E530 Bobby Lee
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 40 minutes
Words per Minute
184.6931
Summary
Comedian Bobby Lee joins Jemele to discuss his new album, The Irish Bunch, and what it means to be a "boiled egg." Plus, he tells the story of how he almost killed a woman at a strip club.
Transcript
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And you know him from Tiger Belly and Bad Friends and from all of his entertainment contributions
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Very fortunate to hang out today with Mr. Bobby Lee.
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And I will find a song I've been singing just before.
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What you said to those girls I was with last night?
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Like what you did to those girls last night I was with?
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I was going to say you look like my science teacher, Mrs. Hayes.
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At the comic store and you walk up and you say something like, hey, you like hang out with
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That's like, you go up there and you go, pop, pop, pop, pop, right?
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I wasn't trying to like throw you under the rickshaw or whatever.
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I thought a boiled egg was like important in y'all's community or whatever.
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I mean, a boiled egg is important in many communities.
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Yeah, a potato is just a fucking gay boiled egg.
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And she'll probably never see me again because of the boiled egg comment.
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I'm not going to write it down, but I'm going to show you this.
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Do you think I kinetically know where the fuck this place is?
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I'm in the car driving like, I don't know where this place is.
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Well, last week you go, bro, I need podcast guests next week.
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Also, I don't know if you've heard, but I'm bi.
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That doesn't concern you because apparently you were joking here.
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Well, when you said I'm down, I'm like, is he showing up to podcast?
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Yeah, I should have said, I will do your podcast.
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But even if you thought that, you would go, no, dude, I was just kidding.
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Like your ears would ring when you got around a gay dude or something, you know?
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I think, um, but yeah, I didn't know if you were coming to pod or coming to let me poke
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I think that we've known each other for so long.
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I don't think that we would ever poke, even if we had, even if there was sexual attraction.
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So if we both had sexual attraction with each other.
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I don't think that you would find me attractive.
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There was like a big sinkhole and all the women were there.
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No, like a big like clothing sail or jewelry sail.
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They're all just on a gigantic ship with a sail.
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We don't use that type of language on the ship.
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And also another thing I want to say, because I have a lot of gripes.
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Yeah, I threw a plum to a handicapped guy or something.
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I don't think I've ever thrown a baseball in my life.
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What about throwing like a hot bow or something?
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But something happened where, you know, a lot of times you and I share the same people,
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But you've tapped into a fan base that doesn't like me that much.
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They have Hannah tattoos on their necks, right?
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They look at me like, at the store last night, they were like, giving me like, you know what
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If Theo is the Beatles, I'm definitely Yoko Ono.
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Like, I'm a part of the ecosystem of the Beatles or whatever.
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I'm like, we call, we're friends, you know what I mean?
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Really, I feel like everywhere I go, everybody wants to ask me about you.
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It could be anybody, construction workers, people inside of a building.
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It could be somebody that's a businessman, a woman at a counter.
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Everywhere I go, hospitals, people are like, oh, tell me.
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At hospitals, you're saying, so the construction workers, the nurses, the hospitals, are they
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all Asian because I just, you just made a voice.
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I know, I understand that, but are they all Asian fans or just are they whites too?
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Because when you did the accent, it wasn't clear.
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Tell me about what you know about the Bobby Lee.
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Every time I meet somebody, they're like, tell me about him.
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You're like one of those little head dolls that comes in that box, what are those things called?
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So they ask as if I'm something that you could buy.
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If you mass produce me, then you can make money.
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Like that little cat that's for magic at the Korean salon or whatever you're talking about.
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No, those henna tattooed, you know, gypsy witches that like you now.
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It's like she's like a creature that's like half like a.
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She's almost like something that happens at midnight for 40 minutes, you know?
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If you have to do this with a girl, do you think the vagina's too big or no?
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Yeah, you've been in some coochie tunnels, I'll say that.
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Do you like the ones that stick out or you like tucked?
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I kind of like the ones like that look like they have a little bit of lip liner on them.
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When one lip is sticking out and one's tucked in, right?
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I don't like if there's too much bon, you know?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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When's the last time you hooked up with a girl?
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What we don't know is I think that you are very picky.
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And every time we, and rarely do we do this, make beautiful love.
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She goes, yeah, when I was, you know, eight years ago, yeah, I hooked up with Theo.
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Oh, so you don't believe that you did hook up with her?
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You don't talk about somebody with aorta issues or whatever, huh?
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Like, somebody just like stroking for distance.
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It's sort of like, you know, when in the Olympics, they do the breast stroke.
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But if you slowed it down and they, you know what I mean?
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I remember I almost made love to a Korean woman one time years ago.
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It was almost like, do you ever get really strong chopsticks or whatever, and you can't
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Bring up an Asian mermaid or something beached Asians or whatever.
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Because if there were, they'd probably eat their own because they love sushi.
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This dude will swim through West Hollywood, brother.
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Like, we're going fishing next week up in Oregon, actually.
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People want to see you in more places, but you don't like leaving home as much.
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In fact, like, I'm going up to Vancouver on the 12th, and I'm doing it with Segura.
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And Segura's like, well, can you do the day before and then the day after, too?
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Because I'm playing Eugene in some place in Colorado.
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Just truth of the matter is, is that I like doing stand-up in spurts.
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Like, I see, like, Santino and all these guys, they're all addicted to the, you know,
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And it's like, I've just never been addicted to that dopamine hit.
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And I don't know how you do it, because every time I'm online, I see you, you're in Australia
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But I just never had that addiction to it, you know?
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I think because of the fact that, like, early on, I had just so much trauma from it.
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Like, one time I was at, it's a casino gig in New Jersey.
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I don't know what it was, but it was like, and I remember they had this red curtain behind
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Because this is before, I think now, you know, because I have fans that get me, you know
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I mean, and, but before, when I was just on MADtv and stuff, like my fans, they, I mean,
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And so they wanted to see me do, you know what I mean, my catchphrases.
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Like, you know, sometimes I do, or, uh-oh, hot dog, or whatever, right?
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Well, the home is made out of rice paper, aren't they?
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And it's like, yeah, and they could get in quickly.
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They could just run through like the Hulk, right?
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You got, well, I think different cultures should all have their own films.
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So I think that they should be, there should be a castaway, right?
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But instead of him talking to the volleyball, what'd they call him?
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But instead of that, he makes a volleyball factory, right?
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He makes monkeys and stuff work, you know what I mean?
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He could have a couple of stores going and factories going, right?
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Some people say, people aren't saying Asians as much anymore.
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I was in Australia and a lady said, we have a lot of Aseans here.
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I was looking online and I couldn't figure it out.
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You could put a little thing on that says, made in China.
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What's the thing they say when they click the thing?
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I remember seeing one of those for the first time.
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So if she needed to be wicked, she could do it.
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Oh, Whitney would be the Whitney Witch of the West or whatever.
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If you had an Asian poor name, it would be long grain.
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Is, um, you are one of the nicest guys I think I've ever met in comedy.
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I mean, it's, I think, I'll, I'll, can I give you my list?
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Um, I'll talk about women too, but, um, I think aside from you, let's, let's grade them
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Because I'm only going to give you names that are like, nice.
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And he has a new video book that just came out.
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He was just on your podcast about it, wasn't he?
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They have a little bit of thing that makes them not be a 10.
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If she's supposed to be male, then she's doing a bad job.
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For a busy guy, he always tries to communicate and stay tuned.
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But he's also, but he's only, oh my God, I want to get in trouble.
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But, oh God, I just try to edit my, you know, I got to edit my shit now, man.
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But I want to say, I believe if you're in his visual range.
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But I don't think that if you're not in his visual range or in his ecosystem, it's hard
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And there's no way of like, you know what I mean, going, yo, yo, yo, I'm a comic too
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I think he, the people he knows is who he knows.
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And there's, and that fucking roster is filled.
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I think at a certain point you've done all of that.
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And it's like, you only have so much bandwidth.
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And I think it's just, uh, yeah, that's, you know, I don't know if doing a lot of that
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Well, I feel desperate probably for, to be a people pleaser.
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No, because the truth is last night, um, when I was with those two girls, three girls
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you were with, um, no, the other one was a stray.
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She knew that I was going to probably go say hi to you.
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But, um, and I knew that I'm like, yeah, come meet Theo.
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You know, sometimes people are like that where like a girl would go, Hey, can I, Oh, okay.
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So my friend Alan Meadows, I grew up, I went to high school with him.
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He was at the store maybe a month ago and he's, he's never been to the store and he's never,
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he's like, so like, he's one of those high school friends that is just so stoked for you.
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And I, and I, and I, and I, I love this guy and we're at the store and he, and he sees Mark Maron and he goes, can you introduce me?
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And for a split second, I was like, I don't know.
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And Mark was also eating pizza, which I've never seen him do.
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So I feel like if you, you know, you're going to get the real Mark, it's like Bill Burr.
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You're going to get who they are at that moment.
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And I stood on the side and I was like, I need to go home and work right now.
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He just, he's, he is, I mean, he is the best maybe.
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I think he's the best, but there's just something about like me and Andrew were doing Bad Friends.
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I mean, I, he's done Tiger Belly a bunch of times.
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And I'm always like, like, he's one of those guys where it's like, you let him talk.
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I was like, it was almost like a hot chick was there.
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And you're like, at the certain points I couldn't even look at him.
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I just look at my other friend and we're both like supposed to be listening to him.
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He just, and he's also a super nice guy too, which is also rattled.
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Well, I think his material is so like him that.
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There's like something that's intimidating about him, but I don't think he, I don't think
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Because he left and we're all like, oh, dude, were you feeling like.
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The residual of him being there was still around.
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It was like the Wizard of Oz when that storm hit.
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People were like putting their windows back together and shit.
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Maybe he could be the wizard in our Asian Wizard of Oz.
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Anyway, I'm going to tell you something that happened to me the other day.
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But do you think it's because we're intimidated of his talent?
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They're just, I'm going to tell you like we did with the nicest.
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I'm going to tell you who just, in my opinion, when they're around, it has the same vibe.
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You know, have you ever been to this Third Street Promenade?
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So then, you know, I went to this date and I tried to hold her hand in the thing and she
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And afterwards, the Brookstone, well, not Brookstone, what's the bookstore?
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Her Borders books, which Kamala Harris hasn't visited the whole time she's been in office.
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So you know how they have the magazine section?
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So me and her wandered in the, it was just during Christmas.
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And I swear to God, dude, I had, you know, my relationship with that dude is just pound,
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I swear to God, and he goes, this guy right here, one of the funniest in the business.
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But there is a little bit like, I want to watch what I want to say.
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But then there are people that I don't give a shit.
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No, you've just been looking more like kind of put together.
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I feel like, you know, I feel like you're like in your fisherman era.
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And, you know, when I wake up in the mornings, I have a coffee.
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And that was, you know, and then I remember just watching it going, what a sad day for our country, man.
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Like, more nervous than you've ever been in your life?
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And then when he, I gotta know, when he walks in, right?
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Yeah, I had some ideas, but I think I was super nervous.
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And it was like, you ever have, like, a date you're excited for, but you've had a craziest,
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longest week, and it finally, Friday night comes or something, you're like.
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And so it was like, you know, and so I just, and I knew I had a limited amount of time.
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Yeah, but I know it can go fast, and he can get on some, he gets on some tangents, and
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So I didn't, I was like, you have to kind of curtail him a little bit, you know?
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With the clips I've seen, though, I think that you were pretty, you were good.
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I seem to think that, you seem to think that I'm their leader.
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Right, and then I go out to the world, I'm their spokesperson or something.
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I don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
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You're like a smaller, you're like scam Jong-un.
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You know, I think that Kim Jong-un and I come from the same, um, body type.
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Like, if they made a factory of, like, Asians, I'm the same mold as Kim Jong-un and Benedict
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Yeah, that's the era you're in right now, Bobby.
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Yeah, you have very, like, uh, the emperor that inherits the castle type of, you know?
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But I want to say that I don't know if they're, you know, I know Stephen Chung.
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You know, so if you want to ask about Asians and Trump, ask Stephen.
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I don't know what went wrong with him, but, you know.
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Yeah, the Kool-Aid, socialists, all that shit was in there, dude.
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What percent of Asians are supporting Trump, though, do you think?
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With this line of questioning, are you trying to get what my political affiliation is?
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Because, obviously, there are things that I like, you know, I like both sides.
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I just think, um, I mean, I'm in, I'm kind of, I'm in the middle of one side, kind of.
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I think I've always been, I mean, I love the fact that Trump brought over RFK Jr.
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I'm still pissed that the Democrats railroaded Bernie Sanders for an eight.
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That fuck, it's like, is democracy even real in this country anymore?
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I don't even know if all of us are just being, uh, played.
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Yeah, I generally don't like talking about politics, but I'll say this.
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I'll say that one side, you know, um, is more supportive of what I do for a living.
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I think one side is a little more sensitive than the other side.
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I want to go back to the, remember the original question I had?
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And then you were like, oh, I want to go back to that.
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I was going to, I was going to ask you, like, what would you do in that situation?
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And there's a guy, like, right in back of me pumping gas, you know?
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And he looks at me and he goes, he goes, yo, dude, can I get a photo?
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And I, dude, that day, dude, I had went through it.
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I think you just got to respect it because I think it played out like it was supposed to, you know?
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He's like, I don't want a photo with you because, you know what I mean?
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And what he's basically trying to say is, because I wasn't like, yeah!
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When I gave him an organic, like, yeah, dude, I'm, you know, I didn't say this, but it's
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And it's sometimes you have to like, because yeah, I would be like that forever.
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Sometimes I was like, hey, man, I'm having a bad day.
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I'm just trying to work out or little things like that.
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Because you also don't want to interrupt your train of thought sometimes, your imagination
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or whatever, because every time you like, you know, so sometimes that can be a bit
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I wish they had more, I want to say, sex in it.
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I'm telling you right now, if you wanted to, which I know you're not going to want to do
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Like, I know you don't want to talk about it, but...
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I don't want to be a part of something anybody else's thing.
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I understand that, but the test is, and you passed it, I think, is to do a project
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that, like, you have nothing to do with show up and saying other people's words, and, you
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know, you're doing it with real actors and people that are, like, been doing it for years
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and just holding your own and being natural and being good, you know what I mean?
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And so I just wanted to give you those props, you know, because you really did kill it.
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You always do a nice job, man, of saying nice things about people.
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Like, you always do that, where you, like, say something nice about people.
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Because I hate, this business is, dude, back in the 90s, like, I just put out this fucking
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So this right here, I just posted this, is a 1998, okay, original room lineup.
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And when I saw this lineup, I was, it brought me back to that time.
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And in that time in comedy, look at who's in it, they're still around, Schubert's still
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around, Johnny Sanchez, Argus is still around, Dice is still around, Rogan, Brian Holtzman.
00:52:27.620
Yeah, the whole lineup, this is July 4th, July 2nd, 1998.
00:52:34.600
Okay, Jonathan Gottsick, one of the funniest guys I've ever met in my life.
00:52:43.020
I mean, I'm looking at it from 1998, Bobby Lee, but I just remember watching those fools
00:52:50.760
Maybe I've evolved or whatever, but love those guys.
00:52:54.100
They don't get here by not having that in them, I don't think.
00:53:42.860
Dude, I would have like white dudes literally walk up to me and go, hey man, Asians aren't
00:54:12.540
Dude, why does everything have to be in war with you, dude?
00:54:16.400
I'm happy to go over there and fight for you guys.
00:54:21.920
Dude, Vietnam War, you did fight with the South, I think, against the North.
00:54:45.320
Well, you got to give a pamphlet or something whenever you see people.
00:54:57.140
They would write stuff on your car or whatever?
00:55:02.080
Like they would, you know, or graffiti or whatever?
00:55:04.340
They wouldn't do stuff like that, but it would be more like, you know, one time I was- I had
00:55:09.100
a list of jokes I was going to try, and a comic picked that out of my hand.
00:55:16.120
And he goes, seen it, seen it, done it, done it, seen it, seen it, done it, and just handed
00:55:23.760
Just like flat out fucking rude for no fucking reason, because it's like- but now, because
00:55:30.740
of the internet or whatever, it's just like, you can't- you're not- you can't afford to
00:55:41.260
And it's like- and I remember back then going, you know, if I'm ever in a position where I
00:56:12.820
All right, so if I'm about to go up, give me an intro.
00:56:15.580
I'll be like, ladies and gentlemen, this next guy, uh, I'll drop him off at a VFW and see
00:56:28.460
You know him from different places on the internet.
00:56:56.320
It's like, if you do, like, this next guy, clubs and colleges, and just something that's
00:57:05.200
There's no relationship between the two people, right?
00:57:12.340
I remember when I first met this guy, him and I had coffee, and you know what, you personalize
00:57:17.820
And then you get, you give them specific credits.
00:57:21.320
Instead of clubs and colleges, you go, dude, I saw him in an episode.
00:57:24.520
Like, for me, if I brought you up, I'd be like, dude, I did a movie with this guy called
00:57:28.980
And this guy killed it, and everything, you know, and he's killing it on his day.
00:57:35.900
Yeah, to let people know that you have a real relationship.
00:57:39.280
Vietnam, VAW, whatever the fuck you were saying.
00:57:41.960
Whatever you were saying, I wouldn't do that, but, you know.
00:57:45.820
I'm just saying, if I took you to a VFW and dropped you off in there, right?
00:57:58.080
If we dressed you up in, like, a Civil War uniform, I'd drop you off at a VFW.
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During a recent podcast with the comedian Theo Warren, instead of talking about economy
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or immigration or healthcare or the global conflicts, they discussed cocaine addiction.
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So we talked about that and then we talked about why he never drank or smoked.
01:02:37.880
He kind of led on that he thought there could be some tendencies that he could have the same
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So I think he didn't want, you know, he had fear about that.
01:02:45.820
I can't, you know, I don't, do you understand that or no?
01:02:49.340
What, your brother having something you have, you mean?
01:02:52.960
Because I've met like, I remember like Dane Cook was like that.
01:02:58.040
Carlos Mencia for a while was like that too, where I was like, I don't touch that stuff.
01:03:05.880
So, yeah, because I just, I think I don't, I, over time, I don't, my, my natural state,
01:03:11.720
I think, wasn't my favorite throughout my life, probably how I felt.
01:03:15.720
So if I could change that in some way, then I want to do that.
01:03:19.400
So those are the things you change it with either, you know, stuff like that, I think.
01:03:30.280
Any kind, it's like, I, and I'm sober now, and I've, and I've been able to like, kind of,
01:03:36.080
what my therapist says is to like, kind of just identify what you're feeling, right?
01:03:47.620
I never liked depression or sadness or trauma or anything.
01:03:51.500
I, when you, I, I just, I just, it doesn't sit well in my body.
01:03:56.580
So it's like, I always like consume things so that, but it's, you know, but that's more
01:04:09.500
You've been a lot more social, I think, in the past two years, it seems like.
01:04:12.980
Just like trying to stay busy, do more things, right?
01:04:15.420
Like actually put yourself out into situations and stuff.
01:04:18.800
Dude, I think I never, like you said, I didn't ever like having feelings.
01:04:22.800
I, like, no matter how I felt, I felt ashamed of how I felt.
01:04:30.140
Like, it's a lot of times I wouldn't feel good.
01:04:31.720
And this, I'm trying to, I'm not getting into self-pity.
01:04:37.420
And then I would feel ashamed for not feeling good.
01:04:39.980
That's the part that I didn't understand sometimes.
01:04:42.260
Because that made it so hard to, like, figure out the first part, you know?
01:04:51.680
And it just, I just, it just struck me that, I don't want to get too sentimental with you.
01:04:59.940
But there are times where I really believe this, that I feel concerned about you.
01:05:09.800
I just, because I, you know, I, because I don't know really what's going on.
01:05:15.940
You know, I feel like, you know, there was a time where, that we talked more and there was more communication.
01:05:32.480
Well, things have gotten, things have gotten busier.
01:05:35.840
And I think with that rise, right, there's, like, more of a disconnect with your friends because you're so busy and, you know, you're doing other things.
01:05:44.760
But it's, like, I'm always concerned about, like, you know, you know, if you're sober, if, like, is he going to meetings?
01:05:51.980
You know, is he, you know, I mean, talking to people about things that are going on.
01:05:57.580
You know, I, you know, I always feel like things are probably good with you, but it's, like, I have to admit that there is, you know, concern.
01:06:14.420
Yeah, I think, yeah, it's kind of been, I know this is a comedy podcast, but it's, like, you know, I just, I don't care.
01:06:19.300
And I just have to say that because it's, like, because I've seen it.
01:06:23.600
I've seen people rise and then, you know, they get lost.
01:06:28.100
And then also there's people around them that don't necessarily care and they're just in it for the ride.
01:06:33.020
I don't know who you're surrounding yourself with or whatever.
01:06:38.380
But it's, like, there is a concern that, like, you know, maybe, you know what I mean?
01:06:50.740
I mean, I think podcasting makes me feel pretty connected to people, you know?
01:06:54.600
I think me not living here has been, it's been good, but it's also been I don't get to see a lot of people as much.
01:07:03.100
I think, yeah, my sober program hasn't been that good the past month for sure.
01:07:07.920
And so I think really two months, like, or probably the past month.
01:07:12.320
But just, yeah, not being able to, like, you know, it's like I'll work late and so then I don't want to make the morning Zoom meeting
01:07:18.360
or make the, you know, and then I'll get up late and then it's like I try to go to the gym.
01:07:24.460
So just, yeah, I got to touch base with some people.
01:07:36.580
And they're like, Butte, there's nothing to do.
01:07:39.140
And one day I was in my hotel room, there was nothing to do.
01:07:41.980
And I called one of the guys that lives there and I go, can you give me an AA schedule?
01:07:46.560
And I tracked a couple of times all the way this, like, in the boonies.
01:07:51.760
And I walk into the school and, like, there's old white people with oxygen tanks and, like, you know what I mean?
01:07:56.680
And obviously they've never seen an Asian walk into an AA meeting there.
01:08:06.800
So when I walked in, it was just like, Charlie, you know what I mean?
01:08:10.140
You know, they get Vietnam flashbacks, you know what I mean?
01:08:17.380
And when I'm sitting there, right, even though, like, you know, we don't have the same lifestyles that these people, right, you know,
01:08:25.500
at least I can say to myself, like, you know, I'm trying.
01:08:29.180
You know, I'm trying to, like, take care of myself on a daily basis.
01:08:34.860
And, dude, one fucking, I went to a meeting and, you know, because there's only two Uber drivers in Butte.
01:08:43.520
And this guy came, this guy just sitting next to me, he goes, hey, man, my name is Derek.
01:09:04.820
No, it was just like a fan of, you know what I mean?
01:09:09.280
And then he, and then so I get in the car with his wife.
01:09:16.960
They want to watch you fucking throw that little yavulin, man.
01:09:42.220
There's these two dogs that fucking jump on top of us.
01:09:45.100
And then there's these white kids that come out of the room, right?
01:09:51.520
They're, you know, they're just, that's how they, when they wake up.
01:09:55.160
And they're like, yeah, our mommy took us to Missoula and gave us $300 for school clothes.
01:10:10.640
My mom gave me $30 from the time I was age five to the time I was age 18.
01:10:21.500
It sounds like you're, why would you, it sounds like you're wasting your time.
01:10:25.800
What I'm saying is I'm willing to go to like these lengths.
01:10:33.280
I didn't think I was going to get like, imagine if I was in a well in the basement.
01:10:38.880
And you're like, what would you have to throw down?
01:10:49.420
I mean, if you're going to also use it as a beverage, I think it's fine.
01:11:03.440
But, oh, but you don't have a, it depends on how long it takes to grow.
01:11:05.840
Or you could also eat the fingernails that are in the fucking, right?
01:11:23.140
And I would probably, what would I do down there?
01:11:41.860
Imagine, I'm in a wow, and I just go, Edelweiss, Edelweiss, right?
01:12:04.460
I've been hearing there's a lot of drugs in the, uh, in the Asian community.
01:12:11.180
I've been hearing that trank is the big thing in the Asian community.
01:12:21.280
It's like if I said to you, man, I heard there's a lot of shoelaces in the white community.
01:12:32.440
Man, I heard there's a lot of fucking, uh, um, glitter in the black community.
01:12:36.740
I mean, it doesn't make, whatever you're saying, does it, I feel like you're just coming up with Asian shit.
01:12:44.960
You're just like, you're just like, I heard there's a lot of, you know what I mean?
01:12:49.660
Well, no, what I'm saying is, is that, do you, no, I'm so, you make me so mad sometimes, dude.
01:13:10.980
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01:14:11.360
I know what you're talking about, but I'm just saying that's not what it's referring to.
01:14:18.680
So what I'm saying is it's like, you know what I mean?
01:14:21.740
Yeah, I thought it was like, um, trank seems like a Vietnamese or Korean nickname.
01:14:45.880
I understand, but that has nothing to do with Asians.
01:15:30.060
Dude, sometimes people with their own Fentanyl, it's almost as if they're doing yoga, but then they freeze.
01:15:49.420
Because I remember years ago, Vicodin really fucked me up.
01:16:01.260
I swear to God, I think still hates me because of that.
01:16:07.660
No, because I used to have a bowl of Vicodin in my fucking dressing room at Matt TV.
01:16:17.900
And I guess the drummer was dating Drew Barrymore.
01:16:20.940
He was trying to get sober or something like that.
01:16:22.960
But they all ended up going into my room and eating all my pills.
01:16:40.700
You know, it's weird to blame the dealer unless the dealer was like pushing them on you.
01:17:17.460
Well, you know, because you didn't give me your number for a long time.
01:17:29.880
If I was mad at you, I'm very comfortable of going, listen, I have an issue.
01:17:43.740
No, sometimes I feel like it's a little tough to try and get to know you, kind of.
01:17:47.120
But I think it's tough to try and get to know comedians, you know?
01:17:53.040
Yeah, but that being said, I mean, I'm a comedian, right?
01:17:57.460
Everybody loves you so much that it's like you want that guy to know...
01:17:59.880
You want to know that guy better, I think, you know?
01:18:04.800
Out of all the comics I know, I feel like I'm closest...
01:18:26.360
But it's like, you know, we do the best we can with what we have.
01:19:09.600
Or is that one of those guns that starts a race?
01:19:40.080
Yeah, because it seems like a lot of stories you tell have had dating in them.
01:20:07.840
I like some of the girls that I'm dating now, but they're kind of flaky.
01:20:13.320
Like, you know, like, I won't call in on a Thursday, because I know...
01:20:17.820
Because I've said, like, let's go to dinner and hang out, right?
01:20:21.300
And so, then Thursday will come around like, nah, I don't want to do it now or I'm busy.
01:20:45.300
No, I want to be able to find somebody that I fully can confide in and go, this is how I feel.
01:20:52.360
And I want somebody to also give me suggestions or, like, feedback that I kind of honor and respect and go, oh, yeah, that's a good, you know, angle.
01:21:07.560
So to find that combination, you know what I mean?
01:21:12.020
Like, what I find attractive isn't necessarily what you think.
01:21:20.940
The couple of girls I've seen you with over the years are people, I mean, are people that I would be like...
01:21:27.700
I mean, there's this one girl that you used to see that I just thought you should marry, but...
01:21:45.520
I think that you and I have the same kind of issues.
01:21:50.660
And I think that it's hard for us to get really vulnerable.
01:21:54.240
I mean, I had that with Kalilah for 10 years, but she was the first one in many, many years that I could do that with.
01:21:59.740
There's just something about her that I was able to, like...
01:22:07.540
Like, it was hard to, like, be, like, sensual or whatever?
01:22:26.140
But what I want to say is the problem with us, because, number one, we go up on stage, right?
01:22:37.940
The business inherently is super exciting, and there's dopamine hits.
01:22:42.760
I'm going to get a lot of feeling from right there.
01:22:45.020
And so then, also, you and I are also recovering drug addicts, so we like excitement, right?
01:22:56.480
So there is something about meeting somebody new, right?
01:23:00.500
It's almost like you get that, yeah, you get that forgetful syndrome.
01:23:04.580
But at the end of the day, and I've never said this out loud before, and I think I f***ed
01:23:11.680
it up with Kalilah, and I think that I wish I would have done it over again, because that
01:23:17.520
At this point, it's too late, you know what I mean?
01:23:19.880
We both have moved on, but there's a lot of regret there.
01:23:23.860
And I swear to God, dude, I will, the next girl I meet that, you know, and there's a
01:23:34.460
couple of girls that have potential, I'll be honest with you, right now, but the next
01:23:41.320
Number one, I'm going to get rid of all my machines.
01:23:57.500
Dude, I showed up at Bad Friends one day, and somebody had sent me something that, I swear
01:24:03.060
to God, is the size of a vacuum cleaner, right?
01:24:49.620
I swear to God, these new machines, dude, it sucks you in, dude.
01:25:02.100
I know, but I'm going to, I know, but you got to try it.
01:25:12.740
So the vacuum cleaner, I will probably not use again because I almost, I had to grab parts
01:25:17.060
of my penis inside the fucking little filter there, right?
01:25:44.860
How long do you have to stay on it for eight seconds?
01:25:55.260
So the next relationship I have, that's what you do?
01:26:48.460
Yeah, that's, dude, you just hit it on the fucking nail.
01:27:09.920
You know, like, when you're in high school, for instance,
01:27:16.000
And your dad gives you, like, a little pep talk.
01:27:19.860
Also, you know, if you're in trouble, give me a call.
01:27:35.000
If I ask my dad, um, tell me about how you feel.
01:27:43.420
And you're like, what the fuck are you talking about?
01:28:12.600
So he had two major strokes and a couple of many.
01:28:43.800
I go, will you listen to music for the first time?
01:28:50.820
But he doesn't know, he doesn't have a fanfare band or, he doesn't know what Beethoven is
01:29:03.400
My brother, my Steve was there too, my brother.
01:29:13.360
But it was the first time he goes, Dad, beautiful.
01:29:24.020
So he didn't, I didn't, I didn't learn anything from the dude.
01:29:28.840
It feels like you were embarrassed by him for some reason.
01:29:35.000
And, you know, I've told this story before, but not on this, I don't think.
01:29:38.940
Um, when I was, I've told this a couple of times.
01:30:05.500
And, um, when I was eight, I go, um, could I get a cat?
01:30:18.340
We put him in the garage with, like, a little fence thing in the garage.
01:30:23.400
And then over the summer, every day, I just sat with Tommy eight hours a day, however long.
01:30:31.420
And then one day, a couple of months later, three months later, I go to the garage.
01:30:56.420
There was, like, no room for compromise or anything.
01:31:00.620
Like, whatever he's, that's why I hate authority figures.
01:31:10.540
And that was the day where I looked at my parents and I went, okay, it's war.
01:31:25.780
And it's like, that's why, I mean, if I had a kid, I mean, how would you approach that?
01:31:33.160
Your wife is allergic to the fucking, you know what I mean, cat.
01:31:59.920
I don't know where you're going to have an Asian accent.
01:32:54.420
Tommy is going to be at your aunt's house, and you can go play with him in the afternoon.
01:33:05.300
Now, your aunt drinks a lot of wine, and she gets a little handsy with the kids, you
01:33:13.080
Yeah, Daddy, I don't need to know the specifics of, like, what my auntie's behavior is going
01:33:18.300
Is she going to hurt, when she gets drunk, is she going to hurt Tommy?
01:33:21.600
No, she just might love him as much as you do, Chucky.
01:33:23.820
Right, because I know that my cousins have all black eyes, because, you know.
01:33:49.900
But I wish I could just have my own room and stuff.
01:33:51.640
No, we're going to put some treats right out by the door for you, all right?
01:34:16.420
I feel like I've been the worst I've ever been on this show.
01:34:24.720
Dude, you have to understand, Monday I did two hours of Burt.
01:34:29.000
Then I did probably three fucking tiger bellies, which is like over an hour apiece.
01:34:33.720
You talk so much, you just fucking don't know at one point.
01:34:38.660
Dude, you and I have talked, think about it, thousands of hours of nonsense.
01:34:48.300
And there's times where, I'm sorry, you just kind of go, I don't even know what else to
01:34:55.940
That's why we got to have experiences in the world so we can have more stuff to talk about,
01:34:59.320
or we have to talk about people that we can learn stuff from that have had experiences.
01:35:03.460
George is here, my producer from Tiger Bell, right?
01:35:09.440
But, George, dude, it's like, I've talked so much.
01:35:21.360
Yeah, it sounds like something that somebody, it sounds like that guy that killed Elvis.
01:35:49.160
But it's hard to know what she really looked like.
01:35:51.040
But if you're going to travel all the way back in time, you got to smash.
01:35:56.640
I think you'd have an easier time smashing than me.
01:36:19.560
No, no, but I did hear that he was gay, but I don't know that.
01:36:23.660
A lot of my black friends told me that he enjoyed the pleasures of men.
01:36:42.840
It's not really straightened, but he kind of combed the afro.
01:36:50.780
A conch is a hairstyle that was worn by some African-American men between 1940s and early
01:36:55.900
The name comes from the Congolene, a lye-based gel used to chemically straighten or relax
01:37:01.940
Once straightened, people styled their hair into pompadours or wore its slick back.
01:37:06.920
They have, it kind of has a look that maybe Bruno Mars would kind of be.
01:37:15.640
In the Malcolm X book, there's a lot of conch hairstyles.
01:37:19.340
I could see Bruno having it, rocking it, though.
01:37:23.700
Let's look at a couple TikToks and let's get Bobby on the road.
01:37:35.560
Like looking at stuff and then commenting on it?
01:37:39.360
Well, I like to show things that I'm amazed by.
01:38:08.360
Hit me one more off of my faves that I starred.
01:38:15.060
I'm not saying they're taking our jobs, but look at it again, dude.
01:38:36.340
I think I want many in the costume to be a woman.
01:38:46.680
Yeah, but with a Mexican man who looks like the guy that worked for Jimmy Kimmel.
01:39:02.040
This is what you got to do, Bobby, if you're going to meet someone.
01:39:44.580
One time, whenever we do this, we'll both be married.
01:39:49.720
We have to start to believe that, Bobby, because if we don't, dude, then we never will be, man.
01:40:00.020
We can do group vacations, like couple vacations.
01:40:05.680
And then when they're like girls are surfing or doing their little thing, you and I can get together.
01:40:21.980
Now I'm just floating on the breeze, and I feel I'm falling like these leaves.
01:40:32.840
Oh, but when I reach that ground, I'll share this peace of mind I found.