Ron Funches Is Happier Than You (Probably) | Whiskey Ginger

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We'll be starting to put an update slowly with Shirley at AndrewSansian.com, but in the meantime, check me out October 18th. It's my birthday weekend. Come say hi, enough rambling. Let's go to the episode. In here, we pour whiskey. Whisky. Whisky. Whisky. Whisky. Whisky. Oh, that creature in the ginger field. Sturdy. Ginger. Like that. The ginger gene is good. Ginger is a fugitive. You only five dollars for the whiskey. 75 dollars for the whole. Ginger, our hell knows. Whisky news. Excellent. Ginger. I like ginger. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Whisky. Ginger, my guest today is one of my favorite people on earth. And he said that for all my guests, when I mean once again today, it is the return after a long, long wait. Ron Funchay. I should have done a bigger intro because I do know you're into wrestling. You owe all you or you were. I don't know if you like it anymore. Thank you for not just assuming that I still am. I really appreciate you may not be anymore. I'm not as much. Really? No. What happened? It's too commercial now. And now they got like they just had this big match in this guy who like he's never had a big championship run ever. His name's Chad Gable. They put him under a mask. He's called him Shorty G to make fun of him because he's short. Yeah. And then he like went through this whole child's attribulation of like getting respect and people loving him again. And he finally won a title. And they had his family in the ring. And it was in front of his home town in Minnesota. And then they had the mug root beer dog come in and bounce on the ropes and hand them some root beers to Chuck. And it's just like you would never see that in the middle of NBA championship. Like, hey, Jalen, like, Chuck these root beers with this dog real quick. You know, Jalen, the cool aid man's going to bust through the court at two minutes and 14 seconds. So just be aware and just drink a little bit. And then you can keep playing the game. Yeah, they might get there, though. You say that. It might be my, but it just to me just showed like, you know, since they sold it, it just shows the real disrespect that they have for the audience. Who did they who bought it? TKO. Yeah. Is that there for T2C and all that's that for T2 Brothers or for TTA someone of those two. I don't know what the more. Yeah. Well, the world is the world is changing. Monetize monetize monetize. Truly. You got to do it. Got to do it. Got to do it. I guess. I guess that's the world. We're them that make it more money than ever. That when we were kids, it wasn't like that. Yeah, the wrestling space wasn't like that at all. No, it felt, but it felt more homegrown backpack underground or whatever you want to call it where it felt more like you were in a secret club. Yeah, that's what I've been about my whole life really is things that either you get it and you see this whole world in it and you see the beauty of it. Are you don't see any, you know, value in it at all and you both can be right. That's what I love about comedy, it's what I love about wrestling, what I love about hip-hop, you know. That's what I loved about hip-hop the most. Yeah. Although I did see an interview with Andre T1000 that made me laugh so hard this morning that he was like, they're like, are you not going to rap anymore? And he's like, well, I don't know what I'm rapping about right now. I'm older. He's like, did people want to hear about colonoscopies? I don't know. He's like, maybe, but I doubt it. He's like, do I want to say what my back hurting? See, I, we can relate. Yeah. But I did think it was interesting because he was like, I don't think I have a lot of raps right now to give you. I think people, especially the rappers, they feel like tied in, they like, that they, we only want to hear about guns and, and sex and buds, but we don't. One of my favorite rappers is this guy named Don Trip and he mostly just raps about being a single father and, and like, co-parenting issues. That's sweet. Yeah. And I'm like, that's a real issue. Yeah. I'm like, oh, I get you. Thank you. Yeah. Well, we do want to hear about money, butts, guns, and drugs, but we also want to hear about pain and trials and tribulations, divorce, death, you know, sad things are if you just had a good day or if you had a great day. Yeah. There's a couple of rappers that do great day raps, but you can't, you have to mix it in with other stuff. Yeah. So Don Tripin. That's his name. Don Trip. Don Trip. Don Trip. Yeah, you tried to add extra urban to it. Why did I do that? Don Trip. Well, shout out to Don Trip. Let's look him up. Let's make sure that we have him as a part of our future now. Don Trip. I'm just an old school guy. We've talked about this before. I'm just, I guess I just, it's more nostalgia for me. New hip hop is great, but old for me just was, I just like that it was kind of, um, I don't know, there's, there's still an underground. I don't keep up with it, but I like to go ahead. I mean, at the same, you know, with comedy, that's why I tried that because I hate it when people think, oh, the, I hate it when so many people, they're like, there's no good comedian. I'll post a clip and it'll be like, oh, I missed comedians that I like, like Richard prior in George Carlin. I'm like, that's the only two you know. That's all they like. That's all you've known since, so you haven't watched comedy since the 70s. So long time. That's a long time. Even watch comedy in 50 years. That's insane. Yeah. I don't like, well, that bothers me when older people do that to me when they go, if I say, let's say I show someone, you know, like a, let's have I showed you to like a family member. Someone's like, yeah, no, it's very funny. It's very funny. You know why I used to really love and they name someone like that generation and you're like, it was a moment in time. Like I think Dr. J was great too. Do you not know there's other hoopers now? I just feel like that's a weird perspective to only go. These, well, those artists, I really understood these new comedians. I don't get them. And maybe it's because there's too much comedy and there's overexposure. So people that don't have the patients, they check out. Yeah, because it's every, it's everywhere now. Well, it's just anytime you have a thing where there's no verification. There's no like certificate to get to be like, I put in the hours and I'm a comedian. It's a self-defying job. Any self-defying job is going to be full of people who like, it's one of a few things where it's like the better you get at it, the more people think that they could do what you do because you make it crazy. Yeah, but you do make it look easy. I do make it. But you've been doing that for a long time. That's a problem. When we were young even, Ron was, Ron was on and I thought, people are going to think that they can do that. It's giving people false hope. Yeah, you really do get humbled as a comedian when the real world steps into play are, are AC furnace kicked and the electrician came who's kind of like a jack of all trades. This guy knows everything. He's like certified in five different things, plumbing, pipe electrician. He can do everything. The guy goes upstairs and he's like looking at stuff and he's like showing me the fuse and changing out the wire and he was like, can you understand how this wire got disconnected in the first place and I was like, come on man. No, you're an applicable skilled person. Yeah. I'm a subjective skilled. I can be replaced easily. Yeah. You, we need. You know knowledge and things. Me, when the time comes, the revolution comes. They're going to save a few gestures. I don't think we're all going to make the cut. Well, that's been one of my jokes lately where I talk about how they're, I think you saw a reason where there's just no such thing as an alpha male comedian to me because like we don't have those type of skills. No. Like none of us are really like that. No. We're the people like when you watch houses, houses, dragons where like there's the fighters and then there's the women watching sitting on pillows next to guys who are injured or just effeminate. That's us. We're injured effeminate people from the community being like, oh, look at him over there. That is kind of who we all are. We can put on a, we can put on a show that we're this domineering character on stage, but the real truth is we can, we can do almost nothing in the real world. Yeah. Application is low. No. Yeah. He checked me down too. Not, I wasn't questioning him. I was like, well, is that the same kind of wire that that that this is? And I showed him and he was like, oh, no. Because I was like, I think I have one of those. He's like, you don't, I promise. You don't know. You don't know. You put out a PlayStation 2 controller. Now, with this connect to the AC unit by any chance because this is a good wire. Yeah. No, he, it, it, it, it re, it just reups, it's ego death in a good way when you can't fix stuff. Like my father-in-law is built his, their childhood home with his hands. And it's the most intimidating thing in the world because he'll go, uh, do you guys, what are you going to do with that? Something around the house and I'll be like, you know, we're thinking about, uh, can you do it? Do you know how to do that? And he's like, yeah, what do you mean? I can fix that in seconds. I'm like, thank you. Thank you for that. No, I know. I mean, I have people come over and like, do the landscape and my yard and stuff. And like, they have no respect for me. Nor should they, to be honest with you. No, I walk in and they don't even say hi. They don't talk because they know I like, I can't answer any questions. I don't even know that they just like, no, this guy barely knows what he's doing. Right. I do think when they come around, they should, they should verbally go back inside with you. Back inside. You don't belong out here. Let us do what we're supposed to do. Get out of our way. Uh, Ron Funches, by the way, first of all, are those bullsocks? Yeah, they are. Hey, nice. I like that. I like that. I like that. But we got Caleb now. He, well, we got two Caleb's in Chicago. Yes. I don't want to say anything because I feel like every time I do, I preemptively jinx everything. and anything. I didn't feel as good. Okay, I agree. We'll see. I just, I, uh, rooting for Chicago sports has been the bane of my existence, my whole life. So every time I get excited, it's just so hard because we're similar age, I think. Yeah. And so because you wake up and you go like, boom, championship, championship, championship, we'll take two years off to let him just deal with some gambling stuff and grief. And then come back, championship, championship, championship. This is just how we do. That's how we do. And then you go 30 fucking years. Not anticipated. Did not see that coming. Eddie Curry didn't see that coming. So hard, dude. So hard. Well, also, I just saw they just retired, uh, uh, we retired Rose, you know, we did like a ceremony for Rose. And, uh, I think one of the coolest responses Derek Rose had, they interviewed him about LeBron going to Philly. I don't know if you saw this clip. It's incredible, but they were like, well, what do you think about that? And he's like, I don't play basketball anymore, man, I'm worried about myself and my family and my life. And I was like, good for you, dude. Classic Derek Rose. Yeah, he was just like that favorite All-Star clip. The clip of him at the All-Star game. And they're all dancing and busting down because LeBron told him to. And he's just like, nah, so great. He's demanded. But I just the way it was so classy, the response to be like, I'm not of, I know you're looking for a sound bite. You're not going to get it. Yeah. I'm not interested, man. Whatever in that space, he's like, I'm focused on me, my retirement, my family, enjoying the second half of my life. And I just was like, God, I miss that fucking guy. Yeah. I love them so much. But, but anyway, uh, what I want to say up top because we were talking about it before, it was you're going back to the UK to perform and it's been a while. Yeah. I'm excited for it. We just got, I just got back in the UK. I did not perform, but I had the itch. I kind of felt like I should when I was there. Like, maybe I should call a club and I was taking a vacation. You were just on holiday. Yeah, holiday. It was on holiday. And I thought, should I go pop into somewhere? And my buddy Sean, who was with me, Sean was like, do it. Let's do it. And I thought, no, I don't know. Sometimes, my wife will say that she'll be like, dude, just if you're off, be off. Yeah. Don't agree. But it's really difficult. It's getting easier as we get older. But when I was young, you were like, what am I doing? I'm not doing it. I'm moving skills. I feel like you're, it feels like people are still building and they're like, hey, man, we're going to be up top if you're not going to be up top. Yeah. But no, I think you'll find out what you really miss in his life and stuff and doing stuff with your family. Exactly. We'll get mad at you and start building resentment. That's exactly right. You need to take time off and you take a time out, but you're touring. You're doing what? What are you doing? Let me guess. You're going to do, you can do England. You'll do Scotland, Ireland, Amsterdam. I'm going to do, oh, I'm doing Scotland. Yep. Wait, no, am I doing Scotland? No, I'm doing Ireland. Ireland, okay. Not Scotland. Yeah, we're different people. Yeah, we're different. We're doing Ireland. I'm doing London. I'm doing Manchester. Amsterdam and Cardiff. Awesome. Yeah. Cardiff by the sea. Have you been to Cardiff before? Never. Beautiful. Man, you're going to have so much fun. Now, are you bringing it when you go to Europe on these trips? Because we just dealt with it when we went to Australia was it's a lot of people that we had to bring along for our big crew. But is it just you and one opener? It's just me and my friend who's playing the trombones. Sick. And he's just a friend of mine and he's coming for fun. That's amazing. That's a great time. And I'll see if I can find some local openers for me. Smart, but that's about it. Is he playing while you're on stage or is it opening the show? I think I'll have him open the show. We haven't even really talked about it, but I just told him to bring his trombone. Just bring this and then we'll figure it out when we get there. Yeah. I would love to see you do like a piece with him playing while you're on stage telling jokes. I do do that sometime because I do a show with a band that I do at the improv lab. Yeah. I think you should, I think that's what Europe needs. They need Ron with trombone. I agree with you. I mean, we talk, I think I talked about this the other day on here that one of the best specials I ever saw in my entire life was the purple onion with Zach when he had the piano and I thought no one else is going to be able to do this like that. That's classic. That's one of my favorites. Just one of the best. It's, it's just there's something about that. If people don't know, go watch live at the purple onion. Gallifonacus. It was, it was just groundbreaking for the, there were people doing a lot of experimental music comedy stuff at the time, but to film it in a special I think was hardly not a risk, but it was, right? You know what I mean? It wasn't like, it wasn't like, it wasn't like, we'll see if they like it. But no one was kind of doing that at that style where it was kind of raw shot filthy dirty. Yeah, especially for a guy who was coming up and had to hang over coming out and all these things coming out that become this big mainstream comic. That's the same time to deliver this very small and very like full point of view of what he wanted comedy to be like and just it's very old school jazzy feel to do that at the same time becoming the biggest actor comedian in the world. It's pretty amazing. It's pretty impressive man. I always get jealous stuff like that. Now I like see his gardening show and I've seen it, but I'm like, well, he's just having fun. He made it to the top and was like, I think I'm just going to have fun inside the outside project man. It's great. Just so we're on the same page or on the same topic again though, but please go see Ron when he's in Europe, you're a European and you're watching the show. I know I've said a lot of bad things about Scottish food. I take it back, but he's not even going to Scotland. No, I just have been saying a lot of food, bad things about food in UK in general, especially bread and then they have not been taking it well. They don't take it well. So that's been one of the reasons why I come here. Yeah, we need to promote it. Yeah, please buy the tickets at the show. I didn't know you were not going to take us that they took it very poorly, as I'm sure you do. I was just like, Oh, potatoes with beans and tuna. Yes, seems weird. And then they were like, well, your kids get shot in school. They do say that right away. That is their first school shooting. Yes, yes, that is well. And they're not wrong. They're not wrong. They're not wrong. But it's like, Oh, you guys supposed to be witty. Yeah, there'd be something more clever. Yeah. Yeah, that's too easy. It's a little too that right away. Yeah, easy, easy, low hanging fruit. Yeah, school shooting is blah, blah, blah. I like how we roll over it. Oh, big deal. Yeah. Big deal. You're still eating beans and tuna. Yeah, dude, that's on you. That's your shit. I will say the food in London, the food in London and specifically because there's so many new restaurants there now. It surprised me last time we went there. We were a little shocked. Oh, there's always good food. I mean, we're talking like Indian food and food from people that they call in eyes and think of that nature. Yeah, that's exactly right. Yeah. That's what they did the best. They were number one. Number one. Yeah, they call us the worst racist, but I don't know, England. You guys kind of let the charge. Yes, started it. That's a game of fun. I found I posted my thing that was they were like, How dare you make fun of our potatoes when we we freed the slaves before Lincoln. Oh, I didn't. Oh, I apologize. Oh, my bad. My bad. My bad. I didn't know I was supposed to be paying you guys back for that. My bad. It's called rep reparations. Yeah, it's reprehensive reparations. It's a good way to make fun of your potatoes. Cannot. No, you may not. And by the way, Ron will be doing an hour all on your food. It will be one full hour. So go see him. All about beans and tuna. I don't know if you've seen it. It's called beans and tuna. It's going to be on that. I'm taking grapes down a notch. They do so much right. I want to give them credit. I will say tea time in the finger. The little finger sandwiches. Oh, the pastries. They crush. Love. They crush a baked good. Oh, my God. Custard on thing. Love what they do with custard over there. Yeah, but, but savory item. Say for stuff. And that's a whole shot. It's a big category food. Yeah. They miss on that. But they do know how to drink. They are fun to go out and have fun. Yeah. But are you on the sauce? Are you no sauce? No, I've never drank. No sauce. Yeah, no sauce. I figured by now, maybe dabble on it. No, you think so. Oh, I don't know. I mean, people go through phases. I've been thinking about that with homosexuality. But that's the same thing. Drinking is drinking is the gateway to doing gay stuff. Yeah. That is really why I started doing coke. Yeah. Gay. Yeah. And that is the, that is the, that's the road you do. And this is all to cover up for my, my deeply closeted of feelings. That's all this is. Yeah. That's what everyone says. Yeah. Trust me. I know. I watched the videos. Yeah. You know, why doesn't he come out? Because I'm not ready. Okay. That's it. Yeah. Same thing here. Leave me alone. That's always been the weird thing to me when people say, I'm gay. I'm like, I'm leaving so much money on the table. Yeah. Can you imagine? I could be in so many, like, pride month. I could be Reagan. Huge. Huge. You know, you'd have your own float. Yeah. Come on. The funch is float. I'm on it. I'm on the funch is float. You're leading the chart. Well, we, maybe we should. Maybe this is the episode that we do it. I mean, I don't know. Are you still talking about our relationship? Yeah. Yeah. You are. Yeah. Yeah. I stopped smoking. Did you? Well, I'm still consuming. My doctor was like up the butt now. Yeah. Just up the butt. Yeah. All suppository. No, I'm, I'm drinking and eating, drinking and eating it. No more, not as much smoking anymore. How are you eating it? Gummies and other food items that I buy at this local shop that they've got. They have like cookies. They've got, but drinking big. I don't like that. And I mean, calories always been one of my struggles. I know. I know. I don't like to add the extra calories. Well, the drinks are good. They're only 30 calories for the drinks that I do. I like a little tablet every now and then. That's good, but yeah, I like smoking. No. I love smoking. I think my doctor was like, uh, was like, are you smoking a lot? And I was like, I had been smoking more than not. And I admitted to him. He's like, why don't you just try switching it? Not for like, he was like, I see something, but he was like, try eating more or drinking it. And so that I switched. And since then, I'll still, I'll still smoke a joint every once in a while, but more than ever now. Like last night, we went to a show. And the wife and I pounded a couple of drinks. And they're great, man. They're really good. I think they they hit you nice and smooth and slow. The edibles, yeah, crap you. - Edibles they can get you. But the drinks, I feel like I can control. 'Cause the drinks, it's part of my mushrooms. - What about mushrooms, you microdose at all? - I do love mushrooms. I haven't done them in a little while, but I take the little mushroom gummies when I golf. - Yeah. - Oh, that sounds like a beautiful thing. - They're fantastic. It is my promotion for people that don't like golf and they're like, it's a stupid dumb game. Think about it like this. Take a little bit of mushrooms with one or two of your very good friends and walk through a park for a few hours and play a game if you want. And if you don't want, sit in the cart. - Yeah. - It's not that big of a deal. It's actually not that deep. I think when people have slowly learned for COVID, there are a lot of guys I know started to play 'cause they were like, we're just outside and we can just consume things if we want to and enjoy nature. I was like, yeah, it's kind of the thing. - Yeah, I've been wanting to get more in it. I play a lot of mini golf. I play mini golf and I'm just about every city I go to on tour, I try to find, they got a good mini golf. Mini golf plays on a Pilates studio. - Pilates? - Yeah, it's just your thing now. - It's my thing now. - Big Pilates, weren't you a new yoga for a little while? - For a little bit. I used to do the Stone Yoga class for a while and I do Jiu Jitsu as well, but that's about it. - That's not about it. - That's a lot. - Jiu Jitsu and Pilates. - Like the polar opposite, right? - No, they're actually very helpful for each other 'cause they're all hip and core. - Yeah, hip and core. - It's a lot of hip and out. A lot of them using your core to frame up against stuff. And so for Pilates, Pilates has helped my Jiu Jitsu quite a bit. - Are you in Jiu Jitsu or 'cause I'm very ignorant? Are you going up against someone all the time or no? - I mean, I usually do one-on-ones with my coach. His name's Jay Zabalos. Are my professor, I guess. - They're professors. - Yeah, yeah. - I love that. - Yeah. - Professor X. - Yeah, Professor Z. - Professor Z, that's right. - A lot of my friends are into it. One of my best friends from home is a big Jiu Jitsu guy. He's got his kid into it, a kid's into it, and he loves it. He's like, you would love it. But I know my anxieties and I know I would not. - Yeah, I love it. I didn't think I would love it. I tried it once and just was real into it. And like the spirituality of it, the focus of it. I think it's helped my acting a lot. - That's great. - You really have to like tell your body to do something and respond. And when I went to Budapest, I just did this my first action movie. And I was doing a lot of like pratfalls and stunts. And I really was like, oh, if I had not been doing Jiu Jitsu in Pilates, I don't think I could be doing that. - Yeah, how'd you find Budapest? - I liked it for like two weeks, but I was there for six. - Could you have spread those two weeks out over the six? Like liked it for two days, didn't like it for four? - Yeah, I tried. Yeah, I mean, actually kind of, yeah. - That's the goal of your life. - Did you go to the hot springs? - I did. - The baths? - Yeah, I did. I shot like a little thing there and I stayed there. And we really enjoyed my time, only because I was there for a week and some change. So I did the Funchers version that you wanted to live. - Yeah, I mean, I just think six weeks away from your family and you can't have your family. - Yes. - Many people at home do hate their family. - Yeah, and that's understandable. Maybe they did bad things to you. - Yeah, you know, I don't know what happened, but I do think, take, go to Budapest, and you need to get away. - Yeah, absolutely. - It is beautiful. It is stunning. - It's gorgeous. - Stunning man. - It's gorgeous. - We went to a concert out at the, it was called the Zegut Festival, mispronouncing it for sure. But there's little islands that separate Budapest and on one of those big islands, there was a concert. And my wife and I were like, we saw a flyer for a band called The Editors. I don't know if you're familiar with them at all, but I loved them for a long, long time there. And I was like, oh my God, the fucking editors are there. And she was like, do you want to go? And I just looked and I was like, it's today. Like it was just a flyer in the street. - That's all the beautiful thing. I saw Grandmaster Flash like that and Amsterdam, just being there and being like, oh, he's here. - Oh, dude, doesn't that do something you're in? And by the way, the concert was that much better because of a lack of preparation, because of a lack of knowledge of like any, we didn't know how to get there. We didn't know if there was like, do we have to take a bus, was our transportation? Like, you know, what time to set start? We just showed up and we got to see them and we got to see a stupid guy. What's my name? What's her name? Janel Monet. - Oh. - Janel Monet. - Nice. - To a main stage show. - Oh yeah. - Yeah. Kind of fell face first. Like when you fall into those things, when you're on the road, you're like, this is. - Yeah, I mean, it's one of the things where you're like, oh, I made the right decision with my life because it's bringing me to places where it's just cool, where it's shit's going on. - Cool shit's going on. - Yeah. - Yeah. Yeah, Budapest, I did like, interesting know how it's like the center of Budapest, it's like so rich with like stuff. And then you go out where those springs are and you're like, oh, it's not in the air. It's like, it's a lot post-war. - And it's also a definite cause like, you know, it's there for work and like everyone else is there for work. It's not a very touristy. It's not like you go to some places and they seem like, thank you for visiting. So I would be here and you go, and they're like, if you don't speak Hungarian, we'll fuck you. - Fuck you, you're out. - Yeah, they look at you and they're like, they're like, ugh, but I agree, they don't have to try. - And they're not many black people there. - No, no. - So that was an interesting experience. - And that was my request. - Yeah, they did my request. - Yeah, that was a bad one. - And you can tell, yeah, by the way, they do their haircuts. They're like, keep 'em out. We're going, if you come here, we'll fuck your hairline out. - Yeah, we're going to fuck you up, dude. - Fuck your hairline. - You better bring a barber. 'Cause we are not going to have one. - No, no. (all laughing) - That is true. It is a very, it's a very white land. It's a very Hungarian land. - Yeah. - They were having some type of like historical day where there was a parade going on and they would just dress up and old-timey dress and then walking around. And I found out later it's because they have a strong horse culture, but I just walk outside and there's people wearing old-school hats and old-school dress and they're just cracking whips. And I'm like, this or not? - No. - This is not the place for me. - Oh, no. (all laughing) - The whip seems remarkably unnecessary. (all laughing) Did we need the whip? Guys, we could have hats. Okay. - There were on hats, robes and whips. I don't know if the whips are the thing. You imagine one guy was like, dude, we don't need the whips. And someone was like, - The sound. - The sound, we need the sound. - Yeah. - They'll know we're coming. - No, but it is a lovely place getting to explore - Oh, it's gorgeous. - It was very fun. - Goulash delicious. - Oh, man. - Peppercash chicken, wonderful. - So that's hard when you're on the road 'cause I know you're on your health kick all the time. Like, since I've met you too and you've done an amazing job of keeping up with all that stuff 'cause I know it's a nightmare, especially when we're on the road, do you find yourself when you're shooting in a place that it's hard to keep up? - It was actually very easy. - It was easy because besides those two things, I just named, I didn't like anything. - You didn't like the other food. - You know, you couldn't do it. - One time on set, they just gave us stewed cherries, cheese and rice. - Yeah. - And I was like, okay. - Breakfast. (laughing) - Okay, thanks. Yeah, okay. It is funny when you know 'cause I guess it is easier than, I find myself getting into the sloppy, I'll just eat whatever crap I can find. And then I'll eat more sweets and snacks on my road. - I do eat more, 'cause I never eat McDonald's except I find myself like, 'cause when she's there for too long, I'm like, oh, just give me something I recognize. - Yeah, so I end up eating McDonald's stuff. I just also found a Pilates studio there, ran by a mother and daughter. - Beautiful. - It was a great time. - Family. - It was family, yeah. She was one of the most infant people I've ever seen in my life. So it just gave me a nice thing to go do every other day. - Every other day you would go. - Oh yeah. - That's really good. - Ron, you keep up better than anybody I know. - I drive because it's always a struggle. There's always people make fun of me online or like, you're so fat and you don't work out. And I go, I could beat the shit out of you. - Yeah. - Come say hi to me in public. - I do so much as they this to be as chubby as I am with the workout I do, like it's incredible. - Yeah, no, they don't know. And you know what, by the way, I saw that Jonah Hill episode about him doing, you know, that interview on "Smartless" in the words of Jonah Hill for you to say, fuck around and find out. - Yeah. - Yeah, come find out, come see Ron. 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Hope NY for New York. Call 1-877-770-7867 in Louisiana. [MUSIC PLAYING] Ninja, I like to interest you. No, because you know what it is. You have always been since I've known you. You are a sensitive, sweet, caring, a lovable human, but I know deep down inside. You've still got, still got some function there. - Yeah, oh yeah, everybody knows that. - Yeah, oh yeah. - But that's why someone would say some dumb shit online and poke the bear. - Is where, yeah man, that's why I protect myself because I know I'm like, oh, you'll fuck shit up. - Yeah, you don't wanna be that guy. - I don't wanna fuck shit, I don't know. - No, 'cause you got kids, you don't wanna do that. Kids, you know what I mean? Well, kids, no, no, your kid's old now, old now. - I get it, but I got it four year old too. - Right, you got a young one. - The old one's gotta be 17? - 23. - What the fuck? - I know. - Holy shit, your kid's gonna go full on, yeah. - God, that's crazy. - One of my openers is one year older than him. - That's wild, yeah. - That's wild, 23. Wow, and now he's 23 years old. He's fully grown now, but then you're starting over with the young one. Is that gap, like did they get on it all or no? - It's actually real beautiful. It's forced my oldest, you know, who was more severe on the autism spectrum to kind of like grow up and be like, I got someone else to look after and stuff. He's a really good big brother. He really looks after his little brother. And he, in turn, his little brother loves the shit out of him and looks up to him and will, I can use him to make him do stuff that he won't do for me. That's been beautiful to see, and it's really cool. I have like three players, we play three players, Smash Brothers, and that's pretty fun. - So you created exactly what you wanted? - Yeah, and then my youngest son turns to his older brother and just looks at him and goes, "Where are the Smash Brothers?" And I was like, fuck. - Fuck, I did it. - Yeah, I can die now. - Yeah. - Okay, Lord, go ahead, take me. - Where are the Smash Brothers and you're like, dead out to the fucker. - You did it. - That is a crowd, I see I grew up only child, so I had to go snag friends to come over to the house. I didn't have this luxury. Do you have a brother? - No. - A sister. - Yeah, but did you play-- - I played pretty princess. - Yeah, sure, yes, you have to play dress up and when you were always the prettiest pretty little princess, weren't you? Yeah, my sister was at the age gap for us was huge, so it was really hard. We became friends as adults because we were 10 year different. So I was done with college by the time she didn't even get to high school, so that was just hard with that gap. If it was a little brother, probably even a little bit easier for someone to fuck around with, but she was a sense of a little tiny girl. So you know what I mean, it was so hard for me in that right, I had to bully people to come over to the house or go over to someone's house that had brothers 'cause the older brothers, so clutch, they show, they're the ones that show you all the stuff you're not supposed to see. - Yeah. - The older brothers, the friends of the older brothers that are like, you guys wanna see some shit? You're like, yeah, and they're like, if you fucking tell anybody, like, I promise we won't. - And then you do. - You do, yeah, yeah. - You don't have a choice. - You can't go down alone. - You don't have a choice, dude. - You gotta snatch. Yeah, but I think being the only child that got me and so much trouble 'cause you had to make up all your own fun all the time. All the time, like, you know, in the neighborhood we were always up to no good because, you know, you're bored and you're like, why am I supposed to do something nefarious? And I'll go find another, you know, single child to go get in trouble with. - This is the person with no one that loves them. - That's exactly right. Well, or one of the parents usually loves you. I don't know which one, but one of them usually does. It's a gamble. It switches. - You think it helped with your imagination, though? - Yeah, 100%. You have to kind of live fruitmentally free because you don't rely on someone else's for examples to what to like or what. You know, I think like a lot of times when you're an only child, you comeelian a little bit 'cause you want to make everybody happy and you also want to like fit in and find out what the masses are doing. But a lot of times when you're alone, that's when I think some of the magic comes from figuring out on your own what you like. You're probably more embarrassed to share it though when you're alone. 'Cause you like something and you're like, I don't know if anybody else senses it. - You don't have someone else to back you up. - Camp out it off. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Right. Like, and then the embarrassing funny stories come, that's where a lot of the stand up world, I think, started for my mind. It was like funny stuff I'd get myself into. Like, I'll give you an embarrassing. You want one? I'll give you one. You gotta give me one if I give you one. - Sure. - When I was, Beverly Hills Cop, one of my favorite movies, literally of all time, to this day still holds up. The song, you gotta look up the artist, but I don't remember, the heat is on. Maybe Glen Frey? I don't think he did that. I don't know who did it. ♪ The heat is on, it's on the street ♪ ♪ The heat is on ♪ ♪ Na na na na na na na na ♪ Boom, boom, boom. - Such a good, such a good song. When I first learned about touching myself, that movie was so dominant, that song came into my head as I was jerking off. And so. - Glen Frey. - What? - Glen Frey, I was right. - Yeah. - That's how my shout out Glen Frey. Thank you. You helped shape me touching myself as a young man. Because as I was doing it, the song would be in my hand. ♪ The heat is on, na na na na ♪ It's so weird and dark, but I did want to share it with any of my friends. Do you ever get songs in your head when you jerk off? - You don't have me, like, I always felt so embarrassed about it. - You're beating to the beat of it. - Beat of the beat of Glen Frey, dude. - Yeah, it's so stupid and dark and weird. But I was like, that's the kind of self-weird, creepy discoveries when you're alone all the time watching movies by yourself. And then also becoming a young man and going, I have to pull on this thing and I don't have a choice. - Okay, I guess my only, I can't do my only, but I have a few, but what that made me think of was that when you're that age and you're masturbating a lot, but you don't really, that was like early internet. And so you didn't have too much access to pornography. You're switching over from the scrambled porn on pay-per-view. And so you just look for like sexy scenes to watch on different VHSs and your PG-PG-13 movies. And so I just always remember, just you're gonna do the same scene of this lady just changing and bending over. And it's not even a sexy movie or a sexy lady, I think, but just the movie Muriel's wedding, Muriel's wedding. (audience laughing) - There's the same, Muriel changes and I'm like, that's enough. - It got you, it got you, dude. - What did I like? I also like, it's so funny, there's such a generational thing that we'd find VHS, you'd find a movie with them, you'd watch it with a friend and then afterward you'd go, but I could utilize that. - Oh, and that's why we had wild things. - God, God, dude. Jerry McGuire, at the beginning of Jeremy McGuire, there's a sexy, it's I think it's like the first scene in the movie. - In the heat of the night. - Yeah, dude. This is all young people now don't have to worry about that. You have it. - They have it right here. - Yeah. - Yeah, they have it on the go, that's insane. No, us, we had to log it, go to a friend's house, log it in and go out. - Go to Hollywood video. - Go to Hollywood video and rent it. - Yeah. - Calling blockbuster. Do you have basic instinct? (audience laughing) - One copy, I'm on my way right now. - One craft out. - Yeah, dude, yeah, that's too, that's that's so funny. You see scenes like stuck in your head and you're like, I need to utilize this, but I have to rent this and watch this alone by myself. Yeah, and that back when the VHS's were built into the TVs, that was my favorite. 'Cause I would move mine. (audience laughing) You could take that anywhere. You could take that down to the basement. - I could take that down to the basement. - Did you grow up with basements? - Yeah, Chicago, yeah, yeah. - Dude, well it's not everyone had one, but I was like, this was my, that was my safe haven, a basement. That's where you could run away from everything. I feel like kids out here don't have-- - The smell of a basement. - Oh, me too, man. Exposed wood. Yeah, a little wet, it's always a little wet down in a basement. - The washer and dryer down there. - The guy to be down there. Yeah, it's funny when I first started seeing when I moved to California, people with washer and dryers like upstairs, I was always like, why would these be up here? And then you think, well that makes way more sense than in the basement. - Yeah, where you are, yeah. - And we just didn't have any, you didn't have a lot of room. That's has to be downstairs. There's nowhere else that can be. Also, that's where you go to get scared as a kid. - Yeah, when you're in your dad's-- - In the roller skating. - Yeah, in the roller skating, roller skating in the basement. That scene, that's why that scene in Home Alone was so prevalent to my youth with the furnace that talked to him because anyone in the Midwest understood that like the basement, if someone had a finished basement, come on. - Yeah. - But if someone had an unfinished basement and a dad was like, go downstairs and go get me that thing, they'd look at you before him. Like if I don't come back up, tell everyone in the neighborhood I said goodbye. Let's, let's Steve have my bike. He's always wanted my bike. It is a mystery little hole. It's like a creepy little hole. There's nothing unsafe about it. But it's all, I think also because as kids, scary movies preyed on what's lives in the basement or what's down there. - Oh, absolutely. - And then it was validated by documentaries that would later come out where they're like, and then the murderer was in the basement. And you're like, oh my god, where it was true. They were all down there. Right, 'cause like Dom or Diny Barry guys in his, in the basement. It's the closest to the ground and dirt. That's where you were buried. - That's where you'd bury your body, yeah. - Who did it? No, McVeigh, no McVeigh. Who was the guy that buried the bodies in the walls of his, in the walls of his mom's basement? - Why do white people always know this stuff? - Because it's our thing. - It really is your thing. - Yeah, we love that, yeah. Black people don't do the stuff like this, dude. Let us kill and be murderers and serial killers in the basement. - It's a thing that I never just did 'cause I'll watch, like I get mad about like, you're like, okay, you get everything. You get like culture movies about like Billy Joel and stuff like, oh, you get your, like, uplifting movies and then you get your murder movie as well. And then you're like, what, we might get around with black movies at some point. After we both talking about the good things we did and then the murders we did and then also the mundane life aspect as well. - We want it all. - Yeah. - Yeah, we want indie movies and murder. We do it all, what's his name? Who was it? - So there's three. - Oh, three. (laughing) - There's three. - We have John Wayne Gacy. - Yeah, John Wayne Gacy, he's the one. He's the one I'm thinking of. - Midway. - It's another guy from the walkie right in the west. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - And then in London there's Benjamin Frank. (laughing) - Benjamin Franklin, obviously not the same. - No relation. - No relation, good name though, good name. Trying to desecrate the name. Yeah, we're good at this run. You don't understand about the whites. We are trying to own the media space as much as we can. And so we want happy movie, sad movies, murder movies. We want to do it all. - Yeah. - Yeah, has there ever been a black serial killer? - No, good. I know. - No, no. - Interesting. - Well, I work on it. (laughing) - Yeah, that's funny. There's definitely never been a black serial killer. 'Cause you'd stick out. You, someone would say something. You'd go, oh, they made that movie about that guy. There hasn't, right? He's looking it up right now. - No, yes. - What? - They have the multiple. - No! - Black serial killer. - He's raised just by the way. - No movie. - Just so you know, he's extremely racist. - Oh, I'm a little. - Who, what's his name? - Samuel Little. - Samuel Little. - He just did small people. - How many people did he murder? - He doesn't say here. - Yeah, at least gets that. - Wayne Williams. - Wayne Williams. - He's sound like these are, how long old is this? Over 300 years. And unfounded no evidence. They just blamed him for everything. - I think it happened. - Yeah. - I think it's bullshit. - 60 cases. - 60 murders. - Oh, he was gunning. That's pretty good. - He confessed to 93 murders. - And who is this? What's his name? - Samuel Little. - That's Samuel Little. And what time period was this in? - 1970 in 2005. - Holy shit, he was good. - Yeah. - You gotta give him credit. - Yeah. (laughing) - Like LeBron James. - Yeah, those are really, those are Hall of Fame numbers. I gotta be honest. He got away with it for 50 years as I made it. At some point, you're like, this is impressive, dude. - Is he just did a good job? - 60, what, 90? - 93. - Oh my God. - That's a lot. - Too many. Too many. That's just too many. - That's too many. - You think this is gross. This is a bad thought. - Okay. - They just get tired of, like they get old. Do you know what I mean? Like at some point, he's like, it's just what I have to do. - Yeah, I feel like, 'cause the first couple are shocking, right? It's like the episode's a break. It's like breaking back. - It's like watching breaking back. - Yeah. The first time he stows him with the plate, he's like sick. He's upset for a long time. And then he's like, you know, he did one with toxic gas. And he's like, oh no, I just doing what I have to do. But then by season three, four, he just murdered and killed in whole prisons. - Right. - No remorse whatsoever. - No consequences. - Yeah, it just becomes second nature to you. I think it then, it's just like if someone gets on your nerves in a little bit, right? - You just kill him. - Yeah. - Yeah, God. That's really dark and also very true though. And then they don't even feel it. It's kind of like contract killers. There's no way they even know it. They don't care. - Yeah. - It's like a, like a berry. That show was great. It did a good job of being like the numbness of that guy was just like, yeah, I don't mean, but it's just a thing to do is to kill somebody. - Yeah, it seems like, like it's not a thing that sets you every time. It's like a door you walk through, right? - Probably. You're either on one side or the other that door, you know? - Well, there is a hole, there is a gap for a new black serial killer Ron. So if you ever do quit stand-up, which I hope you don't. - I don't plan on it, but if I do, yeah, I'll start murdering one time. - Why not? - I got no other type of education. So I don't get back up plan. - No, well, I think you think comedians with the least educated entertainers? - Probably, yeah. - Probably. - Yeah, probably, right? - Yeah, God, that sucks. 'Cause a lot of musicians went to schools of music. - Mm-hmm. - Right, like we have a lot of friends that went to school of music. - Yeah, and then a lot of actors who go to school to ask. - Shit. - But not like comedians. - I would argue there's probably more comedians that are high school dropouts than any other entertaining profession. - Yeah, I would say that. I mean, musicians will probably be up there too though. - Yeah. - But then in March of the '70s, '80s style musicians where they would just drop out and form a band in high school. - Yeah, but now. - Now it's different. - It's just a different world. - Yeah. - Yeah, it's like now, like I saw Will Ferrell's kid that is in a band. - Yeah. - He's very, very talented. - Yeah. - And you're like of course, wouldn't it be? You don't, I mean, like a well-to-do, smart, educated kid, and then you're like, you know, his dad, his dad obviously put him in a good position to win. But then you see him and you go, well, and he's very good too. - It's also beautiful to have that also be a different discipline. It's not like he was like, well, you're going to be comedians. - Comedians. - Yeah, that would be. - Instead he like found the thing that he's as good at or as passionate at. - He's very good. - Yeah, no, he's very good. What if your kid said to you, I want to be a comment? - I would love it. - Really? - I mean, I would be like, we'd better start your YouTube channel today. - Now. - Yeah. - So yeah, start it for the four-year-old. - Yeah, do it right now. - Yeah, he's a real ham. If anyone's going to do it, it'd probably be him. - He would, huh? - Oh, he loves, like, just acting out to an invisible camera. Like, he's got great timing. He's like, he's very funny. - You to emulates you when you, does he see you do stuff and tries to do what you do? - Some of it, yeah, some of it's just natural. Some of it's just him. - To just in his core. - Yeah. - He's not fasting where that shit comes from. Like, where did yours come from? - I came from just loving comedy at an early age of just watching, then growing up in Chicago, you get a lot of access to different art early, right? And so I go to taste the Chicago, go to different events, and you'd see these opening comics, seeing like Shucky Ducky, you know, knowing that Bernie Mac was, you know, there, when I was young, and you just see all this comedy, and I just fell in love with it. I was watching I Love Lucy, 'cause we'd always have those like local channels, and watching WGN, and so I'd watch I Love Lucy, watch Benny Hill, watch Green Acres, and I just like the rhythm, the musical comedy. - Green Acres, it's the place to be. - It is, terrible show. - Yeah, it was really bad, isn't it? - It was bad. - The theme song was quite good. - I think it really held it all. - I think that was the whole thing. - The blue that held that show up. - Yeah, it was the thing. - It's the place to be. - It's so weird that it got stuck in my mind like that. It was almost like those cues. It was like Pavlovian, you know? Like I don't even know why I would watch it, but you would, it was there. You just like did it for some reason? - Yeah, 'cause it's on. - Mashed put me to sleep almost every night. - Yeah, it's also an overrated show. - Terrible show, yeah. - It's awful, I know the older generation like thought that was entertaining. I remember when Mashed came on, I meant everything I liked was done. - Yeah, exactly, you're like TV's over for the day. - Mashed is awesome. - Mashed is a cue card to be like, "All right guys, let's wrap it up." Mashed was the light. If Mashed was the light, it was like the, we gotta be done with all this stuff. - If you're desperate enough to watch Mashed go ahead. - Although sometimes if I was awakened off, I'd just go get cereal and like suffer through some of it. I remember not getting it. - No, I just didn't, I was like something's missing in it. - Because it always seemed so sad and there was always like someone was dying in it. - And then none of the, I don't remember there being a single like set up punchline besides one of the, you know. - Guys, pretending to be gay. And that was the only one who they like set up for actual jokes. - Yeah, they did have jokes. - Yeah, that's really funny. Everything else was, yeah, everything else was kind of dismal. Also to revisit the war like that in an television show, I mean, you could never pitch that today. - Yeah. - It's so funny. It's like nobody wants to relive war. We're living in war. Nobody wants to like also go to bed at night and be like, you want to watch a show about war? I don't think so, man. - You want to see what they're going through? - Yeah, I think it's pretty scary. I don't think I want to deal with that fucking shit anymore. - Yeah, "Mash" was the cue. "Mash" was the TV's over for the day. Did you have, was there shows in your house that you weren't allowed to watch as a kid? - Yeah, "Merry with Children" was the thing I missed because the mom were not allowed to watch it. - My mom was no fucking way. - Yeah. - And I'd have to sneak it. - I think that is actually a very rebootable show. - Yeah, 100%. - Yeah. - That'd be so fun right now because to me and my head is like, oh, okay, very clearly, the El Bundy character hated the wife of the other character because they were both gay and like he wasn't out and she wasn't out and like he wanted to be with the husband. - 100%. - And he hated his wife and she wanted to be with Peg. That's how I would reboot that entire show. - That's so funny. Yeah, just make these two. Well, because they were best friends in love. - Yeah. - Obviously. - Yeah. - Yeah, that's really good. That's a very, is he still a shoe salesman though? - Why not? - Well, because it doesn't exist anymore. - That's true. - Now he's an Amazon driver. - Yeah, that would be so pissed off, yes, yes. - You have to give him more obstacles to make him still mad at the entire world so like that would have to be, yeah. - He does, he's a driver all of every. He's Amazon Uber. - And Bud is a Twitch streamer who's like really successful on Twitch. - Yeah. - And what was Kelly, Christine Applegate's character? - Yeah, only fans. - Only fans, yeah. I mean, there's just the show writes itself, really, at this point. And then what was the neighbor's name again, Ted? - No, no, fuck. I feel like it might have been Ted. - Yeah, it might have been. What does Ted do for a living? - We have to figure this out. - I don't know. - I think he was a pretty boy who didn't have a job. - Yeah, but in this name, in this world, he's got, so he's a health influencer. - Yeah. - He's a health and fitness influencer. The amount of health and wellness influencers it's amazing. I'm in awe of how many people are like, I drop my nine to five. I'm now a health and fitness influencer. I'm like, there's tens of thousands of them on the internet. It kind of makes me feel good about having a regular body. (laughing) I feel totally fine with my body. Everyone's struggling to become this thing. I'm like, oh, I'm good, dude. I'm just gonna stay baseline. If baseline is, this is baseline, I'm fucking fine. I just got my blood work done from the doctor. He's like, you're fine. I was like, great. - Yeah, it feels good. - Of great. He was like, I wasn't peeking on anything anymore. I could take down my medication dose. 'Cause my family has super high cholesterol and like my whole fucking family. And so I was taking it and I was like, working on getting rid of it a little bit. And he's like, you're fucking great. We can go down a little bit. And I was like, huge win. - That's beautiful. That's what I live right now. I don't only pills I take are for like, finaster, right? I'm a noxidulfer. - For hair. - Yeah, yeah. We have to stay on those for the rest of our lives. - Yeah. - We don't have a choice. But then I'm on statin for the old, for the cholesterol. But now I'm getting it way down. If not, off completely. [BLANK_AUDIO] excited about that. That's what rappers need to talk about. - Yeah. - Getting that skills are you? - What skills are you? - Yeah, what skills. - You got that statin' dose down? - Yeah. - Five million gram crew. - Yeah. - Tell me about which, where you got your hair transplant and the first one did you go to. - Yeah. - That's how you ballin'. - Yeah. - That's how you know if you're really doin' it. - Yeah. - You're like, "How do you know if your chest went to Ashley Tarkin', you know what I'm talkin'? (laughing) Dude, we need to make an old guy rap crew. That's fucking incredible. It there should be a voice for the elder man, because we don't have it anymore. And instead of fighting the whole fight about like, no, I just wanna listen to Nas and Rockham and an older generation. I still try to get into the young shit, but I do feel like it's disingenuous sometimes. - Who is the, who is the newest rapper? - Well, who's on my radar now? - That you like. - Hmm. - Uh, O.T. Genesis? - Okay, I don't feel like that's new, but I like that. - It new to me. - Okay. - Yeah. - O.T. Genesis is relatively younger than what I'm, 'cause I would say like most of my shit is like, 90s, early two, that very early 2000s. - Okay, well, I would recommend. - You give me anybody? - Two people who I like. They're both not, I wouldn't call it young. There's Larry Joon, who is probably-- - I think I know Larry Joon. - Larry Joon is tremendous. He's my favorite rapper, and he's like, using my inspiration for his like, business and merch. And like, he's like, just selling great shit and shit that looks cool. And then his whole vibe is like, easy to get behind and seems authentic. - That's like Freddie Gibbs to me. - Yeah. - Gibbs might be one of the best like artists, uh, to make art physical and, you know, audio art. Like, his life is combined. Like, it's a really good combination. - Sure I tried it. Yeah, I mean, that's actually one of my biggest influences when I started comedy was the rapper currency. Because I liked that when I was listening to his rap, he would just rap about, he rapped about an episode of the real world, who you were talking about. You just want me out the house, like the episode where they got David kicked out. And it was like, fuck, and to me, it really was like, it informed the way I write where I was like, oh, you can like, rap at this base level where you're just rhyming and stuff. And that's the same as like, set up punchline with comedy. But I also, I can hide these little things that if you know, you go, oh, fuck, I know exactly what they're talking about. And so I do that now a lot. I've been doing that my whole career. - Yeah, you have. And so even now that I have this joke where I just talk about like being famous, but I'm like, I go, I'm not like, I'm a bench, I'm like, Brian Scala-Breeny. Where I was like, it's my guy. - Yeah, yeah, I'm up there, but like, I'll bust your way. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll fuck everybody up in the room. - Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. - But I'm not starting five. - Yeah, exactly. - I'll take a belt, take it off the bench. He's actually so nasty, by the way. - Yeah, exactly. - And watch him be so good. - That's the whole point. And so whenever I do that joke, some people laugh a little bit, but then there's always three, four people who laugh a lot because they know the reference and they know what to mean. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. Scala-Breen. - And then I would say is for the BFB, the Pac-Man, he's funny, he's enjoyable. And he just makes these silly lines. And I think he was like him. - Okay. - I mean, you got to write these down for me, because I'm forgetting older. - Do you like Coach Contra? - I do love Coach Contra. - Yeah, they're, see that reminds me of stuff we grew up with. That like that, I love, like, Cruz. 'Cause I think a crew kind of faded away into a lot of individuals. So it was a lot like Mimi's stuff. - Yeah, I won't mean mostly now, similar comp. I feel like all these industries kind of mirror these each other. And so when they're out there, hi, I'm like, oh, it's cool, we're doing good too. Like wrestling and comedy and hip-hop. Sometimes we're all, oh, we'll hit these beats at the same time. And now it feels like they're all at these very, like these valleys at the same time where there isn't that much great mainstream rap. There's actually people, most artists don't even want to call themselves rappers anymore. - Yeah, that's weird. Why nobody wants to say rap anymore? - Yeah, 'cause it seems old. - Right. Well, they seem like it's pigeonholing them into something that they don't want to be. - Yeah. - Yeah, I guess that's very true. I think Lil Wayne did something I just saw in the internet about that where he's like, I don't want to be titled, don't like push me into a namesake. But I guess that's the same thing, you're right. It does parallel because you're not just a comedian, you're not just an actor, you're like, you're a very multifaceted entertainer. So you are a comic at your core, but you don't have to be. - Yeah. - You're around punches. - Oh, I have to pay my mortgage, I do. Well, you can do, but you can do any version of that art that you want. - Yeah, especially in the live performance aspect. You get away with doing one, not the other. You could do both. - Well, that's what I love about doing. That's been a big, I never wanted to be a specialist because I felt, I find it highly frustrating. And all my friends who are, seem to be getting, get very frustrated, you know, 'cause they bust their head against the wall. And they're like, oh, it may still fun this special. And now I'm 60 grand in the hole. And people are passing on it, even though it's good, but they're given special. To me, to people who didn't put in the effort for it. And it's just like, oh, that's a tell us all this time. And I actually just not get mad at it instead be like, oh, that's why I have voice acting. Whatever is working, I head that way. So if I'm getting a lot of voice acting roles and I'll do that, if I have to go to Budapest six weeks and work with Arnold Schwarzenegger, fuck yeah. If I'm just on the road doing shows with my friends, that's also fucking amazing. - Yeah. - What's the Schwarzenegger thing? - It's a movie called The Kelly's. It's gonna be, it's an Amazon, MGM movie. It starts Liam Hemsworth, Gina Davis, Abbie Elliott, Kelsey, last name who is hard for me to remember, but she's amazing actress. And then Arnold Schwarzenegger is in it me. And so that's cool, yeah. - And you and Arnold, do you go toe-to-toe in a couple of scenes? - Yeah. - Is that fun? - Yeah, that's gotta be cool. - It was real cool. - What an interesting character, man. Did you ever have to spend time with them off the-- - Not much time off that, but like I got to talk to them a little bit on set and just like, you learn a lot about how the way people act on set, you know? And to see this guy, 78 years old. And like, we're doing mostly night shoots and like, him be there and be on. And him, as you would know, I always put this as someone who worked like he did the, he stayed for off camera work. - Huge. - Yeah. - That's pretty rare of a guy of his caliber, I guess, 'cause I shouldn't say that. It happens, well, that caliber in that age. - In that age, I guess, is what I mean. It's more that it's a preservation of time for some people. But that's pretty huge. For people that don't know, just when you're shooting coverage, when you're shooting just Ron, if it's just on Ron, a lot of times the actor like in my position sometimes chooses to not be there and you read with someone else, which is not fun, which is very not fun, 'cause you're not gonna really get good enough reactions that you want out of the other actor, but some people choose to not stand in for those things, which I find a little fucking weird. Talk to a tennis ball. - Yeah. - I make you talk to a tennis ball on a C-stand, which is one of the most annoying things. I remember, like, early on in my career, it happened a few times and I thought, well, what the fuck do you want me to act to a tennis ball? - Yeah. - And they're like, yeah, you're an actor. You can act, you're like, I know, but don't you want me to feel me feeling someone else? - Yeah, you know what I mean? - Yeah, it's such a big difference. It was a thing. I was watching that clip that comes up a lot of, that Will Smith, when he did his best acting, where do he want me, man? You know, when he's leaving his dad, and I've always watched Will Smith in that scene and something that posted, somebody posted it, and I chose to watch James Avery, and I was like, oh, it is not off camera, he's on camera, but like, the way that James Avery shows compassion to Will in that scene that allows Will to quickly go from, like, the most angry he's ever been to suddenly crying, is like, a lot of his own will, and you gotta get Will to respect, but like, James, like, all the yuked it to him. - Oh, yeah, and it's like, and if you don't have a good scene partner like that, it's so much harder. - Way harder. - And I always, like, in the more I act the more I look at that type of stuff and just see people, like, James, and that was one of the things, but I saw it when I was on this movie being like, man, I'm the black guy in an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, like, Reginald Ville Johnson, like, like, Simbad, like, you know, it's a rare treat, yeah, it is, it is, it is. - It is, and that's good that you get cemented yourself and recognize it too, you know what I mean? - Yeah. - It's fucking huge, that's awesome. I hate to say the word proud, 'cause I think it sounds demeaning, but I am proud of you. Like, there's certain people that you're like, we've been together for a long time, we've seen each other work for years and years, but it's nice to see people that you're proud of their success, or their work that you're like, oh, yeah. Like, if someone asks if someone's like, you know, Ron Funches, and I always say no, I don't like that one, but it is fun, it is cool to see, especially because as we slide up into this scale of this thing, you know, the new comes in, right? You know, we have an expiration date, we're on the shelves, but I think like it's cool now, 'cause you get to pick and really be confident in it versus, you know, for years, you're kind of just like, what do you want me to do? What do you need me to do? What can I do? - Yeah, I think that's the blessing, again, of also trying to be multifaceted and have your own business, or you're not. Like, I became one of the things when I wanted to start losing weight and stuff, was becoming aware of like, oh, they'll just find someone else who looks like me, who, they'll put it in the thing, find a Ron Funches type, which they have, and then they'll just find someone cheaper and younger, and I was like, oh, I have to build my own shit, because that day will come, and I think so many people aren't aware of that. They're like, oh, always be able to do that. So, and I'm fully aware, even when I manage to talk about all the time where we had this conversation, they were like, "Well, we're not getting in my career." She's like, "No, you're about at least halfway done now." (laughing) - Hey, but halfway's good. Halfway's good, I like halfway, yeah. - If I'm gonna work out, and I know I'm doing an hour and some change, and I'm just over the 30 minute motor, I'm like, "We did it, we're good, we're good." We cruise a little bit for a second. - Yeah, yeah. - It's gonna be like cool things keep happening, and I don't feel like that I'm at, you can kind of tell when you're like, "Oh, I'm not getting better anymore." And I feel like I'm getting better and better. - No, you're getting much better. I think you're getting stronger too. The last time I saw you on stage too. The guy is, no, you're, I think you're on the up, it's an upslope, it's upslope, it's upslope, it's half, but it's upslope. - Yeah, it's half, it's up, yeah. - It's half an up, what's that phrase? Who was the actor? He probably fucking knows, it was a famous actor that said, I'll use your name as an example. This is the scope of an actor's career. It goes, who is Ron Frances? Get me Ron Frances. Get me someone that's like Ron Frances and who the fuck is Ron Frances? So this is like the arc of actors. It's like, don't know who you are, really want you. Get me someone like him, but cheaper in the last stages. Who's Ron Frances? - Yeah. - And you're like, that's kind of it. But right now, you're right in between that give me Ron Frances, give me someone like Ron Frances. That's a good place to be. - It's not bad. Yeah, no, it's cool. I like, I'm doing things. I just look at the evidence and just be like, oh, I'm adding more shows. It never had to do that more. - It's awesome. - I'm selling out shows. I'm traveling to more countries to do shows. So things are at the up and up and at the same time. I had to like, slim down, circle the other divorce. So I had to like, bring down my employees, bring on stuff. It's in a weird spot where both feels like, oh, I'm at the closest to things popping off and I'm at the closest to things falling apart as I've ever been. And that's not a bad spot. It feels actually very invigorating. It's made me focus a lot. It made me more aware of my business where I was just kind of letting things go before and just kind of floating and trusting stuff. And now I'm more in charge of everything and building my own things and building my own YouTube and having that instead of just being like, oh, just wait till another job comes. Or if my material is good enough, they'll give me a special. I'm not like, you know, I don't believe in waiting for that stuff. - No waiting, keep working. - Yeah. - You're selling out shows and you're adding more shows. And I want everyone to go see Ron. Ron's going to be touring around the United Kingdom as well as Amsterdam. The tickets are always probably at roundfunches.com. But if you can't find them there, just type in roundfunches want to see him live. - Yeah. But don't go to the website that's like pretending to be me in charge. And like trying to charge like extra, like $200 for a day. - Was this a real thing? - Yeah. - Wait, really? What is it? - I don't know the name of the site. - Well, don't give it out. I don't want anybody to go. But go to roundfunches.com and get the ticket. - Roundfunches.com, don't, yeah. - And by the way, if you have time on the site, - Yeah, they're more than 40 bucks, then you're probably in a wrong site. (laughing) - If you're paying $485 for tickets, you're not going to go see Ron. I hope you know that. You're going to see somebody else. But go to roundfunches.com and buy those tickets and go see him on the road. - Are you paying this tour? - Yeah, I call it a faithful tour because I'm trying to capitalize off the fact that I did the traders and ride that for the six months. - Might as well. - Yeah, might as well. - Who gives a shit. - Yeah. - If it's there, might as well do it. Go to roundfunches.com, see the man life. One of the nicest, funniest, coolest humans I know here in our little tiny world. We end the show the same way, Ron. You look into that camera. You give me one word or one phrase to end the episode. Whenever you're ready, it used to be a word. Now it could be an imparting phrase of wisdom, whatever you want. Be kind to yourself.