Whiskey Ginger with Andrew Santino - Max Amini Might Be the Biggest Comedian You Haven’t Heard Of | Whiskey Ginger

Episode Date: September 18, 2026

Welcome to Whiskey Ginger a Wave series presented by Fanduel. Andrew Santino sits down with comedian Max Amini for a hilarious conversation about stand-up, culture, family, touring the world, and the absolute chaos that happens when you make the audience part of the show. Max has built a massive international following with his storytelling, improvisation, and crowd work, performing for audiences around the world and proving that comedy translates a lot better than your uncle's opinions at Thanksgiving. Check out Max Amini's latest stand-up special, Randomly Selected, streaming free on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy2QyPQ5L5M See Max live and check out upcoming tour dates: https://www.maxamini.com Follow Max Amini: https://www.instagram.com/maxcomedian Follow Andrew Santino: https://www.instagram.com/cheetosantino Follow Whiskey Ginger: https://instagram.com/whiskeygingerpodcast #WhiskeyGinger #AndrewSantino #MaxAmini #ComedyPodcast ==================================================== This episode is sponsored by: FANDUEL Get ready for big games, bigger Saturdays, and your most rewarding season ever. only on FanDuel. http://fanduel.com/whiskey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Ginger. I like gingers. Ladies gentlemen, welcome back to Whiskey Ginter. My guest said is one of my favorite people on Earth. I said, Rob, my guess what I mean once again today? It's Maxamine. The guy has a name built for entertainment. It's Maximini on the podcast.

coming to the show. Thanks for having me. You're the man, dude. One of my favorite community. I've known you for so long. It's so funny. And to see your rise has been, it's hard to say, without sounding condescending, but I'm proud, proud, happy for some people. There's some people that you go, good. Some people blow up and you go, bad. Some people blow up, you go, good, dude. He's the man. Yeah. I love to see that, dude. Thanks, buddy. Life is good right now for you. Life is good. I'm always an optimistic person. I'm always

happy. I'm not the depressing. I mean, you know, you're down, but I'm not the guy who likes to complain. I'm always grateful in that sense. I was grateful when I played 200-seater theaters. I'm grateful now playing these arenas.

I'm happy for what's happening, but I got to tell you, and you understand this, everything that we dream for is not as easy as it looks from the outside. So it's a lot of work that goes into this. You put in a lot of work. You've been in the game for how many years?

74, right? 24 years. 24 years. And you're 16 years old? How old do you know? I'm 16. Is the next man, Rife? This is handsome?

Listen, I'm the youngest 44. That's how I feel. You are? I really honestly feel 32 years old, max. So your audience, what's the age range of your audience? Like, do you find that you're getting people in their 40s? Massive. And above?

The bulk of it is 25 to 35. That's a good number. Bulk of it. That's what you want. It is 25, 35, 35. I have And the age range Has changed

My audience has changed so much Andrew in the last two years It's unbelievable Really? Yeah What a lot of fat people A lot of skinny people What are we talking about?

All good looking Sexy You do have sexy people Your show The women I'm not looking at the guy so much Right But I tell you the women looking good

No Persian women No Persian women A lot of Persian women A lot of Persian women A lot of beautiful Persian women I would say today All my Persian audience still comes, shows up to the theater,

but the capacity has changed so much. Now they make maybe 10% of the audience. Wow. But they're all there. But it used to be the core. It used to be like 90% Persian. That 10% was the husband, the boyfriend, and the girlfriend. So was it mostly the girlfriends that brought the boyfriends?

Because their girlfriends were attracted to you. And the boyfriends hated you. They were like this sexy. We got to go see this sexy dude. The girlfriend sold it us. We got to go see this very funny guy. And the guy show up, they go, this motherfucker. I know these piece of shit.

Okay, fine. I laugh for two minutes. Yeah, I will laugh at him, but you will go home with me. Yep, yep. But that's great, dude, and you're killing. You said you're going, before the show we started, you said you're going to premiere of a movie tonight. Yeah, buddy. This will be out, obviously, after that, but.

So this is a movie, I made this movie six, seven years ago. Yeah. And I'm premiered. Yeah, I'm premiering it tonight. So it's, I can't tell you, it's an emotional roller coaster with this film. the movie hit the pandemic. So we shot it and the pandemic happened. So my movie post-production

sort of sat for a couple of years. And then we started post-production. And then the one thing to another, then the strike happened. And, you know, film festivals were off. Finally, we finished a movie. We gave it to a sales agent, kept it for three and a half years. So we just got the movie back.

Trying to sell it. The offers were horrible. He kept saying, oh, you know, business is getting better. Right now is the worst time to sell. Let's wait another year. We just lost so much time. And now I got the movie back.

So I'm thinking everybody's releasing their films on YouTube. All these self-distribution is doing so well. A lot of that, yeah. My audience has grown. I'm like, look, this is the time to premiere this and go out with it and share it with the world. That's great. So that's the idea. Yeah.

Was it a story you wrote or you're starring in it? No, it's a story someone else wrote and I rewrote it with him. Okay. It's a drama. It's a coming-of-age story. It's a serious movie. And it's an indie film. The one liner of the film is it's a story about a 13-year-old boy

that cannot feel pain or emotion. Oh, wow. And when I read the script, the whole time, I was like, it's better be a good story. It was New Year's Eve. I was laying in bed on like, my girlfriend was sick. I'm like, fuck, we didn't go out. This better be a good story.

By the end, I was crying, and I kind of felt like all of us wish for no pain. and then when I finished the script I realized, man, without pain this life doesn't even have any meaning. Sure. It's great. And I said, this is a great story for me to make.

I was looking for a comedy script. And then I was like, look, I'm in love with the script. I want to make this. But pain is funny, too, though. You know what I mean? Pain is funny. Yeah, it's funny. I mean, we put in part of our act

and there's a lot of painful stuff that's very funny, right? First time your dad ever hit you through it through a drywall and made you fix it. I mean, that's painful. That's funny. That's very funny. 100%.

So the movie... You don't play the 13-year-old boy, I hope. I am. I play the 13-year-old. I mean, dude, you look good for your age. I felt very young. But I don't know about 13, brother. No, I casted these super-talented 13-year-olds who are now adults,

and their careers are phenomenal. They're doing amazing. And I'm excited to get this movie out now. What's it called? Say what it's called. James II. James II. James II.

And is it going to be in theaters? Netflix, HBO, streaming, who knows? Today we're premiered at a Chinese theater, but then I think we're going to go all VOD. My God. I know. I know you have a sensitive spot for Asian. It is called Man's Chinese.

And the food downstairs is just as good. Chinese theater tonight, and then where does it go? And then we're going to do VOD, like all the Amazon and YouTube. Streaming platforms, buy it everywhere. James the second. And obviously that's named after the son because his father was James the first. Yep, exactly. That's right.

Now, talking about this whole movie business, Andrew, I don't know if you ever talked about this on your podcast. I don't know if all your fans know how much of an actor you've been. Me? Yes. No, I'm an actress, first of all. I'm an actress first. That's extra talented. Not only he acts, but he can act the opposite sex.

I've been saying that for years I'm an actress and people now it's popular. You know what I mean? Now it's cool. I've been doing it for years. I've said him a beautiful actress. That's the only way to get cast. I'm the prettiest red-headed actress out there right now. Yep.

There's nobody. I believe it. Thank you. That's nice. No, I love the world. I think it's just, it's different for us now, you know? So now comedy podcast,

that's been our, you know, our breadwinners. Like, it's been the thing that we love the most. And it doesn't, you know, there is no strike in acting.

I mean, I mean, in comedy. I remember, there was. You were in New York for a long time, right? For some time you were in New York.

I've been everywhere. I've been everywhere. I've been, Everywhere, man. Did you stay in New York because of acting, or was it for stand-up? No, no, no. Most of my acting happened in L.A., which is kind of funny. Like, almost all my acting happened in Los Angeles.

Because once you get on one thing in L.A., pilots and that whole thing, this is where all of it happens. So I did way, West Coast dominated my entire career because you would come out here, you do one thing, and then they're like, they want you for this other thing. And then you go do it, it fails, and they go, will you come try again to this other thing? And the thing is, not a lot of it. a lot of stand-ups are great actors. Not a lot of stand-ups are into acting the same way. Yeah. I mean, no one, I think being a great actor is tough in general. I don't think anybody. I mean, like,

every count on my hands how many people I've seen that, I'm like, wow, that's a great actor. Most people are serviceable, what they used to call plumber actors. You know, like, that's a, I think Steve Martin talked about that in his book, about his father being a plumber actor, meaning, like, he was good. He got by. He was like a plumber. It's like, you call it Pummer at house. You know, he's not a genius, but he's going to fix the pipes. You know what I mean? Like, it's going to, the poop is going to flow out at some point. And was he inspired by the plumber actor? I think, I think, I think, Steve talked about it as, if I remember, right? Did he always say that, right? He said, it's part of his plumbers joke. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Right. I think that, I think the idea was, um, you know, look, there's a lot of serviceable people in our industry and it takes a lot to get to the next level. And he wanted to break to the next level. He didn't just want to kind of be a worked actor. He wanted to be something else. I remember there was an audition for a cosmopolitan something pilot. And you were... I was the guy. Yeah, you were the guy.

Later on saw the project and you were the guy. For a short period of time, I might be the guy. What was the project? I don't... Do you remember? There was a mixology. Oh, Mixology. It was called Mixology.

We did it. We did it. We got it off the ground. Yeah, we did one season. Guys, go watch that on ABC streaming. I don't even know if you can see it anymore. It was a show, Scott and Moore. They wrote, the guys that wrote the original first draft of The Hangover, kind of crazy.

They wrote the very first draft of The Hangover. That's crazy. Yeah. And they cast you in the wrong project. You can only buy it. You can only buy it now. So don't buy it. Don't give them any more money.

No, but the two guys that wrote, Lucas and Moore, the guys that wrote the original first draft of The Hangover, the one that we know now as this masterpiece, they wrote this pilot idea in a bar. One night in Manhattan, the whole season took place over the course of one night in a bar, which was a bold concept and people were kind of like, no chance. And Troy Miller directed it. So, like, it had all the inner workings of being like, this could be genius because it was different. But America was like, nah, give us friends.

And then it's gotten worse since. My acting, yes, you're right. It's gotten significantly worse since. No, the movie business and the film business has changed tremendously. is just, you know, at least back then people were watching the pilots or, you know, you had some sort of, now it's so hard to get anybody to watch anything. I know. Well, but it's, look at, okay, let's talk about your growth. I'm talking about me. Who gives a shit about me? You know, I met you for the first time. I think I met you at the factory. Yeah. I had to meet you at the factory. Yeah, 100%. And you, you were a stronghold of that place. Jamie loved you dearly and respected you tremendously.

and I do think like watching your rise as someone that put in all of the work and all the hours that's really where the payoff is is like you grew an audience grew your own little you know your own little atrium of fans which is it's really difficult to do so like the business is going on without us no matter what but you grew this thing totally on your own I mean you can't really point to one thing that goes this it's like well you did

if somebody said how to max crack I'd be like I don't know man a long time of work I think you're right I think it's just you hang in there long enough. And then they love you. And somehow the universe, you know, makes it crack. Like, it just makes it fall in place. Yeah. It's like a chiropractor that just finds a spot and finally just take me like,

there it is. It was that kind of thing for me. I feel like, you know, doing it for so long. And finally, social media, somehow this algorithm finally got out there in a way that more people got to see me. and that just sort of snowballed. Yeah, it did. It did.

Would you start? You started in L.A.? Yeah, you did. Always, yeah. That's so crazy. That's so crazy. 20, 23 years old, I started in L.A. Now, were your parents and family, were they supportive?

Very. Even though I'm Persian, everybody goes, how does your Persian parents are a kid? I answered this way. My dad, my dad was a huge fan of me following my dream. He's like, I want you to do something you love. I said, okay, dad. I love my acting class,

and so I became an acting. major at UCLA. But at the same time, we were not the typical Persian family where, you know, I lived in my parents' house until I was 25, supported by them. I was on my own since I was 16, 17 years old. Why'd you do that? Just my family. It was a family dynamic. You guys weren't like that. It wasn't your style. Yeah. I was on my own. My dad wasn't, my dad didn't have a lot of money. So it was never a financial relationship. It was a true sort of like, Like my dad would sit down and have these good conversations and he would say, this is what I think.

But I did whatever I wanted to do. And so it wasn't like, it wasn't so much his permission. But the fact that he was supportive with the idea, today I look back as a young person, I go, it was so refreshing that my father was like, yeah, do what you love. You're going to be great. And frankly, when you start stand up, you don't know if you're great or not.

It takes you so many years to even prove to yourself, do I have it or not? Yeah. So that part was great, but it wasn't the typical Persian families. They want you to become a doctor, engineer, or this or that, a lawyer. And, you know, they're talking about it since you're 13 years old. They're taking care of you until you're 40 years old. It doesn't matter.

So it's a little different in that sense. But they were supportive. My mom didn't really have much of an opinion about it. It wasn't like I'm for it or not for. She's like, what are you doing? I'm doing this. Oh, okay. And here I am.

That's not like the typical run, though. For people that don't have any Persian friends at all, for people that don't live in Los Angeles, that's not the typical goal. A lot of times it's, you're shunned. You're the black sheep of the family. Exactly. If you don't go do the thing that the mommy and daddy want you to do.

Let me tell you another thing that's not typical. My mom has never asked me when you're getting married. Are you going to have kids? Never, ever. Never. She never said anything. Really? Never.

Do you have brothers and sisters? Two younger sisters. Do they have kids? No. None of us have kids. Wow. Really cracking that Persian. She doesn't.

Really cracking that person code, dude. No, but she's so... They don't care. It's not their life. She's, you know, and I asked her, I'm like, why? You never put any pressure. She goes, why would I? I want you to be happy. Do what you guys are smart.

I mean, you guys are smart. You know what you're doing. And your mom's like, I had kids and I hated them. Look, look. She goes, she did. She said, look, I got married out of terrible fucking marriage. I didn't like it. I didn't want you to suffer too.

Oh, my God. No, but that is, it is. It is very, like, antithetical to many Persian cultural things I grew up in here in my young Tony's when I first came out here. Every kid I knew that was Persian, it was like, dude, you got, it was a very pattern. You better do, you better fall in line. So where did you grow up exactly? Well, Chicago. When I moved, but I moved out here when I was 21 years old for the first time.

Okay. And the first kid I lived with. Was Persian? Yeah, he was. The first kid I lived with. That's LA for you right there. I was about to say his name, but I don't want to say his name. But I'll tell you off camera.

But the name is you'd go, yeah, dude. He was the first kid I live with, me, him, and two other roommates. And I learned the way of his life because he was kind of the outcast of his family, right? He kind of cracked and wanted to be in the business and do his own thing. Really? Yeah, I think there were a little, he went to UCLA grad school, and I think there were a little, like, hoping that he would get back into something more dominant. But he loved entertainment, like really badly wanted to be in entertainment.

Did he stay in there? He is on the fringes of it. Yeah. He never was on camera. He was the other side. He wanted to produce, you know, he wanted to make, make stuff, represent people. He wanted to kind of be a curator. Which is great.

It's amazing, yeah. Especially today. That's really respected. And that's amazing. And then he got into the game. Do you remember the game? Neil Strauss, the book, The Game. Do you know about how to pick up chicks?

Dude, he got embroiled in this world. He would read this book. I never forget. He read this book and it was his Bible. Then him and these other two guys that he was friends who would come over to the house and they'd go out looking for chicks. and they'd be like, come out and party with this. I was like, I got to go do spots.

I was doing, you know, I'm like, I got to do open mics, man. Like, I can't. I don't have the time to go fishing right now. So I'd go do spots. They'd go on the hunt for women. And shockingly, it worked to a degree that was unfathomable. These guys would get girls so far out of their league because they used this tenants of this book,

which was like nagging. And it worked. Oh, dude, it worked all time. They worked constantly. A lot of negging. A lot of like being coy or mean to girls that you find out of your league to bring them, down to your level. That was like part of the philosophy

of the book. I do not recommend this book. Damn. I don't. But this was like a revolution for a long. I bet you that book is canceled today. Yeah, I'm sure. A lot of incels read that book and got a lot of lift from it. But no, he they lived and died by this thing. It was fascinating to me. But he was again, he was kind of like the bad boy of his family.

Like a Persian kid who went against the grains and kind of like you know, he didn't want to do the typical shit. And kudos to him for doing it. Because I do remember him getting anxious if his parents were going to come visit. It was like a very heavy lift, you know? Like he had to lie a lot, you know? Which stinks. You know what I mean? Like I remember when I was a kid

I grew up with a kid whose mom was so strict that he would have two changes of clothes. He would wear clothes to school and have a change in his backpack of clothes he wanted to wear but his parents would make him leave the house and something and then he would change at school. And then when he went home, he would change back before they would see him and what he wore. It's such

an important topic because first of all, I think the world has gotten better. the younger generation parents now, they're a lot more open. I think social media has made the business, people that want to be into entertainment or influencers. People don't want to be even artists anymore.

They want to be influencers. And when I talk about influences, not even like influencers that specialize in something, and influences says, look at my dinner. I'm in Mikonos right now. Look at my dinner. Look at my rims. You know, just like that's the influencing sort of topic.

and people are supportive of it now. Sure, if it's working, who cares? My son has 200,000 followers. Good for your son. The world has changed. Whatever works works. I don't know. Yeah, my parents' generation,

our parents are probably similar in age. That doesn't fly with them, dude. We got a different, that's a different. It's just, you know, it's going to change as time goes on, which is good, but, you know, do you talk about any of this stuff in this? My young friend here has a new special coming out. It's not going to be out until 2027,

It's going to be on the big N, the big red end, as it were, the Death Star. Netflix, you have a date, a release date? No, not yet. Nothing, huh? No, yeah. Okay, good, it's coming. They gave me the offer. I'm excited.

Yeah, that's great. Isn't that cool? It's really cool. It's sort of, you know, puts the stamp of approval. Yeah, it's the North Star of comedy. It's kind of like, okay, we put in our time. Now you're going to, you know, have your special here. I'm excited about it.

And I think my fans are going to be very excited about it. Good. Good. That's awesome. Where did you shoot? You're in L.A.? I shot it in Toronto. Why?

I have a massive fan base there. You do. And when I shoot specials, I sort of learn that the more shows I play, the better special will come out. Sure. So I played this casino called the Great Something Casino. The Great Canadian Casino. 40, 800 seats, almost 5,000 seats.

I played four shows. Wow. Two nights in a row. It's great. And then we shot all four shows. Wow. We picked one and it feels good. That's good.

Yeah. I don't know if you've ever shot a special, then you go, oh man, I thought it was much better, but now I'm watching it. I've had a few of those. This one, I shot it. It felt good. You know, I watched the rough cut.

I go, this is it. I'm happy with this. Every time I shoot a special and I watch it, I go, can somebody else replace me in this? Can you just do, can you overlay someone else doing other jokes in this stupid fucking thing? In here, we pour whiskey. Welcome to your most rewarding season ever, only on Fandual. How rewarding are we talking, huh?

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You could submit if you had a hidden talent or something secret that you wanted to share. We kind of left it open for the audience to have fun. And we had a few really good hidden talents. There was a woman who could queef the star-sangled banner in Denver. Shout it to that girl. She was incredible. She could quefe the star-spangled banner. Did a good job, too. I think she played a simple man by Leonard Skinner as well.

How did you guys mic her? She was self-miked. She was self-miked. Yeah. The lav was way up there. What the speaker. We boomed it. We underboomed it.

Oh my God. No, we had some crazy hidden talents, but that one was this guy. I was like, I'm an opera singer, and we were like bullshit. And... Came out and blew it. It was incredible.

Yeah. So shout out to Toronto. Shout out to the six. It's a great city. It was a great city. Every time we go up there, we have a fun time. It's a great crowd.

I really love that city. And it's always, I've always had my biggest crowd in Toronto. Who do? What city doesn't support you? What's the hardest? city for Aminia to sell? I would say generally speaking, Midwest

for me is smaller. That's right, you guys. And keep that up. Come see me. Don't see him. He doesn't need some more. He sells 20,000 fucking seats in Toronto. Don't worry about him.

Come see me, Midwest. The Midwest doesn't like you for some reason. It just doesn't do as well. It doesn't like me. The population that comes and sees me is not the Midwest. I just played Kansas City. I had 1,500 people come up. But I play anywhere else.

theaters are much bigger. Minimum 5,000. So 1,500 in comparison, Kansas City, that's a, you know, a small draw. But I love it. I love it because the crowd is different. Right. And in a way...

What do you mean by difference? Like... It's more the Midwest crowd. More whites? Yeah. And I don't get a chance to play that often, so it's extra fun for me. And I feel like it also opens up

that sort of crowd for me. So the more you share that kind of material, then it's going to reach to that audience. Then hopefully that audience gets bigger. You want them to retain. What's the name of this new special? Do we have a name yet? I forgot to tell you.

It's the name of the special. I forgot to tell you. It's really good. It's good. It's my life story. I ran that material for about a year and a half on tour. It was perfect. It was ready when I got to Toronto.

And I said, this is a time to shoot this and put it out there. So I feel like the next, I'm already on my next hour, which is hard because now I feel like this hour is even funnier than that hour. That's a good place to be. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If you're only getting better, that's good. The stories, you know, I do a lot of crowd work and then I do my storytelling. So the combination sometimes, you know, you have that night. It just boom.

It's magic. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that's what you want to. Yeah. You want it to click. I don't know if you want me to talk about it, but I did say on the way out, he's got, he's got the, He's got the wrapped cyber truck.

I don't know if you care to share it with the band. It's so funny to see, dude. Because it's, what's the color way on that thing? It's, it's, uh, it changes color. It's like a chameleon paint. Yeah, Camillion. That's fucking huge. I don't know it was a call, but the rap was very rare.

And I, and I, when you look at the car, the shape is so, you know, awkward. Yeah, it's weird as fuck. I was like, put a solid color in this car. It's extra awkward, you know? So I, when I saw the rap, I was going through it. I go, this is great. just kind of makes you, makes it more, you know, gives it some dimension.

Easy to look at. Right. It gives it some dimension. Yeah, so we, I wrapped it. I love this car. And I tell you what. You do, you like it. It's fun.

I love it. Because it's a big point of contention. A lot of people who love cars or hate it. And the people that love it, they love it. I love this car. And it drives, you know, Tesla's, they all, they have the self drive. Yeah, yeah, right. You've tried it.

No, I don't own a Tesla. I don't drive it. Oh, it just drives you. It drives me. I'm on the phone. I'm doing my thing. in the car. Right now I had lunch the whole time. I'm eating my lunch. The car's coming.

It's amazing. You don't have to worry about it. No. And if you do hit someone, they will die because that's very big. It's like 10,000 pounds. It's eight times safer than humans driving. Eight times safer than humans. Eight times safer. Wow. When you get in the car, first, everybody I tell them, they go, oh man, I don't feel

comfortable. I don't trust it. You watch the car drive and you go, shit, this is way better than me. And it's not slow. It doesn't make you feel like it's you know it the car moves fast and it's very safe it's efficient very and and and i hate driving because i feel like i drive in l.a i get home and i take a nap i'm tired already yeah it's a heavy lift yeah it's just it's you know so that's why i love this car well did you okay you i you said i feel like Tesla should fucking sponsor me for this well tell him go ahead Elon sponsor your boy dude

yeah what are you waiting for i uh if Elon has uh any plug into this world because he does like It does. Why don't you watch, I forgot to tell you, on Netflix, and then give this guy a check, right of a sponsorship check. I should just roll on stage next, you know, next special with the cyber truck. That's very funny. Can you imagine the crowd? Who are you, Kevin Hart? They're like, get out of here. What are you doing?

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The person shot, I have to take it. Did you ever grow up with a white beamer or Mercedes? I did. I had my white convertible BMW. You have to have BMW. Yep, yeah, at some point. Any Persian isn't a Persian until one member of their family has a white beamer or a white benzok. You have to.

What is that? Is that it's like it's in your code? It's like in your DNA. Well, and then the next level is G-Wagon. Yeah, right. G-Wagon is when you guys graduate to, yeah, that's what that's, that's real Persian money. As soon as you get that raise, you got to get the G-Wagon. You have to go G-Wagon.

You have to get G-Wagon. The history of G-Wagon. The whole love the Persians have Mercedes-Benz is because the Shah of Iran is the designer behind the G-Wagon. Oh, is that right? It was his idea. No shit. He had this idea.

He sketched the idea. He said, this is the design I want, sent it to Mercedes. And the first G-Wagon was designed for the Shah of Iran. No way. And they sent it there. And then after that, the car just becomes an interesting... Mercedes never thought the Jeep looking sort of thing is going to be theirs. It blew up and now it became one of their popular models.

I've never heard of the story. To me, it looked like a Nazi tank. I always thought that was like World War II. I thought Mercedes was like, we'll make something to cut through all of the soldiers? What is it? He ordered 20,000. 20,000 G-wagons, the Shah of Iran.

He got him, yeah. And he got 20,000 of them. Yeah. For the army. Isn't that crazy? Well, so it was an army. And then he had one for himself. Yeah, of course.

He drove a beautiful luxury one. I fucking keep one of them, dude. 20,000 is crazy. I didn't know that. I didn't know. I just, I knew he had one. And that's why Iranians fell in love with Mercedes-Benz brand, you know, from that, you know, from that on. They do, man.

And White Beamer is for the younger Persian. It's for Armenians. Right. Armenians are obsessed with BMWs. Persians obsessed with Mercedes. Now, Armenians also love BMW. But, you know, the, um, the, um, the, um, the, um, the, um, the, um, the, um, the, um, stereotype is, I would say, the white BMW is for the Armenians and the white Mercedes for the Persian.

So why did you have a white beamer? You broke the code. I wanted to be more Armenian. They got the hookup for everything. They really do. They know a guy who knows a guy, man. They always got a boy, dude. They always go. You know, you talk to an Armenian. They always go, what do you need? Just, just tell me. What do you need? I hook you up. Just tell me what you need. They always have a hookup. They do. They'll find yourself. They'll find yourself. on a discount plane service that you've never heard of before. You're like, Shakra Air? What the fuck? And they're like, just go. You're like, I don't know, dude.

It's just going to get us there. I'll tell you a great story about a Persian Armenian. We're at the Laugh Factory. I'm performing. This is, by the way, Laugh Factory is where all the Persians and Armenians... That's the house. That's the house for comedy for them. I had this really great show on a weekend.

Show finishes this. I'm talking to three girls after the show. Beautiful. And they're like, hey, come out with us. Let's hang out. And as comics, we're at the comedy club, and then we hang out and we go home. It's work.

And I'm like, look, I'm not gonna go to club, and the girls are insisting, come on, it's gonna be fun. And I'm like, God, good gracious, and the girls are so hot. I'm like, fine, I'll go out for a little bit. Where they're going hide, right around the, it's like two blocks, you know, two blocks away. So we walk, we walk to hide.

There is a line around the block, people standing to get in. The three girls just walk in the front, I'm with the girls, and this big, gig enormous, you know, a bouncer, black guy, opens the rope. The three girls get in as soon as I'm about to go and he closes the rope.

And everybody's watching. I'm standing there. And I go, together. And the girls are like, he's with us. Can it kind of like? And he goes, nope. And the girl goes like, why? We have a table. He goes, your table is full is occupied. That's it. He can't get in.

And I'm just, and I'm just, I'm about to melt away. I'm so embarrassed. And the girl goes like, oh, sorry, bye. They walk in, and all of a sudden I hear from behind me. Max, Max, I turn. There's a police officer in the uniform with his car, standing in the lot, Persian-Armenian guy. And he goes, can I take a picture? It was like, everybody in line is like, who is this guy?

The seas part of that day. It was the most magical timing life that ever brought me. I walked down, hey, what's up, man? He goes, I love your work. gives me a dab, we take a picture. He goes, thanks, man. I walk right back to the club. The bouncer opens the rope.

I walk in, bro. Perfect. Like the most insane club experience I've ever had in my life. And then you spent two more hours going, what? What? Yeah, no, yeah, one more! I just, I had the best time I walked in.

And the girl's like, oh, you got it? I'm like, yes, but I'm hanging out over here. Yeah. No thanks to you, bitch. Exactly. Kick me outside. Are you single now? What are you doing?

I'm single now. Single, good for you. I'm single now, buddy, and I'm very happy about it. I'm not, I'm in such a transition career-wise. I feel like I'm better off single. Good for you. That makes any sense. Yeah, whatever works for you, man.

Yeah. Yeah. I'm married, dude. Are you married? Yeah, I'm married. To this guy. To this guy. He's my everything.

Yeah, we live and die with each other. I kind of remember you got married recently about a couple of years? No, no, it's been a long, long time. Really? I think I got married in the 40s. I'm just kidding I got married in 1948 No yeah

No you know what's so funny is I don't I don't envy any of my single friends I really don't Like I know it I know How long you're married? 10 years God damn kids You didn't get a wedding invitation

Did you? No no back back then I don't think we've been friends for 10 years No no we didn't know No kids we couldn't have kids We tried and then we said You know what probably better off That we don't have them

Good for you Because we like to live a little bit free Is she in the business? She's not dude One head shot per household That's the rule one headshot for household. Al Madrigal, shout out to Al Madrigal. He said that.

Yeah. Al one time goes, one headshot, dude. I agree. I agree. I think it's too much. It's tough when two people are doing this bullshit game. Yep. This is already, we can't have two children in the house. One has to be a grown-up. Yep, yep. Yep. Yep. We're going to be kids for the rest of our lives. Someone has to be a responsible adult, right?

Yeah. But everybody, when people ask me, why are you not married? I said, look, our lifestyle is not easy as this hard. But then here we have, Andrew, 10 years, married. Well, you know, my wife lives in Russia, so it's good because she's far, far away. No, you can make relationships work in this business. It is very, very difficult. I think the biggest thing is you find your happiness in the center of it all because it's very distracting. You're on the road all the time.

You're gone a lot. You have to focus on the business. So you're being so selfish in the game. It's hard, dude. it's but if but if you can meet someone who shares um the love of your drive that you have like that really wants to like support the drive god bless dude well it's it's it's hard it's really hard we you know we have a lot of friends how often she comes on the road with you you know dude i'm not touring this year i haven't toured this was kind of crazy and last year she came out a

little bit but it's like once in a while she'll come out if there's a city that she wants to go to she's not going to tepica you know what i mean like there's places where i'm like yeah yeah but we'll go to it's a major city, right? Okay. We go to New York. We go to Boston. We go to Philly. We go to those places she wants to be along for the ride. That's nice. But you know, but touring is so hard and it's work. I'm not like the most pleasant people when we're on the road. When I'm on stage, it's the most fun. Yep. But the hotels, the flights, the transfers, the blah, blah, blah. Yep. I saw you. I saw you at the airport. Where were we? We were going, well, we were going to D.C.

You and Bobby had a show. Yeah. I had a show in D.C. That's a good. We played, um, Constitution Hall. Constitution Hall. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. You were. I remember. I remember. What a wild show. Yeah. You're playing Constitution Hall. Fun show, right?

Oh, my God. Dude, so upside down that place. DC is fun. Well, D.C. throws you for a loop because you don't really know who the audience is going to be. Like, you're like, who lives here? Who is this? It's like who's in D.C. Yeah.

Because so many people that live in the direct world are in the world of politics, but you get so many people from the outside world that come in, you know? Like a lot of Virginia people come in. I feel like it's like L.A. Yeah, it's a mix. Yeah. And it's a smart crowd. Oh, it's a super smart crowd

Yeah It's smarter than the people on stage So what Like majority of your crowd is who? Is it a white crowd? No, we kick out the whites We're not into the whites Because I feel like the whites are into

Who? Matt Rife? Yeah, they like him Okay, Max? Bobby, Bobby, but the whites come from Bobby No, the white, no, we get a lot of Asian A lot of Filipino, a lot of Asian But we get a pretty good mix

I feel like I get... Filipino... We do get a lot of Filipinos. They're great comedy audience. Yeah, man. They like to laugh. But they're good comedy audience. Because they can take a joke.

They love comedy. Mexicans, we get a ton of Mexicans. West Coast especially, do. We're Mexican audience is huge. We love Mexicans. I fuck with Mexicans the hardest. These are some of the best people who know how to laugh at the shit

who like that we're weird and fucking creepy and stupid. The reason I think Filipinos are so good is because, look, Bobby is not Filipino. No. Right? No. He's got a big Filipino following. Joe Koi was, you know, got the initial big bang from the Filipinos.

I have a massive Filipino audience. So that means they're comedy lovers. They love comedy. I'm Persian. Joe Koi Filipino. None of you guys Filipino. Well, he dated a Filipino. That's why.

Oh, I remember her. He had a Filipino. He had his, Kalila was from the Philippines and her family still lives with Bobby. So he's kind of supportive of the Filipino culture. So they support him. Okay, okay, okay, okay. We get it all. I didn't.

I didn't, okay. And then the audience always isn't never-ending argument that I get more black fans than he does. He fought me on it, but it's very true. How? How do you think? Why do I get more black fans? It was a dick jokes that you guys had on the podcast? No, black guys like white offset whites.

That's what I always say. They're like a white that doesn't look like a normal white. No, but you have, you're the white guy with black energy. Okay. You do. You say it. You heard that? He does.

He's got. He's got that loud, like fucking, I don't give a shit. I don't give a shit. Let's go. It's as real as it gets right here. You know? It's true. Black people like real shit.

Listen, if you're not authentic, then nobody wants to fucking connect with you, especially black people. Yeah, yeah. They see a bullshit. They don't, they like, they're not into, like, I'm trying to think of a name. I'm trying to be like, who would they not like? You know, I don't see. There's some people that just would.

cater to those audiences because that's not their style. But yes, they want someone that's got a little bravado. They want someone that's got that thing where whites can sit through anything. The whites will sit through anybody, dude. But no, they want a little bit, they want a little sauce in there. Who's the best comedy audience to you? Like where in the country? No, no, just

from all the different nationalities. Who's the best comedy audience? I like this. I like this. I like this. Let me isolate one. Let me piss off the other ones. I would say, say Mexicans are our best fans. I think when we play like the West, when we play LA or we play the West Coast, dude, Mexicans go fucking off. Arizona, Texas, anywhere in the southwest where the Mexican contingency is high, they go the most nuts. I think the Mexicans fans that we have were like the Irish fans when we went to Dublin. They were fucking so much fun. They couldn't wait to party.

Then we played London and London was fine. They were great. But the energy wasn't the same. Yeah, no, because London was polite. It's actually interesting you say that. Because I landed in London. Matt Rife was playing the O2. I was playing the O2 a few days later. Yeah. So we have the same agent.

He said, I'm at the O2, Matt's playing. I said, shit, I'm going to come right now. So I went. I watched Matt play. And after the show, I saw him. I said, Matt, it was great. How do you feel? He goes, man, I fucking hated the audience.

Well, he's a comedian. And I said, why? He said, dude, I just, the energy, I'm not, you know, London, they're so polite. They're very nice. I'm not getting that crazy vibe that I and I said, buddy, I watch a show. It was amazing and it was great.

But absolutely right. That's a, it's a cultural thing because Americans, you know, they make fun of us that were these rowdy pigs but like I like rowdy pigs, dude. No, for a comedy show. They're kind of sweet and mild and mild and they appreciate well-written jokes

and it's great. But like, give me a fucking, give me some fun. When we're on the road, give us some fun. I don't have the biggest black audience, but I think they told us before the show. But the best comedy audience

is always going to be the African-Americans. A black room. Yeah. And when they laugh, man, the whole body, they laugh with their whole body. You feel like that's a different feel. You know, you're performing in the audience. Like, you know, when you play Chaka Sundays,

I don't know if you played... Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, Mo better Mondays. Moved a Mondays. The audience just moves. And if you're really funny, they'll start hitting themselves and be like, fuck. If you're extra funny, they'll beat each other like, ah, fuck it. And you feel like a rock star playing that show.

But if you're not funny. If you're not funny, Root. If you're not funny in a black room, if you're not funny in a white room, it's fine. You're not funny in a black room. You've got to take off a week. You've got to let them know you got to go lick your wounds for the room. They'll tell you. You need to see your psychologist the next day.

They'll tell you. I love the, nah, nah, I've heard that, nah, and you're like, God damn, dude, nah hurts. Nah hurts your feelings. But now you're out of place now. You've cultivated such a big fan base. It doesn't even matter. You're good. You've got who you need and you just keep growing.

It's all that matters. And I don't care who shows up. I've always said that. I don't care where they see us from, whether it's the podcast space or TV or film or blah. I don't even fuck. As long as you're coming to have a good time. Yeah, yeah, of course. Are you on the road right now?

Are you touring or not? Yeah. I'm about to leave to Australia this sad. Bro. Bobby's going what in like two weeks? On Monday. Yeah, bro. Really? You guys are going to overlap.

He's going to be there. He's going to Perth. No, sorry, he's doing Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Auckland. And Auckland. Yeah. I'm playing all those cities plus Perth, Adelaide. Yeah. We did Perth.

The last trip we did, we did it together. We did Perth. We did Brisbane, Adelaide. We did all of them. He doesn't want to go to the West Coast. He's touring alone. Him and Carlos are going to go out there and have some fun together. Australia is insane.

It's insane. These people are the best. They're awesome. comedy fans, dude. They're fucking comedy lovers. Yeah, because they're happy you came so far. They're like, dude, this is a long ride. Thanks for coming down.

Especially Perth. You get to Australia. It takes you forever to get to Australia. And then you're like, where is Perth? Oh, another flight for six hours south. Like, fuck. It's insane. You know, it's far.

But Perth, shout out to Perth. They treated us very well. That was such a great city. I'm glad we didn't skip it. They were like, you're going to make it. Because our original plan was play Perth first and then head back east. That's what we want to do. It was go that way, just go that way.

We went down up and then there and then all the way back. And I thought, damn, well, we can't even make that show? For a second, I thought we were going to cancel it. Wow. I'm glad we went because they were amazing. They're amazing. Have you been out there to Perth? Yeah.

There's a little place that's a little rotteness island. It's off the coast. If you get a chance, take a boat, go out there. They have these things called the quackas. They're these little tiny, what are they like squirrels? Yeah. That's the most like. Quakas is what they're called.

Really? Go take a boat to rotteness. I'm not kidding. You won't regret it. It's so beautiful. Outside of Perth. West of Perth. It's off the western coast of Perth. It's like a little tiny island. It took us, I don't even know, like maybe 45 minute boat, something like that.

If that, it's just a ferry. It's a ferry, yeah. But go out there. I'm going to see, because my schedule is so tight with this tour. This is my, I've been playing Australia for 10 years, maybe maybe longer. Okay. I used to go out there at a big Persian community, I used to play. Now, this is the first time I'm going back. This is the biggest tour I've ever had in Australia. Awesome. This is like, I've never played Australia like this.

because it was overwhelming the response, it surprised us. The days that I thought I have off, we ended up booking those days. Oh, well, that's a good problem to have. So the wiggle room between the, it's like I hardly have, I think I have one travel day between every show.

What are you doing for yourself then? What's Max doing for himself? Nothing in Australia. What are you doing here? What's your break time? What's your get away from the machine? Because all I know of you is work. Well, I tell you, but that is my life.

But you don't have anything for you, just your little hidden getaway? I'll tell you. I'll give you a little bit of, you know, a day of Maximini. The best time for me is the morning, I get up, I work out. That's like my two, three hours of the gym. And I try to be extremely consistent on this, right? And the only sports I play, and I stay consistent playing is basketball. So twice a week, I play basketball.

Wednesdays and Sundays. And my friend has a chord. We get a bunch of same people, safe game, good game, barking, very competitive. You know, that's the only sort of fun I can recall. But it doesn't mean that, but, you know, we love what we do. I love my work. I love when I'm performing.

I love my dinners with my friends. It's all I do, go to dinner, see a friend, catch up. But my days are busy. I mean, I wake up in the morning. I do my workout. I go to my office. I have 40 employees. Four zero.

zero. How? I have this is, I've had this production company since 2010. So 2010, I opened this production company and I started with like six, seven people. And they grew little at a time. And now at its peak, it's

really heavy because I have three departments. I have a marketing department that markets all my tours. I have a touring department. You know, I have six people working the touring department. And then I have my editors for social media. So when I perform, I come back. The editors cut my stuff and then, you know, the content gets ready.

You know, we have a social media person that posts it. So this whole thing just keep growing and the pressure keeps, you know, increasing. And that is probably the heaviest part of my routine. Wow. Now, that is probably, I would say, people say, my God, your touring schedule is so heavy, you must be telling. I'm like, shit, you know what I'm saying? The touring is actually, I love it.

A break from the life here. Yeah, I enjoy, exactly. I get out. I love the touring. I love the show. The traveling is hard, but the tour, the shows are amazing.

Yeah. But running a business, I mean, today's entertainment has changed. Like you, you can relate. I mean, look at this beautiful studio you have.

You have your own team. You have your own editors. You've got to get this content. People don't realize how much we have to be involved in the creative process of aftermath of the shoots and the great fun stuff.

I feel like, to me, that's my least fun sort of thing in my life I mean it's it's painful it's heavy it's it's annoying but

you gotta do it you gotta have the work I think and do it otherwise decide you can you know you cannot enjoy the play yeah no no well you have to have as much fun as you're doing work though that's what I mean is you got to take more time

for yourself too do some Mac stuff do some like what I have whatever whatever tickles your fancy, whether it's making pottery at night. You know what I mean? You got to do something that does a thing for you. I'm always telling my comedy friends,

because a lot of times you're going to get a lot of fame and success, and it's going to be great, and it's also like, what else too? What moves Max? You know what I mean? And I think you're going to fish for something soon, because you're working like a dog. Yeah, yeah.

And you're on top. And that basketball is probably fun, but let's get Max to do something else. We're going to find something for you. I'm not going to golf. I'm not going to golf. You're not going to go. You're not going to do white stuff? I know you're a good golfer.

Love golf. I'm too Persian for the golf. Do Persian's not golf? Let me ask you this. What is your thing? Is it golf? No, or I disappear on boys trips with friends. Like, we'll go do stuff.

Like, go to a little disappear boy's trips, something like that. And a lot of times that is golf, but it doesn't always have to be. A lot of times just getting together with guys and going to fucking disappear from the world of this. How long? A couple days, four or five days? I do that. Okay, that's good. So, tail end of my tour, I take a few days.

Go on vacation with a couple of boys. Exactly. There's a few cities. Every city we all have good friends because we've been going to these cities. Yeah, you see so many people. And so there's certain cities when I go to at the end of the tour, my crew goes back. I stay a few days. And that's just my few days. Two or three days. Disappeared. Yeah. Just with the same people that I love. You don't have to think you just, you just there. And you just pick on each other and talk bullshit. And you're happy no matter where you at type of life. Yeah, just hanging out. Yeah. Yeah. I do that. That's good. That's what you need. Yeah.

Because I'm going to see Max go up and up and up and up. I'm going to go, Max, Max, I'm up here. I'm busy. No, I'm with you. But I think I'm very conscious of my, I prioritize me in the sense of, like, I don't get my, I'm not unaware of how much heat and how much work is on my shoulder. Sure. I sort of, I know when I'm under pressure and I give myself a little break or come up for air. Yeah, you need to, otherwise...

Yeah, of course. Of course. Like, there's a famous story about Martin Lawrence, right? It wasn't that Martin Lawrence that did... He was doing back to back to back to back to back movies, and he didn't have like a stroke or something. There's something happened where he was like hospitalized for like exhaustion. I mean, he like cracked himself, right? Yeah, August, 1999.

He worked himself... Three-day coma. Yeah, he worked himself into a coma. And that's real shit. The guy worked so hard so much. He was just, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go. And I don't know who it was. I want to say Chappelle.

that's probably wrong but Dave just was a great order so he's told so many great stories but he said someone visited him in the hospital and he was like how are you and he was like that's the best sleep I've ever had and he was like that's not good that it took you to have a stroke to go to sleep

who's like but it's true in the entertainment world a lot of times they're you're running yourself as thin as they're wanting to run you too so that's I always say to my friends and people in the biz like people that I respect I'm always like make sure you're doing you too, too. Because if you're doing just a machine, sometimes you're just going to, you kind of

fall into nothing. Especially this, look, I don't drink. Yeah, no drink, no drugs, no nothing. I know that. You never have. Yeah, it's not your thing. I do enough for you, by the way. I'll drink and do drugs for you. But I'm thinking, I'm thinking I would have never been able to make these tours

if after my show I was drinking and then going to bed, waking up the next day, trying to go to another city and perform again and then have fun afterwards. I just don't know how their body can pull it through. It's hard, but I'm doing, I'm doing my best. I'm doing a great job, dude. I'll tell you, because the drugs offset the drinking is what you do.

You do the drugs to get back on the drinking. No, I'm getting older where I can't do it as much as I used to. But I love having a couple of pops. That's my favorite thing is, you know, that's my part of my connective tissue to people is sharing a bottle with somebody and chatting backstage for a couple hours. There's nothing to me. Well, that's my heritage. After the show, before the show.

After the show. Okay. I don't want to see people before the show. Me neither. Leave me alone before the show. Me neither. I don't want to. Can we come backstage?

You're like, yeah, after the show, and they're like, what about before? You're like, why? A hundred percent, I agree. Come see these show, have a good time, and then come back. I'll say hi. That way, my shoulders are dropped. I don't want to be backstage being like, yeah, man. And then, uh, yeah, you're good to see it.

And then you're doing five things. It's not. I think people, there's a lot going on prior to a show. And the more that you can kind of chill out right before you go on, it's a lot easier. then afterwards. Even if there's nothing going on before the show. Something's going on. I like to be by myself.

Yeah, yeah. I like to sit in that room. They come and ask you a couple questions. I want to be in my own zone. And not that as a comedian, we do any jumping jacks or a weird warm-up or nothing. You guys do. Yeah, I love that sort of like a few minutes before. And by the way, I don't know about you.

I show up five minutes before I go on. But when I, you know, in the car, I don't want. want anybody next to me. I'd like to be alone from my hotel. Even your openers don't ride with you. No, no. I just like, my opener is super cool. They come, but I'm in my own zone

before I go on stage. I don't want to have a conversation before I really want to just, I'm thinking about the city, I'm thinking about how my day went. I like to open the show and sort of relate to the city I'm in. So I'm kind of reviewing, you know, I'm in that sort of like

observation of what I experienced that day, what's happening, or where I'm at. Trying to connect with the city. And I hate to have a conversation with anybody at that moment, because I'm really enjoying this moment of discovery. But afterwards, 100%. Yeah, then you can come hang.

Yeah, we've had some good hangs after the show. Carlos got himself in a lot of trouble after a couple of shows. Oh, yeah. Bad boy. He was a little bad boy, weren't you? Yeah, I didn't even drink at a show since. Yeah, that's exactly right. I mean, you and Bobby go out after the shows?

Bobby doesn't. Bobby's sober. But I'll go out. But he doesn't come and hang out? Sometimes. It really depends on what. If we go get food together, we usually go get dinners. Because dinners is like a family dinners. And the family dinners, then it's an excuse for him to want to come out. But to go out to a bar when I'm meeting up with people to go out to a bar or something like that, he's not interested in that crowd. He doesn't want drunk people near him.

Good for him. Yeah. He goes back to the room and plays video games or what? He stays up all night. stays up all night. Yeah, he plays video games, goofs around. Yeah. Listen, first of all, I have so much, I don't drink. I didn't do drugs, but I have extra respect for those who did it, and then they sobered up after that. Like, that's unbelievable. No, we're happy for him. I mean, I'm, again, like, I'm not like I used to be, but I still

like to go out and say hi and have some pops, especially if we're in a city and someone that I know is there. Can't wait, man. That's like one of my favorite things in the world, especially if a feature is someone I like, you know, like I tour with this. guy Devontre Coleman, who I think is a phenomenal comedian. And the first couple of nights we went out together, and I said, do you drink, do you like drink when you're at home? He's like, no, but I drink with you. And I said, okay, dude, it's not my fault.

No, but he's, he's an independent man. He can do whatever he wants. But it is nice, you know, to kind of trail around into the night with some feature, a little one-on-one. He's getting his features of, you know, alcoholic. Yeah. It's not my fault, you know what I mean? Welcome to the show. You guys, like, how did your career go?

I was doing so great, and I started featuring. Yeah, 50% Tino. You know what? You can't take the heat. Get out the kitchen, dog. Tell me, Max, we're on tour now. Maximini.com is the website. Yes.

Go see the man. Australia, you're going. This will probably be out while you're already down there. So the shows were great. I know they were. But the rest of the tour is going to continue on. Go to maximini.com and go get those tickets. Go see the man.

And then in the new year, please come support all of our friends and family of the Whiskey Ginger crew and watch. I forgot to tell you. Yeah. It's great. I forgot to tell you on Netflix. On Netflix. It should be on Netflix coming out in 2027. We don't know when, but keep your eyes and ears peeled.

Comment down below if you own a white beamer or a white Benz and the year. And if you want to put a photo of it in there in the comments, we'd love to see that. Or a cyber truck. Or a cyber truck. I show you the wrap. Yeah, he'll show, he'll post the rap. We end the show the same way. You look into that camera and you say one word or one phrase.

It used to be a word, used to be a phrase. It was a word. People got, you know, people want to impart words of wisdom. Some people want to say just one singular word. Sure. When you're ready, whatever you want to say in there. Pussy. In here, we pour whisk, whisk, whisk, whisk, whisk.

You were that creature in the ginger beard. Sturdy and ginger. Like vampires, the ginger gene is a curse. Ginger's are beautiful. You only $5 for the whiskey for the horse. Ginger's, oh, hell no. This whiskey is excellent. Ginger.

I like gingers.