Uncle Joey's Joint with Joey Diaz - #591 - Steven Brody Stevens

Episode Date: June 7, 2018

Steven 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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Starting point is 00:02:33 Thursday morning oh shit one more lead one more breath if you think so freeze royal mint thousand milligram bottle you either yellow I've had two wait one or two hours in full effect may last up to eight hours uh-oh
Starting point is 00:03:26 I love these fucking things anyway what's happened you bad motherfuckers uncle 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
Starting point is 00:03:55 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
Starting point is 00:04:24 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
Starting point is 00:04:58 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
Starting point is 00:05:32 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
Starting point is 00:06:10 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
Starting point is 00:06:44 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
Starting point is 00:07:15 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
Starting point is 00:07:52 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
Starting point is 00:08:24 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
Starting point is 00:09:07 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
Starting point is 00:09:47 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
Starting point is 00:10:24 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
Starting point is 00:10:59 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
Starting point is 00:11:32 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
Starting point is 00:12:07 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
Starting point is 00:12:33 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
Starting point is 00:13:05 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
Starting point is 00:13:37 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
Starting point is 00:14:08 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
Starting point is 00:14:39 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
Starting point is 00:15:15 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
Starting point is 00:15:47 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
Starting point is 00:16:21 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
Starting point is 00:16:51 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
Starting point is 00:17:20 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
Starting point is 00:17:57 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
Starting point is 00:18:30 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
Starting point is 00:19:02 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
Starting point is 00:19:34 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
Starting point is 00:20:04 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
Starting point is 00:20:31 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
Starting point is 00:21:02 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
Starting point is 00:21:35 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
Starting point is 00:22:09 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
Starting point is 00:22:41 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
Starting point is 00:23:11 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
Starting point is 00:23:42 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
Starting point is 00:24:13 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
Starting point is 00:24:45 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
Starting point is 00:25:21 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
Starting point is 00:25:56 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
Starting point is 00:26:28 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
Starting point is 00:26:55 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
Starting point is 00:27:33 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
Starting point is 00:28:03 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
Starting point is 00:28:35 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
Starting point is 00:29:11 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
Starting point is 00:29:44 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
Starting point is 00:30:16 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
Starting point is 00:30:48 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
Starting point is 00:31:21 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
Starting point is 00:31:52 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
Starting point is 00:32:27 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
Starting point is 00:33:01 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
Starting point is 00:33:38 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
Starting point is 00:34:08 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
Starting point is 00:34:42 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
Starting point is 00:35:16 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
Starting point is 00:35:48 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
Starting point is 00:36:20 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
Starting point is 00:36:55 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
Starting point is 00:37:38 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
Starting point is 00:38:16 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
Starting point is 00:38:52 $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
Starting point is 00:39:29 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
Starting point is 00:40:04 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
Starting point is 00:40:44 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
Starting point is 00:41:20 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
Starting point is 00:42:00 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
Starting point is 00:42:35 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
Starting point is 00:43:04 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
Starting point is 00:43:31 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
Starting point is 00:43:59 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
Starting point is 00:44:30 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
Starting point is 00:45:09 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
Starting point is 00:45:46 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
Starting point is 00:46:21 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
Starting point is 00:46:54 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
Starting point is 00:47:24 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
Starting point is 00:47:53 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
Starting point is 00:48:24 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
Starting point is 00:48:51 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
Starting point is 00:49:23 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
Starting point is 00:50:00 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
Starting point is 00:50:35 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
Starting point is 00:51:06 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
Starting point is 00:51:40 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
Starting point is 00:52:14 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
Starting point is 00:52:47 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
Starting point is 00:53:20 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
Starting point is 00:53:46 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
Starting point is 00:54:16 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
Starting point is 00:54:46 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
Starting point is 00:55:23 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
Starting point is 00:55:57 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
Starting point is 00:56:24 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
Starting point is 00:56:57 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
Starting point is 00:57:29 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
Starting point is 00:58:01 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
Starting point is 00:58:34 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
Starting point is 00:59:05 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
Starting point is 00:59:38 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
Starting point is 01:00:07 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
Starting point is 01:00:43 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
Starting point is 01:01:19 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
Starting point is 01:01:54 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
Starting point is 01:02:25 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
Starting point is 01:03:04 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
Starting point is 01:03:36 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
Starting point is 01:04:10 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
Starting point is 01:04:44 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
Starting point is 01:05:17 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
Starting point is 01:05:55 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
Starting point is 01:06:30 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
Starting point is 01:07:08 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
Starting point is 01:07:43 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
Starting point is 01:08:16 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
Starting point is 01:08:52 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
Starting point is 01:09:24 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
Starting point is 01:10:00 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
Starting point is 01:10:33 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
Starting point is 01:11:08 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
Starting point is 01:11:37 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
Starting point is 01:12:16 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
Starting point is 01:12:48 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
Starting point is 01:13:24 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
Starting point is 01:13:57 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
Starting point is 01:14:26 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
Starting point is 01:15:07 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
Starting point is 01:15:39 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
Starting point is 01:16:14 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
Starting point is 01:16:45 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
Starting point is 01:17:21 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
Starting point is 01:17:53 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
Starting point is 01:18:25 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
Starting point is 01:18:57 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
Starting point is 01:19:28 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
Starting point is 01:19:59 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
Starting point is 01:20:34 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
Starting point is 01:21:10 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
Starting point is 01:21:45 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
Starting point is 01:22:19 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
Starting point is 01:22:52 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
Starting point is 01:23:29 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
Starting point is 01:24:04 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
Starting point is 01:24:42 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
Starting point is 01:25:14 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
Starting point is 01:25:44 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
Starting point is 01:26:18 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 is not available at the time please record your message when you have finished recording
Starting point is 01:27:01 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
Starting point is 01:27:42 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
Starting point is 01:28:28 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
Starting point is 01:29:19 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
Starting point is 01:30:05 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
Starting point is 01:30:52 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
Starting point is 01:31:50 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
Starting point is 01:32:58 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
Starting point is 01:33:45 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
Starting point is 01:34:38 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
Starting point is 01:35:23 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
Starting point is 01:36:08 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
Starting point is 01:37:01 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
Starting point is 01:37:56 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
Starting point is 01:38:42 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
Starting point is 01:39:28 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
Starting point is 01:40:09 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
Starting point is 01:40:54 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
Starting point is 01:41:41 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
Starting point is 01:42:30 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
Starting point is 01:43:18 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
Starting point is 01:44:02 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
Starting point is 01:44:56 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
Starting point is 01:45:44 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
Starting point is 01:46:34 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
Starting point is 01:47:22 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
Starting point is 01:48:10 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
Starting point is 01:48:56 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
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