Uncle Joey's Joint with Joey Diaz - #352 - Tom Rhodes
Episode Date: February 2, 2016 Tom Rhodes, comedian and host of "Tom Rhodes Radio" podcast joins Joey Diaz and Lee Syatt live in studio. This podcast is brought to you by:  Blue Apron: Go to blueapron.com/joey to get your fi...rst two meals free Meundies.com Go to meundies.com/joey for 20% off of your first order plus free shipping in the US and Canada  Onnit.com. Use Promo code CHURCH for a discount at checkout.   Recorded live on 02/01/2016.
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What's happened, you bad motherfuckers, Monday, February 1st.
You know what happens on the 1st?
Everybody's down to zero, bitches.
We're all the fucking same on the 1st.
Hey, in the wreck.
Yeah, it really is.
We're all fucking the same on the 1st.
Tom Rhodes in studio.
My main man as usual, the flying Jew.
What happened this weekend?
I had a great weekend.
You went to see pugs?
Yeah.
You went down.
You didn't buy one?
No, no.
You went to the top one?
What the fuck?
I wish.
But I took a page out of your book.
Ever since I've been dating my girlfriend, you try to buy expensive gifts.
You try to jewelry.
They tell you that's what you need to buy.
Bullshit.
You go to Zales.
You get fucked in the ass.
They put you on a credit card.
It's for a fucking ring that's hollow.
They fuck you.
They fuck you.
And it's never, I like giving gifts and I've never quite gotten the reaction from her that
I've wanted.
She's always liked it, but it's never like excited or speechless.
And I told her, I was like, the gift you're going to like the most is the one that I spent
the least on.
I called the pug rescue.
I said, do you mind?
Is it cool?
My girlfriend loves pugs.
She can come down and play.
And they said, of course.
So we went down there and spent like two hours just playing with dogs and she had all she's
been talking about.
She had a great time.
Sometimes it's the simplest shit, you know what I'm saying?
Right or wrong?
That's beautiful.
It really is beautiful.
Look at the leaf.
And we went to like a fancy dinner the night before.
It cost like a hundred bucks.
It was a nice dinner.
And then it's the playing with shelter dogs that made her a year.
Like she's saying, we have to do it all the time now.
But you both have good marriages.
So it's, you know what it takes and it's, I'm learning now because this is my first real
real one.
It takes to be with a woman who is happy with simple things.
It really is.
Isn't that crazy?
My wife, she didn't want an expensive wedding ring.
Like I wanted to, you know, the ego in the man, you know, only like, you know, I never
thought I'd get married.
So whatever.
But I thought always you got to get a spectacular ring.
She insisted on like a really simple ring.
She doesn't.
She hates spending money.
She doesn't like to shop.
How long have you been married now?
Five years in April.
Jesus Christ.
Yeah.
That came out of nowhere either.
Like you went.
I was the last person in the world.
I thought we'd get married.
Really?
Yeah.
My parents are divorced.
I thought it was outdated institution and didn't want anything to do with it.
Never saw an example of a good marriage.
You know, but my wife is amazing.
She's a great woman.
She's from Holland and she's a photographer.
We, a lot of shit happened in my life.
I've had a massive transformation.
You know, my father was killed by a drunk driver in 2009.
That really fucked me up.
Because my dad, he was like life of the party guy, always had a cocktail in the hand.
Vietnam veteran.
He flew helicopters in Vietnam.
He was shot down.
He was a tough, bad motherfucker.
Everyone died in the helicopter except for him and his co-pilot who he dragged across
a field under heavy fire and then they had to wait in the bushes for like three hours.
After he died, I found the letter from the army saying why he got like five medals for
this.
Oh, he never called you?
No, no, no, he did.
But he didn't like elaborate on the story.
I knew that he had been shot down.
You know, like badass veterans don't like talk about stuff.
But I was close with my dad.
He told me, you know, how he had saved a guy and unhooked him and dragged him across a field
and shit.
But I didn't realize that, you know, how it's a Hollywood movie basically.
Anyway, my dad loved comedy.
He had comedy albums prior was his favorite.
That's why, you know, my dad drove me to my first open mic night, all this shit.
So I was like really fucked up when he died and angry at the drunk driver who killed him.
And so my wife really like nursed me through this shit.
And then I realized I'm never going to find a woman as amazing as her.
And we planned to get married and then my sister had stage four breast cancer for four
and a half years.
And then a few days before we were going to get married, they said she's got 24 hours
to live.
And we got married at my sister's hospital bedside the day before she died of cancer.
And like I was really close with my sister.
You know, just the fact that my wife would do that.
And because like, I don't know, a lot of women would be like, I ain't giving up my big day.
I ain't getting married in a hospital, right?
You know, but like I got married in a fucking hospital.
Just to my sister before she died of cancer.
And she clapped and said congratulations through her breathing mask.
It was the last word she ever spoke.
And like, and so like then that like really fucked me up.
I was like really angry after that.
So then I was angry at God because like I always, you know, believed in God and my family's
really religious and shit.
So I went through this massive, you know, it was really difficult couple years.
And then my, my wife really nursed me.
We're traveling around the world.
She helped me, you know, heal and laugh again and shit.
So I mean, my wife is, is incredible.
When you said you were mad at God, what did you feel like?
Like, well, I tell you, man, I went to, because my family are all Jesus freaks.
And I never, you know, like, I think you should be a good person and don't be a cock.
And that was Jesus's message.
Don't be a cock.
So I was never like a real, you know, church person reading the Bible, all that.
And I've been open to, you know, I was obsessed with Buddhism when I was younger and I'm
fascinated by religions and things like that.
But I was, and I've always been at, you know me, you know me for years.
I've always been a really happy guy.
After my sister died, I had so much anger and it was really, we went to Ireland.
I had gigs after my wedding and there was this, there's a late night hamburger place
in Ireland called Supermax and they're all over Ireland.
And you don't want to be in a Supermax after midnight because it's drunks looking for fights.
And I was in Galway, my favorite place in Ireland.
If you ever go to Ireland, Dublin's great, but Galway is just the shit.
It's this mini San Francisco university seaport.
If you were a musician or gay in Ireland, you would go to Galway.
So there's a cool rock club there where everybody played the Pogues and U2 and Sinead O'Connor
and that's, that's how they do the comedy.
The guy that owns it's one of my oldest friends in comedy.
So we're there and like one o'clock in the morning, we wanted to get some, some food
and his brother was with him.
So it's my wife, Kevin, his brother, we're in Supermax.
There's these rugby drunk thugs in there, fuck him with Kevin and his brother.
They're looking for a fight.
And then we got out of there, but his brother was still in there.
And these four guys all jump on him and start pounding him.
And then Kevin runs in to help his brother.
I'm not a fighter, but I'm not, you know, and then-
You can't let somebody get beat on.
I'm not going to, you know, I'm going to help my friend, you know.
If something happens, I'm always there for my friends, right?
And then also, it's my honeymoon, man.
You don't want to look like a coward on your honeymoon.
That could fucking be a black mark on your wedding, on your marriage forever.
It gets into a fight in the fucking honeymoon.
I look at her and I look at my wife and I go, I'm going in, baby, it's Kevin.
And she's like, yeah, so I go in and I haven't punched anybody in, I don't know, 20 years.
And this guy, he was the shit stirrer who had started it.
I run in, I punched a guy in the cheek and apparently like that's the last place in the
world you want to hit somebody because this is bone.
I broke my finger and I had to go to the hospital the next day.
But I mean, you know, the fight was pretty much done when I went in there, you know.
I was like Dean Martin in an old West movie, saloon fight, you know.
I looked good, nobody hit me, somebody goes by, so I'm totally Dean Martin in there.
But we went, after we did Galway, we go to Dublin and I was talking to an Irish comedian
friend of mine and I told him the story about my sister Diane and getting into the fight
and he said, you know what I think, Tom?
I think you wanted to punch God in the face and God wasn't available and that's why you
punched that guy.
So yeah, I wanted to punch.
Yeah, it makes sense.
Yeah.
Did you get in there?
I wanted to punch God in the face.
So if you're that guy that I hit.
You're sorry.
Sorry, I was, I was upset.
Oh, I hope you punched the Holy Spirit out of me, you know what I'm saying?
That's really weird because I always describe that.
I describe being mad at God, you know what I'm saying?
Like just a couple of times in my life when you're central nervous breakdown, you know.
Yeah, when you're down.
When you're down.
Down.
You can't explain why God would do something like this.
Can't you see how I wound it down here, you fuck, and then you're gonna throw something
else on top of me?
So you're the first person a long time that I've heard say that, that's why I thought
it was interesting.
Yeah.
No, that, you know, when you got married, I had heard it.
You're like the grapevine and I was in shock and I didn't know anything about the hospital.
Now I'm more fucking shocked, but you're one of those dudes, you know, you're a real comedian.
When I got into comedy, it was to do what you do.
But then I had the felonies.
I can't travel abroad so I killed that whole fucking dream.
So how to make what I got, you know what I'm saying?
I go like Catalina Island and make believe.
But you've led that life.
You know, somebody gave me a book for you.
It's one of those books that you open up and it's a safe memory when we were kids, you
would open up those books.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And for me, he gave me, I forget the name body and soul or something, but for me, he
gave me a Lenny Bruce, the one I always talk about how to talk dirty and influence people.
The other one, the one that he lives in the Chelsea and he's doing heroin with the jazz
musicians.
And when I read that, that was the fucking book.
What the hell?
Chocolate on the table.
And I got it all over me, cock-sucking.
When you had it over here, that's what happens when you put it on the table.
Marijuana chocolate?
Yeah, yeah.
So reading that, that's what really, like I was getting, this was way before I got separated.
This was when I was about 27, 20, I just got out of prison.
I read that book when I was locked up and I was like, this is an interesting life.
This is no responsibility life.
Like if you want it, you could just live under the fucking radar.
So when I got into comedy, it was to live under the radar, to just travel and whatever
came around.
No one to answer to?
Nobody to answer to?
No one to look out for you?
Nothing.
When you're out there driving in some fucking town in, you know, Missoula, Montana, you
don't know what's going on, trying to outrun a hurrick, a tornado.
There's a point where you're sitting there a little confused.
But then you're like, what am I confused about?
There's no confusion here.
I got no boss.
I'm going to do 60 miles an hour.
I'm going to drive to the tank goes empty, fill it up, get something to eat and then
finish driving and get to my gigging on those triple runs when you first start.
They could be a little fucking irritating those triple runs, you know?
I never did those.
Really?
I mean, I did.
I went to, I stayed in Montana at Rich Hall's.
He owns a ranch.
Right, right.
He's like an old friend of mine.
And my wife and I spent a month at his ranch like five years ago.
And then for fun, I did those, I did like a few of those gigs because they were notoriously
the worst gigs in America, but tremendous, the toughest gigs, tremendous for a comedian
and they build a lot of character and they teach you how to live all $50 a day when you
want to do coke and drink with Montana Coke.
Wow.
Let me tell you something.
I got some fucking coke in Montana one time.
That was so good.
I got good coke all Idaho.
I went from Houston to somewhere in Oregon or it was either Oregon or Idaho and I got
some fucking blow from a door chick that was so fucking hot guys.
This guy was thinking or he was way ahead of the game.
This had to be 2000.
This guy was already ahead of the game.
He had a hot chick at the door taking IDs.
This bitch was so fucking hot, big country woman, big natural titties, wrangles on,
you know, boots, fucking banging.
And after I did comedy, she came over to me and she's like, you do blow.
And she's like, the Mexicans in the back have some tremendous shit.
Just I'm like, wait for like, and I was headlining.
So they gave me like a hundred bucks.
I was like, fuck yeah, what can I get for 60 and they gave me a half a eighth.
So she goes, you know, she gives me the half eighth and she goes, where are you staying
at the whatever hotel?
And I go, yeah.
And I went back with the comic, we did a couple lines and then I said, fuck, let me go back
to my room.
But an hour later, the angel knocked on my door, but she was a banger.
This was real.
This is, you know, this is life on the road.
You meet a chick that's fucking gorgeous.
You think that she, you know, this chick probably works at a dog shelter Monday through Friday.
That's what she looked like.
And she came over and she's like, you can I get high with you?
I brought beers or something.
I go, sure.
I was awake anyway.
You know, I made it like I had him touch the coke and all of a sudden she took her works
out in this little fucking town in Montana.
She took works out and took some of the coke and melted it and shot herself.
No shit.
I had to go outside.
Is that what work is?
That work is just.
Yeah.
Works as needles.
She showed up.
She showed up with a little fucking pack.
I know.
Did you watch Blacksploitation films in the seventies?
I never knew it was called works.
Holy shit.
I had to go outside.
I had to go outside because I thought I was in a faint.
I had to take the coke with me because I didn't trust a bitch either.
Now that opened up a complete different, you know.
Is that popular or shoe coke?
You know, listen, I've seen maybe two people do it in my life.
I was never really around needles, you know, people who do needles attract other people
do needles.
You know, it's like when I first moved to Hollywood, the chicks next to us were heroin
chicks.
Two hot lesbian chicks that just ate each other and did heroin and both of them had body odor
to kill a fucking loose because I talked to her once by the pool.
I go, what's that smell?
That's because you're probably talking about us.
I just may believe like, what's that smell?
And they told me they wouldn't use soap with showers because the soap would clean their
pores and they don't want their pores to be clean.
You want your pores to be congested so the heroin doesn't sweat out.
So it sits in your fucking body.
That's gross.
That dedication.
And every time you eat chocolate or something, it kicks it back open.
So heroin people don't like sweating.
They like to fill their pores up and shit with fucking concrete or whatever the fuck
they do.
Wait, were they the ones that sold meat?
Who?
How did they make a living?
These two broads, one of them was like a trust.
This was the craziest building.
Me, Josh Wolfe, the girl next to us was beautiful.
Beautiful.
Had a kid.
Every dad's here with a resume, going on an acting audition.
One night I put Showtime on there.
She was sucking a dick on Showtime, my neighbor, that the girl next to her, the two lesbians,
didn't bathe.
Then the girl next to her held the weed for the guy who lived on the fourth floor or
the second floor, white lightning.
He was a Jewish guy that hung out with Jewish, he was a Jewish guy that hung out with black
women and did a Jamaican night at some bar on, fuck, I swear to God, you can't write
this shit.
So he would get 10 pounds sent in from Jamaica.
So he was a pussy.
So he would hide in the garage and he would give this chick half of it.
She would steal half of it and sell it to us.
We'd give her coke, she'd suck your dick and then we'd steal an eighth from her weed.
She had no chin.
It was unbelievable.
This chick had no fucking chin.
It's amazing how you find buildings.
This isn't, you asked me if I knew what a rig was, no.
I have no idea.
The second floor also lived.
A Mexican kid who sold coke and he didn't get home until two.
So once he came home, the party started.
The girl on the first floor was a promoter at one of the bars.
So she'd bring freaks home and there was a pool in the backyard.
I never got laid back.
I can tell you a thousand stories.
There were all young girls.
I was 32.
I lived upstairs with Joshua, but that's how crazy that fucking building was.
The chick with the chin sucked my dick a few times without the chin.
I forget what her name was.
She was from Connecticut.
She had no chin.
But she had gigantic titties and that's all that matters, I guess, at that time.
You know what I'm saying?
When you're doing powder and craziness, it just.
That's crazy.
It just magnetizes people.
Like Coke just brings people.
Like I've never had anyone knock on my hotel room door.
Attract heroin people.
You know, how many times you bump into something that says you want to lie in the heroin?
Never.
Because they just, they know.
Only Hedberg.
Really?
Everybody has different senses.
Yeah.
And I never, I never got into hard drugs.
I stopped doing hard drugs a couple of years ago.
I stopped drinking alcohol.
Did you?
Two years ago.
You see the scar on my forehead?
Yeah.
It's getting smaller.
What was that scar from?
I blacked out in Philadelphia.
Out of helium?
I was performing in helium.
Oh, Jesus Christ.
And I was there in New Year's Eve two years ago and three sold out shows, New Year's Eve,
and then the way the weekend was, I had January 1st, the Thursday off, and they wanted me
to stay for the Friday, Saturday.
So never am I in a city with a night off.
And my wife was in Holland visiting her mother.
So like, if she was with me, I think I would have fallen into her.
So you want the long version or the short version?
Short version.
So I had just move up a little bit.
Don't do the thing up.
Keep talking.
I had 10 pints this year in Nevada.
Very normal evening.
I was in some little working man's bar on Sandsome Street and I just blacked out and
fell like a tree off this bar stool.
Just booze?
Just booze.
Yeah.
And then my head hit the tile floor and some guys, once my head hit the floor, I was wide
awake.
And then I feel this dude grabbing me by the arm and he screams out to the bar, we got
to call an ambulance.
And I turn to him and I go, I go, fuck that.
I don't have health insurance.
Don't you dare call an ambulance?
And he looks at me and he goes, you got to get to a hospital.
I said, how far is the nearest hospital?
And he goes, two blocks.
I go, two blocks and you were going to call an ambulance?
It's like $15,000.
Yeah.
Are you kidding me?
Yeah.
I mean, that's life in America.
So I grabbed a wad of napkins and I walked like John Wayne to the emergency room, sat
there and then the next day, I had these Frankenstein stitches on my forehead and a black eye.
And the last couple of years, I've always been a heavy drinker, always been a big partier.
It's part of my identity.
I just felt sluggish, like an athlete.
We lose step after, you know, you get a little older.
And I was starting to get that fat, boozy alcoholic face that my dad had and like the
booze nose and shit.
And I look in the mirror the next day and I got these Frankenstein stitches and a black
eye and I was like, I want to go one year seeing what it's like not being drunk every
night of my life.
Because, you know, in a comedy, we get paid in, you know, one of the, the only perk is
free drinks.
So like, you know, I always drank like a fish everywhere.
It was part of the, you know, the benefits.
So I went one year and I got so much shit done and I didn't have this low magnitude depression
all the time.
And then being hungover all the next day and feeling like shit and all these things I wanted
to do is like, you know, you feel bad about yourself because, you know, you're not achieving
everything you want to be doing.
So I felt so great after a year and got so much shit done.
I was like, fuck, I'm going to stick with this and it's been two years and now I just
gave up the cigarettes.
How do you feel after two years?
What do you feel?
Incredible.
What is your nightlife now?
Do you just go to a hotel, drink coffee?
You know, now you gave up the fucking cigarettes.
So that goes, you know, why drink the coffee if you ain't got the fucking cigarettes.
No, I love coffee.
And I love cigarettes.
I still love cigarettes and I still love booze.
I love drinking.
I just like, you know, I, you know, I love wine.
I know a lot about wine.
I envision myself maybe in my 60s, maybe having a glass of wine, but I think a nice 10 year
stretch at least, seeing how much shit I can get done.
I mean, I love comedy.
I love making jokes and, you know, I've been working on a book for a few years.
There's like a lot of shit I want to be doing.
Now, you know, look at all these comedians banging out new hour specials every year.
You know, it's been a couple of years since my last special.
I'm really working my ass off to get my next hour.
You know, I'm motivated and I'm happy.
Like I said, the main thing is I don't have that low magnitude depression all the time,
which just happens when you're fucking boozing all the time.
What do you mean by that low magnitude depression?
Do you drink all the time?
I don't know.
There's a certain underlying funk that you feel all the time and you think, oh, I'm hungover
and it'll wear off, whatever.
But then like, use the evening comes and I never drank before shows.
It was always after, you know, I loved comedy too.
I mean, like, sure, some second show Fridays, I was hammered, but for the most part, my
rule of thumb was never, you know, drink before you go on stage.
Anyway, there's just a.
Did you feel this way?
Like when you were starting comedy and drinking?
No, no, I feel like when I was young, I feel like comedy is the drug.
Getting on stage for me is the drug and thinking up jokes again.
It's great because at one point, you know, it's like, you know, my dad was the life of
the party.
I'm the life of the party.
I always intertwined comedy with being the life of the party, you know, you're the party
leader.
And like prior also, one of my favorites, just the mythology of people who party all
my heroes died fat naked and bloated on the bathroom tile.
You know what I'm saying?
Jim Morrison, Lenny Bruce, you know, so, you know, I wanted to be that, you know, wild
man, but, you know, you get a little older and you realize people you love start dropping
dead and you realize, you know, man, there's a, there's a fucking hourglass to life.
You only get so much, you know, when you're young and having fun, it just seems like this
endless thread that's never going to end.
Sarah Tiana was here a couple of nights ago and she said that she feels sometimes at an
age as you the road.
I mean, I was 50 when I was born.
You know what I'm saying?
I looked 80 when I was born.
It was fun, man.
I always had a great time and, you know, I was, I was born on the road as a comedian,
so I never had to hang ups about the road.
And I always, it's a, it's, it's a necessary component to the whole program.
I always felt, but then again, you know, I went and did way too much and playing all
over the, I haven't lived anywhere in 10 years.
I had everything in storage.
So I would spend six months of the year outside of the United States.
Last month, last year I did five months in Europe, month in Asia, and then six months
all over the States.
You know, the year before that, I did a month in Australia, a month in New Zealand, and
just, you know, relentlessly, you know, but you're the last real deal, but I'm talking
about even from the beginning.
I mean, when you first walk into your first open mic, you're nervous, you get up, boom.
Then you go to your second, your third, then by the fourth, people like, Hey, let's have
a drink.
And all of a sudden you become a social comic.
You, you, you know, run into the comics, then you find your click and they're all a bunch
of drinkers and druggers.
They like to get high.
And now all of you just go out together four nights a week to do comedy, which always means
cocktails.
There's not one night you're going to go out when you're in the beginning and not drink.
Drinking all night and hanging out with comedians is my favorite thing on the planet.
And some people have to go to work, but they don't give a fuck.
They stay up till three and do it again the next night.
And are you getting like hammer hammer drunk?
It's not like one or two drinks.
Some nights you get really ripped and some nights you get the party started, but you
eat something.
You go eat with a bunch of comedians and you simmer down a little bit.
You know, some nights you go fucking for two days.
I dedicated my life to that.
Yeah.
Some nights you go for two days and you don't know, you don't know till you get out there.
You don't know what's going to happen.
You might go to a bar and you know, most bars will tell you on the thing where you get two
free drinks as a feature act and you get there and the chicks, the chicks from Connecticut.
Now you got something to talk about mixing, you know, she's giving you free fucking drinks,
you know, I started out in Orlando and then I started, I started out on the Southern circuits
after I, you know, got him a floor to them.
When I went on the road, I played every town that ends in Villarboro in the Southern United
States.
I played fucking everywhere.
The late eighties, the comedy zone out of Charlotte.
They had a comedy zone in every holiday and holiday and creative.
All over the Southern United States, so I started out on those gigs.
Every holiday in?
Oh my God.
From Prestonburg, fucking West Virginia to fucking Clarkville, Tennessee, like Florence,
South Carolina, you know, Jackson, Mississippi.
Jacksonville.
They had them.
They wanted Jacksonville.
They had all those clubs.
The Tribble, on the other hand, has red lion ends.
So all the red lion ends on the Northwest Tribble books, pretty much.
Some of them are Mormon.
You can't curse on stage, but some of them, they don't give a fuck.
Some of them, the Mormons don't even give a fuck.
They're out trying to get a piece of pussy too.
It's Wednesday night.
Happy Hour works for them too.
So I started out, you know, doing the, and then there was gigs in the Midwest and then,
you know, I just was into this adventure and I was, I started when I was 17.
So I went on the road when I was 18 after I graduated high school and I had a good enough
car.
My dad helped me get from this woman that he was fucking and I went everywhere and I
would be gone for months and then, you know, go up to Chicago and do guest sets and hit,
you know, I wanted to be a comedian and then I would, you know, I would work blocks, you
know, Kansas City, wherever and Milwaukee and all over, you know, Lexington and, and
then I would systematically try and go do showcase sets at other places.
So like, you know, talking about how bad the road was for me, the road was Homer's Odyssey,
you know, I went on the road and I would go away for months at a time.
My family never knew when I would be back.
I'm really jealous of that lifestyle.
It seems like it would be, and I can see that it probably is, is wearing and you miss,
we miss certain things, but it seems like it would be so cool.
You don't miss a fucking thing.
Like you'd be in Detroit, right?
Like I'd be in Detroit working at Joey's comedy club and I have two shows and I'd be
the feature act.
So the show starts at 730, guy does 15, 740, I'm off at 815.
I would schedule a showcase at all jokes aside and downtown Detroit at 845 and I go
right from the stage into the car, shoot down there, run in, do a showcase, go back
through the 1030 show.
I was a gavone.
You have to be.
You got to hustle, man.
You got to hustle.
That's the only way.
You got to call the clubs and go, hey, Lisa, yeah, yeah, Joey Diaz, listen, I like to
do a guest set.
Who recommended you, Tom Rhodes, can I ask you a question, Mr.
Sayah?
Yeah.
Listen, I just want to know the person who books is going to be there to make a decision.
Cause once I fucking destroy that fucking room, I don't want to leave there without
a booking and they would just sit on the other end of the line.
That's part of it.
That's part.
I got no choice.
I got no choice.
I'm a salesman.
And they would giggle sometimes.
Sometimes they'd go, okay, come down to 830, wise ass and then hang up on me.
I'd drop a name.
Yeah, especially back then to play the game, you had to cover the land and you had to go
showcase at these places and get passed.
So you also, you had little room for error.
You had to constantly kill, you know.
Constantly.
And right.
On the showcases.
You know, it's like somebody, we went somewhere about two years ago, me, Brian, somebody else
and we did a show and we went to the town ladies like, okay, what do you want to do?
And we're like, we're going to a hotel room.
We got to go freshen up before the show.
She's like, I thought we were going to save money.
I was going to give it back to the comics.
We could just hang out in the restaurant through 830.
And I'm like, are you crazy?
We did that.
We go to a town, get there at two in the afternoon.
You know, you got $3 in your pocket.
You go to Wendy's, got a dollar burger and some fries and a soda and sit there and smoke
cigarettes and wait six hours until the club opened and you're starving.
And then you got to go in and you know what?
It's amazing.
Like, hey, you have $44 for the holiday in and the club owner is like, you got a place
to stay?
Really?
You could stay at the condo and I just leave in the morning.
You're like, there you go.
I just saved 50 bucks.
Your life is an adventure.
It's an adventure.
You don't, some days it don't work like that.
Some days you got to call Western Union and say, Lisa, yeah, put $50, send it to fucking
Jacksonville, Florida, this Western Union.
What are you talking about?
I need $50.
Do you want me to come home for Christmas?
Yeah.
It's amazing.
It's amazing.
Your life is just and you bump into people who will help you out.
You go to a town, you do a show, a comic or say, what are you going to do?
Nothing.
I'm going to drive.
What are you going to drive for?
I got a basement.
I got cable TV.
Nobody's home all day.
Stay there, watch TV.
I got a computer.
You're like, Jesus, I just saved $100.
I just saved $150 fucking dollars.
This guy opened his home to me.
And that's what happens every day is different.
You never got nervous about accepting those offers of staying at someone's house?
Ah, comics were cool, man.
Okay, so from comics.
You worked with them for days.
Like you just finished, like I was in Myrtle Beach one time and I worked the weekend and
I was going to take a bus and this kid goes, what are you going to take a bus for?
I'm driving back to South Carolina where you're going is eight hours away.
I go, so what am I going to do in Charleston?
And he goes, stay with me.
I stayed with him for four fucking days.
The kid was a gentleman.
He gave me pizza.
He worked on a pizza place.
He brought up pizza.
It was fucking tremendous.
You never know.
You never know until you get out there.
There's a girl that's around here.
There's a girl that, I forget what her name is, I just saw a Comedy Central special.
20 years ago, we were in Baltimore doing a Roger Paul fucking thievery gig.
You know, 400.
When you get there, it's 250 and there's no hotel.
And her and her boyfriend were like, stay at our place.
It's right around the corner.
You have no idea.
They gave me a check.
So I already had a round trip bus ticket.
I couldn't cash a check at fucking midnight on a Saturday night.
So I was stuck.
They were like, stay at our house.
The next morning I took the fucking bus back to New York.
I still remember all these things because they're miracles, but they wouldn't have happened
unless I made the effort.
Do you understand me?
Like, I can't plan that shit.
You can't plan that.
You know, I don't know.
Lee's going to tell me to stay on his couch.
But unless I take getting that fucking car and make the drive, you'll never know.
You'll never fucking know.
And that's what stops people.
They go, I don't want to go out there.
What if, what if nothing, get in the fucking car and drive?
What if you run out of money?
Who gives a fuck?
It'll work out.
It'll work out.
Just go out there.
I just watched a very interesting movie that I had never, ever seen before and it blew
my mind.
I had to fucking come home and watch it again last night till fucking midnight.
Really?
Wild, Reese Witherspoon.
When she backpacks across and she's a hooker, she's a fucking bitch.
Oh, my wife saw that.
My wife loved the book, loved the movie.
I never saw it.
Fucking tremendous.
Fucking tremendous.
She got nominated, unbelievable.
She gets fucked in that movie 800 times.
This one scene in the restaurant, both guys fuck her.
She's a waitress.
One guy fucks her from behind, but she's backpacking and she's thinking of all these thoughts
and all these different situations.
And there's a couple of times when she gets in the car with a guy and he goes, you know
what, I can't wait to take you home.
I got a surprise for you.
And then she's like, I got to meet my husband.
And all of a sudden the guy takes her home and he's got a wife and she takes a shower
and they feed her and she hasn't eaten in days.
And the next day the guy gives her a ride.
That shit wouldn't happen.
You wouldn't just find that.
You wouldn't know the world has that to offer unless you went for it.
That's the beauty of you traveling.
Tom Rhodes could tell all of us right now in the United States to suck our dick.
He's got a complete different family over in Europe.
He could be the real bolder.
You know the fucking guy that Johnny Depp played?
They would never find him.
This motherfucker, they would never find him.
They would never find him.
They'd be crazy to look for him because he knows.
He's created that over the years.
He's created that.
It took seven, eight, nine years to create this complete different family in Singapore.
He could go to any town and walk in and go tumpa-ping tumpa-ing.
And fucking Chinese people jumping, throwing darts, serving them a cat.
You know how it is?
That's the beauty of that, that you don't know that until you go out there and meet
these people.
You don't find the beauty of people.
That's the shit they don't tell you in school.
That's the shit that some authors give you in their writing.
Some authors give you hope.
You know what?
I'm going to go on the road.
I'm going to meet interesting people.
Well, yeah, I read Carowack.
Yeah, yeah.
There you go.
There you go.
Jack Carowack on the road is why I moved to San Francisco in 1990.
I was like 22 and that movie, that book changed my life and that's why I never was afraid
of the road.
Yeah, you're never afraid.
I knew somewhere along the way that the pearl would be handed to me.
Everything I needed to know, everything I wanted to experience.
I was always very scared about traveling abroad, even when I had the passport.
When I had the passport, I didn't take advantage of it.
I was always very scared.
I wanted to travel the United States first.
I pretty much done comedy everywhere, you know, all these fucking states, except maybe
Puerto Rico.
That's it.
Alaska.
I was up there in Chokul, Charlies.
I've done that gig.
Yeah, everybody's done that gig.
Love that place.
Especially if you're drinking.
It's great.
Oh, and you're snorting and then you wake up the next morning, you got a piece of halibut.
Are you fucking kidding me?
You could snort 80 pounds of blow and eat a piece of halibut, you're back.
It don't matter what you snort.
It takes the electromagnetism out of your body, you know what I'm saying?
The road is very interesting and when people say at the road, it's this big, you know,
in your mind, if you close your eyes, it's the road, you know, you just look at windshield
and see this open road and you're fucking driving it.
But it's got so many different things, so many lessons that I've learned, but mostly
about people.
And the lesson I learned the most of it gave me hope in mankind.
It gave me hope in humanity because there's some fucking dynamite people out there, dynamite.
I wish I could name all the fucking cool people from day one when I went to Aspen, that
time.
I met a white dude who used to be like Tom Rhodes.
He was a brick mason in the summers and in the winters, he would go to New Zealand and
he had a complete different life down there and he would tell me about his life down there
and it was like being a kid, being a kid and somebody telling you these stories about a
faraway land.
I was enamored with the guy, I couldn't believe it and I would say, you know, and he exchanged
his numbers.
I used to, oh my God, I forgot the guy's name, I did masonry flove, Chip Chilson.
He was a professional fucking skier and he hired me to be a hobby carrier and he hired
me three fucking summers that dude, two summers he hired me.
He was a good dude, but he worked your ass off in the summer and in the winter he skied
all summer.
He was a professional skier, but he was one of his brick masons and that always intrigued
me that whole.
Even then, I was not even close to being comic in 1983, it wasn't even a dream, but just
that thought always was like, wow, I'd like to get on a bus and just go to California
and hitchhike back.
Remember when there was a show, The Hitchhiker on HBO?
Oh, I think we remember that.
There was a show like The Hitchhiker?
Yeah.
That also intrigued me.
He would always get his dick sucked and have threesomes and shit, you know, that would
never happen to me, but it's a fantasy that the Hitchhiker, like you had balls of
steel.
You fucking, when did you decide you were leaving?
For LA, I don't remember making a decision.
I went to college to be an editor and I knew Emerson, Emerson College in Boston.
In Boston?
Yeah.
I just knew from the beginning that I was coming out here.
I kind of wanted to be in New York a little bit, but I had a job out here, so, but I did
have a, I was told the story, but I had a panic attack in Connecticut because I realized
that I had everything in my entire life in my car, so I had to pull over for a second.
And when I came here, see, I've always turned people down.
I feel bad when people are like, when I first came out here, my editor offered to let me
stay on this couch while I found a place I was like, no, and I paid for a hotel.
I just, I felt, I always, I don't, I don't want to intrude on anybody.
And like, I can't tell you from this podcast how many offers I've gotten for anywhere.
And I always feel bad and I always feel like, I don't know, but it's, I should start accepting
it more.
I stayed on so many couches that I can't tell you more, like I refused it.
Yeah.
I did too.
I stayed on so many fucking couches.
I got so many free nights of rent.
So many, so fucking many, you know, people said stay here.
I mean, it was just, I'm fucking believable.
So now, even when I go home, people like take my apartment, whatever, I'm like, I'm fucking
embarrassed.
I don't want to live in your house on vacation.
That's how I feel.
I want to scratch my balls and I like to come home from the comedy gig and drink coffee and
stay up for a while and listen to music and write notes and, you know, it's awkward.
It's fucking awkward.
That's the, I couldn't imagine going to somebody's house and tiptoeing through the house two in
the morning when I'm coming back from doing comedy.
I'm a fucking grown man, you know.
And I did it.
So I was about 40.
And then I had a, I just had to stop.
I just stopped.
It started.
I did it a lot in the last 10 years and my wife and I, like we, Rich all owns a ranch
in Montana and we went and stayed there for a month.
There's a guy, a comedian invited us to stay at his place in London and he was a neurotic
strange dude.
So it was like, we would throw away the, he had the garbage and recycling and you know,
so anything plastic had to go in the recycling.
So we're getting like, you know, food from the grocery store and put the plastic in the
thing, but he would put the plastic stuff in the dishwasher and wash it before he put
it in the, he had all these strange habits.
So like sometimes you stay with somebody and it's like they're weird and they're irritating.
And then, and then, yeah, like you said, you got to, you know, tip toe around eggshells
even if you got your own separate room and stuff.
Yeah.
I want my own respiratory fucking place.
I want to sleep by myself.
I don't want nobody in the fucking room watching me, you know, I like to walk with my dick
out.
No, I like people with, you know, like I slept in people's houses and all of a sudden you
wake up with coke around your nose to sleep at me a machine and they're four year olds
poking you with a stick or fucking running a hot wheel through your fucking stomach because
your stomach's hanging out of your shirt.
You have no fucking idea.
My friend's dog pissed on me when I was sleeping one time because my hand was hanging off the
edge and he would piss on the edge of the fucking couch and they got pissed on my face
and on my arm by a fucking bug.
That's why I don't like fucking bugs.
I hate those fucking dogs.
So that's why it was just, it just got old, man.
You know, I've lived with people up to 1993.
I lived with George in New York and I said, fuck this.
I went back to Boulder and I got an apartment.
I stayed there by myself until 95, then after 95, you know, bam, I've been on my own pretty
fucking much.
I love living alone.
It's great.
Like I've thought about living with people and it's just, it's terrible.
It's so much better living alone.
They touch an intensive care.
Having a place to live as a new concept for me, I mean, I just, we just got an apartment
here six months ago, you know, from not living anywhere.
And every week going to a different city, you know, to different, you know, hotels mostly.
And then when we had time off, we would take an epic vacation.
My wife and I, we'd went to Rome the last four years and stuff.
Two years ago, we went to Bali.
When I was still drinking, we would go to New Orleans a lot.
So depending where I was in the planet.
So, you know, my wife and I, just the fact we have an apartment now, like, we're like,
you know, to have like a sock drawer and an underwear drawer and like this, the simplest
things, you know, make us happy.
Like we open the refrigerator, man, and I'm like, you know, these are our condiments.
I own that mustard.
It's like, it's, it's kind of, it's really new.
And like I said, my, I have this massive book collection and my vinyl records.
I'm just playing my vinyl records to start the day every day.
It's awesome to have stuff.
You don't have the TV, which is interesting.
I have a TV, but I just Netflix on it.
I don't watch regular TV.
No, watch regular TV.
No, it was another issue.
Yeah.
Just, just Netflix.
Fuck those motherfuckers.
Yeah.
If I had no responsibilities, like I've been thinking about it, I think it would be really
cool to just be an Uber driver and just drive across the country.
I've had some incredible conversations with Uber drivers in Los Angeles.
Some of them are cool.
Some of them are kind of like, so I've had some weird ones, but I think it would just
like, I would love to just go to every city.
Like we used to go to New Orleans a lot.
I've never been to New Orleans once.
I would love to check out all those places.
And I think I just like that.
New Orleans is great.
Especially if you're partying, man.
It never closes.
And one of the cities that scared me.
New Orleans.
And you and I met in Houston.
Houston.
And you know, like I said, I stopped doing hard drugs a couple of years ago and stopped
drinking, but I do have to give a commercial to Houston and New Orleans as the purest cocaine
of anywhere in America.
I mean, the dealers really have an appreciation for the original product.
And I mean, that should be advertised on their, you know, tourist propaganda that they don't
step on their shit.
My town.
Give me a pen over there.
Give me a pen over there.
Let me see.
My towns for cocaine in this order, where El Paso, El Paso, El Paso, Houston and New
Orleans.
I think those are my top three.
New Orleans and then Miami, El Paso, really good stuff.
It was one other place in there.
What's the one that's 10 hours from Houston, my Midland, Midland, Texas, which is around
the corner from El Paso a few hours.
I did a gig there once.
That's where I showed up and the fucking MC gave me an eight ball.
He gave me an eight ball and the feature in eight ball and he had an eight ball.
And at the end of the show, he had done his eight ball already.
It was fucking crazy.
It was fucking crazy.
But El Paso, that was, I'm lucky I didn't die in El Paso.
Was it like the quality or the quality?
The quality.
So good.
The quantity, how much of it?
Oh yeah.
Who did it?
Who had it?
It was always available.
It was always one night, listen to me, a guy and I, I did something and this guy just happened
to see it.
Like it could have been a commercial or like a co-star on a TV show.
This had to be 2001, 2000, because it was the old comic strip, the old comic strip.
Because they were here and then they moved across the street and he bought the building
and that's where it ended.
Once he bought the building.
He was here for 20 years and made a fucking small gold mine, then he moved the, he fired
the gay manager.
He did all these moves that were stupid.
Here it was a gold mine.
It was Tuesday through Saturday.
My God.
It was just fucking craziness.
And the cocaine was la pied de la resistance.
The first time I went was 4th of July, 90 fucking seven.
I came back to shoot that, first time I went to El Paso was July of 97 and I came back
to shoot a fucking Taco Bell commercial with the dog.
Remember those first commercials, the dog?
I shot the first three, but I came back and I brought back a Coke rocket on the bus and
I got on the bus.
I sat down.
I did two fucking bumps and within an hour they pulled the bus over and the dogs are
getting on.
I crushed the rock up.
I smote the whole thing.
By the time they got to me, I had my t-shirt off.
I was sweating profusely.
I had a bead running down my armpit.
Fucking classic shit.
So once I had that experience, I'm like, I'm going back there and it took me like two
years to go back there, but when I got back there, it was lights out, light.
That was another place that the original condo, all night long, people be knocking, you want
to buy me Coke?
You're like, yeah, come on in.
I was just thinking about making a call, but I didn't really, you know, that was another
place.
I was like El Paso.
I had one of the greatest moments in my career in El Paso.
At the comic strip.
At the comic strip.
It was about five years ago, this massive snowstorm, it never snows in El Paso.
I was there in February.
This massive snowstorm hits El Paso and I mean, it was fucking cah.
And they were having rolling blackouts like the night before the show had been canceled
because the electricity had blacked out in the whole city on and off.
So I loved El Paso because it's all, you know, 80% Mexican people, there's the audience
and then there's an army base there, Fort Bliss, so you got about 20% of the audiences
like army people and stuff.
So the great audiences and I was on stage for about a half hour and I was killing because
any comedian that tells a story about himself is killing in the story.
I'm doing a great set.
The lights go out, the city blacked out while I was on stage and the people in the audience
held up their cell phones and I did another half hour in the glow of cell phone light
with no electricity.
It was really cool.
They were like, no, no, man, keep going, fuck it.
You sure was their phone, not their noses glowing from the coke.
Well, I guess they were coked.
They were like, they're ready.
They didn't want to end the good time, right?
They weren't cold.
I can lie to you and tell you a bunch of stories and I can tell you that I cut my comedy teeth
in Texas.
If it wasn't for the state of Texas, I wouldn't even have become a comic.
Texas has always been comfortable.
Because they gave me the freedom to say what the fuck I want if they had tons of work.
No matter what city in that fucking beautiful state, you've always got work.
I love Texas too, throughout my career.
I can't lie to anybody and you know what, I don't work the comic strip no more just
because I just don't, you know, it's just Bart's a great guy.
He does what he does, but I can't lie to you either.
I used to work that club as a feature four or five times a year.
Yeah, I'd bust it down there.
Bust it right now, Monday night, 11 o'clock bus, get you in that one in the afternoon.
I'd stay up all night on the bus talking shit about myself with an iPod, writing stupid
fucking jokes.
I'd bring sandwiches and I'd fucking ride the bus.
Right there at one, go to the condo, take a nap, take a shower, do the show on fucking
Tuesday night.
And that's when it started.
It was Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, two Friday and two Saturday.
It was a long week, Jack's seven shows.
And the six of those nights you snorted up a fucking blizzard.
You saw daylight every night.
Do you understand me?
You saw daylight every night.
And I'll pass over you.
That means you stayed up until morning?
Daylight, 7 a.m.
Fucking go to bed.
I don't give a fuck who I worked that fucking room with.
They knew this room, this fucking condo is going to be rocking until daylight.
I swear to God, that was so crazy down there.
And you know, it's a shame I, and down the block they had a supermarket and on Friday
mornings they used to make Yucatan fish soup with every piece of fucking fish available.
And you see like eyeballs and heads and shark fins and shit.
Let me tell you something, no matter how much coat you snorted the night before or how bad
that pussy was the yate, the next morning all you had to have was that Yucatan fish
soup and you were back in business.
That brought you back for Friday.
You went back to Canapto about 6.30, went down to the comic strip, had their cheeseburger
and went on stage and did two shows and got another package.
It was great.
And then they had a check that delivered blow to you and she had a boyfriend from time to
time.
You could talk into licking your nuts because she was so coked up by the head.
This was craziness.
Then you had Dallas.
I got coked up a few times.
The other place was crazy Midland that was, that was run by a magician that was horrible
and he was married.
So he was Rob Jenkins.
Yeah.
I did that gig.
He brought me in there for New Year's Eve once we're like, I was like, it was like four
grand or something.
It was crazy.
This place.
It was a place next door that did Norteno dancing.
It was a dance.
Norteno is this dance and this music that's only in the north of Mexico.
So you know, really cowboy Mexican people, there was a really grimy strip club in that
town.
Did you go there?
No.
It was like total nudity.
No, no, no.
And like, you know, they worked for tips or something.
You could hit the kids crying in the back and shit, the kids stabbing themselves and shit.
The little fucking Afluenza white kids there jumping up and down, fuck you.
Those strip clubs are hard.
You get shot in those fucking strip clubs.
They don't even have floors.
It's dirt.
It's like the inside of a fucking barn, which this is crazy because they had one in, in
fact, Babbit took me to the one that was a barn down where Salinas from down in Corpus
Christi.
You're not serious is in a barn of the animals.
There was no animals.
The animals have been killed.
They had been transferred to a different farm and they had a strip club and a barn.
They had four chicks dancing.
They had like a roulette table.
This had to be me, Freddie Soto and somebody else.
I loved Freddie Soto.
So this had to be God bless his soul.
This had to be 2019, 99 me, Freddie.
And in those days, I used to pull a scam.
I used to, because they wanted like a ton of money to fly into Houston direct.
If you flew into Houston via San Antonio or something, you'd get off the plane in
San Antonio, fucking tremendous for like 99 bucks.
I get off the plane in San Antonio and shit and take the bus down from San Antonio to
Corpus Christi like a Puerto Rican.
You know me, Doug.
How much money would he save doing that?
I can't imagine you doing that now.
And then I go back to Corpus and they fight with me.
They'd say, no, this isn't your destination.
I make up a story.
Now you can't do that.
What do you mean you make up a destination?
Because you have to fly out of, you can't fly out of the connecting city.
So let's say I have a ticket from Dallas to Phoenix to LA and I show up in Phoenix an
hour before the flight.
They're not going to let me out.
Not today.
There's not.
Actually, this dude got in trouble.
This dude.
Yeah.
They don't fuck around no more.
But they lost.
He, the guys, the airlines, I'm pretty sure lost the suit because he made, I can check,
but he made a website where you do that.
You save money by just getting off or getting on at like a weird connecting flight.
But I'm pretty sure he beat the airlines, at least United.
You don't say flying that it was Tony Bennett.
It's Monday night, Tony's February 1st.
Get your ducks in order.
It's a new fucking month.
Every time I come in here, my fucking days change.
No kettlebell glass.
No.
No movies with my wife.
Amazing.
Are you recording or is this a break?
I'm recording.
Because I told you my vinyl records.
I'm playing tons of Ella Fitzgill records.
Sinatra, Tony Bennett.
It's fucking great.
It's all I'm listening to.
I love Tony Bennett.
I, Lee, I want you to know something.
I've always been a hardheaded guy.
So I was, you know, I came from Cuba.
You had the fucking 45s.
Okay.
And they had a thing in the middle and you played 45s.
Okay.
Everybody was fucking happy.
Everybody was fucking happy, Lee.
Everybody was fucking happy.
Albums were great.
People were smoking dope.
People were having a good time.
You had two other things.
Excuse me.
You had eight tracks and you had cassettes.
But vinyl was the way to fucking go.
And all of a sudden some genius said, no, let's go real to real.
So all of a sudden all these fucking Joe Jerkov started going real to real.
Did you get your real to real yet?
No.
No.
No.
No.
I knew it fucking 18 in 1982.
I kept saying to myself, this is a scam.
Did people really have real to reals in their house?
Real to real in their house.
My friend still has it in his basement.
No, he doesn't.
Yes, he does.
He's the only one that fell for it.
He fell.
Him and three other idiots all got real to real.
You know, when we hear Julius Priest, we can hear Rob Halford's voice pull away.
They all had a thousand fucking stories.
Remember when CDs came out, it was like being in the room with them.
It's like being in the room with them.
That's the way the market is.
You know, it's always some bullshit story and people fell for it.
And I kept saying to myself, this is great.
This is just great.
Why they got to fuck with something?
I always felt that.
And then there was something else that happened.
Music.
Music in general.
And every year, you know, you had the fucking...
I remember still having the Walkman with the power booster.
I went to a store in New York.
Fuck.
It was like all they did was sell appliances.
And I went there and they actually had the fucking power booster.
So I had a power booster connected to a fucking equalizer.
It would be loud as fuck connected to like state-of-the-art fucking speakers, you know.
Then everything changed.
Nah, we got to put the thing in it.
And then they came out with the fucking iPod.
So me and my Walkman have to go fuck themselves, right?
Yeah.
All over again.
You know what I have in my storage?
I bet you do.
Because I saved them.
I got a cassette Walkman and I got two CD Discmen.
Jesus.
And, you know, when the iPod came out, everyone got rid of their music collection.
Remember everybody had thousands of CDs?
I still got mine because I had it in storage, you know.
But, you know, this is the new thing.
So like everybody got the iPods, got rid of their music collections.
They don't even fucking sell it.
I got two iPods.
They don't sell those anymore.
And one of my iPods is broke that you can't take it to an Apple store and get it fixed.
So, like, I mean, now everybody downloads music and shit, but like, you know, what happened?
Even the iPod is outdated.
Like that thing right there?
That speaker?
That's a fucking iPod charger.
Yeah, that's an iPod charger.
Ralphie May gave me that for Christmas 10 fucking years ago to charge an iPod.
The only reason why it's down here is because on my last trip to Vegas, I lost my fucking iPod.
All right, I just lost it.
I just filled it up with songs and put the Sabbath collection.
UFO.
I had some Tony Bennett.
Yeah.
I put two Sinatra albums.
Does mine with music?
The screen is broke.
Where can you get a screen fixed on an iPod?
On Lancashire Boulevard.
Really?
Yeah, they have iPods.
Because this guy, like, my entire music collection is on this one fat iPod.
It's about 100 bucks.
Oh, man.
But they'll put the screen on a few hours right here.
Listen, those Armenians, they'll do anything.
Really?
On fucking North Hollywood, right next to the old ha ha, they fix iPod and screens.
And if not next to what's the Puerto Rican place on Lancashire.
Up there, they got a fucking place right next door to it.
They'll fix it while you wait.
Cool.
That's how much they got it through a science, that whole fucking screen on the thing.
But so fucking Thursday, I'm leaving for Charlotte.
I got to wake up at three in the goddamn morning.
I got to leave the house at four.
Get at the airport at five.
I get in the car at four.
I make a protein shake with a fucking banana.
I take my whatever fucking pill.
Then I take my blood pressure medication and I smoke some dope.
This is my first road gig in months.
The month and a half.
It's December 14th.
I haven't driven to LAX this the first week of December.
Why don't you take a break?
Yeah, I always take a break.
Fuck that.
There's no reason for me to travel, because I'm dirty.
So in December, it's kind of weird for me.
So I try to just do local gigs.
I don't want to get caught in the fucking snow.
I don't want to be one of those assholes that people watch on TV and say,
look at those assholes stuck at an airport.
You don't fly.
I never want to be one of those guys.
I fucking hate it.
I hate it.
I fucking hate it.
I hate people who do it.
I'm going home for the holidays.
Good luck.
Yeah.
Somewhere you're going to get fucked in the ass, you know?
What were you talking about?
You know what the fuck I'm talking about.
I am so high right now.
What were you talking about?
iPods, music.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You got in the car.
I get in the fucking car.
I puke.
I get car sick.
I miss the exit.
I'm basically driving on the 405.
No, this is when you went to Charlotte.
Just last Thursday.
Right.
So I'm driving on the 405, and I have all the windows open.
I have the air conditioner blast.
I have the music off, and I've got the seat like this.
I'm driving like this with my eyes closed, guys.
And also, I open up, and I see Century Boulevard.
Like, I had slept through the fucking exit.
I was so fucking dizzy.
I got off on the 105 somewhere, and I made a right on the Sienic.
And by the grace of God, I got back onto Century within 10 minutes.
At that left onto Century, I could feel the rumblings.
I started farting those really bad anxiety farts.
I said, come out of your ass.
I'm driving down Century.
I'm doing 90, and I'm crisscrossing.
Like, I got a DUI.
I'm surprised we're still having this fucking conversation.
I just didn't get out of jail.
I get into the airport.
There's no traffic.
I get the Terminal 4.
It's American Airlines.
And as I get the ticket, it just exorcises out of my mouth onto that thing.
I got to pull over, finish up the puke.
It's on my fucking shirt.
There's a banana in the car from the fucking blender.
It didn't blend all the way.
I got to take my shirt off, throw it in the fucking garbage,
and take a shirt out of the luggage and put that on.
That's how I flew.
I walked to the fucking airport.
I'm barely walking in there.
I'm purple.
I'm purple.
I swear to God, guys, I should have canceled.
No, I didn't.
I went through security.
It was quick.
For the first time ever, it wasn't gate 44D,
which is always, always at the end.
It was gate 60.
The first one over, and I sat there, and I look up, and I'm breathing.
I'm taking my hood and sweatshirt off.
I'm just breathing.
I'm getting dizzy.
I look over, and I see fucking sandwiches and water.
And I walk over there.
I don't even know how I did.
And I bought the water and drank and sat down.
That brought me back a little bit.
And then I got a turkey sandwich with avocado and arugula.
And that took me down a level.
And I bought it the fucking plan, and I was fine.
Was it the protein shake?
I don't know what it was.
I think it was the reefer and the fucking nicotine gum.
I think it took me to a different level.
You know what I'm saying?
I've been having problems with medication lately.
This guy was reefering the nightclub.
That's frightening, man.
You're like, Jesus Christ, I did nightclub edible.
Don't ever eat an edible and do nightclub, Jack.
I thought I was gonna die in the middle of it.
I'm afraid of the edibles.
I had some cookies last year.
It was like waiting for an illness to pass.
Some of this shit.
You know, I just moved to Los Angeles.
Some of this edible shit frightened me.
Half a gummy bear, and you're like, you know.
No, no, no, no, no.
We're not gonna eat it up tonight.
I'm gonna meet him tomorrow or two.
I gotta meet him sometime.
We might not even go meet him.
I'm not busy.
You might not even have to go there
because you can only come at 11 o'clock tomorrow.
My man from Force One stars bringing it in
so he can go deep this week with Dick Syed.
His dad's coming from Florida.
Where's your dad?
I'm from Florida.
He loves the stars of death.
My cousin is a cop in Boynton Beach.
There you go.
Next time you get pulled over,
he's got a friend in Boynton Beach.
See how it works out?
I had a thing happen to me.
I was driving to the airport.
I was in Orlando for the holidays,
and when I was leaving,
I went to get to the Orlando airport.
I've been there a million times,
but I came at it from a different direction.
I was on this like turnpike thing
or this expressway.
I missed my exit,
and somehow I got thrown on to the Florida turnpike.
And this has never happened.
I'm from Orlando.
I've been to the airport a million times,
and I was running a little late.
I mean, I had to, you know,
I drop off this rent-a-car
and then make it to the airport.
My flight's like at 7 a.m.
So this is like already like whatever it is,
5.30, 5.45.
I'm cutting it way too close,
and I'm about to be thrown on to the Florida turnpike
heading towards Miami.
So it looked like the only thing to do,
there was this...
It looked like about the size of a curb
and then about the width of a sidewalk.
This kind of median between where this on-ramp
to the off-ramp that was going the opposite way.
And I drove over this,
and I had this little tiny Prius,
and it kind of got stuck on the...
The sidewalk length was about how much it is
between the tires or whatever.
So I really had like rocked this car
and like I'm flooring the gas,
and then finally like it gets over
and it's like smoking,
and you could just...
You could hear just that crunch bottom out.
I made it over the thing,
get into this other lane,
and the guy sitting there at the money-collected booth,
I go, what do you want me to pay you?
And he goes, well, you have to pay...
It's five from the last XI.
Five bucks? Sure.
Give him the five bucks, made it,
dropped off the car,
and made it to my flight in time.
So that's always why you should get full coverage
on the rent-a-car. Jesus Christ.
So you can do shit like that.
Had I not gotten full coverage...
Those fucking 10 cans you get hit,
the car blows up and shit.
You die from electric shock and shit.
Oh my God, I hate those fucking cars.
But we've had to go through to make it to flights
to get to gigs.
Sometimes it's a fucking nightmare.
That's why I leave her the first flight out always.
Really? You like those early flights?
Yeah, it gets it out of the way,
and that's it. I don't have to go in the night before
and waste time.
I get out of LAX at five in the morning,
if I have to.
That's the first flight out to most of these cities.
So it gives me a jump. I get in even on the East Coast.
I get out at lunchtime at one.
Five o'clock gets you there.
And when I get out of LA, when I get out of New York,
I get that quarter to sixth flight.
On a Sunday, it gets you back at 8.30 a.m.
like a doctor.
You drive up that four or five like you own it.
You're the only one on there, you know what I'm saying?
There's nobody on there.
I land at two. I got to drive another hour after I get home.
You know, I'm 53.
I got one for the grade one up in an appeal.
I think I got two hours to drive in the fucking four or five.
People don't get that, and they get mad when I tell them,
listen, I'm not going down.
They want me to go down Wednesday and meet these people,
and I'm like, listen, let me tell you about my life.
I leave Thursday.
When I leave on Thursday, I don't go over to help
because I only got fucking three days.
The baby goes to school tomorrow,
so that gives me a little grace.
Tomorrow and Wednesday, it's good
because Monday is, I got the kid.
The kid, you don't know when she's going to fall asleep.
I don't know what detail my wife has to do,
so I don't really have a schedule.
If it's an envelope, yeah, then we have to go pick up an envelope.
But there ain't no envelope.
If you want to talk to me about a movie, it could wait.
It could wait because I have the baby.
I don't know when I'm going to see the fight.
You know what I'm saying?
Mondays, I chill.
It's an audition.
I got to go.
It's something positively, absolutely,
like Fetal Express.
If not, I try to keep it light.
So I had a few dumb things.
All three of them were a waste of my fucking time.
Thank God I got to work out there.
You know what I'm saying?
Look at you, Lisa.
Yeah, looking good.
Bold.
Your eyeballs are fucking...
I'm the highest fuck.
Fuck yeah.
I was like, when you guys were talking about those gigs,
I used to go to some of those hotel gigs,
and it's like, I used to love finding a new comedian.
I was emailing back and forth with this guy.
He said he went to a midnight show,
and some of the comics weren't that good.
I said, yeah, but isn't it really fun
when you find a new comedian to...
Is it fun for you to go around to all these places
and find new good comics?
Yeah, definitely, but I like that you say that.
Just being the fan of it and then cheering for a guy.
Yeah, I'm sure you as well meet young guys,
and you know they're going to be great comedians,
even if they have no self-esteem,
and they live in the middle of nowhere.
Certain people, I mean, and then other people develop,
and then it clicks for people later in life,
and you definitely make friends with comedians,
and you're cheering for them,
and then other people have addiction hangups
that they have to navigate.
No, yeah, it's...
I know comedians all over the world, man.
I wanted to do this show where...
I'm the Anthony Bourdain of comedy
because I do these shows, comedy, all around the world,
so I wanted to go around the world,
check out, highlight comedy scenes,
or check out comedy scenes,
highlight comedians from those places,
and then also see what people are making jokes about
in other countries.
There's all these gigs in Asia now,
and I was in Hanoi last year.
I went to Vietnam 20 years ago
when I did Viva Vietnam for Comedy Central.
I went there and did this hour special
where I, you know, went all over Vietnam,
and had fun for the guys.
We didn't get to have fun, whatever.
So it was the first time I had been back in 20 years,
and they have stand-up now,
and this young comedian in Hanoi opened up for me.
He's 19 years old.
His all-time comedy hero is Eddie Murphy Delirious.
So this guy, he's 19,
he's just been on comedy for a couple months,
but everything he delivers is like Eddie Murphy in Delirious,
because that's his hero.
You know, when you're on your scooter,
and your girl is on the back,
and you're driving through town,
like, you know, he's got no material.
He's a young comedian, but, you know,
the guy's in Hanoi,
and he's, you know, he loves comedy,
he loves Eddie Murphy, you know?
I mean, how are you not going to fall in love with a guy like that,
and cheer for him?
Comedy's everywhere now.
Gabriel was telling me a story about going to, you know,
somewhere where we're supposed to be at war with them.
Gabriel went somewhere,
and he said, the people were fucking tremendous,
that they were saying, when you go back to America,
tell them what we're really like.
We're not these people that they portray in the media.
And the one guy said, I want to be a stand-up comic,
so Gabriel went and watched him do comedy,
and he goes, it was fucking hysterical.
You know, just to see other cultures,
what the hell they're talking about.
I just worked with a kid this week,
and his last name was Patel.
I worked with two really good comics.
And the Patel kid was killing me.
Was killing me Friday night,
talking about Mohammed and all this shit, you know?
It's just great to see comics starting out.
It does something to you.
And now that you're not drinking,
you really connect.
Now that you see, I did a Tony Hinchman show,
and I was telling Lee that that night,
I saw something in their faces
that guys like you and I used to have
at that five-year mark, that acceptance.
There's a part when you get accepted as a comic,
like somebody above you accepts you,
that just brings a different type of thrill to your soul.
When somebody says, hey, come on, let's go have a drink.
That's it. You're fucking, you've arrived, you know?
And you're having a drink with this guy,
and you're asking about talking jokes,
and he offers you to take him in the app, whatever.
That's what this whole thing is really about sometimes.
And some, yeah, you're right.
Some of us have drug issues.
I mean, I'm very lucky.
I did not die in the rug.
Very lucky. I'm very lucky.
I didn't die in fucking Beaumont.
I'm lucky. I didn't die.
I can relate to that sentiment.
I'm lucky I didn't die in Houston.
There was a lot of nights, boy,
that were fucking ugly across this country.
That would have been horrible
and I'm really happy.
I didn't go out that way.
We're all going to fucking die, but we all could choose.
Yeah.
I did not want to die like Jim Morrison.
I did not want to die like that.
There had to be something better for us,
and I'm happy it's behind us now.
I'm happy it's really...
I will tell you one thing.
I only slept three hours on fucking Saturday night,
so I get on the plane.
The 23 motherfuckers on the plane.
I got on the plane two times the first class.
They did not give me one seat.
They gave me two.
I'm sitting there by myself.
I get on the plane.
The breakfast was phenomenal.
It was a French toast souffle
that I had on the way there.
I usually don't eat French toast or take the chance,
but I was already sick.
French toast souffle.
A little fucking nut.
They were a little syrup. Tremendous.
They gave me a little fruit cup to toot
on Papillon Island.
Unfucking believable.
American Airlines. Upgrade you.
First class biscuit was dried and dicked.
Okay.
Papillon cracker.
Oh, yeah. The fucking Papillon cracker.
Those I talked about.
American Airlines. No fucking movie.
But, uh...
Let me tell you what I had, gentlemen.
I went deep.
I had no reefer.
I usually have like a pillow too of my luggage.
You know what I'm saying? There's always something in my luggage.
I'm one of those dudes.
When you look deep, there's always something.
It looks like a blood pressure medication.
There could be a half a Xanax or something.
I looked through that luggage at the hotel.
There was nothing.
I was so like on the plane.
I took a little nappy noodle for about an hour.
I heard the pilot get back on.
Okay, we're back on track.
We got about four hours of four hours.
No movie. I said, fuck it.
I called the lady over and said, do me a favor.
I go, let me get a Dewis and ginger ale.
What was the last time you had Dewis and ginger ale?
I could never drink Scotch.
Scotch is how I could never handle it. Jesus Christ.
This fucking wench comes back
and she goes, I don't know if I told you.
You got upgraded twice so I'm bringing you two bottles.
Oh, shit. When somebody brings you two bottles outright,
you got to go, Lisa.
And I sat there like a doctor.
And I poured the fucking
Scotch in first.
I let the Scotch collaborate with the fucking ice cubes.
You know what I'm saying?
To get that boldness, bitterness away.
Then I dropped the ginger ale and little increments.
Like a Jew, you know what I'm saying?
Like a Jew in the desert, just fucking.
I just, and it bubbled up.
And then I gave it another minute
and I put the stare in and I took the stare.
I stuck the stare in an ice cube
and I ate the ice cube with just the fucking
with the dudes on it.
You know what I'm saying?
Not a lot of motherfuckers live like that.
I love the image of you doing this by yourself.
Like a doctor.
When I looked to my left, there was nobody in those seats.
So I was scratching my nuts through my jeans.
I was picking my nose.
I was having a party over there.
Using only a bathroom
to scratch your nuts. Fuck no.
I just popped that zipper down
and stuck that arm in there.
If you caught me, I thought I was fingering myself.
I was scratching those nuts like a doctor.
Did you undo the button on your jeans?
No, no, no, no.
You didn't do that?
I just opened up my zip and stuck my hand
and scratched my balls.
I fucking picked the nuts out of my nose.
I was over there by myself.
There was one lady behind me. She was passed out.
I had those two fucking Scotches
and I fucking passed out, guys.
20 minutes before the plane land.
I got up like I was feeling fucking tremendous.
Scotch ain't bad. Listen.
Scotch is not bad if you drink it.
Two of those motherfuckers.
My dad used to drink rusty nails.
Scotch and drink.
I had to take a little sip off the top.
Just that top part was nice.
You know what, Bryce?
But Scotch, I...
I used to snorkele with fucking rusty nails.
That's when you know.
What's a rusty nail?
Scotch and Drambuli.
My dad taught me how to...
gasoline with gasoline.
From the time I was like 10 or 12,
my dad taught me how to make it for him perfectly.
And so I spent my whole life making him rusty nails.
Back in the day, that was my shit.
Rusty nails.
I liked for a long time I drank Crown and Ginger.
That was always delicious.
What was your favorite drink of choice?
Before you went to the beer.
Because after a while alcohol burns right through you.
So once you go before you went to the beer.
Well, back in the... Coke was probably
Crown and Ginger.
Crown and Ginger, that's a good one.
I always liked vodka in anything.
Vodka was like what the supermodels drink
because it has less sugar
and you know...
I've always loved vodka.
Vodka is straight on the ice probably.
I drank too much vodka as a kid
to like it as an adult.
Vodka goes with anything also.
With Gatorade.
You can mix vodka with your first baby food.
And it's fucking gonna work.
Fucking a quarter vodka with iced tea.
Then going home, passing out, getting up on the moon.
Oh my gosh.
And there'd be iced tea in the picture.
And you drink the iced tea and you want to vomit.
Because that's what you were just drinking with the vodka.
I got a story for you man.
I was in San Francisco years ago
and partying all night in my hotel room.
I had all these people over from the club.
Waitresses and comedians
and we were up
drinking tons of vodka
and
partying.
Anyway, I woke up the next day
and I was totally hungover and I made coffee
and
there was a cup
next to the bed. I was just hungover
and probably still half fucked up.
I threw the cup of water in there
and then I made the coffee
in the little tiny hotel coffee machine.
And then I took a sip
and it was vodka
and coffee.
What I made.
I took the sip and I was like, oh fuck that's vodka
that I made the coffee with.
So I thought to myself, wait a minute
this could be like the next peanut butter and jelly
or about Reese's Peanut Butter Cup.
Remember the old commercial?
The bar in the park. He trips
goes into the girls jar of peanut butter.
How sexual was that commercial?
So that's how
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups were invented.
So I thought, oh maybe I'll give this a try.
So I took another sip
and it is definitely
not the new Reese's Peanut Butter Cup.
But if you put cream in that mother fucker
you could have saved it.
I should have doubted it.
You have a smoke crack and you put it in the microwave oven
and it don't come back.
I don't think that happens.
Listen Doug,
let's say somebody comes over
with a gram and they want to cook it up, right?
They throw some coke and they throw some
microwave in there.
I'm trying to teach Lee, just in case.
I'll say you take a coffee
cup Lee and somebody comes over to G Bolaroo.
That's how you tell if the coke is good.
You throw it in the water.
You put three fingers of water in the cup.
You throw the coke in the water and then you throw
like a tenth or maybe two tenths
of baking soda.
You put the microwave at 30 seconds.
You put that in there.
When that mother fucker goes bing, you take that thing out
and there'll be some particles flowing.
And you take those chunks out and you let it dry.
And you look at it
and that should be a gram of coke.
Because if the coke was good it should be maybe nine tenths
if the coke was really good.
If it's Fugazi Coke
you get back like five tenths and you piss fucking off.
But there's people who could throw that back
in there. They were like Udini.
A couple Puerto Ricans do it.
A couple of weird people like Colombians
they throw some baking soda and more baking soda
and you take more back.
So these guys know how to throw more baking soda
and they put it in there for like 10 seconds.
Bing! They take it out and they take like
an extra two tenths back.
A lot of people don't know that. Might as well
drop it on you right now on a Monday night.
Where else are you going to get this kind of knowledge?
How to bring back coke, you know what I'm saying?
You never smoked a piece of coke Tom Rods
anywhere you went.
Oh, I tried it years ago.
Fuck yeah, Houston, Texas and shit.
Houston was my favorite.
Houston was one of those places
I should have died at.
And that's even without exaggerating.
I would eat like a fucking animal.
I would drink like a fucking animal.
I would sleep like an animal.
I worked with you in Houston.
A couple times. I worked with you.
I did that fucking room.
I did it with Hedberg a lot too.
Hedberg a lot. That was great.
That was when you guys brought comedy to Houston.
That was when Houston people knew
there was something fucking big happening
when you had come back to do that
co-headlining spot with Hedberg.
I still remember that. That was like, what?
What are you saying?
What the fuck are they saying? Hedberg?
And this fucking guy together?
Yeah, we both took less money to do so we could work together.
Joey, did you open for Tom?
Yeah.
How many people do you have relationships with?
20 years later,
10 years later, you guys are friends.
This is what comedy is.
That's crazy.
He could disappear for three years.
He comes back, I bump into him, I give him a hug,
we talk shit, we smoke a number, we don't smoke a number.
I got a lot of photos
and I got those out of storage also.
I got to look back
through them more deeply
but I got tons of photos
of you and us
that week.
It's remarkable
because I don't feel old
but look at those photos. Man, you and I
we look young.
I got headshots done about a month ago.
I haven't even developed them.
Every time I open and I go, Jesus Christ
what happens?
What really happened?
And lately I've been doing the math
and I know some of these guys.
I talk to a girl, I tell you that legitimately
I know her 40 years.
When you know somebody 40 years
you're fucking old, Jack.
You're fucking old.
That's it. This is it.
This is it.
Like I said a thousand times
I loved growing up in Jersey.
I loved my neighborhood. I loved those people.
I loved where I grew up
in conjunction with New York City.
I was able to just take a bus and be in the city
and that doesn't exist no more.
The traffic has fucking quadrupled
since then.
But I always start, like I said
I always start that one day
I would close my eyes and go back to North Bergen
and everything would be the way it was.
All my friends would still be at the bar
snort and blow, listen to Bruce Springsteen
whatever.
And that doesn't even exist.
These guys are Christians
or whatever the fuck they do now
and my one buddy works at UPS
and you know
it's dead.
Like that's it. This is it.
We're in the final fucking countdown Tom Rhodes
and we love it. I love it.
How do I feel? I feel like I'm fucking dirty.
Because I'm living how a 30 year old
should live.
I'm trying to live, drink a lot of water
get sleep, no drugs, a little bit of reefer
you know.
That's the fucking recipe. What else?
reefer, some fish
shoot that fucking sperm out of your helmet
three times a week, you're a fucking man.
Sounds like we're on the same diet.
All you need to do is give blood once a month
like an ounce, like 16 ounces
you give blood once a month
you're a fucking new man once every two months
your heart makes that new fucking blood
your stomach it gets hard
you get that old brown blood out of your helmet.
You give blood once a month? I try.
I go down to the doctor's office and I make up some bogus excuse
I'm getting dizzy.
So they take blood out of my fucking arm
same four ounces whatever the fuck they take
somebody make new blood you know
something, some water, some garlic
BAM
you got a whole new dose of fucking blood
you know what I'm saying? You're a vampire
is fucking fine. I feel like you just made all that up
I think I did too
but it works for me in my head
something once told me
that's why women don't die of heart attacks
cause they bleed once a month
and it makes a lot of sense
Is that true?
That's why women don't
how many women you know who fucking punch the ticket while they fucking roll the skate
and they're shoveling snow not too many
guys always die shoveling
snow and fucking
waking up and putting their shoes on
and shit. Why do I think I don't put my shoes on
in the morning no more? I have mercy
do it I give like a dollar and a little bank account
I don't put my shoes on that's bad luck
you gotta find somebody to put your shoes on
that's success
anybody anybody
that's great that's fantastic
Charlie Chaplin never wore the same pair of socks
twice after he got famous
cause he was so poor when he was a kid
he never wanted to
wear the same pair of socks twice
that was his
that's what it seems to me
he just dropped on me though
that's cool I think so
real success would be having somebody
put your shoes on for you
that's emperor shit
bringing a balance like put your shoes on
cut your toenails first put cream on your feet
then put your socks on
make sure the top is all tight
you always fuck up and leave the top rolled over
they make sure they rub your
calf for you and shit loosen up the blood
then they put this shoe in for you
that's success you understand me
that's what I need
somebody to do that roll joints
you know what I'm saying don't talk much
you don't know the language something
that's all you can't find
somebody white to rub your calves and put your shoes on
who do you think would be the best at it
it had to be somebody from another country
somebody would be cool
somebody who would be knowledgeable
maybe he was on the run for murder
or something
he wants to come here and rub people's feet
I don't fucking know
why you put me on the spot
like I'm Trump or something like that
that would be the least worst thing you said
you think someone would be a good joint ruler
that sounds bad for you
somebody somewhere has
a joint role a snoop dog
I heard years ago
who was it a friend of mine told me
this was
Jesus I don't 30 years ago
it's got to be total horseshit as they said
it was a Kevin Costner
one of those actors had
maybe it was
shit don't throw nobody in the bus
unless you know for sure okay Kevin Costner's got to turn this
no what's his name the guy
Han Solo what's it
Lee hook me up
Harrison Ford
Kevin Costner one of those guys like that
his friend of mine and the friend who told me was
non-show business person so I don't even know how
he would know but it just
seems cool he said that he had a joint
roller
and that was the guy's job
to make sure that he always had a joint ready
and the dude's name was Sloan
so whenever he wanted a joint he would say
Sloan
so like
fucking 30
years ago it might not
even be true
I know for a fact that
the pharmacy in Hollywood
10-15 years ago
when this whole wheat thing they would close at
730 and somebody
why ask why don't you close at 730 and say
he goes because at 730 is when
Harrison Ford were coming with Clista Flockhart
and they would cobweat down there
I don't even know if the pharmacy
was stored around one of them closed
there was one in Venice
that was the hotspot for wheat
you know how much I was dropping there a month guys
how much
five breath
wow
I put 4800 on the credit card and there one month
my wife almost drew me out of the house
how do you explain it
when you forgot diapers on the way
you know I was shooting something
and I was bringing shit on the set
for people
you know I was fucking
going on the road and taking it with me
you know this is when lollipops were $15
a fucking piece
I'd buy 10 fucking lollipops to go to Houston
you know
I'd walk out of there with two bags
two fucking bags this is before the podcast
this is the truth I'm not kidding you
I remember my wife sitting me down and going
yo you put 40 fucking
$4000 on a fucking card
and a weed charges are you fucking crazy
I think that's like 120 a day
right around there
I was going in there some days and dropping
220
300
200
they had everything Lee
ice cream cakes
they had fucking everything
have you tried the pizza at sunset
whatever
I brought it home one night
I don't know what happened to me I fell asleep
but I must have had 2,000 other edibles
in my bloodstream so
because it's apparently like I think it's like 250
and she said it was like
you didn't even taste the weed
so I was thinking about it but
I didn't know if you had it or not
who is she gonna sprinkle some more weed on that motherfucker
double check it put some what's around
that motherfucker you know what I'm saying
let me do some shout outs
and we'll get the fucking underlay out of here
DeMauro
Bob Lalingas
Bobby Sharon Anthony Kelly
Rob Bradley Brian Austin
or Austin I don't know
Paul Island
Lauren Rosenker and awesome warrior
I love you cocksuckers
Tom Rhodes in the house
talking about our Houston cocaine crazy
in his days
you were like when I started
you were like fucking booming already
like when I started traveling
you were already booming
and then in 95 you came to Seattle
and I was doing like saw a gig
and I was you did a gig with like Jeanine Garofalo
with two other people
it was like a four comic show or something like that
you still had the long hair
and then when I first moved to LA
in 97 98
I saw you at the improv one night
you were holding onto the wall
the show had just been canceled maybe two or three weeks
prior you were a gentleman
you know and then you took off
and you said fucking I'm getting the fuck out of here
you did all your travels
and I bumped into you in Houston when you had the show
and
you had the footage of you and the singer
from fucking
whatever the fuck
oh yeah yeah yeah
when I had the late night talk show in Amsterdam
all this shit I still remember
you know you're the real fucking deal
yeah it's great because I left LA
you're the real deal bro
no we've always
you know been tight
it's amazing how
you know
you do this long enough and you see these guys
and you look at them and you go you know
I was watching at the store the other night
and you're a fucking monster
you're a fucking monster this is I look at you
and I go yeah 20 years
plus you just navigate
and you take them into weird places
you set yourself up you know
if you were a jiu-jitsu guy you'd like guys get on top
you can grab my neck
grab my neck harder
what'd you just do mister
I told you to grab my neck you know
there's some comedians who we
you're the king of that it's like you said
the lights got off so what
who gives a fuck
we got no lights you got ears come on
let's go let's do this show
that's what a true comic does
like you said listen
let me tell you something
if I was just me and Terry right now
that little girl wasn't there
I'd be out constantly
I'd do this podcast Sunday and Monday
and I'd be on a plane Wednesday morning
that's it I'd be out there
banging it out going to places
Lee that most people wouldn't go to
there's a club now
whether it's to Lee though you go to Maine
you go someplace in Michigan
you know in Milwaukee
you go to these places and
you always know one person
a week before you get there somebody
hits you up on Facebook hey man
you remember me from the store
I came back my sister got hit by a car
and had to come back and take care of the shoe store
you know whatever
you have no idea Lee
you have no idea the people
who will come out and see you that you look at
and you go wow
I used to fucking drink what you had
at the store you were a kid
what happened
because most of these people disappear one day
overnight and your mind
is so
focused on comedy
that your mind doesn't even register
until they hit you up on Myspace
or Facebook and Twitter and go hey
you're coming to Chicago I'm going to come into the second
show
what happened to you somebody called me
in Charlotte
who I've known since
1983 I robbed the sandwich store
in
1983 in an outhouse in Aspen Colorado
it was across the street from the hotel
I went and I'm sitting there
broke in this hotel living there and I'm like
fuck I never robbed the sandwich store
that's the only
chicken curry I ever ate
Lee Sian
he had a chicken curry
on rye bread like multi-grain bread
sort of like empty the register
make me a curry
no no no they were gone
I just kicked the door down in those days in Aspen
nobody had an alarm
nobody did nothing wrong in Aspen
there was no burglar alarms
if you wanted something you just kicked the door down
I mean once a year
there'd be these burglaries and you'd go
there was no alarm
but there was nothing like this nobody was dirty
like me
and one day I'm just sitting in this hotel and I'm like
fucking I'm robbing the sandwich
and I kicked the door down
I probably got him for 600
and I got him like a few sandwiches
you know me you got to take something to go
and the next day the owner knew
I'll wait around and make a sandwich
he knew it was you and he followed
the sesame seeds
they suspected it I just come into the area
and all of a sudden they got burglarized
but Steve stayed my friend
and uh
his what
listen to the story he was the
at one time when I met him in
83 he was the house
for a Collin Jean loan jet
she shot a husband or something
that she married Paul Williams or something like that
some fucking crazy
story his girlfriend
was the house sitter and Aspen everybody has
a house sitter you know how people he
have nannies in the 80s
and Aspen you had a house sitter
I don't know what those do what do you do
the house sitter nothing
like when I house sat I had to do 24
hours of work a month
that's six hours of work a week so
that means either I mowed the lawn or I shoveled snow
any other maintenance he had to pay me
but he left his truck there
his house was to me
and the house sitter had the house in the back
or next to over the garage
you have like one bedroom apartment
and you can have a day job
and a night job
and not pay rent and just do six hours
a week of work there
so on Saturday you have to mow the lawn
trim the hedges
you know clean up the rocks
you know and on fucking
when it snows you have to shovel
that's it that's all I did
but I wasn't
allowed to drive the car I drove the car
he said you were allowed to go
in the house and fuck with shit
I moved into the house
you know me though I moved into the house
I was in the jacuzzi
I was I had a way in cocaine room
I had a coke room I had a room where
I put victims while they sat there and waited
for the blow you should have seen me
I was sitting people down and calling them
into the other room it was crazy
this one other than Aspen in 83
my friend Jimmy Burkle was the original
God bless his soul
he's fucking dead his disco
I love him I miss him
sorry about this this belt
and he
fucking called me
I was living in San Francisco
about to get arrested
about to get arrested
we had to go on the run and go to Reno
I'm one of those buses 15 dollars a day
and they give you 15 and quarters
so I'm in Reno
and in Reno I checked
I had like an answering service
and they're like you have three messages and I called
the answering service and they're like yeah
Jimmy Burkle said to call them
and I called him and he was like listen man
I knocked up my wife
and I got this house sitting job
I need for you to take it you said you were coming up here
I'm like are you fucking serious
that was like music to my ears
that's no rent Lee
that's no rent
fucking snowmass village
I get there there's a car
there's a house he's like you can't go in the house
as I'm talking to him I'm like
I can't go in the house
that house is mine
that's mine the guy only comes
one week a year
he had ten of these all around the world
this was one of his houses
in the year and a half I lived there
his daughters came out to ski one time
for three days
I left a thousand dollars worth of booze
there were spoiled kids
her father was one of the originators of
the one food chain
this was one of his many
I used to talk to him on the phone
from all over the world
because I had to call him before I spent money on the house
so I would call an answering service
and he would call me back like two days later
how are you doing
I'm in Finland you know what I'm saying
that's only a great gig
but the gig sometimes
you have to live on property with them
that sucks
it's good but it sucks
but sometimes
they're not there
and they just it's a right off of them
to have this house there
Jennifer Aniston has houses everywhere
it just doesn't go to them
no she fucking furnishes them
and puts somebody in there to watch them
so nobody burglarizes those fucking houses
and somebody lives in there you don't even know
they don't even know they live in Jennifer Aniston's houses
they don't even know
they probably get hired through a service
that does a background check
and this is what they do for a fucking living
how do you like them there apples
cock licker
what do you think about that though
I think that you know
I have a one house dream
TGIF restaurants
oh that's what the guy owned
his name was Dick Self
Dick Dick
and my buddy Jimmy Perkins would call me
Dick Dick
because it was Dick Kelly
you ever do Brad Garrett's comedy club in Vegas
never
in the dressing room he's got it framed
it's this spiral notebook
that he was a waiter
at TGI Fridays
and when you're away my brother was a waiter
at TGI Fridays you know they really make you learn the menu
inside and out they make you gotta like take a test
before you're like a bartender or a waiter there
so Brad Garrett
has it framed
to remind him you know how good
he has it as being a
comedian that you know at least
he's not a fucking waiter at a
TGI Friday
it's like it's right
before you go out to go backstage
to go on stage it's like the
the last thing you see I love that
that he's got his framed
TGI Fridays waiter
notebook framed
you always have to have a reminder to let you know
how lucky it is I really believe that
I really do I have one every fucking
day like I have a reminder
Jesus fucking Christ
you know I was having that whole puke episode
that I had the other day it was the main
cause of it was anxiety
don't believe that it was anxiety
I had to leave my family I haven't done it in six weeks
you know it's not that I got
lazy I still bang it out every night like
a fucking soldier of death
you just it's a new adventure I didn't know
what to expect and it turned out to be
beautiful I had a great time the city of
Charlotte was fucking great
the club was phenomenal the people were great
the crowds were great
the staff the food was great
the comedy zone let me tell you something
they got a Mexican restaurant upstairs dog
and I'm not talking about no hip-hop
magoo restaurant
yeah I'm talking about these
motherfuckers are
related to El Chapo okay
these motherfuckers could cook
at least I had
every taco I ate I thought about you
opening night I had two chorizo
tacos who makes chorizo tacos
out of the fucking range
on flower tortillas
it was delicious okay
I kept it light that's what I had for dinner
I flew in I didn't need anything else
I didn't touch the rice I didn't touch the beans
okay the next day I went back
there and the driver said you have to have the
shrimp tacos have the carnita
tacos and have the
chicharron tacos was the shrimp grilled
or fried dog it was
mixed in this red sauce
with onions nothing like this
these people are schmucks
these people here get a tortilla
they put some onions they put three shrimp
caught in a bay those
little fucking bay shrimps
and they get those little
fucking bay shrimps
and they give me some sauce it's
garbage yeah those are I don't like those
I like fried ones this was
fucking sensational
I tell you how real they were
the chicharron tacos
weren't the hard ones it was
the ones mixed in sauce
they taste like a pig skin that's what it's like
it's like boiled pigs in when they
give you that you know they're fucking
real the best thing
they had was the carnitas
I mean the pork tacos
and you know I don't eat pork
you know I don't eat pork I'm not Muslim
I just don't eat pork I don't eat pork on the road
I gotta know where this pig
came from okay
I gotta know where this pig came from
I'm not Muslim but I don't eat pork
on the road yeah I don't I don't eat pork
on the run I swear to God I bit into that taco
it was so fucking
delicious I wanted two to go that's how much
of an animal I am and I took
I didn't even make it to the hotel I ate him in the car
with the fucking driver that's how stoned
that was Friday night
what about the place you went to this other
place right this Asian place
like this bold place
I don't even tell me about it
spaghetti place
isn't that great too like traveling around the country
like cities all over America
Jesus Christ
I got favorite food spots I hit
I was in Fort Worth last weekend
the flying fish
it's this old place it's been there
forever and
they do this
red snapper Vera Cruz
I get I go every time I go to Fort Worth
it's this entire fish
it's got this tomato
onion thick
chunk sauce on top of it
it's just heavenly you mentioned them
so let me mention it to you
Anthony Bordain when you see that show
put a gun in your head and shoot yourself that was you
that's what you did in the last 20 years
yeah well I still want to do that
I want to make that show but with comedy
I got comedian friends all over the world
and comedy is hot all over the world
I can still make that show
I made a lot of short videos I have them
on YouTube I made
like travel clips and trying to
make a comedy travel series
that you can do and I guarantee
the first season you will get picked up
by somebody if you do this
I'm still trying to make that show
11 minute snippets and pull out
one a week and you're fucking travels
I got some on YouTube I got Malaysia
I got Ireland I got
Hanoi Vietnam I got
Cambodia
I've made some nice clips
about marriage you had to have some footage
before the marriage the shit
of the real time road
waking up on the floor with no shirt on
and bizbee fucking whatever
the stanhope compound the next day
you're in Vegas right because that's what
this whole thing we were talking about
in the beginning that people really don't know
when you're out there we
when you're out there
some days you wake up on a beautiful
fucking bed with a curtain
and the room smells like Louis the lilac
you know what I'm saying
who's Louis the lilac
I don't know but I think
he has very comfortable bedding
and some days you wake up on a couch
that was the part about the road
that most gentiles
most people never understand
when you explain to somebody about your life
and they're like so tell us about what you do
and you're like Tuesday night
I was in Charleston South Carolina
really it was the hotel
lady that club has
what was the club in Cleveland that had
the fucking sleeping in the back of it
and no that was in Akron, Coyote
of all's tell Lisa
that the fucking beer guy would come
you'd be sleeping on a cot
and the beer guy would have to push you over
they'd lock you in an
they had like an old warehouse
storage space
in the back that had been converted
to apartments for the comedians
what did you do as you walk in
with your suitcase all excited
I was never going to perform there
because I can't do coke in the dark
I would lose too much of it
oh I got a story for you
I got a great story from when I played there
wouldn't they lock you in there
I was there in February
and it was big snow drifts
and massive snow storms so
me and the other comedian were snowed in
for the week so it was like
being in jail
they had a
a metal door
in the back of the club
they would unlock it when the owner
and the waitresses got to the club
you could hear them unlock that metal door
and it felt like being in jail
like oh now we can go into the club
like it's seven or whatever so
there was no windows
it's really dark in there
this is
Jesus I don't even remember what year this was
but
the headliner was this guy from
uh
Indianapolis and
he was like a portly
bald
pervert guy
remember the USA network
this is like I think the early 90s
maybe in that 89
something like that
the USA network on cable in the afternoon
they had this teen dance party USA show
I don't know if you remember that
so it was like somewhere like Texas
Teenage kids
in bathing suits and bikinis
it was a dance show for like an hour
and like you know
it was like little teenage kids
dancing at a beach
with bathing suits on
so it was a show for
kids for like 20 years
so this portly
pervert guy that I'm working with
he's watching it every day
they would do like a marathon of him
like three or four episodes back to back
afternoon this guy's just sitting here
watching these things and you know
we might have been smoking a little pot or who knows what
I mean I'm probably 20 years old
uh
and he turns to me one day and he says
wanna watch
videos of me fucking my wife
what?
and I say
who wouldn't
so he gets his video camera
he gets his video camera
he puts the wires onto the back
of the TV
and he puts on this
video and it's
he's like this fat bald guy
and his wife was like portly
and on a train it was the last two people
in the world
you would ever wanna see with their clothes off
and I think I lasted
about two minutes
three minutes and then I just went
you know I'm gonna go read
I went into
my little room and I still had to stay
with this guy for like three days
he showed it was like it was really
uncomfortable and I was like man
he knows what else
I went to a guy one time
this had to be
98-99
this guy was infactuated
with Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lopez had just released
that album
and he would play it in his room over
and over
and over and over and he would dance
and he had pictures of it
this was a grown man guys
this was not a 21 year old
alright so
I had to be maybe
38 he was maybe
42 he had lived
in LA for 10 years didn't do so well
and moved back to his home town
and for four days I had
to work or pass on him he didn't do drugs
so I had to go in my bedroom
and bring broads in there late night and shit
and all he did was listen to Jennifer Lopez
he was a grown man with a wife
and kids
and it was something you couldn't even
talk to right away
Jennifer Lopez is hot man
you have any idea how I can meet Jennifer Lopez
I mean it was
that fucking creepy like
I've never seen him again
and that's what you work with in those other clubs
you work with lunatics
you work with guys
that came out here and something
happened there's a story
and now they're mad at LA
people who live in LA suck dick
if you live in New York you suck dick
you know it's just
and it's a nightmare each of them have a fucking thing
so you gotta deal with it
the best ever was El Paso
some of my best stories
had to be El Paso
that I've forgotten
like the Angel Salazar weeks
it was just craziness Lisa
remember you could go over to Juarez
was great man I had some great
party nights in Juarez
one time I got scared I never went
really? yeah one time
the first time I went I went over there
they're selling leathers and dogs on the street
and shit and none of that
I had some good nights
or you could buy pills and shit and bring them over
no no no
I came back like 3-4 in the morning
in the border control guy
I said
I go
it wasn't as dangerous as everybody says
or you hear about
and the border control guy goes
you got lucky
I guess I don't know
maybe I did get lucky
no that uh I was scared
nothing El Paso
but one time I worked El Paso with a hypnotist
and this is my best fucking
comedy story out of all those years
I remember I still remember waking up
New Year's Day
the millennium to YK
he was
2000
and I worked with him but
he was a drunk
people didn't go out that night on New Year's Eve
I was in San Francisco
we had 60 people
the bar was pissed
everyone was afraid the world was going to
explode because the number
was going to roll to 3-0
oh my god this guy comes in
and he
you know he's drinking
he's drinking like a special
scotch
when that comes in a bag
when that's part of his deal
caramel
yeah maybe it's in a
caramel on comes in a bag
yeah it comes in a bag
and uh
there was something else he's drinking
and he's just driving him crazy
he's smoking, he's smoking blow
you know this guy's on fucking fire
okay
so I wake up
New Year's Day
I'm a little
no I don't get high on New Year's
I usually don't get high on New Year's
it's just bad luck
so I get up New Year's Eve
and I see that he's already got
he's doing a kid's show
but the kid's show starts at noon
it's 8.30 he's already got
a half a gallon of wine
next time
he's already got
you got blue apron over there Tarzan
you're sitting there like a fucking
bumpy you see I'm over here confused
uh
that's it what's this
you got one page for your uncle Joey
he's sitting there
at fucking 8.30 guys
with a tuxedo shirt on
with suspenders, no pants on
boxer shorts
black party socks
and fucking shoes on with no fucking
pants just sitting there smoking
chasing it with a cigarette
getting ready for the kids
getting ready for the kids dog
he fucking decides to go in there
and just eats
the
no don't worry about it he just eats
a bag of dicks but he's getting
bark mad because before the show
he's drinking those fucking shots he's already
bombed
he's already bombed because it's 11.30
when he tells me he's walking through the thing
I go you know what I'm gonna walk down there with you
because I gotta see this
it don't take a genius to know
this is gonna be a train wreck
I walked him down there skipping down the fucking
hill like nothing happened
we go in there there's kids everywhere he goes
right to the bar I'm like give me a shot
you know me when I was gonna buy him a shot
Bart sees this magician
whatever the fuck he is it's his drinking
he's going nuts
he's pacing back and forth
he does two or three shots before he
goes on stage he goes on stage
sure enough he brings a kid up
and the kid looks in the midway and he goes
you stink
the kid tells him he's stoned
like booze man
and he don't know what to do the pigeons disappear
Bart's going nuts
in the back
kids are crying and shit
I'm in the back
I'm in the back
you just set this up
I just watched it
listen you have to
if you didn't know this is gonna be a fucking train wreck
but here's the best
now he's frustrated he's at the bar the turnout wasn't good
cause he got like a door deal
no one is happy
the kids are crying
Bart's crying
Bart's crying
the kids are crying
he's fucking howling at the bar
now to make things worse
what do you think this fucking magician
hit slash hit the system
he calls their moms guns
he gets a
how can this get any worse
he pulls his dick out
he orders a double
what happens
he orders a double
he lights another cigarette
on stage in front of the kids
no at the bar there's still kids
he's gonna take money back and shit
he goes let me get a double
and he sparks up a cigarette
and he's at the bar he's jiggling the ice
I know this is gonna get it
and listen
when the kid came up to him and asked him for an autograph
so I forget what it was
I saw Bart's face
get fucking red because he just
he took the cigarette and put it in his mouth
and took the picture with the kid
Emily
that's the beauty of the road
that you get to see shit like that
and that's like something that you'll think about
your last ten minutes on this earth
that vision should come to you
doing that
I've never laughed that hard
seeing that evolve in front of me
there was ten more that I probably forgot
so many scenes in your life as a comedian
you think if you saw this in a movie
there's no way that would happen
I was towing a car
from Seattle
to San Francisco
I have questions already
I'm towing a car
from Seattle
to Los Angeles
but the deal is we're driving the trailer
and the car is in the hits behind us
the girl I'm with
I say drop me off and open mic in San Francisco
and come back and pick me up
in 15-20 minutes
I do this set I come out
I call her
as she's going around the turn
I see the back of the fucking
the back
of the trailer just fall
and she's still driving
but the car goes
the trailer broke the whole fucking thing
so we had to get it welded
so we had to take it to some shady neighborhood
overnight and we had to sleep in the trailer
with the car in the back
we had three in the morning
an open mic started right outside the trailer
as pissed as I was
I was fucking howling
she even woke up and said
what the fuck are you laughing about
you should be out there saying something
I go listen to what they're doing
they were playing the guitar
they were smoking dope
and I remember howling to myself
nobody would ever believe this
that these people wouldn't play this guitar
anywhere else right now
this is the shit that
I don't know
do you travel the
who the fuck knows
I'd like to eventually
if we fucking get the big time
then you go on the road every weekend
we'll get your drugs
what are you going to do
sleep in hotel rooms
if you go out it's to go deep
into the hemisphere
four nights a week drinking passing out
bleeding out of your asshole
I never bled out of my asshole
well you bled out of the fucking places
anyway let's give a shout out
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it's late
people got shit to do with people you see
no I'm happy you can do it
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I'm happy that you're not drinking no more
that was good thanks brother
not that I give a fuck if you were drinking
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20 years ago it's your wisdom
you know where you're going
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Lisa you taking notes kind of suck it
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who's that
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where you at where you at in the next couple
weeks I'm in California
I'm in Sacramento next week at the punchline
at the punchline and then
I think it's the 15th
there's something I'm doing Arcada have you
ever done Arcada up in Humboldt County
it's where Humboldt State
is okay fantastic place
up there then I'm doing
it's called jambalaya
okay think it's the 15th
then I'm doing Mill Valley
the Throck Morton on the Tuesday
this is just next week and then
the San Francisco punchline
after that you're fucking beautiful
I'm California
for February really yeah
then where do you go March
Tacoma Washington the Tacoma comedy club
you ever done that that place is supposed to be
fantastic orange and Seattle
and then I'm doing Scottsdale Arizona
in March also you're a fucking animal dog
it's a
it's a blessing what we do
it's a blessing you're still out there
you know you look good you're healthy you're married
sometimes
this is the thing about life sometimes
what you thought turns into
something else and that's what makes it life
if it was as easy as you thought it was going to be
like some guy how about marry a nurse
and grow up and have 10 kids
and next you know you married some fucking
Chinese chicken up and fucking
Southeast Asia taking pictures of young
kids with well I was a headshot
fuck that
you know I watch you and it's just
you know you just keep getting better
it's just like that's what we do
you're a wrecking ball now you know
it's beautiful to see like
I just turned 49 last week
just a couple years older than me
just to like be hitting
our peak in our
fifties if you would again
Lee and I say this
that I would be out there working when I was
going to tell you were crazy
I've never been better
you know I'm really
excited I'm working
on my new hour
so from my next special
it's just
fun and exciting again I love it
I mean it's always been fun and exciting but like
I feel like it's never been better
and I watch you and it's like
yeah man like Carlin
at the end that was his
best work that he ever did in his life
it was like last five specials
right now
there's so many great
and I know you guys are sick of hearing it
but there's so many great comedians working
that aren't in the rotation
which means they aren't the eight comedians
you know they moved back to New York
whatever happened
and these are the guys that Lee would go catch
and go who the fuck is that guy
and he would have like a tonight's show
credit or some suspicious credit
but it didn't matter the guy was a great comic
he just didn't go down the right road
or go to the right club
or something must happen
there's a thousand of those guys
across the country
that have a day job that said you know what
that shit wasn't for me
I'm blue collar I want to work every day
I don't want people to tell me what the fuck to do
and blah blah blah blah blah
and they're still great comedians
you can't take it away from them
we go watch the people who are hip
and who's in the circle
because that's what we do
I would do the same thing
when I go to a list and I see a comic that's got a heat
I sit and watch them what the fuck
what the fuck that's what it's all about
you gotta be aware of what's going on
so now I enjoy it
when I was out there pimping doing drugs
I never went to comedy shows did you know that
when I was out there slinging dick
I never thought about sitting there for two hours
fuck you I got a package of blow on my pocket
I ain't sitting nowhere for two hours
unless your naked
keep me down when the Pogo's thinking some shit
let's wrap this mother fuck up
I'm gonna be at the Helium
in St. Louis
Thursday through Saturday and then on the 19th
and the 20th
at the South Point Comedy
for my birthday on the 19th I'll be
53 Lisa Yats coming
my man Larry's coming
Tokin Lass coming
Esther Koo is coming on the drums
and that's it that's all I gotta tell you mother fuck
as usual always a fucking pleasure seeing you
Jesus fucking Christ
unbelievable I used to watch you on
MTV when I first started
and go wow I'm looking at me fucking with the long
hand looking all fucking cool
and that's it Lisa Yats
what's happening in your world cock smoker
I'm doing great I'm doing life in neutral
it's a new podcast it's been like
four episodes and doing great
yeah me and John Rock it's going great
you looking good you going to cattle battles tomorrow
if I can yeah
I'll call you tomorrow morning we'll forget this
fucking you looking beautiful cock
second thanks for
co-hosting this bitch tonight
it was fun thank you
you gonna put a little music on at the end
sure but can I yeah
put a little music for us maybe a little fucking
wheels of confusion by black Sabbath
or something like that
send them off in the right state of mind Lisa Yats
I just heard that last night
I'm like this is a fucking
rude we goddamn song
we'll continue this on my
podcast yeah absolutely do you want to
just periscope so I can turn off youtube
if you want to for the song
Jesus Christ I don't
worry about let's just go okay I'll see you guys
tomorrow guys thank you stay black
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