Uncle Joey's Joint with Joey Diaz - #591 - Steven Brody Stevens
Episode Date: June 7, 2018Steven Brody Stevens, Comedian, actor seen in "The Hangover" and host of the "Festival of Sports" podcast, joins Joey Diaz and Lee Syatt live in studio. This podcast is brought to you by:  Zip...Recruiter - post your job to 200+ job sites with a single click for free at www.ziprecruiter.com/church  FujiSports.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 discount at checkout.  Recorded live on 06/06/2018.
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joey here my main man Brodie Stephens and
Lisa I at before we even start up when I thank you guys that showed up to the
taping on Monday night listen man I felt like I had rough sets I couldn't
really uh get into it and swing the bat fully
but that's my responsibility to be honest with you I worked
really hard I worked for a month I wrote jokes I put jokes in
and I didn't get the result that I definitely ultimately wanted I don't
know how it taped you know who the fuck knows you're up there you're
thinking about something else but if you showed up and you support thank you
even if you didn't fucking support thank you very much because the vibes
were out Lisa I at was there fucking Kate Quigley
was there Theo Vaughn was there Steve Simone was there
the Agostino was there I mean it was just uh
oaky spooky was there it was fucking badass so
thank you and I want to thank Netflix for the opportunity and uh
you know sometimes you drop the ball you can't always be a fucking uh
I'm a human I get that you know what's up with your body Stevens
picking your fucking fingers whatever fuck yeah no I'm just I'm listening I'm
listening and it's like uh you know it's like a real reality doing these uh
you know these specials these shows you don't know how it's going to go
um I've been lucky doing some of these late night shows I've been okay with
I had I do have a special coming out I'm not like going right into promotion
mode but I don't know how that's going to be taken
I don't know I mean it's a little different like I did well
when I did it okay but I don't know how it's gonna because it's a concept
somewhat I don't know how it's going to play to the masses so
you know but are you doing a late night television
yeah I've done three Craig Kilborn shows he was there before the late late show
before Craig Ferguson and James Corden I did Conan
maybe like five years ago for in the middle of doing my
comedy central show so I do it I mean I've you know
gone up and knocked it out of the park in terms of that like something about
live I can step up to I haven't done like a you know a Netflix taping I did the
warm-up for the Netflix back when they they had a Nate Bergotz he was on it
and a fortune theme stir I did the warm-up for that that was kind of cool
but yeah you don't know you just keep doing it I'm staying positive I'm
having trust in my instincts I feel like I'm not saying my backs against the wall
but I feel like I've stepped up the plate on my comedy stuff I'm not like
you know my acting I wish I was a better actor I get nervous about that
somewhat but stand-up I've been able to
I think I do okay in the stand-up well doesn't once I find my groove acting
you know that's more of that's harder for me
you're very funny and you have you you like the midnight yeah not I went into
the office at the comedy store I turned around there's a picture
you know wall I couldn't stop fucking laughing
on the drive home I thought about how you're like kennison you like going up
at midnight so build that build that market there's
people who really like watching comedy at midnight yeah
you can go into a town into a rock club and do a fucking midnight show and you
do fantastic on a Friday night or Saturday Saturday night
better so you can fly out Saturday morning and be back
Sunday morning with no drama no radio you sell what you sell
a midnight show in a rock club after a band you do for them
yeah that's the one spot I do you know I do the comedy store that late night spot
and I'll be doing it tonight actually and it's
I'm relaxed because there isn't that that pressure on me like I can do audience warm
up in a packed room thousands of people or what have you but
the late night spot for stand-up for me I'm very relaxed and I can talk I get my
jokes in but that's the you know the comedy store you know like in the
original room you got to bring it energy you know tight for the most part
and then that main room if you're up there when it's packed and you're in
there you know yourself or Joe Rogan or Delia you got to bring it so that could
be stressful for some people possibly would be for me if I don't do it enough
but that late night spot it's just like less pressure on me
and I get to be I'm not trying to prove myself because people don't always get
me right out of the gate and then I get like nervous I go well you know this and
I end up some people like it but it's it's stressful for me like trying to
impress people whereas that late night spot I sit on the stool
and that's another thing I've been sitting on the stool recently like just
kind of keeps me grounded how many spots do you think you guys have done throughout
your career oh I don't I would say I mean Joey
probably more but maybe the first two years I did like
five spots a month really six spot not even before yeah because
six months in I got a job house I'm seen so I gave me four spots automatically on
Tuesdays mm-hmm every once in a while I reach out and do
something else and there was an opportunity so I can't see me I was
lazy I didn't really know what was going on
and then when I went back to Boulder 94 is when I really had bearings about me
so I figure from fucking 94 to 97 I was doing 25 spots a month
that's a lot 16 you know that happens out to like 20
but once I moved to LA my spots were not about a lot 97 I was doing 30 spots a
month and I did that steady to 2004 so there was
five years there for sure I was doing 360 spots
just in those five years so that's 1800 right there alone
I mean there's people who count their sets so you know Dean Delray probably knows
exactly oh you do yeah see I I haven't I don't know really you uh you look at
you in your notebook you go this was set much I got how much money I made that
night how my set went what did I try I've been doing
that since Seattle really I go my notebooks go all the way back
now to like 98 99 yeah I think there's one in the middle
that we threw away by mistake like 2007 or 2008 I threw away by mistake but
everything else my wife has in boxes you'd be
fucking surprised so will you go like on a midweek set today like at the
comedy store you know your OR you'll mark that down you'll look at your notes
and you'll sit and you'll go yes especially the last couple months
because you've been working on yeah this shit well like that was kind of what I
trying to get to is you guys have done I don't know
5,000 10,000 spots I don't know I'm not I'm not gonna I'm like I felt bad the
way you felt about your Netflix special because I'm not saying you went in there
and and had a set that people will talk about for centuries but it wasn't
I've seen you bomb I've seen I've seen I've seen like in like the like late
night haha or something where like there's three people and they don't like you
because you teased them like I've seen you have bad sets
but that wasn't a bad set it was like there were things that didn't hit as
hard as maybe you would have liked and you can always say things
differently but I like I hope you're proud of it
I thought it was a good spot you know I am to an extent I wish I would have gone
you know you can't have everything you can't always get what you want but you
get what you need you know it's been set a thousand
fucking times and I'm very fortunate to even be in the game at this age
to even be around you know so anything positive that happens
I'm fucking happy yeah you know somebody calls and says they like me
they don't even have to put me in the show I'm happy I'm 55 probably
I don't give a fuck anymore you know what I'm saying mm-hmm like I love doing comedy
but it's not like when I was 32 what it meant to me at 32
and it does mean the same to me I still love it
just failure like if you don't like me at this age I don't really give a fuck
yeah you know what I'm saying you know who I am but you want me to come down
and read for your role for a gangster and he's 55 go fuck yourself
I've been around as far as you have you put me in two movies
now I gotta come downtown at 3 30 in traffic and drive back in that fucking
nightmare give it to somebody else
you want to be a hypocrite they're gonna call me and go okay okay
we'll let you read tomorrow morning and then they know
I've been around I can book this I'm not just coming at 3 because you want to
muscle me right you know those days are done with
like all those type of situations that we've been here a long time
really both of us is that because you you're I guess older right is that what
you're saying you're older you know what it's gonna work and what's not gonna
work anymore you know you know when I was 38
I couldn't wait to be on a show put me on a show now and I can't I couldn't
handle it why because I just couldn't handle
with all the freedom we've had the last couple years
I wouldn't want to be on some tv show time commitment and you know what they're
gonna say creativity can't say this can't say this you can't do this is it
really worth it to recur on a show right now the
only show that it would be wanted to recur if it was your own show and it
was network and you're pulling down 50 g's a week
because it's your name and created by and blah blah blah blah blah blah
at the end of the week yeah you tell twitter go fuck themselves and
you know you tell everybody go fuck themselves you'll see them in five years
and then you curse you could say suck my dick you could say racial slurs
you can say whatever you want but until that time you just gotta stay on twitter
yeah that's a tough thing the simple pictures up with your kids playing
bongos and you know hanging out with your fucking
buddies at some barbecue why have it if you really can't put
and express who the fuck you are yeah and it's stressful
for you know every tweet you put out there oh I can get in trouble or who's
they're gonna think about you know that about me and if you're
listen you're a comic if you tweet something
and you tweet and it's funny and it's in good taste
there's a thousand variables that goes to that tweet
but it's in good taste yeah nobody's ever gonna say that
even if it's a little off base well I'm talking more of
you know maybe something current event news news worthy that sort of thing I'm
not always sometimes I'm not always comical with
those and I feel like and then also I like to
make some points but I think there's just
backlash you know if I'm like I I'm from the valley
I'm I'm blue collar and so every tweet I put out
I just I don't like the problems I get nervous being on twitter interacting
well you know you call me you're a phone call guy I like that you know me
but if I was to like hey Joey on twitter and I feel like everyone's watching us
so I kind of and I've had experiences with people like
you know just over the years about getting it not getting in trouble hey
don't put me on that don't you know I've tried to reach out to people like get
weirded so for me I've kind of it's I hold back
on it I like talking I like periscope because I don't think I don't think about
it so twitter it's uh it could be it's a it's
stressful for many reasons I could see why people are
leaving it because of the hate or you know you feel like
maybe you're wasting time or you are gonna say something wrong
so I I don't need it but it's fun I try to have fun with twitter at least I
try to show positive that's a thing like I never
want to like brag either I'm aware of like when I promote the comedy
store I know guys want to get spots so that that's
kind of you know I don't like I know I need to promote the comedy
store and it's good to have people see oh Brody you're at the comedy store so I
can get work elsewhere also like go on the road I don't do a lot of road work
so you know just uh social media but I think people are waking up and seeing
the uh you know like there's some negativity but I again I try to show
positive show what I do I don't not trying to change minds I'm saying like
look putting out positive energy get to be at the comedy store positive energy
get to do uh positive vibes not being a hater
and I you know it I could be a hater I'm a human right you know but
try to take the high road I think both of you have done good jobs about
I don't know how to not dictating your audience but Brody you're like you
you do different ways Brody you do blocked which I like you retweet them
you say blocked and I that's honestly what I
I do now is I don't even really I either mute them if they're just like I don't
really want to deal with that anymore or if I don't if I gotta really don't like
what they say I just blah I don't I don't go back and forth with them
Joey you get it a lot rarer more rare now I think at least from what I see
but every once in a while you'll go off on them which I think is
probably scare some people from coming at you
because you go like you've had some interaction it's crazy because it's not
even me it's the 200 savages oh yeah that's the
best that come after you on Twitter and Facebook
my niece made a remark one night they tortured her so she had to drop off
Facebook on Facebook on Facebook years ago four or five years ago when she was
at Temple she made a comment one night about something comedy
and I saw the demise yeah I saw one Facebook fucking message another one
you know another one and next you know she was she fucking deleted me
she deleted me as a friend
I mean yeah there I think there's a lot of there's bullying I think that's one
thing that happens I feel and that's a fear of mine
having putting stuff out there and having but that that's
you know what you got to grow up if you're in this business that's just a
reality right now in terms of you don't have to be on
social media but it's kind of hard not to when they
tell you you got to promote this you got to get on get on there
but I think you know everyone's kind of like fatigued
right now with just this craziness so and I try to keep it
light and polite but it's not easy you're very sweet listen
I have a rough demeanor from time to time but I have to tell you something
I've taken a lot of chances on Twitter and I've learned one thing
it it's like a background check not the problem with a background check is
I really can't see what's in your mind and in your heart
yeah a background check is a piece of paper
so right now I come in here and you do a background check on me
mm-hmm the kidnapping comes up the aggravated rob reader
you know whatever happened to see out of the possession of coke that my brother
put on that possession of weed you look at me
and you make a judgment and then you talk to me and you make another judgment
you know that Nicholas Cruz kid let's just use him
he comes in he has a clean bill of fucking record
but look at him it don't take a genius to tell that kid's fucking retarded from
day one yeah all those people when they come in you can tell
they're retarded but you're so blinded by the sale
you're so blinded by the commission or whatever the structure is of your
payment that you oversee those things
you oversee those things as an employee his eyes are too close together
that the kids got pee on his fucking pants you know there's a thousand tells
his eyes and you're missing all of them yeah you can tell he's a half a fucking
momo you know what I'm saying you can't tell this
kid was a half a momo half of them they come in from an AR-15 or whatever the
fuck they're buying look at their fucking eyes they got a glaze over their
fucking eyes they look like they just got frank you can see I can hit them you
can see you know that something's going on you can't see that with a
background check
you know you cannot see that shit with a background check it's so weird
i don't know what the point of this twitter is like a background so you got
to look at them in the eye to get a real true reading on somebody as
opposed to twitter well twitter no no no all i want you to
understand from this is that what i like about twitter
what i really like about twitter and all this shit is
say what's in your fucking heart listen that joke you're gonna write about
trump or whatever stupidity you're gonna write that's a really good joke
you can't put it on the special because by the time we put on the special
people it's not going to be relevant so you might as well put it somewhere
like you're in bray this week right yeah okay so bam you wake up
what's up y'all positivity is the word of the day y'all
okay then the second line is the line you just created about some politician
or roseanne or whatever the fuck you want to say then the third line is your
dated bread yeah i guarantee you'll sell 10 more tickets
because you gave them a fucking joke first and you asked them how they were
and your positivity out there if i see you know a couple
months ago you got in trouble didn't you something happened and how they knew
was by your tweets how people which one which one was
you had a situation where people came to help you and how they knew were people
contacted a bunch of people and said that these weren't regular
brodie tweets are you talking about a few years ago yeah
oh yeah yeah well yes of course so thank god that
people really love you and they look at your twitter feed
and the people who called around looking for you
knew your heart they knew what you were saying was crazy
but they knew your heart so always remember if you say an off-color joke on
twitter people know who brodie is
people that know who brodie is they're not going to get offended
it's when they retweet that joke and some fucking mook the law
reads that joke and says look what brodie steven said about
people with their eyes closed together yeah you know well i don't push it in
that sense i push it maybe in political like i'm not
out there like oan benjamin was i'm not i don't think
where is oan benjamin what is the final detail well he's off twitter
and i think he's doing hide or he's doing time he's on instagram
no he's not doing time he's on instagram i think i think he just went he brought
his family somewhere i saw that was the last i saw moved to him
every time you go on instagram it goes into a satellite where you are so
eventually they're gonna find them and shoot them in the fucking head wherever
he is the government oh my god instagram is fun i keep it
i just show my i show photos and again it's not bragging
but just showing some fun stuff and some comedy you see a lot of people who brag
on there they show pictures of money and oh yeah well i've seen it
i that's a big thing like the rappers do now they walk around with like
stacks and they like throw it on the floor and but i i think comedians showing
them on like a private air we're taking a private
chat that i'm not into necessarily i would take it all the time
fancy driving in fancy i just kind of like
not that all comedians do that but something you know just
i mean that's why when i take my photos i'm by myself in the restaurant
everyone's happy and all the time and i get it but if you made a million dollars
a year what would be different about your life brody right now
i think it'd be a little more relaxed how would you would you live in bigger
digs would you drive a a Porsche
no Porsche Carrera no would you have a butler and assistant and
a publicist and somebody to tell you were great
i might have in a somebody to help me like an maybe an assistant
to keep things in line but no i don't need a butler
i would you know i'm okay with the small condo
oh i don't need huge stuff i get to do cool
things already i'm already getting to do major league baseball
fantasy camp type activities i get to go to the comedy store and do whatever i
want i get to do podcast so you know i'm having fun
with that so i all i need honestly is shelter
eventually i like to have a relationship i like to have a dog i wouldn't mind
having a a kid i just and i just don't know if that's
going to happen but if it if it doesn't i'm okay with
all of you love me 48 i just turned you're a young man
you still got seven six more years a good dick
you know what i'm saying yeah you know i look up to you guys i look up to you i
look up to uh dean uh shang forbs he's got eddie
pepatone these guys like who are you know a little
a little bit older than me like i look up to you guys it's like okay
they're doing it i can do it so i i i feel good about that and
you know it's like i think relationships matter and again we're
getting to that twitter stuff again you're a lot of times you're by yourself
and but i'll i'll say something it's been so crazy the last couple years with
politics i felt like honestly i had to put my energy
into that into put into like sticking up for myself sticking up for good people
if you want to say i'm just not crazy progressive i i really want
want everybody to do well everybody and i think
that i go home i go to the comedy store and i go home
and i go on that internet and i'm just searching i'm just putting out
that's where my mind is and i think i think i don't think i'm alone in that
like in terms of i it's hard doing to enjoy things i used to enjoy things a
little more but i would say the last year or so i think just with the
the tension in the air i'm not enjoying things is that how you feel at all
what do you think honestly i don't follow politicians
because there are some times where i'll go check and i'll just start going on
uh like well goosechases i'll click on this person's twitter
and then i'll go this person's instagram and yeah you can get
frustrated or angry if you don't believe in what they're doing or
yeah on instagram sometimes it's just like these people are getting millions of
followers for doing like i'm saying throwing money on the floor
and so so they're it can get but i try to
i try not to do that so that's why people people get mad at me because i don't
follow that many people but i only like i literally
follow who i am interested in hearing from and
but i i feel like i'm a comedian my thing is
i was born here let's just say hollywood and everyone
doesn't really like people are down on hollywood let's be honest
whether that's just a fact people are kind of down on it
and i feel is though i was born here we'll say the valley hollywood
was born in hollywood i live in hollywood i work in hollywood i specifically
am in comedy on the front lines of of like first amendment speech and a lot
of these comedians are you know they're at pat noswald judd apatow
you know joe rogan he's more known for the podcasting but even that so
i feel like i need to speak up i need to
i can't like not say anything i just feel like i have to
speak my mind because i'm from here born here and i hear things that
just kind of like don't doesn't feel right
to me and i i felt that you know and i've worked in show business i've been in
movies i've been i've done three thousand television
audience warm-ups i had you saw i had every high school come in every
military branch and then when things started
you know just i just feel like i have to stick up for what's right
and what you could take it for whatever i don't want to get political but
that's what i do but i also feel like enough people and i had my own personal
experiences so i don't i don't want to go into that but
you know i'm not i have my reasons for how i feel about things
so i'm not trying to change people's opinions but i want to let them know oh
you like that i that i hang out with the cubs that's pretty cool right why put
out good energy so why don't you listen to me that's
kind of how i feel sometimes but yeah i'm sticking up for the valley you
know they used to pick on the valley all the time recita sucks you're from recita
like i went to recita what the what the hell
you know so and i i got i got picked on but you know what it made me stronger
i'm just like just admit it you know i'd latino guys do
holocaust jokes black guys do jokes i played sports the football team i coach
write the names down write the names no but it made but i but here's the deal
valley but you're but you're talking about the background check
these guys weren't malicious i knew them i can name my
mexican teammate friends and they would do holocaust jokes and
jew and jew jokes it didn't it didn't feel good but i knew it wasn't coming
from malicious right i could tell and same thing when i played baseball in
college the the white guys from orange county in arizona doing
jewish jokes i get it so i just would say like
jesus is jewish and then they would laugh it would like
diffuse them and to this day i'm very good friends with those guys so
that's like looking them in the eye and i just feel like there was just more
honesty back then and that that's just how i was raised so
i and i i'm kind of i don't want to like make waves or anything but i also
feel like enough people are you know quote-unquote
woke and feel like i can back off and i want to get back into
just having fun rock and roll music baseball
enjoying things i don't want to be involved in this
crazy you know political uh bunker feel like a fuck out of there yeah
involved in that it's a horrible bunker yeah it's a how it's a you know
you put on world news tonight as an intelligent american you kind of put on
world news tonight whatever yeah first of 12 minutes is fucking
presidential and stupid yeah so you mean friday night when i take my
hoodie out and i spend fucking harder and money for tickets
the first three comics and we go up there and bring that fucking heartache back
that i see in my living room three days a week i go in
order to escape this shit i go in there to catch some type of
relation with the comic yep all he does one comic to go up there and
click with my inner fucking ghost and we're good to go i got one guy that
related with the 13 minutes that's saying exactly what i feel
wow he took that right out of my fucking mind
that's what great comedy is and then somebody says a woman goes up there and
says what you wise thinking or your girlfriend that girl on the first day
you look like a fucking hero you look like a fucking hero
you know until you go back the next night to watch the same comic and he sucks
dick yeah and you're like what the fuck i kind of got my dick sucked last night
but i went for the double whammy now i'm not gonna suck my dick now cousin's
staying over what a coincidence the comedian bombs and the cousin's staying
over you know what i'm saying it's bad for everybody
yeah no it's uh it's pretty interesting shit though but i'm happy that
probably just the fact that you're still here i still remember us having a
conversation about you going to new york
yeah in 97 you told me to and so for you just to still be here do you know how
hard it is that this is what listen i get it
i didn't do the performance that i wanted to but there's a lot of variables
involved in this and i'm a big boy i've been doing
comedy for 27 years now on the flip side of that
the flip side of that is i got a Netflix special
whatever happens now is in god's hands there's nothing i could do
i'm very happy we hit some good spots we hit some great jokes
it just wasn't cut up the way i wanted to in my head
and it happens but guess what guess how lucky i am to still be in the game
guess how lucky i am i came to los angeles though i went full fucking
throughout when went for it guess fucking that that means the world to me
because there's comics that i fucking came up with that way funny and i had
more discipline and at one point just couldn't make the cut to move to los
angeles that was their biggest obstacle was taking
their fucking was getting out of their fucking
shithole situation they wanted to be a big man on a small
campus i didn't give a fuck about being a
small fish in a big ocean i knew that i would get to the island
and then grow and get some utensils get a flashlight and eventually we build
the whole fucking stage and that was exactly what happened
you know that's exactly what happened we clung onto a rock
we planted a fucking seed on that rock and after a few years we built the
stage we got a liquor license you know what i'm saying
that's that's the thing that's it we play there was hurdles in front of us
you know your um lee was asking about spots and all that
and seattle for me i learned to public speak up there
selling t-shirts for the seattle super sonics then doing the cable access show
and then when i went to new york i was a tour guide at radio city
music hall i barked at the comedy seller so i always
tried to make sure that i had jobs where i was able to
project and talk and i i feel like that helped me out
quite a bit like i would always say find a job where you can
talk learn you know speaking so for me it was like selling those t-shirts you
could just got to step up and go for it same thing with like
audience warm-up you just got to like go for it you can't be
and that's you know some of these people like yeah in these small markets or
they're they're afraid to like go for it and uh
that that's what uh you know i learned seattle was good for that for me
i i i found my voice in seattle i honed it in new york
and then i came back here and got into warm-up and all that stuff but yeah you
told me back in 97 go to new york and i went to
new york and i never looked back from seattle was like boom and i was
that's where i'd be you know i came out in terms of myself
okay how did he decide to go to uh seattle because i know you started
here briefly right yeah you know i i played baseball basically all
the way through college and i coached at arizona state so
at the final semester and i took an acting class at arizona state
and it was kind of cool like i was finally away from baseball
and it was just a nice not that i didn't like baseball but i was kind of like
over it and then i took this acting class at arizona
staying there's cute girls in there and
there were uh you know cute girls in there and it was fun
and i was trying to be a serious actor but
they would uh was it was it a guy like joey farting in the back of your class
no we had some characters in there i remember but i mean yeah the girl the
people would laugh at me so then so i took the acting and when i moved back
here to los angeles i worked on a student film i just wanted to learn
everything about the uh the business we're having a good
laugh here i'm just farting all the time i'm trying to like not smell the fart
but also speak into the mic it's uh i agree
can we i don't i don't want to interrupt you but since he's since he's bringing
it up can we talk about that when you assaulted me during the periscope
that was i still can't believe you did that joey
assaulting you by he farted and called me over for to it do a technical thing
and i just left me there waiting for it to show it's an until like 30 seconds to
show up and he cupped it oh he cupped it and
threw it and uh it was shocking thank you i appreciate it but that's the kind of
relationship you two have when you can fart on each other
i don't get to fart on him as much oh well but that's real brotherly
interaction to be able to fart and the way you just sit there and watch they
kept saying where is it where is it i'm like tell me you
know smell this bomb of death it was only had to travel six inches i mean
you know it was six inches from my asshole was that close i had to point
it right up and you know it's like a fucking like a magnet you know
i don't fucking know
to this day it happened so fast you know and i don't know if you have any
fucking idea how fast it happened okay like if you
look at your calendar on your phone yeah it was memorial day
may 31st right so i met that broad
this sunday night at the comedy club and she spent the night
and monday day i gave her a ride to her house
we fooled around we got to her house a little bit and then i drove all the way
to colorado this was monday by the following monday
she was already in colorado on my couch we hung out which she drove me through
comedy we went camping together she left the
following monday before she left i booked a
triple run and i was i was in seattle maybe 10
days after i met took me 10 i knew i knew way before when i
went to denver when i went to michigan that week and i
knew i had to leave boulder i knew it all the pieces came into play
and i remember still driving to the past where the devils play the red
the red wings to detroit red wings joe louis arena
i still remember driving past that arena crying
because the realization had sunk at it neither i was gonna fucking
go to jail for murder or i was gonna have to leave
boulder like either i was gonna commit the comedy
and just stay on the road like i remember driving and going
this is what i want to do if i could figure out a way to do this every night
even if it's for 25 bucks until like a fucking
$10,000 falls out of the sky i'll be fine if i can keep this car together
and i could just do comedy every night 25 bucks minimum
i'll drive every fucking night it doesn't matter i got a fucking four cylinder
car it's 56 miles to the
fucking gallon gallons a dollar fifty a fucking
you know a fucking gallon i could you know i could go 800 miles in this
fucking car so that's what i wanted to do
like that's how bad i fucking want and i still remember driving
by that fucking stadium crying though and i have to leave boulder
because if not i'm not gonna see this kid i'm not gonna i'm gonna end up in
jail and i got up there in the first night
it was like remember when i told you lee in comedy you get these little fucking
kicks in the asses
i made a pew liverwurst sandwiches with american cheese on white
and i made a couple baloney sandwiches and i wrapped them up with like a six
pack of sodas and chips and bagels and cream cheese
and i drove all night and that's all i ate i would get out of the car to pee
but i would bring my own food on those triple runs
and i still remember Lee fucking like getting to the short
and being out of food and just having an ashtray full of change
and maybe four joints and fucking going wild that was an epiphany of me wanting
to do comedy that's it that's my calling this is what i'm gonna do
this was not that bad this 30 hour drive without a hotel
and without shower wasn't that bad it didn't kill me in fact it was fun i
listened to music i smoked dope i ain't good
you drove from denver to detroit to detroit for a gig for four hundred and
fifty dollars for one two three
one two three four five six seven shows
is that gig still available no oh no that club isn't even there anymore
so you drove to detroit and it was uh a triple that was a triple no it was a
regular run that a friend of mine hooked me up but it was a comedy club
and one of the suburbs of detroit dearborn yeah
and i get there so here i am ready to fucking pursue comedy
this is my dream i fucking got here i ate the bagels
i ate the cream cheese i ate the fucking sandwiches
i had the sodas i had the chips you know i fucking made it here
i go to the club and they're like there's no comedy tonight
and i go what are you talking about there's no comedy tonight
it's closed for private show okay and i shot up to the pizza place because they
the guy that atlantic street pizza i don't know what it was in seattle
no no this is we're still talking to detroit back to detroit
dearborn in detroit got it sorry i jumped to seattle i go up to the corner
and i see the guy that booked a gig and he goes dog you're here at night early
oh here i am thinking so i go what am i doing he goes
you got a car yeah looks like he's sleeping
welcome to come tomorrow at three o'clock check in
at whatever whatever hotel they'll be ready for you tomorrow at three
so i go where's the hotel at how far from the club it goes right around the
corner so i asked somebody where the hotel was and i
shot over there to the parking lot and i'm at the parking lot maybe one hour
i'm walking around the hotel i'm mingling with people
you know i'm talking to people at the bar like are you staying here no i'm
staying close by but my friend is washing i made up some
fucking bullshit story and my big page goes off and it's that
dude from the pizza place and i call him up and i go what's up he goes do you
have a suit i go yeah he goes go to the
hotel and check in he goes you got a room at
tony bennett's open i couldn't come with him tonight so you're opening up for tony
bennett whoa he goes i'll give you 50 bucks on the
dinner so i i put the suit on like checked
into a hotel room i can't believe you had a suit with you
i had everything in there that was the car of death
that car was gonna take me to the end i had everything the car couldn't even
break down i had everything for the car in there
at that point i had done five months of triple runs
i had broken down 80 times i knew exactly what i needed what i didn't need
i had a football a frisbee i had everything in there
there was no boredom in there whatsoever shovels a ski
they would change for a car an extra battery
a radiator fixer that plugs up the radiator iphone charger
no there was no iPhones in those days it was nothing so you're opening up for
tony bennett when i open up for tony bennett i go it's one
show i eat spaghetti and i go back with to go
to this beautiful fucking room and like i said i had a jar filled with money
like a box filled with money an ashtray filled with change
and the next moment i get up and breakfast was free oh shit they gave me
like a coupon for breakfast for free like screen those days you eat anything
and then some scrambled eggs you don't even beep
scrambled eggs the petrified english toast
the fucking turkey bacon i mean you just it's it's amazing
but when you were doing those triple runs did you at
did you was that where you wanted to do comedy it was
in detroit i mean you're already doing the triple runs no i was doing comedy
in the triple runs i was doing wyoming oh god wyoming was the main one
Idaho you know when that chi whatever the fuck but when you got to
detroit that was the epiphany that was the that drive let me know that this is
what i wanted to do gotcha it was pretty cool that drive because not
only did i do joey's but i also shot over and did the black
club downtown just for jokes aside or just for
something they had two clubs one in chicago one in detroit i went over
there into the showcase of the 70s night it was just a great weekend they had
like four other clubs so after i did joey's like midnight i went
somewhere on saturday showcase there and they gave me like 50 bucks
and then sunday like i went back to the thing and that's when i met carol and
you know we got some coke and shit it was just a great weekend as a feature
act like i didn't know it was this much fun on the road i'm like okay
so i really want to do this and it's this much fucking fun
and this this was after the triple runs though yeah the triple runs seasoned me
i did about five months i started with triple january
of 95 this was may of 95 and i had already done like a ton of
triple runs plus i was stopping at clubs and showcasing
so whenever i was in the club whenever i was in the area
i would showcase the club i would force myself to do that
and that's how i learned to pick up the phone and call people and
muscle and shit when i learned how to tell people listen is this lisa i
yesterday's are you gonna be at the club sunday night
no my assistant my assistant fucking brody's gonna be let me
answer something when i go down and kill the room
is brody gonna be able to give me weeks right there on location
like i would say show i thought to managers a week
those days you gotta ask for a week why fuck around let me check the calendar
hold on um no no no i would say to them
when i go down there and blow up your fucking room
is your assistant brody gonna be able to give me a date
or do i have to come and see you because if i have to see you
let me come back and win it when you're there one night
like that's how bars act i have to get burnt for a year on the road
like you start saying that shit to people and they don't give a fuck if
they're real they'll go come on down if their pieces of shit they'll go
fuck you or nobody's ever spoken to me like that before
not since uh you know they'll say jerry sarn felt like that to make themselves
look good did you ever bomb after saying
something like that to someone constantly but does that you think that
kind of stuff goes on still like on a triple run
you know those kind of things are going these
you know dealing with club owners like that sort of thing or is it different
now you know when you're starting up you take a lot of this shit it's like any
other anything else you come into Foot Locker as a trainee
you take you have to clean the bathrooms you gotta
you gotta do a lot of stuff but you get the referee shirt
but eventually you get so good at what you do that you give stuff giving other
people shit yeah it's a general law of the land
so it the comedy is just the same you know when you moved from seattle to
new york there was a couple of bookers you wanted to only go fuck
themselves and then when you move from new york to
LA you're like wait a second now i got a handful of motherfuckers i'm going to
call and tell them to suck my dick like people didn't want to use you
like there's a handful of people in your career that sold you know brody
you're not my style of comic and now you want to call them after you're
regular at the store at 10 30 every night you're like hey
bitch you weren't so smart after all fuck you in your club i'm a regular at the
store and they're like go fuck yourself nobody you know
right and you know what that has happened to me
things like that that's what i got into trouble with on twitter i kind of
lashed out that and i was saying to guys like
fu for not being nice to me and you know you so and so you were a jerk and
well it really bothers you it really bothers you to see people
before and after well i just remember people not being uh
cool yeah exactly it's like i was in seattle
joey liked me everyone liked seemed to like me in seattle then i go to new
york and all of a sudden these guys don't like me it's like that's
and i understand like that's human nature it takes a while
but you can also see some people's true colors a little bit early on if they're
like not cool to you so there was some of that going on but
also you know it's human nature and i for me lashing out yeah i might have
been right at the core but it wasn't the right thing to do and part of that was
that yeah i goofed up that's where i was like
on my those meds and i went off from cold turkey and
i had yeah that's where i had my my quote-unquote problems
and uh but i think i was just like lashing out i was a little i was a bit
manic i was worked up but they were also like pushing me
you know you're gonna push me i'm gonna push you and i think
some of it was that a little bit like the hollywood the little bit of the
skateboarders from venice those guys you know rubbing up against me
and uh i pushed back so that's not always healthy but that's what i i did
and you know but a lot of people say oh bro do you
had a breakdown i go no i went off my meds and then i really opened up my mind
and i mean that's why they put people on meds so you
don't get agitated at things you should be getting agitated with
but i was uh i was looking for problems a little bit too going to starbucks and
seeing these screen writers giving me negative energy
i didn't like that so i was like tapping into like real
stuff like people do talk about how there's these
how are these writers hang out at starbucks and how there's like these i
mean i got an argument at starbucks a couple weeks ago so you get these
little nerdy type guys and i can have problems
sometimes what do they say to you well one guy
this most recent one i mean it happens every few years
but i was uh you know how starbucks is now how it's all in the news about the
bathrooms and you can hang out and do all that sort of stuff so i walked into
starbucks my regular starbucks there in the valley
and there was a guy at the table a transient type guy because i hadn't seen
him before but i could tell like he was a transient energy
yeah anybody was all we were like at a table like we're on now and he was all
spread out he had his backpack he had three chargers going
he did have a coffee but he was very spread out not a big deal i thought it
was kind of funny and i took a photo and just on my
own i think oh maybe i'll put that up but not showing his who he is but just
showing oh look you have people people uh making their home at starbucks if i was
going to even do that and then i walk
closer as i go get my coffee and i see the guy has a weapon
out there a bat like a mini bat with the tape on it like i know
it was a weapon sorry and the weapon was on the table so not only was the
backpack and he was spread out still funny
now i see the weapon so just kind of like to me it just
verified my initial instinct so i go you know what i'll take a photo of the
weapon why not maybe i'll post that so i click a couple shots of the weapon
and i go get my call you know on sly don't want to make a big deal
and then so take a clip clip of the the weapon
and then this guy comes up to me goes hey uh what are you what are you taking
photos of like friendly and i go um i can see like i read his energy like he
was questioning me i go and i zoom in my camera i go this
weapon and i go why he goes oh i thought you're taking
pictures of me and my girlfriend i go why would i want to take pictures of you
your girlfriend he goes i don't know i go why don't you get the fuck out of my
face i'm about to knock you out he goes really i go
yeah move and i was getting worked up because this guy
frickin said i was taking pictures and i in of his wife and i go i told him i
go i didn't i said do i go and he's like yeah you
don't want to do that i go you know what get i'm about to drill you
he said drill i don't know you know but i was getting a little worked up and i
go nobody wants to take pictures of you and your
ugly wife that's what i said or girlfriend
so i think i'll worked up and then the staff go break it up guys break it up
what's what's going on everything what's cool he goes yeah this i go i'm
taking a photo of the weapon and then he goes
yeah this 60 year old guy so he called me a 60 year old guy
okay fine i go get my my coffee i'm gonna leave can i still he's at the table
a couple people around he's like mumbling i go you got a problem you keep
talking i walk over they go nobody want what i go nobody wants to take a
picture of you and your ugly i said no your fat
girlfriend that's what i said i called and i even oh i didn't look at her i
didn't even notice i just know like if you're
gonna say that that's that's going overboard i shouldn't have said it
but i didn't handle myself properly but the bottom line is i wasn't taking
pictures of him and his girlfriend i didn't even notice i when he first came
up to me i thought he was a a fan or friend
then he says uh yeah you're taking uh that you're taking photos of me and my
girlfriend why would i do that well i don't know
who get you know get out of my face so i was i was upset and i got a little
worked up and i probably shouldn't have said his
girlfriend was ugly but i that's just
instinct sorry i'll go rogue and uh but a bottom line is i took the photo i
probably shouldn't have that's a risk so i took the risk
i did ovary i did was a bit sensitive about it i admit that but you know what
he could have easily have gone to the manager and that's a risk
you take when you step to somebody maybe they'll snap
like me so think twice and he was a little skinny
antifa type guy little weasel guy that's what he was
so i i i just i pulled him out of the woodwork i shook
i shook him up his cage got rattled definitely you're gonna accuse me of
taking photos of you and your girlfriend like i'm a creep i'm a
peeping tom get the f out of my face i'm taking a photo of the weapon
i haven't been back to that starbucks what happened with the weapon didn't
i don't know the guy the nothing who knows i i didn't care about the weapon i
thought it was funny i mean with starbucks being in the news i wasn't
mad about the weapon but i did take a photo of the weapon because i thought
it was funny it's based off my instincts being right but
that's the risk you take but i didn't appreciate it that guy thought i took a
photo i mean if he was a big guy probably would have got my ass kicked
i beat a lot of people and i worry about that sometimes i'm like i'm gonna
beep once at somebody and and it's gonna not gonna turn out well
for me but i don't know you beep at random people on
the highway it's the funniest thing in the world
no because the beep comes from the innocent place all tap
whatever you gotta do if it comes from innocent place a place from the heart
they know they know when you pull up to somebody go hey you
fucking jerk off move your car when you pull over and beep or
somebody and wave at them and they feel really bad when you do something like
that it's a background check yeah let me do some
fucking things here johnathan mary i love you
jay bish thank you paul lynch bob lilingus jeremy slaggoth dom deniro
caution williams ivan ramos and pete the menace i love you motherfucker as always
thank you for all the well wishes for the netflix shooting you guys uh
broke my heart on monday and tuesday thank you very much
kalusa casino sold out july 12 and 13th at the south point i have no idea what
going on there check the fucking link and utah wise guys
july 25 and 26 check out the link and that's it and that's that you know i'm
saying probably steven's what else is cracking talk to me
you're still getting your spots at the store how many nights a week
i get i would say average two two to three a week
they love you down there you know i i'm okay with that give me if i could not
give me but where else do you go up you go up all the
laugh factory improv when i call in for spots i can
definitely like show my face more at shows and you know that that's up to me
so when i feel like oh i'm not getting enough spots or you know i could always go
do these you know backyard shows i could go to the ha ha i can go places so again
i never i never blame others i was always on me i feel
like it's it's up to me yeah there's other i just feel like and that's probably
my problem sometimes i'm too hard on myself but
what was going to be harder you ever talk to a comic that doesn't take
responsibility for anything you ever talk to a comic that
constantly kills you ever talk to a comic that has the
world by the balls and bitches at you because he has the world by the balls
or are there goes guys like that oh my god oh my am i supposed to name one
no they can't wait to tell you about their success and how
you know this guy wanted them for a film and you know
but at the same time they're telling you how scared they are
of making that next fucking move it's kind of weird if you ever
talk to somebody you feel that they're scared of what's next sure you know and
it's like i was scared too for a while we were all
been scared when you hear i mean that's part of the package is fear
the fears which drives you every day when you wake up fuck
what's gonna happen to it you know i have this audition you prepare it
and you go see an acting coach with your last 40 dollars and you get to the
room and it's everybody you watch on tv the last five years
so the fucking energy gets sucked out of your fucking lungs
but now you go into a room and you know once you're going there you think you
close your eyes and you see yourself at the store
at 1215 following one of the good ones and you're like fuck what these guys
didn't do out there yeah they probably had movies and
they probably did this and this but they can never follow fucking
who i'm following five nights a week yeah it's kind of gives you like a weird
confidence you know stand-ups a king of the
jungle in terms of you know so many people wish they could do
stand-up we're so lucky that we're especially able to
get to perform at the comedy store and a lot of these actors they can't do it
and yeah i'm lucky it feels good to be able to
walk in and comedians have been very nice to me so
i definitely feel feel support i like uh you know you know and they're
they're tough critics they're tough critics the comedians that they like you
that's an indicator of something you don't necessarily want to be a
comedians comedian i'll take it i'm not fighting it but um
yeah it does feel good you know i want to be doing stand-up for now
i officially started going for it and when i moved to seattle
february of 94 i took uh mitsy
sandy seashore's comedy workshop it was always like a comedy store
guy i wanted to go to the comedy store i was a kid i would see it and i just
felt like that's where i was how far away from the store did you grow up as a
kid well i grew up in the valley but my mother
her boyfriend jack he lived right there on alt alone on office patio you can
see the comedy store so as a kid i would always see the energy i could feel it
and i wasn't necessarily you know wanted to do stand-up but i was just
i was around it i was around that i saw the as a kid i saw the comedy store and
then when i was i took the workshop back in 93
over at ucla the comedy store workshop after every
classic drive to the comedy store and i'd look at it and go one day maybe i'll
get to perform who wasn't there when you used to go look at it
well that was bad whoever was performing back in 90
yeah 93 but i wouldn't go in i don't i don't think i ever went in
because it just didn't feel like i was worthy i wouldn't have gone in there at
93 i think no i've been scared shitless
fuck yeah i mean i was scared even once i once i got past it was kind of
intimidating intimidating there at the comedy store uh you know
some real like real men there you know tough guys chewy in the parking lot
you had uh it was just very it was a dark place but
i liked it i always always liked the uh you know the no frills of the comedy
store it wasn't about advertising and fancy
lights it was dark it was real and i knew early on like mitzi accepted
characters real people who had problems you know so
i knew that right away and i was just drawn to that and when i had an
opportunity to do a workshop and a lot of people go oh why do you do a
workshop you should just jump in open mics i needed
structure i need to be playing baseball at arizona state i needed
some place to go and every wednesday i would drive to westwood from tarzana
and i was really excited to go do my little two minute spot in front of my
classmates so that was a big check for me okay i like this so i'd go do it and
like i talk sandi's ear off after the show just i wanted
really to soak it all in and then i'd go by the the store and then
i did like one open mic and i knew i wasn't i did a graduating class at the
comedy store crushed in the original room 1993 packed
people coming up to me you have an agent this and that i felt like a comedian
and then like two days later i go to my first open mic out in chat's worth and
it was just like out in the valley it was just like
not good but i i understood i go i get it i just don't want to go this route
especially in my hometown i had something
something like a pride to feel like i'm not going to let this mc at a bar
kind of like talk down to me in my neighborhood you moved here from
somewhere i'm sure and this is my town so i knew that
and i stopped with the open mics and i went back to
ucla and i took a business of comedy class i wanted to learn everything
about comedy and uh i did that and then i remember
the the guide the instructor said if you want to do comedy get out of la
go somewhere else so it was either phoenix or i went to college or seattle
where i had family and seattle my uncle said they
really support the arts up there so when i moved up there in february of 94 after
this north ridge earthquake i was working at
macy's over on topanga and the mall got red tagged so i didn't have the job
there and wasn't making much money anyway and then i just drove up to seattle
jumped into the comedy underground open mics and just
you know the comedian treated me pretty well i was i was liked
there but i made it to the i found my voice but that was about it i wasn't
going to really get feature work you know it's like they knew me too well
so i was a guest spot guy and i worked at the comedy underground i learned how
to seat the audience i learned about a three-person show i learned all about
that stuff and uh doing the cable access working
for the sonics and then you said go to new york and i knew it because i needed
more see i grew out grew seattle it's hard to like
well you they know you too well where i started i went to new york and i just
enjoyed my time there but after three years i felt like
i was ready to come back home and then i've been pushing ever since like 18
years of pushing and pushing and yeah i don't know where my next gig is
going to come from but i do know that i have my special coming out i do know
that i mean i am getting it two to three spots i mean those to get taken away at
the comedy store who knows but i don't want to think about that um
but i'm definitely like i i do feel good about my comedy i feel like i've done a
pretty good job with that have i bought a house no but i probably could have been
better with my money i probably made enough money to where i could own a home
but i think uh i honestly i've talked about this
before i think if my father was still around but maybe my comedy would be
different if i had a girlfriend if i had somebody to kind of like keep me
honest you know keep me you know being a bachelor is difficult you know the
older you get and especially you're in comedy and this and that sort of thing
so it makes you look at things a little bit
differently you know you can get you can i could see why people get older to get
a little panicky keep going gonna get some fresh air
well do you remember you guys are talking about the comedy store and bro
you're a big fan of baseball so as a comedy fan
the store is pretty much like fanway park or what whatever what like yanky
yanky stadium whatever and i had the joy was very nice and put me on his
belly room show and it's just i've been i've done a few maybe i don't know 10
15 stages at this point yeah but just having like like there's a difference
with the crowds there and it was just it was like a crazy like my my legs almost
were shaking it's it's pretty intense just even i was in the belly room which
is the smallest of the three but it was still like i don't want to say the word
religious but it was just it was a very emotional like experience
your adrenaline gets going you realize where you are
and i don't want to run the light so i think i did like 10 seconds after the
first that's every 90 days when you go into a
a club that you've read about heard about you know
your legs go out for a month i was watching lee and but i was watching
everybody that night it was so electric in that room that you could bomb and
they were still gonna laugh like i could bring a dead guy into the
fucking back of the room in the sonic electricity in the room
yeah would have held the shoulders up like the fucking 10 man
it was amazing let me ask you this how important
for the younger comics for people like lee how important
was the underground fear from 95 to 97 98 to 11
very important doing those open mics getting
you know signing up for the open mics driving
you know to the comedy underground going to the number one teriyaki next door
and then you know being around josh wolf yourself
tana yoshi remona and then having all these
you know pretty successful comedians who work the cruise ships up in seattle and
then i just enjoyed me personally i really
enjoyed my time up in seattle because i was in that i was in phoenix i was in
the desert i was so third i need i had a thirst for culture
thirst for pierce earrings and capital i needed that
flavor and culture so seattle gave me that and then just
the comedy underground doing the open mic every monday and tuesday and carol
you know running the open mics and all the characters there and
being in pioneer square was kind of cool i enjoyed you know the baseball that
the mariners were playing at the kingdom they get maybe three thousand a game
the players like the oakland a's and the indians and the yankees they'll be
hanging out upstairs so i really do uh
you know i mean of course we all miss our time there was it was cool but
i'm you know i'm i'm probably i enjoyed my time at the comedy
store also enjoyed my times in new york um but the
definitely seattle was was good for me and being
being a part of the the sonic selling the t-shirts it was a breeding ground
if you really think about it look at you name three guys
including yourself to the still in the fucking game
yeah and they're making noise down here that was a breeding ground at that time
we didn't even know it we had no idea for me it was carol because
like when i go to the my friend donovan who was on the podcast two weeks ago
donovan patin has been going over to the fifth fourth wall
and his wife told my wife that she goes you know
i've been with donovan for a while and he really enjoys going over there he
says it's very supportive when you get into comedy
like when i started i started doing the comedy works
i was doing good with some people with some people you know how some comics are
right you just can't do nothing to win them over
you know and you're looking for this home you're looking for this home then i
got thrown out of there and i end up at seattle and after a month
it was home
right now i watch you liana i see how important that is for you over there
you're going up up there like i always say you go up you want to go up without
a safety net well over there you're going up with a safety net they like you
they like you not gonna get booed not gonna get a bottle thrown at your head
they cheer for you when they're your friends or you guys cheer for one
another i see that that's a great environment to grow in
you know it's when i'm doing well and brody's doing well
and brody's got a camp and i got a camp and now every time we go in there we
try to outdo each other but rod long has his camp
and uh you know sal whatever has his camp
so it's just that's terrible and i try to up bump him and he like the comedy
store before this shit when it was any griffin and
dice and moody and you know it was a great experience
but you look at it compared to now and now it's like there ain't no bumping
you want to call them for spots you call them for spots we'll let you come in
one time tonight and bump but once you get that light it's
ten fucking minutes we'll shut the microphone off you understand me you
like uh yeah like the word got out what why do you
think that is uh the case now people are more accountable for each other due to
social media that sort of thing or no the comedy store
was mitzi created a haven for people to grow
but she also created a haven for people to hate
oh really she created this little haven where
she kind of inspired that in a way i don't know how to say if she inspired it
or she thought it was necessary for the growth of a comic which is really is
it really is it really is hard one day when you and me sit there every night
smoke dope or do coke and drink and we're pissed about li's success
you know what man i still remember giving li jokes he's not fucking funny
fuck that motherfucker he ain't funny a little jew
fucked and then one night you catch yourself
you go look at me how am i supposed to grow
when i'm hating on my friends you know how many fucking people would pull me
aside and give me an ear beating about josh wolf when he first got his deal
and for the first month or so i joined in a few times i'm not gonna lie to you
but after that i was like wait a second this guy's my friend regardless of
what i think it's not really what i think or what
fucking he thinks it's what they think that's number one number two
we don't have time to think about josh wolf because we're too busy
thinking about ourselves why do i give a fuck what lisa had is doing or he ain't
doing that's when you know when you go to an
open mic go into an open mic is like
working on a tv show and watching extras the extras are always either stock
brokers and they can make you a million dollars
or they're good friends with james cameron they don't have a fucking story
but meanwhile they're an extra and you sit there and take their story and go
oh my god really meanwhile he's looking at that
time clock going i wish there's overtime i wish there's overtime
but he's telling you he's a millionaire and he owns a yacht in san diego and oh
i was watching the guy the other day being extra and in between takes he was
trying to work this girl tell us she can make a ton of money
and i'm sitting there going look at this fucking barracuda
look at this guy it never stops this is the fucking home bread for sexual
harassment this is sexual harassment was invented
nice black girl with a big ass tight skirt and this white guy is trying to
sell a fucking goats in fucking
arizona some shit sitting going when does it
fucking end with these guys but no it's been great for your journey
and now now this special you tape this is the one that was going to see so
yes and then they pulled it well see so went away see so went away
and my agent manager they fought or sold reached out and now it's going to be on
amazon on june 22nd i believe is the is our date
and you can pre-order it and it's uh i i shot it at the comedy store i think
uh i'm not going to say it was a home run
necessarily but it captured it captured what i did
at that night and at that particular moment
and it was me basically doing my late night spot at the comedy store
i'd been doing that spot already for like three or four
three years at the time and i said well you know what i put so much
so much of my time into this spot why not
you know capture it so i always wanted to do this
late night special like going up in that last spot after the room has been
beaten down and what time is this about
um i well normally after midnight so i tried for my the special
we did two shows they we did it in the main room
and i guess they did the first show we did around like around 10 o'clock and i
and i went on probably around uh 11 ish and the room was too crowded
actually and i did well i got laughs i did i'm not going to say i
yeah maybe i did crush but it was a regular looking
kind of thing the second show we started
after after 11 and there was you know maybe 150 people
did it because we had good comedians bill burr was on it and
i think i feel vaughn was on it so it was a good show
but by the time i was going to go on there are still a lot of people in
so i said let's we got to put on another comedian let's put on
so we had don barris coming and don goofed around and
made things you did put his don barris touch on it so then i came out
and uh there was like i don't know 35 people in there
spread out and i did my late night comedy said i'm doing a special i was
that was my angle now here's the deal it was a year and a half ago essentially
and i think i i've become you know i'm definitely a better comedian now
but that night what we did i've seen it i haven't watched it
probably for eight nine months i'm happy with it i'm not saying it's a
it's going to change the world but i build it up
like it's my big special it is kind of my big special
and people probably expect to to have a full audience and everything and the
and the crowd is there you know busting audience paid audience so
it was a real audience who didn't know me had people walking out i go how dare you
walk out this is my special you don't do that
and then had a couple of the comedians i left the mics open if they wanted to
interact with me and so that i was just basically making it kind of like what i
was doing late at night and i think we captured
that so i feel good about it i'm curious to see how the reaction
is going to be but this is something i feel like i could promote
meaning like i promoted my tv show but
you know it was kind of weird promoting me going off the rails
promoting me acting out on twitter and being detained at starbucks promoting
me talking about psychology which was it was just
interesting but the comedy with this i feel good about it i feel like uh i got
a bunch of my jokes in it was a lot of yelling a lot of
excitement but that's what i was doing i was taping my
special
he warned me at the beginning of the podcast that this was going to happen
i think it's going to be like 18 fards lots of farting
where can they get an amazon the farting no the your special a lot of
dairy um well it's available it will be available
on amazon and yeah maybe it will uh lead to me doing you know more late night
midnight shows i don't know um but i think it's kind of i
also there's a couple cool little things in there
i think people will like they'll be pleasantly surprised there's a couple
nice moments and also i'm promoting the comedy
store i'm actually talking about how the comedy store is
the place to be and how but it's it's tongue in cheek
uh some of that stuff and silly music and some backstage like me putting on
makeup and stretching so i got all that stuff in
and i'm curious to see where it goes and i'm already thinking about what my next
specialist i feel like you just got to keep cranking them out
and not to say that there's going to be another one but i'd like to think well
okay i got this now i can work for my next one
and i really need to think of myself as a comedian and i've made that concerted
effort probably for the last three years or so
to like let people know i do stand up so like when i put out a tweet
promoting a show i put that microphone because people knew me as oh
you're an audience warm-up guy oh you are
maybe you're a guy on chelsea or whatever i don't know
but i put in my mind i have to think like hey i'm a stand-up i perform at the
comedy store i'm doing it so and i think people do
look at me as you are you have made it people do
joey's got his hands they uh i think he's getting a fart ready that's
he's getting a fart ready but it's been a it's been a long
for fucking weeks you're the same
you know see i gotta bite so i'm coming
but i um you know i i think i i do get a little uh i get
tension sometimes i think like with some of the guys at the comedy store
i think because i know them too well i think like i butt heads
sometimes with the guys and sometimes it's on a podcast or it's on a video and
i feel that that gets to me a little bit i don't i don't like
having things like that happen but also i feel like
coming i'm i have good relationships with the comedians you know people don't
always know like like the eyeball check you gotta be there you have people like
have opinions based off a podcast people have opinions based off a video they
saw of you but they don't know the relationship between
two people two comedians so sometimes that stuff gets to me
but i know and i think the comedians know that i've been on the ground floor a
lot of stuff and i i definitely don't feel hate from
comedians but sometimes fans and maybe this is twitter maybe this could be me
jumping in comments which i don't do like i pick up on some of that so
but i butt heads at times but that's also me being in those situations doing
those late night crazy spots you know that it's like doing warm-up it's like
last to be hired first to be fired i'm like almost
too nice sometimes i'm being nice and uh i'm not saying people take advantage of
me but i just think i remember growing up
here in the valley i get sometimes i would get picked on for being a nice guy
people what was on your business card what's on your business card
i'm a nice guy or please be my friend what's the other slogan yeah i'm a model
in pakistan yeah you set some funny business cards
oh bro let me explain some to you one thing about you is you don't know me
anything you put your time and i was there with you in that
basement with roaches i'm 95 that's basically what that
fucking underground was a basement with fucking roaches oh
yeah and big-ass roaches you know but once you saw
the roaches it didn't really matter because it was home
we were so lucky to be at the fucking underground
on mondays and tuesday nights we'd call tormenting
reed oh oh reed al fox al fox torment right we both went to war with al fox
yeah he's still around i think he does motivational speaking up the last i
heard you had multiple let's look him up we al fox
seattle i have that video i i remember you and al going
at it hey fuck you poor al
yeah we learned you know but i think seattle Jesus that was like a
a zillion years early what a fucking time yeah
i think seattle we were right there this is like before amazon this is right
be i mean amazon started in seattle when we were there
they amazon started in pioneer square is it two x's
yeah i find is linkedin let's see you know we were there at a pretty
happening time like the foo fighters were just getting started sound garden
nirvana was you know happening we were there at a
hot moment uh not a hot moment but seattle was kind of like on the tail end
of grunge the comedy boom was dying out somewhat
but seattle was just i think a great spot to be pre social media
pre crazy internet was like the last bastion of
there he is of art there he is right there the winners don't quit as though
he does grow down he's number three go to number
three the pictures look at this beauty right now the other way the other way
right there number three look at this beauty
right there he is al fox that's him hey i'm al joey you don't talk to me that
way i've been doing comedy now for five
you're brody you're not funny to me al please brody get away from me al i
enjoy motorcycles right i've faded on that one pretty good
though right good acting he was he used to get pissed off
it what would you do to him you know he had like a
handicap issue something happened to him get a brain injury thinking for a
motorcycle accident see if he could wikipedia oh my god i'm loving
al fox hasn't wikipedia al fox motorcycle he does no no motorcycle
all right just al fox okay we gotta break his balls
motorcycles i gotta say you gotta hit by a motorcycle well i think there's a
story behind it well if it's on wiki then we'll read it but i'm not way
throw him under the bus i didn't mean to do that he really got hit by a
bus to book best i don't think he's listening to this podcast
them he has to be watch he's gotta be
you know the facebook louis fox just look up
but it was different doing open mics in seattle it was like you would get
real audience you would get al fox winners don't quit association right
there al fox is a founder and president of the not
for profit winners don't quit award-winning comic
send them an email brody me to inspire and enable all people young and old
those with disabilities and those without to accept the life they've been
given where's the number i don't think he's in the office right now
right there don't matter leave messages bro leave messages bro
oh my god okay this poor guy's gonna have to change his number tomorrow
then hit him up we're not gonna give him that i was on the screen for a second
yeah it's all right but then uh contact al fox and then messes
Lee tell him this is brody stevens and he wants to do a tour with him
no no yeah yeah yeah yeah as as motivational speaker or as comedian i can
be doing motivational whatever you want to do both the years of killing the road
you take him out for a week we'll tape it we'll sell that to anybody
i've got a sidecar motorcycle sidecar he could motivate for you so wait
four to five just watch it off the screen and call them up put it on speaker
phone what if he answers just hang up do what normal americans do
making a call back who the f*** is this
oh my goodness
you don't do that to me
he's embracing change your call has been forwarded to an automatic voice message system
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you may hang up or press one for more options
hey al it's uh long time friend here brody stevens what do you think we're having a great
conversation uh my pal joey d as al fox you bad mother f*** are you
we're just uh talking about seattle your name came up a lot of good times
joey and i we're still we're down here in LA having uh we're having a blast we're
still we hope you're still going it looks like you are positive motivational speaking
winners don't quit kucksucker winners don't quit get a complimentary three chapter sample
of al's newest book al's got a book coming out jesus joseph and mary's out sending us the f***ing
book will you and cut the s*** al fox winners don't quit association embracing change inspiring
people to believe in their own possibilities he knows what it is he wrote it oh he wrote it
leave me alone leave my business all right nobody asks you take a second have another mint
al we love you buddy we love you i was thinking about you that was fun thanks for letting us call
you okay stay black stay stay stay black we gotta call them back and get that
oh you want to hear that again yeah all that was that was classic okay al fox you can't you
can't write that s*** right that was funny that was fun you can't write that's just to let you know
people we're not we don't have bullshit yet or bring you bad entertainment i mean buddy why you
talked to me that way al please at least we're telling you the truth here so we're lying al please
and that's the most important thing wait your call has been forwarded to an automatic force message
oh that's beauty
that f***ing beauty oh that was funny that we had read oh who sold pills on the first of every
month she had like big shipments of valium all those pills that you know not xanax enough
went that way she was getting hard s*** she was a he she was a he before it was cool yeah
got sent him an email we telling we were talking about him we love him we want to put him on the
f***ing winner don't quit association tour you want to send him an email right now right now no tomorrow
morning okay yeah right now send him an email please tell him listen we want to put you on the
winners don't quit tour contact lisa i had the coordinator but there was something about doing
you know doing oh he gave you his cell phone i don't want to call no we
i like to he's going to call us back in 24 hours eight million people on the f***ing line nobody
gives you their cell phone i won't lose this poor bastard he gives yourself from right now we call
him the way come up right at the balls look at him look at him pour out he's a good f***ing dude
there's how giggles there you go s*** giggles terry taylor terry taylor and i was doing it
before terry taylor with the vietnam vet what's the guy's name uh jump what was his name he hated
me but i used to get him for work i'm gonna put your name down wouldn't you like tinker with everybody's
act like said he knew seinfeld that was this thing like seinfeld wouldn't do that tell you to work
clean and s*** i would work dirty and then when he would pull up in his maserati or whatever the f***
he had when he would come into the show room and work clean and he just walked through the back for
about 48 seconds and he'd go into the kitchen and you'd go right back to your act oh really yeah
so he was only in there for 40 seconds tops he would stop for one beat to listen to your punchline
make sure there was no f***s or nothing dirty you could see him walking through
and as soon as he walked in the kitchen man i finished up with the headliner up i drank at
the tab there so you enjoyed your shows there yes i did you know at that time man listen it was 1996
97 yep i was happy to fart in a f***ing glass do you understand me do you think you did that tonight
i've been in prison i've been in a f***ing war with my ex-wife and now guess what i wasn't living
in no high rise and i wasn't paying the f***ing $10000 a month mortgage but i was keeping the lights on
yep paying for groceries yep and paying my side of the rent with comedy money yeah sometimes it took
an eight ball of coke sometimes it took 50 hits of something you know sometimes it took whatever
but every month i was starting to make payments with comedy money and that was the best feeling
in the world and if i show you those notebooks today if i bring the notebooks to you
from 95 to 2004 you could see the like i wish today i could take those notebooks and put them
into a computer so they could put a graph together and do something for comics like a seminar to show
them the slow escalation of the money and for 10 years there was no money there was no money
but it went from 8,000 to 9,600 to 11,4
in 12,8 to 100,000 one year whoa whoa whoa then back to 14 the next yeah you had commercial or
something yeah or warm up gigs 100,000 one year then 14,000 next oh yeah all i did was
triple runs and headlining gigs that's 800 a week but i was making 14,000 a year off comedy
that means i'm not fucking in the fucking i'm making more money than if i was poor poor poor
and i'm not i don't have to live under any restrictions once i started making 14 grand a
year 16 grand a year 20 grand a year you're all right you're okay as a comedian you're like okay
i can pay this i can make this happen you can make this happen because you're getting money
you're getting 1200 a week a thousand a week you're gonna beat the road for everything that's
worth if you could stay on the couch you're gonna stay on the couch if you could stay on the floor
you're gonna stay on the floor if you could fucking what's that shit at bnb you're gonna
have bnb but you're gonna commit to it and that's when you really make that little extra money on
the road you know there's so much money in comedy in the beginning but there's not but if you
believe in yourself in today's comedy world with t-shirts and cds and pins and just a variable
for everything and the content that you could put out in the daytime you know everybody's come
everybody wants to be on netflix but you could still become a star on youtube why doesn't anybody
know that because everybody thinks that you're gonna put a video on youtube and if it doesn't
everybody who puts a video up expects the video to go viral like they're not going to do any work
they just want the video to go viral right and put up as many videos as they can but they don't
understand that for a video to go viral don't get me wrong or nobody could put a video up him
rocking up and down with a cat and get a million downloads because it's cute i'm talking about the
guy that promotes his social media six months before he releases his stand-up seven minutes
i better get out there and start doing it that's a big difference that's a big difference people
will give you a three-minute clip to let you know that 30 are coming out on youtube that's a big
difference you just gave me something so now i'm committed to you know you're gonna live tweet when
you do the youtube thing you know let me tell you something if i couldn't get a special on netflix
today i'd shoot three ten minutes set to the ice house and cut them down to seven put them on youtube
yeah take those numbers go to youtube and get them to give me money for the next special
because youtube is about to start buying content they just hit big with the karate kid
25 million views the first fucking day or the first three days they're gonna come and they're
all over the world they're in position they're like communists they're all over the world they're
in position all they need to do is just raise a rifle and go oh god what but i feel like um
it's a popularity thing i see i see youtube numbers and i feel like comedy it is subjective
i'm not comparing myself you gotta give me a reason to fucking you gotta give me a reason to watch you
okay like anything else friends everybody loves raymond
but what happens if your comedy is different like i feel like my comedy it takes a little
while for people to get that's fine you do something very unique always remember that
you're not doing what joey d is and what fucking harry's doing and what duncan doing with your
rogue is doing with bill burr is doing you're doing something that
what's the toughest thing you ever drank like what's the toughest booze that you said to
yourself you know what that was okay but i don't know in lee's world
i guess probably tequila i mean i like tequila gets you drunk maybe vodka throw these people's
tequila just like me once they understand where brody's coming from they fall in love with brody
when i watch brody doing what he's doing i'm kind of jealous of brody in a lot of ways
because that was my world i had found a way to make you love me after about 20 months of dying
on the 12 30 slow pot it took me honest to god let's just say let's just say for break even
took me 16 months i may be lying to both these and everybody listen but it took me that long
to figure out how to destroy it that spot but once i figured out how to destroy the 12 30
12 45 spot it became a different game for me yeah it's a different game and when i watch you
i watched you about eight months ago i was down at late one night i watched the first three
benefits you bring them into your world it's that guy at 12 30 who has that funky fucking show
on tbs but you can't watch fucking those three fucking guys tonight you're not in the room for
kimmel kimmel's got that fucking horrible fucking chick i don't understand what she's saying half the
fucking uh jimmy fadlin's dancing up and down with obama's wife well i don't mind with that big
ass i just don't want to watch dancing i feel like laughing and the other guys got some political
guy on there talking about taxes i'm in the mood for that let me put that crazy guy on that's up
there with a fucking thing yelling at the audience and they fall in love with you brody that's a
different gift i saw it that night i saw it like i'm fucking eight months ago like i told you i was
driving home i'm like brody's come a long fucking way and then i saw it before you shot the special
i'm sorry and then when they told me you had shot the special and you were shooting it and see so i
picked it up i was really happy i was like this is gonna hit this might become like a like right
now you have nothing to lose if in the next year nobody picks you up come over here let's talk
because there's a way for you to do a fucking show at midnight by yourself in your kitchen
my kitchen eating blending protein swingin kettlebells going over baseball scores
this is an hour show if you want you can have a guest if not you don't need a guest showing your
cat your dog pictures of your youth yeah i've got all those talking to your mother on the phone i do
that today on my podcast bro i don't even need to know i know what you know that money for you i know
because i don't want today on the podcast i know you 20 years i mean right while you're talking to
the fucking periscope the phone rings at your mom yeah what are you doing what the fuck you think
i'm doing mom i'm doing a podcast i told you that 20 times oh oh i thought you meant the call
you at 12 20 no because you're actually gonna tell the call you at 12 20 i call her for the podcast
right tell her to call you and then when you call when she calls you insult her
and she'll go no you told me 12 20 mom please i'm doing a podcast why would i tell you to call
me at 12 20 embarrassing mom leave it on leave it on i didn't tell you to call me yes you did
that's what you want that confusion yeah i can do that yeah yeah tormented a little bit telling
oh and then hit it it's like that uh don rickle story when he went over to the table and he saw
well sanatria he went over to sanatria do me a favor i'm having a tough time with this girl
oh come over and say hello after you finish that sanatria goes up and says hey man how you doing
and don rick goes frank what the fuck can't you see i'm eating yeah i remember i know that joe
that's fun that story that's it man you know you have a good product it's just getting out there
and that's what nobody understands you're not going to put your shit on youtube a million people
gonna watch it i wish it was that easy i wish it was that easy you have to give them a reason
you have to give them a reason on on twitter and facebook and instagram and for them to go home
when a chick pops up and goes hey click this link i'm gonna show you my pussy okay how can you do
that without showing somebody your pussy um your pussy is your video over you doing eight minutes
at the store at midnight yeah how that's the same american ingenuity that you have to figure it out
and how many times have both of you clicked on to a chick that's luring you're on a collect you both
have at one time or another you didn't know some hot asian chick is that click on my link look at my
pussy and next thing you know you're in fucking china at a knitting factory with a bunch of chinese
women singing communism songs and shit we both done it how did she get you to open that up she got
what we like it's like when i saw the wrestler with mickey roark i knew about the wrestler nine
months in advance the producers did something to make me know that this movie was coming out
nine months they planted the seed it's the same thing with cds or anything you're gonna do hey
june 18th i'm coming out with something i planted the seed i want people to go in there what's going
to make them go on that count and circle the 18th what would make you circle a date the dentist
the doctor or some chick sucking your dick or you having a gig for money how can i get you to
circle that number for a comedy show or stew 22nd amazon yeah um you could pre-order it's the same
concept believe always look at it that way how can i get from you what i want it's the same thing
only without all the bullshit they just make it so much bullshit for you to think it's a special
thing it's not fucking special we can all do it chicks do it to us all the time how do you remember
to pick up a chick at 7 30 on the fucking monday late you've got a lot on your mind you remember
to pick her up at 7 30 because she's a sucky dick oh i missed that yeah she's gonna circle the calendar
i'll circle a calendar fuck yeah i'll do a circle also circle jerk the calendar i know you will
so june 22nd when is it coming on it's going to be on amazon june 22nd brody stevens live
from the main room and i'm happy with it i haven't watched it to be honest with you like i said for
like probably nine months so i'm curious to see i think it will hold up hopefully and it's it's
happening whether i like it or not and i do like it so i think i can do uh i got to start promoting
a little more this helps i want to say thank you for that please do me a favor you know this guy's
family pre-order the fucking thing what's going to cost you two dollars pre-order it support
brody stevens he's church family he's my family for 20 years you guys know i love him uh i called him
up last week just to figure out what was going on hadn't seen him at the store and one thing led to
another and i wanted to come back on the podcast i know he lives close by and i know he does late
spots mm-hmm fucking it's nice and cool mm-hmm well i do a podcast in the daytime and sweat your
ass off we could do one at night the cool fucking uh valley i like it we had the breeze coming in
through the kawanga pass it's great to see you and it's great to see the damage you've done
even going back to the best dance board show when i would sit there at rich williams and
yeah i'll listen to you fucking just make me howl with those kids you would make me
fucking howl i would talk rogan rogan you got to see what he's doing over there and just that whole
thing that whole experience i think i still have that tape let me in the best damn sports show
tom ornall's roast yeah do you remember that yeah we roasted yeah i'll have that tape somewhere
that was way before the longest yard and i told michael ervin on that tape that we're going to
work together pretty soon you guys did and we ended up doing working together i wonder where
that fucking tape is now people would die if there's a croc croc bill bill mar bill mar um
the girl led the lady who won not moisha mo monique she won the mo she won an academy award
you know who else was on that the girl who left us and went to abc monday football lisa guerrero
yeah what was she she's uh like on inside edition we still have any fucking legs yeah we've had uh i mean
so many people through the best damn sport show and i think people are more nostalgic
looking back at it gets a lot of love and you know we were there you were there crushing it live these
weren't tape pieces these are live to tape but you were doing it live right there in the middle of the
show and that was always impressive to see i mean i was right there on the floor while
doing your thing it was an education i mean they'd be over you know on there in one side of the
studio maybe doing the news thing and you'd be all the way over on the other side like behind a
you know in front of a green screen just knocking it out doing your stuff or always uh you know
really uh a pro there so i saw that you and uh lawny love was on quite a bit so you guys were great
and the guests were awesome and we were really on uh you know a ground floor of sports and comedy
and all those guys are still working chris roves is on you know mlb network and everything
john sally's got cannabis clubs everywhere he's vegan uh john croc is doing philly's broadcast
michael ervin we had michael stray hand steve harvey jeff dunham i brought that guy back
you know he was down nobody was into him and then george greenberg the producer
loved this jeff dunham puppet guy and i would push those puppets push it push it and next thing you
know this guy's because jeff dunham was successful at one point then he went down low and then he
came back and i feel like best damn sport show we got him back we we'd get those guys coming by to
like rehabilitate their careers like daniel baldwin and you know michael ervin even had a lot of
problems they put them on there and you know we had steven a smith getting started jalen rose
so many people that uh that are still where all the guys with mlb on fox with a rod and
all those guys doing the world series they're all from best damn sport show and they went to the
nfl network so you that you know i feel good about that i feel you know a sense of pride that
i brought the energy you brought it the guys on the show and that's where i learned a lot of
you know how important energy was because it would affect the show do you get these kids
these inner city football kids slouching and i go guys we got to sit up let's go i play baseball
recita you know you got to like talk back to him a little bit and the kids would respond and the
coaches loved it like you can really dig into these kids and i go you play football right you see
michael ervin right there he's got three super bowl rings you want to meet him well let's start
picking it up a notch let's go energy matters and like that would pump up the show same thing like
at uh when i did warm up for uh joe rogan at the man show you were on that and and same thing you
know doug stanhope is like pumping up the audience going for it and like believing in it and being
i was really into the show so but i saw especially a best damn sport show how energy mattered how
caring mattered because i just saw the results it was a that the show went on for a thousand shows
and then i went to chelsea and i did 400 there and i saw the results and i just tried to show people
that there is something to it there is something there you can tap into it and i think like it's
been harder it's harder to like get crowds to go with you on things like that you can't yell at
crowds anymore you can't get on them they'll turn on you you know before you let you would say like
guys i'm busting my i'm busting my ass up here you gotta help me out i'm not making that much money
i park in the same lot with you guys let's go like now that they would like fight back on you
like that you're a teacher you're a cop you're an authority figure so the last few years i've been
like butting heads that's why i've gotten out of warm-up somewhat because it was just friction
whereas i was at best damn could really like not yell at the kids but you can shake them up you
yell now you would you would say some from time to time you know you sit near talking about best
damn and the show with joe and stanhope just it just uh strengthens what i was talking about
that i saw you on this journey and you saw me on the same fucking journey every every week on
there thing here we are 20 years later in fucking north hollywood in the fucking valley yeah you're
and uh i want to wish you the best of luck tweet it on june 21st and we'll retweet this
i'll tweet it out remind the church family what's going on on instagram we'll have a one by one
podcast and i want to thank you man and i want to thank you for being growing up to being a
fucking gentleman and uh believing in your thing because you're still here you could have quit a
long time ago and went back to sea after my girlfriend and gave guitar lessons on alchai beach
for the small 20 years so thank you very much i want to thank lisa ab before i go real quick
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away
Could it from another room I was waking up just to fall asleep?
Those lights in the sunlight
Days out in the garden bell with a broken neck
Lacing my broken gift
Just the lights from the sunlight
When my last stitch was my last breath
Glancing for me, for me, for me
She lived like a mother, how she flies so sweetly
She lived like a mother but she died
Those lights from the sunlight
Could it from another room I was waking up just to fall asleep?
Those lights from the sunlight
Save that time I blew the cage with a lot of pain
I ran out of rage
Just like suicide
I ran out of blood, and bit of blood
I feel for you, I feel for you
She lived like a mother, how she flies so sweetly
She lived like a mother but she died
Those lights from the sunlight
When my last stitch was my last breath
Glancing for me, for me, for me
When I run out of blood, and bit of blood
I feel for you, I feel for you
I feel for you
I feel for you
I feel for you
I feel for you
I feel for you
I feel for you
She lived like a mother, how she flies so sweetly
She lived like a mother but she died
Just like suicide