This Past Weekend with Theo Von - #617 - Aziz Ansari

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00:00:47.460 you guys today's guest is a stand-up comedian he's an actor and a filmmaker um

00:00:55.020 he just directed his first film called good fortune uh which we're going to talk about

00:01:00.660 and i'm looking forward to getting to meet him really we never even known each other

00:01:05.240 so we're going to do that now today's guest is mr aziz ansari

00:01:10.640 sweet man i get a hit of this

00:01:29.540 what do you drink man what's your do you have a beverage of choice kind of

00:01:34.640 just espresso and water really i mean not not together but i drink espresso a lot

00:01:40.220 and then um and then water and then if i'm drinking like you know wine or whatever a martini or whatever

00:01:45.420 but oh a martini huh

00:01:47.360 check check you good okay yeah okay do indian people react well to martinis are your is your family indian by

00:01:57.860 nature yeah by nature they are indian yeah okay um yeah my family's from india i was born in south

00:02:05.540 carolina yeah yeah wait are we going now or no yeah we can be yeah whatever okay wait so where are

00:02:11.980 you from you're from louisiana i'm from louisiana yeah okay because you know whenever i hear someone

00:02:17.200 else from with a southern accent it's almost like when i see someone that's indian i'm a little like

00:02:22.420 oh i need to but i we've never really met i don't think properly i've i was around you were at

00:02:29.460 chris rock's birthday party i saw you there but you know that was a crazy thing i didn't really get

00:02:34.080 to say hi but do you have that when you when you hear someone with a southern accent because to me

00:02:39.360 there's so few people i don't have one but i'm from south carolina i lost my accent it comes out when

00:02:45.480 i start talking to other people that have it even the guy that picked me up at the airport he was from

00:02:50.400 atlanta and i and i started and i like it started seeping in yeah but yours has stayed strong

00:02:57.020 mine is gone but uh i remember when i met danny mcbride because you there's so few people that

00:03:03.960 have southern accents that are in our kind of acting hollywood it's kind of true huh strange i think

00:03:10.700 right before our generation it was more prevalent before well there was the whole like uh blue collar

00:03:17.400 right those guys those guys they had their run that was that was their they all had southern

00:03:21.820 accents yeah larry the cable guy definitely southern accent yeah he's going back on tour i just saw

00:03:26.460 um yeah i remember when i was a kid you know i grew up in a small town in south carolina called

00:03:32.640 bennett'sville there's like 8 000 people there no one ever toured there or anything and i remember

00:03:36.640 some kids went and saw jeff foxworthy and he came to florence south carolina which is like 45 minutes

00:03:43.240 like we saw jeff foxworthy that was the first time i'd ever heard of someone going to a live

00:03:48.060 comedy show oh wow by the way i'm shivering a little bit because so i i you know i came from

00:03:54.560 i was in chicago and i had to get up at like five in the morning and you had a cold plunge and your

00:04:02.500 producer was like if you want to jump in the cold plunge and i was like are you are you kidding are you

00:04:06.300 serious because i'm a little tired and i didn't really sleep yesterday and i did it but like i'm a little

00:04:10.780 cold a little bit it'll rattle you yeah no i'm glad you got in dude yeah i got in i was in there

00:04:18.060 earlier this morning i get in now because i don't want to so i'm like let me go do something i don't

00:04:22.580 want to do to start my day and i think it adjusts my attitude which i need a lot um and dude i just

00:04:28.680 went to i just went to university of south carolina we had we met a chauffeur over there his girlfriend

00:04:34.500 had thrown fettuccine like a hot thing of boiling fettuccine on him and yeah yeah and he had to be

00:04:41.100 like and like dude it's crazy that that story took a dark turn really fast that's the last thing i

00:04:46.560 expected to happen to this guy in the story is is a is boiling fettuccine thrown on him bro a hundred

00:04:52.040 percent and but he was wait with the water not yeah okay because because if it was just a fettuccine

00:04:58.260 that that's not too bad yeah i was water in the mix too though that that's that's that's a crime

00:05:02.420 yeah oh it was a crime and his yeah his neck was like dripping off of him and stuff it was he went

00:05:06.840 through a lot but anyway met him he's a chauffeur over there uh stan he's out of the he's out of the

00:05:12.420 bronx originally but we just had him come in he was just like kind of a unique character so um

00:05:17.380 but hey trev will you cut the ac off just in case i don't want to fucking lose aziz am i looking 0.99

00:05:25.700 crazy no you seem fine okay i didn't know if i was just sitting there but no i know what you mean 0.76

00:05:29.780 sometimes if you get that in and that ac's on it's kind of a lot um dude is it is this true uh

00:05:35.580 and thanks so much for coming in today man oh man i i really appreciate it and you know i i'm not

00:05:40.680 really super familiar with a lot of podcasts and i haven't done a big press tour in like a long time

00:05:47.260 because you know the last time i had something come out was during covid so that was weird you didn't

00:05:50.640 really do the normal stuff and then um i've been working on these films for a bit and and

00:05:55.600 um so before i was like they were like oh do all these podcasts i was like well i'm gonna listen

00:06:01.020 to episodes and i and i listened to a couple of years i listened to the bernie sanders one oh yeah

00:06:07.420 which i really liked and and to me really connected with my film because the stuff you guys were talking

00:06:12.640 about um you're talking about something that i hadn't heard where the the number one cause of

00:06:18.540 bankruptcy is is medical bills yeah and in in my character in the film you're never really given a

00:06:25.320 clear explanation of what happened to this guy the guy's you know he's lost his job he's sleeping

00:06:28.840 in his car but oh in good fortune you mean yeah yeah but but it made me think of that what your

00:06:33.520 conversation with bernie sanders and i was like oh man this is really um on the in the same kind of

00:06:39.000 realm and then um and i loved your episode with arnold schwarzenegger i'm always fascinated by arnold

00:06:43.500 really yeah because i think he's so i think he's so smart and and um yeah i don't know why i i i think

00:06:53.380 you realize like the more you're in this business especially the in the kind of movie acting world to

00:06:59.780 like be an actor that's kind of had a few hits like a lot of things have to come together and it's not

00:07:04.520 an accident you know what i mean when these guys have this run of hits like they've got to be really

00:07:09.640 sharp yeah yeah it was pretty fascinating i guess we went to his office and there's like the

00:07:14.060 his like conan thing is in there and like the sword he's like wait did you meet that little donkey he 0.99

00:07:19.080 has i don't know if the donkey was there there was some hair that's in his house this was in his office

00:07:23.760 oh no this was his office yeah there was some hair on the floor but i don't know what it was from i

00:07:27.040 don't think um oh my god yeah there's a donkey oh because i think he's very dutch like that or 1.00

00:07:34.420 something oh he's very oh my god yeah those are mini donkeys they look mixed too i met a small 0.97

00:07:40.180 donkey in nashville once oh first off i love nashville i i i go to zany's a lot when i'm like

00:07:47.340 working on sets yeah oh i think i remember that's what the last thing i remember i remember hearing

00:07:52.380 you came to zany's and did like six or seven nights or something over there yeah and one time

00:07:56.940 one of my favorite shows the power went out and i had to do the show like the power went out and we're

00:08:02.480 like what do we do and the staff there was amazing they like immediately brought candles out and i was

00:08:08.060 like yelling my set and then some guy like brought like a speaker and a microphone it was incredible

00:08:12.320 oh dude i think didn't they i think it was an article or something about that i even remember i

00:08:16.100 remember seeing a picture about that or at least just hearing about it like in local lore you know

00:08:19.820 um one thing about nashville is dude it's a very small city like it's small it's like

00:08:24.280 people it's you something happens you hear about it it's not like it just feels like a huge town like

00:08:30.200 how long you lived here a really big town i lived here for i think almost four years

00:08:34.540 where were you before the pandemic i was in la oh okay yeah and i moved directly from there because

00:08:39.920 during the pandemic i remember seeing like kid rocks bar you know and people are having a blast there 0.56

00:08:45.400 and meanwhile like my landlord is like making us wear hazmat suits to get our fucking mail and 1.00

00:08:50.100 chickens everybody's all paranoid and shit out there and i was like fuck this shit um i gotta fucking go 0.99

00:08:56.100 you know i i've always loved nashville i i did a series for netflix uh and we filmed an episode 0.99

00:09:01.600 here and i always come here for stand-up i did the ryman i'd never done the ryman i'd always done

00:09:06.200 some other theater i did the ryman on this tour that i uh a few months ago and that's that's one of

00:09:11.100 the best best places i've ever performed yeah yeah there's that thing yeah that was yes that

00:09:16.620 isn't that so crazy yeah a power outage force comedian has already finished his set in the dark

00:09:21.560 monday night dude that was cool that was like one of those cool cool moments that was fun but when

00:09:27.200 i was here for that trip to get back to the donkeys my wife uh she's danish and she loves 1.00

00:09:36.540 she loves donkeys and there was some fair here and they had miniature donkeys oh beautiful and we

00:09:44.480 sought them out and we we said what's up to him one of them his name was uh his name was roger and

00:09:49.620 he was born october october 4th so roger 10-4 so we met roger and there was another little donkey

00:09:56.740 named lily but i she was she was a little big i don't know if she was a micro donkey roger was 0.57

00:10:03.760 straight up micro lily was a little big i don't know if she was micro at that size i don't judge 1.00

00:10:09.020 their weight to be honest with them you know i'm saying because the bodies there's already a lot going

00:10:12.900 on you know it's like yeah i think i think that i mean look i think they're beautiful i remember

00:10:19.320 i met the world's smallest horse one time when when was that and where and this is his name was

00:10:25.860 tom thumb and i met him in alameda i believe and how did that how did that intro come about well

00:10:32.720 people people like you got to go meet him and shit and i remember i'd been in a bar alameda is where 0.70

00:10:37.200 california california okay so you were doing a show in alameda and then like you gotta you gotta meet 0.97

00:10:41.660 the smallest horse no we'd been out there for a i was just i think i'd heard about it i think i'd been

00:10:48.020 in conversations about like smaller animals animalia generally uh the world's whoa the one

00:10:54.880 i met was tom thumb and if you can also look up separately um on perplexity here if you can just

00:11:00.080 look up uh theovan tom thumb i did a post on it it was pretty fascinating what's perplexity

00:11:06.360 perplexity is like a different ai it does for me i like it because it's uh it can help me like edit

00:11:12.680 and pull clips out of things like you can put something in it and be like like what clips do you

00:11:16.680 like in this what do you suggest that sort of thing oh well so it's kind of like it's like a

00:11:20.800 it's like an ai you know it's far beyond my what i don't know any of this stuff dude what are you

00:11:26.900 talking about do people how do your parents feel about that that i don't know uh perplexity that

00:11:32.560 you don't know about the ais i mean i know what it is i i i uh i don't really use that stuff much

00:11:37.540 i don't really use internet or phone or anything very much i try to stay off yes oh here we go right

00:11:43.660 here let's take a video let's let's i am into this superhero right there how long he gonna be

00:11:49.420 here today for he'll be here all day how small is he

00:11:54.820 whoa

00:11:59.940 and he's alive too

00:12:05.700 that would be dark

00:12:07.740 you don't know what people are doing dude but yeah so just to let you know i guess we have a

00:12:14.000 lot of symbiosis there in our love for the small horses small uh what are horses and donkeys what's

00:12:19.860 that ask the ai what is that called what are that that kind of animal horses donkeys the four-legged

00:12:26.740 kind of they're they're similar there must be some group yeah what is that called the equus yeah

00:12:32.500 the equus the equine the equines but dude when you think that god took all the beauty of a huge horse

00:12:39.080 and put it into like a baby snicker of a horse a little horse yeah there's not is there any other

00:12:45.200 animals that have minis like because there's many horses there's many donkeys what is it there's many

00:12:52.120 cows there are oh wow oh god that'd be a dark moment you go to a steakhouse they're like just

00:12:58.080 so you know these are all mini cows yeah oh it's still that's too dark i'd have a little

00:13:04.040 you know what i'm saying you probably could only have a little that's true dude there's not like a

00:13:09.300 40 ounce bitty cow steak that's not that's not happening it's like it's like he's a one ounce it's

00:13:14.180 like it's like when you go to a sushi restaurant they have that one little piece of wagyu

00:13:17.840 this is this is from a mini cow oh my god they're all furry maybe oh those maybe i'm gonna finish

00:13:25.400 this show and get addicted to the internet because this is this is pretty fun i never knew about mini

00:13:29.640 cows i didn't know i would have just been wondering about equines equus well look dude i think you

00:13:36.200 could get your wife one of these let me see miniature horses rarely exceed 34 inches in height

00:13:41.500 miniature donkeys also max out at around 34 inches there's many micro pigs oh wait this is a whole

00:13:47.600 list of everything there's many of there's many horses donkeys pygmy goats they don't call them

00:13:52.700 micro goats they prefer to be referred to as pygmy goats yeah mini sheeps micro pigs micro pigs i've

00:13:59.340 heard of imagine a mini sheep though you make a very small sweater yeah you're just sitting there

00:14:08.360 oh dude we gotta get some of these animals but dude when i was a kid they only had big dogs and

00:14:15.020 then the dogs started getting littler a lot of this i think is crossbreeding and inbreeding you

00:14:19.380 know i grew up in a kind of an not an inbreeding district but i grew up in like certainly like the

00:14:23.980 stray animal belt and the inbreeding belt kind of like they you can they run across some of the same

00:14:30.100 plains in america okay and we would see a lot of you know people start getting smaller over time in the

00:14:37.040 area because you and that's when you knew like okay people need to start walking farther or driving

00:14:42.720 farther for sex you know well you just knew the inbreeding was heating up you know you know the

00:14:46.840 kettle the kettle was getting a little warm you know um when somebody'd have a baby and they could

00:14:51.920 just put it on like a key ring or whatever it was like that thing's too small you know um good to see

00:14:58.980 you man because we've never really gotten to talking it's good to laugh with somebody um i and you know i

00:15:03.420 i love meeting comedians that i haven't met before i i uh i i was thinking this the other day like when

00:15:12.260 i was on tour i was you know i bring some of the same guys out with me and who do you take with you

00:15:17.340 sorry to interject um wilson vince uh he's in the movie isn't he will's in the movie and uh ricky

00:15:24.740 velez they they uh they came out with me a lot um early this year and then uh our tour manager beth who

00:15:30.740 i love will especially have you ever met will do you know will at all i don't know him but i

00:15:35.380 recognized him immediately i this dude i know him but i don't know him well the hardest i laugh in my 0.84

00:15:42.120 life is after shows going to dinner with will because he's just the most ridiculous guy and he 0.79

00:15:50.420 just he's so funny like just this stuff like this one of my favorite will anecdotes one time i told him

00:15:57.700 i said uh i wanted to send him a a playlist of some music and he's like i don't use spotify

00:16:01.940 and i was like what do you use he goes i use amazon music oh type shit and i was like why do you use 0.91

00:16:07.860 amazon music he's like because i like to download the mp3s and burn them on the cds i was like this

00:16:12.840 this is this is such a unique dude yeah i mean it sounds illegal but it also sounds like i respect it

00:16:20.020 you know um but i but i'll say i love comedians comedians are my favorite people well i think in the

00:16:26.580 end it's like you have to realize how rare it is that people do it and that uh that we do all have

00:16:31.680 something in common yeah and it used to feel like a lot again it's like the southern accent it's like

00:16:36.540 when i see another indian person there's something that pulls me towards them yeah it makes me

00:16:41.080 comfortable yeah i think well some of that's just tribe you know there's a little bit of like

00:16:45.220 whatever's built into us um what a specific tribe to you know because most people's you know most

00:16:52.580 people's worst fear is public speaking and it's what we do for a living so there's something

00:16:57.900 deep inside that's a bond with all of us has to be oh we're like satan's mini donkeys mini donkeys

00:17:04.160 of self-esteem yeah self-esteem that's why we need so much approval with laughter it's like if you pet

00:17:11.360 me micro self-esteem people yeah if you pet me enough i'll grow into a regular size horse you know

00:17:16.180 yeah yeah we get enough laughs we play enough theaters or if we graduate to arenas then we become

00:17:21.680 full-sized people this is enough that's hilarious it's almost like our pinocchio story yeah um

00:17:27.460 yeah dude i stayed up watching the movie last night good fortune that's your it's a new movie yeah um

00:17:33.900 dude the amount of turns that were that started to happen i'm about like i guess maybe 45 minutes in

00:17:39.500 the amount of turns that started to happen in the plot really were making it heat up oh well thank

00:17:45.620 you it's cool dude and keanu reeves he's like this like he almost reminds me of like a surfer dude

00:17:53.340 that won best in show at westminster type of vibe you know what i'm saying yeah there's a little bit

00:17:58.460 of uh california kind of um but he's very sweet like a like a little pup and his posture is so good

00:18:05.000 it seems like he would win best in show like he seems like he has very good i never noticed his

00:18:10.340 posture but you didn't no but you know i remember when we first started screening the movie

00:18:15.660 as soon as he came up on screen i could tell there was something like whoa this dude's a movie star

00:18:21.240 and it's not just that he's handsome there's something this other you know there's this other

00:18:26.680 thing that he has and and he's so funny in the movie i mean he he just he just kills and and by the

00:18:34.240 end of the movie when i've watched it with crowds like he's just doing the smallest thing and just

00:18:38.220 getting huge laughs and um yeah but um you directed and wrote and you're in it right you wrote it too

00:18:44.740 i wrote it dude that's awesome bro produced acted everything too much so you have control issues you

00:18:51.000 think yeah a little bit but but in a positive way as well you know seth rogan's in the movie and he

00:18:56.840 does his show the studio and we've talked about that about you know kind of doing everything because

00:19:01.320 he does everything on that and there's something that's kind of streamlined about it you know to like

00:19:06.340 oh i had this idea this is how i'm gonna write it and i and you kind of have for me whenever i'm

00:19:12.060 writing something i kind of have a you know an idea in my head of how i want it to sound and look and

00:19:17.200 everything and directing is pretty much just conveying that to a group of people to execute it yeah so if

00:19:24.540 all if it's all coming from one person and if you're one of the people acting it does make things

00:19:28.300 easier in a sense yeah man that does make a lot of sense dude yeah and and you know you have other

00:19:34.940 people like seth and keanu who you know they have iconic voices so when i'm writing i have their voice

00:19:40.940 in the head and then when they're there they do it like even funnier than you think they were going to

00:19:47.340 do it when you had in your head they add something or improvise and and um you know the goal is really

00:19:52.960 you have like the version in your head and then you have this whole crew and cast and and you kind

00:19:57.360 of convey your vision and then they take that and then they give you something else that's

00:20:02.320 something from them and it becomes better than you thought how long would you guys to shoot for

00:20:07.120 um well it was a little weird because we shot like one or two days and then the writer's strike

00:20:12.720 happened we have to stop for a few months yeah and then we came back and um this sounds crazy when

00:20:21.520 i'm saying it out loud so we came back after the writer's strike which was like i don't know seven

00:20:25.120 months or something it was a while and were people pregnant and stuff like was it different

00:20:29.920 no one got pregnant but okay no everyone was still the same but um oh thank god we we shot for 0.98

00:20:35.920 like a couple days and then keanu broke his knee he broke his kneecap like on our like second or third

00:20:41.120 day back what was he doing it i mean it sounds insane as i'm saying it out loud because this guy's done

00:20:47.040 all the matrix movies all the john wick movies never got hurt yeah we filmed a scene in a cold

00:20:52.960 plunge and he was going back to his dressing room he was all wrapped up in a robe and everything and

00:20:59.040 he like tripped on a rug and fell on his knee and broke his kneecap oh yeah they got pictures of him

00:21:04.880 in the crutches here on on perplexity uh no he broke his freaking kneecap and were you guys right there 0.59

00:21:11.280 could you hear it no no i it was in his in his dressing room so i i just heard like someone on

00:21:17.200 the on the walk he's like oh i'm keanu's down oh so he went through it alone yeah he fell down and

00:21:22.880 then they were like he's hurt and then he came down he was ready to film right away his knee was like

00:21:26.800 bleeding right crazy and we're like hey man maybe you should go to a doctor and he's like no no let's

00:21:30.800 shoot let he he loves he loves shooting he just wants to shoot but anyway we could film most of 0.99

00:21:39.040 his stuff he had like a knee brace that we like edited out with vfx he didn't get that stupid one 1.00

00:21:44.880 with the wheels on no he didn't have the wheel that was kind of mean to call it stupid man that's 0.99

00:21:48.800 that people are that's something people gotta use but dude i saw some drunk lady and her husband they 1.00

00:21:55.520 were going down broadway in nashville and uh i know the thing you're talking about it's like a kind

00:22:01.040 of like a scoot this thing yeah it's like a mini scooter and then my friend broke his achilles

00:22:05.680 tory's achilles heel and he had to use that for a while yeah it's like the x games of being

00:22:10.160 crippled or whatever yeah it's it's a little weird yeah it seems a little silly yeah so he didn't have 0.99

00:22:14.640 one of those he just had a big knee brace but we had these scenes where he had like most of the stuff

00:22:18.960 we could kind of figure it out but there was a couple of scenes where we needed him to dance

00:22:22.880 there's a whole thing where he starts dancing cumbia and we're like keanu we can't shoot the cumbia

00:22:26.880 stuff so we came back after his leg healed and shot a few more days but it was like a 30-day shoot

00:22:34.640 shoot oh wow it's fast that's a lot of work yeah that's not too much but it's not too little

00:22:40.000 yeah yeah we just i just david spade and i made a movie and i can't talk about it anymore on here

00:22:44.560 because we've talked about it a lot but how many days 23 days that's pretty tight it was i mean i

00:22:50.240 don't know the script or anything but 23 it's you know that's a lot of work but over 30 yeah we

00:22:54.320 probably had a few days off in between you know but it was a lot it was like the fires that happens we

00:22:58.080 had to move oh god one scene that just happens to be firing and you're like okay well this has to be part

00:23:03.600 of it because you've already set up for the day and whatever this space is going to be

00:23:07.520 so like one day it's crazy winds the winds were like 45 miles an hour i remember that i was in

00:23:13.280 la during right right during the fires yeah before there was a crazy winds i was like what's happening

00:23:18.080 okay so we're like talking about kites we wrote that into the script like yeah we should get some

00:23:21.600 kites you wrote in afterwards yeah just to add like yeah maybe we'll get some kites after you know

00:23:26.000 we like threw in a line it's like just trying to make things make sense you know because you just have

00:23:29.760 you're already set up everybody's already driven there the people are there there's a lady standing 0.99

00:23:34.720 there with makeup you know what i'm saying like people have washed their bodies and gotten in

00:23:39.200 their vehicles and gotten over there people have put on deodorant people have put on clean

00:23:43.600 panties and men's panties or whatever they're called under men's underwear they put on their 0.96

00:23:48.800 undergarments and they showed up and it's a lot of people yeah and it's crazy because you know

00:23:52.720 you write these random things and then all these people get to work to do it and it's like some

00:24:00.160 silly joke about a pillowcase or whatever like oh which pillowcase do you want to use yeah sometimes

00:24:05.440 it's something as dumb as that like all these people will drive to one place just so somebody 1.00

00:24:09.280 can be like ricky's a bitch you're like okay that's lunch you're like that fucking took four hours 1.00

00:24:16.960 god and ricky's not even a bitch anymore he's had a surgery by the end of the day you know what i'm 1.00

00:24:20.480 saying so everything's changed it blows my mind that you know because it's like stand up and you 0.91

00:24:25.920 you do these things and you're just on a mic and there's people they're listening but when you write

00:24:29.520 a joke for a movie there's all these trucks everybody's showed up it's it's it really makes

00:24:35.520 you pause for a second i don't know if you had this thing where you're like oh man this is a lot of hope

00:24:41.120 this is worth it for these people oh yeah i remember the first day we got to do to set i was like holy

00:24:48.160 shit i thought this had just been a bunch of emails you know and it was like all the emails 0.60

00:24:53.040 that come together in real life like there was trailers there was some guy got electrocuted like 0.98

00:24:58.800 yeah but it was like everything you know you were like oh people are acting there's some guy 0.91

00:25:04.400 practicing his things they're like firing an extra like all the shit was going on you know like 0.99

00:25:10.560 some guys just like you know i had bought the wrong peanut just all the shits happening you know 0.99

00:25:15.760 there's no coffee there was always no coffee when i got over there it's fine but it was just

00:25:20.560 like it's fascinating to see it happen and it's one of those things that has to like it's so expensive

00:25:26.880 to do that you have to get it done on that day it's like whatever elements come if somebody breaks their

00:25:32.320 leg if somebody goes missing you have to for an hour you have to like shoot around just all these

00:25:36.880 little things that kind of go on you know i i was telling someone people always ask me like what's

00:25:40.560 the difference between doing stand-up and doing a film to me doing stand-up it's like

00:25:46.400 you're you're running around a track and you go hey i'm ready to go and then you you go to all these

00:25:51.600 cities and you run around the track and and you're done and a movie is like you have to go to these

00:25:58.320 people and go hey i want to climb this mountain can you give me money to climb this mountain and they're

00:26:03.120 like let me see your plan which is like your script and they're like hmm well we can give you this

00:26:07.040 much oh that's not really enough supplies and then like well can brad pitt climb the mine with

00:26:12.080 the mountain with you can you can you get you know these other famous can you know and yeah and then

00:26:17.600 if you're lucky enough to even get to start climbing the mountain then people just start

00:26:21.280 throwing boulders like hey here's the writer's strike hey there's the fires in la oh wait keanu's

00:26:27.360 broke his kneecap and it is a positive blood test you're like oh that's rough it's it's all just

00:26:34.560 you're just trying to avoid all these different disasters and if you're lucky you you you make it

00:26:41.360 to the top but it's it's so much harder to either so much more to to that's out of your control

00:26:46.880 yeah stand-up is so in your control yeah there's something so pure and beautiful about stand i like

00:26:52.320 doing both but there is something so pure and beautiful about stand-up where it's just

00:26:58.000 literally a person talking in the microphone it's kind of such a pure and direct art form

00:27:04.560 and filmmaking there's so many other things that are out of your control and it's a lot more

00:27:08.320 complex but it's rewarding in its own way i mean i i think about how you know i'll i'm working on

00:27:15.840 other scripts now and i'll have some joke and it'll it'll be like whoa this will be maybe years from

00:27:21.360 now before i'll see this joke play in a theater and hear a crowd of people laugh and then a stand-up

00:27:27.760 joke you know you or i could think of something tonight and go to a comedy club and try it and hear it get

00:27:32.320 a laugh and that's so satisfying but there's also something crazy about like i remember i started

00:27:37.440 writing good fortune like probably in the pandemic i started writing it on and off and there's jokes

00:27:43.280 i wrote in and then years later it's like i'm in a theater in burbank and keanu reeves is saying the

00:27:48.480 joke and you know a crowd full of people goes crazy and they're both amazing but in different ways yeah

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00:30:47.200 never get to make but you think it would be cool like it's so ridiculous have there ever been something

00:30:53.920 like that that well i mean right now it's so hard to get any movie made they all feel like oh man i hope

00:30:59.440 i can make this you know i've got two movies that i uh two other scripts that i've written i had this movie

00:31:04.400 with bill murray that i was doing that got shut down i want to finish that why what happened oh

00:31:10.640 well uh bill murray uh was part of this movie we did called being mortal being more was a book by this

00:31:18.240 gentleman named atul gawande it's all about like end of life issues it's about stuff you know uh

00:31:26.800 that people my age are dealing with with their parents you know some maybe not all people might

00:31:30.560 be older but you know they're getting sick you got to put them in retirement homes and you got to 0.63

00:31:34.880 figure all this this stuff out very you know very interesting book and it's about very highly

00:31:41.680 recommend this have you met atul gawande yeah yeah i had to talk to atul to get rights to the book and

00:31:46.640 and when i decided to turn into script he um he helped me and and um yeah there he is very cool very

00:31:54.000 smart guy and um uh so i thought okay this is like the the book is not a fiction book it's non-fiction

00:32:07.120 but i was like oh man if you turn this into a story there's things that are funny even though

00:32:12.080 it's dark you know like there's things that are funny about like you know you have to go like take

00:32:17.520 your parents to like all your mom or dad you have to take them to all these different retirement homes

00:32:21.920 and like they you know all these people in his book they always be like i want to be in here

00:32:25.360 everybody in here is old it's like that's people's perspective it's kind of funny and uh and just like

00:32:31.600 how out of depth you are talking to these doctors doctors talk to you like you know you know these

00:32:36.080 super complicated things they're like anyway so what do you want to do if you do this you know he might

00:32:40.240 be paralyzed but if you do this you know you're like wait what yeah but if you do this he might be able

00:32:44.240 to do a backflip and you're like well that's a that's a mixed bag it's it's so you're you're just

00:32:50.560 immediately out of your depth but anyway i read the story and i read the book and and you you

00:32:56.240 notice these patterns like the parents are like no i'm fine i'm fine and then they like drive their

00:33:00.160 car through the house or something and then you're like we got to take you to home man yeah you know

00:33:03.680 that kind of thing but that's really how it happens though for people it's really how it happens

00:33:07.520 and i was like well if you did a story about this and the guy was bill murray that could be really

00:33:12.720 funny and really poignant because he you know i think about him in like lost in translation or broken

00:33:18.240 flowers and and he's one of these he's got this rare ability to be so funny but so grounded and

00:33:24.240 touching and and sincere so i wrote the whole thing with him in mind and there was no like oh

00:33:31.200 i'll get another guy it was like this movie only works in my head if it's bill murray i can't think

00:33:35.760 of anybody else i wrote it and he's like famously the hardest guy to get a hold of to be you can't

00:33:43.840 even get him yeah i i knew him a little bit socially i had his number i call him he answers

00:33:48.320 the phone i said hey i have a script that i wrote uh you know i said hello whatever and we talked for

00:33:53.440 a minute and i said i i was calling because i wrote the script and and i think you'd be great

00:33:56.800 and he's like oh that's wonderful you know mail it to my house very old school he's like printing

00:34:00.400 out sending my house so i sent it to him he calls me like a couple of weeks later he's like yeah i i i

00:34:06.080 like this can you send me the book i sent him the book he was really into the book as well

00:34:09.840 and um we eventually set it up seth rogan plays his son kiki palmer is playing seth's wife and um

00:34:20.560 we shot for like three weeks and then um something happened on set where uh bill was inappropriate with

00:34:26.960 uh someone uh that was working on the film oh i remember something about yeah yeah um was it real

00:34:34.480 or was it fabricated who knows uh i mean something really happened okay so something occurred and people

00:34:38.960 felt their ways about it right yeah i don't want to get into it too much because it's not my story

00:34:43.120 to tell so something happened on set something you had to shut the movie down yeah he he had a mask

00:34:47.920 on a coveted mask and uh this is from what i understand he had a code mask on and he was trying

00:34:54.160 to be funny and he was kissing this woman that he was friends with with the mask on trying to be funny

00:34:58.960 but this woman didn't like this and was was upset and um and eventually it turned into this whole 0.93

00:35:05.520 thing and they shut the whole movie down oh yeah there's the wikipedia page uh but uh yes this is

00:35:13.680 what bill said at the time i did something i thought was funny it wasn't taken that way

00:35:17.840 the company movie studio wanted to do the right thing so they wanted to check it all out

00:35:20.960 investigate it so they stopped the production yeah the the the whole whole movie shut down um

00:35:26.320 it says i'm sorry i shared that 75 it wasn't 75 we shot like half of it but anyway i can't remember

00:35:33.600 what what how we started on this but that um yeah i'd love to finish that at some point you know if we

00:35:38.800 can because you know it was it was uh it was very special but god you know it must have been i must

00:35:44.640 have been heartbreaking for everybody it was but it was one of those things it was so crazy i don't think

00:35:50.400 i ever fully processed it i mean you want to know something crazy i remember the week it happened

00:35:55.440 i was getting married that summer and my friends had uh they wanted to plan some sort of bachelor

00:36:04.000 party for you not like uh i i'm not like hey let's go to the strip club kind of guy they were like gonna

00:36:09.120 we're gonna go to a restaurant go to the spa or something like that like a very silly kind of like

00:36:13.520 a math-a-thon yeah what's the math-a-thon we just do a bunch of math is that a real thing or did

00:36:20.240 you just make up that word i don't know but i could see for some reason i just think you think

00:36:25.360 i'm that's what i'm into no i'm not in the math-a-thons wait it's a real thing it's a

00:36:29.680 fundraising event where you do math wow it is zuckerberg was a mathlete um andrew wang was a

00:36:37.520 mathlete no alexander wang was a mathlete a lot of those tech bros were mathletes dude alexander

00:36:43.200 wang the fashion guy no there's a new one um a new alexander wang that guy died or something i

00:36:49.600 think wait i don't think he did this is a different guy oh this is a gen z billionaire

00:36:54.960 this alexander without the e a wang they call him in the streets boy whoa he's 28 years old

00:37:00.640 in the tech trenches deep in the model is this screen with the guy looking stuff up with you

00:37:05.280 around all the time or just when you do the podcast that would be so great because i'm the

00:37:10.640 opposite of this i never look anything up you know i don't you know what my wife said to me

00:37:15.280 yesterday i you know i don't have i don't keep a smartphone on me i don't i blocked all the

00:37:21.280 shit on the internet i don't really use the internet so sometimes i'll just ask my wife 0.86

00:37:25.440 stuff the same way you're asking this guy and she's like you know i'm not the internet i'm your wife 0.98

00:37:32.320 because i what i'm secretly asking without asking is like can you look that up for me because i can't

00:37:37.600 look it up and she's like i'm not the internet dude it was a dark moment you married you married

00:37:46.080 just to have the internet that's so great i just needed to have a smartphone without having one so

00:37:50.560 that's why i got married dude she said that to me i'm not the internet she loves me very much we're

00:37:56.800 just texting about how much we love each other but it sounds like it look we believe all that it's

00:38:01.440 tough man it's tough i mean i i've you know i've i've gotten lost and had to call her and and been

00:38:08.560 like hey where where where are we yeah i can't find them because i i live in london and you know

00:38:16.240 there's you live in london yeah most of the time i'm there because we met in london we live there and

00:38:20.560 um oh your wife is in london is in london pull up the ex-girlfriend she's in some

00:38:24.080 um but anyway we live in uh we live in in london we met there and um you know does she speak danish

00:38:34.880 as well yeah she speaks danish and i love languages but danish is pretty tough is it it's tough yeah

00:38:40.240 is it romantic is it considered a romantic language oh this gets this gets back to the donkey thing

00:38:44.880 okay so she said that um i was like well what's like a danish term of affection like maybe we can use

00:38:50.240 that and she said it was like skit and i was like that that sounds harsh that doesn't sound very

00:38:54.480 sweet and we were somewhere where we saw a donkey and she and i said what's the word for donkey and

00:39:00.560 she said and she said and uh and she said it was her first word and that she loved donkeys and i was

00:39:09.280 like why don't we call each other that and so we started calling each other that yeah and now i have

00:39:14.000 you see that ae that that's here on this this chain the ae and that's what led to us meeting the

00:39:20.080 little mini donkey in nashville where we are now boom god yeah yeah oh you're my little aesle yeah

00:39:30.960 exactly but yeah it's pretty close yeah that's that's it pretty close i mean no you said it right

00:39:37.120 you're actually saying it better than i do you're doing the ae the combined ae yeah that danish is you

00:39:42.160 know it's like wait a second now now we're coming up with new letters you're combining the a and e i'm

00:39:47.040 you know i can speak italian okay my my family speaks tamil it's an indian language i can speak

00:39:51.840 that a little bit well that yeah but danish is it's a tricky one well a lot of our mix are cis and

00:39:57.760 bi gender now some some vowels are like there'll be a vowel that has is is trans now you're it's

00:40:03.920 changing identity yeah it's like what's the other one they ae how do we pronounce you bro that's all

00:40:08.880 we want hey we just want to show you respect and do it right do whatever you want but just tell

00:40:13.280 we just need to know how to use you in a word and some vowels now are like i don't want to be in 0.99

00:40:17.840 your fucking words or whatever and we're like bitch or sir just be in the fucking word dude you're a 1.00

00:40:23.600 letter but that's where it's at now man it's it dan it's tough because we'll be there that's not a 1.00

00:40:28.720 real thing which thing the isn't that oh with the circle elon's kid's name i don't know hey so

00:40:37.440 you're saying it right that that's pretty good pronunciation no and whenever i whenever we're in

00:40:41.760 denmark and i try to read a word i'll try to pronounce it right and it's just i just don't

00:40:45.840 know the pronunciation rules i get everything wrong but wait how do we start talking oh because

00:40:50.400 i use her as a phone sometimes i'm walking around in london and london there's a lot of

00:40:55.360 like maps on the street so if i get lost i can find the map and kind of make my way but sometimes

00:41:01.040 i i'll like keep walking around hoping to run into one of these maps and i won't run into one and i have

00:41:05.520 to call her and i'll have to be like hey i'm over here you gotta you gotta tell me how to get to the

00:41:10.880 tube station and i remember that even when i first came to la i don't know whenever you first

00:41:17.200 came to la how long ago it was but you know there wasn't gps and stuff gps was like a fancy thing if

00:41:22.800 they had it at all so i would like print out directions on map quest and i remember you know

00:41:29.200 i would call my little brother uh my little brother is a few years younger than me he was still in south

00:41:34.080 carolina and i'd call him be like hey man i'm on caesar chavez how do i how do i get back

00:41:41.680 because we didn't have the stuff yeah when you came to la was it like that yeah dude people had

00:41:47.920 maps drawings you'd have a guy who had directions tattooed on his arm of how to get home if he was an

00:41:52.800 alcoholic or whatever oh my god like shit was definitely more primitive back then people would

00:41:57.360 like just write on their dashboard how to get home like yeah people had to remember remember when 0.98

00:42:03.120 you just knew everybody's phone number yeah but also when somebody would give you directions dude

00:42:08.880 and if you missed one of them or something and you were going to a party you just drove around

00:42:12.560 their neighborhood for an hour and then went home like you would drive and roll your windows down

00:42:17.120 and see if you heard a party from the backyard yeah we're basically like a bunch of like um uh

00:42:23.120 uh magellans you know and it's strange to think there's there's people that grew up without

00:42:29.840 knowing that at all and it really does seem nuts that we were able to be okay without it

00:42:36.480 yeah you know well it's like you imagine now it's like we're gonna go to the airport and nobody's

00:42:40.080 gonna go through tsa right because that's how i barely remember that like that you could go up to

00:42:45.920 the gate and all that stuff you know all of my travel you know i started doing comedy

00:42:51.280 by the time i was touring and stuff and traveling all the time like we do that so you were already

00:42:57.280 big touring when you started doing comedy or no no no no i'm saying like i didn't start traveling a

00:43:02.160 bunch you know touring and doing all the stuff until after tsa and all these kind of things you

00:43:07.040 know i barely remember traveling um i wasn't on that many you know i wasn't flying all the time like

00:43:12.240 you know i do now so i barely remember that time where like you could walk up to the gate you know i

00:43:17.280 might not even remember it actually yeah i mean that all happened after 9 11 so it's after 2001

00:43:22.400 you know yeah maybe a couple flights i'd taken probably but yeah dude imagine if we went back

00:43:28.320 to that now would you think say right now you go to the airport there's no tsa would you trust

00:43:36.080 everyone enough to be like okay we're all going to fly home together guys does everybody promise

00:43:42.240 are not going to cause any problems i mean uh i don't know it'd be it's it's it's wild times

00:43:49.280 right now i don't know and they would ask you twice i mean i was in the airport these past couple days

00:43:54.320 and you know the government's been shut down those people are there they're working for free like i was

00:43:58.000 like hey just so you know guys we're working for free and i was like oh my god that's unbelievable

00:44:03.760 it's wild yeah the government's just turned into like a shitty vehicle it's like every now and 0.78

00:44:07.680 then it just fucking shuts down or whatever dude i mean you gotta understand for me to like 0.97

00:44:13.200 be in london and read about all the stuff happening here and then come here like i was in chicago 0.95

00:44:17.280 yesterday and the and so my friend's like wow time to be in chicago i was like what do you mean

00:44:21.280 they're like oh the national guards they're just grabbing mexican people i was like what

00:44:26.960 what when did that happen i'm just over here trying to tell people about good fortune

00:44:31.920 and they're like yeah they're grabbing they're grabbing mexican people and the national guards

00:44:38.160 there and ba ba ba tsa oh yeah they're oh yeah what are you you getting on a plane later to fly to

00:44:44.240 national oh yeah they the government shut down like most of the air traffic people went home oh great

00:44:49.760 thanks yeah i'm i'm it's okay i'm gonna i'm gonna fly to national and then get on another plane back

00:44:54.320 to new york same day cool weekend to be on all these planes yeah you're like it's just the bad news bears

00:44:59.600 of tsa right now you got all the people that are like down to come and work in for free yeah dude

00:45:04.320 you have just like the militant guy you have the guy who's been waiting to get in the game like wait

00:45:09.600 like no training but just fucking waiting to get in back today this is gonna be a really dark last 0.92

00:45:16.960 interview snippet and here's the clip where aziz predicts oh my god bro that's so hilarious that 0.88

00:45:24.480 there's like backup of everybody's backup right now like the park wardens are like bro welcome to

00:45:31.360 the fucking park bro it's like it's just like the second string dude he's like dude the owls are 0.99

00:45:37.920 fucking monumental right now bro take all these people for granted that's so true huh well the the 0.99

00:45:46.640 raids and stuff like that are crazy because we they let so many people into the country right like 1.00

00:45:53.200 without having a pattern of like this is an organized way to do something right because i

00:45:57.600 think they need to organize it it needs to be organized right because it's it's odd if people

00:46:01.520 are here that they live in fear that they're always going to be like they you know found out or something

00:46:07.680 and then it's odd that people are that there's nefarious people here that don't want to be found out

00:46:12.560 you know so i think like they need some organization of it but yeah the fact that it gets like where people

00:46:20.640 are being ripped out of places and then you don't know also some of these days i i really believe

00:46:26.560 you don't know what's real and what's not when you see it sometimes like it could literally be a

00:46:30.320 scene that was put together like some of like the antifa stuff you would see in the park during the

00:46:34.400 pandemic i watched i watched that movie you see one battle after another it's good it's amazing but

00:46:39.840 it's it's it's crazy because you know he wrote that movie a long time ago and it's like i was in

00:46:47.520 chicago and i was like damn this is one battle after another because you know in the movie it's

00:46:52.880 it's very much like uh a military state and like the military is just you know around going and doing 0.84

00:46:59.520 this kind of stuff and it's kind of wild the dude you know he's supposedly been working on the movie

00:47:03.680 for like 15 years or something wow and and it's it's out now when this stuff is you know so top of

00:47:10.960 mind it's so so in there you know yeah eddington was really great you see eddington i didn't see

00:47:15.680 eddington but i've heard it it's it's kind of they're they're dealing with similar stuff i need

00:47:19.600 to see that yeah just a lot of things happening at once um but i believe we're headed to a uh

00:47:26.080 surveillance state you know i believe that we're that's why they're trying that that that happened

00:47:30.720 like a long time ago i'm talking about drones in the sky surveillance like that vibe oh my god

00:47:36.640 i mean like that's where we're heading like dude the movie i want to see this is how i think it ends

00:47:40.800 blacks versus drones dude what that's how it ends bro that is people are wondering how does time

00:47:48.800 how does this all where do indian people fit in this are we running we're just running the door 1.00

00:47:52.480 okay the right where where where do the indians fit in this movie okay we need kyrie irving to move

00:47:57.840 over to the you're just like what's he okay because he plays basketball no i mean i'm just thinking of

00:48:04.000 a cool black guy um but yeah you're like okay uh but dude that's how it ends like i think you're

00:48:10.160 everybody's like what's going on in society and like these different groups and people back and

00:48:15.120 like you know genocide all these stuff going on and you're like how does it all and i think it's

00:48:20.000 blacks versus drones i don't know for me any as someone that used to live here and now comes here

00:48:25.840 occasionally for work every time i come back it just feels wild and it feels i think it feels wilder to

00:48:31.760 me because i think for people that are here it's like oh they're slowly seeing it get crazy so

00:48:38.400 they're not going from like one to a hundred like i do like you know my time in la you know i remember

00:48:45.840 you know just seeing the amount of tents and all that stuff you know coming you know going to la and

00:48:52.400 in new york after covid because during code i was in london the whole time with my wife

00:48:55.600 hmm so coming back to both those cities after covid i was like whoa yeah it's like a slipknot 0.99

00:49:02.160 tailgate out there now you know it's fucking you know my wife loves slipknot you're lying my wife has 1.00

00:49:09.360 a phd in physics or how she's a genius and she loves it's like she had this emo phase and i i every 0.99

00:49:18.160 now and then i'll just i'll just bring up that she loves my two favorite facts about my wife she's

00:49:23.440 gonna hate that i'm bringing this stuff up no it's important one is that she loves slipknot

00:49:29.280 and the other thing is that she was little miss denmark ooh that was a little competition for 1.00

00:49:36.480 little kids when she was like five six year olds and she won two years in a row and then they stopped

00:49:42.160 the contest no because she kept winning god they shut it down they shut it down what they don't like

00:49:52.000 somebody really stepping out of the norm i think they were just like we this we shouldn't be doing

00:49:56.240 these little pageants for these kids and and my wife she said like they would have a you know like 1.00

00:50:02.240 oh you'd have the talent portion or whatever and and she would be like you know doing her dance 0.99

00:50:07.360 whatever and they're like all right that's good she's like no i'm not finished with my routine 0.98

00:50:11.280 i don't mean to be an so uh yeah but i'm about to win this bitch for a third time dude holy 1.00

00:50:19.680 shit she's like the boston celtics of those fucking danish competitions yeah and then and then she had 1.00

00:50:24.880 her emo phase and got really really into slipknot rebelled against the pageant life you shut down a 1.00

00:50:30.560 pageant queen like that where they can't even perform anymore that is a direct avenue to slipknot 1.00

00:50:34.880 gory understands how else do you even manage that sort of stress and strain 1.00

00:50:45.040 where are you gonna put those fucking pirouettes bro you're gonna package those bitches and put 1.00

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00:52:13.520 advisor view important disclosures acorns.com slash theo i i didn't think we'd get into little

00:52:18.640 little miss denmark my wife's gonna be thrilled oh that's awesome i'm glad that you found love out

00:52:22.800 there man did you uh were you good with the ladies growing up what was your energy like

00:52:27.440 um you know i grew up in it's weird because i grew up in south carolina i remember every school

00:52:34.400 like in the south kind of had it had an indian guy was it like that your school was there a big indian

00:52:38.160 group there's two there's two versions of this okay there's like oh if you're in like atlanta or

00:52:43.840 something there's like the indian crew and they hang out and then there's what i grew up with which is

00:52:49.840 like just me and when i was little i i kind of forget this sometimes in like first and second

00:52:56.560 grade there was this thai girl and her name was tisha which doesn't make sense that doesn't really

00:53:02.800 sound like a thai name but her name was tisha but they left kind of a black tie it's a fair it sounds

00:53:08.240 like a black tie it sounds like a black tie affair she was thai and uh but they they left and then

00:53:15.200 it was just me as indian and it's in the 80s and you know it's so interesting to look back i was

00:53:21.040 thinking about this and i had a conversation with my mom a while ago that really like blew me away so

00:53:26.400 first off you know as soon as i tell people i grew up in south carolina they're always like oh

00:53:31.840 it must have been so racist all the stuff and of course there's there's moments where it wasn't

00:53:36.960 nice and and like people calling you almost n-word or something like that oh n-word not almost oh

00:53:42.240 really yeah yeah those people are nearsighted or whatever i don't know that's crazy but there was

00:53:48.560 also i feel like you know there was a time i was writing something and i asked my parents to just tell

00:53:53.280 me like i didn't want to write stuff about people being racist to to people i wanted to write something

00:54:00.000 positive so i was like tell me things you remember that were positive like experiences you had you

00:54:04.160 know being because someone because you know my parents are there in the 80s yeah it was different

00:54:08.640 for sure they don't people there didn't even know what indian people were they didn't see them in

00:54:13.920 the culture they didn't see nothing they didn't understand it looks like a black person that they 0.75

00:54:18.320 didn't finish the job on or whatever kind of you know no judgment that let's just make sure that

00:54:26.080 quote is attributed to you uh but yeah for sure dude but i think it's like because sometimes you

00:54:33.200 do see that indian dude you're like is this a black dude or an indian dude this is but we're joking but 0.95

00:54:38.720 it is what people were saying they had never seen indian people before yes i agree not in the media or

00:54:44.880 anything and so my experience you know i'm talking about the positive stuff first off i skipped first and

00:54:51.040 second grade i did first and second grade in one year so people were like people were like oh my

00:54:55.840 god this genius little brown boy yeah and and so i was like i had and i i was in a small school

00:55:01.520 there was like 30 kids in my class there's 8 000 people that live in my town um yeah but uh you know 0.80

00:55:08.160 i was raised by my parents but uh first grade is fucking easy first grade is easy my dad would like 0.98

00:55:14.240 show me that it takes a whole year you're like what the fuck are we doing my dad would like write 0.97

00:55:18.800 little math problems and stuff for me so i was really advanced and like math and stuff so 0.96

00:55:22.480 go back and look at it yeah no it's it's yeah you you should be able to teach your kid all that

00:55:26.800 stuff before you can even eavesdrop you can tap into like classrooms and watch it's like this is so

00:55:30.800 fucking easy dude i wish you had a ring camera in there and just be giving the kids the answers 0.97

00:55:34.320 and shit what it's yellow if they had like one of those ring cameras you could talk in like a 0.99

00:55:39.040 children's class or whatever i mean back then no ring camera just had my dad teaching me stuff so by 0.95

00:55:44.560 the time i was like halfway through first grade they called my parents like this is you got to

00:55:49.440 get him out of here he's he's got to go up to second grade and so i went to second grade and that was 0.86

00:55:53.920 like this big story in the school that some kid had skipped the grade yeah it's like when lebron left

00:55:59.840 miami it was exactly like lebron i was like lebron with like very elementary math problems yeah lebron

00:56:07.600 yes exactly and uh but you know when i was thinking back about my childhood and talking to

00:56:13.760 my parents and and you know there was these two ladies that uh took care of us first off i i was 1.00

00:56:20.400 talking to my mom and she's talking about how when she came to south carolina my dad had been in

00:56:25.280 america he was in new jersey doing his residency then he went back to india married my mom and then

00:56:30.960 they came to south carolina where my dad moved because he applied for these jobs all over the country

00:56:36.480 and in south carolina they didn't have a lot of the doctor he was he's a gastroenterologist so

00:56:40.400 then they moved to south carolina my mom comes to south carolina swims never left india like this

00:56:47.040 she's in bennettsville south carolina not like oh you're in new york city no bennettsville south

00:56:52.560 carolina and uh my dad brings her home and then he has to go to work and i asked my mom i was like

00:56:59.600 you know what was that day like and she was like and i put this in my show she said oh i i just sat on

00:57:05.040 the couch and i cried and i was like oh my god it's so dark it was like so much braver than i i

00:57:10.160 could be you know i mean this is there's no face time nothing none of that you're really alone it

00:57:14.480 was just cable television yeah but i'm talking about like to have a connection with your family

00:57:18.480 or anything there's no way to communicate you're just praying and like lighting candles and putting

00:57:22.320 those oranges in that little thing there's no even like making a long distance call was a different

00:57:27.200 thing back then yeah it was like 11 dollars yeah it was not the way it is now where you could you know

00:57:31.760 so she was really alone but she used to go and do laundry all the time to just be around other

00:57:38.000 people and there was some lady there an older white lady that recognized that you know became some 1.00

00:57:44.640 saw her with me and uh and and became friendly with her and they called her grandma i don't know

00:57:54.000 the woman's real name actually when and and i called her grandma and she would take care of me and 1.00

00:58:00.000 like kind of looked out for our family and she eventually i i think she moved or something or

00:58:06.560 whatever but she she she couldn't take care of us anymore and this woman uh who we called nana 1.00

00:58:14.960 it's what her grandkids called her she started taking care of us and then there was this woman 1.00

00:58:18.800 named miss beulah who who would take care of us after school she had some tits on her i bet 1.00

00:58:23.680 miss beulah rest in peace i'm not gonna pass away my bad yeah i didn't know that and i hope let's not 0.97

00:58:31.520 but miss beulah as you might guess from the name beulah black woman from the south and would cook the 1.00

00:58:37.520 meanest southern food for us so i would eat indian food and southern food and um and so nana miss 1.00

00:58:44.080 beulah part of my life and um you know i uh i i had a sister that passed away and she was uh a few

00:58:54.000 years younger than me and she had a very rare she had a um something called hurler syndrome it's a super 0.99

00:59:00.080 rare um liver disease sorry uh it's obviously a little heavy for me but um

00:59:13.600 so she she passed away what's her name her name is nafees nafees that's a pretty name huh yeah

00:59:20.560 um and uh she passed away and uh nana um nana passed away a few years ago when i was in college

00:59:30.880 a while ago now and um you know i didn't get a chance to miss beulah i got to say a proper

00:59:37.600 goodbye to i went and saw her when she was standing in retirement home nana i didn't have that same 0.63

00:59:41.440 moment i was in college and and it wasn't uh the same kind of thing where i had that opportunity to

00:59:46.160 say bye um but my mom had told me that she went to go see um uh visit my sister at cemetery and and

00:59:58.640 you know we're my sister's buried in in in south carolina and in bennettsville and you know that

01:00:06.080 is a tricky thing because my family's from a muslim background and they wanted to do 0.95

01:00:10.480 they were asking the cemetery can we do the things we do for our culture and and the cemetery was like

01:00:17.680 yeah of course whatever you need to do which is which is just so cool to me that they they they were

01:00:23.920 open to that and the whole community you know we're visiting our family and everything and um

01:00:31.200 i remember even like a priest came by to just you know even though we were different religion

01:00:35.840 he came and like wanted to talk to us and stuff and everyone was just so kind about it and and um

01:00:41.280 um my mom told me that she went to go see uh my sister at the cemetery and she said oh and we saw nana

01:00:51.680 too i was like what do you mean she's like well nana's buried right next to her no and i just

01:01:00.560 i like melted as a human because i i did not know that and and to me like i heard that and and i was

01:01:08.400 like wow like you know i was saying all the stuff about crazy this country is and how crazy it feels

01:01:12.560 right now but that story that doesn't happen anywhere else in the world man like those two people my

01:01:21.040 sister and this woman that befriended you guys yeah have that close a bond where she's like i i want to

01:01:30.720 be buried next to her i mean it was it was wow i did not know that and and and you know i i i heard

01:01:37.920 that and i was like i i don't know why it popped in my head but i'm so glad it did and then i got to

01:01:43.680 share that with you because i i heard that story and i was like man people need to hear that story

01:01:48.080 because it's not the story people want to tell oh it's not the story that the media wants to tell

01:01:53.200 it's not a story that it's a story that doesn't really get the clicks but it's the story that's

01:01:59.280 probably it's the truth that most people that the human part of us is what makes us

01:02:06.960 special and that's the part that we should all try and lean into the most is that we're this special

01:02:13.680 thing that can care about each other you know yeah i mean the the fact that these people saw my

01:02:20.720 parents and and and and and tried to forge this bond with them and i mean i i hope we're still

01:02:28.800 a place where that kind of stuff can happen i think it happens a lot i think you're just right i

01:02:33.440 think it's not the like the new it's not the news you know but i think it is more common probably

01:02:39.680 than we think um thanks for sharing that dude it is an important story that's a great story

01:02:45.520 oh sorry um did your sister have it the whole time when she was growing up when she was from birth

01:02:52.480 yeah it was it was one of these things where you know the life expectancy with that uh hurlers is not 1.00

01:02:58.240 um it's not very long it she passed when she was like six eight years old oh yeah and was she um

01:03:06.000 and it's one of these days i i don't really talk about it very much and a lot of people even that

01:03:10.960 know me don't know i had a sister because people would ask me like oh do you have any siblings and

01:03:16.080 i'm like oh yeah i got a little brother and and i had a sister that passed away and i would say it like

01:03:20.160 that and then people like oh like it's a very like heavy thing to hear all of a sudden and so i was

01:03:26.240 like oh i don't want to make people uncomfortable so i'll just say oh i i have a little brother

01:03:32.080 and then they'll be like what's you guys gap oh uh he's seven years younger wow that's a big gap

01:03:37.760 yeah i'm gonna not go down this thing because i don't want to bum everybody out because we're all

01:03:42.800 just hanging out at chick-fil-a right now sitting there tapping her foot like what are we doing

01:03:47.280 here no dude that's um my sister was born with a rare liver disease and she had to get a liver

01:03:52.000 transplant when we were kids oh so we spent most of our childhood like um you know she was always 1.00

01:03:57.120 this thing that we couldn't touch because she always didn't have these surgeries and stuff 0.77

01:04:00.240 so i think it just reminds me like a lot of that i think some of that oh man that stuff you know i

01:04:04.800 think it's just interesting when you grow up with a sibling that's sick because i think it i never even

01:04:10.000 thought about it till you were saying some of this it just like i don't know you have to adjust

01:04:17.040 yourself i think to try and maybe like my sister got most of the care right but she needed most of

01:04:23.840 it so it was weird so there were times where i'd be like i don't you know later on in life i'd be

01:04:28.960 like oh i didn't get this care but it was like i didn't need it the most you know what was you guys's

01:04:34.080 age difference um two years and she's still alive she ended up getting a liver transplant she got one of

01:04:38.960 the first liver transplants in um we moved to arizona she got it out there and but um that's 0.99

01:04:44.880 incredible but it was just this whole time when she was a kid she was always being flown off to

01:04:48.160 these places and they sounded magical like rochester minnesota just different places where there's these

01:04:52.560 big hospitals and she'd come back like this like almost like this build-a-bear that somebody done 0.82

01:04:58.320 a shitty job with you know what i'm saying like just all these scars and stuff but it was just she 1.00

01:05:02.480 was always just it was weird because you like couldn't hold it it was just like it was interesting did 0.80

01:05:07.680 you have any experience like that with your sister or what was it like there wasn't that kind of um

01:05:12.640 um there wasn't like all these things to try because uh the hurlers is pretty they don't really

01:05:20.960 have a thing you know there's like you know oh you can maybe do a bone trans bone marrow transplant

01:05:27.040 and but it's it's not really a thing they've made much progress on so there was never anything like

01:05:33.360 that and i don't know it's interesting talking about this because because you think about

01:05:37.680 oh it's like when you're a kid it's so hard to understand what's happening you have no frame of

01:05:46.720 reference and you know when i look back on that stuff as as an adult i i can't imagine how hard it

01:05:52.160 was for my parents like oh yeah you know to to to have a child that has something like that and then to

01:05:58.240 lose a child it's it's you know i i can't it's strange to like step outside of yourself and

01:06:06.400 honestly this is like some of the most i've talked about it with anybody and i don't mean to pry about

01:06:13.120 it it's just and there's also a thing in the no and not at all i don't think prying at all and i i

01:06:18.240 think it's really interesting that you know you had something your sister had something as well and and um

01:06:23.600 um but you know there's a thing with like indian families and you know and maybe it's it's a lot 0.99

01:06:30.240 of families in that time it's like you don't talk about stuff oh really is that like an indian thing

01:06:34.800 kind of i think there's something of like oh you're not as open about your feelings and stuff and you're

01:06:41.040 just a little bit more closed off i think so yeah with asian families indian families i think with

01:06:46.560 with emotional stuff like that you know but you guys do reincarnation so you can you're probably just

01:06:51.120 like oh we can have the feelings later we can have this that's that's in hinduism that's a

01:06:54.400 different thing but oh really yeah so you guys are one time only islam it's it's the same as 0.91

01:07:00.240 christianity it's uh you know in terms of that stuff as far as i know i'm not a super religious guy

01:07:04.960 but yes that's uh there's the reincarnation is is just in in hindu culture so you guys are one and

01:07:11.840 done huh i mean so is a lot of people okay i'm just saying yeah but yeah man this got really we

01:07:19.680 really went for a heavy turn after micro donkeys this is uh you're tearing up over here i'm tearing

01:07:26.080 up is but it it's it's good to talk about the stuff and and and um you know it it's it's so strange

01:07:34.160 to think back about you know those times and and um you have to think everything my family went

01:07:41.920 through especially my parents you know i never think about that i always think about things this is

01:07:46.400 one place that i kind of like struggle with i think a lot of times i'll think about certain

01:07:50.240 periods and things that happen and i only think about it like as to how it affected me and it's

01:07:55.040 like man to get into that place of where you're even thinking like well how did this affect my parents

01:08:01.840 like i was eating dinner with some friends yesterday and in the background she has like

01:08:05.840 these four kids and they're beautiful kids they have the cutest kids um and they're all going 0.62

01:08:12.400 haywire and i it was the first time i thought holy shit my mom had four kids and nobody to 0.96

01:08:17.680 fucking help like there was and it was oh yeah imagine what that would be like these days that 0.89

01:08:22.000 sounds impossible impossible and our parents were able to do that kind of stuff but it was the first 0.96

01:08:27.680 time that i had like even had a perspective moment like that that was that clear you know oh yeah i i

01:08:34.400 just just so for you to have that i think is pretty cool that you think like oh how much

01:08:38.240 what my parents must have went through you know because it's like yeah it's like for us it's a

01:08:42.640 sibling for but for them it's like if you know it's probably something that feels far greater you

01:08:47.040 know yeah anyway i didn't mean to delve into that man no no i i'm glad we did and i i think it's a

01:08:54.080 really interesting thing to talk about and and and for me i i you know um i bet you'd be so proud of

01:08:59.600 you um i you know what i think about sometimes is there was do you know the comic strip comic

01:09:07.760 strip live in in new york oh yeah yeah you you know that club yep that was the first club i ever

01:09:13.280 got passed at and uh there was a guy his name was lucian hold and he was the guy that would pass you

01:09:19.440 you know you've heard of like esty at the cellar he was like esty at the cellar he was the guy yeah

01:09:23.360 there's always that person there's always a person that was a gatekeeper and i went in there when i was

01:09:27.040 like 18 and what was cool about the comic strip was they had a um thing where anybody could audition

01:09:35.040 like you just lined up and then you could audition which is like because you know i don't know if

01:09:41.680 this was your experience when you're starting out but it's like you just wanted a shot right

01:09:44.800 yeah you just wanted a shot and the idea that you could be a regular at the comic i remember i used

01:09:49.120 to go to the comedy cellar and i just be like oh my god could you imagine just getting spots here

01:09:55.040 could you imagine just how amazing it would be to get spots that was my dream i know you're so right

01:10:01.840 and so i went to the comedy comic strip they had this you know open call like you just had to wait

01:10:07.120 in line and then you'd pick from a i believe what would do is you'd pick from a lottery and it would

01:10:12.400 give you a date a date yeah like a they would do on mondays they'd have a certain number of people

01:10:18.400 that were from this audition that's cool so i picked a date and then i showed up

01:10:23.280 and you went through this one woman and if she said okay you can see lucian you'd audition for

01:10:29.280 lucian and so i got through it and then i um i auditioned for lucian and um you know you wait

01:10:37.200 around you wait around all these kind of things even like snl you hear these stories be like yeah

01:10:41.600 you didn't just wait around they just make you wait around and then he spoke to me at the end and

01:10:46.400 he was like he was like you could start working at the club and i was like oh and and and and i was

01:10:52.240 terrible i was not good but i was like very young and i was very comfortable on stage and he told me

01:10:58.640 he was like you know when people your age come in here he's like you're still at nyu right and i was

01:11:03.440 like yeah yeah he said you know um adam sandler was in nyu when i passed and so was sarah silverman

01:11:08.800 and i was like oh wow i mean i i remember i said oh wow it'd be amazing if i had a career like

01:11:13.360 that he's like i don't know if that's in the cards for you but you could he was he was like

01:11:17.760 the most straight shooting guy i mean they there's a very few people that are honest like that that

01:11:24.560 i've met in my 20 something years he was the guy that was like that and he's like i don't know if

01:11:30.640 that's uh it's not an impression of him but he's like i i i don't know if that's uh something that's

01:11:35.360 in the cards for you but you could start working in the club and and um i would do uh you would do

01:11:41.760 like late night which is like uh they'd have the show and then you could sign up to go on

01:11:48.000 at the end of the show so there'd be like nobody there i'd do that all the time sure but getting

01:11:52.080 up on stage even just that walking up when you're coming up you if if there's six people there it

01:11:58.080 feels like a million people it you're so excited the feeling that is the energy that the the the fear

01:12:05.440 and that energy and that nervous it feels like a million and and sometimes the i mean and i'll say

01:12:11.280 this and you're gonna light up because you'll know this feeling sometimes someone on the bill

01:12:16.080 like that was supposed to be on at like nine o'clock wouldn't show up and they pull someone

01:12:19.760 from late night and so you'd get to go on when people were still there yes and i remember one 0.96

01:12:26.560 time like i'm gonna show these bitches that's what i would say this i had kind of an aggressive 1.00

01:12:30.320 nature but yeah but it was like this kind of like oh i i'm gonna get to prove myself a little bit 0.93

01:12:34.720 but um oh one time i remember chris rock dropped in and i went after it went on after him and like

01:12:42.640 everybody was everyone's like oh chris rock just went on they just all started leaving and i told 0.72

01:12:46.480 chris the story the other day i was like i forgot this i forgot i mean and now he's my fucking friend 0.98

01:12:52.560 it's the craziest thing in the world to me um but lucian he had a disease called uh uh 0.84

01:12:58.240 sceloderma i don't know why i'm saying the disease he had but anyway is it ashy skin no it's like a skin

01:13:03.600 problem yeah yeah i don't know what it is exactly but um sceloderma and this dude stopped looking

01:13:08.400 up stuff because it's gotten too dark the stuff we're talking he's like i'm not gonna pull up

01:13:12.240 this stuff on wikipedia it's too dark he's like oh i i don't think it's appropriate i'm not gonna

01:13:19.520 i'm just gonna let this be i'll wait till they start talking about mini cows again i can pull up

01:13:24.400 those cute pictures he has like a whole he has a whole barrel full well you know maybe i do bring it

01:13:28.800 up because if someone wants to donate to to his fund or whatever so lucian had this

01:13:33.360 disease and we knew he was passing away and i went and visited him and and it was like that movie

01:13:39.200 being mortal you know it was like i knew he was passing away i knew this was probably our last

01:13:44.400 conversation and um he and dude this dude passed away you know chris spoke at his funeral um i think

01:13:52.880 seinfeld may have said something i can't remember i remember i went to the funeral and i was like a

01:13:56.240 little kid i remember i like went and like was crying in the bathroom and stuff because this dude

01:14:00.480 dude was the first dude ever to genuinely believe that i could do something in our world 0.61

01:14:07.520 the first person to say hey i'm gonna give you it was like fucking 10 bucks or whatever but he was 0.98

01:14:11.520 like i believe in the idea of paying you to tell jokes and that's cool and he um we had that a 0.87

01:14:19.200 conversation and and uh i remember he said something to me and he he talked about some comic that he used

01:14:25.680 to know that went to la and um not like a super successful guy but a guy that did okay and he was

01:14:31.200 like you know he said this guy told him that he was in la and he said that uh that's lucian yes that's

01:14:37.840 lucian uh yeah but all i mean he's he's like you know if you talk to guys like they love him yeah and

01:14:46.800 they remember him from back in the day like he was a character he he's the guy that passed you know

01:14:51.600 eddie murphy and like the famous story of chris rock is like eddie murphy was at the club and uh

01:14:58.560 he asked lucian do you have any do you have any uh black comics and uh he said yeah i got one

01:15:05.200 i'll put them up if you'll watch him and it was chris rock wow and then eddie murphy watched him and

01:15:10.240 then put him in in beverly hills cop 2 but anyway dude that's so great though it was it's a huge deal

01:15:16.240 it's a huge amount of validation because it's it's i can't really explain it's still like when

01:15:22.560 i think of all the things i've done in my career it's still i i was excited as about that i mean

01:15:28.640 dude i it was like i think it was like 10 years ago i did madison square garden i it was a similar

01:15:36.480 feeling to get past yeah you know and um but anyway he told me this story about some guy in in la and 0.97

01:15:43.120 he said that guy told him like you know there's all these idiots in la and and and if if they're 0.97

01:15:49.520 able to do it i can do it too something to that extent like and uh it was a more said it more eloquent 0.98

01:15:55.600 than that i'm not doing it justice but he basically said to me you're gonna be okay and he left me with

01:16:01.600 that and it was really cool lucian did yeah he said you're gonna be okay like you're a smart guy and

01:16:06.560 you're gonna be okay and um i mean i've i've been fortunate enough and i think i'm i mean that was

01:16:12.800 when i was a little kid you know i hadn't done anything really and and you know i i feel like

01:16:19.120 i've been fortunate enough in my career to to be uh more than okay uh and done a lot of great things i

01:16:27.120 never would have thought possible when i was you know interacting with lucian and um you know one of

01:16:34.160 my not regrets or i don't know not just just one of my uh oh man kind of feelings is that like oh

01:16:42.080 this guy that was the first guy to believe in me to see me yeah didn't get to see that how far i really

01:16:49.040 went you know and and we're sorry i feel like i'm like taking up too much of your time no this is good

01:16:54.480 okay well you're a great storyteller i'm realizing that's honestly one thing i've realized sitting

01:16:57.920 here oh and i can see why you're able to do what you do even more like writing your movies and

01:17:04.000 knowing like yeah saying how streamlined it is i'm enjoying it so go on sorry you know it's

01:17:10.000 i i i was in a cab one time in london and i was like it's weird because once you become successful

01:17:19.120 it's weird when you drop into a comedy club everyone goes nuts and and everything's a little sweeter

01:17:23.280 because they're excited because you're famous and i i was in a cab with my wife in in london and i

01:17:30.880 and someone was like tell tell us about this thing or whatever and i told i talked about this whole

01:17:37.040 story of something that happened to us and when i left the cab driver said hey you're a really good 0.73

01:17:42.640 storyteller and i was like holy shit that was like winning an emmy for me because i was like that guy 0.65

01:17:48.720 has no clue who i am and he he went out of his way to tell me that that that made me feel really 0.93

01:17:55.760 good was he an indian guy no why would he be indian theo racism he he was like a black guy that was

01:18:01.920 fully finished okay okay he was a fully finished black guy he was a black guy um i love i mean i

01:18:11.200 love race stuff it's fun to joke about and think about because it's so different and it's fun you

01:18:15.440 know well that's that's i think but that's uh you're right man sorry but yeah somebody telling

01:18:20.160 you a great storyteller it's so funny it's sometimes it's that one word or one thing it's like and you

01:18:24.720 get it from someone that doesn't know anything because sometimes you feel like oh man like not

01:18:29.760 like oh people don't you feel like i don't know how much of this is sweetened up because of right

01:18:35.120 and and and and it's very frustrating because i don't think anyone that's successful like that

01:18:38.640 wants any of that but you know you get a little bit of that when you drop in and you're working

01:18:43.760 on material and you know when you're on stage for a while eventually you know if it's that good

01:18:47.760 that's the worst part you're like is this even good and you're like you're just getting unfair

01:18:51.200 reactions but then hopefully if you're self-aware enough and that judge inside of you that little

01:18:56.480 party that's always hated you is still looking lurking you gotta have that guy in there that guy needs

01:19:00.640 to be there that guy needs to be there and if he's there you know because you know all your people

01:19:04.960 oh man it's it's your best hour it's like yeah it's it's getting there right you gotta have that

01:19:09.840 little guy and you gotta have that little guy and look that's that's you know uh whether it's a movie

01:19:15.920 or stand-up show like you know screening a movie it's like yeah people don't lie eventually like

01:19:19.680 they'll they'll be sweet for a little bit but eventually they are like all right come on you 0.99

01:19:23.280 know they that that drops after a few minutes yeah and if you start smoking your own bullshit too 0.94

01:19:28.240 that's when it can get really spooky oh that's that's when you gotta make sure you you know i i've i've 0.80

01:19:33.920 i've been around people enough to be like oh that when you start having a bunch of people around

01:19:38.240 you that tell you you're awesome that's when the everything starts falling apart have you ever

01:19:42.640 had ego problems you ever had anything like that like are you ever able to check your own ego kind

01:19:46.080 of type of things because ego is so dangerous because it can kind of grow in the distance it's

01:19:50.080 almost like something that you don't see growing it's almost like you're standing there with your

01:19:53.520 shadow and then your shadow gets bigger without you noticing it you know you know i think

01:19:59.280 i think the way i i hopefully have been able to avoid that kind of problem is is um i'm not around

01:20:07.680 all the time you know what i mean i kind of go away in a hole and work on stuff this is like the most

01:20:12.800 shit i've done i haven't i haven't been on your podcast i haven't been on anybody's podcast i 0.86

01:20:17.680 haven't done anything i've just been working and you know being back out in in in kind of wild

01:20:24.000 yeah in the kind of press world it's been kind of a little overwhelming for me i get very

01:20:31.040 overwhelmed whenever i finished like season one and two of my show like whenever it came on netflix

01:20:35.840 like i left the country because i was just a little bit it was just too much for me like i went to uh

01:20:41.520 i went to japan for a couple of months because like really for months did you see kanye or not

01:20:46.880 he wasn't there at the time but you know i i i wanted to be somewhere where people didn't really

01:20:51.280 know who i was it was it felt a bit it can be a little overwhelming like that that part of our

01:20:56.400 jobs of of red carpets and interviews not it it's a lot yeah i never done a lot of that stuff so i

01:21:01.760 yeah that part i don't know about but i can imagine though but you know it i i'm here and i've been

01:21:07.120 doing all stuff i love doing this because we're just having a great conversation um not everything

01:21:11.920 is this fun um but you know i do it because i i i feel like it's a part of the job and i gotta support

01:21:18.960 the work and the studio that paid for the movie and everything so i do it but it's it's not my i i

01:21:24.080 i like the work i mean all i'm looking forward to is getting back on to work getting back to work

01:21:29.760 like doing like being on set with some people and and and being like hey do this or you know i'm i'm

01:21:34.640 going back on the road for a little bit like being on the road like that that is a billion times

01:21:39.600 more fun um than some of the stuff you have to do excluding like this and i actually like that

01:21:45.760 podcasts are a thing now because i did amy poehler's podcast that was so fun so great she's

01:21:50.720 great i hadn't seen her in a while and i was like oh man i'm just excited to like be with you for an

01:21:54.400 hour and change because i hadn't seen you in so long but yeah dude thanks for making me think about

01:22:00.000 we had a guy named tommy at the comedy store and i and he was like the guy and he's like this

01:22:04.240 character and i've heard his name yeah yeah and people impersonated him all the time and he really

01:22:10.080 was he had this long hair and he looked like a rock and roll guy and i believe he was i think

01:22:14.720 he also played in a band and um and he made jellies and jams and he would bring those he was

01:22:19.440 this very like eccentric type of guy yeah yeah um but he took care of mitzi sure but he would be the

01:22:25.680 guy and he'd sit there and he'd open little curtains of the little will call booth had little curtains

01:22:30.560 on it and he'd be like you're doing good but i happened i went to the comedy store one time i was

01:22:35.200 trying to find out how do they do signups i remember and i was buying a beer on the porch

01:22:39.840 and he thought i was somebody else he's like haven't seen you around here in a while you know

01:22:44.080 we miss you coming around and uh i was like yeah i and he goes why don't you come in come back in on 0.84

01:22:52.240 sunday man i'm gonna i want to i want to see you back up there and he fucking had me confused 0.98

01:22:57.840 with whoa did you do the other spot yeah did you put your name down no i just i i i didn't even 0.78

01:23:05.040 think about that and i just kept fucking doing this and how'd your set go and it went good enough 0.92

01:23:10.000 where i got to keep going but it was but before that for sure i went and signed up and waited 0.94

01:23:14.880 outside and there's like a guy that's practicing juggling who can't even talk and he's like telling 0.92

01:23:19.520 his jokes through like like bowling pins and shit it's like there's all types of stuff there's 0.91

01:23:24.000 somebody training a bird or whatever and he's like barely trained it he's like trying to train 0.99

01:23:27.680 it really fast in the parking lot it's like you cannot train a train a bird really fast but this

01:23:31.920 is the same thing i was talking about earlier it's so interesting to me that you know comedy

01:23:37.760 comedians we're all having you know this is a crazy moment to be a comedian and people are having such

01:23:42.560 overwhelming amounts of success but at the end of the day like all of us started just wanting a room

01:23:48.480 full of people just a crowd and to be able to perform yeah well you know one one thing that was

01:23:54.560 great about uh good fortune dude and and i haven't finished it but i really i like it and i'm

01:23:59.680 excited to see the end of it it's not that long a movie by the way but i didn't get home last night

01:24:04.800 until probably 11 30. no i'm just saying for people that are worried that oh yeah no no it's not it's

01:24:09.520 an hour and a half movie um but it's good dude the the there were so many like start there started

01:24:14.560 to be some really good plot changes for me that i really dug like right around the spot where i'm at

01:24:18.720 um where the you think it's going to go one way and now it starts to change up and then

01:24:25.200 i don't want to give too much of it away but one thing that was really amazing about it and my friend

01:24:29.280 was watching with me uh was that you felt of how tough it is that first year or two in la you felt

01:24:36.800 of like like when uh your character is sleeping in his car right yeah or like when there's door dash

01:24:42.640 delivery and just like the jobs you get when you first get to a big city to try to survive the

01:24:48.560 parking tickets and how you lose your car you just come out of a place you barely had enough

01:24:52.960 money to go get some avocados it was the one thing you were treating yourself to this week it was 0.99

01:24:58.400 like two avocados i'm gonna cut those bitches up and i'm gonna eat those bitches right and then i'm 1.00

01:25:03.120 gonna go to sleep right you were so excited and you come out and your fucking car has been towed 1.00

01:25:07.680 because you didn't pay tickets all that shit dude my friend and i slept in the mcdonald's 1.00

01:25:12.320 ball pit we would jump the fence and sleep in that fucking ball pit because it was like kind 1.00

01:25:16.160 of some more space to lay out right like if you got under the balls there's hair in there there's 0.99

01:25:20.320 coins under there but it is there's a little bit more room for your body than like because we tried

01:25:25.600 to sleep in his car one night and it was just a nightmare but going through all of that yeah and

01:25:30.480 there is the hair goes to the bottom which i don't understand how that works that's science but uh

01:25:37.200 and yeah they should do a they should see what's in the bottom of a lot of these it's not good

01:25:42.160 but yeah we we would jump over the fence and and sleep in one that you know that that closed at

01:25:46.800 10 we get in just get five five hours of sleep or something you know oh my god i'm so sorry i could

01:25:51.440 relate no it was awesome it was fucking great stories yeah one night we're in there dude we're 0.97

01:25:55.440 talking shit to each other laughing and stuff and a fucking asian guy's on the slide he's asleep 1.00

01:26:02.640 he's on the slide he's very very exposed no like in one of those high slides where there was room 1.00

01:26:09.520 where you could kind of get uh you know it was encompassed he was in the best spot oh my god yes

01:26:14.720 he was in one of the tubes oh damn that's better than the ball pit that's a pro move yeah and even 0.95

01:26:20.160 came up to the window it was like a little hamster showing up pretty fucking dope but dude that was 0.98

01:26:25.440 like but i forget you forget about all the pieces of the things and the moments that like were so big

01:26:31.840 um and that was in la and that was in la and i think we all McDonald's in la uh it's on wilshire

01:26:38.160 boulevard like wilshire and does that asian guy have a podcast now too i hope he does i think it's

01:26:43.840 ronnie chang you know i was doing a i was doing a uh one of those shows at the comedy cellar where

01:26:50.640 people don't know who's going to show up it was like surprise headliner and it's just me working on

01:26:55.840 stuff and i walked by the line and some lady goes oh i hope it's not ronnie chang oh really yeah but

01:27:04.080 then i found out that it's because she'd been to another one of these and it was ronnie chang

01:27:09.120 and we talked about it in the show but it wasn't because she doesn't like all love to ronnie chang i

01:27:14.800 love ronnie chang dude i just got to see him last week i bumped into him i went into the comedy comedy

01:27:19.600 cellar okay yeah yeah just stopped there and he was in there it was awesome dude just to get to see

01:27:23.680 him he is great he's got some great specials too if you haven't seen if you haven't seen him

01:27:27.120 we i get to get him to come in and talk sometime yeah no he's great but i i just thought it was

01:27:31.520 funny to walk by through that that's so funny dude yeah um but yeah that's one thing i loved about

01:27:37.120 good fortune uh you and seth rogan are just you guys are buddies i guess it is we spoke about this

01:27:43.360 movie and you know if anyone listening is going to see the movie please you know see it in a theater

01:27:49.200 with the crowd because we were talking about these movies like i think it's worth it for sure

01:27:53.440 it definitely felt like a real movie to me it didn't feel like some forced shit you know i know 0.51

01:27:57.680 like they're like you know sometimes you get these movies and it's like uh you know they're

01:28:02.320 getting it felt shit feels forced or too fake or like it's not real i didn't feel any of that i 0.52

01:28:06.320 didn't feel like any pandering for some like social causes or any no it's just trying to be 0.93

01:28:11.120 very real yeah and um and very funny and and you know it's good dude i'm fucking excited about 0.86

01:28:15.840 finishing it oh because your character starts to get like what the fuck i thought he was great and 0.83

01:28:20.640 then he's like but you see the different parts of us that can come out and come to the surface

01:28:24.800 when different things like are attached to us yeah but when we were making the movie seth and i would

01:28:30.000 talk about like you know how we'd go to movie theaters and see movies like anchorman or super

01:28:34.800 bad or you know pineapple express and and and you'd have like a room it'd be like a stand-up show you

01:28:39.760 know like a room full of people erupting and you know it's like what we feel when you do stand-up like

01:28:44.880 if we did stand-up and there was only like one person in the crowd that's not the same thing like

01:28:49.040 the people make a difference so like seeing a movie uh a comedy in theaters it's something that's

01:28:53.760 kind of gone away after the pandemic and everything and and um i i hope we can bring it back i mean we

01:28:58.800 were just in chicago last night and we screened the movie we've been doing these like little secret

01:29:02.240 screenings and and i've been sitting in a little bit and watching it i'm like i don't even remember

01:29:06.640 the last time i've been in a packed theater watching a comedy so i i hope the movie works and that

01:29:12.560 people get to make more comedies and they get to see them in theaters because

01:29:15.600 you know it's something that i miss and um yeah i mean especially because our movie is like an

01:29:20.720 original movie um a comedy theatrical it's tough to get it done i mean i really am not even lying or

01:29:27.360 joking or pandering to you or to our fans i wouldn't say that i think it's worth going to

01:29:32.000 see i think if you took a date or a friend or your buddy you guys would have a good time it would be

01:29:35.520 worth your money it'd be worth driving over there and sitting in there so far and i'm not even done

01:29:39.040 with it unless it gets really bad no no the back is oh man the back is great we'd have to talk about it

01:29:44.080 afterwards because it really relates to a lot of the things some of the stuff we were talking about

01:29:48.480 earlier some of the emotional things we were talking about in terms of just just kind of seeing

01:29:52.800 other people and seeing what they're going through and just kind of giving them a look you know i i

01:29:56.800 was thinking about that when my mom was telling me that story but yeah yeah yeah that was a great

01:30:03.360 story man do you feel like why do you feel like you have to do so much because this is something i've

01:30:09.440 struggled with in my own life like i i think i need to have a kid or something because i i feel

01:30:14.800 like as i've gotten older you know i do things like oh yeah i you know i was uh i'm like prolific

01:30:22.160 you've done so many tv shows you've written you've directed you've won haven't you won an emmy before

01:30:27.200 yeah i won one two emmys damn brother gang yeah but i'm just saying like and sorry i don't know i

01:30:32.960 i don't know a lot about that um but uh but but doing too much why do you have do you do you ever 0.85

01:30:39.920 know why you feel like you because some people they could do half of that and feel extremely

01:30:46.960 accomplished and they would be but do you feel like is it is it financial which is fine it's

01:30:52.320 definitely nice to have money and have security is it like is there something that you find because

01:30:56.960 it's not financial because doing movies i you know i i technically would make way more money

01:31:02.080 touring i'm like losing money doing these movies like i'm trying to make a movie for theaters it's

01:31:08.160 kind of like trying to be like hey i want to build a tower records good luck aziz um it's it's not what's

01:31:15.120 the lucrative thing you know what i mean like it's interesting because i i my like heyday of touring

01:31:21.680 and everything was probably you know 10 years ago when i did um the garden and all that stuff i was

01:31:27.520 touring like crazy and back in that time not many people were doing theaters and arenas like there

01:31:32.800 was only a few people and now it's like fucking everybody does and when i go on tour i'm like who 0.97

01:31:38.160 the who's alton brown the chef he's playing the the d-pack center in durham oh he's just chopping 0.90

01:31:44.400 food up and people are coming everybody's on tour dude there'll be a dude julienning a

01:31:48.960 carrot for 11 000 people yes and you're like what dude is it that tv show is it cake is going on

01:31:54.400 tour i'm like yes who gives a yes is it cake tour and you're like wait i i'm that's what i'm competing

01:31:59.600 with people in the stands of binoculars trying to figure out it was not like this at 70 yards

01:32:05.760 it's ridiculous it's not it's not like this who cares if it's fondant it was not like this and in

01:32:12.320 that time there was a whole podcast boom everybody found an audience you didn't you cut out the middleman 0.58

01:32:18.480 of netflix or whatever people are putting stuff on youtube and now all these people are touring

01:32:22.160 and there's been this massive boom and i during that time made my tv series worked on these movies

01:32:28.080 and have kind of uh stepped away um but now you're coming back you're touring again yeah i'm touring 0.98

01:32:33.920 again now and and it's been so fun and i have uh i've had a great time but i'm also like damn dude 0.52

01:32:41.840 the travel it hits me in a different way and like i'm yeah you see october 23rd i'm getting stressed

01:32:46.800 so i'm like i can't i can't go to temecula i gotta i gotta cancel temecula stan diego oh god

01:32:54.320 oh modesta monterey oh god at least i can hub out of la oh no then i gotta fly to cincinnati on the

01:33:00.000 13th oh god then we gotta fly to louisville tsa is gonna be closed there's gonna be like one air

01:33:05.520 traffic controller then i'm probably gonna go down on my way to st louis that's gonna be delayed

01:33:10.880 indianapolis will be fun dude indianapolis then i go see my family in charlotte that's nice i love

01:33:16.480 asheville asheville is a great great town and savannah is a great town savannah is beautiful

01:33:20.640 too yeah that no i love the show and i love being in the different cities because you know when you

01:33:25.840 tour you form a relationship with with these cities and you're happy to go back oh you're

01:33:29.040 excited to go back you're excited to see like oh look at this crowd this one's different this

01:33:32.800 energy this place is yeah and and and what's so cool is is and i think this is why people like to

01:33:37.680 go to live stand-up is like even if you watch in special it's not the same as that show in that

01:33:41.440 town and it's really fun yeah and um you know for me like this tour it's been fun because i haven't

01:33:46.720 toured in a while so it's a lot of stuff has happened you know i've been married me and my

01:33:50.320 wife are trying to have a kid and to go back to the thing we're talking about of like doing too much like 1.00

01:33:55.360 the movies i feel like that comes from like i have an idea and i have this vision of it sounds

01:34:02.640 cheesy to say vision but i have a vision of something i want to execute and it's something i'm

01:34:06.000 really excited about i'm like racing to be on set to do like it could just be like i'm writing

01:34:09.600 something now and have this one scene i'm like oh man i just want to shoot that scene i like think

01:34:13.200 this would be so i gotta get there and it's a long time to get there movies are so slow you gotta work

01:34:18.240 with so many other people it's a nightmare but i do it because i really love films and and and i want

01:34:24.080 to make more films um but i do think i've realized recently like i've gotta calm down like i i think i've

01:34:30.880 overestimated my ability to work and and and as i get older you know you get burned out you get

01:34:37.600 stressed the stress builds i've seen friends that are burned out oh dude you're looking at one of

01:34:42.080 them we're not even friends but you're looking at somebody that's been burnt out but we could maybe

01:34:45.280 be friends i mean i i hope so dude we went we went deep here this is deeper than i went on any other

01:34:50.800 podcast we talked about some heavy stuff yeah in a great way i love it i mean oh yeah i think this is

01:34:56.000 so much we talk about a lot of this stuff on here it's important you know it's nice to like i really

01:34:59.760 i really like it but no i that burnout feeling it's like oh it's real i started shedding hair

01:35:05.760 recently dude we had a freaking retired boston detective with some of the craziest stories found

01:35:10.240 a wiener on the sidewalk and it was like a real whodunit or whatever um obviously the person missing

01:35:15.920 the wiener did it but uh so it was pretty kind of easy it wasn't like knives out actually it was like 0.83

01:35:21.360 knives out it's a long story but um anyway oh shit i forgot what i was talking about we're talking 0.81

01:35:26.720 about like just the burnout oh yeah the burnout is real that happens dude yeah started shedding 0.95

01:35:30.000 hair all that kind of stuff it's tough to say no too because you know you're having a moment right

01:35:34.160 now and i've had a moment and you know people start telling you to do all this stuff and no one on your

01:35:40.080 side of the business is gonna be like dude you gotta you gotta chill you gotta take some rest no one

01:35:44.960 ever says that like well that's a great opportunity you should you should do it and you're like well

01:35:48.320 that's a great opportunity i should do it and when i was younger i could do all that stuff when

01:35:52.400 i look back at schedules and stuff i did i'm like how did i do all this i can't do it anymore at this

01:35:57.440 age it's it's a different thing and and i'm married now it's like i've been away from my wife a lot and

01:36:02.000 it's it's not i don't feel nice about it sometimes and well look i have a suggestion that'll help you

01:36:07.840 relax go watch good fortune go to your go with your wife i'm not even joking go sit and watch it

01:36:16.960 watch it you don't like it you guys will laugh you'll get to spend some time together it's good

01:36:21.040 i do know it's out october 17th i do want to remind everybody about that um yeah thank you i feel lucky

01:36:26.000 you get to be in london one of my uh favorite musicians james blake lives over there dermot

01:36:30.320 kennedy is a is a um he's in the united kingdom he's a guy that i really love um who uh who actually

01:36:38.400 is coming in town soon um yeah i would love to get to live over there sometimes people feel very

01:36:43.360 it's nice you're a little bit i mean you probably feel this here too like you're a little bit away

01:36:47.120 from the circus oh yeah i feel totally good and the circus is dissolved the circus is it's a different

01:36:52.640 thing you don't really need to be there anymore they're finding new places there's new mini circuses

01:36:56.080 popping up yeah yeah but then but yeah but is nashville becoming a circus no i don't think so

01:37:00.320 not too much it still feels kind of small there's a lot of people moving here and a lot of stuff going

01:37:03.360 on but it still feels pretty small no i mean i feel like that in london that i'm away from things

01:37:07.280 whenever i go back to la i start feeling like oh my god i'm falling behind i need to do this

01:37:11.120 because you hear about it oh i've just made this i'm working on i'm like oh shit what am i doing 0.55

01:37:14.800 i'm not doing anything you've done so much dude i mean from all from television to um i know you

01:37:20.720 had that series i watched for laws on netflix it was just you yeah yeah that was master of none yeah

01:37:25.360 yeah um the book that you wrote i know about dating and like the struggling of love yeah um you've done

01:37:31.200 you've done let me tell you this if nobody ever tells you you've done enough no but finishing the

01:37:36.800 movie is a big deal and i'm glad i did it because it took a minute to get it done and and i'm really

01:37:41.920 proud of it and proud of the work that i did my my whole team did all the actors did and i'd love to

01:37:48.320 make more but yeah i definitely i hear you and um it's you've done a lot that's what i mean i didn't

01:37:54.320 know if i didn't mean no no no i know i know you mean i appreciate it yeah and i think uh

01:37:59.760 yeah and your sister would be so proud of you what was her name again i want to say

01:38:02.240 nafees nafees yeah oh it's such a pretty name how do you spell it n-a-f-e-e-z ooh nafees um i'm so

01:38:10.000 glad we we talked about that because i i i feel like i'm here with some people that work with me

01:38:14.720 and they're like wait what because i think when we say people's names out loud people that have been

01:38:19.040 a part of our lives like even when we're talking about like if you wanted to say something illusion

01:38:22.960 i think when when when we say people's names they feel that wherever they are that is a felt thing

01:38:28.320 because otherwise why would we feel it you know it's it's bringing their it's it's it's putting

01:38:32.880 them in the yeah and i believe it's like yeah i believe they feel it wherever they are they feel

01:38:38.080 it you know i think you definitely if you're here for this long you definitely keep an anchor locked

01:38:41.520 in i mean the other person i was going to mention and tell me we can we if you i don't want you to

01:38:46.080 run late for whatever but the other person i was thinking of when i was talking about lucian

01:38:50.240 was have you ever heard of manny that ran the comedy cellar manny dorman was the owner of the

01:38:55.280 comedy cellar his son gnome's there now um but he oh yeah i know gnome yeah yeah so gnome's dad is

01:39:01.840 manny okay first time i ever did comedy was uh at the comedy cellar they had a they had a new talent

01:39:10.560 night which doesn't even exist anymore now they just have like 10 comedy sellers and 10 shows like

01:39:15.040 but this was like back in the day they had a new talent night at like six o'clock and you'd bring like

01:39:20.160 a couple of friends and they'd give you stage time and i did that and i was 18 years old summer

01:39:26.880 of my freshman year in college didn't do good at i i did well my material was terrible but i did well

01:39:33.280 because i was very comfortable on stage and public speaking and i was just kind of funny and it worked

01:39:37.840 and and i came back and did it again and i did a couple of open mics and you know had a reality

01:39:44.320 check like oh fuck this is really hard and then um the third time i did stand up third time i ever 0.87

01:39:51.760 did stand up was again at the comedy cellar and it was one of these new talent nights and i for some 0.99

01:40:00.640 reason this crowd and me it just it i was go well no no went super well oh fuck all your stories 0.92

01:40:08.160 and they go good but uh and and they went nuts and i like said something at the end i was like oh 0.98

01:40:15.440 by the way like whenever we perform here we have to bring a certain number of friends i'm i i i i'm i'm

01:40:20.720 i'm running out of friends so if you want to come like come see say hi backstage and and or whatever

01:40:26.400 you know and and i was just being serious and they're they they were all just losing it and manny

01:40:31.440 saw this and he said like you're yeah there's manny and he goes you're he basically came up and

01:40:38.880 it was like some old hollywood thing he was like you're ready for the big room i'd done stand up like

01:40:43.360 three times there's no way i was ready to perform at the hardest comedy and this is like

01:40:50.000 comedy cellar where it's like a tell giraldo jim norton he's like you're ready for the big room

01:40:56.080 and uh and so i would show up there and and uh they would put me on late at night almost like a

01:41:03.920 late night they would and it was like really odd because i i probably i shouldn't have been doing

01:41:09.040 it i was just so green and i was doing it and eventually you know sd uh sd who's the you know

01:41:16.880 famously runs a comedy cellar passes comics she's like okay let's you go on and i went on and she was

01:41:22.720 like yeah you you can't be performing here yeah she's like you can't be can't be doing this she's 0.94

01:41:29.360 fucking tough i was like a little kid she was like you can't you can't be doing this you're not ready 0.96

01:41:34.560 and i was like okay and and then um you know now again one of the you know emmy mass square garden 0.97

01:41:44.800 whatever like this to me is the coolest thing is that i can perform at the comedy cellar and just drop in

01:41:52.720 and they'll just let me do material yeah and and perform and then the crowd goes nuts and knows

01:41:58.400 who i am that's the craziest thing that's crazy that's like kind of above everything else and my

01:42:03.200 biggest dream i've told people is like that i'm just like 90 years old and i drop it into the comedy 0.51

01:42:08.480 cellar and maybe a couple of people know who i am but that i'm able to fucking hold my own but anyway 0.83

01:42:14.480 i i was there at the comedy cellar one night and me and s you were talking about this and she was like

01:42:18.640 you know man manny saw you whenever you were really young and and he must be up there smiling

01:42:24.640 now seeing all you've done and uh yeah that that uh that made me smile and um i i wasn't super super

01:42:33.840 close with manny but um but he was another guy before lucian oddly even saw me and just said something

01:42:41.200 what's a reminder i think for anybody that has a has been in a field for a while of when you take a moment to

01:42:46.160 connect with somebody that's just coming into it you know that it could have an effect you know

01:42:50.960 that's a nice reminder it means the world to him and you don't realize because i think we're all like

01:42:55.120 good yeah we're all in our own head and don't realize i mean yeah especially when you're young

01:42:59.040 there's one person having to believe like oh good job just little things like that and i'm still

01:43:04.000 grateful uh it reminded me that neil brennan and amy schumer are the ones that helped me get past at

01:43:08.640 the comedy cellar oh wow and i've only performed there like probably six seven times maybe ten but i walked

01:43:14.000 in the other night and i was so nervous like you want to go up i was like no way i'm not freaking

01:43:17.680 going up dude but i think some of that's just places you used to be in you know so um aziz i

01:43:23.280 gotta go man thank you so much oh man this was such a great conversation i i um i really enjoyed it

01:43:30.960 and and we talked about so many uh interesting things uh and um and and really some some heavy

01:43:36.880 stuff but i i thought it was great and i'm so glad we had the opportunity to do it i appreciate it

01:43:41.120 man i think it's exciting that you get to live in london and have a new experience it sounds like

01:43:44.960 you've had a lot of unique experiences and that's like that's such a gift you know um god's had a lot

01:43:50.560 of grace it seems like in your whole just like ability to be creative and like man thank you for

01:43:56.560 sharing that with us oh thanks man thank you for having me you bet and best of luck with the film

01:44:00.560 dude i'll out october 17th so this week i think and uh all right everybody be good thanks so much

01:44:07.120 now i'm just floating on the breeze and i feel i'm falling like these leaves i must be cornerstone

01:44:18.080 oh but when i reach that ground i'll share this peace of mind i found i can feel it in my bones

This Past Weekend with Theo Von - October 15, 2025

#617 - Aziz Ansari

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