Monday Morning Podcast - Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 8-4-22

Episode Date: August 4, 2022

Bill rambles with Paul Virzi about sports, shopping, and airport travel.

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Find out more we can do at covid-resources.org or call 877-904-5097. All right, all right. Hey, what's going on, everybody? And it's time for a very special episode of the Thursday afternoon, just before Friday, Monday morning podcast. I have a very special guest who's out here

on the West Coast. Yeah. A man who likes his Italian food. He likes his cigars Cuban. He likes his second wife Asian. And he likes his leather white. Likes a four door sedan. And a pair of fucking brand new right out of the box.

Jordan won. Please welcome the one and only, Mr. Paul Verzi. It's so good to be with you, buddy. And I got to tell you something right when you walked out. First thing, of course, I notice is the beard, because this is the thickest I've ever seen you had it. Yeah. Dude, you're looking younger.

Skin is like kind of Hollywood baby. Yeah, do it. Botox. How brutal it would be if I saw you. And you're like, your lips were all burning. And I had to smile. Oh, god. I just came out like, is this coming out like this?

Oh, my. What's going on? Hey, you know, I heard the movie's doing really well. Let's get in good reviews. Oh, shit. Oh, my god, no expression. Dude, I'm so excited right now. Oh, my god, I'm so sad.

Oh, what kind of melancholy your face just never changes in case you didn't get what the bit was. I got to tell you something. For the first time ever, I knew what you were saying. Because you know me, Bill. I'm not one of these East Coast guys at trash LA. A lot of guys fucking out there. I actually enjoy my California time.

You came around to it. That's not be crazy for hated it. Paul, don't start off with a lie. I never hate it. Don't start off with a fucking lie. You went in on this town. Like all you guys do. No, all you guys do.

00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:14,120 All you guys do. I saw that little rundown looking. It's a bunch of hipsters. Yeah, yeah. It's a bunch of this. It's a playaos. I know.

Fucking pizza steaks. I didn't see an albatross. Oh, I haven't had a pigeon. There's no pigeons out here. I haven't had a great slice out here yet. I haven't had a great slice of pizza yet, but I've had great meals. I haven't had good Mexican in New York.

You're in a different place, Paul. You're going to go 3,000 miles away. The reason you do it is to experience something different. Not to get boar's head sandwiches or whatever the fuck you were talking about. Oh, boar's head meat. Boar's head meat. This East Coast guy was excited.

Boar's head right there. And you're like, Bill, I could get boar's head. Yeah, but I'm trying to give your town a compliment. I will say, I like it out here. So did Great Wall of China. Bad slice of pizza. Did not have a good slice of pizza. Ruined my whole trip.

That's how New Yorkers travel. No, we went to the Louvre. I swear to God, it was unbelievable. Worst Italian I ever had in Paris. Fucking horrible. Did you try beef bourguignon? What's that? It's what they do.

Dude, I went to the Eiffel Tower. The gyro's downstairs. Fuck horrific. So, but I actually, you know, I enjoy my time here. And for the first time ever, I saw what you were talking about with the driving. Because this is, this is, I got to do a bit on this because I've never called anybody on the phone

when they're in LA. And this is what you hear. Yeah, dude, so my daughter's birthday party. Would you fucking go? Yeah. We were at the christening. The priest was crying. I'll fucking kill you.

And you go, the driver's here. I saw a guy in the Tesla. Get over. That's another one. Yeah, yeah. Dude, how's the special doing this fucking asshole? Dude, this is what they do out here. I don't know if you can see this.

All right, I'll do it this way. Say here's the car, right? Here's a lane and here's a lane. When they go to get into this lane and it's stopping, go traffic, like, or there's nobody there, they wait till the last second to get in. So they get in and this part of their car right here is still in your lane and you can't do this

because the cunts out here don't know this move. You know that move, like, on the East Coast, you know somebody's going to do it, so you anticipate their move. You see it. You do that. They don't. This fucking guy's, I guess, and you beep at him.

And then when you drive by him, they're looking at you, like, what the fuck? Because they're so fucking stupid or self-involved. They're like, well, I'm in the lane. It's all about me. It's like, the back 30, your car isn't. Oh, don't get me going. No, I saw a guy in a Tesla.

It was almost impressive how he wasn't looking. I saw a guy in a Tesla X or whatever or Y, the big one. And he was, dude, it was so blatantly not looking at the road door, I was just like, Jesus. No, they have both the fucked up. The Tesla has, like, a fucking super-sized iPad. I don't know how you look at anything other than that. It's like they're fucking screening movies.

But if I had a dollar for every time I was on the phone with Bill and you've never not done it, oh, Paul, the driver's out. I can't, I can't. No, because on the surface streets, which is just not highways, they drive, like, fucking, you know, they took a pot cookie, but when they get on the highway, dude, they drive like fucking maniacs.

It's the commuters. Every day, they moved outside of LA so they could get a decent house, you know, a pool and all of that. And then they got to do that grind every day. And every time there's just a little bit of daylight, they lose their mind. They just put the fucking throttle to the floor.

Like, they'll pass you doing like 90. It's fucking insane. Yeah, no, I saw it out here and I actually said to myself, I kind of understand what he's talking about. Paul, what's up with these LA drivers? Is this shit crazy? This is, am I crazy? Oh, sorry, I got the phone on.

I never have the phone on. That's because I was waiting for a text from you and you're important, Paul. Means a lot. You're an important person. So Paul, what brings you out to the West Coast? You got a project or two you'd like to promote? I am.

I've been hearing things. I've been hearing things in the industry. Yeah, man, well. I mean, make sure I promote this perfectly. It's pretty, it's pretty cool, man. We've come full circle. Yeah, man, special nocturnal admissions on Netflix is doing great, man.

It's killing. It's doing, yeah, I don't even, it's amazing. It's people are loving it. It's great. And you got the whole new hour and you're crushing with that. You're out here. There's a new comedy club in Silver Lake.

I didn't even know about that. Yeah, I'm gonna do an 80-seater Thursday night at eight o'clock and run a new hour that I got going. What's it called, the hipster? No, it's actually the same guys that do the New York comedy club opened a replica, smaller version of the same exact style room called California Comedy Club in Silver Lake.

Are they bringing the George Foreman grill to heat up your winters as you pay at the register? That was the old one. The old New York comedy club, not this one. They bought it. Oh, they bought it. No, they saw what was going on and they were like, dude, this is, this gotta go.

Dude, I literally watched a woman handling money and then reached over and either picked up the Foreman grill lid for a case. People still ordered food, she was handling money. And I'm telling you, when I say it was like, it was sitting there like, you know, like when there's just a disheveled character in a movie with like a desk with like years of files on it,

that's what that whole area looked like with the cash register in the middle of it. And it was funny, the stool was like too high for the register, you know, and their knees are like, you know, up, it was a mess, it was a mess. I remember hearing, dude, the new New York comedy club is great and I go, I don't know, dude, I went there, that was a, and they go, no, you should,

and he did a good job. So they opened one in Silver Lake and they were like, hey, do you want to run it in front of 80 people? And I'm like, yeah, let's go, let's have a good time. I remember Todd Berry making fun of the old one, the Foreman one, and then they had repainted the thing. And he goes, how do you guys like the new paint they put here? Port Authority Men's Room Gray.

Dude, it was like, it was just overcast in the thing. It was just, they didn't have one picture on the wall. That was the old one, Paul. And this is a new one. And this is Hollywood Glitz Silver Lake. Used to be a place for younger people, and then those younger people got a little older, they got married, so now it's like, you know.

Yeah. Cooler parents, I guess, you know, in that area. It's a nice area, it's an upscale area. I remember, I had a buddy there, and there's a place that has good wings called the Rustic Inn, if I remember correctly. Yeah. Is it called the Rustic Inn?

I believe it's called Ye Rustic. Ye Rustic, okay. Sorry, I don't know. I used to call it Ye Rustic. Let's go to Ye Rustic, as long as Ye. Oh, congratulations to you too. Live at Red Rocks, crushing, funny. Is that right?

It's amazing, I used to open for you, and now, especially, what'd you do if I just fucking bubbled this whole, if I just fucking cried for five, 10 minutes, and like, and then you. I would laugh my ass off. Like, if it started out as an emotional thing, but then I just lost it, I couldn't go on.

I would hang in there for 30 seconds, trying to be a good friend, and then after a while. You start looking over at Erin, like, is this? No, I would just think all the people watching and what they were saying in the comments, and I would just start bursting out laughing. Look how uncomfortable Bill looks, and then that would be it.

I never looked whiter. I mean, look at, look at on that fucking thing, man. I've just been in an edit room for, we're almost done, Paul. How's it looking? It's looking great. It's looking great, yeah. So we got a screening coming up.

We're getting towards the end here, and then we lock the picture, and then they color it, and then they put the sound in the music, and all of that shit, and then it's football season, Paul. Oh, football season's coming. Oh, and I'm putting on 40 pounds gambling, and eating fucking winks.

Oh, dude, I cannot wait. I cannot wait. I heard your boy Jimmy G. is coming to the Giants to put a little pressure on Jones. That's what I heard. Oh, that guy, the guy who fell down? Yeah, please. Guy's got wheels, though, but.

He's got wheels? Yeah, the guy from Duke, right? Yeah, yeah, the guy from Duke, just out in the open, falling. I was rooting for him. That's up there with the white guy that dunked and held on too long and flipped. We know, like, the black guy that gets the NFL,

but he's from, like, you know, like the worst part of the city. He just went through all his shits. His great, like, story, like, one of those stories you see in the Olympics. Your quarterback is like the white guy version of that, you know? He went to Duke, Ivy League, his parents were rich.

No one said he could make it to the NFL. He kept it real as a white guy. Dad is a CEO of a Fortune 500. He committed a crime. His dad's money got him out of it, and then no one said he could make it to the NFL, and he did it. They saw his boat shoes and were like,

this kid can't play. Oh, shit, man. I'm rooting for that guy. You're rooting? Yeah. I'm rooting for that guy just because I don't, you know, what's with New York Comics? They, I mean, Comics, what's the deal with New York quarterbacks?

They fucking run into people's asses. They trip over themselves. I mean, it's just been, what happened to Joe Willie in fucking YA, Tettle? New York lost that the Knicks lost it in the 70s. Yeah, but he had it back in the 90s. You just didn't win it, dude. The Knicks in the fucking 90s was amazing.

Yeah, I guess Jordan kind of knicks that, really. I mean, it's like, how many people would have had rings if Brady wasn't around? Yeah. Dude, he just got Andrew Jones. Not Andrew Jones. That's the guy from the Braves. Oh, Andrew Jones.

He's not even playing anymore, dude. I know, but he was, he did play in Atlanta. He did play for Atlanta for a long time. Julio Jones. Julio Jones, he got Julio Jones. This is gonna be like fucking 07 again when he had Randy Moss. Julio Jones a little past that,

but I mean, it's great to have him, but. Oh, he had to go negative. No, I don't want to burst your bubble, but like. I got excited and like Tom's gonna be throwing a Julio Jones in it. Yeah, and you guys, all right. Did Edelman back? You have Edelman again?

Who? No, Edelman's retired. Are you sure? I don't, I've been in a fucking cave for three months. What happened? I thought I heard something that they talked Edelman into going, but then I don't know.

I don't know, I could be wrong. You just don't bring up to a Patriots fan that maybe Edelman's coming back. I need a definite. I don't know. Tom Brady, who knows who's coming back? Tom will talk. Oh, he's gonna go to Tampa?

Yeah. Like there would be Edelman to Tampa is what I'm saying I heard. Or like they tried to talk to him and then he, I don't know if he's. Dude, this is like Tom Cruise when he left that fucking agency in that movie. And then everybody just comes up.

Who's coming with me? Who's coming with me? Who's coming with me? No, I don't know. He could have just said no. I heard rumors of that, that they tried to get him. Whatever you were trying to do, Paul, it worked. You made me upset.

I haven't seen you. I heard Bill Belichick's going to Tampa. I heard he's gonna retire for a week and then go to Tampa. I think Tom is just telling him all the money he's saving on fucking state taxes down there. Did you hear what Edelman said about Belichick? He goes, dude, I don't even,

I'm not even on that guy's team anymore. I'm scared of him. He goes, every time I see him now, he goes, are you gonna keep doing impressions of me? Cause he does an impression of him. And he goes, I mean, for fuck's sake, he said, and he goes, I'm still scared of the guy. And he goes, I don't even play for him anymore.

All I gotta hear is impression of him. Yeah, I guess he gets real low like he does it. And I guess he did it on a sports show and Belichick saw him and was like, are you gonna fucking keep, and he said, he fucked with him about it. And he goes, I'm still scared of the guy. And they all started laughing.

He was talking to these ex-NFL wide receivers and they all started laughing. They all started laughing about that. I can't wait for that. My, I'm hanging in there with my Red Sox, Paul. I'm hanging in there, dude. We have to leave. Oh, nobody loves a last place team like you.

You, it's called being a fan. You love, yeah, no it is. You love like, hey, it's not over yet. It might not be over cause you guys make runs like that with the Red Sox. Last year you made a run, I think. Well, sale came back and then he really hurt his finger. Gotta say he got hurt.

I'm worried about the Yanks cause the Yanks are winning, but like, the Mets got us. You guys been going like this lately. All of a sudden the Dodgers have the best record in baseball. If you guys have not been winning, you lost to the fucking Royals last night. Yeah, but we beat them in the series.

I'm not nitpicking. No, no, we beat them two out of three. Oh, did you? We beat them two out of three. 20 million dollar team, of course you did. Oh, well how much is your fucking? We have to spend that cause of what you guys spend. Oh, sure, blame the drug dealer for taking drugs.

For bringing drugs into the fucking neighborhood. I love how your argument was you guys are drug dealers. Like you're some sort of like misunderstood. I know, as soon as I said it, I go, this is probably nothing right now. No, it's George Steinbrenner's legacy. I also think, you know, I believe this, that because everybody plays that fantasy football

and baseball and all that and acts like a GM and is always adding people to their fantasy teams. And it's been going on so long that Pylon teams and all that type of shit are just like nobody even like sees it anymore. Cause I was talking, I got a buddy of mine, Yankee fan. All my fucking friends are Yankee fans. And when that guy from the senators came up,

turned down like three, four, the nationals. National, sorry, the senators. Fuckin' Bill, I love it. The senators. Bill's been fucking, Bill's been fucking names up. The St. Louis Browns, they were the Washington senators twice. They left the first time they became the Rangers,

the second time they became the twins. Mariano Rivera is the greatest relief pitcher of all time. He wasn't when I said it. You got that Manny Ramirez, I'm kidding, I'm kidding. No, Manny, Manny, Manny Rivera, I'm going, man, I don't know this guy. Yeah, that guy turned down 450 million to not playing Washington.

My two favorite Yankees right now. Oh, Matt Carpenter's got to be one of them. Oh yeah, the guy who looks like the state trooper. I love that. Oh, dude. He looks like Ron Gidrie. Dude, he's hitting bombs too. And he goes up with no batting gloves.

He's a fucking man, Paul. These guys come up, they got this on, they got the fucking shit, they're hanging all over the place. Dude, that guy walks in like he just got done smoking a fucking Joe Camel, right? Won a bar fight. Do you see what his pregame thing is?

No. His pregame thing is he has shorts on, just like shorts, barefoot, shorts and a t-shirt. And he just walks around the outfield for a half hour just looking around, every game. He's just looking around at the damage he's gonna do. He just looks around and then he comes, he looks like a guy at a picnic in a field

just looking around and then he just goes in in his face. And then who's your pitcher who literally looks like some dad they took in from the stands? Nester Cortez. I love that guy. Yeah, we went old school on a couple of times. I love, dude, my whole life I've loved pitchers that just look like the fucking dad

across the street or something. Yeah, you love that guy. Gaylord Perry, C.C. Sabathia, I always love that guy. You love a kid in a mustache. Yeah, but also a guy that looks like he just fucking throws gas and then goes out and eats like a fucking couple of burgers. I'm not pitching for a couple of days.

Let's go to Hooters. Dude, Wells, you guys have had some great oddish. We had some sloppy, so we had some sloppy guys. I love a sloppy pitcher, because back in the day they had all kinds of condiments and shit all over them and they'd be doing this and doing that and fucking working the ball. You had a couple, you guys had a couple of...

No, that one had enough sloppy ones. That one kid on the Mets, dude. Oh my God, the kid on the Mets looks like they took him from the bleachers and he won a contest to be in the game. Oh, I gotta see him. Oh my, Bill, I mean, it's hard to be like, is this serious?

Dude, one of my favorite moments in the last like 20 years of baseball is Bartolo Cologne hitting that home run in San Diego. And then I loved how everybody went into the clubhouse because that's the thing when you hit your first home run and it was like fucking 25 years into his career. And they ignore you? Yeah, and he just kind of came out

and then he just literally sat down by himself just like laughing and then they all came running out and it's just, I fucking, I love shit like that. I was at the stadium, I took Lucas and I saw a home run and it solidified what we said where if you can hit the game winning shot in game seven, catch a touchdown in the Super Bowl, walk off, there's nothing better than that time alone

around the bases would just be, oh God, dude. That's gotta be, you know, cause even a soccer goal. I wanna ask a Major League Baseball player, what's it like when you're trying to stretch a single into a double and you're halfway there and you know you're gonna get thrown out? Just that. Probably fuck. And then they all try to do like everybody's,

everybody's hip to this slide. When you come in and you go like that. Yeah, yeah. Everybody knows you're gonna do it. Oh, there's nothing. And then going now they're wearing a fucking mitten. Yeah, yeah. What more are they gonna do? But the offense and the pitching in baseball right now.

They're not there in a hazmat suit. A snow suit. Yeah, you know those sumo wrestler fat things? You come up there? No, you go up in the MotoGP riding suit and the ball comes near you and senses it and the airbag goes off. No, there's, I forgot what I was gonna say.

Oh, you know, the pitching is so good in baseball now in the ERAs that they're actually talking about lowering the mound even more. And I was joking on my podcast the last episode that it's like an A cup titty at this point. Why do they keep changing things? Because offense sells the game. And when you game, you need your game.

It's gotta be a Riverpaw. You know what somebody says? Somebody goes, yeah. Can you stagnate water? People start getting sick. Some guy immediately, he goes like this. He goes, yeah, they say our game's too slow. Our game's getting boring.

Fuck you then, don't watch our game. Our game's great. Like leave the fucking game alone. Well, that would be, that would be, if people could just be happy with what they have, right? And people aren't, people always want more because they're not happy. And if they would just do mushrooms like me.

No, I'm kidding. Mushrooms did help. I said, helped a lot. Yeah, no, I'm not, I'm not. I got rid of a lot of pain. I think I just started bawling. Imagine we just both were crying. I'm sorry we went through that.

No, I said to somebody, yeah, I'm just, there's certain guys that are built for it, you know? You know what I'm built for, Bill? I'm built for first class, cause that's all I do now. You're gonna love that. And I don't know if I could afford it, but you know what? I'm not going back.

That's so funny. I'm not going back. I remember that point in my career. I'm not going back. When I moved out here and I just said, fuck this. I'll do business. I'll do business as the lowest. I was like, fuck that.

I'm flying the front of the plane. I remember my first visa, Bill. And I was like, yeah, maybe. You know, it's like coach to the, this side of the Mississippi. I, I, I tried to go first too soon, too soon. And I, and I, my fucking visa bill went from here to there. And I was just like, all right, I can't fucking do this.

I'm probably there right now. I'm probably in first a little too soon. So I did tell the people. Everybody knows you do the end zone dance on the 20 yard line. I said, there's no doubt to me that you're going to start flying first before you should, but that's what you got your wife for.

Yeah. Yeah. She'll come in. She'll make you fall. We love what you're doing on the team. Yeah. Yeah. Just make sure the ball's across the goal line. I know. Before you hold it out.

Yeah. I'm like, Stacey, it's third and one. I'm going over the top. My, my team called me like the people that booked me and she goes, Paul, I can get you in first class, but it'll be another thousand if you want to do it. And I, I just bought in two pairs of sneakers at the mall for 600 and I go, I just go,

Stacey, you'll kill me. Let's just do business. That was smart. Yeah. Especially if you're trying to fly first class prematurely and you say words like bought. Bought. Yeah. You just bought.

You said, I just bought. I just bought. You said, I just bought in two player pairs of sneakers. Yeah. We're going to have to listen back, but maybe. I thought you were talking about botany or something. No, no, but there's a lot of times I can't afford the first class,

but when it goes up to the ones where they got the beds and shit, you know, they're like, ah, it's going to be another thousand. Yeah. It's just tough. You liked that shit, right? You liked it that. I loved it that. I liked it that.

Yes. Thank you. There was a guy one time, me and Nia. We saw him. I'm going to say we saw him. But he said, you liked it. That shit. And then we thought that was so fucking funny

and we just kept saying it. I've told this story before. And then we'd said it's, it became like to did it. I liked it at that movie. We started adding shit to it. And I was in a meeting with this agent who wanted to sign me. And he goes, you know, tell me some of the movies you like.

And I told him a movie because you liked that. Yeah. I said, yeah, I liked it. I liked it. I tried to catch it. I just saw his face like, oh, this guy's dumb. When you see somebody's facial expression change. It's right here. You know that thing under the NBA?

You know the NBA with that little three second thing you can't stand it? It's right here. It's like, it's the weird. The eyebrows very moved, but this shit furrows up. And it's one of those things you can't make the face unless you hear somebody say something surprisingly stupid. And what's devastating to you is you see the respect

leave them from you. You just see, you see. Absolutely. He had no pity for me. He's like, this guy's dumb. A couple of rapid up questions. All right. Then later in the conversation, you try to say a big word.

Try to get him back. I don't chase it, Paul. I go back to the room. Paul stays there chasing it. I chase it. I try to say it. Going to the ATM. Getting a thesaurus.

I just lost out. I lost all day Sunday. I got to get the Monday night game back. I got to get it on Monday night football. I don't have it in me. I just pack it in. I just go, this guy's going to get me a bunch of work I don't want to do anyway.

That is so you and me the difference, where Bill will just put you, you're the type of guy you put your head down. You live to fight another day. You go, I fucked up me. I do. No, no, no, no. Hold on, I'll get you back. I'll win you back.

I'll win you back. If someone thinks I'm stupid, I'm like, all right, cool. You're one less person I have to talk to. Don't laugh, dude. One time, my buddy, he's an English major. He's from out here. Sean Quinn, right? I haven't seen Sean in a while, but Sean.

Oh, there's another guy goes off. I said something. There you go. He applauded. That's the Philly. Oh, good for you. You fucking piece of shit. Lai had told me that one.

Some guy, some guy went, some guy went in front. Dude, he put his half his body on. He goes, good for you. You feel me, you piece of shit. No, but it starts off nice. Oh, good for you. Good for you. You fucking piece of shit is great.

So this is how this is how dumb I fuck it. This is I said something so dumb because it's not that big of a world we're driving through New Mexico, across country with him, right? He was going to Pittsburgh. He was dropping me off, whatever. And he was, yeah, dude, look at this. This whole area over here is dilapidated.

And I go, do you have to use a big word like that, which is not even that big of a word? And he goes, what? I go, did you have to say dilapidated to let me know that you're an English major? And he just breaks down how it's not a big word at all. And then I heard other people say it. And I was just like, oh, god.

But dilapidated is only, and I don't know if I'm saying that right, but that's dilapidated. Dilapidated. Dilapidated, yeah. Keep saying it, Paul. And I swear to God, I'll lose confidence in it. Dilapidated. Say it.

Dilapidated. Dilapidated. Yeah, the way you're saying it's making me not know. I get less sure of it every time I say it. You try to blow through the word. Zlapidated neighborhood. But that's only use. You know who does that?

Bill, you ever hear a host not know the person's name? Start clapping. Start clapping right now, coming to the stage. Tony the Santa. I've done that. I've done that. Keep it going for Paul. You sound like you do the intro like you're driving by

in a car. Like, this guy, dude, he just did this. He's crushing it right now. Start clapping, start clapping. Yeah, could you try to remember the name? Add in credits. Tony the Santa. Oh, yes.

Tony the Santa. Margaret. No, I've done that. Have you done it? Yeah. Dude, I had like a complex where I was so afraid I was going to forget the next person. Because I would look at you.

I was so nervous when I first started doing comedy. As long as I've known you, I would look at you and I would completely go blank on your name. So I would literally write, if I started with you, if I was hosting, I would write Paul Verzi in my hand. Oh, because you thought you were going to fuck it up? I'd be like, thanks a lot. That's what I couldn't do with the hand.

I'd be like, thanks a lot. That's my time. You guys were great. And then as they were clapping, I'd go, all right, coming to the stage. A guy I've known for 15 years. You're getting nervous. I never like, I could host now, but I wasn't good at hosting

then because I just had so much anxiety. And the thing about hosting is you have to go up and get them. And then you bring the next person up, you go up, and then you got to go back up again and get them again. You got to be like a tour guide. You guys are always going to be great. Yeah, it's weird. If you kind of lose them on one of those going,

they lose faith in you. And it's like anything else didn't matter. It's like you had a bad game and you got to go back up again. That's how I felt. If I would ever host like years ago, one time, they were like, hey, why don't you host a stand? And then you feel like you go up and they hate you every time? Yeah, I'm not into.

I like hosting now because I like seeing the younger comics and all that type. I just did Montreal and I tried to pop in on a show right. And I saw a couple of younger comics coming up. I really like doing that. And on those things, I like hosting shit like that. But I'm not into, I also want to get the fuck out of there. I just want to go up, do what I'm doing.

That's another thing too. You get going and you're like, ah, this is a fuck. This other guy is going to talk for a minute. I'm sorry. Wait, before we get too far in the podcast, how many minutes in are we? Look at that, huh? Can a man feel a half hour?

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Like Judas Priest went to court for that. Really? Yeah, these kids did something fucked up and then they tried to blame Judas Priest rather than, you know. I love your shirt too. By the way, anything better is coming back, everybody. People are asking.

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Yeah, so I got the car, I'm in a rental, you know, and I'm driving around and I know. You get some donuts. You start jerking off and put the donuts on your dick. I'm premature. Exaculation, there's your frosting. Hey, you wanna see it glazed? No.

Hey, give me a jelly, I can't handle it, okay? There's so many problems with dicks. P-E-E-D, it's just gonna keep going. I remember one time I said something to my dad or somebody, I think it was my dad or uncle and I, it was never, never nothing wrong. Like it was almost like. A little too defensive.

What are you fucking nuts? I can't get a heart on. You wanna see it right now? I'll take it out. My dick stays hard. My dick's always ready to go. No, so I get the car. Now you get P-E-N-E-D.

I don't think you could. Well, you finally get it out. You couldn't get a heart on. Well, but you finally did. You finally got it out. It really came when it was soft. No, right, is it? It finally comes.

And it just, it's just like, it was getting too crowded in there. What are we supposed to do? It's so premature. It doesn't even. Happens on the train ride home. You just sit there and you know, ah, shit. Why did I wear sweatpants?

Ah, we're doing cum jokes. So I get in the car and I go, I gotta see what sneaker stores have to offer out here. I tweeted my last tweet right now. Los Angeles has the greatest sneakers in America. It's not even close. On my way here, I stopped. I told Stace I had to.

On my way here, I stopped. I got Jordan threes, Air Force ones. Jordan threes, cements? Jordan, no, a new one that just dropped Saturday. It's a different color. But the threes, the cements, right? Yeah, like the threes, yes. Like the ones, not the four cements, the three cements.

You know them. The ones that I love, the original ones. The threes. Yeah, the threes. The cements. I got a new one. A new one that came out on Saturday. I did.

Yeah. I bought those. Then I walked into a place. Wait, what is it? Was it 4th of July themed? Oh, now we're into August. No, no, it was actually the theme that I got was fall. I wasn't saying it's fall.

I knew it. I was actually gonna joke and say they had like, I always said cleavage, foliage. No, it really, wow, really? Cause it's orange and brown with this black thing. It's incredible. I got that. And then I got.

Wait, it's a whole sneaker like that or is this accents? No, it's like accents all over. Yeah, you gotta do that. It's nice. You don't want it to overpower. It's too much. It's a different type of look, but it's sick. It's like blue cheese.

If you have too much, it's, yeah. And then I got Air Force ones. And then I almost bought those are the uptowns, right? Yes. Yeah. But I got a different kind. That's like a black guys. If it's raining out sneaker,

he just puts on his uptowns. Cause they're not there. But now there's this hipster thing going on with keeps the other ones. There's this thing where white girls are wearing. The new thing is dirty Air Force ones. And I can't handle that. That's a white thing.

It's a trendy, like a hipster thing is to wear beat up, like caked in dirt. Fuck Air Force ones. And like even these rich kids, it's brutal. Do you know what's funny about that? When you become a slave to fashion, is that you would actually just like go out and like deliberately try to get your sneakers cool.

And then as a hipster, you have to act like, you know, they were just like that. There's nothing cool about not new to me. If nothing, I need it out the box, gleaming white. Nothing other than that. It's on your feet. All right, don't yell at me. It's on your fucking feet.

What are these people doing? I'm just saying, you know. You know, it's like, where a crispy fucking thing? Have a little respect for yourself. You're going out. It's like, what are you doing, dude? Put the chain out, cause it's a spray of cologne. Oh, you want to let Lucas into the cologne?

Give yourself in that bat. Dude, Lucas has got, Lucas is into cologne. Stacey goes, yeah, he keeps going. He goes, dad, I took it. Kid came in, he had his little chain out, and he sprayed it. I swear to God, dude, he's in. He's in, dude.

He's into cologne and shit. The influence you have on your kids is as long as you're not an asshole. Yeah. You know, he's not out there backhanded women. No. I said this, I said this, you gotta, I said this on stage the other night

and the place went nuts. And I said, look, if you're a father and your kids don't love your sports teams, you love your fucking up as a dad. And one guy got so he goes, that's right. He was like, it's like, yeah. And I said, I knew kids growing up that liked the Yanks and the dad liked the other

or vice versa. Every time the dad was a dick. Every time, I was like, oh, that's why. That's why, cause this guy's not being a dad to this kid. Yeah. That's a hard one to listen to. To look at your dad in pain. But I live in LA, so my kids,

eventually, you know, they're gonna go to school with the other kids that we're in the other gear. That's an exception. That's a tough, we know what I do is I just watch the Red Sox every night and they always say, who you rooting for? I'm like, the Red Sox, they'll be like, which one's the Red Sox?

Cause they have like 50 different uniforms now. It's gonna be hard if like, Bill Spinn. The ones in the yellow and blue, the ones wearing the red, the ones wearing the white, the ones wearing the gray, like every night it changes. Your court side at the lake,

LeBron gives your daughter a piggyback ride. It's gonna be hard to sell her on the Celtics after that. If he tried to do that, if he tried to do that, I would have hang on his leg like Van Gundy. It's ain't happening. Holding on to Oakley? It's ain't happening, fuck that.

That's great, man. No, I, my son is like, and daughter like totally loved my old truck. And, you know, there was a period that when I was walking in in the morning, I always get my son in the morning, I go in to get him and I would open the door and he would just look at me

and he'd have his head down like that. And he'd go, rum, rum, rum, rum, rum, rum. And I was like, hey, what's up? What's up buddy? He'd be like, that is truck. That is truck, rum. Oh God. That thing must look like a monster truck to them.

Dude, that thing must be. My daughter said, she goes to me, I gave her a ride and she goes, Dad, this is the biggest truck in the whole world. That's an 18-wheeler in there. It's a two-wheel drive. I think that truck's a little bigger. She's like, no, this is the biggest truck

in the whole world. So my son comes over, you know, and he sees me like, cause it shifts on the column, so I gotta watch him, he wants to start shifting. I gotta make sure I get the clutch in, right? But he comes over and like,

he sees me like when I would like, step on the gas, cause I just sit in the driveway with that. I can't drive with him. It's just, I can't put a baby seat cause it's only, it's a regular cab. So I just was sitting there going, rum, rum, and I would look at him.

He'd just go like that and he'd look at me and he'd smile. He loved it. So now what he does is he stands up and I gotta put, it's three in the tree, so reverse is closest to you and up, so I have to put it in reverse so his head can get by there and he's got a lead.

What's that mean, three in the tree, what's that? You shift on the, by the time I came around it was down here. Right, but I remember my mom and I had that one where it was this. Yeah, yeah. It was on the columns. It was three in the tree, four in the floor.

We have any fucking rhyme back then. So, so that was what cool was before the internet. So he comes over and he like, he like steps on the gas and he always just goes like, wow. And I always think it's gonna scare him. He looks at me like, all right, but he's going a little easier.

So I literally have to put my foot underneath the accelerator. So when he steps on it, I can kind of put like a governor on it. Yes. Yeah. You know, use up like 10 gallons of gas. So that'll be their truck one day if you keep it. Yeah.

Oh no, no, it is. So I'm gonna, you know, but that what made me think of that, what you're saying, like I like new shit. Yeah. Like my car, I've had my car now, coming up on six years. And what's great is the driver's seat is all like broken in,

got like the creases and the cracks in it. And then everything else is pretty much, especially the back seat. You never talk about that car anymore to me. Why not? I don't know. I've never heard, I hear about the truck, I never hear about your.

Paul, Paul, I love that car. I love that car. You love the jack? Take it back. What did I say? Don't buy anything. Good color too. You got a good color.

Yeah, you got to do it, you know? I saw something today, me and Thamless, shout out to Andrew Thamless. I saw something today. It was brutal. It was a beautiful, big, brand new 2022. What's the boxy Mercedes truck? What's the one?

Oh, the one looks like a toaster. Yeah, but this one is like, this one is like that. Is it a new one? This one is like that on steroids. And it was like sand color cream. It was beautiful. And then I looked inside and it was fucking was red.

It's a sin. You know, if the white would have popped, I mean, imagine that if you opened up, it was white or beige. That's what I thought you were gonna say it was. No. I'll tell you who's killing it with the colors. Red, you can't do it.

Toyota trucks, you see the desert sand they have? Yeah. With the black, you're fucking sick. Yeah. The green they have is gray. A lot of the Japanese cars right now are crushing it. And I'm hoping that they sell well. Any American thing to say.

But I hope they do so these other guys start, you know, opening up the colors, dude. Everything's black, white, gray. And this bullshit where you go out and get a wrap, which is, you know, that's just. Dude, I'm going almost color of that wallet is my dream. So I want a little darker than that. Like a chocolate brown.

Like a dark chocolate brown, white inside. That's the dream for me. That's the dream. Dark chocolate brown. It's gonna be hilarious. Yeah. The first time it fucking rains and you're standing outside like a fucking homeless person.

I cannot get in that car. Dude, I take the Lexus to the wash every three days. Stacey goes, what are you doing? They just detailed it. I go, nah, you're good to the car. The car's good to you. You know, she goes, Paul, it's immaculate in there. I go, you know, rains.

Yeah. No, it's just what you want. No, it's my car. Dude, I got this guy, I watch on YouTube where he finds these barn finds and he buys them. Yeah. And these old cars and then him and his team go in. Dude, they literally have like those masks that have like,

you know, like, so you don't breathe. Cause there's usually a lot of them. They'll have like lead paint if they go in to polish it. And then there's all kinds of like fucking, like mice and rats, nests and shit. And they've pissed and shit everywhere. And you just look at the car going like, you need to just burn that thing.

And this guy just fucking. Dude, I saw. Are you back? Oh my God, dude. It's insane. Like there's two things that I've been watching. I've been watching that guy's channel. I wish I could give him a shout out.

Maybe we'll put a link up. I watched that and I watched people power washing driveways. I just totally, I'm totally into it. Yeah. I'm obsessed with looking at tires. That shine. I love seeing a clean tire. It's not weird.

Yeah. Yeah. There's just certain things. We're basically two married guys. We're kids and we've just kind of left the universe and we're gravitating towards the weird things that we're into. Yeah.

No. I'm looking at roofs and shit. Yeah, I'm really. I'm listening to Indian music now. Are you? I'm fucking loving it. Are you? Dude, I found these two guys just crushed it.

Well, I found this drummer who was just, this woman was just fucking like, just her whole attitude and like, how they learn how to play drums over there is, they're not counting right over here. They're like, you know, one and two and two and two. They sing rhythms and they make you sing it first and then you kind of learn how to play.

So you're playing from here and you're feeling nice instead of being from here. And I swear to God, I've been listening to enough drummers that I can kind of like with that Sicilian verzi thing that you have, they can be like, this guy's a selfish prick. I can kind of tell sometimes when somebody is like, I'm starting to be able to do that.

Like if I listen to somebody, where they're playing from. Wow. If they're playing from like. Like what region? Like regional. No, no, no. I mean, like if somebody just did something that inspired an idea and they're able to just do it.

Or if they were just like, it's this time of the show and I'm playing this on the guitar, I'm playing this in drums and I do this every fucking night. Or I knew I was gonna do this four hours before. It's the weirdest thing. Wow. Yeah, that was weird. No, but you kind of can watch comics too.

Well, you can see sometimes when they fuck with the crowd, you can kind of tell like, he said that line before. Right. He said that line before as opposed to like, that was right off the bat. Right, yeah. Yeah. So I kind of got into that and I was trying to, you know,

look up this tabla drum and just see where this woman's like mindset was coming when she was playing on the kit because I just loved her playing and ended up getting into like these two guys, one guy with the tabla and one guy playing this giant flute. Dude, if I played this shit to you, man, if you ever have problems like you're stressed or whatever, you gotta listen to this music or you just wanna chill.

Or you just want the fucking hair on your arms to stand up. Who are you talking to? You know, I love to chill. You know, yeah, dude, this guy, I forget it. I'll stare at the trees and listen to it. That's what I was hoping we're gonna go do. Go get a cup of coffee and go fucking smoke a cigar. Well, you got stuff to do, Paul.

I get it. Paulie Hollywood's got a new, he's out here, right? I'm out here. You got your Jim Courier hat on? There's a reference. Yeah, but nocturnal admissions right now. It's doing well on Netflix. It's doing great.

Thank you. Also, can I plug some dates? No. I'm gonna be, well, all the dates are on paulverzi.com, but if you're, I'm doing one-offs. I'm doing some one-offs. I'm gonna be at the Washington DC Improv, October 19th. I'll be at the best clubs ever.

Then I'm doing the Philadelphia Punchline, the 20th, the next night. And guys, if you're in London. There's a punchline in the early. I'm performing in London for the first time ever. I'm gonna be, I'm doing something called 21 Soho to Small Room out there in London. October 7th, hopefully I'm gonna see my Giants

beat the Packers a couple days later. But get tickets. It's a one-off. It's a small venue. It's gonna sell out. So get tickets for that. And everything else paulverzi.com. Check out the Verzi Effect.

And anything better is coming back. I'm so psyched you're going to London. Yeah. And I'm bringing my family. Oh. And you know what? We're flying, Bill. We're flying first.

I'm gonna lose so much money on this gig. Can you imagine walking to the back of the plane with your daughter? Can I do this? Can I give you some traveling in Europe advice? What? Never connect through Heathrow. Ever.

Okay. Never connect through that in your fucking life. Wait, but Heathrow's where I'm flying at it. Fly to Heathrow. The only reason you go to fucking Heathrow is because you're going to London. Don't ever, ever fucking connect through that airport. Ever.

Okay. Paul, I literally got off the fucking plane. Oh, he's into it. You're serious. I had to go get my fucking bag. I had to leave the innards of the airport. Get my fucking stupa back when I used to check a bag. I had to go get that fucking thing.

Stand in line. Go back through security again. Where was your anger? At some point. At some point, dude, you must've, I mean, did you, or did you accept it? I had to accept it. It was so bad.

And I was with my wife. I was just like, this is fucking bananas. And like, at one point I was waiting for a bus. Like outside. Outside, like I was going to London and this blue bus is something pulls up and just all these miserable people are on it. And you're just sitting there hanging onto a strap

and then you fucking get through nothing and you had to go to fucking security again. It was, it was, it's just one of those things where the airport was built so long ago, I think. And it's London and just air travel has so advanced past it. It was like, it made LAX look like one of those little mom and pop airports. It was a fucking nightmare.

But I'll tell you, if you go into London and you just fucking land there. We're gonna land there. Oh my God, dude. Direct. It's, I'll tell you right now, speaking of Indian, Indian food is the shit there. Oh, Indian food's the shit everywhere.

Underrated everywhere. No, but there, because they actually, well, they're the ones that oppressed them and came up with the caste system. And in destroying them and fucking ruining so much of their culture and everything, they brought a lot of it back, including some people. And they cooked their asses off

for those fucking oppressive bastards. Wow. All right, I'm gonna eat it. I'm gonna eat it. I love that. What's it called? Yeah. What's it called?

What's that dish I like? Chick, I like the spider. Chicken tiki marsala is the white guy word. No, no, I like the chicken vindaloo. Look at you. Chicken vindaloo. Yeah, it's a kicker ass stuff. Italian, you're going off the menu.

Hey, can you be like a... Yeah. Could you make me a little... I don't like the Italians that go too far though. Like, they're like, yeah, dude, I don't get things from the menu. You know those guys? No, no, I want the, he knows.

Well, here's the thing. Here's the thing. If you're that guy, just be that guy. Don't tell me you're that guy, because then I think that you're insecure. But if I see, I've seen Italian just come in and he just orders off the fucking menu. That's one of the great things you'll see in a restaurant.

Yeah, but if he does one of these, hey, is the guy back there? Can he do... That guy's cool. It's the guy who sits down like you said and announces, like, I don't do that. I do that guy. Yeah, that guy's like, it's like, all right, buddy, we know.

That's one of those guys where it's the depth chart in his house goes him, his wife, or him, his kids, his wife. Like, you know, you get married and you have kids, you're at the third. You become, you're holding a clipboard. Yeah, I like the older Italian guy who goes like this. Yeah, does he mind?

I love that guy. That guy's my favorite. I want to see that guy in a non-Italian restaurant and just scare the shit out of some fucking northern European looking guy like me. He's ordering off the menu? Hey, is he Italian? Oh, fuck.

Hey, what's going on? This guy's gonna fucking destroy me. All right, we're out of time here. Paul, you know, you're just fucking, you're crushing it. Thanks, man. And everybody's loving you and you're staying down to earth, you know? You're not buying too many things.

You're flying first, you're treating yourself, it's all right. With the food and the travel, I want it nice, that's it. Are you gonna come by my house at some point so I can show you the converse that I got? I would love to. Yeah, you gotta see those, Paul. It's, yeah, man, dude, I'd be honest with you. Worked for you for a while, opened for you for a while,

opened for other guys for a while, started headlining, but to have this Netflix do this, it's amazing. And I appreciate all the reviews and everything. And I knew it was doing well when the bad reviews were like, I don't like the light, it walks too much. I was like, all right, it was, they liked it. You know those fucking finding something? But no, it's been amazing.

So if you guys haven't seen it, man, spread the word, nocturnal admissions, I appreciate it. Thank you for having me, man. All right, the one and only, Paul Verzi. Enjoy the music, picked out by the Trust Fund kid, Andrew Thamelis, and then we'll have a bonus half hour of a Thursday afternoon just before Friday, Monday morning podcast.

Thank you so much for listening. Thank you so much for watching. Hey, anybody in England, go see this dude. What's the date again? October 7th, you gotta go see him. And then good luck to your Giants. Oh, that's going to be great. You can see Aaron Rodgers, Giants and Packers in London.

Who's playing? Lynn Dickey? Huh? Phil Sims? All right, man. All right, we'll see you. Thank you guys. All right, hey, what's going on?

It's Bill Burr, and this is once again, time for a very special Monday morning podcast. You get an extra one this week. And as always, whenever I do that, you know, it's not just going to be me running my mouth. I always have a great guest. And this time is no exception. Please welcome for the multi-talented,

the multi-business owning from entourage Jerry Ferrara, man. I don't think there's any way I could live up to that introduction you just gave me. You're one of the guys that like, when I found out you won't, you were co-owner of that Fat Sal's. Oh, yeah. Which is this great sandwich place out here.

When I found out that you were one of the co-owners, I was telling my wife, I'm like, see, that's what most artists don't do. They have all their eggs in one basket. I love the fact that you're making money outside of this fucked up business. So- I joke with my brother all the time.

It's like, I hope one day when I'm in my 60s, you look at me like, you know, acting was great. We did great, but you know what? We really killed sandwiches. That's where we ran it in. You know what, you know why I ate there? I ate there because you're slogan. Is that right?

It says Sal's and then underneath it, it says we're making sandwiches over here. Oh my God, the guys, when they hear this, the guys at Fat Sal's are gonna die. They're proud of that slogan. No, I laugh. When we, me and my wife saw it, we laughed. We're like, we gotta try that place.

So of course I tried it out and it's awesome, but I'm 46 so I can only eat there so often. But yeah, I close my eyes when I drive past sometime. I only wanna look at it because it's on the way to the gym. So it's like, I drive home, I gotta pass it every day. I'm like, you just worked out. Don't blow it.

Yeah, it's on Fountain. On Fountain, then you got the big flat screen TVs. You always got the game on. It's unreal. For someone like me that's literally a moth going to the light. But the reason you're here is you actually, you have a new podcast coming out called Bad for Business. Yeah, it's three weeks old and it's bad for business

because I really don't know what the hell I'm doing. So, I mean, I've been listening. I didn't know, I didn't know what the hell I was doing. I've been listening to you obviously for a while now and I grew up listening to sports talk radio. I didn't have a TV in my room. So like radio was all I had, stern, all those things. So I just have had an affinity for radio my whole life.

Where did you grow up? Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, all right. Oh God, what sport affiliations are you? All right, here you want to know? Well, you know, Nick's obviously. The next I don't got a problem with that. We saw that.

I don't know if you know the next guy. Nikes. Nikes. Well, you made the right choice. And what could you say now though? You can't even really say anything anymore. What could you say? What do you mean by that, Jerry?

Like you're golden. You're good. Oh, I thought you were going to say we're doing exactly what the fuck you guys were doing with buying up everybody. No, I don't think so. I don't think so. Yankees, Giants.

No, we did. We did in 07. And look, the minute we. 07 was a disgrace. The minute we gave Jacoby Ellsbury money, to me, it's over. The rivalry is over. The minute, it started with Damon a little bit. Like that was Yankee signed Damon.

It kind of ruined the whole thing. They always go your way though. They never come our way. They always all throughout my life. I'll be back to guys like Bob Watson. There was always just guys we let go. And you guys always signed it. But I don't ever remember anybody, you know,

even like an old Lou Pinnella. We never got anybody. You never got the old Lou Pinnella or even like Mike Paggiarulo. Even like a Rick Serone. It was really an Indian, like coming our way. It always seems like they always end up, yeah. You might have got one guy, Andy Hawkins, who I remember. The only Yankee, and I remember we used to buy the helmets.

Carvel used to give an ice cream scoop in the little mini batting helmets. I remember that, yeah. And I used to watch Yankee games. And I'd write on the sticker and I put the stats of the game on the back of a sticker. I still have this one helmet. Andy Hawkins threw a no-hitter and lost to the Chicago White

Sox. Five errors, four walks. They lost three, nothing. He threw a no-hitter. You were at that game? No, I wasn't. I was watching with my little Carvel. I think it was on the road against the White Sox.

And I think Hawkins ended up being a Red Sox for like a half a season out of the bullpen. That sounds like the kind of guy that we'd signed. He throws a no-hitter and he still believes back then. At least back then we did. But I don't know, we're playing off. I got to tell you that Johnny Damon, that was brutal. And even though I know he was in what, Kansas City,

and then he was in Oakland, and then we got him. So I understood there was just something about like we finally beat you guys and that he was such like the poster child of our team. And then just to watch him go get his shave and a haircut. And get another ring. Like he was going over his parent's house. He went corporate almost.

It's like this wild child. Who had one of the better beards and hair on the Red Sox. Like he had, his beard was phenomenal. And he had like seven RBI's in that game seven. He had the Grand Sam. Yeah, he had the Grand Sam. So yeah, that ruined it for me. Like that really hurt the Red Sox Yankee rivalry.

Like to me, my fondest memory, the ending would be like Pedro Martinez throwing Don Zimmer on the ground. That was where it was at. For me, that was the height. That was the height. Did that piss you off when that happened? What did you understand?

It made me so angry. And then let me ask you this, Jay. What the fuck was he supposed to do? He's got this old guy running at him. All right, he's got these are his options. He was going to win. Either he runs away from an old guy. OK, that's one.

Two, he punches him in the face. Can't do that. Cannot. Cannot do that. Or you gently take him by the side of his head. I feel bad now because he just passed away. I know, I know. And you just sort of guide him to the ground.

That's what he did. He was in a no-win situation. There's no way on earth he comes out of that where it's like, Pedro, you did the right thing. He had no shot. He was the minute Zimmer planted his feet and charged, Pedro Martinez was in trouble. Still was not a good mom.

So then football, where are you going to football? Giants. Giants. Congratulations. Giants. I remember the greatest day of my life was when the Giants beat the Niners in the NFC championship game.

The Leonard Marshall sack knocked Montana out. Giants winning a field goal. Almost in his career. And then my uncle took me to see Home Alone in the movie theater. Greatest day of my childhood. Do you know Paul Versey? You've got to meet him.

You guys, you guys, he opens for me a lot. Is that what it is? I definitely see. I definitely know. I definitely know him. You like Paul Versey with hair. I just did that for him if he's listening. You know what's funny, like back in the day

when entourage was first coming out, for people who don't know Jerry by name, he played turtle on entourage. Do you know I actually auditioned for that? Did you? Turtle? That's yeah. That's how wide the casting net was before the end.

They were throwing darts. Yeah, no. And they got you. It totally made sense. But yeah, I was, you know, not like I'm good now, but I was really bad at auditioning back then. And that was that was it was a memorable awful one. I can't remember because it was so bad or because the show

went on to be a hit. So there was like the first season and a half. I'm watching it going like, God, every time you they'd say your character's name, like I would just sort of think about that bad audition going on. Son of a bitch. I haven't been back. I have not been back since.

But what's the deal with that, man? I got information here that maybe there's going to be a movie. No, no, we just we just wrapped the movie a month ago. We actually had to postpone shooting. Kevin Connelly, one of the guys who plays Eric on the show, broke his leg while we were shooting. The one what? I was kind of a part of it.

I've actually now told the story a few times, but it was a party scene at the beach. And we had a cameo from Russell Wilson. So and I knew I knew this was going to happen. They wanted to do a little montage of us, you know, playing a little tackle football on the beach. And I begged, they said, let's figure out what we're going to do. Let's block it out a little bit.

Worst thing to do, the two competitive, below average, athletically guys. I would say, oh, yeah, him and I is to say, hey, let's just turn the camera on and see what happens. And sure enough, you know, I go out, he drills me, he goes out, I tackle on like the third play. It was actually the most harmless one of it all. I wrapped him up.

He like tried to dive and extend the ball over the goal line and just his leg broke, broke in two places. Did you hear it? You heard it snap? I heard something weird. It wasn't like the Paul George awfulness. It was not that. Thank God.

But I heard a little something. And what did he did? He didn't know he popped up and he thought he sprained his ankle. Russell Wilson came over and said, like, you better tie those laces tight. And he worked for like two days. We're not knowing just in finally, he tapped out. He's like, guys, I got to go to it.

I got to go to a doctor and they X-rayed it. Like you have a broken freaking leg. He didn't surgery the next day. What did he, which bone? Fibula. Fibula. Surgery, screws and everything. So we had to shut down for a month, but the movie's done.

And I actually just saw an early cut of it yesterday. And it's actually good. I'm really happy. I hate everything. How do you deal with that, man? Like I said, the little stuff that I've done, I immediately realized how little, just little power you have. If you're just a performer, like I always hear a lot on set.

Like, yeah, it feels like it's going good. And then there's always that, yeah, man, I hope this thing comes together. Cause you have no idea when you're doing it. I think more like the director and the people who edit it, they have an idea of the direction it's going in. But like, I feel like if you're just acting on it, you're kind of in this vacuum where you're performing

with the other people and just hoping you're giving them what they need. I got a few things to say about that. One, I think it's like a game of opposites. Anytime I've been on a set or whether it was like an episode of Entourage or even a movie set or whatever it is, when everyone's like, God, this is great. This feels great, right?

Everyone's killing it. This one, Bill's killing it. Jerry's killing it. And then you watch it and it's kind of, yeah. And then I've been on set when there's been times like, I don't want to have any idea of this shit's work. This is the weirdest shit we've ever done. I'm like crossing fingers and you watch it.

And it's great. So you're not supposed to know. I don't think. That's kind of like in stand-up, the amount of times. Is that right? Well, a lot of times you feel like you're bombing and you get off stage like, God, that sucks. And then your buddy's out in the crowd going,

dude, people were, they were dying laughing. Just some nights you just can't, you can't hear it. But in acting, I have like a, like I have total respect for any working actor because that just seems like the hardest. I don't know how you guys get to a point, like how you get altitude in that career. Cause it's so fucking competitive.

Whereas like a comedian is difficult. His starting out is once you like build a following, like say whatever, I went to an improv and I sold some tickets. Like I don't have to re-audition at the next club. It's like, okay, this guy sells tickets. So then you move up to this next level and just, you know, provided you keep getting better,

you know, you, you, you have this thing. And now you have this thing like say, you know, I go through, you know, periods without getting any acting work, but I don't have to go back to waiting tables and all that type of stuff. Did you go through a, did you have any, like, get something really big early and then that just that awful flat line for a while?

My story is interesting and I'll give it to you the quickest version possible, but you know, I, I can't... How sick are you telling this story? No, no, I'm really, honestly, not many, everyone, no. A lot of people think like that I kind of just showed up out here, like some meathead from Brooklyn and like got cast in entourage right away. It was, you know, four or five years.

Now look, that's a short amount of time in the grand screen, but to me, young and competitive, it felt like an eternity. And I lived in this name, you know, in Burbank for 10 years, I worked at every restaurant. How old, how old were you when you came out? 19. I came out here, I did like three episodes

of King of Queens and I'm like, I'm staying and I never left. So you were smart enough not to go to college? I did, I did my six months at a college of Staten Island, a very nice community college back on the CSI. You say college of stupid Italians, we used to say, it stood for every kid who couldn't get into college right there. Now the school's, it's actually a great community college.

I shouldn't really talk shit. But I didn't have any great success. I would get an acting job that would maybe last a month. I'd make like $7,000, $8,000, which to me was a million. Oh yeah. And I quit whatever restaurant I work. I'd live off that for as long as I can. And then I just would go months without an acting job

and I'd go beg for my waitering job back. And that was my cycle for quite a while. But even then, even though five years is quick to make it. It's pretty quick, yeah. To go through that for five years. I mean, this town, you know, they talk about New York. If I can make it there, I can make it anywhere. Personally, this town for me is just way, way more like,

it's brutal. It's bleak. And brutal. I always feel like New York, there's always like, there's an excitement to that city where out here, I don't know if it's just the topography, but this is like desolate out here and that sun beating down on you.

There's no change of season. It just feels like Groundhog Day. Just every day, fucking sunshine, phone's not ringing and I can't get anywhere in my car. When it's great, it's the best town to ever live in. When it's bad, it's probably the worst town ever live in. And I always tell people, I always get a, not offended, but like, I've had a couple of people

in the last whatever year or two be like, what's like the easiest way? Like how you get into acting? Like what's the easiest way? And I'm like, the easiest way? That's how you're going to, you're going to pose the question. There is no easy way. And it's designed to make you quit.

The whole system is designed to make you say, I can't do this anymore. I'm going home. It's made to make you say that. Well, let me ask you this. Being also in a transplant from the East Coast, do you miss the East Coast? Do you see yourself ever going back?

Are you kind of settling in out here? I've had, I've had a couple of different trajectories with this in the beginning. I hated LA, you know, meathead from Brooklyn. My accent was 10 times worse than it is now. Then I guess as I got a little successful too, I got the whole good side of the town. The weather's great.

I grew to love it. Food's unbelievable. It's, it's, it's great. You and I sitting here, I'm drinking a nice coffee. We're, it's great. It's great. It's great. Recently though, and within the last year,

I've kind of gotten to the place where I'm third, I'm going to be 35 soon. You know, my family's all still back there. My nieces and nephews are growing up now. They're like, you know, six years old. They're starting to get that age where I could do stuff with them. Like I'm saying, maybe I don't need to be here

11 months a year. Maybe it's, maybe it's nine. And maybe I go to New York for two months. That I'm starting to get to that point. Maybe I go spend some, some more quality time elsewhere. Maybe I don't need to, I'm built up enough where, look, if I really blow it at this point, I'm going to have to have a serious,

a serious problem must have happened. Right. So maybe I go spend some time somewhere else. I'm at that point now. It's recent. I'm always jealous. It's weird. I'm jealous of you, New York guys,

because you can go back to your hometown and it's still a big industry town. You can't? Come on, give me a little. No, I go, I would go back to the suburbs of Boston. Now I know that they shoot some stuff up there, but it's just like, if I went back there like, like, you know what I really miss most about living

in Massachusetts is just going to a sporting event where I'm not in enemy territory. It's like, I left in 95, I was in New York through the height of the curse of the babe, all of that. That was a bad run for you. Yeah, yeah. It was all of that and, and, and.

Aaron Boone. Well, Aaron Boone never took hold because the very next year, like Aaron Boone, probably it definitely would have been worse than Bucky Dent had the next year not happen. Right. But what happened was they just sort of tore the band aid off like, oh my God, that sucked and we want it.

Thank God. But where the Bucky Dent, the Bill Buckner thing, it just, it just, it just kept like, I remember, I remember like, I was, I had a warehouse job and it was like two and a half years after the game. And just one thing in the middle of the summer, I was just shaking my head and my, my boss was, well, what's the matter?

Like he thought the count was off when I unloaded this truck. I was just like, dude, I still can't believe we fucking lost that series. And he laughed the ultimate delayed. And he laughed. No, no, I mean, I had the reaction and all that, but just like years later, you were just thinking about it.

It was just so, it was so, like, I mean, I imagine as much as 04 would suck for a Yankee fan because of all that other success you've had and then you won one afterwards. It's bad, but it's not, it's not as like, like take like, you know, I guess, I don't know, Cleveland fans or something like that where it's just like, there's just no light.

There's been no light. That's bleak. That's bleak. But now, now there's, there's not light, but at least there's a little whole, a glimmer of light has poked through at LeBron and maybe Johnny Manziel. But yeah, it's been-

Oh, that's huge. I'm hoping, I hope when he's going to be good. I want him to, oh, I'm a boy. I think it's great. It's the new era and there's some dinosaurs that are going to hate on him for a while. I think there's nothing, nothing wrong with it. But what about his size and those,

all those guys who run around? First of all, nobody's going to be faster or more elusive at the quarterback position than Mike Vick. So if, if, if he can get caught, he can get hurt. That's the only thing that I would worry about. But I'm actually a Browns fan. My parents and some other relatives have lived in Ohio and that type of stuff.

Oh, so you legitimately root for the Browns. My girlfriends from Ohio, and I just went there for the first time recently and they are the most passionate fans. Obviously, Boston and New York too. No, no, I'm all Boston teams. But for the Browns- I couldn't believe.

I like the Browns because my dad liked the Browns. He grew up in Ohio and in Michigan. So- Every year's going to be their year. So he went, he, he went to like all municipal stadiums, saw Jim Brown playing that type of thing. That's amazing. So he, he's got this weird,

I have this weird thing with him. He was a Tigers and a Cleveland Browns fan. So I have like an affinity for both of them and a little bit with the Red Wings. If their fans weren't such dicks all the time, talking all this shit, granted they have all those cups, but so I'm actually, I'm hoping that,

that he's gonna, he's gonna, he's gonna do well. One of my prized followers on Twitter. I'm not good on Twitter, but Johnny Manziel follows me. And that was one of my prized followers. I'm most proud of, of that follow. We, we actually, me and my buddies, when we went to go see him last year, when they lost to Alabama and I was a fucking,

it was a, it was just a- I'm going to go to a Browns game. I think I'm going to try to go October 12th. I think they're playing the Steelers. I just want to go witness. I just want to go see what that's all about. Those Fentons, I just can't believe how hard they show up in root and they haven't won more than five games in-

Yeah, they're maniacs out there. Like you would not want to walk out there with the other person's jerseys on. I'm going to go. Speaking of that, how do you feel about like attending sporting events out here in LA? I mean, I have, I personally, I've not had the best experience

unless you show up wearing their shit, which I'm never going to do. I kind of, I dress like a plain clothes cop when I go to the game. Same here. But like they just take it way too fucking serious out here where there's, there's always a little bit of that.

You might get stabbed. Like this is- You know about Dodger games particularly or? Dodger chargers. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then just shit I hear about. Like, dude, some guy got shot at a fucking 49ers Raiders pre-season.

I've never gone up to any North NorCal sports. Like I've never been to San Fran yet since I've lived here. Oh, okay. I've never been to Oakland. I need to go. I want to go experience it. The story franchises, they have great faith. Yeah, but you're not going to the black hole

watching the Raider game wearing the charger. No, I wouldn't do that. I wouldn't do that. Although like, I think the Raider fans took a turn for the worst when they started dressing up like characters. Back in the day, the crowd- Like wrestling characters.

Yeah, the crowd, they all look like they were in a biker gang and they were like legitimately scary. But now it's like, I'm not saying, like there's a lot of people in that stadium could fuck you up, but you got that around the leak. But those stupid characters,

man, with the spikes coming out, they look like they should be going to Comic-Con. They look like the, I don't know if you remember the movie Weird Science when like the motorcycle gang comes in at the end, the crash departs. They look like those guys. They always struck me. I saw one shot of a guy who looked just like

one of the weird science biker guys at the end. Jesus Christ, dude, you just took me out. I know, I went back. I'm sorry, I've been watching a lot of old movies. Well, speaking of movies, dude, you're in like insane shape right now. And obviously, I asked you when you came in, the second you walked in,

I had written down here that you just signed on to play two-time world champ Arturo Gaudi in an untitled biopic, which I'm so psyched that they're making this, executive produced by Mark Wahlberg. And the second you came in, I was like, are you already shooting the movie? You just, you're just training at this point.

I'm training now and I'm kind of getting ready. I'm not in the full swing yet. Like we're actually gonna go have a training camp. I'm gonna go up to Big Bear and do that whole like 24, seven thing. So we're gonna get shredded. I'm gonna do my, I personally don't, there's only a level of shred.

Like there's a mid-drift region that I'm Italian and also I was 205 pounds. We may have to CGI some shit with that. I don't know, but yeah. Wait, you would, how tall are you? Five seven if I have on good shoes. And you were 205. 204.

And what is the weight when you went to the doctor? What? When you went to the doctor and you were 205 and he says, listen, Jerry, I love the show. I'm not trying to be a dick, but you need to get down to what were you supposed to be? Like the normal for my height? Yeah.

The normal for my height's 150. I thought that would be a, What, the 1950s? For five, six and a half, he was like 150, 155, you'll be normal. And that's actually exactly how it happened. I went to take a physical to go do a movie. It's like the Hollywood physical,

they make sure you're not dying. They literally make sure your heart is beating and that you don't have any weird outward things. They do the blood pressure thing. They look in your ear. Like my mom could do that physical for me if she had to. And the guy, he was being real thorough. I'm like, this guy's looking for something to like fail me.

And he put me on the scale and I just turned 30. It was like a week after my 30th birthday. And you know, the doctor wasn't trying to scare me. He's just like, look, you're not in any physical threatening life all during the day. You're young still, but you know what? As you get closer to 40, if you go on this path,

you're going to be faced with some problems. So starting out, it's way easier now than when you're going to be 39 to do it. Trust me, dude. Trust me. And I just started. And it's been four, I'm 30, I'm going to be 35 now. And I'm at 151.

I'm in that, I'm in that range of, I guess, the proper weight for my short ass. Congratulations, dude. That's all. And how long did it take you to drop all that? It just, it's just nonsense. It's still going on. It's just been years.

Yes. You're doing it the right way. You're gradually, did you do it more diet or working out or both? Both. But I mean, at the time I was still smoking cigarettes still. I was smoking pots still. I quit all that.

Yeah. That shit, by the way, I'm 46 right around 40, man. I'm telling you, there's this weird thing where at 40, if you figured you started being a knucklehead around 18, 19, it does that tipping point where for more your life, you were being a moron. Then running around and riding your bicycle as a kid. And all of that shit, I'm telling you,

it starts like the weight just fucking takes you down. And all of a sudden, just some of the conversations I'm having with some of my friends is just, it's what would, I mean, fortunately, I never let it get too out of control. I'm about a buck 70. Now the worst I ever did, I went about 20 pounds and dude, it was all road fucking. Wait, you were up to 190 at one point?

Yeah, I was closing on 190. And this comic Keith Robinson, I'm not gonna say the comic's name that he called me, but he was a redhead who was fat and he called me him that day. And it was funny as hell, but it really stung me. And I was like, all right, I gotta go. Cause one of the running jokes on this podcast

is that I think fat shaming works. If you're in a like, I'm not trying to get in trouble making a comment or any bullshit, but it's just like, I do that to myself. Like I'll be looking in the mirror when I'm just, I go, look what you did, you piece of shit. And I just said, nobody should love you, you know, just fucking, it gets me like, I just,

I just have an unacceptable weight. Like I'm not fucking going past this. Buddy, I have a photo album in my phone that's like my workout photo album. It's all old photos that really, if I look at it, and it's not even cause I want to look a certain way. Cause I look, it's only, it's going to be what it is, bro. I'm not a pretty boy.

I'm not, I'm not a hand, particularly handsome guy. It is what it is. What are you talking about with your full head of hair? Go fuck yourself. You look great. I look at those 205 things. And that's where I'm like, that's shit. Like I don't want to go to the gym after this.

Now, were you, were you out of shape as a kid? Or did that just happen in your adult life? I always like, genetically, we always had like meat on our bones, you know, and we're short guys, even my brother too. But like I played every single sport. I, I mean, I, there was not a day that went by in my youth up until I moved out here

that I didn't do something that day sports wise. You know, it's hilarious. You're probably the only guy who ever moved out to LA in show business and put on weight. That's fuck, unless you did it for a role. I mean, I'm craft service got me. I just went, I went probably from 21 to almost 30 where I did not do shit.

Except fuck. I mean, I worked and I smoked and I ate. That's all I did. So when you, how old were you when you booked on for us? 23, going on close to 24. And that ran for what, seven, eight seasons? Eight seasons span the crossing. Now HBO does it with a year and a half break.

So span across a decade, you know, basically. Yeah, almost a decade. Oh, so 10 years of craft service. I mean, that's understandable. You're kidding? And then you start making a little bit of money. You could actually afford to take a lady out for a meal. It's, you went off the rails.

Isn't that amazing? What you used to think was a good restaurant. And then I used to be like, you know, going to the ground round was like a big deal. Ground round. Yeah. And then, then I made a little bit of money. And then what I thought was a good restaurant.

And then the second, you know, when I met my wife, then it's just like, yeah, like Jesus Christ, she'll fucking kill me. She, she goes on the internet and she knows where all the places are and all that. She's a foodie, huh? She likes the night. Yeah.

It's fun though. It is. Yeah. Until the bill comes. And it's just like, Jesus. Break a window. It's not fucking worth it. No, we, yeah, we went out the other night.

Every once, like once a month, I go out and I, and I, we'll go out and it'll be just like some, yeah. It's fucking brutal. If you can tell me, we stuttered and we just went out to a steak place the other night. It was fucking delicious. But it, the bill was, was really a no, it was really too, at two people, it was like two 80s, something.

It was, it was brutal. It was brutal. And I, did I bring it up to her? I think I brought it up to her. She got mad and said it was tacky. I said, when I was in Ohio, when I was just in Ohio, we went to a really nice restaurant and we went to the bar first and ordered around the drinks.

So like four of us. And you know, I get the credit card out. I only had like 20, I only had like 20 bucks on me, my credit cards, I go and I'm waiting and I'm like, God, this is gonna be a credit card situation. It came to $16 for like five drinks. So I'm like, oh my geez. It's what it should be.

LA would have been $60, $60 drink order at the minimum. And I'm not a cheap guy, but that was, I'm moving here. And they used to be dive bars out here, but all the fucking hipsters, they take over every one of them. Now the dive bars are more expensive than the upscale bars. It's brutal. So I want to make sure that I don't, I don't forget to promote everything.

So let me, this is actually just for me, because like I was saying earlier, just as far as how you're making money outside of this business. I just think that gives you such an unbelievable amount of power where if you have this income coming in, if the acting work slows down just for a little bit, like when they come at you and you know,

with the movie where you gotta be in drag, you only have to do it if you want to. Where like you see a lot of these guys now because I guess it's more before we talk about the fat sales thing, like in your time in the movies, like the last 10 years in the, like the whole movie industry now with the, I'm not even gonna say the name of the websites, we can watch it for free.

It's like, it's doing to the movie business what happened to the music business. A hundred percent. Yeah. So now like for, you know, people outside the business listening right now, basically how it works now is movies that have the best chance, correct me if I'm wrong, are like low budget independent things

or those hundred million dollar robot superhero movies. The in between, which is all the movies that we probably grew up loving, you know, the standby me's, those coming of age kind of movie, those in-betweens are almost not obsolete, like we don't enjoy them, but studios aren't making them. Cause their business is like two, three million dollars or less or a hundred million or more.

And that in between gap is actually proving not to be the least profitable business. And I think those are the better movies personally, but you're absolutely, you hit the nail on the head. Yeah. Cause I was sitting there one night and I saw like the, probably like the 15th A-list movie star signed on to do a TV series. It's probably why all these TV series

are so unbelievable now. It's like, it's like, it really is like the second golden age of television, like some of the stuff that's out there. And I'm really far behind. People keep telling me I gotta see Fargo and there's. I'm weird, I'm on like season three of Breaking Bad. Oh, you are? That's how far behind I am.

Oh, yeah. Season one of house of cards. I'm real behind. Yeah. I started watching the killing. I liked that. I watched the first two seasons of that house of cards. I watched the first episode. I was like, I love this.

And then, you know, my life got busy and I haven't got back to that. So you got to pay attention for that one. You can't like the popcorn and you got to like, you got to lock in on that one. You can't really casually watch house of cards. Absolutely. So all these guys, now you see like, I mean, you see half the cast of like a bookie nights

and all these movies I love. They're all on TV now. So with it changing like that, that's why I love this, this move. I mean, and you did the most riskiest thing is essentially opening a restaurant, right? And how did that all come about? It came about cause the, the sal of Fat Sal's

is a real guy. He's one of my best friends I know from New York. We always talked when we were young young, I'm talking 20 years old out here. Like we need like an East coast kind of place out here. We didn't know what it was. And then obviously, you know, he, and he's not, he wasn't in the entertainment business.

So he's a mechanical engineer, like builds buildings. And he kind of ended that part of his career and him and another friend of mine came to me with this whole plan. And look, I don't know. I'm like Paulie and Goodfellas. Like I don't know anything about the restaurant business. I really genuinely don't.

I don't cook. I don't know how to sit down and how to eat. It's exactly how that conversation went. And you know, I, they, they put it down someday and Sal's going to be a fucking shame. It's a fucking shame. Shut up by lightning. Fuck you, pay me.

No, so I just, I invested in the two of them. I said, guys, I don't know about food. I know all restaurant, most restaurants fail, but not that I feel like I owed, but like if I can empower one of my best friends, cause I'm a lucky motherfucker right now, if I can't give him a shot, why not? I went into it saying, I'm going to lose every dollar.

So I wrote a check that I was comfortable losing every cent and sure enough, the kid came through and they, I look, I don't run the business. I'm not going there making sandwiches. I'm in on everything. I know what's going on, but they run that show and they were, we just opened our fourth one in Austin, Texas.

Dude, you got to update your bio. You're killing it so much. They told me you had, you had two locations. Now you got four. Well, you got to, you had to be comfortable if your buddy knew how to build and design a building that he could make a sandwich. I mean, that's got to be a joke.

Yeah, but he also built out the places of his background and the other guy, Josh of Fat Sal's, who he's the one that came up with that we're making sandwiches over here. Right. You know, he's been in the food industry his whole life. So they were the team. And I said, I'm betting on you guys.

Cause the first one was at UCLA, Westwood. Great location. And I said, they, they have a great way of making everyone feel like it's your spot. Like you're a VIP. I'm like, these kids are going to, are going to come to hang out with you two. And sure enough, I hate to say, I told you so.

I was right about that. And then what they, they took it from there and have just, I mean, Did you guys with that, that flood? Did anything come down your way? Not luckily, not ours. But I mean, we certainly felt some of the effects of it, but it didn't, it didn't hit our spot.

But, but people listening all over. There was a water main break. Crazy. Crazy. Like one of those 10 foot pipes. You could drive a truck through. Yeah. Broke.

You know, it's not no big deal. We just steal the water here. Little things. And you know, we have so much water in LA anyway. So tell me, tell me about this. I'm jumping all around. No, it's okay. I'm scatterbrained here, but.

So there's Arturo Gatti movie now is, is this is going to be, it's going to go all the way. Obviously going to go to the, I don't want to ruin the end of the movie, but I know how his life is. Right. And, and, and that's the thing. Which is really sort of like open ended as to whether,

was it, was it officially ruled like a suicide? It was officially ruled a suicide. Arturo Gatti at the, after he retired, you know, he, he went to Brazil and with his wife at the time, they were going to send the kid and he was found dead and the government there of you ruled it. It was ruled a suicide. She was, his wife was actually in jail on trial for the

murder and she was not guilty, acquitted. And now she's back here. You know, while we will not be able to literally make the movie and say she killed him, the goal of the movie without giving away all, all too much is if we tell this guy's story correctly, you as an audience member will be able to walk out saying, there's no, no fucking way.

He hung himself with a pocketbook strap from the, the staircase and ended up under the island of the kitchen. Like I have the reports. It's, it's mind blowing the, the way they say it went down. So this movie's being made because his longtime manager to Pat Lynch, great guy. He's actually in the documentary a lot. The Gattie Ward tale, the HBO documentary that Walberg

voiced over. And I'm in the greatest fights of the last, was that last century was over the nineties, like 98. No, I think it was early 2002 was the first fight. And I remember I watched that fight live. Was that Mohegan son, 2000 people there and Jim Lampley actually says in the fight, man, he's like, man, I bet you these 2000 people did not realize they were

walking into maybe the best fight they'll ever see in their life. He was commentating the fight and he was just saying, he's looking around the small little arena, 2000 people. He's like, I bet the 2000 people. Are you watching it on a big screen or are you at the fight? No, I was watching it at home. Oh, okay.

Here, probably on break from working in Boston markets. Stone probably watching the fight with some mac and cheese. And, you know, Mark played Mickey Ward in the fighter. And it's a great, great movie. And I love Mickey Ward as well. And, you know, they weren't at a place really to get into the Gattie Ward stuff. So I think this is kind of, that's why I think that's why

Mark wanted to be involved is that's the next step is showing that bromance, the ultimate bromance of Arturo and Mickey Ward. Right. And there's all those movies, boxing movies is just, I mean, I'm a sucker for those. Like that to me, that's like the modern day Western. Like when I was a kid, I used to always watch Westerns

with my dad because he loved those. And then, the Rocky movies, they started off good. They got a little, they got a little crazy, but, but you know what was cool about the Rocky? All of them was the premise of each story. Like I love, I can't even remember which one. There was so many of them. I'm an expert.

We're talking to me. I got the Russian one. The Russian one was a little, that was a little ridiculous. But the one where he's coming back, like he's lost all his money. That is six. Rocky five. That's five.

What Tommy Morrison. Yeah. And that, what I loved about that, I'm not saying, you know, when it goes back to Philly, what, yeah. And what I love about that one is just the premise of it that they, they aged the character with Stallone. Like I thought they did a really good job and they kind of did like a good trajectory of it. I'm not saying they executed.

This is what you got to do nowadays because there's so many fucking people out there that are going to take, you actually think that's a good fucking movie. I'm just saying like with the jump off point for where they were going with that. Dude, that's hilarious. You watched all of those.

I watched all of them. Let's also take a moment and realize one thing about how great, how far we've come. If we tried to make Rocky one now at the love story part with Rocky, Rocky essentially rapes Adrian when he has her at the house. She tries to get out. He slams the door and he the famous shit.

Like he puts his arms up on the pipe and the wife be and he won't let her leave. She's trying to leave. She's like, let me go. And he's like, no, you, where you going? No, you guys, he basically date rapes. He doesn't let her leave. Yeah, there's a lot of that.

It's like, dude, let her go. She doesn't want to be there. There's a lot of that back in the day. I guess I shouldn't be laughing at this. It's just fucking, just the fact that that one, what it won, you won the Oscar. Did it also win? I think it won best picture, best screenplay.

I think it was almost a sweep. Jesus Christ. I forgot all that shit was in the 50s. You got to be, are you a sports movie yourself where they'd slap the shit out of them? Like I thought that that was just in the 50s. Are you a sports movie guy or no? Some of them I like and I, if they're done in a way,

if they're not too cliched, it's very hard at this point. Now it's almost impossible. I didn't, I'll have issues like say that movie Rudy, love the story, loved it and all of that. But when you saw the actor they picked and then the end they showed the real guy, you saw the real guy and even though he's small, you're looking like, dude, that guy's a fucking animal, man.

I would not want that guy running at me. Like I can see how that guy had a heart of a lion, but just, you know. Do you know how hard I would have fought if they were making that movie right now to play Rudy? I would have been me and Sean Aston head to head battle. I would have, oh my Lord. I would have starroids for that movie.

Absolutely. Yeah, nowadays, nowadays they're not that bad. You do one cycle. I go as Rudy every Halloween. That's my Halloween. I get to put on Notre Dame jacket and I hold a Bible. No, you don't. Yes, I do.

Uh-huh, that's my go-to. That and Schneider from one day at a time. Dude, so you basically, you love acting the way I love stand up? 100% like, I don't know about you, but acting was just my way into movies and TV. I didn't, I could have easily been an editor and I would have been almost equally as happy.

I wouldn't have had a lot of cool stories that I have now with acting, but it was something in TV or movies, whatever it was. I just, and acting was what I landed on. Well, speaking of that type of stuff, meeting all these people, all those years and all those seasons on Entourage, who was your favorite guest star?

Cause you guys had some monsters on that show. God, it's, and I know people always try to take a high road and I want to single out one person. I'm not doing that. Give me a hand forward, whatever, give me. I mean, I love James Cameron only because I think he like legitimized the fake world that we created.

Like James Cameron on the show was directing Aquaman. And so he like, when he came on, he legitimized our fake world, our fake universe. But I mean, I loved like Bob Saget. We had the whole cast of Full House at one point. We had dice on there. Dice was great. Dice was phenomenal.

And just, I never, if you had told me when I was a little kid sneaking the dice tapes with my brother listening to him, that I'd be acting when Andrew Dice Clay, I would have punched you in the nuts. No, people don't understand like the impact that guy had. Oh, and learned. I saw Dice Clay at the Worcester's Centrum.

This is like where like the Celtics could have done a home game if they wanted to. I was like second to last row in the upper deck. And he came out and destroyed. And in the end, he did his impressions. And then I swear to God, he played a drum solo. I'm not even lying. Like this, it was like he could do no, no rung.

And it's so hard now with all the internet and all the fucking podcasts and all this shit for somebody to have an impact and get that big. And that's one of his son is one of the best drummers I've ever seen. Son Max, you talk about, you mentioned the job. His son is unreal on the drums. Like we'll knock your head off with the drums.

There you go. Random point. We've had so many cool, I mean, I always describe it like this. Like we had one day on entourage where I don't think any other show would ever do this on the call sheet. You six AM call. At six AM, we were working with Sidney Pollack, great actor, director.

And then after lunch, we're doing a scene with Kanye West. It's like, wherever, are you going to, in one day, are you going to do scenes with Sidney Pollack in the morning and Kanye West in the afternoon? That was one of the coolest parts of the job. That's awesome. How crazy is Bob Saget? I love him.

I'm obsessed with him. And he did something really cool. My nephew, who's now watching Full House, my mom bought him all the DVDs. It's his favorite show. He's five years old. He wants to call me Uncle Jesse. He asked me.

He's like, I call you Uncle Jesse instead of Uncle Jerry? I'm like, yeah, sure. So I tweeted that. And Bob, who Bob saw, he must follow me and wrote DM me, like, look, if the kid's ever in town, bring him to Fat Sal's, I'll call me. I'm like, Bob, if my nephew sees the real you, he might see the first five-year-old heart

attack of whatever. He might just fall on the floor. So he's a great guy. I did a benefit with Saget last week. And that guy, he's out of his fucking mind. Love him. He goes on stage. And he starts wishing the disease we're trying to stop.

He's wishing the disease on the club owner. And it's the funniest, like, five minutes I've seen in a while. And the crowd's all, like, uncomfortable and squirming. There's, of course, a couple of people that get it, that he's just joking around. But he goes up, and he's fucking, he just goes up and riffs. So he'll talk himself into a hole.

And he just, no, he just keeps digging it. He doesn't try to get out. He goes, he tries to dig all the way through and come out the other side down in China. And that's what he did. He felt him going. And he just kept, he's out of his mind. One of my favorite comics to watch because of that style

and then also because of all the people that watched Full House. And they still think there's going to be this. And America's funny, his home. Yeah, that there's going to be this. Forget that. Yeah, this family sort of like entertainment kind of thing. Last quick Bob thing. And Doug Allen actually said, the creator of Answer,

I said this on my podcast. When he went to Bob Saget to do the show, Doug wanted to play Bob as like broke, like broke, like living somewhere. And Bob's like, look, Doug, I'll do any one thing I won't do. I won't play broke. Because I won't play. So Doug was like, all right, well, what about,

would you like to have sex with prostitutes? He's like, yes, he done easily, but I won't play broke. He would not play down on his luck, broke Bob. But he's like, I'll have, yeah. Why not? I'll have sex with prostitutes. Yeah, of course. Oh, because he just thought it was a.

He didn't want to do it. That was like his one, I'm not playing broke. Because that, like I'm, it just doesn't fit what I do. That's also, that's probably a smart move too, because so many people would think that he actually did that. Where if you just do the prostitute thing, like this with his comedy a little bit, I guess, like, and if you, if you know him,

you know, you don't really take that seriously. But you maybe kind of wonder in the back of your mind, like, wait, maybe. No, he's great. You know, Jesus, all these memories are coming back. I was, I was walking my dog and there's a house that I walked by that you guys, I didn't even realize I was watching a rerun and you guys shot without Ralph Machio there.

Oh God, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, yes, Kevin Dillon too. Yeah, and of course, you know, Ralph was hilarious. And every time I swear to God, like I walked by that thing like 15 times. Every time I go by it, like nine times out of the 15, I'll be like, we asked him to do the rough Machio stood right in the way to do the crease.

Shut us down on the crane kick. What is it? Oh, the famous Daniel LaRusso crane kick at the end that he hits Johnny with. We said, will you do the cranky? He's like, no, won't do it. And you only asked once, right? Oh, yeah, yeah, out of respect, of course.

Yes. Once he says, no, we really tried to never make anyone uncomfortable if you if a cameo came on, like they really had control of what how far they wanted. Yeah, it was never done like you're in on the joke. We're not trying to make you look like a dick. If you're uncomfortable, either don't do it or we'll change it. Doug was always great about that.

That's awesome. Well, I had an awesome time finally getting me. I know I met you briefly, but I'm really happy for all your success here. But we didn't really get to talk too much about your podcast. What is it? Just you? Is it going to be like another it's it's just me, but I do.

I do have guests a lot to be heavy sports. I'm going to get it is, you know, I'm trying right now, not to because it is the dog days of summer. And, you know, there's no football. There's no hoop. So I'm really I'm every time I every show at some point, I say, I'm not going to talk about sports because the minute, you know, October comes around, it's probably going to transition

into that a lot. Oh, absolutely. So, but we're doing some fun sports things. We got like the Sports Academy Awards. I'm doing this one thing where we're going to like do the best sports movies never made. So and I want my audience. We're going to cast listen to that.

Well, I would love for you. I'd love to get your take on this too. Don't we're going to cast the 86 Mets. That movie. Oh, Jesus. Let's cast. But I'm going to say I'm doing that one on the on the show next week.

I did where we cast the 86 Mets. Little teaser. You know, Daryl Carter, if he was a little younger, would have been a great Daryl Strawberry. I got the best Daryl Strawberry. Who can you have his little tea? Oh, you just I'll tease it with this one. All right.

To me, it's a genius call. I don't know how you're going to react and only because of what he looks like now. Okay. Dave Chappelle is Daryl Strawberry because he's right now. Isn't he the pictures I've seen of Chappelle. He's like, yeah, yeah, huge. No, I saw it's in Seattle.

He is. He's like a big boy. Yeah, I would cast him as Daryl across the room at this point. I would cast him as Daryl. Oh, but we could have fun with it. We could have. I mean, Lenny Dykster, who's going to play Lenny Dykster, Mookie Wilson, Dwight Gooden, Gary Carter, Keith Hernandez.

He's bringing up some bad memories. You know, I wish we wish we didn't play them in 86 is I really would have enjoyed that team more because I saw so many things on that just the unbelievable like the just the level of talent that was on that team was was was insane. And, uh, you know, obviously what happened when we ran into we had those fuckers beat up that book, too. If you ever want to read it, I don't need to do.

I watched that so little. I don't even remember the names like I can't even remember who was the guy who ran across the home plate and he put his hands on his helmet like, oh, my God, Lee Mozillae. Why did I think it was night? I'm thinking it was maybe it was maybe it was night. My initial mind is telling me Mozillae, but that's not a fact behind the bag, but they fucking shoot that forever.

It may mean I still love Vince Scully, but every once in a while when I'm watching a Dodgers game listening to him, his voice will get up into that register. And that's all I'm here. Could you imagine? And then that's what happened now with social media. What the hell? That would that would set social media on a break Twitter.

If that happened right now, Twitter would have to shut down there, whatever. I don't know anything about technology, but whatever they use, that shit would break if Bill Buckner happened right now. Oh, and he like Bill Buckner actually back then before social media, he had to leave. Yeah, Boston. And he, you know, he was upset and he talked about it too.

And I was kind of like, I felt bad for him on one level, but on another level, it's like, dude, you know, what do you think we haven't won it in this long? What did you think was going to happen? It hit a pebble or something. I don't know what's that. But, you know, when it's a little slow roller, what do you think? Did he expect compassion?

I don't know. Did he really expect compassion? Well, I know you should get some compassion for his fucking Bob Stanley. That's who should give him. He should send him a fucking card every week that he took that off of him. Or whoever was, I see, I haven't literally have never, I never watched the game again. Don't go there. There's no reason to go there.

One time I watched some highlights and we had that Calvin Chiraldi in there and it was just single, single, single. Don't go. Dude, it was, it was the sickest thing. You're going to start getting cold sweats. No, no, no, no, but it's fine because we won all these championships. But it's just something about that one. That one hurt.

That wasn't because I was 18 when that happened. That's your problem when Bill Buckner happened. I was 10. So I didn't even, I mean, I didn't even know that we hadn't won it that long. And I didn't even, I knew the Yankees had won some championships, but I was too young to get it. But by 86, I got it. And, you know, you think the Celtics won it that year.

Patriots went to the Super Bowl. We got the shit kicked out of us. Right. But it was looking good for, for Boston sports. That was foreshadowing this past 10 year. We kind of got it all at once. But, but anyways, I'm really happy for you, man. All this success and like, and the highest compliment, man.

You know, back in the day, you know, it was really hard to, to go from a television show where you was so known as a character, especially if it had like a nickname or something like that to then to be going on to doing the stuff that you're doing. You're playing this Arturo Gotti. I think it's going to lead to great things. You got all these sandwiches places. If you're killing it and you got a podcast and I'm helping you promote it on my own podcast, you must have a bad for fucking business that right there.

I cannot thank you enough, though, for having me. I've been, I've been a fan for quite a while. I actually, when I, when I met you that night, the Nick screening, we saw a screening for the Knicks fellas. Oh, Michael, Michael Rappaport's filming directed and which is great. By the way, it's awesome. What's it called again? When the garden was Eden, yeah, which is based on a book, right?

It's based on a book when the Knicks were actually good, which I don't know. See, it's similar to you. Like you're, I'm like that with the Knicks. Even like, I just have no idea that they're just losers to me. But you weren't sure enough for Pat Riley. Those the early, yeah, but yeah, you know, losing game, game six and seven. So the Rockets, John Starks going two for 17. The joke was John Starks tried to shoot himself after the game, but he missed.

You know, it was, that was my Jenna Patrick Ewing missing the finger. Reggie Miller scoring eight points and 20 seconds. And did the choke thing just fight you? I feel your pain. Oh, sorry. But I'm glad you're a fan long enough. You got those fucking stories. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But anyways, I hope what little I can do on this podcast, I hope makes bad for business, a big hit out there. And congratulations on this, a Turragotti thing, man. I can't wait. And I'm going to hit your fat cells pretty soon. Oh, your VIP now, Bill, your VIP now. All right, Jerry, thanks a lot, man. Thanks, man.

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