Who Are These Podcasts? - Ep733 - FU Friday, Joe Matarese, Artie Fletcher, Jerry Banfield

Episode Date: June 7, 2026

Joe Matarese just dropped episode 3 of his new show about forcing his wife to move to Philadelphia. In this episode we’re helping Joe figure out where he’s going to go on vacation. And then he announces that he’s going to completely change the show format. Thank God Dan is there to help him focus a little bit. Jim from Jim and Them joins the show and gives Joe a call to provide some feedback on his podcast. Sam Tripoli got into a whole discussion about the Dabbleverse and gets most of it right. Opie is raising money for his dental bill and apparently Kevin Brennan has some questions about it. As soon as Opie finds out that KB is paying attention he’s triggered and it bothers him for the entire stream. Jerry Banfield explains that the secret to happiness is to do everything wrong in life and pretend everything is great. Delusion = contentment. Artie Fletcher, a huge celebrity and amazing talent, somehow ended up on Alive and Kickin’ with Leesa Marie Benz. It turns out, this is exactly where he belongs because he's a lying liar! We finish up with Internet News and your voicemails. Jim and Them - https://www.youtube.com/@JimandThemShow Support us, get bonus episodes, and watch live every Saturday and Wednesday: ⁠⁠http://bit.ly/watp-patreon⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://watp.supercast.tech/⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Patreon.com Slash for the bonus shows And it helps support the program. We do two bonus episodes every single month, so we do appreciate that. Also, we encourage our listeners. Give us five stars where every review podcasts and then shit all over us in the comment section. Today, we'll be reviewing Joe Metterisa's Road Back to Philly episode three, Opie's FU Friday, Jerry Banfield's latest delusional insanity, Ardy Fletcher on a live and kicking. I'm excited for all of this. Jim is a big Opie fan, and he was on this show on a

Wednesday show for a segment. We were talking about Corey Feldman. And then I was on Jim show, not too long ago, when they were doing a marathon weekend. And I know that you were into Opian Anthony. Do you know Joe Matarice at all? Is he on your radar at all? I do. I know Joe Matarise a little bit.

I remember because I was trying to, when you had mentioned Matarise, I was looking him up. And I do remember a lot of the fixing Joe stuff and kind of like there was like a lot of the Reddit stuff. and I remember he was on compound and that was like a whole thing. So I have more of a surface level, but I know he's basically a laughing stock fool. Like a dumb ass. He's got that way. He was a guy, though.

There was a time when he was on America's Got Talent. He was on the Howard Stern show. He was well respected by the other comedians and he was giggling regularly and, you know, passed at the cellar and all those places. And then he met his wife. Mm-hmm. and his wife was like, you're out of control.

We're going to get you on some medication because she's like a therapist or something. Mm-hmm. So she just changed his personality completely, and now he's lost. And everything he does is just asking other people how he should love his life. Just tell me what to do, and I'll do it.

It is chronic. It's all crowdsourcing. Is it also a situation where she's kind of the breadwinner, right? So just like allows him to not to kind of coast almost. Like it's not like, I mean, he gets to do his comedy. I mean, I don't know if he's well, like if he's a well respected standout, if people go and buy tickets or not.

But just like perusing his channel, it seems like one of these guys where he's like, I need a new, I need a new concept. I need a new podcast. It's like the, I get it for number one. You don't need a podcast people.

Like comedians out there, I mean, you can have a podcast, but if you have a podcast, it's not going well, just stopping that podcast and trying to come up with a new concept. Like, well, this time I'm talking about dishwashers. Yeah.

Like no one cares, you know what I mean? Yeah, I mean, I don't like that advice because you're kind of fucking up my whole gig over here. I'm talking about the podcast you suck at it. I think you should push through Sarah Silverman. Hey, Sarah Silverman, come back. I think we can pull this off. Don't quit on me. Coming up, dishwashers.

So did I not send out the fucking Patreon link either, Missy B? Am I screwing everything up? Boomer. Oh, man, FU Saturday, Carl. What the fuck are you doing, man? Dude's hung over from last night still. So I got an email from Joe Mattoree. I'm on his mailing list, which is great.

Because it reminds me what he's up to. And he's up to a lot right now. This email subject line is two shows, two podcasts, one busy Joe. He fucking loves the two girls. So many people do. But he uses it for not only his podcast title, three friends, one booth. This other show. But then he also uses it for the subject line of his email and check this email out.

It says, Hi everybody. I've got a big week coming up, and I'd love to see you. First up, I'm doing something a little different on Friday, June 12th at Studio 67 in Medford, New Jersey. This is an intimate 60-seat show, which means you'll be ridiculously close to the stage. If you've ever wanted to see me work on new material, tell stories, take some chances, take stand-up requests from the audience, and occasionally stare at my notes, like I'm cramming for a final exam. This is the night. Stand-up request.

Tell some jokes. You know, shit. This fucking guy. It's always trying to be everything to everyone. Yeah. So many stipulations. And yeah, I mean, he is putting himself in the realm of someone like a Brian Regan who has, you know, people yell out bit. Like, oh, my favorite bit.

Like, oh, my God, I can't wait to see Joe Matterese, like, live and in person up close and personal. Now, one thing I did want to ask because I was perusing his thing. I mean, it doesn't take long to realize his thing is like, hey, South Jersey, Philly. what, here's what a dad does when he's in South Jersey and he might be heading to Philly. Like is that, is he kind of the, fuck, who's that, he's like the Nate Bargazzi of, of South Jersey. He's trying to be. He's trying to be. His comedy, so we went to see him at the Comedy Club here in Rochester.

He played the smaller room, which is probably a 60-person room like he's talking about here. Yeah. You know, I didn't think it's that special. And he seemed to know that we were there, but whatever. So what he's been. doing that with his act, which is so crazy. He's getting so specific that he'll talk about neighborhoods and

cross streets. And it'll be like, yeah, you know, like when you pass the coffee shop on 67th, and then he gets to the pizza place, people with the crowd, like, yeah. All right. It's bizarre. Yeah, he's pretending he's, because that's like what guys do when they get like a big

corporate gig, and the guy will tell him, like, hey, our boss is Joey. Joey really likes pizza. Make sure you bring it up during the set. So I guess he's just kind of playing that out with his 60-seater stand-up acts. Well, there's a reason why he's able to do this. We'll get to that momentarily.

But first, let's talk about the format of Joe Metterice's road back to Philly. Because he came out with episode one. He's like, guys, in four and a half years, my daughter graduates. I'm in New Rochelle. My wife and I live in a $1.2 million house in New Rochelle. And I want to move back to Philly or South Jersey. And you, your guys help. How do I convince my wife to move?

where's we moved to. Right. So he needs us to give him this information. And then episode two, he's talking about bullies in school and who got the most chicks. And did you go to school of the guy who got laid? What? What just happened? So, go ahead.

Well, I was just going to say, what I love about this, because, again, I mean, I want to you and I respect it. I understand I've been a podcast for a long time. And maybe I'm foolish because I just kind of made a show. And I didn't have a hook until I guess we started talking about Cory Feldman. So I'm kind of dumb. But I love that it's almost like building a TV show where when you, when you build a TV show, you build like a lookbook and like a almost like you have a pathway, like a map. Right.

And so he's like, all right, this is great. I got four years in the making. But I swear, knowing what I know about him, he did like two episodes. He's like, fuck, now what? Shit. I got four years of this shit. Right. It's not like how I met your mother.

We're like, yeah, this can go out for five or six seasons. This is a long story. this guy's telling you know but this is just like you're going to talk for her four to half years about moving to Philadelphia and he gives us some information in episode three at the very top of this that I don't think he shared with us before which kind of changes a lot as long as she could get to Columbia Medical Center once every couple weeks because that's all she really goes there her sister lives in new Rochelle where we live he's talking about his wife I should have set that better because he's got to convince his wife who likes a new Rochelle. Listen to

listen to all the reasons why she probably doesn't want to go to Philly. She really goes there. Her sister lives in New Rochelle where we live. Her other sister lives in New Rochelle also. Her mom lives in New Rochelle. Her parents are divorced. So her dad lives in Harrison. He's remarried. You're all caught up. You're all caught up. And that's kind of the goal in this podcast. is how do I figure out how to have her let me do it? I mean, she doesn't seem like she wants to do it. I got to be honest. This podcast probably hasn't helped because I started doing it.

And then her friends started contacting her thinking she was moving right away. Of course, her mom. Her friends watch my shit way more than my wife or kids watch any of my content. Do you know what your husband just said on the internet? Exactly, yeah. Do you know what Joe is up to? Are you, why aren't you rating Joe in? And I love that he probably has had the argument.

And his wife's like, I don't know, you're putting this idea out there that we're going to be moving to Philly in four years. And he's like, no, you got to see the vision, you know, at about episode 25, we have you on. You're very against it. And then maybe around episode 45, you're kind of rethinking it. And maybe you want to go to Philly. I like I really can see. We should do a road trip in episode 37 where we visit some of these neighborhoods. Yeah.

Yes. Oh, I love it. The thing that I didn't know about this, and I've been watching the show, so that came out, because I'm a big Joe Mattarice guy, as you know. I didn't realize that, because he's like,

we lived in Westchester, and then we found a house in New Rochelle. I didn't realize that she moved to be with her family. Both of her sisters and her mom lived there. She's not going to Philly. Yeah, I didn't know that either. Right. She works in Manhattan.

She's right down, you know, she takes the, she commutes down to Manhattan for work, and all of her family lives in her town. Yeah. And he goes, you're all caught up. That's all you need to know. So the podcast is over?

Yeah, right. So it's not happening that. Because I'm not going to convince his wife if he can't convince her. Well, and you know what I'm realizing too? Because I guess I'm kind of dumb. Like I was assuming that he lived somewhere far away. So wait, is he just in, he's in New York or something? Yeah, it's a two-hour commute to Philadelphia for him.

That's all right. That's what I was going to. All right. Because in my mind, I'm like, oh, he's in California or something. And he's building up this idea of moving across the country in a few years. So yeah, it's literally just a couple hours away. Oh, that's even better. He can visit whenever the fuck he wants.

He was complaining. So his wife has to be to work, and he was complaining, he's like, yeah, but when I wanted to go to a Phillies game, it takes me like two hours to get there. Oh, my God. That's insane. He's got a producer, Dan,

and Dan does a great job on the show. Of course, this is not live. It is pre-recorded and edited, but they still do stuff like this. Did I cause that? I don't know if I caused that. I might have caused. Pause, pause.

Bring your volume just a smid more. Bring my volume down a smidge. that's my producer up oh up a smidge that's my producer dan rubio who's out there in uh in uh in uh Iowa or uh salt lake city Iowa Utah Utah Utah Utah Utah everybody you different Jim he claimed you difference between Iowa and Utah because of a learning disability that he has I think it's a side effect from one of the pills no shit selling city Iowa right where do these people find these people like it's amazing to me.

Yeah, I guess, yeah, do you just put, you put feelers out there on Craigslist? Does he need this guy? If the guy's remote and he has to tell him to adjust, like the guy's not even the guy can adjust the levels on his end or something. Like, it's so bizarre. If Dan is a producer on the show, wouldn't they work that out before the show starts? Yes. Get the volume right and then he'd go.

I don't know. Or edit this out, but you know they probably thought like, no, no, this is kind of cute. Like this shows, this gives us a chance to have some banter. Like, you're a character on the show with me, you know. That's, we'll have a little back and forth about it. Maybe who knows? Like, you've got to help me with my volume every episode. This could be like a recurring thing.

So you see Joe sitting here with these big glasses on. And he thinks he has a certain look. I look sporty. Like, I could hit threes in these glasses. I use them to play softball and baseball. Those glasses look sporty to anyone? We saw that we were just like, is this guy a professional baseball player? Yeah, he's acting like he has like the goggles that like Horace Grant or whoever used to wear or something like that.

He's like, yeah, you could see me out there, sinking threes. I got sports jerseys behind me. I'm in my man cave. We're going back to Philly. This is great. It's in his man corner. In his wife's basement. He only gets a corner.

But I love that he goes right from like, don't I look sporty into a very private disagreement he had with his wife. And I have him on now. because I like to see what I'm doing my podcast. So, so, yeah, we don't know. We don't know. My wife's just, I don't know, she's not on board with the move. I say, you know, I always say, like we've lived near your friends and family. I like to live near my friends and family, especially towards the end of my parents' life.

I'd like to be near them, even though those are probably the hardest years to live near your parents, right? This is a weird conversation to bring us in on. It's, yeah, well, and also, I mean, I, I, I, I, keep coming back to the concept, because can you just imagine a guy who, you know, I guess like a Northeastern dude, because I assume this was his target audience is like a Northeastern dad, you know, Philly, Jersey, New York, you know, that's like, damn, I can't wait to see what's going to go down on the road back to Philly next week. I can't wait to hear about the arguments he's having with his wife and her parents about

this. Now's a good time to tell you this episode has 107 views. Ooh. So I don't think it's getting the audience as excited as maybe you're projecting here. Well, it's the classic. I mean, I just, the classic, it's those hundred guys.

I mean, of course, we know those 107 views are not 100 guys. But, you know, I just picture a guy with a hard hat on grabbing his lunch pail, like in firing up the road back to Philly. He's like,

you got to, when you get to Philly, you got to hang out with me. I want to hang out with Joe Matarice when he gets back to Philly. We could be buds. There is an interactive aspect to the show. which I'll get into momentarily. But first we got to remind everyone that Joe really is stupid.

Oh, Bermuda. Bermuda does. I did a cruise to Bermuda. And that blew me away, the rock formations in the water. Just like it felt like you were in another country. It didn't feel close to the United States. Imagine that. He's amazing.

The premise of this episode is that he's going on a summer vacation with two other families. There's 13 of them in total. And so they're looking at rental properties. And there's kids there. The youngest is nine. So there's a mixture of kids and adults. And they want to be by the beach and by the water. And so Joe's looking at different rental properties.

And they start pulling up. You ask why Joe's on here. Or why Dan's on here. Dan was sent all these Airbnbs that Joe was looking at. And he's going to start pulling them up. And so now we have to help Joe pick which rental property. Oh, my God. How much was that one?

So this one looks right. I've never really been to LBI, everybody. So like we'll see what the call. I have some voicemails. 14, $14,500 for the week. Yeah. So think about that.

That's $14.5. It was one bed short, though. See, could you do that? If you had 13 people, could you get a house for 12 people and make it work? And we're talking, we're talking five grand, five grand a family. Like, that's not cheap. That's not cheap.

Would you spend five grand and still have to, like, occasionally one person has to sleep on an air mattress for that much money? I mean, I don't know. I know your family. I don't know the situation, man. How can we possibly know the answer to that? This is riveting. I was going to call them out because I was like, are they going to at least show these properties? Do you know what?

I'm going to give you props for that, Joe, and whoever that Colombian man was that was in the picture, picture. but yeah this is riveting stuff it's like now well what are we looking at and is it going to be is it near the train are we going to have to walk to the beach or whatever yeah they look at the distance to walk to the beach they see if there's restaurants by there this is the kind of shit they're doing and personally I hate doing this but I have to do it because you know we do these uh trips with w ATP and I'm always picking out Airbnb's promise to stay at and you have to you know, find my favorites and then go back and look again and see what works. It's tedious.

Yes. But Carl, you're clearly leaving money on the table. This is a Patreon show. Like, oh, WATP travels and then here you are with different tabs open. Like, where are we staying? Is this near the venue? Is this where does this have a good recording area where we can maybe set up a quick mobile studio? Oh, people would love it.

I'm seeing this as like probably a 12-hour stream that we do on Patreon only. it's going to be riveting. So Joe has to crowdsource everything in his life. And he needs everyone's advice and help with everything. And that's what Dan's here for. When you look at the actual location, right? So they're like, they're like by the ocean area. You're like a realtor, Dan.

Yeah. All we're seeing is a pin on a map. And he's like, so I'm. I'm looking at this location, and it's by the, it's that blue stuff. Oh, the ocean. Cool. Oh, man, is that like a real-time picture? Are we looking at, uh, satellite image?

Yeah, you tap it into satellites? Yeah, dad, I didn't even realize. This is crazy. So do you have your real estate license? How did you figure this out? Dan didn't sign on for this. It's so funny. But let's get more into vacation planning.

I think we need to be here for it. There's a shower. And it's 14,500. So that, see, this is the thing. When you spend more money, though, Dan, it's usually because it's better. It's not because it's worse.

But I mean, I guess the question is like, you know, like for me, when I look at this, I'm like, oh, am I wanting to spend my time out in traveling? But even then, you're still going to have to get in the car to some degree. Well, here's the other thing when you need to know, Dan,

because I didn't throw this into the picture. LBI Beach Haven is an hour and a half from our house here in New York. It's one of the closest beach areas, and we've never done it. These are two people who don't know each other at all. This is the third episode they've done together. And now they're helping play each other's vacations. Yeah. Yeah.

And I can't help because you said Dan Rubio, is that his name? I can't help, but when I'm looking at him, I'm trying to picture like, oh, what's his Twitch? channel or does he do a Star Wars reaction show or something like he must do something like that and he stumbled into now planning the vacation of uh of matter ease here and what I love about this also is this is clearly I feel like he pitched this at a certain point as a sitcom for him like some sort of sitcom vehicle sitcom vehicle of like you know I'm a dad and it's all about how I'm trying to get my wife to go back to Philly and you know anyone he told

was like, oh, it's a great idea, but no, no, thank you. He's like, fine, we'll just make it a podcast then. That'll be proof of concept. You're probably right. You're probably right, because a couple decades ago, he did move out to L.A. and had a development deal with NBC that never went anywhere. And so, yeah, it's probably how he's thinking about this. Yeah.

Yeah, the story arc that he's going to have. Well, that's not a podcast, though. And also, well, I have to imagine, I mean, whatever pittance he might be paying this guy, or do you think he's paying him, or do you think this is like an expose? or a resume thing? Oh, that's a great question. We should leave a voicemail to ask that. Does he have?

What do you pay him? Ah, right. Yeah, because it's like, I have to imagine, you know, if he does pay him something, but then he's, he is using this to rope him in almost as a travel agent as well. He's like, all right, you know, I'm going to, I'm going to double up my funds here because not only am I getting some podcast production, but now I'm also getting, you know, travel advice from someone that doesn't know what he's talking about. I just thought, you don't be really funny.

The way this ended was like, all right, so can you put down the deposit on this on your card? I'm good for it, Dan, but if you just snap that for me now, I don't want to lose it. It'd be a lot easier if you, I mean, you're already logged into the system, right? You're the one doing that. Dan has a pretty good question, and I have some thoughts about this. you know obviously if you're looking for solo time as an adult i think and you have the flexibility i don't need that like we i gave up on that does show dick even work anymore i have a feeling the medication he's had like he's edited in his wife for jerking off and he's just like i don't

give a shit man okay well it sucks yeah i don't care i just i i need to be around people because otherwise i'm alone with my thoughts and that's a nightmare Yes, right? I think that's why he has to have a producer out here. I just need someone to talk to you, man. I need someone. Please, don't let me in the hell of my own mind. So when he launched the show, he sent on an email to his email list because I got it.

And he said, the format's going to be this. I'm going to interact with voicemailers, which is not how voicemails work. He can't interact, but whatever. So he's going to have people call his voicemail line. He's going to play those on the show. He used to do this with fixing Joe, too. He was really big into voicemails, you know? I got it.

He's crowdsourcing everything. So aside for the voicemail segment. I don't know. All right. Let's go to some of the callers. I'm curious. I put these voicemails out. A lot of you guys didn't call this week.

This was a light week. I didn't get about six or seven good ones. So last week we had a lot more. The number is always put in your phone. The number is always because you can always leave other shit if you want to ask me something else. This is funny. He's already changed the rules of the voicemail number. If you remember, he goes, you got to follow me on social media.

I'll let you know what to call me about. Because these are recorded and then they don't air for another three weeks. So we don't know what's going on in his life at the time. So he'll tell us on Instagram, I guess. I'm putting it in my phone right now. Yeah, yeah, definitely put that at 914-731-0-0-0-08. So now he's saying, just call me and say hello or something. I know what's calling the show anymore.

You can. It's 911-7-1-0-0-0. 08. Put that in your phone. That's probably going to be on the screen when I say this in the episode. Oh, man. Well, and it's very similar. I don't know if you're familiar at all with Mr.

show, the Bob and David show. They had a sketch. It was like the pre-taped call-in show. It's a very funny sketch. It just ends up in a loop where the guy's frustrated because, again, yeah, if you're telling someone to call in with voicemails about your current topic, but then a week later, they're calling in about something else and you're getting all like annoyed about it.

Right. It's such a classic blunder of a foolish move. Yeah. Like I get the voicemail thing. Have people call in whatever and then you can just choose to answer them or not. But it's so funny to think it's going to be like in relation to where do you think you're going on vacation even though that topic is done for now. Well, because it's like he wants to have a call-in show, but he doesn't want to do it live.

Oh, no way. You know, he's trying to get the best of both worlds going right here. He's trying to get in front of trolls, I think. Well, that too. Yeah. He wants to curate it. And he's because he's not, you can't, he's not going to be able to trust Dan to be able to, even if he was like screening calls. I mean, obviously the trolls would be smart enough to get by the security of Dan.

Right. So you can't risk a live call in. So this was maddening right here. We followed Joe on its other podcast ideas and his other journeys in podcasting. But I'm trying to keep this up with every week on row back to Philly. And I started thinking about this today, too, before we go to the calls. I'm ADDing away from the calls. I don't have to talk about, there's no rules with the, I don't need to talk just about Philly

shit every week. Like, I can mix it up with other stuff that I want to talk about, okay? Sure. So if you're not from the Philly, South Jersey area, road back to Philly, I'm sure you could still relate to the stuff I'm going to talk about. It won't be just about the Phillies, the Eagles, and the Flyers. every week. He does this on every fucking podcast.

By episode two or three, he's like, you know what, fuck. I'm just going to do whatever I want. Forget the formats. It's like, you already got a logo and everything, Joe. I was hoping when Dan showed up in the corner there that he was going to be like, they actually have to know what you're talking about. Like, we can't go against the title of the show. What are you doing?

It's hilarious because there was another podcast that Joe started where he had a producer and he's running out of studio in Manhattan. And he sits down in the first episode. and he goes, this is going to be different than anything else I've done before. I'm going to be focused on one topic. And I wrote a monologue on the train over here and he reads the monologue. And he's like, that's going to be the show. I'm not going to have guests.

It's just going to be me, one topic. Next episode he comes out. He's just like, so we're going to have a guest on later on the program. And it's just going to be kind of a light interview format. Like, fuck. This guy can't get anything going for more than two episodes. But yes, I'm glad you picked up on that, Jim. Because you saw Dan Pop his little head up in the corner.

he's like raising his hand. And this is a perfect response to what Joe just said. Oh, great. The end of the day, this, your podcast is about you trying to make a decision, convincing you to ask to say we should move back to an area that I would like to be. How many other families are in the same situation? You know what my therapist have I been seeing for 20 years said to me? So Dan's like, Joe, focus.

It's about moving to Philly. Bring it back. Come on. Immediately Joe's not listening. Nope. He's not. He goes, oh, you know, it's funny. my therapist also tells me to focus on shit.

But no, he does have a story about his therapist. He had an... This is why he's the therapist and I'm not. He had an agreement with his wife that they were going to live in TNAC, New Jersey, when they raised their kids. And when they got done raising their kids, they were moving back to Manhattan.

That's where he wanted to do. And they agreed on it. So she couldn't back out on it. He knew in advance. See, I don't know shit in advance. you don't know it after the fact either or during it also sounds like he stole the idea for his therapist and he just changed it to the Philly yeah you know what that's a great idea I was gonna do a show on that convince your wife to leave where you are currently and go somewhere

else yeah we talked about it 12 years ago so there's that oh pre-planning interesting that's why you're the therapist I didn't realize I got a plan in place so five and we could talk about it for a few episodes, but then we can open it up. We could talk about anything else we want. We could talk about football. We could talk about the Eagles. We could talk about dishwashers. It's fine.

Let's go. What an noise you? What everyday event annoys you guys? That's the topic today. This is, finally we get to the voicemail. All right. I'll play a voicemail for you. Yeah.

Play a voicemail. Who we got? I get that call. This is John O'Brien from, he lives in New Rochelle. He lives in Morrow. my town. Three best towns for families. All right, we're going with Long Beach Island.

I'm going. Kate May. What the fuck of it. I'll throw in West Hampton. Close to Dewan Road. What else is there? I will say, uh,

uh, uh, uh, yeah. That's it. That's all I got. Guy. As if Joe isn't confused enough.

This is why you don't let voicemailers be the content of your show. They suck. Yes. I mean, that guy shut my ass up because that dude seems like he's locked in and he's in on this conversation. Okay. All right. What are some of the other cities that we could talk about? What are some of the other cities we could move to?

I'm glad you said that, Jim, because the big reveal from episode one was that all the voicemellers are friends and family with Joe Maderie's. And we find out that there's no exception here. I hate to say this because I do have other friends here in New Rochelle. But I, John, I'm sure he knows this about himself. He's my only close friend in this whole area since I've lived here for how long? He grew up here. So he has a lot of other friends. So he's not available to do shit with me all the time, even though I can walk to his house.

He's fun as shit. Oh, no. Oh, no. Dude, first of all, why would you admit that? Like, number one, you got to be embarrassed. I mean, maybe he's not embarrassed. He's like most of these narcissists that we find online that we could talk about. They give us endless content. But number one, you should be embarrassed if you are trying to have voicemails.

And the only people calling are your friends and family. Like, all right. And then if you are desperate enough to play one, you've got to just at that point, just pretend it's a listener. Like this represents a community. This represents a listener base. I feel stupid that I didn't realize that from the jump when someone called and actually left a message. I assumed that he had some random fan out there that at least was watching.

You would assume that. In the first episode, he picks up a voicemail and the person just says, hey, Joe, I hear you try to move back to Philadelphia. You know, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then he hangs up on that and he goes, so that's actually my ex-girlfriend from high school. We dated for a mom. That's Janine. It's like, why are you telling us this, Joe? And then the next caller is like, we have to grade school together.

Like, fun, it's so embarrassing. Oh, my God. So not only did I get the email begging for voicemails, but obviously he sent out to all of his friends and family. Hey, could do me a big favor of trying to my podcast going? Could you please leave a voicemail for me? And what about the other people who aren't family who think that they're friends with him? They're like, oh, that's your only friend? Yeah, well, right.

That's pretty crazy, too. The only guy I know here in New Rochelle. But he has other friends. I don't get to see him all that often. but I guess he doesn't want to bring you around his other friends. I guess. Would that normally be the thing? Like, hey, Joe, come with us for going to bowling tonight.

It's like, don't bring Joe. Well, now it's like, it's like tugging on my heartstrings. Like, I almost want to leave a voicemail now. But I'm trying to figure out like where I could recommend he would Airbnb he could stay at or what, you know, max price. Don't pay more than three grand, you know, if you're staying in this area or something. I'm ready to do some research for him just so I can leave him a voicemail. It's not a friend.

They don't be like, we got one. This is great. Hey, Joe, nine don't get asleep on an air mattress. It's fine, all right? So go ahead. Get the 12-person home for 13. You'll be good.

But doesn't this mean he's already vacationed because in years three weeks later? Yeah, right. It doesn't matter. No, I know. It's a funny part. All right. So we're 48 minutes into this episode where he's asking, and I didn't play a lot of it, but there was a lot of Airbnb and what about this area?

What about that area? Should we have a pool at the house? How close do we want to be to restaurants? Should we just be cooking out? There's a boardwalk. I love the boardwalk. They have games over here on this thing. And then finally, after all of that, he figures out the actual solution.

If you were, if you're healthy and you're going to therapy, that's what it should be about. Like, you know how you easily solve this then? As I'm looking at this camera versus you? Yeah, yeah. You asked the kids what they would want to do. Because my daughter at 14, she wanted the house. That was, I don't think that one's even in the mix here, that house. There was a house down, and I think it was called Oak Bluff.

Dad, I'll be taking that vacation in the place that I wanted to go to. No, no, actually, Carlin Rochester suggested that we go to. Why are you asking us? Your kids have an opinion on this. They have to live it. It's really funny because, yeah, he finally realizes this. Because, yes, that is the goal. But I was just going to say, and I got taken off of it, a way to solve everything we're talking about to me,

because it's really all about the kids making memories and the kids having a great time. And so Joe just announced his brand new podcast, where do my kids want to vacation? Call in. Let us know your thoughts. Dude, he literally did the sitcom ending. Like this would be a sitcom episode where the dad is flustered trying to figure out a vacation. And then finally at the end, like an emotional piano thing plays. And he's like, you know, and he looks at his kids. And he's like, you know what?

It's not even about me. It's about what the kids want to do And making memories And spending time with my family It's almost like family vacation It's always like the conclusion At the end of that movie Like oh it's just about so time together

It's the journey not the destination Go think so awful All right There hasn't been a lot of comedy on the show Even though it's hosted by a comedian Thankfully Thankfully a voicemailer calls in and provides the comic relief

We all need All right give me another We have This is Christian or something I couldn't understand in the first name, but let's throw it. This might be Chris. Joe, Chris from Ashland, Mass.

Look, the idea of vacationing with two other families is troubling. I don't recommend it. I think you should maybe rethink it. So rather than give you an idea where I think is a good place to do that because I don't think it's a good idea in the first place, I'm going to read you a list of five things I'd rather do than vacation with other families. All right, you ready? one stare at a blank wall two assemble IKEA furniture without instructions three walk file walk five miles in wet socks

four chew on a large ball of aluminum foil and number five stared directly into a solar eclipse i hope you get the point i hope you rethink this whole thing it's not going to end well uh but anyway uh take care man love you good stuff that's my cousin joe guys he's a laugh ride he's a card all the time he's always giving me top five things that was brutal he's always trying to give me top five things

to do and it cracks me up every time I love you Joey he's such a fun dude to hang out with so Joe's cracking up and he wants it on us all know that like things have changed in his life he's finally happy but I am

going into it a very happier me as I'm not doing these cruise gigs anymore. I'm doing the Philly gigs where I want to work in front of my audiences and doing the shows that I want to do in front of my audiences. And that's really fucking. My wife,

we're on one of those times, I'm sure you can relate to this, Dan, where our marriage is like, great. Like, she's like, I don't know what's going on. I don't know what's going on, but this is the best you've ever been. This is great. Yeah, it's because he's giving up. Like, literally, he's just like, you know what, fuck it. I'm just playing in Philadelphia.

Yeah, 20 a year. Finally. Right. And it's amazing because I have to keep reminding myself, he's talking about a place two hours away. And it's like his mecca. He's like, if I can only just get back there, I'm already doing shows there, which is beautiful. I got all my fans, and it's where I grew up. It would be amazing.

It's crazy to me. This guy was trying to get on television and was trying to, like, get these shows going with Artie Lang and Jim Norton and all these guys. And now he's gotten to the point he's just like, you know what I've realized is if you stop caring, everything's easy. It's a lot easier.

No expectations. I mentioned like, Joe Maylorys can't make any decisions for himself. Everything's ever done. The Fixing Joe podcast is all about, give me advice. What should I be doing? I'm not happy.

My life sucks. What should I be doing? Well, he's finally found the right person to listen to. You know, I'm a firm believer in a lot of the things I watching the internet. Gary Vee's one of them. I watch Gary Vanderchuk a lot. And he just makes it sound like if you just do what you love, you'll be happier. Wow. You need a Gary Vanderchuk to tell him that. I was going to say, I've never, I've heard that a bunch of times. I didn't realize that was a Gary Vander Chuck original. Yeah, I don't even. He didn't Gary beat him. I don't know like,

hey, stop doing stuff like makes you miserable. Interesting. Interesting. Huh. Is that what you do, Gary? You seem happy. Do what you love. Never work a day in your life. You're right. Yeah. This is those generic planet is a motivational speaker. And then in the back of Joe's mind, he's realizing that he gets criticism for doing this kind of thing for a very specific reason that you brought up earlier, Jim. I don't have any airport visits in my calendar.

Not until next year when we go visit my son. Not till March when I go probably visit my son. And I always do a bunch of gigs in Florida in the wintertime. And it looks like March is going to be where it is in 2007. That's crazy, by the way. Stand-up comedian Joe Metteries. That's his job. Doesn't have any dates he has to get an airplane for until March of 2027.

And he's like, isn't this great? Yeah, he's really, and, you know, he's really going against the grain by being someone in the northeast that goes down to Florida. He's even talked about how he only plays pockets where a lot of Philly people have moved to. Oh, Jesus. So there's like where the Phillies play, their spring ball. is like in Clearwater, Florida. So he likes to go over by there and be by the stadium and playing games. It's wild because I can't imagine that Philly is embracing him as much as he's acting like it.

I mean, you know, even someone like like Big Jay. I mean, he talks about Philly a lot. But I don't think he's just like, oh, it's only for my Philly crowd or whatever. It's so weird. Yeah. He thinks that he's like figured it out in comedy. He's like, oh, I'll just talk about Cherry Hill, New Jersey. And then everyone I went to high school with will love by ask.

Yeah, but I don't have any airport visits anywhere and it's just like I'm fucking happy and some people go well that's because your wife makes all the money and you know No no no no shut the fuck up she does make good money we're not crazy rich and we are a family That values happiness over finances. She's whatever bitches about money She's not nagging you to get more gigs. That's good. No one. you're so happy. Dude, my favorite moments are when the guy pops up. Because it's all, and he almost is, he always wants to kind of add something like, well, Joe, come on.

What do you talk about? Your wife clearly pays for everything. Like, relax. But also, why doesn't he just embrace it? Or maybe he has. His podcast should just be about like, my wife's the best or whatever. Like, or live in the dream. My wife pays for everything.

Like, at a certain point, just make that your, make that your gig. That would save you. you, I feel. Well, I thought it was funny that he goes, I've been listening to his Gary Vee guy. He goes, just do whatever you love and just let the cards land where they may. And he's like, and I get it. Yeah, my wife makes out of the money. So it's really easy for me to say that.

The rest of you guys have to work jobs you hate in order to pay the business. It's like, yeah, he knows in the back of his hat that it's very easy for him to take that advice. Not so easy for everyone else. Did you catch, did he mention what he wanted people to leave voicemails for on that episode? Do you know? No, I don't know.

He doesn't know the topic. He had to go to his social media. Well, can I, should I leave him a voicemail right now? Yeah, I think you should. Come on, yeah, I know. Just said it to answer the voicemail immediately. It's like his actual phone. She goes to like, hey, this is Joe. Damn it, Joe! Oh my God, dude. Hey, how are you? It's Joe Matarie. Hopefully you read the social media post and you are calling to talk on subject about that. Leave your message. after the tone. I'll probably play it on my podcast. No way.

Hey, Joe, just stumbled upon the show and kind of catching up. I love the banter with you and your producer, Dan. I'm sorry, I didn't see the social media post. I stay off that stuff because I know that Big Brother's always watching and I don't want them to like get my identification and all that stuff. Anyways, I love what you're doing for Philly and for South Jersey and everything, but I just love your banter. I think you should have your producer on more. I would love if you could kind of get in studio with him, just you guys going back and forth.

I just want to know more about this kid. Keep doing what you doing, man. I really love you. Love you so much. Bye now. No, that'll get played. Oh, yeah. That'll get played for sure.

I didn't want to go too overboard. Oh, Dan's going to be super excited about that. And you know, Joe's going to be like, I felt the chemistry from day one. Was he doing a Joe Baddery's impression on that voice smell? Did it sound like me doing Joe Bennery? Hey, it's me, Joe Maddery. It sounds like Rocco doing it.

Yeah. Who says, hey, it's me, Joe Maddery? This is what I sound like. Please keep me, I'll try to keep an eye on my end, but please keep me posted if he plays out. I will. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, it will be five months from now. Hopefully we'll still be friends.

I'll let you know. All right, let's head over to Sam Tripoli's BS Live. Are you familiar with Sam Tripoli? I've only heard the name a few times. I think I've heard him on like maybe when I used to play opium to like fucking torture myself or something. Yeah, yeah. Or maybe I've heard maybe Mark Norm's like, ah, he's a killer. He's a murderer.

Sam's the best or whatever. So Sam Tripley's a stand-up, but he also is like a big conspiracy theorist guy. He had, I think it was called Tinfoil Hat was the name of his podcast. We reviewed it many, many years ago. He's an interesting guy. friends with currently friends with Chad Zumak, which is rare. There's only a handful of people you can say that about. And Ben Carlson sent this into me.

Sam Tripoli and his co-host are chatting about the Dabbleverse. Ooh, that was fun. We break down the wonderful place called the Dabbleverse. Yeah, we get into the Dabbleverse. I don't know much about that. I have to be except for Chad. The Dabbleverse is based off of when Chrissy Mayer asked

she had stirring John on and she's like she brought up stand-up comedy and she goes so do you dabble and stand-up comedy he goes do I dabble

I'm a professional comedian I'm in Doran so that's where the dabble verse came on I had no idea that's funny and that poor of Suttering John just gets murked by everybody forever and it was so funny

because I used to know Suttering John John back in the day. And then when Trump was coming up, he just started attacking me on the internet. And he's very sensitive about his stand-up. John? Yeah. That's funny.

It used to be on Punch drunk, like rather frequently, right? So he started insulting my intelligence. And then I made a joke. And I don't remember the exact wording of it, but it was basically along the lines of, you know, my intelligence is like your stand-up. we're doing the best we can. And he just fucking lost it, dude. Just fucking lost.

And just, everyone has a John's story like this. Opie has this story. Just like, I had no problem with Jonathan. One fucking tweet, the guy loses his mind over it. Waged war against me for the rest of his life, for the rest of his life. It's just kind of genius. Like, what is he even thinking? Well, he's like, I graduated from.

I forget what Ivy League school was. NYC. I graduated from. you, NYCU or whatever it's called. NYU. Did he go to NYU? NYU. NYU. Where'd you graduate from? I'm like, doesn't matter.

You made as a stutterer, which is fine. I don't care. Good for you, dude. It's like, you were on two of the biggest shows of all time. You know, Howard Stern and Jay Leno's Tonight Show. You know? I mean, who cares?

Yeah, I mean. Like, dude, that's amazing. I don't care, but just don't start insulting people on the internet if you're super sensitive. Yes. Very good advice, Sam. Yeah. I like the people who are on the outside looking into something like that, those couple little interactions with John and have immediately figured out. Yeah. Do you see these things as them trying, I mean, I've seen people mention this before, like people trying to get into the dabbled verse. Do you see it like that? Or is it just, you know, they stumbled upon a topic

and just kind of riffed on it real quick? I've seen people definitely try to get into the dabbled verse. And it's like, Grillo is a great example of that. Grillo's constantly talking about how he's in the devil verse now and send him money because it's the devil verse like that works at all that works at all. But no, I think a lot of these guys, it just ends up on their radar. I think it's been growing so much in recent months and years that people stumble upon it. Yeah, and I always kind of liked him on Stern. I thought he played an important role. He probably, yeah, he chased the money going to Leno, didn't he?

But you had to do that, you know. Dude, there's a lot of money. Yeah, you had to. You had to. but yeah I don't know that's it's disappointing to hear because I always like I kind of liked him I thought he was funny that's too bad that's too bad is or any of the shows in that dabble verse like big shows I mean yes Sam I mean what are the some of the big shows in the dabble verse good question oh no let's see what he says

and Kevin Brennan's crushing it Jesus Christ I wouldn't think Kevin Brennan's a big show there's no one watching Kevin Brennan's show is that Just the like, oh, I don't know, but I know Kevin Brennan. Yeah, as it goes on Kevin's show, Kevin's definitely the biggest celebrity of anyone doing shows, the dabalverse. I'd give him that. Sure. He has the most credits. But Shulie and I both have much bigger shows than Kevin show.

Yeah, he's killing. And everyone tries to be Kevin Brennan, but he's just so good at it. No, he's a champ at that. Kevin literally just, I happen to watch a clip this morning because he was sniping our show this little piggy last night. And I'm watching Kevin watch us. And he doesn't say anything. He just says sir watches our show. Yeah.

He's the best. That's kind of my limited. I mean, I would throw his show on every now and then because I knew him from like being on Opie and Anthony and stuff like that. And I kind of talked to you about this during our streamathon where, yeah, I would turn it on and he'd have, you know, like Bob Levy and Chad Zumach on or whatever. And I'd be kind of listening, doing some stuff.

And then a week later, I'd turn it on and he would hate both of those guys. And or when he, covered our segment from Hacomania. Yeah, he just sat there and like stared most of the time or said, he said Jim and them over and over again. Jim and them. Is this Jim and them? This is Jim and them.

Brilliant stuff. Big J. This is Big J. O'Kerson stuff. He hits the champ. Why is it? Why will you see more of the Dabalvers? Why isn't he on more roast and stuff? He would be great at that, right? Don't you think? That's hilarious. I love the people who don't realize like Kevin's lost

his fastball and hasn't been in the world. of comedy in years now yeah i mean oh he'd be great on roast he would just come on and like yell their name and say their hacks right it would be an amazing set yeah i can't believe to get invited to the kevin heart roast they really they really missed out with that one yeah it's too bad anyway shout out sam trippily chatting about the dabble verse on there uh always good to hear i think i do remember where i because didn't he like try to threaten red bar or something like you showed up at his studio or something like that. Oh, I know. That was a thing.

I believe it. I don't know that one. Yeah. Yeah, I think that was a thing. I think that's where I kind of seen him before. Red bars rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. Oh, yeah. So I wouldn't be surprised. What's going on with him? Do you think he's dead?

I mean, I do. I like the theory. I like that everyone thinks King Jew died, but I like to think that he's still out there. He's just kind of making us all wait and pay the $11 a month until he comes back a year later. Yeah, it's been almost a year or no. I think his last episode was August of last year. Yeah, it'd be like the new Easter when the rise of King Jew that everyone thought was dead comes back, Mike David. Oh, God, he's probably going to do like a 36-hour-long episode, get caught up on everything he's missed.

Yeah. All right. We have to talk about FU Friday because it also was Super Chat Friday. Opie is raising money for a rotted tooth. that he needs cleaned up. He needs $2,000. So we set up this QR code on his site or on his videos. And he wants donations made to his rotting tooth fund.

And he gives us an update on what's going on with that. I went to the dentist yesterday. People have been on the edge of their seats. They're like, oh, my God, I wonder what happened at the dentist with OPSA. He's been pushing this for a week or so. He's made us donate to his rotting tooth fund. The QR code is still on the screen, bitches. I got to knock this bill down a little bit.

And the update is they saved the tooth. They saved the tooth. But I see Ron the waiter. He's already mad. He's already mad because I didn't go to the vet. Yeah. So Rod's solution, because Ron's been poor all his life, is you probably get a veteran area to pull that tooth for a hundred bucks.

Yeah. And it was like, well, wait, really? I could. That's not a big deal. it's so transparent what he's I mean because he's a he's a fucking I mean I know if he's as rich as he was but I mean clearly he's a well off guy he's living in Manhattan he's got a beach house down in the fucking Hamptons or whatever it is and so he thinks this is his endearing self deprecating thing of hey I'll talk about my rotten I mean I remember going back in O and A when he would talk about his food pockets so I don't know if this is related to the old food pocket that he used to talk about um so he thinks it's like self deprecating and endearing, but he literally does want you to donate money so he would, because he's a

cheap, he's like a cheapo. And he has a fucking waiter co-host that just has to sit there and help him raise money for his tooth. Now, I would agree with you that this could be like his angle to be in every man and relate to people. And for a while, I thought that's what he was doing

when he would talk about these minor inconveniences or having to pay $800 a month for parking in his building and whatever was. I'm convinced that he is cash poor. He has no money in the bank. He's sitting in these multi-million dollar properties that he will not sell, which is

crazy to me. He bounces back and forth between the Upper West Side of Manhattan and the Hamptons, and he shows off the ocean behind him, and he shows off the Hudson River behind him, and he loves showing you this wealth. And then he sets this fucking thing up, which tells me he definitely is poor, because otherwise you

wouldn't do this. And he changed what it says on the page, so I'll read it to you. Donate Opie Radio Podcasts. Donate to Opie can buy a tick removal blow torch. Opie mailing back, handwritten thank you notes for all donations over $10. Oh, my God. That's the correct response to that. What's so annoying about this because it's a PayPal site is it's not like a GoFundMe.

GoFundMe is all the range right now. Everyone's talking about GoFundMe's in the Davelverse. GoFundMe's at least show you how much money you've raised and what the goal is and what percentage you are towards that goal. This gives you no information. just make money forever of just having this link out there for people to give them money. That's insane. It's so embarrassing. Like it really is, you know, because OPEE does so many embarrassing things. And I'm, I'm going to, I say that as a long time ONA fan. And, you know,

the show crashed and burned and all that. And then they tried to do the Opie radio serious show and all that. And you're right. It's, it's amazing because it seems like those properties are probably worth way more now than what he bought them. And it's amazing to think that he probably won't sell them because then that's more ammunition for the haters. Because if he loses those backdrops that he has is behind him, I mean, all of us will celebrate and be like, ha, ha, ha, even though he'll come out on the other end, probably, you know, well compensated could get a nice place, kind of do what Anthony did, like move,

move down south or whatever, cheaper area. But to him, that's letting the haters win, I imagine. So I have a theory on this. I think the Manhattan skyrise, he hates. He hates the city. He bitches about it all the time. Everything's way too expensive. He complains about the price of a cup of coffee.

Oftentimes, you know. Tipping at Christmas. He hates tipping the people who work in his building. But his kids go to a private school that they walk to and the wife says, we're not moving. The kids go to the private school. We're saying. Now, the other place he could sell the beach house in the Hantons, that's what Opie likes. And so the wife's going, we can get rid of the beach house.

He's like, no. That's my huge house. So I think that's where they're like having this struggle of like neither one will give in. But he's got to do something said because he's said himself he can't keep living with the expenses that he has and the amount of money he has saved up for much longer. Because this guy's got to be in what? He's like mid-60s at this point. He just turned 63. Yeah, it's like you don't need to be in Manhattan anymore.

Like I get it. It's usually he got fired from serious. He should have moved the fuck out. The kids were younger then. it would have been seamless. Yeah. And I mean, I don't know if this is too far, but I remember there were,

there were rumors on like the ONA Reddit back in the day. Like, is his daughter retarded? Was that ever confirmed? Is that a thing? It's funny you say that. Because when Opie was telling us about how his daughter and him like to play volleyball against the wall. Oh, no.

That sounds like, I don't know. It could be special. I mean, and the wall wins. I'm just, I'm not trying to put her down. I'm just trying to like put her down.

I'm just curious. I don't know. I don't know the answer to that. So, Emily would think that I'm lying and I do know the answer, but I don't. So OPEE, after going to the dentist,

has some comedic observations. I, there's a few things, though, man, you know, my mouth is numb. He's like, how's the wife and the kids?

I was trying to have small talk with me. I got my mouth wide open with all sorts of shit in there. I don't know why they attempt to small talk. I can't, I can't talk right now. How about Opie? How about when the server comes over?

You've just taken a bite of food? I mean, I think you get a nice three-minute chunk out of this. Yeah, no, this is great. This is great fodder. And I'm sure this has been pointed out, but is it the guy that always gets close to his camera just to talk? Because he's an old guy, I guess, or maybe he's just using his phone. I mean, because he just looks like a Jewish grandma or something. Is that Anthony?

or is that Ron the waiter? That's Ron the waiter. Okay, that is Ron the wait. Because doesn't he have an Anthony that he works with now just to kind of give the illusion of Opie and Anthony? Or is that something different? That is the guy at the bottom. His name is Tony P.

But Opie has definitely titled some of his thumbnails and some of his streams as Opie with Anthony are Opie, Ron, and Anthony. So you think it's Ron Bettington? Yeah. Oh, my God. It's the worst. All right.

Opie, explains his bill was $2,000 to get his tooth fixed, or as he says tooth fixed. Very funny. It's going to be, it's going to be probably over $3,000. There's another thousand coming with the porcelain and that I'm telling you. Ron, you're my, you're helping me. All right, there it is. The same, the OPE's rotting tooth fund. There's the QR code and it is Super Chat Friday. you heard Ron, this is going to be at least another thousand for the kid. You should generate

you should donate generously. Excuse me, I'm losing my mind. This is one of those. I'm joking, but I'm not joking. Right. You know? Yeah. Isn't it funny that I'm asking you guys to give me money

when I'm like obviously in a multi-million dollar apartment? But I mean, you could, though, give me money if you wanted to. You totally could. There's a huge QR code right here. It should turn into like the opies rotting husk of a person fun because he's look at, I mean, I know it's, I'm stating the obvious, but he really is just, uh, decaying

right before our eyes. And I mean, I guess that's part of getting older, but he looks horrible. I mean, like, part of it is, like, maybe he doesn't out of white balance his camera or the background washes him out. I'm trying to be fair to him here, but he looks horrible. I think he does the backlit thing on purpose to darken his face. You don't see it as well. And he's definitely, that camera he's using definitely can do better than 360P. Oh, yeah. The resolution. this thing is ridiculous. He's downgraded that on purpose. So then, Opie, as I showed you on the website, is doing something nice. He's giving back to the people

who donate money to him. And yesterday I went to the post office. I'm a man of my word. I said, anyone that gives me $10 or more, I write off a nice handwritten note. Thank you for, thank you for donating to the Rotten Tooth Fund. Rock on. Opie. I sent out of bunch of envelopes yesterday. Like Santa. I like Santa Claus. Santa has never written a thank you notes. Yeah.

The fucking Santa already thank you cards too. I can't get over how low of a threshold that is. Like I understand the idea of like, hey, anyone that donates like a hundred bucks or more, I'm going to send you a note, like a nice note or whatever. $10. Like that's, you know,

that's the dude. That's like the cake stomp guy, you know, to bring it back to, ONA lore like that dude literally probably got bigger tips sometimes just hanging out I sure I can't believe the thresholds ten dollars has some respect for your time Opie tell me you're bored on your mind yeah I mean I have a Corey Feldman YouTube channel and I don't have enough time to write all these people that send us stuff

hand-ritting letters you know what I mean so it's like dude how little donations are you getting past one of the great clippers in the dablers has a funny idea now what of Anthony Coomia were to just write $10 checks a hundred times and just force Opie to write a hundred thank you notes to Anthony before this. Oh my God, that'd be so funny.

Just a thought. So, they start talking about what if Opie had a Jewish dentist because Tony P. is a Jewish dentist and Tony P's very happy with his dentist. Opie is not happy with his dentist. And so they want to know, like, well, what is your dentist?

I think. I think he's Muslim, but he's trying. I think he might be Muslim, but I think he's... Let me finish. Let me finish. The punchline was there. Again, the punchline. The punchline.

Just... I love that, Ron, just can't help himself. Just start screaming over it out. I understand why he wouldn't have any sense that Opie's going to finish that thought with something interesting. You know, you're not expecting a punchline about Opie, so you figure out, I'll do that for you. But that's that chemistry, brother. That's the chemistry they got. They've been doing this a long time, too.

But, okay, so this is what Opie got upset with. This is this big punchline. Just saying, I think he's Muslim. What does that mean to anybody? Nothing. But if you then add, but I think he's trying to blend in, that's why I say that. I think he's a Muslim trying to blend in.

If you say it twice, it's a lot of funny. Tony P. Stoned out of his mind. It's 6 a.m. and he just smokes a joint the entire show. and he just laughs hysterically at nonsense. I like to imagine. What is what's, I'm not sure if you know or not. What's Tony P's backstory?

Was he like a Gepard's guy or what's his thing? So Ron puts on these comedy shows, Ron and Friends or something like that. And there are these showcase events where open micers pretend that they're comedians. And so Tony P. is one of those guys. And Tony P. is a standout amongst these unfuny hacks. And so Ron tells his buddy Opie, you know, you got to get out of the show as my buddy Tony P.

He's hilarious. Oh, my God. So Ron kind of brought Tony P into the fold. Now Opie tries to pit the two against each other, which is fun. Well, and also it's even more amazing because you think about like the whole Greg Schell's thing. Like when he's in serious, even the people working for him there were, you know, too afraid to talk to him about stuff. Never mind. I can only imagine, like, if these dudes tried to bring up an idea for their street.

stream or something like that. There's no fucking way or even try to give any type of criticism on what they should do. Oh, yeah. Yeah. But yeah. Opie. So he's a custodian. Tony Pia's, that's his day job. So these are like blue collar guys. And Opie's like the big cool, rich guy who has, you know, the background and entertainment. So they would never have an idea that would be better than one that Opie would come up with. And they've got to go along with whatever he does. Yeah. Well, because it's like, I can't help. But even if he's an open mic or like king of the worst. guys that he's already doing comedy with, it's, there has to be a part of him that's embarrassed. Like, oh my God, you know, if he knew, if he was an ONA fan or whatever in the back, back in the day,

but you look at these middle, not even middling, these no viewed streams that you do. And if you look around, if you Google what's going on, all you find are people making fun of you. Like, how do you not just cut your losses at that point? Well, that's the funny part about this, because Ron gets a lot of interaction from people, including Adam Bush, who I just pulled up his chat. I saw that. Adam will DM with Ron a little bit, and people DM with them, and they like to gas them up.

Ron, you're the funniest part of the show. We watch for you. You're the best. And one day, Ron settled upon Anthony video where Anthony picked apart Opie for like 30 minutes straight, and Ron watched it twice. It took notes. And all those questions for Opie afterwards. It was very funny. Go ahead.

I'm sorry. So Ron, people want to give Ron money, because we saw. the state of his living conditions, that mattress he was sleeping on, this basement apartment he has in Astoria. And people are like, why are we donating money to Opie? Why are we giving money to his rotting tooth fund?

When this guy actually needs money. And so we've been asking for months. Does Ron have a Venmo? Right. Add a message him. Is there a Venmo? We'll promote it on WATP. What's the Venmo?

So finally, last week, Ryan goes, I set up my Venmo. Great. And Opie says, all right, but we're not going to promote it until I vetted it. I want to make sure you set it up correctly. As if Opie's a banker or something. It's like, well, the way to do that is send him two bucks and see if he gets it.

Yeah, it's very simple and quick. Yeah, yeah. But Ope's just like, you probably did it wrong. So let's not get that out there just yet. Thankfully, the people who are super chatting want to know about Ron's Venmo so they can give him money. Yes. Oh, my God, I was just entertained. The next time I go, if he could give me a whatchamacool-a, a 3D image of my penis.

There you go. All right. listen, we got a couple of super chats coming in. We got F you to Ron for not sharing the Venmo. People want to give you money, Rod. People want to give you money. Apparently he isn't interested. It's coming.

Be paying people. F you, Ron, just babble over someone talking about you. You can't even stop talking with someone's talking about you. 1821 wants you to set up your Venmo, Ron. And then Kevin Brennan still doesn't understand the QR code. Tell Kevin Brennan. and don't worry about it. How about Kevin Brennan worries about what he does?

And I'll do my thing. I don't know anything about Kevin Brennan where I would say something like, I don't understand. Oh, my God, so irritating. There's three observations I have on this clip, but I'm sorry, it was a little bit longer. But the first one is they're talking about the 3D molds that you got. And Tony P goes, ha, like one of those in my penis.

You know, he goes, there you go. All right, let's go to the super chat. That bombed horribly. Nothing funny about that. And then they talk about Ron's Venmo. And rather than be like, yeah, what is the status of that? We still need to look at that or when am we going to promote it? Or we're like, okay, okay.

What else is going on over here? And then it gets right to Kevin Brennan stuff. And Opie's reaction to Kevin Brennan, you can tell this bothers him. Oh, yeah. It's like, oh, shit, I'm on Kevin's radar. That's not good. Kevin's questioning why I'm trying to raise $2,000 for my dental bill. Uh-oh.

That's going to be embarrassing for me. well and he yeah and he also compounded that with the rage he felt that someone mentioning the venmo because yeah he definitely wanted to gloss over it and it annoyed him and then the kevin brenden put him over the top i do have to give my admiration for you guys for kind of honing in on ron because it is clear that he's the perfect like weak link to go in on because the way he does yell and just go like go in on stuff during their stream he would you know maybe say some stuff He wouldn't be fully intimidated by the Greg shells. He would try to say some weird shit and get Opie all riled up.

And the other side of it is if this Venmo gets set up, you know he's going to be like super agent Bob Eatman, take a page from his book, and Opie's going to want a finder's fee or an agent fee or a piece of it. Oh, he's got to get his beakwap. We're promoting it on my channel, Ron. I built up this channel. I appreciate your contributions, but I should get 20% of whatever's coming in, especially if we get significant because opi is desperate for this money. We play that

part again or Opie really shows that he is bothered by the Kevin Brennan comment. Tell Kevin Brennan don't worry about it. How about Kevin Brennan worries about what he does? And I'll do my thing. I don't know anything about Kevin Brennan where I would say something like, I don't understand.

That voice. Edith Bunker. Yep. That's horrible. As soon as Opie shows that the Kevin Brennan thing bothers him, this is going to be recurring. Oh, yeah. Aspect of the show. Yeah, which is great.

And so this continues for a moment. Google it, Brennan. Yeah, Google it. We know who Kevin Brennan is. It's all right. I mean, he has his own podcast. He used to be on X-N-O. He's a good live stream, right?

I don't know if anyone's actually listening to it in podcast form. Let's be honest with each other. But the QR code right there is to support the show. I just try to make it a little fun by saying, for the, for my rotting tooth. That's all. Don't worry about it, Kevin. All right.

You don't have to worry about it. Anyway, oh, it's to support the show. And where does that money go? Oh, and do your bank account. Okay. And then where's the money that needs to pay the dental bills come out of? Your bank account.

Okay. But no, it's fun to say it's like for the dental bill. But it's to support the show, which is much more noble. Yeah, because that's what I was, the first thing I thought, I was like, oh, okay, it's for the tooth. then that means it's for the show, as in Opie and fucking Tony P and Ron the waiter. Of course, everyone gets a piece. Probably broke it like 33% each.

Let's break it all down. Let's share the wealth, all the bucks coming in. Although then again, then Ron would have to make sure that he's writing some handwriting, handwritten notes and sending those out to the donors. I'm doing the work over here, Ron. I'm keeping the money. Yeah, that's a good point. When he says it's for his tooth, people are like, well, fuck you. you're a multi-millionaire.

But then he says to support the show, and you're like, well, Ron and Tony are getting up early and trying hard for you. But he's getting less donations because he's taking his first tooth rather than say it's to support the show. Because, yeah, I would assume, too, if you're supporting the show, money is getting split up a little bit. I don't think that's the case. Well, and you just reminded me, too. So, yeah, he does this shit at 6 a.m. Yeah. Does he is, so, and he's just talking about how, oh, Kevin Brennan's a good live stream, but no one's listening as a podcast.

So does he think people are, is he just stuck in his morning drive time idea? Like people are on their commute firing up his live stream to listen on the way to work or some shit? It's funnier than that. I'm glad you asked. Yeah. There was this guy named Ben Ratner. And he was the first producer for Anthony Coomia when Anthony came out of media. I remember.

Yeah. A rat's a front of the show. And when Opie explained a couple of months ago, the reason why they do such an early early stream is because he immediately edits the audio and posts it so people can listen to it in their car, listen to the podcast in their car on the commute because Ben said

it should be a daily show. People can get in the rotation of listening to you in the morning like they used to on their way into work. And so Opie still thinks it like he's got he's the last guy that's just a audio podcast that people care about, which is why when Tony's like, oh, we don't Kevin Brady's got a podcast. I'm the guy

with the podcast over here. Not Kevin Brennan. well and also by that same fucking logic just do your stream at like six or seven the night before then you could still get it uploaded for people to listen on their more if if in this theoretical world where no one's doing this but right if you do think that they're going to listen to it on their drive to work because then at least you have you're at a normal time where if someone did want to watch your stream they can go in your live no one's waking up at fucking six a m to be hanging out in your youtube chat which is I'm sure what ben ratner was telling him just have it

available in the a ounce people can have it loaded up and ready to go during their commute not scramble and rush to get it up so it's sort of leaving their house at 730 might find it there so stupid. Opie is very cheap as he tells us here and I think that's what you were alluding to earlier after he was done I'm like dude I can't afford this no one can afford this I go look I don't have the big gig anymore but even if I had the big gig I'm not I don't want to be paying these prices this is crazy and they're trying to explain that You know, his water pressure sucks, and his rent is insane. I get it.

I get it. But I have choices, too. So, Opie's saying, even when he made millions of dollars a year, he didn't want to pay a $2,000 dental bill. It's like, well, then, why do you live in Manhattan then? This is the thing we were talking about before. It's like, well, it's very expensive to live where you live. And so Opie's like, well, the reason why I'm raising this money is because I want to pay that much money. Yeah.

Right. Yeah. Is he talking about, is this an argument he's having with his dentist, whereas dentist is talking about his water pressure? sure. It's just like, it opens like $2,000. It's like, listen, man,

it's fucking right here. It's expensive. I'm going to get maintenance down here to fix some shit. Yeah, he really is a fucking chief cheapo that he's arguing at this. Like, I get being upset at what you have to pay,

but who's sitting there having a debate about it? Like you think you're like, you're in a marketplace in India or something and you're going to kind of talk them down on the bill. Is there a day I can come in that's cheaper? Do you discuss it? days or you're a cash discount if I pay cash you get like 20% off or something all right so it comes up again the QR code and this Kevin Brennan thing is out of his mind I like that you're saying

the bill's gonna be higher because then maybe they'll give them a few bucks today there's the QR code that Kevin Brennan doesn't understand god but these people obviously don't have content so they have to they have to be nosy nosy buddies with everybody else's live stream who gives us shit Listen, bro. They're watching. I listen. They're watching. Gary Garbu, he's one of ours. He goes, Opie's crown is on his head. The podcast crown.

Oh, we like Gary. Oh, man. This could give me a podcast crowd because I'm the king of this shit. It's a Burger King hat. I like Tony P's like trying to make Opie feel better. Yeah. Why is Kevin Brennan worried about what I'm doing? He's watching, though.

That's pretty cool. Right? It must be pretty popular. It's amazing for him to critique someone's content when, I mean, I don't know how deep into the show this is, but they're still talking about his rotten tooth and his fucking vet bill. It's like, this is not content, pal. This is mindless banter. Also, the crack amico song just dropped this week.

And there's a verse in there that talks about how Opie started all this with Jocktober. Like, this was one of their main formats was to pick apart other shows and goof on these. people. And he's a thin-skinned bitch. Everyone's like, you got a QR code. What's the fuck? What's wrong with you, Opie? And Opie, they can't get us out of his head now. Don't worry about it. Why even pay attention?

It's also a perfect like full circle movie moment that yes, like they did so much Jocktober stuff and he literally has one of the worst shows ever. Like a perfect Jocktober show he ends up doing and it's so many layers to how

embarrassing it is. It's all the heck bits that we can find audio of Opie making fun of these other shows for doing. And now he does them. And it's also, you know, clearly he, I mean, I guess he's always thought of himself as, you know, I've been doing this since I was 18. I'm so talented. There's not, he just turns the mic on it. I'll just wing it. I've done this for my whole life. I don't need to like even do any type of show prep or have some topics or anything like that. I, you know, I'm Opie. I'm Opie. I'm Opie. I got my guys. We'll just go for it. Eric Nagel, who suffered under Opie for many years in the chat. It's karma. Yes, absolutely. It is fun to see this come around like this, isn't it? Yeah. All right. So this is crazy that Opie, as I said, just turned 63 years old a couple weeks ago or a week ago.

And this is what he thinks is going to happen. When you see people, they do it. They have, like, designs on their teeth and shit now. I know. Those people don't have jobs, obviously. I'm still trying to get a job. So guess what? No, I'm still not going to get face tattoos.

I'm not getting my grill did. Yeah, I'm not in the tear drop tattoo because I, I hold out hope that I might work again someday. Stop. I'm retarded. Yeah. Why would you think in a million years he'd get a job at 63 years old after being unemployed for as long as he's been unemployed? 2018, he lost his job. That's an amazing admission by him, honestly.

I feel like he would usually keep that to the. the vest, closer to the vest. I mean, and it's, we already knew this, but it's a confirmation that he was clearly upset that Anthony got a gig. Yep. Because, yeah, he still thinks, yeah, he still thinks he's going to roll in somewhere with a demo or fucking do a, do an interview and they're going to hire him somewhere. Are you out of your mind?

It's, it's crazy because Opie tries not to swear. And if there's, like, really taboo subjects, he doesn't let the other guys talk about it. It'll shut it down. I mean, not taboo, sex. He doesn't want to talk about sex on the show. Whoa, whoa, whoa. I'm sorry, I should have said the SECX word. So, Opie thinks he's auditioning all the time.

Like, I get up every day at six. I do my show. It's professional. You can hire me to do this. I do your radio network. It's not working. No. Well, I mean, given I never worked for a radio station and I wasn't in the business

I was 18, but with my advice that I could give him is the, worst calling card is to continue to do these streams. If anything, these are deterring any, and nothing to do with the content. It's just the quality and the, you know, the clear lack of anything put behind it. If anything, coast off your fucking old shit, coast off of being on the radio, you know, a decade ago or whatever. This is just deterring anything. Yeah.

This was a, you know, you think it's pretty wild that he brought up he wants to get a job again. listen to this. This is bizarre. One of my kids' friends' fathers, one of my kids' friends' father, I guess it would be, right? He's an Uber driver. He was telling me all the ins and outs, and I'm like, this is starting to sound good.

I would be the early guy. No one wants to drive early. He was trying to be my car around four. Do some Ubers. The guy's making more money than me. I'll tell you right to hell now for the people that are wondering. He's making more money

to me and I'm like, this, this job doesn't sound that bad. Oh, my God. Is that insane? Holy shit. Those weren't jokes. No. He wasn't going for the laugh like he was with, uh, yeah, my mouth snob and this guy's asking me questions. Oh, he had stars in his eyes.

He's like, you make how much driving an Uber? Seventy bucks in a day? Whoa. And honestly, there's a way he could just do that, but it's, it's just because it's opi and we know how deep that would hit or hurt or whatever. Like it makes it, you know, so funny.

Like anyone else, you just kind of have sympathy for them or whatever. Like, hey, good for you. You're fucking, you're out there doing things. You know, your radio careers behind you. You're even, you can make the excuse. Hey, you're just doing it. Stay busy because, you know, you got your money. You love New York.

So you get to drive around and talk to people or whatever the fuck. But it's just, it's amazing that it's got to that point because, again, you know, we see them out here doing handwritten letters for $10. I mean, it's almost it would be more respectable to just drive an Uber or do a door dash or some shit.

There'd be less to goof on him for, for sure. Yes. Yeah. Here's my question, though. He says, my son's friend's father drives for Uber. Where is his son meeting this kid? They live on the Upper West Side. He goes to a private school.

How many of his friends' dads are Uber drivers? Doesn't even sound plausible. That's a good point. Yeah. I think he's probably just in an Uber. It's like, so much money can you make doing this? What? That sounds awesome. How's business these days? Now, it's not kind of eye in this a little bit. When Ron first met Opie, Opie and his buddy

Carl Ruiz, we're at that restaurant, late afternoon, drinking, having food, and we played the video, Adam Bush put it together for us on here. And Ron remembers back to that day when he first met Opie and what his take was, I don't know. By the way, that's enough. Because when I first met you, that's an upgrade. If someone thinks you're an Uber driver, that's an upgrade. Because when I first met you, and this is, when I first met you with Carl, it's on video. I literally thought you sold used cars. And Carl almost fucking lost it.

Like beer and Kalamari were coming out of his face and nose. He was laughing so hard. He was pounding his fist on the table. He was, you know, bro. He's fucking angry. You so hard. You're just hilarious. In the middle of.

in the middle of winter. Opie's like, all, that's not, that's that for you. It's amazing that things have not changed. Like, I kind of,

I'll take a peek at his streams every now and then, but it's so amazing that he still does this shit. And even though he knows, everyone's goofed on him for the Greg shells and being thin-skinned. And he's still, someone has like a light joke about it. And he's just kind of like a stone face.

Like, all right, let's not do this right now. Yeah. We're going to do this. Don't go there. Leave it alone. Right.

Yeah. All right, let's talk about how Ron Berman stinks. So he starts bringing up this movie Running Scared because Tony P. and O.P. are talking about just getting out of the city. Tony Pete's in the Bronx. He doesn't like it there either. They want to get out of the city, get down to Florida, get by the beach, get by the ocean down there. And this reminds Ron of a movie.

I would go to Turks and Caco. So I would just keep going at that. You know what? You know what just reminds me of the movie with Gregory Hines? and Billy Crystal, and they're a New York City gritty cops, and they end up moving to Florida and opening up a bar on the beat. Is it called Running Scared? Running Scared, okay. Remember that? Oh, no, Julio.

Dude, that was a good movie, Gregory. Oh, no, Julio. That Billy Crystal talking to Julio, the bad guy. By the way, Jimmy Smith played the bad guy. Oh, no, Julio. That's not how the comedy rule of threes works there, Ron. Well, he got the biggest laugh of the stream when he did it once. So he's like, go back to the well.

What are we doing? We're going to keep doing it. Even Opie of the same instinct when it comes to telling a joke that works. Keep saying it's Opie's protege. Yep, that's what he learned from. And I got to tell you, Opie sees that an impression gets a laugh. So he goes, oh, I got the impression I can pull out. How about this, Billy Crystal?

You're going to look marvelous. Oh, did I go away. It's the worst impression. You look marvelous. It's just all these, you know, really up-to-date references to, I mean, these guys are fucking killing it on all cylinders, dude. This is amazing. So, Opie goes on a rant where he's like, oh, Billy Crystal stinks. I wish you would just go away.

It's like, hey, Opie, good news. Billy Crystal hasn't been anything in many, many years. It's fine. you're still upset about that. So then they're talking about Billy Crystal. And Ron's like,

well, what's your problem with Blake Crystal? He's great. He's good in this movie, that movie. And Opie goes, most people have a problem with Billy Crystal.

Then it turns into this talk. Most people have a problem. Most people don't have a problem with Bill. Most people have a problem, most people, but they're too scared to say it. Correct. They're not going to go,

shut up Kevin Brennan, who gives a shit about a QR. Oh, you idiot. Wow. This is a way. he's after this first got brought up and still weighing on him. Still fuming. Still fuming about

it. And that's actually what he meant when he's like, enough of you, Billy Crystal, but in his mind he's thinking Kevin Brennan. Yeah. Brennan, totally. Enough for you. Opie says, you know, he understands this better than anyone. He's the best of Jack Tover. How does he not

realize that he's so transparent of what bothers him? And it's going to give people just more ammo. Yes. It's just going to fuel this. Yeah, it's great. I love it. He has no poker face whatsoever. You can immediately, you immediately know where he's at, especially when other people are talking or if they lightly rib them or anything like that or a reaction happens. It's game over.

Yeah. I'm starting to think he's bothered about this Kevin Brennan thing. Yeah. Dumb cunt won't even look at me or whatever the text was. Now, Opie gets a positive super chat. And Opie's confidence is shook at this point. So he's not buying that it's real. Listen, all right. Listen, Darryster, one of mine, he says, Holy crap. Now, Opie says one of mine. This is his tell when he knows it's a hater or someone who's actually supporting Opie.

When he says one of mine, he assumes that this person is a fan of the show. Listen, all right. Listen, Barrester, one of mine, he says, holy crap, Opie. This show is so wild and zany. Oh, M.G. Ron makes me laugh so hard. My sides hurt. Here's $20 for this first class show.

Oh, damn. That sounds like Barres. mine, not you is. I think he's, I think he might be a little sarcastic. I think there was a little sarcasm in there. It was a little over the top. I mean, I get it. But at that point, dude, just take the dub. You got a $20 dove, dude. Just take the, I mean, you're begging for $10 PayPal donations. Maybe he's already calculating the YouTube took some of it. So whatever. But at that point, the person paid you, just take it. Just go for it. And he doesn't have to write a thank you note. Right. Yeah.

Exactly. I think what it was, I think what was in there was, you know, he knows the show and wild and zany. But the guy also said that Ron makes his side turd. I don't think he's like, all right, let's not give Ron a big head over here. This guy's obviously being sarcastic. Yeah. No one thinks you're that funny.

Do you think that's why he led with this one of mine? Because it's also saying like, just because it gives you props doesn't mean you're getting any of this $20. So let's slow down on that. That's how I took it. Good point. Yeah. Oh, so.

Okay, so Leo Gunn, who got Opie going in the first place with the Kevin Brennan thing, sees it. It's bothering him. So he decides to come back with another super chat. All right. Listen, Leo Gun, five more dollars. Seriously, though, how does Kevin Brennan not know what a QR code is? Boomer problems, exactly. Punish Kevin Brennan and donate to my QR code so I can shove it up his ass.

Oh, no. He's one of these guys who thinks he's going to stick it to someone if you donate to someone. else. Why'd you give him so much money? Just to get to Kevin Brutton. That's why. How does that work? Now, I know this is not the case, but at a certain point, yeah, he should just lean into, you know, if people are giving you money just to piss you off, then, yeah, just kind of own that a bit. But I know that's not what's happening. It's not like he's working. He would probably try to pitch this, though, and be like, now I know what they're doing. But that's why I react, because I'm getting the money or something. But that would never be the

case. You can't handle it. You know what we need to do now is we need to find that $5 bill that he threw out in the year years ago. Wasn't he going to give away money for that or something? Like $10,000 or something crazy, stupid? Could we track that down and hold him to it?

Just make a fake one. Yeah. You won't remember. So apparently, Ron is more familiar with Missouri Love's company, Kevin Brennan's show, than Opie even realized. By the way, I'm giving Kevin Brennan two. you know by the way yeah which ones no i've given him two at you because each time he's asked me to come on

he said go fuck yourself oh good and i appreciate that rod he did he asked me twice i said fuck you i'm team opi yeah well it proves we're doing something that they're the people are trying to get you on their podcast i know you're a podcast i don't even know who's on your goddamn podcast so i couldn't even try to get him on here because i don't even know oh he does the i don't even watch your show argument which makes him a winner which is why so i only have Ron and Tony Pee on. Yeah. And also it proves we're doing something. Like we're

out there making waves. They want you on the show. And it's like, yeah, no, as a fucking goof, it's the goof on you. Kevin has everyone on his show. Clearwater Chad, Karmic acts. Like, yeah, this wouldn't be like a downgrade for him to have Ron the waiter on there. It makes you make perfect sense.

I can never get over the way this guy puts his face in the fucking camera every time he talks. It's so... It's just like kind of grosses me out. All right. So Opie is looking at the free chat now. He mentioned earlier. It's F-U Friday and Super Chat Friday.

So he goes, I'm not reading any of the free ones. But then, because his confidence is shook, he starts reading the free ones. I got another F-U to this guy, Brian. Brian Hulk, H-O-L-C-O-P-E-C-O-P could have a real show, you bitch. forgot me. I'm going to have a real show? You're watching a real show. Hold on.

Tony P. This is a real show. Hold on. Hold on. You can read that. That might be, you know, you might be misreading it.

Like, he might be saying, like, oh, but you could have a real show here. Yeah, know what that means? You want me to break it down?

That's why I'm defending you guys. He's basically saying, if you get rid of these two dead weights, you could have an actual show. So here I am defending Ron the waiter and Tony P. They're not. dead weights. That's not what he was saying.

Oh, no. Holy shit, Opie. No, that guy was actually saying that you two suck ass. And I was trying to defend you both. What? That's amazing. He threw them under the bus immediately. Well, what's great is, yeah, the guy said, the guy was, you know, you could read it away

as how it's not a real show because it's not. And they immediately prove him right as they all start yelling over each other about how it's a real show or also not understanding what. what he meant. What does that mean? That's a real show. It's a real show. It's hysterical. This other guy is, is that what you're talking about? Is this guy just like rolling joints the whole time? Is that what he's doing? I just thought that was so funny.

Because Opie, just like, well, this is obviously a compliment to me. I could have a real show for everyone of these two assholes. Wow. This is one of mine. It's one of mine. All right. So, last clip I have on here. And shout out to Hayes freely for sending in suggestions. haste goes through out of these streams and sends me notes. I appreciate that. There's been this running thing with Gebbhards.

Opie used to broadcast once a week from his buddy Matt's bar. It's right downstairs from him. And they'd go over to Gebhards. And that's where he met Ron and his cast of characters that would go on there, drink beers and do the show. And there was a recent incident, because we haven't seen him in Gebhards in a long time. There was a recent incident where Ron says, he kind of wanted it, slip. He's like, oh, he's going to post this old photo

on social media, but Matt's in the background. Right. And Opie responds with, oh, I don't think Matt's mad at you. And then Opie goes, RIP Matt. Yes. So Opie had written Matt, the owner of Gephardt's off, and we saw that like, oh, I don't think Opie's allowed to Gepard's anymore.

He certainly doesn't want him streaming over there anymore. So then we speculating on this. We brought up on the show. Kevin Brennan called Gephardt to see if Opie's ever going to broadcast here again. And so, So Opie's gotten very upset that he kind of let that slip. So now we're trying to do damage control on it. All right.

You want to hear my Fio? This Pete guy, aren't you barred from that place? Ops, because we haven't done get parts in a while, these assholes that have nothing else to do with their live streams, they just make up shit. And the latest making up shit thing is that I'm banned from get parts. Oh, I don't repeat. I'm blocking you. I don't need you. I don't need the stupid lies because people out there don't have harm in their live streams.

Okay. So you had to drink it off at Gepods a week ago. I told the reason. Matt needed some time. And that's Matt's thing to talk about, not mine. But we will be back live at Gepardt. I've been there many times. I just haven't fucking done a live stream.

These guys, they have nothing else to do. So they just have to make up stupid lies. Try to do an actual show with content. Then you don't have to make up shit. Imagine being that pressed that people think that you're banned from a bar that no one's ever heard of. Yeah. That he streamed at once.

Like even if what he's saying is true, he'd be like, no, I don't know. That's not a thing. We just don't, you know, we don't stream there right now. Like, why would you be so upset about it if there's not a story or an issue? It was a free chat. He didn't have to pull it up on the screen. And then he immediately turns it into, you guys are making all this shit up.

No, I played the clip. We played exactly what you said. He didn't make up anything. And then the fact that he sits there and he goes, I told you, this is a mat thing. He needs his time. Like, well, that's the most cryptic shit ever. Not what he's saying?

Right. What's back going through? He's making it worse. He's making it way worse. And he blocks the guy. Because I'm going to speculate on all this kind of shit. Yeah. And now we've got to call Matt.

It's our job. That's classic Opie too. I mean, if I go back in the old days, I remember there was this whole thing when they came back on satellite and then, you know, Dice wasn't on the show for whatever reason. And it was, people were always like, when's Dice can be on? When's Dice can be back on? And then you would always be cryptic about something. then when his dad passed, Dice didn't reach out or something.

Like, he was always bizarre with his details until, like, years later he finally was on. And of course, it was just completely nothing, like a weird thing he just built up. So that's just, that's the classic opster for you. He just makes it way worse. And now it encourages more people to talk about Kevin Brennan and talk about Gebbhardt. He's going to see more and more of that, which makes it more interesting. So there's that. But I think, I think Opie lost the only friend he has that he actually respected.

as a person in Matt. The only person invited to the beach house. Yeah. Maddie O used to get the invite to go to the Hamptons and Matt would be like, I'm running two businesses, man. He's got a young family. I can't make it out. And Ron would be like, I can come.

I got there. So is Ron still, does Ron work at Gepard still? Is that the thing? I don't know if he ever worked there. He might. I think, you know, they used to say that he was like serving tables around. but I think he was just kind of fucking around because he was friends with the owner.

Gotcha, gotcha. He's worked in a bunch of different restaurants, though, so it's possible. All right, I want to introduce you to a character you might not know about. I love to eat peanut butter. I love to eat honey. And I also love to eat beans.

Beans. I look great. I feel great. Beans. This guy named Jerry Banfield. I stumbled upon him a few years ago. and he's gone through a lot of different identities over the years. He's a live streamer.

He's a podcaster. He's a comedian. He's a musical artist. He gives advice. He coaches people. He does crypto content. Failed author. He's an author, yep.

Nice. Some of his books over here. That was one of his more recent stints. He also gives dating advice. And what's amazing about him is that everything he does fails, spectacularly. Like, when I first stumbled upon him, he was $600,000 in debt.

Because in order to get views on his videos, he was paying four acts what he was making on the videos. And so he was just spending tens of thousands of dollars a month so it would look like he was a star roll. Maybe eventually people will actually stumble upon me for free. Fake it until you make it, yeah. Right.

But he didn't understand that you can't just do that for years. And so he lost a lot of money. So what happened was he, quit the internet, deleted all of his social media accounts and his YouTube channel and everything, and decided to become an author, which, I don't know why he thought that writing books in 2025 was going to be the answer to his financial woes. So he stopped doing that, and now he's back and he's created six new YouTube channels and he's putting out six to ten videos a day. And he's like, this is the plan. But the best part is he decided to take out a loan of $54,000.

And he called it a credit card loan. So I imagine there's a 20% of it. interest on this or something like that. Yeah. And like a cash advance or something. Right. Right. Yeah, because a bank probably wouldn't approve him. Mm-hmm. So he's renting a nice house in a nice neighborhood for $2,700 a month and living off

of this money that he's borrowed. So we were watching a bunch of videos where he was explaining this. And this is a continuation on that. This is called How I Feel Rich while my net worth is plummeting. It's crazy how rich I am. But if you looked at my net worth, you wouldn't think it. My net worth right now is around minus 200,000, which... Oh, my God.

It's crazy how rich you are. It's crazy, man. This is an amazing train wreck, and I'm just being introduced to this. I'm loving what I'm seeing. Yeah, this guy's great. Oh, by the way, he also just got a divorce, and he's got two kids that he has to pay any child support to because the wife makes out the money.

Oh. I, uh, is about a million dollars difference. from the highest it is. But what's amazing? So he's claiming he had a net worth of $800,000 at one point? I don't think that's correct. You can think... Were his books AI?

You have his books? Do you think they were just AI books or what? No. No, I've actually read them. So he thought he was going to be a local author. So he's down in St. Petersburg, Florida. So this book is called Author in St. Petersburg. And when you go through them, it's literally like a diary.

So there's July 30th, 20th. 25 and he just writes about what he's thinking about that day what he's doing it's every single day he just would write three or four pages it is amazing and again i mean i think that's just the theme of you know like are my show your show like all these shows it's amazing that these people exist out there because they really believe like like it's it's such a leap for to put that book out because you assume that people give a fuck like people want to read your diary no one cares dude there there's one called i was I'll show you this one. I should make these easier to grab. This one's called I was famous on the internet. I love the covers. It's like when you have a box set of a fucking TV shows, there's a theme almost.

They got to like, oh, this is the famous on the internet style. Yeah. He just slaps his face on the front and he thinks it's going to sell. Huge copies. Do you have the one where he's wearing a barrel? Oh,

no way. I'm bored out. he just said it's a million dollar difference from where he was so that means he was worth eight hundred thousand dollars now he's negative two hundred thousand dollars how did that happen jerry jesus christ get your shit together it's a lot of money to lose uh i like to crack cocaine all right well that's a good reason that would make sense who can be so poor even when you have a high net worth mentally and you can be so rich when you have nothing to me What matters is how do you feel?

Yeah, but we use different words for that. Poor and rich specifically mean money. Yes. No, but I'm rich in spirit. Okay, but how's your big account to it? Because that's what we're talking about. I can't get past that he's reading this off of something somewhere. Like he keeps looking down.

So he had to like write this out ahead of time. It's like, dude, just fucking go with your gut. I mean, you've lived this experience. You crashed your net worth. Just tell us from the heart, man. It's worse than that. He admitted on one of these streams He has chat GPT clean up the scripts for him.

Yep. Yeah, all these idiots do that. I should mention, I didn't break this up during the Joe Mater E segment. He also uses chat GPT for everything in his life. Opie lost his AI assistant that one day and lost his mind over it. What is with all these fucking people who can't live without a fake person in their pocket?

It's so bizarre. And these things are like a year old and you're already live and die by if it's working or not. Like, oh my God, what the fuck? It's the producer of my show. Opi literally said, Jim, that he goes, now I don't want to put down the producers of Opin Anthony because they got all butt hurt when I do that because he knows Eric's in our chat, checking this stuff out.

And he goes, but the producer that I use my AI assistant is as good as two or three producers that I used to work with at Opin Anthony. So insulting. What an asshole. And you know why it's perfect for guys like this is because, I mean, obviously I play around with chat cheap BT, whatever.

Yeah. But it's so clear if you have any self-awareness that all it does is gas you up. Yep. So if you put something in there, it's going to be like, that's a great idea. That's awesome. So you know that that's why Opie. This is my best producer I've ever had. He loves every idea I have and he thinks it's great.

Do you think I should go with my mouth is numb? This guy's asking me small talk questions. That's a great idea. I've heard a lot of comedians use that premise. Like I just dropped $1,200 with Angela for some more coaching today. Like if you remember her from the video where she roasted me, I want more coaching. I want more help on dating.

And she's in a great position to help me. So I just sent Angela $1,200 today. And we're going to make some content together and do some coaching. This guy is so dumb. I have no money. In fact, I owe a bunch of money. And you know what I did to fix that? I gave this person $1,200.

I sent some e-thought, $1,200. to do karaoke with me? I couldn't tell what that video was. Were they singing songs? I have to look into it. I'll get back to it. And I'm like, dude, I am such an outlier. Like most people in my position, my net worth has been plummeting minus five or $10,000 a month every month for the last like six plus months as I've been borrowing all this money as I've documented in a bunch of my recent videos, how I borrow, why I'm borrowing, all that stuff. But yet I feel so rich every day. And when I've noticed as someone who has got their net worth around a million dollars at one point, who has made hundreds of thousands of dollars working from home,

doing what I want to do and having fun, as someone who's lived the dream lifestyle as a full-time YouTuber and content creator for over a decade, I can tell you what's made that possible is when I feel rich inside and when I live rich and when I act rich. Now, I'm not saying I piss money. So this is hilarious because what he's describing right now is full on delusion. Yeah. He's just like, the secret to happiness is just be delusional, which

isn't wrong. Yeah. It's like one step away from like manifestation almost. But it's like it's almost like you could see that this guy probably thinks oh manifestation, that's ridiculous. But he's kind of doing a financial

version of it. He's essentially like a fucking Nathan Fielder character. Like it's bizarre. He seems so fake, but you know that these people exist out there. You were talking about this earlier, how our shows are similar. We find these people that they're delusional, they're narcissistic. And what's great about it is that I don't know anyone like this in real life.

You don't meet people like this. If you did, you'd never hang out with them again. Like, I'm fucking retired. Yes. They would owe your money. Yeah, right. Or it would be great because maybe they're paying you the money they don't have. And you're taking advantage of them.

I'll give Jerry some dating advice. For $1,200. But on top of that, though, Jim, not only do these people live these delusional lives where they convince themselves that things are going great and they're crushing it. They're also looking at hundreds of not thousands of people tell them just the opposite and going, these people don't know what the fuck they're talking about. It wouldn't take more than a few dozen people to make me feel like I should rethink this. Exactly. Yeah, you're that like everyone else is wrong. It's not me.

It's clear. I know the secret. And I assume it's just like, you know, this guy sees how you see write-ups about big businesses like Netflix is technically indebt, but whatever, it's cash flow. So this moron just thinks, no, I'm going to put that in motion just with my real life, though. I'll be able to figure it out. Yeah, Steve in the chair says he's Ponzi scheming himself. Yes. Who's going to pay back the bank?

What are you? I don't know. My LLC, I guess. Right. money away on stupid things. Like spending $1,200 to get coaching with Angela is going to do incredible things for me. And having my, a woman that I'm dating, that Angela is going to help with that. And having a woman I'm dating is priceless.

And if I can find a woman to date that I'm really happy with, that'll free me up to obsess all my attention on my YouTube channels and on the money I'm making, which. Oh, so sad. I know. He's such a sim. This is someone that has like a woman in the basement, though. If we, if Angela could just tell me how to turn this situation around where I don't have to have her handcuffed in the basement and she just lives upstairs.

I don't want to whip her, Angela. I want to stop whipping her. And Angela's just fucking Angela from who's the boss or some shit. You're right. I'm a real person. So Jerry Banfield's an older guy. He's got to be 40 if not close.

close to 40 and he literally just said if I just meet the right girl everything will be great that's how that works at all. Someone to obsess over. That's fucked up. And also, but he's making it seem like maybe I misheard him because he's making it seem like no, once he figures that hurdle out,

he's going to have way more time to focus on his YouTube channel. He's like, no, now I get love figured out. But it's like, no, when you have a significant other, they're like, they're fucking up your time. It's like, no, man, I got to work on my YouTube channel. I can't be going to fucking the farmer's market right now. Yeah, it's a big time commitment. They don't want to just blow you all day.

They want you to suffer them too. Just focusing split between dating and YouTube has done pretty good as I've shown in this recent video said I started from zero and got 272,000 organic views in just 72 days on YouTube with six brand new YouTube channels. And I've been enjoying making dating videos telling what I've... Hold on a second. I've got to go back to the title of that video. This is wild. So the title is, I started from zero and got 272,522 organic YouTube views. Just round it off, Chair.

Yeah, come on. At this point. Yeah, I got 275,000 views. I mean, these are clearly all bought it. Like, I'm not breaking new ground here. Like, this is all bullshit, right? No, these are, so that video that he's bragging about has 17 views. The video next time is 46.

Yeah, I didn't see that. So the reason why he has that many views is because he's made thousands of videos in the last 72 days. Okay. Yeah. One of these. Yeah, I always stumbled upon these channels and I always wonder, you know, is there really something going on here?

Like, what is this? Or when you're hiring consultants or you're trying to pitch, it's like, no, I'm a consultant. I could help you turn your channel around. It's like, no, you can't because you have, yeah, 20 views, not even 20 views on your video. Yeah, is Jerry Bafield YouTube coach, 315 subscribers. Jerry should be kind of me.

We do have to check out these dating videos, though. Oh my God. On YouTube with six brand new YouTube channels. And I've been enjoying making dating videos telling what I've been learning about dating. So the key is, and I remember this when I was in a bankruptcy attorney's office in 2019, this is where everything turned around at the worst point I've been in financially, which was much worse than this. I started to feel shockingly wealthy. Like, wow, I just walked into a bankruptcy attorney's office.

I said, no. I don't want to declare bankruptcy Even though you think I should I'm going to figure out a different way out of this Oh he's got the that authority defiance disorder thing Oh yeah He's about with Patrick Michael Because he was doing this

Segment last time Jim We were playing these videos where he goes All my friends and family told me to Not getting more debt to get a job and pay my bills And I said no I'm not doing that So he goes in the guy's like we should definitely file for bankruptcy Or $600,000 in debt

He's like, nope, that I won't. Right. Not doing that. Can you imagine working with an attorney? It's insane. This guy is like a literal, well, he's, he's a goldmine to everyone else, not to himself at all. That's amazing.

And then the next year, you know, within a year, I was coming up on Facebook gaming. By 2021, I made over 100,000 in-profit streaming video games on Facebook. Like just- So this is wild. Because he doesn't usually talk about the money he makes. I hear a lot about the money he's losing. Yeah. So to him, the brag is he made $100,000 in a year. That doesn't seem like what's going to do it for him to get out of this debt that he's in. Like, that's like the main goal.

Because he was talking before about if I can just get $10,000 a month on YouTube, that'll fix everything. It's, I mean, and I would love to see what, yeah, what are the gymnastic, mental gymnastics he's pulling where he's trying to say that he actually like does he believe he made a hundred thousand a year is there some sort of thing that he did do that he could show receipts of this because he bought all these views or something like that like i it's a great question i'm so intrigued yeah me me too just an incredible comeback story but it started because walking out of the bankruptcy attorney's office in the worst financial position of my life i felt disgustingly wealthy like wow even though i've tried to destroy my finances with this business idea for a year and a half.

I still have enough. I'm going to get to keep my house. At the time I still had a wife, my kids, everybody's taking care of. I still could afford massages. Oh my God. When you see how,

wait, hold on that. What do you just say at the end there? Did he say, I can still afford massages? I think that's what he, I can still afford massages. I think is what he just said.

This is awesome. He just went in, the big guy goes, you should really file for bankruptcy. He's like, oh yeah, I'm going to need a bandie patty. Fuck you.

I still have enough. I'm going to get to keep my house. At the time I still had a wife, my kids, everybody's taking care of. I still could afford massages. Like, when you see how rich you are inside, no amount of money or net worth will substitute for the internal feeling that, my God, I'm so wealthy. Thank you.

That's why I rented this house that I'm in now for $2,700 a month, as I talked about in this video. Because when I'm in this house, I'm like, I am so rich to be in this house, to be in this neighborhood where most of the houses, like the average sale price is $500,000 for like a knockdown. There's tons of wealthy people. I'm in a neighborhood with other influencers. Like I am in a wealthy neighborhood that I love and I feel so rich.

And when I have my kids overnight in my house, I feel rich. Never mind that my net worth is plummeting because when I feel rich, life will continue giving me more to make me feel rich. and one day this net worth will reflect, I mean, ICP alone could pull this net worth into millions of dollars. Okay, so that goes right into crypto. He's like, well, who knows?

Maybe I'll hit the lottery. Right. This is insane, dude. This is a crazy, like this is, I mean, you know, they closed all the asylums or whatever, and, you know, this is what happens. I mean, we stumble upon people, well, not like financial guys like this,

but on Jim and them, you know, we'll do a part two that's like not Corey at all. But, and we love when we find someone that has like five followers in like a thousand videos. Yeah. Because it's just the people live in this own world of delusion and they have to tell everyone about it. And no one's listening. But I like when we get to peek in and be the people that that listen. I find those channels too, Jim.

And they'll always do the same thing. They always be like, all right, welcome back guys. Sorry, I took a couple days off. They constantly think that people need them. They're worried about it. Listen, you were probably worried about me. I actually took a quick trip to the in-laws, but I'm back now. And then, yeah, and his chat CBT scripts even like, hey, you know, you could still afford massages.

You're in a nice area. You got rich people around you. People assume you're rich so then you feel it. But then it's like in what, six months I have a video. Like, I feel poor. I got kicked out of my place. This is a poor mindset. I got to get out of it.

I need to be back into a rich mindset right now. Yeah. Oh, wait till we can't afford the green screen behind him anymore. He did say the thing that you were talking about earlier, though, it did seem like he wants to manifest this. He goes, as long as I act rich and I live near rich people and everything around me is like rich, then I'll be rich. Yeah, yeah. Like the book, The Secret. Yeah, it's like the secret.

Yes, exactly. And he's kind of right in line with Joe Matarice because, you know, Joe Matarise is like, hey, find something you love doing and it's going to be great or whatever. you're going to be rich inside. Like, these guys need to team up and share platitudes back and forth to each other. Right.

That's what I was saying. No, no, that's what I was saying. And then chat. Gets and them both up. You're the most amazing people I've ever worked with. But with all my YouTube channels,

I've got my website set up now. I've got calls on my website. I just put the price up to $96 for a fuck. What the hell? I said last I was going to call them. He just doubled his price. Snooge you lose. These are for like,

oh, just literal call like hanging out chatting with him or whatever, getting advice. Is that what you're talking about? Yeah, check this out. 30 minutes because y'all are willing to pay it. I've set it up so you can request if you want me to make a video on a certain subject.

You can request a video for free or you could do a priority request. If you want me to do something, I'm setting up additional ways to make money on my website. I've got constant ideas that are creative. Like I can make games on Roblox. I could create games on ICP. I feel so rich. And I promise you

one day my rich feeling will override my net worth just like it's done in the past. All right. I don't know, man. Well, I love that he's got the Roblox angle as well because, you know, the kids out there are like, I wonder if Jerry Banfield can make me a game.

Can make me a backroom's game that has like a cat with a human face in it as the monster. Let's get Jerry on the horn. I want to look more into these phone calls he gets because I do want to record a call with Jerry and get his advice on some stuff. So he put out a video about that recently. Oh, sweet.

I'd rather be broke than work for $20 an hour. So he's showing two people who paid for phone calls with him. The first one is Mike Hawk. Jesus Christ. Robin Banks. Listen, there's a lot of Mike Hawks out there. I definitely see Mike Hawk in my chat. I don't know if that's how he found Jerry or not.

but very funny. Or anything even close to it, like 25 or 30. This is a hard mindset for people internalized. For example, I just took a walk on the beach with this girl. She's working jobs she doesn't like. And she complains about them and she wants more money and she wants to manifest it. And I said, well, you got to stop working the jobs you don't like and quit accepting $20 an hour because you're setting your own worth by doing that. She's like, well, what am I going to do then?

And I have debt and I can't, I need to pay my bills. I said, I'd rather, I said, pay bills. Yeah, what's that like? Stop with that noise right now, dummy. Have you thought about thinking rich? Have you thought about thinking about that you're rich? Now, did he say he was walking on the beach with a woman? Yes.

So there's no way that's real. Like, that just maybe chat CPT was like, hey, if you frame the conversation like this. Oh, make it seem like you talk to humans. That's interesting. Yeah, like a stand-up comedian. Like, we'll do a bit. And it's not necessarily a real story, but like, hey, it helps the, to get the point across or something. Yeah, yeah.

Like, Chad will say he worked at Kmart. Right. Yeah. I'd rather be homeless than work for $20 an hour. Because my time is worth at least $98 an hour or I'm not working. If I'm not making, like, close to $100 plus dollars an hour, I'm just going to do whatever I feel like doing. and I'll worry about eating and where I'm going to sleep. I'll trust and depend on the generosity of other people.

Because if you have people that love you, you're going to have somebody's couch to crash on, or you're going to sleep in the back of a car or on a park bench. What an asshole. I'm just going to be completely lazy and throw caution to the wind. And if that doesn't work, hey, can I crash on your couch? What's in the fridge?

Well, it's almost like he's kind of saying, you know, I'd rather be dead than walk on a side. I'm going to walk on any streets I want and if something happens something happens. Like I don't even care. I'm going to do what I want to do. And the rest of society, be damned. Don't give up fuck. To me, my time is worth so much that if I'm going to exchange my time for money like I do on

Jerry Banfield.com, then I'm going to get paid at a level that feels good. She's like, well, you know, you're older than me. You have these skills. I'm like, no, it's the mindset. Okay. And this person, this never happened. This definitely is a fake conversation. So I'm talking to this bitch about how she can fix her life.

She's like, yeah, but you're amazing, Jerry. I can't be like, yeah. Yeah, he asked chat. He was like, this is what the point I want to get across. And chat GPT was like, you know what? You should frame it as a story of like you're hanging out with a woman and having a nice walk on the beach and you're just expounding your knowledge on her. He's like, that's great.

That's awesome. You're so right about that. Because that's definitely something chat deep team would come up with. They're like, well, it's more compelling if you actually put it in, into a story people can relate to. Maybe there's a beach that you're walking down barefoot with a beautiful lady. This is great. This is gold.

And it's so annoying because he represents like the worst people you deal with. Like the people that do have a job, but they think the same thing. Like this is not worth my time. And it's like you're in coals or something. And you're like, hey, where's the return for Amazon? I ain't, I ain't telling you. I'm a rich man. I'm worth more than this.

Speaking of rich men, there's a guy named Marty Fletcher. who's had an amazing career in show business, almost won an Emmy, was nominated for an Emmy, been in many different TV show series, filmed commercials, but also he's a musician, he's a manager of bands,

he's a stand-up comedian, he's been a manager for other comics, he worked with Joan Rivers. His resume goes out and out and out and out. And everything I just told you, Jim, is what Artie Fletcher tells us, and none of it is real. Oh, all right, all right, I love it.

Artie Fletcher, we talked to his roommate a week or two ago, A guy who lived with Artie for seven years and also Artie Fletcher's a good friend with Jim Forentine. I've talked to Jim about this guy too. It turns out Artie Fletcher's a pathological liar and has gotten away with it. He's like 70 years old now. He's gotten away with it his entire life and just tells you these tales. Well, Carl, if I could correct you, I feel like maybe he's taking the Jerry Banfield approach where he's just thinking that he's all those things.

And as long as you tell you just speak it into the world, who's to say it's not true? Well, people who know him. That's what we learned. People who know him can tell you that it's not true. Nothing that this should happen. So he was on a show a few years ago called Alive and Kicking. And this is with Lisa Marie Benz is the host. The audio sucks.

I really hope we can get past the audio issues. If we need to bail on it, let me know. I think there's some gems in here. There's also like people doing dishes behind them. So they're like in a count. comedy club because he was also managing the laugh factory multiple locations of the laugh factory which is where my buddy Vinnie Paulino worked for him and so I think they're at a laugh factory location and the staff is getting ready for dinner so there's a lot of noise and chatter in the

back they're not properly miced but let's give us a go starts off very smoothly All right. Okay. You're in 21 minutes, 4.35. I'm going to be able to order off in tonight. All right. You ready? Three, two, one, live. Welcome to another edition of a live and kicking on location on YouTube.

I am Lisa Marie Benz, your host is with Milosis. And I'm so excited to be here at the beautiful joke factory with Artie Fletcher. At the La Playa Hotel. At the La Palao Hotel. Yes. $2,500 of North Atlantic. Canada is a matter of fact. They'll reach Florida.

That's right. Oh, rough start already. Is he getting paid by the hotel to work the plug-in on this huge show? That's a good question. So he manages these joke factories and they're all in hotels. The one in Rochester was at a hotel that's now shut down and condemned. Yes. Next to the airport.

Such a shittle. It's funny too because it's like when things like this come on with the audio, you try to guess if it's like, oh, did they? They just have microphones, but they didn't have it on the right input or whatever. But it looks like they were just, you know, the fucking freeball in with just whatever the onboard mic was on the camera or whatever. Whatever sticking out of that camera, they're hoping that's going to pick it up. That's that. We're good to go.

Even though you have like mic stands and shit around you, like figure something out, please. Yeah, there's instruments and shit. There's got a whole sound system. All right. So this wasn't live. For some reason, you heard the countdown and the whole thing. on the show. Not sure why that happened. And even he mumbled something that was almost like,

oh, that bitch. Maybe I miss heard him, but it was really weird. It's like, oh, that girlfriend over there is that bitch. It was bizarre. Yeah, he mumbles a lot of things. In this interview, it's a little different version already flushed that we've seen. He seems to lack confidence. Like, it almost starts realizing that his bullshit sounds like bullshit. So I think there's a few times where he's just like, he buy any of this.

You know, he's just got to talk about it in his mouth. She's got this list of questions. She's a pro. She's got this list of questions that's perfect for Artie. So tell me how you got to be known as New York City's Bad Boy of Comedy. How did you get that name? I used to be an agent and I used to be a manager and a tour manager and I used to work for Joe Grunner's. And she used to say, you're such a bad boy.

You're a bad boy. And the name she gives you to New York City's bad boy. So that stuck with me and I'm 58 now. so there's really nothing bad about me going to the bathroom on a regular basis. That's pretty good, actually. It's not bad. So pretty much... Okay.

I'm pausing it here because this Joan Rivers anecdote went nowhere. Joan Rivers is a very funny person. If you have a conversation with her, you're going to be like, oh, my God, you shouldn't heard what she said to me. She's always got a good quip. Instead, it's like, she said I was the bad boy. I was such a bad boy. Why?

Yeah. Bad at your job? Yeah. Why would that catch on? Yeah, why would that even catch on? Like, if you're the bad boy of comedy, the connotation is more that you're on stage being so edgy and doing crazy stuff or whatever. Like, you're going to places no one else would go to. So even then, if you wanted to be the Joan River story, like, yeah, Joan saw me on stage and I was, you know, I was fucking her daughter.

And she was like, oh, my God, you're such a bad boy. Right. Like, since my book came out, it's already fledgering, the bad boy thing kind of went away. Since his book came out, the bad boy thing kind of went away. not sure how that works well I can't call you the bad boy anymore that I read your book yeah

now I'm the author of comedy I'm the author of New York comedy because I have a book out by the way you can buy it now on Amazon I think he's trying to sound interesting listen to where he goes next because in college I was party artie

you know and it took years to get rid of that it was party party party Fletcher and then Ardy Fletcher and it could be party Hardy Fletcher yeah exactly party Hardy whof

why do we care what they called you in college what does that do with anything the man of a thousand nicknames ardy fletcher you know let me tell you that i went through a phase i was party arty i was hardy and you're right like for him to be so uninterested in himself like he's already he's bored with his own answers he checked out it's like why do they call you the bad boy of new york city

comedy goes well they kind of don't I tried that. It didn't stick. No one cared. Well, I just told everyone that was the thing, and then, you know, that's it. Yeah, it didn't stick. All right. So then she asked the question that definitely already supplied for her, because he knows how to answer this one.

According to your resume, which reads like a book, you have pretty much done it all. I've been lucky. In fact, I just finished touring to Midwest. And I've been on a lot of talk shows, and I told them I'm very, very lucky. to have played in band, to open for all the people I have, and being on Law & Order, having a good run on Cornynton 10. I've done all three Law & Order. I've done NYP Blue, Third Watch.

I mean, I had a good run. Now, there's a little bit of truth to this. We actually watched the scene. He was in Law & Order playing, like, a truck driver who found the dead body and had, like, one line. It's over there. I mean, it was like, I got to go here. I mean, walked out of frame.

What a good run. It is nice. So yeah, you get that more so true. So you could just throw that out there without context or extra details. And hey, it sounds good. I are. Man, I was on law and order. But it is funny because he's the quintessential.

You know, if you go to see a stand-up comedian and they bring out some fucking guy you've never seen before. And it's this guy because he just so happened to be nice to like an actual stand-up. You know what I mean? It's amazing the people that get lucky. And then someone takes you on the road. or whatever it might be, or I guess what he manages some of these stand-up comedy places. It's just like this person I don't feel like would understand anything that's funny at all. Wait, Jim, I'm confused.

You've never heard of Artie Fletcher? No, no, never even heard of him. How was that possible? This guy is wildly famous. I'm completely disconnected from like the true comedy world. Apparently, he didn't get out to Vegas. Let's get some more name dropping in. I did 100th Center Street, which was produced by Cindy Lammett,

Dog Day Afternoon, the Fergne of a bird. So here you are working with this guy. And, you know, he's recognized you as an actor. You know, being nominated for an Emmy. That was kind of nice. I didn't win, but I was nominated. And, you know, I've had a great career. He literally did the thing where he's like, yeah,

and this award-winning director goes, Artie, you got it. You got the goods. He recognized me as an actor. You got the it factor. As you can see from me sitting on my hands here awkwardly. It's posture. It's bizarre, isn't it? As you can see, sitting on my hands awkwardly swinging my feet as the fucking, yeah, the dish crew, it doesn't even know who I am.

And no one ever says like, hey, we're filming something. You guys keep it down. Like, there's zero respect for what they're doing. No. No one cares. Now, Jerry Banfield, as you guys know, is a coach. You can call him up and he'll coach you. You can go to his YouTube channel and he'll coach you.

And I like to go to people who are successful and say, how did you do it? Because I want to be like you. And I guess Arty's picked up on that as well. I like making people laugh. I mean, I like do motivation. I do a lot of motivational speaking. I speak to high school kids, college kids, and I've made a difference in the lives. So that's kind of what it's all about

When you can do that You're like, wow, I just got across And this kid, like, because you know, they're hearing people From the military and career days People, they're great what they do And then if they recognize you, now you've got them

And now you actually have them So yeah, I've been lucky I've been very lucky Okay, I hope you could hear that Over all the screaming at the background What he was saying What he just said was He does motivational speaking

At high schools And he goes, yeah, you know, you get the military people in there and guys who are successful, whatever. What I do is I go in there and I explain how I'm famous and then someone recognizes me that I can change their lives. Yes, yeah. All the high school and college kids that are like, oh, my God, they brought in Artie Fletcher. It's party, Artie. Party, Artie. Yeah.

Yeah, the schools that bring in middling to low stand-up comedians to run the career, the career fair or whatever, like no one wants to. No one wants to encourage this shit. Absolutely not. Or maybe this is like summer school motivational speaking where it's like, hey, you better graduate high school. Do you want to end up like me? Oh, the cautionary tale. Yeah, straight. Yeah, exactly.

But of all the tales that we've heard and, you know, Vinny knows this guy pretty well and he's told me all of these things. I've never heard motivational speaker. That's a new one out of his resume. He really has done it all. You know that like thought just popped in his head one day? Because he was just, you know, whatever daydreaming or something, he's like, you know what? If a kid asked me what to do, I'd give him great advice. He's like, you know what?

I probably would do that. In fact, I'd go to schools. In fact, I saved a kid once. Yeah, I did do that. Yeah, I did do that. Yeah, it just slowly turns. It just gets more and more intense and then it becomes fact. Nope, that's what I did.

So, Jim, this is why I was sure you would know who Artie Fletcher was because he's been on the biggest shows. And with the talk shows you've been on. Conan. Who's your favorite? Of Conan. Oh, he seems like he... Well, I used to do sketch on there a lot. I used to a lot of sketch comedy.

Wait, was he the masturbating bear? If that's the case, he is very famous. I apologize. Well, and also, that's kind of classic. He's almost telling on himself, because, like, the Conan sketches are, yeah, they're usually something making fun of the people, or, you know, he used to do, like, celebrity confessions, but it would be, you know, like Todd Bridges or something like that. The goof is that it would be like a nobody.

So it's not like, yeah, you weren't on there on the couch or doing fucking five minutes. You were there as a goof character and a sketch, maybe. I don't even think he was doing sketches on code. I don't think about any of these shows. True. Sure. I'm trying to give him the doubt. That's also a good save for him, though, too.

If he realizes like, oh, you could try to just Google these things and look at the guest list. Yeah. saying, oh, no, no, I was in a sketch, because that's way harder to find and verify. All right, so this is more of his illustrious career and things that happened to him. I got to work with Danny. There's a show called Sullivan and Son on television with Steve Byrne, community Steve Byrne. I got to work with Danny Bertuno. He used to be on The Wonder Years.

He played the Father. Well, I get to work with him for a while. And we did a pilot who have thought crimes. so he was just like he was just hands-on he grabbed me and said okay we're doing this we're doing that we're doing this so yeah that was kind of uh um yeah he kind of threw me for a loop that ended with he threw me for a loop what i thought he was saying like this guy grab me he's like we're doing shows together already you're a star no he literally had to grab him be like stand in the background you don't have a fucking speaking line get the fuck back here or you're

you're off the set. All right. This is crazy because she asks, what's on your bucket list? And he gives an answer that's quite pedestrian and then realizes like, oh shit, I'm not a regular Joe, I'm a big star.

So he completely changes that to a brag. Watch how this unfolds. So now, is there anything on your bucket list that you still want to do that you have to be able to time? Yeah, I'd like to go to Australia. I was supposed to go with my dad. He died about 15. years ago, so we never got to do that.

But I always wanted to write a pilot, and I did. I wrote a pilot for Wairess Wars and True TV just paid to develop it and we just finished filming in New York, Staten Island. Wait, how is that a bucket? Yes. I always wanted to write a pilot, and I did.

It's called Wadress Wars, and we shot it, and it got funding, and it's going to be on TV soon. Okay, so what do you want to do? Go to Australia. Well, and also, I mean, that answer, you're right. Like, he got caught up in telling the truth it feels, and it was the most endearing part because, you know, I had something I wanted to do. And sadly, I wanted to do with my dad. My dad passed away.

And he's like, holy shit, wait, what? I mean, actually write a script, which I did. He started telling the truth. He's like, this feels icky. That's amazing, wasn't it? That's nuts. Well, it's crazy. the gear is turning.

Here's the twist. This is how you know that he's lying. He's getting lost in his own lies. So he goes, I always wanted to write a pilot, and then I did. It's called Waitress Wars, and he got picked up. And then he goes on to explain what Waitress Wars is, and this doesn't make any sense. Now, you'd have to see. It's just really, really funny.

You have waitresses fighting what possible. Say, you're stealing my tips. Wages is funny with other waitresses. You're stealing my regulars. Them arguing with the owner, the cashier, the owner's wife. I can't understand the old speaking is. I mean, it's just, the array of characters you get out is not scripted. It's just incredible because, again, Duck Dynasty is not scripted,

and it's the number one all-time reality show. So, I mean, my idea was way before that as far as being real, no script. He wrote the pilot to an unscripted reality show. Yeah. Fuck that up, did he? And he told on himself again because he's like, all right, because he probably had this idea in the past. Like, okay, Duck Dynasty, that's two D words.

That's, so what can I use? Oh, you're right. Yeah. All right. Well, what are the other things? Waitress wars? Waitress wars. That's perfect.

That'll fill the void. It's so funny what tripped him up when he goes, yeah, waitress wars. There's people in a restaurant, they're arguing with each other. She goes, oh, it sounds like Hell's Kitchen. He goes, no, no, it's a dummy. It's way different. It's a Greek diner, first off. The wife doesn't speak English.

First of all, you don't see the waiters, the waitresses in the hell's kitchen. Right. All right. So let's get into more braggadocious behavior. He's going to talk about his book. So real quick, tell us a little bit about your book. The book is people think it's going to be about jokes. It's not.

People think it's going to be about jokes. No one thought that. I didn't think that at all. A single person thought there'd be jokes. What is it about, though, are you? Tell us. It's called comedy on the road. It's seen through comics, Bloodshot Eyes.

It's about my story. It's what you go through as an actor, as a comic, as a musician, agents, managers, the weddings you miss, the birthdays you miss, the marriages, three marriages, rejection. It's just everything that you go through, you know, and people don't realize it.

okay and that's what it's all about the book that means the bestseller wait was it not even out at first was she acting like what's your book gonna be about i thought i don't know i think it was out at this point yeah i think it is out all right all right i like this just he goes it's not about jokes it's about being super successful in show business on trials and tribulations it's around that yeah it's about my successful comedy career which will have no jokes whatsoever You know, it's like Steve Martin's on a biography where there's no jokes.

Oh, actually, it's a laugh riot. Oh, I probably should have thought of that. People think it's fun being a stand-up comedian. It is not fun or funny at all. Yep. All I have is divorces, failed relationships, kids that don't talk to me anymore. Anyway, by my book. I wouldn't change a thing.

Yes. Yeah. This is a great question. I love the way that it's worded because this woman Lisa Marie Benz, obviously a professional. And I would never ask a question like this. Okay, great. And is there, do you, is there anything you want to say about, like, Twitter, Facebook?

I'm on Twitter. I'm not Twitter. You can follow me at R.E. Fletcher. Is there anything you want to say about Twitter? Yeah. I mean, I guess, yeah, did he read it correctly? Is that what she meant? Or did she want his opinion on social media?

Like, I do love that's such an open question. Yeah. Are you trying to, like, are we doing plugs real quick or, you know what? What's your point of view on Twitter and Facebook? You know, I think the algorithm is actually detrimental to our children. I'm glad you brought this up. It's something I've been talking about for a while. It really makes us addicted to our phones when you think about it.

Right. Yes. A doob scrolling. It's really a problem with this younger generation. Anyway, if you want to check out Artie on Facebook, this is Facebook. This is Facebook.com slash party Artie. Oh, you brought that back. Okay.

We brought that back. Artie Fletcher Management. And he says, we are so blessed. This is just from May 18th, 203 a.m. We are so blessed to be number one in Florida with the stable of artists are unreal. Great sentence. With the stable of artists are unreal. He's got Soul Circus Cowboys.

He's got K-Love in the United Funk Foundation. That sounds like a rip-off. Life of the Party, definitely a cover band. Twinkie and Rock Soul. radio. Oh, sweet. Full throttle band, one night band, FM station. Outsiders.

Oh, then damn straight, attributed George straight. What's great is number one at what, though? Like, what is he? I know. It's such a bullshit. He couldn't even make a lie or just, well, just say number one.

We'll just fill in the blanks, whatever. Number one in all. Our newest artist from Southwest Florida, 80s, music FM station Florida. Look at these Jibokes. If Facebook ever worked, which it doesn't. Yeah, no.

And whatever. You get to play. What do they do? Are they a band? Are they an actual radio station? I'm intrigued. So I have a buddy down in Tampa. And I was messaging with him the other day.

He plays in a band. And they have a gig coming up. And it's near where Artie Fletcher lips. So he reaches out to Artie through his management company here and says, hey, we got a gig. We'd love for you to represent us. You want to come check us out and see what you think. And I already wrote back and said, our roster

is full right now. Oh, yeah. They're not accepting any any more. Accepting any more bands. Yeah, right. They got FM station there. They're good. Yeah, FM station is a handful. I really can't take any of clients right now. My buddy was offended by that. He's like, really? You don't think we're better than these?

All right. Whatever. Let's talk about how many books already is sold. He actually gives us numbers. You know, people say best-selling author all the time. You don't hear like solid numbers. And finally, we get that. The book, I mean, coming out during recession, depressed cities, I mean,

I did 130 city book door, which just wreak havoc on me. The hell of me, actually. It's sold, I mean, it's over 100,000. I think it's 130,000 right now, $13,000. It should have been over $500,000. If the economy was better, I think it would have.

I mean, he did a 130 city book tour. That's hard to do. Yes, yeah, Jesus fucking Christ. That's a lot of cities. And he's like, it beat the shit out of me doing this book tour. He claims he sold 137,000 copies of his book. However, if there wasn't a recession, he would have sold over 500,000. Because a recession does stop people from buying the book they want.

Yeah. There's one thing I know about a recession, they're like, well, I can't spend $17.99 out of a hardcover. Yeah, yeah. It's, you know, it's like, man, I just wish, I just wish I could have things at home to, that would save me money like a book. Right. But some of them would eat up a lot of entertainment time. Exactly. And I mean, but even if he sold a hundred something thousand, that would easily be like a New York Times best seller.

I mean, I guess he does claim he's a New York Times best seller. He does. He does. He does claim that. Yeah. Yeah. Now, what makes him think the difference is 500,000 to 137,000, basically. on the economy.

Where's the math on this? I just want to see his work on this one. Yes. Would have been over 500,000 because I'm just so famous. And then, you know, if things were booming, like in the 90s or something, it would have been over a million books sold, I bet. I got to ask Vidy and Forrentine about that figure. 137,000.

There's just no way. Is this book, I mean, maybe you don't know, but is it like a self-published thing? Does he have, is it with like a, like a publisher? Sure. Shit, we looked it up. Jerry Banfield was his public. We did. That's where he gets all these numbers from.

We did look it up. Maybe there's a link on his website here that we can see. Well designed. Looking great. I know that that photo of him is from 35 years ago. You can kind of see the way they tried to trace it out, like to play it. Yeah. Okay, let's see here.

By now. And I got enthrall on that Facebook page because I saw there was a phone number. So I wasn't sure if anyone's ever reached out to the Artie Fletcher Management Company or not. Well, like I said, my buddy did, yeah. Okay. He was not taking any new musicians at this time. Comedy on the road. He wasn't expecting a real call.

I love the little blurb on the front. This guy's a real firecracker. It's a Regis Philbin. It's so funny. What's great is because, you know, Who's to say that he didn't say that? Sure. You know, he's not here.

He can't defend himself. We were reading, so it looks like, it looks like this is, oh, Maurice Star book publishing. Maurice Star book publishing. Whatever that is. What do we got? Yeah, Joan Rivers. Oh, well, Marie Star has a quote on the back. Artie's one of the funniest guys ever met when it comes to comedy.

He's a real genius. Maurice Starr. What sounds like you have a dog in this race, Maurice? Yeah. Star is known and respected around the world for discovering, managing, and promoting mega teen superstars new kids on the block? Yeah, I was going to say, it looks like he's a musician. A Marie Star.

Yeah, that's weird. Oh, he was in a music video for ACDC, stiff upper lip. It's just like an extra. And so on the back it says, it's always a pleasure to work with someone who has more problems than you do. already is quite the wanker, Angus Young. What about all of these quotes? They didn't pretend that they've read this book. Every single person is just like,

I met that guy once. Yeah, it's random things they may have said to get him to go away. He has been very blessed, the Pope. All right. Sweet. Wow. hilarious. He said there was no jokes here.

Come on. That's a great one. This last clip from this interview, this is so deflating for our. for Ardy Fletcher. This is the funniest way this could have ended. Yeah, well, you stay very busy, and I'm so honored to have you on my alive and kicking show.

And I like that you are a man of your word, because you did tell me when I was here before that he would do this for me. And so many people suddenly don't return calls that are you did. He's like, oh, did you have to say that? Why did I waste my time with this? God, damn it.

Oh, my God. The pathetic thing to say. Most people know not to do this. the show. Okay. You fell for it. I think they could be a blossoming romance here. It feels like this would make a great couple.

Yeah. Those two dudes? I agree. A couple of fellas having a good time. Do you want to see a quick excerpt up from his stand-up? Oh, I'd love to. Yeah, I was watching this this morning and Artie sells a T-shirt during a show. I thought this was fun.

you in the middle of him. I have no friends and I like it that way, bitch. He's a t-shirt that says, I have no friends and I like it that way, bitch. Who wouldn't want to wear that? No, it's great. Yeah, the one you want to wear out with the family, going to Disney or something. Now, is this on his channel or is this like,

because this isn't a fan that posted this, right? It's Mick Jam's host of Stand Up for News. So it's probably someone who filmed for the club or something. Well, I was going to say, because first of all, amazing choice of placement. You know, we're nice and far away. It feels like we brought the dishwashers from the interview. Exactly. In the background as well.

You know what a big empty table between you and the stage. Really selling it. So it's good. Don't worry. He's got a joke for this shirt. Where's the church? You'll get a pew every time. How was he going to sell a single t-shirt with that?

Exactly. Well, I mean, I've had ideas. Well, we have a shirt on our. one of our merch stores. Thankfully, we don't print them. It's like one of those print to order things. Right. One of them is just as gay dudes rock, like as a joke.

Sure. But it's like clearly like no one's going to buy that shirt. Or you look at something, even like Tuesdays with stories. They have shirts that says like Tuesdays on it. And it's like, do you not think these through before like who wants to wear this shirt out somewhere? As I say, as I'm wearing a piss shirt. But anyway.

So it's funny that you're saying that because I own a shirt that says, I'm sorry, I'm late. I'm gay and I was having gay sex. And the reason why I own that sure is because when we were out in Vegas for Hacomania 1, that was my consequence for losing the creep off. But then the other day, I was wearing around the house that I wear just like to put around and exercise in. And I got a knock on the door from the post office delivery person who normally doesn't knock on the door. We needed a signature.

And they go, nice shirt. I wasn't expecting company. Yeah, I guess that's what it is. He's hoping for the loss of bet crowd. would maybe buy these shirts to force someone to wear it. Hayes is the new guy. You have to wear this out kind of thing. Real quick, Artie Fletcher did a comedy tour with Gallagher.

familiar with Gallagher? Of course, yeah. Gallagher one or two. Gallagher one, Leo. All right. And they would go on these tours and they would do morning TV together. And this is just an example of that. Of course, that's where we got the bits and pieces routine. Bits and pieces.

And so this. This is another TV appearance. I just have a quick clip here because it's very funny. They don't really talk to Artie Fletcher. They're just talking to Gallagher. And Gallagher's just being Gallagher. You know, he's just like, I'm going to change the world, go to my website. I have all these ideas.

We're going to build a moat between the U.S. and Mexico. And then we're going to put a dam and a jail on the border. He's like, all this bizarre shit. But he's like serious about it. It's like, I need a geologist to reach out to me to figure out how we can do this. So he's going through all of his crazy shit. And the plug that Artie sneaked. it is amazing. I have wonderful

ideas, too. They're all on there like that in poems. I have a poem for teaching kids to eat right. The duck poem, Michelle Obama needs to see it. Forward it to her. Then I have a poem about penguins for the president. You are just all over the place. We've got to show for tonight. We're trying to get a book. We're in a middle of a book deal right now. General

emission $25. I can say, I did not feel welcome in Tampa. Where was that? You guys are all over the point. We're going to say your show. And everybody goes, we got a book deal. You're not helping right now. He might as well be a ghost that only we can see because no one reacted at all. Hold on. He's got a better plug for the show coming up.

It's all over the place. We got to sell your show for tonight. We're trying to get a book. This show is tonight, 9 o'clock. General Mission $25. And I can say, I did not feel welcome in Tampa until I met Gallagher. See, there you go. Because you're from York, Pennsylvania.

He knows. But this show, thank you guys. This show's not like blue collar. We're funny. Yeah. We really are. We're on stage 90% of the time. And you leave the hats on?

I just wore a hat. All right. Sounds good. All right, we'll be right back. You look Amish. Da-da-da-da-da. More of that tonight. Can't wait.

That reaction from the acre is priceless. You was just throwing shots? What, the blue-collar comedy tour for some reason? This guy is like, it's not like blue-collar. We're actually funny. And it's like, yeah, you could shit on blue-collar comedy, whatever, it's fine. But also, like, you could just as easily shit on Gallagher.

I mean, what are we doing here? I do love they brought up the hats. I do love that they brought up the hats because I do assume Gallagher was like, you got to wear the fucking hat. We're both going to come on in hats. Let's do it. That's probably Arty's idea, actually. But do you know what Arty's selling point was?

We're on stage 90% of the time. Yeah, caught that. Well, I would hope so you're the performer. I mean, 100% would be fine, too, if you want to do that. a standing O for that 10%. Remember for one month, BR Greg, Lady K. Skoll. Skoll to you, my friend,

but a bigger skull to Jim. I kept you later than I was planning on, but we were rolling today. Oh, this is a blast, dude. I really appreciate you having me on. It was a lot of fun. I loved learning about some of these people. I wasn't familiar with at all, like Jerry Banfield and Ardy Fletcher, so I really appreciate it.

Thank you. I love a good retard. I think that sometimes it's better to have someone on who's not familiar with these guys because then I can kind of gauge like how quickly can you get into something like this? Because Jerry Manfield, we have so much lore with that guy. We're talking about it for so many years. And he kind of just came back recently because he left the internet for all that time. But how quickly can you pick up on why this guy is ridiculous?

And it's like... The fresh pair of eyes. Just like that. You're like, oh, this guy's amazing. You get it. That's what I thought. That's what I thought. You get it for sure.

And Ardie Fletcher also. So Jim and Them is your show. I know you guys do Friday night streams on YouTube. Try to get 50,000 subscribers. So go over to Jim and them and hit subscribe. I appreciate it. Thank you. Absolutely.

Much appreciated. Come on over. Check us out. We had Scotty Schwartz on last night from fucking Christmas story and the toy. He's a cool guy, but he's definitely an old school guy. I don't think he laughed once during our whole show. Okay. And he's telling us stories about riffing with Richard Pryor,

but then I also get the impression he doesn't really know what comedy is either. So it's the dichotomy of that man. So I was checking in a little bit on the show with Scotty, and I was curious where he is with Corey Feldman. Do they know each other? Does he goof on Corey? What's his deal? He has a pretty extensive backstory because he,

at least the way Scotty tells it, he was actually Corey Hames, like one of his best friends. Like they had an apartment together. They came up together in the 80s and all that. that. And then, you know, the whole two Corrie's thing started happening. And it was like more of a business relationship with Corey Ham and Corey Feldman. But he was around in those early days. So he didn't know him. They had like Tuesday night poker nights and they would go to like the soda pop club or whatever with other child stars. So he does kind of know him to his core. And he's still very good

friends with the Haim family who hate Corey Feldman because Corey Feldman is constantly bringing up Corey Haim and dragging his name through the mud and all that. So he definitely has no love for the fell dog. Yeah, the Corey Haim thing. You know, I paid for that movie that Corey put out where he's going to finally name names and let you know who the pedophiles are. And then it turned out to just be Charlie Sheen. Fucked Corey Haim. Yeah.

In the ass and a parking lot or something like that. What's your take on that? Do you think that actually happened? It's weird because I could go either way on it because it's like I wouldn't put it past Charlie Sheen. I mean, he's proven himself to be like a real piece of shit. and I mean, I think it was confirmed in his divorce court hearings that maybe had CP or whatever. Oh, what Denise Richards said. I didn't know that.

Okay. Interesting. I knew that it came out that he's had gay sex. Yes, that came out later too. Uh-huh. From what the Hame family says and also from what Scotty was saying is that that's bullshit. And I mean, Scotty actually had a decent, because he's like, dude, when you're on these movie sets, because the way the story is is that it was like outside in between the trailers or something.

like it wasn't even like he rushed in his trailer and raped him or something it was like they were outside he's like when you're on these movie sets he's like there are like hundreds of people walking around all the time yeah you're not like ducking behind a trailer grabbing chrisko and you know quickly fucking a kid in the ass um he's done fucking hate me out we gotta get the seat set up unless yeah you're like oh it was a different time they're doing it all the time but uh because there's the other the main thing on why people think he went after sheen is because Because there's this other guy, Dominic Brascia, who's an actor, piece of shit. Like, he was in, I think, Friday 13th, Part 5, and he was in some other Corey movies.

And he's the known abuser. At least that's what the Haim family says. That's what even Corey Haim alludes to this in the two Corrie's, because he posts Cory Feldman up on being friends with his abuser and being roommates with him. And Corey Feldman was friends and roommates with this guy, Dominic. he's passed on since and Dominic leaked to the National

Enquirer back in like 2017 2018 that Corey that Charlie Sheen was actually the abuser so there's a lot of weird shit going on like maybe he was trying to divert yeah exactly so the thing that I always thought was weird about it is if I'm Charlie Sheen and Corey Feldman comes out and says

that I fucked a young Corey Haim I'd be like I'm suing you or at least like threatened it or something like You don't want to just be like, yeah, that's true. It's fine. Well, the story did initially come out in the Inquirer a few years before the movie. And I didn't look.

I didn't double check on this, but I'm almost positive he did go out. Charlie Sheen went after the Inquirer for this story. He did or sued them or something happened. Okay. I probably should school up, school myself up on that and see what the details were. And then the way Scotty tells it again, Scotty could also embellish these stories. It's hard to say. He's like an old 70s, 80s Hollywood guy.

He loves to tell a. yarn about the old days. Sure. From what he says that he actually did hear communication from Charlie Sheen about this. And Charlie was like, you know, should I sue this guy? And then Scott, he's like, for what? Like, you're going to spend a bunch of money on lawyers and you're not, even if you win, you're not going to get anything.

Yeah. So it does seem like he. Yeah. Like he went. So I guess it does depend on if he actually did go after the inquiry, which I think he did. Like he saw that as the more main. here's a target that's, you know, dragging my name through the mud. I'm going to go after them.

Corey Feldman just like a piss hand. I know he mentions it in his documentary, his Netflix documentary, Feldman comes up and he calls him like a piece of shit or whatever. But so I do think that's an interesting question, though. Like, you know, at that point, if you are rich, you might as well spend the money, bury this dude. Yeah. Is it hilarious or just crazy that Corey Feldman was best friends with Michael Jackson and still praises him to this day? and is putting out documentaries exposing pedophilia in Hollywood?

It's weird because in a weird way, I see that is almost a defense of Michael Jackson, but I think some people could say, well, he would stay away from the actors or whatever. And maybe that would be a smart move is that he wouldn't go after the actors because they have more of a voice. Because I feel like if there was anything,

the fell dog would be a guy that would be right in line to throw his name in the hat and bury him because he'd get attention out of it. And I guess there was a time when he kind of did. He was in one of the interviews and he was mentioning, and I think that Michael showed him porn or something like that. So maybe he went up to do with cats. Yeah, yeah.

Then supposedly, again, this is the thing that Scotty had said is that he, there was this whole thing and this is backstory. You can hear about it on our channel. But the Corey Feldman has a song called Megalowman. and it's about Michael Jackson. And the main thing that he got mad at Michael Jackson about is that Michael, when 9-11 happened, Michael got like Marlon Brando and Liz Taylor out of New York because it was like

impossible to get out of New York or whatever. So there's like this, there's this folklore that either he like drove in and saved them or somehow chartered a jet, whatever it might be. And Corey Feldman specifically mentions in the lyrics of this song is like, you left me to die in New York. So the idea is that, you know, 9-11 happened.

Everyone thought they were going to die. And then Michael Jackson didn't think of Corey Feldman to save him. And he calls him out on this song. And from what Scotty was saying that he's actually heard the voicemails that Corey was calling Michael after 9-11 happened. And he was like, you know, how dare you? You left me in New York and the sky's falling. And he was even saying, I'm going to go to the press and say you molested me and shit like

that supposedly he okay again i mean this is alleged this is what he says he said that he he's heard the voicemails where he was even threatening to to say this stuff in the press and that's immediately when michael just cut him out immediately he's like why why the fuck would i you know talk to this guy anymore yeah true you know they're gonna go out the choo-choo with them that's the point of that all right well anyway always a fun discussion you guys know more about at Corey Feldman than anyone else in the world, including Corey Feldman. Yeah, yeah, it's one of those.

It's such a worthless talent, but, you know, hey, we make do with what we have. It is funny to be that guy. Like, you know, someone that's on TV, like, I know the most about corn or whatever. I could tell you all about it. It's like, yeah, nope, Corey Feldman, you got a question?

Let's flicking roll with it. No, I appreciate that as a guy who studied Suttering John way too much in my life. I have an appreciation for your knowledge on that. And the way you guys dissect everything that Corey does. It's fascinating. Jim and them, check it out on YouTube, subscribe to their channel. And thanks for having me on.

It's fun hanging out with you in Vegas and Hackamania. Let's do it again. That was great. Yeah, yeah, no. And we might even, I mean, doesn't even bring up on the show or not, but we might be in New York in September. So maybe hit you guys up or something, see what's going on. New York City?

Yes, yeah. We're pretty far from New York City, unfortunately. I know, because, again, I don't know that shit. Like Rochester or something. So I don't know how that stuff works. If you're ever in this area, you are welcome to come over to be part of the show or just grab some dinner or something. We'd love to do that. So, all right, man. Hell yeah.

All right. Thank you, dude. Be good. Peace. The great gym from Jim and them. Kevin Scampoley's brother, it turns out. Oh, yes. I was about to leave.

Oh, shit. I thought you were going. I thought you were thinking just frozen. I should just say real quick that, yes, you know, I was on the show with my brother. because some people are like, isn't that the dude from Jim and them? He's with the guy that took Mersh's girlfriend. It's such a small world. Yeah, it's like, hey, yeah, that's how the internet goes.

I'm still learning about the sector or the racquet is in all this stuff. So, anyways, keep me posted. So your brother has officially dumped Ice Dancer, Mercia's ex-girlfriend already? Yes, which I do feel was a mature choice for him because he, people don't understand. He's, he's this big shock jock, you know what I mean? He's been doing. And he's like wrestling shock jock. And he is how he is on his show.

He's very combative and he loves the drama. He's good at that stuff. But he's got a heart. He's a romantic guy when it comes down to it. And I mean, from what I've heard about this girl, it was bad news from the beginning. But, you know, the heart wants what the heart wants. But once it was a reality, it was nothing but drama and weird shit. And he decided to end it.

So we'll see if that sticks or how that's going to go. Do you remember Digibro? Uh-huh. Digi-Bro was dating this girl before Digibro was Trixie, the witch or whatever. Yeah. She became. And they were over at my house because his girlfriend was from Rochester or this area. And we did the show together.

And then the next time I saw her, she was with Ethan Ralph down in Tampa. She's like, oh, I'm dating Ethan Ralph now. I was like, oh. So I guess my point is, Ice Dancer dated Ethan Ralph. Right there I would say your brother dodged a bullet. Anyone who's dating Ethan Ralph on purpose, if you're tired up in the basement that I have sympathy for you. But if you're dating that guy, like that's a decision that you made, this is not a person you want to get involved with. Because again, I kind of don't really know who that is either.

I think wasn't he making posts around Hacomania saying he was going to like come down to Haccamania or he was in Vegas at the time? Yeah, him and Scarlett Hampton showed up to the plaza and we're hanging out outside of the plaza after the Saturday shows and we're trying to make a scene and start. fights with people and stuff. But yeah, he wanted to, he wanted really badly to be invited in and be part of the show. And Patrick Bowton was like, no. Well, yeah, because I mean, because I think I saw some of those posts. So did he like, was he just outside the casino? Are these people like really going to start shit?

Or is it all kind of theatrics for social media? Ethan Ralph actually is unhinged for real. He does start shit. He's got quite the arrest record. He's quite the piece of shit drug addict. drug-addled person. Scarlet's a little bit out there too. So I would say that's probably best for Patrick Melton to avoid having that be part of your event.

I think you made the right choice. Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, I do feel a little bad because I am Kevin Scampoli's older brother. And when I was talking to him about what happened, he was like legitimately confused about the MERS thing. And it was, you know, saying he wasn't aware of the bro code. So I guess that's on me. I'm a big brother.

I should have let him know, like, you know, people don't take kindly to things like that. Although I do think Mersh milked it a little bit because he was saying they've been friends for 18 years. I'd kind of have to do a fact check on that. I mean, I'm sure it's been at least 10 years as far as like online back and forth. But I don't know about this 18 year friendship. Yeah, it's like they're BFFs. And then as people looked into it more, it's like, well, they just kind of know each other because they both have Rumble channels. You know, it's not really.

Yeah. I think maybe he's like. they would interact on like the old whack bag forms or something like i guess that does put a time back there but i i i don't remember hearing about merch until more recently than that so but all right well i looked at that i roped you in another conversation yeah yes thanks yeah yeah no shoutouts shoutouts kevin scape holy shoutouts merce maybe they'll be mersh maybe they'll be friends again maybe they'll put this behind them and think them best friends that'd be great don't let uh a girl like ice stancher spoil your your friendship uh but yeah

Thanks again, guys. I'm going to bond, so I appreciate it. Thanks, Jim. Yeah. B.R. Greg, any word on Drew Lane meetup, Rock and Brews? Yes, I actually have been in touch with Rock and Brews, and good things are happening. We've had a couple back and forth. So we will be out in Detroit Royal Oak, more specifically at Drew's new place.

That sounds amazing, by the way. Three stories. Yeah. The upstairs, it's all like open air. I mean, there's an indoors too up there. There's a whole restaurant in the bottom floor, second four, is this venue, music venue. So it seems like a cool place. And we will be there for sure.

You're wondering what else is going on? Let's find out with the Internet News. Internet News with Jen from the Department of Jingles. From Patreon, sleep near gushes over episode 731. This is the episode you show your friends to explain classic WATP. Absolute peak mental illness on display here from the hideous lard ball Chuckie wannabe to Jerry Banfield's infinite. powers of denial and Opie's amazing hypocrisy. Even Scorch shows up again just in time to be

scammed like every boomer on the internet. Hell yes. Personally, I'm so glad Jerry's back making jaw-droppingly nonsensical decisions and 20 videos a day poorly explaining them. Nicholas Thomas demands. Beans! I need the Bean song! J.P. points out, the only thing fat people are at a lower risk of is starvation. Chris Atrell cuts to the chase. Oh, Scorch, just get a job for Christ's sake. Andre Gunner Hawkson inquires, Did you guys see the Opie disc track by Crackamiko? Time to get crack on the show, Carl. From Reddit, Benny Jr. notes,

this made me realize that Opie looks like a Labrador retriever that was turned into a human. I can't believe I'd never noticed that before. Educational share wonders, why was Opie getting rid of those mattresses? Business Beatles suggests, look inside them. Ukraine Pappy dunks with, I've been serial killing since I was 18. Jimmy two times, in regards to Fierce Fattie, All I had to hear was this podcast was suggested by Adam Thoreau to know it was going to be terrible.

The bad old days. Dabbling John posed a pick of the cook box interview from the Stephanie Miller show and asks us to find the person who isn't a day drinker and said many times, I never drank on the job. Dale Pigtail notices he really doesn't mind having all those empties pile up around him. Buff the stuff 98 opines. He's such a vile pig. Only he can pull off a smug expression while swallowing.

Cold Hunter, with the cold truth, to this day, he will think he killed it. from YouTube, Liquid Snake reports, naming it coffee brand coffee, just reeks of low effort, which is on brand for Jeremy. It all comes full circle. Charles Chance confesses, sorry, guys, my melting impression at Hackamania was too much Jeremy Hambly. I fucked up. The real Phoenix King offers, when you watch us on a phone, Adam Bush looks like Ron the waiter incognito, and Captain Forever plays us out with, oh no, the Quarters are trying to compete with one of the top five podcasters of all time. Thank you to producer Chris and Jenny Jingles for producing.

introducing the internet news. And he's caught up on what you all think about all this nonsense. Of course, Gary in San Diego is one of the greatest voicemelers we ever had on the show. And so we dedicate the voicemail segment to him. It's a bunch of crap. Swing in a minute. Rock and roll. Do we need a new announcer on this show?

I think this is an audition. Should that be the new intro? No. Oh, okay. He didn't like that? Fair enough. Brandon from South Carolina again. I was thinking about the wheelchair girl.

It's just a hard fucking listen. But yeah, if you're into making fun of Kill Tony, little cows now, there's a new guy, the dark storm of Atlanta. He's like the token black guy. Now he's super cringe. He used to close up the show. And now he's like doing spots here and there because everybody was complaining about him.

So check that guy out. Dark Storm Atlanta. I will check that out. That sounds fun. Hey, Carl. Last night I went to a concert, and the opening band was called the Surfer Jets. They're like the isotopes, except more popular, hot, and they don't look like the smelly kids meeting up at the 25th high school reunion. You should check them out.

I thought he was talking about the Suffragettes. Oh, but Surfer Jets. Are you familiar with that, Ben? No. Yeah, I wasn't familiar with them either. I figured he was misspeaking, and it was suffragettes. That's what I thought, too, because I've seen them before. And then he said, hot.

Yeah, well. That's not the one. Oh, should I should have remembered to do this today. Hey, Carl, can you ask Doug from the Jingles Department? What's the name of the band? That guy sung on the Cardiff's electric theme, metal singer, with the serious pipes. And Dell's first live fucks, bring back WATS. Hala.

Yeah, I can ask Doug that. Sorry about that. I should have made a note for myself, and I didn't. WATP, I think the reason that OPE can't sell any of his properties is because there are dead people in them. I think he got rid of that mattress recently, and he had wrapped it in plastic because he had killed his wife on it. And that's why he's like, I don't know where you get plastic that big.

But, yeah, clearly he can't sell his properties, and there has to be. a reason and it's probably because there are a bunch of dead rotting bodies in them because he's killed his whole family and different properties at different times and now he's setting all these properties with with no fucking money and no way out and he doesn't know what to do yeah that's my theory and go go fuck yourself all right it's good theory more opi mattress theories coming up wATP anybody in new york if you're willing to do so if you could just go go by Opie's place and take a whip of that mattress and see if it doesn't smell like dead rotting wife. Because I'm pretty sure Opie is trying to get rid of his murder.

He's trying to get rid of murder evidence. And he's still got dead bodies in his wife. So if you go by and it smells like a dead body, just go ahead and call the police and just let him fucking arrest Opie. Because that would be very funny. All right. I mean, I have a great day. Don't call me that. You know, I've smelled mattresses that smell like a dead by.

It doesn't mean someone died there. I totally agree with... Sorry, what was that? He was probably happy when it rained. Right. Yeah, oh, good. It washes that scent away. I totally agree with you, buddy.

I know you don't like to bring up your birthday. I totally understand. Last time we hung out with your birthday and you blew me, that was good. So, hey, we just talk about the blowing. Well, you know, we'll keep your birthday personal. But, yeah, you're an awesome blower. You blew that. like John blows.

So thank you. But yeah, let's not mention your birthday. Just your blowing. That's all. Thank you for the blow, John. Thank you for making sure you explain it was a blow job. Who says, thank you for the blowing? I might start doing that now, though.

I can't wait to see Call's penis. Is it small or is it not that big? Will you please show me, Carl's penis? He's a gay guy. so am I Just do it Wait

Is it small or is it not that big Those are the two options Yes Fucking assholes Hey Carl I was looking back to the episodes Because I wanted to know The origin of the

You Eating Poop fact And I think So I think it's because you always have that Shit Eating grin Bits and Pieces, bits and pieces. Oh, there were some funny bits and pieces lines in our Discord.

Dare I try to find where they were and try to read them to you? Because this could be a huge waste of time. What does the gay bully say? Give me your brunch money. Bits and pieces, bits and pieces. You guys know what you call a bouncer at a gay bar. A flamethrower. Bits and pieces.

What happened to Artie's nose? He snorted bits and pieces. pieces of glass. Pretty good stuff. All right. It's too much. Good time today, Chris. Yeah.

This has been a fun one. I got to go. Bye. I got to go. I got to go. I got to go. I got to go. Okay.

Bye. This is it. It's over. Okay. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye.

Goodbye. folks. Guess what? The episode's over. Yes. Thank you for tuning in. Bye. Bye.

Go fuck yourselves. Have a good week. Okay. Bye. Laughing at jerks?