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00:04:36.000I remember when they were waiting in line for Harry Potter, when Harry Potter was coming out, and people were driving by and they were yelling out, Dumbledore dies at the end!
00:04:44.000They were yelling out all these different spoilers.
00:04:47.000All I typed in was waiting in line for in Google, and the only things that come up are iPhone Supreme and iPhone 8 or gas.
00:07:22.000They stayed out till 5, 6 every night.
00:07:25.000Went home, took the kids to school, went back home, took a nap till 1, got up, went to the dental office, worked till 5, went home, took another nap, fed the kids, and at 9 o'clock they'd fucking bring the kids downstairs to their moms and they'd do it all over again.
00:09:14.000The nightclub scene is a very strange scene.
00:09:16.000One club gets hot, and then it dies off, and the people that are in that business try to figure out what makes something hot and what doesn't.
00:09:24.000You've got to rename places and redo them and reopening and grand reopening and get people to show up.
00:09:31.000I remember hearing that they were paying Paris Hilton shit piles of money to just show up at clubs.
00:10:00.000Or you do what a lot of people did, and they just light the place on fire and start from scratch.
00:10:05.000A little Jewish lightning, and the place starts from scratch.
00:10:08.000You know, I knew the guy that owned the gay clubs in Houston, like in the 70s, and he was telling me one time, he goes, yeah, once we got our use out of them, You light them on fire.
00:10:17.000Collect the insurance, and then open up another club.
00:10:25.000You know, I mean, people that just look forward to just going out and just drinking and dancing and snorting coke every night, just looking for, like, experience.
00:10:34.000Just something different and wild that takes them out of their everyday grind.
00:10:38.000And just do it over and over and over again.
00:12:50.000We either worked in Miami at the Improv, which is Coconut Grove, or we did West Palm after Joel opened up that new place, the big giant place.
00:14:20.000Where he was talking about trying to get off of it and how difficult it was.
00:14:23.000And you're talking about a guy with like an iron will, you know, and Boss Rootin.
00:14:27.000Imagine the average person who just has a hard time getting out of bed in the morning, doesn't have a lot of discipline, and they get hooked.
00:14:59.000Yeah, there was a whole article recently about the company that sells most of the opioids and the family that's behind that company and how many billions of dollars that they've made off the opioid crisis.
00:20:13.000You know, I've never been physically addicted to something in a way where I had a hard time kicking it, but I've had some psychological addictions for sure.
00:20:22.000And I think that one of the things that I've gotten out of this month of the Sober October thing that Tom, Bert, and Ari and I are doing...
00:20:34.000Because just knowing that we can't smoke pot or can't drink all month, you start thinking about, oh, we're at the home stretch, November 1st, around the corner.
00:20:42.000I don't really feel like I need to get high.
00:20:44.000It's not like I need a drink tomorrow.
00:20:46.000But it's knowing that I can't do it for the month, where it hangs over your head.
00:20:51.000So that's what's even more impressive, that you could kick it.
00:20:55.000Because it's not just the fact that you have a physical problem.
00:21:00.000But you also have this psychological problem.
00:21:03.000Like the psychological part of it is like it's a pattern that you're comfortable with.
00:21:07.000You got used to that pattern of 8 o'clock, you're looking for the coke, you go and do it, and then you're off.
00:21:13.000It's like you're off, even though you're in chaos, your life's in disarray, and you're in the grips of addiction, you're comfortable with that feeling.
00:22:13.000I went in Hollywood, which everything is good until you go to it in Hollywood.
00:22:18.000Because in Hollywood, you add the dramatic and the actor image to it.
00:22:24.000If you go to an AA meeting in Jersey, they're in there smoking camel reds, fucking talking from the heart.
00:22:31.000You go to an AA meeting in Hollywood, you got people with AA tattoos on their arm.
00:22:36.000Hugging each other, you know, it's a fucking jamboree.
00:22:39.000They're just happy to be in AA, like it's a new clan that they're in.
00:22:42.000And then what happens is, after about two months in this area, for some reason, I've noticed, because I have a lot of friends in AA, somebody approaches you and says, hi, you know, what's going on?
00:25:03.000Chasing after these things so they can go places and other people will look at this new thing that they have it's very strange It's like there's one thing like if you know someone who like collects a certain thing like they're you know So we're really into fucking whatever it is old samurai swords or something like that though They love the history of it.
00:25:22.000That's not what these people are doing They're buying things so they could bring places and other people would go So they get a feeling like a feeling of I guess a successful feeling, you know, they get a feeling from other people Recognizing that they have the latest thing like oh,
00:25:52.000Oh my god So cute and they're just like weird fucking just Pilled up people.
00:26:00.000Weirdo, speeded up people that are like chasing after the next object.
00:26:05.000It's a very, it's a very strange, and they don't talk about shit.
00:26:09.000I get together with these people, you know, because we'll have dinners together, or our families will get together, the kids will play, we'll go to a party together, and you know, a good 20% of these people do not talk about shit.
00:28:30.000Even if you're stressed out about your kid, you're interacting with your kid, at least the kid knows you're communicating with them.
00:28:36.000The kid's probably not happy that you're stressed out, but at least you're there.
00:28:39.000When you're zoned out on pills and staring at the fucking clouds, It's just, it's just not, it's not a good way for human beings to interact with each other, where you're hopped up on some weird shit.
00:28:53.000And I think, I mean, I don't know what the actual numbers are, but in the communities that I associate with, I would say a good solid half of these fucking people are pilled up.
00:30:24.000Now that I have a child, I don't want alcohol in my house.
00:30:26.000Well, I'll tell you what, if there was one thing that I could kick...
00:30:30.000That, you know, like this sober October shit, like if I could, if I had to choose, like for the rest of my life, no booze or no pot, I would say no booze in a heartbeat.
00:30:38.000Yeah, but I like a cold Heineken once a month.
00:30:40.000Oh, cold, cold Heineken once a month is fucking delicious.
00:33:24.000But after the first week, you learn about yourself.
00:33:28.000You learn that you could go without, which is one of the strongest things that could happen to somebody.
00:33:34.000It's like when you're in love with that girl, and you're destroying your life, you're quitting your job, and you drink, and you act like an asshole, and then she goes away to Hawaii for two weeks.
00:33:44.000After 10 days, you're like, fuck that bitch.
00:33:48.000When do you think people get divorced?
00:35:41.000I was starving coming home from the store, and I got a burger, and I asked for a Diet Coke, and they gave me a regular Coke, and I went, oh, this is so good.
00:37:23.000I mean, it's a fucking thick, outer crust Italian bread where you clamp it down and it's hard on the outside but soft on the inside and you bite into that and you feel that real juicy Italian sausage and that marinara sauce.
00:38:21.000There was a fucking, there's a pizza place in White Plains, New York, down the street from Executive Billiards.
00:38:27.000I think it was Nicky's, Nicky's Pizzeria.
00:38:29.000And they had this fucking white cheese slice, this white pizza slice with, and it had like, you could see the olive oil and butter in the pizza and the garlic, and you would bite into it and you'd be like, holy Christ!
00:38:42.000And the crust of the pizza underneath is just like, just the right amount of cooked, Where there was like a little bit of just a slight burn to the crust and you're biting into it and you're just feeling the cheese and the dough and all the sauces and the whoo!
00:40:18.000And these places, you're never going to get that old, small restaurant feel from a place like this that you'll get from a place like Nicky's Pizzeria, you know?
00:45:36.000Clean presses over and over again, hot potatoes back and forth, renegade rows.
00:45:42.000You're doing like a push-up with one hand on the kettlebell, switch to the other side, push up with the other one, doing them passing in between your legs, and you're going one after the other, one after the other.
00:45:51.000Windmills over and over, clean press, snatches, and you're doing these in succession over and over again.
00:45:56.000Switch to this side, switch to the other side, 10 on this side, 10 on that side.
00:46:00.000You know, and we're talking about like a 45-minute workout.
00:46:13.000I mean, this guy, he's a trainer up in Canada.
00:46:16.000He's just in tremendous shape, but the videos are so good.
00:46:19.000Because it's one of the few videos where a lot of these kettlebell workout videos, like people are teaching you proper form, which is all important.
00:46:26.000You know, it's real important to learn proper form, learn where to...
00:46:29.000Keep the weight balanced, keep your weight in your heels, and keep your feet flat on the ground.
00:46:33.000All the different things that they want you to stress about various individual movements.
00:46:38.000But Keith Weber's like, you better know all that shit, because we're just going to take you through a radical workout.
00:48:33.000And it helped me strengthen my back doing all that stuff.
00:48:36.000Those are great workouts because it's not like a glamorous thing where it pumps you up, it makes you look jacked, but it's just great for your body.
00:49:42.000Yeah, no, no, no, but I got palms on my knees.
00:49:44.000It's all, yeah, no, no, I do it, I like all that stuff.
00:49:47.000Any of that stuff, like when you're lying down on your back and you're pressing something up, and even just getting up to your knee, it's all just about strengthening your core, you know?
00:52:53.000He goes, you know how many guys go into the octagon and I gotta work them out in the back for 45 minutes before because they can't breathe either?
00:54:08.000I think his wife is there, and he has somebody else there, but he's there, cuz.
00:54:13.000Yeah, she said that it's interesting because he's got all these issues, but then once he starts hitting the bag and moving around, he comes back and he looks like Terry Norris of old.
00:57:44.000Like that's a big thing about NBA players.
00:57:46.000I was reading this whole thing about how little NBA players make and how they're constantly watching all these NBA or not NBA players NBA referees make and how they're watching all these players pull up in Bentleys and Rolls Royces and Shining with diamonds and gold and jewelry and that these guys just start taking bribes and that there is at one point in time where there's just a shitload of referees in the NFL and the NBA that are just on the take and Really?
00:58:31.000But if someone comes to you, if you make $150,000 and someone comes to you and goes, Joey, I just want you to make this game a little bit more easy for the Dolphins.
00:59:17.000Like, he was telling me they got, like, the first-class ticket shit, you know, where they give you a first-class ticket to travel to the games.
00:59:48.000And then they were getting signed by those companies when they made it to the NBA. And in some cases, I think Rick Pitino, who's the coach for Louisville, is taking something like 98% or 95% of the money that was due to the school from Adidas.
01:00:20.000If you go back to the movie Blue Chips, which came out a long time ago, it was fictional then, but it's been going on for the last 25 years.
01:00:33.000He's bringing in the most popular players, the most popular recruits from high school and AAU. And so that maybe he could bring them to Adidas and then Adidas could have them wear them in the NBA? They're going to be all over the Final Four, the NCAA tournament.
01:00:45.000They're going to be on Saturday basketball.
01:00:46.000They're getting advertised just like NBA players, but they're not getting the money.
01:00:50.000They're using their names, their highlights.
01:01:17.000Ohio State right now, the team I pay attention to for football, have some awesome, crazy jerseys that nobody's ever going to get that the LeBron James brand of Nike is giving them that are going to be showcased all over TV Saturday.
01:01:29.000I was reading about Under Armour is banking on Steph Curry's new Under Armour shoe.
01:01:47.000They were saying that his new Under Armour shoe, they're putting a lot of money into this idea that his shoe is going to rebound the stock.
01:01:57.000So people are making recommendations to buy Under Armour stock now so that when the shoe comes out, everybody gets crazy and buys his shoe and then Under Armour will bounce back.
01:02:07.000You know the problem is, once something has a stink about it, that's kind of it.
01:02:28.000So you have to get a whole bunch of kids into buying that, and then there's going to have to be a couple influencers in the NBA video game world and the YouTube blogging world that are going to have to make this seem cool to them.
01:02:41.000Just the influencers are going to have to get into it.
01:04:01.000I mean, brand new retail, they're costing about $100 to $200, not $100, $200 retail, but the rarity of them, especially depending on the year they came out, if they came out five years ago, some of them cost $1,000, $2,000.
01:04:14.000Bro, they have the same shit with geese, you know that, right?
01:05:10.000I mean, geese are pretty goddamn durable as it is.
01:05:12.000It usually takes a long time for one starts to break, unless you have a single weave, you know, one of those thin, light ones like a summer.
01:07:30.000Well, over the last few months, I've been shying away from dairy.
01:07:35.000I'll eat a little cheese every now and then, because I like cheese, but I've been trying to eliminate dairy from my diet a little bit, just to see.
01:07:41.000Because I've heard from several people that they've eliminated dairy, and they've had good reactions to their body.
01:07:46.000They've had less inflammation, and it makes them feel better.
01:08:21.000I'm just going to see what that feels like.
01:08:24.000We're going to come up with some new challenge.
01:08:26.000Because after this month, doing this, I feel like this was a very beneficial month for me.
01:08:31.000Beneficial in that, first of all, my back has never felt better.
01:08:35.000Like, doing yoga all these times, like, it makes your back feel bulletproof.
01:08:39.000Like, you just feel, like, my posture and everything, like, everything is just, it feels so sturdy.
01:08:46.000Yoga, especially Bikrams, like that 90-minute hot yoga shit, so much of it is about your back and your core and like supporting your spine.
01:08:54.000And I think, you know, sitting down a lot, doing podcasts, even though these chairs are phenomenal, these Capisco Ergo Depot chairs, these things are phenomenal.
01:09:02.000They keep you, you know, sitting in the right posture and they support you well.
01:09:06.000It's just not real good to sit down all the time like that.
01:09:09.000And a lot of times your back is like compressed and If you don't have good structure and if you don't have good strength around the spine, like good muscle strength around the spine, you're going to develop all sorts of weird problems and weird issues with your back.
01:09:25.000I think I've learned a lot this month about what kind of exercises you need to do to keep your back strong.
01:09:34.000This yoga shit, doing it as many times as we did it this month.
01:09:38.000I mean, I'm not going to do it this many times, but I'm definitely going to do it two times a week from now on.
01:11:59.000Every time the show, the new show I'm going to do, I'm buying one of those little tape recorders, and I'm putting them under these six fucking morons every day.
01:12:07.000Then at night, I'm going to do a show about what they discussed.
01:12:10.000Because this is 60% of America, what these fucking people are talking about.
01:13:35.000You're not supposed to talk about politics or religion or those fucking things.
01:13:39.000But this new breed of Gentile, they just talk...
01:13:43.000For the sense of talking, to see who's the smartest person in the room, and at the end of the day, they're all a bunch of dumb fucks anyway.
01:13:53.000There's definitely a lot of people talking just to impress other people.
01:14:37.000And they always have to be picked and chosen.
01:14:39.000And they're always trying to position themselves like someone that you would want to hire.
01:14:45.000And so they manufacture these attitudes based on what they think.
01:14:50.000They lick their finger, they hold it up, they find out which way the wind's blowing and that's the way they go.
01:14:55.000And they start to sort of construct their personality based on what they think All the casting agents, all of them, 100% of them, are liberal.
01:15:07.000Everyone across the board is a Democrat, or the radical ones are Bernie Sanders supporters, and everyone has very clear left-wing views, whether you like it or not.
01:15:20.000But these people that go in for auditions and actors, which is most of what you're running into, either actors or screenwriters or someone who's trying to do something in Hollywood, they all want people to know that they're on the right team.
01:17:21.000I was like 18. He goes, I let a fucking guy suck my dick when One time.
01:17:25.000But if it was so good, why not keep going?
01:17:27.000You know, it's tough to find somebody who will suck your dick with ice cubes in their mouth unless you give them the small 50. I think once you put it out there, you put that flag up, People will come.
01:17:36.000That was the funniest thing with that crazy bitch from Superman.
01:17:39.000Because she popped up like eight days later.
01:17:42.000Harvey took his dick out one time and I told him, put that back in your pants.
01:20:30.000If they want to kill you, you're dead.
01:20:33.000And it's not going to be trucks trying to run you over.
01:20:36.000It's going to be a guy out of nowhere shoots you in the head and gets in his car and no one's going to know who he is and no one's going to catch him because they're going to hire a professional.
01:20:45.000Like this idea that someone's going to like miss him with a car and then they're chasing him, running him down.
01:20:52.000I mean, it's possible, but I find it very hard to believe.
01:20:54.000I always think that, like, if someone is a very powerful man, like, I don't know if the Clintons ever whacked anybody, but if they did, they whacked those fucking people.
01:21:03.000Like that one guy that was the big conspiracy theory about the guy who released all the stuff to WikiLeaks, the DNC guy, Seth Rich.
01:21:15.000Whoever did it, whether he was killed because some random person decided to shoot him in the back in the middle of the night and not steal his watch or his phone or his wallet, whether it's that or whether it's what Julian Assange from WikiLeaks said is that there's consequences to leaking information to WikiLeaks because that's what they were saying.
01:21:32.000And people were saying, look, this is another one of the Clinton body count people and then there's You know giant conspiracy theories about how many people the Clintons have had killed.
01:22:13.000They were coming after me, but I dived into the bushes at the last minute, and now I'm hiding in a motel somewhere, and I can't tell you where, but if you give me $10 million, I want to make a movie.
01:22:21.000You know why I feel bad for Corey Fennell when you see that, when you see that performance?
01:22:25.000I mean, I bet he's a nice kid and stuff, but you could see Hollywood's just fucking made a mockery.
01:24:04.000But if you think about how many hitmen, like that scene in the train station, the chick with the violin, all of a sudden she puts the thing away and she takes the silencer out.
01:24:19.000So the only thing I can think about is the fight he had in the garage with the cab drivers when he was fucking shooting at them and all that shit.
01:25:52.000Where he was, you know, shooting at steel targets that pop up and hiding behind things and turning corners and shooting at targets real quick.
01:26:02.000Like, legitimately looks like he knows what he's doing.
01:29:24.000I mean, imagine that that guy started with like a really silly comedy and then went from that to be a giant action hero and somehow or another still looks good at 53. What's that movie he made with the bank robbers?
01:35:32.000There's not a ton of people living up there, so it didn't get the amount of press that it deserved because there was so much going on in Texas, so much going on in Florida, so much going on in Puerto Rico, but the fucking fires in Northern California were insane, and they couldn't do a thing about them.
01:35:48.000They didn't have fire hydrants in a lot of these places, they didn't have access to water, and they were just burning through towns.
01:35:53.000I think they said hundreds of people are missing, And thousands of buildings were burnt to the ground.
01:36:10.000I mean, it's not that they're not getting funding, but they're not getting enough to rebuild, to do what they need to do, to get their infrastructure back up.
01:36:16.000People don't understand about Puerto Rico is that you have San Juan and Viejo San Juan.
01:36:21.000And after that, what surrounds these cities is what you see on TV, is these fucking villages.
01:36:28.000Did you read the New York Times article about Cuba?
01:39:33.000No, I think about leaving all the time.
01:39:35.000You and your wife been discussing it, and you open it up again.
01:39:38.000Well, when it was getting 109 degrees in fucking October, we were like, what is this gonna be like in five years?
01:39:45.000Like, is this gonna keep getting worse?
01:39:47.000Like, if climate change is real, it seems to be, if we're getting record temperatures every year, which seems to be happening at least around here, You've got to wonder when that's not sustainable anymore.
01:39:58.000Do you want to live in Phoenix in August?
01:41:44.000Yeah, but not enough where you can tell a joke about it.
01:41:46.000De Niro's one of those guys where a piece of information has to be so far distributed, so widely distributed that you can crack jokes about it.
01:41:56.000And everybody knows what you're talking about.
01:42:36.000They say when you're a kid, like the things you're surrounded by, the things that you first come in contact with when you become sexually active, that sort of like cements in your brain in a lot of people.
01:42:46.000But I had all those Marie's and all those Gina's.
01:47:02.000You know, the people got excited about, like the Italian gangster movie became a big thing, the Italian gangster films became a big thing, and so there was like a whole bunch of guys, like I'm sure you went out for auditions, and you were around those guys that were in that loop.
01:53:05.000And then they go into, it opens up with them at the wedding, and they go from the wedding to the hospital to see the guy, the originally Consul of the Eddie, and you gotta see that scene.
01:53:15.000The dude is sitting there, and Brando walks in, and he's like, Godfather, hold my hand.
01:53:22.000The Reaper's gonna come, but if he sees you, he'll be scared.
01:53:26.000Like, that's how fucking much they love the Godfather.
01:53:29.000And then he goes, listen, I'm here with my four sons.
01:54:18.000Oh, when your adrenaline's off the charts, when you're hiding in a bush, and somebody's coming towards you, and you gotta hit them with that stick, you have no idea what happens to you.
01:54:31.000That's why I've always loved The Godfather, all those type of movies, because when he comes out of the bathroom, you hear the train screeching.
01:56:03.000You know, I was not on my turf with my friends.
01:56:06.000But after he put that knife to my throat, I'll never forget that I fucking, like, when he stepped away, that thing came into my mind where if you pull your gun out, use it.
01:58:39.000I took one of those, I put it in my jacket, and I whipped him with the hanger first, and he got out of his car, and then when he went down, I whipped him in the legs.
02:03:15.000Because the University of Colorado, when that chick called J.J. Flanagan a nigga, and he smacked her, and he got away with it on Monday at court because she called her a nigga.
02:03:56.000I mean, don't get me wrong, nobody was angels.
02:03:58.000That fucking one linebacker they had, Canavis McGee, somebody called him a yarm one time, he punched him in the face so hard he broke the guy's eye socket.
02:04:08.000That guy ended up going to the fucking New York Giants as a linebacker.
02:04:12.000But that's how bad that cop problem with the college football players, it was that bad in Boulder at one time.
02:04:19.000So when I went to court, and the guy goes, there's no charges here.
02:05:38.000It's just crazy to think that that was your option.
02:05:41.000And then think about all the shit that you've been through now.
02:05:44.000Like, thinking of yourself back then, you know?
02:05:48.000I mean, when you think about today, like, your life with your little daughter and your wife and, you know, doing podcasts and doing all these shows everywhere, and then just thinking, like, holding someone hostage, kidnapping them, robbing a drug deal with a machine gun.
02:06:25.000Think about that guy that pulled the knife on you.
02:06:27.000What if after you beat him, he came back and tried to get you and then escalated and the next thing you know, he stabbed him or he shot him or easily you could have murdered somebody.
02:07:43.000My dad got an insurance policy and the coroner never signed the death certificate.
02:07:51.000So I never got that prudential insurance.
02:07:53.000Plus my mom owned property where Miami Airport is.
02:07:57.000My mom had that property with two of her drug partners where that fucking thing was.
02:08:03.000And I didn't get my cut from that, so I wanted to kill the guy.
02:08:08.000So for years, that was my whole thing.
02:08:10.000You know, when I went to Colorado and hooked up with Fred, he taught me how to shoot and how to fucking, you know, shoot a fucking rifle and measure distance and all that shit they do on TV. That was me.
02:08:47.000That's one of the worst things you can do is win the lottery or get a big inheritance.
02:08:51.000You would think getting a big inheritance would be amazing for you.
02:08:55.000It's one of the worst things that can happen.
02:08:57.000In terms of like your ambition, if you're in the middle of doing something, you got some ideas, or maybe you don't know what you want to do, and you need to find something, you're hungry, and all of a sudden you just get a giant chunk of money, and now you're buying things, and your ambition's gone.
02:11:32.000Knowing that you've failed in the past and that, you know, there's been many times where, like, how many times have you bombed and you get off stage and you're like, I can't do this.
02:11:43.000Like, I gotta figure out what the fuck I'm doing with my life.
02:11:45.000If you don't go through those things, if you don't have those experiences, if you don't have those moments in your life Where you're unsure of the future.
02:11:53.000You're not going to have the real resolve that it takes to make it.
02:11:57.000The grit and determination that it takes to move forward.
02:12:00.000And if you don't have that, any success that you do have, you're not going to appreciate.
02:12:43.000It's like if you want to be a doctor, you go to college, you get a degree, you go to medical school, you do your residency, there's a pathway.
02:13:22.000What did you think the outcome was going to be?
02:13:24.000Because for me, I thought that I was just going to be a rogue comic, and if I was an extra in a movie, that would be the best it would get for me.
02:14:51.000And all I kept seeing was that picture of Mickey Rourke at the end of fucking Angel Heart when he's sitting there smoking a cigarette with a razor in his hand, blood all over him.
02:18:07.000So I would take the limo, go to Harlem, buy a package of Coke, maybe buy a reefer, and then I would go there and do my last spot for the night.
02:19:16.000Because I always knew that he was a writer for Pryor, and he was like the elder statesman of the Comedy Store back in 94 when I first started there.
02:19:23.000I always had this feeling around him, like I was always nervous around him.
02:19:28.000And when I first started there, I was this young white guy in my 20s.
02:19:38.000He saw me doing a late night spot, like 1 o'clock in the morning, and there was only like fucking 15, 20 people in the audience, but I was just doing my best.
02:19:47.000I was doing it, and I heard in the back of the room, ah-ha!
02:20:36.000I mean, when someone does that to you, just the wind in your sails, it just can take you to a totally different place because you got the stamp.
02:20:47.000You got a stamp of approval from someone who's real.
02:20:50.000I'll never forget that I didn't know the power of the comedy store.
02:20:54.000I read about it and I heard about it from you and other people.
02:23:48.000Mencia used to steal all his shit, switch out the word nigger, put in the word Mexican, switch it up about Star Wars and about this and about that.
02:23:57.000And you would see the difference, because Mooney would go on after Mencia, too.
02:24:02.000Like, Mencia would go on before him and do his shit, and then Mooney would go on afterward.
02:25:10.000And I think, you know, his body of work is certainly larger than anybody else's.
02:25:16.000And he's certainly one of the all-time greats.
02:25:18.000But to me, there was something about Pryor that was just so special and unique and powerful and just resonated, man.
02:25:27.000I'll never forget listening to his stuff when I was a little kid.
02:25:32.000Me and my girlfriend in high school, I think I was like 16 and she was 15. And we were in my room listening to Richard Pryor on a cassette and just crying, laughing, sitting on my bed laughing and laughing.
02:25:50.000My parents took me to see live on the Sunset Strip when I was like 14 or 13 or something like that.
02:25:57.000I'll never forget being in that movie theater laughing so fucking hard.
02:26:03.000And looking around at people like rocking back and forth on their chairs.
02:26:07.000And all I remember thinking is, I can't believe this guy's just talking.
02:26:12.000Like, I'd seen all these amazing movies like, you know, Back to School or Stripes or, you know, name the comedy movies that you've seen all these years.
02:26:20.000I saw all these comedy movies that were great and funny, but they were never this funny.
02:28:17.000Larry Jones all these guys were savages and they were just Fighters, you know and so I could say fucked up things around them because they were used to kicking people in the head and they were used to fighting in tournaments and Taking you know taking bus trips to go kick the shit out of people.
02:28:33.000I mean that was what they did That's what everybody did back then so the way I felt about it was like I'm making a group of very crazy people laugh like these are like we're all misfits and You know, we were all like people that didn't fit in in a normal world because we were just fighting.
02:28:51.000And I'm like, they'll laugh because they're crazy.
02:28:55.000And they're punching people and kicking people and this is a different world.
02:28:59.000I'm like, other people are not going to think I'm funny.
02:32:38.000I mean like I just feel like I don't like I don't enjoy Watching him or listening to him as much because I don't think he was as good Today because I think that the culture was so different back then that it's not it's very difficult for us to To sing like the things that he's saying are not groundbreaking today Yeah.
02:33:10.000But I think Richard Pryor took what he did and the honesty that Lenny Bruce exhibited on stage and he brought it to the next level.
02:33:58.000You want to do more really good comedy.
02:34:00.000And everyone's sort of influencing everybody.
02:34:02.000So I think that honesty that Lenny Bruce expressed was so unique for the time that there was no one had ever done any sort of social commentary in a comedy form the way that Lenny had done.
02:34:20.000And then Richard Pryor took it and just blew it out of the water.
02:34:23.000I mean, Richard Pryor was raised in a brothel.
02:35:44.000He just had a different sort of style, whereas Kinnison was just, Kinnison was just kickstarting everything and just fucking knocking down the doors.
02:35:52.000No, this guy, you didn't see him coming.
02:37:42.000He was just doing weird shit back then.
02:37:44.000He has a joke today that still holds up about gay people.
02:37:49.000He goes, Dig, homosexuals, they lock him up in jail for being gay, where they put him in there with a bunch of men who want to have sex with him.
02:38:04.000Will Elizabeth Taylor become bar mitzvahed?
02:38:12.000No, I promise continuity I'll behave myself.
02:38:17.000I'll do all the lines we rehearsed, you know.
02:38:19.000That's the thing, you know, I have a reputation for being sort of controversial and irreverent and also the semantic bear trap of bad taste.
02:38:29.000And actually, I do have, and I will always be accused of bad taste by the people who eat in restaurant service, you know, that kind of scene to anyone, yeah.
02:38:38.000But you might be interested in how I became offensive.
02:38:48.000Drinking and I was really, I was like a real depressed kid, you know, seven, eight years old and I'd really get juiced and get out of my way.
02:38:57.000And so the teacher would really get bugged, you know, with me singing and carrying on and calling Columbus a fink and boosting Aaron Burr and all that kind of stuff.
02:44:55.000Because he went crazy, and he had all those issues, and he was wearing a rubber suit, and he had a gun, and he got pulled over, and he said he was dehydrated, and he was on some sort of drugs, and they locked him up in a psych ward.
02:45:05.000There was a lot of nutty shit with him, right?
02:45:07.000So people forgot how goddamn good he was when he was in his prime.
02:45:10.000But when he was in his prime, yeah, there he is, and bad boys.
02:49:34.000And then, you know, like, executives are going, you know, they were talking to my agent, this guy, you know, he's very arrogant, and, you know, he's causing problems on the set.
02:49:44.000I'm like, I'm not causing problems on the set.
02:49:45.000I go, they took the writer stuff, they rewrote it, and they turned it into dog shit.
02:52:04.000And that thing that we were talking about before where people just like say things that they don't really mean because they think that you're supposed to say those things because there's like a pattern of behavior that you're supposed to.
02:53:41.000I mean, this is the thing that people have, the real problem that people have with this Harvey Weinstein situation.
02:53:47.000It's not just that the fact that he was a piece of shit to all these women.
02:53:52.000It's his position of power that he had over them, that he exerted.
02:53:56.000He got himself into this position, and then used that position to, on some, I mean...
02:54:01.000According to Whitney, like Whitney Cummings was talking to me about this, she's like, what you're hearing is all the women that said no to him.
02:54:08.000She's like, that guy fucked a lot of them.
02:54:11.000And it was part of the deals that he gave them.
02:54:14.000They even went after one of the girls he was fucking.
02:55:03.000It's kind of, I mean, it's fucked up and it's dark, but once that gets going, and once that's what he does, how do you stop that train, other than what they did?
02:55:44.000Well, it's one of the reasons why people in this town are so crazy.
02:55:48.000It's because they're insecure to begin with, right?
02:55:50.000The only reason why anybody becomes an actor, like why people want to be famous, not the only reason, but one of the main reasons why people want to be famous is because at some point in their life they didn't feel valuable.
02:56:02.000At some point in their life they felt discarded, they felt abused, they felt ignored, and they had this Inescapable need for attention.
02:56:15.000And that was the driving force that led them into acting, where they could be on that stage and everyone was looking at them, all eyes on them, while the microphone was on and the words were coming out of their mouth and they were in the play or in the movie or doing stand-up even.
02:56:31.000It's a lot of the same stuff that propelled you and I. Being ignored as a child.
02:57:08.000In stand-up, all you have to do is you do open mic nights, you get funny, you build up an act, and then people come to see you, you build up a career, and the next thing you know, you become a successful comedian.
02:57:18.000That's what happened to you, that's what happened to me.
02:57:20.000But with acting, you have to get chosen.
03:00:00.000All right, I had warm-ups on with the string, and I had white, tighty-whities, and I had a zip-up jacket, and I had to weigh 380. So I walked in, I go, I know what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna take my pants off.