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, 2016YES! 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!Â
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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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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