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hey guys it's spoodle uh you can always go to Davids spade.com to look at my
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tour dates because I bless a lot of cities in America with my hilarious standup act or you could not go to it
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and get on my enemy list up to you Jimmy Jimbo Brewer Jim Brewer is a buddy of mine I don't see barely ever
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anymore he was on we overlapped a little bit we talked about that he is such a character uh my two buddies in Arizona
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always hit me up with the gim Brewer Clips he's got great standup he's bananas um he he has a really funny
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story about when he worked at Sears he worked I think he worked in paints or something
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in the paint department and he does this elaborate story of how he called in a bomb threat I think that's what happened
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it was so so nuts but everything he says he knows how to tell a story I'll give
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him that the guy knows how to talk we were cracking up uh we asked about of course Goat Boy it took so long for him
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to get that on I think and um I don't know if this is just a lot of laughs we
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were all laughing sometimes it's like that sometimes it's more informative but
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we just cracked up so stick around kick back pull over put it in park and as you
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know Dana uh is still not here but we did this one right before uh last year we banked it and we are going to get uh
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a few out and then hopefully Dana is back and we just keep going we don't miss a beat so thank you for
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understanding and he appreciates uh everything and he will be speaking about it and everything when he comes back
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here's Jim [Music] Brewer don't do anything without me nothing look look at Brewer oh shoot
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hold on like a look Rockstar always just showing up when he's ready go uhhuh look at Brewer looks like dairo
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I'm on the road and I literally just checked into an Airbnb where are you playing um some this will come out in
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three months what I don't know some place in Cincinnati you look good though you look
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good damn you I it's three hours on this Zoom we we look good look at I mean look where
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we're at in life and we we're not F we're not we're not sagging we're not
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like so guys it's great to seeing you guys man these are good you know Dana I was
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with my two Idiot Friends in Arizona and we were leaving some deli and we saw these guys and they were all like old
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and beat up and we were like holy [ __ ] this is really really Us in 10 years then they go hey Spade we went to school
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with you and I go oh shut the [ __ ] up really is this well I'm so I was beating
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the system a little bit there because they go we totally gave up and I go no there's a lot of giving
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upot well let's put it this way though started yeah my my relatives they're not
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photographed they don't want pictures and they don't they're not on zooms they
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don't see them so they get in the mirror they put the chin up they have good
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lighting and then they wonder what the [ __ ] happened to me you know like if I put them on you let me get a little
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iPhone around you let me get a side angle but you can really think you look a lot younger why do everybody look so
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old but I represent a little further up the ladder than you two so yeah let's
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see you yeah you can Wikipedia well Jim's younger than me so you're the you're the kid here Jim is still still
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on fire that's one thing I wanted to mention Jim the physicality and the energy cuz I saw I saw some of your
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special from last year at the comedy store in La Hoya yeah and I was impressed because a lot of times I'll
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jump around out there I've seen other comedians do a physical move and then they're they're doing kind of this but
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you went ballistic at the beginning of that special you came out super mellow put
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like your phone down and then you did like five minutes of [ __ ] Jim Carrey 10x energy and falls out funny and then
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I'm waiting for I'm going this guy's gonna have to take a seat like Frasier but so do you work out is that
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just because you do it a lot because you didn't you sustained it and you didn't
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get you didn't get out of breath so how do you do you have you're like M or I
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listen so I think it was maybe two years ago before I did that where I was on stage
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and I I thought someone got up from the I thought someone was aggravated by something I was saying and they took a
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baseball and they threw it at me because I was hopping around and I felt my calf
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hop and no so I literally turned and I went okay who who did that and they're
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all looking at me like I'm crazy and then I went oh no no no you're not getting away with that you don't throw
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things and they're looking at me like I'm crazy and then I went to walk and I
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was oh God and long story short I just I didn't know you could blow a calf muscle
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my calf muscle or wow how high up was it was it where that meets the Achilles Like twoth thirds down or was it up
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toward your knee no it was it was literally the Fator cap yeah yeah they were like if it
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was just a little bit here we would have talking about the ailles heel and a whole different okay yeah so I didn't
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hit that so because of that I even now I stretch and I I do a lot of stretching before I get out there
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I do a lot of I do cardio but I do a lot of stretching before I go out there a lot of stretching yeah because you
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didn't before right no what what comedian goes out there like they're going to the NBA finals I know I don't
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do it and then now and then I go but I don't move around that much you don't
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move around and I don't do jokes and I just lay down yeah and and you and you
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sell out it's called sleepy time with Spade I don't know how you sell the
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tickets love it they love it lines around the block you get but you're doing a rooster thing your hands are out
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I mean it's incredibly physical so anyway I I I Lov I grew up with that like I loved Lauren Hardy I love and
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comedians once prior came out it Richard prior's I'm the same thing I'm just a
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street entertainer I I whatever what I grow up on the street I just see the story and then I elaborate the story and
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then he he acts everything out like hey this is what happened now I'm gonna act
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it out but yeah I got that that San Diego one I went I went extremely nuts on that one well plus you're taping well
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reminded me cuz you can fall asleep about standup mental and when I saw that I went damn you know commitment should
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never be underrated and to your point like prior with the gangsters the one in Long Beach his special you real
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commitment to the voice and to the character yeah is extremely entertaining whenever I see anybody throw their voice
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anywhere I go do I do that I better do that but when you see it you go that's
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really entertaining so thank you thank you you know what you're doing up there
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Mr Brewer well well he's not walking through it which is nice like you're saying he's
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not just going here's my when I grew up and I was doing standup Dana but before
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SNL Brewer probably same thing like when you go on the road and you work with a headliner they could do the same 45
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every time you see them for 10 years and then you go and they're just beginning
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middle end you know it back and forth they walk back and then they get a drink and you go [ __ ] but for someone actually
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think sometimes you even catch yourself in your own joke and it gets better because you put a new spin on it cuz
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you're saying it you go what am I really saying here and you get back into the
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story the way you thought of it and you got to say it and lean into it and go this this and it sells it harder you're
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not just saying it and so when uh Jim is uh a little more animated or just that style you have to bring it it's a little
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trickier it definely is you can't walk through it no I can't I can't walk
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through this because and and it's really the bad part of it for me is if that energy is not there I don't do very
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if I if my energy has to stay down here I can adjust to it and then I could do you know laid back storytelling but when
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it's really really most explosive for me is when they're I can feel their energy
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right out of the gate and then that feeds I guess like a band and then I and then I start going in all different
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directions that I didn't really plan and then I'm in the zone and that's that's
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when I have so much fun so much fun and because you're surprising yourself in the moment you're
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you're going off yeah yes that I'm addicted to that I don't enjoy repeating
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yeah um like even now it's all leading up to some specials but there's one
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whole section and if I every night I'm hitting a section I'm like oh my God I'm bored
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with this already I need to find another Avenue and then I'll find another Avenue
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like ah I love it again that's very true that's very true it's one new bit one
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new idea lifts the whole night out God you try to do another bit you're going
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out there and you're doing an hour and you go I have one joke that's new and
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you cannot wait you're like here I go we're in the middle and then I smash it
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because when it [ __ ] bombs I put a winner before it and after and I just act like nothing happened but if it
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works the rest of the time I'm like oh yeah it does wake you up yes it feels
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good yeah you go still can think of [ __ ] jokes it's so hard I hate when something has been killing for a couple
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years and then just all of a sudden it starts to fade away and you're like horrible horrible did I am I not
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committing to it you know I always tell young comedians I mean when if you see someone run over something in a street
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you come up to your apartment you're talking to your friends you want to have
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that kind of commitment and energy you get right to it you're very clear there's this lady driving a car this and
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that then months later you just unravel it and you don't really it's but your
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energy is still up there man well thank you let's let's get to the old Jim ju
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said he loved something what what' you love no no I loved I I got excited when
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I saw you guys um hook up together and start doing this I thought that was a I thought that was
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really fascinating interesting I was like oh because you know there's a billion podcast now yeah we're talk
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about comedy again oh [Music] God that the all right but then when I start and the
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guy didn't pay me shut the [ __ ] up no we agree we just kind of went oh I guess
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we'll try this we started hanging out in La when I moved back down a lot and then
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uh we just sort of said H let's try it and we didn't really have a plan obviously um but that's the best part of
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it I mean even when I even when I started like we're able to just who cares because at the end of the day you
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go back on state you're we're already established in that world you know all
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three of us are so who cares you know there's there's I won't say who it is
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but there's a gargantuan at least one or two comics on there nobody's watching
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the podcast but doesn't stop the human being from selling out 18,000 seats somewhere but this just
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opens a whole new door for us where in the years ago we didn't have this and
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and human beings are fascinated by anything that feels authentic used to think it doesn't have to be funny every
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second but just it this is a new thing I'm glad I'm around long enough to like
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okay this is a job that I have little side gig did you feel any point you don't want to get
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vulnerable like on the podcast I don't I I don't know how vulnerable the two of
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you get like how truthful you guys get Dan gets more um I would imagine yeah yeah there's different kinds of
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vulnerability there's stuff that maybe would involve other loved ones M wouldn't do that but you can ask me
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anything you want about anything no that's that's the way I mean that's what
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I feel like I I over the years have found out the more vulnerability I put out there more honesty even if I think
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people were like oh I don't I don't care I'm I'm at the point I don't I don't
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care what you know about me I'm G tell you everything this one's I don't care
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care you got nothing to hold on me anymore I don't care my problem Jim is I'm like a tough guy hard ass athlete
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that's my Persona so people don't think any anything could ever get to me
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impenetrable cuz I'm so can't get yeah I'm like the Schwarzenegger of comedy
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and so when they see me they go nothing's wrong there's nothing else other than toughness after about a
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hundred of these I realized there lny dyra of well that's not a good one d nails that's I don't know about that
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if you I getting just to Nails that's all other than that how about a podcast
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called there's no there there just so people know there's nothing don't don't
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don't keep so the name of your podcast is Brew nerse I got two others for you
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ready brew nerse and it's on YouTube and is it also audio or is it I got one if
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you interview people about their feelings one's called brewoo and the other one is called uh the Brew Crew yes
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with you and a couple guys I like that easy we'll go back to and then a fitness
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segment called hit the gym wow why that doesn't have Brew in it I think you guys
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no but no but it's got to hit the I like that well Dave I feel honored because
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one of them one of them is Brew Crew like we start a whole Brew Crew section shirts blah blah blah but the but the
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other one the who what' you say brewoo brewoo where it's shering cry yeah I
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like that I like that a lot cry yeah take it and run with it start start the shirts and hats do I you guys any is
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this okay thank you no you're good dude there is a little envelope in that hotel
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room and some pum got $200 I got you Jim I don't know if you're ever in in LA but when I drive on um PCH coming
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out of the 10 um there's an old Sears it says you used to work at Sears yeah I
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used to love Sears and now I'm like this building I think is toast I don't know
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what's going on with it well they're closing all them and and are they is
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that because of the massive robberies or did they they skip Sears I I have no clue I just know Target and other ones
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kind of beat them up a little bit yeah that's what I think would happen but did
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you know you know guys know Freddy armson yeah so me Fred armson yes me and Freddy um graduated from the same high
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school and Freddy and I used to work at spheres I love it in Valley Stream and he was like dude Freddy was he used to
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have a mohawk that that's before Mohawks were cool like he had a mohawk mohawk
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and he had combat boots he would wear and he what yes and he and he'd walk around with like these guys that had
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dead Kennedy jackets on like and he worked in the lawnmower department or what he worked he I want to say he
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worked in the auto department but only you know it's like a sales guy the CL
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and um wow yeah yeah yeah you know what you I don't know but you know it but when I when I was there I did a big
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bomb threat which you know I made a bit but it was it was real like I cleared the entire store because thought yeah I
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swar I swear to God so I'm I'm sure that both of you especially Dana have done so when I
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worked there this is I'm like 19 years old I would call other departments as characters all day long
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that's funny right so I mean I have I have a dangling cross earring I'm wearing my Judas Priest denim jackets
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this is where I'm at and um you know there's a big fat guy that worked in
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toys so whenever the Cabbage packs would come out he'd have all these Jamaican
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women come in and pissed off because there were no there were no black Cabbage Patch St so they're like why are
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we waiting for five so you'd have and that's when I call and you have to pick
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up the phone and i' pick up like like hey you know I need you to go look for
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bson basketball don't put me in a hole so anyway this one this one day I swear my kids lives this is a true
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story so I work in paint I don't know anything about paint I know nothing about people would come look at me like
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hey man you know we want to paint the the kitchen like yeah I would put I would stain it like I I don't know what
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the hell does people this guy you gotta sand it what right so there's a guy in
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hardware and I could see him he's right down the aisle and I walk in his Department like hey man I'm gym working
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paint blah blah blah and he gets really snippy he's like okay you know what man
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stay in your department you look high all the time you know you don't know anything about what you're saying
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so he's overheard one conversation with you with paint this is um 86 sish and all I remember we had a big
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ORD deal going on on with Libya right it was all over everywhere he he shot missiles out a plane and he we gotta
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kill madfi so I I call up on my I could see this I can see him and he picks up the
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phone and I say hello he's he's all professional yeah John Sears Hardware B
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stream how am I help you and I said this is you know doing the whole accent this
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is maafi I've sent six Libyan missiles to blow up the Sear's Hardware Department
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you know and I'm going on and on I'm doing the noises and I and I said Long
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Live Paint right hang out so I swear to God right so I I go into the break room because you to go in the break room you
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had to go through the paint paint the doors to everyone would come out to paint and so I'm in the break room and
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I'm hanging out for like 20 minutes and and like ah let me go back out there
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nobody's out there and I'm and I'm like what the [ __ ] is going so um like
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nobody's there's no customers there's no people I go in I go in the toys and the
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candy and and then the security guy comes out and he's like hey man you gotta get out of here so what's go ah
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the new guy got a bomb threat what what do you mean got a bomb thre like yeah man you don't even remember 20
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minutes ago right I said well I said that was me I said I was Muma Gaddafi I said I
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sting missiles what the [ __ ] I I I said I ended with long liveed paint yeah he's
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like oh oh man well we had to evacuate this and the mall like the mall you're
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fuing evacuating the mall so this is Valley Stream Greenacres Mall long story short I had to talk with cops and they
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all laughed I had a meet with the oh boy head guy of of of Long Island yeah of all the paint and
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um he sits me down he's got a suit and tie and I come walking in there and he's
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like so tell me what happened that day paint department you know I should have been
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doing more paint I apologize but all my stuff was done I got all the sales ones up in the in the front display and it
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was slow that night so I I keep things light and I I started I called him and I I I said I said I was
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madfi and I sent missiles to hit Sears Hardware and I ended by saying Long Live Paint um and dude this guy
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goes all right why why don't you just sell more paint we do do a little less
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phone calls like I keep my job like yeah that guy quit after five days because everyone would walk by his Department
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going look out this missile's coming you know eventually he just yeah yeah want D
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he was in his 40s and I'm sorry if you're working Sears Hardware in your 40
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like something happened you know what I mean like something he's either living
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in the basement like this bad divorce something's going you ain't working
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Sears hardware by the way it's it's more it's Mo Omar Gaddafi calling directly he
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doesn't have some guy call to threaten yes that's a red flag right there just madfi is calling the hard
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from Libya all the way to a hardware department Valley Springs I'm going to call 5,000 tonight you the
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first now we go you tell the people of the hardware and the and the tool pits that
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they going down you tell Prescott Nevada that I'm coming for them you spread it
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around this is straight from the Dutch Brothers with paint is that something and you tell the department store Sterns
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next to you they are next I'm going after Radio Shack every Radio Shack is going to be gone by
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morning my name is grn Baki ches King you will never buy three suits for $99 any
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again food court goodbye Basin Robins must die I have no problem with Panda Express goodbye Pand the king all of
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youo tat T Junction sort of makes sense but what uh so yeah I know Freddy was I think Freddy
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was one did he get caught in the in the rubble or what happened with that so so here I don't even get the story I goes
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so no bombs the bomb didn't hit no no no Gaddafi no bombs just a joke just joke
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must some people just go but there must have been some kind of bomb was some threat no was really made up but
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something got damaged no no nothing did no it was all made up yep that's good though Dana we stumbled into
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Sears because I love Sears and I used to go to the wishbook and get all my uh oh
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I always love SE the wish book for Christmas you know you go through it Circle stuff and then oh yes Santa would
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get the only thing was is my brother I had three older the brother got the Schwin Stingray Monster green my parents
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ran out of money so nothing against Sears body I got the Sears front loader and it was just such a downg grade from
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the Schwin but that I I recovered Jim's like I knew a guy in bikes at Sears Jim
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had a a great Schwin Sting Ray as a kid I had a Schwin Scrambler oh and it had multiple gears it had mag mag wheels
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no way all my life and this is when I realized you're lying there's no way
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Absolut and I'm right around my neighborhood all like yeah this is I got a swin Scrambler with black mag wheels
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eat it it was stolen what that night out of my garage that's that's the neighborhood was like
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yeah no we don't show off here take it oh you showed off oh you puffed up Ryan
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to the neighborhoods what's up like I almost got my bike stolen but we went in into a hardware store and
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we shoplifted bike locks and then came out and locked up our bikes true story that's a that's a good well there was
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also a big um racket going at Sears like you go to they had it was a gangster Mafia I swear in my life
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there's guy I think his name was the benedetto and he'd be in class he'd be like high school the
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benedetto like bre you know anyone wants a VCR and VCR is then like oh [ __ ] you could score a
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VCR he's like you're going to go into a hardware you're GNA buy like a wrench
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for like a199 and you're gonna buy a garbage pal a garbage Pals you got to pick up down by the loading dock you ask
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for Vinnie you'll have that the VCR be in that but I got to get you $40 by Friday oh my God are you serious
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[Laughter] score it was a huge score these guys were just [ __ ] oh man J I just have to
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say that because you're standing and moving to the camera it's like you're
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you're making your own feature film like you're going into a closeup and your
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face is a little distorted your chin down so you're totally this weird character in a movie just then I was
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going damn what is going on he like hey you know I want to say you this you know
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[ __ ] you know this guy in my seventh grade and he was such a little puss but he was such a tough talker and he goes
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hey man where you G I go I'm thinking about move one time he busted me because
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he goes what are you doing this summer Spade I go uh we're thinking of heading
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to cff I tried to be [ __ ] cool I said Cal he goes you [ __ ] trying to say cff and not say the whole word to be
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cool and I go no I was going to say California he goes no you weren't he told everyone but he he he was such a
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little puss and he walked around and he he said so no one would bother me he goes I'm I'm tied into the bonano family
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and it was like a big real Mafia Family and everyone was like holy [ __ ] no one
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questioned why is a seventh grader working for the banano F but we all stayed away from them because that
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scares people dude I grew up around all those bananas they that is oh the bananas there is nothing
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it's funny you know we we'd be playing roller hockey and you know in the middle
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of the game we're like N9 years old 11 years old a bunch of us and I remember
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there's always a couple kids like did you hear what happened uh Uncle Nikki what the government arrested him for
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taxes or something and like I never met there was at least three kids that I knew and their fathers would always get
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arrested but no one really knew what they and you don't know what's going on
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and then the old and then the older you get you're like oh [ __ ] you my God their
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their parents are are tied in the mafia how do you know that they come from Little Italy I mean what do you think
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they're [ __ ] doing politics there like what do you um yeah they were there they found a guy
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behind uh around my street this little bar I used to go into Kate Saloon and in there it was only I think we were
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there we go in there for like a year and we'd sneak in there and they found and
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the cops are all out there like what's going on they found a guy in cement and
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a bunch of boxes like what holy [ __ ] yeah that I watched all that around me dude even
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in when you start making it too I'm sure both you guys were approached by many type of people um yeah they they
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all come out of the woodwork you know what I get Dana is a guy will come up to me to this day and he'll like come to me
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at a restaurant and there's some girls near us and he walks and goes hey man
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what's going on my name's Mikey [ __ ] blah blah blah I'm all cool like and
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then he turns me two inches and he goes hey girls my buddy Spade blah BL blah I just want to say hi and I'm like wait I
00:30:23
just met Mikey literally 4 seconds ago but it's a it's an interesting move like
00:30:28
he's my man and some people are middlemen like they go hey you should come to this thing and then they'll tell
00:30:34
the place they're bringing me and then he's the middleman getting attention
00:30:37
because he's like the guy that got me in but he goes hey these guys want you to
00:30:41
come and then I go and then he goes hey they take care of your dinner and then he goes then I see him with the waiter
00:30:47
going just pay for his dinner like he's a [ __ ] on TV and I'm like oh this
00:30:50
wasn't even set up ahead this is just a guy a Flim Flam man bullshitting his way
00:30:55
through town but there's a lot of those there's more of those and real people no
00:30:58
you're [Music] right so how were you in high school Jim I mean were you popular were you a stud
00:31:08
were you a nerd no no no no no I I I was way too shy yeah I I wasn't a stoner yet
00:31:15
I wasn't a stoner yet I didn't try pot until my senior year right before I
00:31:21
graduated um but that really didn't kick in until I like 20 years old 21 years old
00:31:29
but High School I was really quiet unless I was the back of the room kid so I'd always go for the back of the room
00:31:37
and once I was back of the room if I can disrupt this guy and get this guy on my
00:31:41
team or this chick on my team and then we'd had you know I draw a little cartoons try to crack up this one um but
00:31:47
it wasn't until we did a a sketch night ah and I right and basically you know this kid one of my
00:32:00
best friends like Jim you got to do sketch tonight I'm like I'm not doing
00:32:04
those sketch and's like no man this is different they're really cool I'm like a
00:32:10
just I a I want anything to do with theater so they basically like a Cosby bit our school each grade
00:32:21
um each grade had to do a thing from the Bible even though we weren't a a school
00:32:27
of Faith right so my friend writes up pretty much and he swears he had no clue Cosby did it
00:32:37
was the Cubit spit you know God goes uh Noah I need you to yeah yeah build the B
00:32:44
Cubit what's a cubit he goes but but all at that time all I would do is all day
00:32:50
imitate professional wrestlers running into the locker smashing their heads and the other thing I would do is talk like
00:32:56
Eddie Murphy nonstop all all day so he said do it as Eddie Murphy so I finally agreed to
00:33:08
it and this is so now that I really think of it like I could really getting today's world oh my God they would at me
00:33:16
he's racist need to be can so I came out as Moses but as Eddie Murphy Eddie Murphy being Moses and all
00:33:29
I remember was well I got to hear this yeah well well I yeah so I came out and I was like what your
00:33:38
mother you know so I'm doing all that and the place ex explodes I I've never I'm never killed that hard
00:33:53
since not really I've been trying to it's the most memorable maybe I should
00:33:59
do all my stuff that I'm doing now just do it as Murphy back in 85 yeah that's
00:34:04
funny but the next day in school I swear to God it's like a movie so all the hot chicks like oh my God
00:34:12
you're so funny all the guys I always were intimidated by like the jocks and
00:34:18
they were like bro we got to hang out man you're a pisser I never known you were such a pisser it's like a teen
00:34:24
movie everything's going perfectly the next day it was it was Dave if you wrote the
00:34:30
script you ah it's a little too predictable yeah yeah it really was that and then the next night I had to do it
00:34:37
again they were chanting and I just I was already on the verge of like I'm gonna be a standup I'm doing it but this
00:34:45
this put me over the I was like oh yeah I'm going after this did you swear at
00:34:51
the high school thing or no did you say [ __ ] yeah but okay I'm just curious you did it without swearing
00:34:57
that's pretty good I said your mother a lot I'm like yeah what' you say and I
00:35:00
was doing this with my hands for some reason that your mother your mother your mother was enough back then we didn't
00:35:09
need crude language yeah you can hint at it now it's got to be nail on the head
00:35:14
yeah high school if you can if you can be cool that's [ __ ] spreads like wildfire that's great yeah so that but
00:35:21
otherwise High School I really wasn't uh I was I was mostly quiet I like I grew up on a street we never had to
00:35:30
leave the street I I mean we had chicks we had everyone who I still hang out with is from that street we're all
00:35:38
within two three years of each other it was huh I I really to me that was the greatest everyone knew each other
00:35:44
everyone looked after each other it was it was like a brothers and and still is to this day so was where were you what
00:35:51
city Valley Stream you keep saying this fake name but where is that what state oh I'm sorry New York New York thank it
00:36:00
sounds very it sounds California long is Island and so so we grew up where Valley
00:36:08
Stream the End of the Street almost like the movie 8 Mile the end of the street was all black we were the beginning of
00:36:17
all white so you had this racial tension and we weren't really allowed to walk on
00:36:23
their side they like get back on that side white like H sorry and then and then if they would come down the street
00:36:29
we'd all just stare oh my God like so you don't do [ __ ] you [ __ ] what's that you don't do
00:36:38
anything no we were scared to death are you kidding yeah what were you going to challenge the
00:36:45
neighborhood popsicle stick you sharpened but were you friends with any black guys then or no trouble
00:36:51
now I'm going to sharpen this Popsicle stick It's Like a Knife Man you roll a
00:36:57
hula hoop at them take that go get some dirt bombs oh dirts yeah so then you're friends with
00:37:07
these guys still because of that Bond of that that street yeah yeah they come to
00:37:11
every time have either one of you played um the Paramount in Huntington New York yes is that when they give you a
00:37:22
brick afterwards yes yes it's a [ __ ] 40 pound brick I'm line out the next day
00:37:28
I'm on I have to take it it's got my name on it and we go like a few blocks
00:37:32
to the driver goes just pull over so there're somewhere but great great Club very hot
00:37:39
you know hot room Dave you would they are hands down the greatest people towards artists I think it's one of the
00:37:47
greatest venues in the whole country they are um the downstairs they have that whole HIIT private room and all
00:37:54
that Jaz but I play there like every three four months and my my the kids I grew up with they always meet me there
00:38:03
and then we go downstairs in a room and you know it's like being bunch of Knuckleheads back being kids again do
00:38:09
you ever hear this though with relatives or friends that come to your shows they
00:38:13
backstage they go no matter how many times I hear those bits they're still funny to me such a burn
00:38:22
yeah I've heard that thing you did 35 times I still I actually that's based on
00:38:29
me I think and they're like and you're like no no no I tell everyone that's about me
00:38:35
right no so how did these friends it's about no that's not you go ahead how did
00:38:41
they respond when you started to get really successful I mean first you must have exploded in the clubs or became a
00:38:47
headliner at some point Right and started to make good money I'm assuming you were you weren't
00:38:53
a 10year tortured guy it seems like with your skill set and attitude pretty quickly you were no one wanted to follow
00:38:59
you put it that way yeah yeah so that that started 89 to about 93 uh and that's when I so long
00:39:11
island then my parents did the move they went to Florida I moved down there and I
00:39:16
kind of lost my whole Direction moving down there I couldn't really afford New York
00:39:23
on my own so I went down there and then I reamped and I started going to comedy clubs so it was
00:39:33
89 started couple months in Florida you started in Florida okay yeah and then that led to being on the road I can't
00:39:43
follow this guy this kids a pain in the ass um and that was the I gotta say that
00:39:49
was the greatest time ever like just staying in crappy condos and listen like I I've been doing comedy like 10 10
00:39:56
years and you hear all the story it was a lot of fun and then did you ever have novelty acts where you show up at the
00:40:02
comedians condo and like the vent Quist took the headliner bedroom oh oh yeah can't do that for people are listening
00:40:10
there's a comedian's condo and there's yes usually the headliner gets the
00:40:14
master bedroom but if if the clown showed up early then you're like well why is there a juggler in the
00:40:21
master yeah exactly these the novelty acts they had a guy named we had a puppet named chuck wood he he didn't
00:40:28
want you to look at it don't don't touch Chuck I mean he was like it really was
00:40:32
like a human being to him a piece of wood [ __ ] face so anyway I'm yeah go ahead I'm
00:40:42
only walking my way up to your SNL thing and trying to figure out the timeline of
00:40:48
that where you found yourself as a performer so so standup brings me back to Long Island now I'm getting the city
00:40:59
clubs uh I landed my first TV show pretty quick it was an all it was an all Urban black show Uptown Comedy Club and
00:41:08
they filmed it it was the real Poor Man's Apollo living color was it on UPN do you remember what UPN was I think
00:41:18
I remember that show no I think MTV no Dave no actually MTV took the show what's his name took the show he told me
00:41:26
he's he told when I saw it on what's his name oh God Robert Townson no no no no
00:41:36
so it's filmed in Harlem um it was a great show it was it was you know it was fun actually you're
00:41:44
doing sketches on it we're doing sketches and now I'm doing the clubs at
00:41:48
night I'm now I'm doing like seven eight sets on the weekends and I'm in in every
00:41:52
club and I'm feeling like I'm a badass and then I got a huge development deal
00:41:58
and then another development deal and then me and Chappelle were launched to spin-off of a Tim Allen show the Home
00:42:08
Improvement and we filmed we were I was on the cover TV Guide [ __ ] I was I was
00:42:15
buying leather pants yeah I was bro I was like this was happening um and the second episode the commercials were on
00:42:27
it was called buddies uh we were following uh Home Improvement and they fired me what right be yeah they fired
00:42:36
me the second episode right before the premiere so I had all my I had my childhood friends out oh you you want to
00:42:46
talk about traumatizing right so I just remember being I just got told like hey man they let you go like what
00:42:55
you but the commercials are on like I don't how's like they're still a commercials
00:43:03
like what the [ __ ] is going on um and that that was my first big Taste of Hollywood right so now D so now I go to
00:43:13
my room and thank God my best friends were there that I grew up with because they bring it back to Blue Collar
00:43:19
because I'm like oh my God the whole Hollywood World they going be [ __ ] angry and I they're already crushed my
00:43:26
mini bar and it's like 100 p.m. like he man you're all right something happened ah
00:43:32
[ __ ] they fired me like what what do you mean they fired you like they fired me it's like it's just I there no more
00:43:40
doing it and they think for a second and my one friend goes well I got a [ __ ] limo for tonight so I guess
00:43:49
I'm paying and we're going out because you ain't got a [ __ ] job and he really just made it so simple
00:43:57
like [ __ ] it you ain't got a job [ __ ] let's go hang out and I went to The
00:44:01
Improv of Melrose and I remember the comedian I think you know you think they're all
00:44:06
your friends you're like hey man I hey I heard what happened yeah um I'll never
00:44:12
forget this so oh no your character that got fired what do you tell me about because I'm
00:44:20
auditioning you mother why blood in the water godamn what should I do different to get the job you got fired from you
00:44:29
have any hints you know wow so then that led to another pilot um I can't believe Rob Schneider
00:44:37
would say that to you that's what shocks me no I'm kidding Rob he's a friend of
00:44:43
ours give me some tips I get fired from another one I'm sorry I didn't get fired the main
00:44:51
character gets fired oh it was clerks oh from the movie Clerk oh okay and they fire what's his name Kevin Smith they
00:45:01
fire Kevin Smith so now I'm fire the guy who inv running these shows good God you
00:45:08
get rid of Kevin Smith and so it the Frenchy Frenchie something from Third Rock when the Su was on
00:45:15
the yes Frenchie Stewart was part of it he's a great guy it gets picked up and then it gets
00:45:23
dropped and then I'm develop and then SN was like hey will you audition and on my
00:45:28
life I said no way am I doing that show and like why I'm like no because I saw this one and
00:45:39
this one and this one going to that show and they came out miserable dark human beings I don't know what's going on
00:45:49
there I ain't put I'm I already hate the industry I've already seen enough and so
00:45:55
the the process to get on which by the way Lauren loves you Dana loves you I love I'm sure he loves you too but I was
00:46:07
about to say like you don't have to lean so hard you started to say a d and I
00:46:10
started to look at the camera a little harder and then you go D lean into no he loves you guys he loves no he loves Dana
00:46:17
fine he used to bounce Dana on his knee at readr I remember it's fine yeah yeah
00:46:20
no he because um so it was a process and then once I saw it was new cast um and I
00:46:28
met will at the club I was the last guy hired on that cast Dave was Spade was still I did a year overlap with you
00:46:37
correct yes yes and will frell started was it Sherry o Terry Sherry Chris Katan uh and
00:46:45
your darl Hamond so they were sort of replacing not only Dana B reset yeah Adam left it
00:46:57
was it was replacing that whole bunch yeah and I hung a too long Dave do you remember do you remember the the the
00:47:07
so we for us you know I'm like oh my God this is really happening now we're
00:47:13
really gonna be on TV you Dave were we were on the bleachers and were given a press conference all right
00:47:22
Norm is right next to me you are one level down and to be honest with you I'm
00:47:29
I'm a little I'm Star Struck by you and I'm Star Struck by Norm right I'm like
00:47:35
oh my God like oh my God and Norm came up to me you're funny and they're going their Marcy C's
00:47:43
going nor put out the goddamn cigarett I'm not done yet he smoking at this press conference and then he he finishes
00:47:55
it and they asked me a question and Lauren goes uh no no it was Warren Littlefield and one Littlefield
00:48:04
goes Jim Brewer he goes Jim Brewer uh you're like the New York guy you grew up
00:48:11
here and what's it like being perhaps the real New Yorker and your whole life
00:48:18
watch sat Night Live and now here you are part of this new task and I just simply went I didn't watch s life
00:48:24
growing up and you went wrong answer you said like that oh my God you said it you said it
00:48:34
like under your breath and you but I could tell it generally made you laugh and I didn't know what that meant and
00:48:41
then like he tried to recover and I just knew at that moment I'm like oh no Marcy
00:48:48
came up and strangled you oh my God that was a bad answer and then they tried to
00:48:54
they tried to recover and said um I said oh was because I was a kid and I wasn't
00:48:59
allowed to stay up that late said surely when you were older and I went no man I
00:49:03
was out Saturday nights [ __ ] I'm so stupid what the Jesus [ __ ] so stupid Oh my God Brewer [ __ ] they go
00:49:14
do you know where you are right now and you're like I don't even know what the
00:49:17
[ __ ] is going on where am I I was I was like I just got fired from this what going I fired again yeah Kevin Smith is
00:49:25
God like come on I don't [ __ ] is ask me these questions ask Will a question he's
00:49:30
happy um so you came in with all those people now I hosted maybe 95 or 96 but I remember you as just a
00:49:43
Powerhouse because on the show I did the Joe pesy show yeah which we should talk
00:49:48
about and then the the madness and silliness and the verbal I think we talked about it when I was there of goat
00:49:56
boy the that thing was like those two bits were killer as far when I hosted I think I came on the peshy show was I
00:50:06
Ross foro or some [ __ ] I don't know yes yeah yeah with peshy and then goat boy
00:50:12
so anyway I showed up a year later and it looked like you were you know just just doing you were hot I felt good but
00:50:21
you were you brought like when you came on I mean we we started off with Tom Hanks whoa and then that's where the
00:50:31
that's where the goat really got launched did you do the first Show with Tom Hanks the first your first show yes
00:50:38
oh boy yeah yeah and and we did the goat and to be honest with you that character I I pitched it as a
00:50:46
guy with Tourette's that's all I was I just I said I want to do a guy and he
00:50:51
gets nervous he gets nervous when he's with chicks and he sings and he starts
00:50:55
you know hello here and then Tom gianis who was a writer yeah waited months and he finally came
00:51:04
to I already forgot about it no one cared about this character and he comes to me he goes hey uh I think I I think I
00:51:11
got a great idea um so I've been thinking about the goat I went was eight months ago he's like no no no so what if
00:51:20
what if it was an experiment because you know we're in the Middle East a lot so
00:51:24
they they're hbra and they and they have to get up in the mountains but our but
00:51:28
our soldiers can't do it so they get a goat and a person and the military but
00:51:32
it doesn't work so they just they just really sing about it a lot and then so
00:51:37
they don't know what to do with this guy who who who loves the 80s because and so
00:51:42
VH1 gives him a show I'm like are you [ __ ] are you Ser that's the craziest
00:51:47
[ __ ] I've ever heard anded on doing it and I was pissed like this is so stupid and it
00:51:56
just it it murdered it it was it was just confusing to people go you had goat ears you were
00:52:05
like a scientific Hy the outfit I didn't want the but the thing about it Jim is
00:52:12
that as an audience member watching it it's like you don't I don't know how
00:52:17
long you're gonna Bray as a goat or when you might hit a little one so there's an
00:52:21
improvisational quality that the audience can feel you a performer are in tune with that for me all that standup
00:52:28
of like oh they like it I'm going to hit one here and I'm going to do a long one
00:52:32
here so it had this thing that was pretty electric everyone's just waiting for it then you go a long time without
00:52:38
it everyone's like and you yeah it is well here's something you don't know and I owe you an apology and
00:52:47
you don't even know why oh okay accepted yes no so when you first of all you came
00:52:54
on you know for a lot of us especially me I was like oh [ __ ] like this is wow and Lauren was already prepping the
00:53:03
table like we're gonna have when Dana comes here he's just it's gonna be like
00:53:08
he was already setting the table you guys have no clue how this is going down right
00:53:14
so I never had anyone improv right and by the time you came on I started feeling like my I got some I'm
00:53:24
starting have those Tuesday night dinners okay cool group I'm having Tuesday night dinners
00:53:34
like oh [ __ ] Jim uh the Branzino is fresh give it a try right and you came on and absolutely murdered you were you
00:53:46
were um Wham the No noge George Mich George Michaels yeah you Michael and you were
00:53:57
murdering and I would like like I look back in time like God damn it I wish I just listened and
00:54:05
watched more and then fed off your energy where during that you're crushing and then I would do something but then
00:54:13
you'd improv and I'd get I'd be like you're stepping on my [ __ ] and I and I
00:54:20
try to recover and there was even one where I put like an angry girl I was like and
00:54:28
I I was George Michael and who were you go boy yeah like we were oh was that mashup yeah God
00:54:36
I remember now yeah yeah so it's George Michael and the gooy are you are so funny at it and but it was the first
00:54:45
time that I that we really had someone what I would say super professional and like so so in the
00:54:55
element of live like we're still we're still learning Dave already left Spade
00:55:01
already left so now we're figuring we stick to the lines we don't go too far off it but you
00:55:08
brought this whole and I just wish at that moment I understood that even better um because that sketch probably
00:55:17
would have went to a even a monstrosity level if I was willing to play as much as your expert
00:55:25
you probably also thought you would get in trouble I did I did well there yeah but just for a second I mean I had done
00:55:34
140 shows then I'm coming back this was your third show Fourth this was this was
00:55:40
the second season maybe maybe my third real sketch yeah and I I felt that I needed three SE 60 or 80 shows for the
00:55:51
audience to kind of discover me and for me to get more confident I mean in a in another level I mean I got more
00:55:58
confident but you were still early on so yeah you know I just thought you were a
00:56:03
kindred spirit that you were playing with rhythms I thought your peshi was great um and it was just a really funny
00:56:11
take on on Joe peshi I don't know I thought you were just a completely kindred spirit to me as a performer I
00:56:18
felt that way and I always I loved I really admired like both you guys like whenever you guys would just like Dave
00:56:25
once in a while would come up and he would just interact with me backstage like Dave just talk to me he thinks I'm
00:56:33
cool he didn't you know you had no clue you had that effect but I people always
00:56:38
say how was your experience there and I always say I don't have I I loved being a part of the whole
00:56:49
thing and between you and I I would have loved to even still be on there I wanted
00:56:54
to I wanted to be the guy who stays on there for like eight years and then the summer times makes Killer movies I
00:57:03
wanted to make Lauren proud I wanted to um and you know don't always go that way
00:57:10
I started I started having uh with Fred Wolf who is oh yeah our friend both Fred he he was he was a
00:57:20
tremendous Ally and Steve K and those guys and then once they once they quit it was it was a lot more difficult after
00:57:29
that yeah yeah it was very and they told me that they literally I swear to God I'll never
00:57:35
forget I didn't understand what they meant and uh Fred came up to me and said
00:57:39
Jimmy B Jimmy B you're my guy but I gota be honest with me I'm leaving man I'm
00:57:43
gonna go help spade and I you're you're on your own bro this is gonna get tough
00:57:49
I didn't I didn't understand what that meant politically you didn't have anyone
00:57:53
back in you I had no clue what that I learned it we've heard a version of this
00:57:59
story from other cast members go ahead and then um when Steve kin left he was the last guy like I didn't
00:58:10
know you can go to Lauren and and plead your case and I knew I think it was I think it was my third episode and I had
00:58:17
enough with certain individuals not cast writers and it was really I I realized I was I was
00:58:29
fighting egos which you can't fight and um it was extremely frustrating made me
00:58:36
very angry um and I remember that night it was Matthew bradick and I the person came in and said hey I know it worked
00:58:47
during the the dress show but we're not going to do that we're going to do the
00:58:52
other I was like you [ __ ] you you want that sketch on so goddamn you [ __ ] so
00:59:00
um I said whose decision was that Lauren I said well then I'll go talk to Lauren
00:59:04
he went no no no no no no no no no no I'm [ __ ] talking to Lauren and I want
00:59:09
to hear from him we're not doing this [ __ ] because I had enough your [ __ ]
00:59:13
you've been nonstop and then I knew at that moment it's like those memes this
00:59:19
is the moment when Jim knew he [ __ ] up and I got a call that summer from an NBC executive and he's
00:59:30
like Jim I uh don't tell anyone I can get fired for this but what happened between you and
00:59:40
so and so I don't I don't know I he's like well they're trying to ask you right now like
00:59:47
what like oh yeah they're zoning and these these guys went you out I'm like
00:59:52
really I said you know what I don't want to I don't want to be there if that's
00:59:56
the way it's going to be I really don't want to be there I'm smoking pot all the
01:00:00
time trying to numb myself I'm becoming angry I've seen enough I've seen I've
01:00:05
seen enough I was uh I was also traumatized by The Farley situation that was so I I saw enough on both sides of
01:00:14
the curtain I was like ah you know what I'm gonna have some kids I'm gonna I'm G I'm gonna walk away
01:00:23
for a little while I this is this I'm not made for this really not made for this not in this style of environment
01:00:31
sure uh where where it's that hardcore show business but I really wanted to be there for like
01:00:39
I loved I loved the show I loved showing up on Thursdays to watch the band I loved hang up the bands I would watch
01:00:47
the other sketches I I would cheer or cast on you're a good cheerleader you are I [ __ ] love it man I I I cheer
01:00:55
for everyone I really don't I'm not in competition with anyone but um so that
01:00:59
was my tenure but I also realized this life went on like Lauren is he's like a
01:01:07
I'll use the word mobster where I would go to they're like hey we want to meet
01:01:11
with you and the first thing they'd always say so uh how are you with Lauren I'm like
01:01:18
uh I don't know this is a reality TV show like does it really matter right now I'm like yeah I think it was good I
01:01:25
think we ended okay and it did and the last thing Laur Lauren said to me was Jim you're too nice for this
01:01:35
industry if you ever want to do anything I'm your producer I said thank you Lauren and that's that's how we you know
01:01:41
I see him in like the four years or something like that but wow I always I always had a deep admiration for him um
01:01:50
because I also understand his view where he's watching people and bringing them
01:01:55
to a place and some people get frustrated and they think they need more attention and but I don't know I I even
01:02:02
just having kids and dealing with that with a little staff here and there I I don't know how you do that with
01:02:08
entertainers like us that are just nonstop you're like oh my God that is what is it about that show I mean the
01:02:15
people we've interviewed um some of them said similar kind of stories one cast I
01:02:22
I don't really know why I left what really happened but there was a sea change couple writers left and these are
01:02:29
very successful people and F suddenly it got kind of tilted but none of us ever get that experience out of our heads
01:02:37
just because it's ADH it's New York City it's live it's the you know you'll never
01:02:43
get it quite out of it but uh I just think yeah you're such an organic sketch
01:02:48
player Like It just fits you like a glove and it's too bad you didn't have
01:02:52
just all you needed was one yeah one writer who gets you who also has a voice in the room after read through Steve
01:03:00
Korn and it was great writer yeah and Hell great guy yeah also I had one against me but I had a couple for me and
01:03:08
then it but it still things were getting killed because I couldn't I didn't have
01:03:14
everybody on my team so it would be like half would get through or third and I was like ah I had a dis I had a
01:03:20
dissident in there is that the word and uh but you don't know that I didn't know
01:03:24
till later and then you go like [ __ ] it drives you bad like you don't know
01:03:28
what's going on no you don't know what's going on even to the point where um I
01:03:33
found out something else later down but I think why it's so frustrating for for
01:03:39
for you Dave people like me Dana um I would say more comedians the reason being we do our presentation we get the
01:03:51
immediate feedback so we know what works so when you're in the when you're when
01:03:56
you're creating a sketch or whatever and you know it's going to crush and then
01:04:01
you re you do the readr and it murders and then it's not even acknowledged it's I say imagine you're
01:04:10
going for a baseball team and you're like okay everyone line up all right Spade you're a ping oh [ __ ] this guy's
01:04:18
hit 12 line drives off the wall three in the upper deck all right here comes another this guy looks smart he's got
01:04:25
glass to where he's from Harvard okay Harvard guy okay that's a bunt all right
01:04:29
it's a one strikeout caught looking wow it's another one caught looking with the
01:04:33
runners on base Jesus okay so here's who we picked we picked out um the Harvard
01:04:39
guy like what what are we going to the game like are we competing today are we what is going on and so it was when
01:04:47
you're in those battles and you see them with your own two eyes you just go oh my
01:04:55
it's there's no Rhyme or Reason sometimes did you have anyone who would like you kill with that and it doesn't
01:05:01
get on the show that was in the room with Lauren picking the show not even in an angry way but like what's up with my
01:05:08
sketch I mean what was it what is it too redundant host didn't like it was there
01:05:12
any Rhyme or Reason that you could find out about just I I wouldn't B what I
01:05:19
would get this is see I'm I'm starting to have flashbacks now I thought I I
01:05:25
thought I buried this and I I patted it all down but now like yes mission accomplished there was
01:05:36
there was um this is what drove me nuts I would get this Hey listen uh Lauren doesn't like
01:05:45
drunk characters the character is really funny that you do but um he you know since you know since like John and stuff
01:05:54
like he doesn't nothing like drinking L he's not into it I'm like oh okay two
01:05:59
weeks later very similar but now different cast member and they just changed the angle made a little smarter
01:06:06
and you're sitting there going I know what the [ __ ] you just did they don't
01:06:11
know I know what the [ __ ] you just did I'm getting flashback to Jack in The Shining then i'
01:06:21
have this right this one so you're in your room it's like 3:30 in the morning you're almost done with the
01:06:33
sketch that you're finally going for and this [ __ ] would come in my doorway hey
01:06:40
uh with his little pencil in his mouth so um I see that you're doing a sketch
01:06:46
about meatballs or whatever it was like I just want you know I'm writing one
01:06:50
just like it like how do you know I'm writing a SK well we have a server with
01:06:54
everyone what everyone's writing I'm like well he's like I'm just
01:06:59
telling you I'm wri one and most likely will'll get on oh boy what that's
01:07:06
aggressive okay okay so you're still going to write yours that's what they want you to go oh
01:07:12
I'll I'll skip it then yeah yeah right like what you but he's also someone that
01:07:16
gets in the room yeah because it's going to bump with him and he'll kick you out
01:07:21
and you're like God damn like that is foul that's just foul so yeah there is
01:07:29
there is a yeah there was there was individuals that that one in particular who I would
01:07:39
call out and always just honest when I told you this story and then he finally reached out on Twitter he goes stop
01:07:48
lying about I'm the one who want to get you fired I went well it's the truth' oh
01:07:54
that's well and then he then he finally I said I don't do Twitter you can call
01:07:58
me and we could talk about it and he couldn't huh interesting go ahead yeah he couldn't believe I was holding on to
01:08:07
this this long but just like anywhere if you're enjoying your life and someone
01:08:11
goes hey man I'm gonna make your life miserable and get you fired you [ __ ]
01:08:15
remember that so um the person emailed me and he said it went from um I never had any pull with Lauren
01:08:30
and the fact that you think I actually had any power to try to get you fired just looted Chris I have zero power I go
01:08:37
well it's funny because I know for a fact someone in that room called me and they said quote Jim needs to go I
01:08:48
think he's an issue uh we can get someone who's just as funny and maybe more animated blah blah blah blah blah I
01:08:55
just don't think I think he's way overrated blah blah blah and he could tell by the
01:09:00
quote Oh [ __ ] so he who's he talking to so then his next email said well maybe I
01:09:10
didn't encourage them to keep you and then I and then I finally said who the person was and they went well
01:09:20
I'm sorry that you've been holding on to this you're a great power if I did that
01:09:25
I apologize blah blah blah and I'm went that's all right I just wanted you to
01:09:29
acknowledge that I knew andn because this person's an incredible writer I and
01:09:36
it's tough it's tough coming from somebody good too he's so good like I
01:09:42
was I wish I could be in any of his stuff they were they're incredible and that's what
01:09:50
that's what was more um that's what hurt more and that's what was more
01:09:54
frustrating it's like dude just if you don't like me just I there's other ways
01:10:01
to do it as long as it's [Music] funny it's there's an organic volatile uh emotionally violent thing
01:10:14
around Saturday Night Live it just is you throw 10 comedians in a room and 20 writers and and there's only so many
01:10:21
spots on the show and all kind of stuff happens you create alliances it's Game
01:10:26
of Thrones you start moving the chest pieces this person I'll I'll combine
01:10:31
with this person we'll try to defeat you know so it's it's a very typical Story I
01:10:36
mean the great thing is like you're as funny or funnier than you've ever been
01:10:40
and you're killing it got a huge following and you're you're just everybody's at some point off SNL except
01:10:47
for Keenan Thompson but he's unable who may be the greatest cast member but we all are ex and it's no matter
01:10:56
what happens even if you're Adam Sandler or will farell they're going to Saturday
01:10:59
Night Live in their movies so it is a thing but I think you made a great Mark and your story you just have to forgive
01:11:07
the whole experience I do and I know that we talk to us about it right now I I have the same thing I'll go completely
01:11:13
back to something it brings me back too you talk and I'll be really animated for
01:11:17
10 minutes and then just move on but we're all ex-cast members most people have some regret or
01:11:23
something that didn't quote you know there's certain it's just very common so
01:11:27
anyway I I you have my you have my empathy that's that's a wicked story well I'll tell you I'll tell you both
01:11:35
like it's um I'm I'm honored to come on here I've always looked up to both of
01:11:41
you um I've always looked up to the both of you so like when you guys when I saw you
01:11:47
guys connecting I actually I really like the fact that you can finally see a different side side of the two of you
01:11:54
just a talking side and you can go in all these directions I I love what you guys are doing so I was very honored to
01:12:02
be part of this for sure thank you that's I mean it is the thing about podcasting because if I go on stage you
01:12:08
know it's always Fastener comedy safety B the man's coming you know the you know
01:12:15
and now I'm just in a room chatting I can be myself but there is that pressure
01:12:19
he's oh my God he's gonna [ __ ] levitate you know so it's I mean it's a
01:12:24
good problem to have you know I feel like back at SNL I was like especially that year I stayed over it was such a
01:12:31
weird Bridge year for me because Adam and Chris left my two main guys Schneider was gone maybe Timmy was still
01:12:41
there but I was I was only doing Lauren goes stay and I'll give you five minutes
01:12:46
a week and you do whatever you want and so I didn't really have to sketches so
01:12:50
there was a slight disconnect so I don't even know how I came came across to cast
01:12:54
because I was so worried about doing these 5 minutes I had my own little thing to do it's like update you get
01:13:00
your own little chunk and so I am in the cast but I'm not really I don't think I
01:13:03
did many sketches it was more like I'd go on the road try to do field pieces so
01:13:07
I come back and I didn't get that close to anybody even though it was kind of
01:13:12
fun I was in the middle ground you know what I mean you were and uh it wasn't as
01:13:16
fun for me it probably wasn't as fun for them to be on the cast with me either
01:13:20
because I felt like I was a senior that stayed a year too long and and I was like [ __ ] what am I still doing here and
01:13:27
I sort of had that costic humor but which you know changed over the years but it was uh it was definitely a weird
01:13:35
time for me and I thought I shouldn't be here anymore it it wasn't as fun it was
01:13:39
fun doing those little bits but there's so much time in between I mean I'm not
01:13:43
really part of rehearsal I'm not really part of music I'm not part of and the
01:13:47
show is going on without me and I'm like I'm with one writer on the side doing
01:13:51
bits pre-tape a lot of the time so definitely weird I just didn't get that close to anybody that time it was
01:13:58
it was an odd it was like one step too many I should just pulled the plug but like you if you got nowhere to go and
01:14:06
you're on SNL everywhere else feels like down and and you know like you're saying
01:14:11
these stories and the reason they resonate is because everyone isn't asking you about Buddies the pilot
01:14:19
they're asking about SNL the rest of your life so they just have nothing else
01:14:22
to say go SNL and then that's just a thing that you're stuck with you know
01:14:28
it's also no matter how what your time frame is you've got two iconic things
01:14:32
that people would always bring up I assume if you do a Q&A or someone yells out sure goat boy or peshy I don't know
01:14:38
if you throw it in there when you're riffing so you you made your Mark um it's and I I like that I call it like
01:14:46
you went to battle and everyone got the tattoo and no matter what like how's
01:14:52
your career and you and you go and they go oh [ __ ] you made a mar the D the goat
01:14:59
and wow because you to get through that and get a catchphrase or get a sketch people know it's almost impossible
01:15:07
that's what I wanted even having by-bye or something where people knew it and
01:15:11
you go hey I went on the show I came out and there was something that caught on you know you're just part of the history
01:15:17
of like hey I got something in there that people would remember and and the show is still [ __ ] going going you're
01:15:25
still coming up with [ __ ] going in Full Circle when Fred armson left the show he
01:15:29
emailed me and goes how do you deal with it how he left and he couldn't watch it
01:15:33
he goes they're doing my show what's going on so everybody has this Melancholy if you're ever near the
01:15:39
building again it's like going back to your high school on a Sunday afternoon
01:15:44
and going really there's this sort of emotionality that's the the fun part of
01:15:48
this podcast because everyone has these feelings about that show you know just something about it and Lauren is still
01:15:55
there and it's still an ADH and it's all the sex same amazing yeah he gets terrified
01:16:03
walking on those Halls uh anyway are you gonna have enough energy to perform tonight or you feel good or what you I'm
01:16:10
actually I I'm I'm actually off tonight so that's good I got an off night and
01:16:13
then tomorrow I'll do the show and and then I'm doing I think I'm losing my
01:16:18
mind I booked I think 50 shows all the way through May where I'm doing like two weeks on two weeks off two
01:16:27
weeks on two weeks on I haven't done that that's tough you'll get you'll get
01:16:31
sharp and then are you gonna shoot another special you shoot that on your own right and put them on I'm filming
01:16:36
you know this is what I learned I've I don't have yeah on YouTube it's
01:16:42
all YouTube so I'm I'm filming three shows next week um one is at one venue and the other one is at that
01:16:52
Paramount um that'll be so yeah and we'll see and we'll see how that go three cameras I
01:16:58
you control the lighting I mean it's kind of overkilled but it's not 20 cameras and all that [ __ ] no no no one
01:17:05
cares about that anymore no one cares about that what I what I noticed too is like you can you can hire the biggest
01:17:11
production team and put everything in it if you just put from your phone a little
01:17:15
piece of the set it's it's that's only no one ever says it look like scor
01:17:21
sty they go no it was funny or it wasn't it looked like Lawrence of Arabia yeah
01:17:26
was it funny no but [ __ ] David lean came back from the dead man well good luck with it man good luck
01:17:33
with the all right Jim a pleasure so I hope we see you around campus to you soon Buddy pleasure enjoyed it thanks
01:17:40
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