Al Jackson (comedian, Daily Blast Live)

like, Who is that? And that's how your family started, like, random stuff happens this way. Like I got into it on a talk show the other day not got into it. But you know, I was saying I have a strong opinion on a lot of things. And I was saying, I think it's super embarrassing for you to use your GPS in your home city, you should turn that off

I haven't seen him for 30 years. He's a doctor now. Like stuff happened. He's invited us to this fundraiser so I'm gonna get your dress girl we're gonna go to this thing. Like stuff happens when you can't predict everything, you know?

issues. This is not your business, Chuck. You know, I'm

don't care. They're like, we're just gonna give you what's the most gonna get you the most clicks and people get mad and fired up and

humanity. And those are the moments the reason that if you ever look at like News Bloopers those have like crazy views they have like the look at this channels like how does this have 45 million views? It's because people like to see the news people come out of that shell for a second to just be like, I don't know how to read that fucking last name. Oh, am I on? Like people like that? Because they do that and they're like, Hey, I fuck up to okay, I've been looking at you for years

and you seem so straight up. I like to, to know that. You know, you you'd thought the mic was off is and your sportscaster said, Hey, our home team sucks, because they do suck. And maybe that's like something that needs to be said like that little bit of honesty, I think has been replaced, because the people that have been super honest on social media, eventually you're gonna pay for it, because you're gonna say something that people don't like.

the news. It's, here's what we think of the news and what you should think of it and you should be mad, and you should be scared of this thing.

people. And the fact that now, if Taylor Swift makes a post, the former vice president has a take on it, like what I don't like I don't ever want to think about politics. And I know that I have to, it's like the dentist. But I don't want to have to go to the dentist 16 times a day, that was kind of the outcome here, three times a year for the big stuff, make sure nothing terrible is happening. Or eventually I have to get my lower bottom hat to

have teeth replaced. But in the meantime, can you guys do what you're paid to do by the taxpayers and just do your shit and stop being weird. But I think that, that that's a that's a that that's a land and that's a ship that's that's sailed and that land is far away. Now. It's like politics are immersed in our culture now. And now put, politicians are more entertainers than anything? What did he say about him?

I talk. And then there's going to be a lot of people saying, calling a woman that then do talking like that enough is wrong, that in this case, they would be right. But it doesn't matter. Because they're both the same thing. They're both internet traffic. And at the end of the day, that's what we'd never realizes, no matter what you say. It's all about the traffic. It used to be all about the Benjamins in the 90s now it's just like traffic, you say? The craziest thing you could

think of? I mean, what would Marjorie Marjorie Taylor Greene or like Lauren beaupre. You think about like what politicians used to retire, used to like have to like step down and resign over? Like, yeah, a lewd text with the Secretary that wasn't their wife. Or, you know, I remember how we're doing that, that Kenny, I think is like oh four he made that he's like yeah, or something in a in a speech, they replayed it over and over again. And he was like a legit candidate and his career

was over. They mocked him so much that it tanked him in the polls were making Oh, he was like excited. He's like we're gonna take Detroit and we're gonna take Dallas

couple anyway. You know, that's how it used to be but now it's like because Taylor demand so much traffic and so much attention. Social media. Why? as it pulls almost like a gravity like a larger object on a smaller object, it pulls the world's attention towards her whether you're looking for it or not. So, Heinz, you know, Heinz now has a ketchup named after them. And there's luggage named after him. And there's T shirts that have tasteless and trailer and whatever their nicknames are

and their podcasts about it. And is this real in the Chiefs at the mention it? And now there's a you know, the halftime Max is her opening. It's, there's a lot of people that don't care, but we're like, forced to care. And I think that causes resentment.

mean, they're not there. They don't care about the Taylor Swift stuff, but they are posting about it because that's what gets all the clicks and that's how they make their money. So right

nine rebounds. Like those shows don't rate you know, what shows rate of emotional shows was Tom Brady. Getting back at Bill Bella check was that a revenge game? Revenge is emotion. You know, guys crying when they win the championship, guys fighting the other team fans. Their team misses a 20 point of field goal to win the game should be gamey, they miss their reaction videos of grown men with children in the room, throwing the remote in breaking the television. That's

emotion. And men are just as emotional about their sports and about the people tied to them as women are that are obviously not sports fans that women are about the housewives and following all of their drama. That it's it's drama. It's what people have been gravitating towards since the Roman Colosseum. And this is just a different version of it. So the idea that men are this analytical Blanchett We just

want our sports. You know what, like, real sports nerds like myself would used to watch that's no longer on the air because No, do you remember? There was a show it used to come on basic cable is called. It was sponsored by zenith and it was like Monday evening quarterback or something with Ron Jaworski, and yeah, and he would just sit there and break down plays. Yeah, just be like, Yeah, right here. Andre risin brings of free safety up to bite on the fake and then it was just arrows on

the screen. It was for anybody that wasn't a football dork. It was unwatchable. And what they found is putting, you know, Skip Bayless and, you know, used to be Shannon Sharpe against each other to yell at each other for

an hour. Got literally 25 times the ratings in morning television, as some of those shows are doing like a point eight, which is 800,000 Viewers, which back in the day, you know, two years ago, they were putting on more than two now, but like shows like cold pizza and those kind of, you know, ESPN morning shows that we're doing like, you know, 150,000 viewers, and I was good. So the idea that men don't want drama, the idea that men don't care about love that you

don't love your team. You don't hate the other team, you you know, you love your homeboys. It's ridiculous. And I think the bigger and bigger even though this Kelsey Taylor story gets, it just shows that those aren't all women clicking on those links. All right, fellas, let's be honest on that.

speak for myself. The first half you could feel comfortable talking to people that are significantly older than you about like that's the way To connect to your dad who might be kind of distant or your uncle or your your your art that loves the St. Louis Cardinals and your complete strangers. Absolutely. When else would you high five another grown man at an event is or hug them? Yeah. You know, it's one of my buddies named Joe de Rosa is a hilarious comic. I've known him since I did my

first stand up comedy gig. He was the vet and Better Call Saul. But oh, yeah. So that's one of my maybe my oldest friend in stand up. And Joe told me he was at that hip hop 50th anniversary show at what's that famous Theater in New York. How embarrassing. The Apollo? No, the bigger one than that. Oh, the biggest theater you can do in New York like the Carnegie.

Carnegie Carnegie. Yeah, Carnegie Hall, the 50th anniversary and you just run out all the acts that were coming out in the crowd was going crazy. And I guess there was a rap group named third base. There were two white rappers. I remember that. Yeah, there was a weasel. Yes, absolutely. And they came out, you know, Pete nice came out. And you know,

Joe's a white dude. He said, The big black dude, just turn to him said, See, man, hip hop is bigger than race is about love and just said the stranger just hugged him with two arms, like at first because everybody was having such a good time reminiscing about our childhood and stuff. So there is that that connection with music, or sports or fashion? That that is deeper than just saying, Oh, you just put clothes on? Well, it's like it's, it's your connection to

the world. Otherwise, we're just people that are gathering goods and feeding our families.

what if? Because I don't like when people are, you know, I don't care what your opinion is. But I don't like when people are mean to people. I really. And I was like, I don't want people to boo her or like, throw us or make comments. And nobody cared. Because everyone's just having a good time listening to the music and having and enjoying the music. And they don't care if it's a transgender woman or, you know, they're gay or whatever, who cares. We're just listening

to music. And she was good. She played guitar. She knew what she was doing so, right. Yeah, I agree. Yeah, it's

way to generate traffic. But those are the people that are also not, you know, connecting with people over music and where they were at their first concert, and I took some LSD and I couldn't find my shoes, and I went to that concert. You know, those people are indoor cats. We are outdoor cats. We like to

interact with other people. And I think the people that were probably surrounding you at that concert, are very like minded, and the people that are surrounding people in hate chat groups and going after people. They're like minded as well. They could just stay over there. And I think we have a good deal.

went kind of viral for me. It's I have like a half a million views on tick tock, and I had over like 1500 comments, and I can't believe how many people took the time to like troll me in and rip on like, oh, what's the I remember my first day in Arizona where you've never seen a rainstorm before like you've never seen the monsoon bubble. I'm just like, wow, like just so much hate and like why would you take the time to make the comment just to make yourself feel cool. I don't know. We

a community as well. And I think that that's the the what we've seen be on Earth by the Internet is key You can find out really cool shows in your neighborhood, you can find out the best coffee shop and Mexican restaurant no one's talking about in your area. But also it allowed Flat Earthers to find each other. And it allowed January 6 writers to find it find each other. And they're all communities no different than, you know, the former alumni for Howard

University, or furries. They're all a community and people want to find people that are like minded. So it makes sense. But I think when you're outside of that community, it doesn't make any sense to you why somebody would do that. But inside the community, somebody's probably like, Well, why didn't you also comment on his the fact that he needed, you know, his car is six years old, or, you know, you could see her daughter in the back? Why didn't you say something mean about her in

their community? They're getting probably critiqued as well for their trolling.

Right. So they have nothing they have no leg to stand on, but they're willing to critique your content when they have none of their own. It's very strange.

kid gonna get tonight? From guys his grandfather's age, you know that he'll be doxed online, his girlfriend will be attacked, his parents will be told that their son is a piece of shit. And it's, it's something that is weird. It's, I'm shocked that we haven't addressed it more. I had a friend of mine who's an entertainer and a popular one properly considered a c plus b minus list celebrity. And he they said that one time somebody that was not a fan of theirs, US DM them a picture of their mom's

house. And it was clearly a picture that they took standing in front of it. And it most death threats and threats online aren't credible. But some are. I don't want to be in the business of figuring out who's for real, because by the time you realize who's real, it may be too late. So that's one thing.

your right to type it. But it's our right to also know who is identifying themselves as plausible threaten our community and to act accordingly.

So thanks, guys. I needed a little death threat on top of that, like most people that are successful, in driven and successful and whatever you were you deem successful. Your mistakes haunts you way worse than anything somebody else may say. Or maybe even noticed. I'm sure the best musicians notice when they miss a note. And there's not a fan in the audience that realizes that but they'll they'll beat themselves up like I was, you know, I should I should to my guitar

that was really lazy. And yeah, that song really suffered in the fans like, What are you talking about? But it's bigger than that. You're accountable to yourself. It's not somebody Yeah,

President Trump. You call them Mr. Trump. It's president to you asshole. You know, like, ma'am, it is 130 on a Tuesday afternoon,

look at things. I'm like, oh, when when Chuck looks at a football game, he didn't even care about the score. He wants to see who controls the line of scrimmage, because that's where you really make your mark and like, Oh, what do you think the I don't I mean, I guess the standings might disagree with you. But I could see that like, yeah, control of the line is a bigger thing than maybe just a couple fluky fumble pickups in a

kickoff return. Like maybe just overall control of the game is something that is that is a measurable statistic that should be looked at more, even if I disagree. I'm like, oh, so the next time I watch a game, I'll be watching the line a little bit more. And I'll be like, Oh, I see what he's talking about. I see why this team can throw the ball deep because the quarterback doesn't have a

second at the row. All right, Chuck, even if we ended on bad terms, and expletives, I'd be like, for the rest of my life. I'll take that nugget of information about how you analyze the world and take that with me. And I everything is extremely personal to people. But for me, it's more, I'm just kind of fascinated with the way people think and, and how it aligns with being how it totally flies in the face of what I agree with and figure out how

they got there. And when you sit down and talk to people about their upbringing, if you do for a second, you kind of get it. You know, not everybody's parents are, you know, from the Upper West Side of New York and in a fluent, not everybody's parents are, you know, dirt floors and scraping by on 11 grand a year. Everybody's kind of in the middle with their own kind of interesting, weird story. And that's what makes us special.

or whatever. Like, I like getting to know people's stories and learning about like, that's what some of the most interesting conversations I've had, are just complete strangers in an Uber like my pickup, Uber drivers would, you know, talk to them, and they would they'd be from different countries. I want to hear about, you know, what is it like? Come guy from Cuba? Tell me about Cuba. Like, you know, there's a lot of people here that won't communism, like, is it good? You live there? You

lived in Cuba? Tell me about it. I mean, it's fascinating to hear.

interesting to me. And, you know, you were military brat. You lived in Poland, you speak four languages. Yeah. But you know, I like really like Pittsburgh, you know, it's like, what's Pittsburgh like is as opposed to Cameroon. You were there for two years? Well, it's weirdly kind of similar. Pittsburgh and Cameroon are similar in what way I'm fascinated. You got me? Yeah. And so I think that's what I've always appreciated about doing

stand up. And I've been able to do it as much obviously, I host a daytime talk show five days a week for 50 weeks a year, but going on the road and just talking to people because stand up it's the only time where you can meet strangers and they are total strangers but because you've had a fairly one way conversation with them for an hour they feel like they know you and in a way that they do depend on your act if you listen to my actor, you know some things about me and they feel

comfortable opening up to you and it's not the way they would with their lawyer or their doctor or even their spouse it just like you know, yeah, you know, the wife is in the bathroom off guard. I don't know what to do. She wants to have another kid, I'm not sure. And I'm like, within a second, I'm, like, immersed in your life for the 33 seconds that she's in the bathroom like, but that like gives me like an in depth look at like, Oh, this isn't just a Rando sitting at a table, you

know, Stage Right? This is a person that's enjoying my show, but also having this inner dialogue about it. Am I too old to be a dad? And, you know, we're all it all kind of humanizes us because we're all kind of going through different versions of the same thing. inner torment.

And we all have, you know, we all want to have money and have a job and eat food and you know, be able to maybe have a little fun every now and then entertainment, maybe a little bit of travel. That's right.

traffic. The fact that I'm talking to my homeboy, and having an incredible conversation won't drive as much traffic, but it will drive the traffic that you want. So you have to kind of make that decision. If you are a person that produces content or consumes content, do you want a lot of bland food? Or do you want very specific food, and I just want to be I'm going to be the vegan Thai food of, of content creators. I just want to be a person where you like, you think what I'm doing is

interesting. You agree with some you don't agree with others, but you're you're gonna come back. That's all I want. You know?

the same people with you. And like your show, like, I don't know what you guys are all going to send me and I can kind of predict a little bit. But I mean, you usually bring an interesting takes on things. And Joe and the humor obviously helps. Yeah,

redone. The newspaper, one gets up and goes to the bathroom, like, oh, they hate each other. You know, because that's it, they're putting on an act in between breaks. And the day to day grind to that will be impossible if we didn't really like each other. And I think what makes our show special is that we all move to Denver, for the show. So we didn't, we don't we never did the show and then went back to our old lives. We all started a life here

together. So there's this like, it's a different relationship when you're like, hey, where do you go, you know, get your hair done. Hey, where? Who does dog boarding? I got like, when you guys are all figuring it out together. It's more like you're at a sleepaway camp, where there's a uniformity and that you're from different places, but you're in this new place figuring out together, and that's the different kind of bond.

completely apart. And that's why like, a lot of these big bands, you know, they tour in separate tour, touring buses, because they can't stand each other.

Let's Let's do another one. And there's going to be someone out of the three or four and the more number of members you have, the more likely it's like no this let's do an acoustic album and they're like our fans, our hair metal. Our fans are down south Atlanta trap music and they're like, Yeah, but this one, let's have an r&b singer come in, and there's going to be different creative forces. And they may be right, they may be

wrong. But to get 4456 creatives, always flowing on the same plane is almost impossible. And I couldn't imagine being forced to tour with people that I couldn't stand. But then for a few hours have to like, Alright, here we go. I want to show you after the show, like, can you imagine like having to like fake that it would almost make you resent the more?

you fall in love. And then you get married, now you got a kid on the way. And that kid is definitely dependent on you being a dog walker, and a teacher and an Uber driver. And you're like, But honey, you know, I told you I wanted to be a drummer. And she's like, I know. But that was before. Low allow a little chuck got here. Now. This is what you do. And you can feel that resentment. And it comes from a natural place of feeling like these entities came into your world

and affected your dreams. But you know, it doesn't take away from the fact that now you have this responsibility. But it also doesn't guarantee that there won't be some resentment in that responsibility. And I think that's what a lot of people are going through is just like, how do I rationalize who I am with who I thought I was?

Because still, like, there's a lot of people that are unhappy with what they're like how their life turned out. And so they're taking it out on other people. So how do we get people back to figure out what it is that they're here on earth to do and help them guide them into that path?

like you made that table? Like, why don't you sell this idea that you think somebody, they don't even they're not thinking about putting that on Instagram, or putting it making a website and selling it because their love of what they're doing is so much more rewarding. Now, when they find out, they can make a lot of money. Hopefully they do that too, because you want to

get paid for what you love. But what that person has that somebody that may make a ton of money and corporate real estate, but hate every second of their life is that they found something that they would do for free. And they found something that frees them from the everyday grind of trolling, or the everyday grind of doom scrolling, or the everyday grind of just finding the terrible thing. And every parking at the stadium is a bitch. Yeah, but

you're with your kid. And it's the playoff game and like put a smile on your face. Come on, bro. This is not a dress rehearsal. You gotta have some fun in this life. So figuring out the pockets in which you have fun and you have joy, and doing the things that you like. And I think when people are like, I wanted to be a rock star, you know, and that didn't happen because, you know, she trapped me with two kids or like we had two kids, however you look at it. Hopefully at least

it's the latter of the two. I would I would question. Did you want to be a musician or did you want to be a rock star in both are okay? But if you want to be a musician, you can play the guitar. You can play the drums when the kids go to sleep. When the family's gone for the weekend. You can find time to do what you love. If you want to be a rock star, you want that adulation, you want that

attention. And that's something that also you're going to have to deal with and wrestle with because if you want attention, there are other ways to do it. If you want to tension start, you, when you're your spouse, start a podcast about, you know, I feel trapped, and he thinks I trapped him, star and me and my wife and we talk about we talk it out. And that's a creative way to get the attention that

you want. And also maybe make some inroads into your relationship and figure out a better way to figure out like who you are, ask people around you like, what do you think about like, honestly, like your best friend, the one person that never bullshit you? I've had friends, you know, back in the day, just pull me aside and be like, Hey, man, you're better than this. You know, it's got to

come from within. But you also have to take the, the advice of other people, if people say, Hey, man, you, you seem like you've lost your way a little bit, maybe we should get back to, you know, fishing, you just seem like you were really at peace there, you seemed like you were really at peace when you're working those AP school programs. You know, even if you have to stop doing Uber for a little while, I'd rather we have less money, and you have a smile

on your face. When you come back from working with those kids. Like there's ways to kind of navigate and find your joy in this life, but no one's going to give it to you. You just got to go out there and plausibly fight for it. And when I say plausibly, that means like, within reason, you can't quit all your jobs and say, I'm gonna be at rock star, like, come on. What you can do is being adult about it and figure out the best ways to get what you're looking for out of whatever set activity.

Because I don't and then I don't even know what that other thing would be.

talked about it on the album. It was the first time that I felt like I had done enough internal work on myself in 46 years on this planet, where I knew in real time, I kept telling myself, I didn't know I hoped I kept saying, this will be funny, this will be funny, what day is it? Because there was there were most of the times in my life where, especially with the home, burglary that it could have gone the other way, you know, where you just go and do something silly, because I know did it.

And you know, I was really proud that I had at least done enough work, and had a strong enough support system around me to not only helped me kind of ease back into the world, but you know, learn to trust, trust people again, and also find humor in it, and learn a lesson about it. And also, like realize that I followed my instincts and those instincts were correct. And it still didn't work out great. But just all these lessons from all the things that you go through. You go well, why did that

happen? And why that happened? Well, you're learning things to deal with, like a crisis that I dealt with, because I felt like the crisis that I dealt with, especially again with the house. The car you can't do much about in the park and and obviously when you get back, but with the house, it's just like, it's the kind of thing where if you just go hey, I'm Chuck, I'm a hothead. What can I tell you? Well, there's a lot of guys, men and women, people in jail with that Mo. The system wants you to

be a hothead. The system wants you to be impulsive. The system wants you to not take no shit, bro. And they got a whole line of adults waiting for people that don't take no shit. You're gonna go see you're gonna have a CEO. You're gonna have a PIO, you're gonna have a judge. You're gonna have a court reporter you're gonna have a cop. You're gonna have somebody does fingerprints. You're gonna have anger management, you're gonna have all these wonderful things for people that don't take no shit.

lot happens a lot, man. Like street fights are not like, you know, Western where you punch somebody in the stomach and, you know, then you challenge him to a duel. Sometimes you're drunk at a bar on Thursday. Somebody says, the bear suck. You say what do you say, buddy and you punch him. And they fall back and they hit their head on the fire hydrant. And now you're talking to your kids through glass for nine years for manslaughter. That happens all

the time. And I don't think people realize because they think hey, it's Roadhouse, just little box them up whenever you start doing things. In which now somebody else says actions can dictate the rest of your life. You got to be in a world of hurt. You know,

And, you know, we tried medication, we tried this, we tried that. It just wasn't working. And after, I don't know, about a year, year and a half, I was like, this is not the life that I want to lead. She didn't abandon anybody. She's a very successful person worked in upper level strategy management at a very in a major field at a major conglomerate of hospitals. And I was like, oh, no, this isn't the life that I

want to lead. And I even though like we were in the home that I'm in now, I left I gave her two weeks to pack her stuff up, gave her three grand and move out. I stayed in hotels for two more not maybe like three and a half weeks, because she was dragging her feet on moving out. But I just I knew when we broke up, you know, I have it. I have other things to think about, besides just being the bigger person I have to think about as

a black man on TV. If somebody says, you push me or he bullied me, I without even being able to defend myself that could cost me work. It could cost me my career. And so when I broke up with her, and it's so interesting that my exam was talking about it for a year before it happened because I just saw her disintegrating. And I tell asked my one of my best friends in worlds do named John Vargas. I was like how, you know, when shall I do it? And he was like, trusting me, homeboy.

When the time comes, you'll know. And when we did break up, she was right. She just made one more comment. And I turned down how much sports you watch. But when Vince Carter won the dunk contest, and he just goes it's over with his hands like that. Like I just turned to work, bro, don't yell ever. I just I think I'm like half on the spectrum. Like I don't get super anonymity of the way. I just turned on. I

was like, it's over. And I turned, I grabbed my wallet, my keys, I walked out the back door, got into my car on the drive in the garage. And I never laid eyes on her again. I sent her a text that was like, hey, you know, please move out in the next couple of weeks. You know, I just didn't want to be in the house alone. Because once you're in the house alone, what if What if she's blocking the door? What do I do? You know, there's no good scenario. That could be that could become of me being in

the house. I was like, you take the house that I pay for and you move out here's three grand for you to get him over. You to go wherever you need to go, I let her keep the ring the ring was fitting grant. And I was just like, just I just do it. I just wanted to be happy. I'm a happy guy, though, you know, like, my goofy. Mike, my friends are so goofy, they're professional, Goofy, Goofy dudes, they show up to an arena, or to a theater with no equipment and no backups. That's how silly my I'm

a silly guy. I like to have fun. I like to be with my kids. And I did it. This person was not interested in that kind of life anymore. And, you know, I just, I, I knew if I didn't get out, it could get ugly, because she just was a very, not physically, she never put her hands on me.

But it's very, like, that kind of thing where like, people kind of do that thing where they're standing in front of you like, No, you're not gonna go past me until I'm done dealing with you that kind of where that could just lead to the wrong aerosols. It's like, I don't want to be out of this. And dude, I came back into my house. And I was on the phone with my boy, John Vargas. And it was Labor Day, a year. This last Labor Day would

have been a year. And I walked in the house on the Saturday Labor Day weekend, and I'm looking down at my phone. You know, just talking to him on speakerphone. And I keyed into my, my key and I'm still talking and like as I opened the door, like my voice started echoing like, I was doing a walkthrough at a Zillow house, you know, and I look to my right and my couch is gone. And then the table, my office upstairs is cleaned out. Like I'll send you pictures. Obviously, I took pictures and

all that kind of stuff. I mean, just because when somebody has a couple of weeks to steal all your stuff, they go through drawers. So like I had to get new silverware and new towels. And I always talk about like, yeah, you she took my bed, she took it to person sauna, she stole that itis everything that I don't, she literally left me with the clothes on my back. And I was I had a rolling office chair that was still downstairs, and what used to be my gym. And

I remember so weird. I never had spoken to this person on the phone before. But I called this. This great attorney named his name's Mike. Mike. I galosh. Mark eyeglass. He is a He's an attorney in Florida. And he does our show all the time. And I don't know why I called him Chuck. I've never called him before in my life. Maybe there was a part of me like legally do I have any standing but like, why he came to my mind we'd never hung out, you know, post. And this is like, really right

after COVID. So like, no one had seen anybody in the years. And I was like, Yo, my extra stole all my shit. And he just like, he's a real peaceful Zen Dude, I'm assuming he probably went through the same thing. Personal growth, and I was kind of hitting me with some of that. But he was like, Look, man, as a lawyer, I can point you in the direction of you know how to chase down now use on on your use bed and you know what shape you get it back end, and I can't

tell you. Or you can say I traded all that to get out of this relationship. And I had to start looking at it like that. I had because I was going to make myself crazy.

move around. You never know. Yeah, love. Like it's a really big deal. Yeah, well,

situation. It was the best case scenario. I look at somebody like her and she would she would have taken pleasure. Like sitting at a fine Italian dining, just taking a sip of good red wine and like sampling the past that she would have taken our time and drag that divorce out. In a way where have you ever met somebody where like you can tell the divorce changed them to the point where They're not the same person anymore. Because it's just so much back

and forth. And you're like, telling your lawyer, can we just end this? Yeah, she wants to push back. She wants to have the three goldfish. Yeah. Yeah, she wants, she wants you to give her, you know, one of your tires off of your car every month for two years, just make again impossible to close this up and move on. And that's part of the the idea that like, there has to also be another account or voice because I think a lot of people meet people that are very good

at meeting people. They meet people that are very good at putting on a show and making themselves stand out from other people. And they're good at that. Because no different than any other con man. They know that when you get to the end of this maze, you're not going to be happy with what you find. But the front of them mazes the carnival, it's, you know, light up things and they say, Hey, let's step right up and look over here and hey, man, you're

beautiful. Come say, here's a free candy for your goofy kid. And what they don't realize is once they start down that road, there's no turning back. And I got off lucky. Because I can't imagine what she would have asked for. I'm sure she would have presented herself as credible in court, you know, college graduate did have probably it looks good on paper. It's terrifying. But it's not. Me. Yeah, good. Sorry. In hindsight,

it's, it's the city. And there was a homeless guy, the last summer that she was here, and this is during COVID. And, like, I have a fence that runs along the sidewalk. And he was passed out kind of in between the garage where it kind of juts out and where the fence meets maybe like a 190 degree angle that created some shade there. And it was a homeless man, kind of just like, you know, just like, probably passed out, you know, just from the heat or whatever.

And, you know, she was just like, let's call that she called the police on him. And I was like, let's just take him some water. You know, I was like, what, first of all, why would you call the police to a black man's house? Like, when could that ever be good? Like, the black men and police we've met it was a blind date didn't work out. We should just we should

try to never meet each other. I hope I want to spark a Spark Summit saying this is that I don't want to have the handshaking and like, oh, black people in blue. I just want to be like, Y'all stay over there. We'll stay over here. Let's try to never interact.

stuff stolen. It. It was very much she lived in a lot of colloquialisms and a lot of up speak. But I started to realize she wasn't she didn't live that for real. She wasn't really an advocate for anybody but herself. And

hurricane coming. And it was still back when Trump was doing stuff. And people thought it was funny. And I thought it was alarming. But the National Weather Service had like a hurricane coming to Florida. And he took a black sharpie, and he drew the direction that he said it was going to go even though they predict it was going to go up the East Coast. And people thought that was funny. But that was a real thing. It's because they cannot accept that something that they're wrong.

And I remember what an argument we had, because her brother had two dogs that he would she would just be like, well watch the dogs. Her brother, her brother was like a newlywed or whatever. So they would like oh, we want to go to Vail this weekend. So they would just leave us with these dogs. Now all of a sudden, it's negative 10 outside in Colorado, and I'm walking to gigantic dogs, you know, in dead of winter so they can go galavanting around. And so these are big dogs are tearing stuff

up and out their dogs. They're running full speed, you know, tape breaking lights off a light fixtures and stuff. And so I used to have my podcast studio downstairs, now it's upstairs. And, you know, she was like, my brother would be here like 330 to get the dogs. And so I start recording at four and just, I just hear just what sounds like a herd of buffalo above my head is I'm trying to record and I go what it's like 430 What do you do? And she's like, the dogs are

playing. And I'm like, you said the dogs gonna be gone an hour ago. And she was like, Yeah, but I'm allowed to invite them into our home. And I was like, this is where I work. This is my work is well and she goes no, it's our home. This isn't our work, and I go don't you work from home every day. When you say that this is your work as well. And she just like she just repeated. This is our home because she couldn't admit that she was so wrong. And she's basically standing in her office

in our home. She couldn't her brain. Yeah, I'm like you're in your you can't. You don't have a leg to stand on. You're standing in your office. You know, she still couldn't admit like, I get it. I'll just send the dogs home. Yeah, you know, it's people think that that's a little thing. But it's a bigger sign if you can't admit that you're wrong. Where can you go? How can you learn?

make it a three hour. We're not talking you know, or sleeping together which is another thing that that was that was just a faucet that just turned off and I realized very quickly you know, there's always those like 90 sitcoms it was like Oh, my wife didn't we're not intimate when you're living that but there's no jokes written by Hollywood writers. It's not it's not as funny the everybody loves Ray's not funny with no punch

lines. And I feel for guys that I know guys that are like we got married and it just stopped or I also know a lot of women that are live we just got married and he gained 40 pounds and started going playing golden tea at the bar. And I'm like yo what happened to the dude I met there was a lacrosse all American you know it's it's a very dangerous when it doesn't work out well prospect about linking your life intertwining your life with a relative stranger. I mean it super dangerous, this person

should be really vetted. Because if people knew how in control this person you met on Tinder or Bumble, or half drunk at a Cinco Demayo party five years ago, now this person gets 20% of your dad's will. Like these needs to be things that are investigated, but I think there is a proclivity within a lot of people to want to live a movie.

So they're like, Well, I never see that in movies, all I see is this guy throws away his corporate life and runs away with this barefoot woman that you know, likes to travel and blow off work. Well, that's not that great a year in, you know, when we need to talk about health insurance. And we need to talk about very serious things and fun things. And we can't do certain things because your license is suspended because you

didn't get it renewed. Because you don't believe in the overall load of the government and all these kinds of things. It's fun for 48 hours, but not really good for life stuff. You need to make sure that you find a partner that is vetted, that has just as much to lose as you do. And also like, do you like their friends? Do their parents like them? Do they like where they work? Were they happy before you they met you? All these things that you want to overlook? Question

it's not good either way. And it shows that you are a person that is not capable yet have any type of real self reflection. And I think that's the hard part that people don't want to Yeah. Oh, yeah. David, Chuck, he's crazy. I data owl. He's crazy. Well, all these crazy people, They've all moved on, and they're double is in an insane asylum. No, he's married with two kids. He's a lawyer in Long Island. Oh, it's not too crazy. You know, it's like there. There's no ability

to pull yourself in. I've done that. You know, when I was drinking, I had a moment at the Hyatt, by myself in my room, I was like, this ain't working bro. And I never had another drink again. I quit cold turkey 26 2019 in December. And it was just an evaluation of like, are you happy? Do you feel good? Are your relationships what they could be? Are you as good as job as you could be? And they answered all that were no. And I found the root of the problem,

which was me. The secondary root was alcohol, I eliminated one that did some work on myself. And, you know, things worked out. But like that wasn't easy. Confronting yourself and like not being able to Well, they did this. And if, you know, if Chuck had come through on his end of the business deal, maybe we'd be millionaire. Like you can always do that. Right? But sometimes it's you dude. And there's a beauty to knowing that it's so freeing to just be less you take

know what that means. Now, like, what's the work I need to do on myself? Like, but for you? What does it mean?

always the time to drink. And when I had associated my brand, before people were using that term, but just like who I was, you know, it's like, I'm out of the party guy. Like I would get into town and you know, playing some comedy club in Detroit and

the Oh, dude, bro. I requested Friday off I'm not even going to work that night just so we can hang on after and they hit me one time was like, wouldn't be better if the waitstaff was saying we had to double our waitstaff because we know you're going to sell so many tickets. rather than the waiter feel uncomfortable taking the night off, so we can drink later. It just hit me like all the things that are suppose I used to think were cool, I didn't think were

cool. I started I stopped thinking that it was really cool to like, Oh my I don't know, I got an Uber, I don't know, I can't find my shoe. Hi, it's like, you're 45 it's not to say it's not fun. It's not cute anymore. And it probably wasn't cute then. But you get away with it when you're young and more charming and more like, you know, but after a while you're just you start to not be fun. You start to be resentful. When you drink you're not like, let's

get some rum. Like rum is what you drink when you're young and you're still happy. After a while you're just drinking scotch by yourself, uh, you know, at an Irish bar at four in the afternoon, a guy next to us reading the newspaper. You know, those sports enters on mute in the corner, you're like, This isn't as fun as it used to be. And I just had to make some

really easy choices. And when I say easy, like I just stepped back from drinking, and didn't even go even though it's legal here in Colorado didn't really head right into Oh, medical marijuana. It's like, why am I trying to cloud my mind? All the time? Like, what is that? What are you running from? And you know, I did some mushrooms. As a matter of fact, I started doing mushrooms, then I don't really do them anymore. But I did maybe like maybe like five times over the course of a couple months.

And really just like bro, I would rent a hotel, somewhere beautiful and Colorado and just go out and just write and go out and you know, listen to music and analyze it and walk and breathe air and like, you know, there'll be moments where like, crying because like there needs that that stuff is in you bro. Especially for dudes. This stigma of like women cry, I'm like, God bless you. I wish I could do that more. Because that that that that faucet has to be drained. It's not a badge of

honor to say I didn't cry. I didn't cry at my dad's funeral I should have maybe I wouldn't have drank for two years in a row. Because I didn't allow myself to process and grieve his loss because I was like, I'm the man of family now. Okay, let's call the coroner. Let's do this. Let's just I didn't have a second to be like God Damn, my dad is gone. You know, and that would have really helped me. And I allowed myself to process all these things that alcohol and fake bar conversations covered

up. You know? Yeah, Tom Brady's good. You think you can get another one? Dude, every guy in there is dealing with something then it ain't Tom Brady? It we all there's a reason you're in a bar. Yeah. 30 When I walk past the bar, and I see. I'm like, I know why y'all want to hear maybe more than you do.

even drink at all. I'm just like, Okay, well, but we're gonna do this. We're gonna watch this football game. I don't I don't need a job want to do things that I don't need alcohol to enjoy it when I want to do the things that I liked doing sober? Because otherwise what's the then otherwise you go? What's the point? Like, especially when you're in those loud clubs and stuff? I'm like, I don't like this. Like, why am I drinking? So annoying? That's

That's what I am Chuck. That's another Yes. Yes. That might this is my persona. When people see me they know Liberty guy shots in like, Yeah, we're gonna get it. And we had I had a lot of fun. I mean, not you know, I wouldn't have in the backyard. hooligan brawls, you know, I was having fun, you know, hanging with the boys chasing girls watching sports. It was it was good for a little while when

you're younger. But, you know, they're, my ex said to me, she said I called her because she was like, I think I'd overslept. And didn't call her from Vegas. But she, she she told me when we did talk, and I only remember that I was so drunk. But she just said I kept saying, I don't want to do this. I don't want to be here. I don't want to be here anymore. And I remember even though I remember the conversation, I remember like her having angst about me being out there and I'm like, I don't

want to go here anyway. Like you start being angry at the world you'd like I don't even so if something happens like you get a flat tire on the way to a nightclub you don't want to go to your like I should have nevertheless left my house. I didn't want to do this and I stopped. I started to realize, oh, I don't have to. There's not British soldiers showing up with bayonets and making me go like what did not do. I'm each I'll come to the crib, we'll do

something else. And I started finding other things that I like to do. And I started challenging myself like, I was very tech phobic. And now I would say like, Man, I put my I built my studio, I understand lighting, I can make music, I can video edit, and that's hours and hours, it just, but it's all these things I wanted to do, Chuck. And now I get a chance to

do it. I wrote a movie script, I wrote a kid's book, I produced my own album, I'm making music album, I'm doing a series called 23 G about how hip hop and commercialism fused into one. And that's why you see Snoop Dogg selling Coronas. And you know, why hip hop is so used in marketing and my theories behind that, but all these things were things I was wanting to do. And I'm like, Ah, after this next shot, do let's go line them up.

And then after a while, you realize you're not doing any of these projects that you say you claimed that you were so interested in doing. So now I cherish every day and I just like, Man, I love my little goofy old man side projects and the my serious projects I love

my job. I love connecting with my kids and like removing that layer of distance that you have from the world with alcohol and and just feeling feeling the good and the bad and like letting that is sometimes you got to think a little bit duck. You know, if a if I got some bad news got rejected from some set of going out and drinking the pain away like I want it to stay, let that burn drive you to the next thing. I don't want to forget how mad I was that I should have got that promotion.

I didn't like no, now I'm gonna work twice as hard.

make sculptures. Okay, cool. But when you become like the biggest sculptor in the world is because Kanye West mentioned you in one of his albums, because he saw you by at a local art thing that he saw, I mean, might not be the right artists that mentioned but like, so you get your name gets dropped to the right person, and this person standing next to their wife's brother in law, who's an art dealer and he looks up stuff, and now all of a sudden, it's somewhere it's a

lot some of this stuff is you have to put your best foot forward in terms of like, this is the best YouTube channel I can present. This is the best stand up that I can present. You take it to the people, you let them look at it, but in terms of like going from, you know, like, you know, successful in your own right, to some core to, to blowing to where now, you know, you have a publicist and you

have guests lined up. I mean, a lot of is just like, Right place, right time, what you're talking about right time, you know, some people were doing podcasts about the bachelorette with their friends, because that's what they liked. And then it got popular, and I'm sure they they refresh their feed, and you know, they have 300,000 new subscribers, you know, you're a flat earther that's on some kind of weird website. And all of a sudden, conspiracy

theory becomes more popular. Joe Rogan starts talking about if there's more of a need for consumption. And now like some guy that, you know, used to have some weird thing out of his basement has seven employees. It's right place right time. I mean, he's still talking the same stupid stuff. But there's now an audience that was looking for that. So you just have to position yourself so then when the audience comes, and they go, yo, I liked that interview.

Well, I like that interview with that kicker that Narcissus oh shit he got Oh, dude, I know that guy know her. And after a while, you know, I think it was about Malcolm Gladwell had the tipping point. You know I'm living proof kind of with this show. I mean, daily blast live. I was sure we were going to be canceled within the first season. We should have we were terrible show. Terrible show. Here. Here's here's luck. personify I start the show daily blast live we get here there's

not even a studio built. We are practicing in the rec room of an apartment complex, like this show that you see on a 88 and 88 markets in the country. We were practicing my call was Erica Jeff Tory, we were turning into each other with our cell phones. Like okay, now you go okay, now Jeff, you respond, we'll turn like there was no it was just a it was a soundstage and empty black soundstage, you could have filmed anything in there. We get on we have an initial boss,

she's horrible. And she was definitely I think, trying to tank the show. So she can move back to LA. She gets fired through a set of circumstances, I'll tell you off air, but they're so beautiful. Oh my goodness, sometimes karma winds. And so she gets fired out of a cannon. And we get a guy named Bert Dubrow he started Jerry Springer. He started Sally Jessy Raphael. My call was Sam knew him from back in the day in LA. He's ready to get back in the

business. He comes to Denver changes, our set changes everything. We're still kind of mediocre on the ratings. But the thing with daytime television why it's so hard to move up is because you got these titans that are just sitting there forever, bro. You know, Dr. Phil, Dr. Oz. Ellen, all these shows, they don't move. So there's no space for younger younger shows. But just weird timing. Ellen goes away that Judge Judy goes away. Dr. Phil

goes away. Dr. Oz goes away. All these titans start to kind of fall start to get older LS controversy, whatever. And then the pandemic hits. All these shows go on hiatus. They're showing reruns nobody wants to see that. But you know what, there's a little show with two people in an empty studio. Like just talking, just talking cover news, reminding people that the world is still out there. And when we come back from pandemic, bro, we were ready to go. We were ready to go. Then we were

ready. We were real show. And then we start getting guests on, we make them laugh because we're like, You're famous and we're fans, but like you're going to talk like you're on our living room. Because we don't know any other way to do it. We're not going to good to see your Chuck, you've got a new book cares. Like, yeah, we're gonna bust balls and have fun and cry and laugh and have a full day a full experience with you. And, and hopefully have you come back and

people resonate with that. And, you know, now when I go out, you know, it's not crazy for me to get recognized three or four times, like when I'm out somewhere. And it's, it doesn't like I think the mushroom separating my ID or my ego, like I have no emotion towards that, except for I'm really appreciative of the fans, I think maybe some years ago and be like you, you know what I am the best. Now I think about it I

is I am awesome. Like, my whole thing is like, you know, I just want to keep making fun content and do things that continue to make me interesting, not only to the outside world, but more importantly, to my kids and to myself, and I feel like when you when you're true to all those things, how can you go wrong? So, you know, I hope that means something to you in terms of like, Dude, you don't know,

nobody knows. Nobody was like, Yeah, you know what, there's going to be a show called Judge Judy, it's going to be this tiny, four foot 10 Jewish woman she's going to tell people to shut up and what they should do, it's going to be a huge hit. And you'd be like, what? I'm a huge Judge Judy fan. I still listen to I still live my life by when these rules and everybody should take it. If something doesn't make sense. It's not true.

That's the best thing I've ever heard because it's so true real life and anytime you heard something like that sounds like bullshit. It you know, it just, you know, it's just such a great philosophy. She had all these great ways to look at life and all these things, people to take away. And it's like, you don't know what's going to be big. Who knew that? You know, an ex UFC announcer would have sway over presidential election like Joe Rogan. Who is the guy from news radio? You don't know? Who

knows? Yeah, so like crazy. It's crazy. But people look at the world like yeah, Joe Rogan, like the dude from fear factor that's making people eat bull testicles. Has Bernie Sanders is on his show. How'd that happen? He's a great random.

access to the best doctors? It's not fair because you're telling information and people that you have to know do not. And you have to know there's a part of you that does not know what you're talking about. Because it takes years to know just a little bit about just DNA sequencing or it. I used to work with mRNA. And I like I'm seeing people on Facebook posting about us, like, what it what world, it's this, like, I used to wear a lab coat and like, you know,

work with mice. And like now like people's uncle, like, let me tell you about mitochondria. And I'm like, All right, let's do it. Like, if people knew the intricacies of these things, it's like somebody's thinking that they could coach a football team. And like, when you see the intricacies of like, what the offensive line is doing and what signals they're calling out and what that means and what to

decode. It takes a lifetime of junior high, high school playing, understanding breaking down hundreds of hours of film, just for somebody to go, I could have done that better. It's like you couldn't like anything that you get really good at. It takes your lifetime to get good at. So just like show people that respect, especially when you're talking about people's health.

That's all especially in a country without socialized medicine, where this is not how I want to fit in my life without helping up to four fifths of my life and no health insurance. And Chuck, I'm running at 3% from my battery. Should I can I charge my laptop because I can only have I can have my sound and my camera on. But I can't charge my phone. It's so annoying. Okay, do you want to do you want to pause or we can pause? Okay, give me a maybe

give me like 20 minutes. Let me just throw it on the charger and I'll be ready.

And the one thing I liked about the Rogen said, though, is that he was, which was something that very few people said was, which I thought the news should be preaching is, eat right? Exercise, this is the time to get healthy. Because we know if you're in better shape, and you're taking better care of yourself, you have a better chance to beat it.

you're 78 years old? Yeah, you probably need the COVID vaccine. Because if you get it, it's gonna kill you.

years old. He was considered to be the sickest patient alive with COVID. He's 43. He was an incredible he was a surfer. So he was like one of the rare 43 year olds that had a six pack. He was he was in incredible shape. And he was one of those people that sadly, just it just hit him hard. And he never recovered, had to have a double lung lung transplant. Only a few of those have ever been successful. He lived for maybe about another three months after

that. But I watched her go through that and as somebody that watched a human being disintegrate from when I met him years before to seeing him post COVID It was something that I'll always live with. And you know, in terms of vaccines, it I look in no matter how we feel about it. That fact that I go to baseball games and basketball games and movie theaters and don't think about it anymore, that, that I couldn't see that when we were in the middle of

COVID. Like I couldn't foresee a time where I would feel comfortable around large groups of people. And, you know, I don't think that their rollout was perfect, perfect. I don't think the way that they framed it was perfect. But we also have to remember, these are human beings. And no one knows no one knew what they were doing. Quite frankly, I

vaccinated. I don't think that they were like, Oh, shucks grandmother's going to get sick or al might get sick. I don't think they cared. What they worried about was like, is somebody gonna be that window when you pull around for fast food, when it's time for tax season, so they're going to be accountants there so they can

get us our money. I really felt that the government wouldn't do anything for our health, they would do anything for the economic, greater good, no different than it was, you know, prescription pills were allowed to flood the market. I don't think that all the government knew is that they were getting

their money. All hospitals knew that they were getting money and doctors were getting bonus checks, mind the fact that they're making heroin addicts, out of people that used to be upstanding members of the community. I live that in that I've ruptured my Achilles tendon. In Florida in the mid 2000s, when I lived in Miami, that's where I taught middle school. And I remember I used to drive past those are like CVS is where you know, they're showing all these documentaries of

people lined up. And when you're living in something that's going to be a documentary one day it's interesting because you don't go there or something scandalous over there. You just go That's weird. I just kept saying I was like, what why did it Why does it look like Black Friday over there? You know, like, and I didn't put it together and when I ruptured my Achilles my dad, my doctor, you know, they sent you to after after Sir Your has

an outpatient surgery. You know, they, he's, he gave me this back when I used to give people oxy cotton. I think this is even before oxycodone. And I took one or two right after surgery because the pain is so intense, but I stopped taking them just because they make you crazy constipated, which I didn't realize. That's why people also get hooked on laxatives. I also had a doctor that I was telling him like, you don't need to fill this anymore because because I feel okay. I didn't even have

any money for rehab. Like I had to rehab my ruptured Achilles by myself. I didn't have health insurance or anything. I was a 30 year old playing pickup basketball. And my doctor was refilling my eye. He's like, just take it just get it filled. And I didn't, I thought that was weird, because I wasn't taking them at all. And I had full pill bottles of like 60 pills of the real stuff before they even

started watering it down. And I was so as a black man, I was so removed from pill culture that I didn't even know their street value. Like I had no idea but you know, had this had been 10 years later. I mean, you wouldn't know me, I'd be gone. Because I mean, the way that my doctor was throwing, like Donkey Kong, throwing barrels of pills at me, so when I hear that when I watch these documentaries is a crazy documentary called The

crime of the century on HBO. And it is, I mean, I live that when your doctors just like, grow whatever you need. And I remember years before I even ruptured my Achilles. I knew that I didn't know it was a problem. But I remember I gotten back from Costa Rica to have a girlfriend lived on there. And I went down to Costa Rica with my buddy mark. And we met these girls and the last night that we were leave our flight was at

like 5am. So like 2am We leave the club with these girls, and we go to a Denny's that was, you know, 10 minutes from the The San Jose airport. And we all got our different meals grossed drops off heat, my boy, Mark lived in Cleveland and a layover in Houston. I went back to Miami where I was living at the time. And my boys, dad called me. And he goes, Are you okay? And I was like, Yeah, I'm fine. Mark had

crazy food poisoning. And then a couple of days later, I had insane food poisoning, and the girls ended up having to, to some at the Denny's. That's not the big deal. The thing is, my stomach was in such bad shape, I had to go to the hospital as well. But I just went to urgent care, not urgent care to, to the ER where they just separate you by a sheet. And I just could hear the there was a married couple, talking to the doctor, and the guy like you have to understand these conversations.

Were not happening in my world. So I didn't even really understand what I was hearing. But the husband just goes, I don't know what you're giving her but look at her. It's killing her and and the doctor goes, Okay, well, yeah, well, I'll just have my, my nurse write another prescription for that. And he goes, You don't understand. That's why we're here. You're killing her. And I was like, remember, hear it, but I had no context. For this

situation. You know, this is three, three or four years before I would ruptured my Achilles tendon. But I didn't know that this had me going on for so many years. And even once I started getting the pills living in Florida, where, you know, they were sending fans of people down to fill prescriptions and go back to their native states. I still didn't know what was going on. So I say all that to say, I'm not a believer in the government. I just I believe that the government is your

friend. Yes, but they are busy both. So I don't trust either one of them. No, as you shouldn't, and not your dad. You know, anybody. It'd be nice. But, you know, I just don't maybe I just don't have that kind of trust in my heart. So the only the only trust I did have in my heart is I was like, government's trying to get back out there and working. You think the government likes cutting checks? So a bunch of people are sitting at home watching the prices? Right? I don't think so.

Like they want to get you back out there. And we're just getting

out there. Like you got these people in wheelchairs that are walking in like, I mean, it's just a joke. I just can't imagine. Like, what is China think of America right now. Like, I mean, we must be the laughingstock.

When you look at a country like ours, we have people our age, and you have young people that want to see change, but not enough young people to really rally to, to become a voting base that's dependable. The voting pay basis dependable is old folks. And old folks tend to be more conservative and more apt to fall for fear mongering.

And so if you tell them that, you know, Hispanics are coming to sex traffic, your granddaughter, they're going to believe that, quite frankly, everybody is coming for your daughter. And quite frankly, drugs are everywhere for your son to take a college quite frankly, colleges are dens of rape and sexual molestation that it's everywhere you go. There's a nefarious element, what you have to understand is like when you go out into the world, understand who you are and what

you're up against. And not everybody that's smiling and wants to take a picture with you or wants you to come to their campus or wants you to join their team and sell this product has your best interest in mind, I think you need to tread lightly whenever somebody is telling you to take something whenever somebody is telling you to do something. Now, as it comes to vaccines. Vaccines allow us to interact with each

other. There's a reason that asked anybody that went through the polio epidemic what that was about or has had rubella or mumps or measles. These are the kinds of things that kill people, you know, and the idea of being wary of vaccines is okay. But the what life was like

before them was much worse. And I think everything's not going to be perfect, but for the greater good and for society just of our own are three and then what 20 million people there has to be some type of the at least public trust so that they are going to make sure we're healthy enough to continue to generate wealth, it would make no sense for them to have 120 million citizens that are unable to work, like the state cannot support that. They probably could, they just

wouldn't. So I just felt like they wanted to get back back to work. But don't

of 100 million people. I mean, there's, there's weird, like people that think like that. It's really up to me,

now left with no parents. The state does. That's true. They the state has to have state run rehab facilities in state deal with domestic violence and in

time. If you look at all the every documentary that we see whether it's that, you know, there was that leggings company that was an MLM, or any of the MLMs that have been able to run wild. You know, Amway has a as an arena. You know, Betsy DeVos was our Secretary of Education. She is from the Amway dynasty, if you make money, you can do whatever you want. And the state doesn't mind you having money.

The state, having you as a dependent means that they have to pay for your kids lunch means that they have to pay when that kid that had no parents hits juvie for the first time, at 11 years old, and stays in and out of the system. You know, until they're 52 years old, the state doesn't win anything with that the state is fine. With, you know, you going into a neighborhood that's been full of proud Italians on this side of town and just knocking down and making a mall as long as you can

pay taxes on it. There's no loyalty to anything but the bottom dollar because everybody that's in this business and the business is being a United States citizen is in it to make money to capitalize on the person in front of you. So if that means that we need to turn the other cheek as the pharmaceutical industry in the Sackler family, stack billions of dollars before we kind of try and throw a band aid over a problem that is now a gaping

gushing wound. Okay. But I mean, I didn't see any of them go to jail. There's no there's no penalty for making a ton of money, even for nefarious reasons. I don't I mean, if you look at a lot of the people in our Congress that were like, selling stocks during COVID, you know, getting the jump on things and selling things off when they knew things were about to shut down. I mean, that they didn't go to jail. Yeah, better is really no punishment for being a

disgusting human being. And I think that's the saddest indictment of this country.

of liked it. When Oprah on the rocks at all we want you guys to donate our money to and people just said, Fuck you. You're asking us for money? Like I mean, I kind of liked that personally, like, I know, their heart was hopefully in the right place. But I mean, it was it was interesting to see people kind of stand up to that.

fund. But I'm like, Why? Why is there no public outcry for venture capitalists to pay in? For people that made their sums of money? It's just, I think the money that people see that angers them is the money that you can see, you see, somebody's like, oh, some YouTuber made $90 million. I hate them. But it's like the people that make the real money the people whose yacht casts a shadow on the right. You don't know their name? Oh, Blackrock guy. You

know that? Yeah. Yeah. They're the guys they hang out with. They get Yeah, the guys that are buying Supreme Court justices there is a host here's a scare me. Yeah, I mean, it that's real power. And the, you know, the idea. That's why

pockets. But now as we just are kind of hopefully coming off the heels of an actor strike that people you see on television aren't making that much money. There's because of the way that this whole thing is structured. You see the same thing with the GM strike. They when you have the corporations that are no longer beholden to the people working for them, whether they be actors or auto workers, and they're beholden to the stock

holders? Well, they are going to make sure that the stockholders are taken care of and that stock all those are going to be like you know what, Chuck, you've been such a good CEO of this company once you set your own price for what you deserve to be paid. And you're gonna say I think I deserve a $40 million increase and they say so do we. And when your workers go, Hey, where's our money? I can't put it they're like, Hey, what are

you going to do? There's a reason that Amazon workers went oh, we're gonna go strike UPS workers are going to go on strike auto workers are going to go on strike. Actors are going to go on strike football players baseball players do lockouts. It's because the corporate greed it's it's it's almost like in a weird, gross analogy. It's like a zit. It just builds up until it's unsustainable. Right? And

boycott your fucking company. We would put these some of these places out of business.

Big banks. And they said, Oh, no way to be a bank, you got to do this, this, this and this, you got to have like 20, a team of 80 lawyers to write all the regulations and things be and so they put Mom and Pop banks out of business. There is no mom and pop banks anymore. And it's happening now with everything with restaurants. And like drugstores, remember, like Mom and Pop drugstores now.

Usually, it's two people plus two side hustles, or maybe two people plus three side houses. But yeah, my wife drives Uber. I do taxes in the offseason. And you know, my wife owns a, you know, she does calligraphy for weddings or whatever, everybody's got everybody is

working so much. It's sad, it's sad that your kids you have to go to Walmart, because you got one hour to get your daughter eyeglasses to get your son's teeth looked at to get your tires rotated, and to get some milk and some goddamn cereal. And there used to be a time where you just be like, Saturday's the day my family shops and we walk up and down the street or a you know,

interact with human beings. And go see talk to the person that worked at the plant store hated those orchids come in, don't take that one that one's not doing well. Wait till the next like you would know things. But because we're so busy. Now all our stuff is that dropped off on a box in a box, including our fucking food. And it's in front of your door, you take it inside

like a squirrel. And you you build your dinner, you build your own home, home monitor TV stand, you do everything by yourself, you're enclosed in your walls, and then you log on to the internet. And you vent. But I think the narrative of Mexico sending us are They're rapists or the this about this group of people or trans people are coming to get your kids.

There was less of that, because you sit across the table from a Hispanic woman, if you worked at GM, every day in the cafeteria, and you'd be like, I know, our kids are fine. You would know people that didn't look like you would have a common goal and lived in your community. And now you work from home, you get your food sent to your home, you even get your freaking dates sent to your home with Tinder and Uber. So you don't interact anymore.

So the world now is viewed through the lens of your phone or your iPad. And the only thing you're gonna see on there are the things that trend because they're really good or really bad. So you're going to see really good bodies, and really bad people, you're going to watch murder podcasts, and you're going to look at ways to contour your cheekbone, on YouTube. And you're going to never talk to somebody that

looks different from you. You're never going to see how a conservative person could come to the conclusions they've come to because you live in your Echo system. And everything that you want to do is right. And the people on the other side just want to see the sheer destruction of this country. It's in a simple, easy, digestible narrative. It doesn't challenge you to think it doesn't challenge a new your ideologies. And that's right on time for a lot of people.

what a comptroller does. But you know, as far as RFK, Jr, I, you know, I kind of like to see people that have worked in the industry that they have a lot of opinions about, because it's clearly something he's passionate about, I was passionate about the sciences, I dedicated roughly 10 years of my life to it, not including teaching middle middle school science, having a bunch of theories on things. And being able to do those things, is are

two different things. Because how can I correct you on an issue? That, you know, you don't understand the interest of kids sees up? Like, I wonder if I asked him to draw cell? If I asked him to tell me baseline stuff, what are the essential amino acids? Can you roll through most of the periodic table and give me understand elements stuff

And are sorry, yeah. And then like we have, we don't have we need stricter regulations in the financial industry and the Food and Drug Administration, because I feel like those things are just, it's kind of like this free for all. And it's like the Food and Drug especially I feel like that's something that needs to be heavily regulated, so that we don't have to worry about I go to the grocery store and buy my food, and medicines, and I don't need to be worried that it might kill me.

matter? People will die this but you know, if we substitute this organic nutrient for this fake chemical, kids will have a better reaction to it. But overall, we'll be able to say they're looking at math. Yeah. They're not looking at just the number to them. Right. It's just a number and it's, you know, it's the present doing business. Yeah.

of Dimes? No, they built that from people going in there to watch Emmitt Smith and Troy Aikman. So when Emmitt Smith says, Hey, I can't live my right arm, they're like goes to the doctor. And now here he goes. But the problem is they don't have to see Emmett or player X or player y 1015 years later, when they can't remember how to get home when their wife has to wipe their rear end. And they're 39 years old. The the fallout comes later, but what comes now

is I line my pockets. If we got to pay out a couple of people at the end or a couple of vehicles, I have to stand in front of a podium and become you know, the donkey of the day for okay. You want to see my yacht

second Chuck. And two of the hottest women we've ever seen, come and take our coats, and they sit us down, and the women sit next to us. Get us some scotch. And they go, here's a check. With your names on it. You go ahead and fill that out. And then remember what you came in here to talk to us about. And you and I will look at. And then when you're done with the check, the two ladies needed see you guys upstairs in the adjoining

bedrooms. And we come out three days later, wearing white fur coats going when we talk to him. It's good. They're actually not bad.

American city. Thoughts on the issue, but in terms of culturally like that's not top of mind, it's a different lifestyle and is positive and negative. I'm not saying I'm not making an excuse. I'm just saying I didn't find it shocking that you know, the the emergency broadcast system was working in Maui. We can leave it

over there. They weren't doing it under with some weird undercover Greenbrae network. They were just giving drugs to people and be making them heroin addicts when, whenever, you know,

to 99 scale like an apple. Okay, you got pretty low risk unless you're allergic to apples, but you know, a pharmaceutical drug, okay, this is going to be more risk. And like there was just none of that they flat out lie. Oh, no, it's not addictive, like such bullshit.

little guy. Other than that, it's

have trouble. Because I don't, there's not any part of me that believes that RFK thinks that he's doing harm. But there are people who don't vaccinate their children and send them to school. That, you know, depending on what your religion is, don't allow for your kids to get blood transfusions or whatever you believe in your heart will make them a better person, we'll make sure that they go to heaven will make sure that they're going to be this or that. And you can end up killing

yourself or others. And again, now that circles back to the state, because now the state has to raise your kid. Now the state has because of the decisions you made. It's not again, that the state cares if you wear a seatbelt or not. Or if you wear a motorcycle helmet or not. The reason those laws came into be is because dad was getting out on his on his Harley on the weekends, killing himself. And now we have to we as the taxpayers have to share that

burden. Unfortunately, it's not an empathic or a loving way in which we take care of our citizens. It's considered burdensome, and it affects the bottom line. And the bottom line is what gets people elected and non elected everybody runs on the economy. So if you're whether you're the mayor or the president, you have to tell people look under under my administration, I got so many people back to work. That's how you get paid. It's like, hey,

the new one. Have you seen that one where they just like zombies, they just stand on the street and they just their heads are down. They just rocked back and forth. I mean, it's the weirdest frickin. We're living like an apocalyptic movie right now it feels like,

Middle East for 20 years. Well, we sent a bunch of we talked a bunch of shit over here, and then we sent somebody else's kid over there. They came back, fucked up as expected. And we gave them a Bud Light in a salute, had a jet fly over at a baseball game and said good luck to you. Is a 20 year old kids, it's all their friends murdered in mass that saw and had to kill people that probably were not a

threat to them. But they couldn't make that call, the things that we've, that we asked people to do for frivolous reasons. We don't understand the fallout from that. So because we were reactionary after 911, instead of figuring out who the the true perpetrators of that crime was, we just went after the first Middle Eastern country, the same strategically

convenient for us. We then it first, it was like Desert Storm, then it was desert freedom, then we're going to bring them back democracy to Iraq and Afghanistan is going to be this. After 20 years, we left and two weeks later, the country was right back to where it was. So what do we have to now deal with that we have to deal with all these people that are coming home from their third and fourth tour?

alcoholic? I guarantee there was some molestation back there, if you look further and further, far enough in their path. So when we look at these drug addicts, and we go, how are all these drug addicts on the

street? I think I please look this that up, but it is least one in three, it might be wanting to homeless people that you see on the street, are former military, because the demons that these people are dealing with somebody that had a father that dealt with the VA, there's not enough nothing over

there. And so you have people that are calling out for help, that are saying the drugs you're giving me or making me worse, the husband that returned to me, the wife that returned to me, are they're not the same person. They're violent, they're paranoid. They are all of the above. And the government says, we'll see him in nine and a half months, maybe. And if somebody doesn't have the support system of a husband or wife or family to come back to, you see them on

the street. And that's why there's been this explosion, I can only I'm here in Denver, where it's whole blocks of tent cities. I mean, there's a reason that all these homeless people came to be. And it's rarely because people are just really apt to get out of their home and into the, the freedom and the lifestyle that comes along with being homeless, it's a lot of times, it's people that have been through a great amount of trauma, that have to resort to such means, and have no support

system. And that support system has been taken away through, you know, just giving people basically shitty food for the last 3040 years, to gutting public education, you know, allowing prescription drugs to take over the crack epidemic, which threw a generation of black and brown men in jail destabilizing the home. And we say, well, why are these kids acting up? They're acting like they don't want to go to school. It's because the system has

abandoned them in every way. And when you don't feel attached to anything when you don't feel attached to this country that says that you can be all of these things, but your life is so cluttered with chaos you can't see through.

they're hater. They're anti patriotic, they're racist, they're misogynist, all these words that they might be. But they might just also be somebody that has a different opinion than you.

tell you. Before we got off that I did Google the statistic it said, it's I think it's about 10%, one in 10. Which one is way higher than I ever thought? And then it says also, again, this is the internet, so it must be true. 50%, you're 50% more likely to become homeless? For veterans? Yes. Maybe

be living on the streets. Would you let somebody that you loved take that risk?

all the decisions for them. And now you're just same with the prison system, same thing. And now we just say, all right, you're on your own. Like, that's not a good it's not a good system. We

think how do I help people? It's a weird that more people don't have that mentality?

whatever. They are not going to do as well as a corporation that can out advertise them by 100 fold that can undersell them by tenfold and has brand recognition in which the customer says you know, when I go places, you know, there's a little cachet to, you know, shopping here rather than there. There's a little cachet to walking out of a high end store as opposed to you know, a mom

and pop secondhand shop. You know, ironically, vintage styles are and so you know, Goodwill's in everything are flooded with suburban teenage girls, paying 60 bucks for jeans that somebody wore in the 1970s but until you make it fashionable or are advantageous for the buyer to buy local to support their neighborhood. There is no

incentive to. And it's a conundrum that we have seen since the mass marketing, since malls blur have proliferated, since big box stores proliferated, since, you know, economic growth has kind of stagnated. For the middle and even working middle class. There's, there's not a lot of incentive. And there's also not a lot of resources to support local to buy organic to go to a farmers market on Saturday, some people don't have time on a Saturday morning to go shop at a

farmers market. That's a luxury buying organic food, go go go to Whole Foods, you look around in there, and you're like, see, all these people are in shape. And you know, is a 53 year old woman in front of you and her back is just ripped with muscle. It's because she eats great food. And she goes to good trainers and has been taught to care about her health. It's not that the person and line at you know, a local kind of lower end grocery store doesn't care as much about

themselves. It's just that they can, if you can get too hot and ready pizzas for 10 bucks, or one sack of organic grapes, you got three kids at home? What decision are you going to make are just our our hands are forced in a lot of ways that we don't see. And instead of looking up, we tend to look to the people on our left and our right. And we say, Well, how could you be poor? You're fat? You know, if you really, you would do it, but people don't have time.

on the table. So yeah, the kids failing every class because that's not a priority.

Whereas other people are like, well, that's been set up for me when not since I was two. But those people are the same age and maybe the same race, but are are they the same person? Are their prospects for future the same? No. And it's it I think that's where a lot of the anger in this country comes from is people tell you go to college, get ahead. You get out of college, you have incredible debt, life altering debt that's accruing every year, every month, nobody's coming to help

nobody's coming to hire. The job that you went into college for is probably a fucking app now. And what do you do? Then you look around, you're 33. And there's an anger there. Because you're like, I did what everybody told me to do. I waited to have kids, I tried to buy a house. But then the housing crisis happened. And we call it a crisis like it was a tornado. It was a plan thing in which nobody went to jail. Americans lost their homes, our economy was destabilized for a

decade. And in that destabilize stabilization. It allowed all these large conglomerates to go and buy up chunks of real estate, and swell the price of real estate to the point where, Chuck, I'm 46. And this is the only time in my life where somebody said, Oh, I'm buying a new house. I don't say where you ask how did you do that? Yeah. Because now when people are buying houses, you better be a cash buyer doc. And you better

be a cash buyer. That's ready to compete with somebody that's coming in with cash plus 20% plus willing to waive the, the inspection?

that not breaking? I guess not. I don't know.

against us? Okay, well, let's see, you got a daughter here. She has a videotape, we have a we might want to disseminate you might not want to see it. But we could put that out. We could trash your reputation. We could say we could take some you said out of context and put it all over the internet. And people think this way about you whether it's true or not. We can do we see your wife works for the government, she can lose that job after 22 years, you want to do you want to play it this way?

Where do you want to take our briefcase and shut up? What do you want to do? And what are most people that are saying going to do? You standing in front of the fire is really great for a movie. But when it's not a movie, when it's your life, when they when you look in the eyes of true power. That see you as a tick on the back of a charging Rhino. It's very hard to try and impede and it makes you wonder what's the point?

Trying to be a whistleblower doesn't I mean, look at the people that tried to whistleblower at the White House. Those people are around 24 hour security for death threats. You know, there's there's not a lot of heroes that really get to see the efforts of their work rewarded in their lifetime. It's usually after which is, which is a hard thing for a lot of people to swallow. I don't know if I could.

the trailer. But you know, it appears that whatever the truth is, it wasn't what was shown. But what was shown if it was true, made people feel good. And a lot of times what makes people feel good, isn't the absolute truth. Because there's nothing that's all good and all evil. Did Hugh Hefner do a lot in terms of pushing the ability for women to embrace their sexuality out there and for Americans in general to embrace and stop being so sex negative? Yes. That he Oh, was there also some real

foul stuff going on? That mentioned at the point where there's document 12 Do you know what you got to do to have a 12 part documentary? That's an hour long do you know how much shit you have to do? I don't even if they just follow it every day in my life. I don't know if I could fill 12 hours did you

been dancing around. You know, when it comes to conspiracies people have about Jeffrey Epstein. And how was that able to continue and what happened with that? You answered it. Cameras, bro. They got everybody that you want to step up on camera, doing whatever they wanted to do and

never had a muscle car. You know, I was coming out. I think I just had a Subaru. Not Subaru, a Hyundai Sonata, which is a very like dad teacher car. I was like, oh my god damn talk show what it was. I want a fun car for the first time in my life. Yeah, I got the Challenger man. She was so beautiful. They brought her to the studio on one of those trucks. And I just couldn't believe it was my car. You know, just to excite those kind of cars. I would rent on the weekends when I was

performing. And I just I loved this car. She was a 2016.

forehead, everything. And that's what I talked about in the special is you realize that at first, yes, I'm a victim of a car theft. But also, everything is its own ecosystem. You just did its own financial ecosystem, you just don't know you and I didn't know anything about it until I was immersed in it. Because you think when your car stolen, the cops are gonna be like, your car is stolen, give me the plate number we're gonna we got two guys in the northeast area, they got them triangulated

it is smooth as jazz music. It's just the guy was like, Don't worry about it, man. Just call GEICO blah, blah, blah. I ended up talking to the tow truck driver. He said they stopped doing the cars that are illegally parked. And all they do is return stolen cars back to the owner. That's how many are

happening a day. The Body Shop is in on a bro, the the collision, the collision repair the the tow truck drivers, the insurance companies, the people that clean the inside of the car, because people are 1,000% stealing them to do method. All of this is all part of its own thing. And you realize that every avenue you've looked into the world of autographs, you know, we're like its own thing.

And there's a racket in there and you look at Girl Scout cookies that talked about that in my first and my in the album like where's the money? You don't pay your employees? You don't advertise? You don't have any buildings. You don't pay taxes. You don't pay health insurance. Where's the money? child slave labor? Absolutely. And because it's this weird thing where like, even if a girl knocked on your door during this podcast and was like, Hey, I'm a

six year old girl. I'm selling Oreos door to door USA weight right here about I called the police. Only Girl Scouts are the only thing where children are allowed to walk up to strangers and sell them things because little girls disarm everybody. And you're like sure plus the cookies are dope. So they have this racket where it's like, it's it's more than even having a hot shot girl at a bar. Because not everybody wants shots and people can only do so

many shots. But you got little girls going out selling it and their fucking parents at work who are a lot of times supervisors that are like hey, who signed up for these cookies? My daughter needs to win this year. What do you got to do? Chuck? Are you not gonna buy any extra person? Yeah, or your boss might be like, Okay, everybody bought boxes, but Chuck, okay. No, no, it's not a problem. That's cool, man.

problem. What we're saying is that the sex ring that also took kids into the woods was discovered, the Boy Scouts are not there's nothing that 82,000 cases, those are just the ones we know, we don't know about the people that took their own lives to because of it, or became offenders are now in jail

because of it. So long history with addicted to fentanyl, because exactly so and Because don't forget, we're watching this as adults, when you're 12, especially back then when you're naive, and people didn't know the ways of the world, you might have had one or two adult figures that you looked up to. And if they do that to you, your understanding of the world is forever changed forever sullied. And the idea that 82,000 And

these are domestic bro. I mean, come what's going on in other parts of the world where there's similar organizations are like, we're going to go to Canada. It the, the the fact that this was allowed to go on for as long as it did is not my mistake, because, you know, when two live crew tried to put out an album, you know, with curse words in it in the early 90s. Does Supreme Court lockdown on that? I love to Live Crew. Yes, there was a

Supreme Court. That's why they had that song banned in the USA. Yeah. Yeah, they were trying to get them back. So so interesting, what we choose to focus on Jeffrey Epstein was doing this for years. Bernie Madoff has been doing this for you not years, decades, decades. So this has been allowed to go on. It was just only found out through the internet through you know, I mean, look, look at you.

We talked about painkiller and all the pharmaceutical documentaries that are on the our TVs as we sit here and speak. How many Jeffrey Epstein documentaries are there. There's one and it's four episodes. Is that the only interest people have? And Jeff, why is there just one Chuck? There's two on the fire festival. Why is there just one four part? Episode That's an hour long about Jeffrey Epstein that we're done with there's a

different name. Hugh Hefner was pumping out girls, Jeffrey Epstein was pumping out young girls, because that's what people in power one, Hugh Hefner had all those dudes out in Hollywood on tape. And Jeffrey Epstein had all those dudes on tape. And once it was clear, he couldn't get out because the first time he couldn't get a Jeffrey Epstein was allowed to leave jail. six out of seven days a week in return. He had to go there on the weekends look into it's fascinating. Like it

was it was open corruption. But he had everybody that you and I know that has a senator or a Secretary of State or president or mayor or police chief or CEO in front of their name on tape doing something they didn't want to be seen doing. And

And you know, girls go missing and a poor girl from the reservation is gonna look poor black, or from Cleveland's gonna look poor, poor white girl from right outside Palm Beach, who's gonna look I, I started my career in South Florida. I know that island and I know the neighborhood that's across the bridge. So it's almost like, from medieval times, there's a bridge that leads you to that part, I did a gig over there. And it's crazy how like wealth can be right in your face, and

you don't see it. Because when you and I would go to Palm Beach, we wouldn't have any reason to go on average. We ain't got no business over there. And when you go over there and you do a business, you're like, Oh, this is real wealth. This is that. This ain't Bitcoin money. This that other money, that real money, money, and that money that controls everything. Jeffrey Epstein has some problems over there with young girls. You know what he did? He donated 40 $50,000 to the West Palm Beach Police

Department. And those problems magically went away. How'd that happen?

money. And the people that ran these telemarketing rings just made bank and they paid the, I guess they paid the telemarketers like, kinda good like enough that it was like worth it for the people to get

these jobs. But it was basically just this giant like rip off scheme where they were calling grandmothers and old ladies and getting them to donate their life savings, and giving a small portion to police or blind or whatever, and they're just making bank and bankrupting these old people is really sad. Just like story is oldest time again. And then

savvy. But you know, who's not a two year old grandmother, who has never touched a computer. And all you need to tell her is that this is going to the church or the cops or sick kids. And how could she ever track that? Would she ever track that? Get her to sign up for a monthly donation, even though she's on a fixed income? Who's going to step in? Nobody because it's money, money, who's has the name of the authority attached to it, which gives it even more credibility? Because she's like,

it shows up on my phone. This is the FOP the federal Order of Police or whatever. How could they be ripping me off? Now watch this documentary?

comedy cassette tapes. I remember one time one of my homeboys found a George Carlin CD in my room, and I don't know why I reacted. I just thought he was gonna think like, because that was like, before, like, everybody was really international. I thought like, they'd be like, Oh, why are you listening to this white dude? So like when they when they Oh, my boy found my George Carlin CD as a jam and in New York. I blamed it on my stepdad. I was like,

Oh, he left that in there. It's like like it was a dirty magazine, but I was such a comedy nerd. I don't know why. It's like when you look you're like, Why didn't George Carlin I don't know, I was like probably 12 And just like I don't know who that is, you know, you want to fit in like there was no like, all the cool kids want to listen to George Carlin's. I was like it's my my stepdad. That's

hilarious. So weird. So like, I had new dice and I was just a fan of him and like what he did for stand up and just making stand up, almost like a arena rock, you know, like doing the biggest venues that could hold human beings. And so when I met him, I just assumed that I was just gonna stand outside the greenroom and then just go do my act. And he opens the door he goes, so you coming in and what that was like, alright, and I was like, I walked in there. Like one of the maids on Game of

Thrones with King Joffrey. I was just like, sitting and he had, you know how, like when you're sitting with like, more than four people so the waiter brings over that gigantic tray that looks like it could cover an old mirror like when it was big trades. It's like oval. You could fit like nine soups on it. He had that he just ordered everything on the menu. He had like a burger, chicken fingers, tilapia hit everything that the menu and he just like, he's sitting across anybody. He just

goes eat. And I just reached for the first thing and I just grabbed a burger and started eating. I was like, Andrei, please talking to me. He was just coolest shit. We were just talking about comedy. And, you know, he's like a detour to anybody. And I was like, No, and he was like, You're doing Orlando this week. And I was like, Okay. And he and I did a couple cities together like his whole Florida run. And he was just super cool to me and like his, his people were really good

to me. And it's really, it really helped me Andrew Dice Clay, Bill Bellamy, Jim Norton, Dave Attell, Hannibal Burse. These are all guys that I've toured with for different at different points in my career, but for years and years, that even though they were clearly in a position of higher rank than me, they treated me like one of them. You know, I was on tour with Bill Bellamy for a couple years. And this is broke out. And like Bill would like real humble like, we go get somebody

to like, go get some shoes. You know, and I didn't have money to get new shoes. You know, I wasn't like a street performer. But I was broke. I was at Baroque, this before podcast and opening acts and make money. He just took care of me, like one of his own and I love him to this day, he showed me how to be a headliner, build an F around a drink before and in the middle of shows that come in between the late the early and the late

show. And Bill would have one ear pot in listening to the first show, seeing where he could get better. And it just like Jim Norton, they all show me how to be professionals on the road.

in the world. But there's also I think there's a lot of good people. And I think I think it's

know how to do that. I would screw it up and end up paying them money. Exactly. I wait a second. I owe you. Oh, it's my badge.

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