Rick Glassman, a stand-up comedian, shares insights from his recent tour and podcast episodes, discussing his stand-up comedy journey, audience reactions, and personal routines. He highlights the challenges of maintaining consistent performance, especially in the final show of a weekend tour, which he believes may stem from fatigue or audience expectations. Glassman stresses the importance of self-care, suggesting that comedians should take breaks to avoid burnout, drawing a parallel to athletes who rest to recover. He also engages in light-hearted conversations about humor, fashion, and comedy culture, including references to fellow comedians like Shane Gillis, Jason Alexander, and Mark Norman. The episode touches on broader themes like the value of authenticity, the stigma around therapy, and the balance between artistic expression and business responsibilities. Glassman promotes several sponsors—Bluetooth, Bluechew, and Revolve Man—offering discounts to listeners. He emphasizes that comedy is not just about performing, but also about being present with the audience, creating genuine connections, and recognizing when to step back. The conversation reflects both humor and vulnerability, underscoring that comedic success depends on mental health, rest, and audience trust. Ultimately, Glassman advocates for a sustainable approach to comedy, where performers prioritize well-being alongside performance quality.
Hi, it's Rick Glassman from this podcast. We'll get right to the show, but first I wanted to let you know that I'm on my standup comedy tour, Ricky's on the loose and I'm in Dallas this weekend. And if you're in Washington, DC, Montreal, Quebec, Edinburgh or London in the UK, Portland or Eugene in Oregon, Philadelphia, PA or Houston, Texas. My tickets are for sale now at Rick Glassman.com. And if you want to be the first to be notified when I'm coming to your city because I'm adding dates as we speak, go to Rick Glassman.com/tour, sign it from an email list and I'll let you know. Hey girls, get started without me. I'll be right there. Hurry up Rick, seriously. What are you doing? Please, I'll be right there. Now enjoy the show, the show, the show, the show, show. All right, get up. Look at that. Four, four noon. Oh, hey, Dickless. Whoa, whoa. It's not out, huh? I can tell it on the way. I hugged you. Crazy. Crazy out there. Although we always say crazy, but it's summer. People in New York, you're saying? Yes, my parents, ex-girlfriend. Is that time of year where you get to see Albanese's thighs? Always a bummer. You get to see, oh boy, those are serious. Man, do you play football? Yeah, you can tell. Look at that. Yeah, that extra muscle. I've got the thighs of chilly ball, Thornton. Yeah, there you go. Even better. You think? What did you say? Judy Gold. The hers might be bigger. Good shirt. Thanks. It's my new merch. I love it. Well, if you want, you go to Ricklasmin.com and grab one. Use promo code boobs for 10% on. Okay. Let's open your head one laying around. Let me show me marks again. Yeah, that's good. We'll stay on mind for most of it. Don't worry about it, bud. Can you put some hair right here? Thank you. Gang, there's a reason that Bluetooth is a number one brand for news. Take it from the top. Gang, there's a reason that Bluetooth is the number one brand for better sex. Experience it yourself at Bluetooth.com. And we've got a special deal for our listeners. Right now, when you buy two months of Bluetooth gold, you get to third free with promo code Tyson. That's promo code Tyson. You are also receive an additional 10% off plus free overnight shipping on your first order. Visit Bluetooth.com for important details and safety information. We thank Bluetooth for sponsoring the pod and the bedroom. I got one more thing. Oh my God. Fine, go. Is this a bit? No, it's good to fuck out of here. No, go. No, I'm doing it without you. No, I want to do it. I'm doing it like this, but I want to do it. It'll be fun. I'm doing it without you. No, what? You want to be here while I plug my dates? Yes. Why? Because you look funniest guy in the world. And I would want to see you if I was out there. And I want to know your dates. Because maybe I'm going to bring Kevin on a surprise date. That was for his birthday. To go see Rick Glassman, but now you're ruined it. Well, I'm going to be in your hometown. When? You're going to be in Fatberg. You're going to be stupid town this weekend. I'm going to September 10 through 13th. I'm in Portland, Oregon and Eugene, Oregon. We are not from Portland, Oregon. I don't know. I can't hear you. I don't have my headphones on Rick. You want to play this fucking game? But September 17 through 19th, I'm going to be in Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania downtown or center city center city. Let's go stand up October 1 through three Houston, Texas, October 15 through 17 to come to Washington. November 13 through 14th, Salt Lake City, Rick Glassman.com. I'm also adding new dates. If you want to find out when I'm coming to your city, your city, your city, your city. And sign up for my email list. And I got one question. I end every promo with this. Are you garbage? What? Mark Norman, welcome back for your sixth. Yeah, I told you I felt like this one was too close to the last. Yeah. You've told me a lot of things that you don't like though. No, the Jews. Wait. Oh, let's see if it's here with the dog away. No, he's cool at the fart. School of the Farts doesn't love anti-semitism, but I think he has he converted? No, no, no, no, he's too easy going. Oh, let me check the dick. Oh, no. Why? What are you checking for? Circumcision or size? Circumcision. I mean, spade dogs and neuter dogs are more than circumcised. Oh, David's paid. Wait a minute. What does that mean? They got more than the forest can cut off. They have their balls cut off. Oh, but the shaft is intact. Yeah. All right. So the forest. It's kind of like your act. You got to you got to you talk about your dick a lot, but you got no balls. Hey, count it. Yeah. That's a full lipstick. If I ever seen one. You're doing you're doing the what's it called again? What's your your thing where you go in front of like a certain group of people? Human trials. Yeah. It's cool. They thanks. Yeah. It was a hit out of the gate. Yeah. I watched the first one. I'm not remembering what it was. And then I watched the Asians one Asian one. Oh, yeah, we did Gen Z girls and Asian businessmen. You know, it's weird. After the Asian business man one, I feel like I wanted to watch it again 30 minutes later. I see what you're bad driving at. Okay. I feel like I don't know how far I could go with this, but I know it can. Oh, man, easy, Gillis. What do you think this is? Killis Asian. Kill Tony. No, he had a late mind. Not his, you know, he had a chicken is armor. He had that that whole fiasco with the S and L canceling. Okay. I know he's funny though. He's great. I think as far as like I put him in the same like class generation as us. You know, I mean, not talking about like the like the Eddie Peppetones and the red foxes. Oh, sure. But or the Mark Marin. I think he's my favorite like comedian. Really? Yeah. I don't know what favorite means. I don't know him. You don't know him. I mean, we've met each other. I don't know. We're not friends. I could connect. Well, I like when he had when his special came out, I'm like, it wasn't just, oh, I'm going to watch it because I want to watch stuff or like people that I know that you watch them. Like I don't know him, but I'm still like, I really want to watch this and I was laughing out loud. Okay. He's a great comic. So good. And Matt McCuster. McCuster. McCuster. MC. Let's cut you SKER. However you said there. He's a good egg as well. I just podcasted with him and met him for the first time. Great guy. So they have they have this this bro energy that isn't. Yeah, there's an ease about them. An ease. They're they're vote just cool, calm and collected and great to chat with great talking to great hanging. Yeah. Although I think with when I first met Gil, I wanted to get to know him. So I kept talking and he was like, I think I came on too strong, because I talked a lot and he he's not a talker. Oh, well, then don't introduce me. Well, he's a talker, but he's not like a yapper. Then don't introduce me. You're not a yapper. It's the nicest thing you've ever said to me. This guy, well, yeah, he's a napper. Yes. Push in. Look at what is he knows. He pushed in before I even said it. Yeah, I'm a fapper. Speaking of people I like, I'd like to give a shout out to the homeless Pimp who instincts for those of you who have watched at least a few episodes of this podcast, since working with with with you, I have now implemented shout out to McCone and shout out to Miranda. I've implemented the handheld in my on my day to day because of him. It's about time. You were missing the handheld. I've been doing it for about a year now. Okay, we had the graphics, the animation, no handheld. The hand so I don't love a person in my place other than the people that are on camera. Sure. But like, oh, but the person that's here, like I'm like, oh, if it's a body, if it's like, you know, they can include them, you could look to them, looking into the camera. It's really the camera person. Well, can I also give a homeless Pimp a shout out because he does two things that comedians comedians love homeless Pimp, but he does two things that comedians hate and we've accepted it because we like him. Come on. The homeless Pimp name. Everybody hates it. Yeah. It's hard to say. We all feel stupid. But when I introduce him, I say Mike. Exactly. Because you're a comedian. You can't, can't call a man homeless Pimp. It's weird. It also sounds like it's your, it also, it's like people think, oh, that's my joke I'm making. Like I got to call this guy homeless Pimp, like when you tell a breeze to a silly name, and it's like, I'm sorry, we're just trying to work here. Exactly. Because we like comedy. We like good comedy. So we have no bad comedy. It sucks. But it's all a testament to your likability. And then the outfits are everything comedians are not. We want to kill ourselves. Just the getting going. Well, this is a light day for homo Pimp. This is cool to me. Oh, come on. Also, you also with the new, with the new, the new hair and the new great hair, great bleep. It may I say that you're sober. Yeah. You can say sober. He just looks good. He doesn't. He kind of looks like a fighter. I told him. Yeah. You do look like a fighter. If he had tattoos and a little bit more attitude. Sure. Yeah. He's a very sweet man. But everything I'm saying is whole thing is against our, our norm here. And he pulls it off. I hear you. The homeless Pimp thing, the clothes I don't hear you on. Well, you're LA. You're You're a little different. - I'm bored of my arms tired. RickGlasmin.com, promo code boobs.
for 10% off. New shirts folks, I want one. You know what else I do with my merch? I make sure it fits in a way that isn't just, it's like, I want to wear this. Okay. My mark, that's why my clothes are a little bit expensive. Like for me, I don't, I don't charge it to the customer. I just don't make much. You're one of those guys. What do you mean? My shirts are 15 cents. I get a mate in Tahini, probably a little boy. They're horrible. Yeah. But boy, they're for the common man. So I tell people at the end of my show because I sell merch now. I didn't use to. Welcome. And I bring Linochi on the podcast with me. Let's free plug. We should date his podcast. There you go. I've done it. And he wanted to, he wants to come in the road. I'm like, yeah, it'd be great. I would love to bring somebody. But I don't move tickets like you. So I'm like, I don't want to bring it. It's cost of money. He's like, well, I'll sell merch for you. And that covers the cost. Oh. But I still now, I know some people want to buy merch. They don't feel obligated. But I still feel like at the end of the show, he comes up to show merch. And I feel so uncomfortable. So I say, listen, if anybody, I'm saying this now, if anybody wants anything, and it's too expensive, name a price, if like you want to take something for free, take something for free, one thing, take whatever you want, just know this. My margins are bad. So if you're just doing, because it's like free shirts, come on, dude. But if you're like, if you're poor, and you bought tickets to the show, and it's like, if I didn't want a shirt, take yourself a shirt. Wow. That is risky, because people abuse. You know, abuse is, because sometimes people take a thing, but I'm fine. I really am. I'm truly fine. If you want something and you can't afford to take the thing, you bought a ticket. No. Okay. I'm going to say some comedy clubs, employees. Oh, the staff. Now, if a staff wants something, if they want something, that's flattering to me. You see comedians all the time. You think this is cool. You wear a ticket. But what I've noticed is, some time, I did a show. I'm not going to even say how long ago in case I could figure out where it is. Got it. I was walking the club the next day, and somebody who I didn't even know, you know, you don't meet all the staff, especially after just one night. Yeah. He's wearing the shirt. Oh boy. And I go, nice shirt. It's flattering. And he goes, oh, is this you, and I go, yeah, why are you wearing it if you don't know that's me? He goes, I don't know. He gave it to me. He pointed to another guy. Whoa. I'm not like, oh, he's the employee. The employee took a shirt just to give to a body of his that told him, and boy, are my arms tired. Oh, I'm tired from a punch of this guy in the face. My arms are hurting. This guy overstepped. If you want the shirt and you're going to wear the shirt and you're a fan, you take it. Sure. But now you can't give it away. What do you call that? Is that an Indian giver? Is that something else? No, I think you're thinking of Red Hat Chili Peppers. Is that? Red Hat Chili Peppers? Was that an album? Give it away. Give it away. Give it away. Oh. That's not Red Hat Chili Peppers. It is. It is. Cause I thought that was Weird Al Yankovic doing the Flintstone song. Wait a minute. Barney Rubble. What a little Weenah. Where's Wilma? Anybody seen her? Got a baby elephant vacuum cleaner? I love that. I have Weird Al. I met him once. No, I've tried. I met him at Opian Anthony years ago and he couldn't have been nicer. He was on the show with a bunch of asshole, meathead, you know, come guzzlers. And they're all like, uh, you piece of shit home about. He was like, whoa, what is this? Cause he's like a sweet guy with long hair and a mustache, and they're all zinging each other. And he was like, whatever. What did I want to get on? You, uh, a lot of people, and by the way, if you want to connect with them, uh, oh, thanks. Yeah. That's took me a second. I don't know if that was a lint. Um, I feel like you talk like that too, but you do it ironically. Yeah. I'm just fucking around. Those guys are serious. He is, uh, uh, UHF was was probably my first, like when I had a favorite comedy. I think it was UHF. It was my first time I had a favorite comedy. Loved it. I mean, uh, the spatula city. Yeah. I love the company so much. I bought the whole thing. Rambo, when he got the bullet, I mean, uh, Kramer is great in that. Yeah. That was, that was Kramer. That character was probably, was before Kramer. Good point. Pre-end word. I just had Jason Alexander on my podcast. No way. And he just had weird Alan. We were talking about some of that stuff. Whoa. It was cool, man. Wow. George. Yeah. And then we went to the Dally after. Whoa. Jason Alexander is a Dally on that. And I am going to, I want him to do my podcast. I don't know if he's going to, but this might be like a call to open. I might just keep it down. I'm sorry, I'm sure you get this all the time. I just want to introduce myself. My name is Rick. I'm a comedian. Hi. Hey. And I'm just a, uh, I'm a big fan of and. I have a podcast. I don't know if it's any, um, I would love if I could have you on my podcast sometime. That's it. I'll leave you guys alone. Wow. Um, like what's your average, uh, viewer thing? It's actually, I'm doing pretty well. It's, you know, every probably about 150,000, 200,000 views. I mean, it's like, uh, well, we were just about to go. But if you want to sit and talk about it, I'd love to hear more about it. I guess. Um. Yeah. Actually, let me wash my hands. I'll be right back. Right. Okay. I'm going to give you the balls. He's actually sitting. He's got a person. Why are you? Why don't you say what you like to sit and. We is wrapping this thing. I don't know. He's got 150,000 dollars. I'll every, what do we do? I'm driving seven hours to get home from here. I don't care if you have some lean. I've got to be in a car for four hours back. I'm blown. No, but you don't want me to just in case. But. Another part by the way, we're shocked. I know they got with the pocket. Oh, hey. Hey. Wild man. Does he get stopped? Um, Natalie. They know. They know. They know he knows. Bam. Bam. Bam. Bam. Yeah. That was a cool one. Wow. Jason Alex. Between the two of us were Julia Louise Dreyfus and Michael Richards away from a reunion. Oh, I love Julia. That's my dream. Get. Yeah. Are you saying as a guest or as a wife? Guest. She's a little older. Smart. Can't have kids. But, uh, yeah. I like, uh, I like them. I like them all. It's great, great cast. Big Jewish cast. Is it? Oh, yeah. It's three of them. Not Michael Richards, huh? He's Michael Richards. Give that a goog. Okay. Goog. Goog. I thought you were doing another Shane Gillis. Yeah. Jason Alexander. Is Michael Richards Jewish. It's such a curse because the show is the best show of all time. But then he's not Jewish. Oh, he was born in Culver City. Okay. Is that for me? Scottish descent. Oh, interesting. Well, as publicist once noted that Richards feels a strong personal affinity and adherence towards Jewish philosophy due to having Jewish mentors. He does not have Jewish ancestry and is inevitably formally, never formally converted. All right. Would you guys take him? Thank you. Yeah, I don't, that's not really, that's not up to me. I feel like, I don't, you know, I don't need pork, but, uh, I eat on plates that have pork on them. Hmm. Yeah, they're good. I don't speak gay code. Um, the, uh, Hasids. Yes. They have separate plates for meat and dairy and stuff. Oh, that's right. Then they bury their wife or something. Yeah. You just know that cause of curb, right? Yes. By the way, I saw the lady from the ski lift episode in the park yesterday. You recognized her? Oh, I'm a huge curb nut. Did you say anything there? I said, hey, curb. What did she say? She maced me. Is that why you're? Yeah, my eyes are killing me. Take that off. If you don't mind, uh, this the mustache. Oh, okay. Um, um, uh, yeah, you don't look like you with it. Oh, really? No. I look like a Magnum PI. You look like me and my closer. Oh, yeah. You have a stash. Well, I wear a mustache sometimes in my act. Oh, okay. You heard me? Oh, no. Could you not hear me? We only knew it was a matter of time. Yeah, no. Oh, shit. A leopold and lobe. I just don't know what leopold and the other thing is to get it. You're lobe. That was an ear, right? Yeah, but we said leopold and lobe. Yeah, but I just don't. What's what's the non pun? What's leopold? Oh, oh, oh. That's a famous guy. I think he tried to kill the president. Leopold and lobe. Wait. Why lobe? No, leop, leoplobe. Maybe it was a law firm. Who's leopold and lobe? Can you give that a goog? Yeah, see if you can do it. I swear to God, it's a thing. Leopold and lobe. Leopold and lobe. We're two American murders who kidnapped and killed 14-year-old Bobby Franks in Chicago. Okay. Sorry. No, it's okay. Good pull. I thought it was a president. Leopold, I think, is also a movie. Katelyn Leopold. Is that what it is? Because I know there's a Gavin DeGrasse song. I mean, people are just tuning out at this point. I know. Gavin DeGrasse song with a Leopold movie. Google just, you know? It's a friend. I like to call Google. Yeah, right. The Gavin DeGrasse song, we're like the lookin' for us. We belong together with Tristan and Isadal. Yeah. We belong together. I don't know that one. Like the open season shores. Wow. I love Gavin DeGrasse. Well, man, were you a mouse-cutter? Because you're talton. Thank you. You know, it was you, Ryan. Gosling, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Timberlake, all mouse-cutters. Yeah, I know. Very talton. I grew up the same place as you. Okay. Earth before this stuff came around. Well, Cleveland, though. That's all over the world over there. Yeah. You're so not Cleveland. What's Cleveland? Drew Carey is Cleveland. So is the guy that did the movie about Pimps. And he talks about math on Joe Rogan. Math on Joe Rogan. Who am I talking about?
Oh, oh, oh, oh, uh, Terence Howard. Yeah. It's hard out here for a homeless bit. Mm-hmm. Wait a minute. What do you talk about? Cleveland. Yeah, he's from Cleveland. Okay. He feels Cleveland, dude. And while we're talking about my stashes and big ass teeth, Terence Howard. Wait. Do you have, you have issues with your parents, right? Would you say that you guys have a family feud? No. Well, Steve Harvey does, and he's from Cleveland. Good answer. Steve Harvey's got one move. What's that? So what's something you put inside your, your wife's vagina, and he guy goes, uh, dick and he goes, okay, well, I'm a bigger fan of Steve Harvey than you. Then the guy tries to talk and he holds them, 'cause he wants to keep his moment. That's his whole move. I don't know, man. I, I think he's great at it. I think he's great at it. I also loved, uh, he's got a stash. Kings of comedy. We got, I love Kings of comedy, but, uh, you know, we're any Mac, let's be honest. Cookies and shit. Yeah. He, he, he really dominoes the whole, the whole, all of them were great though. Yeah. Do you don't like DL Hugley? He's okay. He, I think he used to be fun. The entertainer. He's entertaining. Dude, Cetric, the entertainer with the, the, the bit with the cigarette on the lip while he was driving, dude. That's classic. If you have one bit like that, yeah, you're good. He's kind of like Linsanity. He's, now he's, he's cemented as, you know, yeah, yeah, he's just hilarious. Is what I'm getting it? Yes. And he hates kill us. But he had a good run. Yeah. He, uh, he had that chink in the armor was the name of the, uh, New York Post headline, because he was killing so hard at the nicks and then they got, they got fired. I remember something like that. I didn't know if that was, I don't remember it being real or sketch, but I remember hearing that. True story. It's a saying. It's a term. And they're like, we know what you were doing. That's, that's when it started. Yeah. That's when Walt culture started. I guess so. That was the Linsanity of Walt culture. Now, do the ladies dig the stash? Is that way, uh, you're keeping it or what, what's the purpose? You know how, um, I'm going to answer you a question within analogy. Please. I love analogy. A lot of women say they don't wear wake, make up straight women, say they don't wear makeup for men. They wear it for themselves or other women. Okay. Yeah. Not that you need to be wearing it for men, but like that's part of it too. If you're, if you're wanting to attract a man, and you wear something, will you feel attractive? That's got to be at least subconsciously part of it. So I thought, because though women love this mustache, really, yes, I'm not doing it for them. Ah, you're doing it for me. I'm doing it for the pod. I appreciate it. Well, you know, it's, I think women and men, we like things of the opposite sex that we can't do. A woman can't grow a stash like that. You've never dated a woman in Cleveland or Greek, but I'm just saying, you know what I mean? A lady can't do that. So I think a woman's like, oh, he's definitely a guy. So you think that that men like to do things that women can't do in vice versa in an effort to let the opposite sex know that they are, in fact, the opposite sex. Yes. And I think the opposite sex enjoys it when when we see that. Is that why women love when men are funny? No, that's not really my point of view. Sometimes when a woman makes me laugh, which happens all the time, I am truly not somebody who subscribes. I'm so much so, I mean, some of my, some of the funniest people I know are women. Man, I'm tired of all the back pedaling. No, I'm being serious to tell a story. Okay. I just think it's ridiculous. So sometimes when a woman makes me laugh, a, like Jordan Jensen makes me laugh. Very funny. Right? I still think it's funny to say, you're really funny for a, for a girl. That's funny. I, the same way I like to tell a girl to smile. I'm just like making fun of the people that do that thing, but it's, it's a, it's lost. I've noticed like, that is lost because, oh, they, it's such a real person and they've hurt so many times. I think it's generational. I've thought about this a lot, because you know, people say, you can't say anything in comedy anymore, but I'm like, no, I say everything. You can say everything. Shut up. As long as it's a joke, you can say it. But I do think audiences have lost the, the irony factor, you know, and it, it's not that they're more sensitive, they're queer, they're gay or just louder mean people out there. And they believe it. That's my theory. Well, maybe that's the internet. Maybe the internet has made more louder mean people because you see all those people now. Whereas you saw, before you saw the people in front of you, now you see the whole fucking world coming at you. Before you're speaking as a comedian, seeing the audience. I'm speaking as a comedian, and in public too, I'll make jokes in public and I can see people are like, whoa, I'm like, I'm joking. It's irony. I'm being ironic. And they're like, I don't know if you are. I think we're so programmed to get a gotcha from people or catch people in a certain way, problematic or whatever, that we override the sarcasm or the irony and just go right to the gotcha. I believe your hypothesis, I don't know if I want to subscribe to it. All right. You don't have to. That's just my theory. But if somebody, I have tested it. I do know that a lot of basketball players or anybody that really, that terrorists, they're ACL. They all, they are four irony. Have you noticed that? Hmm. Well, I guess when you're watching, they have an iron knee. Oh, no. Nevermind. I think the gizz in the throat got you. Um, they have an iron knee. Uh, yes, cavernic, cavernic, tink, tink, tink, tink, tink, careful, careful, shingilis. It's an element. Nickel please. Oh, I was talking about the noise you made on your knee. Oh, we got to stop referencing gillis with asian, I don't think he's going to love it. Um, gyrus, shingurus, that was the last one, uh, but yes, yeah, I'm joking. But people go, whoa, every, every one of our podcasts, I know, is 30% of us doing this and 80% to 86.6%. Depending on what you hear of 69ing, I think the last one was the first time we forgot to do it. So if we remember, I haven't showered at a couple days. Is that true? Yeah. I think showering is overrated. I do too, but a couple days in the heat, the heat is bad, the heat is bad, but it sounds like it would be. The heat is on. Yes. Uh, uh, which, at least to say when I was broke with living with a bunch of guys and we'd go, the heat is on because the heat was never on. We couldn't afford it. So if we turned it on, we'd sing the heat is on. That's how broke we were. Look at you now. Now I got all the heat we want. So Miami heat, uh, you talk about shower and, oh, yeah, I just, I think it's, uh, overrated. I do too. Do you have an opinion on this? Mike. Share every day. It's great. Really? You watch that hair every day? I don't think watch your hair every day is good for you. I, but that's a good head. I don't shampoo every day, but I do, I do wet every shower. Well, you got a good glow in that hair. Thank you. That is a healthy head of hair. I also condition, I do condition pretty much every shower. I shampoo, I try to shampoo, maybe, uh, through two, three days a week. Wait, you condition without shower without sham? That's crazy. Shampoos for the scalp conditioners for the hair. Whoa. I've never even thought to put conditioner in without shampoo. You're seeing Billy Madison. Shampoo is better. It cleans, but that's not even right. Yeah. Shampoo is for the scalp. Did you know that? Yeah. That is crazy. If I don't leave the house other than to walk the dog for a day or two, I won't shower. Same. What's the point? I look at showering like I look at washing my hands after a pee, because it depends where I am and where I'm going. I love it. I don't do either. You never wash your hands after a pee? Rarely. I don't even hold my junk. I just kind of let it out. I just rested on this toilet, right? No. God, no. That fucking toilet ball has been through hell and back. I'm at an airport here in Cleveland. I mean at home. Oh, home. Yeah. I rested on my kid's shoulder. Mark, at what point did he just, you know, joke, sir? Well, my dad did that when I was a kid. Yeah. And now you guys have a family feud. Good answer. Three X's. I wash my hands before a pee. Okay. Just for your dick's sake, you don't want to ruin it. Yeah. I like that. Don't take the dawn. Sometimes, like, I'll go to public bathroom and I'll wash my hands and I'll pee and no one is in there. I'm like, I can get out of here. I do. But then someone comes, someone walks in and they see me pee. Now, it is what it is. But if it's at a venue and they know who I am, oh, yeah, I will either wash my hands, but I feel like I'm lying. So I say, I'm only washing my hands because you walked in. I love that. The honesty or I'll say, hey, I'm not washing my hands. I'm not. My hands after every pee and they're going, I don't care. I'm just trying to take a quiz, but I feel like I have to acknowledge it. I see. I'm the same way. I do a lot of fake hand washing. Yeah. It's called hand wetting and my mom does that for real. I don't even wet it. Oh, you turn it on. And so you just get your hand dirty or from the sink? Well, yeah. Then I condition them. What do you do? You turn the water on. You go like this? Yeah. Exactly. Which is the same. It's like when people go, look at that homeless lady carrying 13 bags of cans. Just get a job. But I'm with the homeless lady. Wait. What does that have to do with washing your hands? Because if I'm already getting the water on and doing this, I might as well wet them and dry them. Right. So then tell me the other. So still make the connection. This is my analogy. So you know, you see the homeless Chinese lady with 17 bags of cans. Or homeless, you know, not Chinese. Well, they're the best at homelessness, I think Chinese. How so? Well, they got the most bags for what I can gather. Maybe it's a go. Or they can gather.
Hunter gatherer. You never hear about a gatherer Biden. Okay, but just saying, the homeless lady, you know, you always see a homeless lady with a million bags of cans and that's a lot of work. She's out in the sun sweating. Are you saying at that point at that point get a job is what people say, but I get the homeless lady, but maybe, maybe she can't. Maybe she can, but some people can because of AI. That's true. Asian intake. I was just talking about practice. Oh, you don't know I'm talking about. No, you do that sometimes, but I could tell now Alan Iverson. Yes. Anil insertion. Alan Iverson. You're talking practice. Okay. So I got it eventually. Yeah. Sorry. Took me a second. It's okay. I just don't want to leave you hanging. So I might fake it. Like my wife. Don't do that. All right. All right. Nobody do that anymore. I don't want to ruin the flow. We're calibrating everybody wrong. Hmm. Please elaborate. Sure. 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That's Revolve.com/tyso and use code tyso for 15% off your entire order. Offer and soon do not sleep on it. Now let me ask you this there, fatty, speaking of fake laughing. So I've been doing these weekends on the road. I'm trying to build a new hour. I put out a special. So now I'm back to the beginning stages again. Most jokes in the first 10 minutes than any special I've ever seen in a good way. Oh, thanks. I'll take it. But I'm working on the news. So you're trying stuff. You got the notebook. You're throwing it against the wall. Right. Gossley. We talked about it earlier in notebook. Okay. So you're working it out. And I've noticed with about every weekend I do about five or six shows. And I'm killing with like five or four or five of them. But then there's always one show where I bomb. And I'm like, huh, what's that about? I'm noticing a pattern. Not bomb, but it's I struggle. So then I'm like, why am I killing for four shows and then bombing the one? Is it always a random show or is it always a certain like it's actually usually the last show than the weekend? Okay. And I'm doing great. And then the last show, it's not great. And I'm fighting and clawing my way to the end. So I go, what does a pattern here? What is this? And this is the thing with comedy. I think you got a you got to assess, you know, some kind of bomb they go off stage like I'm the shit. You got a you got to be realistic. I don't know if I didn't know that, but there's a lot of that out there. So just saying, I wonder why that last show I'm bombing it. Then I'm like, are the other guys faking it? The other four shows? Is that all fake? That's where my head goes. Do you feel just as funny on that last show, but you're not receiving it? Or do you also feel like it's not as funny? No, I feel like I'm doing the same as the other shows. And they're giving me less. How many times has that happened? Three or four times. Is that happened before this round after this special? It would happen, but randomly. Like, oh, that weekend. Not always the last one. Not always the last one and not a couple of weekends in a row. May I make a suggestion? Sure. Maybe you're doing too much standup. You're getting a little older. Sure. You're able to find it faster. Sure. Maybe you're just you did it already. You did the weekend. You don't think you think that's crazy? I don't think that's that's the okay answer. Getting doing too much standup. What else what else am I going to do? UPS. You know, weightlifters don't lift weights seven days a week. I like to take a day off. I think Sunday off weightlifters. And I'm speaking as somebody who used to kind of be in shape. Don't work out six days a week. Your arms would be tired. Get a shirt. They're very expensive. Do you know why they're tired? Because they've been working out and they need to they need sleep. They need to relax. Also, you and I are probably opposite schools of thought. Yes. What I'm about to say. And you have so many specials out and people love your comedy. People don't even know I do standup. So take it for what it's worth. I didn't know you did standup. I've never been somebody who subscribed and needing to get especially when you're first coming up. Everyone's like you got to get up on stage every night. Yeah. You got to do it all the time. I see the value in it. I was always somebody who wanted to get up three maybe four times a week. That's enough. And when I on the road, I now do five shows, sometimes four. And when I'm back into town, if I if I'm doing shows the next weekend again, I don't want to do any shows over those next three, four days. That's not just had just when I got my parties had the same thing. Because I see the value in doing it all the time. But also my I think my biggest strength is a comedian. And I think this is a big strain for all comedians who are good is being able to be present. And I want to be in the audience with you. Yeah. I want to be in the audience with you while I'm performing. I want to enjoy when I'm doing. Okay. And if if I'm trying new stuff all the time, great, great, great. But if I'm working on an hour, I let me chill. I don't want I don't want to do it tonight. Then don't. And I think there's an addictive quality to wanting to do it. Do you want to do it because you feel like you're supposed to. Do you want to do it because if you don't do it, you feel bad. Do you want to do it because of the high you get from the audience or do you want to do it because you're really trying to work on something. I believe you do that. I watch your
your other show, the, the, the page of stage, do your, your stuff is, it's awesome what you're doing. Oh, I appreciate it. Thanks. I'm so attracted to people who create stuff because that's the thing. Well, you tell me to take a break. I'm trying to create. I'm not telling you to take a break. Okay. I'm making a suggestion. Have you tried that? Because the thing is, taking a break doesn't mean doing nothing. Well, sometimes it is, but like you're also doing all these videos and all these things. I think you need to charge to, I need to charge the battery. Uh-huh. Okay. I've heard this before from a lot of people. I enjoy staying up and I like to tinker and every set I do, I get to work on a new joke or a new line or angle. Yeah. So it's not, I don't know if it's an addiction. Maybe I am addicted, but. Oh, no, no, no. You are. Really? Dude. Yes. Uh, you know, yes, you have, you have OCD, right? You have at least obsessive, you're at least obsessive. Maybe. I've never gotten checked. Well, the need for wordplay and association and gay, as far as comedy, like there's something going on with you the way you're wired, right? Okay. There's things you need to, you need to stimulate yourself in a certain way. Yeah. So I don't know if it's an addiction as much as it's a need. All right. Should I pay for this therapy session? This is an therapy session, dude. This is a friend telling another friend, you're not funny anymore and you need to do less comedy. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Biggest fear. Jesus Christ. Just scared the hell out of me here. Did you think any of that was serious? That last line? No, just, I know you're joking, but it, you know, it's still scary, scary to hear the thing you're scared of. And I thought that's what you're saying for a second. We have so much in common as far as frequency and comedy. Not necessarily point of view, but like the way we like to express and do. Yes. But like so much different on what we worry about and don't worry about. Yeah. Very true. We were a little yin and yangy again. Same. You're the big fan. But I didn't even know what you meant. Oh, Andrew Yang, but Lynn and Yang, but we're a little yin and yangy, but, but also so similar. So I think that's why we're fun because we did the episode with Niskey. You said like, you know, where he said he's going to leave here and he's going to be so worried. And then you said, not me. It's done. But then later he said, I'm going to be worried. And I don't know when to worry why you worry. Yeah. I guess that's a good point. Well, you worry it was. Hopefully it was entertaining because I throw this whole episode. I'm like, is this anything? Are we getting anything? Right now. Yeah. Do you always feel that way? Is that just with me? Always. Always. Sometimes you're cooking. And you're like, this is something you can feel it in the moment. But this most episodes and most comedy shows, I'm like, they hate me. I suck. I got to step it up. You get off stage. And unless it's like lights out, well, you're saying the first, you know, three or four shows are always really great. And then the last one's not. Yeah. So you, you don't worry those first three or four shows. Not really. No. But now I'm worried because I'm like, are they faking it? And the last show might be genuine. That's my fear. Right. How do you think they got together to decide to fake it for the first few? Well, I think maybe those are the die hards. This is my theory. All the die hards come out. They buy tickets to the show. It's boom, boom, boom. They scoop up and they buy and when people buy, well, they're a big fan. I better buy the Thursday first and when they're on the Friday, you think the die hards, if they could come to any show that weekend, they're picking the earlier one because they can't wait as opposed to the one that makes the most sense for their schedule. Well, I think the late show Saturday, which is the show I'm talking about that I always struggle on, is a lot of people like, we'll get a few drinks and we'll go to see this asshole. Got it. So I think it's like randos in the crowd, but then you say, okay, who cares about randos? I should be able to make randos laugh, too. Right. So then you start to think, as other guys are just fans, they want to be supportive. They don't want to let me bomb, which is nice, but not conducive for the arts. I think it's more realistic that you're that you're a little communically exhausted. I hope you're right. It's like that scene in the department where the, the, the therapist, the hot lady, whatever her name is. She goes, why is the last client of the day always such a hassle? And he goes, because you're tired and you don't give a shit, it's not supernatural. Maybe I just answer my own. Yeah, maybe. All right. Also, for me, late shows, I get stoned for. Whoa. Fucking love. That is risky. You're one of these guys that uses the audience like it's a some canvas. I can't do that. Like maybe sitter, paid a ticket price, parked, I think all of them hate me immediately. So, so I don't talk about stand up that much on the pod. Okay. No, no, no, no. We can dial it back. But with you, I do often. And I like that. I like that apparently. What's that? I'm addicted. Yeah. Also, like we tap into a similar, we're so similar with such strong, such different points of view. I like, it's exciting for me. And I had a conversation with my editor, John Michael, recently about this. How much the art and the business, they're not mutually exclusive, but when they can cannibalize each other and not in a bad way, not like, you know, the purists are just doing it for the art and the hacks, like, oh, you're such a business, like there's, there's need for both. And the point of view of they got a babysitter, this is, this is not for you to go up there and do whatever, like you have, I do believe when, when I, when people are coming to buying tickets to see me, not just I'm on the show, I, there is a responsibility and that's the business. Yes, yes. Right. I get that exists. I, I truly believe I am good enough at this. Okay. But whatever I do is not going to make these people be like, we wasted our money and our time. Wow. This is a big yin and yang. I can have a great set of like, I wasted the fuck out of their time. It might have not been the best version of you that they saw. Sure. But dude, every one of our peers and friends, every one of them, if we've been, if you've been doing this for at least 10 years, if not 15 years, yeah, and you're still doing this. Yeah. You better be good enough to wear. Yes. It's, it's agreed. I go to a movie. It wasn't the best movie. It was, it's fun to go to a movie. Yeah. But people go, oh, that movie fucking sucked. That happens all the time. And they walk out and they throw their popcorn on the ground. They hit their wife. That happens. Damn. I don't know, man. I don't, I don't know if it does. Okay. I mean, you never walked out of a movie. When you walk out of a movie, you get your money back. If you stay to the end of the movie, it was good enough. I mean, go up. You ask. I never did. You a fucking heap. Never thought about that. Yeah. I think if you leave before the end of the first act, you should absolutely go get your money back. I don't know. That's subjective. Sure. So, so is, they, everybody was, it was just trying to make me feel good in lie. At the end, they just say we're like, oh, they're, they're, they're, they're, I'm saying from a business aspect, you can't go up and get your money back because you didn't enjoy the film. Yeah. Shindler List is a great movie. If I went out, I was about to ju-hate and holocaust. I'm walking out of here. Give my money back. There's more ju-hate in you saying that I'm a Jew. We're getting my money back after leaving after the first 30 minutes and then there is walking out of Shindler List because you didn't think it was funny enough. I thought it was hilarious. I thought it was the coming of the year. But you see what I'm saying? You can't have an opinion about a movie. That's a great movie. Disagree. And get your money back. That doesn't make sense. So, first of all, I haven't, I've walked out of four movies ever. All right. Maybe five. Let's hear it. Also, I won't because I don't want to, because it's hard to make a movie, okay? I agree. I had done it before, the last, I don't remember the last one I did, I didn't. I'm able to afford not, I don't, I don't, but I wouldn't be against it. What about, like, is one of them diarrhea or something like that? Like, is that one of the reason you walked out or are we talking about, I walked out because I hate this movie. Okay. Wow. See, that's strong. I think you're within your right. Did you get your money back? Excuse me. I didn't ask for any money back. Okay. Did I, I'm trying to remember, because I'm actually a member of two movies I walked the last two I didn't. Whoa. One of them was last, was this year, one of them was 2022 or 2023, and the one before that, I have actually friends with the director. Whoa. Mama. Lugonia. No, it was way before that. All right. All right. Way too long trying to figure out the smell. Okay. It's the point is, like, if, if I don't like a meal, right? And if I order something and I don't like it and I don't like it because I ordered the wrong thing. Yeah. I'm not going to, I'm just, no, it's okay. Thank you so much. Is there anything? It's okay. Thank you. I ordered the wrong thing. I want to try something. If I order something and it's, I've eaten this either here before, I've had this dish before and it's as bad, I will say, hey, this is, this is no good. Whoa. That I get, that I get more than the movie. Same thing. I've had movies before. If this is fucking trash, I would like like another ticket to see another one. One is an art and one is a food. It's a, That is so disrespectful. We call that. It's solid. It's a product. You're saying tangible. Tangible. Tangible. Thank you. A movie's not tangible. You don't think, you don't think chefs are artists? No. I disagree. I mean, some are. If you go to the five-star Michelle and all comedians artists. Yeah. They're attempting art, which makes them an artist. Yes. If you want to consume, sometimes, same with food. Well, I'm saying that not all chef is a big worse, artist is a big worse.
word for, uh, from food because if the guy, it's, uh, Chipotle, is he an artist sandwich artist? Some people, the people at the kids, no disrespect to them. They might be artists, but the thing, the art that they're making at that moment is somebody else's art. They're just doing an impression. It's a conveyor belt. It's an assembly line. Yeah. As is if you have somebody going up and just doing, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, it's like doing my act. No disrespect. No, I was doing it. If they do a Ronnie Dangerfield impression, but he's an artist. Yes. And the, and, and the people that created the, the barbacoa bowl was an artist and you have somebody else doing somebody else's act. All right. All right. Okay. Okay. So they're all hacks. Their, their job is, their job is hack. But it's supposed to be, and it's still good based on your noise. It's very good. I love Chipotle. I don't think it's a hack. It's not a great analogy, but it works as far as like the intention behind it. I think that, I think some cooks are following a recipe and moving on. I think so are some comics. Okay. That's what, that's what I'm getting at. I like that. And if it's no good, if you want to walk out of my show, I, I, sometimes I'm, sometimes I'm doing a set and I'm think, and, and like, I'm like, I'm, I think I'm being so funny, but I also know I very much might not be. Yeah. I'm aware of both of these things. And what I say is, if anybody wants to leave, I want to give everyone, you permission right now, and also if the club, I'm telling the club right now, I don't know, if you guys don't do this, take it out of my cut if you want your money back, but you have to leave it in the next 10 minutes. Whoa. And then if they don't, we're all on the same page. There you go, but not a great sign for the act, if you're giving them this clause out of the gate. Never left. Okay. It's also part of the like, it's also part of like acknowledging the insecurity in a playful way. Yes. Like if you're having sex with somebody and, and, and like, and if you're, if you're not present and you're just doing it anyway versus saying, listen, if you want to have sex, if you want to stop having sex with me now, but like fine, but like, if we're going to keep having sex, I want to be like, because you want to be having sex. So like, you know what I mean? It's like that. Yeah. I've definitely had some walkouts and I had to pay the money back. But yeah. I hear you. Okay. When you say like that, but you are a different, because we're talking chef comic, you're an artist. You're not? No, no, I'm saying we are, but I'm saying I hate the term, by the way. Sounds so pretentious. So Sam said the same thing and now I've referenced this on my podcast and we're stands. How? Artists just sound so grandiose. Yeah. But artiste. I got a lot of mustache. That's grandiose. And I've been doing it. Right. You're talking to the wrong guy. That's true. That's a big mustache. That's a gene challenge. We're referring to yourself as an artist. Does it mean you're referring to yourself as better than anybody else for good at it? I know. But it's just one of those. It's got the words got some weight to it. Yeah, because because dedicating your life to expressing yourself in a way that you want to connect to people with has some weight to it. I mean, it is. I'm not saying it's more important than anything else. But it is to me. I know. I'm with you. We are artists. It's you just wins a little at the phrase because we're the opposite of that. We're comedian. We're in the back of the room. Meet in popcorn. And call that guy a quave. I'm not doing either of those things. You are. You just don't admit it. I'm not calling a quave. You're one of us. Bitch. I'm not even popcorn. But I will say this. The person who made me that popcorn when I am eating it. Artist. They follow the recipe. It's out of a bag. They put fake butter on it. Yeah. But Orinville by the box. My dick to the box. Who invented popcorn? Orinville. Wedding Boxer. What are you drinking? Orville Reddenbacher. I don't know if he invented it, but he's old. Was he also part of the Nicks? What didn't they like start a thing? That's Nickerbocker. Yeah, but didn't they? They separated. Yeah. Do I just assume your personality or have I heard you make a slur joke about the Nickerbockers? Who hasn't? But when Santino does me, he goes, that's what I've heard. That's what I've heard. Nicker. Uh oh. Watch out. Whatever. It goes a little more Dennis Miller, but it's very good. Yeah. He's a talented ginger, that guy. He and his voices and his impressions. Do you know Amir Kay? Yeah. Him too. Yeah. Yeah. He has a joke that is such a throwaway joke and I whenever I he used to do it years ago and I don't know if he still does it. But I always ask him, are you growing your hair out, did you, you got a movie or something? And he goes, yeah, yeah, actually, I'm growing hair for a movie. I'm watching Godfather 3. Hey, that's fun. Yeah. It's a little throwaway, but I love I love a wordplay energy. I love that too. Two of them, they are, their voices are a superpower to me where I like, like, like, I'll be in, like, when we're doing a podcast or anything, I'm in the, I'll be in the audience. I'm just like, yeah, it's crazy. It's great. It's great. It's great. Yeah. You feel like a, like a little kid. How do you, how do you do that? I couldn't possibly do that. I know. It's, it's a weird thing that humans love is mimicry. We just, we eat it up. Yeah. Get your potlay. Artist, but yeah, it's, it's true. You know, we just want to, we want to watch because we go, you're still like that guy. Oh my God. How'd you do that? It's fun. I feel the way with singers too when I'm in, like, when I'm watching live music. Like, how are you doing this? Sing doesn't, doesn't do it for me. It's the control of the, to me, it's a control of like something coming out of you that isn't just talking. I see. Okay. Well, they say anyone could sing. It can be taught. Yeah. Do anything, but they can't be great at it. No, I don't think anyone could do anything. Some things are innate. Not anybody could do anything, but barring some type of obstacle that somebody has. Not anybody could be, is that water that just dropped on me from late earlier? Not anybody could be hilarious, but anybody could be funny just as much as anybody could sing in my opinion. Yeah. But you could stumble on a funny thing on accident. The fact I falls down the stairs on roller skates, that's hilarious and funny, but was he trying to be funny? Well, say you could hit a, you could hit a note in the shower sometimes, but could you do it consistently? If you practice, yes. And if you practice falling down the stairs, yes. But in order to practice, you have to be doing it intentionally on purpose. Okay. Okay. Okay. I don't want to fight with you anymore. No, no, this is, this is debate. Healthy debate. I would love, if you have an opinion in the, in the comics of, in the, in the comments. If you take two, you take this person that is equally not funny as this person is equally not good at singing. Yes. But they, like they laugh at things. They know they, they're able to laugh at things that I think are funny and they have taste in music. When they sing, they don't think that they're on key. Yeah. They know that they're, oh, this isn't funny. Oh, this doesn't sound great. Right. They have to be a little bit of aware of what comedy and music is. Perfect. Do you think that the comedian or the singer, either one of them are able, like it's easier to become a better singer than it is to be funny and you're unable to sing her for sure. Because funny has to come out of nowhere. But if you're aware of it, if you're aware of it, yes, but you still have to make something out of nothing. If you're standing on stage, you got to find a way to be funny with just you. Well, you're talking about stand up comedy. I'm talking about being funny. Okay. Okay. You know what? Because singing also, there's, there's an art to the performance of it all, but you can sing a little Victoria Esteban, what's her name? Gloria, Gloria Estefan. I can't. Exactly. But I could learn. Okay. You can't learn to fall down. You're crazy. I've told you, you could, you could figure out some shit on accident, but singing I can get on his notes. There's instructions. I can teach her. But you have to be able to do something. Your body, your, a lot of people could jump. Not everybody could jump very high. Agreed. And that it's in your, but you could learn to jump better, you could learn to jump better. You could learn to sing better. You can't become Gloria Esteban. I think it's Estefan. I thought it was Estevans. Maybe you're right. The Ovans. I think it's probably pretty equal, pretty equal, pretty, I could become a great singer in a year. Oh my God. I found you next YouTube series, I'm not saying Victoria Esteban, but I'm saying I could be a passable singer in a church choir. Okay. And then give some guy some comedy lessons, whatever those are and tell them to put them in the second city and we'll see how it fares. I mean, I would love to, I would love to do this as a doc. I would love to do this. We'll get two hobos. No, what you do is, no, what you do is you get a really funny comedian and a really talented singer and then you take three months and you see, you know, I like it. Yeah. Yes. Like American anal. You have John Mayer doing stand up and you have Mark Norman singing, but your body's a wonderland. John Mayer tried stand up and stunk failed. Yeah. You know what? John Mayer is funnier than you could sing my body as a wonderland today. That's true. Right. But give me some lessons. Let me ask him, oh God, oh thank God, I thought you knew him. He dabbles in the world of comedy, so I thought you might, I mean, you know, I got to be honest with you. You know, you've interacted. I have, we follow each other and I had, I had a bit that I wanted to do that would be so funny that I want to, don't want to say on here in case we could ever do it. Oh boy. And I asked him and it wasn't a no. It was I can't right now. I have a couple of, I want to's, but I can't right now is that are like, well, you like something like really cool ones. Oh, that's exciting. But like you're in the conversation. You're in the conversation. Sure. Sure.
part of it. I know. And I don't, I don't, I don't, uh, I'm not ashamed of it anymore as I, as I used to be. Yeah. Yeah. It's like that's the business side of it. Of course. That's why celebrity are, they've definitely gone down a peg and I like it and pegged. But they'll never go away because it's still that high school thing. What do you mean celebrity is going down? I don't know what you're saying. I think celebrity status is gone down. Celebrities get celebrity because of the access. You could see the access and a couple other things. They did the imagined video and stuff like that. He's on on social media. They still have something. Agreed. A little bit. A little bit. Yeah. Brad Pitt has something. Tom Cruise has something. Harris doesn't have social media. Smart, smart thing you'd ever do. If you're able to make a living without it. Yes. Which they can. Like a Mulaney. I think it's such a good comic. He doesn't have, he's not posting clips every week. Like the rest of us losers. You know, I don't post clips. I see clips all the time. I've posted the only, pretty much the only clips I post are when I'm like podcast. Oh, yeah, yeah. That's that's a clip. That's that's stand up close. I only post if it's like an improv show on I'm making fun of the format or something. I get scared of posting my stand up until it's to spend it. Watch the special. I like that. Watch the special and I'm almost I'm almost there. I can't wait. My first special. I'm so excited. I for the first time ever. I'm like, I'm, I got a great act. Oh, boy. This is great act. I hope I see the non high version. Yeah. I don't do the, I don't get really stone for, for, for the special. Although when I like about the high version is I just did it. I know what I want to work on. And I, let me try and work on it in a little bit different mindset. Just so I could, I like that. And then I do things when I'm stoned that I'm like, all right. Let me try that when I'm not stoned. Got it. Yeah. I like that. Yeah. Custone will get you play. I take edibles at night to sleep, but sometimes if I don't fall asleep, I just catch the high, which I hate. I had, happened last that. I had like a meltdown in bed. My wife's laying next to me. I got one hand on her ass, the other hand on my dick. And I had like a, a panic attack. It was a bad. I was just staring at the ceiling. People out by childhood and my dad and things, dumb things I've said and done and, oh, it was hell. Because you were high. Yeah. Did you take too much? I guess I did. Well, you know, I had taken one in a while and I was like, yeah, I want to get a good sleep tonight. 10, but I'm a lightweight. I'm a lightweight. Let me tell you something. You'd be shocked at how much 2.5 could actually work. I believe it. I believe it because that 10 put me on my ass. And I was having some horrific thought. My brain goes sideways on weed. I realized alcohol's a vice. Oh, man, that's a lot of Agua. I'm going to go fill it up. Hey, could you grab me one? Yeah. Thanks. Should I just talk? Are we cutting? Yeah, geez. Well, booze is a vice of mine. Like Mike, you got a vice. I just gave up booze and we Oh, good for you. You gave a weed too. Boring. I like being bored now. Well, good for you. They asked AI, what's something we're missing with all this technology? And the AI even said the ability to be bored. When you're bored, you process your thoughts, you think about your memories, you think about it creating ideas and all this shit. We've lost all that is every bore, every sent second of boredom. We grabbed that screen. It's horrible for you. You got to make an addiction. Whoa, that's genius. Good call there. Pimpy. Uh, but booze is such a dangerous vice because while you're, let's say your vice is screens or sugar while you're eating a piece of cake and watching their 38th reel, you're going, what am I doing? I got to cut this out. But when you're hammered, you're not thinking, I got a, I got to sober up. You're like, give me more booze because booze fucks with your judgment. At least when you're eating 38 cookies, you're like, I've had 38 cooking. I got to cool it. But booze, you'll never think that because you're too fucking hammered. Sorry, man. Say it all again. Ah, we'll send you the clip. I don't really post those. Hey, there you go. That dog's a good egg. Um, go ahead. You finish what he's saying he's addicted to boredom, which I think is genius. Congratulations. Because then you get to think, you get to think you're off the screen. So you pick up your phone, you go, fuck that. I'm addicted to boredom. You're addicted to boredom or you're trying to be bored by addiction brain on boredom. Yeah, I try to do it. I try to do it sometimes when I notice on board, that is kind of like a light to like, okay, okay, be a human. That's the hardest thing for people to do. You know that old study where they put a guy in a room alone with a buzzer and the buzzer will shock you and it hurts. Oh, but you do it anyway. But you do it anyway because you'd rather feel pain than be bored. That's why people go to your show, at least the last one. And then they get their money back. Yes, that's why I put a buzzer at the show. So when they're bored, they hit the buzzer. But you don't know. You just fear how you see it. Yeah, like, all right. I'm killed. They're all just going, oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness. Do you feel like you're, uh, your new hour is at a place now where people are you where you feel like, all right. Like I want people to see this. Now no, not even close, but I see people to see this. I don't mean ready to put it out. I mean, like, when you do a show, I was, I remember Sam told me, or I saw Sam do a, say this on something, um, like when he's starting his new hour, he's like embarrassed and like, I'm sorry. I'm just like, this is the process. But like, I don't have not, this isn't going to be great. Wow. I don't have that. I'm faking it the whole time. Well, no, he's not saying that on stage. Oh, okay. I'm saying that feeling of like, uh, yeah, of course. So we're feeling but you, but you say the first few shows you're killing. Do you, so do you not, do you feel that way still? Well, it's, it's come a long way since I don't know, February or whatever. Uh, but it's not where I want it to be. Seinfeld talks about having a good hour. He feeling you walking to a gunfight with the band of leros on, you know, all the bullets. I feel like I have two bullets and I'm like, I got to make it work. Right. But you know, it's crazy. I feel like I'm watching too much TV lately. So I kind of did a homeless pimple and said, how can I shift this into something productive? So you're watching more movies. I'm watching more documentaries about history. Uh, and what's cool is like Tony soprano. Yeah. What? He likes watching like, oh, okay. See, I pretended and then I said, I'm going to come clean. Right. All right. I'm learning as long as you get your blood work. Yeah. Coming clean. Um, got it. Got it. Got it. Let's hope. So I'm, uh, I'm watching Netflix put out Teddy Roosevelt, Ulysses S Grant, Washington, Jefferson and FDR documentaries. And I'm blazing through all of them and I'm loving it. Where have you learned? Well, you know, it's cool about these guys because my wife hates this shit. She wants to watch reality TV and true crime. And I had what's the difference? That's what I said. It's reality and people are dying. She didn't catch on to that. I'm like, I'm watching a Hitler duck. She's like, this is so boring. Give me some, some hot tub action. I want a guy and a girl fooling around. I'm like, this guy's on meth trying to kill a whole race. That's, that's much more than a hot tub makeup. She didn't buy it. But they might run a train. Okay. But my point is, what's crazy about these guys when you start watching history is you realize George Washington is fighting the entire British Navy with a couple of farmers and some muskets. This is just a regular guy and then say he's just a dude. There we look at him as this is what he's accomplished. I know he's on the $1 bill and putting him in a stripper's panties, but he's a fucking just some punk. You know, uh, I have, I've had that thought where I think everybody has, when you get to an agent, you realize that your parents are just people. It's like, oh, that's just, my dad's just a guy. Yeah. He was like, that's a guy yet. I just know him as my dad. He's, you know, but he's just a guy who's trying to do things with a bunch of farmers. And he's, he's, he's yelling at you. And then he walks up here and goes, was that okay? What's up, man? Should I not have hit him or touched him? Yeah. So that, that is the thing. That's why they call. That's why they say these guys are our founding fathers. Oh, I like it. I like it. Yeah, yeah. They all had slaves and all that. But, uh, yeah, they're just regular old Joe. Well, at what point are you not regular? Is it based on your accomplishments or potential? Good point. And we don't look at them as regular because of how we've learned who they might have been. But yeah, especially when he's first starting like deciding like, yeah, he's just like, but, but also like, I don't think a regular guy could get that many people to follow them. Okay. So you think he had, he had some rizz. I think he had to have some rizz. He had to have rizz. But what a crazy thing. Thank God he was here to fight that and have all that rizz and fight the brits. Are we wouldn't be here? And I'm not trying to get all patriotic and cleafy for the fourth. I'm just saying, you start watching this. The edible kicks in. You go, this is some fucking nerd. Who cared about his country's wearing a wig? That's what they did back then. They wore wigs. Yeah. Like Jewish women. Jewish women wore wigs. I know they wear headpieces. What are you getting? You're doing. We're heavy. Have you been to Williamsburg? It's a guy.
goddamn weave factory out there. - Yeah, I know they were like head things. I just didn't realize that was still a thing. - It's one of my, I Jews and Blacks have a little bit of a friction and I'm like, you guys have a lot in common. - They have friction? - Jews and Black people. - I did not know that. - Where'd you go to high school? - A very Jewish Black high school. - Really? - Yeah. - Well, there's the race rides and crown heights. - I don't know about 'em. That had to do with the Jews against the Blacks. - Yeah, it's a crazy story. A Black kid got hurt. I think he fell down and broke his leg. And then they took him to the Jewish hospital and they said, "Jews only, Dickless." So then they started riding. - I don't know about that. That's horrible. - Which the idea of Jewish and Black people riding is so hilarious that like the Jews thought they would make a dent. - I mean, I tell you something, you're talking to the wrong guy because every time we step on a basketball court, I'm like, I got this. - Oh shit, Michael Jordanberg. They both have issues with dairy. - Is that right? - Yeah. - And the Asians. I don't know if Asian people have issues with dairy, but there is very little dairy in their cuisine. - That's true. - And I don't think that you would do that if you didn't have issue. - I looked this up where I did a little-- - You watched a doc on it. - Now I did a little information gathering where I noticed the only cheese in Asian food is crab ring goon. - There's actually another. - Oh yeah? - Yes. - Lay it on me, Fatty. - It's within. - You see? - You see. - Thai cheese. I like it. You're back, baby. He's an artist. - Also, I didn't really take in what you said. What did you say about the cheese? Is what? Crab ring goon? - Crab ring goon is the only dairy I've found in Asian food. - Well, they do mochi, ice cream. - Oh, okay. I guess I'm going to cheese. - But I know that's maybe more Americanized. - Yeah, and maybe crab ring goon is. - Yeah, I feel like probably a lot of it is. 'Cause I have Chinese friends. And when I say Chinese friends, I mean that they are from China. - Whoa. - Yeah, I'm not just trying to get up there. - You adopt them? - No, no, no, no, no. And they are very quick to let you know that American Chinese food is not like what Chinese food is. And I'm quick to let them know. I believe you and I want the American Chinese food. - You better believe it, Fatty. Bring on the sweets and the salts and the brown sauce. - Yeah, I'm not a very. - Authentic. - Exploratory with my cuisine. - Ice. - There's a lot of artists out there that I just, it's, you know, the same way you would listen, watch some comedians and be like, "Ah, I don't really." That's the, I mean, I understand. That upsets me. - Yeah, that hurts me. - That hurts me. I feel that way about the art of cuisine. - I like that. Good, good analogy. Yeah, I'll try anything. - Yeah. - I'll eat it all. - Oh, you mean food? - Food. - The senior act. - Comedy, I'm like, get that out of here. - No, you'll try anything. In fact, I feel like you lean towards the things you're not supposed to try. - Probably. - Yeah. - Yeah, good point. - And you got good at it. - Hey. - I'd love to see you sing. - Whoa, yeah. - I could learn. Give me one year. - There's no way. - One year. I'll be at a sing-sing. - Yeah, it's racist. There's no way. - I think it's a prison. Right? Sing-sing. And that would be jail? - Yeah. - Okay. - Well, I just, you know, sounds crazy. (laughing) - I thought it was an Asian joke. - Yeah, that's what I'm, I was pretending that that was an Asian joke. - Oh, okay, okay, God. - Jesus Christ. - I'm, God. - I'm so sorry. Easy. - Or should I say me? - Me so sorry. Me so soup. - That's my joke. - What? - Well, I've said it on a podcast. - Oh, okay. That was a new act that I was gonna say. - No, no, that's a bit weakened. The only time I say me so sorry is when the restaurant accidentally brings me the wrong soup. And I say, no, no, no, I ordered a miso. Sorry. - Yay. - It's a little throwaway soup joke. - That's fun. - Gotta have soup jokes. - Hey, love soup. Super salad. - Soup. - Agreed. - I like a soup. - Me too. - So much when I have something crunchy, a starch, a potato, a piece of toast. - You're one of those guys. - And when I run out of it, because sometimes there's just broth and there's not enough of the rice or whatever the stuff. So what I like to do is I like to, when I do it with a spoon is when I try and have, I try and not have too much of what I really want on the spoon. Because then when I run out of the stuff in the soup. - Oh, wow. - I feel that way with when I would eat cereal milk. - Serial. - People like the cereal milk's the best part. You drink that. I'm not just drinking the broth. - What am I using? - What am I using? - I agree. I need, as I get older. - I thought that was a werewolf. - I thought it was a Xerox machine. You were way closer. - Yeah, we have different fears. Copy that. So I, as I get older, I'm done with soups with nothing in it. Like a bisque or a tomato or like a French onion. It's such a tease. - Yeah, once the crew just give me the crew time with some salty broth. - Yes, yes. It's such a fucking waste. You're looking for stuff in there. I'm like, ah, is that something like panning for gold? You go excited. - Yeah, it's a fucking parsley piece of shit. - Here's, I have a suggestion when you're serving soup. Have all of the, have all of the salads in the bowl and have the broth on the side and let us pour. - Whoa, this is your subway take. - Do you have one? Have you done it? - I have not. I turned it down because I had some other conflict. It's a huge show. But I think anything I would say would get me in a lot of trouble. Oh, you'd say something that you haven't already said then? - Well, I would elaborate and maybe make it less joky. - Well, I'm sure they would edit it in a way that they felt comfortable sharing. - That's true. That's what they do. - Make it less joky. I think I really believe that a lot of the comedy I watch from stand up comedy, I think that people rely, this is going to be a crazy argument. - I can't wait. - We're out of time. - All right. I think people rely too much on the need to be funny. - Oh, boy. - I'm not saying they don't need to be funny. - Okay. - You need to be funny. - All right. - Let me do it somewhere else first because I think there's the only way to explain. If you are a, and I don't know football, running back, if you're someone who runs the football but also runs and catches the football, what is that? Wide receiver? - Sure. - Whatever it is, you need to be the fastest person out there. That's what you gotta focus on. As long as you're fast, that's all that matters. You just gotta be fast. - Yeah. - Of course, of course you gotta be fast. But if you can't, you know, cut, do whatever, understand how plays work, work with other, like there's so many other things. - Then just fast. - Then there's fast. And fast is maybe number one, maybe number two. Oh, I don't know. - I like that. - What I'm saying is I watch coming and it's like, now this is funny, so it's okay. But it's like some of this funny contradicts the point of view that you put over here. Some of this funny is now you're not giving yourself enough time to explain why you think it's funny. What's your point? - Got it. - What's your point? - You're just going for the left. - Yes, which is important. And there are some people that are very, it's not a punch line, it's not a punch line. You are very much set a punch line. I also think your punch lines are, oh, that's, that's, I can hear a set a punch line and be like, that's a Mark Norman joke without ever having you heard you do it. - Okay. - Because we get to see you a little bit. We get to know you a little bit. I think, I think to see a lot of coming words is like, this is not a joke that you believe. This is not a joke. This isn't the way that you think. This is just like a funny thing that you think. And that's all that matters. If it's funny, that's all that matters. I'm saying, yes, you need to be fast. - Yeah. - But there's a lot of people that's like, what, this, this, what, who cares? - Yeah, no, I don't care. There's definitely that. Well, Rodney was a punch line a minute, but he had to know respect thing. So he had a world he was working around. My wife doesn't give a shit. I can't get enough. - What if that would be funny tonight? - I think so. I, I don't, I think so too. - It's still funny. And the look, the voice. - Yeah, when you watch him on Carson, - Yeah. - And it's still great. - Yeah, and then there's a lot of times where it's just, no, no. - Sure, sure. - There's a lot of times that's not. - It rings a little hollow. - Yeah. In the last six, if you're so fast, then Forest Gump is gonna get a D1 scholarship. Sure. - Yes. - But like, how, how could, I've never seen a Rodney do an hour. Is, could he be killing for an hour? - Yeah, well, that's why a lot of these one-liner guys go into a song, they go into an easel, they go into a guitar. - But you know what? It's not that easy to learn how to sing. - I disagree. I'm not saying it's easy, I'm saying it's doable. - I like, you know, I like watching, I like watching comedians that are like talking for a little bit too. I do. - Oh, it's gotta be entertaining. It's all just captivating. I just find that that's a slippery slope. Oh boy, back to syncing. But I'm just saying, a lot of these talkers start going, hey, maybe I'll keep going with the talking part and come back on the punchy part. - You gotta be fast. You gotta be fast. - You gotta be fast to be a wide receiver. - But gold places. - Yeah, I like that. I like that. - Is that a swastika? - No, no, no, no, no, no. I'll tell you something that I also think isn't out there that much. And I'm glad because-- - This is good stuff. - Let me have it. - All right. - Not me, exclusively, but like, this is my world. - Got it.
Silly love where the silly love silly silly is underrated where the silly who are the sillies yes and there's some sillies now. Now you got the Rory's coming for the world by the way I mean there's the silly love Fleming love a silly yes yes silly is big and silly isn't necessarily fast silly but it's like. Yeah well comedy does should have some levity. There's so many comics we're just like, let me pour out my trauma and I'm like, okay, give me the trauma but give me the silly punchy trauma. I think pouring out the trauma is at the opposite end of the spectrum of just running really fast and being really, really joke, joke, joke. I think it's it's it's like I'm not for an hour. Give me a little everything. You want a balance breakfast balance breakfast. You want that commercial with the glass of milk, the OJ, the bread, the cereal, the waffle, the grapefruit. Yeah I think that was the wrong nutritional idea but yes. You get what I'm saying. I get what you're saying. By the way, who's eating like that? I got to catch a school bus. There's 17 ingredients here. I got to fucking eat a grapefruit of a waffle. Whose mom is making all this and you have a glass of OJ and milk. Well, I mean, you throw a an ego waffle in the toaster. You pour a glass of orange juice or milk, but that's that's not, you know, no. My mom gave me a glass of water and an egg and kicked me in the pants. Great. Oh, you know what we need in the morning. We need our protein. Yeah. Have your eggs. Have your water. That's great. Maybe some fruit. Sure. Whole fruit, not juiced. No, no juice. Juiced soda juice, no juice in the building. The juice will not replace us. Right. I think we're saying the same thing. Yeah. Yeah. The juices lose. Yeah. We're saying the same thing. Perfect. Is that though, by the way, when you're when you're a reporter and OJ gets let off and you get to go, oh my God, guys, juice is loose, but they wouldn't let them do it. He did it. No, I'm saying was that really headline? Yes. The juice is loose. The juice is loose. I mean, he's going to be getting high five all day by the staff at the newspaper. That's a big one. Not a lot better than chicken, the armor guy. He didn't get a high five. Do you think more people have trouble separating the art from the artist with Woody Allen or with OJ Simpson in naked gun? Oh, definitely OJ because when you watch naked gun, he's so bad. I disagree. You're saying definitely OJ, meaning you don't separate with him as much. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cause when you see him in even your laugh and be like, huh, you're like, that's an athlete. That's like when they show LeBron James and like train wreck or something. What you think? I'm saying separate the art from the artist because OJ is an athlete. Oh, I think you're an athlete. I didn't know you meant murderer. Well, it wasn't a murderer then. I'm saying when you watch Annie Hall now, yeah. And when you watch naked gun now, two for very different reasons, excellent comedies. One of which, by the way, is much more joky joky, silly, silly than the other is pouring your heart out. Yeah. But Annie Hall had more ziggy. I'm saying if you're pouring your heart out, you have to, if you're super fast, you just go straight down naked gun is one of the funniest movies. Oh, it's, it's, it's one that works where it's just, it's just straight down. Annie Hall or movies that are a little bit more, you have to be able to cut and stop because you're not just as fast. That's why I want the best picture of the year. Did naked gun? Annie. I don't know what wins stuff. I probably, I think it won. But yes, but I do think I see OJ more murder than Woody Diddler. That's what I'm saying. And do you think that's a racial thing? No, I think his murder is the worst. No race being not person, saying fast race like a race to what's bad saved it. Well played what a receiver sometimes I'll say something on stage and it's fine. You know, but like it's like it's a little of this. And, and I will, I will not obviously ironically, but I like I'll continue the sentence. So people like, oh, yeah, and I feel it. And I feel it. And I just I think I got saved it. It's really funny. Like people, oh, you're not okay. Well, no one has said racial about racing. I didn't say racial. I said a race thing. Oh, is that right? Yes. Okay. That's it. Racial play it back. Play it back. Racial racial fine steam. Um, if I did say racial, then I didn't save it as well. I know. But I guess, you know, a NASCAR could be racial. I don't think so. I pretty pretty much predominantly white. I think, yeah, I think the word racial has something to do with no, you don't put yeah, racing and racial are not the same derivation. No, race and racial. Yeah, I think you're I supposed to call it race X now. Oh, nice. When it's extreme. Yeah. That next man. Yes. Sometimes when I'm speaking to a, a person of Spanish descent of South Americans, but it's usually specifically. And they say something that ends in an O or an A. I like to correct them and say it's with an X. That's fun. Yeah. I'm sure that this is my little thing. This is my little thing. Yeah. Now, you know, it's fun. It's Irish. Are you being an Asian person with a genie? Irish starts with an O. And uh, this land again, Hispanic and Italian ended up. If it's a male, it's a male. It's fun that we love the O. They start with O. They end with O. Yeah. That's well technically. That's all I never thought about this before. But if you, if you look at where the planes of, of the continents begin from Pangaea, uh, Ireland, uh, is furthest actually, um, west. And then it comes all the way back around to America's, which are then the furthest on the east and it starts with Ireland and it ends with Latin America. And it starts with O. And it ends with O. The earth is a circle. Whoa. No, I made all that up. I like it. But, you know, it just goes to show you. We believe stuff. Yeah. You're right. I bought it. Oh, no. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, I was thinking those zempicks should pick that up. Oh, oh, oh, oh. You have it. It's, it's the Riley song. I guess, but it would trick you. You go, here comes the whole Riley. Yeah. It would trick you. It would, it would, it would, are as a, as a comedian. Do you, cause I, I don't know how to, like, I don't know this part of it. A lot of people say that you're, that you zig when you're supposed to zag, but is it ever the other way around? Can you zag when you zig? You saying? Yeah. Yeah. I think so. I think I got a misdirect. Give me an example of a zig when you showed a zag and a zag when you showed a zigged. Okay. Let me think about this. Let's have a little off today. Zigg and zag. So Charlie Chaplin said, you know, comedy is when you're walking towards a manhole and you think they're going to fall in. You get hit by a car. That's a zig when you're supposed to zag. The zig is the car hitting you. The zag was the manhole. You think he's going to fall in that manhole. It's my car misdirection. So the zag when you should zig would be the first time you did it, you did fall into the manhole and then the next time you don't when they, when they, because they, no, no, the other way around, the other way around, you what you think you're going to go and fall in the manhole and then get hit by the car. And then the next time you're walking to a manhole again and you're expecting to hit by the car, but this time you actually fall in the manhole. There you go. That's comedy. Can I get more thigh on here? What do you think? I mean, now you can actually see where you've trimmed your pubic hair. That's a high up. You went because they see the thinker hair. There you go. I got a wax. Is that another reference to Asians? Oh, yeah, I guess so. You don't know what I'm talking about. They do a waxing. No, no, Mr. Miyagi, dude. Oh, damn it. They do the waxing, though. Dude, where's that more Middle East or Eastern block? I don't know, man. I don't know much. Okay. But I do know that when Danielson caught the fly with his chopsticks and Miyagi was like he just performed his, his jealousy. I thought that was a great comedic beat. I don't remember it. I think it's the funniest part of karate kid. How do you go? How do you do? So he's been trying for 10 years or 20 years or 30 years to catch the fly with a chopstick. And Danielson is not able to do it. And he's like, but he's doing it. And then they're there together and the dance line catches it. And he goes, Mr. Miyagi, look, look. He's excited. Like the sun is showing the dad that he could dunk. Yeah. And the dad and he was just like, he's as mad and he just gets up and leaves. Uh, fun. Well, that's Pat Marita. Yeah. He was, he was big. He did, I think it was on happy days. Oh, yeah. So he knew his stuff. He might have done comedy for a minute, too. I think he was a standup comic. Whoa, how about that? Think I've seen Bobby Lee talk about him before how much he liked him. Uh, that might have just been his son. Probably son. Pat's. I think you got to mix it up. I think you just assumed it was Bobby Lee. Oh, no, it was Bobby Lee or might have been Danielson. Oh, hey, how about uh, So lay moon fry.
Should have zigged. Something, something, what? Nothing. Cut that. Well, bleep it. Bleep that. Do you always, you don't podcast with sunglasses in your show? Do you? No, I'm just a boy. I want no sleep of hurting. Did you get in last night? That did. From Michigan. How are your arms wiped? What type of did you get in? Well, here's the thing, I landed it three or two, two o'clock. Was last night the weathing party interrupts. Was that last night? Yeah, got it. So I got in at two, go right to the house. You're sitting traffic because it's New York, got right to the house. And the wife is wiped from the baby. So then you walk in and you just, you're on, which is hard, you know, because you want to have your Sunday and fly in and just chill. But you wanted your wife to take care of the Sunday. There you go. Yes, yes. Cream of sun, young guy. And I'm like, all right, so now we're on. So now we're at the playground. Now you're out there. You're sweating. You're trying to keep him alive. He's falling down. He's scraped his knee, whatever. He changed the diaper. He's crying. Then he finally passes out and the wife, seven, eight, seven, thirty. Then the wife goes, oh, I'm getting tired. So we have dinner, watch TV. She falls asleep and then you go, holy shit. I finally got some meat time. I got the TV. I got the Washington documentary wife passed out. Here we go. And then you stay up too late because you got high. Well, no, then I took weed to fall asleep. But then I got high. I don't do that. And I got high and then I stayed up too late. There's weed that are for nighttime. We rent like there's CBN stuff with CBN. I don't know. Is that a black channel? I think it is. It might be. UPN. Oh, I looked at you. He loves what I left. And color people network. Is that what it is? Oh, I think that I don't know what it is. I think people need to say that there's some things where I think I'm it's like, it's okay. And there's some things that even like, uh, I don't like, uh, I think. No, I think that was a thing. I think people used to also they had an acronym like the for Buick's, right? Or or not Buick's like Pontiac. Pontiac Jesus. For old. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you know what's interesting? Like, say whatever you want. Say what it's like, but you know, something's like, well, it's not for us to say we do. I don't use it all as far as me, but still there are things that were said. And I know intention is the biggest part of it, but it's not everything. Sometimes when things are said, I am less like, I don't know if it's, I don't like some stuff. Feels it key. You ever say something on stage and I'm not even talking specifically race related. Just it could be just any point of view. I'll sometimes say something on stage that on its own to me would normally be fine. But like, maybe I just hit the beat too many times and immediately. I'm like, I don't like that 100%. I have a joke of my act now about ozemic. And I don't want, I'm my intentions to not be hateful to fat people or insult fat people. Well, then say that different. But sometimes I can feel it going that way and I'm like, ah, you feel bad. Like I just, I got to say the best mode of my life. I put on what? Moan in my life. I put out a trans chunk of trans jokes on you on the internet. It's a good special. And all these trans people are like, this is how you do it. Love it, comedy. This is great. Take notes. You fucking assholes. This is comedy. And it's a great feeling because I hate when these comics come out and go, trans jokes or hack. You can't wipe out a whole subject. There's a way to make a great joke. What a funny salesman's point of view to say we need to do trans jokes for the rights of, you know, like I get what you're saying as a comedian. Yeah. But yeah, I guess like if the community that you're, that you're playing with, but a joke doesn't have to be negative. It doesn't joke. I've done it. You have to be pejorative agree with what I'm saying. But you can't wipe out a whole lot of times people are trying to do a joke and they, they don't think it's negative, but it's received that way. And it, which means it is. But if it's received that way, then you, the joke is not good. Correct. Yeah. So, ah, I just don't like these people who are like, hey, no jokes about this because it's insensitive. There is a level of hack. There is a level of hack when people are talking about the same, so so many people talking about Donald Trump, agreed. I mean, there's a level of, when you're, when you have a point of view that is so similar and widely adopted to other performers, you better find a way to make that specific to you. Or I do think that that's what you're, we're saying the same thing anything can be hack. Anything could be original, but you got to find, you got to make it that way. And so, yeah, there are just too many Trump jokes. But the cool thing about Trump is he keeps doing new shit. So it's a little different than making a black joke or a gay joke. Trump is always up to something. Well, so there's a new thing to joke about. That's not the reason it's different than a black. It's because we're talking about a person, not a culture. Yeah, but we're talking about the, I'm talking about, you, you're mixing two different things here. I'm talking about a joke, premise or a subject matter that's used. I understand what you're saying. You know, and Trump has used a ton to the point where you can say it's hack, but he does do different shit every day. So you have a new thing to joke about. He has it that different though, you zoom out a little bit. It's just him doing this, another version of the same thing. I guess, but six months ago, you couldn't do a joke about him having a fight at the White House where a guy yelled, a bomb was, mom is a man or whatever the fuck. Yeah, close enough. Yeah. So that's all I'm saying. I'm just saying, yes, there's a million Trump jokes. It can be hacky. But anything can be hacky, anything can be good. You just got to sing the right note and it's harder than you think. I could, I could say give me a lesson, give me a lesson, I'm saying with lessons. All right. But let me hear you sing. Let me just where you are for a default. I can show you the world, glowing shimmering, anal and you think in a year, maybe half a year. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Put me on the voice. Do you do suck it? Do you agree with that he in six months that he could be a good singer? I believe in Mark. Oh, wow. No one's ever said that out loud. Jesus. Thank you. I mean, a comedian can't even get good in six months. Agreed. Are you making my point? No, no, I'm saying if you, if that's true, then I would agree with you. Okay. Well, call it. I'll take the lessons. We'll make a whole reality show. Okay. Okay. I mean, I don't know, you know, but like, I like this idea. Now, where are you at on photography as far as do you think it's an art? Yes. You think some people just have an innate skill in photography. I think you could learn about composition and how cameras work. I think when a photographer is able to not just show you a picture, but like we could see a point of view in it. You could see why they thought this was worth putting out there like a community working a lot of the jokes, but there's only so many things you put out there. I'm sure photographers, even great ones, don't always take great pictures. Yeah. But like, they're trying to get something. They find something. They're working on something. They got something. That's not, you know, that's, that's, uh, yeah, I think that's art. Okay. I think sometimes two things bug me with photography. One, you get the guy who's going, he's taking 9,000 photos, I'm like, oh, you got one good photo out of that? Get out of here. It's like eight million photos. You could try eight million jokes. You get one good one out of there. You put that aside. You take eight million jokes. You get one good one out there. You put it aside and eventually you build and act. But yes, but you don't long would take the right eight. How many, how many shutter of aperture clicks are happening in that, that, the comics are that a photographer's career millions and millions and then going through them and finding and subjectively which one is good and why I give you that, I'll give you that. You know, like, you need an audience to try out jokes, photographers, they, they, they, they, they shouldn't. They shouldn't have an audience. You don't want to be influenced by that. No, no, you don't. So you have to then build and curate, picking the photo is the skill. I think picking the photo is all part of it because when you pick it, you're like, oh, I like this. And then you try and recreate that. And when you're looking for inspiration and you see other things, oh, I like that and you're picking things and you curate something. So it's an eye. You have an eye. Yeah. You have to have an eye. You have, it's the same with comedy. You have to have like awareness of what's, yeah, I think you have to have an awareness. And you have to have, I think art is not just viewing stuff out. A great artist is able to do that because they've curated the ability to know what's good and what isn't and what's honest and what isn't and what's derivative and what isn't. Yes. And I think, yeah, I absolutely think that you could have a, a photographer that does stuff and it probably takes a very, I mean, are you a photographer as well? Yeah. Do you have an opinion? What do you think? I think it takes 10,000 hours to. Oh. Oh, really? That's hack photographers. Well, and also what you think is hack somebody might not, I mean, there's, you know, there's, there's network sitcoms, which some people might say is hack, but there, there's an audience that loves what that is. Yes. There are portrait photographers, you know, there are animal photography. There's a woman, I think she's in, I don't know, she's somewhere in Europe. And I asked her if she ever comes to the States, I, if I remember what it is, Michael, put up her, her handle, I, I want to hire her to take a picture of my dog. They're just, they're just in, I just, you know, you take, I've taken pictures of my dog that I love. This person, I'm sure they've taken lots of not good ones, but what's up there that they've taken is incredible. And there's no way they just take a thousand pictures and they know how to pick the good one. There's lighting involved.
the shadows, this composition, this framing. - And some people are controlling the lighting within a space. Some people know how to do this outside. I mean, there's so many. - Okay, okay, I'm just asking. - Sorry. - I have, I love, I think so many things, we have a different definition or at least judgment of the term artist. - I don't think so, I think we're on the same page. - So you are an artist? - Yeah, I just hate the word. Then different judgments. - Well, not of the actual occupation. I'm just saying the word. - Of the word, you judge the term. - I judge the term. - Different than me. That's all I'm saying. - No, it just makes me uncomfortable. - And it doesn't make me uncomfortable. (laughing) - All right, all right, all right. - And when people are good at something. - Yeah, it's great. There's nothing better. - Yeah, when I go to, I go talk about it. I don't eat fast food usually, but when I'm stoned and or if I give myself permission, I'll go and I get some bean burritos, no cheese, I love the red sauce and onion. I don't eat the meat there. Do what you do. I just don't. - I think it's horse, I've heard. - Really? - That's my version. - I say nay. - Yeah, I thought it too. - All right, I should have held back. - Heck. So I- - I'm an artist. - I remember I went through Taco Bell. This is something new in terms of. This is one in particular. I remember I went through Taco Bell. - All right, I'm back in the set. - They were so. - Thank you. - Now you're not focused because you moved where you're sitting. - Oh, sorry. - I didn't know that was the worst one. - They were so good at what they do. I don't even remember exactly what it was. I just remember like. - What Taco Bell? - They asked a question about something. They made a suggestion about something. I don't remember what it was, but they were, and I just like, that, and then there was a time where I went to, you ever have something that needs a certain kind of battery? Like, we're gonna get this battery. I don't even know what kind of battery this takes. There's like certain batteries. There's the double A's, there's the triple A's, there's the D's, and then you got the weird watch ones and the other things. - Sure, sure. - I went to a place at like a radio shack type place, but it wasn't that. And I asked the question and he looked at it and he goes, it should be that, and he does it, and he goes, "Let me try something." This could work. It was just, he knew something about batteries. - I love that. - And I was with my dad, and I remember when we left, I said, if I had a retail store, I would try and poach this guy. This guy was so good, not specifically knowing batteries, but communicating to me. I'm not sure, let's try this. Let me do that. - That's so rare now. - It's, and the person I talk about was that way. It, and it's a certain type of person. It's a special person. - Yes, you know. - A specialist. - Yes, but I'm saying a special person back to like the idea of George Washington being just some regular show, Joe Schmo, which will the hat of something in there that allowed something, where it's like, and the way you talk to people is, you're an artist. You're able to have the thought. - I agree, I love where it is. - Somebody else hear your thought and accept it. - Yes. - And that's art. - Accept it and help them and guide them to where they need to go, that they know you don't. That's a beautiful thing. - And also, if they know where you do it, like when people come out and stage and they've already accepted you, they want you to guide them. - Yes. - And they know you, and they know what you're able to do, and they want that. And the people that don't know you, and you could still get them to want that. I think that's the artist in you. - Yeah, and that's why there's nothing better than having people in the crowd who know you already. Obviously, it's a gift and you don't want to rely on them. But when they see you being you, and they go, "Oh, that's what we want it. That's what we came for. That's what we paid a ticket to see, and drove here and parked the car, and did the whole thing. We got them being him." - I don't know if you're like this on stage as much as I like to be, but, and I also love that. And it's easier. But when there's people in the audience that don't know who I am, I think I'm able to do stuff that I couldn't do for the audience that does. I don't think I could surprise them the same that already know me. - Got it. - I like making people believe something, and then making them believe something different. And I don't, and, and that is the, that's the, that's where like, that's what live performances to me is, there's an energy and an expectation in the room that exists outside of the performer, that the audience members, either they recognize, they all feel as a whole, or they just think it's them, but they all, it's the same temperature in the room for everybody. You know, it's the same time of day for everybody. It's the same servers for everybody. They're all something connected. - Yes. - And I like to be able to play with that. And if they already know that you're gonna get hit by a car, then you have to fall in the manhole. - Right. - You know what I mean? And I like being able to, I like being able to play with that. - Yeah, that's a great thing. And that's a, that's a skill that people love. So if you can nail that, you're in a good place. - I think the, the, the, the, the, the, the level of silly, but also the level of just being very sincere and honest. - Yeah. - Those two things that I think a lot of people think are mutually exclusive, and where I often have gotten, like I never know when you're serious or not, I know you get, I know, that's where you like, how do you turn that into an act? - Yeah. - And that's a great little blurb for you. - I, I, I want to say, and this is, this is like, I'm being, I'm feeling insecure about saying this publicly, but I mean it. - I can't wait. - Well, it's nothing big. It's just like patting myself on the back. - Uh-huh. - It's taken me so long to get good at that. And I really, - Takes forever. - You really feel, like I'm feeling something emotional. I feel so good at it now. It's such a new thing for me. It really is. - That's great. - I, it's been so, I've always done weird stuff and trying stuff and blah, blah, blah, blah. - Yeah, see, channel. - But like I'm so happy with like what I've been able to create with, I don't know if it says as a comedian or just this hour now, and then when I'm done with this, on to the next. - Try to do a new thing. - And, but I, I've, I've always moved on. I've always done new jokes, new jokes and jokes. I did it. And now I've like for about two and a half years now, I'm like, I for, I want to do a special. You have to do it this way. And I, the first time I've built something. - That's beautiful. - I love it. - And I, and I get the, the sign fell thing. It's like, I, I still get nervous and stuff, but I also go on stage. I'm like, this is, this is, this is good. - Well, that's your comedic weapon. And you've sharpened it and mastered it. And that's huge. And you have, not everyone has that weapon. That's probably you alone. - I don't know if it's me alone. - That good at it though. I do feel that like, if comedians have superpowers, some better than others, some more meaningful than others. - That's what I'm saying. - I do feel that, that one's mine. - That's great. - Yeah. - How cool is that? - I, I, I, I, you can't teach that in a class or anything. You had to hone that and learn that on your own through trial and error and experience and all that. - Yeah, it's like, I mean, like what musicians have to do over time, eventually they could get good enough. - But not just good enough, you found your own thing. - Yeah. - Anybody be a great comic and just be like a journeyman or whatever, you have a specific skill set. - And can I say something else about that where, where, for better and for worse, and the idea of the art versus the business or like that they bought a, they got a babysitter in bubble bath. When I'm aware, I'm aware, but when it's, when it occupies space in my brain that they got a babysitter and whatever else, whatever version of that might be, they drove really far, you know. - They love to tell you that. - Drove three hours to see you. - Yeah, I mean, tell me what your point of view is on that. - I just feel guilty, it's a bittersweet moment 'cause I'm flattered, like, oh thanks, but also like, sorry. - That's why you gotta give a merch for free when they drive far. - I hear what you're saying. It's, I think it's saying that like, like, if you ever were to see like a, an athlete or a Schwarzenegger, me like, I had posters of you on my wall. I can't believe I get to do, you know, not that we're Arnold Schwarzenegger to them. But like, hey, like, I wanted to see you so much that I did this. I think it's a compliment. - It's definitely a compliment, I just, but I, - I also do feel like I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. - Should I give you gas money? I don't know what to do here. - I, I, I, I was talking to somebody in the front, and I think this was in Cleveland. And they told me they drove from, I don't know, in the apples, I don't remember where. And I'm like, I'm like, uh, uh, did you rent a car or did you drive? - Yeah. - And then like, I drove like, can I give you gas? Because I'm like, I'll pay for the rental. - And then they said, well, we do need to get oil change, and I gave a 60 bucks. - Ah, that's hilarious. - It does feel, I do feel bad, but it's also, I know it's a compliment. - It is, it's huge. - But when I was getting it, as I'm like, talking about how great I am at this moment, which is not my intention. And for the longest time, I never was, is, uh, when I, when I'm thinking of myself, they drove far, um, I'm, I, I, we know I'm not going to be as good. Uh, I know I'm not going to be as good. I, I might be able to soften things for them, or what I think they would want soften, which who even knows. And the logic, not the emotional side of, of being fearful, but the logic of knowing, I am my best when I'm fully present doing what I believe I should be doing, without letting them influence me, which is tough because when they don't laugh, you notice when they laugh, you notice. But logically, it makes so much sense to me to just do what I think is funniest. - Yeah. - To do what I think they think is funniest, I might be wrong and it might be not as funny. So best case scenario, and because I, that I understand that for better and worse, so much, I truly, they don't, they don't, the audience doesn't influence my act that much. Which has made it very hard for me to get good at this because if they laugh, that means keep doing it. If they don't, that means, stop or change. - Yeah. - I'm, I'm very, very bad at that. [BLANK_AUDIO]
a very long time until I know it's funny and I might be wrong, but that's the best version. So I think that's also my superpower and also something where I could, I get my way. Yeah. Well, I think it's a given a take. I see you exactly what you're saying, but I do think you got to give the audience something they like too. Because yes, my people with Rick Rubin, he's always like, fuck the audience. The audience doesn't matter. I'm like, shut up. Yeah, fucking shoeless, weirdo. So, so she was on, get a haircut. Or I disagree with what you're arguing isn't that fuck them. They don't matter. Of course they do. Of course they matter. He says that. However, but I think that's, I don't know enough of what he says, but like, I think that's maybe this is the pendulum swinging the other way just to kind of explain to somebody like hyperbolicly. Hopefully. Because I want you to love what I do. Not even thank you. We got to wrap it up. I was like, I want you to love what I do. But if you don't, that's okay. Yes. So what I'm saying is the best version of what I could do from my mind. It's all subjective. So the only one that I'm saying is I'm doing this. This is funny to me. This is how what I believe my best version is, is whatever this is, right? Yeah. If you guys disagree with this, if enough people disagree with this, I got to check in on that. Yeah, absolutely. This joke never works. Why not? Eventually this isn't the joke, right? Or the strike later, right? Of course. But if it doesn't work, but I'm thinking like, I don't need them to laugh at this, this, this isn't, this is part of, I don't need them to laugh at that. Okay. That's fine. That is fine. So what they have to be entertained at the end of the show. Yes. Have a good time and enjoy it. Yes. It's like Picasso. Picasso draws tits going this way and a tip going that way. And you would go, he's a genius. But if he started doing that, you'd go, this guy didn't understand tits. You know what I mean? You think he's a weirdo, but you can bring an audience with you and they go, oh, I see what he's doing here. He knows tits go that way, but he's doing it that way. Right. It's hard to explain, but I think over time, the audience knows that you know. You have to let them know you know. Yes. And the best way to do that, and I believe this is at least subconscious. The best way to do that is to know, right? And this is so pretentious. To know that it's funny. To know that it's honest. For them, you're saying, for them to know, for you to know, if I, if I am present and I believe what I'm doing, which by the way, isn't always the case. There's tricks to this in short. But if I, if I believe what I'm doing, and you don't believe me, I'm not gonna change. All right. All right. This is real. That's an artist. And when they don't believe it. And so I think if the, if the audience doesn't believe you, then you're either doing a bad job at explaining it or you're not being honest. Yes. And if you're not being honest, do a better job. If you're doing a bad job, do a better job. Yeah. So that's, that's the feedback I'm getting from them. Yes. But to do a better job, is it what do you think I should do? Not that it's most people think, but isn't like what's funny to you. It's okay. This isn't, this isn't real. This isn't what I think is funny. This isn't my point of view. So that's when I check in and it takes such a long time because there are jokes that I have relatively speaking for me that get really big laughs. And I know to do it. And when I do it, I'm like, yeah. And I'm like, I'm not gonna. I have those two. But at least you're checking in. That's what makes you a good checking in. What's honest to me? Not what they think. But still any kind of assessing is the move. Yes. With them or with you? And I think I think it's really important to, to, to be present in order to be able to do that. And what I'm like, is it because they got a babysitter? They drove far. I'm now not, I'm not there. No, no, of course. You're in the moment. You're in the showroom with them. Anyway, I got to say, uh, uh, we got to get out of here now. And I, I, I'm, I'm like, I got, I got a minute. Yeah. And I want to talk to you more about it all because just up and then we got the phone rang. You're so, you're so good at standup and you're funny. And those are two separate things to me. I agree. You're so good at standup that like, and we're such a similar frequency and things. But you do things so different. And I do things so much this way. And I do know it benefits me to sharpen certain things. Yeah. And I am really trying. And some of the things I'm trying to sharpen are things that you are so sharp at. But like, but don't change or you know, no, but the foundation is this. Uh, uh, and, and, and, and people like that. I want to come to see you for that. It may be, I think a lot of people don't know my standup. They come to see me and they just, from the podcast, but they get enough out of this to get who you are. But my friends and our peers have, have not only have amazing specials out, amazing specials. You know, they've been doing this and they've been doing it. I never wanted to do one. I was never. I'm like, I will. I will. I will. I can't wait. And I've, and I'm like, and I've never felt like I want to do one. And it's been almost 20 years. I've been doing this. Well, you found your thing. You feel great. You feel great. You found your niche. You found your skillset. And now you're honing it. And that way the world gets to see it. All right. We're done. You could comment. Thank you. Pardon for the last 10 minutes of me doing this. But like, and it felt cool telling that to you. I really think that you're so incredible. And you're my friend. So it felt cool talking about that. Oh, I can't wait to do it. I'm dying to see. I'm dying to see this hour. All right. Cool. Uh, theme music. We don't do this a business podcast. We don't do this a business podcast at all. Okay. What's the context? It's smart. [Music]
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
Rick Glassman is touring with stand-up comedy dates in multiple U.S. cities, including Portland, Eugene, Philadelphia, Houston, and Washington, DC, with tickets and email sign-ups available at RickGlassman.com.
The podcast highlights comedic discussions about stand-up performance, audience dynamics, and personal habits, including the idea that comedians may struggle with consistency in their final shows due to exhaustion or audience fatigue.
Rick emphasizes the importance of self-care in comedy, suggesting that comedians should take breaks and avoid overworking, noting that rest allows for better performance and emotional well-being.
Summary:
Rick Glassman, a stand-up comedian, shares insights from his recent tour and podcast episodes, discussing his stand-up comedy journey, audience reactions, and personal routines. He highlights the challenges of maintaining consistent performance, especially in the final show of a weekend tour, which he believes may stem from fatigue or audience expectations. Glassman stresses the importance of self-care, suggesting that comedians should take breaks to avoid burnout, drawing a parallel to athletes who rest to recover.
He also engages in light-hearted conversations about humor, fashion, and comedy culture, including references to fellow comedians like Shane Gillis, Jason Alexander, and Mark Norman. The episode touches on broader themes like the value of authenticity, the stigma around therapy, and the balance between artistic expression and business responsibilities. Glassman promotes several sponsors—Bluetooth, Bluechew, and Revolve Man—offering discounts to listeners.
He emphasizes that comedy is not just about performing, but also about being present with the audience, creating genuine connections, and recognizing when to step back. The conversation reflects both humor and vulnerability, underscoring that comedic success depends on mental health, rest, and audience trust. Ultimately, Glassman advocates for a sustainable approach to comedy, where performers prioritize well-being alongside performance quality.
FAQs
Rick Glassman is performing in Portland, Oregon and Eugene, Oregon from September 10 to 13, and in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from September 17 to 19.
You can purchase tickets at RickGlassman.com. Tickets are available for his stand-up comedy tour dates in various cities.
Yes, Rick Glassman sells comedy-themed merchandise. You can find it at RickGlassman.com and use promo code 'boobs' for 10% off.
Bluetooth listeners can get three months of Bluetooth Gold when they buy two months with promo code 'Tyson', plus an additional 10% off and free overnight shipping on their first order.
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Rick recommends taking a break between shows, noting that comedians often perform well early in a weekend but struggle on the last show due to exhaustion, and that resting helps maintain performance quality.
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