Comedian Eddie Murphy joins Jemele to discuss his stand-up comedy career and how he became one of the most successful comedians of all time. He also talks about the first time he saw a movie and how it changed his perspective on comedy and comedy in general. Plus, Eddie talks about how he first met Bill Cosby and the impact it had on his comedy career, and why he thinks Bill Cosby should have been kicked out of the standup comedy club he was in at the time. Plus, he talks about why he doesn t think Bill Cosby is as funny as he used to think he was, and what it was like to be a black comedian in the 80s and early 90s. And, of course, he tells the story of how he almost got into a run-in with Bill Cosby. And, he gives us the inside scoop on how he was introduced to the world of comedy by a famous standup comedian, Richard Pryor. Enjoy the episode and remember to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe, Like, and Share, and Retweet! Thanks for listening and Share this with a friend who needs a good story about a good ol' ol' day job! XOXO, Jeromy and Jeromy Cheers, Cheers. -Jon & Jon Jon & Rory -The Jeromy & Rory Crews Don't Tell a Friend About This (Jon & Rory) Music: Jon and Jon and Rory - Rory - Thank You, Jon - Jon - Mike - and Jon -and Jon - and the rest of the Crew - Jake - and Jon & Rachael - and Rachie - and Rael - Sarah - and Sarah - & Sarah -and the rest & R.J. -and R.B. - and everyone else - and all the rest - - and so much more! -and, and R.A. & RYAN - and a bunch of other people who need to know about this? & RACHIE - and they can do it, too, and they'll do it better than you do it so they can have the chance to do it! and they don't have a good time, and it's better than they do it in a way that you can do more than that, and we do it like that, too much of it,
00:00:00.000three two one boom check out this new richard prior plastic cell come on live on the sunset strip iconic that was uh really the first thing that i ever saw that made me truly understand the power of stand-up comedy i was 13 years old i think maybe 14. my parents went uh took me to see it and uh we were in the audience I remember thinking,
00:00:26.000how is this guy so funny just talking?
00:06:59.000Back on SNL days, David Spade had that Hollywood Minute segment, and he made a controversial joke about Eddie, because I guess Eddie had just left SNL or something like that.
00:07:13.000And he goes, hey everybody, look, a falling star.
00:10:36.000We were watching Home Alone 2 the other day, the one where he's lost in New York, and there's this scene where, have you seen this, where he's walking through the hotel, he gets this fancy hotel, he has his dad's credit card, and he's lost in the hotel for a second, and he's like, hey, excuse me,
00:11:43.000Right, so they really had to make this one work out, and they do such a great job with it.
00:11:47.000He's replacing batteries, a guy, they're running, of course, still, this late family that can never have their shit together.
00:11:54.000And he's chasing the guy, and it makes sense, because he runs into the lady taking tickets.
00:11:58.000You know, it's back when they took physical tickets, and he runs into the ladies chasing the guy that looks like his dad, and the tickets go everywhere.
00:12:05.000So it makes sense that he doesn't have a seat, and it makes sense that he went to the wrong gate following the wrong guy.
00:12:11.000It's beautiful that they can make comedies that way back then could rationalize a family being in a different place than their little child.
00:12:22.000I wonder if you could do that movie today.
00:13:06.000And when you're a little boy and you're growing up giganti like that, and then all of a sudden you're this 40-year-old man where he is now.
00:13:57.000And I think the only way it really works if you can handle fame is if you've developed character over your life and become an adult and we're nothing.
00:14:08.000And understand hard work and understand the fortune that you have to be famous or to be successful in show business.
00:14:18.000But if you grow up like that, man, all your signals are all crossed wrong.
00:14:45.000The idea that you're going to hold him to the same standards as this other kid who's also 24, whose dad is a football coach at the high school, and whose mom is a math teacher, and they're really in tight with their community, and he grew up going to scout camps,
00:15:02.000He plays football, and he plays baseball, and he's got a bunch of friends that he grew up with, and they're all normal, and he's had a girlfriend for the past two years, but he doesn't know if he should make it serious when he goes to college.
00:15:26.000Pulled out of school, so you don't have real, like, knowledge of history, can probably barely read.
00:15:33.000Justin Bieber's, what, 23 or something?
00:15:35.000Probably worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and probably had girls just launch themselves at him from the time that he was a little boy in a way that no one who's not Justin Bieber's ever gonna understand.
00:16:58.000They'd bust these inner city kids, though, that would fuck you up.
00:17:02.000You've got to be real careful with that.
00:17:04.000There were some tough people there, but the point is that...
00:17:09.000If you don't have a motivation to work hard, whether it's to become a stand-up, whether it's to become a martial artist, or anything that you're like, I gotta get out of here, I gotta do something different, I gotta make something happen.
00:17:23.000You gotta go through shit for that feeling to sort of emerge with enough horsepower to get you some momentum.
00:17:31.000I can't imagine who I would be if I was famous when I was six.
00:17:42.000They can't pump the serotonin out of their brain fast enough.
00:17:47.000That's why so many of these people chase these dragons.
00:17:50.000They also get really depressed when they don't have continual, constant success.
00:17:56.000A lot of kids that experience an early peak And, you know, everybody loves them, and they're super used to it, and everybody's kissing their ass, and then it drops off.
00:19:35.000Bigger than maybe you think it should be, like, I gotta fix it, I gotta fix it.
00:19:38.000But when you do something like that, especially if it's not like an egregious issue that you really do need to deal with, if you get your nose fixed, like, it looks like you got your nose fixed.
00:19:48.000So every time someone's talking to you, they're like, you got your nose...
00:19:58.000Like the width of your eyes, apart from your eyes, the length of your head will give you an indication of how long and what shape your nose should be.
00:20:06.000As weird as it seems, all this shit lines up.
00:21:55.000That's what her butt used to look like in 2013. And then she got super addicted to powerlifting, but not with her arms or her upper body at all.
00:26:18.000Like there's a bunch of people right now for sure that are posting on Twitter.
00:26:24.000There's probably thousands of them right now that are doing it because they're getting paid to pretend to be a Republican who's really upset about the libs or they're being paid to pretend to be a progressive Who thinks trans people should be mandatory in every position of power.
00:26:44.000Some of the wackier positions that people take online are most likely taken up not just from wacky people.
00:26:52.000There's going to be wacky people for sure.
00:26:54.000But there's also going to be a certain amount of them, I don't know what the number would be, where these people are getting paid to stir up shit online.
00:27:01.000I mean, this is the Renee DiResta thing.
00:27:04.000This woman was on the podcast who studied Russia and these Russian troll farms.
00:27:10.000There's this thing called the IRA. It's the Internet Research Agency.
00:28:30.000But it's close enough, where it's within a million people, one way or the other.
00:28:34.000If you can get people engaged on a very specific subject, like The impeachment hearings.
00:28:42.000You can get people engaged and get people to think, God damn it, these Dems, this is a coup.
00:28:48.000They're trying to take over the fucking country.
00:28:50.000And you start telling other people, and they start telling other people, and then you got this Facebook page that these folks have put up, and it's got interactions that are going on all day long.
00:32:21.000What's crazy is that it's such cheap mode, but now you can do it.
00:32:24.000And I remember doing it in high school with my buddies.
00:32:27.000We smoked pot and matched it up, and you had to start the CD on the second MGM Lion Roar.
00:32:33.000And now all you have to do is type, you know, Wizard of Oz Dark Side, and the whole thing's matched up on YouTube.
00:32:37.000You could be watching it on the toilet in 20 seconds.
00:32:40.000Is there a moment in it where it doesn't match up?
00:32:43.000I mean, there's, of course, obviously, because there's so much stuff going on.
00:32:48.000It's the establishing beginning and, you know, start of the middle of Wizard of Oz.
00:32:54.000But, I mean, there's just so much that sort of tonally, beat-wise, lyric-wise, there's a part where, like, you know, an us and them are like, and which one's which?
00:33:07.000And at that point, right then, for the first time, the good witch and the bad witch.
00:33:14.000When she first cracks the door after the tornado...
00:33:18.000You know the great gig in the sky, the one where the lady's singing like crazy, like, whoa!
00:33:23.000That's during the tornado and the house is spinning and then the house lands and that song trickles out and when she cracks the door and you see color for the first time, the second that door cracks, and this was back then, we're stoned in 14 listening to a CD player watching a VHS and as soon as that door cracks and you see that yellow of the brick road and the color,
00:34:08.000I looked up recently that some people thought they definitely tried to do this because it seems so purposeful but I read an interview with one of the guys in the band that at the time they recorded the album VHS didn't exist so they would have had to have had reels in the studio and a projection and like The amount of work to do that would have been...
00:36:07.000Certified 15x platinum in the U.S. Oh, that's 15 million.
00:36:10.000But altogether, if I add these up, it gets close to about 22, 25. But that's in the U.S. Four and a half in the U.K., two million in France, two million in Canada, and then nothing else over 250. Australia got close to a million.
00:39:37.000Like, we'll go to the football stadium.
00:39:39.000Or we'll go to the city next to you, and everybody from your city is gonna go to that city, and you won't have, you know, a booming economy for the night.
00:40:18.000If you're going to take my ticket, if it's a physical ticket, and you have to fly it in a fucking airplane across the country, it costs 35 cents.
00:40:32.000I mean, think about how crazy that is.
00:41:11.000So convenient, you just take my money.
00:41:13.000Someone's just getting money for nothing.
00:41:15.000Well, then there's the other thing, man, that's equally weird, is that people are allowed to buy tickets and then sell them at exorbitant rates.
00:44:49.000And they got busted in Broward County, Florida.
00:44:52.000Broward is like, you know, if you're doing up to anything that might be a little slimy, and you get arrested, and they bring you to get charged in Broward County, Florida, ooh, you're fucked, kid.
00:45:06.000I see them all the time on Life PD, Broward County.
00:45:09.000When they go to Broward County, it's a great one.
00:46:41.000You would never, you know, you'd never get a criminal to do that correctly, where it wouldn't look, you know, wouldn't look fake.
00:46:48.000But these guys, when you know they're getting arrested, you see the glassy look in their eye, you see them confused and stupid, you see them say crazy shit, you see them get pushed against a car, you see them screaming at their old lady with their shirt off, you see them.
00:50:55.000It's hilarious that the security guard from Jerry Springer ended up with his own TV show because he got so famous for running up on stage, stopping all the fights.
00:51:35.000We were watching TV. Because sometimes if they're setting up a scene, maybe if they're special effects or something, you might be there for fucking two hours, right?
01:04:39.000It was transported there for a very particular reason, but there's these little crab claws at the very bottom of it, which are interesting.
01:06:11.000It's weird they would just keep it there.
01:06:12.000Because again, like if you had an obelisk that you found, it was an ancient historical object, and you're like, let's just leave it in the park.
01:06:38.000I think if I had the choice, if there was one place where I could go in a time machine and just peek for like an hour and just look around and then come back to present day, I think that would be the spot.
01:06:49.000I'd want to see what Egypt was like when they were building the pyramids.
01:06:53.000Like, in the middle of construction, when they're at their peak, when they're building the Great Pyramid of Giza, like, what was society like?
01:07:37.000I think he could have been in on it, and maybe he didn't even fire it.
01:07:40.000But when he said he was a patsy, The way he said it, when he got arrested and he said, I'm just a patsy, that's like a guy who knew he was going to get in trouble for something.
01:07:57.000They easily could have talked him into doing something fucked up and then they did something as well and blamed it all on him and they had him set up for it.
01:10:49.000Former presidents go, top-ranking generals and heads of state and bankers and famous artists, they go to this place and they do occult rituals.
01:13:30.000So do you think these people all work with each other?
01:13:34.000See, he's got this hidden camera footage of these people with torches dressed up like druids going over and they're carrying the effigy and then they're going to sacrifice it and light on fire.
01:13:45.000Dude, this is like really rich, famous, powerful people are all...
01:15:51.000There probably was one guy who was like the top skull and bones guy, and he's just really into fucking dudes, and he just convinced everybody, you know what would be a crazy thing, man?
01:15:58.000How about we have a group, super secret group, and you can't tell anybody about it.
01:16:01.000How are we going to stop people from telling people?
01:18:47.000They were selling whiskey or moonshine or whatever the fuck it was.
01:18:50.000The movie says the dad was too old at the time to get a hold of the sons.
01:18:53.000They were trying to get old man Kennedy to tell his kids, crack the whip, get him in line, but they couldn't get to him because he was just staring out windows.
01:19:42.000Figure out what you got to say to that guy to get that guy to run up on that dude and shoot him in the stomach.
01:19:47.000I mean, if you put a gun to somebody's head and you tell them that if they don't do this, we're going to kill you and your family, that's it.
01:20:05.000That's I think it's more than that I think it's guys that you can tell that they're gonna do a good thing They're gonna go out on history and they're gonna live in infamy like for their own personal gain Like you're talking about people that that are so dumb You're willing to you're gonna you're gonna lose the rest of your life Because someone's telling you to go shoot Bobby Kennedy and you're gonna do it in a restaurant in front of everybody It was a hotel That was in Chicago,
01:21:07.000It's actually like a 20-minute speech.
01:21:08.000I think this is the main highlight we're hopefully looking for.
01:21:12.000The very word secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society.
01:21:17.000And we are, as a people, inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
01:21:28.000We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it.
01:21:40.000Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions.
01:21:49.000Even today, there is little value in ensuring the survival of our nation.
01:21:55.000If our traditions do not survive with it.
01:21:58.000And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment.
01:22:13.000That I do not intend to permit to the extent that it's in my control.
01:22:18.000And no official of my administration, whether his rank is high or low, civilian or military, Should interpret my words here tonight as an excuse to censor the news, to stifle dissent, to cover up our mistakes,
01:22:33.000or to withhold from the press and the public the facts they deserve to know.
01:22:39.000For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covet means for expanding its sphere of influence, on infiltration instead of invasion,
01:22:55.000on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day.
01:23:06.000It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, Intelligence, economic,
01:23:59.000Now, if you had just heard that if someone else was saying that instead of Kennedy, if someone else was saying those very things in front of you about how they have an open budget, their findings are all concealed, they're a tightly knit group that combines the military and science and all that,
01:24:30.000He's talking about the military industrial complex.
01:24:35.000He's talking about all the gears that are in play.
01:24:39.000All the pieces that are in play that are making money and causing war and deciding what information people should and shouldn't have and what overreach You know, they're going to put into action.
01:26:09.000He's running a massive business that makes military stuff, so us having to do stuff benefits him tremendously.
01:26:18.000It's one of the most transparent scams that's legal in the history of the world.
01:26:23.000Just pause and think about how crazy everybody's going on about this Trump call to Ukraine and whether or not there was enough to impeach him and all this madness.
01:26:33.000People are going crazy about this, right?
01:29:16.000They make Rumsfeld look like basically what he was, just a big doofus that would get out and do his own thing, and they'd have to control Rumsfeld.
01:29:25.000You want to hear another conspiracy theory that you probably don't know that's going to blow your mind?
01:31:25.000Think about what you saw when you saw that Vice movie, where Dick Cheney, who was the CEO of Halliburton, becomes the vice president and gets billions of dollars in no-bid contracts.
01:31:37.000Now think about what we just saw with Donald Rumsfeld saying they couldn't find $2.3 trillion.
01:31:59.000If it was the accounting office, because this is what I love to say it, because it sounds good, but let's make sure it's true, that that part blew up.
01:32:06.000But either way, that he did say that, and then they did get hit by a plane a couple of days later.
01:36:23.000But I am saying that when things happen and disasters take place, people capitalize on those disasters.
01:36:31.000And if it's possible that someone was going to set something up, some sort of an attack, and they're going to do it because they were in the process of stealing something or were going to steal something, it would have to be a lot.
01:36:47.000I'd be like, wait a minute, what are they going to do?
01:36:49.000How much money would it be worth at the start of war?
01:37:33.000The thing I just found, which I was going off of, Congressional Budget Office, reported, report published in October 2007, said, oh, could, this isn't a potential spending.
01:37:43.000Okay, don't give us the number, though.
01:38:56.000Like, if you are someone that makes weapons, and you have a huge contract with the Defense Department, and you have the ear of the Defense Department, and, you know, you guys play golf and shit, and you dress up like druids and burn an effigy,
01:39:30.000I mean, who has the ultimate influence in whether or not there is military action and how long that military action goes on for, right?
01:39:39.000Because Bernie Sanders and a lot of these people and Tulsi Gabbard, a lot of these people that are running for president say that if they got up, one of the things they would do is stop these interventionalist foreign wars and this world police wars that we just go on and invade in other people's lives,
01:41:38.000You can't let them have nuclear weapons.
01:41:40.000You just can't let that happen, and it goes on.
01:41:44.000See, like, and that's, you know, that's the thing with Trump.
01:41:49.000Nobody ever talks about, I feel like, is it's like we've been pretty much anti, you know, we haven't been swayed into as many wars as I feel like we would have been.
01:42:15.000You know, the thing about talking to people like Jocko Willink and, you know, my friend Andy Stump and other folks that have been over there, they'll tell you.
01:42:23.000There's some times where things build up and radicals control cities and things get really ugly and they have to have some sort of military intervention or these people keep growing and they, you know...
01:42:38.000That's the other thing that people aren't talking about.
01:42:41.000In Afghanistan in particular, the Afghanis are working with the soldiers against these terrorist organizations.
01:42:52.000There's Afghanis that are helping U.S. soldiers.
01:42:54.000It's not like all of the U.S. against all of Afghanistan.
01:42:59.000No, they're combined against ISIS. It's just...
01:43:06.000The whole thing is so crazy that there's these groups, these organizations that are like characters in a James Bond movie or in a comic book, right?
01:43:19.000Think about ISIS, something like ISIS. If you had a crazy movie...
01:43:24.000About people that, you know, had a great leader who's like the spiritual guy who lived in the mountains and, you know, that's Osama Bin Laden.
01:43:32.000I mean, he is like a character in a movie.
01:43:34.000He used to work for the good guys, then he switched over to the bad guys.
01:43:37.000It's like someone in a Batman movie, you know?
01:44:26.000They don't have nothing to do with terrorists.
01:44:28.000And when there is some sort of terrorist activity, it makes them feel bad, that they're getting lumped in with someone who's doing horrific things.
01:44:36.000These people that, you know, end up committing to these extreme religions, I feel like we should be dropping, like, soccer balls and Nintendo switches from airplanes to give them things to do so that they're...
01:44:50.000If you're stuck in a place that's got a very rigid religious ideology and radical, and, you know, you've been radicalized since you were young...
01:44:57.000And then you got places like Yemen, right?
01:45:00.000Places that are getting bombed by the U.S. for fucking robots.
01:46:21.000But if you have an Xbox controller and you're shooting Hellfire missiles into a fucking school because you think that there's a terrorist in there.
01:46:36.000So they try to get someone to blow up a school or get someone to blow up a wedding party.
01:46:41.000Like, there's a lot of fuckery involved in anything you're doing like that where they know that if you do kill people, it's actually bad press.
01:47:06.000It's the only thing on Netflix that I've watched like five, six, seven times and they just dropped another one with a whole different footage and a whole different angles with historian interviews cut in between and everything.
01:48:57.000Yeah, the giant rock from Egypt came over in 1888. Yes, came over in 1888, right?
01:49:05.000It's probably older than that, but these people were essentially living a nomadic Stone Age life.
01:49:14.000Everything was leather and sinew and buffalo tendons they used to make their bows and their bow strings.
01:49:21.000They made their own bows and arrows out of wood, and the arrowheads were made out of flint.
01:49:27.000They would chip away expertly, and they would run around following buffalo and just shoot them with bows and arrows and spear them or run them off cliffs.
01:49:36.000They would run them off cliffs and stampedes.
01:49:39.000And there were sometimes so many bodies down in the bottom of these buffalo jumps that the rotting would cause combustion and they would blow up.
01:49:48.000They would explode and catch fire just because there's hundreds and hundreds of dead, rotting buffalo on top of each other.
01:52:19.000It's like you were gonna say that God had a plan.
01:52:25.000To provide people with the perfect animal for hunting, which wants you to be eating healthy, so I'm going to give you millions of this fucking enormous animal that doesn't move when you shoot its friends.
01:52:43.000Literally fill the planes with these things.
01:52:47.000People were just such cunts that they killed them all.
01:52:51.000People were so gross because the buffaloes are so easy to kill that they just killed them all.
01:52:56.000They would have mountains of bones, man.
01:53:06.000So, they call it the bonfire because all that blackened shit apparently was because of the fires from the buffaloes hitting and bursting into flames.
01:53:14.000And some of those buffalo jumps, they say to this day, you can find arrowheads if you go wandering around the area because, you know, it's so populated by...
01:54:11.000At the opening of the shelter, there are historically documented accounts of Northern Plains Indian groups using this effective, if indiscriminate, technique of killing bison.
01:54:21.000But you also have to remember back then, there was so many bison that if they thought they killed a couple extra thousand, they didn't give a fuck.
01:54:51.000Anyway, when those guys came over and brought smallpox, it just wiped out most of the population.
01:54:58.000So the buffalo, who really, their major predator was people, especially Native Americans, especially once they figured out how to ride horses.
02:00:51.000Honest to God, man, I thought we were going to go take pictures with these koalas because they have the little girl zookeepers and they seem super comfortable and they're giggling and happy and everything, but it ended up being a serious situation.
02:01:13.000Right now, because of a gigantic wildfire in Australia, they've become functionally extinct Which means that 80% of their range has been destroyed by wildfire.
02:01:24.000So you didn't even find anything on that.
02:02:53.000Look, I'm not saying you're wrong, Jamie.
02:02:55.000What I'm saying is the older ones, when they're saying they were functionally extinct, was from May, which doesn't totally make sense because were there that many fires in May?
02:03:03.000Because aren't these fires of real recent?
02:05:23.000You've got to get rid of these fucking buffalo.
02:05:26.000Wouldn't it be fun to just get dropped off somewhere like that with a bunch of, just like 30 days worth of stuff in a backpack to survive and just be lost?
02:06:45.000Yeah, and they were growing their own food and hunting what they can, but they didn't have a bow and arrow, they didn't have a gun, so they would set traps in the ground floor, and animals would fall in, and sticks would stab them.
02:07:13.000so they might have been out there for you know 30 plus years and that was the shack they lived in that was the place they lived in and they're they're in the fucking taiga man they're in siberia they're 150 miles from the late the the nearest city they walked they got 150 miles in and set up shop because some of the people that they were with in their religious group were killed By communists.
02:07:39.000Some were arrested and persecuted and they just had to flee.
02:07:43.000So they took off and they made a little commune up there.
02:09:34.000If you like stand-up, and you want to know what it's like to try it out in the beginning, and then try it out in the most hostile environment, no demand, but also most supportive, because if the comic's good, like if someone does a solid minute, every time I've been on the show, we'll be like,
02:10:20.000But it's also, it's like, it's a cool way for everyone else to see what it's like when someone's either just doing it for the first time, or just, I mean, most people have never been to an open mic night.
02:12:11.000Because I'll only keep someone up there if it's super compelling.
02:12:15.000We had this guy pulled out of a bucket two weeks ago that just came, not came down with, but has Lou Gehrig's disease and was doing comedy for 20 years.
02:12:25.000And now he's like, come back to it and is, you know, he's...
02:12:29.000He's got it, I don't know what the word is, pretty...
02:12:52.000And so at the end of his set, at the end of this amazing, compelling interview, I invite him back to come back the next week.
02:13:00.000So last night, or Monday night, we had him back on, and I get nervous when I do things like this, because I'm like, man, I hope they have another minute.
02:13:07.000I hope this interview goes as good as it does last time, because now I don't want to feel bad for them.
02:13:51.000He started in Chicago at Second City, and I think he's only been doing stand-up like four or five.
02:13:57.000But now he's really leaning into, he's utilizing this Lou Gehrig's disease, this ALS that really has a grasp on him, but he's really leaning into it.
02:14:07.000He's talking about how he has sex with his girlfriend, but he can't do it any style other than on his back and all this stuff.
02:15:11.000I'm going to cash in on my golden ticket, which is something that people on the road can win where you can show up to any Kill Tony after that.
02:15:17.000Only six people in the world have ever won it.
02:15:19.000But if you get the golden ticket, that means that you killed so hard and your interview was so great and you're so interesting that you get to show up at any Kill Tony and do a minute wherever it's happening.
02:15:57.000The last thing I said to her, or she said to me after I said goodbye that night, she's literally like, I just can't wait until August 21st, 2023 when I get to finally come to the comedy store and show these motherfuckers what's up.
02:16:11.000I'm just like, wow, this is a real comedian.
02:18:06.000It's a big one for us, though, because I'm from, of course, I'm originally from Youngstown, spent some time working and going to school in Columbus, and Red Band's from Columbus, so it's a big hoopla.
02:18:47.000I don't even have any time to do it, really, because I have one day in town to visit my mother, who's in a different place than my father and my sister and my nephews.
02:18:56.000And literally, like, Boom Boom hit me up.
02:18:58.000He's like, any chance you're going to be in Youngstown?
02:19:14.000I would have said it about Tony's brother.
02:19:15.000Let me just tell you that if you're from Youngstown and Boom Boom hits you up and invites you to do his podcast, you tell your mom and your dad that you're busy for an hour.
02:23:01.000It's also a great thing seeing someone slowly figure somebody out over five, six rounds and then start working them in the seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth and get a knockout in the eleventh or something like that.
02:23:10.000It's always interesting to see someone break someone's style down, figure them out, impose their will, and then also see their conditioning as the fight goes on, their superior conditioning play out.
02:23:22.000There's some guys that just fucking don't get tired, man.
02:23:25.000Those are the ones that I love, especially in UFC. Nate, Colby, Ioana.
02:24:50.000I mean, he only has, I think, a couple knockouts in his career, but it's because he's learned how to kickbox after he learned how to wrestle.
02:27:01.000He's sitting at the press conference reading Donald Trump Jr.'s book!
02:27:04.000And I've been pitching for years that the WWE is missing out on having this pro-Trump, super bad guy character, and then Colby comes out of nowhere and does it in real life in the UFC. And they still haven't done it in WWE. You can't call him a joke.
02:27:51.000He came and saw me perform at the Improv in Florida, West Palm Beach.
02:27:58.000And afterwards, we were in the green room, and he's like, you know, I learned a lot about timing and beats from watching you up there tonight.
02:28:14.000It's so cool to watch a guy that's, you know, while being on top of a big business, I feel like a lot of people, you know, their egos, this and that, or it's just about the fight game, you know.
02:29:16.000Even if you don't somehow find a way to finish it, You're stuck in rounds four and five now.
02:29:24.000It's always going to be championship rounds now with this guy, and you're going to be stuck in there with him.
02:29:29.000Yeah, if you can't take him out in one, two, or three, and you can't maintain that pace, and if you try to take him out and you emptied your gas tank, he never empties his gas tank.
02:29:37.000And the thing is about his style, this thing that he's doing, not his style, but his promotion style with the cheap suits and the fucking book, you think it's a joke.
02:34:22.000Kamaru Usman is a nightmare for every living human that's 170 pounds.
02:34:25.000And if I wanted to see him fight a guy that I thought presented a bunch of unique challenges, I would say Colby.
02:34:32.000Because Colby has a great wrestling pedigree, fantastic takedown defense, he can wrestle his ass off, his cardio's never-ending.
02:34:40.000We saw in the Robbie Lawler fight, he puts pressure on you, lands ridiculous strikes, can stand in there against one of the elite strikers ever in the welterweight division in Robbie Lawler.
02:34:50.000So, like, forget all the Trump bullshit.
02:39:35.000The thing about it, though, is that he did it slowly.
02:39:37.000So he lost the weight on purpose slowly over a long period of time.
02:39:42.000Instead of just dehydrating the fuck out of himself and dropping down from 165 to 135, what he did was drop his body weight pretty significantly.
02:39:52.000He looks quite a bit thinner than he used before, so he prepared for it over the long haul and got accustomed to being a lighter person.
02:39:59.000If you're gonna do that, that's the way to do that.
02:40:02.000The difference between dehydrating the shit out of yourself and just losing weight.
02:40:05.000But even at 135 there, I'm in a wonder.
02:40:09.000You take a hard punch to the head, it's just easier to go out.
02:40:13.000Maybe, but maybe not, because he's doing it correctly.
02:40:58.000I used to do it in high school wrestling.
02:41:00.000The thing I remember the most is having trouble not swallowing the toothpaste and water in my mouth while brushing my teeth before those things.
02:41:10.000You literally, when it hits your tongue, your body naturally wants to, yeah.
02:43:52.000Like, she might not be boxing like a world champion boxer because she's adding in takedowns and kicks and this and that and all these different things.
02:43:58.000But when you just come to a woman throwing bombs with her hands, she knows how to hit you on the fucking chin.