Chris Distefano | This Past Weekend #170
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Chris DeStefano is one of the funniest young men I know. He's a father of a multiracial child, and he's doing unique things. And he's a beautiful man, and I'm so happy to have him here in studio.
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He and I spent countless hours barbing each other on the Opie and Jim Norton podcast on SiriusXM over about a year and a half period.
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He's one of the funniest young men that I know.
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And I'm so happy to have him here with me today in studio.
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No, normally, I've been wearing sweatpants a lot.
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So when I go back to New York, you know, you can't come off the plane in sweats like that.
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But I just feel like, you know, I'm going home and then I gotta go right to see my family.
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I've never seen that one that, when I put the team.
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I got one where, you know, I send it out as my dick.
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But it's actually just a television remote in my sweatpants.
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And when girls ask for a dick pic, that's what I send out.
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And they think, like, they think I have the biggest dick ever.
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And then when we finally do get to sex, you know, I gotta turn all the lights off and get them as wet as possible.
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Suddenly, it's the Apple TV remote, suddenly, you got.
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It's a television remote in gray sweatpants, but it looks like my dick.
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I do not want to be one of your boys, then, because I'm trying to do...
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I'm trying to make it to 44 Days of No Pornography.
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I'm not losing my streak, because you're going to send me a male dick.
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I don't like, you know, honestly, just spraying out of my own sink.
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You're like, oh, how much of this is in my body?
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It's like, listen, as you get older, right, you only have a finite amount of energy each
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So it's like, you can't, like you said, be spraying it out unnecessarily when there's
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So it's like, I can't jerk off into my belly button anymore.
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That's just shit I can't do anymore, because I got a kid to feed.
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So it's like, the energy that I have has to be, you know, making sure her homework's
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done, watching her cartoons, getting my career right, going to the gym.
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I can't be on Pornhub, you know, just whacking off into my belly button.
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If you're a dad, it must feel weird to jerk off then, does it?
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I mean, there's still times where I'm just sitting alone and I flick around my piece a little
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You know, if a little glue comes out, a little glue comes out.
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But it's one of those things where it's like, I'm not actively looking to jerk off.
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Like, I've been out in LA for four days in a hotel room, so it's like, that's usually
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It hasn't been a proactive, I'm not doing this.
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And it's like, you know, when you're FaceTiming a three-year-old, like, you don't jerk off
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She doesn't think I got my special, you know, because I got it already.
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And I played it for her, and for 45 minutes, she stared at the TV.
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I'll post that video when the special comes out.
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Emotionless at the TV for about 45 minutes, and then asked for some hamburger helper.
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Now, she does honestly sound like my kind of lady.
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You know, stares blankly at the TV and then devours a little bit of hamburger helper.
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She was like, Daddy, can we get some hamburger helper?
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I can't be any more involved of a father than I am.
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And I think, you know, when you asked me before, is that I think it's better to have
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my child raised around actual real love and two people that really love her as opposed
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to seeing two people who are like being half shells of themselves because they don't really
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I'd been seeing this gal and we separated and then we were just texting yesterday and
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it was like, you know, maybe sometime we would just have a child, you know?
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Because I know that she would be a loving parent.
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I remember years ago, I remember I made a deal though with that girl and it was like,
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And then I remember like 30, like the night I turned 30, like 12.01 a.m.
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You know what I feel like having a child has done for me big time?
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My daughter saves me in many ways from like the tough things that we go through in our
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If we go out for an audition and don't get something or we have a pilot doesn't get
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My daughter saves me in a sense like she doesn't care.
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Well, thank God you didn't get in it because now it's in the fucking toilet.
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If you would have picked up my show, you would have the protection of the Stefano family
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Like, because it was like my whole world came down.
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You know, daddy's thing that he was doing out there, it didn't get picked up.
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And, you know, apologizing to her, which was silly.
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But all she said was, you know, at the end she let me finish.
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And then so she was hearing me and, you know, she's two years old.
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She was like, look, basically what I got from that is like, she was like, you're my dad.
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If you're here, I want to watch Mickey Mouse with you.
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So, don't apologize to me for not getting a TV show on the air.
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And I feel like, biologically, my daughter saves me from that.
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And it also helps me with conserving my energy.
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Like, I don't give energy to stuff that's silly.
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Like, going back and forth in a text fight or an Instagram fight or, like I said, wallowing in my sorrows.
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So, biologically, I think a child has saved me.
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Because at first, my peers were like, when all this shit first happened, like, you're dumb, man.
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It's going to, and it's all, all of a sudden, it's enhanced my career.
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You ever seen those fights on Opie when he said, I look Dutch?
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And then I told him, he looked like Eileen Wuornos, the first female serial killer they ever killed.
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I was actually looking at the comments on the YouTube ones.
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Bro, you look like a skinhead that's afraid to go all the way, bro.
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I'm talking about, like, if you look at the first 100 comments, 95 of them are like, Theo rocks.
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And then five of them are like, Chris is good, but he still sounds deaf.
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You said I look like a deaf guy that goes to the gym.
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Yeah, now everybody else, now Opie and Carl and Sherrod are all dead.
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Oh, you look like the strongest deaf person ever.
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Dude, if you were real, real quiet and entered a contest for the strongest deaf person, you would win.
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You would fuck it up, bro, because you'd want to tell a joke.
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And then your hair, I remember you didn't have a hat on, and I said, your hair looked like the Michigan State Spartan helmet.
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And then, you know what you said to me that was so fucking funny?
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You said, dude, if you could meet yourself, you would hate it.
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You're not playing bananas in New Jersey to 10 people like me.
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Well, I went over there and played it by the railroad track.
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There was a fire on a train while I was on stage, right?
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What's it like now where you go to a place and the tickets are sold?
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It's got to be a great feeling at this point, right?
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Yeah, I guess it, I mean, it definitely is, it is different.
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It's like you can't, you almost forget what it was like when it wasn't.
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And you forget, and you just almost forget about it quick.
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And you also get nervous that like, you know, I feel more pressure now to make jokes.
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Where before I just felt a pressure to be myself.
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Right, and now I feel a little bit of that all the time and some of it I don't like and
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somehow I'm trying to find ways in my own life to get back into a place where I just
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Even in like a day-to-day basis, you know, like, I mean, Nick's done so much to help
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our podcast grow and like Instagram and like, you know, he really championed a lot of different
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Everything you guys got is professional as far as like the cameras, you know, the content.
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It's almost like for our friends who don't have podcasts like and who still think like
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doing a late night set matters, it's like you're...
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Like, you know, having somebody out here like a Joe Rogan, like, you know, all you guys,
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you know, like that's like being on The Tonight Show.
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Like, you guys, so like, you know, Johnny Carson was like the guy and then like all the comedians
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we've ever heard of, Seinfeld, Ray Romano, all these guys who blew up and became icons
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did so through Carson and now I feel like it's Joe Rogan.
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It's like now you got, you know, you, Burr Kreischer, Tom Segura, all these guys that are
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You know, you guys all, you know, crushed it when you came on Rogan.
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Because it's one thing, it's like comedians can go on big podcasts and not do well and then
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So it's like one of those things, you guys were all, you guys were all great and then
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So it's like now his fans become your fans, but now it's not even, now it's your fans.
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So now it's like when you go, yeah, maybe the first time they heard of you was through
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Everybody needs a godfather, you know, but now it's like, yo, you've converted real fans
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and I think the only way that we can do that now in 2019 is through podcasting.
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So when I came out here to promote my special, I was like, man, I want to do Bert and I want
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I would love to have done Rogan, but it's not possible right now for me.
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But I was like, that's more important to me than doing any late night shit.
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Like the late night bookers were like, oh, you know, because it's so PC now.
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They're like, oh, I had jokes about my daughter being Puerto Rican and, you know, and they were
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on my Comedy Central special because one thing I'll say about Comedy Central is they're about
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That's why like specials that come out on Comedy Central are dope because the executives there
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They're like, no, no, no, this is the name comedy is in our network.
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So if you think that shit's funny, even if it's crossing the line and whatever, then we'll
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I've seen some of Ron Funch's clips and his just did really well.
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And I saw some of his clips where he called his son the N-word.
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But for them to be willing to also put that out.
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They started putting clips of yours on, didn't they?
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Actually, one of the clips I put up is me impersonating my daughter.
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Oh, well, actually, the clip that I was on my Instagram, I'm going to post the daughter
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They said I couldn't do it on late night, or I could do those jokes, but I couldn't impersonate
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and put on a Puerto Rican accent because I'm not Puerto Rican.
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And you know what's funny is they'll let anybody get on there and impersonate somebody from
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the South or somebody from the Midwest or somebody who they think is uneducated, as long as the
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But if it's like they're white and uneducated, then it's fine.
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But the thing is, the people that are in all these networks, they're fucking white.
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Yeah, but that's why what you have, the type of success you have and the way that you're
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selling tickets now is so powerful because you could, not that you're a scandalous dude,
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And it's like, even if you said something that was out of bounds unintentionally, your
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You're still going to go to wherever place and sell out that theater where some of these
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dudes are comedian friends who are tied up with these on these networks.
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Like, they say one shit their fucking career is done.
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You know, everything will be taken away from them.
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And you could say whatever you want to them because they're like, and that's what I want.
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Like, I got a podcast called The History Hyenas.
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And our fans, you know, they're not as powerful and big as your guys' fan bases yet.
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But it's like, you know, we're trying to get there, man.
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We're talking about history, but we're being honest about shit, you know?
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You and Andrew Schultz are two, like, the funniest guys that I always think about all the time.
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Schultz is, Schultz's got a career that's, like you, man.
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And he put his shit on, every network's to know to Schultz.
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Everybody, everybody's to know to his hour special.
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But he was the best comedian I saw when I was in New York.
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Yep, now he's got millions and millions and millions of views.
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So, it's like, you know, you got to have this mindset where it's like, we got, the fans give us power.
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Like, we, and we have, the fans have direct access to us, and we have direct access to them.
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Like, Jerry Seinfeld could only be Seinfeld with one show on NBC, you know?
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It's like, now, with this oversaturation, it's like, man, you could walk past the theater that you have sold out, and people may not even recognize you.
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Because they're sold out with your specific fans.
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Whereas, like, back in the day, it's like, to be like a big, you know, if a guy was selling out theater tickets, he would not be able to get through the airport without having to take a thousand autographs.
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You date a Puerto Rican girl, you need to have the answers quick.
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Because they will interrogate you, and if you don't have the answers quick, you look like a liar.
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I think if you had Puerto Rican girls reffing the games, you'd have zero missed calls the whole season because they see everything.
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They would be right there like, um, you out of bounds, stupid.
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And they told me I can't do that shit on late night because I'm impersonating a Puerto Ricans.
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We live in a fucking twilight zone kind of world, man.
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It's like, dude, I remember for years, you know, they said, well, you can't do comedy
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And then they said, well, you, um, you know, uh, then they'll say, oh, well, you know,
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And I'm not even a, I mean, I'm from the South, but I don't like, you're not like a Larry
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I don't identify with, I mean, I identify just with like, I mean, if anything, I identify
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with somebody who doesn't feel like they are valued.
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And I feel like my comedy is for anyone who, you know, is, is kind of like misinterpreted
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where like you would look at me and think I'm going to talk about, you know, whatever
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football and sports and banging chicks, but I'm really just talking about anxiety and
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Well, some chicks, but no, I've had a chick or two.
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Here's the, here's what I learned about myself.
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I fall in love with men, but I have sex with women.
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I'm not trying to have sex with you, but I want to have sex with a woman.
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Like you'll get me horny and I'll bang out a chick.
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That's a wild fucking kind of brain to have, right?
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Like tell your friend, Hey Amber, come over, bring Keith over for a little bit too.
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I want to talk to Keith about, about football and stuff and about like what he feels about
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shit, but then I want to get in, in, in your pussy.
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It's a, you know, it's, it's a, it's got good hair, bro.
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I just fucking wish I could grow my shit out like that.
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Bro, you, I wonder how you would look with long hair.
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Somebody said you used to work on like a, on one of those, like, um, like daytime cruise
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Me and you, we should do a, like a boxing match for charity and the winner has to get
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It's like, Hey, they always set you up against somebody who's going to beat your ass.
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Dude, if I, I can't, nah, I couldn't do it, man.
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The stuff that you're saying just about like, like, uh, the industry and like people doing
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I remember after I went on Joe Rogan, when I went on Joe Rogan's podcast and I left out
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of there and I was like, man, he, he has his own thing.
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I mean, dude, look, look, look at all like the big interviews of the last year.
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You know, like the big gets, Elon Musk, you know, Barack Kanye West is like, people can't
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So it's like one of those things where, you know, to have a dude like that as like a,
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I just wish I knew if I lived out here, I hope I would get to know him better.
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But that's the only, that's the only issue still holding New York back is a lot of the
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dudes that are really popping off, you know, with podcasts and you guys are out here.
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We have guys in New York like Ari Shaffir and them and it's, it's awesome to do their
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shows, but like popping off, popping off like you guys, it's not, we don't have that
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Like even this, I get to hang around some of those guys, like does somebody send us this
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Like I, even when I first went on Joe Rogan's, I was so nervous.
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And even this time I was still a little bit nervous.
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It's like, cause you almost feel like it is the tonight show in some ways kill on
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But then it's also like trying to get to know him and like, yeah, the most time we
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ever spend together is on there when we spend time together at the comedy store, but it's
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not like you're sitting down, really being able to communicate one.
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And see, and see, that's what I like about, you know, podcast, his podcast and, and all
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you guys podcasts and every podcast thing is like, if, if you gain fans, if, if I step
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out of here, like say today, if I step out of here and I've gained some of your
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fans, I didn't fool them because we were talking for an hour, like a late night set
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You could fool somebody like see their five minutes at the comedy store or whatever, like
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If you're listening to me for over an hour and you're in, then you're in, I can't, I
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But after an hour, you're like, I don't fuck with this dude.
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But that's why I'm saying like, that's what I mentioned before.
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It's like, you could go on these big guys podcasts and a lot of comedians just come
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and go on them, but to be able to stick and get their fans, that means like you really
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Well, no, I want one of the, I want to be one of those guys though.
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Like my people always ask me like, Oh, what's your goals and shit?
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And number two, I know it's subjective and it's like people say, don't care what people
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And that's true to a degree, but I think it is important to have respect from your peers.
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I want my peers in common to be like, Hey, Chris would be funny in any
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He's not just funny because of the parameters of 2019.
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He's not just funny because he's saying some politically correct charge message that is
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getting claps that yes, he's getting, you know, accolades for now, but it's really only
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he's getting accolades because times have changed.
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I want to be like, yo, that dude would have been funny in 1979 and he's funny in 2019.
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And there's really no objective way to measure that.
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That would just be subjectively through my peers being like, Oh, you know, that's how we feel
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Do you feel like most comedians feel like you're very funny though?
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I think once I started to get in New York, like the OGs out here, like you guys, you
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know, like, you know, you got Joe Rogan's and, and, and, um, you know, Mark Maron and
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Like our OGs are like Colin Quinn, Dave Attell, Bobby Kelly.
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So those guys are, you know, I get invited to those guys barbecues and I work with those
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guys and they invite me to shows like, like Colin Quinn is like a personal friend of
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So that's more, that's more validation for me than any late night shit I ever did.
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Like if Colin Quinn's saying, Hey, I put my stamp on this guy, then that's good enough.
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I mean, you're, I feel like you have just such a great story.
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Were you bummed that the, um, how did that feel?
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Obviously you were bummed and you said that the daughter kind of changed it for you, but
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did you feel like, was there a moment when the, the pilot that you had, you didn't go?
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I was in San Francisco and they told me and the flight was taking off.
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Like literally where, you know, you know, like when you turn on your phone on airplane
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mode, that last second, as the plane starts to accelerate, that's what I was doing.
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And it was like, my thumb was like halfway to that airplane mode.
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And the text, you know, came in on the top of the screen from my manager, CBS pass.
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And then, so it was just like airplane mode hit it.
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And it was just like, I got, you know, I listen, I, I licked my wounds.
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I said, you know what, for five hours while I'm in these guys, I'm going to have a few
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So I got the, I got the upgrade of business class luckily right before.
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When they told me, it was 18 months of my life that was on hold, you know, 18 months
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of my career where it's like, and, and, and, you know, they, they do a good job.
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These networks of making you feel like you're the man and trust me, man, you're right here
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And let's see, here's, here's, here's why it hurt a little bit more.
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It's one of those things where it's like, if I'm playing a sport, like when I was, when
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I was playing basketball, I would rather lose by a hundred than lose by one at the buzzer
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Cause it's like the heart, at least a hundred, you could be like, all right, it ain't going to
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So when they released the Friday in, in May, when they released, oh, you know, CBS has
00:26:56.020
greenlit these four shows, um, you know, we, we called my, my reps called CBS and they
00:27:00.800
were like, you know, thank you for the opportunity.
00:27:02.340
You know, we, we just saw the deadline article.
00:27:13.200
Les Moonves and powers that be at CBS are all talking about, and it took two hours, but they
00:27:21.520
The other show was, um, wasn't that Malcolm in the middle?
00:27:34.960
First of all, you're trying to do it right now.
00:27:37.780
Dude, you got, you got to buy a bunch of robes.
00:27:41.000
You got to hide your favorite friend behind a rock.
00:27:43.120
No matter what the temperature is, you got to go out there and sandals.
00:27:52.880
But it's just, that shit got canceled immediately.
00:27:58.880
What are some worse shows you could have lost out to?
00:28:13.740
Yeah, I honestly watched it really with an open mind.
00:28:19.100
And I was like, yo, is it just me or does this shit suck dick?
00:28:23.280
And they were like, my boys were like, yo, this is the worst TV show I've ever fucking seen.
00:28:28.560
And then I waited the next day to like, you know, like they released like, you know, they
00:28:32.100
put it out, they released the ratings and, you know, like all variety.com deadline.
00:28:35.300
You know, their first episode of a TV show that, you know, they were fucking hating on
00:28:40.200
So when somebody, somebody wrote on Variety, yeah, it was like, it said CBS takes a dump
00:28:46.020
on Monday nights with new pickup of Living Biblically.
00:28:53.920
Look, I like the Bible, but I'm just saying, if you get living biblically in a city.
00:28:59.920
But I guess they feel like middle America, you know, they live biblically, like Iowa
00:29:04.480
But they have no way to, that's another problem with Hollywood, man.
00:29:07.060
The people that work in Hollywood are third, fourth, fifth generation, you know, and it's
00:29:13.180
It's just like, you know, and so it's like, they don't have that much of a connection to,
00:29:17.380
well, they used to some, it used to be people that had moved, you know, people that had moved
00:29:21.520
to Los Angeles or New York from other parts of America.
00:29:26.760
So a lot of these people don't even know anyone.
00:29:29.980
They've never been to visit a family member in different parts of America.
00:29:33.340
So of course it showed like living biblically to some mutant that has no idea what a half
00:29:43.140
And many parts of New York now, they feel like little islands off the coast of real
00:29:50.140
Cause the actual real America doesn't, you know, the actual real America doesn't give
00:29:53.740
a fuck if there's a transgender Asian lead in a pilot.
00:29:59.340
If the transgender Asian lead is funny, they're going to fuck with your show, but they don't
00:30:03.420
So, so these people sit in these towers and, you know, first of all, some of the people
00:30:06.760
making decisions on my CBS show were in the accounting department three years ago.
00:30:11.380
I'm talking about, there was a dude who was giving me notes on my comedy who was in the accounting
00:30:15.940
department of CBS three years prior and just somehow moved up.
00:30:19.380
So it was like, so the one thing that I took away from it, the lesson that I have, cause
00:30:24.000
You know, there's this, I feel like there's, you only learn through pain, right?
00:30:29.040
So, so when I went through that pain, man, you know, it, it hurt.
00:30:32.800
And then, but what I learned was this, I realized looking back in hindsight, so many
00:30:40.700
I overrode my gut in the sense that I would let a CBS person tell me, Hey, it would be
00:30:45.620
funnier if you did this and it would be funnier if you do that.
00:30:49.940
And I listened to them cause I said, you know what?
00:30:51.980
I'm going to listen to them and then I'm going to get my pilot on the air because it's
00:30:56.560
And then my, and then I can, and then I can, I'll do what I want to myself.
00:30:59.880
And they, the worst feeling in the world was not only having my pilot not picked up, but
00:31:04.520
And even though I was proud of it, cause the guys I created it with who created how I met
00:31:08.700
But when, when, when, when I looked at it, I said, you know what?
00:31:11.560
This was their, this was the, it turned into their comedy.
00:31:16.580
Like right now I got a cartoon in development with, with a comedy central about my life.
00:31:25.680
Cause you never know gold is gold is out there.
00:31:27.500
But if my gut is telling me, no, this is not funny or no, this is not going to work.
00:31:34.480
Cause I want to at least live and die with my decisions, not somebody else's decisions that
00:31:39.080
Cause I thought it would help my career and it didn't.
00:31:45.780
Cause we're doing a pilot right now with comedy central, uh, called man up.
00:31:49.260
And it's based on like people call into the podcast.
00:31:52.940
So we had three digital episodes and they're online.
00:31:55.440
And a lot of our fans know, or a lot of our, you know, the crew that listens know about
00:32:01.320
People call into the podcast and then we get meet up in person and try to help them
00:32:05.180
with some sort of situation that's going on in their life and maybe not help, but just
00:32:12.300
So, um, but yeah, there's some ideas where I'm like, oh, I know this would be super funny.
00:32:16.980
And then I've gotten other ideas from the network to like, well, why don't we do this?
00:32:20.800
And sometimes I'm like, and then the producers will be like, well, if you do what they are
00:32:26.060
saying, then they, cause they're going to be some of the ones that are going to make the
00:32:30.780
Because the truth is the truth is, well, first thing I'll say this, and I mean this,
00:32:34.280
I'm not just saying this cause I have a special on them and I have an overall deal with them.
00:32:36.800
I truly, from my heart, the, the executives I've worked with, at least in New York on
00:32:40.920
at comedy central, and I know some LA dudes and they're all, I put them in the same vein.
00:32:44.940
They are about funny first and they at least are very experienced in their job.
00:32:50.560
Like you're not like almost all the executives at comedy central come from a comedy background.
00:32:55.060
They weren't in the accounting department two years ago.
00:32:56.940
So they know comedy, but still, if it's gut for you feels wrong, then it's
00:33:01.860
But I know more than any other executive I've ever worked with comedy central knows what
00:33:09.360
So like if, if, but, but if it feels wrong to you, then yeah, I mean, there's nothing,
00:33:15.780
Because they tell you, they're like, oh, well, you're going to have, you know, you're going
00:33:19.440
to have, if you do this, if they like, you know, you kind of want to appease them some
00:33:26.420
You don't want to give them something that seems so foreign to them.
00:33:30.420
It's like, you know, when you think there's some truth to that, I do, because I think
00:33:33.460
when your producer said to you, oh, give like, um, you know, uh, do what they say,
00:33:38.360
because these are going to be the people making decisions.
00:33:39.740
The truth of the matter is even with the most, even with the most seasoned comedy executives,
00:33:44.620
and this is, I'm sure this is true in drama and all that too, but I can only speak for
00:33:51.560
They only know what they want when you show them.
00:33:56.080
I think, I think you should have that plan over here and that would be funny.
00:33:59.780
But if you just say, you go rogue and you say, you know what?
00:34:02.180
I'm putting the fucking plan where I want to put the plan.
00:34:05.740
And then they pick up your shit because a lot of times they're going in blind.
00:34:09.340
They have no idea what they want until you show it to them.
00:34:11.960
You know, and I learned that when I was casting my pilot where I was like, cause I was on
00:34:17.440
So I was, I, I, I watched hundreds of audition tapes, hundreds and dealt with hundreds of
00:34:22.800
people coming in and out and everybody that pretty much came in, you know, to be honest
00:34:27.020
with you, there was three, there was three of the parts I wanted somebody else.
00:34:31.360
Cause I was like, when they came in, I was like, no, this is the person, this has got
00:34:34.460
to be the person, but they overrode me cause they wanted big celebrities.
00:34:37.960
And, and, and I get it, I get it's a business too.
00:34:42.820
I, I, but stacking things with celebrities is so limiting these days.
00:34:45.740
I feel like it's like, it's just like, even with the election, it's like, you know, they
00:34:49.000
just, they're like, you know, Hollywood controls so much.
00:34:52.060
And so it's like all the celebrities are like, we're going to, we all going to get on the
00:34:55.100
same thing, get on the same train and it didn't work.
00:34:59.580
I'm telling you, man, we just know we could, it's very easy to see the bullshit.
00:35:03.980
Like it's very, it's very easy to see when you're in a, where you're in an award
00:35:06.820
show, when you're watching an award show, the Oscars or Golden
00:35:09.920
And the celebrities just going up there patting themselves on the back and just being wind
00:35:17.400
Cause you know, when they go home, they're probably using plastic straws and they don't
00:35:23.140
Oh, well 10 years ago, it was like gas efficient cars.
00:35:28.260
Like nobody shows up to Priuses and all of these events and stuff.
00:35:33.360
And I think most, most of the country sees the bullshit.
00:35:39.180
Um, you know, but I've been punching the face a lot.
00:35:42.280
Like I live my life in the gray zone because you know what it is?
00:35:45.000
It's like somebody on Twitter, you know, that wants to stand by his or her opinions.
00:35:48.900
It's like, yeah, you could stand by your opinions and start blocking people.
00:35:51.820
But the truth is the shit hasn't gotten violent for you.
00:35:54.300
Cause I would like, if you're a real fucking martyr, then say what you just said to the
00:35:58.500
opposite, to a person, to, to somebody who doesn't agree with you to their face and then
00:36:02.760
see what, see if you really stand by your opinion.
00:36:04.900
I've been hit so much that I fucking, you know, I know, man.
00:36:08.480
It's like, yeah, listen, man, I got, I got opinions, but I'm not standing by anything.
00:36:12.460
Once you put those fists up, if you want me to change my tune, the tune will be changed.
00:36:19.020
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I don't even know how I happened into like, you know, I mean, I know I did a lot of work
00:38:40.960
over the years doing stand up, but you did your thing, man.
00:38:45.300
You just, you know, and now, and now look, and it's a beautiful thing because now it's
00:38:48.640
like you have an opportunity to like be out here for like long format stuff.
00:38:53.440
People get to know you that feel like they're a part of your family.
00:38:56.060
And then they come out to the shows, man, and you'll never lose them.
00:38:59.080
I get to have people like you on that I think are funny.
00:39:00.860
Dude, you could do something fucked up tomorrow and maybe you'll lose ads on the podcast,
00:39:08.920
That'd be fucked up an honest crime you could see me doing.
00:39:14.240
And then I'm going to tell you a couple about you.
00:39:16.600
So like a guy like you, well, first of all, you look like you're on crystal meth.
00:39:20.880
Like, I know you're not, but like you look like, like, like it would be, it would be
00:39:25.440
shocking to me that a guy that looks like you isn't using crystal meth.
00:39:31.140
Because there's not a t-shirt under the sweater?
00:39:35.340
And really like, and just like the hair and the beard, it's like, it's like you just
00:39:39.720
Like, you know, he's got like a civil war head.
00:39:42.620
And it just looks like, like you use drugs to like get through your pain.
00:39:47.820
And so I would think, so I, so definitely like robbing a liquor store is what you love.
00:39:53.320
You also look like you could be like, you're, you're a suspect.
00:39:56.200
You look like you're in any making a murderous shit.
00:40:01.300
So I would say one of those, either a murder suspect or robbing a bank.
00:40:05.120
But I think like an actual crime you could actually do like with who you are as Theo, not
00:40:12.960
So I think you, I could see you being, being a distracted driver texting.
00:40:34.660
But what about years later when I reintroduce him to society and he can fucking dance?
00:40:48.460
His parents haven't seen him for years and they're not even excited to see him.
00:40:53.020
And he gets up and just, would you save my soul tonight?
00:41:05.780
Two gay guys in the stands just hold a lighter up.
00:41:13.200
I could see you being like a, obviously you seem like a dude that works at a toll booth
00:41:16.940
that fucking always tells people he's going to do something different.
00:41:19.200
Like on your lunch break, you tell all the black ladies you're going to be doing something
00:41:30.760
Stacking it up at home for like a big adventure.
00:41:37.080
So petty crime like that, 75 cents a day crime I could see you doing.
00:41:45.520
I could see you doing some like AWOL type of shit.
00:41:48.160
Like going rogue, going to another country, going to Afghanistan or Saddam.
00:41:55.200
And just like, because I just want to defend freedom and defend my country, I'm killing innocent
00:42:03.520
Next thing you're over there in a fucking sweat lodge.
00:42:08.180
ISIS gets me, but I got such a big head that I just keep fucking up their beheading
00:42:14.360
I could see you getting in a lawsuit with new era hats because they don't have a proper
00:42:22.700
Actually, I thought my whole life I was Italian and German like every other white piece of shit
00:42:34.800
What are some, what's the Louis C.K. situation like in New York?
00:42:40.540
I mean, he doesn't really come, you don't really, he doesn't pop up out here, right?
00:42:43.920
Well, I heard why, you know what, there was one night where I heard that he was at like
00:42:48.100
the Lyric Theater or something and this was about six weeks ago, but that's, I just heard
00:42:52.600
it from one person and so I don't know if that's true.
00:42:54.800
He pops up, you know, around like Comedy Cellar and shows like that and it's just like, you
00:42:58.620
know, it's one of those things, I think the main difference that I see now is he doesn't
00:43:01.720
really hang out, he just comes, does his spot and leaves.
00:43:10.600
I would say the first night I was there, the first night he came back, he was nervous.
00:43:17.600
But now, not so much, I mean, he's, you know, buried in his notes, kind of writing, then
00:43:21.240
comes out, you know, he's got to deal with, every time he goes up, people will walk out
00:43:25.000
and leave, you know, he's going to have to probably deal with that for, as much as he
00:43:27.900
comes in unannounced to a comedy club, he's going to have to deal with people being like,
00:43:31.020
we want our money back, it's just, you know, it's just what it is in society right now.
00:43:35.300
But every, to be honest with you, man, every time he goes up, he murders, he rips,
00:43:39.560
like the people there, they, because it's like, it's good jokes.
00:43:42.400
It's like, it's like, look, you know, Bill Cosby's in prison because what he did was
00:43:48.040
And maybe he would, after he's rehabilitated in prison, that's what these laws are, that's
00:43:51.900
why we have laws, then yeah, hypothetically, he should be allowed to come back because he
00:43:59.100
For sure, what he did was outside the fringes of what's normally socially accepted sexual
00:44:04.820
Jerking off on a plant is hella fucking vegan, dude.
00:44:07.280
Yeah, and he's putting that in that, yeah, and look at, I mean, it's energy into energy,
00:44:10.580
In Los Feliz, that's a soup out here in fucking, you know.
00:44:16.700
Yeah, but it's like, you know, what the shit, of course it was, you know, you know.
00:44:20.880
Right, the media definitely got a hold of him, he definitely.
00:44:22.980
This guy doesn't deserve to lose his life and his career, not even fucking close.
00:44:26.840
And he always, whenever I saw him, he seemed like he had a real hard ego, like just like,
00:44:31.720
but he was also the biggest comedian, like, you know.
00:44:36.220
Do you think about how hard it is to be at the top like that?
00:44:38.120
Everybody asking you for shit, wanting shit from you.
00:44:42.320
The few times I have been around him, he's been kind to me.
00:44:47.040
But, you know, yeah, I know like the situations that he put some people in, it wasn't right,
00:44:51.960
but it's not a crime, and he doesn't deserve to lose his career over it.
00:44:57.120
I think if you commit a crime, then yeah, like Cosby, what happened to Cosby is right.
00:45:01.840
Harvey Weinstein, these guys, if shit's proven, you should go to jail.
00:45:05.140
Yeah, he got caught up in that, you know, he definitely was in that tidal wave of stuff
00:45:10.900
So, it's like, but look, rules have changed now.
00:45:12.500
I think the positive things about all these movements is, I know at some, you know, there's
00:45:16.160
people that take advantage of them, and then the media wants to jump on that too, and people
00:45:21.160
I'll tell you what, I've always respected women.
00:45:30.800
The way I was in 2010, I still wasn't not raping anybody or assaulting anyone, but I maybe
00:45:39.780
I think that's ultimately what they wanted, you know?
00:45:43.400
Yeah, there's always, but, you know, there's always going to be, because it's like, you
00:45:46.020
know, people walk around in fear now and say, oh, guys, I can't do anything.
00:45:51.180
Like, if some girl comes accusing me of shit, it's like, it's not going to be true.
00:45:54.440
Well, it made me think about my, like, it made me think about, like, it made me think
00:45:57.580
about, like, it made me think about a couple of things.
00:46:02.580
You know, a couple of things, even some of these movements, like when the Black Lives
00:46:05.240
Matter stuff was happening, it was real, you know, big, more popular.
00:46:10.040
You know, that was a time, like, when, you know, Trump was running for president.
00:46:15.760
And that's a, that's a time when I felt like, dude, there's nobody even in, like, I came
00:46:20.540
all the way to LA to be a, you know, I felt like I would, grew up really a Democrat, you
00:46:24.740
know, like, I grew up poor, I grew up on opportunities, you know, I grew up, you know, never liked the
00:46:30.220
rich, really, because they, the one thing I didn't like about the rich was that if one
00:46:34.180
of them got in trouble for something, they were able to get out of it.
00:46:38.360
Before, it never got to the papers the next day, it never, in the middle of the night, there
00:46:43.560
And they were able to get through it, somebody knew somebody.
00:46:46.320
And that's the thing that always, because then there was no consequence.
00:46:55.320
But anyways, but then I get out to LA, and then I'm suddenly, I'm like, you know, looked
00:46:59.700
at as like, you know, everybody just immediately is like, oh, well, this guy's just a redneck,
00:47:05.920
You know, just because the way that I sound, or just because of like my.
00:47:08.720
Yeah, because of my skin, and it made me, and I couldn't, I was like, there's not even any roles
00:47:14.060
Like, when have they even championed a Southern comedian?
00:47:18.640
Larry the Cable had that, Jeff Fox, that was 25 years ago.
00:47:21.960
That's why I think what you did is so great, because you just built your own way.
00:47:24.760
And that's, thank God we have the opportunity to do that in 2019, because if this was
00:47:31.420
But now it made me think, but in 99, I think you still have some opportunities.
00:47:34.300
They had like shit like the Torkelsons and fucking.
00:47:48.600
These people, look, I can't even imagine the number of bad shows that have been passed
00:47:55.180
Like, that's a show I could have been on the dang Torkelsons.
00:48:01.660
I thought it was like a cartoon of like seahorses.
00:48:12.460
I remember being like, man, because of how I sound or how I look, then I'm not going
00:48:20.280
And then I was like, man, this must be how black people feel sometimes.
00:48:27.920
Latinos are going to hopefully take over the world, bro.
00:48:34.580
Because that's why I have a Puerto Rican daughter, man.
00:48:46.780
So my Puerto Rican daughter, man, it's like, what are you going to say to me now?
00:48:49.240
I'm like, fucking, I got my baby Puerto Rican girl.
00:48:51.900
Oh, you look definitely like a guy that works at the church that gets busted.
00:49:03.660
Dude, you look like definitely every ex-husband in a Lifetime movie.
00:49:08.920
And then she's like, oh, I have a kid with this guy.
00:49:15.240
You look like you definitely should carry a lunch pail.
00:49:17.900
Or like I'm coming up with some like fucking protein infused vodka or some shit.
00:49:26.600
I mean, it brought it into my mind and it brought it into my heart.
00:49:28.700
I was like, man, this is how somebody must feel if they don't feel like they have an opportunity.
00:49:41.440
Some people don't take advantage of their opportunities.
00:49:43.960
You know, some people have a million opportunities.
00:49:46.700
No matter what color their skin are, they don't, they never really do.
00:49:49.320
And like, when you just put the product out there, when it's unfiltered, uncensored, it's
00:49:53.000
like just coming from my brain, like as the artist.
00:49:55.240
Like, I'm sure you find like my fan base at the History Hyena podcast, it's so culturally
00:50:05.800
And I'm sure you feel the same because funny is funny, man.
00:50:08.080
But these executives and these people and these so-called gatekeepers and bloggers want to
00:50:12.000
say, oh, you have to talk about this group or do that.
00:50:14.840
It's like, yo, bro, funny is funny has no race.
00:50:23.840
Like nowadays in 2019, you could blog about him and you could make my father a villain.
00:50:29.160
When in reality, my dad in 2012, when Hurricane Sandy happened and it like ravaged New York,
00:50:35.020
Staten Island, where my pops lives, the coast of Staten Island got fucked up.
00:50:38.980
And most of it is like, most of it was Latino immigrants and black people, most of it.
00:50:46.140
So my dad rented a U-Haul truck every single day, went down there, helped out the families,
00:50:50.480
and even for two weeks, let two separate families stay in his house while they, because
00:50:56.740
But while he was doing that, my dad's just an old school kind of guy, comes from a different
00:51:05.180
He kept telling him like, hey, don't steal my silverware.
00:51:07.500
You know, he'd be like, you guys want to play bait?
00:51:11.820
But the truth is, is like all those families, they love him like he's their dad because he
00:51:18.620
So it's like everybody wants to, I feel like as a society, we're in defense mode.
00:51:22.540
It's like somebody gets famous, oh, now we're waiting for that person to fuck up, dig through
00:51:28.060
Like with Kevin Hart, oh, go back 10 years to find tweets.
00:51:31.480
Like, well, if you really wanted, if actions spoke, if actions truly spoke louder than words,
00:51:36.120
which is that bullshit that they regurgitate, that to be honest, mostly the left regurgitates,
00:51:40.720
but actions speak louder than words, then you would see Kevin Hart's actions in 10 years
00:51:46.600
But all of a sudden to make the narrative good for you, you're going to flip it and say,
00:51:52.120
So it's like, you know, you play in an unwinnable game.
00:51:54.740
That's why having a podcast and having your own fan base is my goal because I can speak
00:52:01.440
I'm immune to all, like you're immune to all that shit, man.
00:52:04.180
You look at, nobody's digging through your tweets.
00:52:08.620
And it's like, also like, I just don't understand how you don't like expect that.
00:52:13.420
Like, how can you be like, everybody deserves the opportunity to change, but then, you know,
00:52:16.840
you're preaching that all the time, but then there's no empathy for people.
00:52:20.440
There's no like, well, what if somebody does change, you know, like how can somebody not
00:52:27.660
It's like, you know, even like, you know, those, you know, the Charlottesville when they
00:52:32.420
had the tiki torture guys or whatever, you know, and, but 50, you know, 60 years ago
00:52:37.780
or something or 40 years ago, they had in the 60s, they had like a Klan rally.
00:52:43.380
I think that had 50,000 people in Madison Square Garden.
00:52:47.940
Like, sure, that's fucked up, but it's like, why not be like, oh, the last ditch effort
00:52:53.380
In 1938, the Nazis sold out Madison Square Garden.
00:53:06.440
He was selling out theaters in Germany, you know?
00:53:14.160
Jeff Dunham and Hitler are the same fucking dude.
00:53:29.700
I mean, I guess it is kind of freeing to realize, like, yeah, I guess it was like, yeah,
00:53:33.420
we just have to try and make something else happen of our own, you know?
00:53:36.120
Yeah, no, dude, what you're doing, well, I'm telling you, man, it's the best, it's just
00:53:38.740
like self-start and then you cannot take it away, and it's exactly what Joe Rogan, I mean,
00:53:42.640
I know Joe Rogan did a lot of the fear factor and all that other stuff, but I mean, the things
00:53:46.500
that people are hanging their hats on now is things they built, not that somebody else
00:53:49.500
built, not that somebody else is in control of.
00:53:53.020
Like, even if Louis, let's talk about, let's say Louis C.K., right?
00:53:59.120
Well, it'd probably be a top podcast, but it's like, he would monetize it instantly and still
00:54:02.860
be able to make, you can't tell him he can't do a podcast.
00:54:05.500
You could tell him he can't be on FX anymore, you could tell him, you know what I mean,
00:54:08.180
he's not doing these commercials, theaters could close their doors, but you can't, the
00:54:13.520
You know, if he speaks to the people, man, it's like, nah, you can't.
00:54:17.640
And then you could be like, hey, listen, if you want to get the Louis C.K. podcast, it's
00:54:21.740
Trust me, there's thousands, hundreds of thousands of people that would do that just to hear it,
00:54:29.260
I'm not advocating for him, I'm just using him as an example where it's like, if really in
00:54:36.200
You know, if you put your mind and your will to it, and you want to say, this is what I
00:54:40.540
want to do, then you got to just go do it, because there's no excuses anymore.
00:54:43.940
Yeah, that's what Donna Rollins said, and we were just talking about this with Kevin Ealing
00:54:46.540
the other day, but yeah, that's what Donna Rollins said.
00:54:49.380
He said, for black people, white people, for anybody, you know, there's just, there's
00:54:55.100
He said that he felt like once Barack Obama was president, that like, you can't be a black
00:54:58.420
person anymore and say like, oh, I don't have this opportunity, or, I still think there
00:55:02.040
should be more opportunities for Latinos, though, in America, bro.
00:55:04.840
Like, how you don't have a Latino on the fucking Los Angeles Lakers, bro?
00:55:11.880
99% of your offense is, of your audience, of your fans, are Latinos, bro.
00:55:27.480
And he fucking only gets to shoot nine-pointers, bro.
00:55:33.500
Yeah, well, I mean, Latinos, I mean, they're going to be the majority, I believe they're going
00:55:36.360
to be the majority for the population in our country very soon, I think in the next few
00:55:40.940
So, yeah, they certainly need to be more represented.
00:55:43.620
But I think, you know, everybody's like, oh, you got to have this person, you got to have
00:55:47.320
It's like, well, you got to break down society.
00:55:53.840
Majority of our society is, you know, this sexual orientation and this religion.
00:55:57.360
So it's like, when you talk about television specifically, that's what it's geared towards.
00:56:01.760
It's like, yes, you know, you have to have everybody represented, but you got to understand
00:56:09.780
Everybody, everybody, you need to treat every single person fairly and with respect.
00:56:17.080
Anybody that comes into my life, I treat them fairly with respect.
00:56:20.100
I don't care what your orientation is, race, religion, whatever.
00:56:22.400
But when we go along with this narrative, we're all created equal.
00:56:30.240
But I think it's unfortunate for like my daughter.
00:56:36.220
There's not, there's, there's, and that doesn't mean you don't, you treat anyone any differently
00:56:43.760
But to think that you have the same opportunities as others, it's, it's, it's, it's a lie.
00:56:50.820
Like when I look at like, you know, like you don't really want it.
00:56:54.140
Like in the end, like, it's like, you know, like in the past year I've had opportunity
00:56:58.120
to be like, you know, to kind of just be in a different space, you know, like even a
00:57:02.160
year and a half ago, it's like, yeah, it's definitely different, like going and having
00:57:05.220
people come out to the shows, but it's like, I wouldn't have changed, you know, I don't
00:57:09.780
think I really would have changed anything the more I think about it.
00:57:11.940
It's like the best, like that chip on your shoulder was really, was the most enjoyable
00:57:17.200
I mean, I don't know the, you know, the joys of having a child or having that sort of
00:57:20.140
thing yet, but like just having a, having a, like Joe Rogan's was talking about, they
00:57:26.200
had universal income and where everybody would get a flat amount and so that their basic needs
00:57:33.440
So then after that, if everybody's basic needs were met, then they could focus more
00:57:37.920
on their wellbeing, you know, and advancement and stuff like that.
00:57:50.920
I mean, I don't know if there'd be a way to really fund it.
00:57:57.540
I was thinking about it last night and I was like, but would, where would people, would
00:58:01.360
there be as much incentive, you know, like you don't have a comeback story then.
00:58:08.740
I think like America, the reason why America, everybody wants to come here and it's still the
00:58:12.240
number one country in the world is because it's capitalist.
00:58:15.460
So it's like, yeah, you have to be, you have to be unbelievably good in this country to
00:58:23.360
I think, but you know, the, the, the catch 22 is with capitalist society comes greed.
00:58:27.820
I mean, like lawyer, you know, doctors in England don't need boats.
00:58:32.280
Like a, like a national healthcare setting, like a doctor, still a great job, but they're
00:58:41.020
And that's going to, the evil parts of a person's brain are going to, it's the ego.
00:58:49.180
But I think it's hard to say, well, let's take that away.
00:58:53.160
Cause that's what makes America, America is like, you can make it here.
00:58:56.600
And the only way that the only way that that's saying remains true is by having capitalism
00:59:04.120
And I think greed is going to become, I just have this thing that greed, this thought that
00:59:12.200
Cause it is so like, at a certain point, it's just dirty, you know, at a certain point,
00:59:17.220
Like when you raise kids that have no idea that have never waited a table or never been
00:59:22.920
a bus boy or never had an experience of like, you know,
00:59:26.540
being absurd, you know, like having to do anything for themselves.
00:59:31.880
You don't get the most out of life that way either.
00:59:34.240
Like, dude, the best parts of my life have really been the shittiest.
00:59:39.560
Dude, every time I think about comedy, you know, when I'm like reminiscing about shit,
00:59:43.460
it's always those first two, three years when you're like really grinding out, doing
00:59:46.440
open mics, meeting people, seeing everything for the first time.
00:59:48.880
I fantasize and romanticize that part of my career.
00:59:55.400
Now it's like, sometimes, you know, you're in a city alone, you're on state, you're doing
00:59:59.020
Like, you know, you see your friends popping off, but it's from afar.
01:00:01.720
It's like back in the day, it's like, Hey, if, if, if somebody just got passed at a comedy
01:00:07.360
It's, it's, you know, but I think what happened, what's good about my daughter is things have
01:00:11.560
flipped now in the sense that my daughter's number one, my career is number two.
01:00:14.860
I still give my whole, I give a lot of energy to my career and I want, you know, I'm, I'm
01:00:20.520
So I, I, you know, they're the only times I step away from my daughter is if it's worth
01:00:24.640
it either financially, if it's going to push the ball ahead in my career, because that
01:00:29.640
Um, but I'm not, you know, some, some of my peers, I'll notice like they have children,
01:00:33.680
you know, they'll be like, Oh man, I got to go on the month.
01:00:41.100
You're doing that because, you know, you, you're, you're putting your career first.
01:00:45.460
And what happened was when I put my career second, number one, my career is better than
01:00:55.760
You know, I still, I still work at it, but it kind of made me realize like, yeah, the
01:00:59.640
ugly parts of our career, like the, you know, the, the, like the loneliness of it or
01:01:04.720
like, you know, the greed or like, do I really need to go after everyone on social
01:01:09.780
media, do I need to post this thing just to have a chance to go viral?
01:01:15.680
You know, do I want to go out in the middle of the street and pull my dick out so it could
01:01:20.040
And when I put my career second, it was, the answer was no, because the truth is, yeah,
01:01:25.020
I don't need to sell at arenas, but I'd like to sell out theaters.
01:01:27.860
You know, I don't, I don't, I, I, I'm not gonna, I'm not one of those guys like, I'll
01:01:33.840
I'll do anything to make it that I see sometimes.
01:01:37.840
I'm worried that I'm just not going to, that I'm going to run out of good ideas if I don't
01:01:45.540
You know, ever since I, ever since I had my kid, like love, the energy, like love is
01:01:50.020
an energy and it's, and it's, and it's real and it's palpable.
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This happened a little while ago, but it's kind of relates to this podcast.
01:03:44.560
And actually, more news as we record this just broke.
01:03:59.300
Tried to write out two checks to him to pay him back.
01:04:04.140
So the guy called the cops and there's his mugshot.
01:04:09.900
Like if I wrote a check that bounced, that's a crime?
01:04:12.720
You should call your daughter's school right now.
01:04:14.700
Because I've had a couple of those puppies bounce.
01:04:18.060
I remember they would come back NSF, insufficient funds.
01:04:44.380
And so he had a, you know, he had an experience at a hotel.
01:04:48.700
You know, we put him up for a night in a hotel and flew him out here.
01:04:52.820
So, and that's the only guest that we've done it for.
01:04:57.120
I wanted him to, you know, I just wanted to be able to sit down with him and chat.
01:05:00.560
And I don't even think I did that good of an interview, but I think that it was, you
01:05:08.100
And, but then he like ran up extra nights at, like extra stuff at the hotel, like, and
01:05:13.820
tried to keep it onto our tab, even though it was-
01:05:19.940
We, we agreed to only one night, he tried to do three, say he didn't have his credit
01:05:30.340
So this isn't shocking to you is what you guys are saying.
01:05:33.740
I thought it was a misunderstanding when it happened at the hotel, but then you see this-
01:05:39.720
He's like catching predators, but he's a klepto behind the scenes.
01:05:43.240
This feels like it's got gambling written all over it.
01:05:50.340
No, in the sense that you get guys who are compulsive gamblers and gamble their, their
01:05:58.040
As soon as you said that he said, I need more time, that's gambling.
01:06:03.120
Cause if I get this next bet, then I'll be even.
01:06:04.960
It feels like he's, that's what it feels like, but I could be wrong.
01:06:09.040
Well, the thing that makes me think it just kind of, I don't know.
01:06:13.840
The first thing I thought was, man, I wouldn't do this to somebody.
01:06:16.120
I wouldn't, you know, have an extra $1,500 worth of hotel bill.
01:06:22.240
And, um, and not, and try to be in, you know, like.
01:06:28.540
No, we got, no, we got literally the, according to the girl that helps us, you know, arrange
01:06:35.780
some of this, um, she said like that he was walking out of the hotel and she was on the
01:06:42.820
And the lady was literally saying, uh, Mr. Hanson, Mr. Hanson, um, to have him put down
01:06:53.100
But I don't, and the crazy thing is that he didn't seem like if I'd have tried to call
01:06:57.280
him or try to reach him, like he wouldn't have, you know, kind of tried to answer, like
01:07:02.940
It seemed like he would have answered the phone.
01:07:05.260
But so yeah, it just kind of hurt my feelings a little because it was like, oh, I wouldn't
01:07:09.340
So you had a bit of a sour taste in your mouth for Hanson after that experience before this
01:07:17.500
I didn't text him back, but the shit, when he, um.
01:07:28.280
And you just wrote back, I'll be at the studio in 15 minutes.
01:07:43.620
But the thing was, it was like, but why would you, it must be some sort of a, it felt like
01:07:58.760
Like, I wonder what that is, you know, to, the need to live at a certain means.
01:08:02.120
Because we put him up at, you know, I think it was a Four Seasons, somewhere nice.
01:08:11.640
Or living a, that's the thing that's scary about popularity and about your ego is that.
01:08:18.980
It's almost like people who get extremely famous, it becomes, like, that's a mental health issue.
01:08:24.620
Like, being a big celebrity is a mental health issue that people, like, it's almost like
01:08:29.800
quarterbacks, you know, got to take those tests, you know, NFL, you know, NBA rookie
01:08:35.120
camps, they have to go mandatory, two-week training, mandatory about how their life's
01:08:43.980
Deadline says you're an A-lister, a variety, whatever.
01:08:51.380
Yeah, I was about to say the wonder lust because I'm a fucking dumb piece of shit.
01:09:00.360
Well, the jacket definitely looks like something that a trans worker wears.
01:09:12.040
You know, something that a bus driver got their wife or husband.
01:09:30.420
Yeah, because when I take my shirt off, it's a mess.
01:09:37.440
I told you the guy told me I had a leading man face, best friend body.
01:09:40.860
You know, some casting director said you got a leading man face, best friend body.
01:09:43.960
That's a fucked up thing to say, but it was hilarious.
01:09:49.820
You look like a handsome guy who kind of got, like some elevator doors kind of smashed him.
01:09:59.820
Yeah, the blue eyes are a get out of jail free card, dude.
01:10:02.960
Well, I think women feel like I can protect them because I'm a bigger dude and whatever,
01:10:06.860
but I feel like, you know, I noticed like the pattern.
01:10:09.520
It's like the first month women are really into me, and then it slowly starts to be like,
01:10:18.960
Like, girls are usually in, they're really in the first few weeks, and then they're really out,
01:10:24.660
Like, because, you know, biting my nails, eating my boogers, you know, like doing shit,
01:10:29.020
like, you know, like, you know, being too open with them, like, hey, I slept in the bed
01:10:32.360
with my mom until I was 15, you know, having anxiety, being scared of the dark,
01:10:37.120
not being able to fix shit, you know, having one titty, like, way bigger than the other,
01:10:41.220
you know, shit like that, you know, farting, you know, like, that's the real me, you know,
01:10:47.840
Yeah, don't be, don't be the real you, dude, for other people.
01:10:53.700
I think, but it's so true, if we were all ourselves, like, you know, if people really
01:10:57.920
knew about all, and I try to share as much as I can before, you know, sometimes it's like,
01:11:03.160
but if people really knew, like, you know, some of our behaviors, I think, now, that's
01:11:07.900
I think it's okay if people know your fears, because that's something they can really relate
01:11:11.880
to, but some behaviors make people really sketchy, you know?
01:11:19.260
Like, I met a girl one time, sorry to interrupt you, but she had, I don't want to forget this,
01:11:22.320
and I will forget, she had, you know, and we dated for a while, and she would wear the
01:11:31.100
And one time, they had, like, a little kind of doody kind of touch on the front.
01:11:39.960
Oh, I don't know, I don't remember about all that.
01:11:41.400
Because that's a big thing, if a girl has fumes or not.
01:11:45.380
She, this girl just had switched her underwear around, you know?
01:11:50.600
Yeah, well, when I see them switch, I'm out, bro.
01:11:59.780
First of all, that is straight up how they make pink eye, okay?
01:12:04.660
I had pink eye the other day, it was fucking wild.
01:12:28.620
Yeah, the doctor, because I was telling him, like, I played some audio on my farts, and
01:12:32.420
I sent him some pictures of my shits in the office, and he was like, we need to take a
01:12:42.560
He said, we got to take a look, and then he told me, he said, everything's fine, but he
01:12:46.020
said, you know, in clinical terms, he said, I have a very deep, deep rectum.
01:12:49.620
So he said, that's what's causing the sounds of the farts.
01:12:54.740
Did he say that line, rectum damn near killed him?
01:13:18.340
I'll let God do what he needs to do inside of my body.
01:13:26.500
Did we have some questions that came in for Chris, Nick?
01:13:35.960
First of all, that guy looks like a sexy member of ISIS.
01:13:38.580
Doesn't he just look like a handsome terrorist?
01:13:40.720
Looks like a handsome terrorist, that fucking guy.
01:13:49.500
Yeah, like if terrorist wanted to take you on a weekend adventure, he would be the host.
01:13:55.880
The last time I cried was actually about four days ago.
01:14:05.120
I cried because I was talking to my kid's mom about my daughter.
01:14:14.340
And we were just having a conversation and I was just telling her, I just got emotional.
01:14:21.820
And then I just started to get like real, I just started to cry.
01:14:24.400
And she was like, you know, she kicked me out, but it's what it is.
01:14:30.260
Will you guys have another kid, you think, you and her?
01:14:32.400
If I'm good, this is how wild I am and just how I feel.
01:14:35.420
If I'm going to have another child, I'd prefer to be with her.
01:14:38.380
I don't want my daughter to have different moms.
01:14:41.040
You know, I don't want my daughter's sibling to have a different mom.
01:14:43.640
So it's like, I'd rather, if I'm going to, even though we're not together, you know,
01:14:48.980
But if I was going to have another kid, I'd prefer to be with her.
01:14:53.600
And I'm not saying we're getting back together.
01:14:57.660
Well, it's so huge because it's like, you know, and that's a sweet thing, man.
01:15:01.580
I can imagine that, you know, like just, you know, feeling like, wow, I have this gift.
01:15:06.760
And even though it's my daughter, like, I wouldn't have it.
01:15:09.440
Even with this person that I may not even always get along with perfectly.
01:15:18.780
Even though, like, we go through our own bullshit romantically or we did.
01:15:22.640
Yeah, she just needs to be thanked, you know, because Delilah changed my whole life.
01:15:28.880
Yeah, my dad used to say, what would he say to us?
01:15:30.720
He would say, oh, you got to always love your mother.
01:15:35.580
Because, yeah, I think no matter, sometimes even what our moms do to us or they don't do
01:15:39.860
to us or provide or don't they, the simple fact that they went through all that is pretty
01:15:47.080
Because a woman even, like, you know, women, you know, they get a little bit, they really,
01:15:51.260
a lot of their aging happens when they have a child.
01:15:54.100
Yeah, the child takes, and that's why it's like.
01:15:58.280
And that's why, like, you know, that's why I say love is powerful and I think can be measured
01:16:02.620
because it's like the kid, you know, what it does to a woman's body and how much it changes
01:16:08.260
The only way that you don't remove it from your life, because you could, all you could do
01:16:14.100
But the only reason, like, you know, like a bug, you know, you have no attachment to
01:16:17.380
But a bug's a living thing, like a child's a living thing.
01:16:21.840
Love is the energy that keeps that, keeps it together and keeps your child alive in the
01:16:27.620
You know, of course, it's nurturing and food and all that, but it's really love.
01:16:30.900
If you don't have love, if you didn't love it, you'd just walk away from it and the
01:16:39.760
People leaving their babies out on doorsteps out in the cold, whatever they do.
01:16:48.700
I wonder if they, you know, I thought about this a couple years ago, if they would have
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an app that would, you could find someone you wanted to start a family with.
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And it was just on that, like, you know, I want to meet somebody to have a kid.
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But to see, like, you know, how do we live close enough?
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How would we, you know, would this person be a loving enough person to have a child with?
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I mean, I guess in some ways, you know, I mean, you're not sharing it with the person,
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They said, you know, because I got a doctorate degree.
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Probably, but I told them, like, I don't want to be notified.
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No, but my point is, is, like, what you just said.
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It's like, when you donate your sperm, like, women are out there that are, like, you know,
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maybe they're a lesbian couple, or maybe they just don't want a man in their life,
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Dude, she looked at my profile, if someone did pick.
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Dude, I would only donate a little bit of sperm to them.
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I'm gonna go there this year, I think, to New York.
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I'm rocking trench coats usually 12 months out of the year
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This actually is going to come out February 7th.