Jimmy O. Yang w/ Sam Morril & Mark Normand - We Might Be Drunk Podcast

(upbeat music) - We're rocking. - Yeah, let's do it. I'm gonna throw this on a silent. - Hey, what a pro. - You know, I gotta stay professional here, man. - Hey, you got rid of the glasses. - No, it's gone. I got this, it's better and lacy. They put a permanent contact lens in your eye. - Whoa. - And that's fully fixed. - Holy shit, you got the hair thing, you got the eyes. No one's gonna have ailments anymore. - That's true. - I know. - Although, they can tell when a kid is down syndrome, and now they're gonna be extinct. - That's happening. - Oh, 'cause they can check his DNA before the fetus. - Yeah, when it's when it's cooking, they're like, oh, this one's-- - Yeah, they won't be, 'cause there's still pro-life people out there. - Oh, that's true. Well, they'll be less. (laughing) - What you said, you know? - Yeah. - That way I see it, you know what? (laughing) Just saying. - In the first three minutes, Mark, I doubt it. - It's funny, you can't say the word, but you can get rid of one. (laughing) - Good to have you. Welcome to New York, baby. - Dude, thanks for having, man. This is very exciting. I'm a big fan of both of you's and the podcast, yeah. I guess we've never met. We've met. - Yeah. - I'm sure. - Sure, yeah. - Somewhere, when we heard you're coming, I was like, oh, cool. I really don't think we've met. Maybe we've met at the improv or something, maybe. - It feels like we've met. - It feels like-- - By love how honest we are, we're like, nah, I've actually never seen you in real life. - I don't know. - Yeah. - You've got to shang less here. (laughing) - Better in Bobby Lee, I guess, you know. - It is. - I'll take either. - Yeah, sure. - I'll take either. - Is that a grand saco? - No, this is what that's racist. (laughing) This is, it's just a Rolex, you know? - Sorry. - I was trying to get in the watch out. - It's an old Rolex, yeah. - Oh, yeah. - It's a good looking watch. - Thanks, man. - No, that's dope. - Thanks, thanks. - What are you doing in New York? - This is my first time spending any real time in New York. I've been here, done shows, couple days here and you're staying in a hotel. I'm actually shooting a TV show for Netflix here for six months. - Whoa. - So I'm here until December, loving it, man. - What show is it? - It's called The Roman. It's, you know, Martin Scorsese's Casino. So he's a producer on this, although I've never seen him. - Oh cool. - And it's about us running a casino in Vegas. - And they're shooting in New York. - We built a whole casino in our studios here in Brooklyn, yeah. - Whoa. - I guess it's cheaper to shoot in New York now than in Vegas that doesn't have the tax break. - Right. - Yeah. It's Oscar Isaac. - Come on. - Yeah, he's dope. Super dope. Alex Baldwin. - Whoa. - Yeah. - Yeah, he's dope. - He's always shooting. - Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, yo. I find it sad that he was such a movie star. I mean, he still is, right? But then any young people I tell anybody, like under the age of 30, all they know is that incident. - What did happen recently? - Yeah, which is sad. I'm like the guys in movie star. Have you seen "Hunt for Raddle" tober? - Yes, Beetlejuice. - Glenn Green, Glenn Ross. - Come on. - I heard he rock. - Wolf Hope. - Oh yeah, here you go. Here's all of us. Kate Mara, Vincent Nafrio, Jason Schwartz. - Jesus. - It's a great cast and everybody's an adult. Everyone's lovely. And it just, it's just a dope shoot. - Yeah. - Good mix and match of people. You don't really see Schwartzman and Baldwin together. - Yeah, "Coppelman" and "Lavine" wrote it. - Oh, I think this is awesome. - "Rounders", "Billions", - Yeah. - "Real Bros", man. - Do you see a gambling addict? - He looks gambling shit. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - He plays in a poker game. - Okay. - He's a big poker guy. - A poker game. - Yeah, yeah, there you go. - Is that even, is that even the right, is that even him? - Yeah. (laughing) - I don't know. - That's him, dude. - He changed, I mean, he doesn't look like that no more. - Is that a grand sake, go, and let's all get him. - That's what they told us. That's a, oh wow. He looked a lot different back then. But yeah, I'm having a great time on the show. - That's sick. - And I know. And I think this is the best place to be on a show. You know, number like five to 10. I'm like number six on the show. I show up twice a week. - Oh. - You know, I can do stand-up, I can do this. I can focus on all this stuff as well as just having fun on the show. - What are you doing sets around town? - Not quite yet. I popped in at the New York Comedy Club. Last time I was here, I popped into the cellar. And then this time I went back to the cellar. The motherfucker didn't even let me in the door. It was hilarious. You guys know the vibe. - I know. - We had that at the college. - Hell is worse. - Is that right? - Hell is worse. - It's still, like I've done comedy for 18 years now. It's still my worst fear to show but a comedy club. - Sure. - And the guy does, it just takes one guy who not know who you are. Like, when I'm like, "Hey man, I just want to go watch the show." And he's like, "You have to be invited down here." - I'm like, "Yeah, you just want to show up." Hey, Netflix, Silicon Valley. - It was a whole thing. - Like, do I have to wear a IMDB resume shirt? He let me in. He was like, "Wait, wait, aren't you on crazy rotation?" And I'm like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah." He's like, "Yeah, yeah, just come hang out." And I talk to him later. He's like, "Yeah, so some other comics are telling me." So you really, you sell out like clubs, huh? I was like, "Aurina sometimes." But, you know, "Fuck off, you know." So sometimes it depends the city. - And his defense, I feel like any Asian guy go, "I'm in crazy rich Asian." - No, next question. His next question was like, "You friends with Ronnie Chang?" I'm like, "Yes, yes, I don't want to miss." - Yes. - Yeah, we love Ronnie. - Yeah, I love Ronnie. - Yeah, he's a man. - Damn. - Boy, I got checked. I got checked at the seller. I was like, "I feel like every time, for years, the comedy store just, they gave us no love." - Oh, really? - It's like immigration over there. You got to show them papers. - You're right. You know? - You know? - I mean, the detention center. It's humbling. I'm no ego anymore. I used to get like super butt hurt. - Yeah. - Let me go back and then fucking show them. You know, I'm like, "Who cares? Just one guy." - Exactly. - Yeah, it's weird when you can't take it personally. Who cares? Yeah, look at that. You're playing these venues. Who gives a show? - No, I eat with my dad. Yeah, on the biggest show, I was like, "I bring my dad on stage." - You got to show him you made it. - Yeah, I know. He's-- - For your dad's an actor now, right? - Yeah, I put him in a couple of things. He was in a space force set on an episode I wrote. Great actor. He was opposite John Malkovich. Not nervous at all. - Oh. - Crazy. - Why was he not nervous? - I don't know. He's a narcissist, probably. (laughing) He just got the right amount of ego to be an actor. - Right, you know, I think to older people, acting isn't work. They're like, "This is not a job." - When they grew up and used to have that great bit about, it's like it's not a real job because children do it. - Yeah, yeah. - You don't need a child mechanic. - Great point. - It's a great bit. - Great point. - Yeah, that was in Macau. It was in an arena in Macau. - Wow, look at that. - Wow, that's massive, dude. Look at you. - It was my first time playing Asia last year on my tour. I'm like, why did I not do this five years ago? - Are you bigger in Asia than here? - And I mean, I grew up in Hong Kong, right? So that was like my homecoming. It was the perfect storm because I still speak a little Cantonese. I ended up shooting my last special in Hong Kong. And the whole crowd speaks English, you know? But I mixed in some Cantonese and I just thought it was something interesting. - Definitely. - Something different, you know? - Did they get the reference? You know, if you do an Uber joke, do they have Uber? Like, how's that work? - Yeah, certain things have to like change it up. And then certain things I'll say in Hong Kong, like the horse racing cultures, certain days you don't go to restaurants because the chefs are betting on horses. That might not translate here, but I think it's like when enough people laugh. - Right. - You get it. You almost want to research it more. Like when I back in the day, when I used to watch George Lopez's standup and some of it, his punchlines are in Spanish. I'm like, I don't understand that, but I get it. - Yeah, yeah, remember you opened for Jim Jeffries years ago and he would be extra Australian. And he was like, I think that sets me apart. - Oh, really? - I remember he said that. He's like, I do Australian references 'cause then the audience is like, wow. This guy, we're seeing something different. - Yeah, I like a novelty in a way. - Yeah, exactly. - Jim is great. So prolific. - Right now. - Always an hour, every six months, or whatever, I don't know how he does it. - Enough, enough. - He can talk. He writes differently than us. He'll just like talk in a bar and people, and I could see him like taking note where people are. - Yeah, I think. - And I'm like, oh, that's gonna be in the air. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. More only is that cool to like just tell a story on you, like to your friends, but you actually testing material. - Only if it's entertaining. - That's true. - If it's not entertaining, then you're just an asshole. - Yeah, no. Yeah, I realized that's much more effective than you know, writing stuff down. I kind of can't sit and write for like hours anymore. - Really? - You prolific. You got multiple special, what, three now? - Yeah, three. I'm working on the fourth one. - Look at that. So if you come from somewhere. - Do you already know where you're gonna shoot the fourth? - I think, yeah, yeah. I'm planning my tour for 2027. It's gonna start in like, end of January, and I saved a couple cities that really like towards the end of the tour. I think Seattle probably gonna be it, but-- - It's a good one. - We're getting quotes. I think the Paramount, is that sound right? Is that? - The more and the better. - The more is it. - The more is it. - I think my first special at the Neptune, amazing. I couldn't believe like the reactions. - Seattle's a great comedy city. - Yeah, it is. And it's the perfect, it's the right amount of Asian for me. - I think it's a little much. (laughing) - But no, no, it's true. - You factoring like, I don't want this to be like an Asian takeover, but I want a lot of Asians. - It's both. So the last special, I shot in Hong Kong. I didn't plan that many Asians were in Hong Kong. But it was my love letter. It was called finally homeless me going back home for the first time after 25 years. So I just told them the ad cameras and I went home, took the whole hard drive home, edited it my guy. For like six months, shout out Marcus Rayboy. - Oh, I know, Marcus cool. - Yeah, he's the best, right? And my goal, my editor. But this one, I want it to be more. I mean, that was universal to this last special, which is on Hulu now. 'Cause it's about going home. You don't have to be from Hong Kong to understand a feeling of coming home or losing touch with your hometowns and the people in the language. But the next special, I want to put on Netflix and it's going to be more universal, I think. I'm still obviously going to talk about my family, but intentionally I'm going to make it broader. - Nice. - Okay, yeah, I went to China, did a whole run there. Couldn't sell a ticket. - Really? - But I did okay in Beijing, weirdly enough. - I just did like all over Europe. It's great to just. Places you never would have gone right learn so much everywhere you go. You're like I didn't fucking know this it's nice Yeah, grab grab. What is it Zagra? Zagrab, but I mean I heard you didn't learn that I guess Yeah, no Croatia awesome. Yeah, you just even just strong on a city hidden a few museums like what you're just like holy shit I you know, it's good. It's good for your brain. It's a real big You write a lot in moot like you feel like sitting down writing. Yes, movement is like good 100% Bourdain always said that keep moving. Yeah, totally. Yeah, yeah, yeah, like the absorption of it I feel like you need to absorb absorb and then it comes like if I'm sitting down at a part like I'm sitting down my office I'm trying to write It never comes like but when you absorb enough I think then it starts to permeate a little bit. Yeah, do you feel sometimes like with stresses once you just like like I feel like we have to manage so much now as comedians like business social media all this shit that sometimes when I just forget I'm like I don't give a fuck someone's the floodgates just open. Uh-huh when I have to think about like a flight or this or that Like when I have to manage all these things like oh fuck did this today add this thing in the special but they do this once I just let go. Yeah, sometimes shit just comes out 100% holding on to so much. Yeah, and like it's almost like making a friend You know what you try really hard like I like this guy. I'm gonna make a friend with this guy He's like all right, all right, but then he just let it happen. It's natural. I think it's the same with jokes I totally agree like with this last special I edited it myself with my guys, you know The subtitles have to be done in English Chinese and then you know once we put on Hulu There was a technical issue because of the subtitles was in it was a whole I was so stressed every separate way about the release of this Yes, I released it theaters in Hong Kong and the limiter release here even getting that going. There's no money in it by the way You know, I did with just like a prestige thing. Yeah, I just thought it would be cool And I want to like really like put Hong Kong on the map, you know, I mean like and it did really well in Hong Kong movie theaters It did pretty good here movie theaters, but it just such a like pain in the ass like is it gonna show well at I max right? Subtitles pretty high max. Yeah, why I had a premiere in Hong Kong and the Emperor theaters shout out to them in I max But it was nerve-racking. I'm like this wasn't shot in I max It was shot in 4k, but is it gonna look soft in some areas, but looked great But the whole time I was so stressed during that premieres of theater full of my families friends, you know and just fans Right, but the subtitles was given away the joke because it was going too long And then the next day I have to go to this dude who's the subtitle guy in Hong Kong just his apartment, right? I spent like three hours with this guy I'm like cut here. Okay, this next like subtitle has to be the next line Yeah, and then all that and then and then worry about the social media clips Okay, now now it's coming on Hulu. How many how much social media clips should I put on how much how many minutes should I put on YouTube without giving it away? Sure, and then what's the next step? It's just it's a pain in the ass. These networks. They put out a promo and you're like That's the bit you picked that's got no context. It's got a callback. So I'm not gonna get that Like in like a you know, I think like why do you add a you know it? End of the end of the joke. Yeah, there's so much little things that try to be crazy Yeah, the blurb is so cringy. Oh, I guess soup brain. Oh, sorry, sorry. Well, I know Jimmy O' Yang tackles the you know Noodle situation. Yeah, and then I get super anal about all of these little things I even a trailer you know goes to approval usually people their team just approves it I look at every single thing and I have them go through I'm sure drive people crazy But I think it's comments who works so hard on these jokes. Yes And now it's finally out like you you need it to be perfect. It's different stuff Like back in the day, Mark and I talked about this our first hour specials on comedy central You'd have to do a 55 minute version a 40 version a 40 minute version because we're editing for like limited commercial break And you're just like which tag of my joke do I kill I know it was so painful. You're like I guess I cut this joke This I don't and do you guys edit all you like are you super handsome? I hit it right now with the guy. Yeah Yeah, you should have done it more I kind of was like this is a set this is the one I want and then just this joke This joke that I didn't like in this one for the most part. I let a guy do it. You know I hate watching myself. I hate it. It's the most painful thing But I have to like even the angles to cut I I'm I'm involved in every single cut. Otherwise, I just don't I'm gonna regret it later You should be involved. It's your vision. It's your set. You know the set but anybody at least with standup You at least already kind of hate most of these jokes at this point if you're taping a special I'm editing a movie right now and it's like becoming less and less funny to me I'm just like I can't I'm I've seen in our hundred I can't you know, I need to test it. You need to test it. Well, I was a family in 5-10 people I'm going to I'm taking it to Hong Kong. I'm X. Yeah, yeah, there you go. Yeah, no, I'm gonna test it for sure You know what the all-time worst is you ever do a tonight show. Uh huh. You have to send a transcript And you're writing out word for word your joke. They're like this sucks. There's nothing funny about this Oh, you know you can sing a point. You have to do that. I'm sure China today like you have to send it to transcript You have to write out your whole set your whole set word by word and sing up or two and then I don't I don't do it I'm like just here's my set of recorded 60 minutes and Milwaukee just translate a sentence to them And I'm not gonna say a word perfect. I like sorry right right and they're okay with it. They're pretty I mean, I don't say anything crazy controversial or anything, you know, so I think it's fine No, you got an Asian voice. It's a little hurtful. That's you I'm bother you and your family really take offense today, but you got the coolest story, man Your store your life is a movie. Yeah, I mean moved here from Hong Kong to L.A. It's 13 or 13 years old You know, you got L.A. Yeah, what a what a culture. Yeah, how did that? How did you focus a sudden L.A.? Hey man It was it was because my grandparents was already here because my aunt married and Chinese American guy Oh, okay, it's like that chain migration stuff right little by little the whole family started coming here So my family was like the second wave But when I was 13 I I could barely speak English. Wow. I learned English on the books how kids here would learn Spanish Right, but then when I got to school people were talking way too fast I'm like what what I thought I knew English. I mean, that must have been so hard. Yeah, yeah, it was tough Not just to learn but to make friends, right? Oh super hard Um, and my squad won a John Burles middle school. They were Asian kids, but they were Korean. I'm like American born Koreans and they didn't even really want to be associated with me because I was like so foreign We forget about the Asian racism. Yeah, we don't speak the same language and by hanging out with me They look more foreign. So why would they want that? So I get it Um, and I I may friends with a lot of Mexican kids because I grew up playing soccer and And you know, just sports was a big thing. You know, I was like really small, but I could like shoot a basketball So and then they threw me in a ESL classes. Oh sure ESL classes all foreign kids. I may friends with this Nigerian dude This Mexican guy that Sri Lankan guy. So that was like my first friend group This is a movie. This is gold. How do you have zero accent? Because I have friends who are born here Yeah, I mean, and they have an accent. I tried really hard. I never had like a full-on Chinese accent because I grew up speaking three different Chinese dialects So it's like shanghai nice for my parents Cantonese, which is a different accent. They're Mandarin. So I think between that I got a pretty good ear Yeah, and then when I got to America like I was American maxing right like I was trying to listen to as much hip-hop as I could So by the time I was like a sophomore junior, I kind of had like a hip-hop like black sent Sure, and I didn't know that was like not okay I was just trying to not be foreign. Don't say that word dude stuff. Yeah And then by the time I got to college I started watching a lot of sopranos So I almost had like an East Coast accent like a Jersey accent, but I never lived in Jersey, I see so it was just like trying to Mask, you know, yeah foreign accent. Are there any verses you have memorized to this day? No, no, no Making fucking ramp. What are you doing? I got to but I was a big fan of like JZ Snoop Dogg two-pog like all of that West Coast stuff. Yeah, I guess JZ's not JZ's not but uh, yeah, so you American culture just like that's amazing when you take like a little bit of everything you just lose an accent Yeah, yeah, and then and then this time when I went back to Hong Kong I forgot how to speak Cantonese. Oh, geez I forgot how to read and write Chinese. There's one of the jokes in my special is I found my diary that I wrote when I was nine years old all run perfectly in Chinese and I couldn't read a single word of it That's crazy. I don't have one handwriting. I have to give him my dad did like translate it. You know, which is a nightmare. Oh, oh god My first boner. Hey dad Geez. Yeah, wow, it's crazy. What happened to Ronnie Chang? He sounds like a cartoon character He has an accent in any language that he speaks. I was saying Chinese to him and he still has a Ronnie Chang accent Okay, so he stays consistent. All right. No, well you watch old movies and people are from different places You watch an old like French movie and you're like that's like a German French accent. Right. Yeah, people have different accents Even in the 40s, we had that what do they call it the mid-Atlantic mid-Atlantic? Yeah, I was like ah see I told them broad to come back at midnight Oh, do nobody sounds like that now do there's it there's an old clip of Young children talking about Babe Ruth. I know if you've ever seen the way they're talking like that voice isn't fucking exist anymore I know it's adorable. They're like I babe Ruth was a he was a real man Like oh, that voice is gone. You didn't even hear the New Yorkers much anymore like no way. I'm walking here That's kind of over now. Now it feels like you're like you're trying to do that. Yeah, yeah exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah Boston might be going away too. Yeah, it's all pretty homogenous. That Boston's not going away. Yeah, all right That Boston's here to stay, I think I hope so British English. Oh, this is it. This is crazy. These kids And I wish they come back to me Babe Ruth decided to break like that and I think you make good in Boston Because she's been such a great character and I think it's like very New York, but old timing. Yes Yeah - He wants to know how to get that. - You also don't see a kid looking like this anymore. - She's gonna rub it. - Oh, they had hard fucking lines. - Oh yeah, oh yeah. She's getting beaten by her husband, she's 11. - Was that a girl? - I don't even know how to handle it. - The fact that we don't know ain't a great sign. - Yeah, look at the hats, they're hilarious. - They're like a peaky blinders. - I know, right? They're all pushing dope. - And they dress like to the 9's on a Tuesday. - Yeah, they're 12 years old. We know they're handed someone to fat stack a cash. - Yeah, yeah, they smoke cigars. Damn, that's hilarious. - Where does it all go? It just shifts. - People change, I mean, maybe old people are gonna talk like, I was talking and I went to this store, like maybe that's gonna be - Wow, I'm like, 80 and you're gonna be like, oh. - That's true, yeah. - Man, what? - I mean, Valley girls, you don't hear, Valley girls were big in LA in like the 90s? - Yeah, yeah. - Oh my God. - Oh my God, yeah. - What happened to the Valley girls? - They should. - I think it became that voice fry. - Vocal fry. - That you were doing before, that you were doing. - Like the Paris Hilton, yeah. - Yeah, like not sure of yourself as a cadence. - Everything goes up at the end. - Yeah. - I mean, actually? - Are you mugging me? - Yeah. - Yeah. - I think it's polite, it's inviting you to more conversation. - Oh, I guess so. - Do you wanna have one? - Yeah, exactly, that's the question. But I heard a strip club DJ, is that real? - How did that come together? - This is years after my immigration. But I guess part of me still want American max. I wanted to be like a, not rapper but like a music producer, like making beats for hip hop, right? So that was always my dream to like DJ and like do whatever. So after I graduated college with economics degree, I just knew I didn't wanna do that. So I had odd jobs, like DJ at a strip club, I worked at a comedy club in San Diego, it was on San Diego, that's why I used to do everything. It used to be called a comedy palace. Now it's the mic drop comedy. - Oh yeah, there we go. - Yeah, I heard it's a good club. But back in the day, it used to be Greek restaurant in a day. And then my buddy Sean Kelly went to the Greek restaurant and was like, "Hey, you guys don't have a lot of business "and night let me turn into comedy clubs." So it was switched to sign from Greek palace to comedy clubs. And I worked the door there and I sold used cars during the day. And then at night, I'll go put in a shift as a strip club DJ. - Wow, that's the most American day of all time, right? It's like I'm American maxing. - You are. - How was the strip club? - It was a really shitty strip club called Fantasy Showgirls and it was owned by this biker gang like Hell's Angels type guy named Gunner. So it was like really gangster, but I was just like a nice, you know, comedy kid. - Were they nice to you though? - They were so nice to me. Everybody had nicknames like Monster, Irish, Gunner, you know. - It's the away from Gunner. - Yeah, yeah, from like prison nicknames. And I'm just, - Oh damn. - Jimmy, you know? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - So they were all really nice to me. And I always, you know, look at things in a very innocent lens, you know, although I understand the situation. But I was like really good at it. 'Cause like, I wasn't like, look, there was hot strippers, but I was like falling in love with them. Like I crush these strippers. Like I'm a college kid. - Yeah, it's adorable. - So I wasn't like being a scumbag or anything, just like like the other DJ. So like sales was good when I was there. Gunner was telling me sales went up like 44%. - Yeah, what are you doing to get sales up? You're just playing good tunes? - Yeah, I was, 'cause the dancers say play this song for me. How much is creative? - Yeah, yeah, so a great question. So I think it's all about building a rapport 'cause the strippers day and the pending contractors, they can just not show up or not come dance if they you can't force them. So part of the job of a strip club DJ is like you're managing everything, everyone. And making sure the customer's getting a good flow going. Like what DJ would do. But you also gotta make sure the girl's show up. So you gotta be like, hey, saucy. You know, like what songs do you like? Let me make sure I play that song for you. Any lighting you want, you know. - Hey saucy, here's rain dogs by Tom Waits. - Yeah, that's tough. - Try this one out. - I think this will be good for you, you know. So you kind of being like a Somali A2. - Right. - Right. - You know, I think this song will be great. Have you tried this? And then you're just trying to be like, really friendly and cool. So all the girls are like in line. But then there's some fights that happens between the girls. - Between the strippers. - And yeah, yeah. Sometimes the bouncers gotta break it up. - Damn. - But it's an interesting interpersonal dynamic that's happening in there. - Of course, of course. And you gotta do stage four, saucy, stage four. - Yeah, exactly. - Like, coming up next, like, like, we got, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. - Your saucy. - Let me get back into, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, coming to the stage. We got Jade. And let's get ready, saucy, saucy. You're up next. - Yeah. - And two four left ends. It's coming up right now. All the girls get ready for the showcase. - It's kind of like baseball. You're like someone's on deck, you know. - Yes, yes. You gotta be the manager. You gotta be ready, you know. - I love it. I'm a part just from the, like the contact time. - You're also just not who I picture doing it. - I was the most innocent. I was probably the only, 'cause you hear other people that were strip club DJs, they're like, man, I hooked up with this girl. Oh my God, it's like fucking shooting fish and bear. It was fucking hot, man. I was the only strip club DJ that didn't get laid. - Ah. - That's why they liked you, bro. - Yeah, probably. Like, 'cause I wasn't creepy, you know. - Right. - I wanted to, don't get me wrong. But I was like, trying to like ask a girl out on the date and shit, you know, and then I already got a boyfriend. But then turns out she's fucking the owner, you know. Seems like won't do it just for the novelty. Like, I'm gonna bang a, Jimmy. - Yeah, right? You know? - Yeah. - The nice kid. - Come on. - There's bang the nice kid. - Yeah, that's a sitcom right there, dude. - The nice DJ. - Yeah. - That would be a fun sitcom movie or something like that. - Damn. - DJ Hong Kong. - All right, I'm working on it. - We're working out. - Yeah. - And then how long after that did you start? So you've been doing stand up 18 years, you see? - Yeah, since I'm 39, so since I was like 21. So I was already, I started doing open mic stand. My first open mic was during a summer when I went back home to LA at the Ha Ha Comedy Club. - Oh yeah. - Yeah, that's where I remember that in North Hollywood. It's still around. - Yeah, yeah. - Jack Terry, Jack Jr. now, you know, runs it. Great club. You have to pay, I think that open mics every night. And that was to open my, I could get on, you know? 'Cause you gotta pay, I think five bucks. - Remember those days? - Or a drink ticket. - You paid to do an open mic and you're, you're telling your parents. - But those are the good ones. - But those are the good ones usually. - They were the best ones. - That's what's, you know anything. The free ones, you're like, I get two minutes. - Right. - Yeah, and you gotta bring people something. - Oh. - Fucking open mic. - Yeah. - What? - You probably brought the Sri Lankan kids. - Yeah, man. You run out of friends. - We're gonna bunch of strippers. - Yeah. - Like, book this guy again next week. - Obviously get it there. - What about, what about the used cars? I mean, that's like a, that's, that's a crazy gig. That feels like a lot of pressure. - Yeah, that was fun though. I was a decent salesman. I think, I think all of these things, the strip club DJ and like selling used cars all helped the stand up. - Oh, of course. - It's interpersonal, it's like doing crowd work. - Right. - You don't seem like a pushy guy. - Yeah, that's the thing. I could, I could be a good salesman, but I look fairly trustworthy. - Yes. - Although I might not be. And, and this car lot, it's kind of sells itself because it, it's specialized for people of bad credit in ocean-sized San Diego. So, our slogan amongst ourselves is like, either you buy this Dodge neon at 24%, or you ride the bus. We're your last resort. - Ah. - So you come here, you don't have a choice. - Good gig. - So it's pretty, pretty easy. - Yeah. - Wow, you must see some characters coming in there. - Oh, for sure, or even the other car salesman. I'm sure this guy is doing math. He's been there like, he's like 60 years old. Still Gilbert and our manager. - Do you ever hear from any of these people? - Oh man. I used, from Gunner, the owner of the strip club. - Hey. - He's going to be like a son, like when I moved back to LA, he would call me from a unmarked, unknown 619 number. Once a year and he was just like, hey, this is Jimmy. And I'm like, yeah, hey, who is this? He's like, yeah, this Gunner. I just want to make sure everything's okay with you up in LA. I'm like, yeah, everything's all right, Gunner. I'm just doing my stand. I was like, nobody's fucking with you up there. And I'm like, no, it's everything's all right. All right, just check in on you. And then he will hang out. - Wow. - But he died. - Oh. - But he was, that's nice. He was protective of you. - He was, he was like a father to me. - Yeah. - There you go, Hell's Angel. - When you were starting out in the clubs in LA, who were the guys that you saw, they were like, oh shit, this guy's a killer. I got to, I got to level up like. - Oh, I was, I was like so scared to even like go into the improv of the comedy store because I know I probably couldn't get in because it was probably one time at the comedy store. Like now we're older, we're established. We don't care if the guy doesn't recognize us. - Sure. - But when I was younger, like that one rejection at the door at the comedy store. - Totally. - Brushes you. - Of course. - Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, this for comics only like, well, yeah, I am a comic. - I know. - You feel like you don't belong. Now you're like, yeah, I think you're all right. But that feeling when you're young, yeah. - Oh, it's hell. - Why am I even doing this? - I think people should be nicer to younger comics these days. - You're here, you know. But I think when I was coming up, it was a Joy Carmichael. - Oh yeah, he caught. - He called it in the future. - Yeah, I remember that. - Yeah, no. - Is it darling? - I'm trying to think, Santino, Adam Ray, those guys. - Oh yeah. - When I was starting to come up like second, third year, trying to get into the improv of what not, they were like regular rotation at the improv. And I was like, man, one day, you know, this would be so cool. - Yeah. - And of course, you know, like somebody like Bobby Lee who I grew up watching, that whole comedy store lineup, yeah. - Man, there must have been a lot of not to go back, but there must have been a lot of strip club, car lot crossover. I feel like you'd see the same people. I guess there was in different places. - How I got the strip club job was actually my car lot manager. He's an older guy, alcohol, he would disappear like three, four days on a bender sometimes. - Yeah. - But he was roommates, like, you know, you know, your life ain't right, when you're like 65 and you have a roommate? - Yeah, sure. - And he was roommates with Gunner. And I was like, dude, I always wanted like DJ, like you think Gunner, let me DJ it. He was like, Gunner likes you, it seems like, you know, next time he comes in, just ask him. - Do you have to audition to DJ? - No, I just showed up one day and he let me do it. - But it wasn't, it wasn't on the ones in two. - There's no training. - It was literally like a, a Dell computer. - Right. - And then you just click on whatever that's on Winapp, you know, like free songs before Spotify, and you have your folders and you just play your songs, and you work the lighting a little bit, that's it. - Damn, super, super simple stuff. - I love it, boy, you've lived. Did you ever have any scares with danger? Anybody come in with a gun or try to steal your car? - Couple college kids. Couple college kids came in on like Christmas Eve. I was working at a strip club then, and it was just super sad. Because there's no customers. And then we're closing early. And then drunk college kids, probably my age, got into an argument with monster, the bouncer. And the monster was like, "Do get the fuck out of here." And then they're like, "Fuck you man." On Yelp, it says, "You open 'til two." It's like, "Get the fuck out man, it's Christmas Eve. Get out of here." And then they wouldn't get out and they're like, talking shit outside the club. - And they're big kids? - They're like regular size, you know, college 21-year-old kids, you know, just like me, but now I'm on the other side of this world. And then monster went up to the bartender chief and was like, "Hey, these kids are talking shit. Grab your shit, let's go fuck 'em up." - I got my money on monster and chief. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, they grabbed the two by four and went out there and start beating the shit out of these kids on the floor. And then I went out there, I thought it was cool. I think I kicked one of 'em like, you know. - And you're like, "You can stay out." - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I just thought it was the coolest thing, right? Like now I'm on the, I went from the college kid that was like, nobody getting kicked out of a strip club to now on the other side with these gangs. - You likely Oda in Goodfell is when he shows up in the suit. - Yeah, that's right, that's right, that's right. And then I went back to the comedy club the next day I was bragging about it, I thought it was super cool. But good thing my mentor, Sean Kelly, he's an older comic. He was like, dude, like pull me and say, he's like, dude, I know you think it's super cool. But when you work with these kind of like darker characters, not skin tone, they're all like white Aryan brotherhood guys. But like in the dark world, you know, like you start to think these things are normal. - Sure. - And that's actually really dangerous. He was like, you're funny, you know, you're coming up, you know, just tell your story, go to LA, you know. - Yeah. - And that's my side. - We can be two Aryan brotherhood if they hired you though. - Yeah, I guess so, I was the only not white guy. - Good point. - In there. - Diversity. - Yeah, you're the Jackie Robinson of that fantasy rose or whatever, whatever it's called, fantasy spotlight. - Underdog, you ever notice how the second you lock in your picks, you become a completely different person before kick off, you relax. Then you make your picks. And suddenly you're standing three feet from the television like the quarterback can hear you. You check in the weather in a city, never visited, you scream and just throw it to him. 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Yeah, that's the-- I'm wearing a wire within this Aryan strip club. Just a life like-- I remember the first time I-- I'm from Louisiana. The first time I saw a San Diego, I was like, what the fuck is this place? I agree. Holy shit. You go to La Jolla, the seals on the beach, and the women, and the palm trees and everything. There's just a lot going on. Yes. Yeah, in a cool way. I love San Diego. And it's fun. It's fun. Way better in LA, I think. I agree. Even Santa Barbara, I love, too. You love air. My dream-- my dream is to just, you know, retire. Or like whatever, when I retire, like just own a farm. Like a winery in Santa Barbara, that's it. Are you a winy? Yeah, a little bit. I know, winy, winy. A little bit of alcohol, like sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wine to drink. Beer and wine, yeah. I try to scare you. It's like, well, yeah, I've had Jones in here. You don't have to have one. I'll take wine. All right. If everyone's drinking, you know, I mean, we do wine, or should we do "Course Light?" If he's a winer. It's a good shit. Yeah, I'm having a court. All right, all right. If you're doing good, I'll sit with you. You gotta do whatever you want. Is it cold or no? I don't know. It's been sitting there for a minute. I'll do a warm beer. It might be the ugliest bill's head I've ever seen in my life. Hold on. That could be a little foamy. Like, "Stone Cold Steve Austin." You are American magazine. Oh, hey. Oh. Sorry, guys. It's your studio. Let it fly. Your guy tossed it to me. Yeah. You're a squirter. Cheers, Ter. Cheers. To the next special. Yes. You're here. Take that. There you go. Who's like pretty salad? You know what? Usually when you pour beers out. You pour sideways and then foam out. Oh, yeah. And that red is somewhere. You're supposed to pour straight. So all the foam comes out. Otherwise, that foam's going to be in your stomach. You're going to be blooded, you know? Yeah. You're going to let the foam dissipate. No, that holy shit. Not sure if that's real enough. They also told you bread was good for you. Now it's bad for you. You know, meat was bad. Coffee's good. Coffee's bad. I mean, it's coffee bad? No. I don't know. It all changes. Hmm. Milk was big. What is milk? Now milk is out. Have people used to drink a glass of milk? Oh, all the time. That was a big thing. I love the gospel. Milk and pain. Those are the best commercials. Oh, yeah. I remember Gary Goldman's joke. Got milk. He's like, do we need to advertise milk? Did anyone forget about milk? Yeah. Oh, my God. Oh, Jesus, I forgot. I was pouring Pepsi in my cereal. So it's too effervescent. That's good. All right. He's good. He does it better. He was super nice. I think. But when he was, whenever he like really blew up at this certain moment, I forgot what it was. And then my first special came out during the pandemic. He like wrote me the nicest note of Instagram. Whoa. Yeah, I love that one. Like, you know, even people you haven't met or whatever, it just writes me a note. That's huge. Or I. It's a comic you respect. It feels nice. Yeah, I know, man. Like, and I respect like any comic with a special, that's already, you know, cast that wider neck. Come on. That's great. Any comic with a special. I think that's that's respect right there because when I started, I didn't think I, you know, I mean, like this is way beyond any, I just want to do college cakes, you know. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. So, you know, what do you think gave you your first big pop? Was it Silicon Valley? Silicon Valley for sure. I mean, what a what a gift to be on a show. That funny. I mean, that was like judge. Yeah. I don't think that's ever going to end. And you came in season two, right? I, I was season one. I made $900 an episode like, as a guest, I had two lines. You know, how you audition is guest stars, there's co stars, co stars, the two line parts. I was a co star. I wouldn't even guest star. Wow. And then season two, I became a series regular. And then my. That was the thing. Incredible. How did that go? I cried at the grove when I got the phone call. I don't believe it. Like it was in the morning, you know, I had to be on the phone my age and it was, it was very sad. Is there any inkling that this was coming? Not at all, man. Like I was just like trying to, I was just so happy. I would be on two broke girls with two lines that I got my sack card is unbelievable. It was an open mic, you know, a guy that's three years ago, just so, doing open mics. And then I booked this show, Yahoo, had an original series, two original series. One is about space. One is about a basketball team called Sin City Saints. I think Santino's in it. Baron Davis was a series regular. Oh, nice. And I got that part, right? I was so excited. I was like, oh my god, I'm going to be a series regular. Yeah, they're even Santino. He's the head guy. Yeah, he's the head guy, man. Wow. Wow. [BLANK_AUDIO] Just so much. Yeah, Rick Fox is in it. - Oh. - Yeah, Tom, yeah. And then, so Silicon Valley was like a hit after season one, but I only had three lines in like three episodes. - Right. - So my agent had the worth on me like, hey, let us call Silicon Valley, see if they can match this series regularly off or cause Yahoo probably don't want you to do a HBO show, you know? - Of course. - So I got back all these pictures of Terri. - That's a really hard picture. - You do Yahoo or HBO. - Yeah, right, right. - So and then, I guess-- - Yeah, look, we're soon ye. - Yeah. - Holy shit. - Look at the look you are. - Hey man. - Holy shit. - The picture got me a lot of jobs, dude. I gotta update my EPK, this is on my official website. - This is like Erko and Stephane, right? - Oh, this is all on Jesus. - What a cute kid, huh? - Man, that's a clean shave. - Man. - That kid was a strip club DJ. - He was, man. Holy shit. - With those glasses too. - Whoa. - Man, that's crazy. - That is hilarious. - Anyways. - Terri nation's like, look, we're racist, but he's adorable. - Come on. - Yeah, come on. - He can't be with the CIA. - Yeah. - He's not gonna fuck with the strip. He's not gonna do blow. I mean, it's a perfect, huh? - Yeah. - This is a hilarious show that a kid that looks like that. - I need to recast myself. I don't think I'm applying. - You're sick. You've gotten too cold for it. - Find like a cute, like, 18 year old kid. - Yeah. - But anyway, so Mike Judge and them, they liked me enough. And yet it kept me on as a serious regular. And I never did that Yahoo show. And they replaced me with Justin Chan. - Ah, yeah. - Oh, okay. - That show, I mean, when you're reading those scripts, you're probably just like, this is gonna be fucking fun. - Man, the scripts are already so fucking good. And then they let us have free reign. We're on set. The producers were there. And we can just improv, you know, T.Js, actwoods, middle ditch. It's just the best of the best people. - Unbelieveable, yeah. - Unbelieveable. With so much fun on that show. Everybody was an incredible improviser actor and. - Stater. - Yeah, yeah. That's right. - Yeah. - And Mike Judge, that guy, has he had a miss? I mean, it's like office space, King of the Hill. - Yeah. - People with some butt head. - Idiocracy. - Idiocracy, look at Valley. Unreal. And he's doing a new thing. - He's apparently coming out. - The coolest guy. He was my commencement speaker at UCSD. - Wow. - A small world. - Wow. - For the circle. - Wow. Yeah, he's got a pretty insane resume. - Oh, yeah. - He's dope. - He's super cool. - Do we even say King of the Hill? - I did. - I mean, yeah, that was rebooted. - And King of the Hill was him and Greg Daniels. - Wow. - He created the office, you know, amazing. - Greg Daniels is his role. - Oh, yeah. - The Simpsons. - Yeah. - King of the Hill, the office. - Yeah, yeah. - Wow. - Crazy. - Unbelievable. - Damn. See, the cool thing about HBO is you get to show your parents that's something they can understand. - You're so right, bro, 'cause before that, like a couple episodes on like "Two Bro Girls", my dad knew I had no money. He was just worried. He was like, "Come on, I got a finance job for you." He was sending me like career build emails, you know. But then once the HBO came, he understood HBO. There's a contract now. - Yeah. - Here's a year there's a contract, you know. So at least I'm not starving. - Did you like the show? - Did he like, oh yeah, he loved the show. He loved the show. The other stuff he didn't quite get. But I think after that, he started watching my work. You know, yeah, yeah, yeah. - And then the movies, you know, the movies are great. You work with Walberg, like-- - Yeah, Patriots. - Patriots day. - Right, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think two things were Walberg. I did Patriots day. Which is great. It was a very dramatic film. And it was my first thing. And it was based on like a real life. - The Boston Bomber. - He had a Boston Bomber. And the part I played was like a Chinese hero, immigrant. That like, escape his SUV in "Watertown" and call the cops. That's how they hunted those two guys down. So he was a pivotal hero. He still speaks to the cops every year. The Boston PD, you know, as like a charity thing. Like, you know, a ra-ra thing. Great guy. I think my buddy Alex Wolf played the Bomber. - Yeah, that's the point. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. He was so cool. - Great actor for me. - Ray Deterteri. He's in a pig, remember? - Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, he is good. - Great actor, he's in a choir place. The new choir place, he's amazing in it. - Great actor. - Yeah, he doesn't stop working. - Yeah, he's, he's a-- - Man, he's only 20. - He's only 28? - He's got the skills, man. He's good. - Yeah, he's got a look. - Yeah. - Good look. He looks like a hotter me. (laughing) - Is that-- - Could've played Norman, didn't it? - For yourself, like, is it, like-- - Me, me. - About deprecating Joe. - Self-deprecating, that's a compliment to him. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - You look like both handsome brothers. - All right. - Look at that, look at that beauty mole. - I know. - Come on. - He's got a mole. - It's in the perfect place. - See, you wanna, oh, look. 'Cause he's, he's interesting looking too. That's, that goes a long way with, with casting. - Yeah. - Yeah. - And the camera just, I was asking Joe Malcovitch. What? - I love it. - Respect so much. - Name girl. - So cool. - Yeah. - All right. I was like, what, what makes an actor, like a great actor? He was like, I directed, you know, live stage plays. Some of the best actors I've ever met, but they would never be on TV or film. 'Cause the camera just doesn't like 'em. The first role of the camera has to like you, you know? - Right. - Right. - And sometimes having a big head, I think, helps. - Yeah, I can see that. - Like a big face, big head. - I, uh, I forgot what I was gonna say. You threw me out with big head. Oh, I think there's comics out there. We don't have to say any names. Who are unbelievable live, unbelievable on stage in the room. Then they do a special, and you're like, it doesn't capture it. - Yeah. - I think sometimes it's, guys want great writers, though. - Is that what it is? - I think it's energy, guys. Sometimes where they can kind of capture an energy, but the writing is maybe flawed, so they're able to get away with it live, 'cause they have such great performance skills. But then, yeah, it doesn't always translate it. - Yeah. - Yeah. - That's gotta suck. - Yeah. - People say, you show the world. Hey, come see me. - Yeah, but then if they crush live all the time, maybe people come back, too. - I guess so, I guess so. - Or could it be a performance anxiety? Like, some people, you know, they perform in game six. They shoot a special. You know, I was nervous as shit, but somehow that made me even like, that was one of the better shows that shot my special. But then, some people, I think, I can totally see me or anyone choking on a special, and you only get one night. - I know, I know. - That's why you got to tape a couple. - Yeah. - I remember when I did my first big TV thing, it was John Oliver show. We had a show on Comedy Central for like 10 minutes, and it was me and Che, and I was sweating. I was walking up and down the green room. I was nervous, and I look over at Che, and he's sitting in a chair drinking a beer, and I was like, damn, and he killed it. - Really? - And I was like, - He's been an alcoholic ever since. (laughing) - Did you crush it? - I did well, but I was like, I was so nervous. - He did very well. - But Che, was it loose and riffing? - Yeah, but I remember both of your sets, you both had great sets. - Yeah, that was fun. - I remember that. - It was your ball center. - John Oliver, man, good stand-up. - Good stand-up. - Yeah, like people don't think of him as a stand-up, but he's got the fucking- - Oh, man. - He's done do it anymore, right? I'm sure he, I think he does live. He and Seth Meyers did some residency thing at the set. - That's what I saw, yeah. - He closed and annihilated. - Yeah, Seth is a really good stand-up, too. It's like two guys, you just don't think of a stand-up. - Seth Meyers? - Yeah, but they're- - Good joke, right? - I mean, it makes sense. He's a great joke writer, right? I mean, oh. - I would say, stand-up is the greatest thing, 'cause I see actor friends when they need to go get a bag. - Yup. - Money, not cocaine. - Like in a life scenario, like a corporate gig or whatever, they gotta go maybe sign some autographs at a Comic Con, or do a fireside chat. We can just bring this anywhere, you know? - It's portable, baby. - It's great, yeah. - It is, yeah. - It's good money, mate. - But the problem is, the reverse of that, is you get the stormy Daniels, the Chris Katans, these guys go, I can go get some money in this. - To them, it's the gutter, to us, it's very- - Don't go Chris Katan, and with stormy Daniels. - Don't go fucking shit, yeah, yeah. - He was on Saturday Night Live. - He's much better of a cop. (laughing) - My bad, does- - I love that that was her last stop. It's like, she went from porn to, like, she's like, I've tried sucking dick. Let's go one step lower. - And play Spokane Comedy Club this weekend. - She did that, like, she did a comment. - Oh, I remember seeing her at Spokane. I was like, she's like, the weekend after. - Yeah, she did a weekend. - She's like a nut. - And those guys, like, those people, like, they flame out pretty quick. Like, it's even an audience, if you've never seen standup, you'd be like, I don't, I don't wanna watch this anymore. - That's true, that's true. You're never gonna go again. - Yeah, do you think it's like this? - 'Cause if you see a bad standup show, for some people they're like, I'm done. I'm done with this as an art form. - Yeah. - A form of entertainment, whatever you think. - We gotta understand people that come to, especially to, like, a showcase night on a Tuesday at a comedy store, or a sellover. - Yeah. - 80% of people, 70% of people is their first time watching standup. You gotta give it to a man, or else they might not come back. They're like, this fucking sucks. - I agree, you gotta bring the heat on a showcase. - It feels good when someone, you talk to someone after showing them, like, that was, I overseas, I just had a few people say, like, that's my first comedy show. - Yeah. - And it feels good, you're like, oh, it's cool. - You gotta be the ambassador over, right? - Comedy. - You took the Hymen. - Oh, Stormy Daniel Tick. - She's still doing it. - I'm telling you, we're promoting this. - Floor Myers, uh-huh. - Shadow Washington, you called it. - I mean, you wanna hear about-- - I spoke to him. - Okay, I'll hear you. - You wanna hear about fucking the president? - It's a real shitty comedy club. - Wait, wait, are you on StubHub or the actual-- - What's your name? - Yeah. - Is there the actual, can we go to the actual ticket site? I wanna see if she sold out. - Go to her web. - See, this is how much of a hater I am. Sometimes I see people do, like, bigger venues, smaller venues. I'm like, is this sold out? - Wait a second, dude, what if she is a special? You have to respect her. - Oh, I got her. - Hey. - If she has an hour special, I respect it. - Okay. - She does, it's on PornHub, though. (laughing) Is this what you want? Turn me down to the website here. - I'm not, I'm not trying to be a special. - No, no, fuck if I hear you. - If she's a hard working lady, she blew the president, I get it. But, oh, this website looks better than mine. - She didn't, by the way, she didn't blow the president. She blew Donald Trump. And then he became president. - Right, right, right, right, good point. - She invested early. - That's what she was gonna say, you know. - It's like dating a fat chick. - Events, go to events and then I need to see some ticket sales. - So hidden. - Go to tickets. Let me see if it's sold out. - I love it. - I'm such a hater. [LAUGHTER] (laughing) - Look at the prices. - Yeah, hot call of VIP, 127 bucks. - Well, that comes with a hand job, that's why. - Damn, that's a really, that's a hundred dollar premium than a regular mission. I can, do you guys do meet in Greece, I can't do it. - I used to, I had to stop. - It's so exhaustive. - I think I got sick a lot when I did it too, 'cause I was just talking to so many people. - Yeah, I can see it. - But like, yeah, I did it for a long time, and honestly, it tired me out more than the set. - Totally. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - I would rather do a third show in a night. - 100%. - Totally agree. - And we love the fan. - And I'd love meeting people who want to take a line, and it's, when I meet people on the street, I'm happy to talk for a long time, but when it's that stop, it would stress me out a little, especially 'cause I should be looking at notes and adjusting from the previous set for the night show. - Not totally. - Yeah, you're so right. It's more exhausting than the hour you do. - Yeah. - But I am so pumped when I meet people who like what I do. - It's like a great feeling. - Yeah, true. - Just don't tell me how far you drove. If there's everything that I feel guilty, they're like, hey, we drove three hours a sea, I'm like, that's very flannery. - That is so nice. But I'm like, now I feel bad. Like, what do I do here? - No, they're just, they're showing how much they like you. That's not a bad thing. - I know, I just feel guilty that they drove, that I'm like, ah, wasn't I said okay, didn't worth it? - I'm with you though, like it's nice, but I think it's a subconscious power dynamic. They want to be like, hey man, I came here, you better perform for me, and now I knocked you down a peg with about the same level. I think people do this subconsciously. - They do that, they're not bad for sure. - Well, if I go to a Nick's row game, I'm like, Brunson, I drove eight hours, you better hit this jump shot, you know? - But you wouldn't do that, as a sane person. I don't think we do that. I was just, - No, I think it's, I think it's, I'm fine with it. - All right, I just feel guilty personally. - I got a peeve though for you. - Okay, please. - I go to the sandwich of the coffee shop place today. I've done how I like a punch card. I love a, something about that free whole school. The free sandwich or the free coffee makes me happy. I don't know what-- - Yeah, you earned it. - I earned it, yeah. So I get the new punch card today. I pick up a coffee myself and one for my lady. She's at home. And they only gave me one, they would only give me one punch. - What? - That's great. - It's per trip. I go per trip. How about I go out the door and come back in? - Uh-huh. - Yeah. - This is a curb, but they said, no, it's per trip. And I was like, I hate that stuff. - What is to margin on these punches? - Punches. - I was, I was bothered by it. - That is, that is bothersome. - That's a fair peeve, right? - That's highway robbery, yeah. - That's not good. - That's a ruse is what that is. - It was. Even my way here, I took subway. - Fresh peeve. - And maybe this is, you guys are used to this in New York, okay? But there was two seats and one lady was sitting there and her bag was on the seat. - Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. - And there's all the seats. - By the way, not just on the subway, at the airport, when you're waiting to board the flight, people do that with their bag. - Yeah, the luggage. - Now, fucking rude. - I'm sure they're arguing maybe like, if you ask, I'll move it. But now you have created a barrier for me to ask. Most people don't want that interaction. - Exactly. - As a man, excuse me, can I? No, now you already have some power over me. I don't like it. - I'm with you, I'm with you. - Just put it on your lap. - People that do something rude, knowing you have to ask. - That's rude. - They know-- - That's another level of rude. - Yeah, exactly, exactly. They know what you have to ask and that's something. - 'Cause I know they have a technical. I was like, "Oh, no, no, no, I'm not saying anything." - Right, they have an out. - And then when you ask, they ask, "Oh, no, no, no, please." It's like, "I don't want to ask." - I know. - A social barrier. - Yes, you're right. - They know that. It's like when the guy sits on the outside seat of a little train, like an Amtrak. Now I gotta go, "Hey, can I get in there or can you move over?" They know what they're doing. - But that person might want the aisle. That's different, I think. - All right, I think they want both seats. - I'm a tall guy, I want the aisle. But if somebody walks by and they go, "Can I get in there?" You go, "Oh, sure." - Yeah, all right, all right. - Of course. - Well, you might say, "No, I got both seats together." - What if it's a short guy? It was short guys on the outside. I think he wants, he's subconsciously going, keep walking, Dickless. - You call me Dickless? And walking in the seat, that guy's an asshole. - I gotta pee for you now, you guys are gonna hate this one. - All right. - How about this guy, the guy, you meet a guy. I'm not gonna give him the whole situation. We meet a guy and he goes, "Gabot!" And he goes, "I'm gonna go over here." And he goes, "I don't bite." Like, "I don't bite." - That's weird, man. - Yeah, like, I know you don't bite. I'm not sitting next to you 'cause I was like, "Oh, he's gonna bite me." I'm not sitting next to you 'cause I want to sit over there. That's gross. - I don't like the, I don't like that. - I don't like this. - Yeah, who does that to a grown man? - What am I, a fucking Yorkshire terrier? - And I bet you, that guy does the same thing to women, which is super gross. - Right, right, this book. - No, you know what this is, women? - Oh, I don't bite. - Oh, yeah, you probably saw that at the club. - Yeah, probably. - Yeah, it's gross. - Come on, saucy. - There you go. - Yeah, that's no good. - Yeah, I don't bite too. Yeah, we got it. I never thought you'd been. - But that's your way of being like, I'm not a creep. - I have by acknowledging you are kind of a creep. - Yeah, yeah, and bite, it's just like trying to be cute too. I hate it, I hate all the light. - Yeah, I got a small peave. - Yeah. - When people say, oh, you got to hear this song. I got to play a song for you. And then they play it on their phone. - Mm. - Yeah, 'cause then you got to react. - No, it's not an optimal. I can't hear the fucking song. - I don't do that. I do this with Vita on the road, but we always share it through text. We can listen on your own time. - That's what we do it. - Okay. - You should listen to it. Mark and I, I mean, look, all of us, here watching this video, you don't put me on the spot. I like the sending of the, I think a video is like a favor, put it in writing. - Yes. - Give me a set, you know what I mean? - Some people just do this, there you go. Check that out. - Yeah, I can't even hear it. I gotta do this. - Right. - And they're like, you don't like it? You don't like it? I'm like, ah, I need some time. Let me process it. - Yeah. - I hate it, I hate the force. Let me show you. - Let me ask the, let me ask the tall guy a question. I was in the middle, so I was stuck in the middle seat. Usually I fly business, okay? But this, I know, no seats, I was stuck in a middle seat. And the guy next to me, his leg was encroaching into my middle seat. - Oh, crazy. - Yeah, he pretends to be passed out. I don't think he's passed out. But then I realized this guy is like six five. He's massive. - Sure. - Now, he could put his leg together, but it's very uncomfortable, I'm sure. So me as a short guy, like, you know, this is a regular seat, it's very nice for me. - Yeah. - So I kinda understood, like, so, should that be, should I be pissed off? - Yeah, you should, 'cause your seat is your seat. I had a situation, I was flying in Europe, and I booked a business thing just for the fast track, not even for, 'cause the seats on these European Airlines suck anyway. Your business is like a regular seat, and there's no one sitting next to you. That's the perk. But I booked it for fast track, so I wouldn't have to go through security. But I'm sitting there, and they go, hey, some people are running late for their next flight. Would you mind moving to the middle seat? And then he sits here so we can run off, and I was like, yeah, that's fine, that's, you know, but I'm a little annoyed, 'cause I paid for a business seat, and I have to now sit in the middle. - Yeah, that's it. - And not only does he sit next to me, he's fucking enormous. And he does this shit where he's just mushing me, and I was just like, it was only like 25 minutes, but I was like, I was pretty annoying. - That's bad. - You did the favor and still got fucked. - And he did the thing, so I did the thing where I was like, I kinda pushed his on the mat. - Yeah. - And he accepted. - Oh, okay, good. - He pushed, but he came in hot. - Yeah, that's gonna be the worst time. I'm being fat as hard, being obese, it's gotta be hard. - He was a muscle guy. - Oh, he's a muscle guy, that's different. But being fat on a flight is gonna be like, damn, I kinda regret all those thoughts. - I had an older-- - It's a French fat guy. He's a classy fat guy. Oh, I'm crazy. - I had an older lady. She probably had the worst flight of her life. She got upgraded to first class, but not like the laydown, just like the wider seats. But she had a whole panic, full on panic episode because this is her first time in first class and she's not huge, she's just kinda big. And she needed an extender. 'Cause the seats are wider and the seat belts are shorter, right? So you have less seat belt to go around. She was like, this has never happened to me. So it's the worst upgrade of her life. I was like, no, lady, the seats are just wider. You're fine. - She upgraded to shame. - Yeah. - Yeah. - She, shame air. - Was she really big? - She wasn't, she was just like a bigger older, like not massive finance, yeah. - Yeah. - And I had a bed that's gonna sound bad. But I had a lady on a flight. She was huge. And she was wearing like a skimpy outfit, wall being huge. So there's a lot of skin and stuff showing. Which is fine. Do what you gotta do, you go girl. But she smelled horrific, like crazy body odor. And it was that weird, soury kind of milky sense. So you're like, and then you look at her and it all just adds together. And I had asked the flight attendant for a mask. I was like, I'd had to get a mask, no? - Yeah, it's like a COVID nut. - I'm like the COVID nut, like. - Well, you got asked for like a coffee beans. That's what you need. - Ah. - Is that right? - 'Cause it's, you know, I remember there was a real, I was on a flight with Phil Hanley once, and we were both flying to L.A. And I was next to someone who smelled so fucking. - Yeah. - And I just was like, what do I do? - This is unbearable. So I just walked over to someone, I pulled a dick move. I said, I'm sorry, would you mind switching with me? It's one of my really good friends. And they go, yeah, sure. And they switch with me. And the second they switch, they just looked at me like. - Oh! - Fuck girl. - And I was like, I got you. No backsies. - Fuck. - And it was a dick move, but. - Well. - I can't really defend it. I was gonna say, but there's no defense. - Yeah, I pulled a dick move. - Now if it's someone working at the service in history, I had a driver once, like an Uber driver. - Yeah. - It was a small, horrific. - Yeah. - Like, I understand a regular. - That's the strength of your customer. - This long hours too. - Yeah, yeah. - You got to bring a deodorant if you're a driver. - Right. - The Uber driver would like say the waiter. Do you say something? Like, is it? - Oh, waiter. - Is it because nobody has told them. Like, is it now up to me? - I wouldn't say it to a waiter. That's where it feels weird. - Okay, okay. An Uber driver. You're in the same small spot. You're like, hey, man. Maybe just a little deodorant. Just a free future customer. I don't think I would say. - I don't, I wouldn't do that. That's the problem. No one will say it. - No one says it. - You're not gonna be the guy. - And it's an Uber. So how long you're not gonna be with this guy forever? - Does he know? I don't think so. - The worst is when you get one and it's like, you're like, you're going to JFK airport and it's gonna be like an hour and a half. - Fuck. - And you're just like, "Fuck, let's pop that window." - Yeah. - Yeah, try to give him signs. I start rolling down that window. - That's what I do. - I just pull up to another car and like, "I want to switch Uber's." (laughing) - I'll do this one every now and then. - Yeah. - But then they think you farted. - I think we gotta say something. Somebody's gotta say something. - Mel's something, say something. 'Cause they don't know. - Maybe they don't know. - We never got-- - You see them again. - A taxi driver is a hard one. 'Cause those guys, we fucking bang on like 18 hours shifts. So that's why they smell 'cause they don't, they don't go home. - But some people just smell like there's a cultural thing. I flew back from Africa and fucking boy. - It was the worst plane flight. Like everyone had B.O. - The whole plane. I was the minority without B.O. - Yeah, and it was wild. It was like a 19-hour flight. I was just like, "Hah, eyes were watering. My ears were bleeding." - By the way, that was his honeymoon? Any flu coach? - No, no, that was the different time I went to Africa. - Oh wow. - Sorry, but I did fly coach. - Okay. - But yeah, I was in the back with this kid and the kid smelled great. - Okay, this has gone so bad direction. - Yeah, the kid was cute. - Are these breasts in plans? - Yeah, you know what? - Hey. Used? - No, fresh, but they've been squeezed many-- - So size is. - I don't know, what are these? - It's like a sea, where I come from. - They're pretty big. Is this a sea? - Yeah. - It's nice. You get a nice little handful, yeah. - That's all you need. - It's nice. - Yeah, not bad. - How do you feel? What's your type of woman? - Yeah. - 'Cause you're clearly single. You're here for six months, right? - Yeah. I would say, man, dating in New York has been so much better in now. - You're single, wow. - LA, it seems like, I'm scraping by. I'm like, if there's a chick that's semi-attractive, I'm like, oh, please, you know? But then once you come to New York, I think there's a ratio, you know? - Yeah, for sure. - More women than men. And then the girls actually appreciate you if you're a decent guy. And they appreciate, you know? Anyways, so for a long time, because I was American Maxing, I was into white girls. That seems like, yeah. A white face. - Is it like a very classic blonde hair? That type of white? - Totally, you know? One of my ex-girlfriend was very blonde. That didn't work out. But now I can work out for various reasons. I think I had a lot of blind spots. And we did just say, we dated for like two and a half years, I should have broke up with her. Maybe I year it, you know? But-- - But I feel like, it looked great. I said the same thing to Ronnie. I think Asian guys are having a moment. - Yeah, oh, for sure. - When I was younger, Asian guys couldn't get laid by white chicks. Now white women like Asian guys. - Their girls are like, oh my God, I love K-pop. I love this. This is my thing. - That's what I'm saying. - Back in the day, we didn't really have a reference. - Right. - When I was in school, like, oh, Asian man. That's too foreign for me. That's too weird for me, whatever. Even now, it was like-- - It was a way. - People go out of their way to date like Asian. That's not pull up my ex-girlfriend, you know? That's just-- - She's a franchise one. - Yeah, and one, Jesus Christ. - Good Lord. - But anyways, I am-- - Hong Kongers, how do you say it? - You're a Hong Konger. - I don't know that. - All right, good to know. - What site is this? - Who makes this site? - He put this to me. - So what type of woman are you in there? - So I had my slow transition. I started dating half Asian women. And then now I'm like, I think I'm more dating four Asian women. - Wow. - It's like cocktails. You start like, oh, let's do a mixer. - Yeah. - And now I'll do on the rocks and now you're just going neat. - Yeah, that's right. That's exactly what it is. I think the cultural similarity, like a casual dating who cares, right? But if you're dating to be serious, maybe, you know, I do want to get married. - Is it important to your family that you're with an Asian person? - Yeah, I don't think they say it, you know? They would like it. Like, I've been seeing this girl. I'm like, one thought that keep her meaning. She's a great girl. But then I'm like, my mom would love this girl. And I think that's important to me. - Of course. - And there's cultural similarities. I've dated girls of all different ethnicity and I can't say they're rude, but they just didn't grow with the same cultural respect that I had, you know? Like saying older person come in, whether a family friend or whatever, they call them uncle, auntie, whatever, right? A lot of people don't have that, right? And to me instead of like, oh, what the fuck, you're so rude. It's like, you know, we grew up differently. - Right. - It was really some stock to dating someone that grew up with similar manners. So you don't have to get mad about it. You don't have to teach them your culture. They don't, that chasm is smaller. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - What do you think? - Do you have that with you as a, with the mom? - She's never like, put pressure on me, but I think, yeah, I think she would like it for sure. - Yeah. - Is your girl? - She's Jewish. - Oh, first Jew, I've ever dated. - Whoa. - Wow. - I'm like, you do. - Yeah, there you go. - I started with Asians. I went to Jews. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - There is a thing about Jewish guys and Asian girl. That's a real thing. - That's true. - 'Cause culturally, we are very similar. - Yeah. - We're very family oriented, you know. - Education. - You know, every, every education. - We're very family oriented, don't you think? - I don't even break it down, Italians. - Yeah, you know, kind of, you know. - But like a average breaks. - An average white in America doesn't care about family as much. - I don't care. (laughing) - I don't care. - I'm just looking at you, but there you go. - I don't think we'd think about it. - Yeah. - Like, you're like, I want a lady for my mom. Like, my mom is not entering my mom's wife's calls. She just presses ignore, goes back to this. (laughing) - My cousin Awamo right now. (laughing) But yeah, no, that's nice. It'll happen, and I think, is it stupid to go? I mean, this is the stupidest question I've ever asked. So don't hold it against me. Could you go to, do you go to Chinatown? I go, hey, is this pretty good? - Well, I would say I went back. - If I went to little Nola, I would love it. - That's little like me going into Cass's Deli, I would be like, man. - Actually, I see the rabbi, the, the oil. - I would say, that's why I think it was important for me to go back to Hong Kong. - Yes. - To go back home, to see the culture, I got back and touched with my elementary school friends. You know, I went out on a couple of dates and stuff, but it's, I am also at the same time very American now. So I need someone that's like, as, as, like the right amount of Asian for me, if that makes sense. Like, if somebody from Hong Kong and it's never left Hong Kong, that doesn't, I'm too American for them. - Right, right. - You know, and, and also I don't know. Like, like, in Hong Kong and if I go to Chinatown, I was looking at apartments and my real estate and took me to Chinatown, I'm like, I can't, I can't live here. She was like, why? - It's 'cause I need you. - I was like, you see why? And it would left the apartment like, 10 kids were like, waiting for me. Like a picture, like I'm like, this is not a real human interaction anymore. - I didn't even think about that. Damn, the fans are all there. - Yeah, exactly. - So yes, but you, you found an area like? - I am in Soho now. I wasn't in college. - I loved Green Edge. I was in this Airbnb, but then, through Accent, the location was great, but it's starting getting mice. - Yeah. - It was a quintessential New York experience. - Yep, yep. - Got some money back, moved out. Now I'm in my friend's house. She's never here, so I'm at our house in Soho. - It's great. - Beautiful. - Yeah. - All right. - Really nice. - I mean, this is the women in Soho. - Unreal. - Oh my god, you walk out. It's like legitimate, like LA, you have N-square models. Here, there's legitimate runway models. Every block you go. - I know. - Especially in that area. And they have substance. They can't have a conversation. - Right. - It's unbelievable. I would say things are incredibly expensive here. - It's crazy. - Go on a date in Soho. It's like $40 for an appetizer. - I know. - It's crazy. - Banana cocktails, 22 now, it's bananas. - Yeah, a part of me was like, man, so good, so fun here. I love the big city, Hong Kong's a big city. I'm like, why didn't I move to New York like earlier, 10 years ago? But now I'm like, 10 years ago, I would have been struggling. - Do you think you would stay here after all this? - I'll spend some time here, but actually last year, I moved to Vegas, and I'm really enjoying that. - Oh, so Vegas is home, not LA? - Yeah, yeah. - How did you land on Vegas? - At first, a bunch of my friends were moving there. - Was it Texas? - And then they were telling me, dude, 'cause I tore so much, I'm like, you know, why am I paying? And then at first I started to tax. But then I bought this old ranch house in like old Vegas. - Oh, hell yeah. - I choose to live. - Hell yeah. - Not expensive. And I don't even see my neighbors in so peaceful. - Yes. - People don't understand me when I say Vegas is peaceful. And the food is great. I can go gamble and have fun if I want to. But I can also drive around without no traffic, or I don't know frustration. - Yeah. - I just don't get LA. - I like-- - We get you on that. - Yeah. - LA is cool to visit, it's awesome, a lot of history, a lot of culture, but living there, the traffic, the homeless, the fires. - And it's basically a suburb. - Right. - It's like a city. - Right, but you get the worst part of a suburb and a city, the traffic, the location. And people just, they don't hang out. - Yes. - Yes. - You got the plans and all my friends in LA, either move that LA after the pandemic, 'cause they gave up on acting and one of the kids or whatever, or they had kids that got married in LA. And now I'm the only like left behind. - Right. - I got nobody to hang out with anyways. - Yeah. - And also culturally, art-wise, even the comedy store. It's so dead now, in LA. - Interesting. - Sunset Strip is dead. There's so many stores. Melrose, you walk down this close. So many stores closed. Santa Monica, there's this post-COVID. - Is this post-COVID? - Dead. - That's sick. - Post-COVID and then post-strike, I think. - Ah, the strike. - I have homies who, amazing cameraman, great crew people, couldn't get a job. - That's all. - In LA to save their, couldn't pay their mortgage. And, but in New York, it's the opposite. I got makeup artists, like, oh yeah, if I take a day off, I can call five friends and they'll be like, come day play on this. - Right. - 'Cause the tax credit in New Jersey in New York is crazy good. - Mm-hmm, damn. - They only gotta get California back on track for that. I don't know if it's ever. going to Vegas is trying to, there were one vote away from some tax credit and Sony and Mark Wahlberg's there and they ready to build some studios. I think I, I think Vegas will be popping and they got all the sports teams going. Right. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Crazy. That's all right. What do you say? I know. I said football and they got hockey and everything now. It's the basketballs coming. They definitely got a expansion team coming. Them in Seattle. Huh? Seattle deserves it. Yeah. That's a great fan. They got, they had the sonics in the 90s. They were so cool. Camping paid in and everything. Yeah. And what happened? They, the owner moved him to Oklahoma City. Oh, right. Which is, I mean, worked out for them. Sure. Yeah. The team's good, but it's, it's fucked up. That was a cool franchise. Same thing I feel about the San Eagle Chargers. LA doesn't need another team. I agree. Also, so far, stadium is the worst sports experience you can have. Here we go. Hot take. I went to the World Cup, uh, fortunately enough, I went to three or four games. I went to med life. I went to Vancouver. It was so fun. In Vancouver. Yeah. It was a great city. Oh. One of my absolute favorite cities. Beautiful town. But the heroine's out of control. That's great. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. On the Hastings Street. And the girls are nice. On the Han River. On the Han River. On the Han River. On the Han River. Yeah. On the Han River. Yeah. On the Han River. On the Han River. away from my friend's house in downtown. And downtown's not like cracked out downtown LA. After that, you have like a whole pedestrian walk. Like it's just so fun, like a beer crawl, whatever. And then LA, it's an hour and a half to get so far. Once you get to so far, it's another hour to find you got them entrance. - Right. - And then there's no vibe inside so far. I know a state of art or whatever. It's all escalators going up and down. They have no food. The food is just hot dogs, okay? You know how every stadium has like, you know, New York's best food. - Right. - And this goes best food at Levi's stadium. So far has nothing. It's just emptiness. And I get it. - But I do feel like they're overdoing the food at these sporting events. Like I don't need a fucking rib eye at a game, you know. - But give me something. - Tango, something. - Give me something. - A good hoagie. - Like MetLife had a hoagie, had a pasta, station. - That's not saying I'm gonna get food. - Not saying I'm gonna get it, but I feel like I'm into New York. There's history here. - But there's something special about going to a baseball game and having a hot dog in penis. - Yeah. - There was something cool about it. Yeah. - I'm a big hot dog guy, but so far just. - Me neither, but at a game, it's kind of fun. I don't know. - Once they say, say to the art, anything, stadium, whatever, it just takes the enjoyment of it by way. Have you guys been to the Into a Dome? - I haven't. It looks insane. - Equally as bad. - Really? - Because, first of all, the Into a Dome, So far stadium and the forum is on Inglewood. So sometimes all three got some going. And Inglewood's an hour and a half from everyone. - Of course. - And then you go down there, I love the forum. It's one of my favorite venues to go to. - Great, great. - I did a show with the forum. It was a dream come true amazing, right? And the audio is great because it's old school. And it's easy to get in and out. And Into a Dome, they do this thing where you can't pay with your credit card. They scan your face. And then the first night, Bruno Mars concert didn't work. The concert was like an hour late. - Oh. - How did they scan your face? - I don't know. It's a weird facial recognition. You hook it up to the Into a Dome app and the credit card. I hate stadiums, you have to download. - It's an old app. - Too many apps. - To get into the gaps of people's apps. I'm sick of apps. - No more apps. - I have so many apps that to use some apps that I actually like, I have to re-download them. - I want to the US open. Okay, I got to take it from Ticketmaster, right? Now you got to download US Open Ticketmaster. It's like, oh my god. I don't want to use this once every three years. Are you kidding me? - Enough. - And then Into a Dome, it's the weirdest thing. They have these suites. If these suites that have no windows and you can't see outside, what? It's for like businesses. They say, "Stay in the art." There's the fucking touch screen. You're gonna order chicken tenders. - Man, this is supposed to animate in your bed. - It looks like I got the impression. - Yeah, wow. - I'm a Clippers fan. So I'm like, really mad about everything. - You're really mad. - Oh my god. - You guys, holy shit. - We got it. - Oh, 10 years of, Jim Jeffery's actually texting me the other day. He's like, "We got fucked." - Really? - Jim's a Clippers fan. - Yeah, okay. A few comics were all Clippers. - My boy, Brian Cullen, who does all my video stuff in LA and is helping out my movie. Is it the biggest Clipper fan I ever know? - He worked for the team, he is crushed. That Kauai trade destroyed your fucking franchise. - That's already five picks. You gave, okay, see the championship from that one trade, right? - Mark, they gave away Shay Gogas Alexander. You know who that is. - Yeah. - He's the MVP. They traded him for Paul George and they gave five picks. So this guy turns out to be the MVP of the league. They traded when he was young. So they already gave up five picks. Now, because they did some meddling with Kauai to circumvent the salary cap, they lose another five first round picks as a penalty. - We're done. - What? - We're done. - Ten years. - Wow. - Ten years. - This is crazy. - Sports fans, they use you pretty. I don't care if he jets fan or whatever. You stay with it. He jets fan for life. Clippers fan. I can along with him. - How long have you been a Clippers fan? - I used to have season tickets, the Blake Griffin era. And right when I came to America, this Clippers tickets was way cheaper than Lakers, so we'll go. Third quarter, they get blown out. - Who was your star back then, Poo Richardson? - It was Darius Miles, Corey McGatty, that crew. - He was ripped. - Yeah, he was ripped. We couldn't win a game, but it was exciting. - Come on, Adam. - Yeah. I liked it. I liked to root for a losing team. And if they win anything, you feel like a sense of pride. - Right. - Like the jets won a game. You're like, fucking celebration. - Yeah, yeah. - I like they didn't mentally owe them, because it's awful, but if it's one good day, you're like, pretty good. - Yeah, it's abusive. - It's abusive. It's like a abusive relationship you learned to be used to. But now I am exiting. I am no longer. - Oh. - I mean, so who's your team? We got a lot of room for you here in New York. - Yeah, I feel like next, I loved the next, but they already championship. Maybe I have to root for the Brooklyn net. - No, fuck that, yeah. - No, no, no. - Why, why? - What's your team? - You know, I got to root for the underdog. - Yeah. - You can start fresh after what the Clippers have done to you. - Yeah. - But you can't be a net's fan. - They're the Clippers in New York. - I know, and I'm okay with that. As long as they don't give away 10 picks. (laughing) - I think I'm fine. I'm gonna be a Julius Randall who we always have a sauce about for Julius Randall for the next years, coming to the nets. - I'm gonna be a Raiders fan. I'm already a Raiders fan, Vegas Raiders. - Okay. - Maybe on the Vegas expansion team. 'Cause Vegas, I would say, they can be your basketball team. - Yeah, there's not a lot of locals in Vegas. One people find out you're in Vegas. They, like, I want to do like Golden Knights games and it's just a vibe, man. It's a great vibe. - The hockey live is the best. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - But wait, if there's no locals, who's filling up these stadiums? - There's locals. - There are locals, I'm just saying, it's like, compared to the New York analogy. - Oh, right. - When you play Vegas, you have people who live in Vegas. - Yeah, sure. - Not just champions doing that. - That's true, that's why I was confused. - Yeah, but people show you love. Like, you know, if you say you're in New York, yeah, okay, everyone's in New York. Like, who cares, right? Like, there's a lot of New Yorkers. Cooler than me. But if you go to like Vegas, man. I like, like, I became friends with like, one of the guys at the UFC. - Oh, wow. - You know, like, the nights people reached out, the raiders people were suddenly come, hang out in a facility. - It's a smaller pond, man. This is so fun. - Yeah. - It's like, joining a frat or something. - Yeah. - They're greasing you up. - It's one of the biggest cities in the world, 'cause tourism, for locals is still, like you said, a smaller pond. - Yeah. - Yeah, that's awesome. - It's a really cool city, yeah. - Now, I heard Vegas is having a tough go. - With tourism. - With tourism, yeah. Everything got too pricey. - You spilled a bottle of gambling your phone. - Exactly. - That'll do it. - Well, that's the new epidemic. Stay for young men. - I know. - Using millions and billions to these young guys. - I know, it's a problem. They're all gambling at home and not going out. I have a theory, guys aren't talking to women. We should gamble on that. You know, like, hey, you can't fuck Sally. I'll take that bet. - Plus 1200 on Fandall. - Yeah. - Put the whole thing on draft kings. Polymarket. - That's what Polymarket's doing, right? You can kind of gamble on weird shit. - Exactly. - Yeah, Vegas was like, it was a destination. - Well, you get a $60 ticket on whatever, you know, spirit. - Yeah. - And you get over there. - Spirit's dead, dude. - Spirit's dead. And now, the hotel, you get a shitty hotel for cheap and just go gamble all day and it's pool. That shit's over. - I'll tell you what bugs me about Vegas. So, when you're in that hotel room and it's an $18 bottle of water. - That's what I said. - And I'm like, you're already killing me at the table. - Yes. - I'm in a desert. You can't charge $18 for water. - I bet equity took over. It's $40 with parking everywhere. - Ah. - Yeah, so it's no longer because back in the day, it's like, we're gonna give you free shit. Even if you're like, - Yeah. - Even if you only got three hundred bucks to spend, we give you all this free shit, just gamble. - Right, right. - But now, man, like, I think, I study this 'cause our show is about casinos. So, the Vegas revenue is 50% from gambling and then 50% from entertainment. Going to clubs and everything. So they focus a lot on that. Where's Macau is still like 80% gambling. - Right. - And like 20% gaming, like back in the day in Vegas before all these shows, all that they try to fucking on parking and water. It just, hey, come gamble. - Yes. - We'll take the 0.6% margin on a three to two blackjack on a double deck. Now, like, most people don't know the math, but every blackjack table that's under $100 minimum, it's six to five. Your odds are terrible. - Terrible. - That's a tourist. - Triple zero roulette. - Right. - Wow, but the higher you gamble, the better your odds are. - Yes, so if you get more $100 a hand, you get the better, like regular blackjack odds. If you play perfectly, the house edge is only about 0.6%, but nobody plays it perfectly. - Yeah. - And I usually, and all Vegas locals, I know go to the local casino. - Yeah. - You go to circa, you go to Red Rocks, and they have good $25 minimum, but they give you like good odds. They know the locals know what's up. They don't try to fuck you. - Mm-hmm. - Damn, how much do you gamble? - I gamble, but I have like a ATM limit. Like I don't gamble tens of thousands. Like I can lose $1,000 max a day. But I don't gamble every day, obviously. - Yeah, but I have a good time. - I'm gonna go hit that casino in Queens. - Oh, hell yeah, that's new, right? That's open enough. - Have you guys been? - No, no. - We're not big gamblers. - I love gambling. - I mean, I'll do it if I'm at a casino, but I also like, man, when I start playing casinos, you're making so little money. You're like, I don't wanna lose the shit that I'm making. So I think it was just kind of instilled to me to not do it 'cause I'm not a good enough gambler. - You know, I know McDonald couldn't eat. You have to give the check to the agent 'cause he would just gamble all the way. - Oh, yeah, I'm like, it's like going to Disneyland. I know him. - Whoa. - Let me just pay this 300-on entrance fee. I'm having, it's like Dave and Buster, so let me get your coins. - That's fun. - Yeah. - They say an Asian dealer is bad luck. Have you heard that? - I don't have a whole bit about it. - Whoa. - I don't play against Asian dealers. - What? - Yeah, come on. - I don't, I don't, it's, a vibe. A lot of them, they just don't care. - Right. - If you lose, they just go super fast. You lose, fuck you, whatever. Sometimes you get, you have a nice, like, especially these like Eastern European white guys. - Yeah. - White ladies or like a black woman. - Yeah. - So nice. I was like, oh my God, I'm so sorry. I got 20, like they're on your side. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, that goes a long way. - That's how, yeah, I'll keep you there longer, too. - Exactly. - Yeah, I like those. And the local casinos, you get that a little more. - Remember that movie, the cooler with William H. - Oh, yeah. - Where he's just bad luck. So the casino hires him and he just sits at the table. If someone's on a heater, they just start losing. - It's cool. - It's fun. - It's great. - Do you want me to do something really sinister? Those online gambling sites are targeting their ads to losers. - I saw this on Instagram. - People who have lost before, they flood them with ads to be like, get back on. - Oh, I thought you meant just not cool people. - Okay. - That's the same thing. - I have been getting a lot of those ads pop up lately. - People are living their parents' basements. (laughing) I thought the same thing. Damn, I didn't know you, you know you're gambling. Well, I have to study because my role in the show I'm a casino president, so I need to know. It was the coolest thing me and Oscar Isaac were and our director were in Vegas researching. And people are like so stoked to show us around, you know, I know the owner of Circa. He showed us like the back of a sports book when they make the odds. You know, I was a seasoned part of the sky shot out to my guy, Michael, who was like a casino executive. It was just like showing me the ins and outs of like how he runs, you know, the high roller section or whatever. And everyone was like so open and willing. I'm sure there's some secret areas they don't let us in, but they were all very excited to share. And I learned a ton, you know? - Yeah, wow, that is really cool. - Yeah. - I can't gamble, I'm just, the pressure is too much. Like the guy next year going, hey, don't bet on that, you idiot. - Right, right, right, right. - I'm a little bit of the sports stuff in my phone just, but you know, I don't get carried away with it. - Sportsbook I like, you get the couch, you get the TV, you get the lady with the beer, it's great. - Yeah, sports is great. It makes it more exciting, like you don't care about every football game. - Yeah. - It's a night if I put 50 bucks on somebody, then I'm invested. - Now remember, already Lang's a little bit about, he's like you want to make a giant scheme exciting, bet $1,000 on it when you have 500 in your check-in account. (laughing) - Great bit. - How about Dictapala's bit? Oh, you never said the end word? I guess you haven't put 500 bucks on a Clippers game. (laughing) - His bit, that might, something like that. - What time's football? Seven? - 8, 20. - Yeah, we'll plug some dates, dude. Where are you gonna be coming up? - Yeah, when is this episode coming out? - The fourth of October. - Oh, okay, cool. I will announce, be announcing my tour next week. - Woo! - On, I think, yeah, that next week like October 13th is some, so keep an eye out on jimmycomedy.com. All that shows will be all populated. So, next January to like May of 2027, I'll be doing my American tour and then international dates will be added. That picture is great. (laughing) - He looks like he's mad at you for not purchasing tickets immediately. - Yeah, how about you, right? Is there, we're doing theaters, we're doing clubs, well, you working on New Hour, what are we doing? - Yeah, we're working on New Hour. I think I'm doing like two arenas, but everything else I wanna do, like-- - Yeah, work out in arena. - No, no, this is not what I got later. But like, I wanna do like, the beacon, like the perfect size theater. - That's great. - I think it's like 2000 seats, I think that's the - 2600, I think. - I think it's 32. - Really is it? - I believe so. - I think anything bigger, like I didn't like Chicago theaters. - 3500, but it was very cavernous. Radio city, it was an honor to do this beautiful, then like the acoustics way too big. - Yeah, 1000 seats. - Yeah, so I'm kind of grinding it out. - Can I ask you a quick question? - Has like the New York energy affected the way you write bits or like inspired you in any different way than normal? - I hope it will, I haven't ridden anything new since I've been here. So I don't know, but I think I'm gonna probably pop in to say New York comedy club or something. Somewhere where they let me in. (laughing) - Do you like some like Jimmy-Tried new material? - Come here, listen to this. - Come here, listen to the seller one night, I'm old. - Yeah, yeah, dope. - I got three shows in the city, you're always welcome. Two at New York, one at the seller. - Oh, awesome. - Yeah, that'll be great. - Hit me up. - All right, I'm gonna be at the comedy on state in Madison, working on the new hour. We added a show, Portland Helium, Charlton musical and South Carolina. - Helium. - Oh yeah, San Jose Improv, Cap City, Trapacana, Back at the Casino, the Palazzo in Vegas. - Oh! - I guess that, have you ever around? - Yeah. - Charlotte Comedy Zone, Fox Woods, and then that's next year, so we're good. - All right, I got a Netflix special out, just came out, San Marell and correct. - Very exciting. - Just came out and Netflix, please give it a watch. Hopefully it's doing well right now. - Yeah, I'm gonna be in Phoenix, Arizona, stand up alive, November 13th through 15th, great club, then following weekend, the Pittsburgh Improv, then I'll be at a Hilarities, who loves that club, December 3rd through 5th, Madison, Wisconsin, December 10th through 12th, and Tommoni, Maryland, and McGubby's, December 17th through 19th, and yeah, you get the gist. Sameral.com, or just find us on punshup, but dude, great to meet you and chat with you. - Connor right now is the we're in the top 10. I'm putting out good juju. - Yeah. - Into the world. - Yeah, and by some of the day I got whiskey folks. - Yeah. - And we'll see you very soon. - All right, that could get me. - Appreciate it guys. 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