Whiskey Ginger with Andrew Santino - Hot Solo Pod Action!

Episode Date: August 1, 2025

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It's your first time joining the show. Welcome to the show. My guest today is one of my least favorite people on Earth. I say that for none of my guests. And I mean it today. It's a solo episode. It's me. It's your boy.

I haven't done this. I don't even like saying it's your boy. I don't like that at all. It's so gross. That's such a gross. It's your boy. It's your 42-year-old boy. quoting Jayze's The Black Album.

Yeah, I have to. It's me solo today with Maconi Boni in the booth over there. And we did a solo today because we've been doing a long run of guests and we've been doing this show for, I think, almost eight years. I have no idea what the calendar says.

And for a while we were going to have to put it down because we were traveling too much. And I said, no, let's do a solo episode like we used to do from back in the day, day. I did one. I think I did a solo episode in Salt Lake or something like that one time from the condo that we were staying in

I don't remember the last time I did a solo what was that? What's the year on that solo episode that we did that? It says what? That was episode 75 and when? March 27th, 2020. March 2020. Okay, so five years ago we did it. I was sipping a little sap there sitting in the old studio. That was the old studio that had cockroaches.

You weren't around for that. You don't remember the cockroach studio. Man, that was a great studio. We're doing the solo app. We got some stuff to talk about this week. It's been a bummer week so far for me in terms of Rino died. Yesterday, this episode will come out in a couple of days, but Ryan Sandberg, one of the greatest Chicago Cubs of all time, who made me fall in love with the Chicago Cubs.

I was a kid. I was born when he joined the team shortly after and transformed Wrigley Field into a non-loser's palace. My dad sent me an article from the Chicago Tribune. this morning talking about his impact and what a what a cool cat bring up a photo of this guy like one of the most handsome this is also back when ball players uh were a little bit more like handsome and normal looking and now i think you got to have more flare ryan sandberg i know that's so sad you don't even know who that is and it's spelled r y n e ron ron ron and they called him the rhino

handsome looking cat huh apparently he was like a multi-tiered multi-sport athlete when he was young he could have done anything even as an older gentleman but look at that look at how handsome he was back then handsome guy died tragically of cancer uh so sad like so unfortunate um so young too i think he was i want to say 65 or 67 65 i mean that's such an awful young way to go out cancer when is it stop my mom says can't we fix that no mom we can't fix that uh my dad had cancer everyone we know is going to get cancer. You just got to hope for... Which one do you hope you get, I guess?

You hope for the least painful one. McCone, of course, will get some sort of lead cancer. Macone has been removed from his apartment because of lead poisoning. We should put up a little protest. Don't you think we should fight back? We should fight the man. McCone is in a building that's from the early 1900s.

They removed some stuff, and of course, lead leaked out. So the kids been sleeping at the studio, showering at my house. and at other people's houses, which brings me back to the days of showering at strangers' homes. I've done this. As an adult, I did this. I showered at Neil Brennan's house one time before a gig, because I couldn't make it all the way back to the valley, so I had to do it somewhere in the city.

And showering at other people's houses, it's interesting to figure out their configuration. Did you get my shower quickly? You have fantastic water pressure. I got a good water pressure, good WP over there at the Santino household. I will say we did pride that when we got that house. I wanted the hot to be hotter and the pressure to be stronger. And the guy that came over from LADWP to check everything out was like, you know, this water pressure is a little too high. It could bust a pipe or something.

And I said, bus it. See, I can get my youth on today? Bus it, dog. This is a photo of McCone's lead on his counter. Is that a grinder? What is that? That's your, that's it's for lenses. That's for lenses.

Oh, my God. There's a zippo lighter, a lens cap, and an old charger from back in the day. Is that USB? and then that's what? What is that? That's for a film reel. God, that's so gross. Look at how dirty that counter got, just from them ripping everything out.

It got in my coffee. It got in your coffee. Did you drink the coffee? Of course I did. You have to finish it. Yeah. You know, I hate that mentality of my parents' generation

from like the 50s where they're like, it made us stronger. We drank puddle water. No, it didn't. You're all dying of cancer now. So, no, it didn't make you stronger. It's sad.

Look at all that. That's so bad for you. Yeah. That reminds me, this is great. bring up this picture of go to J.C.B. England. J.C.B. England. It's a golf course that I was just out there. And at J.C.B. See if you can get images. Look up old brick building, J.C.B. This is pretty impressive. We were going around the grounds at this golf course. And that's it. I think that's it. That's one of them. So this guy's taking me around the

golf course. Look at that beautiful historic building on the grounds. He goes, yeah, we can't can't rip it down. And I said, why not? He goes, it was, with asbestos. So you know that they, the protection, environmental agency over there, they said it's, it's better to leave it up than to rip it down because of the asbestos that would float around in the air. So it's just an old asbestos building. It looks beautiful.

And of course, the golf course had stored a lot of stuff in there, which means some of the younger employees are going to catch some asbestos poisoning by proxy. But really, who cares about the youth? And McCone is reminding me you're 20, six years old. I'm older now. We started working together when you were 20, three. years old. It is crazy how fast our children grow up and how much you still have to take care of them. I feel that when I hear people talk about their kids. You're still living really under

my roof. In a way, yes. No, no, literally. This is my roof. You're here. But this is what it is. That's the story of life. You're my kid. I feel like because I couldn't have kids. God bless me me with you. I have to take care of you. God bless. God love. God bless. But going backwards, shout out to Ryan Sandberg, the Rhino, one of the greatest of all time. Followed me on Instagram. feel i mean i don't even care i don't even know who could have followed me on instagram that would have made me feel the way it made me feel when he followed me because as a kid he was so impactful because i i love baseball but he really made me fall in love as a kid because he was clean and smooth the sexiest second baseman i think i've ever seen and that was

the mark grace days i mean that entire that entire crew of chicago cubs made me fall in love with the pinstripes and rigley um in a way that i just kind of i don't know it did something and of course that was the original number 23. Isn't that kind of crazy? He was the first 23 in Chicago, followed by the goat of basketball. What a childhood I was able to have. This is what's kind of messed up as I've grown older

and moved to Los Angeles, and now I'm in the city of a lot of championships. It is kind of nice to live in a place like this where the sports teams are so good, but the people seem to not care. Nobody goes to hang out. Nobody tailgates. When I go back to the Midwest,

you can go to, okay, the White Sox are having a mediocre season and you can still go to the south side of Chicago, go to a bar, people will be watching the game, and it's a communal thing. Nobody does that here. The Doyers have a fan base

of strong Latinos and then mid-whites. The whites come and they go. The whites go when they can get free tickets. That's when the whites go to baseball games. You give me free tickets, I'll go to the game. I've been buying tickets for the Dodgers for a long, long time.

I'm not a mid-white. I'd say I'm an upper middle white, you know, as far as, you know, I can touch all the bases. I can dance amongst different classes. Mexicans being my favorite, I talked about them last night at the comedy store. Man, I love Mexicans. They know how to take a joke. They're not going to get offended. You're never going to get canceled by a Latino Dodger fan because they say some wild-ass shit.

I mean, they were the ones that put that San Francisco giant in a coma. Is that guy still alive, by the way? That's why we don't have tailgating out at Dodger Stadium anymore. They beat that guy into a coma. It was terrible. Twelve years, Giants fan, Brian Stowe, still battling long-term effects. Twelve years after the Dodger Stadium attack. Twelve years.

This guy got put in a coma in the Dodger parking lot. Insane. They beat him into a coma. And because of this, now, there's 900 cops in Chavez Ravine before the game. You can't even have a beer by your car like the good old days. Did you grow up having... You went to Vikings games when you were a kid? Yeah, and some...

Did your dad sit in the parking lot and have a drink and tailgate? We would more so go to like a... like a college. We would go to Timberwolf games more than anything, but that was the winner. So that was really cold. Yeah, well, you can't, you're not tailgate. And nobody tailgets before basketball. Why, though? Why don't you tell it before basketball? So what? What are you talking about? You tailgate before football games, they're also in the winter. I know, but fall versus, no, that's the fall. No, you saw, okay, go, go tell that to Green Bay. Go tell that to Green Bay when it's snowing and it's 12 degrees. They're still out there drinking.

I mean, we went to a Broncos game and it was 22 degrees. It was ice, cold dude and we were still out there having a couple of soda pops enjoying our lives the vikings don't make it that far in the season god dude this is why you're still around so look at this poor this poor guy the giant fan this poor guy that they beat into a coma 12 years later still what was the lawsuit that they ended up but look at well pause that that's the that's the police sketch that's the police sketch of the people that they were looking for god dude i could have been a police sketch artist that is the most look at his head i mean they split his head open the fact he's still alive is insane. That's awful. That's a bad display of true Dodger fans because these are

wonderful, good people. You just had a couple of people that had too many Estrejas out there in right field. Estrella, the beer of the dyers. Oh, this guy can't even stand. I mean, this is terrible to watch. I don't want to see this anymore. What are we doing? No, it's terrible. I feel bad. It was an awful thing that happened to the poor guy. What's the amount of money he sought in that lawsuit? I remember it was a big deal back then. 12 years ago, man, so much time has changed since then, too. What does it say? Five million. Five million to take care. It says Stowe's family sued the Dodgers, citing poor security in the parking lots. They were left with just over five million to take care of Stowe. Just over five million,

but they say the word left just over as if it was 30 bucks. Five million. I mean, look, five million you can put in a coma. No, thank you. How much would you get paid if I can put you in a coma? How much could I pay you to put you in a coma? Are it coming out of the coma? You're coming out, but you're having a tough go. Twelve years later, you're still. struggling. Maybe a milly a year. 12 million. Yeah. I won't, no, no thanks.

Yeah. Let me just, let me just choke you out. And I'll give you free showers at my house. Okay, that's fair. That's fair. He had five cardiac arrests at night at the hospital. That's insane. All right. Let's move on. Yeah. Well, I was talking about how bad that is. That's bad fanship.

Yeah. And I will say, Dodgers are not like that. We have good fans. They're good, solid people out there, the Dodger fans. and move into a city with all these, with all these, this championship glory having the L.A. Kings, you know, go through their run. The Lakers, which, you know, I'm not a big Laker guy, but, you know, one of the most historic basketball teams of all time. The Rams and the Raiders both touch and go out here. Now we have the chargers, which give them back to San Diego. Give them back. Can you return a team? Return to sender. Address unknown. I don't understand that. They moved up here. No one was a fan. I do not get that move, you know. I do understand the move of the Oakland Raiders going to Vegas and the Oakland A's moving to Vegas. I know Oakland's upset about it, but you're right across the bridge. You can go get whatever you need over there, you know?

I know they don't like that, but show more love and support. I did a show called Behind the Lights years and years ago where I went to some of the toughest jobs in sports, and they showed us flipping the baseball to football. Look at that behind the lights day with the other stay with the Padres. But I went to do behind the lights to Oakland. I watched them flip the stadium from baseball. No, that's mudding. I don't think you're going to, I don't know.

But I watched them flip the stadium from baseball to football. And we'll show the outside of it. Go to maybe the outside. But no, that's not. I don't care. Take it away. But the point is, they said the reason they, the reason they, they didn't want to build them a new stadium is because it only cost them a million

dollars every flip, half a million each way. So the family intelligently said, well, how many times do we've got to flip it in a season for football? How many times? Do you know? Half of the games are home, half are away. So six to nine times now, right? Six to eight times.

I mean, come on. That's nothing. I mean, who cares? So six million bucks is all the cost. I'm instead of building an entire new stadium, which what does it cost now to build a brand new baseball stadium the average cost i would say i'm going to guess it's probably a billion and some change buck and a half i wonder what what a i think so 2.3 1.2 to 2.3 i was close i said a buck and a half 2.3 billion to build a baseball stadium now yeah so why

would you do it why would you do it create jobs great steve jobs he's dead my friend we have to create him a new then yeah where's steve jobs and you need to these iPhones are worthless. This is the same design it's been since it came out in 08. It's the same thing. Nothing really changed. Well, yeah, he's been dead for it.

Wasn't that funny at the end of Blackberry, though, when that just kind of ruins everything for them? The iPhone killer. Yeah. It is pretty crazy. I remember how big of a deal it was. My roommate, my couch jumper roommate, a guy that kind of slept on our couch for a while.

He had the iPhone. That pissed me off. You know when your friends are as poor as you are and they get something worth a lot of money and you're like, haven't you not been paying rent? That really bummed me out. He got the new iPhone. And the first gen, dude, that was expensive.

That's 07, 08. And I think even then it was 600 bucks or 700 bucks. I don't remember what was the cost of the first iPhone. But he had that, and I thought, why are you living on my couch and you got an iPhone? You have the brand new iPhone. We couldn't afford that back then. $500, man. $600 for the 8 gig.

Think about that, dude. The 8 gig. That was the highest they went was 8 gigs. $600 in 2007 is the equivalent to 900 today, which is exactly what they are now. They're like $1,000. But think about that. Sick, eight gigs. How many gigs is our phones now? 256 is the high, or no, 512 is the highest?

Yeah. Good God. I think they go up to a terabyte now. Do they? Yeah. Just because file sizes are exploding exponentially. But there's no reason you'd ever need a terabyte for the average user. That's crazy.

Yeah. That's the same thing that bothers me about Macbooks. I have Mac stuff. I'm a sucker. But everybody's like, why do you like Macs? And every idiot says the same thing. Dude, there's stuff you can do with it. most people are checking email yeah they're not on final cut they're not on adobe

Photoshop they're not on any of those premier programs which this thing is good for so we're all just sheep and liars we really all just sheep and liars and I'm one of them I got iPhone iPad MacBook AirPods I had beats which Apple owns now I had beats over the years had phones I have so many devices I have air tags and Everything. We air tagged my dog. We air tagged my dog. I should air tag you. I want to know where you are most of the time. But we air tagged my dog because it's better than putting a chip in your dog. But sometimes I hit the air tag sound just to mess with her. You know, because when you do the fine, it goes, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And she looks around and panics. My wife, hey, doesn't like that. But it is funny to watch her face. She freaks out for just a minute. She's about to be bummed. She's not going to get played with every day. My in-laws are at my house right now. And they play with the dog. I'm not kidding. Son up, sun down. Like they'll go in the back. and throw the ball with her for six, seven hours. It's crazy, dude. I play with her two hours a day, I'd say.

Two is enough. She needs a break. She does. I need a break, you know? She's so fast. She's so quick. She's eight, but she's still my little black dog. My little cute little black dog.

I like the black ones better than the white ones. You wouldn't hear him say that, huh? Are we ever going to get the Epstein's list? No, probably not. We're never going to get that list, are we? Oh, so let me go back. So Ryan Sandberg, a loss of a legend for the Chicago Cubs, one of the greatest Cubs of all time. Rest in peace, Rhino.

We love you so very much. You were pretty unbelievable, man. And before that, we lost Hulk Hogan, which tragedy to die. It's sad when people die. But, man, his N-word tape to his daughter was wild, dude. What do you say? If she's going to date an N-word at least like that. let it be a pro athlete is that what he said i mean that's maybe the most flagrant shit on earth

and he's on the phone to her to somebody else i think he was on the racist rent eight years ago used offensive language to have a private conversation he was unacceptable yeah yeah he acknowledged it but he did say he was mad that she was dating a black guy right isn't that the whole case and then he said at least if she's going to date a black guy he better be a multi-millionaire a hundred millionaire or something like that i try to find the transcript yeah please do please do find the transcript. Who recorded that phone call? I always think about that like with a Mel Gibson call when his girlfriend recorded that. I was like, that's so funny. She knew. He must do it. By the way, you know, this is like drunk driving? My uncle, who's the cop says? You know what

they say when you get caught drunk driving? They didn't catch you on your first go. This guy probably said it a lot. A lot. Yeah, brother. You better not be dating an N-word, brother. He even said brother with a hard R. He said brother. You better not be dating a brother. Brother. Yeah, he did a bad A bad little thing And that was after the sex tape With his friend's wife came out That thing was so strange

His whole legacy is Pretty muddied up The whole time He was down there He uh Yeah Yeah, racial tirade And he sued Gawker for $100 million

Anyway, oh there it is Oh my God Oh my God Sleeping with a son of a man Who was funning her I mean I'd rather if she was going to F some N word rather than have her marry an eight-foot-tall N-word worth $100 million, like a basketball player.

I guess we're all a little racist effing N-word. Rest in peace, Hulk Hogan. What if they put that on his tombstone, dude? Put that quote on your tombstone? That's something to live by. By the way, this is one of those, that's one of those phrases, that's one of those quotes where this wasn't a, dude, you got me out of contact. Dude, this is misunderstood. I didn't mean it the way that it's reading.

Anyway, Hulk Hogan gone. Ryan Samburg gone. And rest in peace, Ryan Samburg, Hulk Hogan. Ozzy. Rest in peace, I guess. Unfortunate end to his legacy. And the most impactful of all of the three celebrity deaths that go back to back to back to back is Ozzy Osbourne. I was in, I was near his hometown.

uh... when uh... when he passed away how crazy was that what's it called his hometown was called what's it called he died near there right so he he was born in uh... moston green woolwick shire i mean everything sounds like it's lord of the rings uh... and he died in jordan's buckingham shire uh... i was up there in midlands england midlands england when he passed away and uh... what a wild run that guy had i mean the fact that he lasted till seventy six is bananas

Think about that. 65 Ryan Sandberg cancer. This guy bit bats, snorted heroin, like mainlined drugs for years, partied as hard as you could party, still got to 76. That's crazy, man. The guy was a legend. The guy was a total G. Black Sabbath, one of the greatest metal bands, probably in the history of music.

Impactful stuff, dude. Really a powerful dude. So rest in peace of those guys. Tough little week. three celebrity deaths in a row. Although I never had an affinity for Hulk Hogan. I'm not saying this now because of the N-word conversation we just had. I just never liked wrestling as a kid.

I'm of the generation that should have loved it. I liked it. But I didn't love it. I liked sports more. What are you saying wrestling? I like sport? No, I'm saying I like team sports more. I just like basketball and baseball.

Hockey, football. Soccer really missed me. Although I tried to play it when I was a kid. But I was like, man, you should be able to push people hard, punch, push, thus rugby, thus rugby, because they do all that stuff. Yeah. It is a great game. Rugby is one of those games.

I wish we had it here. We do. My buddy Ev from college, he plays, and then coaches. But it's just not as popular. Why do you think we can't get into this? We can't get into rugby or soccer. Because rugby's too similar to soccer, and we have such a... We have such a hard on to hate soccer, but people say that, you know what the phrase is that I don't like?

This is a cop out when people go, oh, there's not enough scoring. There is. actually in soccer. I think that's actually not true. Also hockey isn't very high scoring at all, but it's... It's gotten better, right, because of the change of rules, right? Hockey's a little bit more fast-paced now. Yeah, but it's still it's like, it's similar to soccer where they're not putting

up NBA games going to triple digits. But NBA games have gotten out of control. Yeah. Now you watch an NBA game, what's the average score now in the NBA? It's like 135 to 122. I remember as a kid, yeah, average NBA scores around 115 a game. That's a lot.

What was the average, look at this, what was the average NBA score in, oh, look, there's the, there's the graph, pull up that chart. Look at the down tick there in the 90s. 1960 was higher. Do you know why? There was no, there was no black guys to guard these white dorks. These white dorks were getting free reign. These white nerds were being, there was no one that could able to grab the ball out of the sky like wilt, the stilt, and snag your bullshit. Then it was a low scoring in the 70s, late 70s to the 75.

It went up a little bit. Then went way down in the 90s. Interesting. So the highest peak of scoring in the NBA was actually in the 60s, 61, 62. It was all the way up to 120 a game. That's interesting because we've never seen. In my lifetime, in the 90s, it was all low. It was all pretty low.

It was around 85 to a, it was sub-100, a game. Everything was sub-100. So you think we're going to get back to going up to 120 a game on an average, probably sooner than later? If they institute a four-point, you think a four-point thing is good or no? No. You get stupid? Yeah.

But they're shooting from half court at this point. Steph Curry is shooting, what's the average distance of a Steph Curry 3? I mean, the guy is shooting now so far beyond the arc. I mean, it's in, he's almost shooting from half court. That should be four points for fun. Typically, 27 feet. Yeah. Significantly further than the standard three point line, which is 23 feet.

Right. So on average, this guy is like four, sometimes four to six feet away from where he should be. That's so far away. so make 28 feet a four point line but also you're being defended less when you're that far back but then that makes it more interesting then people are going to get up on you knowing

that there's another point on the line for that well then you're just inventing a new game you know you're not inventing a new game no that's not true because the three point line didn't always exist my friend when was the three point line instituted in the NBA the three point line wasn't always a thing so they didn't why wouldn't

why wouldn't you just grow the game so the the three point line was added into the NBA in the 79-80 season, dude. And look what happened to those stats, plummeting. No, that's not true. They stayed pretty average at that. They went down in the 90s.

I think his defense got a lot of stronger. Dude, look at this. In the 90s, this is when you had the dogs of defense. You had the Detroit Pistons that were absolute maniacs. I mean, they were foul. This is when fouling was like, everything would have been a flagrant. I mean, they were slapping the shit out of each other. And I know they talk about that.

Those old guys are like, nah, the NBA is too soft. I don't think it's soft, but I do think the files back then were significantly tougher. I mean, you would see them choke. I mean, literally wrap a throat. You'd see them choke each other out. But I do think that if you institute a four-pointer, look, dude, you have to grow the game to make young people get interested in these games. They added a three-point line for a reason, add a four-point spot.

How about a spot, not a line? You got to shoot from that spot. They do that on, I don't know what that was, the big three or whatever, maybe. does not i don't think they do that somebody there was a league that instituted it for a long time maybe it's and one i'm just thinking about and one oh baby and one also shaped my youth that got a lot of young people who didn't really care much about basketball into basketball and one skip to my loo rafor alston the video game there's my buddy professor on the cover of that he used to work out at the same gym as me at

la fiftness off of uh off a la siena go down and lasianiga on the freeway. He used to work out down there. I used to see him. And then years later, I hit him up on Instagram. I never connected with that guy. I always wanted to just go go watch him play ball live because those guys would go to Venice. They'd play the Venice courts. Oh, it was so cool to watch. I don't know if Venice is like that anymore. It's just needles. Yeah. That's the new and one, hypodermic needles. You have to dodge needles. People throwing hypodermics at you while you hoop. I went, this, you can't see the scar. There's a scar right under my pointer finger here. It's pretty big. And this is because on Venice

speech when I was 23 or 24. I used to go down there and play basketball. And the backboards are rusted because of the sea air, the salt air, sea air. It's an ocean, Andrew, because of the salt, so it rusts all those backboards. And I went up to block a ball and my hand hit the backboard. Yeah, I got up. So I'll show you photos. And I used to Duncan College. People don't believe that, but we have pictures of that. And my hand hit the backboard. and it sliced through my hand like a knife, like a knife through butter. That was me yoking in college. Can you believe that?

How incredible is that? That's me dunking in college, my buddy Colin taking pictures. Look at my face. I look like I'm squeezing out of shit. But that was me yoken. There should be one parallel to that was at Arizona State. I could get up. The kid could get up.

There's another one with two hands. I cut my hand yesterday, too. What did you cut your hand doing? Not touching a backboard. I'll tell you that. No, I was going to my friend's house. to watch a movie and I didn't want to ask for their gate code and I guessed I could probably jump that and I could but I cut my hand in the process. You do stuff like that. You do stuff like

that and that key. That reminds me that you're 26. Don't jump the gate. Just because I wanted to see if I could and I go to the picture right next to it with two hands. There's got to be one right next to it. I did. Oh, it's not up there. No, they're all the same. I could yoke back in the day when I was a young lad. I'm turning 42 this year. What does that mean for me, McCone? Time's up. It is, dude. the minerals and vitamins, irons, and the niacin, fuck who that I offend, rap, sit back, I'm about to... You don't know that song? Time's up.

Yeah, no, that's sampled in something. The, fuck who would I offend? That's right. Big L. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But that lyric is from Times Up by O.C. I believe that's...

Time's Up. Fuck Who That I offend, Rap, Sit Back, I'm about to begin... Time's Up by O.C. I was right. Buck Original. Times up. It's a great album. Phenomenal.

By the way, I was listening this morning before you came over to the house of shower. I was listening to Ann Peebles. Anne Peebles might be the most sampled soul artists in the history. I'm telling the Internet's got to know. Look how many times, type in how many times hip-hop artists have sampled Ann Peebles. It's shocking how many times I listen to her stuff, and it is a litany of songs, sometimes in one song. I'll hear ten songs in one song. I mean, I can't stand the rain is the most notorious.

but trouble, heartache, and sadness was sampled by Jizzah, by Earl Sweatshirt, by Rayquan. She's been sampled so many times. Look at all those. Grammatic, shout out to Grammatic, my dog, I love that guy, Prodigy, Wu-Tang, Benny the Butcher, the Regiment.

Dude, phonics. I mean, look at all these people. Isn't that crazy how many times she's, that one song's been sampled? There's three more pages to that. Is that the, no way, unshadowed. That is one of it. Yes, that is one of them from there.

that's heartache oh that's such a good song and for people that want to know uh if you're a hip hop fan if you really want to dig in the crates so to speak go ahead and and listen to some ann pebbles if you're a fan of hip-hop music and in the history of hip-hop you want to hear where a lot of those great song loops came from those samples were from anne pebbles um she's incredible i can listen to her all day long she's got such a a wealth of of of music where it's happy and sad and beautiful and so melodic I really like her

I've been on a little bit of an old soul kick for some reason we go through these little I think they're kind of reflective of the time of whatever I'm going through you know

see the most sampled song of all the time I feel like it was like I thought I heard it was like impeach the president or something that drum beat that's the most sampled song

of all time amen brother by the Winston's the amen brother break oh the amen break the most sampled song of all time wish we could play it without YouTube

Smushin us. It's fine. But the most sample, funky president, impeach the president is number three. Bring the noise. Fight the power. Yeah. Fight the power for sure. All those are early hip-hop. Eric B. is president, right?

That's the best. And F. The police. Now, what is that about? The bridge. How funny is that that NWA's Fuck the police is 1988 and it's still a relevant song today it's just like

Eddie of Carlin's bits they're still relevant today you know when they say that comedy is a is a sign of the time so is music but sometimes the times just the times just keep rotating and come right back to where we were we circle we come back what's our future McCone what's your future I'll be dead by the time the world changes again and then you'll have to deal with whatever bullshit we left behind I'm excited, dude, I'm excited

I'm excited for you to go through more pain As you get older Well, there's more where that came from Are you in love right now? No Good Good, I don't want you in love with work I want you focused on work

I'm in love with the work right now Yeah, that'll go away too You'll get sick of that I actually do feel like I'm in a good creative stride right now You really are moving We're about to do some videos We're gonna shoot some stuff And get into a little bit of a creative stride

I feel like If you're around I want to get you do that short film sketch show at the store. Not going to do it. Not going to do it. Not because I don't want to, but because you just asked me now on camera. And I feel like it's a principle. I just can't do things that are... How is Goop's show? We'd had a fun show last night. Me and Robert E. Lee, me and Bobby Lee, my boy, and also Dax Flame was on it. Tiffany Haddish was on it. Dane Cook was on it. Huh? Was Arsenio on? I think was on... is on the next one? He's normally on those.

One of the best, by the way, one of the best dudes and comics working Arsenio Hall. a legend that only some people may know as who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who. But Arsenio's way more than that. Great writer. And also, uh, a guy that's somehow still putting in the work because he doesn't have to. I'm sure he's got plenty of money in the bank that he could just sit back and say, you know, I'm going to go, I'm going to go to the house and watch Love Island. My in-laws got hooked on, uh,

they're watching Schitt's Creek now. Shit's Creek I never watched it I heard it was really good I mean either I just never I don't like when the lead character's gay No I just didn't

I had no I had no interest in the show For some reason I really I really wanted to watch it Because I like Dan He's I think he's very funny and talented And I met him years ago

You know it's so funny I met him through a friend of mine And before I knew who I didn't know who he was I didn't know his name you know And I was like Oh you know what do you do he's like I'm an actor and I was like oh cool that's awesome yeah and he's like

I'm working on this show right now I'm trying to get in development with the show with my dad and I was like oh that's rad you can put your dad in the show he's like no my dad my dad is an actor and I was like oh cool who's your dad he's like oh Eugene levy and I was like oh I think that'll go I was like I think that show will get picked up whenever I hear that kind of stuff and he earned it by the way he's a great writer and a great actor so it's not you can't take anything away from sometimes nepotism in hollywood people get this weird thing where they're like they just got that because of xyz sometimes sometimes it's because they're talented okay you know not always but i think a lot of times right i mean but hollywood's so rife with it it's

crazy man i can't believe i'm just a young uh loser from chicago with no ties in hollywood and i was able to even get even in the door emma roberts lily collins go to johnson jamie lee Curtis, Zoe Kravitz, Drew Barrymore, Ben Stiller, Kaya Gerber, Maggie Gyllenha, Carrie Fisher, Charlie Sheen, George Clooney, John David Washington, Hayley Beaver, Gigi Hadid, Lily Rose Depp, Maud Apatow, Tracy Ellis Ross, Winnet the Palchro, Bryce Dallas Howard,

Billy Lourd, Jack Quay, Jennifer Anderson, Kate Hudson. So it's everybody! Even like Maya Rudolph, Minnie Riperton, her mom. Yeah. It is crazy. It is so many people have some sort of connection to this whole thing. What's George Clooney's? I thought he was a dog. He has

somebody? Who's his? who's his parents who's his mommy and daddy Nick Clooney his father he is a American journalist anchorman politician television host God dude everybody's got somebody

The Nick Clooney show out of Ohio The Nick Clooney show from Columbus Ohio for WLWC Here we are on WLWC television 1968 Cincinnati's WCPTO TV Today in the news You can officially hit your wife in front of your house

Not just inside your house. Did she not make the coffee that you wanted? Go ahead and give her a crackadacadoodle. Your neighbors can't say anything. Back in the good old days, I hate that. That's such an annoying. Back in the good old days. When you could redline.

What are you talking about? What do you mean the good old day? What are you even referring to? When you could redline neighborhoods. And divorces were way lower back then. You know why? They couldn't leave. Yeah.

We didn't let them go. a judge smoking a cigar. So you want a divorce, huh? What did he do to you? Hit you? Grow up. Next. Case dismissed. I think about that a lot because my mother got a divorce from my father and my dad, you know, had some troubles in life.

And he's fixed his life years later. He's gotten his life much together, you know, but he was a young, foolish lad. He had some troubles. My parents split up. And the shame my mother felt from the divorce because of the church, you know, because of the way that the church made people feel about it and local uh... local opinion you know the the the court of public opinion about it it was really sad

i think she felt shame and bummed about i mean she had to do what she had to do clearly she had to no woman wants to go i wouldn't i need to be a single mom but no woman wants that as their future they do that if they've had to have any other choice no woman want to be a single mother without a partner to help the stress of life is particularly if you don't if you come from no money and you've got to work all day and you don't get to see your kid at all.

And it's a tough life. I give my mom so much credit, man. My mother's like one of the greatest forces in my entire life, who I saw work my whole life up until five years ago. And I'm a grown man. She worked my entire life and still was able to raise me. And, you know, I don't know, single moms. If you're a single mom out there, shout out to you. You're a badass and you're dope.

And I hope you don't have to do it all alone. I hope you get some form of help, whether it's family or a partner. but I know how hard that is I saw my mom go through it a little bit I know it was really hard my mom one time she came to pick me up from daycare and she had all my presents my Christmas presence in the trunk of her old shitty I think it was an oldsmobile it was a piece of shit it had no hubcaps on it they had stolen those and someone stole the car right before Christmas and I didn't know as a child but my mom had said she had called you know my grandpa and was just was so sad and hurt and

was like I lost my car and all my kid he's not going to have a Christmas now and then luckily old poppy came through and they helped get me some more Christmas gifts because every single gift my mother had purchased was in the trunk of my mom's car because we lived in an apartment she couldn't keep in the apartment where would you keep it there was no room in the apartment the coat closet was I mean I'm not even kidding the coat closet in the front hallway of our apartment I think because I used to hide in it as a kid and I got big enough as a kid where I started running out a room that's how small the coat closet was it was like four coats in an old in an old suitcase but my mom got the car stolen

and it was snowy night and i do remember this i don't have a lot of great memories as a kid because my memory's bad but i do remember she picked me up and we're i was dilly dallying i was taking my time and i do feel like a part of it was my fault i do remember feeling i that was my fault the car got stolen because she was we were watching a movie and i didn't want to leave and i remember then going outside and the car was gone to my mom and like sheer panic and then i think like less than a week later the chicago police called my mom we're like mrs satie you know, we found your car. It's off the day and Ryan. Do you want it? And she was like, what condition is it in? What does it look like? And they're like, well, two of the tires are

missing. It's on blocks. They ripped out the center console. It's been lit on fire. And it's undrivable. Do you want it? My mom was like, no, dude. Scrap it. Scrap the car. And then I was able to get a Christmas together because of I think my grandfather helped out. my grandfather one of the coolest cats of all time a firefighter for chicago raised 10 kids an absolute dog one of the greatest dudes to ever walk the earth funny look this is the kind of guy too he was irish and i think the way that irish deal with uh sadness or tragedy or being poor is they have to make fun of everything so like he was of the mindset of um the willie wonka quote that I love, which is, I bet the gold makes the chocolate

taste terrible. It's like one of my favorite quotes of all time. Don't worry, Charlie. I bet the gold makes the chocolate taste. Or was it Charlie that said that? Was it Grandpa Joe that said that? Who said that? But what a great quote. I bet the gold makes the chocolate taste terrible. I think Charlie might have said that in an effort to like... To console his grandfather. To console how... Yeah, yeah. Charlie does say that. Yeah, I bet the gold makes the chocolate taste terrible. Yeah, because he said, don't worry, grandpa.

because Grandpa Joe, bedridden Grandpa Joe. By the way, popped right up when he had an opportunity. Didn't mind jumping out of bed when he could go to the chocolate factory. Were you really? Are you really bedridden, grandpa? You floated around the fizzy, you stole fizzy lifting drink just fine. All right? You were trolling around all day.

He was on his feet for like 10 hours. You're a liar, Grandpa Joe. And Grandma Georgina, you didn't do shit either. Knitting. She's out there knitting all day. In the bed. That was a weird bed scene. They're like sitting in bed.

sitting in bed on the other side of a double-headed bed board both both grandparents right mm-hmm just how weird feet to feet where would this have been normal where would this have been normal also where was this movie what country did this supposed to take place in they spoke english but it was like a germanic i think it was in england they all spoke american none of them have it had a british accent it just seems like industrial i know but then say it's Cleveland. But isn't that funny? They made that movie, the Willie Wonka and the chocolate factory. They made it feel like it was, where was it supposed to take place? Because I remember thinking, this feels like it's in Europe, but surely not, because all them have American

accents. And Grandpa Joe talked like this. He talked like an old radio host. Filmed in Munich, Germany. So I was right, I said Germany. Germanic. I was right on that. But the only German was the fat German kid. Yeah, Augustus. I'm starving. He was almost like a young Arnold. Get off me, I'm starving. Get to the chocolate river. Get to the chocolate.

Get to the river. What did he say, don't eat that? He was like, don't drink. But that's the best part about how he acted in this, how Gene Wilder acted. So passive and beautiful the way he was like, don't drink that, don't do that. It was so good. maybe one of the greatest comedic actors, Gene Wilder, that we've ever seen and underrated,

underrated in terms of my generation of youth, because we grew up with him in our latter years, obviously, right? He was done by the time. But, I mean, like, we grew up with those movies when I became, like, a teen, and, man, was he so fantastic? So brilliant. I mean, they're leaving off the best, my favorite movie of his, of all these of young Frankenstein

and Willie Wonka Blazing Saddles. You know what my favorite movie is of his. come on stir crazy god look at all the keep going do more so many good films I mean Bonnie and Clyde

one of the most important Bonnie and Clyde but go down go down the best of the best there right there there we go

young Franksat blazing saddles and stir crazy wake go up a little bit the producer Oh, that's your favorite? Of his?

Yeah. Yeah. Wow, I didn't know that. So good. I love the producers. I feel like that was, maybe I'm wrong about it. I just thought that was for sure in the mid-70s or something. I forgot he was in this one, too.

Everything you know, everything you always want to know about sex. I would, what's the word, implore people to go watch a bunch of Jim Wilder movies? That's so good. Crazy. The producers and Bonnie and Clyde were the same year. Same year. Two very. guys are back to back he's like Jim Carrey

different flicks he's like Jim Carrey is like Argyne Wilder yeah who could make like five great movies in the span of two years and Ventura dumb and dumb and Ace Ventura by the way what was the separation of years between that was both 94 cable guy and dude

between the mask look at look up Jim Carrey's run I don't think we're never going to get this again by the way in film as far as comedy goes go down to his his filmography this is what's even more impressive to me is like here here's a guy who banged out so much in such a short span of time uh and and still you know to this day what a brilliant i mean look at okay so zoom in on this cable guy and liar liar

were back okay it went like this look it out look at that watch this 94 95 96 97 98 now listen to that 84 ready ace ventura the mask and dumb and dumber all 94 95 Batman forever Ace Ventura, 96 cable guy, 97 liar, liar, 98 Truman Show, 99 man on the moon, me, myself and Irene. I mean, good Lord. He's unbelievable. I mean, what a hero. I love you, Philip Morris, one of the most underrated films ever. Do you know that movie? No. What? Him and Ewan McGregor, right, Ewan McGregor and him, spoiler alert, it was based on a book, right? It was a real life story We have a con artist. Him and you and McGregor, they are, well, I don't want to give anything away in case some of the fans want to watch it.

I just, please watch this movie. He is one of the greatest con men of all time. And my favorite quote from this movie is, nobody tells you this, but being gay is expensive. That's one of my favorite lines from the movie. It's so good. It's such a brilliant movie. I got to get back. We need to have movie night.

We need to start doing movie night. I'm serious. We need to start doing like a summer movie night now Because I want everybody to get together and watch When I was watching the movie The Blackberry movie, I keep referencing it But when I was watching it, they had a movie night At- Yeah

And I was like, oh man, I miss movie nights We used to do those all the time when we were young But now all my friends are married or divorced Or they have kids or they've moved I did a movie night last night with my buddies We watched Brazil I don't know Brazil Brazil, the Terry Gilliam movie

I don't know that movie With Jonathan Price come out in the 80s Brazil Brasilia I never bred to Brazil but my buddy Seani Malto just got back

and he was like you never been to South Paulo I said no and he goes don't worry about it I think that's kind of crazy I thought Brazil would be kind of dope

wow that that looks like Squid Games it's the same guy that did a director's Fear and Loading in Las Vegas oh wow

what a movie so it's like it's like 1984 but funnier and like just shot in that weird style you know what

Fear and Loving did though a detriment to our generation, my generation. Then every dickhead around my age wanted to go to Vegas and live that exact same

experience. And that is so dumb. It's not the point of the movie. But also it's like, hey, I live in Los Angeles. You are not. And I mean, you are not going to drop acid and drive to Vegas. It's four and a half hours. You will be fucked. Yeah. You will die on the way. You're not flying down the 15 going

90 on acid. I mean, good, Christ, with the top down. I mean, I'm thinking SPF. But what a nightmare. I knew people that tried to emulate this world of, like, going there and tripping balls for a few days in Vegas. It's not fun. It's not a, I think it's a fantasy that people think they're going to be able to live. You're not, I promise.

You know what you do? You go to Vegas. You want to go to Vegas like an adult. You go to Vegas. You get in, depending on where you live in the country, when you can get in, get in, take a flight. You're headed westbound. obviously because everyone's east of here, except for us. Take a flight in and land in Vegas around noon, all right?

Noon. Check into your room about one or two, because that's when it'll be ready. If it's not ready, go play a table or two. Midday tables are way more fun. They're not that packed, all right? And the numbers are going to be lower. You're going to get $10 tables and instead of, you know, $100 tables that are at night and on the weekends.

So get there and play a table right away. Then get to the room, have a cocktail, hang out with your friends, go to the pool, right? And when you're done with the pool, while you're there, make a dinner. a reservation somewhere. Go get a nice dinner and go see a show if you can. Go see one of these shows. And you don't have to go to one of the big, what do you call them, Cirque de Soleil. There's a lot of smaller shows that are really fun and cool around town. You can go see. Take a trip to old Las Vegas. All right. And then at night, then deep at night, go to a strip club, go to a strip club and bring only $100. Bring $100 and get it in singles and spend none of it.

okay pay the door fee but spend none of the hundred dollars keep it pretend like you're gonna keep reaching in your pocket every time you're sitting by the stage get a couple free drinks and get out of there don't get a dance don't tip any no i'm kidding tip the girls give the girls the money give the girls the money but do that with your friends play during the day you play at night tables i think that's a big mistake i like day tables and strip clubs are burnt out i don't think i'll ever want to go to a strip club ever again they're they're weird I never liked them. I don't want to get a dance.

I'm not interested. It's not fun. I don't want to get boners with buddies. I don't want to get boners of buddies. I did when I was a kid. We had sleepovers. We all got boners out of sleepover. But you know, you don't want to do it when you're older.

It feels weird and gross and uncomfortable. Go to a show. Go to a show. Get a nice dinner. Get high. Have a couple of drinks. Go to a show. And I'm not advocating for the use of drugs and or alcohol unless, of course, you already do it.

And in that case, party on Wayne. Party on Wayne. My mom and I's favorite quote to say to each other. My mom and I used to watch Wayne's World all the time. And my mom would say she'd always go, like, if somebody dropped something, you know, or something broke or fumbled something, my mom would go, she's okay. Because when that girl hits the car, she's okay. I love that movie, man.

Good God. Oh, just reminiscing about the, when they sit under the plane, you know. And I asked Dana on this show about that. That was all improv when they sat, what was supposed to be. O'Hare Airport, and they watch planes go over, and my favorite scene in that, and I'm going to go do Fly on the Wall, Dana and David Spade show here in a month, I think, and I want to ask him more stuff about it because I never got enough out, but he did say that that line about Bugs Bunny was improv, and you can tell because Mike Myers' laugh is so organic.

It's not an inch of it was fabricated. As a comedian, we used to watch back stuff when we were kids, me and my best friend, Sean, and I watch it back over and over and over and over to see if I could see where people are breaking or laughing and they leave it in you know that's one of my favorite things and you can tell when he goes hey wayne did you ever find bugs bunny attractive when you put on a dress and act like a girl and the way that he goes no no why neither did i i was just asking it's one of the best

then it's just a living genius a god of characters his his character work is unmatched the only one i think between you know that's close to him as far as transforming beyond Mike Myers would be probably ooh I would say close to to the transformation

is probably got to be Martin Short because I think Jiminy Glick did something to me as a kid I didn't even see Martin Short anymore when I saw Jiminy Glick sometimes you see a guy play a character and you're like well I still see the guy like Farley was a was a genius, but you'd still see Farley and everything.

Jiminy Glick, you didn't even know that that was Martin Short. If you never saw it before, you would have never known. Yeah, Ed Grimley was very funny, too. But Clifford Daniels, another, the little eccentric, weird little waiter. But I'm telling you, man, that Jiminy Glick was so transformative as far as comedy characters goes. It made me wish I could do characters. And I don't know if I could.

I've never had the opportunity, but I think it'd be cool to transform. Maybe we should start a new show where I transform. Into like a little Chicago, like a Chicago. guy. Hey. Hey, it's Bill Blaskey. I work over there in Tinley Park. My mom and dad, a Chicago character would be great. You know, my dad's a guy that made the Chicago River go backwards. You know, they changed the flow of the river. That was my dad. A lot of people take the architecture tour on the Chicago River, and they like, they are admiring all that stuff. But they don't know that That river was poop.

We flipped it to make all the sewage go to the outer away. Everyone in Chicago has a connection to some bullshit. Like my dad would tell me stories. I don't even know if any of those were real. No, you know, you remember Marcus's son? Remember that guy? You know, he was Al Capone's cobbler. He made shoes for Al Capone.

What? Isn't he like 48? When he was nine, he was making fucking shoes for Al. You don't believe me? My dad would have stories like that. he would tell i mean the amount of people you would hear no he's the one he's the first one that opened at restaurant when harry carries when they when they put that downtown

they got the meat from a guy who was stealing off of a truck and i know the guy that used to drive a truck they break them off a couple hundred bucks they flipped on me harry carrie he didn't pay for steak for like nine months you know that everyone in chicago has one of these bullshit stories like that's where they got that's where like getting free cable my aunt got got her cable hot hot and she got hot cable, you know, where they'd wire it. No, yeah, she's got

her cousin works, he works for Comcast, he can do it, he can rig it, you'll get free cable, steal it from the fucking neighbors. Everyone in Chicago runs out of breath when they're telling you a story. No, he's going to go down, we'll go to the boat, we'll gamble for a little while at the boat, and then

when we're done, we'll probably want to go get something neat. There's got to be a golden nugget open late night because we'll want to go there, have a couple cigarettes. I remember smoking at the golden nugget. I remember smoking at the Golden Nugget. I remember my dad smoking at the Golden Nugget. Bring up the Golden Nugget. There's no way they're around in Chicago anymore. I think there's a couple maybe left. Golden Nugget, one of the best restaurants.

Oh, there are a couple. Golden Nugget Pancake House. Oh, yeah, I've been here. Andrew, go to the Golden Nugget. Go get me... I used to get my dad cigarettes. Go get me cigarettes. I'd go get cigarettes from the court. They'd sell me... I'd be 12. They'd sell me cigarettes.

The Golden Nugget was great. They had cigarette machines by the bathroom. Go get me a pack of Winstance. Go get me, Andrew, go get me a pack of Winston's. I'll get you another stack of pancakes. My dad used to take me there in the middle of the night. I eat pancakes at 11.30 at night. I thought that was the coolest shit on Earth.

I thought that was such a rad thing. You want to go get pancakes? It's like, dude, I'm supposed to be in bed, but yeah, I mean, I want to have a stomachache. You know? Remember that eating late night having a stomachache? You're falling asleep in pain. Now available, Kathy. 773-5-0-4-691.

Call it. Cake House, the Golden Nogget, Kathy. Everyone has Kathy. You know, I have an aunt Kathy. Everyone in Chicago has at least one hand Kathy. Call Kathy. Is Barb over there? What happened to Barb?

She died? That's it. Everyone died and nobody knows. What happened to her husband? He got gout. He was gout ridden. He tripped down the stairs. His gout.

He broke his fucking neck, that guy. Edward died. Jesus Christ. Kathy, what is she doing now? Well, you know, she's been on. disability since she was 36 they're all on disability dude they are I sort

the wealth of stories go down there to Maywood go to the Maywood dog trick put a bet will you put a bet on me on Santa's little helper that's my dude that's my dog I used to go with my dad to the dog track there's a race track

and a dog track Arlington is a horse track we used to go to Maywood dog truck where my grandfather worked we wrote a pilot about it I wrote the pilot the track and it got bought and it never got made when I had a deal when I had a deal with NBC after I tested for SNL I wrote that pilot with Christ and they loved it and then hands change as they do in corporate world a new executive came in and he was like I don't I don't know if I like the setting

at a dog track and I was like well that's the whole fucking show I think now is the vibe that you just got to shoot it we should just make it yeah shoot it indie like track was great tires they did that I know they had amateur boxing nights at Maywood but the dog track they run the greyhounds and they were would have a rabbit on the rail. They would say, There goes it, rabbit. That's what my dad would say. There goes it, rabbit. And the announcer,

kind of coming up. I used to sit there and watch out. I thought that was crazy. Little that I know, people were losing their lives around me. Adults were like literally losing all of their financial, although the financial stability was going up and smoke. But I used to go to the gold nugget with my dad. One time, my grandfather hit us with his car on the way. That was one of the funny. My grandfather was so past being

able to drive. And he's still would drive far when he should have been driving and we're pulling out of the nugget and we're going to make a left so we're obviously waiting for cross traffic and smokes us. My dad gets out. Dad, what are you doing? He goes, fucking go. He made it seem as if we fucked up, like we were screwing up. No, he just wanted to hit us.

The Golden Nugget. I should do a show about the Nugget, man. The Golden Nugget to Chicagoland people is like what IHOP means to people in other parts. You know what I mean? It's the same kind of idea, but it was Chicago only. I don't know if it ever made it out of Chicago, but boy, I loved it. And things change now. Portillo's is everywhere.

Everything is different now. The Chicago only spots are few and far between. Oh, they got a nugget in Vegas? No, they located at the Golden Nugget. The Gold Nugget Denner is likely the one looking. No, no, those are two different things. That's Golden Nugget, the Casino. No, it was only in Chicago.

The Golden Nugget Pancake House. Can you do a Minnesota accent? Yeah, Minnesota. Yeah, Minnesota is more, it's more softer. You're just out like Jordan Peterson. Oh, yeah, well, that's Canada. That's up there. But Minnesota, Minnesota's close.

You guys are close to Canadians. You're right, I mean, you fucking your neighbors. But you guys have, uh... Oh, we're going fishing up at the lake. Oh, we're going fishing up there, but you're much more quiet. Minnesotans are much more quiet. Canadians are a little bit more brats, Jordan Peterson. You can't have men turning into women.

You can't. That's not the reality that I want to live in Then a minute later he's bawling crying It's so funny to have a guy Wanted to be like an alpha male and then just like And it's not that men can't cry But it's just like you have this fucking guy Who professes all this like

This is the way the world's supposed to be But then gets so emotional He's like And my daughter is just not She's no we're not connecting And it's like well dude maybe it's because you're fucking unstable Maybe because you need to get some stability

is that the future you want in America I didn't move here so men could turn into women they're throwing cocks out the window they're just tossing cocks out the window you'll be driving on sunset boulevard and you'll be babbada babbabit babbubta bumping on cox

because everyone is transitioning in Los Angeles everyone dude the bullshit they throw out to the world is so fucking funny Everyone's trans. Yeah, dude, everyone's trans. Everyone in L.A.'s trans. It's the way that they profess that it's a reality.

Look, if you don't like it, if you don't like it, fine. Hate whatever you want to hate, man. That's on you. But when they throw this shit out as if, like, the world is this like, you know what the fucked up thing? The more I travel, dude, the more I realize, people are actually fucking great. People are great. I meet so many people.

yes a lot of people suck ass but if you but if you change your vision kind of like the what is it the blue car theory when you say like I never seen any blue cars then you'll notice them all day if you're looking for fucking dickheads you're gonna find them if you're looking for good people

I think you're gonna find them I believe that the more I travel the more people I meet the more fans I mean and this is a time for me to say I am so appreciative of the fans of the fanship that we've gotten from bad friends from this show you guys have been along people that are original whiskey gin

listeners for eight nine years whatever we are eight years i don't know seven or eight years i thank you for changing my life i thank you for making my life uh more fun to be able to give you guys stuff on the internet every week and for you guys to like want to be involved and pass it around and enjoy this ride with me it's been truly a blessing like i mean it i don't even know how to say that without sounding like i i'm being you know you know facetious or disingenuous but um two big words i just learned but i i really just mean i mean it i really mean it man i really mean it man And I really appreciate the fans so much.

It's hard for me to emote it sometimes when I see you in public. So if I see you and you come up and you ask for a photo or want to say hi, you know, I want to say hi. And sometimes it's hard for me to tell fans like, thank you for the fanship. It's weird. I don't know how to do it. I've never really been good at it. And a lot of people are like, you know, I might look unapproachable because I'm kind of in my own space all the time. But I always do love to say hi to the fans.

And I do appreciate the love. Don't yell at me when I'm at dinner. That's weird. that I don't love, but I do appreciate the fanship. It does mean the absolute world to me. It does something to me to be able to do the world our way, you know, because Hollywood, me and Bobby joke a lot about it. Hollywood is such a fickle, weird beast, and we're not nipple babies.

So we don't have some of those advantages of, we just kind of have to grind for what we've got, whether it looks easy to you or not, we've had to grind. We're overnight sensations 20 years in the business. and I do I cannot thank the fans enough for being along for the ride and giving me what you guys have given me in terms of the love and the live shows and uh it means the world without saying it uh ad nauseam but it does mean the world to me that you guys have come along for this fucking ride and help me build something and give a career to many people i've helped a lot of people along the way you know i'm uh you know chris o'connor and i kind

of uh we were starting to rise together and i'm glad he got off on tires and zach townsen who's one of my dogs that opened for me and jet ski who opened for us and then laura peak who's got a star for who's become a star of her own and then devontre coleman the guy who's opening for me now who i think is a fucking brilliant comedian the more people i can help because of you guys the better off this world becomes in the world of comedy we keep passing it down and growing the space because there's no other reason to be doing this if i can't give macone a place to eat sleep and shower every day and it means the world that we've been able to create a staff and environment a world of fans, and that's all thanks to you guys, that we're able to do this kind of our own

way on our own terms and time. So thank you for that. And on that note, I'm going to be signing off here. We'll have more guests to come. I might do more solos because this seems fun to do with Coney. It'll depends on how much the fans like it or hate it. I'm going to be touring a little bit coming up. I think I'm going to drop dates. I'm doing San Francisco. I think Halloween weekend, which should be fun. I'm going down to Hammond, Illinois, in November, around Thanksgiving to play casino down there in i mean him in indiana sorry uh... i'm also going to be doing tempi improv for the first time in my life dude i'm i i went to school in arizona i never played the tempi improv i only played different clubs and then we play theaters down

there but i've never done the tempi improv and so i want to go back to my roots and so i'm going to do that tempi improv san francisco punch line not cobs this time i'm doing the punch i want a smaller environment i want to work out some stuff and have some fun with you guys um that hammond show and then in the new year i'm doing a ton i think i'm going to borgata again i'm going back to atlantic city i'm going to bethlehem p I'll put all the dates up on Andrusantino.com, but once again, thank you so much for all the love and support. And we're going to end the episode, the way we always do, one word or one phrase into the camera. McCone and I are going to say our one word at the exact phrase, I mean, we're going to say a phrase at the exact same time.

You ready? Mm-hmm. One, two, three. On Kathy. In here, we pour whiskey, whisk, whisk. Whipers. You were that creature in the ginger beard. Stirty and ginger. Like vampires, the ginger gene is a curse.

Ginger's a fugitive. You only $5 for the whiskey and $75 for the horse. Ginger's, oh hell no. This whiskey is excellent. Ginger. I like gingers.