The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz ｜ The Funniest Man in California

00:00:00.000 Now, it's time for the Anchorman Podcast with Matt Gaetz and Dan Ball.

00:00:20.460 We have three adult children, our oldest, our sons who graduated Morehouse.

00:00:26.200 Hey, thank you, but don't clap. We broke. We ain't got no money.

00:00:30.000 6'4", 220, no athletic ability.

00:00:33.660 That's what I get for being on top when he was conceived.

00:00:37.280 Started off at D1 and just tripled out as a community college kid.

00:00:41.100 I'm sorry, that's nasty.

00:00:42.740 I did like, yeah, that was kind of nasty. That was graphic.

00:00:45.400 It just tripped right out.

00:00:47.260 It did, man. That's what happens when you're on top.

00:00:51.120 But he tried to play football in high school.

00:00:53.040 He's a freshman. He came home.

00:00:54.320 Dad, I made the football team. Coach said I won't play much, but that's okay.

00:00:57.200 I just want to be a good teammate. 0.99

00:00:58.800 I'm like, kill yourself. 1.00

00:01:00.000 Don't you know who seed you are, man? 1.00

00:01:04.240 And how does Alex Wong get on the court before you, man?

00:01:06.640 What's wrong with you?

00:01:10.100 We never had to watch his uniform.

00:01:11.700 I'm like, Luke, could you at least fall in the dirt and look like you played?

00:01:15.860 Wife used to get mad because I used to sit in the car and watch again. 0.78

00:01:18.340 He's like, why'd you sit in the car? 0.99

00:01:19.300 Because he's sitting down, damn it. 0.98

00:01:21.020 Welcome back to the Anchorman Podcast. 0.99

00:01:22.740 I'm Matt Gaetz here alongside my on-again, off-again employee, Vish Burra.

00:01:27.260 And we believe we have found the funniest man in California.

00:01:31.580 Vish and I were at the Comedy Store in La Jolla and we heard a set that had Vish laughing so loud,

00:01:37.380 they almost asked him to leave a comedy club.

00:01:40.320 It was that disruptive.

00:01:42.480 And Louis Dix is a legend.

00:01:44.500 This guy lived through the golden era of sitcoms, hanging with Mr. Cooper, done collaborations with D.L. Hughley,

00:01:52.660 now got a killer podcast.

00:01:54.640 It's a man's world, which, I mean, this is the collaboration we've been needing on Anchorman. 0.99

00:01:59.720 But Vish, tell us more about Louis and how we were able to get him to come hang out with us for a little bit.

00:02:05.900 Well, as soon as I saw the set, obviously after I gathered myself from all the laughing that I did,

00:02:13.220 we knew that we had to have him on the show.

00:02:15.760 I approached him.

00:02:17.160 He was super humble, gave me his number.

00:02:19.780 We stayed in contact.

00:02:21.300 And as I did my research on him, realizing he's done these USO tours all over the world.

00:02:26.960 He's done Nights at the Apollo, historic venue in Harlem, New York, and then the Laugh Factory as well.

00:02:35.800 And I'm just like, oh, we got to get this guy.

00:02:37.340 He's been on the scene forever.

00:02:39.060 So we are so proud to have you, Louis, on the show today.

00:02:42.980 Well, thank you for having me.

00:02:44.300 I was like, when I got your call, it was really interesting.

00:02:46.880 I'm like, Vish.

00:02:48.020 And I always put a note, okay, comedy club.

00:02:50.160 Okay.

00:02:50.840 And then you said Matt, and I thought it was a comedian named Matt that didn't have a show.

00:02:54.060 This is a comedian named Matt.

00:02:55.360 You were right.

00:02:55.820 And I was like, so then my wife's like, well, look it up. 0.99

00:02:59.120 And I said, oh, Matt Case.

00:03:00.500 And she was like, yeah, that guy.

00:03:02.180 And I was like, yeah, that's the guy that was getting ready to beat up McCarthy.

00:03:06.600 Yeah. 0.86

00:03:07.100 He was the one that was surrounded by all the old-haired bullies. 1.00

00:03:09.800 Yeah.

00:03:10.220 Because that's how it looked on TV. 0.88

00:03:11.820 It looked like all the old-haired bullies would get ready to punch you. 1.00

00:03:14.200 And you're like, all right.

00:03:15.060 And you know why?

00:03:15.900 Because they just wanted their money.

00:03:17.080 Like, do you see some massive sense of urgency in Congress now or ever to do almost anything?

00:03:23.760 But you see, they can't get that money train roll into them until they've put somebody in that leadership post who can then extract millions of dollars from lobbyists and special interests and then redistribute that money to congressmen in exchange for favors.

00:03:38.440 Like, that is how it works.

00:03:40.400 And that's why we don't get a lot done.

00:03:42.980 We're a ton in debt.

00:03:44.600 And we get in wars everywhere.

00:03:46.560 And I was sick of it.

00:03:48.240 So that's what I do.

00:03:48.960 It was fun to watch for us because we weren't in trouble.

00:03:52.120 So a lot of people weren't in trouble.

00:03:53.800 So we were good.

00:03:54.800 And then I knew Vish from the blue suit walking down the hall with Santos.

00:03:59.340 And I knew he could fight.

00:04:00.960 Yeah, right.

00:04:01.980 I was like, all right, he looked like he can fight.

00:04:04.060 And then I'm talking to him.

00:04:05.040 I'm like, oh, yeah, he can fight.

00:04:06.520 So that was cool.

00:04:08.060 The research was cool.

00:04:09.100 And then shout out to you, Charlie Ward.

00:04:11.960 Oh, yeah.

00:04:12.440 With the burning spears.

00:04:14.460 Yeah.

00:04:14.900 Yeah, burning spears.

00:04:15.760 Charlie Ward, one of the greatest human beings to walk the planet Earth, in my view.

00:04:19.000 Yeah, and you helped get him to the Heisman.

00:04:21.420 I didn't do that.

00:04:22.580 Well, you guys started the whole promotion.

00:04:24.660 But, yeah, it was an organization committed.

00:04:27.180 His on-the-field play is what got him to the Heisman.

00:04:30.040 But incredible Christian.

00:04:31.860 Takes a lot of time coaching young people.

00:04:33.720 Charlie Ward went on to the New York Knicks, got in all kind of trouble.

00:04:39.900 They said he was anti-Semitic.

00:04:41.820 And then he gets up at this press conference and he said, I could not possibly be anti-Semitic because my best friend is Jewish.

00:04:49.440 And his name is Jesus Christ.

00:04:52.000 And he sat down.

00:04:53.100 Amazing.

00:04:53.580 I loved him.

00:04:54.380 So, Lewis, I want to get a bunch of you.

00:04:56.360 You have so many great observations about life, family, fatherhood, marriage.

00:05:01.820 I'm dying to get your advice on a bunch of this stuff.

00:05:03.940 But as you look at this awesome career you've had in comedy and in performance, what are the highlights that you reflect on?

00:05:11.100 Well, I mean, I guess it starts from making the decision to do comedy because when I first started, I was theater major at Sonoma State.

00:05:17.940 And I came down to L.A. and acting was just rough.

00:05:22.340 And it was around, you know, in the 90s.

00:05:23.940 So then I started doing stand-up comedy.

00:05:26.480 And I started off like everyone else with Martin Lawrence and Dave and Chris Tucker.

00:05:34.240 And everyone was cursing.

00:05:35.640 And I was cursing, too.

00:05:36.760 And then I was like, that's a long line.

00:05:39.220 So then I said, okay, I'm going to switch.

00:05:41.260 And I'm going to get in line with only Sinbad and Dr. Cosby.

00:05:43.840 And I'll get their hand-me-ups.

00:05:45.220 So I strategically said, okay, I'm just going to do clean comedy.

00:05:47.960 And I had to just get my rhythm.

00:05:49.540 And then I met a producer from the show A Different World.

00:05:52.040 And he asked me if I ever thought about doing television warm-ups.

00:05:55.200 And I didn't know what that was.

00:05:56.300 And I had an acting gig on Amen.

00:05:57.920 And I saw Ray Combs.

00:05:59.380 Rest in peace.

00:06:00.180 Ray Combs used to host family, one of the shows he used to host.

00:06:03.940 And he ended up committing suicide.

00:06:06.380 And I was like, okay, I can do warm-ups.

00:06:07.920 So I started doing warm-ups.

00:06:09.040 And that was a time back in, I guess, the early 80s, when you came to watch a sitcom,

00:06:14.040 it's usually elderly white men doing the warm-ups.

00:06:16.240 And then when the Cosby show came in a different world, they started inviting younger black people. 0.77

00:06:20.340 So they needed a younger black warm-up. 0.99

00:06:22.840 So I got that gig.

00:06:24.160 And then I was able to get benefits, great pay.

00:06:27.100 And you're only two times, three times a week.

00:06:29.380 And then you can go work on your stand-up.

00:06:30.660 So I didn't have to curse.

00:06:32.160 So that's how I just started doing.

00:06:34.220 And I started opening up for people like Ray Childs, the Righteous Brothers,

00:06:37.000 because they didn't want any dirty comics.

00:06:38.940 So I started getting all those gigs.

00:06:40.500 And I do, like, the Mark Twain Awards now, the warm-up for that.

00:06:43.240 So I just carved a niche.

00:06:45.240 And then now I feature for people like Guy Torrey and Craig Robinson.

00:06:49.960 And then I do my 25, 30 minutes.

00:06:51.960 But it's a great life.

00:06:54.220 I got to be with my kids, raise them, coach.

00:06:56.960 I coach basketball at Harvard-Westlake.

00:06:59.040 So I'm an assistant coach because I have to leave a lot.

00:07:01.300 Are your kids on your team?

00:07:02.660 No, my son is 30 now and our daughter is 28.

00:07:05.740 Did you ever coach the team?

00:07:07.060 Yeah, I coached my son.

00:07:08.160 So, I mean, that's got to be, like, borderline conflict of interest.

00:07:11.660 Because you can't go right.

00:07:13.700 If your kids are good and you play your kids, all the other parents are mad at you. 0.93

00:07:17.620 And if your kids suck, they figure, why is this guy the coach? 1.00

00:07:19.920 Your kids suck. 1.00

00:07:21.380 Yeah, he was good. 1.00

00:07:22.560 And then you're talking about the 30-30 kids.

00:07:24.640 And the 30-30 kids are the ones who play when you're up 30 or down 30.

00:07:27.580 So, like, what in all of your coaching, do you have, like, a quintessential experience with a helicopter parent

00:07:36.620 or something that highlights the strife sometimes of that often voluntary exercise?

00:07:45.160 And it's usually interesting that it's the mother.

00:07:47.860 Oh.

00:07:48.260 Not the dad.

00:07:48.740 Because you get into this male thing, like, I can handle the dads.

00:07:51.000 But when the mom comes and she says, because what happened was the kid, we had to change, you know, we were white instead of black.

00:07:58.260 So, he had on black shorts.

00:07:59.620 I said, hey, go change your shorts.

00:08:00.880 So, he started to change right there.

00:08:02.380 And I was like, no.

00:08:03.140 He said, I got on tights.

00:08:03.900 I said, no, go in the bathroom. 1.00

00:08:04.980 And the mother was like, he can change right there.

00:08:06.560 I was like, no, he can't.

00:08:07.560 Well, I changed.

00:08:08.540 And I'm a girl.

00:08:08.920 I'm like, he can't.

00:08:10.320 So, then he went and changed because he listened to the coach.

00:08:13.140 And then the mom, next week, she had him quit the team.

00:08:17.020 Wow.

00:08:17.380 Because he wasn't allowed to take his clothes off in the basketball game?

00:08:20.040 And I just told her, I tried to tell her, I said, why did you do that?

00:08:22.200 I said, well, because later on in life, he's going to think he can do that.

00:08:24.840 And then he's going to expose himself.

00:08:26.500 Was he a 30-30 kid or could he play?

00:08:28.120 Yes, he was.

00:08:28.520 He was a 30-30 kid.

00:08:28.740 Oh, well, then you didn't mind.

00:08:29.660 No.

00:08:29.960 No.

00:08:30.400 No, I didn't mind.

00:08:32.120 Well, the other kids who were playing who didn't have money to pay for the club team, yeah, they were upset.

00:08:36.940 Because they had to start paying money.

00:08:38.240 Because you got a certain amount of kids in club basketball who pay.

00:08:42.280 And then you got a couple top three kids who are really good.

00:08:45.620 And they don't pay.

00:08:46.440 But, you know, listen, I mean, you got to bring something to the party.

00:08:50.380 Yes.

00:08:50.880 Your pay or your play.

00:08:52.060 And that was the thing.

00:08:53.080 But my son enjoyed it.

00:08:54.220 And he went to Harvard, then went to Morehouse.

00:08:56.140 And now he's, you know, working.

00:08:57.680 And then our daughter is, well, you heard the whole thing.

00:08:59.940 That part is true.

00:09:01.980 So I am about to be a parent.

00:09:04.420 Oh, congratulations.

00:09:04.900 I got that coming in life.

00:09:06.380 So what should I expect?

00:09:08.340 Give me the lowdown.

00:09:09.620 Congratulations to you and Ginger.

00:09:10.820 Thank you.

00:09:11.200 I see she hyphened.

00:09:12.300 Yeah.

00:09:12.860 Well, she's like George Santos.

00:09:15.880 She has a work name and a home name.

00:09:18.000 Yeah, good, good.

00:09:19.400 Do you know what you're having?

00:09:20.660 We're having a boy.

00:09:21.920 Congratulations.

00:09:22.440 You got that out the way.

00:09:23.320 Yeah.

00:09:23.780 Because the girl's tough. 0.89

00:09:24.980 I heard.

00:09:25.700 Yeah, girl's tough. 1.00

00:09:26.480 Boy is good, though, because you got that out of the way.

00:09:28.260 How many months?

00:09:29.680 You know, we're on the clock.

00:09:31.920 Good.

00:09:32.200 Good for you.

00:09:32.700 It's going to be a great experience.

00:09:33.600 It's the best thing.

00:09:34.460 Yeah, you just have to.

00:09:34.880 What should I worry about?

00:09:36.460 Well, don't worry about anything because she's going to do that.

00:09:39.300 So you don't have to worry about that.

00:09:40.720 All you have to do is just get up.

00:09:43.980 Do that.

00:09:44.460 I got it, honey.

00:09:45.200 I got it, honey.

00:09:46.040 I got it, honey.

00:09:46.720 Because you eliminate that you never did this.

00:09:49.060 You got to eliminate those, you know, because you're newly married.

00:09:51.680 Sounds like you're becoming a slave in your own house. 0.52

00:09:53.320 Yeah.

00:09:53.640 You have to eliminate, okay, you never did this.

00:09:56.400 You never did that.

00:09:57.060 No, she has to say, he got up every time the baby cried.

00:10:00.520 He got up every time the baby.

00:10:01.920 Whenever I needed something, he got up.

00:10:03.620 So that's how, and then after 10, 15 years, you're in.

00:10:06.840 10, 15 years?

00:10:07.920 Yeah.

00:10:08.600 That's all it takes.

00:10:09.580 She's got to tell all her friends who aren't as happy as her that this is why I'm happy. 0.91

00:10:14.760 Because they're miserable.

00:10:15.700 My wife is great. 0.97

00:10:16.920 I love her to death.

00:10:18.460 But with most women, I think they basically want three things from a man. 1.00

00:10:22.660 They want you to make a lot of money.

00:10:24.200 They want you to look good.

00:10:25.240 And then they kind of want you to have, like, the good parent-husband traits.

00:10:30.240 Right.

00:10:30.340 And most men, like, could do one of those three things well.

00:10:34.940 And, like, really great guys can do two of them well. 0.98

00:10:37.900 And all they hear about is the one thing that they don't, like, you got some poor schmuck 0.96

00:10:42.860 who's got, like, washboard abs, great dad. 0.98

00:10:45.720 All his wife's complaining about is that he doesn't make enough money. 0.99

00:10:48.320 Like, you've got some rich guy who, you know, is a great husband, but all his wife's going 0.98

00:10:56.100 to complain about is that he's overweight.

00:10:57.840 Yes.

00:10:58.280 So, you know, you've got to get through that a little.

00:11:00.020 But that's what they do.

00:11:00.940 And that's why they, God bless them, have OBGYNs.

00:11:05.540 They get to talk about that.

00:11:06.880 Or we don't get that conversation, what's going on inside them.

00:11:09.420 Do you tip the OBGYN?

00:11:11.160 I didn't know this.

00:11:11.960 I mean, it feels, it's got, like, the whole energy of getting your shoes shined.

00:11:15.500 You know, they get the legs up and the stirrups.

00:11:17.720 Yeah, Dr. Hendricks, it's amazing the connection that they have with their OBGYN.

00:11:21.760 Because you sit there and you have no connection with him, except he knows your wife.

00:11:26.800 And you're just like, okay, you know, and he's smiling, happy, easy to go.

00:11:30.440 You know, so he's, and you're sitting there.

00:11:32.060 Because my wife is like, we've got to go see Ricky.

00:11:34.020 I'm like, yeah, I don't know Ricky like that.

00:11:35.800 Can we call him Dr. Hendricks?

00:11:37.540 But it's just certain things you have to do with your, you know, because you love him.

00:11:41.980 And the whole thing about being married is you have to be selfless.

00:11:45.140 It's not about you.

00:11:45.900 It's not about, now that's why they give us these man caves.

00:11:48.740 But you're good to go, though, because you have a place to come to.

00:11:51.500 Yeah, work.

00:11:52.360 Yes.

00:11:52.980 That's a good thing in a marriage.

00:11:54.120 Yeah.

00:11:54.420 And I've always said to my wife, I always want her to have a job.

00:11:57.920 And it's not even about, like, the financial picture of the family so much as I need her to have another project.

00:12:03.880 So I am not the project.

00:12:05.740 Right, right.

00:12:06.240 Yeah, I'm lucky.

00:12:07.040 My wife's a detective. 0.99

00:12:08.740 So she's a detective.

00:12:09.320 Wow!

00:12:13.220 I'm good.

00:12:13.940 She's been 25 years, so I'm good.

00:12:16.320 Oh, no.

00:12:17.020 She's got the Glock, and, you know, she won't tell me where her backup weapon is in the house.

00:12:21.400 Way to bury the lead?

00:12:23.600 That is great.

00:12:25.400 I mean, you know.

00:12:26.320 How do you even date a detective?

00:12:27.620 They're vulnerable, you know.

00:12:30.680 So when I caught her, she was, you know.

00:12:32.480 And I was hot in the 90s.

00:12:34.080 Yeah, that's right.

00:12:36.720 Coming off the stage of the Apollo.

00:12:39.080 Bike sneaks, you know. 1.00

00:12:40.200 She's like, all right.

00:12:41.120 Then I had that projection of a great guy.

00:12:43.120 Right.

00:12:43.480 You know, and then I knew, you know.

00:12:45.460 I kind of got into women with badges and guns. 1.00

00:12:48.160 That turned me on.

00:12:49.260 Same.

00:12:49.520 And she's small.

00:12:51.160 You know, so I was like, oh, you like women with... 1.00

00:12:53.000 Hell, yeah. 0.84

00:12:53.820 You're Miss Officer, Lil Wayne.

00:12:55.420 Come on, that's on repeat.

00:12:58.020 I don't know Lil Wayne, but, you know.

00:13:01.340 I'm Nancy Wilson and Michael Frank.

00:13:03.840 Okay.

00:13:04.440 But, yeah, it was...

00:13:05.820 So, yeah, we found a mutual understanding.

00:13:09.120 And she's, you know, she's in charge in her way. 1.00

00:13:11.780 And I get to travel and come back home.

00:13:13.960 Do you get, like, a dad veto?

00:13:15.820 Like, I've heard about this where, like, you know,

00:13:18.220 if the family operates like a herd of elephants behind a matriarch, 0.99

00:13:21.840 but then, like, you hold a dad veto,

00:13:24.180 like, wherever you can just be like, no, no, we're not doing that.

00:13:27.020 Yeah, the rule is they have to...

00:13:30.040 You have to collaborate on big decisions.

00:13:31.880 Okay.

00:13:32.200 Small decisions you get to make.

00:13:33.900 But you have to be consistent.

00:13:34.880 Do you get, like, a dollar amount threshold?

00:13:36.860 Like, anything under that?

00:13:38.440 Yeah.

00:13:38.720 You're clear?

00:13:39.060 Well, if it's a house, car, she's going to do it. 0.58

00:13:41.640 She's going to decide.

00:13:42.380 The house is going to be her decision.

00:13:44.020 It's going to be her house, a girlfriend's house. 0.93

00:13:45.620 You might have, like, I got a bathroom.

00:13:47.580 That's my bathroom.

00:13:48.200 Good.

00:13:48.640 And I got a small refrigerator that my buddies can go in.

00:13:51.040 They can't go in.

00:13:51.820 They can't use the glasses and her, none of that. 0.96

00:13:54.040 So, and that's okay.

00:13:54.900 When her girlfriends come over, they run the house, 0.55

00:13:56.960 and you just go in the back.

00:13:57.900 That's why you create your own space.

00:13:59.360 And you have to have a friend that they trust,

00:14:01.680 because then you can go over to his house.

00:14:03.400 I am not that friend for most of my friends.

00:14:05.760 That's why I have to hang out with single guys, 0.99

00:14:07.620 because I am the friend where all the wives are like, 0.71

00:14:10.300 you're not hanging out with Matt Gaetz.

00:14:14.000 But it works because you set your friend up.

00:14:17.920 He has to go to certain events.

00:14:19.440 She has to see his home.

00:14:20.780 She has to see that he won't make you go out and all that.

00:14:23.520 Okay.

00:14:24.140 And now it's easy, because they've got the cell phone,

00:14:26.360 and all you've got to do is give up your location.

00:14:28.640 By the way, I gave that up early.

00:14:29.940 And I, at first, and this is like the decision you make

00:14:33.880 with a partner, where they can track your every move

00:14:35.900 by your phone.

00:14:36.920 And at first, I was like, oh, this is kind of an invasion

00:14:39.500 of my privacy.

00:14:40.300 But, you know, it was important to my wife,

00:14:41.760 so I let her track the location.

00:14:43.720 And it has been so helpful all the times I've lost my phone.

00:14:47.660 Like, I don't regret the decision at all.

00:14:49.400 I am happy about it.

00:14:50.820 But let me posit this theory, and you can agree or attack it.

00:14:54.380 Actually, every woman in 2025 is a detective. 0.96

00:14:57.340 Yes.

00:14:57.640 They're tools to, like, find out, like,

00:15:01.340 who you went on one date with six years ago on social media,

00:15:07.100 a comment you had on an ex-girlfriend's page.

00:15:09.380 Like, they know the full dossier on any man

00:15:13.600 by about date number two.

00:15:15.440 Yeah.

00:15:15.660 Oh, yeah.

00:15:16.420 Oh, yeah.

00:15:16.640 That's your generation.

00:15:18.020 Go ahead.

00:15:18.340 Yeah, no.

00:15:18.940 Well, I actually have a firsthand experience with this.

00:15:21.860 I'm usually the friend that, when all my friends want to go out

00:15:25.520 and have fun, they usually say, oh, I'm going out with Vish,

00:15:28.680 because, you know, they feel like I'm a safe option or whatever.

00:15:32.860 Well, one night we did, me and my buddy, we went out with him

00:15:37.320 without his girlfriend.

00:15:38.080 And he said, hey, let's not share any pictures.

00:15:42.480 Let's not do any social media.

00:15:44.140 Let's just have fun.

00:15:45.020 Go out.

00:15:45.760 And obviously, we're at this club drinking.

00:15:48.040 You know, there's girls everywhere, et cetera. 1.00

00:15:49.660 And me, being the dummy and the clout diablo that I am,

00:15:54.960 I do take some footage on Snapchat.

00:15:59.140 And I made sure, I tried my best to keep my friend out of the footage,

00:16:03.160 right, so that he wouldn't be in there.

00:16:06.340 And then I posted on Snapchat.

00:16:10.660 And then about 10 minutes later, my buddy's phone starts blowing up.

00:16:15.600 And he looks over at me.

00:16:16.860 He goes, did you share something on Snapchat?

00:16:19.740 I said, yeah, but I made sure you weren't in it.

00:16:22.940 And he's like, well, my girlfriend's blowing me up,

00:16:25.320 saying that I'm out hanging with girls with Vish.

00:16:28.140 And I told her that we were just going to get dinner.

00:16:31.640 And I'm like, look, you're not, look, I showed him.

00:16:34.600 I was like, you're not in any of the footage.

00:16:37.120 And he held that for a second.

00:16:39.320 And then he gets a follow-up text.

00:16:40.880 And it's a screenshot of one frame of the video that I put up with a red circle around his ear.

00:16:48.700 And she goes, that's your ear.

00:16:51.340 See, I couldn't do that.

00:16:53.340 That's a forensic file.

00:16:55.200 And that blew it up.

00:16:57.340 But yeah, did literally FBI-level investigative work from women these days.

00:17:01.940 But that's your generation. 0.81

00:17:03.100 And I feel sorry for you because our generation, we're old.

00:17:05.760 We had rotary dial phones.

00:17:06.960 So we don't have to worry about it.

00:17:08.120 You can tell when your wife is going to take a picture because she has to say, hold still.

00:17:11.760 And then if she wants to see something, I just give it to my son.

00:17:14.940 You have to delete that.

00:17:16.040 Right.

00:17:16.440 Delete that.

00:17:17.120 And they just, okay, because they don't like cops anyway.

00:17:19.780 So they don't even like their mom.

00:17:23.020 But yeah, that's, but we respect police in our home, though.

00:17:25.800 They have the toughest.

00:17:26.620 Well, yeah, it is.

00:17:27.300 I think it's a generational thing.

00:17:28.580 I think it's going to evolve into like even, you know, young people running for office

00:17:32.440 with such a giant digital footprint of so much stuff out there.

00:17:36.960 You know, as you're a young man, you know, millennial Gen Z person growing up, when you

00:17:40.620 get to 35, you know, 40, maybe you run for office or something.

00:17:43.920 And then they go bring up a treasure trove of your Instagram posts and your Twitter posts

00:17:49.400 and whatnot.

00:17:50.180 And, you know, I think that it's going to be an interesting run for my generation.

00:17:55.020 But I think that can make us more forgiving.

00:17:56.520 I think as people get overexposed, like we all start to realize everyone's done some dumb

00:18:02.400 stuff and put it on social media and we're not so chastened by it.

00:18:05.500 And people aren't as pearl clutching.

00:18:08.020 And that really dovetails into where comedy stands today, because we saw such a push like

00:18:14.540 against Chappelle and others who spoke about impolitic issues and were politically incorrect.

00:18:19.880 But now it does seem to be like recentering a little bit where you can you could tell jokes

00:18:24.920 and not get canceled for it.

00:18:27.400 Am I wrong about the trajectory of that, Louis?

00:18:29.540 No, I think if it comes from a biographical point of view, then you're able to have more

00:18:34.500 to say.

00:18:35.440 Like when Dave said that he went to the country, he went to the Philippines.

00:18:41.260 And then he was able to talk about transgenders in that way.

00:18:44.440 So you like what I couldn't really talk about gay stuff until my daughter came out.

00:18:49.380 Then it allowed me a license to say this is what I'm discovering.

00:18:53.100 And then you learn as a comedian to play confused instead of hate.

00:18:57.360 That's where you get in trouble when you say I hate this or I don't like this, as opposed

00:19:00.580 to say I'm confused.

00:19:01.820 Now let's talk about it.

00:19:03.140 I'm confused about it.

00:19:04.220 This is what's happening in my home.

00:19:05.640 So once it's in your home, once you experience it, you can talk about it from a factual point

00:19:08.940 of view, like I'm reading a book right now called trans because, uh, our daughter is

00:19:16.380 now dating a trans guy.

00:19:18.340 I mean, Jack is his name and he's trans.

00:19:21.980 So I started reading the book because I'm going to talk about it.

00:19:26.820 And she was like, well, you need to be factual.

00:19:29.120 And I said, well, can I be funny first?

00:19:31.440 So, so now I'm reading it and there's some funny stuff, but you want the trans person to 1.00

00:19:37.660 laugh and you want the non-trans person to laugh and you want some people who don't 1.00

00:19:40.080 understand it to understand it.

00:19:41.680 I'm not going to hate on it, but it is, you know, cause she started off as a lesbian and 1.00

00:19:46.820 now she's dating trans.

00:19:48.540 So my buddy is like, yo man, at least she's moving back towards guys.

00:19:53.580 So, and you know, that's what you have to look at that, um, she teases me.

00:19:58.620 I'm glad you're reading the book.

00:19:59.760 I'm glad, you know, we're our son.

00:20:01.840 And it was the truth.

00:20:02.900 I was, my truth was when she told us, I was like, all right, as long as it's not

00:20:07.580 your brother, we, cause you can bounce back as girls, you know, boys.

00:20:11.620 So I was like, okay.

00:20:12.820 And, and so we have discussions and you have to be not welcoming because you're not as welcome,

00:20:20.720 you know, cause my brother-in-law is going through it and he's a preacher.

00:20:24.480 Oh wow.

00:20:25.020 His daughter.

00:20:25.720 So going through what?

00:20:26.860 Going through his daughter saying she's gay.

00:20:29.340 Okay.

00:20:29.600 So now. 0.66

00:20:30.200 Not trans, but gay. 0.99

00:20:31.080 Yeah.

00:20:31.280 But cause like those are not the same thing.

00:20:34.420 I'm learning.

00:20:35.120 I'm not on that chapter yet.

00:20:36.280 Oh, I'm not on that chapter yet.

00:20:38.140 As soon as I get to that chapter, then I can have an opinion, you know, and I, I agree.

00:20:42.740 I just don't want to, well, one, you don't want to upset the home.

00:20:46.580 Cause just like you were saying, you want to make sure your home is a place you can go

00:20:49.740 back to and be safe.

00:20:50.980 Then after you get the knowledge and you can go out to the world and say, this is what

00:20:53.860 I'm doing.

00:20:54.160 But comedy at right now is just at a point where some guys are good enough to where they

00:20:58.000 can say what they want.

00:20:59.060 You know, there's a guy named Corey Holcomb who can just say what he wants.

00:21:02.260 I don't know if you know, he's 51 50.

00:21:04.780 He's just raw and okay.

00:21:08.040 You have to have a raw personality.

00:21:09.640 And if you don't, then you can't say certain things, you know, like Kevin, Kevin Hart has

00:21:15.120 a difference.

00:21:15.940 He's selling, it's what you're selling.

00:21:17.240 I'm selling family comedy with an edge and with knowledge.

00:21:22.140 And that's what I, I want to include everyone.

00:21:24.440 You know, I don't want to isolate.

00:21:25.980 I don't want to be, I don't want to be typical.

00:21:28.380 I don't want to do comedy one-on-one.

00:21:30.180 So I want to just take it to another level to where you're like, oh, okay.

00:21:33.820 That if it's a doctor out there and he understands OBGYNs and he understand if you have a daughter,

00:21:39.100 you got to wipe front the back.

00:21:40.240 Okay.

00:21:40.540 Well, my guy has always been Patrice O'Neill in that, you know, rest in peace, you know,

00:21:46.540 like, but yeah, Patrice has kind of been that guy from my generation.

00:21:50.440 I think Corey is just a little before that.

00:21:53.060 Yeah.

00:21:53.080 I mean, elephant in the room.

00:21:53.940 But do you think that comedy is a censored medium today?

00:22:00.260 Because what you're describing is people self-directing their brand.

00:22:03.800 And that's a very different thing than comedy clubs or networks or whomever saying you have

00:22:09.860 to have a particular viewpoint.

00:22:11.180 You have to exclude certain types of content in order to get the money.

00:22:16.640 I think for the live performance, especially now that they're locking up phones, you don't.

00:22:20.940 When you put something on TV, then you actually have to think about in the editing room,

00:22:26.760 I should cut that.

00:22:27.380 I shouldn't say that because they might say that.

00:22:29.440 They might come after you.

00:22:30.200 But at the clubs.

00:22:31.160 Yeah.

00:22:31.400 Clubs, we're getting back to saying what you want.

00:22:35.020 What do you think brought us back?

00:22:38.880 Just people being tired of being censored, being tired of saying, can I hear what he's saying

00:22:45.660 first?

00:22:46.840 Can I, can I, can you just, okay, I'm old enough.

00:22:49.540 I'm over 21.

00:22:50.400 I'm having a drink and now I can't hear what he's saying.

00:22:53.740 Am I that?

00:22:54.500 And then if it's someone next to you that sense it, they'd be like, why'd you come out?

00:22:57.600 Why, why'd you, what world?

00:22:58.920 This is the world.

00:23:00.140 You know, it's capital W-O-R. 0.89

00:23:02.220 I mean, I'm with the public school.

00:23:03.360 You dropped out.

00:23:04.700 I know you know how to spell world.

00:23:07.300 W-O-R-L-D. 1.00

00:23:09.320 So yeah, you just, you know, you just have to understand that it's TV is different.

00:23:15.100 You know, network TV is different.

00:23:16.500 Cable's different.

00:23:17.200 And Netflix, they still censor people.

00:23:19.360 They take things out, certain things that they want to say.

00:23:22.320 You'll talk to comedians.

00:23:23.160 They're like, man, I can't believe they took that out.

00:23:25.120 Man, I can't believe that.

00:23:26.060 You know, I wanted that.

00:23:26.900 By the way, that used to happen to me on interviews on networks too.

00:23:29.800 Because on some of these news networks, not ours, which is 100% owned by our proprietor, Mr. Herring, but on some news networks, they're so in debt to businesses, hedge funds, foreign governments in some cases, that the people have to say certain things.

00:23:47.020 And if you get an opposing viewpoint, they'll cut that out.

00:23:50.740 And then the people don't even get the benefit of clash.

00:23:53.800 Like, you know, when I grew up, it was the Republicans who were trying to tell you what you couldn't talk about.

00:23:58.720 Right.

00:23:58.880 Right?

00:23:59.220 And they were always getting this or that, you know, off TV.

00:24:02.860 It was a whole moral majority thing that was on the political right.

00:24:06.860 And now it kind of seems like it's the left that's always telling people what they can't talk about.

00:24:11.280 And I think people are just naturally resistant to that.

00:24:14.400 Yeah.

00:24:14.620 It's just like having too many parents.

00:24:17.260 Yeah.

00:24:17.620 I got a mom.

00:24:18.320 I got a dad.

00:24:18.920 Now, you know, you get that a lot, especially as an African-American or just a boy.

00:24:23.720 You have so many female teachers trying to tell you how you should be as a boy. 0.68

00:24:28.320 You know, like when the boys are outside in the yard, they're going to jump on each other.

00:24:31.720 Yeah.

00:24:32.080 And first thing in female teachers, don't jump. 1.00

00:24:33.740 And you got to tell them, you got to say, hey, let them jump.

00:24:35.880 That's what they do.

00:24:37.180 Just like you women talk, they're jumping. 1.00

00:24:40.080 They have to wrestle. 0.95

00:24:41.120 That's how they become firemen and policemen.

00:24:43.300 And that's how they become soldiers because that's what they do.

00:24:45.980 Now, if you don't let them do that, then.

00:24:48.640 They become Jack.

00:24:50.860 See, that's me.

00:24:53.080 No, that's funny.

00:24:54.120 No, that's factual.

00:24:55.180 And that's funny.

00:24:56.240 That's factual.

00:24:57.200 That's funny.

00:24:57.720 Jack's been in the weight room, though.

00:25:01.280 You're going to have to be careful around Jack soon enough.

00:25:05.600 And I met Jack.

00:25:06.800 I just met Jack.

00:25:08.000 We had lunch.

00:25:09.940 And Jack has to meet mom and brother first.

00:25:15.200 Then I get.

00:25:16.100 Oh, so you have a pre-vet system.

00:25:19.380 Yes.

00:25:19.720 You get a report back from mom and brother?

00:25:21.440 No, they just don't want.

00:25:22.740 She just doesn't want them to meet me first because I'm.

00:25:25.360 I would say what you were saying.

00:25:27.320 That Jack.

00:25:28.040 And then she because my daughter's like, all right, nothing inappropriate, dad.

00:25:30.280 Then, you know, I'm like.

00:25:31.640 So when I first met Jack, I was like, hey, you got great teeth.

00:25:34.280 You know.

00:25:35.100 All right.

00:25:35.620 And then I was like, because I went to.

00:25:37.180 It was funny because I went to hug him.

00:25:39.880 But then I was like, OK, he's Jack now.

00:25:41.840 So I'm going to shake his hand.

00:25:43.260 But then I was like, hey, can I hug you?

00:25:44.800 And he was like, yeah.

00:25:45.660 And I was like, all right.

00:25:46.300 Then I caught myself because I was like, dad, you hug soft, Jack.

00:25:50.260 And my daughter's like, that's one.

00:25:53.440 At the intro, too.

00:25:54.680 You're burning one on the intro.

00:25:55.900 Right, right.

00:25:56.240 So I'm like, all right.

00:25:57.380 But you just.

00:25:58.600 Good thing you raised her. 0.94

00:26:00.060 And that's the thing of being.

00:26:01.060 That's one of the most important things being a parent.

00:26:02.900 Yeah.

00:26:03.220 Is be present.

00:26:04.820 You've got to be present.

00:26:06.080 You've got to.

00:26:06.800 Because mom would take her up to school.

00:26:08.020 You've got to take her up to school.

00:26:09.140 She's got to.

00:26:09.720 The kids have to see you on campus.

00:26:11.960 Because then the boys and the girls know that she has a mom and dad.

00:26:16.520 And they have to treat her a certain way.

00:26:18.200 Or treat him a certain way.

00:26:19.040 All right.

00:26:19.320 So with a boy, what's like the hardest part of raising a boy?

00:26:21.980 You've done that.

00:26:22.900 You sent one to Harvard.

00:26:24.800 Yeah.

00:26:25.660 The toughest thing with a boy is they believe everything when you're first growing up.

00:26:31.240 And you have to be consistent.

00:26:32.160 You have to, one thing you have to do as far as, like, my dad was just Googled at every woman that he saw.

00:26:39.820 You know.

00:26:40.140 I know the type.

00:26:40.900 So, and I made a decision not to do that.

00:26:43.420 Even though a girl walked by and she was fine, I had to force myself, don't look.

00:26:47.000 I don't want him thinking like that.

00:26:48.840 Okay.

00:26:49.260 I got to do that.

00:26:50.740 That's the first thing.

00:26:51.140 Another thing was, I'm going to open the door for your mom.

00:26:53.580 Close the door for your mom. 0.97

00:26:54.400 Hey, get the door for your mom. 1.00

00:26:55.880 Let's get these chores. 0.99

00:26:56.820 Certain things that I need you.

00:26:57.700 Okay.

00:26:57.860 Let's learn how to change this tire.

00:26:59.400 Let's learn how to do a bicycle.

00:27:00.560 Let's learn how to see what this is.

00:27:02.160 So, around the house.

00:27:03.500 Because I don't need you coming to me saying, hey, dad, how do you do that?

00:27:07.120 And this is a reflection of me.

00:27:08.440 So, I told him all the little things I know.

00:27:10.340 And then, once he reaches a certain age, you have to try not to knock him out.

00:27:14.840 Because once he gets up there, you got to figure out, how am I going to deal with this testosterone?

00:27:19.880 I'm going to ignore you.

00:27:21.400 Okay, man, you're emotional right now.

00:27:22.960 We're not going to talk about it right now.

00:27:24.300 Because I don't want to be upset.

00:27:25.640 Because if I'm upset, I'm going to win.

00:27:27.520 You know?

00:27:28.180 And then listen to her saying, don't.

00:27:30.360 Don't say that to him.

00:27:31.180 Don't say, hey, listen, this is me.

00:27:33.560 I know me.

00:27:34.980 He is me.

00:27:36.100 Okay?

00:27:36.520 Now, that goes back to you being there all the time.

00:27:38.920 Now, she can't take that away from you.

00:27:41.120 Because if you're not there, she's like, you don't know him because you're never there.

00:27:44.140 You're always somewhere.

00:27:45.820 Well, you can't use that on me.

00:27:47.660 So, do you have, like, a policy on when mom and dad have a disagreement?

00:27:52.560 Does that go to a separate room for resolution?

00:27:56.260 Do you resolve that in front of the kids?

00:27:57.800 Is it impractical to think you can never fight in front of your kids?

00:28:00.500 No, sometimes you, like, I wasn't going to be a yeller like my dad.

00:28:04.540 But I don't want to talk about it right now is what men say.

00:28:07.460 I don't want to talk about it right now.

00:28:08.680 But they want to talk about it.

00:28:09.880 Let's discuss this.

00:28:10.940 I don't, can we eat first?

00:28:12.660 No, we need to discuss it now.

00:28:13.640 In front of them?

00:28:14.780 Yes, they need to hear it because they got to grow up soon.

00:28:16.680 Okay.

00:28:17.640 Really?

00:28:18.220 Let's just go in the room.

00:28:19.340 And then hopefully your kids are smart enough to say, we don't want to hear it.

00:28:22.560 Go upstairs and talk.

00:28:23.740 So, that's the kind of kids we have.

00:28:25.020 But, yeah, you do.

00:28:25.880 You work hard at not, but it's going to happen.

00:28:28.840 Yeah, I mean, like, conflict happens in any, I don't fear that.

00:28:32.160 Like, because I think my wife and I have really good conflict resolution skills.

00:28:36.300 And I would want to display those to my son.

00:28:38.440 I would want him to see, like, there are times where people don't agree and you need to listen to the other person.

00:28:42.940 You need to acknowledge that, you know, there's clarity in your viewpoint as well that you need to share.

00:28:49.140 And, you know, I don't know.

00:28:50.740 Maybe they need to see how the sausage is made a little.

00:28:53.060 Yeah.

00:28:53.240 And I do a thing where I try to make it funny.

00:28:55.780 And, of course, my wife's like, everything's not funny. 1.00

00:28:57.880 And then I'll have a thing that I use whenever she's upset in front of the kids. 0.99

00:29:01.840 I say, oh, you just want to kiss.

00:29:03.160 That's all.

00:29:04.000 That's all.

00:29:04.300 Oh, you just turn on the Romeo.

00:29:06.160 Yeah.

00:29:06.360 You just want to kiss.

00:29:07.600 That's all.

00:29:08.020 And she's like, no, I've had enough kisses for me.

00:29:09.340 That's why we have these kids.

00:29:10.780 And then she'll flip it back.

00:29:11.900 But they know she has a disposition and she has a calmness because she's been on the streets and she has a gun and she could take someone's life. 0.98

00:29:20.800 So she has an inner thing.

00:29:22.140 But she's still a woman. 0.97

00:29:23.600 Sorry to generalize, but women are women. 1.00

00:29:26.580 You can't get around that.

00:29:28.080 They're going to be emotional.

00:29:29.640 They're going to try you.

00:29:30.800 They're going to try to find your weaknesses.

00:29:32.720 And that's the beauty of that.

00:29:34.640 Because as men, we have no weaknesses.

00:29:38.060 We have no weaknesses.

00:29:39.360 Let's be honest.

00:29:40.340 Amen.

00:29:40.580 But I think that when you get the right girl, she shows you those weaknesses and you actually work to improve them.

00:29:48.780 There's so many men out there.

00:29:50.600 And our audience, it's a lot of young men who watch our program.

00:29:54.320 And they want that traditional wife. 1.00

00:29:57.880 And when they meet the right girl, it's like, oh, shoot, I need to start going to the gym.

00:30:02.700 Oh, man, if I want to really date this person, I've got to get better grades or I've got to start thinking about my future in more compelling ways.

00:30:10.180 Because I think that it can be one of the great drivers of a man to have a woman urging them on, but with the acknowledgement of those weaknesses and frailties.

00:30:20.760 Yeah, because they'll throw therapy at you.

00:30:23.260 Oh, no, no, no.

00:30:24.620 They go, we have to have therapy.

00:30:26.200 No, no, no, no, no, no.

00:30:27.080 I'm not playing this game with a referee.

00:30:28.820 We're doing Lincoln Douglas style.

00:30:30.080 You know, I'm not bringing a referee into my marriage.

00:30:34.340 No, no, no, no.

00:30:34.800 I didn't marry some therapist or some referee.

00:30:38.020 It's going to be me and my wife, ride or die.

00:30:40.400 Yeah, and nothing funnier than you go into a therapist and that therapist has been divorced three times.

00:30:44.940 We're going to listen to her, her failures, really?

00:30:47.720 This is what we're doing?

00:30:48.640 That's a true story.

00:30:49.560 And I'm like, no, we're not doing that.

00:30:51.400 Oh, you think you can fix everything?

00:30:52.680 You know what?

00:30:53.180 I'm going to try, but I'm not paying her.

00:30:55.620 Insurance gives us five visits.

00:30:57.140 Okay, all right, so they have the answer.

00:30:59.060 And by the way, the therapist's only job in those five visits is to get you to pay for the sixth one.

00:31:03.820 Right.

00:31:04.360 Have you come back for five?

00:31:05.120 No one's ever like, hey, you were cured in five.

00:31:07.340 Right.

00:31:07.760 We got you in.

00:31:09.980 They're like, oh, we have unpacked some things with Lewis that are going to require months of extensive treatment.

00:31:15.700 Oh, yeah, they try.

00:31:16.880 Okay, I'm going to see her five times, then see you five times, then you guys come together.

00:31:20.780 No, no.

00:31:22.060 That's a logistical nightmare.

00:31:23.280 Yeah, no, I got buddies.

00:31:24.260 My buddies, Fat Paul, Peanut, and Boogie, they can get it.

00:31:26.320 That sounds like divide and conquer.

00:31:28.980 That's what that sounds like.

00:31:29.380 But this is the therapy generation.

00:31:31.200 These kids, you know, the Zoomers, did your kids ever try to, like, drag you into some sort of therapy situation? 0.99

00:31:35.780 Oh, I tell them all the time now that I'm in therapy.

00:31:39.220 I'm not.

00:31:39.800 I just tell my daughter that.

00:31:41.460 That's great.

00:31:42.340 Yeah.

00:31:43.120 Get you some dad points.

00:31:44.240 Yeah, just working on some things.

00:31:45.520 She can't verify it.

00:31:46.700 No, it's a HIPAA violation.

00:31:48.140 That's true.

00:31:48.960 Yeah.

00:31:50.220 That's true.

00:31:51.480 No, but it's good.

00:31:52.440 Well, the therapy thing, I've had many, mostly women, tell me, oh, Vish, you need to go to therapy. 0.98

00:31:59.740 You need to go to therapy.

00:32:01.000 And I'm like, I've always believed, like, therapy is something for people without friends that they can confide in.

00:32:08.060 You know, I have a problem.

00:32:10.480 I go to a good friend of mine who knows me well, who's known me over the years, and I'm able to express, you know, hey, man, this is what I'm going through.

00:32:18.220 This is my problem.

00:32:18.960 They'll just give it to me raw based on how they know me, what they know, what I've been through and all that, how I am behind closed doors, et cetera.

00:32:25.880 But, you know, I just can't fathom, like, walking into a therapist's office and just, like, spilling your guts out to someone who you don't even know.

00:32:33.940 I just have to say, if a woman is telling you that you need therapy, there is a non-zero part of her that wants to date you and who figures that if just, like, some stuff was, you know, fixed a little bit, that you might be, like, salvageable as a partner.

00:32:51.680 So that's a clear tell.

00:32:53.060 I know homies who are in therapy with just their girlfriends. 0.98

00:32:57.360 And I'm like, what?

00:32:58.880 Like, you're not even married?

00:32:59.980 Like, you can leave at any time and you're on a therapy run with this chick? 0.84

00:33:04.280 That's amazing now.

00:33:05.300 We're at a point now where girlfriends get wives clout. 1.00

00:33:09.120 And before, they didn't.

00:33:10.320 You know, you see the guys on TV with their girlfriends.

00:33:13.400 You're like, yo, she doesn't get on TV.

00:33:14.980 She's just a girlfriend. 0.99

00:33:16.400 But she's sitting right there with you doing the draft.

00:33:18.840 And you're like, yo, man, she's a girlfriend, man.

00:33:21.020 Now what you going to do?

00:33:21.820 She's getting this kind of clout as a girlfriend. 1.00

00:33:23.600 As a wife, she's getting your mother's maiden name, social security number. 1.00

00:33:27.400 You're done.

00:33:28.880 Oh, it's all about managing expectations.

00:33:31.740 And you can't put too much, you can't go too hard too early in a relationship.

00:33:37.300 Those first few dates, like, you almost need to display some things that you know you can fix.

00:33:41.840 So you're showing some progress along the way.

00:33:43.720 Yeah.

00:33:44.680 That's how you figure guys who are just mean keep a girl.

00:33:49.360 And too many do.

00:33:50.400 Yes. 0.72

00:33:50.780 I believe every single man on the planet Earth is either an affirmer with women or a degrader. 1.00

00:33:57.400 There's no, every single man treats their relationship with women as trying to build that woman up or try to move them down in some sort of competitive thing. 0.99

00:34:05.820 And the way the degraders continue to, like, bag tens and hang out with amazing women who put up with that crap is wild. 0.99

00:34:15.220 It's amazing. 0.99

00:34:16.120 You just say, man, what am I doing wrong?

00:34:18.960 But, you know.

00:34:19.760 What's Vish doing?

00:34:20.600 What are you doing wrong, Vish?

00:34:22.660 I think it's just not being, like, available or not being present.

00:34:26.260 You know, a lot of times my excuse, it's like, oh, yeah, I'll see you next week.

00:34:29.760 Oh, yeah.

00:34:30.680 Oh, someone invited me out for, like, beers the other day.

00:34:33.620 I haven't gotten back to her.

00:34:35.120 Right?

00:34:35.420 Like, it's just not being available is generally my problem, I think.

00:34:39.960 I think.

00:34:40.920 But, you know, maybe there might be other issues.

00:34:44.040 You got a Hinge account recently.

00:34:45.360 I did.

00:34:45.900 Well, okay.

00:34:46.880 So, I re-downloaded Hinge, and then I put up my profile info, kept the pronouns out, of course.

00:34:54.920 The profile pick is key.

00:34:56.220 Like, do you include, like, other friends who are attractive people?

00:34:59.760 No.

00:35:00.400 A cityscape?

00:35:01.260 Well, no, my opening is, like, one of my best shots from one of the galas.

00:35:06.620 No, no, no.

00:35:07.160 One of the galas.

00:35:08.100 It's a great shot.

00:35:08.840 It's my Jay Gatsby pick, as I call it.

00:35:11.100 But what I try to do is I try to show, like, different scenes from my life.

00:35:15.680 Right?

00:35:15.900 So, like, one on a boat.

00:35:17.480 That means, like, you might end up on a boat if you end up dating me.

00:35:21.120 Right?

00:35:22.040 It's, like, one in, like, a really beautiful hotel in New York in the, you know, vestibule

00:35:28.300 or whatever.

00:35:28.780 It's, like, you might end up here.

00:35:30.200 Right?

00:35:31.120 And so, yeah, I try to show different scenes in my life to be, like, your social life.

00:35:35.180 That you want the woman to place herself in that scene.

00:35:36.980 Right.

00:35:37.460 It's, like, oh, I want to be there.

00:35:38.700 I want to be there.

00:35:39.440 I want to be there.

00:35:40.200 So, that's what I do.

00:35:41.940 You know, I try to remove as many friends as possible.

00:35:46.180 Definitely no girls because you don't want them getting jealous off the bat. 0.98

00:35:49.660 Yeah, but I know guys who say that, like, having the, like, you know, the sister who's

00:35:54.440 there or having, like, you know, showing that you have friends who are women.

00:35:59.420 Right.

00:35:59.740 Is a certain threshold that, like, you know, you're not a threat, you know?

00:36:05.420 Right.

00:36:06.100 Maybe I'd have to get one, like, petting a dog or hiking or something.

00:36:09.860 That's going to require a lot.

00:36:11.740 You almost died the last time you went hiking.

00:36:13.340 Exactly.

00:36:13.620 There's still an incident report out on that.

00:36:15.320 Precisely.

00:36:15.980 So, California seems to be a tougher place than most to, like, raise kids.

00:36:21.440 You know, this ain't Mayberry out here.

00:36:23.320 There's some, you know, guy, you know, shooting up on the side of the road.

00:36:27.640 The way they have the homeless tolerance here is foreign to me as a Florida man.

00:36:33.080 And so, here in California, did you find the experience easier or different than maybe

00:36:39.700 it would have been in other parts of the country?

00:36:40.960 Well, being from Philly, you have a, you start from within.

00:36:45.640 And that means in the house.

00:36:47.000 So, you can, you start controlling your family within the house.

00:36:49.500 This is what we do.

00:36:50.200 We're having dinner.

00:36:51.420 This is the time there.

00:36:52.240 We're having summer reading.

00:36:53.640 So, certain things, you're going to be in sports.

00:36:55.700 You're going to do this.

00:36:56.500 You're going to do something.

00:36:57.680 So, if you have a good wife, that helps. 0.74

00:36:59.640 Because then she allows, she does some part.

00:37:01.680 You do, you do the other part.

00:37:03.060 But then you start controlling their friends.

00:37:05.860 Okay, you can hang out with this person.

00:37:07.240 No sleepovers.

00:37:08.140 You can't do that.

00:37:09.120 You got to stay here.

00:37:10.060 And, you know, no, no, no, no, no.

00:37:11.140 You don't sit on another man's lap. 0.78

00:37:12.760 Sit down.

00:37:13.560 We don't do that.

00:37:14.520 Honey, he's, he's, I don't do that.

00:37:17.340 I don't mean to offend you, but I don't need her thinking that she can sit on any man's lap.

00:37:21.560 That's not happening.

00:37:22.440 Okay?

00:37:22.660 Because next thing, she's on the pole. 0.73

00:37:23.820 Pole.

00:37:24.500 And we're not doing that.

00:37:25.560 So, okay.

00:37:26.500 And then you start taking.

00:37:27.380 So, a threshold issue for a father is keeping them off the pole. 0.99

00:37:29.760 All day long.

00:37:30.540 All day long.

00:37:31.320 And so, and now, anything else that's negative.

00:37:33.920 So, you just start controlling things that you.

00:37:35.960 Nobody's getting on the pole with Jack, so.

00:37:40.800 He's good.

00:37:41.800 Yeah, that was good.

00:37:42.680 That was good.

00:37:43.360 That was one, two, three.

00:37:44.700 If you do it in one, two, three, it's there.

00:37:46.820 Okay.

00:37:47.300 So, poor Jack.

00:37:50.280 My daughter's going to be like, I can't believe you said those things about Jack.

00:37:52.780 Jack laughs.

00:37:53.440 So, we're good.

00:37:53.920 I'm guessing your daughter's an irregular viewer of the Anchorman podcast.

00:37:57.360 Could be.

00:37:57.900 But, you know.

00:37:58.680 She's in New York.

00:37:59.580 She's in Brooklyn.

00:38:00.460 And she's, you know, she's writing.

00:38:03.460 And she has her own podcast.

00:38:04.980 And she's, but she's of that generation where she can laugh at herself.

00:38:09.880 She's funny.

00:38:10.960 And she's a truth teller.

00:38:12.800 She curses a lot.

00:38:14.160 But that's from her mom.

00:38:16.200 But just back to the thing of just having, making sure that you control their friends.

00:38:21.100 And then you control their environment.

00:38:23.220 And then you, my son was acting up one time.

00:38:27.040 And he was getting in trouble.

00:38:28.420 So, we stripped his room.

00:38:30.160 Left him just a bed, sheet, one pair of shoes, two pair of pants.

00:38:34.700 And said, this is what it's going to be like in jail.

00:38:37.520 Because if you act this way, you're going to end up in jail and this is all you get.

00:38:40.380 So, we did it for six months.

00:38:42.280 Six months?

00:38:43.020 Oh, yeah.

00:38:43.300 I'm surprised you didn't have child protective services on you.

00:38:45.960 It was, and it was, it was, he never forgot it.

00:38:49.580 But, and then my daughter one time, so when the phones came out, she took a picture of her bosom. 0.99

00:38:57.120 So, I printed it up and put it all over the house.

00:39:00.800 She was totally embarrassed.

00:39:02.140 I said, oh, no, you want everyone to see it.

00:39:03.500 So, just put it up there.

00:39:05.360 I love that.

00:39:06.020 Oh, wow.

00:39:06.780 That is a power, dad, too.

00:39:08.620 You know, so you're just like, this is what we're doing.

00:39:11.020 And, of course, mom's like, don't do that. 0.98

00:39:12.260 That's going to embarrass the rest of her life. 1.00

00:39:13.240 No, it's just us in the house.

00:39:15.320 But she needs to understand that if she puts it out there, that's what's going to happen.

00:39:18.680 So, it sounds like you have a parenting philosophy of allowing the hand to hit the hot frying pan every once in a while.

00:39:25.520 Yeah.

00:39:25.980 With kids.

00:39:26.700 And that's important.

00:39:27.880 Maybe that makes them tough.

00:39:28.820 Well, I think it makes them aware, you know, of what, if you can do it, that might happen.

00:39:34.840 You know, just like our son, you know, he had to learn because he went to a little private school.

00:39:39.540 Then he went to Morehouse, which was a culture shock.

00:39:42.100 You know, he had to find out because he was into quiche.

00:39:43.700 Then he got into grits.

00:39:45.360 So, it was just a whole different, you know, he's like, dad, these people are different.

00:39:49.140 Yeah, yeah.

00:39:49.760 They're young people, but they're different.

00:39:51.480 Right.

00:39:51.820 Fried food.

00:39:52.600 Yeah, so it was, you know, I know you know Kamal.

00:39:55.940 Yeah.

00:39:56.500 Kamal's a doctor now, you know.

00:39:58.520 Yeah.

00:39:58.940 So, it's a journey.

00:40:01.460 It's a beautiful journey being a parent, but you have to be present because it goes by so fast.

00:40:05.120 Are you glad when they leave?

00:40:07.140 Yeah, yeah.

00:40:08.020 But then you have a different kind of worry because then, you know, they're out drinking.

00:40:12.020 You know, they're out with their friends.

00:40:13.240 You know, things could happen to them.

00:40:15.680 You know, you get a phone call.

00:40:17.120 You know, as soon as you look at the time right away, you know, he's like, ah, okay.

00:40:21.080 You know, and they got a certain dial.

00:40:22.740 You know, our daughter got hit by a bicyclist in New York, broke her jaw.

00:40:27.080 Oof.

00:40:27.420 You know, so you like.

00:40:28.240 One of those, I mean, it's a lot of illegal immigrants running food around, right? 1.00

00:40:32.880 No, that's a lot.

00:40:34.060 But in New York City, a lot of bicyclists, man.

00:40:36.560 Yeah.

00:40:37.220 I'm shocked there's not like three of those people dead every day, the way they're going up and down.

00:40:40.900 Oh, yeah.

00:40:41.240 The way they drive.

00:40:41.940 Yeah.

00:40:42.160 Sorry, you're a New York guy.

00:40:43.080 Yeah, I'm a New York guy.

00:40:44.120 So, you know, when you say Brooklyn and all that, like, yeah, the bicyclists are insane in New York.

00:40:49.240 And there's, it's not like here.

00:40:50.880 In California, there's a lot of bike lanes.

00:40:53.020 It's a lot of space.

00:40:54.800 It's, they're not as crowded.

00:40:56.140 There's no space in New York, but there's bike lanes everywhere.

00:40:59.660 I mean, it is actually, it's a game of Frogger every time you're out on the street.

00:41:03.120 Oh, yeah.

00:41:03.320 You learn how to ride a bike.

00:41:04.320 Back east, you learn how to ride a bike.

00:41:05.880 Yeah.

00:41:06.200 You learn there's no right of way.

00:41:08.180 Just, that's the beauty.

00:41:09.180 When you get confused when you come out to California, like, oh, you're stopping for me?

00:41:13.140 Yeah.

00:41:14.300 Okay, yeah.

00:41:15.080 But it's a lot of fun.

00:41:16.100 But you're going to enjoy it, though.

00:41:17.560 You're going to enjoy it.

00:41:18.300 It's going to make you a totally different guy.

00:41:19.160 Do you ever have to go fight with their teachers?

00:41:22.200 No, mom, because mom's.

00:41:23.600 Oh, you deploy her for that. 0.98

00:41:24.760 Yeah, that's, we're going in uniform.

00:41:27.060 Yeah.

00:41:27.540 Oh, yeah.

00:41:28.760 In uniform, yeah.

00:41:29.480 But you're going to be a different, everyone's going to notice how different you are.

00:41:32.820 They're going to be like, okay, he's, you know, he's listening more.

00:41:35.660 He's not da-da-da-da.

00:41:36.680 He's, you know, he's, which is a beautiful journey.

00:41:39.300 They're going to see a change in you.

00:41:40.840 Oh, you think.

00:41:41.320 Oh, yeah.

00:41:41.880 It's going to be, it's going to be a great, great, you're going to have, especially since

00:41:44.700 you got a good wife.

00:41:45.640 Yeah.

00:41:46.000 You had a raggedy wife. 0.98

00:41:47.520 It's the number one thing in your quality of life.

00:41:49.740 I don't care who you are.

00:41:50.620 If your wife is mean to you, when you get home, like, your life can only be so happy.

00:41:54.840 And if your wife is really nice to you, a lot of things can be going wrong otherwise.

00:41:59.120 And there's still a pretty good existence that you're able to have.

00:42:02.120 Yeah.

00:42:02.320 Somebody in the house has to know how to season.

00:42:04.220 That's it.

00:42:05.320 Yeah.

00:42:05.860 I do all the cooking.

00:42:07.040 Oh, do you?

00:42:07.380 Yeah, I do all the cooking.

00:42:08.760 I do all the dishes.

00:42:10.660 So, you know, my wife does all the, like, logistics. 0.99

00:42:13.260 That's how we divide and conquer.

00:42:14.660 But that's, to me, the coolest thing about marriage is the specialization of skills.

00:42:18.720 If you marry someone that fills your gaps and you fill theirs, you become a real power team.

00:42:25.060 Yeah.

00:42:25.420 I'm the laundry guy.

00:42:26.340 I do laundry.

00:42:26.820 Oh, there we go.

00:42:27.620 Yeah, I like laundry.

00:42:28.780 Because you can do it at your pace.

00:42:30.720 Watch TV, pause it, come back.

00:42:32.420 The problem is that the laundry war is a forever war.

00:42:35.580 You know, like, you're always battling it.

00:42:38.100 Like, you never win against the laundry.

00:42:40.640 Yeah.

00:42:40.980 It just, you know, it's like a regime change battle in the Middle East.

00:42:44.700 It just drags on and there's way more blood than there should be.

00:42:50.000 And no one's, there's chaos.

00:42:52.620 I want to ask you a question.

00:42:54.080 Yeah, man.

00:42:54.420 What, um, when you were in that fight with McCarthy and him, were you, because you were the young gun and did you, were there any fears or did you just say I'm going?

00:43:08.600 Honestly, the biggest fear I had then and still have is the judgment of history if this country goes down because nobody was willing to make tough decisions about the way we spend money.

00:43:21.080 And, like, one day people are going to look at the United States and they're going to say this was this great nation, the wealthiest, rising incomes, rising opportunity, like nowhere else on the planet ever.

00:43:33.620 How did they lose it?

00:43:34.700 And they're going to look at the people who are on the board of directors for the country and my name's going to be on there.

00:43:41.560 And the weight of, of that, uh, was prescient on me and I still worry about it.

00:43:47.380 And so I didn't care that, like, and by the way, I just know they're all sellouts.

00:43:51.440 When you, when you have this kind of proximity with these people, not all, but the people who are trying to bully me, it's like, oh yeah, what, you're here because the Raytheon lobbyist sent you? 0.98

00:43:59.980 Like, go screw yourself. Like, oh, oh, you're worried that the speaker might not be able to attend your fundraiser if we don't install him and get some industry association to put $100,000 in your campaign?

00:44:12.360 Like, cry me a freaking river.

00:44:14.280 Yeah, that was the thing we all took. And I was telling Vish this, when we were watching you, and I'm saying this, when the regular people were watching you, like myself, we were like, okay, he knows some stuff that they're not telling us.

00:44:26.860 Because he's on the inside and he doesn't care. So it was kind of like a, it wasn't comedy, but it was kind of like he's, I don't want to say Dave Chappelle, but whoever decided to say this is the truth and I'm going to deal with it, whatever happens.

00:44:40.920 And I wish both sides would. Like, my critique of the institution isn't a partisan one, right? I'm not like, oh, it's all the Democrats' fault. That's what a lot of Republicans say. Democrats do the same thing.

00:44:51.040 On both sides, you have a system where power is acquired through the trading of favors for ill-gotten money. And we're just, we deserve better than that from both sides.

00:45:02.660 And it's why I had some like weird collaborations and friendships. When I first got there, I got along with AOC really well. And it was because even though we had wildly different worldviews, I knew she at least wasn't bought.

00:45:16.120 I knew she wasn't doing what she was doing because there was a donor or a lobbyist pushing her that way. And so there were times like the progressive left and the populist right could work together on things like surveillance or stopping wars or like stopping the stock trading.

00:45:33.780 Like, when you allow Congress to trade stocks, it's like letting the referee bet on the basketball game. And I think there is like common ground for an agenda like that, but it will probably require some type of generational change in the country.

00:45:49.020 Now, where are your, I'm sorry to be asking, but your father and grandfather, how were they as far as watching you fight that fight?

00:45:58.120 Well, I never got to meet my grandfather. He passed before I, before I was born. But I mean, the story I read about him when he was a mayor was that there were certain people in the railroad that wouldn't allow the Indians to work on the railroad.

00:46:11.140 They had this racist view that they just shouldn't be eligible for those jobs. And my grandfather went in and knocked out that superintendent for the railroad and insisted that those, those folks get an opportunity to earn.

00:46:23.420 And that, that has always instilled in me a sense that the little guy deserves a champion too. And there are so many virtuous fights to be in to deploy your talents to. My dad is a very sophisticated politician.

00:46:38.280 He was the president of the Florida Senate. You know, I come from a line of politicians and I think he watched with pride, but, but also as someone trying to understand, this was something that had never happened in like a hundred years.

00:46:53.420 In our country. And I think he was, he was searching for understanding too. And there are just rare moments. You get a chance to break through where, where eyes are on you and you get a chance to make your argument.

00:47:04.900 And in those times, I didn't know if I was going to win or lose. There was a lot up in the air, but at least wanted the country to hear what was wrong with the place.

00:47:13.480 And I'm not going to be the guy to ultimately fix it, but I could at least provide that diagnosis in that moment.

00:47:19.060 Cause I wonder why the powers of be don't allow us to know those little things about your dad, your grandfather. It's like, it's with all the stuff right there that makes us look at you a little different.

00:47:30.840 Cause when I did my research, I'm like, all right. Okay. That's a different Mac. Okay. That's, that, that's Matt Gase. That's the whole thing. And the same thing with you. I looked at it. Okay. Cause I thought you were the thug in the blue suit.

00:47:42.080 That's actually what he was hoping. That's exactly what I was going for, by the way. So it worked apparently.

00:47:48.500 But watching you two in your arenas, it was, it was really interesting watching.

00:47:52.560 You know what? I wish they would let the cameras into the Congress to watch how the different members interact.

00:47:59.060 Because under the rules of Congress, the camera can only be on that center podium and can't move and on one pool.

00:48:08.740 Well, when I was doing all that stuff with McCarthy, no rules had been adopted yet. So they could put the cameras everywhere.

00:48:16.140 And so people were like, what was Matt Gaetz talking to Ilhan Omar about for 12 minutes? What, what were these people that, you know, that have nothing to do with each other?

00:48:26.040 And why was the black caucus huddled in this really intense conversation? And you got a wide lens of government in action and they don't want, you know why they don't want it?

00:48:35.840 Because most of the time the place is just empty. Most of the time folks are just talking to an empty room. No one's listening.

00:48:42.060 All those things that you said make a successful marriage and parenting relationship and family, they don't really happen in our government.

00:48:50.640 Well, we enjoyed that part, the huddling, the talking, and you were the center of it. You were like, all right, they're going to start fighting.

00:48:58.100 Well, it was cool.

00:48:58.860 I could have taken that guy with the toupee, but that is all the time we have, Lewis. The hour flew by and I really appreciate you taking the time to come visit with us.

00:49:09.320 You are a true legend in the medium. And I know our audience will appreciate learning a little more about you.

00:49:15.520 And I personally appreciate all the dad and parenting and husband advice.

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The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - July 17, 2025

The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz ｜ The Funniest Man in California

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