153: Sharing a Room with Jared Freid | Soder Podcast | EP 148

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That's all you gotta do. It's a one hour. This is my one thing. We'll move on one hour story about going to the beach with my parents in 2018. My dad asked me how much I weighed at the beach. That's crazy. And then I turn that into a whole hour of stand-up that's about my family and body issues. And obviously last time you were on the podcast, we were talking about your parents. Yeah. I say uncomfortable closeness with your life. We are. There is just I love them. I love hanging out with them. They there is no like oh, we won't talk about that. No, we taught they are just openly. They're like rickles. Like they're just like openly. And now the the thing is now that I'm a comedian and their friends like no, I'm a comedian. Like it's like open season that they can just like talk crap to me. Yeah, it's like. I tell you what he used to piss the bed and you go, why do you tell them? Right. So that was actually going to be my question is this vindicates them that you did a whole hour on a thing they did and they told you. Told you. Yeah. They think they love it. They love. My dad, when we did the promo, none of you go watch it. He is like acting better than like anyone's ever acted because he's just being himself. He was like like a 30 out of 10. There were like, he goes literally he was like look, he at the end of the promo where he's like, look at him. Look at him. He's not fat. He's thick. And like none of that is like him putting it on is just he was like allowed to be his full self. Do you? Are you are you seeing someone? I have a girlfriend now. Yeah. What is that like in bringing that into a very public your parents talk shit about? You know what I mean? They she gets it because her family like has some crazy crazy to it to every family has it. And I think that like that's what I love about her is like she also like I think you need to date someone who can see the other angles and where it's coming from. Like when my dad asked me how much I weigh the problem with parents is that they're 10% right all the time. So like is it is not it? It's like a movie when they call it based on real events. Right. Their movie is always based on real events. You're totally right. Because like kind of kind of did happen. Right. I damn I you're asking much away because you think I'm a fat fuck. I do think myself as a fat fuck. But I don't go to the beach and think about that while at the beach. Like I'm naked right now. I'm going to have a good time. And you're ruining my enjoyment. Right. You're ruining the day. So like she I think what I love about my girlfriend and I but I know it's going to there's going to be a day where my parents will get too comfy cozy. Say something that they think is towards her in any it'll just be it might be too hard at me where she's like mad for me. Oh that's the best feeling. Can I tell you right now? That's like the sign of a great relationship or that you're in love is when that they get mad for you about something that your parents said to you and you go right. Right. Look at him and you go. Thanks. It's like when someone wrongs you on an airplane and you turn to someone that's sitting in another seat that has nothing to do with the person who wronged you and they just look at you go yeah no that was horrible. And you're like that's a hero. We're missing that. We're missing that from community. I agree. I think what happened is everyone thought that was what the comment sections were going to be. No. No. You need the person that goes. Yeah. Tell you the one that I feel great that I'm still high off. Please. You know what ruined it before you get into a headphones. Headphones. Everyone's in their own world. So you're not like I know something crazy is going on when I'm one headphone out. Yeah. Arched around a corner. Yeah, dude. And sometimes I will miss context because my headphones are in. I hate it. And then I go. What did I miss? Just yesterday walking to the seller. I'm at the subway station and this guy and his girlfriend are going what the fuck? What the fuck? And this guy's just walking off and I know if I didn't have my headphones and I've would have heard. I would have blown the bathroom at the movies. You're like I that's a 10 minute spot that I can't go back to the DVD and watch it later. But there is something great about someone going like I saw that. Yeah. And you go. It's that's a drug. That's totally a drug. The one I'm still riding off of was when I lived in Queens fucking years ago. I haven't lived in Queens in over five years. You know, I lived at a story of Boulevard station which is like stairs. Yeah. There is an elevator. So whenever there would be like I don't know either someone with a baby carriage or somebody that needed like an old lady lifting like the cart for her groceries. He used to help out. The community comes together like a scene out of Spider-Man. Right. And so I'm leaving the Dunkin Donuts right by the train station and this lady's little lady's got her baby carriage and I go to grab it and another guy grabs it and they walk up the stairs and I was like oh okay like what happened or whatever and then there's old black guys behind me and he goes I see you big man. You get credit for that and I went thank you. And he called me big man and everything. Big man from a black guy. My feet didn't touch the ground for a week. I was like I'm the best person in the world. You're the next like hero. Oh black dude. That's I see you big man. You still get credit. That's thank you. Oh my god. I like skipped up the stairs to play coffee. I was like the janitor for rooting. Just god. He's like god. You're like who's the wild man now? Why do you use a mythical black old old black people to feel good? Right. Back of ads. Tail is on this time. But it was like that like those acknowledgements. It's all you want. You just want to know you're it's the gym helper. Look at the camera. And you're just looking for what I was gonna play this girl. This woman had three kids with her and then this girl who I already knew was crazy. I clocked her from the minute she was in a wheelchair like getting wheeled not her own. It was the airport wheelchair getting wheeled by someone who works in the airport and she's doing selfie videos in the chair. So I was like we got one. We got one like I'm like eyes on that one. I looked at my girlfriend. I go something's up. Keep an eye on her. That is funny that I love that you can go like like a detective. You go something's off. Yeah. That woman's to self and self involved in sucks to be in a wheelchair. Right. Right. I would have been humbled by a real condition that would have put her in a wheelchair. Totally. Like I did the wheelchair. She would have been humbled. Yeah. Totally. And also you have someone at the airport whose job is like like that's not the job. You know where your job is like hey you're just on duty for like helping people out and usually it's older people. She was like 25 and selfies. It's like you know it's like a madlib that didn't go together. I was like that's something describing something that just makes me angry. It was so angering but you can't you got to start you start at she's get she's got something off. So we get on the airplane. The same girl is now walking behind she's behind a woman who's helping her kids get in the seat and the literally the girl she was dressed like you know the movie Just Friends with yeah Amy smart and Ryan Reynolds. And then who plays the pop star one. Anna Ferris. Anna Ferris. She's crazy. She's like their sex crazed pop star. That's who it looked like. And she literally the she goes please move I've been standing here forever. And then the woman turns back the mom is like I can't believe what and literally me both headphones out. I'm like yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're like you popped up like a mere. Oh I was in. I got I got to know this looking. Back into his hole for snacks. She goes I said please. Okay. I Emily at one point my girlfriend. She literally looked at me. She goes you need to turn back around like I was like I'm on this for the first hour of the flight. Yeah. Like this is we're not moving. We're not leaving the scene. This is the OJ case. This is we are having a crew here. What happened on the flight? She was totally fine. She had one other moment where she went to the bathroom at the same time as the mom. And I was like okay. See you too. Here we go. Were you mad? Nothing. So mad. Yeah. I want and and I just I wanted to be that for the mom though. I was actually up looking for the mom. So that she go and I was already I was literally ready willing and able to give her the full that's I was going to jowl just the full shake. I think the problem of this is we've lost containment of autism. And now it's there's there are hot - There's hot with us. - Hot with us. - There's hot with us. - Great merch. - There are hot people that are autistic. - Well, it's the spectrum because if the spectrum exists, you would say there you go, we're all kind of waiting for the aza. You're gonna be, you know, because that's the way we argue. It's like as a woman who needed to be pushed in a wheelchair, every comment on everything is aza. They go into their aza. - Aza, man, that actually has an autistic son. I don't like this comparison. - Right. - Great. I'm saying we've allowed everyone to use it, so everyone's gonna be acting a little like it, where it's like there are real people that have like. - Oh right, no, there's a breaking case of emergency that you can do where you go. Let me just find a way to victimize myself. And then I will make you the evil villain in this story. - Look at how many older, rich comedians that become assholes just go, actually, they just realize them on the spectrum. - That's such a, what a cop out. - Can we just call that part, can we just be like, that's a pussy move? - Yeah. - I think it's a bitch move. - It's a bitch move. - It may be not respect I felt. - There's a point where-- - 'Cause I like, like, dude, you're, honestly, I liked it better when he was just a dickhead. Because I remember the first time he was a dickhead to me in '07 when I moved here. - What, he was a dick to you. - You should stick to everybody, dude. - I only met him once. - He likes people when they're famous or when they ballwash 'em. - Right. - He doesn't like just regular random comics. - He gave me one compliment and-- - At Gotham. - Yeah. - There you go. - At Gotham and you were probably clean and you didn't do anything. - I did a joke. It was, I said that, you know, I was from my first special, that homeless pimple over here was, you know, directed and made with me. The, I said that, I believe everything is healthy. I can rationalize any food. Now I was like, I think-- - Well-- - Rationalized any food. It was like, it was like, Justin's peanut butter cups. You know, Reese's are unhealthy, but Justin's peanut butter cups are, I believe, give me abs. And he goes, I can't stay age. And I had my recorder going on my pocket. And he goes, Justin's peanut butter cups. It was there just the whole time. - That's cool. - I was cool that like he gave like a-- - Listen, he does, he does love, right? That's what-- - Well, now I'm almost like, now that we're talking about this thing go, is he autistic? 'Cause like the lady is like-- - Right. - He might actually not be coppin' to that. - It does explain that he's so obsessed with the words. Like, if you ever-- - You guys are watching my opinion change in real time. - Well, if you ever heard him talk about like, writing a joke where he's like-- - I love it. - He goes, "Don't act like I, do you know I read the fucking-- - No, I know, I, but I'm saying the-- - I'm not even a fan of a 17 year old girlfriend. Not him day, or I want him to do it. I was a fan of it when they were like, "Oh, you remember the 17 year old girlfriend?" And he'd go, "I don't forget those titties." And brother, at the time, I was like 15. She was age appropriate for me. - We were like, high five, and I'm from Denver. - I was like, "Boom!" - And look at that-- - That's what I feel, it's the best of all time. Also the movie comedian greatly affected me being a comedian. - It's quite a watch. - I've watched it obsessively. Like, at the point that I wouldn't say like, if you're a cop, if you wanna be a comic watch, I'd say like, just in my-- It's like the way musicians talk about like Zeppelin III. It's like-- - I don't know Zeppelin III. - It's just like a lot of musicians, it's not even that album, but there's an album-- - Paris is burning for a person that has gone RuPaul's Drag Race. - Exactly, but they, it was just one of those things where it greatly affected my-- And then he was a dick, but now that we're talking about it, and I've watched him ad nauseam talk about drug writing, and I love it, and I love to watch it. - He'll like a word 'cause it sounds funny. - But he's like-- - What? - He is so right. - Have you ever explained the movie comedian to someone who's never seen it? - No. - I just did this like a couple weeks ago with my girlfriend, I was like, oh, there was this movie comedian where they watch Seinfeld like come back to stand up, and they profile another comedian. The more I explain that, I'm like, that is crazy that that movie existed. Like, just, can they, what would you, like the fact that-- - It was a pretty big deal 'cause Seinfeld did call his last HBO special I'm telling you for the last time. There was a great promo where there was a funeral and other comics were there, and they're going like, you gonna use it? Can I use that fun, yeah. - And he basically told the world, I've been doing this act forever, I'm done. I'm done doing stand up, this is it, and then the show ended, and so what was crazy is, he was like, I'm not done doing stand up, and so that's the whole point of the documentary, was he was coming, how does a legendary start? - Would you have done it if they asked you to be the ornianist? - Oh. - That's the crazy part to explain to someone. - But I also-- - That's what I'm talking about, 'cause you go, and then there's this other young comic that they're just like following along. - And he put himself, listen, I can't fault him for doing it because at the time there were no avenues, and it did make him famous, but it made him famous in a wrong way, and I also think people got, I've seen already Adam's fucking murder. - No, he, he does murder and kill in a way that you're like, - Yeah. - Damn, we were in Montreal, I was on a show with him, and I was like, fuck. - I actually think there should be more empathy for him. - He says some lines that are off. - He says some crazy stuff, but it's pre-internet commenter, pre-cameras on everything, like pre-knowing about editing and how you're gonna be portrayed, what you, we are so, like the way, I'm not saying he shouldn't, again, he gets outed as not looking great. - No, I'm also watching the documentary, and then once you're done watching the documentary, you're watching it with Director's Commentary with Colin and Jerry Seinfeld. - Is it? - It's a, it's a whole different movie. - Oh, I gotta watch it. - Colin's drinking Diet Coke's talking shit. 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And then you go. - And in hindsight, what's interesting about this is you can tell he was fucked with it editing. - There was just, it's just not, again, they knew what they had there. - In wrestling they call it protecting something. someone. So when you're in the ring with someone, they say the biggest thing is you're protecting your opponent. So when he lands, you're going to try to grab the back of his head so it doesn't hit the ground. Right. So their neck doesn't do anything. So he was unprotected. Oh my God. They fucking dropped them right on his head multiple times. It's and like I, there's every reality show, you know, the people, there's a villain at it. There's the hero at it. They can edit you in different ways. Right. But there are some stuff that he just like watch the documentary. There's stuff he says that you're like, there's no. You don't have to do that. And also the, the, for me, not talking about Ornie Adams, that made me love Colin Quinn. That was the beginning of me going like, I fuck with this guy because I liked him on weekend update. Yeah. And I always liked him when he popped up and stuff. But then that, and then I, uh, tough crowd, tough crowd came out right as comedian was coming out. Yeah. And I was like, this is my, and also useless. No, no. And so I was like, this is my guy. He's always just been like the article of the hang like he is the, he is the, he is the consummate. He is the comedian. Yeah. Colin is a comedian. I open for him once, uh, at a temple. I think I got pulled in. He got booked at the temple. They're like, we need, you know, I need a Jew and I drove down, drove back with him and his, I think it was his girlfriend. His wife now, at the time as girlfriend. And he was just so cool about the whole thing. Like he's just so, he is in the comfortable spot that I think we all like, I don't think comedians really, like we just want to do our shows and make a living and if you're in New York City, you can go watch him every Monday night at the fat black pussycat. And he runs an hour. And every time I watch him, there's like three, pimpe and I talk about it all the time. There's three or four bits where I go. It's fucking unbelievable. Right. No way I would have written that. One of my most cherished experiences of comedy was the first time I got to open for Colin. And he knows I'm like a comedy nerd. Yeah. And we get into the car. It was Rebecca Trent's van. And we were driving up to Binghamton, New York. And we get in the car and he goes, first two hours on a one knee comedy questions. There I go. It's fair. And we're like in the car for like three and a half hours, hours three. I remember he had a legal pad because he was working on his shit. And he throws it on the dashboard. He goes, all right. What do you got? That's so and I go, you started in 1984 with Chris Rock and Adam Sandler. And he goes, yeah. And I go, is it crazy? You did SNL after they left and he goes, it was a little weird. It was like a job where my friends worked at that I was working at. And like I like, I was asking him like, who's the best comic that showed up fully formed? Who's like the best comic when they showed up? You're like, that guy's amazing. He's like Greg Duraldo. And he goes, he was a lawyer. So he was already good at doing bits. Right. I just got to ask him. And then at one point, Colin goes, you know what's wrong with your generation? You guys know everything? He goes, it's better not to know everything. No, it's better to experience it. And when he said that, I was like, great. Now, Michael Myers wrote the role of Scott evil for you. And he's like, yeah, I turned, you know, I was working on my own thing. You were already doing a podcast. You were doing like the, I've seen the Scott evil thing go viral already, you know? Oh, yeah. I mean, it's just, I was like, because I think he's like a, when you're, it's comics, it's, you know, the similar to wrestling, it's similar to bands where you have a guy and you go, this is my guy. I like this guy. I want this guy to do well. And as his career goes on, you know, for comedy, it's Colin Quinn, for music, it's Queen of the Stone Age for wrestling is fucking a Shelton Benjamin. Or you know what I mean? Like, like, like, I love this guy. I want this guy to do great. No, I, I, there's been, there's a few comics that I've seen where I'm like, you know, I, I, I do want like a normal life. Sure. That is also a comedian's life. We're the same. You know, right? You, you get into this shit and you go after a while, you go, I just want this to be a job that I love. Right. Right. And that's like the, the bolder up a mountain of it all. You know, you're like, and it's Colin's demeanor. Colin's way about him at the seller. Like, I, like, love that. I love that it's like him coming in. Sometimes it's, you know, he, it feels like he's like playing a little golf. Yeah. You know, like, whacking it around for it. Right. That's how it feels like when you see him and you get to clean shots or go. Whoa. Oh, this guy I can play. Yeah. That thing's off the tee. Right. That thing was screaming off the tee. My God. And so did your girlfriend watch comedian? No, I, I got to show it to her. That's, so we're going to end up watching it together. Wow. Because I, but I, she's been, I, you know, she, she really is like the most supportive person I've ever had in my life with this. Like, my parents never encourage me creatively. Really? My parents were very encouraging me as supportive. They're supportive. My parents are like, you're a good businessman. And you're really fooling people with this whole funny thing. That's like my parents. My dad. Do they think your brother's fun here? They don't think of funny, not funny. Like, everyone in my family was a character. The, the funny angle of it. My dad, I remember I started doing comedy. My dad goes, you don't even look funny. That's funny. That's the funny thing you say. Like, he is like, every one of my life, my grandmother, my mom, my dad, like my aunts, my uncles, everyone. I think that's like also like, why you have like so many comedians from Boston. Like everyone in Boston is just a character and punchy. The only city that comes close to the natural humor of Boston is Philadelphia. Yeah. Philadelphia and Boston are the two and also their mean cities. Yes. Yes. And that's where it is. It's like New York. I would say New York is up there. I would say the three front New York. You don't mean New York. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Long Island Queens. Right. Not Manhattan. Manhattan. Not Manhattan. To transit. Yeah. Yeah. It's transparent. People coming and going. Yeah. Brooklyn, Queens, Long Island. Right. They were counting that as New York. Right. I put them as third, okay. Philly is second, because you can get a drunk lady from fucking West Philly in a robe smoking a cigarette gun. Like, hey, look at you fucking fat ass. This guy's fucking running down. You can't even fucking run. Runs like a fucking girl. And you're like hilarious. Sure. Boston is Boston. I my mother-in-law Katie's mom's hilarious. I said this on I was on a podcast on Meena Kimes podcast. Shout out Meena Kimes. Go 49ers. She's great. She's a he-hawks man. And she does games for the Rams. Go 49ers. Go for but she knows ball. She knows ball. She was great. But she also talks love I or not love Island. I was blind. Oh, okay. And love is blind is a world that I put my toe into. And she's like the Boston season's coming up. And she's like, what is your. You got to watch the Boston season because again, this is why Boston Philly like these towns with person. There's a personality there that you're like, I'm tuning in for whatever Boston love is blind gives me. Can I tell you what it is? I think it is a majority of a population that has been stepped on most of their lives in a way. They've been kicked, punched and had their hair pulled in a way. Shoveling snow. That's what it is. What it is. Shoveling snow is having ice. It's having like New York winters are not as harsh. Boston winters are just way more harsh with a city. I'm putting a fourth city in contention. Okay. Chicago. Yeah. Chicago's there. Chicago has funny. Chicago. I think and I said this to me and I'm I think this is the difference. I think Boston is like Philly with charm. Like there and she was like, what do you think's going to happen from the Boston love his blind season? I think and I said there's going to be someone you hate, but you would still like kind of fall in love with because he has an accent. Do you know how many guys I have met that go away to school and their nickname is Boston? No. Because they gave it to themselves or someone gave it to them because they had like a half an accent. Every college had the kid Boston and I always aided that guy because I'm Boston without an accent. So I'm like, yeah. One of the greatest experiences of my life. A reason that made me fall in love with Katie even more than I already am. We go to her high school reunion and we're meeting some of her old friends from high school. Sure. And it's one guy's really nice. He's super nice and he's like, hey, I could tell their old friends or whatever and she's and he's like, how are you? And I'm like, hey, man. So he's like, wow, you know, I live in Boston. I live down by the pack and whatever. And then Katie goes accents new, huh? Like that. Oh, my God. He goes, I have fuck. So I live by the park. It is the greatest offense of a suburban guy from the Boston area. And I know all these people call out. We had none of that. We all we have that in spades. Do we have accents? And I remember becoming friends, my first foray into the Massachusetts lifestyle or knowing people from Massachusetts is Joe list. It was Joe list. I'm a proctor and Dan Boulder. Those are the guys that hung out with them. They moved to New York. And the thing they would always bring up is guys from Massachusetts that moved to LA. Yep. And all of a sudden they're like wearing a fucking Boston hat all the time. They're like, scally cat. They're like fucking kids. You have no clue how it was when I was growing up and growing up in Newton, Massachusetts was so difficult. Yeah, no. Katie. It's annoying. Katie and her brother don't have accent. Right. I don't either. My brother doesn't. I moved. You know, my dad has one, but it's not not thick to me. So what's funny is I think is that is a, I think that is a millennial thing. Maybe we're wrong, but the boomers that I'm around from Boston all don't know they have accent. Well, they they're not aware. Boomers are confident and unaware. It's a great combo. It's, it's, it's, that is the most accurate. And I wish I had it, but that's the thing. We are all millennials. We're in touch with the movie version of our lives. - Sure. - You know, we all wanna be the mighty ducks. That's why you self- victimize. You don't wanna be the hawks. So you wanna be the ducks, you wanna be the punch up. We are brutally aware of that in a way that a boomer would never create a boss in accent to create a character that they wanted to be. - I don't talk like that. - No, why would I do that? What would that say about me? And you go, "No, people are doing it." That's the thing. My parents don't even understand that grift. - Really? - My parents are like, "Why would someone "make a boss sit accent?" - Right. - Why wouldn't it even from both? - Because it makes a guy look hotter and more approachable and these can be someone else's personality. They'd be like, "What do you mean hotter and more appropriate?" They wouldn't even understand the grift. - Do you see old videos of yourself and hear it at all? - And hear it. The accent? - Yeah. - No, I never had it. I did one word. - Because some people had it in it. - When you go home, you do hear it and start a little bit of a draw. - I'm sure Katie doesn't like that. - I know it's gone. I could be a newscaster with this accent. All I had was rum. Instead of rum, I say the bedroom. - The bedroom. - Or a jarara. - The jarara. - I can't do it. - It makes me furious. - A rum and jarara. - No, I would say rum. - It's over in the jarara. It's a drawer. - Right. - It's a fucking drawer. - But BJ, when you get him back in Philly, he starts going, "Oh, you want to get a haggie?" He starts like, "Yeah, the water." - That can happen, but it's not. - It was funny. It was one time we went down to Philly for something else with Jay. We were at his parents house. He's at his mom's house in South Jersey. He was like, "Have you got these haggies?" And I go, "These haggies? What is that?" - I'm proud. - But it is. It's him just going home. - It's just going home. There's a little bit, but it's not. I love that Katie called him out. Because we were also one of the things that I love about her. She didn't such a sweet way. She was like a dickhead about it. She just goes, "Right. The accent's new." - Yeah, it's a shit talk. It's like, "Look at what you're doing, dude." - That's what I like about bosses. - Yes. - That's what I like about Philly. - That's what I like about Chicago. - It's a shit talk. - That's the hard problem I had with my family from San Francisco. Because they were very passive-aggressive. Because San Francisco is a city where they go like, "Oh, you're going to sit there?" That's okay. - And we know that-- - The friend was going to sit there and you go, "Do you know what I mean to sit here? Just fucking say it or not." - You know that from performing there. When we perform in San Francisco, I remember opening for Michelle. I did what 100 dates with Michelle. - Yeah. - And it was my first time being-- And I was in front of Michelle's audience post. - Democratic. I mean, the White House correspondent center. - White House correspondent center. So it was almost amazing of Michelle. That's how good a comic she is. She's like, "Okay. Did the most left-leaning thing made front of the president?" Or did the White House correspondent center, "I'm going to bring a able-bodied white guy who looks like he stuck you in a closet." - In 2018, 2019. - That's right. - Brother, that's progressive. - Right, it is. - That's how it's progressive. - I give Michelle-- - I got a guy that might have voted for Trump in his first fucking program. - Right. - And they know, "What is this?" - "What is this?" - "I need a gay amputee." - I need a black gay amputee up here. - And Michelle was like, "I did think, "I think she might have said this. "I don't want to put words in her mouth." But she was like, "I need you to get rid of the people "that I kind of don't want to perform for anymore." - Shout out. - I mean, like-- - Proving your audience is a thing that people do not understand. - And I, right, because you just want-- - Because then you'll get people that just want something else. - Right, they're there for the thing that got you, you know, they saw a video once. They're not in on what you do, you know? - No, and I have-- - Billions fans. - I was just gonna bring myself. - I'm sure, right. - There are fans of mine that the coolest ones were they got into me because of billions, then they got into the bonfire. - Right. - And now they're in the world. - No, no, no, no, you want that. - Right, that's the win. - That's the best case. - Right, there's a bad side. - What you're getting a lot of the times is oh, the guy from billions. Oh, I'm gonna go scream billions at him. - Dude, we all have it. - Oh, I'm gonna go yell. - Yeah, I yelled at the bachelor. You know, I had bachelor fans talk about the bachelor and I had a bachelor bit that I liked. So I would do it and I go, we've done it. - Yeah. - And some people, they were just there for that. - I'm a wrestler. - That's okay. - I love wrestling. I go on wrestling podcasts and they go, and I still this day, you guys going, you didn't do matrimand, you go, I would hang myself. If I was going on stage doing a bit as matrimand. - Right. - And I know people go, I'd like to see that. That's fine. I would genuinely call myself if that was where my-- - That's not what this is. I'm sorry that-- - I like doing it on podcasts. It's the thing that I did it for friends. It's a fun impression. - It's a great bit. It's a great, like when you do it as like macho man doing something. Listen, it's a great podcast. - It's a great podcast. - By the way, there are people that I go, like, don't go like, and I go, I still on podcasts and they go, totally kidding. - No, no, no. - And there are people that just get it and they go. - More people get it than don't. The people that don't you go. - They're loudly not getting it. - Right, you're, I gotta bite my tongue. - Right. And I have to be appreciative. And I remember, when I opened from Michelle in San Francisco, I had like the hardest time because this is now the most, like, left leaning chair. But then I'm like looking to get rid of them. And I remember I get like, I'm like, not doing great. And I go, and I'm Jewish. And I could feel like a collective sigh from the room. - He's not repressor. - Right. And I go, oh, did I? Did my people struggle enough for you? And I made fun of them. And I was like, did I? And I go, okay, to tell my jokes now about dating? - And a lot of those audiences. And this is just someone who had family. Also, my family from there was conservative. Like, grandma was a Republican, my dad fucking, you know. It's always funny when there's like a shitty person who's conservative because you immediately go like, you're audiology. He's just an alcoholic. But everyone assumes everyone from the Bay Area is very liberal and like cut your cock off if you're a man. - No, I hate it. - And you go, what's interesting about a lot of those people? And this is what's interesting because you're from the East Coast Boston is like years of, you know what reminds me of a skillet that's just been used over and over and it's got flavor. I'm from Colorado and my family's from San Francisco. So I spent a lot of time with my grandma and my dad out there. - Yeah. - Both transplant cities. Very heavy transplant cities. So what you get is you get these people that move to the city and almost do what we're talking about about how you move to college and all of a sudden you're from Boston. - Right. - It's the reverse of that where they move to Denver and they go, I'm so Colorado. I still get that all the time. - Right. - A guy in a zip up fleece that goes, I go to REI every weekend. I can't imagine not going to Breckenridge and just like ripping fresh palpau. - Right. - And you go, where are you from? He goes, I grew up in Tampa Bay, Florida. - Yeah, okay, cool. - The cause playing in Denver. - But also, I don't care. That's cool. Go be there. - Sure. - Be Colorado. But the thing that bugged me was, they're trying to out-colorado me. - Yeah. - So they're going like, oh, you grew up here? I could never leave. And you go, well, I did. - Right. - And I live in New York. And I like living there. But I also don't move here and go like, wow, down on the rings. We had a pretty tough time. Or do I move here and go, I'm a New Yorker. - Right. - I'm not a New Yorker. I don't know if I've lived here for over a year. - I'm okay with. - Whatever. - No, it happens a lot. - But San Francisco, the reason I bring all this up is, get a lot of people that are these tight audience members, and who act like they're all liberal and shit. A lot of them move there to work in tech. So they're getting paid money. And they're kicking out the actual people that lived in San Francisco. So they got to move to fucking Sacramento. Or live in fucking, can't even live in the East Bay anymore. And they're going like, no, and it's like, you're going for me. - Right, right. - So I'm back like, you're a fucking liberal blue hair. - Right, and while not even believing in it, you're just trying to put on an act. - You just want someone to feel bad. - Right, you watched Milk, and now you have a new person out. - Oh my mom was in the building when he got killed. - You don't see me going around and going like, my mom is, but she was, isn't that crazy? - That's crazy. - She was literally in the building, like giving forms. She was working at a lot. She was like, what's the level below lawyer where you all the work form? - The paralegal. - She was a paralegal for a law firm in San Francisco. She was delivering paperwork. - The only reason I know that job is from King of Queens. - Yeah, 'cause she was a paralegal. - But I remember that being like, my mom was like, the milk movie was coming out. And she was like, I was in the building when Harvey Milk got killed. And you're like, what the fuck? - What a crazy fact to find out later. - That's a drop. - Right, that's. - That's boomers. - Yeah, that's the unaware of boomers. - That is like not knowing. - That's such a cool story. - Right, right, you've, that should've been your opening. I'm sitting here, a baby, just not knowing that story. - Also, I learned it when I was like, they made that movie and like, passed you that was. - This is not living in the house. - No. - And I was like, you're in the, what? If you're starting a business, jobless, that would've, what a tough thing to do. But if you're a small business owner, check out Square. Square is a, not only the little square they put on your phones, you can get credit card, but it does a lot more than that. It balances your budget. It tells you where your money's going. It tells you what employees need to be paid. It's the platform behind the scenes of so many businesses that you already love. 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I watched her work it out and I was like, wow. I was like, who's going to have a problem with this? She's going from all sides. And then to see how it came out that anyone, I mean, she's going to watch this. But we were just like when it came the Sarah Huckabee thing, I was like, that was it. That was it. I was shocked. I was like, so mad at morning Joe because they were like Michelle Wolfe's comments were and and it was like, oh, you don't like the fact that her joke was Joe Skarsborough morning joke was just a me too that worked out. And then it's like, that's why your butt hurt, right? You're not both. Everyone goes right, but she should on New York Times, she should on everybody. And that's probably why, you know, then who's going to support you? I remember her, her comics us comics sitting there going, it was great. She made fun of everybody. And then no one listens to us, you know, that's yeah, they go. Yeah, because also it's the age of clickbait. So it's like, this is what we were talking about on the ranks that I was like fascinated by. There's a whole generation of comics that just behave in a clickbait way. No, it's actually like, yeah, and they're like, fuck you, you're a pussy. And then you're like, what did you say? They go, oh, oh, oh, she's getting you to a fucking guy. This person who has touched a pussy once before, I don't think that's appropriate. Yeah, but you go, you fucking, it's like, generationally, where there's, it feels like we're getting more and more separated by each generation by the internet. Like they're really focusing on like each generation and dividing us. Well, yeah, we, and also we've never really had to share the room of the internet with anyone until Gen Z came along. Sure. If you think like, like Gen X wasn't on the internet, wasn't making it worse, but they were like really into computers. So they were doing some high level shit. Right. Or just like, exchanging information or it was totally a Napster. It was like, send me a, send me one track of a song. And then they were really doing it for convenience. I dug that about Gen X. Yeah, to them was all convenience. I mean, we were out there writing lists and telling you how hard dating is and no, my god, 10 reasons to go to Denver on your next bachelor parties. And you're like, those feed all this shit blue, because millennials were getting older. Totally. Like starting to get into that. And then Gen Z kind of walks in and is like, hey, we, we want a little piece of that internet too. We got things to say. And now we have to share the room with them. And like, that's why like a lot of like the fashion stuff gets like, like you hear from women a lot like, then they're bringing back this. And I'm like, well, we don't have to wear those things. You know, like, we're older. Like, but it is like, you're sharing a closet. Yeah, that really is what it is. I never thought about it like that. But that is really true when they're like coming in like this. And then Gen Alpha is like, I don't want your closet. What my own closet. Fuck outta here. It's going to get weirder. Like, we're sitting in a spot where it's like, like I, with comedy specifically, I'm like, you know, I was the special. I'm like, I'm like, I hope someone like, I'm more, I used to be more sure it had to promote these things. Like I, it's like, I used to like feel like I understood a little bit of how to get like a follower. I am like, I never got it. I, I am so, I just, I'm like, I kind of have to give up on that. I, I, I kind of have to like be okay. I want to keep growing. But I'm like, I did this special. Like, it's a one-hour story. I'm like, I don't even know if anyone even wants that type of a special like because I, I think there, I think there's a lot of freedom in just making stuff for what you like. And like, kind of what you would want to watch. Right. Or what you would enjoy. And then just like, kind of hoping that people gravitate towards it. Because I think what I'm noticing, and again, this is just one older pot heads view of it. Younger people especially are flocking to authenticity in a way that makes me happy. You're getting a good, I think you're, I see your YouTube. The comments are like, that's that the person you attract, I think. I would, I think you do attract a good, like I've, I've was on this show before. Yeah. Look at the comments. It feels like, you know, I think the thing you have that's really good right now is people feel like they're holding your rookie card. That's sick. And, and I love that for you. Like, even though I'm like, sort of doing great. It's like making a great living. He's like, I'm fine. You're fine. But I, I do think there's people that will go to battle for you. I saw that was Shane where it was like, because I know it as a guy with a female leaning audience. Sure. I deal with boyfriend of who goes, do you know, do you ever heard of, so I get the, have you ever heard of of the week? Oh, yeah. From bro who thinks, I would be on the other side of it, because I get the ones where they go. I, so inverse, I get the, the boyfriend with the girlfriend who goes, I make her listen to you and she, and you know, like, I am so sorry, miss. And that, that was big on the bonfire. When I did bonfire, there was a lot of guys doing like, dude, she doesn't like listening, but I tell her like, these guys are funny and you go, I really appreciate that. But what's even cooler now in my 40s, and now that I'm like reaching, it's gonna make me want to throw up on the mic, but I'm reaching my mid 40s. I've never enjoyed doing stand-up more. And also what I get now is I get couples. No, dude, I, this is, I think this is how it works out. Like I'm actually getting like chills hearing this because it started as girl group with, and I, listen, the people that, the women that came and have come to my shows, I love them. They're great. They, I think, white women get a bad name at comedy shows because they're dragged by a dude who's bringing them to someone they don't want to see. And they're just not. I can, I can, absolutely agree with that. And you go, I'm not zoned in. As a guy that's been that guy before, I completely agree with you. And I get the other side of it where these women came with their friends and they came because of the bachelor. And then again, this is the good version where they go, now they bring the boyfriend and now they're, it's their husband and we've been coming for years and she got me into it and I didn't even know about you because I only look good bar stool or whatever it might be fine. So, and I'm like, and but now I said that like anyone who opens me, they're like, it's a lot more couples. It's great. And I think it's just like, that's like the evolution. That's like, I would, there's something about the fact that like, it makes me so happy that someone can take a Friday night and come and join my jokes and leave and go, we just had a great fucking time. And you go, that rules. I'm so glad you knew that. I sent you a picture from, I think I was in St. Louis. I was having breakfast and a guy was wearing a soda t-shirt while cutting the pancakes for his two kids. Love it. And I was like, man, and I don't have kids. So I don't have like a lot of, like, I can't really connect with that. But I am like, they're connecting with something. What I like about it is, and you know, it was something that I always wanted, but I think I was show, you know, we're older now. I think we're a little, we're more calm down. I think we're like a little okay with how things go now. Right. Well, you're younger and anything you are like, I got a fucking dough on it. And you're like, I got to be the best. - Everyone's like, yee, yee, yee, yee, yee, yee, yee. - Chill the fuck out, bro. - Yeah. - And I think that was me until COVID. - Yeah. - I was so tight gripped on it just being like, "I promise you, I'm funny at standup." - I know. - And people are like, "Chill," and then after COVID, I was kinda like, "Oh, I should just go work on my standup." And like, I kinda don't really need to be up in everyone's face. - Right, I don't need to be like DMing people, hate it. - And it's like, I stop looking at comments. And I know comics say that, but I genuinely hit a point in my life where I'm 43 years old, and I don't need to get worked up. - Right. - 'Cause you know what comments are? Is someone driving by and going like, "Nice shoes." - Right. - And then I go, "You know, like my heels?" It's like-- - I do understand a bad comment too on TikTok more than anything. 'Cause like, can you imagine you're just like, having fun watching stuff you like, and then suddenly someone just says something you hate? - Yeah. - And you go, "Oh, I am like, I'm anxious about that." - Cool. - That is a little triggering. - I think the most sensitive part of this entire relationship of being a comic is, "Please come watch my standup." I'm not telling you, you have to. If you don't like it, by all means move forward. - Right, I am. - Move on. And I can give you rex if, if, if, like, I love comedy. If you didn't like mine, I could probably put you in the direction of someone that you might like. And I think that's gonna be the correction of the internet needs to make. - Yeah. - I'm not here to tell you what you should like. I'm just here to offer you an option. This is, and if you don't like it, you don't like it. - Right. - And by the way, ain't nobody dislikes this guy more than this guy. - Look at the mirror. - Look at the mirror, I got it. - You go brother, get in line. - You think you can be mean to me? Oh, I should hear me after I eat a Chinese food dinner. I will talk badly about myself. - And I think that was one of the reasons I used to go to the comment section. It was because of the self-hatred. And I go like, "See, see." And then you go, "What am I gaining off this?" "Now it's just come see my silly little stories and I hope you like it." - There's two people, there's Colin Quinn where I'm like, I love watching him and then there's the end of the Ray Romano special. I don't know if I've ever said this yet. The end of the Ray Romano special that was done at the seller. Him and his family go have pizza after the show. And it's like the sweetest moment. And I watch that and I'm like, that's the goal. That the family is like cool with it. None of them, you know, we've seen so many comics on the road where it's like, let me talk horribly about my family. And you're like, they probably haven't heard this. And then they're like, oh, the kids, they're not even 10 anymore. They're 85. And you're like, - When I started in Tucson, I was emceeing or maybe featuring for this guy, all weekend did his joke about his two four year olds and the two twins and we talked like this, this, this, this. And they were at the bar after the Saturday show. And I'm like, and he goes, "Yeah, I'm out early." I go, "Guy, oh man, four years old." He goes, "Oh, they're 26 now." I'm like, "Oh, you go." He said that to him and I was like, "What?" Right. - The fuck does that mean? - That's why that Ray Romano said, I'm like, oh, you can do this and be a normal guy getting pizza with his family, talking shit. Oh my God, I like that bit. I didn't like that bit. You got a wife that's there happy to be there. I know he made a billion on, you know, like on a TV show. - But I also think a big problem with culture in general these days is we've given up the idea of being happy through love in order to be happy through things, money, possessions, houses, clout, whatever it is, that's not real. Which real is like having someone, 'cause you know, you talk about your girlfriend and how she's been the most supportive you've ever had about someone. I'm interested to see the moment where your parents say something that pisses her off, 'cause it happens. And by the way, there's not a better feeling than, and my mom and Katie get along famously. But there's been shit she said to me, where Katie like later has been like, I don't like that. And you're like, right. And you just, there's this moment where you just go like, I didn't realize I've been waiting for her so that when I'm around my mom, I can go, all right, so you see that shit? - Right, well you got it. - So that shit's crazy. - Right, you were the son. - I was an only child. - Right, no one there. - So you were going to be like, "Yeah, my brother will go though those fucking dots." - Yeah, that's the call of confirming your reality. - Right. - Your brother was going like, "Yeah, dad, mom are nuts." I was by myself with this one. - Yeah, I can't, that's tough. - So it's great to finally have someone to go like, "That's nuts, right?" That's fucking nuts. And you go, "Okay, now we're getting a little traction, now we're moving." - I, listen, I wanted to ask you something. - Sure. - I saw a story that I was like, this is a dance soda story that I actually thought of you. And I was like, I'll put it in my pocket, I'm like, I'm here for the podcast. - And I pull it out. - What do you think of Taylor Sheridan? How do you feel about that guy? - That's the guy that did Yellowstone. And now he has a billion dollar contract with I think NBC. - Straight Ryan Murphy. - Is he straight? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Okay, I don't know. - But you know that Ryan Murphy guy does like, is that his name, the guy that did like the OJ show on FX? - Oh, I don't know him. - I just know. - So he does this whole, Ryan Murphy does this. Basically, I think there's like, you know how there's like, there's two people. There's Ryan Murphy or Taylor Sheridan. - They're like, they're like all of Hollywood at this moment. - And that's what they're doing is they're finding people that are making, you know. So he, Ryan Murphy was a producer on Daly. And then he did American Horror Story. His new shows, The Shards. - Okay. - But he does like, 9-1-1, 9-1-1 Nashville. - Okay, so he has a huge, Taylor Sheridan like, has written like an amount of shows. - Descarrio, he did both secarios. - See, I don't know him. See, Taylor Sheridan's got some shit, dude. 'Cause he wrote Heller High Water, which is one of the best movies. - Great movie. - Yeah, that movie's great. - That's awesome. - Fucking puts on a movie. - Unreal movie, and it says something. - He did win. - I heard Wind River's awesome, but he did secario, he did lie. - This is Taylor Sheridan or the, okay. - And so he also does Yellowstone, Dutton Ranch, The Madison, Landman. - So these are the ones that he's made his money off of. Heller High Water, I didn't know that was him. That, to me, puts him in a different like artist category, but I think he realized. - I think he made a bunch of great shit, and then he goes, "You want me to diarrhea out money?" - And that's what he's doing right now. He is totally-- - Yellowstone's just like-- - Covering the bowl with money. - Yeah, Yellowstone is like, if they injected the flag into your veins, where they're just basically like, "Are you an American? Do you love?" They took a Ford truck and turned it into TV shows. - So, do you know that he owns a ranch and the way he directs shows? This is something I was like, "Soda has to know this." - I don't know this. - He'll direct his shows from a horse. So. (laughing) - Awesome. - Can you imagine-- - Awesome, 'cause just-- - Hey, doing a scene. And you're like, "Hey, lady." - Sorry about that. - Right. - Oh, watch out. Watch out, super dollars. - Right. - Watch out. - Take it again. - Yes. - Oh, sorry about that. (laughing) - Yes and action. - Right. - Whoa. - Whoa, whiskers. - Hold on, hold on, hold on. Mustard's trying to buck me. Just going backwards. - Him eating an encrustable from crafting while on a horse. - A PA handing it to him. - Right. - Right, can we actually get that on, can we punch in on that? He's in video village and the horse is just like, eating someone's hair. - Right. - He's like, "Yeah, don't worry about that." - About her. - Eating a rice crispy treat. - Oh, dude, how many PA-- - Well wearing a cowboy hat and a vest. - How many PA's get kicked? (laughing) I told you not to come up in my mind. I told you now. - Do not surprise whiskers. - I'll take your coffee with cream and sugar and I think for thunder, she'll take some hay. She'll bring some hay for drinking and crafting. - I knew you were going to love this. - Oh yeah, that's crazy. - Can you imagine? - I couldn't take that seriously. I'd be like, "Because I love you." And that's why I caught, he's from the fucking horse. (laughing) And he goes, "We're waiting for Taylor." And he goes, "We can't take him that long." (laughing) And he comes right again from up here, he comes. (laughing) - Sorry guys, I had to go to the bathroom real quick. Had to climb back on my horse. - That's a wrap. (laughing) - That's ridiculous, that's ridiculous. - Crazy. - So what that is is he's just a great artist and then he got so much money and then he got so much money that he was just, and by the way everybody, this is what happens to your favorite Hollywood artists. They make great stuff, they make a ton of money. - Yeah. - That money changes everyone around them that then fortifies in a circle and then all those people, like just parrots. Just go, "Yes, yes, yes." And then that person in the middle of that circle, all they hear is yes, and then they go crazy. - And then they direct on a horse. - And then a guy with a great imagination is allowed to color outside the lines. - Yes. - Because he's going, you know what would be great if I could just be on my horse while doing this. - It's God. - And someone was like, "This is what?" Did you just say you want to direct from a horse? - That's crazy, he's crazy. - Does he do it like normally or is it like once in a while? - I don't know, I saw that and I was like, what a, like you have to answer to someone that's on top of a horse that is not a cowboy, that is playing the part of a cowboy while you're playing the part of a cowboy. - Well, there's a bunch of questions I have. Number one, is he from that part of the area? - That's what I don't know, and like because that's a lot of his shows. - Wicked Pedia are on IMDb, Taylor Sheridan's an American after-screen writer and director, boom, boom. Yeah, nothing about his personal life. Oh, he's also starred sons of Anna. Well, he was an actor. He was an actor that like, that's why. So he was an actor and then he actually was like had some good ideas made it and then his actor brain went full actor. Yeah, he went full artist because this is what he would do if he could do it and not everyone should be allowed to fly. Not everyone should be allowed to go anywhere with their imagination. I feel like there's a PA that has to saddle up his horse every day. That's crazy. Where they get to set and they go like, I got to go put the blanket in the saddle on her and you know where I started? I was the horse guy for Taylor Sheridan. I got, you know what I would do? I'd fucking take Taylor Sheridan's horse out of the kettle, out of the stable every day. I'd feed it. I'd brush it. Brush it. I'd put the fucking saddle on. I'd clean out its focus. That's someone's reality right now. And they're on in their mind. They're like, I'm on the fast track, Dollywood. Yeah, and by cleaning out the, my dentist loves Ryan Murphy. And so she's always like, you got to watch the shards on FX. But I read a review and it was like, it's a dog shit show because Ryan Murphy is just tossing these shows out there similar to Taylor Sheridan where you just go, oh, this is you just vomited it up once you have the formula. That's kind of the bad. I mean, that's what we see on the internet is like a lot of people do a show where she was a lawyer. It was on Amazon. Yeah, that was Ryan Murphy show. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah, they said you can do anything you can make exactly right. Yeah, yeah. But they don't see this is a problem with a lot of is they do that for these two guys. Right. But then there's young people with these great ideas. Well, there's no, we can't make the risk. We got to my Taylor a new horse. Right. Well, this is like the, this is like wealth inequality, like shows up in your, your art kind of thing because now you have two guys who are like, give it all the money. And then they're like, we just have no money. You know, like we just, maybe what do I do in this business? I go, I say eight years trying to get a tape for late night. And now I don't care about late night. Right. No, no, no, they go, do you want to go on fouling? I go, he's corny and his audience is corny. The best I feel is when I make something I really like that I made it. I just put it out and I go, and then weird enough, it does well. Like it gets the reaction. That motherfucker proved it for me with. Yeah. Cause HBO turned me down. Mhm. HBO told me they only wanted comics that have a message. I heard a story and I was like, my special is a story. It's literally a story. That's what they said. They wore that comic with a message of story. And I was like, I have a, so and then they were like, they're going to love. Oh, not, you know, it's like so. And then we fucking make this or whatever. And then they go, hold on. We didn't get to see, but we did it on YouTube and it was like, other people like it. Right. There's one could stand up. Right. They're out there. I mean, that's what you know, listen, I was, I was happy to come on here. Cause I'm like, I know people are watching this and I'm going to go, Oh, they're going to give it 10 minutes. If you give it 10, you're going to get to the end. Like I, some of you will love it. Yeah. I think some of you will absolutely love it. And you'll go like, Oh, it's fucking great. I really enjoyed it. That's all this is now. Right. Hey, I hope you fuck with me. That's all I can say. It's just going like, I hope you fuck with me. I'm going to keep trying. Yeah. We're all just storefronts. We're all just fucking restaurants. Right. And it's like, yeah, dude, I, you know, I don't need to be a Michelin star anymore. I just kind of like making the stuff I like making. And if people, enough people come, I can get my horse sit on it. Here's the funny thing. If I ever got to that point, I would leave. What business? I would run a life. Well, if I got that much money, you wouldn't see me. You right. I'm only doing, I do this podcast, which is great, because I think out with one person for once a week, I hang out with a person that I get to choose, which is very fun. Zone in convoc catch up before catch up during literally. We're going to do this after you leave. We're going to eat lunch and I'll probably play a game of college football right on this couch on that TV. Great life. Love it. And then I do the regs twice a month. And then I just tour like a motherfucker. There it is. And it's awesome. But what I don't do is I'm not like begging, you know, and I'm not, I'm not like, Oh, can I get on this? Can I get? Because I did that so long. Right. It's not worth it anymore. I, I, I've hit my limit with that. I mean, I'm like, what a comfortable place to be. No, it is I, I, that's what I recommend to young comment. Yeah. Get really fucking good at this. So you can get to people that you want to come see you because the one of the coolest compliments I ever get in comedy is when a comic I love like Sean Murphy or Anthony Moore or Brendan Sagalo. And we go on the road and they get off stage and they go, I love your crowds. Dude, that I, this is a, this is something I say all the time. And I, and I said, I generally have women open for me. And the women would, they're like, you could tell they're like looking for those types of women to come to their shows. Great. And it's a comment I never thought I would care about. I love it. The clubs even too. People just getting off stage and they go, Oh, clubs. I was just in Spokane and they were like, your crowds are, your crowds are fun. The great. They're cool. And I think I do think this all relates. Like I think like, care about stand up. You end up getting a great crowd. There are bumps and there are tough spots. Listen, I had a woman yell at me that Joe Koi was her cousin and gonna, and she was gonna tell Joe Koi how horrible I was in Jacksonville. I was like, I'm gonna tell him for you. I'm gonna make this into a video. And we're gonna send this to him and show not yet. I have it. I'm like, it is brother. Call her bluff. She was so strong. Joe Koi sees his cousin in a comedy show yelling at you. If, if one of my cousins was in a comedy show yelling, the fucking brow beating they would get I don't know how to get where I go. Don't ever fucking mention you're related to the the the riff. I was like, she was like, I'm telling Joseph. And I said about I'm in Jacksonville at the comedy zone. Yeah, you've been there. Literally have you been there? No, 30 people behind a steak and shake. Like it is, it is, it looks like you got it. It looks like a roadhouse. It's like, sunken in. It looks like a bar from the 80s. I looked at it. I was like, I love this, but like, 30 people. And she's like, I'm telling Joseph, I go, what's he gonna take away from me? Yeah. This is what he's gonna take away. And it was all because I did a bit of saying how I want my body goals or that of an older Asian man. Correct. Because I was like, they all look like they fit well on the t-shirt. Like they seem like they don't work out that hard. Like, so I do this bit. She's like, well, you said about Asians. I was like, that I want their body? Like I was like, oh, she weren't listening. Yeah, yeah, you totally have gone and it turned into this whole thing and she's like, I'm telling Joseph. Prune them. Prune them. You're out. You're fucking gone. Check out Jared's special on Netflix right now. Please. Go watch it. And then listen to his podcast listen to anything he does. Jared Fried fucking. Appreciate it. Thanks for coming, my buddy. Dude, this is a blast. Thank you. It's a man. It's the best.