wellRED podcast - #167 - The Legendary GEORGE WALLACE!

Episode Date: April 29, 2020

This week we have the honor of sitting down with a true living legend, the incomparable George Wallace! George gives us an update on how he is handling the quarantine, tells us what he absolutely does not give a shit about anymore, and shares some stories from his 40+ years in comedy! wellredcomedy.com for tickets whenever comedy becomes legal again

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Hope you guys are staying safe out there and staying inside if you can. If you're essential, thank you so much for doing what you do and risking everything. And I know we all want to get back to work as soon as we can, but let's still try to be safe and stay inside and flatten that goddamn curve. This podcast is always brought to you by Smoky Boysgrilling.com. Go to Smokey Boysgrilling.com to get all the rubs for all your meats and also Carbodka. Do you want to get drunk like the show? I bet you do.

Well, go to carve vodka.com and carve your own path, you silly butted motherfuckers. I'm joined right now by my compadres, the two other musketeers. Trey and Drew, what's going on, boys? Hey! You know how stupid and radio I sound up top? I'm just like, I'm so, I can't not do it. Every time I'm doing the top of the show announcements, I always hit this other gear where it's like, what's going on?

Oh, everybody. It's the butt. it's like a muscle of some sort. It's weird. I was just talking to DJ on Zoom the other day because he wanted to show me something in his house. And then we talked for like 45 minutes. And like 10 minutes in, I realized I was talking as if we were being listened to.

Yeah. Because of doing my podcast via the same app with him. Yeah, I don't know. You got those gears, man. I guess so. How are you boys handling this? the bullshit this week. Anything better, anything worse?

I think... Go ahead. Well, no, no, you go ahead. I was able to file for unemployment. I was able to prove that we had enough dates and we make enough money as comedians that I work get unemployment because dates got canceled.

And then, week past, week past, called them to see what was up, but they're going to mail the check, what's the deal. you apply online and you have to re-up every couple weeks so I already re-up still hadn't gotten the money and it said they had sent me money but when you call it says that they can't take any calls so I called

Andy got a fucking debit card associated with her unemployment because she's my employee and she'd hate me if she heard me say that I well she actually actually

who made more money than me last year. But because of something weird happened. But I didn't get it. And I'm 99% sure someone stole it out of my mailbox. I think I have been robbed of my unemployment. Just like my white trash fucking roots. Yeah, I think someone stole my government check. Well, here's the deal, Drew.

I guarantee you whoever did it, they need their check. You know what I'm saying? So don't. Unlike you. Unlike you, they need their check. So I canceled it. And we'll see what happens. Yeah, that's what's up.

I mean, I don't, I'm just, you know, ballooning. Yeah, like I don't have anything else to report. It's all business as usual over here for me. We ain't stopped drinking or eating, but we started working out. Your boy has lost seven pounds in the past three to four days. Yeah. Mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, what? Suck it.

I just stopped drinking and eating three sandwiches a day. Yeah, I'm, I've, I haven't, I've slowed to drinking and I've been working out. And I'm probably lost weight. I don't have a scale. I've been walking like I've been getting up every morning and like I listen to a Conrad podcast at least one a day and they're usually about two and a half hours long. And I walk the entire time that I listen to.

So I'm not like running or nothing, but like, you know, a good two and a half hour fucking trollop down the road. That's pretty good. And again, I can't trollop. What else is it? I know a trollop is like a. I'm taking a trillop down the road. A trollop is like a British.

A lone woman. Yeah, it's a British. But she has to be British. We don't know no trolops. Like, trillops are British horse. But what is it? There's something that sounds like trawlop, not Gallup. A, I fuck. Who cares?

Trek. There you go. Taking a trek down the road. Trek and Gallup. There you go. Trek and Gallup. Trollop. That's where I went with it.

But I can't stress enough. It's really the three sandwiches a day that I've cut out that's helping because when I say three sandwiches a day, let me explain to you what I mean by a sandwich. I don't mean like, oh, a couple pieces of ham, piece of cheese, mayonnaise, bread. I get these things called, it's a pack that's called a sub kit,

and it's to make a whole 12-inch sub. It's all the meat you'd want for a 12-inch sub between two pieces of paper, and you just take the thing off, you put it on the thing, and you move the paper. Well, I just take one of them and put it on one regular sandwich bread sandwich sandwich and just fold it over and then throw two pieces of cheese on that slather it with mayonnaise hit it

with the franks hot sauce crumble every potato chip you've ever seen on top of it smash it cut it go in three pieces of regular bread yeah but it's a 12 inch sub worth of meat and cheese on that they don't give you enough meat anyway i mean fair but i'm i'm trying to say is like it's not it's not like i'm eating three fuck around sandwiches a day. I'm eating three fucking real

ass man sandwiches and then drinking 12 beers so literally just cutting that out so I'm about to get fucked up tomorrow I'm sure.

Now that I'm talking that's usually what happens as soon as I start getting to the zone where I'm about to start bragging about how much weight I've lost that's my body just being

like you're thinking about it aren't you? You think that maybe you could use a day and then I'm going to eat a bunch tomorrow. Well my cycle and until lately

they've been getting closer together and by that I mean, I've been drinking more. My cycle would be to drink for like three days, and then that start to get to me four days. And then I start to be too anxious. So I'm like, I got to straighten up.

I got to eat right. I got to exercise. And I do that for three or four days. And I was maintaining that for a couple weeks. And then after three days of sobriety, my actual emotions start shining through. And then I'm like, why can't deal with this either? I got a drink now.

Yeah. But the sober days started getting shorter, and the drunk days started getting longer. And only recently have I tried. trying to curtail that. And by recently, the last three days. My cycle, I kind of know when it's coming on, is that I'll get way too fucked up. I will start going, dude, you're 32 years old, about to be 33.

You're trying to become a fucking father. You got to, you got to kick this shit. You can't quit getting fucked up by yourself at the house like you were 18, 20 again, like this ain't right. And then I'll get sober. I'll be sober for like five or six days. I'll start feeling so good because that's what happens when toxins leave your body. I'll start feeling really good. I'll get on a good sleep schedule. And then I'll be

feeling so great. And then the weather will be good. And I'm like, you know what would make this day even better? A beer. And then I have 19 of them. And then it's the fucking here we go again. Yeah, I've been, I've actually been work, I've been working now every day, but I haven't been eating better. I don't, I'm not really drinking very much, but y'all, I mean, I go in, like, where food is concerned. So I don't. I don't think, I said I'm ballooning. I don't think it's that bad just because I'm kind of stopping the bleed in a little bit. But, I mean, it don't hit.

And the minute I, like, I'm teetering on the precipice. And that's with, like, I'm doing the elliptical lifting weights literally every day. And I'm still fat. Fat, dumb. I'm still fat, dumb, and do not hit. I mean, if you're doing the weights and not changing your diet at all, like, that's making you bigger, not fatter, but bigger. So, like, you're getting real. and fat, which by the way, is a top fat for me, and my body is incapable of doing it.

But, like, that would hit for me if you become one of them, like, fucking barrel, chested, big arm, arms, bears with just like a huge belly. Hell yeah. Like, butter bean? Yes. Like what I almost look like without any work. Yeah, I mean, yeah, man, you're muscular fat. I don't hit.

I'll tell you what does hit, though, our guest this week, legendary comedian George Wallace, we were so lucky. I mean, you know, I said on Twitter the other day when I said on Twitter the other day when I I posted a picture we had on it. We're not worthy. I don't know why this has happened, but we are thankful that he came on here. And we had a great conversation about an hour long with George

while he was nestled up on the 25th floor there in Buckhead, Atlanta. He came straight out the gate slinging jokes, and I think it was one of our best conversations we've ever had on this podcast, if I may say so. Yeah, I agree. It's phenomenal. George's phenomenal. Legend of the game.

He's the first legend of the game to have started to, you know, fuck with us. We mentioned this towards the end of the podcast and we've mentioned it many times before, but the very first show of the well-read tour, we've all done shows together plenty, but the first, like, formal show of the actual tour was at the punchline in Atlanta in 2016

and George Wallace came and came on stage and did a said he came on stage with us and did a little thing and it was awesome. And this was the very first night and it really elevated the whole, like, holy shit, this is wild nature of the experience. And he's been cool as hell ever since. We've stayed in touch with him. You know, he's just, he's the best and he's his

normal, hilarious self in this conversation. Yeah, I get to tell, I get to tell people all the time, and this is true, and it's just one of those things that no matter what happens to me or us, uh, on this journey that we're on that we're very fortunate to be on, you can never take away from me that one of my, when you say, what are some of your earliest memories of the well-read comedy tour, the literal first, aside from waking up and finding out, Trey, had a video go viral, but like, my literal first memory is tied to George fucking Wallace. So, you know,

no matter what happens, I'll always have those fond memories. And that's just so fucking crazy to me. And like how cool him to do that. And, you know, also for coming on this goddamn podcast. Because if some people out there know,

he's been on this podcast before, but it was when we were, not that we're not still stupid, not that we still don't have some hiccots, but like we really just jumped in, you know, without any floaters on, not knowing how to goddamn swim.

And the audio was absolutely shitty. So it was great to have him back. It was great to have them back when we're all. This is how shitty the audio was. We just recorded today all four in different places, and it's going to sound 100% better. Yeah, yep. You're right.

Well, it is a good one, and we hope y'all enjoy it. So, I mean, here she goes. George Wallace, everybody. We'll see you next time. Shkeke. They're the terror and next day like cornbread, but sex. They care way too much, but don't give a fuck. They're the

River Rednecks That makes some people upset They got three big old dicks that you can suck I've been waiting to call you guys And all of a sudden I'm watching dumb ass on TV I'm looking how dumb his ass is Like, oh shit, it's 6 o'clock Good afternoon, at 6 o'clock is Dr. Wallace

joining the crew Thank you so much for being here Thank you so much, man. So you said it's 6 o'clock Mark, you're a man of the world. Where are you currently hold up at? Where is your quarantine going down? Atlanta, New York, Vegas.

Wouldn't be Vegas. No, not Vegas because the people are crazy in Vegas. Yeah. But I'm in Georgia. The people are crazy here too. What I'm in America? People are crazy in American news. I'm screwed either way.

Yeah, yeah. Georgia, Corey is also in Georgia. You guys are hell-bent on reopening, right? Isn't that? That's what Brian Kemp's going to force everybody to do. Well, yeah, you know I need a haircut. I told them to go ahead. I'm going to go down and get a haircut.

I'm getting a little massage. I definitely need a pedicule because I'm going to have to go to Home Depot and get me a chisel and some sandpaper. My feet are hurting. My feet are hurting, dude. But I got to, we're doing okay here. I can't go back to Las Vegas because they want to open up there too. And I'm not comfortable yet. I don't know about you guys, but I'm not looking forward to be on state.

No, I thought about that the other day. Actually, when, you know, Brian Kemp said he was going to reopen Georgia. and then they showed that crazy lady who looked like several of our aunts kind of combined into one from Vegas talking about how they were going to open up. And I thought about you actually. I was like, damn, George's fuck no matter where he goes. No matter where I go, right? Crazy. That's true.

You said you're not comfortable with it yet, which I mean, you know, good on you. I don't blame him. Nobody could blame you. But are you, do you? But like how are you feeling about being quarantined for this amount of time? Like, is it getting to you aside from, you know, not being ready to chance it or anything? Like, do you hate it? Are you doing all right with it or what?

I apologize for laughing, but I'm so stupid, you know. Am I okay with it? I'm dealing with it. I don't mind my house. I live here right in Bucket, I got a big balcony. I can walk all around the balcony. And people are stopping by to meet me. People are still knocking on my door.

And coming, well, I let him. There's a guy named Ben. and he brings his friend Jerry. Ben and Jerry, they're here. They're here. And the ladies stop, I hadn't seen it a long time, Sarah Lee. So they're all living in here.

I have visitors. I'm doing okay, you know, like you guys, we're writing jokes and doing what we can't do, you know? Yeah. So you're on that same quarantine diet that many of us are on, that I am certainly on,

and I know Chuck Corey is on as well. Oh, yeah, it's been really bad. I'm the opposite with my fridge. I have to stay within six feet of it. I'm opposite of you. I'm trying to stay six feet away from myself. Hey, I took my mirror. I took my mirror and moved it into the other room

so I wouldn't be that close to me. I'm not even touching me. When I get back to work, when we do go back, I ain't touching nobody, okay? No. I'm not shaking hands, fist bumping. I'm pretty much going to be kind of Asian, like I'm going to be bawling everybody.

Hey, since you brought that up, I wanted to make sure and ask what your, like, projection is about us going back to work. Like, as in live on stage in front of an audience, what you got to guess for when you think that's actually going to be allowed again? Well, like Corey was saying, Los Vegas wants to open tomorrow, right? Yeah. But I don't think they're going to see me. Right. I hate to say this for a lot of the young comedians that don't have a lot of work and not financially secure. I don't see going back to work.

Now, I'm saying this for me. I don't want to go back until August, and I really don't care if I go back. I just don't want to go back too soon, whenever it is. I don't like to have a vaccine out there. I know more about what's happening. I'm not in a hurry to go back. Yeah, no. I mean, I'm not.

I agree with you. And I think, I mean, because I was talking to Joe Zimmerman, he's a comic from North Carolina, lives in New York. And we also talked to Roy Wood Jr. on our podcast about this same subject. And they both were saying, because they're both based in New York, and obviously New York's real bad and everything. And neither one of them expects to be back on stage anytime remotely soon, like at least August or beyond.

Because the way Joe put it, he was like, well, look, it requires a lot of people kind of crammed. together in a relatively small space, and it's pretty non-essential compared to a lot of other services. So I feel like it's going to be one of the last things to return to normal, and I feel like that's kind of hard to argue with, personally. I'm currently in production. I'm doing a new TV show, and that Netflix called Daddy Stop embarrassing me, starting Jamie Fox. I'm the second lead in the group, and there's 200 people on the set every day.

Right. And on the last day, March 13th, somebody tested positive on the set, and that's when everything shut down. I don't know. It's probably pretty tough, like Roy, like they were saying,

to go back on the set, everybody's so close. It's going to be different. Listen, if Disney say they think they may not be back to 2021, yeah, pretty much a hit.

Yeah, when Disney says that and then, you know, at the beginning of this, I knew it was serious, but when the MGM Grand decided to show, shut down. I was like, oh, shit, this is for real. And now that Disney's like, oh, pump the brakes, guys. I'm like, oh, my God, we really are in the middle of this, ain't we?

It was the NBA for me because, you know, people, like, growing up, they think basketball players are rich. And it's like that Chris Rock joke. Well, Shaq's rich, but the owner of the Lakers is wealthy. And when you got those billionaire owners shutting down the NBA, because people don't tell them what to do. I mean, that's like the top of it. If you own an NBA franchise, you're as rich as it gets. Right, right. And they just shut down. And I was like, oh, they're afraid.

Well, going back to the, uh, all right, you're still there. Okay. I'm sorry about that. I thought we lost. My phone goes crazy every now then. I have a pay phone. That track phone, track phone special.

And I'm holding it. I shouldn't have it in my, my, my stationer holder, but I don't want to go another room because my Christmas tree is on and I don't want you guys to see it. No, you're doing great with that track phone. It looks good. I was going to say, back to, you're talking about production. I talked to this guy who works in production via Zoom the other day,

and he was talking about how, like, they don't know what they're going to do anytime soon either because of how, like, yeah, people, you could have people on the crew and everything, wearing the mask and all that type of stuff all you want, but, like, you can't do that with actors. Like, you still have to film the scenes with the actors, and it's not like you can have every actor in a surgical mask or have them standing six feet away from each other,

you know what I mean? Like it necessitates interaction. And then the second that any actor in any production gets coronavirus after that decided to open production back up, I mean, you know, huge liability of shooting is over again immediately. So like he was talking about how they're not taking any chances. And he said that all the studios have plans in place for up to a year 18 months from now. You're talking about Disney

2021. I guess a lot of them are already, if not planning on that, like, you know, planning for the worst. They've got to be planning no matter what. They got to be planning. Right. And he said that they are. Yeah, I would say we're about to see scenarios. Well, look, you guys, first of all,

you guys are 20, 21, and 22. I'm of age. I'm so I'm very concerned about it. Yeah. I'm not only of age, but I'm African-American. And I'm not sure this thing is like, I'm stupid, I'm going with all of the,

all of the conspiracies, okay? I'm with all the conspiracies. So they said black people can get it. Now I'm thinking, all the black people can get it. Matter of what you're calling, the black plate, we should call it, because I'm just scared. I don't know about you, I'm just scared. Yeah.

No, I'm certainly worried, especially where I'm from, which people, we were talking on the last podcast, I think it was with Roy, and he was like, are people where you're from taking it serious? And I said, well, I'd like to think so, but I'm taking it so serious that I don't know how serious other people are taking it because I don't get out. Like, I don't get out to even see if there's other people out.

You know, I don't even go down the street. And I've been told pretty recently, you know, through text messages and my friends that everybody around here has sort of just been like, well, the governor of Georgia said it was fine. So fuck it. We can all go hang out again. So like, I'm more scared now than I was two weeks ago. And it should be the opposite.

it. Listen, my cousin owns one of the largest funeral homes in Atlanta, and he'll kindly drive you down to the Bowling Alley. And then pick your ass up and take you down. You know, it's, you're, I'm in George, y'all, so I ain't going nowhere. Listen, I've been on, I've been here since March 24, and I haven't been out of my house. And I'm, I'm fine with it. You know, my daughter drove by the other day to say, hello, and I waved at her ass on the 25th floor. Yeah. And I told them, keep moving. Keep moving. My social distance is working. It's working on me. I'm not, nobody's comes in the house. Nobody goes out. So, Corey, I don't know where you guys are, but in Georgia, we're thinking, we're not falling for that shit, okay?

No, I'm not. I'm not. Apparently all my friends are, but my, you know, as you said, my big ass also is staying inside the house. And I'm just waving. There's a joke in Atlanta going around about somebody called the governor's mansion to see when the tour would open back up. They said the tour is closed. They said, no, but the governor has opened everything. They said, but the coupons, there's an epidemic going around.

The latest says, I'm pretty sure I know my rights. I want to go see the governor's mansion. You can't come in as an epidemic, a pandemic. Right. So it's okay to go to the barbershop and the bowling mall is, but not okay to come to the governor's mansion. Well, that's like that, that mega-caron that Corey was talking about, the mayor of Las Vegas when she had that interview with Anderson Cooper,

you know, she was talking about, first of all, she literally said, you know, I would offer up Las Vegas as a control group for this, you know, research, whatever. And Anderson Cooper goes, are you saying that you would literally offer up the citizens of Las Vegas to be a control group? And she goes, no, don't put words in my mouth. That's not what I said. What I said was I would offer up the citizens of Las Vegas as a control group. I'm not a politician, but I'm just a politician. Yeah, right.

And then toward the end, she said, similar to what you were saying about Kemp's mansion, And he asked her, he's like, well, you know, are you going to be going out to the casinos if you open them back up? And she said, listen, I have a family. Like all the people that work in these casinos and stuff don't all have families and all the people are supposed to be going in there. It's just so tone death and hypocritical, but, you know, by all my daughter. Like Corey said, I'm fucked.

I live in Las Vegas. And I live in Atlanta. And I live in New York City. I'm fucked. Okay. Well, I don't think, I mean, what you're seeing with that lady.

A dog's fuck too. Dog's mad. Somebody's at the door. He's pissed off. We're in fucking quarantine. Get the fuck away from the door. Gives. Oh, man.

Apparently it was a ghost. I don't know. I'll mute myself. Y'all talk. I'll make my point. It's all good. It's all good. Dog wants to talk.

We're talking. Dog wants to talk. Let's talk dog talk. But she, I don't. I mean, that lady was dumb. Like, that's just, you know, plain and simple. But I think what she was saying is the mask is sort of off here.

The curtain is being drawn back. She has no other ideas. The people above her have no other ideas because they, in no way, want to give those working people in Las Vegas money to live off of. So she genuinely thinks she's doing good by saying let them go back to work. Otherwise, they'll starve. What did you say? Let them go back to work.

That's what she's saying, but she was wrong. I think we can hold off and we can wait until things are right. I'd rather be hungry and alive than fool and dead. Exactly. Well, and also, we don't have to go hungry. I mean, you know, it's like, it's amazing how they can't do this, they can't do that. And then in a day, they just gave away almost a trillion dollars. And it was like, oh, you can do that.

Yeah. Don't say that. That's not good because I'm thinking, we can't pay the teachers a decent salary, but all of a sudden, one day they come up a trillion dollars. was out of nowhere. That's what I'm saying. They could be paying the teachers. They could have been doing it the whole time. Yeah, me and my mom who is, you know, as far as conservatives go, she's a good one, but she still is a conservative. And we were talking the other day about, she's like, you know, Corey,

I get that we're quarantined and this is safe, but like there is going to come a time when enough's enough and it's a tipping point and we're going to have to go back to work. And I was like, I agree with you 100%, but we ain't fucking there yet. Like, we have not reached that tipping point yet. Exactly. We're not there yet. Exactly. We're not there yet. Like, yeah, of course I know that there's only a finite amount of money, but when we got, you know, 30 and 40 tanks sitting in one desert that are never going to see action that costs a goddamn billion dollars apiece, I think we can work out something in the budget to get me some cheese slices for another couple months.

Corey, there is no budget. You know what there is? Printers. And as long as we got printers, we got money. Just keep doing shit. Yeah. But we don't have to print the money, George. We can just take some from Amazon since they didn't pay any taxes.

They've already got enough money. You go grab some of it. Dude, you're crossing the line. They might be listening to us. I know that's right. Listen, they don't listen to me, George. If I get as famous as you, they will kill me. They definitely sent me the microphone that I'm talking into right now,

so I better shut the fuck up. They said everything. Yeah, they said my dinner. I ate tonight. They said that too. I got boxes in front of my house, Amazon, Amazon. That's all I'm doing is ordering shit. I don't know what you guys are doing.

Yeah. I've been going to the grocery store with masks and gloves. and all that like every two to three weeks. And that's just to get out, man. I ain't going there. Everything is delivered to my house. I ain't going to the grocery store. I ain't going to know.

I live in a tall building, so I don't want to get on the elevator. I don't want to get on the elevator. I don't want to press the buttons. I don't want anybody to get on an elevator when I'm on the elevator. I might have mail downstairs. I might have a $600 check downstairs. I don't know. Riley, Dave, got $600 checks just lying around.

It just occurred to me. You haven't left. You've been elevated this whole time. You haven't even been on the ground floor. of the world. That's great. But I can see it from here. I can see it. I might be on the top floor. I have a beautiful view of Atlanta. I'm right across the street from Phelps Plaza. I see everything that's going on.

Actually, there's nothing going on in Atlanta. It's, shit, we had a three-car accident other day. Now, let me ask you guys, because there's only three cars on the road. How are these asses by me and you all. It's amazing, man. I think it's just they were sitting there going, is that really another fucking car? And by the time they figured it, exactly. But it's so much fun sitting here, coming up with these little funny jokes, you know. I was telling somebody the other day, I found out, I only live five minutes from the airport.

I live in Atlanta. Only five minutes from the airport. I did not know that. There's no traffic, you know. Right. The lanes are wide open. You can grab on either side of 75 or 85. Either side of the freeway, you'd be good.

Yeah. Because there's no traffic here whatsoever, whatsoever. You talk about sitting there working on these jokes and stuff. We also, every committee we've talked to since I've started, we've asked them about, have you done any of these, like, you know, online shows that some comedians been doing? I have not.

Corey and Drew have done a couple hosted by their comics. Have you, you know what I'm talking about? Have you ventured into those waters at all? I've done a few because that's how I'm staying, I'm staying alert, staying alive, and people are watching. Like the Steve Harvey Morning Show, they have a side show that we're doing and calling in. I'm doing a lot. I'm doing the talk next week.

I'm doing a whole lot. I'm doing everything I can because I got nothing to do but just make up shit. And I need to talk and vent. So, yes, I do as much as I can. But have you done like a, have you done like a comedy show with a digital, like, live audience where you're doing, you know, stand up? Okay. I did it.

How do you feel about that? Last night with Alsa Dink, I did. I've done like three or four of them. I'm doing so many that I forget. Mike Epps, it's quite a few of these I'm doing. How do you like them? How do you feel about them? I'm doing a show called the Well Red show right now.

I just like to talk. And as long as I'm having fun, I'm doing nothing else here. God knows. I knew. Yeah. Our good friend Carmen Morales compared it to methadone. And I think that's a pretty apt metaphor.

It's like, it's not what I'm addicted to, but it's keeping me going, you know. Well, he's wrong about that. I'm addicted to this. I know nothing else to do. It's better than sex. It's better than drugs. I just love. I can listen to you guys all day.

As long as we're laughing, I'm loving, I'm living, I'm alive. And we can laugh and love all day forever, forever. We got the greatest job in the world. We might not ever get paid again, but we just love what we do. You just made me so happy there for a moment. You made me so happy for a moment. And then I was like, he's right. It's about to be my hobby again.

Yeah. That's real beautiful, George. Because you're saying that from the 25th floor, having had a career. We just started. Well, I hope you saved the little money that you're making. You do all right. You'll do all right.

Yeah, we'll be fine. You'll be okay. Hey, Drew, do you have the, you had some questions that we got from the fan. Did you look at the actual like... Didn't you come from New York? Yeah. Did you spend a lot of time in New York?

I live in L.A. now. I moved out here in January. Okay. Because didn't you used to live around Elmhurst somewhere in Queens like that? Yeah, yeah, I did. I lived in Woodside. That's where I lived in Woodside. 117, 111, something like that.

Yeah, I lived right at the 43rd Street, Number 7 train, 43rd Street, stop. I lived one stop past you and, Corey very briefly lived three stops past that. Yep, accurate. And I stayed at that one. What was the, I stayed most of the time at Donovan's bar, which was on Drew's stop. So even I didn't sleep there, but I stayed there to about three or four.

That was our bar. Every time we come in, George, they put Sweet Home Alabama on on the jukebox. And we never told them we weren't from Alabama. We just was like, that's close enough. That's fine, yeah, that's fine. Well, I wish I could meet you guys at the White Castle just on the Queens Boulevard there. I know that White Castle. I know you do.

No matter how rich you are, Trey doesn't know this, no matter how rich you are or who you are, three o'clock in the morning, you feel pretty good. You're going to stop back at a secondful. Hell yeah. Oh, yeah, well, I mean, I'm more accustomed to crystals, you know,

growing up. I think it's the same thing. It's close. Well, yeah, yeah. We just didn't even have them in Tennessee when I was a kid, White Castle. I mean, but I've got, I've got frozen white castles in my freezer right now. You're trying to make up for lost time.

You got frozen white cats. I know. It's not. Yeah, that's way more egregious of a thing. You shouldn't really, you're really too old to be eating shit food. I know. I know. You're too rich.

You stopped trying to make up for a lot of time. Apparently just trying to lose more of it, just shaving more and more off. I was trying to find my pizza. I was trying to find my pizza box, but I left it in the kitchen. I thought I was going to show it to you. But I got my little thing. that the chicken liens come in. All right, George, we ask for some questions from the fans.

Now, I will tell you, I've got some decent ones here, but I will tell you that 90% of the questions were, how do we get rid of Trump, or when can we get rid of Trump, et cetera, et cetera. So I don't know if you want to just generally tell Trump to fuck off, or if you don't, that's fine too. I just wanted you to know that 90% of the questions were about him. Well, I'm not only pissed at Trump right now because of all of this. Well, he's on now.

I just turn it. Fuck him. So listen to me. I'm just trying to get pissed at the lady, Dr. Burke. Is that like, what's her name? Yeah, it's part. I know. With a scarf on her.

I'm pissed on her. I'm pissed at her. I'm pissed at all of these guys. They go up there every day. It's about time somebody to say, wait a fucking minute. I'm pushing a guy, protecting a guy,

and I know he's lying. Somebody got to say, stop with the bullshit. I need to be a journalist and just say to Trump, well, what the fucking? is wrong with you. Since it's going to be my first day

and my last day, I might as well say that. I got everything. You're signing the check. You want to put your name on the check people are getting. Make sure you put your name on the death certificates too. Ooh. Yeah. That'd be a great question for a journalist to ask. Well, he doesn't even, like, we got our letter today. What? From Trump. It's from the IRS, but somehow he got the fucking time. Which is bullshit. Yeah. You know what?

I'll be right back. Mine is probably downstairs on the first floor. Oh, my God. Yeah, but him, we just got a boat. We got a boat. Yeah. Because you know what, Corey, you look, Tray, you look good. You, anybody but him.

Yeah. Look at his weird signature. I know. I don't like that. I also don't like that. It's really weird. Like, I mean, I know that everybody, you know, always. compares like they do the Trump-Hitler

thing at any chance they can get. But his signature looks like some fewer shit. Does it not? Like it don't even look like a signature. It looks like a Nazi symbol. It's very weird and it's also, you know, the whole thing is you either write out your name or you just do the two squiggles.

Yeah, you do what the fuck was that? Yeah, he did what the fuck was that, but for every letter. Right. That took him longer to do than just to write in fucking English? He's an Hey, dude, let me tell you something. You know what? We talk a lot of shit

because we watch these things. We're the smartest people in the world. How great would this country if comedians were in charge? No. It would go well for like a week and a half, George, and then one of us would be like, hey, fuck it.

Let's try this. That's not true. We would be really great because at least we would tell the truth and do the right thing. You know, take care of people. You know, we got, like you was talking about all of the tanks out there not doing anything.

We got these fucking airplanes cost billions of dollars each. Hated features. No, take care of the kids. School teachers got no business spending money out of their pockets. Yeah, you're right about all that, but, you know, it wouldn't be long before we started roasting Putin and North Korea or whatever. It's a big dinner and then just set it all off. I guarantee you Pelosi.

Pelosi wouldn't run the goddamn lot, though, I promise you that. Listen to me. I'm in charge of the country. People that all of the countries, North Korea, Iraq. Everybody want a nuclear weapon. Fucking give it. So we got plenty. Give them some of our bar.

See how? We're going to give them ours, but we're going to keep the switch with us now. That is the most gangster way to go about that. Just go ahead and give everybody a nuclear weapon like, fucking do something. Go ahead. Yeah, but we're going to keep the switch with us. Yeah, yeah, you can do fuck up. Yeah, go ahead.

You mentioned North Korea. What do you think about Kim Jong-un, that whole thing? You got a theory. Ding-ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. You said it right. Congratulations. King Jung. How do you pronounce it?

I think you, I don't know. Something is wrong. You know how they do in those communists countries? Something is wrong. I don't know what it is. Yeah, right. Yeah, it's one of those things. I wouldn't be surprised by anything.

Like, you know what I mean? Like, if he's been dead for weeks now and then they don't admit that until a month later and, you know, say he got killed fighting a bald eagle or whatever that they'll make up. But or if he's like, if he's like, if he's. ended up being fine and has been held up in some bunker just letting the virus burn through the rest of North Korea while he

declares and shit. That wouldn't surprise me either. That could be. Have you guys been to North Korea? Hell no. Have you? Yeah. You've been everywhere, man. Yeah.

Well, we need to talk about. Well, I was with the U.S. government. I worked with the Pentagon. So we were entertaining their troops all over the world. So there was a few of us entertainers that went over. I didn't really go into North Korea, but I was at the DMZ. So they let us cross the line.

And I went 37 times. You know, it's just a little line about that thick. So I was double dutching. Click, click, click, click. But I walked across the line way ahead of my time. They called me and said, get the fuck back. Get the fuck back. I didn't know.

It's different than these companies. I went to Russia. No, I went to East Berlin before they took the wall down. and the communist life is completely different. It's just like nothing you've seen before. Everything's kind of gray, and that's what it was like as I could see as much as I can see in North Korea.

But I don't want to live in those places. But wait a second, now, I've got to come there. You know what? I'm wrong. I'm so wrong. Shanghai, communist. Oh, what? You're saying you've been there and it's all right?

Shanghai is three times launching in New York City and three times more modern than New York City. and you're right there and you don't know what the hell is going. I thought it was coming. They sell this shit on the street just like us. Yeah, right. They got more McDonald's. They got Hoggandals ice cream on every corner.

KFC is going crazy over there. And so you're going like, what the fuck am I? So I don't know how communism. I don't know how it works. I think it's probably the difference between a dictatorship and then some other more somewhat decent form of government. But, you know, I mean, some of the richest people in the world living in these communists countries.

Now, when I was a kid, they taught us that. communism, everybody, they did what the government told them to do, and they had pretty much made the same salaries. I don't know what's going on with communism. Have you ever been to Cuba? No, but I wanted to go. I don't want to go now. Something happened over there. I don't know in the last year or so. Well, they say it's really beautiful. It's not

gray or any of that like Russia used to be, and it's gorgeous and everyone has good health, et cetera, et cetera. But like if you go into a store, you can only get like five out, you know what I mean? Like, there's not a lot of variety of it. So, you know, that's all. That's all. That's we do today, like in America today,

that you can only get two rolls of toilet paper. Right. Right. Yeah, that's sort of the response now. It's like, you know, they've been warned in this that you put communism in America, we'll all starve and have red lines and will now look outside. We're all having bread lines and toilet paper lines. Oh, my God.

Keep talking, guys. I'm putting my phone down. Well, do you want me to ask you some of these non-political questions? You can ask me anything. I've got nothing to do and know where to go. I'll ask them. I didn't write down who who wrote them. So I, you know,

I apologize for taking away someone's moment in the sun. I really like this question. I know who they are. I can jump by the question. I don't know who they are. Go ahead. What is the biggest shit you no longer give?

I don't give a shit. You know, I don't, this is somebody, this is somebody that's been reading, okay? I don't give a shit. I'll eat pancakes out of a cup

and cupcakes out of a pan. I don't give a shit, okay? I just don't give a shit. You know what? My favorite one is, I'll drink a half a glass of whole milk and a whole glass of half and half. I don't give a shit.

Some lady told me one night, a lady says, Mr. Wallace, you may not give a shit, but if you drink a whole glass of half and a half and a half a glass of whole milk, you might not give a shit, but you're going to take one. That's pretty good. That's a good tag. I don't give a shit, yeah. I do love that joke, but I'm also generally curious. Is there something you gave a lot, like, did you cared about as a young person?

and now you're just like, fuck it. You know what I mean? Life's too short. I've always enjoyed life from day one. I wanted to be a comedian since six years old, okay? And life has been wonderful for me. I don't know. I used to watch the comedians on TV.

Laughter, when you start laughing, you stop living. We love what we do. You take laughter, as I wrote the book, Laugh It Off, and you take laughter everywhere you go. Who could do what I'm doing? All my life, I've been doing comedy. I've been doing comedy for 44 years. And I thank God, when I opened the show,

I'll have to thank God for what I do. I live my career. And I go out every night and all I do is lie. That's all I do. I just lie. I just make up shit. That's all I do. Just make up shit.

The more I live, Drew, don't laugh, true. The more I live, everything is a lie. No matter what you do is everything does a lie involve somewhere. Who the fuck? Does anybody know anybody ever want to publish a square house? They've been fucking lying just for years. Listen to me. Listen to me.

Everything is a lie. No matter what you do, there's all you go to, you go to the church. You know, my head is crazy. People are lying in church. You preach at all everybody,

close your eyes and prayer. You might bow your head, but that eye is not closed. You're just looking around. My mom used to tell me, boy, close your eyes. And I was like, how the hell you know?

Everything I do today, it's all about a lie, no matter what you do and talk about. So I, I don't give a shit about a lot of things, and then I love what I do. So, you know, I hope you guys enjoy it coming in like I. When we get to do stuff like this, hell yeah.

It's great. Yeah, yeah. And when you just put a twist on everything and just line, just make up shit, didn't that wonderful? And I also tell people, I want to be the greatest bullshut in the world. That's my goal.

I'm trying to be the greatest bullshitter in the world. But right now, Trump is kicking my ass. Yeah. Yeah. One thing I've got to admit I don't like about people who are against Trump, so many of them won't admit that he's so good at what he's doing. Because they're not falling for it. They're like, he's a terrible liar.

I'm like, no, he's not. Oh, he's a good lie to him. He's kicking my ass in the bullshit department, dude. Yeah. And you don't lie to you and tell you, I didn't just say what you thought I said. Are you number two? And then they'll say that he didn't say what he said. Like, he'll just say a thing and then say, I didn't really say that.

And then all of his, you know, base is like, yeah, no, he didn't say that. Even if there's literally video of him saying, like, the bleach thing, the injecting disinfectant thing. Like, they're all just like, he didn't say that, you know. They sent me, I made a joke about that. And some people from my hometown sent me the transcript of him saying that as proof that he didn't say that. No, a journalist was sitting there should say, I was here yesterday when you said that and you said you didn't say that.

I saw you say what you'd say you didn't say. Now he's saying it was sarcasm. Right. He's a word he clearly learned last week. Right. Comedians don't even get to claim that we were being sarcastic when we make a really, really offensive joke. And our whole demeanor is supposed to be sarcasm.

So fuck that shit. It's a lie. Sometimes no lies are good. Like, I used to do a joke about Bill Clinton. Stick to your lie. Stick no matter what. He said, I did not have sex with that one. I told him, you could run the tape and I would tell the people, you know, if I did not know that was not me, I would say that's me. But that is not me.

In that situation, in that situation, Trump did one of two things. There's literally only one of two things that he did. He either truthfully suggested that maybe we ingest chlorox into our veins or through our mouth. He either actually said that or he was being sarcastic. which means that he is so callous about the situation that he doesn't mind that someone would interpret him that way, which means that he's irresponsible. So he's either a dumb fuck or he's super irresponsible, neither of which deserve to be behind a podium during a pandemic. So realistically, I don't give a fuck what he was doing. Either one was stupid. So could he be all of the above?

Yeah, absolutely. He is for sure. Well, he's an asshole. But the fact of the matter is that the people that can't see it, that's what ticks me off, the people that can't see it, that this guy's crazy. Even if I was a Republican, I would have to say, the governor of Maryland today is saying, you know, you just can't go around saying stupid shit and be irresponsible for what you say. You're the leader of the countries. At least stand up and say something decent, say something right. So he's not being really a great way.

I almost said a great leader. He's not a great leader. I'm fucking. I don't know. I can't say it without saying fuck, okay. That's okay. That's all right. And I'm a Christian comedian, and I don't want to use the word fuck. That's okay. Trump claims to be a Christian as well. Yeah. You know what? This is my...

Last year, last year when he said two Gorinian, we go, oh, shit. You know what somebody should do? One of the journalists, they should take, Mr. President, as the leader of the free world. would you like we got all these people dying could you like lead us in prayer for a second? I bet he wouldn't even know what to say. Hell no, he wouldn't know what to say. What the weird, like, didn't he pray once and thank God for himself?

I mean, I don't know, but yes. It was just the scene from Ricky Bobby where he was thanking Gatorade for sponsoring the fucking prayer. He, uh, that was always so, I mean, it still is weird to me, him being lauded by super Christian conservatives. But like,

he initially like earlier in his campaign before it became such a huge thing that was one of the few things that he wasn't even really bullshitting about like he wouldn't even claim to be very Christian himself and then it became this huge you know advantage for him and they were holding him up as you know finally we've got a holy man in office you know and whatever and now he'll you know he'll play that card but like he wasn't even doing that himself to begin with and he's the biggest bullshitter owner. like George said. How do you write, how do you call it? Evangelical. Evangelicals, yeah. And even in the Bible, Psalms 1017. Turn to your Bibles. Psalm 1017 says,

A liar shall not carry in my side. How could you follow a liar? You know, the guy's lying and you support a liar right there in front of your life. Evangelicals, you know. All of the wrong things. He's done everything that the Bible said don't do. He's got full wives. He's done everything that the Bible says.

The Bible says, right. And they're standing right up there going, well, well, well. Right. And Barack Obama led the congregation in Amazing Grace in Charleston, you know, and yet he was a secret Muslim Kenyan or whatever. And then Donald Trump does all the shit you just said, and he is the holy man replacement that they've all been looking for. It's just so baldly, just bullshit, you know.

And like you were saying, like you can't understand how people don't, It boggles my mind how they don't. The mental gymnastics, they put themselves through successfully to be able to actually say all that shit. Mental gymnastics. Oh, my God. Say that again. Mental gymnastics. That's what they, the only kind of gymnastics they could do.

Oh, my God. That's so great. Let me write that down. Yeah, well, I mean, I heard. How do you spell gymnastics? I think it's J-I-M-Nasty. C-K-S. Jim, nasty.

I don't know gymnastics. I know Jim Bader worked with him down to play. We're in a situation, but I hope come November, I hope if we don't have a second wave of this virus around next September, October, November, I'm thinking of all the conspiracies in my head so people can't get out on the vote. Oh, right. Well, you mentioned earlier, you said we just got a vote, And then we kept on going at the time,

but I was going to say something about, like, are you worried about that exact thing happening? Like, them purposely trying to fuck up the vote. They've already talked about, like, all the reasons that vote by mail wouldn't work. I live in California, we vote by mail. It works just fine. The entire country of Australia does it. Like, it's not a lot of countries do it for every single election.

There's no reason why you can't do that, but they're already trying to make up a bunch of, bullshit reasons why that won't be feasible. And it's just, they're definitely going to try to pull any bullshit they can come election time, especially if all this shit is, if there is a second wave, like you said, if we're back in the thick

of it, I mean, they'll do whatever they can do. Yeah, I don't get it. If the wave comes on real strong, they're going to say, let's postpone the election and have it later when it gets better. And I could go on for another year or so. But we've got to, they've got to come up with something in Congress that we must vote. Yeah.

Yeah, I agree. It's the only I have thought the whole time I knew he wasn't ever going to get impeached but I knew he was never going to get removed I knew he was never going to resign I knew none of that shit was ever going to happen to me the only play the whole time was just survived

I haven't actually had but now of course all this shit's happening it's like you said we have to protect the election and it happening at all costs whatever we can do because they will fuck it up any way they can

they will they already are going to There's people in rooms right now or a Zoom meeting already planning to, if another pandemic wave doesn't hit to pretend one does or to do anything that they can. And I tell you, I'm telling you fellas, get ready for four more years.

Oh yeah, for sure. I don't, I hate to say it, but I mean... It's not going to happen. It's not going to happen. We are going to vote. Like you have never seen before. We are going to vote. Well, I hope that we do win. and I hope it don't cost fucking people their lives. I hope voting don't kill them, you know, because of the virus.

They need to just do vote by mail. God damn it. Sorry. If the government wants my money, they don't. I know. I know. I said, I'm sorry. Felt bad as soon as I said it.

But no, I just, it's so clearly, you know, good option. He's curtailing his words. Yeah. It's just if the government wanted some money. for me they wouldn't mind me sending it to him in the fucking mail why can't I vote it it don't make no sense what different doesn't matter yeah it don't matter let's do it we got they send me a bill every goddamn year in the mail that's what I'm saying look I think if you got a social security number you should vote just automatically yeah yeah just that's

something what good let's take a whole day off to do it I don't give a shit really yeah make it a holiday it's a holiday it should be it should be already yeah you can vote 30 days in advance or you can wait till the last day whatever you want whatever you are i got uh one more i got another question for you that uh um that i i no reason to preamble it read the fucking question who is the craziest outright craziest person you've ever met Oh my God Does a committee name David Tyree

Used to be It used to look like Richard Pratt worked out Sam Kenison is up there too I have no doubt Tell us the same Kenison story Who? Kenison, tell us a Kenison story

Oh Kenison when he first showed up at the comedy store We thought he was the devil man He'd come in and get on an overcoat And he had on a hat And his hair was long And everybody's going to this fucking guy is crazy He's the anti- Christ. And all of a sudden, his crowd came along. After three or four years, this crowd,

everybody said, this guy's crazy. The next thing you know, he had an audience. So that's what I tell all the comedian, no matter what you do, be you. And there's a market for everybody. There's a crowd, but no matter what you do, they'll show. So Sonison, Sinison was just absolutely crazy. But what about, what about, like, a audience member in your, at a show you did or one of your shows, It was like the craziest shit you've ever had a crowd member do during, before, or after any of that. Well, I don't know about crazy people, but I tell you what, I've had five heart attacks during my show. Are you serious?

You're talking about me. What? People in the audience. Yeah. Really? Not me, but people in the audience. Oh, okay. Listen, I had a heart attack.

I did the State Farm Arena, but that's what it's called now the State Farm Arena. Last year, it was called the Philip Serena. Yeah, yeah, okay. I did a show February 15th here in Atlanta, and I went to, it's good to be here at the Omni. You guys, this is a local joke for the Georgia Boys. It's good to be here to Omni. They shout it back.

It's not the Omni. I'm going, oh, shit, I'm sorry. It's good to be here at Phillips Serena. You go, it's not Phillips Arena. I go, oh, this is what a she shed looks like. You know, sheesh. It's she shit. But I had five heart attacks,

And last year in Atlanta, it was right on the floor. Paramedics came in. I had to sit on stage like another 20 minutes because I wanted attention. I'm pretty good at this. I'm pretty good when I'm on stage. When they tell you guys I killed, I'm just... Listen, but yeah, I think that's some of the craziest things that happened to me. How do you?

I don't stop the show. I keep the attention on me. I moved to the other side of the stage where the medics are working. And so I had a lot of heart attacks. Anything crazy ever happen in my audience? I don't know. How do you keep it going? You said you move to the other side of the stage.

Surely it requires a little bit more than that. Look at me. Look at me. Let's start get the lights up coming like me in. And I'll really start to articulate very well so people can understand my jokes and keep them coming to me. Don't pay attention to the dead man over there. And you stick to the jokes.

Just wherever you were in the act, you just keep going from that point. Exactly. And I know what's going on on the floor. That's my job. Once I had, I was with Tom Jones. I had 15,000 people and the lights went out. Get me a microphone, a bullhorn, and a flashlight's on me immediately. I kept the show going.

The lights were just completely dark. And the promoter of the show gave me a brand new TV back in 1980, a flat screen. I bet that thing was heavy as fuck, wasn't it? That fucking fit. But it was a new thing. new thing to get. Yeah. He said, you saved my show that whole night.

18,000 people in the audience or whatever it was because I kept the show rolling for 40 minutes until the lights came back on. Otherwise, people would have panicked and ran out of the auditorium and they never would have come back in. The show would have been over that night. That's a big thing. All the lights went out. After 44 years, I've done a lot of crazy shit.

I've got a lot of things happen. That reminds me, I got a question after 44 years in the business. Have you, and obviously, you know. not ask you to name names or anything like that, but like working with, you said you got a Netflix show now, you've been in this game a long time. People are aware there's a lot of like lunatic Hollywood stories,

like with suits and executives and stuff like that, just being monsters. Have you ever deal with those people and do you have any advice on how to deal with that when you cross past with somebody like that? Or does everybody just love you, George? Well, listen, I haven't had too many experiences. See, my goal, I never wanted to do television or movies.

I never wanted to be any big shot. I'm living my dreams. My goal was to just let me work Las Vegas. About two years after being in the comedy, I think it's Seinfeld and I, it's always being Seinfeld. That's my friend is always. We were talking about there were some comedians

in Las Vegas that made $300,000. Back in the day, that's good enough for me. That's all I need to make. I never got. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it wasn't different to $300,000. Just let me do that. And I got to Las Vegas.

I was working with Diamond Ross in 1979. And I said, oh, my God, I'm here. Then I went to Los Vegas and owned my show in 2004. I'm going like, dude, I've reached my goal. I've conquered everything I ever wanted to do. Now I've got to look for a new goal. Now I'm doing new things. So now I'm getting a little involved in TV.

I mentioned the show with Jamie Foxx, but I have two shows right now in the show. Daddy stopped embarrassing me with Jamie Fox. I also have a new deal with the man, Norman Lear, 97 years old. Yeah. A brand new deal with him, and we're on hold right now because of the pen dinner. I saw you riding on the back of a golf car with him one time on the internet, I think. Am I wrong? You are so right.

It was the three of us. Levin Cox. So I went back to Norman Leone. I said, it's about time for reboot or re-something of Sanford and Son. He said, you can't do the end with here. Why don't you do your own show? I went back for a friend of mine that I wrote a book, Dan Ewan. I said, Levin Cox, so much talk about him.

I said, since I want to do Sanford and son, why don't we reboot it? And he used to, here's the story, seven son. There's a guy named Edwin was my son. I didn't know his story because I'm a black guy from Mobile, Alabama, and old dad is their job was to just put food on the table and take care of the house. I did not know his situation. But Edwin, being of who he was, I had no idea. The mom died.

He moved to New York to be who he wanted to be. He knocks on the door 30 years later. Dad, it's your son. Who? What? Who? Are you Edwin's wife? Right. He is transgendered. Yeah. Now, the plot Sampena's son is Sampan indoor.

Right. Okay. Yeah, yeah. We got to educate everybody with, I got to learn because I don't know anything about it. The city of Mobile, Alabama's got to learn. They didn't know anything about it. We're going to take it into the black church. You know they hate anything like transgender. They don't understand it. Then I'm going to eventually having him. have her. Who shit? Every time I call him to him,

you got to put a dollar in the jar. So it's something new when you learn about, because you don't know a lot about transgenders, but you have to learn it just to be educated, right? Right. So I'll have her running for Leah. He may not win, but it will create awareness. Everybody's going through some problems

and, like, be it dealing with any situation. It could be alcoholism. It could be anything, but we just want to educate the people and have some fun. And most of all, educate people. about love. Did you say you're doing it with Dan McEwen? Dan Ewan.

Dan Ewan. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I know, Dan's all, he's an awesome dude and he's got, that's a personal subject for him, I believe. Oh, that was a twist also. Bam, you got it, Trey. Yeah, and I've met Norman Lear twice

and it was, it's like, you say he's 97 now, I met him. So when I, the two times that I met him, he was probably like 96. So, you know, not spring chicken stuff. It was just like a year ago. And he's like insanely sharp and on top of it all. Like when I saw him, he was talking about, he was talking about TV the whole time.

He was talking about TV shows and what works and what don't and all this type of stuff. And it was incredible. He's got a podcast at his age. It's also, he's just like, it's wild. I mean, he's like one of those. He's got a podcast. I can. Yeah.

Didn't you say that? He knows what's going on. And everywhere, the good thing about working with normal there, everywhere, every time we had a meeting, he showed up. So if he shows up from the top president, everybody, they showed up at the meeting. So he said, like we walked out of NBC, he says, we did a little reading for him, a little Vern, myself,

we did a little reading of the show. So he says to the president, so we got a deal of what? Wow. Yeah, he could just do that. You know how powerful that is? Yeah, oh yeah. Just sitting there and making the guy, do we have a deal and they're looking around?

Do we have a deal or what? Bam. Amazing. And he's so sharp. We were doing one scene, and then I don't like to read a lot. I just like to do it and be myself and the director. Say, yeah, let's just do that and let you two guys start solo and I went back and forth and got your position.

And when you're in with those guys, guys, those, what are you call on those, um, those suits in there. And he said, say, fuck. He told me, saying, when you get to this part, say fuck. And I never thought he would tell me to say fucking funny television people to just make sure that point was made, you know, what the fuck? Yeah. And he's pretty sharp. But 97-year-old TV director to tell you to say fuck when he came out of an era where you can even say ass. Right. So you know, he still got his thinking cap. He always has a thinking cat. One of the, the story that I tell about meeting him because it was pretty crazy. I said it was like last year. It was actually like

two years ago at least the first time that I met. Oh so he was only 95 who gives him? No but that will be relevant. Have you ever heard somebody telling the story? Have you ever heard somebody telling the story it was one year ago and now it was two years ago and about five minutes or not ago you know it was like eight years ago when I was yeah well it was yeah Trace famously full of shit so it happens a lot. Listen that that actually is important to the story I'm telling because what the wildest thing that I remember about meeting Norman Lerr for the first time is that he met me new like very whatever just the the Cliff Notes version of my whole deal or whatnot and he starts he starts pitching out he starts just spitballing off top of his head about like a TV

show that he thought would be good for somebody like me right this is Norman Laird doing he's like well you think about this he's just like workshoping something just coming straight off the dome with it and it was essentially uh the righteous gemstones on HBO, but that show was not, it didn't exist yet. Like, my point is he kind of just like, just off the cuff just spitballed this show that that is now on HBO and was, and just so everybody's clear on what I'm saying, he didn't know nothing about it, he was just saying it and they were, they're totally, it's just parallel thought, they're totally unrelated, but it's crazy to me that Norman Lear kind of just came up

with the concept for that show on a whim at a lunch one day. and now it's like, you know, a hit on HBO with Danny McBride and everybody. The same concept is. It's pretty crazy because he's 95 years old. It's not crazy. It happened to us. It happened to me and happened to you.

Yeah. It's like he was there and said, do your own stuff. Do your own. Come up with this and we told him about the transgender. And there was three months before he could get back to us because he was rebooting all in the family and the Jefferson and all of those. But we got the telephone calls.

Okay, now let's go to work. Yeah. Sharp though. Well, unfortunately, George, we're about to come up against the time here. I'd say it. I'm talking to you fucking guys. I know. Here's the deal.

Drew, you don't have another question? I do have one more question. You look like you're all dressed up. What the fuck are you going all dressed up? I'm wearing a yellow. I thought it was a turtleneck. When you're by down your neck and your shirt is the same color. No, I just, I just think.

I swear I do, when you buy it out on your shirt, your neck is the same color. Oh, yellow neck, have an ass motherfucker. That's my rap. You guys are just great. You know I respect you guys. I love everything you guys do. It's just wonderful talking to you. You need to know that.

Well, George, you should know that you have a standing invitation to come on the well-read podcast literally anytime you would like to. Yes, we still tell people to. like that to me. You can't say shit like that. I did our son of your hall one day, and he said that the next night I showed up, he said, George, that didn't mean it. I said, we had it all take, too. He said, George, you can't. I said, you told me to come back there, and it worked. It was very funny. Well, no, it really means a whole lot to us, and we very much appreciate it. We all three of us still tell the story all the time about how the very first show of our, like,

actual tour, the well-read tour with the three of us together, the very first night of it, you came and did a set and all that. And we, like, it was just insane. It really added to the surrealness of the night for us and how awesome everything was. And you really elevated all of that. And we're just cool as hell and we still tell people all the time. So we love you, man.

Maybe we can do that again. I would, we would love that, on the day that they finally make comedy legal again or whatever. Anytime we're around. You're asked to wherever you want to go. Yeah. Anytime we're around and you're around, anytime, literally. We'll just make it happen.

that we're near in the same area. Yeah. Okay, how about that? Anytime that ever happens. Maybe go back to the same club where it was. We were actually, we were supposed to be in Atlanta this past weekend. That's where we were supposed to be at. But obviously, you know, that didn't happen.

Yeah, I've been keeping up with all the places we're supposed to be. There was a crowd. There was a crowd there. You know, I live around the corner from the punchline. There was a crowd there. I said, what are there for? Yeah. Did you say you're in Bucket at?

three guys. Everybody was that but two, three guys. Did you say you're in Buckhead? Yeah, I live around the corner from the punchline. I told you that before. I think we were going to be at the Buckhead Theater this weekend. Yeah, that's accurate. That's the same place. I'm right up the street. I'm at Phipps Plaza. I live right behind Phipps Plaza. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I'm getting at look out of the window right now at Phipps Plaza. You guys, if I can get up. see see where in there? Oh, it's beautiful.

That's a great balcony. Hell yeah. A balcony as long as hell. It's all the way around. All the way around. So this is where I did my exercise. I forgot him in my underwear. I'm naked.

I didn't know in my underwear. you so much for joining us again and we can't wait to, you know, reconvene down the road. Thank you guys. And listen, something good is going to happen to you whether you like it or not. Keep a smile on your face and keep people laugh. Okay? When you stop laughing, you stop living. Oh yeah.

Thank you very much, George. Thank you, George. See you. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Thank you all for listening to the well-read show. We'd love to stick around a longer, but we got to go. Tune in next week if you got nothing to do. Thank you, God.

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