The HoneyDew with Ryan Sickler - Pauly Shore - PaulyDew

Episode Date: May 9, 2022

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We highlight the lowlights. These are the stories behind the storytellers. Today, very excited to have here, first time on the do. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Pauly Shore. Welcome to the honeydew, Pauly Shore. I don't know if I'm going to do this this now i just realized what this fucking podcast is so i'm supposed to talk about my lows lows yeah in a high way oh man you ready to get up about your lows am i up on the mic real good all right well before we get into what we're going to talk about today plug everything and

anything you would like. Okay. I'm in the new Pinocchio movie. I played the voice of Pinocchio that just came out with Lionsgate, which was cool. So I'm in that. And then also a new animated film called My Sweet Monster. And I play the villain in that. And then I have a one-man show about my childhood called Stick with the Dancing.

So we want to promote that. And then I have a one-man show about my childhood called Stick With The Dancing. So we want to promote that. And then all my stuff online, I'm really excited about. All this stuff on YouTube. I have a band in Vegas that I fuck with. And I don't know. Wise Guys Downtown Arts District. It's a club that I helped open for Keith from Utah that's doing really well. And it's a great fucking room for the comics. So every comic that plays there really. And Tony loved it. And Annie loved it. And everyone, Josh Wolfe is there. And so that's that.

And then what else? What other stuff? I don't know. I'm back and forth from here in Vegas. And then the Comedy Store 50th anniversary. Very respect. My parents, my dad started it. And then my mom ran it. from here in vegas and then the uh the comedy store 50th anniversary very respect my parents my dad started it and then my mom ran it and um and now my brothers are running it so so look let's

let's just go there because let's start at the beginning because you said you have a one-man show about your childhood yeah yeah so i mean if you're doing a one-man show you obviously have a lot to say about it but i'm gonna say this to you before we begin anything i want to say like i watched your rogan interview i watched a lot of your shit dude i go back i think we're probably close similar in age i'm 49 or you're not 54 yeah there you go so i remember all the mtv kids right i have a daughter and a stepson beautiful 7 and 18 beautiful he's about see i don't have a I don't have a baby. None? No.

That's a whole lot. I did have an abortion once, but I didn't put that on the pamphlet for you guys to talk about. The pamphlet. You guys can talk about that shit. That was fucking gnarly, dude. You want to talk about it? I guess, but we'll go wherever you want to go. All right. We'll come back to children. But I want to give you your credit because going back to MTV and then being a movie star,

a lady I always talk about is Sam, Miss Sandy. She was my mom growing up. My mom- Who was? My mom left the family. Her name's Sandy Patterson. Okay. And her daughter was like a sister to me, her son Shannon.

We're still all very very very tight and this is back in baltimore copy and um her daughter was killed in a car accident and it just brought us all together in a weird sad way as well 16 and your movie son-in-law comes out and she was just going through it and i'm there's a bunch of us kids are staying at her house for a little while and stuff and um i'm in the basement and i'm watching son-in-law and she comes down and she sits there and she's like what are you watching this is paulie shore son-in-law and i'm telling you she sat and watched the whole movie it became this little connection for us and when i called her right away when you were officially i called her i was like guess who's coming on the podcast so So she's all stoked.

What's her name? Sandy Patterson. Sandy, what's up? It's Pauly Shore. I know that you've probably been through some crazy shit, but the good thing is we all have, and we're all going through crazy shit. So I love you, and thank you for liking my movie, Son-in-Law.

Fuck yeah. Check out Pinocchio, bro. She's got a granddaughter. The yassification. There you go. So thank you. Yeah. You know, I get that.

You know, it's amazing because I still pinch myself. You know, I still pinch myself. I go on tour and I pinch myself when people come up and they're crying and they say, oh, this movie saved me and my friend was dying of cancer and my dad watched this movie and and he died right after he saw it and i'm just kidding and he saw bio and was like that was the last thing he died he killed himself um no it's interesting because because uh the movies came out and i was so popular at the time that you know when you're spinning and you're so popular you're gonna it's

gonna crash at some point you can't sustain you know i was doing spinning and you're so popular you're gonna it's gonna crash at some point you can't sustain you know i was doing i was doing all this forever yeah yeah i was doing all this shit but the good part is is whether the critics like the movies or not 20 30 years later they're actually more strong now than they were back then i know this because i sell tickets you know on the road amen you know what i mean? That's right. And I don't sell tickets. I don't sell tickets because of my Netflix special. I don't sell tickets because of my YouTube channel. I sell tickets because, you know, my films.

And then, you know, they start to see my other stuff. But that's how special those movies were that I did. And it just makes me feel really good that I was able to do those films and make people feel really good. And it's beautiful. It's a beautiful thing. And so is the fact that you're alive. You know what I'm saying? You're 54.

Yes. And in this business, especially, you see so many people come and literally go if you're fortunate enough to still be around. I'm doing the beat show. You do the honeydew. I got the beats doing the beat show. You do the honeydew. I got the beats. The beat show. It's the honeydew and meet the beats. The beats meet the honeydew.

And then the ginger. No, I just mix that shit up. No, I live in Vegas, so it's like there's not a lot of juice out there. So I come here to LA and I go to the juicery on Santa Monica Boulevard where they just have all the juices. Just drink these juices. So, yeah, I like have all the juices. Just drink these juices. So, yeah, I like to drink the juices, mix it up. So let's go back to the beginning with the comedy store and your mom.

And I don't know how sick you are of talking about it, but I want to know because I want to know your point of view. You're talking about this one-man show from your childhood. Talk to me about it. Where does the one-man show begin? The one-man show, there's not a lot of sadness in it. I'll dig that out. Yeah, there's sadness.

It's mostly like how, because a lot of people, the people that do know me, they know me from the MTV and the movies and the standup and all that shit. And the people that don't know me, they don't know that my mom and my dad started the store and that I grew up around there. So the one-man show is basically saying, yo, you guys know this shit. And the people that don't know me, they don't know that my mom and my dad started the store and that I grew up around there. So the one man show is basically saying, yo, you guys know this shit, but what you don't know is this shit. So it's basically me kind of

unveiling all the questions that everyone wants to know. What was it like having Richard Pryor there? What was it like Robin Williams there? What was your first time you meet Kennison? What's your first memory of all of it? That's what i want to start at the beginning like what do you first remember how old are you and what are your first memory uh remember at the comedy store it was just rock and roll you know my mom was cool my dad was cool when they first started it me and my brothers would fucking run around my sister was wild as fuck you know my sister a lot of people don't know that I had a sister. She passed away about three years ago, which was fucked up. Yeah, Sandy. And she was so special.

And she was wild and she dropped acid. And she used to go out with a guy named Filthy McNasty. Years ago, the Viper Room on Sunset. I remember the Viper Room. Yeah, but years before that was Filthy McNasty's. Oh, that's what it was. And so he used to pick her up in his fucking hearse with flames on it. And this was like his fucking, his car is, you know,

and he would honk the horn and it would sound like an ice cream truck. You know, like, da-da-da-da-da-da-da. And I'd scream, Sandy, Filthy's here. You know what I mean? And this was my life. And my parents divorced when I was three so my mom was busy at the store my dad was on the road with elvis and and doing whatever he was really yeah my dad opened for elvis for 10 years yeah no shit i see i didn't know that yeah and my dad

did you ever meet elvis yeah i did you did yeah yeah smell my finger here's the king the king the fucking king man the fucking king yeah and uh no so i my dad also remarried to a woman named stephanie stephanie was related to melissa gilbert so for a short time i was related to melissa gilbert so as a kid i was a little house on the prairie a little house on the prairie as a kid my dad would take me to set a little house on the prairie really yeah where is that i think it was at radisson studio or some shit back in the day when they used to have sets and stuff like that. But yeah, it was- And how old are you when this comedy store stuff's popping off?

I was four. I was four years old, yeah. You started at four in there? Well, my parents opened it in 72, so I was four. Yeah, I was four. And then I'm the youngest of four as well. So I have Peter and then there's Sandy and then Scott. And it's weird because they're all from the same mom and same dad.

Yet me and Scott, my oldest brother, are 15 years apart. But yet my parents didn't like each other, which is fucking weird. Because they didn't like each other, yet they kept having kids. You know what I mean? And you don't get abortions back then you just don't you know and um um but yeah it was um you know my mom was cool you know she was cool you know she loved her comedians and but she was also a good mom she wasn't like she didn't neglect me she always made sure the comedians took care of me like i got a nice email from lois bromfield who was a very funny female

lesbian comedian that actually raised me telling hey you know hey great you know great for the store and congratulations and stuff but yeah she just you know i was like a hot potato you know what i mean i was just kind of given know, binder to every single one of them. Took care of Argus, you know, dated my mom. I mean, he was fucking gnarly, dude, back in the day. Argus was really gnarly. You know, like coke, drinking, like abusive. And you're seeing all this.

Yes. Yeah. Yeah, my mom picked really bad guys. You know, but my mom believed in Argus. You know what I mean? She thought he was going to be the next, but he was, you know, he's a coke head, you know, and it was sad to see him, but he was like a violent coke head, you know, it was really, whatever you think, it was 10 times worse. It was gnarly. fucking gnarly. And then, you know, the Kenison and Dice, the Kenison and Dice food was a little gnarly as well, because I love Dice and I love Sam and I was kind of in the middle of that shit. And, you know, it was a different time back then, you know, now it's like, you know, you mind your P's and Q's, you know, wherever you go. And back then, you know, life was just like, whatever you say you did. And it's just the way of the world. Yeah.

How were you when you first tried drugs i wasn't a druggie never no i mean i did i did blow i did blow once in a while but it was always like once in a while you know it was like the beverly hills high school prom you know i went to the i went to the prom at Beverly Hills High School. It was hilarious because it was the, my friend Peter Bill drove my mom's limo. Peter Bill is the son of Tony Bill, the director that did all the fucking, I don't know, you have your girl, what's your girl's name? Kirsten. Kirsten. Google Tony Bill. He's a big director back in the day.

Like all these, so he was, his son was my limo driver for the prom and in my mom's limo. So this is the limo that all the comedians, you know, my mom would, the comedians would drive my, like Freddy Soto would drive my mom around it and all that stuff.

And my mom was hilarious. So she like, take the limo to your prom. Just have it home by tomorrow. Tomorrow. So fucking, so we went to the prom at the Hilton in Beverly Hills, you know, as far as the food part, you know, that was the beginning. And then there was the after prom, you know, the after thing. So the food part you know that was the beginning and then there was the after prom you know the after thing yeah so the food part everyone was coked out you know so you got you got all

these beverly hills kids and all these these these stuffed chickens with pilaf and rice and no one's eating shit and everyone's just like you know what i mean so that was like a big deal um it was you know beverly hills in the 80s it was like you know that it was you're born and raised west hollywood born and raised in west hollywood i mean man that's there's not many of you out there yeah like yeah me and josh richmond that's about it josh richmond was a really really good friend of mine when we started together acting he was best friends with kiana reeves and and a lot of locals from la no josh richmond So yeah, it was just kind of us. So what was your, what, before MTV, what really, you know, boosted you up? Was it just performing at the store? What catapulted you and got you in front of that audience?

It was just my determination. I mean, were you auditioning? Was that something you auditioned for? Yeah, what happened was, is I always knew I was going to do stand up. So it wasn't like, you know, as at a young age, like little, I just kind of like was obsessed with my dad and my mom and the store and making, you know what I mean? But I wanted to live my, my childhood. You know, I wanted to surf, I wanted to, I wanted a skateboard, I wanted to, you know, I was a mod for a while. Do you know what a mod is? It's basically that shit that started in London with the mud flaps. And, you know, it's like, I spoke like with an English accent for a while.

Okay. You know, it was all right, mate. We're the motherfucking mods. We are the mods. We are the mods. We are, we are, we are the mods. And we would do our scooters. So I wanted to be a kid.

So the beginning of 12th grade is when I started to take it serious. So everything i did in my life i always took serious believe it or not a lot of people might think like oh polysher is fucked up but there was always like kind of a a plan in place so 18 no no it says senior in high school 17 the beginning young yeah yeah so that's when i decided i go i'm gonna fucking start so um so i started doing stand-upup and just working everywhere but the store. Oh, really?

Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And then Argus wrote some jokes for me. Angel Salazar wrote jokes. I think Jack Perdue, who took care of me, he would write some jokes for me. Ollie Joe Prater. I don't know.

Just different comics would help me with my jokes. But I stayed away from the store. Yeah. And thentv hits and boom yeah well it was yeah it was basically um i was i was uh i was doing a movie called phantom of the phantom of the mall in 88 1988 and um and my manager got a call and they said MTV has heard about you. There was like a buzz in the town about me. So they came to see me at the store and that went well. And then I think a couple months after that, they flew me to spring break for MTV.

But that didn't go good. It didn't. No. I mean, how could it? I feel like that's just a shit show. It was a fucking mess, dude. I mean, I pretty much got sent home. It was like, because I was nervous and I didn't no i mean how could it i feel like it was a fucking mess dude i i mean i pretty much got sent home it was like because i was nervous and i didn't i didn't really know where i fit in

and i was just kind of there um so so once all that starts then you've all i've always seen you rolling with beautiful women when does all that begin because you you brought up savannah on your email and i'd forgot i i forgot about savannah until you said that i was like yeah this this woman was one of the not just a porn star one of the most popular figures at the time yeah for sure everyone knew who she was and when does all that start for you it was kind of a whirlwind you know it was right after the mtv stuff it was around that time you know i was hot off of mtv and then um you know and that's kind of like how it all happened and you met her where i met her at the comedy store um i i was at the uh i was at the porn

awards and i met this guy, Sean, a.k.a. Edward Penishands. He had a, you know, back in the day. I saw that. They had, like, you know, they had a, what was it? It was, you know, it was like, it was his hands, and every finger had a dildo. Dildo, and it would come all over you. And he would, like, fuck girls with this.

So I was like, dude, you're Edward Penishands. Like, yeah, man, what's up? So we switched numbers back in the day. And then he came to the comedy store. My mom threw me a, I used to do a club there called Club Wheeze. And it was just like, Peter Bill was there, my friend and different, my brothers were there. And it was just like different friends.

We would fuck around at the store, like a DJ and stuff. And, um, and my mom kind of gave me a night and he brought her to club wheeze. And then that night, you know, we hooked up and it was pretty awesome. I just fell in love with her. You know, she was adorable. She was like 21 and I was like 23 and she was just really cool and funny. She made me laugh and my mom loved her. She's just a really cool chick. How long did you date? Probably like two years. Oh, wow.

Okay. Yeah, on and off for two years. So you really did like her. Yeah, because we got along. She was a nice person. She made me laugh and she was cool. And then she committed, was it suicide? She committed suicide. Do you know actually what happened are you comfortable talking about it yeah um i put it in

the pamphlet that we could talk about it's the pamphlet how deep you want to get about we'll go about six inches and uh um no it was just it's a sad story there's a lot of fucking sad Hollywood stories were you still seeing her at the time that happened I was not

you weren't no we'd been friends I'd been friends because I had woken up one day and I was just like why am I dating

a porn star you know what I mean it doesn't really make sense you know like I'm you know she's cool but then she's

gonna go fuck dudes on camera and I was like I can't do that plus there's AIDS and shit and all that other stuff and diseases you know, she's cool, but then she's going to go fuck dudes on camera. And I was like, I can't do that. Plus there's AIDS and shit and all that other stuff and diseases. You know what I mean? Yeah. So it was just like, it was just, um, I just kind of woke up, you know? Yeah. So, um, yeah, she, she, uh, she, uh, was 23. That's young to kill herself. Yeah. And she just had a lot of, you know, things happening in her life. You know, she was sick of being, she was sick of being a porn star. She was sick of

being known as Savannah. She had the, she had tax problems. She owed the money, money, the government. She was, you know, dancing. It was just like this, you know, she was in a, it was like a, just like this you know she was in a it was like a you know you get viral yeah it was like a spiral thing so she was uh she was um driving with my friend jason and uh they got in a car crash kind and she was able to kind of maneuver her car back to her her house and then he goes inside to get her like a rag or something because she hit her head and then when goes inside to get her like a rag or something, cause she hit her head. And then when he comes back, she just, she did it in the garage. Yeah, so that was that, yeah.

So he saw that then. Yeah. Geez. Fuck. Yeah, and that, you know, it was fucked up because that's how I met him. I met him through Danny Boy from House of Pain. And that was fucked up because that's how I met him.

I met him through Danny Boy from House of Pain. I think I was buying my Plymouth at a car show, a Pontiac. I got this beautiful 69 Roadrunner. And I met an unknown Danny Boy for a while from House of Pain. And then Jason I met. And he's like, yo, I was with Savannah and blah, blah, blah. And it's just kind of like you hear, I mean, there's so many stories. So many.

I mean, it just, you know. But you were here for him. That's the thing. There's so many you hear about, but you're right here in West Hollywood. There's the suicide off the hotel next to the store. What was that comedian's name? Yeah, Steve Labitkin. Yeah.

Is it really true he believed he could hit the store people say that i'm like man he had to be fucked up if he just even logistically looked between the two buildings he probably didn't get good squirrel you need a squirrel suit that motherfucker he probably didn't get good spots you know it's like fuck i'm not trying to make light of a suicide i'm just making light of the distance between the two if that was your point to hit oh i heard i i you're gonna be the person to ask for this. I've heard a story for years. It's a Kinison. It's one of those, you know, you don't know if it's true or not.

But the story I've heard for years was your mom and Kinison were buttheads for a little bit, and she would give them the late night spot. They called it the Kinison spot. He'd go like 150 to 2 or some shit like that or whatever this is what i'm hearing okay and the kinnison they had butted heads and she was like you're never gonna be huge or whatever blah blah blah again and then i don't know if they had an argument or something but he took some kind of a billboard out across from the store with oh yeah is there any truth to any of this do you really remember this i hear i don't know what it is him giving the finger and then the city made him take it down but again this

you know it's like telephone over 20 years you know what's interesting is you bringing that up actually i forgot about that is that real yeah he did he did some sort yeah he him and my mom yeah they butted heads but even though they butted head your mom still let him work there well yeah it was that's what i'm saying, he would get banned and then unbanned. Okay. I mean, that's kind of what the story's about. So that was true. All right.

Yeah. You know? Yeah, yeah. We've all been banned. You know what I mean? So that's just the way it is. So, yeah, he did buy a billboard right across from the OR. But I don't think he was doing that.

I don't know. That's a good question. I want to know. ask his brother bill kennison after we get off we'll keep call bill all right and then and then i'll tell him that i just did your show so um but yeah i do remember so there is truth may not be the middle finger but there is truth that he took a billboard sending a message about something yes no shit yes yeah how about that that's one i've heard for years and it just remember that i'm like i gotta ask paulie that one um all right so everything as you say it doesn't last forever you're on this trajectory you're going up what what happens when because i remember one of the best things i've i've seen is a jo Joan Rivers documentary I don't know if you've seen that it's so good and they talk about um the the her manager at the time uh had also managed Richard

Pryor and he's like you know listen and Richard in year one we're gonna do this we're gonna get your stand-up going year two maybe work on a little special something three and four try to get you into some movies and stuff like that and he said richard briar looked at him goes listen man that sounds great but what the fuck we gonna do about monday you know what i mean like i don't have time for this five year shit and joan talked about how for years she had she had her it written in a day planner and she just opens the book and it's just white pages for years and And then boom, E hits in the Oscars, and she goes back up. So she talks about that, the ups and downs. The rise and the –

Right. Yeah, yeah. So what is the beginning of the first hill down for you, and how are you handling that? I think a lot of it had to do with the fact that I didn't feel joyful any – I didn't feel that joyful anymore what was the last thing i was going i was going from well i was going from i didn't know how to go from a a boy to a man does that make sense it does yes because i i kind of went from a boy to a

man at 30. okay you know because i was a childlike guy and then the weasel and all that shit was very, you know, to do, you know what I mean? It was just, I was, I was burnt out. I just felt like more, I had more dimensions in me than the, you know what I mean? And you'd been at it for what, about 12 years at that point? Yeah, so it was inside of me,

this kind of like relatable guy. I just didn't feel the buh, buh, buh, buh, buh anymore. So, you know, I started to look different. I started to act different. I came very self-aware that things weren't happening. I got self-aware that my box office wasn't as good as it was. I got self-aware that the critics were saying what they were saying. And you kind of

start believing it because the offers kind of dry up. You're like, well, maybe this fucking movie was terrible. And maybe, you know, you start to second guess yourself. And so, I just took, I'm a very, very vulnerable, like heart type of person, like my mom. You know, I make a lot of my decisions based off of this and not this. You know what I mean? Which is exactly like my mom. My mom's hard, you know? And I didn't look at it as a business. You know, I took it personal.

And so what happened was, is after my sitcom got canceled on Fox, I decided that it was time for me to kind of part ways with my agent and manager. I was with great agents and great management, but I was just like, I just needed a break. you know, broke up with them. And then I kind of took a break. And then I went to my attorney, Jake. And I said, well, now what? Now what do we do? And he said, you had a good run. Like, just chill. Like, just chill. Like, you had an awesome run. Like, no one does that. You know what I mean? And I'm so fucking stupid that I should have just said, yeah, just fucking chill, dude. Like, dude, you rocked. Like what I shouldn't have done is fired them and just chilled and just been like, yo, I'm just gonna chill.

You know what I mean? And, but I wanted to be alone because there was stuff that I wanted to do. And I also knew that if I wanted to do certain things, they probably wouldn't let me, whatever it was, anything. You know, I'm an artist. Look at the internet now. You can do whatever the fuck you want. And so I spit myself out, you know, to be alone, purposely, kind of, so I can connect with people more. Because I felt

like I was up here and I wasn't here, I wasn't connecting. So I kind of did that, you know, I did that. And it really, you know, it fucked with me. I lost this joy. I lost this fun. The fun thing that who Pauly Sherwood is. Joyful, loving, giving man, just someone who's crazy. So I believed in all that shit and I took it heavy. And then I hit bottom. What's bottom? Emotionally. What's going on at the time? and I took it heavy and then I hit bottom emotionally.

What's going on at the time? I just felt dead. I felt numb. I felt, I don't know. I wasn't looking at life half full. I was looking at all this and it was all- Were from the store were you withdrawing from everybody or just sort of going through the motion i was just walking around with depression yeah you know and um and then i uh called uh my group a group therapy that i was involved with when i was a kid called life spring and um and

i called them up and they had another seminar. And then I enrolled in that, kind of like AA for depression or sadness. So I enrolled into that and I got my joy back. I was able to kind of let go of all the chatter and let go of all the shit that I created and just start over again. And then that's when I did Pauly Shore is Dead. And that's when I'm like, hey, you know what? I'm gonna make fun of that situation. So not only did he kind of go away, but now he's gonna make fun of the fact that he went away.

And to me, Pauly Shore is Dead is the best movie I've ever done. I mean, I truly believe it. You know what I mean? I mean, Son-in-Llaw and Biodome are bigger movies, but if you watch Pauly Shore is Dead, you can see the pain in it, but you can also see the comedy in it.

And now Pauly Shore is Dead to me was the first part of the second part of my career. But because I put myself out there, I was able to learn to produce and direct and act and edit and graphics and mix and do like all this shit. Like I started doing this shit with Pauly Shorty's Dead 20 years ago. You know, HD. I shot HD and, you know, blah, blah, blah.

And, you know, and all that stuff. And I hired my cameraman, Brian, to shoot it who shot my Totally Pauly show. So I felt comfortable with that guy and I directed it. And I got everyone showed up. You know, Sean Penn's in it. Whoopi Gold got everyone showed up you know sean penn's in it whoopi goldberg's in it ben stiller's in it eminem uh britney spears dr dre you know everyone got the joke and it was like awesome and it took me five years did it yeah it took me five years but to me it's the best thing i've ever done because it's so fucking honest but it's so fake

at the same time because if you watch it like carrot top moves into my house you know what i mean but it's all played real real like gritty and like docu style and it's like people are like fuck i didn't know carrot top moved in your house you know and um so yeah so um and then you know i started to kind of like just didn't take things so personal. I was just kind of like, does someone talk shit? Like, okay, great. You know what I mean? They talk shit.

And ever since then, I haven't been as affected. And ever since then, it's been like this. You know what i mean and you know when i do things and everyone listening that's in the business just put your heart into it and and and and do the best you can and and say goodbye to it and and leave it you know and then it's like a shit you flush go yeah exactly it's like it's like uh Pinocchio, this, this, you know, coming out in the voice of Pinocchio, I did it and I moved on. And then it went viral, you know, my voice and everyone's like, Oh, Pinocchio. I'm like, all right. You know what I mean?

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So, yeah, it's been interesting, but I definitely look at my life half full. I mean, you should. I have to. You're three, four decades into this business. First of all, again, you're alive. This business takes a lot of people, young, quick. You've known some. You're still here, and you're thriving.

Yeah. My penis is thriving. Boom, boom. Boom, boom. Boom, boom. I saw it the other night at the store. I know it is. Boom, boom.

All right. So then after Pauly Shore is dead, do you see, is that a start of another back up to the top again, more of an incline? I was not looking at the box office. I wasn't looking at the money. I was looking at what was going on here. And this was happening. I was doing movies after creating shit from scratch. I can make shit from scratch. I can go into any town in this fucking America and enroll a director, a writer, a camera

guy, an editor, a graphics, and make shit from scratch. I moved to Vegas, and the crew that I got out there has never done comedy before. One guy does football. The other guy does comedy before. You know, one guy, you know, does football. The other guy does DJ stuff. You know what I mean? But I've got them. So I like to make stuff from scratch because it's fucking hard, you know? So I did, after that, I did, what was it? Natural Born Comics, I think, with Charlie Murphy and T-Pain. Did the Ari Shaffir's in it. Ian Edwards is in it. We did that in Miami. Then we did, fuck, what else did we do? Adopted, where I go to fucking Africa to adopt a black baby,

which I fucking shot in South Africa, which was fucking gnarly. We did that. That was fucking, fucking funny, dude. And I just make stuff. So I've done tons of stuff since then and then um and then guest house came out two years ago and that did really well for me too so that was a starring role in a film um so and i have this other movie that i wrote called uh stuck in the hood which is me with a bunch of black people and i think that i think that's a good it's a good time to do something like that now.

You know? Yeah. So, you know, but I do pee a lot. You got to pee? Not right now, but. I thought that was a cue. No. But, yeah, so I don't know. You know, I'm lucky, you know.

So. You are lucky. Yeah, yeah. So. Talk to me about some of the close people in this business that you've lost. Like who, you mentioned Gary Garfinkel. Yeah, Gary Garfinkel, yeah. You guys were really close?

Yeah, Gary Garfinkel was one of my big supporters when Hollywood wasn't supporting me, you know. Talk to me about those people. Yeah. Your real friends. Yeah. So basically, Gary and I became friends years ago, probably over 20 years ago. He ran the comedy department at Showtime.

So he produced a lot of comedy specials. Like when Showtime was spitting out a lot of special, that was his department. So we became very friendly. We'd go to the Playboy Mansion together. I got to burp one sec. We would go to the Playboy Mansion together and go to nice dinners at Dantana's and just laugh. He was just silly. And became friends with a lot of his friends. He became friends with a lot of my friends.

And he let me stay at his house a lot. Like if I wanted to come over, he lived up the street from my mom. So we would just hang out, you know? And he was just a really sweet guy. And then one afternoon I'm in San Diego, I think I'm with Sandy Danto, he's opening for me. And I think I'm in the parking lot of fucking like Roberto's or some shit. And then he gives me, Gary gives me a call

and he's like, dude, I have something to tell you. You know, he had like this stroke thing, you know, like he goes oh it's nothing you know it's kind of in denial of it and uh and i'm like and i started crying i was like dude what you know what be like you like all of a sudden getting a call that you got like a lump you're like what the fuck is this and then he got the um he got the mri and then he had like this brain cancer tumor thing yeah so then you know close friend um and this happened uh uh you know and then he died it was and it was up and this was he was 54. yeah and he was like a good guy and beloved in the business and and all the comics comics love you know jeff ross knew him

everyone knew gary garfinkel and and he was just a sweetheart and um and now you're 54 do you think about things like that yeah i yeah yeah are you taking care of your health like do you go to the doctor i don't mean yeah drink press juices and are you getting absolutely yes i actually have to have some sort of piss what's it called a piss uh piss um thing to sample no because i pee a lot oh yeah but i don't have in a large prostate it's weird but my my my prostate goes like you know what i mean it's just what happens when you're 50 yeah you know i start peeing a lot so i just I gotta go get that handled but other than that you know after I found out Gary died of a brain tumor and cancer and all that stuff

I went and had my brain checked yeah and they didn't find anything in there it's empty it's just an empty nest it was like the tin man hello hello hello are you in there are you in there are you in there but yeah I had that checked and you know thank God Are you in there? Are you in there? But yeah, I had that checked.

And thank God, because you don't fucking know. I mean, we all don't make it to 80. No. You know what I mean? It's like, I was like, my dad made it to 92. 92. So I remember- In comedy, that's like 192.

Yeah, so he was- It really is. That's- My dad was funny. I would be like, dad, let's go outside. He's like's like for what just leave me the fuck alone i've seen everything don't fucking touch my body i'm good everything i'm good i'm good right um and my mom she lived to 87 and my sister she passed that what was it uh um i think 63 and she didn't take care of herself you know she she wasn't healthy so um yeah man you know and then we all went through this this covid thing which was really

um i thought you know i thought it was fucked but i also thought it was really good in a way you know because now when we walk around we look at things like this more you know all these things yeah and um so yeah yeah it's made me look at comedy like that too like if if i'm gonna leave my kids and get get on a plane and go to a city and work a weekend it's got to be worth it it's got to be worth it and if it's not not gonna fucking do it you know what i mean I don't know how many more summers I have left. I'm 49. I am in comedy and been in comedy. So who knows?

How long have you been in it for? Since, I mean, 22 years now. I started at the comedy store. The first time I ever performed was Your Belly Room after the first you know uh open mic belly room in 99. was Falstaff in charge do you remember him no you don't remember Falstaff no I don't remember he was the best really he was this big big gay guy with like a sailor hat and he would like host a show and like you know he was he's just this big gay dude and i think he like adam barnhart ran the show that's his that was his yeah yeah that was the one that i performed on in the belly

room on like i don't remember that's when fortune worked on that right fortune feimster i think she said that i think so yeah that was a staple bro yeah false staff was fucking hilarious but um yeah so um yeah it was all like for me it all happened kind of in a year or two like my mom my dad my sister gary that whole time oh i was all and that was part of the reason why i moved to vegas you know um because i just wanted to get out of la i wanted to get away and then the pandemic obviously that had a lot to do with it so is moving to vegas the first time you've lived anywhere other than los angeles wow never anywhere else and what's it like to leave home for you do you like it do you like being in vegas yeah i mean it's cool like you

want to get back no i'm gonna come back yeah i'll come back. You know, it's just a better right now. Yeah, I'm back and forth right now. It's just a better lifestyle in California. Yeah. Vegas is fucking dry, dude. You know, it's dry during the fucking winter. It's dry during the fucking summer. It's freezing as fuck during the winter and it's hot as fuck during the summer.

And it's a little thrashed out there. I mean, there's only like three really nice places. There's like the Strip, there's Henderson in Summerland, and then everything else looks like fucking, you know, fucked up. Burned. Yeah, it's fucked up, mangy dogs. And it's a little thrashed, so that's a little, you know, not fun for me.

And then also, to be honest, there's not a lot of people in the entertainment business out there it's mostly singers and djs and bottle service people and but there's not like um you know not a lot of editors and production people not a lot yeah but they just don't do that out there that's not their thing so i kind of need to be around i need to be around you know people that speak my language as you could tell i'm an artist i got my pink you know what i mean i got my and my green glasses i wore for you because i watch your show and i know you like you like green this is called the wasabi this is called the wasabi on the shit oh that shit that that fucking bobby lee man

this fucking guy keeps talking about my dick I'm gonna punch him in his fucking belly fucking asshole curse them over their lap it's true dude he's gotta stop talking about it dude

stupid his brother Stevie's funny huh he is funny he's adorable yeah I wanna get him on here I think him and Tony Rock should go

on tour together I think I think all the brothers of community should fucking go on my brother Scott can go on tour right that'd be fucking the brothers of comedy

the brothers of stand ups tour the brothers of stand ups that's good but yeah I the thing with you and the coughing has got to stop. No, I'm just kidding. No, the thing, yeah. He still got COVID left over.

It's the residue. No, but the thing, just my advice to you as far as touring, and I say this to myself too, you know what? We can. Yeah. Meaning, number one, we got feet. We know what? We can. Yeah. Meaning we can, number one, we got feet,

we got hands, we can carry our bags. There's a lot of people that can't. It's so funny. And guess what's funny? Go say it. Guess what's funny, dude? Like there's going to be a time when guess what?

We can't. Yes. So it's like, if you could tour, like fucking tour, not a lot. No, I go around when I don't have my kids.

Yeah. Not a lot, but I just think it's think you can do it. And then at the end of the day, it's really not about you. It's about them. Yeah. You know what I mean? So it's like.

That's why I go now. It's unselfish. I'm going out. I want to meet these people that comment and write all the positivity and the love. I want to go see them live. Plus, it's another skill set. A lot of podcasters can't do an hour and can't sell tickets. I definitely can go see him live. Plus, it's another skill set. A lot of podcasters can't do an hour and can't sell tickets. I definitely can't do an hour.

No, I'm just kidding. But it's funny because I was just talking to my accountants about, they were like, hey, I want to talk to you about life insurance and all that. And then there's this disability insurance they were talking about. I go, well, just explain that to me. And they're like, well, let's just say you're, God forbid something happens and you can't work. This is a basically you pay monthly on this for whatever amount of year. I'm like, that's not for life. They're like, nah. And I'm like, man, I got to roll the dice on that because I go. So I made them get on the phone with me. I go, here's how I feel about insurance. If I'm in a wheelchair, I could still podcast. As long as I have my brain and my head, if everything from here up works, I feel like an insurance company could say, you can still work.

You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I could, and people do. There are people in wheelchairs that do stand up and shit like that. There are people that do that. So how could I argue that I can't? But I passed on that insurance. Pray for me, y'all. shit like that there are people that do that so how could i argue that i can't you know but i passed on that insurance help pray for me y'all um but you're right we can we're healthy enough

i go to the doctor twice a year i don't go once everyone in my family has died so i'm on that shit i'm every six what well it was always heart disease. But I found out now, actually years later, that my father most likely, instead of a heart attack, it was a heart attack he had, but it was a clot that killed him, not the actual heart attack. Like that ADD commercial. What's that one? I haven't seen it. You know where it gets clogged in the drain and they pour the ADD and then it declogs?

Remember? ADD. That shit. Remember? Yeah. Yeah, that's what killed him. The Drano shit. It was clogged remember ad do that shit remember yeah yeah that's what the drano shit was clogged you know yes you need to declog that shit yeah so years later and and he was 42 and this was 89 so the doctors now say look man if you died that young back then most people just ruled it a heart attack and we're learning more and more these days that most likely a lot of those could have been clots and things like that that weren't uh

just a heart attack so i'm in there i i know i have a blood disease which is i'm prone to clotting called factor 5 light and so i'm always making sure you're gonna be giving it to me jesus christ what the fuck help help let's give me a blood disease so i'm on that shit dude i'm on it i got ear shit twice a year what do you mean ear i have a uh superior something blah blah about dysfunction where i have a um my ears are always full does it fuck with your balance and stuff no no but your hearing my hearing's perfect so you just have to get them drained no there's just like a close it's like a slow a small like clog and how do you get it out i don't well so eventually it would be deaf no that's just it's just it's an ear disease i'm

gonna give it to you you give me your blood disease and i'll give you my fucking ear disease and we can mix that shit up. Let's do it. Right? Yo, bro. Baby Weez. Chinese face. Right? Where is that guy? If Bobby Lee was here, we would tie him up, bro. Bobby Lee.

We would tie him up and smack him. Yeah, I would love to smack Bobby Lee around a little bit. I think he'd like it though you know that's true he'd definitely be into it all right talk to me about i want to talk to you about your mom can i pee really quick yeah yeah we can pause it right here you can go pee i'd love to talk about your mom because i uh i'm officially passed at the comedy store now which is an honor and she told me he's so funny mom mom there's no room for him on the fucking wall you figure it out figure it out uh but no emily laford um which i love that i love first of all i love emily laford

who also books this show and she's the one that that put me in the system and you know i had to do the work and she passed me so i love the fact she and i go back forever i love the one that put me in the system, and I had to do the work, and she passed me. So I love the fact. She and I go back forever. I love the fact that after your mom, it's her for me. Okay. And I love that a woman is running the comedy store again. Yeah, she's trying to channel my mom, yeah.

But I mean, there's not been a female booker since your mom, right? I don't think so. Right, yeah. So it's back in a lady's hands. It's interesting. And I see her work in the sets. I mean, I don't always go in the same spot. I see her making me go last or next to last, early, middle,

because that's all different, different crowds, different rooms and shit. Well, she's got epilepsy, though. Who? Emily. So she doesn't know where you're going to go. She's like, fuck it, put them here. No, I'm just kidding. I was going to say, I don't know's like, fuck it, put them here. No, I'm just kidding. I was going to say, I don't know.

I'm about to check in on her. No, I was just kidding. Talk to me about your mom and the whole legacy. I mean, I want to say your mom is the king of comedy. You know what I mean? What person has put more people in front of a microphone that have gone on to do what these people have done? She loved her comedians.

But she also knew brilliant comedy. And also, I'm sorry to interrupt, but some people like comedy and they just like this one. I like clean comedy. I only like this comedy. I like this comedy. Your mom loved every range of it from, I mean, God, think about it. Paul Rodriguez and Carlin and Pryor and Kennison and Dice and all these guys are so fucking different. Tamayo Tsuki.

Tamayo Tsuki. So talk to me about it. Like you're seeing every kind of comedy growing up. And your mom, I know she loved them, but she also had that eye. Yeah, well, that's, I it was it started with my father you know she'd give him pointers and then she got the store and then she started giving other comedians point did she ever do comedy did she ever perform never not even younger on camera no what got her into comedy my father really yeah just seeing him perform?

Well, they met at a place called Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. So my dad was performing there. My dad was the original. Okay. Yeah, you know that, right? Yes. He's like the original, original dude. Like he was on tour.

You know, like we're on tour. He was on tour in the 50s playing fucking, you know, strip clubs, bars, camps, wherever he could get stage time. So he was just there. He came across a gig in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, which was a camp. And my mom worked for the boss at the camp. And then my mom would watch my father

and she would type up his jokes. Just on her own? Yeah, but they were fucking right but she's not telling him he's she's doing this or is she yeah oh they started working together yeah she'd do this sammy try this one this was good you're doing that's not funny try it you know she would just kind of like you know help him out you know i mean and support him and you know and he was very nervous around her because he kind of knew that she was right you know, help him out, you know what I mean? And support him. And, you know, and he was very nervous around her because he kind of knew that she was right, you know? And that was her natural

instinct to help and guide, you know, him. So then when she got to the store and they started that, it kind of, and he was off in Vegas, you know, working with Elvis and touring and doing his whole thing, she naturally kind of took over the store. And then the boom hit. So it was also the right place at the right time, right club. But it was his club, and then she ran it after that. Right. But she was just, again, I've said this before.

It's kind of like Justin Bieber on the steps in Toronto, wherever he got discovered. He's just playing the guitar, and then Usher sees him. Right? I mean, that's kind of how that happened. So she was at the store, and Letterman showed up, and Robin showed up, and all these different guys showed up. And it was her club, and she loved her comics.

And she just was more into them than her kids. Yeah, she just enjoyed it. It was a natural thing to her. And I think that's one of the reasons why I think she got sick is because of the business part of it. You know what I mean? She didn't like that part of it

because she wanted to be an artist and helping comedians. So it's hard to be both, yeah. Who were your favorites to see live when you were a kid? Like, you're floating in and out of there from four to now. Who was like – Well, Eddie Murphy was pretty much one of the best. You got to see him perform?

Yeah, back in the 80s. At the store, yeah. Back in the 80s. I'm dying to see him come back in there again he's got he's about to go on tour he's got to come back in there they said he had a tour book before the pandemic and he's doing shit for netflix i hope he comes through yeah so um so him and then obviously um you know cheech and ch Chong, George Carlin. I saw the whole George Carlin run at the end before he passed.

He was working out there a lot, you know, in the main room. And it was pretty cool, cause he's like a scientist, you know, and he wasn't even that funny. It was like fucking brilliant. But then you'd laugh. You'd be kind of watching like, you know, I think he had more comedy specials than any comic I think he had 14 HBO specials is that right yeah it was 14. I know he was he was considered the

most prolific writer in our art form and he released a special maybe every three years now they're turning it so quick I feel like that's what has watered down uh a lot of stand-up I see these days well it's so fast there's not as many good comedians that's all but i feel like some of the comedy could be better if you worked on it another year or two you know what i mean like and really put that time in and not just saying the same shit every night but fucking with the words here and there like you say a scientist moving this and around and changing the uh and the and shit like that's a big deal you know um and then there was guys like lenny schultz who was uh one of my favorite comedians and he was just insane do you know about lenny schultz lenny schultz was um he was a pe coach from up uh catskills

upstate new york and he used to uh be insane he was insane he was like uh crazier than gallagher remember when gallagher and i was a kid so as a kid i liked that shit. He was like, uh, crazier than Gallagher. Remember when Gallagher, and I was a kid. So as a kid, I liked that shit. So he was like this Jewish guy. He had a beautiful body and he, he, he, he'd do all this weird, he had a lot of props, but nuts. It wasn't like prop comedy. It was just like, this guy was fucking out of his mind. And, um, he used to, uh, uh, you know, juggle fish in in the bowl he would throw spaghetti in his face and then he did this thing called the lenny schultz diet and then after every show he would or this would be his closer so he would uh he would basically um take off all his clothes to his speedos and he would say something like uh uh a lot of people do diets and they put the food in

their mouth but on the lenny Schultz diet, I put the food on the body parts where you want to lose weight. So he'd put like chocolate pudding here, cottage cheese in his balls, pour milk on his head. You know what I mean? And people were like, what the fuck?

And then I would clean them up in the back, you know, where we all hang out over there. So I'd hose them down and clean them up. So he was one of my favorites. And then there was Dave Tyree was fucking funny. Ollie Joe Prater was funny. Jack Perdue was funny.

You know, you had Jim Carrey when he first came out. I was so, so happy for him. It was such a special. It was interesting because Jim Carrey, you know, people see people just make it. They don't see all this shit before. And before he made it, he did all these movies and parts where it just didn't work.

You know, I remember he did this movie called Once Bitten. Yeah, I remember. Yeah, remember that? And it was just like, I don't want to say a tank. A vampire shit. Yeah, it was just like, it just didn't work. And then I think his first one was Ace Ventura. Yeah.

And that was the big one. And I was so proud of him, you know, when he came out and he was the big one um and uh and i was so proud of him you know when he came out and and he was kind of like i don't want to say he surpassed robin williams but at the time he was like the new robin williams i mean he was getting 20 million a movie and he was you know on a roll dude you know on a roll like block but i mean these movies were making 100 million fucking pop yeah and that was like huge so he was great to watch and then for sure dice was great to watch i mean arsenio watching arsenio go from fucking you know from there to having he had the hottest fucking talk show no doubt hottest talk show bill clinton came on played the saxophone i was on his show a lot on arsenio.

It was really cool for me to do all these talk shows like Letterman and Leno and Arsenio. Because all these guys babysat me and they watched me. And I'm sitting across from Letterman. I'm totally fucking with him. You know, if you look at old Letterman's with me, it's really funny. Really funny. Because he gets uncomfortable. Because I'm like, dude, you're on the Commissar basketball team.

Stop fucking with me. You know? Shit like that. Yeah, it was great but he was he was fantastic and that's why i thought i thought binder did such a good job on the on the doc because um uh he was there you know binder was physically there so he he he got the trust from from all the comics. You know, and he did a good job. He's a good director. So I was happy that he was the one that did that. All right. So you got Pinocchio going on now.

I got the one-man show. I'll be at the Dynasty Typewriter. It's on my website. And I'm going to Brooklyn. I'm doing some shows in Brooklyn with it. And Mike Binder's directing it. And then also a company called Radical Media is producing it. So we're going to Brooklyn. I'm doing some shows in Brooklyn with it and Mike Binder's directing it. And then also a company called Radical Media is producing it.

So we're going to try to sell it. Tell me more about the, like, what are you- It's cool. What are you diving into? Just fun. In the one man show? Yeah, yeah, it's fun. Can you give me a story?

I talk, I did them all today. This is the fun stuff. Yeah, I did them all today. I talk about my dad opening for Elvis. I talk about my mom partying with richard pryor and robin williams i talk about my sister dating filthy mcnasty but i mean you're when you say you talk about your mom partying with richard pryor robin you're seeing that but you're around yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah there's scenes you know because again i wouldn't do the fucking show if i didn't think it was interesting or i want to hear all this shit yeah i wouldn't do it if i

didn't think people thought that i thought that people would think it was interesting well there's a lot of fucking work that goes into tell me something about richard prior because to me that's my i mean look i say this all the time. I think Richard's the greatest. However, recently, I believe it was Tom Segura's tour manager, Dave, who told me that Eddie Murphy had a tour of arenas before the pandemic hit. Now, I don't question the validity of that at all, but if you haven't done stand-up in decades and you're going immediately into arenas, I got to say that there's no question who the GOAT would be at that point.

Yeah. That's beyond crazy. Yeah. But, no, Richard's the original. I mean, he's the best. Tell me some stuff about him. I mean, it's just his vulnerability, his likability. What do you remember about personal moments with him?

He was just gentle. Was he a good guy to you and stuff? Yeah, he was gentle and he was quiet, yeah. He was quiet, huh? Yeah, like he would always kind of, you know, sit in the back. I would always go get him a drink. You know, he'd come in, you know, and I would shake his hand and follow me, and then I would go tell my mom Richard's here, and then she'd go see him.

Those are those photos. Sometimes you see them together. Because, you know, I was the one that like, you know, I was the owner's son. So, you know, I wanted to make sure Richard felt good. He'd have a cigarette. And then, you know, and then I would fucking, I would, the MC would be like, who's next? And then I'd like run up there and I'd fucking give him the piece of paper, right? And then the second you say the word Richard Pryor,

everyone fucking, it was like people just had a heart attack. It was crazy and then he showed up and you're like, oh fuck, that's him. And then towards the end of his life, he came up a lot in his wheelchair, which was cool. And so, got multiple sclerosis. I had him on my MTV show, which was dope. You did get that one?

Yeah. Oh, I didn't know that. It was great. Yeah. I fucking sat down. It was right before he started to kind of sway. So that was really cool. And he laughed.

And it was right at the beginning of the wheeze shit. I remember. So that was cool. he never lost his mind. I remember seeing an award ceremony where, I can't remember who it was, they gave him an award, and he could no longer clap, and his daughter took his, like, sleeve, and she just raised it up so he could wave and acknowledge the crowd and stuff. But then when he got out there, he's in his wheelchair,

they give him this award, and as they hand it to him, it falls a little bit, and he sets it in his lap and the first thing he says is i'd like to thank y'all for giving me this heavy ass award and i start laughing i start laughing right away because it's his body that's failing him it was never at least at that point it was not his mind it was still there his sense of humor seemed to still be there and all that shit you know uh yeah it was uh you know he hit it pretty hard you know he was he was you know he was rocking and rolling you know so well dude thank you very much for uh coming on here and talking about this stuff today cool all good promote everything again please oh yeah so uh just all my social media just poly shore

youtube poly shore my band the crusties um that's really fun i like that that's fucking stupid um and then all the the voiceover stuff that's out and then the one man show is is everywhere i'll be in new york and then i'll be here in la and before i forget i'm gonna ask you because i forgot to ask you before you plug there, uh, advice you would give to 16 year old Pauly Shore now after the things we've talked about today and what would you say? Well, I would probably say, you know, before you make certain decisions, maybe think more with your head and not your heart. Great advice. It is. Because you got your mom's heart. Yeah.

And sometimes you make, cause you know the truth, you know the truth, but sometimes it's not about the truth. Sometimes it's about some other shit. Yeah. You know what I mean? So,

but it is what it is. Like you said, I'm alive. We're alive. People watching, we're alive. We've all been through a crazy ass fucking time. Fucking my hearts go out to all the people in Ukraine right now. I'm watching that shit. People are like, what do you do at night?

I'm like, I watch the news. And the reason why I watch the news is because I got a big heart. I don't watch the news to, you know, because my heart is hurting for those people. It's fucking terrible. What's going on over there? I've never seen anything like that before. And guess what? We're from there. Those are our ancestors. My grandparents were from Kiev. Is that right? Yeah. So, you know, those are all our people, Is that right?

Yeah. So, you know, those are all our people, you know, and what he's doing there is just fucking just, it's, it's, it's, you know, I'm dying. So every night, every night I'm watching. Seeing the videos and tanks coming down. Yeah, every night. Could you imagine that shit? Like, fuck, that's a city in the world right now. Yeah. Yeah.

It's crazy. Yeah. So, yeah, my heart's go out to those. And Sean Penn's out there right now and making a documentary so we'll see sean penn has done so much listen man we all got vaccinations at dodger stadium because of sean penn you know that right no i don't that's all him man and he's so when we were out um in line we're getting our – Eva and I are in the car. We're getting our first shot, and they line you up in Dodger Stadium. And this lady's talking to us, just worker there. And, you know, you're sitting in your car, and you wait about 15 minutes.

They give you this, you know, boom in the arm. And then they make you sit there. And Sean Penn just walking a lot, little tiny-ass Sean Penn. She's like, he did this. Because the thing was the vaccination at the time was available, but they were saying, we don't know how to get it to everybody. And Sean Penn set up this whole fucking thing. I can't remember the name of his company.

And I want to, it's a core or C-O-R-E or something like that. But anyway, he set it all up and we were all able to go get these shots because one dude gave a fuck enough and was like, let's just do this you know and politicians aren't doing shit like that yeah he's yeah he's uh i mean not only a great actor he's a great dude he's done a lot yeah and um he cares he's got a big heart you know and that's really what it's about that's it is caring for people and helping people yeah so i like helping comics too that makes me feel good it makes me feel feel good to see you know josh martin you know killing now uh you know jesus sandy all of them you know uh all these guys opened for me for years

you know and before when they were open for me i don't want to say they were terrible but they were pretty you know what i mean you put open for me I don't want to say they were terrible but they were pretty fucking you know what I mean you put them out there in that audience and they've gotten good yeah you know so

yeah I like to help people well thank you for doing this today bro alright bro thank you we'll see you in the lot yeah I'll see you tomorrow alright Ryan Sickler on all social media

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