Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura - Brody Stevens-Episode 90-Your Mom's House with Christina Pazsitzky and Tom Segura

Episode Date: October 17, 2016

YES! Good things come to those who wait and we can't think of anything better than having STEVEN BRODY STEVENS in the Mommy Dome. They just don't make jeans high enough to express our excitement. Brod...y is his usual POSITIVE self and opens up in a way that will only make you love him more. We talk the Valley, audience warm-up 101, positive energy/positive language, some sports, Daisy the dog, mental health, and much more. If you're not screaming "818 til I die!" by the end of this episode then you needs some meds of your own! 

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Wow, we're recording. We are. Yeah. Oh, wow. I'll cut that out Nobody likes to give up how many downloads they get I'm why is that? Why do you think that is it's secretive? It's like a business very secretive and I also like I've caught people who I know are bullshitting about them Like they'll lie. You're like, okay. Sure, man The the people it's a it's a control power thing, you know, and and it's also I think for some people when they When they go like, oh, I get this amount. They're they're sort of giving in that like what they're doing Doesn't work as well or isn't you know, I mean like they're they're sort of saying like, oh, well What you're doing is working better than what I'm doing. Yeah, but also it's kind of hard to quantify
Starting point is 00:00:48 Isn't it like we the way we do it. We don't really know Well, you kind of know with a vague notion, but we don't know it's more than a vague. It's a vague Fleeting like I just imagine a number and that's it That's the number. There you go But I think a lot of podcasting is about how long you've been doing it That's how you build up your audience by doing it long to check check to it's true. Are we on? This is on this is on. Yes positive push. You got it. I will wait for the intro It's so good to be back
Starting point is 00:01:25 This let's see do some dates. Where are you gonna be so guys? Hi, mommies I will be at the San Jose improv first thing in 2013 come see me San Jose improv January 3rd through 6th Go to improv.com for tickets and also the following week January 10th through 13th In Kansas City at the Kansas City improv. So come see me and we'll get barbecue or tell me where to get barbecue Yeah, man. What about you buns? All right. Well the this week This is the last date of the year for me Cobbs comedy club in San Francisco. I'm gonna be there 21st through 23rd San Francisco
Starting point is 00:02:03 Come see me push is gonna be with me and you're gonna do some guest spots you call me push like bird crazier and Also, Chris Porter is gonna be on the show. So it should be a fun show and then right after the new year January 3rd through 6th the Chicago improv, which is not in Chicago. It's in Schomburg And January 24th through 27th. I will be at the Cleveland improv. So make sure you come and see your Boy now You guys know that we joined the all things comedy network. It's a it's a fun collective
Starting point is 00:02:42 place where we get to hang out with our friends Other comedians like-minded people and also people we think are funny and and we think are part of the gang They're all there. Go check them out all things comedy.com has Direct links to a lot of podcasts a lot of good folks doing interesting and fun and funny things This week. We'd like you to check out the Spanglers and friends in gosh, this is festive show at the Haywood theater
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Starting point is 00:03:54 You can go to the store which has the new real mom. He's only t-shirt. It has the wipe down collection all kinds of fun stuff So check that out as you can tell by my voice I'm not fully recovered yet. No We recorded last week's show before it aired before I got sick and Anyways, I had to cancel the first time I've canceled a gig in I think ever I've I've I've gone to perform Feeling worse But I think with age I learned it's not worth it anymore to do that to yourself It isn't because I actually said no
Starting point is 00:04:32 Yeah, it isn't because if you don't heal now then you're gonna take this shit with you to cobs Yeah, you're gonna stay sick through the holiday. Yeah, and you're gonna stay sick through 2013 in it snowball So I'm proud of you that you stayed home. It was hard and I apologize to you know, I had people that were Emailing me and tweeting from Vegas that were gonna come to the shows and and I'm you know, I feel badly that Not able to to do it, but I couldn't I could not do it Well, you're better now though. You seem to be on the mend. I'm getting better. Yeah I think I'm through the worst part of it, but I am surprised at how strong it has kicked my ass Yeah, here's a flu is like really bad
Starting point is 00:05:11 Yeah, my friend Jenny said she was down for like three weeks Three weeks Yeah, so you're gonna hear me still sniffling and Of course we would be So annoying it would be silly and and and really unconscionable of us to not even address Yeah far worse than my sickness was the the worst news ever Yeah This past week
Starting point is 00:05:40 Well, no, and the thing is I know that we're a comedy podcast and yeah We spent our time discussing farts and bowel movements But I think for us not to discuss this would be so weird because it was one of those things like Friday morning I woke up and I just checked my Phone like I normally do for the news and you're like what and then I feel like all day We were just glued to the television like it was one of those things were like remember when 9-11 happened And I'm not saying this is equivalent to 9-11, but it was that feeling of yeah I mean, I think it tears people away like this happening like I couldn't think of anything else on Friday
Starting point is 00:06:15 I couldn't even muster like another thought. Yeah, so this is actually I'd say the first time that I've tried being funny since Yeah, it was such a Horrific thing. I don't think anybody's over it yet. No, no, it's about it's the absolute worst news and and it you know I think it's affected like you Millions and millions of people here and around the world because it was devastating I mean, I was actually what I was most surprised by with that news was
Starting point is 00:06:47 It actually showed me how little because it affected me so much more I think like a lot of people because it was children was how when it's adult shootings, right? How commonplace those are to me now, right? Because I was affected more by it because it was children But usually now when it's like other school shooting like a high school or college or thing I'm just like it's not that I don't care. I'm just like oh, yeah, like it's expected almost It's really sad. That's that's really the the devastating part and I think too it I keep thinking about it's like how everyone's like Oh, it doesn't happen in new town. It's not it's not part of our thing not in this place
Starting point is 00:07:25 And I think that's part of the problem is when everybody's like but our place is awesome can't happen here Yeah, maybe it's that mentality of not here everybody's perfect and normal, you know Maybe that's why they you can't see the signs of something like this coming or maybe it's this it can't happen here mentality That's the problem in the first place That that might be I think it's a very complicated issue. Oh, yeah, I mean look Everybody's talking about gun control now and mental health stuff and yeah, there's some answer there I don't know what it is. It's somewhere in between. Well You know, just know that of course your mommy's
Starting point is 00:08:03 thoughts and prayers are with the people of new town and We decided that you know, we had to we wanted to say that and talk briefly about it and now We're gonna go back to and to what we do And bringing joy, we're gonna do our try to do have to try to have fun. Yeah, and we thought who better to bring joy up lift people Get the holiday spirit really kicking and the one and only Steven Brody
Starting point is 00:08:40 Yes Positive push you got it glad to be here in the home the house you heard me speaking earlier But I sat back and let you guys do your business get emotional. This is what you're feeling is normal and You know, it's I was booked before all this stuff happened So it's an omen that I am here for the first show after what happened Back in Connecticut, which of course is a terrible bummer of a thing and it's hard, you know, I Tweet a lot in the day of that that happened. I only tweeted maybe three tweets Very indicative. Yeah, I still had to get my tweets out sure it affected everybody, but it was a bummer
Starting point is 00:09:25 very much so Look Steven's here Brody's here. You got it Steven Brody and Stevens. They're all here We're gonna start the show. Are you ready to start the show? I thought the show started But let's kick it into high gear. You got it Tommy Christina Prancer eviction come in a cupid and Donner and listen, but do you recall the most famous reindeer of all come on? And if you ever saw him you would even say it close You still have to call him names they never let forward off
Starting point is 00:10:14 Jordan and Then one foggy Christmas Eve Santa came to say come on Which you know so right won't you ride my sleep tonight? There's love But all the red nose may dare you go down in history forever you go down in history I'm so excited Don't bring anyone loving to this Yeah, I feel like dancing. All right, that's what we're talking about believe push and believe hashtag. Yes, you got it
Starting point is 00:11:25 Happy Christmas to you Hanukkah. I am a Jew Positivity Dondo, that's where I hide out Shit man That buster point Dexter that was DMX the New York dolls. Oh was DMX of the New York dolls I was DMX of the New York dolls In a radio station singing Rudolph. Oh, wow. He sounded actually with it. He was totally with it I mean, he's had his struggles, but he was it was a nice rendition of what's what's he known for that D What don't they just want that's that's definitely
Starting point is 00:12:07 One of the things he's known for he barks hit where the more my dogs at. Oh, that's right the dog guy Yeah, he's got a lot of dogs in the videos too, right? He loves dogs He's well. Yeah, I don't know if he loves dogs because he's been in trouble for not Caring for his dogs properly out in Arizona. So I don't know if he loved where my dogs at they're not being taken care of That's where they're at I could be wrong, but I could be right You guys we have in the studio if you don't if you're not familiar with Steven Brody Stevens I would say Brody is one of the most innovative. Oh
Starting point is 00:12:44 Interesting. Yeah Put it this way other comedians will stop what they're doing and watch Brody when he's on stage And that is saying a lot because we're all selfish self-interested turds that don't care about other comics But everyone else will stop just to see what you're gonna do and I think that's a credit to your creativity and your positivity Well, thank you very much. I would say at the comedy store Yeah, there's comedians who watch what I do But I will peek out on the patio if you're in the original room You could see what's out on the patio and I'll peek out on the patio and I'll see several comedians
Starting point is 00:13:21 Having a conversation and not watching me and you're darn right it bothers it It bothers it it bothers me, but I know comedians tend to like me for whatever reason and Now whatever reason it's your talent and your originality Okay, and let me put it this way. I know you're gonna give your credits probably in a moment, but no I only like that You I mean I can well, let me just say one credit This is this is how I came to really fall in love with your work and you I Was a writer on Chelsea lately for a minute and a half and Every day at taping you do warm-up and I would make it a point to get out of my fat-ass get my got my fat-ass
Starting point is 00:14:02 Downstairs to taping and watch you do crowd warm-up because I I swear to God It was the funniest part of the entire fucking and this is a show. I was writing Right, I couldn't watch the show But I would watch you because you were so funny and you had a tambourine and you were you were getting them Interested and getting them involved and it was so fucking good and she would actually Come home every day. Yeah, and talk about audience warm-up or would text me She would text me Videos like she would she would take a video. Oh really secret videos
Starting point is 00:14:34 Yeah, like a 10-second video be like you got to see she was absolutely. Yeah, I'm smitten Yeah, with this the talent and by the way, he's gonna be on Chelsea lately. January. Yeah, we didn't mention that January 8th. Yeah, I'll be back on round table. Chelsea has been putting me on round table about once a month this past year So I'm happy about that. I can you believe how much she admired your work as I mean, she really was like comedically intrigued by you are you talking about Christina or yeah, no Christina. Oh, yeah I mean, I knew Christina was she's always been super supportive of me. Yeah, and You know, I do appreciate that she's a good energy a good spirit and I enjoyed my time doing warm-up at Chelsea. I still don't I like doing warm-up
Starting point is 00:15:20 I don't seek it out like I once did but I will pick up warm-up gigs I like to define myself more as a stand-up comedian a personality or what have you but Warm-up I had I did it for like nine straight years at Chelsea and Fox Sports and It's it's kind of a double-edged sword because you're doing crowd work and you can work in some jokes But just because of the pacing of the show, it's it's sometimes hard to get your jokes in but your crowd work in your personality Definitely come out. But that's what you did is you took you took what you knew the that format to be and you made it your own You took to our listeners that might not understand what goes into a taping a live taping is that you have your shows Whatever shows they may be you have a studio audience that is, you know kind of
Starting point is 00:16:14 Broad in sat down and then there's a lot of waiting and then there's you know Cameras our position you have producers walking the floor and then there's more waiting and that's where like things the energy goes It gets real flat in there. Oh, then all of a sudden they want to go. Hey, it's showtime. Boom fucking be at a 10 for this Right, that's what Brody was amazing. That's what I'm trying to get the audience to understand I can tell you the best part about doing Chelsea lately with Brody is warm-up is that look let's face it There's only so much shit. You can say on television. That's really funny Okay, your jokes are maybe because you're being censored at a five when they could be at a 10 if you weren't censored But just to have Brody
Starting point is 00:16:55 Working the audience he would literally when it was time for them to laugh He would open his mouth like like laugh and then spin his fingers like come on fuckers laugh laugh And I'm telling you without you there doing that. Mm-hmm. I don't know if I would have been as funny Well, I appreciate that and I didn't like tell the audience to laugh I wasn't I was prompt them you go. I was encouraging them. This is a joke. We laugh We laugh you and it's like right find the funny find the joke be supportive. These are comedians They're used to performing in clubs and now when you're here in a TV show. It's bright. You're not drunk You're you're it's you're sitting in these these bleachers. These are comedians
Starting point is 00:17:34 So I want to make these comedians feel as it's my feel like they're in a club Yeah, so when they're doing their jokes or they're even if they're not necessarily funny because these are fresh topics It's not like they have all week to work on it They get the topics, you know an hour before the show So I would always prep the audience on that let them know what the comedian was going through So be supportive in that way and then when you're supportive up front and you bring that energy They pick up on it and then you can kind of chill and relax. What how did you first get into audience warm-up? When I moved back here in 2000
Starting point is 00:18:08 I lived in Seattle for three years lived in New York for three years and then when I came back here to LA in 2000 I was doing stand-up around town bring not bringer shows, but you know you know the Clubs shows outside of clubs for example just shows around town anyway I was doing a show in Gower Gulch and Rich Williams was a comm- I don't know if you know Was a was a comedian on the show and he had told me that he was working on a sports show Like a Saturday night live meets sports kind of thing and I was doing I do
Starting point is 00:18:44 Rich's show on Wednesdays or Sundays or whatever and he thought I had I happened to call him like out of the blue One afternoon on a weekend or something or a weekday and he asked me what I was doing He said well, they have a test audience at the that show. I've been working on you want to come down and talk to him I'd never done warm-up before so went there. I did the test show at the Fox lot They had you know the athletes on it. I liked it. It was fun. It was like my first like Oh, you're gonna pay me a couple bucks and then I did it the next day They paid a couple bucks and then they said that we're gonna use an audience So do you want to do it? I said yeah, and I did it. I ended up doing a thousand shows
Starting point is 00:19:18 Over five hours. Yeah over a five-year period there I just kind of stuck with it the whole time because You know one I was getting paid weekly fair amount at least for a single guy in LA to I was getting that mic time Three I got to meet all these different athletes and personalities. You're a big sports guy. You like sports. Yeah I like sports. I was able definitely to connect in that in that angle and then just As a performer getting that mic time anywhere from an hour to three hours a day With all these different high schools junior colleges regular people corporate military it really helped with my Crowdwork confidence and I would have a few jokes too of course, but that's how I got into it
Starting point is 00:20:02 Rich Williams kind of like said you want to try this test show and then I did that and then from doing that I just picked up other gigs other warm-up gigs, but nothing like a sitcom warm-up gig. Those are That's a whole nother level. That's a whole nother You're there five to seven hours The audiences are really right down the middle. You can't do anything. That's would you want that gig? I mean if somebody a friend of mine, or I had I had that kind of protection, you know, give me an up let me Figure it out a little bit. I might be up for it because I know they make good money, but
Starting point is 00:20:41 You know, here's my thing am I a war do I want to be known as a warm-up guy? Or do I want to be known as a comedian or personality or an actor and for years my friends some of my Successful friends are saying you got to get out a warm-up. You need to go out on the road. You need to Kind of blossom on your own. This is holding you back And I like doing it just like when I moved over to Chelsea when best damn sports show ended I went to Chelsea. It was like this is a fun gig. I'm getting paid I'm getting my time and Chelsea show is a little bit different than the sports show, but and she would put me on the show as well But again, my friends were saying more so before the Chelsea at best damn
Starting point is 00:21:20 They're saying you got to get out and do it and it and once I stopped working at Chelsea I've been out of warm-up consistently for about two and a half years now And that's about how long it's taken for me to wipe the warm-up off because I would be doing stand-up And I feel like that warm-up energy would kind of like I see what you're saying trickle into my act But can I tell you that that might be to your benefit because I've seen you do the comedy store Like midnight on a Wednesday, which is probably the dead. It's at the hardest dead-hour spot Yeah, and people have just gotten up and walked out. Maybe you've got six drunks couple of stragglers in the bag I've seen Brody go up there with like a deficit like you're at a real fucking deficit
Starting point is 00:22:04 And he goes with his tambourine and the music and positive And you've turned it around to where people once they start to get what you're doing because a lot of times They don't get it quickly when they get it and you can turn it around It's the most fucking coolest thing to watch and it I don't know I think you're you know, it doesn't come off as crowdy to me It comes off as like that is you that is your essence That's your joy and your positive energy and you've got great jokes My favorite joke is when you talk about going to the batting cages. Oh, I get lonely
Starting point is 00:22:38 But just because I don't want to fuck up your wording, that's all oh I say I get lonely sometimes I go down the batting cage just to play catch Like it's talking about my father I like that you honor your father too you honor him on Twitter sometimes you'll put like you'll you'll I think you Think I've seen you Quote specific days like this is his birthday or something like that. I've done that I know I've mentioned like military my dad was in the Navy. Yeah, I mean, but everybody was the Navy back then so You know, I'll say stuff like that. Yeah, I like that man
Starting point is 00:23:12 But um and Daisy we know about Daisy Daisy my mom it's my mom's dog A lot of people think it's my dog but it's actually spring's palm desert palm springs palm desert same kind of area My mom lives down there and she's been with Daisy for almost four years now and we've been always trying to get my mom a dog just a Companion ship and give her something to do and does she love Daisy? Oh, yeah She wishes Daisy was more affectionate Daisy's kind of her Well, because a lot of dogs. What is she a terrier or something? She's a terrier. I called it. Who called it. It's who terrier Yeah, and not loving generally sometimes. Yeah, she likes to get her tummy rubbed
Starting point is 00:23:50 But she is not like let me sit on let me sleep with you. I like that She doesn't sleep with my mom, but she'll sleep in the same room like when I when I visit I'll sleep on the couch and then Daisy will sleep on the couch with me But not not but not like cuddling up with me or like I want to sleep in the same room with you Do you like that level of intimacy or would you prefer Daisy to be because I like the dog to be on me like a pug I want them on me all the time. Oh that kind of aloofness would anger me and a dog. I don't like that Yeah, well, dependency um I don't think my mom gets angry with Daisy, you know, but it is you when you sleep with that dog
Starting point is 00:24:29 I'm saying well, I don't get angry. I'm happy that she wants to be out in the living room with me And I know Daisy loves me because when my mom mentions my name she gets all excited or if I go in it and out of the door She's looking for me So it's kind of like she wants me around but in terms of like let me she'll like jump up on the couch I want to sit with me for a few minutes and then she goes off and does her own thing She's very like independent, but her face is so cute and she is She does love my mom and me, but she doesn't show the affection like you know jumping up and licking and all that stuff once in a while
Starting point is 00:25:05 So but you know what they get along and my mom loves her and it's it's you know She got a pretty cute little face really cute face. We love pictures of Daisy. I've seen them. I love them people Love them. That's why I put them up I like seeing them and then I know that other people like seeing them sometimes I put up too many possibly But I figure I've got a lot of different fans You do a lot of different fans and everyone loves a puppy a cute face Yeah, even though she's like four or five now, but she still has that puppy face. Yeah, those cute little white dogs So I like putting it's like yeah, everybody who sees Daisy likes her face
Starting point is 00:25:40 And oh, she's so cute and all that so I just try to convey that on to Facebook or Instagram or whatever and Same kind with my comedy. It's I try to give people That don't know me Try to give them that experience of people who do know me. I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel I'm trying to like be the same guy. I am a Chelsea be the same guy I am at the comedy store be the same guy. I am at the improv same guy
Starting point is 00:26:08 And I and I know that you have the comedians like me and I mean there they're they've seen me a lot And I feel like okay, let me just be patient with the audience and build up my audience It's a slow build instead of getting frustrated. Oh, I only have 40,000 followers, which is a good amount. I'll take it I'll take it or Why aren't I on that? But it's like I'm just trying to do what I what I do with with my friends again
Starting point is 00:26:37 I'm not trying to recreate the wheel and then if you do comedy long enough you start hearing, you know Consistent themes like I like when you do that. I like when you do this you different people start saying the same kind of things You okay this works. So like when I do the positive energy people like that. It's not that I'm not into it Yeah, right. I'm not just saying it. I think it's funny that I'm saying it that I'm so like positive energy. Yes, I mean It does work, but I'm also kind of not mocking it But I'm also like forcing myself to say it just to get that blood flow I know but I do I know you're saying like you can't kind of help what people like about your act in a way Like you can't help what people resonate with and it comes from you, right?
Starting point is 00:27:18 You're genuinely putting out there But then sometimes because I feel this way too real like you know that that's what they'll like so you do it and then you feel Like kind of a whore afterwards. You're like, oh, I just did that Being a certain joke or certain. Yeah, like you you know With how to how to milk them and then you do it and then I feel a little bit of shame afterwards I mean, I've probably have done that I mean you go on the road more than I do like if I had to do consistent hours all the time I'm sure I would be doing
Starting point is 00:27:45 Some things that I'm doing that again, you know, whereas when what I'm here in LA I you know, I'll do 15 25 minute 30 minute spots, but I'm just kind of like just Going through it. Right. I mean, I'm just pushing through. I mean, I'm being trying to be funny, of course Where it's like, yeah, if you're on the road and you're putting a show on There's different it's a different energy. It is now a lot of people do they know that you've been in the hangover I was in the hangover I had a small part and a lot of people say oh this guy he'll talk about his credits The only reason why I do is because I love it people make such a big deal about credits. Oh, you got to have credits
Starting point is 00:28:22 You got to have credits. They know you from this and a credit. Oh, you can go on the road So I'll be doing A joke or material and the crowd's not laughing. I'm going why you guys aren't laughing I mean the director from the hangover thinks I'm funny. He put me in it I did she'll see lately five times in the last year, but I guess I'm not funny and I mean, I've done these jokes on tv. These jokes have been Uh, accepted for television and you're saying no to them right now. But you know what? You're wrong. Yeah, something like that. Sure, but in a fun way not, you know, you don't want to like
Starting point is 00:28:57 I'd also like to point out that not only were you in the hangover but also in the hangover Part two. Yeah, I played a different role, but you could say it was the same role. They were both involved in law enforcement Yeah, but I mean you made it to both I made it to both And I'm happy about that. Um, am I in part three? I'm not it's not happening. There was a a chance but there really isn't a role for me in hangover three and Does it bother me a little bit? it does Bring me down a little bit, but then again, I have to say hey, I'm thankful that I was in hangover one hangover two
Starting point is 00:29:34 And then Todd the director put me in the movie due date. You were the limo driver It was a limo driver in due date with robert downey jr. Yeah, I did my scene with him. So And you're good friends, uh with zack alphanakis. Good friends with zack alphanakis. I've known him before All this stuff happened. I'm not gonna say he wasn't already on his way to being Successful when I met him, which he was But I definitely knew zack before the rest of the world. Yeah and uh Always made me laugh and but a good guy probably like a to me more of a friend than a comedian
Starting point is 00:30:10 Right to me personally. So I have to I look at zack like that. He just makes me laugh, you know, I could see why Everyone else is connected to him. Yeah, he's a funny funny guy. It's a funny guy. Just naturally and likable Yeah, totally. So I did warm up on zack show. Also zack had a talk show and I did warm up on that I got fired actually Yeah, zack fired me. No, um the The producer for one of the producers who didn't know me hope brody scares the audience and they fired me
Starting point is 00:30:41 Instead of like giving me, you know a note like brody, can you tone it down a little bit? Maybe they just fired me and that bothered me a lot And zack did everything it could to get me back and I got back. I worked a few jobs a few more days there, but That bothered me when the guy said I scared the audience and the audience is basically the same audience from best damn sport show I knew them. It wasn't like I didn't know these guys I knew them. So again, there's an example somebody walking and who doesn't get it Who's happened to be an executive producer? Yeah, he doesn't get it. There's a lot of that There's a lot of not getting it there. I would tell you my I would told you my warm-up experience Did I tell you that? No, I did audience warm-up for a couple episodes of last comic standing
Starting point is 00:31:26 During season I would say season two. Okay What happened was rich williams was the audience warm-up guy I think I remember that One of my friends chuck was working on the show. Uh-huh and he said, you know, we've had him We've had him there a lot. I just want to mix it up like it wasn't like you're gonna take over It's just you can I got you in to do warm-up. So Just go there and You know, whatever on tuesday for the taping. I said, all right
Starting point is 00:31:57 So I show up tuesday at this point. I'm only about two years in the stand-up and I've never done audience warm-up So I'm like, all right. So like what do I do? They're like, well, you know, just you've seen them about how people do it Just like do your stand-up. So I go, okay. All right. So I have like I basically 15 minutes. That's like passable clean You know funny like I feel comfortable like about stand-up so Welcome everybody and they're like, yeah, go go I do my 15 minutes of stand-up. It goes well, you know, well enough people are laughing and um, I'm doing a little bit of
Starting point is 00:32:36 Crowdwork a little piratey. All right, everything good. Good. Good. We start shooting shows Shooting and like great and they're like, yeah, you're you know, you're all set We shoot for like, well, I'm sorry. I'm still I'm still stuck on that. You had 15 passable minutes at two years in That's way better than I did. I think it took me plus 78 years to get 15 minutes of passable clean material now passable was um tv clean Yeah, also that we're talking about my opinion of myself at the time. Okay. All right. All right. I'm sure if I look back That's really good So anyways, we're taping
Starting point is 00:33:12 You know and uh, then about 30 minutes into the taping The the stage manager comes to me and he goes, uh You know the cameras were fucked up. So we're gonna have to go back Reset everything and shoot everything that we just shot over again. Uh-huh. I go, okay So I go, so why don't you just go out there While we reset everything right now. I had burned My 15 minutes. Yeah, so I go all right, well
Starting point is 00:33:40 I don't you know How long am I gonna be out there for and he goes? I don't know like 40 minutes. Oh my god And I was like 40 minutes. He's like, we got to read a lot. We got to reset everything man And I go, what am I supposed to do and he goes your job? Wow Oh, shit So I go out there and I'm like I'm like, do you guys have anything to give away?
Starting point is 00:34:01 They gave me some shirts and then I tell I asked one of the guys I go, do you have any music? And he's like, yeah, and I have a dance contest On stage where I'm dancing With audience people right and I mean like Sweating like please dear god Let these 40 minutes go by. I don't even know how it ended like I I I fucking I think I stepped out of myself. That's how much panic I felt, you know Well, you know when I get into situations like that where and I've been in a couple where
Starting point is 00:34:32 You have to stretch and do that and you're don't want to do jokes Um, I would do crowd work, of course See how that goes, but not only did I have to do jokes. I had no more jokes You know I'm saying I'm out. Yeah. Okay. You're out of jokes I go into the singing contest Because everyone everyone here in hollywood. They want to be They want to be recognized. They want to be they want to be that star So I go anybody here sings. There's always people love karaoke. Yeah, you're always going to find somebody to sing
Starting point is 00:35:02 And with with that you could tie in a t-shirt or you know, I don't like doing trivia No, I never would I wouldn't do that. I had these photos. I would show like 11 by 17 silly photos Glaminated of like this is my bar mitzvah photo. This is me on the night. I lost my virginity This is me with Hugh Hefner or whatever. I had all these celebrity photos, but they're kind of hard to lug around but If I was to do a show that was yeah, definitely An hour and a half or longer than I want to have Uh pictures probably maybe some candy Candy, that's good idea. Get me some candy when it's over
Starting point is 00:35:43 Two-hour taping you want to give them like when I worked at Chelsea It was a half hour. You know, I'm not I'm not going to give out candy And I'm not going to give out t-shirts. This show's funny enough on its own You're it's kind of like you're lucky to be here You're going to get an autograph from Chelsea if you got a book you get to see these stars I got to give you candy to laugh. No way these comedians are funny enough. But when I worked at Say best amp sport show, which is a three-hour show I would have candy and pictures
Starting point is 00:36:15 I'm learning from the best right now if I go back to audience. Yeah, you could do that. It's like Yeah, it's a good you learn about people you learn about groups you learn about energies you learn about You know the talent you always want to like when I was at best amp, for example, I always wanted to have the crowd A lot of times they're high school kids But I wanted to have the crowd connect with the talent and the talent to connect with the crowd and let the cameras pick up on that You'd be like, hey, would you tell them? Would you give them like a bio kind of on who's I would sometimes give them a bio like we're gonna have this guest on we have this guest
Starting point is 00:36:50 But positive energy we sit up we push through if you hear a laugh you join in these are real guys up there Oh, that was my favorite. We need to for for chelsea go Uh, come on guys. Chelsea is real. I want you to be real because chelsea is real Christina is real you would say real people. Yes So It's just different and you learn about like I said, it made me great at reading the crowd Yeah, and I and I can do that in my stand-up comedy. I can do crowd work But you know, it's like you can't do crowd work necessarily on comedy central or you know network tv
Starting point is 00:37:26 Um, some comedians look down upon it. It's but it blows my mind I uh, I was you know some fucking feature that I had The last few months was like, oh, yeah, you know, it's like I see Certain headliners do crowd work and I'm like, hey, man. Why don't you write some material? I'm like, are you crazy right now? Like you don't even have the skills to do that and you're shitting on that like Or they'll say, you know Oh, yeah, I thought it was like spontaneous crowd work, but then I heard the same line
Starting point is 00:37:59 The next show and I'm like, yeah, but the whole the skill is that Nobody there knows that like they were able there They know how to like put the bait out there in the perfect way To get an audience to bite onto it and then make it look that I mean, yeah, of course, it's a different ability than uh, a completely spontaneous thing, but it's still a skill like You just don't have that it's still a skill and it It also to make it look like magic like yeah, like it's a magic trick essentially You should do should you do an entire two hours like that?
Starting point is 00:38:32 Maybe look at don rickles. No, look at don rickles act. Okay, right? He does it by picking on people but those insults are jokes. Yeah, so he's written that shit That's still writing and it adds an element. That's the marriage of it That's the marriage of it is that there is an element of in the moment But there's also the element you don't realize it or most audiences don't that that's not on the spot something He just thought of right, you know, it's it's in it's in the library. It's in the chambers. Yeah, he's full It's there, but sometimes it is spurred It's a mix it's a mix absolutely like my crowd work. I like to tie it in I like to like I'll talk to this person
Starting point is 00:39:09 I'll talk to that person. I go there's a connection right there and then I talk about my connections with the crowd and I'll ask some other things like where they went to high school What did you do today? Yeah? Yeah, and then maybe thirdly? I'll say like what's your job if you don't mind me asking it's easy to say like where you're from or what's your job I don't even I don't always like to say what's your job because some people don't work But yeah, you go. What do you do for a living? but it's
Starting point is 00:39:36 I do that and then I'll do some connections with it and then Yeah, mixing a joke. Yeah, so I try to do it all the only thing is like when you're let's say if you're doing an auditorium If I get to the point where I'm doing big theaters or auditoriums like It's harder to do crowd work in that situation if you're up on a big stage It is until you get to the point if it's that big then what you do is you do what like Russell peters does Is you have monitors? uh-huh Big monitors so everybody can see yeah the camera guy down the front row
Starting point is 00:40:06 And your camera guy is like showing that rest the audience what you're seeing and that's what he does for arenas You know, but you can't hear what the audience is saying. Can you um? I think you kind of I mean he reiterates I think yeah, which is what you would do in a nightclub is worry. What do you do for for a living? You're a mechanic. He'll tell me about that. So like he'll just reiterate what that person said But how can he from the stage and on these big monitors? How can he? Tell how can he he can hear them? He's close enough to hear them. He'll only pick on the first like couple of rows So he can hear their answer like you would in a nightclub
Starting point is 00:40:43 You know what I would like to do if I get this opportunity I've thought about it's like maybe on conan or kimmel and I think Todd glass did something like this on kimmel But it's to do crowd work. Let me go up into the crowd. Oh, yeah I can't believe there hasn't been more crowd work celebrated in stand-up like in specials and stuff like I You know, I'm like a lot of audience people. I love seeing good crowd work So and audiences obviously love it and they for some reason for television They shoot down the idea of letting a guy who's awesome at it
Starting point is 00:41:14 Do it for television like you can shoot it like you just said in a way that the viewer at home Understands that it's a spontaneous moment. It's a happening Like I would love to see ian bag Right, that'll be good. Yeah, where you let him do tons of let him do a shit and just tape it correctly or steven brody steven Yes, thank you for that. I was a little thrown off But you know, I'm not the only guy who does crowd work. So I know it's uh Other people are doing it. I think these tv shows would be nervous about crowd work because of the editing involved It's like extra work for them and you know, things could go wrong
Starting point is 00:41:50 They're also nervous about because a lot of times, you know, the comedy person on that show is removed From a certain process of it, which is there's certain executives who go, you know, they go, hey, is this guy's stand-up? It's been vetted cleared. It's a funny set. Yes. It's gonna work Cool that feels four minutes on our show that we know is going to be funny But if you go, hey, we're just going to put him up there and let him talk to people Then the higher up people go, I don't feel so good about this man. Like what do you mean? We're just going to put him up there. Well, he's really good and he can just make it happen with the audience Yeah, that's not really a plan man. Let's have them do rehearse that like they start to get nervous hire up the food chain about
Starting point is 00:42:30 Is this going to be a good four or five minute representation on our show? Well, that's why you could only do it on certain shows. I would say Kimmel or Conan. Yeah, it would be the probably Conan I think might allow something like they would have the most probably Room for, you know, at least they they have the Imagination and and the balls to try stuff out. Yeah, exactly. So I think even when I did it They mentioned to me do whatever you want like if you want to go up into the crowd or do whatever you want Yeah, because I did a post tape. I did it right after so they they let me say you could do as long as you want And then we'll just edit it down
Starting point is 00:43:08 And there wasn't even a guarantee that I was going to air on the show I kind of did my conan set in connection with my hbo series Digital digital series that nobody could see god that you brought this up because the other day like we just switched Our cable providers and one of the things I've been wanting to watch on hbo on demand Was it was it called enjoy it? Enjoy it. Yes. Brody Stevens on hbo. Oh, but I can't go. It's hbo go. It's the digital platform Internet subscription it is on some On demands depending on your cable or your digital provider. Okay, but guaranteed on hbo go
Starting point is 00:43:49 I don't know for how much longer, but it is on there. How long is it? Uh, it's six 15 minute episodes There's six 15 minute episodes on hbo go and it is enjoy this Enjoy it. I'm sorry. Enjoy it. Enjoy this maybe season two silly With steven brody stevens. How was making that series? um, it was It wasn't painful
Starting point is 00:44:14 It and it wasn't painless. You'd like some toilet paper. No, I'm okay. Um The process of the show was All right, what's it you're blowing your nose? Is there a cough mic? I mean it's your blow your nose mic It's so loud, but he has to do it. So I understand tom has to do it right by the mic Do you think you could he moved it away? You guys are fighting? Wow This is right in front of our kid. Is this normal day five of this already? Let's wrap it up. You know our son right here I don't like to see you guys argue like this. I know we grew up in the same Same apartment building. Can you believe that? I don't know if we live there during the same year
Starting point is 00:44:56 No, I don't I think I don't know if there's any overlap I'm still blown away because I knew that you're from the valley. We've had this discussion I grew up there as well and you like to on stage site Different locations in the valley and say like 818 for life because again the crowd is into it If I if I did eight for eight eight one eight for life and nobody ever laughed I would stop doing it, of course just like A lot of my a lot of my sayings
Starting point is 00:45:21 But yeah, people seem to like the 818 and we grew up in the same apartment building on the same street And I didn't realize that different times, but we were both there and that's Look to grow up in the city as big as this and to find out that somebody that you've been friends with for years A fellow comedian in the same place. It's so improbable and it's so Fucking cool. Now. Tell me though. What was a young Brody Stevens like? What was the child Brody Stevens? Uh, a nice kid smiled a lot taken advantage of I think people younger people
Starting point is 00:45:57 Didn't necessarily get me Even like today so much and people don't always get me and I think when I was younger Some of these older kids they took me being a nice guy meet smiling They took it for being a weakness almost so I felt like I always maybe had to prove myself but I grew up in that building and a lot of my memories come from that apartment building And I think there was a lot of uh, divorced parents in there My mom and I lived there. Yeah, I was living there with my mom. So there was a lot of divorced mothers with with
Starting point is 00:46:31 kids single moms And I think the other and the other uh, the other kids there, they're I'm not saying they're rough kids. They weren't rough. They like sports But it wasn't the most Like yeah, I can see why people go to private school. I could see why if you're Jewish you might go to a synagogue I was Jewish But I went to a public school. I lived in this apartment building. It was kind of rough on me I think a little bit like my niceness
Starting point is 00:47:08 Was taken advantage of by some of these tougher kids. Well, because in our apartment complex I remember there was a lot of Armenian boys teenagers a lot of like um Persians because I do remember hearing a lot of persian being spoken a lot of persians. Yeah, I don't know about armenians But my babies that are Nadia was actually I did have a friend named Marcy being spoken Oh, iranians speak what they say persian farce. Okay. Yeah, there's persian. You're right. There were armenians Some latino some african-american. I don't remember. What do they speak? Oh
Starting point is 00:47:44 But I remember that that there was we were talking about the basketball court in the back And like I was kind of afraid to go there as a little kid because there were these teenagers Looming around and smoking cigarettes and like Those weren't cigarettes But yeah, I agree. It was a little it was a little rougher the building Yeah, it was a rough building same thing I mean just in that neighborhood when I lived in the other apartment building across the street when we moved around And then even recede a high school. I could see why
Starting point is 00:48:15 People make fun of receda. It's kind of like white trash. It's like I call it the new jersey of the valley and There is something to say I could see why Parents who have their kids want to put them in a private school or a nicer school because it does affect Your child later on and I feel that my and I'm not in any way saying my upbringing was wrong or was bad or I want To change. I mean some things I would want different
Starting point is 00:48:45 But because of my I feel because of my upbringing and what I went through it definitely has made me a better comedian Which I think I mean, I think which all comedians would say like the more Trad not trad. I don't I don't think tragedy is the right word, but the more You know difficulty growing up for whatever reason Probably makes you more interesting as a comedian. Absolutely now wait brody. So you went to junior high I'm trying to think of the years Did were they doing that thing where they busted kids from south central to come? Yeah, more so in high school at receda more so and then also when when I was in
Starting point is 00:49:23 Sixth grade. I remember at tarzan elementary. They had they had kids bust in but I also got bust out to What la? No, you got the reverse of that. I got the reverse. So what for fourth grade? I had to go from the valley to the crencha district. No, which is like that's what that's what I was doing It's not south central, but it's it's on the way to south central But that's what la unified had this brilliant idea. Yeah level of playing field, right? Supposed supposedly supposedly and to reverse that so to bring kids in from the rougher areas into the valley And vice versa and it was a fucking tragedy. I used to get my ass kicked
Starting point is 00:50:02 Constantly by like gang bangers and were you bust or they came in they came to I went to portola junior high right? Yeah, to like to eighth grade portola. They're in tarzan up in the hills. That's right And out in the hills. Well at the bottom of the hill. Yeah. Yeah at the bottom and uh, yeah I used to get into fights constantly. So how did you a young steven brody steven survived getting I can see How you were a nice Nice young man sweet kid that would be taken advantage of I can see that I can't do well I think sports helped me playing baseball being good at kickball being good at handball
Starting point is 00:50:37 You were a good baseball player. That was a good baseball player had a strong arm. So I think All those elements I played basketball got that big frame. What are you six three? I'm six two six two So I was always tall, but I was a little gangly and goofy But I think that's where some of the teasing came in But I would say that playing sports helped me out a lot and when I went to I got bust in fourth grade And then Half of fifth grade that's when busing ended then when I came back to tarzano It was just so much more peaceful like just no busing them in my neighborhood
Starting point is 00:51:09 Kind of like it is now I moved back to the valley. I was living in hollywood for a year and I just moved back is just Something about the valley connected me relaxes me Tarzana, I mean as I've become older I feel like Career wise if I still like the valley I need to be more like towards laurel canyon where I can hop over to hollywood quicker Like when you're in tarzana, it's a little too far out. Yes. Yeah, but it does It is suburbia and it does like chill me out a little bit. It's good. Um
Starting point is 00:51:39 Yeah, but growing up I I think Again, I'm glad I'm not saying I want I want too many things changed from my childhood But I I feel like there are Elements there that have affected me sure, but I've tried to turn them into a positive as I've gotten older Yeah, you're good at that. You you very good. Yeah I mean, yeah, I try to I believe in you know therapy and positive thinking a lot of that stuff I learned from in college. I played baseball at Arizona State We had a lot of uh mind coaches mental coaches baseball is a mental game
Starting point is 00:52:15 And I uh would be and we had we would visualize with positive language I was more of a positive language guy, so Bringing a positive imagery and so and say instead of saying tom Well tom don't strike out you would say tom get on base. Yes. You got a ts tom ziggura, right? And then when we would run like It's a punishment almost like okay guys, you're gonna run two mile run. You're gonna run to this I would make it fun. I go. Yes. We love it. Enjoy it running feeling good And then some guys would get annoyed by that but other guys would like we'd laugh and have a good time
Starting point is 00:52:51 So it would take your mind off the actual Distance of the running. Yeah, we're having fun with it and and made my running More Yeah, made it easy. Yeah, exactly tolerable and it's also, you know, it's it's funny. Um, like especially for People that don't like that are in this entertainment business. You know, it's very easy to be um jaded negative You can shit on what other people are doing or your yeah, you question why you're not doing it But it's amazing how if you just kind of focus on what you're doing
Starting point is 00:53:28 And you say positive and you don't let the outside things get in the way of what you're working on It can totally change The way you feel and the outcome of what's gonna come to you. Well, it's hard, you know, compare and despair number one I like that. I didn't come up with that. Where'd you get that from for my friend Nadia? Wonderful. She says that compare and despair. Nadia Comonichi the famous gymnast That's a wonderful because I find that once I stopped doing that a few years ago It really helps you stay on your own page. Yeah, you really make you snap somebody in the face Right, you gotta you gotta like
Starting point is 00:54:05 I think it's it's hard these days, especially with social media nevermind tv and uh I would say nevermind t but social media it's it's in your face What somebody's doing, you know, i'm doing this i'm talking to this person and then you click on there Well, let's see how many followers they have oh, they got a lot of followers Why don't I have those followers and then why am I not on that tv show? You're not putting that person down But because of the social media, you're able to see highlights, you know, and I didn't do conan tonight But I did it two weeks ago check out this video where this guy's doing that and it's
Starting point is 00:54:40 You start comparing yourself a little bit and that and that's That's a hard thing. You don't want to do that. You want to actually be happy for people and I feel You know the happier or you are for your friends you push your friends it comes back to you You know, they get a show and they bring you in so it's like you don't want to have Hatred towards no, no, it's not healthy, but and just like comparing isn't it's no it's bad you got to like build up your own and and this That's what's good about the internet and I think podcasting and the do-it-yourself world is that You can build up your own crowd. You don't necessarily have to be a multi-millionaire famous guy to survive
Starting point is 00:55:21 You can do it on your own these days and in some ways that's a little more gratifying You build up You do it at your own pace Oh god sidebar. Hold on. I just had a valley thing. I want to Okay, did you ever go to the top of recita and get fucked up? I never got messed up like I didn't do Like drink or drugs or anything like that in high school. I didn't start going up to the top of recita until Like once I moved back home in 2000 just because there's hiking trails up there
Starting point is 00:55:53 It's it is a nice view and it's nice to go up and overlook the valley blow jobs Yeah, well, that's what it's for because there is a street It's recited and you literally you drive to the end of it and it takes you like up a hill And you park there and that's where in high school people will get blow jobs Really? That was like the inspiration point. Everybody did that. I thought everybody my high school did I mean, I can't tell you how many blow jobs I've given at the top of recita Countless thousands of guys. I mean, I lost in from south central. I did wander up there a couple times. Maybe I mean we did You never know
Starting point is 00:56:27 Probably You probably don't know the faces, right? Just the just the dicks. I don't even recognize voices or faces Just the penis just penis and balls, you know It's brody As a Jewish man is in the middle of celebrating Hanukkah And happy Hanukkah, you know, I am um, so for you and all of our Jewish listeners Yes Hey
Starting point is 00:57:13 Do you have good Hanukkah memories? No, not really, you know for me For me and my family we were more Christmas. Oh you were I I mean we did Hanukkah. Don't get me wrong. We had Hanukkah nights and things of that nature But I think for just the ease The christmas is this better like christmas. It's one night. It's one day It puts it all into perspective. So do a lot of jewish families do that I think I think american jewish families, you know, just this easier. Hey Yeah, christmas. I mean christmas is like an american holiday. You know, what do you do not celebrate christmas?
Starting point is 00:57:53 I mean, there are families jewish families who don't celebrate christmas But I celebrate christmas more of an american holiday spiritual holiday if you will Uh, Hanukkah is just confusing. It's eight nights. It's nine nights. When does it start? Who do I spend it with? What do I do? I I feel jewish if you were to say brody, do you feel jewish? I would say yeah, I feel it But did I do all the Jewish traditional Again Oh, he did he put the mute. I muted my mic
Starting point is 00:58:27 He did. He did mute his mic. I'm sorry brody. I'm sorry, but it's um Yeah, at times I felt I feel like oh, I wish I was more jewish and I can connect with this stuff But yeah, again, maybe that's what makes me what I am like the fact that I'm not full on bar mitzvah Jewish, you know, I went to israel. I speak yiddish and all that. I'm not that guy right I'm more but you do look like israeli special forces. I'll take that. I'll take I'm I say I'm blue collar jewish Okay, you know played a little sports wasn't bar mitzvahed You're not some push around you. That's for fucking. I'm not a push around you, but I'm not a I'm not a confrontational guy at all
Starting point is 00:59:07 Okay, I mean I mean if my back was against the wall, I'd come out fighting. Oh, I can see that sure, but I'm definitely Not that I'm not looking for a fight. No. Yeah, especially now since I'm on mood stabilizers I haven't been mad at anybody for over a year. Really? Oh, yeah mood stabilizers are good Um, it's good for me. I mean in terms of not going into that red zone I never had rage or anything like that But there were times when I would do warm-up or I'll say comedy that I'd get upset with myself Hard on myself and then also maybe hard on the audience to the point where they're saying like is this real
Starting point is 00:59:44 Is he mad? You know, why are you so angry type of thing where I was doing Stick right whereas now and then sometimes I would go into that red zone of anger whereas right now The last year or so if I do get angry or I don't go into that red zone. It's done with a wink. It's done with like not putting out that I'm not scaring crowds. Yeah, and I think that has something to do with the medication that I'm on this mood stabilizer Kind of like what are you taking right now? Well The mood stabilizer is le mcdall
Starting point is 01:00:18 And it's very popular for people with bipolar I take lexa pro which is an antidepressant and I was on that Prior to everything happening to me I've been on that for like five or six years and that's just to take the edge off. I started taking lexa pro And selexa which are similar meds and that's all I was on was the selexa and then to to be fair to to listeners When you say before everything happened it's you're making reference to a couple years ago When you had like a bit of an episode had a bit of episode about a year and a half ago and that was from I feel stopping my med school turkey. You're not you're not supposed to do that
Starting point is 01:00:57 And I was not under doctor supervision. It wasn't I didn't have a psychiatrist I didn't have a psychologist at a general practitioner who basically said I'm not blaming him in any way But he said, you know take this it works a lot of people are on it You'll feel better kind of thing and there and the reason why I got into taking an antidepressant in the first place was one coming back here to la and then with this the explosion of social media and emails and websites and blogging and then twittering and then just it was hard for me to keep up with that and then You got to write jokes and then you got to be a regular guy and pay your bills and it was like Just this not saying a med changes everything
Starting point is 01:01:40 But this can take a little bit of the edge off a little bit of the anxiety a little bit of the And I wasn't I wasn't depressed I would get depressed maybe Because I was too hard on myself Analyzing myself and the fact that would drain me and then I would be upset that I did that So it was like I was depressed because I was hard on myself And then just the fact that I was putting that energy into being hard on myself Bum me out then you flog yourself over being hard on yourself. Yeah, it's like, uh, it's just
Starting point is 01:02:10 Keeps going. I do that too. Yeah, where you you're yeah, you have the bad feeling and then you judge the bad feeling on top of it Yeah, and you're mad at yourself. Yeah, you're just mad at yourself for doing that and so I felt like this lexapro helped me out a little bit it did and I was on it and I had no problems but and things are going good and that's that's the problem like when you're on a med and it's You're you're doing well Things seem to be working going well for you It could be because the medications working you know, they're they're
Starting point is 01:02:42 That that's what I was dealing with lexapro. It was working and then and things were actually going pretty good for me I felt good and I and I kind of like Weaned off but too quick on my own and it kind of set me off into uh This episode that I had where I was kind of out of character yelling at people I was not delusional, but I was grandiose thoughts. Basically. I had every uh Every classical trademark of uh, uh, uh, a bipolar episode a manic episode I had all the criteria. I met it all
Starting point is 01:03:21 So is this the first time that anyone has thought of you as that like had you been diagnosed with that prior? Never I still fight. I still fight that, you know, my doctor my Psychologist and my psychiatrist too, I guess I mean For insurance purposes, they have to give you a label. Right. So they're saying i'm bipolar. I fight the bipolar label because I feel like Maybe I was manic at times. I had mania and once in a while, but it was like I never had road rage
Starting point is 01:03:54 It wasn't like I got arguments at the improv Um, I wasn't late to things I butted heads late night at the comedy store with don barris, you know If people push my buttons kind of thing but And then I work occasionally I'd get on the audience for like I can't believe you're not clapping and you're not laughing This is a good show instead of just like whatever if you're not going to clap and laugh. Don't yeah, right So I had those issues like where I was like
Starting point is 01:04:22 Into my work into my job and if I never complained about like I need more money or I need a parking spot or I need a desk It was always show related stuff. I was you know, like monochronic into it. So basically The med that i'm on now the lamik doll just kind of like takes that rage out not that I had a rage issue But it's good for my comedy. It's great. It's good for my comedy, but It's a struggle with real life because I used to be able to
Starting point is 01:04:58 You know, I was exercising more. I was more active. I pushed things. I was less I was kind of on the go more and now when you're on this this lamik doll, which is beneficial I think keeps me boxed in not too high not too low It makes my regular life a little more. I have to keep I have to really keep structure Right go out of my way to make sure I'm doing stuff And it's just like I'm I'm sure like every day people with your own meds or not need to have that structure But as a comedian, I'm not doing warm-up. I was doing it for nine straight years. You know, I had that structure Right, so I have to really go out of my way to create structure, which anybody has to do right so
Starting point is 01:05:42 Well, I tell you I'm really proud of you That you talk about this openly and that even when it happened you were talking about it because I was on twitter, you know, I was I was on I was in another, you know state of mind and I was on twitter So I felt like a lot of people saw it was going on. Yes, so when I went I did go to the hospital. My friends set that up just to get me some care Um That's when I kind of thought about the the hbo show. Why don't we make this kind of like, you know An inspirational story get out of the hospital and I get back onto tv
Starting point is 01:06:20 And I reconcile with my my family and my sister things that I feel like may have been Stressors in my life and I wanted to kind of there were things during that. I mean, I'm sure you heard this already from many people that people didn't know whether it was real or Or um, like shtick fake Andy Kaufman. Yeah, um, no, it was real. I was really Um in that frame of mind grandiose thoughts. This is my chance. I'm the big guy. I'm from the valley I hosted tmz hang over this Uh, don't mess with me
Starting point is 01:06:55 it kind of I was able I took shots of people who were like jerks to me in the past Was that uh, some comics too, right some comics where who were like dicks to me and I felt like I had a window of my hbo opportunity And I had I went to Ireland to perform. I hadn't done that before and I did well I went to Montreal and I did well other than being sick And then I hosted tmz when I came back So I had all these things going on that kind of like filled my head up on top of not taking my meds
Starting point is 01:07:28 Which I think is the key component here is to not Finding the right meds for you was crucial because I've kind of watched you since then and I know You now you seem way better and balanced and I think it's a large part. Is it would you say due to the right meds? I mean, I think that the Cocktail of meds that I'm on I take 30 milligrams of lexa pro. I take 300 milligrams of lamec doll I also take a little thing called latuda, which is just a backup For the lamec doll I only take a very small amount
Starting point is 01:08:02 It's like an anti psychotic even though I'm not psychotic and then I take clonopin Which can be addictive, but that seems to be good for my anxiety And I've developed some anxiety and that's the thing when you have a manic episode and nobody told me this Until after when you go up A hundred percent of the time you go down So it wasn't like when I had this manic episode. I felt like okay once I get stabilized everything will be good Well, it wasn't good. I went into a you know, kind of a depression Uh
Starting point is 01:08:34 Dark depression not over like oh, what did I do to myself? But just not feeling myself getting adjusted to these meds Uh missing my old way of life Missing the old brody. Yeah in ways this new brody is a better brody You know, I could talk more a more, you know, mellower But I kind of miss that old brody. So it's kind of like I gotta Rewire my brain Again create structure try to do as many podcasts as I can
Starting point is 01:09:06 And the next thing for me is to get back in the gym and start working out But I just don't have that drive I could hike like when I was living over in Hollywood I can get out and hike and do that But to go to the gym and do upper body workout lift weights push-ups I really haven't had that desire And I feel that some of that has to do with the meds Sure
Starting point is 01:09:28 And I and I need to keep in shape just for my health. So Anyway, I'm adjusting going to the gym as opposed to doing the outdoor training because when I did run in canyon Which is here in Hollywood basically every day. It's like It was a great maintenance workout. I was able to hike but I was missing the weights missing pushing the iron But I just didn't have that drive now that I'm back in the valley and I'm away from running canyon I really got to like Push it and create that and again also everyone goes through that. It's not a specific thing to me where Only I don't want to do the gym. A lot of people don't want to do it. Yeah, I don't I'm glad you're I'm glad you're you're in a
Starting point is 01:10:09 Much better frame of mind. It's positive And you seem healthy and happy and we're glad you came to visit us, man. Thank you Yeah, bro. Do we love is it over? No, I'm just you know, I'm just make I'm just saying that you know Oh, yeah, thanks. I mean, I love doing podcasts. It's it's It's therapeutic. I feel also and I don't want to use it as therapy. I don't want to dump on you know Can I just say though? my mom's She's got her own issues. Okay with mental illness
Starting point is 01:10:38 And the problem is is that nobody talks about it. Nobody's really open Especially in showbiz a lot of people in show business have bipolar like with Charlie Sheen when he had his meltdown And uh, you know, everyone just goes oh, this guy's crazy and they don't talk about well What's really happening here your chemicals and your brain is doing this and that And I feel like more people like you come forward and tell your story And and openly say I have to take medicine to regulate the chemicals in my brain Maybe somebody listening goes, you know what? I think I might have something Maybe I should go see somebody because my mother won't take meds. My mother won't
Starting point is 01:11:15 Admit that something is wrong and it's devastating for our family. It's devastating to me I'm the one that ends up on the goddamn therapy couch every week because of because something she won't deal with Yeah, so it's wonderful that you are open about this Well, and I say thank you to that and it's not something that I mean, I guess I've always been honest people said bro to your honest up there when you speak your mind I don't like go out of my way to be honest and speak my mind. It just kind of happens naturally and then with this I guess quote-unquote mental illness if you want to say that I fall under that umbrella um
Starting point is 01:11:56 Yeah, I mean, I don't I I don't mind talking about it. Is that what we call this? I mean, I mean bipolar is a bipolar disorder disorder. Yeah, you know, so what would that be? Yeah, it falls under the mental health, you know banner. Yeah, it does and um I don't I I mean I talk about it for a couple reasons one. It makes me feel better It's therapeutic so to get like get it out of my system and talk about it I do feel better about that and then I think just me hearing other people talk about yeah, I'm on prozac or yeah I'm in therapy
Starting point is 01:12:31 You know celebrities or whatever so they kind of like Gave me the courage to talk about it, you know instead of I mean Howard Stern talks about stuff Not that I listen to him all the time But I know he's very open and I know other radio guys like I heard one radio guy up. I take prozac and So it made me feel like wow this radio guy who's on talking about it. I can talk about of course And then what charlie sheen went through and not comparing myself to him But he's not but yeah, no you guys are not alike at all. I mean he's also What beating his wives and and right? Yeah, I wasn't scumbag
Starting point is 01:13:07 But I'm saying that that that issue we we ended up kind of idolizing that guy Which is weird like I see the billboards of him like he's back. He's on yeah And it's like really no no no that guy was deeply troubled It probably is still deeply troubled and why is no one talking about that part of it? Well, America loves to come back You know, he's probably and he's probably I know I mean he may have been on drugs Absolutely in conjunction with having I'm guessing some kind of Uh brain problems. It's possible. Yeah Invalence absolutely and I'm not saying like I'm clear out of the woods. I think every day like I think like
Starting point is 01:13:42 And and that's why I do structure that it's like if I sit in my house And I just ruminate and just think of things which is easy to isolate Which is what ends up happening to a lot of people they isolate isolate and you know, sometimes I get Yeah, it's been a hard year in terms of me doing comedy and me podcasting me selling t-shirts me Creating a support system. It's been a hard year for me. It's been it's been hard and I still You know when you when you have A mental issue and then you go to the hospital
Starting point is 01:14:19 You know It's kind of a weird thing, you know, you don't want to go back You went through that and you feel like wow, maybe I am messed up and am I going to get better? Is this something that Is going to lead to more serious stuff you have these it's a struggle It's not it's not easy But I feel like it is getting easier some in some ways I feel like you are getting More balanced and you seem happier like I said every time I see you it's you're building back
Starting point is 01:14:50 Uh in better better ways. I know that you said you want the old Brody, but I'm thinking that this new Brody is a lot better That's my mom says Brody. Yeah, and I think you should be really Proud of yourself and and I don't know. I like I like how you are now I think that it's healthier for you. We got to read a couple results. Um real quick Fill her up seal her shut, uh, we did our Jewish edition, okay? Week or so ago and how appropriate Brody is here my Jewish blood
Starting point is 01:15:31 um, so we had What just happened what just happened? His headphones broke They just went out they're dying Wow headphones somebody run to fries electronics to get tom's batteries in these guys Oh, you're using your fancy bows Bose battery No, it's okay
Starting point is 01:15:58 Oh batteries back up batteries bows back up batteries. You got it Hey, I have a would you rather for us to do after this After we're done with reading the results. What are results? So you're gonna read results. Oh, you know how I feel about you Just dropping shit like that. I know well, don't we have a Um more figured out. Yeah, we do all right. So fill her up seal her shut Brody is where we We we we mentioned a couple of people usually well known people And we say who would you rather fill up and seal shut with your love sauce? Okay, or be filled up and sealed shut by Depending on your preference. Okay
Starting point is 01:16:39 So I want to I want to fill somebody I don't want to be I don't need to be filled up say that again I don't need to be filled up, but you'd like to fill somebody out fill a girl up sure or a guy Um, we play with both genders. It doesn't so we had bet middler or barba strisand for our older Jewish edition Who would you rather who would you rather fill up and seal shut? That's a tough one But I'm gonna go with barba strisand. Wow. She looks pretty good in the guilt trip Well, some of the voters, um, they went to facebook.com slash your mom's house podcast And they voted bet middler
Starting point is 01:17:17 58 to 21 Really? I think the general consensus was that middler's fun Um, she's gonna be playful. She's gonna let you try some things you maybe want to try She's gonna have a laugh and the Streisand might be a little more uppity stuck up High maintenance. That was the general feel. You know what? I mean, I could see that. I'm not maybe I jumped into it too quick Yeah, I was just thinking barba strisand she looked good. I mean, I've been seeing her in these She's on the buses. She's on the billboards right now looks good. So maybe I'm getting you know pulled in by that Probably where's bet middler? I don't know what she's she hasn't been on a lot lately
Starting point is 01:17:57 But she looks good. She's got big. She's fun. She's fun and big hangers meteor. She used to show them too. Yeah Yeah, she used to show those hangers flash them. I like that now the other person we threw out there either duo older Jewish men Mel Brooks Woody Allen If I had to yeah You'll see you have to spend the night with one And get get frisky with him You're saying I have to you have to yeah, who do you choose? Well?
Starting point is 01:18:28 I am 10% gay and that's that's been mentioned on a lot of other podcasts I didn't know that 10% 10% gay I would say probably Woody Allen because he's into like he's into freaky stuff. He's with his daughter Asian Am I Am I off on that? Well the voters on this one voted Mel Brooks
Starting point is 01:18:51 60 votes Woody Allen seven Why am I not connecting with your audience? You're you're not filling up and sealing shut the way they are And I don't know why that is Set wait Woody Allen only got seven votes And Mel Brooks got 60. He's not liked. He's I don't want to you know, mel Brooks. He's I mean, he's a little bit older than woody Woody might be frailer. He's skinnier But Mel Brooks, you know, he's I guess he could take it
Starting point is 01:19:25 I don't know man Now we also we didn't read I don't think we read did we read the results from the latest porno edition I don't think I don't think we did people also throughout Uh, it was belladonna or jenna jamison belladonna Wow, no hesitation. I was belladonna too. I think you were jenna. I jenna. I like jenna. I'm bella belladonna for life belladonna 73 votes jenna jamison 23. Yes. Now i'm connecting. Now you're connecting
Starting point is 01:19:56 Um, I guess jenna's high maintenance. Is that what it is? She's not as down for whatever I mean belladonna's work is just it speaks for itself. It's her work. Yeah her library her Yeah, her catalog catalog of work her body of work exactly And pun intended pun very much intended Um, and then we did some old school porno people Nina Hartley or gingerlyn Probably Nina Hartley. She's still around. Yeah, she is. Yes And uh, I believe I took Nina Hartley. I think we all did that day. I think everybody took Nina Hartley
Starting point is 01:20:28 Yeah, I liked her energy. She's got positive. Have you met her? She been on your show? No, no, but I just I've seen interviews She I would like to have on by the way Nina Hartley's trying to get her on that'd be fun. She's very pro She's an advocate. I like her a lot. I like her a lot. She has good energy get positive rodie You chose wisely. She won 50 to 27. Nice. I'm getting it. I'm on a hot street This one might be a little confusing or might it might be complicated root. Paul It was ron jeremy or evan stone for male performance. I don't know evan stone. That that's why it might be He's uh, he's got long hair. He looks kind of like the romance novel kind of cover. Oh, really?
Starting point is 01:21:07 Yeah, like, uh, what's the guy's name? Like he looks kind of like oh, so phabio or ron or the hedgehog. Oh, of course phabio Am I too into this now? No, but we get into it like he won Yeah, so you gotta have the hedgehog taken down a couple uh real quick notes um, if you want to vote on the next uh, voting thing Go to facebook.com slash your mom's house podcast like the page you can comment you can post you can vote as do we um Also, we have to thank black lagooner mark manning for the amazing care package Christmas package
Starting point is 01:21:48 Awesome sweatshirt t-shirt so many good treats the card You're a beautiful man and john adams. Thank you for sending me the authentic Derek brooks jersey from florida state is going to frame it and hang it up in here Very excited about that. You went to florida state. I did not i'm a big seminal fan. You got a tallahassee Yes, Derek brooks tampa bay bucking ears. I mean great man great player great human being couldn't be happier about that Um, I want to do it. Would you rather? Okay? Oh, I found a clip of brody. Uh, just a quick audio clip from him uh from uh Enjoy it fucking camp
Starting point is 01:22:28 There's bro. That was it. That was great um Okay, you have a would you rather? Oh, and this is the other thing to the people still listening uh to the show right now We mentioned this before we didn't plug we haven't plugged we always forget to plug this If you go to the site right now, we put up a poll of cities that we're considering Going to to do standard together together. Yeah specifically together. Oh, wow And so it's only has like five cities We ask that
Starting point is 01:22:57 Please only vote on those if you realistically live in that area Because it's just going to screw us up if you're like, yeah, I would love to see you In austin, but I live in you know, milwaukee like please don't Click that you see us in us. I live in persia. I can't drive in persia. Great example. So, um Please if you are in those areas And you would want to see us there would you you would you click on the uh on the appropriate city in that poll? Thank you, and we would love you for that. Yes, you're welcome. Yes push All right, what do you have for us?
Starting point is 01:23:33 Brody i'm right here Yes push believe you got it. It's me steven brody stevens Hanging out with my friends tom and christina 818 you got it florida state tom's got that I am brody. I drove down here in my automobile and i'm gonna go back on the only field Not the google map. Not the yahoo map by follow the train to the station I don't know it. Yeah, that was amazing. Yes, I could rap like a freestyle when you hear coffee theme music It always means would you rather brody? Oh, it does. Okay. Yeah, it's a it's a thing we do
Starting point is 01:24:23 Would you rather claire huckstable or cockroach? Cockroach Okay, so here's a prompt of this one. Okay brody. So I went to the restroom yesterday Okay And I made a bowel movement. Oh a bm. They like to call it in the business But it was like no other bm in that it smelled like
Starting point is 01:24:49 Dogs diarrhea. Have you ever had a bm that smelled like dog diarrhea like a big dog like a great danger I've had a bm that smelled like a cat poo But not just a small amount like Hey, right cats when cats go poo. It's small and that's probably the pretty solid But I've had poo that is there's more
Starting point is 01:25:17 More more uh bowel Movement tissue Yeah, then what a cat would have and it would smell like a lot of smells the cat it smells of cat poo Cat poo. Yeah, not dog poo cat poo But mine didn't just smell like dog poo. It was like the like dog diarrhea like oh Yeah, and I mean I had some was on you. Would you rather in here? Yeah, so sorry that prompted me
Starting point is 01:25:44 Protein does that to me. Okay. I will I will I will fart up a gym Well that prompted me to think to myself Uh, I wonder if the dog's diarrhea smells that way because they're eating dog food And then I thought well, what would I rather eat dog food or cat food? Like if I had to choose between the two for a week, which would I choose? And I I can't decide so what would you choose? Probably dog food Just because it's you know the the milk bone. It's solid. It's like an animal cracker. You can put your mind around that What's in cat food just dirty fish?
Starting point is 01:26:25 What's in it cat food is disgusting I think I definitely would smell worse. Oh my god cat food smells like your breath christy And I think I would choose Dog food it's passable. It's like a crunchy treat. You could be like, all right Not the cable the wet kind. I can't have you wet food. That's what I'm saying. It's wet food either wet cat food I still think stinky. I think still wet dog food. All right. Can't you think it's like tuna? This is just tuna. This is uh, a chunky albacore Yeah
Starting point is 01:26:56 Hacked in water. I think it'd be way more Way way foul to drink to eat the The cat food would be so disgusting. It would be like It would be like eating a cat's like wet ass. Like it's it's ground up It's fishy and it's made it's made for a small animal. Oh, yeah, at least dog food you can get You know for a big one if you're gonna have a milk bone you want like the great dain or the german shepherd And old people eat it. So there must be some do they really they dog. It's sad, but there's been reports that No, I've heard that before it's not it's not funny
Starting point is 01:27:36 But it is because they're poor and they can't afford food Jesus, but my thinking is there must be it must be more nutritionally valuable than the dog food cat food I think the cat food would be So revolting it'd be like eating out of a gutter. It'd be like gutter food But it's just fish. You already have the mouth Your mouth is very cat food friendly. I cannot believe you're saying that that is so rude Christina has a That is a tank. She does really? Yeah
Starting point is 01:28:07 Is that from your diet? It's so this is an inside joke you and I have been doing Since august where he's like guy your mouth smells like a shark tank And and now it's gone to cat food a few nights ago and I cannot believe you just said that on the podcast Cat food is more is grosser than shark tank cat food's gross But I think Christina would choose cat food Look, it's just fish. It's mashed up fish. There you go. It's like if you like seafood, you're gonna go for the cat food
Starting point is 01:28:34 I'm gonna eat the cat food All right, is there another one? There's no I just like that. I love it. Wait. Can I tell you why I'm opposed to dog food? Yeah When you empty a can of dog food There's that gelatin that often surrounds it that gelatin alone. I agree. I agree. You can strain it out Strain it out strain it out. You can give us that option. Um, okay, Jesus Christ. This was so fun We we've come to the end of the show ready. This is it. Stephen Brody This is the end of the road the cul-de-sac in the
Starting point is 01:29:06 oasis I what I want to thank you for coming. Also. This is the last episode before Christmas. So Merry Christmas. Happy Hanukkah. Happy holidays. Kwanzaa Kwanzaa We hope you're safe. We want to thank you for a wonderful year of love and celebration and farts and mominess and dumps and brownness We wish you all very Harry Harry Harry Krishna Harry Krishna and a Harry Christmas
Starting point is 01:29:34 And a Harry very Christmas. Yes, we do Persian speak farsi. You're right about that They do for once in your fucking life So do we do do you ask me like where I could be reached like my twitter account? Do you want me to do that? We should do that Um, or does that not matter? It does matter. Um, where let me let me do this professionally Brody, uh, Brody Where can our listeners find you? Yes, you got it. I am on twitter at brody is me friend. Brody is me friend
Starting point is 01:30:06 It's an homage to my bus boys in new york tony and mr. Lee albanian and chinese brody. You good guy. You me friend It's an homage to them And you'd say brody is me friend. Yeah, so it's an homage to them. I'm so it's at brody is me friend Yes, correct. That's my twitter handle. I'm also on instagram if you care to check that out That's at brode 36. I follow you on instagram. I follow you right now brode 36 He does a lot of very brode centric photo shops photos. I've been yeah, I've been doing some photo shops recently yourself Yeah, it's great. It's fun. It's just one of those crazy little apps. Yeah, so i'm on that brode 36 at instagram You can also email me if you want to do that. I try to answer as many emails as I can
Starting point is 01:30:50 It's brody at brody stevens.com brod y At brody stevens.com and I sell merchandise also brody merch.com And uh, I have a podcast festival friendship on feral audio network check that out and I'd love to get christina and tom on that Yes, do some cross promotion. Yeah, I just love to be on the show. I just follow any time instagram Please let me know. Are you a package deal? No, we go separate. We go separate usually, but we okay separate cars. Yeah. Yeah I'd love to do that. I'm always looking for guests. Okay. I'd love to come do it on the festival of friendship Yes, you got it hollywood
Starting point is 01:31:29 Merry christmas guys. Merry christ man Oh It was December 24th when holly's having the dog when I see the man chilling with his dog at the park I approach the barracks slowly with my heart full of fear. Look at his dog. Oh my god Oh We're going Oh Yo, come on
Starting point is 01:33:44 My name's DMC with the mic in my hand and I'm chilling and cooling just like a snowman So open your eyes, lend us a hand. We want to say merry christmas and happy new year

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