Tosh Show - My Key Grip - Rick Uva

Episode Date: June 17, 2025

Daniel is joined on set by key grip Rick Uva for stories about their decade working together, filming the shootout scene for “Heat,” and surfing competitions in the 70’s. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Listen to the BIN News This Hour podcast on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I also want to address the Tonys. On a recent episode of Checking Game with Michelle Williams, I open up about feeling snubbed by the Tony Awards. Do I? I was never mad.

I was disappointed because I had high hopes. To hear this and more on disappointment and protecting your peace, listen to Checking In with Michelle Williams from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. We asked another former employee of Tosh Porn of the same question. So here goes, talk about what a good time that show was and how easy I was to work with. I would say you're the easiest person ever. You hear that Andrew? I know he listens every week.

I was a pleasure to work with. You were. Tosh Show. Tosh Show. Tosh Show. Welcome to Tosh Show. I'm Daniel Tosh. And I'm Daniel Tosh.

And I'm Daniel Tosh. And I'm Daniel Tosh. And I'm Daniel Tosh. And I'm Daniel Tosh. And I'm Daniel Tosh Show! Tosh Show. Tosh Show. Welcome to Tosh Show. I'm Daniel Tosh and I can name that TV show in under two frames. Go ahead. Give it to me. Little House on the Prairie. God damn. Boom!

You see that? I mean, Half Pint's not even in the picture. How'd you get that? You see that? I mean half pints not even in the picture. How'd you get that? Were you forced to watch the Little House on the Prairie Eddie? 100% I didn't even know it was forced There wasn't a lot on. I think I was I think we were forced to watch it. You know, I always uh Get confused. What? Well, who's the who's this star of? Little House on the Prairie, the father? Michael Landon.

Michael Landon. I always say, oh, he was the closeted gay man, but I know that that's not true. I get that confused with the Brady Bunch. Right. You know, he was closeted, right? Oh yeah, Robert Reed, who played Mike Brady on the Brady Bunch was gay and kept a sexual orientation

Private for most of his life. Anyway, I always get that can I always got them confused? I wouldn't fuck Carol either. I Was into Carol you like Carol Brady? I thought she was alright. All right. I thought she was all right You mean she certainly dressed nicer than my wife ever has Do you like Lassie? I hated Lassie. I'll be honest with you. I don't like a border collie. That fucking weird face. So skinny. Ugh. You know who I liked? Benji. You know I liked Benji over Lassie? Benji was a mutt. I'm just, I'm more of a mutt guy. Now you say, oh, Carl's not a mutt. Depends on who you ask.

AKC, I don't think they're recognizing Bernaloodles. I know what I sound like when I talk. Like an idiot. Sometimes I get nostalgic. These shows, I was cleaning out some stuff as I always do. I found this photo and it was a photo I took of a man. Okay. Like just his face.

Right. I mean not like a man, man, like early 20s. And I was like, oh my God. I don't remember his name, but I'm like, it just immediately took me back. This guy worked at the Comedy Works in Denver, Colorado, a club you and I've worked a ton of time. Oh man, remember they were always like,

we don't put you up in a hotel because we have a really nice condo. Okay, Wendy, that's nice, but some of us would like room service, but that's beside the point. You stay at the condo, and you have to walk through a 7-Eleven, which oddly at the time was like a plus exactly oh, you know get some gross snacks at night and head on up to my room

And you know get rid of this weird faux fur blanket that has been jerked in by every other comic Anyway one week. I was working there as a young comedian, and this guy was an employee there. And he and I just hit it off, and I just found him hysterical. And I just remember, like, we, like, went out every night. Maybe we went out during the day for, like, lunch and stuff. All of a sudden he's had, like, a best friend.

You're just doing stuff. We were just hanging out. It was just funny. I was like, this guy is hysterical. And then the next time I worked there, he didn't work there anymore. I just never, you know, it was, you don't ask. When you're a man, it's hard for you to ask

for another man's phone number. Like, hey, we should stay and keep in touch and hang out. The point is, I'd like, I'd like you guys, my fans, uh, to find out who this guy is and where is he, what's he doing? And does he remember hanging out with me for a week and were his memories fond? I like it. I'm curious. It's a mission for the listeners.

Yeah. So it's a job for the listeners. They can figure stuff out. They seem to have all the answers. I know it sounds, you know, I want to make sure I use the right PC term here. I know it sounds fruity. I think that's what you're supposed to... I think that's the right way to say it. But I just had a good time with this guy. We had tons of laughs. I don't know. I hope this works.

I hope it works too. That'll be a fun guest. Yeah. Have him on. What if he had, what if he, I would be heartbroken if he's like, what? I don't remember. Oh yeah, I did work there.

Oh. Ooh. We hung out. I think it's gonna, this is gonna, this could be great. Okay. Speaking of blast from the past, today's guest, he was with us every step of the way on Tosh.0 and now he's here. He's back. So old. He is so old. He's our oldest

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I've always been told I'm a really good listener, right? And I maximized that while I was lying. Listen to Deep Cover, The Truth About Sarah on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Tosh Show! My guest today worked with me at Comedy Central from our show's first day to its last. He's seen it all and knows too much. He's the most respected crew member in the history of Tosh.0. All right, that's fair. Please welcome Key Grip Rick. I still have no idea what a Key Grip is.

All right, Rick, how are ya? Doing fine, sir, thanks. Thanks for the invite, Daniel. How you been? Living the dream. What dream exactly is that? My wife's dream. Ha ha, your wife's dream.

How long you been married? All together, about 40 years, but we got two wives. How many women is that? That's two women. 40 years to you, how many did you give the first one? First one was about eight, nine years. How many years was the writing on the wall? And you're like, ooh, we should have got rid of it then.

Well, I think it was probably after about seven, maybe. It's kind of separated, grew apart. That seven-year itch, is that a real thing? Well I think it was itchy all the time. Yeah, that might be herpes. All right, Rick, do you believe in ghosts? I believe in the spirit. I guess you can call them ghosts. The Holy Ghost, how about that one? Well sure, he's like the top ghost. Yeah, he is. He's above Casper. I know. By the way, I want people to know, I thought I was gonna be dressed exactly like you because every time I've seen you For just years and years you have a black t-shirt on and a headband and sure enough

You have a headband on but today you've fancied it up with a Henley You've got so I didn't know that you were good. I didn't know you owned the button shirt My wife dressed me today. Oh, I mean cuz that's as fancy as I've seen you. were, I didn't even know you owned the button shirt. My wife dressed me today. Oh, I mean, cause that's as fancy as I've seen you. I'll pop these buttons around. Why do you wear black shirts every day of your life? Well. Is it just to work?

It's for work and if we see a reflection, like I was shooting something the other day in a beautiful black piano lacquer, and they say, hey, I can see your jeans. So you don't wanna be that guy being called out when they're getting that take number six and they love it So everyone wears what they call show blacks. Gotcha. All right, so there was a reason that you're always there's a reason I don't feel like you you would you could have mixed it up a little bit Maybe we're like a Navy or something like that could have you were born and raised in Southern, California

Tell me about what life was like here seven decades ago You could paddle out to Malibu and get waves to yourself. Mm-hmm anywhere you wanted to surf you could do that I'm going to long I surfed yesterday at the rock. I'll say where I surfed it was uh, it was overhead glassy There's a real swell that was fading out and I surfed for two people great I mean, so it still happened people always always say like, you know, I don't know if it's revisionist history a real swell that was fading out and I surf for two people. Great. So it still happened. People always say, I don't know if it's revisionist history, oh, there used to be no crowds.

It's like, you can still find it. You have to dedicate your life to it. And the reality is we get older and we can't dedicate every minute to surfing. Exactly. So you were a surfer. When did you start surfing? I was 11. First board was a Greg Knoll,

8'11", picked it up for 10 bucks from the Greg Knoll shop, right there off of PCH and Pier Avenue. And just took to it right away? It was like, oh this is it. Yeah, when you first stand up, you're on top of the world, Daniel. It's like, wow, that's pretty good. I started in third grade, North Carolina. I was living in New Bern, North Carolina

We had something to come there because I went to a predominantly black school there You grew up in a predominantly black neighborhood in Inglewood. Where else did you live? Then from Inglewood we moved into Hawthorne. A slight notch up would you say or is that lateral? The neighborhood was called little watts little watts Mm-hmm, and all my schools were blended. So what is your ethnicity? I've always been on Italian. You're an Italian Did you guys know he was Italian? Yes. Okay My mom was a Russian Jew Russian Jew. Mm-hmm. So I say we're a Jew up. Oh, I don't say that I can say He's that okay So I say we're a juwap. Uh oh, I don't say that. I can say it.

Eddie, is that okay? Please, don't go to Eddie. Rick, we're all in trouble if he's the barometer. You don't do drugs, but look like the biggest hippie I've ever laid my eyes on. I'd say I'm fit right in that mold. You've never. I didn't bring any patchouli oil today,

but I'm an old hippie. Did you ever, did you go through a big drug phase? No, never did. Marijuana? Well, yeah, I did a CBD once in a today, but I'm an old hippie. Did you ever, did you go through a big drug phase? No, never did. Marijuana? Well, yeah, I did a CBD once in a while, but you know. But not, not? But any of the other stuff, I mean, you know. Are you still a hippie at heart?

Yeah, I'm still a hippie at heart, Daniel. Did you go to college? Little bit, not much. I was more of a hands-on guy. I was doing metal welding and stuff like that, and then Mal was 10 foot, and I didn't want to do arc welding in the summer and in the Leathers when I just quit And it started surfing then I became a landscape contractor Surfing took you around the globe though kind of yeah, I guess it you I mean you're yeah

You never considered living someplace that you couldn't surf. No, I had to be by water. That's the problem I've always said that's the problem with surfing it ruins you in that you'll't surf. No I had to be by water. That's the problem. I've always said that's the problem with surfing. It ruins you in that you'll only live by water, which happens to be the most expensive areas to live. Right. Ah, it's a bad thing. And then being like, if you really dedicate yourself to surfing, that doesn't coincide well with making a good living.

Exactly, I learned that when I was doing contests. You were a competitive surfer in California and Hawaii. Describe what that was like. Well, I was a competitive, I did one year, I served pretty well, I was out of high school, probably 17, maybe 18, and I got to the Huntington Open. It was WSA back then, so I won the first heat, I kept winning the first, and then I moved to 2A,

and then 3A, and heat I kept winning the first and then I moved to Two a and then three a and I just kept winning and then I got an invite to surf Malibu Before a contest with all the pros. Well, I served Malibu quite a bit. I knew the break I knew the tide so this was that first point who actually here's what they did They put everyone out at third point and we had it to ourselves four guys in the water double eliminations From second point all the way to and was Four guys in the water, double eliminations from second point all the way and was lining up all the way to the pier. But talk about hooting and hollering. That's a good day.

It was a good day. And then I just kept winning and winning because of double eliminations and then I had to go in the final. I surfed seven times that day and I had to go up again to my purpose. He was like the best guy around. Roundhouse Cup action. I studied him quite a bit. He was a South Bay guy. I can't even paddle out because you got to go out. Well he won anyway but that was like a claim to fame but like you said there's no money in the business. What is this? Steamer's Lane in the contest. That's you? Yeah. Back in Steamer Lane. Boom. Oh that water was cold. Cold. Cold water up at Steamer Lanes. You ended up in Australia.

I did. How long did you live there? I lived there for about a year and a half, but I stopped in Maui for about four months. And then I surfed at Honolulu Bay. Best wave in the world, at least for me. Uh-huh. I got in really, really good shape

because you're just out there, and the waves are bigger and stronger. I don't like big waves not on either I'm like six seven foot waves when comes bigger than that. I don't know overhead double overheads Why I say that's enough you try to stand outside and get the big set wave, you know You worked in Hollywood for nearly 40 years. How much of things changed during that time? I'd say when I started we were burning arcs Which are the old the lights that were tied to they were like welding rods that were put together and they created this arc in these lenses and then we're shooting film.

The mags would come in a thousand foot mags. It's got big things like Mickey Mouse ears on the old cameras. It cost a dollar a foot to buy it and two dollars a foot to process it and you only get three minutes out of it. So that's changed quite a bit. So you're spending three grand on just three minutes and who knows what's gonna take. So then eventually they changed the lights. Now it's all LED and the cameras are little chips. Yeah. Star Trek said here's a chip we found about this planet and all of a sudden everything's on it. Well for people that always see the title key gri in the credits and myself, what does a key grip do?

I would say the key grip's responsibility is listen to the director and then you want to listen to the head guy, the head electrician. And then anytime he moves, we go and service his lights. So he puts up a light, we go in there and shape it or cut it. Then we put people on the dolly. Sometimes we have a dolly, sometimes it's just handheld. So we stay right next to the camera. A lot of times we see the cranes moving. That's probably two key grips or sometimes it's camera operators now. Explain the difference between grip, best boy grip, and key grip. Okay, the key grip

is pretty much the guy in charge. He's in charge of men and equipment. So you make sure you surround yourself with the best guys. Then the best boy is basically like your wife. You know, you get someone that is brilliant, really good at taking care of the numbers, making sure all your points fit together. And he basically handles all kinds of stuff.

Like I say, Matt, we need three guys and we're going to be doing this and here's our order. So he'll get it all squared away, get it all sent in. That's our best boy. It can be a best girl. It can be a best girl. Oh yeah. Do they change the title to best girl when it's a female? Sometimes, but I think they stick with the best boy.

Okay. That's got to be a fun credit read yeah best boy Susan yeah um and then the key grip and that's that's and then we have and then oh sorry then just a regular grip got it right there's a book titled the grip book written by Michael G. Uva any relationship to you that's my big brother. Is it really taught me? Did you know that? Yeah, I was like a silver spoon guy started in the commercial world How good is your grip by the way? It's good. Oh man That's a strong grip What were the glory days of Hollywood, I think they treated you great. We were doing commercials all around the United States.

So our boss, he lived by like a block and a half from Malibu Pier. His wife was a producer. So he'd fly us to all these different states. We'd send the trucks out, grip and electric. He was a photographer, so he didn't use many lights. He liked the sunrise, sunset, shots golden hours and then would stay in these great hotels Give us some money per diem and talk about the cocaine was there tons of cocaine back. I think I missed that Fortunately, I know you but not for me it well

There was a little bit still dabbling around and then you know once that the bike came down in cocaine I don't think he saw it on set, but I heard stories about people would be getting paid in time and a half or double time by Bendals, I mean that's a rumor talk about working on the set for the film heat the shootout scene Unbelievable we spent a month on the weekend Saturdays and Sundays with the shootout scene They robbed the bank of the West they started running down Figueroa, and there's basically 30 cops and the guys are running away and you see flames coming out the barrel. It's pretty good.

And then we got down by the Omni Hotel Sunday morning and all of a sudden, boom, boom, boom, everyone's shooting cars running back and forth forth you see people look out the window They hit the deck because they thought it was a real shootout. Well right because you were using Is Michael Mann we weren't using real bullets, but we're using real blanks right with flames coming out So just as loud as any just as loud just as scary What are some of the famous movie sets you've worked on? I worked on Heat, G.I. Jane was, your show was pretty good and always turning and burning something.

From Heat to Tosh.0. Most people wouldn't put those two in the same sentence, but I think I appreciate Rick doing that. Yeah, they fit. I feel like when you're talking about Heat and you talk about Tosh.0, it's two peas in a pod. Was Tosh.0 an easy gig or was it a pain in the ass gig? Where did it fall?

I'd say it was probably the easiest gig I've ever had. And I know because I usually, you never saw me because I always got behind the drapes, but as you're up there rehearsing, I got to hear your life and this, that, and things are going on, and the rehearsal of course. I'd be be at the drapes making looking at my shoes. I see Castro come up Oh, are you in Astro and then let you out get out the door and then let the people out of that stage It's fun. We had it down. Yeah

No, it was that was it was a well oiled machine and I appreciate that you made sure everything ran smoothly and quickly How many layers of green screen paint Were on the wall by the time my show ended Oh, I'd say probably about an inch thick there was a lot of green paint I was so huge that green screen wall was so huge talk a little bit about Ram board Alright Ram board's good for protecting your floor Everywhere I looked there was Rambo layers of it. your floor, because we always had different floors. We always had Ram board. Everywhere I looked, there was Ram board. Two layers of it.

Throw them a plug. Man, Ram board, I don't think you're a sponsor of the show, but man, you really should. We really loved your cardboard that we would roll out everywhere. I think I stole a few rolls of that Ram board at some point. Good to have. Oh, it's amazing.

If you're working your garage, you can roll that out quickly, especially if you're doing ding repair. I loved it I right what's the most insane thing you were asked to do on tosh point? Oh, I'd say one year We did these tracking marks up in the ceiling memory had cameras and we put all these weird looking things up in the ceiling We had to clamp them up there because they were trying to get Kind of like what they do now like volume stages where you can see all around but they were trying to track all these marks so you could almost get a lid over the top of you.

That was kind of tricky but we had first we had to build those things and then we had to clamp them and then C-Stan arms. It was like a whole day to set it up and like a half day to take it down. Did we use it? I don't know. We put them up but they were up there. I think they were up there forever and we don't think we used them.

I think I could, I think they're still probably up there. No, I know where they're at. When I switched our schedule to start at 7 a.m. every day, did you hate that? I loved it. You loved it. I loved it. I'm up early, I was up at three, four in the morning

all the time. But I remember you said you wanted to get into the business because you wanted to serve. Yeah. Because you'd go two or three hours in the commercial and psst 4 in the morning all the time But I remember you said you wanted to get into the business because you wanted to serve Yeah, because you go two or three hours in the commercial in the lineup Plus you could if you knew the tide you come in later surf in the morning I like surfing it I always the whole schedule got moved early so I could like just we could we could work in the morning Fine, I'd rather my I'm not a morning person. I'd much rather surf right before dark. So afternoon glass Oh, man, that's my little heaven there. You like everyone hates the traffic in Los Angeles, but you say, you know what?

Here's my workaround. I'm gonna leave, you know before the butt crack of dawn or in the morning and and get off by six Right, but you you get wherever you need to get and then you get there What you just sit in your car everyday and read books? I enjoy it. I read a few little bit of get my bowl of manna you know. Because if you if you can avoid the traffic it's really just a lovely city. I put it on cruise control all the way from my house. It's 99 miles to my boat. I'm taking up like 40 miles a gallon. Let's talk about that for a second. Now you yes we say you live in Escondido but you also for the majority of time when you're working in Hollywood a lot of times you live on a boat right I called my floating condo a floating condo 30-foot sailboat Catalina do you

ever do you take it out no don't take it out have you ever taken it out we took it out when we moved it over into the bay into we were in we got it in Santa Monica and then we moved it into Redondo. Are you a proper sailor? Nah. But I was thinking about doing it. Are you competent? Well, no.

I'm not getting in there with you. No, no, I'm not competent. I, before I take that thing out, I'm gonna have someone teach me. Plus, I thought about fixing up the boat, but you know what a boat stands for? Break out another thousand. Uh huh. Okay. And at this point I don't have a whole bunch of thousands to get it. Fair enough. Tip top shape. What's it like living in a boat stands for what I got another thousand. Uh-huh. Oh at this point I don't have a whole bunch of thousands to get it a fair and top shape. What's it like living in a boat? It's comfortable. You sleep like a baby in that boat like you're still in the womb

It's great. I don't know that I slept well in the womb. I'm gonna I'm gonna be honest. Well, it's like a giant waterbed Yeah, well a waterbed is horrible. That's the worst night's sleep ever Well, if you get the baffles in them, it's much better. And they're heated, of course. I didn't get the baffles or the heat. I heated waterbed. Rick and Sam, that's the grossest sounding night's sleep I've ever heard.

Heated waterbed, good. All right, hold on. So how long have you been in this boat? This one probably about, for 13 years, I guess, we've had this boat. And I share it with a guy that lives in Arizona he's a sound mixer okay so we split the rent and it's now gone up to about 400 just under 400 a month that's that's your slip fee well each of us so it's about 800 with bottom cleaning how often you clean the bottom they come about every month month and

a half every month they take a piece of carpet and wipe it down. The ocean's brutal. It's hard. And then you got to replace zincs in it every now and again. How often are you doing the boat now? Well, I was there this morning, and usually I'm there. I book up in the morning, do my job, and then I go crash on the boat. And instead of going home in the afternoon, I wait till early in the morning

and reverse course and do the same thing. But there was a time when I was working with you before the pandemic. In the afternoon I wait too early in the morning and reverse course and do the same thing But there was a time when I was working with you before the pandemic I was punching in over 200 days a year. That's a lot of time. I was bouncing off a lot of different shows Well, I stayed on the boat Maybe a hundred and fifty days Do you remember when Eddie got hammered at a bar called? What is it nauseous place at the Redondo pier and called to hang out because you were living on the boat? Yeah, I remember that.

But you didn't answer? I remember that. I think I had 135 beers on tap. Eddie, what were you trying to do? Find a place to sleep that night or something? Let's go hang out, Rick's got a boat here. Yeah. Were you gonna take the boat out?

Oh, that would've been a great idea. Is that the key to a happy marriage? You guys just like to separate, you live on a boat half the time and she's well it's just our lifestyle but I think if you want to stay married you should have some air gap between you guys so because you know people get a little picky about certain things and you'd get that space it's nice I just worry if I if I get space that I'm just gonna kind of keep drifting farther and farther away. Nah, you won't do that. Well, you got the kids, you know, you want to hang with the kids. I love the kids. Yeah, you know, and I love the wife.

I'm really- That's why if you want to keep it, it's nice to have some space. I have no space. It's just it's all about just on top of each other at all times. That's hard. Yeah, well, I didn't start till later. I'm on my second marriage, It's all about just on top of each other at all times. That's hard. Yeah, well I didn't start till later. I'm on my second marriage, but it's just my first marriage. Yeah, right. So I feel like, yeah, I got to act

like a knucklehead earlier. Right. And I'm good. How many different Comedy Central shows have you worked on? Probably a dozen. Jim Jeffries. I started out with the Norm MacDonald Sports Show. Then I did The Burn.

Then I did Anthony Jeselnik, the Jeselnik Offensive. In the meantime, I was taking care of your show. Then we did Lights Out with David Spade. Then we did another one with David Spade that was after party, that was a fizzle. It didn't last that long. And then a third one with David Spade. I didn't do the other one with David Spade.

And then I did another one with Anthony again, called Good Talk. That was pretty good. Uh-huh. And, uh, probably a few more. And then the pandemic happened. Wiped us all out. Although we had pandemic money, so it wasn't so bad. Was I the only show that ever paid you, uh,

after the show was canceled? Daniel, I wanna say thank you for that. I mean, I could mention the numbers, but then again. Well, that doesn't seem appropriate. No, it's not appropriate. But were they good? Yeah. Oh, okay, good.

You could say it was the best tip I've ever gotten. No, that's nice to hear. And it was, and you know, I mean, didn't need to. We all made decent money working for you. And a lot of times I'd be sitting there and waiting and waiting, and then Bill say, hey, go home. And you know, some days you just weren't ready to shoot

or things weren't right. So I go either go to my phone. Yeah, I'd get real testy. Just be, I refused to come out of my trailer. I tried to make sure your house was clean, Daniel. My goal was to tell everybody I was your best bitch, I kept your house clean, and I didn't say a word. And we never talked.

Sure, biggest asshole you ever had to work with. You don't have to name names, but say who it was. What's his name? Timsigil. Oh, was he bad? That's a shame. Yeah, he, you know. It sucks because he loves headbands too.

Yeah, but you know, it's the attitude. And you know, now the nicest, I would say cowboy guy, he does all the voiceover for Ram Trucks. Sam Elliott? Sam Elliott. Sam Elliott was the nicest guy you've worked with? Nicest guy in the world. We were doing something pretty close in Ventura.

Uh-huh. So he walked back through the riverbed, sat down at the table, talked about his wife and the vegetable garden and he was just like, just a guy. Wow, what a jerk. Just a sweetheart of a guy. Makes us all look bad. Nah. Acting like a normal person.

By the way, are we in the All Valley contest later today? This reminds me of the Cry-D-Kid. Is that a Tosh.0 dot on there? Yeah. It's not actually your dot. This is a cloth dot. But I do have some of those things. I brought some of those dots, which you might wanna.

You brought gifts for me? Oh yeah, I got gifts for everybody. I'm like, you know, my brother's Michael G. Uva is now Santa Mike. He's been Santa Mike forever. Let's let's see. Let's see what you brought I'm excited to see some of this stuff. Okay This one for your dog. Oh Carl gets a gift. Carl gets a gift. Oh headband Oh, man, let me tell you something about dress. I'm not I don't know if you have to put it On you could use it as throw it away if you want

I won't well, but he looks pretty cool running down the beach. What else you got? Come on. Let's see some stuff Now you taking your kid out in the water yet. Yeah. Oh My first wetsuit. That's your first wetsuit. No, I'm not just kidding, but I thought that fit him Well, it might and then if he grows out of it, then you give it to the daughter here Rick. I got you a gift I got you a wetsuit for my kid. There you go. All right, don't want it. That's very nice of you There you go something that what do you do? Oh, they just give me a Nike hat But then I see on the side of it says torch point. Oh I can't wear this this hat is

Horrible Rick. I bet you get a kick out of you wear these no No, they're still brand new. They're just sitting here. That is not me. Hey, that looks like we've worn it I don't what does your hair? What's this a Comedy Central hat? I'm fuck Comedy Central I'm not wearing a Comedy Central. I have the pieces of shit. You know they fucked us Rick Why would we I want to support although I still work with them. Oh, sorry about that comedy center. You're still good I can show her that's fine. Okay. Well so far them. Oh, sorry about that. Comedy Center, you're still good in Rick's eyes. I do short form. That's fine, okay. Well, so far, Rick, these have been just duds.

This one you'll like. My buddy's a painter. Oh, that is pretty. I figured you'd like that. Why would you figure I'd like this? Because you serve. Because it's waves. Yeah, it's waves.

Wait, am I looking at upside? Rick, I was looking at upside. Yeah. This looks a lot better when it when it's oh, that's nice Look at that look at his artist friend. What's your buddy's name Tony Ritter Tony Ritter? Thanks for that. It's on metal Yeah, you see that I know right where that's gonna go Good grief, you're just doing the same bit that I do you're just fucking getting rid of your shit I had an empty my closet. Well, you go. That's a book That's the original book the grip book. Oh, this is nice. Actually you can have that

Look at this his brother wrote this the grip book and then how to become a motion picture film technician Look at this by the way a C clamps. Oh, I call it the first emoji book You know see you letters a lot letters. A lot of C's. Tricks to the trade. Reflector stands. Oh, cranes! You know I love cranes. Oh yeah, well then you're...

Nothing better than sitting in a crane. Well you'd probably like this book, because it's got all gibs, cranes, and arms. This is sixth edition. Oh, he's written two books? How many books are you... No, six. He's on his seventh edition. Jesus, man.

Your brother's just a monster. Yeah, he... Look how thick this book is. But if you look in there, there's just about every kind of crane in there. And he keeps a current. He's also just got a photo of an umbrella in case you want to know what an umbrella looks like. This is great.

This is such a better gig than going to college. You learn this book, come out here, hustle, and then just work on movie sets and TV for the rest of your life. You can do it. You can make a good living out of it. Yeah, you can good for you. Oh Damn it Rick. Oh, here's one that you might like don't have many of these I'll be honest with you. I don't know that I have any a script from Tosh point. Oh, this is a Tosh point here What's that? Good season eight twenty seven. Yeah, that was a good season

one of the best. Let me just, let me just, hold on. Let me just go, this is great. Ha! Look at this. First page I opened to. Pivot, abortion, live from New York. It's Saturday night.

If a white person wears an Obama mask, does that count as blackface? Like a mask. We've never answered that question. Oh, that's funny. Oh man, look at these jokes. Better have some lube handy before you type in three Asian teenagers. This show is horrible. This is great.

Why would we? You can't say that stuff. That's awful. But by this episode, I just kept screaming pivot. Pivot, race relations. Pivot, healthcare. Oh wait, was this the political? Was this the election one?

Trump wins the first election episode? Oh, it's funny. The only way to fix the election process is by taking the voters out of it. That's good stuff. Oh, okay There's another yeah, that's the only two ever I had this is Laphs. Oh, yeah You should have left it around but I have to clean the place Lafe That's wrong, I just thought you'd get a kick. I got a kick out of it I appreciate you bringing it for the kick part. Is that it? No. Oh good grief

Yeah, about some dots if you want to put it on your board and this is some leftover stuff These are old dots now. So the dots Rick would put on the floor So I knew where to stand right but but instead of just putting a regular mark or a star since it was Tosh point Oh, he always just had these points made up and that's what where they would be placed. Oh, come on, Rick How much stuff do you have? Well, here's here's some more this right here though What is happening with it here? You put that over in that side just so that I don't accidentally take it. Are you done? I got a damn it. I Like that your bag is a Salvation Army. Yeah, that's why I went shopping

Yeah, I got something for your wife over in the garden No, she we have a garden but she doesn't do but she got you got her. What the fuck Rick You just bought her but you think my wife has a medium hand Oh, no, no, she's a small hands. You got tiny hands. Why I'm from my wife They don't she don't wear gloves. So I figured I'll just give him that to Carly. That's exactly what I do Yeah, he's doing my bit. He's just Here's one here's one that she can have when when she's mad at you Daniel. Okay. Oh Sorry. Yeah, she's a mug that says the Jim Jeffries show on it.

By the way, what's funny about this is not even like a mug that was made for the show. It's just a sticker. There's just a Jim Jeffries show the sticker. Well, that's nice. That's a nice guy. She loves a new mug. There's one more thing. You brought the sticker. Well, that's nice. That's a nice guy. She loves a new mug There's one more thing you brought more things just one thing. You probably won't like it, but I know I know Holy shit. Hold on you just fucking stole Well, basically the Tosh point this actually is hysterical. So Rick Not only is this from look it has it has the lights that are behind it that light up Tosh point Oh, but he just fucking ripped this out of the goddamn wall

It would take hours to get off and when it's going right to the can But I do have a another one. That's foam. This is heavy. Yeah, did you build this? No, no, was you off your set wall? No, I know what my set well I didn't know baby when I didn't know that no you didn't put the lights on or anything came with the lights on it This and there's a that's my desk. I've got the whole thing for that one, too Where are you keeping all this shit Rick well gonna be at your house now Daniel? Now I know you wouldn't want to I'm not this is hysterical just because it's got bolts sticking out of the back of it. I was thinking about cleaning it up, but I just figured too much worked.

You could make that whole end table. Eddie? Will you make this an end table for me, Eddie? Sure will. Thanks, Ed. You were just hoping the show was gonna come back and you're like, hey guys. We had four more years, I figured I'd tap out at 70. Are you 70 on the penny? I'll be 71 in July

71 in July they're going finish this sentence for me 70 is the new year Jubilee Hey, I don't think I realized you were 70. Do you think you'll ever retire? I don't want to I mean my jobs have been cake You know, I'm getting paid to laugh get music jobs have been cake. You know, I'm getting paid to laugh, getting music, but I don't really want to go climbing up and down hills in the middle of the night and carry heavy stuff because I know if I do that, I'm going to break up and I want to keep... Has your body held pretty strong? Yeah, pretty good. You had any replacements?

Nothing. Nothing? Good for you. I'm holding out hope that I can live that life. Yeah. Well, how old's your dad and your grandparents? My dad will be 96. How old's your dad by the way? My dad's good. My dad's 80. I don't know. I think he's 80. I should ask him. A good run. Okay.

Here, I got you for your boat. Flex Seal! Oh perfect Yeah, that's great. This is the paste I can use that Yeah, you get a leak and I'm told you can make a screen You know Phil Swift always says that uh, by the way, have you seen Phil Swift's face lately? Oh, yeah Oh my god, he's done some stuff to it. You ever considered doing a plastic surgery? Yeah, I'm thinking what the good Lord gives me Oh, I don't get any unfixed. You know, I mean I think for some people it's good You know, they prefer it but I just happy to just get up and walk you happy with your weight right now Yeah, I am. I'm sitting around 165 170. Mm-hmm for a while. I was gonna for desk. Yeah, sorry about that You know, I was kind of a desk. Yeah, sorry about that. You know, let's punch in close to 190

Oh, so you've you've dropped real weight. I dropped some LB's. Yeah. Yeah good free What'd you do drop it? Just eat it better. Better diet. Mm-hmm. Do you have a sweet tooth? Yeah, I have a sweet soup It's hard on sets to have a good diet because there's just food available all time all kinds of food You get as much as you want. I know they feed us they feed us so much on sets I didn't really care for the food we had on set ever sometimes it was good Sometimes you just ate it and booked on Crafty was always good crafty was fine But the meals that were catered like I tried to mix it up and like I brought in like a barbecue guy one time and

There's just nobody nobody could nail it never it never was my favorite thing all right here's here's another gift I got you okay, there's somebody sent this to me, but it's like I already have the purple for your boat. It's um a Bidet you use a bidet no okay this I know and you're probably you're probably saying oh, I'm not gonna try I think as you age You're gonna really appreciate this doing the heavy lifting. I'll put this in the man cave. I'm about ready to redo the bathrooms in the man cave. You go sit down there and you just enjoy it. Just a good clean out. There you go. Alrighty. That's called the Clean Butt Club. By the way, Clean Butt Club sent me that.

Um, now, a Luxe bidet. So thank you, Clean Butt Club. That's, they're not a sponsor of the show. They just sent me that. That was nice. But I'm not gonna use that. I've got a toilet that's built in. How dare you. Oh, I have one other thing. I wanted you to have one of my old bandanas. Oh, fantastic. Okay, just so that... No, I love that. Appreciate that. There you go.

If a kid wants to get into this business, into your business, what do they got to do? And what should they expect? To get in the business, if you ever get on set and you're a production assistant? run hard and Always go up to the key grip because you can approach those guys or order the other grips and say hey need anything I'll help you out and then on the way out you say if you got something coming up I'll do the next one. I'll just work for free for you You know get in someone's pocket and then after the end of the day they ask you. Hey, what are you doing next week?

I got a two-day job you want to jump on so he goes from a buck and a half a day to about Maybe five six. I mean you're bad Duke. Do the kids have that type of hustle now some do. Uh-huh All right, I'm do are you a natural builder? I mean, do you just constantly build shit. I'm always doing something big property It's okay to an acre and then I've got one one structure. That's the remnant of a burndown because my house burnt down to the ground in 1987 okay, you know I'm an 87 I lost mine in 18 and You Rebuilt your home by hand. Well, the remnant was there, so I kept that as like a landscape office. And then this, because I got some land from the city or the county,

it gave me six-tenths of an acre, so I put a whole new septic system in and built a whole new house. We built a 3,000-square-foot craftsman. I figured I had five kids. Is three with your first wife, two with your second? Is that the right math I got there? And you're almost, are you an empty nester yet? Not yet.

I feel the youngest one, I'm kind of brainwashing. I want him to stick around. How old is the youngest, 17? No, no, he just turned 23, graduated. 23, still in a nest? Well, he just finished up college. Get him out of the house. No, he's a good kid.

Good for you. 23. So you did it. You pulled it off you were I were you an old dad I get I mean 23 I think I had my first kid cuz my oldest son is teague. He's been on set. He's 45 Yeah, you know like couple of your kids have worked on my show T and Shay, okay, and they're doing they're still doing well They're making still taking care in some business and getting jobs

How old do you know how old you were when you had your first one your first time? I'm 20 25. How old are you and you had your last child? Well, it's 23 from 70. What's that? I don't know 40 45 46 maybe oh man. I'm an older dad than you are kids are great Yeah, but are you did you ever get a fixed afterwards you get circus? No, I like things just the way they are Did you ever get I got that I had no choice never got a vasectomy. Nope No, so you could still have children probably could oh good for you Well, thanks for coming Rick and thanks for emptying out all of the trash at your home. Thanks You still you stole my bet Rick. All right. Thanks for being here buddy. Thanks, man

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Posh Show! Thanks, Rick. It was good seeing you. Carl, head up, come here. Show everybody that Rick got you a headband. Loves it. You like it? The rest of his junk, holy shit. I mean, that's a wide net of what he brought you. So many, just random junk.

Did you believe that, Carl? I was like, Rick, what are you doing? Just kept pulling stuff out. And none of it made sense to the next thing. Here's some gardening gloves for your wife. What? I mean, I put some thought into my gifts. Well, that's nice of him. We got some plugs. You want to hear

about him? Tosh show store.com. Start selling those headbands. Eddie's tour. Check them out. Come see me on tour. Midwest tour starting this week. Kansas City, Omaha. Let's go Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Madison, Chicago. Do the right thing. Come say hi. You ready for the free plug? Surprise me with some good music. Yeah, that's not bad. Little social distortion knockoff. This week's free plug. Oh, you're like this Carl is for off leash social.

It was founded in 2022. It's like two years ago. Wow. This will be the third one. All right. Off leash social is an all outdoor bar and restaurant in Johnson city, Tennessee. Hey Johnson city. Hello.

We did a couple of shows there last year. Yeah. We did two shows of shows there last year. We did two shows. We stayed zero nights because I wanted to be in, uh, Knoxville. Cause I love Knoxville. So I just stayed in Knoxville, went over and did the shows in Johnson city and stayed in Johns and Knoxville with my family was there. Cause then we head on over to a pigeon forge, get some cinnamon toast and, uh, go to Dollywood.

You know what I do. Gosh, I'll tell you what, I did not like Johnson City. I loved Knoxville. Johnson City, eh, that's not my cup of tea, but this sounds good. Awfully social. It's not like any dog park you've been to. Well, no, I thought it was a bar. They have live music, concerts, trivia nights, movie nights, standup comedy shows.

Oh man. Here I was shitting on it. Watch parties, yoga, and a whole host of stuff. It sounds like it's just a park. You'll do anything. Yeah. Just go there and do what you want. Dogs must be six months or older and need to have their rabies shot. Oh, okay. Here you want. Dogs must be six months or older and need to have their rabies shot. Oh, okay, here you go.

Telling us what we gotta do with our dog bodies. That's gonna really upset a lot of the anti-vaxxer dog people. Admission is $10 for one day or $40 for one month unlimited. This is every night. Kidding me. Oh, a discounts for year memberships and second dogs from the same household.

Wait, wait, is it per person or is it per dog? Humans enter free. Okay. Do you have to have a dog or can you show up? What if you like to just pet other people's dogs? I don't like those fucking people. I Had a dog. Oh, did you everyone has had a dog, right? Get another one right get another one touch mine Full bar and food menu available. Well, what's on, what kind of food are they serving here?

And is there a table to sit at? I'm confused about this awfully social. Well, I hope people get there. Johnson city, Tennessee. I love Johnson city. Well, good on you. Whoever came up with this idea. See you next week.

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