Gary Owen | This Past Weekend #208
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1 hour and 42 minutes
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207.50931
Summary
On this episode of Thick & Thin, the boys are joined by comedian Gary Owen (Think Like A Man) to talk about his new podcast, Get Some, and how he thinks about chiropractic appointments. Also, the guys talk about what it's like to be a chiropractor.
Transcript
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Today's guest is one of America's most loved crossover comedians.
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He's a very funny guy, and I've run into him a couple times recently
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Dude, no, but thank you for your patience, man.
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Dude, you think you look like this just automatically, dog?
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I always think chiropractors scare me because I think they'll fix the problem,
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but then they'll also fuck up something else and you come back, you know, like this.
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All right, my sixth vertebrae is great, but now this third one,
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and I think they do it just a little bit, so we're going to give him eight months.
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And then when he comes back, you know what I mean?
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Yeah, they kind of, yeah, they put something into your bones.
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Yeah, they put something into your bones that, like, oh, well, this will, yeah.
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Nobody's ever gone to a chiropractor and just stopped.
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I want to get them oil changed, and they bring out some filter.
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I've never in my life have I gone and got an oil change when I had shitty cars, and they
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Like, the thing says on the marquee, you walk out of there, it's $60.
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We find a used squirrel in your catalytic converter.
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That's what they used to get my dad with all the time.
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Oh, they had a mouse in your catalytic converter.
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You're not going to be able to travel back in time.
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It's just written on the wall, $200 for time traveling.
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I went in there, and this lady laid me down, too, dude.
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Fuck, I felt Scottish by the time she was back in there, dude.
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Bro, I can feel my grandparents just building up in my cheeks, bro.
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If I go to the dentist, I don't want a dental assistant to be a dude.
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I don't want some nice, soft, female-type shit going on.
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That's, some jobs should not be, when I had my knee surgery, I remember I couldn't, I
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Yeah, just knee surgery, and I couldn't eat until I pissed.
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So, the nurse came in, they go, look, we can either wait this out, you want a catheter?
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I could drink water, but I wasn't allowed to eat.
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They had to make sure everything was moving correctly, I guess, after the surgery.
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I thought this was, like, some kind of, like, weird, like, you were in that movie Saw or
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Like, you get out of surgery, and then they're like, you know, just, the guy's with you,
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So, the lady nurse came in, and she literally goes, look, here, we can do the catheter and
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You know, we can wait a couple more hours, what are you gonna do?
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She goes, now, are you comfortable with me doing it, or would you like me to get a guy to do it?
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I go, and all that thing was, I was trying to tell her, like, look, it's not where it
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It's surgery, and, you know, it's very Ken Jeong hangover popping off right now.
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I don't want somebody to be like, yeah, we're sending Barb up if you're in a burning building.
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Even when I was in the Navy, when I joined the Navy, women weren't allowed on combat ships.
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They were on shore duty, and when you're on shore duty, you get extra money.
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They give you extra money to go get an apartment, live on town.
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It's a nine-to-five job when you're shore duty.
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When you're on a ship, it sucks, because you're in racks that are three high.
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But women, there's a few women that were fighting for equal rights, and I was thinking, why the
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And it's always like, a few women, we want the same ride.
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I mean, it literally makes their quality of life worse.
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But do you think that some of them actually want that, or do you think it's some people
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that just want to, they just have to argue for something sometimes?
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They don't even realize you're not really winning.
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And if you asked, a lot of men would prefer to take a bullet for a woman, or at least when
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I was younger, it seemed like a lot of men would take a bullet for a woman.
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Nowadays, it'd be like, you know, let's front some of these bitches, you know, and put them
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Well, I will say, when I was first in the Navy and women weren't allowed on combat ships,
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You go for a month in the middle of the ocean with a thousand dudes, and you don't see one
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female, and that shit fucks with your head a little bit.
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Man, you come back, you ready to bang Precious.
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It's like, even when you're out at sea, when you're out at sea with women on ships, the
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first couple weeks, some of the women, you're like, ah, I'm good.
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You know, and then a month in, you're like, you've been working out?
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You know, and then by two months, it's 800 Halle Berrys on that ship.
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Yeah, I remember, I remember, so you're saying, so then there is a, it sounds like there is
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a real advantage to just having women around, even on the boat.
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There is something nice about just there being an opposite sex around.
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Like I said, you ain't got to be messed around and touch them just to walk by, have a scent.
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Yeah, and it's something, I mean, something that eases the tension.
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Even if you, even if there's innocent flirting, I was single, so even if there's innocent flirting,
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like we had this one girl, her name was Love, I'll never forget it.
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She was dating a couple of the Chargers because we were staying in San Diego, and to be a Navy girl
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dating a couple NFL ballplayers, like you had to be looking good.
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Because you're up against the top of the top competition.
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And I just remember her stencil was sewn in, but I'd still would be like, you know, I was
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Because the stencil ain't right, you got to tell them to go fix it and mark it in.
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Because some people have markers, some people sewed it in.
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Hers was sewn in, I'd still be like, Love, let me see that stencil.
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But I don't know, she wasn't from San Diego, she was Stacey of San Diego.
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The way her build was, she had to be from the South.
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Dude, I meant, someone was going to ask you about, just a second ago, we were talking
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about the military, oh yeah, they used to have a thing, so I went and did just some, just
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a different military base tours and stuff, I'm sure you've done some of those, and they
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had one, we went to Guantanamo Bay, and they had the term Gitmo Pretty, and it was
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like, after a couple days down there, you're like, yeah, that lady, dude, keep me away
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And by five days down there, you're like, hey, where's that lady?
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You're like, damn, Burdette is looking hot as fuck out here.
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They had a big girl named Galaxy was her name, I remember, Galaxy Wilson.
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Blast me into that fucking, into that atmosphere, bro.
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Well, look, man, I know you like to work in a lot of the black circles, so I'm
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I'm going to prove to him we're not all like that.
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Theo, do you, so you, you've had a great, you've had probably the greatest career for
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someone that doesn't live in Los Angeles or New York.
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Yeah, I never, I lived here for a little bit, but my career took off really when I
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Because you know that, I mean, that never happens, but that's not most people's story.
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Why would, I would fly out whenever I was needed in LA or New York.
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And you know, we just kind of, yeah, I don't know any of the, I hear, I was talking to
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your guys before I got here about, you know, there's very much a click, the comedy store
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You guys are like your own little click, you know, because you see each other so much.
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Well, it's almost kind of nice because it's almost like you're then like a celebrity to
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It's like, yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if I saw Dwayne The Rock Johnson.
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I remember at one point, I remember crossing a 40-yard line at somebody.
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That would be great if the football stadium's attached to the airport.
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Well, now a lot of the airport's got the hotels right there.
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If I have a three-hour layover, dude, sometimes I'll bust a coin and get that lay down.
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I landed at like 5 in the morning, and my next flight went to like 11.
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You don't have to go in the hallway, but there's a bathroom for the pods, but it's like a little
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I was in Australia a couple weeks ago, and they had at the airport in this one area that
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Looked like a big molar, actually, with a roll top, like those roll top desks, and you
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You pay like $3 or $4 and get in that egg, and that's that.
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I mean, just literally, there were kids running around through them playing games and shit.
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I mean, I think you lock yourself in from the inside.
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I've never, I've never, outside of military bases, I've never, only place I've been outside
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Australia's kind of Canada, but way, like, it's Canada with more of a criminal element,
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you know, because a lot of criminals, that whole country's based on criminalia, or, you
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Ohio was founded by Capone, you know, he was running drugs through there, and he just named
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Do you ever feel left out because you don't live in LA or New York?
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You know, even if I, when I get off the road, the last thing I want to do is go to a comedy
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Well, I know a lot of the guys in LA, they're, you know, they're, they're at the comedy clubs
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But it hurts a different vibe at the comedy store now.
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I heard there's different management and ownership and everything else.
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Because I, when I first started, I did the whole wait in line for three hours to open
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And, and this is not an indictment on Mitzi Shore.
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But what she did to me, I was like, I will never perform here.
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I did the, I did what you're supposed to do for like two, three weeks.
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I don't know who the other women were, but there was four women and me and I was the
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It's like, do you remember who the other people were?
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But when, when I went up and you only get five minutes, I looked in the back of the
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original room and she was like holding court with the four girls and wasn't watching
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And then I got called the next day and they go, yeah, you didn't get picked to be a regular.
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And not to sound conceited, but I clearly had the best set.
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And then when I found out the girls did, I was like, I'm out.
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So you had a real, you had a real resentment then.
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Just because I felt like I did what you were supposed to do.
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Now, if none of us would have got picked, I'd have been like, all right.
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But, and honestly, I knew my stuff wasn't hacky.
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Well, did it make you feel like it wasn't fair?
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Like a, cause I mean, yeah, you hear all kinds of stuff about Mitzi Shore.
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I mean, obviously, you know, she's run like one of the best clubs, you know, like, I think
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her, like, I don't know all of it, but like her, you know, she got the club finally from
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Um, you know, you hear that she never paid people.
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I mean, you know, there's tons of history out of that building.
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I mean, she was also a woman that started a business, you know?
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So like, I think that was a, you know, there weren't a lot of women doing that in the comedy
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Um, but yeah, I mean, you hear all kinds of stuff that she was dating half the comedians.
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I'm not saying she's a bad person, but that, that night I was like, man, fuck this place.
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Well, did that make you feel like you weren't going to have any opportunities in LA overall?
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I ran, I ran the, um, the main room for two years on Guy Tourist Fat Tuesday because
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I'm in St. Louis and Guy said, man, I gotta let it go.
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That's like, that's like the black spot on Tuesday at the comedy store.
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Me and my wife was running it and nobody knew I was behind it because I just wouldn't show
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I would just, but it was funny because my wife would like, we were booking it.
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And then people would be like talking shit about other comics and stuff like comics do sometimes.
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And sometimes if he talks shit about me, I was like, really?
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I wouldn't like not book somebody and take them off.
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I was just like, I just thought comics do that.
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Cause there's a, there's a little bit of bitch in all of us at some point.
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So you're going to have days and, and nights where you're, you're just, you want to blame
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somebody when you don't realize it's just a business.
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I mean, even going back to the Mitzi short thing, it's like, you know, people could say
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that, you know, you'll hear that she didn't pay comics, but you also don't know if she
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was getting a shittier deal because she was a woman in certain circles.
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It's like, you don't know how, like what the business is always, you don't know everybody's
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ang, everybody's how everybody's dealing with it.
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And you know, you know, with her seeing open micers all day, every day, she might've been
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Or maybe some man in the business had been a dick to her that day.
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I've never said a bad word about her in public or anything.
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Fuck Floribama, the bar, that shitty bar that's down there where people always get date
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But look, dude, if you're going to get a date rape, get a date rape to some, you know,
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I don't want to get date rape to some damn trick daddy.
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Dude, yeah, Brendan will go in and see a definite agreement mode.
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I get that in podcasts when I'm talking to somebody.
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Like, hey, we're thinking about killing your whole family.
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But yeah, it's like sometimes you just don't know.
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It's like, you know, it's like we just don't know sometimes what everybody else is dealing
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Yeah, looking back on it, it's just like, I'll never forget as long as I live, the four
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women standing around her and she's just holding court, like telling them about, I'm reading
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Like, you got to work on this, you do this, this and this, but it looked like they was
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It's my third Sunday waiting in line for three fucking hours.
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It's such a helpless feeling, too, when you can't do that and you put the mic back in
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the stand and you walk off going, this is pointless.
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And then I would drive by and see the guys in line.
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I don't, it was like a Tuesday you had to wait in line.
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That was like the long line in front of the comedy store for open micing.
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And I'd drive by it and see just for the next couple of years, I want to be like, waste
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So you had a, yeah, man, I'd have a, look, I can totally go through that moment.
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You're on stage and you see the person who's supposed to be paying attention to you
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I mean, this is like a moment in the sun to even get that opportunity to showcase at the
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And then the other people that have already gone on, they had their time to be in front
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Now they're all talking to her and you have to still be doing your jokes.
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Even it could be complete darkness in the room.
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I remember when I was doing it in New York for Esty, right?
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Who passes at the comedy cellar and she's over in the dark and I don't know where she
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But then at a certain point I knew exactly where she was in the dark paying attention
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You know, it's like you can just feel like the spot in the dark where somebody in the
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room is supposed to be judging you and to think that they're not even paying attention
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and you still have to do these jokes and you don't even care if the other people in the
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Like trying to breastfeed and be a man, you know?
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Just today, the Hollywood Reporter named Adam Egott, the new manager at the Comedy Store
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and Esty, two of the 40 most powerful people in comedy.
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So it was crazy that you brought both of them up.
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It's like, and then it's like you look years later.
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I mean, it's like, you know, Paul, he's like, you know, Paul, he's always, you know, he's
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The lore of just the story even staying like all the times it was supposed to be sold.
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But I heard it's a different, I didn't spend a lot of time there, but I heard it's completely
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A lot of that is, I think, more than any other time in the history of stand-up, like comics
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You don't need somebody to say, give you like the yes.
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Even with, you know, I've gotten to know you through the podcast networks.
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I mean, outside of Road Rules, you were amazing on that.
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I've always followed you from afar because I saw you on Last Comic Standing.
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Because when I saw you, I go, that's the fucker from Road Rules.
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And then when you did Road Rules, what year was that you did Road Rules?
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And you were like a mid-season replacement or something, right?
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Did someone get kicked off that year or something?
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But the reason I always followed like that, just the 90s, I'll say, is I was in the Navy
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And I remember my buddy, this was before the internet.
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You had to tell him you were gay at the beginning of the letter to even have a story on.
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And so I said the perfect house would be me with seven black girls.
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And then they asked me to come up and get interviewed.
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And so when I see that season, there was the black girl that went to Stanford that didn't like interracial dating.
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Like, literally, I was like, I was supposed to bang her.
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And then it was funny because when I sent in all the tape, like, I like black girls.
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A big arch of that season was Cyrus dated a lot of white women and the black girl didn't approve of it.
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So in a way, it was like they addressed what I had talked about in my video.
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I remember the first season of the real world I remember was when real world Hawaii went.
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I mean, I remember some of the other ones, but the first one I watched, I just remember Tech jumping into that swimming pool.
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He was one of the first to start getting like, well, no, the guy from the first season was,
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But yeah, man, I'm trying to think of, I'm trying to think of, I don't even know where
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I think, oh, you mentioned that Esty and Adam just got those, that got those things.
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And then you said, yeah, it's like people can make their own destinies now.
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It's like, yeah, you don't have to have, like, I mean, one of the reasons why some people
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got into podcasting was like, I couldn't find a TV show or anything.
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You know, like, they were not, they're not putting anybody from, like, I don't consider,
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I don't consider myself like a redneck though, you know, like, but they're not putting any,
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they weren't putting anybody that even represented me, I felt like.
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So it was like, I had to start a podcast to even just, you know, have anything to be
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I think people gravitate to podcasts because you are unfiltered.
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You know, like I did, on mine last week, I talked about an argument I had backstage
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And it was a legit, I was throwing food at him.
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And Cambodian, let's be honest, dude, it's Asian, bro, but it's also a little something
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Asian people are like, oh, I'm not going out there, you know?
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Because I want to hear about this, man, because people often say that you're hard to deal
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I was talking to your guys before I got on here.
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I go, dude, I go, you know, the internet's notorious for anybody says anything good about
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And the Brian Kellan, Brendan Shaw, when they, when I, oh, my wife got profiled on Delta
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and they brought it up and they go, and Brian goes, yeah, I heard that guy's hard to deal
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So I watched it and it really was, Brian even said, he goes, I don't know why I said
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But they call you the, dude, they call you the pink Chris Tucker.
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Like he was the only black guy with a John Deere deal.
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Like I'm the only black guy at the barbershop, I'm the only white guy at the barbershop where
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If you're a white guy, you want that Gary Owen right there.
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I'm not hard to deal with, but it's not about the food that I threw.
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It was that he yelled at me is what made me throw the food.
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Because before I went on stage, you know, comical food isn't the best.
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So I literally just told him, I said, go anywhere, just get some brown rice and tariaki
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The place that they said they were going to order it from, they couldn't get it.
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You're like, okay, get your pallets ready for some.
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All the food looked like, I was like, so now I'm not, not happy.
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And you know, Asian food comes into big containers was this big container, noodles and veggies
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So I take the fork and the comedy club brought us plates.
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So I take the fork and I'm taking some noodles and put on a plate.
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And just make a plate of little samples of everything.
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My opener comes in and say, he goes, hey, those are mine.
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I was like, I'm just going to take a little bit.
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So I take the noodles and then he takes it and it's a big container and he puts his fork
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So we still got two other people in the green room that's got to eat.
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And I looked at him, I said, say, you know, you're being selfish, right?
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Like you should have, I'm thinking in my brain, you should have offered something to the other
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And as he's leaving the room, I'm throwing one egg roll at a time.
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He's like, I was just trying to, and there's one more egg roll.
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And then my road manager, Brad, he explains it.
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Man, I just think, I think you was hot and you was hungry.
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But I talked about it on my podcast, right, last week.
00:33:10.420
But some people were like, you know, you was wrong, Gary.
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Or some people was like, I'm looking at you different.
00:33:19.820
The funny part is, that's the part, is the word noodles makes it funny.
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The other two people that had to eat were Brian Cowan and Brendan Schaub.
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But here's the funny shit about the whole thing.
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The only person that didn't get to eat was Brad.
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The road manager who had nothing to do with the argument.
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And so then next thing you know, you've had a coffee and a muffin or something and a banana.
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You'll maybe have a snack or something before you go on stage.
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That's your time to finally get something to eat.
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Brown rice and teriyaki chicken, you should be able to get that somewhere.
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And especially if he's Cambodian, dude, you can't come up with a little teriyaki chicken,
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Yeah, if I ask you for fucking donuts or something, and you don't know how to come up with a couple,
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But dude, I remember we worked together at, remember the charity basketball, the basketball
00:39:05.580
Because they booked, they overbooked the theater and the weekend.
00:39:12.660
And he said, you guys knew I was bringing this show here.
00:39:16.380
And you booked like two other urban comedy shows around it.
00:39:20.900
There was like one the week before and like one two weeks after.
00:39:27.340
He went on stage and told him because I'm not happy about this.
00:39:29.460
I was like, damn, I never seen somebody go up and thank the people for being there, but
00:39:42.600
I mean, I'd seen you on film and I'd seen you on the internet and stuff, but I'd never
00:39:54.740
Well, it sounds conceited, but there's a different energy with a black audience.
00:40:16.300
Oh, you're the extremely strong, you're the very physical and talented Michael Rappaport,
00:40:29.520
And I, you know, like I just did my latest special last week in San Antonio.
00:40:36.040
And even my agent at UTA hadn't seen me live in years.
00:40:46.780
Not only that, it's just the reaction when I come on stage.
00:41:02.800
I'm trying to think of famous, yeah, white people that are.
00:41:12.440
I'm trying to think of famous white guys that are real famous in the black community.
00:41:16.400
Like, it is a different, black Hollywood and Hollywood is different because I heard stories
00:41:23.420
And I don't know if it's true, but I got it from Reliable Stories.
00:41:25.820
He used to go to like the Starbucks in the urban neighborhoods because he could sit down
00:41:40.740
And somebody told me, they go, yo, that dude from that movie.
00:41:59.220
I was telling him on stage, I go, dude, I'm in D.C.
00:42:02.000
I did not get stopped one time by a white person in five days.
00:42:08.860
The got me was the homeless motherfucker stopped me.
00:42:27.220
And then what's funny is they'll have a whole conversation, but won't know my name.
00:43:03.520
But yeah, do you feel like, though, that do you ever.
00:43:07.760
Was that your plan from the beginning kind of to have a black audience or did that just
00:43:11.500
Well, you don't you don't choose your audience.
00:43:19.280
Like I would have did Telemundo if I could have spoke Spanish.
00:43:23.480
You just want to you just want to be funny and get on stage.
00:43:26.200
And I just my my every TV appearance was was BET in the beginning.
00:43:32.560
And for some reason, the movies I got in were black lead actors.
00:43:37.840
The only movie I've done that was a all white cast was a movie called College.
00:43:43.300
And it probably did the worst at the box office.
00:43:46.120
Do you think there's something about you that black people that really attracts black culture
00:43:50.420
or that like, is it like a like some a way that you look or a way that you.
00:44:01.400
But he just said, you know, you you're authentic.
00:44:04.240
And he said, and your stories are your real life.
00:44:07.280
It's not like you're up there just doing a joke to get a laugh.
00:44:11.700
Like you're really telling you like you really went to a black church.
00:44:15.040
Like your joke was that experience from your perspective.
00:44:19.460
You know, and I think I think a lot of times, too, I'm not putting down people.
00:44:26.400
You know, there's no put down because I don't I tell you what gets on my nerves when I see
00:44:32.040
white stand ups going from a black audience and just completely put down white people.
00:44:40.260
And I haven't even seen some black people in the audience be like, dude, we don't think
00:44:55.040
I feel like I get like if I get on stage, there's a lot of so many comedians who are
00:44:58.520
like, you know, like apologizing for their white privilege and shit like that.
00:45:03.680
If someone feel like that it was that big of a thing in their life, you know, where
00:45:07.000
somebody came in their room when they were young, we're like, hey, you're white.
00:45:10.980
I've had more issues of white males in my life than black dudes.
00:45:27.200
You know, people, you know, black guys are lazy.
00:45:36.740
My stepdad, every time I heard of a bad stereotype about black males, it was my stepdad.
00:45:45.820
Early on, did you have a lot of stories like in your standup that with black culture?
00:45:51.340
Well, when I started in San Diego, I was trying to get on the comedy store and the Hoya and everything.
00:45:59.100
But, you know, with open mic, you're lucky to get up.
00:46:02.320
You know, the open mic night was Sunday nights.
00:46:06.300
And then I was like, a couple of black guys in the Navy with told me about all these other spots I could get on stage.
00:46:13.140
You know, a lot of the mainstream comics, they don't want to do that.
00:46:18.760
And then I would start doing like karaoke bars.
00:46:22.360
Like I would, if I couldn't get on stage, I would go to like a karaoke and it was a mic and it was speakers.
00:46:28.440
And I was like, instead of singing, I would tell jokes.
00:46:31.120
And like people got to know me like, oh, that's the funny dude.
00:46:48.000
When I make enough shitty jokes during the podcast.
00:46:50.320
I remember my first joke I'd always tell at the karaoke bars was about Janet Jackson.
00:46:55.980
I'd be like, I go, have you guys noticed like Janet Jackson, like her first song was Let's Wait a While.
00:47:03.280
I go, then her second album, the song was Come Back to Me.
00:47:08.580
I said, well, fuck, you told him to wait, and now you're telling him to come back.
00:47:12.500
I go, now this latest album was Anytime, Any Place.
00:47:17.960
And then that like opened up like, oh, okay, he's just talking shit about musicians.
00:47:21.360
So a lot of it was just like whatever songs was hot.
00:47:24.560
I would just make fun of them at the karaoke spots.
00:47:26.600
Do you think that you are actually white and you have to like be black in the morning when you get up?
00:47:38.900
Like if we like moved the switch on the back of you, it'd be like, well, guys, I hope everything's going well.
00:47:48.980
Like deep down, I know I'm black, but there's no surgery to fix it.
00:47:52.580
Like, God, I wish I could just switch this up a little bit.
00:47:58.140
No, it works for me being the, I don't want to say fish out of water.
00:48:03.440
Because I am kind of a fish out of water, but I'm very comfortable in the water.
00:48:08.080
I've never, I don't know, like a lot of times I think we feed into what the media tells us.
00:48:18.560
My day-to-day dealings with people, I don't see too many people just out and out hating somebody else because of their skin color alone.
00:48:29.340
Now, I'd be, I'm more scared of white guys with tattoos on their face and pants sagging.
00:48:37.720
I'm scared, what I'm scared of is some of, you know, with a lot of, you know, people of different cultures, especially when you have black and white people having children, you're going to start, you start to get a lot of soft black dudes, man.
00:48:55.380
Why are you talking about, man, dude, you can't be talking about my kids, man.
00:48:59.860
No, I'm talking about, I'm just saying, bro, I saw some of these, some of these mixed kids, they're fucking slow.
00:49:12.540
Well, that's the problem when you are mixed because the black in you says dunk it and the white in you says pass it out and you're just fucking confused and you become Steph Curry.
00:49:24.840
But the black in you says, motherfucker, throw that shit down, bitch.
00:49:28.580
Dude, we had a black guest and here we were talking about getting scared.
00:49:35.760
And I've always felt like that black people don't get nervous.
00:49:46.100
Like, did you ever, like, white people always felt like we have, like, a thing where we get nervous and, like, black people don't have that.
00:49:52.380
Like, I remember asking him, I'm like, dude, do you guys get nervous?
00:49:56.900
Well, the thing about it is white people have way more skeletons in their closet than black people.
00:50:02.960
You know, black people, like, historically, especially in this country, their history is laid out there.
00:50:08.940
White people, we did a lot of dirty shit, but we don't want to talk about it.
00:50:13.860
Like, I was just in Tulsa a couple weeks ago and I found out about Black Wall Street.
00:50:22.700
And it was, like, this 36-block area of Tulsa that black people were flourishing.
00:50:28.740
Like, they had supermarkets and doctor's offices and clubs and restaurants and big homes.
00:50:38.540
And all of a sudden, this black teenager got caught with this white girl.
00:50:45.760
They just got caught together alone in a building.
00:50:48.900
And all the white people came after this black teenager.
00:50:53.000
And the sheriff was like, no, the white girl's not pressing charges.
00:50:59.160
And they just started, like, literally murdering black people, like, on their front porches.
00:51:06.340
And then the, like, National Guard came in and bombed Black Wall Street.
00:51:20.240
And then this girl, like, gave me an entire breakdown of what happened.
00:51:24.120
And then she said, what's crazy about the aftermath is, like, there'd be, like, black women walking down the street years later.
00:51:29.780
And they'd see a white lady with, like, her watch on or her necklace.
00:51:41.520
And it was like, it's a dirty part of American history.
00:51:44.020
And I would put money, because it's coming up on the 100th anniversary, there'll be a movie or a TV show about it.
00:51:56.740
Do you think sometimes that too many movies and media want to, like, are just making money even more off of just rehashing a bad past instead of, like, finding solution and stuff and moving forward?
00:52:15.400
Do you feel like sometimes, though, it's like they don't always give, like, every side of the story?
00:52:20.960
It feels like sometimes there's only just one side of a story, you know?
00:52:23.860
Sometimes it's like, at a certain point, aren't they just using Black people again, like, by using these stories just to make money?
00:52:30.900
When a lot of people are – it feels to me like a lot of people are moving forward.
00:52:36.420
And sometimes it's just like a regurgitation of, you know, like, how many times can you make people that currently –
00:52:46.500
It's like, at what point do you say, look, let's just make a movie just, you know, how many times do we have to do this same exact movie, you know?
00:52:56.140
It's like – because then they're just using Black people again, because I'm sure it's a lot of white ownership that owns these studios, to then once again make money.
00:53:04.900
But this time they're doing it under the guise of that we're helping Black America.
00:53:09.700
I mean, there's definitely a disconnect between the powers that be that are the head of these studios, you know?
00:53:19.640
I don't – this is what I get about stand-ups and we're talking about sitcoms and everything else is, you know, the state of sitcoms is so bad right now.
00:53:27.860
Because if I'm the head of a network, I want to take a stand-up that's on the road, grinding, because I feel like they have the pulse of what the country's going through, especially the flyover states.
00:53:44.260
They don't know what's making those people tick.
00:53:46.000
Oh, and not only that, but then these same networks go and make fun of those people.
00:53:49.300
And they, like, did not, like – you know, it just seems like a lot of times that good people who haven't done a lot of stuff wrong have really been through enough.
00:53:58.340
But these – but it's just like, how many times are we going to bring stuff up that – something I didn't do, something I didn't have a part of and I would never be a part of, you know?
00:54:13.120
There was – Avid did something cool with that is, you know, it definitely was those four boys.
00:54:21.460
But you also see when one of them goes to prison – one of them really had a bad – Corey Wise was one of them.
00:54:29.760
He just went to go support his friend at the police station, basically.
00:54:34.900
And he's the one that caught the worst, did the most time, had the roughest time.
00:54:38.820
But they showed how one guard at Rikers was kind of a dick to him and was using him and he had to give him, like, all this extra shit to protect him, basically.
00:54:52.440
But then when he got transferred, there was a white guard that really looked out for him, you know, was fair, gave him bookstreet when he was in solitary, you know what I mean?
00:55:02.100
And it was just a – and it was never brought up.
00:55:08.280
And, like, I thought it was cool how she made that apparent.
00:55:13.480
I don't know if anybody else did, but I noticed it.
00:55:18.900
But it was the white guard that would kind of went, like – it was similar to, like, in Hurricane with Denzel.
00:55:24.380
Remember the white guard was the one that was, like, happy for him when he got exonerated and he was, like, looking out for him a little bit in the prison?
00:55:41.980
The one with Sean Penn when he was a teenager in prison.
00:55:55.100
You can't see him, Theo, just because you – dude, I was one.
00:55:59.680
I don't want you to picture me walking into the fucking theater.
00:56:22.080
That guy with the blonde hair, curly hair dude.
00:57:05.100
Because, Shawshank, it's about guys going to this terrible juvie home.
00:57:14.740
Do you feel like when something's released in black culture, you're like,
00:57:22.560
When I see a white guy in a black woman, I'm like, really?
00:57:30.920
Do people think you were in movies that you were not in?
00:57:37.940
I was like, some people think I'm in power right now.
00:57:43.980
No, any other movies I, oh, there was a movie called The Breaks with Mitch Mulaney.
00:57:59.080
People think you're Darren Carter if he got on HGH.
00:58:08.880
I don't know anybody that could kill us hard, man.
00:58:18.020
No, when I started stand up in San Diego, it was funny.
00:58:21.440
The first couple of times I would go to the comic store and sit in the back and just watch.
00:58:24.940
I remember it was like Bobby Lee, Darren Carter was that crew.
00:58:28.400
I remember Darren one time went up and got a heckler and destroyed him.
00:58:37.800
First time you see a comic live deal with a heckler, you're like, I got to work on some shit.
00:58:46.440
Yeah, first time you see a comic do like an hour strong, you're like, holy fuck.
00:58:53.080
When you first start, that five minutes seems like three hours.
00:58:57.960
And you're like, oh, that third joke is going to kill us.
00:59:06.980
Yeah, one guy drops a glass during your first joke and it ruins your whole night.
00:59:19.640
If there was a, there was like an open miker at like a corporate event during 9-11, he
00:59:23.520
would not have acknowledged the building's fault.
00:59:25.440
He would have still been like, so then my daughter, she, everybody's dead.
00:59:43.160
First up, it's been kind of a recurring story on this podcast, but the leader of the NXIVM
00:59:50.360
quote unquote sex cult was convicted on all charges this morning.
01:00:09.040
We had someone from the sex cult on the podcast that I booked.
01:00:18.340
We only booked him because he had Tourette's and we brought him in here and the whole time
01:00:22.040
he thought it was a setup and we were going to ask him about the sex cult, but then
01:00:25.160
it came out throughout the interview and yeah, so we've just learned more about it.
01:00:29.580
And we had Michael Rosenbaum in who was cast members with Allison Mack who was also, she
01:00:38.680
Well look, dude, you can't have people, look, you can't have your sex culties getting into
01:00:46.040
I'm just saying, man, you can't have, you know-
01:00:50.140
Bro, if Brenda jumps the fence, you gotta know, you know.
01:00:54.320
Here's what I'm gonna ask you here is, what'd you think about that R. Kelly sex cult, man?
01:00:58.740
I know you're, you know, you got your whole life on the pulse of black culture, so what
01:01:05.320
Because you're in the Midwest, you're in Cincinnati.
01:01:15.980
You know, but R. Kelly had the deep pockets, like he had a lot of the-
01:01:28.860
No, he had a lot of the Chicago PD in his pocket.
01:01:32.740
And then when the money wasn't there, can't help you.
01:01:36.240
All of a sudden, now everybody's got lawsuits and tapes coming out.
01:01:40.100
But I watched the Surviving R. Kelly, and I was more like, those parents, the two girls
01:01:44.240
now that he has, those parents brought those girls around.
01:01:50.740
They brought their daughters around going, no, he was exonerated.
01:02:00.440
There seems to be this strange naivety amongst parents almost, because the same thing happened
01:02:05.400
with the Michael Jackson, you know, with him, with the families just repeatedly bringing
01:02:12.760
the kids around, knowing the kids were, like, in very precarious situations.
01:02:19.700
But as a parent, do you see how that kind of, I mean, how could something like that kind
01:02:25.280
Well, some parents, fame is intoxicating, and you're almost in awe.
01:02:31.120
I mean, Michael Jackson was as close as you can get to, like, damn near the Pope.
01:02:38.700
The biggest star on earth likes my family, wants to hang out.
01:02:45.200
The weird thing about the surviving Neverland, which I don't believe, some of it I didn't
01:02:50.340
I think they were indulging some of it, but the fact that Mike would just go to somebody's
01:02:58.740
Can you imagine doing the dishes, like, don't fuck with Michael Jackson.
01:03:15.780
I was on stage, actually, doing an open mic here in L.A. at Westwood Brewing Company.
01:03:23.880
And there's a window outside that goes to the alley.
01:03:27.840
And across from that, there's an Oz, A-A-H-H-S, costume shop.
01:03:32.740
And Michael Jackson pulled up there one night with his kids and got out of a car after hours
01:03:45.240
And I was like, oh, Michael Jackson's out there with his children going into the costumes.
01:03:58.120
And we just couldn't get the show off the ground for whatever reason.
01:04:01.440
But I was always over Quincy's house trying to develop and everything.
01:04:05.580
And I kept just thinking, I know I'm going to go there one day.
01:04:15.480
Like that Michael Jackson story, I don't know if I really believe you.
01:04:33.080
But Quincy's stories, you know he's telling the truth.
01:04:35.720
When he's talking about Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack and shit like this.
01:04:41.120
Because he would, we, half the time I was with Quincy, he'd be like, we'd be trying to
01:04:46.300
But the show would take 15 minutes and then it'd be a two hour session of him just talking
01:04:51.240
about life and shit that he's seen and everything else.
01:05:00.660
What about, what was that I heard, maybe a couple years ago, that you and Cat Williams
01:05:10.540
I want to say Whataburger or something, but I'm not sure.
01:05:12.260
The only person that ever asked me to invest in a restaurant was Nick Lachey.
01:05:16.600
He had a bar of Lachey's and he tried to get, and he opened the bar and the restaurant,
01:05:21.560
but he was trying to get all like Cincinnati investors.
01:05:24.540
So he got like a couple of the Reds and the Bengals and other people in there.
01:05:30.880
And it just, when I talked to my accountant, he was just like, restaurant's not a good investment.
01:05:38.180
You don't want to put up any, that amount of money for that.
01:05:41.900
But did you, so you and Cat Williams never did like a Whataburger or anything like that?
01:05:46.600
Have you ever worked with Cat Williams or met him?
01:05:57.240
He was riding on a bicycle with that, had those, it had like these kind of lights in the wheels
01:06:01.620
down Sunset Boulevard with a couple of other guys.
01:06:08.420
He marches to the beat of his own drum without question.
01:06:10.540
Like, you know, you got to realize I've known Cat since 98.
01:06:13.900
So that's when he first, he had one tooth in the front, you know?
01:06:25.280
Even when he was like featuring, he had a bodyguard.
01:06:28.340
Even when he got on Jet Blue, he had a bunch of fake chains on.
01:06:32.400
Like, he was rolling like I'm the guy, just waiting for it.
01:06:36.000
And then when he got Friday, the second Friday, it was like that part was written for him.
01:06:48.940
And so he always rolled like he had, he did one of the, and I, I've said this on stage.
01:06:54.000
He did one of the coolest things a comic ever did for me after a show.
01:06:59.180
And it literally was a two, it might have been one other person, but it was me and Cat on the show.
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And it was a weird time in his career because six months prior, we had did Kent State.
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And he was bubbling like people knew him, but kind of knew him, right?
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And then all of a sudden, I got this contract, and we were at the basketball arena where the University of Texas plays.
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I'm thinking me and Cat are good for like 1,500 seats.
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And I get there, and I go, oh, fuck, this guy popped in six months, right?
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What was it like to kind of witness something like that?
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Was it the first time you kind of saw something like that happen?
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Because I think we're, every now and then it happens, like with Tiffany Haddish and Girls Trip,
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But I think it's more now you just pepper people.
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You know, Friday had been out for a couple years, and then the HBO special came out, and
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So we get done with the show, and then my limo, we had two separate limousines.
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So my buddies were in town, and I was like, I asked my driver, I said, yo, can I get the
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So I tried to give him cash, and he wouldn't take it.
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I said, yeah, I'm going out for a couple hours.
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I said, well, my driver said he don't take cash.
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And to this day, I don't know how much money he gave my driver.
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All I know is Cat walked by me, and this is all he said.
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I went, I got back to the room, went to bed, woke up.
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I go, how much fucking money did Cat give this guy?
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But I heard Cat was notorious for like the $100 handshakes.
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Like he'd tip somebody and there'd just be $100 in their hand.
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He loves to be able to, it's just something he likes to do.
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But you don't know what cat you're getting sometimes.
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But personally, I've never seen the wild, bad cat.
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Yeah, you'll know what you're getting that day.
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But I've never had any real issues with any comics as far as confronting me or going on.
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Because I know you know they have a lot of black trap house activity.
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Have you ever been involved in anything like that?
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Do you think LeVar Ball cares about his children?
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If that dude was all black, God, Lonzo would be a beast.
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Like, when I was growing up, they had wild black names.
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Okay, go to Facebook and find me fucking Magma Jackson.
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Pull up, go to Facebook and just pull up Blizzard and see if any names pop up.
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Like, if you put up Mary Jones, there's gonna be a million Mary Joneses that come down.
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That's just, I mean, look, he can bet anybody's his peasant.
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Did you really know a guy named Blizzard Jackson?
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We actually also have a couple Patreon questions for Gary.
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Gary, do you feel like you have a sort of special permission
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to dive deeper into jokes that analyze black culture
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Then you gotta start playing the middleman, dude.
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It's if there's any miscommunications, you know?
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That's why when you said questions, you got two.
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Well, we actually had a lot, but we only picked, I picked two of these.
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It was, what was the craziest thing you've ever seen happen at a comedy club?
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Most of it's in the early days because when you're open micing, you're hitting bars.
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I was in Louisville, Kentucky, and it was the night before Thanksgiving.
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And this guy named Spike Davis had a one-nighter.
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So this guy, Spike Davis, he had a Wednesday night in Louisville.
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And the problem with his show was, the chairs are on a dance floor.
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And the later it gets, the night turned into a club.
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So by the time I hit the stage, pushing 10.30, 10.45.
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So people start to come in that want to go party.
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You know, the people here are laughing, but the people here, they're ready to party.
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They're like, get this fucking dude off the stage.
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And it's actually galvanizing the crowd because now everybody's in on it.
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But I said, hey, man, why don't you come on stage?
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You know, not knowing two people didn't like me.
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So I turn around and I, from me to you, there was two brothers, gold fronts, didn't like they have shit to lose.
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Back then, I could get, dude, when your life's in danger, watch.
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So I'm still got the mic talking shit to them, right?
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I didn't know they had undercover people in the club, right?
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And they had me ducking down, took me out a back door, and got in a car, and the guy had his pistol out, driving me to the hotel.
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So they was like, we're just playing it safe, you know, just taking me back to the hotel.
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So I get back to the hotel, and they go, they were going to have somebody sit in the parking lot until I left the next day.
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So this dude, and I was living in Cincy, so it's just like an hour or two hour drive.
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Literally, he followed me back until I got on 75.
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And once I got on the highway, he like flashed his lights, and he veered off.
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Why does Spike call me like after the weekend and goes, hey, man, they love you down here, man.
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I was like, I will never be back in that fucking club.
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The fact that he waited like four days, like I'm going to forget.
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And I got sucker punched in Detroit after a show.
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None of this shit has happened in the last 10 years, right?
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And after my show, I go to this place called the Lyceum, right?
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You can find Lyceum nightclub in Detroit, Michigan.
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Look up Lyceum Hanson, too, a kid I went to junior high with.
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Oh, they never heard of it, it says right there.
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And when I walked in, like, these three girls was like, Gary, can we get a picture?
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So, the bartender comes and goes, $125 for three drinks.
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They go, well, those girls said you were buying their drinks, too.
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Without even looking at the girls, I looked at the bartender.
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I go, oh, I'm not buying no bitches drinks here tonight.
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And I was like, no, I said bitches per se, like, bitches.
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I don't know where these fists came from, but these dudes went, bing, bing, bing.
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I don't even know who the dudes were to this day.
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Now, I'm in the car, and I'm in the rearview mirror, like, looking like this to make sure
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She goes, that was like the funniest and scariest shit.
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They said, because you were getting hit, but still talking.
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So, really, I was like, I ain't calling her by a bitch.
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And all I was thinking was, I was on, I just got hired to be on House of Pain, that Tyler
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There was nothing in me that said fight back or figure out what's going on.
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And I'm just so glad I didn't have any marks on me.
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I got punched by a guy on steroids there and hit with a fence board once at Mardi
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If you're like in an all black environment, do you get nervous sometimes?
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You just, I wish I could get that feeling when I first started doing stand-up.
01:20:56.100
Just the drive to the comedy club or wherever you're about to perform, I wish I could get
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Because I felt like you just felt like your senses was on 20.
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You're just, you're so, I wish I could get that feeling.
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Like the open mic days, God, it was such a good feeling inside.
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Isn't it so funny that you're so scared then and you can't go back to that, you just can't
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It's like, it almost felt like when you were playing high school football, like before
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So it's like, nowadays you're just, you know, you're not like nervous.
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Back then, it's not about ticket prices, it's not about ticket sales, it's not about what
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It's just straight, I want these people to laugh at these jokes.
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This ain't fucking teriyaki chicken, you fucking plastic Cambodian.
01:22:05.920
Hey, let's take this question that came right here for you, Gary Owen.
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Chad Ochocinco and, uh, the endangered species quarterback.
01:22:29.920
So, I just want to know what, what, what's that like, man?
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He had a, he had a, like, his son passed, someone was a really good high school football
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He had, like, some weird asthma attack or something.
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I don't know how that fucker don't know two Bengals.
01:22:59.860
The greatest offensive tackle in the NFL was Anthony Munoz.
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I tell you, I caught a lot of little flack last year because I did a video.
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And I did a video like, hey, Bengals, front office, you think you guys can maybe take
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care of me this year if I want to go to a game?
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It's like, literally me and Nick Lachey are the only two people out there that are vocal
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And I called for tickets one time and they said no.
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And then the guy sent, like, an eight-page email explaining why they could not leave me
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And there was 8,000 empty seats at the stadium.
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And then the players started DMing me, like, we'll leave you tickets.
01:24:24.660
Seattle has a suite, the Seahawks, where when their celebs come in that are Seahawks fans,
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You got Samuel L. Jackson pumping up the Falcons for the game on the big screen and everything.
01:24:41.180
Robert Kraft always takes care of the Boston guys.
01:24:45.520
Well, they should include something fun and something exciting.
01:24:59.140
When they went to England three years ago, the Redskins left me tickets.
01:25:04.420
The Redskins front office was like, yeah, we got you.
01:25:22.880
It's just it's a mom and pops run organization.
01:25:25.180
And, you know, it was crazy because last year, I did the funny video.
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Go, hey, Bengals, you think if I go to a game this year, you guys maybe can take care of me?
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And I gave them like a wink, like an Instagram post.
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So I guess they got a lot of emails from fans going, how do you not take care of our guy?
01:25:44.920
They said, yeah, we're gonna leave you tickets and field passes and everything to the first home game.
01:25:50.080
But we're gonna do a contest where people are gonna send in like their email and then we're gonna pick a name to get to go to the game with you.
01:25:59.660
So they kind of used it to get people on their email list so they can start sending them like packages.
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Like, hey, we got a two-game package for you to go to.
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Pittsburgh, I found out I'm gonna be in town on like a week's notice and it's the Steeler game.
01:26:18.800
So I sent an email to the girl that was my contact.
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And do you think it's because of the color of your skin?
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Like, if I could pick one game you could take care of me and I want to show this guy.
01:27:05.880
This is one of the top movie producers in the world.
01:27:10.780
So me and Will always, he comes to Cincinnati when the Bucs play and I go to Tampa when the Bengals play the Bucs in Tampa.
01:27:19.320
And it's only every four years because they're in different conferences.
01:27:22.500
And Will was coming and I asked the Bengals, you know, and they said, yeah, we got you.
01:27:39.560
I don't know who he is, but I don't know who a lot of people are.
01:27:42.800
Okay, he did Think Like a Man, Ride Along, Girls Trip, Night School, Stomp the Yard.
01:27:50.040
Just show debuted yesterday on Oprah's network, Ambitions.
01:28:06.320
Yeah, maybe they're just a little bit behind the times.
01:28:34.420
See, Bella Thorne, her phone was hacked, and they found some of her nudes, and she was
01:28:39.540
being threatened, and so she decided to release them on her own to get out in front
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of it, and then Whoopi Goldberg was critical of just her taking pictures in the beginning.
01:29:00.100
Listen, if you're famous, I don't care how old you are.
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You don't take nude pictures of yourself because.
01:29:08.160
Listen, when they're hacking you, they're hacking all of your stuff.
01:29:13.080
So whether it's one picture or a million pictures, once you take that picture, it goes
01:29:19.920
into the cloud, and it's available to any hacker who wants it.
01:29:24.020
And if you don't know that in 2019, that this is an issue, you.
01:29:33.360
A lot of people took issue with that and said her logic was flawed.
01:29:37.500
Like, are you never going to buy stuff online because your credit card could get hacked?
01:29:40.940
And Bella Thorne put out a tearful response to Whoopi for her victim blaming, essentially.
01:29:54.900
And if she could have switched it into the same thing, it was like, look, I get it.
01:29:58.440
You wish you could take pictures and send to your husband or your wife.
01:30:14.500
Last thing I want is your shit out there, and I got to deal with that.
01:30:17.540
I was fucking jacking off to my wife and showing her that shit.
01:30:21.040
And a Blizzard Jackson would have definitely jacked off my wife.
01:30:33.860
Apparently, you guys grew up around some fucking weak, fucking powder puff motherfuckers, dude.
01:30:41.940
People are using electronics and not even thinking about what they do or what they're capable of.
01:30:48.880
It's kind of wild that there isn't a class that shows you all the things that actually go on when you have a phone
01:30:54.060
and when you're sending photos to people and all of this, like the transmission, the things that possibly could get stolen,
01:31:00.880
That almost seems like it should be a course that should be for children these days
01:31:04.260
because you don't realize the level of the intense power of a phone that you have in your hand.
01:31:11.160
When you send someone a photo, yeah, you're not even thinking, oh, it could go out somewhere.
01:31:17.520
You're not even knowing what laws are even attached to it that they could be taking what you're saying
01:31:27.060
It also seems like, to me, also like Bella Thorne seems like a little bit of a fucking nutcase.
01:31:31.700
But so does Wolpe, so I'm not surprised that both of them are up in this shit.
01:31:35.840
Like she was basically scolding Bella Thorne instead of saying, look, it's not your fault at all.
01:31:45.040
You got to realize once you send those nudes, you take that risk.
01:31:47.480
Yeah, this isn't you drawing a picture and handing it to somebody, you know?
01:32:03.980
I worked with that girl on the Bad Baby music video.
01:32:12.160
I mean, she's definitely attractive, but I don't know.
01:32:15.380
I could see anybody, any of those people having like an ego that was just, to me, was astronomical, you know?
01:32:25.440
She came up on a Disney show and was doing that for a while.
01:32:31.340
She doesn't do like huge studio movies, but she does like the teen stuff like that.
01:32:51.600
Tell me, do you have any good Gary Minke stories out of Cincinnati or not?
01:33:05.760
Gary Minke is a magical little Israelite that lost half of his house and I don't know what
01:33:29.220
Let me tell you, the good and bad thing about Gary Minke, if you were struggling and you
01:33:33.500
had a halfway decent name and said, Gary, I need $500, he would find you a gig somewhere.
01:33:43.940
But just trust you're gonna get burned at some point.
01:33:57.140
So he goes, Gary, man, look, I'm on New Year's Eve this year.
01:34:00.640
And I'm okay, but I'm not really moving tickets enough.
01:34:07.100
You can't put me at a place where they don't normally see comedy.
01:34:11.600
So he books me at some club that has a stage that doesn't do comedy, but they do shows.
01:34:19.300
I'm thinking 12 people were there, and they kept holding the show, and I go, guys, they're
01:34:25.900
I'm telling the dude that's there, a bus is not about to pull up and 500 people get out.
01:34:31.680
Let's just do this 12 people and get on with it, right?
01:34:42.800
So I'm calling Gary like, yeah, man, we got you.
01:34:49.460
So basically, long story short, I didn't get shit.
01:34:56.920
And then it was funny because the guy, his business partner, Gary Manky is a stumpy white
01:35:03.740
So he had this other black dude that was the co-promoter on this with Manky, right?
01:35:10.100
So the black dude just wanted to pick me from the airport.
01:35:12.520
And when I left, then I go, don't worry about it.
01:35:18.280
So the black guy had the nerve like a year later to show up and call the Tampa Improv to
01:35:25.920
say he knows me and wanted tickets to the show.
01:35:33.880
Damn, you're the Cincinnati Bengals all of a sudden.
01:35:36.420
Then he comes out afterwards, like, doesn't he even bring up the fact you guys still owe
01:35:44.960
And he's got like his whole crew with them and they're taking pictures with me.
01:35:49.180
And he goes, yeah, I'm going to get one of them t-shirts, man, with the merch shirts.
01:35:53.000
Like, my Brad's like, dude, I go, charge him, right?
01:36:04.800
He looked at Brad and I go, and I'm looking, I'm like, it's $20 for a t-shirt.
01:36:10.580
He thought he was just going to grab some shit for his people.
01:36:19.400
I haven't worked at Minky's since, but, you know.
01:36:38.020
He had, you know, Gary used to carry a bunch of tickets with him in his pockets, and he'd
01:36:41.140
give them out to people for stuff around town for free stuff.
01:36:50.140
The manager would not accept the tickets, and then I had to pay for the dinner, right?
01:36:55.260
So, one night, Gary gets a couple milkshakes from McDonald's, right?
01:37:01.640
And he gets one for now and one for later, dude, you know?
01:37:09.740
This is in Cincinnati, and they had got a couple of black girls fighting, right?
01:37:12.900
So, he goes over to watch and polish off one of the shakes, right?
01:37:17.340
So, the problem is he gets a little too close with his phone, and he starts filming them,
01:37:22.460
So, he's holding one milkshake in his hand, the other one pressed against his chest,
01:37:29.700
They turn on him and start coming after him, right?
01:37:31.980
Now, he starts running, his pockets are full of all those tickets that he usually gives out.
01:37:39.220
Now, he can't run, and he's got two shakes, dude.
01:37:45.020
Oh, they beat a shake and four fists right out of his ass, bro.
01:37:48.020
And the whole time, he was getting beaten, but also trying to hold on to the shakes like Double Dare.
01:38:01.480
I still have a question about it, but Double Dare was a real show.
01:38:04.100
Well, look up BJ and see if that's a person, man, because that's who we're missing.
01:38:12.420
Okay, yeah, when Gary, when the Funny Bone opened in Cincinnati, which was in Newport, Kentucky,
01:38:17.540
back in like 2004, he hired a relative of mine that he didn't know was a relative of
01:38:23.620
And I go, he goes, yeah, man, I got this young girl, man.
01:38:26.960
She's like hustling tickets, and she's out in the streets, and she's moving shit.
01:38:37.600
And he goes, I don't know, but them crackheads can move some tickets.
01:38:41.940
It's like, it was my cousin that was living on the street.
01:38:48.220
And then when she showed up, she was like, Gary!
01:38:53.420
I don't know how she's getting them tickets out there.
01:39:05.620
Sounds like a lot of, yeah, I was saying, like a 12-step meeting.
01:39:09.520
Gary Owen, thanks so much for coming and joining us, man.