163: Tahoe Tears with Joey Avery | Soder Podcast | EP 157

I will be on the road December 10th through the 12th. I'm going to be in Rochester, New York at Comedy at the Carlson. And then that's it for 2026. What a great year. Thanks for closing out the Golden Retriever of Comedy Tour. Thanks for the special taping. More info on that coming up soon. And thanks for this fall, all working on the new shit. I'm going to be putting out some dates coming up soon, but right now just December 10th through the 12th, Rochester, New York, Comedy at the Carlson. I'll see you there at danceorder.com. Thank you, enjoy the podcast and I hope you're okay. Hope you're doing all right. We just filmed the special "No Valley." I saw that you were doing that rock-morn. How was it? Sick. My dad worked at the liquor store that was down the street from there. Oh, that's so sick. In fact, that was part of the reason the lady said we could film there. Every time I've done a show there, everyone's like 70. So when I saw you were doing it, crazy old. You'll be able to pull your own people, but otherwise it would have been like, "Throchmorton has been judged." George Lucas came out. No shit. Didn't even meet him. What? It's makes me think I bought. No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm serious. I didn't know. We found out George Lucas was at the second taping, and then he just left. And then I kept digging in my head, being, being, leaving being like, Jesus. People thought George R. Binks was bad. And he was like, "Me, me, me, me, that is dead." But Lucy from The Throchmorton was great because when we were talking to her about it, she was kind of skeptical. And I was like, "Well, my dad used to work at the liquor store down in the street." And she goes, "What liquor store?" And I went, "Dance liquors?" And she goes, "Oh, my God." Like, "What years?" And I was like 89 to like 92. And she was like, "Yeah." That was in that put her fully over the top. She was like, "I'm not liquor from your dad probably." I'm like, "Yeah, you probably do." There's a lot of stuff there that's stuck in the past. I mean, like, that place, like Mortsal was like still going there a couple of years ago. - Yeah, man, that theater's so cool. - Yeah. - And how we were able to film it, these guys did a fucking awesome job. Colin Quinn directed it. - Oh. - So it was cool. It was like one of the best weekends of my life. - That's so sick. - We got a sick Airbnb up in like, 'cause you know. - Dude, the North Bay is amazing. - It's amazing. - It's so sick. - My grandma lived there in the 90s. She left in the early 90s when it was still affordable. So like you, she didn't have, she didn't make a lot of money. And she could live in an apartment in Greenbray. - Yeah. - Right by the hospital. - Yeah. - And then my dad was an alcoholic, the crush on her couch. He worked at a liquor store in New Valley. But like now you have to be like a tech CEO to like-- - All my friends who I grew up with, like anyone who wants to buy in the area that we lived in, they like must have sold a company. - Really? - I mean, it's so expensive. - That's always weird to me is like, you're supposed to be able to grow up and buy the biggest house in your neighborhood, not be able to live in your neighborhood anymore. - Yeah, but it's also like a lot of the parents didn't leave. So like the boomers are like, we'll stay in this giant house because it's the best investment we've ever made. It just keeps making money. Like I go back my mom's in the same house. - Dude. - That we grew up in and I'm like, stay. - Yeah. - Because it keeps fucking going. - I mean, we almost might go back to a different era where like people left you houses and then you're like, this is the third generation that we've lived in this house. - But it's a way, it's like a tiny single family moment. - It's like a mission. - This is our state. - It's like one of those upstart developments where you're like, we couldn't do better than this. - Yes. - Because they were leaving castles. - Yeah. - Not fucking paper thin walls. - Yeah. - Yeah, I don't know, man. But the Bay Area is like, I think it's gonna, I don't know, it seems like a lot of the tech has left, but you're from South Bay. So you watched the.com bubble. - Yeah, my parents were pre.com. - Because we would have never been able to live there. I mean, at all, like. - What was that like when you were little seeing that come in, did like all of a sudden nice stuff start being built? - Yeah, I mean, it was really interesting because like going to public school, you would just have this crazy chasm where it's like, oh, that guy's dad is a billionaire and he's driving a fucking, you know, nice Mercedes and then there's a kid who lives in a house that's like genuinely haunted. - Yeah, that's what I mean. - You know what I mean? - You're like, he buses in from South San Francisco. He will stab you. - Yeah, yeah, you have that mix. - Yeah. - He's developing AI in like 91, where you go, kill him. - Yeah. - Stop him from ever leaving. - At the time it was sick 'cause we had a lot of pride. We were like, we were talking shit to people. We were like, dude, we got Apple, we got Google. It was like cool for a while. And now I feel like people were like, fuck those companies and we're like, yeah. - Yeah, well, what happened is they fought, what's funny is it's, you know, 'cause I obviously lived in Denver, but I would spend my summers in winners in the Bay Area, but I didn't go to school there. So I didn't like know what the kids were doing. I just go to work with my dad, or just hang out. But something that's crazy to me is that you guys did do that, where you're like, yeah, we got Silicon Valley. - Yeah, that's not a tie. - San Francisco. - Yeah. - It was like cool, San Francisco. It just sucked up all the poor people and spit them out the Sacramento. So get the fuck out of here. - Yeah. - And that's what's happening with Austin. That's what happens is like these tech companies coming to name so much money that if you're renting in a apartment, you're like, I'll rent you this for 20,000 a month. - Well, the tech companies like think their people, like they've kind of been like, we hear what you guys are saying. San Francisco is overpriced, so we're gonna move. Like, they think it's cool, yeah. They think they're moving to Austin to be cool and counterculture and then doing the same thing. - And I can't imagine a landlord is like, oh, I'll just go back to the regular rent. Like my dad, 800 a month. - And even every time like some steam gets let out of it, something else comes along. So it was like, there was like the software, era, and like. - When you were little, what year were you born? - '91. - '91. So you did you get to see one Super Bowl win? - Yeah, but I wasn't exactly locked in at that age. (laughing) - No, I was at the party. - Yeah. - Like our like family tradition every year as important as anything as we always throw the Super Bowl party. - Fine. - And so I think it's been started in the 80s and now it's like every year, we throw the Super Bowl party. - Still. - Still. And it was like, my dad recently passed, but it was like kind of his thing. And then even since he passed, my mom was like, oh, we got to throw the Super Bowl party, right? - That's great. - Yeah. - When you are throwing a Super Bowl party, 'cause I wanna say the laps in Super Bowls was, oh, was '94 to 2011, or 2012 when we played the Ravens in '47, you're still doing Super Bowl parties all those years. - Yeah, because. - Even when it's the Patriots back the back. - Super Bowl is an American holiday. Like, we're watching it no matter what. Might as well get fucked up. We just, it's actually, it's honestly, especially with our recent run. It's been more fun when the Niners aren't in it. - Yeah. - Because we're just getting fucked up and having a good time and like throwing money on it. And the Niners ones, people come over and everybody's like tense. - It's like waiting for a surgery. - You're like, you're like in the lobby and the doctor comes out and they're lost. You go. - Yeah, it is, I agree with that. - And it's dark because you've been drinking, you're, I've been drinking all day and then like, you know, there are chances, we're gonna win and then it turns and then it just becomes dark and I'm just like, put them down. - Yeah. - I was telling them they had to put the guys down. - Yeah, dude. Take them out back. - Yeah, I was. - Take them out back with a long shotgun. - That's what I was saying to them. - Yeah. - I'm not proud of that, but. - That's why I agree with you. - Yeah. - In the moment, I probably agree with you. - Yeah. - Number one, Monday's after the Super Bowl should be a holiday. - Yeah, they're gonna get there. - They're pushing it, I think it's like in one year, it's gonna be a present. - Federal holiday, Trump would win a lot of, a good grace if he went. - Yeah, he's focused on the clock. He needs to, on the daylight savings, he should be focused on the Super Bowl. - Shiftage is Super Bowl Monday. - Yeah. - Or whatever president does that is everyone's gonna be like. - Well, no, the NFL is doing it. - Oh, there. - That's part of the adding a week gets it to president's day. - There are one week on Valentine's Day, this year the Super Bowl's on Valentine's. So good job NFL, you just created a shit ton of fights. Now, you, like, 'cause imagine, okay, imagine the pressure of your team in the Super Bowl. As we felt recently, with the three losses, 2012, 2019 and 2023, you feel that, so you feel that with added on top of that, the disappointment of your girlfriend or wife that you didn't show up for Valentine's Day, if you lost, dude, if you lost the Super Bowl, that's a guaranteed fight on Valentine's Day. - Yeah. You're both in the worst possible mood at the exact same time. - It is an egregious mistake by the NFL to put it on Valentine's Day. - That's fucked up. - Do it on Saturday. - No, but you're fine, like. - Oh, well, yeah, but I'm, you know. - My wife will be like, "Oh, Valentine's Day's made up. The Super Bowl is real. She'll be locked in." - That's it. - But I think a lot of people don't have that experience. - We are in point two percent. - Yeah, that is true. - Oh, man. - That is true. - I don't think a lot of men are being corrected on baseball names by their fiance, like I, yeah, she's like, that's not how you say it. I go, "Well, then how do you say it?" - There's a- - Swarber, Swarber, fine. I was saying it wrong, no. But yeah, like, I'll be fine. - Yeah. - The Super Bowl's a bigger holiday to us than-- - I'm saying. - And also, you are right. When it's not your team, you can focus on snacks. It's fun. You can watch all the squares, we'll do squares. - I am. And this year she was okay, 'cause Seahawks Patriots. I haven't been with the Super Bowl for her, and she lost. It was tough. There's a couple of moments that are real touch and go. - Yeah. - There's a couple of moments where I go, "I'm not gonna talk to her right now," because she, the paths weren't doing so hot. - Thank you. That one happened early. But what you know is, as a 49ers fan, would save that whole experience. experience was just being very, very vocally anti-seahawks. - Yes. - Just going right, these fucking dickheads did this to us fucking two weeks ago. So that is fun, but man, having your team in the Super Bowl is not good for the day. - Niners, Pats on Valentine's Day would be a problem for it. - Why would you put that in there? - Why would you put that in there for it? - A big problem, dude. - I know every, you piece of shit, why would you put that in there? - I'm going to fucking, I will harass you if that happens. 'Cause that is a nightmare for me. - Yeah, that's not good. - I'll tell you what would happen. I would have to watch it in here, and we can't, 'cause there's the delay between the two of you. - Oh, no. - That would cause a fight. God damn, that's my worst case scenario. - Yeah. - Because-- - In play. - She wins. I'll be so mad. - Yeah. - And I win, I can't enjoy it. It would almost be winning, would somehow almost be winning, because you would just be like, "Hey, how are you?" - I gotta go in the tent. - This happens a lot. - I gotta go in the bedroom. - Woo! - Yeah! - Do you know what, do you have the calls I would be taking? All the calls of like, "That's our six!" - Yeah. - I'm gonna go for a walk, babe. - I think I'm gonna go for a walk. - Come back with a red hand from my father. - You just have to go down to Finerties or something and celebrate. - All right, dinners. - Did they move it? - They brought it back. So there's plug uglies and Finerties. They got rid of it and then now it's back, Finerties, something. - Were you, were you ever around for the original Finerties? - No, I missed it. I heard it was sick. - Let me tell you something, brother. That bar, lightning in a bottle. It's gone. It's like a food place now, it was on 14th and second. I went with my friend Kate, who I worked with at Dos Caminos. She actually is on the news, or she's back in New York, but she was in the Bay Area for a long time. But I worked with her at a restaurant and she was a Niner fan. And these are the lean years. We're talking like '07, '08. - Tom Sula. - Oh, dude. No, that's, Tom Sula's post-harbo. We're talking Mike Nolan. - Oh, Mike Nolan. - In the suit. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - Can't win with him. Can't win with him. We're talking a dark period. Like going out to the metal, Kate and I one time went out to a Giants Niners game at the Metalands and Giants fans weren't even being mean. They're like, "I don't know, man." - You've got great years. - They just wanted to know. So they were like up on it, where they were like, "I don't know what to tell you. "80s, you guys were sons of bitches." - Yeah, when we get bad people, just start going. Some of the best uniforms in the league. - Yeah, they go. - It's just start going. - You're like, "I like when they're good." - Yeah. - There you go. - So do I. - So do I. - No, we're non-threatening. - Yeah, that sucks. Over just neutered. - Yeah. - But I remember like, she knew those guys. She was like, "This is before streaming, "this is before anywhere." Like, you're only gonna watch a Giants or Jets game or the National TV game. That's all you're getting in New York City. - Right. - So if you want to watch the Niners, you have to go to a bar. No, there's no Niner bars. There were no Niner bars. We weren't good. No one wanted it. She's like, "My friends are getting it together at Fenerdees." And I was like, "Sick." There was right down the street from the girl I was dating apartment. I could go there early. If you were wearing Niners stuff, they would like do like a two-for-one Bud Light. They were like doing something that it was like sick. - Yeah. - And I'm drinking. - Yeah. - So I'm showing up and I'm getting locked up and we're horrible. You would go to week one at Fenerdees. This is '09, you'd go to week one and it'd be packed. By week six, they would be happy if anybody came in. - Oh my God. - 'Cause we would be like, "Oh, in five or like one in five, "one in seven." And you'd come in and they'd be like, "Oh, it's up going Niners." And the people that were there. And you remember you are with a real motherfucker. I almost got into a fight with a guy outside on Second Avenue 'cause I was smoking a cigarette and I had my 49ers hoodie on and he went, "Oh, dude, I used to be a Niners fan "and I flick my cigarette in the second avenue." I go, "Then what happened?" "Then what happened?" And the guy literally was like, "Yo, dude, chill." And I was like, "What the fuck happened?" And one of the guys was like, "Come on, come on in. "We'll have a beer." I was like, "Oh, you used to be a fucking fan." "You used to be a fucking fan." - That is a crazy sentence. - Stupid. It's the dumbest thing I've ever done. Where I go, "You don't like sports, "get the fuck out of my face." So-- - Being a fan is built by the leaners. - This is exactly my point. - Yeah. - Because Harbaugh takes over in 2011, I think it was the 2010 season, 2011. We lost in the playoffs to the Giants. I forget when it was exactly. But we-- - Yeah, fuck and silly. - Instant cold kick. - Yeah, dude, against the Giants. - Yeah. - I was flying out of San Francisco the day after. I was like, "Dude, what the fuck? "I'm gonna see my grandma." But the Harbaugh year come in. We beat the Seahawks week one, you can't get into Fenderties. It ruined Fenderties. For me, not for everybody, but it started being like the Niners are back up. We made it to the NFC Championship game. You could not get into Fenderties. And then I became angry. And I don't, by the way, the guys at Fenderties, I want you to know, I love you. And I love the work you do. - Yeah. - I'm no longer a drinker, so I can't go out for it. And I have the fucking package on YouTube. But that hurt. Because I was like, bro, I was here when we were playing the Panthers, and we're fucking 3 and 10. And no one's here. And I'm like, stay until the end of the game. - Yeah. I moved here like three years ago. And so the concept of a Niners bar for my entire time in New York has been like, do we want to spend an entire day, get there like an hour and a half before kick off, because otherwise it's a fucking zoo. - But it's, it is fun. - I was there for, I was at Plug Ugly's for when we beat the Lions. - Oh my God. - One of the craziest experiences. - We just did a whole episode with Joel Kowski. I don't know if you know Joel. - Nightmare. - Very funny comic. You wrote a great book about his dad passing away about being a Lions fan, about them sucking. And he gave me in detail where you're sitting. He went to the game. He flew out to Santa Clara. His dad's been a lifelong Lions season tiggin holder. And he went out and I just, I brought up the the Gardiner Johnson wave. And he was like, yeah. - Yeah. - And I was like, for us. - That's one of the greatest moments for Niners history. - Yeah, the peak of Brandon Ayuk's life. - I mean, I know, right? God, that fucking poor guy. - I know. - You know what's crazy about social media? And for those of you that don't like sports or the 49ers, I get if you want to skip this episode. If you like the four of you. - We'll do other stuff. We'll do other stuff. - If you like the 49ers though. - It's gonna be good. - Lock the fuck in. (laughing) Lock him, baby. 'Cause this is just the game. - I was wondering. I'm like, how can I always sell out when I'm in the Bay, but nowhere else? - Yeah. - Like every time I'm on a podcast, I'm like, the sharks are looking good. 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I, I, it was-- - Were you the whole first half must have been like, a lot of like-- - Oh! - Yeah, it was a lot of that. And then it just started happening. And I think the thing with this Niners team is, you know, as a fan. And you lose a lot of faith in the Super Bowl, but up until the Super Bowl, you're like, I think we got this. Yeah. Well, never fully lost faith. I'll tell you that's shades of because I'm almost 10 years older than you. That is the, that's the glow of the 80s that's still a little bit there growing up. And you know this until 2002, you were just like, who are we playing in the NFC Championship game? Yeah. That's like a minimum of where we got to get. And then you go through the lean years and you go like, and then you're back. But then that fucking confidence pops back up. Yeah. We go like, we're fine. We are the NFL. Yeah. Like, do we do feel like the greatest franchise in the NFL? And I know like the cowboys or the Steelers or like other teams would argue with this. Patriots at this point. Yeah, they took, they really took the man. But the thing is that Tom Brady has more rings than any franchise and he's from the bay. And he was so he's got, and he's a Niners fan. He made a Niners fan. So he is. Do you watch that? I'm ours. Yeah. I have a picture of him at eight years old crying at, at the catch. My dad, so my mom and dad were at the catch. Crazy. And the craziest sporting moment I've ever experienced was sharks golden nights game seven. Fun. The sharks are down three goals. They dump Joe Pavellski on his face. He starts bleeding out of his face. The golden nights get a five minute major penalty. So when you score a goal, they, they stay in the box. Yeah. They scored four goals in one power plant in a game seven. And it was the craziest experience of my life. I called my dad after just like thanking him for the tickets and he, I'll never forget it. He was like, son, you get one moment like that in your life. He's like, there's one moment in your life where you will hear a stadium make that noise. He goes, mine was the catch. You just had yours. That's all right. That is awesome. I was at Barry Bond's breaking Hake Aaron's record like I've, I've been in a lot of shit. And even that still that sharks came was the crazy. The game were very wet and broke. Yeah. Hank Aaron's record. Yeah. God damn it. That was a, it was a weeknight. Yeah. I guess the nationals. And I was, I got, I got off work at the restaurant and I ran to the sports bar down the street to watch it. Yeah. Bond was the man. Dude, he was talking about all the best. Talk about defending a guy you knew was wrong. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Don't give a fuck. Didn't give a fuck. I used to, I lived in Arizona, I bought a Barry Bond's Jersey and I'm wearing it around being like say something. Yeah. High to the ball, ballco. Yeah. High to ballco scandal. I'd be like, what do you, what do you want? Yeah. I feel like the, how attacked he got from the rest of the world made Bay Area people congeal around him even more because we're like, fuck you then. Do you know that we just traded for Jeff Kent's kid? I did know that. Would I hurt that? It made me so oddly happy. Yeah. We're having a horrible season is if you're a Giants fan, you know, we fucking stink this year. Oh, it's bad. But there's parts that I really love first off Logan Web's the man. Yeah. Joholy's my guy. Yeah. Very mad that Louisa rise got traded to the Phil. He was so good. I was like on the like Giants subreddit and someone said like he's got to be the most beloved short term Giants career came in as part of a season and he was just this lone bright spot. And he came in. Yeah. The jokes he was making at the All Star game went to the Phillies and I told Shane and all them. I was like, I'm with you guys now in the post. We all are. I think every Giants fan is like, let's go Phil's I guess we can't be mad at you. We beat in the 2010 NLCS. Yeah. Yeah. I want our way to our first world series. I'm not mad at Phillies in any way. Yeah. So you're like, fuck, and I'm close. So I'm like, and Shane might be able to just play off. I guess. Oh. Now you're talking. I keep saying that too. I go, we're going to a playoff game. Can you take me in? Can you do a playoff game? Please. I love baseball. I've been really in on the Mike Kruecker retirement. Yeah, that's sad. I'm sad. It's sad. It's like for again, this is really. Bay Area. Mike Kruecker used to call games for, I think, 35 years for the Giants. Yeah. He's still our, you know, color commentator and like Krueck and Kaip were like the gold standard of baseball broadcasting and beloved Bay Area icons driving around listening to that. And my dad's, I still remember that, like my dad in the 90s, like driving us somewhere and listening to a Giants game on the radio. It's those two and John Miller and it's like, we have the best voices in baseball. And another Bay Area, Greg Poppel got let go. Yeah. He's like, going through cancer. Yeah. And everyone's like, you fire to me with cancer. A company firing a guy with cancer is such a PR nightmare. To PR nightmare. It's a shrewd move for the bottom line. He's, there's no other way to say that and they're trying to come out and go, well, he's cancer. His job is in remission. Yeah. That's what it is. But it is. I mean, when you moved to New York from the West Coast, were you amazed that no one gives a shit about your sports when you get this far away? Yeah. Like a little bit, but they don't know no one gives a fuck, but that makes me like it more because I'm like, it's my thing, like leaving your area makes you love it so much more. That's why everyone should travel that way because you really, like if you stay where you're born, work where you're born, live where you're born, it's gonna mean a lot to you, but not as much as if you're far away from it and you run into people that love it. Yeah. How many times have been out in the city with a 49ers hat on and someone ran and this goes like, yeah, go Niners, and you're like, go Niners, like you light up, we're like bang, bang, nineer game. Yeah. I bought a starter pullover, sick black pullover, sick. Yeah. That's the one I want when I was a kid. We could afford it. I fucking got that shit. Congrats. But I was walking the dog and someone was like, from driving by the car like, bang, bang. And you're like, bang, bang, nineer game. It goes from it's baseball to it's my baseball. Yeah. And that's, and so it becomes like an identity. Like I wear way more Bay Area shit in New York than I probably did when I was back home because now I'm like, this is like what I care about. It's what I miss. It's part of your personality. Yeah. And what's even funnier about it is I didn't even lived in the Bay Area. So it's like, yeah. People are like, why do you need to go? It's just a religion that was passed down. But yeah, but it is, that is exactly what it is. It's like, it's, it's part of your childhood. It's growing up. It's all whether or not you were there. If that's what you were talking about with your dad, if that's what you were listening to, if that's how you connected, you know, in any way. You're never going to forget that. And the thing that I always tell people is, I grew up, what we're talking about right now, I grew up with that. Yeah. So I grew up. You've always been there. Like fucking Go Niners and people like go Broncos and you're like, go Broncos. You have to fuck his fat. You're going for Broncos? Yeah. Or they'd be like, go Rockies and you're like the Colorado Rockies. That's crazy. Fuck them. Go Giants. I think about it though where I'm like, I almost like want to find a way to raise my kids in the Bay Area because I want them to like, you know, they're going to have to root for these teams and I want them to feel like they've heard that. That's fine because I know a lot of people that were like born in Albany, but they're Steelers fans because they're their grandpa's from Pittsburgh. I'm a Michigan fan in college just because of my grandpa. It's my one Bay Area aberration. That's what I mean. It reminds the nuggets because I picked that because I was like, you know, fucking good pick. Go nuggets. Yeah. Well, it's because the Warriors traded Tim hard away to the heat. And I was a huge run TMC guy and I called my dad and I was like, it was like me. He trying to get back at the Warriors and I go, I'm going to be a nuggets fan and my dad was like, nuggets. All right. I have a friend who quit being a Niners fan, but came a Raiders fan because he was mad at how the front office handled Jim Harbaugh. He was a huge Harbaugh guy. And look, I thought that whole thing was weird. But now he's a Raiders fan and the Raiders left the Bay Area. And he's stuck with it. But he so my if I were him and he's gotten no fun. If I were him and if he's watching this, pivot to the Chargers, you got it. Right now they're in LA California team still. Yeah. And they'll take out the Rams. They're not the Rams. Yeah. So they got Mike McDaniel. Your boy. They got Mike McDaniel. They need to move back to San Diego. Yes, they do. They fucked over San Diego. Why? Yeah, that was very stupid. They need money for the restadium. Right. But they but like how what is the lifetime value of an entire city actually giving a fuck about you that has to be more valuable. It's like what we're talking about is like the value of setting down roots and meaning something and you can mean San Diego football. And I went to college in San Diego. I love San Diego. I know it's not fucking Pittsburgh as far as football goes, but people they're cared about the Chargers. And in LA. Oh, buddy. It's a second. They're an afterthought. Yeah. But the thing that will happen and hopefully if the Chargers start winning L.A. will love the Chargers. Yeah. If they start winning Justin Herbert, we're a charger town. It's L.A. Do you think? I mean, like even when the Rams are good, I live in L.A. for a couple of years. Yeah. The celebrities, but like even when the Rams are good, like I would walk by sports bars and like the Rams games like wouldn't be on and I'm like, what is happening? That's also like mine. Well, it is just weird. It's like Miami. Yeah. It's just like it's a sexy city. Yeah. So they go. Yeah, sport. The heat become a cool nightclub for a few months. Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia. Yeah. Cold cities where life just kicks the shit out of people. Yeah. They go. I love the bills. Yeah. I love the Steelers. Miami goes, are the heat good this year? Yeah. I was just in a thong bikini and 90 degree. It really sports are the best when your life is not going well. Yeah. (laughs) That's why talking about sports, it's like it gets you so hyped because you feel these emotions. Like I would say how I look at the years based on sports. Oh yeah. Like I go, all right, we're in August, this is, it's just baseball heating up. Yeah. Football means fall. Yeah. Football season starts, it's the Hall of Fame game. We set it on Thursday. Last Thursday. Katie was like Hall of Fame games tonight. I was like, football's began. What a great marriage you have. We're back. Oh, she's unbelievable. Yeah. But that's also what's fun about it is it's like finding stuff that you love and that you can just like carry with you for your, like some people love music like that. Yeah. And it's like, yeah, dude, like the way we feel about teams is way people feel about bands. Where they go, eh, is band, I've stuck with them through everything and I fucking love them. Yeah. And I love their new shit. Or like people do that with comics, like they'll have comics that they love that they get famous. And they go like, I was like, that was Chapelle. I love Chapelle. We used to go watch them in clubs and then went like I saw him in a theater in Denver. And then he got Chapelle show and it was like very like, that's my guy. Yeah. That's my guy. And then everyone liked him. And I was like, you guys don't know. Yeah. You guys have no idea. But I think that's like part of the best, one of the best parts of fandom is like having somebody that you go like, I'm with this fucking. Yeah. Even when it goes up and even when it goes down, because then it might go back up again. Yeah. That's it. That's what a real fan is. Someone who sticks when shit, when shit turns on you. It's just not going well. Which can really happen in comedy. Now, I mean, the internet can decide we hate you for a period of time and then it's all fucking. It can happen anything. A band can have a bad interview. Yeah. And they're like, fuck this band. And then they, the more success you've achieved, the more volatile it is. We're like, one thing. We'll just fucking. I think it's because people are going through a very hard time right now. And it's like, they want their escapism. Right. But they know it's like, just they just want something to ease the pain. Everyone's just trying to get something to quiet the loud noise. Yeah. I think there's also like overexposure like we see so much of everybody all the time and like people will go like, ooh, who's this? I like this person and then like eventually they'll be like, fuck that person. And a lot of it's again, what's going on in their own life. That's, that's a major thing because, but I do agree with the overexposure like this podcast is fun because literally coming and hanging out where I play video games and fucking watch TV. Yeah. Like, this isn't like a high concept. Right. This is coming to my apartment. Let's kick it for an hour. I'll show you my Joe Montana cards like a giant. What's how podcasts used to be? And then they became kind of something else. I feel like, well, what I've noticed is, is a lot of people now want clickbait shit. Yeah. They want you to like, they want to like, you to jump in fast as opposed to like, it's my guy. What are you talking about? Oh, he said this guy on. Now I like this, you know, like there are people that still do that. That was like the entire reason Rogan got huge, which is, he was like, I got all these people that I want to talk to when they're having these conversations, but somewhere along the way, it just became so money got into YouTube. Well, YouTube train like, if this is your job, you're figuring out, okay, what works? Sure. So you're looking at like, what is actually working on these platforms that I'm competing on? And it has, but YouTube has trained people how to basically create clickbait. It's like, what are the first three seconds? What is something I should have said? I should say something really dramatic and you can put it at the front. I'm going to, like, yes, five minutes earlier, it's just, I do, like, I'm going to get myself swimming. I go 40 diners and the best condensation in the world. But we force people 50 minutes of Niners content just for a fake. I'm going to go myself later in the episode. They're like a Rams fan. I'm like, I don't even want to listen to this. 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But it is, it is a thing of like that like loyalty to sports teams, bands, comics, actors. Like that's a thing where someone's like, this is my fucking guy. And then you learn too much that Brad Pitt shit that's going on right now where he's like, I'm not drinking again. And you go, what's up? And then people went back. People went back to like the dude, they're finding out the whole air fucking the airplane thing. I never read it until two days ago. Yeah, it's pretty great. Yeah, through line on dumping beer on Angelina Jolie. It's like, dude, it's wild. If you have a red that shit, go read the court transcript of what of the testimony. And obviously there's going to be a bunch of dudes who are going to be like, yeah, maybe you didn't even fucking read this shit or whatever you go, brother, what I did read, all I know is what I read. I don't know. Now again, you know, who knows? It's court. People say things. But she could be lying as bitch, but there were parts and I think none of the kids are using his last name. That's the point that got me where you go. Yeah, that's it. Sometimes there's just little things that it's like, look, I wasn't there. I can't quite tell. But that there is something. There's always something that you got. Brad Pitt was my dad. I'd probably want to keep the name unless he was not very nice. My name would be Bradley Pitt. Oh, James, my name to Brad Pitt, Bradley Pitt. I'm just going to be like, are you Brad Pitt's kid? You're like, you're got to think, oh, I'm just walking shirtless around in the pants from fight club. Oh, you mean my dad, Tyler Durden, that's what you should have done. You should have blamed the abuse on Tyler Durden. That's, that wasn't me on the plane. That wasn't me. Oh, my God. I am Jack. Well, you know, the first rule of childhood is, never say it. You can't tell anybody. I am Jack's need to dump a beer on his wife. That's what he said, you know what he's doing. I am Jack. Did they make any of their own kids? Yeah. Kylo. Okay. And I think they have like either one or three that I'm glad they adopted her, whatever, but it's crazy to have the two, like the, like the best genetics in the world and be like, we should adopt. I'm sure about that. Yeah, fuck you. Yeah. Also, if you're Maddox, if you're the one that she pulled that Angelina Jolie adopted, you have a like, oh, she adopted one just straight up. Before they married, if you're that guy, you're like, I'll kill you. Yeah. And he pulled me out of wherever the fuck he's from, and you're like, you think I'm gonna let you come up with my mom like that? Yeah. You want to know where I'm adopted from? Yeah. And you go, whoa. I'm just gonna make fucking get me. And that's all you got to do if you're like, fuck your brain, this kid. I'm gonna play. Whoa. I didn't think I was gonna have to fight Maddox. Whoa. I'm just doing that. Yeah. Dude, it's crazy. It also looks great. Dude, here's the thing. He's so hot. He's so hot. It's that it took until his 60s for any controversy. Yeah. It took, dude. He's in 60s? Yeah. Check out all these. I think he's in his 60s. Yeah. Jolie. Yeah. But that's what I mean is you can be, if you're so beautiful. Yeah. You're not good. You're not good. This is where like the fucking, yeah. Six. Six. Six, two years old. It looks better than me. Oh. I'm 35 years old. He looks so much better than me. Yeah. I try. If I got left by her for Brad Pitt at 60s, I go, yeah, 60s. A hundred percent. I might leave my wife for Brad Pitt. Yeah. Yeah. I let him dump wine on the point. Yeah. I just opened my mouth. Come on. Give Daddy some Cabernet. Are we going to the Super Bowl? Yeah. Let Brad take a swing at me for a free flight on a private. It would be. And it's not right what he did. It's horrible what he did to his car. Also like you hear the thing and the kids are like screaming, trying to shield her from him. Yeah. That's pretty bad. Yeah. I offered you like a movie with Brad Pitt. Would you think twice? No. Now me neither. Brad Pitt. Yeah. I know. I would. But this is crazy because if I ever like say one mean thing to my child, I don't have one. Yeah. But you know, when I do, if I slip up at all, my career is over. I'm not hotter talented enough to wade through almost any controversy, so I got to fucking keep it locked up. I think this will lightly follow him. Yeah. And I'm not saying I'm saying it's fucked up if you, you know, all that shit's true. He's fucked up. the internet and the real world have taken a very serious Divide and people used to think if discourse is happening online it means something and now people have realized No one remembers anything they've read online and any of the discourse like if you go to a dinner party with mixed generations and you go I heard Brad Pitt might not have been nice to his kids people be like what? Yeah, but then there might be a couple people that have read too much. Yeah, but they go you know This isn't the first time he did that you go. Oh great. Oh, I sniffed out the weirdo. Yeah. All right. What do you got? 1998? Yeah, I'm trying to weird dick with his paltrow left it because he has that story We don't even know this we beat the shit at uh or he Look it up, but he aggressively confronted Harvey Weinstein because he tried to go in with paltrow. Oh, this is a good story So it's a balance because that's young pit that's young pit. We don't know where he turned that Angelina Jolie Pussy might have made him go sideways Yeah, I turn him into a real monster a couple people. Yeah. Yeah, Billy Bob. We're doing the blood vials. She's tapping people That's a thing though. It's like we're assuming that the blood vial lady is perfect. Have you ever yeah, right? Have you ever Uh Brad Pitt confronted Harvey Weinstein at a Broadway opening in the mid 1990s after learning Weinstein had made unwanted sexual advances Towards his then-girlfriend go in this paltrow pit cornered Weinstein shoved him against the wall and warmed him never to touch Or make paltrow uncomfortable again See that's that's like the best story I've heard. Yeah, that made me wet. Yeah but Again, he's a complicated superhero It's like that's the only use abuse abuse for bad and good. Have you ever taken um Like the example I would use is I bring a steamer with me to steam my shirts when I'm on the road, right? Yeah One time I had chosen either London or Dublin and I went across and I plugged them Right into an outlet where there's too much voltage right so my steamer did a thing where I went like And then it fucked up and then it just blew out. Yeah. What if that's Angelina Jolie's pussy? Mm-hmm Yeah, it's like I'm swinging all my kids. Yeah Like did it fry. I know we're like we're not trying to make the one No, it's not okay. It's not a fault Obviously, but you know what like yeah if my if my wife brought in nine new children to our relationship I might be running on fumes. I might be drinking wine. I'd be running on fumes. I'm drinking wine in the bathroom coming out swinging It seems like they had communication problems. Yeah, it just also clearly seems like also it makes sense if you're a gorgeous hot guy That's had nothing but good things happen Probably a dickhead. Yeah, and then like the adversity of having you know being a parent does it kids don't care that you're hot Yeah, they're never gonna see you as Brad Pitt They're gonna see you as dad and they're not gonna respect you because I need love you die I don't care that you were fucking in the legends of the fall. Yeah, I think he doesn't want to be grounded That's what it is because also Clearly has a drink a problem. And then he goes and then he goes like I'm I'm good I like I've had multiple friends do that. Yeah, and never once in my go. Do I go? Oh? No, you're good. Oh cool. Oh, I didn't know you were good. Dude. I thank God you're good Someone at the seller and I'm not gonna say which comic but he drank he quit drinking for a while then he came back And he was and it was right as I was quitting alcohol So it's like 2013 and I remember him going. Oh, yeah, I did like eight years, but now I'm back and it's like and then a year later He's like so that was a mistake. Yeah Yeah, it's like you can't so him going like I own a wine place You know, either way he said it too was it was someone was like oh, so you can have like a drink and he's like I have you I can have a few I still drink, but you know a few is any time you're like now we're have a few It's like no we're getting after it a few leads to a lot Always yeah, because you have a few in the new year a few is like almost said tongue in cheek. Yeah, you got a few Yeah, we'll have a few Go to the go to the ballgame have a few One isn't really a one like drinking one doesn't even work There's just there's an amount where I gain energy and that's what I'm looking for brother. That's why I had to quit Yeah, the launch point Yeah, the launch point for me was the biggest problem. Yeah, this is so fun. Yeah, let's do this until my body shuts down Yeah, yeah, and I do do that sometimes Brad Pitt being so hot. Yeah, he comes back to drinking and you're that bartender. He go I'm a big fan. Yeah He sure are you sure you want one and he's like give me a few and he goes. Yeah, you're actually my first drink You're the bartender and Brad goes. Yeah, I'm actually gonna break my sobriety with you. Aren't you honored and you go? Mm-hmm. You go So was there ever plans for a fight club too? Yeah, I still ever talked to Edward Norton. Yeah Good luck. Good luck. Good luck. And he goes. It's evening. Oh, wine is tough because wine is It's kind of always socially acceptable. It's seen as classy. It's tied in with the good life And so it doesn't it doesn't masquerade is like, you know, if you're like, oh, let's wake up and take shots of jack Daniels It's one thing, but if it's like oh, it's let's have a glass of wine and some appetizers with sunset, you know And you're around the table and then you just you keep it sexy Yeah, it's chi class. Yeah, it goes well with food. Yeah, if you're like putting vodka in a gatorade bottle People are like, bro. Yeah, you know, it's a problem But if you're like, this is a key on tea. It's a good serve. Uh, and Brett It's hot ass. Yeah, 62 going wine. I own the vineyard. Oh, well, fuck me. Well then uh, yeah Cheers and then he gets purple teeth and he goes, I tried to fight. Oh I tried to fight all the fucking kids He goes, oh I beat a shit. I wanted the babies. Yeah. Oh man. Oh man. Oh you're a fucking problem. Dude, it's the purple teeth This one in turns every time it's like wine starts out so classy and by the end It's like your mom's friend and she smells like a vineyard and she's just like, you know, you don't uh You know, your father made a move on me. And I never told your mother and you can't eat there Dude, I remember like being a teenager and realizing my mom had drank too much wine because her fucking zero to emotional was like Less than a second and I remember exactly what it was I had came home. I was either in my is due to my senior high school and my freshman year of Cosby's Thanksgiving And it was like one of the nights before where we're all sitting around drinking and my mom was drinking wine And I noticed your teeth were like Blue-ish purple and she goes it was I was in college because she goes They closed the osco drug The drugstore by our house I go oh that sucks There's like a Walgreens right across the street and she goes I used to buy your birthday cards there and I was like oh, you're a wine drunk. All right What yeah? Oh, that's that's a move with wine drunk people get him to sit down and watch TV. Yeah, cuz they'll go out Yeah, oh my oh every night of my dad's life. Yeah, yeah, yeah, like he he was very fun But then he eventually had like a problem. He never admitted it. No strong about that boomer generation doesn't because he would it would again I'll be wine every night after work wine, you know white wine, but then it would just kind of continue all night What would he switch to was it all white wine the whole time? He would sneak he would sneak vodka like it got to the point where I saw Like I caught him like in the morning like rip in a vodka out of the guy. I could find it in multiple times really yeah I'm very interested by this because I never had the balls to do it. What was the first time like? Uh, none of them went great Also, I just remember in the video my dad died recently. He'll fuck. Yeah. No, no All right, it's about to get real. No, it's all good. I'm fine to talk about all of it. Yeah, he Yeah, no, he there were just multiple times where like what made you want to confront him the first time? I'm trying to I mean, well, he got a DUI But then like it was just like we like you could just tell like if it was he's having drinks every night I don't care But then there are like times where it's just like fallen asleep like at the dinner table and then like oh I think you're probably going like coming back from his office and it was his office So he could do whatever he wanted in there and then coming back and being like I can tell you are shit faced and then like finding like a bottle in the back of his car and all this shit and just He was oh, I love them. We're very close. Sure But he could be tough With a lot of people in his life and I was like even though I was the younger brother It kind of all came down to me because my mom would my mom would bitch at him like every night and that didn't work He just was like fuck you that made him drink more. Yeah, exactly. Yeah Didn't it have the reverse effect and like he was tough on a lot of people But I was kind of like the one person that I would always like stand up if I had to That's good. And it's it's funny because it's like it's tough But it almost becomes like you almost take pride in it I'm like this is like a difficult kind of alpha dude who's Awesome and really fun and lovely in a lot of other ways which we're not talking about right now, but - We just discussed podcast culture. - Right. - I don't think they want to hear about the times your dad and you had a catch. (laughing) - I don't think they're coming here to find it. - Which was many, which is many, we went to the lot of games. He was a coach, he was very present. - I'll start with my top three pony rides. - Yeah, exactly. - From the kitchen to the bad yard. - I always feel bad, 'cause the stories are all horrible and most things are great. - I mean, I've spent a majority of my career shitting on my dad, but I don't tell the stories about him being hilarious or us hanging out. - Right. - Or me, I mean, we didn't hang out a lot. - But, when you did, yeah, the good stories are never. - Yeah, but when you have a figure who could be difficult and you're the one who is able to stand up, it actually gives you a weird sense of pride, because I'm like, okay, well. - You're a horse whisperer. - He's that dude, I'm that fucking dude too. But yeah, he would just like, no. - But you really are, you're a horse whisperer. - Yeah. - He sees the younger version of him and he's like, or he's a son and he's like, I'll let him talk. - But yeah, he wouldn't, he would not let, he wouldn't. - The first time you did it. - I started, I think I confronted him end of high school sometimes in college and then more consistently after that, it never really took. - Was he ever like, I'm fine, were you? - Oh yeah, always. Every time, I mean, like, there was one time where I was like, I was like, look, I don't wanna have this conversation we've had it before, but like, I'm just, the drinking has gotten back to a place that's just like not sustainable and like, I'm taking you out to lunch 'cause I wanna have a good time and like, we can have drinks there, I don't care, but like, in general, shits, you know, and he said, he was like, he said my grandma's name and he goes, do you know, I'm not gonna say it, but you know, yeah, and I go, yeah, and he goes, okay, good, 'cause yeah, that's my mother and I already had one, so I don't need another one. - Damn, damn, he hits you and you're not my mom? - By the way, he's like 73, at this point. - You know, yeah, she's dead, bro. - Yeah, I've way dead, yeah. - Oh, you mean the lady that walks through the hallway downstairs? - Yeah, yeah, I'm aware of her. Yeah, and her whaling is quite bothersome. - Yeah, it's like drinking, she could rest. - I just, like, I kinda like laughed, I was like, - Damn. - All right, you know. - Was that the meanest one? - I thought, but I just was like, I was like, you can say that all you want, but here's all this shit and we don't have to go back and forth on this a bunch of times, I'm just telling you, like, here is the message, you can receive it or not, but like, this is, you know, fucked up. Did he ever say you were right? - No, no, no. - You never got a glimpse of like, "Hey, you might have a point." - No, that was not his style. It was not ever your right, but I always knew he loved me, so it was never like, I didn't have that thing, you know? - I mean, I'll tell you what, sometimes the hardest part about confronting someone you love that has a problem is they're so fun. - There you go. - Well, I'm confronting him about drinking, but at the same time, I'm like, also, there's no way we're not ripping beers at lunch. But as you're saying to the go, "Here are your two yards of beer." - The most we connected was when I could get him out of the house and away from my mom, 'cause they would fight all the time, and we'd go to a sports game, and we would drink. And then we would drink, and we'd finally like, cut through it, and like, all the like bullshit of whatever the walls are up in a house would go away when we get like, three beers in at a fucking hockey game or something, and I was just like, all right, what's really going on with this? What's really going on with that? Outside of my high school graduation, and maybe this Netflix special, I've never been jealous or wanted to be with my dad more than having drinks with him. 'Cause he died when I was 14, so I never got the chance. 'Cause if I could've gone to a fucking Niners game with Gary, and got him blacked out, I would've been healed. I would've been like, "Yeah, fuck, hanging out when I was a kid." My mom was like, "Yeah, of course you would've had that fucking drug." You always connected with that. - But it's like, I am, in real time, you're watching me become very jealous, and also it's because you're from the Bay Area, like same sports teams, so I know that I would've gone to like, fucking AT&T Park when it was AT&T Park back before it was-- - The fucking best. - That fell, and it's like watching, I went to Giants Games with my dad when I was seven. I went to fucking Cal Palace for WWF when I was eight, and he got blacked out. If I could've got drunk with my dad at Monday Night Raw, you did it out of here. - You missed it when you did your special. You wish he could've been there. - Yeah, there's times, when people die young in your life, I think as you're older, you have that thought where you go, "Oh man, they would've been here." The time that really upset me was when I did Conan for the first time. I know my sister would've wanted to be there. - Yeah. - And she lived in Southern California, so that was like the first one that genuinely fucked me up, where I was like, damn, Michelle would've been here, and that would've been sick. - It's tough, dude, so I filmed my first special at the punchline from San Francisco. - So Molly? - Yeah, yeah, so Molly, check it out. Live in San Francisco, it's out, but I-- - Is it out? We'll put the link up, right? - Yeah, put the link up, yeah. - But you wanna keep fucking check out a special from the punchline? - Yeah, but my dad was still alive, and I told him and my mom not to come. - Why? - Because at the time, they were going through a, they were gonna try to divorce, because she had found out that he had a side, ladies, and I had jokes about it. - Oh, no! - And I knew, now, but he had just had basically a heart attack and then a stroke in the hospital, and then she was going through his phone, that's how she found shit out. So then she's trying to divorce him, but he's also like, just had a stroke and like has some like dementia, so he didn't really know what was going on. - Oh, the mansion's coming out of that. - We're finding out, you go. - Like, did you like your phone? - I think that's part of like, yeah, near the end, he was just kinda like out, basically. - Just so I have all my bucks in a row. - You don't want them to come to the special because you have jokes about your dad having a side piece. - Yeah, basically, yeah. - Did you know your dad had a side piece before your mom knew? - Not really, but like you, there's like shit like, I didn't know, but like, there's just some-- - Did you and your siblings talk about it? - Well, we didn't know, but it was just kind of like, what's, like, there's just like, what's going on in this of certain things? - Sure, you know what I mean? - Why is dad wearing unbutton shirts? (laughing) - It was never that. - Why is your whistle so much right now? - Quite did that, but it's just like, you know, there were just some like lean years with his business where he's taking trips to one place all the time and we're kinda like, it wasn't enough to like, you're not gonna like, fucking be the one to like blow everything up, but when you just are kind of like, some of this seems weird, but hey, it's their shit, they've always been weird, I don't really fucking care, I benefit from this unit being a thing and even though they fight, keep the house, Bay Area, all right. - I don't wanna overstep my bounty, but I will tell you right now, you would have gotten written out of the will, had you confronted him about side-pussy and alcoholism, where you gonna see it, my youngest is just a fucking dick. - It's fucking dark, I thought this kid was cool. - I get three beers, he's dealing with him in a shark's game, he's telling me he knows about Sheila and fucking Kentucky, and he's like-- - It wasn't to that level, but it was just like, so all this is going on in my life and it's like, I don't go out of my way to make my stand-up about what's going on in my life, but if it's the number one thing I'm thinking about, so then I film this thing and then it's like three months later, we're all on a trip together and he passes away. - On the trip? - Yeah, on the trip. - What do you guys have? - Tahoe, no way. - I like, go down to the beach, you know, I'm chilling at the beach, I'm like ripping drinks, I'm hanging out with friends, get a phone call from my mom, like, you know, something to come back and-- - And what's the whole family together? - Yeah, which was a blessing. - That is nice. - It was a blessing, yeah. - That is nice, but that's like, to ask you just, you know, on a question. - Sure, yeah. - It's Tahoe fucked up for you now. - I, you know, I thought it might be, like we didn't go for a while 'cause we have like a house where we get certain weeks, you know, and it's like-- - Just touchers. - Yeah, we went like a bunch of weeks where we didn't go and then, you know, but when you get a summer week, it's like, well, we're going to Tahoe. - Gotta go to the beach. - And so, went back for the first time and like definitely, definitely was like crying a lot, but it was this weird thing where it's still amazing and I like, there's just like a moment where we're like out at like, on this pier at night, and it's like me, my wife, my brother, his girlfriend, and we're all like standing there, and I just like take a moment like to myself, and I just like, I don't know how to describe it, but I was like, it felt like this like presence of like him being like, like I could feel him in this really like beautiful way, and also kind of heartbreaking. And you start crying, and then like, they're like, you thinking about dad? I'm like, yeah, we all like hug each other, and then we all like look up, and right we look up, just fucking shooting star, and I'm just like, it's like a magical place for me. - That is odd, that's probably the healthiest way. - Yeah. - Like I feel it in a heavier way, but it's like, it's not fucked up, because A, he was, he always didn't want a long pro long shit when shit was going left, and it was going left, and it was like, honestly, exactly how he would've wanted it. - You always question that, where there is a moment where like on a level that we will never comprehend, if like your soul goes, hey, I'm gonna get the fuck out of here. - Yeah, can we just bounce? - And like whoever runs this operation goes. - Yeah, you wanna? - Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's gonna do that. - Well, I just wanna fucking wanna get out, I'm sorry. That end, my legs hurt, I couldn't even get fucked. My side pussy was gone. - Yeah. - And he's like, my fucking side, but what do you want? - I'm like, who's this who? - Whoa, whoa, fuck, that Niners loss of the cheese toss. - Yeah, we don't need that. - Fuck, that is. - One, it's crazy, 'cause also Tahoe was like, where my childhood dog passed away. - No way, what parents did it to him? - My parents told me, it's like where I was conceived, So like I think it's just a spawning portal for my family game. That's like your skin walker ranch All like chill, it's not like honnets like it's like it's like a nice haunt. It's here's a guy now. It's right. Yeah You ever were he haunted it. What's up? Like are you ever worried? He like haunt? He doesn't have the energy to haunt He's not a haunter Listen, I got it. I got a little bit of time for your mom gets up to happen And literally there's just no rules It's like club med. I can do whatever the hell I want because I love you. Go Niners good giants for sharks I'm up here. I'm not gonna haunt. I'll say hi. You want to come out to the lake? I'll say hi You have a couple shooting stars in your hugging your brother. Yeah Yeah, there is that feeling of like because my we stop by it actually It'll come out when we put out the YouTube documentary we drove up to Lake County where my or that's where my dad died and The townhouse my grandma lived in Was the opposite of how you describe Oh, there was like a very heavy like Sadness to it where you're like a ton of bad shit happen in here. I don't know what it is and like Your wife's with you. Yeah your brother and his girlfriend are there on that pier You're having this amazing moment you guys can always go back and go like do you remember that moment with a shooting star and like He was there with us. Katie has been in that townhouse with me and she will be like whatever circle a hell that was It was like it was like Truly a test of the human spirit to be like we're staying here. We slept in this bed. You slept there Well, the last time I ever stayed there she was with me The same bed the last time I saw my dad where my aunt died. His sister died of like cancer Like all was in this room and is at the front of the house where the sun hit it and she turned the AC off at night Oh, and we were there for July 4th, which is a big deal in Lake County and it was 96 degrees in the bedroom by 7 a.m. And Katie and I weren't sleeping so we did like four nights. They're not sleeping and then finally the last night I go I know and it's just like we're not sleeping and this is the room where my dad and my aunt died and Katie goes You didn't tell me how she said there's fucking death room and I was like my dad died at the V.A. Hospital I didn't die here and she was like but still what the fuck cuz it is there's like that energy of like So when we went by and we're filming it because weirdly though really important Why is the AC not on at night brother? Here's also the thing that really I can't do that. I can't do that Joey I used to pay her fucking PG and e-bill. I pay her as you like that. I pay her PG and e-bill for fucking 15 years every month I pay it I swear to God. This is exactly the situation she's dead to and we'll talk about the dead on this. Yeah, but The first night we can't sleep the second night everyone's going to bed my cousin and her daughter staying at the hotel that's got fucking Their rooms like 62 degrees and my grandma's going to bed and I go nana We keep the AC on tonight and she goes PG knee is charging so much now. They're spiking it and I go well, how about your grandson hooks you up this month Pays a little bit extra so he can sleep with air conditioning. It's exactly how I said it. Yeah, not an overbearing way I went like how much of grandson hooks you up. Yeah, he's a little bit extra this month so we can and she goes don't do this And then just walked away and then went on her little fucking thing that went up the stairs Katie had such a funny idea that I blew she was like in the morning when she comes down. You should play the Kiss Me song She called with the bullet train, which was funny. That is funny. She just shot me down. She goes don't do this But you go Fuck you. That's where I freak out because I'm like I literally won't sleep. Well, so I can't sleep all night. I'm gonna freak out That dude 97 dude we were checking the degrees in the room where it like but when the next time we went back I told her I go hey, I'm not staying at your house anymore and she was like why and I go I don't know you're you're you're you're going to bed at 7 p.m You're up at 7 a.m. With the view at like pinned at like 89 volume. I go and you don't let me use the AC she goes you can use the AC and I go It's too late. Don't do this. So I just stay I just stay at the fucking Skylar. I'm like dude. I'm down to Skylar. It's way better It actually improves the family dynamics sometimes to not be that fucking close hundred percent. Yeah, hundred percent The last and then the last time I went we would leave and Katie and I would go into that hotel or we'd be like Thank God we're going to back the porch and smoke a joint. Yeah, thank God because dude and I would stay with her I didn't want to smoke weed at her place. Everything feels disrespectful. You're less comfortable and you're afraid of everything Yes, yeah, so one time I drove around and I smoked joint, which you shouldn't do I don't do it anymore, but I drove around smoking a joint. That's kind of awesome though. I called Katie Yes, but I I came back and like a haunting scene She had a townhouse that had like a little courtyard or whatever and I opened it in the doors open and she's in her old lady pajamas Going where did you go and I'm high as fucking. I go over a little drive in my man I was like where and I went I drove around. What's it to you? I go? I'm an adult That's what I said to her and she goes I know I just didn't know where you went and I went I went for a drive And then you were upstairs. I was like, well that killed my God. Oh my God. You don't expect her to be waiting for you Like a ghost. Are these stories in the documentary now? We just drove up we drove up and just basically filmed where my dad and because you know I had such good memories of Mill Valley. Yeah, and then when they moved up to Lake County shit went sideways. Yeah Very fast. I don't where is Lake County? You know where you kayak is up on the 101 even the name of it You can kind of it sounds like the name of a place in like a haunted movie. So it's so funny It's shout out if this guy ever sees this clip, but I went into the Starbucks. I told you the story I fact I think it's in the document what we filmed, but I've talked a lot of shit about Lake County I've been very vocal about it. Yeah about just where my family died. That's the only reason I dislike it It's actually a beautiful place. I bet I yes and the people there have been nothing but nice to me Yeah, but I've talked a lot of shit. Yeah, because I've been mad and upset about it There's a safe way there that has a Starbucks. We're driving around we stop at the Starbucks Sagalaw and I are inside at the Starbucks and this fucking guy is shopping at the Safeway and he sees me and he goes Dance 100 and I go, what's up? He goes what are you doing in Lake County? You've talked so much shit about Lake County and I go that is true. You're gonna do anything about it and he goes No, he goes. I just wanted to know and then Sagalaw will walk it back to the car. He goes you got real Lake County I don't know and you're ready to go. Yeah, I was like yeah, what's up? I've said some shit, but the guy was so cool He's so cool. You could do anything about it is crazy. Yeah, I mean, it was I was like that's what I said I think I say it and the thing where I go he made me go like County. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah Where are you talking shit about it? I go and maybe learn what about what if I was yeah, you want to defend this? Yeah, that's good of you Kaya the second poorest County in California. Is that what it is? Yeah, dude It's fucking while they ignore their northern California is it's people have a lot of misconceptions everyone who hasn't spent much time in California thinks the entire state is L.A. They think that they think everyone's blue hair. Yeah, they don't have they're not I think it's a mix of like L.A. and Oakland and you're like brother go to Lake County. It is Appalachia in California. Yeah, so Only way I can describe it and by the way They'll tell you when they're there. They're like oh, this is really nice. It's like really beautiful Yeah, it's like Lake for the fourth. I bet but but but but you see some of the people and you go this place is a problem. Yeah I took her up there when that same triple. We couldn't sleep or it was hot out. Yeah, I took her to we were going to my grandma's friend's house Who weren't there? So we were like half breaking in half using it because it's on the lake and we want to watch the fireworks I take her to this gas station that's out of the way to get bags of ice or whatever and Fucking Massachusetts, you know, and I mean like she's and I came back and she was like this might be the scariest place I've ever been And I was like what do you mean and she goes the way they look at you is I can only describe it as violent Like the way that people look at you are like like what the fuck you like? I don't know because it's small Small right so they don't recognize you. You're wearing different clothes. It's a little messy. I would imagine a very messy You know, that's the truth. Yeah, don't act like you don't know that's true. Yeah, they used to have meth shacks blowing up when I'd go visit my dad There'd be like fires up in the fucking woods because people a meth shack blew up. Yeah, yeah, it's built for meth Yeah, that place is built for meth It's like also if you do smoke meth clean it up a little because yeah, yeah, meth culture really it's the opposite of wine culture You know that lake life because your but Tahoe is like the successful Tahoe is nice like that's like rich like life when you get like poor lake life Yeah, the people that live at Tahoe though are probably very similar to the people that live in Lake County Yeah, no, the people who live at Tahoe year-round that are getting like squeezed out by a billionaire is like ninth home Yeah, now they're like living in like trucky and then like driving into Tahoe so that they can you know observe Yeah, coconut shrimp to a billionaire shitty kid or something. They're not - That's not so pumped. - That's what I did. - Tahoe's very nice, but yeah, there's-- - But like, almost imagine Lake County to me is like, imagine Lake Tahoe if it never took off. - Yeah. - 'Cause I think that's what it was built for. That's why my grandma retired there. - Yeah. - Because in the fucking '60s, they were like, come to Lake County. You can go, you know, water skid. - Yeah. - Some of the best bass fishing in the world. And then there's just no, it's just like, rich people bought some homes up there, but it didn't take like the way like Tahoe's like, Tahoe. - Yeah. - It's got like a, yeah. So it's just, it's wild. - Yeah, Tahoe's gotten to the point where it's like taken off like too much. - Yes. - Like a lot of, I think-- - That's like Aspen. In Colorado, you saw Aspen become this thing where you're like, it's so gone. - It's just, it's gone too. - It's like, it goes from, there's this little level of like, oh, it's nice and nice is good. And that requires some momentum. But then it just becomes like, okay, billionaires are buying up all the houses on the Nevada side. In case California does like a billionaire tax, so they can just live and you know, it's a hedge. It's just a hedge. - Always good people, always super nice. - Always super chill, always make super cool kids. They definitely appreciate everything they have. But I will say this and you know, I know I just spiritually county a lot, but one of the nice parts, rocking a Niners hat. - Yeah. - You get to go Niners. - You get to get that. - Or a Giants, they, you know, they go. They talk, they go, all right, well, this guy's got Giants hat on. This guy's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Or you can go like, fucking bonds with deep to go. Very bonds with deep. Do I watch the guy bike up to a gas station with work boots? Wearing a JT snow jersey? And like, and it's like clearly messed out of his mind. Open shirt, nothing under it. Old JT snow jersey and I was like, I can be friends with this guy. - Yeah. - I could find something to talk about. I'd be like, one of the best first basements we ever had. And he'd be like, god damn right. - Yeah. I'm so bay-pilled that I forget that it's not as awesome to other people as to me. Like, I went to, I did, but I was like, you know, I was on tour somewhere and then I was flying to L.A. And my, like, my manager's company, they do Gabriel Iglesias. So they were doing like a fluffy like after party for selling out SoFi. - Oh hell yeah. - You know, so I was like, oh, fuck and come to that, dude. So I just like hop off the plane. I like put on a Giants hat and I pull up. And I was like, oh, I forget. This is dolier's country. - Oh yeah. - Like multiple business like Mariachi band, like Taco Trucks and like multiple people came up and they're like, how about I throw that fucking hat in the trash. - Yeah, bro. - And you know what I say to you? - Fuck the Dodgers. - That's what I said too. I was like, yeah, fuck you. - It's not even real. - Oh yeah, all of a sudden you guys got seven billion and you're spending it on everybody. - Yeah. - Fuck you. - Yeah. - Fuck the Dodgers. - It has ruined baseball. - Yeah, fuck the Dodgers. - Yeah. - What's funny is, I forget where we're at. Oh, we're in South Carolina at the Tires premiere and someone was like talking about, it was like someone that worked for either Netflix or a company and they were like, "Wow, live in LA." Like the Dodgers and I was like in the SUV with them and I was like, "Fuck the Dodgers." She was like, "I know, but I like their stadium." I go, "It smells like shit." It was built in a ravine and they're like, "Okay, she just could see I wasn't dropping it." And she was like, "Okay." And Katie was like, "Sometimes you don't need to be "as loud as you are." - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - You don't need to be as loud as you are. And I'm like, "I am a Giants fan, fuck the Dodgers." It's the best. It is the best. Watch Joey's special, the link is below. Joey Avery's on tour all over the place. - Yep, check me out. It's a brand new hour, so fully different from the special. - JoeyAvery.com. - Right there. - That's AVORY.com. JoeyAvery.com, he's hilarious. And as always, go Niners. And go Giants. 'Cause when we turn around. - And go Sharks too. Come on. - I never got into him. I'm a Bruins guy. - Get into it now. - Bruins guy. - Brooklyn Celebrini, we have the future. - No, this is my Lincoln Dahaki. My dad tried with the Sharks, then he died. So that's where they're-- - That's on him. - And then I had the avalanche in Colorado. - Yeah, yeah. - But then I gave up on them 'cause I wasn't in a hockey. But now Boston Bruins. - Okay. - 'Cause Katie-- - Miss it out. - Dude, Katie's, I didn't know about East Coast hockey families. - Yeah. - Like how we are about the Niners. - Yeah. - That's how they are about the Bruins. - Yeah. - I don't have a dog in the fight. Go bees. - Yeah, go Sharks. - Yeah. (upbeat music)