Uncle Joey's Joint with Joey Diaz - #748 - Brody Stevens Reloaded: Re-release of #634: Steven Brody Stevens

Episode Date: December 30, 2019

As we look towards 2020, we wanted to remember one of the great friends that The Church Family lost in 2019, Mr. Steven Brody Stevens. Brody and Joey met in Seattle when they were both doing open mic comedy, and were friends for more than 20 years. Brody is a favorite on the show, and this is a re-release of Brody's last visit to The Church. Happy New Year from Joey and Lee, we love you and cant wait for an even better year in 2020.  We love and miss you Brody! This podcast is brought to you by: CBD Lion - For all of your CBD needs, from shatter to gummies, go to www.CBDLion.com and use code CHURCH for 20% off.    Onnit.com. Use Promo code CHURCH for a 10% discount at checkout.   Hellotushy.com - Go to Hellotushy.com/church for 10% off of your order of portable devices that spray your butt with water.

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The church what's happening now, baby? Yeah, one more day left in this fucking year, and then you got a new start in life a new start 2020 just think all the shit you do the good shit the good shit not the bad shit You're leaving it behind baby a decade is gone Here we go Fuck this Monday morning Oh Shit here we go with the murky water

Time to drop that fucking quailu It's Monday. We're doing the extended version. Just to make sure you're up Stretching and you thank God gave you another day Stick it up like sparking That's not the attitude you have in 2020 choke yourself right now It's gonna get harder, baby Doesn't matter what the line is it's Monday morning the church of what's happened now

It's myself and Lee. We're just doing a quick wrap up show Not to leave you out there fucking hanging everybody else is leaving town and what now listen Thank you very much for a good year. I don't know what type of year you had I Know you had ups and downs. I know you had losses and you had gains But no matter what you're two feet around the fucking ground and you're still ready to go 2020 is your year listen. They all can't be a year. They all can't be a month and they all can't be a day. I Pulled the hamstring. I almost ripped it. I was scared. I had a cancer Miami in New York and Boston all worked out I got back. I lost the cat. I made a promise to 12 years ago. Not enough to drugs

You know, we all go through things. It's how you go through them Pass them move on and go on to the next level of your life. And that's what I try to do with the church The church isn't for fucking rich people or for people fucking think they're cool. Oh, this is for people who You know, we're always the fucking on the dog and it's and we love being the end of dog I love being the end of dog. I fucking enjoy it because you know what I always win when I'm a fucking on the dog And you're gonna start taking the same philosophy It's been a great year, you know, I didn't have to meet shooting these specials. I Didn't have to fucking do any contest or anything like that

The goals I wanted to achieve I achieved which is to be a better comic To be healthy to be a better father To make this podcast a little better to be a better husband and to learn to be a better friend The Monarch New Year's Eve. I don't know what the fuck you guys are thinking. I know 30 years ago I was thinking about fucking doing whatever but for you people didn't know I didn't get high on New Year's Eve I got the high every night except New Year's Eve since 1984 When my friends here got bit off and I couldn't answer from because I was too fucked up 83 so I got high

360 something days of the year except New Year's Eve. How fuck well you completely sober or just not Smoking some joints. I always wanted to pay attention on New Year's You always want to pay attention on New Year's. Yeah, you're having a good time They think you're drinking but you got a fucking coke with a fucking lime in it They think you're drinking a Cuba Libre. You're always watching. That's the way life is you're always watching Let the fucking morons lose control in public and not know what the fuck is going on Then the next day, I lost my cell phone. Somebody robbed me somebody fucked me in the ass while you're passed out That's what happens when you pass out in the TP. You know

Anyway Yeah, what the fuck the reason why I do this wraparound podcast is just to let you know that It's not over man. It's not over. It was just a fucked up year shit happens This time of the year doesn't make it fucking any worse Because this puts pressure on you, but hey push all that shit aside because you're alive You've got a plan this year and you got the church. You got us worst case scenario You don't have your no friends. You got me and Lee you listen to us twice a week

We're there with you. You got a question. You hit me up my message on Facebook on Twitter and we're right there What is this is not a? Podcasts were with stars and we're looking down on you. We're better than you we're in the same rudder's year I go along learning something new every day. Somebody told me something. I'm gonna tell you guys something For the next year and then we'll get the podcast started up a Wise woman last week watched a one-man show at the comedy store and after which she said she enjoyed it But she comes from a Buddhist background Which is always a good background because it makes you question a lot of things

And she asked me what I wanted. I told her an array of things. She goes. I want you to write down What do you want? What do you want? What do you want seven times and then write down the answer? And I did it and I came up with some pretty fucking cool answers So if you don't know what direction you're taking 2020 into Listen man, nobody needs for you to lose 200 pounds Nobody needs for you to be 20,000 dollars richer Nobody needs for you to fucking do anything. Just be a little bit better than what you were in

2019 that's it. That's all we ask you Just be a little bit better if you fucking Whatever You're gonna do just a little bit better this year. That's it. Just be human. Have a good time and Make sure that it's not you listen. I know people who got money coming out of their assholes And they always got a saw puts on their face The other night I uh, there's an app

Called like ABC Yahoo or some shit. It's for kids My wife made my daughter write a letter to Santa, you know, the toys she wanted and shit, but I guess this Yeah, we talked about in the last podcast this this thing And she wrote down that all she wanted to do was be happy and it fucking blew my mind That a six-year-old could figure out the answer That took me fucking 40 years to realize Because we all get confused. We think that girl's gonna make us happy that boats gonna make you happy Having that cause to make you happy then you get it and then what?

That's the beautiful thing about life that we never think about once we get that goal then what? Now what the fuck are we gonna do? Listen with happiness you can never lose, you know, just go to be happy. It's not about money It's not about bitches It's not about real estate deals or who you fucked in the ass because when you're fucking laying in that casket Well before you put get put in that casket, and you're taking your last breath That's not the shit you're gonna be thinking about You're gonna be thinking about the good times that your kids your wife's your girlfriends your friends

You know be a better friend than 90 and to 2020 Be a better friend to yourself, you know And that's it man. This is a fucking simple fucking life Only we make it harder on ourselves with pressure Listen to people listen to yourself at the end of the week who pays your bills you do the fuck you listen to that fucking jerk before Made me listen to yourself. You have natural fucking instincts And listen man. There's the time of the year also

What people's mind straight don't let your mind straight go out be around people this year The comedy community and you guys because you guys are part of it. It's not like 40 years ago when Freddie Prince shot himself and you didn't know what a fuck pretty pretty Prince was You know God rest his soul this year. We lost a comic He was a great friend. I knew him since he was a fucking kid And for a couple months. I was numb for a couple months. I was angry now I'm rapping 2019 up with him because I

Learned a lot from him. I learned that We have friends and we have to use them. Fuck you and your fucking psychiatrist that you pay 164 You give me 200 a week. I'll tell you whatever the fuck you want to hear. You ever think about that You ever think about that you fucking idiots You're giving some fucking jerk off guy a lady 180 a week to 80 a week to 20 160 140 And they just tell you whatever they fucking and you yeah, you feel good for a while, but you know what? What's the problem with buying your best friend a cup of coffee at Denny's and talking to him and letting him know him because of this shit This is why Brody took his life in February

So this last podcast of the year. I wanted to bring you open and let you know that fucking you got this You got the world by the balls. You got everything to live for You might think you're painted against a wall, but Joey I'm sleeping on a tile a bitch I slept on a towel to in 1995 enjoy it could have been with no Liam. You know I'm saying Be happy with what you got Think about your friends and think about if you get into a bind that you also what you always have your friends This is the last time Brody Stevens at this podcast. I don't want to end the year with this podcast I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Thank you

Yes, we are here feeling good Relaxed in the moment. I'm comfortable. I've been on the show. Good to see you guys Lee and Joey Always great to bump into you. You know, I was thinking about who I have on this time. I said fucking Brody Stevens I just saw him at the store. Let me give my fucking. I'll have a yeah It was yeah, I saw you at the store showing my face. See you how you doing call me. What time are you spots usually I? get Normally I'll do Friday or Saturday in the main room closing it out, which is like 12 30 1245 late and then occasionally I'll get an earlier spot in the original room like a 1045 or an 11

so Adam the Booker and they mix it up for me, but I get two to three spots a week But I make the most of those if I get those main room spots. I In and I go up at the end that's I get to spread my wings and do my own thing and that's what I made my special Based on doing those late-night main room spots, or I'm just kind of letting it go So I still do those I've kind of you know I've done it already so I'm looking to do something more but getting some motivation for you know But they switch it up But you got a hustle got a play the laugh factory got to go the improv got to do these other shows got to show your face

Listen the hustle never ends. I Guess it's a batch of men as cock or sold out four shows a mass square garden And I'm telling you every day every all of the struggle Whatever level you're at comically, you know stat whatever right every day You got to get up and face it at work and fucking, you know Whatever it is that you do to get you know closer to your goal Whatever the fuck it is, you know, it was interesting. You were talking about the beginning of the show That you're done with the meds you're done

Well, I have been for how long now? Four months. How do you feel good? I mean my mood is low. I feel like I have to build up my Rewire my brain a little bit and my body I think that it takes Several months to like get it out of your system and then you get used to being different But essentially I feel like my old self, but that doesn't necessarily like pre-comedy because I'd been taking these Some kind of an antidepressant something to take the edge off Since seattle, you know, and I only had I had a year or two in New York when I was not really on anything

But being here in Los Angeles since 2000 I think Yeah, the pressures maybe of the internet made me you know all these just so many more things happening But initially I started taking it in seattle because I'd get up there and do comedy and it would I wouldn't feel right I wouldn't I felt like oh brody. You're funny. You're funny playing baseball Then when I went up there and did comedy it was it was rough. So I I did take something to help me Have the edge taken off. However, I feel like 20 years now later to say you're only on a med because It helps your comedy is kind of like a a weak excuse

Well, listen before by the way, it's I think it's I called it just to stay safe I always said it was november 15th But it was more like the 8th or the 9th When I gave up cocaine and this is 11 years 11 years coke free this week. Congratulations 11 fucking years coke free something that I never ever ever thought I could live with that Mm-hmm like something that I thought But if I got off it, I wouldn't be funny

That was my biggest fear of getting off the cocaine Was that I would lose my sense of humor. Yeah, so when you said that before the show started I assured you that that does not happen you know, uh, I don't know what your history was With meds and I didn't want to put it on the front street, but you put it on the street. Well, and you know what man there's a lot of people who listen to this show that are on meds and Maybe it's maybe you inspire them to maybe go, you know what I'm gonna give myself a chance

I'm gonna try to live my life. I'm gonna try to get a good control Uh, good. Uh, what do you call that around you a good support support system showing your face fucking important The support system around you is the most important thing, you know I took Kate Quigley to the new york county festival And Wednesday night I had all my friends meet at a chinese restaurant and we all ate and Little by little kept she kept seeing my friends and she goes. I understand you now a lot more You know, you've kept in touch with these people for 40 fucking years And they support you and you know instead of me going out and buying a bmw and getting an assistant

I call one of them every day And I hear them telling me how they have to call me back because they're delivering a package for federal express And they tell me how They have to drive home at 8 but go back to work at 10 because a ship is coming in and they got to count stuff So when I talk to them every day, it keeps me grounded It says to me fuck They're 55 and I have a friend who delivers. He's 56 My brother he delivers fucking packages all day for federal express

I would give up If you think I could deliver packages federal express today You better fucking shoot yourself if I had to climb upstairs all day and drop off boxes That's not gonna happen. I would quit in the middle of the day Depends on what city Any city I think I wouldn't have I don't have it in me to the little bit packages all day right now There is no fucking way even if I was 50 pounds lighter

100 pounds lighter There is no way at 55 That I could be walking up and downstairs. I know there's plenty of men that are doing it The amazon guys, I'm sure when I speak to these guys that I grew up with You know what my one friend says he wraps on the weekends To make us an extra $200 a week for his family So during baseball season He goes up on stage, you know, he goes up on stage. I'm sorry

He fucking goes to a little league field at eight in the morning And he's dead at six at night on saturdays and sundays after he delivers Fellow express all fucking week. Oh the same guy same guy don't make 175 dollars for the day So his family can have an extra 1,400 a month And I'm like bitching about you're having a gig for 400 bucks Like you know I'm saying right when I talk to them it keeps my life in perspective It keeps me in check. I don't want to be surrounded with people who Look at life or like a value

I want it always always, you know So that's who keeps me grounded. That's my support group Those little fucking friends I call in the morning and just how I break your balls. I break their balls I know when they're busy I know when they're busiest and I call them then I call them again You know I'm saying these are friends back Backies or all over all over just saying hello saying hello because it keeps you fucking ground I talked to bobbling us today. All right. I'll listen from the podcast, you know

Tomorrow I gotta call bobby sharing every day is somebody You know and these people keep you humble Is it also just socializing keeping those? I love my friends in jersey. Yeah I love them more every time I see him I see him for 10 minutes And it means the world to them and it means the world to me When I'm home, I go to breakfast at this one. I go to the sea my mother's cemetery with that one This one takes me to get Cuban food. This one takes me to Rudy's

This one drives me to chance. So I have a different relationship with all of them And I talked to them and you know, I have a friend who 55 went to MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology The one in New York the New Jersey one, I think the one where people were fucking geniuses, you know, he does He delivers bread From midnight to 11 in the morning for 200 halls of ship. Whoo He makes a thousand bucks a week and sometimes he works Saturday nights All night delivering bread in the village, but he's got to work from six in the morning with all that traffic

He's got to get over to the jersey side And I wouldn't fucking want to do that at all at my age again So all these guys keep me grounded So whatever keeps you grounded from The evil in your mind coming out or whatever the fuck happens to all of us That's the most important thing and I'm telling you this is a 55 year old like I'm an old fucking man And I wish I knew this when I was 30 Yeah that you have to have three people four people

And you breathe for them and they breathe for you. No questions asked Yeah, I have friends. I need to I mean, I'm from here. It's a little different That's an excuse though. Like my best not my best one of my close friends I still like lives up near magic mountain. I should probably call him. Maybe tomorrow. I'll call him I'll call him take him to lunch I'm just having done it make a deal with him that you we're gonna make sure and meet him every two weeks for lunch I need to get the same diner to eat the same bowl of soup Whether it's a Jewish. What if I have an audition

Who gives a fuck that's the problem That's the problem that we forget who we are Because we have the audition. I had a commitment with you Every sunday at 11 o'clock You have to make that commitment Tomorrow, you know pisses me off tomorrow that today was my heavy day So today I lifted and went to kickboxing Tomorrow, I don't know how I'm gonna wake up how my back is in the field

If I miss jujitsu, I feel guilty Because I had a date with jujitsu when I get a fucking call for an audition on a tuesday at one I get pissed Because I gotta miss jujitsu right when I got a call for a fucking meeting To meet somebody at two o'clock in hollywood. That means I can't go to jujitsu I gotta do the conditioning and I get fucking pissed You know, I don't want nothing to interfere with whatever keeps me grounded and I wish

That I had known this when I first moved to LA and I did have a grounding. I had people like Ralphie May and yourself and josh wolf and whatever but Nobody protected me from myself, which nobody could ever do Nobody could protect you From being you it takes you to protect yourself. I know right? How hard is that? It's hard. It's hard You know, it's that's why you need, you know having family having a wife or a husband or a dog or something or

It's you gotta you have to build if you don't have that you got to build up your support system You got a it just takes effort It takes effort and you want it and be a good person. I think but also getting out of the house It's just with the internet these days Social media it does affect people. Well, how long have you lived alone brody? Probably now for great question. Lee probably now for six years because like I lived alone for Eight years something like that and even this weekend. I was like some things happen that I I know what I mean. I was just getting into my head. Mm-hmm and

I didn't I talked to a few people but I know most of the damn by myself And even just as terrible as I sounded I was just driving and I just was thinking about what's going on with the fires And I was like, you know what this is That really doesn't matter Like what's what I'm going through is in the grand scheme of things. I'm making it worse in my head So I think it's harder sometimes as a person who lives alone to like get out of their head Well, yeah, I mean, that's why I well one I go for walks actually getting out and then I do that periscope I do talk. I mean, I'm not hearing their voices, but I am doing these check-ins. I am

Connecting with my community. There is something Uh true to having a your audience your fans. They do mean something. So I do lean on them some sometimes more than others so You know having a roommate I had a roommate back My old my last apartment and he was a really good roommate. They're hard to come by But I think yes being social and when you are living alone and you're It it could be you got to like make it happen But when you if you like I said like you called me today Joey, I didn't know, you know

This was not like something that was booked. It was energy I feel like you got to be in it to win it That's half the battle so And not feeling sorry for yourself But uh, I think having a roommate you think that would be better like no Because trust me I I haven't had a roommate since college and that's oh really. Yeah, it's But I have sacrificed Financially for it. I could have saved a lot of money by getting a roommate and

Or even if I was spending the same amount of money getting a bigger place But I I live with someone for a year and even he would say when I did it that it's like I'm a very I'm a very much introverted person. Yeah And It takes a special I can't live with that many people. Okay. I like my space I like I like to go somewhere and have no one like to to unplug like something that's been kind of A struggle for me that I have to work on is hanging out after comedy sets I don't feel comfortable really

Hanging out after yeah after the show. Yeah, so you have to and then what talking to the other comedians talking to the fans Audience members. I mean the people yeah the people who come it's a little bit different. It's quicker conversations I can ask them if I can talk and be like, hey, what do you do and this and that? but and I have some friends that I do open mics with now right but uh I don't unless it's a few people like two or three people I could hang around for an hour if it's seven or eight people I'll hang around for like 20 minutes. So you just want to get out of there. Yeah I just want to go home and you feel like that's not good. Yeah, I think I need to be a little bit more so

I mean I'm more social already, but I think it would be beneficial if I was You know hanging out yeah to know people and I'll get more personal basis I mean that's why the comedy store is so popular. Yeah, you can hang out you hang out there, right? You come by there a little bit Yeah, and I've been I've been I just have to force myself to to stay and And uh do I haven't I've done it like twice in the past week But one of the times I had a show so it didn't really I didn't really count it as just hanging out But you set up you go like on uh, you know, whatever night once or I have to start doing that more

I've been avoiding it. Yeah, because everybody's hanging out there. They're all similar same Likes and you know, you're at the comedy store right and then you're gonna Meet other comedians. You're gonna meet fans. You're gonna be around people all that stuff. I mean, that's why I go I I go to I know I have a place I do the same thing. Yeah, I do the same thing I forced myself to go to the store, but let's back this conversation up Because these are some interesting fucking things that are happening here. Okay, just now Lee and I when we first started doing the podcast We started in my apartment had an extra bedroom

and then And this is not I'm not hating on Lee people Lee knows what I'm about to tell you people And then Lee got an apartment and it was a two bedroom And we do the bed the podcast out of his apartment and I love Lee Lee has come home my home. Lee knows my family Lee could come to my home whenever he wants. He knows that. Yeah I know from doing the podcast

that year in Lee's apartment And how he acted That I have never been back to one of Lee's apartment Not because he's a bad person. He's always hosted me. He always had Diet Cokes for me His apartment was clean. Okay. Okay. I just know Lee I know from me being who I am That Lee there's people who want you at their house There's people who love open up the door

Go and come in come in sit down take your shoes off put your feet on the table Get there. There's people who are naturals at that. Yeah, there's people who are fucking naturals at that They want to entertain. I wish I could be one of those people Okay, so just that relationship of me going to Lee's home in the morning To do his podcast and at one time there was a girl sleeping on his couch I could see that the effect of when that girl moved out on Lee And I tried to tell him not because I'm a hater Before Lee told me he was going to let his girl from move in I go Lee

From a standpoint of a fucking Old man that reads people and is a loner. Remember guys. I was a loner You put me in my room by myself as a kid. I was alone. I was an only child as long as I got a fucking record player and a tv but Something happened to me in 1987 and 1986 Something interesting happened to me and I'll admit this on the air right now and it's called something But it affected me in a different way. It's called cabin fever. Okay the same thing that happened to

To the guy in the shining. Oh, yeah, okay. So what happened is an aspen the spring of 86 My my girlfriend who became my wife said it's the off season. Everybody loses their job So instead of sit all the restaurants close, right? Everything closes. I mean it goes from being By heavy duty fucking people jumping off clips with bikinis on to april 15th Nothing like nothing like from traffic to six cars and the only thing that stays open is a supermarket At least this is how it wasn't 86. All that would stay openly was a supermarket for limited hours

Because all that was left was the residents of that town people who worked at the Instead of there being nine bars now. There was a hotel with one bar open And that's the way it was till mid june Then the bicycle races came and the hot air balloons came and then it became people come back up Yeah, but this is six weeks banley That I had to work Three hours a day Some days just to open up the video store

And I could look at you guys in the face and tell you that There were days I wouldn't even open the door the door Then this is no drugs. This is me smoking pop popping video after video in the movies Video after video just watching movies. Yeah pissing and shitting in between Eating something in between making a shake. Yeah, I did that you could do that back then I did that for six weeks Well, it's like a film festival had been really weird because before that I lived in new york

And I had a hustle and I was out of the house every day by eight o'clock Stealing selling drugs. Yep stealing fucking tampons and selling them on the new york side to bodegas up on the Washington Heights. I was just a fucking, you know And those six weeks affected me I started to twist a little bit. I started to get bad thoughts not suicide You know, I'm coming back and murdering my stepdad and just bullshit Dumb stuff. So from those six weeks I learned one thing from my personal mental health

It was always good for me Get up cup of coffee You know go to your balcony hit your joint twice Yep, get your head together. Yep, right out of plan for your day what you want to accomplish for the day Like in written form in the paragraph so they have feel great I got eight hours to sleep And take a shower and get out of the house even if you have nowhere to go

And make your bed actually it's so healthy for you But if you look at the questionnaire for depression It's It starts with that Being alone and not getting your hand forced You know, I'm not crying but you're getting your hand forced to do something a lot of people Don't like their hand forced when you say hand forced If you get a roommate you can't do what you usually do act like a fucking gavone and just sit on the couch all day and watch videos

Okay, now you have a roommate lee made a point that he's been living alone But if he had a roommate, maybe he'd get out of the house more I believe in getting out of the fucking house. I think it's I think the sun has amazing powers I think the air has amazing power, you know, there's sundays. I'm feeling the whole um And I know exactly what it is. I haven't jumped in the shower It it's it's proven walking is beneficial for you for your brain for your body for everything So there's there's no the only the only thing somebody would say about walking you should be doing more

You should be then turn it into a hike the bottom line is walking Helps anybody and help if it's helping you and especially as a performer Yeah, mental met just mentally I go out and I walk and a lot of the creative ideas come from when people walk I do my periscopes at home walking. I check in with people and then luckily we're here in Southern california and we have that sunlight so I I do You know at least I'm doing that. I always say like I'm not a couch potato I'm checking in even if I'm doing another periscope and I'm playing drums. I'm sitting on a swiss ball. I'm exercising

so I'm trying to at least You know show people like being active and if I don't do a periscope or you know, I don't do an instagram video people are Going to go. Hey brody. What's up? So they kind of it's It still doesn't beat having an actual physical person with you It's a little bit of an AI thing when you when you have relationships With your audience members that you actually don't even hear their voices so you do need that human interaction and

Part of it is having guests on a podcast I mean I've been to I got to the point where I wasn't even booking guests on podcasts. It was just me And you know the mic and the camera. It's like I need to be around people So I've made the concerted effort. I think the last couple months or so is like Be social put the put the effort out And get out of your head just so and I see results. I gotta at least try I mean Listen you and I like it. You have to be in your head to be self-conscious

But I don't want you to be this self-conscious that you destroy yourself From 79 to 85 Walking was my psychiatrist Walking with and without an ipod pad on whatever what'd you call those a walk man walk man disc man walk I walked miles and that was my psychiatry. Mm-hmm. I would just walk Walk walk get your steps and walk walk. I didn't do it for health reasons It was the psychiatry. I had a breakdown What had just happened in my life and how I was going to make my future better

and it would be smoking a joint and walking from Clipside Park to fucking Englewood and back Six miles or something Of retardation just wasting time. Mm-hmm. I was Pre what's that called procrastinating? Yeah, that's what I was also breaking it down What had just happened and I was breaking down my next attack And I finally had the balls and it took me and I launched an 85 that was my attack But that was a year of walking. So you were walking before you were doing stand-up

Like stand-up wasn't even in my future. Okay. Prison was in my future at that time. Gotcha. And I was a walker walking away Like if I lived here, I would walk Towards fucking, you know, sunlin. Mm-hmm every day, you know on a slant with an ipod I would force myself to walk by myself no cell phone in your pocket No calls and break down what had just happened in my life The death of my mother how I was going to survive Was I going to go to vocational school? Was I going to go to college? Was I going to get my gd?

How was I going to you know, it was just a constant walking was my psychiatrist? You know today, I got up this morning early. There was no school today So me and my wife had a shared duty. So I got up this morning I got with her early watch television And then at nine I went and went to my Muay Thai little conditioning class But I remember before I walked in I got to the quarter of nine. I just stood there. I'm like, oh For four minutes and I just soaked in the sun By the minute and naturally I said to myself

Just being outside Is helping me, you know, I always tell people that you can take private lessons Or you could be in a class setting and I much rather be in a class setting So I have relationships with different people in that class because I'm the type of guy that I can get up at eight Go to Marie T And sit there writing to one

And then go home go to your office get on social media for an hour return emails and then Talk to my wife Talk to my kid and I could stay home. Mm-hmm And I could do that for three or four nights in a row And that sucks deck that makes me go crazy It's kind of the reason why I call in for spots at the comedy stores To force me to get off my ass

And go down there because you can't cancel No, so you have to go down there When I'm driving back from the comedy store, I feel so satisfied at the end of the day But I accomplished my mission for the day even if you have a bad set even if I have a bad set It's not about a bad set for a guy like me It's about the same two things you guys are talking about human contact Yeah

That I mean that's That's what then you need it. We're human beings. I'm talking about as soon as you wake up I want you to give yourself an hour for you I want you to take that hour I always think when I get up in the morning I thank the Lord that he gave me another day and I thank the Lord that I didn't grow up I'm not growing up in the house We're at six thirty in the morning

A bomb gets dropped in your house Lee's getting shaved. I gotta wait for him We can't use the bathroom because Brody took a shit and it smells like fucking 10 people died there The washing machine broke so the fucking your shirt's not ready. Now you gotta iron it by hand Everybody's getting up in a bad mood And now you gotta get on the train in a bad mood and everybody's late to work I fucking hate it that shit. That shit did not fly in my world I know I needed to get up. I need a little break in the morning

I put music on I get coffee. I sit there with a notebook. That's wide open. I put Tuesday, November 13th on it And I say it's a beautiful day from to be alive and from there I just let and I don't stop till the end of the page So your journal is a journal in the morning to get the waste out today. I'm gonna do this this this this I fucking don't want to do it because the 405 is gonna have traffic on it I mean, I talked myself out of everything I could talk myself out of so it's all over after that page My day is decided. You know what I was gonna do. What's his name is podcast? I'm not driving to marina dowre

I'm texting him at nine o'clock in town. I'm you're in no danger You know, that's when I decided that how I feel If I wake up with my back hurts like can't move then I'm not gonna go to jiu-jitsu at 12 Let's make alternate plans. Who's got a podcast? You got a podcast here. When do you do it? Wednesdays? Thursdays? Well, let's do it tomorrow at 12 That's how I work because I don't want to skip I don't know when I'm gonna be available But it's about also, you know scheduling stuff scheduling stuff and always keeping yourself busy

This business what we do let me tell you something and I'm not gonna do this to None of you people anymore because I know sometimes when comedians combine here Fucking in today's world It gets crazy If you get caught up in today's world between the internet. Oh, yeah the media Oh, yeah, and what's going on? You are gonna go crazy. Yeah, I'm not gonna mention no names because I'm not here to embarrass somebody But I think we have discussed that we've seen a couple people lose their minds

Within the last two or three years. Oh, yeah on the internet on the internet in public We've seen we've heard of people losing their minds There's too much information getting poured into the human mind right now. Yep. So right now you have to learn how to control that too You have to learn how to control that too and decide On what level how much of this are you gonna take in? You know what? I'm listening to 11 podcasts a week That's 33 hours. I gotta chop it down to five You do

You know what I'm watching too much fucking football I gotta chop it down or we're just sundays no more thursday game I'm gonna take a shift to fucking chilies as I cook You know what I'm saying? Like I'm gonna take an extra shift You have to control what gets put into your mind right now Because of what's going on in the world What abc news is feeding you and when the internet is feeding you It really really is overwhelming for the mind

Yeah, I well, I don't look at the you know, the abc news really I'll glance at those guys But I listened to I listened to kfi local radio here in LA, but I go on the internet for my news and it's uh It's I mean it's a battle out there to be honest with you how it is and I wake up every morning and A lot of times to be honest. I'm up in the morning. I'm looking at that internet I'm looking at that twitter and I'm look I'm trying to find things and I I do my sets at the commie store I come home. I go straight to to twitter and I'm not on there like getting fights of people. I'm just researching stuff I'm researching stuff and

I feel like I'm ahead of the head of the game on on what's happening And I feel like the last few years with with the politics the way they are it has kind of taken Taken pulled me into an area at least my energy not necessarily. I'm not getting into fights on the internet I'm not that guy, but it does get your blood boiling a little bit but I do avoid it, but I also I'm digging in I want I want I want honestly. I want everybody to be happy I want to do whatever it takes to get it back to where we're happy and working together and

That's what I'm pulled in there to and it takes takes your time and I feel like I'm not a part of that mob mentality I'm a little I'm a little different. I'm blue collar. I'm from the valley grew up, you know, and it bothers me What I don't like seeing comedian friends of mine Angry on Twitter. So I do not I try not to not try to block it and not see it, but it's a bummer for me and And uh, so that can get to you. I feel it's a tough time to be a human being right now. It's I feel mentally If you get sucked in it's a tough time to be a human being right now You have to know your yin and your yang and your borders

You know, you have to make time for yourself You have to take care of yourself. Yes, you have to you know You're talking to a guy that lived in his head for years and it got me nowhere It got me nowhere. So I expressed what was in my head That's right started getting places, you know We overthink things And in the process of thinking we think ourselves out of the game

Right nothing to think about You got the idea you got a piece of paper You write it out And you go to work So you weren't you weren't journaling during the years you were in your head Not even thinking about it There was no journaling There was nothing there was no journaling in my life

till 1994 Did I start journaling my comedy stuff? That's what I started and then I went to Seattle And there was a skinny woman. There was a comic that wasn't that funny older married And one day she turned me on to a book called the writer's Way or something And she told me I could borrow it for a few days and I read it And then there already I was doing in there it recommended excuse me

That when you wake up in the morning, you should get a fresh piece of paper And express your thoughts for the day And I was like I'm on to something If they're telling you this At this time this was the hot book, you know the book right the writer's way or the right was a gene parade No, no, no, it wasn't it wasn't comedy writing. Okay Writing and have self-help all yeah journaling. This is I learned that in college at Arizona State I never knew about journaling though

Comedy and when I used to get coked up I would journal at night You know like telling myself this is the last time I'm gonna do it. I have to stop this life Even though I had a good set tonight. I'm making good moves in my life. Why am I still writing doing coke? I think journaling is the best thing in the world for you. I think journaling Is the best psychiatry? I think every friday every saturday morning. I wake up and I had to read and I read what I read for the week I read what I wrote From monday on

number one everything that I write in that journal In the mornings gets done Plus I have another notebook that has my schedule Plus you have a calendar that has my schedule and you know, I have three things to know my schedule one is My day step by step 9 o'clock 11 o'clock 12 30 4 o'clock 5 30 8 o'clock podcast 10 o'clock spot at the comedy store

And then there's the journal part of it Right. Well, it's just a yellow notebook and every day I wake up and I write backwards to front So I start back and I write to the front. I don't start in the front I start in the back And I write to the front just superstitious I don't want to write like everybody else. I'm starting the back and I write to the front And it opens up with monday november 13th First line is always it's a beautiful day to be alive. That's the first thought that's just coming to your head

I don't give a fuck if you're in a ditch And there's a rock on top of you as long as you're breathing if you say that to yourself Your day isn't gonna be completely fucking different. It's been proven It's been proven people who pray The limits go up. You're not supposed to pray. They say though the thoughts and prayers You're not supposed to pray but saying that to yourself It's a beautiful day to be alive while you're pissing While you're pissing while that piss is coming out of you and your knee hurts

And your neck is stiff from eating pussy and that you got a blister under your tongue from eating pussy and ass It can happen and the chief got chlamydia. It still doesn't matter. Why are you peeing? If you say to yourself, it's a beautiful day to be alive Whatever shit comes into your mind on top of that. It's not gonna matter I gotta go record today. I'm broke. I'm hungry. I don't have money to pay the rent if you say that to yourself first It's a beautiful day. Every journal of mine starts like that. Right there is day november 16th It's a fucking beautiful fucking day to be alive Today, I got to do this. I got to do this. I got to go see this fucking scumbag

I got to go deal with this fucking piece of shit And whatever I got to pick the baby up at four But hey, you know what 20 years ago? I was fucking trying to stab somebody Look where I am today. At least I I'm living I'm breathing. I'm healthy I got my you know, it's just That part of it Yeah, well, that's why I like working on a tv show every day or working with maybe with the baseball team You bring that at energy in yes, we're here push. They people like that. They like that

energy bringing it lifting people up positive self-talk You have to do it because It does work. I know it sounds silly, but it does work To put that you're putting that energy out. It really is an energy of you're putting it out and it does I'm not saying it comes back to you, but you do put it out and people like being around it That's the thing people like being around that that's you know, it's a motive. It's like a coach. It's motivational upbeat It can be done and you can kind of train yourself. I would think At least to believe that it works, you know, it's not easy to do

But if you believe it, you know, it's there and that's what I and I learned that from I I learned at Arizona State about the power of the mind being Positive and visualizing because I saw it affect my pitching. I saw it affect my school work I saw it affect my my confidence I got everything out of out of baseball at Arizona State that I wanted And it's the and I and I apply those rules today like at the comedy store playing division one sports Was a big thing and I happened to go to Arizona State where we have a lot of players in the major leagues So I and we had access to professional baseball coaches there

And that's where I learned the visualization and then I see it around when I hung out with the baseball teams The Yankees the Dodgers and the Cubs and there's something to it. So I I'm not Trying to figure it out still, but I know it's something there, you know, and I gotta apply it to myself a lot of the time you know, it's easy to say but and You know, that's why I wouldn't mind being around in baseball. CNN did a thing that bothered the fuck out of me

It bothered the fuck out of me because I felt that it gave an excuse It had they had a docu series called the dark side of comedy The dark side of comedy Comics and they discussed Robin Williams and suicides and Yeah, and the drugs and the kenosins and all this shit and I agree with a lot of part of it, but I recently Dealt with some shit. I don't know what it was. I don't know what it was. It started like in march

And it went on till maybe the second week of july after I shot the netflix special It wasn't pressure. It was just a doubt this this this Form of depression that came over me, you know, it affected my stomach And it was just really weird that I found out from reading the old Journals about a month ago three weeks ago Like let me go back and see what I was writing in march. Yeah and One thing about depression is

Depression is a motherfucker if you let him in Yeah, okay So How do you let depression in? From getting into your mind and not getting sunlight And not having contact And I know all about it because like I'm telling you guys I fucking hate driving. I fucking hate it But those weeks that I'm in town all week

I thought I don't have to go on the road Sometimes I schedule something for thursday. Mm-hmm. That's out of my character And the whole week I dread it. But while I'm driving in the 405 and bumping a bumper traffic. I go Thank god. I got out of the valley Like thank god Like thank fucking god Like enough is enough. That's the other reason why calling for spots at the store Makes me get out of the valley

Yeah, we go over the hill every night every night You know, I know I can't do it every night But guys I suffer from the same thing you guys suffer from I learned about it 20 years ago Because I could 30 years ago. I could stay in They could put me on a fucking island. That's my dream guys That's my dream That my daughter grows up

My wife tells me she's gonna go and live in fucking new york and I fucking go, you know what there's an island for 60 g's Fucking the navy dropped bombs there 20 years ago and there's fucking nuclear reactive I've got a little chip of the island get some chicken coloreds You can smash I'm the type of guy that I could be alone all day With music marijuana. I swear to god drums I like drums weights A punching bag tv and internet internet or you will you podcast and parents go? No, no, no, no, no, no. Oh done lock myself in Oh, I could be one of those guys that I could stay in I could eat the same shit every day

I could eat a mortadelle or salami an american cheese sandwich every day Protein shakes I could live on one every day I'm a fucking creature habit So I'm the times I scan myself with that shit I scan myself with that shit. That's why I forced myself to get the fuck out I forced I went through that cocaine morning shit Well, you don't want to leave the house because the cops are watching you and all that. Yeah, no, no, no, no, no Ever since I stopped that I forced myself out because even I always knew that that was the dark side of the company

The dark side of comedy is getting into your mind, but it's not the dark side of comedy. It's the dark side of life Yeah, it's the dark side of life. It's not the dark side of comedy If you let depression in so as soon as you start feeling that shit Or that stuff that that gets you all around the boom. That's it. You're out of it But go smoke a joint go for a walk go for a walk Book a gig go. Hopefully go talk to somebody And I'm not talking about somebody that you pay I'm talking about go talk to a friend

A friend somebody at a starbucks who's there every day who sees you Just forcing yourself You know, I do a stupid joke about the universe. It's very true You get back what you put in yes You know, you're lonely go to a kickboxing class. There's eight people in there You're gonna drive with one of those people that one hour of you talking to those other people Don't get you out of your head Your phone's in the car

Your mother's fine The only person you gotta worry about is your mother and your father Everything else is bullshit. One of the brothers ain't gonna call you while you're in kickboxing class Nobody's gonna call you while you're in kickboxing class. There's times I go to like a jiu-jitsu class And I'm like, oh when I get in the car, there'll be eight minutes messages. No, you ain't got nothing nobody called you Nobody's gonna call you But just a thought of getting away from the phone Yeah, just that other thing just forcing you away from that phone one hour. It's in the car

And if it melts let it fucking melt. I got insurance. What am I gonna do? But just getting away from that's all this it all this is lately is we have Too much fucking information. Why do you think comedy is so big right now? Why do you think I'm telling you to do a show in the daytime? Because man, I wouldn't fucking say this if I didn't believe in it Five years ago. I would not believe this statement. Okay. People need comedy. They do we're we're we're telling the truth People love it. That's they love it. That's why Especially

We're the we're on the front lines at the comedy store We're here in hollywood and I feel like if you have aeroscopes, you're fucking just Watching you interact with the donor korean Let's say you did let's say you went to the same cold water and riverside Next to the dry cleaners. There's a Crab McGot juke place. There's a chinese donut in there. There's a donut in yeah on the corner I know there's a mexican joint there. Yeah, there's a frozen ice shaved ice shaved ice

Those people are real korean in there. I went in there one day to get a bagel I asked him for like a fucking and the guy tried to sell me like That that korean is ruthless. He's like, well, I'm pumpkin bagel. Listen You don't put logs on pumpkin bagel. I'm from near you. I'm saying he don't give a fuck. I have I have no onion, but I have A blueberry put a lot some blueberry and it's good for you. Oh good for you You go in there and torch that every day on camera for three minutes. That's a series For four minutes a day people will pay a dollar to see you go into that donut place And ask that motherfucker. You got any cinnamon donuts?

You know, I tell you I tell you yesterday. I got no cinnamon And you just run from there But I I know every day you open up and say, please tell me don't ask that guy every day for like I would if I knew that that china guy would get pissed off I walk in there every day knowing that he didn't have a donut And then I start sending people in this like that's the best Do you torture people to keep your brain sharp like you torture people just like Entertain like like you're like just doing it to like my socializing with a few patreon's. Oh my god

You have no idea how much fun you can have on the internet today if I had the time And the energy I just go into yum yum every day The yum yum minute just going in torture them how many calories in the donut And then like looking at you like, you know, they don't know the language You're going every day and you ask a different calorie. You never get a donut But that but that's the thing now today gluten-free donuts gluten You have almost like no reason to be not saying no reason to be depressed But there's so many outlets before like what if you're staying home you were sick

What do you had like 10 channels on tv and that's it now you've got so many Yes, there's a lot of drawbacks to the internet and social media and all that But it is there are a lot of positives associated with it He's got to be able to maintain it and also know that it can be used for some good Well, I mean times have changed. I don't know but you guys are in hotels every week pretty much Whenever I go to a hotel I used to love I would have tv on I'd watch sports center this and that I don't I I'll be in a hotel room for a weekend and not turn it on See, I watch see myself to leave a hotel room every two hours

Smoke a joint that's why I bring extra weed I smoke a joint I get the gym I force myself to leave the room every two hours and I force myself to leave the hotel room for a patch I force myself on saturday to go to lunch with somebody You know somebody from the club the club owner I do little things But just enough To scratch that edge

I can't go to a baseball game for three innings seven innings You know I do enough Just to scratch that edge So when you go to town you'll schedule appointments with people to keep that human contact going right I'll schedule a movie time class When I went to jerseys, we got to go private you get to class in jersey on friday You know, I went to the gym on saturday I forced my I have to Force myself because if not

I will sit in front of that iPad And I will watch sick. I you know what I love about the road What do you love you know when I go on the road to watch your iPad? Nope It's not to make money. I love to meet different people make people laugh I go on the road for friday night That's your night that's my night To go do a great show make them laugh meet people memories put out good energy I know I don't have to do shit on saturday morning

You like that that means I could go back and anything goes on friday nights Okay, that means that if you come up to me and give me two vikings I might go back to the room and pop one put on a pot of coffee Get a notebook out and I'll watch I swear to god, I got no reason to lie to none of yous I'll watch five episodes the sons of anarchy. Jesus. Lee. How much do I yell at you for watching tv a lot?

On friday nights when I'm on the road. Yeah, that's me. That's my gift for leaving my family I get a table I put my feet up with a pillow to elevate above my heart because I've just been on stage for two hours And I just sit there. I got to bring a vapor pen I bring nicotine gum Sometimes I bring a bag of doritos up to my room And sometimes I eat it sometimes I leave it for the maid

I get coffee going and coffee after the show In my room It's my night to do whatever the fuck I want On friday night after a show. I can't wait to get back to the hotel Sometimes somebody will give me a pillow or something and I'll hold it for when I go on the road To drop it that night while I'm in the hotel on friday night Like if you give me two vikings, I'll hold on to them And I know that when I go to portland friday night after the show, I'll pop two vikings and go home and I'll scratch

And I'll watch narcos And I'll watch four episodes of narcos and not blink an eye I could do that that to me is fun because I know I'm gonna get up and I'm still gonna go for breakfast And I'm gonna go back to my room and sleep another three hours I'm still gonna get up early and I'm still gonna go to breakfast I still force myself up to breakfast walk downstairs. It sucks, but I make myself do it Just to even talk to the waitress Bump into eight. That was a good show last night. Thank you. Then you go back to your room

Sleep for three hours get up. I'll watch a narcos right I'm out I'm back. I thought that two more hours riding out One and a half hours riding out out Go roll the joint smoke a half a joint hide it behind the building Come back. That's what I do. You know, I don't walk into the hotel with that joint my hand and the whole room smells I get the thing I put a rock on top of it And I come back two hours later and I get that stick the rock off it and I smoke the other half

And how do you stay disciplined on all of this? Is this what makes you happy makes the shows better? You feel this is what makes the show better. This is what makes me better this is We are creatures of whatever, you know, we And we have to force ourselves and I didn't know this you have to force yourself sometimes to out of your comfort zone

Comfort zone is a big fucking word, man. Mm-hmm. That's an ugly fucking word And once you feel yourself in that comfort zone get in the fucking car Get out of the comfort zone. Yeah, get out It was pretty funny Uh lead to the show this week And it was you know, I fell in love with brody I don't know 19 years ago at a bar in gig harbor. I'll never forget And I'll never forget what he said how he said

In the pores that he said it that's when I knew bro. He was real You know, he was on stage. Yeah, and I've told this on every night. He's yelling screaming In the middle of it. He turned around. He got and there was a bunch of Photographs on the wall. He's up on stage yelling screaming. He just stopped and he goes, how come there's no jews up on the wall There's next time I come here. They better be jews on the wall. I'll never come to gig harbor again I'm in the back with josh wolf. He's a kid. I'm howling But I fell in love with you, you know gig harbor. Yep. That gig was a gig of death Yep, cross of arizona's bridge. It wasn't it wasn't no fucking

Evening at the pops, you know what I'm saying? No, so the other night league goes down to eddie bravo's 15th reunion They throw this poor bastard on stage while the ufc's on He's up there And the korean zombie gets knocked out and poor lee's up there with his aim material in front in front of the screen thinking he's on conan Today somebody came up to me night. By the way, we were at the 10th planet party We feel so bad for lee. He wanted this. I swear to god I swear to god. They were like tough spot. Who the fuck did that to him?

I survived. I did I did my stuff, but it's weird He has he called his friend eric gay eric my buddy eric rocher And eric bought him a beer because he was so depressed. He you know, he felt it And I explained to him last night. I go, I've been doing comedy 27 years. I open for rogue and help him for dice I did all these gigs and I gotta tell you something after your career is those rooms You know when you get there and this and the seattle mariners are in the playoffs and it's a seventh inning and He's coming to the stage those tough roadies and you hear like boom

Boom, we want to watch the game put the game on well They got to do comedy and also the owner gets into an argument They do comedy here. We don't give a fuck about comedy. All right, put the game on but take the volume off Uh-oh. Oh my god. Yeah, that's pretty much what happened. Yeah, that's it You know and you're up there on stage dying a slow death thinking about career choices You just went on zip recruiter You looked, you know, it's it's fucking harm But then you do a guest spot at the at the underground

In seattle you tell them and that makes all that go away Because your strength isn't from going on stage in the seattle underground Your strength from going on stage at those places the hell gigs where they're not the youth hostels Yeah, well, they're not there to see you. Yeah, the bar I'm here to get a grandma born the gig harbor sucked And a chubby jew wants to go on stage and do comedy. Well, I got this chick by the ear Yeah, I got this chick by the ear and and some fucking jew and a fucking fat cuban I'm gonna go up on stage and try to be funny. People hate that shit

Especially when it's unexpected It's weird because I didn't I didn't I'm expected one earlier that weekend. It went fine It went pretty well But then I was I did a show on thursday at a birter place, but it went okay But I was talking to uh, Jerry Rocha and the guy who runs the show Justin And he was saying oh bear burger. Yeah. Yeah, that's a good room. It was fun. I've done it twice. Um But they were saying that they they did a show with someone who didn't get boot off stage Got talked off stage and that's pretty much I got I had a section of the crowd listening

but And what they were saying was it's not that they didn't like them until they were just indifferent They were just like the people the crowd was just talking amongst themselves so loud that the comic got off stage Well in those rooms is where you learn presence Yep, you learn how to fake the funk You learn how to It's a weird thing to describe You have to learn how to

Overtake them without overtaking them because if not you're gonna bottle throw that you're fucking at That's the reality of it. You know, I've seen it and I've heard about it You know, I was at a bar one night where they were flipping bottle caps at the cops Like you know, and you and they got like a red light on them and you can see the bottle caps whizzed And you can see the comics like ducking from time to time that still happens. No, I don't you know, I We know I haven't heard about it. Yeah, but there's got to be a fucking country bar somewhere or some fucking crazy bar Somewhere that they're still, you know, throwing things at people, you know, when we used to do Moscow Idol

They would send you 25 shots. Oh, yeah up to keeler with uh With Tabasco sauce Jesus and you had to do them. Oh my god. They blew you off the stage Holy shit, and you had a half hour and the the trick was to kill the feature And to just make the headline and go into fucking convulsions That's what they wanted to do. That's what they wanted to do. They didn't care about the company the first time you did a shot at tequila What you weren't on stage five minutes and they were giving you a prayer What was called a prairie farm or a prairie dog? Oh my god, they would give you

See what it's called tequila and Tabasco Blee Bellingham no, no, no, no Moscow. I know. Yeah close to Idaho state Yeah, wash the whole state university. Yeah, the vandal because that's the college that your blood so went to prairie fire Prairie fire. Let me tell you something Lee think about going on stage. Okay. Oh my god. You're opening up for I'm gonna just see oh see over at this hotel and it's all college students 200 college students and you go up on stage And five minutes into your ankle waitress comes up to you

With a shot you can't tell I like What's in there? No, I'm not drinking tequila time as soon as you turn on that shot It's gonna be a 25 and you can't get off because you won't get paid You can't get up because you won't get paid So they're gonna time the club owners and say you're only the 21. I gotta call the booker and see what to do Oh my so now you look like a fucking jerk off So you have to either Drink that shot

And take what comes with it because they're not gonna pay that and your material is not worthy of anything Just take the shots and talk about getting drunk with them That's what your 30 minutes is gonna be about. Wow That's what these road gigs are like. I did know I did that Moscow. I had a whole 10 fucking times And after the third time I got it. Sorry charlie. It's not gonna be any different First two times. I just bombed. I drank them the third time I puked In the sink. I'll never forget that I puked in the sink Jesus and then every time after I just brought cocaine with me And I didn't get sick anymore

The one time I had the bedspins Yeah, I don't want that it's fucking bad And there were 10 the big eight ball end in missoula montana was like that There was 20 bars that dog as soon as you went on stage Give him a shot of whiskey Give another shot of whiskey and you better drink them God forbid you had to drive to another gig than at night. There's no there's no drink You don't don't even think about it. It's over. You're sleeping in the car and you're gonna fucking drive 90 the whole morning

Well, I was thinking about this when you when you told me that brody was coming in I was like you joey and brody are probably two of the most Comfortable people on stage. I feel like you feel comfortable on stage can be yeah and Like it blows my mind that you brody will go on at the in the main room and do like the drumming like it's I just did the main room for my first time ever and I got there like an hour early right and was petrified Like how We have you always been that comfortable or did it take years to get that sort of like that's a level of comfort that most people don't have It took a long time

But you know once I went for it once you'd like take that milk and you pour it into that cereal You'd like got to you go for it. So I gotta be honest you had it The night I met you the night that you did that you had that already So yeah, I already had that I don't give a fuck I'm shitting my pants I don't give a fuck attitude I could tell you were shitting your pants, but you were taking chances

Taking chances, but we were young comics. Yeah in 95. I've been doing comedy for four years on paper But two years Come on motherfucker. Yeah, you want to do this about two and a half years Come on motherfucker And then they featured me for Laurie kill martin and I didn't go back to bold. I was like I found the home right I was talking about When I first found my real niche Like I was just going up there and trying to tell jokes and finding yourself and then one monday

I got back with the stripper She invited me to a house. We had tremendous sex. I fucked her in the ass came in a mouthful fucking thing. Nice She we went we went grocery shopping I had 175 dollars to my name Groceries were 140 and she looked at me and I paid for 140 dollars worth of groceries I had 35 hours. We went back to a house. She made me turkey burgers with mushrooms and onions With something on the side of salad It was 630

My clothes were there. I was in the stay. We were back together And she started talking about some guys. She had fucked And we got into an argument And I'll never forget that I said can I at least get half the money from the groceries and she goes fuck you Last time I paid for groceries. So here I am at the underground with my luggage Behind the counter everything I owned 35 dollars in my pocket know where to sleep And I went up there on a monday night and I said two or three jokes Lee

And I just went into this for years. I had that tape I gave it to Joe Rogan It was one of the first times that Joe Diaz came out That was when a friend he came out and went right back at like he got scared when I saw it on tape It petrified me I went up there and said exactly or what like I went up there and tried to be cute And all of a sudden I go who the fucking my kid I want to kill this fucking bitch. Yeah, I just went on a rant I just destroyed that room, you know, and I forget the bit I got from it like I got a joke from it

Uh, I'm dating the stripper. We were in love Everything was going great. Then I ran out of money something like Stupid and I just ran with it And then I went into the fucking ball and chained something And then I went into why and this is when oj was hot like that. Yeah 95 started going into why now I know why he killed that bitch And people like But that was the first time that I had done comedy

It took me four years to really find my voice and then I've said that's never gonna happen again Like I was so scared of that guy coming out They took five years for that guy to come out again. Jesus. So you have it It just never The day the day it comes out on the way home. You're like, uh-oh. What the fuck happened tonight? So, you know, you have it you can go into that gear You can go to that spot So you that was at the comedy underground. Yes on a monday night. That was the open night night. I had a thick bade sweater on

Would like a stripe on I'll never forget that I'll never forget somebody saying hey I taped that set me looking i'm going No, you didn't And they're like, yeah, I'll have a few at the end of the week. Nice Somebody taped that set for me and I popped it in and tears rolled down my face Like I was like, oh my god Like who is that person?

That club was the seattle was just a great spot for me to start and that's who you first got on stage right? That was pretty much. Yeah. I mean when I Moved back here. I graduated college Arizona state never did anything other than an acting class Then I came back here in summer of 93 And I took a workshop at UCLA with paulie shore's sister Knowing that the comedy store sponsored it. So it was a way for me to get into the comedy store I knew that it could it was a way to possibly get seen So did the workshop and then every wednesday I drive by the comedy store one day

Maybe I'll be in there and then I did my graduating Workshop there in the original room. It was packed. I did well People were giving me business cards. I felt like it was a comedian Then I did one open mic out in chatsworth like next night and it was a typical open mic which was like a Not a wake-up call, but I didn't want to go through that being that I'm from the valley I just got done playing baseball. It's going to be hard for me to have somebody probably not from the valley running the show Giving me like hey kid, you know, whatever, you know, yeah, I knew the open

I just didn't want I did one open mic to know it wasn't for me And I went back to UCLA and I took the business of comedy class I want to learn all about comedy and then the guy said If you want to do stand up, you got to get out of Los Angeles. That's what he told me Who taught the class to Danny Robinson Apa No, shit. Yeah, do you still see him from time to time time to time time to time he still says all of you Yeah, yeah, he's a really good guy. He he represents tiffany adish. Oh, he does. Yeah, there you go

Well, he taught the workshop and he uh said It's good to get away and then I looked into going either back to phoenix Or I had friends but no real feel For support of art I didn't feel that vibe when I went to school there But my aunts and uncles lived up in seattle and they said come up to come up to seattle They support the arts up here and then they had the north ridge earthquake in 94

I was working at macy's bullocks over at topanga promenade mall I got in the earthquake happened got in the car and left and drove up to seattle Stayed with my family out Out in a belview area and then I just jumped into doing the open mics at The comedy underground just jumped into it meeting people Then I got a job at the comedy underground learning all I just wanted to learn everything about comedy Just sat people, you know on fridays and saturdays clay

You know was the gent ran it, you know with the long hair. I still talk to him. Oh really? Isn't he like in asia or something? Yeah, he's in asia indonesia Yeah, he taught me all about clay jones. Yeah clay jones. He was a interesting guy and he taught me all about how the club ran and All the stories behind it and I just learned about how to See the room run a room see a three person non showcase Show I learned about comedy there in seattle and luckily there's some great comedians and there was just You know coffee shops. That's where I learned to write. I learned to drink coffee in seattle

I just the the environment up there was really conducive to being to Being an artist and then we had the cable access me and tana. We jumped on that we did that and it was just a big It was a great community up in seattle where I found my voice And then after three years because I started up there I could tell like I was only getting maybe guest spots, but I was itching to get out I was itching. I made I kind of like found my voice. I wanted to do more than you told me joey You said bro. You got to go to new york And then I went to new york and that's where I really like

Broke out and found my voice just talking and walking getting off the subway the L train and Walking the lower east side with my headphones on and visualizing feeling like yeah, I'm cool Okay, like giving myself that confidence because I had some based off the cable access show and Mostly that because I wasn't really getting great spots at the comedy Underground, I mean maybe a guest I wasn't their guy and I I understood but when I went to new york, I felt that Energy and I really honed my voice doing The lower east side shows and then I barked at the comedy cellar, but I was so uh Because I thought it would lead to get in the spot, but but I was intimidated by esti

So I never really asked her how to get on I was intimidated But I saw the comedy cellar bark a man So I knew david tell juda gaffigan todbury maren I saw how that room was run, but I still wasn't doing it But new york is where You know, I started doing shows though some alternative shows with todbury and Maren and dave chapelle and I was holding my own and I just felt like I can come back home to los angeles And I have a marketable skill and then my friends were coming out here that I met new york or working for shows

So when I got here in 2000, I had a place to stay at a car. I knew my way around and then Boom, I got a spot on cbs late night late late show at kilbourne. I did a premium blend and then I got Best damn sport show and then the rest is history. So if you want to say that but I kind of like new york is where I really like I honed it and as a kid growing up here in the valley. I was just I was just I wanted to go to new york city. I wanted that gritty skyscraper energy and That's what I gave and you told me to go there and that's where I like just started talking like that's why I did surf reality

Because they weren't into jokes. It was like talking. So I talked about what was on my mind getting mad about just new york stuff or what have you so I did that and then Warm-up was helped me professionally like being around celebrities or whatever and then just doing shows and then going for it And it's like this is the major leagues now once you're here in LA to have thoughts like I'm not confident What are they going to think and I don't have that it's like I can't this is it So I feel like I've I've done pretty good In terms of like I've a lot of like my resume is wide and vast. I just haven't really capitalized on one thing and

Have done that Whatever that one thing may be. Well, I gotta tell you something I almost had a tear in my eye a couple minutes ago a real edge in Seattle because You know, I had this discussion with Duncan on his podcast how I would love to tell you this is not a god I would love to tell people That this is not a god or a higher force or a higher power But

Me going to Seattle Was a pivotal point in my life Like pivotal like looking back at even though I got arrested six times right, you know It was the pivotal point in my life like it taught me it took me completely out of my comfort zone I still remember going to the underground. I got into town at one in the morning on Friday night slept Got up at 9 30 went and got eggs And took a bus down to the comedy underground

And just looked in there and it wasn't even it was swanis Yeah, swanis upstairs. The club was downstairs And all I wanted to do was to figure out how to get a spot And I was there the bar was closed. I'm looking through the fucking glass and my heart's pumping Because I'm at the fucking comedy underground And then I went back sunday And they told me to come back on monday and I That was the happiest day of my life like that fucking sunday

When they said come back on monday and sign up for the open mic And I signed up and the guy was great to me and I gave my drop to name rick kerns and The guy's like, yeah, who put you up and I was like I do not believe this. I'm at the comedy underground Like I do not believe this And then a kid walked in with a boston red socks had him backwards. I know who that was and it was josh Well, there you go. Just latch down to him. I said you got you're from these coast. Yeah, you got to film me And what's going on here?

I came on heavy to josh. I remember him being like kind of intimidated. Yeah, I called him every day for a week Like what the fuck, you know called me back You know, but I was just so ready And then car woman haven I will assist a manager. I will be It's like uh I'll be in bed to him for the rest of my life. I could never say no to him if he calls me for something Because that year and a half with him was an education, you know that I was not going to get in denver I was not getting that comedy education in denver seattle new

comedy the arts They there's a reason there's a reason why all those companies are up there the contest took me to a different level Yep, just doing the contest over those coming in like six to seven Took me to a different level And then being there like being the feature act every six weeks every six weeks. I was a feature act You know, I knew how to manipulate john fox I knew how to manipulate giggles. I knew how to you know get bellingham I had a mom rotation on monday. I would fax pat wilson. I would fax donald reed and

I'm calling I would fax alberto who booked the music box downtown You know in those days monday at nine. I was already on the corner. I didn't have a fax machine Giving them a quarter of fax a cover sheet and a fucking schedule fake Fake schedule completely fake bogus You know, thank god a lot of comedy clubs didn't have web pages in those days, right? But I wouldn't like make up fucking dates Like don't give me like let's say this week here if I was home. I would say I'm in caroline's in new york

I would just flat out lie on the resume and then leave three weeks open So they could see I was open and hopefully they give me a thursday at the music box Or sadly alberto booked two things pat wilson had like four things Donna reed had like eight things ron reed's wife or she was a manager. She was a manager, but she laura laura crocker rest in peace That bitch had If you had josh, she had josh, but that bitch had 15 rooms

In those days she had 15 to 20 rooms. She had those two mexican rooms That one room up in kent. Yeah, she had rooms jack. See she didn't really book me She didn't book me, but I got back at her I would call her and ask if you got spots and I could feel her pussy is tightening up I'm gonna call it because she hated me with every Piece of her heart. She hated me all the way down to her toes But I would call three times a week and go. Hi, Donna. Whatever. What was the name? Was it Donna laura laura? How you doing miss crocker joey dears?

like in here you go I'm gonna go down to your club tonight and do a guest mother's done. Okay with you She would not pay me. She never paid me a dime But till today, I thank her because her hatred made me a better comic. There you go I proved myself to her that I was better than she was She might have hated me, but I did a free spot in her rooms three nights a week And the club owners would say, why don't you work here because she won't book me I mean seattle was like that, you know, it's like they're

If you're a big big guy, you know an italian guy seattle in italy It's like italian's two different thing or you know, the thing about you learned early on the thing I learned early on was that And this was a no brainer. I think it was a guy named There was a magician who worked the triple run And he came in on a tuesday and he was a sweetheart of a guy and I had him sleep over. This is my first week first year of comedy At this point I was probably doing comedy in nine months

And I let him sleep over my house. I was divorced and I had two bedrooms and The triple runs in those days went tuesday night bolder. Wednesday night. You're off So a feature act will pick up $50 cash And I have to pay $40 for a hotel room Because you were off right You off So that means you had us

Pay for your own hotel Wednesday night. Then thursday was craig friday was Gunnison And saturday was fucking the edge of hell tell you right. These were hell. These were Trifgigs just that the the dental run was a Big week craig colorado was the only room That in the thing it said this room gets active The stage was 30 feet away and there was glass and they would throw shit

Oh, really? And they'd said if something happens go to your room lock yourself in and call them The fucking thing it said would just make you laugh Like underneath the room. They said question This room gets active so active What I would do in those days would let if the headliner or the feature were cool I'd give them my number and say call me when you check out You got a couch to sleep on tomorrow night

And some of those guys with dug stand hope The guy that took credit princess place and she going to man. I had a couple guys stay over one guy stayed over That wasn't the funniest guy in the world, but he was a magician comic and he was kind of a nice guy He gave me a list of bookers, you know like those guys that have those sheets Yeah, we went to the printing place and he made like 20 sheets of bookings But he told me something I said to him Do you think I should go to new york and he goes, why would you want to do that? There's a thousand years in new york

He goes there's a thousand years in boston because you got to find the market where there's nobody else like you So you could shine you could You could be unique and people will hire you That's why when the opportunity for seattle came up I was like i'm going Yeah, seattle it's uh, this is the same thing. I told you and I also told this to mitch headberg Oh, the reason why I told you guys this is because they had a thousand of you out here There's a thousand goofy white guys

They don't have that in new york now they do Now they got everything in new york, right, but not 20 years ago 20 years ago There was a lot of guys like me and everybody talked to the audience Which is a bad habit that you pick up in new york you talk to the audience So The coasts were different. Yeah, so when I talked to headberg God rest his soul and I told him There's nobody like you in new york. He hit new york went to new york because there's nobody like you there

That's where you're gonna get love whether people like you It's no love I knew when I saw you that there wasn't nobody like you in new york at that time Yeah, now there's a thousand guys trying to be brodie stevens They don't work you follow me that they become themselves. Yeah, you know when we all start we start being somebody else Then we become ourselves. We evolve into ourselves. I just think like comedians I try to send them to new york city Try and spend some time there go there. I I

You know move there. I became I lived there for three years. I wasn't going back and forth. I was living there And I got to experience that new york Lifestyle taking the subway and being You know you could did it wasn't like Who you were it was what you were, you know people you were like you didn't you could Didn't matter what you looked like new york. Nobody cared whereas la I grew up here in la. I went to school in arizona It wasn't it was not It's completely different from new york. Just new york just really opened my

Gave me that confidence if you can make it in new york, you can make it anywhere. That's what they say And I just recently went back to new york last month and I felt that energy again just walking around that city and You know getting out of los angeles here getting out of the valley just getting getting into that And getting off the internet getting out of your head walking that city and you're feeling you walk and you can Inspires you and and you start saying yourself. I don't need to have these Meds nests. I don't need to have all these things and overthink it you jump in and you got a sinker swim there It's good for you. I think everybody I think most comedians comedians should strive to live if they can

There for uh, I did yes. I did a 10 month stint there in the beginning and it woke me to fuck up I can let me know Who the fuck I was or what I wanted and what I needed to do To get to my goals like in that that's why I went right back to Denver With a firecracker in my ass and I went to Denver and I worked every night And I took that work ethic up to seattle and I just in seattle. It was double the work, right? So now I had double the payload, you know No matter what you do in life

You have to sacrifice man and you have to get out of your comfort zone to get to where you want to be Whether you're an artist or fucking You know, you're you play the trumpet, but you play the trumpet in fucking Louisiana not Louisiana in Utah Who wants to listen to a trumpet Louisiana? You got to go to a jazz bar in Minneapolis Or a jazz bar in New Orleans or you know a jazz bar in LA, you know Sometimes you got to and then people can't make that step So they never fulfill what the fuck they wanted to do, you know, I mean When you came in tonight and you said you got off those meds. I gotta tell you something bro

I'm proud of you Thank you. I'm proud of you and I'm proud that, you know, like you said, well, whatever I'm calm and one thing about me is man. I put myself in the worst case scenario and I told jesse, you know And it was a joke and we laughed You know a couple years ago. You in a rubber room fucking squat and imaginary flies You know, you in a rubber room saying help there's a fly who's talking to me I was combative with the Filipino nurses at you know, they threat me with the needle But I was all I go, I don't need to be here. I go. I made a mistake. Go look on the internet. I'm a good guy

I kept telling him like look me up But now that was a crazy time, but I was kind of like to be honest. I Yeah, I couldn't believe that I was in the UCLA Hospital how many days to have you over there for 17 no, they didn't they wouldn't let me leave It went from three days to six days to nine days And basically did you make any meaningful relationships in there? Did you meet anybody in there that you've contacted since and no one girl like attacked me over like chocolate ice cream

I didn't 17 days Yeah, who knew about this at the time. Did your mom know my mom? I mean people knew I think because I was tweeting about it um I I think I just needed to like dry out because I I went off those meds cold turkey. I made a mistake. I went to Ireland. I went to Montreal. They told me to take a victory lap I'm having fun. I actually took a little less because I wanted to I had I'd always had wanted to Not maybe beyond the lexapro, which is common

But I also knew that going to Dublin and I was research like okay If you want to drink a beer, maybe cut back a little bit I cut back and then I got sick in Montreal right after it was like a two-week trip all together and then they gave me The z-pack and I'd strep throat and then they gave me the z-pack I felt better and I said I feel great. I don't need these. I don't think I need the meds anymore I'm like through this period And then but here's the thing. I was just I'm still laughing about 17 days Like one flow to cuckoo's nest. Well, you know what it was like

Did you write anything about this? I wrote. I have my notes somewhere, but I I felt I mean We do a short film about your 17 day stent in there and you'd be brutally honest like what you did and shit in there Like that's the secret right there if we could recreate I play ping pong. I smoked meth methyl cigarettes What's methyl menthol menthol menthol? Listen to radio watch tv You talk to anybody when you're in there. You just Um, not really, but I had a lot of uh visitors a lot of friends who came by Oh zack came by

Nick kroll steve renazizi. I didn't even know you were in there. This is crazy. This is the first time Yeah, I had a I had a booker. They were like bringing people in, you know, we could have got you in worked you in And where were you a UCLA? right over the the hospital there ronald reagan I guess psychiatric ward, but I wasn't I I because I've felt that way before well, not necessarily. I just know not to go

You just can't do it. I wanted to trigger that time I think when I came back so I want what do you need to avoid To stay off the meds and not end up back there What is the back back back at you certainly flies talking to chinese people Okay, so it's it's it's feast or famine on this one Yeah, the torture of filipino. I don't know. I mean, I should probably have some like a support system with this

But I'm being my own advocate. I know my body. I'm mature I know choices. I'm not saying that I won't ever go back on a medication. We'll see but so far. I'm trying to implement Life skill, you know, like socializing booking working being a being an adult and Taking supplements doing my comedy believing in myself. I'm just calmer. I my body feels better I'll this I'll say that to for me to not go back I mean, I never had a problem before or after I had a reaction to these medications Is what I because I was never headed like this guys. I was never going to be like something like that

I went off on it was just and I was agitated is like I attacked a guy at a A couple Starbucks a 7-eleven. I was like a road rage guy, but I was just But I did you get banned from the Starbucks for a while No comment. No, um I know here's what happened. I felt when I got back I think my friend saw me and they were surprised like oh brody. You're not yourself But I felt like okay. I'm you know, I feel better. I'm not the audience warm-up guy I'm brody now. I got this show on HBO happening. I have good things happening

So I came back confident and I think people were a little like taken aback that oh, he's confident We're not used to this guy because I did the TMZ show. They loved it. I did it that day I did a taping I did a show at UCB and I did fine. I was just out of my character They weren't used to it and then when they questioned me then I became defensive and my My I became agitated So and this was like a first time of it happening and then you tie in the twitter That's the other thing. I had that outlet to go You know to lash out, but I was also I mean I

I did stuff on twitter also, you know saying like f you I was the twitter thing was what I had heard that you were Cracking on twitter. I did hear that I heard something about a roof No roof. No. No, I was never I I never I felt great nothing you were gonna jump or nothing That you climbed something. No, no climbing. No climbing. I don't know. You have a zipline release. You took it down I don't fucking know They I did go on twitter and I was lashing out But part of it's because because I did TMZ and these guys and I felt like hey

I did a good job and these guys are saying I'm out of my mind f you I know what I'm doing and I just had all this confidence And not being on the medication to like hold me back. I was I was basically Manic that's all I mean not that's all but that's what was happening to me And it was freaking people out So they called the police as opposed to maybe saying hey brody Maybe we'll go to let's go to you know go to Santa Barbara for a few days and chill I could have been handled that way. I looking back on it to be honest with you

um because I've learned since like you could Believe me if I take red bowls and do something I I know you I could like get agitated. I was just I was uh, yeah, I just typical signs of stopping the meds culture. I could I could have happened to anybody So I don't feel like I have that's something That that's in me whether

Gonna happen. I don't think so. I would hope not. I don't know. We'll see how I deal with with stress. That's why Podcasting that's why having a support system, you know, I started doing the periscopes after all this to check in and be more You know and be more present walking making appointments the periscopes are brilliant That's brilliant. I didn't know you used it therapeutically also I did that a little bit after yeah like uh This was like a year or two after but definitely like walking became therapeutic like getting out of the house I learned to get out and walk and go to the starbucks people like associate me with going to starbucks. That's because I walked to it. I made it

known like i'm known for being out So you're forcing again You're doing what We discussed early on You're stopping the motherfucker before he even shows up Yeah, you're stopping depression before he even shows up. You're stopping Your mind from going there Before they could even take you there, you know, which is always that's

I've learned when your mind is taking you there To take it somewhere else trust me Took me 30 years I'm no psychotherapist. I just know If I wait if I go to bed And I wake up at three in the morning with something on my mind I did that for years I did that for years probably

And I would go insane and pace And then one night I took a notebook out And I wrote down what I was mad about Go smoke go make a cheese sandwich come back and read it You'll fall right to sleep But a lot of this depression for me if or i'm susceptible to some of that if I am So it's I think it's a lot of its career fine. It's like that sort of thing. It's not These are not irrational thoughts. So some of these thoughts about like money or career

Am I I can rectify them by taking action? So for me to go, hey, I'm gonna I need a pill or I go need to talk to somebody No, you need to go book a podcast. You need to go show your face. You need to go for a walk You need to sign up for a class. So I'm implementing You know those activities to to to stave it off and I um You know, I get down on myself. I've always been somebody we all got we all do I've always been that but I'll say this like I'm lucky. I'm Grateful that I have the that that I've made you know, I've I've

Been able to do comedy and I can perform at the comedy store and I can go places because uh, it's uh, it's an outlet It's it's not therapy. It's therapeutic and I know it helps other people as well And I think today with it being so negative out there and if I can share some of my Some of my philosophies without jamming it down their throat, but Baseball's fun. I've been around successful baseball successful tv shows successful comedians podcast. I'm sharing That and then the comedy store being the hottest club And if you have your name on the marquee and you have a spot at the comedy store that means something and I know That and I try to share with people

How I my think, you know, like I'll leave and joke like I got a you didn't laugh at that joke Well, I get free Red Bull. You didn't laugh at that joke. I park for I I park wherever I want So why don't you do what I do? It's kind of a joke, but it is a joke, but I think that Yeah, I'm lucky. I'm lucky, but I'm just uh, you know lucky we are Very lucky Very very lucky just the fact that we were together In Seattle

Are you ready people grab a pen and a piece of paper 1997 Even before I got there in 96 I got there in 94. It's 90. It's 2018 So we've known each other. We've been in the struggle For 22 years. We've been apart for four Of those years you were in new york

That's We're very lucky We're very lucky There's a lot of people that we were up there and there was one night in That 16 list. I'll never forget. Yeah. Listen, man. When I'm in that fucking old folks home And my memory's gone and I'm dying. I'm gonna think of those monday nights They were great. They were very very special to me. They were your whole week That's what people don't understand. That's what sucks about doing comedy in LA

That you don't have a home club And you don't get pushed apart by your peers Because in houston on monday nights, you had to show up every monday with a new five minutes Your peers forced you because if not you looked that fucking bad. Mm-hmm. So You know We had that we had that that every monday you had to show up another three minutes Yeah, you could show up with some of this shit you did last week But you better show up with something to fucking kill

That was your goal on monday two minutes. You only had six minutes, right? Yeah, six eight and then the close of the 15th. Oh, no the open mic you'd get Six a piece It was it was five five six Lighted five six because they were training you for the seattle comedy competition. Okay Remember the seattle comedy competition was five six the first week Lighted five you got to be up by six or you got a point taken away So they trained you for that to do the open mic system

so I mean just for that alone If I don't wake up tomorrow We still had the opportunity of growing together Going oh, I mean I got locked up in jail for 30 days in seattle You got put in the looney bin down here for 17 days. It's no difference. What happens? We all had our fucking shortcomings

But what's important Is that we're still in LA? We're still doing spots. Mm-hmm. We're still relevant and it goes back To those monday nights. Yeah If you go home tonight smoking joint you really think about what we learned on those monday nights Just torturing rito. Oh taking her pills and eating her pizza and a nachos We would eat her nachos and rito was the local tranny. Good nachos there. Good nachos. She was We'd build a bartender laugh and then I still remember his girlfriend and clay's girlfriend nodding from heroin

Sitting there on a monday night open mic two chicks like this Waitresses, I think remember the hot asian There was a hot asian waitress on monday nights. Yeah, I remember those bills girlfriend And then we'd go upstairs and that bartender fucking hated me But I had Anthony Anthony, but I had a tab in there I still remember going upstairs and seeing seahawks all the baseball towels and all the baseball teams It was uh, and you know what? There was no ATM card

There was no car There was no HBO. There was no netflix I lived in an office a little bit smaller than this one On the floor with it with three or four towels as a pillow A half a blanket and my clothes next to me on the floor And those are the happiest times of my fucking life going down on a monday night Yeah, and then we would leave there and go somewhere else. So they had cages They had another open mic on monday. Oh, yeah, right. I didn't I didn't really do that one bar. It was yeah town

We'd go there and they had chicks and cages That was always while you're on stage while you're on stage. That's always great You know what I'm saying? And then we got the Tacoma contest. Yeah, we go to Tacoma crossroads crossroads. She she contacted me recently Oh, really to say hello. She's still around. So listen, man you know When you get a check now or something good happens I want you to remember that you earned all this. There's no reason to ever end up for me

When I when I get a something This Netflix for everything goes back to those monday nights in seattle So i'm thankful. I had that And I had that scene in Denver before seattle, but nothing beats my comedy upbringing those two years those 18 months I did in seattle Made my mind become a comic and I'll never forever Ever forget that and you were part of that you thank you. Yeah, just They were so into the arts with the coffee house the weather and the late night diners and just the characters in the scene and the cable

access shows and they watched it seattle really supported that stuff you couldn't do that in a los angeles or and it was it was a big city, but it was a small city and it was You just knew you were doing something right. It was on the and in seattle You know it needed um, you know, I guess grunge was just dying out But there's just something to think of all those guys who were there at that point mitch headberg you myself josh woof craig gas all those comedians. They're still working like they do the cruise ships They're do all the corporate stuff seattle david crow david crow. Oh my god

The wine kid kermit apio vince vallansway Vince vallanswell is still around. Yeah, he lives in santa manica. I don't know if he's doing comedy anymore It's all I'm on faith. I think you got a new hip Did he yeah, I was talking about on facebook But there's just characters in seattle that you wouldn't get I would say like yeah, you said Maybe a denver you wouldn't get a more fiend that you wouldn't you're dallas the one I think about a lot is the cook The at the underground downstairs with the long hair I remember he was if

Guys he was one of the most interesting guys I haven't met we don't have time to go into him now, but what was his name? I have to call josh. Okay. Yeah, I remember I remember his face. I remember his long hair And the nights that I couldn't make the bus Back to bellville wherever josh lived Bellevue Bellevue. I would stay with him. Okay, and I can't tell you yet Oh, every time I stayed with him It was a different adventure first. He had first one. He had no heat He lived in the warehouse two blocks from the thing He had two broken windows to air

I remember it snowing And you know by the window that was like three inches of snow Turned to sleep and I'm in a corner with ten blankets on My jack-o-lantern, you know, I felt I I got so fucking high in his apartment one night That you had to go take a shower because he lived in a warehouse You had to pull the thing up in the elevator to go upstairs and there was three People on the floor, but one shower in one bathroom And that one day I was walking towards the bathroom

I just remember this and I fucking was hungover and I was so fucked up the night before That before I wanted to shower I passed out and went through this sheet rock And there was an imprint of me Going through the fucking sheet rock till this day. It's probably still me just tipped over And broke the fucking wall, but it was an imprint. You can still see my head Where I went through the sheet rock and he woke me up and They threw me in the shower. Jesus Christ crazy times before

social media before all of this Technology was it was a simpler time. It was it's top to be him now, man a lot of information A lot of I've seen in the last three years. I've seen I've seen a lot more people go crazy Than I've ever seen in my life. I can count them on two hands And you think it you think it has something to do with social media. That's one of the conduits for it. I think that it's Rolled around

It's everything that's going on social media the way the news is portrayed The way people are acting the political climate I think that it's just people losing their minds. I see it every day and it's sad. It's sad But hey, I'm happy you're off the meds. Thank you. And I may go back on but we're good now right now. Yeah balanced balanced exactly system with me. Thank you support system with josh wolf. Yep You have the comedy store and uh, that's the most important thing man. I'm happy You're still doing your thing. You're always welcome out of the church

Church of what's happening now and fuck it keep doing what you're doing If next time you go to if next time god forbid I'll go visit. Oh, you'll visit. Okay. We'll get you booked. I'll fucking I'll smuggle something in to keep you I'm saying a line of coke something to keep you going. I love you Brodie Stevens. Thank you for coming on the church, brother Thank you, Joey. Thank you. Lee I was Brodie Stevens. I hope you enjoyed it. Uh, he made us laugh We talked about fucking them A couple days later, Bobby Lingers sent me a bunch of fucking al-fox books and shit

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