Whiskey Ginger with Andrew Santino - Michael Rapaport

Episode Date: May 17, 2019

Santino sits down with Michael Rapaport to chat about getting blocked on twitter by Lebron, the best era of hip hop and Rap gives his votes about the Whiskey Ginger Hot 16 Hot 16 features JARV JOEL FRAME CHASE MOORE SEE ME LIVE!!! RALEIGH MAY 30- JUN 1 BRIDGEPORT, CT JUN 13-15 SAN DIEGO JUNE 21-23 TICKETS AT http://www.andrewsantino.com Go to http://www.andrewsantino.com for all things Cheeto Follow me on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cheetosantino/ Follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/cheetosantino/ FOR ALL THINGS RAPAPORT https://www.iamrapaport.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Ginger. I like gingers. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Whiskey Ginger. My guest today is one of my favorite people on earth. I like gingers. If I didn't like you, I wouldn't say it. But you say you say it for all the guests. Yeah, you'll figure it out. So today, I want to talk to Rap about a bunch of stuff, but let me start off, let's start off hot. You got blocked by LeBron. LeBron blocked you this morning or last night? Sometime in the last 24 hours, LeBron James blocked me. On Twitter. Tell us why.

Well, I'm not sure why. I mean, listen why I mean listen I love athletes I love sports I'm a Humongous fan Yeah Now whether I

Love your Love you Love your team Right Or root for you or not I have nothing but respect For athletes So listen

Tom Brady I can sit here and say He's a fucking this He's a fucking that, but I'll also say he's the best quarterback ever. Yeah. Like, it's not personal.

Right. It's like... It's just talking shit. It's talking shit and like, you know, it's like sports are like Avengers movies. Sports are like Batman and Robin. Sports are like classic good guys or bad guys

and you make whoever you want to be the good guy and you make whoever you want to be the bad guy. and you make whoever you want to be the bad guy. Tom Brady is obviously, if you're not a Patriots fan, he's the perfect bad guy. Whereas Derek Jeter was also the perfect bad guy if you're not a Yankee fan. Or LeBron James is the perfect bad guy

if you're not a whoever fucking team he's on. Kobe was a great bad guy. You're either rocking with him or not. Right. So why I got blocked by LeBron James? I mean, there's two things that happened with me and LeBron. First, well, there's three things. First, when I first met him, nice to meet you, sir.

Big fan of yours, sir. All this shit. And then for some reason, before I got into the shit-talking sports media podcast, before podcasts were even popping, he was rude to to my kids he was rude to me when i was trying to introduce him to my kids why he like brushed him off yeah he brushed him off and it wasn't in a restaurant it wasn't in a bathroom it was it was blatant i don't know i've heard that's that's a mean ass and and and and it was blatant and it wasn't like he didn't it was they set the scenario where were we at where was at it? At the NBA Celebrity All-Star Game.

So we were out where you're out. It's for the kids. Yeah, it's for the kids. Saturday weekend is for the fucking kids. Yeah. And I had seen them for the first few years of career. Nice to meet you, sir. What's up, Mike?

Big fan, all this shit. Just rude to my kids. And I was like, my kids' faces drop. They don't ask for selfies. They don't ask for... They want to pound. Just a little dab. That's it.

That's it. They've been around the NBAba i've been around the nba for years never has this happened so i was like this motherfucker and then as a fan the whole big three thing going to miami i was like this is bullshit yeah and then in 2007 but that was just for me as a fan because how can you not likeBron, especially when he first came into the league? He's like the boy wonder. Well, I mean, there hasn't been anything like that in so long. Someone that's so athletically dominant. More than a basketball player.

He was just a fucking raw athlete. We haven't seen that in forever. No, and he was young and the whole story was great. So then in 2017, we're in 2019. It was two years ago. It was Kevin Durant's first year with the Warriors. I was in Cleveland doing some stuff with the NBA because I've always had a relationship with the NBA.

I've done stuff with the NBA, done stuff for the NBA, and I'm a humongous fan. 2017, I was at Game 3 in Cleveland, my first time in Cleveland. The Warriors were up two games to nothing. It was the third game. I was expecting them to sweep. Sure. Okay.

I think a lot of people were. So because I was expecting a sweep and I was a guest in Cleveland because I thought, well, if they're going to sweep, we have to clean up. I brought a broom to the game. And because, you know,

I felt like I was being polite. So I brought a broom to the game in Cleveland and quick galones arena. And I had, you know, I was there with the NBA and I was down a broom to the game in cleveland and uh quick galones arena and i had you know i was there with the nba and uh i was down courtside before the game and you know by the time i went to my seat which was wasn't like very close seat was like sort of in the press press area i had gotten my phone was blowing up from the nba yo you need to get rid of that fucking broom they're filing a complaint. LeBron's campus complained.

I was like, oh, literally it was like five minutes after. It's like, oh shit, okay. I have this fucking gigantic broom. It's not like you could break it and throw it away. Because I went to a family-owned Cleveland hardware store because I wanted to support Cleveland business again because I was a guest in Cleveland and I got an oak wood. It wasn't like a shit broom.

No, it wasn't a bullshit broom. You got a real fucking broom. Yeah, it was like real thick wood. A man broom. So anyway, ever since that incident, I've been on what was told to me as a no-fly zone with the NBA. They blocked me.

LeBron's camp. This is what it was told to me. Yo, they shut you down. So I haven't done any NBA sanctioned shit since then. So because I still do sports stuff and because I didn't like the Cleveland, they did wind up getting a gentleman sweep. And then, of course, last year they lost four games. Now they actually got the sweep.

And all the other bullshit and getting the coaches fired and all the fucking bullshit. Right. I talk my shit. And it's gotten more than just the way I talk my shit about Brady. But also I talk a lot of, like I'll give him props and all the respect for all the Trump shit. All the shit talking he does and all the philanthropy and opening the school. Like I'm not like crazy. No, no.

You acknowledge it. You acknowledge it. So anyway, one of his flunkies, as I call them, he said something to me on Twitter and LeBron liked it. Ah. Is his flunky anybody we know or is it just some dude that's around? One of the guys that works at his company. Sure.

And LeBron liked it. Of course. So, on today's podcast, I gave the full full on today's I Am Rap Report stereo podcast because you know podcasts are like assholes everybody's got one you should check it out

and they all stink like shit yeah I really really gave the full Monty of my history with LeBron and really

I call it my finest hour I think it was my finest shit talking hour so and then so then somebody showed me yo you got blocked from LeBron.

Damn. And I was like That's kind of dope though. It's kind of dope. That's acknowledgement from one of the greatest basketball players to ever pick up a ball.

Listen Andrew I didn't come into this shit to make friends. You know what I'm saying? I didn't come into this to make friends. No you didn't. I got enough friends.

Have you made a lot of enemies in the NBA at all? None. This is the only, listen, I have no enemies in sports. Sure. I love the athletes. You know, I fuck with the big three. I know a lot of players personally.

Right. I'm a fan. And even people that I've talked shit about when I've run into them, they get it. They know. It's not personal. Right. Like, I'm talking shit, but the person who I talk shit the most about on social media and even in my stand-up is myself.

Because you can't talk shit without being able to take it. Who takes it the best, do you think? Who do you talk shit about that takes it the best? Like, the best talk-shitting relationship that I see. Julian Edelman. Edelman takes it the best? That's my guy.shating relationship that I see. Julian Edelman. Edelman takes it the best? That's my guy. Yeah?

Yeah, because he knows I don't fuck with the Patriots. And he knows I can't stand the Patriots. And I used to, before I actually met him, I used to fucking get on him and I used to call him

the fake Rudy and all his bullshit. And we met and he's just cool as shit. He totally gets it. He gets it. And you know, we're friends now.

And he came on my podcast and I was like, I thought I like i was a setup like i thought i was gonna be jumped or some shit fuck you up yeah who who do you who do you clown on secretly that you haven't gone public yet that you kind of want to but he's too nice of a guy is there that guy because there's a few guys that everyone has you go i can't stand this shit about him but i just don't want to i don't want to i don't want to i don't want to drown it. No, I think that if, I could even do it in a friendly way. Right. You know, the shit talking

with the sports because it comes, listen, in this world, there's so few things where you could actually have love and hate. Yeah. Like you love the Yankees,

you hate the Red Sox. You're Chicago? Chicago, yeah. Right, so you, but I think you have to come from a metro area where sports are so dominant. We have a lot of similarities in that fact that sports to me was always everything. It meant the fucking world to me.

And I have a lot of hatred for certain teams just because you grew up hating them. Now, I meet kids from other cities. They don't have that kind of thing. It just didn't exist. It was like they disliked other squads. They didn't exist yeah it was like you know they they disliked other squads they didn't give a fuck but like to us being a chicago kid like the st louis cardinals i i hope all of them die of horrible horrible cancer i don't give a i fucking loathe the cardinals i don't even like baseball i don't even i probably couldn't name five baseball players

currently i love baseball but one of my favorite, probably my most favorite thing in sports is when the Red Sox lose. Yeah. To this day. Yeah. I don't even like baseball. Right. I couldn't even tell you

who they're losing to or who fucked them. Right. It's just nice to see them lose. But when the Boston Red Sox lose and baseball's like not even something I consider,

it's a thrill. Right. Like I love it. Right. Like I get elation of it. And it's crazy because Boston sports is so it right like I get elation of it and it's crazy because Boston sports is so successful

but they have no sense of humor about it right like we get it Tom Brady's the best we're never gonna see another run like this

in NFL history no why do you take it so you got fucked a few times twice by the Giants you got fucked twice by the Giants just two times fucked twice by the Giants.

Just two times. Two times. Yeah. Just twice. That's it. You never beat us in a Super Bowl. We fucked you twice. But it's like they lose sight of all the wins.

Yeah, they can't. When I bring up the fucking. Right. Weird. They're like people that read all the internet comments. You get a thousand that like you and the one that talks shit. They only pay attention. The Patriots will only pay attention to the people that hate on them they they forget the fact that

they not love their fans do they not listen to their fans they don't appreciate they don't appreciate their fucking fans they only want to hear the hate right right that's the only thing they acknowledge they live for it yeah they love that shit so anyway so that's the lebron thing right right right and you think he'll unblock you at any time or no this is going to continue you think for a while until you do something public to make up for it you think he'll unblock you at any time or no? This is going to continue, you think, for a while? Until you do something public to make up for it? You think he's waiting for you? There's no public. I've done enough in public.

I've already acknowledged all the great things. What the fuck? You know what's crazy about sports? We could sit here and talk about LeBron. We could talk about Jeter. I understand why people would hate Jeter. Patriots fans understand why you would hate fucking Tom Brady. And Kobe, you understand why he would say that.

But LeBron, if you talk shit about him, you're a hater. Right. Why is that, you think? Who the fuck knows? You think it's because his image is so squeaky clean and those other guys didn't have that? I don't know what it is. Because all those other guys you named didn't have. Kobe never had a squeaky clean image.

Neither did Jeter. You know what I mean? And Brady. Jeter had it. When he played, his image was. Yeah, I know. But he had a lot of people helping him out to make sure that he stayed on the up and up. You know what I mean?

I'm saying when he played, like, of course you're going to hate him. He's the best player on the best team. I get that shit. He's a fucking vacuum. No one was better than him. And he's good looking. He's fucking everything.

Of course you're going to hate him. So I get that. But with LeBron, people are like, you're a hater. I'm like, fucking hater? He plays for the Cleveland fucking, the Browns. He played for the Miami Heat. Like, intrinsically, as a New York Knicks fan, I'm never going toater he plays for the Cleveland fucking the Browns he played for the Miami Heat like intrinsically

as a New York Knicks fan I'm never gonna fuck with the Heat and then who the fuck likes Cleveland except for you're from Chicago I mean this is a

a piss hole we hate those motherfuckers I mean what we did in the World Series says everything to me that was like one of the greatest one of the greatest things

in the world we don't really give a fuck about Ohio as a Chicago and it never really meant anything to us I mean forever what was the Cav is what were the browns they were nothing there were no competition right nothing now the indians had had a great had a great run at getting becoming a great ball club so we started to kind of shit on them and hate them but they still aren't people that

we give a fuck about they're not our competition not even acknowledged like you just know something's going to go wrong with this Cleveland Browns football team. Sure. Somehow, some way. It has to. Something's going to implode. But people are talking big, though. They think they're going to have a good year.

You think it's going to be okay? I think they'll be good. They'll be far better than they have been. This will be the best year we've seen in a long time. They're going to be good, and they're going to be good. Do you believe in the kid? Do you believe in him? I think they're going to be, yeah, I think he's good.

I don't, I never, because I'm from New York, I never considered Cleveland. Right. The only time Cleveland became a thing is when LeBron went back. I rooted for them

when he was there the first time. Right. But when he went back, because I was already done with him when he went to the Heat. Yeah, Miami. So the only reason why Cleveland became a thing,

and when I did that broom, it didn't go over well afterwards like it became like a whole thing and and i mean from the bottom of my heart i i didn't expect it to turn into a whole thing it turned into a whole thing yeah but and then game four game four this i was proud of yeah in quick alone's arena game four that series in 2017, the announcer announced no brooms are to be allowed in the arena. Because of your ass. I was the only motherfucker who had a broom in game three. But, you know, whatever.

It's the Browns. Listen, you want to see all the cities do well. You want to see the shitholes, the Oklahoma cities do well. So if the Cleveland Browns, you know, you want to see them do well. I think they're going to be they're going to be competitive i don't see them winning the super bowl this year but they're going to be good if they'll be really good do you do you do you support the rams at all yes you do right yes you're not a rams fan you just you like their you like them because you this is la i like them i want to see them do good i like jared goff i like todd girley i don't have any animosity to them and i think you know people don't have animosity or true love

because they're so fucking new they're too yeah well they're too new some of the OG LA guys that I talk to you know what I mean like they kind of they still have all this

deep their dad that Eric Dickerson shit yes man and that runs thick you know but that percentage you're right is very very small

it's like the Chargers well dude that's a tough story that's some bullshit that's a tough tough story it's like the Brooklyn Nets. I feel bad. You know, it's like

we're developing fans. But Brooklyn is 10 minutes away from the Garden, Madison Square Garden, and like most people in Brooklyn are Knicks fans. Yeah. So you're like...

That's hard to do. It's tough. It's so tough for this city to not have the Raiders as the other team, I think. Because half of the city still does love the Raiders. Yeah.

And now that they get rid of them, it's kind of like, charge is a hard thing to throw on somebody. San Diego didn't fucking want them and then they got mad when they got rid of them. It's fucked up.

It was so stupid. They should be in San Diego. Yeah, they should. I mean, I even make that mistake. I mean, it's only what, the second year?

Is it the first year? Second year. This is going into the second year? No, this is- They did two years. Two years, yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's- I went to go watch, I have a- In that little arena. Yeah, I mean, it's... I went to go watch.

I have a... In that little arena? Yeah, it's a soccer field. Was it cool? Well, listen, I got Travis Kelsey, who plays on Kansas City. He's a buddy. And he was like, you got to come see me. How do you know him?

I'll leave you some tickets. We were going to work on this thing together in the sports comedy world. Okay. Yeah, so he said, I'll leave you some tickets. I said, okay, great'll leave you some tickets. I said, okay, great. Leave me some tickets. And I'm thinking, oh, this is Chargers. I go, I'm not going to.

Oh, my God. They're not in San Diego. I'm going to a fucking soccer field. It was all red. All red. There was no fucking Chargers fans. And is it really small? It's tiny, man.

It felt like a D3 college football game. I mean, it was tough. But every fan in there was Kansas City. Wow. No Chargers fans. It was fucked up when I think it was tough But every fan in there Was Kansas City Wow No Charger fans It was fucked up When I think it was the This year when the Raiders

No when the Rams played I think it was Green Bay In their hometown And there's more Motherfuckers rooting for Green Bay Yeah In LA Yeah it's crazy

So I mean whatever But I mean I like those Like I don't There's I don't usually Like I don't have Teams that don't usually like I don't have teams that are really fucking like the teams that like I fucking hate and I'll never waver

off that hate is the is the Patriots right the fucking Eagles Red Sox the Red Sox are my my top yeah they're okay and and and the Cowboys yeah I get that a lot of people hate the Cowboys. Yeah, I get that. A lot of people hate the Cowboys. They're an easy team to hate. Even my hate for the Boston Celtics has dilapidated over the years because of the way the league is structured. But watching them walk off the court the other day, it brought up great feelings. Did that feel good for you? Yeah, it just caught me off guard too because I was like,

I don't really give a fuck. It's Milwaukee. I want the Celtics. I like Kyrie. i like these players but when i saw them walk off the court i was it just brought a lot of joy back well let's let me let me talk about something else uh about in this in this in this same world joelle and bead cried right yes okay so here's the deal a few people uh i think it was uh was it rudy gobert that got he got trolled by the internet to sit to see if he was going to talk shit

and he didn't he didn't which I thought he didn't take a fun opportunity to have some fun instead he goes only a loser

would say you're a bitch if you cry or whatever he could have taken a fun shot it could have been something fun he could have fucked around

well because he cried wouldn't he make the I know but that's what I mean he should have been like you know what kind of men cry

right you know what I mean and then he should have gone into something funny if he had a sense of fucking humor yeah he doesn't have a sense of humor no but that's what I mean he should have been like you know what kind of men cry right you know what I mean and then he should have gone into something funny if he had a sense of fucking humor yeah he doesn't have a sense of humor no but that's what sucks

the thing about him I don't have a problem with people crying in sports of course not you're going to have when you play game seven you're gonna fucking yeah

come on man it's emotional as fuck that being said and I will preface this by saying I love all things Philadelphia sure from the movie Rocky which was the first movie I fell I love all things Philadelphia. Sure.

From the movie Rocky, which was the first movie I fell in love with, to Dr. J, who was my first superhero, to hip-hop in Philly, to the sound of Philadelphia music, to just the culture, to the food, to the people. Joel Embiid has been talking shit. Yes. He's been tweeting people. Yep. And I know he's sort of doing it with a sense of humor. He's been tweeting people. Yep.

And I know he's sort of doing it with a sense of humor. He's been elbowing people. He called Jared Dudley inconsequential or irrelevant, which I don't like that word. Yeah, he's irrelevant. Yeah.

And you're 7'3". You've played half the series sick because you have a bellyache. Yeah, what are you? What are you, gluten intolerant? What the fuck is this bellyache thing? It's so weird. Get the fuck off the court and cry. Like, cry in the locker room. Get to the locker room or cover yourself

with a fucking towel. Do the towel. Get the fuck off the court and cry. You're the biggest guy in the league. You're 7'3". No one wants to see a 7'3 shit-talking baby cry, but make it to the locker room. You talked all that shit your your your first three or four years in the

league and now you're fucking crying now's your time to get to get it back right right did you think did you think when kawaii hit that shot did you think it was going in or no i didn't either man it was so weird i literally was standing next to the engineer here ari and i I'm sitting next to him and I go, here's what's going to happen on this inbound play. There's going to be a high screen. Oh, you called it like that? Oh, I called, I swear to God, he's my proof. I said, it's going to be a high screen. He's going to catch the ball and he's going to huck up a three and he's going to brick it. I said, for sure that's going to happen. I didn't think that far ahead. That's good. I did. Because I figured that there's no one else you want to get fouled in that situation anyway. There's no one as fast as him to come get

the ball at the high end of the court. There's nobody else that can shoot that shot that has the confidence. So I thought, he's got to get the kid that's going to get the ball. But when he let it go, I thought, no fucking way is that going in. And when it hit the bounce. No way. And it was boom, boom, boom. No fucking way.

It was. It blew my mind. I watched it maybe 10 different times thinking, I can't believe it got that soft of a bounce. Soft. That first bounce was soft. It was ridiculous. I've never seen a soft bounce off a speed like that. Yeah.

That's when the sports gods, that's when I get in arguments with, and we'll get into standup and all this shit because I want to talk about a million things, but when standup comics do this thing where they go, I don't like fucking sports. I've always loved sports and I hate it when someone goes, when somebody says, ah, it's a fucking, I was more of a nerd when I was a kid. I was like, sports are the nerdiest fucking thing on earth. Would you really look at it? True, that is true.

They're the nerdiest fucking thing on earth. And all these athletes, all the best athletes are the majority of them. Yeah. They're all nerds. They're nerds for this thing just because they're not nerds. Kobe Bryant's a fucking basketball,

it's as if he was a violinist. Right, right. That's the only thing that goes on and his brain is consumed with it. Nerd culture is something you're just in love with something. It doesn't have to be a fucking animated cartoon thing

for you to be a nerd. It's just because he looks cool. Right. He just looks dope. The majority of them, I mean, there's dudes that are different, but like Donovan Mitchell,

young star, great personality, he's going to be a fucking, Donovan Mitchell's just such a good kid. A good kid, yeah. Fucking nerd. Yeah, dork.

Yeah, nerd. I think the more I become friends with athletes over the years and I sit down and get to know them, a lot of nerd yeah dork yeah nerd like you you i think the more i become friends with athletes over the years and i sit down get to know them a lot of them are dorky dudes you know like a lot of them are kind of like nerd culture in the sense of no disrespect he knows what i'm talking about he's a good good no they're just they just they just this is the thing that they love and they've honed it so deeply it's the only thing that matters that like it kind of it brushes away these these other images we have of them you know what i mean that you're like, Oh dude,

this is, this is who you really are. This is who you really fucking are. I agree. Yeah. But, but I, that was beautiful though. I mean,

I had no real stake in that. That was incredible. But it was amazing. Yeah. It was, it was sheer like sports perfection. I mean that I already smell the 30 for 30. You know what I mean?

You already see all that shit in the making. Yeah, dude. On that shot. You see it in the making already. But I mean, that's what I love about, you you know that's what i love about everything playoffs and coming down to the wire it's when it's the most invigorating time now i know you

don't give a fuck about the bucks but for some reason being a chicago kid i we have this semi love for them like we have a love for up north because you know milwaukee's kind of been a competitor of ours and the brew and as far as the brewers go green bay has always fucked us up so chicago we don't like them but we know how unbelievably dope they are so it's hard the packers yeah it's hard it's hard for us to like look dude you had two of the greatest quarterbacks of all time back to fucking back in the time that they had set we had 17 dog shit quarterbacks does chicago hate green bay like intrinsically or no it's hard to say that i would like to say that we just fucking are like fuck them it's that dog shit quarterbacks my whole childhood. Does Chicago hate Green Bay? Like intrinsically? Or no? It's hard to say that.

I would like to say that we just fucking are like fuck them. It's that kind of thing. Like I think our hate I think our hate comes from a lot more jealousy. How about that?

It's just way more jealousy than actual hate. It's just that we fucking That's very honest. Because here's why. I don't, I'm not don't put me in that with the red side.

We're not jealous. No, no, no. That's fine. That's fine. But this is different because here's why. That ain't jealousy. Well, there's no there That's fine. That's fine. But this is different because here's why. That ain't jealousy. Well, there's no Chicagoan

that doesn't love, you're talking a blue collar workman's culture. Brett Favre was a guy's guy. Right, right, right. He was hard to hate. No, you can't hate him. No, so that's what I mean.

It was like, that was a guy, when I was a kid, like who, how can I hate the cool guy that looks like he fucks and drinks and hangs out. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Right? Aaron Rodgers is less of a guy's guy, but even still. He's ridiculous. But he even still. He's ridiculous. But he's phenomenal. He's stupid. So as a kid, it was hard to hate them

without the jealousy. You were like, I wish we had a dope quarterback. Instead, I had so much garbage as a kid growing up. I don't think I've had one quarterback that I've actually enjoyed watching until Trubitsky now.

And you don't, because you weren't born with the mic? I'm 35. So how old was the Jim McMahon? It was right when I was a kid. You were just born. You were born that day of the Super Bowl. That was the end of that era.

It was the beginning of my life. All right. So I missed that cool chunk. I got you. I got you. You didn't see Walter Payton. You understand him. I knew about it.

You didn't live through it. No. I mean, I lived through him. I lived through Jordan was my era. That was my whole childhood. So you're going to fucking, you childhood. Let me tell you something. I don't want to hear any fucking cry me a river because this fucking...

Hey, I didn't complain about the Bulls. Talk about hate. Yeah, yes. I'm going to tell you about... Talk about hate. Like we talk about LeBron. Now, it was the same thing. Right.

Shit was all good. Now, he came into the league 85. Now, I had watched him in college. He'd done the dunks in North Carolina. He made the shot versus Georgetown. He had the fucking sneakers when he came done the dunks in North Carolina he made the shot versus Georgetown he had the fucking sneakers when he came in the league everybody loved him but when he became a problem for the Knicks

it turned a corner for me and it was no I didn't applaud when he hit 55 I wasn't one of those Knicks fans you know Knicks fans you just appreciate nah they gave it up for him you were not that guy I hated that motherfucker when he hit 55 and I wasn't one of those Knicks fans. You know Knicks fans you just appreciate. Nah. Nah they gave it up for him.

You were not that guy. Nah fuck that. I hated that motherfucker. You should have. You should have. Hated. Yeah you should have because he did you guys in a lot. He fucked us good.

Yeah it was good. And I never got over how much I hated it and he knows that we hate him. Sure. You know who my dad blames? Spike Lee. He thinks Spike is the curse

for the Knicks. I think Spike did such a juju thing for you guys that was so negative. I mean. You know who my dad blames? Spike Lee. He thinks Spike is the curse for the Knicks. I think Spike did such a juju thing for you guys that was so negative. I mean, he made Reggie Miller great. He pushed him over. He made Reggie Miller probably the most iconic, like, fuck you ball player in the playoffs I've ever seen in my life. He pushed him to that other level, that other precipice. He did that. But Spike had that thing.

It's always funny. When you're playing ball publicly somewhere there's always one dude chirping on the side of the floor and he doesn't really play ball that's probably me

I play but I don't but he talks shit and he talks the most shit and he usually can't play and it always makes one person show up and show out I think Spike did that a lot

I think that was a problem for the dicks man I think that was his thing he made people show the fuck up and I love him I respect him I just

no he fucking Reggie he fucked us yeah he turned thatgie. And I love him. I respect him. I just. No, he fucking. Reggie, he fucked us. Yeah. He turned that motherfucker into an. He made him. Yeah, he made him. He made him. He made him.

Pushed him to greatness. Right. So. So for me. No. So for me, yes. Jordan was my era. We don't complain.

The Bulls don't complain. I wish. And you just had Derrick Rose for that year. Oh, come on, man. I loved Rose, but he just. I wish he never got hurt how about that of course it was so hard to watch that because he was a hometown kid we were like Jimmy Butler too was another kid that we loved you know a Marquette kid a local guy yeah I'm hope I hope he does well

in his you know his venture out there he's Butler yeah I like him but yeah yeah we had these two guys yeah we banked on him and we just never got anything the Rose. The Rose thing, I mean, it's good that he sort of found his second half of his career because that shit was dark for a while. Yeah, it was dark. I mean,

listen, did you ever watch that Nike commercial where it's like a rose grows and it's slow pushing you? Man, I didn't cry at my grandma's funeral, I cried at that fucking commercial.

I was like, I'll cry at that shit. Yeah, it was good. But you know, I, and his MVP acceptance speech was,

he was like the first... And that was the last time I think they did it without going... Like, he was at the locker room, remember, and he was crying. Now they do the whole ceremony. Yeah, they make it a big fucking thing. But his was so genuine

and he was so emotional in everything he's been through. You could tell he's a good egg. He's gonna be one of the ones that everyone's proud to have had in the league for so long and I'm glad he fucking came back. All's dope. You could tell he's a good egg. He's going to be one of the ones that everyone's proud to have had in the league for so long and I'm glad he fucking came back. All right, let me switch.

Let me transition right now. Okay, transition. You made, because I want to talk about so many things. I'm going to keep you forever. No, no, that's all right. You made a documentary about Tribe.

Iconically, one of the greatest hip hop groups, if not the greatest hip hop group of all time, depending on who you ask. I am a hip hop junkie. Yep. Tribe Called Quest was my childhood. Okay.

It was everything to me. I do, at the beginning of the show, we had a kid make a beat for us. Oh, okay. Okay? And I asked these people, I asked some of the fans to do a Hot 16. Oh, shit. So I'm going to play you two, and you tell me which one you like more. Okay, okay, okay.

You're going to have to rap a port vote. Okay, okay. Because you're a hip hop head. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you know. I'm going to tell you if either one of them are shit. like more Okay okay You're gonna have to Rap report vote Because you're a hip hop head Yeah yeah yeah So you know I'm gonna tell you If either one of them are shit That's what this is all about

Alright What are their names I'm gonna play them right now So the first one This kid's name is Jarv J-A-R-V He actually sent in a video He didn't have to do this

But I'm gonna do audio and video He went extra huh You tell me right now Jarv J-A-R-V J-A-R-V Alright so ready Listen to this You asked for it

In here. And that's our song in the background. Whisk, whisk, whisk, whisk. When I'm feeling cheap, I get a bottle of gin bean from mixed drinks. Okay. When I'm pretending to be a king, I get some Eagle and Knob Greek and sip the shit and eat because I'm embarrassed. Yeah, I'm a classy man.

If it's garb and olive, whatever, you pass me, fam. Uh-huh. Baker's, Mark, Old Crow, Basil, Hayden, Four Roses, Woodford, Bullitt, it's all the same shit. Uh-huh. Okay. That's right. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

Okay. All right, right? I'm going to tell you. I fuck with Jarv. I like Jarv's sense of humor. Yes. I like Jarv's flow. Yep.

I even like the way the video was shot. Yeah, it did a good job. Like a good color. Like, I fuck with Jarv. Okay, you fucks with Jarv. All right, I'm going to give you one more. I fuck with Jarv. Good job, Jarv. So here. All right, I'm going to give you one more. I fuck with Jarv. Good job, Jarv. Good job, Jarv.

So here's the other thing. Now, this kid's name is Joel Frame. Joel Frame. And I'm looking to shit on somebody. I know, I know. I'll give you one. I'll give you, how about I give you? No, if they're both good, I'll give you.

Well, no, no. Dude, we had a million. I'm sure you had a bunch of them. But we got a few that I kind of want your opinion on. Okay. How about this? How about you tell them where they went wrong? Let me play one more dope one.

Jarv I fuck with. Keep going. Okay, Jarv is dope. How about this? How about you tell them where they went wrong? Let me play one more dope one. Jarv I fuck with. Keep going. Okay, Jarv is dope. And then this kid's name is Joel Frame. See, what this kid did I think the best is he talks about Brian Callen and T-Fack and those guys and Schaub. Who's T-Fack? Yeah, the fighter and the kid. Oh, okay. Brian Callen's fucking podcast. Yeah, yeah, I know. So he shits on

Chris D'Elia and all these idiots. Good, good. So this is his thing. This is his like... Does he shit on him good? Let me let you hear. I'll be the fucking judge of what he does. Ready? is his thing. This is his like... Does he shit on him good? Let me see. Let me let you hear. I'll be the fucking judge of what he does. Ready?

Here we go. What's his name? Joel Frame. Joel Frame. All right, here we go. Let me see what the fuck this guy did. In here.

Okay. We pour whiskey. He didn't even do a video of this cheat. But I ain't sipping, yo. I'm an alcoholic, man. I ain't sipping, yo. I'm an alcoholic, man.

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With that new haircut, guess what? Congratulations, you played yourself Then this full of dense Callan The senior citizen Jimmy Fallon Yeah. Yeah. Ha ha ha. I fuck to playing tank on Mad TV. Call a new-fuckin' Lila man and send her to DATFAN. I fuck with this guy too, Joel. And this Theo Vaughn with sweatpants on. Louisiana reppin' so his brain ain't on. I could go on and on, but that would be wrong.

Plus, I'm already at the end of the song. But it's no question. It's whiskey ginger all day long. Looking forward to when he has me on. Joel's good. He got a good sense of humor. He shitted good. It's okay, right? long Looking forward to when it has begun Joel's good. He's got a good sense of humor. He's shitty. He's shitty good.

It's okay, right? Yeah, it's okay. All right, good. So those are the two. I say the other dude's a little better, but he's good too. He's good, right? We had so many good ones.

I'm going to play. So here's what we're going to do for the people that submitted. We're going to play, I think, a new one we're going to pick every week at the beginning of the show. So Jarv is going to be our intro and our outro because of that shit because jarv yeah jarv's better than joel he's okay i wouldn't say he's fire but he's good he's good he did good yeah he's good but i did like

his video like i was like oh can you like the lighting level was good production design was i think i think it's also that we got about 50 white dudes and we got two black dudes that's all we got we got two black dudes and 50 white 60 white dudes but with the with got two black dudes that's all we got we got two black dudes and 50 white 60 white dudes but with the two black dudes can they spit

or they were trash too yeah so it's it's just it was tough but you know if you're able to make it through that many bars I have to respect it

because as much as I love hip hop and I have loved hip hop for since I was 8 yeah I can't get out of line one like I can't write like I mean I even that goofy shit like that nothing huh nothing yeah what but I don't know why there's no transfer nothing because I could start like I have one I have one line like

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Yeah, but that's why you respect the fuck out of hip hop. Oh, so much. Because you know how deep and tough that is to flow and really say something.

Not just fuck. Oh, when you're saying something. But even with the jokes. But let me tell you, you talked about the Tribe doc. Did you see the Wu-Tang doc on Showtime? Yeah, man. It was really good.

It's more like a series because it's four hours. Right. I loved it. By the way, going back to what we said, you want to talk about nerds. Wu-Tang were like dope,

like gangster nerds. They were like gangster. They were the first they were the first hip-hop group I ever knew to talk about like astrophysics and shit you know what I mean that was the most wild shit to me as a kid was like man I don't even know what that fucking word means I'd have to look up words before that a lot of you know rappers you could follow along with what they were saying all the time but so they go in some other shit so deep man and their vernacular shit and their slang and and and it just I was extremely impressed if you haven't seen it the of mics and men on Showtime four hours of Wu-Tang

and it it doesn't really subside this shit is it's so good it's really fucking really good and you know I'm so glad somebody did it because when I finished the tribe movie, people were like, you know, you should do a woo doc. And I was like, that'll put me in a mental institution. Yeah, that's tough. Because nine people. Yeah, too many guys. They don't get along all the time. That's like.

Yeah. You're going. I think they don't get along more of the time than not. I think more often than not, they don't get along at all. Yeah. And the film articulates that. It was. Yes.

It was dope, though. It was deep. It was deep. When you did. when you did the tribe when you did the tribe doc is it because you felt like you had to tell this story or was it is it just like something i mean what what what was the impetus for doing it i've always been a fan i've always you know i've i've been a fan of hip-hop since literally since i was a kid since i. Now, my father worked at a radio station in 1978, 79. Well, before that. But in 79 or late 78, he brought home a promotional copy of the Rapper's Delight, Sugar Hill Gang by the Rapper's Delight.

And he said to me and my brother, it was an orange promotional copy. He said, you guys got to listen to this. It's called rap music. It's going to be a big deal. And that was it. Damn. We you guys gotta listen to this. It's called Rap Music. It's gonna be a big deal. And that was it. Damn. We were done. That and basketball

and growing up in New York City and the radio and shit and it's been a lifelong thing. Tribe has always been one of my favorite groups and when they broke up and I believe it was 99 or 2001, I'm not good with dates.

Yeah, right around then. I was at their last show and I had been a fan of theirs for years and I went to New York to see the last show. I remember I flew into New York and I had known Q-Tip a little bit. But while I was watching the show, I said to my friend George, I was like, yo, somebody's got to do a documentary about a tribe called Quest. And then I forgot about it. And then like three or four or five years later, maybe six years later, they started touring again.

And I saw them perform at the Wiltern. And I told Tip, yo, I want to do a documentary about the group. And he was like, do it, do it. And then three years later, I started doing it. And it took three years to make it, and we did it. But I just was, you know, like, and I had no idea the film would turn out the way it had and the drama of it. But I just was such a fan of theirs and their impact and the musicality. And I didn't know anything about the strife within the group.

And I'm just so glad that we got it done, especially with the passing of Fife. Yeah, man, that's the worst thing in the fucking world. Now, tell me this. I know this is controversial. Maybe you don't want to say, but who do you think? Do you think it was Tip or Phife was a better MC? Man, they were. You know what?

Because Phife passed, I would never say it, but they were both, they just made it. You have an investment in it, but I can say it. I think Phife was by far, I mean by far the best MC in the group. That's because I don't have any investment in them. Yeah. And as a kid, listening to their their albums like the people's instinctive travels and it was just he was

his voice was so rich it was so rich it was so much character and when you visualize the five foot assassin in my head and I was like this dude must be a

a fucking maniac you know like I think he painted this beautiful animated picture of himself and that's why I think I fell in love with him so much he was easy to fall in love with oh my god and he'd be a great you know I think he painted this beautiful animated picture of himself. Yeah. And that's why I think I fell in love with him so much. He was easy to fall in love with. Oh my God. And he'd be a great, you know,

he would have been a great podcast guest because, you know, he's not here now, but he'd be. He would shit on himself too, which I love. You know,

when he was like a complexion of a hockey puck, I always thought that was a hilarious line. I was like. Hide a Muggsy Bogues complexion. Because most rappers never would shit on themselves. They were exactly who they portrayed themselves to be. You know, at a time when it was like real thuggish, ruggish, they started in 89.

It was like Eric B., Rakim, Cool G rap, you know, EPMD. So it was, they were like, you know, along with Jungle Brothers and De La Soul, they were like, they brought it to the masses. And they brought that nerd shit in yeah that was it and those are those are also like like q-tip and he this is my guy yeah like i love those guys this is a music nerd yeah this guy could talk to you about fucking you know like jazz from 1930s you know you're like he'll break the whole shit that he's cool yes but he's a fuck they're they're music nerds you can tell that they're music nerds yeah you can see but just by the whole shit that he's cool but he's a fuck they're music nerds you can tell

that they're music nerds you can see but just by the way they formulated stuff you could tell that they were kind of ahead of the game it's also probably why

I think they were so perfect together perfect together they were perfect their voices their size they were so different the scale was

everything was so wildly instead of certain groups you know I'm not a huge hip hop fan as much as I used to be because a lot of groups today I'm like they're garbage it's not my shit it's not my shit no there isn't any groups i talked about

that before well that was the only group migos and they sound identical to me maybe i sound like i'm outdated no no no they're they're they're they're it there's no groups yeah there's one group migos migos is the one isn't that fucking whether you like them or not there's one group in hip-hop yeah that's fucking insane there's no djs no like there's not Eric B and Rakim it's like not Gangstar was guru and premiere you know Tribe Coke you had a fucking DJ De La Soul has a DJ every group you'd have songs celebrating the DJ so that was my favorite Gangstar was my unequivocal favorite group when I mean that's my number my number one group of all time to me on the list of like I just think guru was the greatest in fact I was willing. On the list of like, I just think Guru was the greatest. In fact, I was willing to like,

the moment of truth, I played for my mom and I knew my mother never really loved hip hop, but I played it for her anyway because I was like, I promise you'll like this. Like that he has something to say and I think she appreciated it.

I don't think she understood it, but I think, because my parents were always like, I got this fucking bullshit hip hop, you fucking, it was always on some, you know, because one of my first tapes was like,

I had West Side Connection, Bow Down, you know what I mean? I remember my dad, he fucking hated that shit, you know? Because it was loud and rude and fuck you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And my mom appreciated Gangstar, I think because his melody and the way he formulated his rhymes were so smooth and he had something to say and he always had a fucking message.

And the music was so dope. Oh my God, it was fucking beautiful, man. Yeah, the gangsta is stupid too. They're fucking... Yeah, they're one of the dumbest,

dopest groups of all time. Yeah, they're fucking sick. They're fucking sick. So that to me was kind of like, they were kind of like the pinnacle as youth

and then I got into a bunch of, did you ever get into underground hip hop and that kind of shit or was that never, the backpack world didn't hit you?

No, I mean, some of it. Some of it. I never got into like. Like hieroglyphics is kind of. I got into some of their shit. Like, you know, that little spin off of my man, fucking what's his name? Babalina. Oh, Deltron.

Yeah, but they started getting into some way out shit. I don't like manuals when I'm reading, when I'm listening to hip hop. Yeah, you don't assemble a fucking couch when you have to listen to that record? Yeah, I don't like manuals when I'm reading when I'm listening to hip-hop yeah you don't you don't assemble a fucking couch yeah I don't want like an instruction book like I'm down with like you like you say like Wu-Tang you like you're like the vernaculars are kind of bugged out but I'm like what the fuck are you talking like I don't want it to go too far well Del was off he was weird yeah but he was dope he was dope as fuck but then he started going way the fuck out sure but I never got like listen you know my hip hop, my taste for hip hop, it's either like, it's boom bap, it's funky.

You could put the shit on, I could tell you, it's either, you're either in the pocket or not. You're either on beat or not. Some of these dudes now, they rhyme off beat on purpose. I'm not fucking with you. Yeah, I don't fuck with that either. I don't like that shit. I'm not fucking with you yeah I don't fuck with that either I'm not fucking with that at all like it's it's it there's certain rules to music right I don't care if it's rap music blues rock

fucking punk rock you have to be on the fucking beat right that's what makes it that's what makes it good like I can't listen to the beat and you're over here like there's different cadences and you could rhyme in between the beat but there has to be some like when james brown when this world if it ever blows up in 300 years okay and someone discovers james brown and you listen to funky shit the first thing they're gonna do is be like there's no explaining that right they'll understand right away you play it it makes sense it's it that's it So if it's any other shit, I'm like, nope. Yeah, you imagine an alien would hear, you look at me, you know what you see. You see a bad mother.

Even someone foreign without our language would go, whatever the fuck this is. There's no explanation. Right, right. They should have shot that into space when they shot that fucking golden record. You listen to Jay-Z 300 years from now, they're going to go, okay. Okay. There's no. This makes sense. Okay. There's no. This makes sense.

Period. Yeah, yeah. So all that weirdo shit and all that offbeat shit and you're not on the beat and maybe you have a hearing problem. I'm not with any of that shit. Yeah. Tone deaf. I think there's a lot of tone deaf shit.

But also I think that the new generation of it just wants to sound different, right? That's all they want to do. They just want to be different. I get sounding they want to do they just want to be different I get sounding different yeah but you gotta be on the fucking beat sure I mean well

look Kendrick sounds different Kendrick often times is a little bit you know like odd layered in the way he composes music so he would be someone who's not truly

on all the time on beat he likes that fucking shit you said it not me I got enough fucking problems that's true look I love him I fucking love him.

But he's one of those non-traditional. But he's more on beat for the most part. But I know what you mean. Sure, sure. But he does branch out and try shit. Yes, yes. You know, I think more of him is better for the game of hip hop because now. He's dope though.

Yes. And his words are dope. He's so dope. He is. He is the. You know what he is? He is if Tupac was never a gangster rapper. That's what he is to me.

Yes. If Tupac never became a gangster rapper and wanted to continue to being Tupac, if anybody who knows the history of Tupac knows, he was a genius as a kid. He went to a performance art school. He was a poet. I mean, he was quoted at being a young, brilliant individual. People look at him as this thug, people that don't know, but the dude was a genius. I think Kendrick has the same kind of mindset where he came from a tough world but he's he's he's way more

intellectual than people give him credit for that that know nothing about hip-hop yeah yeah i agree i agree um so tell me this now switching one more time you're you're we've met through the through through stand-up you're hustling now doing a ton of stand-up right now are you prepping for something big are you working on a big hour or something are you just you're justling now doing a ton of stand up right now are you prepping for something big are you working on a big hour or something or you're just deep in the game because I see you now more than ever

I'm deep in the game like I mean I have you know goals with stand up but my main what is it my main goal my agenda is

to get good at it yeah that's my first and foremost goal where are you at now you think you know listen man I look at fucking stand up you at now you think you know listen man I look at fucking stand up

you know as a craft you know what I mean like you know and it's something that like you know it's such a interesting thing and it's such an unpredictable it's such an unpredictable thing

and it keeps you on your toes so much because of the night and your feelings and what you bring to the stage and the crowd and the energy and you know and all you know and now we're in such a time where you know we we have popularity because of uh whatever fame you have or instagram or your podcast so people come and it's like it's a loaded deck and then sometimes it's not a loaded deck so just all that those factors now um i like that. And it just keeps me sharp. So my goal is to just continue to just be good,

to find out what kind of stand-up I really am. Right. When you were a kid, did you love stand-up? Or was that not really your thing? No, I liked it. I started doing stand-up. When I first came to Los Angeles when I was 19, I did you love stand-up? Or was that not really your thing? No, I liked it. I started doing stand-up, like, when I first came to Los Angeles when I was 19, I started as a stand-up. Right.

So I was 19. I did it until I was about 22, 23. And then when I started acting, well, the first time I started acting, like, the first time I ever acted, the first time I ever read a scene, like, I was like, I'm doing this. Like, it came more natural than any sport, any stand-up. Like, I was like, this is what I'm doing. And then I started acting, and I was like, I'm doing this. Like, it came more natural than any sport, any stand-up. Like, I was like, this is what I'm doing. And then I started acting, and I was like, I don't want to do stand-up anymore.

I was so young. Like, I was funny, but I didn't know what an act was. Like, I would get up there, and I was funny. You just fuck around. Talk shit, yeah. But now, because I'm older, and, you know, I have more respect for the craft and I think more things to say and more of an understanding of it, I think I have more of a perspective. But when I, you know, so I don't know what the question is, but I just, I love it.

What was your heroic vision of stand-up as a kid? Eddie Murphy. Yeah, Eddie was it, right? That was my guy. Like, that was my fucking dude. Like, I was like, I'm going to be the next Eddie Murphy. Eddie Murphy. Yeah, Eddie was it, right? That was my... He had those leather pants on. That was my guy. Like, that was my fucking dude. Like, I was like, I'm going to be the next Eddie Murphy. Eddie Murphy, yeah. You know, and I thought I'd do stand-up, and then that would get me into acting.

But, like, Eddie was my fucking dude. But I was exposed to it, because I would come out here and visit my sister, and I would see different stand-ups throughout the years. But I just... I would like them. I didn't think I wanted to do it. Like, I thought I was going to be a basketball player, but like I said,

once I started acting when I was like 20, 19, 20, like I was like, this is what I'm doing. Like, this shit is,

this is what I could do. This makes sense to me. Like, it was like a fish in the water. When you stopped stand up, what was the impetus to get back? I retired. It was the famous retirement of 93.

I gotta get out. I gotta get out. Yeah, it was a big retirement. So what made you come back? What made you want to do stand-up again? Was there a moment? Was it something that clicked?

You know what it was? It was Burt Kreischer. Oh, that fucking piece of shit. And Whitney Cummings. I did their... They put it in my head. They were like, you should do stand-up.

You should do stand-up. I was like, I know. I was thinking about it. I was thinking about it and they were like, you should do stand-up. You should do stand-up. And then Whitney was like was thinking about it you know and like i was thinking about it and they were like you should do stand-up you should do stand-up and then whitney was like i'm i'm i'm doing the improv the lab just come mc for me i was like i don't have no she just come mc i said

you she said you could mc you just bring me up if you need to just say whitney cummings right that's or do five minutes right so i went up and i did like 10 minutes and i was like fuck you know and i was like i i dig it and then you know i came back to the lab and did it a 10 minutes and I was like, fuck, you know, and I was like, I dig it and then, you know, I came back to the lab and did it a few times and I know that because of, I have a cachet, you know,

that it gives me opportunities but when you're doing stand-up, I don't give a fuck if you're fucking Leonardo DiCaprio or anything in between, when you're up there, like the cachet is good for a couple minutes,

you better make motherfuckers laugh. Yeah. They're not coming to hear no anecdotes. They're not coming to hear fucking non-sequential stories about fucking Kobe Bryant and shit like that. So I respect that. And I respect good stand-ups. And so, like, I'm enjoying it.

Like, I like it. And I really like the unpredictability of it. Do you know what I'm saying about that? Oh my God, man. It's been my whole life. How long have you been doing it? 13 years. Okay.

What you're talking about, by the way, we call the five-minute theory. The five-minute theory is someone who has acclaim or fame gets five minutes to be funny on stage. And if you can't roll after that, then they're going to know. Do you know what I mean?

Yes, yes, yes. There's a lot of guys that come that are famous, right? There's a lot of guys that come through the clubs and they're gonna know. Do you know what I mean? There's a lot of guys that come that are famous. There's a lot of guys that come through the clubs and they're crazy famous. But they don't even have a comedy background. They're just famous. And they get up there and then five minutes goes by. After the five, like, oh my god,

it's the guy from the fucking thing. Then five minutes and they start eating shit and the crowd fucking lets them know it. You feel it, the sinking. And I love it because it checks down people who have an attitude about it. You feel it. It's the sinking. Yeah, you feel it. And I love it because it checks down people who have an attitude about it. People that come in brash that are like fucking stand up

and they don't really respect the game. It's hard. Well, the check down is what everybody needs because a lot of times in Hollywood, everyone gets pats on the back and claps for doing everything. You know what I mean? That's also what I like about it. Yeah, it's like fucking... Stand up lets you know, checks you the right way that you ain't shit unless you're shit and i love the immediacy of the good the bad and the ugly the good the bad or the ugly like i love the immediacy

of that and i also love for me because i'm still still um this phase of me doing it you know the just understanding like i don't know there's just so many different factors of it you know and and there's just so many different factors but when you look at like the great stand-ups like it's such a fucking craft it's like anything it's like making shoes or fucking shooting free throws or acting or fucking photography like you really it is a craft you know and and i love that about it you and, and, and because you never know what the fuck's going to happen. Have you been fucked with yet? Has someone been yelling shit on? I haven't been fucked with.

Yeah, good. Okay. So it's coming, you know, it's coming. See, I, I. It's coming because people get confident when you, when they get comfortable and the more comfortable that they get and the more they see you. Have you ever been heckled? Oh my fucking God. A million times over the years. But I mean I've never had anybody, I haven't had anybody talk out of pocket yet. Like I've had people

in fun ways. Yeah, but it starts to get to a point where you know like you're touring, right? You're starting to tour. You're going to San Francisco. Sunday. Right. Saturday and Sunday. This weekend, right? At Cobb's Comedy Club. Cobb's Comedy this weekend. Saturday and Sunday. That's my first out of Los Angeles gig. Come see this motherfucker at Cobb's Comedy Club.

We'll put links for the tickets in the description and all that jazz. Cobb's Comedy in San Francisco. By the way, one of my favorite clubs. It's sad that Punchline shut down in San Francisco. I don't know if you know that. Yes. That was the other one, but Cobb's is still there. They're good fucking people.

Good. It's a great venue. It's beautiful. You'll have a great time. Good. But that's my thing. You'll start to see the more you start popping out of L.A., the more people. Don't talk out of pocket?

Yeah. You know what it is, man? It's because. I mean, are you doing an hour? If you're doing. Yeah. So when you're doing an hour, about 30, 40 minutes in, if you're doing really well and people get comfortable and they think they're in it with you and, you know, the most beautiful

thing that happens and the worst thing that happens to a stand up is people feel like they're in it with you. That's great. They want to feel like you want them to be like, it's us, we're laughing at this shit together. But when they get too comfortable, sometimes people wanna open their mouth and they think they're adding to the show. I'm adding to the show with Dick Stane, Donald Trump.

Someone's- That, I don't mind that. I know, but you know what? Then you go, yeah, yeah, yeah, and then you roll into something and then they do it again and again and again. Right. And trust me, it gets to drunk but i i i haven't my i'll be honest with you my wife like her she heckles you she won't even come watch she's so freaked

out by like she's come watch me twice but she's like you know you say this shit about you know there's this one or that one and trump you know and and you know people she's afraid like i'm gonna start a riot. I tell her, go fucking relax. Especially not Los Angeles. There's 50 late night shows that talk shit about Donald Trump every night and they don't start riots. You know what I mean? I know, but she's just like, you know.

She thinks you're going to be the precipice of the end of the beginning of the end. Yeah. Michael Rapaport starts fist fight at comedy club. No, because here's the thing. In our world, I've talked about this on stage. People say, are you worried about what you say? I always say, no, you should be worried as an audience member what you say in your personal life. I'm a comic.

I'm an artist. I'm an order. I'm allowed to say whatever the fuck I want. I can say Donald Trump sucks dick on stage. Right, right, right. And then the next joke, I can say something profound. Right. This is what we're supposed to do.

Right. If a guy, if I go to a guy in the crowd and I go, hey, I'll fuck a jizz on your face, I'm just fucking around. Right. That guy does that at his workplace on Monday, see what happens at the water cooler. I got you. See if you go up to Jeff and go, hey, Jeff. Right, right, right.

Watch him get fucking fired and banned. Especially now. Yeah, so for us, I just think the beauty is, and for your wife, it's like we have this beautiful past to say the shit that people can't say because of all the bullshit in the world right now. That's true. There's a lot of banishing going on. People are afraid to talk. Do you, like that part of being a stand-up now, because you're a shit talker. Yes.

Like, has that, I mean, in the last 13 years, it's changed. years has changed like i've i just started six months ago so i knew what i was getting myself into in terms of the parameters of the you know the the what you could say what's not you could say and the louis ck on stage of it all i'm not talking about uh his personal god forbid um but but like you know like him getting in trouble or different stand-ups getting in trouble right sounds so fucking crazy bullshit it's bullshit i mean's bullshit. I mean, I, look, as I've gotten more comfortable in my career and gotten better as a stand-up, I felt so much more free these days than I ever have before. And maybe it's, you know, maybe it's a mashing of two worlds of I'm getting stronger and I'm more comfortable.

My fan base is growing. That I'm getting more support for being more bold on stage. When you're young, when I was young, I started, you know, I started, I moved out here when I was 22 years old. To do stand-up. Yeah, to do stand-up. That was what you came to do. 100%.

That's what I wanted to do more than anything in the world. I mean, I started acting years and years later and I've done some things but stand-up was always, stand-up was the fuck, was the end-all be-all to me, man.

I wanted to die on that hill. I was like, I don't give a fuck if I die broke doing stand-up as long as that's the beauty of it and it's paid in dividends. It's been amazing. But I always was worried years ago for so long about like, what am I going to say?

What are they going to think? But nowadays, because of this shit, we can say what we fucking feel. And guess what? You either ride with me or you can fuck off. Right, right. That's it. Or most of the time they won't come. Especially when you're on the road, they come to see you.

Yeah, they want to be with you. And L.A. is different because L.A. is a lot of touristy shit. So half of the people might know you. Half of the people are just like, we love, we want to see stand-up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They come out. They just want to see it. But on the road, it's true fans out of L.A. because they want, they really want.

Like, when you go to San Francisco, man, you're going to feel it. You're going to feel it deep that it's like they really want to watch you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so they might you might not get a lot of heckling ass bullshit but I'm afraid

not afraid I'm thinking the middle of the country that would happen with me yeah you probably will yeah if you go listen knowing your persona online

and your political views and beliefs and the way you are you will if you go to certain places they are gonna fuck with you but they also showed up cause they love you

right so they love you but they may and you can tell the tone like i'm all for the like you know i i just haven't had anything where it's like huh you know like i haven't like you know or where i've heard it's like a you know like a fucking this is just like what am i saying like she's putting in my head my wife i was at the laugh factory once and i was talking some shit and somebody was running to their seat but they literally were running down the aisle.

I thought they were running on the stage. Oh, to get at you. Yeah. Yeah, so you're... I was like, what the... You know, because my wife was like, you know, because she's always just like, you say this, you say that

and all that shit and she kind of... What is she afraid of the most? Is it the Trump shit? Does she think that's going to make someone... My wife is just... I need a wife like that. I need a wife... She's like LeBron James is going to beat you up.

And the Trump shit. The crazies. The crazies. Have you had a lot of people come after you because of the Trump shit? Like online bullshit? Online and talk shit. Yeah. Not anything where I was like, yo, this person is making me nervous.

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someone said they got someone I know got hacked because of that shit because of people just crazy people that have a ton of time I'm not with all that. And it ain't that serious to me.

At the end of the day we're going to be the ones cleaning this motherfucker's mess up. Democrats snowflakes Republicans Everybody. Whether it's two more years or four more years, mark my words collectively, we're all going to be cleaning this shit up.

Oh, I say it on stage all the time. I go, whenever a hardcore lefty or a hardcore righty thinks they're in the right, they're both in the wrong. We're all getting fucked. All of us. No one's winning. Nobody's winning. We're all getting fucked. Nobody's fucking winning this shit.

That to me is the funniest thing about all that shit and I talk a little bit about it on stage but I don't get deep into it I don't really care enough to get into this thing with them I'd rather talk about my world

and what's happening but I do think it's funny that when I do shit on Democrats and Republicans for being fucking arrogant assholes about this competition of one another

they tend to kind of start to come along and go oh yeah maybe that is ridiculous that we're all getting fucked by the man all getting fucked yes this month we're all getting fucked all of us we're all drowning miserably so i think i think as you continue on the road and as you keep going um you the nuances you'll fall in love with will also be some of the things that you hate right the particulars that you'll learn about those those those those moments

on the road of like why did that why did this city of this show love that joke so much and this material didn't go over well like that's i think the testament to the road the road will really check you down as far as like learning the little quirks of a place and why they why they like certain things and why places don't you know what i mean now is it true because one time i was doing a podcast and it was in Minnesota or Milwaukee. One of them. And I said something about sports. And it caught me.

They were like, started fucking like hissing and hawing. And I was like, what the fuck? And then someone said, you know, politics, but sports on the road, especially for guys, like watch what you say. It's real divisive. Yes. Because I was like, it wasn't even like watch what you say it's real divisive yes because i caught i was like i it wasn't even like let's say i was in minnesota it wasn't like fuck the vikings it was just like a comment about something and i was like what the fuck is going on

here well here's why it's two layered for people like us one you're an la guy to them right so a new york guy well that's what i'm saying they know you're a new york guy but they also know you live in LA. So the way that the country feels about New York and LA is already fucked them. And then also when we come into their house and then we say something like, you know, ah, the fucking Pacers can eat ass. You know what I mean? Whatever. It's just like for them, they're like this New York, LA fucking asshole. That's like for them, that's the ultimate fuck you. Even if you're just fucking around talking shit I still like to talk shit about the city about a sports team

or something like that because if you do it in a clever fun way they know you're fucking around they know you're fucking around I just did like whatever I said like it wasn't

I just was it was like kind of like I was just talking and then like I was like there was like a fucking shift and I got out of it but I was like what the fuck

you know like I I know when I say something like to break balls but like I like to say I like to talk know, like I know when I say something like to break balls. I like to talk about an athlete that left. And I like to pretend like they're still there. Man, they get so mad. Right, right, right. If I go, he's going to be so good this year.

People go, oh, fuck you. But they're laughing because they know I'm being an asshole. Yeah, they know I'm trolling them a little bit. So they know what they're getting into. What about the one thing I found in stand-up is the player hating? Because it's a very Nietzsche kind of thing. Oh, yeah. And I don't like that shit.

Because also I know that people, because I know stand-up comedians very well, and comedians are fucking nuts. Yeah, we're all out of our fucking head. I mean, they're fucked up. Because even when I've spent a lot of time doing stand up or focusing on my stand up or if I'm writing something or something comes to my head

like I'll go I gotta stop doing this because I'm like this is not a normal way and if this is what you do full time in your hard body and you're doing it for years like this can make you nuts.

Yes. You have to step away. It's very insular insular? Insular. Insular thing. Oh yeah. You have to be able to I's very insular, insular, insular, insular, insular thing. Oh yeah. You have to be able to,

I always like to say, if a young comic asked me for advice, you know, when a young comic says like, just, and I'm not Mr., I'm not the prophet, but I always have tidbits that I go,

hey, here's some rules. Have, have a life, have a life. You need a life. Have a life because people get in this world where that's the only thing they give a shit about.

And I'm like, I promise you'll regret it years later because you'll be lonely and you'll, maybe you'll make it, but you'll be lonely as fuck and you won't have anything to do or to show for it. Cause you'll go, I spent all my time trying to do this fucking thing. And I don't really give a fuck about anything else in the world. You know, like have relationships and friendships and, and, and go do, you know, comics are so worried about being embarrassed.

Comics hate being like, uh, there's this comic, young comics hate to feel vulnerable because they do every night on stage so in their outside world they're like i don't want to look like an idiot or a loser you know what i mean they want to make sure they preserve something that makes sense and i always say fuck that let it all go be who you are fuck it you do something annoying look i always love sports i never stopped enjoying sports and i brought it a little bit to the stand-up world a lot of my friends didn't didn't give a fuck about sports right So it was just kind of like, I'm still gonna meet people and do that thing

and have that be my part of my life. You can't just have it be just stand-up because you see it. And there is a lot of haters. The player hating, I don't like. Oh, there's a lot of haters, man. I don't like it. Have you felt it?

Has anybody come up to you in a stand-up game? No one's come up to me, but you could just tell. You can feel it. Yeah, motherfuckers. I'm like, what the fuck is... Yo. And also, the crazy thing is like, there's room for everybody to get money.

There's a lot of kids. There's room for everybody to have a special. There's room for everybody to tour. Right. Like, what the fuck are you worrying about me for? Like, I'm just, like, what are you worrying about me for? Right. Well, that was my whole thing.

You know when, what's her name? Why can't I think of her name? The porn star that went on the road. Donald Trump. Why can't I think of her fucking name? Stormy? Stormy Daniels, right. Did she do stand-up or strip?

She did stand-up, dude. She did one or two shows or whatever, but stand-up, and the community got mad, and I was like, hey, man, if you think your fans, if she's taking away money from you,

you're out of your fucking mind. You're fucking crazy. If you think she's taking away money from anybody, you think you're out of your fucking mind. Let her fucking live, man. Go. Let her fucking breathe, man. You think that she's taking away money from any but you know you're out of your fucking mind yeah they go that you know let her fucking live man go let her fucking breathe man you think that she she's doing this because she's a she's a fucking sarah silverman fan and she's inspired by jones she's trying to fucking make ends meet she's fucking you know yeah she's like she's like no man yeah we're stand-ups were offended by this shit no you know what it was it was more stand-ups were like

annoyed that it was like oh why does she get the fucking to fuck? Fucking relax. Yeah. Fucking relax, man. They got their fucking thumbs in their ass so they're so tight. You know, because it's like, I would never think like this. Like, I'm an actor, right? I'm an actor first. Like a stand-up, oh, he's acting with me. Let's see if, I would never treat another actor like, oh, he's obviously talented. Yeah, something worked.

Something worked. What the fuck? You know, like, I don't know. I would just, I don't get it. I don't understand it. Have you ever worked with somebody?

You don't have to say the name, but have you ever worked with somebody that you thought was going to be great but turned out to be not so good? As an actor? Yeah. You don't have to say a name. No.

Has there ever been an instance when you're like excited to work with someone and then you work with them and you're like, fuck. I've never had a bad experience with anybody I was looking forward to working with. That's a great fuck. I've never had a bad experience with anybody I was looking forward to working with. That's a great thing.

I've never had. That happens a lot in stand up. I feel like there's guys that I'm like, oh I can't wait to see his shit or like, you know what I mean? And then when you meet them?

Yeah, and I'm kind of like they're either an asshole or their shit sucks and now I'm like, oh fuck, I thought you were something else and I guess like

you're kind of this cunty dude and you have an attitude about shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's lot of stand-ups that sometimes they've been doing it for a long time and they get super jaded and they're dismal and yeah yeah yeah and then it's weird you know we all have a little bit of jadedness I every comic does but there's a couple of guys it's never happened in the acting world for me but yeah sometimes I met some stand-ups I'm like oh fuck you suck I thought you were gonna be cool yeah yeah we're gonna get it you know I thought we were gonna be able to play as humans yeah yeah yeah I've never had it with actors no never I've never had any especially anybody that I've never had you know I've never

had like that nightmarish thing or like the people that I idolize right they've always been either just really cool and respectful or beyond like, you know, like really cool. Yeah. You know, like some of them. They go beyond it. Yeah. Yeah. Like fucking Robert De Niro.

I've worked with him twice. You know, it's not like I got to, you know, pick his brain about everything, but he was totally cool with me, totally encouraging while we were working, totally giving, was there off camera, all that shit. He's that guy.

He's that fucking dude. He's that guy. He is that fucking dude he's incredible man so now we're coming we're coming close to our goodnight

to our swan song oh we're singing now yeah we're gonna sing at the end and I know you got a good voice man yes yes yes you got a bunch of stuff

coming out and coming up is Atypical are you doing that again we're doing that now okay we're shooting it right now season three which I enjoy

and if people haven't seen the show, you're fucking, you're losing it because it's a phenomenal show. You need to check that shit out. Thank you. And in the meantime, you're going to be touring a little bit. So you're going to San Francisco this weekend.

San Francisco this weekend, the 18th and the 19th at Cobb's Comedy. And then I'm going to be at the American Comedy Company in San Diego. June 2nd. You've done all these places, right? I've done that, but when I go down, I usually do the La Jolla Comedy Store because I'm a comedy store guy.

So I go down and do that. That's kind of my, that's my loyalty. You know what I mean? I have to do the store when I go to San Diego. Is there like church and state? Is there like? No, listen, you could do both. Right.

But it's just like, that's my. You've been there. Yeah. I got you. And I'm one of the, that's my spot now. I got you. So it's just kind of like, it's weird. You get kind of like linked up and you're like, that's what I do. I got you. And I'm one of the... That's my spot now. I got you. So it's just kind of like you... It's weird.

You get kind of like linked up and you're like, that's what I do. I got you. It'll happen in different cities. You'll see like there's an improv and then there's like a helium or a funny bone

and you kind of pick... They don't give a fuck what you do. I got you. But you start to go, I like this cat. I got you. I like this thing. The way they do this thing is dope.

I got you. Yeah. It'll... It's unfortunate because you meet... Sometimes you'll meet the owners of both clubs I'm sure they're all cool

and they're dope and you're like oh fuck I don't know I mean this guy's money is better but I love that this guy does this and the club something about the club

it's always about the club there's always like you'll go I like this club so much more but the money is better at this other club or whatever that becomes this

I got you this fucking game I got you so I'm not even thinking about that yet because I'm just happy Money is better at this other club or whatever. That becomes this fucking game. I got you. I'm not even thinking about that yet because I'm just happy to be doing the shit. Yes, you're deep in it right now. Yeah. I don't have any reference points.

No, right. That's what's good. Yes. It's raw. It's happening as it's happening. You could send me like, oh, this shit like oh this shit hole this shit hole

like oh yeah you could totally take advantage like yeah I never heard of this place Big Toe Texas but I guess I'll go down and just motherfucker fuck it we'll find out because I'm just like

finding my things you know I'll come back in three months I'll be fucking arrogant I'll be so mad just fucking shit hole you know who sucks you know who sucks I'll tell you

name all the clubs so what is it what's your what's the website for tickets is what uh uh michael rapaport comedy.com michael rapaport comedy.com yes and we'll put the link in the description yes and uh go see him this weekend at cobs uh up in san francisco uh friday when this drops i'm i'm friday i'm at the ice house in pasadena so come out and see me in that shit and then two weeks i'm in Raleigh, North Carolina.

I'm going down there. Have you been down there before? Yeah, I've been there a bunch. I got family lives down there. I'm doing good nights in Raleigh. That's the name of the club. It's fucking amazing. Okay.

I love that shit. So you've been there before? Yes, man. I love it. What's a crowd like in Raleigh? Fun as fuck. Dope. Raleigh's an interesting part of North Carolina, right?

Because Charlotte's obviously their, you know, that's their main city. But Raleigh is this big city, small town feel where there's a fuckload of people in Raleigh. But it just has this more down-home, you know, it's more people's people, I guess is the way to say it. Got you. I like them. Okay. I like them, and I fuck with those guys in Raleigh. All right, good.

Go to MichaelRabbitPoorComedy.com, AndrewSantino.com. I like them. Okay. I like them and I fuck with those guys in Raleigh. Go to MichaelRabbitportComedy.com, AndrewSantino.com. I appreciate you. On our outro, we're going to play another song. From who? I'm going to play one song. Who's this guy? So far, by the way, we hit up Jarv and we had Joel Frame. Jarv was number one.

Joel Frame was good. Yeah, Jarv and Joel Frame. Now this guy. Who's this fucking guy? Who's this fucking dude? Let's hear this is Chase Moore

this is Chase Moore you ready let's see if Chase can fuck it let's see in here we pour whiskey whiskey

whiskey whiskey whiskey and this is a good beat to rhyme off yeah this is this is our podcast intro yeah

but this is like it sets you up this is like basic ginger till my liver twisted like a fidget spinner I'm off. Yeah, this is our podcast intro. But this is like, it sets you up. This is like basic. Nope. He's all right. Nah. Chase no more. He's all right.

He's okay. He's alright He's okay He can do it better Okay Okay Okay He should be fucking lucky Okay. He should be fucking lucky you're getting played on this fucking podcast.

What did you say? The five minute rule? Yeah, that's the five minute rule. That's the 15 second rule, motherfucker. The crowd is getting restless with you. Chase no more. Shout out to Joel, Frame, and Jarv. Chase more. I think you got a B minus out of rap.

Chase no more got a C plus. The other guy got an a minus and the other guy got a b plus all right that's pretty good you got a fucking a that's not bad that's not bad in the school of hip-hop from yeah that's pretty fucking good all right man thanks brother appreciate it you're that creature in the ginger beard sturdy Sturdy and ginger. Like vampires, the ginger gene is a curse. Gingers are beautiful. You owe me $5 for the whiskey and $75 for the horse. Gingers are hell no. This whiskey is excellent.

Ginger. I like gingers.