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Speaker 1: It's Billified the Bill Moran Podcast. Well, hello and welcome.
Thanks for getting your pot on. Thank you for telling
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twenty twenty five with Doug e Fresh and the House
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four to seven, our last podcast in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: Mister Bill Moran, what is going on? Brother dog? It's
time to do you mind.
Speaker 2: If we pop a little shamp I had no no objections.
Speaker 1: Little champagne gets.
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Speaker 1: You gotta think baseball.
Speaker 2: He just poured this over his pants. I shouldn't laugh
at that.
Speaker 1: That's funny.
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of it's on the floor. I might get a drop
out of this.
Speaker 1: Oh bunny, look at that. Just a little little carbonation,
that's all.
Speaker 2: And I offered to open up my professional.
Speaker 1: Bark said, I'm like, I don't want.
Speaker 2: To screw this up. You do it, so if anything
happens on you, and literally it happened, it's on me.
Speaker 1: It went on me, dog.
Speaker 2: I mean, I know you're happy to see me, but
oh god, am I happy to see you? Unless not,
you're gonna bust in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: I pop my cork. I don't know how I will
let you pass, but uh, if you would like to have.
Speaker 2: Something, I'm gonna have a sip.
Speaker 1: Yes, here's to twenty twenty four to you, buddy, and
come on twenty twenty four, come.
Speaker 2: On twenty twenty five, please.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's speak in there. Twenty twenty four terrible.
Speaker 2: The worst year of my life?
Speaker 1: Was it? Really?
Speaker 2: Yes? Without a doubt?
Speaker 1: Yeah? And was it all because it was the lost Room?
And I'm sorry to bring that.
Speaker 2: Up, but I well, it doesn't get any worse than that.
Speaker 1: Sure, you know, hey, dumb fuck, but I'm so so happy.
I'm skipping. I'm skipping down the eye. No I Twenty
twenty four was a it started bad. I can you
say if you don't have to say certainly that that
isn't the oh.
Speaker 2: I had a pet peeve right at the beginning. And
then I had I had this game plan of I'm
gonna uber, I'm gonna get this bill. I have everything
lined up all my dug. I'm one of those guys
when you years comes, I've got a plan. Yeah, I'm
gonna start fresh. I'm one of those people. Some people
are like, it's just another day it goes. But I'm like, okay,
let's have a fresh start. Lets wipe the chalkboard clean.
And the first thing was I think a week into it,
car problems, so I can't uber.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now I make it money.
Speaker 2: So then I get back on. Now I'm paying those bills,
I'm trucking, I'm uber and things are going good. Bo
more car problems and my buddy told me, you got
to buy a new cars time. I'm like, I can't
I go this year. I'm paying it off. This is
supposed to be a good year.
Speaker 1: It's supposed to be.
Speaker 2: And then my mom was in the hospital. Yeah, I'm
trying to think of some other things. I knew there
was other things that just weren't going well.
Speaker 1: And I feel like there's many many people who would
agree to exactly what you're saying about twenty twenty four,
because if I were to look at twenty twenty four
any harder than any other year for me, yeah, it was.
It was. It was harder emotionally in some aspects for me,
harder financially in certain areas. My son came to live
with me, which was wonderful, right, wonderful, but brought its
own set of challenges and new things. And he and
I trying to figure out what is the dance and
the dynamic for us?
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: And I agree, I didn't lose a loved one, but
you know I saw the deterioration of loved ones a
little bit. You know.
Speaker 2: Well, my stepsister's father I passed away as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, two months before my mother.
Speaker 2: Yeah that was hard seeing my sisters go through that.
And you know, I've been a part of his life.
Speaker 1: For a long Yeah that was your.
Speaker 2: Stepsister's father had a huge part but still a part
for sure for forty some odd years. And that's just tough.
I mean more than tough. It's sad, yeah, you know.
And it was in and out of the hospital all year.
You know, that's dragon on you. And then just had
a drag, but you just cause certainly then you think
the time is coming, and then they rebound. You're like, okay,
that's that's great, you know, because at one point I joked,
I'm like, you know, it's only seventy seven to seventy eight.
I'm like, you really can't leave right now. I'm like,
once you get to eighty, do whatever you want, but
right now you got to get back home. You know,
you try to make kind of light out of it,
or at least I do in some situation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll tell you. Like I was with both my
parents over the over the Christmas holiday, and I picked
they are divorced, but I think everything's pretty equitable. Well,
nobody has anybody else in their life right now. My
mom had dated some people, but I don't think my
dad ever did. And I picked her up and then
switched we switched cars, packing things up, and then I
picked him up and we drive down to my sisters
and I have my son, and you're watching my dad.
He's living with Parkinson's disease. And you know, this is
a guy who did everything, grew up in what his words,
not mine a tenement in Brooklyn, and I don't think
ever held a power tool until he built the house
I grew up in. And he is just one of
those savants, like you know, and I and I say
this not loosely. I love that guy more than words.
But you know, his father's son relationships at times have
been a little challenging. More because of me, certainly, but
you know, as I'm watching him now, it's like tough.
But the funniest fucking thing of the world to me
is like he has some problems with mobility, a little bit,
not too bad, but at times, and he's leaving or leaving, well,
we have lunch with my sister one last time, her kids,
and uh, we're leaving, and I can hear my father
say to my mother, getting old, look at us, we
walk like we're old people. My Mom's like, I walk fine,
I'm walking fine. I don't know what he's like, Oh,
you got the hip replacement, don't. They're pushing each other
into the fucking grave, like you're worse than me. It's
the greatest, funniest fucking thing. I can't And it was
actually a family member who sort of pointed that out
I go, oh my god, they're pushing each other into
the grave in a jovial I say that jokingly, but uh,
it's tough. It is tough, and it's the one that's
got the shakes. Yeah yeah. And sometimes they're nothing though,
like they're not even indicatively that's.
Speaker 2: Something you can do anything about. It's not a right,
you know. Yeah, but uh, I had to get a
bottle of wine down because he couldn't.
Speaker 1: His hands were bring the whole thing.
Speaker 2: Although the funniest thing is in October they took him
deer hunting and set him on a patio and he
got too dough no way, Yeah, they just walked close
enough where he could yeah, shoot him.
Speaker 1: Well Dough I was named for the ass.
Speaker 2: Hit him and another I don't even want to know.
I mean he could do stuff, he can, you know.
Tu the fish is good.
Speaker 1: To mix shaken nutstairs.
Speaker 2: I'm trying, you know, I'm one of those ones that
try not to worry until it's right there.
Speaker 1: You can't, can't kill yourself. You were saying something before
we went on the podcast, where you said to a
buddy of yours who had something, and whatever that something is,
everybody has had something right, and you're like, basically, how
do you how do you not let overtake your life?
Because I and this is where where people and I'll say,
I think even you to a little bit will laugh
at me. And when I say things like like I
do the Bill Lightenment podcast series and I talk to
these people. But I believe our life has lived in
our head and that no matter what we're doing, we
could be you know, let's say you're djaying, but you're
worried about is my car going to get me home?
So that's the dominant thought in the back of your head.
And the idea of being present and in the moment
sometimes takes care of everything. And I know that it
sounds like fucking voodoo, but more times than not, it
really does. You know. I even had somebody recently lose
their wallet and lose their fucking mind, like lose their
mind and then find it in the car and then
go all that losing your mind. It burned calories. It's
not necessary, right, not necessary, And it didn't make you
feel good. Probably wasn't good for your body.
Speaker 2: Probably was certainly was your head and your state of mind,
and not.
Speaker 1: Good for anybody around you. So you know, if there's
a way. And that's where I often think we have
done a real disservice to people in this world. And
I don't mean this country, but that's the only basis
I have. I've never lived in another country. But I
would say, like when we talk about addiction in things,
it's an escape for somebody. It becomes their medicine, you know.
And so then we start to tell them all the
problems they have, and we heap more shit on a
plate that's already fucking fault, right, and then we tell
them how wrong they are and how they're doing it wrong,
and they're just trying to get away. So maybe instead
of that, try to help somebody. Stop telling people why
they're wrong and try to you know, say to them, oh,
maybe we think about it this way or think about
it that way. It's just an easier thing because I
always watch, like I don't believe, and this is where
people go crazy. I'm not sure that that alcoholism is
a disease. I think the disease is whatever's happening in
your head that you're trying to run away from, and
that's the medicine. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, Yeah,
And I think that that becomes the thing, and then
we yell at you because you go.
Speaker 2: For the day better if you having your fucking drunk.
Speaker 1: God damn it, you know.
Speaker 2: And how about this. I'm at the dollar store by
the way. If you can see this, come on, you
got the burn. They had twenty twenty five glasses of
the other dollar store I went to, and I didn't
buy him, like I'll just give him a fair port.
Speaker 1: By the way, somebody did say to me, who's on
the podcast that I said, doug you fresh? They go
Dougie's coming in with something funny.
Speaker 2: That's all they had.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it doesn't matter. You came in with something.
Speaker 2: He did not disappoint the lady in front of me. Yeah,
I need balloons. Well, you have to come in that day.
There's a helium shortage, which I've heard about for years now. Really,
did you know helium was produced out of the ground. Yes,
I did.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that.
Speaker 2: I thought it was like hydrogen or something or in
our air. It's yeah, it's so, she goes, well, I
need him, Saraday. You have to come in, Sarah, Well,
what if I pre order? You can't pre order. You
have to come in. Well, I'll just get it. I'll
just pay for him now. So you want him now?
She goes, no, I want it.
Speaker 1: This is one of you two, is not.
Speaker 2: I'm like, you understand you can't preaching.
Speaker 1: God damn I did, because you want to say something funny.
Speaker 2: Oh God, I just say I think you'd say something.
So I go, do you have any I kind of
interrupt him, like, just put me in the right. Do
you have any you know, New Year's stuff over there?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: So I walk away from that, so I'm like, I'm
not saying it. He's like, right there, it's like a
three by three this and some fake glasses whatever it is.
Because she had said, she goes, I just no helium
for Sarah. I just can't handle this in my life.
And I went back and I'm like, if that lady
can't handle helium, I go, I can't begin to fathom
what else she can't handle littlest things.
Speaker 1: Well, let me ask you this.
Speaker 2: That is an easy fix to me.
Speaker 1: Sure it is.
Speaker 2: You go to party city, do it? You get a tank,
you go online, you google.
Speaker 1: Yeah, or you just come back Saturday, yeah, Or you
don't have fucking balloon. You don't have Because I bet
the parties that is not a bike. I'll tell you this.
I've been to many parties in my life. You know
what I've never said, would have been better if there
were fucking balloons? Right, you know what was missing from
that party? Balloons? Balloon.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you one thing. You remember the changing scene, right, Yes,
my buddy had that is office space in nineteen ninety nine, Okay,
and we partied there for the millennial and uh they
did some decorating, like we got to get balloons. Yeah,
and he's like, no, it's not gonna be a mess.
I'm like, I can't. We're got We've got the changing scene.
People are I'm running a tux like a balloon drop.
I could see you have balloon. So I went to
party City. Yeah, I get an eighty eight dollars one
of the big tanks and I was there for a
couple hours all around. And you know what, at that
point they made the difference.
Speaker 1: Because they did they did that all right, Well, listen,
I don't mean that to be.
Speaker 2: My point is kids party I have.
Speaker 1: Any party I've been to, I haven't walked away going
should have? You know what I mean? I would say
even that night it probably added and people walked in.
But if they weren't there, I don't think anybody got
fuck suck sucked. You don't what would have made it balloons?
I don't.
Speaker 2: I met a ride and groom last week, and uh,
we're talking about their wedding and I think it's Arka,
New York Alexander.
Speaker 1: Okay, yep, Alexandria Bay no closer to Buffalo anyways.
Speaker 2: I'm like, look, you know, do you have a contract
you to have this. I'm like, I'm more of a handshake.
I will be there, I says, this is this is
why we're sitting down. We're gonna make it happen.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: I want your day, is your day, and I am
there to help you. I go if if the cater
doesn't come or gets a flint tire, you order pizza
down the street, your dtail doesn't show up, So I
want your fix. Yeah, I'll add my stuff. You feel
comfortable with me. I always meet the bride and groom
beforehand and make sure it's a good fit.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: You know, this is what I do. This is why
I think we should do it this way. If you
have other thoughts, let's talk them out.
Speaker 1: How do people hire you twenty twenty five. Let's say
I decide that I'm going word of mouth, pulled the mouth,
word of mouth. Yeah, oh you're one of those guys.
You do look very mafioso. I gotta say thank you. Hey,
don'y send me. You're gonna sleep with the fishes or
you pay right now.
Speaker 2: Sleep with anybody this date. It's another I don't know
if it's resolution. Trying to get laid more than New Year. Yeah,
I get laid once. It's more than two thousand.
Speaker 1: Hey, I doubled it.
Speaker 2: I think I got laid last year. Yeah, a couple
of times.
Speaker 1: All right, good, Well whoever you got laid by is
sitting there going fuck it? Man. I I put out
all that energy and all that stuff. I had to
smell his socks and it was a magical visit. You know,
you got to.
Speaker 2: I'm a very clean guy. The house is going good though.
Speaker 1: Oh I didn't ask, but that's good.
Speaker 2: Like the way he smelly sucks. I did some laundry
today and move some things around.
Speaker 1: And it's a big it's a big move because you
haven't have you ever had your own house multiple rooms
like that?
Speaker 2: You know, I can't say constantly, but I was thinking
about it today walking the whole first floor is mine. Yes,
I have the whole house, but I've only lived in apartments.
It's just one floor. Yeah, so I'm like going upstairs
and I'll take this box upstairs. But there's not like
I want to go running around those rooms. You not
got everything I need right here? Right, So making little
plans for the future, yeah, but mainly paintings, pictures of
family friends. I'm kind of laying those on the wall
where I think I want to hang them.
Speaker 1: Up, hang over, there's no hurry. Yeah, yeah, you don't
have some woman kind of telling you.
Speaker 2: Do. Dad looks terrible there. I would have never not yet.
My friend Kristen came over and she helped me with
the kitchen.
Speaker 1: She thought the play women named Christians scare me.
Speaker 2: No this Christian you love Christian.
Speaker 1: Hm.
Speaker 2: That's what they all say, trust me what.
Speaker 1: They all say. Dougie Fresh he met a few Christians, Christians,
not Christians.
Speaker 2: Christians.
Speaker 1: I know Christians. I know Christians. I went to a
very evangelical church as a kid, and I remember guys
from my public high school showing up a church because
some of the girls there were not very Christian.
Speaker 2: Did you sing hymns?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay, one other hymns that identify as songs. By the way,
Uh My buddy asked me yesterday about focusing on comedy.
Speaker 1: And yeah, yeah, yeah, so I.
Speaker 2: Want to do that. Yeah, my days lined up make
every day cow.
Speaker 1: Let's let's take a moment because I want to talk
about that exactly that. Let's talk about the comedy and
how you make it a focus. And I'll ask you
a question because as I look back on twenty twenty
four and I you know, the term is reflect right, Oh,
and that's what it is. You're looking back, and I
think of the things that I didn't do right that
may have made my life better? Why didn't I do them?
And there's one underlying factor. I can call it many, many,
many different things, but it's one thing, laziness. No, And
I think it's the same thing with all of us.
And I wonder if you would identify maybe your pursuit
of that labeled the same way I label mine. I
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Speaker 1: Wall, eat and ever the spinners doing that one. As
I'm listening to this, I go, why don't you do
like a traveling karaoke thing? I can't stand karaoke.
Speaker 2: Why it's the same seven people with the sayings those
songs everywhere you go. And you know what I did karaoke.
Where are your books? I don't have a book, Well,
where are your books?
Speaker 1: What do I notice? Listen?
Speaker 2: You sang the same two or three songs in the
past twenty years. I already know this. Just tell me
what you sing. I'm gonna find your version. And it's
easier now they used to have the records. Just being honest, let's.
Speaker 1: Not look see now and I could go.
Speaker 2: You sing Patsy Climb after How did you know that?
I'm like same six songs?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: You know? And I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go on
YouTube and put in the song and there's gonna be
four five different versions, and I'll play the first one
and you stand behind me. Can you read it?
Speaker 1: First of all?
Speaker 2: If it's blue on green or something a mixture color,
maybe you can't. And uh, okay, I like this one.
And then you play it. Well this isn't right tempo. Okay,
what the next one? Obviously you haven't sung this for
nineteen years, and you can't. You got to be exactly
your Oh can you tweak my vocals? And like no,
just this is real. This is in the thirty seconds. Wow,
this is an American idol.
Speaker 1: All right? So Now this is interesting because there is
the philosophy that the customers always right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was done in the eighties.
Speaker 1: Waiting was the last second. All right, I over exaggerate this, don't.
You can say anything you want, But my point is
that wouldn't you want to make them feel comfortable and
like you and all that? When I'm loving what I'm hearing,
I go back into about ten years ago. I was
that guy. I was like, just cut to the chase.
I was married, and I would say things like, bottom
line it for me here, well, you wouldn't believe what
happened today. Bottom line it for me. You don't do
that in a marriage, Okay, don't. But my point is, like,
I'm the same way you sing six fucking songs. Why
am I going to bring a book, a book of
bit so you can flip through three hundred pages and
pick the same thing that I knew you were gonna pick.
I'm not crush kidding it, but you're not. You're you're
you're you're dumb, right, And that would be But you
can't say that to people. You should people, you.
Speaker 2: Should start come up. You know what do you want
to say?
Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, I.
Speaker 2: Don't have the books. It's the same forty songs.
Speaker 1: Everybody thinks.
Speaker 2: You let me know what you want. I'll fight it
for you. It's even better right there, right well, everybody
else has books. Well I don't. Right there, I don't
know what.
Speaker 1: I'm feeling like right there, right now.
Speaker 2: We're on the Then I go, why don't you go
have your drink and google it? And then you fight it? Okay,
I don't have books. Books start appearing.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, this is a fucking sitcom. Why are
we not doing this? This is a sitcom w karaoke
and Cincinnati. No, it's it's grumpy man.
Speaker 2: Some people just don't let things go.
Speaker 1: Fucking head it up to here with you? And you
got damn songs? I had.
Speaker 2: I dj' my friend's wife's sixtieth birthday party. I don't
know if I told you this at a country club,
this four foot two, She's make me again because she
comes up and she goes, are you gonna play any
fucking dance music? Just like that. I have never met
this woman before in my life.
Speaker 1: Foul mouth trucker. And I'm like, are you free Saturday night?
Speaker 2: I can't do anything?
Speaker 1: Hey, next Saturday, you're free? What else can you do
with that mouth? You foul mouth.
Speaker 2: I was stunned. I couldn't believe somebody was talking to
me this way. Mutual friends, I know, first of all,
I don't appreciate being.
Speaker 1: Oh why would you see that? Like I would have bursted.
This is what I differ because I know she wasn't nice.
I mean, I understand, I understand, I understand.
Speaker 2: And then she proceeds to tell me that she's a DJ,
and yeah, I'm like, first of all, I don't like
the way you're talking to me. Well, I don't care
about why. This is a party. I go this is
a party where everybody's interacting and talking. This isn't a
club downtown. The majority of ages are get you sixty
and over right? And then I'm trying to explain and
it just got out of hand. I'm just like I
told her to get out of my face crying?
Speaker 1: Is it just now?
Speaker 2: Now? Why why is that person on earth?
Speaker 1: Because you need fucking help?
Speaker 2: No, you need would to somebody like that?
Speaker 1: No, I wouldn't, but yours.
Speaker 2: But here's it's just morals, it's common sense and decency.
Speaker 1: Where is human deceenty? Okay? But I'm not here to
correct the world, and that obviously she is I'm not
here to correct the world. And I know I've had
those kind of people in my life. And here's what
I equate that to. Life is never gonna stop coming
at you, no matter what it is. You and I
were talking, right, life, I think twenty twenty four is
gonna be a great year. But then I had a
car problem. Life is never gonna I'm coming at you,
and when I do, I don't know why, and I
don't know why I find such humor in people. And
I'm truly an introvert. More than I am an extrovert.
I can go out and hang out with people, and
I love being around. I love being the center of attention,
and it is a true thing. That is my ego.
I will admit that bit to it. Yeah, but then
I like being alone. I could turn off the phone.
You may not see me for a fucking month. I
could be reading books and just doing whatever I do.
But when people like that come up to you, I
find it funny. And look, hey, let me rephrase that.
Catch me on the wrong day and I'm gonna be
a little pissed. But I may say, oh, you're a
DJ come back here, let's see what. Yeah, come on,
and I just embrace that there's something, especially when it's
a woman. To me, the challenges can I win her
over to where if I said to her, do you
want to leave with me? That there's better than fifty
percent chance she'll say yes. That's always That's always been
my goal when there's been a what I will refer
to very very authentic, very casually, I'll say, as a
cuntry woman.
Speaker 2: I did not let the words slip because it was
country club, friends, it was a cunt.
Speaker 1: Tree club, right, true? Yeah, welcome to the cunt tree club.
Speaker 2: She wanted my car and proceeded to tell me later
at night that she wanted my car so she.
Speaker 1: Could tell everybody on Facebook of terrible DJA.
Speaker 2: I was had. I just let it go, went out
to the bar to get paid. Then she's got two
other girls.
Speaker 1: Now, so what happened? Did you end up in a
fucking fistfight with these products?
Speaker 2: I got pushed by one of the girls.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, this is awesome.
Speaker 2: I would not shut up.
Speaker 1: Of course, you wouldn't want can't you let it go?
They're drunk?
Speaker 2: Broad? Do you no? It wasn't it was. It was
not a drunk fest. This was a nice sixtieth birthday party.
Speaker 1: Yeah. They were a couple of corks and they got home.
Speaker 2: They were doing something, so they wanted She wanted to
make her point, and I would not shut up, and
I just relived the situation. I told the other women
they weren't there, they didn't know what happened. They should
not be talking to me, and why don't you mind
your own business because whatever I am going with? And
I just kept going to the point where this Italian
woman turned around and shoved me in the chest. Then
everybody's like, oh, you know you can't.
Speaker 1: Why did Why did the Italian woman?
Speaker 2: Because she just wanted to voice her opinion and I
wouldn't let her.
Speaker 1: I would not take a breath. Okay, was she part
of the original posse? You said? Turned around? So I'm
assuming like you've got these women attacking you, and this
other woman, yes, this time, not part of that group,
turned around to push you.
Speaker 2: She had been I think they have friends. Okay, Okay,
so she was part of it, and you know what,
I didn't even worry about it.
Speaker 1: What do you say to that?
Speaker 2: I kept talking so that she's going to make her point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, tired of I'm always tired of me. Let me.
Speaker 2: The customers always right, you back down, somebody's that nice,
And then you know it's funny and you hear this.
You know, when people bark at you, they seldom like it.
When you bark back. You know, it's all right for
them to treat you like shit. But when you stand
up for yourself. And I'm always the one that says,
all right, just you know, I would, I would walk away,
And sometimes you just don't.
Speaker 1: I see you.
Speaker 2: Did you ever hear Kenny Rogers the Coward of the County? Yes,
I mean it took three guys raping his girlfriend for
him to raise a hand. That's how the song goes.
Speaker 1: Actually it is. I just, honestly, God, just heard that song. Really,
I'm not kidding on Satellite I. I was driving back
and I heard Coward of the County. I had not
heard of that song in years. But what I would
think is you seem to be the type of personality
to me that people would be recharged by seeing you.
Some people on the energies up and the positivity and
the happiness.
Speaker 2: Also, they're not walking up to a six foot two
gentleman like you. I'm a five foot six. I'm gonna
almost bullying. I'm gonna tell this guy what to do.
Speaker 1: You think that's it. I never thought of tall like you, know,
being because.
Speaker 2: Timmy, I'm not intimidating at all.
Speaker 1: Neither are mine.
Speaker 2: Oh you're taller. I mean nobody's gonna fuck with you.
Speaker 1: Well, uh, five to six is.
Speaker 2: Some people just think, oh you got a DJ. Well,
I'll do whatever I want. I'm not your slave. I'm
getting paid for a job. They just didn't give me
the computer in.
Speaker 1: This Wait a second, Can I say this without you
being offended? Of course? Are you sure? I guess. I
don't know. I'm afraid to say.
Speaker 2: If I start crying, you're not.
Speaker 1: You never cried, but you might punch me. Do you
get Have you ever felt like you were angry because
short man syndrome? Like you're treating that? Let me rephrase that,
let me rephrase it this way. You're treated shittily because
people see you as diminutive in some way.
Speaker 2: I don't know, yes, really, yeah, but I don't feel
that as short man syndrome. I don't have to be
breaking the whole day to cover compensate for my height,
although I did order lifts from Amazon last week, they're
gonna be in.
Speaker 1: I looked at him. I see this is the honesty.
I fucking love. That's something like I always wished that
I was like six foot four. My college roommate was
six three six four. I always thought I never knew
how tall. I knew how tall I was and never
registered to me as tall. My dad was a little
bit taller than me. All two, not all two of
my sons are going to.
Speaker 2: Be done, is bigger than you. I saw the Christmas picture.
I guess I knew he was.
Speaker 1: That much bigger.
Speaker 2: Jackson is six foot seven and he's big, and then
yeah he's big. He's like a big a big difference.
I mean, I think of you as a tall man.
Then your son next year, Jackson six seven. That's a
house and you're not a house. You're kandominium. You're a
kind of I'm a.
Speaker 1: Time townhouse, duplex, big decade, big deck. You can get
out there.
Speaker 2: Are you gonna shove me?
Speaker 1: Shove the big deck? Sutt yourself off?
Speaker 2: Then that white pig of defence, Hey, was it last
year that we did twenty twenty four?
Speaker 1: Were we at finger lakes. Yeah, okay, you know what,
I let let's let that go first, Okay, because I
got things to say. Okay, And I know, No, he's
six seven, and I think my son, who's fourteen, is
already as tall as I am, and he will surpass that.
He'll probably be closer to six eight h if you know,
when all said and done, And I really hope I
can help him focus on something.
Speaker 2: It does amaze me sometimes to help people expect to
be treated with the way they treat people. They treat
people like shit, and then all of a sudden, he's
you turn around, Yeah, you're publicly like what what's your problem?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: What's going on?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I know.
Speaker 2: And that's one thing I found in the bar business
is just being me. If I'm not telling little jokes
or smiling or you know, something's wrong.
Speaker 1: What's wrong with Doug? What's wrong? Well, yeah, Doug's got
his bad days too. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And a couple of people and I think I said this,
we're busting my balls one night, like, oh, what's the matter.
You're not getting laid in? And I finally said it
before you put your foot in your mouth anymore. My
mom passed away last month and they're like, oh, I'm
so sorry.
Speaker 1: I'm like, of course you are.
Speaker 2: Didn't know. I haven't seen you in months. I'm like,
and that's okay, you know, but I.
Speaker 1: Hey, back off, folks. My mother fuck died, you stupid selfish.
Speaker 2: I'm like, God, damn Gin and Tonic breaking.
Speaker 1: Fuck I go.
Speaker 2: I know I'm not on my game. I know I'm
not telling jokes. And you're asking me why, Well, this
is why. Now I'm telling you. They feel like shit,
can I buy you a drink? I'm like, no, it's okay.
Speaker 1: You know, it's hard. I've never lost anybody like that,
you know, I have.
Speaker 2: I pray that you have all the strengths in the world.
Speaker 1: Well because and I know people who have. I'm very
close with somebody who who has lost a parent, and uh,
it's it's I have to think it's one of these things.
I don't know that I I don't know that you
can relate until you do it. Do you understand what
I'm saying?
Speaker 2: Absolute you when your son was born, that you can
go to all the lamas and the videos and everything. Yeah,
everybody's like you can throw you can throw that right
out of the wind until you're there seeing your you're
your child getting born. Yeah, you can't prep for that,
No way.
Speaker 1: No, I'll tell you, like the third kid right to
your point, and then you're not prepared like you would think. Yeah,
I got a couple under my belt. Right here comes
to the third kid and they can't get him out.
And it turns out that Jamison had his arm like this,
so every time he came down, he was hitting the
pubic bone and it wasn't coming that they had to
readjust Jamison. I mean, I can't imagine the paying my
wife wriend through. And then he's born and they put
you under a lamp. The he did laugh and try
to John Juste and stuff. And I look over and
I see his nostrils flaring in and out, and I
go and they scoop him off and they don't tell
us anything, and he did. He wound up in the Yeah, Nick,
you for a little while because there was some respiratory
thing and it worked out everything you know, clearly, clearly right.
But you see those things and you're right. You're all
the feelings, all the emotions, all the protection you have
that is so instinctual that to even describe it unless
you've lived it you don't know. And I think that's
the same way with losing somebody, because as much as
I look at death differently than probably a lot of people.
I'm starting to you ready for this. I'm ready, you're
ready for this. I feel like we're tuned over here
to you know, one oh five point five, and they're
still over there, but their frequency is one oh seven
point three, and we're not hearing them. You know, you
can't hear what's on another channel when you're tuned into
the channel. Maybe a bad analogy, but I always feel like, yeah,
that we are, but like we're always I think that
we are energy, and energy never dies on.
Speaker 2: The AM station.
Speaker 1: Bill Oh, let me, it's like you know, And so
that's how I feel it. But let's go to what
we do know and what we can see, touch, tastes
and smell. They're not here. They're not here. And that's
the part that I think is something I've never dealt with.
Speaker 2: I uh, did a company party don't laugh for a
funeral and there was like thirty four people.
Speaker 1: It was last Hey, you guys are a bunch of stiffs.
Speaker 2: I use that joke.
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, how could you not if I thought
of it this quickly.
Speaker 2: I know you used, I said, Doug, all these people
working for you, goes, No past year's everybody that's ever
worked for him. It was a place called Foster's in Hilton.
Speaker 1: He brought back all the ghosts, all the ghosts.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a fun little party. They said, I'm so,
what did you do with this party? I dj' and
sure enough there's one. I swear at every party, every party,
every somebody thinks they can tell you what to do.
So now it's a Christmas party.
Speaker 1: Oh this is awesome. When was this two series ago?
Speaker 2: Wait, this is twenty twenty four. Yes, oh this is fantastic.
Came in to force and want to get some gift
certificates for kind of a white No, I go, what's
going on though? He goes, I have a company party
to Maron and I'm like, do you have any entertainment?
He goes, one year, so we brought in a karaoke
machine and last year a three piece band. But I'm like,
do you want me to dj? He goes, You're free.
I go, yeah, I'll do it. So I did some
humor on the on the mic, and I did a
little bit of Rodney Daneyfield. The food was out. I'm like,
this food is fantastic. I'm like, my wife's cooking for Christmas.
I got our pressure to cook her and now we
eat off the ceiling cook. I mean, I got the
only dog in Rochester begs for Elca Seltzer. She is terrible.
Last night she told me to take out the garbage
and said, you cooked it, you take it out. You
can we go on a picnic. I gotta bring thumbs
for the end. So he's telling me the history of
the funeral partner and the guy that he bought it
from was there and he still works there part time,
and he was, uh, yeah, I mean you're here, and
he was explaining it.
Speaker 1: It's a great job. No one phone.
Speaker 2: Well, he goes, you know, we're in a we're in
a family business. We're seeing death and trying to you know,
you're seeing people like people come in my yeah, my
dad died, and you're there, that truly customer service, wearing
your heart on your sleeve, comforting that person.
Speaker 1: You'd be great at that.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm gonna get to that. Hold on. So he goes,
and we've been in this business for thirty years and
a lot of people, and I try to do my
best and I day, I go, Doug, you're killing it.
I go, I had to. I had to. So I
said it was the best party. And then Doug said,
who's Doug. He's the owner of the Oh okay, yeah.
Speaker 1: He goes.
Speaker 2: So he came around.
Speaker 1: I go, he goes, tell the joke that you tell
about me.
Speaker 2: I oh, yeah, I go. Now a lot of people
know this, but Doug and I went to high school
together when his father owned the funeral parlor, and sometimes
we would steal the hearse for double eating, and sometimes
there was five of us. Yeah, there was a few laughs.
I'll get to do things. So one so it was
a Christmas party and I'm playing a Christmas song every
ten songs or so, because you're hearing it all the
day long. So and I have a Christmas folder, not
a folder, but highlighted Christmas at the end of all songs.
So I've got my fifteen songs to interject here and there,
and I'm playing and it was all older people. I swear,
I thought I was the youngest person there. So it's
kind of my crowd. And they were customers. Future I
was looking for a single women trust me he did
those jokes later. Anyways, So this guy comes up and
he puts his ear right next to the speaker. He
taps the speaker and I was playing Johnny Cash. He goes, eh,
does it sound like Christmas music to me? And I'm like,
and I didn't know if he was joking or he's
gonna be the one asshole the whole night. So let
it go to go because it happens every I'm shocked
to hear this.
Speaker 1: I had no idea.
Speaker 2: So about twenty minutes go by, and uh, he comes
around the table. Now he's around the table, Ah, this
doesn't sound like Christmas. And I fancy you, I go,
you busting my balls? Or you just really want to
hear Christmas music all night long because I've got I've
already got five or six compliments and people liking the
mix that playing. He goes, Oh no, no, nothing like that.
He goes. He goes like this Bill, He goes, I
can't hear out of this here, And he had had
he had a heard this big got it and he
goes in this yere got blown off of the war
and I took a beat to go, So you the
fucking thing. I'm playing. He goes, No, I go, what
do you pitching about? No, I'm just telling you it
doesn't sound like Christmas music.
Speaker 1: I was literally, that's it, that's all it meant.
Speaker 2: And then here it comes. Ready, I just listened to bluegrass.
Speaker 1: You get a planning and there.
Speaker 2: I go, No, who do you I'm playing stuff? Jim
crochey uh.
Speaker 1: You old fox would like yes. Wait, wait, tell me
how do I hire you? Billy? Just tell me?
Speaker 2: You me find me on Facebook, Phelps.
Speaker 1: We need a web page. That's it. Okay, I'm making changes.
I'm making changes. I'm gonna put an ad for you
on my web page, all right, and that way people
can hire you, because I think you need to be honest.
This is this some of the funniest ship. Please. If
you have an aunt that you can't fucking stand, and
you know that she is just an absolute Karen everywhere
she goes, you're gonna send her up to Dougie Fresh
Center straight.
Speaker 2: Absolutely her inner seven chins.
Speaker 1: You got more chins than a Chinese phone book.
Speaker 2: That was doug at the end of the party, says
with the jokes, and I was thinking, people, Merry Christmas
and have a great New Year, and you know, God
bless everybody, and which I could do on the mic.
You know, usually when I end a wedding, thank you
for driving please uber, God bless it was a great night.
And then I'll play one more songs.
Speaker 1: So he goes.
Speaker 2: You know, it wasn't efficient, it was another term, but
you get paid to. He goes warm up a room,
not like a comic, but you go up there before Sure,
you know, we're all here for Bill's uncle. Yeah, Bob
I was well known throughout the community. He was in
the military and you you talk about twenty minutes.
Speaker 1: And wife thought he cheated on him.
Speaker 2: And right now we'd like to bring up the nephew
to say a few words.
Speaker 1: Bill, would you like to come up and.
Speaker 2: You just ease everything and it's easier for Pele.
Speaker 1: Yes, oh my god. This is great.
Speaker 2: Well after dude, this is great. After New Year's I'm
gonna sit down and talk to him because you you
there's some training involved.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure there is. I think a two week course, Okay,
something like that.
Speaker 2: This is great, dude, But there's one more thing to
add to the things I want to do to besides comedy. Besides,
I was joking with my stepmother the other day. She goes,
you do this, you do this? I go, Yeah, if
I can focus on one thing, i'd be.
Speaker 1: Awesome, But how many and.
Speaker 2: Making devil leggs. Anyways, that's right, folks, I got the
greatest devil.
Speaker 1: Hey, we're here for Bill's uncle, who was just beloved
in the community. By the way, love my devil leggs
if you like to see the rest of.
Speaker 2: Me have a double legs at the appetizer table next
to the Jenny light, because I don't know if everybody
knew this about Bob. Bob love my double eggs, especially
at Arbor Day Ground hauled.
Speaker 1: Hey. When well, I'm happy that that the possibilities, No,
I'm I'm happy that something came out of them maybe
or whatever. Right, there's potential there, more than potential, and
I think that that's great.
Speaker 2: But I guess more and more funeral homes or parlors or.
Speaker 1: What we want to call it, higher and warm up acts.
Speaker 2: Basically, yeah, just to let everybody realize kind of break
up the Yeah, this is sad, but you know we're
here for Hey.
Speaker 1: Ethel's breath is so bad. Mike tried to close the
lid on the coffin before he was buried. Hey, there
was a guy that we worked with that had really,
really bad breath and how bad was it? Oh, it's
so fucking bad that he actually it rained shit when
he talked. H it's like a cloud. And then you
swear to god. He gat a can of shiit for breakfast.
And we were at the funeral, open casket for somebody,
and then people start bringing up the next day on
the radio about how bad this guy's breath is, and
the guy's wife calls in to agree how bad his
breath is. And then somebody goes, hey, how bad was
his breath? And I said it was so bad, and
I named the person who was dead, sat up and
closed the lid. Come on, Douggie, God, doggie.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying exactly what you're saying.
Speaker 1: Uh, Well, I think that's great. I do want to
get back to the one thing where you talked about comedy,
and I'll ask you because I have had Uh, I've
done a lot of I guess I've done a lot of.
This sounds so fucking queer to me. This is the
queerest thing I'm ever going to say. Ever. I feel
like I've done a lot of work on myself over
the past year, but a couple of years, and there's
been somebody in my life that has been extremely influential
in a very positive and loving way.
Speaker 2: Jesus. Uh no, Oh, I drove Jesus the other day. Yeah, hey, sush, No,
he spelled it differently. Uh.
Speaker 1: He spelled it Charles.
Speaker 2: No, you have to take a wild guess because I screamed, shot.
Speaker 1: Wait, this is his name is Hayesus. No, Jesus. His
name is Jesus and he spelled the J I J.
He didn't spell it with a J. What else did
G tell me? Come to get into the fucking G?
It began with the G Jesus. G e s Us. Well,
you don't want to be confused with the Jesus, I mean,
God forbid. You know that could get you to hell.
Speaker 2: If you don't want to mispronounce it. You don't want
to say Gesus. Did you get in there Jesus Christ? No,
So I did have to say, igo, are you Jesus?
He goes, no, that's my friend. He ordered it for me.
I go, so that's Jesus. He goes, yeah, I go.
Speaker 1: Oh, Jesus walked in the water and Jesus got your home.
When you're looking for Jesus, Jesus take the weed.
Speaker 2: I go, I got. I'm sitting there. I'm like, I
gotta ask him. Yeah, I goes see here Jesus, He
goes No, my friend, he orders my ubers.
Speaker 1: You know, because I know, because I can't spell. All right,
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Speaker 1: Damn Doug. That is like, I don't know why I
find that so impressive.
Speaker 2: I should not coming up there is turn it right
to that.
Speaker 4: Big burn.
Speaker 1: You're doing a blind Yeah, you know what I'm saying
Like this, it's blind. It's not like there's a countdown
or anything. I get it. I get it. It's just
one of my go ahead that.
Speaker 2: I introduced one of my uber riders today. She loved it.
Speaker 1: Give me, give me, give me.
Speaker 2: How is the work I gave the I go, oh,
you're gonna have a nice night tonight. You're going out?
She goes, I want you. I want to get out
of work early and I want to go get a
sequence dress, glitter dress. I go, honey, your smile is
so captivating you don't need accessory. I'm like, let me
give you an introduction. And we had to talk. It
was like a twenty minute ride from Greece to Henrietta.
So I'm not gonna say her name on there.
Speaker 1: No, I don't want you to say your name. But
I gotta think some of these are going to turn
into a love connection. You'd think, so, yeah, with my luck,
what do you mean terrible luck? Last night, the hooker
told me. Now on the first date, Oh hey, hey,
good wow, really, come on over, there's nobody home. I
went over, there was nobody home. Ah, that's kind of sadug.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry to hear. So where are you ringing in
the new year.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think I'm gonna be Well, here's
how my life has gone up until now, and this
is what I want to change in twenty twenty five.
I have joked, but I always think that people who
are jokey, I'm not gonna say comic, just jokey. Uh,
there's they tell the truth within the joke. And I
often would say, you know things like, there's never been
a plan. There's never been a fucking plan for me.
Speaker 2: I just so you had to have a plan to
get the podcast going. I mean you set it up
and you you fight through it, and you tweak it
a little bit here and there, Doug.
Speaker 1: What, there wasn't a fucking plan for anything, Like my
entire life has been. My father used to go the
sun shines everywhere you walk, Willy, everywhere, the sun's always
shining where you walk. Like he was pissed, Like, eh,
soun's always shining. I don't think he was. But as
I look back, I go, yeah, man, everything has been easy.
I've never adulted. I feel like you got three kids.
But okay, So here's the adulting. She handled all the paperwork,
the heavy lifting, the stuff with the kids. And my
thing was at that time holding on to a job.
So I just dove headfirst into trying to hold on
to a morning show. You had what is one of
the most legendary broadcasters in the history of radio, one
of the most unique talents, who is in the National
Broadcasting Hall of Fame. That would be Brother Wee's and
you're going to now take over what was his show.
And by the way, that station's success was on his back.
I don't care what anybody says. And you're gonna sit
in that chair now. People are supposed to like you.
How the fuck is that gonna happen?
Speaker 2: People still ask about you, People want you back, buddy.
Speaker 1: And I buried myself in that to try. So During
that time, my older boys were young, and I had
a person in my life. My wife at the time
was still my wife technically because I'm only legally separated,
so I don't want to miss misspeak at all. God
forbid a lawyer be calling me. But my point is
like she did all that that heavy liftings, but for
the rest of it, there was no plan. I didn't
I just knew I liked doing this and I'm gonna
do it. I had people tell me no one ever
gets the radio job, a You're never gonna get the
radio job, and I just I was like, yeah, fuck you,
and I just did it. And then when the podcast
came didn't come, I needed to do something. I went
I did to do podcasts. And that's how this works.
So in twenty twenty five, i'd.
Speaker 2: What's the plan for twenty twenty five? Soyer plan? Are
you just gonna keep chugging?
Speaker 1: And no, there it's a plan. Were I'm pitching a
TV show already had a couple of meanings about it,
working on some things that'll work with that. People were
connected to some streaming services are very interested whether or
not again to me, and I've said the fruition no,
I've said this for years is that potential is the
most deadly word in the English language. Right, you have
all the potential in the world. I mean it could
be complete bullshit. Maybe you do, maybe you don't, but
it's up to you. And I think the biggest thing
for me when I look back at twenty twenty four
and even twenty twenty three, but more twenty twenty four,
as I go fear, why didn't you do this? Well
it wasn't the right time, or well I didn't have
this do what's the okay? Okay, yeah, yes, let's go down,
let's go deeper. What is it? It's fear. It's fear
of I'm not going to I'm not going to be successful.
I'm I'm going to fall my face and I'm going
to do it. And I always think, yeah, but when
you fall in your face, you'll learn.
Speaker 2: Well you've heard the d is the most successful men
in the world are the ones that failed the most. Yeah,
they just got back up and.
Speaker 1: Kept they kept going. And so to me, it's.
Speaker 2: Like, by the way, Jamie Lissa was in Buffalo, when's
that January eleventh, twelfth, I'll put you in charge of
getting tickets.
Speaker 1: I have something January eleventh and twelfth, and I don't
I don't know know, I don't know what it is.
I just know that those dates are in my head
for some reason.
Speaker 2: Ship that's right.
Speaker 1: I just went through an update of the calendar and
those dates are in my head. Well, I would love
to see Jamie again. Oh you want to meet Jamie.
Speaker 2: I didn't let me last time either.
Speaker 1: Let me talk to you about this.
Speaker 2: Oh, go ahead with what you're I want to.
Speaker 1: I was just I want to know what somewhere I
was going I comedy. My point is that the podcast
is is I'll use the word fine. I always go fine,
it's another word like potential. To me, it's fine, it's
not bad, it's not blown the doors off in my mind.
But if you talk to podcasts, people are like wow.
Like I've talked to other people who do podcasts and
they'll say to me, hey, listen, will you be honest
with me? Will you tell me how many download you're getting?
And I'll tell them and they'll go what the fuck.
And I think it's nothing right right? So that but
my thing is, what's the fear? What's holding me back?
Why am I not doing this? What's holding me back?
What's not doing it? And I usually think it's fear.
And I think we make a lot of excuses in life.
Sure often you know, and until you're ready, Because I
have always had two sayings that I used to drive
my middle sun nuts with. If you want to, you will, right,
If you want to, you will, no matter what it is.
And if you see people are like, man, you know
I would, dude, I would, but I mean, you know,
but if they want to, they will. And if you
can sort of start to step outside yourself a little
bit and see life as kind of a little bit
of a game. And people all have their drama and
we come here to mix it up and dramatize things
and it makes it easier. But if you want to,
you will. And the other is you can eat a Buick.
I used to tell my boys you can eat a Buick. Yeah,
I go, you can eat a Buick. Or I didn't
say buick. I'm thinking Buick because I saw a Buick
in the studio. But I used to say you could
eat a Porsche. You can eat a Porsche. And if
it wouldn't mean, well, if I ground up a little
bit of the Porsche every day and put it on
your cereal, you could eat a Porsche. My point being
that no matter what you want to do, no matter
how much monumental the task seems, you can do it
if you chip away a little at a time and
every day. You can do it if you go to
the gym every day. Let's say you start out, everybody
starts on the new Year, and they quit by the
second Friday. Don't worry about it. Your gym's clogged up.
You can't find a treadmill clear out. If I make sneakers,
it'll clear up. But my sweatpants don't fit. But the
point is like, if you start going like, you're not
going to be running a marathon right away, but you
could get yourself to a free you could get to
yourself to a three k. And that's why I say,
if I ground up a little bit of the Porsche
and put it on your eggs every morning, you'll eat
an entire Porsche in a year and not know it.
Chip Away, chip away, chip away. Stop looking at these
things as a whole, and go, Okay, what can I
do right now in this moment? And I think sometimes
the fear is what holds us back. It certainly held
me back in this podcast world. Yeah, I should have
blown the doors off things in different ways, and I
was afraid to do it.
Speaker 2: I didn't have any That's why you get into it.
That's not why I got into it.
Speaker 1: Well, it's all I fucking knew how to do well.
I decided to take a stand on a contract issue.
No matter what whatever rumors are out there, that's not true.
You're hearing it from me. I took a stand on
the contract issue.
Speaker 2: Well, then I blow the doors off of the bill fight.
Speaker 1: No, but I get that. But my point with you
with comedy is I go, if they're not giving you,
if you're not finding opportunities here your there's opportunities in Buffalo,
and you'll drive. You just drove a motherfucker Ohio. Man,
you told the whole story. You'll go where the job is.
And I think that you're funny enough that that's the stuff.
And much like my son who is had played AAU
basketball in Alabama and then and then comes back, I'm
taking the camera off you, but then comes back here
and it's like sophisticated plays that he's learning and he
struggles with that a little bit. The thing is like
it was easier there. Yeah, but you can just take
it up, give yourself a break. You need court time.
So if it's if we have to find court time
somewhere else for you to build the confidence up, let's
do it. If you need to find stage time somewhere,
let's how do we do that? How do we find that?
What is that? What is it? You know? Is it
live bilified shows out somewhere with Dougie Fresh close in
the night with you and we'll.
Speaker 2: Get a couple of other guys. I was thinking that
not too long ago. Yeah, a company party at barn Exemps.
Speaker 1: Oh you did that? Yeah, Oh yeah, I think I've
been out there before.
Speaker 2: It's been there forever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I've been. I got no. I think
I did spend report exams, spend support. I did it
once and I did a comedy show there and I
killed and then uh, the last time I brought up
merrit Ron and a guy almost punched me in the face.
Speaker 2: Oh that's right, you see now that guy should have
just taken as humor instead of coming up all pissed off.
See that's the kind of person where the customer is
always right, No, they're not.
Speaker 1: Well. I wasn't gonna, I wasn't gonna No, of course,
Here's the thing. Is like the bottom line with most
things in life for me is I don't really care.
I'll take an opinion because to me, it's fun to
make it up and I'll banter and it's like boxing
to me, right, But then you get punched in the
face because you're hitting a little harder than I expected.
All right, he went, well, I don't need this shit anymore.
I don't need this shit anymore. Someone wrote me going,
hey man, I'm thinking of boxing again. Where do you
think I should go to train? And I got gym?
I can give you many No, well, but the right gym,
the right people. I'll say it. I'll say it here.
I think that there's a gym in Rochester. There's a couple.
There's Nasty Knuckles, which does a really great job. They're
out on the West Side. But I'm a big fan
of Coach Barco and I think what he's done with people.
I've sent people quietly to him over the years who
I felt like there was no more that I could
teach you or anything. And I don't have a ring
and I don't have sparring equipment. I think he's amazing
what he's done. Coach Barco and Webster is really good.
But there's no bad boxing gym. Please. If I don't
know it, I'm not, you know, singling one outs. Oh,
they're superior to everybody. He's he's just a great human
being and to me into my in my opinion and
nasty knuckles. I've heard great things about. I've never been
in their gym. Uh. And there's a couple others that
are slipping in my mind at the moment. And I think.
Speaker 2: Everybody, because you're in your fourth battle Champagne.
Speaker 1: Blowing my fucking cover. I thought I could trust you.
You're what are you doing? I did? I had, I
had meetings that went into a happy New Year's today.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 1: I came here today and Doug is always early, and
I knew this, and I'm driving in and I had
just gotten a call from my father. God God, I
love that guy. And he's trying to buy my brother
in law gift for his birthday and he's like, yeah,
I don't want to get look. I go, well, he
does enjoy reading. You can't let you can't pick somebody
else's book. And he goes, I used to get the shirts,
but nobody wears him. I go those shirts you got,
and my father would buy really high end even though
they were off the rack, double cuff's, certain stitching and
all this stuff shirts for me and my brother and
my brother in law. And I said, I wear them.
I still get compliments on those shirts. She's like, oh,
maybe that's it. And then he said to me, he
calls me so, I said, why don't you look for
something like that? Calls me back. I'm driving in here.
He goes, hey, I just want to thank you. And
this is like sort of a rarity with my dad.
You know, really cerebral, bright guy, a little odd to
some people. Maybe I found his humor. I think he
may be, if not the funniest, certainly one of the
funniest human beings I've ever been around. Just naturally funny
and fucking brilliant. Doug to like, you know, doctor and
philosophy kind of guy, says I got. I ordered him
a sweater and I said, okay, ah to you. You
look on these Amazon and stuff a ten to fifteen
dollars sweaters, but they look like ten or fifteen dollars sweaters.
And I remember now when we went down to see
my sister on Christmas Eve, Santa Claus arrives on the
Potomac via jet skis via water skis. So we go
to see water skiing Santa and my sister starts a
conversation with a guy at another table, going, I like
your sweater. So he's like, I got one of those sweater.
I saw that seventy five dollars. I figured, you know
it's him. I got to do that. At least that
I couldn't get him a ten or fifteen dollars gift.
Speaker 2: It's not always in the price. I know.
Speaker 1: I know that, and so does my brother in law.
And it was funny because we went to the Spy Museum.
Warner in the Spy Museum, Yeah, they were funny. I
just saw something fucking phenomenal. It really is great and
very interesting, at least to me. So we go to
the spy ys. My father calls me next saying, he goes, hey,
how much do you think the tickets to the spy museum?
Wom I go, I don't know. I offered to pay.
I talked to my sister, but he was paying. No,
they were like thirty something dollars, yeah a ticket, and
there were four of us, and he paid it and
never apped maybe there was five of us. He never
asked a thing, never said that the museum it's fucking
huge and it's amazing. Yeah, it is really incredible. And
then my father goes, oh, listen to your podcast. I
heard you talking about the the fake ball sack that
they had. I go, yeah, he goes, that's all you
took away from the entire museum. They had a fake
ball sack that they put a recording device in. And
I said yes, and he goes, but I go and
let me explain this. Let me explain this to you.
I have to explain this. Anybody who's a spy, and
I know people who have trained spies, okay, anybody who
would qualify to be a CIA agent or hire in
some secret operative spy world. They probably scored somewhere in
the old school days of a sixteen hundred on their SATs.
They speak moreultiple languages. They know the customs of different countries,
so they can blend in. I don't know the country,
the customs of India. I don't know the customs of
Saudi Arabia. I couldn't Taiwan, right, I would walk away,
you know what I'm saying, Like, I don't know any
of this ship. I don't speak these different languages. These
are brilliant, brilliant, brilliant people and brilliant minds, and people
who are willing to risk. They love that sense of adventure.
They'll do all these things. And you gotta put a
ballsack on and carry this secret device in. Do you
see what I'm saying? The dichotomy to me is funny.
It's like I would always say, like the funniest.
Speaker 3: Thing to a doctor. Noah, absolutely not. I'm sure Connery
my bullsack. You're gonna put it on money Penny. She's
a transgender as it is.
Speaker 1: No Doug were standard there to look at this fake
ball sack. It's behind the glass, and they go they
put recording devices in because they would pat down like people,
and they wouldn't pat down there. I got it, and
so they got it in. Well here on the fake
ball sack. I just have to sell you. They had
these long, long, fucking hairs that were coming off, long
gray hairs. And I hear from behind me, right on
my left shoulder. All of a sudden, I hear, you know,
somebody needs to go to the salon. It's my fourteen
year old sign but then they had this whole thing
dude about like how women would use their feminine, their
femininity to seduce guys and to.
Speaker 2: And to get stuff out of them. Yes, and it
happens in today's world. And that's your ATM number.
Speaker 1: And then there was this couple. She postes a diamond,
he postes a diamond dealer. She was a broker, I
don't know. And they would wind up in these sex
clubs where they would discover they knew kg B people,
but they had to be fucking people in swingers clubs.
And so your some of the greatest sex of your life.
Speaker 2: And it's all for.
Speaker 1: The good of the man. It's all not even I
would go higher, I would go mankind, right. I prevented
a bomb from going off in the Middle East that
could have led to World War three, all because.
Speaker 2: All for queen and country.
Speaker 1: Bill I fucked princes die and arrest, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 2: It's like, wow, holy shit, holy shit, this is amazing.
I'm sure that's in one of the spy rooms that
that Princess diet takes it in the mud whistle.
Speaker 1: Yes, she was a mud whistler.
Speaker 3: You have all day every day. She was supposed to
be in Diamonds are forever. But I'm just saying gold
Goldfinger was mud wish.
Speaker 1: All right, here's what I was I had to say
this month. So my father, like, who was an educator
and is a doctorate in philosophy, says me, that's all
you took away from the spy Museum, And I go,
do you see the diconomy of this? We have brought
you down to a ball sack. But you speak multiple languages,
know the customs of many countries, right, you know how
to do all these things that would put you at
a high level. You can blend in at the most
elite settings in the world. We're billionaires and you know
people who are highly educated. You can walk in there
and not have people go what the fuck's that guy
doing here? It's not race and Randy walking and going, Hey,
nothing against Randy, but I mean, henybody change.
Speaker 3: That guy's got a big nutsheck on him. Don't speak
too well? Why do you want me to speak to
your dickxer.
Speaker 1: Well, it's to sneak it in that you could pull
it out in the bathroom and put it in my pocket.
I could catch you, Doug. Yes, about nuts? Why I'm
not a spot not all about nuts, buddy. You got
to think a little higher than that. Wat, let's go above
the waiste path. I've never I know I didn't either,
That's why I stuck in my brain and I thought
it was just the funniest always watch it's always. But
I'll say, I'll ask you this like I would go
if a young woman walked by her studio and I go,
what a slut? Not funny? But that lady that we
always say is looking for pennies and I go, by
the way she gets such a fucking whore. I find
that funny. It's the dichotomy that makes things funny. That's
a big word. Well, it's not a big word.
Speaker 2: It's it's just economy. It's something I don't hear a lot.
Speaker 1: But but I mean, you know what I'm saying. It's
it's the the opposite, right, It's not what I'm expecting.
And that's where the humor comes from in that. That's all.
And I want you to stop being afraid of you know,
I'm thinking you have to stick to whatever whoever's booking
stages or that, fuck them, go where you want to go, gotcha,
that's it.
Speaker 2: I gotta work out some new material, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: Well, you had one that practically made me spit all
over my keyboard, just can you tell it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so dating old women is a few. I'm dating
this older woman and having sex with her is like
like an erold swartz in your action movie, Like, hey, Ethle,
you want to go have some sex and she's running
in Yeah. Right, But the same thing is that that's
how she actually because she had a stroke seven years ago. So, hey,
I thought you want something? You want some waffles for breakfast?
They're strong, But there's an audience for that. And the
more I think about it is like, I'll just work
on my my act and hopefully there'll be people enough
people that'll like it. And another one bites of dust.
Speaker 1: It's right, buddy, you only brought the one. Yeah, I
only brought them all. Maybe there's something in the fridge. Nope,
but there's something across the canal. Do you want any
ob you there? Maybe Maulberry's maybe what mulconnors, Yeah, yeah,
we will take a moment. I want to go back.
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Speaker 1: Now the greatest thing would be do you remember the
song the Leader of the Pack? Yeah, and the Leader
of the Pack. They played screeching noises like as the
motorcycle crashed ca Yeah, my brother and I used to left.
That's what they need.
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believe this in the eighties, late eighties, Twisted sister, stop it.
I'm serious in the air.
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what I'd rather hear?
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All you can do is I appreciate me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was really good. Here, Yeah, that's my man
right there.
Speaker 2: I think we should open a strip club. That way,
you can hear it every hour on the hour. You
you work in the kitchen on a fan strip, you
know that will make you a fan. Stupid, right, and
you're don't be afraid. Here's don't have fears drip clubs.
I don't have fear strip And so in this champagne room,
we'll have the Moran room. Here's here'll be a jungle gym.
But here's with the tops on the wall. And if
you can climb and listen a minute, you get a freeze.
Speaker 1: Got No, it's like you know those walls where you climb,
but it's all dill those you gotta grab grab crap.
I don't grab that one. It's a little loose. Uh oh,
small way. I think that my thing with strip clubs
was always I was fascinated by the personalities. I was
fascinated that.
Speaker 2: Because that's why most people go to strip clubs.
Speaker 1: I know that sounds weird. I understand that, and I
there's something in me. I know I'm a different dude.
I understand that I'm a slightly different dude. I think
I believe you're.
Speaker 2: Not the only one that doesn't care for strip clubs.
Speaker 1: No, I'm not saying I don't care for strip clubs.
It's something different. And I know that this is gonna
sound fucking bizarre. I absolutely fucking loved having strippers on
my show. When I did Afternoons on a rock station
and I would have the strippers in. I loved it.
Why because I loved what was the psyche? What is
it that makes you no.
Speaker 2: Wan to take your clothes off money and make.
Speaker 1: You take your clothes off for money? What? What is there?
A self esteem issue? Is there not? Are you so confident?
Are are you not confident? Did you have is all
the theories about daddy issues true? I have no fucking idea.
I found it to be a psychologice I fucking loved
and especially the ones that I had on. These were
girls who traveled the country. They were featured shows at
different strip clubs like comics. Yes, and I loved it and.
Speaker 2: They were I can always be funny, they can't always
be hot.
Speaker 1: No, there's there's a shelf life. I got it. You know,
sometimes it says expires in twenty twenty five. Better hurry up.
I'm just saying, like, to me, it was very interesting
and some of these women were like really fucking cool
and smart, and we're like, eah, I just kind of
fell into it. I don't know, and you know, I
was able to rise up to this point and they're
paying me to go here, and what do I care?
And that I appreciated more than the chick. There was
one chick that came in and I told her to
bring loose chains down to the mirage and he got
Dennis got so pissed he canceled all his advertising. So
fucking fucking killy what I think he would have killed
me because I'm like, you know, bringing loose change down
that way you can stick it to you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that would be Yeah.
Speaker 1: I thought it was funny because she was a little bitchy,
this woman. But my point being that I found the
psychology of a fascinating. I found it fascinating. My friend
people may know this name, Beth Donahue. Beth was maybe
one of the truly authentically funny people I've ever met
in my life. Absolutely funny when he went out to lunch. Funny.
I was gonna do a radio show with her. I
flew down to Nashville and we did a tryout and
all this. I found Beth just to be a gift,
a little kookie, but a gift. And she actually had
a show with Steve Harvey, the original Steve Harvey Show.
She had a contract from CBS that was going to
pay her ten thousand dollars a week. And then somebody
else in the production said she was too fat, and
that's terrible. I remember her saying that she was. She was.
Speaker 2: She must have been crushed by this.
Speaker 1: She was crushed, and she was on the first stand
and she was working a club, staying in a hotel
on the first floor, and she's like, I I wanted
to kill myself, but if I jumped out the window
and only break a leg, right, you know what I mean?
Like that kind of funny. And I found her just
to be fucking hysterical. I don't even know what the
point of the story was. I don't know. Yeah, here
we are, Doug. It would be on New Year's Eve. Well,
but no, I know what the point was. The point is,
I have no idea well.
Speaker 2: I want to branch out into new comedy. Uh, like
some guys talking about their wife or the girlfriend. Why
don't have a wife or girlfriend?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: So I think maybe I should talk about being singler.
I'll tell you what. I was laughing my ass off
in Wegman's last week. It was right before Christmas. Had
to go and get some I know what it was.
I was going with my parents. I stopped to get
some soda and I go to get some scratchers. Guy's
next to me with his wife. He's got three bags
on this arm, three bags on this arm. She's putting
her money, and she turns them, points at him and says, now,
don't go anywhere, and he goes, where the fuck am
I going? You got the car keys?
Speaker 1: Bill?
Speaker 2: I started laughing, and as I'm typing out what I
want or pushing the buttons, I was just talking to myself, like, so, Doug,
how's the single life? I go wonderful every time I
go to Wegmans.
Speaker 1: I feel blessed.
Speaker 2: And then he starts laughing, where am I going? You
have the car keys? And he wasn't going anywhere, right.
It's just one of those funny things. You something I
can relate to and keep going. Sometimes I do comedy
in a in the car and I forget to. I
sometimes I videotape myself if I think it's a good bit, and.
Speaker 1: So you remember it.
Speaker 2: I try to. Yeah, and now I get a pat.
Speaker 1: Right every day.
Speaker 2: That's on the to do list.
Speaker 1: All right, here we go, we have to uh get
I have a voicemails. Yeah, these are well, I believe.
So it's retrieving the audio that's a little disappointing. I
have lost it, you have. Yeah, I have crossed the
threshold because I was going somewhere with that Beth Donahue
story and the whole story of and I don't know
where I was going, uh ten thousand dollars a week.
That was absolutely devastating. Right, and she went on and
now I think she works in a grocery store or something.
But she's happier than she's ever been. Here we go.
Voicemails at five, five, two or six as.
Speaker 7: Hey, Bill, I just got a couple of things. Kevin's
working really hard at becoming my new hero. He loves hockey,
he loves the sur ship, and he came up with
a Diehard two reference from you talking about hacking the airplane.
Number two, poor soldier must get totally fucked up by
moving sidewalks. And number three New Year and enjoyed. And
I hope next year is fantastic for you.
Speaker 1: That was very sweet that Mark did talk about phobia.
Is your old coworker a soldier. He talked about Phoebe's
he has a phobia escalators. Now this same guy called back,
here you go.
Speaker 7: Hey, Bill, never mind, fuck Kevin. He just changed the bills.
Speaker 1: He did say, this is my hang on, here's one.
Speaker 4: There you go, Hey, motherfucker's I've called three times the
first hour because the sound was not I.
Speaker 1: It was, it was these are the calls. I have
a voicemail full of these.
Speaker 2: Yes, any good ones or just say.
Speaker 1: No, there's a bunch of good ones. But talk about
Jimmy Carter. Yesterday I did. It was one hundred. Yeah,
I was in grammar school when he was a president.
Well here's the thing that I said about Jimmy Carter.
The takeaway. You could talk all the things you want
about Jimmy, politics, whatever, he had a bigger impact. I
feel like sometimes after after yeah, because he was such
a kind, benevolent I am a huge, huge, fan of
Habitat for Humanity. I did a lot of stuff for
Habitat for Humanity years ago, like hosting their fundraisers and stuff.
I liked it because there's sweat equity and people go, well,
that seems a little weird. I think when you have
you get pride in that. You know. MY big thing
a lot of times is do hard things, right, do
hard things, because when we don't do hard things, you
get fat. Right. I stepped on the scale I've seen
a number of the last two years. Do hard things.
Go to the gym, lift the weights, do hard things,
and because at the end of it you feel fucking
satisfied and happy and all that. And that was always
my thing with radio is like I couldn't look at
the end of the day and know where I was.
The ratings came out three months later. I have no idea,
but if I hung a window or a door in
my house, I knew a sense of accomplishment. There's a
sense of accomplishment, and I think that that is the
key to real happiness. You know. I always say, like,
why don't they I now equate history.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you that's one thing different in today's world.
That you have self accomplishment that you finishing up something
that you started on your own. Maybe not everybody owns it,
but this thing right here with a million uploads a
day of just.
Speaker 1: Of bullshit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so hopefully somebody liking your page just gets some acknowledgment.
Speaker 1: Right, But that's ridiculous because ore, and that's where I
have argued and I will still argue, and I try
to do it in a less obtrusive way, is to
say to people that you want to get your kids like,
you're never putting the social media genie back in the bottle.
It ain't happening. No, something new is coming down the pike.
TikTok's the big thing right now. Facebook's still around. On
Instagram is still around. It's not going away Instagram. But
but well, it's the highlights. It's the highlights of my life.
I call it like history. We don't those were people too,
those were people too, but we hear the highlights of
Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson Washington. All right, you hear the highlights.
It's like an Instagram.
Speaker 2: I bang the women, the use of data.
Speaker 1: She still has a splendor and aunt from when he
ate around, not.
Speaker 2: As tall as Eraham Lincoln.
Speaker 1: But but he had wooden teeth. It's still splinter still there.
I uh, but.
Speaker 2: I nailed her cherry tree. I can I tell life
her teeth are wooden too.
Speaker 1: Dog? You fuck, I am stop it.
Speaker 2: You were making a point. You're doing so really.
Speaker 1: Well, so good bath down of h No, I don't
even know where I was going with that. Why did
I go down that path?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I was watching Wizard.
Speaker 1: Of Today, Okay, why I don't know.
Speaker 2: It was then when I was getting ready to come
out of here.
Speaker 1: But look, I've had two much New Year. Yeah you
think so, I have had too much New Year. I
would say to you, dear Doug, that I think if
most people talk no, I would tell you that if
most people talk to me, they wouldn't think I was drunk.
I don't think. I don't think it's slur. I don't know,
but I am fucking buzzed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so put your pants in?
Speaker 1: Yeah I got my pants back on.
Speaker 2: How long did that tattooed take? Anyways?
Speaker 1: But don't you feel satisfaction when you actually accomplish something?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: And that's why do hard things push yourself a little
bit harder In twenty twenty five, You're going to feel better.
And when you start accomplishing, let's say you lose five pounds,
don't you feel a little more motivated to go. Fuck,
I'm gonna get more salads, you know what I mean?
Or five more exactly, or I'm lifting weights and I
get a little stronger. You can see the progression. Those
are things that I think, Oh, the guns want to
come on and play yes, and you build real self esteem.
And that's why I always go you have to find
a way, and I don't know what it is, but
I'm desperately trying to find it. That your kid finds
happiness and all of us find happiness from within. I
did used to say something, and I caution my own
self for saying this on the podcast, but I have said,
even to my sons, one of the most important decisions
you're ever gonna make in your life is who you
partner with. And I made a sort of a mismatch
right in my partnership. There were good things, there were
not so good things for me from me. The only
way you do that is by settling your shit first.
Know who you are, know what you like, know what
your triggers are. Know how to control your emotions, the
one thing every adult needs to do. If you haven't
done this. As we head into a new year and
going out, I don't make resolutions. What I'd like to
do something learn to control your emotions. Don't have that
knee jerk reaction because it's never the right one, or
more often than not, it's not the right one.
Speaker 2: Well, that's why I date older women because more of
the time they have Alzheimer's and if I fuck up
or say the wrong thing, she's gonna forget about it
in half an hour and I'm back to.
Speaker 1: Normal cherry pie.
Speaker 2: So to be serious, did you want to get my
cherry pie?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: No, I sees I but jeez, Hallet didn't care for
Do you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1: Like, that's it, and I go. When you talk about kids,
the one thing you want to do is build their
self esteem if you can to. So when they look
at Instagram or they get a nasty comment in something, they're.
Speaker 2: So much they've got to go out in a real world.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, but once you show the way, Let's show
the way. That's all I'm saying. Let's show the way.
We got another voicemail, right, now here we go here,
it comes right here.
Speaker 5: Hey, motherfuckers, you fucker hambird. I'm on the back porch.
I was a tax break in nineteen sixty five on
this day induced labor. Of course, you guys are fucking
killing me. And uh yeah, hammer, how you doing.
Speaker 2: Celebrating earlier?
Speaker 5: And I just forgot what I was thinking too, Maddy.
Speaker 2: No, ya, that's and that's why we were kids.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's why we over. Yes, that's exactly right. Anyway,
any resolutions, yes, many. I don't have any resolutions. I
have things. Well here's the thing. Yes, So I did
something really really really hippie weird.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: I wrote down with my mom and my sister when
I was down at my sister's house. We were we
the three of us, would stay up later than everybody else.
It was great to connect with my sister. I'm five
years older than her, she's much closer just because they
were both in the house. My brother, my younger brother
who's eight years younger than me. And so we wrote
down intentions for the year as though they happened, like
I wrote it this way. I don't know how they
wrote it. I am so happy and appreciative now now.
Speaker 2: That I have.
Speaker 1: Whatever whatever it is, and you do thirteen of those,
and then each night you burn one until you're down
to one. And that's the one you need to focus
on for the year. I gohead, Doug, God for good.
Speaker 2: First thirteen days.
Speaker 1: No, well, the first thirteen the universe will take care of. Oh. Yeah, see,
I know you don't believe in this shit. I know. No, no, Doug,
I know, I know you. Doug. You conservative. Yeah, I
know you're a little conservative. I have appreciative beliefs. Yeah,
but these are weird, Doug. I mean, I'm giving you
some fucking far out ship.
Speaker 2: So you write down thirteen things every day you burn yes,
after thirteen days.
Speaker 1: So you do it. You do it if you're supposed
to do it at the salstice, or you do a
Christmas Eve. We did a Christmas Eve and I've been
doing that and other days. That's it, just until until
they're gone and you have one left, and that's the
one you focus on. Do I have them? Yes? My
thing is do hard things. That's my phrase for the
year for me. For me personally, I need to do
more hard things. I haven't done hard things. And by
that I mean make sure you get to the gym
and take the leap, and take take the yeah and going.
I pitched the TV show recently to somebody and and
you know, we're putting together the deck for that and stuff.
And take the chance. Take to do hard things. Those
are hard and their.
Speaker 2: Heart was easy.
Speaker 1: Everybody do it. It's hard to get the rejection. It's
hard to get what do hard things? And I think
if we all did hard things.
Speaker 2: I was almost so we do my hard things. You
knew that when one was coming.
Speaker 1: That's why I kept saying it, give a gym, but
I really do yes, because you can. You can. It's
not gonna happen today or tomorrow, but give it a
concept tomorrow. She was losing weight. You know what it takes, man.
Speaker 2: I downloaded something. It was a little commercial or something.
It's saving ten thousand dollars. Yeah, in two hundred days.
And each day you have an increment of money that
you say in a box. And the end of two
hundred maybe it's two hundred and fifty five days. You've
got nobody has the code to her box. That's so
new money penny, Well that might be money, penny. Do
you like my Sean Connery something like that. Yeahah, do you.
Speaker 1: Have anything for twenty twenty five, sir?
Speaker 2: Losing weight? Yeah, working on comedy more. Yeah, I want
you to do that, putting something.
Speaker 1: Not that I have any control over that assertion, but
I would like to see you do that. I think
that there are great things in comedy for you, and
I think you need to just tune out the world.
Write anybody who you feel as though has given me.
Speaker 2: Go to work at New Avenues and that and Comedy
Avenues to talk about it age.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, all right too, but.
Speaker 2: I've been the The act that I have is thin
are things that are all relatable to me that I
believe it, so it comes off is I'm not making
believe making things up. I don't think that would come
off good, but I might try that. Authenticity very important,
even some documentaries and watching on TV, like.
Speaker 1: I've had some champagne, maybe more than just this bottle.
Maybe today I will tell you I can still say
authenticity very good.
Speaker 2: Can you spell it?
Speaker 1: A U T H E N C I T Y.
I couldn't tell you.
Speaker 2: But yeah, being authentical, they say it's very important because
the audience will audience will feel it.
Speaker 1: If we're savvy people these days. We know and we
know authenticity.
Speaker 2: Yeah, to do the Bill Moran Comedy Show Fair, Yes,
we gotta do it.
Speaker 1: We have to. Happy New Year, my friend, Doug. I'm
so happy you were here for the last show of
twenty twenty four. It has been a blast by putting
up with my and I am ready for good riddance myself.
I've never felt that way about a year so much
as I have this year, so much as I have
this year. But I wish you all the best in
twenty twenty five, friend, and thank you for being part
of all of this. Absolutely for Douggie Fresh. I'm Bill Moran.
Will see you on New Year's Day. See anyone looking
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