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was up. You bad motherfuckers. Uncle Joey here. It's Tuesday, September 15th, the halfway mark. It's the church that was happening now. New addition. I'm here with my main man, Johnny Hitler, fresh off the Saratoga comedy circuit. He's like one of those dogs up there. You know what I'm saying? Was the dog track open? No, that horse track is open like three weeks a year. Wow. That's good. You make a part of that. Let's go to the track at four. Yeah, that would be fun. Damn, Chad. I was the Saratoga comedy fest. It was great. It was a lot of fun. I had a lot of fun with other comics. I all of our guys were there. Danny Braff was there. Pedro was there. Tim Rager from from Uncle Vinnie's was there. I got to see. I learned a lot. I got to see Bobby Kelly, who's one of my favorites. That's a couple of people from Austin. It's like one of the first times I've been asked the second time I've been asked to do a festival. So just it was just very cool to do. I've been I love that. I don't know. I'm sure this happened when you were doing when you were starting. I've gone up to Saratoga probably 15 times in the last three or four years. So like I know the area a little bit. I know the restaurants. The people. Trust me. Oh, trust me. Yeah. I know where the horses that lose are. Yeah. Yeah. That was it. That restaurant saw you know everything. But it was it was a lot of fun, dude. It was I heard you had a wild and exciting night last night. Yeah, but let's get back to the second question. There's the most important thing you do those. You know, some people like, well, it was the experience was mind-blogged and some people like, I'll never do it again. So it's interesting what you learned. Like you just said that you watched Danny Kelly and Kylie Canaine and Bobby Kelly. I'm sorry. Yeah. It was them. It's to see the difference, you know, because there were there were like newer comics there that I've done it for a little bit longer than, but then to see like Bobby Kelly went to his show pretty much ended the festival. And just to see how he starts off with crowd work and how he weave in and out and look just basically the confidence. So for me, there was a few people I got to see. A few of the bigger shows I went to go watch. I learned I learned a lot about putting a show together. And like a 45 minute set. No, well, I meant like producing like producing a show, like what you need the lineups. And then you have building a set too. I was actually I was thinking about that. Because like I had I had an epiphany about one of my jokes. I'm like, why am I doing it in this order? It doesn't make sense in that order. And like I I did I had I did three shows. Some of them had more people than others, but it was fun. And we were talking about this a couple of weeks ago. I think about people who like get all high in my deal about doing a show for like five people. I had two shows with about five people. And there were some of my favorite shows I've had. They were great. We do Wednesdays of the dojo for 40 people. And it's like you're at the garden. Yeah. You connect a little bit more with them. There's least people. There's less energy in the room because there's, uh, you know, you're 40 people. So it's a harder draw. But once you get on a roll, it's a different type of roll. 40 is where I learned at the store. That's, you know, that's why I'm I'm big going up at the store like any other young comment. I went down there and there was nothing, you know, there was eight people and fucked. First off, like Brian Holtz, we wouldn't tell them he goes, you don't, you don't want to do your set at midnight for six people. Put a sign outside. You're going to get 300 signatures. To be you now, you don't want to do it. And I made a lot of sense. And that's why I really learned how to work small crowds into big crowds. Yeah. That's why whenever I go to the mothership, or that's why we all fell in love with that room in Pasadena. Oh, the ice house, the ice house, the little room. Yeah. We could have done shows in the big room. But the way to learn this little style of comedy, because you're always doing 200 theaters. Right. It's nice to get back to reality and see what it feels like to work a room with 50 people. And I like it when they don't even know you're going to show up. Yeah. And you go up and you don't even know you're going to show up. The difference is no one's plus and people are excited. But if you show up a place, the people like, oh my god, Jolly's here. But the whole thing I'm getting to is like those little room, like I love the belly room. The belly room till this day is where I became a full fledged comedian. It happened December of 99. After eight years of doing comedy, a wing up blown up my ass. They left the door open. And that was the first time I was slowed down. There was small audience. And I had all the time in the world because you're used to looking at the clock at the comedy store. You know, 18 minutes, you don't want to run over. You want to be professional. Right. And that was the first time. I'm believing that stays that night. And there was like a little after party. A bunch of my friends were there. My ex-girlfriend was there. This is way before Terry. And I remember that out of all the nights, I didn't get high that night. Wow. Because I was so overwhelming. What I took from the stage. But anyway, you know, but you didn't need to get like you were just so happy. I was so you didn't need to get happy. But I kicked the wall down. But I learned not to rush. Yeah. To slow it to fuck down. Let them hear you word and absorb it. And then you start learning backwards. This all happened at the nine year level. Right. So what does that tell you? You're doing it for nine, you know, this is a long time, nine year level. And then I would go in and out of that guy. Right. You used to be frustrating and tell you how to pinpoint this motherfucker down. This particular spirit that was dwindling a speedy top model. Yeah. I've finally got them down. That's what we are today. It was all because of that night. The belly room was a storytelling show. It was the first night. Wow. It was a story. Were you storytelling at that point? No, you don't joke. No, I was I was a fan of the vagina monologues. Right. Yeah. I remember when I was a big and I wanted to switch it for men. So I called it in a physical testament. And that's how it started. Go up there and tell a story about a rough situation. And I had some great people go up there and tell. In fact, I learned that the darker the secret was the bigger reaction they got to it. You know, when a star goes up on stage and tells the story, how you got a dental procedure. And he didn't know he got to eat antibiotics or those things probiotics. This is 30 years ago. He had no idea. Right. He kept popping the paint pills and he had to take a shit with a nail clipper. Stuck up his ass to break up the shit. And you say it on stage and you're also on a weekly television show on Fox. Yeah. It hits harder. You know, yeah. The other guy told the story of how he got busted drinking Nike in Canada. That's hard. That's when I learned that sometimes you got to dig that shit up. I'd rather say it before they find out on the side. So let me tell a real audience of what the fuck I just did. They taught that's when I really learned, wow, the darker the secret, the more they fucking like it. Yeah. Anybody could go up there and go, Hey, man, I fucked my chick for eight hours. She never she caught me golden dick. Yeah. Yeah. But go up there and tell people that you come in 13 seconds. Yeah. And now you don't know what to do. She calls you. Mr. Shorty, you know, all the fuck all these shit people appreciate it because there's going to be 10 guys in the audience that are going through that exact same thing. And they just exposed it now on the way home. Their girlfriends looking at them where he was talking about you. How does he know if I mean, you know, you're telling you. So it's very interesting where all this shit happens. And that's why I love when I go to a mothership, I don't get in a big room unless I do them. Just not worth it to me. Yeah. I got a 50/50 shot if I go up there straight. I'm telling you, this is a professional. If I get up on stage before I go in the big room, it's like a 90 percent. It raises the percentages. Yeah. She starts dancing. You get where you get that. Yeah. That's it. You're on an evening. That's it. But that first set, after not getting on stage, this last Wednesday at the dojo, it sucks dick. Yeah. It's just fucking sucks, you know? Yeah. Friday night started great. My brother came up from Delaware. Oh, we did? Yeah. We made high because it's just to put the whole one of the things together. And we went up to the geodano benefit. It was 25 years. I don't know if you guys know the story about a North Bergen kid that was working. What was he working, Joyce? What authority police and the day 9/11, he went out, he kept going in and out of building, bringing somebody and he went in, he eventually died, something happened in the rubble. Chris Amaroso. And you know, for years, they've been inviting me, but honest to God, I felt like a hypocrite. I didn't know the kid. But he only go down there and say, well, I know the kid that he's a great kid. So I always felt that I thought about him like, wait a second, it's not that I know him. It says from the same street that I am. And for him to do something like that, that shows where how kind that we were raised. So I became very proud. And this year, somebody called and said it would be nice. If I made the parents, I didn't hesitate. I said, yes. And what I did, I'm sorry, but your friends show at the stand. I don't know if he can't do it. Yeah, I'm not sure. Yeah, how was the benefit? The benefit. Listen, it was a benefit. I didn't have to go on stage. But you know what, the last couple of months, it's been life spent everywhere. And it's kind of nice to see the people. you came up with. And when I walked in, first got a gave me a hug with Jackie Cadillac. That's therapy for me. Then Mike Adler, that's therapy for me. These are people I've known for 40 years walking around and them calling me a spick or whatever. And then I saw, you know, I'd come and I saw a guy to basketball and I saw a bunch of people that I knew that were my friends before I told a stupid joke. So it always makes you feel I saw a Georgia's ex-wife, which is like my sister. You know, I was just telling Georgia guilty. I feel it. I'm up every Monday. I don't even stop in there for Rosebeap sandwich because that biscuit cook when it comes to Rosebeap. So, you know, it just makes you remind the way you came from. Yeah. On the way there, I got rear-ended by a black guy from Pennsylvania, like one of those French brothers, Johnny Patois, to that car. You've had more accidents in that car than I think any other car you've had combined. It's been unfocking, believable. The amount of accidents I've had when she was getting hit by a baseball. Oh, I forgot that. Stopped in short in front of me. The only car in the fucking field. And that's exactly the ball landed right in the middle of my windshield shot to my fucking head. What is your, what is your, what is the dealership say when they say, when they say, you coming up, Joey. Oh, my God. Here we go. 100 now. So now, I don't know what I'm going to do because if I keep the car, it's a bad luck car. But in the reality of things, I'm the bad luck. I've always been bad luck with cars. My foot is heavy. I can't see out my right eyes. I'm always like, get a new car. I'm like, no, because I'm just going to keep dent in them. What is this? You buying my smash? It's the story of my fucking life. When I was a kid, nobody was buying them for me that. But my wife has to go down and do the paperwork now because she knows all about that shit. I don't know how to buy nothing. So I'm like, no, why buy a new car? Let's fix that up and keep, you know, let's fucking. Just stop fixing it up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Some rims on it or something, but just start wearing a helmet in there. You know, I'm like, I know the worst is going to come. So, but even in the middle of all that, I wasn't aggravated. I took the guy's pictures. You know, the guy was trying to slow-doke me. And then on the top of all this, the construction guys are doing construction. They all came over to take pictures in the middle of my fucking heart. And then we got here. Fuck that dude. We got here. We'll call the cops in your behalf. And I'm like, guys, guys, guys, there's too much. They're like, Joey Diaz is that you? I'm like, yeah, I just got rear ended. Give me a fucking minute. They didn't give a fuck. They started climbing the walls and taking pictures and shit. That's funny. I get to the thing. I see all these people. And it is, he's women. Oh, I've read dresses on. One pretty and the other. I never saw anything like that. I thought they were Republicans. I'm like, these chicks are Republicans. But they would add to honor the EMTs and stuff. But there was one girl when I started talking to her. I just, I asked somebody, I go, why is all these women dressed and red and the girl must have heard me start talking to the girl was 23 years old. And it was the best conversation I had all night. Why would he just graduate college? Her dad's a cop. He owns a, you know, a don't drone company where they shoot movies and shit like that. Nice. So I told him I would hook him up with Nick. The father was dead. He took pictures of us. It was fucking great. Just to see what my daughter's going to be like in 10 years. Yeah. That's crazy. She graduates. She's in mental health. You know, so I was me, her Jackie Camel, Jackie Camel's wife. My table was banging. I had both runnies, Jackie Camel, Jackie's wife. And like I said, I gave Jackie my number and I go, there is no reason in the world why you don't have my number. You should be able to call me. If you did anything, we should be able to be connecting at least once a month. So it was really nice. Then we got home and I fucking went to sleep. But last night was the night track. I drank two of those fucking energy drinks and I took like 10 or 15 of those dads. And I played fucking GTA with Carlitos three in the fucking morning. We jumped on at 10 o'clock, like 10 to 10. We jumped on and something like that. And we, there was one mission. I'm so stupid. Because you have to keep shooting, right? And every time I switch weapons, the guy would press the alarm to the to the bank. I must have done that 15 fucking times. This is what I was talking about. Pedro was here. Like that, that's a real video game night when you're like, when you look up at 3.30, you're like, fuck, I have to be up at nine in the morning. It's, yeah, twice in the last week. Like I stayed up till three with those motherfuckers fucking around. I'm an old man. Yeah. I can't be staying up. I can't get off either. No, because I am laughing so fucking hard. And so much. It's amazing that this little fucking thing. That's a dick thing. And it's probably bad for you. And I'm an old man and all this shit. But still it brings me so just I play if I play seven hours a week. I don't think it's I think I burned that. Yeah. Seven hours a week at 63. I burned that. You've started for the last 20 years. You got a spot to that. I'm gonna stay here and play fucking Nintendo. Whatever the fuck it is. I would love if Terry called and was like, Joey says not going on the road anymore. He says just going to play Grand Theft Auto. No, that wouldn't happen. But it's it's a lot of it. And I think it's better for you than like social media or at least you're doing something. They have college courses about it now. Guys, I play a little bit. I read a book. Yeah. For a while. You know, nights finish playing Grand Theft Auto. I put everything away. I take my nighttime medication, my sleep medication. I turn the TV off and get and I just pull a book. Nice. And I say, I'm going to read a chapter on something that I've never heard about before. I read the thing twice. I don't know what the fuck they're saying, which is exactly my point just to get me because if not, you go to bed. And you got those Grand Theft Auto dreams. You're stabbed to people. You're running over your friends and shit. That's not funny. And I started sleep with a mouthpiece. Takes my sleep to the next level. Really? Yeah. It's for my teeth. Okay. But this thing has been I pop it in 11. I don't wake up to pee to four. Is it for breathing or what do you? It's for fucking my teeth. So they don't fall out. He's don't grind. Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. You know, it doesn't just sends me bills. I don't even know. I just can't. And they tell me to come pick up a mouthpiece. Do you get? Have you started when you're driving around? Do you ever see like one of those trucks with a ramp where they can we wait like they'd tow car or they're not towed, but they like have a bunch of cars in Grand Theft Auto. You can drive up and then jump off. And you think about it when you're actually driving in real life. I never had that. No, I see what you say. Yeah. I would drive by things. I'm like, oh, I could jump over that right now. And it's and it's I'm excited for when you get six. Cuz six. I can't. I'm not allowed to get it. I've banned myself from it because it's you're going to have a girlfriend in the game. You're going to go crazy with that. You're going to you when the cops find you, you have to go change your clothes now. It's a lot of it's it's it's gonna be crazy. I'm gonna say, do you have a guy night that you do it or you wouldn't call you just do whenever you want to do it? I call he cooks on Monday nights. That's her main thing Monday night. She cooks. And they're pretty good recipes too. I watch them sometimes. I'm like, I'll put it on if there's none going on the house on Monday nights. Yeah. And I'm writing. It's just in the background. But I'll hear shit. And I'm like, I didn't know about that about meat. You know, like stupid shit. So she's going to get together with chef Brad. Nice. Yeah. And November Brad's going to be doing some twitches, right? Yeah. He did one with us. He's busy. You know, but I'm thinking he does his own. Yes. He does his own. I did a Twitch with Pedro. If you go to Pedro's Twitch, I'd like two in the morning while we were doing tequila shots and like dancing in this bar in Saratoga, Danny Braff was putting on songs from laymas or up to get people to get out of the bar. It was we had twitches fun. And that's what I want to feel here. I want you to go up there and that's what you're hanging in the comics. You're there. They can't get away from you. It's like a weekend in Philadelphia when it's me, you and the opener, right? You know, and it's even sucks to stay in your hotel room at daytime, because they're doing something. You know, I also did the Seattle comedy. Yeah. Yeah. That's a big one. And I also did. And that was really good. But they were on a grand scale. The one that live nation did with all the stars. Hardball. Hardball. And then they did the festival in the back with Brody and some show over here. And I'm going to stay in like a year Brody. I can't get attention people. That was pretty good. And I love Seattle was my first camaraderie style weekend for comedy. And we were like a month, right? Isn't Seattle in a long time? Yeah. It's four weeks, five days a week. But then I'm a weekend. You're there. So we used to go to fucking games and go to Hikes and go to something not landish in Seattle. Yeah. And it becomes like a bombing thing. And you like, this was fun. And you pick up a couple weeks of work your life. I'm going to check. I met a lot. I met. Yeah. I didn't meet him. I've known this dude for years. But the booker from the Providence where Allen Club was there because he's also a comic. But he books the features in the host. So but I saw him. I haven't seen him in forever. So I'm going to go down there soon. That was great. I had actually a really good comedy week last week. I did my spots. But then I went and saw a burr headlined at Gotham. I'd never been to Gotham and I hadn't been in like 15 years. That was really cool. I saw Keith. Fuck at the black dude Robinson. He even though he had two strokes and passed out the night that night at the club and they had to call an ambulance. He still went on stage, destroyed. And then the next night I went to the garden for the 9/11 thing. Probably the back show I've ever been to really it was just I for I have a little bit of a it's not a crush, but I love John Stewart John Stiffer Jew. And especially comedy fan, he opened it up fantastic. I can Nate Bargazzi, Ronnie Chang, Josh Johnson, Chappelle Hart Gillis, what's the, the lady from the Golden Globes, Nikki Glazer, it was probably the like the most stacked show I've ever been to, but it was I didn't realize, and it sounds crazy to say this, but I didn't really realize how big 9/11 was around here, because like I was in Massachusetts, it was a big deal, but it sort of kind of went away to death for after 25 years to have they had they had cops and paramedics and all those people bring up for what's the guys name he was on SNL. He also ran that night Pete Davidson. I know like they the firefighters and cops would kill for that guy that it was just they everyone was happy. The whole place was was packed and it was to see it made me realize how far I have to go in comedy to see a line like that lineup should never exist. And like it's the best lineup I've ever seen. And just to see and to see it was interesting to see Bergo from doing an hour the night before for 200 people to then how he transferred it and did it at the garden. It was a it was a fun that was a fun show. You learned some. Yeah. And it was it made me like I have who knows if they'll it would even be happening or a flavor. But like being at that show at the garden, I was like I want to I want to I want someone to ask me to do this someday, maybe for the 50th anniversary of nine, like whatever it is, like I want to be. I got it would just just to be asked to do a show like that would be like okay, I fucking made it. It was a crazy fucking night. That was that was wild. I had never seen Shane live before. Nikki Glazer was the only woman on the show and she killed it. It was a fucking cool night. It was a fucking really cool night. Good. So you had the festival after that. Yeah. So you got to practice and steal the jokes and practice on the side. Oh, I did that all the territory. I did. I did Shane Gillis's and Nikki Glazer's jokes all know weekend. But that was awesome. Well, I'm happy you had a good weekend. You know I'm happy that the comedy. You got to like I said, those festivals, you have to go up there with an open heart, absorb like a sponge and then go back and then you start making your decisions. You know, and anytime you could be with comics for a weekend, then you usually don't see and meet your friends. Yeah. You know, it's a lot of fucking fun to do, you know. It was great, man. Education. Now I got to go to Austin tomorrow. You excited and move I am very excited for this. I'm very excited to get it over with you. You know anything about me? I'm one of those guys. I just like getting it over with, you know, I want to go down there. I got to pick up some box rings tomorrow. I got to pick up some furniture. I got to pick up a fucking TV to hang up in the wall. I'm going to have to pick up another little computer. And I start to scratch the girls want to come down for Christmas. Leave on the 27th. And how long are you going to be down there for this trip? This trip is just five days. Okay. I'll back next Saturday. And then I go back again on the 13th. Okay. And that's when October 15th is the first big, big show this week's in the little room. But October being the big room. The joy he has in the friends. Yeah. November being the big room and December being the big room. And then I think in December, I do that. I do a Thursday in Tulsa. And then I got the theater in Houston and Sugarland. And then from now, I'm just going to go to Austin and stay down there until the 21st or the 22nd. Come back to Christmas and go right back down there with the girls. Nice. So far. Maybe those change of mine and go to Nashville. And I'll sit at home and watch daytime television. And you're not starting over. But like this, like what does it feel like? Because it's like you're kind of star. 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I do not want to shoot a special for YouTube. I don't want to shoot a special at all. The name of my tour for the remaining of the fucking 18 is I didn't get the memo tour, because I don't, I just don't give a fuck anymore. I just want to be funny. I don't want to be a corporate comedy anymore. I don't want any of that association with Netflix. Not because they're bad. It's just mental health for me at this age. I don't want to live there. You want me to do this? And then do it Netflix, but I don't need that. Right. Anyone else on your doing a special on YouTube at the back of the boat, I don't want to do that. Right. I'm saying I don't want to do that. So before I do all that shit, I just want to do comedy, become really funny, put together some really good material about what's going on in my life. There's no more crimes in my life. There's no more nothing. I'm just trying to raise the door to get healthy, to stretch out a few years. That's what's going on in my life. It's not the lifestyle I had, even though I know more. No, very sorry. Are you planning on doing 10 spots a week? When I'm down there. Yeah. Nine. Okay. My goal is to do like three on Tuesday, two on Wednesday, and then do my show, and then shoot over to the sun set on Thursday nights and close it out. I read bands, fried out, take the night off, maybe get a dinner, smoke some pot, and then Saturday, fuck, and come home. Right. I just don't like the flight. I got to leave it 10 on land in North at 347. Ooh. So the only earlier flight is fucking seven. I got to be there a quarter of six. You're not awake and you're in an airport with a thousand fucking hippies. I think I tacos. They got tacos. Good tacos. Didn't they? And then that's it. I just got to figure out a couple angles. I know it's going to be a lot of work. People I enjoy you don't have to fly. I know that. But I told you, I came up with a scam for flying. It works for me, the wheelchair. Yeah. They bored me on the plane first, which is what I like. So I got to eat my edible and get my water. And I'm going to give you a shot. So I'm 65 and then reevaluate. Who knows? Maybe I won't. Maybe people won't come to my shows no more. But that's a reality. I'm preparing myself for instead of people saying, hey, you're not selling tickets no more. You got to feel like an idiot. Once that happens, I'll shut everything down to a smaller degree. And what I want to happen when I'm 65 is just to do a couple fucking, you know, emergencies. I can do a residency. Any casino on Vegas doesn't have to be big. Doesn't have to be small. Give me 200 seats. Yeah. One Saturday a month. I could do it there. I can do a casino. You know, I'm always welcome in Philadelphia. So I'm just winding it down backwards with no expectations. The only expectations is what I put into this. The next. You're gonna have a team month, you're 17 months. So that's what I'm at. I'm excited for you. It's because you haven't done this level of spots in like six years. Even in LA, you were working, but you would do like, what, tonight do we get the store? Yeah. Something like that. So this is, do you have like, I'm sure I know you were like, obviously writing and taking notes. But do you, are you building in your head an hour and like working off of that? Or are you just saying whatever makes you laugh? And then you'll take it to the stage building little by little. Now I got some topics that are really working. I've tried them both the last two weeks about my family. And what's going on at the house? I had to break down a little bit more. What it's like to have a 13 year old, especially when you're a 63 year old man that got my background. Right. So I had to break that down the material and listen. It feels like I've been doing this again with you guys for two and a half years. The first year I was just moping along. The second year I had a little bit more focus, focus. And now I feel like I'm at the place where I want to be. I can maintain that this level. I can maintain that. For me to tell you guys, I'm going to go on the road every week. I have a fifth week. I'm going to cancel. I'm going to cancelations. I'm going to start. I like what I'm doing now. And I could do this. You know, I feel bad for like when a comedian that's 44 does what I'm doing. At the end of those 18 months, yes, let's start all over again. I don't have to do that anymore. I can lay out my cards now and just go for broken. I'll be happy. Hopefully I'll get a like a recurrent TV show. But I'm not counting on it. Well, you said you don't want to have to restart. But you restart yourself every three months. Anyways, like you make it harder than yourself than the 44 year old. I'm going to do, I'm going to work my Patreon again. I fucking love. I'm loving what I'm doing on GTA. I got a good relationship with Patreon. I just need to get back on. I've been going on there every night. Even the fucking videos look like shit. Like when I do a live stream, they look terrible. They look fuck. I can't make this. If I put the camera here, it gets my side of that over here. I got a wig going in shit. So it's just too much. So I got a finger somehow. The big story this weekend is, this is your last episode. It's a church man. It is. And it made a lot of sense when you came down last Tuesday like a man. And we spoke. You said something that lingered and you were like 14 years ago, Joey. You know, you were 28 then. You were 24. No, 22. 22 right out of the college. You know, you had never smoked weed out of a coke can before. No, barely done anything. I thought about it. I'm like, you know what man? It's time for Lee to break his wings anyway. I've been talking. Dude, it's been a, we talked a lot and I've been talking to a lot of people. It's crazy. It's just, I was 20. Yeah. I met you 15 years ago. We just been doing the podcast for 14. I fought you about being on the podcast. I had no interest in being on the podcast. And I'm almost 40 years old now. I'll be, I'll be 40 in a year and a half. And I fought you about doing, I don't know if you remember this. Because Dice was the one who was like, hey, you should try it. I asked you what if I should try stand up. You're like, I don't think so. And like now I, I, I, I meet these people out there. And I, and I've been working on stand. It's. I would have never have guessed this is where my life would have been. And it's, it's sad that a chapter is, is closing. But another one is open. Yeah. And I was, I was thinking about like when we left L.A. Like I, it was a lot. We thought it was closed. We thought it was, we thought it was closed. And it also happened very quickly, which can like kind of like throw you for a loop. Like we, like COVID happened. I didn't know I was moving till month before. I mean, no, no, no, I'm not blaming you. It's just quick. You want one day you call me like, we're moving to Jersey. And then you're like, ah, you don't want to move to fucking the middle of Jersey. Oh, you're a young guy. Go get some pussy. And it was, I ended up losing all that weight. And I'm far from a headliner. I'm not. I have a few headlining dates in my future. But I'm just excited. I'm excited to see what happens. You got sold. And in, in Tampa, 57, you've been asleep a lot. I'm so excited. Motherfucker eight times a day. I know. He's a refresh. Watch that. More than eight to the rest. You're shit. Oh, yeah. And so I'll take it the last two hours. Then you make a video of you tap dancing Lee from my perspective. This is, let me lay it on you. This is very special. And this is very special tonight. You grew up in front of a camera. Mm-hmm. You grew up the last 15 years. You always doing videos with me and Wiggling and jumping up and down. What we did at the time was fucking hard to do. I mean, I feel bad for people who start a podcast now. That's a real torture. We did it. We figured it out with no education. We were just working off for what I saw. Rogan Duke, Arola Duke, this guy Duke. And we put our thing together. Listen for about eight years. We were doing great numbers. We were doing a YouTube crisis and the fucking numbers and this. But the whole time it's been a great experience. And I thank you because you put me in the limelight with these podcast. Listen, you could have. There's no people on the set. Everybody wants to. Everybody's a producer. Nobody knows how to do shit. I love when people go, I'm a producer. I produce shows. Take three people. If you look at it in that perspective. If you look at it when you get to the show, what this guy did. He put the ukulele player in the first and this and that. There's an art to it. There's an art to everything. We didn't know where we were going with a podcast. We had no idea. Remember the first two years I was taking a beating because I was reading ads every day. And they're only paying us once a month. You know, we had no idea. We had no idea. Everybody else had their ideas and their advice. And we just kept doing what we were doing. We were the first ones to take action on the live podcast. You know, I think I'm going to be the only one. We did some crazy shit. We took chances. Yeah. I knew that my lungs were the strongest thing on me at that point. And I thought I'm used them Jack. Yeah. I mean. I want you to go away, but I also want you to do something. You have to promise me that you're going to have to do the documentary on this. The episode, you got to put up the episode when you're puke, you know, all those little behind the scenes, little things. You know what, should we, should we finally tell them what people, he said the episode where I puke, the lean outer space, people always that, how many milligrams, there were no, that was four drops of liquid acid. And ACDC or whatever, whatever was on the happy pills. We went deep that night. Oh my god. That's why I told Fiona, feel on the podcast that time. I said, that podcast almost killed me. The fucking out of the lay of that, the months that came after it, I was just defrosting from being frozen for fucking eight years now, like we read netables. We were both putting away a thousand milligrams. Cause I was just picking up your house and throwing shit in your mouth. Yeah. We were drinking some like our kidneys are definitely going to go first. We were drinking that hundred milligram tube that tastes like Kool-Aid. A little science tube. Oh, no, the worst ones were the chocolate bars, the moon bars. Those tasted, you always went on, it tastes good. I don't know how I couldn't get it down. It tasted like that. It tasted like fine. I could tell you the case like that. Thank you for finally admitting it. I'm agreeing with you that who cares what they taste like. You're going to see a double. You're going to need to ask for two minutes to live a lifetime of being high. That's a great mismatch. If that really is a lifetime of being. But I don't understand if you know what you did. Like I did a podcast after you. And I'm not putting anybody down. He wasn't a producer because he couldn't get my heart on tape. He couldn't get my heart on tape. He never figured out how to do it because he was, he had his own things going on. I learned that afterward. So you're always very special because you opened up my story. I always call the church the educationally. That's exactly what it was. It was me raising a son and me giving them what I thought was valuable information. In the meantime, we told stories and everybody was happy. That's all this podcast that was. We go back and put all the people we put on the podcast. They never did as good as the podcast you and I were doing on Sundays. It's crazy. We just always laugh. We work hard for these guests. And him and I were getting the high. Because we had guests all the time. Yeah. Yeah. So when you didn't have a guest, you were like, we're doing better numbers than when I do have a fucking guest. So we started going on that format. So we changed. And it went back to when we first met. Dude, it was just people. Podcasts are really corporate now and I get it. But like the first three months we hung out, we just sat outside of the ha ha and talked and was not. People would give me shit about the audio bat. I was never an audio engineer. I learned the best I could. I think the thing that I and I was better at than some other producers is I you called the education to Lee, but I always knew it was your show. And I was never I was never trying to jump. But it was I appreciate it, but it was also. This is the education to Lee. I knew where my place was. I started enjoying it. I start looking when I drive these gigs, Rebecca. Wait a minute. I'm learning Chinese. I ask her questions before I go on stage. And then on the way home, we didn't even put music on. We just talk shop. Yeah. What she did wrong that night. What I did wrong that night. What I did good. What she did good. And right there, that's an education. That's not just going to do an open mic and going home and stopping for a donut. I was thinking about something that that night that you got sick. The highlight of that night was that I've terribly left Dean. I stayed with you and we were goofing and you were going through all these things. Don't take me to the hospital. And I said, I'm going to take you somewhere. You're like, where are you going to that took you for a blueberry donuts? Oh, I liked those doors and bro. Burbank didn't have a lot to offer, but they had a donut place that was open. The right and yellow place. The little food and a hut. The hut. We went one night really high for that restaurant where we had a walk into the back at two in a morning. We called it Uber. That one time was a man. I remember that breakfast. None of us could drive. Nobody was couldn't drive. But it was too dirty in the morning. I wasn't going to go home like that. My wife would have killed me. So we went and got breakfast at this place that you had to walk through and then go to a back room. We're fucking two in a morning, two in a morning. But that I think I would hope that donut places. It was on Magnolia, right? It's like on the left towards. It was the first you had like the Cuban place. Or those, yeah. And then you had something else. And then that was down more where there was no lights at night. Yeah. I'm out. We used to pull up. We used to pull up and pull up on the sidewalk. Nobody went there at night. It was 24 hours. Those blueberry donuts. So fucking blueberry donuts, George. We would let me pay a toast to him. And I took a plane right now. We would go to the donut place. Definitely get those mashed potato tacos. Yeah. That's all you need. Go to that fucking sushi place. One more time. Push it in here. Push it down. Kill that. That we had these spots close to the office that were just so fucking great. But those donuts that midnight when I go leave. Let's get that. I got to finish up. Don't worry. We're going to get done. How long am I going to be gone? Yeah, those were good. This podcast was also built on food. Yeah. There was about two young four, an old fat fuck and a young fat fuck. And he told me about his lizard meat addiction. Fucking gravy on french fries. He would tell me about his diet. And I feel like puking on the spot. Dude, I people, I'll be your age. And people will still talk to me about subway. People will still talk to me about lizard meat. But yeah, our food. Dude, it was, you're right. It was Edible's food and giggling like the faggots saying racial things about Jews and Spanish people and fucking laughing our asses off. And it was we don't know what the chemistry was. The chemistry was friendship. The chemistry was. I mean, I mean, I tell people we do a podcast. Now it takes two hours. In those days, we took a podcast. You didn't know how long we're going to be gone. We can meet at seven and walk in the door at two in the morning. We did that that dunking bow to that time. We went until two in the morning, one in the morning. I walked in. My wife was up. I'm all fucked up. People have no idea what went on to do that podcast. Now there was work. To work. Now I put in this going over notes and see who the ads are. Back then it was a lot of work. I had to figure out the amounts of weed. How many Edibles when we were going to eat them. I had the timing and at least time for another one. You were just throw stars in it. I used to straw. In fact, some guy made us a buzzer like a thing. It was a star either. Every time we ate a star, we had to hit the thing so people could see what the count was. So when people logged down, they could eat the stars and catch up with us. It was fucking insanity. Do you remember? I was telling someone this weekend. Do you remember how I used to have to go pick up the stars? Oh, yeah, in Tuesday morning. Dude, it was before it was breakfast reactional. It was just medical. And this dude who made these in his kitchen would go and deliver them the dispensaries. I would meet him outside after he'd had it. He had a Toyota Corolla. He'd open up his trunk and take out a plastic bag filled to the room with stars and brownies and we never ate one brownie. And I would put him in my trunk and thank God it was like three seconds from the studio because every but those three seconds, I thought I was going to get arrested. It was like it was. You know, it was doing you used to tell me you were going to send me to New York from LA with stars to sell them. And I like, I don't want to, they're going to arrest me and you would just call me. Oh my god. What about when I want to send you to Florida, go to rehab to make 60,000? You still tell me that. That you're under 60,000. How? How? I still never understand how I'm gonna make this money. They got to scam those rehabs in Florida. And this guy was the king of them. Listen, he's like, we know anybody wants to go to rehab. Tell him I'll give him 30 grand for six months, anyway. And once you get to the end of this five-year point, whatever it is, the end of this 18 months, find a black chick to fart in my face. I don't give a fuck. We already did. It's on footage. That's all the unreleased footage we're going to release from the old, I had a camera hidden at the podcast. I thought I thought I had something. Panies and shit and people passing out. And it's so weird with people like after I left LA, we had all that heat garbage from the Joe Rogan tape. And I had these people like, oh my god, you having sex at the office? What? It was probably. Who was having sex with fucking Lee? There was a table in the middle and a little couch. I did see your balls one time, but that was it. Yeah, when we did the, when we did the telephone. Yeah, you just, you know, yeah, regardless of you off from me, 10,000, 5,000 a ball. And I said, give me 10. I'll show you both of them. He's a dud. Fuck it. Didn't the wave went down. It was twitch. No, it was streaming on one of those. Yeah, it was you streaming then something else. But yeah, I remember that the comedy store one. Yeah, yeah, we did a lot. And it went by fast. It was just because we just did it every week, two times a week, sometimes three. How many episodes we got under our belt right now? Close to a thousand. We did 800 something in LA. And then, yeah, we're around, we're close to a thousand. And then, and that doesn't, you know, you did, you did the other podcast for a while and I did a couple episodes of that. You did, you did beauty in the beast before that. So you're probably, At a thousand if not more That's why I said how the podcast scene Took all when we were in the ground floor. I used to remember Hayton Adam Corolla A hundred hours a month from that porno company I am an even Adam and Eve and this guy's making 17 grand it was driving me Fucking insane. We tried everything. We were trying everything. Well the pool or Jacuzzi One of the Jacuzzi guy we had for a while. He's already out from the stall at Jacuzzi and oh Dude, I would love to go through the sponsors and see what companies no longer exist and it's probably at least half of them The fucking listen man. We did a lot of bad things like not Like a lot of negative shit. We did a lot of good things and one thing we did we brought the bidet back We fucking sold a million bidet days for our lady Yeah, I hear from a twice a year still if you still want to do some time and I'm gonna ask them to call it up And see if she wants to go dinner or something. I have a I just have a point out your new place Yeah, no, I have a point I am the floor so I can shit there And wash my balls. I have one of my place I spent put on my patreon me shit and the fucking you could put a camera on that. I know I can Of me shit and phone story while I'm shit, and I thought about just a shit falling out of your No, my and my ass and my private parts are never shown. It's me sitting on a throne Okay On this day in 1991 Fucking George stabbed the guy History with Joey Diaz. Fuck believe it's really an education. It was 14 years when you told me that I almost didn't sleep that night. I was like 14 fucking years. Where did I go? I do remember that we got thrown out because mercy was getting the room from us Oh, yeah, we got thrown out. Yeah. Well, we got thrown out of a guy. I thought you were talking about the other office Where we actually get thought? But yeah, no, we started we started in your living room No, no, we started in your office and then we went to the living room because mercy was coming Because we went to your place and we went to my place for a while and we really got an office I still can't believe we didn't get kicked out of my place. No, no one said anything But we were smoking joint and then This is how and you would never do this now when you were having diet coke said six in the morning at my place with them and the tripod was a container of lice all wipes and we had web cams it was and now Like now we have very nice cameras and we have a whole thing, but it's I can't thank you enough to it. I mean from hey, I told you I didn't want to be on it, but I'd never would I'm not a confident I wasn't not now not before but like to have the confidence to To do stand up To have the kind of like it's freaking me out that this is the last episode that I'll be on the church It really is you know if freaked me out at first And I switched my perspective on it. Mm-hmm. And I said people need to do this more often in life You know and we're friends and you could say whatever fuck you on. I'm sure you got a little bored doing it You know it was time to move on for you for me I got nowhere to go and this is part of my 18-month plan. So I'll ring this bell until they're not watching it You know as far as I could drop knowledge and crack a few funny jokes and shit and there'll be a lot of more Interviewing I want to get my interview game going again. I think that fell off the last two years So it was a lot when you came to me it was a Little upsetting, but then it became optimistic and I became optimistic for you And all I want you know, you're not allowed back. I'm going to get an Netflix special. Yeah, I'm giving you rules You know, I don't come to me with some YouTube special I have a big I have an in that YouTube. Okay You know, you're always walking to come back here. There's not me in anything bad Just just two people moving on and moving on In a positive manner, you know, I still love him. He still loves me He's gonna be taking care of business on his end. He just got a new neighborhood. He got a lower man at So that's all yours now. I can't control it. I can't say nothing to you. That's it But this was good for both of us. There's still a lot for a career Mm-hmm, and we're gonna see what it did for us and years to come But I do still have one unfazed project with you and it's a little documentary about telling Well, we just told the people in one detail all this shit. We were faced with it and Thank God YouTube was a lot easier back then We would have never made it. We never made. I mean half of our videos weren't shown We got half of them ten years ago. I can't imagine now But it helped me with my stand-up and help me with my storytelling It helped me build the bond with you online. I mean listen the podcast was a hit because you had somebody Which extremely vulnerable and you had another guy who was willing not to shut the fuck up So that's where the Oreo effect came from that's where the magic came from was Two personality traits that people don't even think of when they're putting a podcast together They just want to do it with a best friend. Right, and that's how shit ends, you know We were we didn't know each other So everything about each other was new to each other. Mm-hmm. I'm sure I said a couple things that your jaw dropped You know a couple things. Yeah, that your jaw dropped and shit. I still remember one episode and particularly Me coming in the next day and I was so proud of myself because you were like talk What you talked about last night was real and that's when I told you I used to work at the Sharon and when I go in I would buy appetizers. Yeah, like it cost me eight bucks as a bartender Yeah, I need two appetizers and you cut you're coming in from being at work You don't want to hold dinner, but you want to cock the way your cocktail you want something You know, and I remember you going I never thought about it that way and that helped you know using that type of mentality That carried on and to remember in the beginning we wouldn't do a patreon I mean times you come to me do a patreon. I will. I tell you. Oh Jesus. I used to go lose my mind. I don't want to do patreon I want to build on this. I want people not to have to have to pay for a podcast. Right. I didn't like that Podcasts are free at least it worked for me being for free because in my cosmic world I looked at this we're just putting some on to the universe. Did you were doing shout and and no no shame to anyone who does it But people make millions of dollars now doing shout-outs and personal videos You're doing personally. You're doing shit for shout-outs for 70 and you they asked you to do that We're like, I don't want to say whatever the name. I honestly don't remember the name of the company right now that you can get personalized videos from whatever it is for my meal Yeah, like they've been at a great service. They hit me up twice a year. Yeah, I'm just not ready at point in my career That's my comical point. That's that's why I start going to Comic-Con and getting all the grass with puppy eyes My daughters in college you gotta sign this, you know, yeah, I didn't want to do at that point That's what to me. That's what that means in a career people have a different opinion on it They got to feed their kids. I understand it But for me was always the thing that you do at the end because I'm trying to attack them from a different perspective I don't want them to buy stupid fucking videos. I'll give me the videos for free And I'll fucking do the shows and you should come I keep the prices low. I'm giving you Every option not to like me, but to work with you on stuff, you know Cameo for me to sit there and have to go happy birthday Lee You know if you birthday and George wants you to know how you feel go fuck yourself. Right and did I I've Have never been bored doing the podcast. I the reason why I came down last week is I always want to make sure that our relationship is solid which it which it is and I always I always now now that you're everything that you're saying to me like the education not not that my education is over by a long shot I have a long way to go. No, but I always want to feel like I have a purpose and And I don't You would keep me here forever. I because you're a loyal person But I I guess that is a little bit of what I felt over the last sick like it is Am I the best person for this? Am I am I adding to the conversation? Am I growing because you ask me that every time we do a show like what did you learn? Absolutely and like the fact that I'm for like going to be 40 now 10 plus years in the standup and Who know you might be might see me on a ship in five years. I don't know. Hopefully not. Hopefully you'll see me doing some some clubs and all of that and I I want to show because The forever one watching like you I grew up with you like the fact that that that that you knew me from From right out of college and And and went through relationships with me and went through the 800,000 torture chambers that you put me through like I I'm a completely different person than I would have been If I never met you and if we have we hadn't done the podcast so I I mean, I'm just excited I'm excited for new challenges to see where comedy goes, to see what I end up doing, because you're right. Like starting a podcast now is hard. I'm going to do something online. I wish I had an answer for you. I don't know what it is. I've been thinking a lot about it, but I'm excited for people to see like the fruits of your fucking labor, the fruits of, the only reason I started to stand up is because I would go with you to shows. I would go with you. Never once, going on, I would sit in the back. You'd give me edibles. I'd be high. If I wouldn't talk to anybody, I would just see you and your openers like Augustino and and and and all the people who open for you, Matt Fulcheron and all the next week, next Monday, he's the guest. Oh, I love it. The promoters are special, right? Yeah. Yeah. And and and to listen to how your sets change, like the CDs we edited, I it's just it really, it was an educate, it was an it was more than an education. It was, it was, I don't know, it was, it was, it was a rebirth. Oh my god. It was hands on. You saw a lot of things you heard. Listen, man, you've had a very, I don't know how you're going to look at this, but I want you to look at that. You were with a lot of people who dropped some great fucking info on us. Oh my god. We had guests that, you know, I still remember the guy from Guns and Roses Congress, the story where he went back to college to get a master's degree in business because he saw what happened to slying the family stone. We had Henry Rollins. That's exactly what she's going to bring up. Yeah. Was that Henry Rollins drop some fucking heavy knowledge? And they always send us their love every time I see somebody from CA, they go Henry and I, that's the thing you that love. And just like Ollie, today, as a, just as the, the, the, the noncomic guests were sometimes way better, but even just as a, a working comic as an aspiring comedian, we had every headline or in LA. Like, like, I think Berk came in. I'm sorry. Berk never came in. Yeah. Berk never came in. There were a couple that didn't come in, but for me to, like, there was a couple like Gabriel is huge Theo, like in that 383, you might be the best podcast we ever did. Sebastian was good. Sebastian was great. All of them were great. But Ralphie, Ralphie was special for me because I had seen him before, like, and to meet him and, and, and, and to see how sweet he was. And especially because 95 percent of the guests who came on were, were very nice to me. And there weren't really many mean ones, but there were some who like, and I get it, they'd come and say, hi, like, hi, and then just immediately to you, which is fine. Because I'm, I wasn't the guys. I watched a lot of guys to see how they would treat you. But then, but for Ralphie to everybody gave you a lot of respect. That was a few guys. Oh, and it wasn't even. They never came back. Well, yeah. Well, yeah. The people who were assholes, yes, you're right. But the, just the, like, just to see, even before I knew I wanted to do stand up, to see what it actually takes to see what they were happy with, what they were unhappy with. And I have no idea what's going to happen in my career. I'm hoping this is what makes to the comedy career. Yeah. That you don't know what happens. If I get a job, I know every 90 days, I'm put up for a race. That's all I know. And then I have to live with a 3% raise increase. Whoopie, you know, you can't control with this shit. You want to rock? You rock. If you want to roll, you roll. And if you just want to sit there and talk with somebody, knock your door, that's your fucking agenda too. That's all comedy has ever been. You taking it to the heights on your terms. You know, I'm not trying to take over the fucking world. I never was. Oh, all through comedy, we're going to heal. Go fuck yourself. If you believe that much, you're coming to go fuck yourself. Through comedy, I learned how to control my world. You learn how to control your world to a fucking god. And you know, the more you give, the more you're going to get back. So when people come to you and they go, hey, we want to go do this and light fireworks. You go, my time is more valuable. I'm very grateful because I'm about to go on 19 years without doing coke. Yeah, I could have gone to rehab or the spirit of God came in me. The spirit of love of my comedy came to me. How much longer am I going to work against myself? I'm doing great. But then I'll go do an eight ball four nights. And I got a showcase the next night. So I can't feel my material. So that was that controlling your own world. It's a process of elimination of what doesn't work. I'm not going to improvise no more. It doesn't work for me and sticking to your guns. That's what comedy gives you. I don't know any art that gives you that. You control it. Music does it to a degree. But I'm not a musical artist. So I don't know. Right. But I know with comedy, I'm 63. And I pull something out of my ass once a week. I'm learning from you. George, anybody. You're right. But I think if I'm going to take one thing from 15 years, and I don't even do a great job of it now, but I'm getting better and there's something I'm going to work on is how calculated you are. Even if it looks like you're not or even if you don't know what you're doing, you know, you know exactly. And things might go wrong or things might need to be adjusted. But you have a plan at least to go, at least at least you're not ad living it. It's just seeing what happened. You're like, okay, here's the path. I'm good. I think I'm going to take. We might run into a roadblock or we might have to go back and then take a right. But that like that, I think is if I'm boiling it down to one thing is to, is to have a, is to create a plan. And I do that too much. And I think that's partially why I think this is a good thing is it's forcing me to be a little bit uncomfortable. Because this has been very steady for me and very, it's been every Monday and Wednesday. But every Monday, since 2012, pretty, a few years off with COVID, but every Monday, I didn't, I was always with you doing a podcast. And like it feels like I graduated high school and I'm about to go to, to my freshman year of college right now. Oh, you stay in college for a long fucking time. You call me Bert. I'll take my shirt off. I'm sure you like that. But yeah, just I'm, I'm excited to see what I'm excited to, to be able to go and, and like, try Canada, try, I'm going to do a tour of Joey can't go here. Because you're going to never fucking pass. You're going to see me fucking everywhere because I might not sell tickets in Tampa, but I'll sell tickets in Saskatchewan. Wherever, wherever Joey can't go, I'll be. But I'm just excited to get better. I love, I, and I think I told someone that, and I get it. I don't regret a second of being on the church, but I think a lot of people who are watching and listening might not, they might just think, I'm the fucked up guy next to you, which I wouldn't trade for the world. But I, to be honest, with, with everyone, comedy is the hardest I've worked at really anything. Anything, anything. And I, I genuinely, I'm not, I don't kill every show. And I, I try to keep my ticket prices as low as I can. Some venues have different rules. So I, I have to do what I have to, what they say at this point. But I, I work very hard at it. And I'm very, especially the last couple of years, I feel like I've gotten a lot better. And, and, and getting to do the shows with you and be exposed to, to those kind of audiences and have industry there. And, and, and have expectations of, of shows and, and not, be not like, well, if I bomb in front of you and, and I fuck up your show, I think there was, do you remember the, the highest I ever got on stage was one of the Sony Hall shows. We took, I took an edible, I took, we took an edible and we got stuck in the Lincoln tunnel and it took us a lot longer. And then I took an edible on stage and I, it was one of the worst, I, I, I'm Jewish. I've never turned down money, but I said no to you with a check and you forced me to take the check. But it was, it was like one, it was like a turning point for me. And I remember the first show I did back when I took a, I took like about a year off. Well, we went to, I don't know if you remember, I came with my ex and we, we spent like a week down by you and he did Uncle Vinnie's and I did, by first step back in like 18 months and I ended up destroying that relationship. Thank God. But it like, like I had, I had taken, I thought I was done with standup and the joy that I get from the podcast and how, like the happiness that I have on stage and I stood at a few weeks ago and people, some people got mad and like, oh, oh, you're not happy with this. And I'm, I'm sure you deal with this. You have a thousand things going on in your head. You have your wife, a family of, So for that 20 minutes, and you're on stage that you don't think about any, it's just like a vacation to not have any other stresses, nothing else is going on, but what's going on stage? Just the people in front of you. That's all that's going on. It's my fate. It's just, it's like, it's like, oh. You wish the world was like this every day, like you could just walk into a room and not have any other worries. And it's, thank you for, for making me be on the podcast and thank you for sticking by. And like, the podcast was a big part of it, but dude, I spent, I spent years in LA that it was, the Thanksgiving before mercy was born, it was me and you on your living room floor. And Terry bought the Thanksgiving dinner from Boston Market, didn't even eat it because she was so miserable. And but like, we spent holidays together, you met both of my parents, you, you, you've done things for me that, that no one else, no one else would, and the people, the people that you've introduced me to, the people who are watching. And that's, I didn't come down there to, to end it. And I'm, the way it happened, I'm, I'm happy because you, you see it all the time on like podcasts or, or anyone who works here, the, you're gonna butt heads. And that would, that would just suck it would, I would, I'm, I'm much happier that we, that you get to grow. Now the podcast will be different and you'll have guests on and I won't come back to like it. Who knows? If Netflix will even be around, it'll be something else. Until you come, don't come back until you pull up your white cat like somebody told me you don't. That's what my teacher told you, not welcome around here. Do you pull up with a white cat like, yeah, fuck it. And, um, I, I know I'll keep, I'll talk to you and I'll see you, something I was thinking, it reminded me of, uh, the letters you wrote to your judge. And I think that's my plan. Of course, I'm gonna call you, of course. But I, I want to write you a letter or just an email every week. I'm gonna be all right, Lee. I love you brother. You don't have to say anything more about it. I learned a lot from this podcast, Wilson. I learned a lot about the time with you. You're like a son you still are. And, uh, that's it. I got the Brooklyn Improves, I'm a charity. Send me on Patreon, uh, add me on Patreon. Yeah. I'm happy we did this. I'm happy that you're going on your own journey. I'm very proud of you. Most people have just kept coming here and being miserable. So I was never, but I know what you're saying, but it's been a great 15 years, go lead. We're going to miss them as a family. I know George is going to miss them. And that's it. You know, he'll still be in our lives. We'll see him from time to time with me. He's in the city, when I call him, he'll get a pizza. He's got to take two hours to get by myself. Oh, God. The pizza, that one pizza, that new one you found the last time we kept going to your house is good. I'll come and I'll drive two hours for that. I bet you will. God, son. But that's it. I love you. Love you. I wish you all the luck in the world. I wish that you grow. I wish that your family grows, and this was an education, and I just want the world as to what they saw. They saw two fat bucks that had no idea what they were doing. He came from editing background. I came from a snort and coconut background, and we made this work for this long through. Adversity. We couldn't find an office. We just kept going. You know, I felt bad for a leaf for a while because we didn't take a day off. No. I don't believe in it. I didn't believe in it. I think we didn't take a day off for three years, and we took the Christmas week off. I was there. It was longer than that. We didn't take a week off of the podcast, I think, for someone between four to six. And then we took one, but even for that week, we would, I'm almost positive. Like we did an extra recording, like we never, they've been with us every week since 20 since. I called you one time. If I would have done this podcast for you while I was doing Coke, we started doing seven o'clock in the morning. You would have fired me after the first week. I would have gotten late then, Monday, I wouldn't have showed Friday. Wednesday. I would have showed Monday and then crashed out on Wednesday. So we both gave ourselves huge opportunities. Here we are 15 minutes later, what date you got coming up. I got a bunch this week. I'm in Buffalo with Josh Wolf. I have Boka and Tampa. And then in November, I have Portland, Oregon, leesayet.com, all of my dates, all of my social media. And then thank you. I hope to see, to see all of you out there. And I know you have a lot of shows coming up. So you don't have a, I don't think you have a website, but you have what's going on. You have Chicago. Wisconsin. I go. I got Riverside Theater in November 7th. I got the Philadelphia casino parks on the 25th. I got, you know, I got those dates in Austin, which I'll keep reposting them. I have somebody make me a nice fly out of down there. And that's it. I appreciate you. I wish you well. Thank you. You're always a friend of the churches. You're always a friend of me, so what can we do, brother? Just two guys moving on. I love you, buddy. Love you too. Have a great week. I love you guys. See you next week. Tip top McGill and have a great week. If you're on Austin this Thursday, I'm doing the early show at the mothership 7 o'clock. I'll get you out of that by 8.30. You can still beat NAS by 10. I was better than you. I love you guys. Have a great week.