Whiskey Ginger with Andrew Santino - Ron Funches Is Happier Than You (Probably) | Whiskey Ginger

Episode Date: August 28, 2026

Welcome to Whiskey Ginger a Wave series presented by Fanduel. Andrew Santino sits down with comedian, actor, and professional ray of sunshine Ron Funches for a conversation about stand-up, getting older, fatherhood, finding your voice, professional wrestling, and learning how to actually enjoy your own damn life. Ron also gets into his experience on Season 4 of The Traitors, his love of wrestling, life on the road, and what happens when one of the nicest guys in comedy gets dropped into a castle full of professional liars. Catch Ron Funches live and check out his upcoming tour dates: https://ronfunches.com Follow Ron Funches: https://www.instagram.com/ronfunches Follow Andrew Santino: https://www.instagram.com/cheetosantino Follow Whiskey Ginger: https://instagram.com/whiskeygingerpodcast #WhiskeyGinger #AndrewSantino #RonFunches #ComedyPodcast =================================================== This episode is sponsored by:  FANDUEL Play Daily Dingers and make your FREE pick on who’s hitting a homer. http://fanduel.com/whiskey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Whiskey Jr. My guest today is one of my favorite people. I don't know if I say that for my guest, but I mean once again today. It is the return after a long, long wait. Ron Funche! I should have done a bigger intro because I do know you're into wrestling. You owe all you or you were. I don't know if you like it anymore. Thank you for not just assuming that I still am.

I really appreciate that. You may not be anymore. I'm not as much. Really? No. What happened? It's too commercial now. Ah.

And now they got like, they just had this big match and this guy. who like he's never had a big championship run ever. His name's Chad Gable. They put him under a mask. They used to call him Shorty G to make fun of him because he's short. And then he like went through this whole child's tribulation of like getting respect and people loving him again. And he finally won a title and they had his family in the ring and it was in front of his hometown in Minnesota. And then they had the mug Root Beer Dog come in and bounce on the ropes and hand him some root beer to chug.

And it just like, you would never see that in the middle. middle of the NBA championship. No. Like, hey, Jalen, like, chuck these root bears with this dog real quick, you know? Jalen, the Kool-Aid man's going to bust through the court at two minutes and 14 seconds. So just be aware

and just drink a little bit, and then you can keep playing the game. Yeah. They might get there, though. You say that. It might get there. It might, but it just, to me, it just shows, like, you know, since they sold it, it just shows the real disrespect that they have for the audience. Who bought it? The TKO. Oh. Yeah. Is that the Fertitas brothers?

The UFC and all that stuff? Fertita brothers or Fertita, some one of those two. I don't know what the way. Yeah. Well, the world is changing. Monetize,

monetize, monetize. Truly. You got to do it, got to do it, got to do it. Why not? I guess that's the world. Good for them. They're making more money than ever.

When we were kids, it wasn't like that. Yeah, the wrestling space wasn't like that at all. No. Didn't that, but it felt more homegrown backpack underground or whatever you want to call it,

where it felt more like you were in a secret club. Yeah, that's what I've been about my whole life, really is things that either you get it and you see this whole world in it and you see the beauty of it or you don't see any, you know, value in it at all. And you both can be right.

Yeah, to me, that's what I love about comedy. It's what I love about wrestling, what I love about hip hop, you know? That's what I loved about hip hop the most. Yeah. Although I did see an interview with Andre 3000 that made me laugh so hard this morning that he was like, they were like, are you not going to rap anymore? And he's like, well, I don't know what I'm rapping about right now.

I'm older. He's like, did people want to hear about colonoscopies? I don't know. He's like, maybe, but I doubt it. He's like, do I want to talk about my back hurting? See, we can relate. Yeah. But I did think it was interesting because he was like, I don't think I have a lot of raps right now to give you.

I think people, especially the rappers, they feel like tied in, like that they, we only want to hear about guns and sex and butts, but we don't. One of my favorite rappers is this guy named Don Tripp, and he mostly just raps about being a single father and like co-parenting issues. That's sweet. Yeah, and I'm like, oh, I get you. Thank you. Yeah, well, we do want to hear about money, butts, guns, and drugs, but we also want to hear about pain and trials and tribulations, divorce, death, you know, sad things that happen.

Or if you just had a good day. Or if you had a great day. Yeah. There's a couple of rappers that do great day raps, but you have to mix it in with other stuff. Yeah. So Don Trippin. Don Tripp. Don Tripp.

Yeah, you tried to add extra urban to it. Why did I do that? Don Tripp. Well, shout out to Don Tripp. Look him up. Let's make sure that we have him as a part of our future now, Don Tripp. I'm just an old school guy. We've talked about this before. I'm just, I guess it's more nostalgia for me. New hip hop is great, but old for me just was, I just like that it was kind of, I don't know. There's still an underground. I don't keep up with it. But I like to grind in this one.

I mean, same, you know, with comedy. That's why I try it because I hate it when people then go like, oh, all the, I hate it when so many people, they're like, there's no good comedian. I'll post a clip and they'll be like, oh, I miss comedians that I like, like Richard Pryor and George Carlin. I'm like, that's the only two you know? That's all you've known. So you haven't watched comedy since the 70s? It's a long time.

That's a long time. You haven't watched comedy in 50 years? That's insane. Yeah, I don't like, well, that bothers me when older people do that to me when they go, let's say I show someone, you know, like a, let's if I showed you to like a family member. Someone's like, yeah, no, it's very funny.

It's very funny. You know who I used to really love. and they named someone like that generation and you're like, it was a moment in time. Like, I think Dr. Jay was great too. Do you not know there's other Hoopers now? I just feel like that's a weird perspective

to only go, well, those artists, I really understood, these new comedians, I don't get them. And maybe it's because there's too much comedy and there's overexposure. So people that don't have the patience, they check out. Because it's everywhere now.

Well, it's just anytime you have a thing where there's no verification, there's no certificate to get to be like, I put in the hours and I'm a comedian, it's a self-defined job. Any self-defined job is going to be full of people who, like, it's one of the few things where it's like the better you get at it,

the more people think that they could do what you do because you make it look easy. But you do make it look easy. I do make it. But you've been doing that for a long time, Ron. That's a problem. When we were young even, Ron was on and I thought, people are going to think that they can do that.

it's giving people false hope. Yeah, you really do get humbled as a comedian when the real world steps into play. Our AC furnace kicked and the electrician came who's kind of like a jack of all trades. This guy knows everything. He's like certified in five different things.

And he can like plumbing, pipe electrician, he can do everything. And the guy goes upstairs and he's like looking at stuff and he's like showing me the fuse and changing out the wire. And he was like, and do you understand how this wire

got disconnected in the first place? And I was like, come on, man. No. No, you are an applicable, skilled person. Yeah. I'm a subjective skilled. I can be replaced easily. Yeah.

You, we need. You know knowledge and things. Me, when the time comes, the revolution comes, they're going to save a few gestures. I don't think we're all going to make the cut. Well, that's been one of my jokes lately where I think you saw it recently where there's just no such thing as an alpha male comedian to me because like we don't have those type of skills. No. Like none of us are really like that.

We're the people like when you watch House of the Dragon where like there's the fighters and And then there's the women watching sitting on pillows next to guys who are injured are just effeminate. That's us. We're injured effeminate people from the community. You're being like, oh, look at them. Over there. That is kind of who we all are. That's who we are.

We can put on a show that we're this domineering character on stage. But the real truth is we can do almost nothing in the real world. Yeah. Application is low. No. Yeah, he checked me down too. Not, I wasn't questioning him, I was like, well, is that the same kind of wire that, that, that this is? And I showed him, and he was like, no.

No. You try. Because I was like, I think I have one of those. He's like, you don't, I promise, you don't know. You don't know. You pulled out of PlayStation 2 control. Now, would this connect to the AC unit by any chance? Because this is a good wire.

Yeah, no, he, it, it re-it just re-ups its ego death in a good way when you can't. fix stuff. Like my father-in-law has built his, their childhood home with his hands. And it's the most intimidating thing in the world because he'll go, do you guys, what are you going to do with that? Something around the house. And I'll be like, you know, we're thinking about, can you do it? Do you know how to do that? And he's like, yeah, what do you mean? I can fix that in seconds. I'm like, thank you for that. No, I know. I mean, I have people come over and like do the landscape and in my yard and stuff. And like, they have no respect for me. Nor should they, to be honest with you. No, I walk in and they don't even say hi. They don't talk because they know

I can't answer any questions I don't even know They just like No this guy barely knows what he's doing Right I do think when they come around They should they should verbally go back inside With you Back inside

You don't belong out here Let us do what we're supposed to do Get out of our way Ron Funches by the way First of all are those Bull Sox Yeah they are Hey hey Chicago Bull Sox I like that I like that I like that

We got Caleb now We got two Caleb's in Chicago Yes, I don't want to say anything Because I feel like every time I do I preemptively jinx everything and anything I did do No, he was good Okay, I do, I agree

We'll see I just I Routing for Chicago sports Has been the bane of my existence My whole life So every time I get excited It just sounds hard Because we're a similar age

I think And so because you wake up And you go like boom Championship championship championship We'll take two years off To let him just deal with some gambling stuff and grief and then come back championship championship

championship this is just how we do that's how we do and then you go 30 fucking years yeah dude not anticipated did not see that coming Eddie Curry didn't see that coming at all so hard dude so hard well also I just saw they just

retired we retired Rose you know we did like a ceremony for Rose and I think one of the coolest responses Derek Rose had they interviewed him about LeBron going to Philly. I don't know if you saw this clip, it's incredible, but they were like, what do you think about that?

And he's like, I don't play basketball anymore, man. I'm worried about myself and my family and my life. And I was like, good for you, dude. That's classic Derek Roe. That favorite All-Star clip, the clip of him at the All-Star game, and they're all dancing and busting down because LeBron told him to, and then he's just like, nah. That's so great.

He's the man did. But just the way, it was so classy, the response to be like, I'm not, I know you're looking for a sound bite. You're not going to get it. I'm not interested, man. Whatever in that space. He's like, I'm focused on me, my retirement, my family, enjoying the second half of my life.

And I just was like, God, I miss that fucking guy. I loved them so much. But anyway, what I want to say up top, because we were talking about it before, is you're going back to the UK to perform, and it's been a while. Yeah. I'm excited for you.

I just got back from the UK. I did not perform, but I had the itch. I kind of felt like I should when I was there. Like, maybe I should call a club. And I was taking a vacation. It was on holiday. Yeah, holiday. I was on holiday.

And I thought, should I go pop into somewhere? And my buddy, Sean, who was with me, Sean was like, do it, let's do it. And I thought, no, I don't know. Sometimes my wife will say that she'll be like, dude, to take just, if you're off, be off. Yeah, I agree. But it's really difficult. It's getting easier as we get older. But when I was young, you were like, what am I doing?

I'm not doing it. I'm losing skills. I know. It feels like you're, it feels like people are still building. And they're like, hey, man, we're going to be up top if you're not going to be up here. But no, then you'll find out. What you're really missing is life and stuff and doing stuff with your family. Who will get mad at you and start building resentment.

That's exactly right, dude. You need to take time off and you're taking time out. But you're touring. You're doing what? What are you doing? Let me guess. You're going to do England. You'll do Scotland, Ireland, Amsterdam.

I'm going to do, oh, I'm doing Scotland. Yep. Wait, no, am I doing Scotland? No, I'm doing Ireland. Ireland, okay. I'm not Scott. Yeah, we're different people. Yeah.

We're doing Ireland, I'm doing London, I'm doing Manchester, Amsterdam, and Cardiff. Awesome. Yeah. Cardiff by the sea. Have you been to Cardiff before? Never. Beautiful. Man, you're going to have so much fun.

Now, are you bringing, when you go to Europe on these trips, because we just dealt with it when we went to Australia, it's a lot of people that we had to bring along for our big crew. But is it just you in one opener? It's just me and my friend who's playing the trombones. Sick. And he's just a friend of mine, and he's coming for fun. That's going to be a great time. and see if I can find some local openers for me. Smart.

But that's about it. So is he playing while you're on stage or is it opening the show? I think I'll have him open the show. We haven't even really talked about it, but I just told him to bring his trombone. Just bring this, and then we'll figure it out when we get there. Yeah. I would love to see you do, like, a piece with him playing while you're on stage telling jokes.

I do that sometimes. I do a show with a band that I do at the Improv Lab. Yeah. I think you should, I think that's what Europe needs. They need Ron with Trombone. I agree with you. I think I talked about this the other day on here. One of the best specials I ever saw in my entire life

was of The Purple Onion with Zach when he had the piano and I thought, no one else is going to be able to do this like that. That's classic. That's one of my favorites, too. It's one of the best. There's something about that. If people don't know,

go watch Live of the Purple Onion, Galaphanakis. It was just groundbreaking for the time. There were people doing a lot of experimental music, comedy stuff at the time, but to film it in a special, I think, was oddly not a risk, but it was, right? you know what I mean

like he was it wasn't like he was it it wasn't like oh we'll see if they like it but no one was kind of doing that at that style where it was kind of raw shot filthy dirty yeah especially for a guy who was coming

up and had the hangover coming out and all these things coming out that become this big mainstream comic at the same time to deliver this very small and very like full point of view of what he wanted comedy to be

like and just this very old school jazz Phil to do that at the same time becoming the biggest actor comedian in the world is pretty amazing It's pretty impressive man I always get jealous stuff like that Now I like see his gardening show I don't if you've seen it but I'm like

Well he just is having fun He like he made it to the top and was like I think I'm just gonna have fun Dude do side dance I'm side project Yeah so great it's great Just so we're on the same page Or on the same topic again though But please go see Ron when he's in Europe If you're a European and you're watching this show

I know I've said a lot of bad things about Scottish food I take it back but he's not even going to Scotland. No. I've been saying a lot of food, bad things about food in UK in general, especially breads, and then they have not been taking it well.

They don't take it well. So that's been one of the reasons why I come here. Yeah, we need to promote it. Yeah, please buy the tickets to the show. I didn't know you were not going to take us. They took it very poorly, as I'm sure you do.

I was just like, oh, potatoes with beans and tuna. That seems weird. And then they were like, well, your kids get shot in school. They do say that a lot. Right away. They jump to that.

Right away. Yes. Yes. That is well. And they're not wrong. They're not wrong. They're not wrong. Not wrong.

Yeah. But it's like, oh, you guys are supposed to be witty. Yeah, I thought that'd be something more clever. Yeah. Yeah. That's too easy. It's a little on the nose. Yeah.

Easy, easy, low hanging fruit. Yes, school shootings, blah, blah, blah. I like how we roll over it. Oh, big deal. Yeah. Big deal. You're still eating beans and tuna. Yeah, dude.

That's on you, pal. That's your shit. I will say. say the food in London, the food in London, specifically, because there's so many new restaurants there now, surprised me last time we went there. We were a little shocked. Oh, there's always good food. I mean,

but we're talking about, like, Indian food and food from people that they colonized and things of that nature. Yeah, that's exactly right. Yeah. That's what they did the best. They were number one. Number one. Yeah, they call us the worst racist, but I don't know, England, you guys kind of led the charge. You guys started it. That's a game of fun. I found I posted my thing. That was there like, how dare you make fun of our

when we freed the slaves before Lincoln. I'm like, oh, I didn't. Oh, I apologize. Yeah. Oh, my bad. My bad. I didn't know I was supposed to be paying you guys back for that. It's called rep reparations.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It has to go both ways. I'm not allowed to make fun of your potatoes. Cannot? No, you may not. And by the way, Ron will be doing an hour all on your food. It will be one full out. So go see him live.

It's all about beans and tuna. I don't know if you've seen the show. It's called Beans and Tuna. It's gonna be on Netflix a couple years. Greg's down a notch. They do so much right. I want to give them credit. I will say tea time and the finger,

the little finger sandwiches. Oh, pastries, they crush. They crush a baked good. Oh my God, custard on things. Love what they do with custard over there. Yeah, I do. But savory items? Savory stuff.

And that's a whole job. It's a big category of food. Yeah, they miss on that. But they do know how to drink. They are fun to go out and have fun. Yes. But are you on the sauce? No, I've never drank.

No sauce. I figured by now maybe you'd be dabbling. No, you think so. Oh, I don't know. I mean, people go through phases. I've been thinking about that with homosexuality, but... That's the same thing. Drinking is...

Drinking is the gateway to doing gay stuff. Yeah. That is really why I do it. I'm going to start doing coke. Yeah. Gay. Yeah. And that is the road you take.

And this is all to cover up for my deeply closeted feelings. That's all this is. Yeah, that's what everyone says. Yeah. I know. Trust me. I know. I watched the videos.

Yeah, you know. Santino's gay. Why doesn't he come out? Because I'm not ready. Okay? Yeah, same. Same here. Leave me alone.

That's always been the weird thing to me when people say, I'm gay. I'm like, wow, I'm leaving so much money on the table. Yeah, can you imagine. I could be in so many, like, Pride Month, I could be rigging. Huge, huge. You know? You'd have your own float. Yeah, come on.

The Funch's float. You're leading the chart. Well, maybe we should. Maybe this is the episode that we do it. I mean, I don't know. Are you still smoking? Our relationship. Yeah.

Yeah, you are. Yeah. I stopped smoking. Did you? Well, I'm still consuming. My doctor was like... Up the butt now. Yeah.

Just up the butt. Yeah. All suppository, THC. No, I'm drinking and eating. Drinking and eating it. Not as much smoking anymore. How are you eating it? Gummies and other food items that I buy at this local shop.

that they've got. They have like cookies. They've got, but drinking big. I don't like that. I mean, calories always been one of my struggles. I know, yeah. I know. I don't like to add the extra calories. Well, the drinks are good. They're only 30 calories for the drinks that I do. I like a little tablet every now and then. That's good. But yeah, I like smoking. I love smoking. I think my doctor was like, uh, was like, are you smoking a lot? And I was like, I had been smoking more than not. And I admitted to him. He's like, why don't you just try switching it? Not for like, he was like, I see something. But he was like, try eating more or drinking it. And so then I switched.

And since then, I'll still smoke a joint every once in a while, but more than ever now. Like last night, we went to a show and the wife and I pounded a couple of drinks.

And they're great, man. They're really good. I think they hit you nice and smooth and slow. The edibles, yeah, crap shoot. Edibles, they can get you. But the drinks, I feel like I can control

because the drinks, it's pretty dosed. What about mushrooms? You microdose at all? I do love mushrooms. I haven't done them in a little while, but I do, I take the little mushroom gumies when I golf.

Those I love. That sounds like a beautiful day. They're fantastic. It is my promotion for people that don't like golf, and they're like, it's a stupid, dumb game. Think about it like this. Take a little bit of mushrooms with one or two of your very good friends and walk through a park for a few hours and play a game if you want. And if you don't want, sit in the cart. It's not that big of a deal.

It's actually not that deep. I think when people, like, have slowly learned for COVID, there are a lot of guys I know started to play because they were like, we're just outside and we can just consume things if we want to and enjoy nature. I was like, yeah, it's kind of the thing. Yeah, I've been wanting to get more. I play a lot of mini golf. I play minigolf. You're put-pug-gob. Every city I go to on tour I try to find.

Really? They got a good mini-golf. A mini-golf plays in a Pilates studio. Pilates? Is this your thing now? Is my thing now? Big Pilates. Weren't you doing yoga for a little while?

For a little bit. I used to do the stone yoga class for a while, and I do Jiu-Jitsu as well, but that's about it. That's not about it. That's a lot. Jiu-Jitsu and Pilates. Jiu-Ti-N-Lah? Like the polar opposite, right? No, they're actually very helpful for each other

because they're all hip and core. Yeah, hip and core. There's a lot of hip-in-out, a lot of using your core to frame up against stuff. And so for Pilates, it's helped my jiu-jitsu quite a bit. Are you in jiu-jitsu, because I'm very ignorant. Are you going up against someone all the time, or no? I mean, I usually do one-on-ones with my coach.

His name's J. Zabalos, or my professor. I guess is what you would call. They're professors. Yeah. I love that. Professor X. Yeah. Professor Z.

Professor Z. Professor C. That's right. I'm, I mean, a lot of my friends are into it. One of my best friends from home is a big jiu-jitsu guy. He's got his kid into it. He's like, you would love it. But I know my anxieties and I know I would not. Yeah, I heard, I love it.

I didn't think I would love it. I tried it once and just was real into it. And like the spirituality of it, the focus of it. I think it's helped my acting a lot. That's great. You really have to be like, oh, tell your body to do something and respond. And when I went to Budapest, I just did this, my first action movie. And I was doing a lot of, like, pratfalls and stunts.

And I really was like, oh, if I had not been doing jujitsu and Pilates, I don't think I could be doing this. Yeah. How did you find Budapest? I liked it for, like, two weeks, but I was there for six. Could you have spread those two weeks out over the six? Like, liked it for two days, didn't like it for four? Yeah, I try. Yeah, I mean, actually kind of, yeah.

That's the goal? Did you go to the hot springs? I did. The baths? Yeah, I did. Yeah, I did that. I shot like a little thing there and I stayed there and we really enjoyed my time only because I was there for a week and some change.

So I did the Funches version that you wanted to live. Yeah, I mean, I just think six weeks away from your family. It's a long time unless you hate your family. Yes. Many people at home do hate their family. Yeah, and that's understandable. Yeah, go to Budapest. Maybe they did bad things to you.

Yeah, you know, I don't know what happened, but I do think go to Budapest then if you need to get away. Yeah, absolutely. It is beautiful. It is, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, Stunning. Stunning, Morgious.

We went to a concert out at the, it was called the Ziegat Festival, mispronouncing it for sure. But there's little islands that separate Buddha and Pesh. And on one of those big islands, there was a concert.

And my wife and I were like, we saw a flyer for a band called the editors. I don't know if you're familiar with them at all, but I loved them for a long, long time there. And I was like, oh my God, the fucking editors are there.

And she was like, do you want to go? And I just looked and I was like, it's today. Like, it was just, a flyer on the street. It's a beautiful thing. I saw Grandmaster Flash like in Amsterdam just being there and being like, oh, he's here. Oh, dude. Doesn't that do something you're in? And by the way, the concert was that much better because of a lack of preparation, because a lack of knowledge of like any, we didn't know how to get there. We didn't know if there was like,

did we have to take a bus? Was our transportation? Like, you know, what time to set start? We just showed up and we got to see them. And we got to see, um, stupid guy. What's my name? What's her name? Janelle Monet. Janelle Monet. Janelle Monet. Nice. Do a main stage show. Hell yeah. Yeah, I kind of fell face first. Like, when you fall into those things, when you're on the road, you're like, this is...

Yeah, I mean, it's one of the things where you go, like, oh, I made the right decision with my life because it's bringing me the places where just cool weird shit's happening. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, Budapest I did, like, interesting, though, how it's like the center of Budapest, he's, like, so rich with, like, stuff. And then you go out where those springs are, and you're like... Oh, there's done here. It's wild.

It's a lot post-post-war. And it's also a definite... Because, like, you know, he's there for work, and, like, everyone else is there for work. It's not a very tourist. It's not, like, you go to some places, and they seem like, thank you for visiting. So happy to be here. And you go to, and they're like, if you don't speak Hungarian, we'll fuck you. Yeah, fuck you.

You're out. Yeah, they look at you and you're like, they're like, ugh. But I agree. They don't have to try. And they're not many black people there either. No, no. So that was an interesting experience. And that was by request.

They said that. Yeah, they did request. Yeah. Yeah. You can tell. Yeah, by the way, they do their haircuts. They're like, keep them out. We're going, if you come here, we'll fuck your hair line up.

Yeah, we're going to fuck you up, dude. We'll fuck your hair line straight up. You better bring a barber because we are not going to have one for you. No. That is true. It is a, it is a very, it's a very white land. It's a very Hungarian land. Yeah.

They were having some type of like historical day when there was a parade going on and they were just dressed up and old-timey, dress and then walking around. And I found out later it's because they have a strong horse culture. But I just walk outside and there's people wearing old school hats and old school dress and they're just cracking whips. And I'm like, this is not?

No. This is not the place for me. No, no. The whips seems remarkably unnecessary. Did we need the whips? Guys, we get the hats. Okay. They were on hats, robes and whips.

I don't know if the wips are the thing. You imagine one guy was like, we don't need the whips. And someone was like, We need the sound. Yeah. We need the sound. Don't know we're coming.

No. No, but it's a lovely place. Getting to explore was very fun. Gulosh delicious. Oh, man. Pepper cash chicken, wonderful. So that's hard when you're on the road, because I know you're on your health kick all the time.

Like, since I've met you too, and you've done an amazing job of keeping up with all that stuff, because I know it's a nightmare, especially when we're on the road, do you find yourself when you're shooting in a place that you, that's hard to keep up? It was actually very easy. It was easy for. Because besides those two things I just named. I didn't like anything.

You didn't like the other food. No, you couldn't do it. One time on set, they just gave us stewed cherries, cheese, and rice. Yeah. And I was like, okay. Breakfast. Yeah. Okay.

Thanks. Yeah. Okay. I do. It is funny when you don't get the, I guess it is easier than, you know, I find myself getting into the sloppy, you know, I'll just eat whatever crap I can find. And then I'll eat more sweets and snacks when I'm on the road. I did eat more, like, because I never eat McDonald's and stuff, but I find myself, like, because when she's there for too long, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, just give me something I recognize.

Yeah. And so I would end up eating McDonald's and stuff. But I just also found a Pilate studio there, ran by a mother and daughter. Beautiful. It was a great time. Family. It was family, yeah. She was one of the most infit people I've ever seen in my life.

So it just gave me a nice thing to go do every other day. Every other day you would go. Oh, yeah. That's really good. Yeah. Ron, you keep up better than anybody I know. I try because it's always a struggle. There's always people make fun of me online.

They're like, you don't work out. I go, I could beat your shit out of you. Yeah. Come say hi to me in public. I do so much to stay this, to be as chubby as I am with the workout I do. Like, it's incredible. Yeah, no, they don't know. And you know what, by the way, I saw that Jonah Hill episode about him doing, you know, that interview on Smartless in the words of Jonah Hill for you to say, fuck around and find out.

Yeah. Yeah, come find out. Come see Ron. Come say hi and see how tough you think you are, calm fat to his face and see how that works out for you. I'll probably, I mean, I don't want to. No, no, no. Let's start out. Did you have Funches went to jail for, like, murdering two people?

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but I know deep down inside you've still got still got some punch in there yeah oh yeah everybody knows that yeah yeah oh yeah but that's why someone would say some dumb shit online

and poke the bear is where yeah that's why I protect myself because I know I'm like oh you'll fuck shit up yeah you don't want to be that guy I don't want to fuck shit up no because you got kids

you don't want to do that kids you know what I mean well kids now your kid's old now older yeah but I got a four year old too right you got a young one the old one's got to be 17 23 what the fuck I know

Holy shit. He's an adult. God, that's crazy. One of my openers is one year older than him. That's wild. Yeah. That's wild. 23.

Wow. And now he's 23 years old. He's fully grown now. But then you're starting over with the young one. Is that gap? Like, did they get on at all or no? It's actually real beautiful. It's forced my oldest, you know, who was more severe on the autism spectrum to kind of like,

grow up and be like, I got someone else to look after and stuff. He's a really good big brother. He really looks after his little brother. And in turn, his little brother, like, loves the shit out of him and looks up to him. And I can use him to, like, make him do stuff that he won't do for me. And that's been beautiful to see. And it's really cool because, like, I have, like, three players. We play three players, Smash Brothers.

That's pretty fun. So you created exactly what you wanted. Yeah. And then my son, my youngest son turns to his older brother and just looks at him and he goes, we're the smash brothers. And I was like, fuck. Fuck, I did it. Yeah.

I can die now. Yeah. Okay, Lord, go ahead. Take me. We're the smash brothers and you're like, dad out. You did it. That is, that is incredible. I see, I grew up only child, so I had to go snag friends to come over to the house.

Like, I didn't have this luxury. You have, did you have a brother? No. I had a sister. Yeah. But did you play? Yeah. I played pretty pretty princess.

Yeah, sure. And yes, yes. You have to play dress up and, yeah, when you were always the prettiest pretty little princess, weren't you? Yeah. Yeah, my sister was the age gap for us was huge, so it was really hard. We became friends as adults because we were 10 year difference. So, like, I was done with college by the time she didn't even get to high school. So that was just hard with that was just hard. So that was just hard. You know, if it was a little brother, probably been a little bit easier, someone to like fuck around with. But she was a sense of a little tiny girl. So I, like, there was no, you know what I mean? It was so hard. Yeah. For me and that right, I had to bully people to come over to the house or, you know, or go over to someone's house that had brothers because the older brothers so clutch they show, you know, they're the ones that show you all the stuff you're not supposed to see. Yeah.

The older brothers, and your friends of the other brothers that are like, you guys want to see some shit? And you're like, yeah. And they're like, if you fucking tell anybody,

you're like, I promise, we won't. And then you do. You do. You have to. Yeah, you don't have a choice. You can't go down alone.

No, no, dude. You got a snitch. Yeah, but that, I think being the only child, that got me in so much trouble because you had to make up all your own fun all the time. All the time.

Like, you know, in the neighborhood, we always were up to no good because, you know, you're bored and you're like, well, I might as well go do something nefarious and I'll go find another, you know, single child to go get in trouble with. Another person with no one that loves them. That's exactly right.

Or one of the parents usually loves you. I don't know which one, but one of them usually does. It's a gamble. It switches. You think it helped with your imagination, though? Yeah, 100%. You have to kind of live mentally free because you don't rely on someone else's for examples to what to like or what

you know I think like a lot of times when you're an only child you you cameal a little bit because you want to make everybody happy and you also want to like fit in and find out what the masses are doing but a lot of times when you're alone that's when I think some of the magic comes from figuring out on your own what you like

you're probably more embarrassed to share it though when you're alone because you like something and you're like I don't know if anybody else likes this someone else that back you up can't bounce it off yeah yeah right like and then the embarrassing funny stories come. That's where a lot of the stand-up world, I think, started for my mind was, like, funny stuff I'd get myself into. Like, I'll give you an

embarrassing. You want one? I'll give you one. You've got to give me one if I give you one. Sure. When I was, Beverly Hills Cop, one of my favorite movies literally of all time, to this day, still holds up. The song, you've got to look up the artist, but I don't remember. The heat is on. Maybe Glenn Frey? I don't think he did that. I don't know who did. The heat is on.

It's on the street. The heat is on. Such a good son. It's such a good son. when I first learned about touching myself, that movie was so dominant. That song came into my head as I was jerking off. Glenn Frey. What? Glenn Frey, I was right.

That's how I was. Shout out Glenn Frey. Thank you. You helped shape me touching myself as a young man. Because as I was doing it, the song would be in my head. The heat is own. It's so weird and dark, but I did want to share with any of my friends. Do you ever get songs in your head when you jerk off?

You know what I mean? Like I always felt so embarrassed about it. You're beating to the beat of it. Beat of the beat of Glenn Frey, dude. Yeah. It's so stupid and dark and weird, but I was like, that's the kind of self-weird creepy discoveries when you're alone all the time watching movies by yourself. And then also becoming a young man and going, I have to pull on this thing. Yeah.

I don't have a choice. Okay. I guess my only, I can't think my only, probably have a few, but that made me think of was that, like, when you're that age and you're masturbating a lot, but you don't really. that was like early internet. And so you didn't have too much access to pornography. You're still switching over from the scramble porn on paperview. And so you just look for like sexy scenes to watch on different VHSs and your PG-PG-13 movie.

And so I just always remember just jerking out of the same scene of this lady just changing and bending over. And it's not even a sexy movie or a sexy lady, I think, but just the movie Muriel's Wedding Muriel's Wedding There's a scene where Muriel changes And I'm like, that's enough It got you It got you, dude

What did I like? I also liked, it's so funny This is such a generational thing That we'd find VHS You'd find a movie with a, you'd watch it with a friend And then afterward you'd go I bet I could utilize that.

Oh, and wild, mean that's why we had wild things. Come on. God, dude. Jerry McGuire, the beginning of Jeremy McGuire, there's a sex scene of the, I think it's like the first scene in the movie. In the heat of the night.

In the heat of the night? Yeah. Yeah, dude. This is all young people now don't have to worry about that. They have it right here. They have it on the go. That's insane. No, us, we had to log it.

Go to a friend's house, log it in and go. Go to Hollywood video. Go to Hollywood video and rent it. Hope that they had it. Calling Blockbuster. Do you have basic instinct? One copy? I'm on my way right now.

The craft out? Yeah, dude. Yes. Yes, that's so funny These scenes like stuck in your head and you're like, I need to utilize this but I have to rent this and watch this alone by myself.

Yeah, and that back when the VHSs were built into the TVs that was my favorite because I would move mine. You could take that anywhere. I could take that down to the basement. I could take that down to the basement. Two and five Canadians will hear the words you have cancer.

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but I was like, this was my, that was my safe haven a basement. That's where you could run away from everything. I feel like kids out here don't have it. I love the smell of a basement. Oh, me too, man. Exposed wood. Yeah, a little wet.

It's always a little wet down in the basement. The washer and dryer down there. They got to be down there. Yeah, it's funny when I first started seeing when I moved to California, people with washer and dryers like upstairs. I was always like, why would these be up here? And then you think, well, that makes way more sense

than in the basement. Yeah, where you are. You didn't have a lot of room. You're like, that has to be downstairs. There's nowhere else that can be. Also, that's where you're, you go to get scared as a kid. Yeah, truly.

And the roller skate. Yeah, in the roller skating. Roller skating in the basement. That's why that scene in Home Alone was so prevalent to my youth with the furnace that talked to him because anyone in the Midwest understood that like the basement, if someone had a finished basement, come on. But if someone had an unfinished basement and a dad was like, go downstairs and go get me that thing, they'd look at you beforehand.

Like if I don't come back up. Tell everyone in the neighborhood, I said goodbye. Let Steve have my bike. He's always wanted my bike. It is a mystery little hole. It's like a creepy little hole. There's nothing unsafe about it, but it's all... I think also because as kids,

scary movies preyed on what lives in the basement or what's down there. Oh, absolutely. And then it was validated by documentaries that would later come out where they're like, and then the murderer was in the basement. And you're like, oh, my God, it was true. They were all down there. Right? Because like Dahmer, didn't he bury guys in his...

In the basement? It's the closest to the ground and dirt. That's where you would bury people. That's where you'd bury about it. Yeah. Well, who did it? No, McVeigh. No, McVeigh?

Who was the guy that buried the bodies in the walls of his mom's basement? Why do white people always know this stuff? Because it's our thing. It really is your thing. Yeah, we love that. Black people don't do the stuff like this, dude. Let us kill and be murderers and serial killers in basements.

It's the thing that I know just in it because I get mad about like, oh, okay, you get everything. You get like cultural movies about like Billy Joel and stuff like, oh, you get your uplifting movies and then you get your murder movie as well and then you're like

well we might get around to a black movie at some point after we both talking about the good things we did and then the murders we did and then also the mundane life aspect as well we want it all yeah we want indie movies and murder we do it all what's his name who was it so there's three oh three

there's three we have John Wayne Gasey yeah John Wayne Gacy he's the one he's the one I'm thinking of Midwest. There's another guy. Milwaukee, right? Fred West. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And then in London, there's Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin Franklin, obviously not the same. No relation. No relation. Good name, though. Good name. Trying to desecrate the name. Yeah, we're good at this run.

You don't understand about the whites. We are trying to own the media space as much as we can. And so we want happy movies, sad movies, murder movies. We want to do it all. Yeah. Has there ever been a black serial killer? Not that I know. No.

No. Interesting. Well? I work on it. Yeah, that's funny, there's definitely never been a black serial killer. Because you'd stick out. Someone would say something.

You'd go, oh, they made that movie about that guy. There hasn't, right? He's looking it up right now. Yes. What? There have been multiple. No. Black serial killers.

He's racist, by the way. Just so you know he's extremely racist. Samuel Little. Who? What's his name? Samuel Little? Samuel Little? He just did small people.

How many people did he murder? He doesn't say here. We've got to at least get stashed. Wayne Williams. Wayne Williams. These sound like these are, at how long old is this? Over 300 years?

And unfounded, no evidence. They just blamed him for everything. I think it's bullshit. 60 gayses. 60 murders. Oh, he was gunning. That's pretty good. He confessed to 93 murders.

And who is this? What's his name? Samuel Little. That's Samuel Little. And what time period was this in? 1970 in 2005. Holy shit. He was good.

You got to give him credit. Legend. Like LeBron James of it. Yeah, those are really, those are Hall of Fame numbers. I gotta be honest. He got away with it for 50 years. At some point you're like, this is impressive,

dude. He just did a good job. 60, what, 90? 93. Oh my God. Too many. Too many. That's just too many.

You think this is gross. This is a bad thought. They just get tired of, like it gets old. Do you know what I mean? Like at some point he's like, It's just what I have to do. Yeah, I feel like, what? Because the first couple are shocking, right?

It's like the episodes of break. It's like breaking bad. It's like watching Breaking Bad. Yeah. The first time he stabs him with the plate, he's like sick. He's upset for a long time. And then he's like, you know, did one with toxic gas. And he's like, oh, no, I just doing what I have to do.

Right. But then by season 3 or 4, he's just murdering everybody. Just murdering, yeah. Killing whole prisons. Right. No remorse whatsoever. No consequence either, really. Yeah, it just becomes second-name.

nature to you. I think then it's just like if someone gets on your nerves in a little bit, right? You just kill them. Yeah. Yeah, God. That's really dark and also very true, though. And then, and then they don't even feel it. It's kind of got like contract killers. There's no way they even know it. They don't care. Yeah. It's like a, like a Barry. That show was great. It did a good job of being like the numbness of that guy. It was just like, yeah, I don't mean, but it's just a thing to do is to kill somebody. Yeah, it seems like it's not a thing that sets you every time. It's like a door you walk through, right? Probably. You're either on one side or the other of that door, you know.

Well, there is a hole. There is a gap for a new black serial killer, Ron. So if you ever do quit stand-up, which I hope you don't. I don't plan on it, but if I do, yeah, I'll start murdering, why not? I got no other type of education, so I don't get backup plans. Well, I think, do you think comedians are the

least educated entertainers? Probably, yeah. Probably. Yeah, probably. Yeah, probably. Right? God, that sucks. Because a lot of musicians, right, went to schools of music. right? Like we have a lot of friends that went to school of music

Yeah, and a lot of actors would go to school to act but not a lot of comedians. I would argue there's probably more comedians that are high school dropouts than any other entertaining profession.

Yeah, I would say that. I mean, musicians would probably be up there too, though. Yeah. But then more than the 70s, 80s style of musicians where they would just like drop out and form a band in high school.

Yeah, but now... Now it's different. It's just a different world. Yeah. Yeah, it's like now... Like I saw Will Farrell's kid is in a band. He's very, very talented.

And you're like, of course, wouldn't it be? You know what I mean? Like a well-to-do smart educated kid and then you're like, you know, his dad obviously put him in a good position to win. But then you see him and you go, well, and he's very good too. It's also beautiful to have that also be a different discipline. It's not like he was like, well, you're going to be a comedian.

I was a comedian. That would be. Instead, he like found the thing that he's as good at or as passionate at. He's very good. Yeah, no, he's very good. What if your kid said to you, I want to be a comic? I would love it. Really?

Cool. I mean, I would be like, we better start your YouTube channel today. Now. Yeah. Yeah, start it for the four-year-old. Yeah, do it. Yeah, he's a real ham. If anyone's going to do it, it'd probably be him.

He would, huh? Oh, he loves, like, just acting out to an invisible camera. Like, he's got great timing. He's, like, he's very funny. Do you think he emulates you when you, does he see you do stuff and tries to do what you do? Some of it, yeah, and some of it's just natural. Some of it's just, So he's just in his core.

Yeah. Isn't that fascinating where that shit comes from? Like, where did yours come from? Mine came from just loving comedy at an early age of just watching. I think growing up in Chicago, you get a lot of access to different art early, right?

Yeah. So I'd go to Tate of Chicago, go to different events, and you'd see these opening comics and seeing like Shucky Ducky, you know, knowing that Bernie Mac was there when I was young, and you just see all this comedy

and I just fell in love with it. I was watching. I love Lucy because we'd always have those local channels and watching WGN and so I'd watch I love Lucy, watch Benny Hill, watch Green Acres and I just like the rhythm, the music or comedy.

Green Acres, it's the place to be. It is. Terrible show. Yeah, it was really bad, wasn't it? The theme song was quite good. It really held it all. I think that was the whole thing. The glue that held that show on. Yeah, it was the theme. It's the place to be. It's so weird that it got stuck in my mind like that. It was almost

like those cues. It was like Pavlov You know? Like I don't even know why I would watch it but you would it was there you just like did it for some reason Yeah, because it's on MASH put me to sleep almost every night down also overrated terrible show. It's awful I know the older generation like thought that was entertaining I remember when MASH came on I meant everything I liked was done yeah exactly you're like TV's over for the day Yeah, mash is a cue card to be like all right guys let's wrap it up MASH was the light yeah if MASH was the light that it was like we gotta be done with all this stuff If you're desperate enough to watch my ass, go ahead.

Although sometimes if I was awake enough, I'd just go get cereal and, like, suffer through some of it. I remember not getting it. No. I just didn't, I was like, something's missing in it. Because it always seemed so sad, and there was always, like, someone was dying. Always. And then none of the, I don't remember there being a single, like, set up punch line besides

one of the, you know, guys pretending to be gay. And that was the only one who had, like, said. Yeah, they did have jokes. Yeah. That's really funny. Everything else was yeah, everything else was kind of dismal. Also to revisit The War like that and a television show you I mean you could never pitch that today. Yeah, it's so funny. It's like nobody wants to relive war all we're living in war and nobody wants to like also go to bed at night and be like you want to watch a show about war I don't think so man. You want to see what they're going through. Oh yeah, I think it's pretty scary. I don't think I want to deal with that fucking shit anymore. Yeah, MASH was the cue. MASH was the TV's over for the day. Did you have were there was there shows in your house? that you weren't allowed to watch as a kid? Yeah, Married with Children was a thing I missed because we weren't allowed to watch it.

My mom was no fucking way. Yeah. And I'd have to sneak it. I think that is actually a very rebootable show. No, 100%. Yeah. That would be so fun right now because to me in my head is like, oh, okay, very clearly the Al Bundy character hated the wife of the other character

because they were both gay and like he wasn't out and she wasn't out and like he wanted to be with the husband. 100% and he hated his wife and she wanted to be with Peg. That's how I would reboot that entire show. That's so funny. Yeah.

Just make these two... Well, because that they were best friends in love. Yeah. Obviously. Yeah. Yeah. That's really good. That's a very good...

Is he still a shoe salesman though? Why not? Oh, because it doesn't exist anymore. That's true. Now he's an Amazon driver. Yeah, that would be... We'd be so pissed off. Yes.

Yes. You have to give him more obstacles to make him still mad at the entire world. So, like, that would have to be... Yeah, he's a driver all of every. He's Amazon, Uber. And Bud is a... And Bud is a Twitch streamer who's, like, really successful on Twitch. Yeah.

And what was Kelly, Christine Applegate's character? Yeah, only fans. Only fans. Yeah. I mean, there's just... The show writes itself, really, at this point. And then what was the neighbor's name again? Ted?

No, no. Uh, fuck. I feel like it might have been Ted. Yeah, might have been. What does Ted do for a living? We have to figure this out. I don't remember. I think he was.

was a pretty boy who didn't have a job. Yeah, but in this world, in this world, he's a health influencer. Yeah. He's a health and fitness. The amount of health and wellness influencers, it's amazing. I'm in awe of how many people are like,

I drop my 9 to 5. I'm now a health and fitness influencer. I'm like, there's tens of thousands of amount of the internet. It kind of makes me feel good about having a regular body. I feel totally fine with my body. Everyone's struggling to become this thing.

oh I'm good dude I'm just gonna stay baseline if baseline is this is baseline I'm fucking fine I just got my blood work done from the doctor he's like you're fine I was like great yeah feels good I'm great he was like nothing I wasn't peaking on anything anymore I could I could take down my medication dose um because I have my family has super high cholesterol and like my whole fucking family and so I was taking it and I was like working on getting rid of it a little bit and he's like you're fucking great we can go down a little bit and I was like huge win that's beautiful that's what I live right now like I don't only pills I take are for like

finasteride and monoxide and monoxide for hair for hair yeah yeah we have to stay on those for the rest of our lives we don't even have a choice but then I'm on I'm on statin for the old for the cholesterol but now I'm getting it way down if not off completely so I'm excited about

that that's what rappers need to talk about yeah getting that stet and dose down yeah yeah you got that statin dose down yeah five milligram crew yeah tell me yeah tell me about which where you got your hair transplant at the turkey

which one did you go to that's how you bawling that's how you balling that's how you know if you're really doing it yeah you're like you know if you're killing you went to Ashley Tarkin dude

we need to make an old guy rap crew that's fucking incredible there should be a voice for the elderman because we don't have it anymore and instead of fighting the whole fight about like now I just want to listen to Nas and Rakim and an older

generation. I still try to get into the young shit, but I do feel like it's disingenuous sometimes. Who is the newest rapper? Well, who do I? Like, who's on my radar now? Yeah, that you like. Hmm. O.T. Genesis. Okay. I don't feel like that's new, but I like that. New to me. Okay. Yeah. O.T. Genesis is relatively younger than what I'm, because I would say, like, most of my shit is like 90s, early 2000, very early 2000s. Okay. I'll recommend... You give me anybody. Two people who I like.

They're both not... I wouldn't call Young. There's Larry June, who is... I think I know Larry June. Larry June's tremendous. He's my favorite rapper. And he's like, usually my inspiration for his, like, business and merch. Like, he's, like, just selling great shit and shit that looks cool. And then his whole vibe is, like, easy to get behind and seems authentic. That's like Freddie Gibbs to me.

Yeah. Gibbs might be one of the best, like, artist to make art physical and audio art. Like his life is combined. Do you know what I mean? Like it's a really good combination. Yeah, that's what I tried. Yeah, I mean, that's actually one of my biggest influences when I started comedy

was the rapper currency because I liked that when I would listen to his rap, he would just rap about, he rapped about an episode of the real world. Where you were talking about, you just want me out the house, like the episode where they got David kicked out. And I was like, fuck. And to me, it really was like, it informed the way I write where it was like, oh, you can like rap at this base level

where you're just rhyming and stuff. And that's the same as like set up punchline with comedy. But also I can hide these little things that if you know, you go, oh, fuck, I know exactly what they're talking about. And so I do that now a lot. I've been doing that my whole career. Yeah, you have. And so even now that I have this joke where I just talk about like being famous.

But I'm like, I go, I'm not like, I'm a bench, I'm like Brian Scalabrini. It's my guy Yeah, yeah I'm not up there But like I'll bust your ass Yeah, yeah yeah I'll fuck everybody up in the room

Yeah, yeah I'm not starting five Yeah, exactly I'll take a bell I'll take it off the bench He's actually so nasty by the way Yeah, exactly He's so good

That's the whole point And so whenever I do that joke Some people laugh a little bit But then there's always Three, four people Who laugh a lot Because they know the reference And they know

That would get me Yeah, yeah Scalabrine And then I would say For the BFB The Pacman He's funny he's enjoyable

and he just makes these silly lines and I think you would like him okay I'm you gotta write these down I remember this because I'm forgetting older do like Coast Contra I do love Coast Contra yeah they see that reminds me of stuff we grew up with

that like that I love like crews because I think a crew kind of faded away into a lot of individuals so there was a lot of like me-me-stuff yeah well I mean mostly now similar I feel like all these industries kind of mirror

these each other and so when they're at their height I'm like oh it's cool we're doing good too like wrestling and comedy and hip-hop sometimes we're all all hit these beats at the same time and now it feels like they're all at these very like these valleys at the same time where there isn't that much great mainstream rap there's actually people most artists don't even want to call themselves rappers anymore yeah that's weird why nobody wants to say rap anymore yeah because it seems old right well maybe yeah they seem like it's pigeonholing them into something and they don't want to be. Yeah.

Yeah, I guess that's very true. I think Lil Wayne had a, did something I just on the internet about that where he's like, I don't want to be titled. Don't like push me into a namesake. But I guess that's the same thing. You're right. It does parallel because you're not just a comedian.

You're not just an actor. You're not, like, you're a very multifaceted entertainer. So you are a comic at your core, but you don't have to be. Yeah. You're Ron punches. Oh, I have to pay my mortgage. I do.

Well, you can do. but you can do any version of that art that you want, especially in the live performance aspect. You could get away with doing one, not the other. You could do both. Well, that's why I love about doing. That's been a big, I never wanted to be a specialist because I find it highly frustrating.

And all my friends who are seem to be getting very frustrated, because they bust their head against the wall. And they're like, oh, let me self-fund this special. And now I'm 60 grand in the hole. And people are passing on it, even know it's good, but they're giving special. to people who didn't put in the effort for it and it's just like oh that's a tell us old as time

and I choose just not get mad at it and instead be like oh that's why I have voice act acting whatever is working I head that way so if I'm getting a lot of voice acting roles then I'll do that if I have to go to Budapest for six weeks and work with Arnold Schwarzenegger fuck yeah if I'm just on the road

doing shows with my friends that's also fucking amazing what's a Schwarzenegger thing it's a movie called The Kellys is gonna be it's an Amazon MGM movie It stars Liam Hemsworth, Gina Davis, Abby Elliott, Kelsey, last name, is hard for me to remember, but she's amazing actress. And then Arnold Schwarzenegger is in it and it me. And so that's cool, yeah.

And you and Arnold, do you go toe to toe in a couple of scenes? Yeah. Is that fun? Yeah. Yeah, that's got to be cool. It was real cool. What an interesting character, man. Did you ever have spent time with them off the...

Not much time off set, but, like, I got to talk to him a little bit on set and just, like, you learn a lot about how the way people act on set, you know, and to see this guy, he's 78 years old, and, like, we're doing mostly night shoots and, like, him be there and be on, and him, as you would know, I always just put this to someone who works, like, he did the, he stayed for off-camera work.

Huge. Yeah. That's pretty rare of a guy of his caliber, I guess, because I shouldn't say that. It happens... Well, that caliber in that age. In that age, I guess, is what I mean. It's more that it's a preservative.

of time for some people. But that's pretty huge. For people that don't know, it's just when you're shooting coverage, when you're shooting just on run, if it's just on run, a lot of times the actor, like, in my position, sometimes chooses to not be there

and you read with someone else, which is not fun, which is very not fun, because you're not going to really get good enough reactions that you want out of the other actor, but some people choose to not stand in for those things,

which I find a little fucking weird. Talk to a tennis ball. Yeah. And make you talk to a tennis ball on a sea stand, which is one of the most annoying thing. I remember, like, early on in my career.

It happened a few times and I thought, well, what the fuck you want me to act to a tennis ball? Yeah. And they're like, yeah, you're an actor. You can act. You're like, I know, but don't you want to feel me feeling someone else? Yeah. You know what I mean?

Yeah, it's such a big difference. It was a thing. I was watching that clip that comes up a lot of that Will Smith when he did his best acting where he, why don't he want me, man? You know, when he's leaving his dad. And I've always watched Will Smith in that scene and something that,

Somebody posted it, and I chose to watch James Avery. And I was like, oh, it is not off camera. He's on cam, but like the way that James Avery shows compassion to Will in that scene that allows Will to quickly go from like the most angry he's ever been to suddenly crying is like a lot of his own will and you got to give Will to respect. But like James like Ali Uped it to him. Oh yeah. And it's like, and if you don't have a good scene partner like that, it's so much harder.

Way harder. And I always, and the more I act, more I look at that type of stuff and just see people like James and that was one of the things, but I saw that when I was on this movie being like, man, I'm the black guy

in an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, like Reginaldville Johnson, like these like that like Simbad, like you know, it's a rare treat. Yeah, it is, it is. It is. And that's good that you get cemented yourself and recognized it too.

Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. That's fucking huge. That's awesome. I hate to see. say the word proud because I think it's it's it sounds demeaning but I am proud of you like there's certain people that you're like we've been together for a long time we've seen each other work for years

and years but it's nice to see people that you're proud of their success or their work that you're like oh yeah like if someone asks if someone's like you know Ron Funches and I always say no I don't like that but it is fun it is it is cool to see especially because as we slide up into this scale of this thing you know the new new comes in right you know where we have an expiration date we're on the shelves. But I think like it's cool now because you get to you get to pick and really be confident in it versus you know for years you're kind of just like what do you want me to do? What do you need me to do? What can I do? Yeah, I think that's the blessing again of also trying to be multifaceted and have your own business so you're not like I became one of the

things when I wanted to start losing weight and stuff was becoming aware of like oh they'll just find someone else who looks like me who they'll put it in the thing find a Ron Func's type which they have and then they'll just find someone cheaper and younger and I was like oh I have

to build my own shit because that day will come and I think so many people aren't aware of that they're like oh I'll always be able to do that and I'm fully aware even my manager talk about all the time where we had this conversation the other day we were like well we're not at the beginning in my career she's like no you're about at least halfway done now

Hey, but halfway's good Halfway's good I like halfway If I'm in a workout And I know I'm doing an hour And some change And I'm just over the 30 minute I'm like, we did it

We're good, we're good We cruise a little bit for a second Yeah As long as cool things keep happening And I don't feel like That I'm at You can kind of tell When you're like

Oh I'm not getting better anymore And I feel like I'm getting better and better No you're getting much better I think you're getting stronger too Last time I saw you on stage too the guy is uh no you're i think you're on the up it's it's an upslope thank you

it's up it's up it's up it's half but it's up yeah it's half it's up it's half and up what's that what's that phrase who was the actor he probably fucking knows it was a famous actor that said um i'll use your name as an example at the beginning this is the scope of an actor's career it goes uh who is ron fanches uh get me ron fanches get me someone that's like

Ron Funchus and who the fuck is Ron Funchus. So this is like the arc of actors. It's like, don't know who you are, really want you. Get me someone like him, but cheaper. And then the last stage is, who's Ron Funchus? Yeah. And you're like, that's kind of it.

But right now, you're right in between the give me Ron Funches, get me someone like Ron Funchus. Yeah. That's a good place to be. It's not bad. Yeah. Yeah. No, it's cool. I like I'm doing things. I just look at the evidence and just be like, oh, I'm adding more shows, never had to do that more.

It's awesome. Selling out shows. I'm traveling to more countries to do shows. So things are at the up and up and at the same time I had to like slim down stuff because I had a divorce so I had to like bring down my employees, bring out stuff. I'm in a weird spot where it both

feels like, oh, I'm at the closest to things popping off and I'm at the closest to things falling apart as I've ever been. And that's not a bad spot. It feels actually very invigorating and it's made me focus a lot It made me more aware of my business, where I was just kind of letting things go before and just kind of floating and trust and stuff. And now I'm more in charge of everything and building my own things and building my own YouTube and having that instead of just being like, oh, just wait till another job comes.

Or if my material is good enough, they'll give me a special. I'm not like, you know, I don't believe I'm waiting for that stuff. No waiting, keep working. Yeah. You're selling out shows and you're adding more shows. and you're adding more shows, and I want everyone to go see Ron. Ron's going to be touring around the United Kingdom,

as well as Amsterdam. The tickets are always probably at Ron Funches.com, but if you can't find him there, just type in Ron Funch's Want to See Him Live. Yeah, but don't go to the website that's like pretending to be me in charge. They're trying to charge like extra ticket, like $200 for $200 for a ticket.

Yeah. Really? What is it? I don't know the name of the site. Well, don't give it out. I don't want anybody to go. But go to Ron Funchers.com and get the ticket.

And by the way, if you have time on the side... The tickets are more than $40, then you're probably in the wrong side. If you're paying $485 for tickets, you're not going to go see Ron. I hope you know that. You're going to see somebody else. But go to Ron Funches.com and buy those tickets and go see him on the road. You're not just touring the UK. You come back and you turn around the States too.

Yeah, I'm going everywhere. Did you name this tour? Yeah, I call it a faithful tour because I'm trying to capitalize off the fact that I did the traders and write that for the six months. Might as well. Yeah. Might as well. Who gives a shit?

Yeah. If it's there, might as well do it. Go to Ron Funcheon.com, see the man live. One of the nicest, funniest, coolest humans I know here in our little tiny world. We end the show the same way around. You look into that camera. You give me one word or one phrase to end the episode.

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