The Church of What's Happening Now: The New Testament - #068 | JOSH POTTER | UNCLE JOEY'S JOINT with Joey Diaz

Episode Date: May 26, 2021

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It's Wednesday, the 26th of May. A beautiful fucking day to be alive. I'm feeling great. 23 days with no weed, and I still don't know any differences. Nothing. I wish I could say to you that I'm running Swiss out, and shit.

I mean, I've been working out. I've been eating the same. I'm doing the same shit. I'm going to keep it up to the 30-day mark. And then we'll smoke on camera. I'll gag for you guys and fucking pass out, hopefully, or then we'll give it another 30 days. We're going to ride this bus out until the tolerance gets lower.

I heard through a rumor mill that when New Jersey sells weed anyway, they're only going to sell 10% wheat. That's as high as they're going to go. That's the word on the street. I don't know how true it is. or whatever, but it's not going to be fucking good. So I'm letting these Jersey people know now that you better let your tolerance go down a little bit and stop buying that fucking California shit because they're going to keep these numbers low at 10%.

That's just a little bit more than fucking Susquehanna wheat. I think Susquehanna starts at 12. So I don't know what jersey is going to be fucking selling. But it's been a great couple days. Listen, man, going to L.A. was the best. thing I fucking did because now I know where I belong I know that I'm home I got a home you know I miss a lot of my friends I miss a lot of the things but not really the life that I've created here in the last nine months has been great and you could see it on my face you could see it in

my eyes you know don't get old that's what sucks getting old get sucks so for two weeks I was waking up and I swear to God they didn't say none to you guys because I didn't want to you know, worry you guys. I got enough problems as it is. I'd wake up in the morning and I'd have to spit because I got to sleep at me a mask and my mouth would be dry. I'd get up 10 times in that.

I drink a, you know, you could die. If you're old, over 50, you better drink a glass of fucking water before you go to bed because you don't want to dehydrate in the middle of the night and die. I didn't know that either. I would stop drinking water at 6. I'd go to bed, I'd be seeing fucking mirages

because if you do more water you drink, the more you got to pee. Then I'm up and down all night, fucking peeing. And that sucks dick, too. I wouldn't drink water. And then in the middle of the night, I'm seeing fucking mirages. I'm on the desert, seeing a donkey and a fucking Arab or some shit. So I said, fuck, I read, you know, I did some reading up on it.

And you got to drink a big glass of water before you go to bed. But when I still wake up in the morning, I got to sleep apnea mask. And I would feel something on the bottom of my teeth. And I would spit, and it was fucking pure blood. So right away, you know, I just got a call a few weeks ago. One of my dear friends has cancer. So now you think, well, it's the pandemic, the luck of the pandemic. You know, fucking broke his fucking shoulder.

This guy did this. This guy did that. This guy's mother. Everybody had bad luck during this fucking thing. So I'm like, maybe I got fucking cancer. So I told my wife, you know, because I hit it from her for like a week. And then I finally, she saw the fucking blood in the toilet. And she's like, what is that?

And I go, I don't know what's going on whenever I fucking spit. And she goes, show me your mouth. and I showed it. She goes, look at the size of your gums. They're fucking swollen. So I took a picture and I sent it to the dentist in L.A. who had done the original work. And she goes, yeah, your gums don't look too good.

On this side, especially they were up. So I fucking called the dentist here. I made an appointment. I had to go through the whole fucking, are you vaccinated? Do you need a COVID test? I mean, again, I had to go get a fucking COVID test for the fucking dentist. It never ends. I go to a dentist.

This motherfucker tells me that. he can't go in there because he doesn't want to redo her work or he doesn't know how the fuck don't you know this could only happen to me guys i'm having the worst fucking luck with doctors in new jersey ever so i said you know what don't worry about it i'm going to l a anyway i called dr sherry i said dr sherry i'm coming in i'll only be in for a few hours maybe two days she goes as soon as you get off the plane call me i have an opening i'll slip you in she went over there she just drilled a little bit down there was a little bit of blood and then she flossed and then and she gave me like an ointment to put on,

and now my gums are back to normal. No problem. Now I wake up this morning, and I got a fucking ward on my finger. How the fuck do you get a ward on your finger? I've never had a ward in my life. I think it's a ward. I don't fucking know.

I've never had a ward in my fucking life. And I think it's a splinter. I think it's a splinter that got infected. But don't get old, because you wake up every morning with a different fucking helmet. I had knee surgery. Want me to tell you something?

Everything hurts except my fucking knee. You understand me? I just had knee surgery. But everything else hurts except the fucking knee. My thigh hurts. My calf hurts. I went to Point Pleasant on fucking Sunday. I pulled the fucking thing onto the beach.

And sure enough, the next day, my friend's like, sure your legs hurt, you're not supposed to go on the beach yet. The beach can't really fucking hold you. The sand. That's the second time I went to the beach. And fucking my legs hurt like my right leg hurts like a motherfucker. So now I can't go to the beach for another month or two because my fucking leg. I didn't know this. Nobody told you this shit.

So just do me a favor Don't get old And if you're young Take care of yourself Take care of yourself Drink water work On your muscles and shit I got fopat

It's just a fucking nightmare And then you guys wonder why I take on it And CBD and magnesium Because you got all these fucking ailments As an old man That you know

I talk to Rich Voss Every day That's my brother I love Rich Voss He's 60 fucking three years old He's another guy That lives in a world Where elmints

I mean We talk about our ailments All day I get off the phone with him going, what the fuck did we just talk about? Fucking fungi toenails and fucking colonoscopies. So your conversation's about to change, young guys. You know, like when you're 40,

you're still talking about pussy and shit. Forget it. Once you get to be like 50, the word pussy don't even come up no more because you know you ain't got nothing to give these young girls. And even if you had the chance, what are you going to do? Show up with that wrinkled up fucking ugly dick. I don't want nobody to see my dick.

I'll show anybody my nutsack, but my dick, you never fucking see my. Every once in a while I show it. You know why? Because it's ugly. It looks like a seal now. It used to look like a dick. Now it looks like a sea whale.

You would go to like San Francisco and you see the seals. They're all fucking blubbery and they got that that weird skin. That's what my dick looks like now. I don't want nobody sucking my dick. I don't want nobody looking at it. I don't want nobody taking pictures. My dick is over. After 50, if you're a woman and you're still sucking over 50-year-old dick,

listen, I can't help you. I can't help you. If you didn't get COVID, that's why, because you're sucking dick so. because you're sucking dicks over 50 years old. I don't even know what it started here today. It's just a Wednesday. I'm in a great fucking mood. It's a beautiful day to be alive,

and I'm happy you guys are fucking doing great. Enough is enough. I've been fucking quiet for the last fucking six months. It's time to bust the fuck out. You motherfuckers want to me? You motherfuckers got me. You understand me? I know there's people on there talking shit online.

I don't even give a fuck no more. It's time for me to start talking shit again. I'm pissed. Fucking, I had a great weekend, though. I tell you what happened. Sunday and I had the Knicks. I figured, let me take the hometown crowd. Rule number one, you never bet a team.

Let's say you live in Ohio. Don't bet the fucking bulls. Don't bet the fucking whoever you have that's in Ohio, whatever. I don't even know. Ohio State. Let's say if you live in Ohio, they tell you don't bet local teams. The other Sunday I woke up. The Knicks were in the playoff for the first time.

They weren't even supposed to be in the playoffs. They were getting points, and I forgot to bet them when the game started. So I went on fucking draft kings And they fucking let me bet the game Like in the second quarter getting two points So I'm all excited I fucking turn the game on I come home from the party

The Knicks are winning I'm like I'm gonna win $47 Because it's a $50 bet You win 47 They pushed so I push fucking Saturday night So Monday Mercy's got a softball game I go fuck it I'm at the game My friend shows up

He's like did you look at the lines tonight What do you like? I didn't really look at anything I don't think the heat's gonna beat Milwaukee or whatever the fuck they played but I go I don't like either team I don't know much about them

so what I'll do is I just bet the under the fucking under loss so last night I had to pull a fucking degenerate gambler move and I bet fucking Denver giving two and a half again 50 bucks to win 97 boom Denver won by fucking Denver was given

9 and a half I'm sorry they ended up winning by like 20 then Tuesday night I was going to bet the fucking nets listen I love draft kings for that reason Draft Kings when you fucking sign up They send you little emails

Like last week they sent me an email Bet a dollar That Stefan whatever isn't going to hit a three-pointer Are you fucking retarded A dollar wins you $55? I'm $55 richard You know I bet the fucking dollar You know I'm I love all that stupid shit

I told you I was bored And I told you there's a way to gamble Just to have fun And I'm proving it to you guys Tonight I don't know who I'll take I don't even look at the fucking games tonight but tonight I'll go $25. That's it, $25 to win.

You know, who cares? Everybody wants to... You think you're really going to make a living off fucking game? I love these guys that think they're going to make a living off gambling. I gamble just there. Every night when you throw on TNT, they got two fucking games. Every night I look at the game for two minutes and I go, I should have bet this game. I would have watched it.

Finally, I said, let me bet the fucking game. I'm not having a bad week, but I'll tell you, that's the one thing that's fun about Draft Kings. And then I'm not even sponsoring me today. I'm just telling you, I haven't. a blast with them. I really do. I don't know anything about fantasy sports. I know nothing about that. When I signed up first, I signed up on the fantasy

side. I'm like, what the fuck is this? They have like these dollar pools and I'm trying to put these teams together and my budget is too big. I don't even know what the budget is of my fucking team. So I said, I transferred my money off from fantasy to sports betting and I've been having a good time. That's what I wanted to tell you.

Anyway, going to California last week was a very good move for me. Because I felt, ever since I got over the fucking jet lag and the fucking not sleeping for two days and the whole thing, it's been a lot better. I've slowed down on the tea also. If you'd notice, you see, I'm not posting any more pictures.

After that last tea excursion, I'm done. That last tea night fucked me up. I'm still drinking the tea. I'm just not blowing it up with the fucking syringes and shit no more. The last night I did that, I had a dream for Delcastro was chasing me on a fucking speedboat, and I could see his beard. And that's because of the weed, I'm starting to dream in color now.

It's like when you do fucking shrew. It's like when you do alpha brain, you start dreaming in black and white. Now that I remove the reefer, I'm starting to dream in color, and that's fucking scary, because I never had dreams. I don't remember even fucking dreaming.

I pass out so hard at night on those fucking edibles. You know, I don't even have dreams. I wake up in the morning and my eyes are fucking red. But I've been having dreams. That's one thing about not smoking reefer. That I've been having very visual,

colored dreams. So the last week or so, this has been going on like for the last 10 days. I had a dream about my mother. I had a dream. Fidel was chasing me. I had a dream I was doing comedy somewhere

and I was bombing and I was cursing myself for getting on stage. You know, I just have these weird fucking dreams. So if you want them to know what's going on, that's the only difference from the smoking weed is that my fucking eyes, that I'm having fucking colored dreams.

only difference I'm getting. That's what I hear. So for UP, yeah, that's it. I'm just getting weird dreams and I'm seeing them in color. But as Wednesdays, we have a guest today. I've known this guy for a long fucking time. I've seen him go from being an open micer to a real comic, and I have nothing but respect for this young man.

Before the pandemic, he had a lot of things going on, like a lot of us and the pandemic took a lot of those things from him he was in a shoot of special he had a couple things going on so I checked in with him

you know we check in with each other once a month and a couple weeks ago I was talking to him and I figured let me put him on the show he had a fucking fucked up time

during the pandemic I mean he didn't lose anybody or nothing like that it was great but he had a lot of things to lose the things I loved lost, I didn't even sweat. I knew that people were going through rougher times, so I never made a big deal about them. I never even mentioned them until today on the interview when I lost.

So it doesn't matter. We have our health, we have our families, we have our jobs, and sometimes that's the most important thing. That's what I've gotten from this fucking last 15 months. That's the most important thing. So when you have all those things, and now my mind, like I said, I needed a couple months to pull the fucking layers off the artichoke. The artichoke is starting to show. It's like my dick. I'm uncircumcised. If you look at it, it's got the fucking skin on the top.

I got to pull the skin back so you can see the helmet, the pink meat. It's the same thing with me. The pink meat is starting to come out, cock suckers, so get ready. You know what I'm saying? I've been getting the itch, too. I'm not saying nothing. I think I'm going to start doing some guest spots here. Next month, I got a busy this month, baseball, tournaments,

softball tournaments, you know, I got a lot of shit going on. But I've been writing lately. Thank God, Mikey, gave me the gift of the guitar. It's opened up my mind a lot in different ways. I'm doing things with the guitar. I still suck,

but at least I'm getting sounds out of it. You know what I'm saying? Which is something that I never got before. I'm getting sounds out of it. I have an idea what I'm doing. No, I'm not ready to play for you fucking cock suckers. Come on, Jimmy. But thank you for the people who have encouraged me.

There have been a lot of people who have sent me free material on the guitar, and it just shows me that what comes around goes around, man. I helped you at one time, and now you guys want to help me back. So thank you very much. I hope you enjoy this interview with Mr. Josh Potter. Josh P. Hey, hey. There he is.

Looking good. What's happening, you bad motherfucker? Dude, not much, man. just getting back in the groove, baby. You getting on stage? You getting on stage? I'm trying. I'm trying.

I'm not my best. Oh, shit. My bad. First of all, I got to give you props. Get it sturdy for you here. You're fucking. You're sticking it out in L.A. And I got to give you props for that, brother.

Yeah, man. I got, I mean, I was presented with the choice of moving. And then it was removed. So I found myself. with the like hey I guess I could go wherever I want really but then I just I just figure like fuck it man I'm gonna stay and uh and stick it out and see what happens I just got here it kind of feels like still so and you know now maybe uh L.A. comes down to to my level a little bit you know what I'm saying we level up a little together you know I'm coming up it's coming down so yeah

yeah I see the lineups and I see a lot of people are missing and uh I'm happy for a lot of the young guys that stayed. You know, it looked dark for a while, but nobody knew what comedy was going. I mean, I can't imagine, like last June,

I didn't know where the fuck this was going. I had no intention on stage. I had no, nothing. I mean, and I thought about other comics. I kept in touch with his money. You know,

I pushed that podcast to August until we left. Yeah. I mean, I pushed it all the way to the end, scared, did it with a mask on, you know, I was scared to fucking infect guests. You know, it was just too rough.

And it broke my heart when I left a little bit. I felt like a quitter, you know. But I knew I wasn't quitting. I was just, this was the evolution of my life, you know. I got to L.A. like you, you know, ready to fucking stab a motherfucker. On the bottom level, you know, not getting spots. Nobody talks to you. You know, people make funny your little fucking remarks.

And you work yourself. up and I saw you doing great before I left. I mean, you were really out there every night. I know the podcast was getting numbers. People were listening to you. So, you know, we spoke the idea. I was, I mean, the beginning of this whole thing, when it happened, I was like, of course is that. Like, it felt like a personal attack.

Well, I know for a fact. Everyone was going through it, though. So you couldn't, you can't have that mentality. You lost a lot more than what I lost. I know that you had a lot of things in the works. You have like a special. You had a couple great fucking things happening. And I remember telling Lee to send you my love.

I know he went on his podcast and I go, send him my love. I know that his job was because you had all these things. It was going to be your bust out fucking year. You know what I'm saying? I lost like the Sopranos. I lost opening up for Joe at the garden. Like I was going to do Mass. Square Garden 10 minutes, 15 minutes at the boy.

Boston Garden, the home of the fucking Boston Celtics. You know, I lost a lot, but there was people who lost their lives. Of course. Who gave a fuck about a comedy gig? You know what I'm saying? Like, that's, in June, I was kind of bummed and I was mad at the pandemic. But I'm like, there's fucking freezers filled with bodies, whether the pandemic killed them, whoever killed them, Trump's cousin.

I don't fucking know, but there were, people were dying. Yeah. So I wasn't worried about a fucking stupid comedy gig, you know. when people started opening up clubs I got very angry because it was highly contagious and I know we need to laugh and need to get out but not at the expense of somebody getting sick

every time there was a comedy show and there was 300 people in that room somebody died yeah somewhere from the result of that fucking moon I remember I had the same train of thought like eventually it came down to the fact where I was like you know sitting here

getting pissed off about you know losing gig and all that shit. Because like you said, I mean, my first headline, like, headlining the clubs, I always like, you know, you're scratching claw just to get a guest set at before. Now you're headlining them and you're, you know, you're going on this run. And then it all got wiped away. And I was pissed off and, like, upset. But then like you said, you know, you see the body stacking up. You see people like, you started really like toward the fall knowing people who got sick from it. And my, you know, my mom got it. Everybody got it. And it started like, you know, you're like,

this is bigger obviously than like you said like a comedy gig or whatever you know what i mean people are losing like their lives and their family members and all that shit so yeah it's rough and it even made me take like a more important like personal inventory than just comedy too you know because i sat here without comedy for the first time in 12 years or whatever and i was like man i've realized that i don't really have much else you know like there's not much else around me either so i mean but you got you know your daughter, you got your wife and everything like that. I realized, you know, I've been running around these past 12 years chasing a certain dragon and I wasn't really putting the things into place to have a life outside of that kind of thing.

And I need to like concentrate on that a little bit more, you know. I'm fucking 35 now, you know, so. I did the personal inventory also. It was kind of weird that you had no choice. At one point, you're in a room, you're alone. It's June. When the pandemic first started, I got to be honestly, I was happy. they were canceling gigs.

I'm like, at least canceled until June. We'll be back in July or whatever. You know, I could do Vegas and this. And then I just, I lost, like, I was like, there's so many bad things happening. You know, there's so many, like I see so many homeless and this.

And then when I got this thrown at me about moving, you know, this was big on me, this fucking war on me. Like, I didn't care about comedy. All I wanted was my daughter and wife to be happy and safe and in fucking school. And in fucking school.

That was my thing, you know. So this move for me, like Austin didn't really, wasn't a thought. It didn't even come into my mind because I knew I was coming home. I wanted to come home. I had been done when I came back here to shoot in 2019. I just thought that I was missing too much that I wanted my daughter to experience what I had in Jersey. And I'm happy.

I'm just fucking generally even more. Like, I don't know if you know this has been 22 days since I smoked weed. How to fuck. No way. 22 fucking days. No refa. You know, I think it was the Johnson and Johnson vaccine. They put something in those motherfuckers that doesn't let me smoke anymore.

I don't know what the fuck happened. But that's 22 more days than me, my friend. I'll tell you. Oh, no. And I'm not craving it. I'm not in a bad. mood. I'm not yelling at anybody. I'm not curious. I don't have road rage. I didn't shoot a five-year-old in the stomach. I have none of these fucking things going on, which is rare because when I first

had to go off weed in prison, I was like a fucking monster the first week. I couldn't sleep. I was yelling at everybody. I was throwing pots and pans. But then after the settle in, you're like, ah, no refa. But I just wanted to, I think I needed just to restart. Like, you know, like, what's that thing that you do with your computer? Yeah, reboot. Reboot. I just needed a reboot. You know, I had to slow down with the fucking drugs.

I'm 58 years old. I'm eating 10,000 milligrams a day. I'm walking around. My skin feels like alligator skin. Now I got moisture in my skin. My feet don't stink anymore. I had the stink coming out of my feet between the fungi toenail and the cheese. It was murder.

I would go to Jiu-Jitsu and people would be looking around. What's that fucking stink? I started putting tea tree all on my toenails. Now they're beautiful. I look like, fuck, I got like, held his feet. You know what I'm saying? The fungi toenail is done. That little stink in my fucking sock.

I had like a little wink in my sock of cheese. And it smelled like subway sandwiches in my fucking sneakers. So I made changes everywhere. What have you done now? What have you got? What have you put together now? Well, I've been, I mean, now it's like things are opening again. So I've kind of been, you know, now it's like, let's get a, let's get our nut together.

Let's get a nice living situation. Get out of this apartment. You know, I have a roommate. I'm fucking 35. I got a fucking roommate. Like, I want to, you know, that's terrible. I got to get the fuck out. So that's my goal.

I mean, I just want to have a nice setup, like an adult would for once, you know, and afford that and like, you know, gather some things. You know, I don't know. Like, it's not like I know those things aren't going to make me happy. But it's like, you know, you get a couch. You get a couple things going. Then you got a girlfriend. And then you got a fucking, you know, a girl. early, you know, comes over once in a while, you have dinner and, you know, stuff like that.

Normal shit, as opposed to like, you know, fucking bringing home some bar haggad for it. You know what I'm saying? Like, it's just the differences in lifestyle and that kind of way come with, I feel like, just having a living space, you know, for myself and I can grow from there, you know? So now we got the new studio going up and I'm going to move out that way. And then I hopefully I can just, you know, walk to that, ride my bike. or whatever because I'm not driving out here at all. So, you know, that's the goal, man.

And then hopefully, you know, down the road, I'd love, you know, I'd love to start a family. It's never been something I even thought of until the pandemic. I always thought like, yeah, maybe down the road or whatever. But I realized during the pandemic, the road is here. I mean, this is it, dude. I'm fucking mid-30s like now all of a sudden. It, like crept out.

I felt like I was 33, just starting the headline on the road. And then all of a sudden now I'm 35 and it's like it didn't, it hasn't really started yet and all of a sudden I'm 35. It's like, whoa, it's a bit of a shock in terms of, I don't know why the two years, but it's all of a sudden I'm kind of like, holy shit, dude, you're fucking getting up there, you know? Josh Potter, you're 35 years old.

At 35 years old, I wasn't thinking about anything except comedy. You know, I was so, I was a loser in every other aspect. I couldn't keep a job, you know, I fucking, hated jobs. You know, that's one thing about the pandemic, like in June, that I was cursing my comedian success because I was like,

you got to be really careful what you wish for because it just might happen. I wish for not having a day job. Now I'm sitting here on my hands all fucking day during the pandemic. Maybe I should go to Rouse and stock supermarket shows or whatever. You know, I felt like I wanted to do something different during the pandemic. Like, I just, like, how the fuck did I get?

to this point that I don't have a job now. Yeah, no, that makes sense. And you've got to be careful what you wish for. So I didn't think at 35, I was grinding it out. I was snorting coke. I was bringing home bar hags. I was contacting diseases, you know, you're fingering people on triple runs. You know, there's no stability.

You don't give a fuck about living on couches. And I got to tell you some. No, yeah, that's the same here. And then the pandemic woke me up from that. It was weird. It was like, hey, man, like, I would have kept, I would still be on this path, you know what I mean? But it was like, it was this pause and all of this that made me go like, whoa, dude. Like, this is what you've been doing this for, you know, 12 years.

And I'm going to still keep doing it, by the way. I'm going to keep going hard. But it made me go like, hey, I should pay attention a little bit to becoming a man, too, you know. Well, that didn't happen for me to I was 44. So you did nine years ahead of me. Like, when I was 44, I, I had nothing. I had nothing.

I was a guy that had a couple movies under his belt, and I couldn't cut it together. I was headlining, but I wasn't a headliner, you know, not even close, you know, and I knew I had to get the drugs out of my life. That was the first step. And I got the drugs out of my life, and then my girlfriend became more important to me. And then my girlfriend ended up becoming my wife.

And I still... And I still resisted it. I still resisted that normal life. Then my wife got pregnant. I was ready to quit stand-up in 2009. Oh, shit. A lot of people don't know that. I was out.

I was like, I'll open for Joe. You know, I wasn't doing spots at the store yet. I go, I'll open for Joe. I'll do spots at the ha-ha. And when my friends call me and spoon me movies, you know, I have friends that call you and say, you want three days on a movie, I'll do it. And then the podcast world came along,

and that picked up stand up and that's how I got to this place. But I was out. I was out. I had already known that I had been running from not having a family for 20 years. Like I had been, once I got divorced, it affected my inside so much that I didn't want to deal with that pain ever again. And my wife just stayed on me. You know, she stayed on me. And then I started turning over the business to her.

you know, I started asking her for advice, should I take this gig, is this gig worth it? And she started telling me, no, when we became a team, and now everything has changed. I wish this would have happened 10 years earlier when I was 35,

but I was too hard-headed and I was too stupid, so I applaud you for thinking in that direction. That's the best applause there is. Oh, yeah, no, don't worry about nothing. That was my garlic pill. Sorry about that, people. I promised I wouldn't fought on this podcast But from time to time, shit happens, you know what are you going to do?

What are you going to do? And it smells tremendous. These are the times when you need a mask. You know what I'm saying? Like right now, if 10 people were in this room and smelt this fart, they put their mask on so fucking fast. But, hey, it happens from time to time. You got to drop a bomb here and there just to let people know.

I'm back. You know, I was in L.A. last week. I know. I heard you snuck out here for a little bit. but he said, that's crazy. 10 hours. Wow. Really?

I was supposed to be there for three days. Wow. I took a look of Ventura. They closed a Chinese restaurant. They closed so many fucking things on Ventura. Oh, yeah. North Hollywood's a mess. It broke my heart.

I looked at that lankish him. Yeah. And my heart was broken. So I basically, my Brett from some conscious jujitsu picked me up. He took me right to, fucking ice cream cake. I got my weed. You know, I ordered my stuff.

From there, I had to go to a dentist because my gums got all fucked up. I put caps on before I left. My gums got infected. I was waking up every morning, spitting blood. Right away, for people who don't know me, I spit blood, I got cancer. I'm calling fucking, you know,

I'm at Brick Hospital, tell him I got cancer. Then I'm shitting to see if blood comes out of my ass because another one of my friends got diagnosed. nose with cancer. So now for two weeks I was spitting blood. I would come on the pie. I wouldn't say nothing.

And then one day I told my wife, I don't know what this is. The blood is concomerating behind these teeth. She looked at it and she goes, your gums are fucking horrible. Take a picture and show the dentist. So I showed the dentist. Then she told me to go to a dentist here.

That dentist told me, I don't want to redo the work she did. like if you need it so I said you know what I gotta go to LA anyway I just see you so I stopped by her she made a couple fucking things she gave me a prescription for a cream

and then I had I checked into the hotel the holiday in on no-ho across some Denny's I saw a fucking I'm sitting there and I see a tent with a crib next to it I probably walked by you by the way when you're over there a couple times yeah yeah I go I walk over there

and mics every now and I said you know what I'm not fucking staying here tonight. I go, you know. I was walking down sunset up in the east part, like in Silver Lake area, in the night. And I'm walking up alone, you know, and there's a baby stroller at the corner. And I'm just like, I don't want to even look inside there because it's so fucking gnarly out here. You know what I mean?

I don't even want to know what's in the baby stroller just in case, you know what I'm saying? So I just walked by and I pretend I didn't see nothing, you know? And I can get away with that kind of thing, you know? No, I won't look either. Like, I was like, I don't, I was just sitting outside waiting for Dean Delray. We were going to go at some tacos. And I'm like, is that a homeless tent with a crib next to it? And under a tree, they had it perfectly.

It broke my heart. Yeah, no, it's nary out there. I crossed the street to see if there was a lady there. I would have thrown over 20 or got a milk or something, but there was nobody in there. So they just live in there and then they leave in the date. I don't know what the fuck it was. Listen, it wasn't the homeless. It wasn't the businesses.

What I realized was my time was done in L.A. For sure. Sometimes you do your fucking duty. You're done. I knew I wasn't going to go to the store. I said my goodbyes to the store already. I went to the building. I rubbed my name on the wall.

I fucking sat on the stairs with my daughter. I told her a few stories. I did all this in July. So I made my piece with the store. I had made my piece with Los Angeles. I went out there just to take care of some stuff. Look, my wife just went now to pick up the prescription that the doctor. See, the doctor here wouldn't give me the medication I needed.

And he didn't want to lift my blood pressure medication. And that was the other thing. For the last fucking 60 day, no, fuck, I got surgery five months ago. For the last six months, I take my blood pressure twice a day. Is it going down? Perfect. Nice. It was perfect.

120 over 80. Sometimes I wake up in the morning and it's 1.30 over 80. But I'm still in the neighborhood. Do you know what my blood pressure was in L.A. at 3 o'clock when I walked into the doctor's office? Oh, my God. What was it? It was 180 over 100.

Jesus. And he was like, Joey, what's going on? I go, give me 10 minutes because it was a new chick that took, my blood pressure, then he took it, and it was still 160 over 100. What's going on with you? Because we talk all the time, me and my heart doctor. I got one here in Jersey, but he's uptight. So I just talked to my fucking, he's a Jewish dude out in LA.

I love this motherfucker. We talk about porn and, you know, he's just a dirty fuck. I love him. He's great. He's 66, and I went there. Just that's how much, how uncomfortable I was in L.A. When I got back to the whole tower room, I'm like, I'm not even laying on that bed. I'm getting the fuck out of here.

That's great. And right on the same day, right back. Just on the cycle. My back's going to be debt tomorrow from sitting for 12 hours. But I don't feel the fuck. I'm not spending the night here. I didn't know what to do in L.A. all day Friday. What was it going to do?

Sit in my room. I'm not smoking pot. I didn't know where you were. I didn't know if you were in town. I didn't know if you were opening for time on the road. No, no, sure. I mean, it's not even that open out here. No, there was nothing going on.

I kept looking down the street. And there was, it was empty on Ventura. It was empty on Lancashim, Lancashire. I saw some weird stuff. They did clean up a lot. I didn't see a lot of homeless in North Hollywood. I did notice in the last like, North Hollywood's gotten a little bit better.

I mean, it was like, I remember it was like Thunderdome down there for a little while. There was that sign. I get out of the subway station there on North Hollywood, and I walk to the corner there of Lancashim and I forget the Burbank Boulevard. And there's that big welcome to North Hollywood like concrete triangle pyramid thing. And some people, I assume homeless people, picked it up and like moved it into the street. And so they could sleep on that part of the land. Like they took this concrete structure.

I don't know how many people it took to lift them. but it was like so fucked up that they moved it so far away from where it was it just stayed there i was like who's going to move that back the cops aren't going to fucking move it back no one's touching it so it just stayed like in this middle of the road kind of area that's so fucking weird station yeah was what pushed me over the top that train station was the station that i left because my office was right there yeah sure tape the podcast right there if you get off the train and walk to the corner and cross the street and keep going straight. That's right. When I came to do your show, that exact thing. You hit the office. You have no choice, but they hit the office. So one afternoon,

I think it was we did Joe McHale. I got out there like at four and I took the long way around, you know, just to stop on Lancash and I was going to go to a weed store something, you know. Yeah. And I went that way and I made it right on that. And then there's a light next to the golf store and people crossed the street in between the train. They put a coffee shop. And there and shit. Yep. And I'm sitting there minding my own business. You know, I'm at the light, and I'm just looking around,

listening to Ozzy's Boneyard or whatever the fuck, got on Sirius. And I just look over to the left, and I swear to God, I see a lady waiting for the bus because there's a bus station there, too, the train station, and then there's cabs all the way to the corner. You know, you get dropped off there, and a copseizier to $2 a dollar ticket. You can't even get dropped off there. Leitz told me that you found that out the hard way. Yeah, I got a $200 ticket dropping my wife off over there one day.

You can't even stop there. So I'm looking at this lady at this train. For some reason, I just looked over at this lady, and I saw a fucking four by four hit her right on the head, and she fell on to length of shit. And then I go, what the fuck is that? And I see the guy start hitting people one of the time. Four in the afternoon.

going down. Now, you know exactly where I am at that light. He's probably hit by now three people. He hit a lady and he hit like two guys. But he hit a chubby guy. And the chubby guy got up. Now, I'm thinking it's a crazy homeless guy, right? Like right away, you see a stick flying.

You want to assume nationalities and racism and all this shit, right? Like I'm sitting there going, this has to be some crazy fucking and, you know, whatever. And next thing, you know, the fat guy throws a punch and he hits the guy. And I could see that, you know,

once people started getting hit, they started spreading. People are like, what the fuck's going on? So now the clouds parted, and I can see the true color of the sky. I see the guy with the axe handle, not the axe handle, but a four by four. And he gets punched in the face. He kind of, like, loses consciousness.

He looks at the chubby guy. The chubby guy picks up his suitcase and just dodges. across the street. Now I see the guy with the four-by-four chasing him. He's got no t-shirt on. He's got a warrior's vest on. And he's a white dude.

All my racist whatever went out the window, right? Like, I'm like, oh, it was the Mexican dude. You know, like, I thought it was like a fucking illegal or something. No, it was a white dude. Those meth tweakers, man. Those meth tweakers, they could be. Yeah. Those mext tweakers, they'll fucking stab you on Silver Lake and shit.

So I'm watching this guy go across the street like he runs right in front of me and he's chasing the chubby guy and the chubby guy is scared because he hit him with everything he got and fucking Rambo didn't even move he just like was a little rattled and the next thing you know I go you know what

I'm making a fucking U-turn I'm gonna hit this car because I can catch him by the office and there's never witnesses by the office there's never anybody by that office like there's never anybody on that street you could shoot a motherfucker in front of that funeral parlor and nobody will see

you. So I made a fucking you turn and I made the street name is Hartzuck, isn't it? I think so. That was what my office was. I made the left and when I made the left, I waited from at that corner to see where he was going to go and I could pick him off

with the car. The motherfucker saw me. He ran up and he saw me with the car and he turned around and he ran back towards the train and he hooked the fucking left back to Lancashim. Oh. He threw the wood on the floor. You knew you were going to run him over? He knew I was up to something because I was, I looked at him like, okay, just run into the street. I'm going to hit you with this car.

I didn't know. I was going to hit him and keep going. Or I was going to hit him and dial 911 and say it was an accident and then put the two by four in his hand. And there'd be three bodies laying around. The witnesses will be like, this guy was running around like a loony tune anyway. So he just ran in the street in front of the car. So when I passed him, I actually looked up the corner and that was really sad. The chubby guy was on the floor and there was a puddle of blood.

laying to his head. Oh, my God. That's the kind of shit, dude, I don't know. That's like, what a way to fucking go, you know? Just some guy at the train station with a 4-4- And I'm like, I went home and told my wife, I think it's time to abandon ship.

And then she went to the post office, which is right down the block from there. Because if you cross that street, there's a bus station, and then there's like a coffee shop. They put a coffee shop in there. Across the coffee shop is the post office. And along that line,

they used to be homeless people. They cleaned them up. And the day she went, she couldn't get in there because one of the homeless guys stabbed the other homeless guy. I was bleeding around the fucking street right there by the post office.

She's like, whoever's getting t-shirts on and get them this week because I went to make a fucking delivery and some guy got stabbed. The cop wouldn't let it go back there. The guy who sells socks on the train just got stamped.

You know, and like you fucking, you know, you're from Buffalo. You know, you've seen crime in Buffalo. Sometimes they tailgate and the Buffalo Bill guy hit another guy in the head with a helmet. You know, that's Buffalo. That's Buffalo. You know, New York City is New York City.

You're going to get mugged up at the high. You accept that. You know what I'm saying? You accept that. You go down to Camden, New Jersey. You're going to get mugged. You know, you go to Philadelphia now. You might get hit in the head.

You know what I'm saying? But that's the East Coast. We've always had that. For that, I didn't grow up watching California or going to California to see that type of stuff. I've ever saw that type of stuff in California. Right. And that's why I kind of feel like I should stay.

Do you know what I mean? Like I, it's part of the reason where I'm like, oh, I'm feeling, it's not that I'm feeling more comfortable with everything, but it is more like everyone who I felt uncomfortable around seems to be out of their element now. Whereas I'm just kind of like, yeah, it's like, you know, the crime, whatever, you know, it's homeless people, it's crime. Like I have that, you know, people used to come from New York City to Buffalo and be really sketched out. So that I always found funny because I always thought Buffalo is like a small

town. You know what I mean? I never thought of it as like scary in any way. I always felt safe everywhere I went. But I'd have friends come visit and they'd be like, this is gnarly, dude. Like you live over here. Buffalo is no joke. Buffalo is no joke. I told you I used to do Rob Liedeman's room way in 98. And I used to take the bus from Port Authority up there. So I was at that bus station a couple times. Yeah, dude. One day I'm in Buffalo. I'm minding my own fucking business. there was a McDonald's close to there or something and I walked over to the McDonald's because my bus was delayed or some shit

and I bought one of those breakfast sandwiches with the potato and the fucking soda and the apple pie and I just finished eating I don't want a litter in Buffalo you know what I'm saying when I was a kid I was a litterer and then you gotta make peace of Mother Nature

Mother Nature is a motherfucker you know you throw a piece you throw a can out the window next thing you know you're in Florida and a hurricane so you gotta be careful of Mother Nature She'll drop some karma on you. So I was walking the bag to the garbage. Something I would never do.

You know what I'm saying? Right. McDonald's bag thrown on the fucking floor. But I was a comic. I was trying to, you know, be the right person. So I go, let me go over and throw this away. Doc, I'm not 10 steps from the garbage can. And some Buffalo brother, because Buffalo brothers are coolest shit.

He came run up to me, huffing and puff. And he's like, yo, chubby dude. He goes, chubby dude. you want to buy a gold chain I go that ain't gold he goes this is gold in the motherfucker I just took it off the dude's neck and I went in my pocket

I had a 20 that I paid for the breakfast the breakfast is $4 so I had like $15 and change I go all I got is $15 and change it's like good to go I just had that gold chain until about 10 years ago I swear to God no shit that gold chain was solid

I don't know what I lost it in a hotel because when he ripped when he ripped it off the person's neck the lock stayed on their neck so I had to use like a pin and the pin finally fucking popped I was too lazy to go to the jury store still got the guy's hair

that fucking chain had DNA on it blood that black dude told me yo chubby dude you want to buy a chain I'm like I'll buy a fucking chain I don't give a fuck I used to live like two blocks from that train station that's what my friends were talking about when they came to visit

they were like this is weird out here A catchy bus station, dog. Yeah. I went there one night and I saw some sketchy. Like, I always got out of there in the daytime. But one time, like, I had like a, I think I was going. That's right. I used to go to Buffalo to sneak into Canada.

So I had a, my friend's father was a gambling dude, and he was a high roller up in Canada. So they had a back road. He didn't even have to go to the border. So he would take me to the beach. back road to the casino. Up by like Ottawa and shit? Yes. And not even Ottawa.

I would get off and I would be close to I'd be in London, Canada. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. You take the bus to Toronto from there. But the funny thing was when I came back, he wouldn't pick me up. I'd take the bus back. So when I'd get to the Buffalo, when they check my paperwork, they'd put me in the computer and they see all those felonies. And they'd go, how the fuck did you get in here?

when did you get in here? And I was like, I was here Thursday. You were here. You're the one that let me in. He's like, I would never let you in here. Look at this crime record you have. I'm like, I'm telling you, I got in here by you. How else did I get in here?

Yeah. You, you and all of them were like, no, it wasn't. We didn't work on Thursday. I go, yes, you did. I would do that constantly. And then after 9-11, they got hip to me. And they're like, listen, you ever come back in here again? We'll fucking throw you under the jail.

Yeah, I'm not allowed into Canada myself in growing up in Buffalo, it was like such a shitty thing because you're 10 minutes from the, I was going to Canada all the fucking time. And, you know, you don't even know that when you're like, you get a DWI in Texas. You don't know that you're banned from Canada for like a decade or whatever, but you find out real quickly in Buffalo that you're banned. And I got stuck one time because I didn't realize that it was like a 10-year fucking band. And they were like, you know, they flagged me and they did all that shit.

And I started asking around because I started getting just for laughs like auditions and stuff. And I was like, what if I get this? How am I going to get up there? You know? And a bunch of comics who had DUI's, they showed me like where people would run, like almost like Mexicans run across the border to come into America. It's like that to go into Canada. They show you the routes. And you're like, they'll be speaking French on the other side of the woods, basically. So you'll know you're there. So I was like, oh, you're learning a little route. Yeah, a bunch of comics that were New York comics. used to like make that jog like when they would get the festival if they couldn't get into the country they would be like I can't afford a lawyer or whatever to pay to like fix this for me so there was like little routes that a couple guys would tell me about running across the border to go to Canada to go to just for laughs of all things. Josh Potter, it's been really good to see you man. Good to see you too.

Thank you so much for having me out. You know, how long have we known each other? Like I don't even know how many times I went to Buffalo and you hooked me up and fucking we get the fucking beat you know the mayor of buffalo contacted me by five years ago when i was at buffalo one of the last times i was at the casino oh okay the casino called me and they're like you have a call downstairs from such and such and i called there was some lady and she's like the man would like to speak to you no way yeah and they're like thank you for fucking talking about buffalo like you do these fucking idiots that put ranch on their wings i want to shoot them all

but you've restored that. No, they was, she was so happy. Put a bullet in your brain if you. Oh, no. She was like, fucking idiots, fucking ranch dressing. Fucking Buffalo was built on blue cheese and you live by those standards.

Thank God. You know, I was like, hey, I'm old school. You know, I went to Buffalo the first time in 84 and that was, I fell in love with that city. I've never met a person for Buffalo.

I didn't like. I love the people there. I miss it so much. When I was in Boulder, when I was in Boulder, I had three or four friends that were from Buffalo, and I couldn't believe how fucking crazy and real they were. And then when I got locked up, I was locked up with a couple brothers that were from Boulder, and I couldn't believe how real they were. Like, people from Buffalo, they're not going to have no skinny gene motherfuckers in Buffalo.

Not the Buffalo I remember. I still remember going to Buffalo to see Rick James. Yeah. And I can't tell you what that was like. You saw him in Buffalo too. In Buffalo, white chicks with sperm breath. You know,

because there was a ton of white chicks ready to suck Rick James' dick. I never saw anything like that. Most people sign up, like after my shows, they get online to take a picture. Not Rick James. They got online to suck his dick.

That's it. If you're a white chick with blonde hair, you're sucking Uncle Rick's dick. There's no me too. There's no movies. There's no script. You know, Rick just would slip you a valium and then give you a breath mint afterwards. Sukhalamink, you dirty bitch.

You paid 20 for the show. I swear to God, I went up there. People would give me pills in the audience. It was 1984. I will never, ever forget that. And I fell in love with Rick James in 78 with you and I. I go back with Rick James to the fucking first time. I was just listening to Rick James the other night.

Street? Street. What's that album? Did Street songs? it is fucking brutal. He did not fuck around Uncle Rick. I used to see him at the store. Buffalo's best son.

He used to come to the store. How many clubbers are around Buffalo, too? He'd show up to different places, different venues and everything all the time. Really? Yeah, he would show up in like bars and do sets. It was crazy. Like, just do singing shit like that.

And like people tell stories about it all the time. You go to all the bars. They talk about all Rick James has been in here. You know, they got his picture on the wall and shit. They got autographs and shit. He's graves in Buffalo. Have you been to his grave? Never, never.

It's beautiful. I go to Buffalo. I'm going to go. It was grave. I met him at the comedy store. I met him at the comedy store and I went up to him, right? Chewy introduced me to him, the doorman. I went up to Chewy.

I got to meet Rick James. I don't want to meet nobody. If you know anything about me, I don't want to meet nobody. But there was something about Rick James that had to tell him. Of course. So I met him. I shook his hand. I'm a big fan from you and I.

I told him all the albums I had. I told him I saw him in 84. in Buffalo, and I go, let me tell you something. When I first started comedy, one of my best jokes was about you. Because when I started comedy in 91, maybe two years later, it was only tied the chickup

and burned it with a crack pipe and shit. Yeah. And I'm like, Rick, I got to be honest with you, the first good joke I wrote was about you. I thought, I don't remember the joke and I'm not going to give it any justice. It was like if I picked a black superhero, it would be like Rick James

because he burned you with a crackpike. that's never been done before, you know. It was something stupid, maybe a blow torch. I don't fucking know. But he was very nice. And then shortly after that, he died. Maybe a year after that, he died. I never saw him at the store again.

But it was, I think that was one of my biggest nights at the store meeting. And he was great. That he hooked up for Mooney afterward. I remember that Mooney and him were talking. Mooney and him were talking and Eddie Griffin. He was good. He was good to everybody. Every time Paul Mooney would come to town to Buffalo,

he would have. He would regale you with stories with Rick James, too. Like he would be his favorite subject. So you get to hear from him kind of like about a guy who came out of Buffalo. So it was fun. Every time he came to town. Rest in peace, of course. Rest and peace.

Yeah, both of them. Yeah, of course. Both of them. Josh Potter, what are your plans, buddy? Where can these people see you? Because you're a great man. I'm sorry about what happened to you last year because I knew you had a lot of big things that were about to fucking blow up in your favor. But you know what, bro?

You didn't lose nothing. You got wiser. You got stronger. The perspective, I, you know, I could have been way worse and I didn't lose a loved one or myself, my own life or my health. And anyway, I didn't even get sick. I didn't even get sick when I got the fucking second dose of that shit. I didn't get any, I didn't get a drop.

You're from Buffalo, dog. That, that fires that don't do dick to you. You got that blue cheese in you. That's, I think if you eat blue cheese, you don't get COVID. I really do because all my blue cheese friends didn't get COVID. None of my Buffalo friends got COVID. I checked with the one guy. He's fine.

He's still selling cars. You got any dates on the books, anything? I do. Well, I'm doing my podcast. It comes out every Tuesday. Just search the Josh Potter show on YouTube subscribe or whatever. But I got June 9th. I'm going to be in Tampa, Florida at the Tampa Improv.

And then the day after June 10th, Orlando Improvs. Those are the two big ones. So I hope I see people out at those. You coming up to Jersey anytime soon? I can say hello. I give you a hug. I'd like to get up to the stress. factory. People keep asking like, are you coming here? And you come in here. And I'm telling

I'm like, I'm coming anywhere people booked me. I told my guy who's booking my dates, I said, grind me into fucking dust. Like, let's go. So hopefully I get to go everywhere. And hopefully I'll be up to Jersey soon. But these are the only two dates I have so far. And I'm supposed to hear back, I think, in a couple of days here about some, the rest of the summer and the fall. So hopefully I'll have more coming soon here. You start the fourth wall. You still doing spots around town stuff working it out. Oh yeah. I go to the fourth wall almost every other day, noon, one o'clock, you know, and then I'm getting some sets here and there now

and other shows and the improv and, you know, the stores opening back up. I'm hoping to work my way into there too soon. So it's a new era or whatever there. So I'm hoping to hop aboard that train and see if I can get some sets out that way too. Well, if I could help you at Emily, let me know. If I could do something for you because I know you're a hard worker I know you've been at it for a while I still remember you and me in Buffalo eating tacos or some shit

Oh the donuts oh yeah the donuts The voodoo dough the first time you came the first time you came You brought the banana bread shit with you Oh fuck 2011 got that mailed over it was right after Yoshi like almost killed himself or whatever And I remember Ari telling me to like relax on it But I didn't listen And I remember, I think that's where we bonded, though, because I ate so much of it and I wasn't a piece of shit afterwards.

But the one morning you took me for donuts? Oh, yeah. What's the famous donut place up there? We went to Paulus, Paulus. Paulus, and they had like a cream donut, and the fucking cream was sensational. I fucking hate donuts, but I love that, you know, I love yum donuts. I'm not a Dunkin' Donut, man. They fucking suck these donuts in Jersey.

Paul is a special. Paul is a fucking delicious. Paul is. Oh, you took me for donuts. I was like, that was, I told Lee. I go, Lee, I could eat 15 of them, but I didn't want to be a fucking slob in front of Josh Potter.

Told Tom Sigour, I ate fucking donuts. I love you, buddy. I appreciate you coming on. Good luck to you. If you need something with the Comedy Store, let me know if I can help you with Emily and all. I'll put in a word for you to get you a showcase

or at least a tape and I'm sorry you had these gigs taken away from you but let me tell you something, you're a great young comic and you're a great guy so it's going to all come back to you, brother. Tenfold, you got my word on that. Thank you so much. I love you for everything.

It means the world to me to get to come on and you're show and talk to you. You know, I love you. And I miss you out here, but you know, I'm happy that things are going so well for you out there, man. You look good. I'm glad you're starting to feel good. You're being around people that you love. So that's tremendous. And congratulations on all that. Well, I love you. And let's stay in touch. Okay. Don't forget, don't be a stranger,

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know you guys, you know what I'm saying? Even if I come on here and I'm confused, I still, I'm thinking of you guys at all times. So thank you very much for watching the show today. Thank you for watching on Monday. Thank you for always having my back. Patreon, the whole thing, we're still doing our thing, and I love you, cuckers. When I get dates, when I'm ready to fucking headline, I will let Patreon people know first and then so on and so forth. But I can feel the it's coming, so I'm happy about that, and it's all because of you guys. Thank you very much, and I'll see you next week.

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