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
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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
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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
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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