Uncle Joey's Joint with Joey Diaz - #584 - Joey's Wife: Terrie Diaz - A Mother's Day Special
Episode Date: May 14, 2018Terrie Diaz, Joey's wife and the mother of his 5 year old daughter, joins Joey Diaz and Lee Syatt live in studio for a special Mother's Day episode. This podcast is brought to you by:  Fu...jiSports.com - Use promo code CHURCH for a 10% discount on all the best jiu jitsu and martial arts gear.   Onnit.com. Use Promo code CHURCH for a 10% discount at checkout.  Recorded on 05/13/2018.
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It's like watching the outlaw Josie will listen to this out of respect for Mother's Day
I got my wife on who's I don't have a mother my mother punched the ticket 30 90 years ago
Motherless, so I brought the best mother. I know that I could bring on the podcast, which is my wife
Terry Clark and the Christ killer himself
the original
You haven't heard that nickname yet
Christ kill enterprises LLC, that's his company. Yeah, tell me start it right
Oh
After Mother's Day to you Terry
The other night I went out Friday night, and I took the baby out to shop, you know
We went to dinner at her favorite Boston market wide go there. I don't know the chicken's fucking brown
Yeah, it's a favorite mac and cheese restaurant. I took her on a date went there. We went to CVS
And we went to Marshall's which was a fucking mistake because
There's just too much. There's too many things that you know, daddy have to stop by the toys
You got to stop by the vases. There's they were looking for earrings
There was no fucking earrings till we got to check out line
Then with the ugliest fucking earrings in the world, which I have on you did you did put them on
You can't see talking to the mic, please you're killing me. I'm gonna beat you in the head with this mic
So what happened was?
We were talking tonight. Oh, we're talking about moms and this and whatever and
She was just saying how much she loved you and stuff and
And I explained how that you she didn't understand how much she meant to us, you know, like
How it changed your life and your mommy and how did it change your life?
Good grief it you went from an office
Check fucking dedicated not even we weren't even thinking of a child. Well, you know
You don't think that I mean you you know that your life's gonna change, but you don't know
That your life's gonna end as you know it
I'm like you always think that oh well once she gets a certain age
You'll pick back up and I'll be me again that certain age is like 18 or
after because yeah, I
Was ill prepared for
To the extent that my life was gonna be different
We did not have any idea of a child coming like we didn't even talk. Oh, no
I was actually telling somebody at the park today because he was like, oh, yeah
I'm 60 something and my wife was 40 something and we did all the
In vitro and I was like, yeah, well we didn't
She just showed up out of nowhere 12 years into our relationship, you know
So we were
Not looking for it and not ready for it in any way. I don't think
Not that I think that you could be ready for it, but I would just
It threw me for such
emotional loop
That I actually felt like a bad mom for
Most of her life. I think I've I've felt inadequate I have and not
From talking to several other mothers. I think that's just
How you feel as a mom you just feel inadequate
What the fuck you think I feel like I went to prison and I'm walking around hand-in-hand with this beautiful little girl
But I'm thinking people look at me like I stole her from somebody
But everyone's looking at you like you're supposed to know what you're doing and
You've got to put on this like I know what I'm doing and I don't know what I'm doing
You knew what you were doing. I'm glad you thought that stuff started with the cats in the backyard
I
Seen the suffering that you went through with those cats. Those are cats. This is a kid
but you could see
The nurturing you could see how they took to you how you would feed them and
You know, we we saved. I don't know how many fucking cats back there. Well, no, we I don't even know what I'm saying
We and you got a couple people who adopt the cats and I was watching you one day
And again when I married you in 2009 I didn't
Even have an inclination of children like that wasn't even like a fucking thought. Oh, I'd give it up
No, it wasn't even that I'd give it up
I just did not think that it was possible that I didn't think it was impossible
I wasn't even going to ask why or the house or I thought maybe I was sick
Maybe the marijuana, maybe the drugs, maybe something that killed the cell reproduction, whatever
So you came in you told me, you know, it took me a couple weeks to have my nervous breakdown
I don't I don't I don't ever want to go through pregnancy again
Well, now we get it
Now I get it now, you know, remember I was coming with that I was coming with that confusion from the pain from jackie
So you also have to have to remember what my head was at
Oh, god, I realized years later where that confusion came from
Because of me having a child and losing my bond with her
So for that reason, I didn't think I was prepared
For mercy. So I was walking around for nine months thinking
You're you're much calmer
now
Then you had been this is the most calm you've been since you found out
Definitely, I think now you well, I've grown into it. You grow into the position. Well, and I think she's she's uh
At an age where you feel confident enough that she can kind of fend for her
Self a little bit not like yes, she's gonna go out and get a job, but it's
Don't ask me but she's
you know capable of
uh speaking up if she doesn't feel good or you know
Before I think you just felt helpless
And you have to realize that
You're not alone feeling helpless
I felt as helpless as you
It's always been a matter of insecurity with me whether it's been stand-up
fatherhood
basketball
I'll look at this bracket
Okay, leo say to me, you know what I think we should get two milk crates and put them on the wall
And I'll look at Lee for about a week. I just look at me. I'll look at the fucking wall
I'll look at Lee. I'll look at the wall and I'll ask around
I'll ask carpenters like how much did you charge to put two things up
And then I'll start getting quotes and then one day I just get pissed
I'll smoke a joint. I'll come in here and I'll fucking do it myself and I'll do a way better job
Why because for three or four weeks or a month or six months
I'm always insecure that I can't do the task in front of me
I get that think about that having that on a nightly basis when you're going to do stand up
I think I think everybody goes through that. I don't think you're alone in that
I think that you thinking you're alone in that
Is the only thing that's I think no
Not that I'm alone in that feeling it magnifies in me. I we were talking about leave before we felt
Uh through his psychology that he was depressed before before me and him with before you got through your what we were doing a bong hit and
Lee was laughing his ass off. We were fucking like and I stopped and I go
Tommy that you're depressed, you know, and I go Lee you're not depressed
You just go into the department and you get let your thoughts get in the way
When you smoke some pot and you block those thoughts and you disappear for three hours
You're fine. You're giggling. You're the man from outer space
You're over there making juice noises and fucking nodding and whatever
You know, we all have a strong sense. That's my strong sense fucking fatherhood. I failed
Why would I try to be a father again if I failed the first time?
So that's why I couldn't adjust. Well, it was I think that with me and motherhood
It was this is something I've always wanted to do
So I should be really good at it because I've always wanted this. This is what I
You know women are built for mothers and I should be a great mom
You know because I did with this the cats and yeah
I've never felt so inadequate in my whole life
It was like all eyes on me and I am dropping the ball
Now when you look at her now and she's talking and she's reading the fucking alphabet and she's counting her fingers
And you know those moments and you don't have to tell her twice to do something
Because I see the work you put in those moments. I feel us like a success. Yeah
But when we're at the ymca and we're supposed to be going into swim class and her bathing suit is twisted
And she doesn't want me to help her with her bathing suit
And I try to help her anyway because we're late for class and then she starts screaming and she goes
It's twisted mommy and I cannot twist it and I'm like, I'll help you. I don't want any help
It's twisted like a wool. It's untwisted. No, I want it twisted and I'm like, oh my god
She's a demon. What is wrong with her? And I'm just like mercy with class
And she loses her mind in the middle of the dressing room at the ymca and you can't calm her down and you're like, all right
Well, the wools just go home. If you don't want to go to class. We'll go home. No, I don't want to go home
Well, then let's go to class. I don't want to go to class. I don't know what the right answer is
And you're losing that's when you feel like
I have to be an utter failure because everyone's turned around looking at me
And I can't calm this kid down my god
I can't calm this kid down and I don't know what to say and every time you say something it makes it worse and you're like, I'm a
I
I'm either too emotional to get this done correctly
or uh
That's not how I see it because
Let me tell you something. I was a burglar guys before I became a comic. I was a burglar
Sit for five minutes and think about opening somebody's window
And jumping through the fucking window and looking through this shit and think about imagine what your heart feels like imagine
What your heart feels like
Putting a gun to somebody and telling them to lay the fuck down and to be an animal and all that behavior
All those feelings and emotions
Do not compare
To the one mistake one day I made but then she was about six months old
Maybe eight months old
And I decided to beat johnny on the spot. I took her to the park
And on the way back she threw a fit into the fire department
She fucking had a nervous breakdown in front of the fire department that the guys came out and was staring at me
I thought they were gonna take the kid from me. You know what I'm saying? I'm looking thinking like right now
These people thinking this is not my kid
They're thinking number one. This guy is straight up out of the fucking sopranos. He's selling this fucking kid
Like my heart fucking sunk and mercy would not stop crying
And I didn't know what the fuck to do when she was in the stroller and it was just
And so of course his first instinct is to call me and scream at me as if it's my fault. She's screaming on the side of the street because I can't
Trust me. I didn't fucking pick up a phone and called nobody
I kept walking when that light turned red. I tried to do everything I can to just run across the street before they asked me for paperwork
I mean, I was just petrified when he got when you got home. You were so
You seemed angry, but I I'm sure it wasn't anger, but it seemed angry because you felt
Fucking out of place confused scared impotent
No, I wasn't impotent. That was fucking that's not what it means
Uh, it uh helpless helpless
Helpless I felt completely fucking no, no, no, no, but helpless
And that I had no fucking idea stupid you feel helpless and stupid it's doing what I was doing
Oh my god
Well for like I'm I'm 29 so for me
It seems so
Like almost like another world where I would have a kid and I see people my age having kids
I see other people like you guys I was I remember when joey told me that you were having mercy, but it's
It's kind of scary, but it's also kind like proves what life actually is like I figured when I'm 40 in my 40s
Like I'll be like, okay, but then I'd know what to do with a kid
But like until you have a kid you just don't know
Oh, you don't know what you don't know any news for you
When you have the kid you still don't know you still don't know and the best is they just leave you in the room with the kid
That was joey went home
The girls who helped me in the delivery room went home
But then all the medical staff left and I'm just there
In a room with a newborn. I don't know what the fuck I'm doing
And then Duncan comes in with a camera. I'm like, oh my god
and
God what it's going on. It's some surreal
strange planet I'm on
And then nobody shows back up by the way
I'm in there overnight with a newborn in my room and I don't know what I'm doing
and no one's like
Coaching me through or you know, it's
you
You know, it's great. It's like please this cannot be the rest of my life
This cannot be the rest of my life because I don't know what I'm doing
It's like those moments in that whole top of that hospital room
And that shitty bed was where it all began where the bond began
Like it was two people not knowing what the fuck to do
I heard somebody the other day. Why don't you sit? Why aren't we sitting with a parent?
Who said that their child remembers coming out of the canal?
Remember the day and let me tell you something up to the age of six
I remember coming out of my mom's little fucking pussy. I don't like I thought I did I fucking really thought I did
You think all this shit when you're a kid. I I still remember being in there like sweating. I don't fucking know. I don't know
But when she said that I thought about it days later. I'm like, wait a second
That's not too crazy because I thought the same thing to a certain age and I stopped telling people that
But I remember coming out of the fucking placebo whatever the fucking is. So are you talking about?
I don't know what I'm talking about. I mean, even just to go a little bit back
Like I remember because I don't know. I don't know exactly how long you were pregnant
But it was going on longer than you're supposed to be
Yes, I was I was uh
Like that must be scary too just being pregnant for the first time
You're like, is she ever gonna come at 44 43? I was 43. I went online one night high
And I just wanted to learn what my wife was going through
And that was possibly the worst mistake. Oh god. I ever made in my life
That set my anxiety my blood pressure up what they were like every pregnancy is gonna fail or yeah
It was just one article to the other to another science doctor to another science doctor
That the chances of mixed ethnic ethnicities. I mean, it was just they took me into this fucking
That's why I don't read about that much
Off shit on the internet. I just don't
Because it took me down a foxhole that it took me two years to get over. No, he was there
And they took me two years to get over and they keep doing that to you. You know, my mother died guys
You're coming into this with baggage
You come you already lost the kid
And your mother died and it's telling you the internet's telling you
That a wife of 44 has a certain percentage of not fucking making it
So what do you think i'm doing? I'm surprised I didn't do fucking coke. I'm proud that didn't snap
And do coke and fucking go crazy on alcohol. I'm really happy
Because the old me would have snapped like a fucking twig
That's really funny. Terry's like he was terribly like I think I did a pretty good job
I think I did because I was a fucking wreck
I was a wreck inside a wreck a wreck it really killed us thinking that something bad was gonna happen on the operation table
You know, just things went I read stuff on that internet that were fucking
Just sold
Vivid yeah, vivid like the words were so graphic
That I said I left it alone and then it ate at me
Like a weed and every time I looked at you I was I felt guilty for getting you pregnant
So that was another fucking fox all that got into so I had all these emotions going on as a man that
Fuck
I'm surprised. I didn't go to a fucking bar and start doubling
Southern conference and armies juice. That's what I would usually start with. I would have preferred that. Yeah
Uh, as opposed to picking a fight in the middle of portos at the line. Can you and you know portos line? It's like
50 deep and he's like picking a fight. I'm like, oh my god. I'm a seven month old
Seven month pregnant woman. You're fighting with me and I'm in tears. I'm in tears in the line at portos
I'm like, oh my god. This is awful. He says I should just leave
I should just leave until the pregnancy is over with and I'm like, that's all I want. Yes, you should you should
That's what I wanted. It was terrible. I couldn't fucking stand it
I'm surprised. I didn't go down when the baby was born. I really am. I'm telling you guys
I hid behind the curtain. He was at the door and I watched thumbs up
I watched from a distance
Because I'm the I get overwhelmed
It was overwhelming anyway because the stuff that they do to you while you're in the hospital
He was like, what are they doing to her? Like the q-tip
There's a q-tip. It's this long. I don't I don't need to know where that. Oh, yeah
And it just goes all the way and he was like, oh my god. Where is that q-tip going? Oh my god
Oh, and it just disappeared
I'm not good with that stuff
It was and
You're up by the way, you're like four feet up in the air when it's happening and he's like, oh my god
Oh my god, no and the the way my water broke which was fantastic the
The hospital bed that they have you on the delivery room thing
There's a cushion on the top end and a cushion on the bottom end and they're supposed to connect
And stay together. Okay, mine would not stay together
So the bottom kept flying forward
so
I had been in there for like 24 hours already induced because I was already over a week late
She wasn't coming. I'd carpal tunnel so bad. I couldn't hardly grip anything
But my cushions flew out from underneath me. So they were trying to get it back underneath me. So I had the bar
Behind my head
They couldn't get it up. So I said whatever and I just grabbed the bar and pulled myself up like this
And as I did my waters broke
And I was like, uh
My water just broke. They're like, are you sure you didn't just pee? Yeah, I'm sure
I'm absolutely sure no one has ever peed that much in their entire life. Are you comfortable now from what I see?
You've grown into your role like just tremendously like
I'm more comfortable now, but I'm more comfortable with
Just uh
My whole life in general right now not just the motherhood because again
at the time I had had a vision of myself
In my head of how I saw myself and what kind of person I was and
I I worked at the fill the LA Philharmonic in their finance department and that's who I
That was a big part of who I was. It was it was a huge part of who I was and
I was very proud of that
And it was I was really reluctant to let that go
Because it was such a big
Part of me. I remember how hard you worked for that job and when you got it how quick you moved up
And it was very it was pretty amazing to watch and I was getting better
You know, I was just growing in the position and and uh, so I was thrown for a loop professionally
when I got pregnant
And I wanted so very badly to continue to have it
And
I was
pissed
When I came to the realization that I was going to have to let go
And hurt that I was going to have to let it go
And it took a long time to come to terms with that
I've come to terms with that over the last year and a half
So it's been easier
To deal with being uh, someone who stays at home
Because one I have
What I do for you
In our business
So it's been more fulfilling over the last couple of years. So that's helped
but um
I'm I'm really lucky that I
At the time you don't see that you're lucky you feel like you're
Losing and I was you're losing a lot of yourself
Uh
And people go, oh, you're so lucky. Oh, you're so lucky. Oh, you're so lucky and you're like, fuck you
I am lucky. I I've
I saw myself as this and I liked it
And that got taken away from me and you feel like a bad person for feeling that way
You feel like a bad mom
And it's like I like I don't have the right
to feel
Upset that I had to give up part of myself
And people just keep looking at you like, oh
You don't know how lucky you are. Oh, you should be so happy. Oh, you should mind your business
That's why
The house is happy
You know, I didn't grow up in a no fucking Brady bunch, which is what I always wanted
And uh, the house is happy
The house is clean
The child is healthy the husband's happy
You fulfilled
You know
I mean, we work great together as a team
And she's just a beautiful little girl. She's just a mirror of you
That I look at and I go, holy shit. Like it's
Like I freak out every day. You guys think I'm comfortable in my skin
I'm not comfortable at all, but I've learned how to adjust now. I'm her father. She's my daughter
It is what it is. That's it. Do you ever
Do you remember I'm sure everybody has those memories of their
childhood
Where you had a really bad moment with your parents
You know, right? Yeah, like like, oh god, they're the worst parents in the world. They did this
Every
Time like you're in the middle of a parenting decision. You're not a hundred percent certain of
You have that fear that this is one of those times that she's going to remember when she's 26
That's going to say remember when you were a bad parent
You're like the whole time you're going. Oh god, is this one of those moments? Is this one of those bad times? Am I doing it right now?
Well, how crazy is it just like it it blew my mind at her last birthday party?
Just hearing them her land them her call you mom and dad. I'm like, wait
Like when I think of mom and dad, I think of my mom and dad
And I'm like, wait, they're I've known them for years, but they're to her their mom and dad
It must just be weird like having that title
Uh, it is weird sometimes to look at her
You take so much for granted and then you'll catch yourself like
How small her arms are and you look at her and you're like she's such a big kid, but not really
I guess in a group of kids she's like a larger kid, but
Her little arms are so tiny and her hands are still so tiny
Even though I look at her and she's like that's my that's mama's big girl. Yeah, she's not really
No, she's still she's still her feet on the other hand are enormous. She's still have a baby inside. She's not
She's a sweetheart of a child. She sees the world
in a beautiful fucking way and
I know I didn't see the fucking world at that age. I told her yesterday. I'm a walk
I go you way ahead of me when I was five and she goes, I know
You know, she's way ahead of where I was psychologically
You know, I had a loss at that age already. I was waiting for the door to open and my father come home
So she's fucking way
ahead of me, you know
It just reflects
It reflects on the work that we put, you know, like I tell you guys I
I
Could go on the road. I could do a thousand things
But I'd much rather be
a husband and a father
Two weeks of the month. I'd rather be on the road six days
And be home 25 like right now
I do tv from time to time
I don't like it when I do it on the days when I'm missing swimming or something. I don't like it
You know this week I'm going to Providence. I'll be swimming on Thursday. You know
I think it's beginning to affect her more
Now that she's older and uh, she's kind of
Being uh, more aware of the his absences when he is absent and she's taking it more personally
Then she used to take it and that's
Uh
Troubling like I said a little bit sacrifice six days. She understands six days
In comparison to
Five days on a fucking set 12 hours a day me coming at nine o'clock and not having the energy
Yeah to play with her. I'm telling you what the breakdown is. This is the best breakdown
Yeah, I love to sell a tv show and be on the tv show at this part of my life, but
At the same time, I don't want to be an absentee parent over
You really have to pick your battle. You have to pick your battles and for me. I was raised without a father
And now today
Because of the drugs and the prison and all the shit I did. I realized how important that gap was
And I see it when I'm with her and she holds my hand
When I sit down watch tv with her. It's not that I have to take her to disneyland
She's never even been in the fucking disneyland and she's five years old. I'm ashamed of myself
But she gets crossing you have to bite that bullet. We'll bite the bullet for what we'll bite the bullet for graduation, but
Uh, it's the little things. It's the watching tv. It's the
Coloring with her at night one hour. I've become a great fucking color
He's actually really talented with the crayons. I was I love it. I fucking love it. I fucking love it
It's a therapy for me. Does he make you put it up on the refrigerator refrigerator too with her
When we do our colors
Coloring with her the ones we do she keeps that those are for her and the ones that she colors we keep so
Oh, okay. Yeah, no, we're not between. We're not in our coloring like that between seven and eight at night
I'm usually coloring and I get on the floor. She goes and gets my glasses
He was really good. He did some shading
I shade it in with his it wasn't like then I sign up la coco to piss her off. She fucking fumes
What does she want you to say dad? No daddy then she wrote her fucking name. Yes, there's something
Oh, yeah, she's got a new way of writing her name. Yeah, something crazy
So like some
Tag looking thing. I'm like, what is this? Yeah, it's crazy. So she gets pissed off when I sign at the artist's name la coco
She's like doing some sort of graffiti style name signing now
You know, I thought for years I spoke to somebody years ago when I lived I think in boulder
uh, the chef's wife
Came to me when they were just in conversation. This is when I first discovered gentiles like
these crazy fucking people
The boulder was the home. That's the first place. I ever saw that brand the person and this girl
did coloring therapy
Like I was like, what are you talking about? And she goes like going on
people
from war incidents and shit because they had a big
bar
Vietnam community in boulder and she goes we color and it calms them down
And I thought this lady had been drinking too much tea
Fucking mind. No, it moves your brain from thinking from one side of your head to the other side
I've fucking been doing it now and I do it for that one 45 minute stretch
And I think of material we really don't talk much except for every like two minutes. She goes
Look dad. What do you think show me yours dad? I like your shelf dad
I like that color dad, you know should just say something but pretty much I watch her focus
And I go into a zone and I think of material I think of my day
They say such thing as coloring therapy. I'm telling you, you know why because I see it now
I love it
I go back there and I sit for an hour
I lay on the floor with pillows. I plug my phone in. I don't even give a fuck
It's kind of giving you permission to do nothing for a little bit a little bit
And she's looking colors and shit, and I can't see the colors without my glasses
There's 96 fucking colors in there
You see her running through the house going into his office and I go daddy knew his glasses
Yeah, you know why mommy I go because he can't see without him. That's right mommy. Good job
Yeah, I can't I can't they're all fucking purple to me. I don't know what the fuck's going on
So I don't give a fuck. Where's tony benetly
tony benet
Oh tony benet it's mother's day
I want to be around
Monday babies to pick up the pieces. It's the 14th. I think right when somebody breaks
Yes, the 14th already and you're sitting there on your ass thinking about your future
Some somebody twice as smart
As I
You're a good nipkin up somebody
Will swear to be true
As you used to do
Let me get my glasses here. How to get new fucking glasses the end of the cb. I had to go to cbs all week
I got on the plane. I got to put my glasses on they're fucking broken. My heart was on a fucking plane
I got to sit there for five hours with no glasses. Thank god. I got 19 pairs
Spread out again around my luggage. I got one in the one compartment one on the top
One I had a backup. I always have a backup for the backup plus. I got the prescription. Where'd you got me?
From the fill when you had insurance over there
Those are the worst fucking glasses ever like the hinges are fucking loose. So how can we only have one in the carry on?
Huh, I have two of the carry. Okay. Thank god. I always got a little pair of old man glasses
Just in case I don't get fucking stuck on the plane
You gotta you gotta take a head. You know, I know I know these things fucking break and then you doomed
So I got glasses just to hold me over
So when we went out on a date there and I included cbs because a we had to get a card and b I had to get new fucking glasses
I'm always one step ahead of the game
Anyway, I'm about to shout out for Tammy Hernandez
my man leon bob lalingus
dominic warren
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1971
alans 313
mike zewicki
I don't know what the fuck this is scoundrel the scrub and ian williams
He's so goofy
That's what we're supposed to be goofy. This is uh, this is uh
An out of our wild imagination people put you on just to go away for a little fucking while you know what I'm saying
It's not supposed to be a heavy hearted
I know I know we're a little bit of ways from father's day
But you said he's change how has joey changed to you like how does mercy see joey do you think?
Oh, no, yeah
She wants nothing to do with me when it uh when her dad's around she's daddy's girl she uh
Especially if he just comes in off the road
it's like
She will come up after swim class or something. She's like mommy me. Uh, we're gonna go get pizza
Just me and daddy not you
Oh, no, I'm like, oh, okay
And that started maybe what six months ago. Yeah
Just me and daddy not you. Okay
That doesn't make you feel bad at all
It makes me feel bad
She says it I always try you try really hard not to get your feelings
Because it is a five-year-old and she's not trying to actually hurt your feelings, but it is a little hurtful
I'm not gonna lie to you
But is she
There's no one like your dad. I'm a daddy's girl
And it's not that I don't love my mom
I have the best mom
it's that
I don't know you just girls
I mean, I would say my sister's much closer to my mom and I'm much closer to my dad
So I get it. I get how she feels towards him
I was thinking the other day that we need to have another one
So I could have a kid of you know, someone who loves me
See we little giggling, but that's incorrect. Let me tell you something
Like I wish someone loved me the most when
It's like when I used to go to Nashville or West Virginia in 2000 98 and 97
I wasn't a good enough comic
What is the point I'm trying to make I wasn't good enough comic
The the southern belt
would
I'd go up on stage and they'd laugh for about 12 minutes
And then they'd realize wait a second
for christians
And then the bomb and I saw that when Doug Stanhope did Nashville like 98
He was killing them for 12 minutes and they realized they were christian
Nashville was not cool in 98
Neither was Atlanta
Forget about West Virginia. They would find your $50 if you said fuck
I don't know an open not an open miker that they had
My point is
He has no idea no idea
She is cool until she remembers mommy
Do you follow me like the other night if I would have said to her
Let's go to Toys R Us after Marshalls
She would have said no
She was all ready for you at Marshalls
And Marshalls when she bought the earrings and the thing
She was done
I couldn't talk her to take a plane
I couldn't talk her into going stop and fucking nowhere
She wanted nothing and that's what happened when she's at the frozen yoga place with me or at a park
It's real easy. She'll come up to me and go. Let's go home and see mommy
There you go. There you go. Just a little something a little rabbi out of fart. You know what I'm saying?
It's mother's day
It's like you already have the second kid
Who likes you a lot
No, you would think I was more prepared for children
After being with him for so long. I think I'd be good for like the teenage years like 13. I feel like
Think about it. I'm gonna be
63 when she's 13. I'll be farting up a storm when her friends are over and shit. Oh
That's gonna be his when you embarrass her. She'll be fucking dying
She'll be dying dog. I'm exasperated right now. Yeah. Yeah
She'll love you when when she's like 13 15. Why does she oh no, she's all she's already mortified with
This she doesn't want us to dance or to sing
I can't even when he's going out somewhere and his pants are falling down. I can't even she he had no shirt on this
Afternoon when we came home from the zoo. We got out on the front porch his hair was all jacked up
He had no shirt on he's scratching his ballsack on the front porch and she's like, look daddy's got no shirt on
He's naked
I was like, oh my god
Yeah, fantastic
This is gonna be a great great great time
Well, I I've just uh
You know, I remember a waitress in the store
That gave me cigarettes and 36 dollars to go to New York one morning. I don't think I gave you anything
I think someone stole my cigarettes and it's funny how
It wasn't two years later. I was like she would be a good mom when I saw how
You reacted to the cats and whatnot
And I gotta tell you after the first five years you got an a-plus in my book
because that little girl was uh
She's turned out to be quite a little young lady. You've done a great job. She's
She does things that uh
Just surprised you and
And and in times you're like, oh, I'm doing such a good job. I'm doing a good job
I'm doing such a good job and then you know, she'll have a fit but
it uh
It is very rewarding
and frightening
and uh
Uh
I'm absolutely terrified of the next 13 years of my life
I don't think I I
I I'm so ill prepared for what's coming up and I'm tired and I'm tired
I think that's the worst part is that I'm 40 some I'm right now. I'm 48 years old and I'm so tired
I cannot even imagine how tired I'm going to be in 10 years when she's 13 and I need to be like all
points, you know all hands on deck
you know
Well, she's 13. I'll be fucking 63. What do you think I'll be fucking?
I'm hoping to be like nick the owner from fucking uh
The the club and cleveland hilarities like nick is 77 or something like that
And he still works every night. He still wrestles with young kids because he goes to the gym
He eats right, you know, it's just it's just an age thing
Why do you think I do the things I do? I think go to weight watches
Because I really want to put focus into this and this is I have to I have to to
Maintain my weight and do yoga and otherwise I'd be a disaster right now
You know, she's given us a lot of reasons. I mean
Every time I look at a you know, I live in anxiety
Sometimes when I just look at her
For a couple minutes. I can't even believe she's my child. I think it's like a fucking dream
So I just wanted to put you on the podcast and thank you personally
Thank you because I love you and stuff like that. You're a knucklehead
And uh, that's it. I got no dates. Uh, whatever fucking provenance is sold out. Your motherfuckers get ready for uncle joey
And uh, the stress factory sold out the only other date I got is may 26 at the ice house
It's gonna be a 35 minute set. We're gonna have a couple fucking stranglers up with me
That night. I'll give you a lineup to be determined, but you're not gonna be fucking disappointed
I'm going over a 35 minute set if you know what I'm saying. So get prepared details
Coming soon
What's up flying jew everything all right? You got the sick of more tavern on tuesday night
Yes, sir, like a bad motherfucking eight o'clock. I'm depending on what time swim class and what we do
I may show up. I may not
Don't start till 8 30. So you'd be good got the ovan christina p
Whitney coming so far. Steve Simone. You got a great fucking lineup down there at the old acapulco
That used to be the old really that was it. That was it. That was all you could eat how many times you're going there for
All into the old days. That was a spot and shit
I didn't know I didn't know that was the place. It's funny. That was the old acapulco with valet parking
And a buffet and a buffet they had the valet park the sweet corn tamales. Oh my god
That's the first place I ate when I moved to hollywood that night. That's where I went that acapulco was something about the name
I went in there and I got the oil you could eat buffet and in those days they used to have a band
Oh, really like on monday nights or something like three. What are you calling three guys at the guitar mariachi
Mariachi was three speaking of mariachi. I'm going to be with a korean chat on wednesday at the ain't ontario improv
Oh, shit. You're making the drive for the dirty show. Oh, yeah, that's my dog. Look at you
Look at lisa yak guys fucking stalking these people getting fucking spots
Make it. It's it's fun. It's good to it's really exciting. So how long have you been doing comedy officially now?
I think
Like five months six months something like that because I started a year and a half ago with with you at the dark horse
Black horse whatever I always forget which one it's called
But like full time since like the middle of december ish
You were just going up at the dark horse. You had no intention. You were just fucking around
I would think about it on the drive up high and get going
And then yeah, and then now i'm actually
Working on I did 16 last week 16. Yeah, so that was
I'm trying to get to 20. How many minutes you got?
I could probably do 10 to 15. That's like the most and it's not that's stretching
That's sweating a little bit at the 11 minute mark. It's and it's not like I have like a set
It's like I have a couple jokes that I could do like I'm I'm hosting at the sick of more
So I have some stuff that I do
But I like a joey's been giving me tips on hosting and I've hosted that uh the open mic last couple weeks
Joey
You never really saw him do the open mic at the comedy store. No no
Oh my god
He let me tell you
He is a phenomenal host
And oh I can imagine. Oh, yeah. No, he's a phenomenal. I told you that I worked on it really hardly
Yeah, because I realized by becoming a good host
You learned you're a quarterback
You're the quarterback of that show even if the headline sucks
You could turn around and there's an old clip
That you could find a d. L. Hugh glee
It's gotta be 93 94 on uh, what was the hbo one?
Jesus christ, it's all right. It's all right. Def comedy jam. Yeah. Yeah. There's an old clip of d. L. Hugh glee
getting a standing ovation
Off a mc spot. I saw that with my eyes
And I never forgot that and I remember how important it was how he turned the fucking show around
Like he destroyed that fucking room off the whole spot
Like he made sure
That nobody could fucking follow him after the whole spot
he did it so
brilliantly
and unintentionally
That my jaw dropped like I saw Doug Stan hope killing seattle
I saw a couple live performances that have baffled me
But that one on hbo that night if you could ever find that it's
d. L. Hugh glee circa
1993
92 def comedy jam
He filled in for martin lords
And he just fucking leveled that I when I saw that
That
The guy from the dirty guy had hosted
A bunch of good comedians
Had been hosted at the comedy store
Like david letterman hosted
Uh, the guy that's dirty full house. Oh bob sagan bob sagan hosted for a long time. It was really weird people
Who hosted at the store?
And they divide you get a certain talent from hosting at the store. It's every three minutes. That's crazy. You've got to be
Quick with your quickly quick quickly funny and you've got to do it a lot
Oh, yeah, because I've just started doing like the last few weeks
And I don't I don't know like the fear I have is I don't want to take too much of their time
No, you got to learn to sizzle the room in 18 seconds
Okay, yeah, yeah, exactly. I try to do like a really quick something 18 seconds and you can't sizzle them every time
Right, right. So you you also moving it along if the guy kills
White kill his kill keep the momentum going let the other guy deal with him. Okay. There's all these strategies from hosting that you learn
If this guy bombs
You've got to get their attention
You got to bring them back now
You got to suck them in and get them and once you got them
Fuck with them now
Now fuck with them. Fuck it. Fuck the time take that minute
Fucking you've got them and then blam bring the other comic up. Hopefully this guy's stronger than you and he kills the room
Don't say a fucking just joke. Don't say nothing come into the stage nick johnson boom
And let nick johnson take the room if he dictates to keep but the first time one of them bombs or
Is extremely dirty
Okay, all right
Anything that like throws people off abortion somebody who's just trying to be a fucking jerk off
Right somebody who's trying to be Joe jerkoff and fuck up the the the the attendance of the room
The aborted baby joke
The kick the pregnant woman in the stomach that that type of fucking off-color joke, right a racist joke something like that
Go back up then get the confidence back in the room. Don't shit on them
But now you got to win that crowd back
So there's all these little secrets, but you don't do it until you're doing it, right? No
You're not doing it until you're doing it like last night
We had someone come in with a a boombox and a song they wrote and you should have seen irina's face
She's like not on my mic
She goes now now you also have to learn who you can torture
Okay without torture
You got to learn the gift of torturing without torturing. Oh my god, and that's where your eyes come in
Okay, so that's a complete different game that you'll feel
Like somebody goes in need some bag of dicks and you know the audience is like
What the fuck am I watching?
You have to punctuate that feeling
So keep it going for
Yeah, you got to go up there and go like keep it going for terry clock and then move your eyes like what the fuck was that?
And bam and now you got them without saying a fucking word. So there's mental torture in the host game
And there's comedy torture in the host game
There's the gift of saying without saying okay, right, you know, let's keep it going for what?
You know what I'm saying and just do he just doesn't know anything without saying it like adjusting your tie like
Yes, anything without saying it. So the hosting job
I had to be a host for four years. Maybe
I would wow that how often would you host for four years at the store once a week every sunday every sunny every open mic
10 o'clock just close and no first seven to a 10
And then I got graduated to 10
Wow, that's a lot. Yeah, that's a lot. It's the long 25 25 bucks to walk up and down those stairs 15 minutes 15 times
I settled that I got dice's number eddie griffin's number
Joe Rogan's number and I would call him and tell him come down and do as much time as you want
I would let people wait online all fucking days
And then I'd call everybody paul mooney and say come on down. It's a free stage
Get there at 10. They get there at five after 10. I'd do 10 minutes in front of mitzi
She'd give me spots for the week. I'd pull paul mooney and go home
And I was also a door man on sunday night. So I was doing the first guy. Yeah. Oh my god
And I let him do 40 minutes like fucking that's it. I was done for the night
I was gonna be on yours because like even me like I like I've been like sweating because you you're running up there every three
Or five minutes. Why would I want to go on stage on a sunday mitzi's not gonna be in the room once mitzi leaves the room?
What do I give a fuck?
I'm gone. I'm done. I did my fucking job. I'm getting spots this week. I'm eating this
That was my strategy with other comics like be like, why are you putting up?
What do you believe? Oh, would you be like, oh, he just came down? I'm sorry. Let me tell you something
You can't what this week somebody asked me. They said have you hold they said that's right
They said you ari's doing it this week
Really ari's hosting tomorrow night. Oh cool
So ari's doing it and they're like you know, it's torture
Now I did it one time and became something else
Now women take it personally
It was too much. It was totally that's still a girl. I will not talk to me
because of that night
Because I don't know who's hot and who's not
What am I fucking comedy central? I know who the fuck is hot who's not
There's a list the names are on the list and I read them
And this girl worked at the store. So she was supposed to go. I don't know. I don't know the fucking rules
So it's too complicated. I don't want to piss nobody off. So I moved on never again
I'm not banging on down there Sundays
Walk up and down those stairs 80 times. That's work jack
That's work and you got to get them in between sets and shit. That's work
Yeah, that's a it was like four hours or something. Yeah, it's three hours. Oh, it was a long time
That's why I chose to do the path. I'd bring up one guy
I'd do my 10
Boom one guy the boat and I see barris and he'll come in. It's all yours. Really? Yeah
It's all yours. Mitzi's gone. What do I give a fuck was in the room?
But I learned how to control the room
Which is I can't uh, you can't replace because it is important
I've always you always hear comics come sometimes they'll complain or so the crowd is great
But at a certain point
Like if you can get them going like I even see it open mics if the first comic is a little weaker
Sometimes everyone else has a hard time
But if someone goes up and has fun at the beginning
And gives you either people something to riff off of or even just have a good set like it'll be a better mic
Now you gotta remember I came from the Denver school first
Where it was three minutes every one Tuesday every four weeks. Okay
One Tuesday every four fucking weeks. That's it. Yeah, Jesus three minutes. I like that two minutes
And if you ran that fucking light you got tortured
Then I went to Seattle and I was the number one spot and Seattle was five minute light six minute to get off
Because of the contest that they have
They want the local people to be ready with those six minutes
So the only spot that does 15 is number 19 on the list on mondays
When I got to Seattle, I was number one on the monday night
Any year later, I was closing the show on monday night. So it'd be me josh wolf brody
Me josh wolf brody with you know, you go up the rotation
I would imagine though that a hosting
would give you
um
a greater edge of following a variety of comics because you're used to having to control a room after
People the bomb people do really well people who are really funny people who are off color
You know, you get a taste of how to get a crowd back
No matter who came up in front of you
So it doesn't matter as much about who you're following because I know a lot of people get oh my god
I'm following so and so yeah, but if you are a host and you've been used to following all kinds of people
It wouldn't upset you as much. Okay. Here's the secret the hosting
more than ever
more than ever
You have to make them fall in love with you
And it's a weird thing to say
Because it takes a long time to develop that skill not that they like you they love you
You got six minutes to let these people know that they love you
Not that they like you not that you're like anybody else they would even even if dice is going up even if chris rock is going up
You're gonna control the room
That's fucking wild
That's what a host does that he has him whether he's in the beginning of the show
Or at the 10 comic mark he still controls the game. It's like joe montana. You're a quarterback
So no matter what happens you always get them back
So as a comic you have to find their center
As quickly as fucking possible
So will you test a joke out like that's kind of dirty joke out
A stunt in the audience
You pray for a guy with an orange shirt
Really?
Oh my god. Yeah
Why what did the on shirt do you do material?
Now you come up the second time bang the guy with the orange shirt now
Don't come into the stage. Now you go back up and every two times you call him back up
You pray to god that he's good
Pray to god that he's good and he falls into your hand and afterward he hugs you and he tells you it's the best night of his life
We have one of those like we had a real person in the
Okay, this is it you have to make them fall in love with you and then you
Are the quarterback you see the field a lot bigger for years
If it didn't even matter where I I would always open in the rogan shows
And Ari would follow me or Duncan. It was well known
Joe took me on the road to be up there first
And I
Fucking honored that I said, you know what? I gotta get good at it
For him to bring me next time and then it became to the point that I was already headlining and I'd still go out
As an opener just to get the fucking 50 give me 14 minutes and I'll wreck your fucking room
I'll wreck your fucking room. I'll I won't even use segues
I won't even use segues. You don't got time for him. I don't even have time for segues in 14 minutes
I just bombarded
Understand it's like apocalypse now when they fucking when you see the chinese people running and shit and they drop them
I want to thank my wife happy mother's day for coming on the show
I want to thank uh the flying jew aka the christ killer
most importantly
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I don't have her moms, but if I if she was around until I'd be rubbing her feet giving the flowers
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And that's it. Happy mother's day to all you moms out there. I'll see you motherfuckers Thursday night in private
Then stay black. Check that meal, Lee
Go home, I was with the big boys breaking all the rules
Dead tears with my baby sister over the years. We was born another little kid
And even though we had different daddy's the same drama where things went wrong. We blame mama
I reminisce on the stress I caused it was hell hugging on my mama from a jail cell
And who taking elementary?
Hey, I see the penitentiary one day
Running from the police. That's right. Mama cast me put a whooping to my back side
And even as a crack fiend mama, you're always was a black queen mama
I finally understand for a woman. It ain't easy trying to raise a band
You're always was committed a poor single mother on welfare. Tell me how you did it
There's no way I can pay you back. But the plan is to show you that I understand
You all appreciate
Yeah, I want you knowing love is sweet
Dear mama
Please know what I'm about
You all appreciate
Yeah, I want you knowing love
There ain't nobody tell us it was fair
No love from my daddy because the coward wasn't there
He passed away and I didn't cry because my anger wouldn't let me feel full stranger
They say I'm wrong in the markets
But all along I was looking for a father. He was gone
I hung around with the thugs and even though they sold drugs they showed a young brother love
I moved out started really hanging. I needed money of my own. So I started slanging
I ain't guilty because even though I sell rocks it feels good putting money in your mailbox
I love paying rent with the rents too. I hope you got the diamond necklace that I said to you
Because when I was low you was there for me and never left me alone because you cared for me
And I can see you coming home after work late. You're in the kitchen trying to fix. That's a hot plate
You're just working with the strap she was giving and mama made miracles. Everything's given
But now the road got rough. You're alone. You're trying to raise two bad kids on your own
And there's no way I can pay you back. But my plan is to show you that I understand
You all appreciate
Awesome
Because through the drama I can always depend on my mama and when it seems that I'm hopeless
You say the words that can get me back in focus
When I was sick as a little kid to keep me happy. There's no limit to the things you did
And all my childhood memories
Are full of all the sweet things you did for me
And even though I at crazy
I gotta thank the lord that you made man. There are no words that can express how I feel
You never kept a secret always stayed real and I appreciate how you raised me
And all the extra love that you gave me
I wish I could take the pain away if you can make it through the night. There's a brighter day
Everything will be all right if you hold on. It's a struggle every day got a roll on
There's no way I could pay you back. But my plan is to show you that I understand
You all appreciate
Dear mama
Dear mama
Don't you know we love this dream
Dear mama
Dear mama
Dear mama