Sometimes It Works And Sometimes It Doesn't | The Church of What's Happening Now

>> What up, beautiful people, Uncle Joey here with the shirts of what's happening now, new edition, and my main man, Pedro Garcia, Tuesday, the 29th of September. You got two and a half more shop left than months, that's it, it's coming quick. If you're already in October 1st on Thursday, think about this. We're just having a conversation and you can't dress on white, you know, September 1st, and look at us now, we're in October, but it's another fun-filled show, Pedro's here. What up, Tarzan? >> Tell him, brother, what's going on with you? >> You know, bro, had a rough week last week with the internet, trying to play GTA, fucking, you play for two hours, then everybody else gets on and fucking the computer goes down, start stuttering, whatever the fuck they call it. >> A lagging. >> A lagging with a fucking lagging stuttering. >> No, I know. >> Same shit. >> Going crazy called Chinese Wi-Fi, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you just go fuck this, I'm going to bed. I might as well go to bed, but beside that, the week was great, we did that show, Uncle Vinnie shot out, if he came out, was a great night, you know, when Uncle Vinnie's packs up, man, that club is fucking real, like it was real that night, real fun, man, and, you know, again, I'm sorry to all you people who stayed home because you were petrified on the Northeast, go fuck yourself. I don't know what the fuck you're thinking. Why are you letting these people scare the fuck out of you? There was nothing on the road, I mean, people calling me up, we careful tonight, there's ambulance, there was not a tree down, nobody lost that power, nothing, nothing. >> I don't see one putter, are you going on a boat? >> No, no. >> And all day Friday, New Jersey 12, the gay guy was on there, all fucking day, all fucking drop of rain, getting full and all, but here's what really pissed me off, what pissed me off was that fucking, they canceled D.C. on Friday night and met life, and a raindrop didn't even fall. Rumors that the union guys didn't want to go up on top to build something because it was windy, you know, but still there was not a raindrop. Every time I went out Friday night, it was, I was getting more and more fucking, you know, every time I go out, I go, nothing's going on. It was like you're getting petrified here, the death, you know, so that's the only thing I hate about all those fucking, when they scare white people. But besides that, I forgot to bring it up, man, what's up, for a couple weeks there, I was trying to, you know, listen, man, I know when, when you calm these little on the offside, you know, you always know, you know, sometimes you go up there and they laugh, but when you get off, you go, I forgot this, I didn't do this right, I didn't do that right. Right. So for the last like six weeks, I've been looking around for a Judy Carter's book, Stand Up Comedy. And some people look at it and it's, you know, like most comics look at it and shut it off for the reasons I always did. My reason was, look at fucking Judy Carter, I've never seen a tonight show. I never saw it do dick, you know? And somebody gave me the book and I started out, somebody recommended it to me, I bought it. And I looked at it and had some interesting stuff, but at the time I didn't think it was me. Then I re-bought it and I kept it, you're losing it and I re-bought it and told about 97, it was a Bible. It was always in with the writing stuff and I would take, if I was on a high percentage of bombing, you know, one of those weeks where you keep bombing, I would open it up and the basics. But for some reason, like six weeks ago, I'm like, I went on from something, one of these shows we do and I'm like, you know what? I'm going to look to see if I could buy this book because I saw her on Instagram. I go, do you? I've got an Instagram account. She was 80 when I bought the book, you know, now that's 40 years ago, 35 years ago. She's 120. So I fucking, I go online and the book is sold out, obviously. And then I go to, to, to, eBay. I'm looking for the book there and it's like, you know, the CAD eight half of it, you know, my son let it on fire, it's half this and I'm like, I'm fucking, I won't get it. I tried to get it on audio, I tried to get it on YouTube, nobody had it on it. And I fucking come in, I'm sitting here, I'm eating last month, then I'm looking at the show. And I go, maybe that's just a cover that George saved from 1993 and I looked at, no, it was the book. I guess George re-bought it and like 2000. Yeah. Wow. That's a good time. And I took it home last week, man. And I read it like from the beginning, shit, I didn't have to read but I read it. I wanted to grasp this whole fucking thing again and I finally got to the writing part you know, to overcome object, you know, overcome objects in his wrong book, Joey, overcome, you know, slumps and shit like that. Well, it's not overcoming a slump, let me correct myself, it was more of starting it from basics. Now, if you tell me tomorrow, Joey, I'm going to get on stage Thursday night at the bloody rooster, right? I'm going to do eight minute spot, right? And you buy the book Tuesday, it's not really going to do anything for you. Not as much as when you're doing comedy three years. Now you understand this book because that's what happened to me. I put it down in the first 90 days just man, I don't think I'm talking about, I have no idea what they're talking about, but once you do comedy, you know, that terms, like they even take it to that simple killing, bombing, like the terms you use to stand up, which I found interesting, but it had this thing on writing like, yeah, you talk about what you hate and adjust your attitude. Like since I moved here, I haven't had the same attitude, I can feel it, because I'm not pissed off. And I like every time I made a move, I was pissed off by something, some fucking gentile, some guy bothering me with bad pizza, it was always something every fucking weeks, see me eat tablets, whatever the fuck is the, so I lost that attitude and this book just for my, and dog, there was one night I couldn't sleep, I got up and I went right downstairs to the book. I smoked some goat and I must have gone over and did the exercise for like an hour. I get on stage with you Saturday night and I felt it was the first time I wasn't confused on stage. It was the first time in years that I had a actual passage that I didn't get slumpy, like I would have my 20 minutes ready, but after 20 minute mark, I'd be pulling old shit out of my ass and trying to make it work and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, this, you know, I did like 38 minutes and it was all planned. I threw a couple stories in there just because I was, I want to even try them, just to get them out. I'm at the 25 minute mark, I'm dead loving you. That's when you try everything that, you don't try on Russians, you know what I'm saying? That's when you try everything out of that, you shit that you want to try, you're really gone. That gives a fuck, they're going to giggle because they're in the motion, they're in the motion of Ha Ha and breathing, but it was really interesting. I went home that night. I couldn't sleep just from Saturday night's spot with 140 people. It was just, and this morning I got up, did my usual writing. I had to leave the house, go to the gym PT, I had to do some else, got home, ate lunch with my wife and I went right downstairs and started fucking around with this book again and I got, it's like, it's, it's what I needed at this time. A wise man once said, you don't know what you need to, you need it, right? I didn't know I needed this is, but I did. I knew I needed to get the comedy, you know, back on track. There was something missing, even on nights I got lucky a couple nights at the mothership because you just go over the floor at this point. That shit wasn't there, and this week I felt it being there. I saw it, bro. I could feel it. I could fucking feel it. I was watching you out there, bro. As soon as you got up there, you bang, boom, boom, you even hit him with a science, bro. You got a science. I was just peeing on the science over here. I just because I was my attitude. I was going up there like a MC with no energy. You got to go up there with some energy, energies my attitude and everything else falls into place. Once I have the energy, then the anger will come about something and then it's like stealing. So I talked about what pissed me off. These fucking people telling white people not to climb out. Now, these poor people and their testless with the waterproof battery is stuck in the house because they're pussy. I talked about the two gay guys on New Jersey 12, whatever, whatever, but I jumped right on them, which is at least not even him, doesn't give him a chance to think and they can't deal with it. His most common command was great to be in Virginia last week. You just come out of that fucking gate, talking nonsense and you catch up with it. The first minute could just be gibberish, nervous gibberish. It's a conversation you grab your grandmother about cutting your toenails and I'm saying who gives a fuck? But once that gibberish catches up with everything bounces out with the fear and everything that's going on, it's smooth sailing after that. And I didn't find these, I wasn't, yeah, I had good shows, but they weren't. I wasn't leaving it at that because there was no energy involved. Was there something that stuck out to you from the book that made you like kind of like make a mental know on that? I knew the energy had been fucking low for the last two years. I think it came out one night at the dojo and I was really happy, but then I didn't know how to tap back into it again. This book reminded me and it's guys, this is all stupid shit. This is not fucking. I remember I went to his seminar, didn't you go with me? Anthony Robbins, seminar one time to try to better ourselves. And at that point, he was hitting the tizer. If you touch him, he would bring back a memory. I'm not going there with this, but this book. It was just so. For 18 months, this book at one point, from October of '93 to June of '95. This book was my teddy bear. I would come home at night. In those days, guys, if I went out five nights, I bombed eight of them. You know what I'm saying? I wish I could tell you, I was. The percentage was two laps a minute. It was some house, but it wasn't like I was working. It wasn't working. It wasn't like I was just getting on stage one day a week to expect something. I used to work in that. I was writing every fucking day. And I would go out at night and just bomb at these bars. And I would go on furious, furious with a gram of coke and a bottle of fat diet. That was my fucking routine, but I was pissed. And I would sit there with a gram of coke. And this is where that book really shocks me. I still remember, I even looked at it. I was like, "Oh, I only want to go there yet." The last 30 pages of the book is all the comedy clubs in the US. The year she wrote the book. And that's very interesting to look at and to look at what's left. Like Florida had like 50 comedy clubs. Ron Bennington's Club is in the book. You know, Atlanta had eight clubs. Fucking New York had 20 pages of clubs because they listed hamburger harries. Like they listed one night as comedy clubs. They had 10 pages. And I still remember bombing. But going home at night and doing coke and crying. Like literally crying. No bullshit. Crying. And I would circle the clubs. Someday I'm going to work Caroline's. I'm going to show them. You know, I swear to God, guys. That's why when I saw a man on fire. When he gets drunk at night and he starts doing all that, just to be me on top and bang myself in the head. How can you keep bombing? You know, what the fuck? What the fuck is wrong with you? Put the coke down. Stick to the book. I looked at it last week and I got anxiety. Oh my God. Because I would look at that. Like it was the Bible. Like improv in New York. I was going to do where Pat Bennington started in New York City. That's the clubs that was big back then in New York City. Both rascals were big. Ocean and the other one. DC had Delaware had 12 comedy clubs. And I remember that, that clan. They had Fridays and Saturdays. And I remember I called them and was like, yeah, you're free to come down. But you got to wear a suit of tie at all art. Oh my God. And I'm like, this is fucking Delaware. And I don't even think they sell suits in Delaware. I don't know what they sell down there. This is when it was different. But those, the back of that book every night was where I would go. Fuck these 28 people. It didn't like me tonight. I'll show them. I can't wait to perform at Big B's in California. I'm going to rock them. They're going to remember me and all that shit. So that's how green I was when I had that book. So when I opened the last few years, like a fucking barricade of emotions. Yeah. I saw the Rocky apartment where I lived for fucking 18 months. I love Rocky. There was a couch, a love seat, a weightlifting bench, which doubled as a table. Of course. And a desk. It was tremendous. Right. And Sony Trinitron and I traded that for a gram of blow. Fuck yeah. I had nothing. I had one bedroom and the room was a bed. The bed was so big, there was no, there was no dresser in there. Yeah. The door was, I had to take the door off the hinge. And I would just come home at night and flop onto that bed. Girls who go, where do I hang my stuff on the floor? On the floor. Oh my God. I'm laughing because I had the same thing. Huge bed in a little room. The fucking Rocky apartment and shit. The refrigerator had nothing. Not a stick of celery, no ham, no baloney, no mustard, there was just fat tires. That's the only thing that everyone in there. Because I would do a gram of blow with a big or two fat tires. That was my night. I had three fat tires. A little ball of vodka. I go home and fucking rewrite my comedy history. I'm gonna work carol lines. I'm gonna add one whole week. Yeah. Fucking sad. But that's the passion I had back then. It would make me fucking cry. Yeah. But the fucking, you know, again, I've been doing this for 35 years. I consider myself a better at this point. You think I wouldn't be talking about this, but man, every once in a while, you go off your course. That's why I write my goals every 90 days. Because, you know, you find yourself eating fucking eight grams of mushrooms for three months and go. What the fuck does that mean? You're not my light pillar. No more mushrooms, Joey. The fuck are you doing? You know, I fall into those. Not mushrooms, but. Yeah. I fall out. I mean, you know, for the first two years, I was a draft king. So that's all I did was wheel of fortune. That's my shit. I don't want to play poker. I don't want to see women. I don't want to freak cocktails. I don't want to be rubbing my shoulders. I just want to play wheel of fortune for a dollar. And I had a play like 20 hours worth. And my wife got me on no more. Oh, yeah, I said it. I think the dollar made that the wheel of fortune. It's all gone because of wheel of fortune. All gone because of wheel of fortune. So if you, you know, there's just books like every year I read the War of Art by Frank Pressfield. Whatever his name is. I read that every January, but I got to read it like backwards or listen to a Chinese guy write it now because I think it's already in my system. Yeah. So I don't get as much. I used to read it every year and you get one thing and you're like, you know what? I'm starting to procrastinate. This book is right. I'm starting to slip a little bit. But I love checking with books or something and then going back to them and going, wow. Sometimes you get those books and you write those line of notes, right? You make like little notes. I think they call them line of notes like what this page means to you or whatever. Even looking at those. Hmm. Well, fucking go wow. What was I thinking that night at six in the morning? Because I never took a class or read anything. I'd stand up. Nothing. That's why that's why it's interesting to me. Maybe I should take a look at the shit. See what it does. I mean, there's classes. There's sterile classes. And then there's like workshops. Like I got into, I wasn't into stand-up yet. I was thinking about it and I saw an ad for a stand-up workshop where they answer your questions, taught you how to do the material and then you performed. It was only three weeks. And it was very interesting and then that guy helped me get a job. That guy made sure I got on stage the first time. It was $33, I think, for three weeks. It was fucking dirt cheap, 1991. And I came here in '93 in two class at the comedy New York comedy club. And I got one thing from that guy. It was an eight week course. Right. He was very good because I forget it now. It was something to do with comedy in the world. And I wrote it down in a notebook and I always put that on front of all my other notebooks. And this was 1993. In 2004, I get called to an audition for an ABC Christmas game show. Who's the head writer for the show? The dude's comedy class. I took it in 1993. At the end of the audition, I went up to them, shook their hands. And I looked at him and I told him what he told me in '93 and he hired me. Because you took that class. I go, "Yeah." And that's what I took out of that class. I got ridden at the house. I'm so fucking old. I forget it now. But we hired me. That's the show when I went on and robbed all the women dresses. Because they put me in the women's locker room. I just started stealing dresses. I go to my little chick's house and she's like, "No, motherfucker, he's a size 18 for a fat woman in shit." But it's so weird how that came back. The job paid me 500 bucks for the dad and get rich. But that comedy class came back. And then I just watched a lot of stand-up. Remember, when I was coming up in comedy, it's like, you know, I Google shit. There was no Google. You had to go to your brother's house who's still at Encyclopedias in the basement. And go downstairs and look up stand-up comedians, comedians, you know. And that's how you learn. Now, if you fucking, there's a thousand stand-up books. More of their biographies and in the way they talk about their stand-up practices and how it worked for them. But there's really nobody telling you from A to Z. What to expect. Because think of the first year in comedy you could sit with me for basically eight hours Asking me questions and you'll still go home with questions So I have questions every day every day I have a new fucking question every day You can't wait to talk to a stand-up comic that's been doing it longer than you so you could rub some ship with them Then there's the guys that have ego They're like fuck you guy you're a loser. Okay, okay, but that that whole What you should be thinking the first 90 days the first year there's no books like that because Okay, I'm not this in Judy Carter. I've gotten some great stuff from her, but I've never seen Judy do a set at the improv But she popped in about a year ago to the improv on the lineup and she's out there doing corporate so I don't know But again, I want to learn from Bill Burr You know, I want Bill Burr to do an eight-week course Not online that you go down and you talked to Bill Burr by this stand-up how this developed his plan The same thing with fucking joke boys the same thing with Gabriel Because they're all gonna have the same journey as us But they all did it a little bit differently and you've got to admire it and some of the shit They'll say you know what I'm start doing that myself. I Mean that that's why I envy you because of like the classes back then I feel like we're legit comic classes like now it's different. You got a guy with a fedora in a nose ring and he's 50 years old And he's trying to tell too when he just stand down. He's he wrote for yeah, you know, this guy 20 years ago He knows everybody but at the end of the day, there's no dick. Yeah, there's a thousand guys walking around And there's a thousand guys that Teach a stand-up class that I really don't know right. I don't know Because I don't know like I would love to teach a stand-up class right? Eight weeks six weeks eight guys, we're gonna drill it all every week every week. We gotta get on stage You know, so this won't work for the novice This is not gonna work for a person that my friends at work Tell me I'm funny and that's not gonna work for them Yeah, they're gonna hear it's eight weeks. It's gonna they're there the more like three week type of people Then they make a big party everybody from work comes up. They laugh they giggle and her chance to do a stand-up is slim and none after that Nothing about again, they want to overcome the fear of speaking But if to like for me, I would have been like Judy Carter's if you came in and you were doing it for a year You're gonna pick up some stuff But the stuff you're gonna pick up. You're not ready to pick up for I don't want to corrupt your mind with this shit from nine years when you're doing How many one year you don't need to know about after shit. It's just gonna you know make you Anxious, no, no, it's gonna give you early like things like you're gonna start walking into an audience and coming back to me Gonna fuck there's a lot of old people out there Joey. No disrespect So what they're human beings But yeah, when we young comments we pick up different things fuck There are bunch of young kids. I can't do comedy in front of young kids You're already lost but at the time you get on stage they hackle you and you fall apart because you're already winning They're losing because of what you heard. Oh, when you go to PA Fucking they do this and then you get up there and you do it nothing happens. Mm-hmm. The guy who was telling you's a fucking loser That's why he's a fucking loser So those things I don't want to pre-determine. I can't think of the word guys But if someone in the coconut I can't pre-determine the Yeah, I don't want you know, we do is very high. So I want your Senages to be higher. You know, you could throw it. You could shoot a three-foot shot or you could shoot a layup and draw a foul That's up to you. I know I could do that Seven out of ten take it to the panther and draw a foul I can't make no seven threes in the row So I always want a high percentage shit. We don't play in fantasy land Fantasy land is when you're by 30 and you throw that 30 footer But the rest of the game. I'm playing for high percentage shots That's what I want. You're set to be higher percentage What makes you're set me higher percentage? You took a shower You wait dinner. You got dressed you put on a nice shirt You know, you went over your material. You got down there. You're at the right. Let you know all these things help you So why are you skipping them? Do it all the fucking time. I turn it when I take a shower at night to go and do comedy. I'm not even dirty I take a shower because I'm not Jose Antonio and my dad no more I'm joy motherfucking deers I'm gonna go down and throw this motherfucker a beaten that whatever happened brought the rest of the day That's fine dad and mr. Dears and we take a picture. That's great. Now. It's D day So I got to go in there thinking differently. So I go in there with wash balls Like Joey Deers license balls washed. I cut my toenails. I brushed my teeth You know how Joey Deers would do it to comment. So it's an all-day preparation even a four fucking 10-minute spot At least that's how I was doing it just so you're ready from every fucking angle because what we do Again, it's very stressful and We want to be in the best possible fucking scenario if that means taking 10 dabs and smoking two joints Bring it on motherfucker. That means a beer Bring it on if that means smoking two camera lights Bring it on. I want you to feel best about going up there We're worried about your lungs 10 years in when you're on Johnny Carson or whatever the like Jane Lannell Whoever the fuck is on late night You don't say worried about your lungs that but for right now if it's making you work if it makes your Processes I want you to do it. You need your dicks up. I'll get you in a little later here That'll suck your dick for small three dollars. Don't matter what she looks like But you're gonna get your dick suck. You're gonna blow low before you want to stay I can't wait to walk in here and you're like no. Can't wait to look in here and watch Danny Old Spanish Honduran woman We're on the corner She'll tie a dog around the lamppost And come down here and suck your dick dogs barking outside Danny's grown in Go back up down here, but it's a shot of Danny sperm mouth. Oh forget about it. The dog don't know it's a milk bowl Ha ha ha ha Comedy's a high fucking stressful thing So you want to hit it from you want to be tip top my goof from all locations, you know what I'm walking around I hit my toes Slippin and sliding in my sneakers. I know that's cheese All right, you know, that's like that loose cheese. You went to the gym and got heartened and then you loosened it Yeah by walking around the corner think of being on stage and you're stepping you feel that loose cheese You're not gonna want to be that funny no more It's it's like fuck I forgot to watch my feet now you concerned with that Ha ha now you're giving them Jesus jokes, so you should watch the feet shit like that I'm like that too. I have I have Persona it's not really a persona. It's a persona to these assholes. Yeah, but it's who you really are You want to give him who the fuck you are? So what's the difference start from scratch motherfucker? You got lucky underwear put him on Danny If you got those Batman underwears when we you want the spelling being on time when you were nine Put him on guess what I got a lady will fix them for you She'll make him to Ralphie May size and we'll go back. 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And that's been really tugging at me since I met you out. First of all, that you got to stand up comedy because nobody I grew up with, not Bergen got into stand up comedy. And 22 people should have because I always tell people, this is where they breed naturally funny fucking people. They say, no, cut. This is nothing. These people talk on filtered. The shit they come up with is on filtered. And it's the funny, even if they're mad at you and they yell when you're fucking how it's so funny because how they're making the delivery, you know, yeah. That's why a couple weeks ago, I asked you like, how did you get into stand up and you're like, well, I bossed around, I bumped into you or whatever the fuck you were saying to make me feel bad. Just teasing you. But it just, it fucking baffles me that we got two kids. When did you graduate high school? Oh, nine, 2009. Oh, nine and 82. I should have graduated eight, two should have graduated in 81 if I didn't get left back. But you know, things happen along the way when you're an idiot, you're an idiot. You know, yeah. We were almost, you know, yeah, 27 years apart, right? So how was it growing up for you? Spanish kid North Bergen in the late 90s, early 2000. I was always, I was always, I was oldest, but three. So I was always out in the, you know, walk to school, walk back, walk my little sister to school, walk her back. It was, it was all right, man. I wasn't, but I wasn't, I was very like shy and shit. Like so my parents were always working. I was raised by my grandmother mostly. I was always with her. So I'm a grandma's boy. And so she always taught me to be nice and shit like that. So like, I was always nice. That's, I let them off. Like, you know, when you're a nice kid, bro, you can't, you can't be too nice when you're a nice kid and you live in a town like North Bergen, you know, you get, you know, it gets a little retaliation. So by the time I was 12, I started swinging. So it was like that. So I was always very timid. I was a very timid kid, quiet like video games and shit. I love comedy. I love comedy central, but nobody talked about it. No, I wasn't in class and everybody was like, oh, everybody was just talking about the new dipset song. Much of hoodlums, bro. Well, it was just a bunch of hood kids when I was growing up. And one day this kid, I remember, I remember what everything changed from because I was timid. I was like, I don't like, I didn't want nothing. And then when I was 12 years old, I had to fake tooth, right? This kid goes, oh, I'm gonna chip the other one. And I said, this something to me, man, I don't know, it got me so mad. I said, okay, after school. And I, after lunch time, and what you call long story short, we're at the Paisanos. I don't know if you, it's the, it's the pizzeria on 83rd and Kennedy. It was called Paisanos at the time. I'm there waiting in front of you, my chicken tenders. He's there like a cool kid. Fuck out hook off, bro. Long story short, they take it to the principal's office. The principal's office is like, yeah, guess he had a scratch here. The principal goes, hey, Pedro. You can't be scratching kids. Can't be scratching kids at the face. I was like, no, no, no, I'm broke. I punched him in the fucking face. I was like, let's get in the scratch. Nobody. And they all laughed and let me go, bro. But since then, bro, I've just, I've always been like, always, what I did show aggressiveness was on the foot, I played football. That's where I showed aggressiveness. But I got school shut, be fucking quiet. Quiet, quiet, bro. Yeah, yeah, I was very quiet kid, but once from there, did you have favorite teachers growing up over there? In the high school that looked you like in a way, you know, not touch your dick, but yeah, I forgot his name. He was a, he was a head coach for, and I had two teachers. I had one teacher, a history teacher. I probably got his name. Big fat dude, bro, it's fucking, he always like, his pants were always ripped, ripped, yeah. When you sit down, you always saw his underwear and shit. Nobody ever said nothing because he was cool. He just let him rock. But he was, he would always pull me aside and he'd always go, Pedro, stop hanging out with these hoodlums. He's like, you're not them. You're not them. And he was really nice to me. He'd always give me little advice like to state like, because I would always have these like friends that, like, you know, they're already fucking snoring and shit like that. I didn't start, I didn't start doing any of that stuff till later on, but like I, he was like, I don't really have a lot of people except for my pops. The only reason is because the only reason I didn't do crazy shit when I wanted to is because I know a dude, I'm not trying to get that left hook, bro. And he hit, oh, brother, I remember he jabbed me, bro, one time, bro, numb my whole face because we were playfying. And you know, in Paris, oh, yeah, like they're at a bar and shit. Yeah. I always felt that, I don't know, I moved here from New York City. We live on 88 Street. And I already knew this area, like I was big in Union City, like my mom had the bar there from the late 50s. She was established and I grew up into that. And when my father died, we owned a house across from Robert Waters, like a little up from 29th and Central. It used to be a bar on 29th and Central. And my mother's was 29th and burgundy. I didn't know anything about my mother's burgundy. I didn't know anything. She just told me one day we bought a house, we came over, looked at it, you know, they were going to impress me and have a bed day. My mother's bathroom had a bed day and I had my own bedroom and I had an attic. But besides that, I didn't think much of the area. I was in New York City boy. What am I doing out there? As they call them farmers, you know, they call Jersey people farmers, you know. And I went to school maybe for a semester in Carnie while I lived there. On the weekends I go to Union City or my godmother's in the city. So I didn't know anybody in North Perkins. I just lived on giving that terrace. Yeah, that's it. It was just Friday, Saturday and Sunday and I went back to school. Then going into the sixth grade was when they threw me out and I had to go out into North Perkins and I wasn't too happy. My mother said, you got to go out. You got to get out of here, canceling this household day, dicking around, go make some friends. Until this day, I think as that day, one of my highlights in my life, there was a fight and the fucking cops came and the kids paring, got beat up by the cop. It was fucking shit. I'm like, I'll end up being like, this is insane. And then the cop asked me to come home and that was a complete different story. And it was like, you know, I went to that. Think of the North Perkins a few weeks ago and I bumped into Jackie Cannon. I brought it up to him. You were my first friend in North Perkins. Like, you were the guy that said come up to the projects and let me show you North Perkins wall side. And then I met, you know, Chicarelli's family, Margarit for any basuto and Roger Hollow app, because they all played for Lincoln school, you know. And what I remember in those days, North Perkins was, I wasn't on the top of anybody's list. But the people I were messing around with in those days, the adults were all very fucking straight up people. They were blue collar. They were very working class. And they enjoyed that time more, you know, like the summers where I grew up down there, there was always barbecues and there was things going on at the park. And, you know, it was a festive neighborhood. It was very fascinating for me. And then I saw behind the curtain down there and it was like, wow, this is like my life in Union City. This is criminals and politicians and fucking people with guns and shit. But yeah, the old time I was, I was happy to be in North Perkins. I remember when I was in high school, my freshman year, I was pretty happy to be in North like I'm like, this is fucking cool. It's fun living there, bro. It's fun fun. It's fun. It's fun. It's fun. It's fun. It's fun. It's fun. It's fun. It's fun. It's fun. It's fun. And then going into sophomore year, I met George at some school, at summer of 70. and then '79 came and my mother died and you don't know it while it's happening. I didn't know it man. I was so blinded by the death that thinking back I had such great support. Listen, this is going to go on anyway. This is going to go on any fucking way guys and it didn't because the people I was with at the time were fucking a-listers. You know people Brad Pitt they're not a-listers. They just make movies and get a lot of money. I'm talking about a-listers in life. These are people with no motive who want to help you. And in 1970 it was a lot different helping a Cuban kid than it was in 2000 in North Oregon. There were a couple Cuban kids that flourish. The rest of them they put you in cafeteria B with the rest of the Spanish kids with pointy shoes and me and all that stuff. You know playing some other people and I got to be honest with you that's that strength that they gave me after my mother died. That'll go with me forever. Like Mr. Tarenova was a teacher at the high school dog. Mr. Burone drove me home. My mother died. I went to school the next day. He found out and he's like come on you got to get out of class. Come home and he drove me home like that guy I'm still tight with 40 years fucking later. These people all played George. George's family. These people all played a piece of my life when nothing should have been going right. People that said fucking his mother died. You want me to do it? Let him go fucking hang on on this tree. Something like that. Whatever they didn't. And I saw close to a hundred people fucking go out of that way for me those days. It's like that especially when you're when you're playing sports and stuff like that when you're in the system like that so people look out for you. It wasn't even the sports because I wasn't playing these sports. Yeah. You play football. That's when the ocean's part for you. Yeah. Everything else is a little on the shady side. You know like basketball. Still great programs. Great guys. Great coaches. You know one of the things that always got me was when I was a freshman they played at the metallands by high school and they played East Orange. No. Something in Bale Snyder. They played Snyder. As Jersey said, yeah, they played Snyder. And I don't know if we get getting there early. I was a freshman. I had a crush. I'm one of the girls. I was a cheerleader. So I'm up front trying to giggle whether it's shit. And I'm looking at the size of the Snyder guys that came out. And then I'm looking at the North Bergen guys and I'm like this ain't gonna happen. You know Snyder had these big elite, you know like sick for two black dudes and I'm like a man build. They had her show walker at the time. With none of them. The guy that played and then he went to the Vikings in college and he intercepted on Monday night football. Not sure. Yeah, he played on Monday night football for Minnesota Vikings. Walker Lee Ashley. Walker Lee Ashley. And he was six foot-fuckin five, two sixty as a linebacker. That's bigger than any fucking guy going at the time. And these guys from up there going in and shlack them like seven to six kept it simple. They beat him. I remember looking like at these guys. None of them was over five foot nine brother. They were all small and compact those brick-mason-type Italian dudes of Villa or Capuzzo. They all had those fucking names, you know. And I'm believing they're going wild. This is real. These fucking kids. These kids got something and then I started calling it. They called it heart. You know, just his heart. You had to have, especially we were from here. You got to have this heart, this heart. I'm like, I ain't got that type of heart. You know, like when you, but I ended up having that type of heart. That's the heart. You know, like, you just don't give up and don't take no for an answer and don't go home beat up. That's it. Don't sit at three nose that you never do. You know, and it just built this weird character. Even when I was a thief and a criminal, I still had a little bit of character. You know, I didn't steal mom's diamonds. Yeah. Why? Anyway, I'll. But it's just weird that I was really, till this day, I'm very inspired. By half my battle in LA was not to come back here. The people that raised me, you don't come back to them as a loser. No, you don't come back to them as a loser. I went that way and they all got to be gay. You come back with something on your arm, like a bird. No, go, okay, you don't have to bring the whole city back. You came back with something. I wasn't raised to come back and say nothing happened. I gave my all North Bergen because anybody knows my all North Bergen is supposed to be a hundred percent. Yeah. If I don't make it, I got to blow up the town with bombs. I got to leave. I got to die. GTA when I picked the bombs. I blow myself up. Oh, no. I'm the only guy that throws bombs. Then I blow my side. I commit suicide on GTA. I got a psychiatrist on GTA. I commit suicide so much. When I take the floor right in front of you, I am at the floor and shoot me right back on the face. I got a psychiatrist on GTA five. Do you? Yeah, she pops out every time I get killed, every time I come in suicide. What does it say? Are you okay? No, I'm dead. What the fuck am I okay? And I killed myself. I need advice now. Where were you 20 minutes ago? Before I shot the grenade, you're getting bitch. We're going to do a training class, brother. We're with GTA with a shooting with a shooting course. Do they have one on GTA? Yeah, man. I got to show you how to roll. I got to show you how to hide. I got to get up early tomorrow. I got to come back up here the more than where it's just so weird. That's really intrigued me about our relationship. So at the end, we both came out and I'm surprised because the stand-up coming up. Comic-con of love, Bergen. We weren't. This was the only problem. I didn't like about love, Bergen. Like my guy in his council's name was Mr. Lungano. If I ever saw him again, I'd beat the fuck out of him because he didn't really open my eyes. He didn't even open my eyes to enjoy his eyes open to art. Yeah. I'm not a fuck. Art collector. I don't know what I'm looking at after time. But I know I could sit and stare at it like a fucking retard. I must do something to me. Does it move you, Joey? No. It doesn't move me. You fucking idiot. But you look at it and you're intrigued by it. You go out this guy, figure this out. Like in North Bergen, I was growing up. I had to go and make a club. That was a hell of a club on one Sunday a month. You got to be a junior or a senior and you got on the bus in North Bergen. I got to get to a restaurant in New York and you had to go to some of these house to discuss the restaurant. The year I did it, we lasted three trips and that was it because they allowed sophomores in and the sophomores were buck wild. So we would go back to the houses and have like some guy lived in Guttenberg. So in those days, the liquor store in Guttenberg delivered. So we would order delivery beer and shit and the teachers would end up like, what the fuck? And also when we come in with a case of nips and a bottle of jack. And I still remember the kid. We were in his basement. This guy was a teacher. But his family upstairs watching 60 minutes. We're still in his basement drinking from two o'clock because we went to get lunch in the city. We got back to his house at three. We ordered beer and started fucking listening to music on his stereo. He's upstairs with three kids. He didn't even ask us when he guys going to leave because he knew it's not going to happen. It's not going to fucking happen. Then years later, he gave me his number to gamble. I don't owe him like $10,000. Mr. Mr. Pollute. God rest his soul. Then you were with what we're talking. You reminded me of you when you were saying how we started comedy and you'll remind me like I always like making people laugh, bro. Some about making people like my dad would be pissed sometimes. I work like just you just be mad for some fucking reason be the couch. I fucking hated that. So sometimes I'm fucking like I'll put like elbow pads and knee pads and I'll put a bandana and I act like a rustling and say some stupid shit. And he started cracking up and I'm like and that would make me feel good and shit. Making my friends laughing shit like when I told you like if you said something stupid, everybody raised their hand and then blah, blah, blah, punch. When you make everybody laugh, nobody raised their hand. Oh yeah. I'd go home happy. Something about that. I didn't know what a punch line was, but I kind of understood the timing of it just watching comedy and I'd be proud of myself if I hit one. So we're feeling again, we didn't come from a background of that. No. It's not like when I was a kid, George, you call me on the Friday and go, hey, I got eight Kuelos and they ball the coke, would you rather go to bananas and watch comedy show? Yeah, let's stop on the drugs and go to bananas and see some fucking idiot. This is when we grew up here in bananas, when I was growing up bananas was big. Like I heard about it, but I had no interest in it. But I remember that I would go to, what was the job restaurant in Fairview, Mr. Fuji and we're at Mount Fuji and on the paper every Thursday and the entertainment section of the dispatch or the Jersey Journal, they would have two steak and shrimp. Platters 1595 also gives you $5 off a banana comedy club with the coupon and I would go fucking that the scam was great 1499 that was the best meal you could get And 20 bucks and you're a kid it's tough to get your hands on But if you got a bitch, you slinger in there in high school You couldn't drink but they made you little strawberry Dacqueries like Dacqueries or alcohol you thought you would jungly bananas in that bitch. Yeah, yeah, drop in names Yeah, no, no, it was tremendous. Yeah, Mr. Fuji was great right right by the the fucking That's tripping all there on fairview animal whatever the fuck George will tell you better But that was never I never went to see stand-up in New York City No, I remember like during the proms and shit they would ask you we're gonna go over and see a comedy No, I don't fucking comedy fucking I can't cope. I don't want to sit there not a talk because some guys up there talking So I never dreamt of going to a comedy club or nothing Like they didn't you know when I got into comedy was very Blindsided. Yeah, I Went my broom man at the time. I did not know I was going to jail at the time. I had the case up in the air And he asked me to go see that comic from Boston At some place some bold and I went with him Like this is fucking neat like I listened to prior and I listened to you know It'd be great to the other guy the white dude, but seeing it live was pretty fucking cool And I got locked up And all that comedy shit was thrown in me in prison and when I get out I'm in the halfway house But I'm kind of staying with him and he goes guess what I won Take us to go see that comedian again Do you want to go see him? I wasn't even thinking of doing stand up. I Was kind of on the fence and I went with him On the way out he goes, what do you think that you're gonna be that funny? And I go no He didn't write a joke from two years ago He said the same material I go if I'm a comic I'll never do that and I didn't even have comedy on the radar There was no books. There was nothing. I had already just known What I would do if I was a comic because even then I knew that every day my life is different You could write a joke about it. We're just lazy about it But if we really look at our day, this is joking there. We fucking day So are you gonna show up here a year later with no fucking new material? I can't look in the fucking face You're still telling me a joke by your grandmother sandal Something happened a year and a half, you know So I went to see him and I It wasn't like Northburg and Talked me anything. I took intro to performing arts. It was improv and Stagehand and something else you did that for 90 days and you rotated to something else And I won first place in the improv my freshman year I sang shattered up on stage after Mick Jagger sang it that sound alive. I said fuck it I could do that too like Mick Jagger and I won first place and then you know, I mean I didn't take it seriously. I didn't know what the fuck was gonna happen But Northburg was never on my Site there was never Stand up calmly. I never told George Jordan. I would talk about movies. How to get into movies? It was never About stand up calm. It's just just why I'm interested how it came into your fucking world because I Didn't even get into it though. I left here And then I couldn't tell my friends Because when I would come back they take me to comedy shows and on the way back they would just go dog You got to quit, you know, yeah, it's you're worse when they're tonight though. That's why I don't tell nobody I don't know. I had that one time cuz I Leave that's how bad I be on stage and Georgia disappear. I come off. Where's my friend? No, he left you with an umbrella You know, he just took off. We don't know what happened to all know that's the worst when he You're you're saying you're on stage and you see your friends in the corner. They're just like this Shout out to me guy contact with you. It was really weird because for me I got into it 90 one never said none came back in 93 Well, I was here somebody said there's a comedy room on 69th and Bergen line the whole restaurant up there You were away Resortos or whatever the fuck it was To that's called when I went up there into the spot Gonzo, and then my friends came and they're like you got to quit You got funny, and then I would do the New York comedy club and all that shit, and then they got supportive But they would live like he's gonna quit once he gets a good bag of coke and it wasn't so I got the longest yard and Georgie Got me a newspaper article with James Hague with Jimmy. Hey That's the first time people actually from North Bergen reached out to me on the side Nobody said like we always knew you had it and you're nothing like that. They were like, hey, man, we're proud of you You know there's a lot of people talking shit, but the other half were like we're all in we can't believe You got to this place, and I felt a little comfortable, you know But again, I wish most handers to come from North Bergen in this area This is a lot of naturally funny people. I feel like most of my friends like the people I grew up with like especially my like my best friend I think he's way funny to me. He's I think he's hilarious But he never would do it. I've told him a long time ago like when we were kids I remember telling him like oh you should try it. I just never did it and now I'm like I'm just like and I still talk to him I have a conversation. He fucking cracks me up, bro Still for it's an amazing like like yeah, you know you could do with this Don't even know what they're doing. They have no idea that you're on the other line Howling. Yeah, they have no idea. It's really weird when somebody knows no that funny and They're talking to you like Carly. Yeah. Oh, yeah, Carly moves around me. I just sit there watching like one of bars from I Just sitting watch car. I just laughed by the way. She moves. She's sleek, you know, there's some people are the other The raw Egyptian there is really girl down there She's another one. She's a cartoon. It's just gonna take a two years to get everything together for stand up there She's a walking or you know a little or Little or a mash is a fucking Just a fucking cartoon, you know you see these people you're like it's just a matter of time. It's not gonna be long Before somebody sees what I'm saying and gonna throw them a shit load of money and go hey, this is what's going on so I mean, yeah, that said I Carly's very funny like like naturally Humorous yeah, I laugh on the phone with us and I'm like what the fuck did she just say and some people those people don't know it And it's good that they don't know it right leave him like that. You don't want them to know it because that's another thing like when you go to those And by the funniest that work contest, you know and all these guys show and they go on stage You see the difference between jokes and bringing them on stage You know, I'm saying like yeah, you're funny here when we eat You're funny here you giggle on George you make fun of Danny and me But now I'm putting you in a situation and now you're trying to sell Danny and me you can't do it. You're not that good So all those visuals are lost because they just don't know how to Bring them to life yet. Yeah, you know, but that's a complete different other fucking bag of worms But it's great that You kind of saw right now you got a lot of North Burger support because like my brother's called me and said I don't know You got Pedro with you right and now it's a different thing I mean they're telling me to change the name to Cubans from North Burgundy something like that Fuck it now But it was always interesting when I met you but I didn't know the specifics like where you grew up. Yeah. What grandma school? You got it. I went to Horace man, bro. Oh shit on any side kind of Kennedy. So where did you grow up exactly 73rd? 73rd kind of thing. That was my house So I grew up I grew up down down the street in Dane Court There was some kids I that skateboard and played basketball I used to hang out with when I was a kid and then I go in a high school I met some other kids growing up and then from there I Start hanging out with like my you know my home like I met my best friend when I was like 10 years old And then we'd link back up in high school like that and then we start hanging with him and that's when we start fucking party and going out and shit and fucked up, bro I don't know right now the only story I could think about it was one time we We took it we took some shit that I don't know what the hell it was But it like kind of made you hallucinate and we smoked a blunt and we end up in Burger King on 91 And Burger line and I'll loosen it up my baseball coach was there. So I fucking freaked out and ran out of it And then it was just it was a wild so it was a grown up in all the burger was wild especially like with with the kids I grew up with so especially we had a we had a friend from Fairview his parents had money So he had a car and he always had a Gregus bottle of vodka So we'd put that in Gatorade put in a water bottle go to a whole book and walk around just be drunk kids One time we went to Johnny Rockets. We were there. We were we had girls on our table being cool Some kid was I guess he took shit to my boy and I you know, no burying kids. We all robbed up We were about a fight in Johnny Rockets a bunch of 16 year olds White people were like this grabbing their kids running out. I was like eight o'clock You know, it's so weird. You were talking about the Burger King on 91st Street We wanted to tell one night me and this kid down regal. God bless the soul Yeah, a couple of us, but we started at that Burger King. That's where my friend put his dick and some guys hand while they were waiting online. And we fucking died. And then we ran down the corner and we tried to order Burger King, but we didn't have a car. They said go through the drive-through. So I went through the drive-through, "Letty's yell at me," and Darren goes, "Put your dick on the counter." And I put my dick on the counter and I'm like, "Letty, come out here and look at me." And he's like, "You're uncircumcised. It looks like a Cuban egg roll." That's where we got the name. And then right in that mall, you walk to the corner, there's a Dunkin' Donuts. Yeah. And that's a Dunkin' Donuts, where you take your dick out and walk in and put your dick on the glass and ask the lady for a crumpet. And when she would bend down, she'd look into the glass and start yelling at you, "Shit, get out of here. You fucking pervert motherfucking." We were kids, man. 14, 15, we didn't know any fucking better. We had tons of those nights where, listen, man, I always go back to this. My mom died when I was 15, and I last on those streets when I was 19. And in four years, I probably had five bad nights because my friends would let make me laugh so hard that everything would go away. And some nights, I just went from them to getting so ham and I just passed out, so I'd bypassed that whole hour before you go to sleep pain when you realize, "Shit, fuck them home. My mother's still never came home, it's been a year, so I always reflect on that time in my life. I laugh so much those years. I can't even, I always to tell people, listen, I know I got a thousand stories that I could tell. I got 3,000. I cannot repeat. Every once in a while, I'll slip one and change a name, but it's not what I want to do. I can't describe how many nights I went out, and Brenner is going to be at the Dojo Thursday Friday, Saturday, a week, and me and Brett became friends when they had the commonly stored 20 years ago. He was talking about growing up in North Jersey, how there was always that one kid that wouldn't go home. If you came back out at three, that one kid was still hanging out. That was me. Why would I go home, I had no parents. I stayed with nice people, but they didn't know what time I got it and left, you know? And that just to me right there, like I left just to the antics, the adventures. Like I said, there was some hard nights, robbing people and looking for you, you got to get a hotel and do work or something like that, but besides that, I left the whole fucking time, and then I became a criminal, and that was the other side of it. That's when I was losing these people one day at a time with my behavior. They would get a complaint that you can all only love Pedro so much when you get in the call about Pedro every fucking day. Listen, bro. Pedro went to the university and threw a ball at the bar tender. Bro, they're talking about Pedro. He robbed some guys out. That was my life. I had to deal with it every fucking day, you know, and I couldn't do any of this if it wasn't for the basic training that I got North American and Jersey. And one of those guys, I'm very grateful where I was raised, where I was born, where I was brought up. Listen, when I come up here on Mondays, I don't even take the route three no more because I don't want to see my name, but when I'm driving in North American, I always go, where if somebody was sitting next to me and I got to explain these buildings that look like fucking Jesus bombed them 2,000 years ago, you know, plus that if you, as soon as we get off route three, whatever to go north to come here, I got a story on every block that I could tell you and you'll fucking die, especially living down there, where there were not that many stories, but we had them. So now I easily come to George Washington way, so you have to remember that shit, have it. Sometimes I go home that way and that scares me because I look at those streets. And there's not a kid on them and I know for a fact 40 years ago, we were out there, one then I football, are you fucking crazy? We were out there trying to sneak into a bar and if not, we find bars to go eat free food because they give you like meatballs up at the ground round or something that those spaghetti wagon in Jersey City, you are out. I was out every night, I don't know, Tuesday nights, Jersey City, my exulties, it was a bother that we'd go because they have 60 cents, mugs of beer and 60 cents from eight to 10, listen to 1001, the place was empty. You could see a cockroach walk by himself. Wednesday night had all you could drink at some other, but chilellies, chilellies in Jersey City was banging on Tuesday night, Thursday up here, Wednesday, we go to night. Back, you know, a bucket of beer for $1, Budweiser bottles, we go up there on a board, just sit at the fucking table and store it until they threw us out. Green Rock, Hoboken, $1 beer nights on Tuesdays. This was when we were doing all this shit, Hoboken was still dead, there was old people waiting for Sinatra to make some back. Hoboken was popping when I was going out, dude. And then when I came back at 93, Hoboken was really popping, like this is fucking Hoboken, this is Hoboken, you know, but I'm very grateful of what the things I learned in North Pergon, the associations I made here, how I made them, how my friendships went down over the years. I mean, there's still kids I talked to in 1979. That for me is more than money or success. That's real success. I still call these guys up and go, "Hey, man, what's going on? I love you. I didn't forget about you, you know. These people I call my brothers and my sisters, I've been running with them since I was 15. And they were there when I was back cocoa, so now they've got to be there when good cocoa is around. You're right, man. They were there when there was no movies, they were there when there was no longest yard, there was no standout, they were there. So now I feel really proud, I started my life and yeah, North Pergon weighs on me every day. But I'm grateful, like, I'm grateful like what I grew up doing. I wouldn't have grown up anywhere else who made it if it wasn't North Pergon, you know. I give a lot of credit to my pops, because he was my coach, and he didn't treat me like a son, bro. Bro, I got cut, bro, my first all-star team when I was 10 years old, I don't know if I remember if I told you. Yeah, he told me. 10 years old, bro, my first child. Were you in the high school coach? No, no, no. He was close. He was close little. But he cut me, bro. Send me home walking. Never gonna forget that. And I thought to myself, I was like, "Bad, I'm gonna get good." But shit like that, he'd bench me too when I did bad on the bench. Get some other kid played, bro, because of that, I dealt with rejection, but like in a good way. In a good way. In a good way. And North Pergon was the same way. I think, I'm glad I grew up like that, because I could have grew up fucking everything nice and stuff. But like that, make sure, like, no, you know what rejection feels like. I was the same one, he was one of me, he was 50% extent of his rejection. And the other 40s learned how to deal with it. Either you can live with it, and move on and go, "Fuck him, I'll show him in two years, or you can just give up and live with it." And that's why I think a lot of people do. Well, anything else in life, bro, before I became a stand-up, how many things did I try? You know? I tried everything. I tried being a dancer, a bongo player, and I, you know, no, but, you know what I mean? I did everything. And I landed on this because it worked for me. But it was also a support I had, you know, my wife is aces. I couldn't have done shit without her. But that's later on. But I still think of what these people did for me. My nephew Nick, I used to sleep in his uncle's fucking balcony. When I come here visiting the winter, I would just say, "I can sleep on your balcony. I've got to fucking sleep him back." And it takes the village to raise a child, you know, like they say, "So, I'm happy your part is down. What do you have?" I'm happy to be here, bro. What do you fucking stand up, goals for the next year, Tarzan? Developing hour. That's it. Developing good hour. Developing solid hour. I'm in the same boat as you. So whether you're doing comedy eight years, or 35 years, we still got fucking problems like everywhere else. Were you at this week? Are you with me Wednesday? I'm with you at Brooklyn Thursday. I'll be at Pet Shopping Jury City and then Friday at BL Westside Comedy Club in New York City. Well, I'm happy about that. We're putting up the pre-podcast. I put them up on Patreon. Just like I got that kickin' again, stop by and say hello. I got the 20th, the 30th with my man in Brooklyn, next week I got shit and then I take it back to Austin and then November is when we really pack up. We've got Chicago Theater, November 5th, Riverside Theater in Milwaukee, November 7th. Get your tickets. It's still available. I've got Thanksgiving at Parks Casino the night before Thanksgiving. That's always been a staple. Danny Braff will be here for that one. He's on the show with us, so that's how we do it, guys. Nice and easy. One step at a motherfucking time. I'm lookin' better. I'm feelin' better. I'm drinkin' my water. Patio's my coach. Let's do it. We all workin' for the same village. I got a podcast, a peptide girl coming on next week. My favorites, I can't wait to have a run. Have a real guest for Page of the Torture. And that's it, and that's that one of the fucker. See you guys next week, same bad time. Same bad channel. Love you, stay back. Tell me you love him. 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