The Church of What's Happening Now: The New Testament - #591 - Steven Brody Stevens

Episode Date: June 7, 2018

Steven Brody Stevens, Comedian, actor seen in "The Hangover" and host of the "Festival of Sports" podcast, joins Joey Diaz and Lee Syatt live in studio.  This podcast is brought to you by:   ZipRecruiter - post your job to 200+ job sites with a single click for free at www.ziprecruiter.com/church   FujiSports.com  - Use promo code CHURCH for a 10% discount on all the best jiu jitsu and martial arts gear.     Onnit.com. Use Promo code CHURCH for a discount at checkout.   Recorded live on 06/06/2018.
  

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My main man, Brody Stevens, and Lee Syatt. Before we even start, I want to thank you guys that showed up to the taping. Monday night. Listen man, I felt like I had rough sets. I couldn't really get into it and swing the bat fully, but that's my responsibility to be honestly. I worked really hard. I worked for a month. I wrote jokes. I put jokes in and I didn't get the result and I definitely ultimately wanted. I don't know how it taped. You know, who the fuck knows? You're up there. You're thinking about something else. But if you showed up and you support, thank you. Even if you didn't fucking support, thank you very much.

vibes were out. Lee Syatt was there. Fucking Kate Quigley was there. Theo Vaughan was there. Steve Simone was there. DiAgostino was there. I mean, it was just Oaky Spooky was there.

It was fucking badass. So thank you. And I want to thank Netflix for the opportunity. And, you know, sometimes you drop the ball. You can't always be a fucking... I'm a human. I get that, you know.

What's up with you, Brody Stevens? Picking your fucking fingers, whatever. No, I'm just, I'm listening. I'm listening and it's like a, you know, it's like a real reality doing these, you know, these specials, these shows. You don't know how it's going to go. I've been lucky doing some of these late night shows I've been okay with. I do have a special coming out.

I'm not like going right into promotion mode, but I don't know how that's going to be taken. I don't know. I mean, it's a little different like I did well when I did it. Okay. But I don't know how it's going to, because it's a concept somewhat. I don't know how it's going to play to the masses. So, you know, but. You've been on late night television?

Yeah, I've done three Craig Kilbourne shows. He was there before the late, late show, before Craig Ferguson and James Corden. I did Conan, maybe like five years ago for in the middle of doing my Comedy Central show. So I do it. I mean, I've, you know, gone up and knocked it out of the park in terms of that. like something about live I can step up to.

I haven't done like a, you know, a Netflix taping. I did the warm up for the Netflix back when they had Nate Burgotsi was on it and a Fortune Feemster. I did the warm up for that. That was kind of cool. But yeah, you don't know. You just keep doing it. I'm staying positive.

I'm trusting my instincts. I feel like, I'm not saying my back's against the wall, but I feel like I've stepped up to the plate on my comedy stuff. I'm not like, you know, my acting, I wish I was a better actor. I get nervous about that somewhat. But stand up, I've been able to, I think I do okay in the standup. It doesn't, once I find my groove. Acting, you know, that's more of, that's harder for me.

You're very funny. And you have, you like the midnight. Yeah, not I went into the office at the comedy store. I turn around. There's a picture. You can go, well, I couldn't stop fucking laughing. On the drive home, I thought about how you're like Kesson. You like going up at midnight.

So build that, build that market. There's people who really like watching comedy at midnight. Yeah. You can go into a town, into a rock club, and do a fucking midnight show, and you do fantastic. Mm-hmm. On a Friday night or a Saturday, Saturday night better. So you can fly out Saturday morning and be back Sunday morning with no drama.

Mm-hmm. No radio. You sell what you sell. A midnight show. going to rock club after a band. You do for that one spot. Yeah, that's the one spot. I do the comedy store, that late night spot.

And I'll be doing it tonight, actually. And I'm relaxed because there isn't that pressure on me. Like, I can do audience warm up in a packed room, thousands of people or what have you. But the late night spot for stand-up, for me, I'm very relaxed. And I can talk. I get my jokes in. But that's the, you know, the comedy store, you know, like in the, original room, you got to bring it, energy, you know, tight for the most part.

And then that main room, if you're up there when it's packed and you're in there, you know, yourself or Joe Rogan or Delia, you got to bring it. So that could be stressful for some people possibly. Would be for me if I don't do it enough. But that late night spot is just like less pressure on me. And I get to be, I'm not trying to prove myself because people don't always get me right out of the gate. And then I get like nervous. I go, well, you know, this. And I end up, some people like it, but it's stressful for me, like trying to impress people.

Whereas that late night spot, I sit on the stool. And that's another that I've been sitting on the stool recently, like just kind of keeps me grounded. How many spots do you think you guys have done throughout your career? Oh, I don't. I would say, I mean, Joey probably more, but maybe not. You think the first two years, I did like five spots a month. Really? Six spot, not even.

Four. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. because six months in I got a job house MC. So I gave me four spots automatically on Tuesdays. Every once in a while I reach out and do something else that there was an opportunity. So I can't see me. I was lazy.

I didn't really know what was going on. And then when I went back to Boulder, 94 is when I really had burrings about me. So I figured from fucking 94 to 97, I was doing 25 spots a month. And then 16, you know, that happens out to like 20. But once I moved to LA, my spots went up a lot. 97. I was doing 30 spots a month. And I did that steady to 2004.

So there was five years there for sure. I was doing 360 spots just in those five years. So that's 1,800 right there alone. I mean, there's people who count their sets. So, you know, Dean Del Rey probably knows. Exactly. Oh, you do? Yeah.

See, I haven't. I don't know. Really, you look at, in your notebook, you go, this was set number. How much I got, how much money I made that night, how my set went, what did I try? I've been doing that since Seattle. Really? My notebooks go all the way back now to like 98, 99. Yeah.

I think there's one in the middle that we threw away by mistake, like 2000. 2007 or 2008, I threw away by mistake. But everything else, my wife has it in boxes. You'd be fucking surprised. So will you go like on a midweek set today, like at the comedy store? You know, your OR, you'll mark that down. You'll look at your notes and you'll sit and you'll go. Yes, especially the last couple months.

Because you've been working on. Yeah, this shit. Well, like that was kind of what I was trying to get to is you guys have done, I don't know, 5,000, 10,000 spots. I don't know. I'm not going to, like, I felt bad the way you felt about your Netflix special, because I'm not saying you went in there and had a set that people would talk about for centuries, but it wasn't, I've seen you bomb.

I've seen, I've seen, I've seen, like in, like, the, like, late night ha ha or something, where, like, there's three people and they don't like you because you teased them. Like, I've seen you have bad sets, but that wasn't a bad set. It was, like, there were things that didn't hit it. as hard as maybe you would have liked and you can always say things differently, but I hope you're proud of it. I thought it was a good spectrum. Yeah, no, you know, I am to an extent.

I wish it would have gone, you know, you can't have everything. You can't always get what you want, but you get what you need. You know, it's been said a thousand fucking times. I'm very fortunate to even be in the game at this age, to even be around, you know. So anything positive that happens, I'm fucking. happy. Yeah. You know,

somebody calls and says they like me. They don't even have to put me in the show. I'm happy. I'm 55, probably. I don't give a fuck anymore.

You know what I'm saying? Like, I love doing comedy and I love it, but it's not like when I was 32, what it meant to me at 32.

And it does mean the same to me. I still love it. Just failure. Like, if you don't like me at this age, I don't really give a fuck. Yeah.

You know what I'm saying? You know who I am, but you want me to come down and read for your role for a gangster. And he's 55. Go fuck yourself. I've been around as far as you have. You put me in two movies. Now I've got to come downtown at 3.30

in traffic and drive back in that fucking nightmare. Give it to somebody else. You want to be a hypocrite. They're going to call me and go, okay, okay. We'll let you read tomorrow morning and 10. They know. I've been around. I can book this. I'm not just coming at three because you want to muscle me. Right. You know, those days are done with. Like all

those type of situations. We've been here a long time brodie both of us is that because you you're I guess older right is that what you're saying you're older you know what's gonna work and what's not gonna work anymore you know you know when I was 30 8 I couldn't wait to be on a show put me on a show now and I can't I couldn't handle it why because I just couldn't handle with all the freedom we've had the last couple of years I wouldn't want to be on some TV show time commitment and you know what they're gonna say creativity can't say this can't say this you can't do this is it really worth it to recur on a show right now the only show that it would be welter to recur is if it was your own show and it was

network and you're pulling down 50 Gs a week as it's your name and created by and blah boop and at the end of the week yeah you tell Twitter they go fuck themselves and you know you tell everybody go fuck themselves you'll see them in five years and then you can curse you could say suck my dick you could say racial slurs You can say whatever you want. But until that time, he's got to stay off Twitter. Yeah, that's a tough thing. They should put pictures up with your kids playing bongos and you, you know,

hanging out with your fucking buddies at some barbecue. Why have it if you really can't put an express who the fuck you are? Yeah. And it's stressful for, you know, every tweet you put out there, oh, I can get in trouble or who's, they're going to think about, you know, that about me. And if you're, listen, you're a comic. If you tweet something and you tweet it and it's funny and it's in good taste,

there's a thousand variables that goes to that tweet, but it's in good taste. Yeah. Nobody's ever going to say nothing to you, even if it's a little off base. Well, I'm talking more of, you know, maybe something current event, newsworthy, that sort of thing. I'm not always sometimes, I'm not always comical with those. and I feel like And then also I like to make some points But I think there's just

Backlash You know, if I'm like I'm from the valley I'm I'm blue collar And so every tweet I put out I just I don't like the problems I get nervous being on Twitter interacting You know you call me You're a phone call guy

I like that you know me But if I was to like hey Joey on Twitter And I feel like everyone's watching us So I kind of And I've had experience with people like you know just over the years about getting it not getting in trouble hey don't put me on that don't you know I've tried to reach out to people like get weirded so for me I've kind of it's I hold back on it I like talking I like Periscope because I don't think I don't

think about it so Twitter it's it could be it's stressful for many reasons I can see why people are leaving it because of the hate or you you know you feel you like maybe you're wasting time or you are going to say something wrong. So I don't need it, but it's fun. I try to have fun with Twitter at least. I try to show positive. That's the thing. Like I never want to like brag either. I'm aware of like when I promote the comedy store. I know guys want to get spots. So that that's kind of, you know, I don't like, I know I need to promote the comedy store and it's good to have people see, oh, Brody, you're at the comedy store. So I can get work elsewhere. Also, like go on the road. I don't do a lot of road work. So, you know, it just

social media, I think people are waking up and seeing the, you know, there's some negativity. But I, again, I try to show positive, show what I do. I don't, not trying to change minds. I'm saying like, look, putting out positive energy, you get to be at the comedy store. Positive energy, get to do a positive vibes, not being a hater. And I, you know, I could be a or I'm a human, right? You know, but try to take the high road. I think both of you have done good jobs about, I don't know how to, not dictating your audience,

but Brody, you're like you, you do different ways. Brody, you do blocked, which I, like, you tweet them and you say blocked. And I, that's honestly what I, I do now is I don't even really, I either mute them if they're just like,

I don't really want to do with that anymore, or if I don't, if I really don't like what they say, I just blah, I don't go back and forth with them. Joey, you get it a lot more rare now. think at least from what I see but every once in a while you'll go off on them which I think probably scare some people from coming at you I because you go

like you've had some interaction it's crazy because it's not even me it's the 200 savages oh yeah that's the best that come after you on Twitter and Facebook my niece made a remark one night they tortured until she had to drop off or Facebook on Facebook years ago four or five years ago when she was at Temple she made a comment one night about something comedy and I saw the demise yeah I saw one Facebook fucking message another one you know another one and next you know she was she fucking deleted me she deleted me as a friend I mean yeah there I think there's a lot of there's bullying I think that's one thing um that happens I feel and that's a fear of mine

having putting stuff out there and having but that that's you know what you got to grow up if you're in this business that's just a reality right now in terms of you don't have to be on social media but it's kind of hard not to when they tell you you got to promote this you got to get on get on there but I think you know everyone's kind of like fatigued right now with just this craziness so and I try to keep it light and polite but it's not easy you Very sweet. Listen, I have a rough demeanor from time to time, but I have to tell you something. I've taken a lot of chances on Twitter, and I've learned one thing. It's like a background check. Not the problem with a background check is I really can't see what's in your mind and in your heart.

Yeah. A background check is a piece of paper. So right now, I come in here and you do a background check on me. The kidnapping comes up, the aggravated robbery, the, you know, whatever happened to Seattle, the possession of Coke that my brother put on there, possession of weed. You look at me and you make a judgment. And then you talk to me and you make another judgment. You know, that Nicholas Cruz kid, let's just use him.

He comes in, he has a clean bill of fucking wreck it. But look at him. Don't take a genius to tell that kid's fucking retarded from day one. All those people. When they come in, you can tell they're retarded. But you're so blinded by the sale. You're so blinded by the commissioner, whatever the structure is of your payment,

that you oversee those things. You oversee those things as an employee. His eyes are too close together, that the kids got pee on his fucking pants. You know, there's a thousand tells. His eyes. And you're missing all of them. Yeah, you can tell he's a half a fucking momo.

You know what I'm saying? You can't tell this kid was a half of momo. half of them. They come in for an AR-15 or whatever the fuck they're buying. Look at their fucking eyes. They got a glaze over their fucking eyes. They look like they just got frank. You can see it.

You can see that something's going on there. You can't see that with a background check. You know, you cannot see that shit with a background check. It's so weird. I don't know what the point of the story. Twitter's like a background. So you got to look at them in the eye to get a real true reading on somebody as opposed to Twitter? Well, no, no, no.

All I want you to understand from this is that. What I like about Twitter, what I really like about Twitter and all this shit is, say what's in your fucking heart. Listen, that joke you're going to write about Trump or whatever stupidity you're going to write, that's a really good joke. You can't put it on the special. Because by the time you put on the special people, it's not going to be relevant. So you might as well put it somewhere like you're in Breyer this week, right? Yeah. Okay, so bam, you wake up.

What's up, y'all? Positivity is the word of the day, y'all. Okay. Then the second line is the line you just created about some politician or Roseanne or whatever the fuck you want to say. Then the third line is your dates and bread. I guarantee you'll sell 10% more tickets because you gave them a fucking joke first. And you asked them how they were in your prep positivity out there. If I see, you know, a couple months ago you got in trouble, didn't you?

Something happened. And how they knew was by your tweets. Which one? Which one? I don't know. You had a situation where people came to help you and how they knew were people contacted a bunch of people and said that these weren't regular Brody tweets.

Are you talking about a few years ago? Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, yes, of course. So thank God that people really love you and they look at your Twitter feed. And the people who called around looking for you knew your heart.

They knew what you were saying was crazy. But they knew your heart. heart. So always remember, if you say an off-color joke on Twitter, people know who Brody is. People that know who Brody is, they're not going to get offended. It's when they retweet that joke. And some fucking mook d'Lore reads that joke and says, look what Brody Stevens said about people with their eyes closed together. Yeah. Well, I don't push it in that sense. I push it maybe in political like I'm not out there like Owen

Benjamin was I'm not I don't think Where is Owen Benjamin? What is the final detail? Well he's off Twitter and I think he's doing Or he's doing time He's on Instagram I don't doing time He's on Instagram I think I think he just went

He brought his family somewhere I saw That was the last I saw me to him Every time you go on Instagram It goes into a satellite where you are So eventually they're gonna find them And shoot him in the fucking head Whatever he is the government Oh my God

Instagram is fun. I keep it, I just show my, I show photos and, and again, it's not bragging, but just showing some fun stuff and some comedy. You see a lot of people who brag on there, they show pictures of money. Oh yeah. Well, I've seen that. That's a big thing that, like,

the rappers do now. They walk around with like stacks and they like throw it on the floor and, but I think comedians showing them on like a private air, we're taking a private chat. That I'm not into necessarily. I would take it all the time. Fancy, driving in

fancy. Just kind of like, not that all comedians do that, but something, you know, just I mean, that's why when I take my photos, I'm by myself in the restaurant. Everyone's happy and all the time, and I get it. If you made a million dollars a year, it would be different about

your life, probably right now. I think it'd be a little more relaxed. How would you, would you live in Bigger Diggs? Would you drive a Porsche? No. Porsche Carrera. No. Would you have a butler and an assistant?

and a publicist and somebody to tell you were great. I might have somebody to help me, like maybe an assistant to keep things in line. But no, I don't need a butler. I would, you know, I'm okay with a small condo. I don't need huge stuff. I get to do cool things already. I'm already getting to do Major League Baseball fantasy camp type activities.

I get to go to the comedy store and do whatever I want. I get to do podcasts. So, you know, I'm having fun with that. So all I need, honestly, is shelter. Eventually, I like to have a relationship. I like to have a dog. I wouldn't mind having a kid. I just, and I just don't know if that's going to happen.

But if it doesn't, I'm okay with 48. I just turned. You're a young man. You still got seven, six more years a good dick. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, you know, I look up to you guys. I look up to you. I look up to Dean,

Shang Forbes. He's got Eddie Pepitone. These guys who are, you know, a little bit older than me. Like, I look up to you guys. It's like,

okay, they're doing it. I can do it. So I feel good about that. And, you know, it's like, I think relationships matter.

And again, we're getting to that Twitter stuff again. You're a lot of times you're by yourself. And, but I'll say something. It's been so crazy. the last couple years with politics, I felt like, honestly, I had to put my energy into that, into like sticking up for myself, sticking up for good people. If you want to say, I'm just not

crazy, progressive. I really want everybody to do well, everybody. And I think that I go home, I go to the comedy store, and I go home, and I go on that internet. And I'm just searching. I'm just putting out, that's where my mind is. And I think, I don't think I'm alone in that, like, in terms of, it's hard doing to enjoy things. I used to enjoy things a little more, but I would say the last year or so, I think just with the tension in the air, I'm not enjoying things. Is that how you feel it all? Or what do you think? Honestly, like, there's a, I don't follow politicians because there are some times where I'll go check and I'll just start going on, like, well, goose chases. they'll click on this person's Twitter and then go to this person's Instagram.

And yeah, you can get frustrated or angry if you don't believe in what they're doing. Or on Instagram sometimes it's just like these people are getting millions of followers for doing, like I'm saying throwing money on the floor. And so it can get, but I try to, I try not to do that. So that's why people get mad at me because I don't follow that many people. But I only, like I literally follow who I am interested in hearing from. But I feel like I'm a comedian. My thing is I was born here.

Let's just say Hollywood. And everyone doesn't really like, people are down on Hollywood. Let's be honest, whether that's just a fact. People are kind of down on it. And I feel as though I was born here, we'll say the Valley, Hollywood. I was born in Hollywood. I live in Hollywood. I work in Hollywood.

I specifically am in comedy on the front lines of like First Amendment speech. And a lot of these comedians are, you know, they're Pat and Oswald, Judd Apatow, you know, Joe Rogan, he's more known for the podcasting, but even that. So I feel like I need to speak up. I need to, I can't like not say anything. I just feel like I have to speak my mind because I'm from here, born here. And I hear things that just kind of like doesn't feel right to me. and I felt that, you know, and I've worked in show business. I've been in movies.

I've done 3,000 television audience warmups. You saw I had every high school come in, every military branch. And then when things started, you know, I just feel like I have to stick up for what's right. And you could take it for whatever. I don't want to get political, but that's what I do. But I also feel like enough people. And I had my own personal experiences. So I don't want to go into that, but you'll, you'll,

I have my reasons for how I feel about things. So I'm not trying to change people's opinions, but I want to let them know, oh, you like that I hang out with the Cubs? That's pretty cool, right? Well, I put out good energy. So why don't you listen to me? That's kind of how I feel sometimes. But, yeah, I'm sticking up for the Valley. You know, they used to pick on the Valley all the time.

Reseda sucks. You're from Reseda. I went to Recita. What the hell? You know? So. And I got picked on, but you know what? It made me stronger.

I'm just like, just admit it. You know, I had Latino guys do Holocaust jokes, black guys do jokes. I played sports, the football team. I coach. Write the names down. Write the names down. I don't say the names. Just write the name.

No, but it made, but I, but here's a deal. But you're talking about the background check. These guys weren't malicious. I knew them. I can name my Mexican teammate friends, and they would do Holocaust. jokes and Jew jokes. It didn't feel good, but I knew it wasn't coming from malicious. I could tell. And same thing when I played baseball in college, the white guys from Orange County in Arizona doing Jewish jokes. I get it. So I just would say like, Jesus is Jewish. And then they would laugh.

It would like diffuse them. And to this day, I'm very good friends with those guys. So that's like looking them in the eye. And I just feel like there was just more. honesty back then and that that's just how I was raised so I and I'm kind of I don't want to like make waves or anything but I also feel like enough people are you know quote unquote woke and feel like I can back off and I want to get back into just having fun rock and roll music baseball enjoying things I don't want to be involved in this crazy you know political bunker feel like the fuck out of it yeah involved with them it's a horrible bunker

Yeah. It's a harrow. You know, you put on world news tonight as an intelligent American. You try to put on world news tonight, whatever. Yeah. First of 12 minutes is fucking presidential and stupid power. Yeah. So you mean Friday night when I take my honey out

and I spend fucking harder and money for tickets to first three comics and go up there and bring that fucking heartache back that I see in my living room three nights a week. I go in there to escape this shit. I go in there that a catsom type of relation with the comic. Yep. All he is one comic to go up there and click with my inner fucking ghost. And we're good to go. I got one guy to relay it with the 13 minutes that's saying exactly what I feel. Wow.

He took that right out of my fucking mind. That's what great comedy is. And then somebody says, a woman goes up there and says what your wife's thinking or your girlfriend and that girl on the first date. You look like a fucking hero. You look like a fucking hero. You know, until you go back the next night to watch the same comic and he sucks dick. And you're like, what the fuck?

I kind of got my dick sucked last night. But I went for the double whammy. Now I'm not going to suck my dick. Now, a cousin's staying over. What a coincidence. The comedian bombs and the cousins staying over. You know what I'm saying? It's bad for everybody.

Yeah, no, it's pretty interesting shit, though. But I'm happy that, probably just the fact that you're still here. I still remember us having a conversation about you going to New York in 97. You told me to. And so for you just to still be here, do you know how hard it is that this is what, listen, I get it. I didn't do the performance that I wanted to, but there's a lot of variables involved in this. And I'm a big boy, I've been doing comedy for 27 years. Now, on the flip side of that, the flip side of that is, I got a Netflix special.

Whatever happens now is in God's hands. There's nothing I can do. I'm very happy we hit some good stuff. spots. We had some great jokes. It just wasn't cut up the way I wanted to in my head. And it happens. But guess what? Guess how lucky I am to still be in the game. Guess how lucky I am. I came to Los Angeles that I went full fucking throttle and went for it. Guess. That means the world to me. Because there's comics that I fucking came up with that are way funny. And I had more discipline. And at one point just couldn't make the cut to move to Los Angeles.

That was their biggest obstacle. Was taking their fucking, was getting out of their fucking shithole situation. They wanted to be a big man on a small campus. I didn't give a fuck about being a small fish in a big ocean. I knew that I would get to the island and then grow and get some utensils, get a flashlight. And eventually we'd build a whole fucking stage. and that was exactly what happened. You know, that's exactly what happened.

We clung onto a rock. We planted a fucking seed on that rock. And after a few years, we built the stage. We got a lick a license. You know what I'm saying? That's the thing. That's it. There was hurdles in front of us.

You know, you're, um, Lee was asking about spots and all that. And Seattle, for me, I learned a public speech. up there selling T-shirts for the Seattle Supersonics, then doing the cable access show. And then when I went to New York, I was a tour guide at Radio City Musical. I barked at the comedy seller. So I always tried to make sure that I had jobs where I was able to project and talk. And I feel like that helped me out quite a bit.

Like I would always say, find a job where you can talk, learn, you know, speaking. So for me, it was like selling those T-shirts. You just got to step up and go for it. Same thing with like audience warm up. You just got to like go for it. You can't be. And that's, you know, some of these people like, yeah, in these small markets or they're afraid to like go for it. And that's what, you know, I learned Seattle was good for that for me.

I found my voice in Seattle. I honed it in New York. And then I came back here and got into warm up and all that stuff. But yeah, you told me back in 97, go to New York. And I went to New York and I never looked back from Seattle. I was like, boom. And that's where, you know, I came out in terms of myself. Not gay.

How did he decide to go to Seattle? Because I know you started here briefly, right? Yeah, you know, I played baseball basically all the way through college. And I coached at Arizona State. So at the final semester. And I took an acting class at Arizona State. And it was kind of cool. Like I was finally away from baseball and it was just a nice not that I didn't like baseball

But I was kind of like over it and then I took this acting class in Arizona staying there's cute girls in there and There were you know cute girls in there and it was fun and I was trying to be a serious actor But they would Was it a guy like Joey farting in the back of your class? No, we had some characters in there I remember but that I mean yeah the girl the people would laugh at me so so I took the acting and when I moved back here to Los Angeles I worked on a student film I just wanted to learn everything about the the business we're having a good laugh here I'm trying to like not smell the fart but also speak into the mic it's uh I agree can we I don't want to interrupt you but

since he's since he's bringing it up can we talk about that when you assaulted me during the Periscope. I still can't believe you did that. Joey? Assaulting you by... He farted and called me over to do a technical thing. And just left me there waiting for it to show... Until like 30 seconds to show up. And he cupped it.

He cupped it and threw it. And it was shocking. Thank you. I appreciate it. But that's the kind of relationship you two have when you can fart on each other. I don't get to fart on him as much. Oh, well. But that's real brother. interaction to be able to fart.

And the way he just sit there and watch, and he kept saying, where is it? Where is it? I'm like, tell me that you don't smell this bomb of death. It was only had to travel six inches. I mean,

your nose was six inches from my ass. I was that close. I had it pointed right up, and you know it was like a fucking, like a magnet. You know, I don't fucking know. To this day,

it happens so fast, you know. And I don't know if you have any fucking idea how fast it happened okay like if you look at your calendar on your phone yeah it was memorial day may 31st right so i met that broad the sunday night at the comedy club and she spent the night and monday day i gave her a ride to her house we fooled around we got through a house a little bit and then I drove all the way to Colorado. This was Monday.

By the following Monday, she was already in Colorado on my couch. We hung out. She drove me to do comedy. We went camping together. She left the following Monday. Before she left, I book a triple run. And I was in Seattle maybe 10 days after I met. It took me 10.

And I knew way before when I went to Denver, when I went to Michigan that weekend, I knew I had to leave Boulder. I knew it. All the pieces came into play. And I remember still driving past the, where the Devils play, the Red Wings, the Red Wings. Joe Lewis Arena. I still remember driving past that arena crying because the realization had sunk in it. I was going to fucking go to jail for murder.

or I was going to have to leave Boulder. Either I was going to commit to comedy and just stay on the road. Like I remember driving and going, this is what I want to do. If I could figure out a way to do this every night, even if it's for $25, until like a fucking $10,000 falls out of the sky,

I'll be fine. If I can keep this car together, And I could just do comedy every night. 25 bucks minimum. I'll drive every fucking night. It doesn't matter to me. I got a fucking four-cylinder car. It's 56 miles for the fucking gallon.

Gallons, a dollar 50, a fucking, you know, a fucking gallon. I could, you know, I could go 800 miles in this fucking car. So that's what I wanted to do. Like, that's how bad I fucking wanted. I still remember driving. by that fucking stadium crying going I have to leave Boulder because if not I'm not going to see this kid

I'm going to end up in jail and I got up there in the first night it was like remember when I told you Lee in comedy you get these little fucking kicks in the asses I made a few liverwurst sandwiches with American cheese on white and I made a couple baloney sandwiches and I wrapped them up with like a six pack of sodas and chips and bagels and cream cheese.

And I drove all night and that's all I ate. I would get out of the car to pee, but I would bring my own food on those triple runs. And I still remember like getting to Detroit and being out of food and just having an ashtray filled with change and maybe four joints. And fucking going wild. that was an epiphany of me wanting to do comedy that's it that's my calling this is what i'm going to do this was not that bad this 30 hour drive without a hotel and without shower wasn't that bad it didn't kill me in fact it was fun i listened to music i smoked dope i ate good you drove from

denver to detroit to detroit for a gig for $450 for one two three one two three one One, two, three, four, five, six, seven shows. Is that gig still available? No. Oh, well, no, that club isn't even there anymore. So you drove to Detroit and it was a triple, that was a treble. No, it was a regular run that a friend of mine hooked me up. It was a comedy club in one of the suburbs of Detroit, Dearborn.

Yep. And I get there. So here I am, ready to fucking pursue comedy. This is my dream. I fucking got here. I ate the bagels. I ate the cream cheese. I ate the fucking sandwiches.

I had the sodas. I had the chips. You know, I fucking made it here. I go to the club and they're like, there's no comedy tonight. I go, what are you talking with? There's no comedy tonight. It's closed for private show.

I go, okay. And I shut up to the pizza place because they, the guy that- Atlantic Street Pizza? I don't know what it was. In Seattle. No, no. This is, we're still talking to Detroit.

Back to Detroit. We're in Detroit. Got it. Sorry, I jumped to Seattle. I go up to the corner and I see the guy that booked a gig and he goes, dog, you're here a night early. Oh. Here I am thinking.

So I go, what do I do? And he goes, you got a car? Yeah. Looks like you're sleeping. Welcome to comedy. Tomorrow at 3 o'clock, check in at whatever, whatever, hotel. they'll be ready for you tomorrow or three. So I go, where's the hotel at?

How far from the club? It goes right around the corner. So I asked somebody where the hotel was, and I shot over there to the parking lot. And I'm at the parking lot, maybe one hour. I'm walking around the hotel. I'm mingling with people. You know, I'm talking to people at the bar.

They're like, are you staying here? No, I'm staying close by, but my friend is washing. I met up some fucking bullshit story. And my big page goes off. And it's that dude, from the pizza place. And I call him up and I go, what's up?

He goes, do you have a suit? I go, yeah. He goes, go to the hotel and check in. He goes, you got a room. Tony Bennett's open. I couldn't come with him tonight. So you're opening up for Tony Bennett. Whoa.

He goes, I'll give you $50 on the dinner. So I put a suit on. I checked into a hotel room. I can't believe you had a suit with you. I had everything in there. That was the car of death. That car was going to take me to the end. I had everything.

The car couldn't even. breakdown I had everything for the car in there at that point I had done five months of triple runs I had broken down 80 times I knew exactly what I needed what I didn't need I had a football a frisbee I had everything in there there was

no boredom in there whatsoever shovels a ski they would change for a car an extra battery a radiator fixer that plugs up the radiator iPhone charger no there was no iPhones in those days there was nothing so you're opening up for Tony Bennett can I open them

It's one show. I eat spaghetti. And I go back with Togo to this beautiful fucking room. And like I said, I had a jar filled with money. Like a box filled with money, an ashtray filled with change. And the next one I'd get up and breakfast was free. Oh, shit. They gave me like a coupon for breakfast for free.

Like, in those days you eat anything. And then some scrambled eggs. You don't even beep. Scramble dags, the petrified English toast. The fucking turkey bacon. I mean, you just, it's amazing. But when you were doing those triple runs, did you, was that where you wanted to do comedy? It was in Detroit?

I mean, you're already doing the triple runs. No, I was doing comedy in the triple runs. I was doing Wyoming. Oh, Wyoming was the main one. Idaho, you know, Winatchie, whatever the fuck that is. But when you got to Detroit, that was the epiphany. That was the... That drive let me know that this is what I wanted to do.

Gotcha. It was pretty cool with that drive because not only did I do Joeys, but I also shot over and did the black club downtown just for jokes aside or just for something. They had two clubs, one in Chicago and one in Detroit. I went over there into the showcase of the 70s night. It was just a great weekend.

They had like four other clubs. So after I did Joey's, like midnight, I went somewhere on Saturday. He showcased there. And they gave me like 50 bucks. And then Sunday, like, I went back to the thing, and that's when I met Carol, and, you know, we got some Coke and shit.

It was just a great weekend as a feature act. Like, I didn't know it was this much fun on the road. I'm like, okay. So I really want to do this, and it's this much fucking fun. And this was after the triple runs. Yeah, the triple runs seasoned me. I did about five months. I started with triple.

January of 95. This was May of 95. And I had already done like a ton of triple runs plus I was stopping at clubs and showcase it. So whenever I was in the area, whenever I was in the area,

I would showcase in the club. I would force myself to do that. And that's how I learned how to pick up the phone and call people and muscle them and shit. When I learned how to tell people, listen, is this Lisa? Are you going to be at the club Sunday? No, my assistant, my assistant fucking Brody's going to be there. Let me ask you something.

When I go down and kill the room, is Brody going to be able to give me weeks right there on location? Like I would say shit like that to manage us. A week? Those days you had to ask for a week. Why fuck around? Let me check the calendar. Hold on.

No. No? No, I would say it to them. When I go down there and blow up your fucking room. is your assistant brodie gonna be able to give me a date or do I have to come and see you? Because if I have to see you, let me come back when you're there one day.

That's how balls are going to have to get burnt for a year on the road. Like you start saying that shit to people. And they don't give a fuck. If they're real, they'll go, come on now. If they're pieces of shit, they'll go, fuck you. Nobody's ever spoken to me like that before. Not since, you know, they'll say, I felt like to make themselves look good.

Did you ever bomb after saying something like that to someone? Constantly. But does that, do you think that kind of stuff goes on still? Like on a triple run? You know, those kind of things are going these, you know,

dealing with club owners like that sort of thing? Or is it different now? You got to know, when you're starting up, you take a lot of this shit. It's like anything else. You come into foot locker as a trainee. You have to clean the bathrooms.

You got to do a lot. lot of stuff but you get the referee shirt but eventually you get so good at what you do that you give stuff giving other people shit yeah it's a general law of the land so it comedy is just the same you know when you moved from seattle to new york there was a couple bookers you wanted to them to go fuck themselves and then when you move from new york to l.a you're like wait a second now i got a handful of motherfuckers i'm going to call and tell them to suck my dick like people didn't want to use you. There's a handful of people in your career that told you know, Brody,

you're not my style of comic. And now you want to call them after you're a regular at the store at 10-30 every night. You're like, hey, bitch, you weren't so smart after all. Fuck you in your club. I'm a regular at the store. And they're like, go fuck yourself. No, you know. Right. And you know what? That

has happened to me. Things like that. That's what I got into trouble with on Twitter. I kind of lashed out that. And I was saying to guys like F you for not being nice to me and you know you so and so you were a jerk and well it really bothers you it really bothers you to see people before and after well i just remember people not being uh cool to you yeah exactly it's like i was in seattle joey liked me everyone liked seemed to like me in seattle then i go to new

york and all of a sudden these guys don't like me it's like that's and i understand like that's human nature it takes a while but you can also see some people's true colors a little bit early on if they're like not cool to you. So there was some of that going on, but also, you know, it's human nature. And I, for me, lashing out, yeah, I might have been right at the core, but it wasn't the right thing to do. And part of that was that, yeah, I goofed up. That's where I was like on my, those meds and I went off from cold turkey.

And I had, yeah, that's where I had my, my quote unquote problems. And, uh, but I think I was. was just like lashing out. I was a little, I was a bit manic. I was worked up, but they're also like pushing me. You know, you're going to push me. I'm going to push you. And I think some of it was that a little bit like the Hollywood, the little bit of the skateboarders from Venice, those guys, you know, rubbing up against me. And I push back. So that's not always healthy. But that's what I I did and, you know, but a lot of people say, oh, Brody, you had a breakdown. I go, no, I went off my meds and then I really opened up my mind.

And I mean, that's why they put people on meds. So you don't get agitated at things you should be getting agitated with. But I was looking for problems a little bit too, going to Starbucks and seeing these screenwriters giving me negative energy. I didn't like that. So I was like tapping into like real stuff. Like, people do talk about how there's these, how are these writers hang out at Starbucks and how there's like these. I mean, I got an argument at Starbucks a couple weeks ago.

So you get these little nerdy type guys and I can have problems sometimes. What do they say to you? Well, one guy, this most recent one, I mean, it happens every few years. But I was, you know how Starbucks is now, how it's all in the news about the bathrooms. and you can hang out and do all that sort of stuff. So I walked into Starbucks, my regular Starbucks there in the valley, and there was a guy at the table, a transient type guy, because I hadn't seen him before, but I could tell like he was a transient.

The energy. Yeah. And he was all, we were like at a table like we're on now, and he was all spread out. He had his backpack. He had three chargers going. He did have a coffee, but he was very spread out. Not a big deal. I thought it was kind of funny.

And I took a photo and just on my own. I think, oh, maybe I'll put that up, but not showing who he is, but just showing, oh, look, people making their home at Starbucks if I was going to even do that. And then I walk closer as I go get my coffee, and I see the guy has a weapon out there, a bat, like a mini bat with a tape on it. It was a weapon. Sorry. And the weapon was on the table. So not only was the backpack and he was spread out, still funny, now I see the weapon.

So it just kind of like, to me, it just verified my initial instinct. So I go, you know what, I'll take a photo of the weapon. Why not? Maybe I'll post that. So I click a couple shots of the weapon. And I go get my, you know, on sly, don't want to make a big deal. And then, so take a clip, clip of the weapon. And then this guy comes up to me, goes, hey, what are you taking photos of?

Like friendly. And I go, I can see, like, I read his energy like he was questioning me. I go, and I zoom in my camera. I go, this weapon. And I go, why? He goes, oh, I thought you were taking pictures of me and my girlfriend. I go, why would I want to take pictures of your girlfriend? He goes, I don't know.

I go, why don't you get the fuck out of my face? I'm about to knock you out. He goes, really? I go, yeah, move. And I was getting worked up because this guy freaking said, I was taking pictures. of his wife. And I go, I told him, I go, I didn't, I said, do I go, and he's going, yeah, you don't want to do that. I go, you know what, get, I'm about to drill you.

He said, drill, I don't know, you know. But I was getting a little worked up. And I go, nobody wants to take pictures of you and your ugly wife. That's what I said, or girlfriend. So they got a worked up. And then the staff go, break it up, guys, break it up. What's going on? Everything is cool.

He goes, yeah, this, I go, I'm taking a photo of the weapon. And then he goes, yeah, this 60. year old guy. So he called me a 60 year old guy. Okay. Fine. I go get my my coffee. I'm going to leave. He's still, he's at the table. A couple of people around. He's like mumbling. I go, you got a problem? You keep talking. I walk over there. I go, nobody wants to take a picture of you and you're ugly. I said, no, your fat girlfriend. That's what I said. I called. And I even know, I didn't look at her. I didn't even notice. I just know like, if you're going to say that, that's going overboard. I shouldn't have said it, but I didn't handle myself properly. But the bottom line is, I wasn't taking pictures

of him and his girlfriend. I didn't even notice. When he first came up to him, I thought he was a fan or friend. Then he says, yeah, you're taking, I thought you're taking photos with me and my girlfriend. Why would I do that? Well, I don't know. Get out of my face. So I was upset. And I got a little worked up, and I probably shouldn't have said his girlfriend was ugly. But, you know, but, you know, But that's just instinct. Sorry, I'll go rogue. But the bottom line is I took the photo I probably shouldn't have. That's a risk.

So I took the risk. I did over a, I did was a bit sensitive about it. I admit that. But you know what? He could have easily gone to the manager. And that's a risk you take when you step to somebody. Maybe they'll snap like me. So think twice.

And he was a little skinny Antifa type guy. Little weasel guy. That's what he was. So I just, I pulled him out of the woodwork. I shook, I shook him up. His cage got rattled. Definitely. You're going to accuse me of taking photos of you and your girlfriend.

Like, I'm a creep. I'm a peeping Tom. Get the F out of my face. I'm taking a photo of the weapon. I haven't been back to that Starbucks. What happened with the weapon? I don't know. The guy, the, nothing.

Who knows? I didn't care about the weapon. I thought it was. funny. I mean, with Starbucks being in the news, I wasn't mad about the weapon, but I did take a photo of the weapon because I thought it was funny. It's based off my instincts being right,

but that's the risk you take, but I didn't appreciate it. That guy thought I took a photo. I mean, if he was a big guy, probably would have got my ass kicked. I'd beep a lot of people, and I worry about that sometimes. I'm like, I'm going to beep once at somebody, and it's not going to turn out

well for me. But I don't know. You beep at random people on the highway, It's the funniest thing in the world. Because the beep comes from the innocent place. All tap. Whatever you got to do, if it comes from an innocent place, a place from the heart, they know. They know when you pull up to somebody go, hey, you fucking jerk off, move your car. When you pull over and beep or somebody and wave at them, and they feel really bad when you do something like that.

It's a background track. Yeah. Let me do some fucking things here. Jonathan Murray, I love you. Jay Bish, thank you. Paul Lynch, Bob Lillengis, Jeremy Slaggar, Dom De Niro. Carson Williams Ivan Ramos

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Talk to me. You're still getting your spots at the store. How many nights a week? I get, I would say, average two, two to three a week. They love you down there. You know, I'm okay with that. Give me, if I could, not give me, but. Where else do you go up?

You go up all the other. Laugh Factory, improv when I call on for spots. I can definitely, like, show my face more at shows, and, you know, that's up to me. So when I feel like, oh, I'm not getting enough spots, or, you know, I could always go do these. you know, backyard shows. I could go to the ha-ha, I can go places. So again, I never blame others. It's always on me. I feel like

it's up to me. Yeah, there's other, I just feel like, and that's probably my problem sometimes. I'm too hard on myself, but Who else are you going to be hard on? You ever talk to a comic that doesn't take responsibility for anything? You ever talk to a comic that constantly kills? You ever talk to a comic that has the world by the balls

and bitches at you because he has the world by the both. Or are there guys like that? Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Am I supposed to name one? No, they can't wait to tell you about their success and how, you know, this guy wanted them for a film and, you know, but at the same time, they're telling you how scared they are

of making that next fucking move. It's kind of weird if you ever talk to something and you feel that. They're scared of what's next. Sure, you know, and it's like, I was scared too for a while. We all been scared when you're here. I mean, that's part of the package, is fear. The fears what drives you every day. When you wake up, fuck, what's going to happen today?

You know, I have this audition, and you prepare it, and you go see an acting coach with your last $40, and you get to the room, and it's everybody you watched on TV the last five years. So the fucking energy gets sucked out of your fucking lungs. But now you go into a room, and, you know, once you go in there, you think you close your eyes and you see yourself at the store. at 12, 15, following one of the good ones.

And you're like, fuck, what these guys didn't do out there. Yeah, they probably had movies and they probably did this and this, but they could never follow fucking who I'm following five nights a week. Yeah. It gives you like a weird confidence, you know, sort of. Stand-up's a king of the jungle in terms of, you know, so many people wish they could do stand-up. We're so lucky that we're especially able to get to.

perform at the comedy store and a lot of these actors they can't do it and yeah i'm lucky it feels good to be able to walk in and comedians have been very nice to me so i definitely feel feel support i like uh you know you know they're they're tough critics they're tough critics the comedians that they like you that's an indicator of something you don't necessarily want to be a comedian's comedian i'll take it i'm not fighting it but um yeah it does feel good You know, how long have you been doing stand-up for now? I officially started going for it, and when I moved to Seattle, February of 94, I took Mitzi Sandy Seashore's Comedy Workshop.

I was always like a comedy store guy. I wanted to go to the comedy store. I was a kid I would see it, and I just felt like that's where I was drawn to. How far away from the store did you grow up as a kid? Well, I grew up in the Valley, but my mother, her boyfriend, Jack, He lived right there on Altiloma, and off his patio, you could see the comedy store. So as a kid, I would always see the energy. I could feel it.

And I wasn't necessarily, you know, wanted to do stand-up, but I was just, I was around it. I was around that I saw the, as a kid, I saw the comedy store. And then when I was, I took the workshop back in 93, over at UCLA, the comedy store workshop after every class, I'd drive to the comedy store. when I'd look at it and go one day, maybe I'll get to perform there. And who was in there when you used to go look at it? Well, that was bad. Whoever was performing back in 90, yeah, 93, but I wouldn't go in. I don't think I ever went in because it just didn't feel like I was belonged.

I wouldn't have gone in there in 93. I think I would have been scared. Shitless. Fuck you. Yeah, I mean, I was scared even once I got passed. It was kind of intimidating there at the comedy store, you know. Some real, like, real men there. You know, tough guys, chewing in the parking lot.

You had, it was just very, it was a dark place. But I liked it. I always liked the, you know, the no frills of the comedy store. It wasn't about advertising and fancy lights. It was dark. It was real. And I knew early on, like Mitzi accepted characters, real people who had problems, you know? So I knew that right away.

And I was just drawn to that. And when I had an opportunity to do a workshop, and a lot of people go, oh, why do you do a workshop? You should just jump in open mics. I needed structure. I need playing baseball at Arizona State. I needed someplace to go. And every Wednesday, I would drive to Westwood from Tarzana. And I was really excited to go do my little two-minute spot in front of my classmates.

So that was a big check for me. Okay, I like this. So I'd go do it. And I'd talk Sandy's ear off. after the show just I wanted really to soak it all in and then I'd go by the the store and then I did like one open mic and I knew I wasn't I did a graduating class at the comedy store crushed it in the original room 1993 packed people coming up to me you have an agent this and that I felt like a comedian and then like

two days later I go to my first open mic out in Chatsworth and it was just like out in the valley it was just like not good but I I understood I go I get it I just don't want to go this route, especially in my hometown. I had something like pride to feel like I'm not going to let this MC at a bar kind of like talk down to me in my neighborhood. You moved here from somewhere, I'm sure, and this is my town. So I knew that, and I stopped with the open mics, and I went back to UCLA, and I took a business of comedy class. I wanted to learn everything about comedy. and I did that.

And then I remember the guy, the instructor said, if you want to do comedy, get out of L.A. Go somewhere else. So it was either Phoenix or I went to college or Seattle where I had family. And Seattle, my uncle said they really support the arts up there. So when I moved up there in February of 94, after this Northridge earthquake, I was working at Macy's over on Topanga,

and the mall got red-tagged. So I didn't have the job there. It wasn't making much money anyway. And then I just drove up to Seattle, jumped into the comedy underground, open mics, and just, you know, the comedians treated me pretty well. I was liked there, but I made it to the, I found my voice, but that was about it. I wasn't going to really get feature work. You know, it's like they knew me too well. So I was a guest spot guy.

And I worked at the comedy underground. I learned how to seat the audience. I learned about a three-person show. I learned all about that stuff. And doing the cable access, working for the Sonics, and then you said, go to New York. And I knew it because I needed more. See, I grew Seattle.

It's hard to like, they know you too well where I started. I went to New York and I just enjoyed my time there. But after three years, I felt like I was ready to come back home. And then I've been pushing ever since, like 18 years of pushing and pushing. And yeah, I don't know where my next gig is going to come from, but I do know that I have my special coming out. I do know that, I mean, I am getting two to three spots. I mean, those get taken away at the comedy store.

Who knows? But I don't want to think about that. But I'm definitely like, I do feel good about my comedy. I feel like I've done a pretty good job with that. Have I bought a house? No, but I probably could have been better with my money. I probably made enough money to where I could own a home. but I think

I honestly I've talked about this before I think if my father was still around but maybe my comedy would be different if I had a girlfriend if I had somebody to kind of like keep me honest you know

keep me being a bachelor is difficult you know the older you get and especially you're in comedy and this and that sort of thing so it makes you look at things a little bit differently you know you can get

I can see why people get older They get a little panicky Keep going Gonna get some fresh air Well do you remember You guys are talking about the comedy store And Brody you're a big fan of baseball So as a comedy fan

The store is pretty much like family park Or whatever one Like Yankee Stadium whatever And I had the Joey was very nice And put me on his belly room show And it's just I've been I've done a few Maybe I don't know 10 15 stages at this point

Yeah But just having like like there's a difference with the crowd there And it was just it was like a crazy Like my legs almost were shaking It's it's pretty intense Just even I was in the belly room Which is the smallest of the three But it was still like

I don't want to say the word religious But it was just it was a Very emotional like experience Your adrenaline gets going You realize where you won't I don't want to run the light, so I think I did like 10 seconds after the first. That's every 90 days when you go into a club that you've read about or heard about.

You know, your legs go out from Monday. I was watching Lee, but I was watching everybody that night. It was so electric in that room that you could bomb, and they were still going to laugh. Like, I could bring a dead guy into the fucking back of the room and the sonic electricity in the room. Yeah.

Would have held the shoulders up like the fucking tin man. It was amazing. Let me ask you this. How important for the younger comics for people like Lee, how important was the underground fear from 95 to 97, 98 to 11? Very important, doing those open mics, getting, you know, signing up for the open mics, driving, you know, to the comedy underground, going to the number one terrii. next door and then you know being around Josh Wolf yourself Tena Yoshi Ramona and then

having all these you know pretty successful comedians who worked the cruise ships up in Seattle and then I just enjoy me personally I really enjoyed my time up in Seattle because I was in the I was in Phoenix I was in the desert I was so third I need had a thirst for culture thirst for pierce earrings and Capitol I needed that for flavor and culture. So Seattle gave me that and then just the comedy underground doing the open mic every Monday and Tuesday and Carl, you know, running the open mics and all the characters there and being in Pioneer Square was kind of cool. I enjoyed, you know, the baseball, the Mariners were playing at the Kingdom. They get maybe 3,000 a game. The players like the Oakland A's and the

Indians and the Yankees, they'll be hanging out upstairs. So I really do, you know, yeah, Of course, we all miss our time there. It was cool, but I'm, you know, I'm probably, I enjoy my time at the comedy store also. I enjoyed my times in New York. But definitely Seattle was good for me and being a part of the Sonic selling the T-shirts. It was a breeding ground. If you really think about it, look, you name three guys, including yourself that it's still in the fucking game. Yeah.

And they're making noise down. here that was a breeding ground at that time we didn't even know it we had no idea for me it was carl because like when i go to the my friend donovan who was on the podcast two weeks ago donovan patten has been going over to the fifth fourth wall and his wife told my wife that she goes you know i've been with donovan for a while and he really enjoys going over there He says it's very supportive. When you get into comedy, like when I started, I started at Denver Comedy Works. I was doing good with some people, with some people, you know how some comics are.

Well, you just can't do nothing to win them over. You know, and you're looking for this home. You're looking for this home. Then I get thrown out of that. And I end up at Seattle. And after a month, it was home. Right now, I watch you, Leah. and I see how important that is for you over there.

You're going up up there. Like I always say, you go up, you want to go up without a safety net. Over there, you're going up with a safety that they like you. They like you. You're not going to get booed. You're not going to get a bottle thrown at your head. They cheer for you when they're your friends.

All you guys cheer for one another. I see that. That's a great environment to grow it. You know, it's when I'm doing well and Brody's doing well. And Brody's got a camp and I got a camp. And now every time we go in there, we try to outdo each other. But Rod Long has his camp. And, you know, Sal, whatever, has his camp.

So it's just, that's horrible. And I try to bump him. Like the comedy store before this shit. When it was Eddie Griffin and Dice and Moody and, you know, it was a great experience. But you look at it compared to now. And now it's like there ain't no bumping. You want to call him for stuff? spots, you call them for spots. We'll let you come in one time tonight and bump. But once you get

that light, it's 10 fucking minutes. We'll shut the microphone off. You understand me. You're like, uh, yeah, like the word got out. Why do you think that is the case now? People are more accountable for each other due to social media, that sort of thing? No, the comedy store was Mitzie created a haven for people to grow, but she also created a haven for people to hate. Oh, really? She created this little haven

where she kind of inspired that in a way. I don't know how to say if she inspired it or she thought it was necessary for the growth of a comic, which is really is. It really is. It really is hard one day when you and me sit there every night

smoke dope and do coke and drink and we're pissed about Lee's success. You know what, man, I still remember giving Lee jokes. He's not fucking funny. Fuck that motherfucker. He ain't funny. A little Jew fuck. And then one night you catch yourself. You go look at me. How am I supposed to grow when I'm hating on my friends? You know how many fucking people would pull me aside and give me an earbeat about Josh Wolk when he first got his deal? And for the first month or so, I joined in a few times. I'm not going to lie to you. But after that, I was like, Wait a second.

This guy's my friend. Regardless of what I think. It's not really what I think or what fucking he thinks. It's what they think. That's number one. Number two, we don't have time to think about Josh Wu. Because we're too busy thinking about ourselves. Why do I give a fuck what Lisa Ayanna is doing or he ain't doing?

That's when you, you know, when you go to an open mic, going to an open mic is like, working on a TV show and watching extras. The extras are always either stockbrokers and they can make you a million dollars or their good friends with James Cameron. They all have a fucking story, but meanwhile, they're an extra.

And you sit there and take their story and go, oh my God, really? Meanwhile, he's looking at that time clock going, I wish there's overtime. I wish there's over time. But he's telling you he's a millionaire and he owns a yacht in San Diego. go and oh I was watching the guy the other day being extra and in between takes he was trying to work this girl

tell her she can make a ton of money and I'm sitting there going look at this fucking barracuda look at this guy it never stops this is the fucking homebred for sexual harassment this is a sexual harassment was invented nice black girl with a big ass tight skirt and this white guy is trying to sell a fucking goats in fucking Arizona some shit they're sitting there going when does it fucking end these guys. But no, it's been great to your journey. Now, this special you taped, this is the one that was going to CISO. Yes. And then they pulled it. Well, CISO went away. Csso went away. And my agent, manager, they fought or sold, reached out, and now it's going to be on Amazon. On June 22nd, I believe, is our date. And you can pre-order it. And it's, I shot it at the comedy.

store. I think I'm not going to say it was a home run necessarily, but it captured what I did at that night and at that particular moment. And it was me basically doing my late night spot at the comedy store. I had been doing that spot already for like three or four, three years at the time. And I said, well, you know what? I put so much, so much of my time into this spot. Why? not, you know, capture it. So I always wanted to do this late night special, like going up in that last spot after the room has been beaten down. What time is this about? Well, normally after midnight. So I tried for my, the special, we did two shows. They, we did it in the main room. And I guess they did the first show. We did around like around 10 o'clock.

And I went on probably around 11ish. And the room was too crowded, actually. And I did well. I got laughs. I'm not going to say, yeah, maybe I did crush. But it was a regular looking kind of thing. The second show, we started after 11, and there was, you know, maybe 150 people. Because we had good comedians. Bill Burr was on it.

And I think Theo Vaughn was on it. So it was a good show. But by the time I was going to go on, there was still a lot of people. And so I said, we got to put on another comedian. So we had Don Barris come in and Don goofed around and made things. He did put his Don Barris touch on it. So then I came out. And there was like, I don't know, 35 people in there spread out.

And I did my late night comedy. He said, I'm doing a special. That was my angle. Now, here's a deal. It was a year and a half ago, essentially. And I think I've become, you know, I'm definitely a better comedian now. But that night, what we did, I've seen it. I haven't watched it probably for eight, nine months.

I'm happy with it. I'm not saying it's going to change the world, but I build it up like it's my big special. It is kind of my big special. And people probably expect to have a full audience and everything. And the crowd is there, you know, bust in audience, paid audience. So it was a real audience who didn't know me. I had people walking out.

I go, how dare you walk out? This is my special. You don't do that. And then I had a couple of the comedians. I left the mics open if they wanted to interact with me. And so that I was just basically making it kind of like what I was doing late at night. And I think we captured that. So I feel good about it.

I'm curious to see how the reaction is going to be. But this is something I feel like I could promote, meaning like I promoted my TV show. but, you know, it was kind of weird promoting me going off the rails, promoting me acting out on Twitter and being detained at Starbucks, promoting me talking about psychology, which was

it was just interesting, but the comedy with this, I feel good about it. I feel like I got a bunch of my jokes in. It was a lot of yelling, a lot of excitement, but that's what I was doing. I was taping my special. You warned me at the beginning,

of the podcast that this was going to happen. I think it was going to be like 18 farts. Lots of farting. Where can they get at Amazon? The farting? No, you're special. A lot of dairy. Well, it will be available

on Amazon. And yeah, maybe it will lead to me doing, you know, more late night, midnight shows. I don't know. But I think it's kind of, I also, there's a couple cool little things in there.

I think people will like. They'll be pleasantly surprise. There's a couple nice moments. And also, I'm promoting the comedy store. I'm actually talking about how the comedy store is the place to be and how, but it's tongue and cheek, some of that stuff, and silly music and some backstage, like me putting it on makeup and stretching. So I got all that stuff in. And I'm curious to see where it goes. And I'm already thinking about what my next special is. I feel like you just got to keep cranking them out. And not to say that there's going to be another one, But I'd like to think, well, okay, I got this.

Now I can work for my next one. And I really need to think of myself as a comedian. And I've made that concerted effort probably for the last three years or so to, like, let people know, I do stand up. So like when I put out a tweet promoting a show, I put that microphone. Because people knew me as, oh, you're an audience warm up guy. Oh, you are, maybe you're a guy on Chelsea or whatever. I don't know. But I put in my mind, I have to think like, hey, I'm a stand-up.

I perform at the Comedy Store. I'm doing it. So, and I think people do look at me as you are. You have made it. People do. Drew's got his hand. They, uh, I think he's getting a fart ready. He's getting a fart ready.

But it's been a long. For fucking weeks. You understand? Hey, you know, see, I got a bunch of them coming. But I, um, you know, I, um, you know, I, I think I do get a little, I get tension sometimes. I think like with some of the guys at the comedy store, I think, because I know them too well. I think like I butt heads sometimes with the guys.

And sometimes it's on a podcast or it's on a video. And I feel that that gets to me a little bit. I don't like having things like that happen. but also I feel like I have good relationships with the comedians you know people don't always know like the eyeball check you gotta be there you have people like have opinions based off a podcast people have opinions based off a video they saw of you

but they don't know the relationship between two people two comedians so sometimes that stuff gets to me but I know and I think the comedians know that I've been on the ground floor a lot of stuff and I definitely don't feel hate from comedians. But sometimes fans, and maybe this is Twitter, or maybe this could be me jumping in comments, which I don't do.

Like I pick up on some of that. But I butt heads at times, but that's also me being in those situations, doing those late night crazy spots. You know, it's like doing warm up. It's like last to be hired, first to be fired. I'm like almost too nice. Sometimes I'm being nice,

and I'm not saying people take advantage of me, but I just think I remember growing up here in the valley. Sometimes I would get picked on for being a nice guy. People. What was on your business card? What's on your business card? I'm a nice guy or please be my friend. What's the other slogan?

I'm a model in Pakistan. Yeah. Yeah, I used to have some funny business cards. Oh, Brody, let me explain some to you. One thing about you is you don't know me anything. You put your time. And I was there with you in that basement with roach. on 95.

That's basically what that fucking underground was, a basement with fucking roaches. Oh, yeah. And big-ass roaches, you know. But once you saw the roaches, it didn't really matter because it was home. We were so lucky to be at the fucking underground on Mondays and Tuesday nights

we'd call tormenting Rita O. Rita, Al-Fox. Al-Fox. That's why we both went to war with Al-Fox. Is he still around? I think he does motivational speaking up. Does he really? He heard.

Let's look him up with Al Fox, Seattle. I have that video. I remember you and Al going at it. Hey, fuck you, poor Al. Yeah, we learned,

you know, but I think Seattle. Jesus, that was like a a zillion years ago. What a fucking time. Yeah. I think Seattle,

we were right there. This is like before Amazon. This is right. be i mean amazon started in seattle when we were there they amazon started in pioneer square is it two xes yeah i find his lincoln didn't let's see you know we were there at a pretty happening time like the foo fighters were just getting started sound guard and nirvana was you know happening we were there at a hot moment uh not a hot moment but seattle was kind of like on the tail end of grunge the comedy boom was dying out somewhat

But Seattle was just, I think, a great spot to be pre-social media, pre-crazy internet. It was like the last bastion of art. There he is. The winners don't quit us, he. No, scroll down. He's number three. Go to number three of the pictures. Look at this beauty.

Right now the other way, the other way. Right there, number three. Look at this beauty. Right there. There he is. Al Fox. That's him. That's him.

Hey, I'm Al. Joey, you don't talk to me that way. I've been doing comedy now for five years. Brody, you're not funny to me. Al, please. Brody, get away from me. Al, I enjoy motorcycles. I'm right.

That faded on that one. Pretty good, though, right? Good acting. No, no, no. He used to get pissed off it. What would you do to him? You know, he had like a handicap issue, something that happened to him. You get a brain injury.

You think he fell a motorcycle accident. See if you can Wikipedia. Oh, my God. Oh, thank you. Al Fox is a Wikipedia. Al Fox motorcycle. Sure, he does. No, no motorcycle.

All right. Just Al Fox. Okay. I got to break his balls with motorcycles. I'm not going to say. He got hit by a motorcycle. Well, I think there's a story behind it. Well, if it's on Wiki, then we'll read it.

But I'm not. Why throw him under the bus? I didn't mean to do that. He really got hit by a bust. I don't think he's listening to this podcast. He has to me. Watch, he's got to be. The Facebook.

Louis Fox, just look up. But it was different doing open mics in Seattle. It was like you would get real audience. You would get... About Al Fox. Witters don't quit association right there. Al Fox is a founder and president of the not for profit. Winners don't quit. Award winning comic.

Send them an email, Brody. Me. To inspire and enable all people young and old, those with disabilities and those without. to accept the life they've been given. Where's the number? I don't think he's in the office right now. Right, that don't matter. Leave a message, bro.

Leave him message. Oh, my God. Okay. This point, guys got up to change his number tomorrow. Then hit him up. Well, we're not going to give it out. It's always on the screen for a second. Yeah, it's all right.

But then contact now Fox. Send him messages, Lee. Tell him this is Brody Stevens, and he wants to do a tour with him. No, no. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. As motivational speaker or as comedians? I can be doing motivational.

Whatever you want to do, both of the years are killing the rug. You take him out for a week. We'll tape it. We'll sell that to anybody. I've got a sidecar. Motorcycle sidecar. He could motivate for you. So a 4-25.

Just watch it off the screen and call him up. Put it on speaker phone. What if he answers? Just hang up. Do what normal Americans do it. Making a call back. Who the fucking this? Oh, my goodness.

You don't do that to me. He's embracing change. Forwarded to an automatic switch. When you have finished recording, you may hang up. Or press one. Hey, Al. It's a longtime friend here. Brody Stevens.

What do you think? We're having a great conversation. My pal, Joey Diaz. Al Fox, you bad motherfucker you. We're just talking about Seattle. Your name came up. A lot of good times. Joey and I were still, we're down here in L.A.

having a blast. We're still going. It looks like you are, positive motivational speaking. Winners don't quit, cuck, sucker. Winners don't quit. Get a complimentary three-chapter sample of Al's newest book. Al's got a book coming out. Jesus, Joseph and Marys.

Ow. Send us the fucking book, will you? And cut the shit. Al Fox. Winters don't quit, Association, embracing change, inspiring people to believe in their own possibilities. He knows what it is. He wrote it.

Oh, he wrote it. Leave it alone. All right. My business. All right. Nobody asks you. Thanks a second. Have another mint.

Al. We love you, buddy. We love you. We love you. That was a lot of you. Okay. Al Fox. You can't write that shit right.

That was funny. That was funny. You can't write. That's just to let you know, people. We don't have bullshit in you. or bringing your bad entertainment. And Bernie, why don't you talk to me that way? Al, please.

At least we're telling you the truth here. So we weren't lying. Oh, please. And that's the most important thing. Your call has been forwarded to an automatic voice message district. That beauty. That fucking beauty. Oh, that was funny.

And we had Rita O who sold pills. On the first of every month, she had like big shipment to Valium. All those pills. You know, not Xanax and nothing like that. Like, she was getting hard shit. She was a he. She was a he. Before it was cool.

Yeah. Yeah, send him an email. Lee telling me we're talking about him. We love him. We want to put him on the fucking winner-don't-quit association tour. You're listening to an email right now? Right now. No, tomorrow morning.

Okay. Yeah, right now. Send him an email, please. Tell them, listen, we want to put you on the winners. Don't quit tour. Contact Lisa. I have the coordinator. Don't become her.

But there was something about doing, you know, doing... Oh, he gave you his cell phone. I don't want to call him. No, we... I like that. He's going to call us back in 24 hours. There's 8 million people on the fucking line. Nobody gives you their cell phone.

How long is this poor bastard? He gives you a cell phone. Right now, we call him, right at the balls. Look at him. Look at him. Poor, how. He's a good fucking dude. Oh, shit.

Giggles. Oh, shit. Giggles. Terry Taylor. Terry Taylor. I was doing it before Terry Taylor with the Vietnam vet. What's the guy's name? What was his name?

He hated me, but I used to get him for work. I'm going to put your name down. Wouldn't you like tinker with everybody's act? Like said, he knew Seinfeld. That was this thing. Like Seinfeld wouldn't do that. Tell you to work clean and shit. So I would work dirty.

And then when he would pull up in his mazeradio, whatever the fuck he had, when he would come into the showroom and work clean. And he'd just walk through the back for about 48 seconds. And he'd go into the kitchen. then you go right back to your act. Oh, really? Yeah.

So he was only in there for 40 seconds times. He would stop for one beat to listen to your punchline, make sure there was no fucks or nothing dirty. You could see him walking through. And as soon as he walked in the kitchen, man, I finished up with the headliner up. I drank at the tab there. So you enjoyed your shows there?

Yes, I did. You know, at that time, man, listen, It was 1996, 97. Yep. I was happy to fart in a fucking glass. Do you understand me? I think you did that tonight. I'd been in prison.

I'd been in a fucking war with my ex-wife. And now, guess what? I wasn't living in no high-rise, and I wasn't paying the fucking $100,000 a month mortgage. But I was keeping the lights on. Yep. Paying for groceries. Yep.

And paying my side of the rent with comedy money. Yeah. Sometimes it's. took an eight ball of coke. Sometimes it took 50 hits of something. You know, sometimes it took whatever. But every month, I was starting to make payments with comedy money. And that was the best feeling in the world. And if I show you those notebooks today, if I bring the notebooks to you from 95 to 2004, you could see the, like I wish today that I, like, I wish today that I, like, could take those notebooks and put them into a computer so they could put a graph together and do

something for comics like a seminar to show them the slow escalation of the money and for 10 years there was no money there was no money but it went from 8000 to 9600 to 11 4 12 8 to 100,000 one year. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Then back to 14 the next. You had a commercial or something? Yeah. Or warm-up gigs, too.

I did 100,000 one year and then 14,000 next. Oh, yeah. All I did was triple runs and headlining gigs. That's 800 a week. But I was making 14,000 a year off comedy. That means I'm not fucking in the fucking, I'm making more money than if I was poor, poor poor and I'm not I don't have to live on any restrictions once I started making 14 grand a year 16 grand a year 20 grand the year you're all right you're okay as a comedian you're like okay

I can pay this I can make this happen you can make this happen because you're getting money you're getting 1,200 a week a thousand a week you're going to beat the road for everything it's worth if you could stay on a couch you're going to stay on a couch if you could stay on the floor, you're going to stay on the floor. If you could fucking, what's that shit, Airbnb, you're going to have B&B, but you're going to commit to it. And that's when you

really make that little extra money on the road. You know, there's so much money in comedy in the beginning, but there's not. But if you believe in yourself in today's comedy world, with T-shirts and CDs and pins, and just a

variable for everything and the content that you could put out in the daytime, you know everybody's come everybody wants to be on Netflix but you could still become a star on YouTube why doesn't anybody know that because everybody thinks that you're gonna put a video on YouTube and if it doesn't everybody who puts a video up expects the video to go viral like they're not gonna do any work they just want the video to go viral right put up as many videos as they can but they don't understand that for a video to go viral, don't get me wrong.

Nobody can put a video up, him rocking up and down with a cat and get a million downloads because it's cute. I'm talking about the guy that promotes his social media six months before he releases his stand-up, seven minutes. I better get out there and start doing it. That's a big difference. That's a big difference. People who give you a three-minute clip

to let you know that 30 are coming out on YouTube. That's a big difference. You just gave me something. So now I'm committed to you. You know, you're going to live tweet when you do the YouTube thing. You know, let me tell you something. If I couldn't get a special on Netflix today, I'd shoot three, ten minutes sets at the ice house. And cut them down to seven and put them on YouTube.

Yeah. Take those numbers, go to YouTube and get them to give me money for the next special. Because YouTube is about to start buying content. They just hit big with the karate kid. 25 million views, the first fucking day or the first three days. days. They're going to come in. They're all over the world. They're in position. They're like communists. They're all over the world. They're in position. All they need to do is just raise a rifle and go, oh, God, what? But I feel like it's a popularity thing. I see, I see YouTube

numbers and I feel like comedy. It is subjective. I'm not comparing myself. You got to give me a reason to watch you. Okay. Like anything else, friends, everybody loves Raymond. But what happens if your comedy is different? Like, I feel like my comedy, it takes a little while for people to get... That's fine. You do something very unique. Always remember that. You're not doing with Joey Diaz and what fucking Ari's

doing, and with Duncan doing, what Joe Rogan's doing, with Bill Burr's doing. You're doing something that... What's the toughest thing you ever drank? What's the toughest booze that you said to yourself? You know what? That was okay. came, I don't know. In Lee's World. I guess probably tequila?

I mean, I like tequila. Gets you drunk. Maybe vodka. Brody's people's tequila, just like me. Once they understand where Brody's coming from, they fall in love with Brody. When I watch Brody doing what he's doing, I'm kind of jealous of Brody in a lot of ways. Because that was my world. I had found a way to make you love me.

after about 20 months of dying on the 1230 slop out. It took me, honest to God, let's just say, let's just say for break-even, it took me 16 months. I may be lying to both the years and everybody listened, but it took me that long to figure out how to destroy at that spot. But once I figured out how to destroy

at the 1230, 1245 spot, it became a different game for me. Yeah. It's a different game. and when I watch you, I watched you about eight months ago, I was down there late one night and I watched the first three minutes. You bring them into your world. It's that guy at 1230 who has that funky fucking show on TBS,

but you can't watch fucking those three fucking guys today. You're not in the mood for Kimmel. Kimmel's got that fucking horrible fucking chick. I don't understand what she's saying after time. fucking Jimmy Fallon's dancing up and down with Obama's wife I don't mind with that big ass I just don't want to watch dancing I feel like laughing and the other guy's got some political guy on there

talking about taxes I'm in the move for that let me put that crazy guy on that's up there with a fucking thing yelling at the audience and they fall in love with you Brody that's a different gift I saw it that night I saw it like a fucking eight months ago like I told you I was driving him on my Brody's come a long fucking way

And then I saw it before you shot the special. I'm sorry. And then when they told me you had shot the special and you were shooting it and C-Saw had picked it up, I was really happy. I was like, this is going to hit. This might become like a, like right now, you have nothing to lose.

If in the next year nobody picks you up, come over here. Let's talk. Because there's a way for you to do a fucking show of midnight by yourself and your kitchen. My kitchen. Eating, blending protein drinks, swinging kettle bells, going over baseball scores. This is an hour show if you want. You can have a guest and not.

You don't need a guest showing your cat, your dog pictures of your youth. Yeah, I've got all those. Talking to your mother on the phone. I do that today on my podcast. I don't even need to know. I know what's money for you. I know because I know you. Talk to a long today on the podcast.

I know you 20 years. I mean, right while you're talking to the fucking periscope, the phone rings. mom yeah what do you do what the fuck you think i'm doing mom i'm doing a podcast i told you that 20 times oh oh i thought you meant to call you at 1220 no because you're actually going to tell the call you at 1220 why call her for the podcast right tell her to call you and then what you call when she calls you insult her and she'll go no you told me 1220 mom please i'm doing a part why would i tell you to call me at 1220 embarrassing mom live it a little let me long i didn't tell you to call me yes you that's what you want, that confusion.

Yeah, I can do that. Yeah, yeah, torment it a little bit. Tell the call, and then hit it. It's like that Don Rickle story when he went over to the table and he saw Sinatra. He went over to Sanchez. Do me a favor. I'm having a tough time with this girl.

Come over and say hello after you finish. And Sanatra goes up and says, hey, man, how are you doing? And Don Rickle goes, Frank. What the fuck? Can't you see I'm eating? Yeah. I know that, Joe. That's fun of that story.

That's it, man. You know, you have a good. product. It's just getting out there and that's what nobody understands. You're not going to put your shit on YouTube. A million people are going to watch it. I wish it was that easy. I wish it was that easy. You have to give them a reason.

You have to give them a reason on Twitter and Facebook and Instagram and for them to go, hmm, when a chick pops up and goes, hey, click this link, I'm going to show you my pussy. How can you do that without showing somebody your pussy? Your pussy is your video

if you're doing eight minutes. the store at midnight. Yeah. How, that's the same American-Enginewiti that you have to figure it out. And how many times have both of you is clicked on to a chick that's luring you're on a clique? You both have.

At one time or another, you didn't know. Some hot Asian chick is like, click on my link, look at my pussy, and next thing you know, you're in fucking China at a knitting factory, a bunch of Chinese women singing communism songs and shit. We both done it. How did she get you to open that up? She got what we like.

It's like when I saw The Wrestler with Mickey Rourke. I knew about the wrestler nine months in advance. The producers did something to make me know that this movie was coming out in nine months. They planted the seed. It's the same thing with CDs or anything you're going to do. Hey, June 18th, I'm coming out with something. I planted the seed. I want people to go in there.

What's going to make them go in that calendar and circle the 18th? What would make you circle a date? The dentist, the doctor, or some chicken. sucking your dick or you having a gig for money. How can I get you to circle that number for a comedy show or... It's June 22nd, Amazon. Yeah.

You could pre-order it? It's the same concept, Lee. Always look at it that way. How can I get from you what I want? It's the same thing. Only without all the bullshit. They just make it so much bullshit for you to think it's a special thing.

It's not fucking special. We can all do it. chicks did it to us all the time. How do you remember to pick up a chick at 7.30 on the fucking Monday night? You've got a lot on your mind. You remember to pick her up at 7.30 because she's going to suck your dick. Oh, I missed that. Yeah.

She's got to circle the calendar. I'll circle. A calendar. Fuck, yeah. I'll do a circle. I'll circle jerk. The calendar. I know you will.

So June 22nd. What is it coming on? It's going to be on Amazon, June 22nd. Brody Stevens, live from the main room. And I'm happy with it. I haven't watched it, to be honest with you, like I said, for probably nine months. So I'm curious to see. I think it will hold up, hopefully.

And it's happening, whether I like it or not. And I do like it. So I think I can do, I've got to start promoting it a little more. This helps. I want to say thank you for that. Well, please do me a favor. You know, this guy's family. Pre-order the fucking thing.

What's going to cost you $2? Pre-order it, support Brody Stevens. He's church family. He's my family for 20 years. You guys know I love him. I called him up last week just to figure out what was going on. I hadn't seen him at the store

and one thing led to an hour and I wanted him to come back on the podcast. I know he lives close by and I know he does late spots. Fuck it's nice and cool. Well, I do a podcast in the daytime and sweat your ass off. We could do it on a night

at the cool fucking valley. I like it. We got the breeze coming in through the Coenga Pass. It's great to see you and it's great to see the damage you've done, even going back to the best dance sports show

when I would sit there at Rich Williams and listen to you fucking just make me how with those kids you would make me fucking how I would talk Rogan Rogan you got to see what he's doing over there and just that whole thing that whole experience I think I still

have that tape on me on the best damn sports show Tom Arnold's roast yeah do you remember that you know we roasted yeah I don't have that tape somewhere that was way before Longish Yard And I told Michael Lerman on that tape that we're going to work together pretty soon. You guys did?

And we ended up doing working together. I wonder when that fucking tape is not. People would die if there's a crook. Cruck, Bill Mar. Bill Maher. The lady who won, not Moisha, Monique. She won an Academy Award. You know who else was on that?

The girl who left us and went. to ABC Monday night football Lisa Guerrero? Yeah, where is she? She's like on Inside Edition. She's still out there. We're skinny fucking legs. Yeah, we've had

I mean, so many people through the best damn sport show and I think people are more nostalgic looking back at it. It gets a lot of love and you know, we were there. You were there crushing it live. These weren't tape pieces.

These are live to tape but you were doing it live right there in the middle of the show and that was always impressive to see. I mean, I was right there on the floor. Education. It was an education. I mean, they'd be over, you know, on their, in one side of the studio, maybe doing the news thing, and you'd be all the way over on the other side,

like, behind a, you know, in front of a green screen, just knocking it out, doing your stuff, or always, you know, really a pro there. So I saw that, you. And Lonnie Love was on quite a bit, so you guys were great. and the guests were awesome, and we were really on, you know, a ground floor of sports and comedy. And all those guys are still working.

Chris Rose is on, you know, MLB Network and everything. John Sally's got cannabis clubs everywhere. He's vegan. John Croc is doing Phillies broadcast. Michael Irvin. We had Michael Strayhan, Steve Harvey. Jeff Dunham. I brought that guy back.

You know, he was down. nobody was into him. And then George Greenberg, the producer, loved this Jeff Dunham puppet guy. And I would push those puppets. Push it. Push it. And next thing you know, this guy's... Because Jeff Dunham was successful at one point.

Then he went down low and then he came back. And I feel like Best Damn Sport Show, we got them back. We'd get those guys coming by to, like, rehabilitate their careers. Like Daniel Baldwin and, you know, Michael Irvin even had a lot of problems. They put them on there. And, you know, we had Stephen. A. Smith getting started. Jalen Rose. So many people that are still, all the guys with MLB on Fox, with A-Rod and all those guys doing the World Series. They're all from Best Damn Sport Show,

and they went to the NFL network. So, you know, I feel good about that. I feel, you know, a sense of pride that I brought the energy. You brought it. The guys on the show. And that's where I learned a lot of, you know, how important energy was. Because it was. affect the show. Do you get these kids, these inner city football kids, slouching? And I go, guys, we got to sit up. Let's go. I play baseball at Recita. You know, you've got to like talk back to them a little bit. And the kids would respond and the coaches loved it. Like you can really dig into these kids. And I go, you play football, right? You see Michael Irvin right there? He's got three Super Bowl rings. You want to meet them? Well, let's start picking it up a notch. Let's go. Energy

matters and like that would pump up the show. Same thing like at when I did warm up for Joe Rogan at the man show. You were on that and same thing. You know, Doug Stanhope was like pumping up the audience going for it and like believing it and being, I was really into the show. So, but I saw especially at Best Damn Sport Show how energy mattered, how caring mattered because I just saw the results. It was a, the show went on for a thousand shows and then I went to Chelsea and I did 400 there and I saw the results and I just try to show people that there is something to it. There is something there. You can tap into it. And I think like it's been harder. It's harder to get crowds to go with you on things like that. You can't yell at crowds anymore. You can't get on

them. They'll turn on you. You know, before you would say like guys, I'm busting my, I'm busting my ass up here. You got to help me out. I'm not making that much money. I park in the same lot with you guys. Let's go. Like now that they would. like fight back on you like that you're a teacher you're a cop you're an authority figure so the last few years i've been like budding heads that's why i've gotten out of warm up somewhat because it was just friction whereas i was at best am could really like not yell at the kids but you can shake them oh you were yelling at you would you would say shit from time to time you know you sitting here talking about best damn and the show with joe and stanhope just it just uh

strengthens what I was talking about that I saw you on this journey and you saw me on the same fucking journey every week on there here we are 20 years later in fucking North Hollywood in the fucking valley

you're home and I want to wish you the best of luck tweet it on June 21st and we'll retweet this I'll tweet it out remind the church family what's going on on on Instagram we'll have a one by one podcast and I want to thank you

And I want to thank you for being, growing up to being a fucking gentleman and believing in your thing, because you're still here. You could have quit a long time ago and went back to Seattle. I got a girlfriend and gave guitar lessons on Al-Qaeda Beach for the small 20. So thank you very much. I want to thank Lee Syap. Before I go, real quick, like I told you in the fucking beginning of the show, for your geese, there's only one place. And that's fuji sports.com. Why?

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