E395 Sal Vulcano
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 55 minutes
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206.61331
Summary
Impractical Jokers star Sal Volcan joins Jemele to discuss his journey to sobriety, how he got his start in the entertainment industry, and how he s found his passion for the game of baseball.
Transcript
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Today's guest is, well, we're not going to go too much into his history when he and I talk.
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And if you don't know him, I'll just tell you now.
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He's from Impractical Jokers, the television program heading into its 10, number 9 or 10 season.
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And they've just, I mean, it's an American staple.
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If you don't like it, your cousin does or your grandmother does.
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And he's part of that group, him and three of his friends.
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I went on his Impractical Jokers cruise a few years ago.
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He has two podcasts, one called Hey Babe with Chris DiStefano.
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And another one called Taste Buds with Joe DeRosa.
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For me to set that parking brake and left myself on my eyes.
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I mean, I'm always, you know, trying to get better, man.
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I've been leaning back into my sobriety program, so that's been helping me.
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It's almost like whenever you see that baseball player and he has his foot on the back.
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You start to lead and then the IRS kind of checks the bag.
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I get to have like a whole new walk of like socializing and meeting people.
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Feel what it's like to be in a smaller environment.
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Your move there was your first move there, right?
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Like you weren't familiar with it prior to that?
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It's kind of – I can't even believe I did it.
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I mean, I know I wanted to save tax money and then I always wanted to live there.
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It's just – you know, it's not LA or New York, so it's just smaller.
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Are you limited though with being able to work out and do spots and stuff like that?
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And there's no like produced – there's no like bar or produced shows or anything like
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There may – I don't think there's a big scene for them.
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So when you're there for like weeks at a time, are you just going to Zanies every night
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So you can kind of go – they have an open mic night or I'll do my own night.
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But it's like kind of – yeah, it's – that's the tough part is keeping the comedy going.
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During the pandemic, it didn't matter because a lot of places weren't open anyway.
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But this keeps you probably sharp, especially the one that you do – when you just do it
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I mean, for me, really, comedy, I got to be on stage.
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Like some people, they're more – they write the stuff and if it's a good – but I got
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But like then if I haven't done – what I'll do is if I haven't done – during the pandemic,
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Because it was just easier to get back into it after that long.
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So I was like, I have a reference point any time I blank because I was getting back up and
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Yeah, the worst is like the other night I did a show and I got to the end of the show
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and I almost wanted to run back out there because I forgot to do one of the best bits.
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I think that was in – I think that was in Midland, Texas, man.
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But yeah, is it hard to separate like – do you find a tough time like doing stuff for
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your show and then like getting into a different brain for comedy or not really?
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But what kind of gets tricky is like when I'm going to tour with the guys and like I'm
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So – but I can't – I usually don't tour at the same time.
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I can but like really it's for like – because I can't sell tickets in the same market for
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So if one of them goes – like usually they take – the big one takes precedent.
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And then when that's kind of through, I'll start mine or at least like six months into
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it, I'll start the dates that were six months before it.
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But since the pandemic, we didn't have our fifth tour written yet and I had mine.
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And I had to cancel my tour from before the pandemic.
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That's stressful too because we don't do – write comedy the way that we would
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So we got to do this like whole different process.
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But they'll put up the sales, the tickets, before we even have a joke written.
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This is like the fifth tour like over 10 years that that's happening.
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And every two years when we're in this phase, I get like chest pains, like all the stress
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Because it's so nerve-wracking to have people buying tickets to a show that you haven't
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Well, I mean it's – I think it's nice because it says something about that you want to show
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You know, you want to actually show – you know.
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I know, but – I mean, you know, it's different too with other people.
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Yeah, I'm sure that it's a totally different energy out there.
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Yeah, I know whenever you said you came in, you were taking your medicine, you said you
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Yeah, I started like – I guess it's got to be at least six months now.
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I can feel that shit climbing up and down my cerebellum at night, bro.
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Wellbutrin, I was doing – I started doing kind of some weird – like a little bit of
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like – not weird stuff, but I like couldn't – I wasn't doing good.
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A couple people I know were on it, so I was trying to tackle two things with my doctor.
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One was the anxiety and depression, and the other one was my ADHD and OCD.
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So he's like, both of those could affect the other in some ways, and we got to treat one
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at a time, because we got to figure out what you react well to and not.
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So he's like, which one do you want to tackle first?
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So I'm like, I've been living with ADHD and OCD forever, so I didn't even know I had it
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And then I realized, oh, you don't have to live this way.
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I just thought it was normal to not remember anything, to have shit race into my mind at
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All that stuff, that's the way I always can't focus on anything, but it's the way I've always
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And then I had a really good friend tell me that he had all that stuff, and he gave me
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But he was like, I'm telling you, you don't have to live this way at all.
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So I went, and I got a ... Years ago, I went, and when he gave me that book, and I said,
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So I took a test, and they put straps on my wrists, ankles, and head.
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Did you ever take ... You ever did anything like that, ADHD or anything?
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So I go in this little room, and they sit me in front of a computer, and they say, all
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right, take the mouse, and they're like, you're just going to, for like 20, 25 minutes,
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you're going to sit in here, and you're going to watch the screen.
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And when you see a shape, click on the shape or whatever.
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So I was like, oh, yeah, all right, well, I guess.
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I went in there 20 minutes, and I'm seeing a triangle.
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And I started to get worried, because I'm like, I'm acing this.
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Like, they're going to tell me I don't have this shit.
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And I'm here because I'm at my wit's end with it, and they're about to tell me I don't
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I thought I got 100, and then they came in, they took the thing, they took the print
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out, they came back, they assessed me, and they go, you have severe ADHD.
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I don't know if it was measuring my fidgeting, but I don't know how that's.
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So then they tried to give me, what's that stuff that, like, hyper-focuses you?
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They gave me a time-release Adderall, 20 milligrams, whatever it is.
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It's like that, what is that, okay, Blue Pill, you know?
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Oh, no, the future is just a game show with just people, just all the issues are drug names.
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And I said, you know, I don't really like taking any kind of drugs.
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Like, you're going to have to just take it on days.
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Dude, so the first night came, and I was like wired all day.
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And I was like, I'll be to sleep in a little while.
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I stayed up all night, cleaned the house, was scrubbing shit.
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And then I started, like, my heart was beating on my chest.
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But then I was like, oh, that's love right there.
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No, she's like, you want to go to the hospital?
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I'd be like, bro, you got to come spend some time with me.
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And he'd be like, you're probably going to be fine, dude.
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Well, then I started tripping in circles because I'd be like, I'd finally start to fall asleep.
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I'd be like, fuck, I got to wake this dude up in an hour, bro.
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Yeah, now I got to stay up to wake this fucking creep up.
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And then I thought I was going to fall asleep that night.
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And I'm like, all right, someday, the next day, I'm going to crash.
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And then when I was getting on the Wellbuter, I was talking to my doctor now, who I trust way more, who is like my childhood.
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And he was like, whoever gave you that gave you the wrong dose, the wrong kind, the wrong everything.
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He's like, that could be effective for you, but not in that way.
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So he's like, let's start with the anxiety and depression because that was really predominant coming out of the couple of years that we had and all that stuff like that.
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I didn't feel nothing, but he said it'll take a few weeks.
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I still like, you know, sometimes can't get out of bed.
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Or still like, you know, I wake up and go to bed to my mind racing and worrying all day long about shit.
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It's almost like I can kind of like, it's not as frequent and not as severe.
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I feel like it kind of puts like bumpers on things.
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You're still bowling and the balls are still, every ball is still going right in the thing all morning.
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I remember I was trying to decide on something to do and I got into some like loop and I couldn't get out.
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And when I would make a decision, my brain would serve the same issue back to me.
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And so, yeah, just that medicine I had a bad reaction to.
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So, right now I'm just on a low dose Lexapro right now.
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Thankfully, I've never been really great sexually.
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I'll take them 700 milligrams of Zoloft right to the head of my penis.
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slipping off and stuffing pills up their wiener.
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they're not stupid, the people that make these things.
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let's see some information on suppositories here.
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And so I remember being like getting that defensiveness for my sister.
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like coming at the doorway and shutting the light.
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And what they create and how to use medicine can get into your body.
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A suppository is another way to deliver a drug,
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small round or cone shaped object you put in your body,
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let's put this up your ass instead of just like swallow this.
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they might not have had as much science as to how quick things need to get
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one of the colons like will really absorb stuff real fast.
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Cause I think they pull all the vitamins and stuff out of your body.
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it's a Royal rumble down there and they're pulling out all the vitamins.
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this will get the quickest into the bloodstream.
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King Henry II was wounded in a jousting accident.
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his doctors used a rectal suppository to keep the king alive.
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We have to swallow so fast for it to get down to your butt anyway.
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1897 glycerin suppositories in 1897 cocoa butter suppositories began to be mixed with water,
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At the end of the world war two suppositories began being made with hard,
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The whole point was to make the suppository experience easier and more comfortable.
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the benefit of suppositories were known long before the 21st century,
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but low quality capsules and liquids have given rise to the demand for suppositories.
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When a liquid or capsule supplement reaches the stomach,
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stomach acids will largely destroy the nutrients through the digestion process.
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less than 10% of the capsule or liquid supplement will be absorbed in the bloodstream.
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we're going to beat the stomach and go straight to the butt.
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I thought you just put it in and forget about it.
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I thought you just put it in and it dissipates or melts.
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She might have a couple of loose in there that we,
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you put it in and then it just like when you swallow something,
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we all might have a few in us that we don't just banging around.
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you go half inch for infants and one inch for adults.
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you can expect a bowel movement within 15 minutes to an hour.
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So you're not just putting the actual pill in your ass or whatever it is.
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it's not just a pill that will then just like how we take vitamins or whatever.
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Did you ever think that you'd be on medication?
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Are you just never really gotten introduced to it the right way?
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Like the world we live in is fucked up by prescription medication.
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maybe I'll just be depressed a little bit and then maybe not have diarrhea and maybe,
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Because a buddy of mine couldn't stop putting on hats.
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I have a friend who just couldn't stop putting on hats.
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I didn't know how a tampon worked for most of my life.
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because I just thought you put the whole thing in there.
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like those braces or somebody that has like a bad jaw.
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I thought they had a little bit more of a template going on there.
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there's nails that you put into the wall that they,
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I thought like you put it in there and the plastic like opened up and I was like,
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it literally is just like a cotton ball at the end of a string.
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It should come with a little sign they put on their leg.
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I don't imagine if every once a month you ate a really bad chicken sandwich,
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say it got lodged into your bowels and started flapping its wings,
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It's like my friend's daughter used to work at a chicken sandwich.
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my friends owned a chicken sandwich place and his daughter used to work there.
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And she told me that one time and it blew my mind.
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imagine if you had a really bad chicken sandwich and then it got once a month
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and it got lodged in your bowels and started flapping its wings.
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she might have firsthand knowledge of a bad chicken sandwich.
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I had a friend who ate a Starbucks sandwich and he couldn't,
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Man can't see after a Starbucks sandwich or something like that.
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he hadn't been able to see since he had this fucking sandwich.
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That's the most insane thing I've ever heard in my life.
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I don't know how much it costs you to do the thing to do the what's it
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there's certainly been people that have had things happen and what they
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He gets coffee spilt on him and they give him a free coffee for life.
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what sense would you lose if you had to lose one?
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Cause you could always just guess what's happening.
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you can just play your favorite song in your head.
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I know someone who was born without a sense of smell.
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You think it helps him or do you think it makes things,
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I guess in that way you don't know what you're missing.
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It's cause it's things that are a sensory experience,
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if you just took a shower and you were cologned up or something like that.
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he might not even fall in love with you and you might have the best pheromones out there.
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coffee in the morning or bacon cooking or garlic for a spaghetti sauce or something like that.
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When you know that somebody gave a fuck enough in the,
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I went to one a while back and they had the roller thing or the spinning wheel went through.
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we're like your centrifugal force kept you on a thing.
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and then it would lift up and some of them would tilt and shit.
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but that just spin around and just see your whole equilibrium.
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And that's the one where people would throw up and just,
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And then you ain't getting out of there at all.
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The guy in the middle was always playing rock and roll.
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So me and you are sitting together to maybe two behind us.
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but it goes up and down in a circle and it starts going faster and faster.
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so what happens is the person on the outside gets fucking crushed,
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I always thought it was something like the snow storm or the avalanche or
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and all these things are always under the shadiest LLCs because these things
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the zipper was the scariest one and people would,
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people were just getting so sick on that and rattled.
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that's when those things are flipping and sliding.
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I don't even understand how anyone would want to go on that.
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they just pull up with like the trucks and they open them up and they'd start building that shit,
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You said like the LLCs and the people running them are just drug addicts,
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I've seen one where the truck was like losing balance.
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you see like they're on the swings and then you just see someone launch off the swings.
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how does that not close the swings down for life?
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Like the guy tried to light his shoes on a plane.
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People are being launched from those swings like every few days.
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I think there's part of you that wants to see that.
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you want to almost get thrown again to see how far you can go.
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What percentage of people die from a carnival accident?
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You don't percentage of people die out of the people on the earth.
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It's going to be low or people that get into the accidents.
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How often would someone get into an accident on this thing?
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how likely are you to get into an accident on this?
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But got carnival ride accidents occur more than we think.
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They had a Meadowlands fair and it was the biggest one in our area.
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I had a Frankie Edgar who was in my dream last night.
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he was pound for pound the best baby out there.
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they would put the glass bottles on the shelves and you could just launch them and try all plates.
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And what happened was he threw a baseball as hard as he could,
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but it hit the wood underneath the thing and just came flying back at us at nearly the same speed.
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And that baby now is Adam Frazier who plays for the Seattle Mariners guys.
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but like a baseball definitely disrupted its flow in there.
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I don't know if it got like clipped or anything,
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I'm sure every time it sees like a solar eclipse,
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I'm sure you can't get a suppository in it after that.
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so what it says is like pay a dollar and go behind this thing.
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the wolf man or the small world's smallest horse.
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and I don't know how I feel about the whole thing.
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It's social and she's getting paid hopefully well,
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the air around it is that it was like a freak show in a way.
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And what a better deal you got once a year you paid,
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you kept the image with you throughout the year.
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And she was sitting in a rocking chair knitting.
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they might close the front and then that's just her house.
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it probably takes him a little over a second to get a snack.
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he hasn't experienced the joys of the world's smallest woman.
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you put it in one hand and then punch it with the other.
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but is an Indian actor's notable being the world's shortest living woman.
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So she might've just not entered in the contest.
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I do remember we did a funeral for him one day.
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and we put flowers out into the ocean and stuff.
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did you have a mini life within that hundred days?
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There was people from like different countries on there.
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I got a scholarship from the school itself from the semester at sea.
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what route does he take to make the least amount of time?
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so traffic patterns and shit like that grid patterns.
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So I think I was really kind of fascinated about that.
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I liked looking at what it was like if people had a yard or didn't have a yard,
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So they have like space between them and like people knowing what they're doing.
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I started college in 17 and they asked you to pick a major.
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was money like a big influence for your parents?
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Of course you don't see yourself going back to dumbest question.
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Besides the people and besides the relationships I forged college for me was a complete waste,
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basketball and baseball and grammar school was bad.
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so that our school got a basketball team for the first year and I was in seventh grade.
01:16:07.480
And so everybody made varsity and everybody else who didn't make it automatically,
01:16:15.940
And so my friend's mom volunteered and she volunteered and she just was like learning basketball with us.
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we're going to play these kids that are definitely like,
01:16:52.140
these kids are all going to be from like urban areas.
01:17:08.280
And then after you'd line up in the middle of the thing to kit hands and like,
01:17:13.100
We used to play at the Catholic union organization with the CYO.
01:17:27.780
And they were screaming and yelling and everything.
01:17:44.720
And then we had to go up the steps together to go to like the,
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the like common area to have like our Capri suns.
01:17:50.180
And we were going up the stairs and it was screaming.
01:17:52.100
It was bellowing in the hallways and they were screaming that it's 44 zip zip.
01:18:14.600
we were part of the awards dinner at the end of the season.
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I got up and I took the trophy in front of everyone.
01:19:25.480
We never really heard much about his child life,
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what was the worst thing you probably did in school?
01:19:54.000
Like always when we had school functions on stage,
01:20:15.660
Like I would get like a pad and feverishly write down like the things they said,
01:20:22.500
then I would memorize that and I would have an impression.
01:20:25.700
I would do George Jefferson and word got out in the school.
01:20:33.300
Sal will get up and do the George Jefferson scenes.
01:20:46.880
If she's out there and she's watching and we know that she is,
01:21:22.280
So one time she was coming down the steps and it was in between,
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between classes and we would just mind our own business.
01:21:27.560
I was sitting on the steps and she turned to one row of steps and she was on
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And then she gave me a detention and she wrote it on there in quotes,
01:22:01.280
Like you screamed at me to get off the steps so rudely.
01:22:14.860
Everybody you've spoken about on this podcast so far has died.
01:22:19.360
I think it's the fourth person you spoke about that has died.
01:23:17.280
She must've done something I was going to tell you.
01:23:32.700
he would sleep in the trunk of his car at lunch.
01:23:35.900
really trunk of his car and fucking sleep in it.
01:23:41.480
He just didn't mind much that no one saw him or anything.
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It just was like some weird habit he had or something,
01:23:45.980
maybe something of growing up he used to do or his family did.
01:23:56.040
I remember once I was cheating on a test in his class and my cheat sheet fell on the floor
01:24:34.980
there was one point where this eighth grade teacher,
01:24:38.240
She was also a gym teacher that became an eighth grade teacher.
01:24:58.460
I luckily she was gone by the time I got to eighth grade,
01:25:00.840
but she was doing a proctoring and exam and she caught someone and she took
01:25:08.460
she grabbed him by the neck and pushed him against the cinder block wall like
01:25:28.820
whatever had a nun like tell him to put his hands out and wailed him on the
01:25:52.400
He took his metal lunchbox and slammed her in the face with it.
01:25:58.120
And then my grandmother said she deserved every fucking bit of that.
01:26:06.400
Can you imagine that's hitting a nun in the face with a metal lunchbox,
01:26:29.500
and it almost doesn't even matter what people do.
01:26:40.280
We didn't know when kids in the class were autistic.
01:26:50.900
I remember I got in learning disabled for a little while.
01:26:55.420
a little while when I was in third grade and back then,
01:27:18.260
I got a bunch of messages like telling me about autism.
01:27:30.240
I just saw a bunch of messages at once that were about autism.
01:27:49.440
we were doing press and we went on the morning show with Kelly Ripper.
01:28:12.560
I had booked it up completely and you were like,
01:28:47.280
And you have to get arrive at like six 50 in the morning and for the morning show.
01:28:57.580
can you please find an office for me to lay down in?
01:29:14.740
Have you ever watched Regis and Kathy Lee when they were little,
01:29:19.620
they just take a phone call and someone in the audience.
01:29:22.140
And if the person in the audience answers correctly,
01:29:25.240
like a trip or like a something big every morning,
01:29:30.800
So they asked the lady a question and it's easy,
01:30:06.600
Then Denzel Washington comes out next and he's in the movie,
01:30:23.420
I'm going to go three ways with you on the trip.
01:30:27.340
You know how you always need stories on these things.
01:30:30.420
So I'm laying there like half sick and I'm like,
01:31:00.100
I wrote magnificent savant S E V A N and magnificent.
01:31:09.020
And what I'll do is they'll immediately see my shirt and be like,
01:31:13.920
I just thought that you and Denzel needed help promoting the movie.
01:31:18.520
so I just want to support and help you guys anyway.
01:31:21.860
And then I thought they would pick on how I misspelled it.
01:31:28.920
I'm wearing his Hanes t-shirt that has a marker on it.
01:31:31.940
And they call us out and we go out and people are cheering.
01:31:36.160
And we go to sit down and right before we sit down,
01:31:40.540
I just want to let everybody here know just off the top.
01:31:42.960
I'm not going four ways on the trip with the woman.
01:31:56.720
then I sat down to the interview and nobody mentioned the shirt,
01:32:13.320
And then I sat down and my shirt was handmade and misspelled and nobody
01:32:38.080
I'm trying to think if I had like a real good thing like that,
01:33:03.040
like once a lot of guys quit going to like the tonight show and stuff like
01:33:06.540
you didn't really do that much of that type of thing.
01:33:34.140
there was something I was going to tell you about.
01:33:50.740
did they try and think about bringing somebody else in?
01:33:53.480
they asked us what we wanted to do and we just thought about like a hundred different permutations
01:33:58.320
for it and just landed on the fact that we didn't want to replace him because that person
01:34:08.420
right now we're bringing in a guest each episode to just help out with the,
01:34:11.980
but it's like people that we know that we're really psyched and interested to get on.
01:34:30.620
the last nine episodes that we started before the pandemic.
01:34:38.580
And then in two weeks we've been writing season 10 and in two weeks we start filming season 10 and we'll do a,
01:34:44.900
we short in the episodes and we're going to do 18 because I want to kind of have six months on,
01:34:57.980
We do a cold open with them and a couple of interstitials.
01:35:05.520
we made it so that we can bring anybody we want at all.
01:35:11.200
we could bring anyone like from a comedian friend to our family to literally like the,
01:35:17.020
we said the halal guy outside our office and we started doing that.
01:35:46.820
it's our reputation and the show's been on so long and I,
01:35:54.400
we said we would do the show until we like stopped having fun,
01:36:14.960
the pandemic made us have to rethink how we did everything.
01:36:18.240
So we did a whole season in a pandemic when we couldn't even go up to anybody.
01:36:23.520
we're always trying to push and change and evolve it and stuff like that.
01:36:29.220
Like we don't just go back and do the same bits we did.
01:36:34.840
they put in the earpiece and have to do and say what they're told.
01:36:38.040
That's the most simple way to explain the show.
01:36:42.680
And it was a lot of the show when we first started,
01:36:50.620
we create so many scenarios and games and situations and like,
01:36:54.060
that aren't even beholden to doing and saying what you told.
01:37:29.760
we're always switching who we're doing it with.
01:37:43.480
and then we were so focused on getting the new formula to work and then getting
01:37:47.260
these energy from these people that came on as guests that like,
01:37:50.880
that kind of like filled like a little bit of like what would be,
01:38:18.620
I remember the first time I ever hung out with you guys was at,
01:38:21.160
in Nashville at like the wild west comedy festivals years ago.
01:38:52.020
It just blew my mind as to how much fun could be had by a group.
01:38:57.740
I think that's what it's always been for a lot of people.
01:39:19.700
I think once I got comfortable enough with the therapist,
01:39:22.340
I'm going twice a week right now and going to a lot of meetings.
01:39:28.840
even just being able to sit here and laugh with you.
01:39:43.360
I think I was trying other things than like maybe my recovery program to make me feel better.
01:40:29.360
I'm someone who's fluctuated in weight my whole life.
01:40:41.800
and it's a journey there and I stay there for a while and I slowly go back up and back down.
01:40:46.280
Kind of everything with you kind of has like a little bit of a game show element.
01:40:53.260
I know you probably know this and people say this stuff,
01:41:07.440
I know that I'm not like I'm on the East coast,
01:41:14.320
I got in this negative place where I felt just like really isolated and I was isolating
01:41:31.260
you don't know what happens when your life gets busy and when things change for you.
01:41:34.460
Like I remember one time we're at some party and you had tried to not have a manager for a while.
01:41:51.780
So you don't need an agent or even today people are like,
01:42:03.540
I got to a point where I needed to get some help.
01:42:08.580
you kind of need someone to fight those battles,
01:42:14.720
the way to everyone's DIY these days and building their own audiences and stuff.
01:42:18.300
I think now like it's shifting what you would need,
01:42:30.180
I wanted to get to one or two of them real quick from some listeners,
01:42:43.360
have you ever got swung on in Impractical Jokers?
01:43:05.480
you're going to come across a person that already is like that in their
01:43:11.540
all of us have been a couple of times each in situations where one time I
01:43:14.780
was at the car show at the Jacob Javits center and I was working for
01:43:20.920
this guy and his girl walked up and they kept saying like,
01:44:30.280
But Murray got slapped in the face hard with a guy's cell phone.
01:44:46.120
It'll like have like half of an autumn and you're like,
01:44:50.420
and truly I'm like cereal and like all that shit.
01:45:03.500
And Murray is the guys talking and they have bins.
01:45:08.440
And I guess the guy's standing there and the bin in front of Murray has bras.
01:45:21.780
And then he puts up the guy and the guy just whipped him out.
01:45:27.980
And he just looked at Murray and started to go at him.
01:45:30.640
And then Murray ran and he started chasing Murray,
01:45:56.560
We had to shut it down immediately because we didn't know if that was a true threat.
01:46:15.960
I remember hiding at my buddy's house in his hamper and smelling his fucking mom's bra.
01:46:43.040
And I wouldn't know if he were on his death bed or something like that,
01:47:02.160
Today's I've got a question and it's what's the poorest thing you've done.
01:47:09.440
I used to wash my car at the petrol station with the little windscreen wiper.
01:47:32.880
I don't know if it's the poorest thing I've done,
01:47:34.200
but one thing when I was older and I started working at a college,
01:47:37.320
I was working at Prudential Securities and they had a cafeteria.
01:47:48.940
What I would do is I would go get a large Dixie cup and cap for a fountain
01:47:54.000
But then I would go to the chicken tender station and I would stuff the Dixie
01:48:02.160
put the straw and go and pay like a dollar 19 for the cup instead of $7 for
01:48:13.500
And I would go and steal those chicken fingers at like every other day,
01:48:19.100
like I was always so nervous that they were going to like,
01:48:36.500
like my salary at high school at a college was 28,000 a year.
01:48:42.900
I remember one time we had a rental car and we got an accident.
01:49:18.840
commandeer a chicken on the show and it was shit.
01:49:34.180
Joe used to have a parrot that would attack me.
01:49:48.480
maybe you can get something you can get used to,
01:49:51.060
that was the first time I was ever handling a chicken.
01:50:03.600
I think when I see some of the meats on entree list,
01:50:06.460
this motherfucker don't deserve to make it up here in the top five.
01:50:39.740
we didn't even get to talk really about the cruise that I came on with.
01:51:18.980
Especially now that I'm starting to feel a bit better.
01:51:22.680
it's been hard for me to go be a guest just because also you,
01:51:54.560
30 cities up right now and I'm adding all the time on my website.
01:51:59.420
Vegas is one that I just announced that I'm excited about to get going.
01:52:21.660
You guys can check it out and go check out Sal in person,
01:52:25.200
any way you get Sal Volcano is a great way to get him.
01:52:34.140
Now I'm just floating on the breeze and I feel I'm falling
01:52:53.940
but it's gonna take a little time for me to set that parking brake and let myself
01:53:32.840
And now I've been moving way too fast on a runaway train with a heavy load of my
01:53:46.900
they're worn so thin that they're damn near gone.
01:53:57.040
a podcast where I'll be sharing thoughts on things like current events,
01:54:27.440
Anyone who doesn't listen to Kite Club is a dodgy bloody wanker.
01:54:33.500
I'll take a quarter pounder with cheese and a McFlurry.
01:54:52.580
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