The Church of What's Happening Now: The New Testament - #805 - Dean Delray and the 40th anniversary of "Back in Black"

Episode Date: July 20, 2020

Dean Delray, comedian, actor, and the host of the "Let There Be Talk" podcast, joins Joey Diaz and Lee Syatt LIVE in studio to talk about the 40th Anniversary of the legendary AC/DC album, "Back in Black."  This podcast is brought to you by:   DraftKings - Download DraftKings Sportsbook now and use code CHURCH to get $1000 sign up bonus.     CBD Lion - For all of your CBD needs, from shatter to gummies, go to www.CBDLion.com and use code CHURCH for 20% off.     

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We're going in like fucking Marines. You understand? Welcome to church, motherfucker. Oh shit. Monday morning. One of my favorite brothers is on here tonight, the original Sunday Anarchy. Dean, motherfucking Del Rey. We're here to discuss something that a lot of people don't even know what's happening. I just realized I got a drunk message here tonight from a friend of mine.

I'm not going to say his name of many years. And this is what he said to me, Dean. He goes, Coco, man, I'm sitting here. I'm sorry. I don't know what time it is out there with those fucking crazy people. Because that's how he talks to me. He's like, Jersey ain't no fucking better.

I'm over here living with my fucking mother making fucking whatever working at Home Depot because I can't get a fucking job. He goes, but I got to tell you something. I got to tell you something that I'm never regret for the rest of my fucking life. Not going to see ACDC with you that fucking night. I fucking didn't have the money

because we went to get him. Yeah. You know that guy that said he was going to go? We went to get him and you threw rocks in his window. Oh, yeah. He didn't have the fucking... He didn't have the $15. Yeah.

And he didn't fucking go see AC, D, C, D.C that time. And he didn't really want to go. For him... For him to still hold it. Wow. And I was like, what is he talking about? And I hit him back the next morning. I go, what the fuck is your problem?

And he goes, oh, man, I'm sorry. What did I say to you? I was a little fucked up. I go, nah, you were talking about the ACD? She goes, remember that time when Brian Johnson took over? And I'm like, oh, my God. He goes, it's the 40th anniversary next week. I just heard it on somebody's was talking about it.

And he goes, I just realized how much fun you guys had had. Because the next night we fucked with him, like we tricked them and told them a bunch of lies. But it made me think about that night. And I go, I've never talked to Dean Delray about that. Yeah, we are. So let's educate the fucking. in public and explain to them what happened between, you know, like August of 79, what happened February 19th.

Yeah. And then for me, it was August 1st of 1980. For you was a couple weeks later. Yeah. Break it down. Well, you know, you got a record that comes out, Highway to Hell. And for a lot of people, ACDC was still an underground band, but the true rockers were on to Power Age. Sin City was the big

kind of, this is the tune. And they put out Highway to Hell with Bon Scott. They bring a new producer in, Mutt Lang, instead of the uncles. And this record sounds unbelievable, Highway to Hell. And then Bon Scott dies. And to me, back then, if a singer died, you were just like, well, that's it. they're done nobody

nobody got another sing I mean the momentum was just starting to happen big time people everybody started to know Highway to Hell and then it was just done how big was the highway the hell tour explain to people it wasn't it wasn't that big

I saw them with Ted New Jersey right it was big for me yeah it was big for me to see a guy take a guitarist on his shoulders and go through the orchestra section and sing and go through all all the way around during the song.

I had never seen that. I had never heard of that. At the time, I wasn't Johnny experiencing music. It's not like I had seen the doors or anything like that, but it was probably my fifth concert. And that made me, like, I went there to see Ted, but I left there a highway to D.C., a highway to hell fan.

Like, I left there an ACDC fan. Like, I went home until this day, it's still my best, I think it's the best one, two punch in music. touch too much and whatever, walk all over you and touch too much. That's the big, on any album, you know, any, any album, I think second is maybe Johnny Blade to Junior's eyes. I'll never say die. Just two songs that come at you that you're like,

what the fuck just happened to my hair? You know, what the fuck just happened? So take it from there. I'm sorry to interrupt you. No, it's true. It's just like Diary of a Madman, where you go over the mountain into flying high again. It's like, wow, Ozzy.

But, you know, they were big ACDC, but they hadn't done the big room in San Francisco yet, the Cal Palace or Oakland Coliseum. They did Henry J. Kaiser, which is kind of a smaller, I'd say, 7500 cedar. It's still there? It's still there. And that's where I saw Priest, Def Leopard, you know,

ACDC. It was just a smaller room before you went to the big one. But what was happening with ACDC that as an older adult now in the entertainment business and a look at it, they definitely had somebody behind them that was really working the machine because at the same time that was going, they shot that film, let there be rock. And that film, if you look at it, is so pro. and the sound and the look and everything and it was played in movie theaters. I mean, I was a kid,

bought a ticket and saw it in a movie theater. And so there was definitely somebody behind this band was starting to work at New Producer, radio hit with Highway to Hell, but still not giant yet. But really all the cool people were listening to ACDC, you know what I'm saying? So you had heard of them?

Because usually you didn't go see the opening band is what I've heard from you guys. Well, I had seen him like Joey open for Ted Nugent, but in 78 on the Power Age tour. I went to go see Ted Nugent. I didn't know any of the other bands on the bill, and I left that day a fan of everyone.

It was Cheap Trick, ACDC, Journey with Steve Perry just joined, Bloister Colt, Ted Nugent. That was the first time I saw ACDC, you know, and I was just kind of like, oh, wow, All these bands I listen to this day from that one show. But, you know, by the time I'm into ACDC from that day on, I'm a huge fan. I get let to be, or if you want blood, the live record, I'd just play it day in and day out.

So when Highway to Hell came out, I bought it immediately the day it came out. So, you know, I become a Bond Scott freak. Of course, because everybody liked Angus, but I was looking at Bond like, who's this guy? He was the first guy saw a tattoos in a band You know, he's up there no shirt on tattoos Big old fucking tattoos Which I read later he hated I got him in the merchant marines

I thought he got him because he was like I'm getting tattoos I'm a badass But he got him in the merchant marines He had a parrot A big old parrot on his arm So you know when he dies to me It's like well this is done I've told the story before

The radio got it wrong I was going to school. It came on the radio. This just in. Angus Young has died. An ACDC. My mom dropped me off at school. I was like, Angus Young died.

And then later on that night, I found out it was Bonn. And I had to look through the paper. The Chronicle, it was in the back. Little, little fucking thing. Bond Scott died like the next day. You know, I was like, well, Bon died. There was no internet or anything. It wasn't on the Channel 7 news.

He didn't care about ACDC. It wasn't like first story up. It was a dude in a band. So he's dead. And I'm like, wow, it's over. It really is over. You know, there's no way you're going to come back. There's no way you're going to get another singer and come back that just didn't happen back then.

You know, so in March, 26, Van Halen releases Women and Children First record. and I go, well, this is, you know, I loved them both. I go, this is the band now. Women and Children, incredible record. This is it. ACDCs is done. And there's no internet, like I said. So you're not hearing that they're looking for a singer.

I'm not hearing that at all. I'm not hearing they're working on a record. None of that. As a matter of fact, I looked it up, Joey, last night because you were saying, hey, you get your thoughts together on it. I don't even remember them announcing they got a new singer until about a week before the record was coming out. It was like, ACD's got a new singer and the record will be out next week. I'm like, new singer. This is insane, you know?

And I mean, just like now, you know, they would have done a documentary, the search for the singer. You would have saw a film on it. It would have been a million guys coming down. You would have been seeing all kinds of lunacy, terrible people, all that. But back then, nothing. And all of a sudden, I remember I was in Fresno. My dad lived in Fresno. And I heard on, there was a station of Fresno called KKDJ, rock station.

It was fucking great. They said ACDC's new album is out tomorrow. Get it in all stores. It's called Back in Black. I rode a bus for an hour. And this is funny to think about in Fresno. Fresno is gnarly. Here I am, I guess 13, 1980, 13 years old, rode a bus all the way to Tower Records on Blackstone Avenue in Fresno.

I walked in. There it was. They were playing it. You know, I go, oh, is this it? They go, yeah, this is it? I go, okay, here. And I just bought it. and I walked out, got on the bus, another hour ride home, just looking at it, no photos of the

band, it's inside, I didn't want to open it yet, just a black cover, the back, looking at the song titles. Got home, opened it up. I was weird because I would just take the shrink wrap and perfectly slice it so I had the shrink wrap so it wouldn't get trassed. It had that embosed cover, embossed cover, the letters. Open it up, slid it out. There was the photo.

the band, you know, different guy, there's Brian. Hat down. Can't see what he looks like. He had to hat down. Just like kind of, ah, I put it on. First song, Hell's Bells. I'm listening to it. And I thought about this Joey last night for you. I wish I had a time machine just to go into the state of mind of like,

it's completely a different singer. And it comes on, I go, oh, this is okay. And I listen to the next song. and then I listen to the next song you go, okay, okay, I play the record again, second time. Listen through, okay, I kind of like this song, yeah,

this one's good. I listen to it the third time. My dad's at work all day, I'm just playing it. I call a buddy, long distance call. You know, what do you think? I don't know, man, it's okay, it's good, you know?

And then the fourth time, I remember there's a song on there called, Let me put my love into you. Great guitar. Great guitar. And it was like a song that they had never done before. They'd never done a song like that. And I was like, I like this one in hell's bells.

And then from that day on, I listened to that record and women and children back and forth all summer. and slowly I was like this is a fucking masterpiece it became a masterpiece it's funny how

I thought of the two albums that became masterpieces right in front of me back in black the second death weapon oh high and dry that took a long time for it to catch five but when it took like eight months for it to get who releases an album

it either takes or it doesn't take. Right. They released it, went on the road, started blowing people out of water. You left there and you went to get the fucking out. Like I've seen, you know, British Steel launched Judas Priest. Elbet for leather knocked on the door. British Steel kicked the fucking door down and just said, listen, we'll, we're coming in with whips, motorcycles, steam, you know, it was just such a different time. Breaking the law. What was your guys emotions? Like, did you not want to like the album? No,

I didn't know what to think because, of course, I'm a Bond guy. But you're talking about a different vocal. And the genius was he didn't imitate Bond. So later on, of course, I become obsessed with ACDC. And I heard that maybe the Crocus guy was going to audition. And I thought, I'm glad he didn't get it because he sounded like Bond. They did a genius move, not. getting a bond sound alike.

I did read early on, you know, here's this guy that's from a band called Jordy. I never heard to know Jordy, and I'm a music freak back then. He was in a band Jordy. Bon Scott had seen him one night and told the band, fuck, I just saw one of the greatest singers ever. If I'm ever gone, you got to get this guy. Yeah. And he said, you're not going to believe this dude.

he's rolling around on the fore he's going crazy and when they talk to Brian about it he goes yeah what he didn't know my was I had appendicitis that night so he was on the floor because his appendix burst and he's singing like you know he didn't know what was wrong with him

he's just singing the gig but his appendix ruptured or whatever and so he was on the ground and Bond thought that was his thing how great is that but you know if you listen to jordy his other band he doesn't sound like the brian johnson of ac dc so there's some serious genius in there when they come in mutt lang i read something that mud lang worked with him fucking detail by detail yeah that mutt really i had never even known mutt was on that album oh my god i know mutt from like the deaf leopard albums right that i had no idea

that Mutt Lang was on that fucking album. But I heard, I read last night and the night before, just to be prepared for you that Mutt worked with him to have a specific sound, a specific, they worked really hard in the studio. I think I read it on Wikipedia. I think I read three different articles on Back and Black. Fucking all interesting.

The cover, they almost didn't release it. Right. The cover is black out of mourning for Blonde Scott. Of course. But the record label didn't want to release it because it was black. They said nobody would buy it. Nobody was going to buy it if it's black. And ACDC pushed, pushed, pushed, pushed, and they released it July 25th.

It's a shame that has been 40 years. Like, that's why I'm doing this podcast. It's like a fucking, like, a, I'm warning it. Like, it's been 40 fucking years of my life. Like, I left all. August 4th, 1979, and I ran home and bought Highway to Hell. I'm not going to lie to you. I did not have Highway to Hell before I saw it.

After the performance of him and the audience and going through and a whole lot of Rosie, all that shit, I fucking went. And my order was High with a Hell. Dirty Deeds? No. High with a hell. Let that be rock. and then I got Power Rage. Oh, yeah.

Power Rage really became, like, I would a hell was something, let there be rock is brilliant. But Power Rage was just something a little different. It's got two jams on there that I normally wouldn't like. It's not my style. He sold them to me. Yeah.

You know, get yourself a steady job. Some responsibility. Yeah, down payment blues. That is just brilliant. The lyrics, just the way he's sold. spitting them off. Can't even feed my cat. Social security. Hiding from the rent, man.

All this shit. It reflects of what's going on right now. Right. Sheriff knocking on my door. Ain't it funny how the time flies? Crazy. All that shit. I just fell in love with it, you know. So for me, it was like when Dio's wife

was in here, Ronnie James, God bless his soul. You know, a lot of shit happened. You and I were very lucky that we got to see three major changing other guards. We got to see Sabbath change guards, ACDC change guards,

and then Van Halen. Van Halen. I still remember being in Colorado, maybe 85. I was a kid. I was a baby. Yeah. And we used to have,

if you lived in, if you lived at the hotel, if you were security or, a valet, whatever, those people who carry luggage. If you lived in an employee housing, you had to share a kitchen, and you had to share a living room. And we were all kids in there.

Like, I was 21 or something. The girl I was with was 21. The other guy was 24. And then there was that one loser. That was 40. Yeah. And he was still a bell man. He was like, hey, man, this teenager job.

I still remember that dude. Yeah. I still remember his first name. It was like Brian. And I remember that we were all watching, like, Michael Jordan fucking somebody up. Like, it was one of those days when Michael Jordan was on fucking fire. Yeah. I think he was still in Chicago.

I don't even fucking know. Yeah, he was still in Chicago. He was either in Chicago or North Carolina. I just know we're watching basketball because the dude I hung out with was from North Carolina. So that's all he talked about. Like, you couldn't even bring it. He only talked about North Carolina basketball, Coke, and pussy. That's all he talked about.

Ma'am. Man. And he was always. One of those guys, you're like, you got nothing else, huh? I love him. Yeah, yeah. He was one of my closest buddies. Him and his brother were my closest buddies.

They were dynamite. But there was this loser guy that nobody kind of like. When you're 21, when I was 21, if you were 28, you were an old man. Like, absolutely. What are you talking to before, bro? Go get a fucking job. Like, when I was 21, I would look at all the guys, like, what are you doing here? All the time.

I'm over here trying to talk to this 22-year-old, and you're breathing down my neck. What's the matter with you? Taking somewhere else, all right? You fucking, like, if I saw a 30-year-old, my blood pressure would boil. Yeah. When I was 21, and I was a bar, I was talking to 22-year-old chicks, and I saw you there with your greasy hair, talking about your car, Now you're a real estate agent. We'd just fuck you up when we were kids.

You were usually to get robbed. We'd take you a while. I love you had rules back then. Yeah, there was rules. Yeah, the only older guys around would be an older brother. They would be an old man's bar. They were known as old men bars. Yeah, yeah.

Why are you here? And then they come up to you. You like Jimmy Page? No. I don't like Jimmy Page. You're too old. Take the football shirt off and go be a father somewhere, all right? Go bother somebody.

Oh, starting quarterback. You have no idea. like how I see myself now. Like how I see myself, like when I walk into a place, I'm that old creepy fucking man. So when kids come up to me, they're like, hi, Mr. Diaz, we like to take a picture with you. I'm like, are you fucking crazy?

Your mother taught you not to talk to people like me. That should be number one in your fucking mind. Because when I was 21, if you were 28 and I was at a bar and you came up to me and talked to me about something, I like, look at you like, like Val Kimmel. Look at that guy in that. and heat. When that guy spoke out of place,

I had to kill him. I had to kill him. I was like, Val just didn't even say a word. Val said like four words in heat. He didn't have to talk. He just looked at you. So it was one of those ago,

but I never forget this idiot. Like, we're all watching it. He's like, so who else is excited about Sammy Haygard? Singer with Van Halen? We all looked at him, looked at each other, and looked back to the TV. Like, it was like one of those. Like, you're too old.

Yeah, you're 38. Just trying to fit in with something like that. Yeah, like, I hated that shit. When you were older and you were trying to fit in. Like, I could see you being younger and trying to go up. But you're trying to work backwards. Don't work with me. Get the fuck out of here.

Get your time machine and go fuck yourself. It's funny. Just people like, even when you're like 20, someone 25 just seems old. Yeah. This guy doesn't know, man. You don't know music. You know what I mean? You don't know music.

You're 25. That's so funny, right? Now I'm 54. I'm talking music for a living. Oh, where is? It's really, I love, that's the only thing I've loved about this quarantine is that I really got to re-vigorize my music scene a little bit.

It was getting a little stale on my own. I had to reach out outside my normal, comfort zone. I mean, I even listened to Johnny Cash live from Folsom, whatever. I mean, I did that many different things at night, like just to switch up the nights because I get so fucking bored at night.

Unless there's something good on TV that I haven't watched or something. I'll look at the TV like at six if I don't see any. I didn't even know there was a fight on on Sunday night on Saturday night. I never even know what day it is. Yeah. At all. I don't know none. The only that's keeping me

sane, really, is kind of music. Like, I told you, we fell in love with Jara Flies. Ah, so great. Allison Chains. Speaking of that, the producer of Allison Chains' name is, his name is, oh, God, I'm trying to blank right now. Dave Jordan, Dave Jordan did my podcast. He was working in the studio on another record where A.C. DC DC DC was doing back in black in the Bahamas.

The Bahamas, yes. And you ran into Mutlang in the kind of the, you know, the kitchen area. It's all, hey, what are he working on? He's, I'm working on the ACD's new ACDC record. And he said, the singer died, right? And he goes, yeah, they got a new singer. You want to hear it? Dave Jordan told me the story on my podcast.

He went in there. And he said they fired up a track. and he was like, wow, this is going to be fucking huge. Like, he was the first guy to hear it. I couldn't even imagine what that would be like. The band's in there, they're tracking. How do you want to come in and hear a track? That's just a head explode to me.

So that was a question I had for you guys. And obviously, you can't be like, oh yeah, in 40 years it's still going to be big. But when you were listening to it, you think, this is a song I'll listen to forever. this is a classic because some songs you listen to and they've gone in six months but then some songs will be played forever.

The song gets played every day on the radio. Well, to me that goes back to the mystery too of I don't know what kind of machine was behind them but the way they were releasing these singles over a year period

and they shot five videos for it all in the same day you know, the way they released this in the game plan of this record, it brought on the longevity because I'm not a shook me all night long guy now, but by the time they drop that tune, it grabs the entire planet. And you know you've got a classic tune. This tune was a hit, hit tune, you know? That thing, you hear it right now every day.

Shook me all night long? Oh, my God. So, I mean, when I heard it, I knew that I was going to be listening. to hell's bells, at least that song for the rest of my life. I think it's one of the most brutal, brutal songs ever recorded. I think that's one of the hardest

parts I'm having with my age and my time on this planet that you don't have serious in the car. It comes with the car. It's not like I'm a I know anything to get serious. It's my most enjoyment that I have

is that serious. I love it. Because I listen to five or six stations. I'm locked into lithium. You know, I'm locked into whatever metal, Air Nation. Ozzy's Bornyard. I'm locked into classic 80s or something like that. You know, I'm logged into all these different things, and I just go.

Lee has been the car of me. I know all the stations. I just go. I just go. I love them. And it's until I find something. And you hear those songs. Whether it's, you shook me all night long.

The song that broke me recently, about six months ago, was on the way to the store one night, coming back up Laurel Canyon and hearing, Don't You Want Me Baby by... Oh, yeah. Don't you want me, baby. Listen to that song. How many times does it play every day?

I still remember being at a club in New York City, which was a big deal for a guy like me back then, that summer of 82 when that song came out, and me having a crush on a girl, and her going to get drinks for us. And she was walking, dancing to that song, and I remember like I fell in love. And in that car that night on the drive home,

I was like, Jesus Christ, did I know then that I would be listening to this? 40 fucking years from now, 38 years. I'm sorry. Sorry about that. 38, 37. years ago. It's crazy. Yeah. You know, when I was

growing up, you heard music from the 50s. Okay. Do do, do, do, do, do the night. Bebob. And Elvis. Chuck Berry. That was old to me. That was as old as I went. When I listened to Chuck Berry and what's the, Arita Franklin. You know, when I was a kid, my mom.

had all that shit at the bar, R-E-S-P-E-C-T and all that. Yeah, I lit... But 50s music was what I was listening to in the 70s, you know? That was as back as I went, you know? Yeah, you don't go past that. You don't go past that.

You don't go past that. You didn't go past that. That big band stuff. Yeah, I didn't go past that. I didn't go back. It's like till till the... Now I'm a little bit mature, but there was a time

when something was black and white, I wouldn't fucking even consider it. like my favorite Martian has color episodes. Yeah. And black and white episodes. Like at one point they switched, like, we're coming to you in color.

Well, now you got me. Yeah, yeah. Black and white shit spooks the fuck out of me when I was a kid. Oh, my friend's dad,

he refused to, because he goes, we paid for a color TV. Yeah, yeah. We ain't watching black and white. Yeah. Wow. Like now,

you've got to eat your words because... I love black and white. The only black and white I would swallow was I love Lucy. Oh, I love Twilight Zone. Yeah, and in the Twilight Zone. Lost in space?

I looked the other way. You know what I'm saying? Lost in space, you're not going to... Leave it to Beaver? No, I don't... All right, I'm going to lie. Barney Five? Andy...

Andy... Yeah, those black and white. But anything else? No, and then as I got old, I had to go, when I started acting, I went back and looked at all like the... Fucking Rick Ramos made me look at all the... But, hey, yeah.

When he was a gangster, you know. Oh, James Cagney. Unbelievable. White heat. I started watching those, like in 98, 99. I started watching those. And again, you know what? I appreciate him from time to time.

I just don't want to see him all the time. Like, jailhouse rock is black and white. If you don't watch jailhouse rock, just put a gun in your mouth. Move to Portland and put a gun in your mouth. All right. I'm not an Elvis guy. Really? No.

Listen, bro, there's a part of Elv, there's a little, little part of Elvis that, look, you know, the United I was watching the autopsy of James Brown. That was brilliant. Wow. That motherfucker died and left his money to charity, left the white wife. Yeah, you cut them all out. Yeah. They're at a table like, they couldn't believe it.

He's like, I leave my $20 million. They're like, yeah. To charity. To a bunch of African-American kids, I don't know. Yeah. Boys and Girls Club of America. You little black motherfuckers get your ass together. And you, you white ho, with that little black kid,

you should be ashamed of yourself. Your mama should have raised you better. Get out of here. They threw her off to your state. He cut everybody off. But the truth is Prince Michael Jackson. Everybody robbed from James Brown. Not robbed.

I'm not saying robbed. Just Bob. Influenced. They influenced. You know what I'm saying? Elvis. Yeah. Of course.

A ton of people. I get it. Well, this. Was the hero the most? But he never meant shit to me because he is straight out racist, simple and plain. Motherfucking him and John Wayne. Fucking Joe. They fuck, they motherfucker John Wayne 30 years ago.

I know. Now they're shooting John Wayne. He said, how can you get canceled when you're dead? That's the one that really fucking kills me. Like, you're dead and you get canceled? When does it end? How fucking retarded are you? You know what I'm saying?

Poor Nick Cannon's over there with fucking with John Wayne. He's at the cemetery right now looking at him going. How does this work? Man. Poor Nick Cannon. You know, I know Nick Cannon since he's a fucking kid. I know him since he's a baby sitting outside. We know with his parents waiting for him to be allowed into the improv.

You know, listen, Lee, there's so many anti-Semitic motherfuckers out there. You know it. Yeah. You know they fucking... I didn't know what's such a big thing. I didn't know what's such a big thing. I don't think he hates anybody. I just think he said something the wrong fucking way.

And if you guys have been paying attention that happened to somebody you'd know to, you said something the wrong way. But to take away everything for that, you leave him with a show that nobody wants to see. What good is that? That show Bailey, the headless singer. I don't want to watch that show.

That's what you watch in prison. That's when you watch and you're in prison. I didn't even know. You got excited. about that. The fucking headless fucking... The mass singer. The mass singer. All right. It's time for the mass singer. I would love to watch the headless singer.

Yeah. That would be a great job. That's what I want to watch. I'm sorry. Keep going, Dean. Yeah, well, uh, uh, you know, I think it was funny because you and I were talking, I looked up when I saw him, ACDC, and it was, you saw him

a few weeks in. I saw them the second night of the tour. Right. Well, They started July 31st from Philadelphia. Right. On a Thursday, we saw them Friday night at the Palladium on a Friday. I saw them, which is hilarious. So check this out. I looked it up, Joey.

So they started, they did a quick run in Germany, like a warm-up run. It was like eight dates. Then they did like six dates in Canada. And then they dropped. down and they did Pennsylvania, then Philly like you said, and your date was the third date.

Palladium. I didn't see him until September 5th. So they had been cruising around America and they came to San Francisco and did the Cal Palace. And this was what's really crazy, Joey. I was so young at the time.

They did two nights. They did the Cow Palace and the next night they did the Henry J. Kaiser, which is way smaller, the same place they played on Highway to Hell, I would have loved to see them at that fucking place. CalPas is iconic

and epic, but the Henry J. Kaiser was half the size. I never knew until about a year ago when I looked up the entire back-and-black tour. It was wild. Now, I looked at your set list. I wanted to see how much they were changing

off of the set list. How crazy is this? Thirty-eight years later, 40 years later, we'll find, we can find the set list of fucking toys. It's great. I fucking love this. How many nights did they do in New York? They only did one night.

I looked it at. A Friday night. Here it is. It's August 1st, 1980. A Friday night. And you got Track 11, song 11 in the set, Rocker, which I had never

seen Brian Johnson sing a rocker ever so early on they were probably trying the set list working tunes in some bond songs call out the set list here's your set list hell's bells they opened every show with hell's bells it had the bell tremendous then they went into shot down and flames hell ain't a bad place to be problem child back in black bad boy boogie okay i'll tell you on your podcast what happened during bad boy. Okay, sounds good. Timmy Holloway. Yeah. He's going to fucking love it because he's going to fucking chime

in. Okay. Highway to hell. What do you do for money, honey? High voltage, whole lot of rosy, rocker, T&T, let the be rock. It was only a 13 song set, but remember they had all the guitar solas and everything, so it's a long show. Yeah.

Now, the interesting thing on this tour was it's one, um, two, Only three songs from the new record, which is pretty wild from back and black. Now, by the time they get to me, they do all the same songs you got, but I got, which is really cool, is I got TNT, which is pretty cool, and shoot the thrill. So they add another song in from the new record.

you know so it's uh it's pretty interesting to look at this and i looked at the the two setlets from the bay area they switched one song they did the jack the next night and instead of the jack i got a bad boy but or t-n-t so pretty wild to look at crazy what's really crazy though you had to go to the show to see what he sounded like on the bond scott stuff see that was the test you know he opened with hell's bells you're like this stuff you're like this is fucking great. Are they only going to play that back and black record? Nobody knew. Do they just play that

record or what are they doing? But no, they do hell's bells and then they go right into Shotdown and Flames. And you're like, all right, he sounds a little different on this. You know, so you're hearing the bond stuff for the first time live, but it's fucking loud. It's rocking.

And people are going crazy. And eventually, you know, he starts to get the bond stuff pretty damn good. You know, there's nothing I love more and I appreciate it more as a comic and I appreciate it more now as a non-comic because now that we're comics

and we're not doing comedy you look at comedy a little different when you watch it that's the other thing I've been doing I've been dipping into the old guys I liked and watching their sets a little bit of Kennison fucking Rogan's podcast with Bob Saggit was just brilliant

did you listen to it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was just, you know, I talked about Bill Burr, bombing in Philly. But he really... Sagitt had that Kinnison stuff. He had all that Kinnockeye stuff. Rodney stuff. Rodney had the weed and everything.

Oh, my God. He was saying some wild shit. So I went back and looked into all that. And you, you know, you look at the presentation. Like, how... I love to be sold, bro. I love for a comic. I love for a...

band. I love for a woman. I love for a man. I love for people to sell me. I always have. Not with a gun, but with their artistic freedom, you know, like. But when you over, you mean? To win me over. That's what I'm saying. I, you know, I've said it on this show a thousand times. The, of who I leave the house to do comedy. From 2001, I started doing this, because the only way you could get good as a comic is for cheering for your They're cheering for comics. Once you really start cheering for comics, you'll start growing. Once you really tag on one comic, I'm going to follow this guy.

I like his style. I'm going to see what he does. And you start managing his career in your mind, you know. But I still remember watching comedy and them winning me over. You know, Brian Johnson, Ronnie James D.O., Sammy Hagar, you know, we would go getting, you know, opening bands. I had been so used to getting one over. I liked getting one over. You know, I liked Michael Jackson when I went to see him.

When I left there, I left there. We're going, you know what? Man, that motherfucker is a bad motherfucker. Say what you want. You know, in 1984, I could lie to you and make up whatever fucking story you want. Yeah. I heard, I had whatever, 1999, whatever, little Rick Corp. I don't even know what I heard.

Yeah. I wasn't a Prince guy. The fucking song came out. My friend asked me to go see him. When I left there, I left there a fucking Prince fan. You understand me? Yeah, that's the best. It didn't matter.

It didn't fucking matter what he was playing. I could put him up against anybody. Like, I knew when I left Prince in 1984, I could put him up against anybody. Like, that guy right there. Yeah. That little black dude, I could put him up to James, I could put him in the room with Glenn Tipton. The best. Like, I knew it when I left that day.

He sold me. He told me everything he had to tell me. When I went to see the B-52s, the guitarist that died, the one that's on the first two albums, he fucking sold me. Eric Clapton sold me. You know what I'm saying? Tony I owe me.

Jesus Christ. First time I saw Tony I own me, I thought my fucking head was going to explode. And the second time it was even better, because I knew the catalog. I knew what was coming at me. I knew the depth, the different chords. You know, like when you, there's, There's something about seeing a bad.

And now I appreciate, I fucking hate it. I fucking hate it. When you fucking go to Dayton. And you fucking go to Dayton, Ohio, and you lay your fucking soul on the line for a weekend. And then your fucking agent books you in Columbus three weeks later. And you don't know it's three hours from Dayton. You're finding out when you land.

Yeah. You're only an hour and a half from Columbus. And you're like, what? I was just there. Yeah. And when you walk off stage, you had a great set, but somebody comes up to you and says, hi, oh my God, we went to see you and dating three weeks ago,

and you're like, fuck, fuck. They saw me doing the same fucking material. Now I get it. Now I'm not man anymore. Yeah. Now I get it because guys like you and I, you know, as I started getting older, I started catching bands twice on a tour.

Always. Always. Twice on a tour. Like, you get hip to the, they're coming back to Philly in six months. I'm missing it. And I would jump on the Philly wagon. And you go and you see what they replaced,

what they didn't, you know. Totally. My first Ozzy show was at the Palladium. My second Ozzy show was at the Nassau Coliseum with a fucking castle. Yeah. You know, with a fucking castle. Yeah.

Diary of a Madman. It grew that much For fucking one year Yeah It was four dirty white dudes With a Cuban Three dirty white dudes and a Cuban Yeah

On stage That's it No visuals No nothing Just rock So he came back A year later With a fucking castle

Lasers Lasers A fucking midget With a hump On his back Like that Yes buff Whatever

That's it The lasers That was it The lasers would spin And say Ozzy Ozian It was fucking craziness So now

I understand when people would come to see me in Dayton. And then three weeks later, they would go, oh, we came to see you. And different orders, too. We do different orders and shit. However you feel, you walk on and you go, oh, shit, I open with this tonight, you know. I'll tell you what, Joe, I read a crazy story on Brian Johnson's audition. Hit me. So his manager calls him and says,

ACDC's auditioning some people in London. They want you to come down. He's got no money. None. He's singing in this band, Jordy. He's got nothing. He goes, I'm not going out there. It's like an $18 ticket or something, a train ride.

I don't have $18. The manager goes, I think I can get you a commercial singing a commercial. I think it's for Hoover Vacuums. It just came out a month ago. Somebody found it. He goes, so you'll go out, you'll sing the commercial, you'll make some money, and then stop in and do the audition. He goes, ah, fuck it, I'll do it then, you know, or else he wasn't going to go. If he didn't have that commercial, he wouldn't have gone.

He didn't have the money for a train ticket. To this day, do you know anybody else they auditioned? I don't. I don't. Like, that's what I would, like, people always say, that's what I want to know. People always go, what would you pay for? Like, what type of content would you pay for? You know what kind that would pay for?

The guitar auditions for Ozzy Osbourne, Blizzard, of Oz. Oh, yeah, yeah. Because it was Michael Shankner. Yeah, I know. It was a bunch of savages that came into that audition. Supposedly, he called Shankner a Nazi. And Shankner ran out of that. Fucking Nazi and saying shit in German to him.

You know, I want to see those auditions. What's that movie when, you know, was based on Judas Priest? Rock star. Rock star. Yeah. Marky Walberg. I love that movie. I love that movie.

It's great. I love that movie. Yeah. You know, I love that fucking movie. I love how you had to go in and adjust. And, you know, that type of stuff has always made my dick hard. Why did you go with him? You know, this guy left.

You replaced him with that guy, you know, that type of shit. It's funny how if you go online and look deep, you could see the first singer, Black Sabbath had before Ozzy, before Ronnie James Dia. Oh, yeah. It was God off. It was like two of them. It was God awful. Paul Walker or something.

Paul Walker. Something weird is his name. Yeah, yeah. Walker. Yeah. It is God awful. There's two songs on that. On YouTube, you got to look.

Whoa, I haven't heard that. Really close. Yeah, they had a, Savoy Brown. Wow. Oh, that guy. He was a singer from Savoy Brown. He was, like, Sabbath. He did like two songs, and they had a meeting.

Listen, here's a doll. You don't come back. here's a dog The train station Go over there where they hit people With X handles Down the corner Go over there

And take the train home Am I still on the band? Yeah, yeah, yeah We'll call you It's like the guitar player Yeah And Motley crew The Chubby dude

The first guy When Mick Mars Oh, I love that one Yeah You're out of here You're out of here Yeah You're fucking crazy

I started that poor guy Where is he to them I know He's banging his head on a wall You know The Chinese guy In Sound Garden That quit

After the first the bass player. The bass player. He's great. Yeah, he must be banging this awful wall. Dude, that guy was fucking phenomenal, man. Oh, I'll tell you another funny story is, you know, those guys

they fucking, they go out there, they get him in the band, and then he's got to move out there. You know what I mean? They didn't even got any money to move at the time. It's not like they're loaded, you know? No, even Rudy has told their stories. Yeah. When he came out with Randy Rhodes,

and they put them up in a hotel. Yeah. It was, you know, it's like us being comics. Yeah. The first time you go on the Tribble Run, you know, for two years, you've been doing shit places. Your buddy Agostino calls you for the backyard. Yeah.

You know, Steve Simone calls you for this. But now, you go on the Tribal Run, and you got your own hotel room every night. And you feel fucking invincible. You know, you just feel, it's touring, man. Yeah. It's all part of it. You know, you go out there.

You go on different hotels in the trip, Runds, they're fucking dumps. Look for the worst hotel in town. That's where you're staying on the Trouble Run. Yeah. The doors don't lock. The water's cold. Bedbugs city.

Yeah, the bedbugs. The windows are broken. Like, I can't imagine going on a Trouble Run now. I can't imagine doing all the dates on a motorcycle now like I did. You know, I think about that all the time of like, man, I was riding in the freezing cold or the boiling heat or the fucking sandstorms. doing date I mean I can't even imagine that now

How have you felt lately How is your my next feeling pretty fucking good You're your mental state With all that's going on Comedy It's been three and a half months for you also I know you keep in touch of Mark And Bill and stuff

How is it going in your world? That's fucking horrible I can only play it off so much You know It's just I mean I'm alive I've got my health and there's people that are way, way bad, but I'm not going to lie, man, it was my life.

And it's just gone. It's completely gone. So I sit home a lot of nights and think, wow, what am I going to do? I love my podcast. And so I'm throwing all my energy and creativity into my podcast and my Patreon people. I'm doing live zooms with them. and that's really helping me as much as it's helping them. You know, Saturday night I do Zoom Fest instead of Ari Shroomfest.

And I get the Patreoners up there and we do shit like this. I'm going to start Zoom on Patreon also. I love it, man. I think it's a good idea. Yeah. It's good for me. It's good for them. I think that, you know, there's people that aren't seeing people.

You know, they're going to work and talking to coworkers. Right. And it's great. You talk on the phone and stuff. Listen, I try to check in with as many people as I can. But I also in a way, try to check in social distance if I can with people. Oh, yeah. Just to see somebody.

Yeah. Even with a mask on, we're cool. You know, we're cool. You know, I think it's when you gather. I think that's the big thing. That's the problem. I think that's the problem. But I'm not a scientist.

I don't know. I don't know if I'm avoiding it. I am. in a great position that I could avoid it. I pray for people. You know, if you go to In-N-Out burger, look at those huts. There's no social distancing in that hut.

No. You're going to eat a Corona burger once a year from your own burger. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's semenant. Yeah. One day some guys are going there at 10 the morning, chop up onions. Totally.

He's going to say something to Lee. Hey, what's up? How was the movie last night? You're in the hut, this big, cooking for eight hours. Oh, yeah, man. Once you get that Corona burger going in the evening, Yeah, that's going to spread like fucking contamination.

Yeah. And I'm not putting them down. I'm not saying nothing bad about in and out. I'm just, you know, when I drive past there, because the goodwill is over there. Yeah. So whenever I turn around, and the goodwill is fucking closed.

It is closed. I can't believe it. It's close. Yeah. I went over there that dumb shit off again. I closed. Yeah. So I had to take it to a different men shelter.

It's fucking crazy. Yeah. Shit's fucking closed, man. Are you, what do you see? I mean, what do you see for the comedy in the next six months? Do you see yourself flying? Do you see yourself driving? I really don't.

I really have no idea. As much as I, look, it's easy for me to do comedy right now. I talk to you about it. You pull up behind, say, the Bray Improv. You walk through the kitchen, you walk on stage, you do your set with, your microphone, you walk out and you wait in your car for the next show. That's easy to do to stay safe. To me, it's more about the fans. I can't imagine they're going so crazy. They want to get out of the house that they're not thinking and the venue maybe is not thinking all the way

together, bathrooms, the line, everything. And then they get in there and somebody gets sick and, you know, dies or something, I just, I just couldn't live with that. You know, I just, you know, it's like, so as much as I want to do comedy and I want to help the people, you know, besides doctors, comics are the next people that everyone looks at to help them mentally and, you know, when they're in a bad state, when America's in a bad state, when 9-11 happened and everybody was like, whoa, comics helped, you know, when, when something Something tragic happens. Comedy helps ease it.

It's right after doctors in my eyes. And here we are, these guys that have been doing this for years and we can't help people. So it's horrific to me that we can't, and I'm not going to do a Zoom show. It just, it doesn't, so I've rather just Zoom hang.

I'm not going to do Zoom comedy. It's just not. No, it's not. I'll Zoom hang. A Zoom hang is, it's fantastic. I'll zoom. I'm thinking about it. Just to get to know people.

Yeah, and they laugh. They love and they love it. It's a fucking half hour of your time. You know, mercy goes to bed at 9, where my wife goes to bed at 9.30. Perfect. I'm alone. Yeah.

I'm alone. So I write, you know, I try to fucking stay away from the TV as much as I can. I don't know. I have just, between the TV, the other day, I saw something. that was so fucking bad on Twitter I almost canceled my account

Wow Somebody on Twitter wrote That on July 30th All the benefits were going to run out And he couldn't wait So you could see a bunch of fucking assholes Dry up like a SpongeBob Like SpongeBob

Or something like that And I looked at the guy's name It was a real account Yeah And I'm like, what would make somebody Right that? How fucking miserable People wish

And ill on other people? So that's evil. There's evil in the end. I'm scared of two things by going on the road. Number one, obviously, corona spreading. Correct. And number two, the uncertainty. As Americans, we're very uncertain right now.

We're having issues, you know, I don't know what you're thinking. You know, you might seem great to me, but you haven't paid rent in four months. Right. And the sheriff's knocking out of my door, ain't it funny? How's the time flies? Yeah. You know, I don't know what you're going to be. you're going through.

Yeah. You know, these people, uh, I know, I know it's the fucking 20th of the month. And I've been seeing moving trucks. I rode the bicycle on Saturday and Sunday, and I've been seeing moving trucks.

So what is that telling me? People are abandoning the shit. That's the, that's the number they're not giving you. The people that leave in L.A. Because Lee and Steve Simone saw moving trucks three a day. Yeah. All the fucking June and,

July, you know. What I don't understand nobody's talking about is this entire city is built on the business. The cameraman, the set carpenters, the makeup people, the extras, the script writers. And

that's zillions of jobs. No one's working. It's about to just completely buckle. And people are like, well, when's the clubs opening back up? Oh, it drives me crazy. I'm like, what it drives me crazy? What are you talking about? People don't have jobs right now, man.

It drives me crazy. Like, there's a limit you could push. Yeah. There's a limit you could push. You know, like I said before, when you drive down Melrose, it's going to take two years. For me to see, remember the night that the guys from that company came and we did dabs with them and the restaurant was packed behind us? Do you remember what night I'm talking about? On the improv?

Yeah, Melrose. You know, I want you to close your eyes and think about that night. We crossed the street on Melrose. He took out a fucking torch, and we started dabbing with those... Gumi's or Manos. Those Gumi's or Manos. My Peter, the Gumi's and his brother came down here.

And I was thinking about that. And Lee and I, and those four guys, they're two wives and six fans. You know, we went across the street, and everybody was smoking pot. You know, I think I had done a spot there. Like, I was just doing a spot. there right but how busy was the place Lee the parking lot was busy oh yeah then there's a

restaurant across the street yeah bigos redos yeah those torches yeah yeah and we were they're gone lee and i were 20 feet from there fucking blowing fucking that dab smoke i then i did one dab but i fucking went deaf and i'm like the same for me you know what i'm scared of the fire and shit yeah but i just take my mind to that and go okay that was like that like that was like Like a soft night in Melrose. That was like a Thursday night. We had a lot of fun. We were home by 11.

But what I'm trying to say is there was action. When will I see that action again? All right. So now you've got to definitely think November until after the election. Right. Right? We're already talking about the election. But then you're looking at cities like Philadelphia

have canceled entertainment until March of 2021. That's nuts. You know, you know how many cities are going to jump on board with that? Like no entertainment until fucking February. That's exactly one year. That's exactly one year. Well, that spot was March 12th. Yeah, my heart goes out to the club in Philly.

Oh, helium. Helium. My heart goes out to him. He called me a few weeks ago. He was doing a contest, like a comedy contest and stuff like that. That closed for a fucking year. By the way, I want to give a big shout out to Jimmy's seafood. I took an edible one night with Lee and I got fucked up.

And I was craving. fucking crab cakes. That's one of those nights. You got to take the credit card away from me. And I bought some crab cakes online. My wife, I woke up the next day. And they fucking hooked me up. Jimmy's crab cake is in Baltimore.

They're fucking tremendous. When I went to Baltimore, I actually went there. They're good friends at Ryan Sickler. And let me tell you something. Their delivery comes like a day later. But they hooked me up with some crab soup, which I ate the other night when I had the edibles

with a bunch of saltine crackers. They got fucking the best crab cakes. Fucking better than Phillips. Fuck Phillips. It's Jimmy's crab cakes, bitches. Go to Jimmy's seafood. Jimmy's seafood. That's Jimmy's seafood.

But they got the best crab cakes. Don't forget the tacos, too. The fucking tacos. What's their name? 1986 tacos. I saved mine. I got another one over there. And they're huge fans of you.

Oh, I love them. I'm going to have to stop in there. Victor and. joy you go in there fucking like eight times a week i know i told them i was like i got to get out of here i i want to turn into a block and they have the plate and everything they got like the rice and bean plate no they don't fuck around it straight tijuana style taco casidia and the vampiros or whatever yeah they don't fuck what's a vampireo it's like uh it's like a like a tortilla then the meat and then almost like a sandwich and then another

tortilla. Something like melt cheese on top right? Yeah, they did. I had somewhere else. Yeah, yeah. And then they got the Topa Chico and they got the fucking, um, they got a secret menu too. Uh, if you say, give me the one, the

secret one with the beans. They'll do the tacos with beans and that's so good, man. Oh, love it. I've checked them with you every day during this quarantine. I love it for it. I love it for you. You've made me smile because I know how I've been feeling some points. Some days at 2 o'clock, you just look at that sun and you're like, what the fuck?

What the fuck is going on? Where's Brody? Yeah, where's the rope at? Where Brody leave his rope at? Fuck, man. This is terrible. Yes. I mean, this is fucking horrible.

And like I said, you know, my wife is, uh, she's already started to fucking. process man we're getting the bank loan the whole fucking day i can't believe you're moving man yeah we don't know way yet but i told you that i said you came over i told ian edwards's story i go joey called me and when he

calls me it says where are you at i'm coming by he never comes by you know what i'm saying he never comes nice something's up so i go downstairs i meet out front you pull out you get out of your car and you go we're out of here dean

and I said, what? I didn't understand what your time. Yep, we're moving. And I was like, whoa. But I get it. I said this about 100 times this week. If everything in L.A. that we love, that makes it worth the highest gas in America,

the highest car insurance, the highest rent besides New York and San Francisco, If everything is gone that we love, it's a level playing field now. Every city is the same. Now you've got to find a spot that's cheap that you enjoy being inside. Now it is about the house or the apartment you live in. It's not about the city or the town because you're going to be inside because there's nothing going on. So it's a level playing field.

I looked up gas prices in Arizona. dollar 82 i looked up gas prices in new jersey 148 i looked up you know what i'm saying gas prices here four dollars so you can go somewhere yeah i live here because i absolutely love it the weather my friends and in the stores and the and the and the clubs and the rock and roll i love everything about it but if it's all gone i need to live somewhere where it's uh it's cheap and like i said it's a level playing field now every city's the same every city's the same some have snow some have fucking

tornadoes tornadoes have a lot of homeless yeah some have uh it's just and i'm not you want me tell something like i had to write it out i'm not even sad about leaving right there's one thing i'm sad about yeah you know he's 82 oh he's been living with cancer for 10 years but you guys you guys I got to remember when I moved here, the plan was to fail, pack my stuff. Stop over by him, stab him in the heart, and then get in the car and move to New Jersey. It took me 25 years to come up with the courage to apologize. Yeah. I didn't apologize to a lot of people.

It took me 25 years to the date almost. 25 years in a month and I got a call in 2009 2009 what's 24 84 yeah 84 yeah 2009 I got a weird call

for a movie that actually paid yeah like it was like that after the writer strike there were all $100 a day movies yeah but I got a call to read in Malibu and I fucking went to Malibu Melibu, what a whole.

What a weird way to read. Yeah. That's the first time I ever read for this, chick. Yeah. And I went out there and read for it, and then I'll drive back. I go, I know this spot. You know, like, I fucking know this spot. And I pulled over to the spot, and I go, why do I know this spot?

And I go, my uncle brought me here when I was a kid a couple times. This is the beach we would go to. Yeah. And I fucking whipped out my phone. I never forgot his number. I called him and he answered and I told him in Spanish Listen

This is I was Antonio Don't hang up on me I just wanted to tell you When I came out here in 1984 I was fucked up And I'm embarrassed For what I did to you

And I just want to apologize Like a man I live here In LA I've lived here For the last Yeah 20 years You know I'm a comedian

I've been in movies You can look me up and you have my number, you want to meet with me, call me back, and he goes, no, no, let's talk. And we started talking. And then we met up at his bar that Saturday night. He had like a weapon hidden because he didn't know if I was crazy. And we've been, you know, he answered all the questions I needed to answer it about my mother,

my family, my life, who I was, you know, he's old. So the phone rings from him. Like some of the other night, Lee called me. He's like, are you sleeping? Are you mad? I go, no. What I want to tell is, I just got off the phone with my uncle. And it was a brutal hour in Spanish.

He's telling me about cookie rojas. It's like when you talk to your father. Yeah. And it's an hour. When I talk to my uncle, like, I got to like wipe my hands for an hour. It's going to be an hour conversation. Yeah. Okay.

It could go to baseball, music, black people, racism. Yeah. Pussy with him, he's so fucking great to talk to. Like, he's told me about all my cousins, all my uncles, my sister, you know, my sister. He filled me in on, you know, his uncles, sisters, or my mother's brothers. You know, he filled me in on. I don't know what my grandfather did. My grandfather was a junker dude.

Yeah. He collected junk and fixed it and sold it on the streets of Cuba. Oh, man. Tourists, you know, he goes, he was great. He was a hustler. you know he goes that's where you get it from your grandfather this week he called me up he's like you have a minute i got it i'm like what are he talking about i was i got it he goes for the last fucking through two years i've been banging my head off the wall figuring out who you look like oh

he goes and i got it he goes rosita he goes you and rosita have the same cheeks and the same nose just like your daughter i've been sitting here for hours comparing the pictures he just goes off on tangents. He just goes off on tangents. But that's going to be future, Joey. Huh? It's going to be future, Joe. No shit. And he'll call me why he's

eating. He eats peanuts every night. So I can hear him breaking peanuts. And he gets mad as he's talking to me. He talks to me about racism. How they treat him badly in Cuba. I had dog pissed on him one time. But that dog pissing on him changed his life. It brought him good luck. The other kids all died.

But the dog pissed on him. Just shit that's so deep and so he's so he has so much wisdom right so the other day i was just sitting there and i was like making like an abraham lincoln clothes like when you write down the good stuff yeah and the bad stuff and i gotta tell you man i broke down i had to hit my cousin with an email and i told her first and she was like bro he's really gonna miss you oh yeah and i go you don't think that motherfucker molded me. Ever since I've been talking to him, I've done a lot

better of my life. Like I got happier after every conversation because he answered. He even answered some hard questions I had to ask. Yeah. That weren't pleasant for him. He answered them all like a man. So I told my wife, I go, my relationship with him during this

whole comedy thing for the last 11 years has been gold. Don't get me wrong. We've had our disagreements. Of course. We've broken up twice in those 11 years for about three months we won't talk to each other, you know, because I told him one night, he got pissed at me, he goes, I don't

know what to do, the bar is slow. And I was all fucked up. I'm reefing. I'm like, Tio, why don't you get a hooker down there? Let's sell some coke. I get the mafia down there. He's like, stop with the mafia, and he hung up on me. So that's the only thing that would

really break me down is saying goodbye to that fucking weaser because it's legit. That's the end of my family tree. Yeah. Once he goes, that's it. I love my cousins. I don't talk to my cousins. Right. I talk to the girl, you know. Our relationship never really blossomed. We never really had time.

He's a school principal. I talked to my cousin. She got mad at me once or twice. But my cousin came to a couple sets. She came to see me shoot a few movies, a few TV shows. So, her and I are cool. She really loves Mercy. So that's what I'm going to miss. I'm going to miss the thing that's kept me together, the thing that helped me become the man that I am today,

my uncle. I'm going to miss him a lot. We talk a lot about a lot of shit. You know. But that's it, man. How can they find you? Podcast. When's this out?

Today. Today. Oh, today. Podcast, let them be talk. I've got Darrell, DMC, on the show. today. Really? Yeah. Wow. Great episode with that guy. The legend, legend from Run DMC, Darrell. DMC.

You are a fucking savage. You moved over this thing. You were looking for the cheapest apartment. I always talk about you on the park. I tell people I used to walk around the streets in New York with your backpack. Yeah. Waiting for a hotel tonight to open up. True. You know, waiting to save $100 and you call me one night like from the fucking lounge or whatever you're like I got it for $49

dude red You have to stand man I would sit in the stand until around 1 30 And there it is boom Cheap hotel on hotels tonight You know you're gambling on that But you know I I'm glad I did the 10 years of comedy

And I'm still doing comedy Hopefully I mean If we get a vaccine it's on It is on But uh if we weren't ever able to do it again, it was the greatest 10 years of my life. Hands down.

It smoked everything I did in my life. I've done a ton of great shit, but nothing comes close to the comedy, the fans that I've met, and my friends, you, Bill, Marin, Ian, you know, the comedy store family, all that. It's just, I'll never forget it.

I just remember one thing, because I was beating myself up a little bit. last week and I gotta be as honest I can with you my dick is hard yeah my dick is hard I'm gonna tell you why because I was focusing on not doing comedy I was for again the reason why we do this fucking podcast is to fucking you know put butts in the seats no it's to open people's eyes yeah I want to open people's eyes I did this podcast to to fucking reverse my thinking this is my You know? So the therapy was this.

I was beat my... I came on the podcast last week and I actually said what you said, like I'm miserable without stand-up, which I am. Yeah. I really am. And we don't have a fucking crystal ball.

No. We here at the church, you, Bill Burr, Ali Wong, we don't have a crystal ball. But nobody could call when you're going to start. Yeah, I can go on a driving tour

and have you beep a horn at me. and you know what when it comes back it comes back and guess what I get a second chance to start over yeah how much fun is that going to be dude it's going to be nuts how much fun is that going to be

completely a start over whether I move to Tennessee Indianapolis Texas everywhere there's a subculture of rooms yeah like somebody's got a subculture room of course like yeah in Phoenix they got

you know the house of comedy the Tempe improv the phoenix improv but there's a chubby Mexican dude who's got three bars and he pays 40 bucks and that's just fine because guess what I'll be worth 40 bucks

yeah yeah I don't want to go out and make people pay $25 to come see me I'm not going to be worth $25 brand new so I'm looking forward to this I hope I hope that everything works out And the comedy store does open because that's the perfect place to start from ground zero. Totally.

Oh, I love it. I would jerk off on the way down the hill that I'm going to the original room to do it. And then you just call it Monday through Friday. Yeah. That's it. It becomes brand new again. It's a new job, Monday through Friday. Take the weekend off because you're not worth it.

You're not worth it to perform on Saturday. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Are you really worth it? Yeah, you're really going to tell me your word? No, you're not. These aren't Saturday night jokes. That's what I would do. I feel the same way.

I'm looking forward to start over. When that date is, I have no idea. But you know what? I can't worry about that. I can just make myself stronger today, Monday, January the 20th. I could just make myself stronger. A couple push-ups, maybe write something. Do I have the clarity and the focus to write comedy?

I can crack a few jokes with Lee. I could bust your balls a little bit. Yeah. But the writer's set, I haven't taken that much out for breakfast. yet. You know what I'm saying? By the way, I brought you some new mood. Oh, yeah, new mood.

And, because you said you're having a problem sleeping. Yeah. I brought you some Kiko. Kiko. These things are fucking tremendous. And Reed would send them. So tell people what's in it. Cannabis infused,

botanical mints, microdosed. This is great. Three milligrams of CBN, which Joey said CBN is different than CBD. It's another, even another level. two milligrams of THC

So this will make good sleep in here That's all you need That's all you need That's a guy like you does not get hot No Two milligrams You start with two Yeah

You eat a half of one You take your CBD lions Sleep mints Yeah I got CBD lying like crazy So what you do is you You don't get hooked on those You eat one one night You CBD lion at the other night

Yeah So nothing really sticks No immune You don't get immune Three nights in a row You're done You're not gonna have people Well, eat melatonin.

That works for fucking, if you drink a... Yeah. What's that drink that people used to drink to energize themselves? Five-hour energy? Oh, the Red Bulls. Red Bulls. Yeah. People feel like getting cancer.

Yeah. You know? Yeah. Red Bulls. Everybody's in a rush. Now you got cancer. You know what I'm going to rush for? Everyone wants to stay up for 10 days.

Yeah. Do Matt. Stop. Stop with the fucking Red Bull. Do the real stuff. Yeah. Do Matt. Do you get a red bone?

I'm like a red bow and stay up. Yeah. If Red Bull does something to you're a pussy It should do nothing to you. It's weak. If you get off for 12 hours on Red Bull, go eat ranch dressing. You might as well go shoot yourself now. There goes that smells a shoot.

Which one? Red Bull. You know it would be funny, Joey? I look forward to like maybe in two years when someone says, man, you became a better comic after the COVID. Yes, that's what's going to happen. I look forward to that.

I'm not depressed no more. Looking at it from that perspective, changed everything. Yeah, I'm a little bored. I'm not sad anymore. No. I don't have that little brokenness no more. I had it for about two weeks.

I'm not going to lie to nobody. It hit me a little hard that, you know, this is, hey, listen, and you guys know it, if you were doing something, if you're listening to this, if you were doing something for five years and you stop losing your job, how do you feel? Yeah. Think of 29 and having a family and having a comedy family.

and having a comedy family is what I mean. We all have families. Yeah, yeah. Comedy family that you haven't seen. And now little by little, they're bailing. Now the waitresses are starting to bail. I tell you what, though, the COVID, as bad as it is, it was probably a good thing for me because I was talking to Marin about this

where I couldn't take a rest and I couldn't take a vacation or anything because I was at this point in my career where you can't. You can't. So, guess what? Yeah. We're always at that point. Always. That's what Mark said.

Yeah, we can't. Always. The day you start comedy, yeah. You never, you can't stop. When you really, really start comedy, you'll see it. The day you really fall in love with comedy, you'll see it.

Yeah. You'll see when you sell the TV, you downsize your apartment, because you're used to it. You're getting ready for the apocalypse. Totally. Your own personal apocalypse, you control it. You shut off everything. You know what? I love comedy so much.

I'm going to move into the fucking. office and join the YMCA and take a shower. Absolutely. And pay $750, $50, I get a rent. And I live how I want to live. I don't eat in here so you don't get rats. Right. You eat outside, eat on the corner, you know, but that's what you do. Full vision, man. Full vision. Like the horse track, the horse is a Kentucky Derby, man. It's right here. This is it. So one good thing is My neck is fucking about 95% great. My blood pressure is completely back to normal. It's unreal.

When did it raise? It raised right around when the neck injury happened because they say when your body's injured, your blood pressure. And I couldn't get it under control, man. I was exercising every day and I didn't eat any salt or anything. And I never had high blood pressure. And, you know, lack of sleep, getting up at 5 a.m. to get an Uber to L.A.X. Oh, my God.

It's going to be cancer. Fuck yeah, man. And then, you know, got to get new material. Got to get gigs. Oh, I got to make money. All that had it cooking. And now it's just level. That's it.

Now we control where we want to go. Totally. We're old to comics. Yeah. We control exactly what we're going to go. Don't forget, Saturday is 40-year anniversary of Back and Black and for. us it's going to be a great day. I'm going to fucking celebrate it. I'm going to smoke some refo. Maybe do some type of fucking tube. I don't know what. But it's going to be a fucking,

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