WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:02.480 All right, so let's let's have that. That was a 2 00:00:02.520 --> 00:00:05.599 fun conversation we were just having and I was like, 3 00:00:05.639 --> 00:00:09.279 we should be recording this. Yeah, so we were talking 4 00:00:09.560 --> 00:00:11.000 just as we were trying to set the MIC's up 5 00:00:11.560 --> 00:00:17.239 about Michael's the first time trying fu fuh several years ago. 6 00:00:17.280 --> 00:00:20.719 This was a long time, teen years ago, fifteen years ago. 7 00:00:20.879 --> 00:00:23.760 All right, So you said it tastes like you called. 8 00:00:23.519 --> 00:00:26.199 It dirty dishwater with yard clippings in it. 9 00:00:26.359 --> 00:00:29.760 That breaks my heart. Yeah, this fa is incredible and 10 00:00:29.800 --> 00:00:30.519 I can't wait too. 11 00:00:31.199 --> 00:00:32.600 You're gonna educate me. 12 00:00:32.640 --> 00:00:35.240 Yeah, yeah, I'll take you to a spot. But arn 13 00:00:35.359 --> 00:00:38.000 Raw for those who know who both of us are, 14 00:00:38.399 --> 00:00:41.920 is the one that first showed me pha years ago. 15 00:00:42.240 --> 00:00:47.479 He goes, He goes, he's Molly. I was like, yeah, 16 00:00:47.520 --> 00:00:50.600 he goes, how about you and your daughter come with me. 17 00:00:50.640 --> 00:00:53.079 I want to teach you how to eat soup with chopsticks. 18 00:00:55.079 --> 00:00:59.719 It's like, okay, he's married to an Asian woman who 19 00:00:59.799 --> 00:01:04.280 make fuh. So they picked out a spot that uh 20 00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:11.599 was really fucking good. And so yeah, it's I'm disappointed here. 21 00:01:11.640 --> 00:01:12.879 You had a bad experience with him. 22 00:01:12.959 --> 00:01:14.799 Yeah, and I never really went back to a fun 23 00:01:14.840 --> 00:01:17.359 place and a few times that somebody did take me there. 24 00:01:17.359 --> 00:01:21.920 I ordered like the chicken cutlet. 25 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:24.760 This is going back before I was even vegan, like 26 00:01:24.840 --> 00:01:28.120 a chicken cutlet at one and like some spring rolls 27 00:01:28.159 --> 00:01:28.560 in another. 28 00:01:28.599 --> 00:01:29.760 But I didn't go near that soup. 29 00:01:29.879 --> 00:01:33.040 Well, this place that you didn't like what you said? 30 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:33.560 You talked to the. 31 00:01:33.560 --> 00:01:36.560 Guy, yeah, And I asked him, I said, what is 32 00:01:36.599 --> 00:01:40.879 the meat in here? And he didn't speak perfect English. 33 00:01:40.879 --> 00:01:43.719 Maybe you think he chose the wrong word. I do, 34 00:01:43.840 --> 00:01:48.159 because he said tendon, animal tendons. And I went, okay, 35 00:01:48.159 --> 00:01:51.079 we'll take the check, and uh, do. 36 00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:52.959 You want it wrapped up? Nope, don't Nope, don't wrap 37 00:01:53.000 --> 00:01:54.439 it up. We're just gonna take the check. 38 00:01:54.680 --> 00:01:58.079 And we drove to another restaurant and ordered him tried again, 39 00:01:58.599 --> 00:01:59.879 ordered dinner at a different place. 40 00:02:00.200 --> 00:02:02.799 I think you paid the check, paid the check, didn't 41 00:02:02.799 --> 00:02:05.200 take the didn't take the food, eat. 42 00:02:04.840 --> 00:02:06.280 The food, didn't eat any of the food. 43 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:10.000 Okay, So that was. 44 00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:13.000 And I've never really been back to. I mean, I've 45 00:02:13.039 --> 00:02:15.240 been with friends who wanted to go to a FU place. 46 00:02:15.240 --> 00:02:17.120 I've gone, but I have not ordered anything that would 47 00:02:17.159 --> 00:02:18.759 be considered the traditional FU. 48 00:02:18.960 --> 00:02:20.199 Always something a little more. 49 00:02:20.240 --> 00:02:22.000 So I just feel like he didn't have to say 50 00:02:22.039 --> 00:02:25.199 that specific answer. It could have been right. 51 00:02:26.319 --> 00:02:26.879 There is. 52 00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:33.159 A lot of times it's like steak or beef they put. 53 00:02:33.199 --> 00:02:35.759 There are places that put brisket in it. Sometimes they'll 54 00:02:35.759 --> 00:02:38.199 have multiple different kinds. Like it's just like Ramen. It's 55 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:40.280 like you go and you order and then you can 56 00:02:40.319 --> 00:02:43.159 get you know, I want mine with chicken or I 57 00:02:43.199 --> 00:02:47.520 want mine with whatever. But it does say that beef 58 00:02:47.560 --> 00:02:50.240 tendon is an option, so maybe he was just being 59 00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:55.080 very specific, you know, and then there's flank, there's fatty brisket. 60 00:02:55.159 --> 00:02:59.360 But I feel like just being that specific about like why, 61 00:02:59.400 --> 00:03:00.919 I don't know why he would do it like that, 62 00:03:01.039 --> 00:03:04.960 Like tendon just makes it sound like, yeah, animal. 63 00:03:04.960 --> 00:03:05.599 He said tendon. 64 00:03:05.639 --> 00:03:07.599 Then I remember I was like, Okay, that doesn't sound great, 65 00:03:07.599 --> 00:03:09.080 and he went animal ten and I went check. 66 00:03:09.360 --> 00:03:13.120 Wait, like he had to specify. It wasn't like humans 67 00:03:13.120 --> 00:03:16.800 are animals. But still I was like, these ones is animal? 68 00:03:17.719 --> 00:03:19.960 Yeah, that wasn't his accent. 69 00:03:20.039 --> 00:03:24.280 But he wasn't from New Jersey or maybe he was, 70 00:03:24.360 --> 00:03:33.479 but not Carl. Yeah, but that one over there, no, Yeah, 71 00:03:33.479 --> 00:03:35.680 I mean most of the time I've had I mean, look, 72 00:03:35.719 --> 00:03:37.840 what is tendon? Tendon is. 73 00:03:39.800 --> 00:03:41.400 Meat. Yeah, I suppose so. 74 00:03:41.639 --> 00:03:44.719 I mean, I'm sure already if you ever eat a 75 00:03:44.719 --> 00:03:47.719 burger you'll have tendon. I'm guessing it's all ground up. 76 00:03:47.800 --> 00:03:52.240 You know, there's fat tissue, but like like animal flesh 77 00:03:52.319 --> 00:03:55.560 or like like there's there are gross ways to describe 78 00:03:55.599 --> 00:03:57.479 food that would make people not want to eat it. 79 00:03:57.759 --> 00:04:00.159 Of course, that's why we call it beef and that 80 00:04:00.199 --> 00:04:01.199 a cow exactly. 81 00:04:01.199 --> 00:04:02.800 I don't know we say chicken. 82 00:04:03.800 --> 00:04:09.039 That's true, but there's some differentiating between. 83 00:04:09.199 --> 00:04:13.800 Sure, yeah, it's it's d I was gonna say dehumanizing, 84 00:04:13.840 --> 00:04:17.040 but they're not humanized in the first place. Yeah, it's 85 00:04:17.120 --> 00:04:23.879 a there's definitely like a disassociation or separation from from it. 86 00:04:24.279 --> 00:04:25.160 That's as interesting. 87 00:04:26.600 --> 00:04:27.000 Yeah, I don't. 88 00:04:27.240 --> 00:04:29.920 I don't ever feel bad eating chicken. Chickens will chickens 89 00:04:29.920 --> 00:04:33.560 will eat you. They wouldn't give a shit you eat 90 00:04:33.560 --> 00:04:34.959 your face, they wouldn't care. 91 00:04:35.040 --> 00:04:37.319 I take care of chickens from time to time, as 92 00:04:37.360 --> 00:04:37.560 you know. 93 00:04:37.800 --> 00:04:42.560 Yeah, very popular with the you know, I don't know 94 00:04:42.600 --> 00:04:47.240 what you'd call female chickens. H I'm saying it's popular 95 00:04:47.360 --> 00:04:50.319 chicken Los Angeles with the wealthy, and I have some 96 00:04:50.399 --> 00:04:52.879 wealthy friends and sometimes they have a house sit and 97 00:04:52.920 --> 00:04:55.240 want and so to have a chicken coop in the backyard. 98 00:04:55.240 --> 00:04:58.519 So your eggs are coming straight from a chickens butt. Yeah, 99 00:04:58.600 --> 00:05:01.160 in your frying pan when I take care of the chickens. 100 00:05:01.160 --> 00:05:02.639 And I mean, is it the butt they have like 101 00:05:02.720 --> 00:05:06.399 one hole? I guess right, it's like it's agina. 102 00:05:06.879 --> 00:05:09.199 Yeah, I can't even remember the word. Now, do you 103 00:05:09.199 --> 00:05:09.959 know what I'm talking about? 104 00:05:10.079 --> 00:05:12.959 I do know what you're talking about, but I'm okay, 105 00:05:14.399 --> 00:05:15.360 that's it. 106 00:05:15.439 --> 00:05:18.680 So I've done some cat sitting in my day. I mean, 107 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:22.439 love them. God's perfect creatures. 108 00:05:22.800 --> 00:05:23.959 God's perfect creatures. 109 00:05:24.199 --> 00:05:24.560 That's right. 110 00:05:24.639 --> 00:05:27.399 Yes, yeah, dog, I do some dogs sitting and some 111 00:05:27.480 --> 00:05:28.720 dog walking from time totown. 112 00:05:28.759 --> 00:05:30.279 Dogs are way sweeter than cats. 113 00:05:30.519 --> 00:05:34.000 And I mean, I love dogs so much that I'm 114 00:05:34.120 --> 00:05:36.079 a little bit weird driving in my car, like somebody 115 00:05:36.079 --> 00:05:37.959 across the street with a cute dog. 116 00:05:38.240 --> 00:05:42.639 Oh he's a good boy. He's a good boy. 117 00:05:42.839 --> 00:05:46.519 No, you know, he's a good boy in my car. 118 00:05:47.000 --> 00:05:47.959 That's how much I love dog. 119 00:05:48.360 --> 00:05:50.480 No, kid, like, stop talking to my six year old. 120 00:05:50.639 --> 00:05:51.199 Yeah. 121 00:05:51.399 --> 00:05:56.480 Like chickens, I'm like, I'd kill you and not eat you. 122 00:05:56.480 --> 00:06:00.920 You annoying don't pick me, the assholes, don't pack me. 123 00:06:01.160 --> 00:06:02.839 I don't like being packed. 124 00:06:02.879 --> 00:06:05.560 It hurts. I actually have a hole in a pair 125 00:06:05.600 --> 00:06:07.680 of pants where a chicken was packing my leg. 126 00:06:10.639 --> 00:06:13.959 You get bullied my chickens a chicken? 127 00:06:14.560 --> 00:06:15.680 Just what is that? 128 00:06:15.720 --> 00:06:16.000 Black? 129 00:06:16.720 --> 00:06:18.600 No, very white man. 130 00:06:18.839 --> 00:06:22.000 Really white child. There's a there's a there's like a 131 00:06:22.120 --> 00:06:26.759 history of like black roosters, like big black roosters that. 132 00:06:26.680 --> 00:06:28.720 Will just terrorize BBRs. 133 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:33.759 BBRs. Yeah. Man, if you get serious and you want 134 00:06:33.800 --> 00:06:35.839 a good beat down, you get you a big black one. 135 00:06:35.879 --> 00:06:39.560 They will whoo. They're aggressive. I mean that is you 136 00:06:39.639 --> 00:06:41.519 know the red ones. I think actually the red ones. 137 00:06:41.680 --> 00:06:45.639 There's so my I'm not I'm not proud to say 138 00:06:45.639 --> 00:06:50.839 this being an animal lover myself. But my when I 139 00:06:50.879 --> 00:06:54.360 was a child, like eighty three to eighty seven ish, 140 00:06:55.199 --> 00:07:00.879 one of my uncles by marriage was like fightings, like 141 00:07:01.000 --> 00:07:03.319 they did it like at his compound or whatever. 142 00:07:04.720 --> 00:07:06.319 Thing. Huh, it's a thing. 143 00:07:06.680 --> 00:07:08.879 It is a thing. And and back then it was 144 00:07:08.879 --> 00:07:11.959 probably less frowned upon, definitely illegal, but people would bet 145 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:13.879 on them. And it's so sad because the chickens go 146 00:07:13.920 --> 00:07:16.199 in there and they get all ripped up. But his 147 00:07:16.480 --> 00:07:20.480 like world champion whatever that never lost about was cock, 148 00:07:21.279 --> 00:07:27.000 big old red cock huge terrified me. Like I think 149 00:07:27.079 --> 00:07:28.720 back on it now as a kid seeing it and 150 00:07:28.720 --> 00:07:33.560 I remember being like, that's a goddamn dinosaur. But uh yeah, 151 00:07:33.600 --> 00:07:35.920 it's a real thing, man. Those things are Those things 152 00:07:35.920 --> 00:07:39.199 can be brutal. There was there was a really aggressive 153 00:07:39.240 --> 00:07:41.720 black one that used to chase my kids around. 154 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:42.240 Wow. 155 00:07:42.680 --> 00:07:45.360 And I thought it was funny because I know that 156 00:07:45.439 --> 00:07:48.240 things not like this one wasn't like a fight and 157 00:07:48.439 --> 00:07:50.319 it was just a regular ass chicken. We were going 158 00:07:50.360 --> 00:07:53.920 and collecting eggs on the farm in Texas and this 159 00:07:53.959 --> 00:07:56.600 one rooster would just run around after my kids, And 160 00:07:57.319 --> 00:08:01.279 I don't know, I'm like, at some point I understand 161 00:08:01.319 --> 00:08:04.120 you're they're doing what they need to do to protect 162 00:08:04.120 --> 00:08:09.000 their whatever. But I'm like, you're you're kind of football sized. 163 00:08:09.079 --> 00:08:11.639 You might want to be careful, you know what I mean, Like, 164 00:08:11.800 --> 00:08:18.279 I mean whatever. But yeah, so back on the situation. 165 00:08:18.439 --> 00:08:20.439 Hold, I'm gonna tell you a quick story about chicken 166 00:08:20.560 --> 00:08:23.279 fighting because oh man, all right. 167 00:08:23.079 --> 00:08:26.560 Well I just wanted to I wanted to hear you anyway, 168 00:08:27.920 --> 00:08:30.800 there probably was tendon in there. That was my point 169 00:08:30.879 --> 00:08:34.000 is that, yeah, things get rendered down. When you make brisket, 170 00:08:34.080 --> 00:08:38.000 fat gets rendered down, Collagen gets rendered down, you cook 171 00:08:38.039 --> 00:08:43.039 it slow, you're probably eating you know, muscle intendons. It's 172 00:08:43.159 --> 00:08:44.919 it's but it's a gross way to say it. It's 173 00:08:44.960 --> 00:08:45.320 like going. 174 00:08:45.399 --> 00:08:46.679 It was a gross way to say it. 175 00:08:46.759 --> 00:08:47.799 Yeah, it's like going. 176 00:08:49.039 --> 00:08:50.759 I don't think English was his first language. 177 00:08:51.159 --> 00:08:55.200 Could you imagine if I'm like, hey, I'm smoking cow tits? 178 00:08:56.320 --> 00:08:59.120 What Yeah, No, it's a brisket. Don't call it that. 179 00:08:59.440 --> 00:09:00.480 It's not you know what I mean? 180 00:09:01.799 --> 00:09:06.279 Anyway, So cock fighting. 181 00:09:09.080 --> 00:09:09.559 Horrible. 182 00:09:09.600 --> 00:09:12.360 By the way, if you're currently cockfighting. 183 00:09:12.279 --> 00:09:14.320 Stop, First of all, stop stop. 184 00:09:14.639 --> 00:09:17.440 I said something snarky about chickens, and now I feel bad. 185 00:09:17.720 --> 00:09:19.320 I wouldn't kill one and not eat it. 186 00:09:19.600 --> 00:09:23.519 What Oh I would when I said that, But I would. 187 00:09:23.600 --> 00:09:27.919 Culturally speaking, there are definitely cultures that still participate. 188 00:09:27.279 --> 00:09:31.039 In animal fighting. And I only know this because when 189 00:09:31.039 --> 00:09:35.039 I was the manager at the Mustard Seed Cafe. Hillhurst Avenue. 190 00:09:36.000 --> 00:09:39.480 Wow, uh, this is one of the streets I turned 191 00:09:39.480 --> 00:09:39.759 down to. 192 00:09:40.639 --> 00:09:43.759 Yeah, Hillhurst not far from here, Yeah, not far from 193 00:09:43.759 --> 00:09:47.080 here at all. Beautiful street. You can take it straight. 194 00:09:46.879 --> 00:09:54.240 Up to let's talkt to uh still community called super. 195 00:09:54.000 --> 00:09:56.519 Lake h that's actually lose feelis. 196 00:09:56.559 --> 00:10:01.519 Well Hillhurst, But Hillhurst runs no Phil Hillhurst, say yours 197 00:10:01.559 --> 00:10:02.440 to get to Silver Lake? 198 00:10:02.639 --> 00:10:06.080 Yes, okay, yeah, you'll get there. That's it. So this 199 00:10:06.200 --> 00:10:09.559 grammar school, somebody representing the grammar. 200 00:10:09.320 --> 00:10:13.000 School comes in and says, hey, we're having a fun 201 00:10:14.080 --> 00:10:15.399 fair this weekend. 202 00:10:15.440 --> 00:10:18.399 Can I hang some posters in the window. I'm like, 203 00:10:18.759 --> 00:10:19.159 you bet? 204 00:10:19.200 --> 00:10:22.480 And they hang the posters in the window and the poster, 205 00:10:22.600 --> 00:10:27.000 the graphic they've used, has a rooster on it, you know, like, 206 00:10:27.600 --> 00:10:31.759 wake up early Saturday morning and a dishwasher doesn't speak 207 00:10:31.799 --> 00:10:33.960 any English. 208 00:10:34.039 --> 00:10:35.679 I think he's from El salad Or. 209 00:10:36.799 --> 00:10:38.480 He sees the poster and he gets so exciting. 210 00:10:38.519 --> 00:10:41.840 He goes coming sir, and he's pointing the poster. I'm 211 00:10:41.840 --> 00:10:43.519 like what what. 212 00:10:43.639 --> 00:10:46.279 He's like this, this, this, this. 213 00:10:45.960 --> 00:10:49.159 This, and he's he gets his friend who speaks slightly 214 00:10:49.159 --> 00:10:51.320 better English, one of the prep cooks. He's like, he 215 00:10:51.360 --> 00:10:53.080 want Saturday morning off so we can go to this. 216 00:10:53.159 --> 00:10:56.679 I'm like why he wants to see the chickens fight. 217 00:10:57.200 --> 00:10:57.559 I'm like. 218 00:10:59.000 --> 00:11:04.960 No, and there's no chicken fighting at the cramp Suer. 219 00:11:06.200 --> 00:11:09.000 Saturday Morning Fair Grammar School. 220 00:11:08.919 --> 00:11:11.240 Causs, it's literally a credent local. 221 00:11:11.080 --> 00:11:13.600 Grammar school, having been a Saturday morning player. 222 00:11:13.879 --> 00:11:16.279 Then it shows a picture of a rooster because kids 223 00:11:16.399 --> 00:11:21.360 like he thought it was an advertisement for a cock. 224 00:11:21.080 --> 00:11:23.240 Fight and he wanted the day off so he could 225 00:11:23.320 --> 00:11:24.879 go to it. 226 00:11:24.879 --> 00:11:29.720 It's like finally something discountry that makes sense. That's awesome 227 00:11:29.759 --> 00:11:30.399 because it's like. 228 00:11:30.519 --> 00:11:37.039 No, you cannot have Saturday off, and no, please, if 229 00:11:37.039 --> 00:11:39.279 you do hear of a cock fight, don't go to it. 230 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:43.200 Please please love so sad man, it's so sad. 231 00:11:44.080 --> 00:11:45.080 Yeah, it's just. 232 00:11:48.840 --> 00:11:50.639 You know what, I was gonna go to one this weekend, 233 00:11:50.679 --> 00:11:53.159 but instead I'm gonna be in San Diego at the 234 00:11:53.279 --> 00:11:59.399 Laugh Factory headlining two nights August fourteenth and fifteenth, Friday 235 00:11:59.399 --> 00:12:06.279 and Saturday at the San Diego Laugh Factory. And yeah, 236 00:12:06.279 --> 00:12:09.960 it's gonna be fun. I thought I was gonna end 237 00:12:10.039 --> 00:12:12.720 up doing like forty five minutes and having this huge show, 238 00:12:13.320 --> 00:12:15.440 and I've decided to just book a bunch of my 239 00:12:15.480 --> 00:12:17.480 friends on it. So would you like to do a 240 00:12:17.519 --> 00:12:19.120 spot this weekend? 241 00:12:19.960 --> 00:12:21.320 Live on the area? You're asking me? 242 00:12:21.559 --> 00:12:23.000 Yeah, right now in the air, do you wanna? 243 00:12:23.639 --> 00:12:26.519 I would like a spot? I need a spot. I'm 244 00:12:26.519 --> 00:12:29.480 going to New York for ten days, Okay, I gotta 245 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:30.799 not suck. 246 00:12:30.919 --> 00:12:32.480 I don't know if I can do both days. 247 00:12:32.759 --> 00:12:33.039 Yeah. 248 00:12:33.120 --> 00:12:35.039 So I don't know the driving situation, but we'll talk 249 00:12:35.080 --> 00:12:35.639 about that off there. 250 00:12:35.679 --> 00:12:38.759 We'll talk about the off the air, yeah, san Diego. Yeah, 251 00:12:38.799 --> 00:12:39.799 my own butt, san Diego. 252 00:12:39.840 --> 00:12:41.720 If I had to yeah, yeah, I mean because I'm staying, 253 00:12:42.240 --> 00:12:43.639 I've got two nights in a hotel. 254 00:12:44.080 --> 00:12:44.480 Wow. 255 00:12:44.639 --> 00:12:46.639 So I just don't want to come back. I mean, 256 00:12:46.639 --> 00:12:47.919 I got two shows in a row. 257 00:12:47.919 --> 00:12:49.559 I don't want to make that I had to drive 258 00:12:49.600 --> 00:12:51.840 down and come back. I've done it many times. San 259 00:12:51.879 --> 00:12:53.440 Diego is not as far. 260 00:12:53.320 --> 00:12:55.240 As okay, yeah, we'll talk about it. 261 00:12:55.240 --> 00:12:59.080 It's not scary far. Yeah. Well that'd be great, thank you. Yeah. 262 00:12:59.080 --> 00:13:00.519 If any of y'all are out there and you wanna 263 00:13:02.159 --> 00:13:07.080 see both of us, I don't know, send send Michael 264 00:13:07.120 --> 00:13:11.000 a message or DM right here on Patreon and uh 265 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:13.759 yeah DM on Patreon and Michael will definitely see it. 266 00:13:14.159 --> 00:13:17.519 And uh, let you know which day he's gonna be there. Ye, 267 00:13:17.840 --> 00:13:19.759 but yeah, San Diego Laugh Factory. You can get tickets 268 00:13:19.759 --> 00:13:24.360 to David csmally dot com. I thought originally they only 269 00:13:24.399 --> 00:13:26.399 wanted me to just headline and they were gonna book 270 00:13:26.440 --> 00:13:30.159 me openers, and then I saw the actual post for it, 271 00:13:30.240 --> 00:13:34.440 and it said, uh, David Smalley and friends, and I 272 00:13:34.480 --> 00:13:35.840 was like, oh cool, y'all are cool if I just 273 00:13:35.879 --> 00:13:36.639 bring a bunch of people. 274 00:13:36.639 --> 00:13:38.360 They were like, yeah, go for it, that's awesome. 275 00:13:38.440 --> 00:13:40.279 So yeah, I don't have to. I don't have to 276 00:13:40.320 --> 00:13:45.360 like do this big, you know, hour long show. I can. 277 00:13:45.480 --> 00:13:49.559 It's funny, it's weird, right, Like we're gonna get into 278 00:13:49.600 --> 00:13:51.559 politics here in just a second. But the last little 279 00:13:51.559 --> 00:13:55.080 bit on stand up. When I first started, I wanted 280 00:13:55.080 --> 00:13:57.360 to do all the time in the world. Actually, the 281 00:13:57.440 --> 00:14:00.679 first when I first first started, I was to five 282 00:14:00.720 --> 00:14:05.039 minutes because three felt like an eternity. But they didn't 283 00:14:05.080 --> 00:14:06.720 take long. It was a few weeks in and then 284 00:14:06.720 --> 00:14:10.919 I was comfortable. And then after that it was like, man, 285 00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:14.600 I've got I've got a really tight seven and they 286 00:14:14.600 --> 00:14:16.559 want me to do ten. Should I do crowd work 287 00:14:16.600 --> 00:14:17.360 for three minutes? 288 00:14:17.480 --> 00:14:17.639 You know? 289 00:14:18.159 --> 00:14:21.240 Shit like that. Now that I've filmed an hour twenty one, 290 00:14:21.360 --> 00:14:23.320 cut it down to thirty five, been doing it for 291 00:14:23.399 --> 00:14:29.159 ten years, I've got so much material that it feels 292 00:14:29.200 --> 00:14:31.360 like a job, you know what I mean. Now I'm like, 293 00:14:32.679 --> 00:14:34.600 can I just do like twenty five or thirty and 294 00:14:34.639 --> 00:14:35.639 give them to somebody else? 295 00:14:35.720 --> 00:14:36.080 My time? 296 00:14:36.240 --> 00:14:39.039 Like, you know, That is funny because that has been 297 00:14:39.080 --> 00:14:42.600 my experience, having featured many times for much bigger comics, 298 00:14:42.639 --> 00:14:45.159 the number of times they go, you want an extra 299 00:14:45.200 --> 00:14:45.879 ten minutes to that? 300 00:14:47.279 --> 00:14:51.639 Exactly? That's how fucking lazy headliners are. We're like, listen, listen, 301 00:14:52.039 --> 00:14:55.000 I don't have to be at work until eight. Yeah, 302 00:14:55.399 --> 00:14:57.519 and I've only got to be on stage for forty 303 00:14:57.519 --> 00:14:59.080 five minutes and then I get. 304 00:14:58.960 --> 00:14:59.600 To go home. 305 00:15:00.039 --> 00:15:02.080 I have free food and free drinks all night, and 306 00:15:02.120 --> 00:15:05.200 I'm gonna make a few grand But can I get 307 00:15:05.200 --> 00:15:06.559 a ten minute break? Yeah? 308 00:15:07.879 --> 00:15:08.159 What? 309 00:15:08.879 --> 00:15:11.080 But it really is, it really is like that. 310 00:15:11.720 --> 00:15:13.799 My first year doing stand up, I've told you this 311 00:15:13.879 --> 00:15:16.799 many times, I lucked into a position where I was 312 00:15:16.799 --> 00:15:20.159 hanging out at a place that you've been that we 313 00:15:20.200 --> 00:15:22.720 both agree is an aesthetically very beautiful club. 314 00:15:22.519 --> 00:15:25.679 Called El Sit Yes, gorgeous place, yeah. 315 00:15:25.679 --> 00:15:28.559 Very And they had an open mic for me. 316 00:15:28.679 --> 00:15:30.759 That stage is a little tall for stand up. 317 00:15:30.799 --> 00:15:32.519 A little tall for stand up, for sure, people are 318 00:15:32.600 --> 00:15:34.720 kind of craning their necks, but it's a did you. 319 00:15:34.679 --> 00:15:37.200 Know this that it's like a rock club. 320 00:15:37.279 --> 00:15:39.120 It is a rock club, and I've played some I've 321 00:15:39.120 --> 00:15:43.240 played some great shows many times. 322 00:15:43.240 --> 00:15:45.360 Oh cool, I don't even know it was a rock club. 323 00:15:45.399 --> 00:15:49.000 I've just said that. It feels like that's. 324 00:15:48.799 --> 00:15:49.320 My whole point. 325 00:15:49.360 --> 00:15:50.720 It's been a rock club. But you know what else, 326 00:15:50.759 --> 00:15:54.519 it's been Elle Sid where you and I have both 327 00:15:54.519 --> 00:15:57.879 performed stand up together. I'm lockting multiple occasions now that 328 00:15:57.919 --> 00:15:58.480 I think of it. 329 00:16:00.039 --> 00:16:02.919 I've only been there once. Really, I did Fudge Factor 330 00:16:02.960 --> 00:16:03.679 one time for there. 331 00:16:03.879 --> 00:16:04.279 That's the one. 332 00:16:04.279 --> 00:16:07.480 I'm there year in competition that either of us won. No, 333 00:16:08.159 --> 00:16:08.960 I came in second. 334 00:16:08.960 --> 00:16:13.320 I was told excellent, they didn't even. Nobody spoke to 335 00:16:13.360 --> 00:16:13.840 me after a min. 336 00:16:17.879 --> 00:16:22.879 That said, so, uh, it's the original hol Roach Studios 337 00:16:23.080 --> 00:16:25.919 sound stage, hal Roach not hol Roach. 338 00:16:26.000 --> 00:16:26.919 Yeah, I think it is Holroach. 339 00:16:26.960 --> 00:16:30.399 Anyway, our gang Little Rascals that was shot on a 340 00:16:30.440 --> 00:16:33.039 sound stage that was El Sid that then turned into 341 00:16:33.080 --> 00:16:40.000 a restaurant. What Yeah, our gang Spanky Alfalfa Buckwe they 342 00:16:40.080 --> 00:16:44.279 shot that original Rascals in that building. 343 00:16:44.039 --> 00:16:45.840 That was originally a sound stage. 344 00:16:46.159 --> 00:16:49.960 And it's around the corner from another Uh like all 345 00:16:50.000 --> 00:16:53.279 of silver Lake, that's where the original Hollywood was was 346 00:16:53.360 --> 00:16:55.879 Silver Lake in fact, dude, yeah, in fact, there's a 347 00:16:55.919 --> 00:16:58.279 famous you know the staircases that run up the hills 348 00:16:58.320 --> 00:17:01.000 in Shiver Lake which I'm I to find the motivation 349 00:17:01.080 --> 00:17:02.759 to go walk up and down a little more often 350 00:17:02.799 --> 00:17:06.559 now that I'm anyway, let's not talk about my weight gain. 351 00:17:08.160 --> 00:17:11.799 That said, but in Echo Park, which is right outside 352 00:17:11.799 --> 00:17:14.119 of downtown LA, used to be downtown LA. 353 00:17:14.319 --> 00:17:17.279 One hundred years ago was LA and then it expanded 354 00:17:17.319 --> 00:17:17.720 west to. 355 00:17:17.640 --> 00:17:19.519 The point where these people don't give a shit about it. 356 00:17:19.680 --> 00:17:20.400 Hollywood. That said. 357 00:17:20.400 --> 00:17:24.359 There you're walking by a next to a Harley Davidson 358 00:17:24.759 --> 00:17:29.160 dealer and a Jack in the box in Echo Park, California, 359 00:17:29.160 --> 00:17:34.960 on a busy, smelly street. There's a plaque and as 360 00:17:34.960 --> 00:17:36.720 you walk by it, you read the plaque and it 361 00:17:36.759 --> 00:17:38.319 says it all started here. 362 00:17:38.559 --> 00:17:43.039 First movie shot on this location, like nineteen oh seven. Wow, 363 00:17:43.200 --> 00:17:43.599 right there? 364 00:17:43.680 --> 00:17:45.200 Yeah, that's so cool. 365 00:17:45.960 --> 00:17:49.559 Yeah, And so anyway, El said, used to be where 366 00:17:49.599 --> 00:17:54.359 they shot our game, The Little Rascals. That said, So 367 00:17:54.720 --> 00:17:58.400 my first year of doing stand up, because I used 368 00:17:58.400 --> 00:18:00.400 to play in rock bands, the booker at the he said, I. 369 00:18:00.400 --> 00:18:02.640 Want to try a comedy show, will you host it? 370 00:18:02.799 --> 00:18:05.400 And I had a show called Rigilla Show, and I 371 00:18:05.519 --> 00:18:09.079 was so stupid. I was gonna be the coolest host 372 00:18:09.279 --> 00:18:12.440 in the history of stand up And. 373 00:18:12.440 --> 00:18:17.200 So I tell comics do as much dive as IGUALM. What. 374 00:18:17.680 --> 00:18:21.960 Yeah, I didn't know I was a musician, Like this 375 00:18:22.119 --> 00:18:26.799 was a new world. The opener's doing forty seven. 376 00:18:25.440 --> 00:18:27.759 Hour and forty seven minutes. 377 00:18:29.000 --> 00:18:32.319 Insane, like to the point where the audience is literally 378 00:18:32.400 --> 00:18:33.799 like falling asleep. 379 00:18:34.000 --> 00:18:35.559 Oh Jesus, dude, you can't. 380 00:18:35.559 --> 00:18:39.640 And the comics oblivious to the fact that no one's 381 00:18:39.680 --> 00:18:43.599 into it, going into their ninety eighth minute of stand 382 00:18:43.680 --> 00:18:44.960 up like no, yeah. 383 00:18:45.400 --> 00:18:54.400 I found. Honestly, headlining is a shitload of pressure. I 384 00:18:54.440 --> 00:18:59.200 think when Dane Cook, Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Richard pryor 385 00:19:00.240 --> 00:19:03.599 Red Fox, all those guys were coming up, you just 386 00:19:03.680 --> 00:19:04.599 had to be funny. 387 00:19:05.119 --> 00:19:07.480 Cream always rises to the crop. That's what Jerry's saying, 388 00:19:07.559 --> 00:19:07.960 all the top. 389 00:19:08.160 --> 00:19:15.720 Cream always rises to the top. Yeah, but nowadays you 390 00:19:15.720 --> 00:19:19.680 you gotta be like the club brought the people and 391 00:19:19.759 --> 00:19:22.160 you knock their socks off, and then everybody went, oh 392 00:19:22.160 --> 00:19:26.920 my god, that guy's incredible. I want to follow his career. Now, 393 00:19:27.200 --> 00:19:32.240 these clubs expect you to bring every fucking body. They 394 00:19:32.279 --> 00:19:34.240 got two hundred and fifty seats. They want you to 395 00:19:34.279 --> 00:19:37.359 bring two hundred and fifty fucking ticket sales. So you 396 00:19:37.480 --> 00:19:43.680 gotta be promo filming, you know, promos all the time, 397 00:19:43.759 --> 00:19:48.319 doing videos, creative videos that are mentioning the shows, the tours. 398 00:19:48.359 --> 00:19:51.359 You got to buy Facebook and Instagram ads, TikTok ads. 399 00:19:51.400 --> 00:19:53.839 I mean it's you have to run your own business, 400 00:19:53.920 --> 00:19:56.319 do your own marketing. Get It's almost like you run 401 00:19:56.359 --> 00:20:00.240