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hey folks harland here before we start the show today i want to personally invite you if
you live in los angeles or the surrounding area we're doing a special sneak
screening of my new movie Wingman. We're going to be playing it at the Directors Guild
Theater on Sunset Boulevard on October 12th at 7 p.m. And you, the public, are invited to be some
of the first people to ever see this movie. I wrote it, I directed it, Russell Peters, Jamie Kennedy,
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We'll see you at Wingman.
I don't seriously do you I adopted them yeah they're kind of like you know how you can go to the
rescue for dogs yeah I got four like comfort children like you know people take a a pug onto a
plane with a vest I have a little Vietnamese boy I'll slap an orange vest on them and it's a
don't pat you're saying that this is a service child it's a service child I have four of them
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the Hall and Highway Podcast.
To the Holland Highway Podcast.
Don't forget your microphone guy.
It's not going to do much sitting four feet in front of you.
My voice, I really, was it pro-truths?
Projects.
Projects.
Or is it project, is Projects and Projects spelled exactly the same?
What?
I think it is.
Although I think, what's going on?
Always have that kind of stuff, you know?
Are you okay?
Yeah, let's go.
I got to go.
Yeah, let's get gone.
So, wait, projects and Projects is the same spelling?
project is the same selling as project and it's very difficult for people learning the
english language yeah to decipher between the two whoa you speak english what is it english can you spell
it guy this is going to be a long interview interview i barely know you i think that's it not a courtesy
laugh right there i think that's a real laugh that was a really
Yeah, that was a really.
I didn't mean to project that laugh on you either,
but that's the new project I'm working on is projecting.
Have you ever ejected?
Oh, come on.
I don't want to talk about my sex life.
Have you?
Dude, just when you said ejected, you went stiff.
I tell you, man, I'm trying to steer you right.
I'm going to bring some kind of sophistication into your podcast today.
Okay.
I want to find that a little bit about yourself.
Okay, do you want to lead?
Where all this craziness comes from?
Well, if you want to lead, I'll certainly be your...
I've been leading for the last hour.
I'll be the receptacle of your queries.
That sounded really weird.
I'll be the receptacle of your queries.
That's a little...
That's a little Euro-Rodic.
Like, and that's erotic, but when you're in Europe.
Here's what I like about you.
Yeah.
You're not afraid to fail.
Right.
You know, you are someone who is unique.
Yeah.
You are hilarious.
Yeah.
And you, I tell you, man, you are different.
I like seeing you do stand-up.
Yeah.
Because you never know what's going to happen with you.
There's nothing set.
I've never seen you do the same act twice.
And for a good reason.
Why?
Because it's...
Well, have you ever watched yourself in a club?
No.
You're the best.
you're really good. I'm serious. I love
watching you interact with the people
and all of the
references you have too.
This is the same stuff I want to use
your eulogy, by the way.
Ulogy? I don't have anything wrong with my...
The thing about Harlan is you never
you can never get
normal with him.
It's always like some kind of making a joke
out of things.
But I think there's a reason for that.
Harlan, you want to tell them why?
Well, what I'm doing
is deflecting, because I had a very traumatic childhood.
My father would ductate me to the root cellar.
He would put me out in the barn and make me sleep with the barn animals.
He would dig a hole and make me stand in my waist.
And what is traumatic about all this stuff?
Like it really sort of offset my childhood.
It made it hard for me to grow intellectual.
Our time is up right now.
Oh.
Can you, when can I schedule in for next week sometime?
Oh, when are you free, guy?
Not for another three months, but I can put you in,
if we have a cancellation, I could gladly put you in there.
Are you canceling me?
Call it what you want.
I'm just ejecting you from life.
I don't think I said anything that provocative
that I deserve to be canceled by a one said Kevin Neal and one said.
God, sorry.
Sorry.
Like, sometimes I forget to swallow sweetly and gently into the night.
I understand.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Hall and Howie podcast.
And one of our favorite guests, not favorite, favorite,
Kevin Neelan is here, folks.
And he's a writer.
He's an artist.
He's a comedian.
He's an actor.
and are you an environmentalist at all?
I have been.
Okay.
Yeah, when I'm not littering.
Oh, whoa.
Are you one of those guys that you'll be whaling down the highway,
roll down your window and just toss like a bag of Burger King junk out the window?
No, but I've seen that, this Uber driver once, came to pick up somebody.
Yeah.
Thank you.
And just took a bunch of McDonald's stuff from the backs.
He just threw it out on the street.
Who are the McDonald's?
And I said, excuse me.
Yeah.
And I'm non-convertational.
I don't like that.
I said, it just looked so disgusting.
I said, excuse me, you can't just throw the stuff on the ground.
They did that.
They lifted in the back seat.
I said, no, no, you can't do that.
You got to come pick it up.
I'm not going to get in a fight with the guy,
but I'm, you know, I'm being very ardent with him.
Ardent, not a real word, but no, no.
And then the people that called the overt came out to get in.
I said, don't get in with this guy.
He just threw all this stuff on the ground.
So he comes running out, picks it up, and brings it back in.
and probably threw it out the window 100 yards down the road.
Wait a minute, he's a professional driver.
So he walked back to pick it up?
Why wouldn't he drive back to pick it up if he's got a car
and that's what he does for a living?
Tell me about more why you were traumatized as a child.
So my dad would hang me upside down in the attic
and put pennies on my eyes.
And he would duct tape my arms across
and him and my mother would throw pomegranates at me.
Do you have anything I can read while I'm here?
Yes.
Just any kind of brochure about anything.
I have a great book.
It's by this guy, Kevin Neeland.
Oh.
And did you know him?
I do know him.
Buddy.
That's me, pal.
You've got to dive into this.
It's a good book.
Read page 47, paragraph 2.
Are you serious?
Yeah, page 47.
All right.
It's my favorite paragraph in the whole book.
Paragraph 2.
If you don't even mind reading it out loud and sharing.
47.
Is the one you're referring to?
Yeah.
paragraph two. I read it. It's my inspiration. It's like my mantra. Do you have reading glasses?
I do, yes. Here you go. I'll put them on. Yeah. Yeah, it's my mantra. I sort of live and die by the
sword of these words from author Kevin Nealon. Just paragraph two. Okay, well, it won't meet that much.
Well, it does to me. To make a long story short, our sketch was mounted as the last sketch of the show. In two minutes before,
Lawrence said, I need to shorten this sketch.
Yeah.
Short and more due to time constraints.
We rushed through the sketch, and I don't remember hearing one laugh.
Maybe we should have added more cowbell.
Please rise.
And I got to tell you, if I had had this inspirational quote when I was swaying.
Did I get a piece from you?
Yeah.
When I was swaying upside down in the attic with pennies on my eyes
and my parents throwing pomegranates out of it,
If I had something motivational, spiritual, your written words, Kevin Neillan.
Boy, oh, boy.
What a difference it would have made in my life.
But lucky I found it now.
I know.
I know.
Where do you come up with this stuff?
Well, it's called life.
I live life.
And I'm in the business of reality.
I know.
But there's people that live life.
But then there's people who are sort of like a guru.
Like these words.
Call it guru, mentorish.
call it hero worship
what if I call it
memento-ish
pimento no memento
you know the mints
I bet you're good with children
yeah great
I have four
seriously do you
yeah
where are they
I adopted them
yeah they're kind of like
you know how you can go to the rescue for dogs
I got four like comfort
children
like you know people take a
a pug onto a place
with a vest.
I have a little Vietnamese boy.
I'll slap an orange vest on them.
And I said, don't pat.
And I'll walk them through that.
And it gets me in line first.
Like when I get on any flight,
if I have Kimmy Longwao with me,
I get right on.
You know when they say old people,
people with comfort animals?
So you're saying that this is a service child.
It's a service child.
They have four of them.
I have a honky.
David.
I have an African-American
girl.
What's her name?
Shalak.
I have Kimmy Longwau.
I'd rather
prefer you didn't laugh at my kids.
God.
Lucky they're at school today.
Do you need
like a one of those?
I need cheese. You need something.
You were wheezing.
It sounded like a donkey drowning.
you all right guy
you need an inhaler or something
let's continue this riveted conversation
I want to hear more
well I have the last kid the fat one
and I just named her Pepperidge Farm
because she's not going to stop eating
why even bother
well what's great about her is if I get her
on the plane and she wears an extra wide vest
I get the middle seat for free
So she sits on the aisle.
I get the window and we get that middle seat free
because her blubber rolls out into the middle.
Can you do something about that blubber?
I don't want to.
You like it.
Well, if I get a free seat, I'd rather.
It doesn't matter about her health or anything.
No.
This is the thing.
Look, this kid could knock off in a year.
I don't care.
Do you know how many adopted kids there are out there?
There's millions of them.
Yeah.
I'll just get a new one.
A Puerto Rican.
a Haitian.
I've always wanted a Haitian kid.
Maybe a German's a German boy.
Oh, good.
Hans or Schnitzel?
You know, like, I'll take them from wherever I can get them.
These service kids are great.
I got three mowing a lawn out in Bakersfield.
I have 15 acres up there that I bought.
Just to have them mow it?
They're just mowing right now.
They're great.
Sit down more?
Is it a push mower?
It's one of those John Deer,
the ride ones. Oh, those are nice. Yeah, they're really good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, you got a tricked out?
Huh? You got the tractor tricked out? Yeah, we got the, uh, the dice, we got the furry dice
hanging on the, that's nice. Rearview mirror, and it's one of the few lawnmowers with a rearview mirror,
which is so, so, so, so nice. You can... What kind of sound system you got in there?
It just sounds like this.
It just sounds like this.
And I hit a rock just...
Because I wanted to embellish it a little for you.
Those lawnmowers can be so boring and lull you to sleep.
But when you hit a rock, I don't know if you, I saw you give a little jump.
And so I'm just trying to keep things dramatic for you.
Or as they say, in the British theater, dramatic.
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Have you ever done theater?
I've gone to a theater.
you've never done Broadway like Bill Burr and Bob Odenkirk and never been out on the boards before
on the what the boards what they call the boards they do yeah the boards the wooden boards
I've never heard that you know what downstage means well let's not make fun of kids with wide eyes
Kevin that's not wait it's a real term it's a real term
downstairs the boards yeah the boards Broadway
And it's Broadway, not Broadway.
It's Broadway.
Broadway.
Broadway.
What's the difference to be Broadway?
You're making a one, like you're going Broadway.
That's the whole name of the street.
Right.
It's two streets, like, you know, Melrose Place.
It's Broadway.
But that's not what says on the sign.
I'm wrong then.
I stand corrected.
Well, you're sitting.
If you would stand up, then you could stand corrected.
Are you okay?
When I lift my head up
Yeah
I want you to ask me something
Seriously or serious
Okay
Ready?
Yes
One
Two
Three
Have you ever done Broadway?
Thank you
Thank you for asking that
No I haven't
I've never done Broadway
I'm afraid of doing plays
Why?
Because I'm afraid I'm going to forget the lines
I barely remember your name
Carol
That's why
See you should not do Broadway either
I think it would be fun to do
It would be a lot of work.
You know what I mean?
There'd be eight shows a week.
Two on Sundays.
And it doesn't pay well.
It doesn't pay well at all.
And you've got to rent an apartment somewhere in New York City and that's expensive.
Okay, Jerry Seinfeld.
What the hell was that?
It was like Jerry Seinfeld falling off a cliff.
You got to pay three bucks a week and it's expensive.
I picture you as, pardon me, I hope this doesn't rub you the wrong way.
Phantom of the Opera.
I picture you swinging across the stage,
half a face, you know?
Just half a white face, half a black face.
You watch Marvel?
Do I watch Marvel?
What do you mean?
Do you like Marvel movies?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
How about D.C.?
I just don't like movies.
Who's your favorite villain?
Christ.
Is Christ in the D.C.?
world?
I'm going to lift my head up.
That's BC.
I'm sorry.
Okay.
Seriously.
Yeah.
There it comes.
Yeah.
What's your take on nuclear fusion?
Well, I think it's something that's been kind of overrated.
Do you know what I'm saying?
Nuclear fusion, because nuclear fusion, it's either nuclear or it's not.
You don't fuse the two together.
There's only one nuclear.
Huh.
Nuclear.
It's sort of like broad.
way that's just it's either one or the other type of deal it possibly could be I'm
gonna put my head down and when it comes back up again I want to have a serious
conversation
I don't like Harlan
Well, ladies and gentlemen, are you talking in your sleep?
I don't like Harlan.
Hey, guy?
Yeah.
We're doing, I do a professional podcast.
This isn't a sleepover.
I do a pro prep, a prof, a proff pod.
professional
Do you ever come in here
just alone
and just start talking
yeah
sometimes they do
solo episodes
oh do you really
yeah
would you prefer that
looks like you would
um
Annie you've been kicking
around
Hollywood town
if you can wait
for the punch lines
I would really help me
you've been kicking around
not really doing much
You've been getting punted around Hollywood.
You've been getting hacky-sacked all over Hollywood.
You've been kicking it around.
Yeah.
Any good, because you're a very secretive kind of private walled-off guy.
Me?
Yeah.
You're talking about yourself?
You don't share a lot.
So I'd like to peel back the mortar.
I'd like to cask of a montalado you.
Okay.
To pull the brick walls down, Edgar Allan Poe.
Thank you.
Finally, somebody asking me to.
Yeah.
Any kind of risque stories from the world of Kevin Neelan,
risque Hollywood, you've hobnobbed.
Oh, are you okay?
You've hobnobbed with some of the top, the greats, the elite.
You've been to the award shows.
Talk to me, Peter Pan Tits.
I didn't mean that.
I was picturing you as the Phantom of the...
opera flying and I someone I went into Peter Pan. You love Peter Pan, don't you? I love his
Ted's. I'll tell you what. I'll exchange a story for your story. Okay. Yeah, I'll trade one back.
Trades. Well, you first. I'm the host. Trust you. I do not trust you for one minute. I'm the host
with the most. You want me to go first? Would anybody trust, Harlan? I don't think so.
Okay. If that will give you comfort and build trust with me.
And neither of those.
It'll do neither of those, but it'll be maybe entertaining to listen to it.
Would it create goodwill, whereas I lay the foundation that Kevin Neelan feels comfortable enough
to share one of his dark, hidden, forbidden stories?
Let me just throw this out there right now for you.
Do you ever think about unbuttoning the top button on your little party shirt?
Okay.
Is that going to help?
I'll do two.
No, do one.
I'll do two.
I don't want to see the penis.
The what?
I don't want to see your penis.
How'd you know it came up that high?
You tell me.
Why don't I show you?
Have a peak, Peter Pan Tits.
Did you have heart surgery?
Yeah, open heart surgery.
Oh, really?
How open was it?
Yeah, the surgeon left the door open and some bacteria got in.
I mean, when you're doing heart sure, you've got to close that door,
and this guy did open heart surgery, and I got bacteria in my heart.
I've got a bacteria heart.
That's not a term you know.
You obviously don't know medical terms, and I feel guilty I threw it at you,
but it's a medical term, bacteria heart.
When a surgeon leaves the door open to the surgery room,
and he's doing heart surgery, that's open-door, open-heart surgery.
He should have shut it, and I got staphicillbellum frectolitis
in my third coronary artillery valve.
And it's been tough.
to jog. It's been tough to have sexual encounters. I even had to wrestle a wild hog in my yard
four weeks ago. Luckily, my four children jumped in and helped. A little Kimi Longwau got it
right around the neck and choked him out. A little Vietnamese, even though a few minutes ago
he was Korean, he's a Vietnamese boy now. I want to hear more about your artillery artery.
Sure. Well, what happens is the caspillary goes into the artilion.
and the red blood cells deviate into where the white blood cells circulate for the octalus
phrembaloid.
And if that gets clogged up, then suddenly you're going to be on a slab getting cut open by the dock.
Does it's getting too bright for you?
I just don't want to be recognized being with you.
Oh.
Because I feel like what you're saying is not really truth.
I feel like you were.
there is a defense mechanism you're deflecting
so if you keep talking no one can ask you
something about yourself you're going to tell me a story
a deep dark story that really affected you in Hollywood
and you just kind of deflected you ran around it
Harlan I don't mean to
Guy you know you're my friend right
yeah well your best friend
I don't just say friends I'd say what it is
best friend
you want a party maybe daddy wants to party too
go suck an eggplant bestie
like get your mouth
wide and ripe like almost like a whale shark
and wrap it around the biggest eggplant you've ever seen
and suck it bestie
do you have a
do you have a retirement plan
like a 401k or something?
I'm getting snow tires put on next week.
Where are you going?
Down to just tires, but they have a great retirement plan down there.
It's only $400 just before, if you do it, just before winter comes in.
I don't know if you could tell this, but my eyes are closed right now.
I can hear your eyes, yeah.
They sound closed.
When did you first get into stand-up comedy?
How old were you, and were you in school at the time?
And by schooling in grammar school.
I didn't go to school with my grandmother
Why would I go to school with old people?
Did you just do a silent burp?
Or was that your eyes?
Because I can hear your eyes.
When you wake up in the morning
and those yellow nuggets are in the corner of your eyes,
do you get like me like you're pissed
and there's none of this on the night table?
There's none of that dipping sauce
for those little golden nuggets
and you're, you just got to eat them raw.
Do you get mad?
Unbelievably tasteless.
I do get mad.
I do get mad.
I don't like to wake up angry,
but when my dipping sauce isn't there
and I can't pull out those golden nuggets.
When you wake up.
Yes.
When you wake up and it's before the time you want to wake up.
Yeah.
Because somebody's waking you up.
Yeah.
Do you blame somebody for waking up?
Do you say, hey, man, you woke me up?
Yeah.
See, I never even think.
about that when I wake up. If I wake up, I'm up the new day. I'm not thinking, who can I
blame for me waking up? I get really mad. And I don't like to get angry at my kids or
beat them even. But when they come in at two, three in the morning, and all four of them are
jumping up and down. What are their names? Kimmy Longwow, Shalaka, Pepperidge Farm, Blunt
cake, and the honky's name is David. He's a jive honky, actually. Yeah. But,
when they're jumping up on the bed at three in the morning saying we want lucky charms we want
and the fatty wants you know a whole roast beef dinner she wants a beef wellington a beef stroganoff
yeah noodles ramen off she's the fatty uh she wants a whole buffet almost this giant of the north
and uh but the other one they're jumping up and down and i'm gonna get mad at them you got to get
mad i get that man i'm like get out in the yard you need some sleep how many hours you need
a night i usually like at least
I like a good 12-hour night, like a good 12-hour sleep.
Good solid 12.
Oh.
You get up to go to the bathroom?
No, I just do it right in the bed.
You go around in the bed?
Yeah.
And then you're able to sleep.
At number one and two.
Oh.
Yeah.
You're single?
Pardon me?
Are you single?
Are you hitting on me?
No, I just don't want to get in the bed with all that crap.
Wow.
Do you have a housekeeper?
Yes.
Uh-huh.
Was it your ex-wife?
the house acting. Whoa! Power drop. Siamese power drop guy. What's this? Guy, I'm just getting
into position of watching you and relaxing and just enjoying your patter. Well, I would like us to share a story
and I'm willing to take these off and resume the friendship. What do you? You sound like wind
going through a mountain pass. Just now you were like
I like how you
I like how you, I like
and then just for a fact
I know you did, but in the distance
coyote and bonus treat
Mountain goat
and these are add-ons to what you do
and this is why we work together
and this is why I'm your best friend.
live in the hills. Do you experience coyotes at night, the howling?
Yes. And do you know what they're doing when they're howling?
Howling? Yeah, when they're getting all worked up and yapping and...
No, I answered you. You asked me, do you know what they're doing when they're howling? I said,
howling. Duh. It's right there in the howl guy. By the way, Mr. Howell from Gilligan's Island.
Have you ever met him? Now you're talking. Have you ever met him?
No, but I met the skipper. Oh, no. And little buddy, too.
Just a skipper
What about a little buddy too?
Just a skipper
Okay
Where'd you meet him
And what big kind of rope did he have?
How big was his rope?
He used to have a restaurant on La Cienica
called the lobster barrel
Alan Hale's lobster barrel
Alan Hale
And he was a skipper
And he would come around to each table
And he would come around to each table
And ask how people are doing
how are you doing today?
How are you?
Did you ever just turn and say,
why don't you mind your own fucking business, Fatty?
Or no?
No, I wouldn't do that.
Okay, I'm just asking.
But I did see him at the golf course once in Roosevelt golf course
and Griffith.
That must have been beautiful.
You're just about to tee off and big fat guy skipping across the fourth hole.
That must be on the hill over there because he's got the golf bag with his name on it.
I'm sorry, we were talking.
Let's not interrupt us.
I'll tell you what.
We were talking together.
And you're interrupting us.
With what I said.
We're talking.
Can I get you some garlic bread or something?
Can I get your name?
Donnie?
Donnie, what?
Darko?
Darko.
All right, since you're not willing,
I see you need a little goading, a little luring to be comfortable.
Let me start with my Hollywood story.
I'm dating Ariana Grande.
Hello?
Snappy
I'm trying to tell you
I'm dating
I love this story
You do?
What did I just say then?
You're dating Ariana Grande
Okay you are listening
Do you want to nod off
Well I say it
So it almost feels like you're dreaming
It's up to you
If this story is not good
I'm not off
Not off
And then it'll feel like a euphoric dream
Let me hear your story
About Ariana Grande
So we're dating
This was about four months ago
And you know I'm a word guy
I'm a word smith
I mean if Shakespeare
You sound like a weather system in Barry Manilow's underpants.
What are you doing?
Oh, God.
Do you have the...
I'm laughing.
You're laughing without silently laughing.
That's how hard of the laugh it was.
Wow.
And without smiling.
I brought that out of you?
Yeah.
I'm pretty good.
No, you really make me laugh a lot.
All I have to do is throw a couple words out there and you take it and you run with it.
And I like that.
You like it or love it?
I love it.
And it's just less work for me to have to carry on a conversation.
I know.
I should shut up now.
Go ahead.
No, I like what you're saying.
Go ahead and shut up.
I mean, shut up.
Go ahead.
You okay?
Bro.
What?
Whoa, whoa, whoa, what's going on?
Are you sleep drinking?
Got it, guy.
Okay. So I'm dating Ariana Grande.
Heard it.
This is about four months ago.
I heard it.
I'm a word guy.
I'm almost like a modern-day William Shakespeare.
I don't know if you've ever read Osloat or Harriet and Juliet or McBride or any of his works.
But I'm a word guy and I'm thinking where do I take my beef or my chick?
that's fun, and lets me incorporate.
What?
Close there.
Ah.
Yeah.
Oh.
You really know to bust up a guy's story
with a big glowing green eye.
Thanks a lot.
It's not this.
This is funny.
It's how you look at that
and then look at me.
I like that.
I look up.
Well, I'm in the middle of an Ariana Grande story,
and you pull out a giant green talking eye?
Look at, how does that make me feel?
It's part of the story.
Well, it's part of the story.
Well, it's part of the story.
I think it's stepping on our buddy friendship.
Look, you went out with Ariagrano for four months.
You met at Starbucks.
No, no.
Arianna, no.
Oh, wow.
Way to steal my thunder.
Ariel La Grande.
Go ahead.
I'm a word guy.
You sort of just stepped on my thunder.
but I'm going to keep going
I took her to Taco Bell
okay yeah
I say hey Grande what do you want
we're looking at the menu
I go how about a Nacho Bell Grande
Grande
but then you sort of beat me to the punch
with the Starbucks Grande
it was kind of an obvious thing I think
it was yeah because when I go to Starbucks
I order Grande Ariada
and they say what size I go Grande
and then they throw her on the counter
God
I wasn't expecting that.
Yeah.
Well, she's so light.
You were saying.
She's so light.
I don't want it to interrupt you.
You know she only weighs 63 pounds?
She rides in a baby seat in the backyard, a car seat.
Well, here's the kicker.
All four of my kids weigh more than her.
And Pepperidge Farm weighs about a dozen of her.
What's your favorite cookie?
Ooh.
I'm going to say the ones that those stupid elves make in the tree,
the kebler fudge, the fudge.
The fudge.
Yeah, yeah, the fudge, like an Oreo,
but instead it's white on the outside, brownish,
and then white on the inside.
Am I right?
Yeah, kind of like Chicago.
D-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
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Get your eat on while you're getting your drink on. Hewell, fool.
Hang on one second. Okay. Are you calling Ariana Grande? No. I just want to see how many steps I've
gotten so far. Oh, oh, you're one of those exercise nuts? Yeah. How many have you gotten in so far?
since you sat down and haven't moved.
I got like $8,000.
I went for a hike this morning.
How's your heart?
Heart's great.
Yeah?
Yeah, they moved it from here to my hip.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, but it's much better right now.
I got a space up here for another Oregon.
I haven't decided what I'm going to use yet.
Oh, I love Oregon.
No, no, no, Oregon.
Yeah.
Oregon.
Yeah, great.
It's not pronounced Oregon.
It's a great state.
It's Oregon.
Okay.
Well, whatever it is.
I'm going to ask you that again in about five minutes.
Okay.
Because I'm leaving.
Can you make it ten?
Wait, you went hiking this morning, my guy?
Yeah, guy.
Where?
Hollywood Hills.
I went with Kristen Schall.
Do you know her?
Oh.
From, yeah, from Last Minute on Earth.
I know Kristen.
I know, Concord.
I know Kristen.
I don't know a shawl.
Kristen Shawl?
Yeah.
No.
Okay.
Okay, guy.
So wait, how long was this hike?
It was two hours.
And was this part of your podcast that you do where you interview people on a hike?
Web series?
Yeah.
Yeah, it's not a podcast.
It's not a web series.
Do you want to plug it since you organically brought it up and dropped it in on purpose?
We got the book out there and I do a podcast.
It's on YouTube.
It's called Hiking with Kevin.
I have different guests on every week.
Conan O'Brien's been on a time.
Hank's.
Crow. It's Paul Rudd.
It's pretty amazing. Bill
Burr was on it recently.
YouTube.com every week.
Not every week. Whatever I feel like it.
Can you describe what it is?
It's very confusing.
The title, like just tell them what it is,
the format. I hike with a different
celebrity every, you know, every
over the week or whatever. We hike in the
Canes of LA. I got a selfie stick with a camera
on the end. And we just chat. We chat.
We have a good time. I got a drone. I fly the drone.
And I edit it at home. It's a one-man-oper.
Isn't it hard to chat when you're out of breath and you're walking up a steep incline?
Yeah, it is.
But, I mean, is that the best environment to talk to someone slash interview?
Hint, hint.
Well, it doesn't affect the environment while you're talking unless you've got bad breath.
Does that make sense at all?
Say it again?
I said the chatting outside doesn't affect the environment unless you have garlic breath.
If you could just roll that back one more time, guy.
God.
You know, this looks like a 1970s headshot now.
What is this?
Looks like you're leaning on a flamingo.
Admiral.
The interviews, you know, when they ask you questions.
So let me ask you this.
What?
When you got out of the service, he went right into the carpeting business.
Is that true?
Shag.
I specialized in shag.
This is back in the 1900s.
Well, see, I think when people say carpeting,
carpeting can be this high, a good piece of standard carpeting.
But when you get into shag, to me, that's real carpet.
I'm a purist.
You know what the exact opposite of shag is?
Indoor, outdoor carpeting.
Make up your mind.
Yeah.
You can't have both.
It's hard to do.
You can never lay it down because it won't, you don't know.
And then it's like you got.
Is this the indoor or is that the outdoor?
because it comes in little squares.
Well, and it doesn't know what to do.
That's like telling your dog to go in and out, to pee and eat.
And, you know, it's like you have a pet door.
Yeah, that's not good for the carpet psyche.
Are you indoor or you outdoor?
Don't call me both.
When you go to the grocery store, do you use a shopping cart
or one of those handheld baskets?
I get, have you ever seen these Sherpas that go up the side of Mount Everest?
Sure, Sherpas.
I have these four kids.
and I put packs on the back of their back,
especially fatty gets a wide one.
And I bring them up and down.
I bring them up and down the aisles
and just fill their backpacks with groceries.
I told you, I'm putting these kids to work, my four children.
Kimmy Longwau, David, Sri Lanka,
and Pepperidge Farm, the fat one.
My guy, you sound like a good dad.
I'm a great dad.
You get that a lot?
You should see what I do at birthday parties.
I don't let anyone jump out of the cake.
I make them jump into the cake.
And then I roll it off a cliff.
Do you have the pinata?
I've had it.
What do you put in the piano?
What do you put in the piano?
In the piñata.
In the pinata.
Well, what I do is I'm trying to get Pepperidge Farm to lose weight.
And she's a chunkster.
So what I do is I get her seven or eight bags of the mini bars.
And she doesn't chew because she's so fat.
so she'll just swallow them, like an eel swallowing fish.
She inhales them.
She sort of inhales them,
and now we got this fat kid just full of candy.
And what all, are you okay?
Yeah, I think you're, so, oh, hang on.
I think, is it okay?
Maybe if you go around and up.
So what we do is we fill fatty up with the mini,
the fun-sized bars,
and I'll hang her upside down from a tree in the yard,
and I'll let the kids whack her with bamboo sticks.
And she'll pop little chocolate bars out of her anus.
Just like, and you can hear them.
It's like smack, puk, puk, and so she's sort of shooting milkyways, snickers,
three musketeers, all over the yard.
Almost like a sprinkler.
Three of them.
Was it always three?
There used to be four, but one of them got AIDS.
Well, you ask, you know what?
Fuck you, look at this.
You never heard of three musketeers with aid?
Wait, four musketeers.
I don't even know how you can go there.
I mean, really, I mean, it's really, really going a little too far, I think.
With the three, it's the fourth musketeer having AIDS.
Why can't a musketeer get AIDS?
You know they were kind of scoundrels.
They were known for their swash-buckling cavalier ways.
that has nothing to do with me.
They would climb over the king's wall
and have sexual intercourse
with her royal highness.
Dumpy.
Sat on the wall,
had a big crack.
Great fall.
Had a great fall on AIDS.
He fell on AIDS.
Dude, read your mother's goose and grims or whatever.
Can you still get a king's horse these days?
Yes.
A Burger King.
Because they use horse meat there.
So if you go around the back in the morning
before they slaughter it,
That's not true.
Yeah, they use pure horse meat.
That is not.
And if you go around the back before the slaughter starts,
you can get one of the King's horses,
the Burger King's horses.
Oh.
Yeah.
Have you ever ridden a horse?
Yeah.
Where?
I'd love to hear where you rode it.
Ha ha ha ha.
I really would and would.
You would have to be hard.
to talk off a ledge.
Really?
Yeah.
Or the King's Wall.
Not really.
I mean, a nice, like,
a bucket of Kentucky fried chicken, and I'm in.
Like, I'm off that ledge like that.
I've ridden a horse in a lot of different places,
but I've fallen off of two horses in my life.
Oh, no.
Right off the back.
Like a flip.
Tell me what happened, guy.
Well, one time I was dating this girl, and she had horses.
Okay.
I was trying to show I was a good horseman.
And we got back to the corral.
You know, the horses like to run to the corral,
because they know it's home.
They want to get back there.
I had a fat horse
and he loved to run to the golden corral.
But thank you.
I'm still talking.
Oh, sorry.
All right.
And so I was on the car.
I was on the horse.
And I fell up the back.
And I noticed that she didn't see it.
She was closing the gate behind us.
So I ran up and I jumped out back on the horse.
I pretended nothing to happen.
Oh, wow.
And did the horse tell her when you got to the barn?
The horse squealed on me.
Yeah.
But you know what?
I was out.
I could.
I never were getting cautiousness after that.
Did you hurt yourself?
Because, look, we were talking about Hollywood earlier.
Christopher Reeves, Superman.
He fell off a horse and severed his spine and was paralyzed for the rest of his life.
He was, I don't want to say...
Which Superman was he?
He was the first one.
After the second one, just before the third...
What about George Reeves?
What about George Reeves?
George Reeves?
George Reeves?
Was the first one.
Oh, okay.
Do you know who his brother was?
Michael?
Steve Reed played Hercules.
One of the brothers decided he would work out
and get very fit.
Yeah.
And the other one said, no, let's use padding.
Who was stronger, Hercules or Superman?
Superman.
Okay. You don't have to go into puberty.
I just heard your voice crack.
Did you hear yourself?
You went Superman.
Guy, that wasn't me.
Dude, you went right into puberty.
Guy, that wasn't me.
I've been doing this podcast.
a long time. I've never asked a question
that shot a guy right back into puberty.
Now, you might want to pull down your
pants and see if there's hair there, Baldi.
Wow. You did it.
Your voice squeaked.
I said, you said, Superman.
Dude, you're probably
balder than an Alabama peach.
Wow.
Cheers to them. You bring out the best in people.
I bring out the breast in people.
What are you serving today?
probably a lob just over the top of the net with a side spin
and what about food life oh oh oh i don't think they have food at the courts
no i mean right here but the food court oh you want something to eat what do you got let me
look what's the special today you got a menu
hey on i'm getting it do you like those menus you rikida sushi
do i what you rikida sushi guy
Have some nice sushi.
Is it fresh?
Tell me how fresh this is.
I just pulled it up right out of my pant, right out of the thing.
I'll say it again.
You like it as sushi guy?
Dude, did you or did you not ask for food?
I asked for food.
Well, take some for...
I don't think sushi's food.
Well, it's fish.
Let me try.
A little stale.
Well, look.
That's not fresh.
Beggers can't be choosers.
That is not fresh.
All right to me.
Oh, that's kind of...
Do you like the freeze?
I'm eating.
Do you like beef jerky?
I'd rather be with a woman, really.
Do you like beef jerky?
No, no.
Do you rather be with a woman?
You like the dried fruit?
Like, you know...
I'd rather be with a woman.
I just said it.
I don't want a beef jerky.
I don't want to dried fruit.
Was it fried nectarines, is it?
What's the fried, the orange one?
They're fried.
No, not fried.
They're...
Dried.
Dried.
Dantorines.
No?
Well, it's my show.
I want to say avocado.
You ever have a dried avocado?
You want to say it and that you just did.
You live it on the counter for like a month.
And it's dry.
Back to you.
Well, it's also probably got salmonella poisoning guy.
You can't leave food out on the counter.
You ever see Foster Brooks?
Yeah.
You did that whole drunk character.
You like, you don't want to leave your food out on the counter
because you'll get bacteria.
And then you'll get, you don't want to get food.
Food poisoning.
He was your mentor.
Did you love him?
I loved him.
Oh, he's the best.
I saw him once in real life.
I was in Vegas at a boxing thing in the 80s.
Pardon you?
Loss?
In Vegas.
Las Vegas.
Okay.
Las Vegas.
It's Las Vegas, by the way.
It's spelled last.
It's spelled L-A-S.
Not L-O-O-S.
Lost.
It's not L-L-A-L-V-A-A-V-A-A-V-A-A-V-A-A-A-V-A-A-V-A-A-V-A-V-A.
get it right, or get it out.
Get it out.
Get it right or get it out.
No, I was going to say get it right or go to a piano store,
open a grand, put your head in it,
and slam the grand piano lid on your head over and over about 42 times,
is what I was going to say.
Can I ask you something really seriously?
I'm busy?
Have you had therapy?
Have I what?
Have you ever had therapy?
Yes.
And?
Well, you know, the guy left after about two hours.
I tried my best to hear what ailed him.
Did you ever have therapy regarding your issues?
Real answer?
Yeah.
I did.
And?
I went for 10 sessions after my divorce, which I never talk about.
So here's you getting something out of me.
Okay.
Which I was supposed to get something out of you.
That's right.
But my mother, who was a very loving woman, very intelligent woman, she was a marriage counselor and a social worker.
She helped prostitutes get off the street and help people kick their drug habits.
Is that true?
Your mother did that?
Yep.
The mother was an angel.
So I think you're leading to tell me that your mother told you, I gave you some advice.
My mother called me up and she was worried after the divorce.
She lives up in Canada.
Why did you get divorced?
I'm not going to go into that.
You don't have to go into it.
I just wondering how long you were married.
Not going into it.
I'm not asking you to go into it.
I'm just asking you to go into it.
I'm just asking you have numbers.
Numbers.
How many years?
Wow.
I see the...
I'm giving you a nugget here.
I'm giving you a speckle.
We've been best friends for how long.
I've pushed the button right there.
And I've finally opened up to you
about something very personal
that nobody else got out of me,
but Kevin Zachary Neal you.
And my mom'sies, as I called her.
Yeah.
She was concerned because divorce is traumatic.
Have you been divorced?
Yes, I have been.
How long did your divorce take to get?
I mean, how many before it went through?
I will control the answers, not you, Paris Hilton, Jr.
I don't care that you've got one of your sleeves rolled up
and you're showing a vein.
Now, my mother, who was very astute, very smart,
she knew about the trauma of divorce.
Because you had gone through a divorce.
No, because she was a marriage counselor,
and she was a social...
And you were going through it at the time.
No, I went through it, and at the end of it,
my mother said to me, she goes,
son, I know you might not want to do this,
but you've been through an ordeal
and I would like it
you don't have to do it
but I think it would be wise for you
and it would make me happy
if you found a therapist
and sat with them
and just talked about it
just go ten times
and she actually went online
and found a therapist in the valley
for me because I didn't know how to
that was not my world
and I didn't want to do it
but because it was my wonderful
mother who I value her and she's very smart and I went and did it. I went and sat with
this gentleman for 10 sessions and what did you talk about your wife which is weird
because I've never been married to your wife did you find you were able to open up to him
oh yeah I did on purpose I opened all the way up because I'm thinking what's the point if I don't
do this and did you discover things about yourself that you didn't know before this is going to
sound pompous and conceited and arrogant. And I'm just being honest, I went in. I did the 10
sessions very openly. And at the end of it, I didn't feel the needle move. I felt like I just sat and was
talking to a buddy telling him about the rigors of what I went through. But isn't that therapy
is having somebody to listen to you? I guess so, but I had all my buddies to talk to. So I, I know. And I want to
say, oh my God, I went with this guy and he put everything into perspective and my whole mindset
shifted and he made me think and think, but I'm just being honest. And again, I'm going to
sound like a Mr. Know It All, but I went away and I was like, okay, I talked to the guy and I opened up
as much as I could. Did you ever go to couples therapy? I did. And they got mad because I was in there
alone. I was like a third wheel. I went to couples therapy once. And,
It was the therapist that were the couple.
And I was...
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
And how did...
They got into a fight.
Oh, boy, what did you do?
I started counseling them.
And what happened?
We switched seats.
I got over in their seat.
They got on my seat.
So they were sitting one on top of each other?
Wow.
On the lap.
And what was the resolution?
Well, our time was up, so we never came to resolution.
Oh, no.
Yeah.
So when you go to a therapist, do you lie down at all?
on the couch? Because people don't know
lie down. I not only
lied down, but I did a spread eagle.
I don't know if you remember these, where you just
open your legs really wide.
And I thought, if I'm going to lay
here and
blabber my guts out, I might as well have
the therapist eat me out while I'm doing it.
And so I had
my legs were wider
than an ostrich running through a windstorm.
And this guy, you know, I would just talk away for an hour, and
he'd be on his knees eating me out.
almost like a crocodile at a carrion festival.
And was there any conversation about maybe how it might be your fault
the breakup?
Well, I take full blame.
There's two sides to every coin.
Not full blame, but 50%.
I think even when someone is possibly the obvious kind of fulcrum
for the dissolution of your marriage or your relationship.
Do you still keep in touch with her?
I still would say that's just my perspective,
and I'm willing to take 50% of it
because I just feel like there must have been something
that I did that contributed to it too,
but sometimes you can't see it because you're you.
So I'm willing to take...
So you're, okay.
Even though maybe deep in my heart,
I don't feel like it was mostly my fault, but I'm willing to.
Do you think that she thinks it was your fault, or does she think,
was she take 50% too or no?
I don't know.
I can't get into her head, but I think most people like...
But you guys loved each other at one point.
Oh, yes.
Like loved and...
A lot of good experiences.
How many years were you married?
See, you're coming back around to that when I shut that out a few minutes ago.
You thought Daddy would forget.
I just was, I'm curious.
I'm this close to spread eagling right now.
It's not going to affect anything.
I just want to know how many years.
I want to ask about her or anything.
Well, I'll tell you if you tell me,
because you said you were divorced.
12 years.
I mean, 12, 2 for me.
Oh.
Yeah.
You were married for two years?
Yes.
And what happened?
Well, you really want to know?
Yeah.
Because this might hurt you as much as it hurts me.
Okay.
I was in a Hollywood function one night.
A black tie kind of awards event.
Here I am in a tux. I'm looking pretty dapper, almost James Bond-esque.
And I've got a martini in my hand with an olive.
What was your first name's wife?
Your wife's name?
Sarah.
So here I am and I look across the room and here's Sarah.
Almost.
Same name?
Let me finish, guy.
I mean, good Lord.
You asked these questions.
Go ahead.
Did you learn that at truck driver's school?
Wow.
That was saloon school.
Wow.
And here's this girl.
We just locked eyes.
Okay, yeah.
So you saw her?
I saw your wife.
Oh, my wife?
Yeah, Sarah.
That's not her name.
Well, it was that night.
That's my third wife.
Yeah.
All right, so anyway, you fell in love with somebody else.
Your wife.
And your wife and my wife both caused our divorce.
But let me ask you this, just while we're out.
And then we'll step away from this.
One more, and I know you're not going to get too invasive.
Did you have a pre-nup?
A pre-nup.
Explain, because I think they might not know what that is.
Do you know what it is?
I know what it is.
I'll explain it to them.
You really know how to turn things around.
rubber man. It's like, I almost
pitch you with a giant condo because everything
bounces off of you. We all know what a pre-nup is.
So there was a pre-known
pre-nob. Here's the deal. And I'm
getting real with you again. So you better
reciprocate. Finally,
if we're going to be best friends,
I
brought up a pre-nup.
You did? I did bring it up
because that's kind of what you do
nowadays, okay? How long ago
was this? This was in
1990, no, sorry, 98, 99.
Okay.
I brought up pre-nup, and which is totally, I think people should be able to do, right, in today's world.
Absolutely.
It's a tough topic, but I think people should be able to bring it up.
Yeah.
I saw the light dim in her eyes when I brought it up.
I saw a glitch.
I saw a little like, you know,
and in my heart, I went,
I am not going up the altar with her
knowing that maybe that diminished the love.
I wanted 100% purity.
See, you did not have a pre-nup.
I did not have a prune up because I wanted to go up with the feeling that it was permanent,
it was forever, and I wanted the purity of pure love to surround the day and surround our energy and everything.
And so I, as I say, I forwent the pre-nup.
And you regret that.
you know what's interesting
I don't
really I mean yes you can regret it
fiscally
but I got to tell you to be up there on the altar
with that purity around me
knowing my intentions were pure and real
and hers were too I hope
you know you don't know what anyone else is thinking
but I it felt amazing
and so maybe that was worth
it in a spiritual sense.
Right.
So when was the last time you saw her?
You're really good.
No, I was just curious.
When was the last time you saw her?
This is a long time ago that you got married.
Huh?
You got married in 1998, you said?
When was the last time you saw her?
No, no, no.
Now we're dipping over to you, Charlie Brown.
I know you're curious.
So is George.
Is that her name, George?
No, curious George was a monkey,
although she was hairy.
I mean, are you still on good terms?
Way, way, way, chucky cheese.
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now we're bouncing over to you
you're gonna edit this all right
this is raw
this is the realest we've ever seen you
even though you haven't said anything
and got it out of me
we'll see
now let's bounce it back to you fly boy
tell me about your divorce
did you have a pre-nop
uh yes
she wanted one.
She wanted it.
For me, that's so much she cared about me.
She wants, because I think when you get a pre-nup,
that way, if you get a divorce
and there's a lien in your house,
she shares some of that.
Right.
You know, or there's anything else.
So I'm going to tell you about a relationship
that I really regretted.
Okay. It's not ours, is it?
It could be.
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here, I would hang out
at the improvisation. And there was an old
character actor, comedian there, named Joey Ross.
Okay. From Car 54.
I don't know if you watched that show. Car 54.
Car 54, where are you?
Yeah. So he was about
70 at the time, and he'd come in there. And I
knew him, you know, over the years. And then he came
in one day, he goes, I might have a job
for you. He had met this woman.
He met this woman who was like
an ex, like,
a prostitute
from Houston.
She had her eye shot out.
She had her eyes shot out or she had eye shadow on?
She had her eye shot out.
And she had skin that looked like she'd been floating
in the pond somewhere for like a week.
Like it would come off on your finger.
Yeah.
And just kind of hunched back and rose-colored sunglasses.
And he said, I might have a job for you.
I said, what is it, Joe? He goes, well, I'll let you know.
Pays the amount that the club pays you.
Was that $25? I said, yeah.
I'll tell you. I'll tell you what it is.
He smoked a cigar, too.
And he said, you know, I'm married, I'm a pretty, right?
And she wants to have a kid.
And, I mean, I'm 70.
I can't get it.
I can't get it going, you know.
So you just go upstairs and she'll take care of you.
You know, she'll give you a good time.
And then, you know, that'll be that, you know.
He goes, you come from a nice family, good Catholic family.
You're funny.
You're good looking.
Good jeans.
She's called good jeans.
So I said, let me think about that, Joe.
I don't want to hurt his feelings.
Yeah.
You know, because she may fall in love with me.
Well, she can't see you.
Part of me.
The problem is the good eye was a lazy eye.
Oh, so one of her eyes was only partly shot out.
I'll get back to that in a minute.
So she came, I come in there the next day, he comes up to me,
and goes, what did you think about it?
What do you think? Is that a go?
I see, you know, I really appreciate it, Joe,
but I don't know that it's my thing.
But yeah, so I got a kid out there.
He's 34 years old.
It's got his eye shot out, too.
It's jeans.
take a break we'll be right back
how did her eyes get shot out by a pimp
whoa
I don't like to talk about it anymore though
but I would that's where we're different
so your wife's name was what
so wait a minute when you shoot someone's eyes out
that's a good shot behind the eyes is the brain
I mean the bullet doesn't stop once it gets to the back of your eye
it's gonna go right through your head and kill you
and she got two paintball
Oh, it was paintball.
Okay.
So she's got the green,
the eye was green that she got shot out.
It was normally blue.
Both are green?
Well, just one is green now.
What's the other one red?
Well, yeah.
Okay.
Sounds beautiful.
She's still around?
I'm sorry, I was thinking about something else.
Oh, what were you thinking about?
I was thinking about what else I have to do today.
What do you got going on?
Let's talk about that.
Well, you know, I do stand-up comedy.
Not really.
Not really. Not really. Sort of.
You know what? I like to have alone time.
And I'm home alone at the house this week.
Okay.
And I get a lot of stuff done. You know what I mean? I edit things and I draw. I paint.
I play the banjo and the guitar. I'm just learning how to play the bass guitar now.
Okay.
I've been out on tour with Adam Sandler.
Wow.
It's a very musical kind of an act. So I get involved with that.
And then I like to shower up. I like to shower up after my hike because I get really smell
Yeah. I'm away home right now from the hike.
Yeah.
And then also, you know, I like to exercise.
Doesn't look like it.
I like to, you know, I like to, well, I hike today.
I like to stretch this morning.
I have a board that I stretch on.
It's from the 15th century.
No way.
What's it called?
It's called a cut in quarter.
Okay.
You look like you're bored right now, actually.
I get bored listening to myself talk.
So do they.
Why? Because I hear it all the time.
Yeah.
Have you ever, you said you'd like to shower and play music.
Have you ever had the stand-up bass in the shower with you?
Oh, yeah.
And?
I have a waterproof one and a trumpet.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
I've had a whole band in there once.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
Which one?
Johnson Roses?
10 CC.
Oh, wow.
And by the way, there's only five of them.
No.
Yeah, there's not 10.
What happened to the other CCs?
Drown.
Oh, wow.
Ferry mishap.
Now, when you say CC, is that CC as in an email you CC'd someone, or is it CC the mechanical CC?
It's neither of those.
Oh, what is it?
It's somebody telling you to, you're not paying attention.
They go, see, see?
See?
See?
Oh.
It's really high the inflection.
It's C, see, see?
So if I said that to your girlfriend with no eyes, would that be an insult?
One eye.
If I said C.C. to her, she'd be like, hey, fuck off.
Because she's got, you can't say C C C.
First of all, she's not my girlfriend.
Well, it sounded like you plowed her up in the green room.
You said you had a baby.
I never said I had a baby.
Well, you plowder.
I never said I plowder.
Plout her eyes out.
That I said.
Yeah.
That I said.
Yeah.
When you put your wiener in, did her paint by eyes pop out?
Like, should they?
Like, it's like when you fill a fish tank with water.
Yeah.
when you put the air in like so the air like so when you go in did her eyes pop out no that must
have been an ego boost for you oh my gosh that's crazy did her eyes ever pop out and hit the ceiling
fan and then swirl around the room and then come back in but they were the wrong side no but
they did go into a garbage disposal once oh god and then she got spat out the thing she must have
seen in there sounds like you just
hit a wall.
Like that last,
it didn't sound like the wind
through a canyon. It sounded like a lungfish
taking its last breath in the basin
of the Amazon rainforest.
Yeah. Wow.
Oh, God.
It's almost like a reverse blowjob
you just did. How are we going to dismount
from this?
Well, remember how you fell off the horse.
Yeah. Well, we're going to do our final
segment. Okay.
Wait, how much time? Well, we still have
Two hours to go. No, we have a final segment.
You know what it is. We do it every time. Yeah, yeah, I like it.
Words from a wooden shoe. You pull a word out and tell us us if it relates to a story in Kevin Neal and journey.
What's your word, guy?
Fist fight.
Okay. I've never been in a fist fight in my life.
I think we can see that.
I did get hit, and that's probably why I was never in a fist fight.
Talk to me. I've been sideblinded.
By the girl with no.
Blindsided.
Oh, what happened?
Well, one time I was in Little League
and I was the pitcher
and I think this disgruntled player
wanted to be the pitcher
so he came up behind me
and just punched me in the nose
and hurt so badly.
Hold on, you can't get punched
in the nose if he's hit you from behind.
It comes around front.
You didn't say that.
So I don't know I'm not comfortable.
The other time I was going to school
in eighth grade and
there's a lot of diversity there
and some guy just
it was like being in a prison.
He wanted to see how tough I was, and he hit me in the nose.
I fell out of my seat, onto the floor.
Everybody's looking, see what he's going to do.
So I've never been in a fist fight.
Oh, wow.
I pretended I was going to hit somebody, but I never did.
You know, it's sort of, this may sound weird, but it's a bit of a tragedy.
Most growing men have never been in a fist fight.
No.
Or been physical or know what it's like to receive a punch.
Not good.
And I think it sort of affects the masculinity of the modern man.
and as brutal and violent as it sounds,
I think it might be worthy of every man at some point in his life
to receive a punch and give a punch
just for his primal masculinity.
Because I think we've sort of lost that in our society,
and I know it sounds violent,
but that's how we are wired.
That's how our ancestors were.
And I think the fact that many of us have never been
in a physical altercation,
it sort of softens us
to a point where men aren't as manly as they should be.
I think there'd be less fights
if everybody got into a fight one time.
Maybe.
You know?
And also...
Would you like me to punch you?
A lot of guys that are small
are tougher than the big guys
because they've had to get in fights.
Well, I'll tell you,
small guys have what we call
a lower center of gravity
because they're stalkier
and they're lower to the ground,
their frames are lower.
So they have a good advantage
when they're fighting
because they're grounded, right?
Whereas a taller guy,
you get up under his,
and I don't have a chin,
so I don't know what I'm talking about,
but you get up under their chin,
you can, they go off balance easier.
Yeah, yeah, that's true.
Well, I hope, look, as a closing sentiment,
I hope you get the shit kicked out of it.
I hope you get in a fight soon.
Would you like to be in a fight?
I would like that.
Okay, I hope you get jumped on the way home
or mugged in an alley or beaten within an inch.
No, I don't want any of that for you.
You don't want that for me.
I don't want you to get hurt.
You're a treasure.
I'm a treasure.
And you're my best friend.
I don't want my best friend getting hurt.
I appreciate you.
Do you regret never being in a fight?
Does that bother you?
I saw your sort of the masculinity.
You kind of had a little twitch.
I always wonder if I could be.
be the kind of guy that could be a hero.
Yeah.
Like if there's somebody running through a mall with a gun,
would I go out there and tackle him?
Would you?
I'd like to think so.
Yeah.
But no.
You wouldn't.
But here's, let me submit this.
Sometimes in the moment,
our hero reflex emerges almost involuntarily.
Yes.
I think a lot of humans are wired
where they have a knee-jerk reaction
to do the right thing,
to try and be protective.
and I think a lot of men, they step into scenarios
where they didn't think they would,
but that hero gene in them just emerges.
I have a feeling you would, you would jump into action.
That's what I want to believe.
You're probably right.
I would do that.
You would.
But it would probably not turn out well.
Because you got to knock the gun out of their hand right away.
But you're a big guy.
You're a good physical, you're a healthy guy.
You're hiked this morning.
Yeah.
You're like, you're ready to go.
You're ready to throw down.
I am ready to go.
You are?
Ladies.
Oh, is that it?
Well, you said you were ready to...
Do you want to fight?
No.
Oh.
Careful.
Careful.
You have your sleeves already rolled up, too.
You look like you're ready to go.
No, it's good.
Kev, thanks for being here, my guy.
Guy, I always love coming here.
Well, listen.
There's a lot of things straightened out in my life, I think.
Yeah.
You've got some really good philosophy about me.
We do.
And before you go, I need you to tell people where they can see you.
I want to plug your beautiful book where they, where can they get your incredible book?
That's called I exaggerate.
My precious with fame.
It's a book of caricatures, celebrity caricatures.
I read a little anecdote on the opposite page about my experience with that person.
You can get it at, I would suggest getting at a mom-and-pop store.
But if they don't have Amazon overnight, it's, yeah.
It is, you are a freaking.
Incredible artist. I'm an artist and I can vouch. You are, there's Howard Stern. That's not the one. Is that Andy Leibowitz?
You've got to back it up a little bit. What is it?
Flip that way. That's Howard Stern. Oh, go one more page.
Maybe. Go back the other way. Oh, there's Dorothy.
You gotta go back the other way. Okay, well. This is one of my favorite ones.
It is? Oh, wow. Wow, look at this. You drew that. What medium did you use?
Medium rare. Okay, it looks well done to me.
Oh, almost burnt.
Well, it's rare that people will say that.
But check out Kevin's book, and then Kev, tell them about your, one of the funniest stand-ups in Texas.
I have a special coming out.
Talk to me.
It's called Loosen the Crotch.
I'm not sure we could find it yet.
Yeah.
But it's, I got to tell you, it's a good one.
It's a good one.
It's a good one.
It's a good one.
And also, I have the hiking with Kevin on YouTube.
You can go to that.
Yeah.
You find that.
That's at YouTube.com forward slash Kevin Nealyn comedy.
And what about your stand-up schedule?
Stand-up, good question.
Yeah.
Kevin Neelan.com.
Check out my touring schedule for my stand-up comedy.
It's quite good.
Oh, Kev, such a Danish delight to have you here.
Thank you.
I appreciate that.
It's always a pleasure coming here.
Do you want to impart any words of wisdom to my audience of 12 before we go?
No, I got nothing.
nothing at all just love peace and love peace and love and food how about just a piece of food i love
a piece of food yeah that's what i think you're trying to say that's what i'm saying might get your
energy up wow i can't go up any higher than this there's your piece of food enjoy that looks like
something else oh oh we got to go thanks kevy webb
until next time chicken chowmaine everybody and uh we'll see you then i thought it went well i
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