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We're thankful to have him as his first time being here and he's had quite a journey and we're just, we're excited. Today's guest is Mr. Matt Reif. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) - How you doing here? - Looking good, dude. - Looking all right. - Yeah. I just want to make sure I look fucking BLM adjacent. - You what? I just want to make sure that I look BLM adjacent. - Yeah, I want to look BLM adjacent. - Like you wouldn't protest yourself if you'd help make the signs. I just want them to know that, you know what I'm saying? I'll, yeah. I'll pull up, you know what I'm saying? - 100%. - But I'm not just getting crazy out there. - No, no, like I'll hit the barbecue but I'm not hitting the march, you know. - Yeah dude. - It's gotta be a line. - Yeah, 'cause the BLM march also, I think it just got two. I don't know. It came at a good time in my life. I had just gotten a whoop bracelet so I was all about my steps at that time. - Oh, for the BLM march? - Yeah, I was kinda right on time. - Oh, that's a great point, dude. People don't think about, dude, I wouldn't be surprised and this is a conspiracy theory. - Mm-hmm. - A lot of those were like BLM marches and like, probably the, you know, I don't know if also maybe like a George Floyd protest. That was all kind of the same thing, I think. - Yeah, I think so. - But were the BLM marches and stuff was all that part of like just big propaganda for like the whoop bracelet and some of those companies? - Is that a real conspiracy? If people would think it was just for the fitness aspects? - I don't know, let's look that up on perplexity if you can, dude. Or what are they saying? Is there, because all I'm saying is that's smart. That's smart, do we put out this thing? People need their steps. How do we get them out? - It's a black bracelet. - The bracelet could have been any color. - You said it. - I was way too early in the pod for that. - I mean, bro, this pod's been through a lot, so. - I know, man. I'm so happy we finally make it happen. - I think we'll be fine, dude. Me too, man. - Good to see you too. - Good to see you too, man. - Wow, I forget, dude. No, there's no credible evidence that the BLM marches were a conspiracy to sell whoops. What, which is a little slying-ish, I feel like for perplexity. Or that the protests themselves were pre-planned as a fake operation, huh? What is true is that the 2020 protests happened in response to the George Floyd killing and like many large demonstrations that included a mix of peaceful marches and some incidents of violence, looting and misinformation. - I gotta tell you, man, you're very good at reading out loud. - You think your cold read skills are incredible. - Really? - Oh yeah, I was stumbling over those words, not even saying it out loud. Yeah, I was very impressive. - I'm just glad to know that you don't have every skill, dude, because when you were like, dude, you kind of, you made things difficult on a lot of us, bro, when you were like the good-looking comedian, dude. And first of all, we're hurt a lot. - Sorry. - That was the meanest part of the sentence, bro. - Fuck, sorry. You changed a lot, bro, when you became, when you just changed the whole, it was like, 'cause comedian was a safe place for like kind of regular looking dudes who didn't have that thing, bro, who couldn't really go around, who couldn't just walk up to a woman and be like, "Ta-da." - That's not true. You literally have that. Everybody knows that. - No, dude. - That's, thank you. - No, man, amongst the comedy community, you're a piece of ass, dude. - Everybody knows this. - This is not true, dude. - That's absolutely true. You gotta get out and ask more. - Well, I mean, I mean, I don't think so, but what I do know is there's only a few. No, you did it, bro. You were like, oh my God. And people, dude, I remember a lot of comedians, a lot of us were, we wouldn't even go to our houses for months. - After I came onto the scenes. - Yeah, was there something to push up? - Yeah, people were like, "Ah, we were making noises "that we'd never even made before." - This is primal urges. - Yeah. - Oh, bro. - Yeah, we didn't even know what to do. Do we're buying beer and just smashing the cans and just all kind of shit. People were just drinking Dr. Pepper and just like touching themselves in parts and stuff. People didn't know how to-- - With a doctor pepper? - They didn't know how to operate, brother. But yeah, dude. Anyway, good to see you, bro. I'm just kind of giving you hard time. - No, likewise, man. I've seen you forever. - I know Congrats on all your success and everything, bro. - Thank you, man. - Thank you so much. - It's so cool. - It's wild, dude. - It's a lot. - It's a lot, yeah. You know what, we did talk one time. Hold on, I'm not even done with this yet. Is it buggy that I say the good looking comedian thing? Is that buggy at all or no? - That doesn't bother me. It doesn't bother me. It bothers other people, I suppose. - It does? I can shift forward all the time. People act like I'm the one walking around saying it. - Oh, yes. That's the weird part. - Oh, no. Dude, yeah, 'cause it was like, what do you mean? 'Cause first you heard rumors as a guy and he's doing comedy, and it's good, and he's good looking at him. People are like, what do you mean? People are calling their grandfathers. You didn't look like grandpa. There's a, why? And your grandpa would be like, what do you mean? And his brother would brace him with fucking sorry, you know? Not good, not good. Call Edna now. Like report to grandmother. - It was always affecting families. - Dude, you were just, it was just a lot for people, bro. - Sorry. - Because people had never seen that. You know, this is like, there's some people that have like skill, like a skill, and then another skill, like, people are surprised when somebody has one skill, and then they also have something else. It's almost like Justin Tucker. Do you know who that is for Baltimore? The Baltimore Ravens kicker? Can you bring him up? - Yeah, yeah. - He's an, I believe he's, is he an opera singer? He's a mezzo, he's a singer? - He's a singer, bro. - So we got that leg in that throat, bro. (laughing) - Just a full body powerhouse. - Yeah. (vocalizing) (vocalizing) - This hit, it would take a man 40 years to get out of this here, prison. (laughing) - But Andy Dufrein, did it in less than 20? - Bro, props to Justin Tucker. I mean, that's beautiful. - What do you think is the bigger flex being an NFL punter, or having that kind of skill set to opera sing? - I think that you get you, the NFL punter's just a mild thing that he's doing. - It's a hobby, just to pay the bills while he pursues. - Bro, when you got that kind of lung in your brain, you out there just, he's just all lunged. - You're trying? - You're trying to sing like that? Like to be like, I wonder if I can? - Yeah, I think I have probably, if you. - Yeah, of course. It's always like when you're in your car, you turn the volume down just enough to hear yourself. You're like, am I fucking this up? Then you can hear yourself. You're like, I'm fucking ruining this song. Like, I know I don't have it in me. 'Cause you have to try eventually. You don't know what skill set you might have. - Yeah. That's a good point. Yeah, you don't know what skill set you might have, right? And who even ever even tries? How many people could be like, they never even tried? - That's unbelievable. Yeah, like, whatever, there are things you've tried. Are there some side quests that you've kind of tried? You know what, I feel like I've been so busy. I haven't had time to really explore a lot of other avenues, but I'd like to learn stuff. I'd love to learn like an instrument or something or fucking magic dude, you fucking magic. - I mean, I think it's, you know, I'm kinda like, that's where the black and me shows up at the surface, bro. When people start doing a lot of magic, you know. - It feels like it could be too real. - It just like, what if this dude's doing this right here, what's he doing in his all, and his, you know what I'm saying? If he's willing to show us this. - Yeah. - What's he doing at the house? - That's a good point. But also, picturing somebody learning magic in their house by themselves is also one of the funniest things I can imagine. I can't picture anything lonely. Nobody around to see your Wala, your Kazam, whatever your fucking power word is. - Wala, I don't know, is that not a magician word? Is that like a chef, is that chef shit? - No, that's a good question, bro. Yeah, do chefs and magicians beef over there like, over there like verbal, like ejaculate, or whatever? - It's called a chef. - Or like there's like, do chefs and magicians beef over, like they're, what is it called, do you think, man? They're like, it's not delivered, they aren't, it is a delivery, but they're finishing syllables. - Finishing syllables, yes. Is it on a monopia? - I think it is, is that like the word for sounds? - Yeah, bring that up on a monopia, dude. On a monopia was like some kid that couldn't read good that had to go to the toilet or whatever. I remember that, we had a dude in our, in our Sunday school and he couldn't, you just started looking at him, bro, and you could tell he had to go to the toilet. - He was fidgeting.
- Yeah, his whole body will start shaking, bro. - I'm not gonna lie to you that I would have lost all my money on how to spell that word on him on a pier. - And you'd be like, "Damn, on him on a pier soon, bro." So we got to get him out of here, bro. (laughing) And on him on a pier is the process of creating a word that phonetically imitates or suggests the sound that it describes. - I didn't even know there was a T in there. I've been saying on him on a pier my entire life. - Yeah. - Well, we can take a break if you need us to. Impacts and collisions. So like boom, bang, crash. You know what did it a lot was like those old comic books with like Batman? - Oh, 100%. It's just the one big word, bang. - Yes. - Back when it was Adam West was like there was no Batman. - You big comic guy? You know, I'm not that big into it, but I think I liked it when I was a kid, but I never got into the comic books. - I feel that. - Did you? - No, I can't do it. - I don't know why. I'm not a big, all-in-paper kind of guy. Like, I'm not reading Harry Potter books, I'm not doing it. - Yeah, now I mean, I could settle. I think if I ever have to go to the hospital for a long time, I'm saving sopranos and Harry Potter for not getting good at a hospital. - For a long recovery series. - Yeah, hospital if I get married and sit if my wife's in a coma or something, I gotta sit in there with her. - You just prepped up to watch the series? - That's, what's the, why? - I mean, I want to have something to do. I want to be able to look for, 'cause some people that's such a scary time in their life if your spouse is in a coma or something. If your wife's in a coma. So I want to at least be able to look forward to something. So I've saved those things till then. - What's that thing? - Is it Munchhausen Syndrome is where you keep somebody sick so that they need you? - I could see you doing that just to finish the series. - Yeah, I do like my wife's like, she's starting, like, you're getting like a little bit of reading on her, like her like, "Beep, beep, beep." - On the Harvey monitor? - Yeah. - Yeah, hold on, honey. - Well, I'm almost done, yeah, yeah. Hold on, yeah, I got four episodes of break in that. - That did, you know that happened to somebody. - Oh, 100%. No, there was a guy, I met a guy at a show one time who he faked being sick from work for three weeks just to stay home and watch TV. That was like his full thing. - Wow. - And his wife totally just allowed it. - Ooh. - Which was like a cool mom letting you skip school. - That's gotta be dope. - Yeah, man, that's the one. - That's the one. - I want to find a lady like that. - On the second day she's like, "Oh, I see what you're doing." - Oh, yeah, he's not even faking anymore on day three. He's just living his life. She's on to him. - Yeah, and she's like, "I like it." - How long are you gonna be here? - Dang, dude, yeah, that's gotta be. If you get like a good partner like that. But yeah, dude, so that's like, we're even talking about how the fuck could we get into watching TV? - Onomatopoeia. - Onomatopoeia. Yeah, the bangs, the Wala's. Magic. - Oh, magic. - That's what it was. - What would you like him? - Yeah, what you're finishing term. - Oh, man. - 'Cause how did Wala come to be a term? How did Tadah? - Yeah, I think it's Tadah. Wala is definitely a chef term. I don't know why that came to me first. - Wala. - Wala sounds like, uh, Tadah's audience, the true. Oh. - Oh. - Wala came from Wala. Tell us the other. - Apricodabra, that's a classic. - It's magic might be the lamest one ever. You do a trick and you gotta tell him what it is. - It's magic. - That's magic. - Hey, that's like if you're making it love to a girl and it's like, then you're like, "It's sex." That's come. It's wiener. She's like, "It's barely wiener." You're like, "Okay, it's not dick for sure." - It's not dick. - It's wiener. It's almost like one of those like, "Can't believe it's not dick." - Yeah. (laughing) - At least that not like, Bluetooth motto. Bluetooth, hymns, pills. I can't believe it's not dick. - Yeah. - That's wiener. - Can you pop one of those bad boys? - The Bluetooth? - Yeah. - Oh, dude, yes. And dude, I'll even nibble just half a one. - Half? - Well, yeah, I kind of based on how it's going on or whatever. 'Cause I used to live with my buddy's dad. I used to live, brother. I went on, "How could this possibly wear this going?" - Yeah, it doesn't go anywhere, okay. It goes to a straight place. - There's no way at this. - But it takes a gay route. - Okay. - I'm listening, I'm following the curve. - My buddy's dad, and RIP, my buddy's dad just passed Wally, and I lived with him, dude, right out of high school. I lived with him, because he had a script for them wiener pills, right? And you just, they didn't have Bluetooth at the time. You couldn't just be getting those up, right? You know what I'm saying? And so when somebody had, it was like, "Dude." So I was like, "Well, if I live with Wally, then he's got a script, and I can just pop him if I need him." 'Cause I had a ton of sexual anxiety. - And he wasn't using them all. - He was using them. He was going through them pretty quick. That's why I didn't know. - Really? - I wish he had told me that before we signed the lease. - So you're gonna have visitors. - Oh, I thought, dude, I thought I was gonna be living for a long time, dude. You know what I'm saying, bro? - I'm just saying like, his erection was getting its steps in, you know what I'm saying, bro? - He's got a boop around it. - Yeah, that's dick. - What was the sexual anxiety that you had? - Oh, just in my twine. I had a lot of sexual anxiety, bro. - Just nerves. - Yeah, a ton of nerves. - What is it? - But I had a tough time talking with girls that made me nervous, bro. Like super nervous. 'Cause I think I had a tough relationship with my mother. So even just the interaction with like, looking at a woman being looked at, that kind of stuff was like, maybe super like nervous. So I think that just, that didn't just, it doesn't just go away kind of, so then you move on through life. And now, now the women you're interacting with, it's like about, you know, dating, animus dating, sexuality, whatever, weiner. And then, that's all, you know. So just some of that. But anyway, I just want one to live. And I gotta talk, dude, I have you here, and I'm talking so much. - No, I love the story already. So I went to live with Wally, bro. RIP shout out. And so we were living over there. We were living in like a studio apartment, too, dude. So, oh, no, no, it wasn't that bad, sorry. It was a one bedroom, but the bedroom didn't have, it just had a little balcony. It didn't have like a full wall. - Got it. - Got it, okay. So I'd sleep out on the couch, and he had a car, and he would let me borrow his car, but the car, you couldn't turn it off, you had to get it jumped. So I would drive the car to school, and I'd park, like this was that loyal and new ones. I would park up by the teachers area and just leave it running the whole time. And for some reason, if the car's running, they wouldn't put a ticket on it. Like, oh, somebody just ran inside or whatever. - What? It's genius. - So I'd leave it running the whole time on the class, it would cost like maybe $6 in gas, but I would leave it running. Anyway, he got the pills. I would try to nibble off them, so he didn't see it. I would try to reshape him as shit, bro. I was carving them into Crescent Moons. - Oh, dude, I was trying to make them all smaller. - It was, I was like shizzling it, yes. - Yeah, but I was like, he had like shift, and it would be like an oval, and now it's just like a diamond or something like. It was trap shit, bro. - Did he ever catch you? - Huh? - Did he ever brought it up to me, bro? - That's a gentleman. - And he'd have ladies over sometimes, and I was learning the guitar actually at the time, and he'd have he go in there sometimes at night and play tears in heaven for him. That's the song I could play. - Tears, who sings it? - I did it at the time. It was Eric Clapton, there you go. ♪ Would you know my name ♪ - Being serenaded to that would, I don't even know if I need the pills. ♪ So you will never ♪ - Yeah, they'd be drinking orange juice and vodka and the bed and I'd go in there and just play it for him. - Dude, it's so hard to smash with a roommate. - My first apartment in LA, I was with my manager's son at the time, and it was a studio. There was just no door into the bedroom, so it was really an open floor plan, and obviously I lived on the couch, and I had like the small closet, and he had like what would be considered the bedroom. I remember he was out of town one weekend, and this girl wanted to come over, and we did sex in his bed, and she was like, "Where are all those clothes doing out there?" I was like, "Oh yeah, I let my friend live on the couch." - Yeah. - Oh, always. - Yeah. - Yeah, my friend's not doing well, I would say. - Yeah, of course, made it seem like I'm doing a good deed. - Yeah, he's passing through town. He's like, "He's passing through town, "and he put all his pickers up on the walls in the shed." Like, "Yeah, he's kind of guy, of course." - Travels with his memories, yeah. - Yeah, travels with his memories, dude. - Ah, wow, dude. - Well, you guys out this weekend, I knew you were here for CMA Fest, right? - Yeah, I came down to do some stuff with Billboard with the Red Clay Strays, and then just stayed in town for the shows, man. I fucking love it here. - You do? - Yeah, I almost moved to Nashville, but I wanted land, and I wanted a lot of it. - Right. - And there wasn't anything within like an hour of the city that I really liked, and if you live an hour outside of Nashville, you don't really live in Nashville, you live in fucking Chattanooga. - Yeah, yeah, you live a little bit further out, I agree. Yeah, it's nice. There's some good land out there. - Yeah, dude. Yeah, what did I see with Red Clay Strays? You were giving them an award? - Yeah, I gave them the Ground Breakers Award for Billboard, which was awesome, man. - So cool, dude. - Dude, they're such good guys. - Oh, they're the best. Oh, there you are right there, dude. - So there was no introduction whatsoever, they just go, and Matt Rife, everybody's like, wait for real? Turn away from the ball. There's a giant open pit of like, I'm gonna say 30 feet by 50 feet. People just standing, like it was a wet floor. Nobody wanted to come close. The weirdest thing ever, yeah. It's okay, it's like two minutes long. Look at the guys up. Dude, that's awesome. You got to bring these guys up. They're special, bro. You know, comedy really, a lot of comedians really embrace them. I think a lot of, if you go to their shows, it's almost music for men and young men. Do you feel like that in a way? - I do, I do. I mean, it's such a, I don't know. It reminds me of music from like the '50s and '60s, which I think was like, music's golden age. And I think there's a yearning for that, 'cause everybody loves that sound, but there's no new production of that. And I think they put that out. It's refreshing. I love those guys. - Yeah, they're so good, bro. Sometimes I feel. - Dude, it's my favorite song. - Is it? - I fuck it. I'm still fine. - Yeah. - So good. Colin, I would blast that in the house for days. ♪ People living it up, I think I'm lying ♪ ♪ Thinking I'm out of my mind ♪ - Oh, god, that's so good, dude. - Oh. - I love them. Shout out to Ray Claystray. - Pull up those lyrics, dude. Let me see those lyrics.
for a second. - You know, Brandon's brother Matthew wrote that song. - He wrote it? - Yeah, not even in the band, technically. - I saw it. - He's writing hits. - I saw him the other night, dude. I knew he wrote some of their songs. Sometimes I feel like I can't feel. Obviously, this is a song about being on "Anna to Press" then. This is a song about coming off of SSR out, dude. - This is a real masterpiece. - This is a masterpiece, I should be hurting. I was alone, I was a song, music and bone, God's perfect wording. People here living it up, I think they're blind. I think they're out of their minds. Not one of them has had this. God's not giving up on me. No, I'm just fine. It's just a matter of time. - I mean, there's a bars in there, man. - Oh, yeah. I guess powerful stuff. People here living it up, I think they're blinds. Like, yeah, how can you, how can you be so positive and all the stuff's going on? - Dude, I think it's kind of, sometimes it's where we are in the world and I don't even want to get negative, but it's like, it does feel sometimes like we are pretending that we're okay. - Does that make sense? - Absolutely. I mean, I think I operate from a big position of just bliss. I try to stay out of stuff. Like, I'm not a political person at all. Like, I actually get torn to shreds for even saying this, but like, I don't pay attention. It seems so stressful. It seems like all bad stuff all the time and I'm like, it's either happened or it's not, and nothing I can really do about it. Yeah, so I mean, sometimes being uninformed leads to a little bit of happiness. - Do you know it's a good point? I think the more that I've learned sometimes, the more it hurts sometimes or something hurt. I don't know what it is. - No, I think that's life though. I think about when you're a kid, you don't know anything. Life is so blissful, right? You don't even know about all the problems going on. - Yeah, do your sister, that's so right. Little kids are just like you, they don't know anything. I think the more you learn as life goes by, I mean, I think the magic of life kind of gets smeared. - Yeah, you know, I sometimes I wonder it's like, 'cause sometimes we talk, we'll talk about stuff on here that's like kind of political or things that like, we feel a lot of it's like stuff that you end up learning about through technology too. And it's like, we wouldn't know it if we were like back in like tribal time where we were in like these, you know, if we didn't have so much technology, we wouldn't know a lot of this stuff. But do you think that's how we're supposed to be though? - I don't think it's how we're supposed to be. I think there will be a time in the future where we will look back and or someone will look back. And they'll be like, what were they do? How did they even, what was happening? Do you think we're supposed to know about everything going on in the world? Like do you think we should know what's going on, like overseas in different countries with different people? - It's tough, dude, as human beings. - Well, I wonder if, sometimes I think that no, it doesn't do us any good. I mean, a lot of times I'm angry about stuff that's not even in my area. And then it's like where I could probably put that, put that same energy towards stuff that is maybe more localized, or even in my own family and personal life to have a better effect on those things or try to. But then I also, I've heard people talk about like, that there's no real separation, like in between space and time. So I wonder if someone's like, if people like, if you see something that's so painful in the world and you prayed enough about it, or you really tried to channel like whatever good had been blessed to you or bestowed upon you, if you try to channel it towards, like could you have an effect, you know? Because then that makes me think, oh well, then there is some purpose to all of that. - Yeah, absolutely. - But I don't know, I don't know any of that, but it is tough to think about. - No, that's a good spiritual direction though, I like that. You know, it's something to think about. But I don't think there's anything, I can't sit here and be like, sometimes I'll be like, well, I don't certain people say this, I'd say speak up, but that's me trying to project or think some way, it's like everybody's on their own thing. - Yeah, of course. - Sometimes I maybe have wishes, but sometimes it's like, yeah, it'd be better just to like sit and laugh. Sometimes people just want their comedians to just joke around and not be talking about other stuff. - Yeah, sometimes just because somebody doesn't speak up on something doesn't mean that they're not empathetic about it, maybe they just, maybe they can't handle it, maybe that's just not where they're, if they may not have blinders on, they have their sights on something specific or just mind their own business. - Yeah. - Doesn't always mean they're a bad person, I don't think. - No, I don't think so either. Yeah, like I have friends and my buddies like, dude, I was like, do you ever think about this or worry about this? He's like, well, you know, I got a couple kids right now and I have a kid who, you know, he has a kid that has some learning disabilities. He's like, I just have to focus all on that. It's like, you can't fault that. It's like, no, I think that's actually better. I think, I think, I think focusing a lot of your energy on the things more direct to you, I think can be a good thing. I think that's a lot more peaceful. Think about the things that get, like, people are complaining online all the time about something, right? - Yes. - All the time. It's like, okay, is that thing you're complaining about to you personally more important than like, you know, your kid's baseball game or whatever it is or their birthday party coming up or something that's more important to you directly? - Right, if you're sitting in the stands, like, you're like, mastering a tweet and you miss your kids, like, you know, double or, he gets that hit. - Exactly. I agree. - So, how do you even have time to do that? - Yeah. - If you're not focused on something more important. - And sometimes, we'll leave. I'll notice, I'll find other things to worry about, so I don't have to worry about my own shit. I don't know if that's healthy or not. - Oh, I don't think it is at all, but I'll even use worrying about other stuff sometimes as like a method of like, escapeism from like, not taking care of the things I need to be taking care of. - That's a very good point. Next time my dick doesn't get hard, I'm gonna be like, it's just with everything going on and I ran right now. You know what I mean? Like, how can you even possibly expect me to be up for it? - Wait, wait, you're expecting sex when there are people starving somewhere? Okay, yeah. - I think it's perfect to help. Oh, my penis doesn't work. It's obvious, you know, that's, look, there's stuff happening in Gaza right now. And you're expecting, what are you? You're expecting a lot. Okay, you want troops on the ground over here, right? But you don't want it over there. What are we talking? It is kind of, that's hilarious, dude. - Yeah, that's Mr. Ricks. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. 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this guy. So I mean, I've been coming here for a while. I love it here. Yeah. Too comedy scene too. Yeah, it's good people, man. It's some of the best people I couldn't agree more. What I can't believe you got to come down here and work with Ralphie. That was so wild. What was that? Like, did you see him having troubles back then? I mean, that was a long time ago. I mean, he was fat the whole time, right? I never knew him to not be gigantic. So I mean, there was, I mean, I was also 16, 17. So again, I'm not really like looking for problems. Wow. Yeah, that's that the that's the Braia improv. Yeah. I think I'm 17 in this. Maybe 18. Wow. I think I'd maybe just turn 18 in that. But look at that watch. Wow. Fake. Couldn't be more fake. I think it's supposed to be what's it made out of? Like, oh, I've got damn Ben 10 watched. It's like it's made out of ivory. Is it real ivory? It's not real ivory, man. It's your plastic. Is that real tusk? Not at all, man. Oh, dude, look at Ralphie smile, bro. Yeah, man. I miss him a lot. Oh, he was such a good guy. He started when he was super young, too. I think he started when he was 14. Yeah. He was full of black. He said he was so big because a lot of his inside, it had a lot of blacks and a lot of blacks in him. Black people inside of him. I mean, he could fit a couple of black people inside of him. He said there was like a couple of black guys in the front seat and the back seat of him. Because you know, it's not you good one brother arrived. A couple of brothers showed like, what was that? You know, you got to be hopping on the pegs, you know, bro. Yeah, dude. That was the craziest thing for I used to bike through the neighborhood. And on my way to school, I go through the black area and my buddy John, then we get on the on the back and then like, sometimes a couple of his buddies, we get on the front, dude. And so I was just this little, just like white little engine that could do, you know, just have just pumping. I think I can. I think I can. I'm just sitting there. Yeah. And they used to call me the inward bus, that's what they call me when they told me pulling it, if I go, here come your bus. And they'd all jump on. Do not have to get like five guys and get the, you know, help and get their education or whatever. And I was like, I can do it. Get their education. Like you have public service. If I didn't get them there, it was like 11 more blocks to school. If I didn't get them there, they wasn't going. They stopped at block eight. Oh, yeah, yeah. One or two dudes got off. We never saw them again. That's so fucking funny, dude. So that was wild, bro. But yeah, Ralphie was like, Ralphie was one of a kind, bro. I can't name somebody else that's like, Ralphie. Can you really? No, man. I really wish I could see how he would have navigated like comedy today. It's changed so much in just the 15 years that I've been doing it. And watching him, I mean, not give a fuck isn't the most articulate way to say that. But like he was just so unapologetically himself. And people fuck with it, dude. I didn't, I had never been anybody who didn't like him. Oh, dude, I remember I broke down when he passed out. It like really hit me hard. Oh, same, man. That was arguably my first like mentor in comedy. He, um, I was, I wasn't, I think I'd maybe just turned 16. He was coming to Youngstown, Ohio. He was playing a theater up there. No, I'm sorry. He was Cleveland. He was, he was doing a hilarities up there. And this is like, we're in Twitter, like you could, you could reach anybody on Twitter. Everybody was so accessible. So I like tweeted out and I was like, hey, I'm this kid in Ohio and I'm doing comedy now. Can I open for you at hilarious? And he was like, yeah, you know what? Fuck it. Come on down. But my mom ruined it. She, well, because she had no experience in this whatsoever. I mean, to her, this is just a grown man inviting her son up to Cleveland. Right. This is like pedophilia or whatever. Yeah. She had no idea. I mean, I had been doing comedy for humorous pedophilia humorous pedophilia. Maybe five months up and doing standup. So I didn't know anything either. So she's asking like, where do I park? Do we need to buy tickets? What time do we need to be there? Where do we need to go? Do I need to talk to anybody? I ended up asking him so many questions on behalf of my mom. He was like, hey, man, I actually, it's actually not going to work out. So he can't, he canceled on me. And then maybe six months later, he was doing Youngstown. And he let me come up and do that. I was like, my first theater show paid me $100 for it. It was nice. What did you? Did you hold that against your mom? Oh, I'm like, I was devastated because to me, I was like, this is going to be my big break. I'm going to be this famous comedian after doing one guest spot in Cleveland. But that's all it takes to you. You get three minutes of a video somebody bringing you up. You get to bring Ralphie up anything. When you're that age, of course, bananas. I know. It would have been awesome. The theater show was very quiet. I ended up actually ended up meeting Tony Hinchcliff's mom at that show in Youngstown. Yeah. She was just like, I have a son who just moved to L.A. He's doing comedy out there open like Jeff Ross. I didn't think anything of it. I didn't know anybody moved to L.A. And he was like, you fucking know my mom. And why did she want was she at that show? She was just a Ralphie fan. No. Yeah. It was totally, totally random. I was just taking pictures of people after the show when she was like, am I, my son lives out there? He said his mom still has like the piece of paper that I signed for her. She kept it even after all those years. Oh, that's pretty cool. So crazy. Yeah, I forget he's from Youngstown, huh? Dude, was it a pretty urban show? No, dude. Youngstown was so white. It was so white, dude. But I mean, this was also when he was doing, Ralphie was doing this bit about the inward. And I think it, I think it made it into one of his specials where he was basically trying to make a point that if you desensitize the word and make it mean something different. So he was like, I think we should name the most delicious flavored cookie, the inward. No way. He's like, I love that. I see that. You could say it more optimistically. But this was like a mostly white room of a few black people, but it didn't matter. Like the joke was just great across the board. Like he was for everybody. His crowds were so eclectic. Oh, yeah. And I love coming up with that. I never wanted to like pigeonhole and play to like a specific audience. I'm like, if he can appeal to everybody, like that's the main goal. Yeah, dude. Well, yeah, just to be your, I think to try and try and be as close to your truth as what it is. And I think Ralphie was that guy. He was just like, he loved like being accepted by black folks and white folks. He loved bringing them together with humor. Yeah. And he loved just like being able to kind of be welcomed just in that space. Because to be in that space, also in navigate comedy, it's important because you have like a, you know, a responsibility, something, but you can bring people together. If two people can laugh at the same joke, that's a big thing. I couldn't agree more. I think sense of humor is so important, dude. Dude, that's so cool that you got to have some of those moments with him. Yeah. When I first moved to LA, he used to pick me up. He'd go to like a diner. He'd make me order like three entrees. And I was like, is this fucking for you? And he was like, no, whatever you don't eat, you can take home with me. Now you have like groceries for your week. Yeah, I've left overs for it. The nicest guy, man. Wow. I know. I know. That's big, bro. That's a big heart. He was mostly hard. Hard and brothers inside of him. Mostly hard. He was one of those people that like, I wish I could have got to share what I get to go through now with him, because I knew him from like so, so young. And he was somewhere that I looked up to. Yeah. Just to give his perspective, I want to see what advice he would have had, you know? Yeah, dude. That was a huge loss. With it, he passed away from exactly. Did he have pneumonia pretty bad? I think it was COVID. I think he had early COVID. I just want to get clear on that. It was not COVID. I'm pretty sure it was a heart attack. Yeah, cardiac arrest. Roughly made out of cardiac arrest caused by hyper-tensive cardiovascular disease, the Clark County Nevada corner officially ruled his death as natural at a time. He said he's battling pneumonia at the time. That happens a lot. Roughly had our heart attack as long collapsed. I mean, that lung was exhausted. I mean, God damn, bro. I think I can. I think I can. I can't. We got to get these brothers to school dude. That was his long dude. All day, bro. He would love that joke though. He would love that. He would love it, bro. Dude, honestly, I can, I'm not even joking. I can feel him smiling right now. That's one thing, bro. I believe that there is this, there's this like between space and time. Like if we say like, Raffi, we love you and we miss you and thank you for all the times you made us laugh. I believe, I think he can feel that somewhere. I think so. So I think that there's like a, I think there's a way that you like that you can transfer like a feeling or like a hope, you know, through space and time, you know. I don't know. No, you can call it prayer. You can call it whatever, whichever angle you want to come from. I think it does affect things. Yeah. And here's the thing. Even if it doesn't, isn't it so much better to just believe it anyways? 100% isn't life just better to believe it? Yeah. I mean, I feel the same way about fucking Bigfoot. Just cooler to believe he's out there. Yeah, dude. It is probably not, but it's so much more fun to think maybe he is. Dude, what about the guy that just was on Joe Rogan that saw an eight famous that that gives a Navy seal? They saw an eight foot big. They said eight foot. That's pretty big. Well, how tall is Victor Wim and Yana? He's got to be close. But his the last, he would be a, he would be kind of a punk in the Bigfoot community to run. I mean, it would be, I mean, they would respect him for sure. He more of a slender man. Oh, you fuck with slender man. I mean, I don't fuck with him. Dude, that's my, that's my lane dog. I love all spooky shit. Oh, yeah, that's right. Do you, you bought all this, you bought this spooky? You invested in Ed and Lorraine's, uh, yeah, their home museum. Wow. Yeah, dude. That's right, dude. That's where you live. You live in Rhode Island in Rhode Island. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but their house is in Connecticut. So it's down the street. I want to have drive, something like that. It's fucking awesome, man. How did that come to pass? Man, I know some of this might be old news. No, no, no, it's not a lot of people know that I'm even into this stuff. My friend and my business partner, Elton Castell,
He and I started doing like he had been doing ghost hunting on YouTube for oh god Probably close to like eight years now and then I kind of came aboard about five years ago something like that We've been like around the world to some of the most haunted places. It's so fucking you have. Yeah, yeah We had Sam and Colby on here talking about that. Oh those guys are awesome Yeah, those guys are fucking sick dude one time I went to dinner with Rogan. I go meet him Sam and Colby are They're like as with Joe. Yeah, shut up Blue my mind. Yeah, man. They're good dudes. I was like what the fuck are y'all doing here dude smaller world than you think Oh, they're like to like spooky in sync kind of is like it's kind of what they seem like a little bit when you meet him You know, yeah, man. They're handsome for no reason. Yeah, it's like oh your handsome and your ghost hunters They're another they're a couple Justin Tucker's dude that's who they are you can't even see bangs in the dark There's no reason to even have good hair like that. I did just It dude bangs. That's an on a monopoeia bang, but I'm talking about air, man Take me through a little bit more that so you move so you so first you Why did you move to it on these had you wanted some land? Yeah, I wanted land main I wanted I wanted some land. I wanted a city that is convenient for travel and so like PVD is like my Burbank airport and then Boston's like my LAX if I have to have to have to go direct Okay, so that's Providence in Boston airport Yeah, and then I wanted some kind of a comedy scene and Providence has the comedy connection there Which is a fucking great a club They've got a couple of good theaters there that I'll do like our holiday toy drives at and stuff on the wintertime And then they have a there's a ton of open mics. There's a bunch of don't-tels out there So like when I'm home and I want to work stuff out like there's no shortage of stage time at all Wow so many kind of just checked all the boxes. It's awesome dude. It's so peaceful It's so beautiful like it's quaint. It's got it's got everything I need like I said the airports nearby comedies nearby targets Eight minutes away. How far is it from the airport to your house? 17 minutes. That's good. Yeah, it's not bad at all dude Mm-hmm, and when we're in the cities all the time for work right like we're always doing I'm always in New York. I'm always in LA or Miami Chicago or whatever like when I'm not there I just want peace like that's what I actually have what made you pick that I mean real islands just an interesting place No, absolutely, you know, it's kind of like it's kind of romantic at the room out of Rhode Island to me Has like this like beachy kind of romantic scene, but also like this thug is sort of seen Well, I didn't know how like mob deep it was dude. I had no I had no idea what I was like run by the mob for a while Which I was pretty fucking awesome. I was doing shows at Mohiegan Sun in Connecticut and this is around the time I was just like just starting to look for like maybe I'll get a house someday my life Starting to change and I was on Zillow and I found a house like an hour away and I was like shit I'll just go check it out before the shows tomorrow. I went check that out. Just fell in love with it No, yeah, so I mean totally random didn't know anybody there a couple of my friends have moved out there ever since they live with me So it's kind of a nice little compound. We got friends living with you. Yeah, absolutely. Have you had to kick anybody? I don't think of what's happened like you guys splitting wiener pills out there. We guys doing out there Bro, it's like you live there. That's good to hit both on the head is pretty impressive. Yeah, yes, and yes, man We're rationing up there brother. Oh, yeah, dude now I will say this if the wiener pill factory ever closes dude There is gonna be the market is gonna be hot for those, bro. Oh my god. It's the new Kuayloos You didn't get better with age. I didn't even think about that. Oh, I'm gonna sit on a cup I'm put some of my safe. Yeah in a little time capsule give one of your grants on one day, huh? Hey, this how your diaper won't fit Ridiculous dude. I kind of love living with the homies. It's nice I mean the house is big enough to like my boy Kyle lives upstairs. I live downstairs like this day is I don't even see him Yeah, we'll meet we'll meet together in the kitchen for like an uncrustable around 4 p.m. That's about it dude It's so peaceful. It's just chill When you're there like what types of things you getting all the you actually have enough time to take off when you're there Or what's that like for you right now? I need to tell you I saw you guys were filming and you were filming in Vancouver How is that? Yeah, I was in Vancouver for like seven months last year away I'll do it within a week. I had to move like I didn't think I was gonna get this role at all And then they call and we're like hey you you got it need you to move to Vancouver and I was like awesome It was Friday. They're like need you there Monday, and I was like oh, okay I mean things could happen that fast did you have touring day to cancel and everything? I only had to cancel a couple for film dates, but luckily they let me keep as many of them as I could Which is important to me. Yeah, for sure Matt Rife among 10 cast in Netflix's FTX series and this FTX It's about crypto. It's about the crypto currency. Yeah, do I really like that Paul Rudd? No, it's not Paul Which which one which one do you think is Paul Rudd? Which one of those bottom middle but you think that's Paul Rudd? It does it look like him to anybody else who does me. That's gonna be just you Not a shit. I wish Paul was in this. He's a fucking great. Oh You thought that was that guy I'm still fine. No, don't sing your way out of it man Your way out I'm just saying bro. 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Yeah, man Dude look how ripped yeah Man sometimes I like to all I like to reminisce about Summertime summertime maybe it was hot and mom would try to make the best out of things Oh, and she said one day she said I'm gonna take y'all to see the world's biggest ant hill about 70 miles from us And so we sat there and we weren't really excited, but we was curious and sometimes that was enough in the summertime to get you out of the house And mom didn't know but I'd snuck me a little devil to get my pocket so I could get me a little snack I'd snuck a little DE down in my pocket with a piece of ice next to it so I could keep it cool in there And we got to that ant hill and it was I Mean you couldn't even imagine how big it was You need you needed two people to imagine it at the same time to even have to have the imagination of it It took two imaginations And they had all types of ants in there. They had ants. They had step ants Ants once removed they had cants. They had ants it. It just couldn't do it anymore You know they just said they was dealing with impairments or high blood pressure And we're about 95 minutes into the tour we'd been you know was coming around the east end of that ant hill and And I'd been bit probably 20 30 time by now and And they had a little rest area a little bathroom area. I saw I'm gonna sneak off behind these toilets and have me that devil The egg maybe had me a little cut it at DE that I had in my pocket and I reached in there Those ants had picked my pocket clean brother. I Don't know how much devil was in that egg, but It wasn't enough to keep those ants away. So we had some times out there, man And they were challenging and they were exciting and they were adventurous and That's summertime, you know Anyway, cheers to Mountain Dew tastes like America tastes like summer So you were up there in Vancouver you Was it enjoyable experience Vancouver's awesome. It's Vancouver's beautiful I had a good time with that the being a part of like that pedigree of a project is awesome Anthony Boyle and Julia Garner are the leads of it And they're just such fucking great actors really like if they're not nominated for an award for the for the show I mean, it's robbery. They're they're so so talented to like get to like learn from people like that day after day for seven months Which is an awesome opportunity. It was so hard though Like the dialogue was just not something I was familiar with like it's all about cryptosis like every line I'm having like Google what I'm even saying. Oh really was that intense. Oh my god So obviously memorizing the lines was a lot more typical than just like a day-to-day conversation Yeah, but it was a good challenge got love. I love acting. I want to do more of it for sure Yeah, yeah, so but the thing about acting is it takes away from that standup. It takes away from that stage time It definitely does It's hard to go because you if you have those long days where you have in long days Oh, yeah, I mean you're on set for sometimes 17 hour day, but you can't go to stand up at the end of that day No, but so I mean most of the seven months I was filming Monday through Friday and then Saturday morning I get on a plane to go to a show Saturday night Got it the next place Sunday And then I'd have to take like a red eye after this show Sunday night to be on set at like 6 a.m. Monday morning. So there was some weeks where I'm showing up on like no sleep. Oh But if you want to do all if you want to do it all like that's the price to pay for it But also a standup like I've been doing it for I mean literally Half my life and I'm so like blessed to be in the position that I'm in right now like it's fucking insane the opportunities I've got to have over the last couple years that there starts to become more of a Question of like what what now with stand up like I've sold out massive square garden I've done the Hollywood Bowl. It's like what what is supposed to be after
for that. For me, that's when the fun of the creative behind it is what kind of has to propel you. I still have these funny thoughts and these stories that I want to tell. You have to just enjoy doing stand up. You find something to chase, but it's not always a venue. Sometimes it's just expression. Yeah, dude, I think it's interesting to say that. I've been at a spot right now where my friend and I made a movie that we did that we made ourselves that came out and we did the whole process. Then we just taped a comedy special. There's been some things that have just come to an end, right? And touring. And that's all finished right now. For the first time in 20 years, I don't have a tour date on the books and I don't ever have to have one if I don't want to. How does that make you feel? It's a lot of things. It's been like, I had a little bit of depression. I didn't know what it was from. I think some of it was from I don't, there's not a ton to do. There's podcasting. But I haven't really felt like, I don't know, I haven't felt a lot of motivation. And I don't know if some of it's because there's just not a ton to do. Do you feel fulfilled in that field? Sometimes I feel like, well, what do I want to do now? Did I just start stand up 20 years ago and I've just been doing it and now do I want to keep doing it? I do know that I want to keep doing it. I don't want to get on stage right now. But there's part of me that's like, yeah, well, what else do you want to do? What else do you? I think I kind of wish that there was like a family aspect of my life right now. Like, wife and children, but that's not there. So it's like, that's okay. It's just like, you got to wait till that comes along. But I do think there's some like, like, I have impatience with, like, not the craziest days. And that's okay. And what's going to be next and I don't know, right? I think having patience with, I don't know, is kind of tough for me. No, it's very hard. I mean, it's fear of the unknown, especially when you're used to working for, you know, 20 years, you're waking up day after day trying to create opportunity for yourself, whether it's a tour or whether it's filming something or producing something, developing something. Like, I can't take a vacation. If I take three days off, I haven't performed stand-up in two weeks. I feel like I've forgotten everything. I've been going crazy. I'm only home for like, two to three days at a time. When I'm there, after the second day, I'm like, fuck, I feel like I need to be doing something. When I don't, it's okay to take a break and just be healthy and be with your feet or have for a little bit. Yeah, I think that's the tough part for me right now a little bit. And then I think some of it's asking, God, what does God want me to be doing? We're just like, I think, I'll go to that place of prayer for like, yeah, help me figure out what I want to do because I'm not feeling like a ton of like, I just don't know that's a thing. And so it's just kind of interesting. I think it's, I think that's totally fine, man. Yeah, it's just hard to be like, it's incredibly hard, man. When you've been chasing something for so long, and you feel like you've accomplished isn't the right word, but you at least got to a place of comfortability where you don't need to be killing yourself every single day. Yeah, it's hard, man. I'm going from 100 to zero or two, you know? Yeah, it's hard to coast. Yeah, it's hard and you start to, I mean, all the little things come in, like, well, if am I doing enough or I'm going to fall off or these things are, I have fallen on, like all, and some of that's all just bull, it's all bullshit. It's all just whatever. Yeah. But all those little things kind of come in and you start, you, you put each one on the scale of you and be like, what weight does this really have? And sometimes it jumps on the scale itself, some of these fears or things. And you don't even know it and you're under the weight of it before you realize, oh, I didn't even put this there. This just kind of showed up. How much of it is ego, you know what I mean? How much can I put that aside? And how much is it actually important to me? That's the biggest thing is, yeah. No, it's so hard. How much of this is ego too? And what, yeah, what's important? What do I need? And then what is my voice best? How can my voice best even be used moving forward for myself and for like anything, you know? All that kind of stuff. Does that make sense to you? That makes perfect sense. I can't thank you enough for even understanding what that feels like. Like most people just don't get that because there is a fear of slowing down for sure. Like, I mean, and I have slowed down a ton of them. We were doing 40 to 50 shows a month between like 2024 to the beginning of 2025. I mean, six to seven shows, six to seven nights a week. It shows a night too. Your schedule was scary, dude. I remember. We spoke one time. You're having a sleep, were you having sleeping disorder? Yeah, man. You called about that. I really appreciate that by the way. You have an sleeping disorder. I have horrible insomnia. Like, I literally cannot fall asleep without like the assistance of something. Yeah. So what how do you even? I mean, I guess it's easy to figure out, but did you notice what was keeping you up? Were you drinking coffee late in the day? No, no. I don't do any caffeine at all. Like, never, never have. You cannot, cannot do it. My brain just like, you know, when you're about to fall asleep and then there's just like the light switches goes off. Your brain's just off. Now you are like unconscious. Yeah. I can't fucking flip the switch. I can't do. I can get so close. I brain just cannot do it. I'm not even like thinking about things. I'm not up anxious about anything. I'm not worried about anything. There's not anything in particular in my life that I'm worried about. Just can't do it. I've been to sleep doctors. I've got therapists. What's that? Did you go to sleep doctors? Yeah. Yeah. And they all, I mean, the problem is they all just want to, they want to just prescribe you medication, but I'm like, I do that. That makes me feel even crazier. That makes, to make me feel like I have to have help to do the most basic human thing feels fucking crazy. So I mean, I do take something that does help me get to sleep. It doesn't keep me asleep. I still don't sleep well. But they, most of my doctors think it's probably just like an underlying anxiety, but I'm like, I don't want to take anxiety medication. I don't want to. Yeah. And are you feeling laying there all horny or whatever or are you just laying there like your brain running? No way. Pass that, dude. My dick is like fucking tapped out. I'm empty, bro. Falling asleep with fucking Lego hands, dog. Yeah, man. What are you saying? You never jerk off to try to fall asleep? Oh, yes, dude. Yeah. What are you talking about? Probably less than 30 hours ago. I mean, we shook hands as soon as I came out of your man. Now I have showered once since then. I mean, you ever do you ever accidentally get a wake up nut though when you're trying to fall asleep? Where is that boost of energy up on accident? Like, what do you mean? Like, if you jerk off in the beginning of the day, what is that wake up nut? A wake up nut is kind of like, I imagine it's like a shot of B12. It's like getting into a cold plants. There's just something that kind of shocks your system. You're like, okay, I'm ready to tackle the day. So you wake up and do a nut? Sometimes it depends on the day, you know what I mean? Depends on the weather. Wow, really? Yeah, man. It's sunny out. I'm not going to I'm going to jerk off in the gloom. Oh, yeah, dude. I don't know. I'm more like emo. I think I'm that dude. I'm that Tim Burton nut monkey, dude. I think I'm more like, you know, it's cloudy out. We got a 40% chance of nut. See, that's just depressing to me. But my dick's not going to give it its all. I'm, dude, my dick gave up. I don't think my dick ever even wanted to be a part in me and them in a partnership. But yeah, I agree. But on a sunny day, I'm jerking off the board is blessed me with this beautiful sun. And I'm going to be like, Oh, let me show you what I can do. Just add a little something to it. No, I want to be walking on sunshine, dog. Yeah, I guess you're right, bro. I want to add, I'm trying to ride that. Ride that high. Yeah, you ride, bro. There's different avenues to it for sure. First of like, if you jerk off after like, I don't know, 730 p.m. That's more that's more of a downer. I feel like that's supposed to relax you. That's to close it down. Yeah, I think so. Well, what did they tell you? What did they tell? Like, what was like, did you have any, did you try a CPAP machine or did you do all that kind of stuff to? Yeah, it's not a problem like that, dude. Honestly, they can't figure out the problem is, which drives me fucking crazy. I'm like, what am I going to do? I'm like, the one person in the world who has whatever problem I have with my brain doesn't seem possible. Right. Like, you're like, uh, awake squats or something. Oh, what? Awake squats. You're like, big foot, but it's like for like somebody that won't sleep or whatever. Like, if you're seeing him, he doesn't sleep or whatever. I think I have whatever Michael Jackson had. Maybe I've been a log or something. That's keeping me up. Is that keep you up? Maybe. Dude, I just saw the thing that he about when Michael Jackson went to Brazil. Can you bring that up? Dude, he did a lot of things that he like challenged the status quo. Like, he wanted to go to Brazil to the favelas to shoot. Which video was it? They don't care about us right here. A song by the American saying I'm Michael Jackson. This will release man. He was a beautiful Asian woman. Yeah, dude. I saw him one time when I was on stage. Um, we used to do the, there was a comedy club in Westwood. At I can't even remember it now. It was like Steve Bern was there all the time. Adam Hunter, like a lot of like great like comics, um, in the LA scene. Uh, Dane would come in sometimes. But out the window, I was on stage one time and out the window next door, there was a Oz costume shop, a H HHS, like, uh, and, uh, I don't mind up here. Yeah. I don't mind up here, dude. And he was, uh, and he pulled up in a with some security guards and got out and went in there there. It was like after hours, they let him go into the costume shop. No way. Yeah, you would open up the store for Michael Jackson. I'm on stage and I see, and I know he lived not far away. And it was just the craziest thing. I'm like, oh, that's Michael Jackson. And I'm on stage saying, because I can see out this window on stage. Uh-huh. And the audience can't see it from the second story. Oh, they think you're making it up. Yeah, they get you're like, you're a f**k at some guy. Yeah. And I'm like, whoa, it's just that soul Michael Jackson. He's really there. It's not my fucking sleep paralysis, dude, man. Yeah, dude. Yeah. So people that will just call you just that for anything now. Oh, I know. Um, what are we talking about? Sleep and then. Oh, yeah.
And what were some of the modalities that they, 'cause I'm assuming you went pretty deep down this hole trying to figure this out. - Oh yeah, do I have to take a break, right? - 'Cause you had to take a break for it at some point. - Yeah, man, I had to cancel shows and-- - Yeah, how many doctors for it? - I had like six doctors at some point. All doing different things and different categories or whatever. - Like what were they, were they taking your blood? Like what were they doing? - Yeah, I had blood tests, they checked all that kind of stuff. I was doing scans on my brain or whatever, trying to measure like what parts of it don't do and don't turn off that kind of thing. Apparently I'm normal, but I just cannot sleep, dude. It's awful. But yeah, I did have to take a couple of weeks off 'cause I like passed out on a way to a show and people were fucking pissed, dude. I mean, it was like an hour before the show was supposed to start but like I hadn't slept for like five days. What was going on, like were you manic? - Oh, incredibly, incredibly, dude. I mean, I'm up like crying between the hours of like 4 a.m. and 9 a.m. just because I'm like, I just wanna go to sleep, I'm exhausted and I cannot, I cannot shut my brain. I'm like journaling to like my fucking dead grandfather and I'm like, hey, man, send some sleep, dog. Something jerking off back to journaling, jerking off back to doing everything I can. And I was heading to the show and I like nearly fainted and like fell into the bushes and I was like, I cannot do this show, like I will not make it. Like I might even be able, I wouldn't even be able to sit down on the stool so we had to cancel the show. I'm laying in the hospital, I'm getting like death threats and people like in bars in Indiana being like, we hope Matt Wright fucking dies. And I'm like, I'm going to, dude. Yeah, people did not care. But I bet that's like Morgan Wanda's had a, they had a weather issue for his show. I saw that. But it's like, he's not a meteorologist, it's not up to him. Yeah, he's doing the best that he can and people just, they won't cut him a break. What's the magic? It was like a strong winds or something like that that I think they were. Well, he has a big set and it's like, you know, once if something falls, it's a tornado touches down in the middle of a concert and he didn't cancel it. Yeah, he's done, dude. He's, I think people die at the concert. Yeah, it's over. He can't be on stage, you know? Guess I'm the problem. And like people are getting hit by lightning. Of course. Get Twister touching down. Yeah, of course. That's great. There's a Twister throwing people up on stage. Yeah, man. It's like people are passing by you in the air. You can't please everybody, man. You know, he would have been saying to my man, people are flying. People are wishing they had sand in their boots because their fucking would be anchored down. It's better. It's like cut the guy some damn slack, man. He just wants to be, he just wants to do his best. Oh, he's fucking awesome. You know, I had Kyle dress up as him for the, for the AMAs AMAs that I was for. Yeah, 'cause they have me presenting and. Kyle's here. He's sitting here with his one of the best photographers. Yeah, he does all my videography. He does a great job. Yeah, I couldn't harm because you had him. Well, sorry. Well, if something happens. You could outbid me. You're up on the block, boy. Yeah, now look, I'm not saying I'd get one. I'll make sure I get a friend with him. I wanted to. They say you can't have him be alone. They're kind of like goats. We'll see about it, Kyle. They have, they have me presenting for it. They have me presenting in a country category. So I just wanted to do some kind of bit for it. And the bit was basically get everybody to be like, "Oh, my God. Morgan Wallen is here." Where was that at? This was the AMAs in Vegas. So he shaved his beard completely down. He had just the mustache and he had his big, whole mullet wig with a little hat down. He looked just enough like him. The bit was supposed to be that like the camera goes to him. It's so obviously not Morgan Wallen and that was going to be the bit. But he looked so much like him that people were like, okay, cool Morgan Wallen's here. Like a completely fucking failed because he looked so much like him. Yeah. Is that online? Yeah, yeah. I think I posted it on my Instagram. I'm sure. And all the country pages and stuff picked it up and everything. They're like, "Oh, Matt Rev. Takes a dig at Morgan Wallen." I'm like, "Let's complete opposite." I'm saying he's definitely too fucking good to be here. He is too good to be here. He's selling out the moon, dog. Yeah, dude. That's hilarious. He snubbed on so many of these awards. I don't get it. I don't think he cares about it. Well, I mean, what does it matter? You know, you know you're the entertainer of the year. Who the fuck else is doing multiple stadium shows? I agree. It's like, what is this? It's just for you. Yeah, you know? 100%. We're talking about ego earlier, right? It's just for the ego of these companies, a lot of these things. You know, they want to keep this idea that some select people get to decide who the entertainer of the year is. It's like, let the numbers decide. Oh, 100%. You know? It's like with the, they're trying to give a podcast in awards or something earlier. I think this is this year or last year. And like, do you want to be in the award? You have to pay to be, you know, you're, you've got to pay to be in consideration. They got you, they gave you a nomination, but then you have to pay to be, to see if you, if you, you'll be like one of the top five or whatever. That's so weird. And it was like, first of all, pay us to nominate you. It was, that was part of the edge of it, right? You have to pay to continue to be nominated. It's like, I can't remember who it was, but it was like, but that was part of it. And then they gave the award to like, I think it was Amy Polar's podcast, which is great, right? It was one of the most talented entertainers that there are. But if you're not given that award to Joe Rogan, then what are you, what are we even doing? Yeah, it's like, right? He wasn't even nominated for it because he didn't self-bid himself. Right. That's crazy. But it's like, if you're not giving it to, like, within what are we, we're just, we're, then we're playing some game of yours. A hundred percent. It's not a real thing. It's like you're playing algorithm in an award show. Yeah. Yeah. So it's like, I think a lot of people see through all this shit. Like, I don't, like, I want, give me something that's real, that's fine. I don't want something that's some made, I don't want to live in some made up type of thing where you decide who gets, who gets to be this thing. And that's why I think touring is so fucking awesome because it's totally in the hands of like your fans, right? It's, it is literally a physical, it's a, it's a physical, what's what I'm looking for? It's, it's proving that you have a connection with the people, right? Like those people are paying to come see you. That's harder than money that they saved up. They got a babysitter. This is their anniversary, whatever it is. Those people are coming to see that, like that success speaks for itself. If you can move people to come see you in real life, it doesn't matter what eight people voted in the middle of Hollywood and Nashville or whatever it is. Yeah. I agree, dude. Like that's the true success, I think. Just let it be what it is, you know, well, you know, I don't know. I think I also have like a, I get some angst towards some of that Hollywood stuff. I think I'll get it. I have a little bit of a chip in my shoulder about some of it and I don't even know while the time. Let's show this clip there right here. And you know, dude, Morgan could go, Morgan could literally go back in time before, before people even knew him, any people like I heard he's good, you know? Like for six. He could go to like 40 years ago and people with some have like, yeah, I heard he's, I heard that guy's good. Yeah, man. Bro, look at this right here, dude. Is this AI? You get accused of being an AI a lot? All the time. All the time. You got AI? Bro, you are AI. Yeah, I'm in Rhode Island right now. What the heck? I'd ever even realized it, dude. Dude, you're like my fucking hot lesbian aunt that's AI, dude. You have a hot lesbian aunt? Yeah. I'll turn her out, dog. Let's fucking go. I don't know. You guys look too similar though. Let me show this award show part. I think we can all agree that the current state of country music is some pretty good hands, right? Just tonight alone, we've seen Riley Greene, Keith Urban, and actually making his very first AMA appearance, Morgan Wallen is here. I'm kidding. Morgan Fallen, dog. Dude, he's my little off brand. That's crazy. Yeah, man. That's hilarious, bro. Yeah, we first, we realized he looked like this when he accidentally shaved his beard in Europe one time. We were fucking tearing him apart. I called him "Failer" in heart. You did, yeah. You accidentally shaved yours, Kyle? Yeah. That's hilarious. If he nicked a little piece of it and then shaved the whole thing off, we were like, I had to fire him for like three weeks, so I can't be around you right now. You know, a vulnerable neck. That's. Yeah, dude, that's crazy, bro. Dude, that's funny, bro. Yeah, it was a decent bit, but then almost everybody when I got home, we were like, oh, no, we actually thought it was Morgan Wallen, I was like, well, that wasn't supposed to be the bit literally at all. That's pretty, he's wearing my tour, he's wearing my tour cut off Jean Jack, a Reg Clash Trey's hat. I people can't see that good, dude. I'll say this if they, yeah, you had a couple of too many wiener pills, you're fizzing this bad. A lot of people thought he was Paul Rudd. A lot of people were saying it. All right. Wallah. Wallah. Um, am I able to get one more water? Yeah, let's get another water. Can we get one? All. Thank you so much. Yeah. Thanks, brother. Hey, we got that Michael Jackson thing here. I think I found it. Okay. Oh, yeah, this looks like, let me see. In 1996, Michael Jackson shot a music video in Rio de Janeiro, Favella's. The world didn't know that this historic shoot was only possible thanks to the approval of a drug trafficker. That's awesome. Yeah, the government said it was too unsafe for him to come, but he wanted to come and be around the people. Let me see. In 1996, Spike Lee's camera pans across the hills of Dona Marta, a Favella clinging to the city's slopes. Michael Jackson has come to shoot his video, but the setting of Far Cry from Hollywood Studios is no ordinary set. The governor of Rio is against it. The police refused to set foot in Dona Marta and yet the camera's rolled. That had to be pretty brave, bro. Yeah, man. I mean, to be that loved. Did it say that they looked out for him? I would imagine so. So when Michael Jackson arrives in Rio to shoot
In a favela, it's not the mayor or the governor who has the final say, it's Marcino V.P. The man hunted by police is also the one who ensures the king of pop safety. So he was the head of one of the most powerful criminal factions in the city, charismatic and ruthless. Marcino had established himself in a world where hierarchy is carved out, carved in fear and cemented by weapons. What set him apart from other hillbosses was a strange intellectual depth, almost unsettling from a man at war with the established order. I was just pretty wild that he wouldn't shot that thing. I feel like he could have did it in Burbank. Yeah, it does. But I think he, why don't we even start talking about this year, remember? Not a clue. Oh, I just mentioned that I was wondering what my sleep problems were. I had the same thing that Michael Jackson has. You said, hold on a second. Oh, man. We went on a 15 minute loop. Go back a little bit. The tent shoot. I just didn't want to see that part. The governor of Rio staunchly opposed Brazil is still dreaming of hosting the 2004 Olympics. There's no way they'll let the world see what's hidden behind the postcard beaches to show the poverty, the drugs, the bullet ridden walls. It would be bad PR. Jesus. He wouldn't shot it there anyway. That's so gangster. He did stuff like that, dude. The deal is clear. No money. Changes hands. No one of the table bribes. Just an agreement. Wow. That's awesome. Yeah. Wow, look at that, dude. Just to show up there. Be that close to people just who like would never have access to you. Right. Would never have access to you. And also there's probably, you know, you get in some dangerous neighborhoods. It's dangerous. Yeah. But I mean, it's not like the people he's getting approval from are like, nobody's going to fuck with you. We would be the people to fuck with you. Right. Nobody's going to fuck with you. That's awesome. That's awesome, bro. That's what I'm talking about. That's the people you like, if you're with the people, you're with the people. You know, it doesn't matter what these other like little, you know, fancy people say about this to that. I don't care. You know, say this to guys, the number one award winner of this guy's this or whatever, you know? The truth is the truth. 100%. So replacement for real life. Yeah. Anyway, sorry. I feel kind of in it. I don't know why I feel kind of animated about that. I like it. This is passion. Take me on a little bit more of so, so you bought this Ed and Lorraine's house. Take me on the house that you bought and what you guys have done with it. I know there was like articles going around that you guys were doing like, you guys had turned it into a haunted Airbnb where people could go and stay. It is essentially that yeah, we, we, we, we were approached by, um, by Ed and Lorraine Warren's family. Um, but they were going to sell the house and we were the first people that they wanted to offer it to and obviously we were fucking psyched about it. I mean, we have so much respect and love for their family and what they mean to the paranormal community, um, so I mean, to get to be a part of arguably the most prominent piece of paranormal history on earth, being the Annabelle doll in the Warren's house is, it's fucking awesome, dude. Um, and we got the house like as is like we have all their old clothes, all their old tape recordings. I mean, there's like, there's hundreds and hundreds of old recordings and letters from cases that never got turned into movies and TV shows and stuff like that. And it's so cool. Man, I mean, the house itself museum aside is fucking terrifyingly haunted, but there's like such a warmth to it like regardless of what they did and who they were and what they were around all the time, like, it still feels like such a cozy family home. So we've, we've opened that up to the public to be able to be stayed in as an Airbnb and it's attached to the museum, which holds, no, God, I think it's something like 700 artifacts or something like that in the museum as well as the, uh, the Annabelle doll. And take me through like, uh, just a brief synopsis of the family and the Annabelle doll for people that don't know. Uh, I mean, they're in the rain were the most famous ghost hunters pretty much in the, the history of it. I mean, they, they helped, I mean, I guess document it. I'm going to say a few hundred families and they were spousal. They were married. Yeah. Absolutely. Dude, yeah. Yeah, she was a psychic medium and Ed was, uh, was an author and, um, they, uh, they put a lot, a lot of good books and, um, but they helped a lot of fucking people and they, they're, I mean, they are the family behind like the largest scary movie franchises and the one between Annabelle doll, the conjury movies, amateurville horror, all that good stuff. And they, uh, how they help a lot of people, we said they helped a lot of people. Well, I mean, a lot of people dealt with like possessions and haunted homes, a lot of haunted objects and everything and they would go to help these families with either casting out the spirits via extra systems. Sometimes it was taking an item like the Annabelle doll off of the family's hands. And putting it in a more secure play stuff like that. So you have the Annabelle doll now? Yeah. It's pretty crazy. It's a pretty white thing to own. Yeah. That is, huh? Yeah. I mean, do you believe in ghosts? Yeah, I believe in ghosts, but I get scared about it because it's like, you know, if you go some and ghosts, if you summon like, if you look at it as like the devil, I think there's different ways to look at it. If you look at it as like a spiritual thing, like maybe something that's in between here and there, but if you look at it as like satanic, you're trying to summon Satan and that stuff is a little scary to me. Oh, yeah. I don't fuck with that stuff at all. Regardless of like, they're being a demon little attached to it and doll, like I don't fuck with it. Am I hanging out with the doll? That was a crazy thing. People, I mean, that's a very passionate community and it's one that I respect that I'm happy to be a part of. But people thought I was like, because I'm a comedian, that was going to like disrespect this doll. They thought I was going to turn this house into a fucking frat house and Annabelle was going to be crowdsurfing like a stretched out blow up doll. Oh, yeah. People always want to like think about stuff like that. Did you do anything cool with anybody like were you guys able to even like have it like bring her out to have like a tea or something? No, God no. We would never let her out of that box ever. We've only had to move the box a couple of times and I don't even I don't fucking touch that. Really? I let Elton and we have a couple of priests that help with that. Really? Oh yeah. I'm terrified of it. Wow. Yeah. I'm never there by the way. Like I'm not at that. People thought I was living at the house with Annabelle. I'm fucking never there. You're not. No. I check on Annabelle like I look for racism on Twitter. I'm like good. It's still there. Yeah. If it's going to exist, it might as well be like contains you know what I mean? No way to find it. Yeah. Wow. Bro. Yeah. It's pretty awesome, man. It's so fascinating to me. Do you feel like do you want to create more stuff around like horror genre? Like is that something you start to feel like because you said you're kind of at this space where it's like you're kind of thinking well, yeah, what else is possible and what else what I like to do in what direction. Yeah. I mean, on the entertainment side of things like I would love to develop some kind of like a horror project, whether it be a TV show or a film or something like that, but I mean, we're also even expanding in that space like we're we're moving the museum and expanding it to a location in Salem. Salem, Massachusetts. This I think it's going to be this September or August that it's going to open up. So I mean, there's a couple other properties that we could potentially be buying as well. I mean, I'm so fascinated by it. It is so new to me that I think it's very exciting. It's cool just to learn learn about it. And this creates a lot of opportunity for people to educate themselves on that world. People are fascinated by it, but they don't know a lot about it. So this is kind of like first-hand experience. Have you had like a super natural experience of your own? Oh, yeah, dude. Of all the investigations and stuff we've done, I'm have seen and heard so many things like I couldn't possibly explain. I mean, I've heard my name be say the guy for I've I like EVPs, which is like the voice recordings the most like to me. That's the most fascinating because I mean, it's it's audible. It feel it sounds tangible. You're getting a direct response to a question you asked like to me that feels so undeniable like I'm in the room. I know who else is in here. I know this hasn't been tampered with any kind of way to me that feels so that's close to undeniable as possible. Was there someone you were trying to talk to or was it I'm trying to think of the most prominent one? We were in I think this is Man's Field Reformatory in Ohio, I believe. Shout out Man's Field. That's what actually they filmed Shawshank Redemption. No. Yeah, yeah. It's fucking it's a really, really cool space. We were in what we used to be the old library we were asking like, you know, what what what this room used to be here loud clear as day library. No. Yeah. It's fucking terrifying. I mean, and the rain warrants house in the tunnel that goes from the house to the museum. Our friend was in there asking like, you know, do you mean us harm and you hear if possible. Crazy shit like that. But it's still so fascinating to me like I'm passionate about it because on a spiritual level it helps kind of reassure me that there is something else. Like I, when my grandpa passed away, I was, I had like this really big moment of like, okay, there can't just be this. There has to be something out there. There's no way I won't ever see this person again. So the fact that I can go communicate with like other what I assume are people or spirits of people to me that brings me like a little bit of warmth knowing that like, you know, maybe I'll, maybe I will see that person again and maybe, you know, maybe everybody gets to see their loved ones again. Yeah. Yep. Was that, did your grandpa passed away recently or now? It was, I think it's going on three years this October, maybe four, three years. Oh man, I'm sorry to hear that. That's all right. I appreciate it. I'm not very so young. Yeah, man. He was only 67. And I know. I know. Did he get pretty sick? Yeah, man. He had a, he had cancer, but it was like they found out of nowhere. His dogs pulled him on his leash and like pulled something in his like abdominal slash like ribcage a little bit and it was hurting him, it was hurting him for a while and it got worse and worse and he started coughing a lot more and everything. And eventually you went to the doctor and they were letting a whole scan of everything Emerald.
like dude, you've got stage four cancer, like lungs black. Yeah, so it was, he was, he was perfectly healthy like five months before he passed. - Dang. - I know. Was that scary like at the, were you guys really close? - Yeah, that was definitely, that was definitely like my best friend. Like that's, that was like my father figure growing up and everything. - It was? - Yeah, yeah, definitely. I'm asking every weekend of my childhood with him. - Every single weekend, yeah. - I definitely wouldn't have got him to comedy if it wasn't for him. - Dude, yeah, I almost used to hear daddy so young. - Yeah. - Gee, that's, it looked like a Zika baby. - Well, that's game. - Oh, I had a dome on him. - Bro, BLM dude. - I know. - That's what's up. - Yeah, he fucking, he loved comedy. He's the one who used to take me like the open mics when I was like 15 and he would pay like the five dollars ahead to like show, like bring your show shit. He would like buy five tickets. - Would he go perform? - No, God no, no, but he fucking loves it. - Did he get you into it? - You mean like physically? - Or like, why did he, he took you over there 'cause he knew you wanted to do it? - Yeah, yeah. - Like he thought I was funny. Like, we would fucking kill each other laugh every weekend my entire childhood. So it was really cool. He got to see me, he got to see me sell out a comedy club. I think it was the Cincinnati Liberty Funny Bone before he passed, which I think is the hardest part. It's like you, kind of like what we were talking about with Ralph, you earlier, it's like if there was one person I wanted to share all this with, it would have been him. It's the Bible, he doesn't get to see this kind of sucks. - He's out there, Steve, that's his name? - Yes, Steve. - What's up Steve? Shout out big Steve, my guy. - Oh, do he fucking love Ralphie too? - Did he? - Oh, dude, that's so cool, bro. He can hear us, I feel him right now. Steve's a little milling around, bro. With his 97 different haircuts. - Yeah, dude. - Bro, that was like the shortest it's hair ever was. He used to grow down to like his butt crack, dude. - Oh, yeah. - Total hippie hair, man. - Dude, a lot of people with name Rick have pony tails. You notice that? - Mostly Rick's and Steve's, I would argue. - Yeah, dude. - Yeah, man. - A pony tail is a Rick and Steve. - There's a power move, dog. - Yeah, bro. - Yeah, I was still like, I prayed on before every show and everything. Just be like, I hope you enjoy it. - Cause you enjoy watching. - Hey, man, bro. That's awesome, dude. - Thank you. - That's quality stuff. - I appreciate that. I'm gonna pivot a little bit. Some of your comedy specials, your first few came out on YouTube, right? - Yeah, yeah, put out the first two and then I did a crowd work one on YouTube as well. - And then did you do one on a stream, on a streaming platform now? - Then it was Netflix. Yeah, that did a natural selection for Netflix. - Did you feel any difference? Cause like one is more of, it feels like it's, it feels like it's more for the people. Like from, you know, just it feels like it's, did you feel any difference between like doing some that way and doing one for Netflix? - Um, I mean, you do a special for Netflix for like self validation to be like, I made it to what is supposed to be the pinnacle platform for comedy. But I think the difference was the YouTube stuff I did entirely like by myself. Like it was just my friends helping me. Like I directed the first one that I'd got Eric Griffin to direct the second one. I didn't even the crowd work one, which was like a totally experimental thing. I literally did it with me and my buddy Elton actually ran camera by himself, was me and one person did an entire crowd work special. So I mean, it was exhausting, but it was super, super fulfilling to like have a hand in a little bit of every piece of the creative for that. So I mean, I think it was different in that sense. Also the, the reach of viewership I think is different for YouTube and Netflix is not everybody has Netflix, not everybody likes Netflix. And you gotta have a subscription to it versus YouTube. It's so easy to share. Like I can text you a link, you go watch it right now. I mean, you could text that link to 10 other people. So I think you actually reach, you have a potential to reach more viewers on YouTube than you might on Netflix. Yeah. So I guess it's, again, like what does it mean to you? Right. Yeah, it's interesting, dude, 'cause yeah, I got one that's coming up, but I think about like, yeah, what I like to do it on Netflix. Yeah, okay. And we're just, I'm looking at a cut of it later today, but it's like what I like to maybe do one in the future that would be maybe just for YouTube. Yeah. That would be more just for like, you know, I do it myself completely, you know? I don't know. I just think about that sometimes and what that's like. Oh no, I battle with it all the time. I'm doing my next special, it'll be towards the end of the year. I can't really say when yet, but I don't know what I'm gonna do with it just yet. About 100% sure. It's different pros and cons, obviously. Yeah. And you're the place for it now where you can do what you choose. Yeah, absolutely. Which is pretty nice. Yeah, it's awesome. That you're out with fits best. You got kind of like pinned with like being the crowd war. Like your crowd work started to kind of like take clips and make it so that a lot of people were doing crowd work. Do you feel like that's kind of a true statement? Yeah, I would say so. I mean, I definitely wasn't like the first one to do it. Like Schultz was a big inspiration for me doing that. Like his crowd works fucking, he's amazing at that. He's so good at it. He was doing this thing that even maybe we want to start doing any of my YouTube specials where he was doing like a new minute every single week. Like he would post a new clip every single. That's 52 minutes of material throughout throughout the year. It was genius. And he was sprinkled crowd working with that as well. And I was just like, holy shit, I see the importance of content in the standup market. Which I don't think anybody had really been paying attention to, like you put out specials, but that's what's every year, maybe what's every two years. Yeah. But we weren't like comedians weren't being in people's faces all day. Like you weren't prominent on a platform and people kind of couldn't avoid you, which I think is, you know, prominent for the algorithm. Well, especially if you don't have, if you're not pod, if you don't have a regular podcast, like podcasting you do cause you just have clips, right? Of course. But if not, yeah, it's hard to find like what is that thing without doing a sketch or like planning this big thing? And that's why I like doing the bit of crowd work that I do a do in my show cause like it's new and refreshing, right? Like it's, I'm not doing the same stories and jokes night at the night that you have to deliver. Like it's your first time ever saying it. Like this is something so new and spontaneous that I can post online. It's not burning any of my material. Yeah, dude, I saw the one where you saw one of your teachers. Is that was that one of yours? You get a teacher that came? No, I think that was Trevor Wallace. Oh, that was Trevor Wallace. I think his teacher came. Sorry, dude. It's okay. It's fine. No. Yeah. No, I'm talking with you, man. I was like, yeah, I can't. I'm just kidding, man. That's okay. It's all right. I could try everything. No, not go it anywhere, man. Trevor impersonated you, though, I think it was, it felt like he was like trying to steal your shit. No, no. I'm just joking. No, I'm just fucking joking over Trevor. He would never do that. Well, he's the nicest guy. I love him. He's very, very nice. He's there. I don't know if there's, he is so nice, dude. But did you never feel like, like, then you had to be the crowdwirt, like, you had to do that? Yeah. It's a little bit of that. It's kind of, you know, I talked to Adam Ray about this recently, too, because, you know, he's gotten so prominent with like his characters that he does, with like Dr. Phil and Biden and everything. Wait, stepped into that and done it. It's unbelievable. Genius, by the way, to find, that's, it's such a specific lane that nobody else has been doing. Nobody. Um, I asked him, I was like, do you find people coming to your show and like, just wanting the characters and he was like, all the time, like, sometimes I'll be in the middle of a story in some way. I do growl work and I'm like, I'm going to fucking get to it if I feel like it, okay? It's not, that's not all this is, but like, I'm a goddamn jukebox. Yeah. It's crazy, man. But I mean, I do it because I enjoy it, you know. Yeah. That's like when I was in, like, when I was like, doing those wiener pills, it's like, get an erection. Are you like, I'm trying, man. Give me a few minutes. Yeah. Let me warm them up a little bit. Yeah, dude. Let me nibble off a frickin' chunk of my whoomage wiener pill at an angle. So you won't notice it's missing you freak. They're only frickin' five milligrams. Tablets. Do you, do you ever, when you're touring, like, do you ever do any growl work at all? I do some of it more often now and I really like it. It's just fun. It's just something silly and spontaneous. It gets a bad rat for people being like, oh, you're just doing it because like, you don't have the material, that's such a hack response to have to do it. Like that's, by what means does that mean that? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A few weeks ago and somebody yelled out, AIDS, right in the middle of the show. And it was just like, there's a woman, too. Jesus. And usually AIDS is more of a guy's thing or whatever. It's pretty good. Yeah. So. And what are you gonna not acknowledge it? I know, dude. I was like, oh, that's how bad things have gotten. I know. And it's like, people are yelling, AIDS. Dude, that's the other hard thing as well is like, venue wise now. The smaller venue I do, the more people yell out because they want to be the person that gets to talk to you. Like, they want to be the next clip. I'm like, it doesn't work like that. It's usually the least assuming person you talk to is probably like, you're gonna get the best shit out of it. It's not like the pick me person in the back. That's true, dude. It's always like that. A comedy club is like so intimate. We're all kind of like, we're hanging out in like a living room to where it's, nobody really wants to be like, the dickhead to interrupt. Like, that's kind of perfect. And an arena is so big that like, I think they assume they, you can't hear them, so they're not gonna waste yelling out. But like, anywhere in the middle ground, like a theater, people are like, I know he'll fucking hear me. Yeah. Well, you know, some wild shit. Yeah, dude. Yeah, dude. I think it's like, there is this weird thing where you yell because you kind of want to be hurt, but you do not want to be called on. There's some of that energy too for some people. Oh, of course. Like, you want to be a part of it, but you don't want to be a part of it. Oh, I love the person. I love like the, like the wife brought her husband and the husband didn't want to sit up front. She's like, what if he, what if he talks to me and the wife's like, it's not all about you, Ron. And then you end up talking to that guy. And he's like, this is my fucking worst nightmare. The wife's loving it. I love that dynamic. Is it ever backfire like, take me on with that backfire, was there ever been one that backfire? Because when you open it up to the crowd, that's another thing. Suddenly 40 people are, they want to have a, you know, they want to offer a suggestion. It's very hard to direct a room full of people who are like, okay, now it's my turn. So I mean, that, I mean, that does happen quite often. I mean, usually I'm pretty good at shutting it down and everybody can kind of be cordial, but it happens. But you also get duds. Like, you fucking, you interview people. You know, it's like to talk to somebody who, you can't hold a conversation.
conversation with. So I mean, that happens all the time. I'm not going to post that clip, obviously. So that's not magic every time. But when you do get it, it's such a fun feeling to have that moment right then, right there with people. Yeah. Do one time there was a guy in his wife, he had a wife or girlfriend, whoever it was, had the craziest, like, like tits, right? God, you couldn't think of tits. Okay. And they were so crazy. I couldn't even put it was hard to categorize them. They were so insane. Just, yeah, just he's just boom, bang, you know, just like some real, just on a monopeia's on it. Okay. Okay. Just like some damn fucking, just some milk tonsils, you know, just some, like L5S none, like you have no cartilage left from whole nose up. They were just, yeah, they were, you could just feel like one of, you could feel one of her vertebrae having trouble. God damn. You couldn't feel it. The Mendenbergs. Yeah. Yeah. She had them damn blamps and blamps. So anyway, dude, but they were craziest, like, and she, and the guy's like, I said, oh, what do you do? He's like, you know, I stock vending machines, you know, and I was like, and what do you guys put in him? And he's like muscle milk, you know, and he says muscle milk. But then you see where you think he's getting the milk from his wife just sitting out quiet with the craziest tits, like, oh yeah, acting like she doesn't have crazy tits. Of course. And she was wearing a little bitty hat. You ever see somebody like pins a hat on their hair and acts like it's a real hat? Broke. Yeah. Of course. Yeah. It's a fucking brooch. It's a little, it's like toy story hat. Like bitch, where are we talking? And did you address them? Did you address the titties? Yeah, I said, well, what now I said, well, where are you guys getting the milk from? Right? And that was just, and dude, there was nothing else to the rest of the night. That was like, there was just something about that thing that's in the moment where, and it was just simple. There was nothing I really had to do. Of course, it was just. So that just presents itself. Bro, I was in Philly. Yes, this was in Philly. And there's a guy sitting front row. He's got these like slack pants on and just had the most amount of dick sitting in the front of his pants. Like a quinoa. Yeah, man. Like a, like a seven dick pile up right in his own pants. He melted eight or nine dicks on his dick. Like it was, it was so prominent. It stopped me in the middle of a story. And I was like, you got, I took the camera off the camera man's shoulder, zoomed in on a placement foot. It looked like he shit the front of his pants. Like it was so much dick. It honestly ruined my night. I was, I was upset. I was insecure for the next 35 minutes. Yeah, dude. Oh, when somebody shows up with that step dad cock or step dad cock is such a real. As somebody who had a step dad, it's such a real thing. Oh, so mad. I wasn't his. Oh, a few years, man. I'd have been afraid to come out of that thing. No, that's step dad cock. Do you can't? That's why he doesn't have any kids, bro. A kid wouldn't make it out of that thing, brother. Oh, this is it right here. Biggest dick ever. Is this a video of it? It's probably a video. Yeah. And put your fucking dick away. I know the camera man. Don't zoom in. You don't have to. I can fucking see it, dude. He's smuggling. Unbelievable. The camera man just like wouldn't get the shot of it. And I was like, hold on. Why wouldn't he? Sometimes they're like three inches away from somebody's face and I'm like, get out of there. You have a zoom. Hold on, it's tangled up in his dick. Hold on, it's like, hold on. Look at this. You're moving the camera. Wow. Look at that thing, man. Big bro got that front yard. Oh, when it's coming out of your fucking stomach. Yeah, it looks like. Wow. Yeah, dude. That's a lot, man. Turtle neck dick is just a different conference. And he's wearing a turtle neck too. Yeah. No. Yeah, man. He knows what's up. That's insane. That's Christmas dick. If you wear a turtle neck holiday hog. Yeah, it's like pants, brother. Yeah. He knew he got it. That's not comfortable. There's no way. That's oh, no. That's all tight. So glad my dick isn't that big. Yeah. So glad about it. Yeah. Same, same. Yeah, man, you get some weird stuff like that. What about, are you married? You're not married. No, single. Okay. And do you start thinking about getting married or anything like that? Or do you even think about that kind of stuff? Or like, does your mom bug you about that? What's your mom doing in your life these days? Because she was giving you a hard time about working for Ralphie. What is this? She's still like a, have that managerial energy or now she kind of trust for your ad? No, she's, she's so happy with where I'm at, dude. I just got her her second house. What? Yeah. The first woman just wasn't working out. She was like, by herself in the middle of nowhere, Georgia. And she's like, nobody comes and visits. I'm like, no, shit. You live in the middle of nowhere. So I moved her out to Colorado where my sister lives. And now she has her, she's there with the grand, her grandkids and stuff. Oh, that's nice. Oh, you should try a couple kids. Yeah. She's got two daughters. Oh, that's your mom right there. What's her name? April April. What's up? April. You know, it's so funny. If you look at mom, Christina from Iowa is on the top thing. She's actually more prominent than my, my own mom and most of these. Really? That's her right in the middle. Christina top, top right corner of the blonde hair. And who is that? You're like, no, no, no. That was, that's, God, arguably probably my, the most famous crowd work thing was she's like, this really hot mom, actually grandma, who lives in Iowa. And I met her on say she gave me like these cookies and this like really sexual shirt and everything. And I bro, I was like 10 minutes into the show and this happened. I did like an hour and 20 minutes just talking to her. And it was crazy, crazy good time, the entire time. Like we were great chemistry, great band to the crowd was fucking loving it. But at the time, you can only post a 10 minute clip online on like Instagram and stuff. So we had to edit it all down to that. Like the whole show was that. Which never happens, by the way. Like that sounds like I didn't have material ready for the show. But like it was just such a really cool in the moment thing. And what's stupid, it's got over like I'm sure collectively over a couple hundred million views. Yeah, really? Yeah, it's awesome. No way. Awesome. Dude, that's the best for wearing Iowa. Was that a, um, Des Moines, the funny bone there. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, sometimes crowd work is, uh, it's different every time. That's the fun. You know, if you're going to talk to, you know, super hot mom or biggest dick you've ever seen or somebody, you know, somebody all crumpled up in the corner. You don't know. Yeah, it is kind of great. Oh, there she is right there. Yeah. Yeah, it is great to with crowd work. There's something really special about it. It's just real in the moment, you know, how do you get the, um, how do you get your cameraman now? Is you have a special cameraman who's who's like, uh, right there. Kyle, he gets you to do it all, Kyle. He does all the, he does all the crowd work stuff. Oh my gosh. Yeah. Let me do a little collaborative editing system together. Yeah, he shoots all of it. This was man, it comes to clubs. That feels like a lifetime ago. This is probably three and a half years ago. Maybe something like that. Wow. Maybe. I feel like a different lifetime ago. Um, are you off tour right now? Are you going back out? Is there any new places that you're going that you're a little bit like? Um, new places this year. Not like new, new countries. Um, we just got back from Europe, which is really awesome. We did, um, we did England. We went to Romania. Romania was fucking awesome. My friend just, you know, the second guest in a row that's talking about Romania. Really? My friend just quit playing basketball. My friend Patrick was playing basketball over there. What? Yeah. He's white. White guy. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Can I tell him a story? Okay. So we get to, we have like five weeks in Europe straight. This is night one of us landing in Romania of the whole trip. Night one, five weeks is a long time. It's a very long time. Night one, we're like, oh, we're going to go have some drinks. It's Friday night. We'll see what Romania is about. Kyle gets roofied and robbed the first night on tour. How do you know you got roofied, Kyle? I woke up in an ambulance 50, 50 minutes away from the hotel at 9 30 in the morning. My chain was gone. My camera was gone. They sent three grand on my debit card. Yeah. He couldn't like, remember, and they had like carry him through the lobby and everything. He was fucked up, dude. It was pretty fun. It was pretty funny. That checks out night one, dude. Night. Well, it was like, we got back to the hotel. It probably like four a.m. or something like that. And we're like, hold on. Kyle wasn't with us. I checked the location on my phone. He's still at the bar. We thought he had left earlier. So I'm texting with him. I'm like, yo, like do you want Jackson and I to come? You know, Jackson McQueen. Oh, yeah. He's so funny. He's hilarious. I was like, do you want Jackson? Well, come, come back and get you right now. And he goes, no, it's all good. I'm heading. I'm heading back to the hotel right now. So are you sure? He goes, yeah, I'm heading back to the hotel. Go to sleep. I wake up at 9 30 in the morning. My phone's ringing off the hook. And I'm like, fucking what? They're like, yeah, Kyle's in the back of an ambulance right now. It's like, no, fucking way. Can you communicate with him, Kyle? No, I can barely open one of my eyes. And I was, I knew I got beat up by strippers. I remember that. We're sitting. That's all I remember. Do you have a grill in right now? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. That's interesting. But we're sitting in the van day one after his recovery. It's all quiet. We're trying to ask a little things about. We're trying to give him some space. And he just goes, I think those strippers remain to me. It was so, so sombre. We're like, what does he? I think they pushed me down a lot. It was one of the meanest things I've ever heard. Wow. They say that specifically. I think they pushed me down. It was heartbreaking. Yeah. And all you got was that grill. The first part is dude. And just about taking the grill is hilarious. I'm going to leave them something. But dude, you did a show in Romania. Yeah. Romania was awesome. But two shows there. So cool. I guess comedy is like a new growing thing that's like people are starting to go and perform a lot more. If you get an opportunity, they were a fucking awesome crowd. I would love to go back. And do they speak it? Is there enough English spoken there? Absolutely. Everybody there speaks.
English for the most part. Oh, oh yeah. Dracula's castle. Is that close to Estonia, I wonder? Hmm. I mean, close-ish. I think Estonia's a little bit further north, I think. 'Cause we had Ari Maddie and he's at Estonia. Yeah, do Ari's the best. He's an A's, he's a tornado of comedy, dude. Europe crowds are fucking awesome, man. I would love performing overseas. Thousand miles apart. Yeah. Oh yeah, good time, dude. Sweden was awesome. Oslo was really cool. I love performing in England. And the crowds are so much fun. Oh, dude, yeah. We had some good, we did some good spots over there. Ireland. I got an Ireland's the best show of the tour every time I go there. They're fucking great. Scotland was amazing. Scotland. You can't crowd work in Scotland though, dude. Yeah, why not? I can't fucking understand them. Oh yeah. I'll say something, they'll say something back and I don't understand it. And the crowd is like, they're fucking cooking me, dude. And I have no idea what they're saying. Yeah. It's legendary over there. What's up? What's up? What's in the news, dude? Anything in the news that we wanted to look at? Oh yeah. Anything good to talk about? Oh, what do you think about these data center and stuff? Do you think about that kind of stuff? Like, is that kind of crazy? I just had to help stop them from putting in one in Rhode Island. No worries. Yeah, they had like a whole town hall meeting and everything like that. You went to it? I couldn't go. But my friend went and spoke on my behalf, which was very nice. She was very passionate about it. And I mean, she had my proof, like I couldn't agree with her more. It's just, it's so peaceful out there. It's gonna, it's just fucking up what we have, man. I mean, I don't know too much about them. I'm not even gonna pretend like I do. Yeah, for sure. But the one thing, the most prominent thing that stood out to me because it wasn't going to be that far from my house was there was going to be like a non-stop humming coming from the building. I was like, I don't, I love the, I love like in your birds outside, dude. Yeah. Yeah. Well, especially, yeah, like something just humming in the distance, dude. Yeah. It passes data center, moratorium and consumer protections as environmental and housing proposal stall. So what data is going into these things? Why, yeah, why do the data centers need to be so big? Do we have anything about that? This is perplexity. Data centers are built for continuous operation, power cooling, and network password duplicated. So a failure of maintenance of it doesn't drop workloads, having parallel systems and physically separated paths. Well, my thing is just this, like, so we already keep keeping a lot of data, right? Like our phone, we record stuff all the time. It's on the cloud. The amount of data that they must want to store now must be astronomical compared to what we're doing. Yeah. So that's what I don't understand. Unless we're going to go into like a surveillance state, right, where which is, that's what it feels like a lot of times. It feels like they already are, right? Because then they're going to have to record around the clock everywhere, everything. Yeah. And it's going to put these, they're just going to put these storage places and random places around the country. That's so strange to me. Yeah. Aaron Brockovich, I know was just talking about it. I want to get someone on to talk about some of those data centers just to learn a little bit more about it and what's going to be going on. Yeah. Let's see what this says right here. This tech billionaire Oracle CEO, Larry Ellison confesses a dystopian AI master, valence network. Citizens will be on their best behavior because we're constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on. And it's unimpeachable. The cars, the cars have camera, you know, cameras on them. All right. I think we have a squad car here, someplace. But those kind of applications using AI, we can use AI and we're using AI to monitor the video. So if that altercation had occurred, that occurred in Memphis, the chief of police would be immediately notified. It's not people that are looking at those cameras. It's AI, this looking at the camera. No, no, no. You can't do this. It would be like a shooting. That's going to be immediately, that's going to be an event that's immediately, an alarm is going to go off and we're going to have supervision. And there was every police officer is going to be supervised. It's going to be wild. What the fuck, man? I mean, if you play that beginning part again, if you play the first 20 seconds, what does you say this one part? Because we are constantly reporting. It sounds like they're going to be reporting to do, that's the thing. It's so fucking weird, dude. I mean, do we have to be watched all the time? I don't know how we can stop it now. That's the scary part. Why do we need it? I mean, I understand they're pushing the agenda of safety, but we have to, how much safer is it going to get? Is it just going to be for accountability, you think? I think that's, it's like, and also, there'll be a level of control there because, yeah, I would say so. Yeah. If you don't do certain things, then you're entering this space, well, you didn't do things the right, the perfect way, this exact way. So then what are the repercussions of that? It's fucking weird, dude. I don't even, I don't even want to live in this time, to be honest. I know. It feels just kind of like, it's too futuristic. It's too, it's too invasive. When would you have liked to have been alive? If you could, like, pick a couple of decades, do have been like, oh, prime you. I think probably born in, because I think you, but part of you does, I feel like one it kind of, it's weird, you want to know how it, you want to be a part of the world in the sense you want to like, you, you hoped that the world ends well, because otherwise you feel like, what's the point? I think that starts to happen. Yeah. You, for me anyway, I'm like, you want to, I feel like our, for past generations, I feel like our, let's leave it better, we're, we're all building towards something. And then now suddenly, I feel like we're all standing in a cul-de-sac and we're like, what the fuck are we building towards anymore? Our grandparents are like, doing only fans out there, like, we're checked out. We don't care. It doesn't even matter to, like everybody, like, I do feel that way. Some of that energy is like, what are we doing? Yeah, I don't know what it looks like, a generation after this one, you know? I have no, I have no idea what that looks like. Yeah. I think I would have, I would have liked to have been born, maybe like, 60, 1960, grow up in the 70s, and then you're a young adult in the 80s. I think the music culture alone for that would have been fucking awesome. Oh, it's great for film. Everything was magical. I've heard good things. Yeah, everything was magical. And then you get to see how dystopian it's getting and be like, yeah, I'm glad I'm, glad I'm leaving. I feel so weird being like the last generation of people who wasn't, like, chronically online. Like, I didn't, this isn't young for some people, but like, I didn't get a cell phone until I was like, I think I was almost, almost 15, something like that. It's like, I still got the childhood of like, I got the privilege of boredom. Yeah. I think that's good for your brain to be a kid and have nothing to do and have to figure it out. How to entertain yourself. Go, go make up a game. Go play pretend. Go walk around. Throw something through somebody's window. Yeah, yeah. We have a little break some shit. I think that's good for you. Take your mom came in and you're like, you got arrested, you're like, yeah, I don't know. What else was I supposed to do? Yeah, I threw something through someone's window. I didn't know it would break. Just shit like that. Like you just didn't know anything. And I think that I think it makes you a better person. Oh, dude. So now wandering around just bored, hoping something would happen. A car drove by you just watching it go by. Just watching it, dude. Looking on your floor and like hoping your mom wouldn't come home soon, but also hoping your mom would come home soon. So somebody's around. Yeah. Here's some racket. Yeah. I think that's good for you, man. That's gone. People will never have that again. Taking a thousand naps. If anybody came to the door, you would go talk to him. I mean, there was like a, you know, a, like a registered sex event or whatever. Didn't even matter. You keep the chain on to keep them out, but you still at least talk to him because it was somebody to talk to. Of course. And they were charming. Yeah. Yeah, they were good at what they did. And then we're having to like ride your bike across town to see if your friend was home and they weren't. Oh God. And you just had to go back. Yeah, dude. Across town. You bike the miles. Oh. Across grass. Dude. It was. Yeah. Oh, dude. Yeah. You'd find a new way to go. What is this video right here? We'll watch this and we'll get you out of here, man. And he got a show to know. Okay. You heard about these flock cameras. Oh. These are like some of the early cameras are going up everywhere, mass surveillance public safety. They are linked to the new AI data centers. Let's play it. You won't believe the stickers I found. Somebody's putting these buggers up on every flock camera in town. Now enough people know that these are not just license plate readers. These flock cameras build profiles on individuals that are walking by and in vehicles. They use things like gender, clothing, behavior, and even biometrics to build profiles on you for their Nova platform, even integrating social media profiles, email data and places that you go. And flocks data feeds directly into volunteers got them, which already powers ice deportation. What if this is GTA 6? Like they're scanning everybody in real life in the real world, everybody's going to be in the game. That. That's why it's not out yet. And that first of all is the excuse that they need for why it's not out. And two, that would be absolutely amazing, dude. I mean, they just change a little feature about you, but you're like, you know that's you. But in the future, they could do that. Some of these companies could then license.
You're existence somehow where you add in certain areas into a video game like that and that gets kind of crazy, dude That's pretty sick. Yeah. Let's finish out here. Let me see. Floch cameras have exploded across the US because they're cheap turnkey crime fighting tools that let even small Departments tap into a national vehicle tracking network Floch still subscription packages that include the hardware cellular Backhole their cameras continuously capture plates time stamps and vehicle metadata Pushed it to flocks cloud where cops can run searches and set alerts on hot list Floch has marketed directly to police HOAs and private business centralizing all plate reads By 2024 25 the company said it had cameras and roughly 4,000 plus cities in over 5,000 communities So bro it's here. Oh, it's already in it's done. That's the new Annabelle dude And she's out of the box Matt rife man, um, you have your new to your garnitor. I'm on tour right now. Yeah, okay. Stay golden tour. Hey, man Bro, we'll go through the rest of this year. So should be fun. Yeah, there's fun cities ahead nice back here in Nashville in October for Bridgestone. Okay. Yeah, you're a town for you gotta come through dude dude. Yeah, I will be in town my friend Is somebody dying or getting married with something October 10th? Yeah, so it's happening. It's my grandpa's birthday. It is that's creepy Damn, that's creepy. Shout out to you. Stay Stay Bro, yeah, thank you. Congrats. Everything FTX is coming out. You don't know when yet FTX series comes out this December and it's called No, it's called the altruist the altruist that'll be on Netflix and then we've got the movie with Owen Wilson coming out in October So I'll be some nice little end of the year. Oh rolling loud the movie. That's what it is. Yeah. Yeah, dude. That's crazy, bro What do you play in this movie? I Play his His work colleague who happens to also be at the festival is like a big festival head and he helps him look for his lost son in the festival So it's just me him and his girl Christine Coe who's a hilarious actress. She was on Dave Yeah, so we kind of help him look for his lost son. Amen, bro. Yeah dude. Um best of luck man congrats on everything, dude Thanks for stopping by and spending some time with me bro. It's a pleasure. I know we've been trying to figure this out for some years now So thank you for finally making the time. I appreciate it It's a blessed man. Your life seems active and busy. It seemed like you stay active in your own life as much and just you know Show up for yourself and get things done. That's exciting. It's inspiring. Thank you, man. I appreciate that. Yeah, it's truth Matt Rife Thanks, brother Fear it
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