Uncle Joey's Joint with Joey Diaz - #546 - Agostino Zoida
Episode Date: January 2, 2018Agostino Zoida, a comedian, writer, and host of the "Home Schooled" podcast, joins Joey Diaz and Lee Syatt LIVE in studio. This podcast is brought to you by: ZipRecruiter - post you...r job to 200+ job sites with a single click for free at www.ziprecruiter.com/church Onnit.com. Use Promo code CHURCH for a 10% discount at checkout. Hellotushy.com - Go to Hellotushy.com/church for 10% off of your order and stop using nasty toilet paper forever! Recorded live on 01/01/2018.
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                                        Freshman's new year's trip to San Jose
                                         
                                        Beautiful fucking savage. You know I'm saying he made San Jose in the New Year's
                                         
                                        Destination yeah, just follow me from Long Beach to San Jose the top trips in California. What'd you do up there?
                                         
                                        I did a lot of stuff. Don't even ask. Oh my god
                                         
                                        Oh my god, there's a museum. There's a computer history museum. That was cool when it's out of the house with Steve Jobs was
                                         
                                        Grew up and started Apple we went to a place in the Santa Cruz called the mystery spot
                                         
    
                                        With it was fucking awesome. You know, yeah
                                         
                                        We went to Santa Cruz. They have a place in the Redwood Forest where for whatever reason
                                         
                                        Things just aren't the same like compasses go crazy
                                         
                                        Do you feel dizzy like I like the house like every building they try to build on this hill falls and slides the house
                                         
                                        Like you feel like you're like really did they felt like you were had a what's the thing for to go?
                                         
                                        Oh my god, it was cool and
                                         
                                        We want to tour there. What else did we do? Yeah, the computer history museum was really cool. It was just seeing the birth of
                                         
                                        Of computers a hundred years ago and we like but actually taking us back to like the avocases and I didn't even know
                                         
    
                                        Computers started with a punch card system like a like an actual paper card
                                         
                                        Was telling a computer what to do. There wasn't any memory or anything in the computer. It's where it was pretty interesting
                                         
                                        And yeah, it was uh, it's just it's great up there
                                         
                                        It was we I had the best sushi of my life up there. It was for with no valet parking and
                                         
                                        Everyone's nice everyone. They won't just have like you everyone at any store is happy to see you
                                         
                                        And it just it doesn't happen on everywhere you go. So we had a great time up there
                                         
                                        Very nice. Yeah. Oh
                                         
                                        Yeah, anyway
                                         
    
                                        Shout out to the bear anyway, I was your new years my friend very very light. I loved it
                                         
                                        It's great. You didn't even think about going out. No, I don't want to
                                         
                                        It's so weird how your life changes from new years at one point. You can't think of not being out on new years
                                         
                                        And at one point you're like, okay, I'm not even doing dick. Like I was in bed at 10. I
                                         
                                        Went to Huntington Beach. Yeah, two fucking edibles
                                         
                                        And I at 730. I knew it was gonna be a it was gonna be a rough night
                                         
                                        Like I'm like, I don't think I'm making the fucking minute. I had been on the beach
                                         
                                        We walked half the fucking beach looking for seashells
                                         
    
                                        If I didn't bend over once I didn't bend over a thousand times to pick up fucked up shells and
                                         
                                        shark-toots and shit
                                         
                                        So I knew it was gonna be, you know walking in the sand fucking rubs you up a little bit
                                         
                                        Yeah, so we kept walking walking walking daddy. Let's go chase the seagulls. Let's go do this
                                         
                                        I look back at the fucking bridge. I'm like, we're a mile down, though
                                         
                                        That's a fucking walk. Yeah, and last night we're gonna go to Derry Queen
                                         
                                        But it was so fucking cold like I had dropped so much at that point
                                         
                                        And we didn't want to walk with her in the middle of the fucking circles of people
                                         
    
                                        We just said fuck it. We stay in and watch the I watch shark tank
                                         
                                        That was my fucking new years and I sat there at one point like kind of depressed for like 20 minutes
                                         
                                        Because I was like, what the fuck am I doing my life?
                                         
                                        I'm in Huntington Beach. I'm in a hotel with my wife and my daughter. My wife told me all three nights
                                         
                                        She's like, you know, you're gonna stay in and all three nights
                                         
                                        I stayed and I was gonna go out to watch the fights out of the night. And I was like, why would I fucking want to go out?
                                         
                                        There's a way to watch on the computer. I gotta just figure it out. I call Lee
                                         
                                        I got it on YouTube and I was very happy just sitting there watching. I was content. It was the perfect end
                                         
    
                                        Like it was a vacation from the vacation. Yeah
                                         
                                        Which I don't really I don't want to listen. We got a plane for a living
                                         
                                        So if you think a vacation for me is going to fucking Hawaii on a six-hour flight
                                         
                                        Another six-hour home. That's not a fucking vacation for me. That just reminds me of fucking work. You know what I'm saying?
                                         
                                        Mm-hmm, and I think there's so many like Lee's right
                                         
                                        There's a lot of places in California. Like I'd like to go to Joshua tree, but she gets sick
                                         
                                        Yeah, I was thinking about that. I got sick on the way down. I was gonna ask you how she did this trip. Listen to me
                                         
                                        We I don't do much with mercy in my wife because we cannot drive right
                                         
    
                                        Because for years it was a fucking puke fest and you have pull over and change clothes and then again no puke
                                         
                                        It was just fucking difficult. We had to take the car and get detailed
                                         
                                        Just did it was just a disaster. So we we've been working in a lightly
                                         
                                        So Friday morning we get up we get the fucking car
                                         
                                        You know 637 30, you know lost man we get up bang getting a fucking car and we shoot down there I
                                         
                                        Feel great. I had a protein shake. I had been up for an hour. I was already packing. I went to bed that night
                                         
                                        I was fine for some reason my wife wasn't feeling well
                                         
                                        She kept saying Joey if I tell you I'm car sick. Would you believe me?
                                         
    
                                        Me one of the whole time Mercy's singing
                                         
                                        Melon John song came on and that she knows from the water that fucking movies. Yeah, and she was singing off the top our lungs
                                         
                                        and about 20 minutes out of out of
                                         
                                        Whatever beach I need to beach where's where I finally broke down. I think it was just horrible
                                         
                                        Like the last 10-minute ride on the 405. I don't know how I did it Wow
                                         
                                        I kept drinking water had both windows open. I had the air on blast and I could feel tingles all over my body and
                                         
                                        Finally we pulled over and dog. I had the puke right here in my throat
                                         
                                        Okay, yeah, right there in my throat and every motherfucker wanted to stop in a yellow
                                         
    
                                        I was ready to go through a fucking truck with the fucking car like no you did not stop and a fucking yellow light
                                         
                                        No, you did not stop in a fucking yellow light and finally I just pulled into a street and guys
                                         
                                        Let me tell you how bad my ear is at this point
                                         
                                        That when I got out of the car my leg gave out and I just turned around and laying on the car
                                         
                                        For like five minutes and then push myself back put my neck down and just barfed
                                         
                                        And I bar to like two minutes. I
                                         
                                        Fucking wiped off my mouth with a towel. I
                                         
                                        Washed my mouth out with water and I opened up my jacket and took it off and this cold sweat came out of me
                                         
    
                                        Oh, I hate that just as cold sweat came on my body
                                         
                                        My wife came out of the car by that time
                                         
                                        I was able to walk around the car and sit in the passenger side and face the street
                                         
                                        People were washing their cars changing tires. I'm sitting there fucking the bathroom shit
                                         
                                        And I finally got back to the hotel and they did something I told I gotta take a nap
                                         
                                        That's the that's what balances me back. It's like an hour nap
                                         
                                        Whenever I get that car sickness over for an hour like this when I opened up for Wheeler Walker
                                         
                                        Two weeks ago three weeks ago when I got to San Diego, I had taken that
                                         
    
                                        Thank God I got the hotel and thank God I left early. She had super car stick on a San Diego. Yeah
                                         
                                        Not super duper
                                         
                                        But enough. Yeah, like when I got there. I knew there was gonna be a fucking problem if I didn't get my life together
                                         
                                        So I take a nap get up jump in the shower eat something I get really carsick, too
                                         
                                        Yes, you see it's all right if I'm driving though. I remember I first started working with you
                                         
                                        Like first time we got in the car to go to gig somewhere together
                                         
                                        I was just like, oh, I'll drive I get carsick if I don't and you're like guess what me too cocksucker. I'm fucking driving
                                         
                                        I can't I can't fucking do it and it's weird cuz you you go on the Laurel Canyon four times a week and that's really windy
                                         
    
                                        Yeah, I guess the bottom okay to the bottom of a little can because the four fives kind of straight at that point. So I'm
                                         
                                        I'm I'm very
                                         
                                        Not going very lucky. I've never had to deal with this. So is it does that have anything to do with the windy or just driving?
                                         
                                        Has to do with everything I guess for me. I'm just for you. Listen, I started out with it
                                         
                                        But then for years that went away
                                         
                                        And then just recently came back in my old day. I'll say you regressed maybe I don't know. I was a kid
                                         
                                        I couldn't fucking go to the corner on a bicycle
                                         
                                        I would get carsick on a fucking that bad. I would get carsick on a boat
                                         
    
                                        I remember still going to Miami one time and fishing and fucking passing out and them trying to wake me up
                                         
                                        The fish they caught they were cooking it and it was fucking delicious. That would brought me back
                                         
                                        They had to be this fish was breaking. I don't forget that being like a seven-year-old kid and
                                         
                                        Eating the fish after I barfed everywhere on the deck and the Sunday back on the fucking ship
                                         
                                        But your daughter was good. That's a good. Yeah, she was perfect. She was perfect
                                         
                                        We're the ones that got sick
                                         
                                        But I'm telling you it's still a 50-50 toss, bro. Yeah on the way this morning
                                         
                                        She had breakfast a little bit of breakfast on behalf of bananas strawberry. She didn't get sick. So I
                                         
    
                                        Was happy about that, you know, I was thinking about you digestino. I'm gonna be doing comedy for now
                                         
                                        It's gonna be in February nine years. I think I started in 2009
                                         
                                        February 2009
                                         
                                        Like it's weird. I did today. I bumped into somebody at the park
                                         
                                        Before I called you I was at the park today with the baby and fucking
                                         
                                        And I bumped into a guy at the park and he goes, hey, how you doing?
                                         
                                        Our kids know each other. We started talking about this and they told me his wife had a podcast and
                                         
                                        he was like a
                                         
    
                                        A comic that never made a jump
                                         
                                        You know, we broke it down and then we just sat there
                                         
                                        We watched the kids play
                                         
                                        And he goes, can you explain to me how you did it, you know, like the beginnings? What made you believe?
                                         
                                        And I was like, I went to new york, you know, I was lost for two or three years in comedy the first two or three years
                                         
                                        I was really lost
                                         
                                        I was just going to open mics. I didn't have a plan even though I had read a book or two and
                                         
                                        I'd taken some comedy classes. I'd taken one class at that time
                                         
    
                                        But I didn't really get
                                         
                                        the
                                         
                                        The workload I was gonna get
                                         
                                        Was ahead of me before I jumped into it
                                         
                                        I thought you just got on stage and got discovered as I said in this podcast many times
                                         
                                        I didn't know that there was work behind it that yeah, you could get discovered
                                         
                                        And you'll get put somewhere and then you'll fail
                                         
                                        Because you didn't have the chops and what was the sense of getting discovered, right? So, uh
                                         
    
                                        You know, there's like a pattern. There's like a process
                                         
                                        There's like a commitment level, you know, when you
                                         
                                        When I got to colorado in 93
                                         
                                        I I knew I was going to be a comic. I knew I was set to be a comic
                                         
                                        I never knew I'd be in LA and nothing like that. I just thought I'd be on the road
                                         
                                        I thought I'd be one of those comics that just worked on the road, you know saying that
                                         
                                        Uh, the success was working on the road. There was no tv credits. There was no film credits
                                         
                                        It was just road work. That's what I thought I could accomplish, you know
                                         
    
                                        So I attacked it and at first I just attacked it very wildly
                                         
                                        I went on triple runs and then when I was home, I just get on every open mic
                                         
                                        That I did and there was nothing
                                         
                                        Really going on with it and then by the time I got to seattle
                                         
                                        In june 95
                                         
                                        Was when I realized that I had to treat this
                                         
                                        As I would treat a business and it went right back to my car salesman days
                                         
                                        I went back with my car salesman days at the beginning of the month. We're all zero
                                         
    
                                        Me you and lee on the first of the month. We're all zero
                                         
                                        And that's how we work the month and now you start you start learning a path
                                         
                                        Of how to work. Thank god. I sold cars
                                         
                                        You could do too. Okay, so I'll go to lee and go lee
                                         
                                        What do you need on the 31st of january?
                                         
                                        And leo going, you know, I need 2300 and I'll go. What do you need the agustino? I need 3200. What do you need?
                                         
                                        Joey, I need 2800
                                         
                                        And you sit there and you analyze this you go, how am I gonna break this down into weeks
                                         
    
                                        Because on the 15th as a car salesman, you always get a draw
                                         
                                        So you could sit on your ass for those two weeks. You don't really have to do much
                                         
                                        But what does that mean a draw a draw? They just give you 1500
                                         
                                        After a while you develop a trusted done
                                         
                                        And they'll just give you 1500 dollars instead of just taking your all your car deals and everything
                                         
                                        Fuck it. We'll just give you 1500 and then at the end of the month, we'll watch you out
                                         
                                        And I'm sure you'll make 1500 plus and then we'll give you the balance of your money on the fifth of the month
                                         
                                        So
                                         
    
                                        What you tend to do is get lazy
                                         
                                        As a salesman, you know, you got a check coming on the 15 because you got that 1500 or 1500 on the 15th
                                         
                                        So you decide to go to work at the second half of the month
                                         
                                        You get strategic and even though I was on coke and even though I was fucking young and stupid
                                         
                                        I always I looked at the guys that were making money
                                         
                                        And I figured out what they were doing. They were very strict about their time
                                         
                                        They're very strict about their appearance
                                         
                                        They're very punctual. They followed up
                                         
    
                                        They had a pattern to follow up
                                         
                                        You know, I would go into work and just fucking pull out the deal sheets. I had and call people go. Diego Steno
                                         
                                        You're still interested in that car come on down. No
                                         
                                        These guys had a notebook with a time when they called them and what they said and notes
                                         
                                        And when I started doing it that way, that's when I started last time we spoke
                                         
                                        You were looking at the Volvo, Diego Steno. Did you pick up the Volvo? No, no
                                         
                                        So I took that same plan like that I was doing for car sales and put it into comedy
                                         
                                        And what the plan was basically was to
                                         
    
                                        Uh
                                         
                                        Same thing. What do we need
                                         
                                        To make you a nut every month, Diego Steno
                                         
                                        Now you like selling what new cars that means you're gonna make a 150 car
                                         
                                        And fucking whatever you get back from the dealer
                                         
                                        So the dealer has like if you call the dealer
                                         
                                        After you sell the car
                                         
                                        And either they give you 100 dollars to 250 dollars
                                         
    
                                        So your average is going to be 150 to 100. That's 250 a car. What was your number?
                                         
                                        His was 32 32. What's eight? What's 250 into 32?
                                         
                                        Like 14 or something. Yeah, you got to sell 14 cars
                                         
                                        So how are we gonna fucking sell 14 cars? That's seven cars per quarter
                                         
                                        First of all, you're not gonna sell it on ups
                                         
                                        Ups is fresh meat. You're gonna do 50% of that business on ups
                                         
                                        But they're gonna be people that you spoke to the month before and follow it back with yeah
                                         
                                        And that's why your numbers have to be high
                                         
    
                                        Your percentages have to be high
                                         
                                        So you have to break it down into a business just like that
                                         
                                        So what do I need to sell?
                                         
                                        The three because so it's 14 cars divided by four is fucking well four cars a fucking week
                                         
                                        You got to sell four fucking cars a week so your kids eat
                                         
                                        So now what do you do? You got to be there the whole time. That's gonna kill you
                                         
                                        What good isn't having money if you don't have your fucking
                                         
                                        If you don't see your kids, right? So your time becomes fucking valuable
                                         
    
                                        So I took all those elements from car sales and I put them in there
                                         
                                        It took me four years
                                         
                                        But I finally go
                                         
                                        So what did that mean that meant that I kept records now?
                                         
                                        I took a notebook and I would put in january 1st. I would put okay
                                         
                                        This year I'm gonna do 300 fucking sets
                                         
                                        Because I was living in bold and in bold I was doing
                                         
                                        16 sets a month and I had to drive all over god's creation. I had to do triple runs to get 16 sets a month
                                         
    
                                        In seattle I could get 20 sets a month
                                         
                                        Just staying in seattle and hustling you could do the three clubs and guess sets and do 20 fucking sets
                                         
                                        Without doing anything
                                         
                                        So I figured to get really good at comedy
                                         
                                        You need to do 300 sets a year
                                         
                                        You know what 300 sets a year is that's 25 fucking
                                         
                                        sets a month
                                         
                                        That means if I go on the road all four fucking weeks, I'm only doing 20 fucking sets. I still got to work on my days off
                                         
    
                                        But you can't do that. So what do you do? You count all these little fucking gigs the sets
                                         
                                        That's why you do those three set nights because you're like, oh, I got that off my fucking back
                                         
                                        You know what I'm saying? Even I always have goals when I'm in town three sets a week
                                         
                                        I don't want you out every night, but if you do three sets a week in two podcasts
                                         
                                        I'm pretty fucking happy if somebody gives me two spots on a fucking tuesday
                                         
                                        And I still got a thursday and a saturday that i'm really fucking happy I picked up four
                                         
                                        Do you guys get the urge to like the does doing this spot make you want to do another one?
                                         
                                        Do you like multiple spot nights? Absolutely, especially if you're chasing a goal
                                         
    
                                        If your goal is you have set different type of goals
                                         
                                        Where you're trying to do it? You're trying to be funny and get comfortable on stage
                                         
                                        That means you got to keep fucking going down there
                                         
                                        Forget about the funny. Let's just get comfortable
                                         
                                        And learn how to set the mic down and all that this is all baby steps
                                         
                                        That people never really look at these little things when it comes to comedy
                                         
                                        But you could still do this you could still apply these things
                                         
                                        Whether you're a computer tech or a plum or whatever the fuck you are
                                         
    
                                        You could still apply all these same things that I did
                                         
                                        From the car sales into the comedy to increase
                                         
                                        To increase my comedy thing
                                         
                                        And then it just really adorned on me after about a year economy. I went to a Toyota place
                                         
                                        And what that guy that I've had him call into the podcast for like the
                                         
                                        One year we haven't called in on the first day of the year to talk about goals
                                         
                                        And it was the same thing now I go away the second
                                         
                                        How do I get funny?
                                         
    
                                        How the fuck do I get funny
                                         
                                        So how do I get funny and then you have to write like three things under it get on stage
                                         
                                        Write funny material and fucking you get to come up with a third one
                                         
                                        And then every day go back to it and rewrite it
                                         
                                        Like that's how strict my fucking work ethic was then with comedy
                                         
                                        By the time I got to Seattle, I was making a living
                                         
                                        Because I put all the things in order. What was it living?
                                         
                                        I was making 800 a month
                                         
    
                                        And I would have to drive to Bremerton to fucking Tacoma shit like that
                                         
                                        You know what I'm saying? But I still I'd have to take a plane or drive long distances
                                         
                                        The longest I ever drive to was to the tri cities like uh
                                         
                                        To uh Spokane and all that out there they have a comedy club out there now in Spokane
                                         
                                        I can't go because of the warrant, but we're trying to get rid of the warrant
                                         
                                        We're trying to get rid of the warrant. In fact, I got to call Greg and wish him wish him a happy new year
                                         
                                        But I just wanted to go over what
                                         
                                        Your goals are at the nine-year mark. Yeah, maybe to help you out and to help other comics or people listen to the show
                                         
    
                                        Just to go one year as per, you know, and I was thinking about your Friday
                                         
                                        Night I went to dinner with one of my young agents, right? How do you know?
                                         
                                        You told me we were talking on the phone. We were talking about you. Your name came up during the thing
                                         
                                        And I'm like, that's really wild that he asked me about the Agostino and he goes that he liked you set somewhere
                                         
                                        You were really funny. I told him that you were a good writer. So I go, you know what, man
                                         
                                        The Agostino is never quit. You know, you have your little day gig but you're always putting together little hustles
                                         
                                        I try to give you some work. Shoebie gives you some work. This guy gives you some work
                                         
                                        And that's what you do. This is the life of the comic. This is where you're at right now
                                         
    
                                        And if you freak out you're freaking out for no reason
                                         
                                        Because this is the life of the comic
                                         
                                        Like when I met Simone, this is when you you were Simone
                                         
                                        Oh, really?
                                         
                                        And now Simone headline last night at the fucking Minnesota the mall of America
                                         
                                        He's been working a lot. Is it Madison Square Garden? No, it isn't
                                         
                                        But my point is that this is the
                                         
                                        This is what you're looking at now
                                         
    
                                        You have to sit down and go, all right. What do I want to accomplish this year? I want to this year. I want to do
                                         
                                        30 more minutes
                                         
                                        I want to do
                                         
                                        Four spots of that a week and I want to do I want to get into six new clubs
                                         
                                        And maybe book a commercial
                                         
                                        Let's get really creative. Maybe book a commercial
                                         
                                        Maybe in June I bump into a commercial agent. I'll take my headshot
                                         
                                        And next you know, I'm in a fucking tide commercial with the fucking Italians jumping up and down
                                         
    
                                        Mom, where's my sweater? You know what I'm saying?
                                         
                                        Mom, where's my sweater?
                                         
                                        And how do you like if there's a comedian out there listening
                                         
                                        How are how are you guys realistic with where you are like with your goals? Like if if
                                         
                                        If a one-year comedian is doing his goals right and has to go out this year
                                         
                                        I want a headline you might say that's not realistic. So no, yeah, you definitely should keep realistic. I mean you gotta have realistic goals
                                         
                                        I mean, it's not like
                                         
                                        It's not like I wouldn't want to have like a fucking special this year
                                         
    
                                        But I mean, I know that I that's not my list. So I want to write just on the outside looking in
                                         
                                        like comedy looks very
                                         
                                        Frustrating as a profession because there's really no guideline. There's no
                                         
                                        There's no ranking. There's like it just it just kind of happens at everyone's individual
                                         
                                        pace
                                         
                                        So to know like I know you have to be realistic, but
                                         
                                        Maybe maybe you're supposed to reach a little bit. So at a five years
                                         
                                        Are you that too early to want to headline like no, no, I know a lot of people who had lined in three years
                                         
    
                                        Wow, but let me ask you a question
                                         
                                        What do you consider a headline?
                                         
                                        A guy who does 45 minutes
                                         
                                        Or a headliner, right?
                                         
                                        Okay, so
                                         
                                        Yes, there's people who
                                         
                                        They move off the ranks quickly
                                         
                                        I was not one of those people
                                         
    
                                        They move with the ranks a little bit too quickly
                                         
                                        and they headline but
                                         
                                        I go back to that pencil commercial
                                         
                                        From the 90s, you could pay me now
                                         
                                        Or you could pay me later
                                         
                                        You have to put the hours on the meta
                                         
                                        The same thing you do with jujitsu the same thing you do with karate
                                         
                                        All these arts you have to put that time in
                                         
    
                                        There's something about that time now
                                         
                                        Excuse me, what's time joey? Okay, let's pretend you are headlining
                                         
                                        No tv credits. No nothing just funny guy
                                         
                                        You got 45 minutes
                                         
                                        I've heard your shit before I'm not calling you a thief
                                         
                                        I'm just saying that, you know, johnny originado, right, but you got your moments. Okay, and uh
                                         
                                        Yeah, you're working triple runs you're doing one night blah blah blah
                                         
                                        Yeah, you're a headliner, but it's a different headline
                                         
    
                                        Now let's say you get into one of the chains
                                         
                                        And again, you you still live in oklahoma, but you work those chains
                                         
                                        You're getting somewhere. You know I'm saying after 10 12 years
                                         
                                        You become a good headliner, but guess what?
                                         
                                        At the 20 year mark you become a really fucking good headliner
                                         
                                        You know, it's interesting when we started the podcast they were speaking about dave chappelle right and right now
                                         
                                        you
                                         
                                        Lee
                                         
    
                                        There's a bunch of people that are young that think that dave chappelle had the chappelle show when he came from that
                                         
                                        The chappelle show was what 2000?
                                         
                                        I'll look it up around that time. Yeah
                                         
                                        There's a long time ago
                                         
                                        2000
                                         
                                        What is it?
                                         
                                        First episode air oh three oh three, okay
                                         
                                        I know chappelle banging it in 93
                                         
    
                                        I remember chappelle being in that movie
                                         
                                        Robin Hood men in shorts men in tights. Yeah men in tights
                                         
                                        And you know he had development when I was doing comedy for years
                                         
                                        Chappelle was already on his way to be a star
                                         
                                        They just couldn't find the right vehicle isn't the 90 professor wasn't he was not he was doing movies
                                         
                                        He was in con air, but they were trying to put him in
                                         
                                        A fucking tv show abc gave him deals. He had a bunch of fucking deals
                                         
                                        And if i'm not mistaken even shot a few pilots
                                         
    
                                        That just he had a pilot with somebody
                                         
                                        Greg can hear somebody he had a pilot with
                                         
                                        They just could not find the perfect and look if they found the he found that with neil brennan
                                         
                                        In a sketch
                                         
                                        Comedy black show telling the truth. You know stories telling the truth charlie murphy am you know
                                         
                                        So he turned the whole culture around. I mean if you look at his shows, it's not fucking black people jumping up and down
                                         
                                        Yeah, you know i'm saying it's not black people all jumping up and down
                                         
                                        So let's look at a guy like that. He's been doing comedy
                                         
    
                                        since the 80s
                                         
                                        men 80s late 80s
                                         
                                        You know he he's not this good because
                                         
                                        He just got up. He's been in there for 30 years guys
                                         
                                        He's been in there for 30 years
                                         
                                        What do you I mean that's experience it is experience
                                         
                                        And and that's not I don't want to I haven't seen the comedy store special
                                         
                                        But the first one I saw the first one where he opens up talking about how good he is was very interesting
                                         
    
                                        Which is fucking tremendous because it's not what you're saying. It's how you say it
                                         
                                        Okay, it was very brilliant as I was looking at it sitting there going to myself
                                         
                                        The way he's saying that he's still in the show. He's not lying either
                                         
                                        Yeah, he's not lying. He's that good. He's not lying
                                         
                                        He knows he has a set and he mesmerizes you
                                         
                                        Right mesmerizes you like no comic ads
                                         
                                        In the last 20 years. He has a different
                                         
                                        Persona to him. You know what I'm saying? Yeah
                                         
    
                                        to to the
                                         
                                        To the regular black man, you know to the regular white man
                                         
                                        He looks like a harmless black dude, you know what I'm saying
                                         
                                        So I don't know. I don't know what his appeal is. He appeals to me. He's a very sweet guy
                                         
                                        And I like I said, I saw the first special and I didn't watch the whole thing because I was tired
                                         
                                        You know, like I always say you can watch 30 minutes and then you got to go to fucking bed
                                         
                                        and uh
                                         
                                        It was just great just to see that but I know that body of work took 30 fucking years
                                         
    
                                        You know that took 30 fucking years
                                         
                                        A lot of people at home thinks he just they think he probably just gets up
                                         
                                        The same way I thought about stand-up
                                         
                                        I thought you just got up and fucking, you know, yeah, you had it or you didn't yeah, that's it. No, no, no, no
                                         
                                        There's tons of work in this league
                                         
                                        There's tons of work patience
                                         
                                        eating shit
                                         
                                        Taking shit sleeping on floors sleeping on beds
                                         
    
                                        You know your buddy making you drive at one in the afternoon and sitting in a strange town for six hours
                                         
                                        Yeah, with nothing to do. There's just a thousand fucking things
                                         
                                        That you sit there and go what the fuck am I doing my life? But this is your passion
                                         
                                        Maybe this is one of your final fucking. I know it was my last frontier. There was nothing more
                                         
                                        Past this so right now you're at the nine-year mark
                                         
                                        You're featuring yeah, right
                                         
                                        And what are you looking for for this year? Like what is a guy like you looking for?
                                         
                                        um
                                         
    
                                        First of all like for this year. I like I write I wrote a couple things down, you know
                                         
                                        You need a pen? Yeah
                                         
                                        I don't like doing like news resolutions. You know what I mean?
                                         
                                        I feel like that's just setting your like he was saying like dieting is never going to work
                                         
                                        You know, it's a lifestyle change. It's like the same thing news resolutions. They don't fucking work
                                         
                                        I I just write things down that just makes me keep more organized and just cross them off one by one
                                         
                                        So a couple of things on the list is uh, I mean, I just want to get more spots
                                         
                                        I mean, I am in a place where I'm I'm seeing guys that have been doing it less time than me or the same amount of time
                                         
    
                                        It's me. They just get way more spots than I do
                                         
                                        um, I mean, I'm sure that you know, they're out there way more than I am and uh
                                         
                                        I just feel like I kind of hit like a wall
                                         
                                        and I want to
                                         
                                        Just maybe kind of start getting into acting now
                                         
                                        Like like you said, maybe get a commercial agent. That's one thing that I want to do this year
                                         
                                        All right at the nine year mark for me it was two I started in 91. So what's nine years 2000?
                                         
                                        By 2000
                                         
    
                                        I was doing comedy. Yeah nine years
                                         
                                        I had a fucking shitty manager
                                         
                                        I had a shitty agent
                                         
                                        I was uh
                                         
                                        Getting pulling in 80% of the work myself. You know me. I'm a fucking killer when it comes to that shit
                                         
                                        I was getting breakdowns and I can't no I'm gonna I lied to you about a manager
                                         
                                        From about 98
                                         
                                        To 2000 2001. I had a great manager
                                         
    
                                        He was just more aggressive
                                         
                                        Than what I needed at the time. I wasn't that good
                                         
                                        He knew how to fucking take you make you an act to get your deal
                                         
                                        And then put you on the road with the right people. He was born and raised. He was a bellyhills kid
                                         
                                        He was just a tough Jew and he had a temper and he would yell at people and hang up phones and tell people to go fuck themselves
                                         
                                        But on the other side, he was he wasn't scared to pick up the phone
                                         
                                        Which was why I loved him. He called anybody and tried to muscle him at any fucking time like listen man
                                         
                                        And he would see was very intelligent before he made the call. He'd get very knowledgeable about the subject
                                         
    
                                        Break it down and call you and say yeah, I can see these other facts
                                         
                                        Two years ago your show on abc was this this this this demographic
                                         
                                        What you need is a more a little rich in character
                                         
                                        Why don't you come see my man?
                                         
                                        Joe D is at the improv tonight at 8 30 put him on your show. Let's write him into episode four
                                         
                                        We could still save the fucking season
                                         
                                        He was those type of Jews, you know what I'm saying? So
                                         
                                        That that was impressive that you he would she would call you up on a Monday or listen
                                         
    
                                        Thursday night put together seven minutes about
                                         
                                        Gambling I'm trying to get you on this show on HBO. I'm having the writers come down
                                         
                                        And next you know you you're talking to the writers and they're telling you what direction
                                         
                                        And but at least you get to talk to the people who are putting the show together. He got right to the source
                                         
                                        You know, he didn't go to the producers. He went right to the writers if he had a problem
                                         
                                        He went to the producer. Hmm. I said your show sucks
                                         
                                        This is what you need to save your show. Lee sciat is a magician
                                         
                                        And fucking the Agostino is a pizza maker that's a backwards issue. He's ever thought it
                                         
    
                                        That'll make a fucking show. He was one of those type of managers
                                         
                                        I got
                                         
                                        with him
                                         
                                        I booked
                                         
                                        basketball
                                         
                                        Okay
                                         
                                        And I booked something else
                                         
                                        But I really worked as a comic was that in 2000
                                         
    
                                        I think baseball was 98 when I met him. I had just booked the pilot for cbs. He didn't close the deal
                                         
                                        He he made me work for a little while
                                         
                                        And I booked something like a commercial
                                         
                                        I booked like a co-commercial
                                         
                                        And he saw it and he called me goes ass. I'm in a co-commercial. Come on down. Let's talk next week
                                         
                                        So I'll never forget that before he spoke to me
                                         
                                        He called a few agents to try to get me meetings and nobody wanted to see me
                                         
                                        Except one fucking agent
                                         
    
                                        Okay, I learned a valuable lesson this day
                                         
                                        And he goes meet me at such and such place. He bought me lunch and he goes here's what's going on
                                         
                                        I reached out to 13 agents and he gave me their names or she goes
                                         
                                        None of them wanted to meet with you. She goes, I got one person who's in love with you
                                         
                                        Let's go see and I go, what's her name and he told me I forget what the what her name was. This is 99 maybe
                                         
                                        And you know
                                         
                                        When you're looking for an agent you want to be going to the other direction on sunset, you know what I'm saying
                                         
                                        Towards Beverly Hills towards fucking towards the comedy store. Yeah
                                         
    
                                        This we met somewhere and instead of getting the car making a right
                                         
                                        He made a left. I'm like, what the fuck are we?
                                         
                                        And next thing you know, he's making a left on Highland
                                         
                                        This is 98 he's making a left on Highland. Oh my goodness. Now a 98 Highland was beat the fuck up
                                         
                                        Well, before you hit that thing where they have parking there like that little circle
                                         
                                        Yes, okay before you hit that circle that whole area was perversion and crack
                                         
                                        Right there. I would go to three days a week and sell pornos on the phone
                                         
                                        When I moved here, there was a job that I paid eight dollars an hour
                                         
    
                                        And you go there and every day was a nude set of freaks
                                         
                                        If you stayed the day they gave you an extra ten dollar bonus
                                         
                                        I would send you down there. It was fun. I learned how to sell shit
                                         
                                        I worked there for as long as I could
                                         
                                        Which was about four weeks. And I sold pornos on the phone to know to fucking mom people don't watch pornos
                                         
                                        People watch pornos and fucking
                                         
                                        Individuals not to store. Yeah, they give you a list of names and you call stores
                                         
                                        So what's the pitch like? How you doing the agostino here from whatever films?
                                         
    
                                        You know, uh, I'm gonna call you and see if you've seen a new inventory. What do you got tell me what you got
                                         
                                        Well, we got fucking sex on sex with medgets
                                         
                                        We got people vomiting on each other. I would never even watch the movies
                                         
                                        I would just take the names
                                         
                                        And they'd say yeah, seven me three four. We have an account with you already. Thanks for calling. Yeah, you're my new account
                                         
                                        Because people quit all the time
                                         
                                        But in there, I remember coming out of there one day
                                         
                                        Walking coked out like from the night before. Yeah just showing up because I had no else to talk to
                                         
    
                                        I was living right there in hollywood
                                         
                                        And I was getting checks from the taco bell commercial
                                         
                                        And there was two hotels that were cousins
                                         
                                        You could stay there for 10 days and then they asked you to leave
                                         
                                        But you had to go to the other one
                                         
                                        Then after 10 days you'd go back to the other one
                                         
                                        But you couldn't stay longer than 10 days
                                         
                                        And I since I lived there. I didn't want to go at that time
                                         
    
                                        A 65 65 sunset that building was all telemarketing
                                         
                                        You're going and you get a job that day 10 bucks an hour selling fucking insurance or something like that
                                         
                                        I wanted to sell porn on commission
                                         
                                        I went up there. I had money so I didn't give a fuck. I had Taco Bell money
                                         
                                        Oh, shit. So I was going up there just to fuck around and I was making 80 90 a day
                                         
                                        But I still remember one day walking out of there
                                         
                                        And buying coke like that's how bad that street was
                                         
                                        And in that street there's a middle building. It's still there
                                         
    
                                        There's a building that building was filled with garbage
                                         
                                        Telemarketing scams all that shit on the fourth floor was an agency
                                         
                                        And I still remember walking into the hallway and looking up in the ceiling tile being removed and going
                                         
                                        This is the fucking agent that wants to sign me
                                         
                                        I was like embarrassed. I was like heartbroken
                                         
                                        Like all his clients were with top notch fucking agents and nobody wanted to sign me
                                         
                                        except this fucking little
                                         
                                        Five foot two jewish ball of fire from chicago that didn't give a fuck
                                         
    
                                        That wore blue
                                         
                                        Fucking blue fucking shadow shit over her eyeballs
                                         
                                        And she'd sit there all day just pitching you on the fucking phone like an animal
                                         
                                        And I was like, I don't know. I'll get back to you over the holiday
                                         
                                        She seemed fucking stern jack. She was like, listen if you sign with me
                                         
                                        This is how we do shit here
                                         
                                        And I was like, bro, we're in a fucking building that sounds cracked
                                         
                                        What the fuck are you talking about? I walked and I don't forget how heartbroken I was
                                         
    
                                        And then something happened and I had to sign with her
                                         
                                        And she fucking worked guys
                                         
                                        This lady was a fucking worker
                                         
                                        She would get me out three days a week
                                         
                                        For everything and I was on fire with I forget the shit I booked
                                         
                                        She got me and analyzed that fucking
                                         
                                        Spider-man 2
                                         
                                        fucking
                                         
    
                                        That movie that a lot of tv if you look at my mdb a lot of that tv
                                         
                                        From 99 to 2003 was her then she snapped because her parents owned the fucking
                                         
                                        Refrigeration kingdom in Chicago. They were millionaires. So she snapped went back
                                         
                                        Then they gave her a bunch of money something happened. They're trying to make her find the husband
                                         
                                        Who the fuck did you go right away to a different agent when she left? Yeah, like right away
                                         
                                        You had someone that wanted you but that went so fast. No, no, no, no, no
                                         
                                        You still got to go down to
                                         
                                        Samuel french and get the agent book
                                         
    
                                        And fucking get your picture and type up a resume and put them all in there
                                         
                                        And type up a cover letter write up a cover letter by hand
                                         
                                        To show them that you're an animal. Is that how it works still today? That's the only way I would do it
                                         
                                        So like do you like describe
                                         
                                        What you're going through right now like like maybe I just like what it's like trying to get an agent or a manager without
                                         
                                        When anybody don't have one
                                         
                                        I mean, I don't even know where to begin. I I've never tried I never for even for stand-up. I've never had an agent
                                         
                                        I never had a manager. I mean when you were at the nine point you had one already. I guess, huh?
                                         
    
                                        Well, I was here
                                         
                                        I was here and there were things going on so
                                         
                                        Did I need I needed one to help me get acting stuff?
                                         
                                        That's why I went with her
                                         
                                        I had no choice but to go with her because
                                         
                                        Jeff who was my manager's assigned he had a system to working things
                                         
                                        Okay, when he would get up in the morning Jeff would get up at 5 a.m
                                         
                                        And he would look through the breakdowns where all the jobs would be
                                         
    
                                        So by 6 30 and there would be 50 pages of breakdowns guys
                                         
                                        Jesus and he knew all his clients in his head
                                         
                                        And you just go through all these sheets and circle the clients that you want for auditions
                                         
                                        You just circle and then most people do what traditional people do what I did you take a headshot
                                         
                                        You put a resume in there and you put a cover letter and pray for the best
                                         
                                        Pray that she actually opens it and takes your headshot out
                                         
                                        But
                                         
                                        People like that could send the picture messenger
                                         
    
                                        She has to sign for it, which means she'll open it and then they call
                                         
                                        If you look at a lot of breakdowns, they'll always say on top
                                         
                                        We do not accept calls
                                         
                                        That's for fucking people who believe that shit
                                         
                                        To get your clients in there. You got a call if you don't call you're not gonna get your clients
                                         
                                        You got a call and see what's going on. This is who we have for this. Who's the Agostino? He just moved here from Italy
                                         
                                        You know, it doesn't matter. He's perfect for the role. You're gonna love him. So Taco Bell was 94
                                         
                                        What did you say 98 Taco Bell was like 98?
                                         
    
                                        So you were 97 98 seven eight years in a stand-up you already did a commercial. I was a stand-up
                                         
                                        Yeah, I was I was I got here at 97 and I had been doing stand-up six and a half years seven years
                                         
                                        But as soon as I got here, that was the one thing I got signed to the best commercial agent in town
                                         
                                        Sudden Barton Minari at the time were top notch
                                         
                                        All across the board and brother. It was like I signed with them like on tuesday
                                         
                                        It took like a week
                                         
                                        I got like one or two and then it took off
                                         
                                        Like if you didn't book with them
                                         
    
                                        You're not gonna have a future here
                                         
                                        Because nobody did a better job
                                         
                                        It didn't stop
                                         
                                        I had a pager in those days
                                         
                                        Rogan has spoken about an aria and all those guys had a pager in those days
                                         
                                        In those days, this is how your day started from six at night
                                         
                                        To about eight you'd get a page or a call. Hey
                                         
                                        De Agostina, how you doing? Michael Dell Sudden Barton Minari you're going in tomorrow for a tide
                                         
    
                                        1045 Santa Monica 5th Street
                                         
                                        Yeah, dress with a red shirt. Okay. Thank you. Boom
                                         
                                        That's it. You got a 1045. That's how your day started
                                         
                                        So when you went out that night to do comedy, you knew you had to go home early
                                         
                                        You got to go home early and get some sleep because you had to be at Santa Monica 5th Street at fucking 1045
                                         
                                        You get up, boom, eat breakfast shoot down to Santa Monica walking there about 10 o'clock
                                         
                                        You know going to get in there early get the fuck out of there. So you get the rest of your day going
                                         
                                        You go down eight you you read
                                         
    
                                        By the time you walk out of there to your car
                                         
                                        You got another page from them
                                         
                                        Where you at? I'm walking out of Taco Bell. All right. Take the car and go to ocean drive
                                         
                                        You got a 1215. You know like fuck 1215
                                         
                                        I came out every 10. I was doing the right thing. So they gotta sit down there. That's why you bring a book
                                         
                                        A movie whatever and then I went to the other plane and then when you walked out of there
                                         
                                        You got in your car and you made it all the way back to Hollywood
                                         
                                        And by the time you make it back to Hollywood, maybe an hour later. You get another page where you at
                                         
    
                                        Hollywood perfect
                                         
                                        Go down to 200 south Lebray
                                         
                                        They're looking for a plumber for a fucking Geico commercial
                                         
                                        And you went over by Pekko on Lebray. Yeah on top of that. There's auditioning up there
                                         
                                        And you went there parked your car. You couldn't park in the parking lot
                                         
                                        The fucking side street is four to six and the fucking front is fucking a quarter for two seconds
                                         
                                        You know what I'm saying? There's a quarter for three seconds
                                         
                                        By the time you turn around your quarter's gone
                                         
    
                                        There's a black chick with a fucked up hairdo with donuts on the air
                                         
                                        Fucking giving you a 52 dollar ticket. So it's torture dog
                                         
                                        It's torture. It's a it's a horrible living
                                         
                                        Because sometimes you go upstairs and you forget to come down and put a quarter in the meter
                                         
                                        And you come out and you got a 52 dollar fucking ticket
                                         
                                        All that shit when you go for auditions is heavy-duty ticketing
                                         
                                        So you better have 10,000 quarters in your fucking car at all times
                                         
                                        I only ever wanted to be a stand-up like you know what I mean?
                                         
    
                                        Like I don't I never reached out to try to get a commercial agent ever and
                                         
                                        I didn't either but the problem is that it's the back door
                                         
                                        Right and sometimes you have to look sometimes you have to go to the back door to get to the front door
                                         
                                        You know, so that was the way I looked at it. My strategy was
                                         
                                        I came here and I was already a regular at the store that really fucking helped me
                                         
                                        so
                                         
                                        That put me in the other two clubs kind of sort of
                                         
                                        Jamie let me do Monday nights and the improv gave me one
                                         
    
                                        Maybe two spots a week if I was lucky
                                         
                                        So from the store I worked that angle
                                         
                                        Like I would just but
                                         
                                        You have to it was a different time than it wasn't 9 11 yet
                                         
                                        before 9 11 a little after 9 11 security tightened
                                         
                                        And casting agents won't let you go into sony no more
                                         
                                        Like there was a time I could walk up to the sony gate and I could have an envelope and go
                                         
                                        I'm here to see carol witherspoon
                                         
    
                                        What's your name joey d is I just want to drop this off
                                         
                                        I don't need to see it. It's for an audition and the garden. Do you from a different audition?
                                         
                                        And he's letting in
                                         
                                        And you go to her office and drop the envelope off and the casting assistant would see you
                                         
                                        And she go who are you on the agustina? I'm here to drop this off for the roller roody
                                         
                                        I just saw it the breakdowns. I thought I would be good for it and she'd look at you and go
                                         
                                        That's great. Leave me a number if you leave your number you're getting an audition
                                         
                                        This so that doesn't happen anymore down there
                                         
    
                                        I don't think people have the spunk to do that anymore
                                         
                                        So it's not that it's frowned on to do it no no no you listen as a casting director
                                         
                                        Your job is to book that job with the right person
                                         
                                        You don't give a fuck where you find them
                                         
                                        If I feel if I felt that aggressive and I gotta tell you something I went after
                                         
                                        maybe
                                         
                                        12 roles aggressively and I probably got eight of them the percentages were high
                                         
                                        You know maybe in casting they decided to make the guy black or thin
                                         
    
                                        Or they wanted to go with a more seasoned actor somebody who got a little bit of a name
                                         
                                        But all those the angles I took like I I would drop off pack like I remember dropping off an envelope one time
                                         
                                        For harliss i'm getting a call that afternoon and booking it and I ended up being an episode with james cobra
                                         
                                        Wow, you know the tape went to producers and one of my friends from the county store was a producer
                                         
                                        So it was an envelope I dropped off
                                         
                                        That's that's a different type of mind game. That's to keep yourself busy
                                         
                                        See
                                         
                                        When I fucking
                                         
    
                                        When you slip and fall with a jew attorney and they're trying to sue somebody
                                         
                                        Don't tell you gotta go to the doctor. So every day
                                         
                                        You start going to therapy or anything you could go to the scan because you're putting the time in you're punching in
                                         
                                        Yeah, the same applies to this career that we have
                                         
                                        The more you punch into something the more you get from it
                                         
                                        If somebody's giving a free acting class at north hollywood high school from six to nine and you can make it make it
                                         
                                        I'd go for free and get the basics and fuck around and pay two hundred dollars
                                         
                                        Do you know what i'm saying? Yeah, the little more you take
                                         
    
                                        Especially you just want to dabble a little bit anyway
                                         
                                        You don't need to be listening. You don't need to be Olivier the book shit
                                         
                                        I was no Olivier when I booked the Taco Bell commercial made me fucking money that I'd never seen before
                                         
                                        You know when I booked the pilot for cbs. I was no fucking Olivier
                                         
                                        You know, I was just a regular fucking small. I had a look they liked. You know, it's a fucked up look
                                         
                                        You know, I had he had today role and I lucked out, you know
                                         
                                        I could play like a pimp. I could play a gangster
                                         
                                        I could play an italian fucking hit man. I could play a fucking pizza man
                                         
    
                                        I could play a garbage man. Look at all this for you
                                         
                                        You know, there's so many fucking things I could do
                                         
                                        They just are so specific
                                         
                                        You get a lot more work than I did at that age
                                         
                                        At your age right now, you get a lot more additions
                                         
                                        But I would get when I got here because when I got here I was 30 something fucking years old
                                         
                                        I was already longer the tooth by their standards
                                         
                                        And what about the guy who's got the day job?
                                         
    
                                        And you know, just wants to be a stand-up comic. So that's what he does at night
                                         
                                        And so now he wants to get into
                                         
                                        Acting commercial, you know, just to get some work that way. I mean if they're paging you three times
                                         
                                        In a day, there's no day job anymore. No, you got to let go of it
                                         
                                        It's when you're not in union, right? So you would be you would get a lot of work in the beginning
                                         
                                        The season you're up, you would just get a lot of work man much and
                                         
                                        Like I say the more involved you are the more chances you got a going on a roll
                                         
                                        There's nothing like going on a roll until you're in it
                                         
    
                                        Like there's a guy I used to train with that went on a fucking three-month roll
                                         
                                        Listen, that may never happen to him again, or he may stay like this for a long time
                                         
                                        But going on a roll is shooting a job taking a week off shooting another job
                                         
                                        Taking a week off shooting job that it starts to be a week at a job every week
                                         
                                        Like I booked four national commercials four weeks in a row
                                         
                                        three three three
                                         
                                        Three weeks in a row on a Thursday I shot a national commercial. Wow, that is crazy for me. That's crazy, but
                                         
                                        Excuse me. I was very lucky
                                         
    
                                        There's people in Hollywood that shoot a commercial every week and you see them you guys that watch tv
                                         
                                        See these people
                                         
                                        They're the same commercial actors and everything they shoot every week, bro
                                         
                                        Because let me tell you something you shoot every week because I have to shit you shoot don't get picked up
                                         
                                        That's just scary
                                         
                                        I mean it's scary just to thinking about how much time and
                                         
                                        And money is spent on things that people will never see
                                         
                                        Like that's another thing that must like we always talk about people who left
                                         
    
                                        But like I don't think we we consider like
                                         
                                        Like how terrible some things must be to deal with
                                         
                                        Like like can you man like I know bill Burr had a show canceled. He left and came back but
                                         
                                        Like that that that like there must be things that happen
                                         
                                        He'll throw out your career that much make you want to go home
                                         
                                        Nothing makes you really want to go home if this is what
                                         
                                        You really want to do
                                         
                                        I mean, do you know what I'm saying? If that's what you really want to do
                                         
    
                                        You you know the process
                                         
                                        You know the deal you've heard the fucking stories
                                         
                                        This isn't something that you know just came to you
                                         
                                        This is part of the process
                                         
                                        You just don't take your ball and go home when it starts raining
                                         
                                        You just don't take your ball and go home
                                         
                                        You wait for the rain to fucking end you're going through a bad streak
                                         
                                        And unless you listen unless you're getting blown
                                         
    
                                        By fucking people on a peep show for two dollars a night
                                         
                                        Unless they're torturing in korea town
                                         
                                        Or something like that and you're sucking fucking
                                         
                                        Japanese dick in korea town. It's not that bad here
                                         
                                        There's always an existence here. I don't give a fuck what you tell me
                                         
                                        There's always a job somewhere that you could be a fucking bus boy
                                         
                                        And somebody's always got a couch in this town
                                         
                                        You know why because I did it for the first four or five years. I was here
                                         
    
                                        Thank god for people like Ralphie May and Josh Wolf
                                         
                                        And others that let me fucking you know
                                         
                                        Go fucking hand to mouth on a daily basis. But let me tell you something. I never sat there all day either
                                         
                                        I always hustled brother
                                         
                                        I always dropped off an envelope. I was always somewhere trying to write a joke
                                         
                                        And I was on stage every fucking night
                                         
                                        I didn't have a child. I really had a I had a girlfriend sometimes I had no responsibility
                                         
                                        And I didn't want a responsibility. I did comedy for a living
                                         
    
                                        And that's how I thought that was my that was my brain. I didn't care about holidays
                                         
                                        I didn't care about new years. I didn't care about seeing people. I sacrificed that part of my life
                                         
                                        For years to do comedy
                                         
                                        You know, I would call the store in those days Sunday to Sunday
                                         
                                        These last two weeks I would get spots seven nights a week
                                         
                                        At the store, you know, I was always at the store
                                         
                                        But I wouldn't get to the store till midnight. So what are you gonna do till midnight?
                                         
                                        Say, yeah, how's your fall asleep? So I would go to willy bar center's rooms and all those rooms
                                         
    
                                        And just sharpen up fly and you know, and there's still those rooms out there
                                         
                                        Those rooms are there. I just not a hip to it because they don't fall no more because
                                         
                                        You know, I'm not gonna go to one of those fucking shooting my rooms no more
                                         
                                        Unless it's like a friend of mine who I really trust and like I go out a lot during the week
                                         
                                        I know about all those rooms. I mean, I'm doing those spots and you know, there's just uh
                                         
                                        There's just something, you know, like, uh, I probably shouldn't feel this way
                                         
                                        But like, you know, you're going like twitter or something or instagram
                                         
                                        You start seeing like everything for the night before just like you just feel like I'm missing out on stuff
                                         
    
                                        You know, there's always comics that are doing something that are better than me, you know, I mean
                                         
                                        So I don't know. I feel like I've hit a a wall here where like
                                         
                                        People know me but they don't
                                         
                                        You know, I occasionally get spots at the store. They're giving me like once a month and now like not anymore
                                         
                                        And uh, so I I mean, I just like you said, I think that I have to go through the back door now
                                         
                                        I've hit a point where
                                         
                                        It's like I gotta switch. I gotta switch something up. I gotta go in another way
                                         
                                        Let's talk about the back door was Tony Bennett
                                         
    
                                        Oh
                                         
                                        I want to be around
                                         
                                        To pick up the pieces when somebody breaks your heart
                                         
                                        Exactly
                                         
                                        Some somebody twice as smart
                                         
                                        As I
                                         
                                        What's that?
                                         
                                        Oh, there's two right here
                                         
    
                                        Will swear to be true as you used to do with me
                                         
                                        We
                                         
                                        Let me get some shout outs here to some beautiful fucking people
                                         
                                        Dante gazini Ali bars
                                         
                                        Baker X
                                         
                                        Rockdad Adam UK
                                         
                                        Montel bamboo
                                         
                                        Tony Romero Christian Sherman
                                         
    
                                        And Megan seven one five
                                         
                                        One of my fucking favorites you sexy savage. Anyway
                                         
                                        Next thing you know, you're fucking doing two the fucking four for calling somebody sexy savage
                                         
                                        Because it's a fucking federal if it's to call somebody sexy savage on the podcast
                                         
                                        The back door isn't interesting because it took me
                                         
                                        About four years to realize
                                         
                                        They hated me at every level
                                         
                                        They just hated me
                                         
    
                                        Everybody passed on me. There was a rare glimpse that cAA
                                         
                                        In 1999 wanted to fucking sign me
                                         
                                        For comedy that was really developed me. There was a rare that it went away
                                         
                                        It went away because I had a pitch and the pitch was okay until HBO said no, we don't
                                         
                                        We're not gonna do that. We're going into the holiday. So
                                         
                                        The guy from cAA liked me until that went away. That was what happened
                                         
                                        But at that time I realized Montreal wasn't gonna the dirty show that was all bullshit. They were not gonna give me a shot
                                         
                                        So I was like, what the fuck am I gonna do?
                                         
    
                                        And I was sick and tired of going to movies
                                         
                                        Just like stand up
                                         
                                        You one day, you know one day you go to you keep going to your local club
                                         
                                        And they're booking these fucking morons and one day you just go fuck this
                                         
                                        I'm gonna disappear for a month
                                         
                                        And I'm gonna get really good and come back and rock them. That's exactly what you do
                                         
                                        Yeah, and now you get work there. But the same thing happens with stand-up
                                         
                                        How do you become a stand-up? You're watching tv and you go, what the fuck? I'm funny in this fucking asshole
                                         
    
                                        and that's it
                                         
                                        but
                                         
                                        What acting the same thing happens how many times are you in a movie and you go, what is that?
                                         
                                        I could have done this wrong. Yep. Yeah, like I was pissed watching analyze this
                                         
                                        The first one I went on a date
                                         
                                        And I remember her asking me like after an hour, what are you?
                                         
                                        Why does that look on your face? And I was like, no, no, nothing the lights bothered me or whatever
                                         
                                        I was just angry because I was living here. I didn't know about any of this shit
                                         
    
                                        Yeah, like I was pissed about it. And let me tell you what else uncle Joey did
                                         
                                        But I think I mentioned on the podcast one time
                                         
                                        I had this goofy manager
                                         
                                        Goofy goofy
                                         
                                        Good dude though. Good dude solid. I still talked to him
                                         
                                        I wasn't with him at this time. I was a Jeff Gellin
                                         
                                        And I'm in New York City
                                         
                                        And I'm just doing like rascals. I'm doing the old governors
                                         
    
                                        When it was a fucking armpit
                                         
                                        This is 98 99
                                         
                                        I'm doing uh
                                         
                                        Jesus Christ. I'm doing like shit gigs for roger paul
                                         
                                        You know one nighters and stuff
                                         
                                        And uh
                                         
                                        I was I was up with loops
                                         
                                        And I'm in jersey. I'm eating chinese food on there for like four days
                                         
    
                                        And I go into the city and I drop off
                                         
                                        A tape for something some tv show
                                         
                                        That gellin told me to and he called me the next day and he goes you ever another reel and I go yeah
                                         
                                        And I dropped it off at some other place
                                         
                                        And then one day
                                         
                                        Guess who fucking calls me my old manager
                                         
                                        He goes hey man
                                         
                                        I just got off the phone with this lady
                                         
    
                                        She wants you to drop a tape off
                                         
                                        For this new show the sopranos
                                         
                                        I go, what is it about singers about opera singers and she goes
                                         
                                        I really don't know
                                         
                                        I think it's something to do with the mafia or something like that and that's a tape I didn't drop off
                                         
                                        But you know what what difference would I have made you know
                                         
                                        I had book shit. I hadn't book shit like that before
                                         
                                        I didn't really know the variables are going in there later on I went in for the sopranos but at that time
                                         
    
                                        but
                                         
                                        The first thing I did was I'll never forget
                                         
                                        I was in a fucking hotel room in dallas, texas
                                         
                                        And it was sunday morning
                                         
                                        And I was on fire
                                         
                                        I was on fire
                                         
                                        I was at the store every fucking night
                                         
                                        with Joe Rogan and Eddie Griffin and Andrew Dice clay and paul mooney
                                         
    
                                        And duck stanhope and it just got me sharp like I had been on the road for nine months
                                         
                                        You know, I went on the road and I left him 99 and came back in 2000
                                         
                                        I used to be one of those assholes
                                         
                                        There was a big shoot out here people if you hear sirens and helicopters
                                         
                                        We heard about what eight or nine fucking gunfights here. So
                                         
                                        You know, I don't know by the train they could have been by the train station. So
                                         
                                        It was a fucking weak dog when I went to dallas and I don't want to say that line
                                         
                                        I was working with but I was fucking burying him
                                         
    
                                        I was just burying them guys
                                         
                                        And it was getting obvious
                                         
                                        It was starting to get obvious
                                         
                                        It was starting to get and all I had was like 35. Did any part of you think about turning it down?
                                         
                                        Not even close
                                         
                                        This was dallas texas
                                         
                                        And I was going on there before this guy just buried him
                                         
                                        But I was doing blow
                                         
    
                                        I was eating like a savage, you know, I didn't really give a fuck
                                         
                                        I never forget waking up in a hotel room that sunday morning
                                         
                                        All those like I woke up like from the coke a little pissed off
                                         
                                        And I'm like, I can't believe I'm here taking orders from this fucking mutt
                                         
                                        He's probably getting three grand for the week and here I am getting the small fucking 750
                                         
                                        You know with no fucking plane ticket
                                         
                                        And I got to stay and do an extra show on sunday for the handicap or something like that
                                         
                                        It's some fucking, you know some bullshit
                                         
    
                                        You know, you like wonder what the fuck is my career going? I mean, I'm very fortunate to have this feature work
                                         
                                        But this is bullshit. I can be fucking knocking them out of the park
                                         
                                        He ain't doing nothing special. Ain't nobody coming to see him. Yeah, nobody coming to see this fucking fool, you know
                                         
                                        It's not like he's a headliner. No, and he was a headliner. Yeah, nobody was gonna see him
                                         
                                        And he's getting 15 and you're getting five 500 and they barely want to give me that
                                         
                                        I'll never forget I came home and I borrowed 500 bucks from josh. Well
                                         
                                        Like a thou like 500 bucks
                                         
                                        And I went to the soup place
                                         
    
                                        Hollywood to know that I got three suits for 200 bucks
                                         
                                        And I went to a van a chopper can sign up for acting classes
                                         
                                        And I gave her the rest of the money
                                         
                                        And I said i'm not going on the road. I'm just gonna take acting classes
                                         
                                        And I went to acting class. This is how I did the back way if you really want to know
                                         
                                        I went to acting classes and I still did stand up at night
                                         
                                        But I focused heavy on what they were talking about
                                         
                                        And again
                                         
    
                                        I started talking to people in acting classes
                                         
                                        And here these people paying 200 miles a month
                                         
                                        Times three because they're going to three different things a month for classes for training
                                         
                                        And they're not even working
                                         
                                        They're being told they're not even perfect for work and i'm looking at these guys going
                                         
                                        Are these fucking kids serious?
                                         
                                        Like i'm telling you you're paying me money
                                         
                                        And i'm telling you diagostino and you're leaving you're not ready to go to work on film and tv
                                         
    
                                        I'm like i'm appalled
                                         
                                        So even though I was on a van a chopper the first two or three weeks
                                         
                                        I was doing good scenes like my first scene was a scene from
                                         
                                        Carlito's way
                                         
                                        When the attorney goes to see the mobster when sean penn
                                         
                                        Goes to see the mobster how to play the mobster
                                         
                                        And they don't want you to say it they want you to say verbatim
                                         
                                        But they want you to be your own character
                                         
    
                                        And I remember when I got off that fucking stage dog those people in there were shaking my hand like I was fucking Hemingway
                                         
                                        Like I was some fucking tremendous actor. I was just a dirty comic
                                         
                                        I didn't know nothing about fucking acting and right there. I'm like wait a second
                                         
                                        And that's what I heard
                                         
                                        They're shooting analyze two
                                         
                                        I'd gone for an audition for some fucking movie
                                         
                                        And
                                         
                                        This is how it started I went for an audition
                                         
    
                                        For some fucking movie that I was not right for as I was reading the line
                                         
                                        I kept thinking about that dude the mexican dude that started in
                                         
                                        in net
                                         
                                        Narcos the first season you the chubby dude with the hat
                                         
                                        lewis
                                         
                                        Oh lewis go miss lewis no
                                         
                                        No
                                         
                                        Whatever this fuck I was on this pilot. I shot this pilot
                                         
    
                                        Guzman lewis guzman. I shot his pilot for fox
                                         
                                        But as I was reading for this movie I could read lewis guzman. I'm like this is lewis guzman's role
                                         
                                        Why am I wasting my time?
                                         
                                        And at the end of the read the lady said
                                         
                                        That was a good read, but you're not right for this role. I go. Thank god. You thought the same way. This is for a Mexican person
                                         
                                        And she goes, yeah, she goes, but you're gonna be right for my next movie
                                         
                                        And I go watch your next movie because I analyze that part too
                                         
                                        That was it. I go. So what do I need to be in that?
                                         
    
                                        And she goes stay in touch with me
                                         
                                        Send me anything you work on
                                         
                                        Anything you book sent me a copy of the tape
                                         
                                        I was like you got it
                                         
                                        And I went to work jack and I booked a mafia thing a game mafia thing
                                         
                                        And I booked that and I took the clip from that immediately
                                         
                                        And sent that overturn and I booked something else. Is that when you play the key guy?
                                         
                                        Yeah, you guys are bearing the body in the cemetery. That's fucking funny. I booked some other I booked something else that was mafia themed
                                         
    
                                        And I got a copy of the senator immediately
                                         
                                        And then I got the call one day bam
                                         
                                        You're auditioning for analyze that but in new york
                                         
                                        Doug I couldn't get the fucking san jose
                                         
                                        I didn't have a dime to get the fucking new york when you go to new york to audition. Yeah
                                         
                                        And there's no flight. I can put a gig together when I was there to make
                                         
                                        100 bucks at rascals, but not enough to cover my fucking hair fair
                                         
                                        Or make me a millionaire or not like that and how to sleep on somebody's floor
                                         
    
                                        you know
                                         
                                        So a friend of mine from the old days reached out and he goes I got a plane ticket for you
                                         
                                        I'm fucking frontier at lines one of those fucking
                                         
                                        ally lines
                                         
                                        You gotta stop in Denver and they chase your luggage over by the time I got to new york. They lost my luggage
                                         
                                        I had to go buy a warm-up suit and sneakers. They didn't do like audition tapes back then
                                         
                                        No, you had to show up to book these movies
                                         
                                        And then you they wanted you to stay to talk to the director
                                         
    
                                        Because you're not getting fucking booked in this movie until you talk to the director
                                         
                                        So you were like hi, you were like at least being considered then at this level, right? They're not gonna fly
                                         
                                        I'm not gonna tell 30 people to fly in New York. No
                                         
                                        There was no I wouldn't tape it
                                         
                                        An opportunity like that. I wouldn't tape it. I want to be in the fucking room
                                         
                                        I don't think a lot of people were fly. I want to know. I want to make sure
                                         
                                        That if I don't get this I didn't get this because it was me
                                         
                                        I don't want to get this because I sent the tape. I want them to meet me. I want them to see me walk into the room
                                         
    
                                        I want them to see my patois, my je ne sais quoi. You know what I'm saying? As they say in fucking France
                                         
                                        So that was my big thing
                                         
                                        Where did you learn that like things like I want them to see me walk in like where did you
                                         
                                        Just think about it. Just think about that. Think about that
                                         
                                        Think about that. Well, what do I get? What essence do I get from watching you on tape?
                                         
                                        No, yeah for sure. Yeah
                                         
                                        It's probably cut down by at least half if not more
                                         
                                        But little things like I want them to get my presents and how can I even though you make a fantastic fucking stand-up
                                         
    
                                        HBO hour special
                                         
                                        How can I really book you for a?
                                         
                                        30 million dollar fee no 85 million dollar feature next to wil smith
                                         
                                        Without making you come in
                                         
                                        You're gonna send me a tape to encourage me to make you come in
                                         
                                        That's the that's the tape you sent to me for me to go. Okay. Make him come in and read
                                         
                                        But most people that reside in new york were going for that audition, right?
                                         
                                        You just went because she liked you for that. Yeah. Yeah
                                         
    
                                        It's important to stay in touch like do you think a lot of actors
                                         
                                        Have been in that situation and then just didn't send her anything
                                         
                                        The the if you go to my email old
                                         
                                        The last two pages is old casting directors. I've kept in touch with over the years
                                         
                                        Like they all got them every christmas and shit from me this lag like even though I haven't seen them
                                         
                                        Over the years you develop relationship to these casting people but back to the agostino situation
                                         
                                        So that's once I went to acting class the agostino
                                         
                                        Yeah, I learned a little bit how to act but I didn't go into the learn how to act
                                         
    
                                        I learned how to get work as an actor
                                         
                                        Again, I wanted to see what they were doing
                                         
                                        You know, you go behind the comedy store or any comedy club in any country
                                         
                                        There's a circle of kids comics
                                         
                                        And they talk about what they're gonna do and how they're gonna do it and you go back that 10 years later still
                                         
                                        They talked about it. Yeah, I just auditioned for ask me. You're like, that's great
                                         
                                        You know keep sending tapes and shit because
                                         
                                        You did it you didn't sit there and talk about it
                                         
    
                                        And when you go to acting classes in hollywood
                                         
                                        Like I had this at this point I had been to maybe two acting classes a vana chubbock is considered a high level
                                         
                                        There's her and leslie kahn
                                         
                                        They're considered high level. There's a few others that have popped up over the years
                                         
                                        In fact, somebody sent you a link to one lady at that
                                         
                                        And it was intensive of acting or whatever
                                         
                                        But I went to a vana chubbock to begin a class
                                         
                                        and
                                         
    
                                        That's what I went to do. I didn't go to learn how to act
                                         
                                        I went to talk to these other fucking kids
                                         
                                        To see if they were working and guess what?
                                         
                                        None of them were working
                                         
                                        They were all petrified. I was stepping out of that fucking cupid zone of the acting class
                                         
                                        And I'll never forget being at a party
                                         
                                        One night and sitting at a bar coked up
                                         
                                        And there was a guy and another guy and a chick talking
                                         
    
                                        And the guy goes so what's going on with you and he goes well
                                         
                                        Tomorrow
                                         
                                        We're doing the scene from rain man and acting class
                                         
                                        And they were so excited
                                         
                                        Like really an acting class. Oh my god. That's so thrilling
                                         
                                        I hope the teacher out. She really sees you for what you want. I'm sitting there going. Oh my god
                                         
                                        So they become career acting class people
                                         
                                        They just pay the 275 a month
                                         
    
                                        They go down there
                                         
                                        They do the acting classes and they buy into it that they're letting the method and the whole thing
                                         
                                        Meanwhile, I'm seeing this and I find out about the breakdowns
                                         
                                        I find out about the breakdowns
                                         
                                        And I go, okay
                                         
                                        So you look at the breakdowns. It's the same thing as anything else. You see your job. You think you're perfect for
                                         
                                        Get the address get that fucking phone number
                                         
                                        Go down there drop the fucking package off and call them an hour later
                                         
    
                                        And ask them if they want to see you if they liked when you drop off or if they want to see tape
                                         
                                        I always created the opportunity to go back there
                                         
                                        You forgot something
                                         
                                        Don't give them everything
                                         
                                        Give them one piece at a time
                                         
                                        If you bring the tape in your resume
                                         
                                        That's it. They don't need to see you again. But if you bring your resume here, look at you know, what happened to your tape
                                         
                                        I didn't know you wanted one
                                         
    
                                        Well, come back with a tape. Boom. Even though he's mad at you
                                         
                                        You're gonna come back and guess what's gonna happen. You're gonna come back. He's not gonna be there
                                         
                                        But his assistant's gonna be there and she knows you from the barbecue joint when you do comedy then she always thinks you're cute and shit
                                         
                                        So guess what? You just got no addition
                                         
                                        Because you forced yourself to go back there a second time. It's all numbers. How many times when it comes to acting
                                         
                                        It's a complete different animal
                                         
                                        It's how many times they see you before that audition
                                         
                                        But guess what if you see something or you hear something
                                         
    
                                        That you're right for you really got to raise your hand and attack in the acting world because they're not gonna find you
                                         
                                        They're not gonna find you your manager and your agent are gonna get you in for so much
                                         
                                        I know for a fact for me
                                         
                                        When it came to acting I hustled 60 of those jobs
                                         
                                        I still remember booking cold case
                                         
                                        out of the computer
                                         
                                        Cold case I booked from the fucking computer
                                         
                                        At that time it was on show fax
                                         
    
                                        Whatever that is that it's a it's a thing for actors. I'm still on there now. I haven't paid in a while
                                         
                                        But I'm still on there like those casting websites that you might be right for this if you pay $69 a month
                                         
                                        $69 a year
                                         
                                        In those days I got it for the whole year and you'd fucking submit from there
                                         
                                        And let me tell you something
                                         
                                        There was a movie I booked from there
                                         
                                        I got fired from
                                         
                                        But I got the money anyway, and there was that
                                         
    
                                        For sure that I remember and there was cold case on cbs
                                         
                                        The episode of disco inferno. Yeah, I booked that from the computer. How many uh
                                         
                                        Work do you think actually gets generated generated from sites like that?
                                         
                                        Do you think people actually get work like that or you just got lucky a couple times?
                                         
                                        Do you think that's kind of just like bullshit and people don't really get stuff out of that?
                                         
                                        I think that casting assistants look into that. They don't really look at it like very thoroughly
                                         
                                        They skim through it
                                         
                                        And they go look at your resume and show like that really fast
                                         
    
                                        By that point
                                         
                                        I was getting uh jobs already, you know what I'm saying, so
                                         
                                        But no you always have to do you always have to but acting at scamming
                                         
                                        It's always going back. Oh, you don't want you don't want me to bring your tape you ever go to the comedy club
                                         
                                        Yeah, I'll swing by and drop off four tickets for the comedy store
                                         
                                        Vinny Curdo who I speak about on the podcast where I had on the church
                                         
                                        When I first moved here, I bumped into him at the comedy store
                                         
                                        And he said he had a role for me in one of his movies
                                         
    
                                        I just met the guy I had seen him on Miami Vice. I saw him in a movie known named 29th street
                                         
                                        And he impressed me and he was very nice to me. He was half Cuban
                                         
                                        Which is very sweet and I bumped into one other time
                                         
                                        He gave me the address of who to send the package to for acting
                                         
                                        And uh
                                         
                                        I put together a package what I had that day
                                         
                                        I had been I hadn't been I had been on the CBS pilot and that was it
                                         
                                        And I had done like everything else in that resume was bullshit except for the comedy work
                                         
    
                                        Everything else was fucking minor league shit
                                         
                                        I dropped off the package no real
                                         
                                        headshot resume buyer
                                         
                                        And I dropped it off two three weeks. I didn't hear nothing
                                         
                                        So at this time I had gotten into a system to send shit out and drop stuff off
                                         
                                        Monday and Tuesday were my heavy days
                                         
                                        So that meant sunday night after I emcee at the store
                                         
                                        till about one or twelve
                                         
    
                                        Even when I was snorting blow I would still go home
                                         
                                        Snort blow drink alcohol and lick envelopes
                                         
                                        And get them ready for the next couple days
                                         
                                        There were some envelopes you could send out and there were some envelopes you had to deliver on hand by mono to mono
                                         
                                        To really get the most out of your quality because you want the casting assistant to see
                                         
                                        See these casting assistants are young
                                         
                                        And guess what they do at night
                                         
                                        They go to comedy clubs
                                         
    
                                        They can't come up to you and say hello because who wants to talk to a casting assistant
                                         
                                        Who the fuck are you you'll talk to them once or twice?
                                         
                                        But guess what they'll recognize you and they'll go oh my god
                                         
                                        I just saw you last week at the pink pussy cat
                                         
                                        And you're like you go to the pink pussy cat. Yeah
                                         
                                        They don't want to go to the comedy store the improv. They want to be a little different
                                         
                                        So they go to the alternative places
                                         
                                        And they come next thing, you know, you have no addition, bro
                                         
    
                                        You know, the weirdest thing ever was when I had I went in for the
                                         
                                        What is that the machinist? What was the show I did?
                                         
                                        the sheet is show
                                         
                                        The mentalist yes
                                         
                                        Why did the mentalist I went to the audition the first day and there was fucking 80 people in the room
                                         
                                        I'm like, I'm not gonna get this but I took a picture with steven by when he retweeted
                                         
                                        And that night I had a message from the fucking author of the book
                                         
                                        What role do you want?
                                         
    
                                        Well, I said this one the next day they called me and offered me the role
                                         
                                        It's interesting. It's bro. You never know how you're gonna pop a roll everything works that way
                                         
                                        But if you're not involved
                                         
                                        like I shouldn't like
                                         
                                        There would have been a time when I would have gone to the audition looked in that room
                                         
                                        and cracked a left
                                         
                                        And then the drive would have realized what a big fucking mistake. I meant because I had nothing else to do
                                         
                                        And I was gonna get a chance to talk to people and find out about different shit because that's what audition is
                                         
    
                                        Audition you know people always go to you. Well, you have to go to bars
                                         
                                        The fucking number one place to find out about jobs
                                         
                                        is at auditions
                                         
                                        When you see other working actors
                                         
                                        They're not there because they're fucking taking acting classes
                                         
                                        Buying into fucking Scientology. No
                                         
                                        No
                                         
                                        They're there because they told those people to fuck go fuck themselves
                                         
    
                                        They're working
                                         
                                        And these people banging out
                                         
                                        That commercial life is fucking rough
                                         
                                        You know, you're right if I but I don't know. I don't know how busy in this the Agostino
                                         
                                        I really don't try I'm not gonna take a quit your job
                                         
                                        At one point if it's that busy you just go I'm quitting because I can live off this
                                         
                                        It's a weird thing. It's just a very fucking weird occupation
                                         
                                        I was just watching some football on sunday and I saw this open micro that I kind of came up with on a fucking home depot commercial
                                         
    
                                        It's insane. I'm like, I just see you in a home depot commercial. He's like, yeah
                                         
                                        He just started he just started going out for him. Just got it. That's how it is because they like new faces
                                         
                                        They like new blood. Mm-hmm. Everybody they see they know they've seen these people once a week
                                         
                                        But they gotta see and they trust you and they don't know what the producer wants
                                         
                                        Listen, unless you go
                                         
                                        Commercial editions people get mad at them and I gotta tell you some now in hindsight. I miss not going for them
                                         
                                        Because me at this age I probably go for four a year
                                         
                                        But I'd be so fucking excited
                                         
    
                                        When I'm driving to ocean drive because I know exactly what I go eat
                                         
                                        I know exactly where the park, you know, I've been doing it for years
                                         
                                        You're not a newbie when you go to like four a year. You think you'd book one a year
                                         
                                        Yeah, if I go to four commercial editions, it's gonna be for
                                         
                                        The usual suspects a pizza guy a mafia dude a fucking something, you know
                                         
                                        And I call I spoke to Lawrence a few weeks ago. We're trying to work on something
                                         
                                        But yeah, I'm thinking of going back out for commercial editions because it's fundamentals
                                         
                                        You learn how to go back to fucking it's a different type of acting your mind works differently
                                         
    
                                        Like I always tell people when I go from mobster roles from movies and tv
                                         
                                        I wear a black or dark shirt
                                         
                                        For commercials. I wear a white shirt
                                         
                                        What's the what's the point of that?
                                         
                                        commercials your commercial has to run in Iowa
                                         
                                        The same way as it has to run in new york city
                                         
                                        A lot of times you have to paint the picture for the director
                                         
                                        I don't want you to go for commercials, especially
                                         
    
                                        I don't want you to go in that dress like the guy to the tee
                                         
                                        I want you to wear something that camouflages what you're really wearing
                                         
                                        Like you see that shirt right there. You have on the most distinguishing thing about that shirt of the strings
                                         
                                        When I went in for baseball, I wore a shirt with strings
                                         
                                        Because it signifies a whistle around your neck. Uh
                                         
                                        That's what it looks like sometimes appearances
                                         
                                        Just make it seem like what they are you go for a maintenance man on the way to dress like a maintenance man
                                         
                                        Wear a gray shirt. Hmm. Don't wear your name
                                         
    
                                        Just let them know how you look on his shirt. That's tailing as opposed to you going in for baseball with an actual whistle around your neck
                                         
                                        That just there you go. There you go. Yeah, there you go
                                         
                                        Those motherfuckers never get dick
                                         
                                        See those guys in there. I always see them guys
                                         
                                        You go for commercial editions that dress like a big thing at the chef hat. Yeah, don't do that. Don't do that
                                         
                                        Don't do that. I don't give a fuck what the fucking agent tells you like the agent will call you go by the way
                                         
                                        They want you to wear a chef hat. Great. I ain't wearing no fucking chef hat. I'll wear a baseball hat. That's white
                                         
                                        What if they say they want you to wear a white shirt today?
                                         
    
                                        Will you go and wear in it not a white shirt so to stand out or not?
                                         
                                        Whatever, just fucking wear a white shirt. I'll I'll see what the role is who the people are and what the situation is
                                         
                                        There's always I got this audition when I was out
                                         
                                        I would have had to go all the way up to the valley. I would have never made it back. Okay, no worries
                                         
                                        Do you understand me?
                                         
                                        Slip the auditions in Santa Monica. You had to go all the way back up the woodland hills to get a white shirt
                                         
                                        Unless you want me to go buy a white shirt and you always do have a white shirt in the car
                                         
                                        Yeah, sometimes you want to mess with that head too
                                         
    
                                        In a different way
                                         
                                        So you wear white in commercials and then why do you wear black in for movies?
                                         
                                        Because movies are more realistic
                                         
                                        That was my strategy always commercials are fucking more for the national people
                                         
                                        This is you know, you I can't scare people in Iowa
                                         
                                        With these fucking commercials these commercials. I'm trying to make you like me and the product
                                         
                                        So I would go always going in a white shirt now it always booked those
                                         
                                        Everybody who went in there with a black shirt wouldn't book it
                                         
    
                                        Those are the little things I want because after you go to acting class
                                         
                                        It's going to take you to six months to 18 months to learn the ropes of auditioning to put all the pieces together
                                         
                                        All the components that you have to reach for
                                         
                                        You have to use a little bit of your stand-up shit at night, but I can't tell you what it is
                                         
                                        This is what acting coaches don't tell you. Yeah, especially when you're a stand-up comic
                                         
                                        What I want you to do is separate yourself from the comedian d'agostino, but I still want you to be there
                                         
                                        So separate yourself from the comedian
                                         
                                        And you're still there in that room. It's still the same stuff as stand-up. You ever see the movie
                                         
    
                                        What's the word with the name or with Pacino and the black kid that he plays football
                                         
                                        Uh
                                         
                                        I think it's a hand-given thunder. No, what is it? I don't know
                                         
                                        You guys are terrible
                                         
                                        Little placements, it's about football or yeah, let us uh lower his tail there
                                         
                                        I was right any given Sunday any given Sunday
                                         
                                        There's a thing. I'm gonna be giving Sunday. I know we just stuck with me
                                         
                                        And I figured that out with acting especially the stand-up comic
                                         
    
                                        There's a scene where you go listen forget about what's going on clean your mind
                                         
                                        I want you to think about being a kid
                                         
                                        Being in front of your mom this house
                                         
                                        It's five to five your mom yells out
                                         
                                        Honey come on in we're eating dinner. You got one more play
                                         
                                        You have a lot before you do the play
                                         
                                        It's the same thing as usual run to the Cadillac and cut left and you score
                                         
                                        This is the same thing when you're playing pro football just in a smaller level
                                         
    
                                        So it's stand-up stand-up is acting
                                         
                                        A very close
                                         
                                        You're not going to go in and do your own material
                                         
                                        You're going to stick to the script, but what you're going to borrow from stand-up
                                         
                                        Is the bravado
                                         
                                        The fucking
                                         
                                        You know, you're a stand-up so psychologically I could do this with my eyes closed
                                         
                                        So you have to bring that type of if they see
                                         
    
                                        A casting agent is just like anything else if they see blood
                                         
                                        They're gonna know you're weak
                                         
                                        So you got to walk in there with the stand-up type of bravado
                                         
                                        That everybody knows when you walk in they know you're a fucking real stand-up comic
                                         
                                        Your timing is on and you go in there. You can improvise you listen to the director
                                         
                                        That's every director is going to make you do something different even if you're doing it right
                                         
                                        You know what he wants to make sure that you listen
                                         
                                        He wants to make sure you can be directed
                                         
    
                                        So when you go in those rooms of the right you do it right and the director goes do me a favor do it again
                                         
                                        But at the end jump up and down
                                         
                                        And then you jump up and down on the way home. You go. Why do you make me jump up and down?
                                         
                                        He wanted to see if you could follow the direction. They actually will do stuff like that. Yeah, they have to see if you're gonna be easy to work with
                                         
                                        They have dead tricks and you have to have yours
                                         
                                        It's very interesting what I learned those years it made me a fucking animal
                                         
                                        It made me an animal
                                         
                                        I've always felt that a stand-up comic can get into acting easier
                                         
    
                                        Eat look at them look at that any one look at them
                                         
                                        Rappers get in it stand-up comics get in it
                                         
                                        But I don't think actors can get into stand-up comedy is as easy. No. No, they try
                                         
                                        It's it's this is a process brother
                                         
                                        I want people at home to understand this always
                                         
                                        This is a fucking process
                                         
                                        We brought up a great point at the beginning of the podcast
                                         
                                        That you know, I've seen people headline 18 months and brag about it
                                         
    
                                        and I'm happy for them
                                         
                                        But I know that any night they're about to get fucking doomed any night and it's such a beating that you get Lee
                                         
                                        That's some of those headline. I'm a headline of beatings. I'm tough to recover from
                                         
                                        At this point as a headliner as terrible as this might sound
                                         
                                        Do you look forward to those people getting those beatings?
                                         
                                        Yes
                                         
                                        Yes, I cheer for them to get beatings because
                                         
                                        This is what's going to snap them out of it
                                         
    
                                        This is what needs to make them quit
                                         
                                        Or make you a stand-up comic. Oh my god
                                         
                                        I still remember
                                         
                                        covering for jimmy shuber and jacksonville
                                         
                                        At that hotel down there for five nights
                                         
                                        And I ate dick
                                         
                                        every fucking show as I had one
                                         
                                        I had no idea what I was doing. I still have nightmares of that audience
                                         
    
                                        Just staring at me
                                         
                                        Just waking up in the middle of the night
                                         
                                        To a bunch of fucking white people. Do you remember specific faces? Oh, yeah
                                         
                                        Oh, yeah, I still remember that night. I remember my bad bombs. They stick with you like heavily. It's psychological
                                         
                                        Like a funny painting picture in your head
                                         
                                        It was it was a wednesday thursday friday saturday friday was great because it was all you can eat seafood tonight
                                         
                                        So you do your set real quick before you started shitting blood on stage
                                         
                                        Before you had brown leakage on your pants right on stage
                                         
    
                                        They gave you those crabs from neptune, new jersey that had like barge oil on them from the fucking 60s
                                         
                                        I haven't heard of neptune neptune, new jersey
                                         
                                        The whole the fucking jack Nicholson anyway, why are you taking me on the jack Nicholson? Is it really?
                                         
                                        I think so. Who the fuck knows?
                                         
                                        I'm as high as fuck. I don't know nothing. Really? I'm saying yeah
                                         
                                        These stars these fucking things put you in limbo and then you mix them with stars and this fucking reef of this
                                         
                                        You want a cookie?
                                         
                                        Not right now
                                         
    
                                        I don't be cookies on camera. You know what I'm saying? He knows how many points those are. He's like, oh my god
                                         
                                        There's actually points put together
                                         
                                        Sorry, she cooks healthy
                                         
                                        Yeah, yeah, she'll put like
                                         
                                        Half the powder
                                         
                                        Half the sugar half the butter whatever they fucking put in those things
                                         
                                        So the first thing on your plan is you're still going to do four spots a week. Yeah, so that's 16 spots a month
                                         
                                        So that's fucking uh 10 spots is 160
                                         
    
                                        And then you got so you end the month out. You're in the year out with 192, which isn't bad
                                         
                                        And you're a writer so you'll try new shit in between. You're also going to try to book two commercials
                                         
                                        And try to get a commercial agent which is going to be a three month task
                                         
                                        Or it could be a two day task. Hmm
                                         
                                        It's up to you. You got to go down on
                                         
                                        Sam your friends and get the commercial. I know a couple agents that'll sign you and they'll get you out
                                         
                                        Hmm, they'll get you the fuck out
                                         
                                        And that's what you want. You want to go out till you get comfortable
                                         
    
                                        The more you go out the better you get just like being on stage. Yeah, it's just like being on stage
                                         
                                        And that's the back door that I took. I was still at the story like banging out with those gorillas
                                         
                                        But at the daytime I was auditioning for anything and everything
                                         
                                        Anything and everything
                                         
                                        And then, you know, I would raise the stakes from time to time
                                         
                                        And I would go all the way to the end and I get it. But hey, at least I was in the mix
                                         
                                        I was in the mix for a ton of shit
                                         
                                        Ton of shit that I could have gone home and cried and taken my ball home
                                         
    
                                        And said fuck those motherfuckers. You gotta be a Scientologist to work
                                         
                                        But I knew that the more nose I got
                                         
                                        I was getting closer
                                         
                                        I knew there was a lot of shit and after the Sopranos they were making a lot of shit
                                         
                                        And they were looking for guys like me
                                         
                                        So I knew I was gonna get through. I went out every couple days. I went out for something
                                         
                                        They were throwing shit at me all the time
                                         
                                        And there was a lot of stuff I turned down. I just wanted for the audition for practice
                                         
    
                                        I bought a book called audition
                                         
                                        I think, you know, that's the first thing I read when I moved here
                                         
                                        You buy that at Samuel French
                                         
                                        It helped me to a degree
                                         
                                        But the thing that pushed me over the top
                                         
                                        Was doing storytelling on stage
                                         
                                        From going to a desperate stand-up comedian
                                         
                                        Because you're desperate for laughs as a stand-up
                                         
    
                                        But the biggest bridge to cross
                                         
                                        Is when you tame the audience
                                         
                                        And tell a story
                                         
                                        It's a different type of patience
                                         
                                        And a lot of comics can't take it. That's a lot of silence for a punch line
                                         
                                        That's a lot of silence for a long
                                         
                                        For a payout. So a lot of people fall in the cracker
                                         
                                        They they spin right out into a joke and now they destroyed the whole thing because people smell their fear
                                         
    
                                        So it's it's that's what really taught me how to audition
                                         
                                        While I was up there telling the story
                                         
                                        I said, oh shit. Look what I'm doing
                                         
                                        I'm auditioning
                                         
                                        It's the same fucking thing. It's three minutes. When I go in those rooms. I'm doing a fucking three-minute bit
                                         
                                        for these people
                                         
                                        And I remember going in for a thousand things that were one line
                                         
                                        And I would get so pissed. Yeah, I guess Dana hold the elevator
                                         
    
                                        Excuse me. Is this Broadway that type of shit and I would leave there frustrated
                                         
                                        I went in for 20 of those motherfuckers
                                         
                                        That I would walk out and just throw the audition in the garbage as I was walking out
                                         
                                        Because I knew I was never gonna see these people is the audition like 10 seconds 10 seconds
                                         
                                        Hi, Lee. Thank you for coming down. Okay. Do you know the line? Yes, I do slave for the camera, please
                                         
                                        How tall are you? How much do you weigh?
                                         
                                        Are you a vegan?
                                         
                                        Okay. Thank you. Let's do this. Stand right there. Lee. Are you ready?
                                         
    
                                        Hi, is this the elevator? That was tremendous. Thank you for coming down
                                         
                                        You just drove an hour
                                         
                                        That's not taking two hours to drive back
                                         
                                        But those two hours is where you sit in there
                                         
                                        And learn how to put that audition together next time
                                         
                                        And so it took me like a year of those to get so fucking frustrated
                                         
                                        And one day one night I was high on coke
                                         
                                        And I went in my fold and I took out one of those one line auditions
                                         
    
                                        And I go, what can I do to this to make it?
                                         
                                        Because at this I want time
                                         
                                        My objective is time in that room
                                         
                                        When you go to those auditions and you sit outside the audition
                                         
                                        And you see people walk in and walk out and they're in there you go
                                         
                                        My objective is not to book this my objective is to sit there longer than these fools
                                         
                                        What do I have to do?
                                         
                                        To even if I make a mistake
                                         
    
                                        Going in there and I adjust to play with her head so she calls me how to direct it. I'm still longer in there than these fools
                                         
                                        So I would take a line and cut it in half and turn it into two lines
                                         
                                        And that's when I started booking
                                         
                                        Because it would make me hold me in there longer
                                         
                                        And game of numbers
                                         
                                        I would do what nobody else was doing with that line
                                         
                                        And my goal was to sit there as long as possible
                                         
                                        To hold the scene as long as possible
                                         
    
                                        So instead of you running at me going hey stop
                                         
                                        Don't shoot or whatever the fuck I'll shoot
                                         
                                        I would see you running and I go hey
                                         
                                        Come back
                                         
                                        Stop
                                         
                                        I'll shoot
                                         
                                        I would break it into four breaths
                                         
                                        Even if she didn't fucking like it. I don't give a fuck
                                         
    
                                        It kept me in there and I was different than saying that same fucking line
                                         
                                        And that's when I started booking shit
                                         
                                        Then I conquered the one line auditions. Okay, that's costar
                                         
                                        But then you had no additions that were costars that were two or three lines
                                         
                                        That was my next move to get up to that costar boom
                                         
                                        And then the next thing is guest star
                                         
                                        Then you got to get one of those you got to write it out
                                         
                                        I want to be in one guest star episode and you go in for 30 guest stars before you book one
                                         
    
                                        They're the hardest ones because they're the ones that give the movie stars
                                         
                                        But then one day bro you book a guest star and you're like oh shit
                                         
                                        Oh remember spider-man I had one line dog
                                         
                                        Right I had one line spider-man. Yeah, but I flew off the fucking floor
                                         
                                        I landed on the couch my hat flew off
                                         
                                        You know, I gave him nothing but heart in that audition. I didn't just go
                                         
                                        Don't move me. Whatever the fuck the line was. Yeah, I said something and then paused and said it again
                                         
                                        And then flew fucking backwards
                                         
    
                                        You want to get to him? You got to go through me. I think it was bad. Yeah
                                         
                                        So even for that I got that shit
                                         
                                        And then I vowed I got taxi and I got a model log and I got analyze this
                                         
                                        And I got a little model log in the beginning and then bam
                                         
                                        I got the longest shard now like I got all these movies that opened up on me with credits going through me
                                         
                                        Fuck that. I gotta get out of that thing. Did you notice that helped you and stand up at all?
                                         
                                        What's that booked more?
                                         
                                        Because you're all of a sudden you're making appearances in these movies. Well, I'll tell you what happens
                                         
    
                                        And I tell people this that's very important and a lot of comics look at me like I'm fucking crazy
                                         
                                        The most important thing is to let people know to send a message
                                         
                                        Is when they see you on tv
                                         
                                        That's the bottom line. That means dockets
                                         
                                        So that club on that didn't like you before
                                         
                                        Now doesn't want to be on the bad side of you in case you do blow up
                                         
                                        So now you will get emcee spots in there
                                         
                                        And guess what if you're nice and you do a good job and I recommend you you'll start fucking feature
                                         
    
                                        How important is it do you think to have a manager or an agent for stand-up?
                                         
                                        Okay, at my point I'm like nine years in now. Okay
                                         
                                        You have to look at what you're making
                                         
                                        And you have to be realistic with yourself
                                         
                                        What is he gonna make from my comedy salary?
                                         
                                        Okay
                                         
                                        How is he gonna make a living off me if I gave somebody 10% of my comedy salary
                                         
                                        Would I if joey d's gave me 10% of his comedy salary?
                                         
    
                                        Would I fucking would you even take the time to call me back?
                                         
                                        You make a 500 at a club maybe he gets 50 fucking dollars. What's 50 what I was gonna do for him?
                                         
                                        Then why do it?
                                         
                                        So, but isn't the idea that he's gonna get you more work?
                                         
                                        Well, if the here's the here's the thing
                                         
                                        And I just saw it happen with two two friends of mine
                                         
                                        They went with comics that had comics that were huge
                                         
                                        And you're sitting there waiting for
                                         
    
                                        Something to fall off the big tree
                                         
                                        And nothing falls off the big tree and I'll tell you why
                                         
                                        Because lee leaves my number three client. I book lee on the road for the weekends for 30 g's a weekend
                                         
                                        So digistino what you want me to do is hang up with one of these clubs
                                         
                                        And call a club that you're gonna feature at
                                         
                                        For 500 fucking dollars so you get 50 dollar commission. That's what you're telling me
                                         
                                        I just closed the deal for fucking lee
                                         
                                        For 24 grand and he gets a five grand bonus if he sells out
                                         
    
                                        And you want me to call fucking
                                         
                                        Cottondale comedy club and fucking
                                         
                                        Cottondale, New Jersey and book you for a feature act for louis the wild frog
                                         
                                        It's a tough mentality
                                         
                                        For a comic to even think yeah, he's gonna help me
                                         
                                        They don't make a few calls for you and then call you one day and go bro. I'm too busy with lee
                                         
                                        So you have to see where you're at
                                         
                                        Because at the end of the day is
                                         
    
                                        Again the envelope. Yep. How much are you gonna bring to the fucking table?
                                         
                                        So for stand-up, he's as soon as not really a point to have manager and agent and tell you you're someone to sell
                                         
                                        Absolutely and get work on your own. So you always know how to get work on your own
                                         
                                        That's the most important thing that if the a lot I see a ton of people
                                         
                                        That'll go bro. How come you go out so much? I got an agent. I don't go out. I got an agent to manage it
                                         
                                        Well, this is the problem that you sit at home and wait for the phone to ring
                                         
                                        Even though you have a manager and agent
                                         
                                        You still have to create your own shit
                                         
    
                                        So they can make the call for you
                                         
                                        You have to give them a reason you have to create a hailstorm
                                         
                                        So you got to be doing something at all times a short film
                                         
                                        Even if it's for free. Mm-hmm. You're always doing something a podcast
                                         
                                        A short film you're fucking helping your friends write a fucking one-man show
                                         
                                        And you're gonna co-direct it you look at me like Joey. What the fuck does that do and don't do dick, but
                                         
                                        It lets people know that you're working
                                         
                                        It might take it might somebody who doesn't give you work today
                                         
    
                                        Doesn't mean dick that person's gonna give you work in five years
                                         
                                        Even though now you've called them ten times and he won't return your calls
                                         
                                        It's fucking crazy, but at the end of the week, it's about money. That's the bottom line
                                         
                                        Everybody wants to say they have managers and agents. Yeah, you have some agents that put you on this and put you on that
                                         
                                        But it all depends on your heat. I've seen a lot of comics in this town
                                         
                                        That have signed with managers that are too big for them
                                         
                                        They get frustrated the guy hasn't called me back. Sure. He's fucking
                                         
                                        Andrew dice clays managing his manager. He's gonna call you back to get you a weekend of the boys. Yeah, I know funny about
                                         
    
                                        I'm happy that you're still doing it. I'm happy that you still part of the little writing team
                                         
                                        And uh, if I have dates this year that I could take you on I always take you on you're a
                                         
                                        A real up and coming like I said me and my little younger agent was speaking about you
                                         
                                        And I've always respected your writing
                                         
                                        So let me know what you want this year
                                         
                                        You want to book a commercial
                                         
                                        Yeah, I want to start breaking into the acting a little bit. You want to write material want to write material
                                         
                                        I want to keep my at least four spots a week. Um
                                         
    
                                        I want my podcast to be doing a lot better
                                         
                                        Where do you go on tuesday nights?
                                         
                                        um
                                         
                                        tuesday
                                         
                                        Not really anywhere to go on tuesday
                                         
                                        I mean, I'll usually go to like to the main clubs and just have to show my face in there
                                         
                                        Maybe tomorrow night. We'll go to the fourth wall. It should be open by the moment. I'm down for that. It's open. It's open
                                         
                                        They started up again on the 29th. Did they? Okay. Maybe we'll go over there tonight
                                         
    
                                        And tell them who you running with lisa. Yeah
                                         
                                        You still go there. Lee. I haven't they've been clothes. They were clothes for for the holiday. Yeah
                                         
                                        One of them when I was here. Yeah, you go up when you go there. Yeah. Yeah, you like it
                                         
                                        Yeah, I mean, I'm only gonna think I've gone out there like
                                         
                                        Four three or four times maybe five times. I've been up there before
                                         
                                        I'm gonna go on there tomorrow night, baby. Yeah, let's go. She was crack. I like him
                                         
                                        But no, I'm happy you had time to come on the show. Thank you for having me goals are important in common
                                         
                                        And and a lot of people don't realize you have to know what you're going for
                                         
    
                                        If not, you're spinning your fucking wheels every year and you're in the same place you were a year ago
                                         
                                        You have to look at the year later and go, okay
                                         
                                        Well, my goals this year and look at them and go look at this. I went for three fucking
                                         
                                        guest stars, but I got two of them
                                         
                                        I went for three commercials, but I got two of them. Why did I do it? I went to acting class one night a week and like I said
                                         
                                        Listen, bro, everybody wants to go listen. Well, this guy was buffy the vampire slays
                                         
                                        acting coach
                                         
                                        Who gives a fuck?
                                         
    
                                        Give me a guy that knows how to break down acting scene for 90 dollars a month
                                         
                                        Tuesday nights from seven to ten
                                         
                                        I could care less all you're looking for
                                         
                                        It's two or three months acting class. Just to realize what these guys aren't doing
                                         
                                        So now you do that. So now you're always busy as a comic
                                         
                                        You're working that night. You're dropping off envelopes in the daytime
                                         
                                        And what you're doing is it's like a positive energy fucking magnet
                                         
                                        You're creating your own thing because you're you're going to places and dropping off these envelopes. Something has to happen
                                         
    
                                        Something has to happen
                                         
                                        And you'll go drop an envelope off hoping for this role in this call
                                         
                                        But you dropped an envelope off two weeks ago that now they're casting that you forgot about and now they call you
                                         
                                        You go Jesus Christ
                                         
                                        If I would have sat at home. I would have never got the condition
                                         
                                        It's uh, it's a hustle and now you're covering two bases
                                         
                                        You're covering the back door and you're still working on the front door
                                         
                                        Thank you for coming on tonight. Thank you for having me. How you doing there?
                                         
    
                                        Morta morta
                                         
                                        I'm mourning it up. I'm doing good, buddy. Look at the shape of your eyeballs or as red as your shirt
                                         
                                        Oh, yeah, I love it a fucking coke shirt ready to shit these empty. No, no, that's still good
                                         
                                        Leave those dad. I don't even touch them
                                         
                                        Don't even touch them. They'll fuck your fingernails up
                                         
                                        Speaking of fingernails
                                         
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                                        Listen don't embarrass me
                                         
                                        But don't make me not say it
                                         
                                        It's a new year you want to you want to date you want to go on match.com and christian mingle
                                         
                                        That's all nice. You got a nice car
                                         
                                        But you know what when you take your pants off or them to suck your dick
                                         
    
                                        They could smell their asshole by the time you by the time you buckle your pants
                                         
                                        They could smell that rot developing in your asshole
                                         
                                        Because you didn't stop home and take a shower and wash that muffler. You think it's cute to fucking leave the house at seven
                                         
                                        Taking two shits at work
                                         
                                        And then walk around with that death
                                         
                                        debt
                                         
                                        All day why why do you do this to yourself? Uncle joey's here to help you out? You know why i'm bringing you a portable bidet
                                         
                                        You're like uncle joey. What's that a bidet?
                                         
    
                                        It's portable your statue you're attaching right to your toilet
                                         
                                        And every time you take a fucking shit you press a button hot water hits your ass
                                         
                                        And you don't have to touch you don't have to waste toilet paper
                                         
                                        Fucking disgusting. They kill 20 trees for you to wipe one fucking time. Those days are done. We're back, baby
                                         
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                                        Speaking about decor you have decor and you'll be walking around with a clean fucking asshole
                                         
    
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                                        I
                                         
                                        See your motherfuckers Wednesday night tip top magoo ready a rock and roll
                                         
    
                                        I want to wish a lot of luck to the agustina. I hump them any way I can thank you and my main man the fucking
                                         
                                        Christ killer for getting the night off correctly
                                         
                                        We ate some fucking tremendous edibles and went deep for your people tonight on a full moon here in california
                                         
                                        Yeah, stay black. We'll see you month wednesday. I love you motherfuckers. Don't forget
                                         
                                        Sorry about the ice houses sold out saturday night, but we'll see you january 18th austin texas bitches. What?
                                         
                                        Cap city comedy club get your tickets now
                                         
                                        Before they fucking go quick as I don't you know, i'm not going out that much this year
                                         
                                        So I don't think that I love I love fucking austin. You know me. I make my fucking bi-yearly
                                         
    
                                        Appearance, what the fuck is every other year and i'm coming down heavy. That's all you need to know
                                         
                                        January 18 ready a fucking rock and eat gumbo with fucking
                                         
                                        Katrina fingernails in and I'll see you motherfuckers then
                                         
                                        I have a great fucking two days
                                         
                                        And we'll talk to you thursday morning. Stay black
                                         
                                        Kick that fucking mule
                                         
                                        Oh
                                         
                                        Now it's too late for me
                                         
    
                                        Yeah
                                         
                                        Back to the heart
                                         
                                        Oh
                                         
                                        Yeah
                                         
