like a weight limit on ours a little bizarrely accepted where it's like I don't know if we just had like a weight limit on ours 100% crushed yeah it was like only under 110 pounds people would be like or as somebody who's sober I'd like to be like are you an alcoholic like you know like let me know I'd like to not date you because it's it's not fun for me yeah yeah the they uh I mean the height thing also got crazy where it was like, I remember there was a couple of girls that we knew through Barstool

who were like, they would come to our parties and we would use them as promo. Yeah. Knockouts. Yeah. And they were like, 6'3 and up. Jesus Christ. Right. That's like.05 of the whole population.

Yeah. And most of those are going to be professional athletes a full foot if I was just six inches taller I still wouldn't make your height requirement and it's like it's like the SATs it's like

this college is not even looking at you and then when I went on another dating app I was like oh I'm doing so good on here and I was like oh I have no height doing so good on here. And I was like, oh, I have no height. You can choose to put your height or not. And the first one that I was on, it was mandatory to put your height. What was that? It's either Bumble or Hinge.

I don't know. Like, I get them mixed up. But I was like, oh, you're – where, like, I don't even – Bumble is whack. And listen to this. So I've been away from my podcast. I haven't gotten to tell this story yet. I've been on Hinge for like two years maybe. Because after like COVID, I was like, all right, I got to do it.

I was like three years, however long I've been on Hinge. And I've been on Hinge for so long. I've never gotten an email from Hinge. Like why would Hinge email me? So I go to – I get a house with my family in Wildwood which is Jersey for a week and we're there and about day five or six I get an email from hinge that's like you're banned from hinge I was like what like I haven't met anyone on there in months so I'm like why would I be

banned from hinge and it doesn't tell you so your brain is going nuts cuz it's like your band and it goes if you want to appeal email us back so i'm like okay yeah i'm like not telling me is crazy like it's like the doctor calling you and being like hey something's wrong call me back you're like just give me so like you're gonna be okay and uh and yeah so like i i'm like yeah i push appeal more so because i'm like i don't care if i'm not on here anymore but I want to know what you're talking about and I guess what happened was because we're in Jersey Jersey's like Sopranos is still big in Jersey

and all these women reported me for impersonating AJ Soprano no way yeah so Hinge it's me I'm on Hinge yeah like I mean I was on Hinge and you kicked me off wait you're still not back no now I'm back I sent them an email because I was like why would I be getting kicked on Hinge. Yeah. Like, I mean, I was on Hinge. And you kicked me off. Wait, you're still not back? No, now I'm back.

Okay. I sent them an email because I was like, why would I be getting kicked off Hinge? Like, I haven't met a girl in here in months. Like, why would somebody like, and even if I did, like, I do nothing. Like, how could this possibly happen? And they were like, yeah, you're impersonating a celebrity. That's great, though. It's funny that Jersey's the only place that caught it. Oh, yeah.

I was on Hinge for years. No way. No, they're like, fucking girls, you know, 40 and under are like, no, no, whoever this guy is, he's too short, whatever. Yeah. And apparently in Jersey, girls don't have height requirements, which is nice. Way to go, Jersey girls. Thank you.

Do you, so I know the answer to this now, but the, so you like in your hinge or whatever profile, you don't mention anything like that? No. I've been on like a third date and somebody stopped me for a picture and a girl's like what the fuck was that that's the best right yeah yeah and i'm and i'm like oh yeah i was on the tv show like oh by the way the greatest tv show all the time like we're gonna see right yeah yeah well i guess you're not a fan of the best i was a literal so brian it was my last name okay did i not mention that on the first date

yeah that's that's awesome though when it's when you don't when someone else comes up to you and you're like oh yeah it's this thing that i yeah i never and i've also like you know maybe when i was like up until a certain age of 23 even when people like i know you from somewhere and it was like oh yeah sopranos or someone my friends big sopranos or whatever i stopped that because i was um i forget where oh so i used to go to this place suede like this club back in the day in new york and afterwards there was a papaya on the corner on like 23rd and 7th and the best and i would leave the club early because the guys there like loved me they never knew i was on sopranos they loved me they let me go behind the counter and i would work wasted at

papaya for like two hours and i would just fucking hot. So, so I'm at a club one night with a buddy and the DJ is like, he's like pointing at me in the crowd and he's like, come up here, like to the booth. And he's like, I know you. And I'm like, oh, I don't know, man. Like where, cause I was going out a lot of the time. I'm like, maybe we like party together. And he's like, no, no, no. He's like, I know you. I'm like, I don't know, man. So my boy who i'm with is like oh he was on sopranos and i was like i was like drunk i was like oh yeah i was on sopranos and he's like uh and he's like nah like and i'm like okay like whatever so like you know i keep partying an hour later he's like on the mic like yo yo you you like i go over to him he's like you gave me and my girl free hot dogs at papaya man and i was like oh yeah

he was like bro you're the man like gave me a hug and like partied in the booth for the rest of the night like hanging out i was like this is awesome that's so funny getting in the booth and partying not because of the star of sopranos but because you gave away three dollars worth of honestly yeah that makes more sense i would love the free hot dog guy more than the guy who was you know on a show that i like yeah that that's a cool move and it's happened to me multiple times where people like i know you from somewhere and it's not from like somebody who's like your grandmother because my grandmother was like um what's the when somebody like helps people out of school i can't believe i'm blanking on the name she was like a guidance counselor type at a school where she did like everything at a public school

in the city that i went to ps6 shout out, um, she like was amazing and people remembered her forever. And then I remember like one time somebody was like, I know you from somewhere and it was like Sopranos. And they were like, no. And then like a bit after they were like, you're Peggy's grandson. And I was like, yeah. And they were like, Oh my God. Like that. And you just feel, what are the worst feelings in the world is when you're like, Oh, I was on Sopranos. And they're like, I've never seen that. Yeah. Like, Oh, like you also, it's different for you. You were,

you were young. So you looked so different and like, you know what I mean? It's not like a signature look that like some of those other guys had, where it was like, they were the exact same the whole way. Right. But yeah,

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I'm like, do you want to take a picture too? They're like, no. Why did I even ask? You put your arm around him and then you go to put your arm around her. She's like, get the fuck off me, weirdo. Okay, never mind. Terrible feeling. You're fucking tailgating at a Jets game.

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What made you come back into media? Because you didn't do anything after the finals, right? right no i didn't do anything for a long time i fucking love podcasts really i just love podcasts so much man and i love doing it but i love like i remember like i you know i was a huge tiger belly fan your mom's house fan but even before that like i was a stern guy but like i just remember being like these guys are having so much fucking fun and i love it and i love talking to my friends about and i love putting people on like i love being like yo that is the best or whatever and like i just you know i was listening to tiger belly like whenever the first episode on youtube was like they had a bunch audio and like but the first one i was like him and his brother and like there there were fuck i think

they've deleted a lot of stuff now because like like, he wants to be on network and that, but, like, man, like, the fucking, the first, like,

hundred episodes of Tiger Belly, and it's still great, but just, like, the first hundred, you're like, Bobby Lee was,

like, shoving shit in his ass in the pot, like, yo, he, it was, and he would tell

any story about anything, and it was just funny, and it was, and, like, YMH is just so fucking good and i'm like these guys are having so much fun and then i wanted to start a podcast with jamie lynn who played my sister on the show and our other buddy and we did and then because of starting that i

went and did ymh and like hanging out with tom and christina i was like this is the most fun and i also as somebody with like ocd and i don't drink and this hangouts to me are not what they used to be where someone's like, let's hang out. I'm like, I don't really want to, but like a pod where it's like come from this time to this time. And you know, you're like,

okay, there's a, there's an end. We know I could do this. We're instead of like, so what, what are we doing now? Yeah.

I love the hang. And also like now it's been a year I've been working with like Tom and Christina and like just getting a, they're like, yeah, go, go see our friends like here. And like, I'm going to a comedy club on third and they're just like what you know like it's a good crew to be in yeah and they're like oh here tony hinchcliffe is coming on your show and like this guy's coming on your show and like you're just like yeah you're hanging like a show you show up to work and like burt is has like a barbecue pit outside and he's like barbecuing meat and you're like no this is what's up yeah that's that's a

very you know we've all we've said like here where it's like, oh, if I hit the lottery, like I would not quit. If I hit the lottery, I just keep coming to work to hang out because I don't know. I like hanging out. And it's like you get to see a lot of cool people. That's the perfect way to kind of like explain it. That crew, I mean, you know, we've had enough guests and done some fun shit. And so I did home run derby, wiffle ball with Big Papi and Pedro and all some fun shit and it's like oh i did home run derby wiffle ball with

with big poppy and met pedro and all this cool shit and then i like how your two examples are red socks hell yeah yeah you know i mean for me it's like it's not gonna be with the mets i don't want to do the yankees so um but well when we you know especially recently hanging out with the YMH and Burt gang it's like so this guy is a billionaire this guy is the best sushi chef on the planet this guy is a Ferrari dealer

this guy's this that and they're all just like what's up man how you doing and there's also something that you know of like cause normally if somebody's like this guy's a billionaire I'm like oh I don't know but if you're like if Burt is like this guy's a billionaire and'm like oh i don't know like okay but like yeah they're like but if you're like oh if if burt is like this guy's a billionaire and he said there was no shirt on with like barbecue sauce on his face you're like what's up all those guys they were in like t-shirts and flip-flops they were like hanging out at the bar i was like this one this one's the billionaire yeah and it's just all like if it's again it's

like if you're in that thing and like you get and then like there is something like you start referencing ymh with somebody and it's like oh we've known each other for like a long time that's a big get this shit we actually just had a call yesterday of a guy calling up uh being like telling the story about how i had told the story and he related to it what was the story you told i was i was thinking i should just tell the story he's not gonna let me have you ever heard of cracking your dick like cracking your knuckles have you ever heard of that doing that with your dick i think so but i'm maybe i'm confusing them guys like break their dick yeah yeah yeah well i can i can crack my dick oh okay and it makes it just it makes a pop and it just kind of feels the same way as cracking your knuckles

wow and does it relieve like stress wow does it relieve, like, stress? Wow. Does it relieve, like, stress? I've heard of that, but I didn't know it was the same as cracking your knuckles. Yeah, it's kind of like in the base. And it's, like, it's the same feeling. It's, like, it's the same thing as cracking anything else. The base makes more sense to me. I was imagining, like, at the midpoint of your day. No, no, yeah.

Okay, at the base. It's where all the other things are going on. I don't know. It all meets. Right. All the meets. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Jackie, put the base. It's where all the other things are going on. I don't know. It all meets. Right. All the meets. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Jackie, put that on the sweatshirt.

And this guy was like, I was like, I fucked this girl. And I mean, he had a whole lot of details. It's like, I came on her back and I was going to get the towel. And then as I was cleaning myself off, I cracked it. And it got really weird because she was like, did you just break your dick? And I was like, no, but these two guys on this podcast I listen to said that they could do it. And she was like, what the fuck are you talking about? And he's like, so I never talked to her after that because of embarrassment.

And then I ran into her at the bar, and she said, hey, you're the guy who cracked his dick and never talked to me again. And then he slow plays it, and it ends up they ended up getting married oh wow and he was like uh and and uh the point being that when they hung out for like the first time after they reunited he was like hey do you want to listen to that podcast that i told you about and he's like we listened to all you know five straight years after that of you guys and we've listened to all 12 years of your podcast and now we're married and i was like fuck yeah you know because there is some sort of like you know uh the fans you you do like almost know each other automatically because it's like especially if you know someone's listened for a long time it's like we are the same we have the same taste you know like for sure we we can cut

the like the bullshit in between of like are we friends or not. We almost know you're automatically going to be down because we're the dick crackers. We're getting married. So there is a very – if you have a good real podcast audience, there is something to that. And then there's the stuff you don't expect too where like I didn't expect to talk about my sobriety a lot. And then you get letters of people. I remember early on we got a letter from some guy who was like i was three months clean and he was like i was about to use and like i was in my car listening to your podcast like i don't remember exact details but it was like you know i was this amount of months clean i listened

to your podcast and like i was about to fall off the wagon and he's like i'm happy to say i'm still clean and like it's awesome yeah yeah we get a lot of that where i'm like we've had people be like your show is like the reason i didn't kill myself yeah yeah yeah you should kill yourself oh this is it guess what buddy you should fuck it see i the new thing now is like this trip to new y York recently like two days ago there was a guy who stopped me on the street and he's like dude your show changed my life in ways I couldn't even describe to you can I get a picture and in my head I'm like he's talking about the podcast I'm like yeah you know it's just two of us in front of mics not a big deal really we're just having a good time and so now when anybody's like I love your show I'm like thanks you love the pod

subscribe yeah yeah like and share yeah they kicked I love your show, I'm like, thanks, you love the pod. Subscribe. Like and share. Yeah, they kicked me off the dating app. I'm like, oh, because I'm a huge podcaster? They're like, no,

because you're on fucking Sopranos, you tool. No one listens to your pod, you fucking asshole. It is fucking hilarious. The show. Yeah, the show is great.

Yeah, I didn't kill myself because of your show. I'm like, oh. It was 20 years ago. I was like, sh great. Yeah. I didn't kill myself because of your show. I'm like, ah. It was 20 years ago. It was a shit. No, no, no.

How did things come about with YMH? Because I know you had another pod before, right? Yeah. So we were doing a pod. So what happened was, actually, we were in talks with Erica at first to come do a pod here. Oh, shit. So me, Jamie, and my friend before we ever started a podcast. But what happened was Jamie was in contract with, I think, Podcast One or somebody.

And in her contract, it was like, you can start another independent podcast, but you can't work with another company. So we were like, okay. So I had exchanged a few emails with Erica, and she was awesome. And I was like, oh, I told her what was up. she was like yeah well and we were like oh maybe we'll do our year of independent like jamie had nine months left in our contract whatever i'm like maybe we'll do the nine months and see where we are with our pod and then like covet hit world got crazy and then like right out of that uh we went to do ymh like me and jamie and i just like set like on the

first episode we did i was like hitting them with like how i know like i'm a huge stoolie too but i was a huge ymh and like i'm like oh this guy and that guy and fucking tony john and like this yeah yeah they had their own you know little cinematic universe exactly so they were like oh yeah and they were like oh you know like uh got numbers after and we're like yeah we'll stay in touch and this and we're just always like i was sending them shit for the pod like i'd be like yo i think this is funny we're always laughing and had a good time and then uh i think like one live show like they were like would you come do the live show and we're hanging out the live show and then we just like saw each other a few spots and then we started hanging out and then uh when i went so i went to visit jamie for her birthday in austin and we had been kind of figuring that our podcast was ending because we were doing it over Zoom.

Because she lived in Austin now. Me and my buddy were in LA. And I was like, I don't want to do this. I don't want to do a podcast over Zoom. The worst. It's the worst. I get for like fucking. Absolute, absolute, absolute pinch for like a fucking superstar.

But otherwise, get your ass in the room. And even if it's a pinch, it's got to be like, hey, two people talking. Like once it comes to three people talking, I'm like, I don't want to talk. And it's gotta be like, you have a good connection and you can see your whole fucking face. You're not halfway across the room with an echo. And then sometimes somebody's kid is in the background and you're like, why are we... This is fucking awful. So Tom and Christina were like, yeah, let's go to lunch. And I'm like, okay, cool. They're like, meet us at this coffee shop on to lunch. And I'm like, okay, cool. So they're like, meet us at this coffee shop on the lake.

And I'm like, okay. And they pull up in their boat. And they're like, they get a coffee and they're like, let's get back on the boat. And so I'm like, oh, cool. Where's the captain? And Tom's like, oh, I'm going to do it. And I'm like, do you know how to drive a boat? He's like, eh.

And he was serious. I could just see Tom doing that exact thing. I could see his face going, eh. So he's like grabbing the wheel. and Christina's, like, bringing the buoy, like, the thing that, like, stopped it from hitting the fucking sidewood or some guy with a boat. He's like, that's not a buoy. That thing that, like, keeps it from banging against the dock,

like, taking those in. I'm like, do you guys need help? Like, no, we got it. I'm like, okay. What kind of boat are we talking? Like a fucking. I don't really, like, nothing. Just like a, you know, it looked like all the other boats I pulled up to. Got it, got it. Like a cool. I mean, just knowing Tom, I could see him pull up in a fucking i don't really like nothing just like a like you know it looked like all the other boats i pulled up got it like a cool i mean just knowing tom i guess you pull up in a fucking

yacht yeah no i think it was just sales and shit yeah it was just like a regular but and then like we're fucking flying down the lake like blasting music laughing we're hanging out and i'm like oh cool and then we go to their house and they're like oh let's go to lunch and we're sitting at lunch and then they're like we want you to do a pod for us and i was like oh i just got recruited yeah yeah i'm like i never went to college this is what it's this is what i'm like where another girl's gonna go like oh yeah yeah not yet i'm not ready yeah yeah and uh and i was like it's a great crew to get recruited by me yeah and i was like dude this is like i because i just i think also like you know and rogan says it all the time where they're like we just hate actors like actors are, you know, and Rogan says it all the time where they're like, we just hate actors.

Like actors are such douches. And I think that they like that they met a guy who's like, yeah, I was on a TV show for like 10 years, but I was like, I'm not an actor. I don't. It's a great distinction. I've been on a TV show for 10 years versus I'm an actor. Yeah. And even when I was on Sopranos and people would be like, what do you do?

I'd be like, I play poker. Like I was never comfortable being like, I'm an actor. Cause I was just a fucking idiot. You're probably should have said I'm on the most popular show did you saying i'm an actor just to me sounds in my head but i get that but you should have said i'm on the sopranos that was maybe a missed opportunity but that's not even to me that's not even like what i did you know what it's like yeah i also would watch like shames ganolfini and edie falco like what they did and i'd be like oh what i do is not that I'm not I'm showing up and

being like a prick one day a week with it while they're like studying they have fucking coaches and they're like in they're doing these methods that I don't know about and I'm like oh I just like show up and be a read the lines yeah like you know so like be my nine-year-old self yeah so I'm like I'm not like how old were you when you started? So when I got into show business, I was six. I started with commercials and shit. Sopranos. I was 12. And you were, and you were playing like a 12 year old.

Was that like, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm just playing really kid and whatever. And then, so you probably ran from like that to what? Like 22. Oh wow. Yeah. It was 10 years. We did seven seasons.

They call it six a and B I think to like, right. Yeah. Whatever. So you wanted to be an actor as a kid or was that your parents were kind of like never not at all so like i was i was walking down the street and the guy who's still my manager today i was with my dad and he was like oh like he's your your son is like handsome or whatever and but this is like before being gay was all right and like and he's and he's a gay and he was like my manager's a gay guy and my dad

is like uh you know grew up in new york city like tough kid like at the time i think was benching like 315 he's on a harley like my dad's a you know and my dad was not my dad didn't like this my dad didn't like that he's like your son's cute your dad probably had the right instinct pretty hot yeah i'm not benching 315. I don't have a Harley. I'd be like, get the fuck away from my son, man. This guy's like, I've been watching your son. And let me tell you, he is beautiful.

Yeah. So then, but then when he, so he gave him the card. And then I think when my dad gave my mom the card, she was like, of course, he should be an actor. Look at him. Like, he's adorable. And then it was like, started going on auditions, doing stuff. I booked like IBM, AT&T, Pizza Hut, a bunch of international good commercials. Just as simple as that, though, just doing auditions.

Yeah, just going in and being like a fat kid who didn't know. Dude, I was so fat. That's what I was going to say. Credit to your dad. He's not really that handsome. We kind of have the same kid. This fat fuck. I think I was actually skinny until I was like nine, and then I got really fat.

That's bad. That sucks. And then one Sopranos happened, and I saw girls maybe possibly giving me the time of day. I was like, oh, I have to lose 40 pounds. Like, at least. And I was the only, I don't know if I was 13, 14. I was the only 13-year-old in school who was like, no, I'm on the Atkins. And they're like, you're on the what?

And I was like, yeah, it's only me. I'm like, I got to go to the heart doctor once a month, but I'm really going to do it. And dude, it flew. Like, the weight fucking flew. I mean, listen, Atkins, bro, if you don't touch carbs, you will gonna do it. And dude, it flew. Like the weight fucking flew. I mean, listen, Atkins, bro, if you don't touch carbs, you will lose weight instantly. They say you could have like 25 grams of carbs. I did zero. I would go home, I would make eight hot dogs,

cut them up and put mustard on them, and then I'd make eight burgers, put fucking ketchup and mustard on them, or like just mustard, eat those, and that was it. I used to eat nothing. I would have like wings, so it would have like the bread on it, but that was it. I would eat nothing i would i would have uh like wings so it'd have like the bread bread on it but that was it i would have wings ribs uh just meat bacon all that shit and i lost i think like 30 pounds on it and i did not really need to lose 30 pounds i was i was losing weight

for my wedding yeah you look like a lollipop i yeah yeah at one point i was losing a pound a day like every day i'd get on the scale and be like holy shit It's crazy Your body is just like starving And I was a kid where you're still You're like active I was very young We need this But I also think like

When I took I think I lost 60 or 50 Whatever somewhere between 40 and 60 pounds But I think that then my body was like Oh thank you like if you go to the gym right now and pick up a 60 pound weight and like walk around with this all day like when you're fucking 12 like it's not good like you know i'm like my fucking knees are buckling at 12 like come on bro yeah i was i was in i was not in so and that just led to uh the role for you like like just regular auditions and shit it was not yeah well i. And that just led to the role for you? Like, just regular auditions and shit?

It was not... Yeah, well, it's a boring story, but my grandmother passed away, and I broke my arm. All this stuff happened. My mom was like, we're taking him out of acting for a bit. Because I was a moron in a cast,

and it was like, my friend's making fun of me. And they're like, bring him to an audition. And my mom was like, no, no, no. We're taking him out for a bit. And then my manager would call

every couple months. Like, hey, we want him. Is he ready? Is he ready? Is he ready? And by the way, this guy is still my manager today. Really? Like 35 years later.

The best. Like just the best guy. Such a good dude. So he never tried to fuck you? Never tried to fuck me. Yeah. Oh, no, no. We fuck all the time.

No, that's why I got fat. He hated fat. He hated fat cats. Yeah. He would never fuck a fat kid and then I started and then I remember

like one of my first auditions when we were like okay we'll go back was Sopranos and it was like a bunch of Italian kids and me it was like a fat

Irish kid with like freckles and whatever and just David Chase was in the room eventually in the auditions and every time I would curse he would laugh

and he was like i think that's the one this is the kid because all these other kids are like hey am i dead i'm like and i was just like can i get the out of here like you know what i mean and i'm like 12 years old man he's like that's what we need laughing and laughing and they wanted to hire all italians and me and jamie are the only people who are not italian on the show really what are you yeah i'm irish probably like german like like a bunch of shit. Yeah, I'm Irish and German too. And she's not Italian? No, she's Jewish and

Cuban. She's Cuban. That's Italian. That's what everybody said on the set. Jewish and Italian is so close and then you got your tan because you're Cuban, you're Italian. It's so weird because in the same way that I say growing up, I have two sisters and maybe there were 20 people who go how's your sister

where's your sister what's your sister doing but in sopranos there were a million people who would be like your sister where's your sister so like people are always like you didn't hook up with jamie or nothing i'm like i think my brain thinks she's my sister i don't even look at her in that way in this yeah and there's also part of me. You're lying. You're lying. I never. I would have known. If you told me you didn't first see Jamie Lynn Sigler, I'd be like, I don't have sex with that girl.

I'm crazy. And listen, I'll tell you, Dre DeMatteo, yes. I'm not ashamed to say. There were women on the set who I, yeah, but it was just, there was something about me and Jamie's relationship. And also, the guys on set were very protective. You have fucking Tony Seri, like Pauly Walnuts and fucking James Gandolfini. And this was like, you watch out for your sister.

And I'm like, yeah, of course. Like, yeah, it's like you're living the actual, and it really felt. And in the same way,

like in my family, it was never celebrated that we were Irish or German. Like it wasn't the thing. Yeah. When I was on Sopranos, boy, you better be proud to be Italian. I'm like,

but I'm not. They're like, shut up. I'm like, all right. So like in my head, like, like there are, I have certain Italian But I'm not They're like shut up I'm like alright So like in my head Like there are I have certain things

Where I'm like I shouldn't think that That's like an Italian thought You know You hear somebody say a word And I'm like he says it Like a fucking idiot And I'm like no

You're not Italian Rob Stop That is like so like You know All the actors going through the craft But you were like going through Actual formative years. I can see how that being confusing to a kid.

Daniel Radcliffe might think he's a wizard. You're like a trans Italian. I identify as gay. I identify with a gabagool. And then afterwards, you wanted to get away? So I thought that I was passionate about acting because when I was doing Sopranos, I was like, I love this. And then, but then I also obviously got caught up in like partying and drugs and like out of control. But then when I was 22 and we were done, I forget exactly how it went, but like I took some time off this.

But then when I went to do something, like I remember getting called for jury duty and I was like, I will not do jury duty. Like I can't do this. Like also, how am I going to get 15 Percocets into jury duty? You know what I mean? Like I'm on Xanax and Percocet all day. I can't not take this. I can't drink in there. So I'm like, what am I going to do? I call my manager. I'm like, you got to get me a job. Like, cause I'm not, you got to get me out of jury duty, whatever. He called me back right away. And he's like, will you do an episode of law and order to get a jury duty? I was like, of course. And you know, I, and I did other stuff like acting and other small things or whatever and i was like oh i'm not passionate about acting i was passionate about sopranos like i loved those people the cast the crew the writers the directors like they were like a family to me and i loved seeing

them i loved being around them whether we were working or whether we were hanging or whatever and uh yeah when i did other acting i was like this is not for like it's also when you start working at six and then like you're an adult and you're 24 25 and they're strangers going hey stand there uh put this on uh eat this cut your hair like this wear that i'm like i don't need you i'm italian i'm like yeah i don't need this like i don't need you telling me what to do and what not And you also probably had A substantial amount of money

Yeah I had a good And I also was like I never lived Above my means I was never like a super fish I've never owned a car I was thinking about this recently I don't think there's one other child actor who never owned a car Never owned a car

Most of them wrap around a tree I a car i've never owned a tree at all wait what i said most of them wrap around the tree coming from the fast and furious guy too he was a child actor that's true uh um you lived in la for a while or no uh not really like later on a bit but like i was always a new york guy but then i spent some time in la like it was out there for like covid and whatnot but like yeah i'm just like i never was it always shot here was that shot here okay yeah but like i never bought anything ever like if you were like what's your biggest purchase i wouldn't even know except for like buying myself into the world series of poker like the main event is like fucking 10 grand i was like

i was like this is crazy you're a child actor whose biggest expense was ten thousand dollars yeah yeah you never bought i would always like i pretty much always lived in a one bedroom like but they also paid you well i feel like i hear those like i feel like i've heard stories of people being like it's i wasn't making as much money as you think as a child actor like it depends on your residual situation it depends on a lot of things but like listen i love hbo they're great to me they're very nice over there they this but if you look at the top you know what people say 10 20 shows of all time like we are nowhere near and pay to what the other ones are because we were never in residuals like whether and that's partly because

of you know there's a lot of cursing and murder and yeah sex and this but also hbo has hbo on demand right so nobody like there's people who are like i watched your whole season last night i'm like that's a good for you and you never got on uh like tbs tnt they never did that with surprise they did um a and e did ran it i think for like one thing that we didn't i mean we got whatever and again like i'm not complaining i'm just saying when you compare it like there there are people who think like oh would you fly here private unless i'm with tom yeah the comedians make way more money right but also um recently tom was like hey i want to do this thing and you know i don't know it's been talked about a little bit now but he's like i want to do this thing he And, you know, I don't know. It's been talked about a little bit now, but he's like, I want to do this thing. He's like, will you act for me? Like, will you act in this thing?

And I was like, all right, send it. And he's like, I'll send it to you. And I looked at it and I was like, yeah, all right, come on, let's do it. Really? I did something for him. And, again, I don't know what you're allowed to say. I always hate talking about stuff where, like, I don't know what I'm allowed to say. But I think we're doing something with it.

And I think it's going to be pretty cool. Fuck yeah. That's it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's been fun. And, again, even where it's like that's been and again even where it's like i was in the dream situation where it's like with tom people around who were great they were doing a great job i was like this is not for me like you're just like i'm waking up at fucking 5 a.m

to go drive somewhere and then you have like this production assistant who has to have eyes on you all day and you're like i gotta take a shit okay you know what i mean there's like this like 24 year old girl waiting outside like yeah robert's taking a shit it's just like i just it's very uncomfortable and it's also like we got called uh a few years back me and jamie and it was like do you guys want to do a super bowl commercial you know and it was like okay like and it was the most money i've ever made in one day in my life it was the least amount of work i've ever done super bowl commercials where they were very good to me i love them yeah it was it was uh very nice but i remember like being very uncomfortable in that role of like you're the actor on set so like people are coming

to and they gave us like this huge trailer with flowers and anything you want and then and like people would come knock on the door and be like oh it's gonna be another 45 minutes do you need anything and i'm like, do you need anything? I was very uncomfortable. When you're in a podcast and somebody comes in and their fucking feet are on, this is where I feel comfortable and you're chilling and people are normal.

Where in that acting world, there's just this not, I'm like, I don't know, it feels fake to me. I don't like being around the fans. Yeah, I don't like feeling, even when we used to do our shows, our live shows, they were like, do you have a rider? And he was like, can I get some Sour Patch Kids?

And I was like, that's it, we're good. Can I not dehydrate? Maybe water and some cookies. Everyone else has these grand requests. Pick the red M&M's like you know we've talked about this before but like you would hear arguments on sets of shows in la because that's the other thing we were all new york actors right and a lot of people say when you get a lot of la actors is

when things get kind of kooky and they said um like people would argue over not who has the biggest trailer but whose trailer was parked closest to set that's because you're going i'm walking another hundred feet than that person and i'm more important than that and like we didn't even know where our campers were on sopranos like we'd all be sitting around and one person's thing smoking like fucking laughing like making fun of people and shit and like i think that was part of it like people would see us together and be like wait you guys like why are you guys. Like people would see us together and be like, wait, you guys like, why are you guys all together?

And it's like, cause we want to be. Yeah, we're hanging out. Yeah, it was never just like, you know, oh, there's that guy, there's that guy. It was like, when we would be in LA, I've talked about this a lot, but it's like, we would be like, all right, we're at the Emmys after party.

And we would be like, all right, grab four tables and pull them over here. They'd be like, no, you're all sitting over here. We'd be like, no, we're not. We're like, we're taking a fucking chair. We're bringing four tables over there. And we're like, we're getting fucking bottles of booze. But so who was that?

Like which part of the cast? Everybody. All the guys. So like, you know, Tony Sirico, who was Pauly Walnuts. James Gandolfini, obviously, who played Tony. Vincent Pastore is great, who played Big Pussy. Steven Van Zandt, who was, he was a fucking rock star in Springsteen for years before. Crazy. But all these, I mean, Johnny Ventimiglia who played arty bucco is one of the all-time

greatest hangs really oh my god man he's one of the best hangs and he's just so chill and fun michael imperioli is fucking awesome steve sciarippa is the best like and it's just and it would bug people out that like which actually it's weird because i kind of felt that here where it's just and it would bug people out that like which actually it's weird because I kind of felt that here where it's like I never I never get starstruck like I've been in the business for 30 something years

I don't really care like if you meet somebody who's cool it's like oh that's cool but like when I was coming up here I was like I love barstool and I was like

not only am I meeting some barstool guys but also it's like oh this is where like oh that's where we go through the can you know what I mean like you're like

that's bugged out like you're like this is oh dude yeah fuck it I'm gonna send Big Hat a video today

when I'm running up here he knows like I'm all in yeah I love alright so you and Jamie have the pod not today pal not today pal

what's how often is that out comes out every Thursday on the YMH network it's over there yeah or anywhere you listen to pods whatever

oh we also we gotta give a big shout out to Christina, uh, who had the greatest cancer announcement of all time. Christina. I call it an announcement because she almost did it that way. I do have a bone to pick about that. What's that?

When she's like, you should beat it. Like Hitler beat the Jews. I'd argue the Jews. I was going to say, the Jews got the last laugh, which is kind of how I feel like cancer does. So I don't know what you're putting out there.

Just like I would choose a different analogy. I think the Jews won. I think the Jews won. She texted me before that came out. Don't tell the Jews that. She texted me before that came out being like, hey, I don't want you to hear this on the pod. I want to know what's going on with me.

And at the end of the text, she's like, don't say anything nice back to this. She's like, I don't want you to say you're going to get through this. And then she's like, just talk about something different. I'm like, yeah, when she said it,

it struck such a chord. It was so funny. She's like, don't tell me you got this mama. What I was telling her would be really funny is if she started getting better. And then all the, all the well wishes made her bad. Like it made her worse.

You know, she's like, oh, I don't know. Everyone's saying get better. And now I told her you told her you're rich you'll be fine yeah of course you got enough money yeah all right dude we appreciate the time man thanks thank you so much it was a real pleasure thank you so much guys សូវាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប� Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER.

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