The Bossticks - Bert Kreischer On Believing In Yourself, Never Giving Up, & What It Takes To Make It In Life

Episode Date: February 5, 2024

#656: Today, we're sitting down with Bert Kreischer, stand-up comedian, podcaster, reality television host, and actor. In 1997, he was featured in an article in Rolling Stone while attending Florida S...tate University. The magazine named Kreischer 'the top partier at the Number One Party School in the country.' The article also served as inspiration for the 2002 film National Lampoon's Van Wilder. We're sitting down with Bert today to discuss his lengthy career in comedy, how he gets creative with his marketing tactics, and how to strategically run a comedy business. He also dives into his relationships and gives listeners tips on maintaining a loyal and loving relationship, how to know who your friends are, and how to enjoy your life as it comes.   To connect with Bert Kreischer click HERE To connect with Lauryn Evarts Bosstick click HERE To connect with Michael Bosstick click HERE Read More on The Skinny Confidential HERE To subscribe to our YouTube Page click HERE For Detailed Show Notes visit TSCPODCAST.COM To Call the Him & Her Hotline call: 1-833-SKINNYS (754-6697) This episode is brought to you by The Skinny Confidential This episode is brought to you by The Farmer's Dog It's never been easier to invest in your dog's health with fresh food. Get 50% off your first box & free shipping by going to thefarmersdog.com/skinny This episode is brought to you by Armra ARMRA Colostrum strengthens immunity, ignites metabolism, fortifies gut health, activates hair growth and skin radiance, and powers fitness performance and recovery. Visit www.tryarmra.com and use code SKINNY at checkout for 15% off your first purchase.. This episode is brought to you by Hiya Health Hiya Health fill in the most common gaps in modern children's diet to provide full-body nourishment our kids need with a yummy taste they love. Go to hiyahealth.com/skinny to receive 50% off your first order. This episode is brought to you by Hatch Hatch taps into your circadian rhythm every morning with a gradual sunrise alarm that wakes you gently. Go to hatch.co/skinny and get $20 off and free expedited shipping on a Restore Alarm Clock. This episode is brought to you by the Clean Simple Eats Clean Simple Eats protein powder is non-GMO, gluten-free, 3rd party tested, always grass-fed and made with zero artificial ingredients. You can get 10% off your first order by using code SKINNY10 at checkout at cleansimpleeats.com . This episode is brought to you by Squarespace From websites and online stores to marketing tools and analytics, Squarespace is the all-in-one platform to build a beautiful online presence and run your business. Go to squarespace.com/skinny for a free trial & use code SKINNY for 10% off your first purchase of a website domain. Produced by Dear Media  

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Starting point is 00:00:00 The following podcast is a dear media production. She's a lifestyle blogger extraordinaire. Fantastic. And he's a serial entrepreneur. A very smart cookie. And now Lauren Everts and Michael Bostic are bringing you along for the ride. Get ready for some major realness. Welcome to the skinny confidential, him and her.
Starting point is 00:00:23 And so this morning I said, I'm not going to have this day not filled with gratitude. So I put my backpack on and I walked to the office from my house. I said, why do you hate yourself? Why do you hate yourself right now? What is wrong with you? And I said, let's do some affirmations. I said, what do you like about yourself? I go, you're a nice guy.
Starting point is 00:00:42 You are a nice guy. You are pretty fucking funny. And then I was like, if people like you, why can't you like yourself right now? And then a black dude jogging said, the machine. And fist pumped me. And I went, he likes you. You got to do something right. You got to be doing something right.
Starting point is 00:00:56 And then on that walk, I changed my mood around entirely. I walked into the office and I was fucking get I was like fuck yeah we got a podcast of Julian Edelman let's do this. Hello everybody. Welcome back to the him and her show. Today we have a firecracker, a roller coaster, an insane episode with someone who's become a friend of ours, Bert Kreischer. I'm sure many of you are familiar with Bert. He's an absolute legend.
Starting point is 00:01:20 For those of you that aren't, he's a stand-up comedian, podcast or reality television host and actor. In 1997, he was featured in an article in Rolling Stone, which we talk about. about on this show while attending Florida State University, the magazine named Kreischer, the top partier in the number one party school in the country. The article also served as inspiration for the 2002 film Van Wilder featuring Ryan Reynolds. Today we're sitting down with Bert to discuss his lengthy career in comedy, what it took to get the success that he now has, how he gets creative with his marketing tactics, and how to strategically run a comedy business. We also take a couple zins on this episode, Lauren's first time slamming some nicotine. That was a little
Starting point is 00:01:59 bit out of the park for her, but we got through it. And we also talk about relationships and love and how to know who your friends are and who they aren't and just really how to enjoy life in general. Lorne and I also recently went on one of Bert's shows called something burning, where he cooked us an amazing lunch and where we had a great time. And like I said, we've just become big fans of Bert and have developed a friendship and really just love the guy. With that, Bert Kreischer, you legend, welcome to the Skinny Confidential, him and her show. This is the skinny confidential, him and her. Okay, you've come with more goodies in accoutrements and whatever.
Starting point is 00:02:37 I almost brought, I almost brought rosé. You're going to brought rosé. Yeah, I was going to bring rosé because I was thinking about having a drink. So I didn't have a drink in like, I think it was 11 days. I drank last night. And I woke up with searing anxiety this morning. And then I'm going to Mexico tomorrow. And so I was like, well, I'm going to drink then.
Starting point is 00:02:55 And then I was like, oh, I'll bring a bottle of rosé. And then I was like, ah, fuck it. We'll bring a bottle of rosy. What do you do when you wake up hungover? Because you know I have a protocol. I want to know yours. Oh, first thing I do is sun my butthole. Okay?
Starting point is 00:03:05 I knew it. I knew it. No. I have searing anxiety if I'm hung over. Okay. Like legit searing anxiety. Today it was bad. Like what goes to your head?
Starting point is 00:03:15 Like I really, like the real narrative. I felt like I had fucked up. I felt like I had talked to too many people. Oh, that was the worst. I had a moment. That's the worst one. There's a guy I met 30 years ago. His name's David Wayne.
Starting point is 00:03:26 He's a director who's in a TV show called The State on on MTV back in the 90s. Now, I want to be very specific and I love David Wayne. Okay, I met him 30 years ago in Greece before I was into stand-up and I told him I wanted to be a stand-up and he gave me his phone number and I called him a phone number when I moved to New York and he took me to my first stand-up show. He brought me to his first stand-up show. Stella. I saw Gene Groflo, Zach Galfinacus. I saw some of the most brilliant comedy and that was my first night in New York and it welcomed me into the scene. And now, 30 years later, I run into a bar last night.
Starting point is 00:03:57 And I've done this a few times to him. And I told him, hey, man, it's me. I'm the guy that ran into you in Greece 30 years ago. And let's just put a footnote out there. I'm one of the biggest comedians in the country. Like, isn't that kind of a cool, like, story? And David Wayne, every time just rolls his eyes. He goes, yeah, I know.
Starting point is 00:04:15 Like, it's just so non-pulsed by the fucking, I love the kismet of the craziness serendipity. but then he's with Joe La Trulio. Joe La Trulio is a great actor. He was in the state and I say to him, can you please introduce me to Joe? Because I met Joe in Greece. And Joe gave me what I needed. He was like, dude.
Starting point is 00:04:33 And then I started quoting old state bits from 30 fucking years ago, to both of them. And I was like, shut the fuck up. But I woke up embarrassed that I was fan-boyed out. I should have just not said anything.
Starting point is 00:04:46 The funny thing is, though, is everyone's thinking about themselves, so it doesn't even matter. Everyone does think about themselves. Yeah, so they, Like, they probably woke up with anxiety that they said something. Do you know what I mean? I don't think, I think there's, so there's people like, and I put David Wayne in this group.
Starting point is 00:05:00 I know Sigura's in this group. They're dead inside. And so they just, they don't really care. Like, Tom doesn't care. Like, I'm, like, he really doesn't care. And it amazes me what he does care about amazes me because I do care. Like, if a celebrity walked in, I would get excited. I would, my heart would raise.
Starting point is 00:05:18 We ran into Anna Kendrick last night. And I fucking geeked out. I geeked out. Leanne geeked out. Luckily, Anna Kendrick's a cool person. She geeked out because she knew who I was. So it was a fun little energy. But Tom, if he was at a party, he just would be like, who is that?
Starting point is 00:05:32 Oh, yeah, pitch perfect. Do you really think he doesn't care? He genuinely doesn't. Is it because he's been around? He's not been around famous people. So, like, when Rogan has Elon Musk on his show, he doesn't care. Joe? There's a couple people Joe cares about, like Joe.
Starting point is 00:05:49 Yeah. The first time he met, I would, Imagine, and I can't speak for Joe at all, and I would never assume to. There are people that he geeked out. Who did he geek out about? There was one he had, who he had one of the, like, I think he had like Keith, maybe one of the stones on the, one of the, one of the podcast. Tom wouldn't geek out over that? Definitely not music. Tom's not into music. Tom geeks out, okay. Tom will geek out over Daniel Ricardo.
Starting point is 00:06:13 Like a formula one. Yeah, like, yeah. Or like, or like a football player. Like Shane Gillis geeks out over football players. Like, I geek out over the lowest grade of celebrity you could ever imagine. I kind of like it, though. Like, if you... It's self-aware. But it's crazy.
Starting point is 00:06:29 But here's the old. I'm also older than both you guys, and I'm older than Tommy and Shane. My celebrity was really hard to come by when I was a kid. The biggest celebrity I ever met was Gary Yeppermian. Do you know who that is? No. He was the place kicker for the box. So, like, I just thought...
Starting point is 00:06:43 What if I came in? I know exactly that it just went on a tangent. I remember the first time I ever saw myself on a commercial for my... TV show on like it just ran and I went shut I'm on TV like I'm on TV that still blows me away if I see myself on TV I go shit like I if I see a billboard for myself I'm doing the the forum May 11th and we just went to the forum to see the Eagles and we're sitting in the forum club by the way both you guys are invited I'd love to have you I want to go and the forum club's fucking amazing I was a geeking out over celebrities in the forum club because it's all celebrities
Starting point is 00:07:13 I was like shut the fuck up but then my picture came up berkrecher's at the forum and I was like Holy shit. That's me. Like, I love it. I don't know. And I know it's not cool and sexy to say, because I've read comments. And I know, I don't read them now, but I have read in the past that people, fans, internet fans don't want you to care about celebrity. But you know, but the thing is, is like, we just had your wife on it. And I told you she killed it, but she really did.
Starting point is 00:07:37 And I think after hearing your story and her story and how long it took, this makes a ton of sense. And we were talking about how some people get like internet famous, like that real quick. I don't know how long they stay, but they can't appreciate it as much because they don't, you know what I mean? It's like it's just like all of a sudden something goes viral and you're known and you're like riding this wave and you don't have that you, you personally have all of the years and the struggle on the back and like being broke and struggling to make it as a comedian. You're leading me into the best question I've ever been asked. Oh my God. That you don't know what the question is I'm just going to answer it.
Starting point is 00:08:12 So what's fascinating about what you're saying is I'm going to share. I'm going to overshare, and I apologize to my daughters. We love an overshare. Go for it. My daughter, Georgia said to me, it's so good. And we were just skiing. And she said to me in a private moment, it's so good to have you back. And I didn't really, I just, she goes, I missed you.
Starting point is 00:08:30 And I was like, yeah, she's been at college. And then she said it again, like you've been gone for a while. And so what happened is, 2017, I think, is when the machine story went viral. I worked so hard and did not succeed for so long. When did you start working officially? So, my 26th birthday is the first day I started doing stand-up every night and got a job doing stand-up. My 26th birthday.
Starting point is 00:08:55 And at 44, I think, maybe 45, I had my first taste of real success. I had TV shows. No one ever watched them. They never rated. No one ever, like I did Letterman, but yeah, no one ever. 20 years. Easily, easily 20 years. And then the machine story went viral.
Starting point is 00:09:10 I started selling tickets. And what happened is it's almost like putting a person who's, been stranded at sea at a fucking smorgas board. I ate myself sick. I got, I was like, you cannot get me off the road. You want to offer me a special done. You want to offer me a TV show done. You want to me a movie, done. I'll say yes to everyone. I'm going to show up on time and I'm going to fucking burn it. You want to, you're telling me next this year, you want me to do an arena tour. You want me to tour Europe, tour Australia, tour New Zealand, release a movie, release a special, put out a tour, do a fully loaded at sea cruise, do red rocks, and then
Starting point is 00:09:43 finish the year and an arena tour. Done, no problem. What I didn't realize is that I had blinders on and I was I was ignoring everything that mattered for my career because I had never had success. And so I thought it's going away. I got to get it all. I was eating it in a panic, in a frenzy. And so I think just recently, and I think you guys ran into me when I wasn't drinking last time we hung out. We're not drinking. Yeah, I was not drinking.
Starting point is 00:10:12 But I didn't drink for an extended period of time. and I think I slowed down and I started realizing, oh, shit, I've been a vacant human. Like, I've been there from the outside looking in, and for the most part, I was around, but like, during the pandemic, you know, my special hits, and immediately I'm in, I'm, like, I'm angsty. Like, what am I not going to tour during the pandemic? And so my thing's, like, create a tour. Everyone else is staying home with the families. I create a drive-in movie theater tour. That I get awards for. It's great. It's what you're supposed to do, right? But I leave my family, go out and risk the pandemic and I'm in a tour bus living with six dudes in a bubble for
Starting point is 00:10:49 for roughly the majority of the pandemic did 39 cities we did 80 shows I mean it was like but I think when you talk about these kids who get success young as internet famous a lot of them I felt wasted it and would be like it'll be here forever this is what I do I'm I'm famous I was chosen by the Lord to be famous and successful because I've got the thing. Well, I am hyper aware. I don't got the thing. I don't have it. I never had it. It's a fickle little energy that's out in the universe of why people like you and why people decide that you're, they're a fan of yours. And if you don't appreciate it and give it to them as much as you can, this is how I lived. Then you're not, you're not appreciating the universe. You're not giving back to the universe. And so I went after it. And now for the first time,
Starting point is 00:11:40 I'm not like, I'll do a tour because I'm doing a special in July, but then I'm taking a break, like a real break, like an eight-month break from doing stand-up. And I've never done that. I'm taking a break from doing everything to be like, try to be a present human being. So when your daughter says, do you, you're back, she means you're not vacant. I'm not leveraging my moments with them for content. I'm not trying to sell tickets. I don't have her holding a go.
Starting point is 00:12:07 I mean, there's a GoPro or a GoPro. or doing a running a drone. I mean, this is how my brain operated. It's one of my favorite promos I've ever done in my entire life. I got really good at promos. Being in control of your own career is the most powerful thing any entertainer can do. That's what these internet kids forget sometimes. And no disrespect to them, but they post and shoot content.
Starting point is 00:12:27 They're in charge of their own career. They don't have managers and agents trying to tell them what to do. That's the paradigm we were in before. But what happens is they do it. And then they just go, I got it. I got it. Well, it is a very powerful thing. To be a comedian and not to rely on your promoter and to have them say,
Starting point is 00:12:41 yo, you're going to do Red Rocks. It's 10,000 seats. Right now you can only move 5,000. But let's see if you can do it. I love that challenge. I loved that challenge. Put me in arenas. I love arenas.
Starting point is 00:12:50 You know why? First of all, you can do bottom bowl and make great money. But if you start pulling back curtains, which is where I'm at now, where you're filling out the whole arena, doing the Boston Garden to the top, to the ceiling, selling every ticket, you get great money, but I love the challenge. I love the challenge. And I would do, when I was doing clubs, they'd be like, yo, We went out a Sunday show, added two Sunday shows.
Starting point is 00:13:10 And I'd be like, great, I got it. And I was so lost in the, I actually don't do that. It's good money, but I want to come home Sunday and spend time with my family, that what I then would do would be like, hey, everyone outside. I remember this is a true story. I took my family outside. They added two Sunday shows. And I said, not a problem. I'll sell those tickets tonight.
Starting point is 00:13:33 I got the girls outside. George operated a drone. Ila had the hose. Leanne had a leaf blower. I was in a speedo. I had the American flag going. Bob Seeger reveals me with the American flag in the speedo. And then my whole family holding all the objects.
Starting point is 00:13:45 It's a great promo to Rambling, Gambling Man. And it's sold out Sunday in 15 minutes. But I loved having that control book in that process. I didn't ask if anyone had homework. I didn't ask what bedtime was, what we're doing for dinner. I just was like, I got to move tickets because that pays the bills. I think what's so cool about you and your wife, it's interesting interviewing you guys back to back is that you both are incredibly self-aware and
Starting point is 00:14:11 hyper-aware of how you are as parents and what you didn't do right and how you could do it better now. It's interesting. A lot of people are just kind of like, I've done everything right. There's accountability factor. I did all I could. Or, or in my case, and I'm not, I'm not talking about Tom specifically, but I kind of am. It's like when you talk about like, like, so many parents like Tom's got a couple nannies right and like we didn't have nannies growing up I mean we had like one that would come to when Leanne was at work but like we couldn't afford Oh she told us on when she came on the show that like you were nine to five until you went and she yeah she told us the whole thing so so sometimes when you hear like a parent killing it that is one of
Starting point is 00:14:52 my friends that has a ton of money I'm like I bet you are but are you not and I'm not saying this about Tom but like are you are you like the killing it like the dad in Omaha who you know like That's my old thing is like you see sometimes parents who get a lot of opportunities to have nannies and have help. And they're like, yeah, I'm killing it as a parent. You're like, yeah, you are. You definitely are. But like, you got to realize there are parents that are killing it in different ways. And I always judge myself by that dad no mahal because that's, we were poor parents.
Starting point is 00:15:22 So I was like I'm super critical of myself. I think it's so hard to be a parent. I never feel like I'm killing it. It's so hard. I think. In full disclaimer, we have nannies. And we still don't feel like we're killing me. No, and like I also think as a woman, like you're expected to sometimes it feels like to stay home.
Starting point is 00:15:41 People ask me if I have nannies, but not him. It's a lot. Oh, it's a lot. You have to make sacrifices. Listen, if you are blessed enough to have a nanny, that I can't imagine. I mean, Leanne was telling us how you'd walk to Trader Joe's with your girls and you would get dinner and you guys would like. But I mean, I look at that and I'm like, wow, you really showed up. He was a present dad.
Starting point is 00:16:02 And then when it's time for you to kickstart your career and press the gas, you had to press the gas. You just do what you got to do. That's what I said. But then, but then, you know, everyone's perspective and everyone's hindsight is 2020 and everyone looks at you and goes, yeah, but remember when I had my period and then you told the world about it? And you're like, yeah, but it was so good. And you're like, I know that that was really weird that I did that. But it was like, it was so funny. Like, don't you understand that?
Starting point is 00:16:32 Which daughter? Ila. And is she still mad? No, no, no, she wasn't even mad when it happened. She, so I filmed, this is, this is my flaws as a parent, I will tell you that. I filmed her entire period party. What's a period party? I didn't have a period party.
Starting point is 00:16:45 This is why I talked about it on my Netflix. No one has a period party. I didn't have a period party. Don't want me a fucking period party. Thank you. Bitch? This fucking child was, what, 12 years old? Called me from school.
Starting point is 00:16:56 It was like, yo, it happened. So what? She goes, I got my period. And I was like, oh, shit. What do you need, like new clothes, new socks? Did I get your socks? Like what I don't know like I don't know anything about period. She was no, I'm fine mom gave me a go bag.
Starting point is 00:17:08 If I need you go to the store and get a red velvet cake. I was like what? She was going to be on a period party tonight. I was like, wait, what the fuck's that? She goes, it's a party to celebrate my period. We're going to name it. We're going to invite a bunch of girls. Everybody needs to get all red stuff.
Starting point is 00:17:18 So like get Kuleg, get pasta, get everything red. And then we're all going to wear red. And then we're going to buy two boys. We're not going to tell them either there. And so that'll be the fun laugh. She's funny. Funny. Oh my gosh.
Starting point is 00:17:32 Do you hear that, Ila? That's why I told it. So like I, it happens. I go to Conan, like two nights later. Uh-oh. And Conan's like, Conan's like,
Starting point is 00:17:40 so what's going on? I'm just bullshit with Conan. And I said, yeah, fucking dude, I love, my youngest, threw a period party
Starting point is 00:17:45 at the night. He's like, wait. Oh, I thought you were gonna see you did this on your soul. You did this on your soul? You did this on socials.
Starting point is 00:17:50 I put it on socials that night. Like I put it in my stories. It's right, right when stories were blowing up. I put it in my stories. I then talked about it on Conan. And it was, it went viral like 20 million views
Starting point is 00:18:03 Period party. Well, okay. But they don't want Conan to talk about it to 20 million people. I wouldn't have cared, but I understand some people do care about that. She saw it and she was like, and you know it's so funny? Someone just told me that Damon Wayne Jr. Had said something to a friend of mine about his dad talking about him jerking off as a kid. And he was like, yo, I'm like, fucking 12.
Starting point is 00:18:23 Can you not tell my school I jerk off? And so he, by the way, I don't know. I'm sure that's fine. But Ila, when she saw it on Conan was like, whoa, do people watch this? And I was like, yeah. She was like a lot. I was like, oh, yeah. And then she was not cool with it the first night.
Starting point is 00:18:40 She was a little worried. And then I was worried. I was like, man, I really fucked up. And then the next day, we got emails from people who saw it, it went viral. We got emails from little girls saying, hey, this is, my name's Brenda. I'm writing this for my daughter, Hannah. Thank you so much, Ila, for letting your dad share your story. Hannah got her period last night.
Starting point is 00:18:59 I showed her the video. And tonight we're throwing a period party for. for her and we just want to let you know, we named her period Doug. So like, Ila named her period. Like everyone named. What was Ila's period?
Starting point is 00:19:09 Jason. Jason. Because she got it on Friday the 13th. She's creative. How do you not share this fucking content, right? She's creative. As a dad who's in the business of content, in business of entertainment.
Starting point is 00:19:22 How do you not share that story is so fucking funny? But then there's been other times. Like, she, you know, the girls are very hyper-aware how social media works. So for Ila's 16th birthday, her whole life, for whatever reason, she said a 16, we get to curse.
Starting point is 00:19:37 And I was like, that's not the rule. She goes, no, it's the rule that it. 16 kids can curse. Did you care if they curse? I didn't care. They never cursed, but I didn't care. And Leanne just thought it was a funny thing, but I talked about it. So on her 16th birthday, I get a bunch of DMs from fans like, yo, what's Ila's first curse word?
Starting point is 00:19:52 So I'm sitting at dinner with Ila and Leanne, we're having a party at her house. I put up the phone, I go, Isla, it's your 16th birthday party. You can start cursing. What's your first curse word going to be? She's eating cake. She looks at Leanne. He goes, cunt. And it fucking, I just post it.
Starting point is 00:20:06 Vic posts it on TikTok. And that night, I'm in bed, and Ila comes down to my room. She goes, yo, you got to pull that down. I was like, what? She goes, it's gotten six million views. And I was like, hold on. Wait, what? These guys, I have tickets to sell.
Starting point is 00:20:22 I'm like, for real. I'm like, I should have put fucking tour dates on the end of it. God damn it. Like in my head, right? She's like, no, dad. I do not want to be the cunt girl. And I said, what do you mean? And she goes, what'll happen is people take that audio, like they did with Miranda.
Starting point is 00:20:36 Oh. Cosgrove. Just pull it. Yeah, and they'll pull it. And then they'll the voice over her going, cunt. And then she'll be the cunt girl for the rest of her life. So she said pull it. And so.
Starting point is 00:20:46 She is right. Let me tell you, I haven't learned because the other day, the other day, we were at the beach during the big waves, the big waves that were here. And Ila got taken by a wave and not swept out the sea. I saw that. That was so fucking funny. It has 16.7 million views on Instagram. Let me see it. I want to pull it up.
Starting point is 00:21:07 It's going viral. I only saw you. It's going viral in Mexico. She said like a good, like she didn't seem that she mind that. No, but that's Is Isla's like the coolest? If you go to my stories,
Starting point is 00:21:16 it's, I'm sure it's in there. Here I'll just show it to you. She looks fun. But she looks happy there. Yeah, but that's. She was happy knowing that he's not going to post it. No,
Starting point is 00:21:26 no. She ended up. She had to know at this point that you're going to post it. Well, at that point, when we, when I did it, I posted it. She posted it to her Instagram. She's like, send me that video. I'm posted it. Posted her TikTok. She got a burner account. Mine went, mine went like insane. The first, the second we posted it, it was like just like you can tell, I can tell Instagram videos.
Starting point is 00:21:45 If you're getting in the 10,000s by the minute, then you got a good video, like 10,000 first minute, 20,000 second minute, then I go, oh, this is going to track. Two, two point five million is like a big video for me usually. That one was, that one's 16.7 million right now and it's been two weeks. Is she mad? Well, I also learned the hard way. You just don't share how viral it's going anymore. Yeah, you have to act blazee.
Starting point is 00:22:12 That's the whole thing. 16.7? The problem is you get too excited and then they're like, why are you excited? That's a woman. Let me ask you this. She should just ask, act aloof. I've always wondered because post 30, my hangovers feel like the devil's living inside my head.
Starting point is 00:22:28 Body. How do you keep such a heavy pace and party like that? And how are you still alive? I mean, I can't even, if I smell alcohol now post 30, I'm hung over for a week. Yeah, but you're kind of, you can be a pus about it. You could be a pus. I'm, I mean. Fine, but still.
Starting point is 00:22:48 You're a little, if I, if you told me like, hey, you can do this, you're going to go on a bender for a week. We talked about us. We're going to bender for a week. I'm going on a bender starting tomorrow in Mexico. I like a good week bender. But if you tell me I have to do this and then work at the same time for four months, I'm fucking up. Yeah, how do you do that? That's gnarly.
Starting point is 00:23:04 I don't know. Because I can do the bender. You're just built like that. But I'm not working. No, I'm very punitive. So I wake up with very mean voices in my head telling me what I deserve. And you got what you deserved. And if you listen, man, you want to live this life.
Starting point is 00:23:18 That's real cool. But get to the gym right now. Get on the treadmill. You're not going to like it. No one likes it. Hey, you might be having a stroke on the treadmill. We don't know. You asked for it though, buddy.
Starting point is 00:23:27 This is your life. And so I just get up and get after it. Like this morning I woke up with searing anxiety. I was told them I came in, I was that yes? No, no, no. Yesterday I came into a bad mood. But you don't get headaches and- No headaches, no headaches.
Starting point is 00:23:41 I feel, if anything, I feel smaller. Like I can't see. Like today I got out of it. I hungover not super bad, but not feeling great. made a coffee, took my blood pressure medication, and then I said, I need to be outside. And I, it's very funny you say this, because this morning, I got out and I said, fuck. Because when I stopped drinking, I really found gratitude and joy in everything. I saw it. I saw it, and I felt it. And I hadn't felt that in a very long time.
Starting point is 00:24:16 I was afraid I lost it when I started drinking again. But then I found out that if you don't drink for one night, that gratitude and joy shows up in a day or two. It shows up. You just got to wait it out. You got to sit through the uncomfortableness of one day I'm not drinking and then just it shows up. And so this morning I said, I'm not going to have this day not filled with gratitude. So I put my backpack on and I walked to the office from my house down our street. And I kept going. I said, why do you hate yourself? Why do you hate yourself right now? What is wrong with you? And I said, let's do some affirmations. I said, what do you like about yourself? I go, you're a nice guy. You are a nice guy. You are pretty fucking funny. And then I was like, if people like you, why can't you like yourself right now? And then the black dude jogging said, the machine. And fist pumped me. And I went, he likes you. You got to do something right.
Starting point is 00:25:05 You got to be doing something right. And then on that walk, I changed my mood around entirely. I walked into the office. And I was fucking getting. I was like, fuck yeah. We got a podcast of Julian Edelman. Let's do this. Oh, I can't wait.
Starting point is 00:25:17 I'm going down to skin. Fuck yeah. This is going to be there. Hey, I get you drink tomorrow. We're going to fucking Mexico. How great is this? Oh, I wonder I'm getting vape pens to Mexico. Like I just got really, I changed my narrative in my head this afternoon.
Starting point is 00:25:29 I had the one thing, my dad had surgery yesterday. I go, your dad's still alive? Like I just pointed out all the things I would be grateful for. And then I started, I really love trees. Like I love trees. And I started seeing all the trees on my street. And I was like, God damn it, they've been waiting for you. This whole time, someone planted them and they're just waiting for you to love them.
Starting point is 00:25:46 I was like, these trees are fucking awesome. Have you ever read Louise Hay? I don't know who she is. She's, I'm going to text to you all her stuff. Everything you said is her. You literally, the way you talk to yourself is how you come off. Like, the way you're talking to yourself is you're, you're basically making your future by your thoughts. Oh, I believe in, I believe in what you put out in the universe comes back to you.
Starting point is 00:26:08 And I always say the things I want out loud. And I tell you what I want to do out loud, even as, as as foolish as it may sound. Like, I love that. I love that. You know, I, and when I was, when the girls were young, people would say, how you doing? and I was working for Travel Channel at the time, kind of a thankless job. It was good money. It was really good money, but it wasn't like, no one was watching my show.
Starting point is 00:26:32 It wasn't getting me anywhere. It was like being a stripper. It was a lot of fun, but I had no future. And I used to tell people, they go, how are you doing? I go tired. And then I wondered one day, if by me saying tired, if that made me tired. And then I changed it. And people said, how are you doing?
Starting point is 00:26:47 And I said, fucking amazing. I'm having one of the best days of my life. And then I started realizing that permeates. and it fills you with having a much better day. And by the way, one of the affirmations I said today is any day you're here is a great day. What the fuck you doing? Any day you're sitting here is a great fucking day. She said every mirror you walk by, you should say, I love you and look yourself right in the eye.
Starting point is 00:27:08 Why don't give me so much shit when I do it? Well, you just fucking stare at the mirror and look at your hair line. I know. He will be kissing me in the elevator and the mirror behind the elevator looking at himself. I'm affirming myself. It's honestly outrageous. You do look at it. in the mirror a lot. I'm affirming myself. I'm going to take it to the next level that will really
Starting point is 00:27:26 creep you out. Can't wait. So if I'm having a beat up day about myself, I'll go to the mirror and give myself a kiss. Oh, wow. I like it. I do it all the time. I like it. I go in and I go, I like it. I say, I like you, buddy. I love you a lot. And I kiss myself on the lips. I have to, what I try to explain is, I have to exercise a lot of demons out of this mind. And if it means I have to look in the mirror or do something weird. The other day he told me, he goes, I was taking a shower. looking at my naked body and my hairline. And I'm like, what? That's what I said.
Starting point is 00:27:57 What did you say? What did you say? I said, I was looking at my cock. It was hanging. I totally end of the day. I have a beautiful dick. I was looking at it. I was like, I look fucking good.
Starting point is 00:28:06 When I lost weight, my dick got bigger. And all of a sudden, I'm like looking at this dick. And I go, you got to love this. I'm on the Huberman. What's it called? The Fidoja. Oh my God. What's it called?
Starting point is 00:28:15 What's the stack that he recommends? Holy shit. Oh, fuck. What's it called? We had sex last night. The Fidoja. on this stuff that Huberman recommends. I was like, what is going on?
Starting point is 00:28:25 What is it? I'm taking it from Mexico. Rinosaurus Binapelles? It's rhinoceros horn? No, no, no, no. Honestly, it felt like you were on Viagra. No, it's a natural stuff. I'm going to send it to you after this. It's Padoja.
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Starting point is 00:28:45 Anyway. By the, our sex is fucking insane. We heard all of it. about it. Tell us about how you guys are dating. Tell us about the hotel room. Tell us about the car. Yeah, tell us about the car. We went deep with her. Oh, that was the fuck. That was the day, everything changed. That was the day everything changed. I don't know what her story is, but I'll tell you the real story. I was in the middle of pushing it and grinding it, right? Doing the movie, doing the movie, promoting the movie, doing a whole day of press junkist. I go to the store. I do three
Starting point is 00:29:12 spots of the store. Leanne's with me. And we go to Saddle Ranch. I love Saddle Ranch. We go to Sadd Ranch for dinner. Have dinner. We just talk about nothing. Have a couple of, I have a couple drinks, go to the bathroom. She goes to the bathroom, we're getting ready to leave. And as she's walking out, a couple walks into the bathroom, a guy and a girl. She goes, they're going in to have sex. And I said, yeah. She goes, can you believe that?
Starting point is 00:29:33 I said, yeah, they're young. That's what young people do. They fuck. She was like, what? And I said, very casual, I said, we used to be like that. She's like, what? And then Leanne processes. We drive over the hill, we get into the driveway, and she pulls the car under the
Starting point is 00:29:47 carport, which is weird. We don't normally park under our carport. I go, what are you doing? She's like, we're still young. And then she takes off all her clothes and fucks my brains out. I'm talking old schoolie Ann, old school, old schoolie Ann, when she, when she get real turned on her lip goes like Elvis. Like, and I was, honestly, I first thought I had was she cheated on me. She cheated on me.
Starting point is 00:30:11 She's trying to win me back. She's got guilty of something. No one does this for nothing. And from that moment on, she was a brand new person. I mean, a brand new person. I said to her last night. I don't know if she shared this with you. I said to her last night.
Starting point is 00:30:24 Tonight, every time we have sex, but tonight, you do two new things that fucking blow my mind. I think I thanked her. I said, thank you for whatever happened to you because you're doing stuff that you've never done, that is the sexiest thing I've seen every fucking time she does something new. I wish I could tell you in detail what we did, but it was the thing. fucking hottest shit. Can we get like a new tip? What if people are at home,
Starting point is 00:30:52 they need a tangible takeaway? Can we get a tip? Like a new thing that she did? No, no, no, no. Did she work the taint? No, no, no, no, no, I'll tell you what she did one time, which this was like one of the things where it started where she... Taylor's literally masturbating right now.
Starting point is 00:31:09 She, like, she's never been good at hand jobs. Like, I talked about it on a special. Like, I've... I hate to break it to you guys. A lot of girls aren't good at hand jobs. The problem is, is it's never going to, going to be better than your own hand job because yeah I'm pretty good yeah yeah you guys are good and you have a different angle I got my 10,000 hours put in yeah and so so one night Malcolm gladwell
Starting point is 00:31:29 expert level one night we got on well I was born in January I one night that's a really inside cut deep cut to the Malcolm Gladwell book most hockey players are born in January out of Canada guys anyway so one night we like fool around I give her an orgasm and then usually that's how it goes she has an orgasm, then I have one. I give her an orgasm and then she doesn't have sex with me. She like pulls guard. I don't know if you do jiu-jitsu. She, she, like, she, I don't know what the fuck she did. She got a, she got like a cross body hold on me of something. My dick in one hand and, and she, and by the way, she sucked on my nipple. She has never done. And I had an orgasm within five seconds. And I'm sucking on your nipple. And I was like, huh, huh, huh, I go, what the fuck did you just do? And she just,
Starting point is 00:32:22 it's the different human. And every fucking night, I, last night she did two things new that I've never done with her. And I'm like, I told her, I said, thank you. I don't know what happened to you, but thank you. You're making me, I never talked during sex. I never talked during sex. My whole life, I never talked during sex. Because I was just uncomfortable in sex. I didn't know. I wasn't free. I wasn't genuinely free having sex with people. And I realized, the other night, I'm talking and I'm talking dirty and I love it and I really enjoy it, but I feel safe enough with her to talk dirty during sex. And I told her, I said, I'm talking during sex. Like, how crazy is that? She's like, yeah, you've really loosened up. I was like,
Starting point is 00:33:02 you have shown me a side of you that I never knew was there that I feel safe trying things. I've tried things with her that I've never tried with anybody. And I'm like, this is, and by the way, been married 20 fucking years and this just showed up. It's almost like I got a girlfriend while still having a wife because I get to have sex with this fucking wildcat who is like honestly game for anything. She told us that she talked to a friend of their or yours. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they said you got to start dating. Like you had to do the things you would do. Not date night. Not date night, but dating. Dating. Dating. By laundry. Shave your toes. Huh? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Shave me.
Starting point is 00:33:43 your mustache. She, she, she was, I went to Vietnam with her friends and her friend Shiva shared with her, you know, I just date my, I date my husband.
Starting point is 00:33:53 And Leanne's like, we're married. Yeah, we date, we go out and dates. And she's like, no, I date them like,
Starting point is 00:33:56 you know, like we plan things out. And what's funny is, is I sometimes forget we're dating. And like last night, we went to a premiere party or whatever. And I get very uncomfortable. So I just go,
Starting point is 00:34:08 I'm going to just beeline in. And she was like, yo, I'm your wife. We're dating. slow down, hold my hand, I'm in heels, be my wife, be my husband, be my boyfriend. And I was like, oh, that's right. If I was not dating my, if I was single and I was brought a girl to this, there's no way
Starting point is 00:34:26 I would have been like, you find your way in. I'm going to fucking find the bar. You guys do get a little rusty and lazy as you get out. I think everybody gets a little rusty and lazy. I was not rusty last night. In fact, I'm going to give myself a 10 out of 10 Leanne style last night. Yeah, yeah, don't. Sounds good.
Starting point is 00:34:40 Yeah. When was the last time you tried something? knew last night last I'm telling you that mixture whatever whatever Andrew Heberman's telling the guys to take I'm telling you we had a guy on the postings you gotta
Starting point is 00:34:52 you gotta write a handwritten note to some like people I'm just gonna write Andrew a note like here Andrew thank you so much for my new testosterone stuff say what's that testosterone mixture it's like it's not TRT it's like a no because hey what's the
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Starting point is 00:40:10 that band Wilder is based off of you. Yeah, but I don't really like, there's no way to really prove it, but yeah, like I've been told by people that were worked on the movie that my article was the inspiration. Okay, so they're like,
Starting point is 00:40:24 this guy's just partying his face off. Yeah. And what, so how do you even get an article? Like, what was, okay. Yeah, how does that happen? How does somebody write it? Because we know a lot of people that party,
Starting point is 00:40:33 but like how do you get somebody to go, like this guy really parties? Let's put a new Zen in. That's a good question. I've never seen the Zen. What you just walks through what you're doing really quick guys. It's nicotine, right? Just straight nicotine.
Starting point is 00:40:44 Andrew He approves. He approves. I love fucking nicotine. Oh, I love it. I love it so much. Try one. Try one. So if I haven't done one, I'm just gonna like, am I gonna go fucking?
Starting point is 00:40:53 Here, start with the rogue. What's the difference between a rogue? They're a little softer and they're sweeter. They taste better. Just put it in your lip. Just put it in your lip. Don't, and you can swallow, but don't swallow the Zen. But just sit with it.
Starting point is 00:41:03 What's the zen? The packet? Don't swallow the packet. You can swallow the thing. You can swallow this, the... It looks like you guys are smuggling cocaine in your lip, though. It's so sexy. But you don't have to worry about like the tobacco.
Starting point is 00:41:15 No. It's just nicotine. It delivers nicotine. Nicotine's a stimulant. And you definitely feel. You feel it's the best feeling in the world. By the way, that cigar you gave me last night was so goddamn good. Good, good. I'm glad you liked it. Yeah. Wait. What does nicotine feel like? I'm not, I'm not a smoker. Like, I don't understand. It'll make you, it'll make you a little dizzy or you'll little tingly. But you fire hot. Like your brain kind of like wakes up. And it's good for you? Well, Huberman said so.
Starting point is 00:41:40 I think nicotine for using it for focus and stuff like that, probably pretty good. Let me try one of those. The tobacco industry thinks so too. Yeah. You want to try one, Taylor? No. Have you tried one?
Starting point is 00:41:51 I can't handle something like that. Should I be scared? No, just definitely, they can be intense. Yeah, you'll be fine. Can I try? It's a rogue. They're not that bad. Yeah, or an Atari.
Starting point is 00:42:02 I used to hit nicotine pretty hard, so I'm wondering if you do it just goes under? It just hangs out. and then and let it, let it activate. Your saliva will get it, have a sip of water. And then all some you'll feel it. I don't think I can do the whole thing. I think I'll be too sensitive, right? No, no, no, no.
Starting point is 00:42:16 You might love it. I feel like you look really kind of strange with it. Is it one of the ones you're not supposed to swallow? You look like a Swedish chick. Why? What is the Swedish chicks? Get it in there. Swedish chicks loves these.
Starting point is 00:42:26 Suck it in deep. Yeah. Swedish chicks love them. Okay, so you're partying and somebody's just like, I got to write an article in this guy's party ethics? So Rolling Stone magazine wanted to write an article about Florida State. Florida State was the number one party school in the country. They wanted to write an article about the college.
Starting point is 00:42:40 So they called like four or five people said, yo, we want to write an article about your schools. They're like someone that we could, would show us around that knows a diverse group of people, not just their friends. All of them said Bert. I happened to have partied with all of them the night before. Two of them thought I was prank calling them.
Starting point is 00:42:58 Wait, what is partying look like, though, for you? Is it like, it must be like on crack. No. No, it was just, I was a love. large personality. Like I drank, I had a good time, but I was the fun guy at the bar. I wasn't, I was original fun, not like hacky fun, like doing the, you know, like that guy, the, was the sprinkler dance or whatever. Oh, I'm starting the lawnmower. I didn't have those jokes. I had like, I was a fun guy. I was a really fun guy. Like Tennessee Street would be packed, bars would be out,
Starting point is 00:43:30 and I'd climb up to the top of a telephone pole and yell, I'm having a post party at my house. I have weed and I have mushrooms and cops would be like this. I'd be like, do not tell the cops where I live. You know where I live. If you don't ask someone, they'll tell you, but do not tell the cops. I have a lot of drugs at my house. And the cops would be like, hold on, where do you live? And I'd be like, I'm not telling you. And so I was fun. I was, I would plan parties. I would plan a party called Ongu Gunga Blunga, where we was a big party that we would, we would go to a sorority house and at like dinner and town. tell them there's a party in two hours. I still do that. I mean, I do, I'm doing a calling
Starting point is 00:44:09 sick to work show in Austin on Winston Churchill's birthday. So I'll address. When? I celebrate, or it's the day died. I celebrate January 24th. I celebrate Winston Churchill's the day died every year. Just randomly or just? I'm being Winston Churchill. It's in Austin. I want to come. It's in Austin. It's a Joe's club. It's sold out in like five minutes. It's, it's, we've still never been there, but I heard it's incredible. It's amazing. But I, I wake up, I have breakfast the way Winston Church. I love to eventize life. Okay. So I wake up in the bath. I have, I have, I I spend roughly two hours in bed with a meal prepared, the way Winston Churchill had, ham, bacon, two eggs over, sunny side up, toast, jam, coffee, a soft scotch, and a cigar. And I read the paper, and I sit in there.
Starting point is 00:44:51 And then I go take a bath for another hour, and I have another cigar and have another cocktail. And then I drink champagne at lunch. And I have some cognac at the end of lunch. And I just celebrate the way Winston Churchill does. And so when we comes to partying and the way I look at this business or my brand, for lack of better words, I like to throw cool parties. I think my fans trust me to throw fun things that makes their life fun. So for Winston Churchill, we're all going to go to Joe's Club at noon. Everyone's calling in sick to work.
Starting point is 00:45:22 No one's showing up at work that day. And they're planning it out. And then we will start drinking hard at noon. I'm dressing like Winston Churchill. I have a pinstripe, old suit with a- Noah's favorite colors. No. Pink and brown.
Starting point is 00:45:34 I didn't know that. We need to get you some pink. Oh, please. I'll have a pink little pocket corsage. Yeah. But I love to eventize life. And so in college, I would just eventize things. I would make things fun.
Starting point is 00:45:45 I would make things fun for my friends and for a lot of people I didn't know. And so I think I got known as that guy is like, I was funny. I was fun. I was loose. I knew a lot of people. And so they came to Florida State. They stayed with me for a week. And at the end of the week, he wrote an article based on the college.
Starting point is 00:46:02 And I think the editor of Rolling Stone, Jan Werner said, just make it about this kid. Like, this kid seems funny. Let's just make it about this kid. Call him the number one party animal in the country. So they did. At the number one party school. At the number one party, it took Burke Chrysler six and a half years to become the man he is today.
Starting point is 00:46:17 The number one party animal, the number one party school in the nation. And it was, I mean, this is what a meathead I am when I read that. I cried. I was like, he knows me. He gets me. And so Oliver Stone's company optioned the rights to my life. I tried to stand up for the first time. moved to New York and started doing stand-up. And that was like kind of my introduction. I always look at
Starting point is 00:46:36 like guys like Tommy so ambiously that they had the balls to try it with no major publication behind them. You know, because I tried it when everyone's like, you should try it. But most comics just try it when no one says they should try it. And that's like the majority of comics. What is the hardest thing about starting as a comic? I was talking to your wife. I said, I think it's the hardest form of art form because we can like shoot the shit here and do this. You can write a book or not. But you're just doing it in your own kind of protected environment. Can I just ask what I'm supposed to do with this really quick? Just sit there. You just sit there. Relax. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:47:08 I'm not used to having something in my mouth and just sitting here. So I just sit here and just let it dissolve. Yeah. And then what? You pull it out. Yeah, you pull it out when you, when you're But how do you know when it's dissolved? No, it'll, you'll start tasting the flavor. Do you taste a flavor yet? Yeah, it tastes like a little, it tastes like a little, it tastes like a little. I'm really sensitive to cigarette. I, little underlying. No, I swear. She doesn't know how to smoke cigarettes. It does. It tastes like a little. It tastes like a little. It tastes like a little. It tastes like a undertone of a capri. Oh, I love caprice.
Starting point is 00:47:34 Yeah. Just a little bit. It doesn't taste anything like cigarettes. Wait, so what does it taste like? Cherry. Cherry cigarette. You're smoking cigarettes like Cat Williams. So how do you know when to take it out?
Starting point is 00:47:47 When you're done? How do you know when you're done? When you start feeling like you're like, I think I'm done with this or I don't feel a feeling anymore. What's it supposed to feel like? You should just feel a little bit like. Yeah, a little loose. A little loose, a little bit like head, head bites a little like.
Starting point is 00:48:00 I don't know. I feel it. I think you feel it. I bet you feel it. Is that one you can swallow or do you have to spit it all out? You can swallow it. Can I try one then? Yes.
Starting point is 00:48:08 Why? Wait, wait, hold on. Because you can swallow it, because those ones that you can't swallow, if you swallow it, if you swallow it, I can't follow it. No, this one, you can swallow it. You don't swallow the actual thing. No, no, no. Did you swallow the thing? No, no, no.
Starting point is 00:48:20 Okay. I was like, oh. Don't swallow the pouch. What do you mean don't swallow what? You can swallow your saliva. You can swallow the saliva. You're supposed to spit it out. That's kind of interesting.
Starting point is 00:48:32 Wait, I just have one more question before you answer that question. So how long, though, is it typically in your mouth? 30 minutes. Oh, so it's a long time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not taking it out. It's a slow release of nicotine into your blood system. And you should feel it.
Starting point is 00:48:47 If you're not feeling it right now, you'll feel it in 30 seconds. But it should just feel like a little light, a little loose, little lightheaded, like a little bit of a buzz. This with a coffee in the morning is like Journal Central. where you start writing all your thoughts. You're like, I am afraid of hate. And then you'll write a page about hate. And then you're like, wow, that was fucking deep.
Starting point is 00:49:10 So it's like a little, it's like a little. It's a stimulant. If I have this, I'll talk even more. No, no, no, no, no. Don't. I'll be on. Go ahead and answer the question. I don't remember the question.
Starting point is 00:49:19 The question I was saying is like when you're starting out. Because I think it's so like. Can you take a sip of water? Yeah, of course. And you're, okay. I guess maybe there's some people that start out. I don't know, maybe not. There's real right over there.
Starting point is 00:49:30 There's some people that maybe start and they just like fucking kill it right away. But for those that don't, I was telling you what, I feel like this particular occupation washes so many talented people out because it's so hard to get through all the shit. More non-talented probably. Sure, but I'm saying even talented people that just like, they can't get the break and just Oh, I said we were in somewhere in the south and I saw a, Comedy Zone, which is one of the chains of clubs.
Starting point is 00:50:02 And I thought to myself, I was doing the arena there and I thought, I can't believe I made it through this system because it's so tough. When you think of all the hurdles that are set in place for you to trip on, hot waitresses who want a party. So you end up, dudes end up cheating on their wife and then fucking their marriage up. And then that becomes their narrative where they have a fucked up for home life or drugs and alcohol or, and especially alcohol with me, I'm a big drinker. the fact that I didn't let alcohol dictate my future, and I dictated it.
Starting point is 00:50:33 Or you get club managers who give you bad advice or club. No one wants to see you succeed. I mean, for the most part, they're more comfortable with you just doing well and kind of being a mid-level comic if you're in the club level because they get to keep you. Or just all the things that all the things, the pitfalls I didn't land in, I was shocked. And I thought to myself in a moment of clarity, I feel bad for. any comedian starting right now because it's so fucking hard. It's so hard. There's so much rejection that you become more comfortable with the rejection than you do success. And a lot of people
Starting point is 00:51:09 will undermine their success because rejection is like a nice warm blanket at the end of the night that you go, ah, fuck it. No one likes me. I like me. I'm going to watch TV. Let's put on Game of Thrones. Fuck that. I don't need to do a spot tonight. So that, yeah, it's really tough. How did you not get distracted by waitresses throwing yourself? Like, how do you do that? How do you compartmentalize that? Because it seems like you have a really good relationship with your wife. How did you not let that be a distraction?
Starting point is 00:51:34 Well, number one, this is the wrong verbiage, but it's the only word I can think to say. I'm not a big pussy guy. Like, I watched dudes throw away their careers to pussy, meaning hot chicks show up in the front row, and then their act is set so that those girls like it, and then they can get laid at the end of the night. I was, I just told this to someone today. I'm more... Is it like the guy that like, okay, I feel like,
Starting point is 00:51:57 if you and I went out together, we could just go out and have a fucking great time, but some guys you go out and like they are chasing women the whole night. I'm not that guy. I'm not, I definitely will, I will never say, did you see her?
Starting point is 00:52:08 I'm not that guy. And I actually have friends like that and I'm always like, why the fuck? Some guys base their whole night about, like, that's the goal of the night. Yeah, don't get me wrong. I'm not gay.
Starting point is 00:52:18 If a chick comes by in a white shirt with no bra, I'm going to be like, okay, I saw that. But like, I'm not the guy looking for it. for the most part. Any time that there was ever anything questionable with any girl at a club,
Starting point is 00:52:31 like I had one time, I know I've told this poor, but more importantly I've told it to Leanne, there was a girl who was very, very pretty. And she, I don't know how, she came to my show, my Thursday show, and then she showed up at my Saturday show. And we go to the bar, copper blues at the end of the night. And she's like sitting next to me. and I'm a little oblivious to it,
Starting point is 00:52:56 but it is nice to have a pretty girl sitting next to you and a girl giving you attention, especially when you're married with two kids. It feels nice. I don't think I led into it, but at one point I said, I'm going to bed. She said, we should get high.
Starting point is 00:53:08 I was like, I'd love to get high. She was like, let's go to your room. And I was like, oh, I don't do that. She was like, why? And I was like, I don't let girls come to my room. She was like, well, we're just going to get high. And I went, yeah, but that doesn't lead to anything good. And if my wife went to her room with another,
Starting point is 00:53:23 man, it doesn't matter if anything happened. I'm going to think it happened and I don't want to put my wife in that situation. She said, oh, don't be such a pussy. Come on. I'm not going to try to fuck you. I know you're married. Let's just go to your room and get high. And I went, I told you already, I can't do that. And so I went to the green room. And she followed me into the green room. And the manager Casey was like, and that's the other thing. It's like, in a weird way, all my guys, all the guys I've ever been around know who I am. And they would never let me get into that situation. And Casey was like, hey, he told you he's going home by himself. I'm going to walk you out right now.
Starting point is 00:53:57 And he grabbed her. And she was like, I'm, you're making this weird. And he's like, no, you're making this weird. He's asked you to leave. He's married. He's going home by himself. And he walked her out of the club. And I was like, wow, that's crazy.
Starting point is 00:54:09 Because then, and then I texted Leanna immediately. I sent a picture of her to Leanne. I was like, just so you know, that's what I could have fucked. And so. But I've had a couple times like that. I've had a couple times like that where it does feel. nice to get attention from a beautiful girl, but I just, I don't know. I'm also really not great at sex and I'm not a good, I'm not a good first kiss guy.
Starting point is 00:54:30 So all those, all those fucking things are, they're like things I don't want to deal with anyway. I think sex gets better the more you have it with the same person. I, I 100% agree. And I'm not good first time. Like I am a, I'm a, I'm a, I'm a brand new door to their salesman. I'm gonna do a little public service announcement. No one's good first time with guys. I wish I had heard that in college.
Starting point is 00:54:49 Like, I wanna just like, it takes a, while to develop. The first time is like not the move. It's you got to get through the first time. I've never I've only I've had like I'm only been with six women so like I don't I've only had sex I think with I'm trying to think I think yeah this chick from Liverpool I had sex with on a one nice not one nice day I knew her two nights I think she only had sex with me so she had a place to stay. I mean her and her sister they were they were traveling and they wanted to stay in my place and I was like cool and I was partying with them. We were going to a great adventure the next day or we went that afternoon. We went to great adventure and we came back and they needed a place. I was like, stay
Starting point is 00:55:29 on my couch. And she came into my room. What's interesting about the story, the best part of the story is that she smoked Newports and drank Cavassier. Oh, wow. And so as I had sex with I thought, this is what it would smell like to fuck Tupac. Like that's, I couldn't get two, and she had a, she was tongue tied. You've only had sex with six people. Women. Women. Yeah. Yeah. That's surprising that the movie Van Wilder's based off him and he's had sex with six people. They have sex it up. I'm not, I'm not.
Starting point is 00:55:59 You've got to be feeling this now. I'm feeling it. I'm not a sex guy. Like I'm not, you know what I am? And this sounds like it's scripted for branding purposes. Love it. I was the guy in college hoping to find the girl that got me. Like they got me.
Starting point is 00:56:14 Like I wanted the girl who's like, do you want to just go get a pizza? But jokes aside, I think that's everybody. They just don't admit it. I was aware of it. Like I remember one girl wanted to have sex with me. We were at a club in Tallahassee. And she said to me, it's over summer too. So like summer sex was like easy to get out.
Starting point is 00:56:32 Every girlfriend I ever got was during summer. Well, it was only one. It was Kristen. Because it was a smaller community. So like you get to know people better. And she said to me, let's just go back to your house and have sex. And I went, no. And she was like, why?
Starting point is 00:56:45 And I go, because if you're saying that to me, how many people do you say that to? She was like, does it matter? And I was like, kind of. because I don't want you to say that to someone tomorrow night that's not me. Like, I want you to say that to me all the time. She was like... You're like monogamous.
Starting point is 00:56:57 Hardcore. I have a guy friend that loves fucking anything and everything. He wants to fuck anything you can possibly fuck. We'll be out to eat. He's looking to, like any, any, he wants to fuck everything. Yeah. And he admitted to me the other night that it's because he wants to feel desired. It's not even about fucking.
Starting point is 00:57:14 It's that he wants to feel desired by a bunch of different women. Oh. I don't care about. I just want one. But it's interesting. I know, and he told me it's an insecurity. So it's, you both must not have that insecure boy. I'm filled with insecurity.
Starting point is 00:57:29 But it might, it's not that insecurity. No, I don't have that one. Would you close with your mom? Yeah. Good, good relationship. When I lost my virginity, I told her. Did she baby you when you were a little? No.
Starting point is 00:57:41 Not at all. No, but I was her poet. Like she was. You were her poet. What does that mean? She just, like, my dad wasn't like, what are you doing? Pierce in your ear and growing your hair long? and my mom's like, it's Bert. He's my little poet. He's a little bit. He's a creative. He's a creative.
Starting point is 00:57:55 And she was very, like, very supportive, very, like, had my, she was a ride or die for me. She still is. Yeah. What does she think when she sees you now? Is she, like, so proud of you? Yeah, I think they both are. But I think they have a hard, my dad has a hard time wrapping his head around it. We do this thing called private suite when we fly. It's a different entrance to the airport. I do it most. I did it mostly because, of the pandemic because we were flying during a bubble so it was easy for me to compartmentalize my group not have them at a airport have them at this thing get us to the we get you to take a car onto the tarmac under the plane and then we were in a bubble mostly first class and then it was a safe way and then i kind of fell in love with it and and it took a lot of stress out
Starting point is 00:58:41 of traveling for me like a lot like i used to stress about when we left and now i don't have it at all And so I started flying my parents through private suite. And my dad just is like, buddy, it's too much. And I was like, no, it's fine. I totally can afford it. He's like, I just don't, I don't want you to spend that much money. And I was like, the other day, I sent him my net worth. And he was like, what the fuck is this?
Starting point is 00:59:03 And I was like, it's you knowing I don't care about private suite for you. Like, but he has a hard time. The most money he ever made probably was like $1.5 million a year, which is a lot of fucking money. It was, by the way, I thought it would be my inheritance. And, like, he sold his company. I don't know. I mean, he'd be livid if you knew I was telling you his numbers. But, like, and by the way, he'd be like, first of all, for a 1.75.
Starting point is 00:59:28 And, but, like, so he doesn't, he's concerned constantly about money. But, like, even, like, he just got his hip replaced. And they rolled him in. And the guy who sold the fake hip to him was in there. Chris Quinn, he's my friend. But everyone in the operating. was like you're Burke Chrysler's dad and my dad's like what fucking world am I living in but it's also Tampa so I grew up in Tampa so I like I know everyone in Tampa but like my parents
Starting point is 00:59:56 have a hard time understanding what it is like I did the arena the Emily Center Emily Arena in Tampa it was sold out but I got my parents a box but I also had some other people I wanted to put in the box like Mike Allstott who played for the box and Wade Boggs Wade Boggs is a big baseball player when we grew up he was like the Tampa hero my dad calls me from the box, I'm backstage, and he goes, hey, buddy, fucking Wade Boggs is in my box. And I went, yeah, I know, I put him there. He goes, do you think he knows who you are? I go, yeah, he's at my show.
Starting point is 01:00:28 And he's like, no, do you think he knows, is you think he's here because of you? I go, dad, I'm the only one on stage. He definitely knows who I am. And he's like, shut up. And then my dad got backstage and Derek Brooks, who played for the box, played for Florida State, comes backstage. And my dad's like, you know Derek Brooks? And I was like, no.
Starting point is 01:00:46 I just met him too, Dad. And he goes, he knows who you are. And I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, he just gave me a jersey. Like, yeah, he does. And then Derek Brooks says to my dad, it's crazy seeing his growth from where he started. My dad goes, what? And Derek Brooke goes, I was at his first show at Pop Bellies, like 23 years, 24 years ago. And it's crazy to see him grow from there to now playing arenas.
Starting point is 01:01:07 And my dad, and Derek Brooks leaves him. And my dad, he knows your name. And I'm like, yeah, dad, like. We just looking at you like you're his son. Yeah. Like it's probably a total mind fuck. It's sweet. What happens to you with all of the friends that you had to now?
Starting point is 01:01:27 Like how do you manage? Because there's got to be friends that have fallen off that will be jealous. There's got to be friends that have come up with you. There's got to be friends that still know you. How does it work with your friends? So it's interesting is that all my friends I grew up with. are proud of me. Like all my, all my boys in Tampa, Tallahassee, they're all proud of me, but they still, they still know me as me and they bust my balls. So there's no, like,
Starting point is 01:01:52 they don't give a fuck that I'm famous. Like, they don't, they, they think it's funny. They think it's cool. They think it's interesting. They think it's bizarre. But like, they don't, it, none of them are like, none of my friends I grew up with really give a fuck about fame per se. Comedy is interesting. And I think I'm lucky in this sense in that I was the loser. for not loser, but I wasn't the guy getting specials and doing big things in comedy. I was doing television shows, but until I was 44, I was a guy at the store that people would look over my shoulder and see who's coming behind me. And I was aware of my place in comedy.
Starting point is 01:02:25 And I was cool with it. I was cool with it. I understood that's where I am and I have to be able to like this to love this job. And then when I got famous, I noticed, not even famous, when I got successful and started selling tickets and got a tour bus and started flying private, I have had back. where people just, people that were my friends, I've heard them talk shit about me on podcasts or behind my back, people have been like, yo, dot, dot, dot. Or like, Rogan texted me the other day.
Starting point is 01:02:53 Some guy was talking shit about me on a podcast. And Rogan texted to me, he goes, yo, he's not your boy. And I was like, he pays attention to that stuff. Joe is, Joe is, Joe's hyper aware of weird concentric circles. Like he doesn't, he doesn't care about him. He doesn't care about, like, people talking shit. He cares about his boys and, like, you know, just giving you a heads up. This guy talked shit, but he sent it to me. And I was like,
Starting point is 01:03:16 fuck that guy. And the guy, I'm friends with the guy. I've had him on my podcast two times. I've been on his podcast twice. What did he say about you? He said Netflix has ruined comedy. It's not what it used to be. And now you got these guys doing these arena tours where they're not that funny and they drunk as fuck on stage. And they should call their tour the, that was okay tour. And I was like, first of all. But he's projecting his own insecurity. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. He's done that his whole career. If I said his name, you'd go, oh, that means. make sense it tracks. You gotta be cool with it. I've lost a couple friends to people like when you get success they say fucked up shit to you like it's funny too. I was just talking to Tommy about this
Starting point is 01:03:54 is like what's funny about it is like I celebrated their success. Like I love to watch them succeed. I did. What's that saying like everybody's happy for you until you get past them? Yeah. I mean when I you know I was forced maybe it wasn't natural but I was forced to learn about behavior where when people succeeded, me hating them did not benefit me. Me being frustrated their success had no effect, direct effect on my success. I wasn't about to get successful because I could shit on them. And so I just, I mean, the very first person I knew to get like legit fucking famous who was like a friend was Dane. And the day my dad sent me the USA Today article that said Dane Cook, the number one selling comic in the world ever or whatever. It was like a really big,
Starting point is 01:04:42 My dad's like, buddy, do you know him? I was forced to decide what kind of, and this, and this has happened a number of times. Who am I? Am I the guy that's going to sit and stew that that's not me? Or do I call Dane and tell him, hey, man, my dad just sent me this. This is really cool, dude. Congratulations. And then Dane gets to go, hey, thank you.
Starting point is 01:05:03 That means a lot. And I haven't had any calls about it today. And then you're like, oh, that's right, because so many people are just stewing that they're not Dane. Tommy, this is my favorite story that I know I've over time. told, but it's worth. Tell it. Tell every story. Tommy. Tommy. We were supposed to do funny or die. Who was Tommy? Tom Sigura. Tom Segura. I need the, I need the last names. Tom Segura is my best friend. He and I became friends when he was a host and I was a feature. Now, I'm above him in that pecking order. And I always was the feature and he was the host or I was
Starting point is 01:05:34 the headliner and he was the feature. And then he starts headlining, I'm headlining. And we do some shows together, but we're both headliners. But I am older than him. I'm older than him. And I, and I'm more accomplished than him. Technically, I'm doing television. And then Tommy gets a Netflix special right at the right when Netflix, and it's a great Netflix. Mostly Stories is one of his best specials, and he blows up. He starts doing theaters. And I know he's doing theaters, but I'm doing clubs, but I don't look at it as like he's better than me. I look at it as I now I can get advice from a guy I trust. And then one night, I'm supposed to this funny or die tour is called Oddball. I'm signed on to host and do like some hosting gigs. I'm getting paid two
Starting point is 01:06:12 $1,000 a week, and I got to fly myself and put myself up. But it's a great opportunity. You're working with Fluffy. Sebastian, Dane was on it. Tommy was on it. Joey was on it. I think Sarah was going to be on, like all these great names. So I'm getting to hang with great talent. So that's, for me, it's worth it. Well, at the last minute, I cancel all my dates. I cancel all my dates from September to December so that I can do this tour. They call me like, right before September, and they're like, yeah, we're not going to use you. And I'm like, what? And they're like, yeah, it's just we're not we're going to save money and we're just not going to go with the host so we're sorry and so now i have no dates for three months four months and i call tommy i'm sitting in my i have loved the
Starting point is 01:06:52 small details of a story i don't know why give us all the small detail i'm in my man cave i'm getting ready to get on the treadmill i'm in running shorts no shirt and i have and i have my cell phone and i call to tell him i'm not doing the tour and i have a phone like this four four four four and so he goes he says i said i'm not doing a And he said, what? I said, yeah, they pulled me off some of the dates. He's like, are you fucking serious? I go, yeah. He goes, God damn it, that's a lot of money to lose. And I said, well, it's only like, really, it's only like 16,000, I think. And he was like, oh, that's what you get in paper show? And I went, no, no, no, for all my dates, I'm getting 2,000 the show. And he went, hold on,
Starting point is 01:07:31 no, no, no, 2000 a week. I goes, wait, hold on, you mean 2000? Wait, hold on. What? I said, yeah, I'm only making 2,000 a week for these gigs. And he goes, but you have that number wrong. no, I'm no my rate. I said, wait, what are you getting paid? And he says, I don't want to tell you. I said, why? And he goes, well, I'm afraid it's going to fuck up our friendship. Like, wait, are you getting paid more than 2000?
Starting point is 01:07:51 And he goes, yeah. I said, per week. And he goes, yeah. I said, wait, how much are you making? And he goes, I don't know. Is this going to fuck us up? And I took my chair. I pushed it back.
Starting point is 01:08:04 I put my hands on my right close the phone. And I go, I thought to myself, do I love this guy? Do I want him to be successful? do I want him to have success? I said yes. I said, Tom, tell me the number. I'm sitting like this. And he says, $20,000 to show. And I realize in a pinpoint where I am in this business, what my worth is and who I am. In the pecking order, my best friend is making 10 times more than me a night that I'm making a weekend. And I was like, fuck. And I was like, and it's heartbreaking or to realize where you are.
Starting point is 01:08:39 But in that moment, I decided, I know who I am to this guy and I know what he is to me, and I can't be jealous of that. And so I said, okay, and he did the dates, and I didn't. And at that moment, I'd been fired from Travel Channel. I took assessment of my career and where I was lacking, and I wasn't focusing on my podcast. I wasn't focusing on social media.
Starting point is 01:09:00 I wasn't promoting, but I had learned how to edit and shoot. So I said, I'm just going to focus on me. I'm gonna, I was in a deal at NBC to do a sitcom and I did, I just dropped it. I didn't give a fuck about it. I focused on me and creating content. In that time, Tom started fat shaming me. I started making content to combat the fat shaming. That started going viral, like viral for us at the time.
Starting point is 01:09:24 And the fans picked up on it. I started moving more tickets. And then that New Year's Eve, my, the week of New Year's Eve, my machine story went viral. And I took everything I learned in those three. months of like find cool shit put yourself in front of cool shit that was my my motto is like find cool shit get in front of cool shit rogan's cool shit get on rogan be on rogan be fun on rogan deliver on rogan i found a show called hot ones reached out to sean evans i say your show's cool if you ever have comics on it he's like we only do like hip-hop and basketball players but like
Starting point is 01:09:56 if we ever do comics i'll hit you up i found a show called deis and mirro i found all these cool shit i just reached out me to them had love to be on your show and i started doing that and And that next year, I sold out every show clean for the whole year. And I started working on myself. I focused on my podcast, best friends like Tommy and Joe got me ad sales, ad sales on my podcast. And I remember doing a podcast where my ad sales buyout was 1,300, I think, 1,500 or 1,500 a read. I did seven reads.
Starting point is 01:10:29 And I realized at my ad share sale with my ad rep was like, there was like 80, 20 split. I made more, no managers, no agents. I made more in that podcast than I did on Travel Channel. And it fucked me up. I was like, I'm done. I'm done to a television. This is the new business model. And then Tom and Joe were like, focus on your fucking podcast.
Starting point is 01:10:48 Focus on your, I think Bill Burr told me at one point, your show's not great. You're a great comic. Focus on your podcast. Focus on your standup. Joe and him, but all of them. And I had good friends around me to help me do my thing. I started doing something's burning. I started focusing on my podcast.
Starting point is 01:11:04 I added video to my podcast. I hired an editor for my podcast, a producer. And then all of a sudden, it just skyrocketed from there. And I took that business model of like, find cool shit, be around cool shit. Find the stuff that people are watching. I started reading Google Trends a lot. And I'd find out why things spiked and why I spiked. And I'd look for spikes.
Starting point is 01:11:23 And I'd say, I need four spikes a year. So I'd find four projects I could get associated with that would deliver a spike. Goddamn comedy jam. I sang a song with Scott Stapp on stage, big spike. It sounded like you started to get much more strategic. about way more strategic. But here's the lesson too out of this whole story. If
Starting point is 01:11:41 Tom had not told you how much he was making and he would have thought he would making $5,000 and it wouldn't matter to me. Your temperature had my lot always says it. Your temperature would have been 5,000. But because you reframed your thinking and he told you
Starting point is 01:11:57 20, your temperature went up. That's why it's important to be surrounded by people who are succeeding and when you're surrounded by people who are succeeding. It makes your temperature go up. When people get mad about people making more money than them, their goals should be to raise their temperature.
Starting point is 01:12:15 Yeah, but a lot of people look at it and get defeated or they start being haters or I think you, I was talking about this other day. You either have to have a mindset where you're inspired by people like that because if you're defeated, then you're just fucked. And you're only fucking yourself. I'm inspired.
Starting point is 01:12:28 I've said this numerous times. I only hang around motherfuckers. I often say I'm a make. Miko sharks surrounded by great whites. Like from afar, you think I'm a great white. Because MAKOs look like great white. No, I think you're a great white. Well, I will take that as a compliment, and I'm not going to put away a compliment.
Starting point is 01:12:45 Thank you very much. I think, ultimately, I'm a great white, too. But I know that my best friends, my best friends are the funniest humans in the world that are excelling at a next level. And if you surround yourself for those people, the high tide raises all boats. And I'm telling you, and when I go, when I have questions about business, Tommy's probably the first person I ever go to, but he is, I mean, he's next level in my, I always bust his balls. Anyone listening, I always bust his balls. My game respects game. And Tommy is a brilliant businessman, a brilliant comedian and a great podcaster. Joe Rogan is like a big brother to me. Like I look up to him more than I do probably anyone. I lean on him with whether it's health and wellness advice, like legit. I left the cardiologist, I was like, I don't know what the fuck to do. I called Joe.
Starting point is 01:13:36 Joe's like, dude, carnivore. It's great for your liver enzymes. It gives your liver a break. Do carnivore. Give it a week. See how you like it. I've been carnivore now for six months. I'm down 45 pounds.
Starting point is 01:13:49 I'm on, I owe over Ways to Well. I'm on testosterone. I've got fucking all the cocktail. I take the cocktail every morning. People love Ways to Well. Oh, the Brigham's he texted me today. I want to have that guy on. What's Ways to Well?
Starting point is 01:14:00 It's a, they're out of Austin. and they're fucking amazing. I listen to that guy talk on a mic. Might have been on Joe. That guy's just like, that guy's just like an encyclopedia. What's his name? Brigham. Hatch has absolutely changed my sleep, but not only my sleep, it's made me not get a divorce.
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Starting point is 01:19:14 demo on our house. I got fired from travel channels. She wanted me to get a vasectomy. And, and I think, I don't think it was sober October, but, and one more thing happened. Everything happened on one day. And I got pulled off that tour. I got pulled off that tour. And in that day I was like and Christmas was coming and I was like do we do we say do we have one big Christmas left and then what's criss I've been a poor dad to Christmas it really sucks and I was like what do what is this going to look what's this year going to look like and I was scheduled to do oxnard for 25,000 dollars for the weekend for New Year's Eve and no one showed up no one what do you do when when you're a comic and no one shows up you just use it as a tool to refine
Starting point is 01:19:56 your skill you apologize you apologize to the manager, you apologize to the weight staff. We actually literally no one showed up or there was like two people. Like what do you mean? No, the club was one of the bigger clubs they'd build. I think it's like 475 and maybe 125 people showed up for new years. That's something. Well, it's not $25,000 guarantee.
Starting point is 01:20:17 And so they lost money and I got in the car that morning. I was going to do Rogan because we were all, Tom and I were doing fat shaming, the whole buildup. We were doing a weight loss challenge and we were going to weigh in three days straight on Rogan and see who lost the most weight and the loser had to have his beard shaved. And I was panicked. I was getting my beer shave and I drove home from New Year's Eve that morning, the New Year's day. The sun was coming up. I was dropping on the 101. Listen to Creedons Clearwater Revival. And I thought to myself, this machine story just started going viral like three million views.
Starting point is 01:20:48 And I thought to myself, I think I can do this. I think I can let this be my low point and move forward from here. But that three-month period, I mean, it was fucking homeless people were breaking into our house. I thought I did a gas leak with our fucking propane tank in our house. I mean, like, it was like a shit show of events of that three-month period was my lowest of like, I mean, I said things I regret. I remember when I got fired from Travel Channel, the lady that fired me was like, we're not going to renew your contract. And I had been in the contract for like six years of Travel Channel. And it was good money and I was like okay I go what's that mean she goes like we're done using you and I said but
Starting point is 01:21:29 like okay but I can I still pitch shows to you she was like yeah but we're not gonna do them and I was like yeah but I don't want to work with anyone else what the fuck I was like getting broken up with and this poor woman sat on the phone like this is awkward now and I was like I just I love you guys it's like a family to me and I was just hoping that she would say well what maybe we'll do I regret that so much I I wish I had just taken the phone call and been like, cool. I saw it coming. I knew it was coming.
Starting point is 01:21:55 I knew it was coming. I'd gone to lunch with her in the middle of lunch. She left the table and went and sat with another table. Oh, God. When you look at you and all these high performers that you hang out with, what are things that you think make you and all these people so successful besides talent? Don't listen to anyone. They don't listen to anyone.
Starting point is 01:22:16 Joe Rogan. I hate that I talk about them as much as I do. You have to understand. He's your best friend. I love this guy like a brother. And you got to understand also, he changed my life. He's changed a lot of our lives. And he's been a real channel marker for us.
Starting point is 01:22:30 Indirectly, he changed like the scope of media. Yeah, I mean. He said when he started his podcast, he was doing, he was selling fleshlights. And everyone's like, dude, don't sell fleshlights. And he was like, yeah, but it's money coming into the pocket. It helps pay for the podcast. Joe didn't listen to anyone. People were like, why are you doing a fucking podcast?
Starting point is 01:22:50 And he was like, it's fun, I like it. He didn't listen to anyone. And I think that's the one thing is like, trust yourself. When I started doing promo videos and really leaning into Instagram, there were comics that mocked me. They were like, fun, mocked me, but they're like, what the fuck? I remember my special was coming out, and I was, I wanted views on it, and I was thinking of all the different content I can do.
Starting point is 01:23:10 And one of the content bits I wanted to do was take my camera to the store, interview all my friends that are way more successful than me, and ask them what the best way to watch this about? So then I could have a clip of all 10 of your favorite comics and then I could splice in Whatever their answer was I could have them it make it sound like it was glowing about my podcast Right like it was a fun it was gonna be obviously noticeable but it would be funny and light So I did everyone I did uh everyone that was there I did everyone and I did I did I remember I did Sebastian Manascalco now Sebastian's a private dude I have to give that to him if I did him shot it in horizontal
Starting point is 01:23:47 I know why that matters to me Sebastian said to me at the end, how can you do this? I said what? And he goes, aren't you humiliated? And I went, no. He goes, I would, and he wasn't being rude. He was like, I could never do.
Starting point is 01:24:01 He was like, I could never do what you're doing to go and bring a comic, a friend, and with a camera. And what is this? And I said, I'm doing a promo. I told him my promo, and he goes, how, why do you do that? And I said, Sebastian, some of us, have to like hustle to get views. Like you're really talented and you're just fucking amazing.
Starting point is 01:24:25 And I'm not that. I'm the guy that needs the hustle. So that's why I do it. I do it because no one's giving me anything. No one gave anything to Sebastian, but no one's definitely given anything to me. And I'm fucking 44 and I'm a white dude dad who drinks a lot. Like no one's like,
Starting point is 01:24:40 that's the thing we need to watch. That's the hot new product that's been here for 20 fucking plus years. So like I, but those moments, are like, I don't take them as insults. I take them almost as a compliment of like, yeah, I don't mind. Like, I don't mind doing a promo to promote dates. Because I know if you're a fan of mine and you see it, you're just excited to see that I'm coming to your city. And if you're not a fan of mine, well, then you're not coming to show anyway. And if you don't like the promo, okay, I get it. But like, I'll give you another great example of not listening to anybody. I said for sober October one year, we always do physical challenge in our sober octobos. I said, one time I said, we should do hip hop dance. And for our challenge and Joe's like absolutely not I said no we'll all learn you know I know what you're saying but I'm not learning a hip-hop dance he's a good girl who's like fucking fools doing a hip-hop dance I said no but that would be fun if we all
Starting point is 01:25:31 get with one dancer for the whole month and learn a dance and then we all post our dance online and then people get to vote on who the best hip-hop dancer is Joe Tom Ari all them are like that is the dumbest idea I didn't think it was a dumb idea I stood this day I didn't I would get views well I shot it I shot it it. I just said, I'm going to fucking do a hip-hop dance. I got this girl, D-Glazer, great dancer. Me and my daughter would share her videos with each other. And I reached out to her for $1,200. She coached me for a week on a dance. Then we went to a studio and I did my dance. I did a hip-hop dance that she had choreographed to Post Malone. And at the last minute, I said, you know what we should
Starting point is 01:26:10 do? Can you do one where you give me space on the side? And then let's run my scroll, my tour dates. and we'll announce my tour this way. That tour sold out in 15 minutes, and a month later, Tommy did a hip hop dance video. And he was like, it's not a bad idea. He sold his dates out in five minutes,
Starting point is 01:26:30 because now everyone knows the thing. And the day it released, it went like, I got like six million views that day, and everyone, all my buddies are texting me, dude, this is fucking hilarious. This is great.
Starting point is 01:26:38 You can actually dance. But I was like, I'm not going to listen to anyone. And then I started going, I'm not listening to anyone. I'm not going to tell people my ideas anymore. I'm not going to run things by anyone. So the next tour,
Starting point is 01:26:47 I hired a marching band. I said, come to my house. I'm going to shoot a promo. They're like, what are we going to do? I said, I don't know. Figure it out. I got a cameraman, my cousin Andrew, still on a ladder. I said, do you guys, what song do you guys know?
Starting point is 01:26:58 We didn't have any schedule, anything. I just have a marching band and pizza. And I said, I got them for like $2,400. And they go, we know rubber band, man. I was like, cool. Play it. And they're like, where? I go, I don't know.
Starting point is 01:27:10 Stand around my pool. Stand around my pool. I'm going to go into the man. I got it. And this is the best, this is the best advice I'll ever give anyone. just turn the cameras on and it'll show up. It'll show up. You just got to turn the camera on.
Starting point is 01:27:22 Don't overthink it. Turn it on. So I stood in my man cave with weights. I was in my man cave shooting from outside my man cave. I'm doing shoulders. I have great shoulders. And I said, what's up everybody? It's your boy, Burke Christ, you're the machine.
Starting point is 01:27:36 I got a big announcement. And I walked out of my man cave and I grabbed a whistle that was around my neck. And I blew it. And the drummer came out, run, dun dun, dun, behind me. And I go, we're going. going big this year. I got the, whatever it was called, Body Shot's World Tour, whatever, I don't forget what it was. And then I stand in front of the band who's all surrounding my pool
Starting point is 01:27:54 and they play rubber band, man, and I dance just with a baton. And they scroll the dates. And that tour sold out immediately. And then I was like, fuck, there's a phrase I love. I'm using everything. Hoof to, hoof to snout. I want the whole cow. So I got this band there. I was like, fuck it. Everyone in the man cave. We're doing another video. Fuck it. Everyone in my bedroom, we're doing another video. So we shot three videos with this one $2,400 investment that sold tickets, because I knew once the tour sold out, you're adding shows. So I need a video for that. So we got on the treadmill, and we shot that video. And then I just started doing that night, kind of painted myself into a corner because, I mean, I've done it all. I've had
Starting point is 01:28:35 synchronized swim teams at my house. Like, I've done everything to promote tours. And then I got to a place where, like, the promoters would be like, and it's a cool place to be in. And it's a cool place to be in control of your career, but the promoters would be like, yo, you want to do red rocks? And I was like, well, yeah, but at the time, I could only move 5,000 seats. And they're like, they're like, yeah. I remember my agent was like, I bet you could do it. And I was like, think you, I bet you can. Like, I wouldn't say that to any of my other clients, but I think you're up for the challenge.
Starting point is 01:29:06 And I love a challenge. So then I brainstorm. I'm in Serbia shooting my movie. Red Rocks is on sale. Nothing's happening. I get 5,000 tickets sold, but not 10. And then I pull my tricep, I ripped my tricep on my arm, and I got it. I talked to the cardiologist, or to talk to the surgeon and the anesthesiologist's note for the surgery.
Starting point is 01:29:26 Anesthesiologist says, hey, what music do you want to go under to? I was like, I can pick music? And he was like, yeah. I said, Cretan's Clearwater Revival's fortunate son. And I took my video, I took my camera, and they wheeled me into surgery. And I said, I'm not going to count backwards. I'm going to do a read. And I just want you to put me out in the middle of my read.
Starting point is 01:29:45 So I rolled in. It's a great fucking video. I said, what's up to everybody? It's your boy, Burke Chrysler. I just want to tell you I'm rolling into surgery. I'm nervous as fuck. I'm hoping I make it on the other side because if I do, I have Red Rocks coming up November 2nd. I will see you Colorado with Red Rocks. Sir, you coming and he goes, wait, where are you? This is a real conversation. He goes, you're the Red Rocks? I go, Jimmy Buffett tonight after me. He goes, you hear Creedon's Quillow revival picking up in the background. He goes, I love Jimmy Buffet.
Starting point is 01:30:08 I go, so I'll show, and I dropped the phone. I came out of surgery and the first thing I said is, did I get it? Is it on my phone? And the guy goes, you got it. We hit Stop Record, you got it. And I went, put it up, Red Rock sold out clean in a day. And so I love, but I love the challenge. I love the challenge of having to sell more tickets.
Starting point is 01:30:27 You'll never, I'll always say there's tickets available, even if it's sold out. There's tickets available. Always. And, you know, it's, it's, it's why I've created my festival fully loaded. And I'll say this candidly, I have 32 of the greatest comics in the world in that festival. But it, the onus is on me to sell those tickets. They don't have it in their contract where they have to post anything. They do out of the kindness of their hearts.
Starting point is 01:30:50 But ultimately, they have a deal with me where I pay them to come just do comedy and I get to use their names to promote it. But I love that challenge. I love that challenge. And it is to my detriment at times because I am so hyper-focused when we talk about how it's good to have you back. I was just like, whom! And I would love fucking any video to promote anything.
Starting point is 01:31:11 The idea, like the first time we did fully loaded, I came up with an idea of, you know, that thing of, hey, I got a cool thing I always show it to you. And then you cover it up and then you pull it back and it's something else. Well, I had all the comics do the video. And I gave them the copy and then be like, it's Burke Chrysler. I have a big announcement. and then it cut to Nikki Glazer. But it was my voice going on dot, dot, dot, dot, dot.
Starting point is 01:31:30 I got some of it. And then it was Joey Diaz. And then it was Dave Attell. And then it was like, but it was like, it was a really cool video and it sold tickets. You're very resourceful with your approaches. You're creative. I love the creativity. I will tell you this, you guys have been to my, my podcast studio.
Starting point is 01:31:45 That house gives me so much purpose because I walk into it and it's so full of life. It's all filled with women. I love working with women. but it's so it's so filled with energy. I mean, we did a promo that I think it's got only. It's got like six, I don't know what it has. I said, I said, we got to promote the tops off world tour. How do we do that?
Starting point is 01:32:09 And I was like, I'm always topless, but what if I had a top on? And then I had all the women in my office, topless, but covered like Austin Powers style. And so we went through and I was like, we got a big tour. Tell them what's going on. And then Rachel's got a poster in front of her boobs. She goes, hey, where are we supposed to put this post for? go, don't worry about the poster. We'll take care of that later.
Starting point is 01:32:26 Guys, we have tours, and it went through all the women, and then it ended with Leanne with two boxing gloves over her tits, going, well, it's a fight of your life or something. But I love that energy. I don't think I could get away with that promo in this office. I think I would be... Dude, the funnest things... The funnest things...
Starting point is 01:32:40 Lock me up. The funnest thing ever is like... Just... And that's the other thing is like, don't listen to anyone. And don't even, like, get in your head about stuff. Because just shoot it. Just shoot it. And if it's bad, no one sees it.
Starting point is 01:32:53 So who gives a fuck? But if it's good, they see it. Thanksgiving this last year, me, Vic, Peter, and Rachel sat down in front of a green screen. And I was like, what are we going to do? What, what's the, let's shoot something. What do we want to shoot? And I think, I think it was either me or Vic who was like, we should do like, like, how to drink yourself through the Thanksgiving? And I was like, that's a good idea.
Starting point is 01:33:17 Let's, how do we do that? And I was like, well, Vic's like, what do you, how would you want to do it? And it's a collaboration, for real. It is a collaboration of all of us. of brainstorming an idea and we did this video for Thanksgiving of like it's your family's around here's how you start your day you start your baby with sneaky beer that no one's see like and we just kind of tracked out your drinking and it went it did huge numbers for us and it but at that that energy I that's the reason I got into this business like to make fun stuff and put out cool shit
Starting point is 01:33:45 and like yeah there were times as a dad that I would get a waterside and put it in our front yard with the sole purpose of shooting a promo where I go girls invite your friends over Just heads up. Georgia, you're going to need to hold the camera. And I did a video to promote Australia where I had a bunch of kids, nine-year-olds in bikinis going, Ali, Ali, Ollie, Ollie, Ali, Ollie, Ollie, Ollie, Oye. You know what?
Starting point is 01:34:07 I love it. I love it. I don't think. Could you get away with it now? I told you, Bert. You're fucking killing it, man. I'm not killing it. Killing it's a perspective.
Starting point is 01:34:15 I think there are people who feel like it goes back to that young influencer, young comic who gets it all. They feel like they're killing it and they own it. And they're like, this is me. I think one of the good things about me is I don't, I constantly think I'm not there yet. So I'm constantly thinking, like, all I'm thinking about right now is Tucson, Arizona, January 18th. That's all I'm thinking about. Tucson, Arizona, January 18th.
Starting point is 01:34:39 I'm thinking about El Paso, San Antonio, Amarillo. I have tour dates on my head. You're going to be in San Antonio. Can I ask a question? Please. Do you know who our next guest is after you? Who? Aren't they friends?
Starting point is 01:34:51 I think so. Stamos? I love John Stamos. Probably right out there right now. I know. I was just going to say, I didn't even get to ask you any of your wellness stuff. Oh, my wellness stuff is. Can you see if he's out here?
Starting point is 01:35:02 If he's not out here, I want to still ask him. I said is I want you and Leanne. Now that I've gotten both of you separately. John Stamos is beautiful. Keep the door up, but we'll see him. Yeah. Before John comes, can I get your wellness tips? My wellness tips.
Starting point is 01:35:15 Oh, damn it. I could podcast with him for another two hours. Oh, I'm a better guest than I am host. The, uh, my wellness tips honestly are. I'm very grateful for having played sports as a kid because I love being physical. I love my biggest wellness tip is working out in the morning. And you're athletic I heard. I'm sneaky athletic.
Starting point is 01:35:39 But I feel like you're good at like randomly almost every sport. Like jump into like golf. I play baseball. Like when we did the fully loaded tour at baseball stadiums, I was like, I want to take some BP. And the guy, the guy pitching to me is like, I hit one off. the fence and he was like that's with no pace David tell about a hundred bucks I couldn't hit out of the infill and I'm fucking going yard I went out to my high school when I was doing the Emily and the kids were like yo take batting practice and I was like I'm hitting a home run and I set up there for 30 pitches until I hit a fucking home run. It seems like you tell yourself you're going to do something and you do it.
Starting point is 01:36:11 Do you've heard my story about the LA marathon. Oh, I told Rogan and Tom and Ari I could run the LA Marathon with no training at all and they were like absolutely not and I was like easy and they're like prove it. I went all right sign to Philadelphia marathon, no training, other than, like, get on the treadmill and doing like... We talked about, but this is like similar to, like, that Dan Balsarian story when he's like, I could ride my bike to... Yeah, I love that energy. I love it. It's almost, I almost become a little bit of a heel in those moments because Joe is so grounded in reality when it comes to athletic abilities.
Starting point is 01:36:41 And I was like, I can do it. Because I know there's, I know that there's a mind over matter thing. And I was like, all I have to do is decide to put one foot in front of the other for the next five hours. And I will do that. People have done worse. Wait, I want to know, like, from a... micro standpoint what your wellness is.
Starting point is 01:36:56 You scrape your tongue every morning. I will sometimes notice that if I'm not feeling well, it's because my mouth isn't clean enough. Yeah, but I can lower your blood pressure too. Yeah, well that in pills. I do, I do sauna every day. You send your blood hole. I send my blood hole.
Starting point is 01:37:11 I get morning sun, but I like it because I do my gratitude then. I journal every day. I journal more now that I'm when I'm in and out of drinking because I think it helps ground me. But my big, and I'm on, uh, I wish I can know, knew all the stuff I was on. I'm on a cocktail of vitamins all through ways to well. I'm on testosterone. I'm a big proponent of tons of water before sleep. So like I always isn't isn't politically correct, but we used to say that's the Native American alarm clock because before they go to war, they drink a ton of water. So they woke up early because you got a piss. So like that's how I wake up by
Starting point is 01:37:42 having a piss. And but working out, I work out hard. Like I work out until I throw up. Like, like I work out until I get like physically burnt. I got to be honest out of every single person. that I've heard listens to the skinny confidential him and her podcast. When you started repeating things back to me that we said, I was shocked. Oh, yeah. You're not like the picture of the person that I picture listening. No, I'm not. I have other things that I'm like really into and like I don't want to become an old man
Starting point is 01:38:13 who only listens to old music. So I just recently started to get into bands I'd never heard of, like really get into a band. And that's really fun, is discovering something new and then falling in love with it. It's really cool. So it's been, you love a morning routine. You love a night time. I love morning routines and I love now my evening is like around sunset. I'll hit my vape pen once. And then and that'll help me not drink. Okay. And then I kind of detox my night. I'll have a cigar maybe and I sit in gratitude my backyard and I go to bed listening to podcasts. I mean you've got, I think people have you wrong with that. When I learned how whatever you're
Starting point is 01:38:54 You're militant. Oh, I'm very, I only wear one shirt type of shirt. You only see me in James purse. Only. I only wear a James purse. I'm wearing a John Elliott shirt now, but then I saw you wearing James purse. I got a little jealous because that's such a softer shirt. Oh, such a great shirt.
Starting point is 01:39:08 It's better. I have a little, I like being, I like certain things and I like having my things. I only fly in tracksuits. I have rituals before I fly. What's your ritual? Everyone get ready to be freaked out. I love it. I can't wait.
Starting point is 01:39:24 So I get in a shower. I wash my hair and all of my body, feet included. I keep the soap on my hair, my beard, on my body. And I get down in a squatting position, and I visualize a successful flight. I say, let's get there. And then I visualize my eyes of my eyes, Burbank to Salt Lake, Burbank to Salt Lake, Burbank to Salt Lake,
Starting point is 01:39:41 and then I do six clear takeoffs from every direction. And then I go Burbank to Salt Lake, Burbank, Salt Lake. And then I do six landings from every direction. And then one more time for Dexterity, I go, Burbank, Salt Lake, Burbank to Salt Lake. Then I surround myself three times in a coil of love. and then I surround everyone in my family. Georgia, Ila, Leanne, are dogs,
Starting point is 01:39:59 our cat outside, Isla's cat upstairs. I do my sister, her husband. There are two kids, they're two dogs. I do my sister or boyfriend, my parents. And then I do a big loop around all of us. And then I end on three coils around myself and I center in the head of my head with a spike. And then I say a prayer.
Starting point is 01:40:15 I kiss my cross. And then I rinse off and I'm ready to fly. No wonder you liked my morning routine. Every time. You like, you like very detailed. Leanne said that comedians were, they ruminate and their OCD. Oh, hardcore. When I get a joke in my head, it's all I think about.
Starting point is 01:40:36 And like, like you're trying to untangle a necklace. And I just chew on it and chew on it and chew on it. And I, like, what was the joke? The other day I was trying to write is my dog loves my dick. And because my dog saw my dick and he freaked out. Like I've never had anyone care about my dick that much. He liked it. He saw it and was like, why are we just bringing this out now?
Starting point is 01:41:00 And I, and Leanne was laughing in the dog, we have a 150 pound bowl mastiff, two of them. And so. Did you have peanut butter on it? No, no, no, that does work, though. The, no, I had to hold it. I had to hold it away from my dogs. My dog was so into it. And so when that happened, I wrote that in my head and then I started ruminating about like,
Starting point is 01:41:18 that could be a bit, what was my dog? And then I'm just saying. dog loves my dick, my dog loves my dick. And then I'm just going in my head the whole day. I think about it. I chew it. It's fun. I do it with stories. Do you meditate? No. You don't meditate. We talked about that. I do the call map every now and then.
Starting point is 01:41:36 But I'm always afraid someone's going to throw something in my face. What do you mean? Like if I'm afraid that I'll be like this and then I'll come up and scare the shit out of me or someone. Your dog will start sucking your death. Yeah, my dog will start sucking my dick. By the way, that dog, I've seen him go after a bone. That dog has got a big dog. You've seen Pris is our old dog. Max Mouth.
Starting point is 01:41:56 I love thinking of a problem. I love, I love fantasizing. So, like, today I was taking a shower and I just, oh my God. John Stamos, everybody. Hi. It's so nice to meet you.
Starting point is 01:42:10 My pleasure. I saw. Bob passed, like, yesterday. Two years ago yesterday. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Sorry, man.
Starting point is 01:42:21 No, it wasn't. Come here, grab a seat. We'll sit together. Here, here, take this one. Sit down. They're two good looking, both of them. I'm high. No, no, no.
Starting point is 01:42:30 I got high this morning. We're going to talk about this morning. I just want to know who has a better hairline. You or Michael. Michael is very good, but sort of a vampire. I mean, like, you know what I mean? I call it one of Trees of Judah. Maybe I could get some tips because I like the way, this thing just flows.
Starting point is 01:42:44 No, let's start with. If there's anyone, I'm going to take some tips from. You guys haven't gotten a chance to smell him yet. You smell phenomenal. Well, usually. Phenomenomom. You smell like my car when. I was a kid and we go to the beach. What do you wear? What are you wearing? What are you wearing?
Starting point is 01:42:56 Bert's Car Beach. How do you guys know each other? We did a podcast together. By the way, I'm a huge fucking fan. We did his podcast. I did his podcast. I did his podcast. He was very good to me. Two bears. I read your entire book. I did. And I harassed people to reach out to you. Oh, thank you. We're going to get into it. His book is so good. I listen to it. I listened to it. I listen to it. You listen to it. You actually consume a lot of content. But fast, right? You did. I did it on. I did it. It was fast, so it sounded like he was on Coke. No, I read it on my Kindle. Oh, thank you very much. I loved it. It was so good.
Starting point is 01:43:29 I knew you guys. We're waiting for you to see each other. I told him, I said, open the door. I just want to say hi. And then I'll leave and I'll let you guys do your podcast. Do you want to tell John about your routine that you do in the shower before you fly? Do you want to tell him about how your dog blew you? No, Bob would love that joke. That Bob had. Bob's, remember he had a song called My Dog with my balls? Excuse me, ladies. Sorry.
Starting point is 01:43:49 See? Oh, trust me. It's normal. Sorry. Talk about yours. No, no, no. My dog loves my dick. So how?
Starting point is 01:43:57 You guys know each other because you did a podcast together? I did his podcast, but he was so, you were so kind and you were so smart, too. You're the best. He was the fucking best. I was a fan before,
Starting point is 01:44:06 and I was a fan of you guys. What was I going to say? But you weren't drinking, we weren't drinking, and then I look on Instagram and you're on a boat, you know, with his shirt off like normal and booze, right?
Starting point is 01:44:13 Yeah, I've had some booze. But you do look skinny. You've lost weight since the last time. 45 pounds, yeah. Yeah, you look really skinny. That's probably hard to be skinny day in age, though, because everyone automatically thinks you're on OZempick. He is. No. No. But does everyone say that to you? No, no one never asked. They think I got my stomach
Starting point is 01:44:30 stapled. They think I'm smart enough to use OZMPIC. And it's actually the carnivore diet. It's a carnivore diet. I'm 100% carnivore. Although I smell horrible, I think these days. You smell. Really? Yeah, I really can't. I think I had COVID like years ago and it took my smelling out. Well, well, you smell great. He says you smell great. I've had COVID seven times. This week? That wasn't that funny When you can make a brilliant comic like this guy laughed That's a good thing Well thank you for giving me my first Zen pack
Starting point is 01:44:58 He gave me nicotine on air That dispersed in my mouth And then I had to take it out I don't really know what that was But it did get me a little high It's a nice buzz Before John comes on the show Pimp yourself out
Starting point is 01:45:11 Tell us where to mine I could have talked to you for six hours We'll come out to the I don't have any tickets to sell I don't think No, no, no, like the Austin show is sold out. But Topsoff World Tour. Why Austin?
Starting point is 01:45:24 Yeah. Yeah, what about L.A.? Oh, I'm doing the forum May 11th. Okay. I'm doing the forum. Yeah. No big deal. If you would have told you, if you would have told me that you would be doing the, did you ever think you play the form?
Starting point is 01:45:36 I mean, that's pretty. If you told me I'd be sitting next to John Stamos. I'd be like, no, for real, that's like crazy. Hey, what do you think we're thinking of us? I know, right? No, I'd never thought this would happen in my career. But I think that's why you think that's the, a good thing. Like you've said that to me. Like, yeah, John was legit. Just a kid from Orange County.
Starting point is 01:45:57 Just a kid from Irvine. Like, just a kid. And like, wasn't like, you know this from his book, but wasn't this massive stud growing up? And then when you say, if you thought you were a heartthrob, did you ever think that was going to happen? Oh, no. When we told people that we were interviewing John Stamos, every single girl's eyeballs popped out of their head. I think the office is on. The office, The office is buzzing today. I know that one girl out there, is that her name? Yeah. I think all of them are,
Starting point is 01:46:23 their tongues are wild. I didn't tell for a while. Oh, yeah, yeah. No, that's for later in the episode. No, at least tomorrow. I go to Mexico to go see the grateful day. I love you, buddy. Thank you for doing this.
Starting point is 01:46:33 Where can everyone find you? Where can they watch you? Go to birdcast, go to burp-burkirt.com. Like I said, Topsoff World Tour starts in Tucson, ends in Austin in May. And then I shoot my special in July, and then I'm taking a fucking break.
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